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Listen, man, we're just of kids out looking for good times.

If everyone would stay away, we get our love just fine.

Mike McBeardell-McBurton. I am so excited to talk to you again.

Awesome. I'm excited to talk to you.

It has been years since we've talked. We talked when, what were we doing? Black Roses?

Talking about heavy metal movies?

That's right. So that was five years ago.

Holy shit. And now we're talking about teen movie hell, a crucible of coming of age comedies from Animal House to Zapped.

Why did you say, okay, I'm going to go from heavy metal movies to teen movies?

Is that the next natural step?

It's actually in reverse order in terms of my natural interests.

I had been wanting to write a book about teen

sex comedies, specifically of the 70s and 80s, since 1994. I was fascinated by these films, above

all others, because Fast Times at Richmond High opened the very first Friday of my freshman year of high school.

Ferris Bueller opened the exact day after I graduated four years later, 1986.

As I went through my actual high school experience, these were the movies that were available about high school experiences.

And they spoke directly to me.

They have fascinated me. They were made for me. As I say in the book, they were, you know,

I think of them as porn movies watered down for 13-year-olds. And this was right up my prurient alley

at the time. And I'm, I'm in a movie obsessive. I'm a trash culture obsessive. And,

you know, this was movies and trash culture coming together in a very personal way for me.

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