The Nostalgia Test Podcast

Dan & Manny go deep into the July Nostalgic News to see if it passes the ultimate test--THE NOSTALGIA TEST!  July was a very eventful month in the Nostalgia community. Dan & Manny start with sad news, the recent passing of beloved pop-culture icons Shannon Doherty, Richard Simmons, Bob Newhart, and Dr. Ruth. The guys panic about the hydrothermal explosion in Yellowstone National Park and h...

Dan & Manny welcome back the director of The Orange Years & This is GWAR, Scott Barber, to talk about the Kickstarter for his new project Game Changers, a docu series about the videogames that changed everything!   Scott talks about what he's been up to since the last time we had him on to discuss his documentary  The Orange Years , he tells us about his new project with Phil Moore (host o...

Dan & Manny welcome back their longtime friend & Nostalgia Test Podcast Allstar Steve Herrera to put the 1996 Sublime self-titled album to the ultimate test--THE NOSTALGIA TEST! This is an old fashion basement hangout. There's a ton of inside hometown jokes, references, & tangents, the guys reminisce about listening to Sublime, their favorite songs off this album, they talk about the l...

Dan & Manny recast the 1996 sci-fi action classic  Independence Day  for the Buzzn The Tower Podcast !  This is the wildest ten minutes of podcasting, EVER! Recorded while Dan was eating lunch at Veggie Grill in Santa Monica and Manny was just getting off of work, this is an old school earbuds-for-microphones Nostalgia Test Podcast. Manny expresses some strong love for Ed Harris, welcomes the...

Dan & Manny are joined by Dr. J.L. Adolph , Ph. D. in English/African Diaspora Studies, to put the 1995 John Singleton classic Higher Learning to the ultimate test--THE NOSTALGIA TEST! Content Warning This episode deals with discussions of sexual violence & rape, gun violence, & racial violence. On our 4-year podiversary, we're dropping a hybrid Nostalgia Test/Nostalgia 101 episode. We...

Dan & Manny welcome artist Mike Reuter to put the 1999 sci-fi action classic 😎 The Matrix  to the ultimate test--THE NOSTALGIA TEST! Come take The Red Pill w/ The Nostalgia Test Podcast on this amazing episode. Dan & Manny start w/ a short interview of their guest, visual artist Mike Reuter . They ask him about his use of old VHS tapes to create his movie posters, his screenwriting, and w...

Dan & Manny put some recent Nostalgic News to the ultimates test--THE NOSTALGIA TEST!  So much is going on in the Nostalgia world. The boys talk about the upcoming Summer Olympics in Paris and all the newly added sports, they give their immediate reactions to the trailers for Deadpool & Wolverine, Bad Boys: Ride or Die, Venom: The Last Dance, and Beverly Hill Cop: Axel F, they put Eminem's...

Dan & Manny welcome Rose & Courtney from the Fiction Fixation podcast to put the 1993 action thriller classic 🦖Jurassic Park to the ultimate test--THE NOSTALGIA TEST! OMG! This is one of those episodes that has twists & turns, tangents & hot takes, and a ton of Jeff Goldblum love! Courtney rips apart John Hammond aka Paleo Peepaw, Rose thinks that Timmy was avoiding his death like...

Dan & Manny are joined by toy designer & President of Design Edge Inc Matt Nuccio to discuss the inner workings of creating some of the most nostalgic toys from our childhood.  Matt discusses taking Tickle Me Elmo from idea to reality, talks about his family's history in the toy business, how his company Design Edge Inc collaborates with first-time entrepreneurs, the collaboration between...

Dan & Manny welcome longtime friend & Nostalgia Test Podcast Allstar Steve Herrera to put the Worst Songs of the 90s 2011 Rolling Stone Readers Poll to the ultimate test--THE NOSTALGIA TEST! Listen to the guys go on a nostalgia journey that breaks them done physically, mentally, & emotionally. Dan & Steve try to convince Manny that "What's Up" by 4 Non Blondes is a groundbreaking s...

Dan & Manny welcome longtime friend, and secret Nostalgia Test Podcast fan, Lee Kaplan to put the 1990 Tom Cruise classic Days of Thunder to the ultimate test--THE NOSTALGIA TEST! Grab a drink and settle in for vintage Nostalgia Test Podcast tangents, breakdowns, and mayhem. The guys discuss how Days of Thunder is Top Gun on wheels, how this is in the Top Gun/Cocktail Cruise-niverse, why is th...

Dan & Manny welcome Emmy award winner, writer, & USC Alum, Eric Althoff to put the Jean-Claude Van Damme classic Street Fighter (1994) to the ultimate test--THE NOSTALGIA TEST! This is an hour and a half of classic Nostalgia Test Podcast comedy, hot takes, & tangents. We try to figure out who Street Fighter is for, how no one sets out to make a bad movie, Raul Julia, the absence of JCV...

Dan, Manny, & their longtime friend and Nostalgia Test Royalty, Billy D'Elia put the Road House 2024 Reboot to the ultimate test--THE NOSTALGIA TEST (NOW)! Strap in everyone, because this episode is doesn't pull any punches. Dan, Manny, & Billy are the FINAL TEST on the Road House reboot, and watch out because there are SPOILERS! They dive right into the lack of one-liners, the lack of rat...

The Nostalgia Test Podcast recorded LIVE from the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association Conference in Albuquerque, NM w/ USC colleagues Jen Sopchockchai Bankard & P.T. McNiff of the Long Take Review podcast. Shoutout to SWPACA, the tech guy who helped make this happen, and everyone that came out to support! Our presentation, "Between Two Scholastic Worlds: Teaching, Blogging, and Podc...

An interview with the stars of Snack Shack, a new 90s-set coming of age movie. Lead actors Conor Sherry and Mika Abdalla join Dan for a Nostalgia Test Now episode about their nostalgia inspired movie Snack Shack, a 90s teen story centered around four friends at the public pool during the summer in Nebraska City.  They discuss the 90s prep they did, how their characters impacted them, some of their...

Dan & Manny welcome back longtime friend & Nostalgia Test Podcast All-star Steve Herrera to put the 1994 comedy Airheads to the ultimate test—THE NOSTALGIA TEST!  If you love rock music, hilarious one-liners, the 90s, & a sophisticated reimagining of Die Hard, well, Airheads is none of these things! Steve put it perfectly when he said, “[Airheads] could have been a Mentos commercial.”...

Dan & Manny welcome friend of the show Marc Jackson to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Green Day's 1994 classic Dookie and put it to the ultimate test—THE NOSTALGIA TEST! This episode is a literal lovefest for Dookie (okay, wow). The boys talk about the first time they all heard the album, share memories of watching the “Basket Case” video, the influence of Green Day on music post Nirvana, t...

This was an emergency Nostalgia Test episode! Dan & Manny had to weigh in on the 2024 Road House trailer as soon as it dropped and put it to the ultimate test--THE NOSTALGIA TEST (NOW)!  The trailer for the 2024 Road House reboot just dropped on Thursday, January 25th, 2024, and calls went out immediately! Dan & Manny watched the trailer together, hit the record button, and let loose on th...

Dan & Manny put the the sci-fi comedy Galaxy Quest (1999) to the ultimate test--THE NOSTALGIA TEST! The boys can't contain themselves in this episode. The jokes were flying, quotes from the movie, the 90s love will just pour out of your earbuds. So, put another load of laundry in, wash another round of dishes, or keep walking on the treadmill, because you're gonna want to hangout for awhile, a...

Dan & Manny put the OG Toy Story (1995) to the ultimate test--THE NOSTALGIA TEST! The episode goes DEEP into all things Toy Story. They talk about the A++ list of actors in the movie, why no one seems to see these toys walking around, driving in the street, or are ever suspect of them showing up randomly (like dropping through a sunroof), they reminisce about the day they stopped playing with...

Dan & Manny welcome back longtime friend & Nostalgia Test Podcast All-star Billy D’Elia to put the 1988 (possible) Christmas classic Die Hard to the ultimate test—THE NOSTALGIA TEST!  We finally put to rest the long-debated question of whether Die Hard is a Christmas movie or just a movie that happens on Christmas. This is a Nostalgia Test classic. We get into the novel Die Hard is based o...

Dan & Manny welcome back longtime friend Dave Kucich to put the 1992 sports-romantic comedy The Cutting Edge to the ultimate test--THE NOSTALGIA TEST! What a great start to the Nostalgia Test holiday season. The boys watched The Cutting Edge together before recording in-person. They talk about everything, like is D.B. Sweeney good looking, is Moira Kelly's skating coach from Rocky IV, is this...

Dan & Manny invite Lauren Malott back for more Spooky Season fun to put the 1996 horror classic Scream 😱 to the ultimate test--THE NOSTALGIA TEST! We talk about the genius of Drew Barrymore's acting in the opening scene, yet how dumb her character is, how *69 would've changed this whole movie, what's up with Henry Winkler touching Neve Campbell's face, Matthew Lillard, how perfect this movie...

Dan & Manny invite their longtime friend Steve Herrera back to celebrate 100 episodes of The Nostalgia Test Podcast by putting Cocktail 🍸 BACK to the the ultimate test--THE NOSTALGIA TEST! The boys go back to where it all began to see if this 80s Tom Cruise classic still holds up after 100 episodes of nostalgia madness. They talk about the importance of Uncle Pat (played by Ron Dean), how the...

Dan & Manny invite Drew from The Last Row podcast to put the 1989 sequel Ghostbusters 2 to the ultimate test--THE NOSTALGIA TEST! This is a spooky season classic. Dan, Manny, and Drew go deep into all things pink slime, the real hero of this movie Ernie Hudson, how Vigo the Carpathian is the worse villain of all time, the creepy genius of Peter MacNicol, New York City mayors, the Statue of Lib...