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The Cheese Wheel Podcast turns cultural fixation into a group sport, with its wheel sending the conversation toward stage musicals, movie oddities, YouTube lore, and pop-culture incidents. The result is brisk, messy in a deliberate way, and unusually comfortable mixing jokes with real criticism.
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The Cheese Wheel Podcast is a culture-chat show with musical theater in its bones and a much wider appetite than the category label suggests. Its wheel can land on Broadway-adjacent material, national tours, Disney Channel musicals, internet scandals, movies, YouTube-era artifacts, or glossy pop oddities. That range is the point. The show treats a jukebox musical and a messy online apology as equally usable raw material, as long as there is a fixation worth pulling apart. Episodes often begin with a sketch, a joke, or a blunt aside before settling into the subject. Then the conversation starts moving. A Theatre in the D episode can walk through & Juliet as a Max Martin jukebox musical, question its Shakespeare framing, praise its lighting and spectacle, and still wonder whether the first act takes too long to get to the fun. A Mamma Mia! discussion can work from ABBA affection into stage-versus-film context without pretending the pleasure is complicated. A High School Musical commentary can mock the Disney Channel mythology while still admitting its place in the made-for-TV musical lineage. The non-stage episodes keep that same pressure on form, taste, and cultural memory. Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie becomes a way to talk about James Rolfe, gaming internet influence, and guest Big Beak's relationship to that world. Fifty Shades of Grey brings in Kate Sloan for a deliberately chaotic setup around romance, awkwardness, and casting-role jokes. The Colleen Ballinger bonus episode turns the apology ukulele song into an object lesson in internet spectacle, annotation culture, and baffled explanation. The show is loud in spirit, but not careless. It knows when a bit is the doorway and when the actual criticism has to show up. Its best mode is a group conversation where someone makes the joke first, someone else sharpens it, and the useful point arrives two seconds later. The Cheese Wheel Podcast suits listeners who want media criticism with theater knowledge, internet fluency, and very little patience for polite distance.
Made for: For listeners who like musical theater criticism but also want room for movie oddities, internet lore, Disney nostalgia, and blunt group banter. It fits people who prefer opinionated conversation over tidy recap.
What sets it apart: The show’s wheel premise gives it permission to connect Broadway-adjacent shows, jukebox musicals, YouTube culture, movies, and romance melodrama without treating any lane as a guilty pleasure. Its edge is the mix of theater literacy and deliberately messy conversational momentum.
The Cheese Wheel Podcast is a weekly comedy show where we spin a wheel to determine our media obsessions. Join Jesse McAnally, Andrew DeWolf, and Liz Esten as they dive into whatever the wheel chooses next!Part of the Broadway Podcast Network.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Loose roundtable comedy gives way to sharp observations about albums, jukebox musicals, staging, and the choices that make adaptations work.
The Cheese Wheel Podcast treats media criticism as a lively argument among people willing to question one another's taste. Jesse McAnally, Andrew DeWolf, and Liz Esten move easily between jokes and close attention, turning a Sabrina Carpenter discussion into a test of what they…
Mulholland Drive gets a plot map; Space Cop gets a defense hearing, and you get the crossfire.
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A jukebox musical analysis that clicks once the show settles into its own rhythm.
It treats & Juliet as a jukebox musical built around Max Martin songs and pays attention to how those songs are folded back into the story, especially once the first act opens up and the second act takes over.
A loose Sabrina Carpenter segment that turns album recall into a lively, unruly pop conversation.
The segment uses Sabrina Carpenter as a prompt for playful group judgment. The hosts settle into a recall game around Short and Sweet and Man's Best Friend, and that stretch works best when the teasing still lands as actual evaluation.
A measured defense of Space Cop that lands hardest on the performances, the plot jokes, and the show's own in-jokes.
The episode makes a case for Red Letter Media's Space Cop as something worth defending, or at least worth taking seriously, after an audience turns against a movie aimed squarely at its own crowd.
A tangled, sharp look at a film that turns identity into a moving target.
Mulholland Drive is handled less like a puzzle to solve than a dream that keeps changing shape. The discussion stays with Betty and Rita, then Diane and Camilla, while still keeping the major story points in view as the names, timelines, and identities begin to slip around them.
A brisk stage-first take that cares more about how the musical lands than how closely it follows the film.
Jesse McAnally and Miranda Bobbitt meet Back to the Future: The Musical on its own turf. The episode keeps its attention on what the show is trying to do, with the cast, the ensemble, and the odd job of making familiar lines feel alive again.
Kaitlin Prest blends personal reenactment and Gaza war testimony across serialized documentary seasons.
Broadway talk with twin-speed sparkle.
The hosts of the Cheese Wheel podcast welcome returning guest Big Beak to discuss his gaming content and inspiration from James Rolfe, the Angry Video Game Nerd.
Miranda Moffat and Jesse McAnally cover And Juliet, the Max Martin jukebox musical built from songs like “I Want It That Way,” “Teenage Dream,” and “Baby One More Time.” They describe the show as a Romeo and Juliet rewrite centered on Juliet surviving, with William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway acting as a framing device.
A comedic and chaotic interview with billionaire Kate Sloan, featuring humorous mishaps and discussions about the 50 Shades of Grey franchise.
The hosts introduce a special Patreon bonus episode where they provide comedic commentary while watching the Disney Channel movie High School Musical.
This episode of Theatre in the D discusses the national tour of Mamma Mia in Detroit, highlighting its use of ABBA songs and its origins as a stage show and movie.
Hosts banter about doing comedy bits and discuss their podcast's potential awards.
In this bonus episode, the hosts explain the Colleen Ballinger controversy and her apology ukulele song to a clueless co-host.
A comedy podcast where hosts spin a wheel to determine their media obsessions, part of the Broadway Podcast Network.
The hosts engage in comedic banter about being unfunny and reference the movie Joker.
In this bonus episode, the hosts of Musicals with Cheese interview Lady Knight the Brave about the musical Parade, with comedic tangents and off-topic discussions.
The hosts spin a wheel to pick a media topic, this week discussing the movie Pitch Perfect with comedic banter.
The hosts discuss their experience seeing the stage adaptation of 'The Outsiders' at the Fisher Theater in Detroit, praising its technical mastery and physical staging.
A weekly comedy show where hosts spin a wheel to determine their media obsessions, featuring humorous banter and ads.
The episode opens in a burst of flirting, jokes, and fast back-and-forth.
An interview with playwright Sarah Elizabeth Grace about her dystopian feminist play 'The Regime is Female'.
The panel starts by comparing *Space Cop* to the strange world of YouTuber-made movies.
This episode features an interview with composer and podcaster Joel B.
The panel opens by treating the movie like a joke about dream logic, hit men, and the ridiculous work of trying to pin down identity.
This bonus episode of Musicals with Cheese features an interview with actor, comedian, and writer Amanda Hunt about her new cabaret musical 'Monica Lewinsky Sings Your Heart Out' and her artistic journey.
A weekly comedy show where hosts spin a wheel to determine their media obsessions, featuring humorous banter and ad reads.
The hosts spin a wheel to pick a topic, this week discussing the movie Cars 2 with comedic banter and roleplay.
This bonus episode features an interview with composers Chris Littler and Ellen Winter about their podcast musical '36 Questions'.
This episode features an interview with composer and violinist Edward W.
The hosts play a game where they spin a wheel to decide topics, then engage in comedic debate about erasing historical figures.
Hosts joke about the movie RRR and introduce their podcast format where topics are chosen by spinning a wheel.
A comedic reading of A Christmas Carol with modern profanity and humor, part of a wheel-spinning comedy show.
The hosts spin a wheel to pick a random topic, then discuss and joke about it, starting with a movie release date trivia game.
Jesse and guest Namazne discuss Alicia Keys' musical Hell's Kitchen, sharing personal memories and opinions.
The hosts spin a wheel to pick media topics, joking about Smash Mouth, Bette Midler, and Gene Hackman news.
The hosts spin a wheel to pick a media topic and joke about a Peter Pan movie.
The hosts introduce their podcast where they spin a wheel to decide their media obsessions, with a playful tone and ad reads.
Jesse McAnally and Miranda Bobbitt review Broadway in Detroit’s Back to the Future, the Musical, a film adaptation with music by Alan Silvestri and Glenn Ballard.
A bonus episode of The Cheese Wheel Podcast where Juliette Antonio discusses seeing Andrew Lloyd Webber's Masquerade in New York City.