80s Show Podcast

Author: Damian Raffele Bill Lassiter

We discuss 80s movies, TV shows, music, celebrities, fads & fashions. We talk about anything & everything to do with the 1980s.
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Genres: Society & Culture

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S2 E16: The Gift That Keeps on Givin’
Monday, 22 December, 2025

This week, Damian and Bill unwrap 🎁 the most 80s Christmas tradition 🎄 of all: being wildly over-promised and spectacularly under-delivered. From Christmas Vacation’s legendary bonus bait-and-switch to the toys 🧸 we circled in the Sears Wish Book like tiny, trusting fools, the guys revisit the gifts that defined our childhoods and the corporate generosity that absolutely did not. It’s a holiday deep dive into wishful thinking, plastic dreams, and why the 80s somehow turned Christmas into a loud, shiny exercise in emotional damage. Ho ho ho.