Editor’s Note
The audio quality of these episodes… well, sucks. There’s just no way around it. If you can’t handle the sound, please skip ahead a few episodes, where our quality gets significantly better. We appreciate you taking the time to listen to our back catalogue from when we were rookies crowded around bad mics, but we totally understand if you can’t handle the quality issues.
S7E14 | The Principal
Podcast Episode
Episode 7 | May 31, 2021
Host
Brian
About
Just when it seemed like Walker, Texas Ranger couldn’t bend the walls of reality further, the BTBs watched “The Principal.” On the surface, the plot seems tame (by Walker standards). A high school principal is murdered, and the Texas rangers believe a drug kingpin using teens as dealers is responsible. But when Walker inserts himself as the school’s interim principal/assembly event booker, things get positively surreal.
It turns out James Remar (Dexter’s dad) is both an automotive teacher and violent peddler of unnamed drugs, willing to do whatever it takes to stay on top. Can Walker kill him and win at justice? Brian can’t get over the episode’s soundtrack, Van wants to know why no one offered him drugs as a teen, and Spencer recalls his personal Power Team experience.
This is a frequently referenced episode of Boob Tube Boys, and why not? It isn’t often the team gets to discuss a show that features three school assemblies in the span of an hour.
Highlights
-Two of the most impressively dumb songs ever to grace a TV soundtrack
-More “Macho Man” Randy Savage conversation than one would think
-Lessons in how to become a dream maker, not a dream breaker
S4E6 | Evil in the Night
Podcast Episode
Episode 8 | June 2, 2021
Host
Brian
About
Brian elected to choose low-hanging fruit this time around, going with Walker, Texas Ranger, one of the most mocked TV shows in history. The Boob Tube Boys may know Chuck Norris’s Cordell Walker from a distance, but matters are about to get up close and personal as the podcast discusses the lawman’s investigation of a double murder.
Walker and his trusty partner Trivette wind up boots-deep in the supernatural, and only Walker’s spiritual advisor/Native daddy White Eagle can bring the clarity needed to solve the case. Spencer recalls finding the show unbelievable even as a child, while Van denies ever having had a spirit vision. No one understands how any of this belongs in a Walker episode.
Plenty of interesting side characters show up along the way, including a night watchman who doesn’t watch, overtly greedy businessfolk, and a ghost with a vendetta.
Highlights
-Clarence Gilyard’s first BTB appearance and the first edition of Swap Out!
-Brian can’t stop confusing the name of Walker’s mentor with the name of a grocery store chain
-Chuck Norris’s boring invincibility as a protagonist