Episode 130: Arcade Fire Is Canceled, Student Loans Are Canceled, Everyone Is Canceled
Blocked and Reported
Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2022
⏱️ 75 minutes
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This week: Jesse gets sent directly to Jewish Hell for misrepresenting Judaism, Men’s Health becomes the next to fall to ideological capture and publishes the worst advice column of all time, and Win Butler of Arcade Fire fame becomes the next to be canceled due to allegations of sexual misconduct. But as usual, there may be more to the story…
Links:
Nathan Robinson review WITH MAJOR SPOILER
NPR on Rowling’s new book
https://www.npr.org/2022/08/31/1120299781/jk-rowling-new-book-the-ink-black-heart
Trace’s article on Biden’s student loan cancellation program
Judaism lore: on graven images
https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/ask-the-expert-graven-images/
Men’s Health publishes the worst advice column ever (a record soon to be shattered)
https://www.menshealth.com/sex-women/a41018711/sexplain-it-vagina-fetish-sex-bisexual/
Pitchfork breaks news of allegations against Win Butler of Arcade Fire fame
Image: DUBLIN, IRELAND - AUGUST 30: Richard Reed Parry, Win Butler, Tim Kingsbury, Régine Chassagne and Sarah Neufeld of Arcade Fire perform at The 3Arena Dublin on August 30, 2022 in Dublin, Ireland. (Photo by Debbie Hickey/Getty Images)
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| 0:00.0 | I'm not a fan of the music. |
| 0:07.0 | Katie, do you want to get off your chest? |
| 0:13.8 | Jessie, I know this is atypical for me. |
| 0:16.7 | A very positive, wholesome, uplifting van life influencer like I am. |
| 0:23.0 | But yes, I'm mad about something. |
| 0:24.6 | Let's lay it on us. |
| 0:26.0 | Okay. |
| 0:27.0 | Jessie, are you familiar with one, Nathan J. Robinson? |
| 0:29.9 | Yeah, he is the guy who tells me what to think. |
| 0:34.9 | He sort of serves the role of like God, if I were a religious man, which I'm not. |
| 0:39.2 | If you had a conscience, he would be yours. |
| 0:41.4 | Yeah, he's the founder and editor of Current Affairs magazine. |
| 0:46.9 | He's a lefty writer who he's written some stuff I've liked when he ventures into areas |
| 0:52.3 | where I know stuff. |
| 0:53.7 | He is capable of stacking up thousands of words of confusion and wrongness in a very short |
| 0:59.6 | period. |
| 1:00.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:01.6 | Well, this week he has decided to try his hand at book reviewing. |
| 1:05.6 | And I know that this is new for him because his website, Current Affairs, oh, by the way, |
| 1:10.6 | we should also mention that there was, we've talked about him on the show before because |
| 1:14.5 | there was this huge kerfuffle last year because it turns out that Nathan J. Robinson, who |
| 1:19.2 | is a socialist who runs this socialist magazine, wants to or does run his magazine like it's |
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