Free Nights And Weekends

Send us Fan Mail Remember Bennigan's? A simple Facebook post about their legendary Monte Cristo sandwich unleashed a flood of memories, complaints, and unresolved emotional baggage from Gen Xers across America. This week, Scott and fellow Oklahoma fat guy Jason Dean take a trip through the restaurant graveyard, remembering the chains, buffets, and menu items that disappeared without warning....

Send us Fan Mail On the 40th Anniversary of this classic, we relive the perfectly executed fake sick day to a citywide parade takeover, Ferris didn’t just skip school… he rewrote the rules. But beneath the sunglasses and smooth-talking confidence is the real story: Cameron, a borrowed Ferrari, and a day that was never going to end quietly. We break down:  The most elaborate “I’m sick” performance...

Send us Fan Mail We revisit our most downloaded episode yet! What a school year! The Mets won the Series. The Space Shuttle blew up in front of me and my classmates. Local OKC weather guy Paul Bouchereau unloads some F bombs during a graphics guy foul up (then they run that tape). Oh, then there was the basketball coach at my middle school.  Stick around for that one!  Chad Goucher sits in and we...

Send us Fan Mail Before YouTube ads stalked us across the internet… there was a magical time when television itself became a fever dream around midnight.  This week on the Free Nights and Weekends Podcast, Scott and Marc dive headfirst into the loud, sweaty, aggressively enthusiastic world of 1980s and early 1990s infomercials. The era where every problem in America apparently could be solved with...

Send us Fan Mail This week on the Free Nights & Weekends Podcast, Scott welcomes the guys from Fried Okla for a full-speed ride straight into Oklahoma tornado culture. 🌪️ From growing up terrified of Gary England’s “HOOK ECHO” warnings to standing outside like complete idiots watching green skies roll in, the gang revisits the chaos, adrenaline, and accidental comedy of living in Tornado Alley...

Send us Fan Mail Well, Scott calls Charlotte Rae "Martha" knowing full well that Martha Raye was Mel's mom on Alice.  But on part II of the Free Nights and Weekends Podcast , Scott and co-host, Jason power through it and dive deeper into… the “very special episode.” You remember them. One week you’re watching jokes and laugh tracks… the next, someone’s getting hooked on pills, kidna...

Send us Fan Mail This week on the Free Nights and Weekends Podcast , Scott and co-host, Jason crack open one of the strangest traditions in television history… the “very special episode.” You remember them. One week you’re watching jokes and laugh tracks… the next, someone’s getting hooked on pills, kidnapped by a bike shop owner, or learning a hard lesson about peer pressure while the studio audi...

Send us Fan Mail From the perfectly executed fake sick day to a citywide parade takeover, Ferris didn’t just skip school… he rewrote the rules. But beneath the sunglasses and smooth-talking confidence is the real story: Cameron, a borrowed Ferrari, and a day that was never going to end quietly. We break down:  The most elaborate “I’m sick” performance ever committed to film   Why Cameron Frye is t...

Send us Fan Mail Before streaming, before DVR… there was the VCR. In this episode of Free Nights and Weekends , Scott and Jason dive into the golden age of VHS—when families dropped $800 on a machine nobody knew how to program, video store shelves were packed with questionable titles, and “Be Kind, Rewind” wasn’t optional. From mall purchases in OKC to the chaos of early video rental shops, this e...

Send us Fan Mail Remember the movie that freaked out a generation? We thought we did too. This week, Scott and Marc revisit The Amityville Horror. While it’s not a technically “great” movie, it’s not technically scary or entertaining either. What a mess.  Editor note : Too many zeros were remembered on the price of the house. It sold for $80k. Oops.  Special thanks to Dan Adams at EXP Realty This...

Send us Fan Mail What do you get when you mix Jodie Foster , a presidential assassination attempt, a TV show that won’t go away, and a weird attempt at pitching woo? This week on Free Nights and Weekends, we rewind to one of the strangest cultural collisions of the 1980s — the obsession that drove John Hinckley Jr. to attempt to assassinate Ronald Reagan … all in a misguided attempt to impress a m...

Send us Fan Mail Vinyl records are back… and somehow worth a billion dollars again. In this episode of Free Nights and Weekends , we drop the needle on the surprising comeback of vinyl—now officially a billion-dollar industry for the first time since 1983—and ask a bigger question: what did we actually miss? Scott and Marc rewind to the ritual of listening to albums in the 70s and 80s—studying lin...

Send us Fan Mail Before influencers, before polished ad campaigns… there were local commercials.  Loud. Weird. Unhinged. This week on Free Nights and Weekends , we’re diving headfirst into the glorious, low-budget chaos of hometown TV ads from the 80s and early 90s. The kind shot on VHS, edited on equipment held together by hope, and powered by one man screaming about financing options. We’re talk...

Send us Fan Mail Remember when Saturday mornings were almost sacred? In this episode, Eddie and I dive back into the golden age of cartoons, where cereal bowls were bottomless, and the lineup defined your weekend. From the shows we loved to the weird ones that sent us outside, we’re revisiting that fleeting magic—even the questionable moments. Grab a bowl of nostalgia, and join us!  Show Sponsor D...

Send us Fan Mail Picture it: a dusty Oklahoma road, where oil wells nod approvingly and cows side-eye your blisters. Join Scott and Eddie as we flashback to a time when the entire school district—from burly seniors to tiny second-graders—embarked on a several-miles odyssey from a Moore elementary school to an OKC lake. Blisters, tears, and questionable fundraising abound—and somehow, we survived t...

Send us Fan Mail This week, Scott and Marc tackle the latest cultural panic: artificial intelligence. On this very special episode, Arnold Drummond doesn't get diddled at the bike shop but big stuff is still happening. But before you stockpile canned goods and apologize to your VCR, take a breath. We look back at the moments when groundbreaking technology made everyone nervous: • Y2K and the...

Send us Fan Mail Before Amazon wish lists and two-day shipping, there was a thin paper flyer, a crumpled order form, and a check your mom wrote with mild suspicion. The Scholastic Book Club wasn’t just about books. It was about waiting. About forgetting you even ordered anything. And then one day, the teacher opened a giant cardboard box and the classroom turned into Christmas morning (for some of...

Send us Fan Mail In the 1980s, history didn’t arrive on your phone. It arrived on a rolling television cart that wheeled into your classroom and got parked next to the chalkboard like a sacred object. On the day the Space Shuttle launch was shown live in schools across America, some kids watched in stunned silence. Others cracked jokes. Some had to catch the news at lunch because they were in some...

Send us Fan Mail We were going to be chased into quicksand by Bigfoot during an earthquake! And Spock was there learching around to narrate our demise. Marc joins us this week as we look back at these GenX myths and some closer to home.  Show Sponsor Don't Just Let Memories Live On FNAW Digitize them with The Digitize Center  Angry that you don't have the latest Free Nights and Weekends...

Send us Fan Mail Somewhere between the Diamond Ballroom and the North Canadian River in OKC lies Mecca for a 12 year old boy.  The double space before the beginning of each sentence here lets you in that a guy who remembers ET in the theaters is typing this.  But with that (a-hem) experience comes a wealth of "knowledge".  Like, where to get cheap jumper cables and some sweet nunchakus. ...

Send us Fan Mail This week on *Free Nights and Weekends*, we get ready for The Grammys! We welcome in longtime friend and veteran musician Rick Toops — and the two dive headfirst into one of the wildest pop-culture stories of the late ’80s: the rise, fall, and unexpected comeback of Milli Vanilli. Yep. You read that right. Fab Morvan — one half of the most infamous duo in pop history — is nominate...

Send us Fan Mail See he was a bird and he was big, get it? That’s important. In this episode, we dig through the tucked away memories of Sesame Street, touch on the future of *America’s 4,230th favorite podcast about growing up in the 405.  *estimate.  Show Sponsor Don't Just Let Memories Live On FNAW Digitize them with The Digitize Center  Angry that you don't have the latest Free Night...

Send us Fan Mail And that’s a wrap on 2025! From Sesame Street to Toys ‘R’ Us treasure hunts to the white-knuckle thrill of Driver’s Ed, VBS, and an eighth grade year that was really hard to believe are included too!  We relived it all. Quick links Drivers ed   Walk-a-thon   Flea market   My bully   Paper route   That one where you know, coach killed his wife   VBS   The Day After   Sesame St   La...

Send us Fan Mail A look back at the Christmas specials we grew up with and a heartwarming tale of an Ohio Christmas. Featuring a familiar voice and Scott schooling a Buckeye stater about the greatness of the BC Clark jingle. Merry Christmas!  Show Sponsor Don't Just Let Memories Live On FNAW Digitize them with The Digitize Center  Angry that you don't have the latest Free Nights and Week...

Send us Fan Mail A Charlie Brown Christmas has been airing for 60 years, and we all agree it’s a classic. What we don’t agree on is how a cartoon with no visible adults, a depressed eight-year-old, and a dog eating what looks suspiciously like a pile of femur bones ever became “appointment viewing.” This week on Free Nights and Weekends, Scott sits down with his brother, Phil, a Nashville, TN area...