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There’s a certain kind of person who sees an empty domain name and doesn’t just see a URL — he sees a storefront, a cartoon character, a product line, a movement, maybe even a media empire.

That’s been me for over two decades.

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Today we’re doing 80s movies everyone should see at least once. Not “the best films ever made,” not “deep cuts,” but the iconic, can’t-believe-you-haven’t-seen-it kind of movies. These are the ones that shaped pop culture, launched careers, defined genres, and basically taught a whole generation how to talk, dress, dream, and occasionally overreact in slow motion.

I’ve seen every one of these multiple times, and if you’ve missed a few, you’ve just got some fun homework.

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Todd and I are on the edge of a huge milestone: The 70’s Buzz Podcast is about to hit one million downloads.

In this special episode, I rewind the tape and go from growing up in Enid in the 1970s (long summer nights on W. Broadway with the neighborhood crew) to my early days of blogging and experimenting with podcasts way back in 2005.

You’ll hear how a “let’s try something” idea turned into a real studio, real microphones, and eventually a weekly show that’s become part of our lives since 2017. We talk about the early projects (CurtisTucker.com, E-Talk, radio spots, livestream adventures), the wild Broadway Tower rooftop supermoon moment that helped launch our first studio space, the bumps we hit (including a building fire that shut us down for a while), and the decision that changed everything: stop doing random shows and go all-in on one subject—growing up in the 70s.

As of February 12, 2026, we’ve released 429 episodes and we’re sitting at 998,792 downloads with listeners all over the world (especially the US, Australia, Canada, and the UK). We also share what’s working best (our 70s song episodes) and where people listen most (Spotify, iHeartRadio, Apple Podcasts, and Amazon Music).

This episode is a celebration, a behind-the-scenes origin story, and a thank-you to everyone who’s been along for the ride. One million is happening like, any minute now.

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In this episode, I talk about 22 things I’ve kept from my childhood! Many items are nearly 50 years old and still packed with meaning. From magic tricks and marbles to comic books and cassette tapes, these aren’t just keepsakes. They’re time capsules, each one tied to a memory, a feeling, or a moment that never quite left.

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10 Times I Didn’t Know What I Was Doing — But It Worked

When I look back, none of these moments felt brave or strategic at the time. They felt uncertain. Awkward. Sometimes impulsive. In most cases, I had no idea where things would lead.

But every one of them led somewhere.

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There are songs you like.
 There are songs you remember.
 And then there are songs that don’t just play — they transport you.

These are the songs that don’t fade into the background. They drop you right back into a specific moment, with a specific person, in a specific place. No warning. No warm-up. Just instant time travel.

This episode is about those songs.

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I eat at a local sandwich deli in Enid about four days a week on average.

That might sound strange at first, but think about this: where do you get your morning drink—coffee, soda, tea? Is it usually the same place? Most people eat nearly the same thing for breakfast every single day. Lunch really isn’t any different.

Listen up as I make my case for this daily routine.

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Fifty years ago, being a kid in the early-to-mid 1970s felt like living in a different universe. In this episode, I take you back to banana seat bikes, skateboards, and disappearing for hours with nothing but a “be home when the street lights come on” rule. We’ll talk about three-channel TV with no remotes, heavy wooden console sets, TV trays and TV dinners, one wall phone for the whole house, and how long-distance calls actually mattered. You’ll hear what it was like when smoking was everywhere, airports had no security lines, convenience stores sold penny candy, and news came on a few times a day instead of 24/7. Plus, the fads, the posters, the dangerous playgrounds, the mixtapes recorded off the radio, cruising the strip, and the collections we obsessed over—baseball cards, comic books, marbles, Hot Wheels, and more. It’s nostalgia with details you can almost smell—and a reminder of just how much has changed.

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What happens when a curious 70s kid (that’s me) grills his Chat Bot AI co-host with 20 rapid-fire questions—and the AI talks back?

In this episode of the Zoinkies! Podcast, I hit Scooby AI with everything from music and monsters to manifesting and million-dollar dreams. No prep—just me asking questions and Scooby answering in real time, out loud.

It’s weird, fun, a little ridiculous, and totally worth a listen.

Tune in, laugh a little, and see if Scooby can keep up!

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Hey Zoinkers and Shagheads, it’s Curtis back with another blast from the past. Lately I’ve been hooked on a new rock rebel named YUNGBLUD — the singer’s got the swagger, the attitude, and that raw 70s rock star DNA. It got me thinking about the legends who set the stage, the ones who defined what “rock star” even means. So Todd and I threw down our own list of the top 20 rock icons of the 70s on the 70's Buzz Podcast — and then I decided to double down and drop the full list here on Zoinkies. This time I brought in Christopher Todd Davis to riff with me about what makes a rock star — and yeah, we went off into the 80s too.

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