Hello patrons and welcome to a special bonus subscriber episode of 80s all over.

As you are probably well aware by now, there is a very big Spielberg film making the

rounds in theaters.

We'll be discussing ready player one.

It seems like a perfect fit for us because so much of the conversation around the film hinges on the value and or the problems with nostalgia.

And the movie itself is, of course, built on the hook that these kids are playing this video game where they're trying to find the

puzzle that will solve everything and win them the entire internet and it's all hinged on 80s movie

trivia basically that sounds like it's going to be just barrage of pop culture and nothing else

and certainly that was the fear going in i think there's more to talk about than that.

And so, Scott, we not only are going to talk about the movie, we've got a very special guest this week.

We've got the screenwriter of the film, Zach Penn.

So I think this is going to be our big ready player bonus.

And I hope you guys enjoy.

Let's just lay a little bit of foundation on what Spielberg means to us. No filmmaker is

infallible. No filmmaker is perfect. We are all human beings. Artists are human and by default,

we are going to screw up sometimes. Let's take off the rose-colored glasses. While I do believe

that Spielberg is one of the most accomplished and impressive and entertaining

filmmakers ever, if you're not necessarily as enamored with him as we are, then that's fine,

too.

Well, you don't have to like his movies to acknowledge the fact that he may have one of the single

greatest film voices of anybody who's ever shot mainstream film.

And that is because he, from a very,

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