July 1984

'80s All Over

Scott Weinberg and Drew McWeeny

Comedy, Tv & Film

4.6 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2018

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

1984 giveth, and 1984 taketh away. After a month as great as June of 1984, it almost seems inevitable we'd get a terrible Cheech & Chong movie, some weird-ass Judge Reinhold thing you've never heard of, and a fistful of movies that Scott and Drew disagree on pretty wholeheartedly. We're ready to crap on your childhood favorite, so say goodbye to your favorite horse. It's July of 1984.

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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 MPAA officially introduced a new rating called the PG-13 as a way of giving parents more options to be confused about what their kids might see in a theater.
1:24.6	The National Minimum Drinking Age Act made it illegal for anyone under 21 to buy or consume alcohol
1:29.2	in any state that wanted federal highway funding.
1:31.5	Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferrar were chosen as the Democratic presidential and vice-presidential
1:35.7	nominees, even as Vanessa Williams was asked to resign as Miss America over nude photos
1:39.7	that appeared in Pint House magazine.
1:41.3	And finally, George Michael released Careless Whispers a single because
1:44.4	life was freaking awesome in July of 1984.
2:00.1	Hi, everybody. I'm Drew McQueenie. And as always, welcome to 80s all over. I'm joined by my co-host, Scott Weinberg. What's up, Scott?
2:08.0	Walter Mondale won one state. Mondale beast mode. Yeah, I didn't know much about politics back then. And I actually thought Ronald Reagan was a good president. That's how stupid I was.
2:18.7	You were 13. It's okay.
2:20.9	June 1984, I'm so happy to see the way people reacted because I think for so many people,
2:26.3	so many of their favorite films got reped that month.
2:28.8	Even if you didn't love something, they seemed like they were pretty happy with how he handled it.
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