Episode 134: Russian Trolls Have Foiled Our New Advice Segment
Blocked and Reported
Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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After some followups and corrections involving J.K. Rowling’s new book and Jesse’s heaving knockers, Jesse tells Katie about a New York Times article which attempts to partially pin the blame for the travails experienced by the Women’s March — a super competent, super well-run organization that has never generated any controversies — on *RUSSIAN TROLLS*. Then the hosts take listeners’ advice for the very first time. Few lessons are learned, other than that Jesse is extremely dumb.
Links:
Herzog on everyone getting the new Rowling book wrong (thread)
How Russian Trolls Helped Keep the Women’s March Out of Lock Step
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/18/us/womens-march-russia-trump.html
Jesse’s article on Louis Farrakhan and the Women’s March
CNN article also addressing this topic
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/02/28/politics/louis-farrakhan-speech/index.html
Woman’s March co-chair Linda Sarsour discusses “waging jihad” against “white supremacists and Islamophobes reigning in the White House”
Jesse != smart
Image: Russian President Vladimir Putin gives a speech during a ceremony formally annexing four regions of Ukraine Russian troops occupy - Lugansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, at the Kremlin in Moscow on September 30, 2022. (Photo by Grigory SYSOYEV / SPUTNIK / AFP) (Photo by GRIGORY SYSOYEV/SPUTNIK/AFP via Getty Images)
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| 0:00.0 | How's it going? |
| 0:07.0 | Good. I've got a little bit of a programming conundrum for us. |
| 0:15.9 | What's up? |
| 0:16.9 | During the second half of this podcast, we're going to be taking some listeners' questions. |
| 0:21.7 | We're going to be giving them life advice, which is, first of all, terrifying and shouldn't |
| 0:25.7 | be legal for us to give advice. |
| 0:27.9 | But we need a name for the segment. |
| 0:30.1 | You and I together came up with the name Savage Love, but it turns out- |
| 0:34.0 | We definitely did not do that. |
| 0:35.3 | We did, and it turns out some small podcast and newspaper column. |
| 0:39.0 | I'd never heard of it had taken that. |
| 0:40.8 | Uh-huh. |
| 0:41.8 | Couple other ideas. |
| 0:43.3 | Single and ready to mingle? |
| 0:45.0 | Question mark? |
| 0:46.0 | Terrible. |
| 0:47.0 | Terrible. |
| 0:48.0 | What about broken, hurt, songs club? |
| 0:51.2 | Question mark? |
| 0:52.2 | Also bad. |
| 0:53.2 | Those are the only two I had. |
| 0:54.2 | Why don't we call it the block-re-imported advice segment? |
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