

Eating For Free
Joan Summers and Matthew Lawson
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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Mar 5, 2019 • 1h 11min
Tweet #Shallowbucks To Receive A Limited Edition Ally Maine Enema At Your Local CVS
Eating For Free is a bi-weekly gossip podcast reporting from the edge of the internet! We're a new wave of celebrity reporters at a time when pop culture is increasingly chaotic and media lacks the ability or moral direction to make sense of this capitalist nightmare! You can find us on our website, Twitter, and Instagram. For behind-the-scenes gossip and access, join our exclusive Facebook group: Girls & Gays (G.A.G.S.)! Do you have a tip for us? Want to leave some feedback? Need to get any questions off your chest? Send us an email at eatingforfreepodcast@gmail.com! Joan Summers: Twitter, Instagram, Email. Matthew Lawson: Twitter, Instagram Links: Danielle Staub's new man isn't really a duke (Page Six) Marvel Is Searching for Its First Gay Superhero (Out/Rose Dommu) There's A Starbucks Scam Going Around By Lady Gaga Fans (Buzzfeed News) After Roma swept the Oscars, Steven Spielberg seeks to block streaming films. 43:20 (Choose) Khloé Kardashian Says Jordyn Woods "Is Not to Be Blamed For the Breakup of My Family" (Teen Vogue) Wendy Williams Is Back!!! (Jezebel) Consider Bebe Rexha's Potato Chips (Frida Garza, Jezebel)

Feb 21, 2019 • 1h 4min
Fashion Nova Is Shady, But Kim Kardashian Is Shadier!
Eating For Free is a bi-weekly gossip podcast reporting from the edge of the internet! We're a new wave of celebrity reporters at a time when pop culture is increasingly chaotic and media lacks the ability or moral direction to make sense of this capitalist nightmare! You can find us on our website, Twitter, and Instagram. For behind-the-scenes gossip and access, join our exclusive Facebook group: Girls & Gays (G.A.G.S.)! Do you have a tip for us? Want to leave some feedback? Need to get any questions off your chest? Send us an email at eatingforfreepodcast@gmail.com! Joan Summers: Twitter, Instagram, Email. Matthew Lawson: Twitter, Instagram Links: Kim Kardashian's Twitter More Tweets More Tweets More Tweets More Instagram Posts Diet Prada post about Kim Kim Kardashian asked fast-fashion brands not to knock off her outfit, but one was promoting its rip-off in a now deleted Instagram post less than 3 hours later (Business Insider) How Fashion Nova Built An Entire Fashion Company Completely On Instagram (Buzzfeed News) So Exactly How Did Fashion Nova Turn Around Those Kardashian Looks So Fast? (Cosmo) Cardi B's Favorite Fashion Brand Was Googled More Than Chanel in 2017 Fashion Nova's Glassdoor Kanye West's Yeezy Clothing Label Sued for Allegedly Copying Another Brand's Camouflage Print (People) Kim Kardashian's Children's Clothing Label Is Being Called Out for Copying Fashion Designers (Glamour) Kim Kardashian says designs were an homage, not copies (Page Six) KYLIE JENNER RELATIONSHIP WITH JORDYN UNCERTAIN In Wake of Tristan Cheating Scandal (TMZ) KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN RUNS INTO YOUNES ... Gets Handsy With Her Ex (TMZ_ Kim Kardashian, Kanye West Reportedly Buying $15.5M Miami Beach Condo (NBC Miami) Kim Kardashian & Kanye West Expecting Fourth Child, a Boy, Via Surrogate (TMZ) Kanye West Returns to Twitter with Live Video Rant About 'Mind Control' (TMZ) Kanye West and President Trump Doing White House Meeting Kanye West's Pro-Trump Rant Gets Boos on Saturday Night Live: 'My God,' Says Chris Rock (People) Death Row Inmate Kim Kardashian West Tweeted About Wants New Push for DNA Testing (TMZ) Kanye West Hands Out Dozens of Yeezys in Uganda, Kim Gushes Over Africa (TMZ) Kim and Kourtney Kardashian Stage Nasty Twitter Fight to Hype Show, People See Through It (ELLE) KIM KARDASHIANMEETS WITH TRUMP ON PRISON REFORM Freeing Another Prisoner (TMZ)

Feb 14, 2019 • 40min
Shen Yun, Government Propaganda, and Homosexual Aliens? (Part Two)
Eating For Free is a bi-weekly gossip podcast reporting from the edge of the internet! We're a new wave of celebrity reporters at a time when pop culture is increasingly chaotic and media lacks the ability or moral direction to make sense of this capitalist nightmare! You can find us on our website, Twitter, and Instagram. For behind-the-scenes gossip and access, join our exclusive Facebook group: Girls & Gays (G.A.G.S.)! Do you have a tip for us? Want to leave some feedback? Need to get any questions off your chest? Send us an email at eatingforfreepodcast@gmail.com! Joan Summers: Twitter, Instagram, Email. Matthew Lawson: Twitter, Instagram Links: Sect vows to stop "evil tide sweeping mankind to catastrophe" South China Morning Post/April 26, 1999 The traditional Chinese dance troupe China doesn't want you to see (Guardian) Facts about the So-called "Shen Yun" Performance by the "Falun Gong" Chinese Embassy Key dates in emergence of China's banned Falungong movement (Cult Education) AFP/January 23, 2001 Teachings of Falun Gong Is Falun Gong a cult? January, 2009, By Rick Ross China: Whether the self-immolations of 23 January 2001 in Tiananmen Square were a fabrication; if so, who is making the allegations and based on what evidence (2001 to November 2004) Research Directorate, Immigration and Refugee Board, Ottawa "Falun Gong: homophobic mind control cult" San Francisco Sentinal - Letter to the Editor/January 27, 2006, By Samuel Luo Sect vows to stop "evil tide sweeping mankind to catastrophe" South China Morning Post/April 26, 1999 White House Reviews Incident Involving Epoch Times Photographer (Washington Post) A Chinese Battle on U.S. Soil (Cult Education Institute) Falun Gong (Cult Education Institute) Who is Li Hongzhi? (Cult Education Institute) Interview with Li Hongzhi (Cult Education Institute) Group Says 2,000 Arrested in China (Cult Education Institute) Endgame for the Falun Gong? (Cult Education Institute)

Feb 7, 2019 • 51min
Shen Yun, Government Propaganda, and Homosexual Aliens? (Part One)
Eating For Free is a bi-weekly gossip podcast reporting from the edge of the internet! We're a new wave of celebrity reporters at a time when pop culture is increasingly chaotic and media lacks the ability or moral direction to make sense of this capitalist nightmare! You can find us on our website, Twitter, and Instagram. For behind-the-scenes gossip and access, join our exclusive Facebook group: Girls & Gays (G.A.G.S.)! Do you have a tip for us? Want to leave some feedback? Need to get any questions off your chest? Send us an email at eatingforfreepodcast@gmail.com! Joan Summers: Twitter, Instagram, Email. Matthew Lawson: Twitter, Instagram Links: Sect vows to stop "evil tide sweeping mankind to catastrophe" South China Morning Post/April 26, 1999 The traditional Chinese dance troupe China doesn't want you to see (Guardian) Facts about the So-called "Shen Yun" Performance by the "Falun Gong" Chinese Embassy Key dates in emergence of China's banned Falungong movement (Cult Education) AFP/January 23, 2001 Teachings of Falun Gong Is Falun Gong a cult? January, 2009, By Rick Ross China: Whether the self-immolations of 23 January 2001 in Tiananmen Square were a fabrication; if so, who is making the allegations and based on what evidence (2001 to November 2004) Research Directorate, Immigration and Refugee Board, Ottawa "Falun Gong: homophobic mind control cult" San Francisco Sentinal - Letter to the Editor/January 27, 2006, By Samuel Luo Sect vows to stop "evil tide sweeping mankind to catastrophe" South China Morning Post/April 26, 1999 White House Reviews Incident Involving Epoch Times Photographer (Washington Post) A Chinese Battle on U.S. Soil (Cult Education Institute) Falun Gong (Cult Education Institute) Who is Li Hongzhi? (Cult Education Institute) Interview with Li Hongzhi (Cult Education Institute) Group Says 2,000 Arrested in China (Cult Education Institute) Endgame for the Falun Gong? (Cult Education Institute)

Jan 31, 2019 • 38min
Listener Letter Happy Hour: The State of Trans Politics In the UK!
Many thanks to @britishdennis for the email and update on the state of affairs in the UK! If you'd like to send us a listener letter, email us at eatingforfreepodcast@gmail.com. Eating For Free is a bi-weekly gossip podcast reporting from the edge of the internet! We're a new wave of celebrity reporters at a time when pop culture is increasingly chaotic and media lacks the ability or moral direction to make sense of this capitalist nightmare! You can find us on our website, Twitter, and Instagram. For behind-the-scenes gossip and access, join our exclusive Facebook group: Girls & Gays (G.A.G.S.)! Do you have a tip for us? Want to leave some feedback? Need to get any questions off your chest? Send us an email at eatingforfreepodcast@gmail.com! Joan Summers: Twitter, Instagram, Email. Matthew Lawson: Twitter, Instagram Links from Listener Letter: Terfs: Trans ideologists are spreading cod science (Sunday Times) The problem that gender self-ID is designed to solve is real but the debate has failed (New Statesman) #CampaignForFemaleRights Fair Play For Women guidance for responding to the GRA consultation WPUK Statement on John McDonnel Facebook Post from Fair Play for Women Non-Terfs: Why we take issue with the Guardian's stance on trans rights in the UK (Guardian) Leaked Messages Reveal How Women At The BBC Have Clashed Over Trans Rights (Buzzfeed News) LGBT+ community reacts angrily to the transphobic posters across gay village on twitter (Northern Quota)

Jan 17, 2019 • 1h 3min
The Suspicious Deaths Surrounding Democratic Political Donor Ed Buck
We advise listeners to be prepared for stories concerning drug use, exploitation, graphic imagery, and death. Please be advised. Anyone who has information or corrections on what we discussed, please email us at eatingforfreepodcast@gmail.com Fact Correction January 17th, 2019: Jasmyne Cannik's tweet/thread that Lawson discusses about Gemmel Moore was published on July 28th 2018, not the day after his death (originally stated as July 28th 2017.) Eating For Free is a bi-weekly gossip podcast reporting from the edge of the internet! We're a new wave of celebrity reporters at a time when pop culture is increasingly chaotic and media lacks the ability or moral direction to make sense of this capitalist nightmare! You can find us on our website, Twitter, and Instagram. For behind-the-scenes gossip and access, join our exclusive Facebook group: Girls & Gays (G.A.G.S.)! Do you have a tip for us? Want to leave some feedback? Need to get any questions off your chest? Send us an email at eatingforfreepodcast@gmail.com! Joan Summers: Twitter, Instagram, Email. Matthew Lawson: Twitter, Instagram Links: Ed Buck And The Black Queer Lives That Don't Matter (January 14th 2018, VIBE) MORE DETAILS (Nov 18th 2018, LA Times) PRELIMINARY WARNINGS (Aug 12th 2017, Jasmynne Cannick) The Family of Germaine Releases Moore's Journal (Feb 2018) Jasmyne Cannik on Twitter (July 28th 2018, Twitter): Witness Stories: Damar Love, Steve Martin, and James D'Jarnette (Aug 14th 2017, WEHO Times) Witness Stories: Jermaine Gagnon Tells His Ed Buck Story (January 9th 2019, DailyMail) LaTasha Nixon After Second Incident (January 12th 2019, DailyMail) Second Incident (January 14th 2018, VIBE): DCCC, 'deeply disturbed' About Ed Buck (January 14th 2019, Fox News)

Dec 19, 2018 • 1h 22min
Tyra Banks and the Weird, Wonderful World Of America's Next Top Model (feat. Rashida Reneé)
Eating For Free is a bi-weekly gossip podcast reporting from the edge of the internet! We're a new wave of celebrity reporters at a time when pop culture is increasingly chaotic and media lacks the ability or moral direction to make sense of this capitalist nightmare! You can find us on our website, Twitter, and Instagram. For behind-the-scenes gossip and access, join our exclusive Facebook group: Girls & Gays (G.A.G.S.)! Do you have a tip for us? Want to leave some feedback? Need to get any questions off your chest? Send us an email at eatingforfreepodcast@gmail.com! Joan Summers: Twitter, Instagram, Email. Matthew Lawson: Twitter, Instagram Links: 'America's Got Talent' Producer Sued After Tyra Banks "Physically Manipulated" Young Girl (Deadline) Former "Top Model" Angelea Preston Sues Show, Says Producers Disqualified Her Because She'd Worked as an Escort (Cosmo) "Top Model" Angelea Preston Says the Show Was "Like Prison" (Daily Mail) JANICE DICKINSON STILL HATES TYRA BANKS (Fashionista) 'I'm very scared of her': Tyra Banks blames fellow supermodel Naomi Campbell for causing 'some of the lowest times of my life' (INTERVIEW) (DAILYMAIL) Tiffany Richardson, The Girl Who Pushed Tyra Banks (And The Internet) Over The Edge (Buzzfeed) (VIDEO) THE TRUTH ABOUT TOP MODEL by adrianne curry Tyra Banks' Staff Accuses Her of Being a Brutal Diva Tyra Banks really did serve McDonalds at staff Christmas party Exclusive: Guest on Tyra Banks' show says she was tricked and misled

Dec 6, 2018 • 43min
Breaking Down Kesha vs. Dr. Luke vs. Katy Perry (feat. Lady Gaga)
Eating For Free is a bi-weekly gossip podcast reporting from the edge of the internet! We're a new wave of celebrity reporters at a time when pop culture is increasingly chaotic and media lacks the ability or moral direction to make sense of this capitalist nightmare! You can find us on our website, Twitter, and Instagram. For behind-the-scenes gossip and access, join our exclusive Facebook group: Girls & Gays (G.A.G.S.)! Do you have a tip for us? Want to leave some feedback? Need to get any questions off your chest? Send us an email at eatingforfreepodcast@gmail.com! Joan Summers: Twitter, Instagram, Email. Matthew Lawson: Twitter, Instagram Links: 5 Takeaways From New Kesha vs. Dr. Luke Court Documents (Jezebel, Hazel Cills) Katy Perry Says Rape is Not Within Accused Kesha Abuser Dr. Luke's Character (The Observer, Helen Holmes) Lady Gaga Breaks Her Silence on Leaked Texts to Kesha Criticizing Katy Perry (Variety, Margeaux Sippell) Dr. Luke Aims to Ensure He's Getting Cut of Kesha's 'Rainbow' Album (THR, Eriq Gardner)

Nov 29, 2018 • 42min
Lena Dunham Shit The Bed (Again!)
Eating For Free is a bi-weekly gossip podcast reporting from the edge of the internet! We're a new wave of celebrity reporters at a time when pop culture is increasingly chaotic and media lacks the ability or moral direction to make sense of this capitalist nightmare! You can find us on our website, Twitter, and Instagram. For behind-the-scenes gossip and access, join our exclusive Facebook group: Girls & Gays (G.A.G.S.)! Do you have a tip for us? Want to leave some feedback? Need to get any questions off your chest? Send us an email at eatingforfreepodcast@gmail.com! Joan Summers: Twitter, Instagram, Email. Matthew Lawson: Twitter, Instagram Links: Lena Dunham Comes To Terms With Herself (Allison P. Davis, The Cut)

Nov 15, 2018 • 50min
We Follow Up On The Developments Around Noodles & Beef and #JusticeForJack
Eating For Free is a bi-weekly gossip podcast reporting from the edge of the internet! We're a new wave of celebrity reporters at a time when pop culture is increasingly chaotic and media lacks the ability or moral direction to make sense of this capitalist nightmare! You can find us on our website, Twitter, and Instagram. For behind-the-scenes gossip and access, join our exclusive Facebook group: Girls & Gays (G.A.G.S.)! Do you have a tip for us? Want to leave some feedback? Need to get any questions off your chest? Send us an email at eatingforfreepodcast@gmail.com! Joan Summers: Twitter, Instagram, Email. Matthew Lawson: Twitter, Instagram Links: FIRST UPDATE - THE PROJECT WEEK-LATER UPDATE BY THE SHOW NOODLES AND BEEF LEFTOVERS BLOG (tumblr)


