Viscosity in the Early 80s with Chris Nashawaty
The Distraction: A Defector Podcast
Defector Media
4.4 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2024
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Chris Nashawaty, author of The Future Was Now: Madmen, Mavericks, And the Epic Sci-Fi Summer of 1982, joins Drew and Roth to talk about movies in the 80s! They ask Chris about the unifying idea underneath ET, Blade Runner, Wrath of Khan, Conan The Barbarian, Poltergeist, The Thing, and The Road Warrior: moist monsters are moist monsters are better than dry monsters. And looking back on 1982, they wonder if the movie business ever made any sense, or at least did it function better with goofy cocaine-addled execs. And as always, they dive into the Funbag, figuring out which guests at Shreveport Geek'd Con '24 they’re more famous than.
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The Distraction is Defector's flagship podcast about sports (and movies, and art, and sandwiches, and certain coastal states) from longtime writers Drew Magary and David Roth. Every week, Drew and Roth tackle subjects, both serious and impossibly stupid, with a parade of guests from around the world of sports and media joining in the fun! Roth and Drew also field Funbag questions from Defector readers, answer listener voicemails, and get upset about the number of people who use speakerphone while in a public bathroom stall. This is a show where everything matters, because everyone could use a Distraction. Head to defector.com for more info.
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| 0:00.0 | We're back! We're back! It's a distraction. I'm Drew that's raw. They don't |
| 0:05.7 | Roth? I'm good. Just to take our listeners inside the game, Eric gave Drew the |
| 0:11.0 | instruction that he could let it rip and then that was the loudest we're back that I feel like we've heard in weeks or months. |
| 0:18.0 | That might have been the Tim Waltz effect because he was announced as the VE. |
| 0:22.0 | And it's like, oh my God, a Vikings fan |
| 0:25.1 | in national politics, very important. |
| 0:27.7 | And just like the Vikings who will always come through for us. |
| 0:30.2 | We all know it. |
| 0:31.5 | It's a fact, History's on our side. Not to say that we're getting we're getting ahead of ourselves or out over our skis, but we did discuss on Slack before recording this. Asking to see if Tim Waltz wanted to come on the |
| 0:44.5 | podcast. Yeah, we are, I'm gonna ask, I'm gonna ask people and then I'm gonna ask him, |
| 0:49.5 | talk to him about the Vikings and whether or not you're part of that conversation Roth is really it's kind of immaterial. |
| 0:54.4 | I can just turn my camera off and no one knows if I'm on the call or not. Like if I come back 15 minutes later and you guys are still |
| 1:00.1 | talking about how Wade Wilson never got a fair shake or whatever that's |
| 1:04.0 | fine you know no well wait Wilson got the exact |
| 1:07.1 | shape he deserves to get all right but we should talk about this week's |
| 1:11.5 | guess it's Chris Nashaw, author of the future was now, |
| 1:14.8 | Mad Men Mavericks, and the epic sci-fi summer of 1982. |
| 1:19.1 | 1982, I was alive back then, Chris. amazing how old are you in 1982 I would have |
| 1:26.7 | been six years no I would have been five years old because you're talking about the |
| 1:30.4 | summer of 1982 so I was five years old |
| 1:32.9 | the summer of 1982. |
| 1:34.1 | It's kind of just set levels when we're discussing this. |
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