Nostalgium Arcanum
A Repository For The Pop Culture That Made Us Who We Are
Displaying all 5 Episode of Nostalgium Arcanum with the tag “nerd”.
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail
March 31st, 2025 | 1 hr 57 mins
absurd, absurdism, bbc, britain, britcom, british, comedy, dead parrot, england, eric idle, flying circus, geek, graham chapman, john cleese, logic, medieval, michael palin, monty python, mythology, nerd, python, religion, saturday night live, sketch, sketch comedy, skit, snl, spam, taskmaster, terry gilliam, terry jones
We're celebrating the 50th anniversary of Monty Python and the Holy Grail as some podcasting nerds should, by quoting it to death. Guest comedians Rich Baker and Ned Record (of the Lost & Confounded podcast and www.nedrecord.com) join us to discuss the unyielding hilarity and exceptional longevity of a film that just won't take "Ni" for an answer. And there was much rejoicing!
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UHF
July 1st, 2024 | 2 hrs 4 mins
1980s, 80s, accordion, comedy, cult classic, cult classics, film, flims, fran drescher, geek, kevin mccarthy, michael richards, movie, movies, music, nerd, parodies, parody, polka, weird al yankovic
We become parodies of ourselves as Dan Oster (MadTV, A Podcast, But Evil) joins us to revisit UHF, Weird Al Yankovic's cult classic about weird people trying to run a weird tv station for a non-weird world. As a bonus treat, we've included some old audio of our interview with Weird Al himself, so you get to drink from THE FIREHOSE (of podcast content)!!!
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Monty Python's Flying Circus
April 8th, 2024 | 2 hrs 9 mins
absurd, absurdism, bbc, britcom, british, comedy, dead parrot, eric idle, flying circus, geek, graham chapman, john cleese, logic, michael palin, monty python, nerd, python, saturday night live, sketch, sketch comedy, skit, snl, spam, taskmaster, terry gilliam, terry jones
And now for something completely different. Monty Python's Flying Circus redefined comedy from the subatomic level up with sketches that were quotable, absurd, and of course, funnier than a dead parrot full of spam. Guest comedians Rich Baker and Ned Record (of the Lost & Confounded podcast) join us to roundtable our top 10 Python sketches. Burma!
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The Far Side
June 26th, 2023 | 1 hr 4 mins
1980s, 1990s, calvin & hobbes, comic strips, comics, gary larson, geek, nerd, newspapers, nostalgia, twilight zone, weird
Farm animals. Cavemen. Aliens. Bugs. These are the canvas on which Gary Larson's The Far Side painted a uniquely heady blend of the mundane and the bizarre. Comedian Joey Clift (@joeytainment) joins us to revisit this highly successful comic strip and how it forever changed the way we look at comedy and ourselves.
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"Weird" Al Yankovic
November 7th, 2022 | 1 hr 9 mins
comedy, daniel radcliffe, demento, geek, music, nerd, parody, polka, rock and roll, weird, weird al yankovic, yankovic
Featuring my incredibly awkward unreleased 20-year-old interview with "Weird" Al Yankovic, on this episode the podcast truly becomes a parody of itself.