The great Bumble fumble
Make Me Smart
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4.6 • 5.5K Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2024
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Today, we’re diving into Bumble’s controversial anti-celibacy ad campaign, what it says about the state of dating apps and why some women are joining the anti-patriarchy movement. It’s time for a Kimberly rant. Plus, more updates on the Baltimore bridge collapse. Later, we’ll get queasy about cicadas and smiley about puppies!
Here’s everything we talked about today:
- “Bumble’s billboard ads sneered at celibacy as an alternative to dating — and the company got stung” from The Associated Press
- “The Controversy Around Bumble’s Anti-Celibacy Billboards” from The Cut
- “Singles done with dating apps opt for speed-dating, matchmaking” from Marketplace
- Apology from Bumble on Instagram
- “What the 4B movement and boycotting men tells American women about where we are” from USA Today
- Preliminary Report on Baltimore Bridge Collapse from The National Transportation Safety Board
- “It’s on (for now): Biden and Trump agree to 2 debates” from Politico
- “Cicadas Are Here in St. Louis, and Here’s What You Need to Know” from The Riverfront Times
- “We tried to pet all 200 breeds at the Westminster dog show” from The Washington Post
We want to hear your cicada stories! Share them with us at makemesmart@marketplace.org or leave us a voicemail at 508-U-B-SMART.
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| 0:00.0 | Ready go. |
| 0:02.0 | That just kind of happened too. |
| 0:06.0 | That was very smooth. |
| 0:10.0 | Welcome everyone, I'm Kimberly Adams. Thank you for joining us again for |
| 0:15.0 | making me smart where we make today makes sense. The reason it's so funny is because I |
| 0:19.6 | literally sat down and said let's go. No preamble, no hi Kimberly I haven't gone for 10 days how you've been no |
| 0:25.1 | Charlton or you're ready I've been gone for several days myself that's true you have gone |
| 0:29.6 | welcome back and welcome back to you too let you know clearly nobody broke the franchise while we were gone, so that's good. |
| 0:35.0 | Yeah, I hear they had a lot of fun on Friday. |
| 0:38.0 | Yes, Bridget Bonner. |
| 0:40.0 | Bridget, by the way, left to ringlight in the studio I'm like ring light also you'll be all glowy on I will not |
| 0:47.2 | No, nobody needs a ring light and me come on people know what I look like already |
| 0:51.5 | All right anyway and people know I think who I am. |
| 0:54.6 | But if you don't, if you're new to the pod, |
| 0:56.3 | first of all, welcome. |
| 0:57.0 | Second of all, I'm Kai Rizdahl. |
| 0:58.3 | It's Wednesday, the 15th of May, |
| 1:00.6 | news and then some smiles, of which, by by the way you stole mine. |
| 1:04.0 | So let's get to it. |
| 1:07.0 | What do you got, Kimberly out? |
| 1:08.0 | It was too good. |
| 1:10.0 | So I was off for a few days in St. Louis helping my mom with a garden for Mother's Day. |
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