Eliot Ness
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Sep 25, 2026
Renata DanielHOST
The massacre pushed the federal government to increase its efforts against organized crime.
Renata DanielHOST
And it wasn't long before Eliot Ness and his team of the Untouchables started focusing on Capone, eventually leading to his conviction on tax evasion charges in 1931.
Renata DanielHOST
And there is a great movie out there that stars Sean Connery and Kevin Costner.
Renata DanielHOST
There you go.
Jamie JeffersHOST
But at the same time, I want to be clear here.
Jamie JeffersHOST
King Henry wasn't Eliot Ness.
Jamie JeffersHOST
I mean, he was inclined to do things the Chicago way, but he wasn't doing that because he thought the law was sacred.
Jamie JeffersHOST
He wasn't cleaning up the streets because he was benevolent.
Joshua MilesHOST
Pop culture has left the impression that a group of prohibition agents shut down Capone.
Joshua MilesHOST
The Untouchables, led by Elliot Ness in reality, did little more than stage a couple of raids for the press.
Joshua MilesHOST
The IRS tax men who had already put away Capone's top lieutenants were the government's real heroes.
Joshua MilesHOST
But it wasn't easy.
Anthony HollowayHOST
We've always tried to uncomplicated, uncomplicated, complicated characters.
Anthony HollowayHOST
What about the untouchables? Is Elliot Ness a hero or an antihero? He's using government power to fight something that every single human being listening to me right now believes was an unconstitutional law.
Anthony HollowayHOST
So was he a hero or an anti-hero? He was the cop in that, by the way.
Ross PattersonHOST
I hate to say it, but I was not rooting
Steve O'MacHOST
But I feel like it's this thing of...
Steve O'MacHOST
I compare him tonight to the Kevin Costner character from The Untouchables, right? He's Elliot Ness.
Steve O'MacHOST
Yeah.
Steve O'MacHOST
That's his character.
Steve O'MacHOST
He's Elliot Ness.
Steve O'MacHOST
He's incorruptible.
Steve O'MacHOST
You can't corrupt Cody Rhodes.
Jesse ThorneHOST
When you're on r/Garfield, they know the G-Man to which you refer.
Jesse ThorneHOST
Nobody thinks it's Eliot Ness.
Jordan MorrisHOST
So the question, why does G-Man hate Mondays? First response up there, just the word, "Capitalism."
Jesse ThorneHOST
Wow.
Sarah D. BuntingHOST
I mean, bless him, truly.
Sarah D. BuntingHOST
Elliot Ness forever in our hearts.
Sarah D. BuntingHOST
hearts but that sort of like stentorian and like they got the they didn't get the coat right it needed to be a double-breasted trench coat that unlike colombo someone actually ironed i thought it was good because i thought it shares with unsolved mysteries the fact that like you have to get a lot of information across in a regulation network segment and they did that efficiently with drunk people Yeah.
Tara ArianoHOST
And by the way, just to backtrack, it wasn't Orson Welles.
Robert De NiroSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Because it's not good business.
speaker_4NARRATOR
Kevin Costner is Eliot Ness.
Kevin CostnerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I've been warned to put this man away with any and all legal means at my disposal, and I will do so.
Kevin CostnerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Sean Connery is Jimmy
Joe SoucherayHOST
Where's
Kenny OlsonPANELIST
Elliot Ness when we need him? Come on,
Joe SoucherayHOST
man.
Joe SoucherayHOST
One thing I think, as long as we're...
James DiEugenioGUEST
So I didn't understand that double standard.
James DiEugenioGUEST
I mean, nobody objects to Elliot Ness throwing Frank Nitti off a building in the movie The Untouchables, an event which never happened.
James DiEugenioGUEST
But somehow, if Oliver Stone uses a composite character, which other movies do, somehow people start screaming, okay, about using a composite character.
James DiEugenioGUEST
Now, you just said it.
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