October 1984

'80s All Over

Scott Weinberg and Drew McWeeny

Comedy, Tv & Film

4.6 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2019

⏱️ 85 minutes

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October is a weird month every year so far in the '80s, and this year's no exception. We've got Linda Blair and a crossbow, stolen diaries and horny housewives, slashers and horny teens and... one of the greatest documentaries of the decade? Okay, didn't see that coming. We're going to England, to Alaska, to Israel, and to Encino. Paul McCartney shits the bed, JoBeth Williams shows up twice, and we've got at least three stone cold classics. All that and BODY DOUBLE? Let me wallow. It's October 1984.

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0:00.0	Hi, I got a tape I want to play.
0:04.0	There are few decades in film history that have been as scrutinized as the 1980s, but
0:25.6	to really understand the decade and its movies, it's going to take a couple some ones who
0:29.6	were there for it the first time around.
0:31.6	Drew McQueenie and Scott Weinberg are ready to review every major film of the decade,
0:36.6	one month at a time. The look at what
0:39.0	worked then, what endures now, and how it felt to be there when it all went down. Turn back
0:44.9	the calendar with us. It's the 80s all over. The federal government shut down because they could not agree about the passage of certain bills.
1:24.9	But that seems crazy, right?
1:26.0	Thank God, things like that can't happen now.
1:28.3	The Challenger left the Earth once more, and Dr. Catherine D. Sullivan became the first U.S.
1:32.8	woman to walk in space. Reverend Desmond Tutu won the Nobel Peace Prize, and Indian Prime Minister
1:37.9	Indira Gandhi was killed in her home by her own bodyguards, even as the IRA bombed a London
1:42.2	hotel where Mayor at Thatcher was staying pretty much
1:44.5	summing up the turbulent times. You need something more tranquil? Okay, the Monterey Bay Aquarium
1:49.4	open for the first time. I've been there. It's lovely. And now I feel relaxed and ready to face
1:53.9	the wild ride that is October of 1984. Hi, everybody. I'm Drew McGuinney, and welcome to 80s all over. I'm joined, as always, by my co-host, Scott Weinberg.
2:03.0	How are you, Scott?
2:03.9	Hello, Drew.
2:04.7	How are you today?
2:06.4	First of all, we are going to back up just a month or two, just a couple of months here.
2:13.2	We missed a movie.
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