"Stranger Danger" and Other Reasons We're Anxious AF
Marriage and Martinis
Adam Silverstein
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2022
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Danielle and Adam loved researching and recording this episode, which feels refreshingly different from most other episodes. The two talk all about their memories of such campaigns as "stranger danger," "D.A.R.E," "Fire Prevention," assemblies, After School Specials, and so much more! If you were a child of the 1970s and 1980s you aren't going to want to miss this fun, interesting and nostalgic discussion!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, welcome to Marriage of Martinez. I'm Adam here, Stenio. Hi. |
| 0:30.0 | And we are back to our fears episode. This is part two. Yeah. Well, it's |
| 0:38.0 | the history behind why we are so fucking anxious as a generation. Right. So not a continuation of |
| 0:44.1 | what we talked about last episode, but now what it was like for us growing up in the 80s and what |
| 0:49.7 | we had to deal with as far as being scared shit as kids in the 80s. Yeah. Well, I think every generation |
| 0:57.7 | deals with fear. I mean, our kids, they're, I don't know if they're going to grow up with, you know, |
| 1:04.5 | boxes of chlorox wipes in their, you know, are they going to hoard chlorox wipes when they're older |
| 1:11.0 | or, you know, are they going to be like have extra masks in their, who knows what they're going to have |
| 1:18.1 | from the pandemic and everything and, you know, they have school shootings and which is no fucking |
| 1:25.0 | joke. Like that's a crazy fear. The fears I think that we grew up with were not based in as much |
| 1:33.2 | reality as some of the fears of other generations. But my parents talked about on the episode that |
| 1:40.7 | they were on. I think it's like episodes 104 and 105. You know, they would have to hide under |
| 1:46.9 | their desks for those drills, those bomb drills. You know, that had to be scary as shit. You're just |
| 1:54.2 | like under a, I don't know what being under a desk was going to do in the first place. But, you know, |
| 1:59.3 | every, you know, people dealt with fears of polio and smallpox and every generation deals with some |
| 2:06.5 | kind of fear. But I think the difference is that in the 80s, a lot of the fear was kind of like |
| 2:12.4 | propaganda. It was not based in all that much reality. Right. It was news based fear, which I want |
| 2:20.4 | to get to also. I have a little bit of that too. Right. But it was nothing. Well, we'll get to that. |
| 2:24.8 | I don't want to. Yeah. I mean, the AIDS epidemic obviously was a very real fear. But I think there was |
| 2:30.8 | also a lot of misinformation about that about how you could get it. And, you know, just, just, there |
| 2:36.6 | was just a lot of misinformation in the 80s. And everything was misconcured, misconstrued, excuse me, |
| 2:44.7 | and taken out of context and blown up into this massive epidemic that did not exist as far as |
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