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Jesse Singal & Katie Herzog On The Substack Wars

Jesse Singal & Katie Herzog On The Substack Wars

Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté · Matt Taibbi

March 23, 20211h 14m

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Show Notes

Jesse Singal and Katie Herzog, co-hosts of the podcast Blocked And Reported, join Useful Idiots to talk about the failed campaign to get Singal driven off of Substack and what, according to Herzog, some of Singal's most vocal critics have in common with QAnon. They also talk about how they met and why they started their podcast and how they're not exactly canceled. Singal discusses his new book "Quick Fix," about the dangers of fad psychology. And Matt and Katie discuss the indefensible hoarding of vaccine, and debate the important question: can robbing blind people ever be funny?

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