There are a few decades in film history that have been as screwed nuts as the 1980s, but to really understand the decade and its movies, it's going to take a couple of someone's who were there for it the first time around. Drew McQueenie and Scott Weinberg are ready to review every major film of the decade, one month at a time. The look at what worked then, what endoers now, and how it felt to be there when it all went down. Turn back to calendar with us. It's the 80s all over. The US minimum wage was raised to $3.35 per hour. A deal was closed to release $8 million in frozen assets in order to secure the release of the 52 US Embassy workers still being held hostage in Iran, and they were finally returned home on January 25th. Hill Street Blues made its debut on NBC, and finally, Elijah Wood was born the same day that President Reagan signed an executive order that edited all federal price and allocation control on gas and fuel oil. How the hell did anyone find time for movies in January of 1981? Hi, I'm Scott Weinberg, and I'm Drew McQueenie, and welcome to season two of 80s all over. Holy shit, that's awesome. I love saying that. Welcome to season two. Thank you to all of our listeners. Drew made a joke we were talking last night, and whenever we talk about our patrons, our fans, our listeners, we always both refer to them as readers. And that's because we're both writers. So it's safe to say that anybody who's listening to this podcast has read something by Drew and or myself at least once. And if not, please do, we're actually not bad. Yeah, yeah. He's all right. He's okay. Um, but yeah, so we will always refer to

you as our readers always, always, although we also now would love to refer to you as patrons. Scott mentioned that word earlier, and I just want to say we have the new Patreon up and running for 80s. Oh, we are going to have an ongoing debate over whether it's Patreon or Patreon. I think I'm gonna put a gif at the top of each one of the pages.

Gif, hard g starts the word. It's g. How do you pronounce golf? Is it golf? No, it's golf. I pronounce it Patreon. Drew, why don't you tell our listeners at AKA readers what they'll get if they subscribe to our Patreon page. Well, there are three totally different levels. If you come in at the $5 level, then you're in Eddie Deezin. Wow! And you know what? Eddie Deezin's awesome.

There is nothing... to our Patreon page. Well, there are three totally different levels. If you come in at the $5 level, then you're an Eddie Deezin.

Wow.

And you know what?

Eddie Deezin's awesome. There is nothing wrong with being Eddie Deezin. But Eddie Deezin gets you access to all of our audio content. Now, that's not just the podcast anymore. We are going to start doing bonus episodes. And those bonus episodes are going a consist of several different formats.

We're gonna start doing full length feature film commentaries

for the films that we've covered already on 80s all over.

So you guys will be able to download those. Yes, we will also be doing interviews with several iconic 1980s actors, screenwriters, and hopefully some directors as well. Yeah, I think it's going to be amazing the depth of people that we get because already just looking at people that have said yes right away, terrific. They're going to be terrific interviews. And I'm really excited. Some of these people I've never spoken to and I've been waiting literally in some cases 35 to 37 years to have these exact conversations. The 12 monthly episodes and I don't mean they come out monthly. I mean they cover month of 1981, for example, the month of 1981. Those and the recap episode which you got last week will always be free of charge, always without question. The subscribers, however, will get the interviews, the commentaries, and a few other fun ideas that we have for bonus audio content. And I'm prepared right now to make an offer. If we get to a thousand dollars monthly patronage for the podcast, I'll record the very first film nerd 2.0 full length reaction commentary and you will be able to listen along live as the boys watch an American werewolf in London for the very first time. Are you gonna let them know that you're recording

or are you gonna just put the recorder

on the coffee table and let it roll? I'm gonna make sure that they understand what's happening. But beforehand just tell them, look, this is like any other time we watch a movie and we're gonna have a great time and they're so excited already. This movie has been on the stack for a while They've been working up the nerve.

And I think what happened was we had a conversation.

They realized that having seen the beginning

or Twilight Zone the movie, And I think what happened was we had a

conversation they realized that having seen the beginning of Twilight Zone the movie they know now what a John Landis jump scare feels like. So they're like, if that's what a jump scare in this movie is going to be like, okay, we can do this. We can make it through. So I think they're ready and they're super curious. It's gonna be great. Let's move on to this month's episode. What else do we got? Say oops, but sad to hear it say oops, I'm sad to hear. Say. We pulled a boner real quick and it's not so much a boner this time as it is a Freudian slip. Last time out, when we were talking about Popeye in the December 1980 episode, Scott referred to Punch Drunk Love directed by Paul W. S. Anderson.

Oh my good God. Yes. Well, my mechalpa as everybody knows, Paul Thomas Anderson is the genius behind a book Unites and Magnolia. Paul W. S. Anderson is a totally different kind of genius behind event horizon and resident evil. I-

I-

I listen to listen twice because it was so great. And believe me, you go by it like 70 miles an hour, you never realized you did it. It's great. I want you know what? Another time I will tell the story how, thanks to Fantastic Fest, I once had a barbecue dinner with Paul Thomas Anderson and didn't realize it for 15 or 20 minutes into the meal. When you tell that, I'll tell an even better Paul Thomas Anderson story and we will match them. Believe me, that episode, whenever we get to it, we'll be well worth tuning in for. True. Name a movie that came out in January, 1980, fucking one. January, 1981 was the month that there was a documentary and I used that word very loosely

about Nostradamus narrated by Orradamus, the man who saw tomorrow from Warner Brothers rated PG- Here's why I love this fucking podcast. I saw this movie and I didn't even realize it until I started doing research for this episode. For some reason in my head I had the man who saw it tomorrow is like some Henry Fonda walking across the desert drama that I never saw. And then I did my research and I'm like guaranteed I saw this on UHF in like 1986 or something. It's a fun relic for those who like to look back at these faux documentaries were very popular in this era in the late 70s and very early 80s. They kind of were pass A by 82. It's funny because this guy, even though he didn't work on this show, man does this give me an in search of vibe. Oh, totally. In search of to those who don't know was a picture at like unsolved mysteries of the time hosted by Leonard Nimoy.

It was great.

It was one of those things where I think because Leonard Nimoy hosted it, that was my way into it, but it was also kind of it felt at that perfect time where I still was willing to believe in big foot or the Loch Ness Monster UFOs or whatever else. And I really ate that show up. It was such a good show. There was like an umbrella over pop culture

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