Episode 56: Yes We Have Receipts But No You Cannot See Them
Blocked and Reported
Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2021
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
After reflecting on the podcast turning one whole year old next week, Jesse and Katie talk about the massive online uproar over his (and others') continuing presence on Substack, Katie's impressive Brianna-Wu-related fundraising, and the underappreciated connection between GamerGate and 4chan. Then the hosts discuss media coverage of the awful massage-parlor shootings in Atlanta, and particularly the rush to slot them into an oversimplified race narrative.
Please consider preordering Jesse's book The Quick Fix: Why Fad Psychology Can't Cure Our Social Ills: https://www.amazon.com/Quick-Fix-Psychology-Cant-Social/dp/0374239800/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
Jon Kay's big Quillette piece on the rumors about Jesse:
https://quillette.com/2021/03/18/the-campaign-of-lies-against-journalist-jesse-singal-and-why-it-matters/
Ryan Broderick’s dishonest article about Substack: https://www.garbageday.email/p/starting-to-think-we-are-acting-like
An interview of Jesse's Ryan would have benefited from reading:
https://www.vulture.com/2016/05/against-me-laura-jane-grace-playing-north-carolina.html
Jude Doyle’s dishonest article about Substack: https://doyles.substack.com/p/in-queers-we-trust-all-others-pay
Jude Doyle’s dishonest article about leaving Substack:
https://doyles.substack.com/p/necessary-losses
Brianna Wu HAS RECEIPTS:
https://twitter.com/briannawu/status/1371452139856392196
Katie’s thread on Wu’s DMs about her and Jesse:
https://twitter.com/kittypurrzog/status/1371484911773700098
Wu’s threatening email to Jesse:
https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1371470202030936067
Jesse’s story on the Kenneth Zucker clinic:
https://www.thecut.com/2016/02/fight-over-trans-kids-got-a-researcher-fired.html
Herzog’s impressive fundraising efforts:
https://twitter.com/kittypurrzog/status/1372583800480301065
There appear to be myriad holes in Zoe Quinn’s story about Alec Holowka, who committed suicide after (but not necessarily as a result of) her accusations and his subsequent firing:
https://thepostmillennial.com/exclusive-zoe-quinns-allegations-are-falling-apart
Freddie deBoer’s apology:
https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/statement
Freddie deBoer’s essay about people’s unwillingness to accept his apology:
https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/since-you-asked
Melissa Jeltsen’s useful and nuanced thread on the massage-parlor shootings and the temptation of simple storytelling:
https://twitter.com/quasimado/status/1372536018721734662
Whiteness Doesn’t Cause Mass Shootings:
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/11/whiteness-mass-shootings.html
Basic info on Robert Aaron Long:
No, a police captain didn’t blame the shooting on a “bad day”:
https://reason.com/2021/03/19/aaron-robert-long-spa-killer-atlanta-jay-baker-cop-bad-day/
Everyone got the Pulse nightclub shooting wrong:
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/4/5/17202026/pulse-shooting-lgbtq-trump-terror-hate
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| 0:00.0 | Music |
| 0:04.0 | Katie, what's up? |
| 0:05.0 | Jessie, happy anniversary. |
| 0:07.0 | Oh my god, I almost forgot. When is it? |
| 0:10.0 | March 24th, it will be one year since we have started this podcast. |
| 0:14.0 | What did you get me? |
| 0:16.0 | I don't want to tell you yet, I want to be a surprise. |
| 0:19.0 | Okay, can I tell you what I got you? |
| 0:20.0 | Please do. |
| 0:21.0 | I got you a copy of a new book called The Quick Fix. |
| 0:25.0 | Eh, what's it about? |
| 0:26.0 | I don't know what it's about, but I figured I would buy a copy of your book |
| 0:29.0 | and then just send you the receipt since the first anniversary is the paper year. |
| 0:33.0 | Is that an actual thing, the paper year? I don't know. |
| 0:36.0 | Oh, is that like gold silver paper blah blah blah? |
| 0:39.0 | Yeah, it's like every year of your, you would know this if you were in a marriage such as like me. |
| 0:43.0 | Yeah, every year of your marriage is like there's some sort of like dumb tradition |
| 0:47.0 | of something that you're supposed to buy your partner and since you're my partner |
| 0:51.0 | and it's the paper year, I'm going to get a copy of your book. |
| 0:53.0 | That's very kind. |
| 0:54.0 | And sure, you're acting like it's my fault that when they legalize gay marriage, |
| 0:57.0 | they outlawed straight marriage. |
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