20th Century Pop!

102 MEGAFORCE, WEEKEND AT BERNIE'S & WHY WE LIKE BAD MOVIES

Thu, 05 Sep 2019 14:26:01 +0000

POOP CULTURE: "Is that Richard Pryor in your pocket or is Barry Bostwick just happy to see me?" (1969-1989) We've all had to sit through an unexpectedly bad movie. The Rock. North. Mathew Perry's filmography. But then there are some movies that we seek out BECAUSE they're bad. Zardoz. Hudson Hawk. Matt LeBlanc's filmography. But what is this attraction to terrible cinema that fills midnight screenings with the well-timed quips and recited quotes of a rampant fan base? Bob and Tim descend into the B, C and D grade depths of it all to dissect some of their favorite bad movies and see why they actually enjoy them.

00:00:00 PRE-SHOW PRATTLE - cold soup

00:00:46 CONAN O'CONTROVERSY - and Bob discovers podcasts

00:10:13 BREAKING BAD - trying to define what makes a good bad movie

00:17:34 BREWSTER'S MILLIONS - and thats a whole lot of plot

00:23:56 BAD INFLUENCE - how the general consensus influences hot takes

00:27:52 WEEKEND AT BERNIE'S - the Necro-rom-i-com of the 1980s

00:33:18 AUTOPSY OF BERNIE'S - is it cruel to like a movie for being?

00:36:37 PAINT YOUR WAGON - Bob doesn't like Westerns … or Bob DOES like westerns?

00:43:37 A MATTER OF TASTES - bad verses dislike

00:47:49 MEGAFORCE - Tim's MST3K-O

00:53:23 BAD AUDIENCE - is watching bad movies self-indulgent?

01:04:55 CLOSINGS - contacts, plugs and no catch phrase

01:08:09 BONUS FEATURE: cold soup returns

01:10:12 UNLICENSED AUDIO - "It's supposed to be cold"

Cash in on the original upcoming hype with the 1985 ORIGINAL TRAILER FOR BREWSTER'S MILLIONS.

Balance out Bob's take on this Pryor/Candy collaboration with SISKEL & EBERT'S 1985 REVIEW OF "BREWSTER'S MILLIONS."

Witness the fulfillment of Tim's biggest cinematic nightmare with Yakov Smirnoff's WHAT A COUNTRY CLIP FROM BREWSTER'S MILLIONS.

Fight off the inevitable rigor mortis with the ORIGINAL 1989 TRAILER FOR WEEKEND AT BERNIE'S.

Marvel that its now been 30 years since its release with Vince Mancini's 25 YEARS OF WEEKEND AT BERNIE'S OR WHY DOES ANYONE REMEMBER THIS MOVIE as originally posted on July 3rd, 2014 at UPROXX.com.

Hitch up your horses to the ORIGINAL 1969 TRAILER FOR PAINT YOUR WAGON.

Listen as Lee Marvin warbles through some Lerner and Loewe with WANDR'IN STAR FROM PAINT YOUR WAGON.

Double up on the far-too-often-referenced-in-this-episode VIDEO TRAILER FOR THE TROLL/TROLL2 SHOUT FACTORY BLUE RAY RELEASE.

Feel the relief that this one failed to fly by you in the summer of '82 with an ORIGINAL TV AD FOR MEGAFORCE.

Marvel at the blue scarf arrival of Barry Bostwick's action career with this INTRODUCING ACE HUNTER CLIP FROM MEGAFORCE.

Soundtrack your every hi-tech bike-based trip through the desert with the MEGAFORCE (MAIN THEME) BY JOURNEY.

Try to spot the blue screen composite during this FLYING MOTORCYCLE ENDING FROM MEGAFORCE.

And, finally, break bad with Bryan Cranston in this 1982 COMMERCIAL FOR THE MEGA FORCE VIDEO GAME FROM ATARI.

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20TH CENTURY POP! will return next week to talk over one of these very movies in real time.

101 BOSTON COMMON & MUST SEE TV

Thu, 25 Jul 2019 08:00:00 +0000

BINGE AND PODCAST: "At least we're not talking about Wings." (1996) You must have seen Must See TV, the legendary block of Thursday night programming that gifted us Seinfeld, Friends and Boston Common. Wait .. wasn't that last one just a place they filmed Good Will Hunting? Actually, that's the Public Garden. But despite not being THAT, Boston Common WAS a brief top ten hit meant to encapsulate the collegiate life of its Emersonian audience. For Undergrads Bob and Tim, it was a discordant attempt to shoe horn comedian Anthony Clark into what college life wasn't like in the 1990s. So let's all be there as they binge what might as well be the most obscure topic they ever tackled. Outside of OK SODA. And MISFITS OF SCIENCE. And maybe that whole SNACKS debacle.

00:00:00 PRE-SHOW PRATTLE - here's a link to ARYE GROSS.

00:00:52 MANDATORY VIEWING APPARATUS - and tricked into Veronica's Closet

00:06:27 MUST BE ME TV - and fostering unhealthy romance

00:12:14 NOT SO BOSTON COMMON GROUND -and the general premise of the program

00:22:55 ROBBING WILLIAMS- struggling to root for Anthony Clark

00:37:11 DISCOMFORT AND JOY - here's the token Friends discussion

00:43:29 CHECK YOUR HEDDY - finally talking about Wyleen

00:47:01 CAUGHT IN A BOYD ROMANCE - horrible lessons in courtship

00:55:39 BOSTON CALLING OUT - and where did this sudden maturity come from?

01:03:28 CLOSINGS - contacts, plugs and no catch phrase

Hack a sack along with this far too 90s Douche-Matthews Cover Band performance of the BOSTON COMMOMS OPENING TITLES THEME.

Hear how much NBC was sure you were going to love the premiere of Boston Common during these MARCH 21ST 1996 COMMERCIAL BREAKS FROM MUST SEE TV.

Encounter Anthony Clark as co-host Tim first encountered him with his less animate animated appearance on DR KATZ EPISODE 06: FAMILY CAR.

See some of the openings of what you must have missed from Must See TV with the opening credit sequences to THE SINGLE GUY, CAROLINE IN THE CITY, I VERONICA'S CLOSET and a promo for INSIDE SCHWARTZ.

And, finally, cram a season's worth of sitcom by binging the same four episodes of Boston Common Bob and Tim saw with EPISODE 01X03: I THEE ENDOW , EPISODE 01X04: RELATIONSHIP OF FOOLS, EPISODE01X05: BOYD GETS SHRUNK and EPISODE01X06: VIRGINIA REELING.

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20TH CENTURY POP! will return in two weeks … and possibly to the 1980s?

100 THE PHANTOM MENACE

Wed, 10 Jul 2019 16:22:07 +0000

POOP CULTURE: "Now is this pod-racing?" (1999) In honor of their 100th episode, Bob and Tim are returning their Jedi selves to the first topic they ever discussed, Star Wars Episode One: The Phantom Menace. But what starts as a look at how this show began soon reveals a more sinister discussion. Will Bob bring balance to the podcast? Or have Tim's opinions been seduced by the dark side? Get ready to ratify some Galactic treaties with this extra-exciting anniversary episode. Yippee?

00:00:00 PRE-SHOW PRATTLE - not saying "Fro-Yo"

00:01:06 ITS THE 100TH EPISODE - so here's an oral history

00:10:47 APPREHENSION IN STERO - is this just playing to an audience?

00:17:30 RIC OLIE WE GO - and return of the Pop 5

00:25:40 WATTO YOU TALKING ABOUT? - Bob and Tim disagree on The Phantom Menace

00:33:05 DON'T PANAKA THE PLOT - working with and against nostalgia

00:40:04 GUNGAN STYLE - an intriguing movie with the sound off

00:46:12 STAY ON TARGET DEMOGRAPHIC - did George Lucas make this for George Lucas?

00:53:56 FANDOM MENACE - putting too much energy into hating this

01:02:37 TOO BIG A DEAL TO BE A SPACE STATION - and turning to the dark side

01:16:23 SPLINTERING YOU MIND'S EYE - and actually ruining your childhood

01:21:38 CLOSINGS - contacts, plugs and no catch phrase

01:24:47 UNLICENSED AUDIO CLIP - A Taco The Clones

Relive what we all thought it was going to be with the ORIGINAL THEATRICAL TRAILER TO STAR WARS EPISODE ONE.

Then recall learning what the full title was with the THEATRICAL TRAILER #2 FOR STAR WARS: EPISODE ONE THE PHANTOM MENACE.

Go behind the scenes of when it all began with the epic in itself documentary THE BEGINNING: MAKING STAR WARS EPISODE ONE: THE PHANTOM MENACE.

Take a two-decade later look back with the cast and crew in ALL FILMS ARE PERSONAL: AN ORAL HISTORY OF STAR WARS EPISODE ONE: THE PHANTOM MENACE.

Hear Episode One Visual Effects designer Doug Chiang describe how one actually designs a galaxy far, far away in this episode of SYFY25 ORIGIN STORIES HOSTED BY ADAM SAVAGE.

Take a trip back with the 20POPCAST episodes referenced in this very episode with #000 THE PHANTOM MENACE TRAILER, #060 THE POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE IMPATS OF FAN CULTURE and #070 STAR WARS TOYS BY KENNER.

And, finally, get the reference Tim was making with this ORIGINAL 1980s COMMERCIAL FOR HASBRO'S ARMY ANTS.

MUSIC FEATURED IN TODAY'S EPISODE:

"Super Poupi " (opening theme) and "Poupi Great Adventures: The Arcade Game" (closing theme) performed by Komiku from the 2018 album POUPI'S INCREDIBLE ADVENTURES available at Freemusicarchives.org. Cleared for public domain use through Creative Commons under a CCO 1.0 Universal License.

"Star Wars Theme / Cantina Band" performed by Meco off their 1977 disco masterpiece (?) STAR WARS AND OTHER GALACTIC FUNK. The use of this songs is for entertainment purposes and without the expressed permission of the recording artist.

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20TH CENTURY POP! will return in two weeks to pretend a sitcom is just like college (or is it the other way around?).

099 SUMMER MOVIES: 1997

Thu, 27 Jun 2019 07:30:00 +0000

SUMMER OF SUMMER-TIME SUMMER: "I guess there's a Speed 2?" (1997) In the summer of '97, a nation already mourning the loss of TV's Wings turned to their Cineramadome to ask in anguish "How much Nicholas Cage can one marquee take?" It was a heated season full of Lost Worlds, Fifth Elements and more Batman and Robin physiology than a latex body suit cast by the shaky hands of an 80 year old man servant should render. So now, 22 years (and a two month hiatus) later, Bob and Tim take to this podcast to survey the fiascos of that fabled summer complete with a momentary reference to the Danny Glover/Joe Pesci debacle "Gone Fishin'." Welcome back!

00:00:00 PRE-SHOW PRATTLE - and everything they know about Speed 2

00:00:38 BACK TO THE MICS - and one before 100

00:04:08 POST COLLEGE DYSPHORIA - going (and not going) to California

00:14:49 MYER(S)ED IN START DATES - and an ELEMENT of awareness

00:22:21 DINO—SOUR - and indie actors in green screen

00:27:37 BROS & CONS - in celebration of the Cinerama-dome (sp?)

00:36:12 SINK THE SEQUELS - Boats, bats and Bob mentions Frank Miller

00:45:51 ROM-CONFLICT - and the movie Tim was thinking of is "The Next Best Thing"

00:49:00 CAGE MATCH - and getting off people's planes

00:58:13 THE FULL MIMIC - missing the movie-going experience

01:06:20 FLAILING TO CINEMA - and a changing relationship to art

01:13:10 CLOSINGS - contacts, plugs and no catch phrase

Make up your own mind on the legitimacy of Mike Myer's singing with this performance (backed by Susanna Hoffs) of "BBC" BY MING TEA.

Dodge some savage blows while while hitting all the high notes of THE FIFTH ELEMENTS'S DIVA DANCE.

Down a little Dramamine to better follow long the bobbing blog post FRANCHISE KILLERS: SPEED 2 CRUISE CONTROL originally posted on the LEBEAU'S LE BLOG.

Take the more journalistic approach to what happened on this summer's screen with these articles from DEN OF GEEK, THE TROUBLED BLOCKBUSTER SUMMER OF 1997 and WARNER BROTHERS AND THE DISASTEROUS MOVI SUMMER OF 1997 both by Simon Brew.

Watch Vinne Barbarino do his Randy from Vally Girl in this CASTOR TROY AS SEAN ARCHER SCENE FROM FAE-OFF

Hear Tim talk through the entirety of a comic book flop in an attempt to defend Joel Schumacher's choices in this original, full-length audio commentary from 20POPCAST'S EPISODE 055: BATMAN AND ROBIN.

And, finally, check out a couple comic book fiascos Bob and Tim didn't get to with the double impact of "ugh" for the ORIGINAL THEATRICAL TRAILER FOR SPAWN and AN EQUALLY ORIGINAL TRAILER FOR STEEL (if you are only going to watch one trailer this show notes … make it the Steel trailer).

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20TH CENTURY POP! will return in two weeks with a long-delayed milestone of arbitrary proportions.

WHERE WERE THEY NOW?

Wed, 19 Jun 2019 22:03:26 +0000

Its been two months since the last 20th Century Pop! and still another seven days until an officially numbered follow-up. So where are the two hosts? And what have they been up to since the show's been up to nothing? Unpacking, apparently, as Tim relates in this off-the-cuff-but-on-the-mic diatribe posing as bonus content. So why not brush up on those listening skills and hear Tim tell what's become of his once-massive comic collection. Then come back next Thursday for the glorious return of his and Bob's misspent youth.

MUSIC FEATURED IN TODAY'S EPISODE:

"Video To Radio" performed by Kidd Video of their 1986 album THE TV HITS.
"Saturday Supercade Main Theme" as composed by Shuki And Levy and featured in the original 1983 cartoon anthology SATURDAY SUPERCADE.

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20TH CENTURY POP! will return next week with probably no mention of DC's live-action "Steel" movie.

MORE BLOOPERS, OUTTAKES & UNUSED AUDIO

Thu, 18 Apr 2019 07:30:00 +0000

With the show approaching its 100th episode, Bob and Tim delay that milestone with a bonus look behind the mic. What they uncover is some past audio deemed too unpolished for an actual episode. Unless that episode was an outtakes episode… in which case … here's a blooper reel.

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20TH CENTURY POP! will return next week with a pre-100th episode 100th episode celebration.

098 HOOTIE AND THE BLOWFISH: CRACKED REAR VIEW

Thu, 11 Apr 2019 07:30:00 +0000

COMPACT DISC-USSION: "An aptly named sea creature." (1994) Hootie and The Blowfish are back on tour which means everyone's posting "Hold My Hand" memes on Facebook. But do people really care about this radio frat blast or are they just succumbing to that commercial trap of mid-life nostalgia? Bob and Tim tackle this very question as they dissect one of their favorite (and the other's least favorite) college albums, "Cracked Rear View." (full disclosure … the use of "tackle" was meant to be a fishing joke.)

00:00:00 PRE-SHOW PRATTLE - a measure of quality

00:00:31 TOUR-TURE - and how listeners work

00:04:16 THE CD IS … CRACKED REAR VIEW - and, apparently, Bob owns their first two albums

00:10:40 NOW FRAT'S WHAT I CALL MUSIC - and Tim quotes Cliff Poncier

00:15:35 HANNAH JANES - caught in a bland romance

00:19:49 HOLD MY HAND - Huey, Harry, Hootie & Bob

00:26:49 LET HER CRY - Idiot control now

00:30:21 ONLY WANT TO BE WITH YOU - Sophomoric efforts and not pledging a Frat

00:36:12 TANGLED UP IN BLUE - not written by a blowfish

00:41:06 RUNNING FROM AN ANGEL - sort of introducing the members of the band

00:45:11 I'M GOING HOME - and singing a song of one's self

00:54:04 DROWNING - The Darius Rucker Experience

00:59:52 TIME - a really good lyric

01:03:41 LOOK AWAY - almost an Eddie Money song

01:04:37 NOT EVEN THE TREES - not a Huey Lewis song

01:05:21 GOODBYE - and also MOTHERLESS CHILD

01:07:22 A FAMILIAR THING - and fair-weather price for nostalgia

01:14:10 CLOSINGS - contacts, plugs and no catch phrase

Hear what college-declared infatuation creepily sounded like with the OFFICIAL HOLD MY HAND VIDEO.

Read an alternate track by track take on this very same album with Kenneth Partridge's HOOTIE AND THE BLOWFISH'S "CRACKED REAR VIEW AT 20 review from Billboard.com.

Peer through an era specific look at the band with HOOTIE AND THE BLOWFISH: SOUTHERN COMFORT, a 1994 article by Rich Cohen for Rolling Stone magazine.

Uncover the original version of Bob and Tim's favorite Hootie and The Blowfish song that turned out to be a cover with the MUSIC VIDEO FOR 54-40's I GO BLIND

Experience the raw sexual energy responsible for one of the show note descriptions with JOEL HODGSON AND FRIENDS' IDIOT CONTROL NOW from the POD PEOPLE episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000.

Take a slightly deeper look into Blowfish cowriter Bob Dylan with EVERY ONE OF THEM WORDS RANG TRUE: THE DEFIANCE OF TIME IN TANGLED UP IN BLUE by John Carvill and featured on Popmatters.com.

And, following this episode, give your ears the gift they deserve with BUILT TO SPILL'S "YOU WERE RIGHT off their 1999 release "Keep It Like A Secret."

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20TH CENTURY POP! will return with a bonus episode of bloopers, outtakes and other audio deemed inaudible.

BONUS EPISODE: POP SONGS IN ADVERSTISING

Thu, 04 Apr 2019 07:30:00 +0000

Having bought in to the Gen X commercialism of last week's episode, Bob and Tim sell out with a bonus look at pop music in advertising. They touch on songs they discovered, songs they already liked and songs that endorsed cars, clothes, curds and ways. And (somehow) Base-ketball gets a shout-out.

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20TH CENTURY POP! will return next week with some aquatic life that blows.

097 OK SODA & GENERATION X

Thu, 28 Mar 2019 07:30:00 +0000

POOP CULTURE: "The I'm-Not-Corporate baby Ts are on sale at Hot Topic." (1993-1995) Today's subject was intended to be OK Soda, a failed soft drink aimed at the slacker mindset of the early 90s. But in trying to discuss it, Bob and Tim unearthed an unacknowledged schism between the two of them. What follows is a dive into the sigh of Gen X and how that impacted their friendship, imposed differing life choices and eventually flung them on completely divergent paths. And they talk about a soda.

00:00:00 UNLICENSED AUDIO - and the visual would have helped

00:00:35 THE GENERATION GRASP - and "could" or "couldn't"

00:06:56 UNENCUMBERED X-MEN - and a sickening feeling

00:14:36 A DIFFERENCE OF EXISTENCE - and asking Jeeves about "apathy"

00:20:50 TROUPE OF THE CENTURY - Bob tries his hand at comedy

00:23:34 I'M NOT OK, YOU'RE NOT OK — but still not the soda

00:28:15 A CLUMSY HOPE - and an apathetic sales pitch

00:33:54 OH RIGHT … TODAY'S TOPIC - a OK Soda discussion

00:39:47 PHONYING IT IN - subsidizing the subculture

00:45:45 MY GENERATION THE CAR- indulging the anti-demographic demographic

00:54:43 CLOSINGS - contacts, plugs and no catch phrase

00:58:50 BONUS FEATURES - still chewing

Get a quick catch-up on the rapid rise and fall of OK Soda with Thomas Flight's OK SODA-ADVERTISING'S AWKWARD RELATIONSHIP WITH POST MODERNISM and then check out past episodes of his show OBSCURIGAMI , a pointlessly educational podcast about obscure topics (his words) also available on APPLE PODCASTS.

See how this soda was intended to be sold to you during those later season viewings of "Wings" with OK SODA COMMERCIALS! ALL OF THEM (I THINK).

Grab that Garfield phone and dial up some unnerving ad spots with a playlist of actual 1-800-I-FEEL-OK PHONE RECORDINGS.

And finally, see the actual sum of Tim's 90s experience as best represented in media with 1995's KICKING AND SCREAMING TRAILER (no, not the Will Ferrel one), written and directed by Noah Baumbach.

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20TH CENTURY POP! returns next week with a bonus episode about our favorite pop songs and the commercials that ruined them.

BONUS EPISODE: MAKING FRIENDS WITH FRIENDS

Thu, 21 Mar 2019 07:30:00 +0000

Following last week's look at the best and worst episodes of FRIENDS, Bob and Tim offer a real world take on who would be their best and worst friend. Who would they get coffee with? Who would they watch TV with? Who … actually that's probably all they would really do. Be there for this bonus episode that definitely doesn't choose Ross.

MUSIC FEATURED IN TODAY'S EPISODE:

"Super Poupi " (opening theme) from the 2018 album POUPI'S INCREDIBLE ADVENTURES and SKATE from the 2018 album CAPTAIN GLOUGLOU'S INCREDIBLE WEEK SOUNDTRACK both performed by Komiku from the 2018 album POUPI'S INCREDIBLE ADVENTURES available at Freemusicarchives.org. Cleared for public domain use through Creative Commons under a CCO 1.0 Universal License.

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096 FRIENDS: THE BEST & WORST ONES

Thu, 14 Mar 2019 07:30:00 +0000

BINGE AND PODCAST: "Still with one sixth Ross." (1995-1999) It would be odd if this episode was rating and debating people you didn't actually know (or, given the listenership, were). That's why Bob and Tim are instead looking at the 90s sitcom staple that wasn't Two Guys A Girl And A Pizza Place. So main line that latte and make the best of that vest as they traverse the highs and lows of Must See TV's FRIENDS. Again.

00:00:00 PRESHOW PRATTLE - carbo-hatred

00:00:49 NEW BEGINNINGS - Bob makes an unfortunate commitment

00:04:35 AGAIN WITH THE FRIENDS? - Venerable curation with varying quality

00:07:00 NO SITCOM FOR OLD MEN - and tripping over tropes

00:20:57 22 MINUTE PARTY PEOPLE - and emulating the early seasons

00:27:18 I'LL RECAP FOR YOU - a bridge from season 2 to season 5

00:29:55 GELLER INTERRUPTED - amidst a not so-stellar c-plot and sandwiches

00:36:53 SEX, LIES AND TRIBBIANI TAPES - being bad friends

00:41:47 BUFFAY INSTINCT- consistent characters in inconsistent situations

00:51:11 SEASONS WILL AFFECT THIS ORDER - and is that really the worst C story ever?

00:55:13 CLOSINGS - contacts, plugs and no catch phrase

00:58:50 BONUS FEATURES - still chewing

FRIENDS is currently available for streaming on NETFLIX and purchase on AMAZON PRIME, GOOGLEPLAY and YOUTUBE. All sites unaffiliated with 20th Century Pop! and Calamity House Productions. Rental and subscription rates may apply.

Watch your five favorite Friends (and Ross) line up to sell out in these FRIENDS: WHO'S GOING TO DRINK THE DIET COKE? COMMERCIALS.

Go behind the scenes of this sitcom via a third generation VHS copy of the TV special FRIENDS: THE ONE IN THEIR OWN WORDS.

Cosplay in jeans and a turtleneck and sit on someone else's couch to fell what its like to say WE WENT TO FRIENDS FEST.

And get a sense of the colossal effort that brought each episode to TV in FRIENDS: THE ONE THAT GOES BEHIND THE SCENES.

The use of audio and video clips linked from YOUTUBE are for educational purposes and without the expressed permission of their legal holding companies. All rights remain with with their original distributor.
This episode of 20TH CENTURY POP! was recorded by CAST, an online audio platform that lets you create and record a multi-guest podcast straight from your web-browser.

It was then mastered by AUPHONIC, a web-based post-production service that makes it sound like Bob and Tim are worth listening to. Check out both sights for trial and subscription information.

MUSIC FEATURED IN TODAY'S EPISODE:

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20TH CENTURY POP! will return next week to get all apathetic with caffeine.

095 JOE VERSES THE VOLCANO WITH JARF HARDEN

Thu, 28 Feb 2019 08:30:00 +0000

HOW DID I MISS THIS?: "When Hanksy met Ryan … is not something to be proud of having typed." (1990) Pop podcaster Jarf Hardin returns to the show bearing a bubbling hot mess near and dear to his heart. Its a movie Bob and Tim fully remember happening yet fully managed to avoid for the past 29 years. But all that changes today as they follow Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan up an erupting fissure and down into the darker depths of the 1990's rom-com question mark, Joe Verses The Volcano.

00:00:00 UNLICENSED AUDIO - spell-check on flibbertigibbet

00:00:29 IT'S BOB AND TIM WITH … Jarf Hardin, host of the upcoming Joe Verses The Minute podcast

00:03:16 JARF MENTIONS THE VOLCANO - and how he arrived at it

00:08:17 THE HANKS SUCKER PROXY - and popping our pithy expectations

00:19:22 THREE RYANS OUTSIDE ROMCOM CONVENTION - and why couldn't we have followed THIS character?

00:31:29 CLOUDED ATLAS - maybe pull back a little on the backstory

00:37:00 YOU'VE GOT MELANCHOLY - and a sort-of-shout-out to Toys

00:41:39 QUESTIONABLY CAST AWAY - and a spoiler about that volcano

00:46:36 SURREAL-LESS IN SEATTLE - dispelling the magic (and no Larry Crowne pun)

00:49:46 CHASING RYAN - Jarf proposes a final question

00:53:23 ADDICTED TO PLUGS - where to find Jarf and his podcast(s)

00:55:26 SO HOW DID WE MISS THIS? - and how does Tim pronounce "dichotomy?"

01:00:18 CLOSINGS - contacts, plugs and no catch phrase

Support Jarf Harden's upcoming minute by minute podcast exploration of today's topic JOE VERSES THE MINUTE by following @JoevsMinute on Twitter. There you can interact with both him, fellow fans of the film as well as subscribe to the show when it premieres this Fall.

You can also catch Jarf (when he's there) alongside his co-host (and fellow, former 20pop guest) Brad Mendenhall on THE COSMIC GEPETTO PODCAST, a weekly discussion into all things pop culture, avaiable on ITUNES, STITCHER and SPOTIFY

See as much of the movie as Bob and Tim had prior to today's episode with the ORIGINAL THEATRICAL TRAILER TO JOE VERSES THE VOLCANO.

Take a deeper dive into the belly of this beat with THE UNLIKELY PHILOSOPHY OF JOE VERSES THE VOLCANO by Leah Schnelbach as originally featured on the scifi website TOR.com.

Learn a bit more about all that luggage mentioned out of context in the episode with this JOE VERSES THE LUGGAGE SALESMAN scene from today's movie.

Hear what a couple of renowned critics thought of the film at its time of release with this REVIEW OF JOE VERSES THE VOLCANO FROM SISKEL AND EBERT AT THE MOVIES.

Hear how cinematographer Stephen Goldblatt threw himself into the movie with this 2012 EBERTFEST PANEL ON JOE VERSES THE VOLCANO.

And, finally, observe why John Patrick Shanley hates Mondays with the version of this story a much younger Tim DID see with GARFIELD IN PARADISE .

MUSIC FEATURED IN TODAY'S EPISODE:

"Super Poupi " (opening theme), "Time For The Walk Of The Day" and "Poupi Great Adventures: The Arcade Game" (closing theme) performed by Komiku from the 2018 album POUPI'S INCREDIBLE ADVENTURES available at Freemusicarchives.org. Cleared for public domain use through Creative Commons under a CCO 1.0 Universal License.

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20TH CENTURY POP! will return in two weeks with the best and worst of that jerk Ross.

094 1990S: THE MOVIE

Thu, 14 Feb 2019 14:53:08 +0000

LIST-A-RAMA-A-GO-GO: "We're probably not going to talk about Mr. Nanny." (1992-1995) The 90s gave us blockbuster giants like Jurassic Park and Titanic as well as the indie fare of Pulp Fiction and Being John Malkovich. But which of its films best represents what it was like to bear flannel in that age of sax-blowing presidents and Geocity pop ups? Its the question Bob and Tim are going to warp their brains around as they crown the one sole and official film that best represents what it meant to be what they were in the 1990s. Spoiler alert … we don't mention Under Siege 2.

00:00:00 PRE-SHOW PRATTLE - The dad from Family Ties wants you to stay away from him

00:01:10 IGNORING A PODCAST EDITING TIP - with a shout-out to CeCe Peniston

00:05:42 DECADENCE - fashioning the 90s persona

00:10:22 BOB IN L.A. - building your West Coast crew

00:23:36 SEATTLE STORY - Teaching Tim to talk unrealistically about relationships

00:31:08 COUNTER-TOP CYNICISM - Bob and Tim's Situation Tragedy (and Tim adjusts a Pop Filter)

00:38:53 ANOINTING 1990: THE MOVIE - and shouting out to stragglers

00:45:56 CLOSINGS - contacts, plugs and no catch phrase

00:49:58 COMING ATTRACTION - Tom Hanks plugs up a hole

00:00:00 PRE-SHOW PRATTLE - The dad from Family Ties wants you to stay away from him

00:01:10 IGNORING A PODCAST EDITING TIP - with a shout-out to CeCe Peniston

00:05:42 DECADENCE - fashioning the 90s persona

00:10:22 BOB IN L.A. - building your West Coast crew

00:23:36 SEATTLE STORY - Teaching Tim to talk unrealistically about relationships

00:31:08 COUNTER-TOP CYNICISM - Bob and Tim's Situation Tragedy (and Tim adjusts a Pop Filter)

00:38:53 ANOINTING 1990: THE MOVIE - and shouting out to stragglers

00:45:56 CLOSINGS - contacts, plugs and no catch phrase

00:49:58 COMING ATTRACTION - Tom Hanks plugs up a hole

FAIR USE OF FAIR WARNING: The following few show notes give away the semi-top secret topics of today's discussion…

Refrain from bellowing "baby" during the OFFICIAL TRAILER FOR 1996's SWINGERS.

Get buzzed into Bob's mid 90s apartment with this PLAYING VIDEO GAMES CLIP FROM SWINGERS.

See what teen Tim saw as a manual for social interaction with the OFFICIAL TRAILER FOR 1992'S SINGLES.

Understand why Kurt Cobain would not have been nominated for father of the year as NIRVANA EXPLAINS WHY THEY TURNED DOWN THE MOVIE SINGLES while burping a baby.

Relate to what Bob and Tim related to with the ORIGINAL THEATRICAL TRAILER TO 1994'S CLERKS.

Get it straight from the stoner's mouth with KEVIN SMITH: HOW AND WHY HE MADE CLERKS.

And hum along with some awful Ugly Kid Joe in this ARE YOU MENTAL SCENE FROM 1992'S WAYNE'S WORLD.

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20TH CENTURY POP! will return in two weeks .. maybe THIS time with Tom Hanks in a magma fissure?

GLORIFIED RERUN: TOTAL RECALL

Thu, 07 Feb 2019 08:30:00 +0000

Talk about you Phillip K. Dick moves, this week's episode is actually an older episode in which Bob and Tim discuss the 1990 Quato-caper, TOTAL RECALL. But amidst its singular reference to corn flakes, they find a strange reflection between this this sci-fi mind-bender and their own adolescent lives. So make that token "get your ass to somewhere" reference and listen to some podcast naiveté from two years prior (come on, you know its the podcast of your dreeeeams).

Portions of today's episode were originally recorded by ZENCASTR, a high fidelity podcast recording platform that records multiple guests from multiple zip-codes all as if they were in the same room. The intro and exit audio was recorded by CAST, an online audio platform that lets you create and record a multi-guest podcast straight from your web-browser.

MUSIC FEATURED IN TODAY'S EPISODE:

"Bird Dream Of The Olympus Mons" performed by The Pixies on their 1991 album TROMPE LE MONDE.

"Life On Mars" as performed (we'll call it "performed") by Barbara Streisand of her 1974 album BUTTERFLY.

The use of these songs are for entertainment purposes and without the expressed permission of the recording artist.

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20TH CENTURY POP! will get its ass BACK from Mars next week.

093 GREEN DAY: DOOKIE (redux)

Fri, 01 Feb 2019 15:08:12 +0000

COMPACT DISC-USSION: ""We fixed our audio issues .. so here's those guys from the Angus soundtrack." (1994) To Bob and Tim the word "Punk" meant spiked hair, safety pins and an un-listened to Sex Pistols album from BMG. Or did until they stumbled across the chord progressions of a power trio barely older than their teenage selves. That band was Green Day and, on today's episode, they are discussing the anthems of apathy and symphonies of disconnect that make up the what-it-was-to-be-in-the-90s album "Dookie."

00:00:00 PRE-SHOW PRATTLE - In case of emergency

00:01:06 SYNCHING THE OPENER - while sinking the opener

00:04:10 THE CD IS … GREEN DAY'S DOOKIE - Denim Punks of Oneida New York

00:14:21 BURN OUT - London calling to attention

00:17:56 HAVING A BLAST - Apathy for destruction

00:22:10 CHUMP - they're acting our age

00:27:06 LONGVIEW - but not what we're looking for

00:30:17 WELCOME TO PARADISE - a bit like home

00:32:34 PULLING TEETH - not a dental ballad

00:38:12 BASKET CASE - soundtrack for an unhealthy self

00:44:31 A LITTLE AGE APPROPRIATION - and a lot of ageist nostalgia

00:52:45 SHE - rediscovered relevance

00:54:45 SASSAFRAS ROOTS - a strange place for a Harry Connick Jr. comparison

00:58:32 WHEN I COME AROUND - wander wall

01:02:33 COMING CLEAN - exhaustion sets in

01:04:34 EMENIUS SLEEPS - nice place for a last track

01:05:45 IN THE END - how did this one go?

01:07:17 F.O.D. - an(other) Aerosmith reference?

01:08:50 ALL BY MYSELF - and an editing tip from Tim Blevins

01:11:03 GREAT RIDDANCE - and Green Days Of Future Past

01:12:46 CLOSINGS - contacts, plugs and no catch phrase

01:14:49 BONUS FEATURES - one more Aerosmith reference

Walk it once more around the block with their original music video for WHEN I COME AROUND.

Go a little behind the grainy footage of how Green Day dropped this with this episode of VH1 ULTIMATE ALBUMS: DOOKIE.

And indulge in a little peace, love and rampant commercialism with this complete performance of GREEN DAY AT WOODSTOCK' '94.

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20TH CENTURY POP! will return in two weeks … possibly to pit a three time Oscar winner against an explosive fissure of hot magma.

PRELUDE TO GREEN DAY

Fri, 01 Feb 2019 15:04:43 +0000

The Green Day episode that went up wrong yesterday is now up properly today. So here's a quick explanation from Tim to what happened, after which, please play the reposted and properly fixed GREEN DAY: DOOKIE REDUX!

P.S. Many, many many thanks to my friend and cousin Mike for pointing out this whole Kremzeek of an issue

093 GREEN DAY: DOOKIE

Thu, 31 Jan 2019 08:30:00 +0000

COMPACT DISC-USSION: ""It's those guys from the Angus soundtrack." (1994) To Bob and Tim the word "Punk" meant spiked hair, safety pins and an un-listened to Sex Pistols album from BMG. Or did until they stumbled across the chord progressions of a power trio barely older than their teenage selves. That band was Green Day and, on today's episode, they are discussing the anthems of apathy and symphonies of disconnect that make up the what-it-was-to-be-in-the-90s album "Dookie."

00:00:00 PRE-SHOW PRATTLE - In case of emergency

00:01:06 SYNCHING THE OPENER - while sinking the opener

00:04:10 THE CD IS … GREEN DAY'S DOOKIE - Denim Punks of Oneida New York

00:14:21 BURN OUT - London calling to attention

00:17:56 HAVING A BLAST - Apathy for destruction

00:22:10 CHUMP - they're acting our age

00:27:06 LONGVIEW - but not what we're looking for

00:30:17 WELCOME TO PARADISE - a bit like home

00:32:34 PULLING TEETH - not a dental ballad

00:38:12 BASKET CASE - soundtrack for an unhealthy self

00:44:31 A LITTLE AGE APPROPRIATION - and a lot of ageist nostalgia

00:52:45 SHE - rediscovered relevance

00:54:45 SASSAFRAS ROOTS - a strange place for a Harry Connick Jr. comparison

00:58:32 WHEN I COME AROUND - wander wall

01:02:33 COMING CLEAN - exhaustion sets in

01:04:34 EMENIUS SLEEPS - nice place for a last track

01:05:45 IN THE END - how did this one go?

01:07:17 F.O.D. - an(other) Aerosmith reference?

01:08:50 ALL BY MYSELF - and an editing tip from Tim Blevins

01:11:03 GREAT RIDDANCE - and Green Days Of Future Past

01:12:46 CLOSINGS - contacts, plugs and no catch phrase

01:14:49 BONUS FEATURES - one more Aerosmith reference

Walk it once more around the block with their original music video for WHEN I COME AROUND.

Go a little behind the grainy footage of how Green Day dropped this with this episode of VH1 ULTIMATE ALBUMS: DOOKIE.

And indulge in a little peace, love and rampant commercialism with this complete performance of GREEN DAY AT WOODSTOCK' '94.

MUSIC FEATURED IN TODAY'S EPISODE:

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20TH CENTURY POP! will return in to weeks … possibly to pit a three time Oscar winner against an explosive fissure of hot magma.

GLORIFIED RERUN: HE-MAN AND THE MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE

Thu, 24 Jan 2019 08:30:00 +0000

You can't spell "LAZY PODCASTING" without at least a few of the letters in "FILMATION." And in lieu of a new episode, Bob and Tim are reposting a past one all about the 1983 cartoon classic "HE-MAN AND THE MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE." So join previous them in their already past attempt to uncover just who is behind "THE TAKING OF GREYSKULL" (knowing its exactly who you think it is).

Watch the same episode Bob and Tim did with THE TAKING OF GREYSKULL as posted on the HE-MAN OFFICIAL Youtube page.

Introduce 11 year old Tim to the genre of hip hop with this mid 80's Masters Of The Universe SPYDOR COMMERCIAL from Mattel.

And, while you just felt it THERE, hear it HERE with this original THUNDER-PUNCH HE-MAN COMMERCIAL, also from Mattel.

Then experience the "Hall H At Comic-Con"-like screening of this LOST HE-MAN AND THE MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE COMMERCIAL featuring the first ever animated footage of Eternia.

MUSIC FEATURED IN TODAY'S EPISODE:

"Poupi Great Adventures: The Arcade Game" (closing theme) performed by Komiku from the 2018 album POUPI'S INCREDIBLE ADVENTURES available at Freemusicarchives.org. Cleared for public domain use through Creative Commons under a CCO 1.0 Universal License.

"Main Title Theme from She-Ra: Princess Of Power" by Shuki Levi and Haim Saban from the 1985 television soundtrack to FILMATION'S SHE-RA: PRINCESS OF POWER

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20TH CENTURY POP! will come around next week … with a sense of where we'll be found.

092 THE MATRIX

Thu, 17 Jan 2019 08:30:00 +0000

EFFIN' SPOILERS: "Nobody knows the Matrix I've seen." (1999) It's (two weeks into) the New Year! Its also the 20th anniversary of the Wachowski's paradigm smashing, sci-fi spectacle, The Matrix. So dial up the modem, tolerate that Prodigy and get woke with Bob and Tim as they dive into just what it was that the Matrix was.

00:00:00 SPOILER WARNING - and its serious

00:00:32 IT'S A NEW YEAR - and an old segment

00:04:46 NOT YET A SPOILER - first impressions of The Matrix trailer

00:12:42 MOVING IN SLOW-WOAH - bullets, squids and some liquid metal

00:18:51 A CONSPIRACY FOR DUNCES - and Star Wars on the horizon

00:24:08 MIND UNBLOWN - when a concept becomes common place

00:31:12 MAINSTREAM RELOADED - do we go back to this (or any) movie?

00:41:10 FILMS LIKE THE FIRST TIME - what movie would you like to re-experience?

00:45:23 CLOSINGS - contacts, plugs an no catch phrase

00:49:29 SPECIAL FEATURES -the music of Star wars

Wonder what the eff it felt like to wonder what the eff the matrix is with the ORIGINAL THEATRICAL TRAILER FOR THE MATRIX.

See if you would've instead seen the movie opening opposite The Matrix with the ORIGINAL THEATRICAL TRAILER TO 10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU.

View some of the original Geoff Darrow and Steve Skroce artwork that helped envision what the eff this vision would look like in THE MAKING OF THE MATRIX: WHAT IS THE CONCEPT.

Learn a bit of how difficult this difficult movie was to make (alongside its two follow-ups) with STRANGE THINGS THAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED ON THE SET OF THE MATRIX.

Pop a bunch of blue pills and relive the glory of a 1999 website with this MYTH MEETS INTERNET IN THE MATRIX 1999 article from CNN.com.

Thank SLASHFILM.com for getting you a front row seat as co-director LANA WACHOWSKI EXPLAINS THE PHILOSOPHICAL INTENTIONS OF THE MATRIX TRILOGY during an panel discussing 2012's "Cloud Atlas."

Slide out to some bad lip-synching to some bad Bob Segar with ALF PERFORMING OLD TIME ROCK AND ROLL from that sorry-it-was-an-80s-hit ALF.

Avoid an unfortunate browser history by clicking this direct link to the FIGRIN D'AN AND THE MODAL NODES ENTRY ON WOOKIEPEDIA..

And, finally, learn the horrifying in-universe origin of the Matrix with THE SECOND RENAISSANCE: PART ONE and THE SECOND RENAISSANCE: PART TWO from 2003's THE ANIMATRIX (its pretty harrowing).

MUSIC FEATURED IN TODAY'S EPISODE:

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THE BEST OF 2018

Mon, 31 Dec 2018 20:56:32 +0000

Its the end of the calendar year which means … self-indulgent year-end retrospectives. And, even though we are a show forever entwined in years already past .. we were still able to assemble a montage of past episodes from 2018. So enjoy this cop-out "best of" of a bonus episode.

00:00:00 PRE-SHOW CLARIFICATION - its a cilp show

00:00:55 CAIRO-TASTROPHE - episode 067: Raiders Of The Lost Ark

00:06:29 BASKIN IN DISCOMFORT - episode 56: Big

00:13:11 MISE EN SCREEN - episode 78: Summer Blockbusters Of the 1980s

00:17:06 NOT SO FINALE - episode 62: Roseanne, The X-Files and Will & Grace

00:22:02 DANCE WHO? CRASHERS - episode 75: The Twenty-four More Episodes And We Hit One Hundred Celebratory episode

00:27:39 HA FIDELITY - episode 53: Denis Leary: No Cure For Cancer

00:28:36 THE OTHER CPR - episode 63: Star Trek 2 The Wrath Of Khan with Jason Smith

00:32:37 JERKIES - episode 052: Trekkies

00:34:47 THWIP—episode 72: Steve Ditko

00:38:24 CULT MEMBRANE- episode 082: Teen Witch

00:44:12 JAWA 2: ON THE MOVE - episode 70: Star Wars Toys By Kenner with Chris Nicini

00:46:33 CASULTY VIEWERS- episode 076: Buffy The Vampire Slayer with Bonita Gutierrez

00:50:47 DESPISING WITH EFFORT- episode 065: Radiohead The Bends

00:54:46 PODCASTING THE DICE - episode 085: What If Pop Culture Doesn't Matter?

00:58:36 DISCORDANT DECOR - episode 077: Oasis

01:04:28 A GOOD PROBLEM WITH NOSTALGIA - episode 068: Brat Pack America with Kevin Smokler

01:08:16 NO PLAN B- episode 080: The Far Side

01:10:10 EXCELSIOR-RAMA - Remembering Stan Lee

01:17:06 CLOSINGS - contacts, plugs and no catch phrase

01:18:57 SPECIAL FEATURES - A Dab of Coleman

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091 IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE

Thu, 20 Dec 2018 15:12:27 +0000

RETRO SHOCK: "Every time a bell rings someone tells you what it means." (1946) Oh the traditions of the season. Compost in your coat pocket. Failed Savings and Loan. Contemplating a leap into the cold lonely abyss. Yup, this is how Bob celebrates Christmas and this years he's bringing Tim down with him as they indulge in the no-longer public domain of a Frank Capra classic. Merry Christmas Stitcher Radio. Merry Christmas Youtube. Merry Christmas all you other beautiful streaming platforms.

00:00:00 UNLICENSED AUDIO - they're not taking George Bailey

00:00:36 SEASON'S IMPRESSIONS / "We Wish You A Merry Christmas" - and a failed podcast pitch

00:02:47 DECEMBER 20TH 1946 - A Bob's Life

00:07:11 (ALMOST) A FAMILY TRADITION - will Bob's kids watch this?

00:08:29 GOD REST YE MST3K - and Good Memory/Bad Memory

00:11:58 MODERN DAY / "Buffalo Gals" - adulting is hard (and not a real word)

00:14:22 JIMMY STEWIN' - a conflict of feelings toward George Bailey

00:18:46 O' CRY ALL YE FAITHFUL - and Mary without the Sue

00:25:55 EVIL TRIUMPHANT - and the producer of Gomer Pyle has it pretty good

00:31:41 ANGELS WE HAVE HEARD ENOUGH - that ding-a-ling Clarence

00:40:42 WHAT CHILD IS THIS … FOR? - and that was Tim's joke?

00:50:04 FORGETTING GOOD REALITY/BAD REALITY - but you can probably figure that one out

00:54:33 CLOSINGS / "Last Christmas" - contacts, plugs and no catch phrase

Relive the Happy Days of watching this movie on VHS with this 1990 bonus retrospective THE MAKING OF IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE HOSTED BY TOM BOSLEY.

Open up the archives with what could have been with the 1986 Saturday Night Live Sketch THE LOST ENDING OF IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE.

Stream what internet copyright laws have deemed the appropriate in length free portion of 1992's IT'S A WONDERFUL TINY TOONS CHRISTMAS SPECIAL.

And read the always irritable insights of the star of Nickelodeon's Snow Day" as he counteracts cinematic comparisons in CHEVY CHASE DOESN'T GET WHY PEOPLE COMPARE CHRISTMAS VACATION TO THIS HOLIDAY CLASSIC as featured on CINEMABLEND.com

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MUSIC FEATURED IN TODAY'S EPISODE:

"We Wish You A Merry Christmas" performed by the United States Marine Band available at Freemusicarchive.org. Cleared for public domain use through Creative Commons under a Public Domain Mark 1.0 declaration.

"Buffalo Gals" as arranged and conducted by Dimitri Tiomkin for the original 1946 soundtrack to IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE. The use of this song is for entertainment purposes and without the expressed permission of the recording artist.

"Last Christmas" written by George Michael and performed by Noisewaves from the 2010 compilationX-MAS COMPILATION 2010 available at Freemusicarchive.org. Cleared for public use through Creative Commons under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 License. This recording was altered in length to allow looping through the program

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090 MORE CHRISTMAS EPISODES OF THE '80S AND '90S

Thu, 13 Dec 2018 13:42:29 +0000

BINGE AND PODCAST: "Hark the Hasselhoff he sings." (1983-1992) So what's on your Christmas list? Talking K.I.T.T. car? Peach Pit play-set? Brass fastener with some chewing gum? Well take a break from checking it twice and join Bob and Tim as they watch out and don't cry over Christmas episodes of MacGyver, Knight Rider and Beverly Hills 90210.

00:00:51 O COME ALL YE PHONY - the oft referenced radio voice

00:02:40 DECEMBER 18th 1989 - and Bob usually loves MacGyver

00:07:37 ITS THE MOST WONDERFUL TROPE(S) OF THE YEAR - Saving the rec center while hating this Christmas stuff

00:13:00 NOT MARION ROSS - The magical Bag-lady

00:17:10 CAROL OF THE DUMBELLS - and the horrifying implications of magic in the MacGyver universe

00:24:24 DECEMBER 18TH 1983 - explaining Christmas to a car

00:30:51 O TINO-BAUM - and a quick reminder its Christmas

00:37:51 I'LL B PLOT FOR CHRISTMAS - but is it festive enough?

00:43:15 DECEMBER 16TH 1992 - A not so Wonderful Zip-code

00:48:39 PUBLIC DOMAIN PITCH MEETING - and the antagonist is a garbage truck

01:00:43 HIGH CONCEPT A MERRY LITTLE CHRISTMAS - and just what is Bob's problem with this one?

01:07:43 CLOSINGS - contacts, plugs and no catch phrase

01:10:25 SPECIAL FEATURES - What Don't you Get A Michael For Christmas (When he already has a K.I.T.T.)?

Stream it like an (abridged) advent calendar by watching the season 5 MACGYVER episode "THE MADONNA" on AMAZON PRIME, "SILENT KNIGHT" from KNIGHT RIDER on NBC.COM and "IT'S A TOTALLY HAPPENING LIFE" from BEVERLY HILLS 90210 on HULU.com. All sites unaffiliated with 20th Century Pop! and Calamity House Productions. Rental and subscription rates may apply.

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HE-MAN AND SHE-RA: A CHRISTMAS SPECIAL

Thu, 06 Dec 2018 08:30:00 +0000

UNSOLICITED COMMENTARY: "Deck Grayskull with boughs of Hordak" (1985) Ever wonder how a monotheistic holiday might play out on a planet consisting of demons, sorcery and ... well ... clear-cut morality plays? Tim did, which is why he's talking through the entirety of the He-Man And She-ra Christmas Special. So click the LINK and synch what he thinks when seasonally affected cheer comes to Eternia.

00:00:00 BONEHEAD'S HOLIDAY - Skeletor doesn't get Christmas

00:00:36 VISUALS NOT INCLUDED - and it's actually six tones

00:05:33 ADVENT-YOUR-TIME COMMENTARY - Tim's complete commentary for the "He-Man And She-Ra Christmas Special"

00:49:35 CLOSINGS - contacts, plugs and no catch phrase

00:51:45 SPECIAL FEATURES - Skeletor's Self-Awareness

Align today's audio commentary with the full-length HE-MAN AND SHE-RA: A CHRISTMAS SPECIAL now streaming on the HE-MAN OFFICIAL YouTube page.

Be appreciative that Tim didn't go through with his original viewing plan with this two-fer Christmas catastrophes ZIGGY'S GIFT and A B.C. CHRISTMAS SPECIAL.

Be back after the following messages of these vintage commercials for THUNDER-PUNCH HE-MAN and SHE-RA FROM MATTEL.

Get a brief history lesson on the animation company that brought us this Yule-tide tale in BEYOND HE-MAN AND SHE-RA: CELEBRATING THE FILMATION LEGACY as featured on DEN OF GEEK.com.

Watch Eternia take on another earthen tradition atop the MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE MACY'S DAY PARADE FLOAT FROM 1985.

And then, finally, stretch out one of Tim's favorite TV themes song well past its intended instrumentation with 10 MINUTES OF THE THEME FROM SHE-RA PRINCESS OF POWER.

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088 CHRISTMAS IN THE STARS: THE STAR WARS CHRISTMAS ALBUM

Thu, 29 Nov 2018 08:30:00 +0000

COMPACT DISC-USSION: "Happy X-Mas Amedda (Star Wars is over)" (1980): Its Life Day, pal. So let's don some robes and walk single file into a burning sun. Or, to celebrate a slightly different holiday, why not turn to the gold-throated tones of C3P0 and his Proto-crooning revue, CHRISTMAS IN THE STARS. Yep … Star Wars did a Christmas album. And Bob and Tim listened to it.

00:00:00 PRE-SHOW PRATTLE - how talking works

00:00:38 BOBBY AND THE JETS - kicking of the commercial season

00:05:13 THE CD IS … THE STAR WARS CHRISTMAS ALBUM - Who's a fan? And, also, who's not a fan.

00:08:54 CHRISTMAS IN THE STARS - C3P0 takes the mic (?)

00:11:46 CASH GRABBA THE HUTT - and will Bob's kids hear this?

00:20:14 BELLS BELLS BELLS - Spoiler Alert for S. Claus

00:25:25 THE ODDS AGAINST CHRISTMAS - never sing me the odds

00:27:14 WHAT CAN YOU GET A WOOKIE FOR CHRISTMAS (WHEN HE ALREADY OWNS A COMB - and some actual continuity

00:31:42 NOVELTY ADAPTATION - and when it starts to wear off

00:34:53 R2-D2 WE WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS - the saddest christmas gift ever

00:41:02 SLEIGH RIDE - shout-out to Ben Burtt

00:45:30 BOSK-GROUND MUSIC - and a holiday Herring

00:49:00 MERRY, MERRY CHRISTMAS - forgettably catchy

00:50:45 A CHRISTMAS SIGHTING ('TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS) - a serviceable Star Wars

00:55:18 THE MEANING OF CHRISTMAS - Claus for alarm

01:02:10 THE DEMEANING OF STAR WARS - and a niche hope

01:05:19 CLOSINGS - contacts, plugs and no catch-phrase

Light up with R2 and then shoot up with 3PO with this vintage STAR WARS SMOKING PSA and STAR WARS IMMUNIZATION PSA.

Bleed ears through some of the most discordant sounds this side of the Monster Mash with Tim's least favorite Christmas song, Elmo and Patsy's GRANDMA GOT RUN OVER BY A REINDEER off the 1979 album of the same name.

Catch a whiff of WHAT IS CHRISTMAS?, a duet between Stimpy and his fart-child Stinky from the 1993 album REN AND STIMPY'S CROCK-O-CHRISTMAS.

Soak up the schmaltz as Grace Adler's ex Harry Connick Jr. croons WHEN MY HEART FINDS CHRISTMAS off his similarly named 1993 album.

Give the gift you can't regift (nuclear apocalypse) with Weird Al Yankovic's CHRISTMAS AT GROUND ZERO from his 1986 album POLKA PARTY.

Seek out a second "Certain Point Of View" IN PRAISE OF THE BIZARRE 1980S STAR WARS CHRISTMAS ALBUM from VULTURE.com.

Hoth yourself a Merry Little Christmas with these HIGHLIGHTS FROM 40 YEARS OF LUCASFILM STAR WARS HOLIDAY CARDS.

And witness visions of sugar plumbs suddenly crying out in terror and being suddenly silenced as S. Claus detonates THE MEANING OF CHRISTMAS from the STAR WARS CHRISTMAS ALBUM.

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087 FRIENDS: THE ONE WITH ALL THE THANKSGIVING ONES

Thu, 22 Nov 2018 08:30:00 +0000

BINGE AND PODCAST: "How you chewin?" (1994-1999) It's Thanksgiving, which means day-drinking to help talk politics with your in-laws around a table of stuffing, gravy and marsh-mellow ambrosia. So if you need to step away for a sec, why not join Bob, Tim and some of their favorite acquaintances as they indulge in six Must-Have-Seen episodes of the 90s sitcom classic FRIENDS. As a heads up … Ross will be there too.

00:00:00 PRE-SHOW PRATTLE - Medicinal Gummie Bears

00:00:55 A SIT-COMICAL FEAST - binging 6 episodes of NBC's Friends

00:04:12 CHANDLER BEGINS - a friends as family plan

00:14:18 A MINUTE FOR SEASON TWO - actually … Bob's not having it

00:15:18 BAD SPORTS - tension amongst the Friends

00:22:44 SIT-CONTINUUM -and paging Paget Brewster

00:31:08 BACK TO THE PHOEBE - but actually more about Chandler and Monica

00:47:34 BING BONG - and Bob brings the chips

01:01:20 CLEARING THE TABLE - and clearing the room at 01:01:32

01:04:55 CROWD-FRIENDED - Bob makes a proposition

01:06:02 CLOSINGS - contacts, plugs and no catch-phrase

01:08:44 SPECIAL FEATURES - invoking McGruff

Watch, if for no other reason, than to witness David Schwimmer's most triumphant line-reading in the show's decade-long run with RACHEL'S DESSERT PART 2 from THE ONE WHERE ROSS GOT HIGH.

Hear the cast describe how they are thankful for the show's first season success in FRIENDS CAST TALKS SHOW SUCCESS IN 1994 with Katie Couric on Today.

Don your best turkey carcass and gather round the coffee table to read the FRIENDS ORAL HISTORY: THE ONE WITH ALL THE THANKSGIVINGS as recounted at ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY ONLINE.

Read as COLLIDER.COM denies Mocklate its Holiday due when it only counts 9 of the 10 in "FRIENDS" THANKSGIVING EPISODES RANKED.

And, finally, be thankful that Bob and Tim didn't binge on these 8 THANKSGIVING SPECIALS NO ONE IS THANKFUL FOR served a decade ago on the now-defunct TOPLESSROBOT.com

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086 SNACKS

Thu, 15 Nov 2018 08:30:00 +0000

POOP CULTURE: "Num nums, stummy aches and questionable mascots." (1978-1998) Bob and Tim stepped up to the USB mic to record an entire episode about childhood snacks. And now ... much to their surprise … they have an entire episode about childhood snacks. So eff that apple, screw those saltines and forget all about your Ssips juice box, as its a sugar bender to remember. Which means… maybe just a couple Ssips.

00:00:00 PRE-SHOW PRATTLE - Bob's beat-box

00:00:53 SENSORY UNDER-LOAD - so the topic is "snacks?"

00:09:06 FROM THE TOPPS - trying to talk about gum

00:16:10 THE REAL SNACK SHADY - now they're just describing M&Ms

00:24:24 THE SUGAR OF OUR DISCONTENT - and this section is just naming breakfast foods

00:31:47 FUDGE ROUND FETISHIZING - and why not just an apple?

00:39:01 PANTRY RAID - and how are they STILL talking about snacks?

00:43:39 PASS THE TURKEY ON THE LEFT HAND SIDE - and FINALLY digesting the topic

00:50:10 CLOSINGS - contacts, plugs and no catch-phrase

Tease that hair and snort that coke to the tune of the most 80s M&M COMMERCIAL Tim could find.

Pity the talking taste buds of our Northern neighbors with this 1988 CANADIAN M&M COMMERCIAL.

Insert your own sports pun and then watch THE BASEBALLCARD MOVIE, a documentary about collecting Topps baseball cards by filmmaker CASIMIR NOZKOWSKI.

Rot away for nearly 30 minutes with 33 CAP'N CRUNCH COMMERCIALS FROM 1964-1973.

Finger out the filling of this CLASSIC HOSTESS COMMERCIAL WITH TWINKIE THE KID AND HAPPY HO HO.

Spit out a filling and focus on THE UNTOLD TRUTH OF HOSTESS CAKES as exposed on the food porn site MASED.COM.

Tune to Utica's Big Frog 104 and bust out a couple fatty-boom-batty TURKEY JOINTS WITH TAD AND POLLY.

And then stock up for this holiday season by visiting the Oneida-treasure NORA'S CANDY SHOP for your own jar(s) of Canning-endorsed TURKEY JOINTS (now with hazelnuts).

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REMEMBERING STAN LEE

Tue, 13 Nov 2018 00:43:07 +0000

Comic book creator, author, editor, promoter and all-around fan Stan Lee has passed from this world. He was an immeasurable influence and inspiration to Tim's life, so here are a few words in mourning.

Watch the full first half of a 1977 INTERVIEW WITH STAN LEE as featured in this episode.

This episode of 20TH CENTURY POP! was recorded on GARAGEBAND '11 and then mastered by AUPHONIC, a web-based post-production service that makes it sound like Bob and Tim are worth listening to.

MUSIC FEATURED IN TODAY'S EPISODE:

"Heroes" performed by David Bowie off his 1977 album "HEROES".

"Superheroes (acoustic" performed by FUTURECOP! with KRISTINE from their 2013 album HOPES, DREAMS AND ALIENATION

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084 THE MONSTER SQUAD

Thu, 25 Oct 2018 13:06:14 +0000

RETRO SHOCK: "Nards another teen witch movie." (1987) This is Halloween, that time of year where small town kids brandish silver bullets and cigarettes against an apocalyptic army of universal horrors. So, with membership cards in hand, Bob and Tim are calling on THE MONSTER SQUAD a 1987 teen comedy about staking vampires, detonating werewolves and enlisting your younger sister for a virgin sacrifice. Its an adventure like The Goonies … but not actually the Goonies.

00:00:00 PRE-SHOW PRATTLE - who is onboard the Love Boat?

00:00:47 BOB BRINGS THE TOPIC - and its Witch-free

00:02:38 AUGUST 14TH, 1987 - and a bad rendition of Wolfman Nards

00:09:28 GOOD MEMORY/BAD MEMORY - and how much of a memory

00:13:01 MODERN DAY - winking right off the bat(s)

00:17:51 UNIVERSAL ACCLAIM - recognizable monsters and the makers who made them

00:22:25 DIGGING SOME PLOT HOLES - and Goonies 'R them?

00:28:41 FAN SERVICE - and will Bob's daughters watch it?

00:34:16 NOT SO UNIVERSAL - and one bad effect

00:44:55 AN ODD SQUAD - so just who do you relate to?

00:51:11 FAN DISSERVICE - and how to kill a werewolf

01:00:25 GOOD REALITY/BAD REALITY - and Megaforce on DVD

0:102:47 CLOSINGS - contacts, plugs and no catch phrase

01:04:42 OH …ONE LAST THING - scary German guy

01:09:23 SPECIAL FEATURES - another rendition of Wolfman Nards

THE MONSTER SQUAD is available for streaming at HULU.com, AMAZON PRIME, YOUTUBE, ITUNES and GOOGLEPLAY. All sites unaffiliated with 20th Century Pop! and Calamity House Productions. Rental and subscription rates may apply.

Thrill to the wide-screen tease of Lycanthropic testies with this ORIGINAL THEATRICAL TRAILER TO THE MONSTER SQUAD.

Have the exact nature of the Monster Squad explained by members of the Monster Squad in this EXCERPT FROM THE FILM MONSTER SQUAD.

Assemble your silver-bullet-tipped bird house in shop glass via a montage set to ROCK UNTIL YOU DROP as performed by Michael Sembello in the original film.

Get (some) of the Squad back together with the 2013 MONSTERPALOOZA MONSTER SQUAD DISCUSSION PANEL featuring cast and crew members from the original production.

Behold some unrealized pages from the original screenplay with THE LOST PIECES OF THE MONSTER SQUAD as originally published at BRANDED IN THE 80S.

Polish off some nostalgic appreciation as Monster Squad director FRED DEKKER DISCUSSES 35MM FILM PRINTS in an excerpt from OUT OF PRINT, a documentary about the New Beverly Cinema by documentarian Julia Marches.

Get an emotional glimpse of the cult following to this cult classic by viewing the official trailer to WOLFMAN'S GOT NARDS: A DOCUMENTARY and then visiting its official site at THESQUADDOC.COM.

And … finally … there's … ahm … THIS (which might explain that Love boat opening to the episode).

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083 WITCH'S NIGHT OUT

Thu, 11 Oct 2018 07:30:00 +0000

HOW DID I MISS THIS? "Its Halloween, where's everyone's pants?" (1978) Last episode Tim ruined Bob's week by forcing him to view the Halloween-adjacent film "Teen Witch." So today he's making up for it by forcing Bob to watch a special from even further back, "Witch's Night Out." Its got ghosts. Its got werewolves. Its got a 70s-accurate key party. Basically its "The Ice Storm" but for children.

00:00:00 UNLICENSED AUDIO CLIP - Nicely's angry mob

00:00:44 ITS STILL OCTOBER - vaguely remembering "Witch's Night Out"

00:09:17 CHILDREN OF THE CANDY CORN - so why are we following the grown-ups?

00:15:10 IT"S A HORNEY KEY PARTY CHARLIE BROWN - just oozing with '70s sexuality

00:20:54 WITCH HUNT - and the gamble of '80s Television

00:24:51 BAZOOEY'S DRUG-FUELED FREAK-OUT - and the quote Tim was trying to remember is "Wowee Peyote Mackerel."

00:30:29 WISHFUL THINKING - maybe this is the premise(?)

00:39:37 UN-EASING OF THE SEASON - why do we want to scare kids?.

00:53:14 CLOSINGS - contacts, plugs and no catch phrase

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Kneel before the F.H.E. logo and behold synth-tastic OPENING TITLE SEQUENCE TO WITCH'S NIGHT OUT.

Then time-jump into the FX Future of 1982 with the video to GEORGE CLINTON'S ATOMIC DOG as animated by some of the makers of this very special.

After which you can watch the out-of-season special Tim thought was TODAY'S special loose its adhesion in DECK THE HALLS WITH WACKY WALLS.

Read the account that made Bob's hairs stand up with WAS THERE A PARANORMAL OCCURANCE DURING THE LIVE 1987 HOUDINI SEANCE from WILD ABOUT HARRY, an online blog dedicated to the life (and afterlife) of Harry Houdini.

And follow the further adventures of Malicious, Bazooey and the whole naked gang at ANYTOWNSERIES.COM, the official website of WITCH'S NIGHT OUT and its numerous spin-offs.

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082 TEEN WITCH

Thu, 04 Oct 2018 12:18:43 +0000

HOW DID I MISS THIS? "Actually, I do give a -THUNK- what you think about that." (1989) Why this film is supersonic. It's idiotic. It's disconnecting ... not respecting. Why, it's not Grease … it's Teen Witch. And today Bob and Tim are struggling to understand how something goes from laughable VHS rental to beloved cult classic.

00:00:00 PRE-SHOW PRATTLE - dog days of October

00:00:41 ITS OCTOBER MONTH - and broaching the topic

00:07:21 TEEN WHAT?- conjuring up a synopsis

00:15:03 ALCHEMIC ATROCITY - and analyzing "Top That"

00:21:33 THE STROKE OF MIDNIGHT MOVIES - what makes a cult following?

00:29:37 BLOOD SUGAR SEX ED CLASS - just another horny '80s movie

00:37:28 CHAOS MAGIK - and "Grease 2" as found footage

00:45:31 FAN AND LOATHING IN POP CULTURE - have we killed off cult movies?

00:55:13 CLOSINGS - contacts, plugs and no catch phrase

00:57:35 SPECIAL FEATURES - a list of potential topics

Wonder why the film didn't play the way it was previewed with the ORIGINAL MOVIE TRAILER FOR TEEN WITCH.

Compare and contrast the original RHETT AND POLLY PERFORMANCE OF TOP THAT with the years-later homage of KENNETH FROM 30 ROCK'S TOP THAT.

Cringe in good company as the original stars of Teen witch LOOK BACK AT THE SUPERSONIC SCENE.

Recite in unison with the thoroughly informative SEX ED SCENE FROM TEEN WITCH.

Attempt to stomach this SHIT RICHIE SAYS… compilation Youtuber tubeneck2b took the liberty of compiling.

As a reminder … THIS IS (UNFORTUNATELY) FISHER STEVENS.

Here … as mentioned .. is our FRIENDS SEASON THREE EPISODE of 20th Century Pop(cast)!

And finally, try and top the extensive research of film journalist Blake Harris with this TEEN WITCH: AN ORAL HISTORY from the film blogging site SLASHFILM.

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081 THE TRANSFORMERS THE MOVIE SOUNDTRACK

Thu, 27 Sep 2018 16:56:56 +0000

COMPACT DISC-USSION: "Rock out with your Kup out" (1986) Tim's mid-80s cassette collection was a not-so-eclectic mix of stand-up comedy, orchestral movie scores and Weird Al Yankovic. Then, on his 11th birthday, he was gifted a ten song compilation consisting of synthesizers, heavy metal … and Weird Al Yankovic. It was the first holy grail of his childhood and, today, he reveals just how this Transformers movie soundtrack was more than met his eyes...er.. ears.

00:00:00 PRE-SHOW PRATTLE - the comedy stylings of Prime and Tommy

00:00:34 BALLAD OF A DERAILED EPISODE - and where is Bob Canning?

00:08:58 THE CD IS … THE TRANSFORMERS: THE MOVIE ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK - and Tim is seeing it on the big screen

00:12:44 THE TOUCH" - and a hairy grail

00:21:29 "INSTRUMENTS OF DESTRUCTION" - Fatalism from Hasbro

00:24:55 "THE DEATH OF OPTIMUS PRIME" - isolating the score for impact

00:28:05 "DARE" - and maybe we'll talk … just a little … about Hot Rod(?)

00:32:28 "NOTHIN'S GONNA STAND IN OUR WAY" - and who is this album for?

00:37:24 "THE TRANSFORMERS (THEME)" - Shout at the devil shaped robot voiced by Orson Welles

00:40:38 "ESCAPE" - the Rocky 4 of cartoon robot movie soundtracks

00:41:48 "HUNGER" - and becoming something beyond the movie

00:45:49 "AUTOBOT/DECEPTICON BATTLE" - let us keep praising Vince DiCola (while giving a shout-out to Jason Smith)

00:47:52 "DARE TO BE STUPID" - eat it, Transformers soundtrack

00:53:34 CHANG CHANGE, ITS GUIDED BY VOICES - why this soundtrack matters so much

00:58:44 CLOSINGS - contacts, plugs and no catch phrase

01:01:45 SPECIAL FEATURES - free bumper sticker

Watch a true clash of heavy metal as Optimus Prime battles Megatron, all scored to STAN BUSH'S THE TOUCH.

Raise a laser-lighter and request an encore with this live performance of DARE BY THE CYBERTRONIC SPREE.

Hear how it was apparently a cover wit h Australian soft-rock export JOHN FARNHAM'S ORIGINAL VERSION OF NOTHING'S GONNA STAND IN OUR WAY as featured in the film 1984 Linda Blair vehicle SAVAGE STREETS.

Stan Bush-wack a little deeper into his discogrpahy with this scene from BLOODSPORT featuring the STAN BUSH ORIGINAL, "FIGHT TO SURVIVE."

Hear yourself stating "Why did these guys sing the Transformers theme?" with the non-Huey Lewis-led video of POWER LOVE BY LION.

Revel in the U2-level star power of this soundtrack with this surrealist jaunt through 80s video effects, WEIRD AL'S DARE TO BE STUPID.

Wonder where this could have fit in wit the sadly omitted from musical history hair metal masterpiece COLD SLITHER BY THE DREADNOCKS.

And, finally, listen to a very sincere reminisce by a very talented composer with this INTERVIEW WITH VINCE DICOLA.

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080 THE FAR SIDE

Thu, 20 Sep 2018 16:05:59 +0000

BOOK AND PODCAST: "Paneling tonight … cows." (1980-1995) There was a time when not a day could go by without encountering the single panel absurdity of "The Far Side." Gary Larson's work adorned the bookshelves, calendars and dorm room walls of our co-hosts well into the 1990s. But for Bob, there was an even deeper meaning to this comic, impacting both his creative pursuits and abhorrent outlook on humanity (Tim just thought the cows looked funny).

00:00:00 PRE-SHOW PRATTLE - very busy schedules

00:01:05 BACK TO THE FUNNIES - and Bob's childhood career goal

00:08:08 NEVER MIND THE BIL KEANES … HERE'S THE FAR SIDE - a single panel of punk rock

00:20:43 NERD'S REVENGE - an exclusionary narrator

00:25:51 BINGING THE DAY TO DAY CALENDAR - and is this well-drawn?

00:33:30 DRAWING TO FILL SPACE - Teenage Cartooning

00:38:09 MISANTHROPIC MEDIUMS - and an elusive, reclusive author of absurdity

00:46:03 PANEL AND REPEAT - re-returning to The Far Side … again and again

00:51:10 OPENING A CANNING OF WORMS - regrets on maturity

00:57:11 CLOSINGS - contacts, plugs and no catch phrase

00:59:34 SPECIAL FEATURES - more things Bob has and hasn't listened to

Finally find out what the author looked like in 1986 with this 20/20 INTERVIEW WITH GARY LARSON.

Hear the intricate underpinnings of The Far Side cartoon eloquently dissected with scholarly insight when NORM AND CLIFF EXPLAIN THE FAR SIDE TO WOODY in this clip from NBC's CHEERS.

Learn just a little bit more with these 11 TWISTED FACTS ABOU THE FAR SIDE as originally posted on MENTAL FLOSS.

And then finally realize that's its frustratingly difficult to find any thorough information about this strip online by having to reach back all the way to this 1998 New York Times article AFICIONADO OF SCIENCE: GARY LARSON, AN AMATEUR IN BIOLOGY RETURNS TO HIS EASEL.

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079 SQUARE PEGS

Thu, 13 Sep 2018 14:52:01 +0000

BINGE AND PODCAST: "Our school could be your life" (1982-1983) Stuck in detention due to the tardy slip of last week's missed episode, Bob and Tim are unsnapping their Trapper Keepers to talk about one of their favorite sit-coms of the 1980s. SQUARE PEGS was a one season wonder that aired before either of their Hi-Tops ever stepped into a High School. Yet, somehow, this Sara Jessica Parker starring oddity informed these second graders what their future school nostalgia would consist of.

00:00:00 PRE-SHOW PRATTLE - the Joanie/Chachi/Feline trifecta

00:00:32 BACK TO SCHOOL - but not with Rodney Dangerfield

00:03:45 SEPTEMBER 1982 - and watching what Bob's mom was watching

00:09:53 ANNE BEATTS STREET - challenging the status quo

00:13:17 I WAS A TEENAGE BROAD CITY - clicking with Patty and Lauren

00:19:07 WEEMAWEE ROLL CALL - and not a hint of John Hughes

00 26:26 NOT SO TYPICAL FOR PRIMETIME PLAYERS - with a shout-out to Benson.

00:30:33 PARENTAL GUIDANCE REJECTED - glasses, braces and no adult supervision

00:35:52 BEHOOVED TO MENTION - a moment for Muffy Tepperman

00:37:52 REALITY BITS - Bob finds some of this a little cartoony

00:42:48 POPULARITY CONTESTED - and a world they could recognize

00:51:24 THE DIVINE SIT-COMEDY - always never quite right

00:59:51 CLOSINGS - contacts, plugs and no catch phrase

01:02:16 SPECIAL FEATURES - owning kids

Patty and Lauren break down the true nature of High School with the OPENING CREDITS TO SQUARE PEGS.

Watch The Waitresses perform the THEME FROM SQUARE PEGS to the cast of Square Pegs during the closing credits for the pilot for Square Pegs ... and then apply some gout and re-patch that fourth wall.

Wonder what you were watching Wednesday nights in 1982 with this NBC PROMO FOR SQUARE PEGS featuring an appearance by Devo. Yes ... Devo.

As a reminder … this is what BENSON was.

Study up on why this show was cancelled after a single brilliant season with the AV CLUB's retrospective BEHIND THE SCENES CHAOS DERAILED SQUARE PEG'S NEW WAVE PROMISE.

And because that TV Guide article doesn't seem to be posted online … here is another critique of what was written with NO ONE REMEMBERS SQUARE PEGS BUT THE DRAMA BEHIND THE SCENES IS UNFORGETTABLE from THROWBACKS.COM.

Learn how they put together that mix tape Tim would love to have in THE TOTALLY NEW WAVE LEGACY OF SQUARE PEGS by Lyndsey Parker.

Listen to Bob recount a similar affection for 80s TV (as Tim did in this episode) with the flashback of the podcast episode about MISFITS OF SCIENCE.

And because they both mentioned it … here's that ELIZABETH PERKINS IN BIG episode.

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078 SUMMER BLOCKBUSTERS OF THE 1980S

Thu, 30 Aug 2018 07:30:00 +0000

LIST-A-RAMA-A-GO-GO: "Stranded at the indoor drive-in" (1983-1989). With the summer heat crashing their weather channel apps, Bob and Tim are taking solace in the cinema of their youth. And what unfolds out of focus isn't some escapist screenings meant to wait out the 80s. These are the big screen projections that inititated their life-long exploration of pop culture. So, turn down those lights (where applicable) and thrill to this full hour like it was Krull.

00:00:00 PRE-SHOW PRATTLE - an effin' spoiler for the episode

00:00:58 THE GREAT INDOORS - seeing summer movies in the 1980s

00:05:21 BOTH OF THEIR NUMBER FIVES - animated antics of a shared universe

00:12:49 PARENTAL GUIDANCE REJECTED - a pattern begins

00:17:11 BOB'S NUMBER FOUR - is not "Fletch"

00:22:25 TIM'S NUMBER FOUR - cartooning it up

00:28:56 TIM'S NUMBER THREE - is Bob's Number One

00:35:01 BOB'S NUMBER THREE - is Tim's Number One

00:40:27 BOB'S NUMBER TWO - and his eldest bikes alone

00:46:31 TIM'S NUMBER TWO - tv titans go to the movies

00:53:43 A BIGGER SCREEN TREATMENT - and viewing it through Kid Goggles

01:00:02 CLOSINGS - contacts, plugs and no catch-phrase

01:02:42 SPECIAL FEATURES - a shapely toot

SPOILER ALERT: In a sequential order that (sort of) spoils any anticipated surprise to what is on Bob and Tim's respective TOP FIVE SUMMER BLOCKBUSTERS OF THE 1980S THAT WE SAW AT THE MOVIE THEATER WHEN THEY CAME OUT (phew) ... here are some trailers.

Try and guess the culprit with the strangely extended ORIGINAL THEATRICAL TRAILER FOR WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT.

Have no idea what the movie will probably be about with the ORIGINAL THEATRICAL TEASER TO BACK TO THE FUTURE.

Wonder where the Annie Potts shout-out went with the ORIGINAL THEATRICAL TRAILER TO GHOSTBUSTERS 2.

Compose your own score to coincide with the final 28 seconds of this ORIGINAL THEATRICAL TRAILER TO BATMAN.

Listen to the narrator of HARDWARE WARS tell you there is another Star Wars movie with the ORIGINAL THEATRICAL TRAILER TO RETURN OF THE JEDI.

Whip it .. .ah ... good (?) with the ORIGINAL THEATRICAL TRAILER TO INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE.

Try and imagine what the audience for Stallone's COBRA made of this when they were screened the ORIGINAL THEATRICAL TRAILER TO TRANSFORMERS: THE MOVIE.

And ... as a bonus ... here's the video for Stan Bush's THE TOUCH that took two people to direct.

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077 OASIS

Thu, 23 Aug 2018 07:30:00 +0000

OUVRE COMPENSATING: "He's a real Noel-where Man (formerly Liam It Be)" (1994-1998) There was a time when the biggest music act on the planet shot straight out of Britain to invade the U.S. Some would say they were bigger than Jesus. They would would say "eff the Beatles." And this episode Bob will say they were his collegiate education on the majesty of pop music (to clarify ... its an episode about Oasis ... not The Monkees .. but that was probably pretty clear).

00:00:00 PRE-SHOW PRATTLE - Zero Some

00:01:10 BOSTON REBRAND - and Oeuvre-Explaining the episode

00:05:34 MID-NINETIES AT THE OASIS - Bob singles out Brit Pop

00:16:36 FULLY-FORMED ARROGANCE - and sounding like a 70s mix-tape

00:29:40 CHARLATANS U.K.? - less-than-lyrical content

00:39:09 BONEHEADED BRETHREN — and staging a rivalry

00:43:16 BIGGER THAN BEATLES - but longer than necessary

00:53:29 BOB'S LISTLESS LISTENER'S PARTY - and demystifying the master plan

01:03:20 CLOSINGS - contacts, plugs and no catch phrase

01:06:19 SPECIAL FEATURES - Billy Ocean Size

Get in on the (formerly) biggest band in the world before they were the (formerly) biggest band in the world with an hour of early demos and live performances from OASIS: THE EARLY YEARS.

Be thrilled for the Matt Whitecross Oasis documentary that may have been released (?) with this OFFICIAL TRAILER FOR SUPERSONIC.

Try and follow the Gallagher brothers arguing about their rock-and-roll reputations with this painfully transcribed transcript of WIBBLING RIVALRY, which reached number 52 on the UK release charts in 1995.

Listen to the band try to get it right with this 1992 rehearsal of ALL AROUND THE WORLD.

And, finally, rock out with your Big Ben Clock out as Bob's favorite band performs to everyone in Glastonbury with this 1994 live performance of FADE AWAY.

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076 BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER WITH BONITA GUTIERREZ

Thu, 16 Aug 2018 07:30:00 +0000

BINGE AND PODCAST "Its like High School but with more stakes." (1997) High School can be Hell ... especially if its built on a Hellmouth. And today Bob and Tim are bellying up to The Bronze with author Bonita Guiterrez to relive their youth through the pop goggles of Buffy The Vampire Slayer. But with their conflicting opinions and varied impressions .. it may not be all three that survive the semester.

00:00:00 GIVING 15.789 PERCENT - estimating their track record

00:00:43 BOB AND TIM WITH . . . - Bonita Gutierrez author of The Werewolf Whisperer

00:04:43 INTO THE SLAYERVERSE - and Bob's kids still don't like Star Wars

00:15:06 ROLL THE BONES - and maybe don't start with all the mythology

00:23:40 RANDOM ISSUES - following a show without following the show

00:29:48 WICKED OF THE WEEK - and not how the internet works

00:36:53 BINGE-BOOZLED - it's all be connected … except maybe its not all connected

00:43:28 EHHH-STHETIC - a show still figuring itself out

00:47:18 ZEPPO LIGHTER - Bob zeroes in on Xander

00:56:40 POP CASUALTY - can you be less than a fan?

01:05:28 CLOSINGS - contacts, plugs and no catch phrase

01:08:03 SPECIAL FEATURES - beverage etiquette

Today's guest BONITA GUITERREZ writes books you want to read. Avoid the hush tones and tell everyone you know about THE WEREWOLF WHISPERER available at WEREWOLFWHISPERER.COM and AMAZON KINDLE. You can also follow like they're footprints on Twitter @wwwhisperer and on Facebook @werewolfwhisperer.

Bonita writes a lot. And since you're already online, check out BONITA'S GEEKY BLOG-FU! for so many thoughts on movies, books and all sorts of things .. ahm ... geeky. You can also follow her on Twitter @BonitzMG.

Then stay tuned for today's topics with these original 1997 promos for the Buffy episodes "ANGEL", "I ROBOT ... YOU JANE" and "THE PUPPET SHOW."

Ease the anxiety of properly pronouncing "David Boreanez" by remembering "Luke Perry" was a thing you use to say with the original 1992 BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER THEATRICAL TRAILER.

See the dragon a Dubba Dubba W-budget could never afford with this BUFFY THE ANIMATED SERIES PROMO.

Critique the critics with a couple chosen blurbs from BUFFY AT 20: WHAT THE CRITICS ORIGINALLY SAID ABOUT THE JOSS WHEDON FAVORITE.

And finally echo Bonita's own sentiments with Charlie Jane Anders' 20 YEARS LATER THE WORLD NEEDS BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER MORE THAN EVER from WIRED.

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20TH CENTURY POP! will return next week with either the Gallagher brothers who smash fruit ... or the other Gallagher brothers.

075 THE TWENTY-FOUR MORE EPISODES AND WE HIT ONE HUNDRED CELEBRATORY EPISODE

Thu, 09 Aug 2018 07:30:00 +0000

POP 5: "Its 3/4s of a meaningful anniversary." In issue 75 of the original TRANSFORMERS comic book, Autobots AND Decepticons had to unite and fight side-by-side to defeat the Cybertron-dwarfing Chaos Bringer, Unicron. In episode 75 of this podcast Bob and Tim ... name ... a couple .... Ewoks. Its yet another arbitrarily celebratory anniversary that brings back the rarely-requested, slightly-reoccurring nostalgia-recall segment of the POP 5.

00:00:00 PRE-SHOW PRATTLE - the worst we could do

00:00:59 SHAMELESS SELF-LOATHING PROMOTION - hear Tim on episodes 69-71 of FLASH GORDON MINUTE

00:06:31 THE POP 5 IS (ALMOST) A-FOOT - an arbitrary explanation of what everyone is doing

00:09:44 DIRECTING WITH MYSELF - as inspired by EPISODE 055: KEVIN SMITH

00:16:59 PAPLOO YOU - as inspired by EPISODE 070: STAR WARS TOYS BY KENNER

00:25:25 ATTEMPTING NORM - as inspired by EPISODE 064: SEINFELD

00:39:15 THEY'RE IN THE BAND(?) - as inspired by EPISODE 065: RADIOHEAD: THE BENDS

00:50:00 BEAR ON A SPEEDER-BIKE - and is it fandom or fascination?

01:00:51 THE BAND WHO? - Bob's Travis story

01:04:00 CLOSINGS - contacts, plugs and no catchphrase

01:06:15 SPECIAL FEATURES - moments before the episode

SHAMELESS PLUG-A-BUG: Hear co-host Tim Blevins discussing while dissecting a 1980s SciFi spectacle on episodes 69, 70 and 71 of FLASH GORDON MINUTE. Its a thrice-a-week roundtable hosted by friend of the show BRAD MENDENHALL (EPISODE 60) and ERIC DEUTSCH. (And if you've been bought out by ITUNES, you can ITUNE IN HERE).

Look, its Janice from "Friends," Robin from "Anything But Love," that guy from "The Experts" and the lead in "Mr. Wrong" sweating off their sitcom in the first part of the pilot for THESE FRIENDS OF MINE.

Witness Wicket, Teebo and a bunch of other made up infiltrate an Imperial Star Destroyer (what?) in EWOKS: BATTLE FOR THE SUNSTAR.

Bust out the Trainspotting appendix and follow this late 90s warbling of TURN BY TRAVIS.

And see Jim Henson share his couch time with this guest appearance of KERMIT THE FROG ON THE ARSENIO HALL SHOW.

This episode of 20TH CENTURY POPCAST was recorded by CAST, an online audio platform that lets you create and record a multi-guest podcast straight from your web-browser.

It was then mastered by AUPHONIC, a web-based post-production service that makes it sound like Bob and Tim are worth listening to. Check out both sights for trial and subscription information.

MUSIC FEATURED IN TODAY'S EPISODE:

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20TH CENTURY POPCAST will return next week to stick a stake in Bones' ass ... or is it Bones' friend's ass ... haven't really watched a lot of "Bones."

GLORIFIED RERUN: SOME KIND OF RORSHACH

Thu, 02 Aug 2018 12:57:25 +0000

So there's no new episode of 20TH CENTURY POPCAST today but that doesn't mean you have to go a week without the show. In place of a slightly anticipated, newly recorded, insightfully researched pop culture discussion, listen to this rebroadcast of EPISODE 07 from back on March 2nd 2017. Its Bob and Tim at their earliest discussing the likes of THE LAST STAR-FIGHTER, FRIENDS and WHEN HARRY MET SALLY. And what results is an expose of how these pieces of pop art influenced their own adolescent behaviors.

And then be assured that 20TH CENTURY POPCAST will return next week with a POP 5-filled 75th anniversary episode.

POCAST SHOUT-ABOUT: To hear a more recent Tim Blevins discussing aspects of the 1980s tune in next Tuesday to FLASH GORDON MINUTE, a thrice-a-week discussion of the 1980 sci-fi spectacle hosted by friend of the show BRAD MENDENHALL (EPISODE 60) and ERIC DEUTSCH. Actually, TUNE IN NOW to catch up on the minutes you've missed.

This episode of 20TH CENTURY POPCAST! was recorded by ZENCASTR, a high fidelity podcast recording platform that records multiple guests from multiple zip-codes all as if they were in the same room. Log on for studio quality recordings NOW! (exclamation point also provided by ZENCASTR)

MUSIC FEATURED IN TODAY'S EPISODE:

"Glorified G" performed by Pearl Jam on their 1994 album VERSES.

"I'll Be You" performed by The Replacements off the 1989 album "DON'T TELL A SOUL"

"Hopeless Romantic." performed by The Bouncing Souls from their 1999 release "HOPELESS ROMANTIC"

The use of these songs are for entertainment purposes and without the expressed permission of the recording artist.

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Seriously ... we'll be back ... next week ... with NEW MATERIAL ... or ... EPISODE 08.

074 FLIGHT OF THE NAVIGATOR

Thu, 26 Jul 2018 07:30:00 +0000

RETRO SHOCK: "Pee-Wee's Big Abduction" (1986) What 10 year-old wouldn't want to be cosmically kidnapped and forced to fly to a future where NASA wants to cut open their brain for star-charts? Well, half of this show's hosts ... to start with. Still, that's not stopping Bob and Tim from exploring this childhood space film that isn't "Explorers." Its Disney's oddest offering from the '80s, "Flight Of The Navigator" ... and some dogs playing frisbee.

00:00:00 PRE-SHOW PRATTLE - prop comedy is a-go

00:01:15 AGING GRACELESSLY - and "Home Improvement" is on Netflix(?)

00:05:30 AUGUST 1ST 1986 - Disneying up the guys

00:09:05 CABLE VIEWINGS OF THE FIRST KIND - Bob recalls his initial contact with the film

00:17:26 GOOD MEMORY/BAD MEMORY - and watching what's you're put in front of

00:20:48 MODERN DAY - Dogs Of FLA.

00:24:10 FIRST SIGHTINGS OF THE 1970s - and Howard Hessman initiates a cover-up

00:31:26 EDITORIAL CHOICE TO THE FUTURE - a childhood game of alien abduction

00:37:07 RALPING ALL OVER THE RUNWAY - and explaining the title

00:44:28 PAGING MR. REUBENS - so now its THIS movie?

00:51:24 ANACHRONISTIC-PHOBIA - and we could've been talking about "Back To The Future"

00:57:07 GOOD REALITY/BAD REALITY - with shout-outs to "Explorers," "X-Men," "Star Wars" and pretty much anything but this

01:04:48 CLOSINGS - contacts, plugs and no catch phrase

01:07:48 SPECIAL FEATURES - text speculation

Enjoy this pre-flight rendition of the plotted course you're about to navigate with the original FLIGHT OF THE NAVIGATOR TRAILER.

Mix one part "making of documentarty" with two parts "blatant commercial for the Disney' Back-catalog" to concoct this original 1986 FLIGHT OF THE NAVIGATOR FEATURETTE.

Jump through time with You-tuber Adam Woo as he revisits FLIGHT OF THE NAVIGATOR FILMING LOCATIONS 26 years later.

Be sure to have finished your homework in time to tune into the 1986 DISNEY SUNDAY MOVIE OPENING CREDIT SEQUENCE.

Then sit through the entire original Disney Sunday night broadcast of the original Disney Sunday Night movie mentioned in today's episode MR. BOOGEDY.

Or just watch a tease for movie they maybe should have watched with this ORIGINAL TRAILER FOR THE MOVIE EXPLORERS.

MUSIC FEATURED IN TODAY'S EPISODE:

"Around The Corner And Down A Bit" performed by Matt Oakley from the 2014 album 80S TV #1 also available at Freemusicarchives.org.

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20TH CENTURY POPCAST will return next week to pop rock some Pop 5s in your Coke.

073 SUMMER MOVIES: 1991

Thu, 19 Jul 2018 07:30:00 +0000

SUMMER OF SUMMERTIME SUMMER: "Problem Child 2 WAS my Judgement Day." (1991) It was a sweltering summer afternoon when Bob and Tim last sat down to record an episode. So hit the fans just like this conversation does as Bob and Tim reminisce on some some summer-time fun from 1991. Its Bruce Willis, bows and arrows and a couple Jim Belushi-less dog movies.

00:00:00 PRE-SHOW PRATTLE - modern research

00:01:13 THE WORST PIECE OF CONVERSATION IN THE WORLD - and Bob and Tim, together again

00:03:50 SUMMER FUN IN 1991 - the bane of Bob and a whiff of Willis

00:14:06 MEANING TO SEE THELMA AND LOUISE - and somehow seeing "Only The Lonely"

00:21:11 BRUNO KIRBY RIDES AGAIN - after a shout-out to … The Santa Clause 2?

00:31:05 SHERWOOD FEVER - and how did we miss this (with two different meanings)?

00:38:19 PRE-GLUT FAILURE - and laughing because we're supposed to

00:45:31 BOB 'N THE HOOD - after we just breeze past T2

00:51:30 KEANU CHAMELEON - and Bob's deep dark secret

00:56:36 DOG DAYS OF AUGUST - and a film Tim can't commit to

01:03:48 CLOSINGS - Contacts, plugs and no catchphrases.

01:05:46 SPECIAL BONUS FEATURES - doing the research

Behold what made 14 year-old Tim a Bergman fan with this sequence of homage from BILL AND TED'S BOGUS JOURNEY.

Cue the culinary comedy with this housekeeping clip from DON'T TELL MOM THE BABYSITTER'S DEAD.

Stumble trough a downward-dog spiral of puns with a double feature of unleashed trailers for BINGO and ROVER DANGERFIELD.

Witness Bruce Willis from a writer's point of view as essayist Paul Rowlands interviews original screenplay author DANIEL WATERS ON HUDSON HAWK from MONEY INTO LIGHT.

Ride along as screenwriter Callie Khouri recounts the winding process of bringing "Thelma And Louise" to the screen with the retrospective THE RIDE OF A LIFETIME from VANITY FAIR.

Read how personal his screenplay actually was when JOHN SINGLETON TALKS 'BOYZ N THE HOOD' 25 YEARS LATER, THE STATE OF BLACK CINEMA AND TUPAC SHAKUR as transcribed in SHADOW AND ACT.

And finally ... as Tim referenced/repeatedly-pleaded-for-someone-to-listen-to... here's a link to the HOWARD THE DUCK EPISODE of this very podcast.

This episode of 20TH CENTURY POPCAST was recorded by CAST, an online audio platform that lets you create and record a multi-guest podcast straight from your web-browser. It was then mastered by AUPHONIC, a web-based post-production service that makes it sound like Bob and Tim are worth listening to. Check out both sights for trial and subscription information.

MUSIC FEATURED IN TODAY'S EPISODE:

"Super Poupi " (opening theme) and "Poupi Great Adventures: The Arcade Game" (closing theme) performed by Komiku from the 2018 album POUPI'S INCREDIBLE ADVENTURES available at Freemusicarchives.org.

Cleared for public domain use through Creative Commons under a CCO 1.0 Universal License.

Subscribe to 20TH CENTURY POPCAST! on APPLE PODCASTS, STITCHER and ANDROID or stream it at www.20popcast.com.

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Contact the show with any questions, suggestions or possible topics at 20popcast@gmail.com, #20popcast on Twitter and the POP TALK section of www.20popcast.com.

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20TH CENTURY POPCAST will return next week with its first recorded reference to a Howard Hessman vehicle.

072 STEVE DITKO

Thu, 12 Jul 2018 12:58:54 +0000

ORIGIN STORIES: "With great artists comes great creativity." Steve Ditko is an architect of modern pop culture. As the co-creator of Spiderman, his art brought forth one of the most recognizable and beloved icons of ... well ... EVERYone's childhood. He passed away this past week. And while mourning this loss Tim ponders what it means for a kid to realize that there are actual artists behind their actual heroes.

For more insight into to the work of Steve Ditko listen to Spiderman authority Dan Gvozden eulogize his impact on comic culture with this BONUS EPISODE OF THE AMAZING SPIDER-TALK podcast available for listening on ITUNES, STITCHER and YOUTUBE.

Then open the treasured response to podcaster Dan Gvozden fan letter as featured in the STEVE DITKO DIDN'T LOOK BACK article from THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER.

Following which, you can read about Ditko's emerging and controversial politics in his work with this SHADES OF A CHANGING MAN: STEVE DITKO AT DC COMICS article by Brian Conin from CBR.COM.

Watch Spiderman crash his Amazing Friends' acceptance speech at the 1983 YUMMY AWARDS ...which were a thing.

Witness CBS bell-bottoming out in an attempt to render Ditko's drawings via Cathode rays with the 1978 DOCTOR STRANGE TV MOVIE.

Hear one of Tim's favorite comic book authors ANN NOCENTI DISCUSS HER WORKING RELATIONSHIP WITH STEVE DITKO during her time at Marvel.

And finally ... trip about the life and work of Steve Ditko with this BBC4 documentary IN SEARCH OF STEVE DITKO.

This episode of 20TH CENTURY POPCAST was mastered by AUPHONIC, a web-based post-production service that makes it sound like Bob and Tim are worth listening to. Check out both sights for trial and subscription information.

MUSIC FEATURED IN TODAY'S EPISODE:

"Reformat The Planet" performed by Bit Shifter from his 2010 EP INFORMATION CHASE available for download at Bandcamp. The use of this song is for entertainment purposes and without the expressed permission of the recording artist.

"Poupi Great Adventures: The Arcade Game" (closing theme) performed by Komiku from the 2018 album POUPI'S INCREDIBLE ADVENTURES available at Freemusicarchives.org.
Cleared for public domain use through Creative Commons under a CCO 1.0 Universal License.

Subscribe to 20TH CENTURY POPCAST! on APPLE PODCASTS, STITCHER and ANDROID or stream it at www.20popcast.com.

Like, share and reminisce with 20TH CENTURY POPCAST! on FACEBOOK.

Contact the show with any questions, suggestions or possible topics at 20popcast@gmail.com, #20popcast on Twitter and the POP TALK section of www.20popcast.com.

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20TH CENTURY POPCAST will return next week with spoken dialogue recorded digitally.

071 OUTTAKES, BLOOPERS & BEHIND THE SCENES

Thu, 05 Jul 2018 12:38:38 +0000

POOP CULTURE: "Foul-ups, bleeps and ... wait, why are we broadcasting these?" Bob and Tim record a pop culture discussion every week. But what makes it to air is actually a truncated version of their actual interaction. So if you've ever found yourself wondering what doesn't make it online (mis-spoken moments, unrelated ramblings, tenuous tensions between hosts) here's the proper reel to gag on.

00:00:00 PRE-PRE-SHOW PRATTLE - a word about today's episode

00:00:45 GOOD SHOW AND GOOD LUCK - a prolonged near start

00:06:07 JAG-OFF LITTLE PILL - some music discussions

00:17:46 PREHISTORIC THIRTYSOMETHINGS - tv of the '80s and '90s

00:23:59 TOYS WERE US - collecting the Twin Pod Cloud Car Pilot

00:27:20 PODCRASS - some technical aspects

00:34:05 INTERMINABLE WORDING - a few random sentences

00:42:50 COMPETING REQUESTS - and some tension on the mic

00:50:08 CLOSINGS - Contacts, plugs and no catchphrase

01:10:59 SPECIAL BONUS FEATURES - stand-up spotlight with Bob Canning

See in the intro that first introduced Tim to the concept of outtakes with this clip from TV'S BLOOPER'S AND PRACTICAL JOKES.

Then watch what his 10 year-old self considered the hipper alternative with Steve Lawrence and Don Rickles on FOUL-UPS, BLEEPS AND BLUNDERS.

Take a break with some sponsored words in this vintage ad for the KENNER TWIN POD CLOUD CARD.

And, finally, lull yourself to sleep with multiple renditions of a real American lullaby from the original animated series GI JOE: A REAL AMERICAN HERO.

Portions of this episode of 20TH CENTURY POPCAST was recorded by CAST, ZENCASTR and RINGR, each an online audio platform that lets you create and record a multi-guest podcast straight from your web-browser. Certain elements were then mastered by AUPHONIC, a web-based post-production service that makes it sound like Bob and Tim are worth listening to. Check out all sites for trial and subscription information.

MUSIC FEATURED IN TODAY'S EPISODE:

"Fucked Up" performed by The Lemonheads off their 1987 Taang Records release HATE YOUR FRIENDS. The use of this song was for entertainment purposes and without the expressed permission of the recording artist.

"Poupi Great Adventures: The Arcade Game" (closing theme) performed by Komiku from the 2018 album POUPI'S INCREDIBLE ADVENTURES available at Freemusicarchives.org and cleared for public domain use through Creative Commons under a CCO 1.0 Universal License.

Subscribe to 20TH CENTURY POPCAST! on APPLE PODCASTS, STITCHER and ANDROID or stream it at www.20popcast.com.

Like, share and reminisce with 20TH CENTURY POPCAST! on FACEBOOK.

Contact the show with any questions, suggestions or possible topics at 20popcast@gmail.com, #20popcast on Twitter and the POP TALK section of www.20popcast.com.

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Follow TIM BLEVINS @subcultist on TWITTER and as SUBCULTISTon INSTAGRAM.

20TH CENTURY POPCAST will return next week with ... Bob Canning?

070 STAR WARS TOYS BY KENNER WITH CHRIS NICINI

Thu, 28 Jun 2018 07:30:00 +0000

TOYS OF SUMMER: "Action Figrin Dan is Minch on Talon Karrde." (1978-1985) Who can forget Christmas morning? Rushing downstairs in character-specific pajamas. Tearing into some intricately wrapped gifts. All to reveal the anticipated find of ... General Nadine? Twin Pod Cloud Car? Pruneface? These were the things kids played with thanks to Kenner's original Star Wars collection. And today Tim welcomes Star Wars collector Chris Nicini to discuss his love of this toy-line and its continued impact on his adult life. Utini.

00:00:00 PRESHOW PRATTLE - playing to a packed house

00:00:46 ONCE AGAIN, NO BOB AND, ONCE AGAIN, STILL TIM WITH … - Chris Nicini, Cinematographer and Star Wars collector

00:05:31 PLAY-DOUGH OR PLAY-DOUGH NOT - earliest introductions to Star Wars

00:12:21 WERE THESE THE DROIDS YOU WANTED? - the Jawa mentality

00:18:40 POWER OF THE FORCE WAS NOT STRONG WITH THIS ONE - cultivating a collector with the Micro-Collection

00:30:53 PUT CARDED SOLO IN THE CARGO HOLD - unopened packaging

00:33:27 LESS OF A TIME AGO IN A CONVENTION NEARBY … - the epic engineering of John and Jim Jongsma

00:39:36 PRICE-CHECK CHILDHOOD - and collecting with a co-pilot

00:48:32 LIFE DAY-DREAM BELIEVER - before the Star Wars aesthetics

00:54:05 THE TOYS ARE OUT THERE - how Tim lost the Rebellion

00:59:33 ENOUGH OF THIS SITH - when does the collecting end?

01:08:48 CLOSINGS - Contacts, plugs and no catchphrase

01:10:59 SPECIAL BONUS FEATURES - a quick head count

Check out some stellar action figure photography from today's guest CHRIS NICINI via this Flickr gallery HERE.

Play with a cardboard box during this original 1977 ad for the 1977 Star Wars toy-line HERE.

See how epic childhood memories get turned into rampant modern consumerism with this pair of Star Wars retail promos HERE and HERE.

Watch a Jawa reverse-fireman's carry the Death Star droid during a run of Star Wars toy ads HERE.

Hear the lack of pronouns in the Tauntaun toy spot during the parade of Star Wars ads HERE

Be surprised, surprised by Lando in disguise with another run of Star wars toy ads HERE.

Read about the some unreleased Micro-world play-sets that would have adorned Tim's childhood bookshelf HERE and HERE.

Witness the Sandy Frank presentation a three year-old Tim thought was the source material for his first die-cast X-Wing fighter HERE.

Try and get Master Yoda's radio single out of your head with his video performance HERE.

And finally, see an astounding remake of Star Wars by actual kids in their actual backyard with the Jongsman/Baker film spectacular HERE and HERE.

This episode of 20TH CENTURY POPCAST was recorded by CAST, an online audio platform that lets you create and record a multi-guest podcast straight from your web-browser. It was then mastered by AUPHONIC, a web-based post-production service that makes it sound like Bob and Tim are worth listening to. Check out both sights for trial and subscription information.

MUSIC FEATURED IN TODAY'S EPISODE:

"Super Poupi " (opening theme) and "Poupi Great Adventures: The Arcade Game" (closing theme) performed by Komiku from the 2018 album POUPI'S INCREDIBLE ADVENTURES available at Freemusicarchives.org.

Cleared for public domain use through Creative Commons under a CCO 1.0 Universal License.

Subscribe to 20TH CENTURY POPCAST! on APPLE PODCASTS, STITCHER and ANDROID or stream it at www.20popcast.com.

Like, share and reminisce with 20TH CENTURY POPCAST! on FACEBOOK.

Contact the show with any questions, suggestions or possible topics at 20popcast@gmail.com, #20popcast on Twitter and the POP TALK section of www.20popcast.com.

Follow ROBERT CANNING @rhcanning on TWITTER. Read his web-comic at EXAGGERATEDLIFE.wordpress.com and his music blog at superultramegamix.wordpress.com.

Follow TIM BLEVINS @subcultist on TWITTER and as SUBCULTISTon INSTAGRAM.

20TH CENTURY POPCAST will return next week with an episode that should have aired two weeks ago.

069 WILLOW WITH JARF HARDEN

Wed, 20 Jun 2018 14:46:35 +0000

WHERE'S THE FANDOM?: "See you at Madmarti-Con." (1988) Its the first day of summer, so let's bask in the blockbusters of 1988. It was the movie season that gave us Roger Rabbit, Die Hard and a pretty big Tom Hanks. But despite those classics, Tim and today's guest Jarf Harden (of the COSMIC GEPPETTO PODCAST) can't seem to get past the Warwick Davis fantasy "Willow?" Well ... there is a little bit about "Licensed To Drive" but... yeah ... mostly "Willow."

00:00:00 PRESHOW PRATTLE - Counter-programming Dundee

00:00:32 (STILL) NOT BOB BUT (REDUNDANTLY) TIM WITH … - Jarf Harden of the Cosmic Gepetto and Flash Gordon Minute podcasts

00:03:08 A KEYCHAIN OF COREYS - Jarf's not licensed to drive

00:05:55 SUMMER, 1988 - so I guess we're talking about Willow

00:09:17 A PECK-SIZED FANBASE - should more people have seen this movie?

00:12:45 HERE'S YOUR ELFIN' SKELETOR - memorable visuals lacking memorable villainy

00:20:18 THE LITTLE EPIC THAT COULDN'T - and of course we're going to talk about Solo

00:28:25 LUCASING YOUR EXPECTATIONS - and … wait … when did Jarf see Star Wars?

00:32:04 UFGOOD AS IT GETS - do we want more Willow?

00:38:52 CLOSINGS - Contacts, plugs and no catchphrase

00:42:46 PODCASTED PROMO - The FlashGordon Minute on Growler Media

To hear more from todays guest Jarf Harden, check out THE COSMIC GEPETTO PODCAST, his weekly discussion with co-host Brad Mendenhall into all things pop culture. You can subscribe to it on ITUNES, STITCHER and SPOTIFY as well as stream recent episodes via the CHEAP POPS NETWORK on Blog Talk Radio HERE.

Pull the strings and join the conversation with the interstellar voices of that already referenced podcast at the COSMIC GEPPETTO LISTENER'S PAGE on Facebook. And sneak a tweet across the stars @Cosmic_Geppetto on TWITTER.

Then dive like a bird person into the Brad-hosted, Jarf-produced FLASH GORDON MINUTE on GROWLER MEDIA. You can subscribe to stream three episodes a week on ITUNES, STITCHER and PLAYER FM.

And from there you can Mon-Go over to the FLASH GORDON MINUTE LISTENERS VORTEX on Facebook to talk all things Klytus while also following these two princes of the universe @FlashGordonPodon TWITTER.

You can also follow todays guest (again, Jarf Harden) on INSTAGRAM @jarfharden.

See what die-hard fans of COCOON just probably would have slept through in their early matinee seats with this original trailer for the 1988 release of 'WILLOW" HERE.

Relive the commercial the reminded an 11 year-old Tim to relive the movie that he hadn't even seen yet but bought the toys for anyways with this commercial spot for action(less) figures HERE.

Go behind the scenes of Ron Howard's choice in mustaches with this 1988 TV special detailing the making of "Willow" (and spotlighting the aforementioned mustache) HERE.

Listen to Roger Ebert's masterclass on baby acting during this review from Siskel And Ebert At The Movies HERE.

And, finally, hear what the fearsome General Kael could have sounded like with an litany of roast-worthy insults HERE.

This episode of 20TH CENTURY POPCAST was recorded by CAST, an online audio platform that lets you create and record a multi-guest podcast straight from your web-browser. It was then mastered by AUPHONIC, a web-based post-production service that makes it sound like Bob and Tim are worth listening to. Check out both sights for trial and subscription information.

MUSIC FEATURED IN TODAY'S EPISODE:

"Super Poupi " (opening theme) and "Poupi Great Adventures: The Arcade Game" (closing theme) performed by Komiku from the 2018 album POUPI'S INCREDIBLE ADVENTURES available at Freemusicarchives.org.

Cleared for public domain use through Creative Commons under a CCO 1.0 Universal License.

Subscribe to 20TH CENTURY POPCAST! on APPLE PODCASTS, STITCHER and ANDROID or stream it at www.20popcast.com.

Like, share and reminisce with 20TH CENTURY POPCAST! on FACEBOOK.

Contact the show with any questions, suggestions or possible topics at 20popcast@gmail.com, #20popcast on Twitter and the POP TALK section of www.20popcast.com.

Follow ROBERT CANNING @rhcanning on TWITTER. Read his web-comic at EXAGGERATEDLIFE.wordpress.com and his music blog at superultramegamix.wordpress.com.

Follow TIM BLEVINS @subcultist on TWITTER and as SUBCULTISTon INSTAGRAM.

20TH CENTURY POPCAST will return next week to bemoan yet Dengar action figure.

068 BRAT PACK AMERICA WITH KEVIN SMOKLER

Thu, 14 Jun 2018 07:30:00 +0000

BOOK AND PODCAST: "We're describing the ruckus, sir." (1984-1991) How have we not talked about John Hughes? His movies defined what it meant to come of age in the 1980s. But do they continue to ring relevant in this modern age? Or are our memories of these films just misappropriated nostalgia? Such is the question Tim's nervous to ask of today's special guest, author and cultural critic, Kevin Smokler (and ...actually ... it's two questions).

00:00:00 PASSABLE INTRO - Tim's morning voice starts off the show

00:02:41 NOT BOB BUT STILL TIM WITH … Kevin Smokler, author of "Brat Pack America: A Love Letter To '80s Teen Movies"

00:07:34 FILM BUFFER - medium before meaning

00:14:01 BRANDING THE '90s - and Tim pretends to know "lingua franca"

00:24:55 NEW WAVE ROMANTIC - desperately wanting to be in Desperately Seeking Susan

00:32:24 POP CULTURE APOCRYPHA - loosing the language of film

00:38:02 UNSTUCK IN TIME - and the danger of nostalgia

00:44:41 THE BREAKFAST BOOK-CLUB - why write about this

00:52:45 THE BREAKFAST BOOK-PLUG - go read "Brat Pack America"

00:54:57 CLOSINGS - contacts, plugs and no catchphrase

Continue with the conversation Kevin Smokler started by visiting his personal website HERE.

Head back to High School via the library with this interview of him discussing ANOTHER book of his HERE.

And for a far more intricate and scholarly look at the films of the 1980s, follow the words that make up the sentences in Kevin Smokler's BRAT PACK AMERICA: A LOVE LETTER TO 80S TEEN MOVIES available at your favorite independent bookseller (such as the HARVARD BOOKSTORE) as well as on AMAZON, BARNES AND NOBLE and ITUNES.

You can also follow Kevin Smokler on TWITTER @Weegee

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MUSIC FEATURED IN TODAY'S EPISODE:

"Super Poupi " (opening theme) and "Poupi Great Adventures: The Arcade Game" (closing theme) performed by Komiku from the 2018 album POUPI'S INCREDIBLE ADVENTURES available at Freemusicarchives.org.

Cleared for public domain use through Creative Commons under a CCO 1.0 Universal License.

"I Go Crazy" performed by Flesh For Lulu as featured on the original motion picture soundtrack to SOME KIND OF WONDERFUL as well as their 1987 LP release LONG LIVE THE NEW FLESH.

The use of this song is for entertainment purposes and without the expressed permission of the recording artist.

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20TH CENTURY POPCAST will return next week to not really talk about Kevin Pollack or Rick Overton.

067 RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK

Thu, 07 Jun 2018 07:30:00 +0000

VERDICTATED: "We're running out of hat puns." (1981). Maybe its because Chandler Bing ruined vests or maybe its just Star Wars fans are vindictive prics but regardless of the reasoning, Bob and Tim are cracking whips and punching Nazis today to talk about the final tally of your arbitrary votes. Its "Raiders Of The Lost Ark" ...and probably a little about "Star Wars."

00:00:00 PRE-SHOW PRATTLE - Melmac And Me

00:01:07 CRITIQUE BOUTIQUE - and loathing Fred Travalena

00:04:59 THE WINNER IS … Indiana Jones And His Daring Debut

00:08:49 JUNE 12th 1981 - not eating the nostalgia cereal

00:17:11 MACGUYVERING AN OPENING - and an inconsistent introduction

00:26:15 THRILLING EXPOSITION HOUR - unearthing the Ark

00:36:46 TATER TOTHS - and is this how religion works?

00:45:37 MONKEY SIEG, MONKEY DOO - this movie could have been awful

00:56:20 LOSER OF THE LOST ARK - an existential Spielberg

01:02:45 REVISITING THE VERDICT - Is Indy the most iconic?

01:03:36 CLOSINGS - contacts, plugs and no catchphrase

01:06:39 BONUS FEATURES - FX has the candies

Go behind the scenes in some 80s appropriate attire with this 1981 featurette on the making of "Raiders Of The Lost Ark" HERE.

Watch the Truck Sequence ("What truck Sequence?") from the third act of Raiders HERE.

Time-lapse through the liquid ooze of Toth's death with a look at this face-melting effect HERE.

Try and keep ahead of this insider's look at how the whole giant boulder roll came to be HERE.

And finish it all off with a feature-length documentary look at the (so far) full saga of Indiana Jones HERE.

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MUSIC FEATURED IN TODAY'S EPISODE:

"Super Poupi " (opening theme) and "Poupi Great Adventures: The Arcade Game" (closing theme) performed by Komiku from the 2018 album POUPI'S INCREDIBLE ADVENTURES available at Freemusicarchives.org.

Cleared for public domain use through Creative Commons under a CCO 1.0 Universal License.

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20TH CENTURY POPCAST will return next week to catch up with some classmates of 80s-era Shermer High.

066 HAN SOLO VERSES INDIANA JONES WITH BRENT SIMONS

Thu, 24 May 2018 10:33:01 +0000

POP COURT "Space Burt Reynolds takes on haberdashed Magnum PI" (1977-1989) Ever wanted to participate in the outcome of a 20popcast episode? Well today is that very chance as Bob welcomes returning guest Brent Simons (ep#015: SUPERMAN II) to debate just which Harrison Ford is the most iconic Harrison Ford. Its Han Solo verses Indiana Jones in a discussion that allows you, the listener, to voice your own vote. Just click on the link below after checking out this week's episode.

CAST YOUR VOTE in the Pop Poll of SOLO V JONES by clicking HERE.

(Results will be discussed on an upcoming episode of 20TH CENTURY POPCAST)

00:00:00 PRE-COURT QUOTES- snakes and falcons

00:00:37 NOT TIM BUT STILL BOB WITH . . . Brent Simons, screenwriter and returning guest

00:03:07 MOCK-KNOCKER - how a fake debate works

00:07:40 HARRISON FEDORA -Bob's opening statement for Indiana Jones.

00:09:13 AIR FORCE ROGUE - Brent's opening statement for Han Solo

00:11:05 CLEAR AND PRESNT ARCHEOLOGY - Jonesing for the best (and raiding the worst) of the trilogy

00:18:42 CORELLIAN GRAFFITI - Hans down the best (and spicing up the worst) of the trilogy

00:26:08 PRESUMED CARBONITE - Brent's closing statement

00:28:36 REGARDING HENRY JONES JR. - Bob's closing statement

00:31:09 SANKARA AND WOOKIE GIRL - these were the best "Sabrina" and "Working Girl" puns we could come up with

00:38:01 AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION-A-GO-GO - Bob asks for the listener's opinion

00:39:19 CLOSINGS - contacts, plugs and no catchphrases

00:41:44 AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION-A-GO-GO-A-RAMA - one last plea for audience participation

EXHIBIT A: Watch a lot of reaction shots to movie props audiences didn't yet grasp in this trailer for RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK HERE.

EXHIBIT B: Reel to the terror of an Imperial Hypodermic Needle in this trailer for STAR WARS EPISODE IV: A NEW HOPE HERE.

Wade through 6 minutes and 4 seconds of epic stunts and iconic shots to meet the Boba Fett of the Indiana Jones world in this clip from RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK HERE.

Relive poor Greedo's original idea with the unaltered 1977 introduction to Han Solo HERE.

Enjoy this thread of Star Wars fans discussing whether or not Han ever asked Lando to trust him HERE.

Watch 1977's Harrison Ford unfold into a beautiful butterfly ... collar ... in this insightful interview with New York Times journalist Bobby Wygant HERE.

Listen to Harrison Ford dig up some dirt on the making of RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK HERE.

And, finally, read an interview with today's guest Brent Simons and his writing partner, Alan Schoolcraft discussing "Megamind," their full-length animated feature film for Dreamworks, HERE.

MUSIC FEATURED IN TODAY'S EPISODE:

"Binary Sunset" and "Cantina Theme #1" composed and conducted by John Williams for the original motion picture score to 1977's STAR WARS EPISODE IV: A NEW HOPE.

"Escaping Cloud City" composed and conducted on the run by John Williams for the original 1980 motion picture score to STAR WARS EPISODE V: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK.

"The Radiers March" and "The Map Room Dawn" composed and conducted by John Williams for the original motion picture score to 1981's RAIDERS OF THE LOSR ARK.

"Slave Children's Crusade" composed, conducted and unfortunately titled by John Williams for the original motion picture score to 1984's INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM.

"The Keeper Of The Grail" composed, conducted and hopefully not monitored for uncleared internet usage by John Williams for the 1989 original motion picture score to INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE.

"Poupi Great Adventures: The Arcade Game" performed by Komiku from the 2018 album POUPI'S INCREDIBLE ADVENTURES available at Freemusicarchives.org.

Cleared for public domain use through Creative Commons under a CCO 1.0 Universal License.

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20TH CENTURY POPCAST will return in two weeks with the fan-voted verdict.

065 RADIOHEAD: THE BENDS

Thu, 17 May 2018 14:15:35 +0000

COMPACT DISC-USSION: "Not-so OK Computer." (1995) Alright music snobs, here's your elfin' Radiohead episode. Apparently they are the avant-garde band of the 1990s, which is an opinion nearly half of this show's hosts can agree with. That leaves a remaining percent that despises both the band and their fans. So come hear if Bob and Tim can find some common ground in this track-by-track discussion of the 1995 album release THE BENDS.

00:00:00 PRE-SHOW PRATTLE - sobering up
00:00:42 MORE BAD RADIO - and Bob encounters Radiohead
00:07:28 THE CD IS … THE BENDS - and they're talking about everything else but The Bends
00:17:00 AND THE BENDS ARE … - impressions of a CD cover
00:18:49 PLANET TELEX - not-so-pro-Bono
00:21:42 THE BENDS - Yorke telling me
00:25:47 HIGH AND DRY - or is it FAKE PLASTIC TREES
00:33:37 BONES - a thematic fracture
00:35:35 (NICE DREAM) - another Rearviewmirror situation
00:38:40 JUST - stone temple pilates
00:41:03 MY IRON LUNG - and Bob's hidden talent
00:45:09 BULLETPROOF .. I WISH I WAS - a reason for the seething
00:47:25 BLACK STAR - shoddy track placement
00:51:08 SULK - how did this one go again?
00:53:05 STREET SPIRIT (FADE OUT) - and (maybe) how a video is made
00:55:29 A TWENTY-SOMETHING MENTALITY - and maintaining distaste
01:04:03 CLOSINGS - contacts, plugs and no catchphrases

MUSIC FEATURED IN TODAY'S EPISODE:

"Super Poupi " (opening theme) and "Poupi Great Adventures: The Arcade Game" (closing theme) performed by Komiku from the 2018 album POUPI'S INCREDIBLE ADVENTURES available at Freemusicarchives.org.

Cleared for public domain use through Creative Commons under a CCO 1.0 Universal License.

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20TH CENTURY POPCAST will return next week to pit a weathered fedora against an intergalactic vest.

064 SEINFELD

Thu, 10 May 2018 12:50:28 +0000

BINGE AND PODCAST: "Come to think of it ... I HAVE ever noticed." (1989-1998). Yadda, yadda, yadda, its a show about nothing. Sure, that's been said about SEINFELD, but after reviewing its first season, Bob and Tim are prepared to defend it as the preeminent document of life in the '90s. But how to reconcile this thesis with the bizzarro tone of its final seasons? Its an in depth examination culminating in one of the most divisive finales since I MARRIED DORA told us it was cancelled.

00:00:00 PRE-SHOW PRATTLE - more options than Coach

00:00:46 BAD RADIO - and Bob and Tim are not comedians

00:04:34 SEINDENFREUDE - watching stand-up in the 1980s

00:12:20 ENOUGH ABOUT NOTHING - a show that was definitely about something

00:17:10 BANTER TRACKS - this was how Tim wanted to talk

00:27:22 WHEN JERRY MET '90S- metro realism toward the end of a century

00:34:33 NOUVELLE VAGUELY - upping the ante on the absurdist antics

00:39:44 THE SHOW AS A HIT - but not the show as it started

00:43:47 MASTERING THEIR DOMAIN - world building in a Larry-less world

00:49:01 IN LIEU OF A CLIP SHOW - we still get a clip show

00:58:01 CURBING THEIR ENTHUSIASM - the finale reckoning of Larry David

01:09:38 CLOSINGS - contacts, plugs and no catchphrase

Eavesdrop on Jerry and George's first pointless conversation from the original 1989 pilot THE SEINFELD CHRONICLES HERE.

Look back at a few possibly unknown facts about this very episode in the UPROXX retrospective HERE.

Go behind the scenes, circa 1993, with this hour long E special SEINFELD & FRIENDS (complete with Candace Bergen Sprint commercial) HERE.

Good god, it's Green Day's "Good Riddance" as featured in the final clip show of SEINFELD's final season HERE.

Revisit the show via ROLLING STONE with a Larry David interview HERE , a countdown of less-than-stellar episodes HERE and Liam Gallagher's own Seinfeld story HERE. of Oasis

Read the darkly unsolicited spec script by Billy Domineau the propels SEINFELD into an unfortunate date of the 21st century HERE.

And , finally, watch what a revival of Seinfeld in the 21st century might look like with these clips from an episode of CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM HERE.

MUSIC FEATURED IN TODAY'S EPISODE:

"Super Poupi " (opening theme) and "Poupi Great Adventures: The Arcade Game" (closing theme) performed by Komiku from the 2018 album POUPI'S INCREDIBLE ADVENTURES available at Freemusicarchives.org.

Cleared for public domain use through Creative Commons under a CCO 1.0 Universal License.

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20TH CENTURY POPCAST will return next week with the musical nemesis to Tim's very ears.

063 STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN WITH JASON SMITH

Thu, 03 May 2018 07:30:00 +0000

ORIGIN STORIES: "Rock the Kobayashi Maru." (1982) Here's some 'ting to put in your ear as Tim welcomes video editor Jason Smith to talk about his life-long hero, Captain Kirk, his favorite film, The Wrath Of Khan and how hiding out in a theater lobby course-directed his entire life. Its a run-on sentence that works better as an episode as they discuss the greatest movie sequel of all time that isn't the Empire Strikes Back. It'll be a warp factor FUN!

00:00:00 PRE-SHOW PRATTLE - Finally … a Chris Hardwick reference

00:00:49 NOT BOB BUT STILL TIM WITH … - Jason Smith, video editor and behind the scenester

00:07:12 CROSSING THE RUBI-KHAN - Jason (eventually) loves Star Trek II

00:11:56 INTERGALACTIC EMPLOYMENT - Kirk as Trickster and finding the original series

00:18:31 INTER-LEWD - an uncredited fart

00:18:46 WHAT I LUKE ABOUT YOU - 'bout time for a brief Star Wars digression

00:19:40 RET-KHAN - The J.J. Abrams Paradox

00:24:54 SPACE AGING - chasing the twilight of T.J. Hooker

00:36:18 THE COUNTER-PHOBIC RESPONSE- terrifying tings to our ears

00:42:55 TREK FOR TOTS - kid-tested but did your mother approve?

00:51:04 KHAN IS A DISH BEST SERVED HOW? - and will you show this to your next generation

00:57:01 CLOSINGS - contacts, plugs and no catchphrase

Prepare to boldly go where summer audiences had yet to go with the original trailer for the 1982 film classic STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN HERE.

Peer from behind the lobby door as they put 'tings in Chekov's ears during this harrowing clip from the film HERE.

Relive some Pin-Striped promotion from Leonard Nimoy and the rest of the cast with these vintage interviews on the production of the film HERE.

Listen as Ricardo Montalban re-khans how the idea of the film was first brought to him HERE.

Encounter the cosmic struggles faced by the production crew in their attempt to launch this film into production with this retrospective from DEN OF GEEK HERE.

Read some S**t My Shatner Says on why Wrath Of Khan still resonates with this interview from THE NERDIST HERE.

Engage Warp Factor Talk (-sigh-) with this half hour retrospective of the production of The Wrath Of Khan HERE.

Embrace you inner-Trekker with this clinical list of subtle changes between the theatrical and director's cut of the film as presented on MOVIE CENSORSHIP.com HERE.

And watch film director Nicholas Meyer endure the spotlight of a Trekkie convention during this 2014 Q & A session HERE.

MUSIC FEATURED IN TODAY'S EPISODE:

"Super Poupi " (opening theme) and "Poupi Great Adventures: The Arcade Game" (closing theme) performed by Komiku from the 2018 album POUPI'S INCREDIBLE ADVENTURES available at Freemusicarchives.org.

Cleared for public domain use through Creative Commons under a CCO 1.0 Universal License.

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20TH CENTURY POPCAST will return next week trying to make something out of a phenomena that claimed to be about nothing.

062 ROSEANNE, THE X-FILES AND WILL & GRACE

Thu, 26 Apr 2018 07:30:00 +0000

EFFIN' SPOILERS: "Waiting on that Nightman comeback." (1988-2018) We've all mourned the loss of a favorite tv show, following characters to the finale of a "goodby," "farewell" or, if you're Sherman Hemsley, "Amen." So how do we handle it when a major network resurrects a father, re-knots severed ties or staves of a that predestined alien invasion? Its what Bob and Tim attempt to make sense of as they look at some recent revivals of 90s television.

00:00:00 SPOILER WARNING - hey, we haven't done one of these in a while

00:00:23 NOTHING JUST HAPPENED - and the return of Effin' Spoilers

00:04:30 IT'S A REVIVAL - not a reboot

00:07:31 SPOILING THE APOCALYPSE - by re-opening The X-Files

00:12:20 GENERATIONAL DIFFERENCES - and Macguyvering a reboot

00:20:10 SPOILING WILL OR GRACE - by reuniting Will and Grace

00:26:10 CANON BALLED - forgoing finality

00:30:21 SPOILING A GALAXY FAR, FAR AWAY - by continuing the saga of a continuing saga

00:36:28 SPOILING MORTALITY - by still living with Roseanne

00:47:19 MAKE AMERICA GRAIT AGAIN - portraying a person verses personal politics

00:53:53 REVIVAL OR RE-VILE - or just a reboot

00:58:27 CLOSINGS - contacts, plugs and no catch-phrase

Hear the Truth as it was originally revealed in the final episode of The X-Files (before being retconned for an unnecessary revival) HERE.

Watch (from behind the scenes) as David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson film what could of (and maybe should of) been their last scene as Mulder and Scully HERE.

Read what the original cast told The Nerdist about rebooting the X-Files for seasons 10 and 11 HERE.

Hear series creator Chris Carter attempt to rationalize the existence of yet another finale for this possibly ongoing program HERE.

Watch a the fourth wall crack as both actors and characters celebrate the return of Will & Grace via an elaborate musical number HERE.

Read how the newest season of will & Grace chose to ignore the finale of the previously final season of Will & Grace HERE.

Explore Megan Mullally's parallel universe theory for her character of Karen Walker HERE.

Engage with MSNBC anchor Joy Reid's panel discussion on the current Roseanne reboot (including actor/director Rob Reiner) HERE.

And read (if you have any free articles from the New Yorker left for the month) this insightful plight of a journalist attemtping to fully review the new Roseanne series HERE.

MUSIC FEATURED IN TODAY'S EPISODE:

"Super Poupi " (opening theme) and "Poupi Great Adventures: The Arcade Game" (closing theme) performed by Komiku from the 2018 album POUPI'S INCREDIBLE ADVENTURES available at Freemusicarchives.org.

Cleared for public domain use through Creative Commons under a CCO 1.0 Universal License.

Subscribe to 20TH CENTURY POPCAST! on APPLE PODCASTS, STITCHER and ANDROID or stream it at www.20popcast.com.

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Follow TIM BLEVINS @subcultist on TWITTER and as SUBCULTISTon INSTAGRAM.

20TH CENTURY POPCAST will return next week, which is as soon as we we KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN.

061 WAR GAMES

Thu, 19 Apr 2018 00:15:48 +0000

RETRO SHOCK: "Whopper Player One" (1983) Shall we play a game? Looks like there's "Mall Madness", "Pizza Party", "Fireball Island." Or we can listen to Bob and Tim unbox the frighteningly relevant Matthew Broderick thriller "War Games." Its a thermo-nuclear holocaust for the whole family.

00:00:00 PRE-SHOW PRATTLE - a longer than normal pause

00:01:13 A DAB OF COLEMAN - a semi accurate resume

00:04:50 JUNE 3rd 1983 - The mystique of computers in the 1980s

00:09:34 SKYNET'S THE LIMIT - Bob's fantasy life and Tim's fear of nuclear war

00:20:23 GOOD MEMORY/BAD MEMORY - or vague memory

00:22:13 MODERN DAY - eat a doomsday burger

00:23:52 BUNKER OF THAT GUYS - a summary of tension

00:27:17 FERRIS BOREDOM - Matthew Broderick hacks a Whopper

00:36:31 NOT THE GOONIES - and that's not Neil Gaiman

00:38:29 SO NOW WE'RE AT NORAD? - where the pace picks up

00:43:03 SIMULATION OR SIMULACRUM - a programed conscience

00:53:47 PUTTING THE HUMAN IN INHUMANITY - and tweeting a stance against technology

01:01:39 CLOSINGS - contacts, plugs and no catch phrase

Fall in love as you duck and cover into the original 1983 trailer that posits a teen romcom for the thermo-nuclear age HERE.

Hear the film's unused theme song uncharacteristically composed and performed by Crosby, Stills and Nash HERE.

See who Tim would have preferred as the leads in an alternate universe take on the film's protagonists HERE.

Tune in to a 1983 news segment about the real world fear of a "War Games" scenario HERE.

Go a little behind the scenes with this making-of short that aired around the film's release HERE.

Learn about the real-life adolescent hackers who were inspired by an original viewing of "War Games" with the documentary short "THE 414s" available to rent HERE.

Have Dabney Coleman do it like you do it when he does it like they do it at Burger King HERE.

And finally let Burger King to tell you just a little bit more about the Whopper HERE HERE and HERE.

MUSIC FEATURED IN TODAY'S EPISODE:

"Super Poupi " (opening theme) and "Poupi Great Adventures: The Arcade Game" (closing theme) performed by Komiku from the 2018 album POUPI'S INCREDIBLE ADVENTURES available at Freemusicarchives.org.

"Across The Mountainous Range" (Retro Shock segue-way) performed by TRG Banks from the 2018 album RETURN TO DREAMLAND also available at the Freemusicarchives.org

All music featured on this episode is cleared for public domain use through Creative Commons under a CCO 1.0 Universal License.

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20TH CENTURY POPCAST will return next week with whatever it was we thought we'd be returning with this week when we typed this sentence last week.

060 THE POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE IMPACTS OF FAN CULTURE WITH BRAD MENDENHALL AND JARF HARDEN

Wed, 11 Apr 2018 16:54:01 +0000

POOP CULTURE: "So now we're not talking about Flash Gordon?"" Brad and Jarf are the co-hosts of the Cosmic Geppetto Podcast, a program Tim came to via Brad's other show, The Flash Gordon Minute. So when they agreed to guest on this episode, Tim thought it would make sense to converse about Queen albums from the 1980s. But their attempt to talk "A Kind Of Magic" magically side-lined into a discussion on the toxicity and positivity of pop culture fandom. So that's what you'll hear, and its totally worth it.

00:00:00 PRESHOW PRATTLE - start the mics

00:00:28 NO BOB BUT STILL TIM WITH . . . Brad Mendenhall and Jarf Harden creators of the Cosmic Geppetto and Flash Gordon Minute podcasts

00:04:11 POP POLARITIES - extreme fandom in the digital era

00:11:23 MY CHILDHOOD SHOULD BE YOUR LIFE - and podcasting positivity

00:15:52 NOT TALKING MOVIE SOUNDTRACKS - redirecting the show's conversation

00:21:33 POSITIVELY GEEK STREET - and no longer a guilty pleasure

00:25:23 FANBOYING THE FLAMES - questioning the inclusiveness of comics

00:28:59 COSPLAY AND EFFECT - a splash page of toxins

00:34:03 MEN IN TIGHTS - gender politics in the Marvel Age

00:39:00 EVERYONE WATCHES THE WATCHMEN - fearing that "pop" will be "popular"

00:44:53 T-SHIRTS VS. TEASE SHIRTS - the outsider agenda

00:53:40 STREAMS FOR EVERYONE OF US - a moment about The Flash Gordon Minute

00:56:24 CLOSINGS - contacts, plugs and no catchphrase

00:59:17 BONUS FEATURES - she's not getting Flash Gordon

To hear more from todays guests, check out Brad and Jarf's THE COSMIC GEPPETTO PODCAST, their weekly discussion into all things pop culture. You can subscribe to it on ITUNES, STITCHER and SPOTIFY as well as stream recent episodes via the CHEAP POPS NETWORK on Blog Talk Radio HERE.

Then dive like a bird person into what could have been today's topic with the Brad-hosted, Jarf-produced FLASH GORDON MINUTE on GROWLER MEDIA. You can subscribe to stream three episodes a week on ITUNES, STITCHER and PLAYER FM.

And from there you can Mon-Go over to the FLASH GORDON MINUTE LISTENERS VORTEX on Facebook to talk all things Klytus awhile also following these two princes of the universe @FlashGordonPod on TWITTER.

Try to recall all the lyrics to the chorus of this Queen anthem HERE.

Be one of the only ones there can be with the 80s fashion of this 80s theme to Highlander HERE.

And revel in the Boss Nass's Blessed commentary of his time on Flash Gordon HERE (courtesy of DOWN CHUNDER)

MUSIC FEATURED IN TODAY'S EPISODE:

"Super Poupi " (opening theme) and "Poupi Great Adventures: The Arcade Game" (closing theme) performed by Komiku from the 2018 album POUPI'S INCREDIBLE ADVENTURES available at Freemusicarchives.org.

Cleared for public domain use through Creative Commons under a CCO 1.0 Universal License.

Subscribe to 20TH CENTURY POPCAST! on APPLE PODCASTS, STITCHER and ANDROID or stream it at www.20popcast.com.

Like, share and reminisce with 20TH CENTURY POPCAST! on FACEBOOK.

Contact the show with any questions, suggestions or possible topics at 20popcast@gmail.com, #20popcast on Twitter and the POP TALK section of www.20popcast.com.

Follow ROBERT CANNING @rhcanning on TWITTER. Read his web-comic at EXAGGERATEDLIFE.wordpress.com and his music blog at superultramegamix.wordpress.com.

Follow TIM BLEVINS @subcultist on TWITTER and as SUBCULTISTon INSTAGRAM.

20TH CENTURY POPCAST will return next week to recoil from the redundancy of tv reboots.

059 ER SEASON 1

Thu, 05 Apr 2018 15:56:07 +0000

BINGE AND PODCAST: "Stat! Clear! Where are the cough drops?!" (1994-1995) With all the Must-See TV that Bob and Tim must have seen, its a wonder they have yet to discuss the biggest prime-time blockbuster of the '90s, ER. So today, with Bob's professional opinion, they are downing a quadruple dose of Stringfield, Clooney, Edwards and La Salle. But maybe "bypass" would have been the better reference there as Tim self-diagnoses his own hypochondria.

00:00:00 PRE-SHOW PRATTLE - A cast of typos
00:00:51 APPOINTMENT VIEWING - 758 Thursdays of ER
00:06:17 CURATING SEASON ONE - and some hard-core doctor porn
00:12:01 IS THERE A DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE? - or at least one to like?
00:19:21 CRICHTON'S CHAOS THEORY - not just another operating room
00:24:09 NOTHING EVER HAPPENS ON ER - until a holiday, or a blizzard or someone falls on some rebar
00:31:06 GET CARTER - but maybe not Patrick
00:41:58 GREENE SCREEN - hey, its Bradley Whitford
00:50:49 RESIDENT DOGS - Paging the zeitgeist, paging current auteur of the zeitgeist
00:56:35 CLOONEY TUNES - what's up with Ross?
01:00:24 Q.T. AS CHARGED - and a shout out to Kevin Smith
01:02:54 FINAL DIAGNOSIS - why did this show have such a life expectancy
01:06:28 CLOSINGS - contacts, plugs and no catchphrase

Arrive ten minutes before the scheduled episode to peruse 25 facts about this show in a waiting room copy of ELLE magazine HERE.

See why Thursdays became Must See through this VULTURE retrospective featuring NBC television executive Warren Littlefield HERE.

Do a pretty quick round of trope comparison with this ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY article that compared Tarantino's films to his tv directorial debut HERE.

Watch George Clooney's first stint in the ER with this montage from the similarly-named but first-to-be-broadcast sitcom ER HERE.

Witness his dramatic range with this tragic sequence from a late-in-the-series episode of FACTS OF LIFE HERE.

See the surgical medical drama Tim would have preferred to watch this episode HERE.

And finally binge a bit of your own with this AV CLUB-compiled list of 10 great ER episodes to stomach HERE.

This episode of 20TH CENTURY POPCAST was recorded by RINGR (for a change of pace) an online interface for recording live conversations in studio quality. It was then mastered by AUPHONIC, a web-based post-production service that makes it sound like Bob and Tim are worth listening to. Log in to take either for a free trail test drive today (or, you know, whenever is better for you).

MUSIC FEATURED IN TODAY'S EPISODE:

"Super Poupi " (opening theme) and "Poupi Great Adventures: The Arcade Game" (closing theme) performed by Komiku from the 2018 album POUPI'S INCREDIBLE ADVENTURES available at Freemusicarchives.org.

Cleared for public domain use through Creative Commons under a CCO 1.0 Universal License.

Subscribe to 20TH CENTURY POPCAST! on APPLE PODCASTS, STITCHER and ANDROID or stream it at www.20popcast.com.

Like, share and reminisce with 20TH CENTURY POPCAST! on FACEBOOK.

Contact the show with any questions, suggestions or possible topics at 20popcast@gmail.com, #20popcast on Twitter and the POP TALK section of www.20popcast.com.

Follow ROBERT CANNING @rhcanning on TWITTER. Read his web-comic at EXAGGERATEDLIFE.wordpress.com and his music blog at superultramegamix.wordpress.com.

Follow TIM BLEVINS @subcultist on TWITTER and as SUBCULTISTon INSTAGRAM.

20TH CENTURY POPCAST will return next week with the added podcasting power of two more pop cultural podcasters, from COSMIC GEPPETTO and THE FLASH GORDON MINUTE.

058 TOP FIVE ALBUMS OF THE 1990S: TIM EDITION

Thu, 29 Mar 2018 07:30:00 +0000

LIST-A-RAMA-A-GO-GO: "Another rattled off hit-list of equally in height fidelity." (1993-1996) Previously on 20th Century Podcast, Bob precision-picked the definitive list of impactive '90s albums. It is now one week later and they are going to do that exact same thing again, only this time it's Tim who is embarking on that middling, mid-life act of fading relevance.

00:00:00 PRE-SHOW PRATTLE -pre-show Palpatine
00:00:39 A VARIETY OF INTROS - other people's podcasts
00:03:06 BACK ON THAT DESERT ISLAND - and how to talk about music
00:13:47 TEMPLATE FOR A BLUE BOSTONIAN - fifth on the list
00:25:25 GATEWAY TO VOICES - fourth on the list
00:30:17 MUSIC BEFORE MISERY - or it is the other way around
00:38:38 HER INDIE WORLD - third on the list
00:47:40 LET'S TALK ABOUT SEX, MAYBE - second on the list
00:57:06 SOUNDTRACKED ROMANTIC - first on the list
01:02:16 CIRCLING BACK - do these 5 albums still leave the shelf?
01:05:33 CLOSINGS - Contacts, plugs and no catchphrase
01:08:00 SPECIAL FEATURES - Bob with a blog

SPOILER WARNING: For the second week in a row, these show notes risk to ruin the episode reveal of the arbitrarily chosen five album topics. If you're looking to be surprised, listen to the episode first, and then check back for some Youtube links.

Learn to loathe the holiday like Tim did with this live performance of one of his favorite Aimee Mann tracks HERE.

Then read as Aimee Mann discusses some of Tim's favorite topics (like Liz Phair and Boston) while making herself a cup of coffee HERE.

Sway along to this performance of a song by Tobin Sprout, now old enough to get drunk on its own lyrics HERE

And read what he thinks about being in this current century in this interview from PopDose HERE.

Witness a live street performance by Mary Lou Lord as Tim would have back in the mid 90s HERE.

And then read this discussion on her one (and only) flirtation with a major label release HERE.

Get neurotic with Liz Phair's first ever network television performance HERE.

And then learn how her debut album is a direct response to listening to "Exile on Main Street" HERE.

Catch up with Tim's all-time musical idol (Paul Westerberg) with this career spanning SPIN magazine interview HERE.

And finally, to avoid any repetition with EPISODE 33's show notes, HERE's 90's era Paul Westerberg playing Tim's favorite song from the 1980s.

MUSIC FEATURED IN TODAY'S EPISODE:

"Super Poupi " (opening theme) and "Poupi Great Adventures: The Arcade Game" (closing theme) performed by Komiku from the 2018 album POUPI'S INCREDIBLE ADVENTURES available at Freemusicarchives.org.

Cleared for public domain use through Creative Commons under a CCO 1.0 Universal License.

Subscribe to 20TH CENTURY POPCAST! on APPLE PODCASTS, STITCHER and ANDROID or stream it at www.20popcast.com.

Like, share and reminisce with 20TH CENTURY POPCAST! on FACEBOOK.

Contact the show with any questions, suggestions or possible topics at 20popcast@gmail.com, #20popcast on Twitter and the POP TALK section of www.20popcast.com.

Follow ROBERT CANNING @rhcanning on TWITTER. Read his web-comic at EXAGGERATEDLIFE.wordpress.com and his music blog at superultramegamix.wordpress.com.

Follow TIM BLEVINS @subcultist on TWITTER and as SUBCULTISTon INSTAGRAM.

20TH CENTURY POPCAST will return next week with a properly prescribed over-dose of that guy from "The Librarians."

057 TOP FIVE ALBUMS OF THE 1990S: BOB EDITION

Wed, 21 Mar 2018 17:31:29 +0000

LIST-A-RAMA-A-GO-GO: "Its a rattled off hit list of the highest fidelity." (1994-1999) We can thank Nick Hornby (or curse John Cusack) for that middle-aged, music-snob curation practice of "The Dessert Island Top Five." And, while the typo leans toward a bunch of "Cake" references, Bob and Tim have actually put a lot of thought into compiling this compilation. So much, in fact, that its going to take TWO episodes to get though. So man-overboard with Part One ... Bob's definitive discs of the 1990s.

00:00:00 PRE-SHOW PRATTLE - Hanna Barbarians at the gate
00:01:06 POP FILTER IMPEDIMENTS - and spotlighting Bob
00:05:47 FINDING MODERN MUSIC IN THE 1990s - and a couple of caveats
00:10:44 A SMARMY PIANO MAN - fifth on the list
00:18:23 OFF THE ADVICE OF NOEL GALLAGHER -fourth on the list
00:23:03 MIX-TAPE FOR A COOL GIRL - but why do we make them?
00:34:31 A CURATION-ISH PARTY - oh, here's why we make them
00:38:02 THE LONG, LONG LONGER WAY HOME - third on the list
00:45:20 WE BUILT THIS GEOCITY ON ROCK AND ROLL - second on the list
00:51:39 TIM THINKS HE KNOWS WHAT IT IS - first on the list
01:02:35 90S OR NOSTALGIA - and that's where Tim's Jagged Little Pill went
01:04:56 CLOSINGS - Contacts, plugs and no catchphrase

SPOILER WARNING: The following Show notes ruin the episode reveal of Bob's five album choices. So, if you wanted to be surprised by the episode, head back to the episode.

Name-check Bob's favorite track (with accompanying low-res still) off Ben Fold Five's "Whatever And Amen" HERE.

Watch Ben Folds and the two other members of his quintet lip-synch along to their original recording of "One Angry Dwarf And 200 Solemn Faces" on British television HERE.

Get mixed up before coming down to the tune of Bob's favorite Cotton Mather (at least from this particular album) track HERE.

Squint against the grainy cable-access-like quality of this Cotton Mather live set HERE.

Put on you slicker, take off your dumb hat and get wet with the Bob-approved Gomez track HERE.

Compile your own mix-tape (just like Bob and Tim) with this often used and totally worth it Built To Spill track (complete with Bowie shout-out) HERE.

Envision a world where Brett Gelman's body fronted Built To Spill with the live performance of "Car" HERE.

Slip and this song with one of Bob's many favorite Oasis tracks HERE.

Stick your hand down your pants and pull a stiff Al Bundy during the live Oasis performance HERE.

Expand your Oasis horizon by learning this track from the same album as "Wonderwall" HERE.

See if you recognize any of the faces in the audience of this live performance of "Roll With It" HERE.

And, finally, cash out with another of Bob's favorite Oasis tracks you should probably know HERE.

MUSIC FEATURED IN TODAY'S EPISODE:

"Super Poupi " (opening theme) and "Poupi Great Adventures: The Arcade Game" (closing theme) performed by Komiku from the 2018 album POUPI'S INCREDIBLE ADVENTURES available at Freemusicarchives.org.

Cleared for public domain use through Creative Commons under a CCO 1.0 Universal License.

Subscribe to 20TH CENTURY POPCAST! on APPLE PODCASTS, STITCHER and ANDROID or stream it at www.20popcast.com.

Like, share and reminisce with 20TH CENTURY POPCAST! on FACEBOOK.

Contact the show with any questions, suggestions or possible topics at 20popcast@gmail.com, #20popcast on Twitter and the POP TALK section of www.20popcast.com.

Follow ROBERT CANNING @rhcanning on TWITTER. Read his web-comic at EXAGGERATEDLIFE.wordpress.com and his music blog at superultramegamix.wordpress.com.

Follow TIM BLEVINS @subcultist on TWITTER and as SUBCULTISTon INSTAGRAM.

20TH CENTURY POPCAST will return next week with the list-bearing conclusion to their first two parter episode ... in that its this week's topic ... again ... only this time from Tim's CD collection .. so ... maybe no real cliff-hanger melodrama just ... ahm .. just .. the same topic ... repeated .. again.

056 BIG

Thu, 15 Mar 2018 07:30:00 +0000

RETRO SHOCK: "Heart and soul and a lot of discomfort." (1988) Who doesn't like an age-appropriate Tom Hanks? Well, Amy Poehler, for one. Still, in 1988, this former Bosom Buddy made a splash at the box office by starring in the Penny Marshall film "Big". But re-watching it 30 years later, Bob and Tim are finding themselves a little uncomfortable with that particular thing he did. (Larry Crowne pun still pending).

00:00:00 PRE-SHOW PRATTLE - almost a birthday wish
00:00:52 A SWITCH-A-ROO - and the morning-time dial
00:04:10 JUNE 3RD 1988 - and the not-so-dreadful Penny Marshall
00:08:31 AT THE BIG KID'S TABLE - for the 12 year-old who's thinking ahead
00:14:04 THE POTENTIAL FOR DISCOMFORT - was this movie made for adults?
00:22:37 GOOD MEMORY / BAD MEMORY - and Skippy Handleman on the big screen
00:24:29 MODERN DAY - and is this a romantic comedy? / "Heart And Soul"
00:32:47 MERCEDES RULES - the kidnapping of Josh Baskin
00:37:31 ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT - what's the big lesson, Zoltar?
00:42:13 SUDDENLY SUSAN - the uncomfortable ingenue
00:50:30 A CABBAGE PATCH-WORK OF FILMMAKING - and a really big piano
00:57:17 YOUTH COUP YOUR LOSSES - at what age does this stop working
01:05:47 CLOSINGS - contacts, plugs and no catch phrase

Read a bit of the behind the scenes with this big "Big" retrospective originally published by MENTAL FLOSS HERE.

Watch the very 80s trailer for the big-screen topic of today's episode HERE.

See what a young Tim saw as Tom Hanks "getting it" HERE.

Hear Penny Marshall discuss the virtues of working with TV actors HERE.

Experience the rap-master skillz of Tom Hanks both HERE and HERE.

And finally, see some of the only known footage that points toward the existence of this weeks Pre-show Prattle topic, Guy Mann Dude, HERE.

MUSIC FEATURED IN TODAY'S EPISODE:

"Heart And Soul" performed, possibly without a saxophone, by Huey Lewis And The News on their 1983 release THE HEART OF ROCK AND ROLL. The use of this songs is for entertainment purposes and without the expressed permission of the recording artist.

"Super Poupi " (opening theme) and "Poupi Great Adventures: The Arcade Game" (closing theme) performed by Komiku from the 2018 album POUPI'S INCREDIBLE ADVENTURES available at Freemusicarchives.org.

Cleared for public domain use through Creative Commons under a CCO 1.0 Universal License.

Subscribe to 20TH CENTURY POPCAST! on APPLE PODCASTS, STITCHER and ANDROID or stream it at www.20popcast.com.

Like, share and reminisce with 20TH CENTURY POPCAST! on FACEBOOK.

Contact the show with any questions, suggestions or possible topics at 20popcast@gmail.com, #20popcast on Twitter and the POP TALK section of www.20popcast.com.

Follow ROBERT CANNING @rhcanning on TWITTER. Read his web-comic at EXAGGERATEDLIFE.wordpress.com and his music blog at superultramegamix.wordpress.com.

Follow TIM BLEVINS @subcultist on TWITTER and as SUBCULTISTon INSTAGRAM.

20TH CENTURY POPCAST will return next week with a little Brit of Bob's CD collection. And possibly some Pearl Jam.

055 KEVIN SMITH

Thu, 08 Mar 2018 14:13:48 +0000

OUVRE COMPENSATING: " . . . " (1994-1997) To invoke a holy trilogy fanboys are certain to cite "Back To The Future", "Star Wars" and not "Beastmaster." But alongside those VHS boxed sets stands a slightly more vulgar saga featuring verbose Clerks, bratty Mallrats and a chain-smoking illustrator forever Chasing Amy. It's Kevin Smith's "Jersey Trilogy" and, to honor there still being a Kevin Smith, Bob and Tim are going to look at what these indie features mean to their own individual existence. Hope you're back on the mic soon, Silent Bob.

00:00:00 RESHOW PRATTLE - who's good?
00:00:44 AN AGE-OLD INTRO - and being far from 37
00:06:17 CHASING KEVIN - a common bond between Bob and Tim
00:10:30 COUNTER-TOP CULTURE - and the age-appropriateness of of "Clerks"
00:21:17 DYI U COULD DU - and Tim finds his muse
00:27:55 A SOPHOMORIC FANGASM - and wanting to be Jason Lee in "Mallrats"
00:34:22 PARENTAL COSPLAY - and talking "When Harry Met Sally" again
00:43:11 YOUR MANIPULATIVE MALE FANTASY COULD BE MY LIFE - and catching the core relationship of "Chasing Amy"
00:56:08 REAR-VIEW ASKEW - and not getting to "Dogma"
01:04:48 CLOSINGS - Contacts, plugs and no catchphrase

Watch what 16 years old Bob and Tim considered a work-place reflection with a scene from CLERKS HERE.

Witness the character Tim wanted to be meet the hero he wanted to meet in MALLRATS HERE.

Hear the normally silent Silent Bob explain the title a movie where the female lead is named Alyssa HERE.

Experience the world of Clerks getting the Turner-ized treatment with Soul Asylum's CAN'T EVEN TELL video HERE.

Wedge this lost scene into your dubbed-off-a-laser-disc copy of CLERKS featuring the chronologically first appearance of Alyssa Jones in the View-Askewniverse HERE.

Shop around for some MALLRATS facts with a 20th anniversary retrospective from MENTAL FLOSS, published on Tim's 40th birthday, HERE.

And then be charmed by the humble, self-aware, honest insightfulness of Kevin Smith (that runs twice in this clip for some reason) HERE.

MUSIC FEATURED IN TODAY'S EPISODE:

"Tube Of Wonderful" composed and performed by David Pirner for the 1997 original score to CHASING AMY. The use of this songs is for entertainment purposes and without the expressed permission of the recording artist.

"Poupi Great Adventures: The Arcade Game" performed by Komiku from the 2018 album POUPI'S INCREDIBLE ADVENTURES available at Freemusicarchives.org. Cleared for public domain use through Creative Commons under a CCO 1.0 Universal License.

Subscribe to 20TH CENTURY POPCAST! on APPLE PODCASTS, STITCHER and ANDROID or stream it at www.20popcast.com.

Like, share and reminisce with 20TH CENTURY POPCAST! on FACEBOOK.

Contact the show with any questions, suggestions or possible topics at 20popcast@gmail.com, #20popcast on Twitter and the POP TALK section of www.20popcast.com.

Follow ROBERT CANNING @rhcanning on TWITTER. Read his web-comic at EXAGGERATEDLIFE.wordpress.com and his music blog at superultramegamix.wordpress.com.

Follow TIM BLEVINS @subcultist on TWITTER and as SUBCULTISTon INSTAGRAM.

20TH CENTURY POPCAST will return next week with that strangely long promised but never delivered upon Tom Hanks thing we keep referencing in these show-notes.

054 BATMAN AND ROBIN

Thu, 01 Mar 2018 08:30:00 +0000

UNSOLICITED COMMENTARY: "Holy this isn't Batman Returns, Batman." (1997) Comic book movies are an inarguably divisive lot. But at least we can all agree that "Batman And Robin" was an overly neon-lit pile of pun-ridden guano. Well, except for Tim who, on today's episode, is going to try to argue that Joel Schumacher's camp-fest was actually an intentional piece of comic book commentary 21 years ahead of it time. The text says "argue" but ... really ... he's the only one talking.

00:00:00 STREPPED DOWN BEGINNINGS - an abbreviated briefing on Bob's whereabouts
00:05:03 BAT-SYNCHONIZE YOUR BAT-WATCHES - Tim's complete audio commentary for BATMAN AND ROBIN
02:06:02 CLOSINGS (DURING THE CLOSING CREDITS) - Contacts, plugs and no catchphrase

Read Aaron Couch's 20th Anniversary oral history of the film HERE.

Witness the trailer that mistakenly got Bane co-creator Chuck Dixon excited for the not-yet-unleashed film HERE.

Experience a little what it is like to watch this movie by sitting in a chair through the entirety of this sequence HERE.

Be touched by this humanely character driven scene between Bruce and Alfred that somehow made it way into this film HERE.

Shiver at cool, cruel line-readings of this former California Governor's tragic portrayal made all the more tragic HERE.

Go behind these surprisingly self-aware scenes with an excerpt from the Shadows Of The Bat; The Cinematic Saga Of The Dark Knight HERE.

See if some of this maybe READS better with a draft of the original screenplay by Oscar winner Akiva Goldsman HERE.

And then imagine a world where Joel Schumacher made the ultimate Batman film with DEN OF GEEK's look at the abandoned fifth film Batman Unchained HERE

MUSIC FEATURED IN TODAY'S EPISODE:

"Super Poupi " and "Poupi Great Adventures: The Arcade Game" performed by Komiku from the 2018 album POUPI'S INCREDIBLE ADVENTURES available at Freemusicarchives.org.

Cleared for public domain use through Creative Commons under a CCO 1.0 Universal License.

Subscribe to 20TH CENTURY POPCAST! on APPLE PODCASTS, STITCHER and ANDROID or stream it at www.20popcast.com.

Like, share and reminisce with 20TH CENTURY POPCAST! on FACEBOOK.

Contact the show with any questions, suggestions or possible topics at 20popcast@gmail.com, #20popcast on Twitter and the POP TALK section of www.20popcast.com.

Follow ROBERT CANNING @rhcanning on TWITTER. Read his web-comic at EXAGGERATEDLIFE.wordpress.com and his music blog at superultramegamix.wordpress.com.

Follow TIM BLEVINS @subcultist on TWITTER and as SUBCULTISTon INSTAGRAM.

20TH CENTURY POPCAST will return next week perhaps with that same bit of Tom Hanks originally intended for this week.

053 DENNIS LEARY - NO CURE FOR CANCER

Thu, 22 Feb 2018 14:01:39 +0000

COMPACT DISC-USSION: "You know what I'm going to do? I'm going to say OKAY." (1993) Its the official 20Popcast origin story as Bob and Tim share just how it was they got into college. Actually that's a bit of an over-sell as its kind of just mentioned at the top of the episode. What they're really discussing is Dennis Leary's nicotine stained, vulgarity-strained stand-up album, NO CURE FOR CANCER. So throw on that leather jacket, light up that Camel Light and be just a little leery of the comedy that ensues.

00:00:00 PRE-SHOW PRATTLE - Ocean Sides
00:00:57 TALKING AROUND A NERVE - and that name is Komiku
00:03:51 THE CD IS … NO CURE FOR CANCER - and how they got into college
00:16:29 A STEVEN WRIGHT STORY - brought to you by a warm, man-handled can of coke
00:21:35 "A**HOLE" - and a lip-synch ballet
00:25:59 "DRUGS" - too many "okays"
00:29:23 "REHAB" - and the show was called 'Comics Only"
00:36:05 "MORE DRUGS" - age-appropriate ranting
00:40:46 "SMOKE" - prop persona
00:44:20 "MEAT" - 20th Century Douche
00:47:23 "DEATH" - finally relateable
00:48:38 "THE DOWNTRODDEN SONG" - not a rock star
00:49:09 "TRADITIONAL IRISH FOLK SONG" and "VOICES IN MY HEAD"- final two tracks
00"49:49 PROP COMEDY - was this how they got into college?
00:55:26 CLOSINGS - Contacts, plugs and no catchphrase
00:58:08 - BONUS FEATURE: The founding of Hicksville

Watch some of the original MTV promos that first introduced Bob and Tim to Dennis Leary HERE.

And then try to envision an MTV that sporadically aired musical videos with this catchy hit single off the NO CURE FOR CANCER album HERE.

The let Dennis tell you a couple more things with an extended take of a few of the tracks off the album HERE.

And experience some deja vu following the actual album with Dennis Leary's appearance on Paul Provenza's long-missed Comedy Central talk show " Comics Only" HERE.

And, on an only slightly related note, watch the trailer for the movie that finally prompted Tim to take up smoking for 16 years HERE.

MUSIC FEATURED IN TODAY'S EPISODE:

"Super Poupi " and "Poupi Great Adventures: The Arcade Game" performed by Komiku from the 2018 album POUPI'S INCREDIBLE ADVENTURES available at Freemusicarchives.org.

Cleared for public domain use through Creative Commons under a CCO 1.0 Universal License.

Subscribe to 20TH CENTURY POPCAST! on APPLE PODCASTS, STITCHER and ANDROID or stream it at www.20popcast.com.

Like, share and reminisce with 20TH CENTURY POPCAST! on FACEBOOK.

Contact the show with any questions, suggestions or possible topics at 20popcast@gmail.com, #20popcast on Twitter and the POP TALK section of www.20popcast.com.

Follow ROBERT CANNING @rhcanning on TWITTER. Read his web-comic at EXAGGERATEDLIFE.wordpress.com and his music blog at superultramegamix.wordpress.com.

Follow TIM BLEVINS @subcultist on TWITTER and as SUBCULTISTon INSTAGRAM.

20TH CENTURY POPCAST will return next week with a little bit of a lot of Tom Hanks

052 TREKKIES

Thu, 15 Feb 2018 08:30:00 +0000

RETRO SHOCK: "More tings for your ears." (1997) Are you burnt out on all those divisive arguments about The Last Jedi? Then why not warp factor another fanbase into the conversation by way of the Final Frontier. That's right, today Bob and Tim are finally talking a bit about Star Trek by way of "TREKKIES," a 1999 documentary that doesn't quite know if its mocking or embracing this sci-fi subset (do Bob and Tim?).

00:00:00 PRE-SHOW PRATTLE - revisiting a Jeff Dunham story
00:00:55 OPENING PICK-UP LINES - and restating the Retro-Shock / "Space Age Love Song"
00:04:44 STAR-DATE MAY 21ST 1999 - a federation of fandom
00:11:26 NERDS ON FILM - were we laughing at them or … no we were laughing at them
00:17:02 GOOD MEMORY/BAD MEMORY - Trepidatiously going back to where we've gone before
00:18:20 MODERN DAY - Protoypical Fandom / "Star Trekin"
00:27:00 PICKIN' ON DORKS - and where does Roger Nygard stand?
00:34:21 ORTHODON-TREK - shoving your fandom down their throats
00:41:57 COMMANDER TAKES THE STAND - ideals and delusions
00:47:03 DOUCHE JOCKEYS - and pretending not to get it
00:51:51 UNLEASH THE SPINNER-FEMS - a thin line between fan and fanatic
00:59:50 JERKIES - are Bob and Tim a**holes
01:05:55 GOOD REALITY/BAD REALITY - an immature frontier
01:10:06 CLOSINGS - Contacts, plugs and no catchphrase / "Rocket Man"
01:01:11 BONUS FEATURES - One final reminder

Prep your boldly going with the original trailer for the documentary subject of today's episode HERE.

Hum along with The Firm's very non-Weird Al novelty tune "Star Trekin'" (and then wonder who the Firm were) HERE.

Countdown until the acid kicks in during William Shatner's 1978 Science Fiction Film Awards performance of Elton John's "Rocket Man" HERE.

And since we're trekkin' through tunes, beam into this ballad about Star Trek: First Contact (I think) as performed by Debs And Erol HERE (and then subscribe to their web page HERE).

Learn where Tim learned about the more erotic aspects of cosplaying with a scene from today's topic HERE.

And then watch the "Captain Pike" scene that Bob and Tim could not get enough of HERE.

MUSIC FEATURED IN TODAY'S EPISODE:

"Space Age Love Song " performed by A Flock Of Seagulls off their hairstyle of a 1982 debut album A FLOCK OF SEAGULLS.

"Star Trekin'" performed by The Firm and featured on their 1987 album SERIOUS FUN ... seriously .. who is The Firm?

"Rocket Man (I Think It's going To Be A Long long Time) " originally penned by Bernie Taupin and Elton John for the 1972 album Honky Chateau only to be psycho-somatically remixed by pop alchemist William Shatner at the 1978 SCIENCE FICTION FILM AWARDS.

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20TH CENTURY POPCAST will return next week with a more-than-a-pack-a-day habit.

051 THE GODFATHER, JAWS AND BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

Thu, 08 Feb 2018 08:30:00 +0000

HOW DID I MISS THIS?: "Cannoli, chalk boards and a whole lot of denim." (1972-1984) Bob has never seen The Godfather. And Tim has never seen Jaws. So today .. wait ... hold on a minute ... don't they host a show about pop culture? Yes they do and, having once dedicated an entire episode to Howard The Duck, they must now explain how they managed to miss some of the most colossal efforts of the 20th Century.

00:00:00 PRE-SHOW PRATTLE - sad toilets and sadder tubs
00:01:27 AS INTROS GO - this one is okay / "Crying In My Beer"
00:02:53 GETTING THE REFERENCE- while avoiding the source material
00:07:11 WASN'T THAT GUY IN THE FRESHMAN? - not watching "The Godfather"
00:20:42 WELL, I SAW THE FOURTH ONE - not watching "Jaws"
00:30:15 A DENIM METRONOME - not listening to "Bruce Springsteen"
00:43:38 A FANATICAL PISSING CONTEST - and still now watching "Jaws"
00:52:30 THE FALTERING FAN-BOY ENGINE - still not watching "Jaws?"
00:56:43 CLOSINGS - Contacts, plugs and no catchphrase / "Born To Add"
00:58:46 BONUS FEATURES - Stand-Up Spotlight With Tim Blevins

Countdown a surprisingly high number of horse-head-in-the-bed jokes thanks to this montage organized by SevenEightNineAndTenDidntCare HERE.

Or trim that down a bit with this variation of "Simpsons Already Did It" HERE.

See who 7 year-old Tim thought was Marlon Brando with John Belushi's original SNL audition tape HERE.

See what should have hit the cineplex of Hill Valley three years ago with this original trailer for the never actually realized holographic horror JAWS 19 HERE.

Track the production history of Jaws, even if you haven't actually seen Jaws, with the cryptically entitled "THE MAKING OF JAWS" HERE.

Be wholly entranced by Bruce Springsteen's perchance for numbers with (another) one of Tim's favorite "The Ben Stiller Show" sketches HERE.

And get the definitive origin story of all that counting with Bruce Stringbean's Sesame Street performance of "Born To Add" HERE.

MUSIC FEATURED IN TODAY'S EPISODE:

"Crying In My Beer" performed by one of the more under-rated pop/punk bands of the past century, Screeching Weasel, off their 1993 album WIGGLE.

"Born To Add" performed by Bruce Stringbean And The S. Street Band from the 1983 Grammy nominated Sesame Street album BORN TO ADD.

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20TH CENTURY POPCAST will return next week with and intricate hand gesture and some novelty ears.

050 THE SUPER DUPER 50TH ANNIVERSARY-A-RAMA-IN-OUR-PAJAMAS EPISODE

Wed, 31 Jan 2018 15:23:27 +0000

POP 5: "Another pointless demarcation of exaggerated merit." Do you know that Hot Wheels, Ultron and Mr. Rogers Neighborhood are turning 50? Bob and Tim do so maybe they could have done an episode on one of those. Instead, they are observing their own variation on this measurement with the 50th official episode of their year-old podcast. Or 54th ... if you are actually counting.

00:00:00 PRE-SHOW PRATTLE - life happens
00:01:52 ANOTHER POINTLESS ANNIVERSARY - and defeated by a Star Wars reference / "Sassafras Roots"
00:06:25 RETURN OF THE POP 5 - Bob's nightmare
00:08:41 BRUCE WANE / 'Respect Yourself"
00:18:41 LEAVING HOTH VEGAS / "Missing You"
00:23:23 YOU CAN'T ANNIHILATE THAT ON TELEVISION / "The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades"
00:30:24 WHY DOES THIS SHOW EXIST? / "Learning To Fly"
00:37:08 THANKS FOR NOTHING, THE SIMPSONS, / 'Animate"
00:41:33 A JEFF DUNHAM STORY - repressed memories without the probing
00:44:55 GRAVITATIONAL PAUL / "A Town Called Malice"
00:50:12 VEDDER THAN THE AVERAGE BEAR / "Plush"
00:54:05 LIVE MUSIC - or live music
01:01:45 CLOSINGS - Contacts, plugs and no catchphrase / "Lightning Crashes"
01:05:53 SPECIAL FEATURES - cut scenes and outtakes / "Rise"

Try to respect yourself in the morning for having once admired Bruce Willis's harmonica and vest combo HERE.

Suffer the apocalyptic horror that someone thought was worth syndicating to kids at 3:30pm HERE.

Prove either Bob or Tim wrong by viewing this pair of Star Wars toy commercials HERE and HERE.

Avoid not laughing at some Must-See Television with the fluorescent shirt glow of a blooper reel HERE.

Watch some rats pretend they are making good on of-the-moment political commentary HERE.

And finally, suffer what Tim deems insufferable by trying to live through this HERE.

Then, to prove THIS existed, watch this HERE.

MUSIC FEATURED IN TODAY'S EPISODE:

"Sassafras Roots" performed by Green Day off what USE to be everyone's favorite Green day album, 1994's DOOKIE.

"Respect Yourself" performed (without a hint of irony) by Bruce Willis off his 1987 full-length and, again, un-ironic album, THE RETURN OF BRUNO.

"Missing You" performed by John Waite in dentist offices across the country as well as on his 1984 album NO BREAKS.

"The Future's So Bright I've Got To Wear Shades" not performed by the kids of Head Of The Class but, rather, by Timbuk3 off their 1986 debut album GREETINGS FROM TIMBUK3.

"Learning To Fly" performed by Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers (and on a pretty steady loop Tim's Junior year of High School) from their 1991 release INTO THE GREAT WIDE OPEN.

"Animate" performed by Rush from their released-the-same-day-as-Pearl-Jam's-Vs. 1993 album COUNTERPARTS.

"A Town called Malice" performed by The Jam off their 1982 album THE GIFT (clever Jam pun pending).

"Plush" performed by Stone Temple Pilots from their 1992 debut studio album CORE and previously featured on the 20POPCAST "Peal Jam Vs." episode HERE.

"Lightning Crashes" granted to the humanity of Earth by Live as one of two ear-worms slithering off their 1993 cassette THROWING COPPER.

"Rise" performed by Public Image LTD. from their 1986 album ALBUM (aka CASSETTE and later COMPACT DISC).

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20TH CENTURY POPCAST will return next week with cannoli, chalk boards and an awful lot of denim.

049 FAVORITE ALBUMS OF HIGH SCHOOL

Thu, 25 Jan 2018 16:27:23 +0000

LIST-A-RAMA-A-GO-GO - "Just like albums ... but on compact discs." (1989-1991) Today's episode is going up a little later than normal because that's how long it took to rewind the tape. Which tape? How about Del La Soul, Living Color and Ned's Atomic Dustbin? It's Bob and Tim's favorite albums from High school, even though "album" is not the proper media designation as they had them on cassettes and CDs..

00:00:00 PRE-SHOW PRATTLE - unknown listeners
00:01:15 HUMP DAY - and Tim's least favorite episode / "Two Princes"
00:08:55 SHIFTING TO CDS - and listening with a Z
00:14:08 WE ARE IN LOVE - deconstructing Harry … Connick … Junior / "We Are In Love"
00:27:02 GOD FODDER - and scrawling lyrics on the desk / "Grey Cell Green"
00:34:46 TIME'S UP - not Oneida / "Pride"
00:41:54 DON'T TELL A SOUL - a CD club that would have Tim as a member / "Talent Show"
00:49:25 THREE FEET HIGH AND RISING - Rap geeks got Bob this way / "The Magic Number"
00:56:02 COUNTER COULTURE - and that "music meant for me" bulls**t
00:58:00 CLOSINGS - Contacts, plugs and no catchphrase / "Groove Is In The Heart"

Watch a swingin' Harry Connick Jr. get a couple grandmas wet in this video version of "We Are In Love" HERE.

See what most 1990's music videos were looking like with "Kill Your Television" by Ned's Atomic Dustbin HERE.

Instead of something relevant to the album Bob was talking about, HERE's the video for the Living Color song Tim loved in High School, and was unaware was was made with any tongue pressed firmly in any cheek.

Watch the video Tim never saw for his favorite song he didn't know was off an album he hadn't heard of by a band he eventually found HERE.

Learn from the De La Soul video that inspired Bob to become the Bob he is now HERE.

And indulge the impractical promotional purpose of listening to Tim's least favorite episode of this very podcast HERE.

MUSIC FEATURED IN TODAY'S EPISODE:

"Two Princes" unfortunately performed by the unbearable Spin Doctors off their atrocious 1991 release POCKET FULL OF KRYPTONITE that neither Bob or Tim owned (although they both had it as a track on the 1993 SO I MARRIED AN AXE MURDERER soundtrack).

"We Are In Love" crooned by Harry Connick Jr. on his 1990 album release also entitled WE ARE IN LOVE.

"Grey Cell Green" performed (with two basses) by Ned's Atomic Dustbin from their 1991 debut release GOD FODDER.

"Type" performed by Living Color off the 1990 album that GoogleMusic lists with a capital s in "time's," TIME'S UP

"Talent Show" performed by The Replacements and off the one CD in Tim's CD collection to still bear the BMG Music stamp, 1989's DON'T TELL A SOUL.

"The Magic Number" performed by De La Soul in their best One-To-Grow-On fashion and off their 1989 release 3 FEET AND RISING.

"Groove Is In The Heart" NOT performed by De La Soul, but rather Dee-Lite on their 1990 release WORLD CLIQUE.

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20TH CENTURY POPCAST will return next week with a super special and ever indulgent anniversary celebration of 50 numbered episodes of this very podcast.

048 THE DAY AFTER

Thu, 18 Jan 2018 08:30:00 +0000

RETRO SHOCK: "Seriously ... not the Jake Gyllenhaal movie." (1983) No graphic image struck more graphic fear into Tim's childhood than the atomic stalk of a mushroom cloud. And no program better illustrated this phobia than the 1983 tv movie THE DAY AFTER. So, following last weekend's text to the brink, he's returning to ground zero for a horrifying re-watch.

00:00:00 - PRE-EMPTIVE WARNING - hey its John Cullum .. I guess
00:00:38 - BUNKERIN' DOWN - Tim is solo in this current predicament / "99 Luftballooons"
00:02:30 - NOVEMBER 20th 1983 - Content warning for "The Day After"
00:05:14 - MIRACLE MEYER - Wait …now we're talking Star Trek?
00:09:09 - MUSHROOM CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF IMMOLATION - Stoking Tim's fears again and again
00:17:43 - IT COULD NEVER HAPPEN HERE - except that it could totally happen here
00:20:29 - 12,478 DAYS AFTER - and Good Memory/Bad Memory / "Is There Something I Should Know"
00:24:51 - HOPE FLATLINES - brought to you by gloom, despondence and Almond Joy
00:29:36 - ANSWER DURAN DURAN ALREADY - small town targets and the murmur of war
00:35:32 - FLASH … AHHHHHHH - and the nuclear mystique
00:41:57 - CELEBRITY HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE - pushing the button, then and now
00:47:44 - GOOD REALITY/BAD REALITY - and a slightly mis-remembered Bloom County cartoon
00:51:54 - CLOSINGS - Contacts, plugs and no catch phrase / "Ask"
00:53:26 - SPECIAL FEATURES - our decimated sponsor

Look at the film though recent eyes journalist Sean O'Neal A.V. Club retrospective HERE.

Watch ABC newscaster Ted Koppel host the original post show discussion that aired immediately following THE DAY AFTER including butcherer of peace Henry Kissinger, architect of the Vietnam War Robert Mcnamara and humane voice of reason Carl Sagan HERE.

See how they devastated Lawrence and Kansas City in this behind the scenes segment HERE.

Skip all the humanity and just witness the inhumanity of the nuclear strike scene of the film HERE.

And ruin the rest of your day by viewing the film in full HERE.

MUSIC FEATURED IN TODAY'S EPISODE:

"99 Luftballoons" performed by Nena off the 1983 debut album of the same name ... NENA.

"Is The Something I Should Know"" performed by Duran Duran and originally released as a single in 1983 and later added to the U.S. re-release of their 1981 self-titled debut.

"Ask" performed by The Smiths, originally released as a single on Tim's 11th birthday in 1986 and later included on the 1987 compilation LOUDER THAN BOMBS.

The use of these songs are for entertainment purposes and without the expressed permission of the recording artist.

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20TH CENTURY POPCAST will return next week with an insightful and detailed look at the AIDS epidemic ... or "Joanie Loves Chachi."

047 X-FILES SEASON 1

Thu, 11 Jan 2018 05:30:00 +0000

BINGE AND PODCAST: "Bright Flashlights, Big Conspiracy" No television show dominated Bob and Tim's TV set like the '90 paranormal phenomena, The X-Files. Well ... maybe Mystery Science Theater 3000. And Friends. And Two Guys, A Girl And A Pizza Place. But since Ryan Reynolds never tweeted back, they are focusing special attention on those special agents Dana Katherine Scully and Fox Network Mulder.

00:00:00 PRE-SHOW PRATTLE - Tim likes Dazzler
00:00:44 BACK FOR THE NEW YEAR — and everybody is sick / "Hardcore UFOS"
00:03:09 RE-OPENING THE X-FILES - a 21st century return to a 20th century obsession
00:09:11 A REALLY COLD OPEN - playing with paranoia
00:20:25 FACE VALUE - coasting on a space ghost
00:30:13 WHO WANTS TO BELIEVE? - not fully science fiction
00:42:55 SCULDER AND MULLY - digging their dichotomy
00:48:47 THE CONSPIRATORIAL ENGINE - better distrust through television
00:53:41 A SAUCER FULL OF SECRETS - probing the alien mythology
01:03:07 LAW AND ORDER: MIB - an anthology of the unexplained
01:07:44 CLOSINGS - Contacts, plugs and no catchphrase / "David Duchovny"
01:09:34 BONUS FEATURES - At least there's the middle part

Watch original Fox network promo for the episode "Ice" HERE.

And that episode's preview of the following week's "Space" HERE.

And since you probably see where the video portion of these show-notes are going ... here's the promo to "Fallen Angel" HERE.

And uncover this lost X-File from season one in what is properly designated "VHS Quality" HERE.

These episodes discussed on today's episode are out there and you can stream them exclusively on HULU.com HERE, HERE and HERE.

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MUSIC FEATURED IN TODAY'S EPISODE:

"Hardcore UFOs" performed by Guided By Voices off their inexplicably-titled 1994 release BEE THOUSAND.

"David Duchovny" performed by Bree Sharp from her 1999 debut A CHEAP AND EVIL GIRL.

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20TH CENTURY POPCAST will return next week with an ear-worm of '90s one-hit wonders

046 NINETEEN NINETY-THREE

Thu, 28 Dec 2017 08:30:00 +0000

LIST-A-RAMA-A-GO-GO: "Who knows what the mid-90s will hold?" (1993): Its another crappy end to yet another crappy year so why not put on the blinders of nostalgia and celebrate 1993 instead. That's what Bob and Tim are attempting to do with this year-end look-back at an age that predates Clerks, Friends and The Spice Girls. Come drop a ball on their first year together complete with a Chevy Chase Show shout-out.

00:00:00 - PRE-SHOW PRATTLE - end of the year relief
00:01:21 - RINGING IT IN - forced traditions with forced friends / "Are You Gonna Go My Way"
00:05:21 - YEARS IN REVIEW - looking back at retrospectives
00:11:14 - GOOD READS '93 - books?
00:11:25 - SMALL SCREEN '93 - robot silhouettes and not Chevy Chase
00:21:46 - WIDE SCREEN '93 - stop motion solace and a tolerable Mike Myers
00:27:32 - CDS '93 - Boston based bands and record store bootlegs
00:42:30 - CURATION '93 - why the year mattered
00:48:20 - SUMMATION '93 - here's your list in review / "Livin' On The Edge"
00:54:49 - CLOSINGS - Contacts, plugs and no catchphrase / 'Feed The Tree"
00:57:06 - BONUS FEATURES - wringing it out

Revisit Rolling Stone's year-end retrospective on the 1993 that originally aired on FOX HERE.

Witness the blight on 1993 that was THE CHEVY CHASE SHOW HERE, HERE and HERE.

Count down the final moments of 1993 with Dick Clark in live, East Coast fashion HERE.

MUSIC FEATURED IN TODAY'S EPISODE:

"Are You Gonna Go My Way?" performed by Lenny Kravitz from his 1993 studio album ARE YOU GONNA GO MY WAY.

"Livin' on The Edge" performed (with no "g") by Aerosmith from their 1993 Cow-udder album GET A GRIP.

"Feed The Tree" performed by Belly from their 1993 full-length debut release STAR.

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20TH CENTURY POPCAST will return next year with BINGE AND PODCAST.

045 DIE HARD 2: DIE HARDER

Thu, 21 Dec 2017 05:30:00 +0000

RETRO SHOCK: "Hey, the same thing happened to the same guy again." (1990) Having a favorite holiday special makes sense. But if there's one Tim gets tired of people mentioning its the 80s equivalent of detonating a gingerbread house, DIE HARD. So, instead of letting Bob gush about the first one they are revisiting its seasonally forgotten follow-up, DIE HARD 2: DIE HARDER. Expect a yippe-kay-yay pun in there somewhere.

00:00:00 - PRE-SHOW PRATTLE - a holiday-themed intro
00:01:23 - AHM, HUMBUG - why Die Hard? /"Oi To The World"
00:12:37 - JUNE 29TH 1990 - why not Die Hard?
00:20:02 - MODERN DAY - and "Good Memory/Bad Memory" / "Merry Christmas (I Don't Want To Fight Tonight)"
00:22:30 - YIPEE-KAY-AYE META F***ER - is this movie aware its a Die Hard sequel?
00:25:54 - GET BRUCE - but where is John McClain?
00:31:22 - A-HOLEY NIGHT - a cast of crap characters?
00:36:29 - DULL AIPORT ANTICS - and Reginald Vel Johnson eats a Twinkie
00:42:55 - NOT JUST "DIE HARD IN AN AIRPORT" - except that it's Die Hard in an airport
00:50:33 - DIE HARDLY - why Die Harder?
00:55:49 - EVEN MANNEQUIN GOT A SEQUEL - and an apology to Bruce Willis
01:00:15 - GOOD REALITY/BAD REALITY - and don't Nakatomi the first one
01:06:13 - CLOSINGS - Contacts, plugs and no catchphrase / "Let It Snow"
01:08:13 - BONUS FEATURES- IMDBefore before the show

Watch the original theatrical trailer meant to remind us the we wanted more John McClane HERE.

See a variation on where the series could have gone with this piece from 1992's THE BEN STILLER SHOW HERE.

Or just watch a couple of scenes from 1988's original DIE HARD HERE, HERE and HERE.

MUSIC FEATURED IN TODAY'S EPISODE:

"Oi! To The World" performed by The Vandals from the 1996 holiday release, OI TO THE WORLD.

"Merry Christmas (I Don't Want To Fight Tonight)" performed by The Ramones from their 1987 release BRAIN DRAIN.

"Let Is Snow" performed by Vaughn Monroe, originally recorded in 1945 and featured in the closing credits to the VASTLY superior predecessor to this episode topic ... DIE HARD (and also in DIE HARD 2)

The use of these songs are for entertainment purposes and without the expressed permission of the recording artist.

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20TH CENTURY POPCAST will return next week with a year end LIST-A-RAMA-A-GO-GO.

044 THE STAR WARS HOLIDAY SPECIAL

Thu, 14 Dec 2017 17:30:38 +0000

POOP CULTURE: "Ahm .... Star Wars?" (1978). It's Life Day ... I guess. A holiday that ... Wookies ... celebrate. And we are going to talk about it. Somehow. Today. For a full episode. With a special guest. Sigh. Why does this effin' thing really exist.

00:00:00: - WROORWRRWRRRWRW - Ladies and gentlemen … Art Carney.
00:00:37 - BOB AND TIM WITH … - Alison Novak, sci-fi editor and owner of this spectacular bootleg / "Light The Sky On Fire"
00:04:36 - BOOTLEGGER'S HOLIDAY - questioning the existence of the Star Wars Holiday Special
00:12:16 - IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE DAY - and a variety show?
00:17:02 - KASHYYK CHIC -and subtitles would be nice
00:23:17 - CIRQUE DE SO WHAT - and who wore Wookie better
00:30:51 - DAAN, WISH I WAS YOUR LOVER - an earlier draft
00:37:11 - DEEP SPACE THROAT - lock up your younglings, it's Diahann Carroll (and Jefferson Starship)
00:44:41 - BEA BEA GREAT - and full-on Korman
00:55:25 - IT'S A DARK TIME FOR THE REBELLION, CHARLIE BROWN - animating the Star Wars universe
01:01:45 - SEASON'S GREEDOS - what's the special holiday in this holiday special
01:07:51 - THE CIRCLE IS COMPLETE - wrapping up our thoughts for Life Day
01:14:53 - CLOSINGS - Contacts, plugs and no catchphrase / 'Feels Like Christmas"
01:07:51 BONUS FEATURES - The Mon Mothma Morning Crew

Watch this 2011 interview with C3PO's innards, Anthony Daniels, particularly 2 minutes and fifty-six seconds in when he discusses the existence of this Holiday special HERE.

Listen to Holiday Special screenwriter Bruce Vilanch echo a lot of your own thoughts HERE.

Fight the Frizzies with almost 20 minutes of TV commercials that aired during the special HERE.

See some more of the animated artistry from Nelvana, the studio that produced the one bearable portion of the special, HERE.

Belly up to Mos Eisley with bartender Richard Pryor HERE.

And ... if you are still curious .. watch the complete "special" HERE.

MUSIC FEATURED IN TODAY'S EPISODE:

"Light The Sky On Fire" performed by JEFFERSON STARSHIP and available on their 1979 greatest hits album GOLD.

"Feels Like Christmas" performed by Cyndi Lauper off her 1993 studio album HAT FULL OF STARS.

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20TH CENTURY POPCAST will return next week a gift-wrapped RETRO SHOCK.

043 CHRISTMAS EPISODES OF THE '80S & '90S

Thu, 07 Dec 2017 08:30:00 +0000

BINGE AND PODCAST: "When a VHS of wood burning won't do." (1986-1996) Its the most commercial time of the year, with many of them airing during Bob and Tim's favorite shows. So in that money-sucking spirit they are tuning in to some (theoretically) festive episodes of some (questionably) classic sitcoms. Seriously ... MORE Perfect Strangers?!?

00:00:00 - PRE-SHOW PRATTLE - a tinny tone
00:00:53 - MORNING DRIVE MATERIALISM - a conflict in gifting / "Put A Little Love In Your Heart"
00:03:47 - SITCOM ALL YE FAITHFUL - the holiday tradition of Christmas-themed episodes
00:08:10 - DECEMBER 17th, 1986 - Autobot city and diminishing plastic
00:11:59 - GOD REST YE LARRY APPLETON - a horny tradition and stranded for the holidays
00:21:21 - O CHRISTMAS TOOL - Oedipus Al and stranded for the holidays
00:30:53 - DECEMBER 13TH, 1996 - blue Christmas
00:40:12 - CARL OF THE BELLS - standing ovations and stranded for the holidays
00:50:39 - IS IT THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEAR? - and a Riptide reference
00:53:09 - MALONE FOR THE HOLIDAYS - Network friends and family and stranded for the holidays
00:59:54 - URKEL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN - a pitch to David Fincher
01:02:49 - CLOSINGS - Contacts, plugs and no catchphrase / "Little Drummer Boy / Peace On Earth"
01:05:05 - BONUS FEATURES - a recurring fear

Follow along with today's episodes through the HULU and NETFLIX links below:

Witness Larry's perfect descent into morose depression on HULU.com HERE.

Apologize to your own eyes for viewing Tim and Al's exploits on HULU.com HERE .

Celebrate Tim's new perennial favorite on HULU.com HERE.

And understand why CHEERS is always worth cheering for on NETFLIX HERE.

Viewing of the above links will require a paid subscription to the HULU and NETFLIX account. Calamity House Productions and 20th Century Popcast are unaffiliated with these providers, receive no compensation for usage and are not responsible for any corresponding fees and charges that apply. So ... if you'd rather not succumb to corporate Duopoly ...

Watch Nell Carter open a box of crayons on this GIMMEE A BREAk holiday episode HERE.

See PUNKY BREWSTER's heart break in in two in time for the holidays HERE and HERE.

And have yourself a Jason Bateman Christmas with that guy from Married with Children on IT'S YOUR MOVE HERE.

MUSIC FEATURED IN TODAY'S EPISODE:

"Put A Little Love In Your Heart" performed by Al Green and Annie Lennox from the 1988 original motion picture soundtrack to the Richard Donner film SCROOGED.

"Little Drummer Boy/Peace On Earth" performed by Bing Crosby and David Bowie and first featured on the 1977 CBS presentation BING CROSBY'S MERRIE OLDE CHRISTMAS.

The use of these songs are for entertainment purposes and without the expressed permission of the recording artist.

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20TH CENTURY POPCAST will return next week with an "out of this galaxy" POOP CULTURE.

042 A WISH FOR WINGS THAT WORK

Thu, 30 Nov 2017 08:30:00 +0000

RETRO SHOCK: "Still mispronouncing Berkely Breathed" (1991) Its the last day in November which means the Christmas season is already seven shopping days old. So, before festive fatigue sets in, Bob and Tim are diving into a month of holiday themed episodes starting with the Bill and Opus animated special "A Wish For Wings That Work." Its a cartoon based on the '80s classic Bloom County, leaving them to wonder why it not a perennial favorite. Ho, ho, ho-nooooooo!

00:00:00 - PRE-SHOW PRATTLE - jump into it
00:00:48 - TIS A SEASON - long way to an early start / "Christmas Wrapping"
00:04:55 - DECEMBER 18th, 1991 - Bloom County comes to television (sort of)
00:07:42 - BAH, NOSTALGIA - a changing taste in Christmas specials
00:11:34 - BREAK WITH TRADITION - more viewings, less airings
00:15:03- MR. BREATHED'S OPUS - in voice and motion
00:24:13 - GOOD MEMORY/BAD MEMORY- and a confession
00:26:37 - MODERN DAY - and Secret Santa solved / "Christmas Chimes Are Calling Santa"
00:30:45 - READ THE BOOK! - how well was this adapted?
00:35:09 - DUBA-DUBA-DUBA-E-UTIFUL - but how does it sound?
00:40:38 - CELEBRITY REHAB - and hooray for Bill The Cat
00:47:45 - FOR THE FANS? - and will Bob's other kid watch this?
00:51:29 - SEASONALLY AFFECTED - a Christmas disconnect
01:04:06 - A DISAPPOINTING SAFETY NET - plus Good Reality/Bad Reality
01:09:09 - CLOSINGS - Contacts, plugs and no catchphrase / "Informer"
01:12:13 - BONUS FEATURES - a phantom edit

Watch exactly what Bob and Tim watched HERE.

See some of the questionably classic holiday specials mentioned in the episode:

Stumble through MISTER MAGOO'S CHRISTMAS CAROL HERE.

Chomp off a little of the CHRISTMAS COMES TO PAC-LAND special HERE.

Watch a Hanna Barbera bear get a little wet in this clip from YOGI'S FIRST CHRISTMAS HERE.

Wish, whittle, drip and dry through this somewhat overbearing tune from 'TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS HERE.

And yawn all the way through ZIGGY'S GIFT HERE.

MUSIC FEATURED IN TODAY'S EPISODE:

"Christmas Wrapping" performed The Waitresses from their 1982 album WASN'T TOMORROW WONDERFUL.

"Christmas Chimes Are Calling Santa" performed by a couple of kids locked in s small town clock tower from the 1974 animated classic 'TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS.

"Informer" performed by Snow off his timeless 1992 Christmas compilation 12 INCHES OF SNOW.

The use of these songs are for entertainment purposes and without the expressed permission of the recording artist.

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Contact the show with any questions, suggestions or possible topics at 20popcast@gmail.com, #20popcast on Twitter and the POP TALK section of www.20popcast.com.

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20TH CENTURY POPCAST will return next week with a Holiday-themed BINGE AND PODCAST.

041 PERFECT STRANGERS

Thu, 16 Nov 2017 08:30:00 +0000

BINGE AND PODCAST: "Perfect Stranger Things or Meposian Rhapsody" (1987) Bob and Tim were once real world roommates with sitcom intentions. They based their episodic antics on such odd couplings as George and Jerry, Chandler and Joey and, the topic of today's episode, Larry and Balki. Its a minimalistic dance of dispassionate joy as they look at how early "Perfect Strangers" influenced their apartment renting behaviors.

00:00:00 - PRE-SHOW PRATTLE - Bob and Tim return to the microphones
00:01:04 - TRYING TO CATCH UP / Bob and Tim return to the microphones (again) / "Like A Stranger"
00:04:25 - AN ODD COUPLING - and solving "Murder She wrote"
00:08:44 - PERFECT STRANGERS IN A PERFECT STRANGELAND- who is Bronson Pinchot and where did Mark Lynn Baker come from?
00:13:05 - YOU LOVE LUCY? - because Tim does not
00:15:43 - STRANGERS CURRENCIES - a fondness for Balki and the tragedy of Larry
00:20:04 -APPLYING THE FORMULA - and will Bob's kids watch this?
00:25:19- VHS-ENCE - recording one moment in time
00:30:07 - THE APPLETON FALLS FAR FROM THE TREE - feeble self loathing with a studio audience
00:35:45 - RENTER'S DELIGHT - an early primer for a roommate's life
00:40:35 - HAVING GUESTS TO DINNER - and Tim delivers a line poorly
00:45:06 - YOUR BALKI COULD BE MY LIFE - the alternative luster of childish adults
00:54:40 - NOSTALGIA OR BURST - does everything have to hold up?
01:02:30 - CLOSINGS - Contacts, plugs and no catchphrase / "Beautiful Stranger"
01:05:23 - BONUS FEATURES - Hot tea and on-air etiquette / "Ordinary Guy"

Witness the dark origin story that brought these two cousins together with the first season opening credit sequence HERE.

Cringe at the rapping talents of Larry, Balki and the whole ABC Wednesday night line-up HERE.

Read a bit of the MENTAL FLOSS expose of the series HERE.

Seek out further previously unknown show facts in the RANKER article featured HERE.

Decide if you are a fan of gag reels HERE.

And watch the same episodes Bob and Tim watched streaming exclusively on HULU.com HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE .

MUSIC FEATURED IN TODAY'S EPISODE:

"Like A Stranger" performed The Psychedelic Furs from the 1984 release MIRROR MOVES.

"Beautiful Stranger"" performed by Madonna and featured on the 1999 original motion picture soundtrack to AUSTIN POWERS: THE SPY WHO SHAGGED ME.

"Ordinary Guy" performed by Michael Delguidice and heard by a surprisingly large audience, each week on the CBS sitcom KEVIN CAN WAIT.

The use of these songs are for entertainment purposes and without the expressed permission of the recording artist.

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Follow TIM BLEVINS @subcultist on TWITTER and as SUBCULTISTon INSTAGRAM.

20TH CENTURY POPCAST will return next week with POP ARTIFICE.

040 HOWARD THE DUCK

Thu, 09 Nov 2017 15:50:24 +0000

UNSOLICITED COMMENTARY: "Waaaaaugh." (1986) Marvel Studios surpassed 5 billion in ticket sales this weekend, so we're celebrating the one that contributed $12 dollars to the tally. "Howard The Duck" was the first super hero film Tim ever saw on the big screen. But, even bigger, it showed that 10 year-old the new-wave hairdo he was going to become.

00:00:00 - EARLY RISIN' - Last minute recording, first thing in the morning
00:00:29 - BOB CANNING IS MISSING - and a quick synch tutorial / "Hunger City"
00:04:05 - SYNCHED IN A WORLD HE NEVER MADE - Tim's complete audio commentary for "Howard The Duck"
01:38:45 - CLOSINGS - Contacts, plugs and no catchphrase / "Theme from Jem"

Watch the original theatrical trailer that claims a mid-life crisis occurs at 27 HERE.

Applaud oscar winner and relevant activist Tim Robbins performance in this the 1986 music video for the film's theme song "Howard The Duck" HERE.

Wonder aloud exactly who the target audience for this film was with this original teaser featuring Tim's live action-conjuring of Jem from the Holograms, Lea Thomspon, HERE.

And go behind the scenes of what was briefly Tim's favorite recording artist(s) HERE.

MUSIC FEATURED IN TODAY'S EPISODE:

"Hunger City" performed Cherry Bomb from the 1986 original motion picture soundtrack to HOWARD THE DUCK.

"Jem Theme" performed by Jem And The Holograms with guest vocals by The Misfits as featured on the original 1985 television series JEM.

The use of these songs are for entertainment purposes and without the expressed permission of the recording artist.

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Like, share and reminisce with 20TH CENTURY POPCAST! on FACEBOOK.

Contact the show with any questions, suggestions or possible topics at 20popcast@gmail.com, #20popcast on Twitter and the POP TALK section of www.20popcast.com.

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BOB CANNING will return to 20TH CENTURY POPCAST next week with BINGE AND PODCAST ... right?

039 L.A. STORY

Wed, 01 Nov 2017 16:46:06 +0000

UNSOLICITED COMMENTARY: "Century Boulevard? We hate it!" (1991) Tim is no fan of the West Coast. Yet its the source of so many films he's watched, specifically his favorite film of all time, L.A. Story. So today he's examining how a travelogue of his least favorite locale managed such a massive impact on his teenage youth.

00:00:00 - A QUICK HOW-TO - synching today's episode up to your DVD
00:00:29 - MORNING HAZE & LAUNDRY DAZE - a post wedding opener / "True Love"
00:04:05 - APPROACHING THE SYNCH-ULARITY - Tim's complete audio commentary for "L.A,. Story."
01:38:45 - CLOSINGS - Contacts, plugs and no catchphrase / "No Secrets"

Watch the original 1991 trailer to the film HERE.

Read A SIDE ORDER OF STEVE MARTIN, a 1991 Los Angeles Times interview between Mr. Martin and journalist Elaine Dutka HERE.

Go behind the scenes on the making of L.A. STORY HERE and HERE.

And watch the sequence that most informed how Tim thought life should work HERE.

MUSIC FEATURED IN TODAY'S EPISODE:

"True Love" performed X from their 1983 album MORE FUN IN THE NEW WORLD.

"No Secrets" performed by Missing Persons from their 1986 album COLOR IN YOUR LIFE.

The use of these songs are for entertainment purposes and without the expressed permission of the recording artist.

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Like, share and reminisce with 20TH CENTURY POPCAST! on FACEBOOK.

Contact the show with any questions, suggestions or possible topics at 20popcast@gmail.com, #20popcast on Twitter and the POP TALK section of www.20popcast.com.

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20TH CENTURY POPCAST! will return next week with BINGE AND PODCAST.

038 IT'S THE GREAT PUMPKIN, CHARLIE BROWN

Thu, 26 Oct 2017 07:30:00 +0000

RETRO SHOCK: "Where's your Great Pumpkin now?" Its that time of the year for trick, treats and squatting in your neighbor's nondescript garden space awaiting the arrival of a Cthulthulian overlord. So Bob and Tim are tuning in to that horrifying character study of a boy unhinged, "It's The Great Pumpkin ,Charlie Brown." Run for your life, Charlie Brown. Run for your elfin' life.

00:00:00 - CREEPY CROONER - Ladies and gentlemen … Tim Curry
00:01:20 - SPOOKY STARTS - Yellow ponchos and drunken hobos / "Anything Can Happen On Halloween"
00:05:36 - OCTOBER 27TH, 1966 - Halloween specials … probably exist
00:09:28 - THE ANNUAL REPEAT VIEWING - changing the specialness of a special
00:15:21 - MODERN DAY - and Good Memory/Bad Memory / "This Is Halloween"
00:17:31 - EXPERIMENTAL JAZZ AND ABSTRACT ART - easing (and uneasing) into it
00:26:39 - PANELS VERSES PLOTTING - is this bigger than a comic strip?
00:28:13 - ANIMATED WAR IS ANIMATED HELL - Why is Snoopy carpet-bombing France?
00:33:24 - ITS A POINTLESS SERIES OF UNCONNECTED EVENTS, CHARLIE BROWN - what is the elfin' plot already?
00:38:17 - INSECURITY BLANKET - Linus and the bleak loss of faith
00:52:03 - MORALITY PRICK - The pangs of being in Peanuts
00:56:26 - GOOD REAILTY/BAD REALITY - and will Bob watch this with his kids
01:00:05 - CLOSINGS — Contacts, plugs and no catchphrase / "Bela Lugosi's Dead"

See some spooky sponsorship from the special's original 1966 airing HERE.

Watch the horrific transformation of Linus Van Pelt HERE.

Listen to this 40th anniversary retrospective on the special from 2006 HERE.

And witness a bunch of specials Bob and Tim couldn't think of with "HALLOWEEN IS GRINCH NIGHT" (HERE), "WITCHES NIGHT OUT" (HERE) and RAGGEDY ANN AND ANDY IN THE PUMPKIN WHO WOULDN'T SMILE (HERE).

MUSIC FEATURED IN TODAY'S EPISODE:

"Anything Can Happen On Halloween" performed in a nauseatingly green-screened fashion by Tim Curry from the 1986 Video-tape terror THE WORST WITCH.

"This Is Halloween" performed by the denizens of HalloweenTown anf off the 1993 original motion picture soundtrack to TIM BURTON'S THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS.

"Bela Lugosi's Dead" performed by Bauhaus and released as a self-titled single in 1979.

The use of these songs are for entertainment purposes and without the expressed permission of the recording artist.

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20TH CENTURY POPCAST! will return next week with BINGE AND PODCAST.

037 MYSTERIES OF THE UNKNOWN

Thu, 19 Oct 2017 07:30:00 +0000

BOOK AND PODCAST: "Stonehenge ruined my coat hanger." (1987): Want to learn the identity of the spectral lady Of Rayham Hall? Read the book. Want to hear about Betty and Barney Hill's late night encounter aboard a UFO? Read the book. Want to experience Bob and Tim's personal ghost stories? Read the show notes. And check the time stamps. And then listen to the podcast as they discuss their childhood fascination with the Time Life book series "Mysteries Of The Unknown."

00:00:00 - INEXPLICABLE OPENER - sponsorship and spooky stuff
00:00:50 - PARANORMAL BRAIN FARTS- Bob and Tim saw a ghost / "Mysterious Ways"
00:14:39 - LIBRARY OF THE DAMNED - discovering "Mysteries Of The Unknown"
00:19:21 - EXTRA SENSORY PROMOTION - Time Life wants your money
00:27:17 - CRYPTO-ZOOLOGICAL CAREER PATH - finding Nessie and looking for Bigfoot
00:32:44 - BEHOLD THE FORBIDDEN TEXT - believing what others refused to know
00:39:19 - THE LADY ON THE STAIRS - Bob sees another ghost
00:46:50 - THE SHAPE IN THE WOODS - Tim visits the village of ghostly sounds
00:55:26 - SUPER DUPER NATURAL- sharing the unknown
01:01:39 - CLOSINGS — Contacts, plugs and no catchphrase / "Books About UFOs"

See the television ad that sold Tim on this series' importance HERE.

Watch Ben Randall try to gain spooky admittance into the Mile High club while shelling some Time Life tomes HERE.

Watch the method acting technique of oscar nominee Julian Moore attempt to sell you on Time Life Books HERE.

See some creepy alien head shots in the Time Life ad that a much younger Tim hated seeing late at night HERE.

And read ATLAS OBSCURA's history on the development o this Time Life series HERE.

MUSIC FEATURED IN TODAY'S EPISODE:

"Mysterious Ways" performed by U2 off their 1991 album ACHTUNG BABY and probably the copyright violation that got this episode pulled from the stream.

"Books About UFOs" performed by Husker Du (with umlaut) of their 1985 sonic masterpiece NEW DAY RISING.

The use of these songs are for entertainment purposes and without the expressed permission of the recording artist.

Subscribe to 20TH CENTURY POPCAST! on APPLE PODCASTS, STITCHER and ANDROID or stream it at www.20popcast.com.

Like, share and reminisce with 20TH CENTURY POPCAST! on FACEBOOK.

Contact the show with any questions, suggestions or possible topics at 20popcast@gmail.com, #20popcast on Twitter and the POP TALK section of www.20popcast.com.

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20TH CENTURY POPCAST! will return next week with a special Halloween edition of RETRO SHOCK.

036 THE DARK CRYSTAL

Thu, 12 Oct 2017 07:30:00 +0000

UNSOLICITED COMMENTARY: "What happened to Gonzo's face?" (1982): Tim had a childhood interest in the realm of puppetry, which dovetails nicely into this fondly remembered night terror. And on today's episode he is talking though his fascination with the THE DARK CRYSTAL in real time. So, dim the lights, silence your phone and listen to him ramble as you curse the fact you passed on Sno-Caps in exchange for Good-N-Plentis.

00:00:00 - A BRIEF HISTORY OF PLEADING FOR CASH - Tim and Bob are launching a Patreon page / "Pop Muzik"
00:03:43 - SYNCH OR SWIM - Tim's complete audio commentary for THE DARK CRYSTAL
01:36:52 - CLOSINGS - Contacts, plugs and no catchphrase / "Talk of The Town"

Witness some of the earliest test footage of the astounding puppets from the late 70s HERE.

Listen to Frank Oz explain the complexities of operating the Aughra puppet while also giving her a familiar voice HERE

Watch Jim Henson and Frank Oz discuss the characters of The Dark Crystal with a chafingly dry BBC host HERE.

And hear the full story in an abbreviated book on tape fashion via this .. ah ... er .. video ...of a book ...with accompanying mp3 audio HERE.

MUSIC FEATURED IN TODAY'S EPISODE:

"Pop Muzik" performed by M off his 1979 debut album NEW YORK LONDON*PARIS*MUNICH.

"Talk Of The Town" performed by The Pretenders off their 1981 album PRETENDERS II.

The use of these songs are for entertainment purposes and without the expressed permission of the recording artist.

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Like, share and reminisce with 20TH CENTURY POPCAST! on FACEBOOK.

Contact the show with any questions, suggestions or possible topics at 20popcast@gmail.com, #20popcast on Twitter and the POP TALK section of www.20popcast.com.

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20TH CENTURY POPCAST! will return next week with BOOK AND PODCAST (just like we typed LAST week).

035 FOOTBALL?

Thu, 05 Oct 2017 07:30:00 +0000

OK THEN 'SPLAIN IT: "Go socks." "Are you ready for some football" was the existential conundrum once offered up by a cowboy hatted philosopher flanked on either side by a blue screened apocalypse. Truth be told, Tim wasn't. But Bob certainly was. So this week, one host attempts to understand the other's fandom of a subject that does not involve robots, super-powers or a flock of seagulls haircut.

00:00:00 - PRE-SHOW PRATTLE - Deception Kick-off
00:00:22 - CONVERSATIONAL COIN TOSS - and a new sponsor/ "Kick"
00:04:00 - ITS FOOTBALL TIME IN AMERICA - Bob and Tim's Sunday routine
00:13:32 - GRIDIRON FANDOM - and backyard rules
00:21:56 - STRATEGO - game theory and the structure of the season
00:26:40 - A T-SHIRT MOMENT - the football fan convergence
00:30:43 - PATRIOTIC DUTY - New England pulls a fast one on Bob
00:37:00 - SUPERBOWL SHUFFLE - is liking football like liking music?
00:42:59 - AVOIDING THE CROWDS ON GAMEDAY - why Tim doesn't like sports
00:53:50 - GOING INTO OVERTIME - throwing in the blanket statement
00:57:55 - CLOSINGS - Contacts, plugs and no catchphrase / "Alive And Kicking"
01:00:18 - BONUS FEATURES - a few yawns before podcasting

Join Disney's own talking head pundit Goofy as he takes you through an in depth, step by step (and probably highly copy-written) tutorial on the finer points of football HERE.

Wonder aloud why there was no grammy nomination for 1985's SUPERBOWL SHUFFLE HERE.

And witness Tim's tenacious grasp on what football is via this 1981 cinematic clip HERE.

MUSIC FEATURED IN TODAY'S EPISODE:

"Kick" performed by INXS off their similarly named 1987 release KICK.

"Alive And Kicking" performed by Simple minds and off the 1985 album that wasn't The Breakfast club soundtrack, ONCE UPON A TIME.

The use of these songs are for entertainment purposes and without the expressed permission of the recording artist.

Subscribe to 20TH CENTURY POPCAST! on APPLE PODCASTS and ANDROID or stream it at www.20popcast.com.

Like, share and reminisce with 20TH CENTURY POPCAST! on FACEBOOK.

Contact the show with any questions, suggestions or possible topics at 20popcast@gmail.com, #20popcast on Twitter and the POP TALK section ofwww.20popcast.com

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20TH CENTURY POPCAST! will return next week with BOOK AND PODCAST.

034 X-MEN THE ANIMATED SERIES

Thu, 28 Sep 2017 07:30:00 +0000

BINGE AND PODCAST: "Bub, Sugah and Mon Ami " (1992): If there's one thing Tim's wanted to do since this show began its talk comic books. But seeing how no one is interested in The Inhumans, he and Bob have decided to don the yellow spandex of X-Men: The Animated Series. Good luck with all that continuity.

00:00:00 - PRE-SHOW PRATTLE - equipment failure
00:00:49 - X-CRUTIATING OPENER - puns and poor research / "Outsider"
00:04:20 - A SEMI-PENETRABLE UNIVERSE - Saturday morning fan service
00:11:51 - BACK ISSUE BONANZA - and a bunch of names that might not mean anything
00:20:53 - AN UNCANNY X-MESS - sloppy backgrounds and Gambit's accent
00:26:44 - DYSTOPIAN MORNING CARTOONS - bleak futures and ethical conundrums
00:34:09 - AND THAT'S HOW TIME TRAVEL WORKS - intricately arranging its continuity
00:39:35 - ROGUE GALLERY - portraits of an origin story
00:48:24 - DEDUCTION OF THE INNOCENT - Bob gets how Tim gets this (and then it sort of peters out)
00:53:01 - CLOSINGS - Contacts, plugs and no catchphrase / "Black Star"

Watch the hard-core metal sequence that opened this series when it aired in Japan HERE.

And watch the second season opener from Japan (where, if I am not mistaken, they start by detonating the actual X-Men) HERE.

Hear how catchier that awesome (awful?) opening could have been with the lyrics of the 1989 X-Men pilot "Pryde Of The X-Men" HERE. (also ... is that Mark Hamill doing the narration?)

Check out COMIC BOOK RESOURCES loving retrospective on what went wrong with this animated series (currently celebrating its 25th anniversary) HERE.

And watch the four episodes discussed, X-TERNALLY YOURS, TIME FUGITIVES PART ONE and TWO and A ROGUES TALE all currently streaming at HULU.com.

MUSIC FEATURED IN TODAY'S EPISODE:

"Outsider" performed by The Ramones off their 1983 album SUBTERRANEAN JUNGLE.

"Black Star" performed by Radiohead off the 1995 (and sole Radiohead album Tim can tolerate) THE BENDS.

The use of these songs are for entertainment purposes and without the expressed permission of the recording artist.

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033 PAUL WESTERBERG

Thu, 21 Sep 2017 07:30:00 +0000

OUVRE COMPENSATING: "Waiting for, wanting and not quite having somebody." (1993): Despite cosplaying as Richard Lewis, the one idol Tim ever wanted to be was Paul Westerberg. But not as the sloppy frontman off the legendary Replacements that gets written of in legend, Instead, TIm copped from his fairly forgotten solo work of the 1990s. And today he and Bob discuss why this was more than just a world class fad.

00:00:00 - NO PRE-SHOW PRATTLE - Bob and Tim get right to it ... sort of / "Down Love"
00:03:14 - REPLACEMENT PARTS - deciding "I'll Be You" while "Waiting For Somebody"
00:12:12 - GO WEST(ERBERG) - Tim goes solo without really joining the band
00:18:44 - THAT ONE FRIEND - finding Violent Femmes in High School
00:26:53 - (NEARLY) 14 REASONS WHY - wearing Westerberg on his sleeve
00:40:09 - SOMETHING IS (A LITTLE LIKE) ME - an emotional reference point, circa 1993
00:45:32 - SAD DAD ROCK VOL. 1 - Finally getting to "Eventually"
00:52:51 - MATS-URITY - echoes of the Replacements
00:57:27 - SAD DAD ROCK VOL. 2 - a saccharine sounding board
01:01:31 - FINAL HURRAH - encapsulating the '90s in only three albums (well ... at least two)
01:05:17 - CLOSINGS - Contacts, plus and no catchphrase / "Love Untold"

See Paul Westerberg goes solo for the first time with "First Glimmer" on 120 MINUTES HERE.

Watch David Letterman know who he is with a 1996 performance of "Love Untold" from The Late Show With David Letterman HERE.

Listen to one of Tim's favorite live Paul Westerberg performances with "It's A Wonderful Lie" from ... ahm ... a British program ... of sorts(?) ... HERE.

Read the 1993 Rolling Stone interview with Paul Westerberg that coincided with the release of 14 SONGS HERE.

And watch Tim's favorite live musical moment ever (02:16 ) in this 1985 performance of the Replacements from Saturday Night Live HERE.

MUSIC FEATURED IN TODAY'S EPISODE:

"Down Love" performed by Paul Westerberg off his 1993 solo debut (that wasn't 1991's ALL SHOOK DOWN by The Replacements) 14 SONGS.
"Love Untold" performed by Paul Westerberg off his 1996 album EVENTUALLY (and numerous Tim-produced mix tapes of the time).

All Pearl Jam songa featured in this episode were taken in sequentially listed order off a well worned and well-listened to copy of their 1993 album VS.

The use of these songs are for entertainment purposes and without the expressed permission of the recording artist.

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032 CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND

Fri, 15 Sep 2017 01:29:10 +0000

RETRO SHOCK: "This means something (to Tim). This is important (to Tim)" (1977) Today's episode is pretty late, partially because it was recorded on the way to an AM showing of today's topic CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND. This year marks its 40th anniversary and, since it is his favorite film of all time, Tim wanted to make sure he caught it during its cinematic release. But, as you can hear here, just getting the cinema is an event in itself.

00:00:00 - PRE-SHOW PRATTLE - "who are you people?"
00:00:15 - THURSDAY MORNING MATINEE - On the way to the movie theater / "Close Encounters Of The Third Kind Disco '45"
00:09:49 - NOVEMBER 16th, 1977 - and how Tim finally encountered this movie
00:14:21 - GOOD MEMORY/BAD MEMORY - unhealthy meaning and necessary importance
00:17:25 - PRESENT DAY - and exiting the movie theater / "Starman"
00:20:45 - ITS FULL OF STARS - a grandiose intimacy
00:24:06 - THE PROXIMITY OF CONTACT - Tim recounts his own close encounter … of sorts
00:29:12 - THE IMPORTANCE OF MEANING SOMETHING - why this movie matters … why its important
00:31:46 - CLOSINGS - Contacts, plugs and no catchphrase / "Flying Saucers"
00:33:12 - BONUS FEATURES - a snack before showtime / "Don't Stop Me Now"

MUSIC FEATURED IN TODAY'S EPISODE:

"Close Encounters Of The Third Kind Disco 45" performed by John Williams and his flair-panted orchestra circa 1977.

"Starman" performed by David Bowie from his classic 1972 album ZIGGY STARDUST AND THE SPIDERS FROM MARS"

"Flying Saucers" performed by Nina Hagen from her 1983 album FEARLESS

"Don't Stop ME Now" performed by Queen during a car commercial prior to the 11:25 am screening of the film CLOE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND. At least I think it was a car commercial.

The use of these songs are for entertainment purposes and without the expressed permission of the recording artist.

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031 JOSS WHEDON & THE FALL OF POP IDOLS

Thu, 07 Sep 2017 17:34:29 +0000

POOP CULTURE: "Wait ... this is how we do a Charles In Charge episode?" Its been a rough couple weeks for Buffy fans, what with patron saint Joss Whedon being revealed as a patriarchal wolf in feminist clothing. But does the despicable behavior of the artist void the impact of his actual art? Bob and Tim take a look at this pop cultural fall-out while also, somehow, invoking Scott Baio.

00:00:00 - PRE-SHOW PRATTLE - numb nut crock-o-duck
00:00:37 - TOPPLING IDOLS - so this is how we're finally talking about Joss Whedon / "Fallen Angel"
00:06:59 - SODOM AND GOMORRAH PAINS - the transubstantiation of Kirk Cameron
00:13:02 - NOONE LOVES CHACHI - not making Charles In Charge great again
00:19:00 - YEA, YEA, YEA, GONNA HAVE A ROUGH TIME - the perverse monster of Bill Cosby
00:27:16 - BEAUTIFUL ART AND GROTESQUE ARTISTS - despicable show credits
00:35:55 - DON'T FORGET ABOUT DOLLHOUSE - the tainted influence of Joss Whedon
00:43:54 - WHEDONESQUE VS. WHEDONLESS - can Buffy maintain her legacy?
00:52:18 - PRESSURE THE PATRIARCHY - why this conversation matters (and should continue)
01:05:06 - CLOSINGS - Contacts, plugs and no catchphrase / "Walking On Sunshine"

MUSIC FEATURED IN TODAY'S EPISODE:

"Fallen Angel" performed by Poison from their 1988 relesae "OPEN UP AND SAY ... AHHHH"

"Walking On Sunshine" performed by Katrina And The Waves from their 1983, self-titled debut.

The use of these songs are for entertainment purposes and without the expressed permission of the recording artist.

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030 ROSS AND RACHEL

Thu, 31 Aug 2017 07:30:00 +0000

EFFIN' SPOILERS: "Don't stand ... don't stand so ... don't stand so close to me Ross." (1994) Will they? Won't they? When they? Why they? Those were the questions that put Ross and Rachel at the center of the FRIENDS ensemble. But was that romance destined from the start? And would that knowledge diminish the ten year narrative? And did Ross have a pet monkey for a whole season? Bob and Tim try to answer at least two thirds of these questions on today's Must-See-But-Its-Heard episode.

00:00:00 - SPOILER WARNING - and right into the show … I guess / "Good Intentions"
00:03:42 - RECONNECTING WITH TV'S FRIENDS - Bob and Tim look at Ross and Rachel
00:08:12 - WILL THEY OR WON'T THEY - Bob and Tim look at Sam and Diane
00:10:05 - SPOILER - ruination though TV Guide
00:15:09 - CRUSHES WITHIN THE ENSEMBLE - a relatable series of emotional actions
00:19:17 - THE REVISIONISM OF ROSS - creepy, creepy David Schwimmer
00:23:06 - WASN'T EXPECTING THAT - even though we were all expecting that
00:27:52 - FOR THE DRAMATIC BENEFIT OF BEING ON A BREAK - finally relating to this relationship
00:31:33 - AN UNEXPECTED COUPLING - Bob and Tim look at Chandler and Monica
00:38:24 - RUINING RACHEL'S STORY ARC - thanks for nothing, Ross
00:43:30 - THAT FOREGONE CONCLUSION - and tacking on a finale
00:49:12 - CLOSINGS - Contacts, plugs and no catchphrase / "Shoebox"

See Ross and Rachel's very first scene together HERE.

Watch the late 80s prom video that, strangely, brought Ross and Rachel together HERE.

And try your best to sit through just under one hour of Ross HERE.

MUSIC FEATURED IN TODAY'S EPISODE:

"Good Intentions" performed by Toad The Wet Sprocket off their 1995 release IN LIGHT SYRUP.

"Shoebox" performed by Barenaked Ladies as first (?) featured on the 1995 original soundtrack to the television series FRIENDS and later (?) on the band's 1996 release BORN ON A PIRATE SHIP.

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029 PULP FICTION

Thu, 24 Aug 2017 11:11:21 +0000

RETRO SHOCK: "Let's all be like Henry Winkler." (1994) - It wouldn't be a discussion on 1994 without discussing the film Pulp Fiction. But you know what Bob and Tim are NOT going to talk about? That damn briefcase. "Its Marsellus' soul." "Its a light bulb." Who cares, let's focus on Bruce Willis's pants.

00:00:00 - PRE-SHOW PRATTLE - unlicensed ad break
00:00:28 - ALMOST AT THE MOVIES - with Bob, Tim and 1994 / "Seether"
00:03:17 - OCTOBER 14TH, 1994 - stumbling into a cultural moment
00:08:47 - GOOD MEMORY/BAD MEMORY - and cueing up the soundtrack
00:09:32 - PRESENT DAY - a lengthy piece of entertainment / "Buzzards And Dreadful Crows"
00:12:27 - PRESENT DAY EVENTS - Hate speech and entitled fiction
00:22:30 - SLOW, DRAWN OUT, ENGAGING SHOTS - and a pair of Bruce Willis's pants
00:31:56 - TIME PIECES (BUT NOT THAT TIME PIECE) - stories out of sequence
00:38:47 - MINUTIA AS METAPHOR - and an empathy for hitmen
00:44:02 - SOCK HOPS, SYRINGES AND JOHN TRAVOLTA- Meta-adventures in Tarantino-Land
00:55:35 - GOOD REALITY/BAD REALITY - and a shout-out to our fan
00:58:43 - CLOSINGS - Contacts, plugs and no catchphrase / "Whipsmart"

Watch the original trailer that got you to see the original film right HERE

See John Travolta and Uma Thurman take to the dance floor in one of Tim's favorite moments of cinematic meat-spectacle HERE

And hear the cast converse about making Pulp Fiction while making Pulp Fiction HERE

MUSIC FEATURED IN TODAY'S EPISODE:

"Seether" performed by Veruca Salt off their 1994 album AMERICAN THIGHS.

"Buzzards And Dreadful Crows" performed by Guide By Voices from their 1994 masterpiece, BEE THOUSAND.

"Whipsmart" performed by Liz Phair off her 1994 album of the same name, WHIPSMART.

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028 PEARL JAM VS.

Thu, 10 Aug 2017 07:30:00 +0000

COMPACT DISC-USSION: "Globalized aversion to a pelican." (1993) It was a long walk from Tower Records before two college Freshman got to hear Pearl Jam's Sophomore effort. And when they did, it altered the cerebral landscape of their pre-20-something minds. Clearly Bob and Tim can rekindle those same feelings in their 40s as they re-spin that compact disc ... VS.

00:00:00 - PRE-SHOW PRATTLE - a good line to use
00:00:32 - THE CD IS … VS.- and here is how they got it / "Plush"
00:07:31 - "GO" - Vedder vocals and maybe there are lyrics?
00:12:09 - "ANIMAL" - soundtracking Tim's freak-out
00:15:17 - "DAUGHTER" - this indie song is not changing the world
00:20:58 - "GLORIFIED G" - titles are hard
00:25:57- "DISSIDENT" - can't forget lyrics if you can't understand them
00:29:00 - "W.M.A." - etherial, experimental and with a self-important title
00:33:33 - "BLOOD" - meh … and talking about another song
00:35:59 - "REARVIEWMIRROR" - those clever 20 Somethings and their fantastic driving machines
00:41:25 - "RATS" - It's a soul patch Charlie brown
00:44:28 - "ELDERLY WOMAN BEHIND A COUNTER IN A SMALL TOWN" - a changing meaning to a meaningful lyric
00:51:54 - "LEASH" - bastards of young … -er
00:55:45 - "INDIFFERENCE" - anti everything … even climactic
00:58:50 - CLOSINGS - Contacts, plugs and no catchphrase / "Plush"

Watch the entirely, hand-held camcordered live concert from April 11th 1994 that both Bob and Tim wound up talking about HERE

Hear the band being interviewed backstage from this very same concert HERE

See Eddie Vedder strum a guitar while performing Tim's favorite incredibly lengthy in title song HERE

And read an oral history of the band's first 10 years published even more years ago in SPIN magazine HERE.

MUSIC FEATURED IN TODAY'S EPISODE:

"Plush" performed by Stone Temple Pilots off their 1992 album CORE as well as acoustically from acoustically from MTV'S HEADBANGER'S BALL and featured on their 2003 Greatest Hits compilation THANK YOU.

All Pearl Jam songa featured in this episode were taken in sequentially listed order off a well worned and well-listened to copy of their 1993 album VS.

The use of these songs are for entertainment purposes and without the expressed permission of the recording artist.

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027 THE TICK

Thu, 03 Aug 2017 13:52:08 +0000

BINGE AND PODCAST: "spoon." (1994) Membership in the Fox Kid's Club was a demarcation of status to the middle school recess set. Less so to a couple of 19 year olds. Still, that's not stopping Bob and Tim from flashing their credentials as they revisit a cartoon from their college years, THE TICK. Listen as they talk wing-clad accountants, chair-faced chippendales, shoe-toting paladins and how any of this found its way into a kid's TV show.

00:00:00 - PRE-SHOW PRATTLE - a little snack
00:00:41 - BOB'S BACK- and the show returns to the '90s / "J.A.R"
00:04:21 - SECRET ORIGINS - a brief history of THE TICK
00:08:01 - SECRET ORIGINS II - a brief history of Bob and Tim
00:15:10 - DORM ROOM CARTOONS - a big blue wake-up call
00:22:28 - GLORIFIED COSPLAY - voice-work and character flaws
00:27:01- FALL 1994 - binge watching THE TICK
00:32:34 - THE POPULATED CITY - a cast of adult jokes
00:36:47 - HEY, IT'S TIM CURRY - Thrackazog and are there any jokes for kids here?
00:45:29 - THEY SAVED SKIPPY'S BRAIN - pet mortality and cartoon continuity
00:49:00 - AMERICAN MAID - Feminist character or lazy caricature?
00:55:13 - A LITTLE BIT OF SOMETHING ELSE - Bob sums up some meaning
00:57:05 - CLOSINGS - Contacts, plugs and no catchphrase / "Ain't Got No Sense"
00:58:50- SPECIAL FEATURES - Snacker's Delight

Watch the original pilot episode "TICK VS THE IDEA MEN" HERE.

See the episode Bob and Tim were going to talk about, but didn't (TICK VS THE TICK) HERE.

Listen to Shadow Stevens introduce Ben Blacker to moderate a three part Comicon Panel on Tick creator Ben Edlund HERE, HERE and HERE.

MUSIC FEATURED IN TODAY'S EPISODE:

"J.A.R." performed by Green Day from the 1995 original motion picture soundtrack ANGUS.

"Ain't Got Not Sense" as covered (and possibly too loudly for this episode's audio) by Screeching Weasel on their 1993 album WIGGLE.

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026 THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES TURTLE BLIMP

Thu, 27 Jul 2017 07:30:00 +0000

TOYS OF SUMMER: "Hey, whose blimp is that anyways?" (1988) Tim has been a Turtle fan since before they had a theme song. But today he's dealing in a different kind of green as he places a particular piece of mutagenic memorabilia up on Ebay. Its the Playmates "Turtle Blimp" and he's monologuing about it in real time ... for 45 minutes ... apparently.

00:00:00 - PRE-SHOW PRATTLE - Pizza rip-off
00:00:34 - SUMMER TIME MEASUREMENT- and Tim as a solo act / "Fly High Michelle"
00:04:19 - SHELLUVA TOY-LINE - remembering the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Turtle Blimp
00:11:11 - BOOK SHELF HEROES - displaying the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Turtle Blimp
00:17:23 - TCRI LANDFILL - storing the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Turtle Blimp
00:20:40 - PRICE-CHECKING NOSTALGIA - assigning value to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Turtle Blimp
00:27:30 - CHILDHOOD IN A HALF-SHELL - final flight of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Turtle Blimp
00:36:24 - EBAY Or EBAD? - a conflict of money and memory
00:44:04 - CLOSINGS - Contacts, plugs and no catchphrase / "Its Money The Matters"

Sing-along like a muscle memory to the original opening theme song to the 1987 TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES cartoon HERE.

Grab your parents purse and indulge their hard earned savings with these original tv ads for the original Playmates toyline HERE.

Witness the thrilling origin story of Donatello's personal airbag with episode 5 of the original 1987 mini-series HERE.

And finally watch the Turtles perform what Warrant only WISHES was their biggest hit HERE.

MUSIC FEATURED IN TODAY'S EPISODE:

"Fly High Michelle" performed by Enuff Z'nuff fro their self-titled 1989 debut album and accompanying cassingle I first heard it on.

"It's Money That Matters" performed by Randy Newman off his 1988 album "Land Of Dreams" and not just because he guested on WTF With Marc Maron this week

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025 25TH EPISODE SPECTACULAR-PA-LOOZA-A-GO-GO

Thu, 20 Jul 2017 12:16:36 +0000

POP 5: "Pointless digital accomplishment marker is a-GO ... GO!" Bob and Tim are one quarter of one-hundred episodes into their weekly podcast. And while that actual triple digit would be the one worth commemorating they are still celebrating this number like its an accomplishment. So look back at half a year of indulging their pop culture tendencies with the return of an almost reoccurring segment ... the POP FIVE!

00:00:00 - PRE-SHOW PRATTLE - Approach the mic
00:01:31 - THE 25 MARKER - and is it a big deal? / "Alive"
00:04:53 - A POPULACE OF POP 5s - this game of celebration
00:08:50 - BIG SCREEN BROU-HA-HA / "Pretty In Pink"
00:12:53 - MEATHEAD MATINEE / "Hey Jealousy"
00:17:17 - STRIPPED OF SPEECH / "My So-Called Life"
00:21:08 - THEY CAME FROM BOSTON / "Sick As A Dog"
00:25:18 - HEY HEY WE'RE A FAKE BAND / "Jem Is My Name (Instrumental)"
00:29:23 - AGING ROCKSTARS - and the passage of pop culture
00:41:30 - WOAH-BOTS / "Transformers theme (instrumental)"
00:45:29 - WHITTLE IT DOWN - the specificity of fandom
00:51:58 - FILTER OF EXPERIENCE - a summation of 25 episodes
00:56:28 - CLOSINGS - sincere thanks and no catchphrase / "Bastards Of Young"
00:58:04 - SPECIAL FEATURES - cut scenes and outtakes / "Video Killed The Radio Star"

See a bit of the Raggedy Anne and Andy movie Tim was trying to recall HERE.

Listen to Siskel and Ebert take apart Rob Reiner's movie "NORTH" HERE.

Watch the "HONEY WHITE" video that Bob use to inject like a bad Morphine pun HERE.

And thrill to the display of guitar chord knowledge that is Full House's Jesse and The Rippers (with Chachie on bass?) perform 'SHOUT" in the Tanner's living room HERE.

MUSIC FEATURED IN TODAY'S EPISODE:

"Alive" performed by Pearl Jam from their 1991 debut album TEN.

"Pretty In Pink (movie version)" performed by The Psychedelic Furs off the original 1986 motion picture soundtrack PRETTY IN PINK.

"Hey Jealousy" performed by the not-yet-forgotten Gin Blossoms on their 1992 release NEW MISERABLE EXPERIENCE.

"Theme from My So-Called Life" as composed by W.G. Snuffy Walden for the 1994 cult tv series MY SO-CALLED LIFE.

"Sick As A Dog" performed by Aeromsith (sorry) on their 1976 adequate album ROCKS.

"Jem-Truly, Truly, Truly Outrageous (instrumental)" performed by Jem And The Holograms for the 1985 animated tv series JEM.

"The Transformers theme (instrumental)" composed by Ford Kinder and Anne Bryant for the 1984 animated program THE TRANSFORMERS.

"Bastards Of Young" performed by The Replacements off their 1985 major label debut TIM.

"Video Killed The Radio Star" performed at the dawn of t pop culture era by The Buggles and first featured on their 1980 release THE AGE OF PLASTIC.

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024 WHEN HARRY MET SALLY

Thu, 13 Jul 2017 11:06:36 +0000

RETRO SHOCK: "Met Harry … where's Sally?" (1989) If cinematic rom-coms have taught us anything, its that "women and men are different." So today Bob and Tim explore the oft-mentioned origin of this interpersonal education, "When Harry Met Sally." But upon reviewing their transcript, they realize this course work may have yielded a minor in misogyny.

LISTENERS NOTE: Tim starts this episode a little too close to the microphone but eventually figures it out ... about 18 minutes into the episode ... so ... sorry about that.

00:00:00 - PRE-SHOW PRATTLE - "Harry and Sally are friends"
00:00:46 - WELCOME BACKS - Bob is back and so is this topic / "The Lovecats"
00:03:52 - JULY 21st, 1989 - classic romance or guilty pleasure?
00:08:40 - UNREQUITED DEMOGRAPHIC - when Tim was the target audience and Bob aged appropriately
00:14:33 - EMULATING THE TEMPLATE - and mispronouncing "ingenue"
00:18:55 - GOOD MEMORY/BAD MEMORY - all our male bullshit
00:26:34 - MODERN DAY - already failing the Bechtel test /"It Had To Be You"
00:36:03 - JUMPING TO THE SEX - ugly male fantasies and the plot of "Annie Hall"
00:43:50 - THE NON-CONTRIVED PLOT CONTRIVANCE - a realistic hook-up
00:51:18 - CONSOLATION PRIZE - the toxic fall-out of a meaningful friendship
00:57:43 - A TALE OF TWO HARRYS - opposing sides of the wagon wheel coffee table
01:03:19 - ALTERNATE ENDING - could these characters have wound up differently?
01:08:42 - GOOD REALITY / BAD REALITY - and an on-point soundtrack
01:12:26 - CLOSINGS - Contacts, plugs and no catchphrase / "Stuck With You"

Watch the original 1989 theatrical trailer right HERE.

Harry and Sally discuss the film premie that went on to ruin Tim and Bob's perception of interpersonal relationships HERE.

Hear what might be the most realistic verbal exchange between two frinds fro the entire movie HERE.

And watch a scene with Harry that Tim can't stand HERE.

MUSIC FEATURED IN TODAY'S EPISODE:

"The Lovecats" performed by The Cure from their 1983 album JAPANESE WHISPERS.

"It Had To Be You" as sung by Harry Connick Jr. from the original 1989 motion picture soundtrack WHEN HARRY MET SALLY.

"Stuck With You" fully, totally and completely nailed by Huey Lewis and The News as featured on their 1986 fiercely experimental sound wall FORE!

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023 TRANSFORMERS G1 TOY LINE with MICHAEL ROOHR

Thu, 06 Jul 2017 07:30:00 +0000

TOYS OF SUMMER: "Giant tape decks, tiny airplanes and whatever that Sharkticon was supposed to be." (1984): Its the heat of the summer so Tim is heading down to the local beach with a bucket full of his favorite toys. Now that's a scenario that would never happen but still serves as a segue-way into today's topic, those Kafka-esque bots and cons from Hasbro, THE TRANSFORMERS. So roll out with Tim and special guest MICHAEL ROOHR as they geek out over names like Hubcap, Gears and Pipes.

00:00:00 - PRE-SHOW PRATTLE - "A toast to Cybertron"
00:00:35 - SHARING THE MIKE - geeking out on G1 Transformers / "main theme from "Challenge Of The GoBots"
00:03:04 - FIRST ENCOUNTERS- Mike meets Megatron and gives Huffer a good home
00:08:10 - COMMERCIAL DRAW - Tim loves ads and packaging
00:16:10 - MAKIN' TRACKS - trying to talk cars
00:23:08 - TECH SPEC SPECTRUM - least favorite toy / most favorite toy
00:31:32 - ZEN AND THE ART OF MOTORMASTER MAINTENANCE - that transforming component
00:36:55 - A BOY AND HIS GNAW - Plastic totems and why these toys matter
00:47:31 - DIE-CAST VALUES - getting choked up over Optimus Prime
00:53:55 - CLOSINGS - Contacts, plugs and no catchphrase / "Dare"

Watch nearly 40 minutes of the sweet sales-scented advertising the convinced 9 year-old you you just HAD to have these particular Transformers HERE.

Hear George Popadopolis shill some some capitalistic phrasing over the likes of Perceptor and Blitzwing HERE

And see some of the Transformers host Tim Blevins never wanted HERE, HERE and HERE.

MUSIC FEATURED IN TODAY'S EPISODE:

"Love Theme From Challenge Of The Go-Bots"" composed by Hoyt Curtain for the 1984 Hanna-Barbara magnum opus CHALLENGE OF THE GOBOTS.

"Dare" performed by Stan Bush from my 1986 cassette copy of the original motion picture soundtrack to TRANSFORMERS: THE MOVIE.

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022 SUMMER MOVIES 1989

Thu, 29 Jun 2017 07:30:00 +0000

SUMMER OF SUMMERTIME SUMMER: "Embracing the season by staying indoors." Summer of 1989 was a big t-shirt year. And not (just) because of modern decency. On today's episode, Bob and Tim head back to ask if that particular cinema season of Last Crusades, Final Frontiers and Robert Wuhl was the biggest and bestest one ever. So mow that neighbor's lawn, count out your allowance and hop in your friend's parents' car, we are about to smuggle some Skittles into the local movie theater.

00:00:00 - PRE-SHOW PRATTLE - "Albert you're a genius"
00:00:25 - SUMMERTIME, SUMMERTIME, SUM-SUM, SUMMERTIME, 1989 - biggest summer of blockbusters ever? / "At First Sight"
00:05:11 - PRECEDING MEMORIAL DAY - Round kicks, Cadillacs and a Holy grail.
00:16:10 - HULK VERITE - Tim gives too much time to "No Holds Barred"
00:21:41 - BATTLEFIELD JUNE - here's two contenders for the box office throne
00:29:55 - POP CULTURE OVERDRIVE - the mania of that summer's biggest hit
00:40:01 - 80S IN JULY - action stars come back for seconds
00:45:16 - SOMETHING TO LAUGH ABOUT - A couple comedies to break up the calamity
00:49:14 - INTO THE ABYSS OF AUGUST - that obvious pun and an unfortunate import
00:56:13 - SPOILER ALERT - Bob (and its title) ruins "Eddie And The Cruisers II"
00:59:04 - FINAL ANALYSIS - was 1989 the greatest summer of movies ever?
00:59:33 - CLOSINGS - Contacts, plugs and no catchphrase / "Magic"

Watch star Sigourney Weaver talks to Arsenio Hall about what Tim was sure was going to be his favorite movie of 1989 HERE. (clip courtesy of LexThe Robot on YOUTUBE.

Experience the hard-hitting journalism double-punch that was John Tesh and Mary Hart (or is it Leeza Gibbons)in this Entertainment Tonight expose on the summer in discussion HERE.

Kick off your summertime camp-out with the cosmic spectacle of sci-fi effects work featured HERE.

And witness the prophetic promise Warner Brothers studios made of the biggest blockbusting draw this summer season would offer HERE.

MUSIC FEATURED IN TODAY'S EPISODE:

"At First Sight" performed by The Stems off their 1987 album AT FIRST SIGHT, VIOLETS ARE BLUE as well as Tim's cassette copy of the YOUNG EINSTEIN original motion picture soundtrack (thanks Nate).

"Magic" performed by The Cars from that pop-new-wave-1984 masterpiece, HEARTBEAT CITY.

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20TH CENTURY POPCAST! will return next week ... perhaps to talk about the Toys Of Summer(?)

021 THREE O'CLOCK HIGH

Thu, 22 Jun 2017 07:30:00 +0000

RETRO SHOCK: "Spell-check on Casey Siemaszko." Schools out for Bob and Tim so what better time to revisit one of their favorite teen comedies from the 80s. The only thing here is Bob doesn't really remember it as a comedy and Tim doesn't really remember it at all. Sounds like a pretty informed conversation regarding the 1987 cult film, THREE O'CLOCK HIGH.

00:00:00 - PRE-SHOW PRATTLE - dialing it back
00:00:46 - BITS AND PIECES - Tim was in a comedy duo / "Beat The Clock"
00:04:21 - OCTOBER 9th, 1987 - Bob hasn't thought of "Three O'Clock High" since the summer he saw it
00:16:04 - ITS A CRAPSHOOT - why is there no popular awareness for this movie?
00:18:52 - MODERN DAY - and also "Good Memory/Bad Memory / "Cuckoo Clock"
00:24:34 - HARD KNOCKS AND MICROCOSMS- Bob can relate to having the wind knocked out of him
00:29:52 - THE ANTI-HUGHES - working against teen movie tropes
00:34:16 - THE KID IN THE STALL - an escalation of comedy … or horror
00:41:38 - A ROMP FOR YOUR FUNNY BONE - where are all the quips?
00:49:25 - BUDDY REVEALED - this surreal situation (sort of) gets serious
00:54:16 - TO THUNDERDOME AND BEYOND - and now its brutal (but does that work?)
01:02:45 - IS IT A WONDERFUL LIFE? - was that the right ending and "Good Reality/Bad Reality"
01:08:17 - CLOSINGS - Contacts, plugs and no catchphrase / "Once In A Lifetime"

Check out the original trailer for this barely seen release HERE

Follow Yeardley Smith and the rest of her classmates anticipate the arrival of one Buddy Revel HERE.

Check out the neck of Walter Skinner before it enlisted in the FBI HERE.

And listen to the filmmakers discuss how this whole thing got made during a 25th anniversary screening HERE, HERE and HERE.

MUSIC FEATURED IN TODAY'S EPISODE:

"Beat The Clock" performed by Sparks off their 1979 album NO.1 IN HEAVEN.

"Cuckoo Clock" performed by Rachel Sweet as featured on her 1978 album FOOL AROUND.

"Once In A lifetime" by the Talking Heads off their 1980 album 'Remain In Light" and just about every movie and tv trailer about a maturity stunted single man trying to shun the party lifestyle after suddenly getting married, having a kid or whatever constitutes the shorthand for instant maturity.

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020 FULL HOUSE & THE FAMILY CIRCUS

Thu, 15 Jun 2017 12:46:30 +0000

POOP CULTURE: "When Dave Coulier was considered genius." Who's a fan of the Family Circus? Not Me. As pop culture connoisseurs, Bob and Tim know not every bite of nostalgia can please the palette. And today they are looking back on two childhood favorites that have since soured in taste. Have mercy.

00:00:00 - PRE-SHOW PRATTLE - sponsored by Nabisco ("oooo")
00:00:23 - A MATTER OF TASTE - changing our tune on past pop culture / "HatePaperDoll"
00:06:45 - THE BIG-TIME TANNER TUNE-IN - Bob as a "Full House" fanatic
00:13:41 - THE BIG-TIME TANNER TURN-OFF - looking for comedy in the televised world
00:18:54 - FOREVER IN RERUNS - will Bob watch this with his kids?
00:20:28 - THE ANDY KAUFMAN DUALITY - Stamos, Saget and how this isn't the Brady Bunch
00:25:41 - SINGLE PANEL PARISHIONER - Tim was Keane on "The Family Circus"
00:30:26 - SINGLE PANEL APOSTASY - What Would Bertrand Russel Do?
00:36:51 - REFRIGERATOR FODDER - childish gateways to discovering art
00:43:51 - THREE RING FAMILY CIRCUS - Bob and Tim play a new game
00:49:34 - CLOSINGS - Contacts, plugs and no catchphrase / "Everything About You"

Hum along with the interminable full length theme to Bob's early teens HERE.

Visit an alternate Earth where John Posey is the Bob Saget you deserve HERE.

See what no one else was watching in the early 80s with this FAMILY CIRCUS Valentine's special HERE.

Be bored out of your mind with this interminable FAMILY CIRCUS Christmas special HERE.

And skip down a path to Hell with this nightmare inducing FAMILY CIRCUS Easter special HERE.

MUSIC FEATURED IN TODAY'S EPISODE:

"HatePaperDoll" performed by Husker Du off their 1985 album FLIP YOUR WIG.

"Everything About You"" performed by Ugly Kid Joe off the 1991 E.P UGLY AS THEY WANT TO BE that is probably somewhere in that box of CDs you left in your parents' basement.

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019 BLOOM COUNTY

Thu, 08 Jun 2017 07:30:00 +0000

ORIGIN STORIES: "Penguins, parodies and politics I didn't get." After months of TV, film and more TV, Bob and Tim are finally taking the time to read something. And that something is BLOOM COUNTY, the classic comic strip dissection of the 80s at large. So find out who read it daily, who got it in book form and whose life was forever altered by its creative influence. And probably a crude joke or two.

00:00:00 - PRE-SHOW PRATTLE - Band width and bad grain
00:00:52 - EMPOWERED OPENER - still inspired by a prior theme / "The Secret Of My Success"
00:02:35 - WIKI TWEAKS - Mis-pronouncements and billboard placements
00:09:06 - CLASSIC OF WESTERN LITERATURE - getting their daily dose of Bloom County
00:14:00 - ANCIENT BOOKSTORES AND THEIR TOONS FOR OUR TIMES - excavating book shelves
00:21:51 - FUNNY ANIMALS AND A CLOSET OF ANXIETY - roll call of characters and Tim relates to Binkley.
00:30:14 - ITS EASIER TO PRONOUNCE TRUDEAU - How this isn't Doonesbury
00:32:31 - RELATIVE IMMEDIACY OF AN EVOLVING EPIC - character arcs and storylines on a day-to-day basis
00:39:14 - SNOT-NOSED SATIRE IN THE AGE OF HYPOCRISY - making fun of your immediate surroundings
00:43:46 - CANNING DREAMS AND STRANGER THINGS - how all this got Bob into cartooning
00:49:48 - POLITICAL CLIMATE CHANGE - coping with Trump one panel at a time
00:58:23 - HAPPY TRAILS … 'TILL WE COME RIGHT BACK - ending with the end of the 80s before continuing on
01:03:48 - CLOSINGS - Contacts, plugs and no catchphrases / "Take On Me"

Read a 2009 VICE magazine interview with creator Berkley Breathed HERE.

Watch a 2016 interview with this (still) same author on the DIANE REHM SHOW, discussing his decision to return to Bloom County HERE.

And (finally) hear the author pronounce his own name and more for about half an hour at the 2016 New York Comic-con HERE.

MUSIC FEATURED IN TODAY'S EPISODE:

"The Secret Of My Success" performed by Night Ranger from the 1987 original motion picture soundtrack "SECRET OF MY SUCCESS".

"Take On Me" performed by A-Ha from their 1985 album "Hunting High And Low" and your first IPOD.

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018 TV THEME SONGS VOL. 01

Thu, 01 Jun 2017 15:54:53 +0000

ROPE-A-TROPES: "It's the Dance Of Joy ... followed by Kirk Cameron's Rapture." This week, Bob and Tim are looking for musical inspiration in the most 80s of places ... primetime television sitcoms. So come hum along with a stay-at-home psychologist, a Meposian refugee and a vacuum cleaner's dance partner, all before 9pm.

00:00:00 - PRE-SHOW PRATTLE - Blowin' off the dust
00:00:27 - IT'S MEMORIAL DAY - Well … it WAS Memorial Day / / "TV Party"
00:02:36 - WIKI TWEAKS - Segment order and Tim is aware of Back To The Future
00:05:50 - WEEKNIGHTS ON ABC - TV theme songs from our youth
00:07:28 - GROWING PAINS - You can't fake photos / "As Long As We Got Each Other"
00:13:18 - CLIP BAIT - previous scenes in a weekly sequence
00:18:47 - MIGHTY, MIGHTY META-SEAVERS - Alan Thicke can see me?
00:21:25 - WHO'S THE BOSS? - Micelli Begins / "Brand New Life"
00:30:31 - MONA, MONA - the "As Someone" credit
00:36:03 - ON THE AM - an easier listening theme song
00:37:40 - PERFECT STRANGERS - "Nothing's Gonna Stop Me Now"
00:40:39 - MANIPULATED VISTAS - The (far too) epic ballad of Larry Appleton
00:47:36 - THAT TGIF SOUND AND VISION - elevating the emotional scope
00:51:18 - CHANGING THEIR TUNE - loosing that group sing-along
01:00:32 - SCORE! … AND CLOSINGS - Bob makes a request of the listeners followed by contacts, plugs and no catchphrase / "As Days Go By"

Watch the Seaver family break your fourth wall with the season 3 opener to GROWING PAINS HERE

See Tony meet Angela and then put the moves on a vacuum cleaner in the opening title sequence for WHO'S THE BOSS HERE.

Experience the triumphant human experience of cousins Larry and Balki making their way through the winds of downtown Chicago with the original opening credits sequence to PERFECT STRANGERS HERE.

Find out why that cop from Die Hard matters so much to his family with this opening title sequence from FAMILY MATTERS HERE.

MUSIC FEATURED IN TODAY'S EPISODE:

"TV Party" performed by Black Flag off their 1982 EP TV PARTY.

"As Long As We Got Each Other" performed by B.J. Thomas and Jennifer Warnes from the ABC original television sitcom "GROWING PAINS"

"Brand New Life" as sung by Steve Wariner for the 1986 season of the ABC program "WHO'S THE BOSS"

"Nothing's Gonna Stop Me Now" performed by David Pomeranz for the ABC primetime sitcom "PERFECT STRANGERS"

"As Day Go By" performed by Jesse Frederick for the ABC original primetime sitcom "FAMILY MATTERS"

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017 COMEDY FILMS OF THE 1980S

Thu, 25 May 2017 07:30:00 +0000

LIST-A-RAMA-A-GO-GO - "Shoulder pads, synthesizers and the hilarious Bill Pullman." Might this be an entire episode based on HOT TO TROT? THE WRONG GUYS? ZAPPED? MY DEMON LOVER? HEARTBEEPS? CADDYSHACK II? Join Bob and Tim as they talk their favorite 80s comedies, not as the adults as they are now but as the SHORT CIRCUIT fans they were then.

00:00:00 - PRE-SHOW PRATTLE - a reminder of time and space
00:00:47 - PODCAST PSA - Bob and Tim will listen to your podcasts / "Bit By Bit"
00:10:37 - DECEMBER 31st 1989 - favorite '80s comedies as viewed in the 1980s
00:16:22 - SCI-FI COMEDY - Tim calls a technicality on Bob's first choice
00:23:24 - HORN-DOG COMEDY - the safer TV edit
00:31:55 - ADVENTURE COMEDY - dirty kids with no adult supervision
00:38:44 - SMART-ASS COMEDY - when smugness fails
00:45:25 - BATHROOM INTERLUDE - Bob recalls a moment from childhood
00:49:22 - REFERENTIAL COMEDY - Bob's intro to parody
00:54:58 - NIELSEN COMEDY - Tim loves a certain someone's delivery
01:01:31 - FRINGE FESTIVAL - what almost made their lists
01:19:15 - CLOSINGS - Contacts, plugs and no catchphrase / "The Goonies 'R Good Enough"

PODCAST SHOUT ABOUT: Listen to SCRIPTNOTES a weekly podcast on the craft of screenwriting hosted by talented screenwriters John August (BIG FISH) and Craig Mazin (THE HANGOVER trilogy). It also happens to be the OTHER podcast Bob is aware of. Hear it HERE or subscribe to it on ITUNES.

MUSIC FEATURED IN TODAY'S EPISODE:

"Bit By Bit (theme from Fletch)" performed by Stephanie Mills for the original motion picture soundtrack to the 1985 movie FLETCH.

"Goonies R Good Enough" performed by Cyndi Lauper off the original motion picture soundtrack to the 1985 film THE GOONIES."

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SW CHALLENGE: DETACH TRAILER, TRAILER DETACH

Fri, 12 May 2017 15:44:08 +0000

You guys want to talk current events? How about a month old movie trailer for the most anticipated movie of 2017 that everyone has already seen multiple times except for Bob and Tim. That's what they are talking about today in the return of their ongoing STAR WARS CHALLENGE in which they share their views on trying to avoid the aforementioned trailer all in lieu of a proper episode for the week.

PODCAST SHOUT ABOUT: Want to scrutinize the Star Wars film in time-lapsed real time? Then check out the STAR WARS MINUTE a daily podcast that walks you through 60 seconds of the entire saga per episode. Hear it HERE and subscribe to it on ITUNES.

MUSIC FEATURED IN TODAY'S EPISODE:

"Parade Of The Ewoks" composed and conducted by John Williams from the original motion picture soundtrack to the 1983 film RETURN OF THE JEDI

"Video To Radio" performed by Kidd Video off their self-titled 1986 debut.

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016 THE REAL GHOSTBUSTERS

Thu, 04 May 2017 07:30:00 +0000

BINGE AND PODCAST - "Venkman hates Mondays and Stanz digs Daphne" (1986)" If there's something strange in your Netflix queue, who you gonna call ... keeping in mind, there are TWO Ghotbusters in the phone-book and the first one listed is not actually the real ones even though they're technically the first ones. Ahm ... Bob and Tim are talking about the ones you remember ... unless you got a thing for apes in cargo shorts. Then we're talking about the other ones.

00:00:00 - PRE-SHOW PRATTLE - a base of preparation
00:00:50 - CHANGING SEASONS -what's with the year round finales? / "main title theme from Ghostbusters"
00:07:21 - WIKI TWEAKS - Top of the box office and a Star Wars reference
00:15:25 - FALL 1986 - binge watching THE REAL GHOSTBUSTERS
00:19:02 - PARANORMAL PASSIONS - Tim is afraid of some ghosts
00:24:49 - NOT READY FOR FOURTH GRADE PLAYERS - is GHOSTBUSTERS a kid's movie?
00:28:05 - THE OTHER GHOSTBUSTERS - varying quality and competing cartoons
00:33:50 - TOTAL PROTONIC REVERSAL - Trapping the spirit of the movie
00:41:03 - CUE THE ORKO - Bob is not fond of Slimer
00:45:59 - HORRIFIC GOOSEBUMPS - a scarier show than the movie
00:50:24 - REPEATING PHANTASM - reoccurring motifs and are those saxophones?
00:52:13 - PKE READINGS - tv ghosts verses movie ghosts
00:58:06 - IN A CANNING'S HOUSE - the token ODD SQUAD reference
01:00:25 - EVERYBODY LOVES EGON - voice-work and its impact on memory
01:08:53 - THE PANGS OF BEING NOSTALGIC - does THE REAL GHOSTBUSTERS hold up?
01:15:08 - POP FIVE - cartoons based on movies / "Ghostbusters (instrumental)"
01:19:15 - CLOSINGS - Contacts, plugs and no catchphrase / "Ghost Of A Smile"

PODCAST SHOUT ABOUT: Check out THE CANNON, a weekly look at list-making toward what might be considered the greatest films of all time hosted HERE by film critic Amy Nicholson.

Check out the original studio promo pitch for The Real Ghostbuster cartoon HERE.

Watch the three part documentary SLIMER WOULDN'T DO THAT featuring interviews with Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis and the creative team behind the Real Ghostbuster cartoon HERE, HEREand HERE.

Accidentally stumble over THIS opening for another cartoon entitled GHOSTBUSTERS HERE.

Stream full length episodes of "THE REAL GHOSTBUSTERS" on NETFLIX including the episodes watched for today's podcast, "KILLERWATT", "MRS. ROGER'S NEIGHBORHOOD", "SLIMER COME HOME" and "TROLL BRIDGE." All sites unaffiliated with 20th Century Popcast and Calamity House Productions. Rental and subscription rates may apply.

MUSIC FEATURED IN TODAY'S EPISODE:

"Main Title Theme From Ghostbusters" composed by Elmer Bernstein for the original motion picture soundtrack to the 1984 movie GHOSTBUSTERS.

"Ghostbusters (Instrumental)" written by Ray Parker Jr. also for the original motion picture soundtrack to the 1984 movie GHOSTBUSTERS.

"Ghost Of A smile" performed by The Pogues off their 1990 release HELL'S DITCH.

The use of these songs are for entertainment purposes and without the expressed permission of the recording artist.

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20TH CENTURY POPCAST! will return next week with LIST-A-RAMA-A-GO-GO.

015 SUPERMAN II with BRENT SIMONS

Thu, 27 Apr 2017 13:42:12 +0000

COMICS A TROIS - "Yay, its not Superman III" (1980): On a first for the show, Bob and Tim invite a third super-friend into their (normally) Hall Of Just-Us. Its Brent Simons and, not only is he the co-writer of the animated Dreamworks film MEGAMIND he is also one of the few "actual" people Tim has heard refer to the character as "Supes." Hear everyone talk over everyone else in today's look back at Kal-El the second

00:00:00 - PRE-SHOW PROMO - Loathe theme from 20popcast / "Love Theme from Superman"
00:00:55 - BOB & TIM WITH ... - Brent Simons screenwriter of "MEGAMIND / "Superman"
00:03:47 - WIKI TWEAKS - Misheard oboes and going to the device
00:13:36 - A MAN WHO COULD FLY - How SUPERMAN II was made for "me"
00:21:36 - COMIC TROPES - thought balloons and Brent hates Archie
00:31:05- CLARK OR KAL-EL - the tragic conundrum of a secret identity
00:45:00 - BATMAN V SUPERMAN V SUPERMAN II - Zack Snyder might not get Superman
00:51:43 - ERNEST DESPITE CAMP - at the core of a couple of guys in capes
00:57:15 - SOME GOOFY MOVIES - these are characters for kids ... right?
01:01:40 - SUPERMAN II RETURNS - finally (kind of) talking about Superman II
01:10:42 - STOP SHARING UNIVERSES - where are the new ideas?
01:15:31 - CLOSINGS - Contacts, plugs and no catchphrase / "Pow, Bam Zonk"

Watch the original theatrical trailer for SUPERMAN II (featuring both the Eiffel Tower and the moon) HERE.

See a series of cut scenes from SUPERMAN II that were restored to its original ABC television broadcast HERE.

Catch three of the four parts to a 1980s documentary on the making of SUPERMAN II right HERE.

Tolerate Bob's favorite scene from a comic book movie HERE.

And, most importantly, check out the original theatrical trailer for MEGAMIND, the animated Dreamworks feature film co-created and written by today's guest Brent Simons HERE.

Stream the full length feature "SUPERMAN II" on AMAZON VIDEO ITUNES and VUDU.
Stream the original, full-length animated feature "MEGAMIND" on ITUNES, AMAZON VIDEO and GOOGLEPLAY. All sites unaffiliated with 20th Century Popcast and Calamity House Productions. Rental and subscription rates may apply.

MUSIC FEATURED IN TODAY'S EPISODE:

"Love Theme From Superman" as composed and conducted by John Williams for the 1978 soundtrack to SUPERMAN: THE MOTION PICTURE.

"Superman" as covered by REM off their 1986 album LIFE'S RICH PAGEANT.

"Pow! Bam! Zonk!" performed by some guy dressed as Superman in an actual 1968 Broadway musical entiled "IT'S A BIRD ... IT'S A PLANE ... IT'S SUPERMAN."

The use of these songs are for entertainment purposes and without the expressed permission of the recording artist.

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Follow today's special mystery guest BRENT SIMONS @brentsimons on TWITTER and check out his full-length animated Dreamworks feature MEGAMIND on Blue-Ray, Laser Disc, 8-Track and the streaming platforms listed above.

Follow ROBERT CANNING @rhcanning on TWITTER. Read his web-comic at EXAGGERATEDLIFE.wordpress.com and his music blog at superultramegamix.wordpress.com.

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20TH CENTURY POPCAST! will return next week with BINGE AND PODCAST

014 HUEY LEWIS AND THE NEWS

Thu, 20 Apr 2017 10:51:40 +0000

OEUVRE-COMPENSATING - "Horns, harmonicas and a little too much harmonica": This week Bob and Tim take a look at Sean, Johnny, Bill, Chris and Mario; a pop/rock/jazz ensemble who were hipper than most at the height of 80s pop radio. Yes .. just those 5 guys. DETROIT!

00:00:00 - PRE-SHOW PRATTLE - his full body of work
00:00:40 - WITHOUT A SCRIPT - never too timely / "The Heart Of Rock And Roll"
00:02:22 - WIKI TWEAKS - burning Beatles and celebrity landlines
00:12:16 - FOR THE FANS - approaching Huey Lewis
00:18:06 - POP, ROCK OR WHAT? -what does this sound like?
00:25:04 - ALBUM COVERS - who are "and the news"
00:31:12 - GOOD SPORTS - an A side of hits
00:33:45 - CUE SOLO - Tim has some opinions on the harmonica
00:36:49 - B SIDE - Bob connects with the music
00:44:24 - MOVING FORE-WARD - the News we know
00:52:17 - SMALL WHIRL - a momentary return to unfamiliar roots
00:58:00 - HARD TO PLAY - side two becomes too familiar
01:04:55 - ADULT CONTEMPORARIES - keeping up with the News
01:10:41 - CLOSINGS - Contacts, plugs and no catchphrase / "Do You Believe In Love"

See what first got Bob into the band with their 1983 video for "The Heart Of Rock And Roll" HERE

Then watch the same video Tim is watching because Bob told him to with this well-acted extended version of "Doing It All For My Baby" HERE

Follow that with an alternate version of the band's "Power Of Love" video that was never erased from existence HERE.

And end it all with the first seven seconds of this video for "Give Me The Keys (And I'll Drive You Crazy)" HERE.

MUSIC FEATURED IN TODAY'S EPISODE:

"The Heart Of Rock An Roll" performed by The News and Huey Lewis off their 1983 rock-album SPORTS.

"Do You Believe In Love" as sung by Huey Lewis and the New off their 1982 release PICTURE THIS.

The use of these songs are for entertainment purposes and without the expressed permission of the recording artist.

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Contact the show with any questions, suggestions or possible topics at 20popcast@gmail.com, #20popcast on Twitter and the POP TALK section of www.20popcast.com

Follow ROBERT CANNING @rhcanning on TWITTER. Read his web-comic at EXAGGERATEDLIFE.wordpress.com and his music blog at superultramegamix.wordpress.com.

Follow TIM BLEVINS @subcultist on TWITTER, as SUBCULTIST on INSTAGRAM and support his full length feature film and further video projects at SUBSTITUTECULTURE.com .

20TH CENTURY POPCAST! will return next week with a SUPER SECRET MYSTERY GUEST.