Cabbage patch riot

History Dweebs - A look at True Crime, Murders, Serial Killers and the Darkside of History

Tim Scott

Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4 • 619 Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2025

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Cabbage Patch Kids Dolls were all the rage in the 1980s, but when demand exceeded supply, chaos ensued.

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0:00.0	Hi, everyone, and welcome to history dreams. I am Tim. Welcome to the podcast where we take a lighthearted look at the dark side of history. Today we're going to talk
0:22.6	about the Cabbage Patch Kid riots, plural, because there was more than one, Colonel.
0:30.5	Well, people take those things seriously, Timmy. Very seriously. This happened in the early 1980s.
0:38.5	We're on a roll with the 1980s because we did hands across America and now we're
0:43.0	covering the cabbage past kids.
0:46.3	Well, you know, I love the 1980s.
0:48.4	We like to peel back history one decade at a time.
0:52.7	We do.
0:53.2	I love the 80s, Timmy. I had rock and mullet back then. Yeah, you did. Yeah, you did. Levi's gene jacket. We have that picture somewhere. We need to get it and throw it. I see you, I, you know, I see as kind of a new wave 80s kid, girl.
1:12.5	Plot of Seagulls.
1:13.6	Oh, yeah.
1:14.2	No, I didn't go to full flock of seagulls, but I did have a nice little mullet.
1:19.0	You get a permed.
1:20.4	Had some, oh, what was those shoes we wore, devil?
1:24.5	BKs.
1:25.6	We had BKs.
1:27.1	We had roots. In the boat shoes. We had BKs. We had
1:27.9	in the boat shoes.
1:30.0	Oh, the boat shoes.
1:31.8	Yeah, the boat shoes.
1:33.4	They have the band collar
1:35.2	to.
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