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The Retro Resurgence Podcast – Episode 31 | The 2025 Retro Resurgence Christmas GRAB BAG Episode

It’s our CHRISTMAS Episode! Our 2nd Annual! For Recurrent Events – we discuss another JAWS piece of memorabilia before 2025 lets out, and a return of The Muppet Show in February. Then, its one of our favorite show formats

Wide World of Toys | Episode 2 – Five Great Christmas Presents From Childhood!

Chad Droze

Episode 2 of The Wide World of Toys Podcast is here! Join host Ken, as he gets into all the Christmas feels, and brings you 5 great gifts that he received as a kid back

The Story Behind Run-DMC’s Christmas in Hollis

Mickey Yarber

Run-DMC nearly passed on recording “Christmas in Hollis,” but a funky beat and heartfelt verses turned it into a holiday classic.

Toy Stories: Talkboy

Mickey Yarber

In the early 1990s, one toy captured the imagination of kids everywhere: the Talkboy. It was a handheld cassette recorder that could change the pitch of your voice, making it sound deeper or higher. The

The History of the Coca-Cola Polar Bears

Mickey Yarber

Few advertising icons have captured the public’s imagination quite like the Coca‑Cola polar bears. With their playful personalities and snowy backdrops, these Arctic mascots have become as much a part of the holiday season as

Hot Dr. Pepper: The Forgotten Christmas Tradition

Mickey Yarber

When the chilly days of the 1960s rolled in, the Dr Pepper Company faced a challenge. Soda sales tended to dip in winter, as people reached for warm drinks instead of cold ones. To solve

The Real History Behind the Fake Holiday Festivus

Mickey Yarber

Seinfeld, a show about nothing, actually gave us something for the holidays: a new December tradition in which everyone can participate. On December 18, 1997, all of us were introduced to Festivus, the holiday “for

Chuck E. Cheese Christmas Special Coming this Holiday Season

The Retro Network

Charles Entertainment Cheese, better known to millions of kids and adults as Chuck E. Cheese is getting his own animated Christmas Special, titled The Chuck E. Cheese Christmas Special The Christmas special is billed as

The Retro Resurgence Podcast – Episode 8 | The Christmas Episode

Chad Droze

Merry Christmas Listeners! It’s our inaugural Christmas Episode. For Episode 8, Ken and Chad throw the usual format out the window. In this episode, the guys discuss many different Holiday related topics including Battles like

The Retro Resurgence Podcast – Episode 7 | Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas

Chad Droze

It’s December Folks! Episode 7 is headed your way. After our icebreaker conversation centered around Christmas songs, we slide right into our main topic- Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas We discuss the 1977 Christmas Holiday TV

Nostalgic Ugly Christmas Sweaters

Pitfall Gary

Every year we partner with Fun.com to offer discounts on their great selection of gear. Use our link to save 15% on all orders. As the Christmas season approaches it’s time to break out the

Fun.com Is Your Best Option For Holiday Shopping

Karen Flieger

There’s nothing like online retail therapy. Just ask my bookcase full of dolls. The only thing more fun than shopping for yourself is shopping for the special people in your life and fun.com has something

My Christmas Memories: 1987

OldSchool80s

As you should already know, I can’t get enough ’80s nostalgia the whole year, but Christmas is an especially nostalgic time for me. In the past, I shared My Christmas Memories from 1980 , My Christmas

Pitfall Harry and the Christmas Road Trip

Pitfall Gary

It was a green box with gold bars hiding behind trees, crocodiles swimming in a lake, underground tunnels and the best adventurer ever. That’s right Christmas 1982 I got the one present I wanted…PITFALL!

‘Put a Little Love in Your Heart’ from 1988’s Scrooged

OldSchool80s

When “Put a Little Love in Your Heart” was first released in 1969 it was not intended to be a Christmas song, but it became one for me once it was included in the 1988

Retro Commercials: Budweiser Clydesdales Christmas

OldSchool80s

I don’t know about you, but commercials can often take me back to my formative years as quickly as any song or movie can. That is why we will continue this semi-regular feature on ’80s commercials

Revisiting Santa Claus The Movie: A Holiday Time Capsule from 1985

Mickey Yarber

Title role notwithstanding, Santa was primarily a supporting character in 1985’s holiday family feature Santa Claus. Dudley Moore got top billing as an elf named Patch, with John Lithgow taking the role of antagonist B.Z. Saint