Episode 106: Possibly The Craziest And Most Infuriating #MeToo Story You Will Ever Hear

Blocked and Reported

Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal

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🗓️ 12 March 2022

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Jesse shares a scandalous episode from his past, the hosts discuss a New York Times op-ed by a college student that generated a deranged and telling response from The Twitter Powers That Be, and Katie tells Jesse about a remarkable #MeToo story she spend many months investigating (which we will post to the show notes when it is actually up). To discuss this episode with other premium subscribers, click here.

Show notes/Links:

Max Wilbert statement: https://www.protectthackerpass.org/protect-thacker-pass-responds-to-false-statements-made-by-media/

I Came to College Eager to Debate. I Found Self-Censorship Instead: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/07/opinion/campus-speech-cancel-culture.html

Froomkin is a jerk:

Katie’s piece: https://reason.com/2022/03/14/how-an-academic-grudge-turned-into-a-metoo-panic/

Mother Jones on Florian Jaeger: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/09/she-was-a-rising-star-at-a-major-university-then-a-lecherous-professor-made-her-life-hell/

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0:00.0	I'm dealing with a little bit of a burgeoning public relations crisis.
0:18.2	Oh, what'd you do this time?
0:19.9	Well, it's a little bit of a scandal, dating back almost a decade.
0:22.6	I figured I should use this platform to get out ahead of it.
0:25.6	Well, I'm also a PR expert, so I can maybe help guide you through this.
0:29.0	Yeah, when I think of people who can help me know how to present myself in public,
0:33.0	you're at the very top of the list.
0:34.4	Yeah, I'm one of those where they go like crisis advisors.
0:37.2	Mm-hmm.
0:38.2	Yeah, you and Zelenski are the two people I think are best at like gaining support of the
0:43.1	world.
0:44.1	You know, Putin has been calling me, but I said I wouldn't help him.
0:45.7	I canceled it.
0:46.7	I canceled Putin.
0:48.9	So this dates back to probably eight years or so.
0:53.7	I was reminded of this because I was emailing some of my grad school classmates about some
0:57.4	stuff.
0:58.6	And this incident from my past came up and I hope you'll let me share with you what happened
1:04.2	just to get the truth out there.
1:05.4	Yeah, this is a safe space.
1:06.4	Go for it.
1:07.4	Okay, so I am in grad school.
	...

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