mailbag: your 'i was the main character' stories
Before we go on (brief! I promise!) hiatus and move to a seasonal format, Jamie takes a look at your submitted stories about being the main character -- from viral pets to grieving online to reckoning...
20 Touko 20251h 7min
badger badger mushroom (with jonti picking)
In my day, there were but three things middle schoolers cared about -- BADGERS, MUSHROOMS, AND SNAKES. This week, we look at the peak of Flash animation -- Jonti Picking, aka Mr. Weebl's masterpiece "...
13 Touko 20251h 7min
why the SEC ignored the hawk tuah scam feat. john reed stark
We all know that Haliey "Hawk Tuah" Welch was the face of a memecoin crypto scandal, and most know that the SEC excused it wholesale. What we don't fully know is why it was so easy to get away with it...
6 Touko 20251h 17min
have you ever been the main character?
We're switching to a seasonal format on Sixteenth Minute in a few weeks, and to close the chapter on week-to-week main characters, we want to know -- have you ever been the main character? And if not,...
1 Touko 20255min
how tay zonday reunited with adam bahner
In our final installment of our Tay Zonday series, Jamie speaks with the one and only Adam "Tay" Bahner about how he navigated his viral fame, and how the internet has changed beyond recognition from ...
22 Huhti 202540min
chocolate rain: a political awakening
In part two of our Tay Zonday series, Adam Bahner gets into his political awakening, and how it affected his relationship to his family, his creative work, and himself. Wanna get radicalized? Wanna ge...
17 Huhti 202531min
the world according to tay zonday
There are few internet videos more iconic than Tay Zonday’s ‘Chocolate Rain,’ but it took over a decade for the song to be recognized for the politically charged ballad it is. How did we miss it? In p...
15 Huhti 20251h 22min
