Speaker 1: Welcome to the Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 2: Or we have been doing over the last color weeks,
Speaker 2: sin since we start the eightes. Out of the eighties, obviously,
Speaker 2: Jackie Boy a millennial, it's not seen a lot of
Speaker 2: these movies that we talk about in the eighties. So
Speaker 2: each day, the day before when I ask him to
Speaker 2: watch one of them. So you've done quite a few now,
Speaker 2: and Karate Kids.
Speaker 3: Crad a Kid, Top Gun, Police Academy, James Bond's Octopussy.
Speaker 2: And then the ultimate one yesterday. I thought it was
Speaker 2: the right moment in his life to initiate him. This
Speaker 2: is what people need sometimes, young men to be initiating
Speaker 2: into a rite of passage.
Speaker 1: Hey, let's get into Roadhouse. Do you enjoy ving pined on.
Speaker 2: What a movie nineteen eighty nine Patrick Swayze in Roadhouse,
Speaker 2: the best damn caller in the business. A movie about
Speaker 2: a bouncer. But wait, no honorary bouncer. Because we're dealing
Speaker 2: with Patrick Swayzee. He's got a PhD in philosophy. When
Speaker 2: he's suspensing bad guys, he's also dispensing genuine, interesting Western
Speaker 2: and Eastern philosophy.
Speaker 3: I was most nervous about going into this one because
Speaker 3: I know it's a movie that's close to your heart,
Speaker 3: and I hadn't really heard of it. Of course, I've
Speaker 3: heard of Karate Kid, heard of Top Gun, heard of
Speaker 3: Police Academy. Roadhouse don't really have much about.
Speaker 2: It to disregard it as a bad like a good
Speaker 2: bad movie. When I genuinely would put this in my
Speaker 2: top ten. It is a masterpiece.
Speaker 3: So I was worried that I was going to have
Speaker 3: to come in this morning and say, Christian, I hated
Speaker 3: one of your favorite films of all time. But let
Speaker 3: me tell you, the recommendation tree that you've been running
Speaker 3: has produced its first tasty apple road House, Christians Roadhouse. Yes,
Speaker 3: it is a ten out of ten movie.
Speaker 1: Dalton gave you ten out of ten.
Speaker 3: It is awesome.
Speaker 1: No word of a lie man.
Speaker 3: That's a great movie.
Speaker 1: So do you watch it with your wife Bianca?
Speaker 3: She loved it as well. Nine out of ten from Bianca,
Speaker 3: ten out of ten from me.
Speaker 1: Incredible.
Speaker 2: Can I just say this is it too much to
Speaker 2: say it's a religious experience.
Speaker 3: Because it actually is. The least A DoD has a
Speaker 3: cheesy premise. He's the best bouncer in America. He's got
Speaker 3: a PhD.
Speaker 2: So how much money in there is there? He's got
Speaker 2: that Mercedes convertible.
Speaker 1: He's a bouncer. Are they paid that well?
Speaker 3: I guess in the eighties in America, being a bouncer
Speaker 3: is a huge thing.
Speaker 1: But it's not. He wasn't just that he's the best
Speaker 1: damn calder in the business.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because everybody knows him wherever he goes. Hey, that's Dom,
Speaker 3: that's Dalton. It is a great film. It's actually not
Speaker 3: cheesy at all. It's actually an awesome film. The it
Speaker 3: doesn't feel like the eighties cheese that was in Sorry
Speaker 3: to say, Top Gun and Karate Kid. It's just really good.
Speaker 3: You didn't want me how violent it was. You could
Speaker 3: have put a disclaimer on that.
Speaker 2: But what it is is they balance out with tai Chi.
Speaker 2: And also when Dalton is so tough in this movie,
Speaker 2: he's just got one name. He's just known as Dalton.
Speaker 2: Right when he's doing that tai Chi, there's one scene.
Speaker 2: A lot of people talk about the home e rottesism
Speaker 2: in Top Gun, right about the beach volleyball scene. That
Speaker 2: is nothing compared to don't when he's doing tai Chee.
Speaker 2: There's other men in the background, just staring at him,
Speaker 2: watching him in awe and it's like, hang on a minute,
Speaker 2: why are we talking about this?
Speaker 3: Patrick Swayzey doing the ti chee is probably my only
Speaker 3: bug bear with the film. We didn't need four minutes
Speaker 3: of that. It went for a very long time.
Speaker 1: It was like, but what a body on him? He's amazing.
Speaker 1: That's not even a twelve pack? What is that?
Speaker 3: And I was I was sitting on the couch eating
Speaker 3: Chucky's while I'm watching.
Speaker 2: Road I thought you were going to say I was
Speaker 2: sitting on the couch getting excited.
Speaker 1: By four minutes. I wound for a little guys to cool.
Speaker 3: Down, munching at a block of cabre, and I thought,
Speaker 3: no way is this guy eating any chocolate.
Speaker 1: Every inch of him.
Speaker 3: Is ready to fire, poise, coil. So tell me this,
Speaker 3: did you every time you watch Roadhouse? Surely afterwards you're
Speaker 3: like giving.
Speaker 1: Him one of these? Do you?
Speaker 2: Someone?
Speaker 1: Really sad?
Speaker 2: So when I saw that, I came out in nineteen
Speaker 2: eighty nine. I was sixteen, right, You can you imagine
Speaker 2: in sixteen seeing that, and I'm to martial arts and
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 1: This guy's my new mentor. Of course he's smoking throughout
Speaker 1: the movie as well. I go because I like, I
Speaker 1: need to learn tai chi.
Speaker 2: What a great way That's what I'm going to find
Speaker 2: girls is if I just start going to local park
Speaker 2: stripped to.
Speaker 3: The wait on my beer's like shirtose blooney white.
Speaker 1: There's only no way you would buy those right to
Speaker 1: kmart seale them. But anyway, right, I just thought I
Speaker 1: need to I need to learn tai chi and then
Speaker 1: start doing it in parks to attract girls. So I thought,
Speaker 1: there's not a lot of spiritual masters, right right.
Speaker 2: So I remember going to my dad going, I know too,
Speaker 2: I going to thay Chie my dad fair blay. He
Speaker 2: didn't laugh if he went, Well, I guess we're gonna
Speaker 2: have to go to the local library. My dad drove
Speaker 2: me too the local library, and I hired out two
Speaker 2: books on tai chi, something called white Crane or horse
Speaker 2: Fly tai Chie.
Speaker 1: And do you know how long I took that up?
Speaker 1: For three minutes? So slow, it's so slow. Anyway, let's
Speaker 1: go back to Roadhouse. So obviously you got the star
Speaker 1: of it. Patrick.
Speaker 3: He's one of the most handsome men in film ever.
Speaker 1: What about that mane of hair? Brilliant And he's even
Speaker 1: when he's.
Speaker 2: Like roadhouse and kicking me from the head or taking
Speaker 2: knives off them. What about the one where someone stabs
Speaker 2: him in the arm. He doesn't even flinch he gets
Speaker 2: shot in he has flinch all the tight cheek.
Speaker 3: And then Sam Elliott is like his guru.
Speaker 1: And the second damn best caller in the business.
Speaker 3: He used to be the best, the best of the best.
Speaker 3: I actually saw Wade Garrett sam Elliott's character as you,
Speaker 3: and I was the young You're my mentor and I'm
Speaker 3: learning from you.
Speaker 1: And how beautiful is sam Elliott in that.
Speaker 3: Gorgeous man with that gray of hair.
Speaker 1: And that's it's tied back in a bun, but he
Speaker 1: pulls it off.
Speaker 3: One one thing about the movie that I really loved
Speaker 3: Brad Wesley. He's the bad guy, the rich bad guy
Speaker 3: who runs the.
Speaker 2: Whole the most evil man America. And so he's got
Speaker 2: a stranglehold over the whole town.
Speaker 1: Right. Why I only ever saw two houses there? Right?
Speaker 2: People just leave in one of two houses. The other
Speaker 2: side that strange big river. Right, there's a car dealership
Speaker 2: and the general store.
Speaker 1: What do you want? What else have they got there?
Speaker 3: Then the world's biggest roadhouse, the bar that they're actually protecting,
Speaker 3: that they're the bouncers off. Yeah, with hundreds of people
Speaker 3: in at night, it's like, where are these people?
Speaker 2: An evil plan is he wants to rebuild it and
Speaker 2: expand it into a chain.
Speaker 1: That's his plan for world domination.
Speaker 3: Okay, one more thing. I know, we've got to get
Speaker 3: to the news, and we're way late. I don't want
Speaker 3: to spoil the ending for anybody who hasn't say it,
Speaker 3: because I would recommend people to see it.
Speaker 2: If you he's been out since nineteen eighty nine, you
Speaker 2: can't say spoiler alert.
Speaker 3: Go and watch it on stand free on stan At
Speaker 3: the moment Roadhouse, I loved it. I'm not going to
Speaker 3: say the part I love the most. I'm just going
Speaker 3: to do it for you.
Speaker 1: End of the.
Speaker 2: Film, the throat. Okay, can we just talk about quickly
Speaker 2: about that right? Two things. The bad guy who is
Speaker 2: all building to that right is on a motorbike.
Speaker 1: Dawnton walks him down.
Speaker 2: The other guy is on let me say again, a motorbike,
Speaker 2: but I'll mate with the tai Chi managed to walk
Speaker 2: up to him and drag him off. He runs him
Speaker 2: down on his feet against a man on a motorbike,
Speaker 2: he tackles him, and then that bit where you know
Speaker 2: Dawn filt. The movie is just suspensing bodies left, fright
Speaker 2: and tent. He doesn't even think about it. He's just
Speaker 2: a pure machine. Suddenly me he's the most evil man
Speaker 2: in America who killed his best mate.
Speaker 1: I've counted it. He waivers, not known what to do
Speaker 1: for nineteen long seconds.
Speaker 2: Hang on, you kill people that you only just met,
Speaker 2: this guy, the most evil man in America.
Speaker 1: You're going to wait twenty seconds. You don't know what.
Speaker 3: To do because that's the moment where Dalton changes. He's
Speaker 3: thinking is like, do I want to be the animal
Speaker 3: or do I want to go to a new life
Speaker 3: where I'm not a vicious killer anymore?
Speaker 1: Yeah, amazing films. So ten out of ten, ten out
Speaker 1: of ten.
Speaker 3: I could talk about it with you for hours.
Speaker 1: Watch it this weekend, Roadhouse on stands.
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