Episode 30: Pedo-File This One Under 'Outrage'

Blocked and Reported

Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal

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🗓️ 19 September 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Katie and Jesse discuss the online outrage surrounding the French film 'Cuties,' which has slightly more underage twerking than most 2020 cinematic releases. How did this film come to unite such a broad swath of people in disgust? What is Ted Cruz's strategy for getting the American government to investigate a French filmmaker? Then the hosts speak with Reason's Elizabeth Nolan Brown about the broader American sex-trafficking panic that seems to partly explain the reaction to 'Cuties.' Plus: the science of pedophilia. It's a light episode, top to bottom.

YouTube: Cuties | Official Trailer | Netflix - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0O7lLe4SmA&ab_channel=Netflix

KXXV: Sen. Ted Cruz calls for a criminal investigation into Netflix film 'Cuties' - https://www.abcactionnews.com/entertainment/sen-ted-cruz-calls-for-a-criminal-investigation-into-netflix-film-cuties

YouTube: 'Cuties' Movie: Deconstructing The Culture w/Ben Shapiro - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asxBUrx-Wfg&ab_channel=TheDailyWire

Reason: The War on Sex Trafficking Is the New War on Drugs - https://reason.com/2015/09/30/the-war-on-sex-trafficking-is/

Reason: Enough Stranger Danger! Children Rarely Abducted by Those They Don't Know - https://reason.com/2017/03/31/kidnapping-stats/

Reason (on YouTube): Ashton Kutcher Helped Promote a Bogus Sex Trafficking Claim. Will We Ever Shake It? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKnWByMs4DQ&feature=youtu.be&ab_channel=ReasonTV

Reason: Secret Memos Show the Government Has Been Lying About Backpage All Along - https://reason.com/2019/08/26/secret-memos-show-the-government-has-been-lying-about-backpage/

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0:00.0	Jesse, how's it going?
0:04.2	It's good Katie.
0:05.2	It sort of feels like a transitional time.
0:07.4	I don't know.
0:08.4	Well, you guys don't have a transition.
0:09.4	You're transitioning?
0:10.4	I'm a transition.
0:11.4	This is great news for the podcast.
0:13.6	This is exactly what we need to take this to the next level to get in like the top 1000
0:18.7	podcasts in iTunes.
0:20.2	I think you transitioning would really do that.
0:22.6	Yeah.
0:23.6	It's that time of the year.
0:24.6	The leaves change.
0:25.6	You start to ask questions about your body and if you're comfortable in it.
0:29.6	So I was going to ask you how the weather is there.
0:32.5	My understanding is you guys don't have weather anymore.
0:34.5	You're just encased in the shroud of smoke.
0:36.8	Do you have weather?
0:37.8	Is it changing?
0:38.8	No, it's not changing.
0:39.8	It's weird.
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