Gut Check Podcast

Gut Check Podcast episodes:

• 04.02.2024

  Episode 219 | Hypocritical or Just Really Complex

  Energy Drink Review: G.O.A.T. FUEL: Blueberry Lemonade, 7-Eleven Street Drugs, Rage-inducing internet ads, The secret of Neil DeGrasse Tyson's success, Piloting a new seg

  
• 03.30.2024

  Episode 218 | Late Young-Guy Hubris

  It's Garment Season; buy our pajamas; using up stories; getting boat-raced; in-depth interview with Will

  
• 03.21.2024

  Episode 217 | Press Conference

  This week: Ted and Zach stand on an outdoor staircase in the big downtown, in front of a bank of many microphones, and talk about Gut Check Pajamas. Special thanks to our patrons who sent in questions.

  
• 03.04.2024

  Episode 216 | Company Car

  This week: Rob Lowe and the Randomizer; Sickness and game shows; Getting ghosted by Trogges

  
• 02.23.2024

  Episode 215 | Gift II Girl

  This week: Proof of PJs, Is Zach done with CDs?, Parsing Boyz II Men Lyrics

  
• 02.12.2024

  Episode 214 | An Expansive, Bloviating Mood

  This week: Mindfulness, snorting opinions off your desk blotter, the death of Sports Illustrated, a literary twofer

  
• 02.05.2024

  Episode 213 | Radio Poultice

  In this deconstructed poult-cast: Being too Millennial by Half, Bulk shopping, Haunted Cosmos, performative masculinity, a Marco Polo unanswered, (dis)agreeing with the critics, drawing out soul-pus

  
• 01.25.2024

  Episode 212 | Shout Out, Chinese Characters

  This week: Is podcasting done? Ted discovers Haunted Cosmos; Humanizing Faith Heroes; Refusing to Evolve; Bespoke Bedtime Stories

  
• 01.18.2024

  Episode 211 | You Are Enough.

  This week: Old-man weather talk, Young-douche podcast content, Gut Check ASMR sleep stories

  
• 01.09.2024

  Episode 210 | Insomnia Awareness Month

  This week: the oddest defiance, idealizing cycling, skateboarding as a middle-aged man

  
• 01.03.2024

  Episode 209 | Spiritual and Emotional Cocaine

  This week: How many smoke dates/lunch dates is too many smoke dates/lunch dates? Niche podcasts; Friends drifting away; When is Ted's anniversary, REALLY? The need for relatable characters in comedy; Checking the Violence Box at Christmas

  
• 12.18.2023

  Episode 208 | Corporate Philanthropy

  This week: When your neighborhood smells like poop, unfulfiling Die Hard viewings, sports movies versus actual sports, Gut Check Philanthropy

  
• 12.13.2023

  Episode 207 | Let Our Podcast Be Your Dog

  This week: Jay Mohr, Adam Sandler, drug stuff in movies, taking the dishonorable way out, us making plans on the air at length, preamble to the Mission: Impossible debate

  
• 12.06.2023

  Episode 206 | Lance the Boil

  In this very Brady episode: Adding Reiger to the persona, Frasier as a canary in the coalmine or culture, loss of uniform, how many marble penises can you see?, the weird thing about adult pouting

  
• 11.21.2023

  Episode 205 | The Pamchenko

  Do good things just like Ted's lap?; grand gestures and The Cutting Edge; a very empty, sad, and awful new quote-unquote Beatles song

  
• 11.09.2023

  Episode 204 | If Milquetoast Had a Sound

  Not-really a Patreon ep; Reviewing Derek Web songs; ; Kluck vs. Kluck simulator; Building the Ted Mythos

  
• 11.02.2023

  Episode 203 | Thoughtful Frivolity

  Some light wood working; Energy drink review: 5 Hour Energy Grape; New Chaz material!; Mail Call stings from Webis; Missing '90s feminism

  
• 10.23.2023

  Episode 202 | Forever 51

  This week: Leveraging apostasy and appreciating Cheers.

  
• 10.22.2023

  Episode 201 | No One's Named Jerry Anymore

  This week: Conspiracy Theory, Pelican Brief, and the Equalizer movies.

  
• 10.10.2023

  Episode 200 | It's a Charmed Life, Ted Kluck

  This week:A complex lack of emotions vis a vis the Happy Rant ending; Broke into the old apartment; Zoomers don't get grand gestures; Gut Check discusses Brittney Spears

  
• 09.28.2023

  Episode 199 | Creative Marketing Solutions

  Cameroon.

  
• 09.16.2023

  Episode 198 | Di Moi

  Cameroon.

  
• 09.05.2023

  Episode 197 | Rumpspringa

  Cameroon.

  
• 08.11.2023

  Episode 196 | Goliath, ehhhh, Not That Tall

  Puff-Puff Tobacco, more toe content, possible sponsors

  
• 07.28.2023

  Episode 195 | Show Him the Watch

  In this LIVE ep: Temu, older cars, and rich people

  
• 07.07.2023

  Episode 194 | The Burbs

  This week: Letting your city dreams die, Rage Against the Municipality, The Cat Lives!, bulk-buying, how to be a minor league baseball fan, another injury, Stranger Things debrief

  
• 07.07.2023

  Episode 193 | Tacos and Knuckle Sandwiches

  A virtual gathering of taco connoisseurs, discussing offensive fast food, step aerobics, violence, and other miscellany. (Episode art by the one and only Alexa Lee!)

  
• 06.21.2023

  Episode 192 | Guy Stuff

  This week: GUY STUFF! (i.e., hiking, sporting, smokers, video games, assassinations, spa/cleanse, relief mockery, Zoom tacos, etc.)

  
• 06.16.2023

  Episode 191 | Mike's Transition

  This week: Syrupy pseduo-coffee energy drinks; Hangovers in pop culture; Plot summary of the original Little Mermaid; They're getting lazy about puking; Screenplay talk

  
• 06.06.2023

  Episode 190 | Golden Boys of Radio

  This week: Ted and Zach (Matinee Idols) talk about things they've watched recently. Oh, and Lindsay Lohan.

  
• 05.26.2023

  Episode 189 | Mail Bag

  This week: the boys give away the Saddelback bag, hire and promote a new employee, and read some mail.

  
• 05.16.2023

  Episode 188 | Grammatical At-Oddsness

  This week: Energy Drink Review: Jocko Go, Wharf Guy vs. Beach Guy, Our unsustainable pace, Movies we'd watch without the inciting incident

  
• 05.11.2023

  Episode 187 | Off Our Rockers

  This week: Glumness vs. Gut Check

  
• 05.02.2023

  Episode 186 | Let's Get Started.

  This week: Energy drink reviews: G Fuel: Tetris Blast and Power Pellet Cherry Lollypop, What kind of video game kids were we? We've never had a sleepover, vegetarianism as tiny house

  
• 04.25.2023

  Episode 185 | The End of the Road

  In this milestone episode: Vibe-killing waiters; that's a re-rap on Gut Check Literacy Month.

  
• 04.18.2023

  Episode 184 | Radio Gets Results

  In this very-special Bag Episode: Armistace Day; Energy Drink Review: Monster Reserve Kiwi-Strawberry; A bunch of call-backs to last week's patreon ep (sorry); Toy-talk; A leather love-triangle (don't google that); Vital transformation rituals

  
• 04.11.2023

  Episode 183 | We Are the Target Demo

  Live taping of AMA with some Gut Check VIPs.

  
• 03.29.2023

  Episode 182 | Candy, but at Some Distance

  Energy Drink Review: Ghost Sour Patch Kids; Ted Kluck, Science Schmuck; Were we ever an age when anyone wanted to see our thighs?; Regenerate tween dirtbags; That's why they call Zach Double-Down

  
• 03.22.2023

  Episode 181 | A Bag for a Bag

  This week: Trench Finger, Ice cream trucks, Overcoming naythinkers, KK Evolutions, Critiquing critics

  
• 03.13.2023

  Episode 180 | The Big T Monologues

  This week: Saddleback loopholes, A weird thing about Tennessee white people, Unpacking overpacking, You People was the most Millennial movie ever.

  
• 03.06.2023

  Episode 179 | S.A.S.

  This week: Saddleback loopholes, A weird thing about Tennessee white people, Unpacking overpacking, You People was the most Millennial movie ever.

  
• 02.27.2023

  Episode 178 | Things That Make You Go Huh

  This week: Bag Unboxing; Nunchuks vs. Switchblades; One more C4 Energy Drink Review; We're in Every Market; That Little Rascal Is Up to Something

  
• 02.20.2023

  Episode 177 | Radio Uterus

  This week: Carnosyn, by DuPont; Grumpy old men and physical media; Bag update; Wharf-Curious

  
• 02.15.2023

  Episode 176 | It's Hitting My Brain-Pan as We Speak

  This week: Where is Ted's bag??; Energy drink review: C4 Peach Mango; Camp for grownups; The joy of crappy TV; Listener Email; A curveball from the randomizer

  
• 02.07.2023

  Episode 175 | We're Expecting!

  This week: Desk blotters and cool offices, Panama Jack: Never Forget, Kluckstack, Don't murder your darlings, energy drink review: C4 Freedom Ice

  
• 01.31.2023

  Episode 174 | Lashin'23

  This week: This week: New conference idea, We're talkin' bug eyes!, Nothing wrong with Muncie, Se7en cases of SlimFast, Some KK stuff, Randomizer failure

  
• 01.24.2023

  Episode 173 | Krapence None the Richer

  This week: At the risk of sounding weird, leather is so sensory; Paul Krapence is an American hero; dressing your age and being one of the guys; Vengeance is a great movie (and it's on Amazon Prime now)

  
• 01.17.2023

  Episode 172 | Dark Crystal

  This week: Leather lashing, The mystery keeps getting deeper and deeper, The Gentlemen was awesome, An update on Ted's Wes Anderson's fandom, Marvel saturation

  
• 01.11.2023

  Episode 171 | Ninety Floats

  This week: high-level deals, Online Reviews 101, Digitizer upgrades, bonus float on your birthday

  
• 01.04.2023

  Episode 170 | A Little Larceny in Us

  This week: Monetizing Gut Check, White Christmas and leverage, Glass Onion (Spoilers), Ted crushes things in his mind-vice, (The Patreon episode this week is way better)