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Witches Night Out (1978) Oct 03, 2026

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Witch’s Night Out is one of Meghan’s beloved childhood Halloween specials — a wonderfully weird Canadian cartoon from 1978 featuring Gilda Radner as an eccentric Witch who can make a couple of kids’ Halloween dreams come spectacularly true. Meghan still watches it every year and is now introducing it to her own children.

Lyle, however, had somehow never seen it. So Meghan takes him to Anytown for the first time to talk about the distinctive animation, that unforgettable opening song, a surprisingly recognizable voice cast, and why this peculiar little special has remained part of her Halloween for so many years. Will its weirdness win Lyle over without the childhood nostalgia? Well... that may be another story.

28 days until Halloween!

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Halloween Horror Movies With Curtis Andersen Oct 02, 2026

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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 every year leading up to Halloween, so we’re talking about some of his annual go-tos alongside a few films that earned an important place in horror history.

How did horror movies become such a big part of the way we celebrate Halloween? We’re talking scary movie traditions, Halloween nostalgia, and the films we find ourselves coming back to when October rolls around. Plus, Curtis shares his own Halloween memories and traditions along the way.

29 days until Halloween!

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Wonderful Sausage By Alvin Schwartz Explained (CONTENT WARNING) Oct 01, 2026

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

Today, Meghan and Lyle sink their teeth into “Wonderful Sausage,” a particularly gruesome tale collected by Alvin Schwartz in Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones (1991), with unforgettable illustrations by Stephen Gammell.

What makes Samuel Blunt’s sausages so wonderfully delicious? You might wish you hadn’t asked! Lyle also traces the story’s folkloric roots to the Ozarks and Louisiana as we explore where this deliciously disturbing tale came from.

30 days until Halloween!

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Peter & The Werewolf! Cassette Tape Story Review Sep 30, 2026

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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 storytelling with the wonderfully eerie sound effects that made Halloween so much fun for Xennial kids.

Join us as Lyle shares his memories of this childhood favorite and Meghan discovers what she's been missing all these years. It's a little Halloween nostalgia, a little old-fashioned storytelling, and a reminder that sometimes the simplest things can still give us a good scare!

31 days until Halloween!

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Jason Marsden Interview (Eerie Indiana, Hocus Pocus) Sep 29, 2026

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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, Indiana, and very importantly around here Hocus Pocus.

We had an absolute blast talking with Jason, who is genuinely one of the nicest guys you could hope to meet. We get into some of those Xennial favorites, spend plenty of time talking Hocus Pocus and Eerie, Indiana, and hear a few stories along the way — but we’re not spoiling those here. You’ll have to listen!

32 days until Halloween!

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Eerie Indiana Memories (1991) Sep 28, 2026

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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 1991, the series followed 13-year-old Marshall Teller as he tried to document the increasingly bizarre things happening around him in a place where almost everyone else seemed perfectly happy to accept the weirdness as normal.

Meghan remembers watching Eerie, Indiana as a kid—most likely during its later run on The Disney Channel—but remembers surprisingly little about it, so she and Lyle revisit what made this short-lived series so unusual. They look at its place just ahead of the huge 1990s kid-horror boom, its distinctly Xennial world, and the surprising amount of social satire hiding beneath all that small-town weirdness.

33 days until Halloween!

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Buttons and Rusty in Which Witch Is Which (1984) Sep 27, 2026

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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.

Meghan revisits a childhood favorite filled with trick-or-treating, witches, a pair of criminals, and one ridiculously catchy title song. And given her mild childhood obsession with “woodland animals” — something friends and family can readily attest to — putting a bear and a fox into a Halloween special was really stacking the deck. Meanwhile, Lyle experiences Which Witch Is Which? for the first time.

34 days until Halloween!

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