Episode 248: The Jussie Smollett Of Sports (with Ethan Strauss)

Blocked and Reported

Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal

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4.6 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2025

⏱️ 80 minutes

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This week on Blocked and Reported, Katie is joined by journalist Ethan Strauss to discuss the bizarre story of Richard Lapchick, an anti-racist sports hero with a very weird tattoo. Plus, the vibe shift and the business of sports writing.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Blockton Reported. I'm Katie Herzog. And joining me today, while Jesse is hiding from the Zizians, we have Ethan Strauss. Ethan is an independent journalist, a sports and culture writer. And I am so glad to finally have a manly man joining me on this show.
0:24.7	Ethan, welcome to Black and Reporton.
0:26.4	Yeah, that's what everybody says about me.
0:28.2	They're intimidated by my masculinity.
0:31.0	And I try not to let it get to my head.
0:34.1	But I appreciate the compliment, Katie.
0:36.0	And even if I might have a fearsome,
0:39.6	manly bearing to all who see me deep down, I am roiled, just nervous to be on blocked and reported,
0:47.1	because I know people love to have Jesse, they love to have the two of you, and just my presence
0:52.8	alone disappoints them.
0:55.6	It's hard to reckon with.
1:00.6	The thing is, so people might think that because Jesse constantly gaslighting people,
1:03.1	like people always say that Jesse and I have chemistry.
1:04.0	This isn't true.
1:05.1	I have chemistry.
1:06.4	That's it.
1:07.0	It's me.
1:11.3	It's anybody who can stand in for Jesse who talks to me, like the people love. It's him. It's anybody who can stand in for Jesse who talks to me like the people love.
1:11.9	It's him.
1:12.6	It's he's the problem.
1:12.9	Yeah.
1:14.5	Well, he's naive to a lot of things.
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