1996 was a year packed with pop culture milestones, technological leaps, and world events that still echo today. It was a year when the internet started creeping into everyday life, when blockbuster movies ruled the CONTINUE READING…
Every now and then, you stumble across a cartoon from your childhood that feels like it lived in the quiet corners of Saturday morning. Not a blockbuster. Not a toy‑aisle titan. Just a sweet little CONTINUE READING…
Retro gaming has found a powerful second life on social media. What was once confined to dusty cartridges, CRT televisions, and childhood bedrooms is now everywhere—looping clips on TikTok, pixel-perfect screenshots on Instagram, and long-form CONTINUE READING…
Nostalgia has become one of the most powerful emotional currencies on social media. From grainy home videos and pixelated graphics to retro music and throwback aesthetics, platforms like TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube are flooded with CONTINUE READING…
Scroll through any major social platform today and you’ll notice something interesting: the past is everywhere. Grainy filters, vintage band tees, cassette tapes, pixel art, and references to decades long gone are dominating feeds that CONTINUE READING…
Forty years later and still arguably the best theme song in the history of PBS. From a strange era in between glam rock and disco. In between men wearing short shorts and women wearing short CONTINUE READING…
The term “supersize me” has existed for so long that people seem to have forgotten how it started. Sadly that means it was around for three decades. The supersize option at McDonald’s was not originally CONTINUE READING…
By the mid-1990s, horror movies had lost their bite. The slasher boom of the ’80s had fizzled into formulaic sequels and straight-to-video fare. Audiences were yawning at masked killers and recycled tropes. Then came Scream…a CONTINUE READING…
In September of 1964, the S.S. Minnow first set out on its fateful three hour tour, as Gilligan’s Island premiered on American television sets. Not many could have predicted the impact that the sitcom would have on CONTINUE READING…
I’ll admit that 21 is not a very special number when it comes to anniversaries and I’m a year late (and a dollar short) for the big 20th one. Maybe I’m just a tad early CONTINUE READING…
Will and Adam are joined by Kevin Smith mega fans, Lee Eberhart and Kevin Decent to discuss the Wizard Kevin Smith Spectacular from 2001, exploring the View Askew cinematic universe. Hear their personal stories of CONTINUE READING…
Ken and Chad are here to wrap up 2025 and give their thanks, look back at some predictions made earlier in the year, and remember six more pop culture icons and influencers who left us CONTINUE READING…
Will and Adam discuss a Last Man Standing battle between Daredevil and Doctor Mid-Nite, Wizard’s rankings of the best non-superhero comics, the rise of artist Greg Horn, explore the most popular collectibles at cons in CONTINUE READING…
It’s our CHRISTMAS Episode! Our 2nd Annual! For Recurrent Events – we discuss another JAWS piece of memorabilia before 2025 lets out, and a return of The Muppet Show in February. Then, its one of our favorite show formats CONTINUE READING…
YOU are the fill-in WIZARDS co-host joining Adam as he flies solo on this episode of the podcast (Don’t worry, William Bruce West will be back for the 1/2 episode!). Explore the crazy path to CONTINUE READING…
In the early days of home microwaves, when the idea of cooking dinner with invisible waves still felt like science fiction, one brand stepped forward to make the future taste delicious. Micro Magic arrived in CONTINUE READING…
As we kick off 2026, the “forty-year itch” is hitting the retro community. While every year of the ’80s carries its own brand of nostalgia, 1986 stands out as a true turning point, a year CONTINUE READING…
When video games like Pong began lighting up bars, basements, and rec rooms in the 1970s, the toy industry felt the tremors. Electronics were no longer the domain of hobbyists and engineers; they were becoming CONTINUE READING…
The Buffalo Bills are once again officially in the NFL playoffs, and with that comes a flood of memories for me. Their season hasn’t been pretty, but they’re in pretty good form right now and CONTINUE READING…
Holiday football has always been more than a game. It is memory, ritual, background noise to family gatherings, and a constant presence during the coldest months of the year. This article reflects on how iconic CONTINUE READING…
Below is a guided tour of what made 1986 so “maximal”: the movies that defined mass cool, the albums that turned artists into full personas, the television shifts that reshaped habits, and the visual style CONTINUE READING…
In the golden age of sneaker innovation, few shoes made a louder entrance, figuratively and literally, than the Reebok Pump. Launched on November 24, 1989, the Pump wasn’t just a shoe; it was a statement. CONTINUE READING…
In the early ’90s, when sci‑fi television was booming, SeaQuest DSV dared to take the genre somewhere new…straight to the bottom of the ocean. The series followed the missions of a massive, state‑of‑the‑art research submarine CONTINUE READING…
If the ’80s feel like a never-ending highlight reel, 1984 and 1985 are the stretch where the tape really catches fire. These two years didn’t just produce big hits-they standardized what “mainstream cool” looked and CONTINUE READING…
In the late 1980s, Nintendo was riding a wave of cultural dominance. The NES had revived the home video game market, Mario was a household name, and kids everywhere were dreaming about the future of CONTINUE READING…
The Empire Strikes Back premiered May 21, 1980. I was ten years old and could not wait to see it and though I remember having to wait a couple of weeks to see it in CONTINUE READING…
We didn’t have a Blockbuster in my town until I was in high school, and until then, there were only two other ways to get a movie that you didn’t buy at the mall. You CONTINUE READING…
I recently received an amazing package in the mail from a friend who had inherited his older brother’s childhood collectibles. Mixed among the comic books and Marvel Universe trading cards were a cardboard time capsule of the ’80s that I was not expecting, Garbage Pail Kids! CONTINUE READING…
Were you there for the avalanche of comic book mania that rolled onto the scene in the early 1990’s? In case you missed it, somehow word got around that comic books were a good investment CONTINUE READING…
McDonald’s has a long history of creating special, limited-time, menu items. Some have gone on to great success like the McRib. Others have been short-lived like McPizza. Most of their special offerings have been available CONTINUE READING…
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