Unforgettable 80s News Stories (According to an 80s Kid) PART ONE
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The people and events making news in the 80s in the eyes of adults, didn’t always translate to kids.
@mysocalledgenxlife
March 9, 2026 at 10:43 am
There’s an editing error in this video. When I re-cut a segment, I forgot to move the honk…which was meant to bleep Tipper saying “masturba…” LOL. My bad! Let me know if you caught it.
@TheBre1491
March 9, 2026 at 10:43 am
It’s crazy how people came together, and spent money on “new coke,” but won’t for things like homelessness, hunger, social issues etc…but for a soft drink 😂.
@kpanyc
March 9, 2026 at 10:43 am
There's a Russian film called Anna where her father, filmmaker Nikita Mikhalkov, asked her questions every year from age 5 in 1980 through the collapse of the USSR. I'm the same age as Anna and find it a weirdly perfect counterpart to my American childhood
@kpanyc
March 9, 2026 at 10:43 am
My brother was in a version of the Super Bowl Shuffle they did for our elementary school talent show!
@jericamcbride3659
March 9, 2026 at 10:43 am
I was born in 1976 and the Challenger explosion was so traumatizing. We saw it live in my science class.😢
@SailorLavender
March 9, 2026 at 10:43 am
$100k for a damned drink, not even alcoholic. IN EIGHTIES MONEY. SMGDH. ☹️
@shiningjewel4034
March 9, 2026 at 10:43 am
20:01 Satanic Panic was more true than mainstream media and the political powerhouses wanted us to believe. Many survivors of SRA have told their stories since then. It's very real.
@PinkHairedChristian
March 9, 2026 at 10:43 am
2026, they finally took “classic” off the can, BUT it still says original taste.
@Cheetohfingerz
March 9, 2026 at 10:43 am
38:10 “one of Jackson’s doctors, Arnold Klein…” [proceeds to Wildly violate HIIPA giving gruesome details about the tissue expanders etc]
@EmsLyf
March 9, 2026 at 10:43 am
28:00 But it was, and still is, ok to teach children to sing "Row, Row, Row your boat" even as young as kindergarten aged?!? WTF (for those of you that don't know, "Row, Row, Row your boat" is about female masturbation & sexual climax.)
@sagittarianfirerat7657
March 9, 2026 at 10:43 am
Most of the male actors I like were in the Outsiders and St. Elmo's Fire.
@zig_zagman
March 9, 2026 at 10:43 am
Why is the M in MPAA bleeped?
@endrankluvsda4loko172
March 9, 2026 at 10:43 am
I just found your channel and have been on a bit of a nostalgia trip lol. When I was really little, I remember I'd watch Unsolved Mysteries, and I vividly remember one episode about a haunted bunk bed where the radio next to it would come on blasting static and all kinds of other spooky stuff would happen to the kids sleeping in it at night. So finally the dad slept in it one night and it showed him waking up in the middle of the night, saw something off screen, and screamed like I'd never heard a person scream before. Thinking back now it's kinda funny and cheesy, but that stuff absolutely terrified little me that something could exist that could scare an adult like that.
@matthewtowne8220
March 9, 2026 at 10:43 am
I was born the very same day that Reagan was shot.
@GlenStMary
March 9, 2026 at 10:43 am
OMG…#1. LOVE THIS CHANNEL…got here via your 80's commercials…and as a DOB 1973 GenX I'm an instant sub! I remember when we first got cable and MTV being a channel that just played VIDEOS! My daughter is Gen Z and she often talks about wishing that she lived back during 'our time' without all of the technology. I think we really did have the last 'golden age' for the American family😕
@devinp5591
March 9, 2026 at 10:43 am
Something important to include about Thriller is that Michael Jackson had to fight to get that video on MTV because they had a strict policy to not air black artists. His label president Walter Yetnikoff threatened to pull every Epic Records’ artists off MTV. They then agreed and Michael was subsequently the first black artist to appear on MTV.
@juliekrohmer2642
March 9, 2026 at 10:43 am
You end with, "OK, bye." Is that an 80s thing?? I've done that for as long as I can remember (putting "OK" before my bye) but never noticed anyone else saying bye that way. Hearing you made me think maybe it's a gen X thing. Or maybe it's just a coincidence?
@Beth_Alice_Kaplan
March 9, 2026 at 10:43 am
I was 13, but I can’t remember life before tamper-proof medicine bottles, or for that matter tamper-proof anything. One of those moments when pharmaceutical companies and government agencies successfully worked together to change a system for keeping consumers safe.
But man, that was a scary moment in time. I try not to think about the fact the murderer was never caught. 😦
@Mylunaseas
March 9, 2026 at 10:43 am
I remember the "New Coke" debacle from when I was a freshman in high school, but was unaware of the time/money/effort put into getting the classic back. I am glad they did though, new Coke was awful IMHO.
@jadagenter
March 9, 2026 at 10:43 am
I still remember watching a commercial for a "Satanic high schoolers" segment that was going to be on the news later. A picture of teens in deep red robes was shown, and a deep voice intoned, "Carrie cheers on the football field and gets straight As, but she's also not afraid of blood." I don't think i was able to watch the segment, but I REALLY wish I could watch now.
@philstrachan
March 9, 2026 at 10:43 am
Love your videos ~ have just randomly come across it. Well done! Brings back a lot of memories, even in Australia 🇦🇺👍
@wandaborowy9400
March 9, 2026 at 10:43 am
I had crush on Dirk Benedict also.
@EngelbertSlaptyback
March 9, 2026 at 10:43 am
Excellent video Nat!!
@OzymandiasWasRight
March 9, 2026 at 10:43 am
This channel is like an escape from things I don't want to deal with in the now times.
@heartsstillbeating1110
March 9, 2026 at 10:43 am
Hey. Its been a minute since Ive watched any of your videos. I just finished this one. Although I dont remember seeing any of this stuff on the news (I was born in '82) I DO remember my mom telling me some years later about the tamper-proofing of pill bottles and how it came to be. She's a retired nurse/poison specialist for the Poison Control Center and helped me with a 3rd grade science project about poisons in the home. Although my project mainly focuses on poisonous substances that can be mistaken for everyday objects (ie laxatives and chiclet gum) I think the subject of the Tylenol murders in '82-the year i was born-was brought up.
@Cheyenne_Hayden
March 9, 2026 at 10:43 am
My dad grew up in the 80s (born in 68) and hearing his stories about where he was during the challenger disaster or the assassination of John Lennon or LiveAid are so awesome to listen to.
@rachelstepien2370
March 9, 2026 at 10:43 am
3:30 I know ALL the words to the Super Bowl Shuffle to this day Nat 😂
@JoeGunn84
March 9, 2026 at 10:43 am
Your my brother's age. Lmao why is Oliver North preempting my mom's favorite soaps 😭
@BonnieLiz-hy9vs
March 9, 2026 at 10:43 am
I Thought satanic panic started when those two boys were found dead by shotgun while layering to a Judas Priest record
@BonnieLiz-hy9vs
March 9, 2026 at 10:43 am
Re: News: I totally remember reading an article in National Geographic about Cocaine and how it was this growing fad among celebrities and athletes; some of them even hanging spoons on gold chains or keeping one fingernail really long. Drugs were far from my own life so who knows what the overall message was supposed to be, I just remember that from then on I took it for granted that Cocaine was for the rich and famous
@BonnieLiz-hy9vs
March 9, 2026 at 10:43 am
Omg, Im Canadian & will Never forget Elizabeth Manley Skating at Calgary Olympics. She got Silver and was just the brightest light I'd ever seen. I think most of us thought she deserved Gold, but Katarina Wit was pretty good too.
@batcatowler1972
March 9, 2026 at 10:43 am
This actually helped sell albums. All of us wanted to know what was so evil about this music. Jokes on all those who tried to stop music. Those new warning labels just made us even more curious . Born in 72. Great video.
@aretnap3653
March 9, 2026 at 10:43 am
The Irony…
YouTube Has Become More CENSORED Than a CD Purchased at Wal-Mart.🤷
@lilv-NS
March 9, 2026 at 10:43 am
Your intro writing on this one is well done. Many of your work is top notch but i can only watch and comment on one video at a time
@elizabethsmith3374
March 9, 2026 at 10:43 am
As someone who loves watching people explore abandon buildings I find it hilarious that common graffiti for abandon buildings were part of the Satanic Panic. I knew about the whole music and D&D portion don't get me wrong and being a young millennial I remember some from my childhood (born 96 ) but thats the craziest thing I have heard if I'm honest
@amandaredd3057
March 9, 2026 at 10:43 am
I stopped watching the news 20 years ago. They devolved into lying, biased, gritting, amoral fear mongers who do absolutely zero legitimate research.
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