Tv Guidance Counselor Podcast

February 22-28, 1997   This week Ken welcomes comedian Phoebe Angle.   Ken and Phoebe discuss Chuck Norris, great birthday gifts, butts, Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman, white Indians, Albinos, Cops, Private Detectives as Moms, Highlander, Murder Houses, Avid Editing, SNICK, lack of cable, Maine, UPN, Moesha, Homeboys in Outerspace, Early Edition, Burning Zone, The Simpsons, Touched by an Angel, King of the Hill, working in the corpse of The Rat, X-Files, Monster of the Week, Cosby, Jenny Jones, ambush shows, LL Bean, Maine, Manic Panic hair dye, how lies can get you on Ricki Lake, hating Home Improvement, Valerie Bertonelli's Night Sins, Spin City, The Grammys, award shows, Babyface, The Stunt Man, Antiques Roadshow, Sister Sister, Murder She Wrote, short guy syndrome, Haley Joel Osmett: Boy with AIDS, Rescue 911, Must See TV, Rosie O'Donnell, AJ Langer, The Naked Truth, Tea Leoni, Mad Max, dubbing English for English, The 13th Annual Soap Opera Awards, TGIF, Sliders, Family Matters, altering your genes to get on S

September 23 - 28, 1978 This week Ken welcomes actress, comedian, writer and all around comedy hero Janeane Garofalo to the show.   Ken and Janeane discuss their pitch for "Lost in Portland", nibs, birthday weeks, circling TV, testing HBO, Madison NJ, seeing Lipstick when you shouldn't have seen it, the popularity of rape movies in the 70s, the popularity of rape TV in the 10s, Jeff Goldblum in Death Wish, Chained Heat, Rape/Revenge, procedural shows ruining juries,  Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior, Forest Whitaker, Matt Ryan, UK actors making the mistake of American Television, Mandy Patinkin, Mr. Show, Stand-Up, being totally absent from social media, the objective nature of comedy, the Simpsons, SNL, Michael Nesmith as Ken and Janeane's favorite person ever, Jay Leno, alienating people, wanting to be liked, Providence College in RI, Allston MA, open mics in Rhode Island, Midnight Movies as social mecca, only saying things to people you feel you can physically "take", Entertainers right to have political o

In this special bonus mini-episode of the show, Ken welcomes Louise Post and Nina Gordon of the band Veruca Salt to the show.   Ken chats with Louise and Nina on their tour bus before their Boston gig about the heaven of 70s TV, growing up on East Coast vs. The Mid-West, the dark ages of cable proliferation, Happy Days, M.A.S.H., depressing theme songs, The 1973 Made-for-TV movie "Sunshine", the dark content of 70s TV aimed at children, the mystery of Beverly Archer, Halloween is Grinch Night, Jonathan Winters' pumpkin head, Sha-Na-Na, the birth of Nostalgia, 20 year cycles, Terri Nunn: Teen Actress with a bad rep on James at 15, the importance of The Bionic Woman, questioning Lindsay Wagner's well read status, TV negotiations with siblings, Star Trek vs. The Brady Bunch, living in a Brady Bunch genius den, being bumped from SNL by Sting, the sexy factor of Lee Majors and Gordon Sumner, The Monkees, crushing on Davy Jones, Cybill Shepherd :stunner, TV theme songs as your first favorite song, The Carol Burnett

October 18-24, 1984 Today Ken welcomes writer and comedian Andrea Henry. Ken and Andrea discuss Brocton's weather related fights, colds, Dallas, Family Ties, crushing on Skippy, Marc Price's full frontal nudity in Trick or Treat, writing in character as Alex P. Keaton, American Graffiti, The New Gidget, The New Leave it to Beaver, first run syndication, Dracula, Pyschophobia, Life with Lucy, Stone Pillow, The Pumpkin Who Couldn't Smile, Sunday Newspaper Comic Strips, Holiday Specials, Indiana Jones, being let down by your own youth, Poltergeist, Puttin' on the Kids, having never carved a pumpkin, Frat Brothers taking you in a sports car to see Halloween in theaters, no weakness allowed with Andrea's brother, FAME, Nia Pepples Party Machine, Mike Hammer, It's a Living, The Bonaventure Hotel, Ann Jillian, Mama's Family, wigs, Ken's hateful spite fueled life, Star Search, Hate Watching, Sons of Anarchy, Fight Back!, Kate & Allie, CBS Monday Nights, MacGuyver, My Sister Sam, stalking, kids parties, the origin

July 22 -27, 1978 This week Ken welcomes writer, comedian and master storyteller Kevin Allison to the show. Ken and Kevin discuss crazy things in your home leading to murderous theories, living in Pee Wee's Playhouse, Jesuit High School leading to a lack of television watching, falling asleep with Citizen Kane, pyromania, watching classics on TV, Night of the Living Dead, Leonard Maltin's books, Understanding Movies, Cincinnati, OH, The Boys in the Band, Catholicism,  William Friedkin into gay stuff, stumbling onto life changing media, Marilu Henner, Dukes of Hazard, hatred of sports, going to the Opera, being introduced to television and culture by your father, being terrified of The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, PBS and Monty Python, scary music, The Muppet Show, The Electric Company, MTV, Liquid Television, watching TV at school, New Zoo Review, Catholic TV, ABC Sunday Night Movie, Roots, The Thorne Birds, Pulp Novels, The Exorcist, 70s obsession with the supernatural, Satanism,  hypnotism, The Bionic Man, b

January 21-27, 1984 This week Ken welcomes DJ, improver and former co-worker Greg Wymer to the show. Ken and Greg discuss Greg's excitement, the disappointment of laser light shows, game show hosts, evening editions of day time game shows, Diff'rent Strokes, twins, Dixie Carter, unsold pilots, Ken's wife's hatred of Claire Grogan, Love Boat, Harlem Globetrotters, Bill Cullen: Favorite Game Show Host, Dolph Lundgren's MIT lie, Mama's Family, Sneak Previews, Dack Rambo, WFNX, Ken as Brian Benben, Superbowl Sunday, Gary Coleman's 200 IQ, gambling, Life Styles of the Rich and Famous, the early days of VCRs, James Bond, playing your own son, Airwolf, Iron Eagle, The Meatballs series, Mazes & Monsters, Washington D.C., MTV's Remote Control, Susan Stafford, PBS's Think Twice, a taste of real fame, Greg's Pee Wee's Big Adventure related mortifying moment, That's Incredible, Danny Cooksey, Bloopers and Practical Jokes, Made for TV Movies, Burt Renoylds' dark period, Spaghetti Westerns, The A-Team, Kim Richards, Th

June 9-15, 1990 This week Ken welcomes Boston comedian and bear enthusiast Andrew Mayer to the show. Ken and Andrew discuss mermaids, The New Mission Impossible, writing strikes, re-using old scripts, Andrew's insane father, living in a valley in the middle of nowhere with no cable, civil salt peter, USA Saturday Nightmares, Zombie Nightmare, not fearing the reaper enough, Janet Jackson, just going with the titles, Beauty and the Beast, America's Funniest Most Wanted, model planes, Nick at Nite but never Bewitched, weird mid-Atlantic accents, the Tin Man's classic Boston accent, Championship Ballroom Dancing, MacGuyver, Locker Posters, burning off pilots, the problems or murder, liking strange sports, foam, roller skating, the best Arnold Schwarzenegger movie, Star Trek, home-made Halloween costumes, Rescue 911, Ken's obsession with the accordion, cheating at Skip-It, corny laugh track sitcoms, Spin City, Two Guys a Girl and a Pizza Place, Nickelodeon's Fifteen, thinking the Wonder Years is boring, NBA Finals

This week Ken welcomes musician, artist and fellow podcaster Cris Kirkwood of the legendary Meat Puppets to the show. Ken and Cris discuss Portlandia, TV Guides place in the home, watching the debut of Sesame Street, leaders vs. followers, the "Torment of the Older Sibling", bed wetting, growing up in Phoenix Arizona, the legacy of Omahanians, the horses, Alice, The Wallace and Ladmo Show, Pat McMahon, Steven Spielberg, the cultural make up of Arizona, Spanish Language TV, Sabado Gigante, local TV scenes as local punk rock scenes, how Mr. Peppermint begat the Butthole Surfers, Nirvana Unplugged, home made music videos, stealing people's souls, The Big Boys, Flipper, MTV, touching ex-girlfriends via the cathode ray tube, Steve Jones, Bill Cody, the Haden Triplets, Fred Armisen, stand up vs. music, The Harlem Globetrotters, the golden age of TV contortionists, punk rock trips to LA, Night Flight, New Wave Theater, the importance of flyers, hippies vs. punks, jazz fusion, how seeing Deliverance leads to a desire

March 3-9, 1979.  This week Ken welcomes comedian and author Heather McDonald to the show. Ken and Heather discuss worrying about the elderly being easily influenced by television, cigarette ads, Andy Griffith's 70s BDSM, after school specials, why the youngest of five has no rules, Victoria Principal, High Class Hookers, Eve Plumb in Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway, living "the Valley", Lace, All Girls Catholic High Schools, Heidi Fleiss, The Mayflower Madam, SportsClub LA, creepy solo fixers, Valley Girl, Patty Hearst, parents taking you to inappropriate movies, knowing when you were straight, forced make out sessions up against a wall, Traci Lords, how a criminal act can add meaning to your life, The Osmonds Circus, Mary Tyler Moore Hour, "Singles" apartment buildings, the one time per lifetime women have to try and make it on their own, Stockard Channing: The Star of Grease, being terrified of New York, Good Times, sharing a room with your siblings, Love Boat vs. Fantasy Island, Julie's eternal Maid o

In this episode recorded LIVE! at the NorthEast Comic Con and Pop Culture Expo on Saturday June 20, 2015 Ken welcomes writer/producer Jeff Kline and actor/comedian Julie McCullough to the show.   First up Ken welcomes Jeff Kline. Jeff looks at a TV Guide from the week March 18-24, 1978. Ken and Jeff discuss producing cartoons, Jumanji, finding out you got a job in the papers, the life and death of Saturday Morning Cartoons, UPN, That was Then, being 30 and getting to be 16 again twice, The Starland Vocal Band, generational record business, The Monkees, The Banana Splits, Sid & Marty Kroft,   Johnny Carson, KTLA, The Legend of Cougar Canyon, Lawrence Welk, Lechmere, Andy Williams, Wayland Flowers & Madam, the pasts' refusal to admit gayness, dialing is a commitment, Ken's aluminium foil based conspiracy theory, Saturday Night family TV, Wonder Woman, replacing Cathy Lee Crosby with Linda Carter, Eletra Woman and Dynagirl, spending 10 minutes in a hot tub with Pink Lady & Jeff, the Sid and Marty Kro

September 12 - 18, 1998 In this episode Ken welcomes actor, improviser and comedian Micah Sherman.  Ken and Micah discuss e-cigarettes, the connection between fog machines and intestinal distress, outside vs. inside, blowin' it up, lack of cable, pillow case induced weekend TV watching, North Carolina Wolves, singing jocks, Jam Bands, Beard Fishin', the secret to loving High School, Squirrel Nut Zippers, interning at Mammoth Records, pulling your pork, low channels coming in more clear, the entertainment value of discussions of the 1996 Telecommunications Act, College Sports, Cops, National Lampoon's Golf Punks, America's Most Wanted, Alan Alda, Burlesque Youth, Video Store Educations, Stand Up on TV, The Simpsons, loving the Fly Girls, being in the pop culture closet, Ken's hatred of Goodfellas, That 70s Show, not being excited by premieres, The Higgins Boys, The Army Show, The KGB, The X-Files, The Emmys,  Seth Green, Can't Hardly Wait, Cosby Show that's not the Cosby Show, Old Gay Softball, Mr. Bean, SNL B

In a first for the show, Ken presents you with two "mini-sodes" recorded before the guests' shows in the green room.    First up Ken welcomes the amazing singer, songwriter, actress, reality TV star, author and voice over artist Lisa Loeb to the show. In this lighting fast pre-show chat Ken and Lisa discuss October 1974, 70s pop hits, the lack of choice, Dallas during "Dallas", false sense of mainstream culture avoidance, the resentment of TV portrayals of professions, The Monkees, Wings, Chico and the Man, Sesame Street, Robert Urich, Serial Killing for Dummies, $25,000 Pyramid, Donnie Osmond, The Newlywed Game, Whoopie, bed time, Variety Shows, Muppet Shows, Fernwood Tonight, Cher, Carol Burnett, all around talent, all singing all dancing all acting celebrities, Florence Henderson: Pretty Lady, humor going over your head, The Love Boat, watching TV when you're sick, sexual bikinis, Adam 12, TV Crushes, why Don Knotts is kind of handsome, the inexplicable popularity of Little House on the Prairie, Fantasy Is

This week Ken welcomes writer, TV personality, former MTV VJ and all around great human being Karen "Duff" Duffy to the show. Ken and Duff discuss the heat of NYC, the road to MTV via nursing homes, New Jersey, Modeling, selling Skippy Peanut Butter, Saturday Night Live, Frank Sinatra, studying up, dressing for success, the multi-disciplined approach of classic TV presenters, broadcasting vs. narrowcasting, Firehouse vs. Firehose, the end of the hair bands, researching, photogenic memories, Whit Crane of Ugly Kid Joe, the fun of dating someone with a drinking problem, staying tight with the crew, Tabitha Soren, taking over for Martha Quinn, Rods & Cones, V66, The Basement Tapes, bands on railroad tracks, Ted Demme, Fade to Black, Fab 5 Freddy, Jermaine Jackson's Jermagesty, soul music, Herb Alpert, performers figuring out the business, George Clooney, Bill Murray and Duff's Wedding Present of the gift of performance, The Fantastic Mr. Fox, Bill Murray's musical prowess, buying horns off Ebay, Michael O'Do

July 4 -10, 1974 This week Ken welcomes Buffalo Tom frontman Bill Janovitz to the show. Ken and Bill discuss TV Theme Songs, Bill's writing of the Mike O'Malley theme, Yes Dear, This Old House, growing up in New York, 80s NYC vs 90s NYC, how the gay part of town is always where the interesting stuff is going on, Beverly Hills and it's Welcome Sign, why LA is great, Fabio, Tim Reid (no relation), All in the Family, staying up late in the Summer, three camera sitcoms, how the faux-documentary style is played out, Blackish, the shared experience of television as a kid, Seinfeld, the generation gap, Maureen Stapleton vs. Jean Stapleton, Those Were the Days, Melancholy TV music, TV with multi-generational appeal, Norman Lear, the occasional brutality of 70s family television, VCR culture, quoting movies, gold fish memories, The Jeffersons, the mystery of the Good Times theme song, The Midnight Special, the seeds of wanting to be a rock star, Don Kirshner's Rock Concert, SNL, Fear's Halloween Saturday Night Live se

June 25 - July 1, 1988 This week Ken welcomes comedian, rapper, old friend and man about town Zach Sherwin to the show. Ken and Zach discuss exactly when they first met, how the world grew into hip hop, Ken's lack of Dubstep knowledge, when Ken checked out of music, early Hip Hop as evolution of punk rock, W. Kamau Bell, The Ghetto Boys, the Bad Brains inspired origins of the Beastie Boys name, sound collage, Boston's An*l C*nt (*AC*), Snakes, getting high and watching nature documentaries, Ayahuasca, Ken's anti-drug mythology stance, the veil of reality, a life of suppression and control, "In Search Of...", Leonard Nimoy, the Hip Hop/Sci-Fi Connection, personal context of pop culture references, MF Doom, JJ Fadd Supersonic, Nicki Minaj, sometimes things are all about big butts, getting diagnosed with a "you've got six months to live", Ken's inherent skeptical wiring, Flatliners, Movie Novelizations, the novelization of "Bram Stoker's Dracula", Robocop, The Facts of Life, Ken's love of Sherrie Krenn/Austin ak

November 26 - December 2, 1994 This week Ken welcomes artist and comedian Val Kappa to the show. Ken and Val discuss Ellen's inexplicable success, living in a cableless society, Michael Jackson, Michael Jackson impersonators, Country music, Ken's encounter with Cyndi Lauper, Paula Abdul, My Girl, bee fears, Ken's Star Wars vomit, killer Yogurt in The Stuff, Before they were Stars, Father of the Bride, Hombre Mayor, seeing Basic Instinct with your parents, Splatter: The Architects of Fear, Fresh Prince, Susan Powter, Ken's encounters with Tony Little, Scott Baio and Tom Oldham at malls, Blossom, My Two Dads, having your own TV in your room, teenagers talking on the phone for hours talking about nothing, The Simpsons, calling radio stations, the myth of the radio request line, KISS 108, 101.7 WFNX (RIP), Ted Turner, Emerson College, the fate of the second Kenneth W. Reid, Ken's alter ego "Dave", Phyllis Diller,  being stuck in an elevator with a pregnant woman, placenta buckets, holding a baby, kitten birth rui

This week Ken welcomes Tom Rhodes to the show.   Ken and Tom discuss Ken's TV Guide archives, the family dynamic of the Archie Bunker Chair, neighborhood talk of cable, butter knife soft core pornography, Emmanuel, modern kids lack of mechanical skills, MTV, General Hospital, Rick Springfield, moot points, the social justice power of soap operas, Steve McQueen in French, Jerry Lewis' foreign tongue, Barney Miller, family dance parties, highlighting the TV Guide for late night stand up, Carson, Letterman, Rich Hall, Mike Wilmot's murderous ways, Viva Vietnam, being the face of Comedy Central, being the subject of an NBC/HBO/Fox bidding war, Must See TV, taking the crown from the Fresh Prince, how to go from public defender to private school English Teacher in one easy step, Mark Brazil, learning to act on National TV, Ron Glass, Hal Linden, how the kids take over, the funny teacher sub-genre, being one in a four pack, Dabney Coleman's Buffalo Bill, Alan Partridge, the UK influence over likable US characters,  

In this very special after school special edition of the show Ken welcomes Sean Sullivan back to the show.   Sean and Ken discuss the popularity of Sean as a guest, school with siblings, 1990, Jr High vs. Middle School, the darkest thing Ken has ever said on the show, Sex Ed, the death of After school Specials, the Wave, cartoons, walking to school, horrific childhood games, Hard Copy, Canadian Co-Productions, Don't Just Sit There,  dinner plans, Boy Scouts, Orange Soda, cancer popcorn, 1993, Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood, secretly enjoying baby shows, 3.2.1 Contact, Beyond 2000, Tailspin, Disney Afternoon, Fifteen, Barney and Friends, Tiny Toon Adventures, Carmen Sandieago, Rockapella into Mmmbop, Dinosaucers, Plucky Duck, Goofy hatred, Shop Til You Drop, Sunday Mornings, Denver the Last Dinosaur, 1995, talk shows, Tattooed Teenage Alien Fighters, Ghost Writer, Beetlejuice, Quack Attack, Exosquad, Extreme Toxic Waste, Tazmania, Ricki Lake, I'm Telling, buying your childhood heart's desire game show prizes as an a

September 24-30, 1994 This week Ken welcomes fellow Boston Comedian Sam Jay to the show. Ken and Sam discuss the difficulty in finding Ken's home, Catholic School, cloak rooms, embarrassing incidents, demonic possession, Beverly Hills 90210, being a gay teen, being on a watch list from the Boston Archdiocese and having that lead to moving to a suburban public school, strip clubs, Atlanta, Black Williamsburg, going to college in a shopping mall, family tragedies, stand up comedy, knowing what you want to be, having cable in your room, SNICK, classic Nickelodeon, COPS, They Live, The Adventures of Pete and Pete, escapism vs. identification, Fox as the "black thing", Hating "Hey Dude", when things aren't a race thing but a taste thing, America's Most Wanted as family viewing, Stark Trek, Sisters, Lusty Sela Ward, The Simpsons, Black Bart, Flea Market bootleg clothing, Downtown Boston's Corner Mall, The Real World, Puck, AIDS, letting kids drink wine, Hardball, Married...with Children, classic MTV, how Melrose Pl

Recorded LIVE! at the Doug Fir Lounge in Portland Oregon, on this special Bridgetown Comedy Festival edition of the show welcomes Brendon Small to the show. Ken and Brendon discuss VooDoo Donuts, drug testing, working at a movie theater, Berklee College of Music, going to film school, Harold and Maude, Springfield, Emancipation, Garbage Plates vs. Chop Suey Sandwiches, Chez Henri, conscripting a retired chef, Paul O'Connell, guitar, Little Stevie's Pizza, being insulted by Bobby McFarren, acapella TV theme songs, It's Gary Shandling Show and its theme song, NBC's comedy revolution, the early days of Fox TV, writers' constant state of strike, Shout! Factory, how nothing new is actually new, Burns and Allen, Ernie Kovaks, Jack Benny, when things are Shakespeare, stealing from dead people, cable making you who you are, Night Flight, loving horror films, wanted to have nightmares, Salem's Lot, the Poltergeist remake, JoBeth Williams, great scores, puking up a worm, why amputees make the world's best monsters, nov