Brace yourself as your host, Steeven, launches the series with a thunderclap of origin stories, corporate back-room deals, and hard-earned nostalgia.

From Hasbro’s humble fabric-shop beginnings to the public restroom handshake that sent Marvel into full-tilt toy-story mode, this is the raucous, unfiltered origin saga of G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero. 

Ride through the decades: 12-inch dolls, kung-fu grips, file-card biographies, Marvel’s first gambit, Devil’s Due detours, IDW resurrection, and Skybound’s Energon mash-up — all throttled together with Steeven’s trademark wit, weird pop-culture clips, and a feverish, emotional love letter to the eighties. If you want context, you’ll get it.

Listen if you like your history loud, your trivia obsessive, and your host gloriously unpretentious.

Subscribe, crank the volume, and prepare for a briefing: G.I. Joe was never just a toy — it was the comic that taught a generation how to play.

Yo Joe!

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