Episode 119: Live From The Heterodox Academy Conference In Denver
Blocked and Reported
Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2022
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
It finally happened! A BARPod live show. It was very very fun. If you’d like to talk about it with other BARPod premium subscribers, click here. (MANY thanks to Andy Mills for whipping the audio into publishable form — there was a recording error and it was a mess at first.)
Show notes/Links:
Heterodox Academy:
https://heterodoxacademy.org/
Katie on Stuart Reges: https://www.thestranger.com/tech/2018/06/26/28210971/university-of-washington-computer-science-lecturer-explains-why-why-women-dont-code-chaos-ensues
Jesse on the CUNY controvery: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/09/a-cuny-student-was-investigated-for-criticizing-israel.html
Jesse on the Lake Washington Institute of Technology controversy: https://reason.com/2021/04/05/a-professor-pushed-back-against-white-fragility-training-the-college-investigated-her-for-9-months/
Erec Smith: https://www.ycp.edu/academics/school-of-the-arts-communication-and-global-studies/faculty/smith-erec.php
And on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rhetors_of_york
Free Black Thought: https://www.freeblackthought.com/
Image: “Elevated perspective of the Denver metro area and downtown skyline with The Rocky Mountains as a backdrop” via Getty
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| 0:00.0 | All right welcome back everyone welcome back for those of you joining us for |
| 0:09.2 | the first time I'm Kyle Vitale HXA's Director of Programs and I'm |
| 0:13.2 | pleased to introduce tonight's live recording of the podcast blocked and |
| 0:17.7 | reported |
| 0:20.6 | yeah to introduce your hosts for the evening journalists Katie Herzog and |
| 0:31.2 | Jesse Singles scour the internet for its craziest, silliest, most sociopathic |
| 0:36.9 | content part of an obsessive and ill-conceived their words attempt to |
| 0:41.7 | extract kernels of meaning and humanity from a landscape of endless raging |
| 0:46.2 | dumpster fires and sometimes they talk about other stuff too. Jesse is also |
| 0:51.7 | author of the book The Quick Fixed Why Fad Psychology Can't Cure Our Social |
| 0:55.8 | Ills along with the newsletter single-minded he is as he writes cool. Katie |
| 1:03.0 | meanwhile described herself as the only host of the only podcast. Jesse and Katie |
| 1:09.9 | it's all yours. Thank you thank you everyone |
| 1:14.8 | all right thank you guys all. Can you hear me? Okay thank you guys all for |
| 1:21.2 | coming here today for being here at the Heterodox Academy Conference and the |
| 1:24.9 | first ever blocks and reported live show. We've gotten to talk to a bunch of |
| 1:29.4 | different people today seen some friendly faces our assistants here |
| 1:32.9 | somewhere he's a furry so there he is so if you see the guy with the Fox |
| 1:37.8 | tail hanging out of his pants that's Trace. If he you see someone with a Fox |
| 1:42.4 | tail say hi I would say give him a little pat on the rump you have you have |
| 1:47.9 | our consent to do so I think it's it's with like the Heterodox way right. We have |
| 1:52.7 | no HR department at our podcast. Yeah we're happy to be here it's great to see |
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