For The Watercooler

For The Watercooler

For The Watercooler is a podcast about all things pop culture, past, present and future! Caroline Darney and Matt Scalici of For The Win discuss the latest pop culture news and give their thoughts on the hottest movies, TV shows and more and bring in fun guests to discuss the pop culture that they’re obsessing over lately. New episodes each Wednesday. Leave us a voicemail to possibly have your comment or question heard on the show! (802) 432-8308 Send us an email at: forthewatercooler@gmail.com

Episodes

March 18, 2026 90 mins

One Battle After Another and Sinners went toe-to-toe on Hollywood's biggest night! Ben Flanagan joins us to break down this year's Oscars and take a look ahead and contenders for next year!

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Francesca Scalici, co-host of Mulder, It's Me with Caroline, joins the show to recap Season 1 of The X-Files on their rewatch journey!

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March 5, 2026 95 mins

BABY JANE DOE! It's time to give Season 2 of The Pitt the time on our show it so richly deserves! Darcie Yount joins us as we dig into The Pitt!

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February 19, 2026 78 mins

Caroline has more puppies than ever! Later, we're joined by Craig Hamilton of The Wizard of Oscar to discuss Alfred Hitchcock's Foreign Correspondent!

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February 12, 2026 103 mins

Our good friend Blake Schuster returns to talk Winter Olympics!

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February 5, 2026 89 mins

Matt and Caroline recap the Grammys! Later we're joined by actress Morgan Smith (Veep, 9-1-1) to remember the magnificent Catherine O'Hara.

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The Oscar nominations are out and Matt and Caroline are making their to-watch lists! Later, Hannah Kuykendall (SEC Shorts) joins us to hit the Speorg note as we dig into Will Ferrell's Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga!

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January 21, 2026 88 mins

Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are back and they're gonna rip the stash! Or jack the rip! Or whatever the terminology is! Collider's Michael Zimmermann joins us to talk about the Netflix cop thriller The Rip!

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January 15, 2026 88 mins

It's Golden Globes season! Matt watched the movie about a chimp with rabies! Kyle Bandujo joins to celebrate the upcoming Winter Olympics with a look back at the Mighty Ducks franchise!

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Ten years later, the Stranger Things finale has finally arrived and good luck meeting somebody who doesn't have a strong opinion about it! Our friend Collyn returns to the show to break down the big event and offer some script revisions of her own!

NOTE: If you want to skip the spoilers because you haven't seen the finale yet, head to 1:26:00 to hear our picks for our personal Mount Rushmore of Television Shows.

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It's the ultimate Christmas song draft featuring For The Watercooler and Big Screen Sports! Alex McDaniel and Ryan Nanni join Matt, Caroline, and Kyle to draft the ultimate Christmas playlist!

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We're combining feeds with our sister podcast Big Screen Sports for the month of December and in our first installment, Matt and Kyle talk Pluribus and A Christmas Story!

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November 26, 2025 77 mins

The Big Meal has arrived and we're here to chow down! Alex McDaniel joins us to talk about Julie & Julia, a delicious rom-com with great looking food and questionable relationship dynamics!

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November 19, 2025 68 mins

Food Month continues on For The Watercooler as we dive into 2001's Hannibal with Ryan Nanni! Listen to Caroline see THAT SCENE for the first time live and hear us play maybe the dumbest game show segment of the series to date!

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November 12, 2025 93 mins

November is Food Month on For The Watercooler! As we get ready for the most important meal of the year, we're asking our guests this month to pick movies based on the food featured on screen and we're starting with John Favreau's CHEF with our good friend Kyle Bandujo!

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October 29, 2025 87 mins

Caroline rounds the home stretch of her spookiest month yet! Actor Quentin Plair joins us to talk about his role in Chad Powers and his upcoming film Not Without Hope!

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Caroline is in Spooky Mode! We talk about the latest horror movies she's sampled, including both films in The Black Phone series with Francesca Scalici.

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October 15, 2025 92 mins

Caroline binged the entire Insidious franchise! Plus, Andrew Farmer (Scary Stories to Tell on the Pod) joins us to talk Addams Family Values!

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It's here and everyone has BIG feelings! Mike Golic Jr. joins Matt and Caroline to discuss the new Taylor Swift album, The Life of a Showgirl!

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Caroline has some new TV recs and Matt has seen One Battle After Another! Later, we're joined by The Bloody Broads (aka Jamie and Bhavna) to discuss Zach Cregger's horror duology Barbarian and Weapons!

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