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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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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 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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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.

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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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Rolling Stone staff writer Brittany Spanos joins us in the warren this week to walk us through one of our weirder rabbit holes: pop music.

• 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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