Chuck and Aardvark V.S. the Galaxy
Welcome, fearless denizens of the Galaxy! It's Chuck and Aardvark, AKA your experts on literally everything in the known universe! Each week, we investigate the cosmos to devise new, improbable theories—all fully improvised and unplanned. Is Scooby-doo a robot? Do parallel universes exist? Are pigeons plotting against us? Join us as we build our new and improved UNIFIED GALACTIC THEORY OF EVERYTHING.
Episodes
23 episodes
20 | I Believe Him, He's a Man-a-God (Sports Are the Root of Every Great Social Schism)
Hold your breaths: it’s episode twenty (thousand) leagues under the sea! THIS episode finds Charlie learning the art of fencing while Ari confronts his literal identity crisis. In the course of our usual gib-gab, we look back at our evolutionar...
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Episode 20
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29:36
19 | Quoility Cointoint! ("Got Milk?" Is a Military Misinformation Campaign)
Don't it always seem to go? You don't know what you've got 'til it's gone. That's right, denizens, it's our nineteenth ep—the last of our teen years! THIS episode finds us shamelessly slinging our merch by the side of the road as we finally tur...
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Episode 19
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28:24
18 | Not Flex and Chill (Renaissance Faires Are Overcompensating for Real Life Tragedies)
Well, we can finally buy lottery tickets and join the army, 'cause we're EIGHTEEN, y'all! Eighteen episodes old...imagine! THIS episode finds us hiding out from Ari's angry, hungry cat (whose name we remember the whole time) as we get into the ...
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Episode 18
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30:24
17 | will.i.am. Dafriend (Escape Rooms Are Training Us to Do Battle)
We learned the truth at seventeen...or did we??! You'll have to listen to find out! THIS episode, we find ourselves trapped in the ultimate liminal space—an abandoned Applebees's with a rather...puzzling...layout. As we solve our way through th...
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Episode 17
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35:57
ANNOUNCEMENT: Back in a few weeks!!!!
Hello, fearless denizens of the Galaxy! The deep-voiced samaritan from our last episode returns to use his distinctly NOT-professional-grade equipment to update you on the show. TL;DL WE ARE SORRY for the delay! We have a bunch o...
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3:40
16 | The Grapes of Wrath of Khan (Rich People Are Satyrs)
Sixteen Candles: a film that has aged...poorly? A trait which the sixteenth episode of our podcast will NOT be sharing! THIS episode, we return to our roots at the neighborhood lemonade stand, where we bemoan the generational failings of the yo...
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Episode 16
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25:11
15 | Occam’s Famous Razor (Almost Every Working Artist Is J.K. Rowling)
Look out, world: episode fifteen’s here to take names! THIS episode finds us positioned in an abandoned laser tag establishment with an extremely puzzling backstory. After Ari takes an earth-shattering phone call, we turn our powers of deductio...
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Episode 15
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23:41
14 | Life of Cry (The Brothers Grimm Were Assassinated by the Fast Food Industry)
Halleluja! Praise episode fourteen in all its glorious, intricate nonsense! THIS episode, Charlie deals with vicarious grief as we wait in the longest fast food line of all time...little knowing that directly beneath us lies a cave of vast cons...
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Episode 14
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31:02
13 | Fair-In-Heights Nein/Elephant (The Circus Is Fighting an Endless Holy War)
Sure, love is all you need in this dark, cruel world, but why not give episode thirteen a chance to make you happy, too? THIS episode, a casual story told by Charlie during an exclusive premiere of the newest Christopher Nolan feature sends us ...
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Episode 13
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26:40
12 | Marco, Frodo! (Weather Is Malevolent)
CLANG! The clock strikes midnight as we reach our groundbreaking twelfth episode! On THIS episode, we unpack our first-ever meet-up of all the fearless denizens of the Galaxy, which occurred this past weekend at Charlie's food truck built on th...
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Episode 12
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28:20
11 | Hôtel de l'France (Reincarnation Is a Byproduct of a Great Galactic Resource War)
Episode eleven BOO!!!! Did we scare you? THIS episode takes place in the renown Hôtel de l'France just outside the swamplands of Louisiana, where we decide to let our guards down and dive into our earliest childhood memories. The rabbit hole of...
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Episode 11
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30:32
10 | What Even IS Endgame?! (Ms. Frizzle Is an Incarnation of Loki, the Norse God)
Batten down the hatches, denizens, we've hit our tenth episode! THIS episode finds your humble hosts and galactic interpreters ensconced with a mysterious librarian as we decipher the theologic roots of the Magic School Bus. What we uncover has...
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Episode 10
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26:12
ANNOUNCEMENT: Episode Delay!
The ghost of Vultron the Vulture Man returns to inform the denizens of an unfortunate episode delay this week, due to technical difficulties. Ep 10 is expected to drop this Friday. Thanks for your patience! Ca-caawwwww!
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1:07
9 | Hashbag Sean Bean (Animals in Human Skin-suits Have Corporatized America)
Good morning, denizens. We hope you slept well...'cause once you listen to episode nine of this podcast, your slumber will grow fitful, plagued with anxieties! THIS episode, we return to form as Charlie processes the death of his favorite Romeo...
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Episode 9
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25:51
8 | Pushy Riot (This Podcast Has Gone Completely off the Rails!)
In this, our eighth episode, we take a break from our Galactic explorations, instead turning our keen investigative powers inward to answer the crucial question: what the heck is even going on with this podcast? Charlie fights to keep the fun a...
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Episode 8
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20:40
7 | Colonel Blue (The Galaxy Is Trying to Kill You)
Tremble, denizens, for episode seven is here to consume you all! THIS episode finds Ari and Charlie on the run from a veritable legion of enemies, bent on destroying this podcast and burying the truth for good. Our theory this week involves Mur...
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Episode 7
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24:32
BONUS—ORIGINAL PILOT EP: Who Watches "Watchmen"? (All Art Is Propaganda)
Whew! What a crazy couple of weeks, huh? Ari got turned into a robot, incurred the wrath of his father, the Shoe King of the North, and had his whole brain coated in pizza grease. Charlie almost died, went on a multidimensional dry-cleaning ven...
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19:57
6 | Men Who Like to Tinker (Car Mechanics Aren't Human)
DISCLAIMER: We try to design every episode to stand, if not entirely on its own, close enough that its comprehensibility isn't contingent on listening to previous episodes; but this, our sixth episode, heavily references what could be loosely c...
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Episode 6
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34:40
5 | Clearly Cerberus (Waldo of "Where's Waldo?" Is The Grim Reaper)
We've reached episode five...and not a moment too soon! THIS episode, Charlie confronts Ari about his ongoing transformation, before detailing a hair-raising encounter with an oddly familiar face. We discuss the lore behind the classic children...
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Episode 5
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27:11
4 | We Eat What We Reap (Pigeons Are Systematically Ruining Our Lives)
If three's a crowd, what are we to make of this, our fourth episode? THIS episode, we take a stab at making our podcast more accessible to casual listeners, before launching into our biggest topic yet: the cursed alliance our species has made w...
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Episode 4
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23:44
3 | Pagliacci the Hippie (People and Objects Are Switching Universes, Continually)
Episode three has come, denizens—and She is beautiful and terrible indeed. THIS episode, we get a little more personal, as Charlie processes the (literal) ghosts of his past, and Ari details his difficult yet relatable transition from boy to ma...
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Episode 3
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18:24
2 | The Old Man and the Sea of Applause (Audience Behavior Is Being Secretly Influenced)
Rejoice, denizens, for episode two is upon ye! THIS episode, we take a deep-dive into the niche intersection of sociology and the theatrical arts, attempting to figure out just what nebulous forces are driving our species to put our hands toget...
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Episode 2
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20:48
1 | Sisyphus's Mystery Machine (Scooby-doo Is a Robot)
Welcome, denizens, to our first official episode! THIS episode, we dissect the Scooby-doo canon for clues as to what the creators REALLY intended. What we found may shatter the very foundation of our society. With tie-ins to MK-Ultra and the Vi...
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Episode 1
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22:24