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 459 - Thursday, September 20, 1979

    Episode  |  November 30th, 2017  |  12 mins 48 secs
    national fat week

    Hey, it's National Fat Week!

  • Episode 458 - Wednesday, September 19, 1979

    Episode  |  November 29th, 2017  |  26 mins 5 secs
    national fat week, neal stephenson, william gibson

    Hey, it's National Fat Week!

  • Episode 457 - Tuesday, September 18, 1979

    Episode  |  November 28th, 2017  |  12 mins 35 secs
    chris taylor, everyone hates jon, fat people in seattle, jon being a pedantic asshole, jon being wrong about everything (as usual), jon is such a jerk, magmar sucks, national fat week, shut up jon -- you're wrong about everything!

    Hey, it's National Fat Week!

  • Episode 456 - Monday, September 17, 1979

    Episode  |  November 27th, 2017  |  28 mins 58 secs
    bmi, hard gnosticism, mean vs median vs mode, national fat week, rachel dolezal

    Hey, it's National Fat Week!

  • Episode 455 - Sunday, September 16, 1979

    Episode  |  November 26th, 2017  |  14 mins 31 secs
    despair, jon arbuckle as a boat, new donk city, somnambulism

    The podcast that prepares a delicious meal, then turns the light off and goes to bed

  • Episode 454 - Saturday, September 15, 1979

    Episode  |  November 25th, 2017  |  20 mins 21 secs
    g. william miller

  • Episode 453 - Friday, September 14, 1979

    Episode  |  November 24th, 2017  |  31 mins 5 secs
    as observed by fictional characters, cats and dogs and the relative differences between them, talking to animals as if they understand english (like a crazy person)

    Jim Davis, you know better than that.

  • Episode 452 - Thursday, September 13, 1979

    Episode  |  November 23rd, 2017  |  11 mins 26 secs
    apogee, astroturf, benches, complaining about our dumb listeners, death, fucked up furniture, irritation, jim davis, perigee, ralph nader, sexism, strangulation, weird shadows, weird typography, zenith

  • Episode 451 - Wednesday, September 12, 1979

    Episode  |  November 22nd, 2017  |  15 mins 19 secs
    burger king, earl warren, lynching, poor taste, the burger king kingdom, the burger thing, warren burger, william rehnquist

  • Episode 450 - Tuesday, September 11, 1979

    Episode  |  November 21st, 2017  |  27 mins 23 secs
    amazed jon arbuckle, cat-on-furniture violence, faith no more, jon arbuckle's grossly extended philtrum, naming various traditional thanksgiving foods, nihilism, ostrogoths, parabolas, strange eating habits, tuesday mailbag, turkeys, viking behavior, visigoths, visual art

  • Episode 449 - Monday, September 10, 1979

    Episode  |  November 20th, 2017  |  32 mins 32 secs
    garfield yawning, weird elbows, yawning

  • Episode 448 - Sunday, September 9, 1979

    Episode  |  November 19th, 2017  |  24 mins 2 secs

  • Episode 447 - Saturday, September 8, 1979

    Episode  |  November 18th, 2017  |  14 mins 15 secs

  • Episode 446 - Friday, September 7, 1979

    Episode  |  November 17th, 2017  |  19 mins 24 secs
    copernicus, garfield, jon arbuckle, nermal, odie, paradigm shifts, psychokinesis, roller skates, the "cat lifestyle", the video toaster, thomas kuhn, word jazz

  • Episode 445 - Thursday, September 6, 1979

    Episode  |  November 16th, 2017  |  16 mins 38 secs
    authorial intent, crud, ofeibea quist-arcton as pirate, pirate battles, poutine, prescriptivism vs. descriptivism, reader response, relaxing ocean sounds, steak & shake, the british east india company

  • Episode 444 - Wednesday, September 5, 1979

    Episode  |  November 15th, 2017  |  20 mins 1 sec
    akira kurosawa, being being jim davis, garfield, jim davis as former cia asset, mark frazier, nermal, richard simmons, ta-nehisi coates