Nostalgium Arcanum

Episode Archive

Episode Archive

142 episodes of Nostalgium Arcanum since the first episode, which aired on October 3rd, 2022.

  • A League of Their Own

    March 18th, 2024  |  2 hrs 4 mins
    1990s, 90s, aagpbl, athletics, baseball, entertainment, film, geena davis, madonna, movies, penny marshall, racine, rockford, rosie o'donnell, softball, sports, tom hanks, world series

    Batter up, hear that call. The time has come for one and all... To play ball. We load the bases with guests Ami Lief, Ryan Merlo, and Tania Newton to revisit "A League of Their Own", a seminal sports movie that's still in a league of its own.

  • Happy Gilmore

    March 11th, 2024  |  1 hr 51 mins
    1990s, 90s, adam sandler, carl weathers, comedy, entertainment, film, golf, julie bowen, movies, sandler, saturday night live, snl, sports

    The price is right for this classic golf comedy in which Adam Sadler tees off on everyone and everything in his path. Guest Dave Jackson (Tales From The Backlog) joins us to revisit a movie that never fails to take us to our happy place.

  • Led Zeppelin

    March 4th, 2024  |  2 hrs 6 mins
    classic rock, heavy metal, j.r.r. tolkien, jimmy page, john bonham, john paul jones, led zeppelin, lord of the rings, lotr, metal, music, robert plant, rock, stairway to heaven, tolkien, zeppelin

    Led Zeppelin are the godfathers of metal - a band that rocked so hard it forever reshaped the landscape of music. Jimmy Page's unparalleled riffs, Robert Plant's searing vocals, John Bonham's intricate and powerful percussion, and John Paul Jones' genius bass and keyboard compositions channeled primal mythic forces into rock and roll legend. We're joined by musicians Dylan Ris (www.lostmoonradio.com) and Kyle Lieberman to celebrate and compare our lists of top ten Zeppelin songs.

  • The Terminator

    February 26th, 2024  |  1 hr 55 mins
    arnold schwarzenegger, dystopia, horror, james cameron, lance henriksen, robots, sarah hamilton, schwarzenegger, scifi, synth, t1000, t800, terminator, time travel

    No matter how many times Arnold has been back, the original Terminator film still holds up as a taut, suspensful, scifi horror classic. Guest Jala Prendes (host of Jala-Chan' Place, Monster, Dear Monster, and Duckfeed.tv's The Level) joins us to praise the exquisitely crafted and sturdy skeleton beneath James Cameron's powerful 1984 masterpiece.

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    RoboCop

    February 19th, 2024  |  2 hrs 33 mins
    1980s, 80s, action, detroit, dystopia, entertainment, film, horror, movies, paul veerhoven, peter weller, police, satire, scifi, veerhoven

    Like RoboCop himself, beneath this film's flashy exterior lies turmoil and humanity. Guests comedian Rich Baker (@richbakercoaching) and Dan Oster (MadTV, A Podcast, But Evil) join us to investigate Paul Veerhoven's dystopian satire of dehumanization, but one that still manages to kick a lot of iron butt. I'd buy that for a dollar.

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    Spaceballs

    February 12th, 2024  |  1 hr 34 mins
    alien, aliens, bill pullman, comedy, film, george lucas, joan rivers, john candy, mel brooks, movies, rick moranis, sci-fi, scifi, spoof, star trek, star wars

    Spaceballs? Oh shit, there goes the podcast! Guest and master of the Schwartz Matt Storm a.k.a. Matt Stormageddon joins us for a look back at Star Wars as filtered through Mel Brooks' mastery of vaudeville, satire, and moichandizing!

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    Disney Songs, Part 2

    February 5th, 2024  |  2 hrs 7 mins
    animation, broadway, cartoon, cartoons, coco, disney, disney channel, disneyland, disneyworld, duck tales, ducktales, high school musical, mary poppins, muppets, music, musical, musicals, nightmare before christmas, pixar, theater, touchstone

    We're back to revisit our favorite Disney songs to infinity and beyond! Last time we covered songs from Walt Disney Studios' animated features. This time we're covering everything else from Pixar to Touchstone to the Disney Channel to the amusement parks and more. Returning guests Ami Lief, Tania Newton, and Ryan Merlo join us for a supercalifragilisticexpialidocious massive mouse house roundtable.

  • Crash Bandicoot

    January 29th, 2024  |  1 hr 3 mins
    game, gamer, gamers, games, gaming, naughty dog, platformers, playstation, psx, retro games, retrogamer, retrogames, retrogaming, sony, videogame, videogames, videogaming

    1996's Crash Bandicoot tackled the leap from 2d gaming to 3d with wild abandon, cartoon mania, and down-under flair. Guest James Hughes of the TeamWorks podcast joins us to revisit a mascot platformer that dominated his era of videogame history.

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    Mitch Hedberg

    January 22nd, 2024  |  1 hr 12 mins
    andy kaufman, beatnik, comedy, hedberg, improv, jazz, mitch hedberg, open mic, stand up, stand up comedy, stand-up, stand-up comedy, steve martin

    If stand-up comedy was an equation then Mitch Hedberg was its Isaac Newton, a pioneer who turned the format on its head and make jokes into jazz and vice versa. Comedian Rich Baker (@richbakercoaching) joins us to revisit Hedberg's tragically brief career, and the stand-up revolution he quietly raged.

  • Matchbox Twenty

    January 15th, 2024  |  1 hr 35 mins
    1990s, 90s, concert, entertainment, mainstream, matchbox 20, matchbox twenty, mb20, music, rob thomas, rock

    Let's see how far we've come. Since the late 1990s Matchbox Twenty has been entertaining audiences with mass appeal and mass success. This week guests Ami Lief, Betsy Allen, and Kyle Lieberman join us to roundtable their top ten MB20 songs.

  • Independence Day

    January 8th, 2024  |  1 hr 56 mins
    1990s, alien, aliens, area 51, bill pullman, conspiracy theories, extraterrestrial, extraterrestrials, id4, invasion, jeff goldblum, martian, martians, randy quaid, roswell, scifi, war of the worlds, will smith, x-files

    Welcome to Earth. This week guest Matt Powers joins us to revisit a 1990s disaster classic that, like its extraterrestrial scourge, loomed large over the action blockbusters of the era.

  • Ghostbusters

    January 1st, 2024  |  2 hrs 12 mins
    1980s, afterlife, bill murray, comedy, dan ackroyd, ectoplasm, frozen empire, ghostbusters, ghosts, harold ramis, haunting, ivan reitman, rick moranis, sigourney weaver, slimer, snl, spirits

    Who ya gonna call? For 40 years the story of blue-collar scientists with unlicensed nuclear accelerators exterminating paranormal threats has offered thrills, chills, and spills (of self-cooking eggs and marshmallow goo). On this episodes guests Dylan Gregory and Dan Oster (MadTV) join us to revisit why this comedy classic still has us in a trap four decades on. Grab a big twinkie and join us!

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    Batman Returns

    December 25th, 2023  |  2 hrs 30 mins
    1990s, batman, christmas, christopher walken, comic book, comic books, comics, danny devito, danny elfman, dc comics, freaks, gothic, horror, michael keaton, michelle pfeiffer, superhero, tim burton, xmas

    It's Christmas in Gotham and writer/director of horror short "The Canyon" Alex Sosin joins to once again delve into Tim Burton's gothic nightmare vision of the Bat, the Cat, and the Penguin in a supersized present of an episode. It's bigger and more unwieldy than its predecessor, but no less compelling and terrifying.

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    ActRaiser

    December 18th, 2023  |  35 mins 58 secs
    enix, faith, gamer, gamers, games, gaming, god, nintendo, religion, retrogamer, retrogamers, retrogames, retrogaming, rpg, rpgs, sim-city, snes, square, supernintendo, urban planning, video games, videogames, videogaming

    Lo and behold! In ActRaiser you get to play God, literally. In this SNES classic combines two different gameplay modes (hack/slash and city-building sim) to create an overall experience that is still worshipped today.

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    My Best Friend's Wedding

    December 11th, 2023  |  1 hr 29 mins
    1990s, 90s, cameron diaz, comedy, entertainment, film, julia roberts, movies, rom-com, romantic comedy, romcom

    My Best Friend's Wedding is, despite its trappings, not a romantic comedy. The film cleverly subverts expectations by making the villain appear to be the protagonist, making a happily never after the proper ending. We're joined again by Ami Lief and Ryan Merlo to revisit Julie Roberts doing worst what she usually does best.

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    Care Bears

    December 4th, 2023  |  1 hr 12 mins
    1980s, 80s, animation, care bears, caring, cartoon, cartoons, child psychology, dic, empathy, entertainment, movies, television, toys, tv

    You stare into the Care Bear and the Care Bear stares back at you. This week guest podcaster Jala Prendes (Jala-Chan's Place, Monster, Dear Monster, The Level) drops in from the clouds to help us revisit the Care Bears franchise and how its tender-hearted worldview taught a generation of children to be empathetic and also buy lots of toys.