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Time PalsMar10 Day: Time Pals Off Console Chaos!Send a textIt’s MAR10 Day and Time Pals chose chaos!This week, co-hosts Jon Powell and Mike Underscore promise zero level breakdowns, not a single discussion about gameplay mechanics, and absolutely no tier lists.Instead, we’re celebrating everything but the games — from Super Mario Cheez-Whiz cans and the official Nintendo console sewing kit to Luigi’s rampage at the Super Mario Ice Capades and the legend of the Super Hornio Brothers adult movies. We even found a rare example of when “The Simpsons Didn’t Do It” first!It’s Off-Conso...
2026-03-1048 min
Time PalsJon's Genre Smash: Bad Games from Good DevelopersSend a textTime Pals co-host Jon Powell spun the roulette wheel and chose chaos.This week, the Time Pals present “Jon’s Genre Smash: Bad Games from Good Developers.”For every legendary studio with wall-to-wall hits… there’s that one game. The one that makes you stare at the screen and whisper, “How?”From a roulette wheel with 30 possible game developers, the Time Pals gambled their sanity on absolute disasters. We’re talking buggy launches, broken mechanics, rage-inducing design, and the kind of choices that make you question everything.
2026-02-161h 12
Time PalsTime Pals and Gaming Marketing MeltdownsSend a textEver wonder how a $400 million game can flop harder than a broken joystick? This week, Underscore, Jon Powell, and ShadoSpartan dive headfirst into the most infamous, unhinged, and spectacularly bad video game marketing campaigns of all time.From Romero’s legendary Daikatana trash talk to Mercenaries gas riots, Dante’s Inferno’s deadly sins, and Acclaim’s completely feral “Extreme Era,” your Time Pals revisit a greatest-hits collection of corporate overconfidence—including failed hype machines and just how much money can be set on fire by a major company in a handful of years (BOOM...
2026-02-0249 min
Time PalsTime Pals: More Than a Feeling (or Music That Touched Us In All The Right Places)Send a textThis week, co-host Nickell attempts to get the Time Pals into the holiday spirit—launching them on a nostalgic, chaotic, music-filled sleigh ride.From quitting a job for Cake, discovering their inner power-punk with Green Day, feeling like they’re fearlessly marching into certain doom with Sabaton, getting blasted by the holiday-magic lasers of the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, and reminding everyone that Limp Bizkit’s “Nookie” is actually a poetic breakup song—this episode dives into the albums and bands that shaped the Pals, inspired them, and still hit just as hard today. 💿🔥#TimePalsPodc...
2025-12-151h 09
Time PalsTime Pals Minis: Fallout 4- Nukes, Nonsense, and Another Settlement Needs Your Help!Send a textThe Time Pals return with a mini-blast from post-apocalyptic Boston: “Fallout 4: Nukes, Nonsense, and Another Settlement Needs Your Help!” 💥Join ShadoSpartan and Underscore as they dive into the chaos of Fallout 4 — talking about their most memorable vaults, the worst companions, the recent remake controversy, and watch as ShadoSpartan commits nerd seppuku by proudly declaring Fallout 3 a terrible game (send all hate comments to his retro review show at YouTube.com/@ShadoSpartan44 ☢️).Tune your Pip-Boy to wherever you get your pods!#TimePalsPodcast #Fallout4 #Bethesda #fallout #GamingPodcast #GeekCulture #PodcastLife...
2025-11-2639 min
The 80s and 90s UncensoredThe Greatest One-Hit Wonders From the 90s!If you like it when Jamie and Milo sing a few lyrics from a song, you will love this episode as they are joined by Naomi from the Dope Nostalgia Podcast to debate which song is the greatest one-hit wonder of the 90s. They each pitch their song and discuss its merits. Tune in to see if you agree!
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2025-11-2424 min
Time PalsTime Pals Minis: Botch to the FutureSend a textThis week, Time Pals co-host ShadoSpartan brings back Mini-Episodes and takes hilarious dive into the world of pro wrestling botches — from debut disasters to matches that went completely off the rails.Fellow Time Pal Underscore and Special guest Twitch streamer MrBortman (twitch.tv/mrbortmanttv) cover the infamous Sting vs. Jeff Hardy meltdown, Ted Dibiase Jr iconic excuses, the Thanksgiving fever dream known as The Gobbledy Gooker, and much more!Join us as we react, relive, and ro...
2025-11-0545 min
The Nostalgia Test Podcast159.🎃 Halloween Music Videos w/ Naomi CarmackDan & Billy welcome Naomi Carmack, the host of Dope Nostalgia, to put Halloween Music Videos to the ultimate test—THE NOSTALGIA TEST!
“Other people's kids are so creepy.”
-Naomi
This Spooky Season episode takes Dan, Billy, and their guest Naomi Carmack down a very weird music video path. 5-years ago, Dan & Manny put another five videos to the ultimate test, and so Dan had to really go searching for some real nostalgic gens this time. They dig into videos from The Backstreet Boys, the Ramones, Ozzy Osbourne, Rob Zombie, and DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh...
2025-10-221h 05
Time PalsTime Pals: Your Favorite TV Character SUCKS!Send a textThis week, co-host Jon shatters his fellow Time Pals’ fragile egos with a brutal truth bomb: “Your Favorite TV Character SUCKS!” 💥 Join your Pals in chaos as they rant about:Is JD from Scrubs worse than Ted Mosby or Ross Geller?Is Data from Star Trek: TNG basically Kyle Broflovski from South Park?Did Bron from Game of Thrones get way too much screen time? Why Dawson’s a bully from the Creek and shouldn’t have been the main character! Scrappy-Doo is the worst. This is a statement.Why is Worf such a...
2025-10-201h 18
Time PalsTime Pals Hobby Box Hype! (Feat. Norell aka Hobby Box Hunter)Send a textThis Tuesday, the Time Pals Podcast presents Hobby Hype!, featuring special guest Norell (aka The Hobby Box Hunter)! 🎙️Your Pals dive into our shared love of geek collectibles, his creative crossover shirts mixing sports cards with Bay Area hip-hop artists, and the stories behind our favorite hunts.We also figure out the most valuable thing you’d find in our childhood bedrooms, reveal our holy grail collectibles, stories of the weirdest things people have sold, and laugh about the trends we were happy to see die in a du...
2025-09-301h 13
Time PalsShadoSpartan Gets Hard for Hard GamesSend a textThis week, ShadoSpartan wants you to know that not every hard game is hard for the right reasons—some were tough just because of clunky design or straight-up bad programming, not because they were really testing our skill. But what about the games that do get clever with challenging the player? When does harder actually mean better? Is Easy Mode a valid way to go through life?Join the Time Pals as they dive deep into the art of difficulty in gaming:👉 Why bullet sponge enemies are gaming’s laziest trick
2025-09-021h 04
Time PalsThe Nickell Validation III: Return of the Revenge. . .WITH A VENGEANCE!Send a textThis week the Time Pal return from their summer break and are immediately captured by ADHD addled co-host Nickell who turned the Time Pals studio into his own twisted game show. It’s Time Pal vs Time Pal as they must answer questions such as:🤔 Would you get a facial tattoo of his face to save his life? 🐴 Would you kill a pony to erase an embarrassing moment? 💨 Would you rather control farts… or only have telekinesis when someone else lets one rip?Tune in for the madness — and maybe rethink...
2025-08-191h 11
Time PalsTime Pals Summer RewindSend a textThis week, the Time Pals celebrate our first year as a geek dad team—just in time for our month-long summer break (and, regrettably, to give Underscore a reprieve from producing our unique brand of chaos).From questions born of an ADHD mind, to AI-generated improv adventure stories, cruelly forgotten movie and video game gems, and an array of awesome guest hosts, the Time Pals look back on their favorite moments (and arguments!)—and ponder just how much nerdier we can get for the rest of the year. A fun...
2025-06-0649 min
Somewhere in Time Podcast1994 - Episode 7 - Sheetz TowneIn episode 7 of their discussion on albums from 1994, Somewhere in Time Podcast welcomes Naomi from Dope Nostalgia Podcast to discuss the album Throwing Copper by Live. This is the second collaboration of Somewhere in Time and Dope Nostalgia. In a previous Dope Nostalgia episode, Naomi welcomed Joe, Tim, and Eric to talk about Faith No More. Find a link to that podcast below.
In this episode, Somewhere in Time explore the history of the band, how they discovered the band, and run through all of the tracks on Throwing Copper, which include some of the biggest hits of...
2024-07-011h 48
Dope NostalgiaEpisode 153 - Christmas Special 2022This year, guests Kendra, Andrew, Colin, and Jimmy present their favourite Christmas specials from 1984-2000. We also talk Tommy Hunter Show, Jimmy's fight list, and Die Hard vs. Gremlins. There is a large video component to this episode, so the entire video companion is published at youtube.com/dopenostalgia .
2022-12-221h 24
End Of The ReelHighlander II: The QuickeningThis is a travesty, it shits on the first movie and is horrible in every respect.
Highlander is such a classic and to have this movie about aliens, and time travel end up just sort of being boring is a massive let down
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In this sci-fi/fantasy sequel, Connor MacLeod (Christopher Lambert) has become an elderly man after losing his immortality. Living in a bleak future where the world is protected from solar radiation by a massive...
2020-07-2552 min