Episodes

  • Episode 260: The Genius Myth (with Helen Lewis)
    May 12 2025

    This week on Blocked and Reported, Katie is joined by fan favorite Helen Lewis to discuss her new book, The Genius Myth: A Curious History of a Dangerous Idea. Plus, updates from TERF Island, Joe Rogan, and the strange and sometimes dark world of high IQ societies.

    Pre-order Helen’s book

    Britain Rules on What a Woman Is - The Atlantic

    Trump Administration Releases Report on Youth Gender Dysphoria - The Dispatch

    Finally, Someone Said It to Joe Rogan’s Face - The Atlantic

    The group chats that changed America - Semafor

    Helen Lewis Has Left the Chat - The BBC



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    1 hr and 28 mins
  • Premium: The Attempted #MeTooing Of A BookTube Star
    May 8 2025

    This week on the Primo episode, Jesse and Katie discuss the story of Daniel Greene, a BookTuber who faced allegations of coercion, manipulation, and assault. Plus, drama at the Montreal Anarchist Book Fair.



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    21 mins
  • Episode 259: A Gen Z #Resistance Meltdown
    May 5 2025

    This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss Gen Z influencer Dean Withers and the undoing of the Unf*ck America Tour. Plus, a playground racist makes bank, and a fight over public masturbation in Seattle.

    Neighbors report masturbation in Seattle park where children play (The Independent)

    Who was the anonymous donor behind the controversial kid playground at Seattle's Denny Blaine? (KUOW)

    Seattle Wants to Put a Playground Next to a Historically Queer Nude Beach (The Stranger)

    City Hall Is Back on Denny Blaine (The Stranger)

    The Photos Denny Blaine Donor Stuart Sloan Sent to Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell (The Stranger)

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    The Studies Show LIVE with Jesse Singal (Eventbrite)

    How Breitbart Is Fueling the Milo Yiannopoulos Campus Outrage Outrage Cycle (New York Magazine)

    Professor Watchlist (Turning Point USA)

    Hasan Piker Is Building a Media Empire on Twitch and YouTube (The New York Times)



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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • Premium: Whose Fault? Our Fault!
    Apr 30 2025

    This week on the Primo episode, Jesse and Katie decide which podcasters are blame for… all this. Plus, an ABDL medical supply store/sex shop goes to court.

    Young at Heart (The Stranger)

    The Anti-Woke's Inner Circle (New York Magazine / Intelligencer)

    The Dissident Right’s Next Move (The New York Times)



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    18 mins
  • Episode 258: Another Autism Episode
    Apr 26 2025

    This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss RFK Jr’s plan to find the cause of autism. Plus, Elon shadowbans his enemies, revisiting “Hinds Hall,” and Slam Frank, the musical.

    DIRECTIONS ON LOCKING IN THE CURRENT PRIMO PRICE HERE

    Columbia Campus Occupation Could Have Ended Without Police, Report Says (New York Times)

    The Sundial Report, 3.31.2025 (Columbia University Senate)

    Columbia Hamilton Hall Protests (New York Times)

    Police and University Officials Release Report of 13 Non-Affiliates Arrested in Hamilton Hall, Protesters Disagree (Columbia News Service)

    They Criticized Musk on X. Then Their Reach Collapsed. (New York Times)

    Trans Wikipedia Activists control the "facts" on Youth Gender Medicine (LGB Courage Coalition Substack)

    Research into trans medicine has been manipulated (The Economist)

    RFK Jr. and the Autism-Vaccine Debate (New York Times)

    Autism Data & Statistics (CDC)

    Telepathy Tapes: Families, Autism, KY Dickens (The Cut)

    Chasing the Intact Mind (Oxford University Press)

    RFK Was Right: Severe Autism Can Be (Persuasion Community)

    The Problematic Obsession With Curing Autism (The Cut)



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    42 mins
  • Premium: The Free Speech President Vs. Jihad On The Quad
    Apr 22 2025

    This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie look back at the anti-Israel protests at Columbia University and how that conflict intersects with the Trump administration’s fight against free speech.

    Columbia University Israel-Hamas Protests (The New York Times)

    General Studies student allegedly assaulted in front of Butler Library, suspe…



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    21 mins
  • Episode 257: Faux POC Poetry (with Leigh Stein)
    Apr 21 2025

    This week on Blocked and Reported, Katie is joined by writer Leigh Stein to discuss her new book, the personal essay boom and bust, the ethics of deletion, "The Vanishing White Male Writer,” and a race-based hoax in the poetry world.

    If You're Seeing This, It's Meant for You by Leigh Stein (Penguin Random House)

    The Diana Tarot : Handmade Products

    Jennifer May Reiland art

    Fired from Richual

    Control, Alt, Delete (Splicetoday.com)

    Call Me the 21st-Century Ern Malley (How I Fooled the Poetry World)

    Echolalia Review: An Anti-Poetry Collection

    The Best American Poetry Controversy (The Best American Poetry Blog)

    The Vanishing White Male Writer (Compact Magazine)



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    1 hr and 14 mins
  • Episode 256: MAGA Maoists Celebrate Liberation Day
    Apr 14 2025

    This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss the right’s very online reaction to Trumpnomics™. Plus, NaNoWriMo closes shop, and only slightly more vore.

    Vore fan art (Do not click this link at work, at the library, on an NSA server, or anywhere near your children and/or parents. You have been warned.)

    ‘Nowhere on Earth is safe’: Trump imposes tariffs on uninhabited islands near Antarctica | Trump tariffs | The Guardian

    President Trump’s Tariff Formula Makes No Economic Sense. It’s Also Based on an Error. | American Enterprise Institute - AEI

    The Puzzle of the All-American BBQ Scrubber

    Bill Ackman’s main fund drops 15% this year as trade war hits holdings

    Peter Navarro Invented an Expert for His Books, Based on Himself - The New York Times

    Elon Musk dies to tutorial boss in Path of Exile 2 livestream | The Verge

    Trump brags in Oval Office that his billionaire pals made a killing in stocks after he pulled the plug on tariffs | The Independent



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    58 mins