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🗓️ 7 July 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss the rise and fall of Palmer Luckey, the VR wunderkind who was ousted from Facebook under murky circumstances. (This is the first episode in a two-part series. Up next: Palmer Luckey vs. Jason Calacanis.)
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0:00.0 | All right, Jesse, our last episode inspired quite the debate on our substack page. Did you see this? |
0:16.1 | Hi, Gazi. I thought this was an episode touching on the Skermedi case and like whether minors can consent to life-altering treatment. |
0:25.5 | So I knew there were being- Everybody agrees with that. |
0:27.6 | All the controversy was about your ridiculous claim that I was dumb for buying hiking boots. |
0:36.6 | You said hiking boots are basically done. |
0:38.6 | No one wears them anymore. |
0:39.7 | Which is true. |
0:40.8 | No? |
0:41.5 | I would say that the comments were split with about half the commentators supporting me and half being wrong. |
0:48.0 | Well, but that also includes the silent majority that agrees with me, but knows you will cyber bully them if they say so publicly. |
0:53.1 | Am I the one who does public callouts on Twitter on a regular basis? |
0:57.4 | Would you describe what I do as callouts? |
0:59.4 | Yes, I would. |
1:01.4 | Michael Hobbs? |
1:02.5 | I think you should educate yourself. |
1:04.2 | I would call it bullying. |
1:06.1 | Bullying Michael Hobbs. |
1:07.1 | Now, look, there are obviously occasions in which hiking boots are more suitable than running shoes. |
1:12.0 | Like if it's wintertime, or if it's muddy, there you have it. Or if you were mountaineering, or if you have |
1:17.0 | glass ankles, sure, wear a hiking boot. But I am pretty sure that whatever you were doing, Jesse, |
1:23.0 | in Northern California in July, was not that. |
1:28.3 | Wait, what? |
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