Charlie Zakkour and The Crypto Torture Townhouse (Part 3)
Eating For Free
Joan Summers and Matthew Lawson
4.8 • 535 Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
In which we breakdown New York Mag's major cover story 'The Crypto Maniacs and the Torture Townhouse'
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Hosted by journalists Joan Summers and Matthew Lawson, Eating For Free is a weekly podcast that explores gossip and power in the pop culture landscape: Where it comes from, who wields it, and who suffers at the hands of it. Find out the stories behind the stories, as together they look beyond the headlines of troublesome YouTubers or scandal-ridden A-Listers, and delve deep into the inner workings of Hollywood's favorite pastime. The truth, they've found, is definitely stranger than any gossip.
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Sources:
- The Crypto Maniacs and the Torture Townhouse [NYMag]
- The Psychology of Cults [UoT]
- The Bitcoin Administration: How JD Vance and Trump Establish Crypto Cult in the US [Coinspeaker]
- Crypto theft is booming as criminals increasingly turn to physical attacks [NBC]
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| 0:00.0 | I'm a I'm I'm |
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| 0:25.6 | I'm She lived. |
| 0:48.7 | She lived. |
| 0:50.2 | And she got a recall notice on the car that is sitting in a scrapyard in upstate New York this morning. |
| 0:56.1 | So I'm really thriving, actually. |
| 0:58.6 | And if you want to know how I ended up at a scrapyard in rural upstate New York selling my beloved car, Sarah Jessica Parker, for $300 on a Tuesday morning, no, Monday morning after it exploded on a highway |
| 1:14.8 | in Canada, you're gonna have to listen to the Patreon episode to get the full details on that |
| 1:20.5 | and the witch that cursed me outside of a Tim Hortons with a spell. |
| 1:24.7 | Gladys from weapons may have made an appearance in your life recently. |
| 1:28.2 | Gladys from weapons made an appearance in a big way. And actually, it is a story that I can |
| 1:32.6 | confidently say from the comments we have received has completely shaken the Eating for Free |
| 1:38.5 | Universe to its very foundation. I mean, we quite literally detailed a sort of like a Greek myth about a hero being |
| 1:48.6 | cast into hell and having to climb his waybook up from Olympus itself or wherever the |
| 1:53.6 | fuck Greek myths take place. It was a story of trials and tribulations and sufferings, |
| 1:58.4 | but I did wake up today for all of our lovely patrons |
| 2:01.7 | to a recall notice on that same car. Now, mind you, the car is almost 10 years old. I can't. |
| 2:06.5 | I'm sorry, but they're coming at the end of the exploding engine. Like, it's just crazy. |
| 2:12.3 | And it's not just that it's like a recall notice on like a car I got last year. It is like |
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