April 9, 2025 • 12 mins
🚀 Great Scott! I’m thrilled to announce my new book, Why We Love Back to the Future: 40 Years of Fandom, Flux Capacitors, and Timeless Adventures, publishing May 6, 2025, by Mango Publishing!
📖✨ Pre-order now —  on Amazon! 🛹⚡Â
This book is the culmination of a 10-year journey exploring the Back to the Future universe through podcasts, radio shows, and TV appearances. It offers fans unique insights and features interviews with amazing individuals like Chris Van Vliet, Roxy Striar, Eric Tate, Tony Ruscoe, Jeff Smith, Frank Janisch, Norman Benford, and includes a special passage by Jeffrey Weissman, who portrayed George McFly in Parts II and III.
Kicking things off is an electrifying foreword by Saturday Night Live’s Mikey Day and a heartfelt introduction by Harry Waters Jr., who serenaded us with “Earth Angel” during George and Lorraine’s iconic dance. I can’t wait to celebrate 40 years of Back to the Future with all you time travelers!
Let’s make like a tree and get reading! 🌳📚 #BackToTheFuture #BTTF40 #GreatScott #TimeTravel #MangoPublishing #NewBookRelease #PreOrderNow
📖✨ Pre-order now —  on Amazon! 🛹⚡Â
This book is the culmination of a 10-year journey exploring the Back to the Future universe through podcasts, radio shows, and TV appearances. It offers fans unique insights and features interviews with amazing individuals like Chris Van Vliet, Roxy Striar, Eric Tate, Tony Ruscoe, Jeff Smith, Frank Janisch, Norman Benford, and includes a special passage by Jeffrey Weissman, who portrayed George McFly in Parts II and III.
Kicking things off is an electrifying foreword by Saturday Night Live’s Mikey Day and a heartfelt introduction by Harry Waters Jr., who serenaded us with “Earth Angel” during George and Lorraine’s iconic dance. I can’t wait to celebrate 40 years of Back to the Future with all you time travelers!
Let’s make like a tree and get reading! 🌳📚 #BackToTheFuture #BTTF40 #GreatScott #TimeTravel #MangoPublishing #NewBookRelease #PreOrderNow
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi, everybody, This is Bob Gail, co creator Back to
the Future, and you're listening to Brad Gilmore. Stop stop
black Stock. It's me. It's me, It's Martin. You can't
just set you back to the future. Oh. I know
you did send me back to the future. But I'm back.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
I'm back from the future.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Wait, gosh, f are you're telling me that you built
the time machine the way I see it?
Speaker 2 (00:33):
If you're gonna be a tie, why not doing some style?
Speaker 1 (00:39):
All right? What is going on? All of my fellow
pin heads? All my clue? Via how art thou? How
is everyone doing it? But he's your man, the one
and only the vote Brad Gilmore.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Hashtag Brad's opinions are true. Hashtag best of all time.
Hashtag I'm on a boat, as you can probably hear
just a little bit again, I find myself under the
weather due to the incredible amounts of pollen in the
air here in the great state of Texas.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
But that's not why I'm here today.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
It's why I'm laying in bed feeling less than stellar.
But it's not why I'm here today. Why I am
here in my bed recording this on my iPhone I'm
here to make a massive announcement, massive announcement. The announcement
is that on May the sixth, twenty twenty five, less
(01:40):
than two months ahead of the fortieth anniversary of Back
to the Future, I am releasing a new book called
Why We Love Back to the Future Forty years of Fandom, Flux, Capacitors,
and Timeless Adventures. Now I know what you're thinking, Brad.
Wait a minute, Wait a minute. We've listened you for
(02:00):
a long time. We know that you've written a book
about Back to the Future. Is this the same book now.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Sort of time? But no, it's not. It's not.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
It is, so it is, but it's not. Okay, allow
me to explain. Allow me to explain. Back at twenty
nineteen in June. Actually, let's go back before that, back
at the very beginning of twenty fifteen. I vividly remember
(02:29):
sitting in one of my classes in college and realizing
we were in the year twenty fifteen, and really excited
about the possibilities of the future, and realizing I'm going
to see the very first year.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
I'm in the year, and I'm going to see.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
The day that they travel to twenty fifteen and back
to the future. Remember I'm born in ninety two, so
no no Back to the Future one, or Back to
the Future two, or Back to the Future three. You
know time periods. I wasn't in eighty five, I wasn't
fifty five, I wasn't eighteen eighty five, so I had
(03:09):
to only look forward to the brief amount of time
they spent in twenty fifteen and Back to the Future
Part two.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
So there I am, and I'm looking around.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Trying to see if there's a podcast out there that
I could listen to to celebrate my fandom of Back
to the Future.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
There was no such podcast, so I.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Took it upon myself at the tender age of twenty
two geez, I was twenty two. Wow, at the tender
age of twenty two years of age, I decided to
start this podcast. And there I started talking.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
To Claudia Wells and Harry Waters.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
And Jeffrey Weiseman and Jason Aaron and Cassine Gaines and
Kevin Pike, and then the list kept growing, and then
he started to add people like Christopher Lloyd, Leah Thompson,
Crispin Glover, Bob Gail, Robert Zamechis Leslie Zamechas, so many
(04:09):
Darlene Vocal who have been a part of this ride
quite literally through time with me, and uh, I gotta say, manager,
it was it was cool to start that podcast.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
And then we move forward.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Twenty nineteen, early parts around March April, start talking to
these people over at Mango Publishing, so there's about four
years into me doing the podcast, and they said, hey,
we want to do like a back to the Future book.
We think you're the first person, the best person to
do it. I said, let's do it. So in June
(04:47):
of that year, I started writing back from the Future,
a celebration of the greatest time travel story ever told,
and that is the bones of what this new book
is based on. And I will say at the time
when I released a book, I felt like, okay, like
(05:07):
I did okay at it, but I felt like I could.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Have done more.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
But I didn't really know what I was doing, and
I didn't really have an idea for a back to
the Future book really, They just said we want you
to write one. So I kind of came up with
what I thought was a cool idea for the book,
and I guess for at the time it was the
best that I could do. But then the book came
out and there were errors in it. There was misspellings,
there was like a couple factual inaccuracies. I called it
(05:34):
lose Diner instead of Lose cafe. I spelled Almanac wrong
at one point. There was just all these like small
little things that you know, myself and the publisher didn't
really pick up in the copy edit for whatever reason.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Right, So.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
When the book came out on paperback, book came out
in April of twenty twenty book came out in paperback
in May of twenty twenty one, and I fixed a
few of the errors, but I still felt like, man,
you know, I could have just done better at this thing.
I could have really knocked this out of the park.
So this is where the Cluevians come in. Sometime in
(06:13):
twenty twenty two, I believe it was.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
I interviewed Jeff Smith.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Jeff Smith is the director of Who Done at the
Clue documentary. People listening on the Clue feed know who
Jeff is. And Jeff and I talked about Back to
the Future include the movie a lot, and then we
had an opportunity in May of twenty twenty four to
do Back to the Future of the podcast live at
(06:41):
Comic Palooza, and we were kind of excited about this prospect,
and so I told Jeff. I was like, hey, man,
I know you've never been to Houston. I know we'd
never met in person. You want to come do this podcast?
And me and Michael Carroll and Sean for the Mayor
ner Tropolis we all did that podcast together and it
(07:02):
was there that I met Martin McFly himself, Michael J.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Fox, and Christopher Lloyd, and I.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Was so jazzed up about Back to the Future again.
It made me look at that book and go, ah, man,
I wish I really would have put my all into that,
because I know I could have done better. So that
same week, I wrote an email to the folks at
Mango and I said, Hey, could I do a new
edition of the Back to the Future book Back from
(07:29):
the Future, and with the fortieth anniversaries coming up, you know,
I can maybe add in some more information, juice it
up a little bit, and then we can do the
least like an ebook version of it or something like that.
They came back and they're like, look, Brad, I was
actually working. This is actually full disclosure. I was actually
working on another book with them at the time because
(07:50):
we did the Back from the Future. We did Bond
James Bond literally the year after, and I was working
on a book called Timeline nineteen eighty nine with a
friend of mine, Christian Harlof, where we were going to
talk about all the movies that came out in nineteen
eighty nine, like twenty five of the top movies, because
there's a crazy year film, go look it up. And
(08:12):
we had finished this book and I read through it
and I was doing the edit on it, and I
just felt that it wasn't there. It just wasn't solid,
and I didn't want to do another book that I didn't.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Feel solid about. So I went back to.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
The folks a mango after Back to the Future experience,
said can we do this again?
Speaker 1 (08:30):
They actually gave me the green light, and they said,
why don't we do it. Let's do it.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Let's just put out another print version, updated and we
can call it a new edition. And I started calling
it the Great Scott Edition of Back from the Future.
And I wrote two new chapters for the book. It's
like It's been erased is one of the names of
the chapters, and the other one is the power of
(08:55):
love and music. And we talk a lot about the
musical obviously, and it's like it's been a race. We
talked about some of the cut scenes from Back to
the Future Part one. They really made that film what
it is today. So I just went and I added
a lot, and I had a lot of interviews with
people over the podcast or the radio show or the
(09:15):
TV segment that I do, and I wanted to add
some of that context in there and really make this
a great book.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
So I started writing it.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
I was pretty much getting done with it, and they
were like, well, you need someone to do a forward
and or an introduction, and so I reached out to
Harry Waters Junior, who played Marvin Barry who sings Earth Angel.
I'd really always loved him and the interviews that we
have done, and I asked him if he'd do the forward.
(09:45):
He didn't hesitate, he said absolutely.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
At first. He actually was like, hey, why do you
want me to do it? Why wouldn't you want like
Leah or Michael or Christopher Lloyd?
Speaker 2 (09:54):
And I said, look, all those guys are girls would
be great, but you have such a unique story and
you who your story hasn't been amplified as much as
it should have. So I thought it was a cool
idea to have someone like Harry Waters do it, and
so he wrote the introduction to the book, and then
Saturday Night Live cast member and writer are still there today,
(10:15):
Mikey Day. Mikey Day actually wrote the forward. And there's
a very interesting story, very interesting story about how I
procured Mikey Day to write the forward to the book,
and that is in the book. He tells the story,
and I really encourage you to get the book just
to read that story, because it's so awesome that we
are able to pull that off. So did They did
(10:37):
the forward, and then I reached out to some people
who also I've always talked back to the Future with,
and I said, look, let's get some people in here
to talk about the movies and why it means so
much to them. And so I got my buddy Chris
van Vliet to write a passage in the book.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Jeff Smith writes the passes.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Roxy Streier, Eric Tat, and Tony Rusko, who are both
involved in this podcast, been on this podcast. We talked
with them in the book, they write some passages. Then
we had the man himself Jeffrey Weisman write a passage
in the book about his experience with Back to the Future,
and we call them the Letters from the Friends in Time,
(11:12):
And in each of the existing chapters, I went and
rewrote them all essentially and added a ton of new
context and information. So when I was getting ready to
turn the book in, Hugo shout out to Hugo over
at Mango. He was like, look, Brad, you should should
think about changing the name of the book because it's
(11:35):
so different. You shouldn't put it out under the same
title because it's not the same book. And I said,
what do you think we should call it, Hugo? And
he said, why don't we call it Why We Love
back to the Future. I was like, that's a perfect title.
So today is officially available for pre order Why We
(11:56):
Love back to the Future forty years a fandom Flux,
Capacitors and Times Adventures written by your man, Brad Gilmore,
available March the sixth.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Pre order now pre order right now, do it now.
I would do it for you, and let's get this book.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Number one lining foh link is in the description Love
You
Hi, everybody, This is Bob Gail, co creator Back to
the Future, and you're listening to Brad Gilmore. Stop stop
black Stock. It's me. It's me, It's Martin. You can't
just set you back to the future. Oh. I know
you did send me back to the future. But I'm back.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
I'm back from the future.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Wait, gosh, f are you're telling me that you built
the time machine the way I see it?
Speaker 2 (00:33):
If you're gonna be a tie, why not doing some style?
Speaker 1 (00:39):
All right? What is going on? All of my fellow
pin heads? All my clue? Via how art thou? How
is everyone doing it? But he's your man, the one
and only the vote Brad Gilmore.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Hashtag Brad's opinions are true. Hashtag best of all time.
Hashtag I'm on a boat, as you can probably hear
just a little bit again, I find myself under the
weather due to the incredible amounts of pollen in the
air here in the great state of Texas.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
But that's not why I'm here today.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
It's why I'm laying in bed feeling less than stellar.
But it's not why I'm here today. Why I am
here in my bed recording this on my iPhone I'm
here to make a massive announcement, massive announcement. The announcement
is that on May the sixth, twenty twenty five, less
(01:40):
than two months ahead of the fortieth anniversary of Back
to the Future, I am releasing a new book called
Why We Love Back to the Future Forty years of Fandom, Flux, Capacitors,
and Timeless Adventures. Now I know what you're thinking, Brad.
Wait a minute, Wait a minute. We've listened you for
(02:00):
a long time. We know that you've written a book
about Back to the Future. Is this the same book now.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Sort of time? But no, it's not. It's not.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
It is, so it is, but it's not. Okay, allow
me to explain. Allow me to explain. Back at twenty
nineteen in June. Actually, let's go back before that, back
at the very beginning of twenty fifteen. I vividly remember
(02:29):
sitting in one of my classes in college and realizing
we were in the year twenty fifteen, and really excited
about the possibilities of the future, and realizing I'm going
to see the very first year.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
I'm in the year, and I'm going to see.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
The day that they travel to twenty fifteen and back
to the future. Remember I'm born in ninety two, so
no no Back to the Future one, or Back to
the Future two, or Back to the Future three. You
know time periods. I wasn't in eighty five, I wasn't
fifty five, I wasn't eighteen eighty five, so I had
(03:09):
to only look forward to the brief amount of time
they spent in twenty fifteen and Back to the Future
Part two.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
So there I am, and I'm looking around.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Trying to see if there's a podcast out there that
I could listen to to celebrate my fandom of Back
to the Future.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
There was no such podcast, so I.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Took it upon myself at the tender age of twenty
two geez, I was twenty two. Wow, at the tender
age of twenty two years of age, I decided to
start this podcast. And there I started talking.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
To Claudia Wells and Harry Waters.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
And Jeffrey Weiseman and Jason Aaron and Cassine Gaines and
Kevin Pike, and then the list kept growing, and then
he started to add people like Christopher Lloyd, Leah Thompson,
Crispin Glover, Bob Gail, Robert Zamechis Leslie Zamechas, so many
(04:09):
Darlene Vocal who have been a part of this ride
quite literally through time with me, and uh, I gotta say, manager,
it was it was cool to start that podcast.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
And then we move forward.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Twenty nineteen, early parts around March April, start talking to
these people over at Mango Publishing, so there's about four
years into me doing the podcast, and they said, hey,
we want to do like a back to the Future book.
We think you're the first person, the best person to
do it. I said, let's do it. So in June
(04:47):
of that year, I started writing back from the Future,
a celebration of the greatest time travel story ever told,
and that is the bones of what this new book
is based on. And I will say at the time
when I released a book, I felt like, okay, like
(05:07):
I did okay at it, but I felt like I could.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Have done more.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
But I didn't really know what I was doing, and
I didn't really have an idea for a back to
the Future book really, They just said we want you
to write one. So I kind of came up with
what I thought was a cool idea for the book,
and I guess for at the time it was the
best that I could do. But then the book came
out and there were errors in it. There was misspellings,
there was like a couple factual inaccuracies. I called it
(05:34):
lose Diner instead of Lose cafe. I spelled Almanac wrong
at one point. There was just all these like small
little things that you know, myself and the publisher didn't
really pick up in the copy edit for whatever reason.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Right, So.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
When the book came out on paperback, book came out
in April of twenty twenty book came out in paperback
in May of twenty twenty one, and I fixed a
few of the errors, but I still felt like, man,
you know, I could have just done better at this thing.
I could have really knocked this out of the park.
So this is where the Cluevians come in. Sometime in
(06:13):
twenty twenty two, I believe it was.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
I interviewed Jeff Smith.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Jeff Smith is the director of Who Done at the
Clue documentary. People listening on the Clue feed know who
Jeff is. And Jeff and I talked about Back to
the Future include the movie a lot, and then we
had an opportunity in May of twenty twenty four to
do Back to the Future of the podcast live at
(06:41):
Comic Palooza, and we were kind of excited about this prospect,
and so I told Jeff. I was like, hey, man,
I know you've never been to Houston. I know we'd
never met in person. You want to come do this podcast?
And me and Michael Carroll and Sean for the Mayor
ner Tropolis we all did that podcast together and it
(07:02):
was there that I met Martin McFly himself, Michael J.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Fox, and Christopher Lloyd, and I.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Was so jazzed up about Back to the Future again.
It made me look at that book and go, ah, man,
I wish I really would have put my all into that,
because I know I could have done better. So that
same week, I wrote an email to the folks at
Mango and I said, Hey, could I do a new
edition of the Back to the Future book Back from
(07:29):
the Future, and with the fortieth anniversaries coming up, you know,
I can maybe add in some more information, juice it
up a little bit, and then we can do the
least like an ebook version of it or something like that.
They came back and they're like, look, Brad, I was
actually working. This is actually full disclosure. I was actually
working on another book with them at the time because
(07:50):
we did the Back from the Future. We did Bond
James Bond literally the year after, and I was working
on a book called Timeline nineteen eighty nine with a
friend of mine, Christian Harlof, where we were going to
talk about all the movies that came out in nineteen
eighty nine, like twenty five of the top movies, because
there's a crazy year film, go look it up. And
(08:12):
we had finished this book and I read through it
and I was doing the edit on it, and I
just felt that it wasn't there. It just wasn't solid,
and I didn't want to do another book that I didn't.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Feel solid about. So I went back to.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
The folks a mango after Back to the Future experience,
said can we do this again?
Speaker 1 (08:30):
They actually gave me the green light, and they said,
why don't we do it. Let's do it.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Let's just put out another print version, updated and we
can call it a new edition. And I started calling
it the Great Scott Edition of Back from the Future.
And I wrote two new chapters for the book. It's
like It's been erased is one of the names of
the chapters, and the other one is the power of
(08:55):
love and music. And we talk a lot about the
musical obviously, and it's like it's been a race. We
talked about some of the cut scenes from Back to
the Future Part one. They really made that film what
it is today. So I just went and I added
a lot, and I had a lot of interviews with
people over the podcast or the radio show or the
(09:15):
TV segment that I do, and I wanted to add
some of that context in there and really make this
a great book.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
So I started writing it.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
I was pretty much getting done with it, and they
were like, well, you need someone to do a forward
and or an introduction, and so I reached out to
Harry Waters Junior, who played Marvin Barry who sings Earth Angel.
I'd really always loved him and the interviews that we
have done, and I asked him if he'd do the forward.
(09:45):
He didn't hesitate, he said absolutely.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
At first. He actually was like, hey, why do you
want me to do it? Why wouldn't you want like
Leah or Michael or Christopher Lloyd?
Speaker 2 (09:54):
And I said, look, all those guys are girls would
be great, but you have such a unique story and
you who your story hasn't been amplified as much as
it should have. So I thought it was a cool
idea to have someone like Harry Waters do it, and
so he wrote the introduction to the book, and then
Saturday Night Live cast member and writer are still there today,
(10:15):
Mikey Day. Mikey Day actually wrote the forward. And there's
a very interesting story, very interesting story about how I
procured Mikey Day to write the forward to the book,
and that is in the book. He tells the story,
and I really encourage you to get the book just
to read that story, because it's so awesome that we
are able to pull that off. So did They did
(10:37):
the forward, and then I reached out to some people
who also I've always talked back to the Future with,
and I said, look, let's get some people in here
to talk about the movies and why it means so
much to them. And so I got my buddy Chris
van Vliet to write a passage in the book.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Jeff Smith writes the passes.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Roxy Streier, Eric Tat, and Tony Rusko, who are both
involved in this podcast, been on this podcast. We talked
with them in the book, they write some passages. Then
we had the man himself Jeffrey Weisman write a passage
in the book about his experience with Back to the Future,
and we call them the Letters from the Friends in Time,
(11:12):
And in each of the existing chapters, I went and
rewrote them all essentially and added a ton of new
context and information. So when I was getting ready to
turn the book in, Hugo shout out to Hugo over
at Mango. He was like, look, Brad, you should should
think about changing the name of the book because it's
(11:35):
so different. You shouldn't put it out under the same
title because it's not the same book. And I said,
what do you think we should call it, Hugo? And
he said, why don't we call it Why We Love
back to the Future. I was like, that's a perfect title.
So today is officially available for pre order Why We
(11:56):
Love back to the Future forty years a fandom Flux,
Capacitors and Times Adventures written by your man, Brad Gilmore,
available March the sixth.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Pre order now pre order right now, do it now.
I would do it for you, and let's get this book.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Number one lining foh link is in the description Love
You
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