From Goodmont, this is your pile, I'm PJ Vote.

And I'm Alex School.

Alex?

Yes.

We're trying something, we're trying a new segment this week.

I'm always a little nervous about trying new segments because what if we try it once and then we're like, we're never doing this again.

Don't want to do it again, it will be fine.

Alright, we're trying a new segment everybody. We may never do it again.

Yeah, we'll see.

So the segment we're going to call it deep dive. Here's the theme song.

And the idea is that one of us will talk to somebody who's just gone way deeper into some weird mysterious pocket of the internet than you or I is really capable of going.

Yeah, and then we'll talk to them and be like, how exactly did you do this?

So this week I spoke to this reporter whose articles I've really enjoyed. Her name's Ashley Feinberg.

She writes it slate and I think it's safe to say that like politicians live in a low level fear of her.

What is your, do you have a beat?

I mean, yes, but like it's, this is the part of the problem is anytime you ask me that question.

Like I, the, the answer is like internet culture and politics, but it's really just sort of anything I think is like bad or funny or weird.

My favorite thing about Ashley is her ability to catch politicians in what are basically the most unguarded moments on the internet.

And it's not like she's using hacking tools or any kind of specialized technology to do this.

She's just really good at finding embarrassing secrets that are sort of hidden in plain sight.

It's, it feels like kind of like a superpower to me, but it does piss a lot of people off.

I mean, there's some chorus of how Jared you invade this person's privacy and this is internalism.

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