• Can Elon Musk throw a punch?
• Michigandering
• An unpaid endorsement of a tech company
• The foreclosed future of the elder millennial
• Cops turning sidewalks into parking spaces
• When public servants aren’t part of the community
• We’re no longer a nation of laws
• The worst harassment Emily’s received as a journalist
• Flowers for speed cameras
• When the person harassing you online could be behind you at the grocery store
• The NPC era
• LinkedIN perverts
• Failsons running mommy’s social media
• Anti-communist memes for Pinochet teens
• In defense of journalists
• Slack messages as the world is burning
• LLMs will shrink, but won’t die
• The DeepSeek moment and the tears of Silicon Valley
• The defrocked Anglican gamer Nazi, and other phrases that aren’t in the bible.

Y2K by Colette Shade

Justice Dept., Citing Streetsblog, Threatens to Sue NYPD Over Cops’ Sidewalk Parking

The Man Who Loved Levittown

Pinochet Posting [Bsky Link]

Army Withholds Identity of Helicopter Pilot Killed in Crash

Army releases name of 3rd soldier who died in helicopter and airliner crash

God Is A Geek Staff Quits Following Ex-Priest Owner’s Nazi Salute

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We’re both trying to keep ourselves sane during this election cycle. Emily has turned to baseball for comfort. I’ve turned to pondering Zionism. Which hasn’t been less stressful.

We recorded this when there was still hope for the Mets. Congrats to the Dodgers, who have now defeated the evil empire (Yankees). 

We’ll be back to a more regular release schedule after election day. For now, we hope you enjoy.

• Iranian Mets fans
• Inshallah Lindor
• You gotta believe
• Nothing can kill the Grimace
• A Tree Grows in Israel

Nothing can kill the Grimace

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Do you want to feel old? Want to feel how horrifyingly fast the year is moving? Then take a listen to this podcast and realize how many things you’ve forgotten about that happened only a few weeks ago.

On Veep and The West Wing

Our contractually required thoughts on the Olivia Nuzzia/ RFK scandal

The Trump and Laura Loomer stuff

What is a war crime anyway?

Eva Galperin, Electronic Frontier Foundation's Director of Cybersecurity, walks us through the Telegram arrest. After we recorded this episode, one of the things that Galperin warned about came to pass: Telegram promised to give more data to the cops.

Telegram Changes Policy, Says It Will Provide User Data to Authorities

Obamacore

Mets whimsy

Dark Wire by Joseph Cox

Telegram Isn't an Encrypted Messaging App

Some Background on Brazil

Eva on Twitter

Eva on Bluesky

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We recorded an emergency episode because Brittany Dawn is pregnant, and we have a lot of feelings about it.

Listen to the whole thing by subscribing to our Patreon. For $5, you're supporting the show, and get two extra episodes a month.

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Mentioned in the episode:

What’s in Brittany Dawn’s Settlement

Growing Goodings

Rodruiges family Snark

Music by Janus Rose

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• Matthew’s Katy Perry gaffe
• Taylor is not done, Taylor is never done
• The rise of the new pop girlies
• Katy Perry was bad long before this
• False nostalgia for the Obama era
• We’re all trapped in 2016
• Katy Perry CAN’T fix this
• The Hannah Montana Generation
• You can’t have a nice time anymore.

AI Music fraud story

Chappell Roan VMA performance

Abraham Lincoln Shared Bed with a Man for 4 Years, Fell Into 'Suicidal Depression' When He Left, Doc Says (Exclusive)

Lover of Men trailer

James Buchanan, gay?

Chappell Roan Is a Pop Supernova. Nothing About It Has Been Easy

The David Bowie/ Lincoln poster

A Chapell Roan pet themed cat commercial

Katy Perry can fix this

Welcome to the Hannah Montana Generation of Pop Music

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In this ep:

• Matthew on the things that get donated to a used bookstore
• Emily on Julie and Julia (2009)
• Matthew on Telegram and France and Elon and Brazil
• The concept of “hate following” 
• da new york mets baby love da mets

Biblequest review on board game geek 

Half price books

Bonnie’s cookbook store 

Seattle bookstore

Microwave cooking for one by marie t smith

Gault on telegram (charging documents)

Nytimes backpage article 

Obidiah

Mets reddit 

Cyclones seinfeld night 

Baseball murder case

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What’s the deal with all of those “pirated” movie and TV clips that show up on TikTok and Instagram? Well, some of them are being quietly breadcrumbed across your feeds by the studios themselves—and it’s proving to be a great way to get people to watch at least one network sitcom.

This week, Emily and Matthew go down the rabbit hole with Alex Cranz, deputy editor at The Verge and host of the Vergecast, and share our deepest darkest secrets: We watch (and like) Young Sheldon.

In this episode:

• Big Bang Theory and weird nerds
• Watching TV on Facebook Reels
• TikTok as cable access
• Content creators and labor laws

Links discussed:

The Nursery Nurse 

Young sheldon subreddit 

“Bluey moms who smoke weed” Facebook Group 

Winnah Basset 

Why I left teaching 

Kevin Can F*** Himself 

Caroline Easom

What’s going on with MrBeast 

Japanese reality show documentary 

Comrade “Young Sheldon” is a communist 

You can find Alex on the Vergecast or on Twitter  

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Today’s episode begins with a very long discussion about the perils of buying semi-legal weed in NYC and South Carolina.

We’re here with the incomparable Gita Jackson of Aftermath to discuss Charli XCX, Brat Summer, and the Kamala Harris pop culture moment. Do we keep getting sidetracked? Yes, but it’s an incredible discussion and we do get to Brat and Kamala.

We also get to …

• Gita’s thoughts on Overwatch 2
• Faded Japanese snacks in the bodega window
• Dispensaries with evil auras
• Girl-boss co-opting
• Watching a washed president
• Diet-Coke as slop
• Politics as fandom, fandom as politics

Show notes

The South Carolina weed note

Emily’s Taylor Swift jezebel article

Yes, Kamala IS Brat 

Brat Summer Is Dead, Long Live Brat Summer

Aaron Sorkin’s Liberal Fantasy Runs the World

Some Thoughts on Obamacore

Gita on politics and fandom

Mike Binder Thomas Jefferson

You can find Gita and their work at https://aftermath.site/ 

Our theme music is by Janus Rose

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Before starting rabbit h0le, Emily and I hosted a little show over at Vice called Cyber.

Towards the end of February 2024 we heard a rumor that everyone would be fired and the site would be deleted. It turned out half of that was true. When we knew our days were numbered but before they’d revoked access to everything else, we recorded one final episode of Cyber with Tim Marchman, Anna Merlan, and Mack Lamoureux.

We dished on what it was like to work for Vice, the last days of a failing media empire, and the perils of modern journalism. The episode lived for a few days before, finally, it was pulled from the air.

Of course, we saved a copy of it. Here it is in all its glory.

The rumors of the website’s closure felt very real at the time and many of the journalists who’d worked at Vice were bad about saving their work. We needed a fast way to archive it all. Thankfully, two incredible software engineers—Chris Cummings and Karen Gault—stepped up to help us save everything.

The story of how they did it is our first piece of Patreon content! Click the link below to subscribe and hear the tale in full from Karen and Chris. There might even be a weird aside about Mormon investments in nuclear weapons.

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On Nukes and Mormons

https://dingoranchlabs.com/

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How influential? Ask journalist Christopher Hooks, who attended a Habsburg convention in suburban Texas. Yes, the Habsburgs have conventions. We had a lot of questions too. Thankfully, Hooks is on hand in this episode of rabbit h0le to answer them.

• What is suburban Texas anyway?
• Royalists, loyalists, and Spanish Carlists in the Republic of Texas
• The Patron saint of World War I
• That Habsburg Way
• The last man of a decaying royal line posting Evangelion
• A two-headed eagle haunting a children’s book
• More thoughts on being electionpilled
• How NOT to create a viral election rumor

Feeling Blessed at the Habsburg Convention in Plano

Dubbie: The Double-Headed Eagle

The Habsburg Way

The Catholic case for Karl’s sainthood

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Then a sexting scandal turned that audience against him. It’s a story that involves BookTok, smut, and a man who built a following while never showing his face. Anna Merlan is here this week to go down the Joe Arden rabbit hole with us. She wrote about Arden’s fall for Business Insider. 

• This is how tape works
• Election pilled
• Doing business as your persona
• Star Wars as romance novel
• We explain Bad Dragon to Anna
• Some recommendations for German language prestige TV

Joe Arden, the king of smut, built a career seducing women with his voice. Then, a sexting scandal turned BookTok against him

Flight Attendant / Romance Book YouTuber

The Herbalism Community Is at War With Itself Over Abuse Allegations

Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ‘72

The Seattle Kraken embraced thirsty ‘BookTok’ hockey romance videos. It backfired.

Recommendation that Emily forgot to shout-out during the podcast: Two romance novels written by former VICE editor Chloe Angyal.

Theme music by Janus Rose

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Over at Vice, Emily and I had been hosting CYBER for a few months before the rug was pulled out from under us and ghouls stripped the company for parts. We felt like we’d just gotten our footing and started putting together a show we were proud of.

And then it was over.

That didn’t sit right so we decided to do our thing. So welcome to rabbit h0le. Every week, Emily and I are going to get in depth into some really weird topics. Sometimes it’ll be cyber security related, sometimes it’ll have to do with internet culture, and other times it’ll be something we just wanna talk about.

Christian influencers? We’re covering it.

A fading medieval royal line holding a convention in suburban Texas? Oh, we’re talking about it.

A scandal rocking the world of romance audiobooks? We’re there.

Crowdstrike? Yes, of course.

Every week, we’re going down the rabbit h0le. Come with us, won’t you?

And if you don’t know who we are …

Emily Lipstein is the Engagement Editor at Streetsblog NYC. She’s got a long career that includes stints at Gizmodo and VICE. Matthew Gault is a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in Wired, Time, Reuters, and The New York Times. He also hosts the podcast Angry Planet.

In this episode, we do some table setting and explore Emily’s fascination with the world of Christian influencers. 

https://www.reddit.com/r/brittanydawnsnark/comments/1dvrw3f/the_esther_event_that_the_girlies_attended_in_nyc/

https://www.reddit.com/r/brittanydawnsnark/comments/1dsl7ux/the_things_coming_out_of_this_clowns_mouthand/

Video Appendix: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-du566FWFU&list=PLG8IbKjUJr6zLSgEDCxWi1XAf04EsdEGI  

Our theme music is by Janus Rose.

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