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🗓️ 7 August 2023
⏱️ 60 minutes
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This week on Blocked and Reported, we revist an episode from our earliest days as a baby podcast, “What a Stupid F*****g Way to Have an Important Conversation. Plus, what has changed in DEI land since 2020.
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0:00.0 | All right, Jesse, we're going to skip the small talk this week because we are on vacation. |
0:14.7 | You are doing a little sex tourism in Thailand and my nephew is coming to visit me. |
0:18.7 | So I'm going to be doing some indoctrinating this week, which to be clear is very different |
0:22.9 | from grooming, no matter what James Lindsay says. |
0:27.1 | Katie, I would not do sex tourism in Thailand is way too hot. |
0:30.8 | Where would you do it, Norway? |
0:32.3 | I don't think they do. |
0:33.5 | You can talk about that off night, it's fine. |
0:35.4 | All right, so instead today we're going to re-air an interview we initially put out at the |
0:39.4 | very beginning of this show's existence back in our baby days of 2020. |
0:44.2 | That episode was called What a stupid fucking way to have a really important conversation |
0:48.7 | because we are fantastic at SEO. |
0:50.9 | And this was a conversation between me and a graphic designer at a theater company. |
0:55.2 | We had gone through a year's worth of diversity training at work with none other than |
0:58.6 | the patron saint of white fragility herself, Robin DiAngelo, after a scare quotes, picture |
1:04.4 | my scare quotes here, racist incident at the theater. |
1:07.2 | As you will hear, this training started before DiAngelo got famous, but we wanted to revisit |
1:11.4 | this for a couple of reasons. |
1:13.0 | Yeah, so one of them was just it was really early after we started the show, so it'll |
1:16.4 | probably be new to most of you. |
1:19.4 | There have also been, as you may have noticed, a few developments in the DEI landscape in |
1:24.2 | the three years since this episode came out, and we wanted to discuss them. |
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