A flashback to the "wilderness years" between the end of Extreme Ghostbusters and the "Answer the Call" reboot - 2012 marked the year host of the prolific and informative pop culture podcast "The Chronic Rift" John S. Drew talked to Jay and "Mr. Sci-Fi" Marc Scott Zicree (author of some of the best episodes of The Real Ghostbusters) about the legacy of the franchise and why the animated series was so important to the enduring appeal of the original concept developed by Ivan Reitman, Dan Aykroyd, and Harold Ramis. Zicree talks about the process of writing stories for The Real Ghostbusters back in the 1990s as one of the key writers under J. Michael Straczynski while Jay manages to hold back most of his fanboy glee talking about what the series meant to him growing up. Fortunately, no hosts or screenwriters were roasted in the depths of the Sloar that day. Thanks to John Drew for allowing RFG to use this interesting conversation.

Content of the original episode was altered slightly from the original release. This Creative Commons Licensed episode is repurposed for Radio Free Gozeria with permission from John S. Drew. Fair use is exercised in the use of illustrative clips from various Ghostbusters sources owned by Sony Pictures, DIC Entertainment, and Arista Records, used for non-commercial and transformative purposes throughout with no claim to rights or ownership of the material. A.I. was used for parody purposes to create the episode theme song courtesy of Udio.com and will likely never be used ever again.