Baywatch Watch

Zach and Charlie sit down one-on-one to talk Baywatch's past & future, our plan for the rest of the show, some podcast stats, and we give out some awards! We'll resume regular programming next week!

Baywatch does an exchange program with the coast guard. Stephanie confronts a past trauma. Mahorn is a bad gun runner. Zeke and Matt have close calls with the "net bandit". Join Zach, Charlie, and special guest Pete Rains (You Bred Raptors) as we dive into this Mitch-less one-montage episode that attempts to create and resolve a life-long backstory for Stephanie on this week's episode of Baywatch...

Baywatch's funding is being cut, so cue a clip show to justify their existence! Old friends return, CJ gives an impassioned speech, and we get one of the most bizarre opening montages of the show thus far. Join Zach, Charlie, and special guest Tony Thaxton (Motion City Soundtrack, Bizarre Albums podcast) for an episode that reveals to us the titles of all Baywatch members, delves into the minutia...

Martina McBride and Ricky Van Shelton guest star. A gaggle of bikini girls attempt to drown a man. Hobie has a new romantic rival...his dad?!?! a country star searches for his estranged wife and son, who do not seem to want to be found. Join Zach, Charlie, and special guest Dominique Johnson (co-host of the "Country Brothers" podcast) for a honky-tonk episode that features FOUR montages, TWO missi...

Baywatch goes meta! A TV producer wants to make a TV series about lifeguards, but will anyone go for it? Stephanie wants to play herself, but a deus-ex-CJ intervenes. Mitch hates television. Garner meets his Waluigi. Join Zach, Charlie, and special guest Lucé Tomlin-Brenner (check out her podcast "It's Always Halloween"!) for an episode filled with in-jokes, meta-commentary, and, of course, Dolph...

Mitch falls in love, but the good times won't last. Catherine protects herself from the sun, but the screen has other ideas. Brody buys Eddie's boat, but Summer has a choice to make. Join Zach, Charlie, and special guest Eileen Mary O'Connell (check her out on instagram @eileenmaryoconnell, twitter at @i_lean, and TikTok @ohconnell!) as we talk the crazy mid-episode twist, Mitch's attachment issue...

Carrie-Ann Moss steals the show playing a woman with split-personalities who sets her sights on Mitch. Matt and Summer deal with new metaphors for their relationships. A boat captain chums the water in style.  Join Zach, Charlie, and special guest Arik Cohen for a truly wacky episode that features fake sharks, real sharks, glasses and ponytails covering up beauty, tragically waterlogged break...

Baywatch goes on vacation. Summer is seduced by a ghost. Matt is jealous of the ghost. Mitch's brother Buzz returns, looking a little different. Hobie and Kyle do San Diego up big. CJ is a shill for Sea World. Stephanie's shot at romance never materializes.  Join Zach, Charlie, and special guest Rachel Van Nes for a truly wild ghost plot that more than makes up for the lackluster B and C stor...

Ben is self-conscious about his cane. The Red Knights face off against Corky Calhoun. Bud Gates shares a story about Marilyn Monroe. Mitch uses a portable baby-delivery kit. Jackie loses her big chance with the VP of Vicestar records. Join Zach, Charlie, and special guest Jonny Svarzbein for an episode that reunites Ben with his former coworkers, reuses montage footage from the last time Ben waxed...

Jessie the biker returns, only this time she's a jet ski model. Summer gets jealous. Hobie buys a keytar for himself and a guitar for Mitch. 2 episodes of the show go missing, and boy what a two minutes those are. Brody returns to Point Doom. Charlie calls Brody "Eddie" no less than sixteen times. Join Zach, Charlie, and special guest Chuck Maa (check out his short film "Ocha", coming soon!) for a...

An old couple uses a 100-year old scuba suit. Hobie makes a diorama out of veggies (and one lemon). Baywatch hosts the Special Olympics. Join Zach, Charlie and returning guest Matt Apodaca ("How Did This Get Played") for an episode that features Mary Lou Retton, vindictive-but-unseen coaches, and, of course, that sweet sweet A&W Cream Soda, all on this week's Baywatch Watch! 

Stephanie has a crush. Carlos has a sister. CJ has a magician. Hobie has some A&W, and then he doesn't.  Join Zach, Charlie, and special guest Clare Loughran (Inside the Disney Vault podcast) for an episode that contains a bumper car brawl, a metal pole battle, and the coolest death threat art we've ever seen!

Mitch meets a manic-pixie dream girl and jostles between intrigued and irritated. Brody attempts to buy a new motorcycle. Summer is lovesick, and then gets bonked on the head. Mitch celebrates a birthday.  Join Zach, Charlie and special guest Ruha Taslimi as we talk CJ's blown out hair, some bad transfer moments, and Matt Brody's "surprise for Summer" that is supposed to show that he's actual...

A kid almost drowns, and Mitch blames himself. That's basically it! May Darmon returns for this episode that is light on dialogue and heavy on action/long drawn-out sequences that fill time. One highlight: this episode introduces "Dark Mitch", a black speedo-clad brooding version of Mitch that is just BEGGING for a spinoff. Baywatch didn't know what it had! 

Baywatch gets real lazy with the two-part format by combining two almost entirely-disconnected episodes into one. Part 1: Jimmy Slade and Matt Brody continue to fight over Summer's heart, which accelerates her eating disorder. Mitch gets kidnapped by convicts. Part 2: Stephanie's sister comes to town with her new beau, who is immediately targeted with an assassination attempt. Hobie wins A&W c...

Jimmy Slade returns to find himself single. Garner pioneers a mounted patrol. CJ fends off the advances of a hot air balloons-man. Summer's romantic pickle spirals out of control, then quickly back under control.  Join Zach, Charlie, and special guests Allyson Phillips and Ryan Coil (co-hosts of the new podcast Stone Cold Paradise) for a wild episode that includes trap door coolers, horse poo...

John D. Cort returns, but something's off. Hobie befriends a giant with a penchant for pelicans. Mitch checks for permits. CJ may have found love. Summer, Matt, Garner, Stephanie, and Jimmy Slade are nowhere to be found.  Join Zach, Charlie, and special guest Winston Carter for the first episode in a while where, when Hobie's B-plot is revealed, all of us had the same, separate reaction: "Tha...

Hobie's in love. Mitch is in love. Jackie is in love. Matt is in love. Summer is in love. Stephanie is in...England?! Join Zach, Charlie, and special guest Liz Reichelt for an episode that shows why it's so dang hard for lifeguards to fall in love...people keep drowning! Also poor, sweet Jimmy Slade finds himself on the outside of a relationship looking in, and he's not even there to see it. Anoth...

New Season, New Episode! After last week's exhausting viewing of the 2017 Baywatch movie, we're so thankful to be back in the 90s with the crew we know and love. Gayle's getting married, and she wants to take Hobie back to Ohio. Matt's parents are moving to France, and he has to make a choice. Summer's mom takes on a new business endeavor. A kid fakes his own death.  Join Zach, Charlie, and s...

A little something different this week! Returning guest Alex Franklin joins us to talk the 2017 Baywatch movie. We compare it to the show, talk about how it handles the characters we've come to know and love, and whether or not the essence of Baywatch survives the transition from drama to comedy. We didn't love it! As a reminder, we'll be taking the next week off, then returning the following week...

Season 3 is in the bag! A mysterious "bloke" from Mitch's past is out for revenge. Mitch tries to rekindle romance with failed journalist Kay Morgan. Summer has about 8 seconds of screen time. Join Zach, Charlie, and special guest Alan Santiago as we discuss the long con at play here, a truly spectacular exploding car, and Hobie's desire to call Kay Morgan mom, all on this week's episode of Baywat...

Is there anything Mitch can't do? Hot off his miracle recovery from paralysis, Mitch coaches Matt Brody in a kickboxing tournament, and finds himself menaced by the ghost of Navy Seals past. CJ starts a romance with the creepiest French photographer who's ever lived and contemplates leaving Baywatch forever.  Join Zach, Charlie, and special guest Scott Thiede as we award the first triple-6'er...

Mitch suffers a life-changing injury that almost certainly will never be mentioned again. An assassin hunts a child. Stephanie does chores. Hobie uses Pepsi as a motivational tool. Join Zach, Charlie, and special guest Jessica Svendsgaard for yet another two parter that plays fast and loose with episode structure. We'll talk the mini clip show, the lack of security at the rehab facility, and Mitch...

Mitch falls in love, again. Criminals return to the scene of the crime multiple times. Hobie's hidden talent. Guido's Mama comes to town. Summer and CJ endanger a child.  Join Zach, Charlie, and special guest Andrew Young (check out Zach and Andrew's new podcast, "Stone Cold Paradise", out soon!) as they dive into an episode that shows us Mitch's idealized family fantasy, what Hobie's been up...

A killer "who makes Hannibal Lecter look like Little Bo Peep" takes Stephanie and Summer hostage in a lifeguard tower. Mitch uses Hobie's science project to make a subterranean rescue. Jimmy Slade botches the job and gets shot in the process.  Join Zach, Charlie, and special guest (and ardent Baywatch defender) Will Hines as we break down this wild episode and Will schools the boys on perfect...