Dreamland Podcast
You know how your subconscious makes connections between things as you slip into sleep? Dreamland helps you do this while you’re awake by mapping out surprising links and shining a light down the rabbit hole of hilarious and bizarre stories about the GenX pop culture phenomena you only thought you knew.
- Update frequency
- every 23 days
- Average duration
- 83 minutes
- Episodes
- 68
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2023
Death: The True Meaning of Christmas (80s Xmas Specials)
Vampira vs Elvira - Horror Hosts History
Charity Singles and the 80s Spectacle of Giving: Live Aid and We Are the World
80s Movie Visions of AI - Melinda Reacts
Conrad gets Melinda to watch THREE 80s movies she's never seen before to get her reaction to the 80s vision of our artificial intelligence future. Will she guess their plots correctly? Will she like …
Stranger Danger and 80s Childhood Propaganda
This month we're discussing the child safety panic of the 80s in the US and UK, the funny and the terrifying.
DeLorean- The Story You Only Think You Know
Classic Stallone Films: A Brit Reacts
Fairy Tale TV Shows of the 80s
Melinda and Conrad remember two fairy tale anthology shows from the 80s- Faerie Tale Theatre with Shelly Duvall and The StoryTeller by Jim Henson - and analyze the history of fairy tales in general. …
Generation X and the Nuclear Nightmare
Growing up in the 80s for many of us meant a constant awareness and fear of nuclear war, along with everything that would follow. We explore the media of the decade and how it reflected these fears, …
Beanie Babies: From Boom to Bust
High (Grange Hill and Degrassi Jr. High)
Melinda and Conrad explore the trailblazing teen shows Degrassi Junior High and Grange Hill.
The Abyss (1989) with Movie Oubliette
Melinda and Aaron take a journey back to 1989 and take a deep dive into the Abyss (pun very much intended) with special guests Conrad and Dan from Movie Oubliette. They may or may not be saved by ben…
Howard the Duck
We travel from the comic books of the 70s to George Lucas and Willard Huyck’s vision to Marvel’s current cinematic universe to discover Howard the Duck - trapped in a world he never made.
Garbage Pail Kids
Join Melinda and Aaron as they dive deep into the dumpster containing the Garbage Pail Kids- they discuss the cards, the film, the cartoon, and more!
Alien Autopsy
Melinda and Aaron dive deep into the swirling vortex that is the history of Alien Autopsy, that crazy special from the mid-1990s.
The Craft (1996)
Dreamland goes goth and delves into the witchy world of The Craft from 1996.
Twilight Zone 1985: Shatterday, A Little Peace and Quiet
Melinda and Aaron recall a memorable remake of the classic Twilight Zone series from their childhoods... that scared them intensely.
Xanadu (1980)
Join Melinda and Aaron as they descend into the somewhat cringey fever dream that is 1980’s Xanadu. Where roller skating, disco, and big Hollywood musicals crash head-on into Greek mythology and roma…
The 'Burbs (1989)
We delve into the seedy underbelly of American suburbia, look at our neighbors’ house and ask, “What’s he building in there?” And we talk about the cult classic 80s film starring Tom Hanks.
Cover Songs and Space Travel
Melinda and Aaron have fought through the COVID-19 malaise and are each back with a surprise topic. Melinda delves into what makes a great cover song, with a handful of interesting examples, while Aa…