20th Century Pop! is a podcast that tries to understand the present by living in the past. Each episode hosts Bob and Tim take a sociological look at the pop culture of the '80s and '90s. Its a ruining of their childhood that hopefully explains how they became adults.
LIST-A-RAMA-A-GO-GO: “It’s the end of the world as Hudson Hawk knows it.” (1981-1997) Today’s episode title might not be the most optimistic draw but it is representative of a pretty popular mindset. So with it Bob and Tim are socially distancing from separate coasts to discuss wayward comets, robotic sentinels and a time traveling Bruce Willis. Truthfully, 12 Monkeys may not be the most upbeat conversation but at least its a reflection that they’re both still trying.
00:00:00 PRE-SHOW PRATTLE - taking longer than normal to get there
00:02:03 TOTAL DISTRACT OF THE HEART - and an outbreak of anxieties
00:10:24 12 MORE MONKEYS JUMPING ON THE BED - prelude to the apocalypse
00:20:30 COMET COMET COMET COMET COMET CHAMELEON - O.K. at the end of the world
00:28:20 FIELD OF DOOMS - I guess they’re talking about Kevin Costner here
00:34:09 COMMERCIAL BREAK - Tim’s new podcast “What’s that Song?”
00:36:03 UNCANNY X-MAGGEDDONN - lingering plot threads and having it coming
00:41:26 SUMMATION IN PLACE - what this pop culture makes of what’s happening right now
00:51:02 CLOSINGS - contacts, plugs and no catch phrase
00:54:13 UNLICENSED AUDIO - Schlemiel, Schlimazel, Hasenpfeffer Incorporated
Engage with this journalistic take on why 12 MONKEYS IS THE APOCALYPSE MOVIE WE NEED RIGHT NOW by Abraham Riesman recently reposted at VULTURE.com.
Watch the (by this point, to be expected) difficulties filmmaker Terry Gilliam had making 12 Monkeys as chronicled with the full length documentary THE HAMSTER FACTOR (AND OTHER TALES OF 12 MONKEYS) by directors Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe.
Dance along to a Cyndi Lauper cover during this RANDOM DANCE SCENE FROM NIGHT OF THE COMET.
Witness Catherine Mary Stewart and Kelli Maroney relating what it was like working on this apocalyptic comedy with this (somewhat creepily hosted) 2016 NIGHT OF THE COMET SCREENING PANEL AT THE ART CRAFT THEATER.
Experience the apocalypse that was its production with THE ORAL HISTORY OF WATER WORLD by Gogo Lidz as featured in Newsweek.
Have your heart broken with this clip of TOM PETTY IN THE POSTMAN (seriously … that’s the musician Tom Petty … and he’s in the post-apocalyptic Kevin Costner Movie The Postman … as Tom Petty).
Hear one of Tim's favorite comic book authors, Chris Claremont, discuss his work on the X-Men (including “The Days Of Future Past" storyline) with the COMICVERSE PODCAST EPISODE 72: CHRIS CLAREMONT INTERVIEW .
And finally, unrelated to anything else, here's some of the BEST LAVERNE AND SHIRLEY BLOOPERS to distract with.
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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.
“Making Our Dreams Come True” performed by Cyndi Grecco from the 1976 album MAKING OUR DREAMS COME TRUE and as featured in the opening credits to LAVERNE AND SHIRLEY. The use of this song is for entertainment purposes and without the expressed permission of the recording artist.
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