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The crew is joined by Alex Cooper and talks about Alex's move to LA, building the perfect fuckboy, and a rumoured hookup going around LA between Alex and another internet celebrity. Josh wraps up some final thoughts on last week's massive drama. Stromedy joins the program to talk about his beef with Bryce Hall.

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Yesterday on “The Daily,” the New York Times reporter Jonah Bromwich explained how the idea of cancel culture has emerged as a political and cultural force in 2020. In the second of two parts, he returns with a case study.

Guest: Jonah Engel Bromwich, who writes for the Styles section of The New York Times, spoke with Zeeshan Aleem about his experience of cancel culture.

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Background reading:

• Here’s the first episode in this two-part series exploring cancel culture’s origins and political power.
• There’s an emerging class of people canceled for bad, conservative or offensive opinions. Cancellation is bringing many of them together.
• For teenagers, cancellation on social media is not a new phenomenon. Here are some of their own experiences with being canceled.

Social media sites offer quick and easy ways to share ideas, crack jokes, find old friends. They can make us feel part of something big and wonderful and fast-moving. But the things we post don't go away. And they can come back to haunt us. This week, we explore how one teenager's social media posts destroyed a golden opportunity he'd worked for all his life.