Episode 38: Bari Weiss Is Right, Part II: Philosophy Schmosiphy
Blocked and Reported
Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2020
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
After Katie talks about her new dog-testicles-centered newsletter, the hosts discuss the latest events in the ongoing saga of Helen Lewis's voice getting erased by Ubisoft. Now that Rock Paper Shotgun has sacked a 13-year freelancer for the crime of being sympathetic to Lewis in the site's comments section, it's fair to ask: Does it make sense to fire people for expressing majority opinions? (No. No it doesn't.) Then Katie and Jesse discuss an article in New York Magazine about the internal tumult at The New York Times that, like everything else which happens in this crazy world of ours, simply proves the hosts were right all along. Plus: Jesse is triggered by a leaked screenshot from the Times' #diversity slack channel in which he is denounced for wrongthink.
Moose Nuggets: https://moosenuggets.substack.com/
Rock Paper Shotgun: Watch Dogs Legion is booting a journalist off its fictional radio - https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2020/11/06/watch-dogs-legion-is-booting-a-journalist-off-its-fictional-radio
Tim Stone disagrees in the comments: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2020/11/06/watch-dogs-legion-is-booting-a-journalist-off-its-fictional-radio/#comment-3120763
RPS announces his sacking: https://twitter.com/rockpapershot/status/1326211540689821698
New York Magazine: Inside the New York Times' Heated Reckoning With Itself - https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/11/inside-the-new-york-times-heated-reckoning-with-itself.html
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| 0:00.0 | How did you know, Jesse? |
| 0:02.0 | I don't know. I just, I got a sense that you had a dog. How's your dog doing? |
| 0:06.0 | Moses doing really good. As you may know, I recently started a project writing about |
| 0:12.0 | Moses. We talked about it a little bit on the, I think on the Patreon episode last week. |
| 0:18.0 | I'm not sure if we've disclosed this bit of new breaking information on the main feed. |
| 0:24.0 | But yeah, so I started a sub-stack newsletter. It's all the rage right now called Moose Nuggets. |
| 0:32.0 | And it's really just like, it's really taking off. I think I got like 30 billion views last night. |
| 0:38.0 | Holy shit. Yeah, like 30 billion. |
| 0:40.0 | That means everyone on the planet came to your newsletter like four or five times. |
| 0:44.0 | Yeah, absolutely. I mean, it's just been really stunning. I think I've just like blown Glenn Greenwald and Matt Taibe. |
| 0:50.0 | And you just out of the water because everybody wants to know what's going on with Moose's Nuggets. |
| 0:56.0 | So this is Moose Nuggets. Sub-stack.com. And it centers on the question of whether you should |
| 1:02.0 | chop the little guys nuts off, right? Exactly. So it sounds, it sounds like a joke. |
| 1:08.0 | I get that. I think that a lot of people, when I said that I was starting a sub-stack newsletter |
| 1:12.0 | and I was calling it Moose Nuggets, a lot of people assume that this was just like, just like, |
| 1:16.0 | herzog being a joke or, haha, haha. But this is real. And it, and it has actually been really interesting. |
| 1:22.0 | And I'm realizing over the course of my reporting that this, that this issue, like whether or not to desex your dog, |
| 1:30.0 | it could actually like make the turf wars look like a fucking like day at the water park. |
| 1:36.0 | There are crazy, crazy people involved in the animal world as you would expect. |
| 1:42.0 | The newsletter, it's going to be about not just my particular dogs nuts, it's going to be about dog rescues |
| 1:48.0 | and animal breeding. And it turns out that there's almost some like conspiracy level shit going on in this world. |
| 1:54.0 | So it's been really interesting to talk to people involved in this world. And I was talking to my dad. |
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