Episode 45: Two White Podcasters Resolve The Issues Of Racial Slurs And The Controversy Over Alec Baldwin's Esposa Latina
Blocked and Reported
Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 January 2021
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
After reflecting on what a great year 2020 was, except for the many serious hardships Katie endured, the hosts start 2021 with a bang: specifically, a bang that sounds a lot like a racial slur neither of them can say. A white teenager in Virginia didn't get the memo, though -- what should the punishment be, if any? Then Jesse and Katie turn their attention to a story that is rather 'picante': Hilaria Baldwin's attempt at identity-forgery. What an estupido time to be alive!
Show notes/Links:
The New York Times: A Racial Slur, a Viral Video, and a Reckoning: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/26/us/mimi-groves-jimmy-galligan-racial-slurs.html
Reason: The New York Times Helped a Vindictive Teen Destroy a Classmate Who Uttered a Racial Slur When She Was 15 - https://reason.com/2020/12/28/new-york-times-racial-slur-teen-jimmy-galligan-mimi-groves/
The New York Times: The Hilaria Baldwin Story: ‘I’m Living My Life’ - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/30/style/hilaria-baldwin-interview.html
Aura Bogado's tweetstorm: https://twitter.com/aurabogado/status/1342554505880064000
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| 0:00.0 | Kati, it's time to reflect. |
| 0:06.7 | What are we reflecting on? |
| 0:07.9 | Well, usually we would have reflected at the end of 2020, but we sort of forgot. |
| 0:13.9 | It is the end of 2020. |
| 0:15.4 | It's the last day of the year. |
| 0:16.9 | Well, okay, yes, but most people aren't going to hear this until January 4th, which is |
| 0:20.6 | like basically halfway through 2021. |
| 0:23.0 | So... |
| 0:24.0 | Do you think they'll, if we talk about it as though it's still 2020, do you think they're |
| 0:27.5 | going to get confused? |
| 0:30.5 | Do you think they'll be able to figure it out that we're recording this on New Year's |
| 0:31.5 | Eve, but they're not going to hear it for a couple days? |
| 0:32.5 | I think that our listeners, for the most part, build their own realities around what we |
| 0:37.3 | say. |
| 0:38.3 | So it's just, we're not known for having sort of strong wills listeners. |
| 0:45.1 | I don't think I'm saying anything like, I think everyone knows at this point that our |
| 0:49.8 | listeners, like if we were like attack the Capitol, they would do it. |
| 0:52.8 | They would do that. |
| 0:53.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:54.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:55.8 | Don't attack the Capitol, by the way. |
| 0:56.8 | They would have a reply guy army in here and they would do whatever Chessie single says. |
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