Podcasts by Rad or Sad
We’re Zach and Lexi, two twenty something college grads staring into the void. We play games, talk pop culture, and/or flash back to weird moments in our childhoods in a desperate attempt to be slightly less sad all the time. Hang out with us each week for a beautiful mess of oddly specific things you never thought you'd relate to, but somehow do.
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Goodbye (For Now) from 2021-11-22T10:15:05
So long, goodbye
I'll see you when I see you
You can pick the street
I'll meet you on the other side
This is Not an Episode from 2021-08-23T09:00:14
Zach and Lexi will be back soon! Work/Life balance, folks!!
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Ep. 75 - Our Personality Quirks (ft. Trish Pickelhaupt) from 2021-08-09T09:00:17
Zach and Lexi celebrate the big 7-5! Happy being old, Raddies and Saddies. As part of the festivites, the crew brings on a friend to discuss the weird things their brains do.
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Ep. 74 - Smells from 2021-07-26T09:00:11
Zach and Lexi take advantage of their podcast format for a topic that is truly best discussed in an audio only setting— smells. Good smells, bad smells, all of the smells. This episode's a real sti...
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Ep. 73 - The Oregon Trail from 2021-07-12T09:00:04
Zach and Lexi are headed west! Hop in the ol' covered wagon as the Rad or Sad Crew heads out along the Oregon Trail (the video game, they do not have the wherewithal to survive the real thing).
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Ep. 72 - Fictional Pets from 2021-06-28T09:00:03
Zach and Lexi go through the pantheon of great pets from fiction, and decide which ones to bring into their household and which ones to kick to the curb. Just kidding, they would never do that that...
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Ep. 71- Coming of Age Movies from 2021-06-14T09:00:09
Zach and Lexi put themselves in their high school shoes and rank the pantheon of coming of age movies. How will they do that, you ask? Why, through the power of friendship, of course!
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Ep. 70 - Our Fictional Crushes from 2021-05-31T10:00:15
Zach and Lexi are reunited to talk about all those hotties and quirky characters that they, along with some Raddies and Saddies, have been crushin' on.
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Ep. 69.5 - The Letterboxd Games from 2021-05-17T09:00:08
Zach and Lexi dive down the rabbit hole of their favorite movie review/comedy gold site, and somehow come out with a quiz show on the other side.
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Ep. 69 from 2021-05-17T09:00:08
Episode 69? Nice B)
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Ep. 68 - Our Moms from 2021-05-09T09:00:15
Zach and Lexi celebrate Mother's Day today by doing what all good children do: calling their moms.
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Ep. 67 - YA Novels We Grew Up On from 2021-05-03T09:00:04
Zach and Lexi are back and ready to reeeeaaaad, baby. They crack open some childhood favorites, confess to AR Point sins, and rediscover their childlike wonder, if only for a moment.
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Ep. 66 - Toys We Grew Up With (ft. Ella Dawson) from 2021-03-29T09:00:17
Zach and... Conor ?? That's right, no Lexi this episode. Instead Zach, Conor, and their guest, Ella Dawson, talk all about the toys of their childhoods. From huge Lego sets to weird squish toys, to...
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Ep. 65 - Reddit AITAs from 2021-03-22T09:00:15
Zach and Lexi— the ultimate deliberators of morality— scour r/AmItheAsshole for conflict and strife, deciding once and for all who is or is not The Asshole.
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Ep. 64 - Conferences from 2021-03-15T09:00:06
Zach and Lexi take us back to the temporarily divided rooms of attending conferences. Poorly styled dress clothes? Oh yeah. Boxed lunches? Of course. Fleeting, teenage love? Wouldn't be a real conf...
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Ep. 63 - Radio Games from 2021-03-08T10:00:14
Zach and Lexi pull some games out of the vault and decide whether these radio classics are rad or sad. Also in this episode Zach is drunk.
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Ep. 62 - The Rad or Sad Spelling Bee (ft. Ryan Mersmann) from 2021-03-01T10:00:06
Zach and Lexi bring on a friend to try something a little different... It's a battle of the wits and the letters as the Rad or Sad crew see if they've retained anything from the spelling tests of d...
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Ep. 61 - Canadian Children's PSAs (ft. Robyn and Eric Kanius) from 2021-02-22T10:00:02
Zach and Lexi get some international radness and sadness from two new friends! Robyn and Eric Kanius, two Canadian podcasters and the hosts of Do We Like?, bring us some of the impactful PSAs that ...
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Ep. 60 - Valentine's Day Special from 2021-02-14T20:24:13
Zach and Lexi celebrate Valentine's Day with the internet's date ideas and a game designed to destroy their love.
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Ep. 59 - Malls from 2021-02-08T10:00:02
Zach and Lexi revisit the hallowed halls of the malls of their youth. They bounce from store to store, stop by the food court, and maybe snag a graphic tee or two.
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Ep. 58 - Would You Dilemmas, the Devilish Rathers Pt. 3 from 2021-02-01T10:00:09
Zach and Lexi bring us the latest installment in this thrilling trilogy of card games, hard decisions, and weird, weird energy.
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Ep. 57 - Battle of the Birth Years from 2021-01-25T10:00:07
Have you ever stopped to wonder about the immense cultural influence you are connected to but mostly missed out on by being a baby the year you were born? Well, Zach and Lexi did, and now they're d...
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Ep. 56 - Our Media Diets from 2021-01-18T10:00:09
Zach and Lexi make a mellow episode this week talking about cool people, good reads, and a whole lots of recs.
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Ep. 55 - Muppeting Our Favorite Movies from 2021-01-11T10:00:02
Zach and Lexi have shamelessly mined social media for topics and recast their favorite movies as Muppets! Honestly, are we even a little surprised?
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We'll Be Right Back! from 2020-12-28T10:00:17
Zach and Lexi are taking the holidays off! Rad or Sad will return on Monday, January 11th, 2021.
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Ep. 54 - Our Christmas Traditions from 2020-12-21T10:00:16
Zach and Lexi lay out all the raddest and saddest parts of their family Christmas traditions both past and present.
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Ep. 53 - Fictional Bears from 2020-12-14T10:00:02
Zach and Lexi had no idea just how many fictional bears there are, and so today they're digging in like never before! It's the wonderful bears you know and love with fun twists and deeeep rabbit ho...
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Ep. 52.5 - Country Meats Meat Sticks from 2020-12-10T10:00:21
A bonus episode ?? Is it Christmas already ??? Zach and Lexi tracked down the glorious meat sticks that Lexi used to sell for fundraisers, and so— naturally— the Rad or Sad team tries them all.
Ep. 52 - Things We Had to Sell as Kids (ft. Our Parents) from 2020-12-07T10:00:12
Zach and Lexi dissect their indoctrination into capitalism a.k.a. the fundraisers they had to sell stuff for as wee children. In the process, they drag all of their parents into the mix.
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Ep. 51 - Things We Got In Trouble For In School (ft. Renzo Stainer) from 2020-11-30T10:00:18
Zach and Lexi bring on a longtime Raddie and Zach's cousin, Renzo, to talk about all the most wild, disgusting, and/or accidentally violent antics from our school days.
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Ep. 50 - LTRs Revisited from 2020-11-23T10:25:17
Zach and Lexi commemorate the 50th episode of the 'cast by still being in a relationship!! They revisit the LTR rads and sads from the first episode, and build on those with what they've learned si...
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Ep. 49 - Pets from 2020-11-16T10:25:11
Zach and Lexi remember all the furry little friends they've had in their lives and talk about the rads, sads, chaos, and cutness of pet ownership.
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Ep. 48 - Game Night from 2020-11-09T10:30:11
Zach and Lexi take it easy in the midst of these hell times with an evening of board games, trivia, and straight chillin'.
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Ep. 47 - As Seen on TV Products from 2020-11-02T10:30:15
Zach and Lexi dive into the most specific childhood television watching memories: the raddest and saddest of As Seen on TV Products.
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Ep. 46 - Halloween Songs from 2020-10-26T09:30:15
Zach and Lexi celebrate the season with the old standards, some modern classics, and a few proposals for new additions to the Halloween canon. Stay spooky, kids.
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Ep. 45 - Getting Lost in the Sauce from 2020-10-19T09:25:15
Zach and Lexi finally do what we've all been waiting to be done: they rank the sauces. Strap in.
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Ep. 44 - Ask Us Anything! from 2020-10-12T09:30:09
Zach and Lexi answer all the hard-hitting, hilarious, and otherwise ridiculous questions that you lovely Raddies and Saddies sent to the 'cast.
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Ep. 43 - Would You Dilemmas, the Devilish Rathers Pt. 2 from 2020-10-05T10:30:02
Zach and Lexi return to a classic game of wits, rathers, and devilishness.
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Ep. 42 - Summer Camp from 2020-09-28T09:30:18
As this summer comes to a close, Zach and Lexi look back on their summers— from about a little over a decade ago.
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Ep. 41 - Mario Kart (ft. Greg Houser) from 2020-09-21T09:30:06
Zach and Lexi bring on a good friend and a heated kart competitor— Greg Houser— to get into the nitty-gritty of everybody's favorite Italian plumber racing game.
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Ep. 40 - Foods Made to Taste Like Other Foods from 2020-09-14T09:15:12
Zach and Lexi subject themselves— and you— to another food episode, woooo!! They have sought out all the best, worst, and strangest foods that taste like other foods.
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Ep. 39 - TV Shows We Grew Up Watching (ft. Conor Burke) from 2020-09-07T09:25:08
Zach and Lexi bring on a friend and host of GleeCap Podcast, Conor Burke, to discuss the television that turned them into the people they are today.
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Ep. 38 - Dream Homes (ft. Molly Gardner) from 2020-08-31T09:25:09
Zach and Lexi bring on a good friend— and someone who knows much more than them, though that bar is low— to take a peek into the future of their living situations.
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Ep. 37 - Maine from 2020-08-24T09:20:09
Zach and Lexi took a (socially-distanced and masked) trip to Maine, and they brought back all that hot Maine goss.
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Ep. 36 - Carnivals, Festivals, and Fairs from 2020-08-17T09:25:04
Zach and Lexi relive all the death-defying rides, artery-clogging foods, and bizarre regionalisms of the carnivals, festivals, and fairs they grew up with.
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Ep. 35 - Hotels, From a Hotel from 2020-08-10T09:25:14
Zach and Lexi spend the night in a Residence Inn while being displaced by Tropical Storm Isaiah, and they chat it up about all things hotels.
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Ep. 34 - Our Favorite Conspiracy Theories (ft. Del Holton and Jackson Wright) from 2020-08-05T09:30:05
Zach and Lexi bring on two more guests, one new and one returning, to fall down the rabbit hole of conspiracy theories.
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Ep. 33 - Childhood Foods (ft. Gerit Wagner) from 2020-07-27T09:20:16
Zach and Lexi are joined this episode by Gerit Wagner, friend and knower of foods. They dig into their best and most horrifying childhood eating habits.
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Ep. 32 - Better Tonight Show Hosts from 2020-07-20T09:20:18
Zach and Lexi discuss what makes or breaks a great talk show host, and who they think should dethrone Jimmy Fallon.
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Ep. 31, Pt. 2 - Dream Animated Movie Cast from 2020-07-13T09:25:12
In Part 2, Zach unveils the talented cast of his dream animated movie and Zach and Lexi make the movie. Oh yeah, they make the movie.
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Ep. 31, Pt. 1 - Dream Animated Movie Cast from 2020-07-13T09:25:12
In Part 1, Lexi teaches us a whole bunch about animation and tells us which whose vocal talents would make it into her movie.
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Ep. 30 - Would You Dilemmas, The Devilish Rathers from 2020-07-06T09:35:13
Zach and Lexi face the hardest challenge of their lives: a card game.
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Ep. 29 - Short Stories from 2020-06-29T09:20:18
Zach and Lexi revisit all those short stories from middle and high school English class and ask the question we're all wondering: why were they so freakin' dark???
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Ep. 28 - Off Brand Movie Tastes from 2020-06-22T09:35:02
Zach and Lexi get hella introspective and discuss their favorite movies that you, oh lovely audience member, might be surprised to find out they love.
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Ep. 27 - Ponderous Pastimes from 2020-06-15T09:20:11
Zach and Lexi hash out the intricacies of quarantine life and what to do with all this gosh dang free time.
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Ep. 26 - Black Lives Matter from 2020-06-08T14:01:17
Zach and Lexi talk about everything that's going on with the Black Lives Matter Movement, and how we all can help.
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A Note From Rad or Sad from 2020-06-01T12:00:14
There are voices that need to be heard right now and those are not ours. You can find resources on our Twitter and Facebook pages for ways that you can help black communities.
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Ep. 25 - Middle/High School Electives from 2020-05-25T09:00:17
Zach and Lexi take another stroll down memory lane to reminisce on their best and weirdest Middle and High School classes.
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Ep. 24, Pt. 3 - France, The France from 2020-05-18T09:00:06
Zach and Lexi finish out this three part series with France Talk.
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Ep. 24, Pt. 2 - France, The Travel from 2020-05-18T09:00:06
For part two, Zach and Lexi talk about their escapades traveling inside and outside of France.
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Ep. 24, Pt. 1 - France, The Food from 2020-05-18T09:00:06
The first of a three part series, Zach and Lexi return after a long hiatus to talk about their trip abroad. In this episode specifically, we dig into all them good eats we munched on.
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Ep. 23 - European Bucket List from 2019-12-16T10:10:14
Zach and Lexi make some attempts to manifest all the things they hope to do while across the pond.
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Ep. 22 - Airplane Culture from 2019-11-25T10:25:17
Zach and Lexi dig into the rads and sads of traveling this holiday season.
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Ep. 21 - Jobs We've Had from 2019-11-22T10:50:06
Zach and Lexi reminisce on their time spent in those everyday, hard workin' American jobs.
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Ep. 20 - Hot Ones Edition from 2019-11-11T10:45:07
Zach and Lexi are back after a little break, and they're ready to destroy themselves for the 'cast! Tune in for spicy chats and spicy wings.
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Ep. 19 - Fashion Trends We Wish Would Come Back from 2019-11-01T01:12:19
Zach and Lexi reminisce on times when they were not actually people and the fashions found therein.
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Ep. 18 - Pop Culture Moments (ft. Cece Golay) from 2019-10-21T10:10:04
It has recently come to the attention of the 'cast crew that Zach does not know anything about anything. This episode, we bring in a special guest to change that.
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Ep. 17 - Halloween Costumes from 2019-10-14T10:20:13
Zach and Lexi dive into their pasts, cultural appropriation, and general Halloweenery in this spooky episode.
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Ep. 16 - First Date Questions from 2019-10-07T05:39:26
Zach and Lexi relive their first date— kinda— in Rad or Sad fashion.
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Ep. 15 - Fall&Other Wickedness from 2019-10-07T05:39:17
Zach and Lexi get pumped as hell for the seasons change and rate the wicked submissions we've all be dying to hear.
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Ep. 14 - Weird Movies From Childhood from 2019-09-23T09:05:18
Zach and Lexi take a stroll down their respective weird, creepy, and/or spooky memory lanes into movies that, for better or for worse, defined their childhoods.
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Ep. 13 - School Lunches from 2019-09-16T09:15:10
Zach and Lexi take on the unique form of unabashed chaos that is the average American school lunchroom.
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Ep. 12 - Cartoon Robots (ft. Ben Trickey&Adri Gordey) from 2019-09-09T13:05:06
Zach and Lexi are joined by two friends of the 'cast to dig into the sequel to Cartoon Ghosts - Cartoon Robots.
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Ep. 11 - Small Towns from 2019-09-03T18:08:56
Zach and Lexi, two connoisseurs of life in small towns, dig into their childhood adventures and also other stuff.
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Ep. 10 - Foods You Shouldn't Like, But Do from 2019-08-26T04:34:21
Zach and Lexi celebrate their 10th podcast in style with a little snackin', a little sippin', and a lotta rankin'.
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Ep. 9 - Plastic Free July (ft. David Ronning, Kind Of) from 2019-08-19T14:47:36
In this episode, Zach and Lexi go through their experience with Plastic Free July. Listen for what was hardest, ways you can do some environmental good, and a healthy dose of mortal terror as a res...
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Ep. 8 - Cartoon Ghosts from 2019-08-12T15:00:14
This episode features a long awaited topic (if you're Zach) as Zach and Lexi dig into childhood cartoons, Nightmare Before Christmas conspiracy theories, and other stuff that'll probably get them b...
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Ep. 7 - Movie Remakes (ft. Jackson Wright) from 2019-08-05T13:00:25
Zach and Lexi bring on the their second guest of the podcast to talk all things movies... and more specifically, the remakes they love to rad or hate to sad.
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Ep. 6 - Coffee Shop Culture from 2019-07-29T13:00:05
We've all been there, we've all experienced it... now let's talk about it. Zach and Lexi take on coffee shop culture, and Zach could die in the process.
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Ep. 5 - Guilty Pleasures (ft. Santi Amarilla) from 2019-07-23T05:55:03
Zach and Lexi welcome their first official guest to the 'cast to talk about something that vaguely haunts us all... guilty pleasures.
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Ep. 4 - American Monuments And Attractions from 2019-07-15T14:11:23
We've seen 'em, we've heard of 'em, but what do we 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 think about America's monuments and attractions? Zach and Lexi are here to answer the questions no one else will.
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Ep. 3 - Songs That Remind Us Of Movies from 2019-07-08T15:29:08
Was it in the movie? Was it just vaguely related? Yes. Listen in to get Lexi and Zach's picks on the most rad and the most sad songs that remind you of movies.
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Ep. 2 - Road Trips from 2019-07-01T02:40:12
Whether we've done it ourselves or just watched longingly as Are We There Yet? (2005) star Ice Cube got to have all the fun, road trips are a seminal part of livin' a hella sick life. In this episo...
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Ep. 1 - LTRs from 2019-06-25T17:34:26
Zach and Lexi, your fearless hosts, delve into LTRs— Long Term Relationships— on the anniversary of when they first met. Also, they ramble about themselves a bunch. So basically, "Narcissism: The P...
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