Nicstalgia

May 22 2024 54 ep. 41 mins 3
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Nicstalgia is a video podcast where we have deep conversations about superficial things. Host & Pop Culture Princess Nicole Tremaglio unlocks core memories from the 90s, 2000s & beyond while examining the past through a contemporary lens. Our special guests include pop culture and nostalgia enthusiasts, tastemakers, and creators. This show is about how pop culture helps shape who we are, reflects how we see ourselves in the world, and fosters belonging and connection with others. If you loved the dELiA*s catalog, Limited Too photobooth, Hit Clips, or Juicy Tubes, you're in the right place.

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I'm Tired of Rumors Starting

May 22 2024 45 mins  
Adryan Corcione is featured on this week’s episode of Nicstalgia. Tri-State Area pop culture enthusiasts unite!!! We chat about how we met (spoiler alert: we are the only people talking about Xanga), Gerard Way working at Hot Topic in the Willowbrook Mall, Adryan’s journalistic work and forthcoming book about growing up online at the advent of social media, the themes of identi

Laguna Beach Was Real to Me

Feb 21 2024 61 mins  
Kelli Williams is featured on this week’s episode of Nicstalgia. Kelli shares how Laguna Biotch came to life, and we explore the sense of freedom that comes with shamelessly leaning into the things you like – including but not limited to Backstreet Boys and Celine Dion. We explore the undoing of societal conditioning around being a fangirl, revisiting things you loved when you

Nostalgia Isn’t “Back”…It Never Left

Jan 10 2024 36 mins  
In this episode, I explain how “nostalgia” is often used as a misnomer for “nowstalgia” when marketing an old cultural object to a new consumer demographic. Drawing inspiration from my article, “Nostalgia vs. Nowstalgia, and Why Both Matter in 2022”, and dig into six key considerations of how both affect connection, communication, and commerce: regenerative revenue, tre

Physical Media Renaissance™

Dec 05 2023 42 mins  
In this episode, I share the experience of my Physical Media Renaissance™ project that I’ve been working on for about a year. I dive into the physical media (CDs), 00s entertainment technology (icy blue Memorex CD boombox), and memorabilia (the iconic Geri poster) that I’ve acquired and six key considerations: consumption, media ephemerality, perceived value, circular economy

Checkpoints and The Shock of Deletion

Nov 28 2023 52 mins  
Ruby Thelot is featured on this week’s episode of Nicstalgia. He shares how his love for studying and researching niche internet communities and cultures led him to writing his forthcoming book, A Cyberarchaeology of Checkpoints. We talk about how the concept of checkpoints originated in video game culture and took on a subversive new form as personal life status updates in a You

I Don't Know Her

Nov 21 2023 31 mins  
Merel from Ex-Girlfriend Shop is featured on this week’s episode of Nicstalgia. Your two favorite Aries Angels chat about what inspired her to start Ex-Girlfriend Shop, our love for Y2K fashion, my first designer handbag, and what it was like for Merel discovering fashion trends pre-internet in the Netherlands and ID’ing celeb outfits post-internet. I catch a glimpse of Merel�

I Want to Ride My Bicycle

Nov 14 2023 47 mins  
Nora Woods is featured on this week’s episode of Nicstalgia. Friends since we were 12, we reminisce about dancing in the living room to Beatles records, listening to Queen deep cuts and loving Freddie Mercury, dancing to “Get Low” at prom, going tanning, our fav Latin pop sensations Shakira and Enrique Iglesias, being in the middle school talent show, and being cheerleaders.

All The Makeup That MAC Can Make

Nov 07 2023 30 mins  
Tiffany Tarazi is featured on this week’s episode of Nicstalgia. She shares her journey from second-gen makeup artist to product developer to developing Nosta Beauty. We chat about home videos from the 90s vs. now, capturing both milestones and mundane aspects of day-to-day life for personal use vs. performative nature of social media (and how that changes once you become a paren

Come on [AI] Barbie, Let's Go Party

Jul 19 2023 33 mins  
Fabiola Larios is featured on this week's episode of Nicstalgia. We talk about Fabi’s Barbie exhibit at Yami-Ichi, subverting obsolescence and bringing new life to old and retro technology, AI-generated art on Fabi’s irreplaceable pink Disney Princess TV, the iconic 90s computer game Barbie Magic Hairstyler (y también Barbie Salón de Belleza). We deep dive into rituals, s

This Dress is Dry Clean Only, Melanie

Jul 05 2023 49 mins  
Jocelyn and Alaina from Bijou Candles and the Candle Coven Podcast are featured on this week's episode of Nicstalgia. We talk about Rocky Horror Picture Show, Seinfeld, being a dELiA*s girl in a Hollister world, shared memory and collective consciousness, and how pop culture represents human connection and is a spiritual experience. The two biggest comedic geniuses: Larry David