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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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BONUS EPISODE - We Have the Technology - Episode 0

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2024/07/23

No this isn't about Jim, Rocky, Beth or Angel.It's not even about Chapman or Diel.I did talk about Rockford in the podcast though!This is from a new podcast I'm doing with my brother Dan! It's called 'We Have the Technology' and it's about the classic 70s show the Six Million Dollar Man.Every month or so Dan and I will talk about a couple of episodes. You know, like with Steve, except Dan isn't Steve as much as he's Dan Brodbeck, recordist.We talked toys.We talked bad effects.We talked Farrah

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Episode 56 - So Help Steve and Dave

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2024/07/18

I've been waiting for this one. It might be the best episode of the series. I'm pretty sure it is the best one we have watched so far.William Daniels just plays pretentious jerk so well.This one is overtly political. Oh and that's a good thing.This one is so important that I clipped in a couple of Jimbo's speeches.We have Dennis.We have Angel.We have Rocky.We have Beth.This also talks about a really important issue in the US, the use, and misue, of grand juries. Other liberal democracies got rid of

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Episode 55 - Dave and Steve Go to Coulter City to See...

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2024/07/05

Man did I have to reach for that title!Nice callback to Gearjammers.Rocky!Beth!Spotlight on Russ Mayberry this week.Boy, Rocky getting roughed up was, at least for me, really tough to watch. Perhaps it's because I am getting closer to being an old man than a young one, I dunno.How many episodes overall are about oil? It's lots. I wonder if the energy crisis of the early 70s made an impact here.I've noticed more gunfights this season.Pete's champagne, it's just Sprite and Blue Nun.mp3 download

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Episode 54 - Steve and Dave Dry Up Indianhead River

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2024/06/28

Awful title, I apologize to all titles everywhere.First one done on my new computer!Oh man, this one is an Angel episode.It has Robert Loggia.It is a Bethisode.It's got Dennis.It's got Rocky. I don't think we get the core four in a scene though.Some killer lines in this one. 'Have you seen Angel Martin? ' 'He died, tomorrow, Wednesday at the latest'.Hey it's the week Jimmy Carter was elected.Brad is a groovy dude.mp3 download

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Episode 53 - Dave and Steve are Frenzied

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2024/06/21

You know, I came up with this lame title about 30 seconds ago and thought 'man I can't use that' and then realized 'who the hell are you kidding Brodbeck, half of the titles for this podcast are awful'. At least half.Steve makes a fair point about horrible music, we're going to make all of you suffer.This Charlie guy seems more concerned with is reputation than, well, anything.Criminals are supposed to claim their earnings as criminals on their taxes, just saying.The statute of limitations on

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Episode 52 - The Steve and Dave Hour

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2024/05/31

Wait, Burt Young? In his Rocky year? Yes, before he did Rocky, he did this Rockford.Boy children's services in LA in 1976 work fast...Rocky is way too trusting.Starsky and Hutch? No, just goons, hired goons.I suppose this one takes place before Kim Richards' character moved to Portland with some guy named Larry.I had a crush on Km Richards back then BTW (WHICH WAS TOTALLY APPROPRIATE WE ARE THE SAME AGE SAVE YOU EMAILS)The 'Family Hour' was a thing, it was also unconstitutional.mp3 download

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Episode 51 - Neither Dave Nor Steve Have a Cashmere Suit

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2024/05/24

I'm guessing on Steve's suit game, but I think it's a fair assumption. Hell, I don't know how to tie a tie.ROBERT WEBBER.Plus, Bethisode, Dennis, and Rocky.The slams at psychics are gold.Webber is so wonderful in roles like this. Even when he says weirdly racist stuff...We've got Robert Walden just before Lou Grant.The music business is fuelled by cocaine, or at least it was in the 70s (probably still).Jim calling Clementi 'swami' is gold as well.'Realism is not reality' Dr. Steve Cloutier.'Canada

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Episode 50 - There Are Only Two of Us How Can There...

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2024/05/17

Damn that title is a reach.SEASON 3!!Sharon Gless! Of course playing a different character than in her last appearance in 'This Case is Closed'. Garner loved working with actors he was familiar with.John McMartin as Timson Farrell was pretty great.Look, we've got Angel, we've got Beth.Oh and Rocky.Wait, that means we have a grand slam!'Rick Wakeman and his cape'.mp3 download

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Episode 49 - Season 2 Wrap Up

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2024/05/03

Wow, we are at the end of season 2!The best thing about this is that I do not have to come up with a 'clever' title.The second best thing is Mike from Battle of the Network Shows sending us a little bit on hats that we forgot to talk about last week.What was 1976 like?Hell, what was season 2 like?Well we had guest stars, we had the introduction of a couple of recurring characters.We had Beth.We had Angel.We had Dennis.There is a Vietnam war episode of Love Boat, just putting that out there

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Episode 48 - Steve (and some guy named Mike) Give...

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2024/04/27

Hey, he's not just some guy, he's one of the hosts of the 'Battle of the Network Shows' podcast! Pretty awesome that Mike came on, thanks man! Oh, Steve set that up BTW, I had nothing to do with it other than, you know, being me.Lee Strassberg had a daughter, and she's in this one. She likes a big hat.Hell it was 1976, everyone liked a big hat! Actually, I remember 1976 quite well, and I don't think that's true, anyway...Another case of Jimbo has no idea what's going on.This is a Bethisode.Also,

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Episode 47 - Dave Fouls Steve on the First Play

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2024/04/19

Yup, I'm like that.This one has a great guest star, Louis Gossett Jr (in a hairpiece). So of course Steve's Spotlight this week is about Lou.Point shaving!Firebird intervention!Piping a dipso.Steve and I will be releasing our first hip hop album under the name 'Lil' DJ Six Degrees of Awesome'.Eventually an attempt was made to spin Lou's character off with Gandy (Isaac Hayes), we'll get there in season 4.This one has a pretty good car chase.This one has a lot of sarcasm, even more than usual.Getting

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Episode 46 - Where's Steve and Dave?

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2024/04/05

Yes yes, I am aware it should be 'are'...A fun one this week, as we don't know what is going on.Lots going on in the news, though the Aussies are still on about some guy's car.This one touches on some good 1970s issues. Those include women working in traditional 'male' jobs, 'urban renewal' and gentrification.Rocky is good in this one.Charles Blackthorn makes a guest appearance.We get a car chase of sorts, and a good fake out by throwing out those smokes.Oh and Lt. Diet is not a complete ass in this

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Episode 45 - The Dave and Steve Fiasco

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2024/03/29

Some of the titles are easier to come up with, just saying,Come for the Rockford, stay for the rants.Steve and I wish everyone a Happy Easter, if you're into that. Today is Good Friday. Yesterday was half decent Thursday. Tomorrow is Fair to Middling Saturday.Wait, more exciting guest stars?How about William Daniels, the man who I have aways described as 'John Astin without a sense of humour, and with a mid Atlantic accent'. How about people that have been on MASH and Project UFO!When Jim knows

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Episode 44 - Steve and Dave Have Never Been In Hazard

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2024/03/22

Damn, that title took me at least five minutes to come up with, and it is as lame as this sentence.Joseph Campanella is one of those 70s guys that was everywhere. I don't remember him getting his own show, but he always was working. (Well, he did host 'Science International/What Will They Think of Next' but that's not an acting gig). Oh his brother is in this one too. Indeed, it is their last onscreen performance together.Wait, Beth is in jail? No problem, that makes it a Bethisode and that pleases

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Episode 43 - Davey Blue Steves

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2024/03/01

I apologize for the title.Wait, did the show have a title before they signed the guest star?Angel is great in this one.Hey, a Bethisode!Some classic '70s guest stars this week, and a Star Trek connection.Oh we also get Lt. Chapman, but not Lt. Chapman.Some good mob names this week, Sweet Tooth, Joey Blue Eyes etc.Oh we get a car chase too of course.The honour among cons theme shows up again this week.mp3 download

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Episode 42 - A Portrait of Steve and Dave

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2024/02/21

That was an easy title to come up with!Some great 70s character actors this week.We go deeper into the Beth and Jim relationship this week.We've got Lt. Diel (whose hatred of Rockford is borderline pathological in my opinion) and Agent Shore, who seems to know he's putting on a show when talking to Jim.'Stop calling me honey'.I think we see a combination of jealously and caring for Beth with a bit of needling your best friend all at once in Jim's behaviour towards Beth.Corbett and Garner are at

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Episode 41 - Dave Offers Steve a Not Cut Contract

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2024/02/16

The title sounds like Dave is talking about Dave in the third person. Rest assured, Dave hates that.ROB REINER!DICK BUTKUS!Also it's a Bethisode!The backdrop this week is all of the weird startup rebel leagues of the 1970s. The WHA, the ABA and of course, the WFL. The Southern Illinois Warriors sounds like a dumb name for a team, well so was the southern California Sun and The Hawaiians.Jim increasingly is getting into situations where he clears his name and doesn't get any moeny s, well, there's no

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Episode 40 - The Steve of Dave Block

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2024/02/02

After a couple of good titles, no.Parts of this one have aged like milk. The attitudes about spousal assault are, with 2024 eyes, pretty gross. Frankly, some of it was even with 1976 eyes.ISAAC HAYES.There was a plan to eventually spin Isaac Hayes and Louis Gusset Jr off into their own show.There is a lot of nice commentary on social issues and the differences between now and then (now being 1976, then being 1955).Oh yeah, we are in to 1976! The greatest hockey game ever played was played on New

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Episode 39 - Dave and Steve at the Bay City Boys Club

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2024/01/26

Ooh Bay City is a great setting, with a lot of history!It has nothing to do with a certain Scottish band.I am pleased with my title this week.Some great guest stars, including Molly Dodd herself!Not much in the way of car chases, but a nice foot chase near the end.Corrupt city officials eh? Ahh the 70s.We welcome Carlos the Jackal to the show.Car chases are really just fast following when you think of it.Oh it's an Angel episode too.Garner directed this one!mp3 download

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Episode 38 - The Reincarnation of Steve and Dave

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2024/01/19

Two weeks in a row where I'm happy with the title.This one is a classic 'woman in distress' episode.This one has, of course, goons, hired goons.It's also got our favourite fed, agent Shore.Some more good guest stars this week, classic 70s character actors.We, of course, get some car chases too!I've said it before, but whenever Jimbo does a bit of scamming to take down the bad guys, I'm in.mp3 download

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