Over and Out

The Strait Dope. 

Tiger by the tail. The two chaps discuss the rise and fall of Tiger Woods, both professionally and personally.

Your two podcasters discuss the S3-E10 Cheers episode, "Diane's Allergy," prominently featuring a pre-Frasier Frasier.

Alas! Garth and Ray both enjoy the same tv episode, located in Season 4 of Frasier. Among the topics discussed are farce comedy, the Cheers to Frasier sequencing, and cafe culture.

The two Lehigh alums investigate another early Magnum episode. While Ray deems it perhaps his favorite episode in the entire series, Garth is more bemused about it, declaring that he can watch the '80s action drama, but only as "comedy."E-mail us at [email protected] 

Garth and Ray sleuth around an early episode of Magnum P.I.E-mail us at [email protected] 

The lads reflect on whether they saw some of the greatest movies of all time.E-mail us at [email protected] 

Garth and Ray find agreement as they wonder what will be accomplished by the military action in Iran.E-mail us at [email protected] 

Boycotts, bans, threats, and doping. The two Lehigh Alums discuss the 2026 Olympics and the shenanigans that have occurred with the Games over the decades. E-mail us at [email protected] 

The lads pick five random tv shows from the '80s and try to guess what they were about: Silk Stalkings, Fantasy Island, St. Elsewhere, Hill Street Blues, Remington Steele. Garth notes the value-add of Mike Post's Hill Street Blues theme song, while Ray does a few minutes on Ricardo Montalban.E-mail us at [email protected] 

The discussion swerves to brainstorming who was the best pro athlete turned actor. After running through the lead candidates Garth and Ray have seem to come down to six of one (Jim Brown), half a dozen of the other (Fred Dryer).E-mail us at [email protected] 

Ray and Garth muse over a random page from the 1986 TV Guide, which leads them into a broader discussion of '80s tv.E-mail us at [email protected] 

We discuss the changes in movies and tv over the decades. Are factors such as straight to streaming, movie actors doing tv, television moving from episodic to long arc, a net positive?E-mail us at [email protected] 

SCOTUS strikes down the Trump tariffs. Can we add anything to the general discussion?E-mail us at [email protected] 

The "Embattled" Tony Clark steps down as MLB union head. How former player rep Marvin Miller ran rings around the owners to secure free agency and other labor gains.E-mail us: [email protected] 

Ray and Garth discuss Bobby Duvall and Mel Brooks. We agree Duvall was a compelling actor, but how many of his movies did we actually see? Segue to Mel Brooks where Ray makes the case that his movies were... not funny.E-mail us at: [email protected]