March 11, 2024 • 9 mins
July 3rd, 1985 - a day that a little time travel movie produced by Steven Spielberg and directed by Robert Zemeckis called Back to the Future was released to the public. This podcast will dive into the world of BTTF, and discuss the movies, characters, and behind-the-scenes details on one of the greatest trilogies of all time. So buckle in, make sure your flux capacitor is fluxing, and enjoy the 88 mile per hour adventure of the Back to the Future trilogy. Order the "Back from the Future" paperback with expanded material!
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Back to the Future: The Podcast is produced and presented by Brad Gilmore, and is not affiliated with the Back to the Future franchise. This show is meant for entertainment and documentary purposes only, and does not intend to infringe on any copyrights of Universal Pictures, Back to the Future, or any of its characters, clips or music. Brad Gilmore expresses views and statements which represent that of the hosts and the guests of the program alone. The statements made on this program are in no way intended to represent views of any other organization affiliated with the hosts or guests and in no way represent the views of the sponsors.
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(00:00):
Hi, everybody. This is BobGail, co creator Back to the Future,
and you're listening to Brad Gilmore.Stop. Okay, black Dot,
it's May's great, it's Marten.Can't be it's just such a bat to
the future. Oh. I knowyou did send me back to the future,
but I'm back. I'm back fromthe future. A right. Wait
(00:24):
a minute, Wait, by gosh, f are you telling me that you
built the time machine? The wayI see it, You're gonna build a
time machine? Why not doing somestyle? Hello, everybody, Welcome to
Back to the Future of the podcast, the only podcast looking back in time
(00:44):
with the greatest film trilogy of alltime, Back to the Future. I'm
a friend of time, Brad Gilmore. As is tradition here lately, for
season ten, I've been on abit of a hiatus working on a really
fun project from the year nineteen eightynine, and I'm really excited to talk
about that more as it gets there. But recent tradition is anytime I have
a celebrity interview or a celebrity guest, I always try to work back to
(01:07):
the future end of the conversation.This one is no different. I had
the opportunity to talk to Bill MaherBill Moore, who was a I guess
polarizing would be being an appropriate word, very outspoken politically. But I was
able to speak to him because hehad a stand up show coming here to
the Houston, Texas area and hedid an interview or on his podcast or
(01:29):
had a conversation with Seth McFarland fromTed and Family Guide places like this,
and he in that interview revealed somethingabout back to the future, he being
Bill Maher, and I asked himabout that, and of course the Johnny
Carson Tonight Show just wanted to bringyou an extra nugget here. And also
(01:52):
I will say it's funny how theuniverse works because it was posted on her
Instagram, so I don't mind revealingthat. At the end of this month,
I have a nearly hour long,I believe interview with Leslie Zamechas,
a documentarian and filmmaker and also marriedto Robert Zamechis, who obviously created or
(02:14):
co created this lovely, lovely moviethat we all know and love. So
anyway, look out for that lateron this month. I'll post it here
on this feed as well, becauseshe has a new documentary coming out called
grand horizontals and really fascinating the subjectmatter. Anyway, check out this little
snippet of my conversation with Bill Mooreabout Back to the Future and about some
(02:38):
Johnny Carson, because I love JohnnyCarson. Check it out like you,
You and Seth MacFarland had a greatconversation that I thought was necessary and needed
and healthy, and y'all went rightback to laughing right after it. And
those are just so importing that.That's a great thing about Club Random.
First of all, it doesn't haveto be political, and it mostly isn't.
That's why I started a podcast,because I wanted to have people on
(03:00):
most people in show business, Imean, so it's an exception. He
just did Real Time, but mostpeople in show business are really not right
for doing Real Time, which isa show for people who really know what's
going on, follow it and cantalk about it. We want the a
team there that's basically not celebrities.It's no knock on celebrity, it's just
(03:21):
not what they do. So it'snot political, but it can get political
because I have no agenda on ClubRandom. I don't do any preparation.
The producer, the director, anda star in that show is marijuana.
I mean, I'm just you know. So it's like wherever it's going to
go, it's going to go.And especially it's especially fun for me with
(03:44):
somebody like Seth who's an old,old, dear, dear friend. So
you know, we can yell ateach other and then, like you say,
go back to laughing. And that'swhat life is. That's what my
life is. Anyway you talk,sometimes you get to this place where you
don't agree and you get a littleheated, and then two seconds, lady,
you're laughing. And that's the wayit should be. And if we
(04:04):
can all just do that politically,yeah, we'd be in a much better
place again. Bill maher is goingto be here in Houston. Marsh's second
tickets available at the Hobbycenter dot org. One quick follow up on your Seth
McFarland conversation that you had. Haveyou seen Back to the Future with him
yet? Because inquiring minds now,I know, I need to know if
you've seen the greatest movie ever madeyet you know what I have. But
(04:27):
he wants us to watch it togetherin his screening room. By the way,
he has the most amazing screening room. I don't know if you ever
watched his show Cosmos, which isawesome, the one that Neil de grass
Kitson hosted about the universe and allthat kind of stuff. I mean,
you watch it there, it's likebeing in the Hayden Planetarium. It's amazing.
So if I am going to dothat, I mean, look,
(04:48):
I probably should have seen back intothe future by now. I certainly know
it's an iconic movie and people loveit. I have not never looked like
something that I enjoy, but maybeit's the greatest movie ever. I'm kind
of putting it off, but yes, I guess one night, Seth and
I will have a day night andhe better not try anything funny. That's
(05:10):
all I have to tell you.Well, you know the other great thing.
I was just listening to your yourpodcast and Whitney Cummings and y'all were
talking about the preparation for the TonightShow and you were one of the few,
not few people, but you're oneof the fortunate people who got to
do the Johnny Carson Tonight Show.And I'm obsessed with Johnny Carson in that
era, and you know, hewas a king maker. I even watched
your first appearance on it this morning, which, by the way, all
(05:33):
the jokes still hit. They stillhit. You know, great bit about
Federal Express and going to a confessionalbeing part Jewish was We've had a lot
of great bits in there. Butdo you can you quickly just tell me
because I'm run out of time withyou. I could talk to you forever,
but could you tell me about thatfirst Carson appearance and what it meant
for you? Oh well, forevery comic of that era, of my
(05:57):
era, I mean, they'll tellyou it was everything. Because I don't
know if we got into this withWhitney, but because I'm high when I
do it, but I don't rememberanything I said. But if you didn't
do well on the Tonight Show thatfirst time, you were kind of dead
in show business. You could doother shows because there were other talk shows
at the time. Of course MERVGriffin was on, and oh John Davidson,
(06:20):
Dinah Shore at the you know,there were other shows, but the
Carson Show, as you point out, that was the king. So you
had to like be very careful.They had a lot of rules first of
all back then about when you coulddo other shows. It couldn't be very
near the Tonight show, and youalways had to do your material on the
Tonight Show first. That was veryimportant. I mean it was also silly,
(06:44):
as if America was going to seeyou do a bit on MERV Griffin
two months earlier and go, hey, what's going on here? I heard
that joke on MERV Griffin. Butokay, we had to do tiptoe around
that for Johnny Carson, and soyou could you could do not great on
some other show, but if youdid that on the Tonight Show, you
were kind of dead. And Isaw that happen to a couple of comics
(07:08):
who bombed on the first one andyou never really got another chance. So
the pressure was really really on.Now, the good part of it was
Johnny set it up for you.I mean, the crowd was cake.
I mean they were ready for acomedian. They were in a good mood.
It was Johnny Carson. And whenhe went out there and said comedy
is the hardest commodity to sign,you know, which was a complete bold,
(07:30):
because comedy was not a hard cupcomedy commodity to find. Then there
was a new comedian every few weeks. You couldn't swing a dead cat without
hitting a new comedian. This wasthe eighties. This was the time of
a bazillion comics. Dentists were doingcomedy and stand up clubs. So he
would, but he'd give you thisbig build up, like the greatest.
(07:50):
I remember when he brought out JerrySeinfeld the first time he is Jeff Steinfeld.
Jeff Steinfeld. Well, Jeff didvery well, but so he did
set it up well. And youknow, if you if you couldn't score
there with after you'd been in theI don't really You've been in the business
three years when I did the TonightShoe. But at three years, come
(08:13):
on, if you don't have sixminutes of killer stuff in three years,
then you don't belong in the business, you know. So if you can't
score with your best six minutes afterthat introduction from Johnny Carson here in California
with a very relaxed audience, thenyou probably don't belong in there anyway.
(08:33):
Well, you know what, you'reprobably right there, and you know what,
you're gonna have more than six minutesfor the people here in Houston,
Texas at the hospital, ninety minuteskiller material, and yeah, we can't
wait to see it again. Icould talk to you. I could talk
to you forever again. What thiscomedian said with shock he was a book
coming out. The Hobbycenter. Dotorg is where you can get tickets for
Bill Moore. Bill, thank youso much for taking the time and just
(08:54):
a pleasure speaking with you. Pleasurewith you, Brad. Let me tell
you from I do a few ofthese a year to talk to people.
It's not always much fun, soI really appreciate it. Oh, thank
you. That means so much tome. Bill Martin
Hi, everybody. This is BobGail, co creator Back to the Future,
and you're listening to Brad Gilmore.Stop. Okay, black Dot,
it's May's great, it's Marten.Can't be it's just such a bat to
the future. Oh. I knowyou did send me back to the future,
but I'm back. I'm back fromthe future. A right. Wait
(00:24):
a minute, Wait, by gosh, f are you telling me that you
built the time machine? The wayI see it, You're gonna build a
time machine? Why not doing somestyle? Hello, everybody, Welcome to
Back to the Future of the podcast, the only podcast looking back in time
(00:44):
with the greatest film trilogy of alltime, Back to the Future. I'm
a friend of time, Brad Gilmore. As is tradition here lately, for
season ten, I've been on abit of a hiatus working on a really
fun project from the year nineteen eightynine, and I'm really excited to talk
about that more as it gets there. But recent tradition is anytime I have
a celebrity interview or a celebrity guest, I always try to work back to
(01:07):
the future end of the conversation.This one is no different. I had
the opportunity to talk to Bill MaherBill Moore, who was a I guess
polarizing would be being an appropriate word, very outspoken politically. But I was
able to speak to him because hehad a stand up show coming here to
the Houston, Texas area and hedid an interview or on his podcast or
(01:29):
had a conversation with Seth McFarland fromTed and Family Guide places like this,
and he in that interview revealed somethingabout back to the future, he being
Bill Maher, and I asked himabout that, and of course the Johnny
Carson Tonight Show just wanted to bringyou an extra nugget here. And also
(01:52):
I will say it's funny how theuniverse works because it was posted on her
Instagram, so I don't mind revealingthat. At the end of this month,
I have a nearly hour long,I believe interview with Leslie Zamechas,
a documentarian and filmmaker and also marriedto Robert Zamechis, who obviously created or
(02:14):
co created this lovely, lovely moviethat we all know and love. So
anyway, look out for that lateron this month. I'll post it here
on this feed as well, becauseshe has a new documentary coming out called
grand horizontals and really fascinating the subjectmatter. Anyway, check out this little
snippet of my conversation with Bill Mooreabout Back to the Future and about some
(02:38):
Johnny Carson, because I love JohnnyCarson. Check it out like you,
You and Seth MacFarland had a greatconversation that I thought was necessary and needed
and healthy, and y'all went rightback to laughing right after it. And
those are just so importing that.That's a great thing about Club Random.
First of all, it doesn't haveto be political, and it mostly isn't.
That's why I started a podcast,because I wanted to have people on
(03:00):
most people in show business, Imean, so it's an exception. He
just did Real Time, but mostpeople in show business are really not right
for doing Real Time, which isa show for people who really know what's
going on, follow it and cantalk about it. We want the a
team there that's basically not celebrities.It's no knock on celebrity, it's just
(03:21):
not what they do. So it'snot political, but it can get political
because I have no agenda on ClubRandom. I don't do any preparation.
The producer, the director, anda star in that show is marijuana.
I mean, I'm just you know. So it's like wherever it's going to
go, it's going to go.And especially it's especially fun for me with
(03:44):
somebody like Seth who's an old,old, dear, dear friend. So
you know, we can yell ateach other and then, like you say,
go back to laughing. And that'swhat life is. That's what my
life is. Anyway you talk,sometimes you get to this place where you
don't agree and you get a littleheated, and then two seconds, lady,
you're laughing. And that's the wayit should be. And if we
(04:04):
can all just do that politically,yeah, we'd be in a much better
place again. Bill maher is goingto be here in Houston. Marsh's second
tickets available at the Hobbycenter dot org. One quick follow up on your Seth
McFarland conversation that you had. Haveyou seen Back to the Future with him
yet? Because inquiring minds now,I know, I need to know if
you've seen the greatest movie ever madeyet you know what I have. But
(04:27):
he wants us to watch it togetherin his screening room. By the way,
he has the most amazing screening room. I don't know if you ever
watched his show Cosmos, which isawesome, the one that Neil de grass
Kitson hosted about the universe and allthat kind of stuff. I mean,
you watch it there, it's likebeing in the Hayden Planetarium. It's amazing.
So if I am going to dothat, I mean, look,
(04:48):
I probably should have seen back intothe future by now. I certainly know
it's an iconic movie and people loveit. I have not never looked like
something that I enjoy, but maybeit's the greatest movie ever. I'm kind
of putting it off, but yes, I guess one night, Seth and
I will have a day night andhe better not try anything funny. That's
(05:10):
all I have to tell you.Well, you know the other great thing.
I was just listening to your yourpodcast and Whitney Cummings and y'all were
talking about the preparation for the TonightShow and you were one of the few,
not few people, but you're oneof the fortunate people who got to
do the Johnny Carson Tonight Show.And I'm obsessed with Johnny Carson in that
era, and you know, hewas a king maker. I even watched
your first appearance on it this morning, which, by the way, all
(05:33):
the jokes still hit. They stillhit. You know, great bit about
Federal Express and going to a confessionalbeing part Jewish was We've had a lot
of great bits in there. Butdo you can you quickly just tell me
because I'm run out of time withyou. I could talk to you forever,
but could you tell me about thatfirst Carson appearance and what it meant
for you? Oh well, forevery comic of that era, of my
(05:57):
era, I mean, they'll tellyou it was everything. Because I don't
know if we got into this withWhitney, but because I'm high when I
do it, but I don't rememberanything I said. But if you didn't
do well on the Tonight Show thatfirst time, you were kind of dead
in show business. You could doother shows because there were other talk shows
at the time. Of course MERVGriffin was on, and oh John Davidson,
(06:20):
Dinah Shore at the you know,there were other shows, but the
Carson Show, as you point out, that was the king. So you
had to like be very careful.They had a lot of rules first of
all back then about when you coulddo other shows. It couldn't be very
near the Tonight show, and youalways had to do your material on the
Tonight Show first. That was veryimportant. I mean it was also silly,
(06:44):
as if America was going to seeyou do a bit on MERV Griffin
two months earlier and go, hey, what's going on here? I heard
that joke on MERV Griffin. Butokay, we had to do tiptoe around
that for Johnny Carson, and soyou could you could do not great on
some other show, but if youdid that on the Tonight Show, you
were kind of dead. And Isaw that happen to a couple of comics
(07:08):
who bombed on the first one andyou never really got another chance. So
the pressure was really really on.Now, the good part of it was
Johnny set it up for you.I mean, the crowd was cake.
I mean they were ready for acomedian. They were in a good mood.
It was Johnny Carson. And whenhe went out there and said comedy
is the hardest commodity to sign,you know, which was a complete bold,
(07:30):
because comedy was not a hard cupcomedy commodity to find. Then there
was a new comedian every few weeks. You couldn't swing a dead cat without
hitting a new comedian. This wasthe eighties. This was the time of
a bazillion comics. Dentists were doingcomedy and stand up clubs. So he
would, but he'd give you thisbig build up, like the greatest.
(07:50):
I remember when he brought out JerrySeinfeld the first time he is Jeff Steinfeld.
Jeff Steinfeld. Well, Jeff didvery well, but so he did
set it up well. And youknow, if you if you couldn't score
there with after you'd been in theI don't really You've been in the business
three years when I did the TonightShoe. But at three years, come
(08:13):
on, if you don't have sixminutes of killer stuff in three years,
then you don't belong in the business, you know. So if you can't
score with your best six minutes afterthat introduction from Johnny Carson here in California
with a very relaxed audience, thenyou probably don't belong in there anyway.
(08:33):
Well, you know what, you'reprobably right there, and you know what,
you're gonna have more than six minutesfor the people here in Houston,
Texas at the hospital, ninety minuteskiller material, and yeah, we can't
wait to see it again. Icould talk to you. I could talk
to you forever again. What thiscomedian said with shock he was a book
coming out. The Hobbycenter. Dotorg is where you can get tickets for
Bill Moore. Bill, thank youso much for taking the time and just
(08:54):
a pleasure speaking with you. Pleasurewith you, Brad. Let me tell
you from I do a few ofthese a year to talk to people.
It's not always much fun, soI really appreciate it. Oh, thank
you. That means so much tome. Bill Martin
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