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From the Patreon archives at When It Was Cool we continue to celebrate the summer of Batman with this review of one of our favorite movies of all time - Joker from 2019. With the sequel on the horizo…
We continue the summer of Batman at When It Was Cool with this offering from our Patreon feed where we discuss the classic Super Powers toy line (which has now made a comeback). Batman and Robin were…
The summer of Batman at When It Was Cool continues with another sampling from our premium Patreon feed looking at the 2019 animated movie Batman verses The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Be sure to ch…
Batman makes his twelfth appearance in the pages of Detective Comics issue 38 from April 1940 and Robin makes his debut! We get the tried-and-true origin of Dick Grayson who sees his acrobat father a…
The summer of Batman continues at When It Was Cool as we pull another show from our Patreon feed, the controversial Batman The Killing Joke from 2016. Join our Patreon at When It Was Cool to enjoy ou…
No, we aren't Swifties, but you can bet a ton of money that Taylor Swift is one of the biggest pop culture stars of this era. Tonya turned it on, and Karl watched it, and many lessons were learned. T…
We continue to celebrate the summer of Batman at When It Was Cool and we dive into our Patreon archive for a look back at Batman the Animated Series from 1992 and an episode titled Beware the Grey Gh…
Join me for another show from our Patreon archive (over 2,300 shows there!) taking a look at the DC Animated movie from 2019- Batman Ninja. This one is a real brain scrambler with a heavy dose of ani…
During season 2 of the Batman television series, Batman and Robin met two other TV heroes in a cross-over adventure - The Green Hornet and Kato! It was a perfect mash-up of two TV properties and a gr…
Join the When It Was Cool website for a look back at the Batman 1966 television series starring Adam West and Burt Ward. We are going to be putting up a lot of Batman content this summer to help prom…
Karl and Tonya visit the true crime genre this episode as we review the new documentary that attempts to answer more questions about the death of Caylee Anthony around July 2008. Her mother Casey was…
Karl and Tonya from When It Was Cool take a look at the new documentary Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV a 2024 documentary that details the behind-the-scenes world of children's TV programs fr…
Join us as we discuss a new blockbuster movie based on a retro property- The Fall Guy! Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt star in a story about a stunt man who ends up caught up in a murder mystery in Aust…
Willie Nelson turned 91 this week and being the American icon he is Karl and Tonya decided to review one of his western movies. This one starred not only Willie Nelson (who in his mid-50s at the time…
Karl and Tonya from When It Was Cool review the 1989 Tom Hanks movie The Burbs! Somehow, despite seeing this movie at the movie rental store for years and years he had never seen it. This film is act…
Karl and Tonya return with a retro movie review from 1996. George Clooney, Quentin Tarantino, and others star in this bizarre movie which switches from being solid crime escape action movie into a B-…
The fifth appearance of The Batman took place in the September 1939 issue of Detective Comics. Once again, Batman was featured on the cover and this adventure pitted him against a new foe: The Monk, …
Karl and Tonya review a trio of movies today on the When It Was Cool podcast. We discuss the classic 1971 Gene Wilder film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, the tremendous Tim Burton 2005 Charli…
When It Was Cool listeners come on down! Karl and Tonya sit down to discuss one of the most iconic of game shows: The Price is Right! It seems like everyone's grandmother loved this show and was prob…
I, Karl, am writing this description. Scrabble is the bane of my existence. Tonya schools me in it ever... single... game. I don't know why. I am literate. I have a decent vocabulary, but she beats m…