'Rabbit Hole,' Episode 6: Impasse

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🗓️ 23 May 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Note: This episode contains strong language. Today, we’re sharing Episode 6 of “Rabbit Hole,” a New York Times audio series with the tech columnist Kevin Roose. In this episode, we hear from PewDiePie, one of the biggest and most polarizing YouTube celebrities. He sat down with our reporter to discuss how he’s coming to grips with his influence — and looking to the future. If you're tuning in to “Rabbit Hole” for the first time, start with the prologue. You can find more information about the podcast at nytimes.com/rabbithole.

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0:00.0	From the New York Times, I'm Michael Bavaro.
0:09.6	Today, Rabbit Hole.
0:14.8	Episode 6.
0:28.9	Our name is Bradon...
0:31.1	Sandra and Lady Gaga Mobile Hope
0:38.9	Oh my god, our kids are listening to Elvis.
0:42.8	You need to keep fighting back.
0:49.4	So it's been a while since you did one of these huh?
0:52.4	It's been a while.
0:53.4	Been a long time.
0:54.4	A long.
0:55.4	Probably had two years, maybe?
0:57.4	That's interesting.
0:58.4	Yeah.
1:00.4	Wide one.
1:02.4	All right.
1:03.4	So Felix decides to sit down and talk with you for his first interview since the whole Wall Street Journal controversy.
1:13.4	Yeah.
1:14.4	And I was curious, first of all, just why he was doing this, why he was sitting down with someone from the mainstream media after so long.
1:23.4	I've been asking for two years.
1:27.4	Here we are.
1:30.4	And also, after following his career for so long and just seeing everything that's happened, I just wanted to know what he made of it all.
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