Casting The Spotlight Podcast

As the road to Thanksgiving continues, we deliver another solo episode in which we discuss the ongoing NFL upsets this season, Kirk Cousins & the Minnesota Vikings reign of success, Krispy Kreme vs. Dunkin Donuts, & how Lucky Charms are overrated. We also dig into the impact of one of our all time favorite shows, The Walking Dead, its moral compasses throughout the show’s run, how it has always un...

Following the conclusion of our 2022 horror season, we return to the studio with our first November episode since 2019. We describe how this has been a very personal journey, etched in meaningful conversations, mutual passions & interests, hilarity, & laugher. We thank our audience for always sticking by us and we talk early retirement in the NFL, the unnecessary self-imposed stress that comes wit...

🎃 That Halloween Special 🎃 For our milestone-marking, 60th Episode we bring back on Adam Acre in his second outing in our podcast history. We celebrate the season and elaborate on Halloween traditions, as well as Adam’s hot takes some of the holidays, Disney-era Star Wars content, The Hobbit, and Game of Thrones. We dive deep into some of each of our favorite live concerts/festivals, as Adam giv...

For the first time ever, and significantly during October Halloween-horror season, our dear friend, the one and only: Strip Club Gene joins the podcast. Whether it be Mean Gene or Gene O’Mac, the man goes by many nicknames and we were fortunate enough after 3+ years of content to finally bring him on during this special season. As October continues on we discuss ranking all the Halloween & Scream...

We return & deliver the second half of our illustrious two-part Halloween-themed episodic special: The Daylight in the Dark: Part II. We dig into how the Jeepers Creepers film series is one of the more recent original horror concepts, Pennywise the Clown, Starbucks, & TWD’s former moral compass Hershel Greene. We also discuss concussions in sports and when is it the right time to hang it up? All o...

October rolls on as we release the first of our two-part Halloween special solo series, CTS Ep. #57: The Daylight in the Dark: Part I. We bring some of our favorite events and occurrences of the spooky month itself, such as traditions like carving Jack O’Lanterns to rewatching favorite Halloween all time classics, to playoff baseball. We discuss sports expanding their postseason teams that sometim...

SAM’S 30th BIRTHDAY SPECIAL For this 56th Episode of grandeur, our friend & avid Casting The Spotlight listener/supporter Sam Spangler guests on the podcast! Seasonal themes include, we celebrate with Teremana & Sam’s pumpkin shots as we discuss and ramble over America’s seeming obsession with notorious criminals & serial killers…is the notoriety a negative or is there much to be learned from them...

In the aftermath of us re-setting the all time longest CTS Episode in history with Kyle Henley’s 2nd guest appearance, Horror Season rages on! In this special, Kenny Powers-paying homage episode to the great Eastbound & Down legend’s character, we of course talk Major League Baseball, referring to past steroid use in the sport, but presenting our thoughts on how some of the greatest players ever c...

This is the episode we finally brought back The Renaissance Man of Sports & Entertainment, Kyle Henley! It had been nearly 3 years since Kyle’s first appearance, as he was our second guest ever and to this day holds the record for the longest CTS Episode of all time (which we reset in this episode!). We run an extraordinary, marathon episode of good times & laughter, talk life travels and experien...

Following a chain of absolutely incredible guests, we come back with a solo effort and realize something big: We have not released a CTS Episode in September, October, or November since our inception year 2019. This season, we vow to hit our audience hard with all the seasonal festivities & content. From horror films & shows, to the NFL season returning, MLB playoffs, all time sports records, new...

We reunite with our good friend, the eccentric & powerful personality known as Dominic Grayson! This was our first time in the better part of a few years catching up with Dom as we introduced him to an epic round of our ever-famous segment, “The Good, The Bad, & The Shits.” We talk old backyard wrestling memories, A Nightmare On Elm Street Series, recollect Attitude Era WWF & WCW television during...

For the first time in CTS history, we bring on one our very own co-host’s dos cousin, Andy James Alton. In this edition we recorded in Andy’s studio, with him as our guest of the evening! We got deep into his history in the podcast game, how it’s revolutionized & changed the society we live in, we talk taking bold moves in our lives that changed our individual paths forward, struggles, Andy’s time...

CTS GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY | For our milestone-marking spectacle Episode #50, we bring in & get a chance to reconnect with our good friend, Dakota Kay for the first time in many moons. Right before his inevitable send off to Okinawa, Japan serving for the U.S. Military for 2 years, he discusses with us his experience living in Korea for the past year before returning home, cultural differences in food...

We bring in and reconnect with our good friend, John Bunch in this episode as we ramble and rant over our lives moving into adulthood & changes along the way, the Tik-Tok addiction, the importance of traveling and gaining newfound experiences, & food purity in the USA. We also discuss government embedding fear into its citizens to keep them on their toes, the Irish Goodbye, plus: Who’s prepared mo...

We start off with out with our high-powered, ever-loved segment, “The Good, The Bad, & The Shits”! We dig into topics from Hitler plaguing an entire facial hair style for the rest of eternity, to rehashing CTS Episode #1 & why we have never released it, seasonal decor, our podcast geography demographic, overshadowed current and former MLB players, & SO MUCH MORE!

For this edition, we finally brought in longtime listener and Casting The Spotlight advocate, as well as a good friend of the podcast, Ian Lalk. We dive into a wealth of conversational topics; the major pitfalls of micromanaging, pros & cons of the climate in some US states, the MLS being brought to our hometown of St. Louis, how everything essentially came from nothing, Elon Musk wanting to build...

For Episode #46, we take the audience back old school between just the two co-hosts and deliver a masterful, honest episode in which we open up about our start up and vision for the podcast, how it’s progressed, & what’s come of it. We talk sports and record-breaking, the highs of success/downfalls of perfectionism, Hamburger Helper, Bill Burr, Albert Pujols’ final season on the St. Louis Cardinal...

CONTENT SPOILER WARNING: For our 45th Episode we finally managed to get two guests of the past, but also two of our very best friends, Ethan Walther & Tyler Stephens to rejoin the cast for a nearly 3 hour entertainment & content-filled impassioned conversation. We dig into the recently released Disney+ series Obi-Wan Kenobi as well as multiple theatrical films, such as The Batman and upcoming like...

Casting The Spotlight 3-Year Anniversary Special to the date hosts none other than #Top2 professional wrestlers & great friends of ours, Savanna Stone & James Brady. For the first time in 3 years, Brady & Stone return to their Midwest stomping grounds for a wrestling show and encapsulate their current trials & tribulations for friends and audiences alike. We dig down deeper in this episode than pr...

After a slew of unprecedented guests & some extremely depth filled conversations, the two co hosts take the hot seat back and we dive into upcoming content whether it be Obi-Wan Kenobi, Amazon’s new Lord of the Rings show to air. We get into old, ridiculous stories from our first jobs and working in food, to current events & dealing with new apartment ownership douchebaggery, & so much more! We ha...

We bring Brendon Sebaugh back in the studio to murder with laugher and promote thought-provoking conversation like only the man can. His first solo episode as a guest on the podcast we talk nostalgia & 90’s/early 2000’s cartoons, why it’s important to see both sides of the spectrum politically, LeBron James, Brendon talks preparing for his wedding, feeling the effects of the COVID era, sweet vs. u...

This episode we finally brought on our good friend and recently MMA turned official UFC Fighter, “The Phenom”, Evan Elder. We got deep with conversations about diet & taking care of your body, wanting to leave a lasting, meaningful legacy behind after death, why making a positive impact on the world still matters greatly, we talked In-N-Out Burger, air fryers, why My Chemical Romance’s album, “The...

For the first time in two & a half years, our extraordinary great friend Rick Sauce re-enters the Casting The Spotlight studio. Since his last appearance, the podcast has had tremendous growth, a wealth of guests, and extremely impassioned conversations and thought-provoking points. We were delighted to bring Sauce back in to chat and ramble over St. Louis style food & city originals, deja vu and...

FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER, we bring in Devin Andrews, the brother of one of our two very own co-hosts. The longtime awaited episode offers no shortage of topics as we dig 3 1/2 hours deep into older-to-younger brother terrorization and pranks, 90’s original cartoons and how they impacted television for the better, Nirvana, meat & chicken farms, the path for the world going forward. Is there still ho...

We deliver a much needed episode with just the two co-hosts! We dive into childhood stories about various meal dishes our respective parents have made, the raw experience of having major dental work, the Better Call Saul Season 6 Premiere, Albert Pujols, Adam Wainwright, & Yadier Molina all returning for one final season on the St. Louis Cardinals, & so much more! We invite you to join us on this...