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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-zapo...

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”: R...

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-met...

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 rundow...

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 t...

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:...

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_...

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://...

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,...

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.or...

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...

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!:...

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 “t...

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 esc...

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...

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 th...

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 quit...

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,...

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 h...

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...

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. (T...

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 ,...

(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...

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/201...

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.co...