Blocked Party

Michael Balazo (comedian, Evil Men) returns to the show for a block that may not be surprising in nature given the person in question, but it might be surprising that Michael displays a great amount of valiance and support for a loved one after Graham and his followers chase after her in a weird way online. This episode displays a great amount of valiance as well, as we discuss fighting each other, Grey Cup halftime shows, betting on Green Day, shaving in public, weird hockey teammates, and Stefan prepares to fly to Australia. Plus, Michael has a tweet go viral that gets us talking Benny Hill, Stefan deletes his Twitter account, and John sees a Twitter joke that is so rooted in Twitter's old days that it gets us nostalgic.If you want to get nostalgic for the early days of this podcast, supporting the show over at patreon.com/blockedparty for $5/month will get you access to our ENTIRE back catalogue of bonus episodes! That's over 100! Wowee! Plus, we're still releasing three new ones every damn month! Last week, our good friend Charlie Demers returned for a mailbag episode, and very soon, the second episode of BPD&D3 with Mike and Jesse will arrive and it promises to be as insane as the first. We also have ad-free episodes, an exclusive Discord, merch discounts, and MORE!Michael Balazo is a comedian whose new album, "Michael 1, Comedy, 0" is available wherever you get your music and/or comedy. You can also listen to him on the great Evil Men podcast every week, and you can follow him on Twitter at @mbalazo.This episode is also available in video format on our YouTube. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gavin Matts (comedian) returns to the show and catches a block that realistically we should all aspire to catch: he gets blocked by O.J. Simpson. You remember, the football player who also did some other stuff. It was a COVID-era block but Gavin doesn't catch it for a reason you'd think, but rather for a well-timed joke. And there are lots of well-timed jokes on this episode as discussion of bodegas leads us down a strange rabbit hole into the world of pitbull breeding and the very strange posters that accompany said breeding. We also chat about the YouTube comments on Gavin's new special, speaking Italian, and we revisit the classic "dog condoms" bit. Plus, we learn a lot about the Pixel Fold: Hip Hop 50th Anniversary Edition, Ludacris' stage name, and Stefan shows us a dog that poops on a window, because of course he does.If you want more of Stefan's hilarious hijinks, head on over to our Patreon page and donate to the show! Support your favorite fellas! $5/month at patreon.com/blockedparty gets you access to THREE bonus episodes every month. Last week, Adam Christie joined us for a Cullen the Herd episode where John talks about a Curling Twitter block, and this week, Charlie Demers returns to the show for a delightful mailbag. We also have ad-free episodes, access to our Discord, merch discounts, and more, so get on over there!Gavin Matts' new special is called "Progression" and it's out on YouTube now. You can follow Gavin on Instagram at @gavinmatts.This episode is also available in video format on our YouTube. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alistair Ogden (comedian) returns to the show to take us on a journey into the psyche of one man, who posts numerous signs around his neighborhood looking for engagement from locals, from offering manicures and pedicures with no studio to needing help with Microsoft Excel. We learn probably more than we would want to, but it's fascinating. Also on the episode we are fascinated by Alistair going viral for pissing off small town Alberta, the Nerds candy universe (Rope/Dweebs/Punkies), old-school Halloween candies, and talk of beans leads to discussing our favorite Mr. Bean memories. Plus, Alistair introduces us to his TikTok comments section, Bob Hoskins talks about playing Super Mario, and the Bored Apes people blind a bunch of their fans.If you want to be blinded by the sheer amount of bonus content we have available, then head over to patreon.com/blockedparty, where $5/month gets you access to THREE bonus episodes every single month. This week, fan fave Adam Christie joins the show for a Cullen the Herd episode, and later this month, BPD&D 3 with db and Jesse continues onward. We have over 100 bonus episodes available from the second you donate, plus merch discounts, a Discord, and lots of other fun stuff, so get your butt over there!!!Alistair Ogden is a comedian who is currently on tour across Canada and you can find those dates and information about the upcoming release of his latest special by following him on Instagram and TikTok at @alistairogden. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brittany Lyseng (comedian) joins the show for the first time and it's the first in-studio guest in John's new home studio in Calgary. Unfortunately, Brittany is too nice online and so she is forced to do the one thing she never dreamed of doing: blocking Producer Dan. This is a Producer Dan-heavy episode as we spend a lot of time discussing his newfound fascination with pinball and that leads into talk of Godzilla, poetry, luxury kombucha, Halloween, and firecrackers. Plus, Brittany learns a lot about hobby horses, Stefan introduces us to the town of Skidmore, and we get a good reminder from our local elementary school teachers for Halloween.If you want to hear from some real characters, head on over to patreon.com/blockedparty, as just last week, Episode 1 of the third season of BPD&D dropped, and our guests this time around: Jesse and Mike from Your Kickstarter Sucks. It's a very stupid show, as you can imagine, but it's also a lot of fun. We also have ad-free episodes if you hate those damn ads, merch discounts, an exclusive Discord, and more! What are you waiting for?Brittany Lyseng is a comedian whose new album, "Break and Enter", is out now. You can follow her on Instagram at @brittanythecomedian.This episode is also available in video format on YouTube. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Connor Ratliff (Dead Eyes) joins the show and it's a classic, as Connor runs us through a multi-year bit that culminated in a satire Twitter account he ran getting blocked by the well-known author of "Game Change", John Heilemann. We try to get to the bottom of that as we discuss what got people upset about Dead Eyes, weird new candies, and talk of the George Lucas Talk Show takes us down a deep Star Wars rabbit hole as John reveals that Limp Bizkit got to see the premiere of Phantom Menace at Skywalker Ranch and somehow this also leads Stefan to reveal (again) that he ate dry cat food as a child. Plus, Connor starts making online comics to cope with the general state of online, Stefan goes to TwitchCon in Vegas, and Ice-T drops some more wonderful knowledge on Twitter.If you want more wonderful knowledge for your own beautiful brain, you can head on over to patreon.com/blockedparty, where $5/month gets you access to THREE bonus episodes every damn month. Last week, Dana Smith rejoined the show for a great mailbag episode, and coming up TOMORROW, it's the start of what will be the greatest bonus episodes in Blocked Party history. You simply cannot miss it. We also have ad-free episodes, merch discounts, and a bunch more, so don't delay!Connor Ratliff is a comedian and the host of the very popular podcast Dead Eyes, which if you haven't listened to it, you simply must. Right now. He also starred on the new show In the Cards, available now wherever you get your pods. You can follow Connor on Twitter and Instagram at @connorratliff. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rory Uphold (Crimes of the Heart) joins the show for one of the most tangled Block Tales of all-time, as an ex of hers cheats on her and then repeats the pattern, forcing a cadre of women to team up against him....until the new girl steps in. It's one of the best Block Tales in the show's history and the episode is wonderful too, as we discuss 5G zombies, last-minute episode recordings, and discussions of Rory's Calgary family members leads to a long discussion about the Canadian Football League including some amazing vintage merch and that cursed version of the Canadian national anthem. Plus, we learn about the dancing chickens, penis injury headlines, and divorce.If you never wanna divorce us, you can head on over to patreon.com/blockedparty, where $5/month gets you access to THREE bonus episodes every single month. This week, Dana Smith rejoins the show for another completely unhinged mailbag, and we are now just 8 days away from one of the biggest moments in BP Bonus Episode history. Dropping on Halloween, you simply will not want to miss it. We also have ad-free episodes, merch discounts, an exclusive Discord, and much, much more. Support your favourite Blocked Boys today!Rory Uphold's podcast, Crimes of the Heart, can be found wherever you get your pods. You can follow her on Instagram at @icouldbeblonder.This episode is also available in video format on our YouTube page. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kiki Andersen (comedian) joins the show to tell us about catching the ultimate block: a permanent ban from Twitter for doing a single-word quote tweet. Now, was that single word a weapon that perhaps insinuated what Kiki wanted to happen to the person in question? You'll have to listen to find out! Obviously, right off the top of the show Stefan introduces Kiki to, well, Kiki, and then we discuss monitor lizards, new phones, the time John's dad played with his band, post-sex moves, and the new Coca-Cola flavors. Plus, Kiki is getting a lot of huge AI boobs on her algo, Stefan gives us an update on the Speaker of the House situation, and Spencer Strider has a weird suggestion for what he'd change about baseball.If you have weird suggestions for us, why not become a member of our Discord? It's very simple, just head on over to patreon.com/blockedparty, and for $5/month, you'll get access to our Discord, PLUS three bonus episodes a month. Last week, our friend Demi Lardner joined the show to discuss YTV's Squawk Box in a Canadian Education episode, and this Halloween comes one of the biggest bonus episode events in BP history. You can't miss it! We also have merch discounts, ad-free episodes, and a lot more, so check out our Patreon now and support the beautiful Blocked Boys!Kiki Andersen's podcast, Indecent with Kiki Andersen, is available wherever you get your pods and you can follow the pod on Instagram at @indecentkiki. You can also follow Kiki's own account at @itskikiandersen.This episode is also available in video format on YouTube. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sequoia Holmes (Black People Love Paramore) joins the show for the first time to tell us that teenagers really shouldn't be allowed to tweet, as she catches a block for tweeting about Keyshia Cole's singing ability when she was 19 years old. And look, she really wants to be unblocked, so maybe we can help her reunite with a singer she really loves, actually. And we love this episode, as Sequoia tells us about landing Hayley Williams on her podcast, Disturbed's new tour, surface piercings, and we go really deep on the Hollywood Vampires. Plus, we learn about a viral TikTok subway dance, Toronto Fashion Week, cursed clocks, and a BlueSky quote tweet brings back painful memories for Stefan.If you want memories that won't be painful at all, you can head on over to patreon.com/blockedparty, where $5/month will get you three bonus episodes a month PLUS our entire back catalogue. Over 100 episodes! So many memories!!!! This week, our good friend Demi Lardner joins us for a Canadian Education episode about another crazy YTV show, and we have a great deal of fun. Plus, we have ad-free episodes, an exclusive Discord, merch discounts, and lots more, so support the show today!Sequoia Holmes is a podcaster and the host of the great Black People Love Paramore podcast. You can follow her on Twitter and Instagram at @sequoiabholmes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What's the craziest interaction you've ever had with someone online that led to you being blocked? We answer that question and more as Dan Ozzi (writer) joins the show for the first time to give us the scoop on being blocked by everyone's least favourite Twitter question-asker, Eric Alper. We start the show by talking about UFC's preeminent crazy person, Bryce Mitchell, and then we move on from there to commiserate with Dan about the state of online, as he told us before the episode he was grateful to finally have people to talk about it with. So of course, we touch on Bluesky's emerging prominence, Elon's stupid tweet reply to Taylor Swift, his potential decision to make everyone pay to use the site, TikTok stickers, and comedy club menus. Plus, Dan is mad at the "20 songs" tweet, John brings up some rough content from Jimmy Carr and Andre Iguodala, and Stefan finds the Naked Lego subreddit.What is your favourite podcast to help support, while also getting access to bonus episodes, ad-free episodes, an exclusive Discord, and merch discounts? Well that must be Blocked Party! And you can support the show by heading over to patreon.com/blockedparty, where $5/month will get you THREE of those bonus episodes PLUS access to the whole damn back catalogue, over 100 episodes worth! Rot your brain!Which music writer is the one that you would say most reminds you of riding in the backseat of your dad's car through the woods at Christmastime? It's gotta be Dan Ozzi, who wrote the wonderful book Sellout, about punk and emo's major-label feeding frenzy in the late 90s and early 00s. It's available wherever you get your books. You can also subscribe to Dan's Substack at danozzi.substack.com, and you can follow him on Twitter and Instagram at @danozzi.This episode is also available in video format on YouTube. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Juniper (Western Kabuki) joins the show for the first time to regale us of the time she was blocked by someone who is definitely not appearing on the show for the first time, it's Scott Adams! The creator of Dilbert gets ratio'ed to hell thanks to Juniper's reply to his tweet, and we love to see another soldier fighting the good fight against that weird freak. Remembrances of our appearance on Western Kabuki leads us into a discussion about just how many "main characters" there are on Twitter now, the recent developments regarding Twitter Circles and a potential full subscription model, and talk of getting DMCA'ed leads us to finding some truly horrible parody songs about it. I'm sure you can guess which song they're parodying. Plus, Juniper finds a woman who is getting her freak on with uhh, rollercoasters, our friend Demi Lardner sends Stefan an upsetting video that he forces us all to watch, and John's friend makes the right move with a jerk driving a Tesla.If you want to see the upsetting video in question, head on over to patreon.com/blockedparty, where $5/month gets you all of our episodes in video format UNCENSORED. None of that YouTube-censored stuff. Plus, you'll get all of our bonus episodes (three per month), merch discounts, access to our Discord, and our entire back catalogue of over 150+ episodes. And if you bump that donation up to $8, you get all our bonus episodes video-style, you get ad-free episodes, you get an even bigger merch discount, and much more. Get on over there!Juniper is one of the hosts of Western Kabuki, a great podcast that's also about the ruin of the internet. You can listen to our episode with them, profiling the worst tweets of Q2 2023, right HERE. You can follow Juniper on Twitter at @junlper.This episode is also available in video format by heading over to our YouTube page, youtube.com/@blockedparty. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices