Episode 271: Engagement Bait

Blocked and Reported

Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal

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4.6 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss a schism in the anti-feminist right, featuring influencers Sarah Stock, Pearl Davis, Emily Wilson, Morgen Ariel, and one little engagement ring.

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The engagment photo

Deranged MAGA Civil War Erupts Over Engagement Ring Size

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0:00.0	All right, Jesse, how you doing?
0:11.5	Last I heard you were a bit enfeebled.
0:14.3	Yeah, we had to delay recording this.
0:17.3	It's Saturday.
0:18.4	We usually record the free ones on Friday.
0:23.9	Let me tell you a very quick story, Katie. Is that okay?
0:26.6	Yeah, sure. It's just Saturday. I don't have anything to do.
0:35.7	No. On Thursday, I was supposed to take an Amtrak from New York to Boston, a little 20-minute walk to the ferry.
0:37.2	Such a Biden bro. I'm a Biden bro.
0:38.0	You take the ferry across Massachusetts Bay into Provincetown. And from Provincetown, I was going to spend some time on the Cape. You're going to do drugs with Andrew Sullivan? Go see some bears. We'll get to that. Okay. I'm also in a different recording thing, so I'm a little bit echoy. although these days we can clear that up in post, by which I mean you just feed it some AI thing. And then AI just inserts racial slurbs and so forth. Okay. Anyway, Amtrak, in case people, I know no one's ever complained about Amtrak before, pretty bad. Why do you insist on taking the train from New York to Boston instead of flying, which I assume is cheaper in like 30 minutes? It's often not cheaper. It takes longer when you include like airport time. But I think I'm going to start doing that because it's just it's they basically, we don't need to go in the whole day they they the amtrak's delayed it's supposed
1:28.2	to leave at 11 they're like okay now we're going to leave it 11 22 let's get on the train get on
1:32.2	the train the conductor's like we need to replace the engine we don't know how long that's going to
1:37.9	take so it's like another 40 minutes before we leave wow i'm actually impressed it only takes
1:42.9	40 minutes to change a choo train engine that good. Well, at the end of the day, I'd given myself
1:50.9	two hours to make the 20-minute trip from South Station to the pier where the boat leaves.
1:55.7	That wasn't enough time. I missed the boat because it was two hours late coming in. I just
2:00.4	missed the Provincetown ferry. Switch just missed the Provincetown ferry.
2:01.9	Switch to a different Provincetown ferry, the fast ferry, Katie. Oh yeah. I'm familiar with the
2:06.2	fast ferries. Yeah, I get on the ferry. It's glorious. People who follow me on Instagram, which you
2:11.9	should. Took a couple photos of the sun setting behind Boston. Then we get out to the sea,
2:20.0	and this is not exactly the Transatlantic Crossing.
2:22.7	This is just going across a little bit of Massachusetts Bay.
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