About this podcast
Welcome to Camp Wayback
The past isn’t dead. It’s just been waiting for us to come back.
Welcome to Camp Wayback — the podcast where three lifelong friends punch their ticket back to the movies, toys, TV shows, music, pop culture, and gloriously questionable decisions that made growing up in the ’80s and ’90s unforgettable.
This isn’t a history lesson. It’s a campfire conversation.
Every episode, we head back to a time when Friday night meant wandering the video store, Saturday morning meant cartoons, action figures ruled the toy aisle, movie stars felt larger than life, and discovering something awesome usually came from a friend saying, “Dude…you HAVE to see this.”
We’ll revisit the movies we wore out on VHS. The toys we begged our parents for. The characters we wanted to be. The songs we still know every word to. The forgotten gems we refuse to let die. And every once in a while, we’ll ask the dangerous question:
Was this stuff actually as awesome as we remember?
Expect ridiculous debates, brutally honest opinions, personal stories, deep dives, forgotten memories, plenty of laughs, and three grown men proving that apparently there is no age limit on arguing about 1980s movies and action figures.
But Camp Wayback is about more than nostalgia.
It’s about why this stuff still matters.
Why a movie can instantly take you back to being 12 years old. Why seeing an old toy on a shelf can unlock a memory you haven't thought about in 30 years. Why the things we loved growing up somehow became part of who we are today.
So grab a seat by the fire.
Crack open something cold.
And leave adulthood back at the cabin.
Welcome to Camp Wayback.
You’ve been here before.
Episodes
- 5 Things From the 80s We NEED Back! | Mookie's Missing Five · 1 h 1 min · Season 1 Episode 10The 1980s gave us some of the greatest movies, music, toys, video games, and pop culture moments of all time... but what if we could bring some of that magic BACK? 📼🔥 Welcome to…
- Halloween H25 & Retribution: Too Good to Stay Unmade? | Mookie's Matinee · 38 minTwo unmade Halloween sequels. Two more chances to unleash Michael Myers. How close did we come to seeing something worth screaming about? Camp Wayback’s Mookie’s Matinee presents…
- Gleaming the Cube (1989): Christian Slater, Skateboarding & 80s Insanity! | Camp Wayback · 1 h 7 min · Season 1 Episode 9Before Tony Hawk became a household name, Christian Slater was skating his way through murder, mystery, and pure 1980s madness! 🛹🔥 This week, Camp Wayback Movie Night takes a…
- Michael Myers vs. Pinhead?! The Halloween Movies We Almost Got! | Mookie's Matinee · 44 minWhat if Michael Myers had TWO faces? What if the Shape went head-to-head with Pinhead from Hellraiser? Before Halloween H20 brought Laurie Strode back to face her murderous…
- Crawdaddy’s 5 Things From the ’80s We NEED Back! | Camp Wayback · 51 min · Season 1 Episode 8What if you could jump into the Wayback Machine, travel straight back to the 1980s, and bring FIVE things home with you? Tonight on Camp Wayback, we hand Crawdaddy the keys and…
- Beauty, Brackets & Bad Decisions: Camp Wayback's Ladies of the 80s! · 1 h 28 min · Season 1 Episode 7Beauty, Brackets & Bad Decisions… what could possibly go wrong? Camp Wayback is settling one of the most important debates nobody asked us to settle: Who is the ultimate Lady of…
- The Halloween 5 & 6 Movies We ALMOST Got Were INSANE! | Mookie's Matinee · 39 minWhat if Halloween 5 and Halloween 6 had turned out COMPLETELY different? Believe it or not, the versions of these Michael Myers sequels that almost made it to the big screen…
- Over the Top: Stallone, Arm Wrestling, Diner Food & Peak ’80s Insanity! · 1 h 10 min · Season 1 Episode 6Fire up the semi, turn that hat backwards, and get ready to meet us OVER THE TOP! 💪🚛 This week at Camp Wayback, Mookie, Crawdaddy, and the Big Red Machine are heading back to…
- The Ultimate ’80s Toy Rewind: Part 2 • The Toys We Wanted, Had & Wish We Never Sold · 1 h 25 min · Season 1 Episode 5Just when you thought it was safe to put the toys back in the box… WE FOUND ANOTHER ONE. Mookie, Crawdaddy, and the Big Red Machine are back for Part 2 of Camp Wayback’s…
- The Halloween 4 Movies We NEVER Got | Mookie's Matinee · 32 minBefore Michael Myers returned in Halloween 4, there were other paths back to Haddonfield—and we’re opening the vault on the movies we almost got! Welcome to the debut of Mookie’s…
- Griswold. Sho’Nuff. Crystal Lake. What Could Go Wrong? Mookie's Insane 80's Film Roars to Life. · 1 h 8 min · Season 1 Episode 4What happens when three grown men with an unhealthy attachment to the 1980s are given an imaginary Hollywood budget, absolutely no adult supervision, and access to some of the…
- The Ultimate ’80s Toy Rewind: Part 1 • He-Man, G.I. Joe, Transformers & the Toys That Raised Us · 1 h 9 min · Season 1 Episode 3This week, Camp Wayback is heading back to a time when Saturday morning cartoons were basically 30-minute toy commercials, Christmas catalogs were sacred texts, and nothing hurt…
- Three Nerds. Three Movies. One Decade. The Ultimate ’80s Draft of 2026. · 55 min · Season 1 Episode 1Welcome to Camp Wayback—where the campfire is always burning, the VHS tapes are always rewound, and growing up is completely optional. For our very first episode, we’re settling…
- Send More Paramedics! Our Look Back at Return of the Living Dead w/ More Punks, Zombies & BRAINS! · 53 min · Season 1 Episode 2This week, Camp Wayback is cracking open the canisters, cranking up the punk rock, and making one very important discovery: BRAINS! Mookie, Crawdaddy, and the Big Red Machine…







