Nostalgium Arcanum Doug Lief

Mel Brooks' crowning achievement, Blazing Saddles blazed a trail and confronts racism with equal parts ferocious satire and wild cartoon abandon. Writer/comedian/filmmaker Tarik Davis (@tarikrdavis) joins us to celebrate 50 years of this film's uncompromising hilarity and empathy. We are awake, but we are very puzzled.


You can find Tarik not only on NBC's The Amber Ruffin Show, but on his essential podcast, Brothers From Another Planet, see him perform live with Freestyle Love Soupreme, and seek out his short film "Doc - Race, Revolution, Relativity, and the Confessions of Time Travelling Terrorist".


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Musical Credits:


Intro - Dark Flute (Jim Guthrie)
Blazing Saddles (Mel Brooks / John Morris)
I Get A Kick Out Of You (Cole Porter, sung by Cleavon Little)
Camptown Races (Stephen Foster, sung by Slim Pickens)
The Ballad of Rock Ridge (Mel Brooks)
Merrily We Roll Along (Charlie Tobias, Murray Mencher, and Eddie Cantor)
I'm Tired (Mel Brooks)
The French Mistake (Mel Brooks)
All score from Blazing Saddles by John Morris
National Brotherhood Week (Tom Lehrer)

Super Mario Bros. 3 set the standard not only for Nintendo's flagship franchise, but it was a literal game changer. Comedian Rich Baker (@richbakercoaching) joins us to save the Mushroom Kingdom - yet again - from the nefarious clutches of Bowser and the Koopalings with a little help from flying racoon tails, frog suits, music boxes, and more.


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Musical Credits


Intro - Dark Flute - Jim Guthrie
All Music from Super Mario Bros. 3 by Koji Kondo

Part cross-country child road trip, part Nintendo commercial, The Wizard is a time capsule of 1980s nostalgia that holds up better than its corporately calculated premise would suggest. Players Jonathan Cardoso and Tania Newton don their power gloves to join us in retaking the road to Video Armageddon.


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Musical Credits


Intro - Dark Flute - Jim Guthrie
Send Me An Angel - Real Life
Double Dragon, Stage 1 - Kazunaka Yamane
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Dam Level - Jun Funahashi
Super Mario Brothers 3 - Koji Kondo
Pinball Wizard - The Who

Duck and cover! We're going back to the radioactive world of tomorrow as companion B.T. Moorer joins us to open the vault to Fallout. This unique videogame series and its recent blockbuster TV adaptation use an alternate history post-apocalypse to spin stories that, twist, turn, disgust, and delight all at once. We give it a big thumbs up!


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Musical Credits:


Intro - Dark Flute (Jim Guthrie)
Fallout Score by Mark Morgan
Way Back Home - Bob Crosby and the Bobcats
Butcher Pete – Roy Brown
Big Iron – Marty Robbins
Anything Goes – Cole Porter
A Wonderful Guy – Tex Beneke
Fallout 3 Score by Inon Zur
I Don’t Want To Set The World On Fire – The Ink Blots
Drivin’ Nails In My Coffin – Ernest Tubb
Don't Fence Me In - Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters
So Long, Mom (A Song for World War III) – Tom Lehrer

We get older and this classic teen comedy stays the same age. Our bud Case Aiken (Another Pass, Men of Steel) joins us to revisit our nostalgia for Richard Linklater's "Dazed and Confused", the 1976 it depicts, its killer soundtrack, and our foolish teen years where everything seemed so important and, maybe, was.


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Musical Credits:


Intro - Dark Flute - Jim Guthrie
School's Out - Alice Cooper
Do You Feel Like We Do - Peter Frampton
Stranglehold - Ted Nugent
Why Can't We Be Friends - War
Slow Ride - Foghat
Low Rider - War
Sweet Emotion - Aerosmith
No More Mr. Nice Guy -Alice Cooper
Fox On The Run - Sweet
Whacking Day - Alf Clausen

Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale of a podcaster and guests, who sit around debating which old theme songs were the best. We're joined by Ami Lief (creepy and kooky) and Ryan Merlo (mysterious and spooky) to round table our top ten TV theme songs.


Be sure to check out Ami's beautiful handmade earrings at https://www.etsy.com/shop/MomoBunnysmoreCo


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Musical Credits:


Intro - Dark Flute - Jim Guthrie
I Can’t Watch This – Weird Al Yankovic (parody of U Can’t Touch This by M.C. Hammer)
Can You Tell Me How To Get To Sesame Street – Joe Raposo
Come and Knock On Our Door – Ray Charles and Julia Rinker
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – Chuck Lorre and Dennis C. Brown
Everywhere You Look - Jesse Frederick
Horsin’ Around Theme – Jesse Novak
Animaniacs – Richard Stone
Movin' On Up - Ja'net DuBois
Green Acres Theme – Vic Mizzy
Meet the Flintstones – Hoyt Curtain
The Addams Family – Vic Mizzy
(Theme From) The Monkees - Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart, performed by The Monkees
According to Our New Arrival - Judy Hart-Angelo, Gary Portnoy, performed by Leon Redbone
Saved By The Bell - Scott Gale
Big Bang Theory Theme – Barenaked Ladies
Theme from The Greatest American Hero (Believe It or Not) – Mike Post, performed by Joey Scarbury
The Brady Bunch - Frank De Vol, Sherwood Schwartz, performed by Peppermint Trolley Company
Searchin' My Soul – Vonda Shepard
The Ballad of Gilligan's Isle - Sherwood Schwartz, George Wyle
This Is the Theme to Garry's Show – Joey Carbone, performed by Bill Lynch
Tiny Toon Adventures Theme - Bruce Broughton, performed by Charlie Adler, Tress MacNeille & Joe Alaskey
The Mysterious Cities of Gold - Haim Saban and Shuki Levy, performed by Noam Kaniel
I’ll Be There For You – The Rembrandts
The Muppet Show Theme - Sam Pottle
Where Everybody Knows Your Name - Gary Portnoy
DuckTales - Mark Mueller, performed by Jeff Pescetto
Love Is All Around - Sonny Curtis
Unbreakable - Jeff Richmond
Rock On – Linda Perry
As Long as We Got Each Other - Eric Carmen, performed by B. J. Thomas and Jennifer Warnes
Too Many Cooks – Shawn Coleman, Michael Kohler, performed by Shawn Coleman, Cheryl Rogers, Michael Magno, and Patty Mack