Camp Wayback
Welcome to Camp WaybackThe 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...
Who Is the GREATEST 80s Action Hero? | Ultimate Movie Tournament (Part 1)
🔥 32 LEGENDARY ACTION HEROES. ONE TOURNAMENT. ONE CHAMPION. WHO IS THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME? 🔥
The 1980s gave us some of the most iconic action heroes in movie history, but what happens when you throw them all into one massive, no-holds-barred tournament to determine the ultimate badass? 💥
Welcome to Camp Wayback's Ultimate 80s Action Hero Tournament! In Part 1, Mookie, Crawdaddy, and the Big Red Machine put 32 legendary movie characters into the bracket and begin the battle for 80s action movie supremacy! We're talking John Rambo, John McClane, Dutch Schaefer, RoboCop, Martin Riggs, Indiana...
5 Things From the 80s We NEED Back! | Mookie's Missing Five
The 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 Episode 10 of Camp Wayback, where it's finally Mookie's turn to fire up the Wayback Machine! In Mookie's Missing Five, our favorite retro-loving camp counselor reveals the 5 things from the 1980s he wishes would make a comeback! From forgotten favorites to the things that made growing up in the 80s unforgettable, Mookie is ready to make his case for why some t...
Halloween H25 & Retribution: Too Good to Stay Unmade? | Mookie's Matinee
Two 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 a lost-sequel double feature: Halloween H25 and Halloween: Retribution. We’re digging into these proposed Halloween movies, their concepts, and the big question: did horror fans miss out?
Join Mookie, Crawdaddy, and the Big Red Machine for franchise what-ifs, heated opinions, and the kind of questionable commentary you’d expect from these camp counselors. Could either concept have earned its place in Michael Myers’ legacy? Pull up a lawn chair...
Gleaming the Cube (1989): Christian Slater, Skateboarding & 80s Insanity! | Camp Wayback
Before 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 trip back to 1989 for Gleaming the Cube, the cult classic that somehow combined skateboarding, conspiracy, action, and teenage rebellion into one gloriously bizarre cinematic experience!
Starring Christian Slater as Brian Kelly, a rebellious skateboarder whose world is turned upside down following the mysterious death of his adopted brother, Gleaming the Cube delivers everything you could want from a late-80s movie: questionable...
Michael Myers vs. Pinhead?! The Halloween Movies We Almost Got! | Mookie's Matinee
What 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 brother, the Halloween franchise was exploring some absolutely wild possibilities that could have changed horror history forever!
On this episode of Mookie’s Matinee at Camp Wayback, we're digging into two of the most fascinating unmade Halloween movies: Halloween 7: Two Faces of Evil and the proposed Halloween/Hellraiser crossover, often referred to as Helloween! From the bizarre possibility of two Michael Myers killers terrorizi...
Crawdaddy’s 5 Things From the ’80s We NEED Back! | Camp Wayback
What 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 give him one mission: pick 5 things from the ’80s he desperately wants back in the present day. Movies? Toys? Food? Technology? Questionable fashion choices? Nothing is off limits—and knowing Crawdaddy, neither is good judgment.
Will Mookie and the Big Red Machine agree with his picks, or will Crawdaddy lose his Wayback Machine privileges before the night is over?
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Beauty, Brackets & Bad Decisions: Camp Wayback's Ladies of the 80s!
Beauty, 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 80s? We’ve built the bracket, seeded 32 unforgettable women of the decade, and now Mookie, Crawdaddy, and The Big Red Machine have to somehow survive the tournament without destroying friendships along the way.
From horror icons and movie legends to pop-culture crushes who practically defined the decade, nobody is safe from elimination. Jamie Lee Curtis. Phoebe Cates. Sigourney Weaver...
The Halloween 5 & 6 Movies We ALMOST Got Were INSANE! | Mookie's Matinee
What 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 might be even crazier than the movies we actually got!
In Episode 2 of Mookie’s Matinee, we're heading back to Camp Wayback for a DOUBLE FEATURE of abandoned ideas, bizarre storylines, and questionable creative decisions from the history of the Halloween franchise! From the infamous clown costume concepts surrounding Halloween 5 to the absolutely bonkers virtual reality storyline proposed for Halloween 6, we're digging into the sequels th...
Over the Top: Stallone, Arm Wrestling, Diner Food & Peak ’80s Insanity!
Fire 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 1987 for one of the most gloriously ’80s movies ever committed to film: Sylvester Stallone’s Over the Top. It’s got big rigs, bigger biceps, daddy issues, Kenny Loggins, and an arm-wrestling tournament treated with the intensity of the Super Bowl, WrestleMania, and Rocky IV combined.
But after all these years, does Over the Top
The Ultimate ’80s Toy Rewind: Part 2 • The Toys We Wanted, Had & Wish We Never Sold
Just 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 Ultimate ’80s Toy Rewind, because there was absolutely NO WAY we could cram an entire decade of plastic-fueled childhood obsession into one episode.
We’re heading even deeper into the toy aisles of the 1980s to remember the action figures, playsets, vehicles, cartoons, commercials, and completely ridiculous toys that somehow convinced an entire generation...
The Halloween 4 Movies We NEVER Got | Mookie's Matinee
Before 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 Matinee, the horror-centric side of Camp Wayback, where the nostalgia runs deep and the things lurking around camp aren’t always the counselors.
For our first screening, we’re exploring the unmade Halloween 4 concepts and alternate directions that could have changed Michael Myers’ legacy. We’re talking unrealized possibilities, missed opportunities, and the big question: could one of these versi...
Griswold. Sho’Nuff. Crystal Lake. What Could Go Wrong? Mookie's Insane 80's Film Roars to Life.
What 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 greatest characters of the decade?
You get THE MASTER OF CRYSTAL LAKE.
This week around the Camp Wayback fire, Mookie, Crawdaddy, and the Big Red Machine are heading into the pitch meeting for the completely ridiculous ’80s crossover movie we never knew we needed.
Our story begins when Clark Griswold heads to Camp C...
The Ultimate ’80s Toy Rewind: Part 1 • He-Man, G.I. Joe, Transformers & the Toys That Raised Us
This 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 worse than hearing the words “Put that back—we’re not buying anything today.”
Mookie, Crawdaddy, and the Big Red Machine are cracking open the toy box for Part 1 of our Ultimate ’80s Toy Rewind! We’re revisiting the action figures, vehicles, playsets, cartoons, commercials, and ridiculously awesome toy aisles that helped define our childhoods.
From He-Man and the Masters of the U...
Three Nerds. Three Movies. One Decade. The Ultimate ’80s Draft of 2026.
Welcome 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 one of the most important questions imaginable: If you could build the ultimate ’80s movie using characters from ANY movie of the decade… who would you draft?
We’re assembling our dream movies one pick at a time, drafting the hero, leading lady, villain, mentor, and sidekickfrom the greatest decade in movie history. From action icons...
Send More Paramedics! Our Look Back at Return of the Living Dead w/ More Punks, Zombies & BRAINS!
This 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 head back to 1985 for Return of the Living Dead, the gloriously unhinged horror-comedy that gave us talking zombies, Trioxin 245, one unforgettable cemetery party, and an entirely new reason to be terrified of the words “send more paramedics.” But beneath all the gore, laughs, and Linnea Quigley, is a movie that helped redefine the zombie genre and became one of the most beloved cult classi...
