TechnoRetro Dads

Two Men. Two Families. Two feet in the past. All eyes on the future! Join veteran podcasters Shazbazzar and JediShua each week for a look back at the 70s and 80s as they share the fun and fandom of their youth with their own families. Topics include TV, film, music, and games of the 70s and 80s as well as franchises which have continued into the 21st Century, like Star Wars and TRON. It’s a blend of new and old as stories are passed down from one generation to the next. And don’t forget the cereal! It’s Saturday morning in 1977 whenever and wherever this podcast is playing, and if you’re lucky enough to remember it, then come take a walk down memory lane with us. If you want to understand what it was like, then you’ve come to the right place. Over the years, this show has become known for its stunning production, insightful topics, amazing weekly show art, fun segments, and a positive spirit that is perfect for your Monday mornings. If you’re part of the Gen X generation, the child of one, or just fondly remember the sci-fi, fantasy and pop culture of the 70s and 80s, then this podcast is for you!

Trick-or-Treat with TechnoRetro Dads and friends

Trick-or-Treating is a time when people dress up in outfits they wouldn’t wear any other time, beg for free food (even if they don’t need it), and act absolutely crazy without anyone thinking they need to be locked up. Don’t you just love Halloween?

JediShua reveals the behind-the-scenes truths of Space Camp after his recent experience in Huntsville while shazbazzar was rockin’ with Cheap Trick in Montgomery. It’s all Alabama this week! And then there are those scary robots. But we really shouldn’t talk about those. Or should we?

The Addams Family Lineage

From Charles Addams’s comic strip featuring a gothic family in the 1930s to the creepy, kooky television show in the ’60s to the new movie in theaters this weekend, The Addams Family continues to capture audience’s attention as weirdness becomes increasingly normal in our culture…

TechnoRetro Dads horror movies with Jovial Jay

Horror movies continue to draw crowds to theaters despite the fact that they scare the pants off some people. Jovial Jay, JediShua, and shazbazzar venture into the fright-filled rooms of a haunted house to discover the reason for their popularity.

TechnoRetro Dads 80s Monster Movies

JediShua and shazbazzar get ready for the month of monsters with a look back at some scary monsters from retro movies we have enjoyed (in one way or another) over the years.

Pumpkin Spice, Autumn, Eddie Money, Ric Ocasek

Time travel continues with arcade games Time Pilot and a holographic time traveling simulation and some scientific theories about time travel.

TechnoRetro Dads Time Travel with Jovial Jay

Whether you want to travel into the past or journey into the future, the time-travel trope has been used over 100 times in movies over the past 10 decades and Jovial Jay, tempus travectio, reveals many ways traveling through time has been addressed on film.

Bikes, Bicycles, Paperboy

A bicycle was more than a frame with two wheels; it was a ticket to freedom.  The TechnoRetro Dads have your ticket to ride with bikes, video games, and cyclistastic movies like Breaking Away, American Flyers, and Quicksilver.

shazbazzar and JediShua are Max Headroom

While Star Wars continues to forge ahead into the future, that galaxy far, far away will always lag just a bit behind Max Headroom because he is always 20 minutes into the future (even if he is stuck in the ’80s).

RetroZap's TechnoRetro Dads watch The Dark Crystal

Since 1982, we have wanted to see more of the mystical world of Thra from The Dark Crystal. With the prequel series Age of Resistance coming out this Friday on Netflix, shazbazzar and JediShua follow the path of this 37 year journey for 82 minutes of both new and old content.

Dreaming, Dreams, Dreamscape

In the ’70s and ’80s we dreamed of music, we dreamed of jokes, but Dreamscape invaded our nightmares.

TechnoRetro Dads Red Dawn, Cloak & Dagger, Buckaroo Banzai

In 1984, this weekend saw three historic movies released for role-playing gamers, inter-dimensional travelers, and persistent patriots. Join shazbazzar and JediShua for chatter about Cloak & Dagger, Buckaroo Banzai, and Red Dawn (oh, yeah, don’t forget Uncle Buck from 1989).

MAD is ending, AL is weird, UHF is frequent

When magazines were MAD and Al Yankovic was “Weird”, shazbazzar and JediShua were enjoying the constant content streaming into their brains on paper, in movies, and on the radio. Tune in for craziness from the ’70s and ’80s to today on TechnoRetro Dads.

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