Episode 204: Jeffrey Marsh vs Shumirun Nessa and Libs of TikTok vs Everybody (with Brad Polumbo)
Blocked and Reported
Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2024
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
This week on Blocked and Reported, Katie is joined by journalist and commentator Brad Polumbo to discuss the latest allegations against Libs of TikTok. Plus, an intersectional pile-up featuring non-binary influencer Jeffrey Marsh and Muslim comic Shumirun Nessa.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to Blockton reported. I'm Katie Herzog and joining me today while my |
| 0:14.0 | sidekick Jesse Singel is off handing a CIA agent, a shoebox full of cash is Brad Palumbo. Brad is the host of the podcast |
| 0:22.0 | Damage Control and he's also a |
| 0:23.7 | youtuber and an independent journalist he's published at Newsweek the New York |
| 0:27.2 | Post national review the Daily Mail the Daily Beast and more and he's the |
| 0:30.4 | first genuine real life conservative we've had on the show so he is our official first diversity hire in the blocked and reported universe. |
| 0:38.8 | Brad, welcome to blocked and reported. |
| 0:40.8 | WTF, I love DEI now. |
| 0:43.0 | What? |
| 0:44.0 | Like this is amazing. |
| 0:45.0 | So I'm so happy to be here. |
| 0:47.0 | Like I've listened to the show for some time now. |
| 0:49.0 | My boyfriend in particular is actually a huge fan and it's funny little story for you. |
| 0:55.0 | I've done some kind of cool stuff and I'm not trying to like flex or anything in my career. |
| 0:59.4 | I was on the Dr. Phil show. I've been on some of the more popular cable news shows and my boyfriend's |
| 1:05.4 | always excited for me he's kind of apolitical but he's like yeah that's cool that's |
| 1:08.9 | awesome. When I told him I was going to be guest hosting Blocked and reported, he fangled and geeked out |
| 1:15.8 | about a hundred times more than for any of that. |
| 1:19.7 | I mean, I think this show is more famous than Dr. Phil. |
| 1:22.3 | Yeah, well obviously. |
| 1:23.8 | What were you on the Dr Phil show talking about? |
| 1:26.0 | So I was, I'm a Gen Z millennial Cusper, |
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