Episode 120: The NYT Enters The Youth Gender Fray And Philadelphia's Mina's World Coffee Shop Melts Down Spectacularly

Blocked and Reported

Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal

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🗓️ 24 June 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

After dissecting their experiences doing a live show at the Heterodox Academy conference in Denver, the hosts talk about Emily Bazelon’s “controversial” New York Times Magazine article about youth gender transition and a mind-melting controversy over a West Philly coffee shop. To discuss this episode with other premium subscribers, click here.

Show notes/Links:

Bazelon’s article: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/15/magazine/gender-therapy.html

Thank you to all the Dave Robertses:

Mina’s World:

https://www.instagram.com/mwworkers/

https://www.instagram.com/minasworld4you/

Eater profile: https://philly.eater.com/22517795/minas-world-west-philly-sonam-parikh-kate-egghart

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0:00.0	I'm just so you make it back okay Katie not only did I make it back okay I am reclining
0:14.8	on a couch like the ones the Romans used during orgies basking in the glow of stardom well
0:20.9	you really took that conference seriously don't let it go to your head or anything we were
0:24.8	in with the two of us were in the city known because the stars always flock there Denver
0:32.6	Colorado and it was really fun and it was very weird to be walking around in a place
0:38.4	where people like knew who we were that was a new experience and I've decided to let
0:42.0	it go to my head it was weird to be walking around in a place where people not only knew
0:45.4	who we were but they liked us yes it's probably some other places the opposite of that but
0:52.9	yeah so I've adopted a new persona I screamed at a barista for making eye contact with
0:57.4	me earlier and that's you know you're mispronouncing that word right barista what do I say
1:02.3	barista barista I am too important to worry about pronunciation but yeah that's who I am now
1:08.2	I am a giant prick so it's been fun Jesse the barista screamer did you joke aside I had a really
1:15.2	fun time I thought it was great to finally do a live event I was I was I was a little nervous
1:21.7	as I was sitting waiting to go on because there's another thing before us but I also got really hungry
1:26.5	so I went down to the hotel bar and I got pretzel bites in a beer and if we perform well
1:32.0	it was because of the pretzel bites so thank you hotel bar yeah I did notice that you are so our
1:37.9	event was right after John Heights keynote at the heterodox academy conference and you left in
1:43.6	the middle of it and you're extremely tall so I think everybody saw you leave it was a huge scandal
1:49.0	I was I don't know why I was so hungry but I was I was glad I did it but yes the live event I
1:54.3	thought was very fun I'd like to we'd obviously want to do more we already got in we mentioned
2:00.1	the potential of going to colleges we already got a nibble for a college that would be very
2:04.4	convenient for me and very inconvenient for you which I like so yeah best case scenario if we
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