KnockBack: The Retro and Nostalgia Podcast
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KnockBack: The Retro and Nostalgia Podcast
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 t...
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#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...
#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!) Englis...
#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...
#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 Leg...
#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, favor...
#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...
#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 th...
#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...
#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 ou...
#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, d...
#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 be...
#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...
#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...
#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...
#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 episode...
#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 o...
#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 --...
#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...
#269 | Halo 3
If you're an older player of video games, you know that 2007 was an historically-insane year for the medium. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, Super Mario...
#268 | Card Collecting
Welcome back to KnockBack! This week, instead of focusing-in on a specific game, movie, TV show, or whatever, we thought we'd do another one of our re...
#267 | Halo 2
In 2022, we -- the Brothers Moriarty -- sat down to discuss Xbox's seminal 2001 launch offering, Halo: Combat Evolved. We loved it, and we promised th...
#266 | Final Fantasy III
As we continue our cruise through the Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters here on KnockBack, we come to the enigma that is Final Fantasy III. Like Final Fan...
#265 | Close Encounters of the Third Kind
There couldn't be a more appropriate film for us to cover here on KnockBack than Steven Spielberg's 1977 sci-fi classic Close Encounters of the Third...
#264 | Blood Meridian
The great American author Cormac McCarthy recently passed away at the age of 89. In his decades as a writer, he penned a dozen novels, and we've actua...
#263 | The Mighty Ducks
Sports flicks are beloved the world over for their relatable characters, uplifting stories, and remarkable endings. Disney's 1992 live-action hockey m...
#262 | Final Fantasy II
Our meandering through the Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters continues with Final Fantasy II, widely considered the 'black sheep' of the traditional serie...
#261 | Final Fantasy
Few gaming franchises have had the staying power of Square's (and later Square Enix's) Final Fantasy. Launched in the waning weeks of 1987 in Japan, i...
#260 | The 40 Year Old Virgin
In the summer of 2005, a comedy hit theaters that surprised audiences: The 40 Year Old Virgin. The feature directorial debut of Judd Apatow -- previou...
#259 | Super Mario Bros. 3
It's time for us to talk about a bona fide classic! Super Mario Bros. 3 -- launched in 1988 on Japanese Famicoms and in 1990 on the NES -- is widely c...
#258 | Some Ways Times Have Changed
If you wanted to ask your friend to play in 1990, you had to call his house phone and hope for the best. Was anyone there? Who would answer? Would you...
#257 | Frozen
Let it go?! No. Embrace it! Frozen turns 10 this year, and in ode, Dagan thought it'd be a good idea to give the film the KnockBack treatment. And so...
#256 | Iron Man 2
It's time for we, The Brothers Moriarty, to continue our slow trek through the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Thus, we've come to the third film in the se...
#255 | TVs, VCRs, Stereos, and the Technology of Our Youth
KnockBack is technically about anything, and we've naturally focused a great deal of our energy on video games. But there are other technologies vital...
#254 | Uncharted 4: A Thief's End
PlayStation 3's Uncharted trilogy is inarguably a vital stepping stone in the history of Sony. These three titles helped breathe life into a once-stru...
#253 | Star Wars: A New Hope
Over the five years we've been recording KnockBack, we've intentionally gone out of our way not to talk about A New Hope. It's an especially peculiar ...
#252 | The Fashion of Our Youth
For a good duration of the average childhood, you're dressed by your parents. You have very little choice or input, and certainly no financial means t...
#251 | The Future
Wait, what?! KnockBack is about the past! Well, that's typically true, but today we wanted to do something a little bit different. Why? Because beginn...
#250 | Blood Sugar Sex Magik (Red Hot Chili Peppers album)
Red Hot Chili Peppers were cruising along for nearly a decade by the time their most famous record, 1991's Blood Sugar Sex Magik, came to store shelve...
#249 | The Dark Side of the Moon (Pink Floyd album)
1973's Pink Floyd record The Dark Side of the Moon is easily one of the most famous albums of all-time, toting what is perhaps the most recognizable c...
#248 | Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Beatles album)
In the history of rock, there are seminal records... and then there are the true cream of the crop. The Beatles' 1967 classic Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hea...