The New Beverly Cinema presents the Pure Cinema Podcast. My name is Brian Sauer. I'm joined, as always, by the delightful Mr. Elric Kane. And we are doing a very special episode this month. This is a 80s-centric episode. And so we've

invited a gentleman that we think is one of the, you know, premier experts in 80s cinema. And we can

talk about its credentials as we go. But we're delighted to have Mr. Drew Mcweeney joining us on the

mic tonight. Hello, Drew. Hi, how are you? And thank you

guys. Thank you for having me in. It's a pleasure, and it's been a long time coming. It's

actually overdue for you to be on the show, and we really appreciate you coming on. So, Drew,

you obviously had a show that was, we thought of as like, I mean, it was sort of like a cousin show to us when we first got started. You were doing 80s Oliver, Scott Weinberg, and it was a great show.

And I feel like you actually made a joke about our show, I think, at one point on your show.

And we just, like, we got such a kick out of it.

And it was such a neat idea.

But you have a lot of other things we can talk about. But for those that don't know, 80s all over was a great podcast where you guys were literally going through every month release by release of all the films that came out in the

1980s. And you got how far into the decade? We got to the beginning of, we got to April of 85.

So we got almost exactly halfway in. And just the demands of the podcast blew it up.

I love, you know, the experience of doing it. I wish we could have finished it.

Was it also because there's just more and more movies being made each year? So the volume was

increasing? It is, it is wild to see that bell curve in the 80s because as they were building

multiplexes and the demand was there and then

the straight to video, the almost straight to video thing where as long as you played somewhere

for a couple of weeks, you were a theatrical release and then that helped. Yeah, it was wild. So

just there's so many more. You went from 280 movies a year to like 600 movies a year.

Oh, my God.

It's wild to see the difference.

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