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🗓️ 5 June 2023
⏱️ 69 minutes
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This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse re-examines the case of the Citibike Karen who wasn’t. Or was she? Then, Katie tells Jesse about the outrage over two Lululemon employees who were unjustly fired for reporting thieves to the police. Or were they?
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NY Post: “NYC hospital ‘Karen’ paid for Citi Bike at center of viral fight with black man: lawyer”
NBC New York: “Bellevue Worker in Citi Bike Fight Video Has Receipts Showing She Rented It: Lawyer”
NewsOne: “Mother Of Teen In Citi Bike Video Speaks Out: ‘No One Bothered To Ask Him What Happened’”
The Guardian: “Billion-dollar Lululemon under fire for promoting 'resist capitalism' event”
National Review: “Lululemon Fires Atlanta Employees for Calling Police During Robbery”
Business Insider: “Ex-Lululemon staffers say they were fired for reporting robbery to police”
Sky New Australia: “'Absolute insanity’: Lululemon staff fired for calling cops to report robbery”
Free Beacon: “Lululemon Fires Two Employees Who Called Police on Masked Robbers”
11 Alive News: “Lululemon employees fired after robbery for breaking policy, they say”
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0:00.0 | Okay, I think we should talk about what I just overheard. |
0:11.4 | As always, I'm on time professional reams of notes in front of me well. |
0:19.0 | Five minutes late. |
0:20.0 | I'm ready to go. |
0:22.0 | But then I overhear a pretty disturbing domestic disturbance that I think you were hoping |
0:26.8 | to sweep under the rubble. |
0:27.8 | We tell him what that happened. |
0:28.8 | Let's hear from your perspective overhearing my mic was plugged in overhearing what just |
0:33.4 | happened. |
0:34.4 | How would you describe what just happened? |
0:36.0 | You mentioned there was a fly. |
0:38.1 | So I'm thinking, okay, this will take 30 seconds, catch the fly, shoot away. |
0:42.7 | There's literally a song, shoot fly, don't bother me. |
0:45.4 | You may not know about how easy it is just get a fly to go away. |
0:48.6 | Instead, I hear 10 minutes of discussion and argument between you and Jenna, some sort |
0:54.6 | of clanking heavy machinery, streams, explosions. |
0:59.5 | I think it was literally 10 minutes, which is a long time when you were waiting to record |
1:02.4 | a podcast. |
1:03.4 | Yeah. |
1:04.4 | Did you eventually get the fly? |
1:06.7 | How did this be? |
1:07.7 | How did this escalate so quickly? |
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