Free Nights And Weekends

Send us Fan Mail Remember when a little six-sided cube took over the world? In the early 1980s, the Rubik’s Cube went from a colorful puzzle to an international obsession, showing up in classrooms, toy stores, shopping malls, and Christmas wish lists everywhere. This week on Free Nights and Weekends, we’re twisting our way back to the decade when everybody seemed to own one, everybody claimed they could solve it, and a whole lot of us spent our afternoons scrambling colored squares and wonder...

Send us Fan Mail A Halloween trip back to the 1980s, when heavy metal, Dungeons & Dragons, and suburban America became entangled in a nationwide fear of satanic ritual abuse. Jason Dean sits in and helps explore how legitimate concerns about trauma and child safety became an elaborate conspiracy, why some people profited from the panic, and what happens when fear outruns evidence. *editor’s note: Jason confuses Tom Cruise with Tom Hanks. Likely because he had made a previous good point in...

Send us Fan Mail We got the comments! The Brady episode struck a nerve. But of course it did. It’s a Gen X podcast and that’s our wheelhouse. In this midweek, bonus episode, we welcome back Eddie to do a little mop up and address the objectivity great observations of our listeners. We always appreciate the feedback and it’s gonna pay off this week. You’ve spoken and we listened. Mostly. Show Sponsor Don't Just Let Memories Live On FNAW Digitize them with The Digitize Center ...

Send us Fan Mail This week Free Nights and Weekends celebrates a TV show that just won’t go away. The Brady Bunch served as a chronicle of American family life in the 1970s and has been viewed by generations since. Eddie Wilson joins us to discuss the series, talk about our favorite and least favorite episodes and his brush with the real life Bradys. Well, the characters. This is confusing. But not as bad as when we just decide to call the actors by their Brady names and we run with it. ...

Send us Fan Mail Step right up! We're revisiting this one as we take a deep-fried dive into the Oklahoma State Fair — where childhood smelled like funnel cakes, diesel fumes, and bad decisions. Scott is joined by Garth and Ken from Fried Okla to swap stories about sketchy carnies, dunk tank jerks, and the glory of winning a live iguana you absolutely didn’t need. It’s a nostalgic, laugh-out-loud ride through 80s fairgrounds, where powdered sugar coated everything — and nobody wore sunscr...