Episode 169: The Pinkest Peacock
Blocked and Reported
Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2023
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
This week on Blocked and Reported, Katie tells Jesse about the rise and fall of the Pink Peacock, Glasgow’s attempt at an anarchist cafe. Plus, a new game: What’s Dumbest, featuring a Columbia adjunct, Grindr, Conor McGregor, and human Ukraine flag slash novelist Liz Gilbert.
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The Independent: “Conor McGregor offers update on Miami Heat mascot after punching incident”
Brendon Marrotta’s response to Episode 168
PressureMovement.mp3 - In this clip, Eliyahu describes asking intactivists to disavow Clopper and myself. When he does get his way, he turns to journalists to "have pressure come from the outside." (last line of clip) This shows a behavior of publishing hit pieces on the movement to get them to do what he want.
NeverSaid.mp3 - In this clip, Eliyahu concludes from a single "offhand comment" that I do not recall ever saying, that I am a "white nationalist." He also acknowledges that I have never said anything white nationalist outside his false claim. This also confirms the pattern I discuss in my response audio that Eliyahu deliberately makes his claims unfalsifiable.
TopEschelon.mp3 - In this clip, Eliyahu confirms that he had secret meetings with the "top echelon" of the intactivist movement in which he slandered me and wanted them to attack me and my film on his behalf.
TolerantofRacism.mp3 - In this clip, Eliyahu claims that the American intactivist movement is "tolerant of racism" because they would not disavow and publicly attack me based on a single false claim by him. He then suggests that he met with European activists who were more receptive. I have had at least one European activist confirm that they did not support my film due to his campaign.
TheirOnlineForums.mp3 - In this clip, Eliyahu claims I "was a member of the alt right," had an account on "their online forums," and suggests that liking online meme culture is evidence of white nationalism. I'd love to know exactly which online forums he is making a factual claim I have an account on.
J Weekly: Glasgow’s queer Yiddish anarchist cafe aims to spark a Jewish revolution in Scotland
The National: Pink Peacock staff burn Harry Potter book in Glasgow street
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I'm okay. I'm a little bit bummed out that we're having this fight about our up top banter. |
| 0:13.0 | Oh my god. You are going to be fired after this show. Do I have the power to fire you? |
| 0:17.5 | You think it's bad when we do the house it going. I'm good. How are you think? But I think |
| 0:20.9 | people like to hear us say hi to them. No, I think it's bad when it I'm like, hey, |
| 0:24.1 | Jesse, how are you? And you're like, good. How are you? It's like people don't come here |
| 0:27.1 | to hear us to hear pleasantries. That's when you when I lived in Germany, that was a |
| 0:32.2 | hard thing to get used to. If you check out at a supermarket in America, how's it going? |
| 0:37.0 | Good. How are you? Good. They look at you like you're fucking alien because they assume |
| 0:40.5 | that you actually like, but you don't mean just like, I don't mean it when I ask how |
| 0:44.1 | you're doing. I'm just trying to be polite. I don't care how you're doing. Have you ever |
| 0:46.4 | experienced that? Do they have Trader Joe's in New York? Yeah. Okay. Trader Joe's is something |
| 0:51.3 | even more annoying. They ask, what are you up to today? Not if you're fucking business. |
| 0:56.7 | Well, I just masturbated. And that put me in the mood to go to Trader Joe's. Not only |
| 1:00.9 | do we have Trader Joe's self care in quotes, self care. Not only do we have Trader Joe's, |
| 1:06.0 | but New York being a psychotic place to live, you have to like wait in the line that sometimes |
| 1:09.8 | wraps around the block just to get your shot at Trader Joe's. Just to get your like slightly |
| 1:13.8 | discounted bean paste or whatever. Yeah. You got to get out of there. I'm sorry. Actually, |
| 1:17.6 | I can't stay mad at Trader Joe's. It is objectively the best grocery store other than |
| 1:20.8 | the legal actually in Germany, which is. All right. We get it. You've been to Germany. |
| 1:23.6 | We got it. We're really here to discuss an email we got about your past, a damning |
| 1:26.8 | email. All right. You want to read it? Hello, Blockter imported. This is a childhood |
| 1:31.7 | memory of Katie that I think Jesse will enjoy. I'm a casual listener and enjoy your content. |
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