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Sixteenth Minute (of Fame) is a weekly show from Jamie Loftus that takes a closer look at the internet’s main characters – one part reported, one part interviews, and one part Jamie collapsing her permanently internet-damaged brain. Whether it’s an enduring meme or a dreaded Character of the Day distinction, it’s the kind of notoriety that often results in little money, unwarranted attention, and a confusing blurred line of consent. What do you do when you get more attention and judgement than any one person is built to handle? The Sixteenth Minute of Fame is the place where we figure that out, putting people in the context of the moment they've been frozen inside of.

Sixteenth Minute (of Fame)

Sixteenth Minute (of Fame) is a weekly show that gives a sixteenth minute of fame to the Internet's most notorious characters of the day. Jamie Loftus talks to the characters themselves, and tries to get to the bottom of how they made it to the top of your feed for a fleeting moment -- and what that does to warp your brain.

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Introducing: Sixteenth Minute (of Fame)

This week, it's Antoine and Kelly Dodson's sixteenth minute — Jamie interviews Antoine about the 'bed intruder' saga of 2010.
 
Read "The Forgotten Kelly Dodson": The Forgotten Kelly Dodson
 
Follow Antoine Dodson here: https://www.tiktok.com/@antoinedodson34

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hide your kids, hide your wife pt. 1

This week, it's Kelly and Antoine Dodson's sixteenth minute — Jamie interviews Professor Gabriel Peoples, author of 'The Forgotten Kelly Dodson: Viral Performance and the Interplay of Excess and Erasure' about what happens when someone is erased from their own story.
 
https://gender.indiana.edu/about/faculty/peoples-gabriel.html
 
Read "The Forgotten Kelly Dodson": The Forgotten Kelly Dodson
 
Follow Antoine Dodson here: https://www.tiktok.com/@antoinedodson34

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hide your kids, hide your wife pt. 2

In 2015, the world was gripped by one question: is this dress black and blue, or white and gold? No, no, I refuse to argue with you about it — but the story of The Dress is the dying breath of a pre-algorithm driven social media, the peak of Buzzfeed, and contains some dark truths about the internet.
 
Featuring interviews with Taylor Lorenz (@taylorlorenz), author of Extremely Online and Max Fisher (@maxfisher22), author of The Chaos Machine. 

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the dress

In the summer of 2023, a Boston cop humiliated himself by tumbling down a public slide in the most embarrassing way possible. This week, Jamie tries to find his pig ass, and admits her background as a Terminally Boston Woman.
 
Interviews with Molly Conger and Jeff Raymond.
 
Follow Molly: 
https://x.com/socialistdogmom 
 
Follow Jeff: 
https://www.masstransparency.org/author/jraymond/ 

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boston slide cop

If a tree falls in the garden where a woman enjoys drinking coffee with her husband and no one’s there to hear it, should the Internet harass her anyway? In 2022, Daisey sent one innocuous tweet that launched a thousand takes.
 
Follow Taylor Lorenz: @TaylorLorenz on all platforms 
Follow Julia Claire: @ohJuliatweets / @juliaclairegrams
Follow Bridget Todd: @BridgetMarie on twt / @bridgetmarieinc on insta 

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coffee in the garden with my husband

In November 2022, one Philadelphia man took it upon himself to eat a rotisserie chicken every day for forty days. Why? Jamie flew across the country, went to his house, and interrogated him.
 
Follow Alex here: https://x.com/AlexiconTom
 
Get Raw Dog here while you're at it: https://bookshop.org/p/books/raw-dog-the-many-histories-of-hot-dogs-jamie-loftus/18785131?gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjwyJqzBhBaEiwAWDRJVD9r1z2NOcI0CT3yvq3h68RY6tW9BdoKm7dkRjMrcr7rLlCOYNwtsRoCks8QAvD_BwE

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guy who ate 40 rotisserie chickens in philadelphia

In the summer of 2021, hundreds of Black TikTokers went on strike and demanded proper credit and compensation for dances they made famous. Why? Because, the most famous TikTokers of the pandemic, white teens Charli D'Amelio and Addison Rae, had become extremely famous off of Black choreographers Jalaiah Harmon, Keara Wilson, and others' work -- a continuation of age-old appropriation and theft. Jamie talks with Savage dance creator Keara Wilson, commentator Amanda Bennett, and algorithmic scientist Meredith Broussard to take a closer look at the impact of this moment, and how social media is designed to amplify racism.
 

Follow Keara Wilson here: https://www.tiktok.com/@keke.janajah?lang=en
 
Follow Amanda Bennett here: https://defineandempower.com/our-team
 
Buy Meredith's book here: https://meredithbroussard.com/books/

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the Black TikTok strike of 2021

Legit question for rural Americans - How do I kill the 30-50 feral hogs that run into my yard within 3-5 mins while my small kids play? This week, Jamie finds out from the 30-50 hogs asker himself -- Willie McNabb. Plus, we catch up with Professor John Tomacek about the VERY REAL issue of feral hogs, and Karl Kasarda of inRangeTV about how 30-50 feral hogs tied into a larger conversation about American gun laws.
 

Follow Dion Green and the Fudge Foundation here: https://fudgefoundation.org/
 
Follow Willie McNabb: https://x.com/WillieMcNabb
 
Follow John Tomacek: https://rwfm.tamu.edu/people/tomecek-john/
 
Follow inRangeTV: https://www.youtube.com/@InrangeTv

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30-50 feral hogs

What happens when public artwork becomes the main character? For the last two months, a culture war has raged around a gigantic sculpture of a hot dog in Times Square... and playing right into the artists' hands. Jamie goes to New York to talk about the secret agenda of the hot dog with creators Jen Catron and Paul Outlaw.
 
Then, a talk with Carol Adams, the author of 'The Sexual Politics of Meat,' about why the hot dog is still a subversive symbol, why I needed to go vegan a decade ago, and how harassment has evolved from right wing radio into the internet era.
 
(did you seriously think Jamie wasn't going to find an excuse to do a hot dog episode? gzet a grip)
 
follow Jen and Paul: https://www.catronandoutlaw.com/
 
follow Carol Adams: https://caroljadams.com/
 
buy Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs: https://bookshop.org/p/books/raw-dog-the-many-histories-of-hot-dogs-jamie-loftus/18785131?gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjwp4m0BhBAEiwAsdc4aOntkU4kENdIs91XZ-UKCNSxQ8nvIO1kakfzoI7ugVgqAWA1ABNkQBoCTtoQAvD_BwE

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the 65 foot hot dog in times square

This summer, a fish named Alice fell from the sky and directly into the lawn of junior doctor Ben Beska. And so, of course, he tweeted about it... only to lose his newly beloved fish just a week later. What followed was what it looks like to go viral in 2024. Jamie speaks with Ben Beska over the course of two months to track the journey; plus, we talk to Stanford psychiatrist Dr. Elia Aboujaoude to learn what going viral has the potential to do to your mind.
 
Follow Ben's fish adventures here: https://x.com/Beska 
Buy Dr. Aboujaoude's new book, A Leader's Destiny, here: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/elias-aboujaoude/a-leaders-destiny/9781541703018/?lens=publicaffairs 

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a fish fell from the sky

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