Episode 241: The Helen Lewis Holiday Extravaganza
Blocked and Reported
Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2024
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
For our final free episode of the year, Jesse and Katie are joined by Helen Lewis to discuss America, Texas, Joe Rogan, trad wives, and more. Plus, our annual extremely online BARPod holiday pub quiz.
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| 0:00.0 | Should we just start? |
| 0:08.3 | Should we record a fucking podcast? |
| 0:10.1 | No. |
| 0:10.4 | Why don't let's just let people come in here. |
| 0:13.9 | I have a system. |
| 0:14.9 | You don't? |
| 0:15.5 | I do. |
| 0:15.9 | All right. |
| 0:16.2 | Continue. |
| 0:16.7 | All right. |
| 0:17.5 | Welcome to Blockton reported. |
| 0:18.8 | The whole gang is here for the last and the best episode of the year, the one where we give the podcast over to the person, everyone, including us, which is actually hosted it. Helen Lewis, Helen, welcome back. |
| 0:30.7 | I don't know. I think there's been a bit of an, there's been an uprising in the Reddit against me, actually. I think, yeah, someone said I was deeply overrated. And I thought, it's fair, fair point, actually. It was Ed Yong, wasn't it? Maybe it was. |
| 0:42.5 | I appreciated you defending my honor. Imagine if Ed Yong showed up in our subreddit. |
| 0:47.0 | I don't. I think he would catch COVID from your subreddit. I mean, it feels pretty infectious over there. |
| 0:53.1 | That's fair. All right, Helen, thank you so much for coming back. |
| 0:56.1 | We have a great show today. |
| 0:57.8 | In the second half of the episode, we are going to do our annual extremely online end-of-year |
| 1:03.5 | pub quiz where Helen tests us on just how online we've been this year. |
| 1:08.6 | This is a humiliating experience. |
| 1:12.2 | I would say in this one, |
| 1:16.1 | the loser is the winner, if you know what I'm saying. But before we get to that, Helen, |
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