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Blocked and Reported
Journalists Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal scour the internet for its craziest, silliest, most sociopathic content, part of an obsessive and ill-conceived attempt to extract kernels of meaning and humanity from a landscape of endless raging dumpster fires.
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Episodes
Blocked and ReportedEpisode 307: One Fish Forward, Two Fishback
This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss the scandal-plagued, extremely online, pretty creepy and kinda racist Florida gubernatorial…
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Episode 307: One Fish Forward, Two Fishback
This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss the scandal-plagued, extremely online, pretty creepy and kinda racist Florida gubernatorial…
Blocked and ReportedLive with Katie Herzog & Helen Lewis
Thanks to everyone who joined my chat with Helen Lewis about Lena Dunham, Lindy West, fame, the art of the memoir, dog testicles, and more. To get access to…
Blocked and ReportedEpisode 306: Counting Jews (with David Baddiel)
This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse is joined by British comedian/author/screenwriter/singer/etc David Baddiel to discuss the age-old question: Do Jews…
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Episode 306: Counting Jews (with David Baddiel)
This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse is joined by British comedian/author/screenwriter/singer/etc David Baddiel to discuss the age-old question: Do Jews…
Blocked and ReportedPremium: Is Dropout TV Antisemitic Copaganda?
This week on the Primo show, Jesse and Katie discuss Dropout TV, the successor to College Humor, and two controversies manufactured by a small subset of…
Blocked and ReportedLive with Katie Herzog & Benoit Denizet-Lewis
Thanks to everyone who joined my live chat with Benoit Denizet-Lewis. Discussed: ex gays, ex trans, sex addiction, meditation, personal transformation, and…
Blocked and ReportedPremium: The Revolution Will Be Shoplifted
This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss a viral New York Times video of Hasan Piker and Jia Tolentino making the case for “microlooting.”…
Blocked and ReportedEpisode 305: Let's Make Some Careful And Legally Bulletproof Jokes About Kash Patel (ALLEGEDLY) Being An Alcoholic
This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss a new Atlantic exposé, journalistic norms, FBI Director Kash Patel’s (alleged) blowouts at the…
Blocked and ReportedEpisode 304: Pomona College And The $300 Zine That Nearly Destroyed A Department (with Emma Pettit)
This week on Blocked and Reported, Katie is joined by Chronicle of Higher Ed reporter Emma Pettit to discuss an internal civil war at Pomona College, where the…
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Episode 304: Pomona College And The $300 Zine That Nearly Destroyed A Department (with Emma Pettit)
This week on Blocked and Reported, Katie is joined by Chronicle of Higher Ed reporter Emma Pettit to discuss an internal civil war at Pomona College, where the…
Blocked and ReportedPremium: Got E. coli?
This week on the Primo show, Jesse and Katie discuss homesteader influencers Hannah and Daniel Neeleman of Ballerina Farm and their raw milk problems. Plus…
Blocked and ReportedEpisode 303: Interrogating Viral Wokeness: A Case Study In Discursive Misrecognition (In Canada)
This week on the Primo show, Jesse and Katie discuss a series of viral videos from Canada’s cringiest. Plus, has the death of wokeness been widely exaggerated?…
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Episode 303: Interrogating Viral Wokeness: A Case Study In Discursive Misrecognition (In Canada)
This week on the Primo show, Jesse and Katie discuss a series of viral videos from Canada’s cringiest. Plus, has the death of wokeness been widely exaggerated?…
Blocked and ReportedPremium: The Return Of The Return Of Facilitated Conversation
This week on the Primo show, Jesse and Katie discuss the non-verbal novelist Woody Brown, the return of facilitated communication, and the reporters who…
Blocked and ReportedEpisode 302: It's Not Cheating. It's Leveraging Available Tools To Optimize Your Workflow.
This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss a string of recent AI scandals in publishing: the Shy Girl debacle, Matt Goodwin's hallucinated…
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Episode 302: It's Not Cheating. It's Leveraging Available Tools To Optimize Your Workflow.
This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss a string of recent AI scandals in publishing: the Shy Girl debacle, Matt Goodwin's hallucinated…
Blocked and ReportedEpisode 301: Because He Got Raided
This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss American icon Afroman and the defamation trial that briefly broke the Lindyverse. Plus, a California…
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Episode 301: Because He Got Raided
This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss American icon Afroman and the defamation trial that briefly broke the Lindyverse. Plus, a California…
Blocked and ReportedStrange Bedfellows + An Offer from Longview
The episode you’re about to hear is the first in a new series from our friends at Longview Investigations, the podcast company run by Matt Boll and Andy Mills…
Blocked and ReportedPremium: You Are A Bitter, Untalented Mean Girl
This week on the Primo show, Jesse and Katie discuss the continuing fallout from Lindy West’s throuple memoir. Featuring: Aham’s very angry email. Note for…
Blocked and ReportedEpisode 300: Pamela Paul Answers For Her Crimes
This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse is joined by Wall Street Journal Writer-at-Large Pamela Paul to discuss the disappearing male therapist, the…
Blocked and ReportedPremium: Help! Help! I'm Being Harassed
This week on the Primo show, Jesse and Katie discuss a good old-fashioned internet pile-on, this time targeting New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie on…
Blocked and ReportedEpisode 299: The Politics of Misery
This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss the intersection of politics, social media, and mental health and debate the question: Why are young…
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Episode 299: The Politics of Misery
This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss the intersection of politics, social media, and mental health and debate the question: Why are young…
Blocked and ReportedLive with Katie Herzog & Jesse Singal
Thanks to everyone who joined our live chat this afternoon. ’Twas great fun, and yes, Jesse was in a fancy bathroom. These live video hangouts are a perk for…
Blocked and ReportedEpisode 298: Miss Finland And The Slitty-Eyed Picture
This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss an international incident surrounding a Finnish beauty queen and an allegedly racist photo. Plus…
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Episode 298: Miss Finland And The Slitty-Eyed Picture
This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss an international incident surrounding a Finnish beauty queen and an allegedly racist photo. Plus…
Blocked and ReportedPremium: Huda Kattan vs. Diaspora Iran
This week on the Primo show, Jesse and Katie discuss the online reaction to the bombardment of Iran and what happened when beauty influencer Huda Kattan…
Blocked and ReportedEpisode 297: Throuple Trouble (with Helen Lewis)
This week on Blocked and Reported, Katie is joined by Helen Lewis to revisit 2010s online feminism and discuss Lindy West’s new throuple memoir, Adult Braces…
Blocked and ReportedPremium: Weird! Turns Out The Science Of Youth Gender Medicine Isn’t Settled After All
This week on the Primo show, Jesse and Katie discuss trans shooters, the medical association pivot, and bathroom backlash. What a Trans Shooter Doesn’t Mean -…
Blocked and ReportedEpisode 296: Loving Pound Cake
This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss a major scandal in the sphinx cat subreddit. r/sphynx video r/dechonkers rest in peace Sweet Pound…
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Episode 296: Loving Pound Cake
This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss a major scandal in the sphinx cat subreddit. r/sphynx video r/dechonkers rest in peace Sweet Pound…
Blocked and ReportedPremium: Unshrunk with Laura Delano
The first meeting of the Blocked and Reported Challenging Books Book Club met earlier today to discuss Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance…
Blocked and ReportedEpisode 295: Gone Broke? Go Woke!
This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss Tyler Austin Harper’s recent Atlantic piece on the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, an $8 billion…
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Episode 295: Gone Broke? Go Woke!
This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss Tyler Austin Harper’s recent Atlantic piece on the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, an $8 billion…
Blocked and ReportedBonus: The Personals Section
Back by (somewhat) popular demand, we present to you… the Official Blocked and Reported Low-Effort Matchmaking Service. Thanks to everyone who submitted a…
Blocked and ReportedPremium: Pizzagate 2.0, Epstein Edition
This week on the Primo show, we revisit Epstein Island and discuss the public condemnation of everyone who ever met, emailed, and/or ordered pizza with Jeffrey…
Blocked and ReportedEpisode 294: What Ever Happened To Net Neutrality? Part 2
This week on Blocked and Reported, we conclude our series looking back at the net neutrality wars. In Part 2, net neutrality lives! And then dies. And then…
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Episode 294: What Ever Happened To Net Neutrality? Part 2
This week on Blocked and Reported, we conclude our series looking back at the net neutrality wars. In Part 2, net neutrality lives! And then dies. And then…
Blocked and ReportedLive with Katie Herzog & Ben Ryan
Thanks to everyone who joined Benjamin Ryan and me for a chat on the first destransitioner lawsuit, the state of youth gender medicine, and more. These live…
Blocked and ReportedPremium: Will Stancil, American Icon
This week on the Primo show, Jesse and Katie discuss Will Stancil’s latest arc as a civil rights hero and anarchist antagonist. Plus, the latest Epstein drop…
Blocked and ReportedEpisode 293: What Ever Happened To Net Neutrality? Part 1
This week on Blocked and Reported, the first of our two-part series revisiting net neutrality. First up, the early history and how internet activists (and Jon…
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Episode 293: What Ever Happened To Net Neutrality? Part 1
This week on Blocked and Reported, the first of our two-part series revisiting net neutrality. First up, the early history and how internet activists (and Jon…
Blocked and ReportedPremium: Hasan Piker vs Ethan Klein (Part 2)
This week on the Primo episode, Part 2 of our series on the ongoing battle between streamers Hasan Piker and Ethan Klein. Plus, Ethan goes to court. Katie’s…
Blocked and ReportedEpisode 292: Hasan Piker vs Ethan Klein (Part 1)
This week on Blocked and Reported, Part 1 of our series on the ongoing battle between stramers Hasan Piker and Ethan Klein. https://www.twitch.tv/hasanabi ‘I…
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Episode 292: Hasan Piker vs Ethan Klein (Part 1)
This week on Blocked and Reported, Part 1 of our series on the ongoing battle between stramers Hasan Piker and Ethan Klein. https://www.twitch.tv/hasanabi ‘I…
Blocked and ReportedEpisode 291: Oh, Canada (with Jonathan Kay)
This week on Blocked and Reported, Katie is joined by Quillette’s Jonathan Kay to discuss conspiracy theories, the illiberal right vs. the illiberal left, and…
Blocked and ReportedPremium: The Shot Watched Across The World
This week on the Primo show, Jesse and Katie discuss the aftermath of the ICE shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis. Plus, SCOTUS takes on trans athletes…
Blocked and ReportedEpisode 290: When Anti-Imperialism Means Yelling At Refugees
This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss the very online response to the capture and extradition of Nicolás Maduro. Plus, Cea Weaver’s bad…
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Episode 290: When Anti-Imperialism Means Yelling At Refugees
This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss the very online response to the capture and extradition of Nicolás Maduro. Plus, Cea Weaver’s bad…
Blocked and ReportedPremium: The Mysterious Disappearance Of A Gaming Star
This week on the Primo show, Jesse and Katie discuss the strange disappearance of Team Fortress 2 YouTuber Sketchek. Plus, Bluesky’s furious furries. Katelyn…
Blocked and ReportedEpisode 289: #BelieveBronies
This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie explore the strange world of adult My Little Pony fans, aka bronies, and the attempted takedown of YouTube…
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Episode 289: #BelieveBronies
This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie explore the strange world of adult My Little Pony fans, aka bronies, and the attempted takedown of YouTube…
Blocked and ReportedPremium: Finally, We Milk The Minotaurs
This week on the Primo show, Jesse and Katie discuss dark romance, Morning Glory Milking Farm, and a scandal at the 2025 dark rom con Sinners and Stardust…
Blocked and Reported"Not a conspiracy, just a mess"
Thanks to everyone who joined Brad Polumbo and me on Substack Live, where we discussed right-wing infighting, the Turning Point USA reality TV conference…
Blocked and ReportedEpisode 288: The Third Annual Helen Lewis BARPod Holiday Extravaganza
This week, Saint Helen Lewis joins us to discuss Jesse’s shortcomings, the state of publishing, the state of social media, the Riyadh Comedy Festival, the…
Blocked and ReportedEpisode 287: Kramnik’s Crusade
This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss the fallout from chess world champ Vladimir Kramnik’s obsessive campaign against alleged cheaters…
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Episode 287: Kramnik’s Crusade
This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss the fallout from chess world champ Vladimir Kramnik’s obsessive campaign against alleged cheaters…
Blocked and ReportedPremium: Turning Point USA Gets Triggered
This week on the Primo show, Jesse and Katie discuss Turning Point USA’s attempts to get a University of Oklahoma instructor canceled over claims of…