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Trending: 99% sure if you ask someone to name who started the ‘Podcast Revolution,’ Conan O’Brien isn’t the answer.

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August 20, 2019 at 7:21 p.m. EDT

I can’t tell if I’m more shocked at the audacity to suggest Conan made podcasts hip, or that Conan HAS a podcast.

@SFF180, criticizing Variety for a story that cites podcasts by Conan O’Brien as a driver of the medium’s popularity. Variety calls O’Brien the “darling of the podcasting world” and dubs podcasts a “brave new world.” Baffled Twitter users noted podcasts were around for a decade before “Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend” launched last November.

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I will refrain from judgment until I get my hands on that Popeyes chicken.

@scarfacerocks99, weighing in on the chicken sandwich war between Popeyes and Chick-fil-A. The conflict began last Monday, Aug. 12, when Popeyes debuted its chicken sandwich, which looks similar to Chick-fil-A’s famed sandwich. After customers began suggesting this week that Popeyes’ sandwich was better than Chick-fil-A’s, heated discussions about the sandwiches’ merits ensued. The companies themselves got into a tense Twitter exchange, with Chick-fil-A stating its sandwich was “the original.”

In all honesty, does James Bond have time for anything?

@The_Shiznit, joking about the 25th James Bond movie, officially titled “No Time to Die.” Tuesday’s announcement satisfied fans who’d simply been calling it “Bond 25,” and inspired a number of time- and age-related jokes. The above tweeter noted that “die” also appears in the title for Bond movies “Tomorrow Never Dies” and “Die Another Day.”

This is a big sign from the universe that I need to switch up my hair game.

@GiaPeppers, tweeting about Twitter’s viral “DMX Challenge,” which gets its name and concept from rapper DMX’s 1999 song “What They Really Want.” In the song’s second verse, DMX lists the names of 46 women. Black women have been making videos of their different hairstyles synced with each woman’s name, seen as a celebration of black hair’s versatility.

I have been very, very patient. But if Mr. Harry Edward Styles doesn’t give us new music I will spontaneously combust.

@szechuan, discussing Harry Styles’ cover for the September issue of Rolling Stone. The cover has fans speculating that the singer’s second album is imminent, since he dropped his first album after gracing Rolling Stone’s cover in 2017.

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