Cool Kids Club

Join us as we take a look back at the iconic moments, legendary athletes, and insane hype that made up the 1996 Atlanta Olympics!

We're heading back to the drive-in theater to revisit the summer action blockbuster that's full of bad weather, interpersonal drama, and dad rock: 1996's TWISTER!

In this episode it's all about choreographed dancing, frosted tips, and raging hormones - it's the golden age of BOY BANDS!

From Happy Meals and Burger King Kids Club to Pizza Hut hand puppets and holiday exclusives, join us as we discuss the wonderful world of fast food toys!

Being a teen is hard: relationships, family, school, vampires, aliens. Join us as we revisit the angsty awesomeness of shows like Dawson's Creek, Buffy, and Gilmore Girls: it's WB Teen Dramas!

Come with us on a journey to Puppetland, a magical place where all sorts of weird and wacky characters make up one of the greatest kids TV shows of all time: it's Pee-Wee's Playhouse!

In this episode we're heading back to 1993 and the World's Largest Toga Party. It's the infamous WrestleMania IX - featuring Bret Hart, Yokozuna, Shawn Michaels, Undertaker, a giant naked monster man, and Hulk Hogan ruining my night!

Let's go, gumshoes! Join us as we hop around the globe tracking criminals and learning geography through computer games, game shows, and cartoons: it's CARMEN SANDIEGO!!

Our very special guest April returns to the show for an adventure under the sea - it's Movie Club: The Little Mermaid! And before you ask, yes: there is singing.

Come along with us to visit our old friends Beezus & Ramona Quimby, Henry Huggins, Ellen Tebbits, Otis Spofford, and Ralph S. Mouse - it's the wonderful world of Beverly Cleary!

Our special guest Eddie returns to the show to help us relive the glorious four months in 2001 when Attitude Era WWF met subpar football - THIS IS THE XFL!!!

In this episode we head waaaay back to the early days of Nickelodeon's preschool block Nick Jr. - featuring David the Gnome, The Elephant Show, Fred Penner's Place, Noozles, and Eureeka's Castle!

It's the Year in Cool and we're talking everything 1995: Batman Forever, Coolio, moving from our childhood home, TLC's "Waterfalls," OJ Simpson, being abandoned by a bus driver at a gas station, Michael Jordan, and much more!

In this year's installment of The Christmas Tape we watched (for the first time) the Christmas counterpart to one of our favorite Halloween specials: the Tom and Jerry Christmas Special,  specifically the December 21, 1989 airing with the original commercials! The host segments and commercials can be watched on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/_KHvnVmpoCE?si=mWb2tg9zbCQ9YPN4

In the spirit of everyone sharing their Spotify Wrapped, we decided to do the same except with a year that was actually cool. In this Extra Cool, we each count down our top five albums and songs from the year 1997!

Get ready for leg lamps, decoder rings, and Red Ryder BB Guns - the Yule Kids Movie Club returns to revisit one of the greatest Christmas movies ever made, 1983's A Christmas Story! 

Join us as we ring in the holiday season with The Joker, ALF, Garfield, Marvel Superheroes, Chip and Dale's Rescue Rangers, Barbie, New Kids on the Block, and MUCH more - it's the 1989 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade! You can watch the full parade here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bh9l-c4Kh_4

Once again, in the time-honored tradition of Stick Stickly, we are opening up the mailbag and answering YOUR questions!

In this year's Halloween special, we discuss our mutual love of horror movies: what and who influenced us, the pivotal movies that made big impacts, and our favorite memories of being scared by celluloid!

We're dusting the cobwebs off the VCR and firing up another edition of our series dedicated to small-screen spookiness - it's The Halloween Tape Volume 5! This year we are discussing two cable TV horror primers, AMC's Monster Mania and Bravo's 100 Scariest Movie Moments, plus we each count down our own personal top five scariest movie moments!

In our first-ever Ghoul Kids Movie Club, our special (and spooooooooky) guest April joins us to discuss 1995's CASPER, a movie filled with heart, hijinks, and pre-teen hormones.

Fire up the family computer and join us as we reminisce about the PC games we loved, from Chip's Challenge and Pipe Dream to The Sims and Oregon Trail!

Come with us to a time before YouTube and TikTok, when we would gather around the TV on Sunday nights to watch Bob Saget narrate our weekly dose of slips, pranks, funny kids, and crazy pets. It's America's Funniest Home Videos!

In this episode we have to re-do school two weeks per grade in order to gain control of our family's hotel business. Just kidding - it's Movie Club and we're talking about the 90s cult classic Billy Madison!

Join us as we revisit Mr. Rogers, Sesame Street, Reading Rainbow, and the other iconic educational kids shows brought to us by PBS Kids and Viewers Like You!