I said in the open, I thought Dance with the Stars last night was a joke and it was because.
Just as bad as having Gene Simmons show up as a judge last year and basically ale over the women. Having Flavor Flav there as a judge on rock and roll night was utterly ridiculous, pointless, and frankly, it was kind of a slap in the face to us. The people that actually enjoy the show. I do not care one fucking shit.
What Flava Flav thinks of how these people danced. He’s not giving any critique of anything. He complimented everybody. He would make rhymes. He would basically tell everybody they did great. He didn’t even know how to pick up a paddle. When the first people came around to judge, he gave a 10 to Di Rin.
Look, he’s good. Nobody’s giving di Rine a 10. That was not a 10 dance, and then he gave a nine to Alex Earl when all three other judges gave her a 10. Like, why do we need this guy’s input on anything? It was embarrassing. Frankly, I just don’t understand the point of having him on. He’s not even like in the pop culture lexicon anymore.
Like if he had his Flavor Flav reality dating show still going. You can at least say, Hey, he’s in the news now because he’s doing this. When they brought him out, I was like, holy shit, I haven’t seen Flava Flav since the Comedy Central Roast of him, and that was over 10 years ago. What is the point of this?
Bring in guest judges. I’m all for that, but I wanna see the maxes of the world. I wanna see a Mandy Moore, who is a professional choreographer. Hell bring in Molly Long, the choreographer that did pop music. Gimme somebody that’s going to give me something up there critiquing these dancers, Flava Flav, just saying, oh man, you were great.
Really? That that’s your critique. You guys were smooth up there. You guys were on point. What an embarrassment. None of those couples should have. She should have just put their fingers in their ears every time he spoke. And tried to tell them about and because he didn’t, he didn’t give you anything. He wasn’t gonna critique angles, choreography, feet position, body position.
Oh my God. I don’t know why him being up there. And I loved Flava Flav. You don’t think 16-year-old me as a junior in high school. Was absolutely blasting Public enemy in my car, driving to school and singing. Can’t trust it. Like trust me, I loved Public Enemy in high school. I was in high school 30 years ago, like I think 32 now when I think about it.
Yeah, 32 years ago now. But you get the point. This guy added nothing to the show. He almost made a mockery of it. You know that Derek Huff and Carrie Ann and Bruno are sitting there like, oh my God, let’s just get me through this week. This is so dumb. You can’t tell me you enjoyed Flavor Flav. As a judge, I thought it was an insult to its viewers and let’s just get rid of the one episode of season where we bring in somebody who knows nothing about dancing and just gets up there to give their opinions of what they saw.
Nobody cares. I’m all four guest judges. Former dancers, Cheryl Burke last week, like we said, professional choreographers, former pros, max Cheryl, whoever Louis Van Amsel, bring ’em all back. But don’t bring in these people who know nothing about dancing. It just defeats the purpose. I wanted to end with this, and this is probably outside of some barring anything crazy happening.
This is probably gonna be. One of the last times I talk back to the future because I’ve given you a week and a half. Like I said, I’ve enjoyed it. I appreciate all of you have reached out to me who have said you enjoyed it, even though I know there are some of you out there that are just like, why is he continuing to do this?
And you also gotta remember one thing that I do wanna say in case you didn’t notice, it’s not like I ever led my podcast. My reality, Steve Podcast with Back to The Future News. Every single time I’ve talked about it, it’s basically been the last topic of the podcast. I’m not gonna put it in front of Bachelor news, bachelorette news, anything going on in Bachelorette World.
I think I hope a lot of you picked up on that. It’s always something like, Hey, I wanna end with this. Hey, here’s your BA Bachelor, back to the future fun fact of the day. So I tried to do it like that. And I’m gonna do it like that this time. But I think this encapsulates because for a while there, while I was doing it, like I said the other day, I know a lot of you didn’t care.
Or maybe even tuned out my podcast at that point, or just like, all right, I’m done. I didn’t, I, I want to listen to Steve to talk reality stuff, but I don’t care about the back to the future stuff. And that’s fine. You have every right to do that. But I got this email the other day, and man, it, it made me, it made me feel really good.
So he said some other things in it, but then he said, secondly, Steve, I wanna thank you for your discussion of the Back to the Future re-release. I’m not someone who ever goes to the theater to see re-release of old movies, especially movies that can be found on Netflix or other streaming companies.
However, I made an exception for this one and went to see it on Saturday with my wife. It was a surprise for her 40 years ago on July 4th, 1985. The day after it opened, I took my then girlfriend to see it afterward. I told her I loved her for the first time. So I’ve always had a fondness for this movie, even though we had rarely rewatched it.
But after hearing you discuss it, I decided to buy tickets, not imax, but xd, with the Dbox moving seats. That turned out to be a little more annoying than enjoyable, but I splurged. And even made a full date of it doing things that were important to us back in 1985. Our 40th wedding anniversary isn’t for several months, but I made this separate 40 year celebration revolving around the entire year of 1985, since the whole year was special for our relationship.
Anyway, she had a blast, but it wouldn’t have happened if I didn’t listen to your podcast. And you didn’t talk about it more than once. I needed the repetition to come to that decision, I guess. So thank you. Now I have to go watch the others again. I have very little memory of them other than the Sports Almanac.
Just reading that I know what I’ve done for the last week and a half, to me it was all worth it. That was so cool to hear. This guy listening to me, probably a man, I think he told me he’s in his sixties, a 60-year-old man. I didn’t even think I had any males that listened to my podcast. A 60-year-old man who said my then girlfriend.
We saw it the day after it was released and because of you were talking about it, I decided to take her to watch the re-release this weekend, and I made it kind of a date night and around things that happened in 1985 to us. How cool is that? And just because of me talking about it and me just reminding people, Hey, hell, he probably wouldn’t even have known it was being rereleased if I didn’t talk about it every day last week.
So I just wanted to share that with you because that was one of the cooler emails I’ve ever gotten, and it made me appreciate one, the listeners that I said this at my party in Las Vegas this year. And I think I’ve said it on this podcast a few times, but I’ll repeat myself. When I sit down to record every night, it’s just me and a microphone.
I’m well aware that a lot of you listen to my podcast. You know, I see the numbers, I see the downloads, so I know people listen. But when I’m sitting here recording and just talking into a microphone, and I know this may sound weird, but there’s always a part of me that’s like, why are they listening? Why do they care what I have to say about anything?
But I know you do, and I can’t tell you how much I appreciate that because I would stop this if the downloads just started dwindling, I wouldn’t do it anymore. What’s the point? Time is money. And if I’m gonna devote some time to this, and because of your support and because of how many of you are loyal listeners to this, it’s why I am going to do more now.
I feel like I’ve slacked off even though I was doing 11 podcasts a week. There’s still plenty of time in the day where I could be doing other things related to working in the podcast world and or my YouTube channel, or the Patreon channel that I’m starting up. So I wanna do more and I’m gonna do more.
And it’s all thanks to you because I know you guys listen to this podcast and I think you’ll listen to any other podcast or join a Patreon that’s gonna cost you pennies. You know, like I said, it’s gonna be $5 a month to join. I’m not gonna have separate tears. There’s gonna be a bunch of different things that you get on it.
It’s not all gonna be movie rewatch or television episode Rees. There’ll be other stuff on there. I might just crack open the mic one day and just be like, Hey, going on Patreon now to talk about this. Did you see this just happened? You know, kind of like what a lot of other content creators do. I’m just late to the party, but I figure it’s time to do it.
I’ve got time. I might as well. But I wanna thank Mike for that email. And Mike it made my day when you sent me that. I’m glad I know your 40th wedding anniversary isn’t for a few months, but just to hear that you did that for your wife, I hope she was appreciative of it. You said she had a good time.
That’s great. I hope since then, maybe you’ve pulled it up and watched two and three again, because honestly it’s one long movie. It’s not three separate movies. It’s literally one long movie when you watch two and three. ’cause they all just run together. I mean, if you didn’t know, you’re back to the future.
Fun fact of the day number two and three were shot at the same time. They were released on back-to-back summers, but they were shot at the same time. That’s why at the end of two you get a preview. For Back to the Future three with already a trailer of what you’re gonna see in Back to the Future three.
And at the time, in 1989, when it came out, when Back to The Future Two came out, we’re all looking at it like, I don’t think we’ve ever seen this before. How do we already know? We’ve already seen Clips for three. And it was because they were filmed at the same time. They were filmed back to back, but they were released back to the future.
Two was released summer of 89, and then back to the Future three was released the following summer. But essentially if you watch all three movies in a row, it’s one long movie. They’re all connected. So I hope Mike gets around to doing that again. Thank you so much, Mike for that, for that email. So cool to hear.
So cool that I had that effect and just me talking about it. Cause someone to do that. I’ve had others reach out to me. Since the, since last week saying I went and either re-watched it on streaming or I had a few people reach out to me and say they went to the theaters over the weekend. I was like, that’s just really cool to hear.
You know, maybe some of you went and saw it because you have never seen it. I don’t know. If any of you have let me know. I’d be interested to know. I’m, I’m guessing some people have seen it, but maybe some people literally saw it in 1985 and haven’t watched it since and are not nearly as obsessive as a fan as I am of it.
But I’m just May. If you did that and you’ve seen it once or twice, or you hadn’t seen it in 30 years and you rewatched it because you heard me talking about it, you know, lemme know what you think. Is it how you remembered it? Did you remember all the details that I said about it? I’m just curious, but we’re gonna have a back to the future rewatch for sure on the Patreon channel where we can get your comments in real time.
You can hear me commenting about it in real time. It’ll be a lot of fun. I don’t, I don’t know if that’s gonna be the first video I do. I, I haven’t decided yet, but it’s coming probably sometime this month, just to give you a heads up. But. Such a cool email to get that. And so glad that he did that for his wife and I hope she was appreciative of it.
Anyway, thank you all for listening. I really appreciate it. Follow me in Apple Podcasts. Also rate and review. But you gotta hit play. It’s the only way it counts is a download. Sports Daily coming up in an hour for now, if you wanna check that out. Again, thank you all for listening. I really appreciate it, and I will talk to you tomorrow.
