The Black Curtain Club

About The Black Curtain Club

A podcast for the delightfully curious and easily distracted. Kyle and Angi chat music, movies, cryptids, ghosts, weird history, and whatever derails them next. Half research, half chaos, all goose energy.

Publisher

The Silly Goose Society

Category

comedy · leisure · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

2 Feb 2025

Latest episode

12 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

83 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   12 Oct 2026

   S2E16 Metal Meets Classical

   Metal has a reputation for being “that screaming stuff,” but once you learn how musicians actually listen, the whole genre opens up. We sit down with Maddie, a Carnegie Mellon student studying music performance on viola, to break down why heavy metal, rock, and classical music often use the same core tools: layering, texture, themes, tension and release, and the kind of disciplined practice that turns a player into a technician. We dig into what makes certain bands feel almost symphonic, why...

2. 

   7 Oct 2026

   S2E15: Horror Movie Survival Test

   One bad choice is all it takes to become the opening kill. We put that theory on trial with a fast, funny horror movie survival game where we drop ourselves into iconic scenarios and ask what we would actually do when the lights go out and the rules change. We run through Scream, The Shining, A Quiet Place, The Blair Witch Project, Alien, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Ring, Final Destination, The Purge, The Mist, and Saw, using each film to test a different survival skill: resisting cur...

3. 

   30 Sept 2026

   S1E14: Soup, Cider & Chaos

   Fall shows up and suddenly everything makes sense again: the crisp air, the slower pace, the urge to cook something that takes four hours, and that feeling that the world is finally the right volume. We start with the pure chaos of “It’s fall, y’all,” then get real about why autumn feels like a full-body mood instead of boots-and-pumpkins branding. If you’ve ever felt more alive in September than in July, you’ll know exactly what we mean. From there we chase the stories that match the ...

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

3,911

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

6 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

14 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 74 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

82

Social presence

90

YouTube

68

Engagement

51

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