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“Obscure Obsessions” is your go-to podcast for all the movies, TV shows and pop culture that you never heard of or wanted to watch … until now!

28/08/2026

To close out Season 6 (for now), we’re examining a long-time obsession of ours - the Power Rangers franchise! In their second feature film, your favorite “teenagers with attitude” are sent on a globe-trotting quest to rescue an alien from being forced to resurrect a monster from a volcano and they must use the power of “Turbo” vehicles to do so … kinda. Join us for this nostalgia fueled send-up to everything we love (and dislike) about Saban’s biggest franchise ever!
Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie

In our season finale, Taylor & Nick obsess on one of their longest obsessions. Few franchises are more dear to them than Power Rangers. Join them as they discuss the franchise’s various incarnations, rummage through their old VHS collections, and share their thoughts on the less-remembered Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie (1997).

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Taylor Zaccario…Host, Director, Producer, Writer
Nick Zaccario…Host, Director, Producer, Editor

21/08/2026

The 1990s saw the rise of many a comedy star… and also Pauly Shore! Even though his “Weasel” persona and antics aren’t for everyone, we at Obscure Obsessions are certainly fans of his work - including one of his most notoriously disastrous movies, “Bio-Dome”! Get ready to cohabitate with us, Stephen Baldwin, William Atherton, Joey Lauren Adams and perhaps the most 90s soundtrack of all time!
Episode 121 - Bio-Dome

Join Nick & Taylor as they take a very deep dive into one of their guiltiest pleasures: Bio-Dome (1996). Pauly Shore and Stephen Baldwin “star” as two idiotic slackers who get locked inside a closed ecological system. Your hosts dissect Shore’s relatively brief movie stardom, analyze the performances of Joey Lauren Adams and William Atherton, and get all nostalgic for the movie’s very 90s soundtrack.

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Taylor Zaccario…Host, Director, Producer, Writer
Nick Zaccario…Host, Director, Producer, Editor

14/08/2026

It’s no surprise that we love (most of) Kevin Smith’s “View Askewniverse” films. But perhaps one of the oddest entrants into this saga is a 6-episode animated series about “Clerks”. Join Dante, Randall, Jay and Silent Bob as they deal with rival Quick Stops, monkey-related viral outbreak, and a baseball game in … the Temple of Doom???!!!
Episode 120- Clerks: The Animated Series

Though it only ran for 6 episodes (and only 2 actually aired), Clerks: The Animated Series (2002) is much better than you would expect. It’s inventive, intelligent, and a whole lot of meta-fun. What other show has parodies of Temple of Doom AND The Bad News Bears in one episode? And where else will you find Gilbert Gottfried voicing Patrick Swayze? Or Judge Judge Reinhold holding court? This show will surprise you. Listen in and find out more!

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Taylor Zaccario…Host, Director, Producer, Writer
Nick Zaccario…Host, Director, Producer, Editor

07/08/2026

It’s time to venture through the Australian outback and fend off vicious warlords, high-power vehicles of destruction and … the Lost Boys??? It’s all part of the third installment of the Mad Max saga, “Beyond Thunderdome”!
Episode 119 - Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome

In Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985), Max Rockatansky (Mel Gibson) finds himself stranded in Bartertown, run by Auntie Entity (Tina Turner). Max strikes a deal with Auntie to fight in the gladiatorial arena known as Thunderome. Taylor & Nick discuss the evolution of Max’s character, analyze how Hollywood financing softened this installment’s tone, and obsess over George Miller’s unique filmography.

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Taylor Zaccario…Host, Director, Producer, Writer
Nick Zaccario…Host, Director, Producer, Editor

31/07/2026

If hitting the road on a cross-country car trip where wacky hijinks ensue sounds kinda like “National Lampoon’s Vacation”, you’d be right to think that. However it doesn’t stop us from loving this week’s wonderfully 2000s comedy starring Cedric the Entertainer, Vanessa Williams, Steve Harvey and Shannon Elizabeth!
Episode 118 - Johnson Family Vacation

Taylor & Nick bum a ride with Nate Johnson (Cedric the Entertainer) and his family (Vanessa L. Williams, Bow Wow, and Solange Knowles) as they head to Carruthersville, Missouri for their family reunion. Along the trip, the Johnson family encounters everything from a nutty hitchhiker (Shannon Elizabeth) and her pet alligator to the screen debut of Jason Momoa. Though it’s a blatant rip-off of National Lampoon’s Vacation, your hosts recommend you sit back and enjoy Johnson Family Vacation (2004). Mama said “crack, crack!”

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Taylor Zaccario…Host, Director, Producer, Writer
Nick Zaccario…Host, Director, Producer, Editor

24/07/2026

To close out our Val Kilmer marathon, we’re tackling a rather deadly double feature - “The Island of Dr. Moreau” (1996) and the documentary about the troubled production history of the film, “Lost Soul … “ (2014). This is one of the most notoriously cursed film productions and its storied legacy of nearly bankrupting New Line Cinema deserves to be seen to be believed!
Episode 117 - The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996) / Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley’s Island of Dr. Moreau

Few movies are as infamous as The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996). Known for its hellish production, bedeviled with arrogant movie stars (including Val Kilmer), production calamities, and the machinations of warlocks. The truly bizarre backstory is recounted in the excellent documentary Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley’s Island of Dr. Moreau (2014). Nick & Taylor obsess over both in the final installment of their Val Kilmer marathon.

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Taylor Zaccario…Host, Director, Producer, Writer
Nick Zaccario…Host, Director, Producer, Editor

17/07/2026

Journey to Tsavo, Africa this week with your hosts as we continue our second chapter of the Val Kilmer marathon with “The Ghost and the Darkness”! Based on true events, an Irish bridge engineer (Kilmer) is tasked with fending off two bloodthirsty lions and has to partner up with a seasoned hunter (Michael Douglas).
Episode 116 - The Ghost and the Darkness

Our Val Kilmer marathon goes to the heart of Africa this week. While trying to build a railroad in Tsavo, Africa, a military engineer (Kilmer) enlists the aid of a famed big-game hunter (Michael Douglas) to fend off attacks from man-eating lions, known to the locals as The Ghost and the Darkness (1996).
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Taylor Zaccario…Host, Director, Producer, Writer
Nick Zaccario…Host, Director, Producer, Editor

10/07/2026

Over the next three weeks, we’ll be taking a look at the films of Val Kilmer! Starting off, we’re going deep undercover and behind enemy lines with “Top Secret!” - where Kilmer plays an Elvis-like rock star sent to aid a mission involving giant magnets and … cows? Written and directed by the guys who brought us “Airplane!” And “The Naked Gun”, this is a wacky trip you’ll want to check out for yourself!
Episode 115 - Top Secret!

Taylor & Nick kick off a marathon of Val Kilmer movies, beginning with Top Secret! (1984). In his big screen debut, Kilmer plays a rock n’ roller caught up in a wild espionage plot from the directing team behind Airplane! and The Naked Gun.
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Taylor Zaccario…Host, Director, Producer, Writer
Nick Zaccario…Host, Director, Producer, Editor

03/07/2026

We promise you, there’s never been quite a stranger gangster movie than this week’s episode - Capone (2020). Released during the height of the COVID pandemic, writer/director Josh Trank (Chronicle, Fant4stic) decided to bring audiences on a wild ride of Al Capone’s final year of his life - where he struggles with neurosyphilis, loss of his motor functions and hallucinations galore!
Episode 114 - Capone (2020)

After lording over Chicago’s criminal underworld, Al Capone (Tom Hardy) spends the last year of his life chewing on carrots, shooting alligators, and battling incontinence as neurosyphilis ravages his brain… at least that according to Josh Trank’s wonderfully wonderfully bonkers biopic Capone (2020).
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Taylor Zaccario…Host, Director, Producer, Writer
Nick Zaccario…Host, Director, Producer, Editor

26/06/2026

Great Scott! While it’s often contested that “Back to the Future Part II” is the best installment, it’s high time to revisit Part III - one of the best and most fun sequels to close out a trilogy ever. Join Marty and Doc Brown in 1885 as they try to avoid a gun-toting showdown, stampedes and eventually a locomotive version of the Delorean!
Episode 113 - Back to the Future Part III

The Doc’s alive! He’s in the Old West! But he’s alive!

Join Taylor & Nick as they head to Hill Valley 1885 to rescue Doc Brown from Buford “Mad Dog” Tannen in Back to the Future Part III (1990). Listen in as your hosts discuss the film’s blending of science fiction and western tropes, the simultaneous production with Part II, and why this installment ranks as Taylor’s favorite!

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Taylor Zaccario…Host, Director, Producer, Writer
Nick Zaccario…Host, Director, Producer, Editor

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