Episode 69: Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989)

It’s Episode 69, dude! So we watched Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989), the classic time-travel movie starring Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter as two slackers collecting historical figures to help them pass their history final in order to save a future civilization founded on their band’s music. Imagine how weird that sentence would sound if you had never seen this movie–but of course you have seen it. And just in case you missed it, there are nine seconds featuring cave people in this movie, so it counts! Win some SotSA Merch! Send your mistakes, inaccuracies, and corrections to us by email or social media: Twitter: @SotSA_Podcast Bluesky: @sotsapodcast.bsky.social Facebook: @SotSAPodcast Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: [email protected] In this episode: Graphic Designer David Bock designed our logo: https://www.dkbock.com/ Oldest evidence of controlled use of fire: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_of_fire_by_early_humans Finlayson et al. (2012) Birds of a Feather: Neanderthal Exploitation of Raptors and Corvids: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0045927 Neanderthals wore eagle talons as jewellery: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2015.17095 Roebrooks et al. (2012) Use of red ochre by early Neandertals: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1112261109 The evolution of language: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.96.14.8028 Acheulean Handaxes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand_axe Know your King Henrys: https://www.historyhit.com/the-8-king-henrys-of-england-in-order/ The Iron Maiden was an 18th Century myth: https://www.livescience.com/55985-are-iron-maidens-torture-devices.html Napoleon wasn’t that short: https://history.howstuffworks.com/history-vs-myth/napoleon-short.htm