Episode 105: Everything Continues To Suck
Blocked and Reported
Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2022
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
The hosts discuss all the brains that have been melted by Russia’s invastion of Ukraine, the role of race in determining how local populations respond to refugees, and the all-too-common collision of trans rights and lithium mining. If you’d like to discuss this issue with other premium subscribers, click here.
Nuclear stuff:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/03/world/europe/nuclear-plant-fire-zaporizhzhia-video.html
Thursday night, CBS tweeted, alongside an article,
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00660-z
Brains melting:
Cowen mention:
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2022/01/who-will-fight.html
Derrick Jensen:
Queer Theory Jeopardy!!! with Professor Derrick Jensen:
https://derrickjensen.org/2013/06/the-emperors-new-penis/
https://www.feministcurrent.com/2019/10/05/its-time-for-us-all-to-stand-up-against-big-sister/
The Lithium mine:
https://www.eenews.net/articles/how-an-anti-trans-group-split-the-fight-against-a-lithium-mine/
Image: THE HAGUE NETHERLANDS - MARCH 5: Mainly Russian nationals participate in a peaceful protest outside the Russian embassy to show support for Ukraine on March 5, 2022 in The Hague The Netherlands. Russia invaded neighboring Ukraine on 24th February 2022, its actions have met with worldwide condemnation with rallies, protests and peace marches taking place in cities across the globe. (Photo by Michel Porro/Getty Images)
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| 0:00.0 | It's good Katie, I'm feeling pretty inspired. |
| 0:12.0 | Why is that? |
| 0:13.0 | Do I want to know? |
| 0:14.0 | Yeah, of course you do. |
| 0:15.0 | Aren't you curious about my life? |
| 0:16.0 | Not even in the slightest. |
| 0:18.0 | Anyway, it's Friday night. |
| 0:20.0 | We're recording on a Friday night. |
| 0:21.0 | I canceled all my other plans to record with you. |
| 0:24.0 | Except I just got back from a really inspiring anti-poochan protest. |
| 0:28.0 | I don't believe you. |
| 0:29.0 | It was so great. |
| 0:30.0 | Did you go to a Ukrainian restaurant or something? |
| 0:33.0 | Well, we tried to, but it was too full. |
| 0:36.0 | No fucking way. |
| 0:37.0 | We tried to go to Viselka, which is this really famous place on the Lower East Side. |
| 0:41.0 | This is where a journalist, East Village, I should say I think. |
| 0:45.0 | And we figured that would be too crowded because of all the other protests. |
| 0:49.0 | So as we got Georgian food, because Georgia was also faced an incursion at the hands of Russia fairly recently. |
| 0:55.0 | And Georgian food is really good. |
| 0:57.0 | So this is like when people were boycotting Chinese restaurants because of the COVID virus. |
| 1:03.0 | No, this is the opposite of that because this is awesome. |
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