Episode 154: Saddles And Sadness šš
Blocked and Reported
Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal
4.6 ā¢ 4.1K Ratings
šļø 4 March 2023
ā±ļø 69 minutes
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Summary
In this weekās depressing episodeā¦ Sighā¦
* A journalist is spat on in a high-profile case. Is it time to tone down the rhetoric? Itās probably too late to de-escalateā¦
* The disappearance of Apu. Heās probably never coming back.
* Matt Yglesias wonāt come on the podcast. Should Kanye come on instead? Heāll probably say no too. Sighā¦
* Why are young liberals so depressed? Matt Yglesiasā new article sparks discussion, but we probably canāt fix this. We should just give upā¦
* Katieās shocking stance on solar power. Weāll never be able to transition to renewables, will we?
* Journalists really messed up with the Tenacious Unicorn Ranch storyā¦ Kiwi Farms did the mediaās job better than the media didā¦ Not againā¦
* 28 TERFS PULLING UP IN BLACK FORD RAPTOR TRUCKS. HELICOPTERS LANDED. UNICORN RANCH IS UNDER SIEGE! UNDER LOCKDOWN!
Depression
Yglesiasā article on why everyone is suddenly so depressed
https://www.slowboring.com/p/why-are-young-liberals-so-depressed
Uhā¦ hereās the study: āThe politics of depression: Diverging trends in internalizing symptoms among US adolescents by political beliefsā
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666560321000438
The Tenacious Unicorn Ranch
The Advocate: Trans Anarchists, Alpacas, and the Beauty of Tenacious Unicorn Ranch
The Governor Whitmer kidnapping plot glows harder than Chernobyl in 1986
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/24/us/whitmer-kidnapping-trial.html
Business Insider: How the trans alpaca ranchers of Custer County, Colorado, are forging a new frontier
UNICORN RANCH IS UNDER ATTACK. UNDER SIEGE.
https://twitter.com/TenaciousRanch/status/1368996977959047168?s=20
Unicorn Ranch is ānothing more than a glorified cultā, a 17-part epic
https://twitter.com/EntrancingStars/status/1607478562378088448?s=20
The remaining Ranchers respond
https://twitter.com/TenaciousRanch/status/1608176135187365888/photo/2
The "journey of recontextualization"
https://twitter.com/EntrancingStars/status/1608270263287939073
Kiwi Farms is accused of sending police to the ranch
https://twitter.com/TenaciousRanch/status/1608907406452588544
The current Wikipedia page on the ranch
https://web.archive.org/web/20230304174335/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenacious_Unicorn_Ranch
Alpacas and goats are relocated
https://twitter.com/EntrancingStars/status/1617697699633192961#m
The Ranch is... scuffed to say the least
https://twitter.com/EntrancingStars/status/1630804146227142661?s=20
Bonnie's "IRS Report"
https://docs.google.com/document/d/19tS4uxqpwOoIf8-PkDTVUvhUsYyoQ4NzT9FLXlG-XJ4/edit
Kindness's statement
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gBdNSPs0vhV1Qw3eCSb5INrBaOhdwvMF/edit
Further Reading
Denver Post: How an anarchist commune for queer people grew a haven in conservative rural Colorado
https://www.denverpost.com/2021/04/18/tenacious-unicorn-ranch-queer-haven-rural-colorado/
High Country News: Meet the gun-toting āTenacious Unicornsā in rural Colorado
NPR: A Would-Be Trans And Queer Haven In Rural Colorado Just Wants To Be Left Alone
PBS: Southern Colorado alpaca ranch a safe haven for LGBTQ+ community
https://archive.li/PpGIO#selection-689.13-689.77
Pink News: Meet the brilliant trans folk who built a community of armed, anti-fascist alpaca farmers
āhuman behavior is basically a memeā ~ Katie Herzog
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Jesse, back from your travels. |
| 0:13.4 | I am back in sunny early March, Brooklyn. |
| 0:16.4 | How's it going? |
| 0:17.4 | Pretty good Jesse. |
| 0:18.4 | I mean, we talked on the pre-emotional episode that I had some pretty disturbing health news |
| 0:21.5 | this week. |
| 0:22.5 | We won't rehash it here, but let's just say I'm dying. |
| 0:25.4 | Jesus Christ. |
| 0:27.4 | I was literally just about to be like, maybe we should just leave it as disturbing health |
| 0:32.2 | news. |
| 0:33.2 | Oh, you can, it's okay to tell the people. |
| 0:36.4 | You were born with 12 breaths, and you got 10 of them a room. |
| 0:41.1 | I have Lyme disease if you want to hear the details, including the audio of Jesse in real |
| 0:47.1 | time receiving a text message with a picture of my giant bullseye wound rash on my butt. |
| 0:55.2 | Sign up to the pre-emotional episode $5 a month. |
| 0:57.4 | You're so sanguine about it. |
| 0:58.8 | I like, I always, if I frequently accused you of secretly being Jewish, but your response |
| 1:03.4 | to a Lyme disease diagnosis is just pure, chin-up, stoic waspism or whatever the fuck you |
| 1:09.8 | are. |
| 1:10.8 | I am more Jewish than George Santos. |
| 1:11.8 | I'll say that. |
| 1:12.8 | Well, congratulations again on your entrance into the Spoonie community, but that's not |
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