Here's A Guy

One of the many reasons why October is the King of Months is the high quality of sports content. Right now I've got the Blues game on. Game just started and we already had a guy hit the post. I guess that's something to feel good about even though it was technically a failure. That's the magic of hockey for ya. That, and how great the names are. Maybe it just sticks out because we so r...

Mwahahaha! Everyone, Mayhem Month is back for 2023. That's right, a whole month of spooky topics, real life horrors, and shocking conversation (for reasons other than the usual). Now that I mention it, who was the first guy to do the evil mwahaha laugh? And to what end? Monsters seem to have a poor appreciation of the element of surprise. If you were a goblin or a Dracula, and you were trying...

I'm struggling to come up with an episode description this week. I almost thought about not doing it. I thought, does anyone even notice these inane ramblings? I genuinely have no idea one way or the other. In fact, even I rarely revisit them, if that tells you anything. But the reality is, everyone needs an outlet to just open up their jaw and let a bunch of crap fall out. Otherwise, it's...

Wellll it's another week gone by. It's September, perhaps the most seasonally-ambiguous month of the year. I want to just keep my windows open but it still gets stuffy upstairs. Part of this is just the peril of living in an old house. It's 99 years old. Next year I should do something for the anniversary, but I'm not sure what that should be. I don't know how one celebrates a...

Ever realize something that everyone else in the world has already realized, but you feel the need to make mention of it anyway? You have to add that whole "not an original observation" caveat to keep from getting made fun of? I had that this week when I listened to a cassette tape of Alanis Morissette's classic 1995 album "Jagged Little Pill." I don't know that I'd...

You know what, it's late. I don't have a lot left in the tank for this episode description. Here's what I'll do. In times of crisis, creative minds turn to audience participation. This episode description will be a Mad-Lib. Maybe you can kill 1 minute out of a 10 hour road trip with it to a smattering of laughter. Here we go: Ugh, it's so (adjective) out. Work has been (adjecti...

It is SO FREAKING HOT. I know we've said that before but this time we mean it. It's hot. It's hotter than a jalapeno's armpit. Hotter than Satan's toenails. Hotter than a half-bred fox in a forest fire. It's hotter than an otter's pocket. It's hotter than a three balled tom cat (not sure about that one). It may be hot, but this episode of Here's a Guy is fire! (...

It's Thursday again, and folks, I've got a bone to pick. Bone to pick? That's such an odd phrase, who came up with it? Picking bones, what does that mean? Like, in reference to graverobbing? Surely not. Maybe it's referring to, like, picking the little bits of meat and tendon off of bones after you've eaten the bulk of whatever you've been eating. I actually just did that w...

Men. One of the most well-known genders on earth. Of all of them in existence, men have arguably received the most press coverage and caused the most harm historically. This is where we get what we call the patriarchy- the power structure predicated on the idea that men deserve to be in charge of everything despite such strong evidence to the contrary. This week, our episode will be adding to that...

The good news: it's nice enough out that I can sit on my porch as I write this. The bad news: this means I'm being reminded of what my yard looks like. It's a perfect storm of a bad yard-mowing situation. Last week it was oppressively hot, so hot that it you want to avoid yardwork for health purposes as much as being lazy. Then, immediately, it started raining a shitload. So now, not o...

We're just going to be up front about this. The episode description is going to be lacking this week. The reason is that the guy we make write these things is on strike. Now, we at Here's a Guy support organized labor, as we've said, so you may think we'd be establishing a dialogue to set up a more equitable working space for the description writer. Well, you would be wrong. Everyt...

Good morning! (ooweeooweeooweeoowee) Good morning! (ooweeooweeooweeoowee) Wake up Mr. West, Mr. West, Mr. Fresh, Mister by himself he's so impressed. Man, what a great song. Great album actually. Too bad that guy's like a Nazi for some reason now. That's what we call the 2020s conundrum. Actually I feel like we haven't heard from him in awhile. Is he doing that weird thing again wh...

Life, some say, is all about pain. The pain in your lower back as you enter your 30s. The pain of the oppressive daytime summer heat on your skin. The pain of your overweight cat jumping straight onto your junk. This episode, too, is about pain. Pain of repeated failure. Pain of electricity coursing through your body multiple times. Pain of your elbow ligament tearing off the bone. But you know wh...

I'm sitting out on the back porch writing this, and it's one of those summer nights where even after it gets late it's still warm out. There's also a nice breeze. It's delightful. One of those nights where the air actively feels good on your skin. Perfect. I've said before, summer nights might be my favorite combination of season/time of day there is. Unfortunately, it'...

The dictionary defines "two" as "the equivalent to the sum of one and one; one less than three." In my experience, this tracks. For example, usually our show has three hosts, but this week, one of them isn't here, so that makes one fewer, which means that we have two hosts. Is that right? I've been trying to spend less time smoking pot and more time playing with my bloc...

At work the other day we were asked to share something that makes us feel vulnerable. I declined to share the horrifying reality that the inane ramblings in the episode descriptions of my podcast are often places where I do demonstrate vulnerability. For one, in an exercise where people shared very heartfelt personal experiences, I probably would have gone over poorly if I used the occasion to pro...

I can't think of anything to say here this week. What can I say, sometimes the creative juices just stop flowing. Instead, in honor of summer, I'm going to post the lyrics to the seminal 2010 earworm "California Gurls" by Katy Perry in prose form. Ahem: I know a place where the grass is really greener. Warm, wet and wild: there must be something in the water. Sipping gin and juic...

We're sliding into summertime at Here's a Guy, and topics may be hot, but the hosts are oh so cool. Just kidding. That's actually an interesting question. Are the hosts of Here's a Guy what can fairly be considered "cool?" I'm not talking about among, like, Gen Z. I'm talking about among society at large. The hosts are too old for being cool to Gen Z to be a worth...

What a week. Whaaaat a week. What a weekarooni. Quite the week indeed. As you can tell, we've reach a time of year where you're not quite firing on all cylinders. Everything moving around, you're not sleeping great, you're not eating great, your brain just isn't the well-oiled machine it often is. It's definitely just the time of year and not anything else, so don't sen...

Good evening, everyone. At least it's evening here, for me. Not sure what you have going on. The weather is lovely, and I'm sitting on my back porch as I do this. I just installed some new lighting out back along my fence. One side has some fancy electric lights which give off a very aesthetically pleasant glow. The other side has solar lights, which aren't as bright but are more moral...

I won't lie, I'm pretty sleepy writing this one. We recorded late, for one. You'll have to listen to the episode to find out why. Spoiler alert, it involves a bunch of mulch. I also drank two tall boy hard seltzers while we recorded. Here in my elderly years, that's a lot to deal with on a weeknight. I've noticed in my old age that your body actually presents an alternative to...

Holy smokes, they've done it again. They've recorded another episode of this here show. How exciting. There's really not much that's going to make it stand out from the crowd of other Here's a Guy episodes. We like to think that means we've found a steady consistency, rather than some other theory. We're the backbone of your week. The reliable presence that makes your s...

Happy April 20th, everyone. A holiday celebrating the delightful intoxicant known as cannabis. Apparently in 2025, we're going to get a very funny occurrence, which is that Easter will be on 4/20. So there's your notice everyone, you have two whole years to come up with bits to do. Hopefully our country hasn't plunged into a holy civil war where Jesus jokes are punishable by death. Rec...

Welcome back everyone, and we hope you had a good Easter. Or Passover. Or whatever you did. JackJohn just grilled I think. And that's good. Unfortunately for him, I've decided to declare this an Eastern Orthodox Catholic podcast, and we've banished him for being disrespectful to our lord and savior Christ, who was sacrificed 2000 years ago so that we can be allowed to be unhappy and fo...

It's been a crazy week. Cody and JackJohn have been up to some fun shenanigans. Alex's craziest moments came at work and therefore relate to the carceral system, which is less fun to think about. Just the other day, we had 120 tornadoes in a single day. Isn't that wild? And I didn't even get to see any of them. I've been obsessed with tornadoes my whole life and I've never...