Jumping back in time to our youth when having fun was all you needed for Ducks to absolutely dominate on the ice...with this iconic disney kids movie: D2 The Mighty Ducks. Hank M joins this one as we cover the 2nd movie in the Ducks trilogy and discuss all the major topics including: Emilio Estevez's Cincy connection, Charlie Conway's purity belt, playing street hockey growing up, iconic Duck's jerseys, Duck OGs vs new recuits, wild sound effects, corporate greed ruining youth sports, Iceland's coach peeing evil when he wakes up in the morning, Mt. Rushmore of kid's sports movie cheap shots, how kids find their way vs adults, Coach Bombay vs Wolf the Dentist for all the pride marbles, Coach's halftime speech in this movie vs the one in Little Giants, Shootout strategies and Julie The Cat's quick glove + much much more! Featuring Rotten Tomatoes game, Mt. Rushmore, Ryan Philippe Practice Hero Award, clips/music from the movie, Chevy Chase I don't Wanna Be Here Award, Picking Nits, Movie Memorabilia, MCITW (sponsored by Wicklow Wear), and MVP of the Movie. Go to wicklowwear.com for all your outdoor needs and type "VL" in at checkout to receive 10% off of your entire order!

Ride along with us as we drive this VL Podcast train back into the Indie Comedy station with this this 2005 gem: Waiting... Ben J returns to the podcast studio and joins an elite 6-Timer club as we navigate the 2021 woke-murky waters that is this Ryan Reynolds cult classic. Topics on this one include: beating out High School Musical, Paris Hilton, shoe brothers not translating to 2021, Brandon St. Rany's all-time Mt. Rushmore performance, the Macaulay Culkin treatment, the penis showing game, bored games at dead end jobs, Monty's origin story with his insane mom, #1 cardinal rule: "Don't F*** with people who make your food", peeing in public, Monty v. Serena for all the Shenanigan's cred marbles, waiters not writing down orders, each person finding their own "penis showing game", walking into restaurants 3 min before close, "The Goat" and much much more! Featuring Rotten Tomatoes game, Ryan Philippe Practice Hero Award, Chevy Chase I Don't Wanna Be Here Award, Picking Nits, Move Memorabilia, MCITW (sponsored by Wicklow Wear), and MVP of the Movie. Go to wicklowwear.com and type in "VL" at checkout to get 10% off your entire order!

Tapping into one of the biggest teen comedy smash hits from the early 2000s with this dynamite flick...Orange County! Thom H pops his VL podcast cherry, throws the cans on, and helps us navigate through the hilarious waters created by Jack Black, Catherine O'Hara & Colin Hanks. A plethora of topics discussed on this one including parallels to the OC TV Show, Jack Black's sock improv, Black & White productions, Dillingham's vs Hanks', mistakes of not having backup schools, disengaged fathers, Mt Rushmore of all-time comedic 7 min stretches, telling ambitious kids to f*** off, getting naked and starting revolutions, gentleman vs shady wedges, meeting your heroes, and much more! Featuring Rotten Tomatoes game, Ryan Philippe Practice Hero Award, Picking Nits, Chevy Chase 'Who Doesn't Wanna Be Here?" Award, Movie Memorabilia, MCITW (sponsored by Wicklow Wear) and MVP of the Movie. Go to wicklowwear.com for all your outdoor needs and type in the promo code "VL" at checkout to get 10% off of your entire order!

Back to the Outer Banks to wrap up Part 2 of 2 with Intern Whitney & Anna from HR. We discuss all the Season 2 episodes on this one and finish everything off with end of season Awards. Topics on this episode include: Ward Cameron at the helm of Dunder Miflin Stamford pre-OBX, Sarah Cameron's insane body in S2, how hard it is for the Pogues to find enough evidence to lock up Ward & Rafe, half season of Bourne Identity / half season of Teen Drama, Rafe shoots and attempts to drown his own sister = full on sociopath serial killer, Pope & Ki finally hook up, Carla Limbrey wrinkle with her crazy henchman, faking your own death, Topper lack of redemption in S2, dudes constantly waiting for girls to break up with their boyfriends, need more JJ, Cleo is the Bahama-gang member off the bench of the year, how quickly do John B & the Pogues die on that deserted island and much much more! Featuring Rotten Tomatoes game, Ryan Philippe Practice Hero Award, MCITW (sponsored by Wicklow Wear), Picking Nits, and MVP of the show!

Outer Banks is back!!! Season 2 officially up on Netflix July 30th meaning we had to drop everything to cover all the latest and greatest pogue & kook hijinks that North Carolina (and South Carolina and the Bahamas) has to offer :) .. Intern Whitney / Anna the HR Rep join Wind & Pipes this week as tackle some of the most important topics from all of Season 1 & Episode 1 of Season 2. .. Some of the key topics include podcast baby mooning, hottest current teen shows, Outer Banks' show comps, Pogues vs Kooks, Sarah Cameron & John B's budding & taboo love affair, JJ's underrated yet conflicted nature, love triangles, Ward Cameron & Rafe's evil journey, lack of belief from authority figures, gentlman wedges vs shady wedges, realities of surviving a perfect storm, honeymoon bathing suits being ripped off (by waves), Bahamas getting some love, bathing habits on the show, hotel cons to steal food, Bahama gangs racketeering & looting, and much much more! .. Big thanks to Wicklow Wear for sponsoring the pod...type in "VL" at checkout at wicklowwear.com to get 10% off your entire order! .. Part 1 of 2 this week...Part 2 of 2 coming next :)

VL B-Side pod this week - no structure, just a quick breakdown of Catching Fire & Mockingjay with Leah D to fully wrap up the Hunger Games saga! Jumped all over the place on this one as we discussed Catching Fire's prestige compared to the other movies, the 75th annual reaping pooling ONLY from past winners, the removal of all hope, Katniss' full transformation into official badass in book 2, Cinna's MVP campaign, alliances everywhere, Mockingjay falling very short to wrap everything up, Peeta's resurgence over Gale and much more! Thanks to Wicklow Wear for sponsoring the pod, love everything you guys provide to keep the wheels moving over here!

Leah D returns to the VL Podcast studio to discuss one of the most pivotal young adult book trilogies of all time: Hunger Games! No stone was left un-turned as we spent most of the time chatting about these topics from movie one: Suzanne Collins' HG book origins, Panem geography, shaky cams, Jennifer Lawrence's insane 5 year movie run, casting what-ifs, Leah's love and admiration for J-Hutch, book-Gale vs movie-Gale, Katniss volunteers as Tribute, similarities between the Hunger Games & Survivor/Big Brother, how to choose the correct alliance, hope vs. fear, survival fake romances, HG announcers compared to golf announcers, Rue being the cutest kid of all time, a kiss + 3 fingers = the revolution, Peeta's bitch move hiding under a rock, Team Gale or Team Peeta, pointless cave scenes, eat the berries, and much much more! Featuring Ryan Philippe Practice Hero Award, Picking Nits, MCITW (sponsored by Wicklow Wear), clips/music from the movie, and MVP.

This week we have a real special guest as we are joined Instagram's most talented OC video editor - thxoc owner & creator Katie H! A real fantastic listen for anyone who shares a similar high level of passion for teen drama TV :) We cover many interesting topics including: where Katie's super-fandom for the OC began, her video editing process on Instagram, her experience meeting Rachel Bilson & Melinda Clarke on the Welcome to the OC, Bitches podcast, other interactions with OC cast members throughout the years, favorite seasons/episodes/characters from the show, an alternative take on Marissa Cooper being misunderstood, general thoughts on other teen drama TV & movies, 90s Lifetime movies, reality tv, thoughts on the oft-forgotten season 4 of the OC, and then we wrap everything up with a little OC Trivia. ... Big thanks as always to Wicklow Wear for sponsoring today's podcast, we love & appreciate all your support! ... You can follow Katie on Instagram at thxoc and all things VL at vicariouslivingpodcast (slide into our DMs for our ultra-comfortable podcast swag!)

A teen movie classic this week as we indulged in one of the greatest 80s sports movies of all time: Hoosiers. 13-time podcast guest Zerb stops by the VL podcast studio for the first time in over a year to discuss all the ins and outs of this storied Indiana basketball adventure! Topics on this one are expansive and include: IU alum director David Anspaugh and our personal connection to him, business careers in entertainment club, the real 1954 Milan Indians, suspended NCAA players, Gene Hackman might be a dick, looking 55 your whole life, Jimmy Chitwood's ice water veins, 50s basketball players, Chuck Ts with scrunched down high socks, the most out of place love story in movie history, playing with 4 guys, drunk dads, Jimmy is a god, the picket fence, goosebumps in sports movies specifically related to speeches, underhanded free throws, bad kissers, 10 ft hoops and 15 ft foul lines, Jimmy's gotta take that last shot, and much much more! Featuring Mt Rushmore of Sports Movies, Ryan Philippe Practice Hero Award, MCITW (sponsored by Wicklow Wear), Picking Nits, clips/music from the movie, Rotten Tomatoes Game, and MVP of the movie.

Wind & Pipes are back in a live podcast studio for the first time in 461 days! A show so monumental, it took 3 whole years to get here...OC Season 3 Finale along with all the key highlights from the forgotten Season 4 (including how the entire series wrapped). This was gratifying, emotional, funny, sad plus any other emotion you want to insert for this Final OC Podcast. Main topics include how Ryan watches TV like a serial killer, Taylor dabbling in Devil's Threeways, graduation '06, Marissa getting closer with everyone in the cast & looking ahead to her Below Deck season with her dad, actors acting like they've never seen their own shows, why Mischa Barton really left the OC, Volchok taking matters into his own hands and full-on murdering cast members, Hallelujah (Jeff Buckley style), running up that hill to Ryan cage fighting in Season 4, fighting in jeans, a complete waste of an entire season, Blood v. Water, Buttons brought us in...Buttons takes us out, and much much more! Featuring clips/music from the show & our series MVP (sponsored by our fine sponsors: Wicklow Wear). Thanks for always standing by our side!!!