rabbit h0le

rabbit h0le

We can't sleep and we ask too many questions. Matthew Gault and Emily Lipstein Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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February 5, 2025 77 mins

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  • 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 per...
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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 ...

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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...

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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

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September 18, 2024 63 mins

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.

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September 11, 2024 11 mins

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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 mar...

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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...

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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 ...
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August 17, 2024 69 mins

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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...

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The Habsburg royal family was once the most powerful dynasty in Europe. Now they’re a joke associated with inbreeding, Paradox grand strategy games, and VERY prominent chins. The Habsburgs lost most of their political power in the Great War, but they got to remain rich. And influential.


How influential? Ask journalist Christopher Hooks, who attended a Habsburg convention in suburban Texas. Yes, the Habsburgs have conventions. We...

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Joe Arden had a pretty good thing going. As the voice of dozens of romance novel hunks, he commanded the adoration of listeners and high prices from authors looking to put his voice to their fantasies. Fans called him “the king of fuck.”


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 ...

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July 24, 2024 66 mins

We can’t sleep and we ask too many questions. Welcome to rabbit h0le, a spiritual successor to Motherboard’s CYBER podcast.


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 dec...

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