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Episode 310

In this Episode:

  • co-host this show is The Great and Powerful Lanza,
  • shout-out to Tom Santo from NJ Led Zeppelin cover band Custard Pie,
  • Grant Garland’s TV Theme covers (website),
  • dumb “WHAT” WWE chant by wrestling fans for Stone Cold Steve Austin,
  • Don Mattingly (New York Yankees) end of career what-ifs,
  • Zack Hample, the guy who catches MLB home run balls, face plants (video),
  • new mailbox for getting TTM autographed photos,
  • the goofy names we used in our childhood backyard Wiffleball league,
  • more John Sterling dumb Yankee home run calls,
  • the online sports betting craziness,
  • celebrity deaths (Lon Adams, Tommy Lasorda, Jessica Walter, Yaphet Kotto),
  • body doubles used for movie posters,
  • banned SNL episodes,
  • and VICE TV’s Dark Side of the Ring review (Bruiser Brody, Dino Bravo, Jimmy Snuka, New Jack, UWF).
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Episode 309

In this Episode:

  • our movie review of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989) starring Rick Moranis,
  • Norm Macdonald destroying the Carrot Top movie Chairman of the Board (1998) with Courtney Thorne-Smith on Late Nite with Conan O’Brien,
  • our local Kmart finally going out of business,
  • megalithic former department store Bamberger’s in Newark, NJ,
  • Fred Space of NJ’s Space Farms Zoo and Museum died (news),
  • boring (or fascinating) presentations given by former video game programmers,
  • Rare-developed Dinosaur Planet Nintendo 64 prototype found and shared (news),
  • Goldeneye 007 XBLA finally discovered and dumped! (news),
  • Greg finally gets a Nintendo Virtual Boy,
  • “breaking” trading card boxes,
  • Metallica’s “Enter Sandman” vocals line up perfectly to “Hip to be Square” by Huey Lewis and the News,
  • Scary Pockets YouTube channel that funkifies hit songs,
  • the failed 1985 detective comedy drama Half Nelson starring Joe Pesci, Victoria Jackson, and Dean Martin (Video),
  • the original MTV Real World cast returns to New York (news),
  • refurbishment of the 1929 Loew’s Jersey Theatre (news),
  • and celebrity deaths (Dustin Diamond, Prince Markie Dee, Christopher Plummer, Mary Wilson, Larry Flynt).

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Episode 308

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Episode 307

In this Episode:

  • 80’s voice actors doing high pitched voices,
  • our incredibly bland, generic Presidental election response,
  • followed by the Vince McMahon election response,
  • remembering our buddy Frankie V. of the Digital Press Podcast, and avid fan and collector of Transformers and video games (news),
  • also remembering Atari historian and homebrewer Curt Vendel (news),
  • new discovery of NES Double Dribble voice samples being corrected (YouTube),
  • did Michael Jackson’s “The Way You Make Me Feel” rip off Tommy James’ “Dragging The Line”,
  • Mortal Kombat on the Atari Lynx (link),
  • the miserable Baseball Stars 2 NES sequel,
  • celebrity deaths (Joe Ruby, Bonnie Pointer, Ken Osmond, Sam Lloyd, Thomas L. Miller, Bill Withers, Eddie Van Halen, Ruth Bader Ginsburg),
  • Rob-review of Nathan for You, the Comedy Central 2013-17 TV series, starring Nathan Fielder.

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Episode 306

In this Episode:

  • mega celebrity deaths (Sean Connery, Regis Philbin, Kenny Rogers, James Lipton),
  • long-anticipated crossover video between the Angry Video Game Nerd and Irate Gamer (YouTube),
  • $100,000 auction prices for sealed Nintendo Entertainment System retail packaging variations (story),
  • the Larry Bird tomato,
  • Saved by the Bell returns on the Peacock streaming service,
  • Keanu Reeves- shaved or unshaved?,
  • Rob finally watches and reviews Cobra Kai starring William Zabka and Ralph Macchio,
  • Funny Key and Peele skit: Bobby McFerrin vs. Michael Winslow,
  • Sonic the Hedgehog ported to the SNES for the first time (YouTube),
  • Wrestling with Gaming’s “The Making of Goldeneye 007 N64″ (YouTube),
  • the tourist Cheers bar in Boston, MA, closes (story),
  • Evan Ferrante “Tom Cruise” impersonator on AVGN,
  • and our review of the Netflix documentary High Score.

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