20th Century Pop! is a podcast that tries to understand the present by living in the past. Each week 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.
GHOSTS AND GOBLINS: “Houdini gonna call?” (1987) Its Halloween night so Bob and Tim are avoiding the neighborhood kids by watching the live TV special “The Search For Houdini.” Hosted by William Shatner, this long-forgotten broadcast featured performances by popular ‘80s magicians as well the promise of contacting the long deceased escape artist via a live seance. But was that last part just some s**t my Kirk says or did something truly paranormal happen that forced producers to cut to an unplanned commercial? Its just one of the goosebumps you’ll .. ahm .. get goosed with (?) as they share some 20th century tales of ghosts on film, satanic recordings and an arcade cabinet of the damned.
00:00:00 UNLICENSED AUDIO - William Shatner is magic?
00:00:41 TRICK OR REPEAT - its a conversation about Halloween again
00:04:56 OCTOBER 31ST, 1987 - watching “The Search For Houdini” live
00:13:11 GURNEYS AND GUNNERSONS - illusionary filler
00:19:05 SEANCE ANYTHING - backstage panic during the production
00:30:24 PLAYING SCULLY - and analog legends before the digital age
00:36:06 THREE MEN AND A PHANTAM - g-g-g-ghost .. or Ted D-d-d-Danson
00:45:02 PLAY IT IN REVERSE, SON OF SAM - subliminal satanism
00:50:29 SMALLER FACES OF DEATH - blood on the Yellow Brick Road
00:55:09 GAME OVER MAN - arcade cabinet conspiracy
01:02:35 SCARY STORIES TO TWEET IN THE DARK - urban legends via a modern medium
01:09:41 CLOSINGS - contacts, plugs and no catch phrase
Read a bit about "The Search For Houdini" special with WHEN HOUDINI WENT LIVE by John Cox from the well-researched online blog WILD ABOUT HARRY … and then wonder what happened to the SPOOKY UPDATE ABOUT THE SEANCE Tim originally found there two years ago.
Piece together some of the THE SEARCH FOR HOUDINI with these VHSed performances by PENN AND TELLER and DEAN GUNNERSON as originally posted on the DAREDEVIL 926 YOUTUBE PAGE.
Witness the OFFICIAL HOUDINI 1987 SEANCE as it aired and see if you can spot the moment the paranormal occurence occurs.
See Ted Danson and Olympia Non-Dukakis act totally unaware as a phantom boy hovers behind them in this GHOST FROM THREE MEN AND A BABY clip followed by a closer spectral analysis with THREE MEN AND A BABY: A CLOSER LOOK.
Descend the Stairway To Heaven to hear what Robert Plant was really talking about with this LED ZEPPELIN REVERSED MESSAGE from their fourth album.
Mourn their yellow bricked loss and then do the research on THE TRUTH ABOUT THE SUICIDAL MUNCHKIN.
And, finally, blow your weekly allowance while you blow you mind with the seven-part, Arcade-based POLYBIUS CONSPIRACY PODCAST from RADIOTOPIA that terrified Tim's nightly commute home.
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MUSIC FEATURED IN TODAY’S EPISODE:
"Ghost Surf Rock" performed by Loyalty Freak Music from their 2018 album WITCHY, BATTY, SPOOKY, HALLOWEEN IN SEPTEMBER!! available at Freemusicarchives.org. Cleared for public domain use through Creative Commons under a CCO 1.0 Universal License.
"Plague Of Zombies" performed by Haunted Corpse from their 2018 album DIRGES FOR THE UNDEAD available at Freemusicarchives.org. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.
"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 to put the intolerable theme song to an intolerable tv version of an tolerable John Hughes movie in your head.
