Leighton Night with Brian Wecht

It's the first episode of 2026, and we're coming right out of the gate with a meandering discussion about all sorts of stuff: ceiling holes, fake snow, the Fallout franchise, eating zucchini, jazz communion, and more! Do you hate ads but love this show? Do you want an incredible deal on access to our entire 5 year backlog of video and ad-free episodes for TWO DOLLARS A MONTH? Then check out our Pa...

This week we're unlocking two of the mini-episodes from our Patreon, originally released on October 22 & 29, 2025. If you like what you hear, sign up for more at patreon.com/leightonnight to get one every week! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Happy New Year! In lieu of a full episode this week, we bring you this abandoned recording we did back in October that we gave up on because it sucked so bad. Judge for yourself! The full video version is available for free on Youtube, so go watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaYn3trK3DA Do you hate ads but love this show? Do you want an incredible deal on access to our entire 5 year b...

It's the SECOND HALF OF PART TWO of our annual Christmas clip show! Last ep was Bad Book Club themed, and this one is... everything themed. If you like what you hear, be sure to check out full episodes 252, 263, 277, 284, 287, 290, 291, 298, and 299. Thank you all for another wonderful year of supporting us as we make premium quality, wet, hot, audio content to put in your filthy little ear holes....

It's THE FIRST HALF OF PART TWO of our annual Christmas clip show! Last ep was Bad Book Club themed, and this one is... everything themed. If you like what you hear, be sure to check out full episodes 252, 263, 277, 284, 287, 290, 291, 298, and 299. Thank you all for another wonderful year of supporting us as we make premium quality, wet, hot, audio content to put in your filthy little ear holes....

It's time for our annual Christmas clip show, covering the past year of this ridiculous podcast (with some interstitial banter, of typically high quality). This one mainly covers highlights from our many Bad Book Clubs this year-- we read The Da Vinky Code, Harry Potter and the Methods of Craptionality, and Secret of Secrets. If you like what you hear, be sure to check out full episodes 254, 255,...

We're edging all the way to Episode 300, baby-- and we're not even CLOSE to finishing. On this one, we talk about introductory Simpsons episodes, chaperoning children, girlbossing too close to the sun, Breaking Bad (again), and more! We don't talk about 6 7 at all. Where did you even get that idea. Shut up. Please submit your entries (with timestamps) for the Best of 2025 Christmas Clip Show eithe...

We're back with our favorite yearly tradition: hanging out with our buddy Miles Luna in the spirit of Thanksgiving-- while imbibing spirits! We talk about adjusting to life across the pond, British food image rehabilitation, musicals, Twin Peaks, D-bag hotties, and more! As always, it's a total joy.  Do you hate ads but love this show? Do you want an incredible deal on access to our entire 5...

On this lovely ep, we're joined by musician and artist Nick Thorburn (insta: @nickfromislands) to discuss such hard-hitting topics as the best/worst movie dogs, the Forbes 30 Under 30 spam email list, innovations in reed technology, the zen of making art, film school, Cine2Nerdle, and more! Go to https://tinyurl.com/f4ywnnep to get tickets for the SELAH Shoulder to Shoulder benefit concert on Dece...

We're back with a lo-fi episode of Leighton Night to study and relax to, because despite Brian being in a literal recording studio, his audio is bad and also our tracks got lumped together with no backup. Forgive us our sins. We discuss high school stories, how to destroy people in Cine2Nerdle, character actors, mid animated television, and we also create some new conspiracy theories about your fa...

We're back with a REAL episode this time. We promise. We're on the path to fix our past wrongs, i.e. having to scrap the last episode we recorded because it was too bad to air. Do we atone for our sins and reclaim our honor on this ep? Listen to find out! We discuss a variety of things: board games, Breaking Bad, phone etiquette, sangria, toxic masculinity, and more! Do you hate ads but love this...

We're back with another supercut of re-runs, because we both have busy lives, for which we are incredibly sorry. What we're not sorry for is MORE JORY CONTENT! Here we have three wonderful eps with our most frequent guest/unofficial third co-host Mr. Jory Griffis! This selection includes his inaugural appearance, Episode 2: Jory Griffis, Movie Boy; Episode 46: Keanu Reeves Thirst Quest; and Episod...

Happy Halloween folks! WE'RE RANKING HORROR MOVIES (NOT CLICKBAIT!) ie. creating our Official Podcast Horror Movie Canon List- We go through our horror movie picks for categories SUCH AS: Horror Movies that are fun and not too scary for kids, Movies so good that people forget to list them but then you watch and you think "wow that movie IS good," Honorary Scaries where the movie isn't horror but D...

Today we're joined by Emmy award winning writer and musician Genevieve LeDoux (ig: @last_unicorn_mom) for a chat about her new music project, Neil Diamond (and his various crimes), E.T. (and his selfless heroics), living in Georgia, kid-friendly horror, Jersey foods, and more! This is a fun one. You can check out Star Forest at www.starforest.rocks. Do you hate ads but love this show? Do you want...

Now, here's what's gonna happen. You're gonna press the play button on whichever platform you're listening to this thing on, be it Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or whatever the hell else, and you're gonna sit quietly and listen to this entire thing. You may hear some things you like; you may hear some things you don't. Depends on what you're into. Doesn't really matter to me. You would be amazed by how...

Happy October! We're continuing our annual tradition of re-airing all three episodes of Leighton's horror history series Deep Cuts in one convenient package for your listening pleasure. Learn about the surprising origins of the found footage genre, all the entries pre-dating The Blair Witch Project, a massive section on Blair Witch (duh), and everything that came after. If you're looking for some...

Greetings, scumbags. We're here with another listicle episode-- this time ranking the great scumbags of cinema (and TV). This one is sure to be controversial. Can you be too high class to be a scumbag? Who's too evil to be a scumbag? Are all fictional lawyers scumbags? All this, and more. Some of these entries will SHOCK you. And the ranking order may infuriate you. It's short and sweet and starts...

Sigh. We're back with a deeper dive into the nitty gritty of this godawful book. Learn more about non-local consciousness and non-local consciousness and non-local consciousness and more non-local consciousness. Are you sick of hearing that phrase? SO ARE WE. We cover the awful "plot twist" and how charming everyone finds the most insufferable fictional man alive and how every character in this bo...

Robert Langdon is back in another riveting entry of Dan Brown Mad Libs, and we're unfortunately also back to talk trash about it. You're never gonna guess what happens in this extremely formulaic, long, and boring race against the clock around Prague with another sexy lady scientist and another monstrous assassin and another shadowy organization pulling all the strings. Thought the pseudohistory a...

We have an absolutely fascinating, funny, and extremely talented guest for you today-- Dave Cobb, experience and theme park designer extraordinaire! We chat about what got him into this line of work, evergreen Simpsons content, Looney Toons, behind-the-scenes stories of experience design, favorite defunct attractions, and more! Seriously, this might be one of the best interviews we've ever done an...

Friend of the show and longtime NSP collaborator Simon Macko (Shoocharu) joins us today as we arbitrarily decide that we get to make the rules for how movies should be made from here on out- and also how unfair it is that Criterions are only sold in the US and what Brian's perfect honeypot would be, (take notes, otherwise it's entrapment and we can't get a conviction.) Anywho. Do you hate ads but...

We're in peak form today with this chill chat about submissions for the new Massachusetts state flag (as well as ideas for the official Leighton Night flag), Starbucks PSL MVPs, our alternate names, earnestly bad horror movies, War of the Worlds, a lil bit of Succession, and more! Do you hate ads but love this show? Do you want an incredible deal on access to our entire 5 year backlog of video and...

WE ARE SO BACK! Leighton returns from Portland to discuss strange small world encounters, kittens, and Maeby antics; and we get into all sorts of other stuff, like deep diving on Brian's Succession viewing, creepy feet peeping houses, and more! Good stuff. Very bit/"comedic experience" heavy. Check out our Patreon and support the show at patreon.com/leightonnight! Follow us on Twitter at @leighton...

We're taking a week off and UNLOCKING two of our world-famous Patreon minisodes! These two minis we have here are "Leopard Print" from April 30th and "My Little Gamers" from May 21st. If you want more where this came from, or ad-free and video episodes for as low as $2 a month, go to patreon.com/leightonnight to support the show! Follow us on Twitter at @leightonnight and on Instagram/TikTok at @l...

Folks- you’re never gonna believe it, but we have yet another episode of Leighton Night with Brian Wecht where our hosts make a list, sort of. But that’s just a blip in the middle of the episode, we’ve also got discord drama, the origin of the concept of slapstick, the inexcusable sin of language being used incorrectly, and very briefly, in passing, a minor reference the groundbreaking music video...