Gut Check Podcast

Hosted by Ted Kluck and Zachary Bartels

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296

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Oct 2026

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EN-US

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

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October 24, 202647 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, 202649 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, 202640 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, 202659 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, 202648 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, 202654 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

July 10, 202637 min

#277 | Bunch of Updates

Mr. Smith Update, Silverdome Update

June 27, 202641 min

#276 | Working the Emotional Ankles

Zach is going to war with AI, Anaconda was a smart movie pretending to be stupid, the best Zahn

June 26, 202644 min

#275 | At This Dangerous Time...

Our respective relationships with Napster; blasphemous energy drinks; trendy Catholicism

May 23, 202653 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.