2019’s calendar is 1985’s calendar (and also 2002’s calendar), so that means that this weekend — October 25-27 — is the same Friday/Saturday/Sunday as when the Back to the Future trilogy takes place. A fan documentary is airing Friday night at 8 on KFXA 28.3.
This summer a large part of my road trip podcast diet was the “Back to the Future Minute”, which has since gone through the entire trilogy. This crew wasn’t as great as the “Star Wars Minute” guys were with the source material — or, in some cases, Americana in general. (I was yelling when they didn’t know what a gas war was.) And there were some episodes that just went painfully off the rails.
Minute 51, “Acting Politicians”, was released December 14, 2015 — six weeks before the Iowa caucuses. I didn’t listen to it until July, and … the 3½-year delay put an entirely different spin on it.
That aside, BTTF remains one of my three most favorite movies and it’s still a bit hard to believe the future is now in the past.