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Gut Check Podcast
by Ted Kluck and Zachary Bartels
Official podcast of Gut Check Press.
Episodes
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#282 | Quite a Crest, Quite Caressed
In this episode: Neither Ted nor his hips lie; Maxim is a contender; Vegas, Baby?; Brett Angelsmith vs. AI; yet more Fugitive talk (get used to it); manly cat-affection.
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#281 | Past Tense Candy
In this episode: Is it reprehensible to use generative AI for silly-goose stuff even though it's (somehow) going to destroy us all?.
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#280 | Finally a Worthy Adversary
In this episode, brought to you by Devlin-MacGregor: Richard Kimble is an elite thinker, Energy Drink Review: Bang! American Berry, Silver Dome is HAPPENING. Ted and Zach are both Boothsmen and Thespians.
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#279 | White Girl Playlist
In this episode: Ted ruins the song Rasputin by singing over it, Ted and Zach create the perfect white girl playlist, a couple man-of-the-cloth questions, Ted Kluck: pro-bono wedding emcee
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#278 | Community D
In this episode (brought to you by Provasic!): A kind gift, a call to action, Mr. Smith debrief, If only being mayor was just charisma-work, a call for a BUST, zombified phone shuffling is a rarity at Union, Disclosure Day lacked the juice of Dr. Kimball and created no ontological upset, Space is...
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#277 | Bunch of Updates
Mr. Smith Update, Silverdome Update
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#276 | Working the Emotional Ankles
Zach is going to war with AI, Anaconda was a smart movie pretending to be stupid, the best Zahn
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#275 | At This Dangerous Time...
Our respective relationships with Napster; blasphemous energy drinks; trendy Catholicism
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#274 | Gary and Jerry
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.
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#273 | Back to Our Roots
Publishing talk, an energy drink review, T can talk.
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#272 | Washed Up Together
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
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#271 | They Call Us Double-down
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..
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#270 | First, Go on the News...
An end-times contest, Erin hates AI so much, Ted and Kristin are classy now.
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#269 | A Huge Waste of Nachos
Gut Check is at a crossroads; let's talk some Dangerous Minds (which it turns out was based on a somewhat true story)
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#268 | Zach on Trial
Gut Check Medical Hour, Zach didn't actually make up the term Johnny, Non-consensual bit participants, Snit Happens again.
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#267 | Snit Happens
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.
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#266 | The Pull of the Ditch
Day-Off Guilt, Casual anti-calvinism, Wiis and CBs, Accent mirroring, boxing workouts are the best
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#265 | Rambles with Ted and Zach
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
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#264 | Off the Error
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
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#263 | Over-Communicated
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.
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#262 | Flush of Shame
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 [email protected]
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#261 | Mem-wah?
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.
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#260 | You Have to Bring the Ice Cream
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?
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#259 | Bad-Hang Hangover
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
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#258 | Access to Comfortable Shorts
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.
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#257 | Oh, the Germanity!
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.
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#256 | Miami Sound Machine, Anybody?
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?
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#255 | Not Like Other Grills
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
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#254 | Our Guy
This week:A political endorsement, a second The Bear theory, order and chaos, re-litigating Dead Poets Society, the Home College Movement
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#253 | Well, Let's Go Meet the Young Man
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.
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#252 | German Decorum
This week: Bavarian recap, Boyhood crushes on the now-elderly, Shushgate, Burn Notice revisited yet again, No Country for Old Men
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#251 | Ahoy!
This week: Gut Check River Cruise, Why isn't Germany romantic? Pleasantly getting shot and dumped in the ocean.
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#250 | Three Kinds of Glum
In this milestone episode: The most annoying type of TPR, the need for dirtbags, the fall of Michael Tait, RIP George Wendt
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#249 | Performative Backpack Swinging
If you're gonna be a film school hipster, you gotta be tiny, and other observations from evangelical conferences. (Also, bonus content from Nicky Blaine's: the Mystery of the Missing Lanyard)
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#248 | Smart Toddler
This week: Picking a new pope, Ted's flammable regalia, phones are small/big/annoying, old guys going liberal
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#247 | Dead-Eyed Dignity
This week: Locating our promise, archiving friendships, rediscovering Palmer
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#246 | The Hard Data Podcast
This week: Breakfast is the most important meal of the day; are there even young people?
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#245 | Dinklage
Forgiveness, Snow White stuff, AI upscaling old shows, Secret City Drawing, A fantastic new game
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#244 | Prime Richard Rohr?
This week: Ted steps in the ring with a former world champ; Evangelical Smackdown Redux
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#243 | Enough Jokes.
Zach and Ted are the opposite of disappointed, discussing series finales, good and bad.
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#242 | Lorenzo Music
This week: The Gorge; The Pilgrim's Progress: Dangers, Toils, and Snares; Classic ads; Cheers-Newhart Crossover; The Eighties loved humbling the rich
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#241 | A Candle, A Painting, and a Song
This week: The Irish are just white people now, Card-keeping etiquette, three thoughtful gifts from listeners, hate-listening to Gut Check, Ted and the Cult.
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#240 | The Closest to Being Naked
Eating eggs on the air, schizophrenic DVDs, Old man Cheers and Newhart talk, Evangelical Celebrity Stories
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#239 | The Inhumanities - FIXED LINK
Rome airport insanity, Streaming services are garbage, Cheers is evergreen, Movie idea: Die Alone, Why not just let AI write the movies (and the sermons)?
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#238 | This Is Gonna Sound Mean, But...
Gladiator II (and Twisters, again); Ted is mad at Satan
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#237 | Peace on Earth and Don't Get Stabbed
This Christmas: Trapped in Paradise, You can't kill the bull moose, Is It's a Wonderful Life a good movie?, Newheart vs. Jimmy Stewart, Land Man
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#236 | TEN YEARS, MAN!
In this ten-year-anniversary episode: coquetish permapose, vein-work and acupuncture, Mike? Never call me again., critiquing free product, critiquing old podcasts, critiquing an AI podcast about Ted, Zach's new book; (Oh, and the word I bleeped was "rascal")
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#235 | Camo Vest + Million-Dollar Shorts
This week: a (admittedly delayed) Tyson fight debrief, Drisky Business
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#234 | You Guys Have Fun
We're back and our host is UN-HACKED! This week: Zoom smoke debrief, Election debrief, Turk speculation
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#233 | Lit Boy
Flannery O'Connor and smugness, New Gut Check Literacy Month series coming...
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Official podcast of Gut Check Press.
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