Two smiley faces: Episode five
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2021
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Our journey into the emoji universe takes some surprising directions. We reveal some of the human stories behind those tiny pictures on our screens. From the early days of reggae in Kingston, Jamaica to San Francisco’s Chinatown, we meet some of the people responsible for the emojis we have today.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the BBC World Service. |
| 0:04.4 | Oh, my emoji. |
| 0:05.3 | I do probably use more of the skeptical emoji |
| 0:11.5 | than most people. |
| 0:13.0 | There's a crystal ball and I always like to put the sparkles. |
| 0:17.0 | It's like putting very dust. |
| 0:19.0 | Ghost emoji with its tongue sticking out. |
| 0:21.0 | Thinking face or the eye roll. |
| 0:24.0 | If I want to emphasize my ethnicity, then I tend to use more round skin tone. |
| 0:31.0 | I don't have a favorite emoji. Oh I don't I really don't. |
| 0:36.3 | Elephants you know worms dumplings. Oh you the peach because I'm a hugger the hug, the hug emoji is the top one, but I'm a real face-pom girl. |
| 0:47.0 | Like, really? |
| 0:50.0 | Top 2. |
| 0:58.0 | Oh, episode 5. This is a good one. |
| 1:03.0 | Hello, I'm Vivian Noonan, and I'm Sarah Trino. Welcome to another week where we put emoji under the microscope. |
| 1:07.0 | Kingston, Jamaica in the 1960s. The streets are alive with political activism. |
| 1:18.0 | And three men, Bog Marley, Bunny Wailer and Peter Tosh, |
| 1:22.0 | former band that would go on to define a musical genre. |
| 1:27.0 | Reggae. I was the first one in the group who played music. |
| 1:38.0 | I was the first one in the group who played music. |
| 1:41.0 | I used to play my guitar. I used to play my guitar I used to play the keyboard I taught Bob to play guitar |
| 1:46.5 | and I taught Bonnie to play guitar because it was a part of making your |
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