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Blocked and Reported

Episode 172: The Crass-Examination Of Jad Sleiman

Blocked and Reported

Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal

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4.64.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2023

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse tells Katie the story of Jad Sleiman, a Muslim/Catholic/Lebanese/American/veteran/reporter/comic who was fired from public radio station WHYY over his jokes.

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0:00.0

I'm not a fan of it.

0:07.0

Katie Herzog, how's it going?

0:10.2

Good, Jesse. I have to tell you a little story.

0:13.1

I love stories.

0:14.0

Okay, so I know this is going to be unbelievable, but I went to a party last weekend.

0:18.7

What? Is this part of you joined that class where you learn like adult social skills, or is this independent of that?

0:24.4

No, I was kidnapped and I was taken on a boat, blindfolded, taken on a boat,

0:28.8

and forced to go to a party at one of my wife's friends house.

0:32.7

So this party, it's sort of imagined like typical sort of right outside Seattle, like suburban Seattle family party.

0:41.0

So like you can imagine that, right?

0:43.9

Like mostly white people, like a scattering of Asian...

0:47.1

Like polysexual, pansexual kids, kids of every...

0:52.3

Yeah, I can hear it. Seattle.

0:54.3

A lot of kids, like you can't tell who, like, what gender, if any of them, all of the kids go by they, then...

0:59.8

A lot of grooming too, a lot of grooming from the LGBT.

1:02.0

Tons of grooming.

1:03.6

Tons.

1:04.6

Okay, so this party, it was like the theme was summerfest, and it was like a show, like actual bands played.

1:12.7

So it was a lot of like family bands, neighborhood bands, amateur bands.

1:17.0

There was a 10-year-old doing stand-up, which I almost like left because it seemed like it would be so cramped

1:23.1

so that I didn't know if I could handle it.

1:24.6

It was actually pretty good.

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