Timeline: 1986 - Chernobyl, The Challenger and Hands Across America 

My favorite memory was getting clean

Probably my birth.

Not existing at that time lol.

Kindergarten

Yeeeeeeaaahhhh booooyyyeee was my favorite.....

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TV is garbage. I cut the cable over 10 years ago and never missed it.

this guy does a great job

That all depends though because youtube does have an obscene amount of garbage youtubers out there. I mean RU-vid is basically just like Cable TV when it comes to the content. The only difference is that its kind of harder to find channels on youtube that are of a good quality.

@@_gungrave_6802 (Cough Cough *Logan Paul* Cough)

🤣 That was I was thinking!

The President of the U.S. has authorized trillions in spending on it, so be careful. Even implying that it's a "hoax" makes a spectacular case against him.

I also create videos and recently released a new one that I've been working on for a while. If you have time, please check it out! It means a lot to me and I'm sure you'll like it :)

@whyputaname2 We have devolved by acknowledging a global-wide virus?

@@timthegem Trump is a failure of a president AND a human being.

lol

I'm sorry for you. Especially as the music must bring up terrible memories.

But what kind of person have you become because of it?

Indeed it was 👍🏾

Your first wife was a huge mistake? Sorry you got me hooked

...well I'm glad you enjoyed '86 kid 'cause mine began with tragedy, and didn't get any better throughout the following months, and ended the same way it started. I can't seem to remember anything after the Statue of Liberty🗽 100th celebration but remember the Challengers recovery operation vividly...5 1/2 months out at sea. President Reagan gave our team a month of R&R, and we ALL got HAMMERED.... I was drunk for twenty days. ... I hope I didn't bore you with all this stuff. ..... I hope you achieved most of your goals, and expectations in your life😎🤙be safe, and STAY SAFE✌️

I don't know what it is, but that INTRO MUSIC literally brings tears to my eyes!!

Carl Johnson is not from the 80’s

@@KentKaliber So from where are they using that intro music, would be nice to know. And yes it sound turbo nostalgic, so 80's.

@@overtaxed3628 it's supposed to sound nostalgic cuz it fits the theme. the channel probably made it themselves. otherwise, its some generic 80s sounding music in the public domain lol

I thought this was a old program off TV for a moment. 😂

Yeah he’s hilarious 😂

He does have tremendous cadence n obviously a unique voice. Every time I click 1 of their vids n its not him narrating I'm disappointed

He sounds like Colbert

yeah they got the RIGHT VOICE just terrible content

I love his narration. Perfect level of sarcasm without crossing into snark.

Yeah, come to think of it

The Challenger was in January, and Chernobyl was in April. I remember both, and took part in Hands Across America. I remember the 80s fondly, especially the music, fashion, and movies. I remember the debut of MTV on August 1. 1981. It was channel 61 on cable in Phoenix, AZ where I lived at the time. The first video was "Video Killed the Radio Star" by the Buggles. I still have most of my clothes bought back then (yeah, they still fit fine---I'm thinner now), and my collection of Swatch watches I bought back then, which all work just fine. The only thing I didn't like about the 80s was shoulder pads---I removed them. (Jan Griffiths).

Come to think of that "Chernobyl" is Ukrainian for "Wormwood" - the active ingredient in Absinth.

It's prophecized in Revelation ​@@evenberg8499

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Donald Wood You think it’s funny to mock someone’s sadness? Your loved ones will also die one day.

Donald Wood How’s Owen these days?

Mr. Tangent take a pill Debbie Downer. This vid had nothing to do with parents dying.

Amazing. I had the exact same experience but I was in 1st grade. She wheeled in the tv for us all to watch and cried after the explosion.

@@mercy4us Wow first grade and you still remember it. It definitely was one of those 'where were you' moments, kind of like the JFK assassination or the moon landing for our parents.

I was in third grade when the space shuttle exploded, we were watching the launch because of that school teacher, that was a sad 😢 day..it was all over the news😢

Same experience, but I was in the 4th grade.

Same here, sixth grade, TV wheeled in on a cart - in Art class. Teacher cut the feed immediately and started crying. Having a teacher on board brought it to almost every school, and as a result shaped a generation.

Me too!

@@kimberlycomfort6027 me three

You really missed out on alot of historical events, charlie 😎🤙👉🥃🥃🥃🗽

Because it's URANUS, not mine ! :0P

Happy i'm not the only one.🙂

Damn these years were the best

Should change the name to something less funny. Like Urectum.

I'm a 23 year old adult and "Uranus" still makes laugh like an immature child

Hbo did it

Just the facility. Not the meltdown.

You can find plenty of chernobyl documentaries on youtube.

I agree. They should do it. Would be better than what's already on RU-vid

@@BrownEyePinch Discovery Channel did a Zero Hour episode of this back in 2004.

Not great, not terrible.

@@IAmAnEvilTaco - I like that that's very witty as I liked and got the box set.

@@IAmAnEvilTaco nuclear plants are horrible not terrible!

Wait until you see go at throttle up.

No doubt. Too big of a hit not too.

A 70s version would also be highly appreciated!...

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80s & 90s were the most transformative years for the American culture & world

@@darealberrygarcia Precisely the point, because I've always been somewhat curious about the decade that preceded and set up the 80s to be what they were! E.g, 70s Disco music paved the way for a great deal of music genres that were popular in the 80s.

lol

Everyone knows the real McDonald's mascot is Grimace.

@@ryansylvan9277 I know 3 Fry Guys with switchblades who might argue...

@@NewMessage but just remember Grimace 's right hand man is the hamburglar who is packin heat.

Ryan Selvyn but did you know grimace originally had 4 arms?

I was the same seeing the planes fly into the twin towers

There is one crazy conspiracy theory complete with updated pics its so nuts its almost plausible. Yet it was a huge TRAGEDY!

Dude I was on the front parking lot of our school because I live right next to Cape Canaveral...still have PTSD from it.

M Gal, I'm sorry you experience that

keiran dunwoodie Aw thanks. We all go through trauma...unfortunately it’s part of life. It’s what makes us stronger, hopefully!🙂

The search bar is an amazing and powerful tool .

I was in 3rd grade but the teacher the grade above in 4th was one of the ones in the final runnings as well. The whole school was excited for her....then we saw it live....all excitement of the whole thing was quickly gone. Such a sad day in my childhood....RIP to them all

@@chasingplastic6285 😓

Thank you!! The best album of 86!!

Also Master of Puppets and Reign in Blood

Powerslave is my all time favorite Maiden album.

@@joshuabrown3361 GARBAGE Music..

And Peace Sells

Life is like a box of chocolates.

The Fly most definitely!!

@Interesting Fives Thanks, man

The great thing about that period of time was that a movie like Ferris Bueller could be a big hit where as now, it'd probably tossed into obscurity on a streaming service with a bunch of other mostly bad to mediocre films. Sadly, if a film doesn't have CGI, it most likely won't get the type of marketing commercial films get.

American culture slowly died off in the 90's.

Great, now Kyrie is going to get stuck in my head for the rest of the day

@@Kat-tr2ig You're welcome. 😀

Pretty crap list considering all the great releases by great artists.

@@daveyboy_ There were other great songs on the list that year, but for some odd reason they didn't rank as high.

Thank you for the impromptu musical memory trip your post took me on

Very few of US were 300 + pounds back then...now.... meh! GMO, NINTENDO, CABLE, AUTOMATION and all the LABOR JOBS WENT TO SOUTH KOREA AND JAPAN Steel and cars and more!

Hey, it also got him his own G.I. Joe figure.

I used to live down the street from William Perry. He was a very nice, friendly guy.

Go Tigers

does lmfao stand for "Laughing my fat ass off" in this case?

How is the Star Trek Enterprise like toilet paper? They both circle Uranus and look for Klingons.

I was saying the joke as a kid the day it was announced.

@@jamesholmstrom5837 guess this one's been around ever since they found Uranus for the first time. Pretty sure the people who named it knew what they were doing 🤔

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Me too! Just today I was thinking about his role in Pan's Labyrinth

I used to torture my step brother with the notion of the Noid coming to get him.

@@cougarhunter33 that gave me so many nightmares...still makes me shudder til this day

Same here. Ditto the Q-bert commercial where the family morphs into Q-berts.

What about the seventies(yes do 90s after 80s)

@@HighSockDavid that as well

Burleon there is a reason the 90s is called the forgotten decade

@Burleon yeah, but the 90s were forgotten by most people. So we need to look back to the 90s to see what really happened on that decade.

@@HighSockDavid yes, the prequel to the 80s and 90s.

Indeed!!

So I assume you are from Leola? Maybe?? ... I am not but dated a girl from there in the early 90's, I was raised in Grant county though, ...

They used Ribbon to cover distance some of thin population areas and areas that were in harsh environments...

I was part of the line in Memphis, TN where i was temporarily stationed in the Navy

@@haroldvoss5886 nope actually I'm from the Mount Vernon Avenue area.

Do you believe it would ever happen again? Just asking for a personal opinion. I heard the term "hands across america" in ways to poke fun but I wonder of unity will ever really be a thing in such a way

Me too. I was 17 at home skipping school. I was so upset I called my dad at work. He was a Captain in the Air Force. He was so somber and didn't even ask why I was home. Sad day!

I didn't get born until 93. But I understand what you mean with it being burned in your brain forever. I saw 9/11 on the TV in first grade and will never forget it.

My Kennedy moment was 9/11, I was a freshman in high school during biology class. Never forget how time seemed to stand still and everything froze for a day. My teacher wheeled in the classic tv strapped to the cart and we all just sat there glued to it, terrified and in shock.

Type in Challenger crew still alive

@@rvrandy1710 lol or 911 first responders and there accounts of what’s they saw from the ground when the second tower fell

Is that the animated movie? Still better than micheal bay.

100%

I went to see it it with my dad, siblings and 2 cousins for my 11th birthday! We lost our minds that day!

Yeah, that should have been in this video!

I blame social media and downward spiral of moral and ethics in our society.

I was eleven that year, and was always SO bored. I dreamed of a day, far in the future, when I could get on my Commodore computer and look up information on any topic that interested me... The only good thing about growing up in the '80s was being a young adult(and musician) in the '90s.

For real. I try so hard to give my kid an 80s childhood, but the world gets in the way. Luckily he loves 80s movies and TV shows.

I was 10 as well!!! Best memories

@José Menendéz Come on. Are we living in the same world by any chance? The youth is getting indoctrinated with ideologies like critical race theory and gender studies who's consequences we are living through right now. Not only is it unscientific garbage but also causes more division than there has been in a long time. The US is on the brink of civil war because of it. People being silenced, canceled, smeared into silence all in the name of social justice and all because of the inability of people to use their own f'in brains. I wouldn't bring a child into this madness even if i was offered 100 millions to do it and i pity anyone that has to grow up in some of our current societies.

Chip Skylark Because they ROCK!

I was in the first grade, too. I didn't understand what was going on (I guess I thought that spaceshuttles were suppose to explode, idk, I wasn''t the brightest kid), but I knew something was bad because our teachers were crying.

I was in Kindergarten. I remember watching the explosion on the news at my grandparents' house. Later that week, my teacher took us on a tour of the school and we looked at artwork done by older kids in memory of Challenger and it's crew.

I was in first grade as well and our teachers also started crying. That's how I confirmed that something terrible had just happened. So weird how so many of us experienced it the same way.

Huh??

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Suicide pact??? You up for it?

@@maxadkins3870 yep

@@honeypiegaming1753 we should see if we could get more ppl and exchange social media info and live stream our suicides at the same time on whatever day 1989 comes out....