Gut Check Podcast

An end-times contest, Erin hates AI so much, Ted and Kristin are classy now.

Gut Check is at a crossroads; let's talk some Dangerous Minds (which it turns out was based on a somewhat true story)

Gut Check Medical Hour, Zach didn't actually make up the term Johnny, Non-consensual bit participants, Snit Happens again.

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.

Day-Off Guilt, Casual anti-calvinism, Wiis and CBs, Accent mirroring, boxing workouts are the best

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

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

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.

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]

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.

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?

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

This week: Ted and Zach don't talk about Jimmy Kimmel (and it's not already an outdated conversation they don't have).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.

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.

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?

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

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.

This week:A political endorsement, a second The Bear theory, order and chaos, re-litigating Dead Poets Society, the Home College Movement

This week: Bavarian recap, Boyhood crushes on the now-elderly, Shushgate, Burn Notice revisited yet again, No Country for Old Men

This week: Gut Check River Cruise, Why isn't Germany romantic? Pleasantly getting shot and dumped in the ocean.

In this milestone episode: The most annoying type of TPR, the need for dirtbags, the fall of Michael Tait, RIP George Wendt

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)

This week: Picking a new pope, Ted's flammable regalia, phones are small/big/annoying, old guys going liberal

This week: Locating our promise, archiving friendships, rediscovering Palmer

This week: Breakfast is the most important meal of the day; are there even young people?

Forgiveness, Snow White stuff, AI upscaling old shows, Secret City Drawing, A fantastic new game

This week: Ted steps in the ring with a former world champ; Evangelical Smackdown Redux

Zach and Ted are the opposite of disappointed, discussing series finales, good and bad.

This week: The Gorge; The Pilgrim's Progress: Dangers, Toils, and Snares; Classic ads; Cheers-Newhart Crossover; The Eighties loved humbling the rich

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.

Eating eggs on the air, schizophrenic DVDs, Old man Cheers and Newhart talk, Evangelical Celebrity Stories

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)?

Gladiator II (and Twisters, again); Ted is mad at Satan

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

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")

This week: a (admittedly delayed) Tyson fight debrief, Drisky Business

We're back and our host is UN-HACKED! This week: Zoom smoke debrief, Election debrief, Turk speculation

Flannery O'Connor and smugness, New Gut Check Literacy Month series coming...