web01.fireside.fm Fri, 24 Apr 2026 21:38:53 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) The Radkast - Episodes Tagged with “Classic” https://radkastpod.fireside.fm/tags/classic Fri, 05 Dec 2025 05:00:00 -0600 Twin brothers Matt and Steven Webster set out to take the typical nostalgia podcast, and turn it on its head. Each week, the brothers sit down to give their take on topics through out the decades. Whether it's movies, music, television, or sports, The Websters take these subjects on with the help of skits, characters, and guests, with each aspect being infused with silly, sophomoric humor. en-us episodic Twin Freaks discuss what they find rad in the world of music, movies, tv, sports and pop culture throughout the decades. Steven Webster and Matt Webster Twin brothers Matt and Steven Webster set out to take the typical nostalgia podcast, and turn it on its head. Each week, the brothers sit down to give their take on topics through out the decades. Whether it's movies, music, television, or sports, The Websters take these subjects on with the help of skits, characters, and guests, with each aspect being infused with silly, sophomoric humor. yes comedy, movies, nostalgia, music, television, sports, humor, life, lifestyle Steven Webster and Matt Webster theradkastpod@gmail.com 240: A Charlie Brown Christmas https://radkastpod.fireside.fm/261 787e0a13-2ed2-48fd-b8c6-6c3339e009ae Fri, 05 Dec 2025 05:00:00 -0600 Steven Webster and Matt Webster full Steven Webster and Matt Webster 41:27 yes 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! Christmas, Classic, Iconic, Nostalgia, Cartoons, Cartoon, Animation, Christmas Special, CBS, Jazz, Music, Religion, Jesus, Charlie Brown, Depression, Mental Health, Sadness, Joy, Unity, Simplicity 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 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!

]]> 238: An Evening With Lars: Our Conversation With Tom Hodges https://radkastpod.fireside.fm/259 0e31efac-c7be-4e3b-acf5-169f81eec047 Fri, 21 Nov 2025 06:00:00 -0600 Steven Webster and Matt Webster full Steven Webster and Matt Webster 1:28:44 yes 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! Comedy, Nostalgia, Humor, Actor, Tom Hodges, Heavyweights, 90s, Sit down with a legend, Legend, Classic, Discussion, Adam Sandler, Dolly Parton, Steel Magnolias, Going Overboard, Disney, Disney+, Friends, New Friends, Pop Culture, Dreams, Life, Joy 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!

]]> 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!

]]> 234: FWOF5: Hocus Pocus https://radkastpod.fireside.fm/254 2643f23e-4123-46e4-9260-3dfdd31fe667 Fri, 17 Oct 2025 06:00:00 -0500 Steven Webster and Matt Webster full Steven Webster and Matt Webster 1:06:07 yes 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! Halloween, Spooky, Scary, 90s, Disney, Disney Halloween, Hocus Pocus, Classic, Spirit, Paranormal, Witches, Nostalgia, 90s Movie, Spells, Magic, Comedy, Musical, Humor 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 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!

]]> 217: RK 90s Summer: Airheads https://radkastpod.fireside.fm/236 357c1ac5-9550-418a-b9b4-97894996875f Fri, 06 Jun 2025 06:00:00 -0500 Steven Webster and Matt Webster full Steven Webster and Matt Webster 56:53 yes This week, we kick off The Radkast 90s Summer with a bonafide cult classic! Chazz, Rex and Pip are the Lone Rangers, an LA Rock Band just looking to make it big. When their attempts to get their song played on the radio take an unexpected turn, these relatively harmless knuckleheads find themselves in a sticky situation. As the whole ordeal is accidentally played on air, the three end up becoming folk heroes to the degenerates and rebels listening, and seen as three guys trying to live their dream, and stick it to the man in the name of rock n roll! Its a film the studio mismanaged marketing for, got booted from theaters in a manner of weeks, then found new life on cable and home video...as it goes for so many cinema classics! A melting pot of everything 90s, it's Airheads this week on the Radkast! 1990s, 90s, Metal, Punk, Music, Comedy, Nostalgia, Cult, Classic, Pop Culture, 1994, Radio, Crime, True Crime, Humor, Summer This week, we kick off The Radkast 90s Summer with a bonafide cult classic! Chazz, Rex and Pip are the Lone Rangers, an LA Rock Band just looking to make it big. When their attempts to get their song played on the radio take an unexpected turn, these relatively harmless knuckleheads find themselves in a sticky situation. As the whole ordeal is accidentally played on air, the three end up becoming folk heroes to the degenerates and rebels listening, and seen as three guys trying to live their dream, and stick it to the man in the name of rock n roll! Its a film the studio mismanaged marketing for, got booted from theaters in a manner of weeks, then found new life on cable and home video...as it goes for so many cinema classics! A melting pot of everything 90s, it's Airheads this week on the Radkast!

]]> This week, we kick off The Radkast 90s Summer with a bonafide cult classic! Chazz, Rex and Pip are the Lone Rangers, an LA Rock Band just looking to make it big. When their attempts to get their song played on the radio take an unexpected turn, these relatively harmless knuckleheads find themselves in a sticky situation. As the whole ordeal is accidentally played on air, the three end up becoming folk heroes to the degenerates and rebels listening, and seen as three guys trying to live their dream, and stick it to the man in the name of rock n roll! Its a film the studio mismanaged marketing for, got booted from theaters in a manner of weeks, then found new life on cable and home video...as it goes for so many cinema classics! A melting pot of everything 90s, it's Airheads this week on the Radkast!

]]> 197: Gremlins w/Tyler Webster https://radkastpod.fireside.fm/213 2f476356-a542-4104-b71a-8864479a33ed Fri, 06 Dec 2024 06:00:00 -0600 Steven Webster and Matt Webster full Steven Webster and Matt Webster 54:33 yes This week on the podcast, we start a string of holiday shows on the road to our 200th episode! Mild mannered Billy Peltzer lives a quiet life with his parents in an idyllic American suburb. However, when his eccentric father suprises him with a unique creature he's named Gizmo, he'll find that his and those around hims Christmas is about to be anything but holly and jolly. After getting wet, Gizmo multiplies into several other Mogwais, only these are little hell raisers. Once Billy disobeys the final rule of Mogwai care, not to feed them after midnight, the creatures turn into the grotesque and titular Gremlins and start wreaking havoc all over town. It's up to Billy, Gizmo, and Billy's love interest Kate to stop the monsters from ruining Christmas and the lives of their fellow residents. Our brother Tyler returns to talk the holiday horror classic Gremlins this week on the Radkast! Christmas, Horror, Gremlins, 80s, 1980s, Comedy, Humor, Nostalgia, Holiday, Holidays, Dark Comedy, Classic This week on the podcast, we start a string of holiday shows on the road to our 200th episode! Mild mannered Billy Peltzer lives a quiet life with his parents in an idyllic American suburb. However, when his eccentric father suprises him with a unique creature he's named Gizmo, he'll find that his and those around hims Christmas is about to be anything but holly and jolly. After getting wet, Gizmo multiplies into several other Mogwais, only these are little hell raisers. Once Billy disobeys the final rule of Mogwai care, not to feed them after midnight, the creatures turn into the grotesque and titular Gremlins and start wreaking havoc all over town. It's up to Billy, Gizmo, and Billy's love interest Kate to stop the monsters from ruining Christmas and the lives of their fellow residents.
Our brother Tyler returns to talk the holiday horror classic Gremlins this week on the Radkast!

]]> This week on the podcast, we start a string of holiday shows on the road to our 200th episode! Mild mannered Billy Peltzer lives a quiet life with his parents in an idyllic American suburb. However, when his eccentric father suprises him with a unique creature he's named Gizmo, he'll find that his and those around hims Christmas is about to be anything but holly and jolly. After getting wet, Gizmo multiplies into several other Mogwais, only these are little hell raisers. Once Billy disobeys the final rule of Mogwai care, not to feed them after midnight, the creatures turn into the grotesque and titular Gremlins and start wreaking havoc all over town. It's up to Billy, Gizmo, and Billy's love interest Kate to stop the monsters from ruining Christmas and the lives of their fellow residents.
Our brother Tyler returns to talk the holiday horror classic Gremlins this week on the Radkast!

]]> 190: FWOF4: Halloween Costumes, The Headless Horseman, and the Evil Dead https://radkastpod.fireside.fm/206 694c8bc6-ddd8-4df3-8573-b62a31d17463 Fri, 11 Oct 2024 06:00:00 -0500 Steven Webster and Matt Webster full Steven Webster and Matt Webster 42:57 yes This week on the show, we had to improvise a bit! After an eventful weekend left us unable to record what we had originally planned, we pivoted and dusted off the Radkast Ramble! On a Halloween edition of our throwback series, we talk a bit about popular Halloween costumes through the decades, Matt's first time watching a Horror Cult Classic, and the 75th anniversary of a Disney Halloween staple. All that, plus, Uli talks to another eccentric local as they give a run down on what else their Haunted Hillbilly event has in store, this week on the Radkast! Halloween, Disney, Horror, Comedy, Humor, Nostalgia, Halloween Costumes, Costumes, Cosplay, Evil Dead, Classic, Discussion This week on the show, we had to improvise a bit! After an eventful weekend left us unable to record what we had originally planned, we pivoted and dusted off the Radkast Ramble! On a Halloween edition of our throwback series, we talk a bit about popular Halloween costumes through the decades, Matt's first time watching a Horror Cult Classic, and the 75th anniversary of a Disney Halloween staple.

All that, plus, Uli talks to another eccentric local as they give a run down on what else their Haunted Hillbilly event has in store, this week on the Radkast!

]]> This week on the show, we had to improvise a bit! After an eventful weekend left us unable to record what we had originally planned, we pivoted and dusted off the Radkast Ramble! On a Halloween edition of our throwback series, we talk a bit about popular Halloween costumes through the decades, Matt's first time watching a Horror Cult Classic, and the 75th anniversary of a Disney Halloween staple.

All that, plus, Uli talks to another eccentric local as they give a run down on what else their Haunted Hillbilly event has in store, this week on the Radkast!

]]> 150: The Simpsons: Marge Be Not Proud https://radkastpod.fireside.fm/165 126e97b4-2494-482c-ba14-95f8e397c0b8 Fri, 15 Dec 2023 06:00:00 -0600 Steven Webster and Matt Webster full Steven Webster and Matt Webster 45:16 yes This week for our holiday entry, we do something a little different! On this episode, we discuss and disect one of our favortie episodes from a show that has had a lot of influence on us over the years, the Simpsons! In the show's Season 7 Christmas offering, Bart is lured in by that holiday season's latest violent video game, Bonestorm. After Marge opposes purchasing the game for her son, against his better judgement, Bart decides to steal it from the local Try N' Save. After being caught, then later owning up to his thievery, Bart must deal with the consequences of his actions, and find out what it takes to rectify them. Morality play aside, the episode is packed with well crafted verbal and visual jokes that have kept us rolling for years! It's the The Simpsons: Marge Be Not Proud, this week on the Radkast! Christmas, The Simpsons, Simpsons, Marge, Bart, Homer, Comedy, Humor, Classic, Video Games, Stealing, Sentimental, Joy, Warmth, 90's, Life, Life Style, Nostalgia, Pop Culture, Nerd, Nerd Culture, Holidays, Jokes This week for our holiday entry, we do something a little different! On this episode, we discuss and disect one of our favortie episodes from a show that has had a lot of influence on us over the years, the Simpsons! In the show's Season 7 Christmas offering, Bart is lured in by that holiday season's latest violent video game, Bonestorm. After Marge opposes purchasing the game for her son, against his better judgement, Bart decides to steal it from the local Try N' Save. After being caught, then later owning up to his thievery, Bart must deal with the consequences of his actions, and find out what it takes to rectify them.
Morality play aside, the episode is packed with well crafted verbal and visual jokes that have kept us rolling for years! It's the The Simpsons: Marge Be Not Proud, this week on the Radkast!

]]> This week for our holiday entry, we do something a little different! On this episode, we discuss and disect one of our favortie episodes from a show that has had a lot of influence on us over the years, the Simpsons! In the show's Season 7 Christmas offering, Bart is lured in by that holiday season's latest violent video game, Bonestorm. After Marge opposes purchasing the game for her son, against his better judgement, Bart decides to steal it from the local Try N' Save. After being caught, then later owning up to his thievery, Bart must deal with the consequences of his actions, and find out what it takes to rectify them.
Morality play aside, the episode is packed with well crafted verbal and visual jokes that have kept us rolling for years! It's the The Simpsons: Marge Be Not Proud, this week on the Radkast!

]]> SC RE-RELEASE: A Christmas Story 2 w/Jake Vehlewald & Jeff Wright https://radkastpod.fireside.fm/110 0dda025e-94b1-4ac0-8edc-88a14c79892b Fri, 09 Dec 2022 06:00:00 -0600 Steven Webster and Matt Webster full Steven Webster and Matt Webster 1:08:17 yes No kiddies that SC ain't Santa Clause, it stands for Sucktastic Cinema, and it's from those archives we pulled this week's re-release! Unlike other times where we've re-released some of our older episodes, this go-around was because we lost a recording! We had Jake and Jeff on to talk the new HBO Max movie A Christmas Story Christmas, we were almost at the end of the recording and my computer died! However we did not fret for long, because Matt suggested we publish our Sucktastic episode from December 2021 where we talked another Christmas Story sequel with the very same guests! We are still planning on recording an episode about the franchise's newest escapades with an adult Ralphie, but until then, enjoy us lament about teenage Ralphie's failed sex-capades for this Sucktastic Cinema re-release for the Radkast holiday season! Christmas, A Christmas Story, Classic, Humor, Comedy, Nostalgia, Life, Life style, Bad Movies, Pop-culture, Nerd-culture No kiddies that SC ain't Santa Clause, it stands for Sucktastic Cinema, and it's from those archives we pulled this week's re-release! Unlike other times where we've re-released some of our older episodes, this go-around was because we lost a recording! We had Jake and Jeff on to talk the new HBO Max movie A Christmas Story Christmas, we were almost at the end of the recording and my computer died! However we did not fret for long, because Matt suggested we publish our Sucktastic episode from December 2021 where we talked another Christmas Story sequel with the very same guests! We are still planning on recording an episode about the franchise's newest escapades with an adult Ralphie, but until then, enjoy us lament about teenage Ralphie's failed sex-capades for this Sucktastic Cinema re-release for the Radkast holiday season!

]]> No kiddies that SC ain't Santa Clause, it stands for Sucktastic Cinema, and it's from those archives we pulled this week's re-release! Unlike other times where we've re-released some of our older episodes, this go-around was because we lost a recording! We had Jake and Jeff on to talk the new HBO Max movie A Christmas Story Christmas, we were almost at the end of the recording and my computer died! However we did not fret for long, because Matt suggested we publish our Sucktastic episode from December 2021 where we talked another Christmas Story sequel with the very same guests! We are still planning on recording an episode about the franchise's newest escapades with an adult Ralphie, but until then, enjoy us lament about teenage Ralphie's failed sex-capades for this Sucktastic Cinema re-release for the Radkast holiday season!

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