Rad or Sad

So long, goodbyeI'll see you when I see youYou can pick the streetI'll meet you on the other side

Zach and Lexi will be back soon! Work/Life balance, folks!!

Zach and Lexi celebrate the big 7-5! Happy being old, Raddies and Saddies. As part of the festivites, the crew brings on a friend to discuss the weird things their brains do.Episode thread: https://www.radorsadpodcast.com/episode-threads/ep-75-our-personality-quirks-ft-trish-pickelhaupt

Zach and Lexi take advantage of their podcast format for a topic that is truly best discussed in an audio only setting— smells. Good smells, bad smells, all of the smells. This episode's a real stinker.Episode thread: https://www.radorsadpodcast.com/episode-threads/ep-74-smells

Zach and Lexi are headed west! Hop in the ol' covered wagon as the Rad or Sad Crew heads out along the Oregon Trail (the video game, they do not have the wherewithal to survive the real thing).Episode thread: https://www.radorsadpodcast.com/episode-threads/ep-73-the-oregon-trail

Zach and Lexi go through the pantheon of great pets from fiction, and decide which ones to bring into their household and which ones to kick to the curb. Just kidding, they would never do that that's mean!!Episode thread: https://www.radorsadpodcast.com/episode-threads/ep-72-fictional-pets

Zach and Lexi put themselves in their high school shoes and rank the pantheon of coming of age movies. How will they do that, you ask? Why, through the power of friendship, of course!Episode thread: https://www.radorsadpodcast.com/episode-threads/ep-71-coming-of-age-movies

Zach and Lexi are reunited to talk about all those hotties and quirky characters that they, along with some Raddies and Saddies, have been crushin' on.Episode thread: https://www.radorsadpodcast.com/episode-threads/ep-70-our-fictional-crushes

Sorry everyone!!!

Zach and Lexi dive down the rabbit hole of their favorite movie review/comedy gold site, and somehow come out with a quiz show on the other side.Episode thread: https://www.radorsadpodcast.com/episode-threads/ep-695-the-letterboxd-gamesOur Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/radorsad

Episode 69? Nice B)Episode thread: https://www.radorsadpodcast.com/episode-threads/ep-69

Zach and Lexi celebrate Mother's Day today by doing what all good children do: calling their moms.Episode thread: https://www.radorsadpodcast.com/episode-threads/ep-68-our-momsFirst Twitch stream is May 10th at 8pm EST, follow us here: https://www.twitch.tv/radorsad

Zach and Lexi are back and ready to reeeeaaaad, baby. They crack open some childhood favorites, confess to AR Point sins, and rediscover their childlike wonder, if only for a moment.Episode thread: https://www.radorsadpodcast.com/episode-threads/ep-67-ya-novels-we-grew-up-onFollow us on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/radorsad

Zach and... Conor ?? That's right, no Lexi this episode. Instead Zach, Conor, and their guest, Ella Dawson, talk all about the toys of their childhoods. From huge Lego sets to weird squish toys, to things that weren't even toys at all, get ready for a nostalgic spiral into Toyland.Episode thread: https://www.radorsadpodcast.com/episode-threads/ep-66

Zach and Lexi— the ultimate deliberators of morality— scour r/AmItheAsshole for conflict and strife, deciding once and for all who is or is not The Asshole.Episode thread: https://www.radorsadpodcast.com/episode-threads/ep-65-reddit-aitas

Zach and Lexi take us back to the temporarily divided rooms of attending conferences. Poorly styled dress clothes? Oh yeah. Boxed lunches? Of course. Fleeting, teenage love? Wouldn't be a real conference without it.Episode thread: https://www.radorsadpodcast.com/episode-threads/ep-64-conferencesEpisode thread: https://www.radorsadpodcast.com/episode-threads/ep-64-conferencesThe Nitty Gritty of Rad or Sad Bucks: https://www.radorsadpodcast.com/radorsadbucks.htmlOur Do We Like EpisodeSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0svhejWTEPRXjUu2kN2COr?si=YBvaBGzBQk-PsK_zwflaxQApple: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/24-w-zach-and-lexi/id1534604445?i=1000511556265Our First Gleecap EpisodeSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5g7XQZZ6lH2INl7RNFM0Rz?si=1sdykQ8sTbCft1DOr_RgOgApple: https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/s2e20-prom-queen-with-lexi-zavala-and-zach-st-clair/id1517814926?i=1000511486060

Zach and Lexi pull some games out of the vault and decide whether these radio classics are rad or sad. Also in this episode Zach is drunk.Episode thread: https://www.radorsadpodcast.com/episode-threads/ep-63-radio-games

Zach and Lexi bring on a friend to try something a little different... It's a battle of the wits and the letters as the Rad or Sad crew see if they've retained anything from the spelling tests of days past.Episode thread: https://www.radorsadpodcast.com/episode-threads/ep-62-the-rad-or-sad-spelling-bee-ft-ryan-mersmann

Zach and Lexi get some international radness and sadness from two new friends! Robyn and Eric Kanius, two Canadian podcasters and the hosts of Do We Like?, bring us some of the impactful PSAs that graced their childhood televisions.Check out Beaned Media and all their podcasts: beanedmedia.comEpisode thread: https://www.radorsadpodcast.com/episode-threads/ep-61-canadian-childrens-psas

Zach and Lexi celebrate Valentine's Day with the internet's date ideas and a game designed to destroy their love.Episode thread: https://www.radorsadpodcast.com/episode-threads/ep-60-valentines-day-special

Zach and Lexi revisit the hallowed halls of the malls of their youth. They bounce from store to store, stop by the food court, and maybe snag a graphic tee or two.Episode thread: https://www.radorsadpodcast.com/episode-threads/ep-59-malls

Zach and Lexi bring us the latest installment in this thrilling trilogy of card games, hard decisions, and weird, weird energy.Episode thread: https://www.radorsadpodcast.com/episode-threads/ep-58-would-you-dilemmas-the-devilish-rathers-pt-3

Have you ever stopped to wonder about the immense cultural influence you are connected to but mostly missed out on by being a baby the year you were born? Well, Zach and Lexi did, and now they're duking it out to see whose birth year is the raddest. We'll sell you your whole seat, but you'll only need the edge etc. etc.Episode thread: https://www.radorsadpodcast.com/episode-threads/ep-57-battle-of-the-birth-years

Zach and Lexi make a mellow episode this week talking about cool people, good reads, and a whole lots of recs.Episode thread: https://www.radorsadpodcast.com/episode-threads/ep-56-our-media-diets

Zach and Lexi have shamelessly mined social media for topics and recast their favorite movies as Muppets! Honestly, are we even a little surprised?Episode thread: https://www.radorsadpodcast.com/episode-threads/ep-55-muppeting-our-favorite-movies

Zach and Lexi are taking the holidays off! Rad or Sad will return on Monday, January 11th, 2021.

Zach and Lexi lay out all the raddest and saddest parts of their family Christmas traditions both past and present.Episode thread: https://www.radorsadpodcast.com/episode-threads/ep-54-our-christmas-traditions

Zach and Lexi had no idea just how many fictional bears there are, and so today they're digging in like never before! It's the wonderful bears you know and love with fun twists and deeeep rabbit holes along the way.Episode thread: https://www.radorsadpodcast.com/episode-threads/ep-53-fictional-bears

A bonus episode ?? Is it Christmas already ??? Zach and Lexi tracked down the glorious meat sticks that Lexi used to sell for fundraisers, and so— naturally—​ the Rad or Sad team tries them all.Episode thread: https://www.radorsadpodcast.com/episode-threads/ep-525-country-meats-meat-sticks

Zach and Lexi dissect their indoctrination into capitalism a.k.a. the fundraisers they had to sell stuff for as wee children. In the process, they drag all of their parents into the mix.Episode thread: https://www.radorsadpodcast.com/episode-threads/ep-52-things-we-had-to-sell-as-kids-ft-our-parents

Zach and Lexi bring on a longtime Raddie and Zach's cousin, Renzo, to talk about all the most wild, disgusting, and/or accidentally violent antics from our school days.Episode thread: https://www.radorsadpodcast.com/episode-threads/ep-51-things-we-got-in-trouble-for-at-school-ft-renzo-stainer

Zach and Lexi commemorate the 50th episode of the 'cast by still being in a relationship!! They revisit the LTR rads and sads from the first episode, and build on those with what they've learned since then.Episode thread: https://www.radorsadpodcast.com/episode-threads/ep-50-ltrs-revisited

Zach and Lexi remember all the furry little friends they've had in their lives and talk about the rads, sads, chaos, and cutness of pet ownership.Episode thread: https://www.radorsadpodcast.com/episode-threads/ep-49-pets

Zach and Lexi take it easy in the midst of these hell times with an evening of board games, trivia, and straight chillin'.Episode thread: https://www.radorsadpodcast.com/episode-threads/ep-48-game-night

Zach and Lexi dive into the most specific childhood television watching memories: the raddest and saddest of As Seen on TV Products.Episode thread: https://www.radorsadpodcast.com/episode-threads/ep-47-as-seen-on-tv-products

Zach and Lexi celebrate the season with the old standards, some modern classics, and a few proposals for new additions to the Halloween canon. Stay spooky, kids.Episode thread: https://www.radorsadpodcast.com/episode-threads/ep-46-halloween-songs

Zach and Lexi finally do what we've all been waiting to be done: they rank the sauces. Strap in.Episode thread: https://www.radorsadpodcast.com/episode-threads/ep-45-getting-lost-in-the-sauce

Zach and Lexi answer all the hard-hitting, hilarious, and otherwise ridiculous questions that you lovely Raddies and Saddies sent to the 'cast.Episode thread: https://www.radorsadpodcast.com/episode-threads/ep-44-ask-us-anything

Zach and Lexi return to a classic game of wits, rathers, and devilishness.Episode thread: https://www.radorsadpodcast.com/episode-threads/ep-43-would-you-dilemmas-the-devilish-rathers-pt-2

As this summer comes to a close, Zach and Lexi look back on their summers— from about a little over a decade ago.Episode thread: https://www.radorsadpodcast.com/episode-threads/ep-42-summer-camps

Zach and Lexi bring on a good friend and a heated kart competitor— Greg Houser— to get into the nitty-gritty of everybody's favorite Italian plumber racing game.Episode thread: https://www.radorsadpodcast.com/episode-threads/ep-40-mario-kart-ft-greg-houser

Zach and Lexi subject themselves— and you— to another food episode, woooo!! They have sought out all the best, worst, and strangest foods that taste like other foods.Episode thread: https://www.radorsadpodcast.com/episode-threads/ep-40-foods-made-to-taste-like-other-foods

Zach and Lexi bring on a friend and host of GleeCap Podcast, Conor Burke, to discuss the television that turned them into the people they are today.Episode thread: https://www.radorsadpodcast.com/episode-threads/ep-39-tv-shows-we-grew-up-watching-ft-conor-burke

Zach and Lexi bring on a good friend— and someone who knows much more than them, though that bar is low— to take a peek into the future of their living situations.Episode thread: https://www.radorsadpodcast.com/episode-threads/ep-38-dream-homes-ft-molly-gardner

Zach and Lexi took a (socially-distanced and masked) trip to Maine, and they brought back all that hot Maine goss.Episode thread: https://www.radorsadpodcast.com/episode-threads/ep-37-maine

Zach and Lexi relive all the death-defying rides, artery-clogging foods, and bizarre regionalisms of the carnivals, festivals, and fairs they grew up with.Episode thread: https://www.radorsadpodcast.com/episode-threads/ep-36-carnivals-festivals-and-fairs

Zach and Lexi spend the night in a Residence Inn while being displaced by Tropical Storm Isaiah, and they chat it up about all things hotels.Episode thread: https://www.radorsadpodcast.com/episode-threads/ep-35-hotels-from-a-hotel

Zach and Lexi bring on two more guests, one new and one returning, to fall down the rabbit hole of conspiracy theories.Episode thread: https://www.radorsadpodcast.com/episode-threads/ep-34-our-favorite-conspiracy-theories-ft-del-holton-and-jackson-wright

Zach and Lexi are joined this episode by Gerit Wagner, friend and knower of foods. They dig into their best and most horrifying childhood eating habits.Episode thread: https://www.radorsadpodcast.com/episode-threads/ep-33-childhood-foods-ft-gerit-wagner

Zach and Lexi discuss what makes or breaks a great talk show host, and who they think should dethrone Jimmy Fallon.Episode thread: https://www.radorsadpodcast.com/episode-threads/ep-32-better-tonight-show-hosts