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December 5, 2023 94 mins

Welcome back to Nothing Scarier Podcast!

This week we watch our first Jordan Peele movie - Us!  Join your hosts while they watch this terrifying doppelganger horrorfest. Then join hands while Cayla brings us one of the real life inspirations for the movie - and one of the most 80s event ever - Hands Across America!


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Sources: 

  • Klein, Christopher. “Remembering Hands across America - HISTORY.” Www.history.com, 25 May 2016, www.history.com/news/remembering-hands-across-america.
  • Pear, Robert, and Special To the New York Times. “REAGAN’S SOCIAL IMPACT; News Analysis.” The New York Times, 25 Aug. 1982, www.nytimes.com/1982/08/25/us/reagan-s-social-impact-news-analysis.html.
  • Reagan, Ronald . “Memorandum on Establishing a Task Force on Food Assistance.” Ronald Reagan, 2 Aug. 1983, www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/speech/memorandum-establishing-task-force-food-assistance. Accessed Dec. 2023.
  • Rothman, Lily. “A Turning Point for Hunger in America.” Time, Time, 7 Sept. 2016, time.com/4477157/hunger-america-history/.
  • “The TIME Vault: January 23, 1984.” TIME.com, 23 Jan. 1984, time.com/vault/issue/1984-01-23/page/23/. Accessed Dec. 2023.

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