Episode 51: [Yoda Voice:] Cancelled, You Are
Blocked and Reported
Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2021
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Should Gina Carano have been fired from her job on the hit Star Wars show "A Candalabra" for being a dumb conservative with Boomerlike posting tendencies? The whole crew gets together to discuss. Also, Katie talks about her relationship with an old Trump supporter and Jesse looks back fondly on his grad-school trip to Israel and Palestine that solved that conflict once and for all.
Show notes/Links:
Bret Stephens in the New York... Post???????: https://nypost.com/2021/02/11/read-the-column-the-new-york-times-didnt-want-you-read/
Haywire trailer aka Gina Carano waiing on dudes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpffbDjWlog&ab_channel=MovieclipsTrailers
The redubbing incident: https://www.slashfilm.com/gina-carano-confirms-voice-altered-haywire/
Robby Soave on Carano: https://reason.com/2021/02/11/disney-cancels-the-mandalorian-star-gina-carano-over-provocative-social-media-posts/
The "anti-Semitic" post that clearly isn't: https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1359701663901245442
The Freedom for Humanity mural Carano eventually posted a version of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_for_Humanity
A Carano-sympathetic take: https://www.eviemagazine.com/post/people-are-trying-to-cancel-gina-carano-for-what-exactly/
Jesse in Ramallah, solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict via the healing power of sport:
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| 0:00.0 | How's it going, Katie? |
| 0:05.0 | Here's I pretty good Jesse. |
| 0:07.0 | I saw some big media news yesterday and I wanted to take a moment to congratulate the |
| 0:13.7 | newest columnist for the New York Post Brett Stevens. |
| 0:17.0 | Wow, wow, big news. |
| 0:18.0 | What's going on? |
| 0:19.0 | Yeah, Brett took quite a career move. |
| 0:21.1 | He went from the New York Times apparently to the New York Post. |
| 0:24.9 | So this is going to hopefully conclude our discussion from our episode earlier this |
| 0:31.6 | week, which was about a controversy currently tearing apart the New York Times, another |
| 0:38.4 | one, the weekly controversy about the inward. |
| 0:41.4 | If people miss that episode, in brief, a star New York Times COVID reporter Don O'Neill |
| 0:47.4 | who had been with the paper for 47 years. |
| 0:49.4 | McNeill, that's anti-Irish racism. |
| 0:52.4 | I've done that like that's like the fifth time I've done that. |
| 0:55.9 | So Don McNeill resigned last week after the Daily Beast reported that he said the inward, |
| 1:03.9 | not in a derogatory context. |
| 1:05.4 | He was sort of quoting somebody on a trip with a bunch of teenagers in 2019, 115 New |
| 1:11.8 | York Times staffers signed a letter demanding an investigation. |
| 1:15.4 | A re-investigation. |
| 1:16.4 | A re-investigation. |
| 1:17.4 | I've been investigating 2019, Dean Becke, the editor of the paper, said he didn't perceive |
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