90’s Mixtapes: A 90’s nostalgia podcast

OK, so it's the morning after the sleepover, but we're still having fun and going over our favorite shows, songs and most memorable news story from 1994. We also watch Clerks and chat about the ridiculousness of it.

On this week's episode we talk about Interview with the Vampire! Queue everyone's favorite 90's actors Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Christian Slater and Antonio Banderas as well as terrifying baby Kirsten Dunst in this 90's vampire classic. 

This week's episode we're talking about what our Thanksgiving plates looked like at the kid's table in 1994, and the happenings this month including Jeffrey Dahmer's murder, Bill Gate's 38.8 million dollar purchase of Da Vinci's codex, the retirement of Michael Jordan's number 23 jersey, and some tangents on headphones, batteries, T Rex skulls and vampires. Happy listening!

This week's episode focuses on Tom Petty's Wildflowers, TLC's CrazySexyCool, Pearl Jam's Vitalogy, The Woodstock '94 Compilation, Nirvana's Unplugged, and Mariah Carey's Christmas album. We also ponder whether or not Christmas lights for hire is aligned with the nostalgic Christmas spirit. Fun chat!

This week we watched the TV movie Saved by the Bell: Wedding in Las Vegas, and we have thoughts. A lot of them. We also lightly chat about Clarissa Explains it All and have a My So-Called Life check-in. Good stuff.

This week we're covering both September and October 1994, potpourri style. We talk about limited edition things, breakfast cereals, Farm aid, the baseball strike and the ramifications of it, The Order of the Solar Temple and cults, Gary Larsen's retirement announcement and The Farside comics, tacky O.J. Simpson Halloween costumes and Susan Smith's horrible crime. 

This week we discuss Korn's debut self titled album, Madonna's Bedtime Stories, and The Cranberries' No Need to Argue featuring their hit song Zombie. We also talk a little about The Smashing Pumpkin's cover of Fleetwood Mac's Landslide and the emotional damage that song inflicts, all while being quietly stalked by Mariah Carey who is theoretically peeking at us from behind a faraway pine tree whispering "All I want for Christmas"...  

This week we are BACK baby. For real for real. Although we're chatting about the movies that came out in September and October 1994, we're only diving into one, which is Pulp Fiction. Gotta love a Royal with Cheese!

Here we are with some heavy hitters this month, My So Called Life and the 90's sitcom staple Friends!

We're talking about the music happenings of September 1994 on this episode of 90's Mixtapes!

Run Forrest run... to download this movie episode and listen to Pat's passionate thoughts on the probability of Forrest Gump happening in real life. We also talk about True Lies and play a little Trivial Pursuit.

This week we have a lot to say about Marilyn Manson, and a little to say about Hootie and the Blowfish and NOFX.

This week we're talking about The Crow and the Brandon Lee tragedy and Speed starring Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock. Jen finally gets another pie piece! 

This week we talk about the O.J. Simpson debacle, Jaqueline Kennedy Onassis' death and her iconic style, our top movies and Pat's hot takes on Simba. 

This week we're talking about the tv happenings in May AND June 1994. In Living Color, Star Trek Next Generation, Roc, Shannen Doherty leaves Beverly Hills 90210, Hulk Hogan signs with WCW and more.

We're diving into it this week with some news stories from June 1994 including the fire that Lisa "Left Eye" Lopez set, and the debut of Aaliyah's Age Ain't Nothing but a Number produced by R. Kelly (and a little about that problematic situation.) We listen to Stone Temple Pilot's Purple, some Kiss covers, Rancid's Let's Go and go down a bunch of rabbit holes like we always do.

This week we discuss the music of May 1994! The Eagles were charging over $100 per concert ticket while Pearl Jam went to war with Ticketmaster for better ticket prices. We take a left turn and talk about going to Mars before talking about Sunny Day Real Estate, The Beastie Boys, Weezer and The Lion King Soundtrack.

This week we're talking about smoking laws, Nixon's death and presidents, and Kurt Cobain's alleged suicide. We have thoughts.   TW: We talk about suicide and gun violence.

We've got some of your favorite 90's men including Brad Pitt. Bill Pullman, Brendan Frazer, Josh Hamilton and Patrick Dempsey in this week's movie episode. These two movies bring up discussions on the midlife crises and the importance of a floppy disc. 

This week we're struggling with some Mercury in Retrograde nonsense as we delve into the TV of April 1994. We talk about Sister Sister, The Simpsons and our favorite Simpsons characters, the Jim Everett/Jim Rome situation and more.

This week we're talking about The Offspring, Live, Hole and a bunch of other things including Walkmans vs Discerns (Walkmen vs. Discmen?), SADS, Kurt Cobain and some Trivial Pursuiting.

This week we watched The Ref with Denis Leary and Four Weddings and a Funeral with Hugh Grant and Andie MacDowell. We've got thoughts and we've your weekly game of 90's Trivial Pursuit.

This week we're talking about the baseball player Michael Jordan, Tonya Harding's plea deal, smoking in public, a little on Wayne Gretzky, Charles Bukowshi, John Candy, Wrestlemania X and Howard Stern's NY Governor run. We also reminisce about Paddy's Day as a kid in the 90's and there's more Trivial Pursuit pie pieces being won.

We're talking about Madonna's 22 minutes David Letterman segment and censorship, we're talking about Duckpin, we're talking about Paddy's Day, we're talking about sitcoms. And someone gets another Trivial Pursuit pie piece!

This week we're diving into Soundgarden's Superunknown, The Crow Soundtrack, Nine Inch Nails' Downward Spiral, Becks' Mellow Gold, Sublime's Robbin' the Hood, and Our Lady Peace's Naveed. Pat tells funny story about his first time hearing Johnny Cash's cover of Hurt and someone gets a Trivial Pursuit pie piece!

This week we watched 8 Seconds starring Luke Perry and Reality /bites starring Ethan Hawk and Winona Ryder, aka the ultimate 90's movie. We also chat a little about the other movies that came out this month including Ace Ventura Pet Detective. 

This week Pat gives his thoughts on Valentine's Day, we talk about the Lillehammer Winter Olympics- specifically figure skating as we check in with Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding, Edvard Munch's The Scream was stolen from the Munch Museum in Oslo, The Brady Law goes in effect,  Howard Stern talks a distraught listener off the edge of a bridge and Jack Nicholson attacks a windshield with a golf club. The 90's were wild. Just a warning - we have an unruly canine visitor for most of this episode.

This episode we're talking about Trashed on MTV with Chris Hartwick, Where on earth is Carmen Sandiego, Saved by the Bell: The College Years, and Martin Lawrence's banned SNL monologue. Good times!

Big talks about Green Day's Dookie, a coming of age album, especially for Jen. We chat about the music videos, songs, impacts this album had on our lives, and the "sellout" and "poser" bs that was being thrown around at this time in the 90s.

This week we're talking about two feature films - Cabin Boy starring Chris Elliott and The Intersection starring Sharon Stone and Richard Gear. We've never seen either of these movies previously and have a lot of thoughts. We debut a new segment called "who says no" where we recast and change up these movies in modern times, and we play a quick round of Trivial Pursuit.

Here it is friends, the episode that covers the infamous Tonya Harding Nancy Kerrigan incident. We also get into Superbowl XXVIII and the Bills loss, Howard Stern's Rocking New Years Party and the maggots that were involved, more happenings on the Lorena Bobbit case, Michael Jackson's court case ruling, and a look into the past through Jen's childhood diary. A Trivial Pursuit pie piece is earned much sooner than we thought possible. Enjoy!

This week we're talking about some shows that premiered in January 1994 including The Critic, Babylon 5, Ancient Mysteries on A&E, Tekwar, The George Carlin Show, and then some unrelated conversations about Star Wars, Seaquest and cancel culture. We wrap it up with some 90's Trivial Pursuit. Spoiler - Jen answers a question correctly!

Happy New Year and welcome to 1994!! It's the first episode of season THREE kids! So put on your party hat and get ready to us talk about ZZ Top's Antenna, Lagwagon's Trashed, Alice in Chains EP Jar of Flies and New Kids on the Block's Face the Music. We go off on tangents about name origins, little Jen's favorite New Kid (spoiler - it was Donny), The Crown, lip syncing and more. We start the official 90's edition of Trivial Pursuit and realize we might be playing it until 1999 before there's a winner. 

We're wrapping up 1993 by making a mixtape of our favorite '93 songs, watching X-Files, some MTV's Singled Out, Demolition Man and What's Eating Gilbert Grape. Pat lucks out and avoids playing MASH but there's always next year. Happy New Year! Bring on 1994!

We're wrapping up 1993 Movies with a movie that we've never seen or heard of; Six Degrees of Separation starring Will Smith, Sir Ian Mckellen, Donald Sutherland and Stockard Channing. It was quite the based a true events, taken from a screen play film that inspired some fun conversation. We predict what next month's movies (Cabin Boy and Intersection) are all about and of course we go off on tangents and talk about the celebrities that we are only a few degrees away from.

Come on in for the baby goat update, a little overview of the missed last two months, and a chat about some Holiday episodes of our favorite 90's sitcoms; Married with Children, Roseanne, The Fresh Prince of Belair and Boy Meets World.

Today we are ALL OVER the place. Goat therapy, scary video games (Doom, Resident Evil, etc), educational video games (Oregon Trail anyone?), syndicated shows, Shannon Doherty gets fired from 90210, Vegas things, The Long Island Railroad shooting, Pablo Escabar, The Toys R Us Holiday catalogue and Game Genies. 

And we're back!! We talk about Nirvana's Unplugged which premiered on MTV in December. Pat discusses his feelings on driving down the street in his Prius blasting Ice Cube's Lethal Injection, and we delve into other new albums from Everclear, The Verve Pipe and the Wayne's World 2 soundtrack. We also chat a little about allowances in the 90s. Come on in! We're back from our hiatus and the water is warm.

This week we're getting into True Romance and A Bronx Tale, two solid 1993 movies.

We get into kid's game shows like Legends of the Hidden Temple, talk about Tiny Toons and other popular cartoons at the time, touch on the X-Files and NYPD Blue, and have opposing thoughts on Boy Meets World.

This episode we have a lot of nothing to talk about; tennis, back to school, how many fours in a row can a croupier roll, The real Might Ducks, Jim Abbott, being in gifted and talented programs in the 90s with 100 question tests, Latin class, Eternal September and the Big Bayou Canot rail accident. We also have a big debate on the size of TV Guides. 

What would you not do for love? Is grunge still listenable (obviously duh but is it?) And how good is August and Everything After? (Very. It's very good.) All that and more this week on 90's Mixtapes!

This week we watched The Fugitive and The Thing Called Love and we have some thoughts. We also blind summarize A Bronx Tale and True Romance. And don't all clothes before the 1990s look the same?

We've combined TV and Potpourri again this month to cover Showtime's Fallen Angels in all of its film noir guest star glory, The Power Rangers, WCW's Shockmaster incident and a blip about Howard Stern that throws us into a shock jock rabbit hole. And in breaking news - Jen nails a trivia fact.

This month we have new albums from Billy Joel, Mariah Carey, Sheryl Crow and The Breeders. We chat about that and find ourselves talking about Halloween Candy and the values we would give certain ones. Also Jen knows embarrassingly nothing about The Sword in the Stone.

This week we're talking about Robinhood Men in Tights, a little about Weekend at Bernie's 2 and Son in Law, and how comedies like this are a dying breed.

Back in the studio this week and this is a fun one. This episode is a mash-up of TV and Potpourri and goes in every which way. We chat about TV shows like Brains and Brawn and Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher, and go over news stories including a Pizza Hutt Blimp attacking rooftop sunbathers. We find ourselves in rabbit holes that range from NY Mets lore to our experiences with Barbies and G.I. Joes. We ask the question you've all been waiting to know, did Ken Jong really eat potpourri as a kid? And there's a surprise mention of Max Moon - IYKYK.

Join us in the Rav4 mobile studio in all its technical difficulty glory as we discuss music from July '93. This one is short and sweet but we'll be back in decked out 90's closet studio soon.

This episode we're throwing fire at Sleepless in Seattle and reminiscing on Jurassic Park. We also chat about favorite movie theatre snacks, Jen reminds Pat that not everything is gaslighting and we ask the important question - would you clone your pet? 

This is a fun one, we're talking about John and Lorena Bobbit, The Unabomber, RBG, the end of Hulkamania... and then we go on tangents about Starter Jackets, hockey, Jurassic Park and Flowers in the Attic. The 90s were wild.

We're talking about summertime TV habits as a kid back in the 90s and the game shows we used to watch including Singled Out, The Dating Game, The Newlywed Game, $10,000 Pymarid and more. Also, have you heard of the Snorks?