Nostalgia Crackdown

About Nostalgia Crackdown

The Movie Trivia Schmoedown was a competitive movie trivia league that somehow became appointment television, appointment drama, and appointment chaos all at once. If you know, you know. If you don't — buckle up. There was a moment — maybe a championship match, maybe a promo, maybe just someone losing their mind over a bad buzz-in — when you realized the Schmoedown was something special. Something that shouldn't have worked but absolutely did. This Was The Schmoedown cracks open the vault on the matches, the players, the promos, the storylines, the upsets, and every legendary mic drop in between. Come for the trivia. Stay for the chaos.

Publisher

LGRN (Let's Get Ready Network)

Category

leisure · tv & film

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

29 Mar 2023

Latest episode

1 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

35 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   1 Oct 2026

   Ranking the Top 5 Schmoedown Managers & Their Legacies | This Was The Schmoedown

   Who built the manager role? Who changed it forever? Who best represents what it means to lead a faction? And who had the best results? Adelia and Josh tackle the impossible task of ranking the Movie Trivia Schmoedown's greatest managers and their legacies — and their methodologies could not be more different. Josh wants results and win/loss records. Adelia wants cultural impact and community legacy. Somebody's not walking away happy. From faction era heavyweights like Tom Dagnino, Shannon Barney, Coy Jandreau, Kaiser, Winston Marshall, and Roxy Striar, to the pre-faction pioneers who laid the groundwork — Emma Fyffe, Jay Washington, and Ken Napzok — this list spans the entire history of what it means to manage in the Schmoedown. Come for the trivia. Stay for the chaos.

2. 

   27 Aug 2026

   The Top 5 Heels of the Schmoedown | Villains We Loved to Hate

   Every trivia league needs villains. This week, Adelia and Josh are ranking the Top 5 Heels in Schmoedown history — the players you loved to hate, the ones who talked their way into your head before the first question even hit the board. Names like Andrew Ghai, John Rocha, Ben Bateman, and Mike Kalinowski are just the tip of the iceberg. Who cracks the Top 5? Who gets snubbed? And where do Adelia and Josh disagree? Come for the trivia. Stay for the chaos.

3. 

   30 Jul 2026

   The Innergeekdom Division with Special Guest Chris Ingle | This Was The Schmoedown

   Innergeekdom gets the retrospective treatment, and we brought in the perfect guest to do it: Chris Ingle joins Adelia and Josh to break down one of the Schmoedown's most beloved divisions from the inside out. This one covers a lot of ground — how question categories and difficulty tiers shaped the division's identity, the competitor evolutions that defined eras within Innergeekdom, and the matches that still get brought up in debates about the division's greatest moments. Come for the trivia. Stay for the chaos.

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YouTube views

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Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Podcast Authority Score: 57 / 100

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Quality

61

Social presence

91

YouTube

86

Engagement

0

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