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Blocked and Reported

Episode 147: Scientists Unite Against Gas Stoves, Football, And The State Of Florida

Blocked and Reported

Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal

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4.64.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

First they banned gas stoves, because the science said they were harmful. Then the science said football was racist, so we banned that too. Then the nurses came out and said Battletech was problematic, so we banned that as well. Then a data scientist came out and said Florida’s COVID data was fake, so we banned the entire state. Then the scientists said podcasts were harmful, and th--

In this (highly illegal) episode:

* Jesse chains himself to his gas stove

* A bizarre update on Rebekah Jones, serial grifter and former (?) media darling

* Is football racist?

* Drama within the Battletech community

* Jesse threatens to shoot Katie

Errata & Updates

The Paula Curtis thread mentioned

https://twitter.com/paularcurtis/status/1608146988511690753

“Whistleblower Rebekah Jones wins dismissal- at a price.”

https://www.mynwfl.com/post/rebekahjonescasedismissed

Is Football Racist?

The closest thing we could find to a video of the collapse on YouTube

Daniel Engber’s article on the topic

https://slate.com/culture/2015/12/the-truth-about-will-smiths-concussion-and-bennet-omalu.html

Tracy Canada: “Damar Hamlin’s Collapse Highlights the Violence Black Men Experience in Football”

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/damar-hamlins-collapse-highlights-the-violence-black-men-experience-in-football/

NFL players aren’t as rich as you’d think!

https://www.espn.com/blog/nflnation/post/_/id/207780/current-and-former-nfl-players-in-the-drivers-seat-after-completing-mba-program

The movie about the NFL concussion scandal

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3322364/

“Colin Kaepernick in Netflix series likens NFL draft to slavery”

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/sports/colin-kaepernick-netflix-series-likens-nfl-draft-slavery-no-dignity-rcna4312

Foolball players wanted to play during the pandemic

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/24/sports/ncaafootball/coronavirus-pac-12-restart.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/16/sports/ncaafootball/covid-big-ten-football-season.html

NCAA: “All student-athletes must be allowed to opt out of participation due to concerns about contracting COVID-19”

https://www.wibw.com/2020/08/05/new-ncaa-guidelines-to-protect-student-athlete-well-being-scholarships-and-eligibility/?outputType=amp

Football players were allowed to maintain their scholarships, even if they refused to play

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/02/sports/ncaafootball/coronavirus-college-football-pac-12.html

Scientific American: “the term ‘JEDI’ is problematic”

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-the-term-jedi-is-problematic-for-describing-programs-that-promote-justice-equity-diversity-and-inclusion/

Laura Helmuth’s appointment to EIC at Scientific American

https://www.scientificamerican.com/pressroom/pr/scientific-american-appoints-laura-helmuth-editor-in-chief/

Her reaction to the article’s pushback

https://twitter.com/laurahelmuth/status/1611877742298939394

Former NFL player’s reaction to the article

https://twitter.com/TonyDungy/status/1611551363212922881

Battletech

Faith introduces herself

http://acekaller.blogspot.com/2020/06/finding-your-faith.html?m=1

Faith finds Battletech

http://acekaller.blogspot.com/2020/12/faith-finds-battletech-it-dawned-on-me.html?m=1

Faith is going to be a mother

http://acekaller.blogspot.com/2021/04/musings-going-forward.html?m=1

The truth about “Faith McClosky”

https://blainepardoe.wordpress.com/2021/07/08/the-truth-about-faith-mcclosky/

“Blaine Pardoe is a f****** Liar...”

https://web.archive.org/web/20210728204225/https://faithmccarron.blogspot.com/2021/07/blaine-pardoe-is-f-liar.html

Ace denies being J, while surprisingly defending him for some reason

http://acekaller.blogspot.com/2021/07/no-you-dont-get-to-lie-and-inflate.html?m=1

“My Publisher Canceled Me in Favor of an Activist Who Threatened My Life”

https://amgreatness.com/2022/07/29/my-publisher-canceled-me-in-favor-of-an-activist-who-threatened-my-life/

Statement Regarding Blaine Lee Pardoe

https://bg.battletech.com/forums/general-discussion/statement-regarding-blaine-lee-pardoe/msg1853777/?boardseen#new

Faith No More

https://acekaller.blogspot.com/2022/12/faith-no-more.html

Pardoe’s response

https://blainepardoe.wordpress.com/2023/01/01/faithless/



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0:00.0

Hey guys, Jesse here. During this episode I forgot to mention that at 7pm on January 21st

0:06.5

I will be joining the denizens of the unofficial official bar pod discord server for their

0:11.8

game night. We're going to be playing quip lash for charity. If you want to come hang out

0:16.1

for that there's a link in the show notes again 7pm on January 21st. Thank you and hope

0:21.8

you enjoy the episode. Katie Herzog, how's it going? Well Jesse I'm pretty upset right now.

0:35.9

You upset? Yeah I'm upset. I read on Twitter that Joe Biden is coming from my guest of.

0:41.3

Joe Joe Joe Biden is going to say a first one to Asheville come in and be like, come on man

0:49.0

give me that stove. Yeah I'm really upset about this. This is all over the internet. The

0:53.5

Democrats are coming for our guest of. I love my guest of and I want to protest this.

0:58.8

So I've had my guest of just running for the last 24 hours and I have a terrible headache.

1:05.8

This is like do you remember you probably wrote about it because you're at grist. Do you remember

1:08.8

rolling coal? Oh yeah I do remember that. Yeah this was like dudes in like Pennsylvania

1:13.4

or whatever would somehow outfit their cars to have like plumes of black smoke coming

1:17.2

out of the exhaust or maybe they had special chimneys for it. I don't know the details.

1:20.8

It's like we're going to pollute more. Fuck you liberals. Yeah. Have you been following

1:24.6

this today? I have not. What I have followed over the years is Democrats come for everything.

1:29.2

They came for Christmas. Uh huh. They came for Jesus in general. Yeah. I guess I said

1:36.8

and now guest of. Children. They're also coming for children. They're groomers. All of them.

1:41.2

No I haven't followed this that closely. I know what is it? What does it even have to do with?

1:44.4

Is it like regulatory stuff? Yeah. So basically what happened is that a commissioner for the

1:49.2

US consumer product safety commission, which is definitely something I had heard of before.

1:54.0

He said that there is a growing body of evidence that gas stoves are bad for the climate.

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