Bonus Main Character: Meghan Markle Could Use a Win

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🗓️ 14 March 2025

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From television, to a royal wedding…and back to TV, Meghan Markle is carving out her own niche. Guest: Candice Lim and Kate Lindsay, cohosts of Slate’s ICYMI. This episode is member-exclusive. Listen to it now by subscribing to Slate Plus. By joining, not only will you unlock exclusive episodes of What Next —you’ll also access ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. You can subscribe directly from the What Next show page on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Or, visit slate.com/whatnextplus to get access wherever you listen. Podcast production by Elena Schwartz, Paige Osburn, Anna Phillips, Madeline Ducharme and Rob Gunther. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Happy Friday, everyone. It's Mary. It's time for a little Slate Plus treat just for you.
0:09.0	This week, I am joined by all new favorite Slatesters. Candace Limb and Kate Lindsay. Hello, guys. Hello. How you doing?
0:18.0	So good. How are you? We've been playing this game we call Main Character Syndrome with all of our friends around
0:23.4	this late newsroom asking for like a bite-sized update on one person plays your thing
0:28.5	that we think you really need to know about someone besides Donald Trump or Elon Musk
0:32.7	because even I need a break from those two.
0:36.0	I do my best to never think about them.
0:39.1	It's proving difficult, but...
0:40.6	I was going to say, like, you can't associate forever.
0:43.8	It's proving difficult, but I try my best.
0:46.6	Okay, what we do is we give ourselves 15 minutes on the clock.
0:50.4	Rob, my producer, is in charge of that.
0:52.5	Rob, you have a stopwatch or something over there?
0:54.9	I'm ready. Let's do it.
0:56.4	All right.
0:57.4	Okay, so Candace, who's our main character this week?
1:01.7	Our main character is none other than the Duchess of Sussex, Megan Markle.
1:06.5	Okay, Kate, why, why?
1:10.2	Well, so Megan Markle, or as she has now famously corrected Mindy Kaling, Megan Sussex.
1:17.7	What? Yes, she released a show on Netflix called With Love Megan. It is just like full-on lifestyle porn to be, you know, to hold hold my hands up I am the demographic for it she
1:29.5	is beekeeping she's making preserves she's making crudette I love to speaking of disassociate
1:37.0	disassociate to it but as is the case with Megan Markle when she moves breathes does anything
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