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Hopefully, you have tuned into my most recent podcast episode where I took you on a visit with me to '90s Con, held annually in Hartford, Connecticut (the one I have attended the past two years) and in Tampa, Florida (held in the fall).  You ca…

Hopefully, by the time you are reading this, you have tuned into the latest episode of my podcast where I welcomed McGruff the Crime Dog and Paul DelPonte from the National Crime Prevention Council (NCPC). If not, you can find that episode here. &nb…

  Today I released an episode that took a look back at the life and career of the one and only Tracy Chapman.  She's been on my list to do a show on for quite some time and as I was starting my research, I realized that I didn't know mu…

  The other night when I should have been sleeping, I was scrolling through my phone perusing pop culture news and I somehow stumbled upon the sad news that Narene Virgin passed away.  For a moment, I felt a little like the wind had bee…

Suppose you have been a follower of the show for some time and are familiar with its backstory. In that case, you likely know that I started the Pop Culture Retrospective Podcast as a way of dealing with the devastating grief that came after the t…

If you tuned into the most recent episode of the Pop Culture Retrospective Podcast, then you likely remember that Jason Lady and I talked about some of our favorite food and beverage mascots of all time.  One theme became apparent as we were re…

There's a very good chance that if you were born in the 1970s or the early 1980s you may remember the most ridiculous food mascots of all time, the California Raisins.   Debuting in 1986, the California Raisins came from the minds of th…

If you have been following the news this past week, then you may have learned that Hasbro, one of the largest toy companies in the world, is in the process of laying off over 1,000 workers.  This comes after another round of layoffs earlier thi…

  If you had your photo taken professionally in the 1980s or 1990s (at a studio in a department store or a mall), odds are you probably had that done at an Olan Mills Studio, a CPI Corporation location, or at Glamour Shots.  Here is som…

If you have been listening to the podcast for some time, then you probably know that I and my sister were HUGE fans of Nickelodeon, both their 'tween shows (i.e. Salute Your Shorts, Hey Dude, etc.) and their game shows.  On this week's podcast …