Being Jim Davis

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About the show

Being Jim Davis is the world's premiere daily Garfield chrono-cast. Our mission is to review and discuss each and every strip of the long-running syndicated comic series before eventually dying of old age. We hope you'll come along with us on this journey, and share in the laughter as we catalogue the daily adventures of everyone's favorite indolent feline through a lens of history, humor, and heuristics.

Each episode will be a thorough examination of a single strip. We'll place it in its historical context, then attempt to unravel the morals and meanings hidden under the surface. Finally, we'll consider the question of whether the strip stands the test of time. Above all, we promise to always present you with our sincere, personal, reaction to each Garfield comic strip.

Our only thought is to entertain you.

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Episodes and Blog Entries

  • Episode 505 - Monday, November 5, 1979

    Episode  |  January 15th, 2018  |  30 mins 21 secs
    areas of portland oregon, bechdel test yoga, bullshitting about the beatles for like a half an hour before starting the podcast, cornershop, declan the cat, dips roundup, dreyfus affair, eating on mic, emperor joseph ii of austria, extraneous and unnecessary ranking of things, garfield's bed, gas city indiana, guy fawkes day, implied semicolon, josh gates, law of the excluded middle, laziness, obsequious jon, split 7"s, tiffany wildes, unfinished hummus-themed anecdotes, vacation, xyz affair

  • Episode 504 - Sunday, November 4, 1979

    Episode  |  January 14th, 2018  |  8 mins 58 secs

  • Episode 503 - Saturday, November 3, 1979

    Episode  |  January 13th, 2018  |  14 mins 50 secs

  • Episode 502 - Friday, November 2, 1979

    Episode  |  January 12th, 2018  |  15 mins 48 secs

  • Episode 501 - Thursday, November 1, 1979

    Episode  |  January 11th, 2018  |  22 mins 33 secs

    Hey, look! THere's a Garfield over there!

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    Supplemental No. 4 - 500th Episode Spectacular

    Episode  |  January 10th, 2018  |  1 hr 24 mins
    pointless

    500

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    Episode 500 - Wednesday, October 31, 1979

    Episode  |  January 10th, 2018  |  2 mins 49 secs

    So. There's 500 of these now.

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    Episode 499 - Tuesday, October 30, 1979

    Episode  |  January 9th, 2018  |  15 mins 35 secs

  • Episode 498 - Monday, October 29, 1979

    Episode  |  January 8th, 2018  |  20 mins 46 secs
    alban berg, anton webern, arnold schoenberg, garfield, garfield size variation ranges, halloween's butthole, jon arbuckle, pierrot lunaire, robin thicke, second viennese school, stancopo vs. standcopo

  • Episode 497 - Sunday, October 28, 1979

    Episode  |  January 7th, 2018  |  16 mins 23 secs
    bulges, dogs, emily kojis, onomatopoeia, ruses, spelling, strange eating habits, tablecloths

  • Episode 496 - Saturday, October 27, 1979

    Episode  |  January 6th, 2018  |  13 mins 14 secs
    anthropomorphic celestial bodies, backronym, cereal, childhood trauma, dried fruit, gorp, jeeves and wooster, pickiness, raisins, strange eating behavior, the kellog company

  • Episode 495 - Friday, October 26, 1979

    Episode  |  January 5th, 2018  |  16 mins 17 secs
    babies and dogs, bragging about a bunch of much better podcasts we listen to, diachronic analysis standcowpo, emily kojis, garfield's ears, mobius sandwich, onomatopoeia, richard simmons, slow burn the podcast, strange eating behavior, umami, violence-based ruses

  • Episode 494 - Thursday, October 25, 1979

    Episode  |  January 4th, 2018  |  14 mins 52 secs
    #here'slyman, 60's radical jon arbuckle, draft dodging, eating, emily kojis, ennio morricone, facial expressions, food, french-canadian lyman, garfield as a teenager, goat milk, gunk, haute cuisine, insulting our listeners, jon arbuckle letting a filthy animal eat on the counter because he is insane, scam artistry, strange eating behavior

  • Episode 493 - Wednesday, October 24, 1979

    Episode  |  January 2nd, 2018  |  11 mins 41 secs
    fucking up common idioms like a goddamned idiot, gunk, improbable feline ambulation, omnipanel namedrops, reminiscing about shouting at each other over something really fucking mundane

  • Episode 492 - Tuesday, October 23, 1979

    Episode  |  January 2nd, 2018  |  11 mins 30 secs
    characters inexplicably emerging out of other characters, clearly lyman, french-canadian lyman, gratuitous slobber drawings, gross things, lyman being there for no reason, mega-odie? druid lyman, spit

  • Episode 491 - Monday, October 22, 1979

    Episode  |  January 1st, 2018  |  19 mins 7 secs
    #where'slouis?, bad humor, bilocatin' odie, cinematography, comedy that does not work, dumbass birds, emily kojis, force fields, mark twain, president gerald ford, stupid jokes, the robert c gaines colony steakhouse and lobster pot seafood buffet, thresholds, ward parkway mall in kansas city mo, yogi berra