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142. Fesshole: The man who knows all your secrets

heretics. | andrew gold

Andrew Gold

Personal Journals, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.4968 Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2022

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Rob is a comedian apparently affectionately known as the Ginger Führer, and he was the founder of website Beta, spelt B3ta, which dates back to 2001 and has all sorts of mad, crazy internet humour. Rob Manuel links: https://twitter.com/fesshole https://twitter.com/robmanuel Andrew Gold links: http://youtube.com/andrewgold1 http://instagram.com/andrewgold_ok http://twitter.com/andrewgold_ok Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, can I tell you a secret?

0:04.0

Well, you can tell a secret to Rob Manuel just go through his anonymous confessions form,

0:09.0

and he might just put it out on his Twitter profile Fess Hole, which has over half a million followers.

0:15.6

Perhaps your biggest secret is how much you love and want to share on the edge with Andrew Gold

0:20.0

with the world, and if he then has to share that with 500,000 followers with a link to

0:25.2

the podcast then so be it. Confess your sins anonymously will the internet absolve you?

0:31.0

That's the message. I'm obviously intrigued because I'm writing a book

0:34.4

about the psychology of secrets so I had to get Rob on. Rob is a comedian apparently

0:40.2

affectionately known as the ginger furura and he was the founder is the

0:44.9

founder of website Better spelt B3 T. A or Beta which dates back to 2001 and

0:51.9

has all sorts of mad crazy internet humour.

0:54.4

We struggle a bit with internet lag in the first half, so I hope it's all been put together somehow.

0:59.4

And then we got back together a few days later to stitch it together.

1:03.2

Hopefully my wonderful editor and partner,

1:06.0

Holly, will stitch it together seamlessly.

1:09.0

And I mistakenly thought Rob was the creator of the famous Badger's YouTube video from back in the 90s and quite

1:15.3

possibly offended him by mistakenly thinking that or maybe he wasn't offended it can be

1:20.0

hard to tell across the internet particularly when it's not working very well.

1:23.6

But after 150 episodes you think, I'd have to offend someone, eventually, particularly you

1:28.7

listeners who often let me know you are very offended.

1:31.7

I don't think I think was're having a good time actually.

1:34.0

Thanks for sticking with the podcast regardless everyone. Coming up soon are Tim and

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