Wendy Williams Said What Now?

On today’s episode, Madison and Rachelle talk about two of the
internet’s favorite subjects: cats and Wendy Williams. First, they
talk about the story that made “Slate” itself trend on Twitter: the
debate surrounding a Slate essay published last week in which
writer Alexis Nowicki revealed that the 2017 New Yorker story “Cat
Person,” which became the first work of short fiction ever to go
viral, was based on her life. Then, Madison shares a listener
letter that validates all of her suspicions about those TikTok
missed connections. (It also happens to feature a cat.) Finally,
they close out the episode with High Speed Downloads about two
recent online controversies: one about a woman who faced a flood of
hate for tweeting about feeding feral cats, and another about a
tasteless segment from a recent episode of The Wendy Williams Show.
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