Blocked and Reported

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Episode 322: The Love And Deepspace Controversies, Explained

This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie dive into the world of otome (Japanese-style video games aimed at women) and the yearlong saga of Love and Deepspace, t

Sep 7
1 h 19 min

Episode 321: Losing The Plot (with Jon Ronson)

This week on Blocked and Reported, Katie is joined by journalist/author/podcaster/Welshman Jon Ronson to discuss his new book: The Castle: Adventures in a World of Unrave

Aug 29
1 h 12 min

Premium: Jessica Taylor’s Tattle Battle (Part 3)

The conclusion to our three-part Dr. Jessica Taylor (PhD) extravaganza, featuring TV cancelations, workplace allegations, a VERY menacing Zoom group, reports to police, a

Aug 27
28 min

Premium: Jessica Taylor’s Tattle Battle (Part 2)

This week on the Primo show, Part 2 of the Jessica Taylor (PhD) podcast extravaganza, featuring Taylor’s campaign against the website Tattle.Life and her new book, Click.

Aug 25
24 min

Episode 320: Jessica Taylor’s Tattle Battle (Part 1)

This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss Dr. Jessica Taylor, PhD, a UK-based entrepreneur and influencer who claims to be the target of a sustained, coo

Aug 22
1 h 27 min

Episode 319: If You Haven’t Seen Woke 1, This Episode Won’t Make Much Sense To You

This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss AOC's Woke 1.0 revision. Plus, Tyler Austin Harper on being a token black professor, a trans writer's case for

Aug 17
58 min

Episode 318: Tick Talk

This week on Blocked and Reported: ticks. Where do they come from, and why is Bill Gates releasing them on the American public? Featuring the CIA, Pfizer, tick bombs tick

Aug 10
1 h 05 min

Premium: The Literally True Story Of How Cambridge's Youngest Black Professor Was Really And Truly Victimized By A Racist One-Armed Invisible Man

This week on the Primo show, Jesse and Katie discuss the unbelievable life story of Cambridge professor Jason Arday. A Lot of the Attacks on Higher Ed Are Unfair. Not T

Aug 8
27 min

WNBA DRAMA with Katie Herzog & Ethan Strauss

Thanks to everyone who joined my live chat with Ethan Strauss. Discussed: Ethan’s journey to (editorial) freedom, Caitlin Clark, Sophie Cunningham, trans drama in Seattle

Jul 31
30 min

Premium: The Strange Case Of The Legless Surgeon

This week on the Primo show, Jesse and Katie discuss the extremely bizarre story of Neil Hopper, an amputation surgeon who lost his own legs under circumstances far stran

Jul 30
21 min

Premium: The Slow-Motion Implosion Of An Imagined Queer Utopia

This week on the Primo show, Jesse and Katie discuss the life and death of The Queery, a Brighton-based radical art gallery, bookshop, café, and community space. You can

Jul 24
22 min

Episode 317: Literally Knitler (with Jessica the '80s Baby)

This week on Blocked and Reported, Katie is joined by Jessica the ‘80s Baby to discuss the latest saga to rock the knitting world when celebrity knitter Stephen West appe

Jul 17
1 h 07 min

Live with Katie Herzog, Ben Westhoff, and Emily Dufton

Thanks to everyone who joined my conversation with Ben Westhoff and Emily Dufton. Discussed: drugs, drug treatments, why Nixon was good actually, and more. Note for free

Jul 16
20 min

Episode 316: Graham Cracker Crumbles

This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss the fast rise and faster fall of humble oyster man/alleged rapist Graham Platner. Plus, the trans sports issue

Jul 13
1 h 01 min

Episode 315: You Down With DAC?

This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss the milkshake-ducking of a New York coffee shop after the owner’s failed shaming of a congressman deemed insuff

Jul 6
1 h 23 min

Premium: Marsha Marsha Marsha (Part 2)

This week on the Primo Show, Part 2 of our investigation into one of the most sacred stories in LGBTQ history: the night transgender icon Marsha P. Johnson threw the firs

Jul 1
28 min

Episode 314: Authentic Authenticity On A Silver Platner

This week on Blocked and Reported, (((Jesse))) and Katie dig into Graham Platner: the oyster farmer, Senate hopeful, and working-class rich kid whose Nazi tattoo and wand

Jun 29
1 h 08 min

Premium: Before The Brick (Part 1)

This week on Blocked and Reported, Part 1 of our two-part series on the Stonewall Riots and the mythology of Marsha P. Johnson. Plus, warring lesbian history accounts, a

Jun 24
18 min

Episode 313: How A Gay Jewish Boob-Hypnotherapist Built A Coalition With Burqa-Wearing Islamists

This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss Zack Polanski, the former hypnotherapist who turned a fringe environmentalist party into Britain's fastest-grow

Jun 22
1 h 03 min

Episode 312: The Last Straight Woman (with Phoebe Maltz Bovy)

This week on Blocked and Reported, Katie is joined by author/columnist/podcaster Phoebe Maltz Bovy to discuss her new book, The Last Straight Woman: On Desiring Men. Plus

Jun 13
1 h 18 min

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What listeners say

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This podcast is routinely hilarious and much needed centrist sanity in a polarized world. Episodes are never better than when Helen Lewis joins, though.

Parker21 · Dec 2024

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.

Ehuggy · Dec 2024

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.

mark_it_zero · Nov 2024

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

Juneau listener · Oct 2024

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.

clemens68 · Dec 2024

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.

Sids1Mom · Oct 2024

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