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
Gut Check Podcast
Hosted by Ted Kluck and Zachary Bartels
Episodes
292
Latest episode
Aug 2026
Language
EN-US
About the show
Every week, Ted and Zach discuss publishing, cigars, and whatever else comes to mind.
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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.
May 22, 202644 min
#273 | Back to Our Roots
Publishing talk, an energy drink review, T can talk.
May 1, 202642 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, 202651 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 30, 20261 hr 4 min
#270 | First, Go on the News...
An end-times contest, Erin hates AI so much, Ted and Kristin are classy now.
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