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Jesse Singal
Hello, you're listening to a preview of a premium episode of Blockchain Reporter. This one is about Will Stancil again, but this is a crazy story involving anti ice honeypots and strippers investigating January 6th and other stuff I don't want to give away. You're going to want to hear the whole thing. Go to blocktownport.org Become a Premium Subscriber, become part of our community. It's incredible. But in the meantime, enjoy the preview. Hey.
Katie Herzog
Hey.
Jesse Singal
Did you notice anything different about how I greeted you?
Katie Herzog
You got a haircut.
Jesse Singal
Well, the people can't see that, but thank you. Yeah, no, but I didn't. I didn't ask the thing you don't like me to ask. I just said hey. And I think that's. That's enough.
Katie Herzog
Moving on.
Jesse Singal
I actually don't. I was gonna. I almost just slipped back into it. This is blocked and reported.
Katie Herzog
It's a primo episode.
Jesse Singal
You're kidding. Her starting.
Katie Herzog
This is a very inauspicious start.
Jesse Singal
There were. There are a couple. Before we get to today's main segment, which involves a certain Will Stancil. I'm not going to say which one. Couple. Couple. Quick preliminaries. First of all, you had to change the time we recorded today because you said you had to go to the quote in front of me, something very close to meet some old people on the beach early. Care to explain?
Katie Herzog
I mean, it's exactly what it sounds like. I. In a walking group and we meet early and they're old.
Jesse Singal
Dog walking group or just walking?
Katie Herzog
Yeah, about half the people have dogs actually. I think today everyone had dogs. And we meet and we walk on the beach. It's. It's truly lovely. You know, we just moved to this new town not that long ago and I finally found my people. And yes, they're all in their 70s.
Jesse Singal
Pedophiles. Okay.
Katie Herzog
Oh, no, they're not pedophiles as far as I know. Well, that hasn't come up yet. They are slowly learning about who I am. That one texted me the other day and he said, I googled this Jesse Single character. Sounds interesting.
Jesse Singal
Oh, nice.
Katie Herzog
Which I have not brought up your name. So he figured out. He did some. He did some research. Figured out.
Jesse Singal
I've occasionally gotten that. I only. The only time I make new acquaintances is through basketball. I don't have a good personality and I never meet people, but like, yeah, I'll play basketball, you know, random places and people occasionally see my name and they'll google me and they'll say, Something vague. Well, I assume the people who would say, fuck me. Yeah, just say that. It's usually pretty positive. Like, it's older. So I. I play what. One game I'm thinking of has some, like, older guys. Like, guys up into their 50s and 60s. And they are usually complimentary because they're like. They don't get all this newfangle. All these newfangled genders, you know?
Katie Herzog
Right, exactly. That's the thing. It's like my target audience is gonna
Jesse Singal
pretty much agree with someone, like, on their death.
Katie Herzog
Well, I mean, that's a little. That's a little far. But definitely either served in Vietnam or didn't serve in Vietnam, but had the opportunity to serve in Vietnam.
Jesse Singal
Yeah, had the opportunity. The opportunity to go to Vietnam to enforce gender norms, which is why we were there.
Katie Herzog
Exactly. Yeah, exactly.
Jesse Singal
Yeah. One other.
Katie Herzog
This Marxist man, they're like, everything's a wee hours.
Jesse Singal
We are. My pronoun is we ours. One other thing is, I. I don't know. Someone sent us an email. We were talking about the name Nimrod and how Nimrod got. Was taken to be an insult. And I think I called it.
Katie Herzog
You said it was a Jew name.
Jesse Singal
Jewish name. I don't have the exact quote and sometimes I Correspondence a Jew name. I knew. I know one guy named Nimrod who's from a Jewish family. Quote. This is from a listener. Nimrod is not a Jewish name. While it does come from Genesis, Nimrod was a king hunter at the time of Abraham. In fact, it is believed that Nimrod attempted to kill Abraham by throwing him into a fire. It's got to be easier ways to try to kill someone. So naming your kid Nimrod is as Jewish as naming him Pharaoh. Fun fact. The use of the name. He goes on. Fun fact. The use of the name Nimrod as an insult came from a misunderstanding of a line in a Looney Tunes cartoon. Bugs Bunny refers to Elmer Fudd as a Nimrod as a reference to the biblical Nimrod who was a hunter. Jewish writers, I assume. But many people understood that he meant it as an insult and started using the name in that way. If you have any more questions about Judaism or Elmer Fudd, please don't hesitate to ask. I've got some questions.
Katie Herzog
Um.
Jesse Singal
Try to throw them in a fire.
Katie Herzog
So I just got. I just opened up my email, and there's a. This is. I'm not even segueing. I'm just changing the subject. So there's a. There's a festival A festival. A festival in Seattle every year called Cascade PBS Ideas Festival. And I've been a few times I saw Lindy West a couple, a couple years ago.
Jesse Singal
I forgot about. Ask about that.
Katie Herzog
I don't know.
Jesse Singal
And then I'll say ways.
Katie Herzog
We'll come back to that. This is in the. Okay, we'll come back to that. I have to clear with Jana that I can.
Jesse Singal
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Katie Herzog
The thing alluding to the thing.
Jesse Singal
The thing I'm alluding to which we're not going to like explain anything about further. Okay. But it is like a thing.
Katie Herzog
Yeah, maybe.
Jesse Singal
Okay, so about Lindy west. Maybe.
Katie Herzog
Anyway, I saw Lindy West a couple years ago then last year and it was like she was there. Like Patrick Row riding. Keef was there, Nomi Fry was there. It was an pretty interesting lineup. And then last year it was like, like a pretty anti woke lineup. Like Nick Gillespie was there, Mike Pesca was there. Jane Coston was there. It was a good like last year I'm like, who. Who did this programming? This is an awesome group. And then I just opened an email from Cascade this year and it's Ibram X Kendry on Modern Authoritarianism, Monica Lewinsky and Laverne Cox on Identity and Resilience. Adam Schiff on democracy and AI. Nancy Pelosi on what it Takes to Will Power and Chanda Prescott Weinstein.
Jesse Singal
Oh God.
Katie Herzog
On Deep Space. I think they fired whoever had Pesca and net Gillespie on and replace them with the opposite.
Jesse Singal
Prescott Weinstein is like this social justice astronomer. I've had run ins with her. I think it's her again. At one point she was Agender. Just one of the more like ter. Like I don't say this lightly. Terrifying people on woke Twitter now Blue Sky. Okay, so they're vacillating wildly back and forth from.
Katie Herzog
So next year is going to be Nick Fuente's and Richard Spencer and the following year will be Robin d' Angelo and again Shonda Prescott Weinstein.
Jesse Singal
Very excited for that. Okay, well that was a weird. It wasn't as you said, it wasn't a segue subject. So that was the nimrod thing. And then the only other thing is I got locked out of Twitter. So if anyone. Did you tweet out. What's his name? Nikita Beer. What do you say?
Katie Herzog
I did. I said my employee Jesse Single has been locked out of his Twitter account. Porn related, I'm sure and would like your urgent attention to this matter. Thank you. I. I assume you're still locked out, so. Oh, but the, the Responses were pretty good. So, first one, April says maybe he could hang out over on Blue sky while he waits. There's lots about HIPAA violations. 1. Best to let it be. Consider it divine intervention.
Jesse Singal
That's what I. That. That I'm. I should take this as, like, a good thing. Like a really lucky break. Like a scratch off ticket. But to my disappointment, I do feel an urge to see what's going on there, in part because of the. The hilarious jokes you just read. So, Nikita, beer jokes or anyone at Twitter, if you're listening, I may explain
Katie Herzog
how you got locked out.
Jesse Singal
Yeah, well, I. I already explained. I had a phone and I took it into a hot tub in Mammoth Lakes, California, where there was a bear. That's unrelated, but it was cool. I had an authenticator app on it, and when I downloaded the authenticator app, I either forgot to. Or forgot where I put the. Those little codes you use if you lose the device, so.
Katie Herzog
Oh, yeah, that's rough. Interesting. I also have an authenticator app. Supposed to write those down.
Jesse Singal
You should. Yeah. And now it's tricky because it's hard for me to know which religious or ethnic groups are taking over Europe and killing white people, which is the kind of information you can only get on Twitter. So it's disappointing. Okay, Katie, should we get to the actual thing?
Katie Herzog
Let's do it. What are we talking about today?
Jesse Singal
All right, you already said it.
Katie Herzog
The Wilson.
Jesse Singal
If memory serves, the last time I led a segment about Blue sky, or as you call it, blueski, like some Polish Chicago hot dog vendor, I said
Katie Herzog
that I'm bend drivers. By the way, credit where it's due.
Jesse Singal
You steal everything from Bendriffs.
Katie Herzog
Although my eyes. That's why he only has one.
Jesse Singal
Jesus Christ. That's dark. Okay, I like how funny you found that. I stole my eye from Ben drivers, and I would have gotten away with it if I hadn't just admitted to it on the podcast.
Katie Herzog
I'm going to derail this really quick, you know, so my. As you know, my nephew, was it.
Jesse Singal
He's been Dreyfus?
Katie Herzog
No, my nephew was in a, like, really serious ski accident over the winter. He's fine. He has to have surgery on his eye, but he's like, he's fine. He's. But for a little while, it was like, touch and go. Like, we didn't know if he was gonna lose an eye or be blind or whatever. And I was thinking, like, who can I. Like, who do I know anybody who could talk to my nephew about, like, life after losing an eye and the only person I could think of was Ben Dreyfus. You don't want him talking to your nephew.
Jesse Singal
The doctor comes in and, like, sits his parents down. Like, we don't know the outcome yet. There's a chance he'll have to become a contrarian podcaster. The only job available for someone with that disability. Well, I'm glad to hear your he has both eyes. Nephew has both eyes.
Katie Herzog
Unlike that.
Jesse Singal
Okay. Usually I'm the derailer, so I can't get too mad about your frequent derailments, but, yeah, last time I led a segment on blue ski, I was basically like, it felt like a bender. I was like, I'm not doing this again. I'm not going back in there. This is too up. Unfortunately, friend of the podcast, Will Stancil, had other plans. Remind everyone who Will Stancil is.
Katie Herzog
God. Who is Will Stancil? He's a.
Jesse Singal
Who isn't Will Stanzel?
Katie Herzog
He's a muse.
Jesse Singal
Yep. A poet.
Katie Herzog
Well, I mean, I'm thinking of the Will Stanchel show, how there's a. An actual cartoon. A very racist AI cartoon made in his honor. He inspired it. He also ran for office in Minnesota. Lost, but not by much. He's a hero.
Jesse Singal
Yep.
Katie Herzog
He has been a big part of the ice. Anti ice patrols in Minneapolis. Although he was, I believe, at one point kicked out for talking to the media or they attempted to kick him out.
Jesse Singal
He is actress, model, dancer.
Katie Herzog
He's the contrarian's contrarian. Like, he's like. He pisses off everybody and his politics are, like, pretty moderate. I'm sure he's more kind of social justice y than I am, but he's basically like a Biden moderate.
Jesse Singal
Yeah.
Katie Herzog
Compared to much of Blue Sky.
Jesse Singal
Yes.
Katie Herzog
And so he manages to piss off Blue sky and Ax and presumably the people around him.
Jesse Singal
Yeah, we. We last talked about him in the context you mentioned. This cartoon is by Emily Eustace, who's. I don't think I hit this point hard. I mean, she's like, actually a white nationalist, and she made a car AI generated cartoon featuring an African American using the catchphrase it do be like that. Mrs. Stancil went super viral. This was just one of many scrapes he's gotten into online. I think this was the biggest one. Yeah. So after that, apparently this drove Will Stancy away from Twitter into the far more welcoming arms of Blue sky. Or supposedly welcoming, technically. He's still on Twitter. I'm told he hasn't tweeted since December. That said, I'm locked out Katie, check Will stancil his account and see what the most recent tweet is and what it says.
Katie Herzog
Don't you have a burner?
Jesse Singal
Yeah, but I think I lost access to that, too. I think I'm just, like, off now, which is good.
Katie Herzog
Okay. Yeah. He has not tweeted since December 15, 2025.
Jesse Singal
What do you say?
Katie Herzog
Trump is an incredibly evil person, and the people who celebrate him and tell constant lies to protect him are also evil. And then he followed this out, followed this up with, we should not tolerate this kind of open, smirking evil in our society and especially in our government. I have to say I sort of agree with that.
Jesse Singal
That Trump is bad.
Katie Herzog
I think that Trump is bad. I don't know that the people who celebrate him are evil. I think they can also be conf.
Jesse Singal
Confused.
Katie Herzog
Confused.
Jesse Singal
Manipulated.
Katie Herzog
Yeah. Yes. Foolish. It is continually, somehow, still surprising to me that Trump has as much support as he does does, considering the cost of gas.
Jesse Singal
Well, although it's getting.
Katie Herzog
Well, but like, just like, looking at, like, what happened in Texas and what happened in the. With the Ken Paxton race, what happened with Thomas Massey, like, anybody within the Republican Party who dares to even mildly challenge Trump is. Ends up losing their fucking races, despite the fact that the cost. The price of gas is now, like, $5 a gallon in most of the US anyway.
Jesse Singal
You would think we're getting to it. We're getting derailed again.
Katie Herzog
Wait, one more thing, One more thing. I saw this commercial yesterday, and I thought, like, I was like, did I hallucinate? Did I eat edibles and forget about it? Did I hallucinate this? And it was a commercial for this forthcoming. This upcoming ufc.
Jesse Singal
Oh, Next to the White House match
Katie Herzog
at the White House. And this is happening. This is really fucking happening. It's going to be like Joe Rogan and Dana Byer.
Jesse Singal
Did you say Dana Byer?
Katie Herzog
Wait, that's a trans woman.
Jesse Singal
The transaction contrarian. Dana White.
Katie Herzog
Yeah, definitely.
Jesse Singal
I don't think Dana Buyer will be at the UFC event outside the Trump White House.
Katie Herzog
I don't think so.
Jesse Singal
Dana, if you're listening, let us. Let us know if you'll.
Katie Herzog
Yeah, you're going. It'll be like, Logan Paul and like, on the, like, building. They're building a cage on the White House lawn. And I thought maybe I hallucinated this, but I looked it up and. No, it's real and it's happening, of course, on Trump's birthday. Birthday.
Jesse Singal
If, if, if Trump announced, like, we're going to have immigrant detainees fight and the winner gets citizenship Would that surprise you at this point? Because it wouldn't surprise me. I'd be like, that sounds like something you would do.
Katie Herzog
No. And I might watch.
Jesse Singal
That's, that's fucked up. I will just say, because you brought it up, he's like plumbing new frontiers of unpopularity for president. And, and yeah, yeah, it's weird because he sells, he has an iron grip on the party. But this is not, I don't think this is going to go well for them in a few months. Katie, we don't need to talk about this. How did we get here?
Katie Herzog
I don't know. Okay. Yes.
Jesse Singal
Will Stancil, Stancil skeets everywhere on Blue Sky. He's just constantly skating. Skeet, skeet, skeet is something I came up with to describe his behavior on there. So, like, Katie, I, I. There's just a random tweet from February I pasted in here. Just read that little note affixed to the top of it. This is a Will Stancil ski, I should say, from 2026 posts.
Katie Herzog
A lot more than 100 times yesterday. Why? What is that? Tag.
Jesse Singal
I don't. So there's all these ways to tag, you know, like if I tweet something, ski something, it's like evil bigot and.
Katie Herzog
Oh, so this is like a note that other skaters can attach to your own.
Jesse Singal
Yeah, I don't know if that, if it's that or I haven't been on Blue sky enough. Like, I think if someone is posting that much, it should be mandatory that they get flared because like, that just means this person should not be listened to. But yeah, post more than 100 times.
Katie Herzog
It's like a flare that says like mental health issues.
Jesse Singal
It's like a tramp stick stamp. Like it, it gives you the same
Katie Herzog
sort of information more than 100 times yesterday.
Jesse Singal
I'm gonna get a tramp stamp that just calls me Sir Posala in like, like sort of Latin Kings type. Yeah, okay. Yeah. As you were alluded to earlier, Will Stanley has unique ability to derange just about everybody. He often goes after the right, but he has sometimes also gotten left mad at him. So just read the top of this profile in Racket magazine, a Minnesota based outlet. This sort of sums it up well.
Katie Herzog
Will Santle strikes a curious Internet duality. Pugnacious punching bag, eager to scrap, yet immune to the counter attacks that barrage his Twitter timeline day and night. Santa noise. Tweet this way. About nine months ago, however, the U. Of M researcher began a daily assault on the co on the so called Vibe session a belief that doomer economic sentiments are overshadowing promising indicators in the U S economy. Centrist agreed in great numbers that president Joe Biden's economy is indeed booming while the left fancied stancil a water carrying show for the Democratic establishment. That was fun time on the timeline.
Jesse Singal
Yeah.
Katie Herzog
Like Will single handedly taking on Hasan Piker.
Jesse Singal
People really did not like Will's econ posting so he argued in this interview that he does not quote get off on it. That's his quote. It it being like an Internet punching bag. I don't think that that his behavior squares with that. I think he gets off on like I think he likes really? You don't think Will Santa likes being the Internet punching bag based on his behavior?
Katie Herzog
Will. Will strikes me as potentially a bit spectrumy.
Jesse Singal
Okay.
Katie Herzog
I cannot get enter the mind of Will Santo.
Jesse Singal
It's very hard to do but someone who's this deep into their posting career like Katie you. You what it is you. I think the last time people got really mad at you it was when you said don't do therapy. Go like help somebody.
Katie Herzog
I don't think that was the last time but yeah people got very upset about that.
Jesse Singal
And what do you when when you are the character of the day what are you supposed to do?
Katie Herzog
Post through it?
Jesse Singal
No, no. So you know this the opposite answer. Just log off. Log off.
Katie Herzog
I will do better.
Jesse Singal
I I sorry. What I meant to say was therapy is great now that now that 10000 people in therapy have told me to kill myself proving how happy and well adjusted they are. It's really working for your eyes. No. When you're the character of the day go for a walk, touch grass.
Katie Herzog
We'll in the immortal words of of
Jesse Singal
Earl sweatshirt was that was it oh Tyler the creator. Yeah. I don't think you can read that
Katie Herzog
quote but vlog off.
Jesse Singal
Vlog off. Yeah. Will does not log off. He's just constantly punching back and that is why he has become such a character.
Katie Herzog
Yeah. Do you think he has a job these days?
Jesse Singal
Yeah.
Katie Herzog
So at the time he was of this article he was a U of M researcher.
Jesse Singal
He did. I mean we're going to get into it but he had a. He has a lot, he did have a lot of time to do sort of and, and I, I have nothing against this cause but he had a lot of time to do anti ice stuff so I don't know if he had like a nine to five but we don't have nine to fives.
Katie Herzog
Maybe his well at the time. When. When was the ice stuff happening? I mean, he. It's possible that he's making so much money Twitter on Twitter engagement that he was just like the Ian Miles Cheong of. Of resistance Twitter.
Jesse Singal
Yeah.
Katie Herzog
So why are we talking about him again?
Jesse Singal
Right, so as I think mentioned earlier, he lives in Minnesota. He's been living there since. That's it. That's all you get. If you want to hear the whole thing, go to blocktreport. Org and become a premium subscriber. Thank you for listening. Bye.
Blocked and Reported – Katie Herzog & Jesse Singal
Episode Date: May 28, 2026
In this special premium preview, hosts Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal delve into the latest chapter of online chaos surrounding Will Stancil—a recurring figure on the podcast and a notorious contrarian on social media. The episode promises a wild exploration: anti-ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) honeypots, strippers involved in January 6th investigations, and the wider web of internet absurdity. They also riff on recent Blue Sky (stylized as “Blueski”) drama, festival programming whiplash, and the memeification of digital discourse.
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“He said, I googled this Jesse Single character. Sounds interesting.”
—Katie Herzog (01:46)
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“The use of the name Nimrod as an insult came from a misunderstanding of a line in a Looney Tunes cartoon.”
—Listener email, read by Jesse Singal (03:56)
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“Prescott Weinstein is like this social justice astronomer. I’ve had run-ins with her. I think... just one of the more… terrifying people on woke Twitter. Now Blue Sky.”
—Jesse Singal (05:46)
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“Now it’s tricky because it’s hard for me to know which religious or ethnic groups are taking over Europe and killing white people, which is the kind of information you can only get on Twitter.”
—Jesse Singal (07:39)
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“He manages to piss off Blue Sky and Ax and presumably the people around him.”
—Katie Herzog (10:32)
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“It’s like a tramp stamp… it gives you the same sort of information: more than 100 times yesterday.”
—Jesse Singal (14:46)
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“He argued in this interview that he does not ‘get off on it.’ That’s his quote… I think he gets off on it.”
—Jesse Singal (15:56)
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“When you’re the character of the day, go for a walk, touch grass... In the immortal words of Tyler, the Creator: ‘Log off.’”
—Jesse Singal (17:08-17:20)
“Trump is an incredibly evil person, and the people who celebrate him and tell constant lies to protect him are also evil.”
—Will Stancil, last public tweet (11:30, read by Katie Herzog)
“He is actress, model, dancer. He’s the contrarian’s contrarian.”
—Jesse Singal (10:13)
“The only job available for someone with that disability [missing an eye]. Well, I’m glad to hear... your nephew has both eyes.”
—Jesse Singal, on the hazards of turning contrarian podcaster (09:00)
| Timestamp | Segment Description | |-----------|--------------------------------------------------------------------| | 00:30 | Katie’s “old people on the beach” walking group | | 03:05 | Listener email on the name “Nimrod” and Looney Tunes origins | | 04:12 | Katie discusses the Cascade PBS Ideas Festival lineup changes | | 07:11 | Jesse’s Twitter lockout story (authenticator, hot tub, bear) | | 09:37 | Introduction/recap of Will Stancil and his digital notoriety | | 14:16 | Will Stancil’s prolific posting on Blue Sky; “mental health issues”| | 15:19 | Racket magazine profile on Stancil’s online persona | | 17:08 | Advice for surviving online backlash; Tyler, the Creator meme | | 18:01 | Speculation on Stancil’s current employment/career trajectory |
This episode preview delivers a freewheeling look at both the personal quirks and broader online significance of Will Stancil—a figure beloved and reviled in equal measure for his relentless, almost compulsive digital engagement. Katie and Jesse blend personal tales, media critique, and tongue-in-cheek banter to dissect what it means to be “extremely online” in 2026, all while poking fun at the whiplash culture wars reflected in festival lineups and platform migrations. The episode promises juicier details regarding Stancil’s alleged role in anti-ICE ops and the ripple effects of posting through the storm—if you subscribe for the full story.