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.
EFFIN’ SPOILERS: “Totalitarian Dad jokes made all to easy.” (1980) Last Thursday marked the 40th anniversary of the greatest sci-fi spectacle that isn’t Leprechaun 4. And in celebration, Bob and Tim are talking plot elements that would have been unexpected prior to Star Wars becoming STAR WARS EXCLAMATION POINT. So here’s hoping you've seen The Empire Strikes Back. Otherwise, scan to the end of that VHS as they’re probably going to spoiler that one reveal.
00:00:00 UNLICENSED AUDIO - The Imperial Broadcast Company
00:00:36 THE ANNIVERSARY WHO - and kids on bikes
00:06:05 MAY 21ST 1980 - didn’t they already win?
00:09:23 BOBA, YOU’RE GONNA CRAWL - mis-pronouncing “Leia” a few times
00:18:39 LIVING ON YODA TIME - and maybe this should be your big reveal
00:29:27 COMMERCIAL INTERRUPTION - Tim’s upcoming podcast The Inexplicable Book Club
00:30:38 YOUR PROPER PRONUNCIATION OF AT-AT KILLS ALL PUNS - quite an impressive ground war
00:33:43 VADER MIGHT SANDWICH - there’s a man in that can
00:40:44 THE DADDY ISSUE - Forced coincidences
00:45:37 WHY THE FORCE IS STILL WITH US - and one missing moment
00:50:15 CLOSING - contacts, plugs and no catch phrase
00:54:17 BONUS BEHIND THE SCENES AUDIO - the MacGyver call-back
PODCAST SHOUT ABOUT: Check out BATTLE OF THE NETWORK SHOWS, the podcast that explores TV of the '70s and '80s through hand-picked episodes by hosts Rick Brooks and Mike Cowgill (Tim is a big fan and inadvertently mentioned it toward the end of today’ episode).
Tease yourself (before you please yourself) to the stunning Ralph McQuarrie illustrations that served as a first glimpse with the ORIGINAL 1979 EMPIRE STRIKES BACK TEASER TRAILER.
Bundle up for some location shooting on Hoth with the thought to be lost MAKING OF THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK DOCUMENTARY BY MICHAEL PARBOT.
Watch what was considered to come before it arrived with this RARE 1980 EMPIRE INTERVIEW WITH CAST AND CREW.
And, finally, read what could have been with the drastically different screenplay of THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK 1978 FIRST DRAFT BY LEIGH BRACKETT.
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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 POP! will return next week with a glorified rerun of when Rom-coms meant something... unsavory.
