In 1993, TV news studios started receiving calls from kids who opened their Barbies and GI Joe dolls for Christmas only to discover Barbie shouting militaristic slogans and GI Joe talking about shopping. Later parodied on The Simpsons, this bit of "culture jamming" has its origins right here in Portland (which also involves ipecac, mashed potatoes, and vomiting at a Dan Quayle appearance). All that, and much more on this week's episode.
#177 - Gladys Mae West and the Oblate Spheroid
#176 - Not NotNerd
#175 - Fordlandia: Henry Ford's Doomed Factory City in the Amazon Rainforest
#174 - The Willamette Meteorite
#173 - Worst. Year. Ever.
#172 - Ada Lovelace: Computing in the 1800s
#171 - Escher is my favortie MC
#170 - When Was It Invented?
#169 - It's Gold, Jerry!
# 168 - A Delightful Surprise
#167 - All the News That's Fit to Be Left in Open Tabs On My Browser For the Past Few Weeks
#166 - Bass Reeves and the History of the Black American Cowboy
#165 - This Show is Garbage
#164 - Cannabalistic Humanoid Underwater Construction
#163 - Oh the humanity! The Story of the Hindenburg
#162 - Holograms
#161 - MKULTRA, the CIA, and Mind Control
#160 - Never Forget
#159: War of Wikipedia 4!
#158 - Random Programming
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