Episode 663 - Friday, April 11, 1980

Hey there. In case you've been wondering why we (Jon and Chris) don't seem at all fazed to have civilization collapsing around us as we happily bullshit about Garfield, it's because Being Jim Davis ha...

14 Nov 201616min

Today's surprisingly long episode of Being Jim Davis zooms in with laser focus on a number of pressing issues, including the unexpectedly voluminous capacity of Jon's icebox, the old-hollywood inspira...

13 Nov 201626min

In today's Garfield, Jim Davis teters on the verge of introducing formal teleological elements to the strip, perhaps in the consideration of turning it into some kind of narrative, then backs off from...

12 Nov 201613min

In this Very Exciting Episode, our Skype call drops in the middle of the podcast! But when we come back, are we the same podcasters? Or, like Captain Kirk going through the transporter, does the disru...

11 Nov 20169min

Heraclitus’s “table fragments” raise puzzles about identity and persistence: under what conditions does a side table persist through time as one and the same object? If the world contains things which...

10 Nov 201610min

Garfield asks a hypophoric question and we talk about Jay Ward. It's the late 1970s, and this is Being Jim Davis.Today's strip

9 Nov 201611min

Listener, please conjure in your mind your own personal conception of the platonic ideal of a Garfield strip. Really think about the nature of that strip: How many panels does it have? Does it contain...

8 Nov 201614min

Today's topics include the dull drudgery of life and the minimum defining characteristics of eye contact. Then we get into a wholly unnecessary argument over whether this strip constitutes a logical p...

7 Nov 201615min