Being Jim Davis

   I knew this program was needlessly lengthy, but this is ridiculous! Today's strip

Look, you've heard enough of these by now; you could actually probably write your own synopsis for this episode. What I mean to say is let's just agree to pretend that this episode had a really good synopsis that totally captured its essence in a really unique and novel way, ok?Today's strip

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Dear Listener,Help! The daily Garfield recap podcast I record with my cousin is slowly ruining my life. What can I do to make this stop?Today's strip:

And here you have it, folks, number one-eighty: the episode so nice they began it thrice.Today's strip:

So I was going to actually write something about todays episode, but we reference "The Banana Boat Song" early on and that got me YouTubing old Harry Belafonte clips, and that led me to whatever this is, and now I just honestly have no words.Today's strip:

On today's episode we discuss a variety of things. I won't go into details here because I don't want to spoil it for you. Just listen why don't you?Today's strip:

Don't have much to say about this one, but here's a pretty great video of Lou Donaldson live with Lonnie Smith:Today's strip:

The dishonest media will tell you that today's episode was plagued by technical difficulties and released several hours late. I mean, you wouldn't believe these people. They're shameless, they lie. It's disgusting.Today's strip:

    Hey, do you guys remember Smoking Garfield? (#SmokingGarfield) Those were some good times. Anyway, today the percentage of regular players in this comic strip whom we have witnessed in the act of smoking a pipe doubles from 25% to 50%. And that's something I just mentioned. #statisticsToday's strip

“The next panel asks us to consider whether the West will survive. In recent years, this question would invite accusations of hyperbole and alarmism. Not this year. If ever there were a time to treat this question with a deadly seriousness, it is now. This question was real, half a century ago, for Ewald von Kleist and the founders of this conference. Indeed, it is why they first started coming to Munich. They did not assume the West would survive, because they had seen its near annihilation. They saw open markets give way to beggar-thy-neighbor protectionism, and the poverty that imposed. They saw a world order fracture into clashing ethnic and nationalist passions, and the misery that wrought. They saw the rise of hostile great powers, and the failure of deterrence, and the wars that followed. “From the ashes of the most awful calamity in human history was born what we call the West—a new, and different, and better kind of world order ... one based not on blood-and-soil nationalism, or spheres of influ

You know what Garfield is, right? It’s this thing called nuclear weapons. And other things. Like lots of things are done with Garfield. Including some bad things.Today's strip

What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy.-Neil PostmanHey, turns out they were both right!Today's strip

    They're at the grocery store. That's what they're doing. Why would anybody in their right mind care about this? Why are we doing this podcast???Today's strip

    Today's strip is dreadful, but the good news is that we almost don't even mention it, in favor of reading and discussing a thoughtful email we received. Which I guess was about tachyons or something? It's hard to know.Today's strip

   Two thousand years ago the proudest boast was "civis Romanus sum." Today, in the world of freedom, the proudest boast is "Ich bin ein Lyman."Today's strip

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