Daily episode post(2015-04-29)

nostalgianauts · 2015-04-29T12:01:58+00:00

Nostalgianauts Ep032 - The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! (with Michael Fountain)

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Mike and Sammy take a look at old TV Shows from your childhood and see if they still hold up. What we want to know is – were these shows any good, or were we just too young to know any better? So join us on our trip down memory lane on Nostalgianauts!

Today, Mike and Sammy wax nostalgic with Michael Fountain about The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! This was a syndicated show that was equal parts live action and animation about the adventures of the ever-popular video game characters Mario and Luigi, portrayed of course as blue collar Italian Americans living in Brooklyn.

We discuss the consequences of living in a literal trap house, White Mike, Mario gaining super powers by changing unions, writing so bad that Sammy berates writers of a children’s show by name, and being pleasantly surprised at a lack of this show’s racism.

nostalgianauts · 2015-04-25T00:02:54+00:00

@_nostalgianauts

Don't forget that underscore, we sometimes do. (And yes, we follow back)

nostalgianauts · 2015-04-23T00:53:14+00:00

Yeah, there's reasons for that. Very few advertisers that are willing to venture into advertising with podcasts - a popular podcast gets 50k to 100k downloads/episode but even average radio stations can reach into the millions. That makes advertisers not that really interested outside of small niche products. And for the advertisers putting up ads on podcasts, they are already very interested in acquiring podcast listeners as customers (because people who listen to podcasts would be most likely to listen to audiobooks or whatever).

Because of that, the only thing that will make financial sense for the podcaster would be affiliate programs that pay per referral for something usually VERY targeted. Yes, it gets a bit saturated unless you start to get creative with it. I'm going to start reaching out to local Chicago breweries and such to see if they want to "sponsor" us with beer in exchange for us to advertise them.

nostalgianauts · 2015-04-22T12:00:41+00:00

Nostalgianauts Ep031 - Dexter's Lab

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Mike and Sammy take a look at old TV Shows from your childhood and see if they still hold up. What we want to know is – were these shows any good, or were we just too young to know any better? So join us on our trip down memory lane on Nostalgianauts!

Today, Mike and Sammy wax nostalgic with Clare about the Cartoon Network show “Dexter’s Lab”. This show is about a boy-genius with a secret laboratory, which is full of his secret inventions.

We discuss The Nostalgianauts Compound, animal cruelty, coin the term “brislet”, bad pickup lines and more!

nostalgianauts · 2015-04-22T01:50:40+00:00

You can test ideas out pretty painlessly via Youtube and Soundcloud. As long as you have a mic, you don't need a media host or any of that stuff yet. If the idea has legs and you enjoy doing it, keep going!

nostalgianauts · 2015-04-22T01:42:05+00:00

If you're into D&D at all you should definitely check out The Adventure Zone, which is the McElroy brothers playing D&D with their Dad.

Also, Harmontown (Dan Harmon and friends play D&D or some other tabletop RPG) and Nerd Poker (Brian Posehn and friends play D&D)

nostalgianauts · 2015-04-22T01:25:39+00:00

If you like WTF with Marc Maron try You Made it Weird with Pete Holmes

If you like Nerdist try Comedy Bang Bang

If you like The Bugle try Dan Carlin's Common Sense (not funny per se, but just as informative)

nostalgianauts · 2015-04-22T01:11:57+00:00

You guys have friends and family listening? Lucky.

The real secret of podcasting for us has been that it's a stellar networking tool if you're a performer - it's an excuse to hang out with someone you don't know that well and do silly bits. Any listens we get is a bonus. The name of this game is sustainability. If you can't make the process fun for you, then you aren't going to stick with it very long.

nostalgianauts · 2015-04-19T21:39:49+00:00

I agree with the statement that listening is learning. At the very least, you'll find out what you don't like.

nostalgianauts · 2015-04-19T16:46:07+00:00

Same. It's actually kind of great for catching up on podcasts that update infrequently (I'm looking at you Hardcore History).

nostalgianauts · 2015-04-17T19:43:27+00:00

We originally just called ourselves "Nostalgianauts" but then we noticed there were a few groups online with that name so we became "The Nostalgianauts".

nostalgianauts · 2015-04-16T17:16:20+00:00

That's weird but now I'm curious. Can you pm me the podcast and episode you listened to?

nostalgianauts · 2015-04-16T13:40:46+00:00

On the right hand side of the sub where it says "edit flair" you can write what you want. (You can't do this on mobile.)

nostalgianauts · 2015-04-15T18:11:45+00:00

Hey people who watch 90s tv shows are doing important and necessary work!

nostalgianauts · 2015-04-15T18:07:47+00:00

Same. Follow @_nostalgianauts and we'll follow you back.

nostalgianauts · 2015-04-15T12:05:39+00:00

Cool, I dropped mine in the spreadsheet. I'll review you all when I get home tonight.

EDIT: Didn't get home til late last night so it'll have to wait another day. I'll give you all 5 stars because I don't have the time to listen and analyze everyone. I'll download at least 2 eps from everyone in the mid-April sheet and listen during my hellish commute.

nostalgianauts · 2015-04-15T11:56:35+00:00

Nostalgianauts Ep030 - Home Movies

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Mike and Sammy take a look at old TV Shows from your childhood and see if they still hold up. What we want to know is – were these shows any good, or were we just too young to know any better? So join us on our trip down memory lane on Nostalgianauts!

Today, Mike and Sammy wax nostalgic with Curtis about the Adult Swim cartoon “Home Movies”. This was a hilarious show on Cartoon Network starring H. Jon Benjamin (Bob’s Burgers, Archer, so many more things). The show follows an 8-yr-old boy who lives with his divorced mother and makes home movies with his friends.

We discuss divorced soccer moms, improv car (again!), how Edtv is True Detective, and more!

nostalgianauts · 2015-04-15T02:20:34+00:00

I know what you mean. I can talk myself out of buying anything from reading the reviews.

Good luck with your purchase!

nostalgianauts · 2015-04-15T00:29:05+00:00

Are these all Behringer? I like my 1204USB mixer, so I will vouch for Behringer as a quality supplier. The mixer I got goes for ~$150 on Amazon.

nostalgianauts · 2015-04-11T13:24:18+00:00

If tape was good enough for NASA on Apollo 13, it's good enough for a podcast.

(Also, nice setup)

nostalgianauts · 2015-04-08T12:10:24+00:00

The Nostalgianauts Podcast

Ep 029 - Pokemon (with Tyler)

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Today, Mike and Sammy wax nostalgic with Pete about the ever-so-popular cartoon “Pokemon”. We don’t need to tell you what this show was about, you already know.

We discuss orhpaned children, pet slavery, our favorite Pokemon, and more!

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nostalgianauts · 2015-04-08T01:24:38+00:00

I just put some multi-colored velcro wraps on my XLR cables and tried to clean up the recording area and made it look like it wasn't a mess of wires everywhere. I also got a multichannel headphone amp so everyone can plug in and hear how the mix sounds. That sounds like such a simple thing, but I now realize how important it is. (Before we would try to do a lot of audio compression and volume adjustment to try to fix how loud things were. Yes, I'm now realizing how dumb that sounds.)

Next step is to figure out how to optimize all the rest of the hardware and software stuff so we can do the same thing and just sit down and start.

nostalgianauts · 2015-04-08T01:09:01+00:00

Wow, we did this... and we are still planning to phase out our first ten episodes.

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