meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Blocked and Reported

Episode 39: Are Monkeys Inherently Racist?, Is College-Obama A Creep?, And Other Pressing Matters

Blocked and Reported

Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal

Unknown

4.64.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

After the hosts celebrate a major achievement and Jesse goes on a little rant that is Super Political, Katie and Jesse delve into three stories of profound internet nonsense involving privileged white people doing antiracism, a Toronto editor VERY mad about a new broth-joint, and some of Twitter's most neurotic people getting super mad about Barack Obama's college conduct.

Show notes/Links:

The New York Times: G.O.P.-Led Senate Panel Details Ties Between 2016 Trump Campaign and Russia - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/18/us/politics/senate-intelligence-russian-interference-report.html

The Phinney Neighborhood Association: Anti-racism work updates: Eliminating racist symbolism - https://www.phinneycenter.org/eliminating-racist-symbolism/

blogTO: New Toronto clothing store ditches broth bar after cultural appropriation complaints - https://www.blogto.com/eat_drink/2020/11/toronto-clothing-store-ditches-broth-bar-cultural-appropriation-complaints/

(Update: It's down. Try this cached link: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:p0Tmb1vnPZoJ:https://www.blogto.com/eat_drink/2020/11/toronto-clothing-store-ditches-broth-bar-cultural-appropriation-complaints/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us.)

Twitter: "The way Obama writes about women here ... uh. Wow." - https://twitter.com/IBJIYONGI/status/1328900134575480835

Advertising links:

http://getquip.com/BARPOD for $15 off dental-product refills with a purchase from the Quip online store

http://bambee.com/blockedandreported for a free HR-audit for your small business




This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.blockedandreported.org/subscribe

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

I'm just glad we were able to help so many people.

0:08.6

Are you talking about the podcast?

0:09.6

What are you talking about?

0:10.6

Who did we help?

0:11.6

No, no, no, no.

0:12.6

I mean, did you see in the news, our vaccines are racing toward approval.

0:16.2

Our vaccine is working?

0:17.2

You know what?

0:18.2

We didn't tell people about this, did we?

0:20.4

No, we didn't.

0:21.4

Okay, so as you may have seen, a couple of the big pharmaceutical companies, the COVID

0:27.7

vaccines seem to be working.

0:30.9

And hopefully, you know, by the late spring or summer, most people will be vaccinated.

0:35.2

So after this podcast started to take off a little bit, Katie and I watched a YouTube

0:42.4

series about immunology hosted by PewDiePie.

0:45.4

It's a sweet issue to our artists.

0:49.0

And we learned some stuff about immunology.

0:51.4

We reinvested some of our pay-traum money into biotech.

0:55.2

And the two of us came up with a couple of vaccines.

0:58.2

I came up with the AstraZeneca one.

1:00.0

You came up with a Moderna one, right?

1:01.1

Did I have that backwards?

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.