<a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/121414547" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Listen to this post early and get access to the full catalog by supporting us on Patreon</a> <ul><li>Can Elon Musk throw a punch?</li><li>Michigandering</li><li>An unpaid endorsement of a tech company</li><li>The foreclosed future of the elder millennial</li><li>Cops turning sidewalks into parking spaces</li><li>When public servants aren’t part of the community</li><li>We’re no longer a nation of laws</li><li>The worst harassment Emily’s received as a journalist</li><li>Flowers for speed cameras</li><li>When the person harassing you online could be behind you at the grocery store</li><li>The NPC era</li><li>LinkedIN perverts</li><li>Failsons running mommy’s social media</li><li>Anti-communist memes for Pinochet teens</li><li>In defense of journalists</li><li>Slack messages as the world is burning</li><li>LLMs will shrink, but won’t die</li><li>The DeepSeek moment and the tears of Silicon Valley</li><li>The defrocked Anglican gamer Nazi, and other phrases that aren’t in the bible.</li></ul> <a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/y2k-how-the-2000s-became-everything-essays-on-a-future-that-never-was-colette-shade/21416954?ean=9780063333949&amp;next=t&amp;next=t" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Y2K by Colette Shade</a> <a href="https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2024/04/19/justice-dept-citing-streetsblog-reporting-threatens-to-sue-nypd-over-cops-sidewalk-parking" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Justice Dept., Citing Streetsblog, Threatens to Sue NYPD Over Cops’ Sidewalk Parking</a> <a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-man-who-loved-levittown-w-d-wetherell/9724228?ean=9780822962533&amp;next=t&amp;next=t" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Man Who Loved Levittown</a> <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/meelar.bsky.social/post/3lh2bamnbok2k" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Pinochet Posting [Bsky Link]</a> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/us/politics/army-helicopter-crew.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Army Withholds Identity of Helicopter Pilot Killed in Crash</a> <a href="https://apnews.com/article/dc-crash-helicopter-airliner-army-pilot-b0c6a0538fd5045e87e506bb1a135406" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Army releases name of 3rd soldier who died in helicopter and airliner crash</a> <a href="https://aftermath.site/god-is-a-geek-calvin-robinson-nazi-salute-elon-musk" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">God Is A Geek Staff Quits Following Ex-Priest Owner’s Nazi Salute</a>

13 - It’s So Over, We’re So Back

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This is a teaser of a full episode released just for Patreon subscribers. For $5/month, you get access to our extra episodes. Sign up at https://www.patreon.com/c/RabbitH0lePodcast 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).&nbsp; We’ll be back to a more regular release schedule after election day. For now, we hope you enjoy.<ul><li>Iranian Mets fans</li><li>Inshallah Lindor</li><li>You gotta believe</li><li>Nothing can kill the Grimace</li><li>A Tree Grows in Israel</li></ul> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeyU7uVOTic" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Nothing can kill the Grimace</a>

TEASER - 11 - On Baseball and Zionism

Greetings from the hurricane ravaged coasts of South Carolina. Emily and I recorded this episode a few weeks ago and then, well, a bunch of stuff happened. Including a hurricane. I’m fine. We got incredibly lucky here in South Carolina but it did delay things a bit. 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 <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/telegram-widens-data-sharing-with-authorities/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">more data to the cops</a>. <a href="https://www.404media.co/telegram-changes-policy-says-it-will-provide-user-data-to-authorities/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Telegram Changes Policy, Says It Will Provide User Data to Authorities</a> <a href="https://www.vulture.com/article/obamacore-obama-pop-culture-kamala-harris.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Obamacore</a> <a href="https://x.com/Mets/status/1836949383260033508?lang=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Mets whimsy</a> <a href="https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/joseph-cox/dark-wire/9781541702691/?lens=publicaffairs" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Dark Wire by Joseph Cox</a> <a href="https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2024/08/25/telegram-is-not-really-an-encrypted-messaging-app/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Telegram Isn't an Encrypted Messaging App</a> <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/07/settled-human-rights-standards-building-blocks-platform-accountability-and" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Some Background on Brazil</a> <a href="https://x.com/evacide" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Eva on Twitter</a> <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/evacide.bsky.social" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Eva on Bluesky</a>

010 - Telegram and the Ghosts of Discourse Past

Content warning for discussion of pregnancy and miscarriage. 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 <a href="https://www.patreon.com/RabbitH0lePodcast" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Patreon</a>. For $5, you're supporting the show, and get two extra episodes a month. <a href="https://www.patreon.com/RabbitH0lePodcast " rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/RabbitH0lePodcast </a> Mentioned in the episode: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/brittanydawnsnark/comments/1feufej/offfical_trial_settlement/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">What’s in Brittany Dawn’s Settlement</a><a href="https://www.instagram.com/growinggoodings" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Growing Goodings</a><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/RodriguesFamilySnark/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Rodruiges family Snark</a> Music by Janus Rose

TEASER - 09 - Emergency Brittany Dawn Update

Rolling Stone staff writer <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/author/brittany-spanos/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Brittany Spanos</a>&nbsp;joins us in the warren this week to walk us through one of our weirder rabbit holes: pop music. <ul><li>Matthew’s Katy Perry gaffe</li><li>Taylor is not done, Taylor is never done</li><li>The rise of the new pop girlies</li><li>Katy Perry was bad long before this</li><li>False nostalgia for the Obama era</li><li>We’re all trapped in 2016</li><li>Katy Perry CAN’T fix this</li><li>The Hannah Montana Generation</li><li>You can’t have a nice time anymore.</li></ul> <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/north-carolina-musician-charged-music-streaming-fraud-aided-artificial-intelligence" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">AI Music fraud story</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65m4u4IxZLg" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Chappell Roan VMA performance</a> <a href="https://people.com/abraham-lincoln-documentary-shared-bed-with-man-exclusive-8705838" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Abraham Lincoln Shared Bed with a Man for 4 Years, Fell Into 'Suicidal Depression' When He Left, Doc Says (Exclusive)</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNF6Qvh5WYI" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Lover of Men trailer</a> <a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/175-year-history-examining-bachelor-president-james-buchanans-close-friendship-william-rufus-king-180972992/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">James Buchanan, gay?</a> <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/chappell-roan-good-luck-babe-fame-fans-1235094314/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Chappell Roan Is a Pop Supernova. Nothing About It Has Been Easy</a> <a href="https://www.salon.com/2024/09/06/abraham-lincoln-lover-of-men-bisexual/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The David Bowie/ Lincoln poster</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4kIJkDwx7U" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A Chapell Roan pet themed cat commercial</a> <a href="https://www.vulture.com/article/katy-perry-143-career-advice.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Katy Perry can fix this</a> <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/hannah-montana-pop-music-generation-sabrina-carpenter-chappell-roan-1235051502/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Welcome to the Hannah Montana Generation of Pop Music</a>

08 - Rise of the New Pop Girlies

https://www.patreon.com/RabbitH0lePodcast In this ep: <ul><li>Matthew on the things that get donated to a used bookstore</li><li>Emily on Julie and Julia (2009)</li><li>Matthew on Telegram and France and Elon and Brazil</li><li>The concept of “hate following”&nbsp;</li><li>da new york mets baby love da mets</li></ul> <a href="https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/13372/biblequest" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Biblequest review on board game geek&nbsp;</a> <a href="https://www.hpb.com/store?storeid=HPB-059&amp;showMap=true&amp;horizontalView=true&amp;isForm=true" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Half price books</a> <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/09/02/bonnie-slotnick-the-downtown-food-history-savant" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bonnie’s cookbook store&nbsp;</a> <a href="https://www.twicesoldtales.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Seattle bookstore</a> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Microwave-Cooking-One-Marie-Smith/dp/1565546660" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Microwave cooking for one by marie t smith</a> <a href="https://gizmodo.com/the-arrest-of-pavel-durov-is-a-reminder-that-telegram-is-not-encrypted-2000490960" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Gault on telegram (charging documents)</a> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/28/us/backpage-michael-lacey-sentenced.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Nytimes backpage article&nbsp;</a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C9yYSxGp1m5/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Obidiah</a> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/NewYorkMets/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Mets reddit</a>&nbsp; <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/11/arts/television/seinfeld-night-brooklyn-cyclones.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Cyclones seinfeld night&nbsp;</a> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1964/11/26/archives/fein-sentencing-scheduled-jan-6-he-could-get-a-life-term-in-murder.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Baseball murder case</a> https://www.patreon.com/RabbitH0lePodcast

TEASER - 07 - Welcome to the Secret Warren

<a href="https://www.patreon.com/RabbitH0lePodcast" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/RabbitH0lePodcast</a> 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:<ul><li>Big Bang Theory and weird nerds</li><li>Watching TV on Facebook Reels</li><li>TikTok as cable access</li><li>Content creators and labor laws</li></ul> Links discussed: <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@thenursery_nurse" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Nursery Nurse</a>&nbsp; <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/YoungSheldon/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Young sheldon subreddit</a>&nbsp; <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/secretstash" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">“Bluey moms who smoke weed” Facebook Group</a>&nbsp; <a href="https://www.instagram.com/winnah_bassett/?hl=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Winnah Basset</a>&nbsp; <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@burntoutteachers" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Why I left teaching</a>&nbsp; <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtQ2_NjV6-8" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Kevin Can F*** Himself</a>&nbsp; <a href="https://www.instagram.com/carolineeasom/?hl=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Caroline Easom</a> <a href="https://time.com/7010441/mrbeast-accusations-explained/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">What’s going on with MrBeast&nbsp;</a> <a href="https://press.hulu.com/shows/the-contestant/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Japanese reality show documentary</a>&nbsp; <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMrYRxFHpio&amp;pp=ygUXeW91bmcgc2hlbGRvbiBjb21tdW5pc3Q%3D%20https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FrU_pjsjiQ" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Comrade “Young Sheldon” is a communist&nbsp;</a> You can find Alex on the <a href="https://www.theverge.com/the-vergecast" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Vergecast</a> or on <a href="https://x.com/alexhcranz" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Twitter </a>&nbsp;

06 - TikTok Radicalized Me (to Watch Young Sheldon) with Alex Cranz

<a href="https://www.patreon.com/RabbitH0lePodcast" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Support us on Patreon!</a> 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 <a href="https://aftermath.site/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Aftermath</a> 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 … <ul><li>Gita’s thoughts on Overwatch 2</li><li>Faded Japanese snacks in the bodega window</li><li>Dispensaries with evil auras</li><li>Girl-boss co-opting</li><li>Watching a washed president</li><li>Diet-Coke as slop</li><li>Politics as fandom, fandom as politics</li></ul> Show notes <a href="https://twitter.com/mjgault/status/1826670548858143167" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The South Carolina weed note</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210601000000*/https://www.jezebel.com/why-the-creator-of-feminist-taylor-swift-twitter-wants-1798668808" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Emily’s Taylor Swift jezebel article</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210601000000*/https://www.jezebel.com/why-the-creator-of-feminist-taylor-swift-twitter-wants-1798668808" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Yes, Kamala IS Brat</a>&nbsp; <a href="https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/brat-summer-is-dead-long-live-brat-summer/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Brat Summer Is Dead, Long Live Brat Summer</a> <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/aaron-sorkins-liberal-fantasy-runs-the-world/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Aaron Sorkin’s Liberal Fantasy Runs the World</a> <a href="https://www.vulture.com/article/obamacore-obama-pop-culture-kamala-harris.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Some Thoughts on Obamacore</a> <a href="https://kotaku.com/we-cant-fix-the-internet-1828463761" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Gita on politics and fandom</a> <a href="https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/miku-binder-thomas-jefferson" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Mike Binder Thomas Jefferson</a> You can find Gita and their work at <a href="https://aftermath.site/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://aftermath.site/</a>&nbsp; Our theme music is by Janus Rose

05 - The Unemployed Media People For Harris Zoom Call

<a href="https://www.patreon.com/RabbitH0lePodcast" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/RabbitH0lePodcast</a> Before starting rabbit h0le, Emily and I hosted a little show over at Vice called <a href="https://shows.acast.com/cyber" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Cyber</a>. 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! <a href="https://www.patreon.com/RabbitH0lePodcast" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Click the link below to subscribe</a> and hear the tale in full from Karen and Chris. There might even be a weird aside about Mormon investments in nuclear weapons. <a href="https://www.patreon.com/RabbitH0lePodcast" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/RabbitH0lePodcast</a> <a href="https://inkstickmedia.com/cracks-in-the-sin-screen-the-link-between-mormon-tithes-and-nuclear-weapons/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">On Nukes and Mormons</a> <a href="https://dingoranchlabs.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://dingoranchlabs.com/</a>

04 - The Final Cyber

We can't sleep and ask too many questions.

We can't sleep and we ask too many questions. Matthew Gault and Emily Lipstein

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