Nostalgia Blinded

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 with earrings, dimension-specific magic powers, global illusion magic, secret clones, amnesia again, mind control, cursed twins, time paradoxes, and soul-trapping glass tubes, but after all of that is said and done, the amount of intertextuality, crossovers, cameos, and references to other series by the same authors is mind-melting. Reading this one first is like if you watched Infinity War first, but if Infinity War was anime. And also, it's the same people who did the Kakyoin lays an egg thing, so that's fun. This week, the Nicks talk Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle. Will it turn out that one of the Nicks is a clone of the other Nick while that Nick is also the first Nick's father because of a time paradox? In this series, it's more likely than you'd think. Follow Andy Huber (@yafroglog on Instagram) for amazing art stuff! Follow Nick and the Leg-Heavy Boys (@nickandthelegheavyboys on Instagram, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok) and check out their NEW ALBUM, Hey There Stranger! AVALIABLE NOW! If you're looking for anti-racism sources and have the means to help out both Black Lives Matter and the AAPI community, you can find them at these links! https://linktr.ee/blacklivesmatter https://linktr.ee/aapisolidarity

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? Scientists are still searching for the answer to this day, but in the meantime we've got some trash tier jokes, some bizarrely dark plot developments, and some truly early-2000s animation and filmmaking techniques to sift through. The real question at the end of it all is whether or not we actually care, and that depends: does it count if you care about the fact that something exists, but not about the thing itself? This week on Nostalgia Blinded, it's time to dive deep into the philosophical questions surrounding the very idea of nostalgia, so strap in folks: it's "Cats & Dogs!" Follow Andy Huber (@yafroglog on Instagram) for amazing art stuff! Follow Nick and the Leg-Heavy Boys (@nickandthelegheavyboys on Instagram, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok) and check out their NEW ALBUM, Hey There Stranger! AVALIABLE NOW! If you're looking for anti-racism sources and have the means to help out both Black Lives Matter and the AAPI community, you can find them at these links! https://linktr.ee/blacklivesmatter https://linktr.ee/aapisolidarity

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 commercials and offering our own twisted and skewed views on them. Of course, that isn't to say that some of these commercials aren't quite twisted and skewed already, but that's just part of the fun and also the existential horror of living in a media landscape that's been wild for longer than most of us care to think about. To watch along with us, head to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEWnN04lwZo, mute your sound, and follow along with the time codes as we call them out! If you're around the same age as us on the call, we can guarantee you'll have some pretty intense memory activation experiences, so prepare yourself! Follow Andy Huber (@yafroglog on Instagram) for amazing art stuff! Follow Nick and the Leg-Heavy Boys (@nickandthelegheavyboys on Instagram, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok) and check out their NEW ALBUM, Hey There Stranger! AVALIABLE NOW! If you're looking for anti-racism sources and have the means to help out both Black Lives Matter and the AAPI community, you can find them at these links! https://linktr.ee/blacklivesmatter https://linktr.ee/aapisolidarity

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 neither of them know anything about. How? They're reading the wiki! Wiki Warrior (n.) - a person who is exhaustively familiar with a media property or cultural phenomenon not through direct experience but exclusively through cultural osmosis deliberately sought using sources intended for reference by people already familiar with the source material. The Nicks have only ten minutes to browse the fan wiki page for a media property neither of them are familiar with. Then, they must explain that media property to one another as completely as possible using only what they've gleaned along the way. This time around, the Nicks will be educating themselves on the newest Disney Channel smash hit, The Owl House! Many thanks to the fine folks over at The Owl House Wiki, https://theowlhouse.fandom.com/wiki/The_Owl_House_Wiki, and at all fan wikis! Follow Andy Huber (@yafroglog on Instagram) for amazing art stuff! Follow Nick and the Leg-Heavy Boys (@nickandthelegheavyboys on Instagram, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok) and check out their NEW ALBUM, Hey There Stranger! AVALIABLE NOW! If you're looking for anti-racism sources and have the means to help out both Black Lives Matter and the AAPI community, you can find them at these links! https://linktr.ee/blacklivesmatter https://linktr.ee/aapisolidarity

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? Well, now we understand: it's not an actual musical, it's a pastiche of musicals! And with that slightly intellectual vocabulary choice reinforcing a protective shield of irony, we can finally enjoy the catchy songs and cheesy romance that we always wanted to enjoy but couldn't because of identity policing imposed upon us by the gender binary and arbitrary ideals of social conformity which the movie itself actively criticizes! That's how that works, right? Also, this was supposed to be a Romeo and Juliet thing? This week, the Nicks get their heads in the game to talk some High School Musical! Follow Andy Huber (@yafroglog on Instagram) for amazing art stuff! Follow Nick and the Leg-Heavy Boys (@nickandthelegheavyboys on Instagram, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok) and check out their NEW ALBUM, Hey There Stranger! AVALIABLE NOW! If you're looking for anti-racism sources and have the means to help out both Black Lives Matter and the AAPI community, you can find them at these links! https://linktr.ee/blacklivesmatter https://linktr.ee/aapisolidarity

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 relitigations, there's second guessing and hemming and hawing, there's an overcomplicated and inconsistent bracket system and an entirely separate overcomplicated and inconsistent scoring system, and there are several confessions that at least one of them hardly knows what the hell he's talking about in the first place. But when all the dust has settled, they're proud to say that they came out with an official Nostalgia Blinded ranked list, which is, once again, also now your list, because it's objectively correct. Or maybe Mario Odyssey... you know what, nevermind, actually. For your reference, the list is... You sure you want to read it? It's a spoiler for the episode... Here it comes... 7. Super Mario 3D Land 6. Super Mario Galaxy 5. Super Mario 3D World 4. Super Mario Sunshine 3. Super Mario Galaxy 2 2. Super Mario Odyssey 1. Super Mario 64 Follow Andy Huber (@yafroglog on Instagram) for amazing art stuff! Follow Nick and the Leg-Heavy Boys (@nickandthelegheavyboys on Instagram, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok) and check out their NEW ALBUM, Hey There Stranger! AVALIABLE NOW! If you're looking for anti-racism sources and have the means to help out both Black Lives Matter and the AAPI community, you can find them at these links! https://linktr.ee/blacklivesmatter https://linktr.ee/aapisolidarity

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 regulation football and Natural Light. Leave them in the same small space for long enough, and things are bound to get rough.  This episode, we're introducing our contenders: Super Mario 64, Super Mario Sunshine, Super Mario Galaxy, Super Mario Galaxy 2, Super Mario 3D Land, Super Mario 3D World, and Super Mario Odyssey, in that order! Next week, we'll pit them against one another to see which 3D Mario game earns the right to ascend, becoming a 4D Mario game that's only playable by, like, ghosts and dodecahedrons or whatever. Don't miss it! Follow Andy Huber (@yafroglog on Instagram) for amazing art stuff! Follow Nick and the Leg-Heavy Boys (@nickandthelegheavyboys on Instagram, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok) for amazing music stuff! If you're looking for anti-racism sources and have the means to help out both Black Lives Matter and the AAPI community, you can find them at these links! https://linktr.ee/blacklivesmatter https://linktr.ee/aapisolidarity

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 ubiquitous cartoon character pablum, the fallout of which we're still dealing with to this day. The question is: is there something behind all the billboards and Facebook aunt viral marketing? What does this movie offer artistically, on it's own terms, with its own narrative, themes, and characters? That is to say, characters that aren't the... well, you know. Follow Andy Huber (@yafroglog on Instagram) for amazing art stuff! Follow Nick and the Leg-Heavy Boys (@nickandthelegheavyboys on Instagram, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok) for amazing music stuff! If you're looking for anti-racism sources and have the means to help out both Black Lives Matter and the AAPI community, you can find them at these links! https://linktr.ee/blacklivesmatter https://linktr.ee/aapisolidarity

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 other corner we have an extremely flawed but ambitious and moderately charming cultural artifact that other Nick couldn't even bring himself to finish and that the first Nick barreled through only to realize afterward that it was sort of crappy. Well, at the very least, you'll get to hear from the two of them in a more innocent time, when The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword was an unassailable instant classic and The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker was just old news, unappreciated for its true merit. This week, it's a Zelda double feature! Follow Andy Huber (@yafroglog on Instagram) for amazing art stuff! Follow Nick and the Leg-Heavy Boys (@nickandthelegheavyboys on Instagram, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok) for amazing music stuff! If you're looking for anti-racism sources and have the means to help out both Black Lives Matter and the AAPI community, you can find them at these links! https://linktr.ee/blacklivesmatter https://linktr.ee/aapisolidarity

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 sci-fi fantasy worlds observed on a quotidian scale, and from horny gremlins to horny gremlins to... devastating and realistically-written drama, these comics truly have it all, and sometimes much less than that. But also sometimes more? It's internet content, so literary inconsistency is frankly a secondary concern to supporting the Patreon.  We go into a lot of visual detail about comics in this episode of our audio-only podcast (oops) so if you want to follow along with what we're discussing, you can head to the links below! All of these comics come highly recommended, so be sure to support these amazing creators! https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1 https://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws-chaser-1 https://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1 https://www.octopuspie.com/2007-05-14/001-pea-wiggle/ https://boom-press.com/media_files/GiantDays_01_PREVIEW.pdf Follow Andy Huber (@yafroglog on Instagram) for amazing art stuff! Follow Nick and the Leg-Heavy Boys (@nickandthelegheavyboys on Instagram, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok) for amazing music stuff! If you're looking for anti-racism sources and have the means to help out both Black Lives Matter and the AAPI community, you can find them at these links! https://linktr.ee/blacklivesmatter https://linktr.ee/aapisolidarity

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 other with magic. Oh, and also one of them is rendered in some of the worst-aging early 2000s CGI you've ever seen and the other is a cross-section of Butch Hartman's prime animation work, before he became a Youtuber and started charging three figures for commissions. That's right, we're talking Jimmy Neutron and Fairly Odd Parents, two of Nickelodeon's heaviest hitters... but apparently they're not heavy enough to get into Nick All Star Brawl, so who's to say? Follow Andy Huber (@yafroglog on Instagram) for amazing art stuff! Follow Nick and the Leg-Heavy Boys (@nickandthelegheavyboys on Instagram, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok) for amazing music stuff! If you're looking for anti-racism sources and have the means to help out both Black Lives Matter and the AAPI community, you can find them at these links! https://linktr.ee/blacklivesmatter https://linktr.ee/aapisolidarity

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 about the main episode topic, and we're certainly not going to be diving into the audio processor specs of Nick's iPod Nano, so expect some tangents, from old emails to misbegotten bids for YouTube let's play fame to the wonderful works of one Mr. Weird Al Yankovik. Really, it's crazy how many parts of our lives these tiny pieces of plastic touched. Almost like the wide variety of songs they could hold... which was like, 40. This week, the Nicks plug in to talk some iPod Nano! Follow Andy Huber (@yafroglog on Instagram) for amazing art stuff! Follow Nick and the Leg-Heavy Boys (@nickandthelegheavyboys on Instagram, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok) for amazing music stuff! If you're looking for anti-racism sources and have the means to help out both Black Lives Matter and the AAPI community, you can find them at these links! https://linktr.ee/blacklivesmatter https://linktr.ee/aapisolidarity

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 about them without just quoting it verbatim... which is why the Nicks might just need to do a little bit of abridging themselves. Fire up those video editors and keep an eye on the lip flaps, because this week the Nicks are talking Team Four Star! Follow Andy Huber (@yafroglog on Instagram) for amazing art stuff! Follow Nick and the Leg-Heavy Boys (@nickandthelegheavyboys on Instagram, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok) for amazing music stuff! If you're looking for anti-racism sources and have the means to help out both Black Lives Matter and the AAPI community, you can find them at these links! https://linktr.ee/blacklivesmatter https://linktr.ee/aapisolidarity

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 battle to become the Shaman King, and then are transported into the wonderful world of MAR! Or is it MARE? MEUR? Who's to say? Follow Andy Huber (@yafroglog on Instagram) for amazing art stuff! Follow Nick and the Leg-Heavy Boys (@nickandthelegheavyboys on Instagram, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok) for amazing music stuff! If you're looking for anti-racism sources and have the means to help out both Black Lives Matter and the AAPI community, you can find them at these links! https://linktr.ee/blacklivesmatter https://linktr.ee/aapisolidarity

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 baseball. Thankfully, it recognized this and never actually forces you to play through 9 innings of baseball. It instead forces you to play through a Monkey Island-esque point and click adventure campaign to unlock all the deepest of deep cut characters. But I mean, come on, don't you want to play as Baby Daisy? Or Tiny Kong? Or Pink Pianta? Yeah, I thought so. This week, the Nicks step up to the podcast plate and talk about Mario Super Sluggers! Follow Andy Huber (@yafroglog on Instagram) for amazing art stuff! Follow Nick and the Leg-Heavy Boys (@nickandthelegheavyboys on Instagram, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok) for amazing music stuff! If you're looking for anti-racism sources and have the means to help out both Black Lives Matter and the AAPI community, you can find them at these links! https://linktr.ee/blacklivesmatter https://linktr.ee/aapisolidarity

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 1920s. It gets pretty weird. This week, the Nicks crack open some Magic Tree House, Geronimo Stilton, and much, much more! Follow Andy Huber (@yafroglog on Instagram) for amazing art stuff! Follow Nick and the Leg-Heavy Boys (@nickandthelegheavyboys on Instagram, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok) for amazing music stuff! If you're looking for anti-racism sources and have the means to help out both Black Lives Matter and the AAPI community, you can find them at these links! https://linktr.ee/blacklivesmatter https://linktr.ee/aapisolidarity

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 it's totalizing knowledge of it's own nature. It's a bit existentially horrifying, when you think about it... but, you know, in a cozy, Tumblr-friendly sort of way. This week, the Nick's tune in to some community radio and Welcome you... to Night Vale.  Follow Andy Huber (@yafroglog on Instagram) for amazing art stuff! Follow Nick and the Leg-Heavy Boys (@nickandthelegheavyboys on Instagram, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok) for amazing music stuff! If you're looking for anti-racism sources and have the means to help out both Black Lives Matter and the AAPI community, you can find them at these links! https://linktr.ee/blacklivesmatter https://linktr.ee/aapisolidarity

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 themes or genres, we just see Red. This week, YOU GET HOODWINKED! INTO LISTENING TO THE NICKS TALK ABOUT HOODWINKED!, BABY! Follow Andy Huber (@yafroglog on Instagram) for amazing art stuff! Follow Nick and the Leg-Heavy Boys (@nickandthelegheavyboys on Instagram, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok) for amazing music stuff! If you're looking for anti-racism sources and have the means to help out both Black Lives Matter and the AAPI community, you can find them at these links! https://linktr.ee/blacklivesmatter https://linktr.ee/aapisolidarity

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 rival, train for his comprehensive Go exams, and of course to work up the motivation he needs to build a successful career on the Go tournament circuit. Wait... is this manga just about Go? And there are no ghost power trick stones? Okay. This week, the Nicks learn to place their stones like pros and talk about Hikaru no Go! Follow Andy Huber (@yafroglog on Instagram) for amazing art stuff! Follow Nick and the Leg-Heavy Boys (@nickandthelegheavyboys on Instagram, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok) for amazing music stuff! If you're looking for anti-racism sources and have the means to help out both Black Lives Matter and the AAPI community, you can find them at these links! https://linktr.ee/blacklivesmatter https://linktr.ee/aapisolidarity

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 kids would blow up forklifts and jump off of roofs. Someone may have gotten hurt were it not for the benevolent Party Deity watching over them. This week, the Nicks TALK, TALK, TALK about a grab bag of CN Real Shows (Dude, What Would Happen?, Slamball, Destroy Build Destroy). Follow Andy Huber (@yafroglog on Instagram) for amazing art stuff! Follow Nick and the Leg-Heavy Boys (@nickandthelegheavyboys on Instagram, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok) for amazing music stuff! If you're looking for anti-racism sources and have the means to help out both Black Lives Matter and the AAPI community, you can find them at these links! https://linktr.ee/blacklivesmatter https://linktr.ee/aapisolidarity

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 didn't quite experience the "MMO" part. This week, the Nicks jack into a bigger version of themselves to talk some U.B. Funkeys. And you can listen to it right now... if you be funky! Follow Andy Huber (@yafroglog on Instagram) for amazing art stuff! Follow Nick and the Leg-Heavy Boys (@nickandthelegheavyboys on Instagram, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok) for amazing music stuff! If you're looking for anti-racism sources and have the means to help out both Black Lives Matter and the AAPI community, you can find them at these links! https://linktr.ee/blacklivesmatter https://linktr.ee/aapisolidarity

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 extra lives can save you from a shapeshifting bear. This week, the Nicks moonblink you into listening to them talk about Warriors, Seekers, and The Guardians of Ga'hoole! Follow Andy Huber (@yafroglog on Instagram) for amazing art stuff! Follow Nick and the Leg-Heavy Boys (@nickandthelegheavyboys on Instagram, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok) for amazing music stuff! If you're looking for anti-racism sources and have the means to help out both Black Lives Matter and the AAPI community, you can find them at these links! https://linktr.ee/blacklivesmatter https://linktr.ee/aapisolidarity

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 address the announcement that Zelda is both playable and has a gun, the casting of Patrick Warburton as the voice of Link, and of course the retroactive de-canonization of Skyward Sword. Shigeru's done it again, folks. This week, the Nicks see if they have the stamina for an extra-long conversation about The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild! Follow Andy Huber (@yafroglog on Instagram) for amazing art stuff! Follow Nick and the Leg-Heavy Boys (@nickandthelegheavyboys on Instagram, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok) for amazing music stuff! If you're looking for anti-racism sources and have the means to help out both Black Lives Matter and the AAPI community, you can find them at these links! https://linktr.ee/blacklivesmatter https://linktr.ee/aapisolidarity

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 the bad to the Edna, along with tangents about other Pixar movies, philosophical musings, and a surprise special guest! This week, the Nicks dash through The Incredibles. Follow Andy Huber (@yafroglog on Instagram) for amazing art stuff! Follow Nick and the Leg-Heavy Boys (@nickandthelegheavyboys on Instagram, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok) for amazing music stuff! If you're looking for anti-racism sources and have the means to help out both Black Lives Matter and the AAPI community, you can find them at these links! https://linktr.ee/blacklivesmatter https://linktr.ee/aapisolidarity

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 Zone. Truly, two sides of the same coin. This week, the Nicks chow down on a delicious discussion about Larry Marder's Beanworld! Follow Andy Huber (@yafroglog on Instagram) for amazing art stuff! Follow Nick and the Leg-Heavy Boys (@nickandthelegheavyboys on Instagram, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok) for amazing music stuff! If you're looking for anti-racism sources and have the means to help out both Black Lives Matter and the AAPI community, you can find them at these links! https://linktr.ee/blacklivesmatter https://linktr.ee/aapisolidarity

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 side, and occasionally take one step, and den again. Not only will dis make da episode more enjoyable, but it'll also prevent you from going to hell before you die. Oh!!! I'm Italian!!! This week, the Nicks jump into a discussion about The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! and a bit of the Zelda cartoon! Follow Andy Huber (@yafroglog on Instagram) for amazing art stuff! Follow Nick and the Leg-Heavy Boys (@nickandthelegheavyboys on Instagram, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok) for amazing music stuff! If you're looking for anti-racism sources and have the means to help out both Black Lives Matter and the AAPI community, you can find them at these links! https://linktr.ee/blacklivesmatter https://linktr.ee/aapisolidarity

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 everywhere. But we can all agree, Flamegirl is a dumb name. This week, the Nicks get charmed by a little series called TOME! Follow Andy Huber (@yafroglog on Instagram) for amazing art stuff! Follow Nick and the Leg-Heavy Boys (@nickandthelegheavyboys on Instagram, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok) for amazing music stuff! If you're looking for anti-racism sources and have the means to help out both Black Lives Matter and the AAPI community, you can find them at these links! https://linktr.ee/blacklivesmatter https://linktr.ee/aapisolidarity

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 as we learned today in an exclusive Nostalgia Blinded interview, the inner mechanisms of the Cowboy of Skywalker Ranch's mind are complex and...sinister. This week, the Nicks speak! about Star Wars: Republic Commando and Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast! Follow Andy Huber (@yafroglog on Instagram) for amazing art stuff! Follow Nick and the Leg-Heavy Boys (@nickandthelegheavyboys on Instagram, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok) for amazing music stuff! If you're looking for anti-racism sources and have the means to help out both Black Lives Matter and the AAPI community, you can find them at these links! https://linktr.ee/blacklivesmatter https://linktr.ee/aapisolidarity

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 to point at a movie and identify all of that. This week, the Nicks take a look at two suspiciously similar animated flicks: “Ratatouille” and “Robots!” Follow Andy Huber (@yafroglog on Instagram) for amazing art stuff! Follow Nick and the Leg-Heavy Boys (@nickandthelegheavyboys on Instagram, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok) for amazing music stuff! If you're looking for anti-racism sources and have the means to help out both Black Lives Matter and the AAPI community, you can find them at these links! https://linktr.ee/blacklivesmatter https://linktr.ee/aapisolidarity

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 they're not posers by talking about Tony Hawk Pro Skater 1! Follow Andy Huber (@yafroglog on Instagram) for amazing art stuff! Follow Nick and the Leg-Heavy Boys (@nickandthelegheavyboys on Instagram, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok) for amazing music stuff! If you're looking for anti-racism sources and have the means to help out both Black Lives Matter and the AAPI community, you can find them at these links! https://linktr.ee/blacklivesmatter https://linktr.ee/aapisolidarity

We decided to dig into Nostalgia Blinded's very small vault to bring you the first trial episode we recorded! We're definitely trying to find our sea legs, but we're doing what we usually do: laughing at Crossover Events of the Century and making sex jokes about beloved video game characters. This week, the Nicks do an a-maze-ing job talking about Pac-Man World 2! Follow Andy Huber (@yafroglog on Instagram) for amazing art stuff! Follow Nick and the Leg-Heavy Boys (@nickandthelegheavyboys on Instagram, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok) for amazing music stuff! If you're looking for anti-racism sources and have the means to help out both Black Lives Matter and the AAPI community, you can find them at these links! https://linktr.ee/blacklivesmatter https://linktr.ee/aapisolidarity

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 not a coward, but you actively WANT to hear about Yogi Bear finally snapping. I may be projecting a bit. This week, those meddlin' Nicks solve yet another podcasting mystery by talking about Scooby-Doo! Follow Andy Huber (@yafroglog on Instagram) for amazing art stuff! Follow Nick and the Leg-Heavy Boys (@nickandthelegheavyboys on Instagram, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok) for amazing music stuff! If you're looking for anti-racism sources and have the means to help out both Black Lives Matter and the AAPI community, you can find them at these links! https://linktr.ee/blacklivesmatter https://linktr.ee/aapisolidarity

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 as close to the Drake & Josh Law as we possibly can. This week, the Nicks go Hedge Over heels for Over the Hedge! Follow Andy Huber (@yafroglog on Instagram) for amazing art stuff! Follow Nick and the Leg-Heavy Boys (@nickandthelegheavyboys on Instagram, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok) for amazing music stuff! If you're looking for anti-racism sources and have the means to help out both Black Lives Matter and the AAPI community, you can find them at these links! https://linktr.ee/blacklivesmatter https://linktr.ee/aapisolidarity

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 to talk to you about Wii Sports! Follow Andy Huber (@yafroglog on Instagram) for amazing art stuff! Follow Nick and the Leg-Heavy Boys (@nickandthelegheavyboys on Instagram, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok) for amazing music stuff! If you're looking for anti-racism sources and have the means to help out Black Lives Matter, you can find them at this link! https://linktr.ee/blacklivesmatter

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 and ducks as it applies to actual carnivorous predation, economic predation, and maybe also sexual predation, and the horrifying way the wool is pulled over a million duck eyes. And that's not even to mention the essential and oft-overlooked role of chickens in the final pages. And the nuance? I did mention the nuance, didn't I? This week, the Nicks read way too much into a children's picture book called Sitting Ducks! Follow Andy Huber (@yafroglog on Instagram) for amazing art stuff! Follow Nick and the Leg-Heavy Boys (@nickandthelegheavyboys on Instagram, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok) for amazing music stuff! If you're looking for anti-racism sources and have the means to help out both Black Lives Matter and the AAPI community, you can find them at these links! https://linktr.ee/blacklivesmatter https://linktr.ee/aapisolidarity

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, everyone is a tree just like Thalia, a real character in Percy Jackson who spends most of one of the books as a tree. I've got gay trees, bi trees, pan trees—endless shipping possibilities! And I don't mean that someone comes and chops down the trees to make a ship out of them, though that also happens. This week, the Nicks hurl themselves into a discussion about Percy Jackson! Follow Andy Huber (@yafroglog on Instagram) for amazing art stuff! Follow Nick and the Leg-Heavy Boys (@nickandthelegheavyboys on Instagram, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok) for amazing music stuff! If you're looking for anti-racism sources and have the means to help out Black Lives Matter, you can find them at this link! https://linktr.ee/blacklivesmatter

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 so they can get to what is really important. Follow Andy Huber (@yafroglog on Instagram) for amazing art stuff! Follow Nick and the Leg-Heavy Boys (@nickandthelegheavyboys on Instagram, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok) for amazing music stuff! If you're looking for anti-racism sources and have the means to help out Black Lives Matter, you can find them at this link! https://linktr.ee/blacklivesmatter

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 program. This week, the Nicks power up their podcast by talking about GameStop! Follow Andy Huber (@yafroglog on Instagram) for amazing art stuff! Follow Nick and the Leg-Heavy Boys (@nickandthelegheavyboys on Instagram, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok) for amazing music stuff! If you're looking for anti-racism sources and have the means to help out Black Lives Matter, you can find them at this link! https://linktr.ee/blacklivesmatter

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 dragon and all his friends! Follow Andy Huber (@yafroglog on Instagram) for amazing art stuff! Follow Nick and the Leg-Heavy Boys (@nickandthelegheavyboys on Instagram, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok) for amazing music stuff! If you're looking for anti-racism sources and have the means to help out Black Lives Matter, you can find them at this link! https://linktr.ee/blacklivesmatter

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! Follow Andy Huber (@yafroglog on Instagram) for amazing art stuff! Follow Nick and the Leg-Heavy Boys (@nickandthelegheavyboys on Instagram, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok) for amazing music stuff! If you're looking for anti-racism sources and have the means to help out Black Lives Matter, you can find them at this link! https://linktr.ee/blacklivesmatter

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! Follow Andy Huber (@yafroglog on Instagram) for amazing art stuff! Follow Nick and the Leg-Heavy Boys (@nickandthelegheavyboys on Instagram, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, and the TikTok) for amazing music stuff! If you're looking for anti-racism sources and have the means to help out Black Lives Matter, you can find them at this link! https://linktr.ee/blacklivesmatter

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 stuff! Follow Nick and the Leg-Heavy Boys (@nickandthelegheavyboys on Instagram, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, and the TikTok) for amazing music stuff! If you're looking for anti-racism sources and have the means to help out Black Lives Matter, you can find them at this link! https://linktr.ee/blacklivesmatter

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 amazing art stuff! Follow Nick and the Leg-Heavy Boys (@nickandthelegheavyboys on Instagram, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok) for amazing music stuff! If you're looking for anti-racism sources and have the means to help out Black Lives Matter, you can find them at this link! https://linktr.ee/blacklivesmatter