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Cover art for Saved by the Bell: The College Years - A Thanksgiving Story: Zack watches Screech try to thaw a frozen turkey with a hairdryer

Advent Calendar House: Saved by the Bell: The College Years – A Thanksgiving Story

🦃 This Thanksgiving in July, I’ve put out some extra table settings for some old friends. Previously, on the Advent Calendar House, we watched Zack Morris be trash but still manage to find a girl

Cover art for Santa vs. the Snowman - Santa and an angry snowman size up each other

Advent Calendar House: Santa vs. the Snowman

Mike Westfall

🎄 Today’s adventure finds us caught in the middle of a battle for the North Pole in multiple dimensions. 🎙️ Sammy Hain and Jeff Loftin join the march back to 1997 to witness the Christmas clash of Santa vs.

Cover art for Elmo Says BOO! - A Muppet ghost startles Elmo in The Count’s castle

Advent Calendar House: Elmo Says BOO!

Mike Westfall

🎃 It’s Halloween in July, and it’s time to spookalize! 🎙️ Becca Petunia joins us as we creep back to 1997 for a howling good time at the spookiest address on Sesame Street, as Elmo pays a

Cover art for The Teddy Bears’ Christmas - Two teddy bears, Benjamin and Wally, under a Christmas tree

Advent Calendar House: The Teddy Bears’ Christmas

Mike Westfall

It’s Christmas time for teddy bears in a 1992 special called “The Teddy Bears’ Christmas,” a prequel to “The Secret World of Benjamin Bear.” Many comparisons to “The Christmas Toy” ensue.

Cover art for Recess - Mikey in a Santa costume with an old man who’s secretly the real Santa

Advent Calendar House: Recess – Yes, Mikey, Santa Does Shave

Mike Westfall

It’s that time of year again: Time to deal with smarty-pants 4th-graders who think they know how Santa works in a Christmas episode of Disney’s “Recess.”

Cover art for Yogi the Easter Bear: Yogi Bear in an Easter Bunny costume, surprising Boo Boo

Advent Calendar House: Yogi the Easter Bear

Mike Westfall

This Easter in July, we’ve hopped back to 1994 on a rather stressful and dangerous trip through Jellystone Park with “Yogi the Easter Bear.”

Cover art for Frosty Returns: Frosty the Snowman and Holly singing in the snow

Advent Calendar House: Frosty Returns

Mike Westfall

🎄 Somehow Frosty returned. 🎙️ The Advent Calendar House is back open for Christmas in July as Donnie Storms and new guest Collin Murr from Scrooge: A Christmas Carol Podcast drop in seeking shelter from “Frosty Returns,” which despite the title,

The Retro Resurgence Podcast – Episode 43 | Weird Al Parody Bracket Madness – Part 3

Chad Droze

Episode 43 sees the guys doing Part 3 of the ongoing “Weird Al” Yankovic Greatest Parody Song Bracket Tournament. Once again, Pitfall Gary is here to break any stalemates in the head to head matchups.

WIZARDS The Podcast Guide To Comics | Episode 128

Adam Pope

Adam and Mike Schwartz explore issue 128 of Wizard, discussing the excitement of the Geoff Johns/Scott Kolins The Flash series, the origins of Free Comic Book Day, Tobey Maguire as Peter Parker in Spider-Man and

WIZARDS The Podcast Guide To Comics | Episode 127

Adam Pope

We celebrate the 10th anniversary of Wizard magazine with returning WIZARDS co-hosts, Steven Tsapelas and Michael Cannetti, exploring the 25 biggest events that rocked the comics world from 1991-2001, behind the scenes stories from Wizard

The Retro Resurgence Podcast – Episode 41 | Top Five Jean-Claude Van Damme Flicks

Chad Droze

Kumite! Kumite! Kumite! Episode 41 of the #RRPod is here -and we focus on the man, the myth, and the Belgian Martial Arts Master – the Muscles from Brussels. It’s Jean-Claude Van Damme Time! The

The Retro Resurgence Podcast – Episode 40 | The ABC’s of Wrestling Show

Chad Droze

Reach for Episode Number 40, and turn it up! The guys are back in this early May of 2026 release. It’s the Great ABC of Wrestling Show- a format they used once before with Toy

WIZARDS The Podcast Guide To Comics | Episode 126

Adam Pope

Longtime podcaster and comic book fan, Michael DiGiovanni joins us to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Image Comics as presented in Wizard issue 126. Plus, Wizard tackles the biggest mysteries of comic books, Frank Miller’s

The Retro Resurgence Podcast – Episode 39 | Favorite TV Theme Songs 1970’s thru 2000’s

Chad Droze

Episode 39 drops NOW! We stay in the world of television again, but this time, Ken and Chad are remembering the classic, memorable earworms that we call TV THEME SONGS! Featuring classic tv shows from

The Retro Resurgence Podcast – Episode 38 | Memorable Commercials from the 80’s & 90’s

Chad Droze

Episode 38 has Ken and Chad taking you down a nostalgic rabbit hole of fun, zany, and memorable commercials from the decade you grew up in. Ken tackles the 1980’s, and Chad takes the 1990’s

Revisiting A League of Their Own

Mickey Yarber

A League of Their Own reminds us that baseball has always belonged to anyone brave enough to play it. The Rockford Peaches showed grit, humor, and heart, and the film still proves that the hardest things are often the greatest.

Why Super Mario Bros. 3 Was the Crown Jewel of the NES

Mickey Yarber

When Super Mario Bros. 3 hit North American shelves on February 12, 1990, it wasn’t just another sequel, it was a revolution. Developed by Nintendo’s legendary R&D4 team under the direction of Shigeru Miyamoto and