Episode 227: One Of The Saddest True-Life Stories About A Schizophrenic Deaf Muslim Amputee Gamer You Will Hear This Week

Blocked and Reported

Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal

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🗓️ 2 September 2024

⏱️ 66 minutes

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This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss the unbelievable story of three heroic figures in the gaming world. Plus, more on gender.golden goose

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0:00.0	Jesse, I need you to Google something really fast.
0:07.0	I would love to.
0:11.0	Okay, you've got your browser pulled up.
0:13.0	Mm-hmm. I need you to type in to your browser the term Golden Goose. Two words.
0:19.0	I'm already nervous about this. Is this... You should be. Is this going to be gross golden it's
0:24.1	disgusting yeah well so why am I googling it why can't you just tell me just do it oh it's
0:28.8	expensive sneakers I want you to describe them and then tell people the price.
0:32.6	Oh, it's not disgusting.
0:33.8	It's just like normal capitalism.
0:34.8	Golden Goose.
0:35.8	Oh my God.
0:37.6	Oh my God.
0:38.6	This is not normal capitalism.
0:40.1	This is disgusting capitalism. It's a shoe brand called Golden Goose. So picture like a
0:46.5	sneaker that your dad would wear to the mall or like your grandma maybe would like
0:51.4	wear to the mall to go mall walking in like 1993 so like the chunky clunky hideous sneakers right?
0:59.0	Yeah. Now imagine that these shoes are being worn by a person a fentanyl addict on the streets of
1:06.1	San Francisco who has been using the shoes to wipe their own ass that's what they
1:11.1	look like do you think that's an accurate description of what these shoes look like?
1:14.0	I think more disgusting than it needed to be. You could have just said they walked through the mud, but yeah, it's they're intentionally made to look dirty and they are in fact 2,350.
1:25.0	Who?
1:27.0	I think I know who buys these.
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