Episode 78: The Half-Baked 'Grooming' Allegations Against Alice Ripley And The Cringeworthy Awokening Of The Sports World (feat. Ethan Strauss)

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Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal

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🗓️ 23 August 2021

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

After Katie tells Jesse about her extremely traumatic 'vacation,' the hosts discuss a journalistically half-baked article about the Broadway star Alice Ripley and Jesse interviews Ethan Strauss on how the Great Awokening has washed over sports, producing some questionable journalism and cringeworthy ads. (Apologies to patrons that we couldn't get this to you as early as usual -- it was just a matter of not posting Ethan's announcement too early.)

Show notes/Links:

Katie's vacation: https://twitter.com/kittypurrzog/status/1427026657903214592

Original 'grooming' allegation: https://www.tiktok.com/@lovelyleobrie/video/6995546733497306373?lang=en&is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1

The Daily Beast's coverage: https://www.thedailybeast.com/4-accusers-speak-out-about-how-broadway-star-alice-ripley-traumatized-her-young-fans

Kevin Durant does not like Ethan Strauss: https://www.nbcsports.com/bayarea/warriors/kevin-durant-accused-reporter-trying-rile-steph-curry-fans

House of Strauss: https://houseofstrauss.substack.com/

Nike ad that ended the patriarchy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PP9Zd_LUp1Y&t=4s&ab_channel=%E5%8C%97%E6%BC%82%E7%BB%93%E6%9D%9F%E7%9A%84%E5%85%AD%E7%BA%BF%E5%B0%8F%E9%95%87%E9%9D%92%E5%B9%B4

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0:00.0	Jesse, long time no see.
0:07.6	Yeah, I was worried about you.
0:09.4	I saw some scary shit online.
0:11.0	Yeah, so we went on vacation for a couple of weeks.
0:13.6	Did you actually do anything on this hiatus?
0:16.1	You were on vacation?
0:17.1	I thought this was like a retreat.
0:18.2	Yeah, thanks for that, Jesse.
0:19.6	Did you do some trespalls by yourself?
0:21.3	Well, I thought you were behind me, but then I had to go to the hospital.
0:25.3	So that explains why your nose is so big.
0:28.9	So you fucking, you, but then I looked online and you're lost on the side of a mountain
0:33.8	having a panic attack and you're like, you had to kill someone and eat them.
0:37.4	I didn't, the story wasn't entirely clear to me.
0:39.1	Yeah, that's basically what happened.
0:40.2	So I went for a hike and this is a local mountain I go there fairly often, but I just sort
0:45.6	of saw this trail off to the side and I thought, like, oh, I'll go up this trail.
0:49.4	Just see what, see what it is.
0:51.5	And it wasn't marked or anything.
0:52.7	I don't think it might be a dried creep bed, but I thought like this, you know, this is
0:56.6	a trail.
0:57.6	I just started going up and it was, it was really steep, like much steeper than anything
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