The Midnight Release
A nostalgic, late-night rewind through the golden age of gaming, pop culture, and friendship. Join Chase and Austin every week as they relive GameStop midnight launches, classic console wars, and the games and nostalgia that shaped us.
The Midnight Release
Latest Episodes
Episode 46 - When Weekends Hit Different | Before the Notifications
Remember when the weekend actually felt like an event?Before smartphones, constant notifications, streaming, and social media followed us everywhere, weekends had a different kind of freedom. You disappeared for hours, met up with...
Episode 45 - Dragon Ball That Started it All | From Toonami to the Spirit Bomb
Dragon Ball didn't just become something we watched — for a lot of us, it became part of who we were.In this episode of The Midnight Release, we're going all in on Dragon Ball — from discovering Dragon Ball Z on To...
Episode 44 - Summer Blockbusters | When the Movies Became the Event
From Opening Weekend to Opening Night — The Movies That Owned Our Summers.What made a summer movie feel like an event?Before streaming, before movies could hit digital platforms weeks after theaters, there was somethi...
Episode 43 - The Disney Download | Everything Announced at D23 2026
The Midnight Release is back with another episode — and this time, we're downloading everything from D23 2026 in a surprise pivot episode with all this news!Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, Kingdom Hearts, Disney Parks and plenty...
Midnight Reflections - It's Okay to Say it Hurts | On Pain, Resilience & Letting People In
Midnight Reflections returns with a quieter conversation about something many of us are taught to hide: pain.Some of us become so good at pushing through, minimizing what hurts, and telling everyone “I’m fine” that we forget we do...