The Nostalgia Test Podcast Dan Dissinger & Manny Coelho

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, no one sets out to make a bad movie, Raul Julia, the absence of JCVD splits, quotable lines from the movie, and so much more!

Dan, Manny, & their longtime friend and Nostalgia Test Royalty, Billy D’Elia to 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 dialogue, Connor McGregor’s masterclass of terrible acting, being an a**hole, and his unnecessary post-credit scene, and so much more!

Oh! and sorry Robert Palmer. (you’ll see)

Shoutout to our special guest reactions from Gomez Sleevie G & the Movie Bonerz. 

Help The Nostalgia Test Podcast keep the movement #NotMyDalton. going! Post your thoughts on the Road House reboot episode, use the hashtag #NotMyDalton, and tag us in your post.

The Nostalgia Test Podcast recorded LIVE from the Southwest Popular Culture Association Conference in Albuquerque, NM w/ USC colleagues Jen Sopchockchai Bankard & P.T. McNiff of the Long Take Review podcast. This was the first time either of us have recorded in front of a live audience, and we’re so grateful for everyone that came out to support. 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 use our podcasting and pop-culture curiosity in the classroom, the pressures of being an independent podcaster, and answer some amazing questions from the audience. There’s so much more, so get ready to take notes, because class is in session!

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 watching Snack Shack.

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 funny, the late 90s obsession with shots of actors in vents, how this is just a dumber version of Die Hard, issues of representation, imagery, & words in the movie, and so much more. Nostalgia Testers, this is a jam packed episode!

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 Idiot musical. They also have Brain Colburn of the My Weekly Mixtape podcast share their thoughts on 30 years of Dookie, and so much more! This will be the only episode featuring Manny’s Temu special microphone, so don’t worry about the sound.