Old School Lane
582 episodes - English - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsThe official podcast site for Old School Lane where we talk about movies, TV shows, video games, and everything else in between. In addition, we interview special guests from actors, actresses, authors, show creators, online content creators, and more. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/old-school-lane/support
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Episodes
Roald Dahl Retrospective Episode 1: The BFG (1989) vs. The BFG (2016)
February 03, 2020 05:15 - 1 hour - 87.8 MBIn the premiere episode of the Roald Dahl Retrospective, Patricia and Arun look back at all of the movie adaptations based on the British children's book author Roald Dahl in honor of the upcoming remake of The Witches in October 2020. The first adaptation they cover is a bit out of order and unorthodox looking at both adaptations of the 1982 book of The BFG. One is done by the British animation studio Cosgrove Hall in 1989 and the other is done by Disney and directed by Steven Spielberg in ...
Old School Lane Interviews: Interview with Vanessa Coffey
February 03, 2020 04:59 - 34 minutes - 47.7 MBIn this episode of Old School Lane Interviews, Patricia interviews the executive producer of Doug, Rugrats, The Ren & Stimpy Show, and Rocko's Modern Life, Vanessa Coffey. They talk about her time working for Marvel with Stan Lee, her time working on Nickelodeon, and more. Follow Vanessa on Twitter at https://twitter.com/coffeyVanessa --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/old-school-lane/support
DreamMachine Episode 6: Chicken Run
February 03, 2020 04:45 - 30 minutes - 28 MBIn this episode of DreamMachine, Patricia and Arun discuss about the 2000 stop motion animated film Chicken Run. The story is about a group of chickens who are forced to lay eggs on their farm or else they get killed off. The leader of the chickens, Ginger, is trying to find ways to help the chickens escape but with no luck. But things turn out well when an American rooster named Rocky who escaped from the circus by flying away. His wing ends up broken and he teaches them on how to fly. Mean...
PixMix Episode 6: Toy Story 2
February 03, 2020 04:33 - 41 minutes - 38.4 MBIn this episode of PixMix, Patricia and Arun discuss about the critically acclaimed sequel to Toy Story simply titled Toy Story 2. Woody is kidnapped by Big Al from Big Al's Toy Barn and learns that he's a collector's item from an old 1950's kids show. It's up to Buzz, Rex, Hamm, Mr. Potato Head, and Slinky to rescue him right before Woody and his new friends leave for Japan to be displayed in a museum. When the movie premiered, it made over $490 million dollars on a $90 million dollar budg...
We're in Between Episode 6: Dare I, Darren?
January 21, 2020 19:40 - 22 minutes - 31.5 MBIn this episode of We're in Between, Patricia, Casey, and Ashli take a break from focusing on the girls and have an episode dedicated to Darren with the episode "Dare, I Darren?". Miranda tells Ginger that her and Darren were meant to be more than friends. Ginger starts to believe it when she has a dream about her and Darren together. Ginger decides to lay her charm on Darren, with little to no success. Meanwhile, Carl and Hoodsey make a deal with Brandon that they will make the discovery of...
Old School Lane Casual Chats: Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus
January 21, 2020 19:34 - 36 minutes - 50.1 MBIn this episode of Casual Chats, Patricia and special guest Remington Keyes from The Nerd Talk Podcast discuss about the Nicktoon movie Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus that was released on Netflix on August 16, 2019. They go over the plot, hilarious moments, amazing and varied animation, action packed moments, and heartfelt moments. Warning: major spoilers ahead. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/old-school-lane/support
Old School Lane Interviews: Interview with Joe Murray
January 21, 2020 19:31 - 30 minutes - 27.5 MBIn this episode of Casual Chats, Patricia interviews animator, comic book artist, children's book author, and the creator of Rocko's Modern Life Joe Murray. They discuss about his influences in art, his favorite episodes of Rocko's Modern Life, some information about Rocko's Modern Life: Static Cling as well as the PBS Kids show Luna Around the World. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/old-school-lane/support
DreamMachine Episode 5: Joseph: King of Dreams
January 16, 2020 15:01 - 38 minutes - 35.2 MBIn this episode of DreamMachine, Patricia and Arun discuss about the 2000 direct to video movie "Joseph: King of Dreams". Based on the Bible story on Genesis, Joseph is a beloved child by his father Jacob and his 10 older brothers are jealous of him. They get even more jealous when Jacob gave Joseph a coat of many colors and Joseph has prophetic dreams. Then the brothers plan on selling Joseph as a slave in Egypt and lie to their father telling him that he was killed by a wolf. Will Joseph ma...
PixMix Episode 5: Ratatouille
January 15, 2020 23:54 - 1 hour - 65.8 MBIn this episode of PixMix, Patricia and Arun finally get out of the mediocre rut and talk about a good Pixar movie with 2007's Ratatouille. It's about a rat named Remy who wishes to be a chef, but is forbidden to interact with humans and real food by his father and his rat group. He ends up being separated from his family and ends up in France where he visits his favorite restaurant and meets up with a clumsy employee named Linguini and helps him become a great chef. This is the 2nd Pixar mo...
We're in Between Episode 5: Of Lice and Friends
January 14, 2020 18:00 - 35 minutes - 48.9 MBWe have reached our first month into We're in Between and we start things off with reading your comments on the first 4 episodes of As Told by Ginger. Then afterwards, we discuss about the 5th episode "Of Lice and Friends". Dodie is called to read the morning announcements, but takes it way too far when she starts bringing gossip into the mix. It gets worse when there's a lice epidemic at Lucky Jr. High and Dodie finds a list of who has lice. Meanwhile, Carl and Hoodsey want to start a lice ...
Old School Lane Casual Chats: Rocko's Modern Life Static Cling
January 13, 2020 18:00 - 51 minutes - 71 MBIn this episode of Casual Chats, Patricia and special guest Remington Keyes from The Nerd Talk Podcast discuss about the Nicktoon movie Rocko's Modern Life: Static Cling that was released on Netflix on August 9, 2019. They go over the plot, funny moments, heart warming moments, and poignant lessons that is very relevant for the fans of the original series from the 90's. Warning: major spoilers ahead. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/old-school-lane/support
Old School Lane Interviews: Interview with Jared Faber
January 10, 2020 18:00 - 39 minutes - 54.6 MBIn this episode of Old School Lane Interviews, Patricia, Ashli, and Casey interviews Jared Faber, the composer of As Told by Ginger, Suburgatory, and other projects. They go over his influences for music, how he came up with the idea of the music for As Told by Ginger, the techniques of creating music from the past to today, and answering listener's questions from the We're in Between forums. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/old-school-lane/support
DreamMachine Episode 4: The Road to El Dorado
January 09, 2020 18:00 - 36 minutes - 33.8 MBIn this episode of DreamMachine, Patricia and Arun discuss about the 3rd DreamWorks animated movie, The Road to El Dorado. In 1519, two con artists named Miguel and Tulio win a map to the city of gold El Dorado from gambling and make their way to find it by sneaking in to Cortes' ship. When they're discovered, they are captured and imprisoned until a horse helps them out. They sneak out and end up in the island where El Dorado resides where the priest and king mistake them for gods. Now, a th...
PixMix Episode 4: The Good Dinosaur
January 08, 2020 18:00 - 1 hour - 60.6 MBIn this episode of PixMix, Patricia and Arun continue to talk about the average Pixar movies with The Good Dinosaur. The movie takes place in an alternative universe where the meteor didn't kill the dinosaurs, it focuses on a dino named Arlo who befriends a caveboy named Spot while finding his way home after falling in a river. Along the way, he meets up with a colorful cast of characters and a pterodactyl who wants to eat Spot. The Good Dinosaur is currently the lowest grossing Pixar movie ...
We're in Between Episode 4: Sleep on It
January 07, 2020 18:00 - 19 minutes - 18 MBWe have reached our 4th week of We're in Between, the podcast that discusses about every episode of As Told by Ginger once a week. This time, we discuss about the 4th episode of the series "Sleep on It". In this episode, Ginger is invited to Courtney's slumber party while Carl is invited to Blake's sleepover. Ginger is getting herself prepared by memorizing the popular girls' names and attributes, the do's and dont's of Truth or Dare, and more. Carl is planning on retrieving his petrified ey...
Old School Lane Casual Chats: Azumanga Daioh
January 06, 2020 20:33 - 39 minutes - 36.6 MBIn this episode of Casual Chats, Patricia and special guest Zenithwillrule discuss about the influential classic slice of life anime Azumanga Daioh. They talk about their introductions to the show, the simple premise, the memorable and relatable characters, and the hilarious moments. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/old-school-lane/support
Old School Lane Interviews: Interview with Cathy Weseluck and Andrew Francis
January 03, 2020 20:58 - 35 minutes - 32.6 MBIn the final episode of Old School Lane Interviews for 2019, Patricia interviews voice actors Cathy Weseluck and Andrew Francis discussing about the 1999 Canadian animated series Cybersix. They go over how they got their roles, behind the scenes stories, favorite moments, favorite characters, and the impact that the show left behind. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/old-school-lane/support
DreamMachine Episode 3: The Prince of Egypt
January 02, 2020 18:00 - 39 minutes - 35.8 MBIn this episode of DreamMachine, Patricia and Arun discuss about the 2nd DreamWorks animated film The Prince of Egypt. Based on the book of Exodus from the Bible, the story is about Moses, a Hebrew raised by Egyptian royalty in a time where his people were slaves. He and the Egyptian's son Rameses are raised as brothers and have a strong relationship with each other. However, when Moses finds out about his heritage and accidentally kills an Egyptian, he runs away to the desert where he event...
PixMix Episode 3: Cars 3
January 01, 2020 18:00 - 45 minutes - 41.3 MBIn the 3rd episode of PixMix, Patricia and Arun discuss about the 3rd installment of the Cars trilogy. In this movie, Lightning McQueen is competing against newer and modern race cars and is seeing as an old, washed up has been. He has to train and learn to keep up with these new racers otherwise he'll be fired or forced to retire. So, he receives training from a car named Cruz Ramirez who had looked up to him as a hero and role model. When Lightning isn't able to grasp the new training and ...
We're in Between Episode 3: Stealing First
December 31, 2019 18:00 - 18 minutes - 17 MBWe have returned with our third episode of We're in Between, the podcast that discusses about an episode of As Told by Ginger once a week. This week, we talk about "Stealing First". Lucky Jr. High is going on a ski trip and Courtney and Miranda make things interesting by placing a bet involving with Ginger getting "first base" with a French foreign exchange student named Jean-Pierre. However, Ginger is thinking of not going to the trip because she can't ski. Meanwhile, Carl and Hoodsey plan ...
Old School Lane Casual Chats: The Rankin/Bass Christmas Specials
December 30, 2019 18:00 - 2 hours - 148 MBMerry Christmas, everyone. In this episode, Patricia and special guests Manic Expression members RowdyC, Some Jerk from Boston, Whyboy, and Nero Angelus discuss about the 19 Rankin-Bass Christmas specials and decide on which still have the charming Christmas spirit and which deserve to be placed on the naughty list. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/old-school-lane/support
Old School Lane Interviews: Interview with Aria Curzon
December 28, 2019 02:24 - 21 minutes - 19.6 MBIn this episode, Patricia interviews voice actress Aria Curzon, mostly known as the voice of Corn Chip Girl from Recess and Ducky from The Land Before Time series, about her inspirations for acting, her experiences playing her most well known characters, and talking about voicing a character in a new podcast play miniseries called What I Just Saw. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/old-school-lane/support
DreamMachine Episode 2: Rise of the Guardians
December 26, 2019 17:00 - 32 minutes - 29.3 MBIn this special Christmas episode of DreamMachine, Patricia and Arun discuss about the 2012 DreamWorks animated film Rise of the Guardians based on the book series of the same name written by William Joyce. The story is about Jack Frost, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, and the Sandman fighting against the Boogeyman as The Guardians. When the movie premiered in theaters, it made double its budget with over $300 million dollars with mixed to positive reviews. However, it was considered to b...
PixMix Episode 2: Toy Story
December 25, 2019 18:00 - 1 hour - 59 MBIn this episode of PixMix, Arun and Patricia discuss about the movie that started it all: the 1995 animated feature Toy Story. The movie is about a cowboy toy named Woody who is the favorite of his owner, a kid named Andy. When Andy's birthday arrive earlier than expected, he receives a space action figure named Buzz Lightyear who thinks is a real space ranger. Buzz takes all the attention from Andy and the rest of the toys become enamored with him making Woody very jealous. Woody comes up w...
We're in Between Episode 2: Carl and Maude
December 24, 2019 18:00 - 20 minutes - 18.6 MBWe're back with our second episode of We're in Between, a new podcast that is tracking the entire run of As Told by Ginger! In our second episode, we are discussing the fantastic episode "Carl and Maude". The story takes place right after the previous episode "Ginger the Juvey" where Ginger, Dodie, Macie, and Darren steal an enter sign from a bank to give to Courtney as a birthday present. Now they were caught by the police thanks to Miranda calling her father who just so happened to have be...
Old School Lane Casual Chats: Nickelodeon Holiday Specials
December 23, 2019 17:55 - 2 hours - 120 MBIn this special Christmas episode of Casual Chats, Patricia and For Entertainment's Sake founders John and Douglass discuss about Nickelodeon Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa specials. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/old-school-lane/support
Old School Lane Interviews: Janet Varney
December 20, 2019 18:00 - 50 minutes - 46.1 MBIn this special episode of Casual Chats, Patricia celebrates the holidays with interviewing JV Club Podcast host, Rifftrax movie riffer, SF Sketchfest co-founder, and the voice of Avatar Korra from Legend of Korra Janet Varney. They discuss about acting, being involved in Dinner & A Movie, Neil's Puppet Dreams, The Legend of Korra, and play a game of m.a.s.h. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/old-school-lane/support
DreamMachine Episode 1: Antz
December 19, 2019 17:43 - 35 minutes - 32.2 MBWelcome to DreamMachine, the podcast where Arun and Patricia discuss about every Dreamworks theatrical movies, shorts, specials, and direct to video movie. They discuss about their first movie, Antz, which debuted on October 2, 1998. The plot is about an ant named Z who wishes to be an independent ant after being being sick and tired of being a worker in his colony. He then meets Princess Bala in a bar and instantly falls in love with her. To get closer to Bala, Z impersonates as a soldier wi...
PixMix Episode 1: Coco
December 18, 2019 18:00 - 40 minutes - 36.7 MBIn the first episode of a brand new podcast series, Arun Mehta from The Arun Mehta Show and Patricia Miranda from Old School Lane watch and review every Pixar movie. The first one they discuss about the 2017 movie Coco. The movie is about a young boy from Mexico named Miguel who has a love and passion for playing music influenced by a musician named Ernesto de la Cruz. However, his family has a hatred towards music dating back to Miguel's great-great grandmother whose husband left to be a mus...
We're in Between Episode 1: Ginger the Juvey
December 17, 2019 17:03 - 24 minutes - 22.3 MBWelcome to We're in Between, a podcast where we watch and discuss one episode of As Told by Ginger every week! Patricia alongside Casey and Ashli from The Friday Night Nicktoons Podcast brings you this new, exciting journey through a fantastic and underrated Nicktoon. Our first episode discusses the first episode of the show, "Ginger the Juvey." The plot is about the titular character, a teenage girl named Ginger Foutley who is struggling to find out what to get the popular girl in the school...
Old School Lane Casual Chats: Frozen & Frozen II
December 16, 2019 06:46 - 1 hour - 98.7 MBIn this episode of Casual Chats, Patricia and special guest Arun Mehta from The Arun Mehta Show discuss about the 2013 Disney film Frozen and its sequel that came out in 2019 based on the classic fairy tale The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Anderson. The story focuses on two sisters named Elsa and Anna who are the princesses of a kingdom called Arendale. Anna is a naive, optimistic girl while Elsa is a reclusive girl who has snow and ice powers. When Elsa is named the queen of Arendale, she ac...
Old School Lane Casual Chats: The Wizard
December 16, 2019 00:37 - 39 minutes - 36.2 MBIn this episode of Casual Chats, Patricia and special guest Chris "RowdyC" Moore discuss about the movie The Wizard in honor of its 30th anniversary. They recollect the first time they saw it, the story, characters, and why the film is still a cult classic with a dedicated fan base as well as why it's one of the most important films in terms of showcasing video games in a positive light to a mainstream audience. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/old-school-l...