Colgate, you have black magic.

We need answers.

The fucking voodoo magic.

The fuck!

Hi, I'm Rachel Hampton.

And I'm Madison Malone Kircher. You're listening to I-C-Y-M-I.

In case you missed it.

Slate's podcast about internet culture.

And today we're taking it analog?

That's right. We're talking about holiday cards, the ones you, you know, write down on paper,

put in an envelope, put a stamp on, lick the envelope. It's an envelope twice. You get the point.

We're talking about holiday cards because the Washington Post

has claimed that apparently millennials are sending more holiday cards. And I got to say,

I thought the genre article was over. I thought we had collectively stopped. Well, this doesn't fall into the genre.

The genre you're talking about is millennials killing things.

Oh, oh, sorry.

Mm-hmm.

Apologies.

I do need to say I read that article just before we sat down to record this episode,

and there's now a correction appended to the top that the study

they were using wasn't solid enough to actually form the thesis that millennials are bringing back

the holiday cards. This is what happens when you publish preprints, like or non-peerviewed studies.

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