Speaker 1: Welcome to them. Christian O'Connell show podcast Jack Yesterday's homework
Speaker 1: to do with the eighties and the eighties been a
Speaker 1: millennia hasn't seen a lot of these eighties movies that
Speaker 1: were going through. Was to Watch from nineteen eighty six,
Speaker 1: starring a very young, always beautiful Rob Low Swayze. He's
Speaker 1: in it, Keanu Reeves, Frank Stallone. Did you notice Frank Stellone?
Speaker 2: I did not know who Frank Stallone.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's a belligerent defenseman as well. He's on the
Speaker 1: on the team.
Speaker 2: No, yeah, he had blinking. He miss it with Keanu
Speaker 2: rees Oh my.
Speaker 1: God, mainly because of Keanu Reeve's ridiculous French Canadian accent,
Speaker 1: which he doesn't even commit to. It's there for two
Speaker 1: lines and then he talks normally. Where that man said,
Speaker 1: Anna maut This shocking friends, It was the eighties. Want
Speaker 1: yell cut in thirty years am Now this is gonna
Speaker 1: look really bad.
Speaker 2: Keanu It's amazing. That was his film debut, being in
Speaker 2: Young Blood. Crazy that he came back and became a
Speaker 2: big mix long.
Speaker 1: Way before John can Someone nicked his dog. Where that
Speaker 1: man he said, Anna mout You studied acting you or I.
Speaker 1: There are so many at the time. I remember when
Speaker 1: I first saw that, I was like, guy, this movie
Speaker 1: so savage, all these singing lines, somedthing you look back.
Speaker 1: The line go hunt you sent Bernard is one of
Speaker 1: the lamest lines in movie history. He's scum nuts, scum nuts.
Speaker 1: And then also this line too wanna go pretty by
Speaker 1: when I got pretty boyt. What did you think of
Speaker 1: the movie?
Speaker 2: Well, they were always trying to fight each other. I
Speaker 2: thought the amount of fist fighting and violence was pretty grotesque.
Speaker 1: It's more about fighting than ice hockey.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So Rob Low is a great ice hockey player, but.
Speaker 1: He's also got a great rigg, isn't he What a
Speaker 1: beautiful young man?
Speaker 2: You do see with his shirt off quite a bit.
Speaker 1: Well, you see his naked, but about fifteen minutes in,
Speaker 1: like most of his movies in the eighties, he was
Speaker 1: naked having sex with someone within fifteen minutes.
Speaker 2: Didn't hold back on that sex scene, did they.
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 2: The scariest scene of any movie I've probably ever seen
Speaker 2: was the hazing scene with Roblow.
Speaker 1: Again Swaysy Throat Rip in Roadhouns.
Speaker 2: They hold down Roblow Patsy to haze him into the
Speaker 2: hockey team. Right, he's naked. The whole hockey team holds
Speaker 2: him down. Patrick Swayzey puts a jock strap over his
Speaker 2: mouth like he's a doctor, has a barber's razor.
Speaker 1: Old school kind of Jack the Ripper slasher.
Speaker 2: And shaves his his area.
Speaker 1: Need to just go all the way.
Speaker 2: But it looks like he's going to cut his member off.
Speaker 1: Yeah it does. It is jacket a sleep this night
Speaker 1: last night, it was terrified by. It's got a lot
Speaker 1: of the cliches of eight sports movies. So he's got
Speaker 1: the bitter older brother. Did he lose an eye?
Speaker 2: He lost an eye playing hockey.
Speaker 1: Then he's got the old mumbling dad who's a farmer,
Speaker 1: you know, doesn't guess what if dad doesn't want him
Speaker 1: to go to that America and play in the big
Speaker 1: leagues and become a big time hot shot and needs
Speaker 1: help out on the farm, doesn't he?
Speaker 2: And then we found out that the dad used to
Speaker 2: play hockey.
Speaker 1: Want to surprise, the dad is played by a hockey great, Nestarenko.
Speaker 1: Eric Nestarenko's not one of the all time greats of hockey.
Speaker 2: This is how much they were obsessed with violence. In
Speaker 2: the film So Roblow's character is great at skating, he's
Speaker 2: great at hockey skills, but he's not going to make
Speaker 2: it as a pro because he can't fight terrible. So
Speaker 2: he comes back to his hometown. His dad takes him
Speaker 2: to the local rink and says, come on, hit me,
Speaker 2: I'm going to teach you how to fight. His dad,
Speaker 2: who didn't want him to play hockey, is provoking.
Speaker 1: You learn to you learn to play ice hockey on
Speaker 1: the rink. You learn to fight here. And they're in
Speaker 1: a barn, and now we need to tell the UFC
Speaker 1: these fighters do not need to go on a six
Speaker 1: week training camp. In two short days, Rob Low becomes
Speaker 1: the greatest fighter there ever was just in two days,
Speaker 1: hitting that bag and the speedball with his dad and
Speaker 1: his brother.
Speaker 2: Everybody's fighting. So the coach throws a punch at somebody
Speaker 2: in the crowd during a game.
Speaker 1: How great is that? Classic? Kind of sort of like
Speaker 1: in Rocky as well, that kind of Mickey character of
Speaker 1: the I'm Pat Moriarty from Chronic Kid, that kind of
Speaker 1: grizzled coach character. He's great the actor and that.
Speaker 2: He's great, But this is the problem with it. I
Speaker 2: thought the moral of the story was going to be
Speaker 2: Rob Low doesn't need to resort to violence like everybody
Speaker 2: wants him to. He doesn't need to be a fighter
Speaker 2: to be a great because he.
Speaker 1: Gets the great big last scene and he wins the
Speaker 1: game in the league.
Speaker 2: He wins the game. It's three all, he's got the
Speaker 2: penalty shot. There's three seconds ago he makes a shot.
Speaker 2: I thought, great, it's proving he doesn't need violence to
Speaker 2: make it as a hockey player. Then the siren goes.
Speaker 2: He starts fighting with his hockey stick like a sword
Speaker 2: fight with his main enemy, disarms him, armed him, and
Speaker 2: then beats the crap out of him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, horrifically.
Speaker 2: The game is over and mercilessly he beats him.
Speaker 1: In no way does Rob Low beat that evil He's
Speaker 1: like one of the most evil less eighties badd he's
Speaker 1: ever seen that racky.
Speaker 2: And then he beat like beats this guy up. It's
Speaker 2: pretty confronting.
Speaker 1: It's like he's making him eat ice at one point.
Speaker 2: Then he signs autographs for a bunch of kids who
Speaker 2: look up.
Speaker 1: To it and watched this whole ground and pound going on, like, dad,
Speaker 1: what's he doing.
Speaker 2: That's the end of the movie. Yeah, and we're left
Speaker 2: going like, all right, I guess violence is the answer.
Speaker 2: Is that what I'm taking away from this?
Speaker 1: It was the eighties. Jacket was a very different time.
Speaker 1: The scene where his dad doesn't want him to go
Speaker 1: and leave the farm and to become a nice hockey player, right,
Speaker 1: classic cliche of natic cliche. We want to know this morning,
Speaker 1: how's this ever happened in real life where you went
Speaker 1: to get into some line of work, whether it was
Speaker 1: the army or the police, or to be a fire
Speaker 1: and your dad was like, please don't do that. Did
Speaker 1: anyone go ever in real life against their dad's wishes? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Are you in a Korean now that your parents didn't
Speaker 2: want you to do it?
Speaker 1: Christian Connell's show podcast. Yesterday Jack and I watched the
Speaker 1: eighties movie young Blood. Jax has asked me to text
Speaker 1: friend of the show. I think I might be stretching
Speaker 1: it today. I think he might block men. Brereton just
Speaker 1: wake it up this morning to a text to me going, hey,
Speaker 1: did you watch eighties movie young Blood with Rob Low
Speaker 1: and Swayze? It didn't inspire you when like Swazey you
Speaker 1: kissed Duckworth. Let me know asap.
Speaker 2: I'm they came out of the similar time. So in
Speaker 2: nineteen eighty six was young Blood During a melay, Patrick
Speaker 2: Swayzey grabs the referee and gives him a kiss on
Speaker 2: the lips. Then the next year is the famous Dermy
Speaker 2: moment We're on the.
Speaker 1: Field, I think you're onto something.
Speaker 2: He's in a fight with Billy Duckworth, grabs him by
Speaker 2: the face and kisses him on the lips.
Speaker 1: This show demand's answers, Dermy, please let me know asap.
Speaker 1: Rob Low from young Blood, the star of young Blood.
Speaker 1: He's some relentlessly cheerful, healthy positive man, isn't he. I'd
Speaker 1: love to get him on the show. Does a very
Speaker 1: very good podcast as well. Roblow Anyway, he's on Joe
Speaker 1: Rogan recently talking about doing the movie young Blood and
Speaker 1: how intense swayze he was.
Speaker 4: He might be the most intense sky ever.
Speaker 1: Really.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he'd be up all night writing and like doing
Speaker 4: Buddy Wheat push ups with his feet up against the
Speaker 4: wall all night long, and then show up at the
Speaker 4: set having nights slapped and winning to hear his new demo.
Speaker 4: He was like a lot, It's great, He's great.
Speaker 1: And then he talks about this.
Speaker 4: He tried to get us to put that guid for
Speaker 4: sakend song. She's like the wind in Young Blood.
Speaker 2: You're like, we're like.
Speaker 1: This in an ice hockey movie. That's the movie anything
Speaker 1: Swayzy is. He doesn't get enough credit. He's one of
Speaker 1: the great So I think the one great thing about
Speaker 1: the eightes of the Ages hopefully is exposed you to
Speaker 1: the greatness of Patrick Swayzey.
Speaker 2: He's fast becoming my favorite icon of the eighties. In
Speaker 2: Youngblood my favorite character, and rhoad House is probably my
Speaker 2: newest favorite eighty film and swayze is the stuff, all right.
Speaker 1: So we're asking today, like in a lot of eighties movies,
Speaker 1: you see this in quite a few of them, where
Speaker 1: the dad there's always some dad who doesn't want the
Speaker 1: kid to go and live out their dreams. They want
Speaker 1: them to stay on the farm or work in the
Speaker 1: steel mill. It's always something industrial and heavy and laborious,
Speaker 1: isn't it. And there's always that scene where they're arguing
Speaker 1: and then the sun finally says, what's been hanging around
Speaker 1: for years? We goes don't end up like you pushes
Speaker 1: this old man who falls into hay, you know, and
Speaker 1: the mom looks through like a window where she's washing
Speaker 1: a plate. Oh God, is that is that every other?
Speaker 2: Your dad's just trying to protect you.
Speaker 1: I'm so disported my dad. He never did that with me,
Speaker 1: so I could have that moment. Please say, you don't
Speaker 1: want to become a DJ now. I hope you do
Speaker 1: get to live out those dreams of playing nickelback. All right,
Speaker 1: let's go to Fiona. So we're asking, what's this your life?
Speaker 1: Did your dad try to stop you living out your dreams? Fiona?
Speaker 1: I think this was your mom's story.
Speaker 3: It is my mom's story. So my mom decided her
Speaker 3: father and played hockey for Australia once.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: The reason he didn't like her playing hockey for Australia
Speaker 3: was he had had a serious hip injury which actually
Speaker 3: made one of his legs six inches shoulders than the
Speaker 3: other by having.
Speaker 1: Sorry, I'm not laughing at it, it's just quite a
Speaker 1: discrepancy between one side and the other.
Speaker 3: So yeah, so he pretty much had a hit replacement
Speaker 3: when he was ten years old because he played hockey
Speaker 3: and got injured and he didn't want mum to play hockey.
Speaker 1: I could understand.
Speaker 2: This is so much like the film.
Speaker 1: I can't believe the first cool we get is your one.
Speaker 1: It's so close to the plot of y.
Speaker 3: She missed out on playing at the Olympics in Melbourne
Speaker 3: in nineen fifty six because of it.
Speaker 1: This is incredible, so said.
Speaker 2: She played for Australia once. So she did it once
Speaker 2: and then had to retire because your dad made her.
Speaker 3: Yeah, pretty much in a nutshell, that's it.
Speaker 1: So she missed out on playing for Australia the Olympics
Speaker 1: here at.
Speaker 3: The Melbourne Olympics in nineteen fifty six. So she played
Speaker 3: a qualifying match in Multura, which is where she was based.
Speaker 3: And yeah, then of course then she wasn't allowed to play.
Speaker 3: You wouldn't let her go. He wouldn't pay for it
Speaker 3: to get to go to Melbourne.
Speaker 1: God, that is incredible, amazing stuff, Fiona, Thank you very
Speaker 1: much for sharing.
Speaker 3: Thank you. Have a great day, guys.
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