Toasting the Classics

Clint Lanier and Dave McArthur discuss the 1979 science fiction comedy The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy while drinking Pan-Galactic Gargle Blasters.

Bill Hodges and Dave McArthur discuss the 1976 film Network, because they're mad as heck and they're not gonna take it anymore.

Dave McArthur and amazingly enough, Bill Hodges, sit down to discuss the Bill Hodges trilogy by Stephen King while drinking Green Spot Irish whiskey.

Clint Lanier and Dave McArthur discuss the 1979 action film The Warriors while drinking clinky bottles of Coors Banquet beer.

Dave McArthur stays sober to discuss the 2003 Nonfiction book Moneyball.

Dave McArthur and Clint Lanier discuss the 1974 spy thriller Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy while drinking sherry.

Dave McArthur welcomes guest host Bill Hodges to do a not quite entirely sober short on Henry David Thoreau's 1854 work Walden.

Clint Lanier and Dave McArthur drinks Blackberry Black Dog cocktails while discussing the 1971 rock album Led Zeppelin IV.

Dave McArthur and Clint Lanier discuss the 1943 novel A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.

Clint Lanier and Dave McArthur discuss the NES adventure game The Legend of Zelda.

Clint Lanier and Dave McArthur discuss the cult classic anime film Akira.

Dave McArthur and Clint Lanier discuss the original Jurassic Park film. Listen to this one before you go see the Seventh installment this summer!

Clint Lanier and Dave McArthur travel back in time to the 1990s and revisit the gangster rap breakthrough the Chronic while drinking forties.

Clint Lanier and Dave McArthur discuss the coming of age novel Catcher in the Rye back in 2021 when the world was fresh and new.

In a blast from the past, Clint Lanier and Dave McArthur drink Miller High Life and discuss two of George Carlin's most popular comedy albums.

Dave McArthur and Bill Hodges stay sober and discuss whether the 1956 Alfred Hitchcock remake of The Man Who Knew Too Much will enter the Toasting the Classics Hall of Fame.

Clint Lanier and Dave McArthur discuss the Clint Eastwood shoot 'em up, The Good the Bad and The Ugly. Are there oxford commas in that title? Should the "O" in oxford comma be capitalized? Help! And enjoy the summer!

Clint Lanier and David McArthur discuss the phenomenal album Pet Sounds by the Beach Boys, re-released in honor of the passing of Brian Wilson.

Dave McArthur and Bill Hodges pass judgment on the Jack London novella The Call of the Wild.

Dave McArthur discusses the 1984 Wim Wenders film Paris, Texas

Dave McArthur and guest host Bill Hodges discuss the 2015 biography of Alexander von Humboldt The Invention of Nature, and they stay sober while doing it.

Bill Hodges and Dave McArthur discuss the 1998 A Walk in the Woods while drinking moonshine and taking slight digressions into their own wilderness experiences

In what was probably one of our tipsiest episodes, Clint Lanier and Dave McArthur discuss the blockbuster martial arts film Enter the Dragon.

Clint Lanier and Dave McArthur drink cheap chardonnay and discuss the 1979 film debut of Steven Martin.

A blast from the Toasting the Classics past and a time before things went awry in America. Also after, but also before. Dave McArthur and Clint Lanier discuss Dr. Dre's rap smash The Chronic while drinking forties of King Cobra.