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2025 Cameo Christmas 12/26/2025

2025 Cameo Christmas Welcome back to the 2025 Cameo Christmas episode of The Cleverest Good Boys, the only holiday special brave enough to ask the eternal questions: What even is a Cameo? Who approved this? And why does this feel like both late capitalism and Christmas magic at the same time? Tonight, we gather around the glowing digital hearth to unwrap celebrity messages we absolutely did not need, but deeply deserve; dispatches from the uncanny valley where sincerity, money, and good vibes collide. Think almost-turned eggnog for the soul, but the eggnog was delivered by someone you last thought about in 2007. So loosen your belt, heighten your expectations, and raise a glass to the season’s strangest tradition: paying famous strangers to pretend they know us. It’s Christmas. It’s Cameo. It’s your favorite Boys: still clever, still good, and perhaps most importantly, still here. Now featuring 100% more Friend of the Show Andrew! Stay tuned for our Best Music of 2025 episode coming soon! /episode/index/show/ohtheyclever/id/39538975

The Boys Go to the 97th Oscars! Part 2 03/02/2025

The Boys Go to the 97th Oscars! Part 2 In this Cleverest Good Boys speed round, the hosts quickly break down the non-Best Picture nominees, offering rapid-fire predictions and insights. They analyze the acting categories, debating which performances have the strongest momentum and where potential upsets could happen. Technical awards get their moment as they discuss the frontrunners in cinematography, editing, and visual effects. Finally, they wrap up with thoughts on animated films, international contenders, and the categories that often go overlooked but play a crucial role in shaping the industry’s future. /episode/index/show/ohtheyclever/id/35496545

The Boys Go to the 97th Oscars! Part 1 03/02/2025

The Boys Go to the 97th Oscars! Part 1 In the Cleverest Good Boys episode previewing the 97th Academy Awards, the hosts make their boldest predictions, wondering if this year’s ceremony will be A Complete Unknown or follow the usual patterns. They hold a Conclave of opinions on the frontrunners, debating whether the Academy will favor The Brutalist approach of rewarding technical mastery or embrace films with The Substance of deeper emotional storytelling. Find out on Part One of The Boys Go to the 97th Oscars! where the CGBs discuss their opinions of the best picture nominees. Part 2 to follow! /episode/index/show/ohtheyclever/id/35496495

2024: A Musical Year in Review 12/30/2024

2024: A Musical Year in Review What? You thought we'd wait a whole year before releasing this? What kind of bush league, two-bit podcast would do that? Two words: NOT US! Put away the egg nog for a second, plug in your Bose hearmuffs and give a listen-sy to the boys and their very clever, very good takes on the best music 2024 has to offer. This episode features the always erudite meditations of Friend of the Pod Andrew. The Playlists /episode/index/show/ohtheyclever/id/34663205

2023: A Musical Year in Review 12/30/2024

2023: A Musical Year in Review Look...we know. We know. The time for 2023 best of lists have come and gone. But the picks are so good and so clever that we had to delay. Check out their picks for best music of the year, featuring FOTP Andrew! The playlists Doug’s playlist: Doug’s extras: Jim’s playlist: Jim’s longlist: Andrew’s 10 albums: /episode/index/show/ohtheyclever/id/34662955

2024 Cameo Christmas 12/26/2024

2024 Cameo Christmas It's a Boxing Day miracle! The Cleverest Good Boys are back to get Cameos for each other to celebrate living, laughing, loving, and leavening. Leavening bread and leavening moods, as the kids are currently saying. Plug in your earbugs and podlinks, rizzlers, and listen to the fellas celebrate one another cleverly and goodly. Guest starring Friend of the Pod Andrew! Wanna see the Cameos? Click below! (Warning: colorful language) ⁩ ⁩ /episode/index/show/ohtheyclever/id/34626275

The Cleverest Good Boys Hit the Red Carpet: 2024 Oscars 03/08/2024

The Cleverest Good Boys Hit the Red Carpet: 2024 Oscars It's time for the OSCARS! Were you hoping the CGBs never talked about movies again? Were you hoping we'd drift off into the sunset, while you, or loving fans, called "SHAAAAANE"? Were you hoping we got into a three boy standoff and gunned each other down because one of us was too good and one of us was too bad and one of us was too ugly? Well tough luck, because we're BACK babayyyyy! Join us as we discuss the 96th Academy Awards! Doug and Jim go over their cleverest, goodest top ten ranking of the Best Picture nominees (spoiler alert: they have the same number 10) and the slowest quickfire round you've ever heard! The CGBs love movies, even if one of them sees three a year because he's too busy living. But they love talking about movies even more. /episode/index/show/ohtheyclever/id/30295158

2023 Cleverest Good Cameo Christmas 12/28/2023

2023 Cleverest Good Cameo Christmas It's the most FUNderful time of the year, dingdongs! The time when the Cleverest Good Boys get Cameos for each other to celebrate living, laughing, loving, and leavening. Leavening bread and leavening moods, as the kids are currently saying. Plug in your earbugs and podlinks, rizzlers, and listen to the fellas celebrate one another cleverly and goodly. Guest starring Friend of the Pod Andrew! /episode/index/show/ohtheyclever/id/29251763

The Cleverest Good Boys Take on the 95th Academy Awards!: Part 1 03/10/2023

The Cleverest Good Boys Take on the 95th Academy Awards!: Part 1 It's that time again! Time for Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep to collect their Osca- Wait, what? They're not actually...they're not nominated? Shit. Well what the hell are these dingdongs going to discuss for an hour?! I guess we'll find out in Part 1 of this year's Hanksless, Streepfree Oscars podcast. /episode/index/show/ohtheyclever/id/26182953

The Cleverest Good Boys Take on the 95th Academy Awards!: Part 2 03/09/2023

The Cleverest Good Boys Take on the 95th Academy Awards!: Part 2 Can you believe those guys? The drop a whole episode of award speculation and movie talk...and they leave out the best part: the Best Picture discussion! Those silly geese. Anyway, they talk for a good long time about the 10 best picture nominees! Enjoy Doug's discussion, Joe's jokes and Jim's bloviations! /episode/index/show/ohtheyclever/id/26182980

The Cleverest Good Boys Go To Sundance! 02/28/2023

The Cleverest Good Boys Go To Sundance! Join the CGBs as they attend the Sundance Film Festival, one in person and another virtually. What's it like attending in person? How different is it from attending virtually? What were the highlights? What's going to be the next CODA? Find out on this episode as the Cleverest Good Boys head west to Sundance! /episode/index/show/ohtheyclever/id/26071299

Our Favorite Things: 2022 in Music 01/17/2023

Our Favorite Things: 2022 in Music With the year freshly upon us, the Cleverest Good Boys spring back to discuss the best music the previous year had to offer. In their minds, at least. Friend of the Pod Andrew joins as the guest host with the most. Strap in an go back to the future with the Cleverest Good Boys, featuring Friend of the Pod Andrew! Listen to Doug's playlist . Listen to Friend of the Pod Andrew's playlist . Listen to Jim's playlist . /episode/index/show/ohtheyclever/id/25638951

2022 Boxing Day Extravaganza featuring the Results of The Best Song of the 80s Bracket! 12/27/2022

2022 Boxing Day Extravaganza featuring the Results of The Best Song of the 80s Bracket! It's been a year, hasn't it friends? Thank you for abiding with us as we bloviate about music, movies and various ephemera. I have it on good authority that our boys are not only the cleverest and goodest, they're also the gratefulest. Gratefulest for you the listener. We have big things planned for 2023, but now...enjoy the newly-crowned winner of the Best Song of the 80s! And as a special holiday treat, the CGBs have a Cameo Christmas, where each of the boys purchases a Cameo message for each other. This episode is not one to be missed! /episode/index/show/ohtheyclever/id/25434867

Best Song of the 1980s Bracket 12/12/2022

Best Song of the 1980s Bracket It's that time of year when the Cleverest Good Boys want your input. We had such a hard time pinning down the best song of the 1980s that we needed you to do it for us! "How can we help, yall?" you may be asking. Well...the only way we know how: a bracket, where each song will duel to the death. Now pop in your or pull on your and listen to our 1980s Bracket Intro...THEN... Listen to . Then listen to (which is in no order, but if you're extremely pressed for the order, he has a nifty spreadsheet for you to marvel over.) After that? Vote your heart out. Audi 5000. /episode/index/show/ohtheyclever/id/25300155

1989 in Music 12/02/2022

1989 in Music Aye carumba! Two new episodes in a week? About the music of the two final years of the 1980s? These good boys must be up to something EXTREMELY clever if they're pushing out content this quickly! Anyway, here's their thoughts on the music of 1989 (the year, not the ICONIC Swift opus.) /episode/index/show/ohtheyclever/id/25203282

1988 in Music 11/29/2022

1988 in Music The Cleverest Good Boys chopped up and listened to a big ole key bump of the music from 1988. Don't worry, be happy. They loved every single bit of it! /episode/index/show/ohtheyclever/id/25157013

1987 in Music 10/18/2022

1987 in Music In this episode, the CGBs discuss the music of 1987! See the very first video feed of the pod ! Listen to Doug's playlist . Listen to Jim's playlist . /episode/index/show/ohtheyclever/id/24722964

74th Primetime Emmys Preview Em-stravaganza 09/10/2022

74th Primetime Emmys Preview Em-stravaganza It's Emmy time, baby! Join the three* cleverest, goodest boys as they discuss the 74th Primetime Emmy Awards. *one of the boys may or may not be absent, but pretend he's there, nodding his head in agreement at everything Jim says. /episode/index/show/ohtheyclever/id/24335958

94th Academy Awards Extravaganza: Part 2 03/25/2022

94th Academy Awards Extravaganza: Part 2 Now for the thrilling conclusion of the cleverest, goodest Oscar podcast. Enjoy! /episode/index/show/ohtheyclever/id/22569128

94th Academy Awards Extravaganza: Part 1 03/24/2022

94th Academy Awards Extravaganza: Part 1 And the winner is...You! After all, what better way to celebrate the most wonderful time of the year than with a two-part Cleverest Good Boys podcast?! In this episode, the CGBs discuss each best picture nominee and rank them in order of preference. And let me tell ya...things get HEATED. As a bonus, Doug brainstormed the next big tentpole franchise! So, listen carefully for that! Part II will be released tomorrow. /episode/index/show/ohtheyclever/id/22555865

1986: A Year in Music 03/11/2022

1986: A Year in Music 1986 was a magical year. Millions of people linked together in Hands Across America. The Statue of Liberty was reopened to the public. Haley's Comet took the world by storm. And, most importantly, the Voyager 2 made it's first encounter with Uranus. But beyond that, the music was really interesting! Strap some headphones on your ears and take a trip to the distant galaxy of 1986 music with the Cleverest Good Boys! /episode/index/show/ohtheyclever/id/22417160

2021: A Year in Music 01/20/2022

2021: A Year in Music 2021 was a great year in music. According to THESE silly billies, that is. The vibes were chill in the midst of this brutal jerk of a year. The Cleverest Good Boys invite one of their cleverest, good friends to talk about. Join Doug, Joe, Jim and Friend of the Pod Andrew for a clever, good conversation about 2021 and the music that scored a tough, chaotic year. /episode/index/show/ohtheyclever/id/21835451

2021 Cameo Christmas 12/24/2021

2021 Cameo Christmas It's the most wonderful tiiiiiiiime of the yeeeeeear! Welcome to the annual, not-your-daddy's-holiday episode of the Cleverest Good Boys: Cameo Christmas 2021, baby! For newcomers, welcome. Joe, Doug, and Jim get each other Cameos every year, as a sign of glad tidings and a blessed yule. And then, they record it. FOR POSTERITY. And to share the holiday love to all of their listeners. Strap in, pour some whiskey in your cocoa and let the Cleverest Good Boys make a quick walk-on cameo in the movie of your life. /episode/index/show/ohtheyclever/id/21595226

1985 in Music 10/21/2021

1985 in Music Buy your ticket for the radical journey through the winding road of 1985 music. All aboard! Doug's Best of Jim's Best of Doug's exxxtra spice /episode/index/show/ohtheyclever/id/20896274

2021 Primetime Emmys Preview 09/17/2021

2021 Primetime Emmys Preview Never let it be said the Cleverest Good Boys don't love their cleverest good listeners. The only thing they love more? Television. It's Emmy time and the CGBs want to tall about it. And they put in some WORK. They watched every show that was nominated. Except Shameless. Nobody watches Shameless. So strap on your headphones and let's gab about the boob tube! /episode/index/show/ohtheyclever/id/20509598

1984 in Music 08/26/2021

1984 in Music Come on feel the BOYS talk about 1984 in music. We know that pun doesn't make sense for this year, but we don't care. Whaddya gonna do? Call the Ghostbusters?! That's what we thought. Just slap on your earphones and give it a listen, ya goof. Doug's Jim's /episode/index/show/ohtheyclever/id/20267231

1983 in Music 08/11/2021

1983 in Music The Cleverest Good Boys discuss the music of 1983. Doug's Jim's /episode/index/show/ohtheyclever/id/20108762

1982 in Music 06/24/2021

1982 in Music Join the boys as they take a look at and discuss the year in music from 1982! Doug's Jim's /episode/index/show/ohtheyclever/id/19594913

The Annual Cleverest Goodest Oscar Show part 2 04/24/2021

The Annual Cleverest Goodest Oscar Show part 2 The CGBs take an in-depth look at the Oscars. Part 2 /episode/index/show/ohtheyclever/id/18844241

The Annual Cleverest Goodest Oscar Show part 1 04/23/2021

The Annual Cleverest Goodest Oscar Show part 1 The CGBs take an in-depth look at the Oscars. Part 1 /episode/index/show/ohtheyclever/id/18840986

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