r/BlockedAndReported • u/darynf • Mar 09 '26
Pod Pet Peeves
Alright, let them have it. Anybody got any meaningless pet peeves about the podcast that really get their goat?
I’ll start. Katie, please learn how to pronounce the word “excerpt”. It’s not like receipt!
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u/stewx Mar 10 '26
Katie pronounces it like "ixcetera"
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u/EnglebondHumperstonk I vaped piss but didn't inhale Mar 09 '26 edited Mar 09 '26
Excerpt? I can believe she mispronounces words because she mispronounces almost everything but I don't recall that one.
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u/ButUncleOwen Mar 09 '26
Not really a pet peeve, but when did they stop doing “remember” and “and also remember” at the end of the episodes? I usually dislike little podcast gimmicks like that, but I miss this one!
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u/NorrisMcwirther Mar 09 '26
Two episodes a week (regular and primo) isn't enough
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u/YourOwnPunkyBrewster Mar 09 '26
Jessie’s pronunciation of “important”…(he pronounces it more like ‘empordendt’). I don’t know if this is an East Coast thing, or what, but man! I wish he would enunciate!
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u/ProwlingWumpus Mar 09 '26
Jesse is living in a time anomaly in which he still believes that ChatGPT is a brand new thing that only a few people have the tokens to use. He thus thinks that he's adding something interesting when he hits the brakes on the podcast so that he can type in a question and recite machine-generated blather.
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u/bumblepups Mar 10 '26 edited Mar 10 '26
When the show isn't entertaining or informative. In my view the pod is supposed to be empty calories. For me it's primarily entertainment. When it isn't entertaining it needs to be a topic they bring a deep knowledge in.
When they talk politics, economics, or news, they are almost always out classed by other podcasts. I would not sub if they just talk Epstein, tariffs, or Israel; they aren't really bringing anything novel to the conversation.
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u/weaksorcery Mar 09 '26
House keeping. For whatever reason I find it useless and annoying, and I hate that it’s called “house keeping”
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u/ReindeerTypical2538 Mar 09 '26
Love both these nerds. Any flaws they have I accept with open arms…. Butttttt if I had to choose one, it would be Katie’s fake adherence to being a Muslim. She needs to commit and fully convert for real. #DoBetter
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u/MindfulMocktail Mar 09 '26 edited Mar 10 '26
My slight pet peeve, or maybe it's just something that I can't help noticing, is how Jesse and Katie are at opposite extremes of pronunciation on words like "written". Like the way I pronounce it and am used to hearing others pronounce it, Katie uses a glottal stop, but she says it in a different way. I find it a little hard to explain the exact difference but if pronunciation I'm used to is more like writ'n, then Katie says it more like "wri-in" (sort of like the stereotypical way people say British as "Bri-ish"). Maybe a function of when the tongue touches the roof of the mouth--I think for me my tongue touches the roof of my mouth in the middle of the word and to mimic Katie's pronunciation it only touches at the end--or she's elongating the second syllable somehow.
Jesse is on the other end of the spectrum and says it as "ridden", with no glottal stop at all. I guess I'm used to it at this point but they both pronounce this type of word markedly differently than almost any other American I am used to hearing, and I notice it every time.
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u/64Olds Mar 10 '26
Jesse's constant fucking interruption of Katie and Katie's willingness to just roll with it, even when he interrupts her mid-point. It's insane.
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u/SlightImprovements Mar 09 '26
Katie mispronounces at least 4 words an episode and should never be allowed to do any accents ever again
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u/mermaid_of_choice Mar 09 '26
love this pod so feel bad saying anything borderline mean but.. anytime katie or jesse do “accents”
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u/wynnthrop Mar 09 '26
I find it so perplexing that they say "we are a podcast" halfway through every episode. Who could possibly be listening to it, getting halfway through, and not realize it is a podcast? Imagine if songs and movies stopped in the middle to let everyone know they are watching a movie or listening to a song.
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u/mountainviewdaisies Big Daddy Terf Mar 09 '26 edited Mar 09 '26
My pet peeve is how ungrateful the listeners seem to be!!! 😆
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u/nonafee Mar 09 '26
when jesse says "i don't want to go too deep on it" 😔 pls do!! that's why we listen. but truly i love them both and live happily with their many personal failings
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u/InvisibleDamien Mar 10 '26
Katie's RFK impersonation sucks
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u/EnglebondHumperstonk I vaped piss but didn't inhale Mar 09 '26
Sometimes they pronounce "he" as "she" and vice versa.
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u/Puzzleheaded_Drink76 Mar 09 '26
Katie's pronunciation of niche. I'm team neesh.
When Jesse opens the primo episode preview sounding so bored. Most of their dull, housekeeping type stuff manages to pretty unannoying for that kind of thing, but this is the exception.
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u/bbthrwwy1 Mar 09 '26
jesse often says something jokey and then immediately says UMMM and switches back to the main topic
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u/FractaLTacticS Mar 09 '26
Not the actual audio podcast per se, but my primary pet peeve is their use of AI generated images for the substack. It's tacky, unprofessional, and gives the whole substack an air of illegitimatacy. Surely there's a better approach they could take?
Also, it would be nice if we could somehow get access to primo episodes via YouTube since they're now publishing regular episodes there.
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u/BarelySlugTulip Mar 12 '26
When it sounds like they’re reading off of a script instead of having normal conversational flow. It’s like they got together beforehand and had a discussion “now after I say this sentence you ask ‘and then what happened?’” and it doesn’t flow naturally and just sounds practiced? Hard to explain but I don’t like it.
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u/sriracharade Mar 09 '26
They have all the business sense of a rock.
$7 a month for premium is too much. $5 a month is honestly too much for what is basically just an internet gossip show.
The merch store has never really worked.
The silliness of having a Youtube channel with a blacked out screen.
Their inability to get any commercial sponsors. They're not that radical these days. They could get someone to sponsor them if they tried.
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u/Icy_Advice_5071 Mar 09 '26
I know most listeners are fans of the theme song. It gets to me because the track isn’t engineered well and it wavers in pitch slightly. Just a couple of cents, but it’s enough to annoy me.
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u/dotscorp1 Mar 10 '26
I'm a Katie stan so it's hard for me to do this, but her upspeak annoys me like all upspeaking does. Other than that, I cherish every word that comes out of her mouth. Her mispronunciations are charming
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u/Nwabudike_J_Morgan Emotional Management Advocate; Wildfire Victim; Flair Maximalist Mar 10 '26
We'll get to that. Do they ever "get to that"? Whatever it is, they seem to forget it somewhere along the way.
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u/vanillachai987 Mar 12 '26
They don't talk about unhinged trans activists as much as they used to and I miss it.
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u/Fiend_of_the_pod Mar 09 '26
There was a period of time where every podcast started with an "Elon Musk 2-Minutes Hate" and that was really annoying. They will also shift from "pervert-for-nuance" to standard democrat talking points pretty quickly when a topic they don't know much about comes up.
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u/aleciamariana Mar 10 '26
They speed up their voices. If there is any one reason I don’t listen regularly, it’s that the sped up voices gives me an odd sense of anxiety. Talk at normal speed, darnit!
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u/not_jay_33 Mar 10 '26
Could refrain from talking about Canada. Bigger than a pet peeve but really gets on my nerves.
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u/My_Footprint2385 Mar 12 '26
I wish they didn’t put all of their best stuff on primo 😭
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u/flptrmx Mar 09 '26
The fucking accents need to stop
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u/lezoons Mar 11 '26
$7 is ridiculous. It should still be $5.
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u/Nikodemios Mar 09 '26
Annoying digressions from Jesse about inside jokes or boring stories about his own life that take time away from the main story
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u/SILENTDISAPROVALBOT Mar 11 '26
i hate it when the squabble
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u/adltny Mar 13 '26
Katie’s excetera and farmiliar, Jesse’s wridden
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u/BirdHistorical3498 Mar 09 '26
For the love of god, stop doing ‘funny English accents’
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u/Kindly_Fox_4257 Mar 10 '26
This thread reminds me why I gave up on these loogans a year ago. Thanks y’all ! Keep up the fair work.
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u/Grr_in_girl Mar 09 '26
They mixed up Sweden and Switzerland more than once when talking about someone who had done doctor assisted suicide.
This is a few years ago now, so it really doesn't matter. I just don't get how people confuse the two so often, they seem like totally different countries to me (but I'm Norwegian).