The year is 1985 and progress is our middle name.

The movie?

Oh no.

Hello, it's Amy from 2025, barging into this episode.

We recorded in 2021 with updates on a movie that I absolutely adore and there's still so much more to talk about.

Absolutely.

Amy, thank you for letting me Einstein along with you.

That's right, a co-pilot and your DeLorean

to kind of reframe Back to the Future. This is an episode that we recorded back in 2021,

and now in the year of 2025, it's the 40th anniversary of Back to the Future. And so much information

has come out since we talked about the film and

so many retrospectives. And I feel like as time passes, people are willing to spill the beans

and a lot more stuff. So I feel like this is actually a great time to look at Back to the Future.

You're going to hear the whole episode, but some little tidbits before we even get started.

Yeah, exactly. Because what we're going to talk about, old us, and do you think we should tell old us any advice about what's going to happen in the next four years or just let them find out? Oh, man. Wow, wow. Have some innocence. Have some innocence, 2021 me. The 2021 versions of us are probably thinking like, what could happen in four years? What do we turn out to be assholes? And, you know, we may not turn out to be assholes, but there are a lot of assholes out there. Or we might. Who knows? Yes. That's a question for Amy of 2030. I will say this. On the rewatch of this, there is a lot of things that I feel like back to the future got right about where we are. And we're going to get into it all. But I just, that was actually the thing I took away the most. I was like, oh, they really saw the way the future might be affecting the past and vice versa, or maybe I'm getting that confused.

I mean, however it is, I thought that when we covered this movie in 2021, we were getting into every single tiny little detail in a movie that I think is just rich with details.

And since then, I continue to rewatch back to the future and continue to have my mind blown.

Paul, can I tell you a thing that I only noticed this week rewatching this movie? Tell me. Okay. So, you know how right at the very beginning of the movie, Marty's on a date with Jennifer. They're at the park. Well, what used to be the park before it got paved over and turned into a parking lot, but was a park in the past, as we'll see. And the woman comes up riding like can and she's like, save the clock tower, save the clock tower. Do you know what I never noticed? What? What do you think she's trying to do? She's trying to raise money for the clock tower. Yeah, for what, though? For the lightning strike that happened in 1955 because they never fixed it.

Yeah, and what does she want to do?

Fix the clock.

No.

Listen to this.

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