February 1983

'80s All Over

Scott Weinberg and Drew McWeeny

Comedy, Tv & Film

4.6 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2018

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Okay, you know what? 1983 is already getting really interesting. Think about what we get to talk about this week. Bukowski. Wim Wenders. The Year Of Living Dangerously. Pinter. Hal Ashby. The Rolling Stones. Gilbert & Sullivan. Linda Ronstadt. And at least three genuinely all-time great films that I haven't even hinted at? I see you, 1983, and I like where you're going. Let's do this.

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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.
0:55.0	It's the 80s all over. I'm I'm I'm I'm
0:57.0	I'm The war crime trial of Gestapo commandment
1:18.0	Klaus Barbie began in France.
1:20.4	Weird Al Yankovic recorded his first single Ricky,
1:23.0	as well as his debut LP Buckingham Blues.
1:33.2	Music his debut L.P. Buckingham Blues. The EPA announced that we'd buy the small town of Times Beach, Missouri, because the community
1:37.2	had been poisoned by dioxin, leading to its eventual full evacuation. And at the end of the
1:41.7	month, Michael Jackson's album, Thriller, went to number one
1:44.9	on the charts where it stayed for the next 37 weeks. That's not even the most exciting thing
1:48.9	to happen to pop culture in February of 1983. Hi, everyone. I am the video word made flesh,
1:53.7	and I am your co-host for 80s all over. Long live the new flesh. Wow. That is Drew McQueenie,
2:00.7	making a video drum reference. And I am Mcweeney making a video drone reference.
2:02.2	And I am Scott Weinberg accepting said video germ reference.
2:05.7	For more, you'll have to wait till the tail end of this episode.
2:09.0	But rest assured, we will discuss that.
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