Hi all,
We're going to be winding down the Patreon this week. It's been a good run, but due to quirks in how this site works, it's easy for people to sneak in and gain access to the back catalogue without paying. I keep having to come back to remove them from the list and send them emails explaining why, which is annoying. We do need to technically leave the site up (with a note pointing people...
2021-11-23 20:47:08 +0000 UTC View PostThat's it! That's the post! Thanks for bearing with us on the multiple text posts -- we're obviously just trying to get as many folks migrated over as possible, as quickly as possible. If you're already migrated, sorry to bombard your inbox but you can safely ignore Patreon posts henceforth, anyway.
2021-10-13 03:54:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe early version of Episode 85 is up a bit earlier than anticipated: https://www.blockedandreported.org/p/early-access-episode-85-we-have-a
At noon we'll be posting the public version of this one as well as a new premium episode (Chappelle!).
The technical note: It seems most people are able to access the new site okay, BUT if you have issues, I am told that there ...
2021-10-12 14:12:53 +0000 UTC View Post
…with Patreon.
Don’t worry — we’re not consciously uncoupling from each other (yet). But after a year and a half and something like 130 episodes, we’ve decided to leave our current home for premium content and move our whole operation over to Substack.
We know, we know: ...
2021-10-12 10:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Guys: I said we'd have our explanation about the paused billing by the end of this week. Alas, that's not going to happen. Apologies! Things just got slightly delayed. You'll next hear from us early Tuesday (Monday's a holiday so we're gonna hold off until then), at which point we will provide:
-an explanation about exactly what's going on
-a new free episode
-a new premium episode<...
2021-10-08 21:01:54 +0000 UTC View PostObjectivity? Rigor? NO THANK YOU!
Show notes/Links:
The term 'JEDI,' one must not use: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-the-term-jedi-is-problematic-for-describing-programs-that-promote-justice-equity-diversity-and-inclusion/
ACLU tweet: 2021-10-01 17:38:59 +0000 UTC View Post
It's about 15 minutes longer. Now go outside and play sports.
2021-10-01 02:02:06 +0000 UTC View PostFrederick 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 on...
2021-10-01 01:58:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Sorry for the multiple administrative posts this week -- you guys will have a full-blown fresh patrons-only podcast episode by end of the day Thursday at the latest.
A quick announcement: Usually, you'd all be getting billed this coming Friday, October 1 for October's content. I've just paused your billing, so this time around you won't be charged anything. We'll be able to explain why...
2021-09-28 20:31:56 +0000 UTC View Post(Update, 10/18/2021 -- FInalists have been notified. Even this was a very tough choice and we appreciate all the effort everyone put into their applications.)
(Update, 10/6/2021 -- Applications are closed! We'll add an update here once we've reached out to the finalists.)
Blocked and Reported is looking for a part-time editorial assistant to help us with… well, everything. The role is $25/hour for 40 hours per month (so $1,000 per month) and the...
2021-09-26 19:00:32 +0000 UTC View Post(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 reporti...
2021-09-25 20:23:27 +0000 UTC View PostThe 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-d...
2021-09-18 14:16:16 +0000 UTC View PostShow 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-o...
2021-09-11 02:09:14 +0000 UTC View PostThe hosts discuss the utterly embarrassing media failure that was this whole Wi Spa.................... 'thing'?
Show notes/Links:
Lil Nas X enchanting the nation's children: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEP429EA6bM&ab_channel=GuardianNews
Original Wi Spa video: https://...
2021-09-09 15:18:54 +0000 UTC View PostKatie and Jesse (M.D.s, Harvard, '87 and '89, respectively) wade through a complicated controversy involving horses, medicine for horses, medicine for horses that is also for people, and ~~THE MEDIA~~.
Show notes/Links:
On ivermectin: https://www.drugs.com/ivermectin.html
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-...
2021-09-03 01:17:20 +0000 UTC View PostAfter 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-mus...
There are a lot of twists and turns in this one! Lotsa discussions of dishonesty and *alleged* dishonesty.
Show notes/Links:
Seattle Transgender Activist Danni Askini Seeks Help To Legally Return to U.S. - https://seattlegayscene.com/2018/08/seattle-transgender-activist-danni-askini-seeks-help-to-legally-return-to-u-s/
... 2021-08-27 02:41:59 +0000 UTC View PostAfter 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...
2021-08-23 08:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostTwo of America's most important institutions are facing full-blown crises: the game show Jeopardy! and a tiny socialist magazine you have never heard of. Who better to walk you through the ramifications than noted institutions-experts Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal?
Show notes/Links:
WE'RE BACK, BABY: https://www.wired.com/story/bring-back-cargo-pants/
Mike Richards quites Jeopardy!: <...
2021-08-20 22:15:03 +0000 UTC View Post
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 s...
2021-08-18 14:28:11 +0000 UTC View Post
That's a photo I took from the Manhattan Bridge last night. New York is disgusting and humid and I hate it but also it's wonderful(?).
(Update: Episode is here: https://barpodcast.fireside.fm/77.)
I'm writing to let you know there's not going to be a new episode this week. We have been doing the show for 77 weeks in...
2021-08-13 17:28:24 +0000 UTC View PostAfter 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<...
2021-08-05 04:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe whole crew gets together to talk about new information in the Amy Cooper/Chris Cooper Karen-off, and the cruel disregard with which /r/medicine treated Katie.
Show notes/Links:
NYT coverage of Amy Cooper that buries the threat: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/14/nyregion/central-park-amy-cooper-christian-racism.html
Retro report: 2021-08-05 02:41:09 +0000 UTC View Post
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.
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Beware The Likes Police: 2021-07-31 01:10:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Katie discusses a piece she wrote for Bari Weiss's Substack about the insanity that has descended upon certain medical schools. Then the hosts discuss a Dallas activist effort to get liberal white parents to sacrifice their children's privilege and reflect on the times they have fallen victim to the lure of ideology-reinforcing misinformation.
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Katie's article: 2021-07-30 20:10:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Katie and Jesse explain how they have both contracted bad cases of autogynefeelsbadmania, which will require a trip back in time to the naughty aughties.
(CORRECTION, 7/26: Between 31:31 and 31:37 in the original version of this episode, I [meaning Jesse] said, "The Emerson Collective, which is apparently, like, a feminist collective, gave money to The Transphobia Project." This was a brainfart entailing a lot of confusion. The 2021-07-26 10:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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-ta...
2021-07-24 03:21:38 +0000 UTC View PostChrissy Teigen is the subject of yet MORE drama, and boy did the American Booksellers Association mess up and apologize hilariously. Plus, Jesse and Katie talk about Abigail Shrier's super-controversial book "Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters."
Show notes/Links:
Michael Costello/Chrissy Teigen bullying controversy: https://www....
2021-07-18 00:35:37 +0000 UTC View PostJesse 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.
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-Jesse on Rogan: 2021-07-17 02:14:31 +0000 UTC View Post