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Episode 103: Truckers, Perverts, And San Franciscans Feb 21, 2022

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After a very important Goat Update (tm), the hosts discuss the Canadian government’s heavyhanded response to the truckers, a very kinky new appointee to the Biden administration, and the San Francisco School Board recall. Premium subscribers can discuss the episode here.

Show notes/Links:

Cowboy… porno… metal…?: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/anti-vax-trucker-convoy-porno-metal-ram-ranch-1297926/

Ilham Omar… welcome to the Intellectual Dark Web:

Trudeau taking advantage of emergency powers: https://archive.is/kFjgR#selection-1375.138-1375.214

Brinton on their conversion therapy: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2011/08/survivor-mit-grad-student-samuel-brinton-remembers-ex-gay-therapy/

More on them: https://businessequalitymagazine.com/qa-nuclear-engineer-presidential-advisor-conversion-therapy-activist-sam-brinton/

“'Pup Play' Isn't Just a Sexual Kink. It's Freedom.” Uhhhh okay: https://www.menshealth.com/sex-women/a35523288/puppy-play-bdsm/

Katie’s observation:

SF is quite blue:

https://abc7news.com/election-results-joe-biden-donald-trump-bay-area/7680084/

https://sfist.com/2020/11/16/over-56-000-people-in-san-francisco-voted-for-trump/

NYT on the recall: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/16/us/san-francisco-school-board-recall.html

Moliga had attempted to distance himself from the other two: https://sfstandard.com/education/facing-recall-school-board-member-faauuga-moliga-goes-it-alone/

Good rundown: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/02/san-francisco-school-board-recall/

López does herself no favors in this Chotiner interview: https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/how-san-francisco-renamed-its-schools

Seems like a good use of School Board time:

Racist tweets: https://missionlocal.org/2021/03/alison-collins-school-board-tweets/

Crazy CNN article: https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/17/opinions/san-francisco-school-board-recall-hemmer/index.html

Good interview with Siva Raj:

Image: Police and demonstrators clash on February 19, 2022, in Ottawa, Canada. - Police in Canada deployed to dislodge the final truckers and protesters from downtown Ottawa, in a mostly peaceful operation aimed at bringing an end to three weeks of demonstrations over Covid-19 health rules. Ottawa police, who pledged the operation would push ahead "until residents and citizens have their city back," were still working to clear the capital's streets. (Photo by ANDREJ IVANOV / AFP) (Photo by ANDREJ IVANOV/AFP via Getty Images)

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Episode 102: Do Not, Under Any Circumstances, Keep On Trucking Feb 14, 2022

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Jesse has another crazy travel story, this one from a wild night out in Santa Barbara. Then he tells Katie about a recent controversy at the /r/antiwork subreddit, and Katie tells him about the Canadian Freedom And/Or Nazi Truckers. Also, the podcast is looking for a professional cowboy/girl/person. To discuss this episode with other premium subscribers, click here.

Show notes/Links:

Great rundown from Trace: https://tracingwoodgrains.medium.com/r-antiwork-a-tragedy-of-sanewashing-and-social-gentrification-56298af1c1a7

The subreddit: https://reddit.com/r/antiwork

FAQ: https://web.archive.org/web/20220131104428/https://old.reddit.com/r/antiwork/wiki/index

Explainer: https://old.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/fde9mp/whats_the_solution_whats_the_alternative_what_can/

“All they are asking for is a fair chance to find a decent job with the potential of advancing. They’d also like to be paid fairly and treated with dignity and respect”: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2022/01/27/reddits-antiwork-subreddit-temporarily-shuts-down-after-an-awkward-interview-between-a-moderator-and-fox-news-star-jesse-watters/?sh=140ad3172878

Rundown of the aftermath: https://www.businessinsider.com/antiwork-reddit-moderator-doreen-ford-removed-after-fox-news-interview-2022-1

Beware The Honkler:

GoFundMe:

Image: Supporters and truckers front the Parliament Hill during a protest in downtown of Ottawa, Canada, on February 12, 2022. The protest of anti-vaccine truckers, which started on January 29 in Ottawa, continued today near the parliament Hill. (Photo by Mohamed Kadri/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

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Episode 101: Should Joe Rogan And/Or Critical Race Theory Be Deplatformed And/Or Executed? Feb 07, 2022

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In 2022, the two biggest celebrities in America are Joseph J. Rogan and Critical R. Theory. Some people think one of them should be deplatformed. Others think the other should be deplatformed. Still others think BOTH should be deplatformed (okay, no one thinks that). What’s the truth? Katie and Jesse are on the case. To discuss this episode with other premium subscribers, click here. (Apologies that I initially left the comment thread open on this one and then locked it — feel free to repost any comment you made here over there. Goal is to just keep comments totally private, and this episode will be unlocking to the public on Monday. -J)

Show notes/Links:

The anti-Rogan Spotify boycott:

https://fortune.com/2022/02/03/spotify-boycott-neil-young-joni-mitchell-nils-lofgren-india-arie-mary-trump-joe-rogan-experience-vaccines-race/

Neil Young has his own misinformation problem:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/neil-youngs-long-record-of-spreading-scientific-misinformation

Singal/Heer:

Pesca and Nyhan on polling fuzziness:

https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vc2xhdGVzdGhlZ2lzdA/episode/YzExYjZmYTQtNzQ5OC0xMWVjLTk5NjMtMmIyNWUwMmE4NjEz?hl=en&ved=2ahUKEwjix4m1ruf1AhVRJEQIHfJdCZcQieUEegQIKhAd&ep=6

Jeff Sachs on the CRT fight:

https://pen.org/steep-rise-gag-orders-many-sloppily-drafted/

Spreadsheet of proposed bills:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Tj5WQVBmB6SQg-zP_M8uZsQQGH09TxmBY73v23zpyr0/edit#gid=267763711

Scientific American mangles its coverage of the CRT fight (long story but the bill does not ban a list of words):

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-anti-critical-race-theory-movement-will-profoundly-affect-public-education/

SUNY Fredonia pedophilia controversy:

https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2022/02/03/suny-fredonia-reviewing-professor%E2%80%99s-comments-pedophilia

Image: LAS VEGAS, NEVADA - DECEMBER 10: Joe Rogan introduces fighters during the UFC 269 ceremonial weigh-in at MGM Grand Garden Arena on December 10, 2021 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Carmen Mandato/Getty Images)

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Episode 100: The Wrath At Khan Jan 31, 2022

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After Jesse presents Katie with two equally moral solutions to the goat roblems that have been plaguing her, the hosts discuss the recent brouhaha surrounding E.O. Wilson, Scientific American, and Razib Khan. In addition, Stephen Jay Gould was such a dick. To discuss this episode with other premium subscribers, click here. (Thank you to @metorotem for the episode title.)

Show notes/Links:

Goats:

WilsonKhanghazi:

E.O. Wilson obit: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/27/science/eo-wilson-dead.html

Two good books on this sort of thing by Alice Dreger and Stephen Pinker:

https://www.amazon.com/Galileos-Middle-Finger-Heretics-Activists/dp/0143108115

https://www.amazon.com/Blank-Slate-Modern-Denial-Nature/dp/0142003344

E.O. Wilson letter quoted here:

https://spectatorworld.com/newsletter/misremembering-e-o-wilson/

The disastrous Scientific American article:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-complicated-legacy-of-e-o-wilson/

No need to, like, quote:

Good takedown:

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=6202

Even Turkheimer isn’t having it:

https://www.twitter.com/ent3c/status/1476626271090233346

Razib’s (and others’) rebuttal:

The Gawker article:

http://tktk.gawker.com/new-times-op-ed-writer-has-a-colorful-past-with-racist-169218784

His TakiMag stuff:

http://takimag.com/contributor/razibkhan/130

His Unz stuff:

https://www.unz.com/author/razib-khan/

Grant:

http://990s.foundationcenter.org/990pf_pdf_archive/207/207181582/207181582_200912_990PF.pdf#page=16

More accusations:

https://evolutionnews.org/2019/05/geneticist-razib-khan-a-darwinist-and-the-alt-right/

Here’s where “quadroon Jews” was:

https://www.unz.com/gnxp/how-ashkenazi-jewish-are-you/

Khan on eugenics:

https://www.razib.com/wordpress/2012/11/11/eugenics-the-100-year-cycle/

Khan in Discover forever ago:

https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/why-race-as-a-biological-construct-matters

2000 VDARE letter with race/IQ stuff:

https://vdare.com/letters/vdare-khan-letter-and-sailer-reply-america-s-imported-caste-system

People mad/repentant/etc.:

Good rundown:

Nuanced discussion of guilt-by-association and McCarthyism:

https://archive.is/R0m6D

Aaaaaand it’s gone:

REPENT, MOTHERFUCKER!:

Khan encouraged people to stay civil and keep the focus on Wilson, then went back to genetics and living his life:

He also went on the podcast Urbane Cowboys to discuss the whole affair:

Image: CAMBRIDGE, MA - APRIL 17: Biologist, naturalist and writer E.O. (Ed) Wilson in his Harvard office in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. (Photo by Suzanne Kreiter/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

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Episode 99: How Slate Became An Embarrassing Basket-Case Shell Of Its Former Self (With Mike Pesca) Jan 24, 2022

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After Katie and Jesse discuss their nonconsensual Yassifications, they bring on Mike Pesca to discuss the time he was forced out at Slate because… well, hard to say! If you’re a premium subscriber and would like to discuss this episode, click here.

Show notes/Links:

The Yassification incident: https://www.reddit.com/r/BlockedAndReported/comments/s5ee24/the_yassification_of_jesse_singal_and_katie_herzog/

The Daily Beast’s bad coverage of the Donald McNeil, Jr. incident:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/star-new-york-times-reporter-donald-mcneil-accused-of-using-n-word-making-other-racist-comments

Letter from NYT staffers suggesting this was not, you know, an isolated incident:

More responsible coverage:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/14/business/media/new-york-times-donald-mcneil.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/02/09/what-happened-with-new-york-times-reporter-don-mcneil/

McNeil tells his side:

https://donaldgmcneiljr1954.medium.com/nytimes-peru-n-word-part-one-introduction-57eb6a3e0d95?source=user_profile---------19-------------------------------

Defector’s hatchet job on Pesca:

https://defector.com/mike-pesca-slate-suspended/

The Gist is back!

Image: NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE - OCTOBER 26: (L-R) Kurt Bardella, Mike Pesca and Jennifer Rubin speak onstage during the 2019 Politicon at Music City Center on October 26, 2019 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Ed Rode/Getty Images for Politicon)

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Episode 98: On Hereticon, Michael Tracey's Egregious Crimes Against K-Pop, And NPR's Manufactured Racism Issues Jan 17, 2022

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The host’s discuss Jesse’s very crazy week in Miami, Grimes, a very confusing online brouhaha involving Michael Tracey, South Korea, and fan letters written in menstrual blood, and the accusations of white supremacy leveled against that bastion of bigotry, National Public Radio. If you’d like to discuss this episode with other premium subscribers, click here.

Show notes/Links:

Hereticon: https://www.hereticon.com/

Russ George’s pirate-geoengineering project (he did not mention during the talk that the tribe later disavowed his activity on the basis they didn’t know it violated international rules): https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/oct/15/pacific-iron-fertilisation-geoengineering

Dynamite by BTS:

Regular everyday hookup leads to major scandal for K-Pop idol:https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/article.aspx?aid=2959678

K-Pop raises money for BLM:https://variety.com/2020/music/news/bts-army-matches-black-lives-matter-million-dollar-donation-1234627455/

The biggest K-Pop fans are giant weirdoes:https://sg.style.yahoo.com/blogs/singapore-showbiz/sasaeng-groupies-gone-wild-part-1-k-fans-141105992.html

http://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/k-pop/

“Stan” by Eminem:

Hit TXT song:

PAJU, SOUTH KOREA - DECEMBER 11: TXT attends 2021 Mnet Asian Music Awards (MAMA) at CJ ENM Studio Center on December 11, 2021 in Paju, South Korea. (Photo by The Chosunilbo JNS/Imazins via Getty Images)

Some info on Michael Tracey:https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/left-heretics-jilani-taibbi-tracey

A Tracey Twete (tm):

Shovegate:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/06/04/did-rep-maxine-waters-shove-a-reporter-you-decide/

Tracey on the riots: https://mtracey.medium.com/two-months-since-the-riots-and-still-no-national-conversation-12a7e3e4e006

The Present Controversy:

Big Hit suing people for insulting its artists:https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-49484380

The fabricated tweet:

Tracey responds:

Not everyone buys his claims of innocence:

NPR’s really bad racism problem:

Folkenflik thinks it’s more complicated:https://www.npr.org/2022/01/11/1072104110/lulu-garcia-navarro-audie-cornish-noel-king-leave-npr

Subtweet?:

Jesse’s failed attempt to bait the K-Pop stans:

Image: PAJU, SOUTH KOREA - DECEMBER 11: TXT attends 2021 Mnet Asian Music Awards (MAMA) at CJ ENM Studio Center on December 11, 2021 in Paju, South Korea. (Photo by The Chosunilbo JNS/Imazins via Getty Images)

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Episode 97: Alberto Gullaba Jr. Thought He Might Be Headed For Literary Stardom — Then His Agent Found Out His Race Jan 10, 2022

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After Katie provides a brief but withering review of ‘America,’ she tells Jesse about the latest hijinks of everyone’s favorite contrarian University of Washington computer science teacher, which like all great hijinks involve land acknowledgements. Then Jesse tells Katie about Alberto Gullaba Jr.’s travails trying to get his novel published. To discuss this episode with other paying subscribers, go here.

Show notes/Links:

Stuart Reges on sex differences research: https://quillette.com/2018/06/19/why-women-dont-code/

Research on same: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/38061313_Men_and_Things_Women_and_People_A_Meta-Analysis_of_Sex_Differences_in_Interests

The Toxic Drama on YA Twitter:https://www.vulture.com/2017/08/the-toxic-drama-of-ya-twitter.html

Jesse on Amelie Zhao:https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/how-a-twitter-mob-destroyed-a-young-immigrant-female-authors-budding-career

Jesse on Kosoko Jackson:https://reason.com/2019/02/28/he-was-part-of-a-twitter-mob-that-attack/

Jesse’s review of Jackson’s cancelled book:https://reason.com/2019/03/15/a-review-of-a-book-will-never-be-publish/

Jesse’s newsletter: YA Twitter's Victims And Critics Speak Out, Part 2: How (Some) Writers Of Color Are Affected:

‘Ember Days’ cancelled: https://archive.is/jp0IO#selection-629.0-637.768

Jesse on the unpublishing of that PW article:

‘University Thugs’ is for sale here:https://www.amazon.com/dp/B099QDNCKW

Alberto’s newsletter (more of a mailing list for future updates):Freechef.substack.com

And his Twitter account:https://twitter.com/free_chef

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Episode 96: Just Enough Fresh Content That It's Not *Technically* A Clip Show Under U.S. Podcasting Law Dec 27, 2021

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Let’s look back on the last year and run down listeners’ top five favorite segments. If you’d like to discuss this episode with other paying subscribers, click here.

Episodes clipped from:

Image: Feet in wool socks near fireplace - stock photo (Via Getty)

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Episode 95: Allegedly Anti-Semitic Mukbang, The Latest J.K. Rowling Freakout, And The Fuzzy Science Of Masks Dec 20, 2021

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In this relatively special episode, the hosts talk about a ginned-up anti-Semitism controversy involving a troubled internet figure, the latest explosion of outrage surrounding J.K. Rowling’s online opinions, and an article in The Atlantic article highlighting the gaps in our knowledge about masking as a form of coronavirus protection. To discuss this episode with other premium subscribers, click here.

Show notes/Links:

Archived version of tweet accusing weird YouTuber of anti-Semitism: https://archive.md/t79Yf

Know Your Meme attempts to explain Nikocado Avocado: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/people/nikocado-avocado

Video which launched the accusation: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Z3qV94LGcr63E1DxKnT-DodS2fF5bKs8/view?usp=sharing

Actual source: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kiss4-TO2gN2y6__J8fwz_tdgBOHLFbZ/view?usp=sharing

Even grosser food content, according to Katie: https://www.instagram.com/blake_201/

Atlantic article on masking: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/12/mask-guidelines-cdc-walensky/621035/

CIDRAP articles:

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2021/10/commentary-what-can-masks-do-part-1-science-behind-covid-19-protection

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2021/10/commentary-what-can-masks-do-part-2-what-makes-good-mask-study-and-why-most

The image of Nikocado Avocado absolutely housing what appear to be Korean rice cakes and noodles comes via Know Your Meme.

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Episode 94: If You Troll Into The Abyss, The Abyss Trolls Also Into You Dec 13, 2021

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Jesse confronts Katie with the results of some good ol’ fashioned southern-fried investigative reporting, Katie asks Jesse about his $5,000-dollar-per-plate Christmas gala in D.C., and Katie talks about the very strange and disturbing tale of Ben Garrison, racist (?) cartoonist. (If you’re a Primo and want to discuss this episode, click here.)

Show notes/Links:

New edition of Hal Herzog’s book!: https://www.amazon.com/Some-Love-Hate-Eat-Second-dp-0063119285/dp/0063119285/

Cockburn: https://spectatorworld.com/life/cockburn-cruises-dc-christmas-party-scene-breitbart-reason-singal/

Original spoofed cartoon: https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F819e1e5d-9823-4fb3-be3c-f98dc76e782e_435x640.png

Garrison’s 2014 blog post explaining his problem: https://archive.md/mpFii#selection-253.115-253.937

The happy merchant: https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2015-02/4/11/enhanced/webdr02/enhanced-17159-1423068265-32.jpg

2017 Wired coverage: https://www.wired.com/story/ben-garrison-alt-right-cartoonist/

Uhhhh getting genuinely problematic: https://static.timesofisrael.com/www/uploads/2019/07/cartoon-e1562781719760-640x400.jpg

Lead image: Asheville, the moment Jesse’s pants were first charmed off.

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