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Why We’re Fighting About Self Checkout – Best of TANGOTI
Season 5 Episode 68
Bridget and Mike had conflicting and surprisingly strong feelings about self checkout machines. And it turns out, listeners do, too! We got more emai…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Diddy was acquitted of his most serious charges. The Internet blamed a woman who had nothing to do with it.
Season 5 Episode 67
After Diddy’s acquittal, social media decided it needed a villain. And who better than a random woman?! Through a case of mistaken identity, digital …
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Karoline Leavit’s lip filler in Vanity Fair; Man Arrested for Charlie Kirk Meme; Heated Rivalry; WaPo AI slop – NEWS ROUNDUP
Season 5 Episode 66
Bridget and Producer Mike cover the week's tech news that you might have missed in this final News Roundup of 2025.
Vanity Fair Goes to the White Hou…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Bot Campaigns Turned Taylor Swift Into a Nazi and Cracker Barrel Into a Culture War
Season 5 Episode 65
If you’ve ever looked at your timeline and thought “there’s no way this is real,” you’re probably right.
In this episode, Bridget and Mike speak to …
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Was the Taylor Swift ‘Nazi’ Controversy A Coordinated Bot Attack? EMERGENCY EPISODE!
Season 5 Episode 64
Did you see the narrative claiming Taylor Swift is a secret “trad wife Nazi” take off across social media? In this emergency episode, we break down a…
3 months, 4 weeks ago
This Univ. of Oklahoma Essay is So Bad It Launched a Culture-War Career
Season 5 Episode 63
In a psychology course at University of Oklahoma, junior Samantha Fulnecky was assigned to write a short essay responding to a research paper about s…
4 months ago
Sabrina Carpenter shames Trump; ChatGPT bolstered misogynist stalker; Book festival's AI feud – NEWS ROUNDUP!
Season 5 Episode 62
In this week's news roundup, Bridget talks with Producer Mike about all the tech news you might have missed. TRIGGER WARNING: One story is about a mi…
4 months ago
Jeffrey Epstein's Creepy Emails with Harvard and OpenAI’s Larry Summers
Season 5 Episode 61
The newly released Epstein emails offer a troubling look at the people who stayed in his orbit and the ways they interacted with him — including form…
4 months, 1 week ago
Why aren’t people boycotting Amazon like they’re boycotting Target?
Season 5 Episode 60
Many people know about the call to boycott Target, but don't understand why Target has been specifically singled out. So we're re-airing this intervi…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Soledad O'Brien Explores Stand Your Ground in Netflix True Crime Documentary The Perfect Neighbor
Season 5 Episode 59
It’s not every day Bridget gets to talk to one of her heroes!
Soledad O’Brien has built her career on stories that hit hard and stick with you, wi…
4 months, 2 weeks ago