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Blocked and Reported

Episode 49: It's Unbelievable That Glenn Greenwald Fired A New York Times Editor Just For Getting The Chills

Blocked and Reported

Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal

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4.64.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

After Katie tells Jesse about a very disturbing dream she had about him, the hosts perform some valuable service journalism by explaining to listeners the nature of stonks and bons and hedge funs. Then they turn their attention to the story of Lauren Wolfe, a New York Times gig-editor who was fired after tweeting that watching Joe Biden's plane land gave her the 'chills.' Fair? Unfair? Inconsistently applied standards? Lot to unpack.

Show notes/Links:

STONKS:

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/stonks

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/01/the-complete-morons-guide-to-gamestops-stock-roller-coaster/

Lauren Wolfe:

Yashar Ali's thread: https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1352471654425743361

Josh Shahryar's thread: https://twitter.com/JShahryar/status/1353142366656372741

Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/01/25/lauren-wolfe-tweet-nyt-dismissal/

Vanity Fair: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/01/inside-the-new-york-times-firing-of-lauren-wolfe

Yascha Mounk on the firing of David Shor: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/stop-firing-innocent/613615/

Katie on Jack Smith IV: https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2018/09/28/33049349/a-progressive-writer-was-bad-boyfriend-and-then-he-was-fired-for-it



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0:00.0

I

0:03.9

Katie how's it going pretty good Jesse, but I had this like very weird dream about you last night

0:09.3

This makes me nervous, but go ahead. Okay, so I dreamt that you came out to me as a pedophile

0:16.1

But here's the weird part

0:18.1

You were black wait

0:20.5

so it was I

0:22.8

Need to give me a second of process. I said so it was it was just me

0:27.1

Looking the way I look but with darker skin. Yeah, you had same hair

0:31.3

You were just you were just you're a black pedophile

0:33.2

frizzy jui hair, but I was black and I was a pedophile. Yeah, and I defended you you came out

0:38.1

You came out to like me and all of my neighbors for some reason and everybody was really appalled by it

0:42.0

And I was like guys don't be racist. So in this dream

0:44.5

I get on a plane at JFK I fly across the country midway my skin changes color

0:51.4

I arrive at your neighborhood and decide the first thing I'm gonna do to come out as a pedophile is to inform you and your neighbors

0:56.5

Yeah, I mean I can only imagine that this was pressing it somehow anything you that you would you like to tell tell the podcast listeners?

1:01.7

I

1:03.3

Mean I don't identify as white because race is stupid. So I guess in some fuzzy sense as I've said before

1:08.4

We're all we're all African if you go back far enough. That is true. That is true

1:11.6

Um, there's something else I wanted to talk to you about go ahead

1:13.8

Well, so you know what we have this merch store bar pod dot org we do so we have been threatening to close down the

1:19.6

March store because the more stores are actually doing very well

1:21.9

But I had an idea for how to maybe rejuvenate the merch store a little bit instead of shutting it down as long as it's less offensive than the pedophile thing

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