Pop-culture arguments with a loose grip.
Bonehead Weekly turns pop-culture topics into a crowded couch argument with jokes arriving faster than the agenda. Movies, comics, horror reviews, nostalgic TV, and Lexington Comic-Con stories all get treated as fuel for rankings, corrections, and ridiculous side roads.
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Bonehead Weekly is a pop-culture comedy panel where the topic is only the starting line. The show moves fast, talks over itself, and makes room for the kind of corrections that become jokes before they become useful. Its episodes cover movies, television, comics, horror, award-season complaints, convention weekends, and whatever memory gets shaken loose along the way. The panel can start with paranormal documentary shows from the seventies and eighties, then wind through familiar hosts, authors, actors, and the peculiar grammar of British TV series. It can also sit in front of a live Lexington Comic-Con crowd and turn movie and TV duos into a room-sized argument. The format is loose, but the references are not random. The show has a deep affection for character actors, genre directors, cult movies, independent comics, and half-remembered media artifacts that deserve one more loud conversation. Rankings are common. So are attempts to sabotage each other with impossible categories. A Mount Rushmore prompt becomes less about consensus than about watching the panel make each other defend four choices under pressure. Episodes about non-DC and non-Marvel characters dig into The Mask, Vampirella, Kid Death and Fluffy, and the stranger edges of comics history. Softer topics do not stay soft for long. A conversation about cuddly characters can still turn into Kool-Aid Man lore, Grogu comparisons, Captain Caveman confusion, and Sunday comic-strip detours. The show also has a horror-review lane, with Good Boy getting praised for its short runtime, dog-centered perspective, and open-ended ghost-story logic. Convention episodes add a more local, in-the-room feeling, especially around Lexington Comic-Con and live-show gratitude. The humor is blunt without becoming slick. The charm is in the mess: one person tries to explain the premise, another refuses to let a detail slide, and the whole exchange becomes the point. Bonehead Weekly works best for listeners who like pop-culture fandom as conversation, not lecture. It is opinionated, nostalgic, reference-dense, and comfortable being ridiculous. Under the noise, there is an obvious love of movies, comics, TV, and the people who keep arguing about them.
Made for: For listeners who like movie, TV, comic, horror, and convention talk delivered as fast group banter. It especially fits fans who enjoy trivia, rankings, cult references, and friendly disagreement.
What sets it apart: Bonehead Weekly stands out by treating pop-culture lists and reviews as social combat rather than tidy criticism. The show’s appeal is the mix of real genre knowledge, live-room looseness, and digressions that somehow circle back.
Welcome to Bonehead Weekly! Hosts Joe, James, and Chad discuss their opposing opinions and thoughts about pop culture-related topics. Check it out, because three more white guys talking about pop culture is exactly what you were wanting to hear. Trust us, we know. (PG-13)
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Bonehead Weekly makes detailed pop-culture talk funnier through friendly disagreement, deep-cut recall, and digressions that become their own reward.
Bonehead Weekly turns pop culture into a running argument among Joe, James, and Chad, with prepared topics continually interrupted by jokes, corrections, and personal detours.
From The Mask's comic-book body count to a cat's manifesto, your trivia night has gone off-script.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A loose, affectionate trip through creepy TV, Arthur C. Clark, and Jack Palance on a horse.
Bonehead Weekly wanders into creepy 1970s and 1980s television, with Jack Palance looming as the kind of presence who might appear on a horse or in a World War II automobile. The episode finds its strongest thread in Arthur C.
A lively screen-pairings chat where corrections, detours, and crowd banter keep the movie trivia loose.
Bonehead Weekly turns a live talk about screen pairings into a loose, funny stress test for movie trivia. The room is part of the machinery from the start, as the panel moves from a complaint about missing applause into Burt Reynolds pairings, the Jerry Reed correction in…
A loose Oscars argument finds its sharpest case in Delroy Lindo's Sinners scene.
Bonehead Weekly turns an Oscars argument into a relaxed question about what an award is really honoring: one performance, or the weight of an actor's larger career.
A loose independent-comics review finds The Mask at its darkest, with Walter and Kellaway giving it bite.
Bonehead Weekly lands on its strongest thread when The Mask stops being the familiar movie figure and becomes a much nastier comic-book presence.
A Gizmo prompt turns into a warm, wandering run through lovable characters and the odd history of the Kool-Aid Man.
Bonehead Weekly uses cute, cuddly characters as the doorway into a wider conversation about what makes something lovable, family friendly, censored, or simply funny enough to chase.
A loose, lived-in Scarefest preview centered on volunteer judgment, shared responsibility, and a 976 Evil poster.
Scarefest 2025 Preview keeps things loose and affectionate as Adrienne Elder returns and Brandon Griffith joins to talk through the people and practical machinery behind the convention.
A gray-haired comedy detour turns into a sharp, uneasy riff on who gets to decide when the work ends.
Bonehead Weekly treats aging as a joke until it starts sounding like a question of control: when does a performer know the work has run its course, and does anyone really get to choose the exit?
Fast banter, strange pivots, real hangout energy.
Loose lists, sharp opinions, strange detours.
Creative conversations, mostly from the Glasgow theatre scene.
Florida stories, movie tangents, and hundreds of episodes of drift.
Fast friendship, blunt stories, zero polish.
Fast banter, old bits, fresh derailments.
Joe and Chad discuss their ten favorite movies in a casual, humorous episode of Bonehead Weekly.
Hosts Joe, James, and Chad preview Scarefest 2025 with guests Adrienne Elder and Brandon Griffith.
Hosts Joe and James discuss why entertainers retire, using examples like Marc Maron ending his WTF podcast after 16 years and Dr.
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Bonehead Weekly uses a live Lexington Comic Con panel to debate the best movie, TV, and animated duos.
Joe Lewis reviews the 2022 horror film 'Good Boy', a 74-minute ghost story told from a dog's perspective, praising its slow burn and open-ended interpretation.
James and Joe say Delroy Lindo should have won over Sean Penn for Sinners, and they frame the Oscars as a career-vote problem.
The hosts banter about aging and hair dye while discussing the upcoming Lexington Comic Con with guests Catrina and Jarrod.
The hosts of Bonehead Weekly introduce a new game where they challenge each other to create Mount Rushmore lists of four people in various pop culture categories.
Vampirella was an eight-and-a-half-by-eleven magazine character before she became a crossover name.
Chad picks Gur from Invader Zim as a robot that gets a peanut butter sandwich for a GPS.
The hosts of Bonehead Weekly discuss their upcoming rebranding and plans for their 400th episode during a chaotic start to their New Year's recap show.
The hosts of Bonehead Weekly preview the upcoming Scarefest 2025 convention with special guests Adrienne Elder and Brandon Griffith.
The hosts discuss television shows that continued without their original stars, while joking about a missing co-host getting rhinoplasty.