Free Nights And Weekends
by Scott
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GenX stories from the 1980's Oklahoma suburbs.
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- Six Sides of Frustration: Rubik's Cube · 28 min · Season 5 Episode 14Send 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…
- 1980's Satanic Panic: The Devil Figures Out His Marketing Problem · 38 min · Season 5 Episode 13Send 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…
- Bonus Episode! A Brady Mop Up · 29 min · Season 5 Episode 12Send 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…
- Nine Squares, One Indelible Mark on Gen X | The Brady Bunch Episode · 46 min · Season 5 Episode 11Send 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…
- Free Nights and Fairgrounds: The Great State Fair of Oklahoma One More Time! · 42 min · Season 5 Episode 10Send 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…
- Pave Paradise, Put Up A Storage Facility: A Gun Wielding Grandma, Rope Swings and No Rules · 47 min · Season 5 Episode 9Send us Fan Mail When we were kids, there was a piece of undeveloped land tucked away in my neighborhood that might as well have been another county. There was a creek, a hill…
- Update: Parole Denied! A Plastic Steer, the Crime, and Growing Up Gen X: The Sirloin Stockade Murders · 40 min · Season 5 Episode 8Send us Fan Mail Parole denied! Oklahoma governor declines parole for the remaining member of three spree killers that shocked OKC in 1978. In 1978, something horrific happened…
- We Can Come Out From Hiding! Columbia House Is Tits Up! · 36 min · Season 5 Episode 7Send us Fan Mail Oh, and so is Dolly! RIP Columbia House is finally calling it quits, so we’re taking a look back at the legendary mail-order music club that promised a dozen…
- A Plastic Steer, the Crime, and Growing Up Gen X: The Sirloin Stockade Murders · 39 min · Season 5 Episode 6Send us Fan Mail In 1978, something horrific happened inside an Oklahoma City Sirloin Stockade. Six employees went to work that night. They never came home. For those of us who…
- Back to School: Hostage Negotiations In The Store Aisle · 38 min · Season 5 Episode 5Send us Fan Mail Every August, Gen X kids hit the reset button. The new school year meant fresh notebooks, sharpened pencils, new sneakers if you were lucky, and the annual…
- 1984: The Year the '80s Peaked · 39 min · Season 5 Episode 4Send us Fan Mail Was there ever a year that captured everything we loved about the 1980s better than 1984? This week, Scott and Jason take a nostalgic trip back to a year packed…
- Another Crummy Rerun: My 1985 LinkedIn Profile Would Have Said "Media Distribution Manager" · 42 min · Season 5 Episode 3Send us Fan Mail Throwback to our 10th episode. First jobs are fun, right? Right? In this big 10th episode extravaganza, Scott tells the story of his first steps to the exciting…
- Campfire Confessions: Church Camp in the '80s · 46 min · Season 5 Episode 2Send us Fan Mail Whether your church camp was all about service projects or strict rules, one thing is certain...you probably still remember it. This week, Scott is joined by…
- Poof. It Was Gone. | Restaurants and Menu Items We Still Miss · 40 min · Season 5 Episode 1Send us Fan Mail Remember Bennigan's? A simple Facebook post about their legendary Monte Cristo sandwich unleashed a flood of memories, complaints, and unresolved emotional…
- Remembering Ferris Bueller’s Day Off On The 40th Anniversary Of This Glorious Piece Of Cinema! · 32 min · Season 4 Episode 18Send us Fan Mail On the 40th Anniversary of this classic, we relive the perfectly executed fake sick day to a citywide parade takeover, Ferris didn’t just skip school… he rewrote…
- I Am The Batman, Again · 49 min · Season 4 Episode 17Send us Fan Mail We revisit our most downloaded episode yet! What a school year! The Mets won the Series. The Space Shuttle blew up in front of me and my classmates. Local OKC…
- Please Allow 6–8 Weeks For Delivery | The Infomercial Episode! · 22 min · Season 4 Episode 16Send us Fan Mail Before YouTube ads stalked us across the internet… there was a magical time when television itself became a fever dream around midnight. This week on the Free…
- Tornados, Tigers & Backyard Meteorologists (The Other Tornado Episode) · 45 min · Season 4 Episode 15Send us Fan Mail This week on the Free Nights & Weekends Podcast, Scott welcomes the guys from Fried Okla for a full-speed ride straight into Oklahoma tornado culture. 🌪️ From…
- When Sitcoms Got All Preachy (Part II) · 30 min · Season 4 Episode 14Send us Fan Mail Well, Scott calls Charlotte Rae "Martha" knowing full well that Martha Raye was Mel's mom on Alice. But on part II of the Free Nights and Weekends Podcast, Scott…
- When Sitcoms Got All Preachy · 23 min · Season 4 Episode 13Send us Fan Mail This week on the Free Nights and Weekends Podcast, Scott and co-host, Jason crack open one of the strangest traditions in television history… the “very special…
