Camp Wayback

By Andrew Moore, Josiah Campbell, Matthew Essex

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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.


Episode Date
5 Things From the 80s We NEED Back! | Mookie's Missing Five
Nov 04, 2026
Halloween H25 & Retribution: Too Good to Stay Unmade? | Mookie's Matinee
Oct 31, 2026
Gleaming the Cube (1989): Christian Slater, Skateboarding & 80s Insanity! | Camp Wayback
Oct 28, 2026
Michael Myers vs. Pinhead?! The Halloween Movies We Almost Got! | Mookie's Matinee
Oct 24, 2026
Crawdaddy’s 5 Things From the ’80s We NEED Back! | Camp Wayback
Oct 21, 2026
Beauty, Brackets & Bad Decisions: Camp Wayback's Ladies of the 80s!
Oct 14, 2026
The Halloween 5 & 6 Movies We ALMOST Got Were INSANE! | Mookie's Matinee
Oct 10, 2026
Over the Top: Stallone, Arm Wrestling, Diner Food & Peak ’80s Insanity!
Oct 07, 2026
The Ultimate ’80s Toy Rewind: Part 2 • The Toys We Wanted, Had & Wish We Never Sold
Sep 30, 2026
The Halloween 4 Movies We NEVER Got | Mookie's Matinee
Sep 26, 2026
Griswold. Sho’Nuff. Crystal Lake. What Could Go Wrong? Mookie's Insane 80's Film Roars to Life.
Sep 23, 2026
The Ultimate ’80s Toy Rewind: Part 1 • He-Man, G.I. Joe, Transformers & the Toys That Raised Us
Sep 16, 2026
Three Nerds. Three Movies. One Decade. The Ultimate ’80s Draft of 2026.
Sep 05, 2026
Send More Paramedics! Our Look Back at Return of the Living Dead w/ More Punks, Zombies & BRAINS!
Sep 05, 2026