News & Politics Podcasts
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. www.blockedandreported.org
Episode 102: Do Not, Under Any Circumstances, Keep On Trucking
Plus: We should end all work and abolish capitalism This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at www.blockedandreported.org/subscribe
Episode 100: The Wrath At Khan
Stephen Jay Gould was such a dick This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at www.blockedandreported.org/subscribe
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 nontroversies in recent history This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at www.blockedandreported.org/subscribe
Episode 98: 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 public episode. Get access to private episodes at www.blockedandreported.org/subscribe
Episode 95: Allegedly Anti-Semitic Mukbang, The Latest J.K. Rowling Freakout, And The Fuzzy Science Of Masks
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.
Episode 94: If You Troll Into The Abyss, The Abyss Trolls Also Into You
Or: Troll not lest ye be trolled This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at www.blockedandreported.org/subscribe
A brief critique of the recent premium episode on Post-Rationalist Twitter ("The Shape Rotators And The Wordcels Are Still Going At It")
The flaw of the episode is to be simultaneously over- and under-sympathetic to post-rationalist Twitter.
Premium Episode: The Shape Rotators And The Wordcels Are Still Going At It
After Katie tells Jesse a heartwarming and disgusting story about a miniature horse who has gone too far, the hosts discuss the latest skirmish in the eternal fight between Wordcels and Shape Rotators. There’s a lot to unpack here and it’s all remarkably stupid.
podcasters and workers
I appreciate that on the latest episode regarding the anti-work crowd and the truckers, that Katie acknowledged the cushy podcasting perch from which they are handing out judgements on these things.
REMINDER: (unofficial) BAR book club will discuss The Genetic Lottery on Sunday, February 27
Reminder that the unofficial BAR book club will meet over Zoom to discuss Kathryn Paige Harden's The Genetic Lottery on Sunday, February 27 beginning at 1 pm eastern. More details including past book club picks here. Comment below or DM me and I will send access info ahead of the meet.
