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KnockBack: The Retro and Nostalgia Podcast

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A weekly, retro-and-nostalgia-themed podcast co-hosted by brothers Colin and Dagan Moriarty. Video games, television shows, movies, books, toys, comics, and more... this podcast covers it all. New episodes post each Monday. To get every episode a week early and ad-free, as well as gain the ability to submit questions and comments to be read on the show, please consider supporting the show on Patreon: patreon.com/laststandmediaWe wanna make the podcast even better, help us learn how we can: https://bit.ly/2EcYbu4 For advertising opportunities please email [email protected] Privacy Policy: https://www.studio71.com/us/terms-and-conditions-use/#Privacy...

Latest episodes

  1. #289 | The Wizard (1989 Film)

    There was something truly mystical about the NES era. Video games were resurgent, rapidly increasing their mindshare with the assistance of an excited public. In short, people were…

    3 h 42

  2. #288 | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990 Film)

    urprise! Today, Dagan and I (Colin) gather for the first time in nearly a year for a brand new episode of KnockBack, this one dedicated to the 1990 live action Teenage Mutant Ninja…

    2 h 47

  3. #287 | The Last of Us: Part II

    It may only be about five years old, but The Last of Us: Part II is quite easily one of the greatest games of all-time. Thus, it not only deserves its own episode of KnockBack, but…

    7 h 12

  4. #286 | Final Fantasy V

    In 1992, Final Fantasy V came to Super Famicom in Japan, but in the west, the seminal JRPG would remain a mystery for years. In 1999 (via PS1!) English-speaking audiences would gai…

    2 h 40

  5. #285 | Ex Machina

    When a movie invokes our obscure hometown of Brookhaven, Long Island, you know we have to give that film the proper KnockBack treatment. Dagan's been smitten with Alex Garland's 20…

    2 h 06

  6. #284 | Uncharted: The Lost Legacy

    It's been a while since we've covered a game on KnockBack, so we thought we'd return with a bang. Long-requested as a target of our show, The Lost Legacy is a peculiar 2017 release…

    1 h 54

  7. #283 | 'Do A Kickflip!' Skateboarding with Dagan and PJ

    PJ returns to KnockBack to talk about all things skateboarding. Long Island's favorite skate rats chop it up about Tony Hawk, Supreme, injuries, favorite tricks and the infamous 'v…

    2 h 40

  8. #282 | Our Parents

    We're settling back in from Sacred Symbols 300 live in New York City, and the experience has us (The Brothers Moriarty) feeling nostalgic, which is a good thing for our retro-and-n…

    3 h 04

  9. #281 | 'Sega, Skateboarding and Shenanigans' The PJ WIlliams Episode

    Dagan's best friend and Colin's other older brother finally arrives on the KnockBack scene to discuss skateboarding, video games, and growing up on the sometimes shady streets of L…

    3 h 26

  10. #280 | Starship Troopers (Book + Film)

    With all of the hullabaloo surrounding Arrowhead's hit PS5 and PC game Helldivers 2, we figured we'd delve into its most obvious inspiration: Starship Troopers. Most people know St…

    2 h 23

  11. #279 | Trying (and Largely Failing) to Make a Top 10 NES Games List

    For this week's KnockBack, we thought we'd do something a little bit different. A major fuel source for the origins of our podcast back in 2018 was our shared love of the NES: The…

    2 h 14

  12. #278 | Jaws

    1975's Jaws is a seminal work in the thriller genre, and it was somehow delivered by an overwhelmed, overworked, and over-his-head Steven Spielberg, directing only his second theat…

    1 h 52

  13. #277 | Our Introduction to Drinking

    While we certainly neither condone nor encourage underage drinking, the reality is that both of us did plenty of it in our heyday. Indeed, drinking before you're 21 in the US is ba…

    2 h 11

  14. #276 | Mama Moriarty Joins the Chat

    For our 'holiday' episode of KnockBack this year, we thought we'd do something special. As such, please welcome our mom to the show, BettyAnn Moriarty. The reality is this: Our mot…

    2 h 37

  15. #275 | Final Fantasy IV (Redux)

    For the Brothers Moriarty, Final Fantasy IV -- or Final Fantasy II, as we once knew it on SNES way back when -- is a uniquely nostalgic product. Upon its release in the west, we pl…

    3 h 06

  16. #274 | A Brotherly Inquisition

    For this week's episode of KnockBack, we thought we'd do things a little differently. Indeed, there's no specific topic to discuss per se. Instead, we thought we'd ask each other a…

    1 h 51

  17. #273 | Family Gatherings

    While KnockBack typically revolves around the video games, films, TV shows, and so on of the past, some of the most-popular and most-requested episodes of the show over the last si…

    2 h 17

  18. #272 | RoboCop

    Paul Verhoeven's 1987 dystopian sci-fi film RoboCop is considered more and more of a classic the further we get from its release year. Indeed, a lot of the ongoing revision pertain…

    1 h 49

  19. #271 | Avatar

    Only a couple of months from when this episode of KnockBack launches, an Avatar-themed AAA game will launch from Ubisoft-owned studio Massive. And -- as you may already know -- I (…

    1 h 41

  20. #270 | MTV

    If you're an American gen-xer or millennial, there's a better-than-decent chance you were heavily influenced by MTV growing up. Launched in the early '80s, culturally crescendoing…

    2 h 14
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