SDP EP 181: Russia

 

 

Hey everyone! Sorry for posting so late in the day but this weekend was so busy I didn’t have time to sit down and produce the show until just now. Here it is, on the eve of July 4, wherein your hosts talk about growing up in the 80’s where the Cold War was in full effect and the inevitability of world-ending immolation was just part of every day life. And sitting on the other side of that iron curtain was an entire society of psychotic super soldiers just waiting for a reason to kill everything and everyone you ever loved. Today we discuss the specter of the U.S.S.R.

Scary Movie Night: Red Dawn

movie_10518I was seven years old when Red Dawn came out. At the time I was too young to watch scary movies and wouldn’t have even if I’d been allowed to because my overactive imagination would torture me constantly. For whatever reason, war movies were acceptable and I saw many of them. Delta Force, Rambo, Missing in Action 1 and 2… They were all played in heavy rotation at my house. And I realize that three of the four films I used as examples are Chuck Norris films. Being a kid in the 80’s was awesome.

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