This week, with Jesse Singal and Katie Herzog: * Jesse explains sissgendered people, People Of Kansas and the anti-incarcereal movement * A very important Jewish update * Susan Meachen is back — and now there’s two of her * Chris Rufo’s rise to political power and future ambitions * Kay LeClaire’s adventures with genealogy Our coverage of Susan Meachen Ellen Barry’s interview with the actual Susan Meachen https://archive.ph/WE2Kf Is Idaho teaching porn literacy to kids? (No.) https://www.inlande...
Jan 23, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Transcript available on Metacast First they banned gas stoves, because the science said they were harmful. Then the science said football was racist, so we banned that too. Then the nurses came out and said Battletech was problematic, so we banned that as well. Then a data scientist came out and said Florida’s COVID data was fake, so we banned the entire state. Then the scientists said podcasts were harmful, and th-- In this (highly illegal) episode: * Jesse chains himself to his gas stove * A bizarre update on Rebekah Jones, s...
Jan 16, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Transcript available on Metacast >be writer for podcast >office is full of goats for some reason >working on episode about medievalist twitter drama and a weird publisher called RECEPTIO, really crazy story >suddenly coworker shows up in a fursuit >goats go ballistic trying to flee the “wolf” >destroy half the office in the process >boss gets fed up, tells me to get rid of goats >spend 2 hours herding them down 32 flights of stairs as they lick me the whole time >soaking wet as I return to the office >boss’s dog stares through ...
Jan 09, 2023•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast All rise for justices Jesse Singal and Katie Herzog, Chief Justices of the Supreme Court of Public Opinion. Granted their judgeships by right of their bestselling podcast and relentless pursuit of truth and nuance (but mostly due to clerical error), they have a grand total of 0 years of legal experience between them — but one of them is Jewish, which is… To hear more, visit www.blockedandreported.org...
Jan 04, 2023•17 min•Transcript available on Metacast Helen Lewis stops by BARPod to help put a very stupid year to bed. After discussing her excellent new BBC show on gurus, including her thoughts on Saira Rao’s Race2Dinner initiative to make liberal white women feel worse about themselves, she challenges Katie and Jesse to a quiz about the year in internet b******t. It goes about as well as you would expect. Helen’s new show: And her Twitter account: https://twitter.com/helenlewis Saira Rao has to be seen to be believed https://twitter.com/sairas...
Dec 26, 2022•1 hr 9 min•Transcript available on Metacast Katie Herzog reports on Twitter’s Acquisition Arc getting even crazier as God-King Musk consolidates his control and begins a bloody purge of his political foes, including a friend of Jesse Singal. * Elon Musk ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL * The NYT crossword gets racist * A racist muskrat * Is Elon stepping down? * Jesse and Katie written into the Bigoted Book of the Damn… To hear more, visit www.blockedandreported.org...
Dec 21, 2022•15 min•Transcript available on Metacast Due to budget cuts, Jesse Singal and Katie Herzog are forced to create yet another bottle episode, looking back on previous episodes and new developments in their cases. Unsurprisingly, they’ve only worsened with age. * Jesse and Katie become reactionaries * Moose gets hospitalized after eating too many beets * The Carrie Jade Williams case only gets more elaborate and bizarre * Katie enters the Gaytrix and stumbles across a network of fake doctors on Twitter * Jesse continues to refuse to liste...
Dec 19, 2022•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast To hear more, visit www.blockedandreported.org
Dec 14, 2022•10 min•Transcript available on Metacast Join captain Katie Herzog (and her first mate, Moose) on the high seas as we pursue Sam Brinton, Biden’s Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Office of Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition in the Office of Nuclear Energy And Lover of Unreasonably Long Titles. The notorious nonbinary air pirate has been declared an outlaw for plunderin’ an airport of its luggage… again. But Katie takes a closer look and finds their crooked ways go back years, having fooled even us. Then, less-important co-captain Jesse ...
Dec 12, 2022•51 min•Transcript available on Metacast Get ready to bear witness to Milo Yiannopoulos’s return to the world of internet drama, alongside internet “journalists” Jesse Singal and Katie Herzog. Today, we delve into the shadowy and malicious role Yiannopoulos allegedly played in the legendary dinner between former president Trump, the rapper formerly known as Kanye, and the white nationalist zoomer influencer currently known as Nick Fuentes. Also discussed: the online outcry over a Balenciaga photoshoot that spilled over into the mainstr...
Dec 05, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Transcript available on Metacast Fans are mad at Katie for insulting Elon Musk, conservatives are mad at drag queens for reading to kids, and journalists are convinced conservatives mad at drag queens caused the Club Q shooting. So there’s a lot to discuss. Notes: Background on Aldrich: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/11/21/colorado-springs-qbar-shooter/ https://www.c… To hear more, visit www.blockedandreported.org...
Nov 30, 2022•13 min•Transcript available on Metacast Jesse Singal returns to his ancestral homeland, only to find it in ruins. (Before that, he was on a trip to Israel.) There is panic in the Twitter streets as Elon Musk takes over and “dismisses” over 90% of the staff, including legendary software engineers Daniel Johnson and Rahul Ligma. Impersonation runs rampant and famous figures are permabanned left and right as Musk’s hasty changes to the verification program end in pandemonium. Certain the site is doomed, the Twelve Tribes of Twitter (incl...
Nov 28, 2022•1 hr 10 min•Transcript available on Metacast Julie Bindel, noted hatemonger and/or advocate for ending violence against women, stops by to talk to Katie about… well, a lot of stuff. It’s a good chat! (The tea thing is just a metaphor, a way of honoring Bindel for being British.) Links: Bindel’s Substack https://substack.com/profile/91305008-julie-bindel And Twitter https://twitter.com/bindelj The article that kicked off… To hear more, visit www.blockedandreported.org...
Nov 23, 2022•27 min•Transcript available on Metacast Jesse’s been off in Israel resolving and/or exacerbating tensions between the Israelis and Palestinians, FAR too busy to talk to some distant goy like Katie, so here’s an interview he recently conducted with Katherine Dee, an extremely smart and perceptive writer and podcaster on internet culture. Topics include the very… *particular* nature of rationalist gatherings, the perils of parasocial relationships, and the question of what identity means when it’s severed from any sort of embodied, real...
Nov 21, 2022•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast Inflation is skyrocketing. The economy is down. Not everyone can afford to go see a show. As such, hosts Jesse Singal and Katie Herzog have decided to give back to the community that has taken away so much from us with this recording of a live BARPod show in NYC. First up is the story of how Andrew Tate, legendary exploiter of virgins and Dean of Hustlers University, got unpersoned on social media. Then comes the tantalizing true story of Antifa’s war against an “incelcore” music festival in Atl...
Nov 14, 2022•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast You know those IDIOT REPUBLICANS who think that SCIENCE hasn’t TOTALLY PROVEN that puberty blockers and hormones are AWESOME????? And TOTALLY REVERSIBLE????? Well two MOUTH-BREATHING IDIOTS who probably also HATE CRT and PUPPIES are so BIGOTED they don’t even ACCEPT the MEDICAL CONSENSUS. (Show notes a bit longer and more in-depth than usual this week to help everyone follow along, double-check stuff, etc.) Show notes/Links: Carole hooven DESTROYS jon stewart The state laws https://www.kff.org/o...
Nov 07, 2022•2 hr 50 min•Transcript available on Metacast Mid-tour, Jesse and Katie take a break from their newfound rockstar lifestyles to deliver unto their legion of screaming* fans another certified Blocked and Reported classic. They begin with the long-awaited story of how the Dartmouth show got canceled and then proceed to their latest meltdown tale, in which the Publishing Mafia rears its head once again. This time, they’ve launched a coup within the Hobart journal, spurred on by an interview with the Iowa Pariah himself, Alex Perez. * in fear, ...
Oct 31, 2022•46 min•Transcript available on Metacast After Jesse regales Katie with a diner-based yarn so gripping it should be a big-budget action movie, Katie interviews Clementine Morrigan, who in addition to being an alleged member of a deranged sex cult is one of the smartest voices out there about cancel culture aka accountability culture aka antiracism aka sociopathy. More on Morrigan: Her Instagram https://www.instagram.com/clementinemorrigan/?hl=en The excellent @cursed_cancellations https://www.instagram.com/cursed_cancellations/?hl=en I...
Oct 24, 2022•1 hr 18 min•Transcript available on Metacast What happens when Prospect Park, local anti-crime activists, local anti-anti-crime activists, and a big, friendly dog who we can only assume has large watery eyes all collide? Brownstone Brooklyn, that’s what happens. Notes: SUPER LONG MEADOW https://www.prospectpark.org/visit-the-park/park-map/points-interest/points-interest-long-meadow/#:~:text=Nearly%20… To hear more, visit www.blockedandreported.org...
Oct 21, 2022•14 min•Transcript available on Metacast Unfortunate! But we hope to see you in Boston, New York City, or Arlington, Virginia. And we’ll explain what happened, we promise. 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
Oct 17, 2022•23 sec•Transcript available on Metacast Live Shows: Hanover, NH (free!): 10/22, 5:00 PM at Dartmouth University — Herbert Faulkner West Auditorium in Carpenter Hall. With Carole Hooven!: https://govt.dartmouth.edu/events/event?event=68549#.Y0rnPXbMJD8 CANCELLED Boston, 10/24: https://wl.seetickets.us/event/Blocked-andReportedPodcast-800pm/506613?afflky=LaughBoston Arlington, Virginia (late), 10/29: https://www.arlingtondrafthouse.com/shows/188752 Show notes: Carrie Jade Williams has had a lot of tough breaks, but perhaps none tougher ...
Oct 17, 2022•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast We’re taking a week off so we can prep for the tour and bank some tasty content. But primos will have another episode within the next few days: http://blockedandreported.org/ Some tickets are still available: Hanover, NH, Herbert Faulkner West Auditorium in Carpenter Hall at Dartmouth University, FREE UNTICKETED SHOW: 10/22, 5:00 PM at Dartmouth University — with Carole Hooven ! Boston, Laugh Boston, 10/24, 8:00 pm: https://wl.seetickets.us/event/Blocked-andReportedPodcast-800pm/506613?afflky=La...
Oct 10, 2022•3 min•Transcript available on Metacast Katie explains Occupy Democrats to Jesse, who is, not gonna lie, kinda impressed. Links: Strawberry Park Hot Springs https://strawberryhotsprings.com/ Hmmm To hear more, visit www.blockedandreported.org
Oct 10, 2022•10 min•Transcript available on Metacast TOUR TICKETS STILL AVAILABLE: FREE SHOW: 10/22, 5:00 PM at Dartmouth University — Herbert Faulkner West Auditorium in Carpenter Hall. With Carole Hooven ! CANCELLED Boston, 10/24: https://wl.seetickets.us/event/Blocked-andReportedPodcast-800pm/506613?afflky=LaughBoston Arlington, Virginia (late), 10/29: https://www.arlingtondrafthouse.com/shows/188752 After some followups and corrections involving J.K. Rowling’s new book and Jesse’s heaving knockers, Jesse tells Katie about a New York Times arti...
Sep 30, 2022•52 min•Transcript available on Metacast TOUR TICKETS STILL AVAILABLE: FREE SHOW: 10/22, 5:00 PM at Dartmouth University — Herbert Faulkner West Auditorium in Carpenter Hall. With Carole Hooven ! CANCELLED Boston, 10/24: https://wl.seetickets.us/event/Blocked-andReportedPodcast-800pm/506613?afflky=LaughBoston Arlington, Virginia (late), 10/29: https://www.arlingtondrafthouse.com/shows/188752 UPDATE… To hear more, visit www.blockedandreported.org...
Sep 28, 2022•10 min•Transcript available on Metacast After Katie tells Jesse about her #VanLife travails, Jesse corrects some stuff from the last episode, and a bit more lucky Pierre/Eiffel Tower/etc. goes down, the hosts discuss a recent Atlantic article about youth sports and gender that is… well, it’s really quite bad. Then they discuss the de-PayPalling of Gays Against Groomers and the Free Speech Union, which seems like bad news whatever you think of these groups Notes: Tickets still available for BARPod live in… Boston https://wl.seetickets....
Sep 26, 2022•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast TOUR TICKETS STILL AVAILABLE: Arlington, Virginia (late): https://www.arlingtondrafthouse.com/shows/188752 Boston: https://wl.seetickets.us/event/Blocked-andReportedPodcast-800pm/506613?afflky=LaughBoston As she inches further and further from home life and closer to #VanLife, Katie Herzog studies those who came before her so that she may avoid their mista… To hear more, visit www.blockedandreported.org...
Sep 19, 2022•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast None of this will make any sense if you haven’t heard Part 1 yet: Write in to our advice column! Send a non-sexually-explicit advice question, in MP3 form, to blockedandreportedpodcast@gmail.com with “ADVICE” in the subject and you might be lucky enough to be mocked/advised by Jesse Singal and Katie Herzog on B&R. Also, a second Arlington, Va. show added on October 29th, so get your tickets here: https://www.arlingtondrafthouse.com/shows/188752 NO SHOW DESCRIPTION THIS WEEK IT’S TOO WEIRD AND CO...
Sep 14, 2022•2 hr 48 min•Transcript available on Metacast Today, Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal present the first ever BARPod two-parter in known human history. This duology will chronicle, in exhaustive detail, a calamitous struggle between Kiwi Farms, a gossip board and/or harassment amplifier and/or literal digital version of Hitler’s mountain rereat and/or actual terrorist organization (depending on you ask), and Keffals, a Twitch streamer and trans activist. The story somehow also involves, in no particular order, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Cloudflare...
Sep 12, 2022•2 hr 30 min•Transcript available on Metacast Get $20 tickets to our October 29th show in D.C. while they’re still available! https://www.arlingtondrafthouse.com/shows/186960 Too cheap? Not lucky enough to be American? Write in to our advice column! Send an MP3 to blockedandreportedpodcast@gmail.com with “ADVICE” in the title and you might be lucky enough to be mocked/advised by Jesse Singal and Katie Herzog on B&R. All are welcome to write in, whether or not you are a Primo. This week: Jesse gets sent directly to Jewish Hell for misreprese...
Sep 05, 2022•1 hr 15 min•Transcript available on Metacast 
