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- ...Escaped The Surly Bonds Of Science Class To Go Run Laps In Gym
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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 nerd math class.
Today, we welcome Chad Goucher to step up to the mic and we relive that era like two dudes that watched it happen from the same jr high!
Reagan's White House Speech
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Original music provided by a few of the gentlemen of Supernal Endgame35 min - The Star Trek Dude Was A Liar. Probably
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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.
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Original music provided by a few of the gentlemen of Supernal Endgame38 min - Great Selection of "Reabok" Shoes! Again
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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. Let's go back to the mid-80's and explore The Old Paris Flea Market.
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Original music provided by a few of the gentlemen of Supernal Endgame42 min - Live at the Myriad! Well… “Live”; Milli Vanilli Is Sort Of Up For A Grammy Again, Again!
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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 nominated for a Grammy. Again. And it just so happens Rick was there, in Oklahoma City, watching Milli Vanilli perform at the Myriad right before the scandal broke. The crowd. The energy. The lip-syncing. The clues. The chaos. Rick walks Scott — and you — through the entire surreal experience. In this episode: The night Milli Vanilli came to Oklahoma City. Rick’s behind-the-scenes musician perspective. How the duo shot to global superstardom * The fallout after the tapes stopped matching the lips * And how, somehow, decades later… redemption comes knocking at the Grammys. It’s nostalgic, it’s ridiculous, it’s musical, and it’s right here!
Rick is a better keyboardist that any of us! Listen here!
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Original music provided by a few of the gentlemen of Supernal Endgame36 min - Stick Your Hand All The Way Up There! The Sesame Street Episode! The rerun we don’t even deserve!
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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.
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Original music provided by a few of the gentlemen of Supernal Endgame37 min - Stick A Fork In It! FNAW’s 2025 Recap!
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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.
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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 Lawnchair Larry State fair Yugo Back To the Future Knight Rider reboot Black Friday Milli Vanilli Toys R Us
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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!
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Original music provided by a few of the gentlemen of Supernal Endgame35 min - 5¢ always seemed like a deal. A Second Look At A Classic, A Charlie Brown Christmas
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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 therapist whose license is probably more valid than Lucy’s, to talk about why Charlie Brown can’t seem to find Christmas. Along the way, Phil unpacks sharp insight: Charlie Brown isn’t missing joy or holiday spirit as much as something much more close to home.
They also ask the important questions.
Why does Snoopy appear to be hoarding bones like evidence?
Why didn’t we ever get to ice skate on a pond in suburban Atlanta?
Who did Lucy’s office decorating? Phil appreciates her minimalist look.
It's a thoughtful look at the saddest little tree ever sold, a kid who keeps trying anyway, and a holiday special that somehow understands adulthood better than most adult storytelling.
Phil rejected my idea of me just adding trombone noises after I would ask him a question. So here’s Plan B. Merry Christmas, everyone!
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Phil’s Return To Heart podcast
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Original music provided by a few of the gentlemen of Supernal Endgame24 min - Inside the Cathedral of 80s Childhood: Toys “R” Us
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This week on Free Nights and Weekends, we step back inside the cathedral of 80s childhood: Toys “R” Us. If you grew up in that era, this wasn’t just a store — it was the place where your pulse spiked, your hopes soared, and your parents quietly questioned every decision that led them into that building. Those sliding glass doors opened like the gates of Oz, releasing that unmistakable cocktail of plastic, rubber, cardboard, and unspoken financial dread.
And yes, the South Oklahoma City Toys “R” Us was built at the ass end of the Valleybrook strip clubs. It was the 80s — there was a working oil well in the field next to it. Don’t worry about any of that. We’re taking the full aisle-by-aisle pilgrimage: the action figures whose legs were held on by sacrificial rubber bands, the towering bike wall, the blue-shirted teenager with The Keys, and the mystical video-game slip system that somehow felt safer than airport security. We revisit the RC aisle chaos, the eternal Saturday traffic jam, and the infamous toy-grab sweepstakes every kid mentally rehearsed.
That backward “R” wrecked native Russian speakers, because in Cyrillic that letter literally means “ya.” So for Russian kids? “Toys Я Us” read as “Toys I Us.” Which makes no sense unless Geoffrey the Giraffe was trying to send a deeply existential message. But they boycotted the ‘84 Olympics anyway, so whatever.
We also look at the surprising comeback of Toys “R” Us — why the world is trying to resurrect it, and what that says about nostalgia, retail, and the parts of childhood we’re all quietly trying to get back.
If this place was your childhood escape, this episode is basically a return service — zero guilt, all joy, no line at checkout.
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Original music provided by a few of the gentlemen of Supernal Endgame29 min - Live at the Myriad! Well… “Live”; Milli Vanilli Is Sort Of Up For A Grammy Again
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This week on *Free Nights and Weekends*, Scott is joined by 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 nominated for a Grammy. Again. And it just so happens Rick was there, in Oklahoma City, watching Milli Vanilli perform at the Myriad right before the scandal broke. The crowd. The energy. The lip-syncing. The clues. The chaos. Rick walks Scott — and you — through the entire surreal experience. In this episode: The night Milli Vanilli came to Oklahoma City. Rick’s behind-the-scenes musician perspective. How the duo shot to global superstardom * The fallout after the tapes stopped matching the lips * And how, somehow, decades later… redemption comes knocking at the Grammys It’s nostalgic, it’s ridiculous, it’s musical, and it’s right here!
Rick is a better keyboardist than all of us! Listen here!
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GenX stories from the 1980's Oklahoma suburbs.