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Nostalgia Blinded
by Nick
Do you ever wake up in the middle of the night and think, "God, remember Zoo Pals?" Welcome to Nostalgia Blinded, the show where two best friends with the same first name take a rose-tinted look at the media of the past! Join Nick and Nick every week(ish) as they foolishly attempt to curtail the never-ceasing flow of time by talking about cancelled TV shows and ill-conceived commercials, video games from before Instagram existed, overlong book series that probably have a whole bunch of problematic stuff in them, and albums that your parents think are totally cool.
Episodes
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Nostalgia Blinded 42: Hide Your Kids, Hide Your Wife, Hide Your Clone, Hide Your Clone's Kids, Hide Your Wife's Clone
Today we're going to be talking about the most complicated media property we've ever covered on the show, and maybe one of the more complicated ones out there. Just reading the story from start to finish, like Nick did when he was 14, there's already amnesia, dimension hopping, little furry dudes...
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Nostalgia Blinded 41: Hal, It's about Cats... & Dogs (2001)
We didn't start out this episode intending to talk about the 2001 spy-comedy kids film "Cats & Dogs," but I think we can confidently say that we've all been enriched by the experience? Sure. This film dares to ask: what exactly is funny about household pets doing spy stuff? It's conclusion?...
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Nostalgia Blinded 40: Reacting to Nostalgic Commercials feat. Matt & Filip!
For our 40th episode, we decided to do something a little different. And also finally tackle Zoo Pals, but that's neither here nor there--the point is that we know it's an audio medium, but this time we decided to get some friends together and go straight to the source, watching some nostalgic...
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Nostalgia Blinded 39: Wiki Warriors: The Owl House
In the grand tradition of half-assed podcast gamification, the Nicks are shaking up the formula this week. Instead of talking about a media property only one of them half-remembers through the haze of a Brisk Iced Tea sugar crash in the late twenty aughts, they're talking about a media property...
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Nostalgia Blinded 38: The Podcast: the Musical: the Series
Today, it's a trip back to one of the most performatively rage-inducing media properties of our elementary school years. And also its sequel. And its bad sequel. And the meta-mockumentary TV series starring Olivia Rodrigo. In retrospect, is it as lame as we thought it was when we were eight?…
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Nostalgia Blinded 37: MAAAARIO COOOOOOMBAT!!!!! (Part II)
Happy belated Mario Day, paisanos! Today, the Nicks wrap up their first two-parter episode by definitively, objectively, unimpeachably, for all time and all people, don't-want-to-hear-any-guff-from-the-peanut-gallery-about-it-ly, ranking all of the 3D Mario games. There are debates, there are...
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Nostalgia Blinded 36: MAAAARIO COOOOOOMBAT!!!!! (Part I)
We hope you don't feel cheated out there at home, but let's face facts: we weren't going to do every 3D Mario game as a separate episode of this podcast. So instead, we're putting them all in one! And these Mario games? Well they're a bit like beta fish, or possibly males aged 18-35 who enjoy NFL...
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Nostalgia Blinded 35: Lackey Madness
Listen everyone, the Nicks are having a bad, bad day. I'd say it's about time that they get their way. So they're steamrolling whatever they see, on their way to talk about Despicable Me. That's right, it's the...classic? film franchise that spawned a nationwide carpet bombing of culturally...
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Nostalgia Blinded 34: The More the Sky Changes, the More the Sea Stays the Same
It's going to be pretty hard to top this week's two topics in terms of pure nostalgia, but for completely different reasons. In one corner, we have an absolutely timeless classic that was completely formative to Nick's childhood and that other Nick came to appreciate later in life, and in the…
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Nostalgia Blinded 33: Adulthood is Just a Series of Panels and Then You Die
This week, Nick dives into some of his favorite slice of life webcomics, and honestly it explains a troubling amount about his whole schtick. From professionally published illustrations to glorified stick figures drawn in MS Paint, from the basic template of 20-somethings in a coffee shop to epic...
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Nostalgia Blinded 32: The Nick Nick Power Hour
It's the crossover event of the previous decade: two entitled pre-teens with a dangerous excess of personal power are tasked with solving the problems they themselves consistently create in half an hour or less, minus commercial breaks. The only difference is that one does it with science and the...
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Nostalgia Blinded 31: It's Synching Now
It's a brave new world of Nostalgia Blinded, everyone: today it's not a TV show, video game, film, book, or song, but instead an outmoded and discontinued piece of consumer electronics hardware. Listen... we'll be the first to admit that we occasionally suffer a dearth of compelling commentary...
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Nostalgia Blinded 30: N-B-Z-A (please support the official release)
That's right folks: this week the Nicks are diving into the YouTube comedy stylings of one very special team, from Dragon Ball Z Abridged to crazy popular one-offs to gameplay and podcasts and beyond. When these shows were as formative as they were to these two Nicks, it's pretty hard to talk…
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Nostalgia Blinded 29: ShaMAR Awakens King
We hope you're ready for another trip to the local library manga shelf today, folks, because we've got a twofer for ya today. It's an unlikely pair of manga that had a big influence on Nick's fictional universe, as well as on the Shonen battle and isekai genre respectively. Join the Nicks as they...
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Nostalgia Blinded 28: Just Good, Clean Baseball (But Like, It's Mario)
From that one commercial where the two boys and their teacher were trash talking each other in baseball hand signs, to a campaign mode with absolutely ZERO supernatural occurrences, Mario Super Sluggers captured our imaginations. Then promptly lost them when we realized that the game was just...
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Nostalgia Blinded 27: Bronc Burnett and his Dead, Dead Mom
We're looking for a pretty specific breed of children's book on this week's episode. No stand-alone books, no continuing plot threads, and certainly nothing over about a hundred pages. We get pretty deep in our nostalgia... and then go even deeper and talk about young adult books from like the...
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Nostalgia Blinded 26: Welcome to Nick Vale
That's right folks, we're bringing our first nostalgic podcast to the show. Given the fact that Nostalgia Blinded is, itself, a podcast, the implications are fascinating. Like a snake eating it's own tail, the very fabric of our reality winds in on itself, ceaselessly rippling, trapped within…
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Nostalgia Blinded 25: Extreme Sports Grandma Lies
Up on the chopping block this week is a movie the Nicks remember being shoved in front of multiple times when they were kids, and that movie is Hoodwinked! Let me tell you, it's a wild fucking movie folks. Wikipedia isn't even quite sure of how to describe it. For us though, we don't see any…
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Nostalgia Blinded 24: Hikaru no Go to the Polls
We got as much mileage as we could out of that one stupid thing Hillary Clinton said five years ago, but not nearly as much mileage as this middle-schooler got out of being possessed by an ancient Japanese board game-playing ghost. He'll use that ghost to cheat against his pretty-boy Go prodigy...
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Nostalgia Blinded 23: Slamball is Basketball With Violence
The writer's strike really shaped television in the late 2000's and early 2010's. Without the rise of realty television, we may have never gotten the CN Real Block. Wednesday evenings were filled with Mythbusters, Ghost Hunters, and regular sports rip offs usually hosted by actual children. These...
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Nostalgia Blinded 22: Climb Onto Andre the Giant
Long into the distant past, before Skylanders, before Amiibo, before even Pokemon Rumble U... There was UB Funkeys, the bizarre and almost entirely forgotten grandfather of the toys-to-life video game genre. One of our hosts was actually there for this short-lived MMO sensation... even if he…
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Nostalgia Blinded 21: Nick, It's About Cats. And Owls. And Bears.
Folks, there were a lot of talking animal fantasy book series based on Harry Potter that came out in the early to mid 2000's. Some really spoke to us! Others... well, let's just say we're real kittypets when it comes to the Warriors series. No disrespect of course! We just think that no amount of...
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Nostalgia Blinded 20: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 2: Wild Breaths
It's important to note that this episode was recorded before this morning's incredible Nintendo Direct, so the Nicks were completely unaware of the earth-shattering revelations about Breath of the Wild 2 contained therein. If they had just waited a little longer, they would have been able to...
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Nostalgia Blinded 19: Bobs All The Way Down
So The Incredibles is a pretty storied franchise, from its origins as the first Pixar film to feature an all-human cast to its lackluster return in 2018, not to mention the ill-advisedly Bob-heavy GameCube adaptation. The Nicks are here to take you through all of it this week, from the good to…
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Nostalgia Blinded 18: It’s Beanworld, Not Bean World
Nick takes Nick on a journey through Larry Marder’s twisted reflection of our own society: Beanworld. Although, it’s not quite on the same level of biting satire as Sitting Ducks. Really, there’s a lot of things Beanworld shares in common with our realm, including chips, twinks, and the Bone…
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Nostalgia Blinded 17: DA SUPAH MARIO BROTHAS SUPAH SHOW!
Hey paisanos! We're the Nick Bros. and podcasting's our game! Usually we don't recommend food pairings with the show, but ya gotta get yaself a nice pasta dish with a big ole slice-a da pizza to go with this episode. If ya worried about da calories, no problem! Simply swing your arms from side ta...
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Nostalgia Blinded 16: Nick, This is Good!
The internet is full of wonderfully niche places, but none are quite like TOME. Born in the fires of Newground, this humble and surprisingly high quality series is as niche as they come. Listen in real time as the Nicks go from poking fun at it to singing the praises of free-content creators...
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Nostalgia Blinded 15: Clone Troopers But Better & The Name So Nice They Put “Jedi” In It Twice
The Star Wars Expanded Universe, now dubbed “Legends” ever since the Disney buy-out, is a wild and crazy place where some weird ass books and games that are trying way too hard to be edgy live. We initially thought that George Lucas had no involvement in the creation of most of those stories, but...
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Nostalgia Blinded 14: They Both Start With “R”...
After recording this episode, we’re pretty sure that we could teach a pretty solid screenwriting class. We know just where to put the sensitive young artists, incredulous fathers, fish out of water gags, distant mentor figures, wacky sidekicks, and vehicular chase scenes. Or at least we know how…
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Nostalgia Blinded 13: Theoretical Skateboard Tricks
Do NOT attempt the theoretical skateboard tricks unless you are a certified thrasher. No room for mob or sketchy acid drops unless you want to faceplant directly on your brain bucket and die. Unfortunately, there wasn’t a fun skateboarding term for dying. Bummer. This week, the Nicks prove…
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Nostalgia Blinded 12: What's New, Nick & Nick?
There’s actually a really compact and on-topic Nostalgia Blinded ep in the first half of this one, and you’re completely in your right to bail before the Nicks begin shouting about “Scoob!”. Of course, that would make you a coward, and I know you’re not a coward dear listener. Not only are you…
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Nostalgia Blinded 11: Amy Conney Barret’s Acting Debut
This episode is a wild one folks. We find out that Over the Hedge is a Gemini and things just kind of devolve from there, all culminating in a pitch for potentially the most problematically progressive movie of all time. Also, just know that in our future movie pitches, we'll be trying to stick…
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Nostalgia Blinded 10: Carl Wiizer’s World
So I know the Nicks aren’t always the most focused in their discussions, but this time it’s warranted. The ritual of making Mii’s is an integral side track before booting up Wii Sports. And the 5 minutes they spent talking about Guy Fieri? Well, they’re only human. This wiik, the Nicks would like...
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Nostalgia Blinded 9: Duck 1984
Listen, a lot of people have taken to calling these modern YA stories “dystopias.” Beastars. Zootopia. Trolls. But those of us who know real literature know that the real dystopias are classics like Sitting Ducks. The razor-sharp satire. The nuance. The metaphor of predation between alligators…
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Nostalgia Blinded 8: AU Fanfiction (Arboreal Universe Fanfiction)
In the course of recording this episode, we learned that Rick Riordan is actually really good about inclusion and social justice in his books, which is great! But if you ask me, fanfiction is the only place where we can absolutely guarantee proper rep-trees-entation. In my new Percy Jackson fic,...
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Nostalgia Blinded 7: Nick the Hedgehog is Not Weak
Well, it’s happening folks. Sonic the Hedgehog 2 the Movie. Another episode where we’re actually topical. It feels weird, ya know? But do stick around to the end, I promise we go back to being off topic in a pretty Big way. This week, the Nicks speed through a discussion about Sonic the Hedgehog…
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Nostalgia Blinded 6: GameStop Greg’s Glamor Charm
The one time an episode is about something remotely relevant, we decide the best thing to do is to spend 30 minutes talking about GameStop Greg. We are unsure of the full range of his ancient Eldritch powers - so far he’s just really good at getting you to sign up for the GameStop Powerup Rewards...
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Nostalgia Blinded 5: Gmarco “Gnasty” Guhgrubio, Our Bully
You’d think Gmarco Guhgrubio would’ve been too busy with his Speaker of the House duties to bully two seven year olds, but you’d be wrong. And he’d be scattered on the ground in millions of crystalline pieces. This week, the Nicks head charge into the non-impactful world of Spyro the purple…
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Nostalgia Blinded 4: The Manga-Manga Fruit
The only thing that can defeat Nick’s invincible logia power of knowing the plot of every manga through cultural osmosis and YouTube clips is Nick’s armament-type haki, gained through many years of arduous training and actually reading those manga. This week, the Nicks set sail for One Piece!...
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Nostalgia Blinded 3: Billie Joe Armstrong Doesn't Have a Mortgage
We really run the full gambit on this one gang. We went from preteen criticism to tearing apart Nick’s screenplay from high school and ended with a story too good to be true but I swear to goddess it’s real. This week, are you you are no longer waiting for the Nicks to talk about American Idiot!...
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Nostalgia Blinded 2: It's Cool to be Kind!
From here on out, Nostalgia Blinded is going to be following a strict code of conduct in all of our podcast dealings. No more putzin’ around here, folks—kindness is mandatory. This week, the Nicks assemble to talk some Lego Universe! Follow Andy Huber (@yafroglog on Instagram) for amazing art...
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Nostalgia Blinded 1: Big Tauros
I tell ya folks, Big Tauros is a menace to society. If they’re not working with Big Art to drive prices up, I’ll eat my fucking Hattrene. In this, our humble podcast’s maiden voyage, the Nicks tackle DVD’s 7-9 of season 1 of the Pokémon anime! Follow Andy Huber (@yafroglog on Instagram) for…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Do you ever wake up in the middle of the night and think, "God, remember Zoo Pals?" Welcome to Nostalgia Blinded, the show where two best friends with the same first name take a rose-tinted look at the media of the past! Join Nick and Nick every week(ish) as they foolishly attempt to curtail the never-ceasing flow of time by talking about cancelled TV shows and ill-conceived commercials, video games from before Instagram existed, overlong book series that probably have a whole bunch of problematic stuff in them, and albums that your parents think are totally cool.
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Do you ever wake up in the middle of the night and think, "God, remember Zoo Pals?" Welcome to Nostalgia Blinded, the show where two best friends with the same first name take a rose-tinted look at the media of the past! Join Nick and Nick every week(ish) as they foolishly attempt to curtail the...
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