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- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 35 minutes
- Episodes
- 900
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
ICYMI: The Wishbone Kitchen vs. Bon Appétit Food Fight
Candice Lim and Kate Lindsay talk about the social media battle between Wishbone Kitchen’s Meredith Hayden and Bon Appétit. Hayden’s popularity exploded as a private chef in the Hamptons, where she’d…
00:33:40 |
Wed 19 Feb 2025
What Next TBD | Can You Pay Attention, Please?
The infinite scroll has no purpose other than keeping your attention. But that doesn’t mean it’s value-neutral.
Guest: Chris Hayes, MSNBC news anchor and author of “The Siren's Call: How Attention B…
00:27:07 |
Sun 16 Feb 2025
What Next TBD | Is Elon Actually Trying to Buy OpenAI?
Is Elon Musk’s $97.4 billion offer to buy OpenAI genuine—or an irresistible opportunity to troll Sam Altman?
Guest: David A. Fahrenthold, investigative reporter for the New York Times
Want more Wha…
00:24:09 |
Fri 14 Feb 2025
ICYMI: The Brilliance of “Montoya, Por Favor”
Kate Lindsay and Candice Lim dive into two internet stories they can’t stop thinking about. First, they explain how Montoya from Temptation Island became 2025’s crash-out king and created one of the …
00:37:07 |
Wed 12 Feb 2025
What Next TBD | Why Trump’s Data Purge is a Digital Book Burning
Using Github, you can watch as government websites are brought into compliance with Donald Trump’s executive orders. Out goes the word “equity;” in comes “fair.” And health and science data, once pub…
00:26:50 |
Sun 09 Feb 2025
ICYMI: The TikTokification of Sports
Candice Lim and Kate Lindsay are not the world’s biggest sports fans, but are now more tuned in than ever thanks to TikTok. In today’s episode, the pair talk about how everything from fancams to fash…
00:32:00 |
Sat 08 Feb 2025
What Next TBD | Is Elon Musk Unstoppable?
You can’t doubt the enthusiasm of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency. You can question the legality of some of their early moves.
Guest: Makena Kelly, senior writer at WIRED.
Want mo…
00:27:03 |
Fri 07 Feb 2025
ICYMI: Will Memes Save 2025?
Episode notes: Candice Lim and Kate Lindsay are joined by meme historian and researcher Aidan Walker, whose Substack travels into the depths of meme lore. 2025 is off to a rocky start for several rea…
00:46:54 |
Wed 05 Feb 2025
Slate Money | Money Talks: Capitalism Extremists In the Trump 2.0 Era
In this Money Talks: Historian Quinn Slobodian’s 2023 book Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy explored the dark reality that many extremists seek a purely…
00:41:29 |
Tue 04 Feb 2025
What Next TBD | The DeepSeek Panic
The artificial intelligence industry was thrown for a loop when the Chinese start-up DeepSeek rolled out a product that was more energy efficient, cheaper to produce, and open source. Where did DeepS…
00:25:57 |
Sun 02 Feb 2025
Slate Money | The Federal Employee ‘Buyout’ Makes No Sense
This week: The Trump administration offered a resignation deal to millions of federal employees. Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers discuss why this plan seems like a bad idea – for every…
00:51:57 |
Sat 01 Feb 2025
ICYMI: So You’ve Fallen For A Smear Campaign
Candice Lim and Kate Lindsay, still recovering from Justin Baldoni’s leaked voice memo to Blake Lively, dive into the online war being waged between the two It Ends With Us actors. They explore how t…
00:34:55 |
Sat 01 Feb 2025
What Next TBD | RFK Jr. Is a Feature, Not a Bug
Tapped by Trump for the role of health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. presents himself as someone willing to say what other politicians won’t. But during his Senate confirmation hearings, both Demo…
00:27:26 |
Fri 31 Jan 2025
ICYMI: Social Media Has Become A Minefield
Kate Lindsay and Candice Lim discuss how so many of their favorite social media platforms have gone openly pro-Trump since the election, and how they feel about it. With more social media platforms c…
00:35:17 |
Wed 29 Jan 2025
What Next TBD | The A.I. Will See You Now
Artificial intelligence is coming to a doctor’s office near you—if it isn’t already there, working in an administrative role. Are you ready for generative A.I. to help your doctor diagnose you? Is yo…
00:23:43 |
Sun 26 Jan 2025
Slate Money | Trump’s TikTok Backtrack
This week: Tiktok gets a stay of execution in America. Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers speculate on the reasons Trump changed his mind on the TikTok ban and who will ultimately win the…
00:50:04 |
Sat 25 Jan 2025
ICYMI: TikTok Is Back…Are We?
Candice Lim and Kate Lindsay make sense of TikTok’s surprise return, and what’s going on with the influencers who said goodbye to the app by sharing controversial secrets, only for it to come back th…
00:34:15 |
Sat 25 Jan 2025
What Next TBD | Department of Government Elon
The Department of Government Efficiency was made to Elon Musk’s specifications, right down to its meme-indebted name. Now that DOGE is shaping up to be an actual part of the government, what can it a…
00:23:18 |
Fri 24 Jan 2025
ICYMI: Rawdogging, Brainrot, and Brat
Candice Lim and Kate Lindsay are joined by ICYMI producer (and resident linguist) Alexandra Botti, who shares her experience attending the American Dialect Society’s words-of-the-year vote. Then, Can…
00:29:36 |
Wed 22 Jan 2025
What Next TBD | As Fires Approached LA, Angelenos Turned to Watch Duty
Looking for up-to-the-minute updates on where the fires are, LA residents have been turning to the app Watch Duty, rather than getting updates directly from the local or state government, or even loc…
00:22:46 |
Sun 19 Jan 2025
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