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.
Gut Check Podcast
Hosted by Ted Kluck and Zachary Bartels
Episodes
287
Latest episode
May 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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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.
March 10, 20261 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 11, 202628 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, 202646 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, 202641 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, 202638 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
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