Episode 146: >TFW Your Family Makes You Fake Your Own Death

Blocked and Reported

Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal

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🗓️ 7 January 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

>be writer for podcast

>office is full of goats for some reason

>working on episode about medievalist twitter drama and a weird publisher called RECEPTIO, really crazy story

>suddenly coworker shows up in a fursuit

>goats go ballistic trying to flee the “wolf”

>destroy half the office in the process

>boss gets fed up, tells me to get rid of goats

>spend 2 hours herding them down 32 flights of stairs as they lick me the whole time

>soaking wet as I return to the office

>boss’s dog stares through the window, sad the goats are gone

>”actually, bring the goats back, Anon”

>call up other cohost for help

>”sorry bro I’m busy doing mushrooms on a gay beach with Andrew Sullivan”

>spend 4 hours tracking goats down and herding them back into the office alone

>worstdayever.jpeg

>at least I managed to land that interview with Susan Meachen

>check email

>she killed herself

The tweet Katie was sent

Aella’s tweet

Meachen’s Special Delivery

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36458042-special-delivery

The anthology dedicated to Susan Meachen

Reports of Susan’s death were greatly exaggerated

Susan’s books are pulled from circulation

The RECEPTIO Affair

Peter Kidd’s website and twitter

http://manuscripts.org.uk/

https://twitter.com/mssprovenance

Kidd’s blogposts on the affair

https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2022/12/nobody-cares-about-your-blog.html

https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-receptio-rossi-affair-part-i-staff.html

https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-receptio-rossi-affair-part-ii.html

Carla Rossi, the director of RECEPTIO

https://www.carlarossi.info/

RECEPTIO’s secretary may not be real

Pictures of RECEPTIO’s sign are actually just stock images

Pictures of their offices are stolen as well

RECEPTIO’s board members are fake as well!

As well as their legal advisor:

When people start catching on, RECEPTIO starts pulling the images

More #receptiogate research

https://twitter.com/hashtag/Receptiogate

Some involved with RECEPTIO actually are real, but listed without permission

More plagiarism

RECEPTIO posts a response video to YouTube of all things

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FI_H140rgcw

Image: Susan Meachen attempts to fake her death certificate. (Getty)

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0:00.0	I'm going to be a little bit more careful.
0:07.0	Katie, here's how it has to go.
0:09.4	Hey Jesse, things are pretty good.
0:11.1	It's a new year.
0:12.1	I just completed my third cross-country drive in the past 12 months.
0:18.2	So that's exciting.
0:19.2	As you know, I'm sort of like an andriutate figure.
0:22.5	And I like to burn carbon emissions.
0:25.7	It makes me feel good about myself.
0:27.2	So this is all just for mousse because it's hard to transport mousse.
0:32.0	Yeah, it's crazy.
0:34.0	Like in the past 12 months, I've driven back and forth across the country three times.
0:38.1	And then also halfway across the country and back one time.
0:41.7	So I'm a real climate criminal here.
0:44.3	Although I think technically that's not even as much carbon emissions as one cross-country
0:48.2	flight.
0:49.2	But regardless, I have spent a ridiculous amount of time in the car over the past year,
0:54.2	really since we got mousse.
0:55.4	And part of the reason I have to do this is because the emotional support animal graphs,
0:59.8	do you remember that from a couple years ago?
1:01.8	Yeah, because they were fucking everywhere.
1:04.0	Yeah, so emotional support animals were on planes.
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