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. (And sometimes they talk about other stuff,
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Possibly The Craziest And Most Infuriating #MeToo Story You Will Ever Hear
Plus: People got super mad at a New York Times colum...
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Mar 12 2022 1h 15m
Everything Continues To Suck
The hosts discuss all the brains that have been melt...
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Mar 5 2022 1h 6m
How Wokeness, Toxic Masculinity, White Privilege, And TERFs Forced Vladimir Putin To Invade Ukraine
Plus: DSA drama and Texas AG Ken Paxton's anti-trans...
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Feb 27 2022 1h 10m
Truckers, Perverts, And San Franciscans
The holy trinity This is a public episode. Get acces...
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Feb 19 2022 48m
Do Not, Under Any Circumstances, Keep On Trucking
Plus: We should end all work and abolish capitalism ...
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Feb 13 2022 1h 1m
Should Joe Rogan And/Or Critical Race Theory Be Deplatformed And/Or Executed?
Free speech, bros This is a public episode. Get acce...
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Feb 5 2022 1h 29m
Episode 99: How Slate Became An Embarrassing Basket-Case Shell Of Its Former Self (With Mike Pesca)
One of the dumbest and most unfair media nontroversi...
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Jan 21 2022 1h 21m
On Hereticon, Michael Tracey's Egregious Crimes Against K-Pop, And NPR's Manufactured Racism Issues
Plus: Jesse has some thoughts on X Æ A-12 This is a ...
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Jan 15 2022 1h 16m
Alberto Gullaba Jr. Thought He Might Be Headed For Literary Stardom — Then His Agent Found Out His Race
A very messy story This is a public episode. Get acc...
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Jan 9 2022 1h 39m
Just Enough Fresh Content That It's Not *Technically* A Clip Show Under U.S. Podcasting Law
Let’s look back on the last year and run down listen...
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Dec 24 2021 1h 54m
Allegedly Anti-Semitic Mukbang, The Latest J.K. Rowling Freakout, And The Fuzzy Science Of Masks
In this relatively special episode, the hosts talk a...
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Dec 18 2021 55m
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If You Troll Into The Abyss, The Abyss Trolls Also Into You
Or: Troll not lest ye be trolled This is a public ep...
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Dec 11 2021 41m
It's Crazy We Have To Do A Debunking Episode About The Jacob Blake Shooting In December 2021 And Yet Here We Are
After a brief discussion of Katie’s new hobby, Jesse...
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Dec 4 2021 1h 11m
A BARPod Musical Milestone, A College Democrats Meltdown, And Rittenhouse Goes Rittenhome
This week was not unbusy This is a public episode. G...
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Nov 20 2021 43m
KEXP Promotes An Anti-Semitic Group (For Social Justice), Exploring The World Of Conservative Furries, And A New Co...
If you wanna attend the University of Nonconformity,...
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Nov 15 2021 1h 3m
Defending The LGB (Let's Go Brandon) Community And Launching Our War Against Each And Every Individual Furry
Also: Jesse tries pizza for the first time This is a...
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Nov 5 2021 58m
As Proof That Existence Is Meaningless And Without Value, Here's Our Cotton Ceiling Segment
Katie’s previous life is uncovered, an update is pro...
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Nov 1 2021 1h 8m
Dave Chappelle Fallout And An Astonishing Scandal In Loudoun County, Virginia
Katie and Jesse follow up with just a bit more Kidne...
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Oct 18 2021 1h 3m
We Have A Big Announcement And We're Celebrating With A Book Burning (With Kat Rosenfield)
Listen now (84 min) | Plus: A pro-Karen argument Thi...
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Oct 12 2021 1h 24m
Frederick Joseph, As Himself, In: The McKaren Park Karen, And An Interview With Kathryn Paige Harden About Genetics
Frederick Joseph is the unluckiest man in New York C...
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Oct 4 2021 1h 11m
Frederick Joseph, As Himself, In: The McKaren Park Karen, And An Interview With Paige Harden About Genetics
Frederick Joseph is the unluckiest man in New York C...
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Oct 1 2021 1h 10m
Historically, The Anatomy And Physiology Of Bodies With Vaginas Has Been Neglected
An update on Katie's face, Catie's Correction Corner...
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Sep 27 2021 1h 2m