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Blocked and Reported
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.
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.Listen on
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Maybe Jesse would make more headway with his book if he didn't insist on writing the entire thing in iambic pentameter?
And the Esperanto edition can wait.
It DID work quite brilliantly in Deadwood, so…
Good luck with the books. I'm both two years sober and cancelled so am the ideal reader for both.
Same! Except the two years part- one month to be exact.
Mazel tov!
I was hoping this was an episode entitled “No show this week” but it turns out it’s just an announcement that there will be no show this week
I hope all the Herzogs are OK given what's happening in Asheville right now.
That was my concern. Hope everyone is safe.
Has anyone seen an update on Katie?
She's been tweeting.
When I saw the headline and Moose’s pic I was afraid something had happened to him! Glad Moose is okay and it’s just Jesse slacking.
Me too! Don’t scare us like that, Katie!
In the spirit of celebrating internet B.S., may you both have a blessed week!
Well played
Nobody wants to work these days….
Crazy suggestion, but maybe Jesse could put a pause on the frenzied tweeting he's still doing and then have time for both the book and the podcast?
I disagree. Desperate eleventh hour procrastination is a tried and true part of the writing process—the more self destructive, the better.
Hopefully he’s also drinking too much. 🙏🏼
Oh no. Is he really? Poor thing is fuckin addicted.
How long before he swears it off again?
Hoping Katie’s new place in Ashville is okay. Videos out of there look horrific.
I was very surprised to see the storm move so far inland. Just not something people in WNC would be expecting at all. Hoping for the best.
If Moose gets extra walks, then Mortimer (my basset pup) approves!
Mortimer is an EXCELLENT name for a basset! I have had five bassets, but none were named Mortimer. I hope Mortimer gets many treats and walks!
They are such great dogs! Mortimef is a really sweet lil boy, and we just did our morning 1/2 hour tour around the marina. He is currently wrestling with a water bottle on the back deck of our boat. My family had two bassets while I was growing up, and I’ve wanted another for a long time but waited until we had property and time to be good dog parents. I actually named him 20 years ago but just got him in April. If we got a girl her name would have been Jezebel (our first basset’s name when I was growing up).
Jezebel! Another excellent name for a basset! If I ever get another, I will name him Bartleby.
Bartleby is a great name.
Because all bassets would prefer not to!
In the last episode Katie said her wife is dealing with the dog so she can focus on writing. Maybe that is a good thing for Moose?
Katie, does the Sinclair Method work for social media addiction?
Hey Katie is your hometown alright? This flooding in western NC looks wild.
I’m very happy everyone is okay. I feel like it’s going to take the area a long time to recover from this.
Ok, so anyone find a good podcast to indulge during this Week of Our Discontent?
i recently heard about this series called "martyr made"...
I wonder what the Oct. 7 show will be about…..
(Can a kind substack soul explain to me how to sort the BARpod episodes by NEW instead of seemingly random order? Or is there a button I can push to see a chronological list? It keeps showing me stuff from July. Or best option, is it possible to access full paid episodes on the Mac podcast app? Thank you so much.)
The only thing I’ve figured out how to do on the app itself is view all my subscriptions in chronological order by clicking the second icon from the right, along the bottom of the screen. If you want to add the podcast to a podcast app, you have to login through mobile browser (NOT the app*) then once you’re logged in go to the main page of Blocked and Reported. Click the menu icon in the upper right corner, click manage subscription, then scroll down til you see Private podcast feed and click the set up podcast button.
*If you’re curious, Substack doesn’t allow managing subscriptions through the app for reasons related to apple’s payment rules, there’s a whole court case about it, Epic Games v Apple
That should be second icon from the left, not right, sorry. I swear I normally know my directions.
TYSM!
Thank you that helps actually a ton
Moose looks uncannily like 4th Dr Who, Tom Baker.
All he needs is the scarf.
This is so anticlimactic
Luv 2 Moose
Is it just me or has there been no free episode and no primo episode this week either?
The Will & Harper trailer:
Will: “Are you a worse driver since your transition?”
Harper: “That’s sexist!”
[2-second pause]
Harper: “I am.”
[both laugh uproariously]
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Ahh. We are perpetuating the demonstrably false claim women are worse at driving [1].
How progressive.
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[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9316715/
The part of the trailer I referenced. I misremembered it a bit. They don't both laugh after Harper reveals "becoming a woman" made Harper a worse driver.
https://youtu.be/PRZ1ELeGepo?si=B_-joSS1ExC8haaR&t=77
Moose 😍😍😍
Shameful admission: I dated a guy who had a pair of doodles that he took with him everywhere that looked just like Moose. One of them jumped up on me and clawed a 7” gash on my thigh (I was wearing a sundress) and he told me I should just “tell the dog no next time.” I’m sure Moose is a much less obnoxious dog, but every time I see pictures of him, I shudder a little bit.
Coming back on the 1 year anniversary of the hamas terror attack on Israel? Is that a hint of what the show will be about? It would be worthy of all our time to reflect on this senseless slaughter.
Currently listening to the just-released Josh Szeps interview with Katie, good stuff!
https://open.spotify.com/episode/33lFXMDt631xAmBuZykeE9
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfP51cO5Ilk
Is it more stuff about alcohol?
Yes, mainly, and there's nowt wrong with that!
If you say so. I assumed it would be quite boring for most people since most of us don't have problems with alcohol
There's something about working in a crappy old building built in the 1970's. It's like the corners and tucked-away places are haunted. Not in a charming way like it would be with something out of the 1930's or 40's. But in a gritty, Polaroid snapshot kind of way.
Hi, Moosie, old boy!!
Moose is the perfect doggo version of a beach bum.
What are some other notable "no shows" that you've experienced in your life?
A new episode on my birthday! Thank you Katie and Jesse.
All hail Moose!