This week on the Everyday History Podcast, Dustin and Boo Boo dive deep into the complete history of video games—told decade by decade, from Cold War laboratories to modern open-world epics.

Video games didn’t start as entertainment. They began as military simulations, scientific experiments, and accidental distractions on million-dollar machines. Over time, they survived industry collapse, moral panics, congressional hearings, and rapid technological change to become the largest entertainment industry in the world.

In this episode, we break down the major milestones that shaped gaming history and explore the cultural impact of era-defining franchises like Fallout, Grand Theft Auto, Assassin’s Creed, and Red Dead Redemption. Along the way, we examine how games reflect nuclear anxiety, capitalism, historical memory, violence, progress, and the slow death of old myths.

This isn’t a console war or a nostalgia trip—it’s a historical timeline of how video games evolved, why they matter, and what they reveal about us.

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Today we can continue talking about even more Christmas Stories!

Today, we talk about the history of Christmas movies!

In this live episode, Dustin and Boo Boo explore the full evolution of Christmas decorations, beginning with the ancient midwinter greenery used by early Europeans to symbolize life during the darkest part of the year. The episode traces how these early customs blended into later Christian traditions, leading to decorated churches, Nativity scenes, candlelit processions and eventually the familiar indoor Christmas tree. As the story moves forward, the audience learns how medieval guilds created elaborate seasonal displays, how Victorians revived forgotten ornament traditions, how German glassblowers changed the look of the holiday forever and how the introduction of electric lights transformed Christmas into a spectacle of color and brightness.From evergreen boughs to silver tinsel to mass produced ornaments and modern LED setups, Dustin and Boo Boo take time to unpack the origins, myths, innovations and cultural shifts that shaped what we now consider the standard holiday aesthetic. The episode then expands the concept of decoration itself by moving into the history of Christmas carols. Here, carols are treated not as a separate musical tradition but as the sound that completes the atmosphere of the holiday. Instead of decorating only with objects on walls, trees and mantels, people decorate the air around them through song.Listeners learn how carols began as pagan midwinter songs that celebrated the return of the sun before being adapted into early Christian hymns.

Today, Dustin and Boo Boo talk about the history of sitcoms, and discuss some babes from the past.

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In this episode of the Everyday History Podcast, Dustin and Boo Boo take a deep dive into the unexpected and often overlooked history of frozen foods. What started with one man's curiosity about Inuit freezing techniques grew into a global industry that reshaped how the world eats. From Clarence Birdseye’s groundbreaking flash-freezing process to the accidental creation of the first TV dinner, this episode uncovers the breakthroughs, business battles, wartime developments, and cultural shifts that turned frozen foods into a modern essential.

Topics discussed in this episode include:
• The early attempts at freezing food and why most of them failed
• Birdseye’s field discoveries and his experiments with rapid freezing
• The struggle to sell frozen food to a public with unreliable home freezers
• How WWII created a massive need for durable, long-lasting rations
• The origin story of the TV dinner and its industry-wide impact
• The evolution of freezer aisles, frozen vegetables, frozen desserts, and frozen snacks
• A Top 5 Facts segment highlighting unusual and surprising trivia left out of the main episode

In this episode, the boys cover the creation of Coke, Pepsi, and Mountain Dew, and discuss the Cola Wars.

On today's episode of the Everyday History Podcast, Dustin and Boo Boo talk islands, housing and British sitcoms! Well, one British sitcom.

We'll go down the hallway of history and check out the ancient origins of living on top of each other.

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