Episode 186: Our Most Controversial Take Yet: Hamas Is Bad

Blocked and Reported

Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal

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🗓️ 16 October 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

This week on Blocked and Reported, Katie and Jesse discuss Hamas’s unprecedented massacre of civilians. Well, the online b******t component of it, at least.

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Image: Supporters of Israel (L) face people rallying in support of Palestinians in Times Square in New York on October 8, 2023 after the Palestinian militant group Hamas launched an attack on Israel. Israel, reeling from the deadliest attack on its territory in half a century, formally declared war on Hamas Sunday as the conflict's death toll surged close to 1,000 after the Palestinian militant group launched a massive surprise assault from Gaza. (Photo by Bryan R. Smith / AFP) (Photo by BRYAN R. SMITH/AFP via Getty Images)

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0:00.0	Kati, how is it going?
0:12.6	Good Jesse, but I might have some noise issues when we're recording it today.
0:17.2	Do you hear anything like weird in the background coming from from my mic?
0:21.4	Just your voice, which is weird, but nothing beyond that.
0:23.6	That's true.
0:24.6	So not like maybe the sounds of Credence Clearwater Revival, it's not coming through.
0:29.4	That's a really cool like all-American contracting crew on site.
0:33.0	Very close.
0:34.0	Okay.
0:35.0	Is Credence Clearwater Revival working on your roof?
0:37.2	Yes, they're desperate for income.
0:39.9	They're not working on the roof.
0:41.3	So we hired a guy to come out and we have some like cracks in the, I don't know, there's
0:46.3	some cracks in some concrete or some some manner, some bullshit.
0:49.2	And your relationship?
0:50.2	Increasingly so after my wife hired this guy, I'm about to tell you about.
0:53.4	So a little while ago, this fellow shows up and he shows up not like I would expect,
0:58.3	which is like in a trucker, even a car for somebody who does manual labor, he's filling
1:04.3	cracks in some concrete.
1:05.6	He shows up on a jazzy scooter, the kind, morbidly obese people ride around Walmart, you know
1:10.8	what I'm talking about?
1:11.8	Yeah.
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