Marina Hyde

Well, and this takes me to, we'll take a brief detour here.

This takes me to the journalist Marina Hyde's column in The Guardian this week-

Mm-hmm

... that you probably read, and a lot of people did.

So I just wanted to read a few quotes from this piece, 'cause it was so spot on, I felt.

Please do.

And we need to shout out to Marina Hyde, who's been chugging along, writing rational opinion pieces on a variety of topics for many, many years.

That also happens-

do.20% of boys and 13% of girls say that being a content creator is the only choice of career.

And I was listening actually to a Marina Hyde podcast the other day, and the statistic she mentioned was that now 39% of Americans identify as content creators.

That's interesting for two reasons.

One, whenever I see on somebody's biog digital creator, I know that they're either, A, full of shit, or B, a bot, or-- and sometimes both, and usually both.

He is on the new Luke Littler show, the dart show that Netflix are doing.

Guardian journalist and writer Marina Hyde does a weekly podcast.

The rest is entertainment with Osman.

Got anything entertaining or pointless for us, Marina?

I was listening to another podcast the other day.

It was The Rest is Entertainment with Marina Hyde and Richard Osman.

And they were talking about Unilever doing or pushing more into kind of the micro influencer space because although the influencers with millions and millions of followers are always going to be useful for that kind of mass marketing message, it's far better if we stick with the landscaping example.

you take the people that are consuming that content i mean we listeners of the pod friends the pod will know i've been redoing our patio and our garden and i'm doing that sort of diy content so you can see why i'm being served that now if you take a product that is smaller say i don't know a cement product or a sealant of patios That person is a micro influencer in the grand scheme of things.

Good morning.

Are you a Marina Hyde fan in The Guardian? Are you-

Uh, yes.

Yes.

As it should, 'cause it's an amazing podcast and it tells you a huge amount about her.

But one thing that Marina Hyde said on The Rest of Entertainment that I think addresses what you've just said, is that she was, you know, she was, she was a Christian girl who was unapologetically a bit of a sex aficionado.

Like, she was a very horny lady, and she talked about that in interviews.

She was unapologetic for who she was.

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