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It is The Return Of The Kings! Jim from Las Vegas and Jakob from Sweden have returned from some side quests to bring you YOUR TELEVISION PODCAST, Shows What You Know! It’s a reboot, a legacy sequel and a brand new thing all in one! Jim and Jakob are back to discuss anything and everything... The post SWYK 001: The Rise of Video Game TV Shows first appeared on Shows What You Know.

Jim and Jakob are striking back against the influx of television actors that are invading the podcast space with their mindless rewatch discussions of the tv shows they were on! Being the podcast experts they are they have decided to use their powers for good and school these “actors” on what it takes to put... The post Office Ladies | The Dundies – The Podcast About The Podcasts About Television first appeared on Shows What You Know.

Jim and Jakob have finally returned to discuss Cobra Kai Season 5! It feels like an eternity since the new season premiered but your heroes have returned with their initial thoughts and reaction to the latest season of Cobra Kai on Netflix! What’s your opinion? Email us at showswhatyouknowshow@gmail.com or tweet @showswhatuknow. Please subscribe and... The post Cobra Kai Season 5 Reaction & Review – No Mercy first appeared on Shows What You Know.

What's this?! A Reel History spin off? A special feature? Well, whatever we're calling it, we're dropping one or two experimental episodes between seasons. We've been busy cooking up season 3 and it's creeping closer by the day, so it's well past time to start releasing these! First off is a breakdown of the Top... The post History Top 5 – Schemers first appeared on Shows What You Know.

We have a very special discussion for you all this week! We are going all the back to The Sopranos pilot (“Those goddamn ducks”) but we are discussing it in comparison to the original script! Between the path of the show being developed, to eventually getting made for HBO and the differences between what is... The post From Script To Screen – The Sopranos Pilot | Cut To Black first appeared on Shows What You Know.

Paramount+ has released a new television series chronicling the making of one of the greatest movies in cinema history, THE GODFATHER. Jim and Jakob have discussed all of the Sopranos and recently the Godfather films so we get together to discuss the first episode of the show “The Offer”. How does it stack up against...

Join Jim and Jakob as we discuss the climax of Cobra Kai Season 4! We last left Miguel screaming on the stylish blue mat as potentially his back injury has returned! The fate of the valley is on the line as we crown the TOP DOJO and decide if Cobra Kai karate will survive. All...

New Cobra Kai is on the horizon! Jim and Jakob react to the new Cobra Kai Season 5 Teaser and speculate on where our favorite characters end up. What's your opinion? Email us at showswhatyouknowshow@gmail.com or tweet @showswhatuknow. Please subscribe and review on iTunes and remember to spread the word to your Cobra Kai-loving friends

It's the moment we have been waiting for, THE ALL VALLEY UNDER 18 KARATE TOURNAMENT! Our three dojos are ready to square off with a bunch of faceless other dojos that we don't really care about, but the fate of the valley is on the line! Join Jim and Jakob as we discuss the penultimate...

Jim and Jakob watch and react to the finest commercials featuring the cast of The Sopranos! It's hard out there for a working actor sometimes so the degree of quality is quite a range, but come along for the ride! This one might be best viewed on our Youtube channel here – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaaOyhTXNDo Please email...

Get your finest formal wear, because it is JUNIOR PROM TIME! A TV hallmark as we see if the rivaleries between Miyagi-Do, Cobra Kai and Eagle Fang spill over into the prom festivities! Jim and Jakob cordially invite you to listen to this episode! What's your opinion? Email us at showswhatyouknowshow@gmail.com or tweet @showswhatuknow. Please...

Daniel invites Anthony to join Miyagi-Do and discovers he doesn't know his son as well as he thought; Miguel learns the truth about Johnny and Carmen. What's your opinion? Email us at showswhatyouknowshow@gmail.com or tweet @showswhatuknow. Please subscribe and review on iTunes and remember to spread the word to your Cobra Kai-loving friends

We are past the half way point and the All Valley Tournament is in sight! Join Jim and Jakob as they discuss season 4 episode 6, Kicks Get Chicks. The new All Valley rules have been announced which leaves each dojo looking inward at what they need to become the #1 dojo in the valley....

This is what we have been waiting for! The All Valley rematch to finally settle the score between Daniel Larusso and Johnny Lawrence! Join Jim and Jakob as we discuss sesaon 4 episdoe 5 – “Match Point” “Johnny and Daniel's dojo – and their fragile alliance – teeter on the brink of collapse when they...

First, let's learn what the word bicephaly means then onto the episode and the many tangents involved! “Kreese brings Terry back to Cobra Kai, but his former partner isn't interested in repeating history; Johnny grows envious of Daniel mentoring Miguel.” What's your opinion? Email us at showswhatyouknowshow@gmail.com or tweet @showswhatuknow. Please subscribe and review on...

Season 4 continues as Daniel and Miguel get to spend some time together while Johnny is trying to get the Miyagi-Dos to literally jump from a building. What's your opinion? Email us at showswhatyouknowshow@gmail.com or tweet @showswhatuknow. Please subscribe and review on iTunes and remember to spread the word to your Cobra Kai-loving friends

It's happening! Johnny is learning to PAINT THE HOUSE! “Johnny picks up defensive strategies, while Daniel learns how to go on the offensive; Amanda confronts Tory; new kid Kenny is bullied at school.” What's your opinion? Email us at showswhatyouknowshow@gmail.com or tweet @showswhatuknow. Please subscribe and review on iTunes and remember to spread the word...

We've gone over our quick reactions to season 4 but let's back up a bit and dive into each episode, let's begin with EPISODE 1: LET'S BEGIN! Terry Silver is finally on the scene but this might be a different Terry than you remember from back in the 80s. Will Terry fall to the wills...

My name is Jakob Burrows and I represent Miyagi-do. Is it because I took my time, digested, meditated, and took a whole week to deliver this “quick” take? Well, you'll have to listen to find out! Coming up next we'll be breaking down every episode of season 4! Send us your thoughts to showswhatyouknowshow@gmail.com or...

It's 6am Pacific time on 12/31/21 so it must mean that Jim has just binged all of season 4 of Cobra Kai! Here with a quick, sleepless rambling of some initial thoughts on season 4 before we get together and break down each episode. What are your thoughts?! What's your opinion? Email us at showswhatyouknowshow@gmail.com...

Jim and Jakob are here with a CROSSOVER EPISODE! We watch the film “The Art Of Self Defense” in relation to two of our favorite shows, THE SOPRANOS and COBRA KAI! That makes no sense, you say? Just listen, we make it work, I promise! Please email us your thoughts at showswhatyouknowshow@gmail.com or tweet @showswhatuknow....

Tis the season for Cobra Kai! Season 4 is almost upon us so Jim and Jakob get together to discuss the latest trailer, their reaction and their hopes for season 4! What's your opinion? Email us at showswhatyouknowshow@gmail.com or tweet @showswhatuknow. Please subscribe and review on iTunes and remember to spread the word to your...

Jim and Jakob get together to watch another mob movie classic, “Casino”, and it's comparison to the Sopranos. Directed by Martin Scorsese in his eighth collaboration with Robert Deniro, it tells the story of the mob's role in building Las Vegas and is essentially a spiritual successor to “Goodfellas”. Please email us your thoughts at...

We're doing something different this week, inviting Jakob's Girlfriend ™ to the studio to start The Sopranos from the very first episode, with the unique perspective of someone who watched The Many Saints of Newark before ever seeing the show. In this Jimless episode, Jakob gets to take on the all-knowing visage that Jim donned...

It's finally here! The long awaited Sopranos prequel film, The Many Saints Of Newark is here! Join Jim and Jakob as we discuss the film, our reactions, our expectations and of course things we loved and things we didn't love. Subscribe To Our Youtube Channel Here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYp6DXXGWMuOSaqwWvsLDOQ Please email us your thoughts at showswhatyouknowshow@gmail.com or...

Continuing our efforts to create a new TV show every episode (which are now released monthly by the way) we draw the random prompts “8 Mile” and “PepsiCo”, the company that owns Pepsi, out of a hat, and mash them together into a concept for an animated show about rapping soda cans.

Jim and Jakob get together to discuss the latest trailer for the upcoming Sopranos prequel film, “The Many Saints Of Newark”. We take this last opportunity to process our excitement and wonder at what this upcoming film will bring and our reactions to the lead up.

“What's this! I thought season 2 was over!” It is but we're going to sneak out some content between seasons, starting with this quick take on the trailer for Ridley Scott's new The Last Duel, coming out in October! We will most likely do a full episode on this film but since we're between seasons...

Jim has never seen The Godfather 3, so he might as well watch The Godfather CODA: The Death Of Michael Corleone which Francis Ford Coppola looks at as the definitive cut! The bastard stepchild of the Godfather trilogy is looking for redemption, does it deserve it? Please email us your thoughts at showswhatyouknowshow@gmail.com or tweet...

After a long break we can welcome you back to Blank Meets Blank where writing is easy and ideas are cheap! On this podcast we make up a new TV show every episode, starting with two random prompts from a hat and brainstorming our way to a pitch and a pilot. This time we drew...

If this is your first episode, you might want to pick a film you like and listen to that ep first – this is a special one, the finale of season 2! We're answering listener questions, taking on a musical challenge and giving a sneak peak of what's coming next in the history of Reel...

Jim and Jakob return to discuss Fear Street Part 2: 1978 and Part 3: 1666, their thoughts on the trilogy as a whole and the expansion of the Fear Street universe. Part 2 brings us back to 1978 as we learn the story of C. Berman and The Camp Nightwing Massacre. While Part 3 brings...

Ave, citizen! It's Episode 4 of our Roman epic and the ailing Republic is divided in two. It's East vs. West, brains vs. brawn and man vs. woman (okay that's a stretch) as Gaius Octavius steps into the limelight to face off against Mark Antony and his Egyptian Queen Cleopatra. It's been a long haul...

Welcome to Cut To Black! A Sopranos Sitdown! Jim and Jakob are back to discuss the new trailer for The Many Saints of Newark (A Sopranos Story), their expections, hype level and most importantly, their FEAR.

Jim and Jakob get together to discuss Netflix's Fear Street Part 1: 1994, horror films, easter eggs and much much more. The trilogy begins in Shadyside, 1994. In 1994, a group of teenagers discovers that the terrifying events that have haunted their town for generations ​may all be connected — and that they may be...

Friends! Romans! Countrymen! Lend me your ears! I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. It's episode 3 of our coverage of HBO's ROME, starting in on the second season – and the Republic hangs by a thread. The Great Julius Caesar is dead, the city is in shock. What next? War… obviously. Haven't...

You've heard of Julius Caesar right? Sure you have, you don't live under a rock. That's a good start as our second episode on Rome covers the First Triumvirate. Caesar and his pals – history's richest man Crassus and the swashbuckling Pompey the Great – came together to run roughshod over the ailing Republic. But...

Join us for the first episode of our deep dive on the history that inspired the BBC/HBO series Rome (2005-2017). Oh you say you know nothing about the Roman Empire? Perfect, this is the pod for you, citizen. There's plenty of melodrama as we discuss how the familial feuds and incestuous relationships among the Roman...

Time to check back in with The Nevers episode 6 and be completely confused for a few minutes as we are dropped into a new world, but have no fear, all will be revealed! What’s your opinion? Email us at showswhatyouknowshow@gmail.com or tweet @showswhatuknow. Please subscribe and review on iTunes and remember to spread the...

Greetings, partisans, to episode 5 of Reel History Season 2!

Mary is gone and we are dealing with the fallout, people are picking sides at the Orphanage as Amalia and Penance have different priorities, and what the hell is going on with the Galanthi?! What’s your opinion? Email us at showswhatyouknowshow@gmail.com or tweet @showswhatuknow. Please subscribe and review on iTunes and remember to spread the...

Welcome aboard for episode 4 of Reel History Season 2! To quote Jakob – “this week we’ve gone nautical, lads” ⚓️ so all hands on deck as we man the canons and survey the horizon for dark sails