The Radkast

This week, we bring you a very special edition of the show! In this send off to 2024, we bring back This Month in History, we announce the subject for episode 200, and Jesco and Chauncey make a guest appearance to tell a tale of when the world could have ended. Before we welcome in 2025, we made sure to finish this year with an extra dose of off-the-wall wackiness! Fasten your seatbelts, dear list...

This week on the show, because of a technical difficulty, we were unable to release a new episode to round out the holidays. However, we went to the tride and true archives of Sucktastic Cinema to pull out one of our favorite Christmas episodes. Back in 2021, our sister Samantha Kennedy joined us to talk a film prime for the Hallmark/Lifetime movies crowd. It's a little wild diddy called The Spiri...

This week on the show, we continue on with some more holiday festivities! On this episode, we talk about a documentary that follows five colorful characters and their day to day lives leading up to when they can represent Christmas's ultimate icon! Whether they live in their daughter's basement, are a Dallas Polar Bear, a Pro Wrestler, or straight up legally change their name to the big man's, all...

This week on the podcast, we start a string of holiday shows on the road to our 200th episode! Mild mannered Billy Peltzer lives a quiet life with his parents in an idyllic American suburb. However, when his eccentric father suprises him with a unique creature he's named Gizmo, he'll find that his and those around hims Christmas is about to be anything but holly and jolly. After getting wet, Gizmo...

This week on the show, we mix a bit of new material with some old material in honor of Thanksgiving! In this celebration of the holiday, we name some of our favorite holiday dishes and we revisit an old story about the holiday's history with our Hillbilly friends Jesco and Chauncey! Silliness abounds on this Thanksgiving editon of the Radkast!

This week on the show we continue down the road to Radkast episode 200! The next stop is another Six Mix, and this time, we welcome back a long time friend and brother to take on the questions! We talk about being resourceful Midwestern kids, the treasures of Movie soundtracks, and the heart and soul of storytellers. All those things just scratch the surface of what we dive into with our pal Tyler...

This week on the show, we continue our road to 200 episodes and take some time to talk another oddity documentary. What do Superman, Captain Jack Sparrow, Freddy Krueger, and a host of other intellectual properties have in common? How about they're protrayed by seedy, broken people on the boulevard of broken dreams. Swarms of them looking to get a big break without having to really work for it. It...

This week on the show, our good buddy Derek Gove is back to take on the Six Mix questions! We talk about the perils of parents finding Napster downloads, music memories at the roller rink, and the bummer that was Saturday religion class. All those things and so much more this week on the Radkast!

This week on the show, it's the final entry in this year's Five Weeks of Fright! As Halloween inches ever closer, this episode we talk about a familiar character's own mishap with a Halloween Mask. Steve, one of the bullies from the first Haunted Mask, is upset that he's getting older, life is passing him by, and pretty soon he'll be too old for Halloween. To remedy this, he decides he wants to go...

This week, we're back with another Goosebumps riff for week four of Five Weeks of Fright 4! On this episode, a twelve year old boy with attention issues named Skipper constantly has his head in the clouds, and his nose in a comic book, much to the chagrin of his over-bearing father. However, when the pages of his comics start coming to life in real time, Skipper realizes that the world of masks an...

This week on the show, we had to improvise a bit! After an eventful weekend left us unable to record what we had originally planned, we pivoted and dusted off the Radkast Ramble! On a Halloween edition of our throwback series, we talk a bit about popular Halloween costumes through the decades, Matt's first time watching a Horror Cult Classic, and the 75th anniversary of a Disney Halloween staple....

This week on the show, it's week two of not only Five Weeks of Fright 4, but also of our Goosebumps riffs! On this episode; forbidden bunks, suspicious disappearances, gaslighting, and a ravenous forrest beast! As it turns out for one mild mannered teen, his first experience at Summer camp isn't all it's cracked up to be. All those mysterious circumstances, plus, Count Uli is back to continue his...

This EEK, it's that time of year again! The Five Weeks of Fright is finally here! We start off our riffing of Goosebumps episodes with the first, and arguably, the best. Carly Beth is tired of being so scarable. As Halloween approaches, she decides to turn the tables on her tormentors. Against the wishes of a suspect shop owner, Carly Beth takes a frightening mask to wear to exact her revenge. How...

This week on the show, our Mom returns to take on the Six Mix! The three of us talk tuning in to TCM, country folks living in the city, and sometimes preferring sadness in our music. All those things, plus Matt calls Count Uli to deliever some news he may not like, this week on the Radkast!

This week on the show, it's part two of our coverage of Season 5 of the Simpsons! In our last episode discussing the family until 2025, Lisa rallies against the manufacturers of Malibu Stacy, Homer thinks he's big man on campus, and Bart's greatest enemy presents his most evil scheme yet! All these moments, and so much more, as we give our 5 to 1 episode rankings in the second part of our Simpsons...

This week on the show, we are back in Springfield for the latest installment in our retrospective series on the Simpsons! However, not only is this particular season another foundational one for us, this particular episode happens to also be a pretty monumental one as well! Part one of our look at Simpsons season 5 is the 300th podcast episode we have co-hosted and co-produced! We commerate such a...

This week on the show, we are pulling the 80s train into the station. In the final year of the decade of decadence, we'll talk about Bat-mania, some TV shows that soon became 90s staples, and the "iron curtain" is torn down. All these things, and so much more, as we cover the events in media and the world that defined 1989 this week on the Radkast!

This week on the show, we creep ever closer to the conclusion of our look into the 80s! It was the year a new york cop took down a group of thieves on Christmas, gangsta rap hit the mainstream, and a man and his robots entered a theater to riff some bad b-movies! All those things, and so much more, as we talk the world events and moments in media that made up the year 1988! All this week, on the R...

This week on the show, we're back at it with another rip roarin' edition of the Six Mix! This time around, we're excited to welcome our Uncle Scott to the table to take on the questions! We talk about an unforgettable and indelible Star Wars experience, being a Pro Wrestling fan in the 80s, and the special gifts we impart on loved ones. All those topics are just scratching the surface in the this...

This week on the show, we continue our dive into Season 4 of The Simpsons! In part two, we talk about Ralph Wigum's first big outing, Homer's efforts to fight for a dental plan, and the episode that might just be the greatest in the show's history! All those moments, and so much more, here in Part 2 of our Season 4 retrospective of The Simpsons, this week, on the Radkast!

This week, we're back with America's favorite family discussing quite possibly their greatest outing! With another season so monumental, we had to split our thoughts into two parts! Listen in part one as Bart and Lisa write an Itchy and Scratchy, Homer has a health scare, and it's Bart's turn to have a crush! All these moments and so much more as we list off our honorable mentions, and our 10-6 ep...

This week on the show, we're back at it again with a lively edition of the Six Mix! This go around, we're excited to welcome someone we've known for a long time now, but have finally created the opportunity to pick her brain about her life experiences through the lense of nostalgia! The three of us discuss the thrill of Taco Bell and a Chinese novelty store, Going to school posing as a film fanati...

This week on the show we venture, once again, into the 1980s! It was the year Arnold and a team of hunters become hunted, the world was introduced to the Tanner family, and a dirty LA band took the world down to Paradise City. Those events and more in the worlds of Music, Movies, TV, World Events, and Sports when we talk the year 1987 this week on the Radkast!

This week, we continue our look at Season 3 of the Simpsons! Listen as we talk a Bart prank that backfires, an 80s and 90s pop culture collision, and an episode that is hailed by many to be the greatest in the show's histroy! All those moments and more in Part 2 of our Simpsons Season 3 Retrospective, this week on the Radkast!

This week on the show, we make another stop in Springfield! Just like with Season 2, our talk of Season 3 is split into two parts. Here in part one, we give a little insight into where the show is at that point in time culturally, how the writers hit their comedic rhythm, and we give our honorable mentions and episode rankings 10 through 6! Listen as Milhouse falls in love, Moe starts getting rich...