Jeff Has Cool Friends

My latest Cool Friend is the incredible comedian/actor/writer/genius James Adomian. You might recognize him from his many television and live appearances where he's impersonated folks like Mike Lindell and Bernie Sanders. You also might recognize him as Harley Quinn's BANE! While I've known James for a few years now, I wasn't sure I KNEW him, so this has been an episode about learn...

My Cool Friend John Layman is so great and cool! Funny story, but he created one of the greatest and most popular independent comic books of all-time in CHEW. Have you read it? You should read it. Did you know he's also written like, every other character as well? Well he has! Did you ALSO know that he's getting back together with his CHEW partner Rob Guillory for a new project, Ghostbrawl...

Join mega nerds Dre Alvarez and Jeff May as they geek out on a different nerdy cultural touchstone every month. Part reminiscence, part historical deep dive. This month, Dre and Jeff finish their MYSTERY season with a classic comedy whose title is ALSO the answer to our mystery season: Every episode had to do with Twins! There's a lot to unpack about one of cinema's accidentally most impor...

My latest Cool Friend is the brilliant Alex Falcone. If you've been on TikTok or Instagram, odds are you've seen his work. Aside from being a fantastic standup comedian, Alex has found well-earned success with "Is It a Scam, Yep," "UnFun Facts," "Unlearning" and other hilarious and informative videos that have become his hallmark. We talk all about that stuff,...

Folks, I FINALLY got to sit down with Cool Friend and nerd legend Jim Fletcher. Jim is one of the most fascinating, talented and well-dressed people I've ever known, and he has a resume that you couldn't make up if you tried. He's widely known as the man that ran DC Collectibles (and its various incarnations) for 2 decades, but did you know that he also illustrated the cover of one of...

Join mega nerds Dre Alvarez and Jeff May as they geek out on a different nerdy cultural touchstone every month. Part reminiscence, part historical deep dive. This month, Dre and Jeff continue their MYSTERY season with the tragic, eerie, brilliant wrestling gimmick: Doink the Clown! There's a lot to unpack about one of wrestling's most misunderstood characters, so let's beat a Hawaiian...

I'm so excited to be joined by my latest Cool Friend, the incredible Maggie Mae Fish. Maggie is one heck of a multi-hyphenate: host, writer, actor, producer, and so much more. In researching all of the things that make Maggie great, it dawned on me that I don't actually KNOW much about her. I know her. We've been in many social situations together. And yet, here we are, strangers as fr...

My latest Cool Friend is the incomparable Lindsay Adams! Lindsay is an accomplished comedian and baker who has smashed those two talents together in her incredibly fun and unique live show "Bake Stuff with Lindsay," which will be occurring next on Wednesday, April 29th at the Lyric Hyperion in Los Angeles! A multi-time Mint on Card veteran, I see in Lindsay a kindred spirit of funny and...

Join mega nerds Dre Alvarez and Jeff May as they geek out on a different nerdy cultural touchstone every month. Part reminiscence, part historical deep dive. This month, Dre and Jeff begin their MYSTERY season with the 1994 kids(?) baseball movie Little Big League! There's a lot to unpack about one of baseball's most faithful adaptations, so let's name drop some steroid-freaks, get some nice produ...

Look, it's the 5th Anniversary of the show, and you guys really seem to like this guy, so I'm throwing this episode at you. I ask some general question, I ask some specific questions, we play around a bit with producer names, the whole sh-bang. If you want to hear two bros just kinda bro out with each other for a bit, sit back, relax, and enjoy me talking to like, one of my favorite people...

Atif Myers, my latest cool friend, is one of my favorite people in comedy. He's a huge comics dork, like me, and, I'm not gonna lie: this is one of the geekiest episodes of this show I've ever released. We talk a lot of comics, because, well, he has an incredible podcast called Sus Stories about weird comic issues and storylines throughout history. It's incredible, and I had such a...

Join mega nerds Dre Alvarez and Jeff May as they geek out on a different nerdy cultural touchstone every month. Part reminiscence, part historical deep dive. This month, Dre and Jeff continue their season on Single-Season Animated Shows with the infamously mishandled, cult-favorite Clerks the Animated Series! There's a lot to unpack about one of television history's greatest What-If's,...

My latest cool friend is the incredible Kiran Deol, and she is one of the most intimidating people I've ever met. A Harvard-educated comedian/writer/actor/multi-hyphenate, Kiran seems to be living in a world with 28 hour days. Where else could she find the time to do so many incredible things? You may have seen her, among countless projects, on shows like Sunnyside, her comedy special Joy Suck...

Folks, it's been a bit of a rollercoaster with my February. I know, I know, that's more of a "Monthly Flow" kinda thing, but here we are. My computer has been in and out of the hospital, trying to find a diagnosis. (Probably E-Syphilis or something) I've had several wonderful offers from several wonderful people offering me replacement computers, but I've been on the cusp...

Join mega nerds Dre Alvarez and Jeff May as they geek out on a different nerdy cultural touchstone every month. Part reminiscence, part historical deep dive. This month, Dre and Jeff continue their season on Single-Season Animated Shows with the poorly thought out and poorly executed syndicated abomination, Darkstalkers! There's a lot to unpack about this abhorrent video game adaptation, so le...

Hey all, technical difficulties mean this month's nerd will be a month late. So while you wait, checkout the episode on the worst thing we'd ever covered ... until next week! --------------------------------- Join mega nerds Dre Alvarez and Jeff May as they geek out on a different nerdy cultural touchstone every month. Part reminiscence, part historical deep dive. This month, Dre and Jeff...

My latest Cool Friend is also my newest Cool Friend, the hilarious Jacob Rice. I know for a fact that a lot of you know who he is, as my inbox is littered with his reels. He has become one of the premiere pop culture satirists on social media, stretching himself out in unique directions with a unique voice, to the point where he has gone from "viral" to "internet mainstay" in a manner of a few mon...

Join mega nerds Dre Alvarez and Jeff May as they geek out on a different nerdy cultural touchstone every month. Part reminiscence, part historical deep dive. This month, Dre and Jeff begin their season on Single-Season TV Shows with the surprisingly progressive late-80's syndicated animated Space-Western, Bravestarr! There's a lot to unpack about this spiritual sequel to He Man, so let&#39...

Christine Fekete is a fascinating study in going with the flow and moving forward. As the map of her life will detail, there is a 0% chance she could've predicted that she would be one of the fastest growing content creators on social media today! I have seen her grow from a few thousand followers to hundreds of thousands almost overnight, taking down a lot of right-wing talking points in that...

I'm not sure how to introduce my latest (and newest) Cool Friend, Paige Harbison. She's an accomplished author who got her first novel published at the age of 19, a viral sensation on TikTok and Instagram with her One-Minute Hallmark Movie videos, she hosts the fantastic "Nameless Best Friends" podcast with her mother and brother, she's a painter, she's...well, she's...

'Tis the season for Holiday movies, and producer/cohost Alex Simanovsky has chosen to record a long-awaited sequel to 2022's surprise hit pod Do You Hear What We Hear. Join your hosts as they discuss their favorite media of the season! Listen as Alex and Jeff go through a list of their superlatives (and not-so-superlatives) in several categories as they are left home alone, meet a couple o...

This episode is one episode-slot early, but that's ok! What a year, let's talk about it as I try to stay on track during a solo pod while I'm riddled with ADHD!And please, if you're so inclined, check out Patreon.com/jeffmay for early access to uncensored episodes with bonus content, exclusives, care packages, and more!

Join mega nerds Dre Alvarez and Jeff May as they geek out on a different nerdy cultural touchstone every month. Part reminiscence, part historical deep dive. This month, Dre and Jeff WRAP up their season on Movies Dre Should've Seen by Now with the 1989 Christmas Comedy classic National Lampoon's Christmas Vacvation. And because we theme these episodes to the corresponding holiday, we'...

T.J. Chambers, my latest Cool Friend, is one of my favorite people on the planet. One of those friends you can go without seeing for a bit and then immediately just pick right back up where you left off. Well, that's how this episode starts, and it keeps flowing from there. T.J. and I last spoke on a podcast in 2019, and since then he's had a show on SyFy, hosted many panels at cons, and b...

My very Cool Friend, Brian Kiley, is such an incredibly talented and, well, cool guy. You might know Brian as a multi-time Emmy winner for writing on shows like Conan and Ellen, his countless appearances doing standup on various Late Night shows over the years, or as a frequent comic on Mint on Card (my live show in Burbank), where he never ceases to tear the roof off the house with his meticulous...