#344 Ghostbusters (Bowery Boys Movie Club)

The Bowery Boys: New York City History

Tom Meyers

Places & Travel, History, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.7 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

To wrap up this month's series of spooky-themed shows, we're releasing this 2018 episode of our "Bowery Boys Movie Club", in which we conjure up New York City in the early 1980s in Ivan Reitman's box-office smash Ghostbusters. How does this zany horror comedy use the plight of New York City as a backdrop for its grab bag of goofy ghosts? How do the histories of the New York Public Library, Columbia University, Central Park and the Upper West Side become entangled in its strange and hilarious plot? And why is the Tribeca location of Ghostbusters headquarters -- in an abandoned firehouse -- so important to the story? Enjoy the show -- and be sure to join us on patreon.com/boweryboys to support the show and hear all episodes of the Movie Club! Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/boweryboys

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0:00.0	Hi there, this is Tom Myers and this week on the Bowery Boys
0:04.7	Greg and I thought that we would
0:06.7	wrap up this month of really spooky shows by releasing our
0:12.4	Bowery Boys movie club episode from
0:16.0	2018 on Ghostbusters the
0:19.8	1984 comedy classic which was shot all over New York City
0:26.1	Now today's show is brought to you by our patrons who get free access to all of the Bowery Boys movie club episodes
0:33.8	when joining us on patreon.com slash Bowery Boys and patrons
0:39.6	Be sure to check out your feed because we just released a new episode today the
0:46.6	1989 romantic comedy classic when Harry met Sally it's pure
0:52.7	Escapism, but now grab some popcorn and enjoy the show
0:58.5	The Bowery Boys movie club presents
1:01.2	Ghostbusters starring Bill Murray, Dan Acroid and Sigourney Weaver
1:08.7	Hello there welcome to the Bowery Boys movie club. This is Greg Young and this is Tom Myers and we are so excited to be back for our
1:17.6	second installment of the movie club. We hope that you've listened to taxi driver. We hope you've watched
1:24.1	Taxi. Yeah, and actually I bet we'll mention it a few times in this show because for our latest episode because we're in the
1:32.1	Halloween Ghost theme we thought that we would take a look at the
1:37.1	1984 movie Ghostbusters
1:48.1	There it is our favorite theme song. I was wondering how long into this we'd have to wait before you would put that in. We thought we I just
1:57.1	Just set in there early because it's such an earworm. It will like ring the back of your mind
2:04.1	For the rest of the show here. So you know, by the way, that was my sixth grade talent in our talent show at Shumaker School
2:11.1	I played the Ghostbusters theme song on the piano. Oh way! Yes, and I
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