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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 221: Cancel Stancil, Fire Beijer
This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss main character Will Stancil and his run for office. Plus, is Jesse a hero or a Karen? We decide…
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Episode 221: Cancel Stancil, Fire Beijer
This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss main character Will Stancil and his run for office. Plus, is Jesse a hero or a Karen? We decide…
Blocked and ReportedPremium: The Real WPATH Files
Jesse and Katie discuss the latest very bad news in a string of very bad news for the World Professional Association for Transgender Health. Plus, Indigo…
Blocked and ReportedEpisode 220: Keep Autism Weird
This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss the hottest trend of 2024: autism. Plus, 30 seconds on that godawful debate, and Portland contiutes…
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Episode 220: Keep Autism Weird
This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss the hottest trend of 2024: autism. Plus, 30 seconds on that godawful debate, and Portland contiutes…
Blocked and ReportedPremium: The Fantabulous 4chan Fable Of Lord Miles And The TaliBros
This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss modern-day explorer/shitposter Lord Miles and his adventures with the Taliban. Plus, Pride flags…
Blocked and ReportedPremium: Right-Wing Influencer Appalled By Right-Winger Influencers
This week on the show, Jesse and Katie discuss the emergence of a new voice of conservativism: the n-word lady. Plus, ideological diversity on campus…
Blocked and ReportedEpisode 219: What Is The Purpose Of Journalism? (with Dave Weigel)
This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse is joined by Semafor reporter Dave Weigel to discuss media, politcs, and the politics of media. Can a Republican…
Blocked and ReportedPremium: Will Blocked and Reported Get Shuped Out Of Existence?
This week on the Primo episode, Jesse and Katie respond to an extremely legal legal threat that could destroy the podcast. Plus, David French gets canceled…
Blocked and ReportedEpisode 218: The Dreyfuss Affair (with Ben Dreyfuss)
This week on Blocked and Reported, Katie is joined by Ben Dreyfuss to discuss what it’s like to grow up poor. Plus, Mother Jones, #MeToo, and why he will not…
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Episode 218: The Dreyfuss Affair (with Ben Dreyfuss)
This week on Blocked and Reported, Katie is joined by Ben Dreyfuss to discuss what it’s like to grow up poor. Plus, Mother Jones, #MeToo, and why he will not…
Blocked and ReportedPremium: To the Moon
This week on the Primo episode, Jesse and Katie discuss the latest literary race-faking scandal. Plus, troubled teen and primal screams…
Blocked and ReportedEpisode 217: Launching A Smear Campaign Against A Respected Black Librarian, For Social Justice
This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss how activists in Oak Park, Illinois, got got. Plus, Michael Moynihan spills the tea on Vice. Public…
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Episode 217: Launching A Smear Campaign Against A Respected Black Librarian, For Social Justice
This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss how activists in Oak Park, Illinois, got got. Plus, Michael Moynihan spills the tea on Vice. Public…
Blocked and ReportedPremium: Should White People Be Allowed To Wear Blackface Or Be History Professors?
This week on the Primo episode, Jesse and Katie discuss the latest in race news. First, a journalist goes undercover in blackface. Then, a progressive white…
Blocked and ReportedPremium: Tracing Keffals
This week on Blocked and Reported, we say goodbye to man’s best friend, Tracing Woodgrains. Plus, Trace weighs in on the worst people on the internet, the New…
Blocked and ReportedEpisode 216: Emmett Rensin on Going Insane in America
This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse is joined by writer Emmett Rensin to discuss his new memoir about living with psychotic disorders as well as the…
Blocked and ReportedPremium: Faker News
This week on the Primo episode, Katie and Jesse discuss the latest in fake suicides and race-faking. Plus, a disturbing artifact is unearthed…
Blocked and ReportedEpisode 215: Making a Martyr (with Nancy Rommelmann)
This week on Blocked and Reported, Katie is joined by journalist Nancy Rommelmann to discuss her trip to Alabama to discover the story behind the Bubba…
Blocked and ReportedPremium: The Case Of The Salted Garden
This week on the Primo episode, Jesse and Katie discuss a garden sabotage in the UK. Plus, Zadie Smith’s latest essay melt brains. War in Gaza, Shibboleths on…
Blocked and ReportedEpisode 214: Is That A Banana In Your Pocket Or Are You Just Engaging In Settler-Colonialist Genocide?
This week on Blocked and Reported, Katie and Jesse discuss ongoing protests at universities nationwide. Plus, a refresh…
Blocked and ReportedEpisode 213: Ana Kasparian Gets Mugged By Reality
This week on Blocked and Reported, Katie is joined by journalist Ana Kasparian to discuss intolerance, ideology, and a plan in Los Angeles to take the police…
Blocked and ReportedPremium: Columbia Students Camp Out For Gaza
This week on the Primo episode, Jesse and Katie discuss the latest news from New York, New York: self-immolation outside the Trump trial, settler-colonial…
Blocked and ReportedEpisode 212: A Very Messy Breakup (with Billy Binion)
This week on Blocked and Reported, Katie is joined by Reason Magazine’s Billy Binion to discuss the Libertarian Party, freeway protests, government theft, and…
Blocked and ReportedPremium: The Cass Review Finally Establishes Exactly How Many Genders Kids Can Have
Jesse and Katie discuss a much-anticipated report out of the UK on youth gender services. Plus, that goddamn throuple article. The Brooklyn Power Throuple…
Blocked and ReportedPremium: The Fall of Berliner
This week on the Primo episode, Jesse and Katie discuss a recent essay by NPR editor Uri Berliner criticizing the network’s ideological bent. The Gist Grad…
Blocked and ReportedEpisode 211: Boycott Accelerated Fat-Shaming Tampon Classes (with PSA Sitch)
This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse is joined by streamer PSA Sitch to discuss fat activism, Seattle’s revolutionary plan to fix racial gaps in education…
Blocked and ReportedEpisode 210: Facilitating Communicating (with Helen Lewis)
This week on Blocked and Reported, Katie is joined by Helen Lewis to discuss the complex and controversial world of facilitated communication. Plus, Scotland's…
Blocked and ReportedPremium: Oh Sweet Baby (Inc) Jesus, Another GamerGate Episode
This week on the Primo episode, Jesse and Katie discuss the controversy surrounding diversity consultancy Sweet Baby Inc. Plus, Anita Sarkeesian at the UN, and…
Blocked and ReportedEpisode 209: What Women Want (with Kat Rosenfield and Phoebe Maltz Bovy)
This week on Blocked and Reported, Katie is joined by Kat Rosenfield and Phoebe Maltz Bovy to discuss female heterosexuality (real or myth?) and the latest…
Blocked and ReportedBonus Premium: The Dumb Origins, Terrible Present, And Probably Even Crappier Future Of Candace Owens
On this special bonus episode of Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie dicuss the origins of and allegations against internet superstar/supervillian Candace…
Blocked and ReportedPremium: #GamerGate Revisited
This week on the Primo episode, Jesse and Katie discuss the origins of the cultural scandal that led to the Trump election, the Ukraine invasion, the Slap…
Blocked and ReportedEpisode 208: Ayesha Erotica Can't Disappear (with River Page)
This week on Blocked and Reported, Katie is joined by Pirate Wires staff writer River Page to discuss an underground pop star whose fans will not let her go…
Blocked and ReportedEpisode 207: A YouTuber Goes Dark (with Helen Lewis)
This week on Blocked and Reported, Katie is joined by Helen Lewis to discuss the allegations against, and disappearance of, YouTuber James Somerton. Plus, JK…
Blocked and ReportedPremium: ”Top-Surgery Without Nipples”: The WPATH Files
This week on the Primo episode, Jesse and Katie discuss leaks at the New York Times and the World Professional Association for Transgender Health. NYT…
Blocked and ReportedEpisode 206: Plot Twist (with Leigh Stein)
This week on Blocked and Reported, Katie is joined by novelist, poet, and critic Leigh Stein to discuss scandals in the worlds of sci-fi fantasy and poetry…
Blocked and ReportedPremium: Self-Immolation At Aella's Birthday Gangbang
In this very special Primo episode, Jesse and Katie discuss Aella’s very happy birthday party and the self-immolation of an American GI. “U.S. Airman’s Winding…
Blocked and ReportedEpisode 205: Sippy Cup Socialists (with Mike Pesca)
This week on Blocked and Reported, Katie is joined by Mike Pesca to discuss California's failed experiment with Woke Kindegarten and the resulting school board…
Blocked and ReportedPremium: Moses's Monkeys
This week on the Primo episode, Jesse and Katie discuss Robert Moses’s allegedly racist monkeys in New York. Plus, Bret Weinstein has some thoughts. Katie…
Blocked and ReportedBONUS: Lorenz x Libs (with Brad Polumbo)
In this emergency broadcast, Brad Polumbo joins Katie to discuss the collab no one asked for: Taylor Lorenz and Libs of TikTok’s Chaya Richik. To hear more…
Blocked and ReportedEpisode 204: Jeffrey Marsh vs Shumirun Nessa and Libs of TikTok vs Everybody (with Brad Polumbo)
This week on Blocked and Reported, Katie is joined by journalist and commentator Brad Polumbo to discuss the latest allegations against Libs of TikTok. Plus…
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Episode 204: Jeffrey Marsh vs Shumirun Nessa and Libs of TikTok vs Everybody (with Brad Polumbo)
This week on Blocked and Reported, Katie is joined by journalist and commentator Brad Polumbo to discuss the latest allegations against Libs of TikTok. Plus…
Blocked and ReportedBONUS: Jesse Interviews Rob Henderson About His Book At The Village Underground
As a bonus to BARPod listeners, here’s the audio of a February 20 live event at the Village Underground where Jesse interviewed Rob Henderson about his book…
Blocked and ReportedEpisode 203: Trouble on TERF Island (with Helen Lewis)
This week on Blocked and Reported, Katie is joined by fan favorite Helen Lewis to discuss a schism in the British gender critical movment. Plus, goblin porn…
Blocked and ReportedPremium: Wil Wheaton Wails
This week on the the Primo episode, Jesse and Katie discuss Larry David’s actual literal abuse of a human child. Plus, Emily Gould has regrets, WHYY forces a…
Blocked and ReportedEpisode 202: The Red House on Mississippi (with Suzy Weiss)
This week on Blocked and Reported, Katie is joined by Suzy Weiss to discuss the movement to save a black family from eviction in Portland, Oregon. Plus, dating…
Blocked and ReportedPremium: The FAA's Bizarre Diversity Scandal (with Tracing Woodgrains)
This week on the Primo edition of Blocked and Reported, man’s best friend Tracing Woodgrains joins Jesse to discuss a strange case of government DEI gone…
Blocked and ReportedEpisode 201: Mills Spills (with Andy Mills)
This week on Blocked and Reported, Katie is joined by longtime radio and podcast producer Andy Mills to discuss the scandal that nearly killed his career. The…
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Episode 201: Mills Spills (with Andy Mills)
This week on Blocked and Reported, Katie is joined by longtime radio and podcast producer Andy Mills to discuss the scandal that nearly killed his career. The…
Blocked and ReportedEpisode 200: Canadaland Founder Jesse Brown Should Be Held Accountable For His Troubling Anti-Anti-Semitism Stance
This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss the attempted cancelation of Canadaland publisher and host Jesse Brown over allegations that he’s a…
Blocked and ReportedPremium: #BelieveAllPirates
This week on the Primo edition of Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss a particularly ambitious crossover between leftist streamer Hasan “Nepo Nephew”…
Blocked and ReportedEpisode 199: Was The Naked Man In The Woods Vindicated, Or Is The Naked Man In The Woods Douchey As Charged, Or BOTH??
This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss the case of Bryan Johnson, an entrepreneur and technologist attempting to live forever who was…
Blocked and ReportedPremium: James Bennet Spills the Tea
This week on the Primo edition of Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss a recent article by former New York Times editor James Bennet on the infamous…
Blocked and ReportedEpisode 198: Actually, Substack Doesn't Have a Nazi Problem
This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie dig into allegations that Substack is sheltering Nazis like so many Jews in an attic. Plus, world’s…
Blocked and ReportedEpisode 197: Gay Gets Got
This week on the Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss the ongoing saga of Claudine Gay, the scholar, plagiarist, and former president of Harvard…
Blocked and ReportedPremium: Mother Hunger
This week on the Primo episode of Blocked and Reported, Katie and Jesse discuss an evergreen debate on the internet: surrogacy. Julie Bindel: “The Pimping of…
Blocked and ReportedEpisode 196: The Annual Blocked and Reported Christmas Special with Helen Lewis
Returning champion Helen Lewis is back with our traditional Christmas quiz about the dumbest online events of the year. Plus: the Satanic Temple goes nuts. “A…
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Episode 196: The Annual Blocked and Reported Christmas Special with Helen Lewis
Returning champion Helen Lewis is back with our traditional Christmas quiz about the dumbest online events of the year. Plus: the Satanic Temple goes nuts. “A…
Blocked and ReportedPremium: The Bombing of Goodreads Harbor
This week on the premium edition of Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss the latest YA blow-up, this one involving racism(?), review bombing, and an…
Blocked and ReportedEpisode 195: A Morbid Tale Involving Bari Weiss, Destiny, The IDF, And A Very Angry Squirrel
This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss allegations of Literal Murder against perpetual Twitter villain Bari Weiss. Plus, the Zei Squirrel…