About Jesse Singal
“To clamber through all this thorny territory with confidence and good humour is, I think, pretty remarkable. Even better: it makes me very relieved I don’t spend so much time on Twitter nowadays. ” -James Marriott, The Times
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. (And sometimes they talk about other stuff, too. )
BARPod, as it has been affectionately known for generations, features new episodes every week.
Here are a few fan-favorite episodes:
Episode 24: The Sad Tale Of @Sciencing_Bi, America's Realest Bisexual Indigenous Anthropologist In one of the weirdest online controversies ever covered by Blocked and Reported, Katie walked Jesse through the wild, twisting tale of @Sciencing_Bi, a young anthropologist who just wanted to do good work, but who was tragically hindered from achieving this goal by the vicious anti-bisexual currents that dominate academic anthropology — and by a university hell-bent on LITERALLY working her to death (and cutting her salary 15%).