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Gut Check Podcast

Ted Kluck and Zachary Bartels

Every week, Ted and Zach discuss publishing, cigars, and whatever else comes to mind.

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  • 20 episodes
  • fortnightly
  • Avg 48 min
  • English

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  • Saturday · 47 min

    #283 | A-B-A-B (And Those Are Chords)

    In this episode: Debriefing Power Ballad; Don't remake Die Hard, but we'll recast it; McKay's Strategy; We love Newhart, but we don't like Elf; A good boy pops in

  • October 10 · 49 min

    #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.

  • September 29 · 40 min

    #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?.

  • September 1 · 59 min

    #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.

  • August 12 · 48 min

    #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

  • July 29 · 54 min

    #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 so boring

  • May 23 · 53 min

    #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.

  • May 1 · 42 min

    #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

  • April 13 · 51 min

    #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..

  • March 10 · 1 hr 26 min

    #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)

  • February 12 · 28 min

    #268 | Zach on Trial

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

  • February 5 · 46 min

    #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.

  • January 15 · 41 min

    #266 | The Pull of the Ditch

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

  • January 15 · 38 min

    #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

  • January 15 · 38 min

    #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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