Hey Readers! Another Nostalgia Oasis article coming at ya! As I write this, Ken and I are coming off a pretty cool Weird Al Parody Songs podcast series we did that began all the way back in November of 2025. If you aren’t in the know about this, go back…
Hello, and Happy Halloween to everyone out there! Welcome to Spooky Season! On this edition of the Nostalgia Oasis, we're going to talk about probably my most favorite holiday ever, Halloween, and my favorite decade ever, the 1980s! Combining the two is just pure nostalgia and full of wonderful childhood…
Hello, and welcome back to another article from The Nostalgia Oasis, brought to you by The Retro Resurgence Podcast! This article is going to be the first in an ongoing series of articles we're calling Icons of Pop Culture. We'll feature a vast variety of retro pop culture icons...from movie…
As a young kid growing up in the late 70s and into the early 80s, two of my all-time favorite franchises then and still today, is Star Wars and The Muppets! Both of these storied franchises will be celebrating 50th anniversaries in 2026 and 2027. Although the Muppet show aired…
It's hard to believe that it's been 40 years since I sat down in a theater at Westgate Cinema in Racine, Wisconsin with my cousin Joe (1 year younger than me), I was 12 and he was 11 and watched The Transformers: The Movie. Released August 8, 1986, little did…
Hello comic fans everywhere! I hope you're all doing well and having a great 2026 so far. Today's article finds us celebrating the 30th anniversary of one of the most iconic crossovers in comic book history. Yes, we're going to go back 30 years and discuss what made this crossover…
Hello Readers, and Happy 2026. Hope everyone has had a good start to the new year. Over the Christmas season, I saw a commercial airing in between some football game on ESPN for a new documentary about the life and times of legendary SportsCenter anchor Stuart Scott, who lost his…
Hey, what's going on everyone?! Hope this article finds you all doing well. Well, it's that time of year again. The end of summer is near, and soon some of us in the country will begin to experience those cool, crisp Fall days. As with the changing from Summer to…
Hello Readers. As the Retro Resurgence Podcast takes a bit of a summer hiatus to recharge our batteries for the 2nd Half of 2025, both Ken and I have committed to do some Oasis entries, which as you may remember is a place we created where we can go and…
It's Chad's turn to produce his first ever "Nostalgia Oasis" Solo episode. In this episode, he goes down the rabbit hole of the iconic sports television theme songs of all time, giving several Honorable Mentions, and then choosing his 4 Themes to go on his Mount Rushmore. Do you agree…
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