As You Know

It's Ian's 30th birthday and we got him the perfect gift: a discussion of Spike TV's greatest original series, Deadliest Warrior. Who would win in a fight between an Apache and a gladiator? What about a horde of zombies vs. three vampires? Some idiots slapped some ballistics dummies around to determine the answer on the network that brought us the Guys Choice Awards.

Matt's journey through cable detritus leads us to our first Discovery Channel reality series, Storm Chasers, which depicts a bunch of idiots spending four seasons trying to film the inside of a tornado.

Stephen's attempts to make Matt like animation continue with the beloved long-running series King of the Hill. How does the slice-of-life sitcom hold up after a decade off the air?

I'm not Johnny Knoxville, and welcome to podcast. Our first foray into non-narrative television covers Jackass, which has gone from nadir of culture to four-quadrant delight in two decades. Hear about our favorite stunts and our own adolescent Jackass moments, including Matt's several near-death experiences.

We return to the world of sitcom spin-offs and finally discuss Norman Lear with the iconic series The Jeffersons, a popular and transgressive show that nonetheless got a raw deal from the network.

It's time to discuss...[colossal sigh]...Party of Five, the wholesome family drama that launched the careers of Matthew Fox, Neve Campbell and Lacey Chabert. This was allegedly a beloved show, but did anything actually happen? Also remember when San Francisco was like this?

Our special guest and paranormal investigator Paul Vine (of Thimk) joins us for a long discussion of a truly iconic show: The X-Files. Ian gets to learn how many insane plotlines of the show really exist. And we get one of the steepest quality drop-offs between pilot and finale that we've ever covered.

As winter turns harsh we turn to the beach, as it's time to discuss possibly the most popular scripted series of all time: Baywatch. We watched 3 hours of glistening hard bodies so we could talk about them with you, so please slow-motion run, don't walk, to your podcast platform of choice.

We enter the dark web for the second "season" of AYK, armed with a new theme song and elite hacking skills as we discuss CSI: Cyber. Patricia Arquette won an Oscar right before this piece of shit premiered and (temporarily) killed the CSI franchise, but not before terrifying your grandparents with its tales of online baby auctions.

We return to the teen TV well with Kevin Williamson's iconic series Dawson's Creek, the horniest show in the world with the most meta ending we've covered so far--as well as the breakout roles for Katie Holmes and Michelle Williams.