Blocked Party

John Semley (writer) joins us to throw another Steven Crowder block onto the scrap heap as we wax nostalgic for childhood candy, lunch items, and crushes. John also enjoys having a fellow John on the show and we get into getting mistaken for Jons and Jonathans and John Semley tells about his brief foray into being a Jack. Plus, Stefan digs into the Starbucks holiday drink menu, as John Semley goes antiquing and John Cullen learns a new fact about Stephen Baldwin.

If you want to learn some new facts, 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 introduce our good friend and now 8-time guest Jamie Loftus to a Canadian cartoon in our continuing series, and coming up on November 19th, we return to live Zoom shows as Stefan and John battle it out in a game of Mack Gordon's Family Feud. Stefan's already announced his team will feature Jesse Farrar and Michael Hale from YKS, and John's promised his team announcement this week. It's gonna be a doozy and you gotta be a patron to attend. AND we got ad-free episodes and a sweet Discord, so check it out!

John Semley is a writer and you can follow all of his work on Twitter at @johnsemley3000.

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Rax King (writer) introduces us to the world of SantaCon, something that sounds joyous but is in actuality, very grim and bad. Her fateful day trip into NYC during SantaCon leads to a block as the dark side of the internet sees fit to get involved. The rest of the episode is pretty light though, as we celebrate John's birthday! Recorded the day of his 36th birthday, Stefan and Dan each get John thoughtful gifts after Stefan shoves Kleenex in his mouth (you'll hear why) and John and Rax swap stories of board game competitiveness. Plus we talk about our Halloween plans, how much groceries cost, the early 2000s, group chats, and John and Stefan swap places in our Social Media Updates, as Stefan reports a wholesome story and John finds a former athlete with a deranged opinion about a teammate's injury.

If you're looking for more deranged opinions, head on over to patreon.com/blockedparty, where $5/month gets you access to THREE bonuses every month. We just had a double bonus week last week as Charles Star joined us for a Curling Twitter block and Nick Nemeroff came along for the ride in a Blocked Mailbag episode. Plus we announce that coming up on November 19th, Zoom shows return as Stefan and John go head-to-head playing Mack Gordon's Family Feud! It's gonna be a blast so head on over to Patreon to check it out!

Rax King is a writer whose first collection of essays about trashy pop culture, "Tacky", is out TOMORROW, November 2nd. She also has a podcast called Low Culture Boil and can be followed on Twitter at @raxkingisdead.

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Amy Goodmurphy (comedian/actor) gets fooled by the Blocked Boys into thinking they're wholesome, as the episode starts with some very pleasant conversation about acting in commercials, chocolates, and Christmas. But it quickly devolves as Amy herself takes it off the deep end with a story about some illicit messages her friend received and we get into our most drunken moments, New Zealand's official wizard, and Panamanian television. Plus, Amy's Block Tale does not disappoint, as a person sees an ad with her in it on Instagram and immediately takes things to a bad place.

If you want to go to a good place, head on over to patreon.com/blockedparty, where $5/month gets you access to THREE bonus episodes every single month. This is a double bonus episode week so there's no better time to get on board as we invite listener fave Nick Nemeroff back to answer some mailbag questions and John dips into his first ever Curling Twitter block with our pal Charles Star. Plus we've got ad-free episodes, a sweet Discord, merch deals and more, so check it out!

Amy Goodmurphy is a writer, comedian, and actor, whose show "The Ryan and Amy Show" has won the Just for Laughs Film Fest award and can be found on Instagram at @ryanandamyshow. They're launching a new podcast, "Poor Lil' Thing" very soon. You can also see her on Mighty Ducks: Game Changers on Disney+ and on her Instagram at @amyrickygee.

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Jesse Farrar (Your Kickstarter Sucks) returns to the show fresh off of doing a Go Off Kings stream with Stefan and that vibe permeates throughout the show as it starts chaotic and keeps that feel all the way through to the end. Jesse finds a block from the lady who did that very weird calf cramp tweet and John lets Jesse and Stefan try their hands at a voiceover audition he didn't get. Elsewhere, the Blocked Boys try to decide what constitutes a "non-scary Halloween movie" after Jesse gets perplexed by some of Freeform's programming decisions as we talk Madden, Steam nicknames, and Blocked Party finally gets the shine they deserve in a community newspaper.

If you want some more of that Blocked Party shine, head on over to patreon.com/blockedparty, where $5/month gets you access to THREE bonus episodes every month, including the continuation of our Paranoia series AND the return of Blocked Party live shows next month. Lots of great things coming very soon that you won't wanna miss. Plus: ad-free episodes! Discord link! Other stuff!

Jesse Farrar's podcast, Your Kickstarter Sucks, can be found on Twitter at @YourKickstarter and wherever you get your pods and he co-hosts the Go Off Kings 4 nights a week with Stefan at twitch.tv/gooffkings. You can follow Jesse on Twitter at @BronzeHammer.

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Aiden Arata (writer, content creator) joins us to discuss a time that a combination birthday party went awry as one guest in particular got very possessive over the leftovers. The rest of the episode is all content that's never been reheated though, as the Blocked Boys get into Lindsay Lohan's beach club, sparkling water, movie novelizations, MLB's "Turn Ahead the Clock" jerseys, and it's episode 151, so we talk drinkin', baby!!! Plus, we dive into Soup Girl Fall, disguising edibles as Halloween candy to give them to kids, and Glassdoor reviews of the United States Army.

If you want content that is definitely not for kids (and we'll never disguise THAT), you can head on over to patreon.com/blockedparty where $5/month gets you access to THREE bonus episodes every single month. We just did a great Canadian Education episode with Kofie Yeboah about the Canadian Football League that's up now, and we've got more Paranoia and other fun stuff coming down the pipe so be sure to check it out. And if you hate the ads, we have ad-free content too!

Aiden Arata is a writer whose newsletter "Under the Influence" can be found at aidenarata.substack.com. You can also check out her phenomenal meme work on Instagram at @aidenarata and she's on Twitter at the same address.

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Tony Hawk (legend) joins the show to fulfill John's dream and to talk about the time that the International Olympic Committee booted him off the Park Course and then the time right after that when he got home from Tokyo and got blocked by NBC for doing his own commentary on their content. Before all that, we reminisce about how Tony's appearance on the show came to be, through a Cameo from a listener and we learn the insane number of Cameos Tony has done. Elsewhere, Stefan and John ask Tony for advice on being cool which leads to John committing how to learn to hardflip. Plus, we chat curling, burgers, karaoke, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, exit surveys, and Tony tells us about retiring tricks and making skate decks with his blood.

If you want to commit a sort of online blood oath with us, you can donate to the show at patreon.com/blockedparty, where $5/month gets you access to THREE bonus episodes every month. This week, we've got Kofie Yeboah returning to the show as we teach him (and ourselves, really) about the Canadian Football League and it's a good one. Plus we have our Paranoia series ongoing and if you hate the ads, we have some new ad-free tiers for you check out. And! Zoom shows return in November. So give it a peek!

Tony Hawk is a professional skateboarder whose podcast, Hawk vs. Wolf, comes out every Monday on the Kast Media network. You can find him online everywhere at @tonyhawk. You can donate to his charity, The Skatepark Project, at skatepark.org.

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Our good friend The Zubes (Wrestling Brain, Sportsfeld) joins the show to talk about being blocked by a former Major League Baseball player, who he then works with in sports media and gets unblocked by, who he then finds out is dating a very terrible person and wishes he was still blocked. It's a whole range of emotions this week on BP and we are here for all of it as the Blocked Boys also dive into nicknames, fantasy hockey, Dhar Mann's bizarre Instagram page, Elizabeth Holmes' courtroom text message reveal, Jordan Clarkson, stinging insults, and Stefan dresses up as Spider-Man.

One thing you could get dressed up for is our Patreon page over at patreon.com/blockedparty, where $5/month gets you access to THREE bonus episodes every single month. Last week, we released the second Paranoia episode as our gang of RPG characters faces even more issues just trying to get our impossible mission started, and this week, it's an emergency Blocked Bag with Producer Dan after a guest is forced to cancel suddenly and it's a whole lot of fun. Plus we got an exclusive Discord, ad-free episodes, and more!

Andrew "The Zubes" Zuber is a co-host of the Twitch stream Wrestling Brain, which you can check out at Twitch.tv/WrestlingBrain, and he also co-hosts the podcast Sportsfeld, available where you get your podcasts. You can follow him on Twitter at @The_Zubes and on Instagram at @Zubestagram.

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Juliana Rodrigues (comedian) joins the show to discuss how an older guy who works at a comedy venue has an extremely strange Instagram account that only shows his workplace injuries and bad pictures of his food, leading Juliana to block him. Of course, Stefan loves it. With John and Stefan just returned from their fantasy hockey boys' trip, they give all the goods on Stefan having a tough Thursday night and we learn an awful lot about everyone's puking habits. But don't worry, before long we settle in to some more "normal" conversation about eating 6 Junior Chickens in one sitting, webcams, cats, getting in an argument in the Instagram comments, and buying clothes at the airport.

If you want to save your airport clothes money and spend it on something much more fun, you can donate to the show at patreon.com/blockedparty, where $5/month gets you access to THREE juicy bonus episodes every single month. This week, it's Paranoia 2 as our ragtag crew goes shopping for gear before heading out on our impossible mission. We are joined by Carlos Maza, Carla Mah, Racquel Belmonte, and Josh Buergel for an RPG of extreme proportions. Plus we've got lots of fun stuff coming and ad-free versions of the episodes too!

Juliana Rodrigues is a comedian and podcaster who hosts the All Good podcast, available wherever you get your pods. You can follow her on Instagram at @juliana_hooliana and on Twitter at @hooliana_.

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Clare Belford (comedian) returns to the show and she's got a new view on life where she doesn't want to hear about your weight loss program, your diet, your latest fad, or just your weight in general. And she's got a block for that! We discuss how COVID has distorted everyone's view of their own bodies and it gets a bit real but it gets very nice too, which we love. And of course, we go over a bunch of not nice stuff as per usual, as we get into living in Eastern Canada, haircuts, curling fights, weird drink combinations, Pepito the Cat, and John and Stefan pull out the measuring tape to see who has the bigger head.

If you want to prove you have a big head and even bigger brains, you can donate to the show at patreon.com/blockedparty, where $5/month gets you access to THREE bonus episodes every single month. Last week, we put out a Hell Block with Brett Payne where Stefan talked about being blocked by John Pavlovitz, and coming soon is the second chapter of our Paranoia saga, where we play the well-known RPG with Carlos Maza, Carla Mah, and Racquel Belmonte, which you won't wanna miss. Plus, we've got a great Discord, an ad-free version of the pod, and more! So check it out.

Clare Belford is a comedian whose debut album, The Entire Cabbage, is out now wherever you get your albums. You can follow her on Twitter at @ClareBelford and on Instagram at @clarble.

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Nathan Hare (comedian) joins the show to tell us of the time that an innocent joke about Subway went sideways and he got blocked by one of the world's largest fast food chains. Most things on this episode go sideways as a discussion about fancy juice leads to speculation on what would have to happen for us to wear a diaper, which of course leads to bedwetting incidents we had as kids...and adults. We also talk Hulk Hogan's celebrity wrestling reality show, elementary school principals, newspaper corrections, the Chris Jericho Cruise, and our least favourite songs. 

If you want to cruise with 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, we've got another Hell Block coming up with Brett Payne from Street Fight Radio, and of course our continuation of the Paranoia series will continue later this month as well. Lots of surprises, all of them good. Plus it's our last month for guest newsletter and we deliver ad-free episodes, all here, all now!

Nathan Hare is a comedian whose podcast, "Forgive Us", can be found wherever you get your pods. You can follow him on Twitter at @nathanharenice and on Instagram at @nathanhare.

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