The Halloween Podcast

The Halloween Podcast Hosted by Lyle Perez-Tinics & Meghan Cunningham. The Halloween Podcast celebrates Halloween 365 days a year.

New shows released weekly featuring topics ranging from Halloween themed sitcom episodes, horror movie reviews, Halloween commercials and more!

With just 50 days until Halloween 2026, and just in time for your Friday commute - this could be the biggest trial of th...
09/11/2026

With just 50 days until Halloween 2026, and just in time for your Friday commute - this could be the biggest trial of the decade... OK, year... OK maybe just this month but YOU, dear listeners, are the jury on appeal. Please share widely!

WEIGH IN THE COMMENTS! Tell us, once and for all...

If Die Hard is a Christmas movie 🎄, does that mean E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial gets to be a Halloween movie 🎃?

Meghan is taking the case to Holiday Movie Court. Halloween isn't just a random scene in E.T. — it's established early, becomes an important part of the film, and ultimately gives Elliott the perfect cover for getting a very conspicuous extraterrestrial out of the house and through a neighborhood full of trick-or-treaters.

So Meghan has a proposition: if the arguments used to admit Die Hard into the Christmas-movie club are applied consistently, E.T. has a case for admission as a Halloween movie.

There's just one complication. Lyle doesn't particularly like E.T., and he's been appointed the jury.

Meghan presents the evidence, Lyle delivers his verdict, and then the case goes to the court of public opinion. You are the jury on appeal. When you see this episode on our social media, tell us whether you uphold Lyle's verdict or overturn it — and give us your best argument for why.

If Die Hard is a Christmas movie, is E.T. a Halloween movie?

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https://www.thehalloweenpodcast.com/podcast/episode/1d17723e/is-et-a-halloween-movie-1982

09/10/2026

Need something tasty and spooky to help start your day? Check out our sponsors, Dead Tired Coffee Company! Halloween Podcast listeners can use code HALLOWEENPOD to get any 12 oz bag of coffee for $20, with an equivalent discount on other products in the shop, plus a free decal.

There are only 51 days until Halloween!

🎧🎃 Catch up on any episodes of our Xennial Countdown to Halloween that you may hav emissed so far: 👇

https://www.thehalloweenpodcast.com/podcast

Today on the Xennial Countdown to Halloween, Lyle and Meghan revisit one of the most unforgettable pieces of spooky chil...
09/10/2026

Today on the Xennial Countdown to Halloween, Lyle and Meghan revisit one of the most unforgettable pieces of spooky childhood reading: “The Green Ribbon,” Alvin Schwartz’s eerie little tale from In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories.

For generations of young readers, a simple green ribbon tied around a woman’s neck was enough to inspire curiosity, dread, and perhaps a lifelong inability to look at ribbon chokers quite the same way again. Meghan and Lyle return to the story, its wonderfully unsettling illustrations, and the particular kind of childhood horror that could hide inside a book meant for beginning readers.

51 days until Halloween!

🎧🎃 Listen now wherever you get your podcasts. 👇

https://www.thehalloweenpodcast.com/podcast/episode/2dec1eab/the-green-ribbon-by-alvin-schwartz-explained

Join us as we revisit the 1979 animated special Raggedy Ann and Andy in The Pumpkin Who Couldn’t Smile — an absolute chi...
09/09/2026

Join us as we revisit the 1979 animated special Raggedy Ann and Andy in The Pumpkin Who Couldn’t Smile — an absolute childhood favorite for Meghan and a first-time watch for Lyle. Written, produced and directed by legendary animator Chuck Jones, this sweet little Halloween story brings together a lonely boy, a pumpkin nobody wanted and an aunt who may have forgotten something important about the magic of Halloween.

Meghan shares why this remains one of her absolute favorite Halloween specials, from its wonderfully autumnal imagery and memorable chase sequence to the banjo and harmonica music that still sounds like childhood October to her. Lyle brings a fresh perspective to the special, including its animation, music and whether this gentle piece of Halloween television still holds up for someone discovering it without the nostalgia.

52 days until Halloween!

🎧🎃 Listen now wherever you get your podcasts. 👇

https://www.thehalloweenpodcast.com/podcast/episode/23f3f811/the-pumpkin-who-couldnt-smile-raggedy-ann-andy-1979

This time on the Xennial Countdown to Halloween, Meghan and Lyle are joined by Gerry from the Totally Rad Christmas podc...
09/08/2026

This time on the Xennial Countdown to Halloween, Meghan and Lyle are joined by Gerry from the Totally Rad Christmas podcast for a trip back to 1979 and The Halloween That Almost Wasn't — and Gerry actually handpicked this wonderfully strange little piece of Halloween television as the special he wanted to discuss!

Meghan and Gerry bring the nostalgia while Lyle watches the special for the very first time, as they revisit an Emmy-winning cast of familiar television faces, the peculiar magic of annual holiday specials, and a Halloween adventure that could only have come out of the late 1970s. Does it still hold up without childhood nostalgia? And just how much disco does it take to save Halloween?

53 days until Halloween!

🎧🎃 Listen now wherever you get your podcasts: 👇

https://www.thehalloweenpodcast.com/podcast/episode/f98e9a6e/the-halloween-that-almost-wasnt-w-gerry-1979

Shaw's Supermarket finds are great! Some very cool Halloween themes from Fanta!! #
09/07/2026

Shaw's Supermarket finds are great! Some very cool Halloween themes from Fanta!!

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It has begun!! Welcome to the kick-off of the Xennial Countdown to Halloween 2026! First thing's first - Back to School!...
09/07/2026

It has begun!! Welcome to the kick-off of the Xennial Countdown to Halloween 2026! First thing's first - Back to School!

Lyle and Meghan kick off the Xennial Countdown to Halloween by heading back to the classrooms, hallways and school libraries of the late 1970s, ’80s and ’90s to remember what Halloween was like at school. From construction-paper decorations, spooky library books and Halloween music lessons to homemade costumes, plastic masks, classroom parties, squeaking television carts and the all-important Halloween parade, school helped turn October 31st into something that felt much bigger than a single night.

They also remember how Halloween changed as we moved from elementary school into middle and high school, when innocent costume parades gave way to school dances, teenage costume drama and whispered stories about whoever had managed to get themselves sent home that year. Along the way, Meghan shares some of her own school Halloween memories—including a homemade Medusa costume and the Halloween spelling song she still hears in her head today—and considers whether spending weeks celebrating Halloween at school helped prime a generation of Xennials for the ever-expanding Halloween season we enthusiastically embrace as adults.

54 days until Halloween!

🎧🎃 Listen now wherever you get your podcasts: 👇

https://www.thehalloweenpodcast.com/podcast/episode/edda8542/halloween-at-school-a-xennial-memory

09/06/2026

Our Xennial Countdown to Halloween start TOMORROW! Have a great Labor Day everyone!

09/06/2026

Fall is coming. 🍂🎃🔪

The days are getting shorter. The nights are getting cooler. Porch lights are glowing a little earlier, pumpkins are starting to appear, and the woods feel just a little darker after sunset.

There’s something comforting about fall.

And maybe something a little unsettling too.

Because once the leaves start to fall, you never really know who might be coming up the path. 👀🍁

Our favorite season is almost here.

Spooky Goodwill finds! 🎃👻🍁🍂
09/05/2026

Spooky Goodwill finds! 🎃👻🍁🍂

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