April 1981

'80s All Over

Scott Weinberg and Drew McWeeny

Comedy, Tv & Film

4.6 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2017

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Get ready to listen to the only podcast you will ever hear that manages to transition from Tony Danza in GOIN' APE to Federico Fellini's CITY OF WOMEN. That's right, it's April 1981, and that means it's one seriously weird line-up. There are some classics, like EXCALIBUR and NIGHTHAWKS, and there are some no-so-classics like CAVEMAN and BLOODY BIRTHDAY. We found a delightful and largely forgotten Western with Burt Lancaster, and you'll get to hear a story about how Drew was a total creep to Susan Sarandon. What are you waiting for? Press play now!

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0:00.0	There are few decades in film history that have been as scrutinized as the 1980s. But to really understand the decade and its movies, it's going to take a couple some ones
0:23.2	who were there for it the first time around.
0:25.7	Drew McQueenie and Scott Weinberg are ready to review every major film of the decade
0:30.5	one month at a time.
0:31.9	The look at what worked then, what endures now, and how it felt to be there when it all went
0:36.9	down.
0:39.4	Turn back the calendar with us.
1:19.0	It's the 80s all over. Thank you. I'm going to The first confirmed diagnosis of a sexually transmitted disease causing Carposi's sarcoma was made by Dr. John Gullet in San Francisco.
1:21.9	The first reusable spacecraft, the Space Shuttle Columbia, was launched from Cape Canaveral
1:25.4	at 7 o'clock a.m. Eastern Standard Time.
1:28.2	And John Kennedy O'Toole won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for the amazing, remarkable, a Confederacy of Dunstes, 12 years after he killed himself despondent that he couldn't get the book published.
1:38.2	Also, the very first test drive of Bigfoot, the very first monster truck took place in a field near St. Louis, Missouri. So, oh, yes,
1:45.1	shit was crushed. And forget all of that because we're here to talk instead about the eclectic
1:49.5	lineup of movies that came out in April of 1981. Hi, this is Scott Weiberg. I'm the co-host of 80s
1:55.7	all over. I'm Drew McQueenie. This is one of those months. It is all over the place. And half of this stuff I've
2:02.3	never heard of, not even when it originally came out. For the most part, you and I are rediscovering
2:06.9	a lot of these movies. And it's both a joy and occasionally a real freaking chore. Well, look,
2:15.1	one of the things that I, one of the things that I personally am worried about is making sure that we get
2:18.8	everything right. And it is really tricky with release dates because of the way regional releases
2:23.6	and things work back then. So once again, we're going to do a real quick run through of
2:28.3	say oops upside your head. Say oops upside your head. We pulled a boner because it is like...
2:37.8	Our listeners should get an example of like, like, I mean, for example,
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