{"podcast":{"title":"That Would Be Rad","slug":"that-would-be-rad-1311722","podcast_index_feed_id":1311722,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/2afc66f4/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://www.thatwouldberadpodcast.com/","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/production/podcast_uploaded_nologo/7111845/7111845-1597426792895-dc28549c23f36.jpg","author":"Woody Brown and Tyler Bence","episode_count":244,"summary":"A Podcast that MAJORS IN: '80s/'90s Nostalgia, Comic Culture, ALL THINGS Paranormal. And MINORS IN: Retro Video Games, Table Top RPG's, Pre-Internet Mysteries and Raising our Kids to be HALF as cool as we were back in the '80s. Hosted by: WOODY BROWN and TYLER BENCE","last_synced_at":"2026-06-09T06:18:23.676167+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/that-would-be-rad-1311722"},"episode":{"title":"S6 E10: Why Encino Man Was Secretly The Perfect 90s Movie","slug":"s6-e10-why-encino-man-was-secretly-the-perfect-90s-movie","published_at":"2026-05-25T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/that-would-be-rad-1311722/s6-e10-why-encino-man-was-secretly-the-perfect-90s-movie","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/that-would-be-rad-1311722","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thatwouldberad/episodes/S6-E10-Why-Encino-Man-Was-Secretly-The-Perfect-90s-Movie-e3jrl4c","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/APO4828396018.mp3","summary":"In this episode of That Would Be Rad, we accidentally tumble headfirst into one of our favorite kinds of episodes. The kind that feels like staying up too late with your best friend talking about all the weird, nostalgic stuff that shaped your childhood. After an unexpectedly chaotic week of migraines, broken computers, school events, sports, and life generally trying to body slam us through a folding table, we decided to ditch the pressure and just hang out. And somehow that led us into a massive rabbit hole involving Encino Man, forgotten 90s cartoons, Batman: The Animated Series, Pauly Shore’s bizarre rise to fame, comic book art, old toy lines, and why the early 90s still feels like some kind of magical alternate universe. And honestly? This might be one of the most “That Would Be Rad” episodes we’ve ever done. What We Talk About in This Episode : Why Encino Man might secretly be the PERFECT 90s movie A deep nostalgic dive into Captain Planet, Bionic Six, C.O.P.S., MASK, and forgotten cartoons from the late 80s and early 90sBatman: The Animated Series and why it still might be one of the greatest animated shows ever made. Absolute Batman, comic book art, Daniel Warren Johnson, Nick Dragotta, Felix Comic Art, and Tyler’s thoughts on the comic industry today A shoutout to listener Siobhan Berry and her incredible podcast Grandma’s Been There about growing up in the 50s and 60s Why old movies, VHS tapes, cartoons, comic shops, and Blockbuster-era culture still feel so comforting to us Why You NEED to Listen : This episode honestly feels like opening an old box in the attic and finding your childhood inside.If you grew up in the 80s or 90s - renting movies from Blockbuster, watching cartoons after school, collecting baseball cards, reading comics, or quoting dumb movie…","meta_description":"In this episode of That Would Be Rad, we accidentally tumble headfirst into one of our favorite kinds of episodes. The kind that feels like staying up too…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4787,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/that-would-be-rad-1311722/episodes/s6-e10-why-encino-man-was-secretly-the-perfect-90s-movie/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/that-would-be-rad-1311722/s6-e10-why-encino-man-was-secretly-the-perfect-90s-movie.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}