ICYMI - Wendy Williams Said What Now?
ICYMI
Slate Podcasts
3.9 • 800 Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2021
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
On today’s episode, Madison and Rachelle talk about two of the internet’s favorite subjects: cats and Wendy Williams. First, they talk about the story that made “Slate” itself trend on Twitter: the debate surrounding a Slate essay published last week in which writer Alexis Nowicki revealed that the 2017 New Yorker story “Cat Person,” which became the first work of short fiction ever to go viral, was based on her life. Then, Madison shares a listener letter that validates all of her suspicions about those TikTok missed connections. (It also happens to feature a cat.) Finally, they close out the episode with High Speed Downloads about two recent online controversies: one about a woman who faced a flood of hate for tweeting about feeding feral cats, and another about a tasteless segment from a recent episode of The Wendy Williams Show.
Podcast production by Daniel Schroeder and Derek John.
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| 0:00.0 | As far as TikTok, I don't use that at all. |
| 0:08.3 | Uh-uh. |
| 0:09.1 | I don't know what that is. |
| 0:10.1 | I don't want to be involved. |
| 0:13.2 | Hi, I'm Madison Malone Kircher. |
| 0:15.0 | And I'm Rachel Hampton, and you're listening to I see why I am I. |
| 0:18.1 | In case you missed it. |
| 0:19.4 | Slate's podcast about internet culture. |
| 0:22.4 | Rachel, honestly, I'm mad at you today. What? For what? For stealing my tweet. I did not |
| 0:27.4 | steal your tweet. We've been over this before. You stole my tweet. I didn't steal shit. I, I refuse to be |
| 0:36.7 | slandered on my own podcast. |
| 0:38.6 | This is defamation. |
| 0:39.7 | This is libel. |
| 0:40.4 | You will be hearing from my lawyer. |
| 0:41.3 | It can't be all of those things. |
| 0:44.6 | You can't tell me I'm wrong. |
| 0:48.6 | Anyway, if you follow Rachel on Twitter, just know that one of the tweets you probably laughed at was mine. |
| 0:56.0 | None of them are hers. That's not actually what we're talking about on the show today, though it is a little bit |
| 1:01.9 | of a grab bag of internet candy we've got. There's so much happening here that I don't even know |
| 1:08.3 | how to sum it up, and I kind of don't want to. |
| 1:12.6 | I don't really want to either. I'll play you for it. |
| 1:17.5 | Okay. What are we doing? Rock paper, scissors. Of course. Of course. All right. Two or three. |
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