Alex Abad-Santos

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190 appearances 4 recordings 1 series first heard Mar 2025 last heard 31 Jul

Alex Abad-Santos’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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It's Been a Minute · Poppers, the FDA, & a crackdown decades in the making · 21 Mar 2025 podcast

Oh, I feel like all these are winners. Aren't they all winners? All of the above.

Oh, man. Wow.

Does she do poppers?

Listen.

If she ever invites me, I'm still going to call her Meghan Markle.

Thank you for having me.

It's Been a Minute · "Celebrity" just isn't hitting like it used to... · 10 Mar 2025 podcast

I'm always about like eat the rich, but then when it comes to like Beyonce and Rihanna, I'm like, I'm a picky eater. Like, let's do a la carte.

Okay, so picture this. 2017, Rihanna launches Fenty Beauty. And prior to this, Rihanna had the best Instagram. Everything was aspirational. She was going to the Met Gala. She was posting from there. And she was also on social media. She was fighting with Ciara. She was fighting with everyone. She was telling people, good luck booking that stage you speak of.

Basically, when Fenty launches, you hit this inflection point where she just, it becomes like, that's not Rihanna who's talking to me anymore. And it's just like kind of like this weird like marketing like, okay, well, there's a new highlighter. And it's like, of course, I'm happy for Rihanna. But it's just like that's where all the aspiration dies. And it just like bleeds into marketing.

But I think it's also a bigger cultural shift of everyone has all the social media you're talking about. And then I think what we saw, and I know they get piled on a lot, but with the Kardashians, it was like, this is how we perform our version of celebrity, and you can sell this, and it's marketable. And I think like...

As companies and as, like, everyone figured it out, like, everyone's like, wow, this is a really successful way to go. We will be your friend on Instagram, on social media. And I guess that line disappears of, like, is this person, like, my friend or are they a celebrity? It's like, and again, that feeds into, like, parasocial stuff that we have now.

So, like, our whole culture is kind of bent around this, I guess, imagined perception that these people are just like us and all our friends because isn't that what they've been telling us?

Yeah.

Coming up. Can I admit something?

I have the CC and it smells so good.

I have the hand wash.

Can I admit something?

I have the CC and it smells so good.

I have the hand wash.

I'm fully on like any fancy white woman stuff.

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