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200 Dollars a Day Plus Expenses - A Rockford Files Podcast

Dave Brodbeck and Steve Cloutier

Join Steve and Dave as they follow Jim Rockford"s adventures through LA in the 1970s

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Episode 85 - Steve and Dave aMaze

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2025/06/20

I am truly sorry for this title.LARRY LINVILLE!!!!Oh man, you know, about 15 minutes in I figured 'wait, this guy is one of my people' (experimental psychologist).I'm curious as to who is funding this work. Either way his grant is up now that Trump is in power...There are some really not at all how it works things in this about what I do.There are some things that are right!Not goons, hired goons, but students, graduate students.Bob Newhart celebrity bowling!I never thought research ethics would

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Episode 84 - Dave and Steve Wonder if Jon is the...

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2025/06/06

I like this title.Some great 70s stuff this week.This is a fun one.Hey some casual racism!Isn't that the guy who took creepy pics of Andy Travis and Jennifer Marlowe?(There's a plane crash this week, so we get a Jon cameo).Pop culture is lame again.Ken Swofford is awesome.Calling all you hoosiers.....mp3 download

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Episode 83 - Steve Forces Retirement on Dave

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2025/05/23

Again, it's the name of the episode, we aren't going anywhere...LARRY HAGMAN?!Oh, hey, drop by the watch party on Thursday nights at 8.30 pm EDT :Oh this one has Beth too, plus and old friend of Beth's.I like how if this was today, the idea of harvesting kelp and turning it into some sort of green energy would be pretty hot actually.Any episode where Jimmy Joe makes an appearance is a good one in my book. To be clear, I have no book.This is a big day for Beth, but we're going to see less and less of

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Episode 82 - Dave and Steve Spend a Night in the...

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2025/05/16

We had separate rooms....The phone message matters to the plot!Oh man, this is an Angel episode, which makes it so fun.It's Gerald McRaney's final appearance on the show.Steve and I both noticed how the show treated sex workers as people who deserve respect. Because they are, you know, people.Sometime's Jim Garner's just overall goodness shows up in a scene. I don't mean Rockford's I mean Jim Garner's.We get a callback to an earlier episode too, which rarely happened back then.Steve calls you a

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Episode 81 - Steve and Dave Haven't Even Heard of...

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2025/05/09

This week's title? Oh I'd give it about a 6.75/10.The hicks from the lick.The episode itself is much better than that.Some strong guest stars this week, including Priscilla Barnes.Some WW2 callbacks.Somehow I think this is much closer to how most planned contract killings actually go than what we normally see on TV.It's a Lt. Chapman episode so his exasperation is always entertaining.Oh we've got Dennis as well.Oh and we get a lovely little Angel scam near the end!You could have called this episode

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Episode 80 - Dave & Steve & Jon and Rick the Explainers

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2025/04/19

Well, we had a cameo from Jon on a plane crash and, burying the lead here, we also had a guest host! It's Rick Brooks from Battle of the Network Shows!You may have heard of Battle of the Network Shows when we had Mike from the very same podcast/site on for Episode 48.Well this week we have, NAZI GOLD!You have to remember that WW2 was the same distance in time from this episode as 1993 is to now. So umm, we're old.Star Trek connection this week.Wait, there are two guys from the Abwehr in this

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Episode 79 - Steve and Dave Nevermind about Quickie...

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2025/04/11

Yes it has been a while. We both have had things.I am proud of this title.This one is funny.This one has Jan Curtin's cousin Valerie, who does a pretty good job. Oh she also co wrote the script for And Justice For All. So 'I'm out of order, you're out of order', that's her line. OK, we don't know if it is hers or Barry Levinson, to whom she was married at the time, but I'm giving it to her.Karma is way more complicated than people think.'Are you here for pre death'?Gordon looks like a VP

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Episode 78 - Dave and Steve Check Out Your Funny Box

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2025/03/07

I'm rather proud of this week's title.This one has almost everything.Recurring actors in different roles,A mobbed up comedian.A guest star from Petticoat Junction!A guest star from Right Guard ads.Could you ask for anything more?It also has a serious discussion about coming out and being closeted. It's handled pretty well, especially for a tv show from 1977. The scene, near the end of the episode, is one of the most powerful things either of us have seen on the show up to this point,It even has Lt

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Episode 77 - The Steve and Dave Show

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2025/02/28

Last week's title was awful, this one wrote itself.Did we remember to do the Spotlight? Listen and fine out.Lots of psychology content in this one.I would have preferred Dr Robert Hartley.Angel is fun this week.The Firebird flies at one point this week too!Some nice commentary about the surveillance state in this one. Though it shows that state as at best inept.For some reason 'feed you buckwheats' stuck with me since 1977.David Chase is testing out Sopranos material, I swear.DRAMATIC IRONY!mp3

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Episode 76 - Dave and Steve Take a Second Chance

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2025/02/07

OK, that title is better.Burying the lede here, DIONNE WARWICK!Also GANDY IS BACK.I will stop using so many capitals shortly.We get a Star Trek connection with Malachi Thorne.Nobody cuts a demo.Nobody lays down tracks.(Thanks to my co host Dan on We Have the Technology, also my brother).The payoff in the final seen is gold.Some political stuff this week as well.mp3 download

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Episode 75 - Steve and Dave Watch Rockford Go Woke!...

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2025/01/31

Sorry, couldn't help it.Also, if you've been listening, you realize that James Garner was pretty 'woke'.Jim Rockford is not much into MAGA.Jim Rockford supports gun control.Jim Rockford can outdrive a right wing shitbag better than anyone.Be like Jim Rockford.Even Lt. Diehl isn't much on MAGA.When you lose Lt. Diehl you are nuts.Many of these characters likely would have listened to Joe Rogan...mp3 download

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Episode 74 - Trouble with Dave and Steve in Chapter 17

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2025/01/24

This one might go down as my poorest title effort yet.This one is super political, and pretty much in line with Steve and me, so we like it.They're making fun of Marabel Morgan quite directly here, and I love it.T'Pring is in this one!We get some good ol' Rocky too. He says some rather sexist things and I think Jim almost pulled a muscle he rolled his eyes back so far...How dare women want to be equal?Today we would call our main character a 'trad wife' I suppose. No matter what you call her, I call

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Episode 73 - Dave and Steve's Last Case

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2025/01/17

No no, this isn't our final episode. Indeed, it is the first episode of season 4!I could not pass up the title though.Hey it's James Whitmore Jr! Our friend from the other show.Beamer is a bad driver.Beamer is a bad detective.Beamer is even a bad friend.He might not be that bad a guy, though he might also be a bit, oh let's go with 'off'.Kenny's answering the phone in the bar and his subsequent improv work when Rocky hangs up is actually pretty reminiscent of Jim.It's not the last we will see of

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Episode 72 - Season 3 Wrap Up

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2024/12/20

It's a wrap up show!Whenever we do these, Steve and I like to have a guest on. This time is no exception, Dan Brodbeck of 'We Have the Technology' (and, well, of my family I suppose) is with us this time around.What did we talk about? Look, I have no idea, I'm writing this the morning before we record.I suppose we will talk about how the show touched on real events of the 1970s.I suppose we will talk about how the Montreal Canadiens were unbeatable at the time.I suppose I will mention Mad Men, Steve

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Episode 71 - Steve Shines a Black Light on Dave

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2024/12/13

Pretty sure I just glow in the dark. This one is the season finale for season three, and it is really good.Directed by Stuart Margolin.'Rockford, that's R O C K F O R D'.We've got Beth, Dennis, Rocky, hey, grand slam!All Jimbo had to do was call McGarret.Shout out to the Taylor Swift fans in this one...The unnamed speaker as a character is a cool trope that you don't see much of any more.Rocky met someone on the plane.The Martin Cove Goons have a new album coming out soon!mp3 download

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Episode 70 - Dave Cracks Steve's Back

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2024/12/06

I would like to go on record as saying you shouldn't go around cracking anyone's back.LA running backs, hard to trust them.Gretchen Corbett is really really great in this one.Too bad there's no Angel.We do get Rocky and Jim and Beth and Dennis though.We get Jon giving us a plane crash update. Probably his dream job.The idea of harassment was a new one at the time, it's handled pretty well considering that.'They've got a good ball club at San Quentin' and 'I don't just fish, I also watch football'

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Episode 69 - To Steve and Dave

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2024/11/22

Like I said last week, if that was the title for this one...Another case of part 2 being better than part 1!Lianne is not a good person.Whereas we see that Lt. Chapman is, more or less.Just like with TT freaking Flowers, part 2 is better than part 1. I swear, some of the 'previously on the Rockford Files' bit I missed because I was so annoyed by the Lianne character.Jimbo is of course a good person, but we knew that already.As Steve has pointed out a few times, someone died because of Lianne.Biggest

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Episode 68 - To Dave and Steve

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2024/11/15

You know next week's will be 'To Steve and Dave', just saying.To quote my partner 'oh great another two parter with an annoying af character'.She's really good at being annoying though. The 'she' in that sentence refers to Joyce Van Patten. One of the best ever Sopranos episodes, Pine Barrens, was directed by Tim Van Patten, Joyce's brother.Speaking of the Sopranos, this one is a David Chase joint, and boy can you see his fingerprints. In a good way. Chase is a master at making you uncomfortably

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Episode 67 - New Steve, Old Dave

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2024/11/07

Well I mean I AM older than Steve.Hey, this one has one of our favourite Black Sheep actors, Charles Napier.More importantly, it has friend of the show, Clyde Kusatsu, who of course was the spotlight artist this week. We both really love his work. (He's also a pretty great twitter follow if you are interested).This one talks about the aftermath of Vietnam.There are some 'Asian' tropes here as well.Thins were pretty crazy as Saigon fell, I wonder how much stuff people got out with that wasn't really

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Episode 66 - Dave and Steve Go To Another Polish Wedding

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2024/11/01

Not a bad title.Sorry we've been away, things.This is a backdoor pilot for a potential Gossett and Hayes show! I wonder how it would have gone.Indeed, I wonder how it would have affected Gossett's career especially.As it is a backdoor pilot, we don't get too much of Jim, or less than usual.Punching Nazis, it's what you are supposed to do!Watching Isaac Hayes beat up Nazis is extra fun.I normally wouldn't use two screenshots for the post, but I needed to have one of all three of the guys, and one

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