High Fidelity & Hi-5

High Fidelity

Reegs: Welcome to Bad Dad's Film Review, and set your faces to stunned because it's High Week, and our takes are going to be hotter than a blimburn on your favourite jumper.

We're starting off with a deep dive into the windy city, Chicago. Whether it's iconic movie scenes set there, legendary songs by the band, or just a discussion about the sheer audacity of deep dish pizza, we've got you covered. Our main feature presumably resonates strongly with at least one of us as we take a look at music obsessed commitment phobes in 2000's High Fidelity, and And after that, we're probably taking a trip down memory lane for some listeners as we check out classic Australian TV series High Five, in which a band of neon clothed pop stars indoctrinate preschoolers into joining a cult of relentless forced cheerfulness.

Sidey: week

Reegs: This week, as ever, we're joined by Dan, here to remind us that age is just at the A number, a really, really high one, in keeping with this week's choices. Then there's Chris. He's got the charm of a golden retriever and the intellect to match. And last but not least, the man who's taken up acrobatics to match our theme this week.

And so, of course, has spent the weeks gripping his pole with both fists. It's Sidey.

Sidey: That's very true, yeah.

Reegs: Yep, and then there's me, Riggs. Hello.

Dan: Hello.

Reegs: mostly, we,

Dan: Been watching much, Simon?

Reegs: this week.

Dan: week. Right, yeah. Pegging week.

Reegs: Yeah, I should explain. I pegged my daughter on she was upset and then I pegged her. I

Sidey: thought it would be the other way around.

Reegs: Yeah, no, it's, I put a clothes peg on her.

Like, well, exactly. What does it mean? But if you can get one surreptitiously, in fact, you can get 2345 and this has become a game now that you might. Turn around and find that you've got clothes pegs on you.

So we've been pegging each other all, you know, for a long time. And then my daughter, we went for a family dinner on Sunday and I said, Oh, I wish I'd bought a peg. And she's like, don't worry. I've got two in my pocket.

Sidey: And she's like, don't worry, I've got two in my pocket

Dan: You know, I've got into the Lincoln Lawyer. Have you seen that series?

Reegs: I'm aware of it, yeah. It's a movie first,

Dan: It was a movie first. Was it Matthew McConaughey in the movie?

Reegs: It Grisham, something

Dan: yeah no, Michael Connolly is

Reegs: Billy's brother.

Dan: it. Yeah. He, he, he's the writer behind Lincoln Lawyer. Couldn't tell you any of the actor's names in it, but I recognize one of them from Ugly Betty.

That helps anyone. But it's not started bad. Actually. I quite like it. He's an like a recovering addict. And he's getting back into the law game. One of his colleagues dies and leaves him his practice. And it's just got all these different types of cases on which he has to take one on one and, you know, There's a race against the clock and all the rest of it.

But it's, it's pretty good. I'm about six episodes in and probably 10 in total. I'll see how

Reegs: on a streaming service?

Dan: It is on Netflix.

Cris: I've seen it. You know, it pops up on the thing. Is it, is it just one season or is it more than one?

Dan: I

haven't looked past the first season and I know you wouldn't.

Cris: Yeah, exactly. That's the only reason why I ask, yeah.

Dan: Will not do two seasons, of course, Chris. So I've probably seen something else. But it might come to me in a bit. What have you been watching inside?

Sidey: A bit of James Bond stuff still. And I

Dan: I

And the

Sidey: And the end of a Dalton one. And then I introduced my missus to the works of Adam Curtis. Cause I felt like I needed something cheerful to watch after the events of this week. So we were watching that. I think she hated every second of it. Also when I wasn't so far

Dan: also, when I wasn't so far Which one did

Sidey: no, it was in the loving

care of machines, whatever it's called some prime but I was in London not so long ago.

And when you're like in the tube and just like in this big procession of people, you can't help feeling you're part of some big, you know, endless system of Nothingness. So it strikes a chord with me. All that stuff. I really like it.

Dan: varies is around

Reegs: glare of capitalist oppression, basically as you are herded into a tube and sent off

Sidey: to work.

you know, with like a Radiohead kind of soundtrack of, you know, all that sort of stuff.

So yeah,

Dan: that sort of stuff.

Reegs: Yeah,

I have, yeah, my glasses just sort of spontaneous, spontaneously, combusted,

Dan: of spontaneously combust it,

Reegs: Yeah. Jack Duckworth, do you remember

Dan: remember him? Well,

Reegs: although that was in the middle and this is, yeah, it looks terrible.

Dan: terrible.

What about you, Chris?

Sidey: What about you, Chris? Do you watch anything?

Cris: I've watched quite a few things because, as you know, I was in London last week and I missed the pod and I also was meant to come back Tuesday night, but I was in the air above Jersey for two and a half hours and then too foggy and then headed back to London.

Dan: That's a

Cris: so I was on the plane and I watched the City of Lies with Johnny Depp and Forrest Whitaker, which is a version of the story about how Christopher Wallace, aka Notorious B. I. G., got murdered and the implications of death row records and the gangs and the rampart division of the LAPD and all that stuff, which I really liked the movie because I like Biggie's music.

So I downloaded the audio book by a guy called something Sullivan.

Sidey: Jamie.

Cris: And I'm, I'm two pages in at the moment. But I'm, I'm yeah, well, I, I, as you know, Saidi, I, there's not enough hours in the day

Sidey: This

Dan: this. I like that

Reegs: I am like that with books though, to be fair.

These days I start reading if I ever do. I'm not just out in about a

Sidey: yeah, I then I'll have to reread the

Cris: well, no, it's all the, I, I downloaded the audio, the audio book, but again, I only listened to it from, from home to work and on the way back.

So it's like.

minutes a day. I've also watched the second part of the Ernesto Che Guevara film with Benicio del Toro. I didn't actually know that in the second part Matt Damon is in it as well. And he plays a German guy, yeah, Matt Damon. I've never really thought about that too much, but yeah, he's, yeah.

And, and I've read about Che Guevara before, but I did quite like that. And I've watched also a movie called Clean with Adrian Brody. It's on Prime and it's, I, I, after an hour, I was like, this is too much

Dan: me.

Cris: Yeah. And dark and he's the guy with a wrench. He

Reegs: He takes a girl under his wing,

Cris: Yes.

Reegs: point. Yeah.

Yeah,

Cris: yeah,

Dan: takes a girl under his wing yeah at some

Cris: yeah young girl Yeah and he saves her from these drug dealers and he beats everyone with a wrench is and then I don't know what happens at the end because this it was I'll try to watch it with Kira and

Reegs: I've seen

Cris: she didn't

Sidey: really They all died.

Reegs: have to think about

Cris: I Would imagine so but yeah, and I think

think that's pretty much it.

I've watched something else but

Sidey: I did see today. Anyone follow Yellowstone on any of those shows?

Dan: I'm aware.

Reegs: know that Costner's out, isn't he?

Sidey: So Costner, there was a this, I think it got up to series five and then he somehow got into a dispute with the producers. And so they were at loggerheads and I saw how that resolved itself because it's come back. It's just dead.

It's just like shot in the head off screen. That's like, Oh, it's a bit like Dallas. Oh, it was all a dream.

Reegs: Poochie was killed on the way back to his home planet, Amazing

Sidey: it. Yeah. So I thought that was quite amusing. Yeah, because I had watched, there's a, there's two prequel series, 1883 and 1923. I thought, well, there's no point watching Yellowstone now, because that's going to be like completely unsatisfactory.

Reegs: I still, I haven't got into it and I think I probably could. So

Sidey: It's not anywhere near as good as the other show that's really good. Deadwood.

Reegs: Yeah.

Sidey: I love that one.

Reegs: I started with Ian McShane. Yeah, I watched the first

Sidey: season. Al Swedgen. Swedgen. Anyhow, we did Top 5 last week, but I think we covered it all off, everything that we had. All right.

Dan: We get any noms anyway?

Sidey: anyway?

No, we covered it all off. That's what I just, literally, that's the thing I just said. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, let's just crack on with Chicago.

Reegs: Yeah.

Dan: Chicago!

My

kind of town

Sidey: So, There was chat much like last week that there was going to be a different Theme for the top five, but it really did clash with something that we'd done not so long ago when we did the like

Reegs: Top five high

Sidey: Yeah this is going to be more kind of esoteric just highs but we thought we'd fuck that off Anyway, so we've gone to chicago because that's what that's cropped up quite a lot recently I think even shark and george was sea

Reegs: It was sea cargo. Yeah,

Sidey: So we went for Chicago, but I think you might, though, have a quiz for us based on the old topic.

Dan: Yeah, I had a a quiz based on, hi.

Sidey: pie. We had some feedback. Do you want to hear the feedback from last week?

Dan: hear the feedback from last Feeders.

Sidey: it's worth mentioning, I

Cris: think. Especially because it's to do with you, Dan. It's not, it's not, nothing to do with any

Dan: Special

Sidey: Darren says that as far as quizzes

Dan: Darren Leafley? Yeah, Leafinator.

Sidey: one wasn't too bad.

Dan: Wow.

Sidey: Yeah.

Dan: Wicked.

Cris: as far as dance quizzes

Reegs: Yeah,

Sidey: what

Dan: Well, you know, that's that's, that, that's what inspires you to keep going, isn't it? Yeah. And, and so I've got another one. Do you want it now or do you

Reegs: Yeah,

Dan: okay, wait. So is, is. Really easy.

You'll, you'll like this at home. You've, you've simply got to go high or low. I'm going to read

Reegs: so like Michael, like,

Sidey: Like Barrymore.

Dan: a little bit

Reegs: Strike Get lucky.

Sidey: middle or bottom.

Dan: I'm going to give you two actors and you're going to tell me the highest.

Yeah.

And which one's highest? Okay. So

Cris: do you

Sidey: mean?

Dan: they were born, there we

Sidey: go. That's oldest to

Reegs: to

Dan: But I want the, I want the highest.

So yeah, yeah. It is. This is why you've got to be on your toes. So for example, if it, if somebody was born in 1900,

Reegs: Yeah. Was the next person higher or lower?

Dan: Are they higher or lower

Sidey: do you mean higher though? As in 1902 would

Dan: Yes, 1902 would be higher

Sidey: Okay, so they'd be younger.

Right. . Okay.

Cris: That's still

Reegs: you.

Dan: saying but you gotta say hi Okay Okay, right. So, You're just gonna give me the actor's name.

I'll give you a little clue about the actors. So you got Charlton Heston. Yeah, oscar ben hur and you got frankie howard carry on

Sidey: Yeah.

Dan: Who is the highest?

Sidey: Who's the youngest I would say

Dan: Who's the

Reegs: frankie

Sidey: Heston.

Dan: Okay, so, chris, are you

Cris: Oh, I have no idea who these people are.

Dan: No, that's the beauty of it

Cris: Heston,

Dan: You're going heston is higher you're saying

Sidey: I'm saying Heston is higher.

Reegs: Frankie howard. Yeah.

Dan: No heston is higher

Reegs: Heston's higher.

Dan: is higher than howard Okay Heston right now. We're gonna go

Reegs: who's higher?

Dan: Who's higher

Is it Bob Hope,

Sidey: Yeah.

Dan: English born, Leslie Hope, Bob Hope, or Peter Lurie, Casablanca, Maltese, Falcon who is higher?

Reegs: Peter

Sidey: Peter Lorre.

Cris: No, Bob Hope.

Reegs: Bob Hope.

Dan: Bob Hope, Bob Hope. It is Peter

Cris: Is it?

Sidey: good at this one

Reegs: Yeah,

Dan: Side's, got two here.

Reegs: what he's doing

Dan: Okay, right.

Henry Edwards and Harold Lloyd. Henry Edwards, he was a stalwart of the old timey movies. And you've got Harold Lloyd.

Who is higher?

Sidey: loydy

Dan: Going

Lloydy, Lloydy.

The other one.

is Lloydy.

Reegs: Lloydy

Sidey: So that's

Dan: That's three. It's looking really strong for you now. We're, we're gonna move on to another era. Vivian Lee,

Reegs: Yeah

Dan: one of you know, the screen's most beautiful

Sidey: Oh, I thought you, I thought she was in the young ones.

Dan: no, no. One, the Oscar with Gone With The Wind. Yeah. Vivian Lee and Angela Lansbury.

Marple.

Sidey: Lee is

Dan: Who is higher?

Reegs: than

Sidey: Viv. I'm gonna go Viv section.

Dan: is Lansbury. Lansbury is higher.

Sidey: in the game.

Dan: Back in the game now. What are the scores? How many have you had?

Reegs: have you had?

I've

Dan: 3? 1? One so

Reegs: think I've got two actually. I think I've

Dan: two.

Reegs: I

Sidey: Yeah, you had Lloyd as well.

Dan: not many left

Sidey: Okay, that's a shame.

Dan: We're gonna

Reegs: is it? I don't think it is a shame.

Cris: getting warmed

Dan: warmed

up we'll try Anthony Hopkins

Reegs: Yeah. Oh, go on then.

Sidey: Big

Dan: Sondra Locke

Sidey: Sandra

Locke.

Dan: Locke

Sidey: Oof. I suppose, I'll probably go SL.

Reegs: Yeah, I

Cris: go,

Reegs: She's higher. She

Cris: Sir. Anthony

Sidey: Who's higher? Sorry, I say Tony. Sir Anthony Hopkins.

Shlopkins is higher.

Reegs: Locke is higher.

Cris: Hannibal Lecter is higher.

Dan: Locke is higher.

three

Reegs: We've got a

Dan: three each. Hannibal, Yeah.

So, we, we, we've got one

Reegs: Do I win because I'm higher than Sidey?

Dan: It could all come down to

Sidey: You have been spoken a bit.

Dan: Errol Flynn. And Henry Fonda. Who is higher?

Sidey: Flynn. No, sorry. Fonda. Fonda is higher.

Reegs: is higher.

Dan: is higher.

Cris: I'll say the other one just

Reegs: I think Chris

is

Dan: 1909 against

Sidey: Ooh. I think we, I think it was three apiece.

Reegs: Is it?

Cris: No, I've got

two now.

Dan: You've got two well,

Reegs: longer, surely.

Well,

Dan: this,

this is definitely the last one and I might have even asked it. Vanessa Redgrave,

Sidey: No.

Reegs: No, yeah.

Dan: Oscar, Julia, Sir Michael Redgrave's daughter and Sophia Loren, Italian beauty.

Sidey: Vanessa's

Cris: Sophia

Sidey: Vanessa Red. The red Steve Redgrave

Cris: Sophia Loren is higher.

Reegs: It is

Dan: Redgrave. It is Redgrave.

Sidey: had to be

Dan: is. and I

Reegs: call

Sidey: I think the listeners are

Dan: think that's that concludes the thing that was quite, I'll tell you what, if any of you can tell me for the bonus points, the real name of Charlton Heston.

Reegs: Or August

Dan: John and

Sidey: a good name anyway,

Dan: yeah, I

Cris: C. What does the C stand

Dan: Colin.

Reegs: Conservative

Sidey: Yeah, it could well be

Dan: But that concludes it anyway. I, I think Chris won.

Reegs: Well

done Chris.

Sidey: I do think that the listeners were the real winner there.

Cris: Thank you

Dan: you go.

Sidey: let's move on to the city, the windy city Chicago.

Reegs: The thing about it is, Dan, when you start hearing us talk about this, I dunno if you've done any research, but the amount of cities that Chi right, there's loads of movies that were set in Chicago and then a load of movies that where Chicago doubles as other

Sidey: Because if you use New York, it looks, it's inescapably New

Reegs: Yeah. Particularly the L train, lol, which is not what your mum's running, but, Oh no, it's the loop, isn't it? The yeah, the Chicago L train. It was used in Spider Man 2. Yeah,

Sidey: Yeah, it's used a lot in well I'm just going to get into it. ER was a series that I watched every Thursday at nine o'clock. A

Dan: George Clooney.

Sidey: Yeah, Clue and Dog, Anthony Edwards other people were in it as

well.

Dan: in it as

Sidey: at nine o'clock on a Thursday.

Dan: it was like was,

Sidey: It was really

good. It was good. What I liked about it was it was really never really any happy endings. It was very like downbeat would often like, disappointing expectations. So there was one where Anthony Edwards was like really in love with this

And she was gonna leave and he's like, I don't know what to do.

do? And he runs off to meet her at the train station and she fucks him off and gets on the train anyway. And you're like, Oh, like most other things would have them, you know, kissing and, Oh, I love you. Nah, not in ER. People die all the time. It had Tarantino came and guest directed an episode. It had one that was broadcast live.

Yeah. Yeah, so it tried to push things around the, you know, the ordinary sort of hospital drama construct it tried to

Reegs: and it was set in a fictional Chicago or a real Chicago

Sidey: i'm gonna say fictional and then there was like one

Dan: say fictional.

I don't think they

Sidey: I don't think they could get the actors to qualify as doctors in time Yeah

Patients might

Dan: There

Sidey: There was chicago hope on at the same time. But to me that was always like a pale imitation of er

Reegs: Chicago Hope was presumably set somewhere. though? Yeah.

Cris: Yeah. what does ER stand for?

Sidey: Emergency Room.

Cris: Room. Okay. I knew it's emergency, but I didn't know.

Sidey: We would call it

Reegs: A and e. Yeah.

Cris: Yes, I've been to any before I've been to Romanian any

Dan: Accident

Cris: better than your ER.

Reegs: Oh right, it's not like people standing around firing machine guns

Cris: No, no, it's people that had like swords in them and shit is fucking brutal.

A

Reegs: brutal.

There's a real lack of sword content down at the hospital these

Cris: Here, yeah, it's not the crack it used to be.

Dan: something we're quite proud of

Sidey: So yeah. Okay. Yeah, Rick

Reegs: I've gone for the band Chicago because it's a bit musical this

Sidey: Yeah, yeah it was.

Reegs: midweek I had a good, good soundtrack as well. Chicago was a band I quite liked for a little while, bit of rock and roll with horns. 25 or six to four

Sidey: 4. What would be one of their famous

Reegs: that 1 25 or six to four.

Okay. And that was in ton that we

Sidey: Oh, we watched that. Yeah.

Reegs: and was also used in the flash. The, if you've seen that one where Michael Keaton is reintroduced as.

Sidey: did see that. Yeah, it was left

Reegs: Bruce Wayne. In fact, it had two Chicago movies. They must have really liked it. So they had If You Leave Me Now, which was

Dan: do you leave me now?

Reegs: That was them. Yeah. So that was in Shaun of the Dead and Three Kings.

Remember that one?

Sidey: one?

Oh,

Reegs: Oh, it's good. David O. Russell and George Clooney and yeah. And then of course the last Chicago tune that you've got to talk about is does anybody really know what time it is? And of course that was in Little Nicky, the Adam Sandler joint,

Sidey: sand dog.

Reegs: and he reveals that if you play it backwards it has satanic messages

Sidey: Ah, okay. Very good.

Reegs: yeah, Chicago, the band Chicago.

Fan? Not a fan?

Dan: mind them. They're

okay.

Reegs: 6 to 4 is a tune.

Dan: Yeah, they get played on the radio plenty. I don't think I've got any in my vinyl

Reegs: I have to have a look,

Dan: but Yeah, not too bad. I didn't obviously after all the the work I put into the quiz didn't have many To come away with but I know Ferris Bueller's day off was a Chicago film

Reegs: It's a veritable hit list of stuff that sidey fucking

Dan: Yeah, well that's why I mentioned that one but another one like the sting.

Reegs: oh, was that

Dan: that was Chicago as well. And you know, an old timey kind of crime caper

Robert Redford. And Robert Shaw was in it as well. He's the, he, he's the guy that's getting taken for the sting. And these grifters have a kind of looking to one big job to rip off a guy that's ripped off everybody and is really clever and, and careful and, and to get him is the ultimate kind of sting and they go for

Cris: The untouchables.

It's probably the only one that, because I did a bit of research, but it's probably the only one that I actually have seen.

And I remember it. There's another one that I remember, but I

Dan: I would, I would just say if, if you, if you're at home just rewind and just listen to

Saidi go Yeah, I

Sidey: is one of my favorites.

Cris: I mean, and it's, you know, if you look at just the cast,

Reegs: Yeah.

Cris: you know, it's, it's unbelievable.

Sidey: the cast but the it's thingy or just the score I think just the wardrobe.

It's

Cris: No, I, I, I don't know. I didn't know all that.

I just know, I remember because it was, it was one of them that I've seen it when I was very, very young and I didn't really understand what Al Capone or, you know, I didn't really understand, Elliot Nestle, I, it all seemed a little bit, Ooh, gangsters and whatever. But then I've seen it again. It's, it's, it kind of keeps that classic and it's because it's black and white.

It's just such a, it's, it's really cool. Yeah, I

Sidey: I think even Sean Connery's trying to do a bit of a Chicago accent, which doesn't often make the effort to change his accent. It does in this and it's weird one. Cause I think if you were living there, you'd kind of be on the side of like, we need the booze, you know, we need the fucking moonshining, you know?

But in this, you know, you are rooting for Elliot Ness, even though he's a real fucking yeah, he's a square man, but yeah. But the film's so fucking good. it's great.

Cris: back

to your side

Sidey: Well, Chicago obviously was a real hotbed for that kind of shit because Road to Perdition

is also a prohibition y kind of thing.

Gangsters and stuff.

Reegs: Chicago 2.

Sidey: Yeah, that was Chicago

too.

Cris: the one with your favorite actor?

Sidey: is, it's got

Cris: Oh, I know that film!

Sidey: It's got Thanks. It's also got Newman in as well.

Reegs: well. So,

Sidey: Yeah. So I was

going to mention those two. You took one and I'll give you the

Dan: Sam mendes

Reegs: Mendes. That was good. Well, yeah, I suppose more on that than public enemies. Johnny Depp is Dillinger. And so that's more of that shit. The fugitive that we've watched recently that, that he was sort of drawn

Sidey: to the plot.

Reegs: Yeah. For the, for the plot. Absolutely. And speaking of things that People don't like on the pod, meet the parents. Gaylord Fokker, the nurse from Chicago, and then all of the John Hughes movies. Because he was born in Chicago, so, Breakfast Club, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Pretty in Pink, Weird Science,

Sidey: a, it

Reegs: Alone,

Sidey: a John Cusack thing, because he's in 16 Candles. High Fidelity, obviously, is Chicago, which he he wrote. Say Anything is and so is Grows Point Blank. Another one of my favorites is Chicago.

Reegs: Hmm. you go,

Chicago.

Cris: Has any of you been to Chicago? You

Reegs: Yeah, with work one time, a

Cris: a

week. Is it actually windy all the time, or?

Reegs: Yeah, and it's a pretty cool city as well. Down by Wrigley Park is where we were.

Cris: Cool, well done.

Sidey: cool. well done. know, I'm

Cris: Oh no, because I'm just curious, because obviously I've never been to America, and you know, there's all these cities that you hear and you see movies and all that, but is it actually if anyone's been, is it actually

Reegs: It's the second biggest metropolis I think in, in America, in America, I think after, after new New

Sidey: Their sports franchise is a real shit at the moment.

Reegs: they all dogs? Dog shit. Are they?

Sidey: they? Yeah Chicago Bears are getting pumped and the Bulls are obviously a shadow of what they were. And that could lead into the last dance, which is Just such a great documentary.

Dan: yeah, it's an all timer, really.

Sidey: watched it three or three

Dan: you like, yeah, I've seen it twice through and I'll watch it again. If you like sports

Then

this is amazing. But

Sidey: think it should be compulsory viewing.

Dan: is absolute

Sidey: It should be on the curriculum at school. It's so good.

Dan: it's, it is fantastic. 100 yeah, what a team what a what a documentary 10 10 parts I

Sidey: Sure is, yep.

Cris: is it ten?

Sidey: Yep,

yep.

Dan: And it's like, Wayne's world party time that was a chicago thing They were in aurora just a little bit outside of of chicago proper. But they had their You know had had their big Big scene at the time remember everybody was it was just Took over for a little while, didn't it? Wayne's

Sidey: The Gasworks. The Gasworks, the the music venue they went to. Yeah. With The shitty Beatles. They any good? No.

Dan: not just

Sidey: it's not just ironic.

Reegs: They're no Sonic Death Monkey.

Sidey: Yeah, we'll get into that.

Christian?

Cris: Chicago

the Musical?

I

Reegs: if you could put it down, if you'd sort of turned it off. 'cause you thought it was shit about 40 minutes in once. I

Sidey: Well, you could watch, like, the stage version.

Reegs: Mm.

Cris: We had it here once, a couple of years ago. My girlfriend went to see Chicago the Musical

Sidey: I thought you meant In the Man Cave or something, never watched

Reegs: I was thinking I missed that

Cris: might have been here, but I don't really

Dan: wasn't

Cris: Oh, okay. But yeah, I refused to watch it because of Renée Zellweger. And the other woman,

Sidey: Are you, are you anti Renee

Berger? Yes.

Cris: honestly. And Christine Baranski.

If I ever see any of

Reegs: fucking hate her, whoever

Cris: Yeah, if I ever see any of them That's it. Get me out.

Reegs: I don't know who that is.

Sidey: that is but there's various iterations. There's a Catherine Zita Jones.

Reegs: Yeah. That's the Zellweger one.

Sidey: Is that one or she's, what's that character called? She's the one everyone wants to play with the dark. Hair and the fishnets and whatever. Anyhow. Steven? Yeah.

Dan: You remember a thief? We did it for the

Reegs: Yeah.

Cris: Oh, the thief. Yeah.

Reegs: That was a great

Dan: was one Michael Mann's breakthrough film. Yeah. Really good. James Kahan. Yeah. Yeah. Loose Cannon.

Reegs: let's got a couple more before

Sidey: there was, there was one you were talking about Riggs on the, on Discord because the main man died.

Candyman.

Reegs: Oh, Tony Todd.

Sidey: Yeah. Candyman set in the suburbs of sugar. Go.

Reegs: Yes, it is. And that was, that was sad. What a legend is. He's still got a final destination movie coming out,

Sidey: oh, okay.

Reegs: that posthumously.

The

Sidey: seen the last album. Keenan and Kel filmed in LA but set in Chicago.

Reegs: you go. Yeah,

Sidey: There you go. So there you go.

I'll wait then for my

Reegs: It's famously been destroyed in quite a few movies, including Independence Day. And attacked by giant mutant grasshoppers in 1957's Beginning of the End. And Michael Bay, the Bastard destroyed it twice in the shitty third movie in the fifth one, I think to transformers dark of the moon and transformers extinction And then before I nominate I just wanted to say there were also a load of good music videos in keeping with our theme hard to handle by black crows kick push by lupe fiasco homecoming by kanye west Even though he's a dick, and baby oil enthusiast P.

Diddy did I'll Be Missing You at O'Hare Airport, and that was with Biggie, it was about biggie,

Cris: with Faith Evans.

Reegs: And you were talking about your love of biggie I am also a bit of a biggie fan as well.

Cris: Yeah.

Sidey: Juicy

Reegs: noms Nom de plume.

Dan: I will go for the Blues Brothers because it's a solid choice and it takes in a lot of the streets of Chicago as well as the music.

And I think that's makes my choice better than yours.

Cris: untouchables with a special mention also to Kanye West. I did want to put that in because I quite like especially because he's gone mental now. I don't really listen to what he has to say, but I just think

Dan: You should.

Sidey: His wife's a bit, shy, isn't she?

I will

Reegs: needs a

Sidey: Yeah, I will put in the dark knight. Yeah, because goth gotham is it's really chicago here

Reegs: Yeah, and I'll put in The Bear. It's all about Chicago. He comes back to, you know, from the world of fine dining

Dan: dining to

Reegs: restaurant

Dan: in

Chicago. I

Sidey: We are, yeah. I can't wait to see what is nominated online.

Cris: Yep.

Sidey: I think this is what inspired this week's, Topic. I can't remember. I just think I just stumbled across this movie and I was like, okay, movies with high in the title, blah, blah, blah. This one is high fidelity. I saw this at the local multiplex and I have seen it quite a few times and watched it again for this.

Yeah, everyone see it.

Cris: I've seen probably about 60 percent of it.

Sidey: Okay,

Dan: Did you read the book?

Sidey: I have read the book. This is one of the few that I have read the source material of yeah Yeah

Dan: yeah. And did it help you enjoy the film more? Nick Hornby train, isn't

Sidey: well

Reegs: The references are very different because it's set in London, the

Sidey: Yeah, and there's bits obviously that

Reegs: and then a lot of the scenes are quite

Sidey: There's bits that have missed out but they also, there's like a key one that's, well, it's not key because they left it out and it still works, but it was an interesting one, but it is in the deleted scenes if you ever get to see that. But we are introduced to John Cusack Rob, During one of his breakups, and it's gonna lead to him creating a list of his top five.

Reegs: He's listening to, you are gonna miss me by the 13th Floor Elevators.

Sidey: good tune, isn't it?

Reegs: he's like staring into the camera and he's, he's lamenting, he's saying, oh, why do they blame, like, violence

Sidey: Yeah. There's literally thousands and thousands of songs about heartbreaks,

Reegs: sorrow and heartbreak, and that's what's destroying our

Sidey: Yeah.

And it turns out that. Because he's got headphones I think and he's cranked the music up and she's actually still in the house She's in the process of moving out or storming out at this point. It's gonna move out later on

Reegs: and he will constantly narrate and break the fourth wall and talk to the audience as if they were sort of

these events lot of top fives.

Yeah

Sidey: Yeah, a lot of, we like them. So the first one that he does is his top five breakups and he rattles through them dead quick. And then he shouts out of the window to her, you didn't even make the top five. If you wanted to mess me up, you should have got to me earlier.

Dan: Yeah As it's pouring

with

Sidey: yeah. And then he's like very quickly going to get through his top five breakups and explain that to us.

Dan: And it starts with Yeah, and

Reegs: She took him for a snog under on the bleachers

Dan: about 11

or

Sidey: about eleven, twelve. Who actually gets

Reegs: Yeah,

Dan: yeah who actually she gets married to him as we hear later on

Reegs: then there's Penny. Right. She's the one who they really like each other but he pressures her for sex and she says no.

Sidey: wait, they look so ill matched.

So we get to see, it's almost like comedy and the

Reegs: comical the way

Sidey: his look changes. So he's obviously very, very young. Then he looks like he's in the velvet underground. He's like super fucking hip and she's really bookish and kind of nerdy. They look so ill suited to each other. And he says something about like trying to put his hand on her tits.

And she keeps saying no, and it's like, well, fuck it, I'll just try and put my hand between her legs, and that's a definite no. And in the end, she just says, oh, you know, what's the point? You know, it's nothing, we're never going to have sex,

Reegs: her off. And

Dan: then another guy, yeah, three days later or something she's with another

Reegs: then there's Charlie gorgeous Catherine Zeta Jones, it's all sexy and smoking and being the heart of

Dan: Very

Sidey: He's really got her on a pedestal. Yeah. He really

Reegs: Oh yeah. We'll find out later. She's a vacuous

Sidey: but he doesn't realize that until later on. He's still now thinking about his life. She was so great. She's so hot and every time she spoke, everyone would stop and listen to her.

Reegs: and He was worried, he was constantly worried he was gonna lose her, and eventually he did, to one of the cool

Sidey: Yeah. Marco.

Reegs: And then there was Sarah, that he met on the rebound from Catherine, and this is when he's in his Bruce Springsteen phase.

He's got the leather jacket and the bandana and all that. He

Sidey: They're both in a bad place and their shared kind of misery is what brings them together

Reegs: Yeah, basically their loathing of relationships and the opposite sex is what drives their relationship until she bins out on

Sidey: Fucking boots the wall

Reegs: Yeah,

and then he does end up talking about Laura. And then this is when he reveals a whole bunch of stuff that makes him virtually irredeemable in my eyes. That he cheated on her

he

Sidey: Well he's, well, Joan Cusack phones him up. Because at first she doesn't chew him out. She's just kind of there for him, like, Oh, we don't need to take sides, I just, you know, talk to you. Then she phones him up and Says, you fucking asshole! And he's like, oh, I should probably tell you, the audience, you know, about some stuff.

Reegs: He cheated on her that she got pregnant and that he had money. He borrowed $5,000 from her and never paid it back. And she had, she had an abortion and then later on he's a real dick about it.

He's like, oh, I wanted a family and all that stuff. Like

Sidey: They're having a good patch and he mentions about having kids and she starts to cry and he's sort of What's happening? And she explains that she was pregnant and had an abortion and he chews her out for a while not consulting him and my child too, cetera, et cetera.

Reegs: so yeah,

Sidey: He, he is just like not a good guy, right?

When you watch it and I don't know, they're trying to make him out to be the love interest and whatever. You're like, this guy's basically a piece of shit.

Reegs: Yeah, he is really yeah

Cris: And, we do get told that he owns a record shop he's got

Reegs: He does. So it was in the tail end of 2000, right, and Physical Media was dying. So the idea, I mean, this guy would be like one of the coolest kids around again now, because Physical Media is back.

And this, this is kind of still a bit of a love letter to it. But yeah, he does run this, what is it? Companion It's

Sidey: it's called Championship Final.

Reegs: Vinyl. That's right. And it's staffed by him and these two other guys. I think he says that

a week,

Three days. I, I hired these guys for three days a week and they just started showing up every day.

Sidey: It's Barry and Dick. Yeah. And initially when we were introduced to them and the record store, it's the kind of the day after the breakup and they're listening to Bella and Sebastian.

Dick and him and then Barry turns up Jack Black's character. This was my first introduction to Jack Black. He's so fucking larger than life in this. He turns up and just fucks their musical. He just gets the tape and throws it, puts on his, it's

Reegs: Katrina in the waves. I hate this song.

Sidey: He's doing the

Reegs: think that's the point. I think that's the point, isn't it?

Sidey: It's just his Monday morning tape that he's made special for them all.

And he's he says about his Cosby sweater, which really makes me laugh because we had it on the Urban dictionary.

Reegs: then we get

Sidey: And then we get marie lasalle everyone who was in the Cosby's the Cosby show

And so they don't know that. He's had this breakup. So he ends up having a proper fall out with barry and nearly like punching him and later on explains that sorry, you know having a fucking shit time or whatever but like I said, we've seen all this stuff about him and you're like well You You fucking like she's better off without you

Yeah,

Reegs: Yeah, well because she is shown to be, she's kind of moved, grown past their relationship really. She has like a sort of a stable job that has prospects and she's not wallowing in self misery and

Sidey: that she hates her job, and she's like, no, I've don't, you don't even know me. I've, I really enjoy my job.

Reegs: really enjoyed

Cris: And she moved in with Ian or Ray.

Reegs: Yeah. So they, they'd overheard him having lengthy sex sessions. It's a brilliant ponytailed Tim

Cris: Yeah, it's amazing.

Sidey: was popular that week, as they, yeah. And and these things are

Reegs: And and these things are really important to him because he, like, he says something about, oh, you know, call me shallow, but you know, books, records, films, these things are important.

They matter. So yeah, the fact that he. Is into whatever the flavor of the month

Sidey: is,

He's not into it, yeah.

Reegs: and she ends up shacking up there, Laura, pretty quickly. Really?

Sidey: Yeah, at this point he does, he promotes her into his top five breakups. He says, you win, you know, he realizes that he's been a prick. He says

Reegs: It's just he has a kind of vision from Bruce Springsteen appears as a sort of guardian angel and inspires him to kind of revisit he wants to see what went wrong in this current relationship through the lens of his other

Dan: wrong in his current relationship through the lens of his other relationships, basically.

He's

Sidey: self centered

Dan: self centered. He's completely wrapped up in himself. He is no

real really immature. And,

Reegs: this is a guy who's like in his mid thirties. Like, you know, it's hard

Cris: I don't, I don't really

Dan: impossible though, is it? You know, I mean,

Sidey: mean, it's not like

Dan: had this continuous relationships that have led him to be that person that he's never really looked at himself until things have started getting serious.

And all those other breakups have just led into other relationships that haven't.

Sidey: he's told us about the stuff that he's done in the past and we don't to be fair We don't know how far in the past they were but they couldn't have been that that long because he you know The length of the relationship that he's had But he's still gonna do some other stuff in the movie that you're like we haven't

Reegs: No exactly

Sidey: He said he they changed He meets the guys at the bar that they say we're going to see I can't remember what the name of it is but it's a live music venue and they go down there and Marie LaSalle is playing um

Reegs: Bonney, Lisa Bonney,

Sidey: Lisa Bonet and she's smoking hot and they they watch her and she can sing and blah blah and they have a chat to her while they're buying a copy of her CD and they tell her about their shop you should come and check us out blah blah blah so they do and then after that they go and have some drinks and they end up Fucking right.

Yeah. They go back to her place to have sex, and then after that interaction, he immediately, like, I know it's,

Reegs: it's like straight out bed, pretty

Sidey: meant to be a kind of joke. I don't, I guess. But as they're walking down the street, they kiss, say goodbye, and he immediately starts talking about Laura. Like he just flips a switch.

And so it's just like, me, me, me.

Cris: And the night before, he was like, oh, maybe we should get back. What are you, did you sleep with him, or not yet, all that. So it

Reegs: Oh, the yet thing was making me piss

Cris: it looks like he's regretting, but he's, and then the same, no, I regret this. I, I ask all these questions, but everything he, you know, it's like, oh, I feel really bad. But actually.

It's still all about him. Is is, did you sleep with him? Why not yet. And then obviously all the, not yet. And but in the same night he goes and sleeps with the singer. Yeah.

Sidey: doesn't want her to sleep with the other one

Cris: yeah. Ian or

Sidey: but he's it's completely fine for him to sleep with Marie LaSalle. And so I care if we could just like plow straight through it because it's the plot is fairly like quick.

Reegs: Yeah

Sidey: he decides that they want to get back together and there's a subplot about a band that he or two lads that have been caught stealing from his shop and it turns out they're musicians and they hear a tape of theirs and they're actually really good.

Reegs: Yeah, well, one of the things we haven't explained really is the dynamic they insult their customers, you know They they

Sidey: They're music

Reegs: encyclopedic knowledge of music and they gatekeep it.

And

Sidey: Sell records to people they don't think deserve it.

Reegs: exactly and you know if you're not, you know, and

Sidey: I am

100 percent like

Reegs: I know you are. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It did remind me very much of how you, how you are about music. But yeah,

Dan: yeah.

Sidey: yeah, there's this band, they're called the Kinky Wizards, they've been initially caught stealing from his shop, then he's kind of like, almost mentoring them, when he hears the song he's like, I'll put out your record for you, and so,

Reegs: top five records

Sidey: the same time, he gets, So

They get back together basically his, his, his ex's father dies.

And then while she's being all introspective and whatever, and he's realized he's making a mistake. She realizes she's, she's not going to be happy with Ray or Ian. And so they, they kind of have sex at the wake,

Dan: Yeah.

Sidey: And decided to get back together. And so she, she is still the one though, pushing him to say, right, we're going to do this launch party.

And we're, you know, I sold my grand's wheelchair is the name of the EP and we're going to promote this and you're going to do party. He used to DJ, you're going to DJ again. It's going to be a great big thing.

Reegs: She makes, she gives him all the

Sidey: agency. Yeah. And he's. He's just like really reluctant to do it. Oh It's gonna be failure and all this like just fucking do it, you know, and Even while she's still doing all that for him and pushing and giving him all this encouragement, a girl reporter comes in to see him and he even says as he's narrating it was all going great until, and I was watching it on this and she's just like, so disappointed

Reegs: Yeah, yeah.

Sidey: he just immediately gets the hots with this girl and his love language is to make a mixtape for someone and so he immediately, she says, I

Reegs: I think it's supposed to be this moment of personal growth that he's realized

Sidey: realises that

Reegs: this relationship. But yeah, he's just a dislikable shit,

Sidey: supposed

Reegs: to be like an, he's supposed to be like, in his own words, an asshole, but.

Ultimately, you like him and at the end of it, you're just like now he's just like insensitive and immature and toxic and

Cris: Just a dick Just not

Reegs: It's like a real time capsule of terrible noughties values. This movie like really, really awful and worse. I thought in some way in its depiction of women and their relationships with men than that 1980s movie.

We watch fast times at Richmond High. I really did think that.

Sidey: that. Lisa

Dan: Lisa Bonet's character was quite independent herself though, wasn't

Reegs: she?

wasn't. Yeah, she

Dan: she wasn't in it long.

Reegs: And then all of the rest of them are like either props for him to like go on this sort of weird journey of self discovery And you just you know, he doesn't he doesn't learn anything or better himself in any meaningful way in the movie So you just don't root for him and Laura to get back together you at the end of it You're like you are way better out of that relationship

Sidey: Her fringe, though.

Cris: relationship. Oh,

yeah, I don't

Reegs: I didn't like the fringe no

Sidey: Was a

Cris: don't know what's going on there. Who, who decided that's an acceptable haircut?

Sidey: I don't know, it was just Scandinavian, so I guess it was something to do with that.

Reegs: that. Soundtrack was good though, wasn't it?

Sidey: The Soundtrack

was great, and obviously it's set a lot of it in a record store, and I was looking along the shelves, I got that one, I haven't got that

Dan: Solomon Burke, I saw a couple

Sidey: blah,

Reegs: His house, where he organises his records autobiographically,

Sidey: I kept saying to Kay, like, let's see how many records he's got.

Reegs: Yeah, that's what you were aiming for in it

Sidey: He does have five records that are on top of one in like display, sort of like you've got there down on the wall. So we can infer from that that they are his

Reegs: top

Sidey: top five records. Do you want to know what they are?

Maggot Brain by Funkadelic, Tonight's the Night by Neil Young, Wild Honey by the Beach Boys, Goo by Sonic Youth and Double Nickels on the Dime by the Minute Men, which I'm not familiar with that one.

Reegs: There is constant dropping of, I mean, it's just to name the soundtrack, there must be, you must hear 20 or 30 songs on the soundtrack and there are constant visual references.

There's like a sticker for blind pig records or banners for pavement or just all kinds of cool

Sidey: He

is like We've established like not a, not a good guy, pretty dislikable, no growth. Jack Black on the other hand for me steals it, like he's like larger than life, he's just shouty and annoying, but when it comes down to it he's like pushing their buttons about, he's had an ad on the wall about starting a band and a guy comes in

Reegs: The Kathleen Turner

Sidey: and they play it really cool and he's like, you've been waiting for ages.

You know, Rob's telling him, you've been waiting for ages and all this, this guy just comes in and you're all Mr. Cool about it. It's like, well, we'll see what happens and they hit, they book his, Mrs. Books, that band, his band. And yeah, they're called Sonic Death Monkey and Rob's shitting himself. He's like trying to pay him not to perform.

And then when they come out, it's Barry Jive and the Uptown Five and Gaye. Sadly, not sex, not sexual healing which would have been good, but

Reegs: he says marvin I'm, pretty sure he says marvin gaye's he's made his favorite tune in it.

Sidey: It's their song. It's their song. The one for their relationship is Let's Get It

Reegs: And his favorite book was cash the

Sidey: By Johnny Cash. Yeah.

Reegs: cash

Sidey: Yeah. So it really ends up kind of being Jack Black's movie, I'd say.

Cris: Yeah, definitely. It's the only one that

It's, it's funny and I don't know, I liked him.

Dan: Yeah. Not for me. . You

Reegs: even like Jack Black in this?

Dan: No, I did like Jack Black, but I like, I really liked Cusack in it. Are you are giving him stick? I just thought he was breaking the fourth wall. He was being as honest with, you know, as, as us in these thoughts that went through his head and the reasons why he did them.

And he wasn't like. Boasting about them being proud about them as much as just you know, those flaws than

Sidey: But he doesn't learn from them.

Reegs: keep, he keeps doing them.

Dan: He, And do we, don't we all, you know, make these mistakes? I mean, while he's still, yeah, no, I just think there was, there was more to his character than just him being an arsehole and not, you know, learning and doing anything.

I, you know, I, I, I really enjoyed him in it, and he, remember he's going through a breakup, he's, he's feeling pity and, and that kind of self loathing and, and, you know, all those kind of things that maybe you didn't even talk about then, but probably depression at some points where you just see him obviously crying all the time and, and things.

So, I He

Reegs: He looks

like he's permanently on the verge of tears though,

Dan: Yeah, you know, so he's got that kind of vibe and anger about him

Sidey: Yeah, he takes a call in the shop at one point, and then nothing comes of it and I don't know why they left that in because he put the phone down. What it is, it's a woman

who's caught her husband cheating on her. Who's a, who, he's a record collector.

So she calls him down to get rid of this guy's collection and when he gets there she passes one particular crate and it's all like immaculate like super, super fucking rare collectible

Reegs: And

Sidey: like, just give me a dollar for it. And he, he, this is the only time he has a proper conscience in the film.

He's like, I can't do it. I can't do it to someone. I can't do it to fellow collector. I think he takes a couple of seven inch lights. You know, like the original Sex Pistols scene and stuff like that and gives her a hundred bucks or something but he can't bring himself to it, but that was a deleted scene

They didn't keep that in

Reegs: that would have been actually a nice moment to see that he did

Sidey: Well, it's like he cares more about some other guy who clicks records than his own

Reegs: Because

I think mainly you're supposed to think there's some hope for them because he doesn't fuck the girl

the end. You're like,

Dan: engine is it is there a lot of people caring for him in the film?

Do you think? As well, I mean it seems quite a

Reegs: Well, Laura cares for him, clearly.

Dan: does she?

Reegs: She galvanises him to do all that shit at the end of the He wouldn't have released a record, or DJ'd again,

Sidey: shop

Reegs: and, and the shop was going under and is shown to be thriving at the end, and, you know, people coming in and all that.

So yeah, she's fixed his life and he's sort of paid her back by not shagging the first girl. He is met

Sidey: he's met.

Reegs: what a fucking legend, eh,

Sidey: legend.

She went off she? After they split up.

Dan: He's not bad teeth though, anyway, is

Sidey: It

just doesn't have those silly American

Dan: No, he's honest

Sidey: perfect

Reegs: teeth. Yeah, it

Sidey: Yeah, it just has normal teeth.

Which

I thought was quite interesting. Yeah, not as good as I remember,

Reegs: yeah, the

Sidey: Apart from the soundtrack, which is still, yeah.

Dan: fantastic, and Jack Black is Fantastic in

Sidey: good in this.

Reegs: And the other one I liked as well,

Sidey: Dick,

Dick,

Reegs: name is.

He was pretty

Sidey: good. He has a more wholesome

Reegs: He gets off with Darlene from Roseanne and has a nice little relationship and does actually

Sidey: day though.

Reegs: but he

Dan: Was there other couple of cameos in this from people? Who else was in

Reegs: Yeah.

Sidey: Oh, Joan Cusack. I think John Cusack's dad. I think they were like most of the Cusack

Reegs: in it. Kermit the Frog.

Dan: Springsteen.

Sidey: That was meant to be originally Bob Dylan, but he was touring and couldn't do it. So they got Bruce. No, he doesn't like the boss.

Yeah, which they

play the river at one point, yeah.

Reegs: Strong recommend for The

Sidey: the music.

Dan: Strong recommend.

Reegs: Not so much

for the gatekeeping and toxicity.

Sidey: gatekeeping.

Fair

Reegs: yeah, fair enough, yeah.

Sidey: High five. I'm not, under no circumstances putting any music from this in.

Dan: Right, well

Reegs: And if you weren't going to put it in, would you not put it in

Sidey: here

that because the, this, these clowns come out and let's just say they look like S Club

Reegs: I thought like a little version of Steps.

Sidey: Yes. And they sing a song to these, mortified children. It goes on forever. The

Reegs: kids are kind of standing around some of them are like enthusiastically clapping and others are standing around like putting their fingers up their nose and stuff because they're preschoolers. Do you know what I mean? And whilst this band sort of comes out and plows on this song.

What was it called? Catch me if you can.

Sidey: Yeah.

Reegs: Did you check out the 90s? So there's three chicks, various, you know.

Sidey: very much like Steps, isn't it? There's three chicks, two fellows one of the guys

Reegs: tipped

Sidey: one of the other one's got blonde curtains.

Yeah.

Reegs: actually in a horrible motorcycle

Sidey: Good.

Cris: Oh no.

Reegs: They're obviously incredibly enthusiastic about everything. I read about this, it was like, because it's got a kind of almost Sesame Street feel. There's like little animated bits in between that try to teach you sign

language.

Sidey: near as good.

Reegs: Yeah, and then there's some puppets and shit that, you

Dan: How long?

Sidey: It's

Reegs: About 14 years.

Sidey: It's half an hour an an episode.

Cris: That's long.

Sidey: and it feels I, I, I didn't watch the whole one, I

My god. It's not that it's no good, it's Neon, everything is super, super, like, fucking colourful, and relentlessly positive and

Reegs: Cheerful. So

Sidey: Fake, though.

Reegs: The guy, did he get as far as the guy with the air, the wings on?

Sidey: No, I got to the tinfoil hats and I'd had enough, man, I

Reegs: Got enough of this in real life. I

Sidey: there's gonna be enough variation to this to really warrant half an hour of it.

Reegs: There's like a segment of education and then a song to reinforce it and then something else and all that. It's the sort of thing that you'd love to put on because your kid will go and watch it for half an hour and you won't feel so bad because it's like educational psychology blah blah blah.

Sidey: blah blah blah.

Reegs: stare at your phone and

Sidey: that, that

Reegs: for 20

Sidey: The way they envisioned it was that they were sort of like elder siblings to all these little preschool kids that are there.

I,

Reegs: I wouldn't have let some of them alone

Sidey: when you watch this stuff, do you not put yourself in a position of someone having that as their job? Because that's what I do.

I think I

Reegs: I'll tell you what,

Sidey: with the level of shame and like misery having to do that shit.

Reegs: I challenge you, though. Watch the bloopers, because they are fucking piss funny. And it shows that these guys are absolutely aware of

Sidey: Christianity. Because

Reegs: because they're swearing like troopers. One of the puppets is throws like a complete diva strop. And it's getting bleeped out, because he's calling the director a cunt

Sidey: cunt and all this

Reegs: and they're all like, yeah, the bloopers, there's like a three or four minute blooper

Sidey: 4 minute

Reegs: online. And it's quite funny and shows the The sort of human side

Cris: Probably should have reviewed that then. Yeah, by the sounds of it.

Reegs: well, if you're going to watch it, watch that I would

Sidey: because they're jumping around and singing and it's relentless and it's so cheery and no one is like that in real life, it's just like, oh, how do you do that,

Reegs: this, they had a moon bunny in this one and I think I had mixed mitosis

Dan: Yeah.

it sounds, it sounds like I've dodged a bullet here. Normally I'll be kind of keen to, to see something, but I came in and said, oh, I've, I've gotta catch up and you,

no, no, no,

This, this is

Sidey: Like Rishi said, it's one of those, you can put it on for a young child, get the hell out of there, let them watch it, and you'd be content that

Reegs: It ran for like 10 years, Dan, and it was adapted, like,

Sidey: it was adapted

Reegs: across the US and the UK, so it was clearly a very good format and you know, very successful

Cris: 10 years?

Sidey: Yeah, man. Painful, though.

Reegs: Yeah.

Cris: 10

years of happiness? Yeah. Like cheerful

Reegs: And that's just the Australian one with all the extended syndicates and stuff. I think it was rebooted in 2017 on Netflix, so very, very popular, but just not with anyone who hasn't been lobotomized

Dan: Fair enough.

Yeah sounds like that

Cris: Wow. Okay. Yeah. Amazing.

Reegs: recommend.

Sidey: a strong

Cris: sounds. Yeah. Sounds like it to

Dan: Can't wait.

Sidey: I wonder if Mel was familiar with this

Reegs: with this

Sidey: Let us know. Let us know what you think. which that's slang for AIDS, isn't it?

Reegs: slang for AIDS isn't

Cris: missed

Sidey: The subtext. Yeah, it's all about AIDS.

Dan: Okay. Wow. Okay, you learn, you learn.

Sidey: I think it's

you. it's

you, Chris. Chris.

Cris: me? What, what, did Are we gonna do the Or are we waiting for the interview and all that stuff?

Dan: Yeah, because we could have an exciting interview coming

Cris: No, I'm just saying because I, I

Sidey: Well, we'll figure it out.

Reegs: see what's, let's see what's going on.

Cris: okay. Tomorrow I'll have the noms

if, if, if not, but

Sidey: We'll just do them, and we can keep them in reserve if we need to.

Cris: Okay.

Dan: It's all coming. It's thick and fast. There's loads going on.

Sidey: Name of a sex tape. All that remains is to say Sidey's signing out.

Reegs: Reid's has left the building.

Dan: Dan's gone.