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Speaker 1: Quest. Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian o'connells Show podcast.

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Speaker 1: We're working our way through the eighties every week and

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Speaker 1: our a to Z of the eighties. This week it's

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Speaker 1: about this letter.

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Speaker 2: Gooday's letter is Christian O'Connell's P of the eighties, the

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Speaker 2: letter P what is the Eighties for you?

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Speaker 1: And the letter P yesterday. Then for Jackie Boy's homework

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Speaker 1: each week when we do our eight es. Obviously jack

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Speaker 1: is a child of the nineties. I give him a

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Speaker 1: movie or a TV show from the eighties and he

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Speaker 1: has to watch it and report back for his millennial

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Speaker 1: take on it. Today, Sally, I don't think he cared

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Speaker 1: for the great Powerhouse seven. They spawned seven Police Academy movies.

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Speaker 2: I messaged you.

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Speaker 1: Panics yesterday when I said him, it's oh wait, wait, wait,

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Speaker 1: because I went back a couple years ago and watched

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Speaker 1: the first four and the first one is not a

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Speaker 1: great movie. Where the third and then the second. If

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Speaker 1: you have to rank them, it's three Back in Training

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Speaker 1: two their first assignment.

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Speaker 2: You go that way.

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Speaker 1: The first one is not a great overall war, but it.

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Speaker 2: Was too late. I already started fired up Police Academy

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Speaker 2: Number one and true. I can't believe from Police Academy

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Speaker 2: one they thought there's seven movies.

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Speaker 1: In this how the day.

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Speaker 2: It wasn't really a movie. It was a series of

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Speaker 2: sketches that took place at a police academy.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I think what they tried to do was what

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Speaker 1: airplane did really well. And later on the third one,

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Speaker 1: the second one, they obviously got in somebody that said, hey,

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Speaker 1: need to have a little bit of structure. Movies traditionally

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Speaker 1: have some kind of narrative, even in a flimsy comedy

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Speaker 1: like this, whereas they made no effort. This was just

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Speaker 1: bring it all together.

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Speaker 2: This was just writers going, here's a bunch of characters

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Speaker 2: who would be funny to be in a police academy,

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Speaker 2: and we'll give them each a funny bit. And then

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Speaker 2: at the end there's a big heighst But really, by

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Speaker 2: that stage, it's such.

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Speaker 1: A TWI for show every day. Basically, we don't need

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Speaker 1: to worry about the overall structure.

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Speaker 2: Well tell me this. I bet you watched it at

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Speaker 2: the time as a kid, and you look up to

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Speaker 2: Stephen Gutenberg and he because he's a lovable rebel in

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Speaker 2: the film.

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Speaker 1: Can I just say two things, and I hope you

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Speaker 1: got both of these. About the goot, Michael, it was

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Speaker 1: originally supposed to be Michael Keene. He pulled out Tom

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Speaker 1: Hanks as well. Was they we looked at Tom Hanks

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Speaker 1: two and Gudenberg said this last week when he was

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Speaker 1: on Who's kind of Christian? And then they even auditioned

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Speaker 1: the found out when I interviewed Bruce Williss a couple

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Speaker 1: of years ago, he auditioned for Police Academy.

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Speaker 2: Can you imagine it Bruce Willis as the main character?

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Speaker 1: Yes, as mahoney, can you imagine that?

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Speaker 2: Not really? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: So, but with Steve Gutenberg, the goot, what you get

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Speaker 1: is that thousand what smile those eyes?

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Speaker 2: Right? I mean a care bear. He's a good looking guy,

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Speaker 2: but he just I know we're meant to love him

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Speaker 2: as like the slacker and the rebel. I just found

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Speaker 2: him a nuisance everywhere he went.

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Speaker 1: He was who says that head teacher was a nuisance?

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Speaker 2: You were just causing unnecessary trouble. And then of course he.

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Speaker 1: Was that's you were him. You were a teenager, you

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Speaker 1: were causing trouble. He represented us in it. I thought

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Speaker 1: it's in the system.

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Speaker 2: I thought he stepped over the line.

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Speaker 1: And then rule Maker.

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Speaker 2: He finally got kicked out. He so he wants to

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Speaker 2: be kicked out of the Police Academy. He's trying.

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Speaker 1: He doesn't know what he wants.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well that's true because it's a nameless mess. But

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Speaker 2: he wants to get kicked out. He gets kicked out,

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Speaker 2: and then the riot happens at the end and they

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Speaker 2: need everybody hands on deck, need him.

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Speaker 1: He puts on the pony back. They need him back.

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Speaker 2: He puts on the uniform.

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Speaker 1: Yes, kicked out now because he's learned the lesson. He

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Speaker 1: wasn't a team player. It was all about mahoney. Then

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Speaker 1: he realizes he's got to serve something more than him.

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Speaker 1: He's back for the rights. He's learnt his lesson. He's

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Speaker 1: been on his hero's journey.

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Speaker 2: The riot scene was a complete mess. I'll give it.

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Speaker 2: The final scene with the with the hostage was all right,

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Speaker 2: But there's a lot of filler in Police Academy.

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Speaker 1: You're not talking about the best bits in it. No,

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Speaker 1: let me do one for you now. Wait, wait, is

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Speaker 1: Michael Winslow in the studio with him?

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Speaker 2: No, it's on me.

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Speaker 1: Listeners him.

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Speaker 2: That was the funniest But in it, Michael Winslow is

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Speaker 2: the standout. He's start that. I mean, that is a

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Speaker 2: great unique character that you've never said.

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Speaker 1: No? Is he?

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Speaker 2: In all seven that character would be the only.

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Speaker 1: Person who didn't tap out was Michael Winslow. I think

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Speaker 1: he was trying to say no, but they got confused

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Speaker 1: with all the various voices he was doing at the time.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, there's there's so many other little bits as well,

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Speaker 1: the man with the funny voices, and what about when

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Speaker 1: they changed the superintendent he was called his shampoo for

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Speaker 1: for various other things.

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Speaker 2: That was brilliant. That must have been number two or three,

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Speaker 2: because we didn't get that number two to start three.

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Speaker 2: Then got sound like it gets much better than what

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Speaker 2: was in number one.

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Speaker 1: He wants to market comedy.

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Speaker 2: All I can give it is a couple of smiles.

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Speaker 2: That's it. No laugh out louds.

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Speaker 1: This. I was watching an interview years ago. It was

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Speaker 1: a big, long sort of hour and a half with

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Speaker 1: Bill Clinton and I can't remember, I don't know what

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Speaker 1: it was David Letterman for his Netflix show, and he asked,

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Speaker 1: you know, what do you do to cheer yourself up?

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Speaker 1: And no word, Bill Kins said, I stick on police Academy,

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Speaker 1: and he wasn't joking. I was like, I get that.

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Speaker 1: You must have had some tough days with the old

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Speaker 1: old lady Lewinsky stuff wrote down where he only had

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Speaker 1: to go through all seven movies.

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Speaker 2: I'll say, the mischief that Bill Clinton got up to

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Speaker 2: is very reminiscent of what happened in the first place.

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Speaker 1: Are you saying, Bill Clinton? Mahony?

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Speaker 2: All right?

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Speaker 1: Mark's out of ten, this is get down to it,

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Speaker 1: police Academy one.

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Speaker 2: A couple of smiles, only three out of ten?

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Speaker 1: All right? Will you promise me one thing?

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Speaker 2: It's got to get better? There would have to be

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Speaker 2: and usually between one and.

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Speaker 1: Two when we have our Christmas break at the end

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Speaker 1: of the year, right and we have a nice couple

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Speaker 1: of weeks off, can you please give me an hour

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Speaker 1: and a half your time and watch the third one

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Speaker 1: back on assignment?

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Speaker 2: Okay, please please? You have to come a long way

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Speaker 2: from number number one.

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