Retro Renegades Pop Culture Power Hour

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Retro Renegades Pop Culture Power Hour Episodes

Episode 12: Game Shows
Join us as we talk about TV game shows past…. we miss a lot but that wasn’t really the point of the episode, it just happened that way. We wanted to chat a bit about Double Dare and the copy cat 30 minute shoe commercial Funhouse (those damn cheerlea…
The Retro Renegades present: Out of Time with Moose “Round and Round”
These days we have cell phones, web cams, video calls, and social media. In days gone by socialization was…. well… different. You went out and made yourself available. You saw whomever you were seen by, however sometimes you could make sure the rig…
Episode 11: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Cory is a Ninja Turtle nut… so we spend about 90 minutes listening to him geek out. He gives us unique insight into the origin story as we discuss everything we can think of that pertains to his favorite heros in a half shell. He’s forgotten more tha…
Episode 10: 80s Action Films/ Rocky 4
The 80s seemed to be the golden age for many things, and for sure action films were the best. Many a mega star was built during this era, and their larger than life personas were awe inspiring. In this episode we remember some of the pulse pounding, ma…
Episode 9: Silver Surfer
In this episode we welcome Cory’s brother Chris into the Retro Renegades studio for some comic book talk. The brothers especially bonded over Silver Surfer so we dive a bit deeper into the cosmology of what made this line so special. Lots of Marvel tal…
Episode 8: Gross Out Toys
There was a phase of the 80s where gross stuff was all the rage. Everything had a slime element to it, farts were funny, stinky shit was cool and gross was in. It was an oddly awesome time to be a boy. It this episode Cory and Mikey look back at when c…
The Retro Renegades Podcast Network presents: Out of Time with Moose “The Neon Jungle”
As video games became more common in public and home use began to rise, gamers became a cash cow. Listen as Moose remembers the emergence of the arcade industry where lessons were handed out one quarter at a time. Friends were made, feuds were squashed…
Episode 7: Educational Computer Games…… and Leisure Suit Larry
In the early 80s computers took the world by storm. While they weren’t quite a staple in every home just yet, schools seemed to embrace them as a new teaching tool. Join the guys as they remember their experiences blasting words, munching numbers and d…
Episode 6: Scooby Doo
For over 50 years those meddling kids and their damn dog have been catching crooks and infiltrating smuggling rings, and we have loved every minute. Scoob and the gang introduced generations of kids to monsters, ghosts and ghouls and gave them the idea…
Episode 5: SNL the early years
No other show has spawned so many superstars as Saturday Night Live. Judging by the unpredictable nature of the show, it probably shouldn’t have worked, but with that much talent in the room there was no way it was going to fail. As with most things, t…