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01/10/2025
On International Podcast Day, all of us on the award-nominated “Back Through The Basement” team want to extend our thanks to our wonderful guests, support system and, most of all, our “Keepers” - our cherished listeners.
On this day that celebrates the podcast artform, right on the cusp of the fiscal fourth quarter, we invite you to go “Back Through” with us – go for it and restart at Episode 1! – throughout this coming year-end: “Tom & Julee Antonellis (actors, VO arists, siblings and 80s kids must go through all their toys and belongings in their parents’ basement! Oh boy!”
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Back Through The Basement , a nominated podcast, is available on all major platforms - link in bio. [Season 6 sponsored by AirTamer ] Tom Antonellis Julee Antonellis
09/09/2025
10 years ago (nearly to the day), podcast co-host, Tom Antonellis had the pleasure of meeting Robert Picardo, so memorable for the role of The Doctor in Star Trek Voyager. We at Back Through The Basement Podcast love that Robert Picardo posted today, on , from the set of ! We celebrate the return of The Doctor to that show and, beyond the wonderful memory of meeting him, we celebrate and all the wonderful on the casts of all the iterations of Star Trek: the original series, The Animated Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, Enterprise, Discovery, Picard, Lower Decks, Prodigy, Strange New Worlds & Starfleet Academy. You can be sure that if they’ve been released on DVD or Blu-ray, Tom owns them all.
In this pic: Tom & Robert Picardo in 2015, Robert Picardo’s Instagram post from today (2025), Tom’s Playmates Toys action figure of The Doctor.
In the spirit of hope of Gene Roddenberry’s original vision of our future, we wish you Happy Star Trek Day! 🖖
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Back Through The Basement , a nominated podcast, is available on all major platforms - link in bio. [Season 6 sponsored by AirTamer ] Tom Antonellis Julee Antonellis Star Trek
11/08/2025
On the very happy 75th birthday of Snoopy — the world’s favorite beagle for the last 75 years – we’re so happy to share Julee’s cherished stuffed Aviator Snoopy complete with full outfit.
Both podcast co-hosts Tom Antonellis and Julee Antonellis have enjoyed Snoopy and the whole ‘Peanuts’ gang for SO many years — thank you for all the laughs as well as all the lessons.
Plus, we always felt a special connection to Snoopy, a beagle, as our beloved family dog for many years was a beagle. We always loved that connection to Snoopy.
What’s your favorite Snoopy moment?
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Back Through The Basement , a nominated podcast, is available on all major platforms - link in bio. [Season 6 sponsored by AirTamer] ❤️ [hashtag that trends more even though spelled incorrectly: ] Charles M. Schulz Museum 🎶 🎹
28/07/2025
“Ain’t I a stinker?!”
The whole team at Back Through The Basement sends out a very Happy Birthday to one of our favorite stinkers: Bugs Bunny 🐰 celebrating his 85th birthday 🎂 today!!
The short that is considered ‘a debut is “A Wild Hare” in which is established his iconic look (an adjustment requested by director Tex Avery), his voice, his personality and the infamous catchphrase “What’s up, doc?” delivered for the first time to what would become his long-standing adversary: Elmer Fudd.
What’s your favorite Bugs moment?
Do you have a pin like this one of Tom’s (from the plastic slotted organizer trays)?
Or a die-cast model of Bugs like the one pictured here?
Or a different ?
Let us know in the comments!
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Back Through The Basement , a nominated podcast, is available on all major platforms - link in bio. Tom Antonellis Julee Antonellis Warner Bros. Warner Bros Animation
23/07/2025
Cheers to 5 “SUPER” years of “Back Through The Basement”!
From the bottom of our hearts (and every medium bin) from Tom, Julee, and the whole Antonellis family and everyone involved with ‘BTTB’ — from Dr. Smypheon Wilcot, Sc***ng the Smilodon, the entire cast of Riff Raff Farm™, Godot the Theatrical Monochromatic Clown, Pillky, Bakthru, Neville Dorcas the Dollhouse Mouse, The Repurpose Porpoise, Roger the Disembowled, Rini and Tidi’s Bat, 1973 Mattel Richard-Scary-esque Plumber Foxcat, the late Sh*ttyahhss the Intrepid, TTISFU, Craig & the Guys, Jim, Barbara, Katie (and where the hell is Bobby?!) and Heavyass Bee — and so many more, we thank you, the Keepers for 5 years of of going Back Through with us.
We look forward to the potential to more fun in the Basement in the future!!
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Back Through The Basement , a nominated podcast, is available on all major platforms - link in bio.
Tom Antonellis Julee Antonellis
04/07/2025
Happy 40th BTTF, from BTTB!
The entire team at Back Through The Basement Podcast and the whole Antonellis family extend a hearty Happy 40th to the cast and crew of the beloved film, “Back to the Future” celebrating it’s 40th anniversary today, July 3, 1985.
40 years ago next month [see inset], Mom and Dad bought the novel for podcast co-host Tom Antonellis on August 31, 1985. Seems a bit late in the summer to have been a beach book for what might have been a potential Cape Cod vacation that year. Seems too early to be a birthday present for Tom’s September birthday that year. Best guess: that was simply a “just because” gift of love from Mom and Dad and – Tom speaking here – it’s remained a cherished part of my for four solid decades. Thank you, Mom and Dad!
You may not know: the first chapter of this novelization, written by George Gipe and based, of course, on Bob Gale & Robert Zemeckis’s screenplay (Marty’s run-in with Strickland, his less-than-thrilling band audition, his stroll with Jennifer through Hill Valley’s center of town, “Save the Clock Tower!”) it all rolls out quite a bit differently in the book than it does in the film. Have you read the novelization? Of course, the cover of the book is also the famous movie poster by the great Drew Struzan featuring as Marty McFly and the infamous time machine.
What’s your favorite moment? Let us know in the comments.
And tag us if you post your memorabilia today!
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Back Through The Basement , a nominated podcast, is available on all major platforms - link in bio. [Season 6 sponsored by AirTamer ] Julee Antonellis Back to the Future Trilogy Back To The Future - Musical The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research Christopher Lloyd Lea Thompson Crispin Hellion Glover Huey Lewis & The News
22/05/2025
While there were games before Pac-Man, we can think of no more seminal a videogame than this one. And we’ve been fans since the 80s. Happy 45th Anniversary to the videogame that was so critical in introducing us to videogames.
This pic shows our cred as 80s Pac-Man fans: one of our childhood thermoses unearthed during time spent in the Basement during my podcast, “Back Through The Basement” (which is available wherever you listen to podcasts).
Do you have any Pac-Man memorabilia or paraphernalia?
Do you know the names of those four colored ghosts?
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Back Through The Basement , a nominated podcast, is available on all major platforms - link in bio. [Season 6 sponsored by AirTamer ] 🟡 Atari 🎮 Tom Antonellis Julee Antonellis
05/05/2025
May the 4th – and the FORCE – be with you!
Chewbacca and R2-D2 play the holographic board game Dejarik (aka holochess or space chess) in ‘Star Wars Episode 4 - A New Hope’. Han Solo and Lando Calrissian play the card game Sabacc.
We learned, in ‘Star Wars Episode 5 - The Empire Strikes Back’, that Han famously won the Millennium Falcon “fair and squre” from Lando while playing that game. We then see the event enacted in the film, ‘Solo - A Star Wars Story’.
In the spirit of , from these and other examples in the , today called for a visit to both Tom and Julee’s game closets for our celebration of . Julee dug out her Star Wars Clue and Tom dug out his Star Wars Monopoly pictured here.
How did you spend the day today?
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Back Through The Basement , a nominated podcast, is available on all major platforms - link in bio. Tom Antonellis Julee Antonellis Star Wars
02/03/2025
Celebrating Porky Pig who made his debut 90 years ago on March 2, 1935.
Looney Tunes are an absolute favorite in the Antonellis household — there have been a few Looney Tunes and general Warner Brothers treasures unearthed in the Basement. We checked: there wasn’t a die cast Porky Pig figure in the plastic slotted organizer trays! Bugs, yes. Tweety, yes. And a few more. No Porky. What a bummer for this enduring character.
This apt picture of Porky with a birthday cake 🎂 we DID find in one of our Looney Tunes childhood books in the Little Yellow Library (formerly Julee’s childhood bedroom).
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Back Through The Basement , a nominated podcast, is available on all major platforms - link in bio. Tom Antonellis Julee Antonellis Warner Bros.
16/01/2025
“Unhappy with a new treaty, Federation Colonists along the Cardassian border have banded together. Calling themselves ‘The Maquis’, they continue to fight the Cardassians. Some consider them heroes, but to the governments of the Federation and Cardassia, they are outlaws.”
With that text in an onscreen scroll, an astonishing 30 YEARS AGO today, “Star Trek: Voyager” debuted!
Back Through The Basement podcast co-host Tom Antonellis would often gather for viewing parties at Syracuse University with many of his friends. If he couldn’t gather, you can be sure he taped it by – you guessed it: setting the VCR 📼 !
Over the years, Tom’s had the pleasure of meeting many of Voyager’s cast: notably , , , , , , & Jeri Ryan Official .
He hasn’t yet had the pleasure of saluting Kate Mulgrew , the captain, but Tom has always admired her. That’s her action figure from Playmates Toys in the picture! We at Back Through The Basement podcast, wanted to share the fact that Kate’s son, Alec Egan , lost everything in the horrible fires plaguing LA: his house, his studio, all of his art. We invite you to Kate’s social media channels where she has a post explaining where you might support Alec by purchasing a personalized poster of his art.
We got 172 visits with the intrepid crew of the USS Voyager and we’re grateful for every one of them. Happy 30th Anniversary!!
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Back Through The Basement , a nominated podcast, is available on all major platforms - link in bio. Tom Antonellis Julee Antonellis Star Trek
01/12/2024
We at ‘Back Through The Basement’ wish to add our voices to the chorus of Morgan Lofting fans who are saying goodbye to a beloved voiceover hero.
We were introduced to Morgan Lofting’s work through a BELOVED show from our youth: ‘G. I. Joe’. Both co-hosts, Julee and Tom, adored this show, tuning in every day. G. I. Joe action figures were a frequent birthday and Christmas ask. In this picture is our original Hasbro Baroness action figure and DVDs from the show. If you tuned in to ‘G. I. Joe’ in the 80s, you heard Morgan as the voice of the Baroness. She could also be heard on ‘Jem’, ‘Transformers’ and as Aunt May Parker as well as Black Cat in ‘Spider-Man’. (On camera work included ‘Knots Landing’ and ‘Trapper John, M.D.’)
This quote was from an interview in which Morgan described crafting her approach to Baroness: “When I auditioned for the [Baroness] character, you’re handed, generally, a sketch…which is extremely helpful and there was probably a character background and they must have said something about an accent…you start to get ideas and then you go somewhere out in a field somewhere and you work on your voice…and somehow I came up with this mid-European sound. I have no idea where it came from. There is no country where anybody speaks like this…and the thing I think that may have clinched it was there was the ‘Cobraaaaaaa!’ and I just let loose…Mike Bell [voice of Duke] used to say that there was blood on the control room window when I finished with ‘Cobra’.”
She will be missed.
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Back Through The Basement , a nominated podcast, is available on all major platforms - link in bio. Tom Antonellis Julee Antonellis G.I. Joe
11/11/2024
Though neither host of “Back Through The Basement” was yet alive 55 years ago today on November 10, 1969, the course of our lives would still be affected by what is special about that day: it was the premiere of “Sesame Street”.
For 55 years, since 1969, the year we landed on the moon right on up to this year, Sesame Street has been teaching critical lessons. Even as recently as these past few weeks, Sesame Street taught us when Elmo spoke with Andrew Garfield about grieving and we were soothed by quiet scenic shots of the iconic street which were shared on November 4.
In this picture, we share the “5” page of “The Sesame Street Book of Numbers” (in celebration of 55 years) – the book was given to co-host Tom Antonellis by our maternal grandparents when Tom was 2 (before co-host Julee Antonellis was even born!).
Are you a Sesame Street kid? What’s your favorite Sesame Street moment?
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Back Through The Basement - A Time-Trip Podcast from the Heart
Got a cup of coffee? Cool. Ok. First, thank you for finding the official page for Back Through The Basement !
LOGLINE: “Tom and Julee Antonellis (actors, comics, voiceover artists and siblings), children of the 80s, must go through all their toys and belongings in their parents’ basement. Oh boy!”
Back Through The Basement (BTTB) is a bicoastally-recorded, nostalgic trip (during safer-at-home quarantine) in which hosts Tom Antonellis and Julee Antonellis bring listeners ALL their artistic sensibilities -- plus that inimitable Tom-Julee sibling banter! -- along with funny character voices, spot-on impressions, improv, lots of laughs and, of course, the classic 80s toys of our day. There’s even vintage childhood audio from Christmas mornings dating all the way back to 1977 in which we’re often opening the gifts being unearthed in the episode!
We have a visual element as well: follow us on Instagram @backthroughthebasementpod and enjoy seeing pictures of the toys and treasures we’re unearthing.
And, let’s be real, there are also some tears – because how can you NOT get emotional doing this kind of project? Especially given the incredibly stressful 2020 we all find ourselves in.
Early REVIEWS from “KEEPERS” (listeners) of “Back Through The Basement”
• “I could not stop smiling from the second this podcast began.”
• “We can’t wait for all the nostalgia and love and humor that Julee and Tom
are going to unleash on us.”
• “This brother and sister team are so fun, sweet, sentimental and
insanely talented…”
• “Going through old belongings and reliving cherished memories is always
an adventure. This brings it to a whole new level as you’re instantly
sucked into the incredibly entertaining world of Tom and Julee.”
• “This show tugs on the heartstrings of every 80s kid, no matter where
you grew up. It’s so funny it made my stomach hurt…”
• “What a joyful delight to listen to this magical podcast. Just sit back,
relax and return to those golden days of childhood.”
• “This podcast is such a comfort to me. Nostalgia, family, toys and humor.”
This kind of feedback has touched us deeply as it taps directly into the Mission Statement for BTTB and the unique and special gift that this project has become. Learning the myriad takeaway gifts that our Keepers are receiving is immeasurably rewarding for us.
We genuinely hope you will feel, as our listeners feel, an equally strong connection to Back Through The Basement. Of course, we would GREATLY appreciate you tuning in and taking a moment to…
1. SUBSCRIBE to,
2. RATE,
3. REVIEW and
4. DOWNLOAD our podcast.
5. SHARE this page to your friends and family who would enjoy this podcast.
BTTB is a labor of love and is easily among our PROUDEST artistic accomplishments.
Any action you would take to aid us in broadening our reach will contribute to realizing our dream of reaching the world with our treasured time-trip through our childhood.
Particularly if we can do this by achieving Apple Podcast’s “New and Noteworthy” status.
Thanks for reading! Sincerely, Tom and Julee Antonellis
