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As You Know
by As You Know
A podcast that gets to the important part of TV shows: the beginning and the end
Episodes
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Sons of Anarchy
We're revving up our Harleys and getting patched into SAMCRO as we discuss Sons of Anarchy, one of the monumental Dumb Guy shows of its era. We'll ask hard hitting questions such as: What level of wife guy is Kurt Sutter? Would any of us ride a motorcycle? And what if this show is actually good?
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Adventure Time
Come on, grab your friends as we travel to the land of Ooo and discuss Adventure Time, a show we all love with a particularly profound effect on Stephen.
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Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown
With "Tony" arriving in theaters this week, we opted to have a freewheeling discussion on the beloved Anthony Bourdain and his final television series, Parts Unknown. Join us as we talk about his exploration of Myanmar during its brief period of opening up, and then the elegiac finale about...
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Godzilla: The Series
For the first time we take a look at very specific type of television program: the animated spinoff of a contemporary film that may or may not have been appropriate for children, or even a particularly popular or well-liked movie. In this case, Godzilla: The Series, based on Roland Emmerich's...
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Star Wars: Clone Wars
Let's attempt to untangle the mess of a franchise that none of us are even sure if we like that much by discussing Star Wars: Clone Wars--the only canon non-movie from before the Disney merger. What are your favorite Star Wars names? Would Yoda be an ethical hooper? Does Star Wars still need to...
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Nirvanna the Band the Show
We're going to podcast at the Rivoli! Fresh off the success of Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie, we trek up north to discuss the Canadian cult series from which it spawned. Much like the film, we have so many questions about how this was made.
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30 Rock
Easily on the shortlist of funniest TV shows ever made, 30 Rock is a show near and dear to our hearts. So join us as we try to take a closer look at it but mostly reel off our favorite jokes and gags.
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Game of Thrones
Our long-delayed trip to Westeros is finally here for your listening pleasure. Ian and Stephen try their best to explain the massive global phenomenon that was Game of Thrones to a man who never saw the appeal. This episode almost certainly has the most proper nouns of anything we've done.
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Glee
We're back in the Ryan Murphy mines to talk about the most cursed show of the 21st century, Glee. Let's examine the weird clashing of earnestness and cynicism at the heart of the show, some questionable political forecasting, and a sneaking suspicion that our stars aren't actually all that good…
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Animaniacs
We are belatedly kicking off the new year with Animaniacs, a cartoon about horrifying creatures terrorizing the good, hard-working employees of Warner Bros. with toon violence and low grade assault. Many great jokes that also have us asking "who is this for?"
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The Magicians
Our first foray into SyFy original programming is The Magicians, a show that if nothing else was really going for it all the time. We're divided on the quality of the series, the concept, and if "railing" is a purely physical act. But we love the talking rabbits.
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The Venture Bros.
For possibly the first time since NGE, we covered a show that ended with a movie that we actually liked. Adult Swim's most celebrated(?) series, The Venture Bros. had a long and strange history and is a difficult to describe pastiche of 60s adventure cartoons and comic books, but remained funny...
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Heroes
In the wake of the success of Lost, networks greenlit many of their own attempts to capture that vibe. Maybe none were more notable than Heroes, which was huge for a minute and then promptly forgotten. Let's remember some 2000s guys.
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Pee-wee's Playhouse
We're off to Puppetland as we try to explain the phenomenon that was Pee-wee Herman, one of the most inexplicable great comedy personas in history. Would you move into a house where every object is alive? Can we do any of the various Pee-wee voices? And can Ian make it through the podcast without...
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Tales From the Crypt
Good evening, ladies and ghouls, it's spooky season so we are taking a look at the classic HBO anthology series Tales From the Crypt. We debate many important questions, like "Should the Cryptkeeper be canceled?" and "Why is the last episode of this an animated twist on the Three Little Pigs?"
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See
Stephen debuts a new character as we discuss Jason Momoa's post-apocalyptic fantasy series about a world where almost everybody is blind. This somehow existed for three seasons but you have probably never heard of it! Baba Voss
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Dinosaurs
The last show we discussed ended with demons being released from Hell and encroaching on the greater Copenhagen area, so we thought we'd lighten the mood with a bizarre sitcom about dinosaurs and how they're just like us. Except that it ends with the world ending and the implied death from...
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The Kingdom
We're going to continental Europe for the first time in a minute to talk Danish enfant terrible Lars Von Trier's The Kingdom. It's Twin Peaks meets ER but really mostly trying to be the former. There's a lot of Danish-Swedish beef that we don't really understand. And a lot of unrelated talk about…
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Designing Women
The South got something to say...but we only have a little bit to add about classic sitcom Designing Women, about a group of interior designers in Atlanta sniping at each other (and the showrunners, it turns out). Like all discussions of shows we didn't find to be rich texts, we do start talking...
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Mozart in the Jungle
Remember when Mozart in the Jungle won a billion Golden Globes for its first season and nobody knew what it was? We're investigating the Amazon Prime original, which ran for three more seasons after that! Did you know orchestral musicians have sex? That's more or less the premise.
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Curb Your Enthusiasm
We could not find the British cop show Heartbeat, so we pivoted to discuss Travis's favorite comedy of all time: Curb Your Enthusiasm. We get into the ups and downs of a show that ran for a quarter of a century while staying mostly the same, the inherent confusion of having some celebrities play...
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Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Last time out we covered a show that became a beloved action franchise, but how about a beloved action franchise spawning a TV show? The short-lived Sarah Connor Chronicles ask the big questions: What if there was a hot Terminator (please ignore T3)? Or a Scottish accented one? Are these changes...
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Mission: Impossible
To modern audiences it's Tom Cruise's big action franchise, but for us it's time look at Mission: Impossible's '60s TV origins, and all that entails: Espionage! Cool dead drops! Anti-Communism! Brownface! Apologies for the janky audio in this one, there was a file issue so we had to use the backup.
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The Drew Carey Show
We all know that Cleveland rocks, but does The Drew Carey Show? Especially episodes that don't involve Cleveland Rocks? We took a closer look at one of our favorite "after school basic cable syndication" shows to see how it holds up. This one's for everyone in Solon, Parma, Lakewood, etc.
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Yu-Gi-Oh!
We're taking it back to our millennial childhoods with Yu-Gi-Oh!, a show where nothing much happens except for card games represented by holograms. We recorded this right after the Luka Doncic trade so there's a lot of basketball talk too.
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X-Men
Duh-nuh-nuh-nuh-NUH-nuh-nuh, duh-nuh-nuh-nuh-NUH-nuh-nuh, duh-nuh-nuh-nuh-NUH-nuh-NUH, DUH-NUH
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Fringe
Put on your fedora and eat a sandwich loaded with a jar of jalapenos, because it's time to talk Fringe, the cult X-Files knockoff with a mad scientist, a cow, Pacey from Dawson's Creek and more.
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Nip/Tuck
Finally, 130-odd episodes into this podcast, we're talking about the twisted mind of Ryan Murphy. We've picked the terrible show that launched a career of other terrible shows, Nip/Tuck, which dives into the world of plastic surgery with sledgehammer subtlety. We're talking cartel pedophile...
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Snowpiercer
Coming at the crest of a wave of unasked for TV adaptations of movies, it's TNT's Snowpiercer, based on the Bong Joon-Ho movie which itself is based on the French comic about class war on a train that circumnavigates a frozen Earth. The guy from Clipping/Hamilton is here. Jennifer Connelly is…
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House
Everybody lies, and therefore everybody deserves to be berated and tortured by a lunatic. It's the world of House, M.D.! What if Sherlock Holmes called you an idiot while shoving objects up your ass? And also introduced you to the trip-hop stylings of Massive Attack? Apparently that makes for a...
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Malcolm In The Middle
This week we're contributing to gifted kid discourse as we discuss Malcolm in the Middle, a sitcom that broke conventions and seemed to actually get the working class. Also we have a digression about the Harlem Globetrotters.
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Entourage
Hug it out, because this week we're talking about the most 2004 show ever made, Entourage. Everybody you know from high school who only talks about crypto now was into this show. Are we?
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Monk
This week we're getting into the ultimate neurodivergent detective show, the highly acclaimed USA series Monk! It's a charming and whimsical delight with a weirdly grim ending and boatloads of Guys.
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Celebrity Deathmatch
This week we are looking at some nihilistic Gen X nonsense in the form of Celebrity Deathmatch, a show that has certainly never attempted to be clever, pleasant to watch, or arguably even funny. Truly a product of its era in a way that few shows can ever claim. Also a lot of side talk about EA...
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Hunter X Hunter
We're back in the shonen anime well to discuss recent NFL player favorite Hunter x Hunter, a show where millions of people apply to like...hunt for stuff. It's hard to really explain.
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Young Sheldon
Middle America, you have a lot to answer for. We're looking into the dreaded spinoff of the Big Bang Theory, a prequel about the life of famous annoying asshole Sheldon Cooper before the events of the show. It's sort of like The Wonder Years but more focused on bad representations of autism.
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Review
This week on the show where we review shows we're reviewing Review, the show within a show except that it's actually the whole show. Please rate us 5 stars but don't destroy your life like Forrest.
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Reservation Dogs
At this point it is the podcast's stance that FX is the best network, further cemented by the recently departed indigenous comedy-drama Reservation Dogs. The most purely good show we've watched in a while!
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121 - Knight Rider
It's real I Love the 80s Vibes in here as we cover Knight Rider, a shockingly entertaining show about the car that the most annoying guys of the modern age think that they have.
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120 - Kyle XY
what if no belly button????
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119 - Dragon Ball Z
Let's remember some Z-Fighters. We honor the late Akira Toriyama as we get into his most famous creation, Dragon Ball Z. Stephen doesn't know/remember anything from watching it as a kid so this is mostly a lot of proper nouns. But you'll love it because Goku is there.
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118 - Hardy Bucks
For the first time in 99 episodes, we're going to Ireland, as Stephen tries to explain and understand the success of cult favorite web-series-turned-TV-show Hardy Bucks.
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117 - How To With John Wilson
Travis has selected his favorite show of the 2020s, the sadly departed comedy docuseries How To With John Wilson. Join us as we discuss sad Spring Break parties, mail thievery, and men doing various bizarre things to their genitals among many other examinations of the human condition.
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116 - Letterkenny
We're trekking up to Canada for the recently wrapped cult favorite Letterkenny, a show that is basically a joke machine with occasional plot.
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115 - Ted Lasso
We've finally broken the seal on what Matt would call "internet videos," entering the world of streaming with Ted Lasso, the most unnecessarily discussed show of the last decade.
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114 - Young Rock
Do you remember when The Rock was young?
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113 - The Young Pope/The New Pope
The international tour takes us to Rome for Paolo Sorrentino's bizarre HBO dual miniseries, The Young Pope and The New Pope. On the surface it's the tale of Jude Law as a sexy but conservative American pope and John Malkovich as his more liberal British successor, but in reality it's one of the...
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112 - The Secret World Of Alex Mack
It's time for Teen Nick once again as we learn about the goopiest show in the history of a network famous for covering people in slime. It's The Secret World of Alex Mack, a kids' superhero show with weirdly adult anti-corporate themes and also the first screen appearance of Jessica Alba.
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111 - Ally McBeal
Ring in the new year with the show thought to have killed feminism: Ally McBeal. You know about the hallucinated dancing baby, but what about the hallucinated fet play Clintons?
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110 - Code Lyoko
The international series takes us to France for...anime? Ian has chosen Code Lyoko, a truly baffling show from the end of our childhoods, half of which takes place in a digital world with hideous CGI animation where our large-headed heroes fight a malevolent AI. Andeveryonetalkslikethis.
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