The Nostalgia Test Podcast
Friday Nov 26, 2021
Dan & Manny met over 20 years ago in their high school Sports Marketing class in Long Island, NY wondering, “What the hell is Sports Marketing?” In that 20-year friendship, they’ve been to concerts, watched an untold amount of movies & television, ate too many midnight meals, and drove a cross-country loop through the US. They perfected the fine art of conversation between the hours of 10 p.m. and 3 a.m. It was basically fate that one day they would share their tangent-filled conversations with the world.
Fast forward to 2020, Dan is now living and teaching in LA and Manny is co-owner of Lithology Brewery in Farmingdale, Long Island. One day at the start of the COVID pandemic, Dan called Manny and asked him if he’d want to start a podcast where they return to their favorite pop culture from their childhoods to see if they’re still good and pass the ultimate test—THE NOSTALGIA TEST. The rest is history! (Cue the theme!)
Dan is one part Magic the Gathering dork, one part PhD, and one part podcast obsessed. He loves sitcoms, and has been told he speaks way too loud, he’s a bit of a curmudgeon, and is a kickass chef.
Manny is the co-owner and Master Brewer at Lithology in Farmingdale, Long Island. He’s perfected his own brand of spelling, loves to dress up as whatever role Johnny Depp is playing for Halloween, and has never met a set of keys he couldn’t lose.