Podcasting Day: Xanadu, with Lydia Bugg! 🌭
Added 2021-11-03 12:00:05 +0000 UTC
This Podcasting Day, Lydia Bugg gets her long-sworn revenge for that time we made her watch all three Conan movies back-to-back. She pulled that Ghostbusters shit and told us we would choose the form of our destroyer. We tried to clear our minds, but Seanbaby is basically always thinking of rollerskating and Brockway had an ELO song stuck in his head.
Thus our fate was sealed, and the destroyer came in the form of… XANADU! Yes, the 1980 musical about a mystical disco roller rink starring Oliva Newton-John and the dude from The Warriors.
Of course we wound up loving it. Because Seanbaby and Brockway both arrived at the same theory, independent of one another: Xanadu is actually a horror movie. Olivia Newton-John plays a Greek Muse who inspires, but not without a cost.
And Michael Beck, poor Michael Beck, is far too handsome to realize what’s happening.
Even as she devours his creativity, he’s just having too good a time looking like Michael Beck to comprehend the danger he’s in.
It’s not like there weren’t clues.
Anyway, don’t forget to subscribe to The Dogg Zzone 9000 wherever you get podcasts, and leave us a review twice as smart as Michael Beck and half as glowing as Olivia Newton-John.
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Comments
Gutenberg was Can’t Stop the Music w/the Village People … so maybe they could exchange lead actors… or Lydia can put herself through that dreck of a movie
Robert Murdock
2024-07-12 07:48:37 +0000 UTCJust came here to say this exact series of things - "HEY YOU GUYS SHOULD TALK ABOUT MEGAFORCE SOMETIME THE HANDSOME GUY FROM THE WARRIORS AND XANADU IS IN IT WITH A CONFEDERATE FLAG PATCH AND IT'S REAL WEIRD BUT REAL RAD!!!"
petertron
2021-11-25 14:21:47 +0000 UTCI feel like the universe in which this movie was as popular and loved as it was reviled in ours had an even more opulent 1980s with even more roller skates and lasers. In that universe the Cold War was won by America about an hour after Xanadu premiered, and everyone had a Back to the Future hoverboard by 1990. And Michael Beck was, of course, voted in as President for Life.
John Dean
2021-11-10 02:35:02 +0000 UTCYou bet your flying rocket bike he was.
Matt Edwards
2021-11-04 21:09:28 +0000 UTCThat orange jumpsuit band ain't no ELO. Where the cellos at?
Daphne Lawless
2021-11-04 03:11:17 +0000 UTCStarring Barry Bostwick on a shit-ton of cocaine OH SHIT Michael Beck was the guy with the Confederate flag badge, right?
Daphne Lawless
2021-11-04 03:10:08 +0000 UTCHow could I possibly have known it was time in life to watch Xanadu once again? Fuck yah.
LyraV
2021-11-04 01:51:52 +0000 UTCThese times where y'all show something you love to someone who's never seen it are great.
Flippant Sausage
2021-11-03 23:59:30 +0000 UTCIt's official. All the reviews are in, the votes have been counted, and Lydia "Bad Pink Attitude Slip" Bugg has earned the title of Best Regular Guest On A Podcast--Category Dogg Zzone or Above.
Bonnybedlam
2021-11-03 18:58:24 +0000 UTCIf we're going down a Michael Beck rabbit hole, please please please cover the brilliant MegaForce next. It's such an 80s movie, I feel Lydia needs to see it to truly understand those of us who lived through that glorious age.
Matt Edwards
2021-11-03 17:57:06 +0000 UTCwell i am tickeled to see this show up even though the film is a source of some pain to me there are many times i think i probly disappointed my dad but the time i told him i didnt want to go camping because xanadu was on abc that night I think is a excellent example of the genrre
sissyneck
2021-11-03 16:01:46 +0000 UTC
