TV Guidance Counselor

September 24-30, 1994 This week Ken welcomes the deep diver from the Treehouse Detectives and the Deep Cuts podcast Andrew Price to the show.   Ken and Andrew discuss the secret origin of Blast from the Past's TV Guide collection, Andrew WK.. Deep Dives podcast, how one can buy celebrity touched TV Guides, how wives keep us in check, Andy Kaufman, becoming part of your mythology, AI is awful, not...

This week Ken welcomes fellow podcaster (Inside Late Night) and author of the new book "Love Johnny Carson", Mark Malkoff. 

We made it through another year somehow. Ken flies solo to get through the ups and downs, and more downs, and a few more downs of 2025 week by week.   Happy New Year and here's to a better 2026 for us all.

November 27 - December 3, 1999 Boston Edition + Feb 16 - March 1, 2009

August 27th - September 2, 1994 This week Ken welcomes wholesome, midwest superstar and host of the Catered Quiz Podcast Rick Katschke to the show. Ken and Rick discuss the Catered Quiz, The Monroeville Mall's imminent demise, working at Walmart, getting jacked in a warehouse, department stores, new shows airing after a Fall Preview, the weird TV landscape of the end of August, physically writing...

  March 7-13, 1992 This week Ken welcomes comedian behind the must watch/must listen to comedy special "Supple Harlot", Ben Katzner. Ken and Ben discuss their mutual love of seltzer, local drinks, Galco's soda pop stop, pinpoint carbonation, hating Tim Allen, Detroit, hating Kid Rock, Prince, small towns, Minneapolis, moving from New York, how beer is Dad soda, co-headlining a seltzer brewery tour...

March 11-16, 2013

July 3, 1953

February 15th - 21st, 1997

TV Guide October 31 - November 6, 1987 This week Ken welcomes writer, comedian and artist Mary Houlihan to the show. Ken and Mary discuss new ways to greet people, how awful the world is, growing up in New Jersey, how New Jersey is actually nice, checking out the woods, Paramis, going into Manhattan, not getting the issue you wanted, Dolly Parton, the tattoos, variety shows, Mary, product placemen...

December 27, 1980 - January 2, 1981   This week Ken welcomes author, screenwriter, movie maker Eric Miller (ericmillerwrites.com) to the show. Ken and Eric discuss satellites, the creepy paying with your palm technology at Whole Foods, when Sci-Fi actually predicts the future, Dawn of the Dead, The Running Man, Hell House, The Haunting of Hell House vs The Haunting, story prompts, Shirly Jackson,...

October 24-30, 1981 Happy Halloween! This week Ken welcomes producer/director behind the excellent documentaries "In Search of Darkness", David Weiner. Ken and David discuss playing Star Trek, TV watching with siblings, the three ages of horror, the video store age, making friends just to watch cable, not getting a VCR until much later in life, being the person in the household who brings in techn...

March 16-22, 1991 This week Ken welcomes comedian Fabrizio Copano. Ken and Fabrizio discuss Barbara Walters love of TMNT, inappropriate turtle love, Chile, El Chino, Ninjas, Hero Turtles, Peru, Dragon Ball Z, Japanese content, Ramna, why The Simpsons were so massive in South America, prime time animation, things that aren't just for kids, Bart is forever, Lucha Libre, El Santo, WWF, how things fro...

March 2-8, 1996 This week Ken welcomes comedian behind the comedy special "Bougie on a Budget", Denise Winkelman. Ken and Denise discuss pouring rain in New England, growing up in Minnesota, Ken confusing Minnesota with Michigan, the coldest spot in the country in the Winter, growing up in a very rural town, the magic of cable bringing Pro Wrestling to your home, Wrestling magazines, local wrestli...

November 2-8, 1991 This week Ken welcomes writer, performer and Cleavland television stalwart Zachariah Durr to the show. Ken and Zachariah discuss bunkers, loving the smell of gasoline, BYOTVG, Jim Henson, owning only two copies of TV Guide, Michael Jackson, The Muppets, Ken spending the day with John Cleese, The Ten Commandments, true fame, how nobody has world wide fame anymore, Sherman William...

This week Ken welcomes showrunner (Bones), author (The Driver, The Seminarian) and all around amazing human Hart Hanson. Ken and Hart discuss Canadian advertisements of dogs who want milk, milk bags, thinking you were Canadian your whole life until you find out you were actually secretly American, Dave Thomas, not being one of those show business living guys in show biz, always wanting to be a nov...

October 30 - November 5, 1999 This week Ken welcomes comedian and host of the podcast "Could be the Move", Bobby Dolan to the show. Ken and Bobby discuss LA's West Side, Ken's life hack driving tips, San Diego, Montgomery County Baltimore, going to college in Maryland, John Waters, Ken's punk rock band, John Butler Trio, when a venue doesn't have a stage, Halloween, Ken not having the original iss...

This week Ken welcomes legendary warm up comic, and author of the essential memoir "Warm Up Guy", Bob Perlow to the show. Ken and Bob discuss the side of Rhode Island, Night of the Comet, Gary Marshall, being conscripted into warming up the audience, Newhart, falling into writing on Laveren and Shirley, discovering audiences want T-shirts, the power of sound queues, America's Host, the sequestered...

September 24-30, 1955 FALL PREVIEW This week Ken welcomes actor, comedian and film fan Josh Fadem to the show. Ken and Josh discuss being the first TVGC dandy, being swell, the age of guests, the 1950s, blacklisting, film noir, Ida Lupina, Columbo, John Cassavetes, Josh's Tulsa Noir Night, Oklahoma, German Expressionism, Eddie Muller of TCM, TV vs. Films, old Hollywood gossip rags, loving old ads,...

This week Ken welcomes artist, all around coolest human, and writer/illustrator of the Minky Woodcock comic series, including the newest volum "The Girl Called Cthlulu", Cynthia Von Buhler. (yes I know I called it "Mindy" Woodcock a couple times instead of "Minky". It's Minky) Ken and Cynthia discuss Ken's fandom, art, coming up in Boston, the Boston Phoenix, growing up in Western MA, Children's B...

This week Ken welcomes academic, fellow middle aged punk, and author of the new book " Hardcore Punk in the Age of Reagan: The Lyrical Lashing of an American Presidency ", Robert J. Fitzgerald. Ken and Robert discuss Robert's favorite TVGC episodes, Jane Seymour, Ted Danson, his love of House of Pain, Ken's high school punk band, Goonies, doing your research, The Pogues, Mike Watt, living in the U...

July 29 - August 4, 1989  This week Ken welcomes the comedian behind the new special "with Picture", Jim Tews. Ken and Jim discuss hot aural experiences, college text book rip offs, professors who make you buy books they wrote, pen names, sci-fi, Married...with Children, lazy writing, being 10 years old, being a child of divorce, permissive Dads, basic cable, black "cheater/scrambler" boxes, cigar...

This week Ken welcomes fellow Bostonian, and singer songwriter, Will Dailey to the show. Ken and Will discuss being gross, growing up in Boston, touring, staying in Boston, how massive the United States is, not just wanting numbers and followers, wanting to make art, Boys Talking, not releasing an album, doing it for the art, playing live, journey with no destination, The $10 Song, catharsis, feed...

December 28th, 1991 - January 3, 1992 This week Ken welcomes Las Vegas comedian behind the new special "Highly Intelligent", Shanna Christmas.  Ken and Shanna discuss the heat, growing up in Las Vegas, how they were both 6'3" at age 14, being a jock, the nerd school, buying booze underage, hanging in night clubs, enjoying the word "Geriatric", dumb kids Ken grew up with, Jerry's Kids, how you neve...

October 8-16, 1988  This week Ken welcomes Mike and Scot from the First Seven Inch podcast.   Ken Mike and Scot discuss obscure hardcore, punk rock, having to pivot to make the fans happy, the power of Patreon, The Equalizer, TV and movies with punks, John Wick, Donnie Yen, being an easy mark, Midnight Caller, Silk Stalkings, Nick/Forever Night, USA Network, what to do when it's "too hot to sleep"...