Two Guys in Search of an Argument
69 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsTwo Guys in Search of an Argument is the podcast on arts, culture, law and the good created by Jim and John, two guys constantly in search of an argument. Based out of Chicago and DC, these two have a lot to say.
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Episode 3 - Loss
June 21, 2020 11:00 - 113 MBThis is a relatively serious episode in which we are joined by Gwenn Danet-Desnoyers to discuss our personal experiences of losing individuals close to us. Among other moments, Gwenn discusses the death of his mother. Peggy talks about losing her father suddenly, Shelly reminisces about the tragic death of her very first boyfriend, Jim remembers one of his former debaters who died very young, and John discusses those people he knew who died from AIDS.
Episode 2 - The Janina Dialogues
June 04, 2020 11:00 - 52 minutes - 96.1 MBContinuing our series of conversations during the pandemic we welcome Janine from Downer's Grove, Illinois. She is a long-time friend of Shelly and Peggy who is known for her willingness to discuss topics that others might shy away from, in particular, her own vagina. The three friends engage in a discussion of Janine's vagina and vaginas in general and related matters with minimal interruptions by John and Jim. Before they enter into that part of the conversation, Janine discusses her work ...
Episode 1 - Cold Opening
May 20, 2020 00:56 - 1 hour - 50.3 MBIn the first episode under the new title, a cold opening is attempted. With help from a famous voice out of the past, the Gang of Four tries to get in synch, but the results are not quite perfect. John Heintz explains about the new title and what it means (and what it does not mean). That segues into a discussion of the value of “opinion” v. the value of “facts.” That discussion segues into a broader discussion regarding trust in government in general and the performance of government duri...
Episode 66 - The Easter Bunny is on Lockdown
April 16, 2020 00:18 - 57 minutes - 46.5 MBThe newest in our series of episodes in reaction to the effects of the ongoing pandemic was recorded four weeks into the current crisis. We present additional feedback from listeners, reflections by the hosts about the events of the past month, and, in particular, some long-awaited input from Peggy Bennett about her experiences as a health care worker. Included in the discussion is a long colloquy between John and Jim over how to interpret current events and what is the appropriate way to vi...
Episode 65 - Coronavirus 2 Part 2
April 02, 2020 10:00 - 40 minutes - 35.2 MBThis is a continuation of the previous episode which includes additional voice memos from some of our friends and listeners regarding their experiences during the current crisis. The five questions we asked people to answer are: 1. Do you know anyone personally who is confirmed to be infected by the virus? 2. How are you personally dealing with the crisis on a day-to-day basis? 3. What is the biggest negative effect of the crisis on you personally so far? 4. Is there any positive side effect...
Episode 64 - Coronavirus 2 Part 1
March 30, 2020 19:00 - 46 minutes - 36.7 MBThe Gang of Four solicited voice memos from several of our friends and listeners regarding their experiences during the current crisis. This is part one of two parts listening and reacting to the voices of some of the people who are sharing this unique and frightening moment in history. The five questions we asked people to answer are: 1. Do you know anyone personally who is confirmed to be infected by the virus? 2. How are you personally dealing with the crisis on a day-to-day basis? 3. Wha...
Episode 63 - Peggy is Silent During the Coronavirus
March 18, 2020 15:25 - 47 minutes - 65.8 MBBeing located in four different cities they are used to social distancing. But the circumstances of this particular episode are unquestionably unique. Our hosts each give their own individual accounts of the effects of the coronavirus crisis on their personal lives. They try to stick to the known facts (except for John). And Peggy's participation was limited due to technical challenges. But we promise to fix them before the next episode.
Episode 62 - Oscars 2020!
February 08, 2020 16:52 - 1 minute - 90.9 MBJim’s Guide to the 2020 Oscars! Support us! Send an audio or written comment to [email protected]. See all our recommendations here.
Episode 61 - Predictions for the New Year
January 31, 2020 22:36 - 59 minutes - 81.7 MBIf you like the show, forward this episode to a friend!
Episode 60 - The Michigan, Indiana, Illinois Quiz!
January 01, 2020 00:00 - 33.2 MBBecome our patron. Go to www.twoguysinsearch.com and click on the Support button. Check out our recommendations here. Jim, Peg and John return in a fortnight for more easy-listening story-telling news-chattering talk. We would love your audio comment. Record and email your comments to [email protected]. If you want to write to us, that's fantastic! You can reach out to Jim, Shelly, Peggy and John with a comment, question or complaint by going to www.twoguysinsearchofanargument.c...
Episode 59 - Shelly Flies a Plane
December 21, 2019 16:07 - 39 minutes - 31.3 MBSilent auctions lead to high-flying experiences. Shelly recounts her experience with vivid descriptions of the quickly approaching ground during a particularly death defying near loop de loop. Check out all the end-of-show recommendations from Peggy, Jim, Shelly, John and guests since the inception of the show!
Episode 58 - Home
November 01, 2019 01:25 - 51 minutes - 117 MBFive friends talk about fluid feelings of home. Familiarity, comfort, challenge, aggravation, relaxation, life, relationships, holidays and death tie together the experiences of Eloise, Jim, Peggy, Shelly and John. Check out all the recommendations from all the shows.
Episode 57 - Peg Runs a Half Marathon
September 19, 2019 10:47 - 36 minutes - 32.3 MBRunner and Grand Rapidian Peggy Bennett sprints from being a co-host to taking her first stroll to the guest chair. Peggy becomes a guest in the wake of her age-appropriate half marathon performance along the shore of one of the Great Lakes. Regulars Jim Gentile, Shelly Cummings and John Heintz discuss Peg’s run, body and mind.
Episode 56 - To Be
August 26, 2019 19:57 - 1 hour - 62 MBBecome our patron. Go to www.twoguysinsearch.com and click on the Support button. Jim, Peg and John return in a fortnight for more easy-listening story-telling news-chattering talk. We would love your audio comment. Record and email your comments to [email protected]. If you want to write to us, that's fantastic! You can reach out to Jim, Shelly, Peggy and John with a comment, question or complaint by going to www.twoguysinsearchofanargument.com/contact, on Twitter at #twoguysinse...
Episode 55 - Long Live the Podcast!
August 02, 2019 01:15 - 56 minutes - 41.9 MBExpert Two Guys in Search aficionados Tom McGrath and Nancy Heintz join Jim, Peg and John on this week's introspective adventure into the heart, soul and guts of the Two Guys podcast. Become our patron. Go to www.twoguysinsearch.com and click on the Support button. Jim, Peg and John return in a fortnight for more easy-listening story-telling news-chattering talk. We would love your audio comment. Record and email your comments to [email protected]. If you want to write to us, tha...
Episode 54 - World Pride
July 18, 2019 10:23 - 55 minutes - 89.8 MBFollow us on Twitter or Instagram here.
Episode 53 - Singing Holiday
July 04, 2019 13:30 - 26 minutes - 28.2 MBFollow us on Twitter or Instagram here.
Episode 52 - The Writing Process
June 20, 2019 10:54 - 49 minutes - 112 MBFollow us on Twitter or Instagram here.
Episode 51 - Guilty Pleasures
June 06, 2019 10:00 - 45 minutes - 41.6 MBThere’s more to guilty pleasures than fat, sugar and television, but Peg, Shelly and Jim don’t stray too far from tradition.
Episode 50 - Star Athlete Joanna Zeiger
May 23, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour - 55.5 MBOlympic contender and world-class coach, Joanna Zeiger’s extraordinary life ranges from transitioning from amateur athlete to world champion, a career changing bike accident in 2009 and entrepreneurship into cannabis for chronic pain management. Joanna joins Peggy, Shelly, Jim and John for an easy-going discussion of a high-energy life.
Episode 48 - The Shanghai Getaway
April 25, 2019 10:00 - 54 minutes - 46.6 MBJim writes about the books discussed on the podcast here. Follow us on Twitter or Instagram here.
Episode 47 - Superbloom!
April 11, 2019 10:00 - 51 minutes - 46.8 MBFollow us on Twitter or Instagram here.
Episode 46 - Being a Nielsen Family
March 28, 2019 10:00 - 43 minutes - 39.7 MBRating the best video entertainment is what Nielsen Media Research has done sine the 1920s. Still the most reliable system for broadcasters, Jim Gentile talks this fortnight about his experience being a “Nielsen Family,” a throwback reference to the days when families would sit and watch television together. Peggy Bennett, Shelly Cummings and John Heintz join Jim for a reflection on the system and how Nielsen does it today in average, and non-average, American homes. Follow us on Twitter or...
Episode 45 - The Great Chinese Art Heist
March 14, 2019 09:06 - 1 minute - 34.7 MBFollow us on Twitter or Instagram here. Send us a message here.
Episode 44 - Best Vacations Ever
February 28, 2019 11:00 - 1 hour - 60.9 MBFollow us on Twitter or Instagram here.
Episode 43 - Oscars 2019!
February 15, 2019 03:23 - 1 hour - 71.7 MBFollow us on Twitter or Instagram here.
Episode 42 - Gene Editing
January 31, 2019 14:24 - 54 minutes - 50.8 MBFollow us on Twitter or Instagram.
Episode 41 - The Eighties Quiz Show
January 17, 2019 11:01 - 1 minute - 39 MBThe 1980s seem like a distant memory to some and even more of a distant memory to those of us who are asked to remember Jim’s trivia about them. For the Two Guys’ second podcast of 2019, new regular Shelly Cummings joins the old guard Jim Gentile, Peggy Bennett and John Heintz as they discuss the 1980s and its excesses - in quiz format. Follow us on Twitter or Instagram here.
Episode 40 - Predictions for 2019
January 03, 2019 11:00 - 1 hour - 44.8 MBJim Gentile, Shelly Cummings, Peggy Bennett and John Heintz reflect on 2018 and make their predictions for 2019. They hit on economics and politics with a healthy dose of international relations, film, music and love. Follow us on Twitter or Instagram here.
Episode 39 - Immunotherapy!
December 22, 2018 03:23 - 53.1 MBPeggy Bennett and Shelly Cummings give Jim and John an introduction to the hopes, limits and facts of immunotherapy.
Episode 38 - The Path Forward with Norm Ornstein
December 06, 2018 11:14 - 50 minutes - 46.3 MBHe elaborates upon his recent books and writings that have traced the origins of our current dysfunctional political system and its ominous portents for the future in the context of the recent midterm election. It is a unique demonstration of knowledge and eloquence brought to bear in the service of clear-eyed truth-telling about our bleak present and our contingent future. For those of you who are unfamiliar with Dr. Ornstein's distinguished career and body of work, please see his a summa...
Episode 37 - The Midterms
November 22, 2018 13:52 - 1 hour - 43 MBFollow us on Twitter or Instagram.
Episode 36 - A Star is Born
November 08, 2018 11:48 - 1 hour - 55.5 MBFollow us on Twitter or Instagram.
Episode 35 - Taylor and Kanye
October 26, 2018 07:57 - 1 minute - 54.4 MBFollow us on Twitter or Instagram.
Episode 34 - Bill Granzo of Chicago's Uptown
October 11, 2018 10:00 - 1 hour - 58.7 MBFollow us on Instagram Follow us on Twitter Follow us on Facebook
Episode 33 - Good Stuff
September 27, 2018 10:00 - 59 minutes - 56.5 MBFollow us on Instagram Follow us on Twitter Follow us on Facebook
Episode 32 - Quiz!
September 13, 2018 13:50 - 28 minutes - 27.3 MBFollow us on Instagram Follow us on Twitter Follow us on Facebook
Episode 31 - True Crime
August 30, 2018 15:15 - 38 minutes - 37.7 MBRecording from Grand Rapids, Jim, John, and Peggy welcome local author Tobin Buhk who has written a number of books exploring true crime as it has recurred throughout American history. In particular, they focus on one of Buhk's works, "True Crime In The Civil War". In that work the author explores very notorious events of that war such as the horrors of the Andersonville prison operated by the confederacy, as well as more historically obscure crimes that were committed on both sides of the...
Episode 30 - We Heart Tiffany and Luke
August 16, 2018 10:00 - 39 minutes - 35.9 MBIn the first of three episodes recorded in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Jim, John, and Peggy talk to local podcasters Luke Ferris and Tiffany Szakel of the I Heart Grand Rapids podcast. What happens when the very nice (I Heart Grand Rapids) meets the sometimes-not-so-very-nice (Two Guys In Search of an Argument)? Find out as the two sets of podcasters compare notes on podcasting, scrutinize the virtues of Grand Rapids, and explore the subtleties of western Michigan Nice. And Peg's dogs are the...
Episode 29 - Pop Playlist
August 02, 2018 13:00 - 55 minutes - 26 MBHigh school pop music fan Annie Heintz joins Jim, Peg and John in a free-wheeling discussion founded on five songs by five contemporary artists receiving a lot of streaming time. Alone by Halsey, Barcelona by Ed Sheehan, Friends by Anne-Marie, No Tears Left to Cry by Ariana Grande and In My Blood by Shawn Mendes. The tri-generational conversation includes Gen X, Gen Z and the Baby Boom, leaving only Millennials excluded and set for a future pod. We are looking for a patron. If you like the...
Episode 28 - Better Podcasting
July 19, 2018 18:00 - 55 minutes - 25.3 MBExpert Two Guys in Search aficionados Tom McGrath and Nancy Heintz join Jim, Peg and John on this week's introspective adventure into the heart, soul and guts of the Two Guys podcast. Become our patron. Go to www.twoguysinsearch.com and click on the Support button. Jim, Peg and John return in a fortnight for more easy-listening story-telling news-chattering talk. We would love your audio comment. Record and email your comments to [email protected]. If you want to write to us, tha...
Episode 27 - Who is Art?
July 05, 2018 10:00 - 80.3 MBEloise Maxwell and David Persky return to the podcast to discuss Sondra Perry and Dayanita Singh, two artists at the edge of the contemporary art world.
Episode 26 - UK versus US Politics
June 21, 2018 10:00 - 51 minutes - 48.9 MBInternationalist Richard Young joins Jim, Peg and John a discussion of highlights and lowlights of the current political situation in the United Kingdom. Brexit and Trump compete for attention with European Union citizenship, French passport makers and global economics. Listen for Richard's picks of the hot-shot politicians to watch.
Episode 25 - I Am Not Your Negro
June 07, 2018 10:00 - 46 minutes - 21.1 MBDocumentarian Nikki Brake Sillá joins Peg, Jim, and John for a conversation focused on the acclaimed documentary I Am Not Your Negro by Raoul Peck. She also discusses her own work and her views on the current state of race and culture. I Am Not Your Negro is a 2016 film regarding author and activist, James Baldwin. Baldwin was born in the United States but Lived most of his adult life as an expatriate. During the crucial years of the late 1950s and the 1960s he returned to his native co...
Episode 24 - Dogs
May 24, 2018 10:03 - 19 minutes - 9.01 MBMacBeth used dogs to encourage murderers. Yes, you’re part of the species called men. Just as hounds and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, mutts, shaggy lapdogs, swimming dogs, and wolf-dog crossbreeds are all dogs. But if you list the different kinds of dogs according to their qualities, you can distinguish which breeds are fast or slow, which ones are clever, which ones are watchdogs, and which ones hunters. You can classify each dog according to the natural gifts that separate it from all ...
Episode 23 - Will in the West
May 10, 2018 10:00 - 52 minutes - 23.9 MBThe Turner Classic Movie Channel (TCM) hosts an annual festival of classic films showing in vintage film palaces in Hollywood. Will Gentile attended this year for the fourth time in his relatively young life and arose a t 6 a.m. to share his impressions of this year's event as well as to voice his thoughts on films and filmmaking generally. During the conversation he relates his experiences growing up as a film buff and overcoming the burdens of having Jim for a father. Peg is absent from...
Episode 22 - Peg the Fugitive
April 26, 2018 10:03 - 54 minutes - 24.8 MBThe Two Guys crew take a fortnight off from interviews after one of their many technical glitches. Keeping up the discussion about Jim, Peggy and John discuss their podcast, other podcasts, video, parenting, work, Better Call Saul and the economics of bicycles and cars in Shanghai. Peg gets subpoenaed. John rants about China’s economy. Jim says no to everything. To the extent that these friends have ever been on the same planet, this podcast jettisons them to opposite ends of the cosmos.
Episode 21 - The Industry
April 12, 2018 10:00 - 1 hour - 30.2 MBAlex Berger, Co-Executive Producer for the hit NBC Drama, Blindspot, joins Jim, Peg and John to talk about his successful series, writing for Warner Brothers and life in LA. This fortnight’s podcast offers an in-depth look at the television and film industry from the perspective of a long-time Hollywood insider. The conversation hits on Hollywood career trajectories, the writer’s room, the democratization of content, changing audience expectations and some of the biggest names on big and l...
Episode 20 - Opioids
March 31, 2018 11:28 - 52 minutes - 32.7 MBSharon Post, public health expert, returns to the podcast to discuss the opioid crisis. Sharon, Jim, Peggy and John discuss the roots of the crisis, media bias, political point-scoring and paths toward hope for a solution. Health care reform, improved pain management, community partnerships and federal funding for local innovation around the country are discussed solutions. Blaming takes a back seat to thinking and, where there’s consensus, it’s around the need for big plans to respond ...