Episode 477: A Summer Solstice Special with Jefff Shuster!

June 19, 2021

Episode 477: A Summer Solstice Special with Jefff Shuster!

Episode 477 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing).

In this week’s show, Jeff Shuster (our glorious Curator of Schlock) kick off summer by discussing two vintage summer camp films released in a two year span, Ivan Reitman’s Meatballs (1979) and Tony Maylam’s The Burning (1981).

TEXTS DISCUSSED

The Burning

The poster for Meatballs was really misleading.

NOTES

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John King at Lone Oak — John King (right) with a starter’s mullet as the scoutcraft leader in the summer of 1989.

Fangoria Cover — Fangoria spoiling the big monster reveal of “Funhouse” back in 1981.

The Burning Holly Hunter — Holly Hunter’s brief appearance in her film debut in “The Burning,” with Jason Alexander behind her.

Check out my literary adventure novel, Guy Psycho and the Ziggurat of Shame.

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Shawn McKee

June 19, 2021 at 12:28 pm

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