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PODCAST

The Nostalgia Test Podcast

Dan Dissinger & Manny Coelho

Put your pop-culture past to the ultimate test--THE NOSTALGIA TEST! with 🎙longtime friends Dan, Manny, & Billy 🙋‍♂️🤦‍♂️🙆‍♂️

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120. 🛸Independence Day Recast SPECIAL!

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2024/07/06

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 Buzzn The Tower boys to the 90s, Dan shouts out Jason Mewes as the most underrated actor of the 90s, thinks

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119. 🧑‍🎓Higher Learning (1995) w/ Dr. J.L. Adolph

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2024/06/26

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 are so honored to have Dr. J.L. Adolph on the show to guide, add scholastic depth, & mix it up with

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01:14:48

118. 😎 The Matrix w/ Artist Mike Reuter

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2024/06/18

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 what's next for his work. Then, they go DEEP into The Matrix! They talk about this movie being a cross

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117. 📰 The Nostalgia Test News: Summer Olympics,...

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2024/06/11

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 latest release "Houdini" to the Nostalgia Test NOW!, and give their thoughts on Red Lobster filing

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01:32:53

116. 🦖Jurassic Park w/ Fiction Fixation

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2024/06/05

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 some Final Destination wizard, Manny wants to know where the guy who was dealing with the poop went,

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01:39:53

115. 🤓 Nostalgia 101: Tickle Me Elmo Developer Matt...

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2024/05/28

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 toy designers and movie producers, there's definitely a Pogs discussion, some of his hilarious stories

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114.🤮 Worst Songs of the 90s 2011 Rolling Stone...

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2024/05/21

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 song, Dan talks about his love of "I'm Too Sexy" by Right Said Fred, Steve talks about how he gets

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113.⚡Days Of Thunder w/ Lee Kaplan

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2024/05/07

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 there so much Sweet N' Low in a sex scene, how come Tom Cruise makes every sex scene awkward, can you

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01:25:17

112. 🤜👊🤛 Street Fighter (1994) w/ Eric Althoff

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2024/04/23

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 JCVD splits, quotable lines from the movie, Eric talks about an enlightening conversation he had with Judd

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01:29:24

111.🍺 Road House 2024 Reboot Nostalgia Test Now! w/...

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2024/04/09

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 rated R material, where are the throat rips, why doesn't Dalton have a friend in this one, the horrible

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01:24:47

110. 🤓 Nostalgia 101: LIVE! from the Southwest...

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2024/03/26

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 Podcasting," looked at how we negotiate our lives in the pop-culture world with our academic lives, how we

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109: 😎 Snack Shack Stars Conor Sherry & Mika Abdalla:...

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2024/03/19

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 favorite moments of the movie, and so much more. After, Dan talks about five things he took away from

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01:07:42

108. 🎸 Airheads (1994) w/ Longtime Friend Steve Herrera

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2024/03/12

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.” The guys lose their minds talking about how Steve Buscemi doesn't belong in this movie, is Adam Sandler

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01:14:50

107. 💚 The 30th Anniversary of Green Day's Dookie w/...

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2024/02/13

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, the Green Day Woodstock performance, and how Green Day took over Broadway with their American

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106. 🍺 SPECIAL EP: Road House 2024 Trailer Nostalgia...

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2024/01/27

This was an emergency Nostalgia Test episode! Dan & Manny had to weigh in on the 2024 Road House trailer as son 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 this reboot of an 80s classic. They get into the change from Dalton being a mysterious cooler to being a

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105. 🚀 Galaxy Quest (1999)

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2024/01/24

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, as Dan & Manny show love to Alan Rickman, try to figure out why Tim Allen would ever be shirtless in

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104. 🤠 Toy Story (1995)

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2024/01/19

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 toys, then there's a hilarious existential conversation about the lives and souls of these toys, and so

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01:31:19

103. 💥 Die Hard (1988) w/ Longtime Friend Billy D’Elia

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2023/12/30

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 on, how this is the first time Dan is seeing the movie (WHAT?!), the genius of Bruce Willis & Allan

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01:09:35

102. ⛸️The Cutting Edge (1992) w/ Longtime Friend...

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2023/12/16

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 a Christmas movie, did they eventually win the gold medals at the end, and so much more. This is a

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01:05:10

101. 😱 Scream (1996) w/ Lauren Malott

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2023/11/01

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 is, all the amazing Easter eggs, Lauren shares how she first time she saw this movie, how this was

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