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- 2018 - 2025
What Next TBD: Can Instagram Really Keep Kids Safe?
Instagram’s new default privacy settings for teenagers are designed to keep kids safe from strangers online. It’s a worthy endeavor, but are privacy settings enough? And what about all the other haza…
00:30:37 |
Fri 20 Sep 2024
ICYMI: Shannon Sharpe, Henry Danger, and Crashing Out
Candice Lim is joined by Slate culture writer Nadira Goffe to play a game of High Speed Downloads, where they get 60 seconds to break down an internet story they’re obsessed with. From the sudden mem…
00:37:35 |
Wed 18 Sep 2024
How To!: Rethink Screen Time
Ben has two sons in the fourth grade. Like a lot of kids, they love YouTube videos, gaming, movies, and other online entertainment. Before his sons begin using social media, Ben wants to ensure they …
00:44:05 |
Tue 17 Sep 2024
What Next TBD: Is Boeing Lost in Space?
Boeing’s Starliner has now landed successfully—but Butch and Sunny weren’t on it. With a pair of astronauts still stuck on the ISS, when will NASA be ready to bring them back? And how?
Guest: Micah …
00:24:36 |
Sun 15 Sep 2024
ICYMI: The Costco Guys Bring the Boom
Candice Lim is joined by culture reporter Ej Dickson to break down her Rolling Stone profile of A.J. and Eric “Big Justice” Defumo, better known as the “Costco Guys.” In January 2024, A.J. was a form…
00:33:31 |
Sat 14 Sep 2024
Slate Money | Fasten Your Seatbelt, Boeing
Next up in Boeing’s year of hell: A worker strike. Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers discuss the planemaker’s endemic labor issues, whether just snacking around is better than eating ful…
00:53:22 |
Sat 14 Sep 2024
What Next TBD | TikTok Goes to Court
The law has been passed and signed by the president: TikTok’s parent company must sell or divest from the app. But that’s not happening without a legal fight.
Guest: Emily Baker-White, investigati…
00:26:09 |
Fri 13 Sep 2024
ICYMI: We May Have A New Bad Art Friend
Candice Lim is joined by Slate culture writer Nadira Goffe to break down the BookTok drama surrounding Old Enough by Haley Jakobson. Last year, Old Enough hit the shelves as a queer, coming-of-age no…
00:53:50 |
Wed 11 Sep 2024
Hear Me Out: Podcasting Is Dead
On today’s episode of Hear Me Out: a fond farewell.
This is the last episode of Hear Me Out. And it comes at a volatile, strange time in the world of podcasting. Networks’ priorities have shifted, t…
00:44:12 |
Tue 10 Sep 2024
TBD | The Misguided Buzz About Mosquitoes
An outbreak of eastern equine encephalitis in the northeast made headlines, but as far as mosquito-borne illnesses go, EEE is serious but still rare. What’s getting way too common is the mosquito its…
00:24:29 |
Sun 08 Sep 2024
ICYMI: Land Ho: Our Top Moments from the Ultimate World Cruise
Candice Lim is joined by Wailin Wong, the co-host of NPR’s The Indicator from Planet Money. Back in January, ICYMI explained everything you needed to know about Royal Caribbean’s Ultimate World Cruis…
00:47:37 |
Sat 07 Sep 2024
What Next TBD: US v. Google… Again
A month after a federal judge declared that Google was operating as a monopoly because of its search engine, the Justice Department has alleged that Google’s ad business was breaking antitrust law as…
00:23:47 |
Fri 06 Sep 2024
ICYMI: The Internet History of Charli XCX
Candice Lim is joined by Rolling Stone writer CT Jones and Switched on Pop producer Reanna Cruz to hold a retrospective on the internet history of Charli XCX, the founder of brat summer and a decades…
00:52:36 |
Wed 04 Sep 2024
What Next: Why Shein and Temu Are At War
Can fast-fashion giant Shein go public while fending off accusations of bad labor practices, the US government, and a back-and-forth war with newcomer Temu?
Guest: Mia Sato, platforms and communitie…
00:27:00 |
Tue 03 Sep 2024
What Next TBD: Telegram's CEO Just Got Arrested. Huh?
Telegram was supposed to be the platform with the freest of free speech, which meant it was also rife with the worst the internet has to offer—"criminal activity” puts it lightly. But are French auth…
00:28:30 |
Sun 01 Sep 2024
ICYMI: Skibidi Toilet Is An iPad Kid’s Fever Dream
Candice Lim is joined by Zakiya Gibbons, the host and creator of the reality dating podcast Hang Up. On today’s episode, they explain YouTube’s biggest phenomenon of the past year — Skibidi Toilet. T…
00:36:32 |
Sat 31 Aug 2024
What Next TBD: Back To School… Without Phones
Since the pandemic, schools have been reporting that their students are more anxious and having trouble learning. How much does simply removing cell phones from the classroom address these problems?
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00:30:22 |
Fri 30 Aug 2024
ICYMI: The Internet History of Kamala Harris
Candice Lim is joined by Slate culture writer Nadira Goffe and former host of Vox’s The Weeds Jonquilyn Hill. Vice President Kamala Harris has been a public servant for more than 20 years, but her in…
00:44:28 |
Wed 28 Aug 2024
What Next TBD: Who’s Going to Regulate AI?
Why are national politicians like Nancy Pelosi lining up alongside artificial intelligence companies to oppose safety regulations on this new industry proposed in California’s state legislature?
Gu…
00:22:50 |
Sun 25 Aug 2024
ICYMI | Is Ballerina Farm A Victim?
Candice Lim is joined by internet culture reporter and Embedded writer Kate Lindsay to explain Hannah Neeleman, better known as Ballerina Farm — the Mormon, Julliard-trained dancer who married a JetB…
00:36:31 |
Sat 24 Aug 2024
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