Gut Check Podcast

Mr. Smith Update, Silverdome Update

Zach is going to war with AI, Anaconda was a smart movie pretending to be stupid, the best Zahn

Our respective relationships with Napster; blasphemous energy drinks; trendy Catholicism

Ted and Zach discuss: Gary (The Bear), remaking and analyzing Jerry Maguire, undangerous rock and roll, dumb movies pretending to be smart, most things are not sacred.

Publishing talk, an energy drink review, T can talk.

This week: Obscure Easter messages, Gut Check's most daring book yet, Substack blowback, we are the champions (or, actually, just Zach is) of the places we live and stuff we like, space stories we don't hate

This week: Losing Walken, Ted and Zach cleanse the pallet and cosmically make up for reading a bad white paper by reading a hilarious one..

An end-times contest, Erin hates AI so much, Ted and Kristin are classy now.

Gut Check is at a crossroads; let's talk some Dangerous Minds (which it turns out was based on a somewhat true story)

Gut Check Medical Hour, Zach didn't actually make up the term Johnny, Non-consensual bit participants, Snit Happens again.

A bit of a slow start, Debriefing Israel a dozen years later, let's just visit, dethroning sacred cows, the mid-90s White Savior boom, performatively not caring about money, grumble-bubbles above our heads.

Day-Off Guilt, Casual anti-calvinism, Wiis and CBs, Accent mirroring, boxing workouts are the best

Upcoming Gut Check Corporate Retreat, New Years Eve Party expectations, murder-based putzing around, We hope Ted and Carl Trueman are hunted for sport, F1 is Money Ball, Ted is somehow bored by both Wake Up Dead Man and Mister Selfridge, A missed Leary opportunity

Zach's an old slugger and also is Clark Griswold; this episode was obviously recorded two months ago; Special requests at restaurants; Smugness-driven goals; Energy drink review: JOLT FREAKING COLA; Reclaiming feminine mystery

New Podcast Studio, crossing and recrossing our social-battery legs while our knees are touching (so-to-speak), hate-eating McDonalds, busyness fetish and Type-A Girl Culture, arena rock as slouchy folk songs.

Ted walks away in silent. Angry. Shame. What if The Bear re-made Judgement [SIC] Night? Plugging Leary into the right roles... Gut Check Publishers swag; Who could have replaced Ted on the Rant? | To order your officially-licensed Gut Check Publishers team hat, PayPal $15 to tkluck@uu.edu

This week: Cameron Crowe was sadder than expected; additional celebrity Jews; Is it harder to inspire us now? We're overdue for a gritty Charades movie; rando RoboCop talk.

This week: Old guys and nose-whistle; ChatGPT is the worst Gen-Z friend imaginable; A Die Hard Theme Park; Can Dick make a comeback?

This week: Ted takes on a fatherly tone (and will always be sick), KK does zombie stuff, a slinky Energy Drink review: Odyssey 222, inscrutable upcoming travel, a weekend with nothing to do, a distinct lack of funny/fun archetypes

This week: Ted and Zach don't talk about Jimmy Kimmel (and it's not already an outdated conversation they don't have). Ted got hit on by a pharmacist who was a dude. Dads doing work. Dormfluencers actually exist. Helicopter tight ropes. Bicycle freedom.

On this episode of our '90s movie rehash podcast: Squirrel-talk; We've lost the ability to be ironically deep; Ethan Hawke should play a content person (would be hilarious); Tom Cruise should go back to playing humans.

This week:Is there still cool? Ted doesn't like kids as much; young people have metabolized Taylor Swift; traces of Covid rotting around us; will there be a brick-and-mortar revival?

This week:Ted's still sick, Zach's an empath, We Have Shirts, Being moderately into things, the burden of having sexy eyes, Michael Tait and Begin Again

This week: a corporate retreat, unwanted conversation partners, three-word energy drink review, The Bear as sports movie, a review from a 4-year-old.

This week:A political endorsement, a second The Bear theory, order and chaos, re-litigating Dead Poets Society, the Home College Movement