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Jun 2, 2021 38 min

The cake is a lie

from That's a Thing?! Hosted by Karen Unland and Elizabeth Spencer

Here are some of the things we mentioned: Eric Carle and The Very Hungry Caterpillar Eric Carle didn’t say that The Paris Review for Young Readers Rage-bait cooking videos - eg no-melt nachos, spaghetti in cold sauce Bronies We were going to link to a problematic image about 4chan sharing things in bad faith, but then decided against it, because why spread it more? Content-farm video channels like Blossom, So Yummy, 5-Minute Crafts Making a purse out of a pizza box Kimora Blac: “you didn’t say jk though” Bad waffle-iron videos Wrap-folding hack from TikTok Ann Reardon’s How To Cook That You Suck at Cooking The quote about lies on the internet was from Arthur! (We would never quote Bizaardvark.) Many thanks to our sponsors: Natural Light Edmonton The Edmonton Community Foundation and The Well Endowed Podcast That's a Thing?! is a proud member of the Alberta Podcast Network — Locally grown. Community-supported. You can follow us in all the places, and most of them let you rate and review, too, which would be lovely. Questions? Comments? Email us at [email protected] or tweet at us: @thatsathingyeg. Do you want a That’s a Thing?! button? Send us your address by Twitter DM or email and we will send you one. Many thanks to Transistor for hosting our show. Our theme music is Ragtime Dance by Scott Joplin, from Free Music Archive.

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The internet contains untrue things. Elizabeth explores how tributes to a beloved children’s author got hijacked by accident, and how kid-friendly cooking videos are not always what they seem.

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