The Halloween Podcast

Halloween Horror Movies With Curtis Andersen

Actor Curtis Andersen, who played Gordy on Sabrina the Teenage Witch, joins Meghan and Lyle for a trip through Halloween horror! Curtis puts together a movie watch list e

Wonderful Sausage By Alvin Schwartz Explained (CONTENT WARNING)

CONTENT WARNING: This episode discusses murder, cannibalism, and harm to children and animals. Parental discretion is advised before listening with children. Today, Megh

Peter & The Werewolf! Cassette Tape Story Review

Lyle is taking Meghan back to his childhood with a Halloween cassette she had never heard before: Peter & the Werewolf! This vintage Fun World recording combines spooky s

Jason Marsden Interview (Eerie Indiana, Hocus Pocus)

Jason Marsden joins us for today’s Xennial Countdown to Halloween! You know Jason from an incredible list of films and television shows, including A Goofy Movie, Eerie, I

Eerie Indiana Memories (1991)

Today on the Xennial Countdown to Halloween, Meghan and Lyle are heading to one of the strangest little towns of the early 1990s: Eerie, Indiana. Premiering on NBC in 199

Buttons and Rusty in Which Witch Is Which (1984)

Buttons and Rusty are heading into Halloween for the first time, and the young bear and fox quickly discover that humans have some very strange October traditions. Megha

Garfield's Halloween Adventure (1985)

Garfield loves food, hates Mondays, and discovers that Halloween may be the perfect holiday for one very important reason: candy. Today, Meghan and Lyle are watching Gar

Ghostbusters Movie Memories

Who ya gonna call? For Xennials, Ghostbusters was far more than a 1984 movie. The film became a full-blown childhood phenomenon, with its unmistakable logo, proton packs,

The Trouble by Alvin Schwartz Explained

Alvin Schwartz told us that “The Trouble,” from Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones, was true. And behind the story that terrified a generation of young reade

Bugs Bunny's Howl-oween Special (1978)

What happens when Bugs Bunny takes on Halloween? Witches, vampires, monsters, potions, trick-or-treating and one extremely eventful Halloween night — Bugs Bunny’s Howl-o

Tim Jacobus Goosebumps Cover Artist Interview

Yesterday, we revisited the original Goosebumps books that terrified, delighted, and completely took over the bookshelves of a generation. Today, we’re joined by the arti

Goosebumps Books By R.L. Stine Xennial Memories

For Xennial kids, few books were as instantly recognizable as Goosebumps. That dripping logo, those gloriously strange covers, the Scholastic book fairs and book orders —

Jack O'Lantern Rankin Bass Festival of Family Classics (1972)

Can we really call something a proper holiday if Rankin/Bass didn’t make a television special for it? Today we’re digging up one of the stranger corners of Rankin/Bass h

Fat Albert's Halloween Special (1977)

Some Halloween specials become childhood traditions. Others somehow pass you by completely — and then, years later, you finally discover what everyone has been talking ab

The Addams Family (1991)

They’re creepy, they’re kooky, and for both of us, they’re pretty much perfect. Today on the Xennial Countdown to Halloween, we’re revisiting The Addams Family (1991), s

The Dream by Alvin Schwartz Explained

Today, Lyle takes the lead as we return to the wonderfully unsettling world of Alvin Schwartz with “The Dream,” from 1991’s Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bone

When Nick at Nite (Nick@Nite) Got Spooky

For a generation of Xennial kids, staying on Nickelodeon long enough meant eventually crossing over into the wonderfully strange world of Nick at Nite. Suddenly we were w

Justin Shenkarow Interview (Eerie Indiana, Hey Arnold)

For today’s Xennial Countdown to Halloween, we’re joined by Special Guest Justin Shenkarow, whose career is woven through some of the television that helped define a Xenn

Hey Arnold! Arnold's Halloween (1997)

For today’s Xennial Countdown to Halloween, we’re heading back to Hillwood for Hey Arnold!’s wonderfully spooky 1997 Halloween special, “Arnold’s Halloween.” Lyle and Me

The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad | Sleepy Hollow (1949)

Disney’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow has been haunting Halloween television for generations. Meghan grew up with Ichabod Crane, the autumn abundance of the Van Tassel far