Retro Pop

Matt and Johnny close up their month of American Folklore Heroes with the Apple Man himself, Johnny Appleseed. Learn about the real story of Johnny Chapman, which is much deeper than the one presented in your childhoods.

It’s American Folklore month, as Johnny and Matt discuss the incredible, or incredibly fabricated life of Davy Crockett. With his name growing into legend, during his own lifetime, Davy Crockett’s stories have come off a little exaggerated, but regardless, he is immortalized in American Culture and history as one of the greatest frontiersman it has ever seen.

Matt and Johnny close up Marvel Month with the first super hero team up movie, The Avengers. Dropping in 2012, it became a massive success and made super hero crossover movies the new norm.

In conjunction with sister show Retro Blissed, Marvel Month begins on Retro Pop! To kick off, Matt and Johnny look at and discuss Guardians of the Galaxy! The first movie, dropping in 2014, was a surprise mega-hit, and touched the hearts and souls of many fans, quicjly becoming a world - renowned name,

To finish up their month of history, Matt and Johnny take a look back at the most important battle in American History! The Revolutionary War brought freedom from the British Empire for most Americans, as they set a course on becoming a world super power for years to come.

Happy Mother’s Day out there to our listeners who happen to be mothers. In honor of this special day, Johnny and Matt cover The Alamo! isssa joke. Anyways, The Alamo, a disastrous military incursion between an overreaching government and free peoples, became a symbol for hope and eventual freedom. Remember the Alamo with Retro Pop’s first history based episode in over 2 years!

Matt and Johnny look back on a stain in global environmental standards, as they discuss Love Canal in Niagara Falls, NY. The once home of a large neighborhood of working class families in Matt’s home city, residents found out too late that they had been living over 20 tons of toxic chemicals.

Johnny and Matt are no strangers and disbelievers in the world of the paranormal. On this episode, they examine, discuss and reminsce about the Amityville Horror! The highly debated pop culture evengt has many detractors, and believers. Do you believe that the home at Amityville is truly haunted?

Video Game music has often struggled to find its way to the mainstream, often being considered niche. However, the work of famous video game composers like Nobuo Uematsu has brought it to new levels, with hits from video games like Final Fantasy, Chrono Trigger, and more. Matt and Johnny look at the life of Uematsu on this week’s episode and close out their newest month of music themed episodes.

Elvis was King of the World many decades ago! A pioneer of Rock and Roll, and being a master performer. Johnny and Matt, whose upbringings were heavily revolving around an Elvis Presley album or 10, discuss the legend in this episode.

For their next episode in a month of sports figures, Matt and Johnny cover Matt’s favorite NFL Player of all-time in Philip Rivers! The clean-mouthed trash talker is one of the finest players in NFL History, yet, often overlooked due to a lack of championship success. A life that is absolutely immersed in the great game of pro football.

Beloved Villain. Beloved Hero. Beloved Pro Wrestler. Beloved Actor. Beloved Person. “Rowdy” Roddy Piper was one of the best at what he did, and that’s why, even posthumously, his legacy is still in the hearts of many. On this episode, Johnny and Matt look back at his life and career!

For our final episode of pop culture companies, Matt and Johnny discuss the once prominent video game powerhouse known as SEGA! From it’s beginnings as a coin-op entertainment industry post-WWII, to it’s run against Nintendo in the 1990’s, SEGA left an imprint on many childhoods! Listen in as Matt and Johnny discuss SEGA in their Retro Pop way!

One of the most beloved and despised companies in pop culture history, Johnny and Matt examine LJN! LJN is known for making some of the greatest toys of the 80’s and 90’s while getting licensing for some of the biggest movies and tv shows for video games and putting out stinkers! They take a look at the history of this company in this episode!

Happy New Year! Matt and Johnny start off the new year with one of the most important toy brands of the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s! Kenner, the company that was saved by the Star Wars franchise, made many toys that many of us, and our parents, loved from their childhood! Listen in as they reminisce about those toys and the history of the company!

Johnny and Matt run sit and discuss some of their all-time favorite Christmas movies for their last episode of 2021!

Matt and Johnny discuss one of Matt’s favorite Christmas songs from Band Aid, Do They Know It’s Christmas? The song, created in hopes to raise money to save children in Ethiopia, was a massive hit around the world, and did it’s job. Plus, they discuss Christmas music in general.

Perfect timing! With the release of the most recent Spider-Man trailer, Johnny and Matt discuss the history of Doctor Otto Octavius! The mad scientist and sometimes anti-hero is one of the most tenured super villains in comic book history!

Matt and Johnny begin their month of their favorite comic heroes, with Matt getting first choice! They discuss Scott Summers, a.k.a Cyclops and their love of the often underappreciated leader of the X-Men!

This week on Retro Pop, Johnny and Matt explore a mansion! Luigi’s Mansion to be exact! The campy, goofy Nintendo game featuring everybody's favorite side kick took the world by storm in the early 2000’s and has been popular title ever since. Johnny and Matt explore the history behind it and more!

Matt and Johnny discuss spooky video games for the month of October! For their first episode of the season, they discuss one of Matt’s favorite video game franchises in Resident Evil!

Matt and Johnny go back to one of Steven Spielberg’s finest motion pictures in E.T.! E.T. transcended pop culture, and became a huge money maker in nearly everything (sorry Atari). Listen to their personal history and discussions of the movie on this episode!

Welcome to Retro Pop! On this podcast, hosts Matt and Johnny take you down memory lane discussing all things pop culture! They guarantee at some point they will cover a topic you’re interested in or their names aren’t Matt and Johnny. Which they are... this was already stated in the previous sentence. Thanks for letting these guys into your ears!! Wait… That didn’t sound great. Thanks for listenin...

Welcome to Retro Pop! On this podcast, hosts Matt and Johnny take you down memory lane discussing all things pop culture! They guarantee at some point they will cover a topic you’re interested in or their names aren’t Matt and Johnny. Which they are... this was already stated in the previous sentence. Thanks for letting these guys into your ears!! Wait… That didn’t sound great. Thanks for listenin...

Welcome to Retro Pop! On this podcast, hosts Matt and Johnny take you down memory lane discussing all things pop culture! They guarantee at some point they will cover a topic you’re interested in or their names aren’t Matt and Johnny. Which they are... this was already stated in the previous sentence. Thanks for letting these guys into your ears!! Wait… That didn’t sound great. Thanks for listenin...