Blocked and Reported · Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal

Live with Katie Herzog & Jesse Singal

March 12, 2026·25 min·2 clips

Katie argues the online right is now as unhinged as the peak woke left — but with federal power.

Lindy West is the obvious first stop. The hosts pull in her book, relationship commentary, and Publishers Marketplace listing as part of a Lindy West thread they assume some listeners already know. They spend real time on the money angle. Publishers Marketplace becomes a small media-world breadcrumb, mostly because the advance itself has gossip value if you are wired that way. Then the live show starts drifting. Old YouTube comedy, Good Neighbors, Beck Bennett, Kyle Mooney, and goofy camera angles take over for a while before anyone can sell the idea that there was a strict agenda. California catches some blame. The host's improvised setup turns into a bit about bathrooms, banks, tables, and what counts as acceptable when a live chat happens away from the normal gear. The tangent keeps changing shape. A show involving Dave Bird and Benny Blanco leads them into ARFID, pickle texture, and one host saying the condition is hard to picture while still taking it seriously. The other host has examples ready. A previous episode with Hadley Freeman comes up, partly to explain the reference and partly to poke the co-host for not keeping up. Nothing lands neatly, which is pretty much the point. The closing stretch gets openly defensive about whether a live chat counts as an episode, and that complaint turns into a running joke instead of an apology. They keep naming the grievance. The hosts tell listeners that prepared episodes are still coming, while treating this as a loose chat between business colleagues whose affection level keeps shifting. Then come cycles. A joke about cycles turns into peptides, collagen, aging faces, and Moose apparently judging peptides from a distance. The texture is the episode. This is less a reported segment than a live sample of the show's usual mode: informed, petty, self-aware, digressive, and happy to make the side road the road.

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A casual live Blocked and Reported chat where Lindy West, publishing gossip, comedy riffs, and host chemistry carry more weight than reporting.

Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal use this live Blocked and Reported session as a loose culture-politics hang, with Lindy West as the nearest thing to a through-line.

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Two journalists go live with no script -- Lindy West, ARFID, and Jesse's bathroom situation.

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