Retro Life 4 You

Today on the podcast I am joined by Timmy from the backtothe1980z Instagram page as we talk about the greatest adventure movie of our youth. We are talking no less then the 1985 Richard Donner film The Goonies! I have always loved this movie and always wished that I had been able to have an adventure like they did. Great adventure, great music and great fun not to mention a great cast. I hope this...

Growing up in the 80's meant that I was privy to all the greatest TV shows, movies, music and sports. And yes, I am bias towards this time because it's my childhood and that's what we love to talk about here are things from our childhood. I always loved sci-fi as a kid watching Star Wars, Star Trek, Buck Rogers of The 25th Century & Battlestar Galactica. Then, in 1984, Director Nick Castle and...

This week on the podcast we sit down and talk career with Geoffrey Blake. He has worked with great directors such as Ron Howard & Robert Zemeckis and been in great movies like Forrest Gump, Castaway, Apollo 13, EDtv, Frost/Nixon & The Contact.  If you like  the show today then please take a couple of moments and leave me a rating & review. --- Send in a voice message: https:/...

Last week we did a cover on Road House and talked about it for our episode and after the episode was released I received messages on Facebook from someone telling me I had messed up some of the names and was politely correcting me on them. Turns out he was one of the bouncers from the Double Deuce itself Travis McKenna that played the bouncer Jack. This week I am talking with Travis on his wonderf...

"All you have to do is follow three simple rules. One, never underestimate your opponent. Expect the unexpected. Two, take it outside. Never start anything inside the bar unless it's absolutely necessary. And three, be nice."  Words of wisdom from Dalton as we go over his great hit Road House, this movie didn't do the greatest at the box office but it became a classic and fan favorite to a lo...

In 2001, director Peter Jackson brought to the big screen the world that J.R.R. Tolkien created in his books of The Hobbit & Lord of The Rings. It was a movie with tremendous scenery, great ensemble cast and unbelievable effects to bring to life one of the greatest stories ever written. An epic adventure of 2 hobbits taking on the task of returning the  ring of power to where it was creat...

A team of special force ops, led by a tough but fair soldier, Major "Dutch" Schaefer, are ordered to assist CIA man, Colonel Al Dillon, on a rescue mission for potential survivors of a Helicopter downed over remote South American jungle. Not long after they land, Dutch and his team discover that they have been sent in under false pretenses. This deception turns out to be the least of their worries...

After a few weeks of being down with the holidays, I am back! I hope that everyone had a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Years but now it's time to get back to work. For the first episode of 2023 I am doing a review of the podcast from 2022. I have taken bits of interviews and parts from other shows during the year that I liked and have revisited that and talk about each bit for a couple of minute...

Today we are remembering Chris Farley and his life as a comedian and actor. His SNL skits will forever play in our minds and remind us of how great he was and how funny he could be. His movies were so much fun like Beverly Hills Ninja, Black Sheep and obviously Tommy Boy. Whether he is paired up against Patrick Swayze in a Chippendale dancer audition or he is roaming the country pushing brake sale...

A lot of us grew up watching a smaller territory wrestling organization along with the big ones like WWF & WCW & AWA. We enjoyed great television shows with bookings that led you week to week in a story that you always wanted to see played out. We got to see live shows that meant something and we had development talent to fight against the bug guys each week building up tp the main event....

All that Neal Page wants to do is to get home for Thanksgiving. His flight has been cancelled due to bad weather, so he decides on other means of transport. As well as bad luck, Neal is blessed with the presence of Del Griffith, shower curtain ring salesman and all-around blabbermouth who is never short of advice, conversation, bad jokes, or company. Today we talk about the John Hughes great film...

We all had our favorite action stars in the 80's and the yall did their version of war movies it seemed and some focused on Vietnam. We had Chuck Norris doing Braddock, Arnold Schwarzenegger doing John Matrix in Commando but then we had the one unique one man army that Stallone did known as John Rambo. Overall he did five Rambo movies but we will talk the first three mostly. In the first he was fi...

Thanks to John Carpenter teaming up up with Kurt Russell yet again, cause if he had not done this back in 1986 then we may not have the great 80's film Big Trouble in Little China!!! I often look back on my favorites in that decade and this is really one of the movies that I would have to have and not live without. Kurt Russell & Kim Cattrall have such great chemistry  together and what m...

I sit down with Tommy "Throwback" Kovac from the Splat From The Past podcast and talk with him about the 1982 Walter Hill directed 48 Hours. The film is often credited as the first buddy cop genre which includes such greats as Lethal Weapon, Bad Boys, and Rush Hour and it was also Eddie Murphy's debut film. The movie has a solid cast of stars and supporting stars and to this day stands as one of E...

I am joined by Tim of 80's Flick Flashback this week to talk about the movies Nightmare on Elm Street Parts 1 & 3. I chose these 2 movies because both of them carried through Nancy Thompson's story. They are also probably my favorite 2 movies of the franchise. It's hard to beat the original and Dream Warriors was just a great movie. Robert Englund and Heather Langenkamp had a great 1st movie t...

2 Weeks ago we had comedian Cody Tucker on talking about Beverly Hills Cop and we said then that we needed him to come back and just talk some 80's & 90's in general so he is back with us this week and we are talking that very subject. Lot of different thing get brought in like tv shows of different sorts, movie soundtracks, music in general and so much more.  It reminds you of just sitti...

Amy Heckerling's directorial debut in 1982 brought us Fast Times at Ridgemont High. The film ranks #15 on Bravo's "100 Funniest Movies" and #2 on Entertainment Weekly's list of the "50 Best High School Movies". A coming of age movie written by  Cameron Crowe with a cast of future stars like Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Phoebe Cates, Judge Reinhold, Forest Whittaker and more. --- Send in a...

Today I had the pleasure of sitting down and talking with Mark Anthony Austin. He is a special effects artist that has worked with Industrial Light & Magic as well as Disney, Third Floor Inc and a couple of others as well. While working with ILM he had the opportunity to go back to the Star Wars: A New Hope Special Edition and wear the suit of his childhood hero, Boba Fett. We talk Boba Fett,...

Today I sit down with guest co host Cody Tucker and talk Beverly Hills Cop. It's 1984 &  Eddie Murphy is really starting to reach larger heights of popularity with the movie audience. Two of his previous movies have been great hits & this one here starts off a string of 7 movies that all went #1!  Axel Foley is one of the most beloved 80's characters and the soundtrack was spot o...

This week we take a trip to a galaxy far far away and talk about a lot of things Star Wars! And the thing is, the Star Wars universe is so vast and the history & lore is so deep that we could never talk about it all in one show, I would say we skimmed over it at best and that still brought a great hour of talk about the world we grew up loving in Star Wars. The great ships, the light sabers, t...

Wow! What a fun show this was to do! Several of this guests movies were among my favorites at the time when they came out & I still love to watch them today. Adventures in Babysitting, Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter is Dead, The Fox and The Hound, Cousins, Toy Soldiers and he did so much more then all this. As a child actor he did many TV shows that we grew up on, so I hope that everybody enjoy...

Straitening the curves, flattening the hills.....some day the mountain might get 'em but the law never will! in 1979 Gy Waldron made a TV series based off a movie he had also done called Moonrunners which was about a family of bootleggers. A lot of people thought it wouldn't work but 7 years later we have a successful show with tons of fans to this day & merchandise & memorabilia that coul...

Welcome, Welcome, Welcome!!!! This weeks episode is all about the movies we had in the 2000's. I have picked 5 movies that I found to be great movies as well did my co host on the show. Travis made his return to the show today & while it's not an every week permeant thing we hope to see him again soon! If you remember we brought you 5 or more from the 80's, 5 that we liked from the 90's, so th...

In Los Angeles, California, a gang of bank robbers call themselves The Ex-Presidents. commit their crimes while wearing masks of ex-Presidents Reagan, Carter, Nixon, and Johnson. The F.B.I. believes that the members of the gang could be surfers, and send young Agent Johnny Utah undercover at the beach to mix with the surfers and gather information. Keanu Reeves, Gary Busey, Patrick Swayze & Lo...

Did you know that Chuck Norris once swam around the Virgin Islands & when he was done they just referred to them as "the islands"?  The mans beard is so tough he can grate cheese on it! He once got bit by a rattlesnake and after 3 days of excruciating pain... that snake died.  We could tell a ton more of  these and there that many & more out there but let's really get down t...