October 1983

'80s All Over

Scott Weinberg and Drew McWeeny

Comedy, Tv & Film

4.6 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2018

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Do you have the right stuff to make it through this month? It's a fair question, because even though there are some highs, like, oh, one of the greatest movies of the entire decade and one of the best Stephen King adaptations and one of the great unsung horror movies of the decade, there are some lows. And, man, do we mean lows. But that's what we've gotten used to here at '80s All Over, and so we dove in without hesitation, and somehow lived to tell the story of October 1983.

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0:00.0	Dear Lord, please don't let me fuck up.
0:05.0	There are few
0:20.0	been as scrutinized as the 1980s, but
0:24.1	to really understand the decade and its movies, it's going to take a couple some ones
0:28.2	who were there for it the first time around.
0:30.6	Drew McGweeney and Scott Weinberg are ready to review every major film of the decade one
0:35.8	month at a time.
0:36.9	The look at what worked then, what endures now, and how it felt to be there when it all went down.
0:42.9	Turn back the calendar with us.
0:46.3	It's the 80s all over.
1:31.5	Yeah. I'm Lequilesa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work as a labor activist and Polish politician.
1:34.7	Lionel Richie released Can't Slow Down his second solo album,
1:37.4	spawning singles like All Night Long and The Obiquitous Hello.
1:43.8	Please note the release date of October 1983 for the album that won the Grammy for Album of the Year in 1985, because that shit makes no sense.
1:50.0	The first Settler Network in America was launched by Ameritech Mobile, later known as Singular, in Chicago, Illinois.
1:57.0	And finally, in one of those moments that makes you think we get it right sometimes, the U.S. Senate established Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday as a national holiday,
2:05.2	which has got to be the coolest thing that happened in October of 1983.
2:08.8	Hi, everybody. My name is Drew McQueenie, and welcome to 80s all over. I'm joined, as always, by
2:12.4	my co-host, Scott Weinberg. What's up, buddy? Hi, everybody. I'm Drew Mcweeney, and as always, I'm joined by Michael Holmes, McNeick, man.
2:21.4	Hey, Scott, I heard you have some big news.
2:23.5	What's your big news, man?
2:24.3	Oh, yeah.
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