Gut Check Podcast
Making Your Podcast Feel Small and Weak Since 2014
Ted Kluck and Zachary Bartels · Gut Check Press
Show overview
Gut Check Podcast has been publishing since 2014, and across the 12 years since has built a catalogue of 285 episodes. That works out to roughly 250 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a fortnightly cadence.
Episodes typically run thirty-five to sixty minutes — most land between 43 min and 1h 2m — though episode length varies meaningfully from one episode to the next. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-US-language Religion & Spirituality show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 2 weeks ago, with 10 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2023, with 39 episodes published. Published by Gut Check Press.
From the publisher
Every week, Ted and Zach discuss publishing, cigars, and whatever else comes to mind.
Latest Episodes
View all 285 episodes#272 | Washed Up Together
#271 | They Call Us Double-down
#270 | First, Go on the News...
An end-times contest, Erin hates AI so much, Ted and Kristin are classy now.
#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)
#268 | Zach on Trial
Gut Check Medical Hour, Zach didn't actually make up the term Johnny, Non-consensual bit participants, Snit Happens again.
#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.
#266 | The Pull of the Ditch
Day-Off Guilt, Casual anti-calvinism, Wiis and CBs, Accent mirroring, boxing workouts are the best
#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
#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
#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.
#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]
#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.
#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?
#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
#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.
#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.
#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?
#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
#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
#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.