Accidental Legends

Episode 37: Night of the Living Dead

How did a handful of Pittsburgh filmmakers, a crumbling farmhouse, and a shoestring budget give birth to an entire horror genre? For our Halloween special, Matthew and D

Episode 36: Cheers

How does a television show go from practically nobody watching to becoming one of the most beloved sitcoms in history?  When Cheers premiered in 1982, the odds were stack

Episode 35: REO Speedwagon

Jason and Dee at the Surely You Can’t Be Serious podcast threw down the gauntlet, Accidental Legends picked it up, and this REO Speedwagon episode was born.You know the s

Episode 34 The Legend of Zelda

What happens when Nintendo follows one of the simplest, most immediately understandable video games ever made with something that seems determined to leave players comple

Episode 33: Holding Her and Loving You

What happens when a song captures a situation so messy, so human, that listeners hear themselves in it decades later? This week on Accidental Legends, Matthew and Dirk di

Episode 32: Clue

In 1985, Hollywood tried something that sounded either brilliant or completely insane: turn the classic board game Clue into a feature film. Then they made the mystery ev

Episode 31: Don't Pay The Ferryman

Before Chris de Burgh became internationally associated with one unforgettable ballad, there was another song—darker, stranger, and built around a story that sounded more

Episode 30: Dirty Dancing

Dirty Dancing was never supposed to become a classic. It was a small movie with a modest budget, an uncertain future, and plenty of reasons for Hollywood to say no. But

Episode 29: Amie

How does a song sit quietly for years, survive a failed album campaign, outlive the lineup that recorded it, and then become an all time classic? In this episode of Accid

Episode 28: Faster Pussycat Kill Kill! Part 2

In Part Two of Accidental Legends’ dive into Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, Matthew and Dirk pick up the story of Russ Meyer’s outrageous 1965 cult film and the strange p

Episode 27: Faster Pussycat Kill Kill Part 1

In this episode of Accidental Legends, Matthew and Dirk dive into the strange, outrageous world of Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, Russ Meyer’s 1965 cult classic that bomb

Episode 26: Don't Stop Believing Part 2

In this part 2 of Accidental Legends, Matt and Dirk uncover how Journey’s *Don't Stop Beliving" defied convention to become one of the most beloved songs in music history

Episode 25: Don't Stop Believing Part 1

This Accidental Legend will be a two part series.  Matt and Dirk begin unraveling the unbelievable chain of events that transformed Journey from a struggling jazz fusion-

Episode 24: The Godfather

What happens when a movie nobody believed in becomes one of the greatest films ever made? In this episode of Accidental Legends, Matthew and Dirk explore the improbable s

Episode 23: Glory

Welcome back to Cul-de-Sac Studios! In this episode of Accidental Legends, hosts Matthew and Dirk unpack the 1989 cinematic masterpiece, Glory. While it didn't smash comm

Episode 22: This Is Spinal Tap

How did a movie with no script, a fake band, and zero studio backing become one of the most legendary comedies ever made? In this episode of Accidental Legends, hosts Dir

Episode 21: He Stopped Loving Her Today

In 1979, country star George Jones was bankrupt, living out of his car, and battling severe addiction. Behind the microphones in CBS Studio B in Nashville, he was also lo

Episode 20: Tetris

Welcome back to Accidental Legends, the show where we dive into the stories behind the things that were never supposed to make it, yet somehow became unstoppable. Imagine

Episode 19: Sultans of Swing

Imagine a struggling musician wandering into a deserted pub on a rainy night in South London. The band on stage plays not for the crowd, but for the love of music itself.

Episode 18: I Want My MTV!

In this episode of Accidental Legends, we rewind to the early 1980s to explore the chaotic, high-stakes birth of MTV—an audacious experiment that television executives an