Podcast Valley Sunday

The final episode of season one of the Monkees is a fan favourite and so packed with stuff that we had to make it our very first two-part episode! The Monkees break out of the fourth wall and show fans what it's like to be at a real live Monkees concert proving to all the haters that they really can play their own instruments and put on a good ol' fashioned rock show! Paco and Jef break down the a...

This weeks episode it everything you'd want in a Monkees episode: hilarity, music, interviews!!! And Paco and Jef celebrate the final "sitcom-style" episode of the first season in style...they dive into the Woolhat Of Mystery and really get deep with some not so deep cuts! Come check it out and tell your friends! Cuz your friends really look up to you and will do what you tell them.

This is a long one, kids but it's packed with great times! This week Paco and Jef break down The Monkees In Manhattan - an episode with not a whole lot of story but it makes up for it with an awesome performance of "Words" and some interviews at the end. PLUS Paco surprises Jef with an awesome early birthday/Christmas present...what could it be? Now why would we tell you that here? You've gotta li...

This week Paco and Jef take you on a journey to the laundromat where the boys meet the amazingly beautiful April Conquest (Julie Newmar) and each of them fall in love with her. How will they choose which one of them will get to try and woo her? You gotta listen to find out! In the Woolhat of Mystery the Paco and Jef pull two songs that sound similarly close to each other and the two songs get stit...

This week the Monkees take jobs at an answering service which is really a museum of obsolete physical tools that are all now found on a smartphone. Each of the boys disrespect the one rule: Don't get involved with the customers which leads to gangsters somehow getting involved. This was the last episode filmed in the first season and it really has a "last day of school" vibe to it which adds to th...

This week Paco and Jef take you on a trip to a time when the Monkees show was hijacked by sentimental "touching" moments: Monkee Mother. The boys get kicked out of the pad but somehow are allowed to stay when the new tenant, Millie, moves in. It's a strange episode but still a goody. After all the fun games we have more fun and games with the Woolhat Of Mystery...which three songs will they pull o...

This week the boys are in trouble after Peter intercepts a secret code inside a fortune cookie putting all of them in danger. Micky and Peter are captured and Davy and Mike turn to their alter egos the MONKEE MEN! to help save the day! Will they get there in time before Micky and Peter are tortured by the evil Dragon Man?! Tune in to find out! Also in this episode are the debuts of Angry Dee Carus...

This week Micky Dolenz takes centre stage in this episode...Davy is away in England, Peter barely shows up and Mike is there at the beginning and the end but it's Micky - actually TWO Mickys - that push this episode along. Micky plays himself as well as his cousin "Babyface" Morales and is hired by the cops to try to act as Babyface and hunt down his crew and the loot they stole. Paco and Jef set...

The Monkees are going to be in Chic magazine! A writer comes by and interviews the band but the story isn't juicy enough so another writer, Rob Roy Fingerhead - who hates the band - gets the job to run their good name through the mud. But the boys use the Chic awards ceremony to pull some Monkees ruse-action to try to get the last laugh. Plus the Woolhat of Mystery is ready to go with another thre...

The boys are trying to get the oh so lucrative gig of being the house band on a children's tv show, Captain Crocodile. But the host of the show (the aforementioned Captain) thinks they want to take over the show so he makes their lives miserable. But in amongst the chaos the Monkees find the time to rip one of the greatest musical performances of the entire series: the original "Valleri". If you d...

This week the Monkees infiltrate a circus that's on it's last legs and because Davy doesn't want a girl to be sad they lie to everyone and tell them that they're a high flying trapeze act and are there to save everyone's jobs! Suddenly wracked with guilt the boys realize they have to do something to actually save the circus or these people will lose their jobs...and worse yet - Davy won't get to m...

In this very special episode, Paco and Jef talk about a video that Jef found on YouTube: a live Pool It!-era concert. It's a great snapshot of a time when the Monkees were on their way back up in a decade that was as crazy as the fashion: the 80s! With some great jams and some awful jellies, this concert review takes a deep dive in the weirdness that was the 80's Monkees...we hope you dig it!

Davy is mistaken for a prince who has to be married by the time he's 18 (sound familiar?) but is shy and can't talk to girls so he steps in and makes a woman fall in love with him...so she can marry the prince. The ethics are questionable but this episode is packed with gags but only has one song! Paco and Jef bring you along to the royal wedding of the century (to Peruvia at least) and choose thr...

Finally Davy Jones gets to flex his muscles and play the role that he was born to play and will reprise in the move "Head": a boxer. Paco and Jef walk you through this Davy heavy episode where young Mr. Jones puts his own stardom ahead of the band's and tries to win the featherweight championship belt. The Woolhat Of Mystery gets it's own theme song and a new edition to countdown makes waves this...

Now here's a fan favourite! The Audition (more commonly known as Find The Monkees) is a great episode that's centred around the band actually being a band...there's no haunted mansions, teenage monsters, or too many girls, it's just our boys trying to hustle the band onto a TV show. We get to meet their rival bands, The Jolly Green Giants, the 4 Martians and the Foreign Agents who are also up for...

The boys have gotten themselves into another jam when they show up to play a show and get roped into an experiment where the evil Dr. Mendoza wants to swap their musical brains with an android. Paco and Jef break down this episode which is the second in a row where the boys get their memories wiped and Peter cries. And as always the random countdown brings some great songs and awesome laughs!

In the second consecutive episode Peter gets kidnapped and the boys have to pull a Monkees ruse and try to get him back before his memory is erased. With only one song in the episode this one is jam packed with Monkees hilarity and Paco & Jef also keep the random countdown going with three new songs. Due to recording this episode on Leap Day, which is the eight year anniversary of Davy Jones'...

Welcome to another Podcast Valley Sunday with Paco and Jef as they take you through Son Of A Gypsy where the boys get a gig that a group of gypsies thought they would get. The gypsies kidnap the boys and force them to steal the "Maltese Vulture" or else they'll kill Peter. Poor Peter. Will the boys be able to deliver the Maltese Vulture and save Peter? Will they get to play at the gig? Will Davy f...

This week we've decided to switch things up...Paco and Jef do a "live" recording while watching the episode! In this classic episode Davy falls in love (shocking!) with Fern and her stage mom does her best to break up the Monkees so her daughter can cash in on Davy's celebrity...or talent...or something. This forces the boys to Monkees-ruse one of their own and they sabotage Davy and Fern's spot i...

This week Paco and Jef dance you through this great episode where the boys sign a lifetime contract with a dance company and get wooed by the beautiful Mrs. Buntwell. With great moments like Micky walking off the set and into the writer's room and a handful of Monkees staples ("Don't do that"..."That's a little joke - about this big"..."That's a stone drag") the first episode of 1967 sets everythi...

With more ridiculous Davy Jones impressions and enough hijinks to fill three Monkees romps, Paco and Jef are back to talk all things Monkees! We've finally made it to the first Peter centric episode of the series. Peter falls in love with Valerie who has hired The Monkees to play her big party. Her boyfriend, Ronnie, might be the worst human being we've seen on the series so far. The boys have to...

Paco and Jef take you through this episode where Mike gets duped by a shifty con artist who tells Mike that he can get one of this songs into the new Joanie Jans movie if he pays $100. Once the other guys figure it out they debut the Monkee Men to set things right. (They actually only use the Monkee Men to fly to the next place where they change into piano tuners) And the random song countdown con...

Paco and Jef are back at it breaking down Monkees A La Carte where the boys lose their jobs because the restaurant they were playing at gets taken over by gangsters. They go undercover both with the police and as the Purple Flower Gang to try an infiltrate a meeting of all the local gangs as they decide who takes over what part of the city and hijinks ensue. All of this plus a new game of "What Ot...

In this episode Paco and Jef break down what was the initial pilot episode of The Monkees series, even though it came out as the tenth episode. There are many different things (the wooden Monkeemobile, Davy playing guitar, Micky's ridiculously short hair) but the boys remain the same crazy kids we all love!

Paco and Jef walk you through The Chaperone, where Davy wants to a date a girl (big surprise) but her military father won't let her hang out with boys without a chaperone present...so the boys spring into action and set up a party with a series of fake chaperones - each one more absurd than the one before it. With guest appearances by Tarzan and Mr. Clean this is one party you don't want to miss!