Patreon Bonus #12 - The John Carpenter Retrospective (or: The Secret Origins of '80s All Over)

'80s All Over

Scott Weinberg and Drew McWeeny

Comedy, Tv & Film

4.6 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2017

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Listeners already know about the first two test episodes of '80s All Over, set in the last year of the '70s, but while you might think those two episodes are where the show began, that's not really the truth. This episode, recorded in 2010, inside a Toronto hotel room, after the premiere of John Carpenter's The Ward, is essentially this show's secret origin. Drew hit record on a career-spanning conversation he and Scott were going to have anyway, and the late night experiment not only succeeded, but it eventually led to the creation of their own show.

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Scott and Drew. And we're here to bring you a special subscriber-only bonus episode.
0:12.7	Drew, why don't you explain to our listeners what this is? I'm so glad that you found this.
0:16.2	Well, right now the Toronto Film Festival's in full swing. And a couple of years ago, we were there when they
0:21.5	premiered The Ward by John Carpenter. And we went back to the hotel where I was staying, just
0:26.6	opened up the laptop, and we just started talking about John's career. That conversation is one of the
0:31.3	first time we started talking about doing a podcast or doing something where we talked about
0:35.1	older films and films we adored. And is in a a lot of ways the very direct precursor to 80s all over.
0:42.3	So because of Toronto, because I found this thing as we were moving some files around, we thought it would be a great one to release to you.
0:48.8	And because we love John Carpenter, always and forever.
0:51.7	Always.
0:52.5	So here you go.
0:53.7	It's a couple of years old, but I think you will hear the same exuberance and late-night enthusiasm that marks so many of the episodes.
1:18.6	I'm going to... Hey, hey everybody. We were just, we just left a film, and we started talking about how excited we were to see a new John Carpenter film.
1:26.6	First one in, I mean, what was Ghost of Mars? What year?
1:29.9	Ghost Mars was 2000.
1:32.6	Right, several, several years.
1:34.9	So, you know, I just said, you know, instead of just having our normal nerdy conversation, why don't we try and refine it a bit and do it for one of our sites?
1:43.7	And Drew said, I like it. So we took some quick notes and we hit record
1:47.8	2001 by the way there we go so almost 10 years since the last time it's crazy that a guy is as talented and you know again we should preface this by saying we're we are horror fanboys but we are not approaching this in that perspective.
2:02.0	We're looking at these films both nostalgically, critically, you know, culturally, and, you know,
2:11.0	obviously when you hear what we have to say, we're going to cover his whole career from stem to stern,
2:16.0	and we far from love every one of his films. And I think it's safe to say that're going to cover his whole career from stem to stern and we far from love every one of
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