This week we recap television's number one show Chicago Heroes like we do every freakin week. And we dabble in the dark arts a little bit. We've got Jake Knobbe (follow him @kenohbee on Twitter) on the episode and he knows a little something about TV so you don't wanna miss this one. Ya heard!
Nov 22, 2019•1 hr 34 min•Season 3Ep. 46
Usually Sarah Black and Ben Flores squad up with a guest to recap television's #1 show Chicago Heroes, but this week they're rolling duo and cleaning house. Or should we say cleaning mouse, and that's a hint about the mouse that's in this episode, metaphorically, there's not an actual mouse, it's Disney. Plus.
Nov 15, 2019•1 hr 17 min•Season 3Ep. 45
Chicago Heroes is a real television show but you won't find it in any TV guide. Join your hosts Ben Flores and Sarah Black as they recap each week's episode with fans of the show, cultural commentators, and comedians. This week Tricia Brown (catch her at iO in Chicago) draws on her dance expertise to help us make sense of this episode of prestige television!
Nov 08, 2019•1 hr 20 min•Season 3Ep. 44
Cops, firefighters, doctors, lawyers...these guys are heroes. And they're all on television's #1 show, Chicago Heroes. But how does a paleontologist fit in? We've been wondering and we're sure you have, too! Thankfully we have Dan White (excellent tv-watcher and comedian, follow him @atdanwhite on Twitter) with us this week to break down the latest episode of your favorite prestige program.
Nov 01, 2019•1 hr 34 min•Season 3Ep. 43
The third watch heroes are slinging mud on the third episode of the third season of Chicago Heroes, which is of course television's #1 show that we all watch and love. Sarah and Ben recap the episode with special guest Steph Gray. Tune in!
Oct 25, 2019•1 hr 20 min•Season 3Ep. 42
Sarah and Ben recap the second episode of television's #1 (freshly rebooted) show, Chicago Heroes, with special guest Mike Knish. If you're a fan of tv, you gotta listen, because the recaps are the best way to experience this tv show! Check out Mike's stuff at @cmj69420 and @_leslie_tanner on Twitter.
Oct 18, 2019•1 hr 31 min•Season 3Ep. 41
Forget Uncle Sam. You should be more worried about Uncle Soprano. A different type of taxman came to collect from the Chicago Heroes this week on television's number one show, and we have aquarium employee Bean O'Malley (Meggie Gates) on the podcast to discuss it. It sounds like it doesn't make sense, but it does.
Apr 09, 2019•1 hr 33 min•Season 2Ep. 39
This week television's #1 show (Chicago Heroes) takes us between a rock and a hard place, and we'd happily be stuck there forever. Especially with this week's guest, John Township (William Woods), who really helps us drive our recap home.
Mar 19, 2019•1 hr 24 min•Season 2Ep. 38
Where there's deep, deep snow, there are bodies buried underneath. The snow is melting in Chicago and it's time for some spring cleaning. Sarah and Ben recap this week's murderous episode of television's #1 show, Chicago Heroes, with their guest Gertrude Mueller (Paige Maney), who provides a bit of an outsider's perspective on the wacky world of American crime and culture.
Mar 13, 2019•1 hr 29 min•Season 2Ep. 37
This week we have agent to the dogs Louis Meyer (Matt Portman) on the podcast to recap the latest episode of television's #1 show, Chicago Heroes!
Mar 05, 2019•1 hr 27 min•Season 2Ep. 36
Grab your aux cord and plug it into your Zune because we're going on the road with television's #1 show! The Chicago Heroes headed west this week for the Hero Bowl, and as the official recap podcast of the show, we brought on YouTuber Carl Roadster (Aaron Klopfer) to relive the journey!
Feb 05, 2019•1 hr 17 min•Season 2Ep. 35
Can a billionaire genius playboy bring Chicago into the 21st century with his humanitarian tech solutions? We brought science consultant Lawrence Rutherford (Pat Niday) onto the podcast to discuss. Share your thoughts about this week's episode of television's best show, Chicago Heroes, with us at @pleasesavemepod on Twitter and Vine.
Jan 22, 2019•1 hr 23 min•Season 2Ep. 34
Grab a turkey leg, heroheads! This week's episode of television's #1 procedural network drama, Chicago Heroes, takes place at the experiential restaurant Medieval Times. Sarah and Ben are superfans of the TV show, and their guest this week is Cortneigh Taffer (Trent Dozier), a superfan of the acclaimed dinner theater!
Jan 15, 2019•1 hr 30 min•Season 2Ep. 33
Take one down and pass it around - it's a bottle episode. Featured extra background player Jen Jones (Mary O'Sullivan) stops into the podcast palace to recap this week's exciting, contained episode of Chicago Heroes, television's #1 show.
Jan 08, 2019•1 hr 24 min•Season 2Ep. 32
On this episode of television's #1 show, Chicago Heroes, police chief Scrooge-mantha McBoltz (portrayed by Sandra Bullock) gets a few little Christmas visits while she grinches around the police station. Will she change her scrooging ways? We break it all down with a traveling guest, Elfie Ho Ho How (Elsie How).
Jan 01, 2019•1 hr 37 min•Season 2Ep. 31
Do you believe in life after love? What about love after life? How does a TV show replace one of its greatest characters after they decide to kill him off? It's all in this week's recap of Chicago Heroes, the best show on television, and we've got Tino and Taran (Richie Owens and Paula Skaggs) from the crew here to discuss it with us!
Dec 19, 2018•1 hr 41 min•Season 2Ep. 30
Twists and turns abound every week on Chicago Heroes, television's real #1 show, and this week is no different. Guest Dan Black joins Sarah and Ben in the Please Save Me Podcasting Palace (their trailer) to recap the latest episode of the greatest television show ever made--we're talking plot mechanics, character-driven storytelling, prestige visuals, and envelope-pushing formal exploration. And they do a really great special segment, too.
Dec 11, 2018•1 hr 29 min•Season 2Ep. 29
Start your tummies! It's a race to find out who is stealing Thanksgiving leftovers in the latest episode of television's #1 show. Sarah and Ben break down the thrilling plot of the sophomore episode of the sophomore season of Chicago Heroes with a little help from a member of the production crew, Rita the Custodian (Molly Kessler).
Dec 04, 2018•1 hr 27 min•Season 2Ep. 28
Television's #1 show Chicago Heroes is back on the air, and Sarah and Ben are back at it with the recaps! This week they have Casey the Roadie (Chad Weaver) on the podcast to break down the Season 2 premiere of everybody's favorite television show.
Nov 27, 2018•1 hr 12 min•Season 2Ep. 27
On a high-quality, professional podcast, the production team doesn't just record one long episode and cut it into two pieces and pretend it's two separate episodes. And neither did Sarah and Ben. That said, if you haven't yet listened to the first part of the Season 2 preview with Phil Lip da Psychic (Alex Collyard), you'll want to check that out before you tune into this installment, in which the crew finishes up their extensive preview of the next season of television's #1 show, Chicago Heroes...
Nov 19, 2018•45 min•Season 2Ep. 26
Fetch your trousers out of the laundry basket, reach into the pocket, fish out your claim check, head to the pawn shop, talk to the guy, demand that he tell you where your television is, scream at him "what do you mean you sold off my TV, I thought had 90 days," throw an old radio through the front window to distract him, grab some other poor sucker's TV set from behind the counter, run out of the shop, go back home, and plug it in. Why? Because Chicago Heroes is television's #1 show and it's al...
Nov 05, 2018•48 min•Season 2Ep. 25
Sarah and Ben continue their between-the-seasons foray into what makes television's #1 show tick. This week they deal with all the elements of production design that come together to make Chicago Heroes such a perfect show (and the perfect fodder for this award-winning podcast).
Oct 29, 2018•35 min•Season 1Ep. 24
The first season of Chicago Heroes has come to an end. While television's #1 show is off the air, Sarah and Ben break in a new feature called the "Deep Dive." This week's topic is Character. Watch (listen) as your hosts dive in and sink to a new low.
Oct 22, 2018•31 min•Season 1Ep. 23
The first season of Chicago Heroes meets its fateful end. Your hosts Sarah Black and Ben Flores are here to guide you over television river. Toot toot. All aboard.
Oct 15, 2018•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 22
Something's going around this week on television's #1 show, Chicago Heroes, and we're not talking about television fever. We're talking about viruses and crime and investigation. Television stuff. Television fever, however, is what your hosts Sarah and Ben are suffering from, and the only cure is recapping everybody's favorite television show, Chicago Heroes. If it sounds like we're going in circles, it's probably because pizza queen Lisa LouMalnati (Maggie Winters) came on the podcast this week...
Oct 01, 2018•1 hr 13 min•Season 1Ep. 21
Put on a crisp black suit and skinny tie because we're headed to the Chicago Casino with the high rollers as we recap this week's episode of television's #1 show, Chicago Heroes. Don't forget to grab a pair of sunglasses because the glare off the small screen can be blinding. Sarah and Ben are delighted to welcome legal consultant BD Long (Devin Middleton) onto the podcast to assist in the proceedings, and to lend a hand to fixing the always-disastrous Emmy awards in a round of "Fixed That For Y...
Sep 24, 2018•1 hr 30 min•Season 1Ep. 20
Hop on your skateboard and grab the back of the car because Sarah and Ben are gunning it down success highway, straight to the fame capital of podcast nation. In their quest for stardom this week they have freelance location scouts Rebecca and Exavier (Clare Austen-Smith and Tyler Snodgrass) joining them to recap television's #1 show, Chicago Heroes. Plus a round of everybody's favorite game, Sell It or Save It or Swap!
Sep 10, 2018•55 min•Season 1Ep. 18
Another episode of Sarah and Ben doing what they do best - recapping television's #1 show, Chicago Heroes. You might want to put your hard hats on for this one, because we have construction worker Colleen Spellissy (Megan Brennan) here to share insider information from the site of a new set for the show. So take those hard hats off and put your gossip hats on, actually! Now take your gossip hats off and put on your science hats, because there is science a'brewing in this week's episode. And the ...
Sep 03, 2018•1 hr 26 min•Season 1Ep. 17
Sarah and Ben continue to have great success promoting the podcast, as demonstrated in this episode in which they stick to what they're best at, which is recapping television's #1 show, Chicago Heroes. Sound-guy-music-man Derek Christ (Nick Wilson) comes on to provide insight (or should we say, insound) into the audio side of the biz. Finally, the show's special segments are cash cows that keep on giving golden milk -- make sure to stick around for "Here's Lookin' At You, Jimmy."
Aug 27, 2018•1 hr 19 min•Season 1Ep. 16
One Chicago hero marches to the bang of his own gavel in this week's legally-charged episode of television's #1 show. Sarah and Ben recap it with best boy Frank Cocane (Otto Akin), a jack of all trades, and master of all of them, too. Plus! A lightning round of Judge, Jury, Executioner.
Aug 20, 2018•1 hr 23 min•Season 1Ep. 15