The Radkast

This week on the show, it's our first proper episode of 2026! We mark the occasion with a new edition of Gamer Guy-des, and the celebration of our brother Tyler's induction into the Radkast 5-Timers Club! With Tyler back to take on the GG questions, the three of us talk about his affinity for the Batman Arkham series, we discuss a stretch of time where Tyler would make secret trips to play GTA 4,...

This week, we ring in the New Year with a Radkast bonus episode! Our Home Alone recording session with our good pal Dan Drake yielded a great off-the-cuff discussion about setting goals, and what that could look like for someone in the upcoming year! It's short and sweet, but we had a great talk none the less! We hope you enjoy it just as much this week on the Radkast!

This week on the show, it is the last of our Holiday fare, and the last proper episode of 2025! Our dear friend Dan Drake returns to the show for a Home Alone Holiday Extravaganza! To begin, the three of us revist the first film and chat with Dan about his love for the movie and what it means to him. We then transition into talking about the beloved, and often more highly praised, sequel where tha...

This week on another holiday themed episode, Jake Vehlewald returns to help us talk the TRUE sequel to a Christmas classic! We three chat about the benefits of Peter Billingsley's return as a more seasoned Ralphie Parker, lament about a few things here and there we weren't as charmed by, and all together gush about this movie capturing the heart and spirit of the original! It's a Christmas Story C...

This week, our holiday episodes roll on as we bring back the Christmas edition of the Six Mix! Our longtime and dear friend Bethany Austin makes her first appearance on the show to share her yuletide centric nostalgia! We talk her deep affection for two holiday classics, a Fisher Price gift that, after all these years, had been hard to top, and an absurd sibling tradition that involved Barbra Stre...

This week, we continue on with our Christmas episodes by celebrating the 60th Anniversary of a beloved holiday television staple! The imagery from this Christmas special has been in the cultural zeitgeist as long as it has existed, the score is in the Library of Congress, and the message transcends generations. It's the warmth and charm of the Peanuts gang in A Charlie Brown Christmas this week on...

This week, we kick off a steady stream of holiday shows! The way we start this year's festivities is by going back 35 years and talking about what many consider one of, if not THE, greatest Christmas movies of all time! It made a star of one of the biggest child actors of the 90s, it created a prototype for many a slap stick kids movies, and it reached heights no other comedy before it had! Warmth...

On this VERY special episode, our dear friend Jess Weed joins us to welcome the one, the only, Lars from Heavyweights himself Tom Hodges to the podcast! In this largely unedited edition of the show, you'll hear our ENTIRE conversation with Tom! From the time he hopped on Zoom until the time we bid him adieu, the four of us talked some behind the scenes Heavyweights stories, Tom tells us how and wh...

This week on the show, we go back in time five years! In honor of the film celebrating it's 30th anniversary earlier this year, and in honor of our impending episode with "Lars" himself Tom Hodges, we're re-releasing our discussion with our dear friend Jess Weed where we talk glowingly about the beloved camp classic Heavyweights!

This week, we're taking a trip back to the 1970s! Listen as we talk the year the world was exposed to a new guitar god, the first time a little adopted boy asked Willis what he was talking about, and the movie event that made people believe a man could fly! All those things and so much more in the Movies, Music, Television, Sports, and World Events of 1978 this week on the Radkast!

The time has come. Another year, and another Five Weeks of Fright comes to a close. Although it's always bittersweet for us, for week five, we go out with a bang! On this episode, Jeremy Weed makes another Halloween appearance to help us tackle a hefty topic! The three of us talk programming blocks, bumpers, graphics, sitcoms, and holiday specials TV stations big, small, local, network, or cable w...

On this episode, we continue with week four of the Radkast Five Weeks Of Fright! This time around, we talk about Halloween obsessed Marnie and how she feels suffocated by her dull and surburban existence. However, after a visit from her eccentric Grandmother, she finds out a family secret that shows her she's more special than she realized! After following their grandma back to a land of Witches,...

On this episode, it's week three of the Radkast Five Weeks of Fright 5! On this edition, we talk a film that is a bonafide Halloween classic and is an institution this time of year! Max Dennison is a 90s teen who accidentally resurrects three devilshly charming witches with an appetite for children. It's up to him, his sister Dani, his crush Allison, and a talking cat named Thackery Binx to send t...

On this episode, it's week two of the Radkast Five Weeks of Fright 5! Our brother Tyler returns to the show to help us talk about how much we adore just about anything with a Halloween theme, the Halloween traditions and movie rotations Tyler would partake in growing up, and also his particular affinity for peculiar Skeletons! Not to mention, Count Uli seeks the help of Count Boris and the Vampire...

Five Weeks of Fright is finally here! This year, we start off the 5th edition of our annual celebration of the spooky with the classic story of Casper the ghost and his journey to find a friend. It takes a grieving father and daughter both on their own journies of discovery, a villainess and her bumbling sidekick trying to obtain treasure, and his three gross ghostly uncles wreaking havoc for ever...

Just before September closes, we're bring you a quick bonus episode right before we kick off Five Weeks of Fright! Joe Gilbert stuck around to help us discuss a missed opportunity Saban could've had with Super Sentai, we have some ideas on how social outrage over media can be curbed, and we continue to believe the message of the Power Rangers; ultimate good will always conquer evil. All those thin...

This week on the show, we revisit the world of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers! On this go around, we talk again about the general phenomenon and merchandising juggernaut The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers was, and track how that transitioned into the marketing mania of the movie! We discuss the McDonald's campaign and the two Happy Meal tiers, some surprising disappointments, and even have a few sugge...

This week on the show, Summer is behind us, and as we look to the fall, our buddy Derek Gove returns to talk about the method he and his brother had for trying to beat one of the Sonic games, his memories with LAN Parties and couch co-ops, and he almost forgets to talk about one of the more formative, and instrumental, gaming franchises of his youth! Our discussion yielded those subjects, and oh s...

This week on the show, it's the finale of Radkast 90s Summer! On this episode, we talk a beloved movie, a sweet, sincere hero, and once again, the ever so charming Brendan Fraser! We close out what's become a personally tough Summer by talking about that defender of the innocent, protector of the weak, and all around good guy George of the Jungle, and his absolutely wonderful and hilarious film th...

We're back after a two week hiatus, and we soldier on with the Radkast 90s Summer! In the penultimate edition of the series, we revisit a film that was constantly in our Movie rotation when we were kids! It's the tale based on a comic strip about a well-meaning, rambunctious, and precocious child and his adventures terrorizing his elderly next door neighbor, with a terrifying, theving drifter thro...

This week for RK 90s Summer, we revisit a film that not only celebrates it's 35th Anniversary in 2025, but was also a childhood favorite of ours! It's the well beloved and oft quoted tale of Arnold Schwarzenegger interacting with and teaching Kindergartners. There's obviously more to the story, but such an odd premise is pulled off so wonderfully. Although it is often times mis-categorized as a ch...

This week on the show, we wheeze a little juh-uice! 90s Summer rolls on as we talk a film that is a pure, un-adulturated time capsule of the early part of the decade! It has an excellent soundtrack, an off-the-wall premise, an endlessy charming Brendan Fraser caveman, and Pauly Shore's weasel persona hitting big at just the right time! Our dear friend Tyler Stricklan zooms in to be inducted into t...

This week for The Radkast 90s Summer, we talk about an unsung hero in world of Sports movies! It's a movie that had an outlandish premise, but balanced it out and kept it grounded by showcasing some of the best shot and most realistic Baseball ever put to film. Even if you aren't as instrested in accuracy in your Baseball movies, theres still enough charm to keep you endeared to it. It's Little Bi...

This week on the show, we launch a new series with one of our favorite guests! For week eight of the Radkast 90s Summer, we revisit quite possibly the most 90's movie of them all, and definitely one of the biggest Summer blockbusters of the decade! Unlike when we talked about the film a few years ago, this go around we cover just about every bit of advertising that had Batman Forever slapped on it...

This week on the show, it's week 7 of the Radkast 90s Summer! For this edition, we talk four junior highers sick of their typical Summer plans enlisting the help of an eccentric former drama teacher with a knack for disguises. When it's soon found out by their classmates that the friends were planning on financially fleecing their parents, and hiding away for their own Summer ruckus, a host other...