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This week on the Primo episode, Jesse and Katie discuss a recent essay by NPR editor Uri Berliner criticizing the network’s ideological bent. The GistGrad Students Furious United Auto Workers Endorses BidenCode Switch To hear more, visit www.blockedandreported.org

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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

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Episode 3: Nice White Ladies Pay To Get Called Racist Over Dinner: After diagnosing Jesse's troubling cough and recapping Katie's not-quite-nettles tea incident, the cohosts discuss the effect coronavirus is likely to have on the dumbest flashpoints in the online culture wars, Katie invalidates the existence of a popular creator, Jesse complains about the Twitter police, and the episode concludes with a critique of the I Am An Evil White Woman Punish Me Please flavor of anti-racist education and 'activism.' by Blocked and Reported
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Are You Woke Enough To Pay For A Sex Worker? Also: What's The Matter With Meghan Daum? (Featuring Meghan Daum): After the pod gets off to yet another rough start thanks to a vicious anti-bread tirade Katie levels at Jesse, the cohosts discuss "Why Won't Woke Boys Pay For Sex?," the MEL Magazine article that lit Twitter on fire last week: Is Progressive Sex-Worker Discourse in line with most people's intuitions about the nature of prostitution? Then the cohosts move on to "I Left New York for Greener Pastures — and a Puppy," a controversial Meghan Daum article in GEN. Soon they are joined by a special guest, who may or may not be Meghan herself (yes, it is her). by Blocked and Reported
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Episode 2: "You Essentially Stole My Podcast": In the wake of a shocking accusation of Grand Theft Audio, Katie and Jesse discuss disbanding their just-launched podcast as penance. Then Katie talks about her pandemic shotgun wedding. The duo also debate whether TV networks should stop broadcasting Donald Trump's given all the right-wing misinformation flying around about coronavirus, ponder the surprising similarities between Bernie Bros and Liz Lasses, and discuss a Washington Post article about some dude's bad tweet. by Blocked and Reported
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Episode 9: Layoffs And Teigen And Roman And Kondo And Feel-Bad Liberalism by Blocked and Reported
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Patrons Only: Go Team War Eagle, Fight, Fight, Fight! by Blocked and Reported
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Episode 5: Katie And Jesse Decide Who Is Valid: After Katie almost destroys the podcast with her wanton use of the worst slur in the English language (or any other), the cohosts discuss an outrage story about Canadian military pronouns and Alex Berenson's coronavirus contrarianism. Jesse then tries to unpack Online Validity Discourse, leading the cohosts to discuss questions like "What does it even mean to be valid?," "How many people can you have sex with before you're not asexual anymore?," and "Would Jesse dress better if he were gay?" The show ends with a brief chat about the show's possible Patreon future. by Blocked and Reported
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We Were (Joe) Biden Our Time But We (Candace) Owens You An Episode About Tara Reade: After Jesse gets things off to a fantastic start with an uplifting story about dog feces, the hosts finally relent and discuss the Joe Biden/Tara Reade situation. Does this case reveal the limits of "believe women"? Of trying to pretend long-ago accusations can be hashed out apolitically? Then the hosts move on to Candace Owens and her tweet calling for her Michigan followers to defy the government, before the episode finishes with another story from Jesse, this one about his extremely unpleasant online run-in with Owens in 2016. by Blocked and Reported
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Episode 4: Real Time With The Louis C. Rogan Experience: After Jesse tries to gaslight Katie into believing she's Jewish, the cohosts discuss a trio of Problematic Men: noted offensive-opinion-haver Joe Rogan, noted masturbator Louis C.K., and noted racist(??!!!) Bill Maher. by Blocked and Reported
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Episode 12: Protests And Riots Everywhere, Media Insane, Things Bad, And So On And So Forth by Blocked and Reported
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Episode 1: The Pilot: In the hotly anticipated pilot episode, hosts Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal explain what Blocked and Reported is, Katie reveals her SPECIAL PANDEMIC ANNOUNCEMENT, and the hosts discuss the "Why I Am Leaving The Left" subgenre. Also: some hints on Old Internet Stuff that can help you ride out the end of the world. by Blocked and Reported
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Patrons Only: Dread Letter Day by Blocked and Reported
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Episode 16: The Cancellations Will Continue Until Antiracism Improves by Blocked and Reported
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Is Bill de Blasio An Anti-Semite? Are Boomers OK? Are Orcs Racist? Is Bill de Blasio An Orc? Are Orcs Boomers?: After Jesse consoles Katie over her lack of a serious medical diagnosis, the hosts discuss whether Bill de Blasio's tweet about the Jewish community not following social-distancing rules was truly meshuga, or whether there was some truth to it. Then they move on to a discussion over a popular narrative about Boomers and coronavirus, and finish things up on a lighter note with some orcs-and-racism talk. by Blocked and Reported
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Episode 21: Bye, Bye Bari And Adios, Andrew by Blocked and Reported
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Episode 57: There's No Accountability To Accountability Lists These Days (feat. Jonathan Chait) by Blocked and Reported
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