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The Christian O’Connell Show

MINI: Best of 2021 - A-Z of the 80s

The Christian O’Connell Show

GOLD and iHeart Australia

Music, Comedy, Comedy Interviews, Music Interviews

4.7823 Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2021

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

This year we launched a brand new segment, A To Z of the 80s, where we look at what 80s memories each letter of the alphabet stirs up. Next year we’ll be doing the A-Z Of The 90s so if you have any stories about you’re A of the 90s, email me: christian@christianoconnell.com.au.

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0:00.0

Christian.

0:01.2

Welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

0:04.5

We're up to the letter T in our weekly A to Z of the 80s.

0:09.3

Very excited about this bit now because Jack is a child of the 90s,

0:13.8

not around in the great decade like me and Patsy and a lot of you guys, the 80s.

0:18.2

And so when we're doing this, I give them a movie, a classic 80s movie

0:21.7

to do with that letter. This week, the letter T, Teen Wolf. Let's get into Michael J. Fox from

0:28.1

the 80s, classic 80s movie, Teen Wolf. What did you think watching it with different eyes now?

0:34.6

Bianca and I both watched it and despite some obvious weaknesses throughout the movie,

0:39.7

we actually really enjoyed Teen Wolf.

0:41.9

Yeah, some of it stands up really well.

0:44.1

Other bits don't.

0:45.1

Obviously, it's a dated movie.

0:46.8

But overall, what do you think?

0:48.4

Where it deviated from all the other 80s films I've been watching, which have one thing

0:52.5

in common, completely slow, team wolf

0:55.0

was well-paced. He starts turning into the wolf straight away. You come to the team wolf,

0:59.9

they gave you the team wolf. That's what you're there for. Most 80s movies would spend half an hour

1:03.9

setting up, oh, he's just a normal high school kid playing basketball, then he starts turning into a

1:08.0

wolf. Love that he started turning into a wolf straight away. And then it kind of surprised me

1:12.5

because I thought it was going to be an elephant man situation

1:15.7

where the whole school teased him and he was an outcast.

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