7 episodes
Sixteenth Minute (of Fame) Cool Zone Media
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4.7 • 21 Ratings
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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.
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guy who ate 40 rotisserie chickens in philadelphia
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.
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coffee in the garden with my husband
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.
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boston slide cop
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.
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the dress
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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hide your kids, hide your wife pt 2
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
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hide your kids, hide your wife pt 1
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
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Customer Reviews
Great Podcast
I’m happy to say I had never seen the Boston cop video prior to this podcast. Of course I had to watch it as Jamie got into the story and 100% did a spit take when he came flying out of that slide. Hilarious. Amazing. Love the other episodes too.
A new must listen
Unsurprisingly, Jamie knocks it out of the park again with Sixteenth Minute (of Fame). She approaches each subject in such a thoughtful yet informative manner. Always happy when a new episode pops up in my feed!
Good show!
Good show, such a great subject matter. It’s also very nice to see Jamie still putting out content while fighting an uphill battle with courts over the Grand Rapids incident.