Gen X - How Messed Up Was Our Childhood?? 1980s PSA Commercials
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- Опубликовано: 27 дек 2024
- Whats up Rad Family!! Today we discuss the crazy 1980s PSA's. Was it that bad that they needed to be made and why? Looking back on it, it boggles my mind some of the things we were able to do and got away with. Yes it made us tougher but at what cost? How does that affect us in other aspects of our lives. Lets discuss. Drop a comment and let me know.
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What was your favorite PSA from the 1980s? Let me know.
The one with the frying pan and the egg! lol
There's one I remember it may have been from the 80s or 90s I'm not sure which. Basically, two guys are smoking marijuana bragging about how nothing happened to them, they didn't move into harder drugs, etc. and at the end of the ad a woman's voice is heard saying "Did you even look for a job to day?" and another voice says something like "Quit doing drugs before nothing happens to you." Then one guy is seen opening the window trying fan the marijuana smoke out.
@@redstickham6394 his mom says, "did you even look for a job today?"
He says "No mom."
Then he says to his friend, "Hey, could you crack a window open.
The voiceover says, "Marijuana can make nothing happen to you too."
It doesn't say, "Quit doing it." That was what made it good. It stays within the ironic presentation.
The dude means that nothing bad has ever happened to him.
But the implication is that nothing good has happened to him either.
He is still living like he did as a teenager. Unemployed, hanging out, smoking with a friend in his room in his moms house, watching cartoon
If I remember correctly the kid was hanging out in his bedroom. The dad came in with what looked like a cigar box, with weed in it and he said to the kid, " Where did you learn about this?" And the kid said you dad, I learned it from watching you!!
It was always ironic to me, because both my parents smoked at the time. So it was always a hilarious moment when it came on!!
I made this comment before I seen the whole video, lol....
Don’t drown your food.
I was born in 1969 and grew up with the "Just say no" campaigns and had to take a drugs awareness class in high school but I became a pot head when I was about 16. I had good parents that were great providers but did not smother me. I have good memories from growing up in the 70's and 80's and my parents taught me and my sister to be wary of strangers.
Even though my parents divorced when I was 6 years old they never partied in front of me and set a good example. The day I turned 16 my father got me out of school and took me to get my drivers license. Then he gave me a 1967 Chevelle 2 door hardtop to drive to school and on weekends but when he caught me skipping school I was back on the school bus for a quarter. My parents did the best they could and all of my mistakes were my making. My father passed away Dec. 1st 2023 and I miss him so much. Peace!
@@8bert9 thanks for an awesome comment. Sounds like you had a great father🙏
As the anniversary of your Pops passing, I'm so sorry for your loss...
@@karinaramirez-rattan4140 Thank You for the kind words. He lived to be 81 years old but he died suddenly and without any warning. We were supposed to spend time together that day and he suddenly died.
@@8bert9 My biological father passed 2yrs ago... For me all he was was a sperm donor... My Pops is my brother bio_dad... The story is my Pops fell for me first then he saw my Mom, and the rest was history... I didn't even know he wasn't my Dad till I was 5yrs old... Let's just say I was traumatized when my Mom introduced me to the sperm donor... My Pops and Mom weren't helicopter parents... They let me figure crap out... I'm blessed to still have my Parents + the three siblings I helped raised though marriages etc...
@8bert9 i remember the one that showed graphic pictures of how a junkie lived and died, and then it said," Whoever says, I'd like to be a junkie when I grow up. I was around 6 yesterday old the 1st time I saw that one, and even at that age, I remember thinking that was the sickest thing I had ever seen. Every time I see someone on the streets panhandling and clearly on a different planet, then most I catch myself saying to myself, whoever says I'd like to be a junkie when I grow up. That one definitely did what it was meant to do because I've had lots of opportunities and reasons I could have taken the wrong path but that graphic message stayed in my head and nope I don't do dope.
You have to remember we are the reason kids started showing up on milk cartons too. Since we were gone all day "come home when the street lights come on" our parents wouldnt know we were missing until around 10pm when we didn't show up.
@KathyOver50 I was gonna mention that in the video then forgot but yeah that was crazy eating cereal in the morning and having a missing kid staring back at you from the carton. 🤙
@KathyOver50 I kinda disagree with that comment. If we were brought aware of the issue, than we didn't actually start it.
@@1AvatarRunaways spiked by over 100% with our generation (comparing 1970 to 1980) and it only grew from there. Most of those runaways were from abusive homes, but not all. Still, the numbers were more than concerning. Especially given there were less of us then there were Boomers and that number was still more than double.
@@radgraham Has anyone ever been found as a result of being on a milk carton?
I know the "runaway train" vid help find a bunch of people, Some didn't wanna be found others were just "lost" and some where dead. But that was in the 90s. So I guess the milk carton was outdated. Do they still do it? Put people on the milk carton? And what was the criteria for it? Did you have to been missing for a certain amount of time.?
@johnnyguitar6639 not sure how they got on it and they don't do it anymore. Maybe they should 🤙
We had more freedom than the generations that came after us.
@@benstandard we did for sure🤙
We really did. I liked walking to school.
Or before.
Gen X here: We had to walk to school, and if there was news of kidnappers in the area we were just told to walk a different route.
@villain5873 🤣😆sounds about right 🤙
I'm pretty sure there was someone trying to kidnap me as a kid on multiple occasions in a white van and my parents barely cared. Used to happen when I would walk down to my grandparents house (which was only a couple streets away from my house). I couldn't even get them to care enough to look into it and this was happening quite a bit. Took me years to not get scared seeing lights turn on going down those roads. I thought it was just my parents at the time. I could never picture having that attitude with my kid.
@@geneanthony3421 we're a tougher breed my friend, now we know better.❤️
@@geneanthony3421 exactly. Me neither 🤙
i dropped off on the wrong bus stop, my parents didnt notice until night time lmaoo
That phrase morphed into "It's 4:20 pm. Do you know where your parents are?"
@@mikenuyen4441 🤣😆
@@mikenuyen4441 🤣🤣🤣 Truth!! Lol
Made my day 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@thayathedaydreamer3515 mine too lol
This comment should have over 300 thumbs ups by now.
My friends and I in high school consistently snuck out windows on Friday nights to go meet others, drive the strip, drink and get in cars with strangers, but we watched each other's, no cell phones and ensured we met up, got back home together, climbed back in windows drunk. We were the lucky ones.
Yeah that's how we did it!🤙
Same. I had a ladder against my window and left it there. My parents didn’t seem to notice or care. Strange when I think back though.
@melissafraser2190 🤣😆
That Giant Eagle commercial hit me hard. Grew up in the 70s. My mom left when I was 5 or 6. I got a clock radio for Christmas in second grade and used it to get myself and little brother up for school. Dad was already gone to work. Got us some cereal or toast for breakfast, packed our lunches and we went to wait for the bus for school. Came home to an empty house and started chores. Dad got home for supper. I still count myself as blessed. We had a safe home, we were loved and we weren’t hungry. Growing up like this made me independent, self reliant and a self starter.
@rebeccag.2381 wow. You sound like an awesome older sibling! My big brother didn't do anything like that for me. Instead he blamed everything on me lol🤙
@@radgraham I did my best. Lol
Did your family steal my family’s schedule?
@@TT_09 🤣😆
@@TT_09 😊😂👍🏻
Not only was I one of those kids that didn’t come home until the streetlights came on, but when I became a teenager I hitchhiked every where. I’m a 58 year old Canadian woman now and probably lucky to be alive! 😊
@sharonlefebure3892 yeah streetlights for me but never did hitchhike. Tried but no one ever picked us up🤣
I'm 57. What a time to grow up!😊
I hitch hiked everyday in my 20's to work.
Adam Walsh started the whole missing kids thing.
@@MrPlowboy66 yep. Then America's Most Wanted came out🤙
One Gen X example of this is I have is from when I was about 11 years old. We used to play football on a field a little way from home. One day some man came along and tried to kidnap one of our group. Luckily, an older boy about 15 caught on and stopped it happening. We told our parents, they seemed concerned. Next day were all back on that same field, playing football. No cops, nobody told us stay in as there was a P on the lose. Nope, just get on with it and don't get kidnapped because that will be inconvenient.
@HighWigsell lol that would be inconvenient 😆🤣🤙
Yeah, he couldn’t grab all of yous, plus too many witnesses.
As an inner city Boomer-X kid, even when we were young (as in single digits) we all carried at least a "Cub Scout" knife, which was encouraged by parents and the school. We had many would be kidnappers stabbed by multiple 8-10 year olds when they tried to grab someone from a playground. High schoolers often had .22 rifles locked in their cars because they were on the rifle team at school.
@@royschultz1377 Whoa!
@royschultz1377 yep we carried little pocket knives and yes in high school we had plenty of kids with guns in their trucks🤙
We were raised on neglect and hose water
😂 It's so true. 😮
Yes, those were the days😄
What I love most about that PSA is that they decided that the cutoff time was 10 PM. If you don't know where your children are before 10 PM, no biggie, but after that you need to start thinking about it.
@@BlunderMunchkin lol. Never thought of it like that before🤣😆🤙
Right my own kids are in bed every night by 10pm. Now I'm wondering if I did that because of growing up with this on tv all the time lol.
@@RipMinner 😆🤣
@@RipMinner right ?
Haha man that neurolinguistic programming is incredibly effective!
Exactly
Yep. We raised ourselves for the most part.
Older Xers had Silent generation parents. They were raised to be "seen and not heard" and raised us the same way. We did learn independence and took care of our younger siblings (born in 67 here).
@@jawjagrrl 🤙🤙
My Silent Generation parents were both abused as kids and they were very progressive, determined to rear their kids differently than they had been raised. I was very lucky that they were self aware.
I spent my entire childhood being dropped off at aunts and uncles houses while my parents went on trips for days or even weeks at a time.
As an adult my parents are shocked I live far from them and never want to visit.
@@fightingfortruth9806 lol surprised they don't get why🤙
I walked a mile to elementary school by myself. Jr high and high school i took city bus 7 miles away. Walked all over Portland Maine from 12 up with my 3 year old brother. Different times
@@theresekirkpatrick3337 for sure🤙
I remember the smoking pot commercial with the father yelling at the kid “where did you learn this?”,watching it with my bf at the time. We laughed about it.
I learned it by watching you 😂
At breakfast, Mom was sleeping and Dad left for work. From 1st grade on, I got myself ready in the morning.
@hazcatsophia me too sometimes but mom was there most of the time in elementary 🤙
I was born in 71. Walked myself to kindergarten and back alone. My mom told me if someone tried to take me. To fight and "make them kill you in the street, most are scared to do it where others can see, if they take you to the next place they will hurt you a lot before they kill you".... I WAS 5!!!
@jodirook71 🤣😆🤣omg that's still awesome though. Freaking Rad🤙🤙
My parents knew where I was at 10 pm. Out drinking with my friends. Lol
@@kppd41 😆🤣🤘
😂😂😂
😂😂
They had to remind our parents to check on us. Watch Stranger Things and Goonies for reference.
@@TheEr910 🤙🤘
I was seven when the scare about razorblades in Halloween candy apples went around. When I was six there was a neighborhood perv that would show up on people's doorsteps with his fly un-zipped. When I was eleven or so the poison scare in grocery items spawned the plastic seals under the lids of everything that we take for granted today. I grew up on news headlines of Bundy, Manson, and the Zodiac killer. My childhood curfew was streetlights on too; as a teen, it was 11pm. That's just the way things were. In school, the trolls were physically there, and in your face every day. We ALL knew not to get into cars with strangers.
@@JesseGreenwood-h1o absolutely sounds just like me. Street lights as a kid and 11pm as a teenager
the classic PSA that stood out for me, was the one involving the scrambled eggs, in the cast iron skillet. "This is your brain.. this is your brain on drugs.. Any questions ?!?!"
The 10pm announcements started on Channel 5 WNYW in NY/NJ, just before the 10 o’clock news in the late 1960s. The reason they had celebrities was if they were doing an interview on the morning show, or some other such event, they would have them say the famous line. There’s a short a doc on YT about it.
My older siblings and the neighbors pretty much raised me. My parents were alweays gone.
Growing up in the 80’s in a divorced family with zero supervision countless concussions, drug use in my teens, bad decisions, should have been dead 1000 times over but somehow made it through sure did turn me into a controlling helicopter parent as I never want my kids to do the dumb stuff I did, or hang out with anyone like I was….so I’m sure when they have a family and kids they will be more like my absent parents, feeling they want their kids to breath, and be free to make mistakes…cyclical
As a Gen-X kid, I remember getting up early in the morning, pouring myself some whiskey in my little Smurfs cup and sipping it while I watched 3-2-1 Contact. This was before I was even in kindergarten. I did this many times until one day I poured myself too much whiskey. I was visibly drunk, and when my mom got up that morning and saw me staggering around the house, she called my dad at work and yelled at him for not hiding his liquor good enough. Ahh, the good old days!
@@bigrockydennis4216 🤣😆🤙🥃
What!!!??
😂😂😂...i was running the streets but i always reported home 😂😂😂😂
Gen x , Ghost in the graveyard, neighborhood wide , dodging helicopters and hiding in shadows :} ( basicly hide and seek at midnight with ton of kids even ppl not friends with played)
We did that too. 🤙🤘
Those 80's PSA's were kind of innocuous really. Smokey told us that only we can prevent forest fires, Nancy Reagan told us to say no to drugs, Yul Brenner told us to not smoke, etc. It just seemed like common sense stuff that we just instinctively knew.
I recall the Adam Walsh case and the Atlanta child murders causing a great deal of fear everywhere. Maybe they inspired some of these PSAs?
@ziggysmom7119 possibly. Yeah the Walsh case was crazy. Spawned America's Most Wanted 🤙
Yes, I was going to comment the tragic Adam Walsh story. Adam and I were born in the same year. I remember my father explaining the Adam story and it scared me. My parents even had my brother's and I watch the movie, Adam. I remember my father explaining to never, trust strangers, to always listen and never wander off. I want to guess this was 82, around that year.😓
People suspected Jeffrey Dahmer of Adam Walsh.
Correction: 90s...
Remember where he was taken from? My mother would leave me in Gimbels toy department while she got her hair done.
The most gen x thing ever!😅
My mom couldn't believe that people didn't know where their kids were at 10pm. I was a latchkey kid at 7 yrs old, but only for an hour after I got off the bus. My mom really disliked having to leave me for that short time each day. My older siblings would get home after that. But my parents were both home every night.
The '10pm...' psa was truly surreal. I remember both of those Drug awareness ones as well.
The girl jumping into the empty pool just reminded me of the "Cuts like a knife" video by Bryan Adams😮 still it was making it's point.
Good commentary man. I'm a fellow GenXer. I can attest the mid to late 80s were rough.
@@marcofalzone6469 thanks man. Appreciate you watching and commenting 🤘
I respect adults that work at McDonald's, because the way I see it, they are very likely working there to do whatever they can to support their family - can't fault people for that. The one of the dad finding the son's weed is funny, because I do remember that PSA--and ridiculous the scare tactics they used for weed back then. I also agree, homeownership now is *way* out of reach for the average person.
@jodiskylar9452 yep. Its crazy what home prices are now.🤙
The commercial that irritated me to no end was the cracked, then fried egg sizzling in a cast iron skillet 🍳. "This is your brain. This is drugs. This is your brain on drugs. Any questions?" That commercial played consistently for YEARS. Nancy Reagan must've been proud of that one.
@truejaneysue8269 😆🤣that's why I didn't add it in. It's still overplayed in my head🤙🤙
Funny when you think of how many rock bands became successful for writing songs, while high as a kite.
Watching GNR,Motley Crew etc, swim in hot girls.While high. Probably didn't help the commercial
@@johnnyguitar6639 weball wished we could have been them for sure😆🤣🤙
Ah yes, The Ronald Mc Reagan
@@radgraham Yeah. that was my point. You have people on the sideline going just say no to drugs, and booze, Than you have motley and the likes drowning them self in new girls every night
I think they mentioned it in their book.If you didn't have money for drugs,you just sign up for one of those Just say no rallies. And they pay you.(talk about irony)
Also anyone remember when t.v cut off at 1 or 2 am(where there was no 24 HR programing on 📺 back then) you could be watching a ep of Soul Train on Saturday night that would be the last show before the station went off
@BomberMonkAssassin32 yep. Finished with the Star Spangled Banner then snow🤙
Word up. Those were the days! Wouldn’t change a thing!
We grew up in an era where half of us could easily be dead lol
@@cgiii2440 🤣😆true 🪦
1972 here. I would say I remember the McGruff Crime Dog spots. Mostly they were about not going with strangers. Also the RIF ads with Carol Burnett as the spokeswoman. Reading Is Fundamental.
@NorthStarOhio1 I had completely forgot about the RIF ones. Thanks🤙
When I was in middle school, I would hear about kids just roaming the streets in the middle of the night visiting other kids because their parents worked the night shift. I grew up in the Detroit area. Alot of people worked nightshift in factories, or hospitals, etc.
Yeah, when my mom worked graveyard, I snuck a lot easier lol🤙
@@radgraham Was it *really* sneaking out if we just walked out the door? ~another 80s kid with a graveyard shift parent 👻
@@reignofbastet 😆🤣great point🤙
So true! We just walked out the back door.
I was born in '67 and remember usually walking home from 1st grade with my best friend. One time, a man pulled alongside us offering candy and a ride home. My friend started toward the car, and I remember shouting at him, "No!" And then, "run!" My house was about a half-block away. We raced as fast as we could. When we got there, I told my mom, who called my friend's mom. He had about another block to get to his place, so his mom's boyfriend picked him up. So, as cliche as it sounds, the guy likely was up to no good. It was a textbook don't-take-candy-from-strangers scenario. However, unlike what would likely happen today with a millennial parent, my mom did not call the police, and we continued to walk to school afterward. I do look back on my GenX childhood fondly, but there definitely was some weirdness here and there.
@robinhartzell2380 absolutely have fond fond memories myself but yeah there were some sketchy scenarios. Yours was literally like the psa they made. 🤙🤙
Older kids were starting to get in real trouble back then. Some studies showed that the majority of crimes like theft, that usually happened more at night, were being perpetrated by minors. (I recently watched a news story from that time about latchkey kids that quoted 65%.) Combine this with growing gangs and milk carton pictures and it sparked the PSAs.
@@Eniral441 great points. Thanks for commenting and watching 🤙🤙
Gen x here… we didn’t have the cool tech you do, but we had a lifetimes worth of fun.
@@brandennesbitt608 that we did🤙
Parental neglect doesn't seem like fun.. it sounds like cope.
Gen x girl here. I'm starting to wonder if we were all raised by narcissistic parents. I had the bonus of one of them being an alcoholic. Anyway I ran away when I was 15. I left a note on my bed saying that I would be at the mall after school and I would be home after which I knew would work because both my parents worked all day and nobody kept track of me and my two little brothers. It was to keep them at bay long enough for me to make my escape and so that they wouldn't start "looking for me" until much later. The sad thing is that it worked and I was in West Virginia by nightfall.( I started out from the Detroit area). By the time I knew they were looking for me i could have been halfway across the world, being trafficked. Instead, they finally found me, got me home and then proceeded to belittle, abuse and humiliate me for trying to get away from their toxicity. I'm leaving out a lot of other stuff that they subjected me to but, yeah, wonderful young adult life of a gen x kid
@@jenniferdunn2837 sorry to hear that. Most generations will never understand 🙏
You are so right. Actually, I never paid attention to the PSA s about drugs because , in my life experience, what they had to say was absolutely nothing compared to what kind of mental f@#$_ery I was dealing with every single day of my life 😢
One of the prettiest girls in my high school was a cheerleader that dated the football star. The only problem was his last name was "Lopez" and her dad was a bigot. He took her out of school to make sure she didn't race mix. Months after she disappeared her friends figured out she was being kept home and informed to school that her parents were keeping her from getting an education. The school forced them to let her go to a continuation high school. That way they could control her still. She ended up running away from home, and she was trafficked. The last time I saw her she was obese, had teeth missing, and she was a tragedy in her early 20s.
I was 12 the first time I ran away. Every time I'd be gone longer and go farther. At age 14 , I left Illinois and ended up in Maine. Long story short. Yes, I've experienced some awful and scary stuff. But I am a success story. I'm 60 and still happily living in Maine. 🎉❤
@DianaBishop-ld3sx that's awesome to hear 🙏
i remember all the drug PSA's well. "i learned it from watching you!!", and that Pool one was crazy. how about the Track Star PSA "Nobody ever says they wanna be a junkie when they grow up". i think all those drug PSA's messed us up even more tbh. i fell into drugs bad during and long after the Oxy epidemic and i've lost so very many people. i'll have 8 years clean this December. love your videos man!
@mtbd215 thank you so much and congrats on the 8 years. That's huge!🤙🤙
@@radgraham thanks alot i really appreciate that. thanks for the response also. its always nice when Content creators take the time to respond to their followers
@mtbd215 🙏
Those after school specials from the mid to late 70s were scary! Early GenX here, born 64. My parents did not care if I ate breakfast, cereal every day.
Born in 65. My parents bought Kelloggs brain flakes. The box tasted better than the cereal.
On the parents doing drugs. I thought I'd add that some of those parents were Vietnam Veterans with bad PTSD. Drugs and alcohol were what some choose to use in order to cope. That phenomenon isn't okay but it still happens today. The difference is there is more help for vets now than there used to be.
@Eniral441 agreed. My dad fell victim to that after Vietnam with alcohol. Ultimately, what took his life when his liver and kidney just shut down.
@@radgraham💜
@@radgraham I‘m sorry about your dad.
@reignofbastet thank you 🙏 I loved him dearly despite his additions but Vietnam was a different kind of war. Our service men weren't treated like heroes like they are today.
@@radgraham No, they sure weren’t. They still deserve a parade (as do Korean vets). It’s definitely a different time. We treat our veterans deplorably in this country, unfortunately. Condolences again for your dad.
And knowing is half the battle.
Still have my "this is your brain with a side order of bacon" poster!
@@robertherring9277 🤘🤙🤣that's awesome!
😂😂😂
Snarky posters were the og of memes!
@@CT-bc6jh just like T-Shirts. Go back and watch Teen Wolf. Stiles had a different tshirt with crazy ass slogans on them. Hilarious.
The funniest thing, in retrospect, was that as a child I had no clue what they were talking about in those cartoon PSA.
I remember one of those He man ones were you had the themesong, darata ta ta etc, then He man would say something silly like. Dont let adults touch your willy. Then the theme song would continue "He Man!". While I had no clue, prepubescent, why anyone would want to touch my willy or anyone's willy. :P I think allot of these PSA totally missed the mark because of such lacking understanding. Then again, we were also allowed to watched Robocop since it was a kids movie with a silly kid friendly robot, according to adults around me. Ahh the 80s.
@Lobos222 yeah Robocop was definitely not for kids lol. Super bloody but hey Robocop is a good guy so whatever lol😆🤣🤙
I remember watching nightmare on elms street Jason and stuff like that at 7 😂
@patrickday4206 the one that always scared the crap out of me was Amityville Horror😱🤙
@@radgraham yeah it was the dam hand in the garbage disposal scene. I was always scared pulling out silverware after that. Hahaha
@patrickday4206 😆🤣
As a gen X girl born 1969 I have to say that we’re not mean or arrogant, we’re survivors. We had to do what we did to survive.. there were no guidelines on bullies except the parents would say, “ don’t ever start a fight but make sure to finish it”. I had no curfews, no house rules. But I didn’t really need any. I was raised by my grandmother and I lost parents by the time I was 11. There were no talks about life, no emotional ties, only a roof over my head and food. But that was the necessity. At school we had police men and firefighters come and teach us all about what they did and how to tell if your breaking the laws and what consequences there would be. Never had any problem with police. I think that every Gen Xer has their toys still cause we were never told to grow up. We were forced into it. But at the end of the day regardless , I’m so thankful to have grown up as I did because it has made me who I am and stronger than anyone I know. “This is your brain, this is your brain on drugs”. I never did like eggs
@user-VIntuitive agreed 💯 would never change a thing and yes I still have all my toys lol🤣🤙
B. 1967 and you told no lies...😊
I remember this, and to this day, Dallas Ft Worth still shows it!
Thanks for that!
No problem 🤙🤙
When I was a kid, early 1980s my mom was a stay at home strict mom. I would hear that commercial and wonder how do you not know where your kids are? We had the most awesome childhood, running around on are bikes all day, playing outside being creative. Mom always taught us to be cautious but sometimes I think I was too worried or narotic not trusting people til this day. I still am overly cautious! Still love the 1980s.
@@tammyboyd9928 me too to both. Overly cautious and the 80s rock🤙🤘
The dangers have existed throughout history. These messages are a good thing because instead of just referring to things that were "unspeakable" people began to face horrors, talk about them and try to empower the vulnerable.
@@TinaRouse-s1y yep. You can't learn what you don't know🤙
The 1960s and 70s saw a rise in concerns about teenage crime, drug use, and social unrest, prompting a need for increased parental supervision. Some states have a 10:00 curfew also.
Being from the NY area I clearly remember those PSA's, they were broadcast right before the 10 pm news on channel 5. My folks were kind of strict (at least dad was) but some how managed to get away with a lot stuff. I guess it was due to the fact he was older dad than most of my friends dads were and would fall asleep early on the couch, I mean the man did work hard during the day. I disappeared to the Jersey Shore when for a few days when I was 16 and I am not even 100 percent sure he knew about it.
@@sergesavard636 🤣🤘
Same. Rockland county NY, 45 miles up the Hudson River from NYC.
I'm a Gen Xer that had Silent Generation parents. I was never left alone until my later teens years. My mom didn't work and if I needed to be babysat, it was with one of my siblings or a relative and only for a few hours.
@SJB25 I rarely had an actual babysitter. It was usually my Aunt or Grandmother.
When I was 12 or 13, all of my friends lived across town. I was pretty quiet at school and at home I was pretty comfortable being alone in my room (I still am). Not hanging out with friends and being alone in your room a lot were just a couple of things listed on one PSA commercial.
I just remember there was a list of things that all described me and said if your child did these things they might be doing drugs. My dad heard "ARE doing drugs" instead of might. From that point on, my dad believed I was doing drugs. Being a paranoid Vietnam Vet with PTSD didn't help. He even took away my Advil that I was taking after amajor car accident. It made my adolescent years tougher than they needed to be.
@Eniral441 yes unfortunately we as parents have blind spots that we project on to our kids. My dad did it to me and I know at times I have done it to my kids.
I had a blast through the 80s & 90s for the most part...
@@The1ne2 me too🤙
I was a waitress at a Tex-Mex resturant. The boss only hired the prettiest girls in the class. I learned Spanish so that I knew what gross things the cooks were saying about me. Dang in 2000 I was making $12 hr for being a pharmacy tech in school. I had other jobs grading college honework. I guess I was drug dealer rich.
This originated on the nightly news broadcast in the late 60’s due to youth enacted curfews.
In our area it was “it’s 11 o’clock don’t know where your children are” because our nightly newscast was at 11 instead of 10pm.
@@dayloro 🤙
We went out to play. And we loved to play outside. We didn't want to go in the house. There wasn't anything to do there but eat and sleep. Lol
Or be made to do chores anyway 😆🤣🤙
I can distinctly remember going to the birthday party of a good buddy of mine when we were in grade school in 87 and his mom disappeared for ten minutes to go to the bathroom then came back to the party and had white dust all under her nose. When we pointed it out she said "Oh that's from taking too big of a bite out of a powdered doughnut I had sitting in the kitchen from this morning". We totally believed her I mean hell we didn't know what coke was except for on TV when Don Johnson mentioned it in episodes of Miami Vice.
Omg that's hilarious. Powdered donut my ass🤣😆🤙
@@radgraham True story my dude now at 47 I look back like wtf.
@@jrhamilton4448 🤘🤙
Great video and I remember most of these. Surprised you didn't include the "This is your brain. This is drugs. This is your brain on drugs. Any questions?" And you're right! I think the fact that they had to make PSAs to our parents to remind them to check on us kids is probably what made us overly protective of ours and created all those "helicopter" parents we hear about.
@GEN-X_POV yep. I was exactly a helicopter parent but I had an eagle eye. My kids road the bus to school or I dropped them off. We lived too far for them to walk. They never had friends that lived in the neighborhood to really ride bikes or play with.
I am Gen X. We definitely had more freedom than kids now.
@marshsundeen we sure did. Probably not always a good idea lol but it definitely made us grow up a little more aware 🤙
@@radgraham yes. Kids today do not seem to be able to be home by themselves as teenagers. We have taken it too far. Gen X grew up self reliant.
Divorce was newer, and becoming more popular in the 70’s and 80’s. Parents were more involved, or distracted by all of this, and we kids took a back seat. Single parents were overworked, and us latchkey kids, didn’t get a hot breakfast, and sometimes no hot dinner. I think the PSA’s were to help parents “remember”, lol. 🤪
@@Zoleankico4267 lots of Swansons Pot Pies lol🤙
@@radgraham Yes! As well as Banquet frozen chicken, and Salisbury steak.
I'm a stock taker for Shell. I work mostly nightshift. I cannot tell you how many kids turn up, at the night window, at 1,2,3 in the morning, mostly during summer. I mean, I live in Scotland. They're not really in any danger, but still.
@pspence9569 damn that is late, though. Thanks for watching 🤙
I think that is the culture of Scotland. I had an ancestor who lived in the Bothwell who was violently murdered. The murder trial showed that a lot of people were out in the wee hours of the morning.
@@alisaaustin8431 Well, in the summer it's only actually dark for about an hour and a half. Even then it's 'nautical twilight', not actual night. So, you feel kind of safe.
The ad where the father is grilling his kid, holding a box, presumably with pot and rolling papers in it... Asking the child "Who taught you how to do this?" and the kid, exasperated, counters "I learned it from watching you OK?"
Classic.
First it was because a 6yo went missing on the east coast in '79, and he was the first one pictured on a milk carton.
Then in '81 john walshes kid was found murdered which is what led to him creating and hosting America's Most Wanted.
Then the psa's and milk cartons were in full swing.
My favorite PSA was the "We're not candy" one, teaching kids not to eat prescription pills
@@RM-lt8rg 🤣😆💊💊 I forgot about that one lol
🎶even tho we look so fine and dandy🎶
We hitch hiked in groups to get to the pool hall and we all had our own pool sticks. It was our plan to always have the muscle in the back seat ready to strike if needed. We were 14
Very smart. Makes a lot of sense. Plus punches in bunches 🤜👊🤛
In the late 60s Friday to Sunday they knew I was camping out and fishing at 12 years of age.
My kids in the 80s walked all over the neighborhood, the 90's my kids walked all over the neighborhood and around town. Now my son would go camping with us dads.
My son was in martial arts just as was his two older sisters, and the knew how to shoot.
@@alanbrooke3237 I agree it is all based on how a kid is raised. I was raised fishing and hunting, camping as well. Always taught to be aware of my surroundings. Thanks for commenting 👍
My parents could not care less where I was or what I was up to, as long as it didn't become their problem or make them look bad. The worst part is that such parental dynamics were not so rare among other Gen Xers with Boomer parents. That ad where they said 'it's ten pm; do you know where your children are?' was a reminder to Boomer parents that they should actually care about their kids and what they might be into. Earlier generations of patents would not have to be reminded or shamed into caring about their kids like that.
As a gen y i was wondering where my parents were. My siblings and i raised our selves.
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My favorite PSA was the cartoon kettle and boiling pot that were evil and wanted to harm us. But thankfully, Bugs Bunny blessed us with his wisdom and many of us went on to avoid being burned in the kitchen.
@@TW-SB 😆🤣🤙
I had a boomer mother and a greatest generation father. They were the worst parents. I was an only child, no one cared what I was doing or who with or nothing. My mother worked all the time as did my father. I was barely an after thought. I walked to school alone for many blocks. And yes, snow up to my knees during the winter. If they saw these announcements it wouldn't have worked anyway. Ridiculous that I was such a latch key kid. Even my teachers were frightened for me and they could see I wasn't cared for. I parented myself. Not crying about, just saying it. Now I'm an amazing parent because I know what it is like to be feral and uncared for.
@@northernstar2064 exactly 💯! That's what made me a better parent also. Just couldn't treat my kids the same🤙
Cheese?
Born 1958, the last of four. My parents were pretty much done. By the time I was a teenager I was going into NYC with my friends having a wonderful time. My siblings were in college. I grew up self sufficient and streetwise. Good job right out of college and living on my own.
@NuNugirl 🤙🤙
Good to hear you are the opposite of your parents. Born 75. Same parents. Always at work. Never spent time with us. My parents would hire baby sitters and go to nice restaurants or adult parties. If we had a party at our house. We had to go upstairs. Dad would watch football on his 1 day off. We had to leave him alone. It was his day. Anything I did it was my fault. It’s caused a lot of trauma as a teen and adult. I am 49 with 11 year olds. I take my kids on big vacations all of the time. We take them to restaurants. We play with them. We include them in adult parties. I hug my kids and tell them I love them. I cringe thinking about being a teen. My parents told me I had to get a job at 15. And had to get out by 18. My college was not paid for. My parents told me no luck. I have lots of friends who had the same boomer parents who did not care… F them.
I remember hearing about this PSA, but never saw them. Because I was in bed asleep. 😂 10pm, my parents knew where I was.
I think those "ten PM" commercials started in Atlanta with the Atlanta Child Murders. Wayne Williams, the serial killer. Parents across the country were terrified by that.
I really enjoyed the video! 1982 baby here! I surprisingly quite a few of these PSAs. The 1980s had the best commercials especially toy commercials and PSAs. Of course I remember the classic frying pan commercial but I also remember one which was an anti-smoking PSA where a young lady is place a glass box where smoke fills it up and she is suddenly coughing violently. I also remember a drunk driving PSA where a wrecking ball destroys a house. And finally I remember quite a few of these ‘Just Say No’ anti-drug PSA ads featuring President Ronald Reagan and the First Lady Nancy Reagan.
@johnpatton421 for sure. Glad you enjoyed it. It was fun making. Got another fun one coming out Sunday 🤙
I liked Michael Jordan " STOP it.. Get some help"..
I'm glad you talked about us all being in the same boat. Sure I get that is much harder for Gen Z in a lot of ways right now, you're right. It's not all of us that have it easier right now. Due to moves for work and having to sell a home at a bad time for less than we paid for it in 2003; we are renting in this market too. My husband wants to buy, but I don't think he realizes how far the bar has moved to do that.
Also, my parents had some bad luck in the 80s and have struggled ever since. There were a lot of early Boomers who got their GEDs in the 90s because they needed to, and many have struggled and still do to this day. My dad is one of them and is now 80 (so Silent Gen by 1 year). He works a full-time job and runs a labor intensive business on the side just to make ends meet.
This is the opposite of my in-laws who fit the stereotype and don't understand why it's so hard for Gen Z and others these days.
Absolutely. Very well said🤙
😂😂😂😂😂 0:25 Watching “It’s 10 pm” over and over again is hilarious.
I remember that PSA , I also remember the one about drunk driving, " don't take the car , you'll kill yourself" ! I think MADD sponsored it.
@blurpledragon2779 yep there were lots of the drunk driving ones I remember. Funny thing is our parents were the ones who had been drunk driving for years🤣🤙
I loved He-Man. If we are playing action figures I want skeletor!
I remember these psa's. But I'm the young gen x. 80. So I feel like when I saw some of these videos I didn't really understand them at the time. We would always walk to the bus stop or store with friends. Never alone. Great video.
@@erldude thanks brother. When is your next video posting?
@@radgraham tomorrow morning. Recorded last night.
Reggie Jackson has no room to talk. It’s 10 PM. Does he know where his cocaine is at?😂😂😂
@@paulnightwolf9043 🤣😆🤣yeah up his nose lol
I was in bed by 10 pm .My closest neighbor was 2 miles away. I wondered the 80 acre farm .Played with grandpa's tools . I got to be the one helping my dad with the cars . I had a pond out my back door and a creek 100 yards back. I had my BB gun at 6 my .22 by 8 .Single shot bike gun. The iron sight was of bad .I could squirrel hunt all I wanted. I can still hit a target from memory in the dark for 20 yards . But stay away from the water. Oh my mom's thing don't go close to the water. I am fishing fanatic and my mom was terrified I was going to drown .Drove me crazy since I can't remember a time I couldn't swim.
Moved into town. That didn't work out to well .City living is hell I hate it here and do anything I can to get outside. Even put aquariums all around my bed that look like a pond .
@@bassqueen7134 sounds awesome 🤙
G.I. Joe had their own PSA's, I always loved those! My favorite of the ones you showed was the classic: "I learned it from watching YOU!" The dad's mustache was absolutely unforgettable!
@@edwardniedbalski4141 classic 80s dad attire also😆🤣🤙
That black and white commercial of the guy pulling up to the little boy is so creepy and eerie that I fear a nightmare coming on
amazing video crazy to see how times have changed
@@8rysen yes sir. Maybe yall are the generation to turn it around 🤙
Marijuana has actually been legalized in some places.
@@redstickham6394 many as of 2024🤙
@@radgraham We have "medical marijuana" in my state, meaning only those with a medical marijuana card from a doctor can buy it. A dispensary opened a couple of miles from my home and they will even connect potential customers with a doctor who will give them a card. The world has changed since the 1980s.
I remember the PSA about not talking to strangers
The do you know where your kids are PSA started when I was in high school. By that point my parents usually came home around dinner time but in later elementary school and middle school they often didn't come home till 9pm. When the PSA started my dad would yell upstairs, "you home" and he knew I was, but when I said yes he said, "then good I don't have to beat your *ss". I got myself on the schoolbus from 4th grade to graduation, I walked by myself and sometimes my parents weren't home when I left. grade k&1st I was driven. grade 2&3 I lived 5 blocks from school and my parents watched me walk until I was halfway to the crossing guard and they assumed the crossing guard was watching me the rest of the way.
@@vm1776 sounds like you had great parents 🤙
I think “starter home” is a term for younger couples that plan to have children and will eventually outgrow a small home. I own a small home and was never blessed with children because I wasn’t able to have children, because of that, I never thought of buying a larger home because I didn’t need a larger home. It’s the same reason the term “downsizing” exists for older couples once their children are adults and out on their own and have families of their own. These types of couples don’t need such large homes and will “downsize” to smaller homes.
@@kreggie891 great point🤙
My wife and I have small home too and didn't move into a bigger one for pretty much the same reasons. Some people don't need a big home but just want to show off. These same people also drive leased luxury cars like Audis, BMWs., etc., while people like us are content to drive and actually own outright Toyota Corollas.
I was born in the late 80’s and it’s strange how different my childhood was to having parents being reminded to check where their children are. I can’t think of a single moment where they didn’t know where I was. I could only ride my bike while supervised and I could only go between two markers on my block. I also wasn’t allowed to go anywhere unsupervised, so I was basically either at school or at home all the time.
The government fear porn pushed on the TV worked and I am truly sorry for your loss of freedoms as a child
I subbed. Love the time machine topics and concern for other serious topics from an un propagandized gen.
@dreadassembly4087 thank you so much🙏
Those psa's are nuts but they're nothing compared to the filthy adult jokes script writers sneaked into kids TV shows back then
@Challenge_Jackson ohh...I think you just helped me with a new vid idea🤣😆
Yeah there were some crazy ass ones I remember. Didn't get them as a kid but sure as hell do now lol🤙
@@radgraham Ha! Looking forward to it already! 🤣
@@radgrahamLil, bring it!😂
My parents were like "there's a 50/50 chance we do!"
Nine years ago my son organized a charity game between retired Yankee and Mets players for a HS classmate who dove into a pool high on drugs. He broke his neck and is permanently disabled. He had graduated college with a sports management degree and was interning at a local team. He put that on his resume and got three offers from Major League Sports teams.
@NuNugirl that's awesome that he persisted🤙
Our parents were at the bar getting drunk! So drunk all are parents. "BABY BOOMERS" forgot they had kids. Millennials and zoomers never experienced being raised by an alcoholic parent. Which is worth than being raised by a parent who's a drug addict. Because alcohol is legal, so there was no way for our "BABY BOOMER" parents to stop drinking!!
@@TestTest-ke4me 🤣😆🍻🍺🍹🍸🍷🥃
You think no X's grew up to be alcoholic/druggie parents? Or to be absent and emotional bullies to their kids, because "that's how I was raised?" Give your head a shake.
A crazy guy kidnapped and tortured a 6 year old who was the son of a prominent car dealership owner in Florida, and all hell broke loose. Very horrible situation. Life was never the same for kids after that...