ICYMI - The Bling Ring Wasn’t Possible Without the Internet
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🗓️ 8 October 2022
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
The early years of social media were a wild place where people weren’t really thinking about what they were posting, which is something the teenagers of the Bling Ring took advantage of when they started using celebrity gossip sites, Facebook, MySpace and Google Maps to target their famous victims. On today’s show, Rachelle is joined by Moises Mendez II to talk about the new Netflix documentary The Real Bling Ring: Hollywood Heist, which details this group’s tactics, crimes, and conflicting stories. Rachelle and Moises discuss how the internet played such an important role in these crimes, the chaos in the courtroom, and the desperation for attention these teens had.
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| 0:00.0 | This Sunday were lied from the home of smart energy use three Akasha drive and Dave Davo peck them off to a |
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| 0:12.3 | hiding. Please see for the home side thanks to the hard price electricity |
| 0:16.2 | Brim British gas full-time Davos saved it all for Sunday. Now we can enjoy the football |
| 0:22.1 | Get half-pressed electricity every Sunday with British gas peak safe Sunday's |
| 0:26.1 | Elements of 4 and 24th of September season sees apply smart meat to required. |
| 0:32.5 | It was the first case that I'm aware of where they committed a crime using the internet and they were very savvy |
| 0:39.5 | Unfortunately, was there downfall too? |
| 0:44.0 | Hi, I'm Rachel Hampton and I'm voice estimate as a second and you're listening to I see why am I in case you missed it |
| 0:50.9 | Flake's podcast about internet culture and yes today we are joined by none other than internet culture |
| 0:57.8 | Icon himself Moises Mendez the second no one's junior Moises. Hello. Hi |
| 1:04.6 | Thank you guys so much for having me back. I'm so excited. I'm so excited to have you here |
| 1:10.7 | I'm such a big fan of yours like whenever I see your name pop up on my TL |
| 1:15.2 | When I'm beating a story. I'm just like oh my god |
| 1:17.5 | That's more if he's such a star |
| 1:20.1 | Oh |
| 1:21.1 | dog |
| 1:25.4 | Don't gas me up like this my head is already too big |
| 1:28.7 | I'm a gas you up and I'm a keep gas you up because |
| 1:32.6 | Moises is currently a culture reporter at B time magazine |
| 1:35.9 | But has written about internet culture for quite literally every single publication like the Atlantic Rolling Stone |
| 1:42.7 | Vice and also I see why am I you know might have heard him and in previous episode with Madison rest in peace wherever she is |
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