The Nostalgia Pit

As we conclude season five, we bring back a heralded tradition: the mailbag! Joined by the Spleen himself, we harvested questions from our listeners in order to answer some of the world’s most puzzling questions. We wanna thank you for sticking with us all these years. Season 6 will bring lots of new fun as well as more of your favorite classics. And make sure you join in for Twin Peaks Tuesdays!...

Bonus content! We dig into the vault from season 2's Patreon exclusives to give you this lil gem! We’re going back into the vault! This episode was recorded at the end of 2021, delving into the ebbs and flows of creativity and political overcompensation. We also do some games of would-you-rather, and of course, we ask the absurdly simple question: what is morality? And make sure you stay tuned unt...

On the penultimate episode of season 5 here at The Pit, we decided to give y’all one last bracket, and I have to say, this one might be the best yet. Ron really went the extra mile and harvested 18 of the best dating profiles from the instagram page @VHSDates. If you are unfamiliar with this viral trend, it’s the digitized versions of dating profiles submitted to a dating service from the early ni...

Bonus content! We dig into the vault from season 2's Patreon exclusives to give you this lil gem! This episode was the second half of the recording from season 2 episode 14 entitled Sex Talk! Along with references to John Harvey Kellog, Rob, Colin, and Kevin talk AirBnb horror stories, museumification, Dr. Seuss. We also break down some of our nightmarish tour stories from when we all were trying...

This week we look into the law firm of Joffe, Morton & Jankel and their much overlooked 1993 motion picture project known as Super Mario Bros starring Bob Hoskins, John Leguizamo, Samantha Mathis & Dennis Hopper. We also watch the movie with our resident spleen and friend of the pod Saddy Mayo from the twitterverse. That’s available for free on our Playback channel. Link in the description...

Bonus content! We dig into the vault from season 2's Patreon exclusives to give you this lil gem! It’s a blast from the past! No, we do not have Brendan Frasier on the pod, but we do have birth trauma! That’s right; in this episode Colin, Kevin, and Rob dig into the mother scoby of all anxiety. We also get into some salacious sex club talk, theology, Bond theme songs, and Colin presents a philosop...

Here at The Pit, we are known to ponder a conundrum of two. And today, we do a TON of just that. We ask questions like: would humans be a healthy source of meat, or is Star Trek racist, or would you fellate your clone? Ya know, just normal, basic philosophical queries…  But that’s not all, folks… We also talk about a brand new film starring our very own resident myna bird, Rob Snow! The film...

And just like that, we’re back to brackets! Ron returns to guide through the deep dark depths of quote mining. Everyday phrases depicting simple “truths” turn out to be simple misnomers. Who would have thought that foundational pieces of dogma could be entirely the result paraphrasing and misinterpretation? Everything from “the early bird gets the worm” to “peace on earth” is up for reevaluation…...

To start things off, I have to quote another podcast I work for - top 10 in the world of movies/tv reviews Cinephobe: “the timeline got fucked up…” So this episode was recorded before the last episode, but we decided to celebrate Halloween the right way and shuffle the release schedule. So while some things may seem a bit out of place spacially, we still got some gems littered throughout this turd...

Happy Halloween folks! We hope you get to enjoy all the spiced beverages and sugared finger foods that your heart desires. And we especially hope that you have a great costume that embodies part of your persona that typically stays buried deep down for the rest of the year, only to be unleashed every year on the ultimate day of October. To celebrate this allowance of inner truth, we decided that I...

Hey folks! Busy times for us here at the Pit. We tried to prevent the inevitable, but alas, we had to take a week off in order to oil the ol’ gears. But instead of just skipping a week or longer as we have in the past, we decided to do a best of episode instead.  But we still wanted to keep it fresh for most, so we decided to to pool together three different Patreon exclusive sections togethe...

Today is a day where we let our interests dictate the flow. We discuss everything from the Three Rivers Dam in China, to waste management, to the museumification of society. We also talk Mark Twain, Animorphs, and the infamous Action Park. Wash all that goodness down with a shot of snail vodka and nice helping of surströmming for a pallet cleanser…  We also did something very visual in this e...

It’s almost as if this podcast was an animated movie voiced by actors like John Goodman, Rhea Pearlman and Walter Cronkite because We’re Back!  Back from what you ask? Back from the Big Apple! We had to fly out east to check on our Spleen and spread our scent abouts the boulevards of Brooklyn. This story is wrought with all the drama. Flight cancelations, damaged luggage, sweaty subways, and...

Before social media, word of mouth was the way an average Joe could learn of all the stories that may be too hot for the mainstream… Often, these stories had a brief moment in the sun and were able to make a long-lasting enough impression to linger in the fringes of society for decades after. So our resident bracket curator Drinks w/ Ron gathered many of these stories and assembled a heavyweight t...

Howdy folks! Have we got one helluva an episode for you todo! I mean today… Gah! This autocorrect function is getting really bad… But it is quite an episode, as we preview our brand new watch-a-longs that will be coming this October! Tune in for details as to what we may be watching in the future as well as when to keep an eye out! Obviously, that’s not all we talk about… We discuss everything fro...

Howdy, folks! For this episode, Rob and I ventured down to Texas to talk with friend-of-the-pod Tyler Rickshaw! You may remember him from season three’s episode number twenty-one entitled Blanket of Sadness… But maybe you’re new to the party and missed that one… No worries, you can always go back as most all our episodes are evergreen. But on THIS episode, we discuss everything from Walker Texas R...

What do Walt Disney, JFK and Elvis all have in common? Well, besides them all being deceased, of course… What if I added in the CIA, Paul McCartney, and LSD?! Would that narrow things down at all? No?! Well, all of these things listed are steeped deeply in conspiracy theories. Drinks w/ Ron joins the fun to surprise us with a bracket on some of the best, most well known & interesting concepts...

Today, we did something a little unorthodox… Perhaps, a bit uncalled for… Maybe even a little unnecessary... We decided to mess with the timeline, and record an impromptu episode and shuffle it ahead. What could be so important that would earn such a shuffling? As you may know by now, Rob and myself - aka Araless and Hash Adams - released a project called the Toxic Crusaders. As the Troma Entertai...

Time to fire up that echo chamber and start screaming into the void! Rob and Colin talk AI psychosis and the virality of delusion, as well as everything from super string theory to Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls. Quite the array today! But you know that that’s not all… We also bust out ye ol’ Song Spelunker and look into the 2000 smash hit Jumpin’, Jumpin’ by Destiny’s Child. All of these things,...

This week is a doozy.... We got special guest Celina Flores to join Colin to look back to a day and time when things were simpler and the adventure was a little more exhilarating. Almost 30 years in fact... This special Limited Recall looks into one of the biggest movie franchises of the 20th century. None other than… Indiana Jones.  And that’s not all of course. It’s Rob Review’s time, folks...

This week we welcome in the producer and co-host of Static Radio: one Bob Lament to discuss any topics that tickled his fancy. Everything from Honey I Shrunk the Kids! to collective consciousness to the evolution of advertising… Nothing was off the table in this one.  We also discuss potentially the worst film of all time. Bob challenges Colin to watch this film and even offers a whopping $5...

Do you remember being taught things by teachers as a kid, things that as you got older seemed suspiciously false? The biggest and most egregious example that comes to mind always is that of Christopher Colombus. They told us he “discovered America” and that he was one of the, if not the greatest explorer the world had ever seen. Well, it is that time of the month… where we welcome back in Drinks w...

Today we welcome in a man all the way from the swampy bosom of Dallas, Texas. Music producer and filmmaker extraordinaire Thad Wenatchee joins the Pit to discuss everything from butt plugs, to geopolitics, to the new(ish) Toxic Crusaders project (which he produced the entirety of).  But that’s not all of course. As a lad born and bred in the Pacific Northwest, you can probably imagine there w...

Have you ever been in a public setting and felt an overwhelming bout of emotion coming on? Have you ever taken those emotions and crammed them down into a dark place that no one can see, only to put on a smile in the face of the seemingly judgemental?  Well so has Melissa Manchester and she would like to tell us all about it with her hit song Don’t Cry Out Loud from 1978. So Rob and I put on...

Today we welcome in the illustrious Canadian orator known as Wordburglar. Originally hailing from Halifax, Nova Scotia, Burgie is now representing Toronto, dominating the nerdosphere and representing his country with the finest of artwork. Growing up a comic book nerd (which clearly shows through his music), we invited him here to talk about a lifelong goal coming to fruition. The Wordburglar Rhym...