Episode 145 -The Dawn Of HBO

If an 80's kid didn’t have HBO growing up, they knew someone who did and watched the hell out of it. But let’s go back further, to the 70's and the early days of cable television when it was still limited and kind of pricey. You certainly couldn’t get unedited, commercial-free movies on your television. Until HBO, that is. Back in the day, Home Box Office was KING and made cable a necessity. Before the era of the VCR they pioneered satellite broadcasting and 24/7 programming. Plus, we got Skinemax late-nite nudie flicks - which led to lesser rivals Showtime and The Movie Channel - and kickstarted a slew of groundbreaking television you couldn’t find on regular networks. Think Sopranos, Deadwood, Westworld, Mad Men, Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead, Shameless, Battlestar Galactica,The Wire and beyond... all the must-see TV of the last 25 years peppered with a heavy dose of Hollywood beamed directly to your living room 24 hours a day. Yeah, the entertainment you stream so easily now on your phone? That all started with HBO. | 0:00 - Intros | 4:30 - Charlie’s Angels (2019) | 13:37 - Overlord (2018) | 18:45 - The Old Guard (2020) | 27:50 - 30 Rock - A One Time Special (NBC) | 31:05 - Eurovision Song Contest: The Story Of Fire Saga (2020) | 33:35 - Palm Springs (2020) | 36:26 - HBO | Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Bazuka - Dynomite | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Ariana Grande, Miley Cyrus & Lana Del Rey - Don’t Call Me Angel (Charlie’s Angels) | Jed Kurzel - Arrival - Overlord Music from the Motion Picture | Volker Bertelmann & Dustin O’Halloran - The Old Guard | Jeff Richmond - 30 Rock Theme | Will Ferrell & My Marianne - Jaja Ding Dong | Cast of Eurovision Song Contest: The Story Of Fire Saga - Song-A-Long | Cornbread Compton - Race to the Cave | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | HBO Feature Presentation Music | Negativland - The Playboy Channel | Joe Pizzulo - White Lines - 1st and Ten | Tina Turner - The Best