TV Guidance Counselor

October 16 - 22, 199 Today Ken welcomes TV writer and creator of the new Vertigo comic "Hex Wives", Ben Blacker BACK to the show. Ken and Ben discuss the bizarre and insane level of Ken's guests, the Computer museum, weird AirBnBs, taking the bus to New York, being treated first class, San Diego Comic Con, the con formerly known as Boston Comic Con, Boston being unrecognizable, the rise of UPN and the WB, Felicy, Ben or Noel?, Ken's Dad, The 50 Greatest Characters in Television, Savannah, Dawson's Creek, Urban nights, Homeboys from Outerspace, Nowhere Man, Netflix, USA Network, Knight Rider, Kramer, Andy Griffith, Don Knotts, Taxi, Louie Depalma, Phil Silvers, Behind the Music, E! True Hollywood Stories, Mr. T, Bill Macy, Ladies' Man, "It's an all new Ladies Man", breakfast with Phil Rosenthal, Just Shoot Me, Suddenly Susan, Veronica's Closet, Angelica Huston in The Witches, Spaced Invaders, Halloween specials, The Halloween that Almost Wasn't, Judd Hersh as Dracula, voice actors, Swamp Thing, Len Wein, Night Force, Ghost Rider, comic books, Hex Wives, Vertigo Comics, westerns, The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh, The Worst Witch and why Millennial love magic.

March 15-21, 1986 Today Ken welcomes writer, comedian, Anna Drezen to the show. Ken and Anna discuss Anna's dog's a-hole, duvet covers, fires, hand me downs, saucy buns, vomiting bright pink, the cultural bankruptcy of the second Reagan term, Madeline Stowe, If Tomorrow's Comes, having a "wig face", Saturday Night Live, CNN End of the world tape, John Wesley Ship, aerobics, titular lines in Broadway shows, Cats, Angels in America, cat AIDS, Ghosts, blackface on Gimme a Break, orangutans, Any Which Way You Can But Loose, Jeffrey Lewis, thinking God really cares about you, when your family thinks things are jokes that aren't, Mr. Wizard's World, dead Moms, the left hand of the Devil, Amazing Stories, Desatin, Astronaut Ice Cream, wondering if somebody peed in this, the horror of docking dogs tails, amputees, Tarantula Ranches, being bad at maintaining things, not being a finisher, playing horn in a ska band, and having friends who will pretend to be your landlord so you can adopt a dog.

May 31 - June 6, 1997 Today Ken welcomes returning guest Alex Edelman to the show. Ken and Alex discuss shows at Laugh Boston, Alex's status as an international super star, Edinburgh, The Perrier Award, Steve Coogan, Eddie Izzard, Jimmy Carr, MSG, Alan Carr, Steward Lee, the day Mary Tyler Moore passed away, The Great Indoors, Ken's visit to Alex's job, NHL, Lois and Clark, The Dana Carvey Show, how writers' rooms work, The Simpsons, stand up instincts, Young Comedians, Anthony Clarke, Jack Lemon, post-modern culture vs post-apocalyptic culture, Futurama, King of the Hill, the nature of parody, SCTV, the humor or recognition, references for the sake of references, Jimmy Fallon, Barney Miller, multi-cam shows, how hard it is to tell a story in 20 minutes, Seinfeld, The Tony Awards, musical theater, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, The Odd Couple on Ice, reboots, Caddyshack, us vs. them, Fawlty Towers, spec scripts, Fraiser, Newsradio, the rap industry, the soup nazi, Men Behaving Badly, Sarah Silverman, the Friday Shabbat, Steve Martin, The Boston Pops, appreciating Tears in Heaven, M*A*S*H, never being into TGIF, and an all Jeers week.

Today Ken welcomes artist, writer and comic book legend Bob McLeod to the show. Ken and Bob discuss Comic Conventions, sketches, satirizing Westworld for Crazy magazine, parody,growing up in Florida, Westerns, Flipper, Mad Magazine, starting as an Inker, the Bronze age of marvel comics, pasting page numbers, Joe Orlando telling you you need to go back to school to learn how to draw, cartoons, cartooning, funny animals, being terrified of Manhattan, Kojack, Streets of San Francisco, Dragnet, not talking down to kids, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Jack Kirby, trying to learn storytelling, the Marvel Method, The New Mutants, the original concept of Sunspot, when characters lose their uniqueness, drawing people who look like yourself, superhero cartoons, high volume and low visibility, Conan, Barry Windsor Smith, when your kids aren't interested in your job, Howard the Duck, Gene Colon, Harvey Comics, the new New Mutants movie, The Superhero ABCs, Mort Drucker, Marlon Brando as Tarzan, keeping your own artwork, why The Incredibles is the perfect super hero movie, and the current state of big screen comics.

June 1-7, 1991 Today Ken welcomes writer and musician Dessa to the show. Ken and Dessa discuss Jasmine Guy's seductive nonsense, sexy Ice Tea, people from Boston, not knowing who Molly Ringwald is, living in a pop culture desert, the blur of childhood, Minneapolis Minnesota, Darkwing Duck, Duck, Inspector Gadget, being a latch key kid, The Misfits, Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, building your own plane, is Inspector Gadget a zombie?, Jeopardy, Twin Peaks, the ether of our culture, second hand pop culture, The Simpsons, Tracy Chapman, Sade, slam poetry, Def Poetry Jam, Real Genius, the Cosby Show, tarnished art, Northern Exposure, Who's the Boss, Full House, M*A*S*H, Raising Arizona, Oreo hacks, children's home alone food experiments, Virtual Reality, Steel Magnolias, The Princess Bride, Andre The Giant, wasting away your life, being very aware of mortality, stories, synesthesia, the doorways of perception, Wheel of Fortune, blizzards, Hard Copy, news magazines, and America's Most Wanted.

March 28 - April 3, 1987 Today Ken welcomes Boston radio personality, long time friend and former WFNX co-worker "Big" Jim Murray to the show. Ken and Jim discuss the nostalgia overload of Ken's house, Killer Klowns from Outer Space, working in radio, podcasts that are too long, Ken's on air argument with Dane Cook, graduating from Melrose High, G4, Madden Challenge, e-sports, gamers, YouTube stars, Kirk Cameron, Growing Pains cocaine episode, the birth of FOX, Facts of Life, terrorizing the Spanish Teacher, 227, Spenser for Hire, WSBK TV38 and The Movie Loft, Ken's weird Tee Public site, Ask the Manager, Dana Hersey, Barney Miller, the store Stairway to Heaven, Rt 1 in Saugus, The Palace, 20/20, 60 Minutes, Wonderful World of Disney, Michael McKeon in Double Agent, Rags to Riches, Baby Jessica, ALF, Jerry Stahl, The Oscars, the afterschool special "What If I'm Gay?", Gimme a Break, Loni Anderson in Easy Street, Moonlighting, Night Court, Cousin Larry Appleton, Perfect Strangers, The John Larroquette Show, Cheers, Ricky Gervais, The Popcorn Kid, and the most disagreed with Cheers and Jeers in the history of the show.

Today Ken welcomes Charlie Benante of Anthrax to the show. Ken and Charlie discuss soundchecks, Fall Preview editions, Saturday Morning Cartoons, Wonderama, Spider-Man, The Laugh-a-lympics, Little House of the Prairie, pre-electricity, Grizzly Adams, growing up in the Bronx, Barney Miller, NYPD Blue, Good Times, Newhart, erased tapes, Spielberg, Jaws, Sid & Marty Kroft, Land of the Lost, The Brady Kids, cartoons based on live action shows, Frank Welker, animation cells, Hanna Barbera, tv music, John Williams, new toys, Monster Cereals, Disney's Fantasia, Italian Horror movies, Evel Kenevel, AFX Cars, Snake Canyon, cult and niche television, The Shining, Fridays, Battle of the Network Stars, The Clash, The Munters, The Addams Family, Married..with Children, meeting Clint Eastwood, The Cosby Show, Ed "Al Bundy" O'Neal, voice actors, lip syncing, Don Kirshner's Rock Concert, The Midnight Special, Kenny Everett, The Young Ones, Night Flight, and the embarrassing disappointment of KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park.

Today Ken welcomes two of New Zealand's finest, Johnny Brugh (What We Do in the Shadows) and Daniel Logan (Star Wars) to the show. First up Ken chats with Johnny Brugh about New Zealand, vampires, The Six Million Dollar Man, Netflix, stand up, character comedy, Deacon, The Mighty Boosh, The Young Ones, Bad Taste, Peter Jackson, visiting America, aliens, seductive dances, and where the gold is. Next up Ken chats with Daniel Logan (Boba Fett in Star Wars Attack of the Clones). Ken and Daniel discuss growing up, rugby, being a child actor in commercials, being one of six kids, being cast in Star Wars, having a tough mother, moving to the U.S., Star Wars toys, special codes on Star Wars toys, Bob Fett helmets, dumpster diving for treasure, social media, Sharknado, international films, doing cartoons voices, and charity.

In this mini-episode recorded LIVE! via satellite Ken welcomes author of the new book "My Life as a Goddess: A Memoir Through (Un) Popular Culture", Guy Branum back to the show. Ken and Guy discuss growing up as an outsider, air BnBs, very special episodes, Night Court, Jennifer Slept Here, Love Sydney, The Facts of Life, abortions, Night Court, Barney Miller, the physical space of sitcoms, Guy's book, and make tentative plans to speak again in the future.

Today Ken welcomes comedians, best friends and podcasters Rachael O'Brien and Sabrina Danzl to the show. But FIRST TV Guidance Counselor Investigates returns and Ken explores the story of Mark Harmon: Real Life Hero. Next Ken, Rachael and Sabrina discuss kneeing on rugs, going through glass windows, Ben Franklin, Boston's history of drunkenness, Dunks, Dunkabeties, sports, not caring, growing up in Astoria OR, being in Kindergarten Cop, the movie Plain Clothes. Cheers, a lifetime of not drinking, teenagers dumb choices, The D.A.R.E. program, skinheads, white power movements, punk rock, The Wonder Years, Little Monsters, being friends with the Savage Family, being on a plane with Winnie Cooper, checking Winnie's ID, confusing Al Pacino with Brett Michaels, 70s indulgences, Jim Jefferies, In Living Colour, Jim Henson, the horror of The Neverending Story, Salute Your Shorts, The Adventures of Pete & Pete, trying to get on All That!, being ethnically vague, the cruelty of kids, growing up a fat kid, rich kids, the early 00s obsession with pornography in comedies, reality TV, The Real World, being under surveillance, unusual eating regimes, food in Scotland, Haggis, Chris Farley, David Spade, Black Sheep and Tommy Boy, Police Academy, and watching things because your parents want to watch it.