Hello, welcome to Blockton Reported. I'm Jesse Single. Katie Herzog is off this week, trying to figure out how to get off the terrorist

watch list so she can finally leave the country.

I'm joined instead by Jeff Maurer and Jeff, I'm just going to be honest with the people.

We are not off to a good start, techwise.

No, we've had all sorts of audio problems.

I hope we've solved them, but this is what happens

when Katie's not on the podcast,

because she is your co-host and also tech person.

You need a girl around if you're going to have like microphones and computers and stuff.

That's what we've learned today.

Yeah, we're just two hopeless guys who need a woman to help us with all this tech stuff.

There was at one point of clicking and I thought of the Simpson's episode where

Mo is keeping a whale illegally in the back room. I was like does he have a dolphin in there? What's going on? To your knowledge, that was not the source of the clicking,

but if it was, I certainly wouldn't admit to it.

That's true.

Jeff, thank you for coming on.

We have a lot to talk about.

In the second half of this episode, you're going to tell me about how you got obsessed with the

one Twitter account that is bravely holding the New York Times accountable as it slides into literal

fascism. I'm very excited about that but first we're going to talk about

you and your career a little. Are you comfortable with that? Are you comfortable talking

about yourself? I love talking about myself. It's all I want to do. Great. So starting, we'll start with the most

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