Creeping

From the anus of TikTok comes a version of slop so wacky, so delightfully dumb, so… Italian (???), that its managed to win the hearts of every iPad kid around the world. Introducing: Italian Brainrot, the latest AI craze of anthropomorphic hybrid creatures with Italo-gibberish na ...  Show more

Born from a Japanese tech arms race and immortalized in Fred Benenson’s 2009 masterwork “Emoji Dick,” the emoji has become a staple of the way we communicate. Such that the Oxford dictionary named the cry-laugh emoji its word of the year in 2015. Whether you’d like to convey comp ...  Show more

Have you ever felt as if somebody was watching, following or even stalking you? If so, you're not alone. Most people have, at some time or another, had an experience like this -- and, tragically, many people are physically stalked every year. Yet there's a strange twist to the ta ...  Show more

After a really good date or two, have you ever found yourself scrolling through the other person’s social media pages . . . to a slightly unhealthy degree? Maybe you’ve even tried to find their exes’ profiles to see how you compare with them? (It’s OK, we’ve all been there.) T ...

Stories in this episode: Dog Walking Encounter | MilesKaySolomon (0:41)The First Time I Went to a Hairdresser | HelenAlias (3:24) The Night the Woods Knocked | Lisa (8:19) Pub Creep | creech84 (11:12) Trust Your Gut, Your Dog...or Your Cat | emille6 (14:09) In the Middle of the W ...  Show more

How does social media exploit our evolutionary instincts? How dangerous is it to post about your children online? And does Angela regret talking about her daughters on the podcast?