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In this video I discuss some of my shocking childhood memories of the 70s that you may or may not share and remember. The 70s were a wild time filled with fun and a lot fewer rules than what we have today. Some of the wild changes from the 1970's to today can be shocking and quite jarring like the crazy amount people smoked back then compared to today, the sheer lack of entertainment options, cigarettes and trash everywhere and yet somehow it all seemed so much more fun back then. When I was a kid, television consisted of 4 channels which had the big three networks, ABC, CBS, and NBC, and then there was PBS for moments of utter desperation. I remember before I was even old enough to go to school waking up on a typical day to watch Sesame Street and the Electric Company. Some days though PBS wouldn’t come in and I would have to go outside and use what little strength I had at that age to twist the antenna that was on a pole in the ground next to my parent’s single wide trailer. ...

What Do the Terminator, Hulk, Harlan Ellison, and the Outer Limits have in common? Kang the Conqueror Well, what do the Terminator, Hulk, Harlan Ellison, and the Outer Limits all have in common? Let's travel back in time and go forward. First, let's visit the Outer Limits back in the early 1960's when Harlan Ellison wrote two classic episodes of the Outer Limits titled, "Soldier"  and "Demon with a Glass Hand". Both episodes have been said to have given James Cameron his idea for Terminator.  Orion Pictures gave sci-fi fantasy writer Harlan Ellison a credit on the The Terminator for plagiarism of two episodes he wrote. From the Outer Limits a soldier from the future played by Michael Ansara goes back to the past only to die at the hand of another soldier from the future. In Ellison's Outer Limits story the soldier is intent on one thing and one thing only, to kill the enemy. His helmet gives him battle instructions. He uses a laser gun that never nee...

 Just to have some fun colored some of the US government public domain film Duck and Cover classic public service film shown to school kids in the 1950's back when nuclear war was big on everybody's minds as well as the threat of communism and Russia from the Cold War. I added a couple of things for fun including my cartoon characters Coffee Cat and Ug Lug the Caveman. Originally, the video was meant to tell the viewer to duck and cover when a nuclear bomb is seen going off using a cartoon turtle named Bert the Turtle.