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Three Guys with Beards

99 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 22 ratings

Christopher Golden, Jonathan Maberry and James A. Moore get together to discuss popular culture, books, movies and whatever else crosses their minds in a weekly discussion of the world at large as seen by three writers of speculative fiction. Be part of the live taping of the world premiere of this exciting new online talk show.

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Episodes

Three Guys With Beards #099

August 14, 2019 19:00 - 39 minutes - 39.2 MB

Brian Keene, Mary Sangiovanni, and John Urbancik fill in for Jonathan, Chris, and Jim. It goes about as well as you'd expect.

Three Guys With Beards # 098

June 12, 2019 19:00 - 1 hour - 57.4 MB

Tom Sniegoski joins Chris and Jim to talk Godzilla, Deadwood, Dark Phoenix, NOS4A2, and the genius of Phoebe Waller-Bridge. A special announcement is made. We challenge Rio Youers, and long-dead character actor Walter Brennan drops by!

Three Guys With Beards #097

June 05, 2019 19:00 - 1 hour - 60.1 MB

Three Guys with Beards is back with special emergency beard Bracken MacLeod. In this episode, we discuss DC's attempts at movies, the new twist on who's playing Batman and the projects we're all working on and looking forward to working on. 

Three Guys With Beards Mallory O'Meara

May 08, 2019 19:00 - 59 minutes - 56 MB

Film producer and author Mallory O'Meara joins the Beards to discuss her massively successful non-fiction book The Lady From the Black Lagoon, which rewrites Hollywood history and corrects an enormous injustice. Chris and Jim try very hard to get her to break her film or TV development non-disclosure agreements, and the Beards remember Kirby, the Atomic Frenchie. All that and more!

Three Guys With Beards #095

April 24, 2019 19:00 - 1 hour - 66 MB

Author Hillary Monahan sits in for the Traveling Maberry, joining Jim and Chris to talk about the current horror resurgence, recent influence, Black Summer, Tim Lebbon's The Silence on Netflix, and more!

Three Guys With Beards #094

April 17, 2019 19:00 - 1 hour - 54.1 MB

On this week's episode, Jonathan and Jim abuse Chris for not showing up, and discuss all things pop culture. There are questions and they're answered. Also, Jonathan shares some spectacular news!

Three Guys With Beards #093

April 10, 2019 19:00 - 57 minutes - 55.3 MB

The original beards are back together, talking books, horror, TV, westerns, Pet Sematary, and the Traveling Maberry's crazy schedule. Plus we answer listeners' questions, from the most complex to "Boxer or Briefs?" Yes, this is the TMI section!

Three Guys With Beards #092

April 03, 2019 19:00 - 56 minutes - 53.8 MB

TIM LEBBON, acclaimed author of THE SILENCE, joins the Beards to discuss his original novel, the Netflix film based on it, the controversy about A QUIET PLACE, climbing a sheer cliff face with your bare hands, and how best to dispose of the bodies of people who might reveal Game of Thrones spoilers!

Three Guys With Beards #091

March 27, 2019 19:00 - 58 minutes - 54.8 MB

Christopher Golden and James A. Moore welcome author and filmmaker Izzy Lee as guest co-host. What does the Disney-Fox merger hold for geeks and for the industry?? What's good on Netflix right now? The hosts go to war about Captain Marvel and the battle between the WGA and their agents. Join us for the usual shenanigans!

Three Guys With Beards #090

March 13, 2019 19:00 - 1 hour - 60.4 MB

James A. Moore welcomes guest beards Dan Brereton and Tom Sneigoski, we discuss kaiju, kickstarters Albatross Comics, forthcoming projects and cookbooks, of course.

Three Guys With Beards #089

February 27, 2019 21:14 - 1 hour - 60.7 MB

In this episode of Three Guys With Beards, Jonathan and Jim discuss the lack of Christopher Golden and some of the living writers who have influenced us the most.

Three Guys With Beards Dan Brereton

January 23, 2019 22:08 - 1 hour - 63.9 MB

  Dan Brereton fills in for the traveling Jonathan Mayberry and joins James A. Moore & Christopher Golden to answer your questions!

Three Guys With Beards #087

January 16, 2019 20:00 - 56 minutes - 52.9 MB

Your ears aren't playing tricks on you! Three Guys with Beards are back to kick off 2019 with more talk on pop culture! New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry, veteran novelist James A. Moore, and Bram Stoker Award winner Christopher Golden tell you what they've been reading and watching. Plus the Beards answer your questions!

Three Guys With Beards #086

November 28, 2018 20:00 - 1 hour - 61.2 MB

The Beards may have missed Halloween, but they're back, post-Thanksgiving Turkey coma! Jonathan Maberry, Christopher Golden and James A. Moore return to talk all things pop culture, and remember Stan Lee.   

Three Guys With Beards #085

October 24, 2018 19:00 - 1 hour - 55.9 MB

Jonathan Maberry, Christopher Golden and James A. Moore are back for another thrilling episode, digging into pop culture, answering your questions and making a call to arms for you to vote in the mid-term elections.  

Three Guys With Beards #084

October 03, 2018 20:03 - 1 hour - 62.4 MB

The Beards are back with another episode of their popular podcast!  This week Chris Golden, Jonathan Maberry and Jim Moore tell you what they're reading & watching and answer your questions... with or without caffeine.

Three Guys With Beards #83

September 19, 2018 19:00 - 56 minutes - 53.3 MB

The Beards convene as a trio for a complete show, and the space/time continuum stays intact! They answer YOUR questions, and dig deep into a recent Hollywood blockbuster with ties close to the show... THE PREDATOR.

Three Guys With Beards #082

August 29, 2018 19:00 - 59 minutes - 56.3 MB

The Beards can't seem to get the space and time continuum to agree with them, and are less a Jim Moore this time around. What do Christopher and Jonathan have to say about pop culture and current events? Listen and find out! 

Three Guys With Beards #081

August 15, 2018 19:00 - 1 hour - 60.6 MB

Three Guys With Beards goes rogue at Scares That Care, as James A Moore enlists Bracken McLeod and Dave Thomas to fill in for Jonathan and Christopher.

Three Guys With Beards #080

July 18, 2018 19:10 - 1 hour - 68.5 MB

The Beards talk the growing interest in horror media and publishing, answer questions, and delve into the brain of Joe Monti, Editorial Director of Saga Press! Join us!

Three Guys With Beards #079

July 11, 2018 19:00 - 57 minutes - 54.6 MB

Bathrobed lover of crappy monster movies Daniel Golden jumps in as Guest Beard to talk Crocodile, Marvel TV, and Idris Elba, and to theorize about upcoming MCU films...and we answer listener questions! Join us on Three Guys with Beards! 

Three Guys With Beards #78

July 04, 2018 19:00 - 1 hour - 67.7 MB

Tom Sniegoski fills in for Jim in the latest Three Guys with Beards. Jonathan talks his first visit with the cast and crew of V-Wars, Tom talks about his talent for nonsense, and the Beards take on Luke Cage, Cloak & Dagger, Jared Leto, and a pack of dogs in a Transylvanian cemetery. All in this episode of Three Guys with Beards!

Three Guys With Beards #077

June 27, 2018 19:00 - 1 hour - 95.1 MB

In this episode of Three Guys with Beards Jim finds himself without either Jonathan or Chris and decides to call in the emergency back up beards. In this case Bracken MacLeod and Dan Brereton. The episode is LOOOOONG and only stopped because Jim had to go to physical therapy. We discuss movies, books, comics, Bracken's homicidal eating habits, Jim's loud eating methods and everything else under the sun.

Three Guys With Beards #076

June 14, 2018 22:05 - 1 hour - 58.1 MB

On the latest Three Guys with Beards, the displaced Christopher Golden is replaced by the charming and heavily bearded Bracken Mcleod. We discuss the latest trends in Hollywood, the placement of Comic Book Universes in the real world, exactly how much we loathe the sort of scum who attack female and minority celebrities online and whether or not we are, in fact, minions of Brian Keene.

Three Guys With Beards #075

April 25, 2018 22:06 - 1 hour - 61.7 MB

The Beards are back! Join the 2018 Bram Stoker Award winner for best novel, Christopher Golden, and NY Times bestselling authors James A. Moore and Jonathan Maberry as they answer the questions you gave them on social media. Plus Jonathan can finally talk about V Wars the series coming to NETFLIX!

Three Guys With Beards #074

April 11, 2018 19:00 - 57 minutes - 53.8 MB

The Beards are back! NY Times Bestselling authors Jonathan Maberry, Christopher Golden and James A. Moore tackle your questions, address current events and go to bat for diversity.

Three Guys With Beards #073

March 28, 2018 19:00 - 1 hour - 58.5 MB

Believe it or not... Three Guys with Beards returns with Special Guest Beard Tim Lebbon

Three Guys With Beards #072

February 14, 2018 20:00 - 1 hour - 57.6 MB

The Beards: Christopher Golden, James A. Moore and Jonathan Maberry fight off Captain Trips to answer your questions regarding books, comics, movies/TV, pop culture, writing, and publishing!

Three Guys With Beards #071

January 31, 2018 20:00 - 1 hour - 57.6 MB

The Beards are Back! The trio of beards is reunited at last, kicking off 2018 with a conversation about works in progress, what we've been reading, the conventions to look forward to in 2018, and listener questions. Plus, more on Jack Ketchum, and this weekend's celebration of the life of Rick Hautala.

Three Guys With Beards #70 | Remembering Jack Ketchum

January 25, 2018 23:00 - 50 minutes - 46.1 MB

Three Guys with Beards returns with a brief episode in honor of the late Jack Ketchum. Chris and Jim reminisce and ramble on about the author and the impact of his work. It's a disjointed conversation, much like the ones we'd have at conventions. Rest in peace, old friend.

Three Guys With Beards #69

December 13, 2017 20:00 - 1 hour - 65.7 MB

The Traveling Jonathan Maberry returns for another hour of answering your questions, alongside James A. Moore and Christopher Golden.

Three Guys With Beards | Mary SanGiovanni Returns!

December 06, 2017 19:28 - 1 hour - 60.7 MB

The latest Three Guys with Beards, with the very excellent Mary SanGiovanni subbing for the Traveling Maberry. So it's Christopher Golden, James A. Moore, and Mary answering the questions you asked us on social media this week! Will Mary be bearded? Listen to find out!

Three Guys With Beards | #067

November 15, 2017 16:00 - 1 hour - 60.5 MB

Well, it's alright, as the traveling Jonathan Maberry returns to join Christopher Golden and James A Moore. The Beards catch up and answer your questions and Jonathan presumes he's the only one who will get that pun. 

Three Guys With Beards | #66 Spooky Empire

November 01, 2017 15:00 - 1 hour - 55.3 MB

James A. Moore and Christopher Golden, two-thirds of the beards, sit down together at Spooky Empire convention in Orlando FL along with two other guests: author and podcaster Armand Rosamilia as well as book reviewer and podcaster Shelly Rosamilia, the owners of Project Entertainment Network. They talk about conventions and Halloween.

Three Guys With Beards #65 | Crossover 2017

October 25, 2017 15:00 - 1 hour - 81 MB

The Beards, Chris & Jim, collide with The Horror Show's Brian Keene & Mary SanGiovanni and Inkstain's John Urbancik for the epic Project Entertainment Network crossover of 2017!

Three Guys With Beards #64 | Mary SanGiovanni

October 11, 2017 17:24 - 1 hour - 62.3 MB

Jonathan Maberry and Jim Moore, along with a decidedly NOT bearded Mary SanGiovanni, discuss all things pop culture, mock Chris Golden for not being able to make the podcast, and praise Bracken MacLeod for his use of beard products. We also answer a lot of questions.

Tim Lebbon | Three Guys With Beards #63

September 27, 2017 14:00 - 1 hour - 59.9 MB

In this week's Three Guys with Beards: James and Christopher are joined by the great Tim Lebbon, sitting in for "the traveling Maberry."

Three Guys With Beards #62 | Jane Espenson

September 20, 2017 15:29 - 1 hour - 58.6 MB

The Beards are back together for a late night chat with the “Queen of Geek Television,” award-winning TV writer Jane Espenson.

#61 | Thomas Sniegoski

September 13, 2017 14:40 - 1 hour - 59.2 MB

On this week’s THREE GUYS WITH BEARDS, New York Times bestselling author Thomas Sniegoski guest co-hosts for the absent Jonathan. The Beards talk about Stephen King’s IT, the passing of comics legend Len Wein, and Disney’s upcoming streaming service and how it will impact/destroy television viewing habits. Listener questions prompt conversations about short stories and authorial discipline…as well as some soul-searching about the author’s best friend: chronic self-doubt. Also…the Beard...

Three Guys With Beards #60

August 30, 2017 06:15 - 58 minutes - 53.7 MB

The Beards chat about the Twilight Zone and what it meant, and still means, to them. Plus we reveal the winner of our latest contest!

Three Guys With Beards #59 | What We Won't Watch or Read

August 23, 2017 05:39 - 1 hour - 61 MB

This week the Beards talk about what they WON'T watch or read, and why. The contest continues until Friday and winners will be announced next week! We also cover the writing process as we answer a slew of new questions.

Three Guys With Beards #58

August 16, 2017 15:32 - 1 hour - 58.4 MB

In this episode, The Beards chat about our contests and where to win amazing prizes like a copy of the original script for THE NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD signed by George Romero and John Russo. We also discuss, a rarity, politics and hate crimes and Neo-Nazis. Many questions are asked and some are even answered. ​

Three Guys With Beards #57

August 09, 2017 04:43 - 1 hour - 58.7 MB

The beards chat it up on pop culture, and deal with a few issues that are oddly sensitive to writers, like convention etiquette, and how to handle conventions when things go horribly wrong. Has the new DARK TOWER movie been mistreated by the reviews? We state our opinions. Also, for the first time, we have a contest! Listen carefully and you could win a truly spectacular and rare prize. The rules are in there... somewhere.  

Three Guys With Beards #056 | The Beards Are Back

August 02, 2017 03:57 - 1 hour - 69.1 MB

The Beards are back, this time answering questions about the writing process and talking about what they've been doing while the summer was at it's hottest. Here's a hint: Jim was moving a mile down the road to escape hell. 

Three Guys With Beards #55 | Just the Beards

June 28, 2017 16:46 - 1 hour - 61.9 MB

It's just the beards this time, fielding questions from our followers, discussing what we're working on, what we want to work on, whether or not working on media tie-ins is diluting our work of the genres, and why Comic book writer, artist and legend Stephen Bissette keeps challenging us with new questions!  

Three Guys With Beards #54 | Rio Youers

June 21, 2017 17:42 - 1 hour - 65.2 MB

The critically acclaimed Rio Youers is the latest victim on Three Guys with beards! We talk movies, comics, Rio's novels and why his ego is far too large for his body. Burning question: Was he named after the song?​​​

Three Guys With Beards #53 | Dan Brereton

May 23, 2017 16:42 - 1 hour - 61 MB

This time around the Beards talk with comic illustrator, writer and creator Dan Brereton, the driving force behind The Nocturnals, The Psycho and Giantkiller and an accomplished painter who's worked on The Punisher, Batman and many other Marvel and DC titles. Naturally, we talk pop culture and listen to the accusations and defenses between Dan and Chris!  

Three Guys With Beards #52

April 25, 2017 16:52 - 1 hour - 59.4 MB

On this episode of Three Guys with Beards we decided to take it a little easy and catch up with each other. We had a lot to say!

Three Guys With Beards #51 | Jimmy Palmiotti

April 05, 2017 00:03 - 1 hour - 60.8 MB

Today the Beards are joined by legendary comic inker, artist and writer Jimmy Palmiotti, the co-creator of Ash, Painkiller Jane and The Monolith, in addition to work for Marvel's Punisher, The Daughters of the Dragon and DC's Jonah Hex, Powergirl and, of course Harley Quinn. We talk about Marvel and DC movies and what's new and on the horizon for the near pop culture future.    

Three Guys With Beards #50 | James Marsters

March 28, 2017 16:27 - 1 hour - 60 MB

On today's show The beards talk with actor James Marsters (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Runaways and much more) about life as an actor and musician, and his work on voice overs, too!​

Guests

Charlaine Harris
1 Episode
Chris Ryall
1 Episode
Ellen Datlow
1 Episode
Jimmy Palmiotti
1 Episode
Kevin J. Anderson
1 Episode
Paul Tremblay
1 Episode
Sherrilyn Kenyon
1 Episode
Terry Moore
1 Episode