Jonathan Gibson

Being Jim Davis

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Being Jim Davis is the world's premiere daily Garfield chrono-cast. Our mission is to review and discuss each and every strip of the long-running syndicated comic series before eventually dying of old age. We hope you'll come along with us on this journey, and share in the laughter as we catalogue the daily adventures of everyone's favorite indolent feline through a lens of history, humor, and heuristics. Each episode will be a thorough examination of a single strip. We'll place it in its historical context, then attempt to unravel the morals and meanings hidden under the surface. Finally, we'...

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Jonathan Gibson

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Episode 796 - Friday, August 22, 1980 02.11.2018 7:50

Today's Garfield strip features Hagar the Horrible. Hosts: Christopher Winter, Jon Gibson Today's strip Become a Patron! Or visit these other fine internet URLs: BJD Homepage | BJD Twitter | BJD Facebook Page | Pitchdrop Network Homepage

Episode 795 - Thursday, August 21, 1980 01.11.2018 9:02

Here's another episode of the smash hit podcast, Being Jim Davis . Hosts: Christopher Winter, Jon Gibson Today's strip Become a Patron! Or visit these other fine internet URLs: BJD Homepage | BJD Twitter | BJD Facebook Page | Pitchdrop Network Homepage

Episode 794 - Wednesday, August 20, 1980 31.10.2018 13:28

Here's another episode of the smash hit podcast, Being Jim Davis . Join us as we play horrible YouTube videos at each other. Hosts: Christopher Winter, Jon Gibson Today's strip Become a Patron! Or visit these other fine internet URLs: BJD Homepage | BJD Twitter | BJD Facebook Page | Pitchdrop Network Homepage

Episode 793 - Tuesday, August 19, 1980 30.10.2018 15:40

Here's another episode of the smash hit podcast, Being Jim Davis . Today's episode is mostly about Margot Martindale. At no point do we reference the Netflix animated series Bojack Horseman . Hosts: Christopher Winter, Jon Gibson Today's strip Become a Patron! Or visit these other fine internet URLs: BJD Homepage | BJD Twitter | BJD Facebook Page | Pitchdrop Network Homepage

Episode 792 - Monday, August 18, 1980 29.10.2018 10:56

Here's another episode of the smash hit podcast, Being Jim Davis . In this one, Garfield is a judgemental asshole about Jon's rural upbringing. Hosts: Christopher Winter, Jon Gibson Today's strip Become a Patron! Or visit these other fine internet URLs: BJD Homepage | BJD Twitter | BJD Facebook Page | Pitchdrop Network Homepage

Episode 791 - Sunday, August 17, 1980 28.10.2018 16:14

In today's episode of Being Jim Davis , Sarah promotes the Lied Center's November 19 "Evening with Neil Gaiman" and Jeremy says something COMPLETELY INAPPROPRIATE. We don't usually make off-color humor on Being Jim Davis , but Jeremy is a guest so we'll aloow it. Hosts: Christopher Winter, Jeremy Mullis from North Carolina, Sarah Bishop Today's strip Become a Patron! Or visit these other fine inte...

Episode 790 - Saturday, August 16, 1980 27.10.2018 8:14

In today's episode of Being Jim Davis , we talk about Garfield. Pretty standard. Hosts: Christopher Winter, Jeremy Mullis from North Carolina, Sarah Bishop Today's strip Become a Patron! Or visit these other fine internet URLs: BJD Homepage | BJD Twitter | BJD Facebook Page | Pitchdrop Network Homepage Special Guests: Jeremy Mullis from North Carolina and Sarah Bishop.

Episode 789 - Friday, August 15, 1980 26.10.2018 11:24

In today's episode, Sarah gets angry at Jim Davis. Hey, we've all been there. Hosts: Christopher Winter, Jeremy Mullis from North Carolina, Sarah Bishop Today's strip Become a Patron! Or visit these other fine internet URLs: BJD Homepage | BJD Twitter | BJD Facebook Page | Pitchdrop Network Homepage Special Guests: Jeremy Mullis from North Carolina and Sarah Bishop.

Episode 788 - Thursday, August 14, 1980 25.10.2018 16:07

In today's haunting episode of Being Jim Davis , we discuss Odie's gruesome death on the shores of Lake Michigan. Hosts: Christopher Winter, Jeremy Mullis from North Carolina, Sarah Bishop Today's strip Become a Patron! Or visit these other fine internet URLs: BJD Homepage | BJD Twitter | BJD Facebook Page | Pitchdrop Network Homepage Special Guests: Jeremy Mullis from North Carolina and Sarah Bis...

Episode 787 - Wednesday, August 13, 1980 24.10.2018 15:56

I kind of spaced out while editing this one, and when I tuned back in Jeremy was speculating that Garfield and Jon had somehow entered "a goopy metaspiritual realm." So whatever. Hey Being Jim Davis listeners, be sure to attend the Hall Center for the Humanities event "Haunting Humanities" from 5:30pm to 9:30pm on Wednesday, October 24, 2018 at Abe & Jake's Landing, 8 East 6th Street, Lawrence...

Episode 786 - Tuesday, August 12, 1980 23.10.2018 25:09

In today's episode of Being Jim Davis , Chris falsely claims that we don't usually discuss the hermeneutic circle on this podcast, when in fact we constantly discuss the hermeneutic circle. Hey Being Jim Davis listeners, be sure to attend the Hall Center for the Humanities event "Haunting Humanities" from 5:30pm to 9:30pm on Wednesday, October 24, 2018 at Abe & Jake's Landing, 8 East 6th Stree...

Episode 785 - Monday, August 11, 1980 22.10.2018 11:59

In today's episode of Being Jim Davis , shiftless ex-host Jon Gibson reneges on his sacred responsibiliteis to you, the listener, a think I personally would never do. Hey Being Jim Davis listeners, be sure to attend the Hall Center for the Humanities event "Haunting Humanities" from 5:30pm to 9:30pm on Wednesday, October 24, 2018 at Abe & Jake's Landing, 8 East 6th Street, Lawrence, Kansas. Me...

Episode 784 - Sunday, August 10, 1980 21.10.2018 12:43

It’s a Garfield ! Hosts: Jon Gibson, Christopher Winter Today's strip Become a Patron! Or visit these other fine internet URLs: BJD Homepage | BJD Twitter | BJD Facebook Page | Pitchdrop Network Homepage

Episode 783 - Saturday, August 9, 1980 20.10.2018 19:36

batmanGarfield Hosts: Jon Gibson, Christopher Winter Today's strip Become a Patron! Or visit these other fine internet URLs: BJD Homepage | BJD Twitter | BJD Facebook Page | Pitchdrop Network Homepage

Episode 782 - Friday, August 8, 1980 19.10.2018 6:33

In today's episode we discuss a Garfield . Hosts: Jon Gibson, Christopher Winter Today's strip Become a Patron! Or visit these other fine internet URLs: BJD Homepage | BJD Twitter | BJD Facebook Page | Pitchdrop Network Homepage

Episode 781 - Thursday, August 7, 1980 18.10.2018 13:00

Episode 780 - Wednesday, August 6, 1980 17.10.2018 8:43

In today's podcast, some stuff happens that involves talking. Hosts: Jon Gibson, Christopher Winter Today's strip Become a Patron! Or visit these other fine internet URLs: BJD Homepage | BJD Twitter | BJD Facebook Page | Pitchdrop Network Homepage

Episode 779 - Tuesday, August 5, 1980 16.10.2018 10:28

In today's episode Chris complains about insufficient innovation in American decorative seasonal pumpkins and gourds, a thing I'm pretty sure he does every year. Also, while writing this episode summary, he's referring to himself in the third person for some reason. Hosts: Jon Gibson, Christopher Winter Today's strip Become a Patron! Or visit these other fine internet URLs: BJD Homepage | BJD Twit...

Episode 778 - Monday, August 4, 1980 15.10.2018 13:00

In today's Being Jim Davis , we verbally abuse similies, a rhetorical device that, quite frankly, has been cruisin' for a bruisin'. Hosts: Jon Gibson, Christopher Winter Today's strip Become a Patron! Or visit these other fine internet URLs: BJD Homepage | BJD Twitter | BJD Facebook Page | Pitchdrop Network Homepage

Episode 777- Sunday, August 3, 1980 14.10.2018 13:57

Thanks for listening to this, another great episode of Being Jim Davis . Hosts: Jon Gibson, Danny Gibson Today's strip Become a Patron! Or visit these other fine internet URLs: BJD Homepage | BJD Twitter | BJD Facebook Page | Pitchdrop Network Homepage

Episode 776 - Saturday, August 2, 1980 13.10.2018 8:50

Garfield has a dumb interaction with a tetrapod of bilateral symmetry, and I embarassingly mix-up Tukey and Saudi Arabia. So pretty much a standard episode. Hosts: Jon Gibson, Danny Gibson Today's strip Become a Patron! Or visit these other fine internet URLs: BJD Homepage | BJD Twitter | BJD Facebook Page | Pitchdrop Network Homepage

Episode 775 - Friday, August 1, 1980 12.10.2018 12:36

Another episode of Being Jim Davis is in the can. Hosts: Jon Gibson, Danny Gibson Today's strip Become a Patron! Or visit these other fine internet URLs: BJD Homepage | BJD Twitter | BJD Facebook Page | Pitchdrop Network Homepage

Episode 774 - Thursday, July 31, 1980 11.10.2018 11:39

This episode of Being Jim Davis gets one billion podcast points. Hosts: Jon Gibson, Danny Gibson Today's strip Become a Patron! Or visit these other fine internet URLs: BJD Homepage | BJD Twitter | BJD Facebook Page | Pitchdrop Network Homepage

Episode 773 - Wednesday, July 30, 1980 10.10.2018 13:55

Hey, turns out no Garfield strip was published today, so instead we talked about interesting shit. Psych! Hosts: Jon Gibson, Danny Gibson Today's strip Become a Patron! Or visit these other fine internet URLs: BJD Homepage | BJD Twitter | BJD Facebook Page | Pitchdrop Network Homepage

Episode 772 - Tuesday, July 29, 1980 09.10.2018 17:04

Fan fav guest co-host Dan Gibson makes his triumphant return to the annals of Being Jim Davis , and, oh brother, did WE have some fun! Actually that happened yesterday and nobody mentioned it in the writeup, but what are you gonna go? He's still here nonetheless, and you have to put up with it. Also, it wasn't all that much fun. You know, if Maine senator Susan Collins were on the program with us...