The Courier & Blade of the Immortal

The Courier

Sidey: Cock and roll.

Reegs: Welcome to Bad Dad's Film Review, the podcast that is to movie reviews as a bull in a china shop is to interior decorating. Time was short this week, so you're going to have to make up your own joke about the Mike Tyson fight, except to say I watched it and felt really sad, so we'll move on. Starting with a look at the top 5 courier slash delivery scenes in movies, then after that, we'll review the 2024 Spanish language.

Crime Caper El Correo, the courier, set against the backdrop of Spain's national debt crisis in the long ago year of 2008. And we'll finish up this week with Blade of the Immortal Season 1 Part 19's The Massacre, an episode that turns out bloodier than a vampire's wet dream. I don't even really know what I meant when I wrote that.

Vampires come blood? I didn't have a lot of time this week, like I said. Now with all that out the way, let's introduce the dad. Starting, of course, with Vintage Dan. He's been watching films for so long, his first review was delivered by Carrier Pigeon.

Dan: Are you tired of jerking off alone?

Reegs: We've also got Dazzling Chris, whose fear of robots is so intense he once unplugged the microwave for looking at him funny.

Yeah. And finally the man who's always had a huge interest in this week's subject subject, by which I mean he's a guy who loves to handle his package, it's

Sidey: Hello.

Reegs: And then there's me, Riggs.

Hello.

Sidey: me, Peter. Hello everyone!

Dan: No.

Reegs: I got up to watch it just after it had finished. So I fast forwarded to the fight. And I hoped that Mike Tyson It finished at about half past five and I got up about six o'clock.

Sidey: five. And up at about six o'clock.

Reegs: I just hoped he had a punch as Chance, but it was just a deeply sad spectacle and I wish I hadn't

Cris: a deeply

Reegs: Yeah. I enjoyed that moment. Yeah. Best

Cris: I wish I hadn't

Reegs: I'm glad he got to make a load of money out of it.

Cris: Yeah. And he didn't get knocked out or, or seriously hurt.

Reegs: didn't embarrass himself at all. But we, we should all be embarrassed for, for, for participating. So yeah,

Dan: I feel embarrassed for reading the headlines and being a little bit interested in it. I never watched any of it. My

Reegs: my barber called me out on this basically, actually.

And and so. Yeah, he was right,

Dan: He was right. Yeah, it was just an embarrassment all around and even for us that are promoting it to get more money because they might do it again.

Some, some other similar thing.

Reegs: It's not really an embarrassment for Mike Tyson, although it is,

Dan: It's not, it's not.

Sidey: called out Canelo at the end of the fight. Is that his name and you're like no What the

Dan: what? Yeah,

Sidey: you know, great great boxing. You're like no one's laid a glove on him.

Anyway, fuck him. What a prick

Reegs: Yeah.

Sidey: Do you remember that? We did a top five last week. We do them from time to

time.

Cris: Yeah, we do,

Reegs: Mel, I do remember seeing on Discord, 'cause I wanted to respond. I didn't have time, but she talked about being a big fan of High Five.

Sidey: That her sister in law actually went to school with kathleen one of the girls from high five And they really did help get her through her early child rearing days, along with Wiggles.

We've not done that on the pod, have

Reegs: No,

Sidey: But I've, I'm aware of

Reegs: Yeah, i've done a bit of wiggles back in the

Sidey: Yeah, so she won't have us slagging them off. So that's fair enough, that's fair enough. And Mel did also have some Chicago nominations for us. An 80s movie called A Night on the Town.

Reegs: Yeah, Adventures in Babysitting.

Sidey: Yeah, it was not in town in Australia only starring a little Elizabeth's shoe.

And yeah, then she blabs on about high five. So that's got to go in adventures in

Reegs: I like that one.

Sidey: Yeah, that's, that's never even been spoken about before.

Cris: I've seen movies with babysitters.

Dan: I've seen that movie.

Sidey: Have you?

Dan: Yeah. Back in the day, it was, it was really cool.

Reegs: Thor in it.

Dan: As I remembered

Sidey: Did anyone watch anything other than the boxing? Or football that's also banned.

Dan: Started to watch

The

Deadpool Wolverine film didn't get through it and I started a few things this week and didn't get through many I might just been in that kind of mood this week where I struggled to actually sit and watch things the whole way through So A few half biting apples around, but nothing.

Sidey: Yeah,

Dan: no full apple crumble.

Sidey: What about you, Chris?

Cris: been watching a lot of Clarkson's Farm. I let daughter

Sidey: Well, we've been watching a lot of Clarkson's farm, which I let my daughter watch, but there's lots of swearing.

But I'm okay with it. Because she knows I can tell she knows it's like not to repeat it and she likes all the like farming content. That's what she

Dan: what she likes.

Sidey: Yeah, so yeah, she's really enjoying that.

Yeah How about you riggs?

Reegs: I went to the Multiplex. Yeah. well done.

And I

Dan: the place yourself.

Reegs: Gladiator 2. No, it was quite full, actually, if that's a consideration

Cris: That's good. I'm happy. I like the cinema. I just, for whatever reason, because of all these streaming services that they're just there, you're at home.

I'm not going to leave the house and walk 10

Reegs: I was able to leave the kids there and go to the, so that was what was probably the best

Sidey: Nice, I did see a little chat with Darren on online about it But if anyone has not seen that what did you think of it?

Reegs: not really a patch on the original, but Denzel's in it and he's great. Great in it and having a lot of fun. And the battle scenes I enjoyed, they're suitably ridiculous.

I mean, there's one bit with sharks in

Sidey: shark Mad

Reegs: Coliseum and then it's sent me down a rabbit hole of did they really fill up the Coliseum with water and apparently they may have done so, but not sharks, man. Not sharks,

Sidey: Piranha.

Reegs: Yeah, it's, it's probably a completely pointless retread really, but it's fun to go out to the cinema and watch a movie.

Sidey: Have you read anything or heard anything about the making of it, like how long it's been in development, Helen's stuff? Because there's a, there's a script written by Nick Cave.

It's online. Russell Crowe, I think, got him to write it. And it's about the gods, and so it's got Russell Crowe's character coming back. No, fighting his way out of Hades and then something, something, the gods and stuff sounds absolutely bonkers, like unmakeable,

but it would have been quite fun.

Yeah.

1. But

Reegs: would

Dan: leaving children.

Sidey: the

Yeah.

Why, on your Todd?

Reegs: No, the

I hear this a

Dan: I hear this a lot from people of the,

Reegs: I think that is

Dan: yeah, that he's, he's something to go and see. Yeah, but it is.

Reegs: And then she pegged me to oblivion

Cris: Alright, so that's why. Where was he in, have I seen him in anything else? This mezcal guy?

Sidey: I think he's very generic looking to be honest, but,

Reegs: I don't know he's he is a bit hunky I thought

Sidey: Yeah, I

Reegs: He does a very good russell crowe impression

Sidey: Right. Is he son of Crowe?

Reegs: Do you what yes

Sidey: Right, thought it would be, yeah.

yeah.

Dan: Yeah. He's, he's got kind of the a cheeky glint in his eye, I think as well.

He seems to,

Cris: So wait, wait, wait, what, in the movie, is he Russell Crowe's son?

But he's dead.

in the first one.

Reegs: He used to have

Sidey: before he was

Reegs: They, they, they, they sort of cram in this like a character I think, who was seen for a shot. I I didn't really follow it 'cause I wasn't like, you know.

Cris: Reviewing it.

Reegs: review it. Yeah

reviewing it or like, I, not a huge, I don't know the first one inside out either. So they just took a minor character from a shot and then went, oh, yeah, by the way, it was his son. He over here.

Cris: Okay,

fair enough, I I'm gonna watch it anyway, but i'm just gonna wait until it's gonna

be on

Dan: gonna be on something. Oh no, you would go with Nelly and you

Sidey: Moana 2 this

Dan: with just a few.

Sidey: Wrong, wrong.

Cris: you would go with Nelly, you wouldn't go,

Dan: thought, Did

Reegs: fucking awful, I thought,

Sidey: Yeah, they put

Reegs: Yeah, they put the link to wicked. com, the fucking adult porn website. Yeah, amazing. On the toy box. That's fucking amazing.

Cris: Wow. I don't I don't know about that website, but now that i've heard of it might give it a

Sidey: it a go Ok, yeah, I'll have

Cris: Okay, yeah, i'll have i'll have a

Sidey: find

Reegs: see if you find something you like in this week's top five.

Dan: top five. Is it top five

Cris: 5 deliveries or

careers?

Yeah which, I don't know, is that a thing?

I based it on the first, on the main feature this week and I

Dan: North Korea or South Korea, which

Cris: career?

Or courier, how do you actually what is the accent in

Sidey: I would say korea.

Reegs: Courier, I would say, yeah.

Cris: Yeah courier. Okay the courier the first one I had in mind is Obviously there's the the guy in our main feature. He

But the first one I had in mind was Bane in The Dark Knight.

Yeah. When he violates the stock exchange Gotham City. And he dresses as a delivery guy with a motorcycle helmet and has a Does he have a pizza box or something like that? I can't remember. Well,

Reegs: Yeah, maybe

Cris: got like a pizza delivery kind of red There is

Reegs: there is a little subsection of people delivering pizzas.

Cris: Well

Bane is one of them

Reegs: he is and

Cris: that was the one that kind of

That's

the

first one when I thought deliveries. I thought that's the one I

Reegs: it's a good moment that like occupy wall street stuff all up on screen nolan finger on the pulse and all

Cris: quite enjoy that. So I don't know else.

Sidey: do. My favorite actor Tom Hanks is in a movie called cast away where he plays a FedEx executive, I think and there's a plane crash. And he is the sole survivor. And a load of packages wash on shore. And he opens most of them.

We've obviously got Wilson and the ice skate and various other things. But he keeps one package. And later on when he's rescued, he does, is able to deliver that final package. So there you go.

Reegs: And it turned out to be a satellite phone have saved Had he opened it

Sidey: That

was all right. Actually. As, as Tom Hacks movies go.

Reegs: Mm castaways good.

Sidey: Yeah, it is good.

Dan: I've not seen it better, not

in a while. But you know, as far as.

Robinson Cruso type castaway films. Gotta be better than that one, isn't there? I mean, it was Okay.

There's a few moments cast better than

Sidey: Yes.

but he's

Reegs: away? Better

Sidey: courier,

Dan: Yeah, Yeah,

Reegs: There's another cast away movie called called cast away with Oliver Reed and Amanda Donahoe where they just roll around in the sand naked for a bit and he's all drunk.

It must have been pretty

Sidey: it must have been pretty hard

Reegs: Well, in the Transporter, Jason Statham is ex Special Forces operative, Frank Transporter, probably. And in the first one, he is literally taking stuff, that's a kind of courier, he's transporting his courier, wouldn't you

Cris: had that as well, yeah.

Reegs: So, the first one he has to do is transport.

deliver a package and he's got all these rules like rule number one you never open the package and rule number two you don't have sex with the package which is a good one because it turns out it's a girl

Sidey: Yeah, it is. Yeah.

Reegs: then in transporter 2 i think they largely abandoned the actual like taking of things from a to b

Part

of transporting, but there is a bit where he jumps his BMW to like scrape a bomb off the underside of his car.

Do you remember that on a

Sidey: car.

Cris: yeah.

Dan: that's a tough move he made it look easy

Reegs: First

time he did it

Dan: It's not an easy one

Reegs: Yeah, so that's that and then there was transported three which had Robert Knepper in it if you remember him

Sidey: did we do that one for the pod?

Reegs: Don't

Sidey: I think we jumped in at three.

Reegs: Lovely. Yeah, I think it was absolutely appalling

Sidey: I think it was a strong

Reegs: Yeah, of course it was.

Cris: Yeah,

Dan: Well, I don't often do this, but I'm gonna talk about a film that I've not seen. And only because it's called Delivery Man. Vince Vaughn He's a delivery, reading the synopsis here, he's a delivery truck driver for his family's company. But he's the biological father of more than 500 offsprings.

So he's obviously been delivering a bit more than just the truck and the family goods.

Sidey: into a plastic cup,

Dan: Yeah and I don't know, any of you guys seen that film?

Cris: no or maybe I have but I can't I mean

Dan: You'd remember if 500 kids turned up,

Reegs: My missus told me about a documentary she'd watched about a guy who'd fathered Maybe a thousand children or

Dan: Well, there's rules on it because of certain cases where people have just tried to think they're right you know Genghis Khan or something. I'm just going to go around to, to put my jizz in every single one of these shops. And now they have to kind of screen them

Sidey: Right,

Dan: have too many of the same person, but I've not seen this one.

I would have thought

Out of all the hundreds of films we've seen, one of us would have seen it.

Sidey: seen that one actually, and I quite like

Dan: Yeah, maybe it's one for the future. If anyone's seen

Cris: really tall, no?

Sidey: Yeah, he's got a series on Apple TV,

Reegs: monkey in it? I

Sidey: I was going to say it's called Monkey Tennis, but it's not. But it's like he's a sort of shit detective and he's farmed off to Miami and he gets involved in a murder mystery sort of thing.

Looks like it'd be quite good

fun.

Dan: like there might be a monkey in it.

Reegs: quite

Cris: Yeah. I've got two movies that are fairly similar and they're not in the same time, but they're fairly similar in terms of what they're delivering and how they're delivering stuff. The stuff being a white powder American made with Tom Cruise. He delivers. weapons to the Colombians and then gets cocaine in return to deliver it to the United States.

Although it's not your typical delivery because most of the times just drops packages from the air from his plane while the plane is kind of self driving.

Reegs: Yeah

Cris: And the other one is a blow with Johnny Depp where he does a similar kind of delivery with the similar kind of merchandise. But they're all In my eyes class is a delivery rather than a, you know, they're not, they're not hired by a career agency.

They don't work for UPS or DHL or anything like that. But,

Reegs: they

Cris: But they work for a certain cartel and they all, they both meet Pablo Escobar

in the movie. I don't know in real life. I've never met any of them. And I don't know if, well, Barry Seal is definitely dead.

Reegs: I remember liking american maid. I'm just trying to remember it, but

Cris: It's good. I enjoyed it.

It was the best. can't remember, but the rumor has it that Barry Seal died with George Bush's personal telephone number in his pocket.

Reegs: barry seal

Cris: Yes. That's who Tom Cruise plays. That's a guy that, that's a real guy, it's based on a real story. And I think that's all I had to say, really.

Sidey: right. Nice. Well, Christmas is upon us.

Dan: Well,

Sidey: we, we officially kicked off on Friday because we watched

home

Alone.

Reegs: Alone. So

Sidey: So the

Christmas lights ceremony, like, in town here was on Thursday. We watched Home Alone on Friday. We put our tree up on Sunday. But Home Alone features a pizza delivery and it's what inspires, or it's where, certainly, Macaulay Culkin, Kevin, starts getting, starts playing the dialogue of that old movie.

Reegs: Dirty Faces. Yeah.

Sidey: Faces? Have you

Reegs: Keep the change, you

Sidey: that movie? Angels

Dan: you ever seen that movie, Angels with Dirty Faces?

movie. James Cagney. Yeah,

Reegs: Cagney. Oh, well, what's the, the one, is that, oh, I've got the, I've banjaxed the name

Dan: possibly, but Angel's Dirty Face was with James

Reegs: Something like that, with, in Home Alone. It's a made up

Sidey: like that, with, in Home Alone. It's a made up

Reegs: Nice. Yeah, there. Who knows? Who knows? Certainly not me because I'm going to talk about when I think of a courier, I think of guys in Lycra riding bicycles, basically, which is hot.

Sidey: Yeah

Reegs: But also that makes me think of Joseph, Joseph Gordon Levitt premium rush. You guys

Sidey: Oh, yes

Reegs: He's like a disenchanted Columbia law school graduate who he's like, Doesn't want to take the bar because he's realized that law's shit.

And so he works as like this bike messenger in New York and he gets the sort of

Gaze of he comes under the watch of Michael Shannon because of some envelope that he's transporting and it's kind of this ridiculous sort of 90 minute action thriller tongue in cheek type thing, but it's pretty good.

I enjoyed it. And obviously Gordon Levitt in Lycra is, you

worth

Dan: right. But I like Shannon as well. I think he's, he's pretty good. What about childbirth in that kind of delivery?

Is that something that we could add into the,

Sidey: Look who's talking.

Dan: mix? Look who's talking. Father of the bride. At one point, Steve Martin's not got just his own child, but his daughter's having a child at the same time as well, which seems to,

Sidey: terrifying thought, isn't it? Yeah.

Reegs: that in the same delivery room are they

doing?

Dan: they're right next to each other or they've

Reegs: They wouldn't do that, would they?

Dan: it's all one big happy

Reegs: Certainly not in Jersey. They don't have the facilities.

Dan: Well, we don't have facilities not to. You're forced to

Cris: want to do it at home, you

Dan: Get everybody all

Reegs: don't think you'd ever look at your lounge at the same way again,

though.

Cris: of these above the ground pools and you just do it like

Sidey: No, I'm not into it. No. Keep that in the fucking hospital, man.

Reegs: you've watched your wife shit herself in the lounge, it's like,

Sidey: I don't know how many times I can put up with

Cris: many times I can put up with that.

Dan: I think it opens up the world of possibilities, really. No matter how drunk you come in, you say, Look, you've been in worse state than this on this couch.

Sidey: than this, so you

Cris: Yeah, there's no going back from that one. Yeah, That's true.

That's true. I will say the Chinese food, I'm pretty sure it's Chinese food in Old Boy. The, is it Broin? Josh Broin.

Dan: Josh

Reegs: Oh, I think of the original, to be fair, not being a

Dan: Yeah, I

Reegs: have seen the remake though. It was,

Sidey: Spike Lee, isn't it?

Dan: why they would do it

Cris: I've seen the one with Josh Brolin. Yeah. When he. I'm pretty sure it's called Oldboy.

Sidey: yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

Cris: me like I'm an alien, but Alright, okay,

Dan: because there was an original old boy the Japanese one

which

Cris: I've not seen that one.

I know you talked about it all the time, and that's why I was always confused. I did not see that one, to my shame. But I have seen the one with George Brolin, and he I mean, you get I think you know the idea of it and stuff. And he gets Trapped in this room and he gets fed the same food and then he escapes or they let him escape until he shags his daughter and then he just runs back.

But on his mission to find where he was kept, he goes and tries all these different takeaways.

Reegs: Does he have to eat an octopus?

Cris: Yes. And,

Sidey: I

Cris: and I think he eats his daughter as well

Reegs: I don't

Cris: bit strange, but yeah, that's how the movie is and that's the one I've seen, but there is, he gets delivered basically the same food every day and I think in the original it might be the same.

Reegs: Mm. Yeah. I don't know. Yeah, yeah it is. I can

Cris: Okay, so both of them then, I can nominate both of them instead of just

Reegs: one.

Sidey: Brilliant. I've got another Bicycle Courier dude. It's the chap in Spaced. Do you remember him? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Who, everything he hears.

becomes like a like a rave tune. He's just constantly off his face. I was like that. I was watching actually on Pegg talking about how he met Edgar Wright and Nick Frost. That was quite good, because I really like that show. And then slightly more, I guess, esoteric one would be got a shoehorn Twin Peaks in there.

There's a message delivered with each victim and Laura Palmer and one at Pulaski, they have a letter. Put under their fingernail Just a single letter and then later on maddie has it as well. It's bob's way of leaving his message fucking twisted Yeah, it's good as well

Cris: Okay.

Reegs: You talked about pizza delivery. I saw two nerds arguing about whether the first ever pizza delivered in a movie was in E. T. or in the movie that we watched last week, Fast Times at Ridgemont High. That's what they were arguing about. I don't know whether any of that's true, but come up with one earlier than that.

But there is a lot of pizza delivering that goes on in movies. Baby Driver does it. We

Cris: Yeah, I had that

Dan: I had that one, yeah.

Reegs: Spider Man 2, I think the whole intro sequence has a bit where he has to use his Spider Man skills. Because, what is it? It's Joe's Pizza. He's got a 29 minute delivery guarantee.

It's 8 large deep dish pizzas they order. I think this is a conspiracy from Big Pizza. Because You can't make a large deep dish and and deliver

in New

York in

Dan: You

Sidey: can go and eat shit.

Reegs: Yeah, I think so. Yeah. Stuffed crust though?

Sidey: No man.

Dan: I don't mind a stuffed crust.

Cris: no

Dan: I could do it with garlic, cheese and all Could you do that, Reeks?

I

Cris: I am a purist when it comes to

Sidey: Yeah, same.

Dan: I can do it all. Can do

Reegs: But there is a lot of pizza. I know you guys are probably huge fans of the slumber party massacre series. That's an all female

Sidey: Nice. Horny?

Reegs: No, yeah,

maybe a

little bit of horny, low killing thorn in that.

And pizza delivery. You got any more pizza delivery ones, Dan, that you can

Dan: I'm trying to think, we used to have a pizza delivery guy that come to us in Australia. And he used to just Give us, you know, you bring him up and he would deliver more than the pizza.

He would bring everything that you wanted. Like, you know, you get him to drop off at the shops. You go, I'll pick us up some sweets and crisps and everything. And every week we'd have this same guy come around and he just deliver everything.

Cris: Was he ever in a movie? No.

Dan: Probably they probably made a movie of in some point.

But otherwise it's just a sidebar really, you know,

Cris: I do have a movie. Well I think it's a series. Well, no, it's, I don't think it is a series and it's pigeons delivering messages in Shogun a series that I think we all watched and I certainly enjoyed it.

I dunno if there's a second season coming

Sidey: you won't watch it anyway.

Cris: there will be.

Dan: be.

Exactly. We got it in Ghost Dog as well.

That

Cris: And in John Wick, the Lawrence Fishburne has a pigeon kind of

Reegs: Yes. Business.

whatever. He operates in pigeons. Yeah. the pigeon exchange.

Cris: Yeah, a pigeon exchange. So, that, which, they deliver messages.

And, one could argue, that was the first postal service.

In

Dan: I don't know, I heard like a really weird squeak. Did you hear that same

Cris: I think it was that chair. It was

Dan: It was almost talking though, didn't it? It said, Help! or something.

Cris: It must have been a pigeon

Dan: There you

Cris: you know. But yeah. Pigeons the first I dunno, the first

things.

Delivering

Dan: Homing

Sidey: Pigeon Street?

Dan: Pigeon Street, strong. love

Sidey: that's the one that had long distance Clara in

Dan: Yeah.

Sidey: We've just, right, we've just employed someone called Clara and I've said long distance Clara about ten times and no one has got the reference. It's so, so disorienting.

Yeah.

Dan: we should do that for the pod

Sidey: we should. Right. My last one before I nominate then is the Matrix Neo. He receives a courier delivered box and then it's got a phone and as soon as he picks it up, it rings and it's Morpheus, I

Yeah.

Cris: quite good. Yeah.

Reegs: I got a couple more set in the futuristic year of 2021. Johnny mnemonic, the Keanu Reeves that's got him as a pneumonic courier. He takes like memories at the cost of his own, and that's got iced tea and Dolph Lundgren and a cybernetically enhanced telepathic dolphin in it.

28 days later, he was a motorcycle courier in that. And the whole of Futurama is their career.

Sidey: Fry is one that's quite gently frozen, isn't he?

Yeah.

yeah,

Reegs: there's that. So, I've just got my

Dan: Okay, right, I'm all out as well. So, what's your noms, Chris? You start this show on the road.

Cris: well,

I, I'm a bit torn, but there's one I haven't mentioned.

There's a really nice scene, which I, in a movie, which we did for the pod, I think. And I really enjoyed Leon the professional when Matilda delivers the food to, and she hides in the toilet when Gary Oldman comes in. And that's a delivery scene. If that makes

Sidey: yeah

Cris: sense in today's context.

Sidey: It does

Cris: But I, that was one that I wanted to kind of mention, but I will probably still go for Bane in the Dark

Sidey: Okay, I'm going to go for Back to the

Future Part 2,

Reegs: future part. Where

Sidey: where Marty has

a delivery from a courier, and it's the letter from Doc who's been sent to the Wild West telling him what's happened, but not to come.

Dan: him there's a great movie about to start.

Sidey: exactly. And then you get the next movie, like they show you A trailer of it right there. Yeah. Yeah, it's a good one

Reegs: I'll have to change, so my last minute change, I'm gonna go for the Mighty Boosh Cheekbone

Sidey: cheekbone

Reegs: edge it needs to be delivered by ninjas. Otherwise it's out of fashion by the time you've read

Sidey: That's right, yeah

Dan: Well, that Super Size Me was in my mind, the

Reegs: Fast food delivery.

Dan: About the McDonald's being an utter shit. But I'm going

Sidey: Morgan Spallock,

Reegs: yeah.

Dan: he? Oh no.

Sidey: Yeah.

Cris: Something to

do with his diet, probably.

Reegs: Mm.

Sidey: don't think it was.

Dan: have helped, but Coming to America, and McDowell's, instead of McDonald's, Where Eddie Murphy plays A prince, who's,

Cris: a prince, what are you talking

Dan: are you talking about?

Yeah, and he plays one, and He, he goes off to this knock off McDonald's, McDowell's, and serves, and Burgers, and delivers that. Nice,

very There you go. Yeah.

we need more don't we

Sidey: We need at least one. At

Dan: least one

Sidey: Yeah. At

least

Cris: one. So please do tell

Sidey: Yeah.

Cris: So

you can get flavored cider, but it's not recording. another brand. Same thing.

Sidey: just another

Dan: wow. Foreign

Cris: Yes. Spanish language. Yeah.

Well mixed with a little bit of and,

Sidey: you

Reegs: Was European.

distinctly European Spanish flavor. Yes.

Sidey: Yeah, it's the courier of 2024. This very year.

Reegs: Yeah. Not the

Sidey: there's a lot.

Dan: No,

Sidey: one. No, not that one.

Dan: None of us watched the wrong one did we? No. Who watched the right

Reegs: We all watched the

Cris: Yeah, I did write that it's Spanish

just

Dan: got the, that's what gave it away.

Sidey: I have seen the Benedict coming. Batch one.

Dan: I liked it.

Cris: you? I didn't, I didn't see that one.

Sidey: Yeah. Sorry. But this one is true events. But a fictionalized Story taking place

Cris: Yes. It, it is loosely ba stone True events.

Reegs: And well it is should we go

Sidey: yeah.

Cris: Should we? Yeah, we

Dan: Let, let's,

Reegs: Starts in media res I think in the middle of things.

We get like this Cool, light, saturate Madrid Skyliner, is it? I think, and I really enjoyed some of the look of this film in that respect. And then we get our titular courier, Ivan Marquez, emerging from the back of a shipping container just filled with 1. 55 billion euros of cash money.

Sidey: I get 3

percent of that.

Reegs: Narrating, yeah he's narrating about how this was the high point of his life. He gets 3 percent of that

Sidey: the maths straight away?

Reegs: He tells us later anyway it was 46 and a half billion wasn't it, something

Sidey: Yeah, he does, yeah. Lot of cash and it is cash.

It's pallets million pallet

Reegs: million,

Sidey: Yeah, it's pallets of cash.

Reegs: It's huge, isn't

Sidey: back of a lorry. Yeah,

Reegs: it's ridiculous. And then I think we cut away from him talking about that to him driving a Ferrari and you think he's made it and then you realize, no, he's a valet at a yeah. The car is incredible. I don't know what it was,

a

Sidey: red one.

Yeah

Cris: a red car. A Ferrari.

With a, it's got a horse on it.

Reegs: Yeah.

And he lives with his parents who run like a struggling cafe and his father was once a kind of successful wedding venue owner and restauranteur who borrowed money in the early 90s during Spain's economic boom when there was like the Barcelona Olympics and the Seville Expo there.

And he says it was a year of plenty and my father made the most of it. And we see that life is good for a while. They're living like a mid middle class wealthy lifestyle, and then it just fucking falls apart.

Cris: Yeah, the crisis the economic

Reegs: the crash unemployment's at 25%. The. Economic debt was some in the trillions of pesetas.

And his father is left bankrupt, starting again and kind of raging at the TV about corruption that's occurring and just saying, waiting for it to all happen again.

Dan: Yeah, that's pretty much the scene horrific Start for him.

Yeah, the load of people made some really bad and unjust decisions in Spain at that time meant that Hundreds of thousands of people lost their life savings and this kind of has the influence then I see I suppose seeing his dad grow up this and this life Because he's got higher ambitions

Sidey: his pals talk about maybe getting one of these apartments that are going cheap, and doing it up and selling it on, but they're like, well, we haven't even got the money to fucking buy the thing, you know, we have to borrow, we have to borrow that.

Reegs: Yeah. But he says it's 2001 and he's like, no, don't worry. You know, with they've just transitioned from the Seder to the Euro 'cause they can't even figure out how to pay for dinner and how much it is. And they've lost a load of stuff in the transition of that again. So it's like the next time that they've just been hit with this wave of.

So yeah, you're right. They want a piece for themselves. They want to do a flippy and Ivan's like, don't worry about it. The banks are loaning. It's fine. And I've watched enough movies about this to know when the banks are starting to loan loads of money, it's only a time before everything fucking falls apart again.

And

Cris: And you know, real life is not just watching movies. You know, that in real life, as soon as it's keeps, it's too easy. Then there's going to be a.

Reegs: It's just a time for corruption, isn't it? And I think he gets into that world by it's like a drunk

bureaucrat, isn't

Sidey: at an event, doesn't he? A really fat guy. Yeah, and they say, oh, he's fucked, and they're all, he's gonna, like, get behind the wheel, and he's just like He sort of sees an opportunity, he says to the fellow that I can I can I'll get you home like a taxi sort of thing The guy's like well, I need to be in geneva or wherever brussels in if you get me there He says i'll i'll drive you there for 300 euros and the guy says if you get me there in time for a shower I'll give me 500 So we get this sort of quite cool almost like

Dan: Yeah, seeing where he's speeding through the

Sidey: it through tunnels and the light.

Everything's like, like a stop motion almost. It's like, you know, the, the effect of it's very cool anyway it doesn't quite get him there in time for a shower 'cause the guy only gives him 300. But then he goes back, this guy's gone into this building, hasn't

Reegs: he?

Sidey: Spoken to someone and come out again and, and fucked off.

Dan: Yeah, and

Sidey: get, we, after this, we, we see, wow, he's sort of, he's wise to it, but he goes in there and sort of approaches him and says, look, I don't know what you do here, but I could help you. He's stealing from me that guy. And you're like, is he? And then when it flashes back, we see that when the guy's been out of it and the guy like completely comatose drunk He's searched through the guy's briefcase and it's just full of cash.

He's obviously doing a money laundry run and he takes some of the cash.

Dan: It tastes like fucking wad,

doesn't it?

It

Sidey: Because they're big, big denomination notes and they're just like, you know, fingers the other guy said he's nicking from me and they're like, shit, he fucking is stealing from us. So they're going to get rid of him and get Ivan in to do the the cash run.

Reegs: Yeah.

Dan: And yeah, it falls nicely for him. And he's also the, the connection there is this, this blonde lady.

And

Cris: she's, she's good. She's good.

Sidey: Oh, I was doing a full Vic Reeves here.

Dan: She's she's kind of running the show, she knows the people, she's got connections, and as he moves through this life, and he starts doing more and more deals, because it starts going well, he gets a little bit of money,

Sidey: Well

she says I 10 grand for the first job. Yeah. He, oh, fucking oh, 10 grand. Brilliant. Does that, and when he comes to collect, she says, there's the 10 and I've given you some more. Get yourself some some decent claw. It's all about appearances and all that. And then she sort of takes them out and shows them round and they fuck.

She's

super fucking hot.

Dan: Yeah, she really is, yeah.

Sidey: I was delighted yeah didn't see his dick though

Cris: You weren't delighted about that,

Sidey: That was a bit of a letdown but

Dan: I thought the, yeah, Spanish sort of European feel might have given us a little bit more than you get at home, but,

Reegs: his dealings take him to Paco Francisco Esquemez who's like a real estate mogul and already in, and diamond sort of enabling smuggling in a diamond money laundering operation enabler.

So he's funneling

Cris: Marbella, in Marbella,

Reegs: Marbella funneling huge amounts of cash. And as we see him start to go up the

Cris: the kind of, Which is the same actor that

Sidey: the vault Tossa.

Reegs: Louis Tosser. And

Cris: in this one, he, he looks like a Don. Yeah,

Reegs: Yeah, he

Cris: You know, yeah.

Reegs: It's quite a cool scene. 'cause as we see him rising up through all this stuff and getting loads more money, Spain itself around it is like building up as well.

There's construction happening that you see happen, you know, the boom and bust of like.

Dan: You

get a bit of narrative about that.

Don't

Reegs: a bit of narrative about that, don't

Sidey: Time lapse is the word I was trying to

Reegs: he does go

Cris: he Then

he does go back home and you kind of get to see his relationship with his family and and with his pals when he gets back into Vallecas, which for I I quite relate quite a lot with this movie because it reminds me so much of home and and Some of my pals at home and how life really was back home as well.

It, Bucharest, the cities, it looks really similar to Madrid, the suburbs and the, just not the city center in whatever. And, and, you know, he goes back kind of back home and he pays the bill. He's, you know, You know, like, Oh yeah. Oh, what have you been doing? Oh, you got this car, you got this gold watch, you know, all that stuff.

And he's like, Oh yeah, things have been doing well, I'm doing this or whatever. And then his pals are doing well because they're doing exactly what the idea was. They're buying apartments, doing them up and,

Dan: know,

Cris: you know, and it's

Reegs: but all the time, right. It's the real estate mogul, Paco, because it's his stuff that's enabling all that as well. His shoddy, shitty deals that are going down with all the construction that was never intended to be finished or, and it, they just boom, like fun, like money laundering through it all.

It's so,

Cris: So it kind of

Reegs: it's a house of cards so you can see how it's all like, yeah. Waiting to go.

Sidey: Yeah, he

Cris: And he meets the, what's his face, the Moroccan guy at the security guy. Yeah. Yannick.

Reegs: Yannick, when we're introduced to him, right? He, this is another one of Ivan's like, Oh, spying an opportunity. Cause he sees some guy, some local diplomat or something or a government

Cris: Yeah. Yeah.

Reegs: He's seen him at a few events and he sees that he's cheating on his missus. So he decides to kind of follow him.

And we see Yannick introduced to like, I thought I was, at first I was like that extra is like just looking at the camera and stuff. Like, why is he

Dan: at first I was like, that extra is like, just looking

Reegs: I mean, you're

Dan: the camera and stuff, like, why is he I don't know. I don't know. And it turns out he's a bigger part to play because he

Sidey: Well, he fills them in, doesn't

Dan: he?

fills him in

Sidey: battles them first and then they sort of connect. And

Reegs: they sort of connect.

Sidey: What's his face? Ivan's like, I'm going to put this camera in this room. I need to watch this guy. I've got some doubt on him. And then when you see the video, it's fucking brilliant. He's got a prostitute just to get a

Dan: fucking brilliant. He's

Reegs: got a prostitute just to

Sidey: joking around.

Dan: yeah. They're sat in a car, aren't they, sort of,

Sidey: looking at

Dan: and laughing. And then come to an agreement that he could They could do each other a favor, become partners. He was pretty handy in fighting and

Sidey: He's the muscle. isn't

Dan: of muscle. And he kept on saying I wasn't the sharp, sharpest kid at school.

But he seems to have a good head for numbers and and a deal. And he's,

Reegs: says he has a lot of ideas, not all of them are good, but he's just got a lot of

Sidey: he's the king of the party. And

Dan: And yeah, this starts this, this scene of and montage really, of just them fucking different people together in the same

Sidey: room.

Dan: And well,

Sidey: Which is, he's obviously a bit embarrassed about and they're like, we're just going to fucking send it to your missus.

Dan: Well, first he tries to.

Sidey: And so, yeah, he tries to

Dan: he tries to go to the police about this. And he goes, come on, mother, you ain't calling the

Cris: the police about that.

Reegs: and

Dan: and this guy, then

Sidey: wants an introduction.

Dan: he flips like a fucker, though, doesn't he? He's just he must enjoy thinking, I'm going to make some money at this as well, because he really ends up.

Introducing them. It is all done under duress, of course, but he, he does seem to

Cris: We also see from his meetings with Escamez Escamez's daughter.

Yeah. Which is

very, very

Sidey: Absolute honey trap.

Reegs: Yeah.

Cris: And also very high maintenance by the looks of

Reegs: She's like dating footballers and stuff, isn't

Cris: Yeah, but she is very pretty.

attractive

Sidey: So the, the problem that Ivan's got is that he's got. too big for his boots. And he's been making a load of money, but he also is like, well, why should I work for those guys when I could just get these clients myself?

I

Reegs: I could

Sidey: just

get introduced to these guys and just fucking do it. So he's been told not to fucking do that. But he's like, well, no and once he's met yannick, they're getting charged up on all sorts of stuff So they're really fucking bullish. Felt a little bit like goodfellas Yeah with the helicopter

Dan: Well, they're on the coke and everything,

Sidey: Yeah, so he's he's really bullish about it all and they do they do get battered and it goes straight back to tosser

Reegs: Paco.

Cris: Yeah,

Sidey: And and says listen, no, we're actually not going to fuck off.

We'll cut you in Mr.

Cris: And can I get my car back? Of

Sidey: He's called Mr. 3%, isn't it? We're gonna do all this deals, but we'll, we'll kick some money back to you. And he is like, okay, well played. You know, he sort of begrudgingly

Reegs: okay, well played. You know, he sort of begrudgingly

Cris: Yeah, it's like, stay away from my daughter.

Sidey: So,

Reegs: away from my daughter.

Sidey: Yeah. So,

Reegs: yeah.

Dan: Yeah, but it is made as part of the deal as he's shaking hands and stay away from my daughter

Okay, so, you're thinking that's never gonna

happen.

Sidey: It's, just ticking time on that one, isn't

Dan: Yeah and he he's increasingly getting more money now and deals He has a scene back at home at christmas time or thanksgiving where he's giving gifts to his his mom and his dad, but Dad's knows the money's dirty and has no respect for it.

Mum just wants to ensure that he keeps coming around the house and says she likes hers, but it's not a happy house.

Reegs: He's also warned, I think about this point by the inspector, isn't he?

He's pulled in and they're kind of like, this is your chance now to kind of

Sidey: if you flip on these guys, you'll be okay.

Otherwise, you're doing serious fucking time. Yeah. Yeah. He is like, he's getting more successful, but he's doing more and more drugs. He's just

Cris: a lot and, and then he,

Sidey: can't see the writing on the wall.

Cris: but then

Reegs: then we fast I think is

Cris: but he does flip on Es because he takes Leticia

Reegs: But we yeah, we said we have like a crap so we go it goes on from 2001 to 2006

like to

2006 2007 We're coming into that because everything is about to fucking crash. So, yeah, he He is getting it on with eskimos, but that's now isn't it? Because he yeah. Yeah,

Cris: because then he's Yannick keeps telling him don't, don't push it with his daughter. Don't push it with his daughter. And then he makes, he almost makes a deal with the police in terms of, well,

Reegs: He's also got a really terrible moustache at this point.

Sidey: I understand

Cris: I don't know what's going on with

Dan: looked fake. I just wondered

Cris: probably was

Reegs: like one of those wispy ones. Like a little working student, student kid. You know,

Sidey: Yeah, it does

Cris: I dunno. But he, he takes Leticia on a holiday and he's

Sidey: like, well That's a front though, isn't it?

He takes her away and says they're going to explore Europe while all the shit is kicking off back home.

Reegs: And knows that it's going to put his nose out of joint,

Sidey: he has her phone and knows that it's going to put his nose out joint, but at least it will give him the alibi to be out of the country. We're going to, and it's always, was your dad mad? It's like, yeah, he was pretty pissed off, but you know, I'm a grown up. I can do what I want. And he's buying her gift after gift to have sex on a private jet.

It's pretty horny. But. You know the good times have to come to an end at some point

Reegs: They do, and they come to an end with the, the money running out.

With the, with the, the

Cris: because the, the, the blonde lady, the really sexy older lady, I can't remember her name, but she, she, Marie keeps warning him all the time to just stay low. We can't do these business

Sidey: all the, all the schemes get stopped. It's they using, you know, Swiss bank accounts and moving diamonds and then selling them and moving the cash around that. But all of the schemes stop and no one would do it. And then he twigs, he gets, he watches some he's out for dinner at home in a Chinese restaurant and

Cris: And he sees the,

Sidey: some gang guys come in and rough up the owner and take some money.

And straight away, like, oh, here we go.

Reegs: Yeah, because the economic backdrop to this is that they Spain has lost absolutely everything has had to be bailed out.

So massive unemployment again, borrowing loads of money again, like and there's a small number of people have gone down taking like a little bit of but the true scale will come out a little bit later, won't it?

Sidey: So he does, he follows these, like, can we say they're triads? I don't really know, but that sort of vibe. And one of them just pulls the baseball bat, comes up and smashes his car up and says, don't fucking follow us the next time. You

Cris: You're gonna be in

Sidey: going to break your bones. It won't be the car. It'll be you.

But he doesn't, he just follows them and just watches them and approaches the main man. It's like, you know, I've got proposition for you. I can, cause they're, they're having trouble. Yeah. Getting their cash out. Yeah, and he's got a potential solution for that which is where this is this money level is just really going to scale up Because they're we're now into the billions.

Dan: that's it, this is where this big deal that kicked us all off is

Cris: He does meet someone that tells him about the Chinese, who

Sidey: It's it's maybe it's it's the guy that he got the video on tells him about it in

Cris: Yes, yeah, he's like, oh that guy, well you need to speak to Tony the Dragon or whatever

Reegs: but while he was living it up large, will he, that's when he tells him.

'cause he is like, oh, remember me, I've got kids in school and all

Sidey: Yeah. you

know? Yeah. That's it. Yeah.

So, the, the loophole that they've been using is now been shut, but Ivan's got a plan how we can make this work. So that all comes together nicely. But the net is closing at the same time.

Cris: Yeah. Because Mr. Police agent is,

Sidey: He

Cris: He knows who he wants and what the deal is.

Reegs: Well and also he's gone and offered to Maria's, we'll find out a deal that freedom or love.

Cris: Yeah.

Reegs: She chose freedom. so she will sell him out. right?

Oh, the software engineers?

Yeah. Yeah.

Sidey: He puts out all the bank accounts. He takes a load of money and does the runner, but also

Cris: they do run but

Sidey: load of information, which implicates everyone else.

And this is where it all goes peaked on for him.

Reegs: I love the fact that it was the IT

Sidey: that it was the

Reegs: Yeah. So

yeah, they run off, all the money's disappearing. And then there's this one, so he guarantees this like one last.

Sidey: isn't it? Yeah.

Cris: And he just says, well, listen, I'll go with the money as a show of good faith because he's about to get killed or

Sidey: Probably, yeah, yeah, yeah.

He's there, they've got hoods over their head. They take them,

Cris: They're like, well, listen, you're going to die. And he's like, no, wait, I have, I have a last proposition as a sign of good faith. You're going to kill me anyway. If I, I'll do this and I'll transfer the money with me and I'll, I'll be in the same

Dan: I'll take the risk. Yeah.

Cris: And he, then we go back to the beginning.

in the container and he has a room in the container where he travels on a boat.

Shanghai,

Hong Kong, Yeah. Sorry. Hong Kong. Yeah.

And then

that goes and then it goes back to, I think it's a New Year's Eve party and it's like fireworks and

it

looks really cool to be fair. I mean, the parties in this movie are good.

Reegs: look like fun

Cris: Yeah. And then there's the helicopter with a light straight on him like a

Sidey: Yeah. Games up.

Cris: Yeah. And then he gets arrested

Reegs: finally taken in. And that's when you find out he's telling this story to a reporter, in jail. And so yeah, he's extradited back. And he, we see on TV, a load of stuff about how Yao Ming, I think the guy's name was he's arrested and a load of other people in the corruption thing, 9 billion

Sidey: Yeah, we get a sort of newsreel and the

Cris: figures,

Sidey: the figures of the real figures of what happened and it's fucking mind blowing.

Yeah.

Reegs: Yeah, I mean, Spain's economic bailout from the euro was a hundred billion that they had. But it's the 63 billion in this period and 9 billion that they knew was from this 120 individuals.

Sidey: I mean, we've all like, you stolen a Mars bar or something from the corner shop or whatever, but the levels of just like corruption and

Reegs: Well, that's at the

Cris: With the officials

Reegs: literally how it ends is him talking about how money is a virus and he basically looks into the camera saying, you know, it's, he, he would, it is too late. Like, I'll, I'll do it again. You know, like, I'll have, I'll have more.

Sidey: Yeah, it's terminal.

Reegs: I, you know, it's like. And we're all addicted to it and I've watched enough of these movies now about how we're getting fucking screwed over time and time again by like a small band of dickheads.

fucking

Cris: put in,

Reegs: you know, trust these guys, but it's just, you know, making shit happen and everything collapses and people, you know, really

Sidey: the pieces, yeah.

Cris: I told you, I, the main reason why I recommended this movie, why I put it up because I watched it and I thought this is good. It's also a bit out there because it's Spanish and it's not really famous actors and whatever.

But for me, it, it reminds me so much of home because of the corruption because of the, the way it's filmed. I've, Obviously not being a career or career or delivered money or whatever, but I know enough people in dodgy situations that made a lot of money with

Just,

Circumstances and opportunities and they just took it and took a risk and some of them are still free.

Some of them not so, but I really, I really like this film and that's why I thought I'll put it up for the pod, especially because it's not just another American movie or and it's it is based on real events and real theft, I guess, from the corrupt officials. Obviously, it's a fake story, but the figures are there and things actually happened in a country that's not too far.

We've all been to Spain. We've all been on holiday and stuff. I like Madrid as well. I've been to Madrid and it's, I quite like it as a city as well. It's a good night out, great football teams and stuff. So

Sidey: I thought it looked really nice. Yeah some of the stuff they did was really good.

I really enjoyed ann marie. She was lovely

The film was pretty good. There was you know, I would describe it as kind of like bit of a popcorn movie. You don't have to think too much. You just put it on and it was dead short. It was like an hour and a half. I enjoyed it enough far better than the vault that we watched.

And then, but then when you see the stuff at the end with the, just the scale of it of, you know, what the fucking general public had to just pick up the pieces of, it's just fucking staggering. And definitely gives it a bit more gravitas. So Strongly recommend for me.

Dan: gravitas, so it's not like that for me. pay message you know, get rich quick hedonistic lifestyle followed by downfall. I mean, we've seen it all before in, in films. I like the fact that it was done with money and not drugs, you know, that he was shifting around these, this other kind of, you know, illegal, although it's legal, illegal in, in the sense you just can't have a lot of it.

I don't know why. I guess they just want to know where everything's from all the time, this digital world, you know, as we, as we get rid of cash

People will be questioned, you know, more and more over probably even smaller amounts. It's I know it's an interesting film. I liked it again, how it looked.

I thought it looked well, and I didn't. I thought he did OK. This actor. I quite liked him as well.

Sidey: Yeah, he was all right Bad tash

Dan: Yeah,

the Tash lost a little bit, but yeah, it wasn't, you know. the message, crime doesn't pay. It was, it was okay. I enjoyed it. You know, it was, you say it was quick. It was it was enough pace about it for

Sidey: quite a fair bit of titillation

Dan: little bit of titillation.

Reegs: It was very exposition heavy and a little bit formulaic. I did like the aesthetic, like you said. But apart from Annemarie, there wasn't a lot to write home about performance wise in the movie.

The thing that made it like interesting was just having it.

With that backdrop of that specific situation and watching how people, you know, over that period made loads of money and lost it and how, you know.

Sidey: Some good party inspiration for when we go away next year. Definitely.

Cris: Yeah

Dan: Yeah

Reegs: guys having sex in the same room as each other.

Is that With

Sidey: with other guys or

Reegs: think it was like

Cris: movie it was just with other women, I don't know what

Reegs: thing that,

Dan: all kind of like high five in and

Reegs: Like, oh,

Dan: yeah, yeah. That's a hundred percent.

Cris: really. It actually is.

I'm not gonna lie, it

1. Yeah, it's

Dan: But you know, it does give you Kind of notes on money laundering,

Sidey: If you want to know how to do it, yeah.

Dan: Diamonds are, are useful and, and all the rest

Sidey: Why did the bribery training at work and it didn't tell you at all how to get away with bribery? It's really disappointing.

Dan: I've

Reegs: just

done that as well. God, it seems to happen all the time.

Dan: Yeah.

Sidey: Strongly recommend.

though.

Reegs: recommend.

Dan: Yeah. I would give it a b plus.

Sidey: Not Spanish this one,

Cris: no not at all

Sidey: it's called Blade

Reegs: of

Sidey: the Immortal. Yes. It's, I think, no, because we, hmm, it's a manga style thing, right? Yeah.

I was

going to say it's the first one, but we did thingy, the and I think we did Castlevania, but I don't know if that's true to say that that's manga.

If

Reegs: Yeah, it certainly had a manga vibe to it,

Dan: Yeah,

Sidey: So we have sort of touched on this before, but this, we, we went into episode

Dan: Yeah, we're right in, right in massacre. The Yeah.

Sidey: i'm not going to play the theme tune because i don't know if we'll be able to actually even find it but it's fucking

Reegs: it's strange, yeah.

Cris: Yeah, I,

couldn't. I mean, obviously once you say I couldn't pick it up because obviously English is not my first language,

Sidey: It has a vocal track

Cris: but you couldn't tell what it could be

Sidey: it's

Cris: or it could be an

Reegs: thought he was singing it in English and other times Japanese. I wasn't

Sidey: The tongue wobbler

Reegs: Yeah.

Sidey: Lot.

Dan: like

Cris: could be just like a simulation of how English language Because we're

Reegs: Yeah.

Sidey: But worth, worth listening to for sure. And then because we're 19 episodes in, there's a whole load of backstory that we don't know, but something, something, something about killing

Dan: Why did

Reegs: do you Right.

Dan: why did we choose 19?

Sidey: Because there's a load of killing in it.

Dan: in it. Why? In

Cris: there's a load of killing in it. Which was in theme a little bit with a career, a career. And like, I thought, okay, that would kind of be a little bit similar.

And then I left it too late.

Sidey: Pigeon street would have been the one wouldn't it?

Dan: Yeah. Yeah,

Cris: Maybe, but I didn't know. I don't even know what that is. So, so I just kind of panicked and I thought, right, Amazon prime. Something, cartoons, under 25 minutes, it has to be something for kids. I made a mistake because obviously this, you wouldn't show it to kids.

Sidey: No, it's a 15. Yeah,

Reegs: No,

that's okay. We've, we've reviewed that

Dan: Kids are 15.

Reegs: We reviewed No,

Cris: but, you know, you, you wouldn't have your daughters watching this.

This is, you know, swordsmen

and, you know, and when I, when I looked through the episodes.

Sidey: Baku the Grappler, Baku

Reegs: you know, Ok, so,

Cris: so so the idea for me when I looked at through the episodes and I was like, well, I'm going to put the first one because it's,

Dan: too obvious.

Cris: one is too obvious.

And then I thought, well, which name of the episode I was, I was hoping for a, for, for a name that says delivery or

Dan: Paul

Cris: similar

to that. I couldn't find one and massacre was the

Sidey: It's the next best thing. So someone and it's immortal.

Reegs: Manji.

Sidey: Manji, and he's immortal because he's killed a hundred people.

Reegs: It's knows that. He's been, he's got an infestation of kesin chu, which is sacred worms that pervade

Sidey: Oh, like RFK. Manji.

Reegs: Yeah, yeah. see how he's eating a hamburger on the No, mustn't

Cris: it.

Reegs: Yeah, so, yeah. He's got these like magic worms that stitch him back together and make him immortal. That's,

Sidey: Right, okay.

Reegs: blade.

Cris: hence the scars. Yeah. Yeah.

Reegs: and I did not know what was going on for a long time in this. There's a bit of hijinks with a pair of young spies who are really shit at being spies and everybody knows they're not spies and then they gradually reveal that they're spies to

Sidey: everybody who

Reegs: that they're not spies.

Dan: Lots of that.

Cris: there's a lot of grunting. Yeah.

Dan: Yeah. Just that.

Reegs: There's a little poisoning subplot, which appears to be metaphorical because right at the end, they'll talk these guys that we'll see go on a kind of 11 minute rampage being the poison needed to help rebuild the body of Japan in whatever

Sidey: right Okay. This is deep

Reegs: there's some

Dan: Yeah,

Shogun stuff, isn't it? This is

Cris: Yeah. Samurais and, you know, Ishido, Ishido is it is in Shogun as well. There's a region where, Ishido region, and you have all these clans and then the lieutenants or the captains of these samurais, they Get picked off by one by one by our heroes

Sidey: He says that he has to kill a thousand

Reegs: Yeah. Yes. To

Sidey: purge.

Reegs: To pay back his souls. He has to kill a thousand men to pay back the a

Sidey: pay back a hundred.

Yeah. And they

Reegs: Yeah. And they have some debates about what that

Sidey: Yeah, I

Reegs: Yeah.

Dan: can see where it could go.

Sidey: Could go. I would say not the most skilled

Dan: Well, they all look the part, but they're, they're really

Sidey: weapons, but they don't seem to ever actually

Cris: also the aura of these guys. One of them has his top off and he is ripped. He's got a mask on, but he is

Sidey: He was buff, yeah. They weren't, I think they're all buff, but they're just quick, they're just quicker than the other guys.

Reegs: They, they do an assault on this guy called HBO's Stronghold, and it lasts for a good 10 minutes. And it, it is really inventive, isn't it? And it escalates up through, like, at first you just see like kills happening off camera and splashes of blood and eventually limbs and heads are flying everywhere.

Sidey: Not just a decapitation, but maybe like half of the head is cut off, that's

Dan: the first one you just saw a bit of blood on the door, didn't you?

Kind

of have

Sidey: It got out of hand, yeah, it did,

Dan: in half

Sidey: really escalated. And

Dan: all kinds of

Reegs: It's all kinds of hijinks and, you know, sort of superhuman feats. I think my favorite moment in all of it is not even a death.

It's when what the guy with the mask on leaps up to the top of like where the arrows are being fired from and just like maybe 20 guys all turn to look at him

Cris: yeah, the head,

Reegs: it cuts to black.

Sidey: you know, they're all dead.

Yeah. Yeah.

Reegs: yeah, it has quite a nice aesthetic. This as well, I think must be fairly faithful to the manga I think it's based on because

Sidey: looks beautiful.

Yeah, yeah, it was it was super violent and I mean, this is not even like the series finale, so who knows what happens in the next

Cris: There's, I think, another three episodes though, so it's not, it's not too far away from the

Sidey: There's a pal of mine at work who's super into all this stuff, so I'll have to quiz him about it and see if this one's on his radar. I don't know how he finds the time

Dan: Older kids might like this, you know,

Sidey: Well, you'd need to be an older kid to watch this. It's, you know,

Cris: Yeah. You can't be eight and watch this. This is a bit heavy.

Dan: No, you need double figures.

Sidey: Yeah. At

Reegs: double figures. Definitely

Dan: It's a double figure

Sidey: But I would, I would watch more of this.

Dan: Oh, definitely for myself.

Sidey: I would, I just, I don't wanna fall down like a manga rabbit hole. That's like, restrain

Cris: this.

Yeah. But would you, would you really be into all that?

Sidey: I could potentially. Yeah.

Dan: I, what I like about these kind of things, you said, you know, the inventiveness of the attack scenes and how they, you can't, you know, do it all through, this wonderful animation. And because it looks kind of real, as you say, this guy is so buff and you know, they draw so well, it's, it really is for adults more really than kids, you know, but

it can draw you in.

I can watch seasons and certainly the films. We haven't done many in No, we shouldn't

Sidey: No, I was thinking about maybe Akira or something like that would be worth talking about.

Dan: the Shell. Because

Reegs: could do the Scarlet

Sidey: do We could do the Scarlett Johansson version.

Yeah. Anyway, this, I would say, is a strong recommend.

Dan: strong

recommendation.

Cris: I, liked it. I, I, obviously I told you, I just, I've never seen it before. I just recommended it on the base of, it was too late, and I thought, I'll put something at least that's going to be violent, so hopefully this is going to be good.

And then, I quite liked it, from what I've seen.

Dan: this and Ryan's World, you go for this, for you kids.

Sidey: if if we could Mash up the two of ryan's family like brutally massacred

Cris: Yes.

Dan: There we go.

Reegs: Ooh,

Sidey: Oh, stuff happening next

Reegs: it is. It'll

Sidey: say so I'm not gonna say what it is, but there will be content. Yeah. And that's exciting, isn't it?

Dan: That is exciting we'll let you we'll stick to the socials and that'll go out on there when it happens

Reegs: Yeah

Sidey: won't, because all that goes out on socials is just the episodes. There will be a new link thing if anyone's interested in that.

Reegs: It's blue sky, just people go to Blue Sky.

Is that

Sidey: what is it?

Reegs: It's like another, it's like a really complicated Twitter.

Sidey: oh. Yeah, because, where did everyone move to?

Reegs: own servers and

Sidey: there was another one that everyone was moving to when Musk took over. Wasn't there a I think it's Telegram, was it?

Or something else? I don't know. Anyway, who cares

Reegs: PEs?

Sidey: Well, all of all of the internet is for Pedos.

Cris: Well, no, the Telegram is where people pay to listen to your show

Sidey: Oh, I'll tell you what, I have got into Substack.

yeah.

I'm into that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's good. Stop

Dan: Substack?

Sidey: Look it up.

Anyway, all that remains is to say sidey signing out.

Cris: lot of a day.

Dan: Dan's gone.

Reegs: I'm last!

Sidey: Yeah. That's what he felt.

Reegs: that.