Road House And What's Making Us Happy

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🗓️ 22 March 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

The 1989 movie Road House starred Patrick Swayze as a no-nonsense bouncer who saves a honky-tonk bar from a local toughs. Now, in the new remake, Jake Gyllenhaal plays a former UFC fighter who accepts a job to clean up a seaside bar in the Florida Keys that's being terrorized by a motorcycle gang. There's still plenty of fighting and plenty of brooding, but how does it hold up to the original cult classic?

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0:00.0	History is intriguing, but unlike the present, it can feel far off.
0:05.0	On NPR's throughline, we bring it back to life.
0:09.0	I will toss you in the air like a lion.
0:12.0	I will leave no one alive in your realm. Go inside the stories from
0:16.3	then that shape the world we live in now. Find NPR's throughline, wherever you get your podcasts.
0:24.3	A warning, this episode contains mention of sexual assault.
0:29.2	When your bar is overrun by violent creeps, when your town is in the grip of
0:37.2	swaggering criminals, what do you need? You need one very, very tough bouncer. Not just a bouncer for the bar but a bouncer for the whole community and that brings us obviously to Roadhouse.
0:50.0	The new remake cast Jake Gillen Hall in the role once played by Patrick Swayze and relocates from rural Missouri to the sunny Florida Keys.
0:58.0	But there's still plenty of fighting and plenty of brooding.
1:02.0	I'm Aisha Harris. And I'm Linda Holmes, and today we're talking about the movie Roadhouse on
1:06.5	pop culture happy hour from NPR. Joining us today is Chris Klemic he's a writer
1:11.4	and host of the Smithsonian Magazine podcast.
1:15.1	There's more to that.
1:16.1	Hi, Chris.
1:17.1	Hi, Linda.
1:18.1	You know, Patrick Swayze told me at an impressionable age, pain don't hurt.
1:21.4	And now in middle age, I'm wondering what else Swayze lied to me about.
1:25.6	Yeah it's true and you know we have sometimes referred to Chris as our punch-in
1:29.7	correspondence so it's only fair that Chris is present for this incredibly important conversation.
1:35.6	The original Roadhouse came out in 1989 around the peak of Patrick's Wiesy's fame between
1:41.9	Dirty Dancing and Ghost. and it was about a soft-spoken
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