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.

What's your favorite summer blockbuster memory? Share it with us at likewhateverpod@gmail.com or find us on social media @likewhateverpod.

Transcript

Introduction and Hair Dye Dilemmas

Speaker 1 0:04

Two best friends.

Speaker 2 0:05

We're talking the past, from mixtapes to arcades. We're having a blast Teenage dreams, neon screens, it was all rad and no one knew me Like you know. It's like whatever. Together forever, we're never the best ever Laughing and sharing our stories. Clever, we'll take you back. It's like whatever.

Speaker 1 0:30

Welcome to Like Whatever a podcast for, by and about Gen X. I'm Nicole and this might be FFF Heather. Hello yeah, we were trying to figure out what to talk about.

Speaker 2 0:45

Well, a, because we're doing this early, so it's monday and we literally just did it the other day so yeah, true we don't have a whole lot in between. I was just bitching because I ordered all my hair dye off of amazon and half of it came and the half that I absolutely needed to do before the other half is not coming until today. Kind of my plan had been to bleach it before I came here and then have Nicole put the colors on because I want to do something fancy.

Speaker 1 1:17

We could be 18 again and ruin your bathroom instead of my mom.

Speaker 2 1:22

She'll be appreciative. Yes, she used to. So. When we did my hair when I was younger, my mom would get so irritated because nicole would make a giant mess of the bathroom, so then she just started taking over.

Speaker 1 1:34

Yeah, she was like I'll just do it, plus the one color she said you weren't allowed to have was cotton candy pink. And then I died at cotton candy pink. I thought, thank god had a lot to do with me not being allowed to touch her hair anymore too, maybe.

Speaker 2 1:52

So that was irritating, and I just got the notification from Amazon that my bleach is being delivered today. So don't, I'm annoyed. Yeah, I can't do my hair.

Speaker 1 2:04

I can't do my hair. I can't do my hair. Today is Memorial Day. It is Thank you.

Speaker 2 2:10

Thank you for your service.

Speaker 1 2:11

Yes, To everyone who lost their life. Thank you To their families. Yeah, so Memorial Day around here, especially where you are, is chaos.

Speaker 2 2:23

It's the unofficial start of summer.

Speaker 1 2:26

AKA chaos.

Speaker 2 2:29

The problem is, even though it happens every year the same time every year, nobody is really prepared for it. A because they don't have their summer help yet, or they just got their summer help and everybody is being trained. Don't have their summer help yet, or they just got their summer help and everybody is being trained and it just is chaos and yeah, so it's been fun down there and the traffic, and I said because we both have off obviously for the holiday.

Speaker 2 3:01

Um, I was like well, we'll do it on monday and I'll get up early. Well, I'll get up when I get up and then I'll drive up, because she's beach traffic heads this way so I was like well, I'll just do it and then I didn't get up till later than I wanted to, and it's cloudy and cold, and so everybody is actually leaving early, so my plans were just all around foiled it didn't seem like it took you too too long to get up here though.

Speaker 2 3:27

Um, I actually listened to the entirety of dragon's dream, my 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 see what all the fuss was about. So I was listening to a quality control, because I never listened to these after I didn't.

Speaker 1 3:48

Yeah, I had to drive a long distance the week before last so I listened to maybe the Vietnam one. It is really good, I mean I do laugh out loud. I do too, and I was there, I know, but it's still funny, I know I was laughing on. Do laugh out loud. I do too, and I was there, I know, but it's still funny, I know.

Speaker 2 4:06

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 Recton Washington, yes, is it?

Speaker 1 4:19

Seiko Maine. Yes, had one from the Netherlands this week. We did. We had what?

Speaker 2 4:35

Germany, germany. I don't know what happened to our Australian friends. I know, come back, come back. It is neat the way it gives you like a breakdown, although it is weird because mine doesn't pop up anywhere near where I actually am. So who knows? Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 1 4:56

Yeah, mine comes up as Dover.

Speaker 2 4:58

But everybody at work either comes up as Millsboro or somewhere in New Jersey. Is the tower there? I don't know.

Speaker 1 5:05

Oh, speaking of Dover, that just reminded me something cool. Yesterday I was watching my um id channel murder shows and it took place in 2003 and a body was found in cape may and the girl was from Dover. Really, yep, they were at Dover High School and it's the new Dover High School, so I know it was filmed more recently, so they showed the front of it. They showed inside, like that's definitely the hallways. I'm in there once a week, I know what it looks like. So this girl was 16, in foster care, lots of sexual abuse, and she ended up, long story short, the kid went to DSU. He was an aviation mechanic major.

Speaker 1 6:01

I know this one, I know this one Yep, he, they, I don't't know met at a party or something. So he and this other guy took the 16 year old to a hotel and they both had sex with her there. And then she went to take a shower 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't know friend tries to stop him. So he says, um, so he strangles her.

Speaker 2 6:39

It takes a really long time to strangle somebody. Yes, and she was fighting yeah, it's three minutes without a fight?

Speaker 1 6:44

yeah, not that, I know that for sure, but I'm pretty sure that it has been told to me that it is three minutes especially with your bare hands, like if you're gonna do it, get behind somebody with a garrotte.

Speaker 2 6:56

Yes, yes, exactly.

Speaker 1 6:58

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 to dover air force base. So he kills her, he wraps her in chains, he gets permission to fly out of dover air force base, he flies over cape may and throws her out of the plane, and he didn't put enough chains on her to balance out the buoyancy of a dead body.

Speaker 2 7:29

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 bowels where it's gonna to bloat.

Speaker 1 7:44

Yes, you got to let that air out somehow, so you got to you have to make sure that there's holes and there's a reason the mafia use cinder blocks. Extra weight yes, because those people are trained too. Yes, you got to make sure you get that extra weight on.

Speaker 2 7:58

I mean the mafia knows how to do it yeah, yeah until you know they start like mead drying up, and then their secrets are all coming out. So Out in the desert.

Speaker 1 8:08

Yeah, so they caught the guy, but it was nuts Like right here in my town, the schools I go to I go to DSU campus because they have a high school there Early college high school and I also work for that school. So, yeah, it was pretty neat.

Speaker 2 8:25

Yeah, I remember that one. I think I just heard about that one on a one of my murder Dateline. Maybe Might have been a Dateline. I recently discovered Dateline podcast and it's just the show.

Speaker 1 8:39

You and my nephew are too much alike. He's sad because I think he's gone through all the datelines. That's what he was listening to all day. You two are crazy.

Speaker 2 8:52

One of my friends has told me about a podcast called the Rest is History and it's two British guys and they do a lovely job of history. Well, he told me about it because they had a five part I think it was five part titanic of course I had to listen to that and then, um, yeah, so I'm listening to that, because during covid they did like three a week or something all right.

True Crime Stories from Dover

Speaker 1 9:17

So I really need to remember, when we're done here, for us to tell jay that because he has been, my husband has been looking for a podcast and he did Joe Rogan for a bit. I think he's done with that, um, and then he's been trying to find other things. He's a person who likes to try both sides of the story, so some of the stuff he's listening to is not stuff I want to hear anything about, so I end up like ignoring him while he's trying to talk about it.

Speaker 1 9:52

But anyway, he really is sincerely trying to look for something good and I suggested to him. I was like what about some sort of like deep dive into history, Because he's very interested in all sorts of historical things? Uh, we watch a lot of documentaries on stuff like that. So hopefully between the two of us 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 the world 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 British accent. Yes, I fucking love a British accent. 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 that country.

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 for a minute and he does the hey you guys, it's hilarious, I was rolling on that accents always blew my mind yeah it's weird to me that I sound normal here's my thing about. I like accents, just I want, I need to find, and maybe I should look that up, but I don't know. What is it like? The etymology of accents?

Speaker 2 11:12

or something I don't know maybe I think it's insane that there's the boston accent, new york accent, philadelphia accent, baltimore accent and washington d DC accent. They're all like 45 minutes apart, but they're. They're different, but they're not like you can. If you listen to those, you can hear them slide into each other. Absolutely it's, it's, it's pretty cool, it is. And then you come here and we're two hours from all from Baltimore, two hours from Baltimore, two hours from Baltimore, two hours from Washington and two hours from Philadelphia.

Speaker 1 11:45

And we don't sound anything like that. And it's funny too because my dad's from Jersey, north Jersey. He hung out in the city, new York City, when he was a kid and you know a New York and a Jersey accent. But I don't consider my dad to have a New York or a Jersey accent, he just sounds normal to me. But people will tell him, like in Florida, they can guess he's from Jersey because of his accent. And I'm like what, like you don'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 and bred Sussex County, like one of them, has the thickest Sussex County 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 learn about accents, because it's I mean, I get it, that it's Well. And then there's one of the islands in the Chesapeake, I don't know which one, oh yeah. Deal Island or one of them Apparently still speaks the Queen's English like Shakespearean English. Well, they are pretty isolated out 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 Shakespeare in 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 those right, yeah. I've been to Kent Island, kent Deal. 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 the way 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 right through 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 it is 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 to let it slip. I was like let's just make sure we get this in. So find us wherever you listen to podcasts. Remember to like rate review, please, please, please, please, please. We are starting to slowly build. We kind of plateaued on a lot of things and I feel like we're getting a little momentum. So just throw a little something 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 kikity talk.

Speaker 1 14:29

I haven't done anything I need to get back into that. Yeah, and I've been kind of lacking too, um, but I've just been kind of testing different things 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 not really sure how that's gonna yeah now, this is our first summer. Yeah, I don't know what people do 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 in the summer, but no idea yeah, I don't know what people I do the same thing all the time, so but again shout out to all of our regulars we see you, we appreciate you and anyone that we 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 rotten tomatoes and imbd. What is this? What is a blockbuster? That's what you're asking yourself right now. Typically a very popular and financially successful feature film with wide appeal, often leading to extensive merchandising and franchising opportunities. And a summer blockbuster, as you may or may not have guessed, happens in the summer. Wow, it's a big budget production released in May, june, july or August. They often feature a lot of action and special effects are released when many people are on vacation or have more free time and are more likely to spend their money. It may seem like that they have always 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 historically their least profitable season. It was a challenging period for film, which struggled to maintain a consistent cash flow and keep moviegoers in theaters. At a critical crossroads, hollywood needed a significant shift to sustain its growth. The pivotal change came about thanks to a cool invention In the film industry's early days. Cinemas were pretty miserable, especially during the summer, and they could feel like saunas. Most people took the opportunity to travel and enjoy the great outdoors and didn't want to spend their vacations inside a hot theater. It wasn't until 1925 that the first 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 the Rivoli Theater in Times Square. The centrifugal chiller made its debut on Memorial Day. Despite some initial hiccups, theater goers were impressed by the technology and by 1930, more than 300 theaters followed suit and advertised that their buildings were cooled by refrigeration. Smart yeah, as patrons started choosing cinemas as an entertaining way to beat the heat. The air conditioning had the dual purpose of keeping the expensive and often unstable equipment from overheating. As sound, lighting and projection technology continually improved through the 30s, improved through the 30s, the summer season was often a waste for film studios, as most people wanted to travel. You know, like the whole, we're going 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 so big, 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 that cactus that we almost got killed for when we make it big and we're doing something in California, send us to the redwood forest.

Speaker 2 18:14

It was funny because there's a guy on TikTok. Well, two guys they're British and they came over here and were traveling and they do a whole thing about how you know say that americans are not cultured because we don't travel. And they're both like because you have no idea how big this country is, like you can drive for 12 hours and be in the same state, still, never even leave the state. Yes, so they were like they do travel, they just say there's, and they were like there's everything 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 all yeah, I used to think about that because I didn't have a passport until last year, um, because I never needed one and I was, 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 here that I I've seen a lot in this country and there's so a hundred times more that I haven't seen the only good thing, like the only thing I like about Europe, um is how old like we don't have old buildings, stuff like that.

Speaker 1 19:18

Here are my jam yeah that and I like the food. Well, you wouldn't like the food. You don't like changes in food. They have McDonald's everywhere though, yeah, yeah, and just seeing how people do things differently yeah. That is, it's just so far.

Podcast Updates and Summer Listening

Speaker 2 19:34

It's so far. I know you got to take a plane over 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 happens in. 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 to plan 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 resort to reruns, or what we would call today indie films, in hopes of a sleeper hit. However, that would all change with the introduction of the blockbuster in the 40s. The etymology of this everyday summertime stable is actually pretty dark. During during world war ii, newsreels shown at the beginning of feature film would detail the war efforts, including the strategic aerial bombings throughout europe and Asia. The bombing technique could literally 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 was Richard Wallace's 1943 war drama oh, that's out of order. However, the first time the term blockbuster was used to describe a film was richard wallace's 1943 war drama bombardier. Trade magazine variety and motion picture herald called the film which featured the training program for the united states army air forces bombardiers. The blockbuster of all action. Thrill service shows Advertisements in 1944 described Louis Hayward's war documentary with the Marines at Tarawa as hitting the heart like a two-ton blockbuster. Additionally, the term was used to describe hits like the war drama Baton in 1943, the romantic comedy no Time for Love in 1943, and the musical Brazil in 1944.

Speaker 1 21:39

Interesting.

Speaker 2 21:41

That is pretty dark. There are several other theories regarding the origins of the term blockbuster to describe films, but the most likely explanation is a PR strategy. Publicist and trade magazines wanted to draw on readers' familiarity with blockbuster bombs from World War II as an analogy to describe the potential huge commercial impacts these films would have on the market that is really cool while hollywood finally had a term for films in commercial with commercial potential, with a broad audience, it still had a problem putting butts in seats during the summer.

Speaker 2 22:11

they were still reluctant to produce and distribute big budget films during such a financially risky season. It wasn't until Universal took a leap of faith when an up-and-coming director and his ambitious plans to adapt a Peter Benchley 1974 novel, oh what was the name of it?

Speaker 2 22:31

Jaws. This decision would ultimately redefine the landscape of summer cinema and solidify the concept of the blockbuster film. According to the Guinness World Record, Steven Spielberg's Jaws is considered the first true summer blockbuster. Not only do people physically queue up around the block to see the movie, but it also became the 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 spent unprecedented $700,000 on television advertising, moviegoers, particularly teens with an expendable income, were willing to line up to see Bruce the Shark in action two or three times throughout the summer of 1975. Jaws became a cultural phenomenon and laid the foundation of what a true summer blockbuster entails Big budget thrills, with merchandising and franchising 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 movie also. 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 strikes back that I remember. Yeah, I figured it would, but right 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 muppet movie. Yeah, I love the muppet movie, I love the Muppets. So Star Wars the first summer blockbuster based on an original screenplay. This departure from the norm proved groundbreaking, as Star Wars set box office records and enjoyed an unprecedented theatrical run that spanned over a year. Star Wars' massive success followed the trail initially blazed by Jaws, and the industry took notice of the potential for profitability in producing large-scale, franchise-worthy productions. Throughout the 80s and 90s, film studios continued to release big-budget, high-production movies with widespread appeal during the summer season. This approach not only maximized box office potential, but also solidified the summer blockbuster as a staple of the movie industry.

Speaker 2 24:57

While the latter part of the 20th century focused on science fiction and comedies, with the arrival of the 21st century, there's been a significant shift towards fantasy and action genres, particularly within the superhero subgenre. This transition is a reflection of the evolving preferences of global audiences and the remarkable advancements in CGI and special effects. These technological developments have enabled filmmakers to craft visually stunning and imaginative cinematic worlds previously unimaginable in Hollywood worlds previously unimaginable in Hollywood. During the 2000s and 2010s, studios started greenlighting multi-film projects, capitalizing on the success of world building and layering storytelling techniques that have been popular in the 80s and 90s. This approach allowed filmmakers to create expansive cinematic universes with interconnected storylines and characters across multiple films some of the most successful franchises of this period. So what I ended up doing was I just went through Rotten Tomatoes I-M-B-D-O-N-E-Wcom to look up. They all had, of course, the 75 bests.

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's terrible so I didn't include them. But this is my edited down version and I only went to 1999 because none of us care about 2000 and up exactly. I mean we might, but I didn't. That seemed like a lot. Let's start with 1975 and, of course, 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 this before. I'm gonna do Jaws. I can't decide if I want to do it on in June because it's the 50th, or if I want to wait till shark week because there's so much fun facts about job. That's a great story. How jules got.

Speaker 1 27:02

Maybe you could do a two-parter do one part during his anniversary and then the other part during shark week, because I love jules. Yeah, I'm pretty sure you could take up two episodes.

Speaker 2 27:13

I could take up four years. I love Jaws, Although I don't like anyway. The other ones aren't so great, but no, you know they're fine. Yeah, 1976, june 25th was the Omen. I did not realize that was a summer 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 to be yeah, that part where the head yeah, that one gets me every time and I know it's coming.

Speaker 2 27:50

Yeah, again, the music, the anticipation, yes. Well, I'm going to stop talking about Jaws 1977, of course, we remember from earlier. Star Wars, episode IV, a New Hope, was released on May 25th. Yes, which was what? Yesterday, yeah, today's, the 26th, yeah, I did not see star wars in there. I don't. I should not tell you all this, but I'm going to. I am not a star star wars fan well, you're star trek, so star trek, I do not like I I don't, it's not. I like the those three uh-huh are three.

Speaker 2 28:32

Yes, I have never seen any of the other ones they're just your typical. No interest my husband watches all 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 star wars, 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 yeah yeah, I mean, I've seen them all numerous times I don't go out of my way to watch them, right, I would much rather watch a star trek, but that's just me. Yep, 1978, june 16th was greece now you're talking my language.

Speaker 1 29:10

I know I. That is one of my all-time favorite movies. Yes, I can sing every word to every song. Yes, and I can regurgitate most of 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 I know every word, I know every song. I love grease too I think because it's just so silly yeah, it's just so to me it's more of a 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 driving those cars, so I think I love that about it a lot, because you know, of course, john travolta is my favorite character, sandy's. All right, yeah, like, yeah, a little ditzy for me.

Speaker 2 30:23

I never got it. I mean, I've seen it a hundred times, but I just never yeah, I love, love, love that movie.

Speaker 1 30:30

Oh my gosh we have this.

History of Summer Blockbusters

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't know.

Speaker 1 30:58

I probably should watch it but yeah, just I mean, it was the start of a very long line of a genre of movie it was. But just not my type of movie. No, it's not my type of movie either.

Speaker 2 31:13

Yeah, so we'll move on to 1979. Okay, it also had two that made these 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 we literally watched this movie once a month yeah, I haven't seen it in a long time, but I did see it a million times back then. It's one of the ones we had on vhs, 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 are certain movies that I guess they're ones that I go to bed early and he stays up all night, so he puts these movies on that he knows we both watch and then once I go to bed he'll watch whatever, but or he'll just go through the entire alien franchise and he stays up for. However, many eight hours to watch them. All that, and from last week's episode to shining we.

Speaker 1 32:15

We have that and watched that numerous times. Yeah, but Alien was ahead of its 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 very real.

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, I don't know if it's like, because like when you say, oh, a lot of these movies held up is it because we remember them like the feelings that we had then. And then, when you watch them now you're like oh yeah, that totally is total. But then like when somebody else watches them that didn't live. Then it's like like my children.

Speaker 2 33:13

Yeah, that's like you've got to watch 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 my second, third favorite rocky movie. Rocky one favorite rocky balboa comes in second and then rocky 2 is my third and then the rest of them can go fuck themselves. 1980. Star Wars Episode V the Empire Strikes 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 have been seven. Yes, so, yes, I do remember seeing this in the theater. I think I saw this one in the theater too. I think it was at the little theater in Milford in the strip mall. There used to be a theater in there.

Speaker 2 34:25

I think I saw the next, whatever. The next one was Return of the Jedi, because I remember the Ewoks in a movie theater and that was coming up down here in the next guy so yeah, empire strikes back. June 18th, 1980, 1981, june 12th raiders of the lost ark one of the top five all-time franchise yes, I feel like, I feel like when you, when we go through these, it's very um steven spielberg, centric steven spielberg really likes the blockbuster he does yeah he, he got very rich off of them there many of them are his

Speaker 2 35:09

so um june 19th was superman 2 I 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 cheesy looking now because I'm just picturing like the kryptonite and him flying and stuff like that it's pretty bad yeah, but I loved that movie when I was young.

Speaker 2 35:35

Superhero movies are not my thing, except Batman, and obviously it's because Batman is 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 any of 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't know oh, oh you mean like the people? Oh, like uh iron man, oh yeah, no, I've never seen it. Um, captain america, captain america, maybe, maybe, but um yeah, when uh covid hit and we were like a month or two in and we knew we were, down for the count for the. For a while, um, we binged every marvel movie in order in order and they don't weren't released 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 forgot to 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 come out. I know I've been seeing a lot posted 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 one and then halfway through the second one and we turned it off A 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 like I can't.

Speaker 2 37:36

Yeah, peewee, I know, so we made it up to. We have gotten to him doing peewee's playhouse he had just started doing the saturday morning I there was a lot of shit I I did not know about peewee he kept it. It's good. Okay, you can really see his conflict of being who he Paul Rubens, right? Well, actually Paul Rubenfeld and yeah, and Pee Wee, he spent so much time crafting that it's just. You can really see the conflict in it.

Speaker 2 38:21

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 just went with it and I mean it's really good, it is really good. Rocky 2 was in 1979, not peewee 1980. Oh, we did that one. 1980 was star wars the empire strikes back. Is that the one where Luke finds out that, um, no, darth Vader's his dad, luke, I am your father. 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 Steven Spielberg movie, et. I did see that one. I do remember that in the theater.

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 it as an adult, it's like a whole different, like through, don't watch it through your kids eyes when you were a kid, but watch it now as an adult. It's like a whole different, like through, don't watch it through your kid's eyes when you were a kid, but watch it now as an adult, adult, and not like pay attention more. I think I I hear that it's a whole different movie well, I haven't watched it since I was a kid, so yeah, I forget where I saw.

Speaker 2 39:52

That was like go back and watch et and watch it like as an adult and not like leave your kid at your kid self at home and watch it as an adult. It's a whole different movie. That was June 11th, june 25th Blade Runner.

Speaker 1 40:06

Wow, that was. I saw that movie a thousand times 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 good one 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 I was not impressed that was 2015.

Speaker 2 40:54

It was the summer blockbuster of 2015 because when I was going through it after 2000 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 chick from 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 do remember the Ewoks, because I wanted an Ewok. I think that's probably my favorite of all of them. Because, of Ewoks, because of Ewoks. So, 1983 was packed full of summer 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's Vacation 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 Jones and the Temple of Doom Excellent movie. I mean, who does not love some Indiana Jones? You have to Look what's not to love 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, the better looking he gets yeah and again he's a helicopter pilot in, like montana, and he rescues people. And could you fucking imagine being 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, like you know, after the commercial. You'll never believe who and I was like indiana jones, and then it came back on and it was him and jay was like what I was like? Yeah, I know things, I know stuff 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 I don't like. That has hair support in it, he just is great, he is an excellent actor and him in Gary Oldman in Air Force One. I know it's like kind of a, I think it's like a throwaway movie, but I fucking love that movie. 1984. May 20. Damn, I did that one Moving. On June 8th, 1984. May 20. Damn, I did that one Moving on June 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 the gatekeeper. The gatekeeper Ugh Everything about it Again. Sigourney Weaver yeah, the Stay Pu-. We just watched-. Oh, what did we watch with Rick Moranis? We watched Spaceballs last night. I was going to say I knew we watched.

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, may 22nd, rambo, first blood, which was rambo 2, I guess, I don't know. Yeah, very good, and that movie was famous at the time for having like the most murders or gunshots 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 big franchises and that's good for him, but he's Rocky too. I don't care what you say. Sorry, john Rambobo, but you're rocky. July 3rd of 1985 oh, we're gonna go back in time back to the future.

Speaker 1 45:25

I did see that movie in the theater. I remember, and my aunt ants two 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 blocks from my house. It was also my bus stop, so my parents would just drop us off let me know when you're done. And then they had that. That's where they had the pay phone that we would call from to make the collect call If you want to listen to that.

Speaker 2 45:57

That is one of our earlier episodes, collect call from like whatever. Listen to it. Very entertaining. Back to the future, 1986 had quite a few also. May 16th, another Tom Cruise top 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 so yeah, 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 thing like I know I love a summer blockbuster when, as I'm going through some of these, I'm like oh yeah, I really did. Um, there was a great comedian somewhere 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 your life, you know and you have. You know marital issues and all that, 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'm sorry and they didn't put it in here because it's in the 2000s. But fucking Transformers Not many people I know, but I don't care.

Speaker 1 47:39

I love, every single fucking love, the transformer, one of them, and I don't even know why, like I'm? Not a big fan of any of the actors that are in it. Um, I don't, I don't know. I do like action movies, so that'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 one where the bumblebee is real. No, what's? His face gets thrown out of a car or something and bumblebee comes and transform like they go and they're gonna hit something and he untransformed and then he 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 it doesn't, unfortunately. July 18th of 1986. Aliens, the second in the franchise, and August 15th, the Fly. Did you see that meme I shared? 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 today about like a Jurassic Park where it's 100 million years from now and they find a mosquito and they clone it and boom, it's Jeff Goldblum. But they mix it up with other mosquito DNA. So boom, not only have a Jurassic Park sequel, but then you have the sequel to the Fly. I love that. They totally should do that. Yeah, 1987, may 20th, beverly Hills, cop 2, which I assume because it's a lot of twos like the second of a franchise.

Speaker 1 49:38

So I'm assuming, like what happened was they made the first one and it became like huge maybe it was like a Christmas release that's what I'm thinking, too, like a Thanksgiving, because I know Beverly Hills Cop is definitely the best of the Beverly Hills Cops so I'm thinking what happened was the first one of the franchise got crazy, and then they were like, oh well, we'll just do it in the summer. That movie is fantastic. I love it. Who put the banana in the tailpipe?

Speaker 2 50:04

1988. June 3rd 1988 was a big year for the summer blockbuster. June 3rd, big, which is a very problematic movie. Now, I mean technically, he was 13, right right in a grown-up's body. Oh yeah, june 15th, bull durham.

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Speaker 1 50:35

Yeah, june 22nd, though yes, I saw this one in the theater too I think I saw this many times. Yes, who framed roger rabbit oh my god I remember the first time I saw my favorite um line was 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 drops when he drops the shoe and dip oh yes, that's sad that's, my that'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 back and 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 Holy Gremlins, batman.

Speaker 1 51:39

If you want to hear about the not so christmas christmas movies. If you're super sad, we're not going 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 my favorite.

Speaker 1 51:56

Yes, that one is excellent, but I also have to say I don't really know that I could pick a favorite from the first, like they're all so good and 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, I think 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 Last Crusade is just him and Chung Connery and their back and forth with 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 out at 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 literally the same story Boy meets girl, they break up over something that wasn't really the way it looked, yep, and then they end up 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 idol off 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, but that neighborhood has more snakes in it than I have ever seen in my entire life. I saw one just the other day in the street. It's a neighborhood, what it's the fucking weirdest thing. And I was talking to my friend and I was like this fucking neighborhood has more snake. And he was like when I did that route I saw snakes in it. He was like I had never seen snakes on any other route until that route they're everywhere in that 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 hit it because, even though I fucking hate him, I'm trying to hit it and I was like bro move and I don't like the way they move.

Speaker 2 54:18

It's creepy and it was like trying to get up on the curb and it was like get the fuck out of this be over now I literally I probably see a snake three or four 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 1 better.

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 kind of movie, but I think I don't know that I've ever watched any of the.

Speaker 2 54:56

Terminators. I've definitely seen one and two. You'd think it would be my kind of movie, but I think I don't know, For whatever reason, I get like a wild hair up my ass and I'm just not going to see whatever.

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 best movie ever.

Speaker 1 55:17

And I'm Like me with Forrest Gump. Yes, 1992, may 15th Lethal Weapon, another one where everyone was just as good as the one 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 all time, 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 on her.

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, because you 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-hmm mm-hmm keanu and sandra. This one, this 1994, was also full of summer blockbusters. June 24th, the lion king, which I'm surprised disney doesn't show up more.

Speaker 1 56:35

I think they like to do it at christmas time though yeah I think theirs is like a thanksgiving thing yeah, yeah, I saw the lion king um live did you 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 like up.

Speaker 2 56:57

I don't see it. I I most disney movies are like sad and then they get happy I don't find a fucking minute of up. Happy no, it never gets. Happy no, that up is like me. Yeah, in life, that is just never get up, You're like nailed it yeah, yeah, june 6th. No, that's July. July 6th of 1994 is Nicole's favorite 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 discuss amongst yourselves. Horse gum 1995. May 19th is a Die Hard with a Vengeance Another sequel. And June 30th I put this one in here it was Apollo 13. Oh yeah, Because I love Apollo 13. 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 next one 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 back through this, because that is when I decided I thought about was the first time I really, I guess thought about was like the first time I really I guess thought about a summer blockbuster. To me, when I think summer blockbuster, it is always Independence Day always yep, yep, that makes sense.

Speaker 2 58:24

I love that movie, will Smith. Come on, I fucking love anything Will Smith does too. 1997, may 22nd the Lost World, jurassic Park. I like the book better than the movie. Okay, so the book is much better. The end of jurassic park. The book is pretty fucking crazy yeah the book is yeah, the end of, yeah, yeah, the book, the book, spoiler alert. And then, july 4th of 1997, men in Black.

Speaker 2 59:01

I'm glad you included that one, because I guess they decided that and I do remember, like for a while there, when you thought Summer Blockbuster, it was Will Smith, 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 have been 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 was pregnant oh, yeah, right that summer I was living with you when 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 it song came out of that. Oh yeah, don't want to miss that thing yeah. Mm-hmm, july 15th was something about 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 cameron diaz fan um, she got popular there for a while. That she did, and then she married angels and then she married the dude from um good, charlotte yeah and uh, they're still happily married with kids and I think she dropped off then. I think she intentionally dropped off.

Speaker 2 1:00:20

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 1:00:26

She doesn't text you in a minute.

Speaker 2 1:00:27

No, it's been weird, it's funny, it is funny.

Speaker 1 1:00:32

Yeah.

Speaker 2 1:00:33

July 24th of 1998 was Saving Private Ryan.

Speaker 1 1:00:37

Mm-hmm.

Speaker 2 1:00:38

Yeah.

Speaker 1 1:00:39

We watched that over the winter sometime.

Speaker 2 1:00:42

That's good.

Speaker 1 1:00:43

Oh.

Speaker 2 1:00:44

Yeah, that opening scene is so fucking stressful.

Speaker 1 1:00:47

Yeah Well, I know that's horrible for me to say On Memorial Day. On Memorial Day, 1999.

Speaker 2 1:00:56

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 1:01:01

It's crazy to me that those started that long ago.

Speaker 2 1:01:05

The new ones, yeah, it shows how weird time is. When I was doing this I was like wow, really, because 1999, august 6th, the sixth sense, oh wow I know that movie fooled me the first time I watched it I fell for it hook line and sinker I did not see it coming.

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Speaker 1 1:01:23

Thankfully social media was not really that big of a thing that could spoil it for everybody because I did. I fell for it hook line and sinker and I feel about bruce willis like you do about um will smith. Yeah, like I'll watch anything I will watch anything with.

Speaker 2 1:01:40

He is such a great actor it's.

Speaker 1 1:01:43

It's so sad yeah but so beautiful at the same time to see how the whole family comes together yes, including his ex-wife and his wife and she moved back in.

Speaker 2 1:01:53

I think they're all living together. I think they all live together.

Speaker 1 1:01:56

It's awesome.

Speaker 2 1:01:57

It is awesome. Good for them. I love Demi Moore anyway.

Speaker 1 1:02:02

Yeah, me too.

Speaker 2 1:02:04

But yeah, it's pretty cool. I mean cool, I guess, is not the right word for it. It's beautiful.

Speaker 1 1:02:10

It is lovely that they can all yes.

Speaker 2 1:02:13

Yeah, so that was my list, because I didn't want to go past 1999 because of course you know, then it gets into the Nobody cares about the aughts no. And I probably haven't seen most of them because I think I Well, I probably started running out of disposable income Around that time?

Speaker 1 1:02:28

Yeah.

Speaker 2 1:02:29

And I was probably working more than I needed to at that time. So yeah, working more than I needed 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 for an hour and I only got to 1999, so Another 25 years of movies.

Speaker 1 1:02:45

That was a very, very fun episode. It makes me think about, you know, when we're looking for something to watch. I need to remember these things too, because some of them I haven't seen in a long time.

Speaker 2 1:02:58

Keep the script and then you're like, oh, today we're going to watch you would think that would work.

Speaker 1 1:03:03

Yeah, I needed to buy a plane ticket because I'm going to Austin in July, it's for work, but anyway I hadn't been buying the ticket and my husband kept reminding me to, but he would send me texts while I'm at work and I'm busy and I just didn't think of it and plus my corporate credit card was at home, so the office didn't work.

Speaker 1 1:03:28

So anyway, he was like write yourself a note. I was like it won't work, put a note in your phone. It won't work, like I will put something in my phone with a reminder and that thing will pop up every hour for a week and I will just keep ignoring it because I keep thinking no, I don't want to turn it off, because then I will forget, and then eventually I just turn it off, like those things just don't work for me.

Speaker 1 1:03:49

So he made a post it and he stuck it on the doorframe going from the main room we hang out in to the kitchen. And a few days later he was like do you buy your plane ticket yet? And I looked over to see if the note was still there, and it was. I had not seen it again since he hung it there, and so eventually he put it on my office door and he mentioned it to me yesterday before he left for work. So those things clicked and yesterday I bought my ticket. Life is really hard for me, I get it.

Speaker 2 1:04:25

Austin huh.

Speaker 1 1:04:30

Yeah, in July.

Speaker 2 1:04:32

Seems hot.

Speaker 1 1:04:33

It seems Inferno-like. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know what it's like there in July.

Speaker 2 1:04:35

Seems hot, it seems Inferno-like. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know what it's like there.

Speaker 1 1:04:38

I've never wanted to go to Texas because Texas is stupid. I'm just kidding if you're from Texas, although I don't think we've ever had a Texas?

Speaker 1 1:04:46

listen to us, yeah, we have. Oh, okay, but really it's because the Dallas Cowboys live there. Yes, and that's why I hate the whole state of Texas. But I did always say if I would ever go, it would be to Austin because of the music scene and all that good stuff. How long are you going? I fly there on a Sunday because the conference starts Monday, and I fly back Friday. Oh, nice, nice, mm-hmm, hmm, yep, friday, oh, mm-hmm, nice.

Speaker 2 1:05:14

Mm-hmm Hmm.

Speaker 1 1:05:15

Yep, cool. Yeah, we might need to use a pre-recorded episode that week Funny that you should mention that.

Speaker 2 1:05:26

Getting ready to record a second one now, yeah.

Speaker 1 1:05:29

After we have some cheeseburgers on the grill.

Speaker 2 1:05:31

Yeah, we've got to hurry up, though, because it's almost 1 o'clock, okay, Anyway. So have some cheeseburgers on the grill. Yeah, we've got to hurry up, though, because it's almost one o'clock, okay, um, anyway. So thanks for listening everybody to know what we were doing here. Um, you can like share rate review. Uh, you can find us where you listen to podcasts. Follow us on all the socials, at like whatever pod. You can send an email to us about what your favorite summer blockbuster is at likewhateverpod, at gmailcom, or don't like whatever.

Speaker 1 1:06:03

Bye, bye.