Blocked Party

Ryan Williams (comedian, writer) returns to the show to take on Canada's Rebel Media, our pathetic answer to the American alt-right community, and he goes straight to the top, catching a block from its founder, Ezra Levant. Elsewhere, John is home alone this week as Becca visits her family, and we talk about how he started it by watching a documentary about the making of Forrest Gump and taking a nap. Luckily Ryan picks up the slack for John's boring Sunday by telling one of the craziest stories we've ever heard on the show, and then follows that up (after doing his own segue) by telling the second craziest story we've ever heard on the show. The Blocked Boys try to keep up, as we get into "sex arses", construction sites, getting vaccinated, and John finds one of the more cursed poems we've ever read.   If you'd like some less cursed content, you can head on over to patreon.com/blockedparty, where $5/month gets you access to THREE bonus episodes every single month. This week, we're bringing our friend Melissa Stetten on for another CanCon episode as we watch a couple episodes of the girls' coming-of-age dramedy "Ready or Not" and it gets a bit wild. Plus, BPD&D2 launches this month and you won't wanna miss it!   Ryan Williams is a stand-up comedian whose podcast, the ThunderBronco Sports podcast, will be launching in September. You can follow him for details on that and everything else he's up to on Twitter and Instagram at @Ryannornot. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alison Rosen (podcaster, writer) joins us to warn of the dangers about posting a photo on Instagram of a recent manicure, lest people think you're too much of a narcissist. In fairness, we do manage to talk a fair amount about ourselves on the podcast, as John is forced to talk about his curling history off the top and it devolves into a long conversation about seltzer and pop consumption. We also get into laser hair removal, arguing with anti-vaxxers on Twitter, one of the craziest CNN interviews of all-time, and John discovers the all-time best name of an Olympian from the world of field hockey.   If you want to discover some all-time best things, you can head on over to patreon.com/blockedparty, where $5/month gets you access to THREE bonus episodes a month AND our entire back catalogue, which is filled with greatness. It's a tremendous deal and we have a big August ahead with our first episode of BPD&D2, as we're going to be playing the RPG "Paranoia" with Carlos Maza, Carla Mah, and Racquel Belmonte. It'll be going for 4 months and will be a blast. Plus lots of other great stuff is on the way, plus we have newsletters, a great Discord, and MORE! So check it out.   Alison Rosen hosts two podcasts, "Alison Rosen is Your New Best Friend" and "Childish", both available wherever you get your pods. Her book, "Tropical Attire Encouraged (and Other Phrases That Scare Me)" is also out now, and she can be followed on Twitter and Instagram at @AlisonRosen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Taylor Lorenz (New York Times) returns to the show to explain her confusion over how she got blocked and unblocked and blocked again by Logan Paul, and in the process of telling the tale, figures out how it might've happened. We figure out a lot of things on this episode, like the fact that Taylor is a bird person, John has a different definition than most of what a "drinking boot" is, and Stefan is going to buy a cat backpack for Kiki. Plus!! We talk about the new gamer chairs we got for BPHQ, late 90's fashion, Kevin Sorbo, vegan food, and Nyjah Huston's ass.   If you don't want to show your ass, you should donate to the show at patreon.com/blockedparty, where $5/month gets you access to THREE bonus episodes every single month. We just posted a great mailbag episode with John's dad last week, and coming this week is the return of our all-Cameo bonus episode, Word Up!, with returning guest and one of our faves, Brandon Ash Mohammed.   Taylor Lorenz is a technology reporter for the New York Times, and you can find her on Twitter and Instagram at @TaylorLorenz. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If you're thinking you can't trust a man named Ashley, our guest this week, Danika Thibault (comedian), is here to prove you right, as she tells a tale about a chance encounter leading to a very weird online interaction and subsequent blocking by...a man named Ashley. Speaking of weird online interactions, Stefan doubles down on his Marge impression from the Go Off Kings this week, and shows at least a little improvement. Plus we get into Canadian chocolate bars, Donald Trump, Stefan's MLB: The Show character, A24 films, Sisqo's beautiful reasoning behind the Thong Song, and Danika gives John and Stefan a literal glow up as we learn about the Glow filter on TikTok.   If you want a glow up but in podcasting form, you can get it over at patreon.com/blockedparty, where $5/month gets you access to THREE bonus episodes every month. This week, we have a very special guest for our monthly mailbag episode: John's Dad! John Cullen Sr. joins the program to answer all manner of questions from our listeners, and it gets as wild as you'd expect. Plus right now we have the great bonus episode we did last week with the guys from the Evil Men podcast, and BPD&D 2: Paranoia starts next month. You won't wanna miss it!   Danika Thibault is a comedian and podcaster whose podcast, Forgive Us, can be found wherever you get your pods. You can follow her on Twitter at @Danika_Thibault and on Instagram at @DanikaThibault. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's a long-awaited episode as our old friend Tom (ChapoFYM) joins us after the worst intro in show history to tell us a great Block Tale as he revisits the "horny Twitter" we got into with the Globe Hell guys and folks...this time, it might be worse. As we've mentioned before, we've known Tom since the Real Good Show days and so we spend some time reminiscing about the RGS Hot-Off and the Akron Pooper amidst talk of the infamous Calgary Stampede threesome and M. Night Shyamalan's weird new movie where people get old on a beach. We also learn an awful lot about latex mask-wearing guys, Jesse getting killed by a deer in a hunting video game, and we speculate on whether or not our parents would like I Think You Should Leave.   One thing our parents do like for sure is our wonderful bonus content over at patreon.com/blockedparty, where $5/month gets you access to THREE bonus episodes every month. We just finished recording a wonderful bonus episode with the guys from the Evil Men podcast, Chris Locke, Michael Balazo, and James Hartnett and that'll be out this week, and this month's Blocked Bag has a very special guest you won't wanna miss.   Tom is a streamer who can be found often on Chapo Trap House's Twitch stream, ChapoFYM. You can hit them up at twitch.tv/chapotraphouse and you can follow Tom on Twitter at @tom_on_here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

K.C. Novak (comedian) makes her return to the show to talk about another romantic rejection, this time through a business she falls in love with over the pandemic. The Blocked Boys offer moral support as she walks us through the DMs and puts herself out there in a very sweet way. The rest of the show is also pretty darn sweet as we talk backyard games, Van Morrison's anti-lockdown album, and Kiki's near escape from Stefan's apartment. Plus, we get into K.C.'s reimagining of Seinfeld in the pandemic, Badlands becoming the first July 4th chugging champ, the Sha'Carri Richardson situation, and we revisit some of Frankie Muniz's best work (his tweets, obviously. Not that TV show or whatever.)   If you want to revisit some of our best work, you can head on over to patreon.com/blockedparty, where $5/month gets you access to THREE bonus episodes a month, plus our entire back catalogue, which contains over 75 full-length bonus episodes and lots of other fun stuff like video content and newsletters written by us. It's a blast!   K.C. Novak is a comedian and writer who you can follow on Twitter at @funnygirlblues and you can watch her climate-focused comedy special over at thegreenchannel.tv. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Will Weldon (comedian, actor) joins the show for the third time but the first on a main episode, as we dig into his old "L.A. Meetings" bit on Twitter and find out how it led to getting blocked by a prominent screenwriter. Elsewhere on the show it's a preview of the Blocked Boys' weekend as we discuss the Vancouver "Heat Dome" and our plans to deal with it, and a tease of our Canadian Education episode this month leads to a discussion about poutine and other Canadian nonsense. Plus, we talk about children's books, John McAfee, Mikey Miles, and John's recently finished library inventory experience.   If you want to access Blocked Party's entire inventory, you can do so at patreon.com/blockedparty, where $5/month gets you access to THREE bonus episodes every damn month. This week, we have our latest Canadian Education Programme for Foreign Podcasters episode coming out, where we invite our friend Derek on to eat poutine! It's a good one. Plus we have some specialty episodes coming up in the summer you won't wanna miss with some very special guests!   Will Weldon is a comedian and actor whose most recent film, "Too Late", is out now. You can follow him on Twitter at @oldmanweldon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sophie Ross (writer/podcaster) joins us to discuss a pretty big-time block from Kendall Jenner that involved getting quote-tweeted by Kim Kardashian and a whole lot of Twitter drama. It's a perfect fit for our show and so is Sophie, as we run down her post-COVID return to the New York City lifestyle, complete with a 3 am Taco Bell run. We also get into hockey and football which leads to a discussion of Sophie's crush on Bengals QB Joe Burrow, Stefan reads out a crazy wedding story, and John is unhappy with Stefan's Coke Freestyle machine choice.   One choice you won't be unhappy with is donating to the show at patreon.com/blockedparty, where $5/month gets you access to THREE bonus episodes every single month. This past week, we put up another mailbag with Randee Neumeyer that Stefan's mom described as a "total cumfest", so that was pretty fun, and we have the continuation of our Canadian Education Programme coming very soon. It's all there and you won't wanna miss anything!   Sophie Ross is a writer who can be found in various publications including Refinery29 and Betches. She guests on a podcast called "So Bad It's Good" every Monday and can be followed on Twitter at @SophRossss. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nate Ruess (musician, fun.) joins the show to talk about a very weird series of tweets from the guy from Eve 6, who called out Nate's band and forced Nate to block him just because Nate was sick of people talking to him about it. Nate doesn't get sick of talking to us though, as we run through our old high school days after John talks about playing some fun. songs with his teacher band at a Christmas concert. We wonder what it would take to get statues built of us at our respective alma maters as Nate talks about growing up with pet horses, getting dumped in high school, and how contracting mono helped him graduate. Elsewhere in the episode, we watch Joey try the BTS meal, Nate explains how he found his true calling on Twitter, and we FINALLY, after almost a year of trying, get some art from Tony Posnanski.   Something that's much easier to get is a bunch of bonus content over at patreon.com/blockedparty, where $5/month gets you access to THREE bonus episodes every month. This week, we reopen the Blocked Bag and answer YOUR listener questions with past guest and comedian Randee Neumeyer, and we have lots of other great bonus content coming up you won't want to miss, including newsletters and the continuation of our Canadian Education Programme for Foreign Podcasters, where we teach non-Canadian guests about Canadian pop culture.   Nate Ruess is the lead singer of fun. and The Format as well as a solo artist, but he has nothing to plug and does not want you to follow him (but he can be found on Twitter at @nateruessmusic). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's our first episode in 8 months where we have everyone including the guest in studio, and boy do we have a fun time with our wonderful guest Brandon Wardell (actor/comedian). To borrow a phrase from past guest David J. Roth, we "remember some guys", but instead of sports, it's the internet edition, as we dig into some people we remember from the early days of Twitter and YouTube. From there, Brandon reveals that he's spent his two months in Canada well, as he's learned a lot about one of our favourites, Frank D'Angelo, and tells us about the time he got blocked by Canadian icon Justin Bieber over a concert livetweet. Plus, we take a look at the end of Tito Ortiz's mayoral career, we discover an official Playboy version of the Sims, and Stefan puts a bow on the Naomi Wolf situation.   If you want something else to put a bow on, you can give us the gift of your donation at patreon.com/blockedparty, where $5/month gets you access to THREE bonus episodes every single month. We got this month off to a hot start with a new Trivia Party episode with our friends from What a Time to Be Alive and we've got a lot of great stuff coming very soon, so check it all out. Plus, we've got the $100 Club, which gets you a free BP T-Shirt, access to all of our bonus episodes, and access to all of our newsletters, of which there are FIVE every month. It's a great deal, so check it all out over there.   Brandon Wardell is a comedian, actor, and writer who hosts the podcast Yeah, But Still with Jack Wagner and can be followed on Twitter at @BrandonWardell. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices