The 80s and 90s Uncensored

What do mail-order catalogs, phone cords, and cassette tapes have in common? In this episode of The 80s and 90s Uncensored, Milo is joined by Chrissy Porcelli-Lester to travel down memory lane and discuss some of the things they grew up with that kids today will never get to experience.
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Lazer Tag has been around in one form or another since the mid-1980s. The game has been played at home, in arenas, and even used for military training. In this episode of The 80s and 90s Uncensored, we look at the history of the toy that allowed kids and adults to act out their action-hero fantasies, thanks to a guy who watched a movie and wanted to shoot the laser guns he saw on the big screen.
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In this episode of Faces of the Gulf War, we look at two people instead of one. The first, Margaret Thatcher, who led the country into the conflict, while the other, John Major, led the country through it.
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In 1986, Hasbro wanted to sell more Transformers toys. Their solution was to make a movie that killed off many of the existing Transformers and replaced them with a new generation of characters. It turned out not to be the best marketing decision, but the movie itself has stood the test of time and is arguably more popular today than it was when it was originally released.
In this episode of the podcast, Milo is joined by Chad from the Retro Nostalgia Podcast to discuss The Transformers: The Movie on its 40th anniversary.
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In this episode of Faces of the Gulf War, we explore the life of Colin Powell, where he came from, how Vietnam shaped him, and how he became one of the most trusted men in America.
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Sources:
https://historynet.com/colin-powell-the-vietnam-war-years/
https://time.com/collections/advice-for-2015-grads/3889524/colin-powell-graduation-speech-2015/
https://achievement.org/achiever/general-colin-l-powell/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1995/04/23/colin-powell-politics-why-hell-run/12d93dee-ebcf-4fea-a583-36974b7f1b96/
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/1995/11/14/other-important-findings-and-analyses-46/
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Colin-Powell
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https://www.colinpowell.org
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Powell
 

When Married... with Children premiered in 1987, it presented the world with something it had never seen before: a TV dad people could actually relate to, a TV dad that was more like our actual dads than most dads on TV. In this episode of the podcast, Milo is joined by Sketch M to discuss his new music and the great Al Bundy.
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