• Twenty One Years (21 Years) Podcast

  • By: Sam Williams
  • Podcast

Twenty One Years (21 Years) Podcast

By: Sam Williams
  • Summary

  • 21 Years (TwentyOneYears) is a podcast that explores the greatest time in pop culture history, 1980-2001! Every episode is about the stories behind the stories you've forgotten about. Your host El Dangeroso takes you on a journey exploring some of the greatest pop culture events and news stories of the times. Episodes will include "Was Just Say No Successful?", "The story of Swatch", "Why Coke Decided to Market New Coke", "How Michael Jackson Saved Record Stores", "The Jim Bakker Scandal", "What Happened to MTV?", "What Happened in Waco?", "The Mysterious Disapperance of Arsenio Hall", Back to the Future and the story of the Delorian" Plus More!
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Episodes
  • 1980 & John Lennon: How his death opened the door for capitalism.
    Nov 29 2022

    We know The Beatles and their impact on music and culture, but John Lennon's death resulted in absolute chaos in the streets. This is 18 years after The Beatles first broke on the scene and 10 years after the bands breaks up. Yet millions morn the loss of this icon as if he was in his prime. But why did it effect an entire generation so heavily? Why did people physically cry in the street on their knees? Our episode digs deep as we discover what his death signified for our parents and how the ripple affect changed and entire generation to accept that "Greed is good"! Peace and love was dead, consumerism and capitalism could now thrive and it affect Generation X immensely. Welcome to 21 Years a podcast about the 80s and 90s.

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    44 mins
  • McDonalds $1 Million Dollar Record Contest. Bonus! Coke Magi-Cans
    Mar 28 2022

    600 downloads bonus episode! Do you remember the $1 Million Dollar Menu Song Contest? Did you know only one person won and his life is worst today thant it was when he won the record? How about Magi-Cans? Cokes amazing efforts to take prize winning into the 21st century! Both of these were horrible marketing ploys but 30 years later we remember them fondly.

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    22 mins
  • How the 1995 Source Awards Ended Gangsta Rap
    Feb 19 2022

    The 1995 Source Awards are pivotal. Going back to watch it for my research brought me back to why the Super Bowl HalfTime show is such a huge deal in 2022. From 1993-1997 gangster rap went mainstream, 59 million records were sold, labels were started and lost, and many lost their lives or were seriously harmed. But one thing that is deniable is the amazing music between the two biggest record labels of the time, Death Row and Bad Boy. This is the story of the 1995 Source Awards and the following 18 months that lead to the downfall of gangsta rap.

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    38 mins

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