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KnockBack: The Retro and Nostalgia Podcast

#288 | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990 Film)

KnockBack: The Retro and Nostalgia Podcast

Last Stand Media & Studio71

Leisure, Society & Culture, History

4.91.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2026

⏱️ 162 minutes

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Summary

urprise! Today, Dagan and I (Colin) gather for the first time in nearly a year for a brand new episode of KnockBack, this one dedicated to the 1990 live action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film. There's no doubt that TMNT is still relevant and present today, but decades ago, it was at its cultural zenith on the back of a humble series of graphic novels, a smash-hit cartoon series, and one of the most famous toy lines of all-time. The TMNT movie really had no right to be good, and yet, it's somehow great. And we're eager to talk about it. So come join us in the sewers for a little ninjitsu in New York City, won't you? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Greetings and salutations.

0:09.2

Welcome back to knockback.

0:11.2

My name is Colin Moriarty.

0:12.2

I'm joined as always by my brother Dagan, Moriarty Dagan.

0:15.2

Good to see you today, my friend.

0:16.5

How are you?

0:17.5

Picking up right where we left off, man.

0:19.0

Yeah.

0:20.0

It's been a minute i mean i mean

0:22.6

dude i was so excited where you told me we were going to do this i mean can i just start by saying

0:28.1

this yeah it means a lot in this world of sacred symbols and summonsine and all these other

0:35.6

important sought-after podcasts.

0:39.3

The place that there's a little spot, you know, the fact that there's a little spot,

0:44.3

a little humble niche for our humble little podcast called Knockback.

0:49.7

It means a lot.

0:52.0

I'm glad you feel that way.

0:53.1

I mean, we kind of kept this under our hat for a while because we're recording this on January 31st. It'll go live. I don't know when it will go live. But we discussed doing this in like November, December. Yeah. And we had to get things in order. And you know how I like to surprise everyone. So I haven't said a word about this to anybody except for those that are that are helping us with it. That's what I wanted to ask you. So you didn't mention this at all to the audience. This is a complete surprise. Completely surprise. Yeah, no one knows this is happening. See, I think that's really, hold on, I'm going to take a sip of coffee. I think that's really the best way to do it. Why do you have to tell me that you were taking a sip of coffee?

1:31.1

Like when I think that's really the best way to do it. Yeah. You know, right?

1:28.5

Why did you have to tell me that you were taking a sip of coffee?

1:29.8

I don't understand.

1:30.8

Like when, why did it have to be like right when I was talking? I don't know. I don't know. It's weird. My timing's good. Listen, a lot of this is going to be shaking off the rust. I don't, I don't, I haven't really podcasted aside from a little thing we did, you know.

1:47.3

Zagertz was, the response to that episode, I don't know if you saw it. The response to that episode was, I did not see it. Don't you still have the, aren't you still on the Patreon? Like as a contributor or whatever? Yeah. I'm still, well, no, I'm not on the Patreon. You had me juiced in. I don't even contribute. I just, you had me like everybody else where we could see. No, that's what I mean.

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