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Blocked and Reported

Episode 163: The Fox and the Clown

Blocked and Reported

Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal

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4.64.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2023

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

This week on the show, Jesse Singal and Katie Herzog discuss the recent killing of a homeless man on the New York City subway and the less recent killing of a fox in the UK. Featuring: A Michael Jackson impersonator, a marine, the American media, Jo Maugham and Jo Rowling (no relation).

Also, please come to this FIRE event with Katie at the University of Washington on May 12th. It’s about free speech and it’s, appropriately, free.

Part 1:

The subway video

New York Magazine: “Daniel Penny Identified As the Man Who Choked Jordan Neely to Death

CNN: "Man dies after being put in a chokehold by another rider on New York City subway, officials say. The DA is investigating”

NBC News: "Video shows NYC subway confrontation end with fatal chokehold"

NYT: "No Arrest in New York Subway Chokehold Death, and Many Want to Know Why"

Roxanne Gay: “Making People Uncomfortable Can Now Get You Killed

Jonathan Rosen: “American Madness

Part 2:

Jolyon’s windmill

Jolyon's record

Jolyon’s party

Jolyon’s Project

The LGB Alliance

The Critic Magazine: Taking the clown seriously

The Daily Mail: Is Jolyon the fox-killing Brexit-loathing barrister with a penchant for silk kimonos the most ludicrous man in Britain?

The Spectator: Jolyon Maugham’s opening sentence might be the worst of all time



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Transcript

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0:00.0

Okay, how's it going?

0:12.2

Jesse, I have a little bit of a complaint to register.

0:16.0

Hmm, Wednesday's complaint day.

0:17.7

You can't wait to learn.

0:18.7

Is this the place to do that?

0:20.0

Alright, so last night I was on my phone.

0:22.6

I was in my safe space, which is Instagram.

0:25.2

This is where I like to look at pictures of small animals typically.

0:29.0

So Mormon, Mommy influencers, although I did recently get a DM from somebody who told

0:33.8

me that there's a trend.

0:34.8

I have not seen this myself, but apparently there's a trend of Mormon fitness influencer

0:40.2

women who are now micro-dosing testosterone to get stronger to overlapping.

0:45.7

Sounds about right.

0:47.3

Everything, eventually everything, all the different trends will just be one thing.

0:51.3

Yeah, those don't do to rats and then showing their ticks and all that stuff.

0:54.4

Wow, micro-dosing, well growing less that is changing their pronouns.

0:58.1

Okay, so last night I was in my safe space.

1:00.2

I was looking for the little cows and stuff that I like to scroll through.

1:03.4

And all of a sudden in my feed was a fucking picture of you.

1:07.6

Yeah, what happened?

1:09.0

I know.

1:09.8

That's exactly what I thought.

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