The Goonies is turning forty years old, and our brother Ian should have turned 45 this week. Growing up on the Oregon coast in the 1980s, The Goonies was an indelible part of our childhoods! Puzzles, treasure, friends with bicycles and dangerous ideas: The Goonies was everything a kid could want. For us - Matt Fagan, Ian Fagan, and Ted Fagan - it gave shape to fantasies we played out every day.
Today we are, for better or worse, adults, and we are looking back at The Goonies as grown men who have lost the brother in between them. This episode is part nostalgia and part eulogy; we laugh a lot, but we shed a lot of fucking tears for Ian too. We are not the same people that we were in 1985, and we are not the same people that we were when there were three of us.
We watched The Goonies for the first time since Ian's death, and then we recorded this episode on what would have been his 45th birthday. Of all the childhood favorites Ted and I have revisited on Depot Devoid, this was definitely the most emotionally challenging. There will be a lot of new podcast episodes about The Goonies this week, but I bet ours is the only one with an actual eulogy in it, and probably the most crying too. That's the Depot Devoid difference!
Full video for this episode is on our YouTube channel.
