Episode 98: On Hereticon, Michael Tracey's Egregious Crimes Against K-Pop, And NPR's Manufactured Racism Issues
Blocked and Reported
Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2022
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
The host’s discuss Jesse’s very crazy week in Miami, Grimes, a very confusing online brouhaha involving Michael Tracey, South Korea, and fan letters written in menstrual blood, and the accusations of white supremacy leveled against that bastion of bigotry, National Public Radio. If you’d like to discuss this episode with other premium subscribers, click here.
Show notes/Links:
Hereticon: https://www.hereticon.com/
Russ George’s pirate-geoengineering project (he did not mention during the talk that the tribe later disavowed his activity on the basis they didn’t know it violated international rules): https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/oct/15/pacific-iron-fertilisation-geoengineering
Dynamite by BTS:
Regular everyday hookup leads to major scandal for K-Pop idol:https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/article.aspx?aid=2959678
K-Pop raises money for BLM:https://variety.com/2020/music/news/bts-army-matches-black-lives-matter-million-dollar-donation-1234627455/
The biggest K-Pop fans are giant weirdoes:https://sg.style.yahoo.com/blogs/singapore-showbiz/sasaeng-groupies-gone-wild-part-1-k-fans-141105992.html
http://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/k-pop/
“Stan” by Eminem:
Hit TXT song:
PAJU, SOUTH KOREA - DECEMBER 11: TXT attends 2021 Mnet Asian Music Awards (MAMA) at CJ ENM Studio Center on December 11, 2021 in Paju, South Korea. (Photo by The Chosunilbo JNS/Imazins via Getty Images)
Some info on Michael Tracey:https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/left-heretics-jilani-taibbi-tracey
A Tracey Twete (tm):
Shovegate:
Tracey on the riots: https://mtracey.medium.com/two-months-since-the-riots-and-still-no-national-conversation-12a7e3e4e006
The Present Controversy:
Big Hit suing people for insulting its artists:https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-49484380
The fabricated tweet:
Tracey responds:
Not everyone buys his claims of innocence:
NPR’s really bad racism problem:
Folkenflik thinks it’s more complicated:https://www.npr.org/2022/01/11/1072104110/lulu-garcia-navarro-audie-cornish-noel-king-leave-npr
Subtweet?:
Jesse’s failed attempt to bait the K-Pop stans:
Image: PAJU, SOUTH KOREA - DECEMBER 11: TXT attends 2021 Mnet Asian Music Awards (MAMA) at CJ ENM Studio Center on December 11, 2021 in Paju, South Korea. (Photo by The Chosunilbo JNS/Imazins via Getty Images)
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| 0:00.0 | Music |
| 0:09.0 | Jesse, how's your head today? |
| 0:11.0 | My head has been better, but my heart is bursting. |
| 0:14.0 | So, where are you right now? |
| 0:18.0 | I am in sunny Miami Beach. |
| 0:20.0 | This was the end of... |
| 0:22.0 | Yesterday was the end of Hereticon, which was a conference. |
| 0:25.0 | Jesse, I got to interrupt your voice. |
| 0:27.0 | You saw like you dove into a pile of cocaine. |
| 0:31.0 | There was no cocaine. |
| 0:33.0 | I don't think you have any cartilage left in your nose. |
| 0:35.0 | I'll read you about some alcohol. |
| 0:36.0 | Hold on. |
| 0:37.0 | Let me take a sip of iced coffee on my... |
| 0:39.0 | And I'll reset this. |
| 0:41.0 | Okay, come to the composer. |
| 0:44.0 | Alright, so yeah, Hereticon is this thing thrown by Founders Fund. |
| 0:48.0 | You know, V.C. |
| 0:50.0 | This is the V.C. world, so they brought a mix of V.C. |
| 0:54.0 | And, wait, wait, Founders Fund for people who don't know, this isn't just any V.C. fund. |
| 0:59.0 | This is Peter Till's fund. |
| 1:01.0 | So, yes. |
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