August 1989 Pop Culture: Charlie, Spike & Rockmelons

Aug 09, 2022, 09:00 AM

How many calories in every hamburger McDonald's has ever sold? Was Booker the right career move for Richard Grieco? All this and more is covered in What Now. Watch it has, among others, a correct rating for Do The Right Thing and a wildly unfair rating for The Tall Guy. Listen Up finds us divided on The Ramones' "Pet Sematary," but united on 10,000 Maniacs. Dave agrees that Billy Zane is One To Watch, then protests the Ones To Watch. And we only have one pop culture feature this month, but when it's as memorable as Christina's sitdown with Charlie Sheen, that's all you need.

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TOPICS

🎧 It Is August 1989

🎧 What Now

🎧 Watch It

🎧 Listen Up

🎧 One To Watch

🎧 Ones To Watch

🎧 Feature: Breakfast With Charlie

🎧 Goodbye For Now

NOTES

⚠️ Inline notes below may be truncated due to podcast feed character limits. Full notes are always on the episode page.

☎️ Take the best 80s phone poll

πŸ‘§πŸ»Β Norma Howe's Game Of Life on eBay

🏫 Regina Mundi Catholic College

🎞 "Savage" Steve Holland on Wikipedia

πŸ’‚β€β™€οΈΒ The Tall Guy trailer on YouTube

🌫 10,000 Maniacs' "Dust Bowl" on YouTube

🎢 The August 1989 playlist on Spotify

✝️ Barabbas on IMDb

πŸ€”Β "Billy Zane Not Walking Down Memory Lane on Samantha Who" at TVGuide.com

πŸš•Β Vanessa Paradis's "Joe Le Taxi" video on YouTube

✨ Robert Conrad's Battle Of The Network Stars meltdown on YouTube

πŸ‘”Β Jeff Ballard's website

πŸͺΆΒ Charlie Sheen's book of poetry, A Piece Of My Mind, on Amazon