Leighton Night with Brian Wecht

Today we're joined by Emmy award winning writer and musician Genevieve LeDoux (ig: @last_unicorn_mom) for a chat about her new music project, Neil Diamond (and his various crimes), E.T. (and his selfless heroics), living in Georgia, kid-friendly horror, Jersey foods, and more! This is a fun one. You can check out Star Forest at www.starforest.rocks. Do you hate ads but love this show? Do you want an incredible deal on access to our entire 5 year backlog of video and ad-free episodes for TWO DOLLARS A MONTH? Then check out our Patreon and support the show at patreon.com/leightonnight! Kick us $5 a month and you even get a MINISODE every week, too. AND access to the fan discord, which is cool and fun. It's a steal. We literally shouldn't be doing this. Follow us on Twitter at @leightonnight and on Instagram/TikTok at @leighton_night. You can find Brian on Twitter/Instagram at @bwecht, and Leighton at @buttchamps (Instagram). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Now, here's what's gonna happen. You're gonna press the play button on whichever platform you're listening to this thing on, be it Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or whatever the hell else, and you're gonna sit quietly and listen to this entire thing. You may hear some things you like; you may hear some things you don't. Depends on what you're into. Doesn't really matter to me. You would be amazed by how many of these are actually terrible. It's gonna take a minute to get through this thing, so I brought sandwiches-- I have turkey and I have a nice pimento cheese. You like pimento cheese? Right. You listen to this damn show, so it follows that you have bad taste. Now, when you're done, I highly suggest that you leave a review. Five stars. And then you're gonna go about your day like nothing happened. Do you understand? I wanna hear you say it. You're gonna go about your day like nothing happened. Good. Now shut up, get out of here, and stop wasting my time with questions we both know the answers to. patreon.com/leightonnight Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Happy October! We're continuing our annual tradition of re-airing all three episodes of Leighton's horror history series Deep Cuts in one convenient package for your listening pleasure. Learn about the surprising origins of the found footage genre, all the entries pre-dating The Blair Witch Project, a massive section on Blair Witch (duh), and everything that came after. If you're looking for some found footage films to enjoy this holiday season, this one is packed with recommendations. This is probably the most effort we've ever put into this show, so soak it up. Since these are older, these episodes were produced and edited by Jerik Centeno, who did an amazing job and also rules.Check out our Patreon and support the show at patreon.com/leightonnight! Follow us on Twitter at @leightonnight and on Instagram/TikTok at @leighton_night. You can find Brian on Twitter/Instagram at @ bwecht, and Leighton at @graylish (Twitter)/@buttchamps (Instagram). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Greetings, scumbags. We're here with another listicle episode-- this time ranking the great scumbags of cinema (and TV). This one is sure to be controversial. Can you be too high class to be a scumbag? Who's too evil to be a scumbag? Are all fictional lawyers scumbags? All this, and more. Some of these entries will SHOCK you. And the ranking order may infuriate you. It's short and sweet and starts with an all-timer Brian story, so don't miss it. Definitely join our Patreon to see our respective scumbag fits, too. Do you hate ads but love this show? Do you want an incredible deal on access to our entire 5 year backlog of video and ad-free episodes for TWO DOLLARS A MONTH? Then check out our Patreon and support the show at patreon.com/leightonnight! Kick us $5 a month and you even get a MINISODE every week, too. AND access to the fan discord, which is cool and fun. It's a steal. We literally shouldn't be doing this. Follow us on Twitter at @leightonnight and on Instagram/TikTok at @leighton_night. You can find Brian on Twitter/Instagram at @bwecht, and Leighton at @buttchamps (Instagram). STAY SAFE SCUM HARD. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sigh. We're back with a deeper dive into the nitty gritty of this godawful book. Learn more about non-local consciousness and non-local consciousness and non-local consciousness and more non-local consciousness. Are you sick of hearing that phrase? SO ARE WE. We cover the awful "plot twist" and how charming everyone finds the most insufferable fictional man alive and how every character in this book is both fit and a model. Great stuff here, folks. Don't miss it!Do you hate ads (and Dan Brown) but love this show? Do you want an incredible deal on access to our entire 5 year backlog of video and ad-free episodes for TWO DOLLARS A MONTH? Then check out our Patreon and support the show at patreon.com/leightonnight! Kick us $5 a month and you even get a MINISODE every week, too. AND access to the fan discord, which is cool and fun. It's a steal. We literally shouldn't be doing this. Follow us on Twitter at @leightonnight and on Instagram/TikTok at @leighton_night. You can find Brian on Twitter/Instagram at @bwecht, and Leighton at @buttchamps (Instagram). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Robert Langdon is back in another riveting entry of Dan Brown Mad Libs, and we're unfortunately also back to talk trash about it. You're never gonna guess what happens in this extremely formulaic, long, and boring race against the clock around Prague with another sexy lady scientist and another monstrous assassin and another shadowy organization pulling all the strings. Thought the pseudohistory and blatant misinformation in his other books were bad? Buckle up, because this one is pure pseudoscience, and you're about to hear the words "non-local consciousness" so many times you'll wish you had some non-local unconsciousness. Here's Part I. You'll get Part II next week and wish that you hadn't. Do you hate ads but love this show? Do you want an incredible deal on access to our entire 5 year backlog of video and ad-free episodes for TWO DOLLARS A MONTH? Then check out our Patreon and support the show at patreon.com/leightonnight! Kick us $5 a month and you even get a MINISODE every week, too. AND access to the fan discord, which is cool and fun. It's a steal. We literally shouldn't be doing this. Follow us on Twitter at @leightonnight and on Instagram/TikTok at @leighton_night. You can find Brian on Twitter/Instagram at @bwecht, and Leighton at @buttchamps (Instagram). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We have an absolutely fascinating, funny, and extremely talented guest for you today-- Dave Cobb, experience and theme park designer extraordinaire! We chat about what got him into this line of work, evergreen Simpsons content, Looney Toons, behind-the-scenes stories of experience design, favorite defunct attractions, and more! Seriously, this might be one of the best interviews we've ever done and we will ABSOLUTELY have him back on, so don't miss it! For more info on his work, check him out at https://about.me/davecobbHate ads but love the show? Check out our Patreon and support the show at patreon.com/leightonnight for the entire five year backlog of ad free and video episodes for as low as TWO DOLLARS! It's a steal and someone should stop us.Follow us on Twitter at @leightonnight and on Instagram/TikTok at @leighton_night. You can find Brian on Twitter/Instagram at @bwecht, and Leighton at @graylish (Twitter)/@buttchamps (Instagram). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Friend of the show and longtime NSP collaborator Simon Macko (Shoocharu) joins us today as we arbitrarily decide that we get to make the rules for how movies should be made from here on out- and also how unfair it is that Criterions are only sold in the US and what Brian's perfect honeypot would be, (take notes, otherwise it's entrapment and we can't get a conviction.)Anywho. Do you hate ads but love this show? Do you want an incredible deal on access to our entire 5 year backlog of video and ad-free episodes for TWO DOLLARS A MONTH? Then check out our Patreon and support the show at patreon.com/leightonnight! Kick us $5 a month and you even get a MINISODE every week, too. AND access to the fan discord, which is cool and fun. It's a steal. We literally shouldn't be doing this. Follow us on Twitter at @leightonnight and on Instagram/TikTok at @leighton_night. You can find Brian on Twitter/Instagram at @bwecht and Leighton at @buttchamps (Instagram).  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We're in peak form today with this chill chat about submissions for the new Massachusetts state flag (as well as ideas for the official Leighton Night flag), Starbucks PSL MVPs, our alternate names, earnestly bad horror movies, War of the Worlds, a lil bit of Succession, and more! Do you hate ads but love this show? Do you want an incredible deal on access to our entire 5 year backlog of video and ad-free episodes for TWO DOLLARS A MONTH? Then check out our Patreon and support the show at patreon.com/leightonnight! Kick us $5 a month and you even get a MINISODE every week, too. AND access to the fan discord, which is cool and fun. It's a steal. We literally shouldn't be doing this. Follow us on Twitter at @leightonnight and on Instagram/TikTok at @leighton_night. You can find Brian on Twitter/Instagram at @bwecht, and Leighton at @buttchamps (Instagram). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

WE ARE SO BACK! Leighton returns from Portland to discuss strange small world encounters, kittens, and Maeby antics; and we get into all sorts of other stuff, like deep diving on Brian's Succession viewing, creepy feet peeping houses, and more! Good stuff. Very bit/"comedic experience" heavy. Check out our Patreon and support the show at patreon.com/leightonnight! Follow us on Twitter at @leightonnight and on Instagram/TikTok at @leighton_night. You can find Brian on Twitter/Instagram at @bwecht, and Leighton at @graylish (Twitter)/@buttchamps (Instagram). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We're taking a week off and UNLOCKING two of our world-famous Patreon minisodes! These two minis we have here are "Leopard Print" from April 30th and "My Little Gamers" from May 21st. If you want more where this came from, or ad-free and video episodes for as low as $2 a month, go to patreon.com/leightonnight to support the show! Follow us on Twitter at @leightonnight and on Instagram/TikTok at @leighton_night. You can find Brian on Twitter/Instagram at @ bwecht, and Leighton at @ graylish (Twitter)/@buttchamps (Instagram). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Folks- you’re never gonna believe it, but we have yet another episode of Leighton Night with Brian Wecht where our hosts make a list, sort of. But that’s just a blip in the middle of the episode, we’ve also got discord drama, the origin of the concept of slapstick, the inexcusable sin of language being used incorrectly, and very briefly, in passing, a minor reference the groundbreaking music video "Shine On Me" by Chris Dane Owens. Like what you hear? Check out our Patreon and support the show at patreon.com/leightonnight to get AD FREE and VIDEO EPISODES FOR AS LOW AS $2 A MONTH. IT'S A LOSS LEADER BUT IT'S FOR THE LOVE OF THE POD, BABY!!! And other stuff but whatever who cares. Follow us on Twitter at @leightonnight and on Instagram/TikTok at @leighton_night. You can find Brian on Twitter/Instagram at @Brian, and Leighton on Insta @buttchamps. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Did you think last week's episode didn't have enough discussion of movie characters being horny? Yeah, that's what we thought. Here we are with another totally-not-stolen gimmick: this is a spirited debate on which characters in cinema history want to bone down hardest. This is a discussion driven by VIBES (not like that, you freak) and ENERGY. This is a discourse between two intellectuals who have a deep understanding about the perverts of cinema; an understanding that transcends mere explicit signifiers of this criteria. We've gone deep on this one; we wrote it long and hard and put it away wet. If you're reading any innuendo into this description, that's on you and you should talk to a therapist about it. Maybe YOU should be on this list, did you ever think about that? And some of these will SHOCK you. That's not clickbait; some of these are just genuinely dumb. Did you expect anything different from this show? Shame on you. Check out our Patreon and support the show against your better judgment at patreon.com/leightonnight! Follow us on Twitter at @leightonnight and on Instagram/TikTok at @leighton_night. You can find Brian on Twitter/Instagram at @bwecht, and Leighton at @graylish (Twitter)/@buttchamps (Instagram). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

And we're back with another MOVIE CLUB episode, this time with our beloved friend and favorite guest, Mr. Jory Griffis! If you want to watch the movies before listening, The Vanishing (1988) is free on Youtube, From Beyond is free on Tubi and Kanopy, and Altered States you're gonna have to rent, but based on the opinions expressed on this episode, maybe you won't want to? So either watch the movies beforehand or don't; that's not my problem. We cover all three in exhaustive detail: all the gloop, the goo, the coffins, the monkey men, Barbara Crampton in leather, pink light that makes you horny, and more! It's great. Movies are great. You're great. To get ad-free AND video episodes for only TWO DOLLARS A MONTH, check out our Patreon and support the show against your better judgment at patreon.com/leightonnight! Just pretend there's a pink light happening that makes you really horny for giving us money in exchange for goods and services, like weekly minisodes and our fan discord. Follow us on Twitter at @leightonnight and on Instagram/TikTok at @leighton_night. You can find Brian on Twitter/Instagram @bwecht, and Leighton on Instagram @buttchamps or on letterboxd @FUNERALTIDDY for even more bad movie opinions. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this very fun and sweet episode, Brian is joined by the wonderful rapper/DJ/author/producer Mega Ran (@mega_ran) for a chat about touring, MAGFest, making kids music, the joys of collaborating with your own children, tricky concert etiquette, and more! This is a REALLY good one, folks. Be sure to check out Mega Ran's new kids album Buddy's Magic Tree House and all of his other music here: https://linktr.ee/megaran. Check out our Patreon and support the show at patreon.com/leightonnight! Follow us on Twitter at @leightonnight and on Instagram/TikTok at @leighton_night. You can find Brian on Twitter/Instagram at @ bwecht, and Leighton at @graylish (Twitter)/@buttchamps (Instagram). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.