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🗓️ 13 January 2025
⏱️ 86 minutes
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This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse is joined by comedian and writer Jeffrey Maurer for a very light subject: grooming gangs. Plus, Meta’s failed AI bots and new free speech policies.
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0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to Blockton reported. I'm Jesse Single. Katie Herzog is off this week. She's driving |
0:13.0 | directly into the wildfires to investigate them. With me instead is Jeff Maurer. Jeff, |
0:19.3 | how are you doing? I'm good. I'm really happy to be here. I am sorry to hear that apparently things are about |
0:26.0 | to get worse for the people in California. If Katie's headed there? |
0:30.5 | The real natural disaster is the arrival of Katie Hurts like. Fun fact. |
0:34.9 | They thought they were at rock bottom. No, they're about to hit it. |
0:38.8 | Fun fact is I am supposed to get on a plane to go there in under 24 hours. |
0:44.9 | Oh. |
0:45.3 | So we will see. |
0:46.7 | Yeah, I'm going to a conference in L.A. |
0:48.8 | They told us everything is fine. |
0:51.2 | As of now, the conference is going on as planned but uh it'll be interesting |
0:57.1 | anyway jeff that conference's title fire safety why it's for pussies but you're still going to do it |
1:03.0 | you're you've been booked you prepare to speech i'm the keynote speaker i was going to |
1:07.9 | light myself on fire to make a point but now it would be grossly inappropriate. Jeff, most people know who you are. Everyone knows who you are, just in case, |
1:16.3 | remind people who you are. Extremely untrue, but I'm the guy who writes, I might be wrong. I used to |
1:21.0 | write for John Oliver. Now I write a substack called I Might Be Wrong. It's still, it's political |
1:25.8 | comedy. It's the same shit as before but without the English guy. |
1:28.9 | And you can find that at I Might Be Wrong. |
1:30.5 | com. |
1:32.0 | Very talented writer and thinker and gentleman. |
1:36.7 | You and I, we did a live show and I want to say Chicago. |
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