We can’t sleep and we ask too many questions.
Matthew Gault and Emily Lipstein
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We can’t sleep and we ask too many questions.
Matthew Gault and Emily Lipstein
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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 go down the Joe Arden rabbit hole with us. She wrote about Arden’s fall for Business Insider.
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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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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 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.
Video Appendix:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-du566FWFU&list=PLG8IbKjUJr6zLSgEDCxWi1XAf04EsdEGI
Our theme music is by Janus Rose.
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