The Radkast

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 that loveable scamp Kevin McCallister finds himself lost in New York! We gush over what makes Home Alone 2 a great sequel, share ideas on what a Home Alone reunion project might look like, and all together feel the warmth of two Christmas classics!

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 Christmas this week on the Radkast!

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 Streisand's cover of an old Christmas standard! All those things and, like always, so much more this week on the Radkast!

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 the Radkast!

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, aesthetics, the score, and the sincerity are all packaged up to make this a Holiday classic! It's Home Alone this week on the Radkast!

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 why he got into acting, we go down a rabbit trail talking an earlier Adam Sandler flop,and he even throws in some moments he shared with the imcomprable Dolly Parton on the set of Steel Magnolias! All those things, and just so much more with our new pal Tom Hodges this week on the Radkast!

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Do it to it!

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 would produce to present as a package celebrating spooky season! All these things, plus, Count Uli and crew confront Chad Alucard and demand he leave Uli's castle. However, the group realize Chad is not all he appears to be. We send the season off talking about 90s Halloween Television this week on the Radkast!