TV Guidance Counselor Episode 349: Dr. Rebecca Housel
Release Date: 04/15/2019
TV Guidance Counselor Podcast
September 24-30, 1994 This week Ken welcomes the deep diver from the Treehouse Detectives and the Deep Dives podcast Andrew Price to the show. Ken and Andrew discuss the secret origin of Blast from the Past's TV Guide collection, Andrew WK.. Deep Dives podcast, how one can buy celebrity touched TV Guides, how wives keep us in check, Andy Kaufman, becoming part of your mythology, AI is awful, not having respect for craft anymore, Fraiser, skullets, 1994, Murder She Wrote, the Murder She Wrote contest, Renegade, step dad shows, how young people took "adult swim" too seriously, Growing...
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August 27th - September 2, 1994 This week Ken welcomes wholesome, midwest superstar and host of the Catered Quiz Podcast Rick Katschke to the show. Ken and Rick discuss the Catered Quiz, The Monroeville Mall's imminent demise, working at Walmart, getting jacked in a warehouse, department stores, new shows airing after a Fall Preview, the weird TV landscape of the end of August, physically writing letters, channel flipping, Harvey Firestein, pre-out of the closet Ellen's bad fashion sense, Billy Bob Thornton, asking Tom Petty that, Letterman, making Letterman laugh, Staying at the Fister, what...
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TV Guide October 31 - November 6, 1987 This week Ken welcomes writer, comedian and artist Mary Houlihan to the show. Ken and Mary discuss new ways to greet people, how awful the world is, growing up in New Jersey, how New Jersey is actually nice, checking out the woods, Paramis, going into Manhattan, not getting the issue you wanted, Dolly Parton, the tattoos, variety shows, Mary, product placement, growing up without country music in the Northeast, how famous rich people should try to be good people, work life balance, wanting to be left alone, Family Ties, Courtney Cox, At This Moment, Billy...
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This week Ken welcomes Pop Culture Professor Dr. Rebecca Housel to the show.
Ken and Rebecca discuss cheesecake, bar pizza,being an outdoor kid, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Golden Girls, entertainment dynasties, Roseanne, Wonder Woman, anti-antisemitism, Gal Godot, the weird sexual history of Wonder Woman, Donna Reed, variety shows, cutting out commercials from your life, on demand, Alice, Charlie's Angels, Bionic Woman, 50 Shades of Grey, Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire, Twilight, Comic Con, Baby Boomers vs. Gen X, Millennials, fascination with monsters and rules, trophy culture, video games, open worlds and their disturbing nature, Fallout 4, Poltergeists, odd coincidences, selfish lack of consequences, Gary Shteyngart, cyborgs, I Am Legend, magic words, saying it outloud, male oriented thinking, business as sociopaths, accomplishment, allegory, The Twilight Zone, honesty in art, David Cronenberg, spirit animals, having a boner for the Creature from the Black Lagoon, pornography, She-Devil, Smallville, Charmed, mixed families, Rome, Christmas, why there are not a ton of great Hanukkah specials, Lauren Holly, Power Rangers, James Marsters, meeting Stan Lee, Nickel Nips, poor people "juice", Say Anything, A Christmas Story, Sex in the City, 8 Crazy Night, While You Were Sleeping, Queen of the Damned, Cruel Intentions, and watching anything with Sarah Michelle Gellar.