The Boy Howdy Podcast

Heya, folks! If you’re hearing/reading this, then I guess Anne and Bill managed to figure out how to kick out the dust and fire up the podcast pipeline in time to bring you another year-end wrapup about the games, movies, TV shows and whatnot that we enjoyed during the past year – and this [...]

Hey guys! We’re firing up the ol’ podcast pipeline to check in with y’alls and gab about all the stuff we’ve watched, played or listened to in 2017. Also, a very sincere “thank you” to anyone who has kept up with us over the course of this insane past year and/or requested this episode. [...]

And here at the end of all things is the final episode of The Boy Howdy Podcast. This last time out, we’re mostly just talking about Christmas, warmth and friendship, with a little Final Fantasy XV, Yuri on Ice, Christmas Vacation and MST3K Santa Claus thrown in. In The Geek Week News In [...]

On this, the penultimate episode of the Boy Howdy Podcast, we piffle about Rogue One, Dishonored 2, more Yuri on Ice and Voltron, Forza Horizon 3’s Blizzard Mountain DLC, Stardew Valley on PS4, Overwatch holiday stuff, Ant-Man and The BFG. In The Geek Week News In Review: The Super Nintendo World mini themepark, Fathom [...]

We’re interrupting Boy Howdy’s regular schedule to present a VERY spoileriffic roundtable discussion about Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, guest-starring our usual gang of Star Wars aficionados: Bobby Roberts, Mike Russell, Conley Presler, Leland Radburn and Jimmy Presler. We talk about everything from the score to the production design to some of the [...]

We’ve survived Portland’s first (and only?) snowfall of the season to yak at you beautiful people about the Westworld S1 finale (spoilers!), The Last Guardian, Yuri on Ice, Six Wives with Lucy Worsely, Voltron, Forgotten Weapons, Rudolph, Frosty and Mary Poppins. In The Geek Week News In Review: A 99 million year-old dinosaur tail [...]

Life has conspired to keep any of us from ingesting much new pop culture this week, but we still manage to check in with out thoughts about 1994’s Little Women, Final Fantasy XV, the improv troupe dramedy Don’t Think Twice and more gushing about Supergirl and Dishonored 2. In The Geek Week news In [...]

It’s a quiet, post-Thanksgiving weekend, but that doesn’t keep us from blabbing about Supergirl, Kubo and the Two Strings, Suicide Squad and Watch Dogs 2. In The Geek Week News In Review: Reinhardt = Pharah’s poppa?, Mad Sheila, the Silence trailer, Michelle Yeoh gears up for Star Trek: Discovery, the (supposed) demise of the [...]

Happy Thanksgiving, everybody! We’re talking about our Turkey Day plans, Dishonored 2, spoilers for the latest episode of Westworld, PSVR, The Godfather Notebook, Empire of the Sun, Foley’s Shark Facts™ and the anniversaries of the Gamecube, Wii, Sneak King and Casino Royale. In The Geek Week News In Review: Hayao Miyazaki un-retires (again), the [...]

Nothing much happened in the world this week, so we’re just talking about Arrival, The NES Classic (and the Famicom Mini that Bill imported from Japan), Porco Rosso, Princess Mononoke, Westworld, The Crown, Overwatch’s Sombra reveal, Cheers, the TV Book, Dishonored 2 and we taste-test Peppermint Twinkies and “Sweetos”. In The Geek Week News [...]

Anne was knocked unconscious this week by the Sombra character reveal for Overwatch, so in lieu of talking this week, Bill cooked up a little November-y music mix tape for y’all. Welcome to the winding down of the year, everybody.

Happy Halloween everybody! This week, we’re gabbing about Crimson Peak (again) and What We Do In The Shadows, along with the new Art of Atari book, Overwatch Halloween skins, Bill’s recent purchase of a 4K TV and the last Great British Bake-Off finale. In The Geek Week news In Review: Peter Jackson + Mortal [...]

We’re broadcasting from the trenches this week as Bill and Anne talk Battlefield 1, Swiss Army Man, Final Fantasy XV: Kingsglaive, more GBBO and The Good Place and fucking Sausage Party. In The Geek Week News In Review: The Nintendo Switch, Red Dead Redemption Part Deux, the LEGO Creator Assembly Square, the videogame voice-actors’ [...]

Heavy rains have driven Bill and Anne to record this week from a dining room, but what a rich feast we’ve got for you: Westworld and the Red Dead Redemption sequel tease, Thumper, Ladykiller In A Bind, the Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare beta, Overwatch’s Halloween event and more (now somewhat spoilery) Crimson Peak [...]

Anne and Foley are back, so we’ve got three weeks’ worth of stuff to catch up on: Forza Horizon 3, Luke Cage, Mafia III, The Good Place, The Shallows, The Great British Bake-Off, Kiki’s Delivery Service, Crimson Peak, The Addams Family movie, Pitch, Jane Eyre and the works of that ol’ Star Hustler, Jack [...]

We’re taking another break from our regular podcasting schedule this week to bring you a belated 50th anniversary Star Trek round table special. Bobby Roberts, Katie Lane, Leland Radburn, Joshin Yamada and Dylan Meconis join Bill to talk about…well, a lotta stuff: Kathryn Janeway = Hillary Clinton?, our abiding memories of TOS, TNG, DS9, [...]

Anne and Foley are away this week, so we’ve got another hour of George Burns & Gracie Allen and 50’s sci-fi radio X-Minus One to tide us over. Intro: Autumn in New York – Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong

We mourn the death of The Great British Bake-Off (at least as we know it) while gabbing about this week’s avalanche of comic/picture book releases: Leave Me Alone, King Baby, Cat Rackham and The Creepy Case Files of Margo Maloo. Also on the menu: Hunt For The Wilderpeople, Laputa/Castle in the Sky, Jane Eyre [...]

Anne and Foley check in this week about make-up, Steven Universe toys, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’s “Duet” and Miyazaki’s Nausicaa: The Valley of the Wind, while Bill talks about Sing Street, Moonrise Kingdom and Homestar Runner. In The Geek Week News In Review: Nintendo finally puts Mario on iPhones, Sony debuts the [...]

Settle in for a lot of Star Trek talk this week as we reminisce about the show on the eve of its 50th anniversary – but we also talk about the Battlefield 1 beta, The Jungle Book, The Castle of Cagliostro, Only Yesterday, Full Steam Ahead and Foley’s first D&D adventure! In The Geek [...]

The Olympics are finally over (just in time for us to bitch about Olympic mascots of the past), so now we can turn our attention to what really matters: The Great British Bake-Off. Also on deck: Anne’s attempt to recreate Seven Brides For Seven Brothers in LEGO, slow-motion food photography, Space Cop, Grow Home, [...]

It’s our last week blabbing about the Olympics (and our last chance to chat about the “Summer Games” stuff in Overwatch), but we also talk about the 80’s lesbian romance Desert Hearts, the 60s-set Hong Kong romance In The Mood For Love, MSNBC’s The Profit, the little-known 90’s adventure game Gahan Wilson’s The Ultimate [...]

Bill takes a break from shooting valuable space turds to chat about No Man’s Sky and Harry Potter & The Cursed Child, while Anne & Foley bring some more Olympic commentary and chat about Anne’s new Lego chapel. In The Geek Week News In Review: RIP Kenny Baker, the first details about Star Trek: [...]

We’ve got Olympic fever, so when we’re not gushing about womens’ rugby or Iranians crashing into walls, we’re talking about the indie sci-fi flick Midnight Special and a bunch of history books that Foley picked up at Powell’s. In The Geek Week News In Review: Channing Tatum’s gender-flippered Splash! remake, what the original script [...]

We’re visited by Miss Virginia as we Anne dishes about her first time delving into Overwatch while Bill talks up Stardew Valley on Mac and Batman: TAS. In The Geek Week News In Review: RIP VHS, RIP Jack Davis, Telltale’s new “Crowd Play” feature, the return of The Rocketeer(s), and so long Sesame Street’s [...]

Anne & Foley are back, so they’re got their take on the new Ghostbusters flick while Bill dishes about Stranger Things and Star Trek Beyond. Also: Keanu, Dragon Age: Dawn of the Seeker and Lucha Underground. In The Geek Week News In Review: The return of Grand Admiral Thrawn, Stardew Valley on Mac, Indiana [...]

Anne’s out this week, so Leland Radburn (from the Subcon Serenade podcast) steps in to talk with Bill about the new (and fun!) Ghostbusters flick and its surprisingly great “Ghosts From Our Past” tie-in book, the Richard Donner cut of Superman II, Rogue Legacy, Kerbal Space Program on consoles and the new “50 Year [...]

Weirdly enough, we’re talking about everything BUT Pokemon Go this week in favor of Summer Games Done Quick, 1776, Forza 6, Inside, Elementary, The Road to El Dorado and the Olympics. In The Geek Week News In Review: Sulu is gay (at least in the Kelvin timeline), the release of Habitat’s source code, RIP [...]

There’s more Teeny Titans Go! talk this week as Anne really digs into the game, but we also hit the RiffTrax/MST3K reunion, Green Room, Batman V Superman, the Game of Thrones finale and Burger King’s Mac n’ Cheetos. In The Geek Week News In Review: Dino feathers and flesh have been found in amber, [...]

Anne’s a Merry Man this week as she talks about Douglas Fairbanks’ Robin Hood, while Bill yaks about Teeny Titans Go!, Mighty No. 9, Message From Space and The Prince of Egypt. In The Geek Week News In Review: Forest Whittaker’s Clone Wars character in Rogue One, CBS’s new rules for Star Trek fan [...]

Anne and Foley are back to chat about their E3 impressions, Game of Thrones, Turn: Washington’s Spies, Banner Saga 2, The Grizzled, Raiders : The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made and Elstree 1976. In The Geek Week News In Review: the hidden fifth housemate in The Young Ones, No Man’s Sky [...]

Special guest Phil Theobald sits in this week to chat with Bill about the new live-action Ninja Turtles sequel, the newly-announced Lego Dimensions sets, Beverly Cleary, Inspector Gadget and Netflix’s new Voltron series. In The Geek Week News In Review: the impending closure of Harajuku’s nifty-looking 1920’s train station, the Whopperito, John Boyega joins [...]

It’s been a quiet week, so this time out we’re just sussing out our feeling about the new Hi-C Ecto Cooler that just hit store shelves while blarfing a bit more about Overwatch, the BBC Farm series, LEGO and Band of Brothers. In The Geek Week News In Review: The last Back to the [...]

Bill takes a break from injecting Overwatch directly into his veins just long enough to hear Anne & Foley talk about vacationing in the Oregon countryside while watching Sister Act and Dragonheart on VHS. Also this week: Game of Thrones, vintage Return of the Jedi activity books, Fallout 4’s Far Harbor DLC, Game of [...]

Bill’s finally finished Uncharted 4, so this means a big spoilercast about the game starting at the 1 hour & 20 minute mark in this episode! But before that, we’re talking about Maria Bamford’s Lady Dynamite, Hail Caesar!, Grace & Frankie, the “black nerd” comedy Dope, the Italian fairytale flick Tale of Tales and [...]

Bill’s only halfway through Uncharted 4, so this week we have a bit of a spoilercast for the first half of the game (up until chapter 12), and then Bill dishes about Captain America: Civil War and the gays in Star Wars: Bloodline. And then Foley comes up with the best idea for a [...]

Anne and Foley surprise Bill with their early (and non-spoilery) impressions about Uncharted 4 while Bill dishes about Overwatch, Star Wars: Bloodline, Back to the Future (in concert) and the latest developments in Game of Thrones. In The Geek Week News In Review: Dishonored 2 details, the Battlefield 1 reveal, Nintendo + Vans = [...]

This week we’re joined by a pair of ‘bots as we talk about Deadpool, Kingsman: The Secret Service, Beyonce’s Lemonade, revisiting early Parks & Recreation, Tom Hardy’s Legend and Charlie Chaplin’s The Kid. In The Geek Week News In Review: Disney’s ridiculous slate of new live-action remakes of their animated films, Chelsea Peretti & [...]

We’re taking a break from sipping Beyonce’s Lemonade to talk about the bland awfulness that is Star Fox Zero, the mid-season Vikings finale, Anne’s visit to a lumberjack circus, the Richard Moll films Evilspeak and The Sword & The Sorcerer, Enter the Gungeon, Invisible Inc., the Mirror’s Edge Catalyst ‘beta’ and Dark Souls III. [...]

This week, Anne and Bill are joined by the ghost of Alexander Hamilton, who sits in to give his opinion about the musical based on his life, the BOOK about the musical about his life, and Anne’s dreams about political upheaval + sexy badgers. Also this week: the (great) new Ratchet & Clank PS4 [...]

Anne’s back (with Foley in tow), so we’re catching up with the Rogue One trailer, Miitomo, Portland’s new QuarterWorld arcade/bar and the Cate Blanchett Queen Elizabeth films. In The Geek Week News In Review: the hour-long Zootopia documentary that just debuted on Youtube, the hidden tell in Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!! that took gamers 30 [...]

Anne’s still out, so this week Bill’s cobbled together two episodes from the classic 1950s sci-fi radio show X-Minus One – hold onto your hats for a LOT of Martian talk for the next 58 minutes!

Anne’s away this week, so instead of leaving everyone high and dry, Bill’s posting an episode from one of his favorite old-timey radio shows, The George Burns & Gracie Allen Show. (Star Trek fans may remember that Burns’ & Allens’ namesakes – George & Gracie – saved the world with some nasty hardcore whale-fucking). [...]

We’re celebrating the start of spring with LOTS of body care talk, though we eventually get around to yakking about Pee Wee’s Big Holiday, Lucky Penny, Stardew Valley, Delilah Dirk, Playstation Vue and the I Was There Too podcast (and Jenette Goldstein’s bra shop), too. In The Geek Week News In Review: Indy 5 [...]

Foley joins us this week to talk about Zootopia, Zoe Bell’s Camino, 10 Cloverfield Lane, The Division and more Far Cry Primal. In The Geek Week News In Review: RIP Lionhead Studios (and Fable), PIDERMAN, Tomb Ridley, RIP the save battery in Leland’s copy of Super Mario World and RED ALERT: BURGER KING NOW [...]

This week we’re shrugging at the new Ghostbusters trailer while also flarfing about the ending of Far Cry Primal, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Star Wars: Rebels and Super Mario World on the 3DS. In The Geek Week News In Review: The Dark Tower movie locks in a cast while the Sandman movie loses its Morpheus, Microsoft [...]

We’re back after a week-long break to talk about The Witch, Far Cry Primal, Fire Emblem Fates, Vikings, Final Fantasy VI, more Lucy Worsley and The Maltese Falcon on the big screen. In The Geek Week News In Review: Laura Dern in Star Wars, Nicholas Meyer writing for the new Star Trek series, the [...]

This week (at the 41-minute mark) Anne and Bill try to figure out what was what in Firewatch. Before that, however, there’s plenty of talk about building the LEGO Ghostbusters firehouse, Kingsman: The Secret Service, The Lobster, Eleanor Davis’ BDSM, Twilight Zone on Blu-Ray and Assassins’ Creed: Rogue. In The Geek Week News In [...]

Anne’s back from her travels with BBC historian Lucy Worsley to talk about Rise of the Tomb Raider, Oxenfree and Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade, while Bill dishes about finally watching The X-Files for the first time and catching up with The Venture Brothers. Also, lots of inexplicable satyr/minotaur talk and a plea [...]

They’re still trying to dredge Anne’s body out of Willy Wonka’s chocolate river, so Daniel “The Grumpyturtle” Rutis sits in this week to talk about why he loves The Witness so much while Bill blabs about The Venture Brothers, Final Fantasy VI, HBO’s 7-hour cut of The Godfather 1+2, and the Star Wars Minute [...]