The Radkast

This week for the final entry in The Radkast 90s Summer 2026, we talk a childhood classic that always had a spot in our watch rotation, and will always have a spot in our hearts. Jess Weed returns to the show to help us glowingly discuss a film we all three hold dear, and one we get a little deep talking about. It's a wonderful story about a special little girl, it's Matilda this week on the Radkast!

This week for the penultimate episode in 90s Summer, we bring you the grand finale of our coverage of 90s McDonald's! Like the first two parts, Jeremy Weed returns to help us talk, this time, about Halloweenie promotions, Other assorted Happy Meal toys, the twice yearly tradition of the famous Monopoly game, and everything in between! It's 90s McDonald's Part 3 this week on the Radkast!

This week on the show, we bring another entry into our Movie Marketing series, and top to bottom it is a blockbuster! Jeremy and Jess Weed return to the show to help us break down the blitzkrieg that was the marketing for Space Jam! The four of us talk the cultural impact both Michael Jordan and the Looney Tunes had before the movie, we talk the merchandise that flooded the market, the merch we wish we had, we gush over the soundtrack, and our guests talk about what it was like to experience the mania during their formative years. All of this truly doesn't scratch the surface of everything we covered and dove into over the duration of this episode! Strap in for a ride this week as we present the Space Jam Movie Marketing thos week on the Radkast!

This week on the show, we talk a popular 90s cartoon staple that made its feature film debut! Those two lovable idiots of the MTV generation, Beavis and Butthead, made a grand trip across the country unintentionally wreaking havoc, having hallucinations in the desert, and unknowlingly were deemed threats to national security, all while being used as pawns by a married couple of independent arms dealers. How might the two teens get wrapped in all of this mess? How else? By following their two motivations...TV and the potential opportunity to score. Our brother Andy Webster returns to help us talk, and get a little existential, about Beavis and Butthead Do America this week on the Radkast!

This week on the show, we continue 90s Summer by giving a quick look at what the Summer of 1996 had to offer in the world's of Movies, Music, TV, Sports, and Toys! It's the Summer of 1996 Pop Culture Flash this week on the Radkast!

This week for 90s Summer, we cover another movie celebrating it's 30th anniversary! Brendan "B" Carter returns to the show to help us talk about the classic fairytale scenario of Shaquille O' Neal playing a rapping ancient Genie! The story is a mess, the main kid character is an insufferable little bastard, the dynamic between the leads falls flat, and Shaq is a cringey performer. However, we still had fun talking about Kazaam, this week, for the Radkast!

This week for 90s Summer, Chris Hoehne returns to help us talk a high octane thrill ride! It's a well rounded visual and sonic special effects spectacular with likeable characters, a relentless pace, and as a bonus, a great soundtrack! It's a 90s Blockbuster that still holds up to this day, and we can never get enough of it! It's Twister this week on the Radkast!

This week, we continue our coverage of the Simpsons season 7 with Joe Gilbert! Here in part 2, we discuss a major life change for Lisa, Milhouse becoming disillusioned with his favorite superhero, and the time we got a little glimpse into the daily life of the denizens of Springfield! All those episodes, and more, as we go through Joe's 7-1 rankings here in part 2 of our Simpsons Season 7 retrospective this week on the Radkast!

This week, we continue 90s Summer by venturing back into Springfield! For the first time since last year's 90s Summer, we jump back into our Retrospective series reviewing the first 10 seasons of the Simpsons! On this edition, we're joined by fellow Simpsons fanatic Joe Gilbert to talk what is considered by many as one of, if not THE greatest seasons of the show, Season 7. Here in part one, we discuss Joe's honorable mentions and his 10-7 episode rankings. We talk Homer finding his Mother in an emotional, and later bittersweet reunion, Troy McClure getting his day in the sun, and Bart wrestling with the essence of his very being! All those things, and so so much more, as we talk The Simpsons Season 7 Part 1 this week on the Radkast!

This week, we continue on with 90s Summer by picking back up with our discussion of that Pop Culture behemoth of the decade, 90s McDonald's! Here in Part 2, Jeremy Weed returns to help us talk some of the more famous restaurant promotions, like The Flintstones and Space Jam,as well as talk one of the most infamous Batman Returns! We also cover some of the more notable television tie-ins, and even throw in the iconic partnership between the Golden Arches and the World's most famous athlete! All these things and more with 90s McDonald's Part 2: Pop Culture Tie-In Tidal Wave this week on the Radkast!

This week, our topic for the Radkast 90s Summer is one of the main pillars of childhood. McDonald's wrapped itself up in our collective conscience, and one could almost argue is the THE embodiment of nostalgia. It was a cross-promotional juggernaut, and in the pop culture explosion of the 1990s, it had it's hands in almost everything! All that being said, there's no way we could've done the subject justice in only one episode. That's why over the next couple of weeks, we're bringing you Parts 1 and 2 of our coverage of 90s McDonald's, with Part 3 coming later in the Summer! Jeremy Weed joins us to kick off our discussion and talk the Golden Arches' relationship with the House of Mouse! It's 90s McDonald's Part 1: Disney and McDonald's this week on the Radkast!

This week on the show, we continue 90s Summer 2026 by re-releasing a banger from September 2022! In line with the theme, it's a classic of the decade and of many a childhood! Chris Hoehne joined us for The Mighty Ducks for this re-release on the Radkast!

This week, 90s Summer 2026 rolls on with a staple in many a comedy loving Millennial's movie watching rotation! Packed with quotes and comedy bits abound, It's a movie that needs little to no introduction, and if you know us, you know it's one we're excited to finally get around to talking about! It's Happy Gilmore this week on the Radkast!

This week for 90s Summer 2026, we talk about a movie the personifies early 90s nostalgia! It has everything that strikes us right to the core of what we love about that time. A film that drips with attitude, charisma and style. It's hip, it's rad, and it's just plain cool. It takes listening to the episode to really justify why this movie has instantly become something special to us! It's Airborne this week on the Radkast!

On this edition of the show, it's the first week of The Radkast 90s Summer 2026! We kick off the festivities by talking about a 12 year old baseball player who just happened to be sent flying by slipping on a baseball, breaks his arm, has said arm heal in a way that gives him the ability to throw smoke, and winds up playing for the Chicago Cubs! It's another one of those highly quotable Sports movies from childhood, filled with kooky characters, humor for everyone, and a whole load of heart! It's Rookie of the Year this week on the Radkast!

This week on the show, it's another edition of Gamer Guy-des! This time around, we welcome back our pals from the From the Point Podcast, and two 5-timers, Chris Hoehne and Joe Gilbert to take on the gaming questions. Listen as they talk about an unorthodox way of playing Need for Speed, their continued shared love of the EA Sports NHL gaming franchise, and the two of them recall some truly special moments that go beyond Video Games. All that is just the tip of the iceberg on this silly episode of the Radkast!

This week on the show, we're looking at another one of our "oddity" documentaries. The film we talk about this go around showcases An Elvis, A Madonna, A Hugh Hefner, a couple members of KISS and a trio of Presidents trying to benefit off of someone else's work and likeness! It's a world that continues to fascinate us, and that's the world of Celebrity Impersonators! We're talking the movie Just About Famous this week on the Radkast!

This week on the show, we pull from the Sucktastic Cinema archives! Help us re-visit the misery of the 2002 Cinematic travesty The Master of Disguise this week on the Radkast!

This week on the show, it's another rip roarin' edition of the Six Mix! This go-around, we welcome, for the first time, friend of the show Brendan "B" Carter to take on the questions! Listen as the three of us talk a formative Movie Theater experience B had watching a world of Wizardry, laugh about the time he accidentally slapped a stranger in the back of the head, and we all get a little deep when discussing the importance of authentic self expression. All those things don't even scratch the surface of what we got into this week on the Radkast!

As the title suggests, and has we've been promoting, the time is finally here for the first live episode of the Radkast! For this very special edition, we broadcast from the St. Charles Taco King Taco Fest, and we talk a movie that maxes out the silly meter! It's a quirky film packed with juvenile humor and loads of slapstick, but it also has heart, charm, and a deep reverance for the culture it's depicting. Speaking of the culture, we also make sure to devote some time to the history and importance of Lucha Libre! We had some sights, sounds, smells, and plenty of food options to salivate over as we talked the 20th anniversary of Nacho Libre this week on the Radkast!

This week, we conclude Air Bud April by going backwards from where we were in the franchise! Josh and Buddy are now thick as thieves and hoopin it up. However, the new Vet in town has the hots for Josh's Mom. So, in order for a conflicted Josh to avoid his Momma's beau, Josh joins the School's Football team. As things in these films tend to go, wouldn't you know it, Buddy is good at Football too! He joins the team, escapes being captured by the slapstick villians, and helps bring the best out of his human teammates! Jake Vehlewald returns to help us cover Air Bud: Golden Receiver this week on the Radkast!

This week, we roll on with another entry in Air Bud April! In the final Bud playing sports installment, Andrea's bestie Tammy is moving to California. Crestfallen by the news, Andrea vows to raise the money to go visit her before the summer is over. After a few failed attempts at obtaining the funds, her new neighbor convinces her to join the town's sand volleyball team, for the league champions win a trip to California. As always, Buddy the dog turns out to be the missing piece for a struggling team. There's also a wise cracking bird, a brother who only eats ice cream, and per the usual, the standard bumbling criminals. It's Air Bud Spikes Back this week on the Radkast!

This week on the show, we continue through Air Bud April! In this AB installment, Josh Framm joins his school's soccer team, and by virtue of that, so does that lovable sport-playing pooch Air Bud! Josh is also smitten with the new girl in town, his kid sister Andrea is now old enough to get into mischief, and Buddy knocks up his lady love and becomes a father! It's Air Bud: World Pup this week on the Radkast!

This week on the show, it's the first entry in our new series Air Bud April! Over the course of the next month, we'll be talking about four of the first five films in the Air Bud Film Franchise; for no other reason than Matt suggested it on a whim last Summer. On this episode, we start at the beginning with the introductions of the Framm Fam and Buddy the dog and his basketball playing ways! We praise some solid performances, discuss some genuinely intense moments, and talk alot about how the first film takes a more grounded approach, at least in comparison to how absurd the Air Bud Entertainment universe would get. All those things, plus, Matt reads off some...interesting...reviews of the movie, and we have a big announcement about an awesome upcoming opportunity for the show! We open up the inaugural Air Bud April by covering Air Bud this week on the Radkast!

This week, we finish March-ial Arts Month 2026 by celebrating the 40th Anniversary of arguably the greatest cult classic of all time! Our Mom, Donna Webster, and Sister, Samantha Kennedy join us to talk a tale as old as time. It's the action packaged 80's adventure about a man and his truck, a friend and his pursuit of his green eyed bride, a plucky lawyer, a wise sage, and a whole load of Chinese mysticism all squaring off against a cursed ancient sorcerer! Need I say more? It's the beloved Big Trouble in Little China this week on the Radkast!

This week, March-ial Arts Month rolls on with a lesser known B-Action Movie! Terry McCain is part Chicago Cop, part Jazz Pianist, and full on badass who plays by his own rules! However, his cavalier police work gets him in hot water with his chief, and his brutual Interrogation tactics end up keeping Kingpin Sal Dimarco from being brought to justice. To make matters worse, some misplaced money involved in a drug bust put a target on the back of Terry and his partners. Just when he thinks he's had enough, an unexpected turn of events present a whole new crop of challenges for Terry McCain! It's Excessive Force this week on the Radkast!

This week on the show, we carry on kickin' with March-ial Arts Month! On this episode, Pro-Football All-Star and fast living Blade Steele must complete community service hours by teaching and looking after latchkey kids at a youth center. Little does he know, he'll be in for more than he bargained for when not only do the kids run all over him, he is also being guided by Bruce Lee sent from Heaven to reform and learn Karate. Blade, under the tutelage of blind Karate master Chozen Wan, learns the martial art, brings it to the children to learn, and finds that cleaning up his act is a good thing. His new skill comes in handy when he finds himself in the middle of a different San Francisco treat; a drug ring using kid's to sell and run by a man by the name of Hector Machete. Blade, Chozen Wan, and a cop named Antonelli make it their mission to take down Machete and to save the kids! It's another obscure 90's movie, and it was funded by the D.A.R.E program! It's Kindergarten Ninja this week on the Radkast!

This week, we kick off another March-ial Arts Month with an obscure offering from the early 90s! Two teenage sisters, their teenage friend, and the trio's little friend Lupe must navigate through issues with a shady real estate developer giving the sister's Dad and the girl's martial arts grand master trouble. With the help of an agent from the department of family services, the girl's rocker male friends, and a dose of girl power, the group saves the school and wins the day! They're just some Black Belt Angels this week on the Radkast!

This week on the show, we are happy to present to you, dear listener, a dive back into the archive of the Proper Gentlemen Podcast! Like when we re-released a PGP in November 2020, we present to you an episode in the series where we talked the TV we grew up with! This go around, it's our discussion about our nostalgia for watching Nickelodeon!

This week, we are excited to welcome back a favorite of ours for the first time in five and a half years! Our very dear friend, fellow Proper Gent, and the newest member of the 5-Timers Club Zach Mathews returns to take on the Six Mix! While he's here, Zach talks about an unlikely place he'd get his Pokemon Cards, the bonds he's forged over NSync and Backstreet Boys, and the special experience it is to pass things down to your children. We discuss all those things, and so much more, when the Zach attack is back on the Radkast!

This week on the show, we bring you another Gamer Guy-des. On this edition, Dave Little returns to talk his love of exploring new worlds in video games, his affinity for building worst-to-first teams in MLB The Show, and Dave lays out his plans for an Arkham style game starring Peter Pan! All those things, and more, this week on the Radkast!

This week on the show, the Radkast Ramble makes a brief return! On this edition, we pay tribute to the brilliance of Catherine O'Hara, and we relay some very true events in history that happened in the month of February!

This week on the show, it's the last episode in our coverage of the 1970s! On this edition of our Decade Retrospective, we talk about the year of the Muppets first foray onto the big screen, a famous rock singer's swan song, and the debut of a cable television sports institution! All those things and so much more in the worlds of Movies, Television, Music, Sports, Celebrity Deaths, and World Events as we cover 1979 this week on the Radkast!

This week on the show we're excited to welcome, for the first time on the Radkast, our brother-in-law Brian Kennedy for the first Six Mix of 2026! On this edition, the three of us talk about the ways media hype was built before the explosion of the internet, an ingenius way for Brian's family to consume TV series on VHS, and Brian walks us through a brief journey of his life with music as an undercurrent. All theses things, and loads more, this week on the Radkast!

This week on the show, it's our first proper episode of 2026! We mark the occasion with a new edition of Gamer Guy-des, and the celebration of our brother Tyler's induction into the Radkast 5-Timers Club! With Tyler back to take on the GG questions, the three of us talk about his affinity for the Batman Arkham series, we discuss a stretch of time where Tyler would make secret trips to play GTA 4, the three of us lament about the times the Playstation 2 wouldn't read a game, and how gaming helps through grief. All those things, and like always with this series, so much more this week on 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! Just in time for Christmas, it's Home Alone 2: Lost in New York and revisiting Home Alone on the Radkast!

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! Would you also like a chance to communicate with Tom? Well, you're in luck! Special for Radkast listeners, Tom is opening up his DMs on Cameo for FREE, and taking 20% of a video message for the first five listeners who reach out! Just visit the link below, slide in his DMs, tell him the Radkast sent you, and give him your video idea and redeem this special offer! https://www.cameo.com/iamlars 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!

On this episode, we continue with week four of the Radkast Five Weeks Of Fright! This time around, we talk about Halloween obsessed Marnie and how she feels suffocated by her dull and surburban existence. However, after a visit from her eccentric Grandmother, she finds out a family secret that shows her she's more special than she realized! After following their grandma back to a land of Witches, Warlocks, and other amazing creatures, it takes Marnie, her two siblings, and their disapproving mother to help Grandma stave off a looming threat that casts a shadow over her whimsical home! All that, plus, after weeks of coming up short, Count Uli may have finally found a way to get his Castle back! It's Halloweentown this week on the Radkast!

On this episode, it's week three of the Radkast Five Weeks of Fright 5! On this edition, we talk a film that is a bonafide Halloween classic and is an institution this time of year! Max Dennison is a 90s teen who accidentally resurrects three devilshly charming witches with an appetite for children. It's up to him, his sister Dani, his crush Allison, and a talking cat named Thackery Binx to send the dreaded Sanderson sisters back to their graves before the trio can complete some 300 year old unfinished business! Before all of the that, Uli's hope for a more permanent dwelling quickly ends up being a very short stay! It's the movie that is top of the heap every Halloween season, it's Hocus Pocus this week on the Radkast!

On this episode, it's week two of the Radkast Five Weeks of Fright 5! Our brother Tyler returns to the show to help us talk about how much we adore just about anything with a Halloween theme, the Halloween traditions and movie rotations Tyler would partake in growing up, and also his particular affinity for peculiar Skeletons! Not to mention, Count Uli seeks the help of Count Boris and the Vampire Counsel to get his castle back. However, there's one major snafu that throws a wrench in his plans. All these things and, wouldn't you know it, so much more with the return of the Halloween edition of the Six Mix this week on the Radkast!

Five Weeks of Fright is finally here! This year, we start off the 5th edition of our annual celebration of the spooky with the classic story of Casper the ghost and his journey to find a friend. It takes a grieving father and daughter both on their own journies of discovery, a villainess and her bumbling sidekick trying to obtain treasure, and his three gross ghostly uncles wreaking havoc for everyone's favorite friendly spectre to finally get what he's longed for! Not only that, but this episode also has the return of Count Uli in his own castle... but for how long? FWOF is back, and we ring it in by talking Casper this week on the Radkast!

Just before September closes, we're bring you a quick bonus episode right before we kick off Five Weeks of Fright! Joe Gilbert stuck around to help us discuss a missed opportunity Saban could've had with Super Sentai, we have some ideas on how social outrage over media can be curbed, and we continue to believe the message of the Power Rangers; ultimate good will always conquer evil. All those things and a few more topics here in this bonus episode of the Radkast!