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Blocked and Reported

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Blocked and Reported

Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal

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4.64.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.blockedandreported.org

Fans are mad at Katie for insulting Elon Musk, conservatives are mad at drag queens for reading to kids, and journalists are convinced conservatives mad at drag queens caused the Club Q shooting. So there’s a lot to discuss.

Notes:

Background on Aldrich:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/11/21/colorado-springs-qbar-shooter/

https://www.c…

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0:00.0

Hello, what you are about to hear is a partial preview of our most recent premium episode.

0:05.6

If you want to hear it and it's entirety, go to blocktonreported.org. There you can sign up to

0:11.1

become a primo for just $5 a month and you will get three bonus episodes just like this one each

0:17.0

and every month. What a deal. Enjoy the preview. Hello, Jesse. Katie, you're in a little bit of

0:22.5

trouble. What I do. A lot of our listeners did not like the way that you criticized my role model

0:29.6

in favor of Jason. Elon J. Let's go with J. Musk. I am shocked, Jesse. I had no idea that was going

0:36.9

to happen. I thought everybody agreed with me. No, this was very predictable. I knew that people

0:40.9

were going to be disagree with me and get mad at me and I figured we'd probably lose some subscribers

0:45.4

over my red hot take that Elon Musk is not actually a demigod. But I, it's not that I don't care.

0:53.9

It's that I think it would be unethical of me to ignore stories or lie about how I feel or

1:04.2

otherwise obfuscate my feeling is about something just because I want to avoid angering people.

1:11.6

What do you think about that? I feel completely differently. I think we should do whatever Max

1:15.4

Max. Our profit. We should do a five-part series on Elon Musk and how great he is. You want more

1:20.7

audience capture. Yeah, every time I've tweeted about Elon Musk, I've lost followers. I'm down

1:25.8

like a thousand followers since Elon Musk over probably some of that is people leaving the

1:29.3

bloodworm. But I think a big part of it is that somehow my Elon Musk tweets are even less popular

1:34.4

than my QT tweets. I guess I feel a little bit naive. I mean, I knew he had some strong fanboys.

1:40.0

I was surprised that our listeners, as of when we're recording this, the episode isn't even public

1:45.3

yet. But in our close comments section, yeah, a lot of people were mad at you and a lot

1:50.6

of it just, it's like, do we need to be business experts to be qualified to say that his tweeting

1:58.3

throughout this has been very stupid and not businessman-like? But he really did just come in like

2:03.2

steamroller and just like start doing stuff and tweeting stuff without much forethought. So I don't

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