20th Century Pop! is a podcast that tries to understand the present by living in the past. Each episode hosts Bob and Tim take a sociological look at the pop culture of the '80s and '90s. Its a ruining of their childhood that hopefully explains how they became adults.
POOP CULTURE: “Some vandal is taking a bite out of our consonants.” (1980-1988) After school and on the weekends were animated times across kids’ tv sets. If it wasn’t scheming Decepticons and imaginative Muppet Babies it was … school yard addictions… ahm … drunkards in the parking lot … your dad’s stash of coke. And apparently all we could do was just say no. Well, today Users and Losers can unite as Bob and Tim crack open some of the most infamous PSAs to ever air after school. And what they find might be more insidious than just a dog in a trench coat. Look … we might be talking … a wagon wheel.
00:00:00 UNLICENSED AUDIO - CPUsers are CPLosers
00:00:50 PS 4 WHO? - after school morality lessons
00:05:04 MGRUFF AND READY - and that’s not Madonna saying no to drugs
00:14:30 VAPOR VAGUE - and being aware of being weary
00:21:44 MIA PSAS - scare tactics without specifics
00:27:37 ONE TO GROAN ON - and the perfect time for Timer
00:38:01 THE MORMON CHALLENGE - indoctrination through shame
00:47:19 BUGS BUNNY AND THE KITCHEN OF DOOM - lessons that linger
00:51:31 NARC NARC NARCING ON DADDY’S DOOR - and you will be dead
01:02:26 SAY NO TO SMUG -fear mongering and time restraints
01:09:05 PUBLICLY DIFFERING OPINIONS- and Chow Daddy
01:12:38 CLOSINGS - contacts, plugs and no catch phrase
01:15:51 BONUS FEATURES - Clown on the premises
See some kids loose their shit over what might as well have been the Beatles with this VINTAGE DON’T USE DRUGS PSA FEATURING MCGRUFF.
An then freak out to the full acid trip of the OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO FOR USERS ARE LOSERS BY REGINA.
Take a bite out of the 1980s COMMERCIAL FOR WHATCHAMACALLIT CANDY BARS that Tim was referencing.
Get schooled by your favorite NBC stars (AND the guy from RIPTIDE) in one of two nearly half hour ONE TO GROW ON PSA COMPILATIONs.
Wonder what wires got crossed to cause KITT to refer to him as both David AND Michael in this KNIGHT RIDER ANTI-MARIJUANA PSA FROM 1985.
Flee in fear from the tap-dancing harmonizing home invaders of this ANTI-LYING PSA FROM THE CHURCH OF LATTER DAY SAINTS.
Witness the origins of Bob’s culinary safety practices with this BUGS BUNNY’S OUNCE OF PROTECTION PSA.
Learn what it was he learned and from whom he learned it watching from with perhaps the most infamous of 80s ads, the I LEARNED IT FROM WATCHING YOU ANTI-DRUG PSA.
Shiver to the skinless dance-steps of the SLIM GOODBODY GOOD BODY GROOVE (and then flush you eyes out as they’re possibly infected).
And finally, induce vomiting from the lunch tray contents of this CHOW DADDY PSA FROM THE 1980S.
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MUSIC FEATURED IN TODAY’S EPISODE:
“Super Poupi ” (opening theme) performed by Komiku from the 2018 album POUPI'S INCREDIBLE ADVENTURES available at Freemusicarchives.org. Cleared for public domain use through Creative Commons under a CCO 1.0 Universal License.
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20TH CENTURY POP! will return next week with a bonus episode of boners … but not the one from Growing Pains.
