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 an...
Feb 07, 2022•1 hr 29 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 T...
Jan 31, 2022•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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...
Jan 24, 2022•1 hr 21 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 t...
Jan 17, 2022•1 hr 17 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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/...
Jan 10, 2022•2 hr 39 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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) This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.blockedandreported.org/subscribe...
Dec 27, 2021•2 hr 54 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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:/...
Dec 20, 2021•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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://spec...
Dec 13, 2021•41 min•Transcript available on Metacast After a brief discussion of Katie’s new hobby, Jesse tells Katie the truth about the Jacob Blake shooting. Then the cohosts critique the very specific (and very narrow) brand of “moral clarity” employed by the journalists who continue to bungle the story to this day. If you’re a paying subscriber, you can comment on this article here . (Correction: Remarkably, Jesse made a fleeting reference to “the Blake killing” at 1:08:49 in the version of this episode we released early to our premium subscri...
Dec 06, 2021•1 hr 11 min•Transcript available on Metacast An annoying West-Coast trend hits Jesse’s home region, a discussion about fake babies and ALLEGED BUT LEGALLY UNPROVEN cult affiliations, and a rather disgraceful attack led by online buffoons against a young academic. If you’re a premium subscriber and would like to discuss this episode with other BARPod listeners, you can do so here . Show notes/Links: The battle between furries and NFT bros escalates: More: https://candid.technology/usd-100k-nft-meme-war-twitter Reborn doll basics: https://en...
Nov 26, 2021•1 hr 7 min•Transcript available on Metacast Jesse and Katie talk about their chaotic day, an INCREDIBLE gift a musically talented listener gave them, rapidly multiplying accusations of bigotry within the College Democrats of America, and the mercilessly bad takes that followed the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict. If you are a paying subscriber and would like to discuss this episode, head on over to the discussion thread . Show notes/Links: DJ Sac O'Judaea - Blucked and Suckported (feat. Jew-Z) - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VOoL7ETyZ5ajgk2hW...
Nov 20, 2021•44 min•Transcript available on Metacast After Katie asks Jesse if she did a cancel culture, she takes him on a disturbing and nonconsensual journey involving conservative and possibly Nazi-sympathetic furries. Then the hosts discuss the newly launched University of Austin and the reaction to it from very sane people online. Show notes/Links: Hey Microsoft: Do 👏 Better 👏: Did Katie do a cancel culture?: Deleted but was originally on this list: https://www.kexp.org/anti-racist-and-social-justice-resources/ Right-wing furries: https://...
Nov 15, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Transcript available on Metacast After America’s leading political analysts, Katie and Jesse, talk about the election results in Seattle (voters don’t like police abolition!) and Virginia (voters don’t like CRT, maybe, if they know what it is?), they turn their attention to two highly potent instances of online b******t: the recent LIEberal media’s attack on the LGB (Let’s Go Brandon) community, and a story Jesse still can’t quite wrap his mind about involving NFTs (?) and Lindsay Lohan (!?) and furries (!?!?!?!?). God help us ...
Nov 05, 2021•59 min•Transcript available on Metacast Katie’s previous life is uncovered, an update is provided on the Loudoun County situation is provided, the cotton ceiling is discussed, Jesse becomes increasingly disconsolate, Huma Abedin’s “sexual assault” is discussed, and the passive voice is used in the episode description. (Note: this is the free version of this episode. If you’re a premium subscriber looking to access the comments section, you want this version instead .) Show notes/Links: Loudoun County rape case update: https://www.wash...
Nov 01, 2021•1 hr 8 min•Transcript available on Metacast In the wake of some important new information, Jesse and Katie follow up on last week’s Loudoun County rape scandal segment. Then they talk about Nikole Hannah-Jones, the Netflix walkout, and the violence committed by YouTube Vito Gesualdi in the service of his ultraright ideology, “Jokes are funny.” (This is the public version of this episode — for the premium version, with comments enabled, go here .) Show notes/Links: Original Daily Wire reporting: https://www.dailywire.com/news/loudoun-count...
Oct 25, 2021•1 hr 12 min•Transcript available on Metacast Katie and Jesse follow up with just a bit more KidneyGate discussion, then talk about Netflix employees’ reactions to Dave Chappelle’s special. The second half is an in-depth look at an astonishingly bad scandal in the Loudoun County, Virginia public schools. This is the public version of the episode — if you’re a premium subscriber and want to comment on the private version, click here . ( Image via Haley Milon Bour of Loudoun Now.) Show notes/Links: Shoutout to ChocoRaisinBoi: https://www.redd...
Oct 18, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Transcript available on Metacast In the intro, Jesse makes a strong pro-Karen case. Then Jesse tells Katie about an amazing story from the frozen, mystical land of Kahn-a-da involving a very righteous book-burning. Then, a BIG ANNOUNCEMENT. In the final (and best) segment, author Kat Rosenfield joins to talk about her new book, No One Will Miss Her , her deranged enemies in YA Twitter, and, of course, the Bad Art Friend story. (This is the public version of this episode. For the version with comments enabled for our premium sub...
Oct 12, 2021•1 hr 25 min•Transcript available on Metacast Frederick Joseph is the unluckiest man in New York City: After dealing with a Satanic AirBnB host, a racist woman on the street, and racist editors and producers, he is the victim of the latest Central-Park-Karen-style incident. The hosts discuss his super real and honest stories. Then: Jesse interviews Kathryn Paige Harden, the author of The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality , about her research and the perils of debating fraught scientific and societal subjects online. (Note...
Oct 01, 2021•1 hr 11 min•Transcript available on Metacast (Apologies -- initially uploaded this with the wrong episode number/URL, so here's a corrected redo.) An update on Katie's face, Catie's Correction Corner, the world's only black nonbinary conservative, the bizarre newspeak pertaining to females being embraced by major liberal institutions, personals, and Ellen Pao's very strange New York Times op-ed about Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos. Show notes/Links: Full, correct context for Daniel Lavery criticizing someone for reporting a home break-in: h...
Sep 25, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast The Prudie fakester: https://www.gawker.com/media/dear-prudie-it-was-me-all-along Help! My Friend Thinks I Am Stealing Vaccines From African-American Grandmothers To Attend Sex Resorts: https://slate.com/human-interest/2021/03/dear-prudence-daughter-girlfriend-armed-robbery-murder.html Help! My Husband and I Can’t Agree On What To Name the Baby We Might Get!: https://slate.com/human-interest/2019/11/having-sex-with-nephew-advice.html My Daughter Is Pretending to Be Demonically Possessed… and I C...
Sep 18, 2021•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast Show notes/Links: Jesse's review of Trans: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/07/books/review/trans-helen-joyce.html Wi spa incident: https://nypost.com/2021/09/02/charges-filed-against-sex-offender-in-wi-spa-casecharges-filed-against-sex-offender-in-notorious-wi-spa-incident/ Max Read on Gawker: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2016/08/did-i-kill-gawker.html Crackstarter: https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2013/05/27/mayor_rob_ford_crack_video_scandal_gawkers_crackstarter_hits_200000_goal.html Random...
Sep 11, 2021•1 hr 9 min•Transcript available on Metacast An urgent investigation. Show notes/Links: Ben Burgis: “He’s one the most consistently and maliciously dishonest writers alive.”: https://twitter.com/BenBurgis/status/1431686876541325314 More from Burgis: https://benburgis.medium.com/noah-berlatskys-critique-of-class-first-leftism-c9a738caf77a Old version of Freddie deBoer's Planet of Cops essay, which linked to Berlatsky's work: http://climateerinvest.blogspot.com/2021/06/the-woke-world-is-world-of-snitches.html?m=1 New version, which appears t...
Sep 03, 2021•1 hr 17 min•Transcript available on Metacast After Katie and Jesse follow up on some stuff from last week, the hosts discuss a video game controversy involving anthropomorphic weapons, and Katie interviews Meghan Murphy, who has been banned from major platforms for saying things like "men cannot become women." Show notes/Links: Jesse on the Junot Diaz situation: https://reason.com/2018/07/09/for-metoo-to-work-we-must-draw-the-line/ Trailer for Boyfriend Dungeon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu9BXqm3eKI&ab_channel=Nintendo The Daily ...
Aug 27, 2021•2 hr 56 min•Transcript available on Metacast After Katie tells Jesse about her extremely traumatic 'vacation,' the hosts discuss a journalistically half-baked article about the Broadway star Alice Ripley and Jesse interviews Ethan Strauss on how the Great Awokening has washed over sports, producing some questionable journalism and cringeworthy ads. (Apologies to patrons that we couldn't get this to you as early as usual -- it was just a matter of not posting Ethan's announcement too early.) Show notes/Links: Katie's vacation: https://twitt...
Aug 23, 2021•Transcript available on Metacast Hey guys -- it's me. Jesse. (Singal.) I think I instigated some confusion this week. My thought process was Well, this isn't a new episode to patrons, so I'm not going to drop it in the premium feed. Then a lot of people were confused as to why they weren't seeing a new episode this week, and I couldn't tell whether there was a genuine technical issue or people were responding to not seeing an episode in their premium feeds. I remain confused -- even more so than usual. ANYWAY. Here's this week'...
Aug 18, 2021•33 min•Transcript available on Metacast After the hosts discuss Katie's recent nonconsensual conversion to Judaism, they bring on Carole Hooven to discuss the deep, potentially permanent damage she has done to Harvard University's Department of Human Evolutionary Biology by suggesting males can't get pregnant. Show notes/Links: Serious allegations against Katie: https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1422977840157532160 Carole's book, "T: The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us" - https://www.amazon.com/St...
Aug 05, 2021•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast After Katie tells Jesse about a very problematic alter, the hosts respond to an email from a young journalist who feels trapped by the would-be revolutionaries in her newsroom, discuss NPR's new policy regarding expressions of political beliefs, and talk about a memorable blowup in the world of TV writing. Plus: more personals. Show notes/Links: Beware The Likes Police: https://theoutline.com/post/6708/marc-andreessen-twitter-faves-alt-right New NPR policy: https://www.npr.org/sections/publicedi...
Jul 31, 2021•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast The hosts issue a major boob-related correction, talk about TikTok influencers who (appear to) have dissociative identity disorder, and discuss the recent meltdown of a site that (claims that it) is "science-based." Plus: Some other, often-cringeworthy recent skepticism/atheism history, including Elevatorgate (tm). Maria Taylor out: https://www.si.com/media/2021/07/21/maria-taylor-espn-split-nbc-likely-next Scott Lilienfeld and Hal Arkowitz, a bit skeptical of Dissociative Identity Disorder in S...
Jul 24, 2021•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast Jesse regales Katie with tales of meeting Joe Rogan, not meeting Alex Jones, and being scared of guns (while shooting them). Then Katie provides an antiracist monkey-removal update, Jesse tells Katie about the Rachel Nichols incident at ESPN, and Katie more than returns the favor with a deep dive into the drama tearing at the very stitchwork of Lolita YouTube, which probably isn't what you think it is. Show notes/Links: -Jesse on Rogan: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6iNgd3IPIK0OEXfyEQqZA8?si=...
Jul 17, 2021•Transcript available on Metacast After the hosts discuss a controversy involving a less-than-affirming puppet show, Greg Lukianoff joins them to talk about the anti-critical-race-theory laws being proposed all over the country, some of which he says represent the greatest threat to academic freedom he's seen in his 20-year career. Show notes/Links: Barnaby Dixon bio: https://youtube.fandom.com/wiki/Barnabydixon His YouTube work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZWbpwCbxfY&ab_channel=barnabydixon Philip the Philosofish inter...
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