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Blocked and Reported

Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal

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🗓️ 17 July 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss the death of Aubreigh Wyatt, a 13-year-old girl from Ocean Springs, Mississippi, and her mother Heather’s quest for vengeance. Plus, more Nickelback.

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0:00.0	Hello, you're listening to a preview of a premium episode of BlockDrimported.
0:03.6	Katie is taking a lead on this one, and it is an absolutely crazy, heartbreaking tale of
0:08.8	teen suicide meets TikTok meets influence.
0:14.1	I can barely talk.
0:15.0	Meets influencer mom.
0:16.4	I highly recommend you listen to the whole thing.
0:19.5	Enjoy the preview either way.
0:20.8	If you want to hear the whole thing, go to blockroomport.org and become a premium subscriber.
0:30.8	All right, Jesse, before we get to it, I want to thank everyone who wrote in to answer my question in the last promo episode.
0:37.2	This is a very important question
0:38.5	about Nickelback. A lot of feedback on this. A lot of feedback, which we expected. Did we?
0:45.9	I did, yes. So I mentioned that I was in Canada and I recently, and I got the impression there
0:52.2	that Canadians think that nickelback is good actually. And I asked Canadians to write in and explain this. Was I correct or not? And they did. I would say the general response was, yes, we know Nickelback is a joke, but we love them anyway because we're Canadian, and our idea of culture is timbits and cheese curds. It was something like that, yeah. But there was one email I wanted to address directly.
1:12.3	So someone wrote in and said that Canadian radio stations are required by law to play at least 35% Canadian content.
1:20.4	And this absolutely shocked me, but I looked it up.
1:23.4	This is true.
1:24.5	It's called CanCon as in Canadian content.
1:27.6	Sounds like a convention. Yeah. Canadian people. I think it should be Cancom as in Canadian
1:32.0	communism. And this applies not just to public radio stations like the CBC or Radio Canada,
1:37.0	but to privately owned commercial radio stations and TV stations and even internet video
1:42.7	streamers as well. What?
1:44.3	Yeah.
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