We're Winding Down The Patreon
Hi all,
We're going to be winding down the Patreon this week. It's been a good run, but due to quirks in how this site works, it's easy for people ...
2021-11-23 20:47:08 +0000 UTC View Post
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Anyone Who Tried To Migrate To Substack But Who Was Stymied By Tech Issues, Email Me At Jesse.R.Singal@gmail.com, Please, With "Migration Issue" In The Headline
That's it! That's the post! Thanks for bearing with us on the multiple text posts -- we're obviously just trying to get as many folks migrated over as possible, as quickly as possible. If you're already migrated, sorry to bombard your inbox but yo...
2021-10-13 03:54:06 +0000 UTC View PostBrief: A Technical Note And A Link To Our First Post-Patreon Ep
The early version of Episode 85 is up a bit earlier than anticipated: https://www.blockedandreported.org/p/early-access-episode-85-we-have-a...
2021-10-12 14:12:53 +0000 UTC View PostSome Personal News: We’re Breaking Up
…with Patreon.
Don’t worry — we’re not consciously uncoupling from each other (yet). But after a year and a half and something like 130 epi...
2021-10-12 10:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostSorry For The Delay -- We Promise All Will Be Clear By Tuesday
Guys: I said we'd have our explanation about the paused billing by the end of this week. Alas, that's not going to happen. Apologies! Things just got sli...
2021-10-08 21:01:54 +0000 UTC View PostPatrons Only: No More JEDI Mind Tricks, Down With Objectivity, And Jesse Wins The Latest Skirmish In The Science-Based Medicine War
Objectivity? Rigor? NO THANK YOU!
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The term 'JEDI,' one must not use: 2021-10-01 17:38:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Patrons-Only: For The True Nerds, Here's The Full Cut Of The Paige Harden Interview
It's about 15 minutes longer. Now go outside and play sports.
2021-10-01 02:02:06 +0000 UTC View PostEpisode 84: Frederick Joseph, As Himself, In: The McKaren Park Karen, And An Interview With Paige Harden About Genetics (Early Access, Ad-Free)
Frederick Joseph is the unluckiest man in New York City: After dealing with a Satanic AirBnB host, a racist woman on the street, and racist editors and producers, he is the victim of the latest Central-Park-Karen-style incident. The hosts discuss ...
2021-10-01 01:58:38 +0000 UTC View PostYour Billing Was Just Paused -- Don't Panic
Sorry for the multiple administrative posts this week -- you guys will have a full-blown fresh patrons-only podcast episode by end of the day Thursday at...
2021-09-28 20:31:56 +0000 UTC View PostWe're Hiring!
(Update, 10/18/2021 -- FInalists have been notified. Even this was a very tough choice and we appreciate all the effort everyone put into their applications.)
(Update, 10/6/2021 -- Applications are closed! We'll add ...
2021-09-26 19:00:32 +0000 UTC View PostEpisode 83: Historically, The Anatomy And Physiology Of Bodies With Vaginas Has Been Neglected (early access, ad-free)
(Apologies -- initially uploaded this with the wrong episode number/URL, so here's a corrected redo.)
An update on Katie's face, Catie's Correction Corner, the world's only black nonbinary conservative, the bizarre newspeak pertaining to fem...
2021-09-25 20:23:27 +0000 UTC View PostDear Prudence, Help! I Can't Stop Pretending To Be A Texas Abortion Bounty Hunter Online (early access, ad-free)
The Prudie fakester: https://www.gawker.com/media/dear-prudie-it-was-me-all-along
Help! My Friend Thinks I Am Stealing Vaccines F...
2021-09-18 14:16:16 +0000 UTC View PostEpisode 81: Judith Butler's Gender Bubbles (early access, ad-free)
Show notes/Links:
Jesse's review of Trans: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/07/books/review/trans-helen-joyce.html
Wi s...
2021-09-11 02:09:14 +0000 UTC View PostPatrons-Only: How Andy Ngo Literally Pantsed The Rest Of The Media To Get The Wi Spa Story (Not Literally)
The hosts discuss the utterly embarrassing media failure that was this whole Wi Spa.................... 'thing'?
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Lil Nas X enchanting the nation's children: 2021-09-09 15:18:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Patrons-Only: Ivermectin? We Hardly Even Know Them!
Katie and Jesse (M.D.s, Harvard, '87 and '89, respectively) wade through a complicated controversy involving horses, medicine for horses, medicine for horses that is also for people, and ~~THE MEDIA~~.
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On ivermectin: ...
2021-09-08 16:30:57 +0000 UTC View PostBecause God Hates Us Or Is Dead, Here's A Whole Episode About Noah Berlatsky And Pedophilia
An urgent investigation.
Show notes/Links:
Ben Burgis: “He’s one the most consistently and maliciously dishonest writers alive.”: https:...
2021-09-03 01:17:20 +0000 UTC View PostWhat To Do When Your Boyfriend, Who Is A Horny Anthropomorphic Sword, Is Stalking You (With Meghan Murphy) (early access, ad-free, extended cut)
After Katie and Jesse follow up on some stuff from last week, the hosts discuss a video game controversy involving anthropomorphic weapons, and Katie interviews Meghan Murphy, who has been banned from major platforms for saying things like "men ca...
2021-08-27 16:25:49 +0000 UTC View PostPatrons Only: The Gang Fixes K-12 Education, Katie Interviews Her Wife, And Jesse Attempts To Interview Brianna Wu's Assistant
There are a lot of twists and turns in this one! Lotsa discussions of dishonesty and *alleged* dishonesty.
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Seattle Transgender Activist Danni Askini Seeks Help To Legally Return to U.S. - 2021-08-27 02:41:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Episode 78: The Half-Baked 'Grooming' Allegations Against Alice Ripley And The Cringeworthy Awokening Of The Sports World (feat. Ethan Strauss)
After Katie tells Jesse about her extremely traumatic 'vacation,' the hosts discuss a journalistically half-baked article about the Broadway star Alice Ripley and Jesse interviews Ethan Strauss on how the Great Awokening has washed over sports, pr...
2021-08-23 08:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostPatrons Only: Troubled Times For Mike Richards And The Woke Riddler
Two of America's most important institutions are facing full-blown crises: the game show Jeopardy! and a tiny socialist magazine you have never heard of. Who better to walk you through the ramifications than noted institutions-experts Katie Herzog...
2021-08-20 22:15:03 +0000 UTC View PostEpisode 77: Did Rain Dove Fake A Hate Crime? (Unlocked Premium Episode, But In Your Premium Feed, Oh God I Can Explain...)
Hey guys -- it's me. Jesse. (Singal.)
I think I instigated some confusion this week. My thought process was Well, this isn't a new episode to p...
2021-08-18 14:28:11 +0000 UTC View PostA Brief Summer Break (No New Eps This Week)
That's a photo I took from the Manhattan Bridge last night. New York is disgusting and humid and I hate it but also it's wonderful(?).
(Update: Epi...
2021-08-13 17:28:24 +0000 UTC View PostEpisode 76: Let's Do Hate Speech By Talking About How Biological Sex Is A Binary (With Carole Hooven) (early access)
After the hosts discuss Katie's recent nonconsensual conversion to Judaism, they bring on Carole Hooven to discuss the deep, potentially permanent damage she has done to Harvard University's Department of Human Evolutionary Biology by suggesting m...
2021-08-05 04:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostPatrons Only: Is Amy Cooper A Misunderstood Dog-Defender Or Literal Canadian Hitler, And Why Is Katie's Work Being Violently Repressed By /R/Medicine?
The whole crew gets together to talk about new information in the Amy Cooper/Chris Cooper Karen-off, and the cruel disregard with which /r/medicine treated Katie.
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NYT coverage of Amy Cooper that buries the threat: 2021-08-05 02:41:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Episode 75: How To Deal With Transphobic Alters, How To Survive Your Newsroom's Awokening, And How To Get Ousted From The Screenwriting Industry (early access)
After Katie tells Jesse about a very problematic alter, the hosts respond to an email from a young journalist who feels trapped by the would-be revolutionaries in her newsroom, discuss NPR's new policy regarding expressions of political b...
2021-07-31 01:10:36 +0000 UTC View PostPatrons Only: It's So Awesome That Medical Schools Are Finally Banning Hateful Slurs Like 'Male' And 'Female'
Katie discusses a piece she wrote for Bari Weiss's Substack about the insanity that has descended upon certain medical schools. Then the hosts discuss a Dallas activist effort to get liberal white parents to sacrifice their children's privilege an...
2021-07-30 20:10:56 +0000 UTC View PostPatrons-Only: Andrea James' Frequently Creepy, Sporadically Stalkery War On Sex Researchers And Journalists She Dislikes, Explained, Because We Hate Ourselves And Our Listeners
Katie and Jesse explain how they have both contracted bad cases of autogynefeelsbadmania, which will require a trip back in time to the naughty aughties.
(CORRECTION, 7/26: Between 31:31 and 31:37 in the original version of ...
2021-07-26 10:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostEpisode 74: The DID Influencers Of TikTok And The Decline Of Formerly-Science-Based Medicine (early access, ad-free)
The hosts issue a major boob-related correction, talk about TikTok influencers who (appear to) have dissociative identity disorder, and discuss the recent meltdown of a site that (claims that it) is "science-based." Plus: Some other, often-cringew...
2021-07-24 03:21:38 +0000 UTC View PostPatrons-Only: Chrissy Teigen Is Victimized By Fakery And The American Booksellers Association Does "Irreversible Damage" To Itself
Chrissy Teigen is the subject of yet MORE drama, and boy did the American Booksellers Association mess up and apologize hilariously. Plus, Jesse and Katie talk about Abigail Shrier's super-controversial book "Irreversible Damage: The Transgender C...
2021-07-18 00:35:37 +0000 UTC View PostEpisode 73: Jesse Goes On Rogan, A Racial Nichols Incident, And Drama On Lolita Twitter
Jesse regales Katie with tales of meeting Joe Rogan, not meeting Alex Jones, and being scared of guns (while shooting them). Then Katie provides an antiracist monkey-removal update, Jesse tells Katie about the Rachel Nichols incident at ESPN, and ...
2021-07-17 02:14:31 +0000 UTC View Post