Rodenburg/Jones 2024! It's election season and Matt and Brian take a look back at the last 30 years of political television. In this segment of the "Most Influential TV Show", Matt and Brian put The Daily Show under the microscope. How did we go from Walter Cronkite being the "Most Trusted Man in America" to trust in media being at an all time low? What is the obligation of a comedy show that uses headlines as comedy? Are they an actual journalism team? Studies show the voters under 40 seem to think so!

Lots to unpack in this weeks episode! You might even change your perspective of how you view news in general!

While some look at Halloween and get excited for the spooks, Matt and Brian are here for the heists. The Halloween Heist that is. In this week's episode, the duo look at the inception of the annual Heist episode, just in time for you to say "Trick or Treat"

Welcome to a new series Matt and Brian are calling "The Most Influential Show." This format will have Matt and Brian looking at the history of a TV Series as well as examining the influence that it had on other television shows, pop culture, and society at large.

This first episode celebrates the 49th anniversary of Saturday Night Live by talking about the impact of the show spanning nearly 5 decades. What impact have you seen from SNL? What era has your favorite cast members? Let us know and check out this episode featuring special guest Alex Beaulieu

It's that time of the year again, the time when new fall shows come back from the sumemr break.... Or at least, that's how it used to be before streaming... Regardless, Matt and Brian look at what TV shows had the best kickoffs to their seasons. What are some of the best season premiers of television shows?

Note: Matt and Brian avoid talking about pilots, so these episodes are only starting off season 2 and beyond

Matt and Brian continue their tour through the early Survivor seasons, this time going to the African Sahara. Come listen to them talk about Lex's witch hunt, Clarence stealing beans, and the most divided starting tribe you'll ever see

It's Fantasy Football season, so Brian and Matt are trying a new type of episode. Joined by special guests, Paul Risdall and Mike Campbell, the group draft a potential lineup of characters for a comedy show, but they do so fantasy football style. Come listen to them pick a: Protagonist, villain, love interest, sidekick as well as a trope and comedy sub-genre as well, to form the best potential comedy "team"

Let us know which team won by contacting us on X @TVguys1, on Facebook (facebook.com/TVGuys1), or by email through tvguyspodcast@gmail.com

Nowadays, we have better understanding and verbage of how people think and operate. But for a time, television was filled with female characters that exhibited a lot of the Type A personality all the way to some borderline mental illness. Sometimes these female characters were successful in their fields, and some times they ended up the butt of the jokes. Matt and Brian visit some of their favorite Type A personality female characters across TV history

Matt and Brian discuss another fantastic episode of The Office; Goodbye Toby. In what is now their longest episode, Matt and Brian are joined by Andrew Elmquist to talk about the Season 4 Finale. There are proposals, hijinx, Superfan cuts, and, of course, Holly Flax. All of this and more as we walk you through the episode