It's All Bots, Girl
Eating For Free
Joan Summers and Matthew Lawson
4.8 • 534 Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2026
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
In which we talk the social media discourse around Chappell Roan, Geese, and other artists who are benefitting (or suffering) from an industry that relies on paid bots, fake user-generated content, and algorithmic manipulation.
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About Eating For Free:
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.
You can also find us on our website, Twitter, and Instagram. Any personal, business, or general inquires can be sent to eatingforfreepodcast@gmail.com
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| 0:00.0 | I'm a I'm I'm |
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| 0:25.6 | I'm Hello, hello, welcome to E4F News. |
| 1:15.9 | My name is Joan Summers, and we are reporting live on the ground in Brazil, where our correspondent Matthew has updates on the international scandal that has racked the public discourse for weeks after Chapel Rhone publicly spit on a five-year-old girl. Matthew, what is the situation looking like in Brazil weeks out from the scandal? Have the |
| 1:22.2 | fires been put out? Thank you, John Summers. The city is still surviving. We are healing as a country. I think |
| 1:29.8 | emotionally, many of us are still trying to persevere and move on from what has happened over the last |
| 1:34.3 | few weeks to this beautiful country. But it does seem there are new developments. It does seem |
| 1:39.2 | what we are told happened. The truth, if it is, to be spoken, is not allegedly what was told to the press. |
| 1:47.2 | We are hearing there are differing narratives. We hear that there is confusion. People are now |
| 1:51.0 | starting to panic. We don't actually know what's real anymore at this point, and it's frightening us. |
| 1:56.6 | Wait, one second. I'm getting a note from our in-studio producer. |
| 2:03.2 | Hi, yes. Okay, this is breaking news. |
| 2:04.1 | Okay. |
| 2:10.5 | The football player at the center of this scandal has issued the following statement. |
| 2:14.7 | Quote, eating for free was right about everything. |
| 2:16.6 | They are always right. |
| 2:19.9 | They have always been right. And they will probably continue to be right. We regret any confusion and drama that we caused by mislabeling |
| 2:27.6 | where the source of the spit on my five-year-old child came from. That said, I would like to more so publicly apologize to eating for free who everybody |
| 2:38.2 | should listen to more because they are always right. |
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