Culture Dumps

In the mid 1990’s extreme sports were peaking in popularity. Whether it was inline skating, skateboarding, or BMX, kids around the world were more than willing to jump off shit. Enter Soaps. An extre…

This week we have a bonus episode! Ryan sits down with David Yontef, the host of Behind the Velvet Rope Podcast and all around pop culture guru . They discuss everything from the roots of reality tv,…

This week on Culture Dumps we examine the most bizarre passion project in the history of music. In 1999 Garth Brooks could not have been more famous. As the most successful country singer seemingly o…

2 Live Crew is one of the notorious rap groups in Hip Hop history. They added a new level of hypersexual lyrics that was as offensive as it was popular. Their platinum selling album, As Nasty As The…

We have reached the end of the plush road. We conclude our Beanie Baby coverage with tales of bankruptcy, break ups, arrests, and the bursting of the one of the biggest speculative bubbles of all tim…

We are officially deep in the depths of this Beanie Baby Dump. We document the huge surge in popularity of Beanie Babies. The “retirement” of certain beanies created a scarcity in the market that dr…

Here it is folks, the first installment of our coverage of one of the biggest Culture Dumps in history. Ty Beanie Babies. What became the biggest toy crazy of the 1990’s, the first internet shopping …

Spring Break is one of the most iconic rites of passage for the bright, young scholars of the USA. Filled with underage drinking, bad decisions and memories to last a lifetime, Ryan and Parks breakdo…

Alcohol has been around for thousands of years, it is rare to to see a new variation of the devil’s juice. In 2010  a new monster was released into the world and drinking would never be the same. Fou…

The Monkees are a pop culture anomaly, a multi-platinum selling band created by television producers. While The Monkees hold a special place in American music history, their rebooted counterpart, The…

We go back to the ballpark this week with Ten Cent Beer Night! One of the wildest nights in baseball and sports history in general. What could go wrong giving thousands of heated baseball fans unlimi…

The swing revival movement of the 1990’s was one of the biggest alternative movements in pop culture history. Big bands, gin, dancing, fedoras, and pretentious older punk rockers, it had it all! We d…

The Culture Dumps crew tackles our first book, Go Ask Alice. “Alice” is the supposedly real diary of a teenage girl lost in a downward spiral of drug addiction. The book was a huge success upon its r…

Ryan and Andy dissect one of the most notorious menu items in fast food history. The mad scientists of KFC pushed the limits of fast food excess, laughing in the face of anyone attempting to be cons…

As the year 2000 approached, the world was in a panic. It was believed that the computer systems that were heavily relied upon for almost all basic functions of modern society would seize to exist. P…

If you lived in the suburbs in 2001 chances are you owned or wanted a pair of Osiris D3’s. The most infamous skate shoe of all time was not so well known for its design or usefulness in the world’s m…

Janet Jackson was one of the biggest stars on the planet in 2004. She was also booked to perform at the biggest annual televised event America has to offer. Millions upon millions of album sales and …

The success story of Scatman John is truly an anomaly. A struggling jazz singer records a novelty dance song centered around an incredibly polarizing style of vocalization. Suddenly in his 50s, the S…