Regular Joes Podcast

It doesn't take much effort to rewatch a film like Goldfinger. It shows no commitment to cue up The Rock. What takes true dedication is committing 102 extremely long minutes to a film that you know Is going to be excruciatingly bad. This week the Regular Joes pay tribute to the late Sean Connery by watching the the 1974 John Boorman sci-fi/Fantasy film Zardoz for the latest installment of Disaster...

The Regular Joes love props. The allure, realistic or otherwise, of owning a tangible piece of movie or television history is undeniable. This week the Joes check out The Stuff Dreams are Made Of, reputedly the first podcast dedicated to collecting screen used props, created by Hollywood writers David Mandel and Ryan Condal. While many of us dream of laying hands on some of the big screen's holy g...

The Mandalorian, Disney+'s flagship streaming Star Wars property, is back for a second season and it's off with a bang. The episode puts to rest decades of speculation about a fan favorite character and digs into Star Wars mythos like a huge sand burrowing creature. The Joes liked it so much they watched it twice and invite you rewatch and follow along as they offer live commentary. But first, the...

Astronauts have been the subject of TV shows going back to the space program's origin. Many series have tried but few have captured and sustained audience interest. On the heels of Apple's alternate history Apollo saga For All Mankind Disney+ takes a second pass at adapting Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff. Will this narrative of the formative years and indomitable men of NASA's Mercury Program resonat...

In this time when folks are divided on all sorts of issues it's good to know there are still some things that everybody can agree on, like Star Trek. Or not. This week the regular Regular Joes add Brian Mix to the ... er, mix, to take a first pass at the 3rd season premiere of Star Trek Discovery. Easily the most controversial of the Trek offerings, Discovery returns after having jumped nearly a t...

The Boys are Back … no wait, they're gone again. After five short weeks Amazon's surprise hit The Boys wraps up its sophomore season. For those who expected this twisted take on a world were superheroes are real, if often not heroic, could not sustain the first season's level of shock and awe, yup, they did it. And now the wait begins for season three in 2021. Warning if you don't know, for exampl...

Surprising as this may be, we usually do have a plan for each episode. Nevertheless, every so often the events of the day take precedent. This week, all to suddenly, and far too soon, we learned of the passing of Eddie Van Halen, which made most other things seem trivial. As we all await The Mandalorian's return we take a few minutes to discuss a pair of recent videos that look at what went into c...

It's pretty clear the fall TV season is not. And it seems this is just one more aspect of the new normal. Kind of like kids going to school in their living rooms, protests in the streets, and presidential debates that look like an episode of Jerry Springer. If all of this makes you long for a simpler time you are not alone. This week the Regular Joes set the Wayback Machine to September 1973 and t...

This week the Regular Joes each sample one of the recent, noticeably sparse, Fall TV offerings and give their recommendations to you and each other. First up Barry drinks the Kool Aid with HBO's The Vow, a nine part documentary series that looks into the NXIVM cult that drew in many including several familiar actors. Next Dave heads to Mars with Hilary Swank in the Netflix series Away. If there's...

We like Robots. Frankly, who doesn't. Robots have been a persistent presence in pop culture since Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1927). What is the allure of these mechanical/artificial men, and women? Why do we so easily identify with these characters who often have more in common with a home appliance than the human race? What makes a good robot good and a bad robot terrifying? To answer these questio...

One of the Joes favorite shows from last year, Amazon Prime's The Boys, the dark, and often just wrong, adaptation of the Garth Ennis comic about Superhero's as corporate created and controlled celebrities is back for its sophomore season. For this week's podcast Tod forced Barry and Dave to watch THREE ENTIRE EPISODES. Curiously, Amazon's decision to drop the first three episodes at launch and th...

Do you remember how Leonardo da Vinci went back and touched up the Mona Lisa? Or how about when Mozart decided The Magic Flute could be just a bit more magical? Yeah, those things never happened. Nevertheless, Star Wars the ground breaking film by George Lucas, has been periodically tweaked and revised by someone who is, arguably, the same guy who created it. You can no longer see the film that de...

It's a very special episode. No, not the one where the guys stage an intervention over Barry's "Stormtrooper problem." 350 episodes in the hosts sit down with four long time friends who all, to one degree or another, manifest "Collector's Syndrome." You may be familiar with these symptoms, when acquiring one of something rapidly leads to having a dozen or more of them, or the empty, hollow feeling...

Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. has been around almost as long as The Regular Joes Podcast. Last week, after seven wildly inconsistent seasons, the serially reanimated Agent Phil Coulson and his stalwart squad of Agents, former Agents, and not quite Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. finally bid adieu. It's been a bumpy ride. But, for those dedicated, or just stubborn, watchers who stuck it out the 12 episode...

It's a sort of "catch up" week for the Regular Joe's. Last week the episode was postponed due to a 5 day long power outage for one of the hosts. On the plus side Dave is now able to personally recommend a 4500 lbs (approx. curb weight) battery charger. And, since packages have been stacking up, they catch up on What's in the Box, throw in some RJ Picks, and even a round of What's on my Workbench....

Star Trek has been around long enough to be a legitimate topic of historical study. While names Like Roddenberry, Shatner, and Nimoy immediately come to mind, the show's unique position within the cultural zeitgeist would not have been possible without less often cited contributions from names like Fontana, Jefferies and yes, Trimble. On this weeks' episode Barry, Dave and Tod, joined by Brian Mix...

The Old Guard is one of the hottest flix on NetFlix right now. Based on a comic by Greg Rucka and Leandro Fernández, it stars Charlize Theron, with Chiwwtel Ejiofor (Mordo in Doctor Strange) and a lot of other people you will only sort of recognize, like the bad guy …. who was Dudley Dursley in the Harry Potter films. Like a bazillion or so other people the Regular Joes checked it out and give you...

This week the Joes acknowledge the 40th Anniversary of Saturn 3, Their second favorite Sci Fi film with Farrah Fawcett in the cast (Note: there were only two.) Conceived in the mind of visionary Star Wars set designer John Barry, Saturn 3, underwent management changes mid stream resulting in a what the late Roger Ebert described as "awesomely stupid, totally implausible," and "a shameful waste of...

With everything that's going on and everything that's not, sometimes it's nice to just have some time to kick back and hang out with your friends. This was one of those weeks. Joined by Derryl DePriest, and Brian Mix, Barry, Dave and Tod cover a wide range of topics from the genius of the late Carl Reiner, the glacial pace vs. the conceptual brilliance of 2001 a Space Odyssey, and why Agents of S....

You know how the last several weeks episodes have been very focused and thematic, yeah well, this one is not that. With no particular agenda the Regular Joes catch up on Random Topics, bid adieu to Sir Ian Holm and the guy who thought putting nipples on the bat suit was a good idea. Then there's some Shirt Up, because that's still apparently a thing, and a round of What's in The Box. In lieu of an...

Ok, let's try this again. This week the Regular hosts, plus adjunct Joe Derryl DePriest take a look at another of Barry's long-time sentimental favorite films Flash Gordon (1980). In what might seem a set up doomed to repeat "The Willow incident" the gang actually find several things they like about the film ... in addition to the several aspects they did not so much go for. It's all good. The rel...

Auctions can be very dangerous. Back in March The Prop Store held an auction that included screen used items from the JJ Abrams, or Kelvin universe, series of Star Trek films. While we understand these films aren't universally embraced by Star Trek fans, they are one of the rare things that all three Regular Joe's agree they like. Which makes an auction like this, yes, very dangerous. For this wee...

This week The Regular Joes dive into a duo of new series and a returning show that at one time was an RJP favorite…The CW's Star Girl, TNT's Snow Piercer and ABCs Marvels Agents of Shield. Did the new shows spark any interest? Will the Joes keep watching or give up after the pilot? And how does the premiere of the final season of Shield hold up to the best and worst of the show? We also serve up o...

This week The Regular Joes welcome back restorer of iconic props, and creator of cool things Tom Spina of Regal Robot and Tom Spina Designs to talk about two shows on Disney + that are not the Mandalorian...sort of. First up it's Disney Prop Culture which takes a reverent look at many of the surviving props from several of the memorable films in Disney's pantheon, including Mary Poppins, The Chron...

For seven years Barry, Dave and Tod have been getting together, more or less, each week to record the Regular Joes Podcast. This week is whole lot like the other 337. They start with a plan, and then get somewhat sidetracked during random topics. Next they get caught up on current projects with What's on My Workbench. Then, on Barry's recommendation everyone checked out Amazon Prime's Upload. Ok,...