Free Nights And Weekends

Send a text Picture it: a dusty Oklahoma road, where oil wells nod approvingly and cows side-eye your blisters. Join Scott and Eddie as we flashback to a time when the entire school district—from burly seniors to tiny second-graders—embarked on a several-miles odyssey from a Moore elementary school to an OKC lake. Blisters, tears, and questionable fundraising abound—and somehow, we survived to tell this ill-advised tale. If you grew up before everyone carried tiny video cameras in their...

Send a text This week, Scott and Marc tackle the latest cultural panic: artificial intelligence. On this very special episode, Arnold Drummond doesn't get diddled at the bike shop but big stuff is still happening. But before you stockpile canned goods and apologize to your VCR, take a breath. We look back at the moments when groundbreaking technology made everyone nervous: • Y2K and the midnight meltdown that never came • The dot-com bubble and sock puppets with IPOs • “There shou...

Send a text Before Amazon wish lists and two-day shipping, there was a thin paper flyer, a crumpled order form, and a check your mom wrote with mild suspicion. The Scholastic Book Club wasn’t just about books. It was about waiting. About forgetting you even ordered anything. And then one day, the teacher opened a giant cardboard box and the classroom turned into Christmas morning (for some of us). More on that later. This week on Free Nights and Weekends, we welcome guest co-host, Jason...

Send a text 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 l...

Send a text 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. If you grew up before everyone carried tiny video cameras in their pockets chances are your best memories are sitting on a VHS tape somewhere. But here's the thing; those tapes don’t last forever That’s where the guys at Thedigitizecenter.com helps out. ...