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Each episode we add a new entry to the Nostalgium Arcanum, a repository for the movies, tv, music, games, and other pop culture that still enchants us today. Find us on twitter at: @nostalgiumpod

Nostalgium Arcanum Doug Lief

    • Arts
    • 5.0 • 9 Ratings

Each episode we add a new entry to the Nostalgium Arcanum, a repository for the movies, tv, music, games, and other pop culture that still enchants us today. Find us on twitter at: @nostalgiumpod

    Fallout

    Fallout

    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

    • 1 hr 35 min
    Dazed and Confused

    Dazed and Confused

    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

    • 1 hr 48 min
    TV Theme Songs

    TV Theme Songs

    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.


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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

    • 1 hr 43 min
    Monty Python's Flying Circus

    Monty Python's Flying Circus

    And now for something completely different. Monty Python's Flying Circus redefined comedy from the subatomic level up with sketches that were quotable, absurd, and of course, funnier than a dead parrot full of spam. Guest comedians Rich Baker and Ned Record (of the Lost & Confounded podcast and www.nedrecord.com) join us to roundtable our top 10 Python sketches. Burma!


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    Musical Credits


    Intro - Dark Flute - Jim Guthrie
    The Liberty Bell - John Phillips Souza, performed by Band of the Grenadier Guards
    Bruces' Philosophers Song - Eric Idle
    Cheese Shop Bouzouki Music - Joe Moretti
    All other music composed for Monty Python's Flying Circus by Neil Innes and Fred Tomlinson Singers

    • 2 hr 9 min
    The Big Lebowski

    The Big Lebowski

    The Dude abides, and his stupefying tale from the Coen Brothers continues to make people laugh to beat the bend... parts anyway. Little Lebowski Urban Achievers Dylan Ris (www.lostmoonradio.com) and Dan Oster (MadTV, A Podcast, But Evil) join us to revisit this inside-out noir tale of bowling, kidnapping, and beverages in need of saving. You see what happens? You see what happens when we make a podcast?


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    Musical Credits


    Intro - Dark Flute - Jim Guthrie
    The Man In Me - Bob Dylan
    Tumblin' Tumbleweeds - Bob Nolan, performd by Sons of the Pioneers
    Hotel California - Don Felder, Don Henley, Glenn Frey, performed by the Gipsy Kings
    Requiem in D Minor: Introitus and Lacrimosa - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, performed by The Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir
    Run Through the Jungle - John Fogerty, performed by Creedence Clearwater Revival
    Traffic Boom - Piero Piccioni
    Oye Como Va - Tito Puente, performed by Santana
    I Got It Bad & That Ain't Good - Duke Ellington and Paul Francis Webster, performed by Nina Simone
    Stamping Ground - Moondog & Orchestra
    Dead Flowers - Townes Van Zandt cover, originally by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards)
    Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In) - Mickey Newbury, performed by Kenny Rogers and the First Edition

    • 2 hr 22 min
    Ghostbusters 2

    Ghostbusters 2

    Too hot to handle, too cold to hold. Ghostbusters 2 is a sequel that's anything but paint-by-numbers. We're gonna call superfans Dylan Gregory and Tania Newton to blow some positively-charged slime all over a film that keeps on lifting us higher and higher.


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    Musical Credits


    Intro - Dark Flute - Jim Guthrie
    Ghostbusters - Ray Parker, Jr.
    On Our Own - Bobby Brown
    Your Love Keeps on Lifting Me (Higher and Higher) - Howard Huntsberry
    Your Love Keeps on Lifting Me (Higher and Higher) - Jackie Wilson
    All Other Score By Randy Edelman

    • 1 hr 43 min

Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5
9 Ratings

9 Ratings

Crash Chords ,

Blast from the past!

Love listening to folks reminisce about pop culture from their past! Doug is a great host and the episodes are insightful and entertaining. A musts listen!

-Matt aka Stormageddon

realdave24 ,

Fun nostalgia tour!

Some shows seek to destroy nostalgia. Some seek to celebrate it. Nostalgium Arcanum is the latter. Doug and guests are really fun, knowledgeable and passionate about the subjects. Great listen!

Sandy Amboy ,

Excellent Podcast

Solid context, great host, fun guests!

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