Blocked and Reported - Podcast Rankings and reviews

Great show for those who like a heterodox viewpoint on issues of the day. Karie and Jesse take fact finding seriously and are not swayed by group-think or agenda-driven journalism. They also bring just the right amount of petty bickering to their discussions for some comic relief.

Been listening since the beginning and they helped me realize that there are sane people out there who share my same values. I felt lost, swimming in a sea of friends who were stuck inside their bubble. Katie and Jesse are voices of reason, who are both old school journalists that provide balanced and well researched stories. Love them and highly recommend this podcast.

At its best, BAR pod is a funny, irrelevant, and nuanced. It approaches hot topics with rational skepticism, curiosity, and a willingness to go where others will not. Jessie and Katie catalog pathological institutions and ideologies. Some of my favorites include the American Bully XL, Keffles Saga, Jacob Lake reporting, Facilitating Communication, and Jessie’s rigorous reporting on transgender care.

I sometimes think this podcast focuses on the “twitter dumbs” to the exclusion of stories of true institutional capture or areas where these pathologies effect the broader society. I would suggest you expand the number of topics you apply this formula to: what are the possibility regressive effects of ban the box inituitives? What do we actually know about diversity trainings and their effects? What is the actual science of supporting/refuting fat activism / polyamory etc.

Most fun and informative podcast out there—have been listening since COVID. Energy of the banter has gotten better and better over the years.

I used to enjoy the pod, and found Katie and Jesse to be interesting and insightful.
Unfortunately, lately their research has been lazy, and the frequently default to opinions or ideas unrelated to the topic being discussed. The last few episodes have been filled with reluctant acknowledgments that they haven’t actually personally looked into something they are discussing, or Jesse saying something like “the research didn’t directly say this…but..” if you haven’t been a regular listener it’s probably not worth starting now.

I used to love this podcast, so much that I subscribed to it. Unfortunately, the extra episodes that I got with the subscription turned out to be subpar and so I cancelled and went back to listening to the weekly. Now they are hiding part of that - not the mindless majority but once it finally gets interesting - behind a paywall. Did they announce they were changing to this format? Too bad instead of making the subscription worth it instead they chose this. That’s an unfollow for me.