ICYMI - The Orwellian World of Vintage Fast-Food Training Videos

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🗓️ 13 September 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

On today’s show, Candice Lim and Rachelle Hampton are joined by Slate business and tech writer Nitish Pahwa to describe his recent piece on the deranged world of vintage fast-food training videos. In the depths of Youtube, videos from companies like McDonald’s, Hardee’s, and Jack in the Box depict a bygone era where employees were trained by animated burgers and celebrity cameos.

This podcast is produced by Se’era Spragley Ricks, Daisy Rosario, Rachelle Hampton and Candice Lim.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Rachel Hampton.
0:14.9	And I'm Candace Lim, and you're listening to ICYMI.
0:18.2	In case you missed it.
0:20.0	Slates podcast about internet culture.
0:23.1	And Rachel, do you smell that?
0:27.2	Smell what?
0:29.1	In the studio, there's like something different here, something, oh, it's really ringing
0:34.5	my bells.
0:35.5	What is that?
0:36.5	Candace, please don't make me talk about Timmy and Kylie at the US Open.
0:49.4	I can't.
0:50.4	I can't do it anymore.
0:51.7	I promise you I won't, but no, that's not it.
0:55.4	Okay.
0:56.4	Okay.
0:57.4	That's not it.
0:58.4	Is it the new Olivia Rodrigo album, the new Afro-Livine album, and some people are saying?
1:03.6	Ooh, very close, because that is bangers up and down the city tower, but no, I think,
1:09.0	I think it's something more insidious than that.
1:13.0	Mm-hmm.
1:14.0	Mm-hmm.
1:15.0	Mm-hmm.
	...

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