A Retro Podcast, Blog, and Newsletter.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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A History of McDonald’s Orange Drink
A lot of people, myself included, love the non-soda orange flavored beverage that McDonald’s serves. I am being generic here on purpose because the history of the drink itself is not as straightforward as it might seem. While many will refe...
Retroist Columbia House Podcast
Joining Columbia House was something I wanted to do long before I really understood how it worked. I remember filling out the forms for records and later CDs, then having my mom stop me before I could send them away. A couple of my friends...
Bonus Track (How We Remember the 1980s)
Listen now | How movies, television, and memory have changed our picture of the 1980s
I didn’t plan on doing another bonus track like again, but it bubbled up again. I spend a lot of time thinking about nostalgia, which is probably obvious...
August 2026 Monthly Update
Listen now | ZZ Top, Diet Coke, and too few World Cups left
On the August 2026 Monthly Update I talk about what’s been going on with the site and podcast, but also some other things going on in my life and some random thoughts I have. They...
Topps Mars Attacks Trading Cards
In the early 1980s, at a comic book shop near my grandmother’s apartment, I saw my first Mars Attacks cards. I had never heard of them before, but there they were under glass, so I thought they must be important. They looked old, but the im...
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I host the Retroist Podcast and write the Retroist, which focuses on nostalgia. I like slightly old stuff. I have typo problems
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