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Blocked and Reported

Episode 228: Climate Karen

Blocked and Reported

Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal

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4.64.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss a debate in climate activism. Plus, Robert Reich takes a bold stand against free speech.

Opinion | Elon Musk is right in Brazil X legal drama - The Washington Post

X gets banned in Brazil

Elon Musk is out of control. Here is how to rein him in | Robert Reich | The Guardian

How Should the Media Talk About Climate Change? | The New Yorker

Obsessing Over Climate Disinformation Is a Wrong Turn

It’s Time To Talk About Solar Geoengineering - Longreads



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0:00.0

Oh wait, throw it to me, sorry.

0:09.0

Oh, wait, to me, sorry. Let's just leave that air.

0:12.0

Katie, how's it going?

0:14.0

Professional as always. Wait let's edit that so we start with the music and

0:17.6

then just eerie silence is the music fades. We're not doing that. I'm fine. Thank you for asking even though I always ask you not to ask me how I'm doing I am doing fine. However I remembered something that I meant to tell you a while back that I forgot to tell you.

0:32.0

You're gay? You think I'm gay? I've been

0:34.0

telling everybody. Yeah, not that. So do you remember our episode about autism?

0:39.2

Which what? They all about autism. Good point.

0:43.0

Someone was specifically about the conflict between autism influencers

0:48.0

and actual autism, it was a conflict between the people who put...

0:52.0

People who literally cannot use a computer and the people who post all day about their

0:55.4

People who can literally not use a computer and the people who use hashtag actually autistic to describe themselves.

1:00.8

Yeah, okay, so when I was preparing for that episode, you know, I interviewed this woman who read a book,

1:05.8

her son is autistic and she's a metaphor story.

1:08.6

Yeah, Amy Lutz.

1:10.4

So she told me when we were talking, autistic people, like her son, have a tendency.

1:16.7

What I thought she said was that they have a compulsion to lope.

1:20.3

And when we were recording, you were like, what is that?

1:22.5

And I said like, you know how like a horse runs?

1:26.5

Like that sort of trotting?

1:27.6

So that's what I thought that that, I thought.

1:29.9

Oh, and did I just accept that?

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