If You Chill It, They Will Come

Summer blockbusters wouldn't exist without air conditioning. That's right—before Willis Carrier installed the first theater cooling system in 1925, studios avoided summer releases entirely, considering the season a financial dead zone. Fast forward to 1975, when a mechanical shark and a young director named Spielberg changed everything.

In this nostalgia-packed episode, we trace the surprising evolution of the summer blockbuster from its unexpected origins (the term "blockbuster" actually comes from WWII bombs that could level entire city blocks) to its golden age. Jaws broke the mold as the first film to earn $100 million at the box office, followed by Star Wars two years later, establishing a template that would define summer cinema for decades.

We take a delightful trip through our personal connections with these cultural touchstones—from Ghostbusters to Jurassic Park, Indiana Jones to Independence Day. Our conversation reveals why these films resonate so deeply with Gen X audiences in particular. These weren't just movies; they were shared experiences that defined our summers and shaped our cultural references.

The most fascinating revelation? These films work because they offer us something our everyday lives can't provide. As one of us points out, "I don't need to see a love story—I have that in my life. What I don't have is cars transforming into robots or aliens bursting from someone's chest." It's this escape into the extraordinary that made summer blockbusters essential cultural events—and continues to draw us back to these classics decades later.

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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Two best friends.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
We're talking the past, from mixtapes to arcades.
We're having a blast Teenagedreams, neon screens, it was all
rad and no one knew me Like youknow.
It's like whatever.
Together forever, we're neverthe best ever Laughing and
sharing our stories.
Clever, we'll take you back.

(00:25):
It's like whatever.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
Welcome to Like Whatever a podcast for, by and
about Gen X.
I'm Nicole and this might beFFF Heather.
Hello yeah, we were trying tofigure out what to talk about.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
Well, a, because we're doing this early, so it's
monday and we literally just didit the other day so yeah, true
we don't have a whole lot inbetween.
I was just bitching because Iordered all my hair dye off of
amazon and half of it came andthe half that I absolutely
needed to do before the otherhalf is not coming until today.

(01:05):
Kind of my plan had been tobleach it before I came here and
then have Nicole put the colorson because I want to do
something fancy.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
We could be 18 again and ruin your bathroom instead
of my mom.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
She'll be appreciative.
Yes, she used to.
So.
When we did my hair when I wasyounger, my mom would get so
irritated because nicole wouldmake a giant mess of the
bathroom, so then she juststarted taking over.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
Yeah, she was like I'll just do it, plus the one
color she said you weren'tallowed to have was cotton candy
pink.
And then I died at cotton candypink.
I thought, thank god had a lotto do with me not being allowed
to touch her hair anymore too,maybe.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
So that was irritating, and I just got the
notification from Amazon that mybleach is being delivered today
.
So don't, I'm annoyed.
Yeah, I can't do my hair.

Speaker 1 (02:04):
I can't do my hair.
I can't do my hair.
Today is Memorial Day.
It is Thank you.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
Thank you for your service.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
Yes, To everyone who lost their life.
Thank you To their families.
Yeah, so Memorial Day aroundhere, especially where you are,
is chaos.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
It's the unofficial start of summer.

Speaker 1 (02:26):
AKA chaos.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
The problem is, even though it happens every year the
same time every year, nobody isreally prepared for it.
A because they don't have theirsummer help yet, or they just
got their summer help andeverybody is being trained.
Don't have their summer helpyet, or they just got their

(02:51):
summer help and everybody isbeing trained and it just is
chaos and yeah, so it's been fundown there and the traffic, and
I said because we both have offobviously for the holiday.
Um, I was like well, we'll do iton monday and I'll get up early
.
Well, I'll get up when I get upand then I'll drive up, because
she's beach traffic heads thisway so I was like well, I'll

(03:12):
just do it and then I didn't getup till later than I wanted to,
and it's cloudy and cold, andso everybody is actually leaving
early, so my plans were justall around foiled it didn't seem
like it took you too too longto get up here though.
Um, I actually listened to theentirety of dragon's dream, my

(03:32):
favorite episode of ours so um,you should go back and listen to
that, if you haven't already,because it is highly
entertaining and I wanted to seewhat all the fuss was about.
So I was listening to a qualitycontrol, because I never
listened to these after I didn't.

Speaker 1 (03:48):
Yeah, I had to drive a long distance the week before
last so I listened to maybe theVietnam one.
It is really good, I mean I dolaugh out loud.
I do too, and I was there, Iknow, but it's still funny, I
know I was laughing on.
Do laugh out loud.
I do too, and I was there, Iknow, but it's still funny, I
know.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
I was laughing on the way up here and I was like, is
that weird that we just laugh?
I mean, I guess I don't know,we're hilarious.
Exactly, that's not our fault,no, and obviously some of you
listen every week RectonWashington, yes, is it?

Speaker 1 (04:19):
Seiko Maine.
Yes, had one from theNetherlands this week.
We did.
We had what?

Speaker 2 (04:35):
Germany, germany.
I don't know what happened toour Australian friends.
I know, come back, come back.
It is neat the way it gives youlike a breakdown, although it
is weird because mine doesn'tpop up anywhere near where I
actually am.
So who knows?
Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (04:56):
Yeah, mine comes up as Dover.

Speaker 2 (04:58):
But everybody at work either comes up as Millsboro or
somewhere in New Jersey.
Is the tower there?
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (05:05):
Oh, speaking of Dover , that just reminded me
something cool.
Yesterday I was watching my umid channel murder shows and it
took place in 2003 and a bodywas found in cape may and the
girl was from Dover.
Really, yep, they were at DoverHigh School and it's the new

(05:29):
Dover High School, so I know itwas filmed more recently, so
they showed the front of it.
They showed inside, like that'sdefinitely the hallways.
I'm in there once a week, Iknow what it looks like.
So this girl was 16, in fostercare, lots of sexual abuse, and

(05:49):
she ended up, long story short,the kid went to DSU.
He was an aviation mechanicmajor.
I know this one, I know this oneYep, he, they, I don't't know
met at a party or something.
So he and this other guy tookthe 16 year old to a hotel and

(06:12):
they both had sex with her there.
And then she went to take ashower and the dsu dude was like
to his friend, I need your help, I want to kill her.
And his friend was like what?
That's not what I came here for.
Um, it's not part of the plan,yeah, so she comes out, he
starts strangling her, I don'tknow friend tries to stop him.

(06:36):
So he says, um, so he stranglesher.

Speaker 2 (06:39):
It takes a really long time to strangle somebody.
Yes, and she was fighting yeah,it's three minutes without a
fight?

Speaker 1 (06:44):
yeah, not that, I know that for sure, but I'm
pretty sure that it has beentold to me that it is three
minutes especially with yourbare hands, like if you're gonna
do it, get behind somebody witha garrotte.

Speaker 2 (06:56):
Yes, yes, exactly.

Speaker 1 (06:58):
So anyway, probably not be telling people how we're
planning to murder so anyway, um, the kid has his pilot's
license and he has access todover air force base.
So he kills her, he wraps herin chains, he gets permission to
fly out of dover air force base, he flies over cape may and

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throws her out of the plane, andhe didn't put enough chains on
her to balance out the buoyancyof a dead body.

Speaker 2 (07:29):
Another problem people don't anticipate.
Okay, not I should.
It's very sad for this girl,but watch a lot of these.
You gotta drill holes, people,you gotta get into the stomach
you gotta get into the bowelswhere it's gonna to bloat.

Speaker 1 (07:44):
Yes, you got to let that air out somehow, so you got
to you have to make sure thatthere's holes and there's a
reason the mafia use cinderblocks.
Extra weight yes, because thosepeople are trained too.
Yes, you got to make sure youget that extra weight on.

Speaker 2 (07:58):
I mean the mafia knows how to do it yeah, yeah
until you know they start likemead drying up, and then their
secrets are all coming out.
So Out in the desert.

Speaker 1 (08:08):
Yeah, so they caught the guy, but it was nuts Like
right here in my town, theschools I go to I go to DSU
campus because they have a highschool there Early college high
school and I also work for thatschool.
So, yeah, it was pretty neat.

Speaker 2 (08:25):
Yeah, I remember that one.
I think I just heard about thatone on a one of my murder
Dateline.
Maybe Might have been aDateline.
I recently discovered Datelinepodcast and it's just the show.

Speaker 1 (08:39):
You and my nephew are too much alike.
He's sad because I think he'sgone through all the datelines.
That's what he was listening toall day.
You two are crazy.

Speaker 2 (08:52):
One of my friends has told me about a podcast called
the Rest is History and it's twoBritish guys and they do a
lovely job of history.
Well, he told me about itbecause they had a five part I
think it was five part titanicof course I had to listen to
that and then, um, yeah, so I'mlistening to that, because

(09:14):
during covid they did like threea week or something all right.

Speaker 1 (09:17):
So I really need to remember, when we're done here,
for us to tell jay that becausehe has been, my husband has been
looking for a podcast and hedid Joe Rogan for a bit.
I think he's done with that, um, and then he's been trying to
find other things.

(09:37):
He's a person who likes to tryboth sides of the story, so some
of the stuff he's listening tois not stuff I want to hear
anything about, so I end up likeignoring him while he's trying
to talk about it.
But anyway, he really issincerely trying to look for
something good and I suggestedto him.

(09:59):
I was like what about some sortof like deep dive into history,
Because he's very interested inall sorts of historical things?
Uh, we watch a lot ofdocumentaries on stuff like that
.
So hopefully between the two ofus we'll remember for me it's
good, um I just.

Speaker 2 (10:15):
The one I just recently listened to was about
um the americanization of theworld yeah, it's pretty cool.

Speaker 1 (10:22):
Oh my gosh, he would love that and they're I love.

Speaker 2 (10:24):
I love a british accent.
Yes, and I love a Britishaccent.
Yes, I fucking love a Britishaccent.
They're so much smarter than us.

Speaker 1 (10:30):
They are.
They sound so much better.

Speaker 2 (10:31):
They sound so much smarter.

Speaker 1 (10:34):
And as I've aged I can tell the difference between
inflections and accents in thatcountry.

Speaker 2 (10:40):
Probably has a lot to do with more um, accurate tv
shows and movies now, but um,what's funny, because one of
them does an american accent fora minute and he does the hey
you guys, it's hilarious, I wasrolling on that accents always
blew my mind yeah it's weird tome that I sound normal here's my

(11:04):
thing about.
I like accents, just I want, Ineed to find, and maybe I should
look that up, but I don't know.
What is it like?
The etymology of accents?
or something I don't know maybeI think it's insane that there's
the boston accent, new yorkaccent, philadelphia accent,
baltimore accent and washingtond DC accent.

(11:25):
They're all like 45 minutesapart, but they're.
They're different, but they'renot like you can.
If you listen to those, you canhear them slide into each other
.
Absolutely it's, it's, it'spretty cool, it is.
And then you come here andwe're two hours from all from
Baltimore, two hours fromBaltimore, two hours from
Baltimore, two hours fromWashington and two hours from
Philadelphia.

Speaker 1 (11:45):
And we don't sound anything like that.
And it's funny too because mydad's from Jersey, north Jersey.
He hung out in the city, newYork City, when he was a kid and
you know a New York and aJersey accent.
But I don't consider my dad tohave a New York or a Jersey
accent, he just sounds normal tome.
But people will tell him, likein Florida, they can guess he's

(12:08):
from Jersey because of hisaccent.
And I'm like what, like youdon't sound like Jersey and then
down our way.

Speaker 2 (12:15):
I know two people who are married.
One of both of them born andbred Sussex County, like one of
them, has the thickest SussexCounty draw and the other one
does not.
I'm like, how does that?

Speaker 1 (12:26):
happen.

Speaker 2 (12:27):
How does that work out?
It's just crazy.

Speaker 1 (12:29):
I don't.

Speaker 2 (12:30):
I have to.
It is I would love to learnabout accents, because it's I
mean, I get it, that it's Well.
And then there's one of theislands in the Chesapeake, I
don't know which one, oh yeah.
Deal Island or one of themApparently still speaks the
Queen's English likeShakespearean English.
Well, they are pretty isolatedout there.

Speaker 1 (12:49):
They are very isolated.
Yeah, that would be cool,though, to go there.

Speaker 2 (12:52):
I've been wanting to go down there.
I think they do a Shakespearein the Park down there too.
For that reason I don't know.

Speaker 1 (12:57):
I was going to say reenacting is probably their gig
, their.

Speaker 2 (13:00):
I've never been to any of the islands in the
Chesapeake so I don't know.
Never been down there.

Speaker 1 (13:06):
Been to Crisfield.
Kent Island is one of thoseright, yeah.
I've been to Kent Island, kentDeal.
Well you've been to Assateague,that's not really one of them
no.

Speaker 2 (13:14):
Oh, that's somewhere in the ocean.

Speaker 1 (13:17):
Yeah, that's Barrier Island.

Speaker 2 (13:19):
Assateague, that Chincoteague has a beach.
I think it's on the ocean.
I think it's Assateague All theway down there.

Speaker 1 (13:29):
Anyway, yes, that was so fun to watch.

Speaker 2 (13:38):
When I'm thinking, you can literally see it.
Yeah, for real, it rolls rightthrough my face.

Speaker 1 (13:42):
Yep, yep, that is true, all right, all right
through my face.
Yep, yep, yep, that is true,all right, all right.

Speaker 2 (13:46):
Moving on.
Yeah, so this week, because itis the unofficial start of
summer.
All right, wait, yeah.
Oh yeah, shit, I did you notice?
It's the right script.

Speaker 1 (13:56):
this time it is, and I'm so proud of you for that,
which is why I didn't want tolet it slip.
I was like let's just make surewe get this in.
So find us wherever you listento podcasts.
Remember to like rate review,please, please, please, please,
please.
We are starting to slowly build.
We kind of plateaued on a lotof things and I feel like we're
getting a little momentum.

(14:16):
So just throw a littlesomething out there for us, if
you like us.
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (14:27):
We are on all the socials and you can look for us
on youtube and tiktok kikitytalk.

Speaker 1 (14:29):
I haven't done anything I need to get back into
that.
Yeah, and I've been kind oflacking too, um, but I've just
been kind of testing differentthings to see if, like, things I
was doing are actually working.

Speaker 2 (14:39):
It's a weird time of year, too, like we're getting
into the summer, so we're notreally sure how that's gonna
yeah now, this is our firstsummer.
Yeah, I don't know what peopledo in the summer.
If they listen to podcasts.

Speaker 1 (14:49):
If they don't, maybe I don't know yeah, I feel like
people listen to more music inthe summer, but no idea yeah, I
don't know what people I do thesame thing all the time, so but
again shout out to all of ourregulars we see you, we
appreciate you and anyone thatwe missed, we still love you.

Speaker 2 (15:05):
Just so, on that note , let's fuck around and find out
about summer blockbusters.
My references are rottentomatoes and imbd.
What is this?
What is a blockbuster?
That's what you're askingyourself right now.
Typically a very popular andfinancially successful feature

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film with wide appeal, oftenleading to extensive
merchandising and franchisingopportunities.
And a summer blockbuster, asyou may or may not have guessed,
happens in the summer.
Wow, it's a big budgetproduction released in May, june
, july or August.
They often feature a lot ofaction and special effects are
released when many people are onvacation or have more free time

(15:48):
and are more likely to spendtheir money.
It may seem like that they havealways been here, but they have
not.
Nope, nope, it's not a thing.

Speaker 1 (15:56):
It was not a thing.

Speaker 2 (16:00):
Major Hollywood studios used to dread summer
because it was historicallytheir least profitable season.
It was a challenging period forfilm, which struggled to
maintain a consistent cash flowand keep moviegoers in theaters.
At a critical crossroads,hollywood needed a significant
shift to sustain its growth.
The pivotal change came aboutthanks to a cool invention In

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the film industry's early days.
Cinemas were pretty miserable,especially during the summer,
and they could feel like saunas.
Most people took theopportunity to travel and enjoy
the great outdoors and didn'twant to spend their vacations
inside a hot theater.
It wasn't until 1925 that thefirst theater installed modern
air conditioning.

Speaker 1 (16:39):
God bless air conditioning.

Speaker 2 (16:41):
Carrier Corporation founder Willis Carrier installed
a refrigerating plant in theRivoli Theater in Times Square.
The centrifugal chiller madeits debut on Memorial Day.
Despite some initial hiccups,theater goers were impressed by
the technology and by 1930, morethan 300 theaters followed suit

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and advertised that theirbuildings were cooled by
refrigeration.
Smart yeah, as patrons startedchoosing cinemas as an
entertaining way to beat theheat.
The air conditioning had thedual purpose of keeping the
expensive and often unstableequipment from overheating.
As sound, lighting andprojection technology
continually improved through the30s, improved through the 30s,

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the summer season was often awaste for film studios, as most
people wanted to travel.
You know, like the whole, we'regoing to go to Yosemite.

Speaker 1 (17:31):
We never did that.
Grand Canyon.
I've never been to Yosemite Me,neither I want to go.
I do too.
Just which part, like it's sobig, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (17:42):
The part with old.

Speaker 1 (17:43):
I was going to say Yeller, you want to see, but
that's not right.

Speaker 2 (17:46):
Old, faithful, old yeller is a whole other thing.
I don't want to see Another.

Speaker 1 (17:50):
Very sad, that's a sad thing it is Might as well
watch.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (17:55):
Nope, I do want to go to the redwood forest in
California.
Yes, I want to see a redwood.
Yes, before I die.

Speaker 1 (18:03):
Yes.
Like I wanted to touch thatcactus that we almost got killed
for when we make it big andwe're doing something in
California, send us to theredwood forest.

Speaker 2 (18:14):
It was funny because there's a guy on TikTok.
Well, two guys they're Britishand they came over here and were
traveling and they do a wholething about how you know say
that americans are not culturedbecause we don't travel.
And they're both like becauseyou have no idea how big this
country is, like you can drivefor 12 hours and be in the same
state, still, never even leavethe state.

(18:36):
Yes, so they were like they dotravel, they just say there's,
and they were like there'severything over there, they have
everything everything we do.

Speaker 1 (18:45):
Yeah, they were like they don't need to leave their
own country, they have it allyeah, I used to think about that
because I didn't have apassport until last year, um,
because I never needed one and Iwas, and I'm not I'm not big on
flying, um, so I was like, well, I'm good with just visiting
domestically.
Like we have tons of stuff herethat I I've seen a lot in this

(19:06):
country and there's so a hundredtimes more that I haven't seen
the only good thing, like theonly thing I like about Europe,
um is how old like we don't haveold buildings, stuff like that.
Here are my jam yeah that and Ilike the food.
Well, you wouldn't like thefood.
You don't like changes in food.
They have McDonald's everywherethough, yeah, yeah, and just

(19:28):
seeing how people do thingsdifferently yeah.
That is, it's just so far.

Speaker 2 (19:34):
It's so far.
I know you got to take a planeover the ocean.

Speaker 1 (19:37):
I don't care for that .

Speaker 2 (19:40):
So I just, we should do, we should totally do a road
trip Next year, Podfest happensin.
January it's in Florida.
We should totally go next year,just take a road trip.

Speaker 1 (19:49):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (19:49):
So plan for it now.
We'll plan for it, okay.

Speaker 1 (19:57):
We're totally going to go.
Yep, we say that we won't.
Well, we do have more time toplan for it this year than we
did last year.

Speaker 2 (20:01):
We were invited to go last year and we did not have
the.
It's too late, yeah.
So back to our blockbusters.
Theaters would usually resortto reruns, or what we would call
today indie films, in hopes ofa sleeper hit.
However, that would all changewith the introduction of the
blockbuster in the 40s.
The etymology of this everydaysummertime stable is actually

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pretty dark.
During during world war ii,newsreels shown at the beginning
of feature film would detailthe war efforts, including the
strategic aerial bombingsthroughout europe and Asia.
The bombing technique couldliterally bust up full
residential and city blocks.

Speaker 1 (20:39):
Wow, that's a fun start to date night.

Speaker 2 (20:41):
However, the first time the term blockbuster was
used to describe a film wasRichard Wallace's 1943 war drama
oh, that's out of order.
However, the first time theterm blockbuster was used to
describe a film was richardwallace's 1943 war drama

(21:02):
bombardier.
Trade magazine variety andmotion picture herald called the
film which featured thetraining program for the united
states army air forcesbombardiers.
The blockbuster of all action.
Thrill service showsAdvertisements in 1944 described
Louis Hayward's war documentarywith the Marines at Tarawa as

(21:24):
hitting the heart like a two-tonblockbuster.
Additionally, the term was usedto describe hits like the war
drama Baton in 1943, theromantic comedy no Time for Love
in 1943, and the musical Brazilin 1944.

Speaker 1 (21:39):
Interesting.

Speaker 2 (21:41):
That is pretty dark.
There are several othertheories regarding the origins
of the term blockbuster todescribe films, but the most
likely explanation is a PRstrategy.
Publicist and trade magazineswanted to draw on readers'
familiarity with blockbusterbombs from World War II as an
analogy to describe thepotential huge commercial
impacts these films would haveon the market that is really

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cool while hollywood finally hada term for films in commercial
with commercial potential, witha broad audience, it still had a
problem putting butts in seatsduring the summer.
they were still reluctant toproduce and distribute big
budget films during such afinancially risky season.
It wasn't until Universal tooka leap of faith when an
up-and-coming director and hisambitious plans to adapt a Peter

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Benchley 1974 novel, oh whatwas the name of it?
Jaws.
This decision would ultimatelyredefine the landscape of summer
cinema and solidify the conceptof the blockbuster film.
According to the Guinness WorldRecord, Steven Spielberg's Jaws
is considered the first truesummer blockbuster.

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Not only do people physicallyqueue up around the block to see
the movie, but it also becamethe first film to earn $100
million at the box office.

Speaker 1 (22:53):
Wow, I know in 1975.

Speaker 2 (22:54):
Holy moly and thanks to a widely successful marketing
campaign where Universal spentunprecedented $700,000 on
television advertising,moviegoers, particularly teens
with an expendable income, werewilling to line up to see Bruce
the Shark in action two or threetimes throughout the summer of
1975.
Jaws became a culturalphenomenon and laid the

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foundation of what a true summerblockbuster entails Big budget
thrills, with merchandising andfranchising potential.

Speaker 1 (23:24):
I did not know that Jaws is the first blockbuster
the number uno, number uno,that's so cool.

Speaker 2 (23:32):
In 1977, George Lucas tested universal strategy with
his own production.
You might have heard this moviealso.
Star Wars.

Speaker 1 (23:44):
Now, I do remember seeing this movie in the theater
.

Speaker 2 (23:47):
I did not, I was only three.

Speaker 1 (23:50):
I was four, but I feel like I remember it.
Maybe it was Empire Strikes,feel like I remember it.
Maybe it was empire strikesback that I remember.
Yeah, I figured it would, butright now I was thinking, no,
that can't.

Speaker 2 (24:05):
My memory is not that good first movie I ever
remember seeing this muppetmovie.
Yeah, I love the muppet movie,I love the Muppets.
So Star Wars the first summerblockbuster based on an original
screenplay.
This departure from the normproved groundbreaking, as Star

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Wars set box office records andenjoyed an unprecedented
theatrical run that spanned overa year.
Star Wars' massive successfollowed the trail initially
blazed by Jaws, and the industrytook notice of the potential
for profitability in producinglarge-scale, franchise-worthy
productions.
Throughout the 80s and 90s,film studios continued to
release big-budget,high-production movies with

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widespread appeal during thesummer season.
This approach not onlymaximized box office potential,
but also solidified the summerblockbuster as a staple of the
movie industry.
While the latter part of the20th century focused on science
fiction and comedies, with thearrival of the 21st century,
there's been a significant shifttowards fantasy and action
genres, particularly within thesuperhero subgenre.

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This transition is a reflectionof the evolving preferences of
global audiences and theremarkable advancements in CGI
and special effects.
These technologicaldevelopments have enabled
filmmakers to craft visuallystunning and imaginative

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cinematic worlds previouslyunimaginable in Hollywood worlds
previously unimaginable inHollywood.
During the 2000s and 2010s,studios started greenlighting
multi-film projects,capitalizing on the success of
world building and layeringstorytelling techniques that
have been popular in the 80s and90s.
This approach allowedfilmmakers to create expansive
cinematic universes withinterconnected storylines and

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characters across multiple filmssome of the most successful
franchises of this period.
So what I ended up doing was Ijust went through Rotten
Tomatoes I-M-B-D-O-N-E-Wcom tolook up.
They all had, of course, the 75bests.

Speaker 1 (26:15):
Blah, blah, blah.

Speaker 2 (26:18):
So I took them year to year.
Some of them I was like that'sterrible so I didn't include
them.
But this is my edited downversion and I only went to 1999
because none of us care about2000 and up exactly.
I mean we might, but I didn't.
That seemed like a lot.
Let's start with 1975 and, ofcourse, jaws.

Speaker 1 (26:39):
Released on June 20th .

Speaker 2 (26:41):
And that one is I don't care, I love fucking Jaws.
I feel like it holds up.
We were talking about thisbefore.
I'm gonna do Jaws.
I can't decide if I want to doit on in June because it's the
50th, or if I want to wait tillshark week because there's so
much fun facts about job.
That's a great story.

(27:01):
How jules got.

Speaker 1 (27:02):
Maybe you could do a two-parter do one part during
his anniversary and then theother part during shark week,
because I love jules.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure you couldtake up two episodes.

Speaker 2 (27:13):
I could take up four years.
I love Jaws, Although I don'tlike anyway.
The other ones aren't so great,but no, you know they're fine.
Yeah, 1976, june 25th was theOmen.
I did not realize that was asummer blockbuster Me neither.

Speaker 1 (27:33):
I don't know if I've ever seen that.

Speaker 2 (27:34):
I've never seen the Omen yeah.

Speaker 1 (27:36):
I know it's.
Damien, I bet it's pretty scary.

Speaker 2 (27:39):
Oh, I have no doubt, because the exorcist is fucking
scary yeah.
You know, I still find Jaws tobe yeah, that part where the
head yeah, that one gets meevery time and I know it's
coming.
Yeah, again, the music, theanticipation, yes.
Well, I'm going to stop talkingabout Jaws 1977, of course, we

(28:02):
remember from earlier.
Star Wars, episode IV, a NewHope, was released on May 25th.
Yes, which was what?
Yesterday, yeah, today's, the26th, yeah, I did not see star
wars in there.
I don't.
I should not tell you all this,but I'm going to.

(28:22):
I am not a star star wars fanwell, you're star trek, so star
trek, I do not like I I don't,it's not.
I like the those three uh-huhare three.
Yes, I have never seen any ofthe other ones they're just your
typical.
No interest my husband watchesall of that and I just I tune it
right out.

Speaker 1 (28:41):
I don't I've seen some of them there.
I don't connect them with starwars, they're just something
else?

Speaker 2 (28:49):
yeah, just I don't know, it's not my cup of tea no,
but the first three, oh yeahyeah, I mean, I've seen them all
numerous times I don't go outof my way to watch them, right,
I would much rather watch a startrek, but that's just me.
Yep, 1978, june 16th was greecenow you're talking my language.

Speaker 1 (29:10):
I know I.
That is one of my all-timefavorite movies.
Yes, I can sing every word toevery song.
Yes, and I can regurgitate mostof the dialogue funny enough.

Speaker 2 (29:25):
I don't like grease, but and here's my big butt I
fucking love grease too.

Speaker 1 (29:32):
I don't.

Speaker 2 (29:33):
I don't know why, I don't know what I, me and
christine, used to go, and we Iknow every word, I know every
song.
I love grease too I thinkbecause it's just so silly yeah,
it's just so to me it's more ofa cult thing, I think, think.

Speaker 1 (29:53):
Yeah, and I think well, besides the fact that I
like musicals and corny stuff,my dad was a greaser and grew up
in that time period drivingthose cars, so I think I love
that about it a lot, because youknow, of course, john travolta

(30:16):
is my favorite character,sandy's.
All right, yeah, like, yeah, alittle ditzy for me.

Speaker 2 (30:23):
I never got it.
I mean, I've seen it a hundredtimes, but I just never yeah, I
love, love, love that movie.

Speaker 1 (30:30):
Oh my gosh we have this.

Speaker 2 (30:31):
This 1978 had two summer blockbusters what yeah,
july 28th.
National lampoon's animal house.

Speaker 1 (30:40):
Wow, yes, I feel like I haven't seen that movie since
an age.

Speaker 2 (30:46):
That was not appropriate for me to watch that
movie.
I haven't watched it in forever.

Speaker 1 (30:51):
I don't feel like I've watched it as an adult no,
I don't think I have either.

Speaker 2 (30:54):
I don't think it's, I don't know like I've watched it
as an adult.
No, I don't think I have either.
I don't think it's, I don'tknow.

Speaker 1 (30:58):
I probably should watch it but yeah, just I mean,
it was the start of a very longline of a genre of movie it was.
But just not my type of movie.
No, it's not my type of movieeither.

Speaker 2 (31:13):
Yeah, so we'll move on to 1979.
Okay, it also had two that madethese lists.
There was much more, but okay,these were the ones that made
the list.

Speaker 1 (31:23):
And then I was like, oh yeah, that's definitely may
25th was alien again which weliterally watched this movie
once a month yeah, I haven'tseen it in a long time, but I
did see it a million times backthen.
It's one of the ones we had onvhs, so I think we just watched
it like two days ago.

Speaker 2 (31:43):
We went through the whole aliens series at one point
and then we, we there arecertain movies that I guess
they're ones that I go to bedearly and he stays up all night,
so he puts these movies on thathe knows we both watch and then
once I go to bed he'll watchwhatever, but or he'll just go

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through the entire alienfranchise and he stays up for.
However, many eight hours towatch them.
All that, and from last week'sepisode to shining we.

Speaker 1 (32:15):
We have that and watched that numerous times.
Yeah, but Alien was ahead ofits time, like the
cinematography, cinematography,cinematography the
cinematography is great.

Speaker 2 (32:28):
There's a great documentary on the artist that
that is all based on.

Speaker 1 (32:34):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (32:35):
It's really good.

Speaker 1 (32:36):
Yeah, but it was scary, and that slime and his
teeth and that all looked veryreal.

Speaker 2 (32:43):
And when it popped out.

Speaker 1 (32:44):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (32:46):
Yeah, aliens, that's it.

Speaker 1 (32:48):
Yeah, and Sigourney Weaver is the only one that
could have played that role.

Speaker 2 (32:52):
And you know, a lot of these still hold up.
I don't and here's the thing, Idon't know if it's like,
because like when you say, oh, alot of these movies held up is
it because we remember them likethe feelings that we had then.
And then, when you watch themnow you're like oh yeah, that
totally is total.
But then like when somebodyelse watches them that didn't
live.
Then it's like like my children.

(33:13):
Yeah, that's like you've got towatch this, and when jaws comes
out and they're like that,totally looks like a mechanical
shark and you're like shut up.

Speaker 1 (33:21):
No, it doesn't didn't you hear the music totally?

Speaker 2 (33:25):
scary it's coming.
You're like, yeah, no shit,like that's the scary part,
we're gonna need a bigger boat.
So, june 15th, rocky 2 mysecond, third favorite rocky
movie.
Rocky one favorite rocky balboacomes in second and then rocky

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2 is my third and then the restof them can go fuck themselves.
1980.
Star Wars Episode V the EmpireStrikes Back, was released June
18th.

Speaker 1 (34:07):
All right, so, yeah, so this would be the one I would
remember, because I would havebeen seven.
Yes, so, yes, I do rememberseeing this in the theater.
I think I saw this one in thetheater too.
I think it was at the littletheater in Milford in the strip
mall.
There used to be a theater inthere.

Speaker 2 (34:25):
I think I saw the next, whatever.
The next one was Return of theJedi, because I remember the
Ewoks in a movie theater andthat was coming up down here in
the next guy so yeah, empirestrikes back.
June 18th, 1980, 1981, june12th raiders of the lost ark one

(34:49):
of the top five all-timefranchise yes, I feel like, I
feel like when you, when we gothrough these, it's very um
steven spielberg, centric stevenspielberg really likes the
blockbuster he does yeah he, hegot very rich off of them there
many of them are hisso um june 19th was superman 2 I

(35:14):
remember the first superman.

Speaker 1 (35:15):
I remember watching it a lot and it was pretty cool.
I haven't seen it recently.
It's probably super cheesylooking now because I'm just
picturing like the kryptoniteand him flying and stuff like
that it's pretty bad yeah, but Iloved that movie when I was
young.

Speaker 2 (35:35):
Superhero movies are not my thing, except Batman, and
obviously it's because Batmanis more of the darker situation.

Speaker 1 (35:44):
I'm not a big fan of the hero.
I'm a Captain America girl.

Speaker 2 (35:52):
And there you have it .
I just never could get into anyof the superheroes.
I just couldn't.

Speaker 1 (36:02):
I love the Marvel ones.
Those are the ones I like.

Speaker 2 (36:06):
I don't think I've ever seen any of them.
I don't even know who Marvel is.
Was that like Poison Ivy?
It's Stan Lee.

Speaker 1 (36:21):
Stan Lee.
I know, but I don, but I don'tknow oh, oh you mean like the
people?
Oh, like uh iron man, oh yeah,no, I've never seen it.
Um, captain america, captainamerica, maybe, maybe, but um

(36:43):
yeah, when uh covid hit and wewere like a month or two in and
we knew we were, down for thecount for the.
For a while, um, we bingedevery marvel movie in order in
order and they don't weren'treleased in order, so you have
to like Joe did that too.
It was really fun.

Speaker 2 (36:57):
He's been working through them After I go to bed.
Oh, you know what else I forgotto tell you up front what we
started watching the Pee Wee.
It's on, Max.
It's not all out yet, right?
No?

Speaker 1 (37:08):
it's the first two episodes, yep.
I'm waiting for it to all comeout.
I know I've been seeing a lotposted on like threads about it.

Speaker 2 (37:17):
Man.

Speaker 1 (37:19):
Yeah, a lot of people are having very emotional
responses to it it is.

Speaker 2 (37:23):
I am emotionally upset.
We got through the first oneand then halfway through the
second one and we turned it offA because it was my bedtime.

Speaker 1 (37:31):
And B.

Speaker 2 (37:31):
I'm just like I can't .

Speaker 1 (37:33):
Yeah.
Oh peewee I know be I just likeI can't.

Speaker 2 (37:36):
Yeah, peewee, I know, so we made it up to.
We have gotten to him doingpeewee's playhouse he had just
started doing the saturdaymorning I there was a lot of
shit I I did not know aboutpeewee he kept it.
It's good.
Okay, you can really see hisconflict of being who he Paul

(38:06):
Rubens, right?
Well, actually Paul Rubenfeldand yeah, and Pee Wee, he spent
so much time crafting that it'sjust.
You can really see the conflictin it.
You can see he wanted to do it,but he was really conflicted in
doing it.

Speaker 1 (38:26):
That is crazy to give up your whole self.

Speaker 2 (38:29):
It's the stuff he did before.
It's fucking amazing, like just.
And then, yeah, yeah, he justwent with it and I mean it's
really good, it is really good.
Rocky 2 was in 1979, not peewee1980.
Oh, we did that one.

(38:50):
1980 was star wars the empirestrikes back.
Is that the one where Lukefinds out that, um, no, darth
Vader's his dad, luke, I am yourfather.
Is that one?

Speaker 1 (39:03):
I can't remember, I don't know either Um did, we do.

Speaker 2 (39:08):
So yeah, I did all these man I got way out of track
1982.
June 11th.
Imagine this another StevenSpielberg movie, et.
I did see that one.
I do remember that in thetheater.

Speaker 1 (39:23):
ET, et, et.

Speaker 2 (39:26):
I recently saw something on ET too that was
like if you go back and watch itas an adult, it's like a whole
different, like through, don'twatch it through your kids eyes
when you were a kid, but watchit now as an adult.
It's like a whole different,like through, don't watch it
through your kid's eyes when youwere a kid, but watch it now as
an adult, adult, and not likepay attention more.
I think I I hear that it's awhole different movie well, I

(39:48):
haven't watched it since I was akid, so yeah, I forget where I
saw.
That was like go back and watchet and watch it like as an adult
and not like leave your kid atyour kid self at home and watch
it as an adult.
It's a whole different movie.
That was June 11th, june 25thBlade Runner.

Speaker 1 (40:06):
Wow, that was.
I saw that movie a thousandtimes to probably shouldn't have
.
What year was it?

Speaker 2 (40:12):
Eighty two yes.

Speaker 1 (40:14):
I was nine, ten when it came out on vhs and this was
in the rotation.

Speaker 2 (40:20):
Excellent movie, I love it I don't think I've ever
seen blade runner it's a goodone I'm trying to think it's
good.
Probably also not my cup of tea, probably not not 1982 maybe,
though not Not in 1982 anyway.

Speaker 1 (40:36):
Maybe, though it's very like.

Speaker 2 (40:37):
Mad Max Not a Mad Max fan.
I know Seems weird, but I'm not.

Speaker 1 (40:40):
I like the Tina Turner Mad Maxes.

Speaker 2 (40:42):
You have to love fucking Tina Turner.

Speaker 1 (40:44):
Yeah, I watched the most recent one whenever it came
on Netflix or whatever, and Iwas not impressed that was 2015.

Speaker 2 (40:54):
It was the summer blockbuster of 2015 because when
I was going through it after2000 I was like but they had
them all on there.

Speaker 1 (41:01):
Well, one just came out.
It's the one with the chickfrom the Queen's Gambit with the
big eyes.
I don't know it's Fortuosa.
I think that was her name.
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (41:18):
I didn't know, I didn't like it.

Speaker 1 (41:21):
Okay, moving on Don't like it, like it 1983, may 25th
.

Speaker 2 (41:26):
Star Wars, Episode 6, return of the Jedi.
I do remember that because I doremember the Ewoks, because I
wanted an Ewok.
I think that's probably myfavorite of all of them.
Because, of Ewoks, because ofEwoks.
So, 1983 was packed full ofsummer blockbusters.
June 3rd was War Games.

Speaker 1 (41:48):
Want to play a game.
I remember that movie.

Speaker 2 (41:53):
I couldn't tell you a thing about it.
Want to play a game?
July 29th, national Lampoon'sVacation Excellent Classic, not
my cup of tea.

Speaker 1 (42:07):
Does not hold up, but it is.
Yeah, I love Chevy Chase.

Speaker 2 (42:14):
I don't.
August 5th Risky business.

Speaker 1 (42:19):
August 5th, we got stuck with Tom Cruise and he
never went away.

Speaker 2 (42:25):
August 5th 1983.

Speaker 1 (42:29):
I remember the day well it was a warm day in.

Speaker 2 (42:33):
August 1983.
1984, May 23rd Indiana Jonesand the Temple of Doom Excellent
movie.
I mean, who does not love someIndiana Jones?
You have to Look what's not tolove about it.

Speaker 1 (42:50):
Harrison Ford minus Star Wars is one of my favorite
actors.

Speaker 2 (42:58):
I just and he gets better looking.
With age, older he gets, thebetter looking he gets yeah and
again he's a helicopter pilot in, like montana, and he rescues
people.
And could you fucking imaginebeing rescued by indiana jones?

Speaker 1 (43:10):
we were watching some show and some kid was lost and
it was there and they were, likeyou know, after the commercial.
You'll never believe who and Iwas like indiana jones, and then
it came back on and it was himand jay was like what I was like
?
Yeah, I know things, I knowstuff I know stuff about harris
and ford.

Speaker 2 (43:31):
There's not a movie except the star wars movies,
movies that I don't care, that Idon't like.
That has hair support in it, hejust is great, he is an
excellent actor and him in GaryOldman in Air Force One.
I know it's like kind of a, Ithink it's like a throwaway
movie, but I fucking love thatmovie.
1984.

(43:52):
May 20.
Damn, I did that one Moving.
On June 8th, 1984.
May 20.
Damn, I did that one Moving onJune 8th 1984.
Ghostbusters.

Speaker 1 (44:02):
Excellent movie.
Love it, love it, love it.

Speaker 2 (44:05):
How do you not love?

Speaker 1 (44:06):
Ghostbusters Love, love that movie.

Speaker 2 (44:07):
It's so good.

Speaker 1 (44:09):
So good In so many ways.

Speaker 2 (44:11):
Every way.

Speaker 1 (44:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (44:13):
I mean, the special effects probably don't really
hold up anymore but man, but thegatekeeper.
The gatekeeper Ugh Everythingabout it Again.
Sigourney Weaver yeah, the StayPu-.
We just watched-.
Oh, what did we watch with RickMoranis?
We watched Spaceballs lastnight.
I was going to say I knew wewatched.

Speaker 1 (44:32):
Rick.

Speaker 2 (44:32):
Moranis, that's a whole sad story about rick
moranis too.

Speaker 1 (44:48):
Yeah, um.
So after ghostbusters 1985, may22nd, rambo, first blood, which
was rambo 2, I guess, I don'tknow.
Yeah, very good, and that moviewas famous at the time for
having like the most murders orgunshots or I don't know.

Speaker 2 (44:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (45:00):
Something gruesome.

Speaker 2 (45:01):
It's hard for me because I don't want.
It's Rocky, exactly, I can't.
Yeah, I get it.
Sylvester Stallone.
He's got those two bigfranchises and that's good for
him, but he's Rocky too.
I don't care what you say.
Sorry, john Rambobo, but you'rerocky.
July 3rd of 1985 oh, we'regonna go back in time back to

(45:24):
the future.

Speaker 1 (45:25):
I did see that movie in the theater.
I remember, and my aunt antstwo of them maybe took us to the
theater.

Speaker 2 (45:35):
My aunt's from jersey the movie theater was, uh, one,
two, like four or five blocksfrom my house.
It was also my bus stop, so myparents would just drop us off
let me know when you're done.
And then they had that.
That's where they had the payphone that we would call from to
make the collect call If youwant to listen to that.

(45:57):
That is one of our earlierepisodes, collect call from like
whatever.
Listen to it.
Very entertaining.
Back to the future, 1986 hadquite a few also.
May 16th, another Tom Cruisetop gun gun.

Speaker 1 (46:16):
yeah, that solidified him in, yeah, our culture
forever yeah, we.

Speaker 2 (46:21):
That's when we really couldn't get rid of him um.

Speaker 1 (46:27):
July 27th was ruthless people that had eddie
murphy and dan akroyd I think soyeah, I've not seen that one.

Speaker 2 (46:36):
Okay, it seems like it was probably too adult for me
.
See, here also is the thinglike I know I love a summer
blockbuster when, as I'm goingthrough some of these, I'm like
oh yeah, I really did.
Um, there was a great comediansomewhere that was like and it's
.
It's exactly how I feel too,like a love story is nice and
all, but you have that in yourlife, you know and you have.

(46:59):
You know marital issues and allthat, but you know what?

Speaker 1 (47:05):
I don't have gozar living in a painting in my attic
.

Speaker 2 (47:10):
I don't have that I don't have, that I don't have
aliens.
So yeah, like that's I just.
I don't want to have to think,especially in the summer.
I just want to because I'msorry and they didn't put it in
here because it's in the 2000s.
But fucking Transformers Notmany people I know, but I don't

(47:33):
care.

Speaker 1 (47:39):
I love, every single fucking love, the transformer,
one of them, and I don't evenknow why, like I'm?
Not a big fan of any of theactors that are in it.
Um, I don't, I don't know.
I do like action movies, sothat's part of it, but yeah,
they're so good.
They're just so good.

Speaker 2 (47:54):
I know I want my car to talk to me.
I think it's the second onewhere the bumblebee is real.
No, what's?
His face gets thrown out of acar or something and bumblebee
comes and transform like they goand they're gonna hit something
and he untransformed and thenhe retransforms and can't.

Speaker 1 (48:15):
Fuck me.
I love that.

Speaker 2 (48:18):
I love stupid ass special.

Speaker 1 (48:20):
I don't care, I love it.
Yep Same, I don't care.

Speaker 2 (48:27):
Well, again, I don't have my car does not transform
into a robot.
I would like it to, but itdoesn't, unfortunately.
July 18th of 1986.
Aliens, the second in thefranchise, and August 15th, the
Fly.
Did you see that meme I shared?

(48:49):
Yes, I love Jeff Goldblum.

Speaker 1 (48:52):
It was they should make a movie today.

Speaker 2 (48:53):
Yes, I love Jeff Goldblum, it was.
They should make a movie todayabout like a Jurassic Park where
it's 100 million years from nowand they find a mosquito and
they clone it and boom, it'sJeff Goldblum.
But they mix it up with othermosquito DNA.

(49:14):
So boom, not only have aJurassic Park sequel, but then
you have the sequel to the Fly.
I love that.
They totally should do that.
Yeah, 1987, may 20th, beverlyHills, cop 2, which I assume

(49:34):
because it's a lot of twos likethe second of a franchise.

Speaker 1 (49:38):
So I'm assuming, like what happened was they made the
first one and it became likehuge maybe it was like a
Christmas release that's whatI'm thinking, too, like a
Thanksgiving, because I knowBeverly Hills Cop is definitely
the best of the Beverly HillsCops so I'm thinking what
happened was the first one ofthe franchise got crazy, and
then they were like, oh well,we'll just do it in the summer.
That movie is fantastic.

(49:59):
I love it.
Who put the banana in thetailpipe?

Speaker 2 (50:04):
1988.
June 3rd 1988 was a big yearfor the summer blockbuster.
June 3rd, big, which is a veryproblematic movie.
Now, I mean technically, he was13, right right in a grown-up's

(50:24):
body.
Oh yeah, june 15th, bull durham.

Speaker 1 (50:35):
Yeah, june 22nd, though yes, I saw this one in
the theater too I think I sawthis many times.
Yes, who framed roger rabbit ohmy god I remember the first
time I saw my favorite um linewas when the car came racing in
and he says sister mary frances,what the hell happened here?

Speaker 2 (50:58):
I'm gonna have to watch that movie again because I
love it.
Please, eddie man.
But then the shoe when he dropswhen he drops the shoe and dip
oh yes, that's sad that's, mythat's, yeah, that's the
disnification of me.
I hate that shit.
July 15th was Die Hard.

Speaker 1 (51:17):
Love Die Hard.
It is a Christmas movie.
I know We've been through this.
Yeah, if you want to go backand listen to the not so
Christmassy Christmas movies?
It was.

Speaker 2 (51:34):
I'm glad you remember all this.
Go back and listen to HolyGremlins, batman.

Speaker 1 (51:39):
If you want to hear about the not so christmas
christmas movies.
If you're super sad, we're notgoing to go on and on about die
hard right now.
Yeah, go listen to that episode, don't be sad.

Speaker 2 (51:46):
1989, may 24th, indiana Jones and the Last
Crusade.
I have to say that one's myfavorite.

Speaker 1 (51:56):
Yes, that one is excellent, but I also have to
say I don't really know that Icould pick a favorite from the
first, like they're all so goodand that's so rare in sequels.
That is true.

Speaker 2 (52:09):
Although the Crystal Skull wasn't so good.

Speaker 1 (52:10):
No, I mean, I'm talking about the original ones.
Yeah, yeah, crystal Skulls, Ithink the whole world agrees
that it was not his best work.

Speaker 2 (52:22):
I do.
I don't know what I think.
My favorite part about the LastCrusade is just him and Chung
Connery and their back and forthwith the death.

Speaker 1 (52:35):
Just they were very well paired.

Speaker 2 (52:38):
Yeah, it was great I love that one, 1990, july 13th
ghost I used to bawl my eyes outat that movie and now I can't
stand a rom-com or a love story.

Speaker 1 (53:00):
I can't.
They don't make me sad.
Yeah, because it's literallythe same story Boy meets girl,
they break up over somethingthat wasn't really the way it
looked, yep, and then they endup back together.

Speaker 2 (53:16):
Like I said, we all have that, but we don't have
cars that turn into robots.

Speaker 1 (53:24):
And giant boulders rolling at us.

Speaker 2 (53:26):
Uh-huh.
I don't have to steal an idoloff anything, although I do say
snakes.
Why has it got to be snakes?

Speaker 1 (53:34):
A lot.
It's the weirdest thing.

Speaker 2 (53:37):
My last neighborhood on my route.
I don't know what it is, butthat neighborhood has more
snakes in it than I have everseen in my entire life.
I saw one just the other day inthe street.
It's a neighborhood, what it'sthe fucking weirdest thing.
And I was talking to my friendand I was like this fucking
neighborhood has more snake.
And he was like when I did thatroute I saw snakes in it.

(53:59):
He was like I had never seensnakes on any other route until
that route they're everywhere inthat neighborhood, every
fucking where.

Speaker 1 (54:06):
Yeah wow, it's horrible I had to end.

Speaker 2 (54:09):
It was trying to cross the street, it was taking
so long and I didn't want to hitit because, even though I
fucking hate him, I'm trying tohit it and I was like bro move
and I don't like the way theymove.
It's creepy and it was liketrying to get up on the curb and
it was like get the fuck out ofthis be over now I literally I

(54:30):
probably see a snake three orfour times a summer in that
fucking neighborhood.
That's crazy.
I know Ugh Gross 1991.
July 3rd Terminator 2.
Judgment Day.

Speaker 1 (54:46):
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, I like Terminator 1better.

Speaker 2 (54:49):
Sure, I don't know that I've ever watched any of
the Terminators.

Speaker 1 (54:52):
I've definitely seen 1 and 2.
You'd think it would be my kindof movie, but I think I don't
know that I've ever watched anyof the.

Speaker 2 (54:56):
Terminators.
I've definitely seen one andtwo.
You'd think it would be my kindof movie, but I think I don't
know, For whatever reason, I getlike a wild hair up my ass and
I'm just not going to seewhatever.

Speaker 1 (55:01):
And then I'm like I'm just not going to fucking see
that.

Speaker 2 (55:03):
Yeah, I do the same thing.
Fuck them.
Yeah, it could be the bestmovie ever.

Speaker 1 (55:17):
And I'm Like me with Forrest Gump.
Yes, 1992, may 15th LethalWeapon, another one where
everyone was just as good as theone before.
Yeah, that was a good series.

Speaker 2 (55:26):
We're going to move on to 1993.
Okay, because there was two,and one of them hands down one
of my favorite movies of alltime, absolutely, june 11th
Jurassic Park.

Speaker 1 (55:36):
Yep, I mean, I did see that in the theater too.

Speaker 2 (55:41):
I love that movie, I mean come on, yeah, the glass of
water.

Speaker 1 (55:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (55:48):
The T-Rex.

Speaker 1 (55:52):
The kids hiding in the cabinets in the kitchen
While the thing is stomping onher.

Speaker 2 (55:55):
Oh my gosh, it's still scary.
It still makes your heart race.

Speaker 1 (55:58):
Yeah, it's such a good movie, it really is August
6th of 1993 is the Fugitive.
Which we know you like, becauseyou like anything with Harrison
Ford, didn't you I?

Speaker 2 (56:10):
do like anything.

Speaker 1 (56:11):
And Tommy.

Speaker 2 (56:12):
Lee Jones.
Can't go wrong with that one.
1994 june, 10th speed mm-hmmmm-hmm keanu and sandra.
This one, this 1994, was alsofull of summer blockbusters.
June 24th, the lion king, whichI'm surprised disney doesn't

(56:34):
show up more.

Speaker 1 (56:35):
I think they like to do it at christmas time though
yeah I think theirs is like athanksgiving thing yeah, yeah, I
saw the lion king um live didyou it was awesome disney movies
are so sad.

Speaker 2 (56:50):
What is up with that?

Speaker 1 (56:51):
I know, why do they do that?
It's very sadistic it is likeup.

Speaker 2 (56:57):
I don't see it.
I I most disney movies are likesad and then they get happy I
don't find a fucking minute ofup.
Happy no, it never gets.
Happy no, that up is like me.
Yeah, in life, that is justnever get up, You're like nailed
it yeah, yeah, june 6th.
No, that's July.

(57:18):
July 6th of 1994 is Nicole'sfavorite movie, forrest Gump
Love it.
Yeah, I do, I do like Love it,I do.

Speaker 1 (57:26):
I'm sure it's a perfectly wonderful movie and I
love Tom Hanks, but no.

Speaker 2 (57:29):
Yeah, I don't, hey, I'm not going to deny you.
It is good, though, so discussamongst yourselves.
Horse gum 1995.
May 19th is a Die Hard with aVengeance Another sequel.
And June 30th I put this one inhere it was Apollo 13.

(57:51):
Oh yeah, Because I love Apollo13.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (57:52):
Good one.

Speaker 2 (57:52):
I love the next one, you're going to in here, it was
Apollo 13.

Speaker 1 (57:54):
Oh yeah, Because I love Apollo 13.
Yeah, good one, I love the nextone you're going to say too.

Speaker 2 (57:59):
That was 1996.
Oh yeah, 1996, july 3rd,independence Day.
And see when I was going backthrough this, because that is
when I decided I thought aboutwas the first time I really, I
guess thought about was like thefirst time I really I guess
thought about a summerblockbuster.
To me, when I think summerblockbuster, it is always

(58:20):
Independence Day always yep, yep, that makes sense.
I love that movie, will Smith.
Come on, I fucking loveanything Will Smith does too.
1997, may 22nd the Lost World,jurassic Park.
I like the book better than themovie.
Okay, so the book is muchbetter.

(58:41):
The end of jurassic park.
The book is pretty fuckingcrazy yeah the book is yeah, the
end of, yeah, yeah, the book,the book, spoiler alert.
And then, july 4th of 1997, menin Black.
I'm glad you included that one,because I guess they decided

(59:02):
that and I do remember, like fora while there, when you thought
Summer Blockbuster, it was WillSmith, I mean Men in Black.

Speaker 1 (59:10):
And we saw that one together.

Speaker 2 (59:12):
Did we?
I figured there had to havebeen some in here that we saw
together.

Speaker 1 (59:16):
I think it was me, you and your sister and one of
your old friends and I waspregnant oh, yeah, right that
summer I was living with youwhen I was eight months pregnant
in july.
July.
Yes, yeah, Okay, 1998.

Speaker 2 (59:35):
July 1st, armageddon, uh-huh.

Speaker 1 (59:39):
Bruce Willis.

Speaker 2 (59:41):
Yeah, I have seen that.
That's the what you call itsong came out of that.
Oh yeah, don't want to missthat thing yeah.
Mm-hmm, july 15th was somethingabout Mary, of course.

Speaker 1 (59:54):
That one, I think, stole the summer I don't think
I've ever seen that one.
Okay, I've never been a camerondiaz fan um, she got popular
there for a while.
That she did, and then shemarried angels and then she
married the dude from um good,charlotte yeah and uh, they're
still happily married with kidsand I think she dropped off then

(01:00:16):
.
I think she intentionallydropped off.

Speaker 2 (01:00:20):
I haven't heard from her in a while.
Not that I talk to her a lot,but I haven't really heard from
her.

Speaker 1 (01:00:26):
She doesn't text you in a minute.

Speaker 2 (01:00:27):
No, it's been weird, it's funny, it is funny.

Speaker 1 (01:00:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:00:33):
July 24th of 1998 was Saving Private Ryan.

Speaker 1 (01:00:37):
Mm-hmm.

Speaker 2 (01:00:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:00:39):
We watched that over the winter sometime.

Speaker 2 (01:00:42):
That's good.

Speaker 1 (01:00:43):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (01:00:44):
Yeah, that opening scene is so fucking stressful.

Speaker 1 (01:00:47):
Yeah Well, I know that's horrible for me to say On
Memorial Day.
On Memorial Day, 1999.

Speaker 2 (01:00:56):
No, that's horrible for me to say On Memorial Day.
On Memorial Day 1999, May 19th,was Star Wars Episode I, the
Phantom Menace.

Speaker 1 (01:01:01):
It's crazy to me that those started that long ago.

Speaker 2 (01:01:05):
The new ones, yeah, it shows how weird time is.
When I was doing this I waslike wow, really, because 1999,
august 6th, the sixth sense, ohwow I know that movie fooled me
the first time I watched it Ifell for it hook line and sinker
I did not see it coming.

Speaker 1 (01:01:23):
Thankfully social media was not really that big of
a thing that could spoil it foreverybody because I did.
I fell for it hook line andsinker and I feel about bruce
willis like you do about um willsmith.
Yeah, like I'll watch anythingI will watch anything with.

Speaker 2 (01:01:40):
He is such a great actor it's.

Speaker 1 (01:01:43):
It's so sad yeah but so beautiful at the same time to
see how the whole family comestogether yes, including his
ex-wife and his wife and shemoved back in.

Speaker 2 (01:01:53):
I think they're all living together.
I think they all live together.

Speaker 1 (01:01:56):
It's awesome.

Speaker 2 (01:01:57):
It is awesome.
Good for them.
I love Demi Moore anyway.

Speaker 1 (01:02:02):
Yeah, me too.

Speaker 2 (01:02:04):
But yeah, it's pretty cool.
I mean cool, I guess, is notthe right word for it.
It's beautiful.

Speaker 1 (01:02:10):
It is lovely that they can all yes.

Speaker 2 (01:02:13):
Yeah, so that was my list, because I didn't want to
go past 1999 because of courseyou know, then it gets into the
Nobody cares about the aughts no.
And I probably haven't seenmost of them because I think I
Well, I probably started runningout of disposable income Around
that time?

Speaker 1 (01:02:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:02:29):
And I was probably working more than I needed to at
that time.
So yeah, working more than Ineeded to at that time.
So yeah, I don't remember.
Yeah, so yeah, fun times.
We didn't need to know anymore.
Plus, we've already gone on foran hour and I only got to 1999,
so Another 25 years of movies.

Speaker 1 (01:02:45):
That was a very, very fun episode.
It makes me think about, youknow, when we're looking for
something to watch.
I need to remember these thingstoo, because some of them I
haven't seen in a long time.

Speaker 2 (01:02:58):
Keep the script and then you're like, oh, today
we're going to watch you wouldthink that would work.

Speaker 1 (01:03:03):
Yeah, I needed to buy a plane ticket because I'm
going to Austin in July, it'sfor work, but anyway I hadn't
been buying the ticket and myhusband kept reminding me to,
but he would send me texts whileI'm at work and I'm busy and I
just didn't think of it and plusmy corporate credit card was at

(01:03:26):
home, so the office didn't work.
So anyway, he was like writeyourself a note.
I was like it won't work, put anote in your phone.
It won't work, like I will putsomething in my phone with a
reminder and that thing will popup every hour for a week and I
will just keep ignoring itbecause I keep thinking no, I
don't want to turn it off,because then I will forget, and
then eventually I just turn itoff, like those things just

(01:03:48):
don't work for me.
So he made a post it and hestuck it on the doorframe going
from the main room we hang outin to the kitchen.
And a few days later he waslike do you buy your plane
ticket yet?
And I looked over to see if thenote was still there, and it
was.
I had not seen it again sincehe hung it there, and so

(01:04:10):
eventually he put it on myoffice door and he mentioned it
to me yesterday before he leftfor work.
So those things clicked andyesterday I bought my ticket.
Life is really hard for me, Iget it.

Speaker 2 (01:04:25):
Austin huh.

Speaker 1 (01:04:30):
Yeah, in July.

Speaker 2 (01:04:32):
Seems hot.

Speaker 1 (01:04:33):
It seems Inferno-like .
Yeah, I don't know.
I don't know what it's likethere in July.

Speaker 2 (01:04:35):
Seems hot, it seems Inferno-like.
Yeah, I don't know.
I don't know what it's likethere.

Speaker 1 (01:04:38):
I've never wanted to go to Texas because Texas is
stupid.
I'm just kidding if you're fromTexas, although I don't think
we've ever had a Texas?
listen to us, yeah, we have.
Oh, okay, but really it'sbecause the Dallas Cowboys live
there.
Yes, and that's why I hate thewhole state of Texas.
But I did always say if I wouldever go, it would be to Austin

(01:04:59):
because of the music scene andall that good stuff.
How long are you going?
I fly there on a Sunday becausethe conference starts Monday,
and I fly back Friday.
Oh, nice, nice, mm-hmm, hmm,yep, friday, oh, mm-hmm, nice.

Speaker 2 (01:05:14):
Mm-hmm Hmm.

Speaker 1 (01:05:15):
Yep, cool.
Yeah, we might need to use apre-recorded episode that week
Funny that you should mentionthat.

Speaker 2 (01:05:26):
Getting ready to record a second one now, yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:05:29):
After we have some cheeseburgers on the grill.

Speaker 2 (01:05:31):
Yeah, we've got to hurry up, though, because it's
almost 1 o'clock, okay, Anyway.
So have some cheeseburgers onthe grill.
Yeah, we've got to hurry up,though, because it's almost one
o'clock, okay, um, anyway.
So thanks for listeningeverybody to know what we were
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Speaker 1 (01:06:03):
Bye, bye.