20th Century Pop!
157 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 17 ratings20TH CENTURY POP! is a podcast that tries to understand the present by living in the past. Each episode hosts Bob and Tim take a sociological look at the pop culture of the '80s and '90s. Its a ruining of their childhood that hopefully explains how they became adults.
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019 BLOOM COUNTY
June 08, 2017 07:30 - 1 hour - 45.7 MBORIGIN STORIES: “Penguins, parodies and politics I didn’t get.” After months of TV, film and more TV, Bob and Tim are finally taking the time to read something. And that something is BLOOM COUNTY, the classic comic strip dissection of the 80s at large. So find out who read it daily, who got it in book form and whose life was forever altered by its creative influence. And probably a crude joke or two. 00:00:00 - PRE-SHOW PRATTLE - Band width and bad grain 00:00:52 - EMPOWERED OPENER - still...
018 TV THEME SONGS VOL. 01
June 01, 2017 15:54 - 1 hour - 44.4 MBROPE-A-TROPES: “It’s the Dance Of Joy ... followed by Kirk Cameron’s Rapture.” This week, Bob and Tim are looking for musical inspiration in the most 80s of places ... primetime television sitcoms. So come hum along with a stay-at-home psychologist, a Meposian refugee and a vacuum cleaner’s dance partner, all before 9pm. 00:00:00 - PRE-SHOW PRATTLE - Blowin’ off the dust 00:00:27 - IT’S MEMORIAL DAY - Well … it WAS Memorial Day / / “TV Party” 00:02:36 - WIKI TWEAKS - Segment order and Tim...
017 COMEDY FILMS OF THE 1980S
May 25, 2017 07:30 - 1 hour - 46.7 MBLIST-A-RAMA-A-GO-GO - “Shoulder pads, synthesizers and the hilarious Bill Pullman.” Might this be an entire episode based on HOT TO TROT? THE WRONG GUYS? ZAPPED? MY DEMON LOVER? HEARTBEEPS? CADDYSHACK II? Join Bob and Tim as they talk their favorite 80s comedies, not as the adults as they are now but as the SHORT CIRCUIT fans they were then. 00:00:00 - PRE-SHOW PRATTLE - a reminder of time and space 00:00:47 - PODCAST PSA - Bob and Tim will listen to your podcasts / “Bit By Bit” 00:10:37...
SW CHALLENGE: DETACH TRAILER, TRAILER DETACH
May 12, 2017 15:44 - 14 minutes - 10 MBYou guys want to talk current events? How about a month old movie trailer for the most anticipated movie of 2017 that everyone has already seen multiple times except for Bob and Tim. That’s what they are talking about today in the return of their ongoing STAR WARS CHALLENGE in which they share their views on trying to avoid the aforementioned trailer all in lieu of a proper episode for the week. PODCAST SHOUT ABOUT: Want to scrutinize the Star Wars film in time-lapsed real time? Then check ...
016 THE REAL GHOSTBUSTERS
May 04, 2017 07:30 - 1 hour - 57.2 MBBINGE AND PODCAST - "Venkman hates Mondays and Stanz digs Daphne" (1986)" If there's something strange in your Netflix queue, who you gonna call ... keeping in mind, there are TWO Ghotbusters in the phone-book and the first one listed is not actually the real ones even though they're technically the first ones. Ahm ... Bob and Tim are talking about the ones you remember ... unless you got a thing for apes in cargo shorts. Then we're talking about the other ones. 00:00:00 - PRE-SHOW PRATTLE ...
015 SUPERMAN II with BRENT SIMONS
April 27, 2017 13:42 - 1 hour - 54.6 MBCOMICS A TROIS - "Yay, its not Superman III" (1980): On a first for the show, Bob and Tim invite a third super-friend into their (normally) Hall Of Just-Us. Its Brent Simons and, not only is he the co-writer of the animated Dreamworks film MEGAMIND he is also one of the few "actual" people Tim has heard refer to the character as "Supes." Hear everyone talk over everyone else in today's look back at Kal-El the second 00:00:00 - PRE-SHOW PROMO - Loathe theme from 20popcast / "Love Theme from ...
014 HUEY LEWIS AND THE NEWS
April 20, 2017 10:51 - 1 hour - 50.7 MBOEUVRE-COMPENSATING - "Horns, harmonicas and a little too much harmonica": This week Bob and Tim take a look at Sean, Johnny, Bill, Chris and Mario; a pop/rock/jazz ensemble who were hipper than most at the height of 80s pop radio. Yes .. just those 5 guys. DETROIT! 00:00:00 - PRE-SHOW PRATTLE - his full body of work 00:00:40 - WITHOUT A SCRIPT - never too timely / "The Heart Of Rock And Roll" 00:02:22 - WIKI TWEAKS - burning Beatles and celebrity landlines 00:12:16 - FOR THE FANS - app...