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!

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In this episode:

• Graphic Designer David Bock designed our logo

• Oldest evidence of controlled use of fire

• Finlayson et al. (2012) Birds of a Feather: Neanderthal Exploitation of Raptors and Corvids

• Neanderthals wore eagle talons as jewellery

• Roebrooks et al. (2012) Use of red ochre by early Neandertals

• The evolution of language

• Acheulean Handaxes

• Know your King Henrys

• The Iron Maiden was an 18th Century myth

• Napoleon wasn’t that short