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Coming up on today’s show: Can we talk about Subway Takes? There’s no denying it – if you remove all the nuance from an opinion, that opinion is much more likely to go viral on the internet. These divisive, one-liner opinions have infiltrated so many algorithms over the past couple of years – but what are ‘subway takes’ doing to our brains?

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On today’s show, Gil recommended The Chair Company on HBO Max. Zara recommended Cameron Diaz Talks Marriage, Family, and Real Life with Joel Madden on YouTube.

Your hosts are Zara McDonald (@zamcdonald) and today, filling in for Michelle Andrews (@michelleandrews1), we have Eilish Gilligan (@eilishgilligan).

What unplugging from the discourse did to my brain in the Embedded newsletter

The Creator of Subway Takes One Hundred Per Cent Disagrees in The New Yorker‘I had one thing young people didn’t’: How Subway Takes’ Kareen Rahma got famous in his 30s in The Guardian

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