Hello and welcome to another Patreon episode of 80s All Over. My name is not Drew McQueenie and I am joined by my co-host Not Scott Weinberg. How are you not Scott? I'm great. How are you not Drew? I am great my back feels great I am not Drew so I'm in a I'm in a wonderful mood and I'm not gonna do any impressions today Alright, well then I well, then I promise not to sing. So we're good. We're set. We're good. We'll a not cool people love my singing. Drew, why don't you tell our listeners what our special event is today? Well, if you're a Patreon supporter, then you have probably picked one of the three levels, either the Eddie Deez and the Debney Coleman of the Thai Web. And as promised, we would like to have Thai Web's on from time to time to talk about their reactions to the show about what attracted them to the topic in the first place, and about the things that they've either discovered through the show, or that they're excited about us getting to. So we have a Thai Web supporter with us today. Please welcome Jeff Movieman. Thank you very much. I'm very excited to be here. Finally happy to finally get to speak to you too. Big fan of the podcast since I first discovered it and just super excited. Well, let me ask you the first, and for me the biggest question is you're 21 years old. So the topic in general, what is it about 80s movies that is attractive to you or exciting to you or that made the podcast something that you wanted to listen to in the first place? Right. And a second part to that question, who's funnier? Me or Drew? Um, it asked your second question, I can't pick. You're both hilarious. All right alright. Well, ever since I was young growing up, I've always been a big movie buff. I grew up with stuff like Indiana Jones and Back to the Future and all that stuff. So I had a bit of infatuation with those sort of 80s films. So I had a good connection with that sort of stuff. And then after I was on Twitter for a while and I found you guys and I saw all your tweets and you again you were both really funny. And I found out you had a podcast about the 80s and I was like, ooh, this sounds fascinating. So I just listened to the first episode and I could not stop. I guess for you a lot of this then is going to be discovery because these are things that first of all the context has got to be really Very different than your experience because you know at 21 you really Grouping a very different era of what theatrical distribution was like and home videos always been a given for you So there's a lot of the ephemera of the show that I would imagine is just you know first time stuff for you What movies? Have you discovered through the show that have become part of your personal cannon? Hold that hold that thought that's our that's our golden question. I want to say that. Okay. Yeah, don't answer that don't ever Yeah, but no, I'm fascinated because Jeff I know you're you're younger than me, but I didn't know you were like literally half my age, and that's awesome.

That makes me so happy because we assumed that 90% of our listeners would be about our age, and then a small handful of movie geeks would be like, well, I don't care if it's 80s, I don't care if it's 20s. I'm interested. And as we go on, we're realizing that we have more listeners under say twenty five

that i expected and i am

so glad

uh... here well And as we go on, we're realizing that we have more listeners under say 25 than I expected and I am so glad you're welcome. I'm happy to hear that. That's very rewarding to know that younger people like to show too. We wanted it to be both nostalgic for people are age but also, hey, it's just a movie review show. You don't have to be over 40 to like this show. And so the fact that, you know, somebody just so young and handsome likes our show, I mean, it's very... Well, I'm flattered. Yep. What other movie podcasts do you like? Well, I mean, honestly, almost a lot of podcasts per se, but I've listened to how did this get made a good bit. And funny. I've honestly, I don't listen to a whole lot of podcasts. Wow, even more flattering. I love that we should have him one every week. There you go. I wish. Why don't we, Jeff, do you have any questions for us? Wait, I would think listening to the show is there something about the show that you wish you were getting more of?

That's a big question. Is there information you don't feel like you get or is there stuff that you wish there was just more of? Because it would help you with what you like about it. I have an idea of what Jeff is longing for and we all know it's me, He's singing for...

Extract your plenty of that!

Jeff! What more singing in the show! I mean, I don't really know how to be honest, I think what you offer on the show, whether it be from like all different histories behind certain movies or your personal connections with them from your childhoods, I think there's plenty of variety in the show and I honestly couldn't think of there being more that I could ask for. It's just so good. Have there been guests that you've been excited by because the guests have been all over the place and I'm still trying to get a reaction on what people because I there are people that I would love to reach out to. I was watching a movie this morning against all odds and one of the camera I was looking at the credits at the end and Rob Hans name went by and Rob Hans is a cameraman who became a cinematographer who I knew really well in the early 90s I want to reach out to him and try and get him on the show because that guy was on a million and four sets and I would imagine has stories that were never gonna get from You know movie stars and think a different perspective. I really feel like with the guests the the biggest thing is Are we getting a broad enough range? I want to keep adding to that. Oh, I think you're getting plenty of range I think you're doing good with branch got from stars to screenwriters to other people who are fans of movies who do other podcasts, that's our stuff. Jeff, I have a question for you. Jeff, do you think that the show has too much fucking profanity? Not at all. God damn it. All right, Jeff, you know what you've earned? You've earned a special improv to sneak preview. Drew McQueenie, give me 30 seconds on slapstick of another kind. Oh my God. It is easily the worst film I've come across he had on the podcast, and it's not just the film itself. It is the naked contempt that the movie has for its audience, and for anybody who might even accidentally have to process five minutes of it. It is a contemptible horrifying thing. That is off the top of his head. Drew and I were talking about other scheduling issues and he goes, by the way, have you revisited Slapstick yet for the show? And I said, no, I literally had nightmares about this comedy when I was a kid. It's Jerry Lewis movie. And it's really obscure. And it's literally one of the worst films I've ever made. And Drew Drew said I think we should maybe do a bonus episode just on this movie. Is that? Oh, it's if I if I could get the guy who directed it to come just describe what horrifying blackmail pictures he had of the people involved with it. Just I don't need to see the photos.

I just want to know what was in the photos because there's no way these people agreed to this if they're on free will. Why are you Jeff? Why are you talking with us? Look up on the Google slapstick of another kind. All right. There's only one photo. You'll see that one photo 4,000 times because that's all that exists. There's a, a one frame, a photograph, snapshot of how atrocious this movie is. And yeah, I remember you mentioned it. What you were talking about, the other Jerry Lewis movie, hardly working. Yeah, early on. And those look great by comparison. Our generation only knew Jerry Lewis basically from cracking up,

hardly working, and this movie slaps Dick of another kind. You show Jerry Lewis to my mom, and she could name five great Jerry Lewis movies. So it's just interesting how you react to a movie star based on like your age. Oh yeah. And like it's true. There's a lot of people that like the early, early 80s,

Uncle Dimpond was a lot of people that like the early night early 80s

Angled and pond was a big example where that was my real introduction to Catherine Hepburn and it was weird then going back and really Twigging into the rest of the work like as I got older Lawrence Olivier in Clash of the Titans Oh god. Yeah, you're like. Oh, yeah, he's pretty cool And then you're like, I'm 10 years old. And then the more I read about Clash of the Titans, the more I realize,

oh, this guy who played Zeus is like... Oh god yeah. You're like, oh yeah, he's pretty cool. And then you're like, I'm 10 years old. And then the more I read about Clash of the Titans,

the more I realize, oh, this guy who played Zeus is like the greatest actor of all time. I did not know that. Oh, he's famous famous. Yeah, he's super famous. On the other hand, you have the, I have no sign. Oh, Jeff. that's on that and see that true.

Keep that one in your pocket.

That is good to bring out at parties.

And yeah.

Are you training to be a rabbi because that was impressive. I was I I felt I felt like guilt for a second. That's how good your rabbi Yeah, but I was gonna say about the JLU's thing I guess when you said about growing up those kinds of movies I guess maybe it depended on the availability of Parts of this homography about that back then. I mean back then in terms of video and what was around to see like when I was growing up I knew Jerry Lewis from the nutty professor mainly well good You then you had a better Jerry Lewis upbringing than I did because I think hardly working was the first Jerry Lewis Bill Myrsel. And you know, And it was, I had trouble, my biggest problem was I couldn't connect it to. Like there was the Jerry Lewis that was on this TV that was on old movies and I would watch the Dean Martin Jerry Lewis stuff anytime it was on like on Saturdays or after school. Those were fun movies, but it had no connection to the horrifying nightmare creature that kept showing up in theaters when I was a kid. I really had a hard time like believing that that was the same Jerry Lewis. And look, we all go through it. We all live a continuum in terms of where we jump on board with actors. And the fun of it is for for me, going through those periods where, and a lot of the 80s, a lot of my impression of the 80s, was home video stuff where I was going crazy on filmmakers from the 70s or filmmakers from the 60s and 50s and catching up on stuff. So that's a lot of my memory of this time period, is just mainlining like three weeks of Warren Beatty movies in three weeks of Jack Nicholson movies and half the time it was something would come out in the theater and there'd be an older person whose career existed before I got interested in film and the new movie was where I go okay now I need to go back and figure it all out. Right like when police academy came out I wanted to go and and dig up the complete works of George Gaines. Who didn't? George Gaines, what very, very, very funny actor. On gay? That's so rough, I can relate with that, because I feel that way about sort of people, like, you know how, and the first example I can think of is like after I heard Paul Newman in cars, I got curious about his past career like with Cassidy and Towering and Ferno and all that stuff. Yeah, yeah, that's the, I noticed that about Robert Redford as well. I when he showed up in Captain America and in Pete's Dragon, I thought, all right, well, you know, two or three generations, no Robert Redford. But now a fourth generation knows Robert Redford from Pete's Dragon and will now like when they're 25 years old, we'll go, I love that actor from Pete's Dragon and dig into 20 other films he made. Well, this happened the other day on Twitter, Scott. You mentioned something about Tim Conway and you did not realize and nor did I that there's a generation that's connected him because of SpongeBob SquarePants. Like I would have never guessed that he had that many young fans, but there was some new thing that he they connected them to him. So that makes me so happy and it all sounds like a backhanded compliment, but it is not it is a huge compliment. I don't care if Tim Conway was on one episode of SpongeBob and that was enough to bring in young fans That to me is is beautiful. I think it's I think it's a great thing that you know a great performers You know at the end of their career She gets a star in a kids movie or something adventure movie and then all of a sudden they have a brand new audience That when they get a little older will embrace that person's work. And it happens with writers, it happens with directors, and it's part of the movie obsession that I love. You know, you might go, like you say, oh, Paul Newman, I know he's a super famous actor, but I only really know him from like cars. That's it. I better delve into this. And then, you know, a month later, you're a lot smarter because you decided to delve into,

you know, a filmmaker, you didn't know all that well.

And Drew and I have done it hundreds of times.

I think most movie gigs do it.

You go, oh wow, I loved real genius.

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