July 1982

'80s All Over

Scott Weinberg and Drew McWeeny

Comedy, Tv & Film

4.6 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2017

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

In July of '82, things were all over the place, and this is one of our weirdest episodes yet as a result. We've got the creator of Happy Days chasing the success of Airplane!, we've got the start of the big S.E. Hinton landrush with Disney's Tex, and we've got one of the weirdest Chuck Norris films of the era. And that's just to warm up. If you've ever wondered what it would have been like if George Lucas had starred in Smokey and the Bandit, you can finally find out. You want Burt Reynolds and Dolly Parton in a big fat musical love story? We've got it. And it's time for Ron Howard's ascent to power to start with a comedy about hookers starring Michael Keaton. You'll learn the weird origins to two of the biggest power anthems of the '80s, and you'll hear Drew cry about one of his favorite movie stars. All that, and we'll throw in Raw Force, the single craziest film we've covered so far, all for the low low price of free. Who loves you? '80s All Over does, baby.

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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.
1:27.1	It's the 80s all over. I'm going to be. I'm going to be. I'm going to The Unification Church held a mass wedding for 2,100 couples in New York City, even as the Reverend Sun Young Moon was sentenced to 18 months for tax fraud.
1:30.7	The first victim of the Green River Killer was found near Seattle, Washington.
1:37.1	The FCC approved the first ever AM Stereo radio station in KTSA San Antonio was the first station to go stereo.
1:42.1	And in a small off-Broadway theater, a show called Little Shop of Horrors made its premiere. Little Shop, Little Shop, Little Shop, and Terror, Call the Cop, Little Shop, Little Shop,
1:49.9	The Horrors, No, oh, no.
1:53.2	Oddly, that is not the most amazing thing that happened in entertainment in July of 1982.
1:58.3	Hi, everybody, I'm Drew McQueenie, and welcome to another episode of 80s all over.
2:02.2	I'm joined as always by my co-host Scott Weinberg, who's on the road this week. What's up,
2:06.7	Scott? Hi, Drew. How are you? I am recording from Austin, my friend Stephen DeGenero, who, if you
2:14.1	didn't know, is the writer, director, sound guru on found footage 3D.
2:18.3	Stephen wanted to throw a party to celebrate the release of our movie.
2:21.6	But we wanted to make sure we got this episode in the books.
2:24.4	So here I am recording from location.
2:26.8	As always, we appreciate all of the feedback, all of the reviews, all the reactions on social
2:31.2	media.
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