November 1983

'80s All Over

Scott Weinberg and Drew McWeeny

Comedy, Tv & Film

4.6 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2018

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

And just like that, we round the corner and can see the end of the year looming up suddenly. It's a crazy month of releases, too. There are not one but two nuclear nightmares, obscure teen wig-outs, a giant rat, America's favorite haunted house in 3-D, and a Smurfs movie with no damn Smurfs. Chevy Chase in a comedy from the director of The Exorcist and The French Connection? Sure. How about a movie about an out of work aerospace engineer, his schoolteacher wife, and the male stripper who comes between them from the director of Rockyand The Karate Kid? Sure! We've got a pirate film written by John Hughes, Robbie Benson as a Native American Olympic athlete, and a genuine no-shit embarrassment from the legendary Sam Peckinpah. All that, plus a holiday classic and the last film of the '70s?

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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.
1:28.6	It's the 80s all over. Thank you. I'm going to Michael Jackson released a song called Thriller and just imagine how different as queer might have been if it had been a hit.
1:34.0	A bomb exploded in the U.S. Capitol and thankfully no one was hurt. Maybe that was because the federal government was shut down.
1:39.3	Terry Pratchett published The Color of Magic, the first book in his long-running and utterly charming disc world series.
1:44.8	And it was chaos out there. Beer executive, Alfred Heineken, was kidnapped and rescued by police in Amsterdam.
1:47.1	Sam Shepard's Wolf opened on Broadway.
1:48.8	The ninth space shuttle mission was launched.
1:52.7	And at Heathrow Airport, a daring robbery of the Brinksmat Warehouse netted $38.7 million in gold bars, along with diamonds and cash and what may be one of the biggest heists of all time.
1:59.3	And that's a hell of a way to kick off November of 1983.
2:15.8	Hi, everybody. I'm Drew McQueenie. And welcome to 80s all over. I'm joined as always by my co-host, Scott Weinberg. Scott, what's up?
2:18.3	Hello, Drew.
2:19.2	I noticed that in your news recaps at the beginning, you never talk about, like, new cartoons or candy bars or breakfast cereals.
2:26.8	It's all very serious stuff.
2:28.0	You're in the big leagues.
2:29.6	Big league chew.
2:30.8	Bad size wards of great taste and shredded bubblegum stuffed into a giant stay fresh pouch.
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