Speaker 1: Welcome to the Christian O'Connell Show podcast. The Letter You.
Speaker 1: It's this week's letter in our eight z of the eighties.
Speaker 1: Today's letter is letter you'condall's you of the eights, as in,
Speaker 1: you really don't want that couch? Fourteen minutes now rio
Speaker 1: has been stood by couch that no one has stopped
Speaker 1: by to have a look at all. Right, the letter
Speaker 1: you before we get into the rest of the eighties,
Speaker 1: and the letter you yesterday. The movie of the week
Speaker 1: for Jackie Boy two watches A Child of the nineties.
Speaker 1: I going to watch a great movie, Oscar winning movie
Speaker 1: by Brian Depalmer. Against the movie Kevin Costa Sean Connor
Speaker 1: in a very young Andy Garcia, The great story of
Speaker 1: Elliotness taken down al Capone's crew The Untouchables. Do you
Speaker 1: remember this from nineteen eighty seven? Robert de Niro is
Speaker 1: al Capone. There is violence in Chicago, of course, but
Speaker 1: not by me and not by anybody I employ. And
Speaker 1: I tell you why, because it's no good business. Kevin
Speaker 1: Costner is elliot ness. I have sworn to put this
Speaker 1: man away with any and all legal means at my disposal.
Speaker 1: I will do so. Sean Connery is Jimmy Malone. You
Speaker 1: want to get capon, you get them. You pull a knife,
Speaker 1: you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to
Speaker 1: the hospital, you say him one of his log What
Speaker 1: a movie. I remember saying, there's a cinema with my buddies,
Speaker 1: Kevin and Graham and me, and we love this movie.
Speaker 2: I can't believe that one an Oscar. Wow, And I'm
Speaker 2: just looking at You're right, it's Oscars. Yeah, right, So
Speaker 2: people are easier to impress in the eighties.
Speaker 1: No, this is a great movie. No, this stands up now.
Speaker 1: Some bits don't. But this is a great movie. Why
Speaker 1: didn't you care for.
Speaker 2: I can't believe with the great actors who were in
Speaker 2: it anyways, it was so lame. I even even the
Speaker 2: great Robert de Niro, who's no, I do know, he
Speaker 2: buked up for it.
Speaker 1: It was one of the first movies he put on
Speaker 1: a lot of weight.
Speaker 2: No, he was like a kid playing a gangster in
Speaker 2: a high.
Speaker 1: School capone was light, was like a tyrant kid.
Speaker 2: No, No, he was Sean Connery, Kevin Costner, Robert de Niro.
Speaker 2: Didn't like any of them, only like I.
Speaker 1: Didn't like any of them. First of all right, let's
Speaker 1: just get into Kevin Costna. I would agree, right, I
Speaker 1: watched it about last week. He's a snooze fest, isn't he.
Speaker 2: Okay, he's the main character that's meant to take down copone.
Speaker 1: I love Kevin Costa, but in this movie, he's like
Speaker 1: a real square cardboard.
Speaker 2: Yes, nothing about his character. You don't really even believe.
Speaker 1: There's a bit in it where he's just leading the crew.
Speaker 1: They're all sort of locked and loaded, right, He's got
Speaker 1: his finally got all of his gang, his men to
Speaker 1: take down our capone. They're gonna go and kick in
Speaker 1: some warehouse and everyone's like, yeah, we're gonna do this
Speaker 1: is the start of it, and Kevin Costner just goes
Speaker 1: Cox is like shot and he goes, let's do some good.
Speaker 1: It's like the lamest light I would have I was
Speaker 1: Sean Connery, I would have punched him on the spot
Speaker 1: and kicked him out of the van's galloway.
Speaker 2: Costner at the start of the film gets bad press.
Speaker 2: He's the new federal agent in town. He gets bad
Speaker 2: press because the raid that he did is bungled, and
Speaker 2: he takes the headline from the newspaper and pins it
Speaker 2: up on the corkboard behind his desk.
Speaker 1: That is called motivation.
Speaker 2: Banker said, that's something Christian would do.
Speaker 1: I have done that. You know. There's a rival boss
Speaker 1: who said something about me. I wrote it on a
Speaker 1: post it note and I had it for a year.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's why I like this movie. It's a man
Speaker 1: who's vengeance. Let's just talk about Kevin cosl Right, Okay,
Speaker 1: if you didn't like the cause, what about Sean Conney? Though?
Speaker 1: Yet again, what Sean showed in this movie playing a
Speaker 1: Chicago cop is Sean Connery has probably got a greater
Speaker 1: range of accents than near the other actor. I mean,
Speaker 1: here he is when he was a Russian submarine commander,
Speaker 1: Russian sounding, so Russian. Once more, we play our dangerous game,
Speaker 1: a game of chess against our old aversary, the American Navy,
Speaker 1: so Russian in that. And there he is now he's
Speaker 1: working for a Spanish king.
Speaker 2: Cot He change, I am one Sanchez fill of lobos.
Speaker 1: An he doesn't sound like it made metal, just to
Speaker 1: King Charles fifth of Spain. And here he is in Chicago.
Speaker 1: Want to get here's hoping to get him? He pulls
Speaker 1: a knife. Do you pull a gun? He sends one
Speaker 1: of yours to the hospital, and you're saying, want a
Speaker 1: history of the mark. This scene is incredible in that church.
Speaker 1: It's a beautiful scene that's go away.
Speaker 2: I honestly don't know if he thought he was from Chicago,
Speaker 2: if he was from Scotland originally, because he starts off.
Speaker 1: With everywhere he's been in the submarine. He's been time
Speaker 1: traveling working for that Spanish king as his chief metallurgist.
Speaker 2: When we first met him, he has more of an
Speaker 2: American accent than a sort of.
Speaker 1: Shit does change in the movie, doesn't It gets a
Speaker 1: little bit frayed. I remember actually getting a little bit
Speaker 1: misty eyed when Sean I think we can do We
Speaker 1: don't have to go spoiler alert about a movie that
Speaker 1: came out in nineteen eighty seventy. If you haven't seen
Speaker 1: it now, I haven't seen it. Screw you. What about
Speaker 1: this this scene here where he's gunned down big old Sean.
Speaker 1: I don't like seeing this. Oh God, howardly wade they
Speaker 1: got as they lured him out of his apartment as well.
Speaker 2: Listened to it again. This was another one of my
Speaker 2: most hated scenes. He's been shot more than one hundred
Speaker 2: times that we can't actually kill Sean, and he reacts
Speaker 2: like he stubbed his toe.
Speaker 1: This is actually because he's so that's how you and
Speaker 1: I would do it, Not Sean Connery, right, not surely
Speaker 1: to him, it would just be like a paper cut.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it sounds like you got a paper cut.
Speaker 1: Jesus, that's chafe. That is really put some vacilline on that.
Speaker 1: That is chafe.
Speaker 2: And then hell it got He's honestly got shot from
Speaker 2: head to toe bullets. He crawled trolls for the whole
Speaker 2: length of his.
Speaker 1: How big is that apartment? I mean he's only on
Speaker 1: amaze these salaries as Chicrgo cop and yet the apartment
Speaker 1: is like three times a size Buckingham Palace. Blood all
Speaker 1: over everywhere. He's doing a commander crawl ruining that apartment.
Speaker 1: The clean up job for the rest of the crew
Speaker 1: is awful.
Speaker 2: And then he's still there when Kevin Costa gets you.
Speaker 1: That's upsetting, isn't it. You love Sean?
Speaker 2: No, I didn't like him.
Speaker 1: How can you not like?
Speaker 2: I didn't like him? He was too cliche, all his
Speaker 2: all these motivational speeches to the team. I was like,
Speaker 2: what what does that even mean, I.
Speaker 1: Don't like what I'm hearing. And then what about the
Speaker 1: final scene when they're at the railway station, so brilliantly
Speaker 1: shot with the lady in the pram, I hear sniggl
Speaker 1: can you hear me? The lady in the pram, Costner,
Speaker 1: the clock, the crew, the clock, the lady in the pram,
Speaker 1: back to the clock. It's so tense with all the
Speaker 1: characters world lateist ever in a movie tension. And what
Speaker 1: about the scene where the pram good its slow motion
Speaker 1: cood going down the steps good John Good jun kod
Speaker 1: John Costner tries to grab it. He's prepared because he's
Speaker 1: a moral man, to give away the whole secret operation
Speaker 1: just to rescue that lady's baby, and then bang, who's
Speaker 1: got it? Underneath Garsia?
Speaker 2: That pram coming down the stairs was slower. My favorite
Speaker 2: seen those slow mo clips of people using a super
Speaker 2: slow my camera to film like a water balloon exploding.
Speaker 2: He was even slower than that.
Speaker 1: We were head of TikTok with Untouchables again, ten minutes
Speaker 1: for that tension, tension, Sean dying in eighteen stages, and
Speaker 1: then that pram scene with Garcia. You got a bit,
Speaker 1: didn't you? Go that's cool. When he's suddenly there, he's
Speaker 1: got it. Any I don't need you cause Garcia has
Speaker 1: got it. Andy.
Speaker 2: Garcia was my only likable character, and I did like
Speaker 2: that bit where he's pinned under the pram and he
Speaker 2: takes out the bad guy.
Speaker 1: I haven't liked this with you one bit. It's actually
Speaker 1: been the most trucculent one from you. Mark's out of
Speaker 1: ten for The Great Untouchables.
Speaker 2: Three out of ten. By the end of it, I
Speaker 2: was actually saying, let's just finish this.
Speaker 1: Oh God, this is really I'm saying. Right, We're not
Speaker 1: going to talk about this anymore. We're going to move
Speaker 1: on The Christian Connell Show podcast. If you just tuned in,
Speaker 1: I am glad you didn't hear the last fifteen minutes
Speaker 1: of blasphemous radio. That's what it is. When Jack took down.
Speaker 1: Gave him easy three out of ten to the Great
Speaker 1: Movie Oscar winning movie The Untouchables, Judy's with you, Jackie
Speaker 1: Boy and with Jack Sean Connery's shockingly bad. He's shockingly
Speaker 1: great in The Untoble.
Speaker 2: I can't believe he won the Best Supporting Act.
Speaker 1: Damn right, I can't believe, damn right. That's the Chicago way.
Speaker 2: There must have been not a lot of films that year.
Speaker 1: Oh, dare you come on, Jackie boy? Great movie. That's
Speaker 1: someone else's texted in. Even your builder mate Clint has
Speaker 1: texted you during the show he bought.
Speaker 2: He said, we might not be friends anymore. First it
Speaker 2: was top Gun. Now it's untouchable.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Maybe it's not the movies. Maybe you're the problem.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Clint. I'm with you one hundred percent on
Speaker 1: this Christian the letter you for me and a lot
Speaker 1: of I think you this is ultimate Warrior Eighties wrestling. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: justin all right. The other thing to do with the
Speaker 1: eighties and the to you for me is you know,
Speaker 1: sometimes there's certain things that you remember from your childhood. Right,
Speaker 1: it might be something you had to learn by wrote
Speaker 1: while you were at school, a monomic or something like that.
Speaker 1: For the colors of the Rainbow, Richard of York gave
Speaker 1: battle in Vain. Oh really, we had Roigy bit of
Speaker 1: ah right, Okay, Yeah, we were always taught because it
Speaker 1: would be to do with the King of the UK. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Richard of York gave battle in Vain. To remember the
Speaker 1: are think called monomics. Yeah, it's that Many's words. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The other thing I remember is, you know that used
Speaker 1: to just because we used to watch so much TV
Speaker 1: back then. My parents didn't care about me to sort
Speaker 1: of sit in front of the TV. There wasn't a
Speaker 1: lot of kids TV on, but there there were certain
Speaker 1: adverts where you would just there's an advert, right to
Speaker 1: do with a letter you for a do you remember,
Speaker 1: like eighties nineties you had little cartons of drink, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you remember, and you get like the tiny straw in
Speaker 1: the world, barely like a half a zero point one
Speaker 1: millimeters wide that you were sucking your eyeballs trying to
Speaker 1: get any liquid out of and your mum would buy
Speaker 1: them in like a six pack dirt cheap mustagen just
Speaker 1: be sugary kind of drinks basically. Anyway, this one was
Speaker 1: called Umbungo. And now this little cartoon advert I still remember, now,
Speaker 1: many many years later, I still remember the first couple
Speaker 1: of lines, way down deep in the middle of the congo,
Speaker 1: A hippie hippo took an apricot, guava and a mango.
Speaker 1: I think this is it now? The river was low
Speaker 1: and the boat way down deep in the middle of
Speaker 1: the congo. What stuck with the others, And Tangle said,
Speaker 1: I know, we'll call it still remember this right? No
Speaker 1: reason why I stood in the struggle to remember phone
Speaker 1: numbers of the opening line. They drink, They drink it
Speaker 1: way down deep in the congo. I still remember from
Speaker 1: the Umbungo adverts. Do you remember any advert from your childhood?
Speaker 1: You could almost do from from memory.
Speaker 2: I can do the whole roof Seal ad Now, roof
Speaker 2: Seal was a seal who walked around on your roof
Speaker 2: and cleaned up your mortar and your gutters. And this
Speaker 2: song went, when your roof is getting lost between the
Speaker 2: lichen and the moss, and your mortar isn't where it
Speaker 2: ort to be, well, give it back its old appeal
Speaker 2: with a visit from roof Seal one three hundred and
Speaker 2: thirty six seven oh seven.
Speaker 1: Oh, this is amazing. I need to tell you this, listeners,
Speaker 1: Jack didn't look at any notes. You did that off
Speaker 1: by heart. Oh, when your roof is getting lost between
Speaker 1: the likings and the moss, when your morder isn't where
Speaker 1: it ought to.
Speaker 2: Be, then give it back that old appeal with a visit.
Speaker 1: From roof Seal one three hundred and thirty six seven
Speaker 1: O seven oh word for word, word for word? All right,
Speaker 1: So what's advert can you remember from your childhood, whether
Speaker 1: you were charter of the eighties or nineties. What do
Speaker 1: you think you can remember almost word for word? What
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