After Katie and Jesse have a frank discussion about the future of their relationship, they talk about a mind-boggling controversy in the fat activism world and the week everyone became a ‘groomer’ on Twitter. If you’d like to discuss this episode with other premium subscribers, you can do so here . Show notes/Links: Katie and Nellie!: Jesse and Destiny!: Katie and Jesse and Heterodox and… YOU??? (code BARPod): https://heterodoxacademy.org/conference-2022/ Health at Every Size : https://www.goodr...
Apr 11, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Transcript available on Metacast Jesse talks about his time in Cuba (where he was radicalized against America), and then the cohosts discuss a very naughty Tory politician, whether J.K. Rowling caused Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine, and a bizarre story involving a liberal arts college and what can only be deranged as a dad-led sex cult. To discuss this episode with other premium subscribers, click here . Show notes/Links: "Compare and book Florida Cuba Ferries" :( - https://www.cubaferries.com/ The best book on Cuba Jesse rea...
Apr 04, 2022•46 min•Transcript available on Metacast Jesse is wandering around Cuba looking for internet so our extremely online podcast apprentice Tracing Woodgrains steps up to the mic. Discussed: Mormonism, furries, cultural appropriation, cultural gatekeeping, and Dave Rubin’s miracle babies. To discuss this episode with other premium subscribers, click here . The problematic fursuit: The response to the problematic fursuit: The response to the response to the problematic fursuit: Dave Rubin’s big news: Glenn Beck responds to Dave Rubin’s big ...
Mar 28, 2022•1 hr 22 min•Transcript available on Metacast Jesse shares a scandalous episode from his past, the hosts discuss a New York Times op-ed by a college student that generated a deranged and telling response from The Twitter Powers That Be, and Katie tells Jesse about a remarkable #MeToo story she spend many months investigating (which we will post to the show notes when it is actually up). To discuss this episode with other premium subscribers, click here . Show notes/Links: Max Wilbert statement: https://www.protectthackerpass.org/protect-tha...
Mar 14, 2022•1 hr 16 min•Transcript available on Metacast The hosts discuss all the brains that have been melted by Russia’s invastion of Ukraine, the role of race in determining how local populations respond to refugees, and the all-too-common collision of trans rights and lithium mining. If you’d like to discuss this issue with other premium subscribers, click here . Nuclear stuff: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/03/world/europe/nuclear-plant-fire-zaporizhzhia-video.html Thursday night, CBS tweeted, alongside an article, https://www.nature.com/articl...
Mar 07, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Transcript available on Metacast The hosts break the news that Vladimir Putin has invaded Russia. Then they talk about race drama in the DSA and a terrible new policy Texas is attempting to enact that would rip trans kids from their parents. It’s a light and carefree episode. If you’d like to discuss it with other premium listeners, click here . Show notes/Links: “This current event is actually about the thing I’m obsessed by”: Real or naw?: It’s exhausting: https://imgur.com/ehbZCov Declaration of Intent from Greater Baltimore...
Feb 28, 2022•1 hr 10 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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/ This dude: Ilham Omar… welcome to the Intellectual Dark Web: Trudeau taking ad...
Feb 21, 2022•48 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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-ge...
Feb 14, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 
