The Rad Years

We pay tribute to 10 of our favorite junk foods we ate as a kid from mozzarella sticks to lunachables to hot pockets and slim Jims and more!

We talk about 10 Hasbro toys from the 80's and 90's, from WWF, Doctor's kits, COPS, GI Joe and of course Puppy Surprise. 

We take you through the weekend, Friday Night, Saturday Morning, Saturday Afternoon, Saturday Night, and SUNDAY at various points of our retro lives. 

We talk about 10 toys from the glory years of Kenner Toys

We talk about 10 more shopping memories from when we were kids, from record stores to flea markets, big box stores to super markets and corner stores. 

RK takes Game Gear, Squeezer takes Game Boy and we defend how great these portable systems are. 

We talk about 10 pop culture vehicles from the 80's and 90's including The Bat Boat, pee-wee's bike, the Aliens APC, and more!

We're talking mall memories from the 80's and 90's.  RK walks us through the infamous Whitehall Mall in 1993

We talk about 10 more retro arcade games from our youth 

We talk about 10 more moments in Wrestlemania history we love. 

Squeezer and RK pitch 10 different things from the 80's and 90's to reboot in 2025!  From Batman Returns to Home Improvement to Dinosaurs Attack cards!

We talk about 10 video games from the 80's and 90's that were very hard for us when we were kids. Including Marble Madness, Contra, Kid Chameleon, Back to the Future, Mike Tyson's Punch-out and more

RK defends the original Master of the Universe toy line vs. Squeezer defending the 1980's GI Joe toy line. YOU CHOOSE!

With St. Patrick's day coming we decided to talk about 10 pop culture things that are GREEN!  From Oscar the Grouch, Green Jelly,  My Yuk, TMNT, Sour Apple and more

We talk about menu's from the 80's and 90's of various restaurants like Chi-Chi's Roy Rogers and more

We talk about 10 more animated movies from the 80's and 90's including Fern Gully, Heavy Metal, Aladdin, Rover Dangerfield, Feivel Goes West, We're Back and Dinosaur Story, and more. 

For Valentines Day, we decided to talk about 10 retro red things, from the Jurassic Park logo to Darth Maul himself. 

We talk about 10 more pop culture chocolate things from the 80's and 90's like king sized candy bars, Mallrats Chocolate Covered pretzels, raisinettes, death by chocolate, Hershey PA, Batman Returns Cereal and more

Relive the rad years podcast again and again week after week. We talk about 10 things we've talked about before. 

We talk about 10 more topics that are totally 80's RK talks Toy Biz figures, Final Fantasy 1, Rubik's cube, The movies of John Hughes, and McDonald's in the 80's Squeezer talks about Gimmick arcade Cabinets, Sony Beta Decks, Action Movie Beefcakes, TV Show intros and Lego Model Team. 

We talk about 10 things from 1985 that are not movies or TV shows we talked about in the last 2 episodes!

We talk about 10 TV shows and events that happened in 1985, stuff we mostly didn't even realize!  Did you know the last season of Super Friends aired an episode which showed Bruce Waynes Parents dying? Learn about it ON THIS SHOW!

We talk about 10 movies we love from 1985. Squeezer-Back to the Future, Clue, Mad Max beyond thunder dome, The Goonies and Alice in Wonderland.  RK-Return to Oz, Fletch, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, European Vacation and Weird Science.     

Our FINAL Christmas Vacation watch along as next year we're switching to Scrooged!  We mainly bullshit about our Christmas traditions here, and enjoy the movie on while we do it. 

We talk about 10 fast food related Christmas commercials, foods, promotions etc.  

We pick 10 things out of the Sears Wish book 1991 to talk about

We pour over 10 more old Christmas photos from our lives in the 80's and 90's.  Go to radyears.com to follow along with the pictures. 

We talk about 10 things we're thankful for, yet again.  A lot of Thanksgiving food talk, a lot of RK bullying squeezer for being philosophical.  Good Shit pal. 

We talk about some current stuff, then go deep into some of our family dinners growing up. 

We talk about 10 "weird" (but not bad) video games from the 80's and 90's.   Squeezers list 1-Wolf 3D Mania 2-Worms: Armageddon 3-Frogapult 4-Conkers Bad Fur Day 5-Gumshoe RK's list 1.Earthworm Jim 2.Zombies Ate My Neighbors  3. Shaq-Fu 4.Skitchin'  5.Chex-Quest

We talk about 10 Halloween adjacent things from our past that you MIGHT find interesting! HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

We talk about 10 retro fast food related Halloween things including Mcboo buckets, Burger King universal monster figures, casper at Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and more

We talk about retro Halloween Lore from movies, music, comic books, TV, video games and more!

we talk about 6 commercials from fox kids, teddy ruxpin, Reeses Peanut Butter Cups, TGIF, And more!

We talk about 10 retro Frankenstein related stuff!  RK 1.Frankeberry  2.The Monster squad 3.Frankenstein McNugget Buddy 4.1992 Pepsi universal Monsters Commercial  5.Frankenstein real ghostbusters toy  Squeezer 1.Young Frankenstein 2.Universal Studios Picture 3. Herman Munster 4.Alice Cooper 5.SNL Skit Phil Hartman 

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It's been a while since we've talked JUST about Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, but we're talking about 10 more of our favorite things TMNT from the 80's and 90's

Our 4th show talking about retro McDonald's, but most of this stuff we talked about before and will talk about again. Also RK tells a weird story about recording soft core porn on VHS tapes. ENJOY

We talk about our awkward teenage years in the 90's and early 2000's, come get weird with us. 

WE'RE BACK! We're talking about our favorite print ads from the 80's and 90's

We talk about 10 summer vacation stories from when we were young'ns and shit on a bad review 

We talk about 10 movies from the summer of 1994 that we love!

We talk about what we watched on television 30 years ago in the summer of 1994

it's summer, and we go through a full day of a summer picnic back when we were kids in the 80's and 90's

we all grew up guzzling sugar in various liquid forms, we discuss these forms. 

We talk about 10 fast food desserts from the 80's, 90's and early 2000's 

SPIDERRRRRSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!

We all got hurt as kids, join us as we talk about some of our worst ones in the 80's and 90's

now, a good weekend is drinking 12 beers and watching football while eating a bunch of junk food in an afternoon, and don't get me wrong, thats amazing, but as kids, we strived for better. 

You're probably thinking "these two idiots never read a book" BUT WE DID! MULTIPLES! 

We talk about 10 retro "Military" things from the 80's and 90's we loved including toys, video games, movies and junk food.