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Hello.

Hello, I'm Katie and welcome to Retro Made Your Pop Culture Rewind.

Ready for another trip down memory lane.

I seriously cannot wait to cover this amazing Patrick Swayze performance

that has attained true cult status.

We'll be traveling back to May of 1989 to discuss the epic action

thrill Ride that is Roadhouse and all of the other goings on of the time.

And I am so excited to have Jamie Fenderson and Milo Denison from the

eighties and nineties Uncensored Podcast here with me today.

Thanks guys for joining me.

Greetings,

Milo - The 80s and 90s Uncensored: Thanks for having

us.

tell us about you and your show.

Well it's basically the eighties and nineties.

So if it happened during, to those two glorious decades, it is up for discussion.

We'll do things like, uh, retrospectives where we talk about historic events.

Uh, we might do verses where we see who would win in a cage match

between Prince or Michael Jackson.

Various in depth discussions about, , the eighties and nineties.

That's pretty much it.

We, record once a week episodes every Monday.

I love your show and you guys, if you like Retro Made, please

check out Jamie and Milo's show.

It's really fun.

Thank

Milo - The 80s and 90s Uncensored: It's fun.

It's fun doing it.

Like I think that's the main reason why is we both really enjoy making the show,

Yeah, we don't have anything else to do either, so we're pretty much

like

it shows that you guys are like legit friends outside the show.

Speaking of eighties and nineties, I think we should get into the

retro frame of mind by opening the time capsule from May, 1989.

According to Nielsen ratings from the 88 89 season, there's

some popular primetime tv.

I'm curious what you guys think of these shows if you were watching them, if

or if you have any specific thoughts.

We have the Cosby Show.

Roseanne a Different World.

Cheers.

The Golden Girls Who's The Boss, murder, she wrote Empty Nest and then

two other shows that I'll get into in a second that I hadn't, that I

didn't think were big at the time.

But before I get into those, do you have any thoughts

about that top lineup?

Milo - The 80s and 90s Uncensored: Cheers is probably in my top

10 list, if not top five.

I am actually, my wife had never seen it and we're rewatching it right now and

we're currently on season four or five.

Uh, I think it's five.

And so, uh, so that's how great of a show this is, that I'm

forcing my wife to

sit down and watch it with

I can't

Yeah, I was rewatching

Cheers during the pandemic.

I was rewatching it because like, you can't go out and I'm like,

man, I miss going to the pub.

This sucks.

But I was like, oh wait, there's cheers.

So, and it's streaming for free . So I, I rewatched cheers during the pandemic

and I, like, I had some of my own beer.

Like I was just

like pretending

I was hanging out with Norm in the gang

I love that.

It worked out.

It was awesome.

Yeah.

Uh, the Cosby Show is an interesting one because it is a really

good show, but thanks to Bill Cosby's outside of the office,

uh, behavior

activities.

Milo - The 80s and 90s Uncensored: Yeah, it, uh, it doesn't really

get brought up too much anymore.

Um, you don't really see people rewatching it,

Yeah, but E, everybody watched it back then though, bro, remember?

And it wasn't like a racial thing or anything.

It was like everybody watched the Cosby Show back then and you didn't

know about whatever is happening

today.

So it, that was

the show that everybody

watched.

And I remember Roseanne, too.

Ro Roseanne was like my,

a trip because it was like more like my family than, than

all the other sitcom families.

Like they're all kind of perfect that you wish you had that family, but Roseanne's

kind of blue collar and they have issues.

I was like, that's, that's more like my family

actually , so I that's why I, like Roseanne

a lot.

I think that's why it resonated with so many others is that so many

families could relate to it because it wasn't perfect And their houses isn't

always this like perfect show home and you know, I mean it's like the anti Huxtables

Every season that it was on.

It's listed, it's like in the top 10 shows for Nielsen ratings.

But it is too bad that, obviously people don't feel comfortable

or have a different, it just doesn't hit the same now,

which is unfortunate.

So anything but Love was a show that was in the top Nielsen

ratings for this season.

Had you guys ever heard of it?

I

had not.

Milo - The 80s and 90s Uncensored: don't think so.

Who was in

it?

Uh,

Yeah.

It's, so it starred Richard Lewis as Marty Gold and Jamie Lee Curtis as Hannah Miller

coworkers at a Chicago magazine, with a mutual romantic attraction who struggled

to keep their relationship professional.

So, you know, same story, but I had actually never heard of it,

but it must have for a short time.

, Been rated really well.

I'd never

For like one season it was super popular and

yeah,

Milo - The 80s and 90s Uncensored: nobody watched it after that.

I've never heard of it either.

That's

news

I've never, do you know how many seasons

it was on?

It wasn't just one.

It was like two or three, if I recall correctly.

Another one that was in the top rated shows for this season was Dear John with

Judd Hirsch,

Dear John.

me.

I'd

actually never seen an

episode.

I, but I'm aware of what it is.

Dear

you seen

it or heard of it?

Milo, you, you're

Milo - The 80s and 90s Uncensored: I haven't never heard of it, but I'm

guessing Jamie has 'cause he is singing

the theme song for it.

I remember that one.

I remember the theme song for it.

By the time you get this letter, I'll be gone.

Dear

John, I

remember the theme song for it.

Yeah,

if I ever

watched a lot

of it, but I remember

the theme song for it.

Yeah, I've actually

seen the opening, like it.

must come on in syndication after something else that I watch.

But it's a sitcom set in New York where Judd Hirsch stars as John Lacey, a

teacher at a prep school in Manhattan.

And after 10 years of marriage, one day he returns home and finds

a dear John letter, his wife Wendy, is leaving him for his best friend.

So

that's the premise of the

show.

But yeah, I, it doesn't look good to me.

So this is 88 89, Seinfeld premieres in 89.

Did you guys recall it being that far back, like even in the eighties?

I don't.

Didn't friends also premiere that same year?

Was it like, because I know, I remember 'cause they were both on the same night,

like friends was earlier and then

Seinfeld was

after.

Yeah, the Thursday

night lineup.

Yeah.

Friends I think started in

94.

So it was a few years later,

Milo - The 80s and 90s Uncensored: for a while then.

Well, Seinfeld was

so long lived and it was such a, it was on for a long time and it's such, it

is associated with the nineties so much that it's, it, you come, when you think

89, it's like, oh

wait,

go.

Went back that far.

Wow.

Yeah.

it did.

I mean, and if you watch those early seasons, like the hair, like Elaine's

hair and some of the clothes, they're Very

So that tracks a little bit.

Also, the Simpsons premiered 89.

Huge.

Into The Simpsons, but yeah,

it's huge.

And then Twin Peaks, Baywatch and American Gladiators.

Do you guys remember

American

Gladiators?

I totally remember, man.

That is awesome.

I loved it.

Dude.

That was so cool.

I feel like I saw, are they coming back?

Are they doing like a remake

or a

they had done a remake, I think, I think.

But what they, Netflix has a very recent, I haven't seen it yet, but

a very recent, uh, documentary that

they

That's what I'm

released

and, and I wanna watch it.

I haven't yet, but I guess it gets shady.

Like American Gladiators got pretty shady behind the scenes, right.

A lot of shady stuff going on.

So I'm, I'm interested to see, I'm interested to see what, um, what

kind of shady action was going on.

'cause I love that show.

It's kind of athletic average Joe's against these like giant

people who were trying to like, stop 'em from and, and all the

obstacles, all that

stuff.

It was

so cool.

And they had names like Nitro and Blade or

something

like that?

Yeah.

,like he, he-man type stuff like.

Yep.

Lace.

Hmm.

Yeah, I'll have to check out

Milo - The 80s and 90s Uncensored: got into

that one.

Hmm.

It must've been on, I, I vaguely remember watching it, but I feel like it

was on like after school or something.

When it was on,

but I remember the theme song for that too.

Dun,

remember that.

And then the action

guitar.

good memory.

Milo - The 80s and 90s Uncensored: He Jamie's, uh, got a, got

a brain for theme songs for

shows from the

eighties.

I love

I

would

put, I

would put

him up in a trivia contest if that was the subject.

My head's full of eighties TV theme songs.

For

real.

It's not a

joke.

It's a disease

Well,

oh no, my brain is the same way, I have all this useless knowledge but anyway,

so therefore we have podcasts about, it,

Yep.

Gotta cure it somehow.

I, did.

I I did watch Twin Peaks outta those though.

I was one of those people that was really into it and like, it was huge.

The thing, they had the game, I think McDonald's or something

had like a game associated to it.

Maybe, maybe not McDonald's, it might've been something else.

And everybody's trying to guess who killed her and stuff.

And being from Seattle, or actually at the time I was living in Spokane,

um, but I mean, it was filmed in Washington State, so we've got that,

filmed 15 minutes from my house.

Actually, we can go to

Tweeds Cafe.

Yeah, totally.

Milo - The 80s and 90s Uncensored: get some

pie.

Get some

on location filming.

I very much prefer that.

You can feel it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It, the thing with Twin Peaks though is like, it started off so great.

That first season was so brilliant and then it just got

so weird and you're like, you

can't follow it.

it.

it was quite

unfortunate.

I feel like I've seen a few episodes, but I never really got into it

Milo - The 80s and 90s Uncensored: Oh yeah, I have, I, I had, I

probably don't have it anymore.

It might be in a box in storage.

The cd, the soundtrack cd.

And I had

a copy of Laura

Palmer's diary,

so

oh, you were legit

Milo - The 80s and 90s Uncensored: I was legit Twin Peaks

fan.

Absolutely.

David

Did you watch The new

one?

Milo - The 80s and 90s Uncensored: I did, again, I didn't like it.

It just went downhill.

Uh, and I just didn't much care for it at all.

Uh, but I did

watch it.

I had to

watch it.

Do you guys

have any guesses as to what famous show ended this year?

89.

Like a primetime show?

Hmm.

What would've ended in 89?

It was a primetime show,

Dynasty, one of those kind of, those kind of,

No, it was a sitcom.

is a

give you another

hint.

It was a sitcom.

. Milo - The 80s and 90s Uncensored: a night

court.

Good guess, but no, give

up.

Yeah.

I

Milo - The 80s and 90s Uncensored: you know the theme song,

do the theme song and

Oh God, no.

can

guess it.

Sing it.

Sing it.

Katie

It would give it away.

Shala la la la.

Oh, uh uh, uh

family

Ties.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Family ties

ended in

What would we do, baby, without

us?

Shut

up.

Yeah, much better.

I have no talent for singing.

We have a whole episode where we s sing out theme songs.

It's very pitiful.

But we did it

Milo - The 80s and 90s Uncensored: quite sad.

Yeah.

I loved that show.

Uh, I, Michael J.

Fox was the coolest.

I wanted to be him.

Like when I was, when I was a kid, I'm like, I.

Oh, come on.

You wear suits.

I want, I thought Republicans were cool back then.

I'm like, I wanna be a Republican.

'cause Michael J.

Fox

is a Republican.

Oh, funny.

It was

fantastic.

Yeah.

That's great.

That lasted a long time.

'cause I think it was on, it started like in the pretty early eighties,

I think we're probably all about the same age.

So like Saturday mornings.

What were you guys watching and what cereal were you eating?

Like what were your faves on Saturday mornings.

1989.

I

was eating cereal for sure.

We, we have a whole episode about cereal too.

Mm-hmm.

But we like, I know we both like, 'cause we did an episode about cereal

and we both like, uh, captain Crunch with

Crunch Berries

Milo - The 80s and 90s Uncensored: Crunch Berries was the good one.

The regular Captain Crunch.

Not a

no, but the

agreed.

berries And, and they were so good.

Even though they kind of shredded your mouth up.

You still ate 'em, you're like this too good.

I know it's gonna hurt later, but we're gonna, we're gonna eat 'em.

But we also.

Milo - The 80s and 90s Uncensored: Grahams.

Golden

Grahams were good,

Yes.

Yeah.

but we also get the bag cereal 'cause we were poor.

So we're like, oh, here's my, here's my Pucky.

Pucky.

charms.

They're not real Lucky

Charms.

You know, kind

of bag cereal.

Remember

Cocoa Puffs.

Yeah.

I totally do.

Like the, there was the cocoa puff version, the fruity Pebble version.

Now they're called Dino Bites.

okay.

Dino Bites and Choco Dino Bites

I actually ate a bowl of tricks like two days

ago.

Like I have

tricks in the house

right

legit.

Mm-hmm.

Milo - The 80s and 90s Uncensored: It good?

It was good.

Yeah.

I'm, I'm like a child still, I still

eat kid

cereal.

and it

turned your milk pink.

My, uh, my almond milk.

Yes.

Mm-hmm.

And cartoons.

Was this like Thundercats?

Was this the kind of Thundercats we were watching?

We were boys, so we were watching like those Thundercats

and Ninja Turtles and all

those kind of action

Milo - The 80s and 90s Uncensored: He, he-man

and,

if he-man was still around.

I know he-man, by 89 maybe he-man went, went away of like maybe he

was canceled by then.

But Transformers

probably still around.

I'll bet.

Yeah.

GI Joe.

Kind of all those action and, and, and you know, back in the eighties

they're like, by the way, we have toys.

Go, go buy

toys.

Everything

had a toy tie

in, right?

The whole purpose of the commercial, or, I mean, the

whole

Well that's what it was.

You're not wrong.

It was a 30 minute commercial to sell

toys

It was,

yes.

And it

it

totally worked.

mm-hmm.

Yeah.

The Heman, I, I loved she rock.

So the

counter, the woman version

of Heman.

He man's cousin.

Yeah.

Smurfs I think was still on in 89.

I loved Smurfs

too.

Milo - The 80s and 90s Uncensored: Was good.

it's like now when you watch Smurfs, you think about how inappropriate it's

that you've got this entire village of boy Smurfs and the one girl Smurf

What's up

Milo - The 80s and 90s Uncensored: they're all

like fawning over

and stuff.

And,

I think I read something about why

that was and I, of course, my

Milo - The 80s and 90s Uncensored: Garel, I could answer this.

Garel created her,

so he actually,

I watched the

Smurfs

yes.

Thank you.

This sounds very,

this sounds familiar.

know what's up,

So, uh, Garel actually created her and she was

initially an evil smurf to infiltrate the Smurfs, and she actually had black hair,

but then when they turned her into a good smurf, that's when her hair turned blonde.

So the lesson we've learned is girls with black hair are evil, and

girls with blonde hair are good.

That's what the

Smurfs

taught us.

and Yep.

That tracks that very much.

Yep.

That tracks.

Oh my God.

That's awesome.

Thank you for that.

I had forgotten it, but Good thing you have a better memory than me.

Milo - The 80s and 90s Uncensored: only about cartoons.

I couldn't tell you what

happened last week.

Oh my God, it's bad.

I'm going to move on to music and get into the Top 10 Billboards because roadhouse

is such a big movie that I wanna leave plenty of time for us to chat about it.

The Top 10 Billboards from may 19th, 1989.

The number one song is Forever Your Girl by Paula Abdul.

Yeah,

I loved Paula

Paula was the bomb.

grade.

I loved, yes, Paula was great.

And then Real Love by Jody Watley also.

Great.

I'll be there for you by Bon Jovi.

The number four song I am unfamiliar with Soldier of Love by Donnie Osmond.

You guys know that

song?

Hmm.

Milo - The 80s and 90s Uncensored: sounds like something Jamie would

listen to.

If I heard

it, I might,

Milo - The 80s and 90s Uncensored: I can't be, I, Donny Osmond

was that popular in 1989.

That's

crazy.

I was thinking the

same thing.

Michael Damien had the song, had the number five song with Rock on.

I just remember the name Michael Damien, but I can't

visualize the song.

Hey,

rock and

roll,

Milo - The 80s and 90s Uncensored: Rock on.

That was basically the whole song.

It was literally just saying rock on throughout the entire thing.

It was this terrible song, eh?

Rock

though.

It's bad though,

but it's catchy.

Mm-hmm.

He just has a good name.

Michael Damien, what a great

Yeah.

Milo - The 80s and 90s Uncensored: That is a

badass name.

Now number six.

I was really big.

I loved Guns N Roses

and their patience.

Oh my God, that's

such a, it's like one of my favorite Guns N Roses songs

ever.

a good.

song.

Milo - The 80s and 90s Uncensored: I, I had

the cassette.

I had the CD

Hmm.

later, but yeah.

And then Beaches must have been huge because The Wind Beneath My Wings

by Bette Midler was number seven.

Milo - The 80s and 90s Uncensored: Talk about a song that's been played

to death.

Dude.

it really has.

So when you're in middle, when you're in school, in, when this song

came out, I don't know about the rest of the world, but my school, the teachers

were playing it all the time and they played it in like before the assemblies.

And you come into class and they'd sit, they'd be playing it and it's like, why

are you playing this song all the time?

What's, what's a matter with you?

I don't know what it was about

my school, but they

were just playing the damn song all the

time, man.

That's why I got, I got P S D T T D about that song for reels,

you are like, play some Def Leppard teacher.

I don't know why they were playing it all the time in my school.

It was terrible.

It was torture.

I mean, it is, it is a really good song, but it is one

of those that gets old real fast.

The number eight song was after All by Cher and Peter Sitter.

I think that was also for a movie that I can't think of.

Bobby Brown's.

Every little step is number nine.

Bobby Brown was hot at

this time.

I just wanna do

the Running Man.

Just hearing

the title of that song

right now.

I just wanna do the

Did you have the Pants.

Yeah, the Parachute Pants.

every,

Pants

Heck yeah.

have those?

Pants with my LA Gears

and my flat top with the stripes in my head.

F and a.

Yeah.

I had all that

Oh, that's awesome.

I need, I think I need a picture of like 10 year old Jamie.

you,

Then the Number 10 song is one of my all time favorites, like A Prayer

by Madonna.

Were you guys into

Madonna or

Yeah.

We did a whole

dude.

on Madonna in 1985, so,

Mm-hmm.

yeah, that's a great song.

That's a great video too.

And it caused a lot of controversy

in 1989.

Remember

that?

My grandma was like, Madonna's the devil.

She's

from Satan.

Because she had this kind

of like religious

The video.

video.

It was really big at

the time, like controversial, but it was a pretty

cool video.

It was great.

I did a kind of a combo episode of, in 1981 when M T V was born,

the Fox and the Hound with our

every man Kurt Russell Voicing Copper.

So I did an episode on that and M T V and that was one of the things that we

talked about when we were covering M T V because this is one of the top videos

of all time and yeah, big controversy

But that's how Madonna

was.

She was pretty controversial.

She pushed the boundaries of like, Hey, what do you, but you know, it's she,

she was always pushing those boundaries.

But that's kind of like what artists do,

right?

They kind of push

those boundaries a little bit.

Milo - The 80s and 90s Uncensored: Good ones.

Yeah, good ones.

If it's, if they're good artists, people either love them or

hate them, and that's how you

know they're good.

that's a good point.

Milo - The 80s and 90s Uncensored: are just kind of a bit ambivalent,

it's just kinda like me,

maybe they're not that great.

Yeah.

Mediocre.

Nobody wants that.

Before we get into the movie, there's some news and events from May of 1989.

Mm-hmm.

Do you guys remember hearing about in Tiananmen Square

China, the student hunger strike?

It began, I vaguely re recall this being in the news and then do the right thing.

The movie directed by Spike Lee, which was a huge movie premiered at the Cannes

Film Festival, and then some other big movies that premiered in May of 89.

We have Field of Dreams you probably wouldn't have guessed.

And then one that you might guess given its, resurgence in popularity, may of 89.

Hmm.

Indiana Jones

and

the uh, uh,

last

Crusade

Very good.

Jamie Fenderson.

Well, that's back when Indiana

Jones movies were,

were new and good.

Yeah, that was the last of the trilogy,

right?

Yeah.

Yeah.

They should have ended it there.

It would've been a perfect ending riding off into the

sunset, and they just couldn't

Yeah, and it had Sean Connery as, as Indiana Jones's dad.

So you got Sean Connery and Harrison Ford, and I'm like, what

together?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Classic

Indiana Jones then.

I'm getting my Russian facts mixed up, but Mikhail Gorbachev was

elected the executive president in the Soviet Union in May of 89.

I think I'm confused by that because he's, he was in power before then.

Is there a difference between the executive president and like

their prime minister or something?

Do you guys know?

I

should have been more prepared for

this.

they do have a Prime Minister, or they did

have a prime minister and a president.

Uh, I don't think they do anymore.

I think Putin's kind of gotten rid of that, uh, because Putin was originally

elected to replace Gorbachev, who then, uh, so they kind of have this

weird power structure where the president was kind of supposed to be

more of like a, a ceremonial position and then the PM did the actual work.

Yeah, and, and there

was a difference too between, so each of the Soviet Republics kind

of had a president, but then you had the overall executive president of

the Soviet Union.

So that's probably what it is, was he was the president of the entire Soviet Union.

What we would know later wouldn't last very long

because after its disillusion in 91 he became president of Russia, but they had

a kind of an overall Soviet president of

the Soviet Union.

So I think that's

probably what it is.

That's maybe why I'm confused.

'cause we also poke fun.

I do a rocky show and we poke fun at the, at Rocky four, the person who's supposed

to be Gorbachev and how Rocky ended the

Cold World.

Yeah, he into the

Cold War and he and

Milo - The 80s and 90s Uncensored: to Rocky.

The Cold

everybody's clapping like,

yeah,

That would

that was in

85.

So that's why I think I'm like, wait, this is 89.

I'm confused.

Real, real life versus Rocky Life, I think.

Maybe.

Yeah,

there's a

slight

difference.

Yeah.

And then Anna Downer.

Uh, Gilda Radner died of ovarian cancer at the age of 42.

Mm,

Milo - The 80s and 90s Uncensored: Oh, was it that long ago?

yeah.

In 89.

Mm-hmm.

Wow.

Wasn't she married to, um, was she married to Tom Hanks

or am I

wrong on

that?

I might be wrong on

I guess I always thought he had, he and, what's her name had been married

Milo - The 80s and 90s Uncensored: think of,

yeah.

Maybe I'm wrong.

Then.

Maybe, maybe he, Rita Wilson.

Yeah.

Maybe.

They must not have been my brain is

scrambled.

Feel free to ignore that audience.

no, I mean, I like, I like speculating.

disinformation,

Yeah.

I'm

Fake news,

Milo - The 80s and 90s Uncensored: Exactly.

Yeah.

Now that rumor's gonna get out and Tom Hanks is gonna be like, why does

everybody think I was married to Gilda

Ratner?

It's, yeah.

It's all because of this one little segment on this

little, little podcast called

Premaid.

That's

how

Mm-hmm.

,,that's

how it starts.

okay, so you guys are aware that my season one of Retro Made is.

The theme is our ultimate everyman, Kurt Russell and Patrick Swayze.

Today's film is obviously focused on Patrick Swayze, but do you

guys have any particular fandom or thoughts on either of our

everyman?

They're

both

Fanta.

I've made fan

of both of them.

Are you okay?

Good.

Milo - The 80s and 90s Uncensored: I, I wish Kurt Russell was my father.

I, I, I kept hoping I would run into, um,

what's her name?

The, the

daughter, she's

an actress.

I can't think

Kate Hudson.

Kate

Hudson.

Yeah.

She's married

now though, I think,

or whatever.

She

Not after she meets you,

bro.

or,

Yeah.

or maybe they got divorced.

Yeah.

And then see.

Oh, perfect.

So I just need to bump into her and Kurt Russell can be my dad

and life would

be wonderful.

Yeah,

your dad know about this

Oh,

I don't care what he thinks.

, he can be replaced, but yeah, I mean, Kurt Russell was so badass.

I mean, snake b Briskin, come on.

He can't be more badass than that.

And just all of the

Big trouble in little China.

I loved him

Milo - The 80s and 90s Uncensored: in little

And Tombstone,

oh,

Mm-hmm.

and then, and then Patrick Swayze had some in some cool roles.

I remember the Red Dawn was kind of interesting.

But then, uh, dirty dancing.

What a strange movie.

Jamie, uh, you said something about Patrick Sweet.

are you, are you, I might have to get in a fight a little bit

because did you say Dirty Dancing

was a

I think it's

like the

I I, so I agree with you.

I think it's the best movie ever, but it, it's kind of a weird movie, right?

That 'cause it was huge and most of the movies that were huge in the eighties or

maybe action movies or whatnot, and this was a weird movie because it's about.

Kind of dancing people dancing in, in the sick.

It, it's a weird, it is kind of a weird movie, but it it is an awesome

movie and I think it's just a little different from what you'd think

is a huge movie in the eighties.

I don't think there's a movie like it in the eighties that

became so big.

Um,

Dance was big.

though.

There was like flash dance

and footloose, but

dirty dancing was epically

It was a huge movie.

Um, and it, and I, I just think it's a little, maybe it's because 1989 or

whenever it came out, the eighties, Jamie's like, and I, and I liked it

even as a kid, but I'm like, this is, and, but I, I knew how huge it was.

I'm like, this is so weird that this movie is so big.

Um, but now that I'm older, I'm like, yeah, it's, there's a good

reason.

That movie

was so big.

Give it a rewatch.

You know, it's interesting because you guys are men, Obviously

Milo - The 80s and 90s Uncensored: Obviously

I mean,

um, The, I had women guests

to cover dirty Dancing with me.

Everyone check out the Dirty Dancing episode.

It's really fun.

the time that we grew up in, I think I've heard from men your age that

you were like, oh, I was into like, action and man, you know, manly stuff.

And, and this movie was seen as like, not

manly, but then if you really watch it, it's super,

it's, Manly dude, Patrick Swayze's lifting Jennifer

up and, and it's like, and I never felt this way before, and he's like,

whoa,

having the time of my life, right?

It's like, yeah, it is pretty

manly actually.

If you

watch dirty dancing,

He's very

He's he and he's man, and

he's like, he's like, cool Manly.

He's, he's the kind of man I'd want to be now.

Like, I can dance and

I'm, yeah, totally

give it

yeah,

Milo - The 80s and 90s Uncensored: In shape,

man, on every man, like, yeah.

Milo, I've heard that.

Kurt Russell, like people wanting him to be their dad.

I've kind of heard that from other guys your age too.

Like he just has that again, it's that every man quality,

like he's not a superhero.

And same with Patrick Swayze.

Like he's not, he's very fit.

I mean, he looks good, but it's like a normal, like he's not like a bodybuilder.

He's like a

regular framed person.

Yeah.

I, I think that's what made both of them

accessible.

Mm-hmm.

not like, like if you, if you walk into a room, into a bar

and you see Arnold and Schwarzenegger and, and, and Sylvester Stallone

sitting there, you're like, whoa, damn.

And you're kind of intimidated.

But if you see, if you see Kurt and Patrick there, you're like, that's

some good looking guys right there.

And maybe I'm gonna go have a beer with them because they're accessible.

Right.

Totally.

Great point.

That's a good way of putting it.

I'd like to have a beer with them as

Yeah, well,

Kurt's still around.

Maybe we can, maybe he'll listen to this and he'll be like, totally come down to

Issa Quo Washington and we can all just meet here and have a beer at the dive bar

and just talk

about Patrick.

That'll

be awesome.

Well, you guys have to come pick me up in the helicopter

or his private, his plane.

'cause he is a

pilot.

You guys will just have to stop here

be, we'll, we'll hook it up

a little circuit.

Milo - The 80s and 90s Uncensored: perfect.

Kurt.

Kurt, just come pick us up.

We'll all

you're listening.

We know you're listening.

Just bring Goldie along.

We'll

have a great

time.

Milo - The 80s and 90s Uncensored: And Kate,

don't forget

Kate

My list's very intent on that.

this is the, the real question.

Do you think they look alike

at all?

Yeah,

you mean Kate Hudson and Goldie Hawn

and

No.

No.

No.

Patrick Swayze and

Kurt

Milo - The 80s and 90s Uncensored: Russell?

Mm-hmm.

Uh,

Here's the thing, like

Milo - The 80s and 90s Uncensored: think so.

I think if you frame their face faces in the mullets,

like if the mullets kind of do it right, they, maybe they have the same

body type like we were talking about.

Mm-hmm.

I think they kind of look the mullet thing going

on, like the tango and cache mullet and the, and the roadhouse mullet.

Yep.

of look alike.

They have the same body type and they have the same kind of

handsome, but friendly, accessible

look.

You know, like, I like, they're not intimidating.

They're just kind of good looking guys and you just, they, but they

have that kind of accessible, every

man look to 'em.

I think they

kind of look alike.

They have the same

Jamie wins the prize

type

of guy I guess.

They do.

I'm glad to hear you say that because I ask most of my guests that.

And most of my guests have been men and men.

It's harder for men to see it, I think.

But women see it.

They're both, every men, they're both good looking.

They have a similar body type.

The hair, they have a similar coloring.

They're bone structure.

They're both really good looking.

I think they look a ton alike.

So I ask everyone this, some, Jamie, I'm glad to hear that you, uh,

feel similarly, Milo, get with the

program.

I don't

know.

Sorry,

I feel it.

I feel that, vibe.

Milo - The 80s and 90s Uncensored: Maybe just 'cause I haven't seen

them side by side at the right age.

They should have done a movie together.

They should have done Tango and Cash.

I'm sorry, Stallone.

They should have got rid of Stallone and they should have put,

That would've been awesome, dude,

Patrick,

and yeah,

Milo - The 80s and 90s Uncensored: with Kurt

Russell.

been awesome.

I think they just needed a third one.

'cause I love Stallone.

He's like one of my favorite all time of all time.

But interestingly, so the, because they're very similar, Patrick

Swayze actually turned down the role

of Gabe Cash in Tango and

What.

Did you guys know that?

Yeah.

So that's why Kurt Russell Got it.

I feel like they go up for this for similar parts.

they probably, I would think that they do.

'cause think about this, like I think Patrick Swayze could be the, the Olympic

cocky coach guy.

He could do it.

He could pull that off.

He could play the, if you, if you look at any role that Kurt and Patrick

play and you switched 'em, you can see them in each other's roles.

I can, I can see it

in my head, man.

Totally.

And you guys will have to look them up side by side.

Actually, my thumbnail on YouTube for my season one trailer is a side

by side of them.

So you guys will have to, they they

it's in my head or I don't even need to look.

They're in my head right now.

I can see them clear

as crystal

together.

Clear as crystal.

Okay.

Everyone is probably like, Katie, move the F on from this.

Like get off.

So we will move on.

Shall we get into the movie that is

Yeah.

Roadhouse.

It's rated R and it it is definitely rated R I just re-watched it

yesterday I think so I'm assuming you guys re-watched it somewhat recently?

Milo - The 80s and 90s Uncensored: I re-watched it yesterday as well.

I, I, I,

talked my wife into watching it with me 'cause she'd never seen that either.

She doesn't watch a lot.

She's terrible viewing and, uh, she does not like this

movie.

well if, if it's your

Milo - The 80s and 90s Uncensored: why I am so interested in Kate Hudson

right now.

kick kicker to the curb, is that, yeah, I.

Milo - The 80s and 90s Uncensored: it's our own fault,

I see, I see.

It is like this is a movie that you, I feel like would be really difficult to

watch for the first time now in 2023,

you know?

Milo - The 80s and 90s Uncensored: very dated there.

It is quite dated with the hairstyles and the,

the whole, the whole, the whole, premise

Milo - The 80s and 90s Uncensored: though I love the

a little , a little

Milo - The 80s and 90s Uncensored: I mean there's really not

much of a plot to this if you think about it.

Well, roadhouses and notoriously known to be kind of

like a so bad that it's good movie.

I have some thoughts on that that I'll get into in a, in a minute.

'cause I rewatching it yesterday.

I have kind of a interesting new take on it, but the I M D B rating was

a 6.7 out of 10, which, For a movie that's notoriously supposed to be bad.

That's a pretty good I M

D B rating.

Yeah.

Yes, it was directed by Rowdy Harrington, which is an awesome name.

He also directed the Stickup, a Murder of Crows and a striking Distance.

And it was a Joel Silver film.

So Silver Pictures here, the writers are our Lance Hill and he also

sometimes goes by David Lee Henry, uh, he wrote out for Justice as well.

And then Hillary Hankin, who's known for writing Wag the Dog.

So those are the writers here.

The cast of characters is quite great.

I think.

Obviously we have Patrick Swayze as Dalton, just Dalton, Kelly Lynch as doc.

She was also Carrie in cocktail.

And dudes seem to really

like Kelly

I like Kelly Lynch, just

fine.

Yeah.

I don't know what happened to her though.

I don't think she's really like, maintained, um, like a Hollywood career,

We'll have to figure out what happened to

She

might've retired.

Yeah.

but apparently she, turned down the role, in basic

instinct that Sharon Stone took

on.

and I guess she's best friends with Sheryl Crow.

Little, little tidbit about

Kelly

Lynch.

Interesting.

We have Sam Elliot as Wade Garrett, who's great.

Great.

This is, I love Sam

Elliot in

this.

me too

S he is the cuddliest stud that ever lived.

eighties roadhouse.

Sam Elliott like makes me question my hetero creds.

I won't lie.

Like

I.

His, he said he has, he has been said in inter in interviews or

or whatnot, that he's most known, like people recognize him the most.

He's most known for this movie of all the

things he's, he's done.

Wow.

He, he, I think he's

a sexy guy in

this movie.

I remember my mom when we watched this when I was

a kid, pat Patrick Swayze's a beautiful man, right?

Mm-hmm.

my mom was like,

Sam Elliot makes me Just like

makes me hot and

Wet.

Jamie, come on.

Just say what

she does.

Dude, Sam Elliot was

like,

what?

Milo - The 80s and 90s Uncensored: And Jamie was like, what do you mean?

Uh, I don't, what Did you spill water on yourself?

Mom

dude.

So Sam, my mom was like, my mom watched Roadhouse, Sam Elliot and

Roadhouse, and she was like, ah.

My mom was all about

that.

Sam Elliot

action and

I don't think your mom was alone.

I literally think every mom, I mean, he's, he's one of those like, uh, silver

foxes that is just, he's always been,

and he wasn't even, I think he was like mid forties.

He wasn't even like that old, but he's, they

Yeah.

Yeah.

or whatever in the movie, but when we're first introduced to him,

I.

In the movie, it's just this shot of his glorious long,

curly gray locks.

It's, it's

And he is all just kind of like casual, bouncer,

trucker, biker looking guy.

And he, he's totally trying to like e even trying to like, kind of like

playfully steal Patrick's girl.

She's trying, he's trying, trying to get Kelly

Lynch,

you know, and, and, and Patrick's

Milo - The 80s and 90s Uncensored: like charming to her.

knows he can't do anything about it.

About it.

'cause it's totally eighties.

Sam Elliott, he's like, I gotta

accept whatever he does.

Yeah.

Re-watching that scene.

That's actually some, something I took note of, because I think a lot

of people make fun of that scene.

Sam Elliott's, like legit trying to get his girl, but he's not really, it's just

like, that's his, the kind of guy he, I don't know, he, he plays it like sly

and sexy and cool, but if anybody else were to drop their pants and show her

the scar and say these like kind of.

Like tr like obviously she's not gonna like go along with Sam Elliot because

she's super into Patrick Spacey, but the way he's dancing with her and

saying, oh, I wanna keep you for myself.

If it was anybody other than

Sam Elliot, I think it would come

It'd be super creepy, but 80 Sam Elliott's doing it.

And, and, and also he's asserting like, Hey, remember Dalton,

I'm your mentor.

Like, remember who the best

yeah,

is, right?

Who's your daddy?

Just, just letting you know I could steal your girl if I wanted to.

I'm just

showing you that.

And

Dalton's like, yeah, I

Milo - The 80s and 90s Uncensored: He is like, I'm Sam Elliott.

I don't need to whip it out and piss all over the place to claim anything here.

Good

Milo - The 80s and 90s Uncensored: know it's true.

You know, he also said he almost didn't take this role because

he thought it was far too similar

to his character in Mask,

Yeah, kind of the biker dude.

mm-hmm.

Yeah, totally.

Yeah,

I.

Glad he

took it.

And then Ben, Ben Gera plays, uh, Brad Wesley, our bad guy in this.

You all probably know who he is, even though you, I can't really like

name other characters, but he's had a really long career as a character

actor, and apparently he played, Al Capone in the 1975 version of Capone.

He was also an Anatomy of a Murder and the Big Lebowski, I can't

picture who he was in that, but

Milo - The 80s and 90s Uncensored: I don't remember either.

then we have Marshall r Teague as Jimmy, he's kind of

the, the main like, uh, attack

dog for Ben Gera.

He's like the foil for Dalton.

Right?

Like he's, he's similar in skill.

He knows martial arts and all that, right?

Yeah.

Yeah, totally.

And he, was a professional martial artist and had been

doing martial arts since he was a kid, apparently in real life.

And then we have Julie Michaels as Denise.

Everyone can remember.

She's the blonde bimbo type.

Um,

For her though too.

Milo - The 80s and 90s Uncensored: What, and she played a Bon

bimbo.

Like you think, oh what a bimbo or whatever.

But she's also abused so you feel sorry for her 'cause she's like

getting beat up and stuff.

She, comes on to Dalton and gets beat up for it.

'cause she's supposed to be, uh, Wesley's girl.

But then it doesn't stop her from like, trying keep, she

cannot get enough of doll.

She wants him bad and it is killing her that he doesn't want

her back.

It hasn't come out yet that I just recently recorded the point

break episode also with Patrick s

Sweezy.

Do you guys remember the scene where they, raided the meth head house.

The F B I raids the house.

Do you know how Keanu res It's the wrong, it's the wrong people.

There's a scene where there's a naked chick that kind of tries to fight.

Keanu

Reeves.

It's her.

That's, that's her, that's, uh,

Oh

wow.

in that movie.

So she typically plays kind of the bimbo esque, like,

I'm gonna fight you, but I love

you.

Kind of, kind of

kind of roll.

Yeah.

She's not

afraid to show her naked self.

got nothing to be ashamed of, as far as

I'm concerned,

she doesn't, no, she doesn't, but she did go on to

be a stunt woman and a stunt

wow.

also.

So yeah.

Then we have Red West as Red Webster, and I think I read something about this guy.

He's, he's been in several movies and his name is always Red and he actually used

to be, or there was like a Memphis Mafiaa.

Have you guys heard of this?

Apparently he was like a

part of the

Mem Elvis's.

Milo - The 80s and 90s Uncensored: Elvis's.

Yeah.

That's the, the red

Milo - The 80s and 90s Uncensored: part of Elvis's

crew.

His

posse?

Which is super cool.

I mean, I don't condone violence by any means, but I, I like

Mafiaa stuff then Sunshine

Milo - The 80s and 90s Uncensored: they were too violent or anything.

I think they were basically just kind of the, the hangers on and

the guards and stuff like that.

I don't think they really did too much, too bad.

They probably were like, you know, Elvis was like, give me that girl right there.

And, you know, red would probably be like, Hey honey, Elvis uh,

wants to hang with you tonight.

You

Whether you want

to or not.

I mean, I don't think anybody's arm would need to be twisted

too much.

Elvis was hot.

Mm-hmm.

Emmett was

played by Sunshine Parker, which the name surprises me only that Sunshine

seems like kind of a hippie name that someone our age would have now.

But back in the day, he

was an old man in this movie and his name was

Yeah.

It sounds like something like our age, like our hippie parents

might've named us, but he

wasn't like,

The right

Interesting.

Jeff Healy as Cody.

Um, and he was actually, so he was the main singer of the band,

uh, and blind in the movie.

And he in real life is an actual singer

guitar player and is

Milo - The 80s and 90s Uncensored: Oh, he is great.

I'm a huge Jeff Healy fan, I should say.

I'm not a huge Jeff Healy fan.

I, but I am a Jeff Healy fan.

I had the, the CD that, uh, he had kind of one hit back in the, I think,

late eighties around this time as well.

And, um,

My mom

had the, the tape or something.

She used to

cd.

it like cleaning the house.

She'd pop that in.

He was kind of, he was kind of big

for a,

a, a time in the

eighties.

May not a like a long time, but may, there was a time maybe . and sometime

in the eighties where he was just kind of big, and maybe that's why

they put him in this movie is like,

he's kind of big, but

he does bluesy stuff.

Milo - The 80s and 90s Uncensored: Yeah, it was around this time.

But he, he's a great blues musician.

He, uh, I, I love

blues and, and

he's, he's really good

That's good to hear.

I also like Blues music.

So he plays Cody in the movie, who is the singer and guitarist

for like the house band that the

Yeah, and they gotta have the

cage 'cause it's

all rowdy and they're

Yeah.

Yes.

Wild.

Then we have Kevin Teague playing Tillman, the owner of The Double Deuce.

And we also get quick little scenes from Keith, David as a bartender

and Terry Funk in like as one of the other, he gets fired right away,

Milo - The 80s and 90s Uncensored: he was one of the bouncers, right?

The bouncer that got fired.

Yeah.

So that's the cast of characters.

And the score was composed by Michael Cayman.

Then we talked about the soundtrack by Jeff Healy, who's a Canadian guitarist.

Now, did you guys know, okay, so I'm sure you're aware that Patrick Swayze

wrote and sang, uh, co-wrote and sang a song for dirty dancing, but did you

know that there's, he wrote two song?

No.

He wrote one song and sang two songs for the soundtrack of

Roadhouse.

Yeah.

didn't know that.

that.

Mm-hmm.

Milo - The 80s and 90s Uncensored: I did think that when

watching the film last night

though, that the music throughout was

really good and

you?

Milo - The 80s and 90s Uncensored: I don't rem, I didn't remember that

from when I watched it initially, you know, years ago, because I've

probably watched it a couple times.

I, you know, who knows how many times I've watched it.

But last night I was like, wow, I forgot how good the

music throughout this film is.

And Patrick's a good mu, I mean, He's a pretty good musician.

Remember he had that kind of one hit wonder.

She's like The win.

Remember that one?

And that was kind of, that was pretty good though, actually.

You know, some, some movie stars try to do their thing and it's like, nah.

But he was

like, well that's pretty good, Patrick.

He can do anything he tries.

I, and he is a, he's a super multifaceted, talented person.

I'll touch on like bits that he has talked about in his book.

It's the time of my life.

It's right here.

If you guys haven't, , read it, I would highly recommend it.

It's really good.

Milo - The 80s and 90s Uncensored: And he can write, he can sing, he

could dance, he could do martial arts.

He's studly and

he writes

He's

badass.

that, and that's only like five of the 20 things that he, he's

super talented and he left us far too

soon.

I love Patrick Swayze.

Yes.

Uh, but unfortunately this movie got five razzy nominations.

It didn't win them, but it got five razzies.

Now, I don't think the Razzies are very fair.

It was nominated for worst picture, worst actor for Patrick Swayze.

Like what

? Jamie Fenderson-1: I saw this

sent us your sheet about what the, about the movie.

And this is the first time I saw that it was nominated for five Razzie.

And then I, all I could think of is there, there's no

justice in the world

in 1989.

'cause

that's a bull, that's a bull.

worst supporting actor for Ben Gera I thought Ben Gera

played a really good, bad guy.

Like I thought he was worst director and

worst

Yeah.

And I will tell I hard disagree on all of, all

of those fronts.

I agree with your heart.

Disagree.

'cause that's, that's crap.

I don't know what they were smoking in 1989 in the

Razzy,

whatever castle they're

Well, I

they were smoking.

I

have beef with the razzies generally speaking, because they also

don't like my Sylvester Stallone.

Well, how about we all say between

Our two podcast properties that the razzies can, can, can go take

a hike because we don't like you.

And now that we've said

that you're gonna suffer

and, and you should.

'cause that's Bull Given Roadhouse five razzie nominations is not

acceptable in any universe.

Man,

that's crap.

Milo - The 80s and 90s Uncensored: Well, it didn't

I thought just the nomination is all it takes, man.

Just,

you know what I'm saying?

Milo - The 80s and 90s Uncensored: That's why this movie was

not a box office success.

It's the

rothes.

But good segue, Milo, because it was made for $17 million and it actually

did gross worldwide, $61 million.

But that was largely it.

It had a huge, like, um,

video success

V H s.

it was,

and it like a big cable TV run,

Oh yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

a huge movie kind of later on.

I highly recommend everybody go rewatch Roadhouse and watch it very carefully.

I'm curious to see what you think, but here's a quick little

refresh about what the movie is about when it becomes too violent.

At the Double Deuce Roadhouse, the club owner hires Dalton a professional

cooler to clean it up, but Dalton's early successes and budding romance

with the local doctor and rages Wesley, the town crime boss.

When Dalton continues to defy him, the stage is set for a dramatic

confrontation that will test Dalton's limits and decide that fate of the town

How could you not love that?

That sounds awesome.

So, overall thoughts, favorite scenes moments?

What do, what do you guys think?

A couple things that really stood out when

I watched it is how much nudity there was.

I didn't remember.

There's a lot of butt shots

in this film,

I quite enjoyed the

Swayze

butt shots myself.

Milo - The 80s and 90s Uncensored: I think it's a lot of fun, honestly.

I mean, you just need to accept it for what it is, which is just guy

comes in, you know, he is the bouncer at this place, tries to clean it up.

You have a few fights, you have some good music, you've got the

love interest, you got the bad guy.

Like, it's, it's very basic, but that's what makes it a fun

film, I think.

Yeah, I watched this for the first time, or my, with my

son, he watched it for the first time.

So it's kind of like red redneck bar mitzvah, right?

You, you, you gotta become a real man.

Now, and you gotta watch Roadhouse.

Otherwise you can't, you're never gonna be a man unless you watch this movie.