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Hey,

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I'm Candice Lim. And I'm Nadira

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Gough, and you're listening to Icymi. In

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case you missed it. Slate's

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podcast about internet culture.

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And Nadira, welcome. Welcome

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back to the show. You know,

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let's just talk about this weekend. This was

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that one weekend of summer when there's like

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a little bit too much culture going on.

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Like, for example, that TV show came back

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as a binge, not a weekly. So everyone's

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booked. Now here's the thing. You

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are an actual cultural critic. So let's talk

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about that thing that will be on the timeline

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for the next two to three business weeks.

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The bear. I

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think we should have like a non-spoilery conversation

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about it for now because all 10 episodes

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came out last Wednesday. In fact, it was

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like supposed to come out at 9 p.m.

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E.T. But then they push it up to like 6 p.m. E.T.

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Was that was that weird? I wasn't sure how to react

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to that. Yeah, I think for

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our time convergence, it was actually the

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day before. So it was originally supposed to come

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out on a Friday, maybe, and

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they pushed it up to a Thursday or something

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or a Thursday up to a Wednesday, something like

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that. Needless to

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say, as a journalist with an

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embargo and a deadline, it

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really made my life more difficult.

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But as a fan, I would

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have loved that personally if I didn't have the

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screeners getting the episodes a day early and evening

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earlier, I would have absolutely loved that. So

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considering that I'm both.