Who Weekly? Explains Bennifer 3.0
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🗓️ 5 June 2021
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
On today’s show, Madison and Rachelle have a short discussion of the recent beekeeper drama on TikTok. Then, they’re joined by Bobby Finger and Lindsey Weber, hosts of the Who Weekly? podcast, to discuss Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez getting back together. They talk about what it was like when the pair first got together in the early 2000s, why it feels so exciting to see these two stars indulge again in their past romance, and how Bennifer 3.0 will play in a new era of social media gossip.
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| 0:00.0 | Like, it's just the best news that we've had in our celebrity sphere for so long, you know? |
| 0:06.6 | I'm as happy as Ben was when he left Jennifer Lopez's house this morning, you know? |
| 0:10.6 | Did you see that photo? |
| 0:13.0 | Hi, I'm Madison Malone Kircher. |
| 0:14.9 | And I'm Rachel Hampton, and you're listening to I see why I'm mine. |
| 0:18.3 | In case you missed it. |
| 0:19.6 | Played the podcast about internet culture. |
| 0:22.0 | And on today's show, we are going to have none other than Who Weekly's Bobby Finger and Lindsay Weber talking to us about Benefer, the sequel. |
| 0:32.5 | But first, that's right. |
| 0:37.1 | Mm-hmm. Yep. Yep. I gothmm. Yep. Yep. |
| 0:39.3 | I got it. Yep. |
| 0:41.3 | The bee drama has indeed been incredible. |
| 0:47.3 | All over TikTok. |
| 0:49.3 | The girls are fighting, and the girls are the beekeepers? |
| 0:53.3 | The girls are apiarists. |
| 0:55.1 | In case you have somehow managed to miss this little bit of drama flying across your |
| 1:01.1 | T.L or your FYP, TikTok's favorite beekeeper might be a fraud, a phony, a Trump supporter. |
| 1:10.6 | Erica Thompson on TikTok goes by at Texas BWorks. |
| 1:15.0 | And honestly, pretty good chance you've seen some of her stuff. |
| 1:18.3 | She's, you know, had magazine and newspaper profiles and has over 6 million followers. |
| 1:24.9 | You might even say the Texas native is the Queen Bee of TikTok. |
| 1:28.8 | She's racked up 60 million views for her humane bee removal practices and look ma' |
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