Goonies [Seldom] Say Die!

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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,  ...