Episode 599 - Thursday, February 7, 1980

Today, for the first time in Being Jim Davis history, we welcome a third co-host to join us on a standard, non-supplemental episode. Who could it be? Metallica lead singer James Hetfield? Argentinian ...

23 Jan 201721min

Today's strip isn't that remarkable, but did you know that American composer Howard Swanson died on this day in 1978? He's pretty good. Here, check this out. Pretty great, right? Or how about this o...

22 Jan 201722min

In Garfield the poppies blowBetween the crosses, row on row,That mark our place; and in the skyThe larks, still bravely singing, flyScarce heard amid the guns below.We are the Dead. Short days agoWe l...

21 Jan 201714min

Y'all read Matthew Tobin Anderson's excellent piece in Slate this week examining the parallels between Stalinist Russia and the incoming American regime? It was a thoughtful appraisal of just how bad ...

20 Jan 201713min

Today on the podcast we determine that the collective noun for a group of Garfield strips is 'gross'. I don't really remember too much else about it, really. I Edited and mixed it a day or two ago at ...

19 Jan 201720min

Listeners, please do NOT start using the hashtag '#wheresgarfieldsbutthole?' on Twitter. We have absolutely no interest in seeing that become a popular hashtag.On today's episode, two guys who have ne...

18 Jan 201711min

Garfield suffers from another nap attack and Jon is nonplussed in this, episode 142 of Being Jim Davis. Of course it's Election Day in 1978 today, so is Jon here representing the unwitting American pu...

17 Jan 201720min

Listeners, if nauseating static noises were something you felt was missing from our podcast up until this point, then boy, do we have a treat in store for you this entire week! You see, Chris had a pr...

16 Jan 201714min