Show Notes Episode 471: Danger Zone Part 2-The Day After

WTH Movie Night: The Day After

This week Host Dave Bledsoe hit the bottle because he was terrified by the memories of something he saw on television as a kid. (Sigmund and Sea Monsters, Sid and Marty Kroft were FREAKY!) On the show this week it is a WTH Movie Night, we talk about the movie that scared the shit of Generation X: 1983’s The Day After.

Along the way we learn that someone was stupid enough to trust Dave enough to give him access to nuclear weapons. (He still has a plutonium core in his closet!) Then we dive right into the backstory of how ABC made a movie so scary an entire generation still freaks out when they think of it. (The same could be said of Jaws) We examine what it took to get the movie made in an era when television was more Love Boat than Masterpiece Theater. We talk about how the urban legend that says Ronald Reagan changed his nuclear policy because of this movie (Nope!) and the guy who REALLY thawed out the Cold War, Mikhail Gorbachev! (He really loved Pizza Hut!) Finally we hear from the people traumatized by the movie and why it haunts them still

Our Sponsor this week is the Ground Zero Experience, the escape with real radiation! We open the show with the movie trailer and close with Black Jeans’ little oopsie! 

Show Theme: Hypnostate Prelude to Common Sense

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Citations Needed:

Apocalypse Then: 40 Years Ago, A TV Movie Saved the World from Nuclear Annihilation

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/how-the-day-after-saved-the-world-1235711200/

THE IMPACT ON CHILDREN OF 'THE DAY AFTER'

https://www.nytimes.com/1983/11/07/style/the-impact-on-children-of-the-day-after.html

Day After Viewers Guide

https://www.scribd.com/document/35930516/Day-After-Viewers-Guide

ATOMIC WAR FILM SPURS NATIONWIDE DISCUSSION

https://www.nytimes.com/1983/11/22/us/atomic-war-film-spurs-nationwide-discussion.html

Reagan's Diary Monday, October 10, 1983

https://www.reaganfoundation.org/ronald-reagan/white-house-diaries/diary-entry-10101983/?srsltid=AfmBOooQms5svYwpSUZp6r0HBWXOescjkcGg-gfV3sB_hT_IVybjb_DK

How a TV Show Changed the Cold War

https://time.com/6337667/day-after-tomorrow-cold-war-essay/

LOOKING BACK: The Nuclear Arms Control Legacy of Ronald Reagan

https://www.armscontrol.org/act/2004-07/arms-control-today/looking-back-nuclear-arms-control-legacy-ronald-reagan

Reddit: The Day After

https://www.reddit.com/r/GenX/comments/1gpyau6/the_day_after/

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