Regular Joes Podcast

The Mighty Marvel Movie Machine just keeps chugging along. This week the trailer for Captain Marvel dropped heralding the arrival of Marvel Studios first ever film with a female lead. The Joes give their initial reactions, with perspectives ranging from little to deep Captain Marvel knowledge. Next up its time to start planning the next big Con. Or maybe the next two or three as the Joes make plan...

Vacations are over, the kids are back in school, and it's time to take a look at what the Regular Joes will be watching this fall. Which new shows have peaked their interest (Hint: There aren't many) which returning shows are they most eager to see, and which late summer offerings made their watch lists, including … JACK RYAN, the intrepid CIA Analyst (former Marine, stock broker & economics profe...

After a week off, the Regular Joes are back. First up Dave explains how to conquer the four Disney parks in a day. Next they dive into the catalog for the upcoming Prop Store Memorabilia Auction. Basically everything you loved in your childhood is up for sale. While much attention has been given to Han Solo's Empire Strikes Back jacket the Joes mine for some of the other gems that will soon be up...

Who Goes There, the classic 1938 Sci Fi novella by John W. Campbell Jr., has inspired three films, the Howard Hawkes produced 1951 The Thing From Another World, John Carpenter's 1982 The Thing and most recently the 2011 The Thing ... prequel? What makes a story so compelling that is cinematically revisited every three decades? How do the earlier films hold up over time? How does the newest film co...

On this episode. Dave, Barry and yes, even Tod (finally) join special guest Tom Spina in his personal "cantina" talking about the latest projects from Regal Robot and Tom Spina Designs, including the Magic Wheelchair SDCC event that Tom took part in. Next, the Regular Joes dive deep into the stories surrounding Tom's amazing collection of movie memorabilia. It's an episode you won't want to miss....

Hello Podcast Listener. For at least 250 episodes Dave has been trying to convince Barry and Tod that Tom Cruse's Mission Impossible series is worth checking out. For anyone who stopped after Mission Impossible I and II this might see unlikely ... or even Impossible. This week however he is successful, as the Regular Joes check out the newly released Mission Impossible: Fallout, and revisit the fi...

This week the Regular Joes discuss two nerd Meccas, one they visited one they skipped. First up Barry and Tod returned the the Official Star Trek Set Tour in Ticonderoga New York. Hear what they saw and what is in the works for this remote, but nevertheless awesome, destination in the Star Trek Universe. Next up the guys discuss some of the more interesting action figures, teasers and trailers to...

The Regular Joe's have met some interesting people in their travels over the years, but few compare with David West Reynolds. Archaeologist, explorer, New York Times #1 best-selling author, Skywalker Ranch alum, authority on both NASA and Star Wars and 1970's GI Joe fan. Oh ... and he also just happens to be the dude who located the long-lost shooting locations from Star Wars, as detailed in his D...

In the final moments of Avengers: Infinity War the Mad Titan Thanos eradicated half the Marvel Universe. In this week's episode Barry does pretty much the same thing! There have been 20 Marvel Studios films to date. If you were going to cut that list in half, which 10 films would you consider indispensable to a hypothetical new viewer who needs to catch up? Not the 10 best, but rather the most 10...

Marvel Studios is back with another heaping helping of Superhero awesomeness. Wait…was that a SPOILER? No, we have come to expect Marvel to deliver and Ant-Man and The Wasp does just that. Find out what the Regulars Joes like best and where it fits on their scale of super-heroic cinema offerings. Last week we mentioned the semi-obscure 1970's Harlan Ellison series The Star Lost. Find out what the...

This week Barry and Tod went to see Jurassic World: The Fallen Kingdom and they let Dave, and you, know whether it's worth taking yet another trip back to the park. Hint: it is very likely this franchise may have just jumped the T-Rex. Also, in Recognition of the passing of sci-fi legend Harlan Ellison the guys revisit the classic Star Trek episode, City on the Edge of Forever, IDW comics recent a...

This past week, Dave, Barry and Tod attended the 2018 GI Joe Collectors Convention, in lovely Chattanooga, Tennessee. It was bittersweet since it's the last GI Joe convention of its kind. Join the Regular Joes as they celebrate the end of an era along with the 4thRegular Joe Derryl DePriest, GI Joe Convention and Club president Brian Savage, and a host of other long time GI Joe collectors and frie...

We skipped a week...hey, summer happens, but we're back in the saddle catching you, and each other, up on what we missed. Barry and Dave made the trek to Eternal Con we they caught up with William Shatner (largely indifferent) Brandon Routh (gracious) and MEGO guy Marty Abrams (relentlessly self promoting). Because Tod didn't really do much of anything interesting, he shoehorns in a run down of re...

Barry was in Philly, Tod is just coming down from May madness, and yet we still pulled together a show. There some residual ruminating about Solo, some consideration of old Ben Kenobi's idea of inconspicuous, and we contemplate the rumored departure of Star Wars boss (and recent addition to Dave's List) Kathleen Kennedy. Shifting universes, Dave has finally gotten on board with The Expanse, which...

Five months after the controversial "The Last Jedi", the newest film in the Star Wars franchise hits theaters. While the box office may have been disappointing, most people seemed to enjoy the ride. As we should now expect, the Regular Joe's positions vary. Two feel it's an entertaining film and a fun time spent in the Star Wars universe while the other regards it as a mostly unnecessary exercise....

Coming down from their big 5 year anniversary episode, Dave, Barry and Tod explore some random topics before Tod and Barry share their thoughts on Deadpool 2. After that, they try and decipher the season finale of Marvel's Agents of Shield. All that plus a Hot Toys Minute focused on the recently announced Infinity War Dr. Strange figure and they wrap things up with a reveal of something they saw a...

Five years ago three friends sat down to talk about their common interests, and the conversation continues. Holy crap, has it really been 5 years already? On our 5th anniversary episode, Dave, Barry and Tod look back and pick our favorite things from the last half-decade, including, but not necessarily limited to, Desert Island DVD's, What's in the Box, Show and Tell and lots of memories from the...

From 2013: The Regular Joes sit down with their pals, Karate Kid and Cobra Kai star Billy Zabka and his ever formidable sensei Martin Kove. Thanks for listening!

It's time to talk TV. With the regular season winding down, and several mid season offerings in play, Barry, Dave and Tod take a look at which series they are watching and which series they are actually enjoying. Have the Arrow-verse/Berlanti shows run their course? Are eagerly awaited returning series like The Expanse and Legion measuring up? What's new, and worth watching? And, are two guys with...

Avengers Infinity War, the new reigning box off champ, and the film Marvel Studios has been building towards for a decade, is finally out, and It changes everything. There is no talking about this film without Spoilers ... so, THERE WILL BE SPOILERS, lots and lots of spoilers. Find out what Barry, Dave and Tod thought, and where they think the MCU goes from here. Also, there's a new trailer for th...

As we try to avoid thinking, learning or predicting, anything more about Avengers: Infinity War, it's time to check off a few stray topics that have been crowded out of some of our recent episodes. Superman at 80 - the Man, The Myth and the Movies. The guys each pick a favorite from Superman's many incarnations, and take a stab at what they would do to make the Man of Tomorrow, relevant today. Dav...

50 years after the final episode of Irwin Allan's Sci-Fi spin on Swiss Family Robinson Netflix has launched an updated version of Lost in Space. Barry, Dave and Tod take a first look at this new interpretation and share their impressions on what works, what doesn't, and where it differs conceptually from the original. As this is not the first attempt to revive this classic property, the Joes also...

This week the Regular Joes each watched The Director and the Jedi, the behind the scenes documentary/propaganda film/rationalization exercise included with the Star War: The Last Jedi Blu-Ray. The discussion on this historically volatile topic proves interesting as everyone's previous position shifts a bit…and not in expected ways. Also, the hosts react to a new trailer for Solo: A Star Wars Story...

Since it's 2011 publication readers of Ernest Cline's Ready Player One have questioned whether the 80's pop culture centric bestseller could, or should, be adapted to the screen. Fast forward to 2018 and Steven Spielberg has done it. Now the questions are, did he do the book justice, and how does the film play for someone who loves the original novel? Find out what the Regular Joes think. Also, th...

After some Random Topics, Barry fills us in on one of his recent projects (or is it long standing obsession?) in What's on My Workbench. Next Dave gives his impressions of the recently released Rick Deckard gun from Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049. This prop has been something of a Holy Grail for Sci-Fi fans for decades, and this first-ever licensed version from Tomenosuke is both very expensiv...