Episode 7: Ronald Reagan Is Gonna Get Us All Killed with Tyler Ham

2017-02-21

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Tyler Ham returns to discuss growing up during the Reagan Era Cold War, and how it affected us as children. Tyler categorizes classic atomic age sci-fi movies, offering historical perspective from the earlier days of the Cold War. Russian kids weren't so different from us. Here are two enjoying american pop music cassettes courtesy of Tyler's mom. We discuss 80s movies like Red Dawn, Rambo, War Games, and Rocky IV and ponder the propaganda they contained. My small Ronald Reagan collection My Mad Magazine inspir...

Tyler Ham returns to discuss growing up during the Reagan Era Cold War, and how it affected us as children.

Tyler categorizes classic atomic age sci-fi movies, offering historical perspective from the earlier days of the Cold War.

Russian kids weren't so different from us. Here are two enjoying american pop music cassettes courtesy of Tyler's mom.

We discuss 80s movies like Red Dawn, Rambo, War Games, and Rocky IV and ponder the propaganda they contained.

My small Ronald Reagan collection

My Mad Magazine inspired RONBO drawing from 1986.

Superman, where are you now? Tyler and I share our viewpoints on President Reagan's ability to keep us all safe, and his place in pop culture.

Extras

Nurse or Nuke? The Genesis video that helped foster my childhood anxiety.

Rocky Balboa addresses the tension between the United States and the USSR.

Credits

Opening Song: These Are The Quotes From Our Favorite 80's Movies by The Bouncing Souls