Episode 259: A Gen Z #Resistance Meltdown
Blocked and Reported
Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss Gen Z influencer Dean Withers and the undoing of the Unf*ck America Tour. Plus, a playground racist makes bank, and a fight over public masturbation in Seattle.
Neighbors report masturbation in Seattle park where children play (The Independent)
Seattle Wants to Put a Playground Next to a Historically Queer Nude Beach (The Stranger)
City Hall Is Back on Denny Blaine (The Stranger)
The Photos Denny Blaine Donor Stuart Sloan Sent to Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell (The Stranger)
https://jessesingal.substack.com/events
The Studies Show LIVE with Jesse Singal (Eventbrite)
How Breitbart Is Fueling the Milo Yiannopoulos Campus Outrage Outrage Cycle (New York Magazine)
Professor Watchlist (Turning Point USA)
Hasan Piker Is Building a Media Empire on Twitch and YouTube (The New York Times)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, Jesse. |
| 0:07.6 | Katie, can I share a travel story with you? |
| 0:09.3 | I guess. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm in London. |
| 0:10.9 | Yes, that London. |
| 0:11.9 | London, Ontario. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm in the London, Ontario. |
| 0:15.0 | I woke up late. |
| 0:15.8 | I was jet lagged. |
| 0:17.0 | I was looking for a coffee shop to do work at. |
| 0:19.6 | They are savages here in London. |
| 0:21.6 | The highest rated coffee shop had a no laptops policy despite having plenty of open tables. |
| 0:26.7 | Fascism, basically. |
| 0:28.6 | I moved down to my- |
| 0:29.5 | Did you get arrested by our police? |
| 0:30.6 | I started doing hate speech via tweet. |
| 0:33.9 | So I try a second coffee shop. |
| 0:35.6 | This is actually one I had walked by the day before. |
| 0:37.9 | It had been closed. Very aggressive activist posters in the window, mostly focusing on trans |
| 0:44.8 | issues and not just like trans lives matter, protect trans children, but again, aggressive. |
| 0:50.9 | So signs like trans people aren't dangerous. You are. |
| 0:54.3 | Have you ever seen that one? |
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