The Greatest Beer Run Ever & Little Lunch

The Greatest Beer Run Ever

Reegs: Welcome to Bad Dads Film Review, the podcast where a bunch of middle aged men share their opinions, insights and insults while occasionally discussing films, kids TV and stuff we watched in our childhood. Nothing is sacred, nothing is off limits, and nothing is funny.

Sidey: be

Reegs: just to be absolutely clear about this, we're not wishing you a happy new year, even if you are a regular listener, because it will be the middle of January by the time this episode goes out, which is way outside the statute of limitations, I think, on when it's acceptable to Yeah, so we're not doing that.

So,

Sidey: If you were on Discord, you would have already been wished that. Earlier

Reegs: Multiple times. Yeah.

Sidey: Us on there. Join

Reegs: us on Discord, that's the place to be,

Sidey: We should also do a Bad Dad Letterboxd, I think.

Reegs: I've actually got one.

Sidey: one, But we should do a Bad Dad one, Oh, have you? Yeah. Oh, okay.

We should be more

Reegs: there and I rated a bunch of movies that you lot would all disagree with.

Yeah, so Patterson, I think I gave four four stars, four and a half stars too. and

Sidey: down with that just to

Reegs: Yeah.

So, dispensing with those kind of greetings, let's instead take a look at this week's content, which starts with the Top five Lunches where we'll reveal our favorite ways to clog our arteries and shorten our lives, and then after that we'll take on Apple TV's The Greatest Beer Run Ever, starring Zac Efron and Russell Crowe.

In a dramedy based on the true story of a Vietnam War veteran who smuggled beer to his friends on the front line. And who knows, maybe we'll discover an at times surprisingly nuanced and thoughtful movie underneath that glib, frat boy style comedy premise and title. And finally, we'll wrap things up with a look at Little Lunch, an Australian mockumentary series following the hilarious antics of a group of kids during their 15 minute breaks.

Sidey: break.

All

Reegs: All that's left to do is introduce the dads. We've got Chris, the most handsome and charming of the group. He's so good looking he makes the rest of us look like extras from The Hills Have Eyes. We've also got former professional footballer turned animal botherer Dan, who remembers when cinema tickets cost a shilling and you could get a bag of popcorn and a handjob for a

Dan: How's your washboard?

Reegs: And we've got Sidey. Sidey, you're of course using the new year to launch your new podcast, aren't you? Fisting the night away, the history of puppetry.

Sidey: tell

Reegs: tell us a little bit about that.

Sidey: that. You've got the right gist with

the fisting, bit,

yeah. yeah. Okay.

tune

in.

Reegs: And then there's me re Hello?

Dan: hello.

Cris: Hi.

Reegs: Yeah, so, what's anyone been watching?

Sidey: Oh, we've been binge watching an Apple TV Plus Gold Platinum thing called Invasion.

Reegs: Okay. How many seasons into that? are

Sidey: there are two seasons and we've got

the last one of Season two left to go. They're like hour long episodes. It lulls you in by saying that Sam Neill's in

it.

and spoiler alert, he

dies in

the very first episode.

Oh.

Dan: Huh. And he doesn't come back

Sidey: Not yet, unless he comes back at the very end of Season 2, but I haven't seen him yet. So it's a largely unknown cast. and it's Really, really bleak. Okay. Which I'm quite enjoying, yeah, it's good.

Dan: good. It's held your

Sidey: Yeah, yeah. Yeah,

Dan: okay. Do

Reegs: you got a third season of that coming out then?

Sidey: No, I think we're gonna do Monarch next and then Slow Horses.

But

I, last night I started watching

Robocop.

The new one. It's not that new, it's 2014 or

Reegs: I

keep thinking I'm going to do it for

Sidey: the box. I

couldn't even be bothered to get to the bit where it becomes robocops that bad.

Reegs: Hmm.

Well, that's maybe

Dan: that's just tempting Reegs

Sidey: the only way I would.

Reegs: is a bit,

Sidey: the only way I will finish it is if you nominate it. 'cause I turn it off, it garbage.

Reegs: I keep thinking about doing it back to back, I love the original one so much, and I would keep thinking about doing it back to back, so no, obviously it's nowhere near as good, but it might have interesting things to say as well when I

Sidey: I think it was trying to but i Dan

Dan: There's slow horses. You mentioned there. I have

Sidey: right,

Dan: Three seasons pretty smart actually as well pretty quickly. And because it was fantastic. It was Yeah, really, really, yeah, really hits the mark. Good storytelling great characters fantastic acting like Olman's, yeah, he'll win something for that because he was fantastic in it.

I also watched Luther, which

Sidey: I've only ever watched the

season 1

Dan: Yeah, well, I watched that and I watched the film actually first. There's a

Cris: Yeah, I watched the film as well, I've seen it

Dan: So I watched the film and I thought that was okay actually and I'll see the programs and so I watched season 1 episode 1 Which is this serial killer? Lady who kills her she's like so clever.

She she can't Be caught and they've got no evidence and she starts threatening his, his wife then, and he, you know, and it just kind of ends. Yeah. Yeah.

Reegs: did watch the first like maybe season and a half and you get these long overarching plots that go across the whole season, and then these little individual like.

Dan: Yeah,

Sidey: Yeah. Vinegarette.

Dan: you, you, you got, you got the, you got the feeling that she was gonna turn up in later episode, episode. And the other thing I watched was Queen Pins on Netflix, which is the true story of a,

two

women that had a massive coupon scam in America and basically all the coupons, you know, buy one, get one free and things.

They were collecting them. She was super collecting brilliant. All right. Then she wanted to upscale it and she started going. Over to Mexico, where they make the, the prints of the, and just getting,

Reegs: Just getting them

in

Dan: just getting boxes, like, of them, and then boxes became pallets, and suddenly they're making, like, millions and millions of pounds and there's one little, kind of, coupon, Supermarket guy who just won't let it go.

He's like, I don't understand why, you know, he shouldn't have this. It's perfect. I don't understand how this coupon could be so sort of good. And he goes to, he wants the FBI involved and he wants, you know, the postal team. Vince Vaughn comes in as one of the postal officers. And yeah, it was good actually.

Yeah, it was, it was, it was decent that so if you see that on Netflix, don't shy away.

Cris: I've

watched quite a few, quite a few bits because I I've not seen you last week. But between Christmas and New Year's, I didn't work. So I had loads of time, I watched Oppenheimer, which is very

Dan: I've

Cris: I've watched Killers, Flowers of the Killer Moon, or Killers of the Flower Moon.

Which, I thought it wasn't that good. It was quite boring actually. I've watched a movie called Marlow, I think I told you a

Sidey: something

Cris: about that, with Liam Neeson.

Sidey: Philip Marlowe, private dick,

Cris: private dick. It was quite, and with Diane Kruger and

Dan: that good? I've seen that.

Cris: it was, it's slow. As in, he's not You know, he's like an old guy, so he's not going to turn into James Bond, but he's

Dan: sometimes he does, doesn't he? Li

Cris: well, that's all I mean,

Dan: Yeah. But this is a different

Cris: he's not, this is not taken.

He's not, he's not actually involved with the Albanian mafia. He's more. It's kind of 1940s private detective in, in LA, which is fairly, it was all right, it was all right, actually, but it's a bit of a slow burner and I've watched

quite, there's so many of them that I can't really, they all kind of blur into one

but I have to say, and I've watched Saltburn,

Reegs: Soulburn.

Cris: which again was very good.

I thought it was really, really good. Quite strange, obviously, and a bit disturbing at some points, but really good. I thought it was really good. I

Reegs: I could

be into that.

Severance, we have been watching, which is pretty good. We're on episode four, about to start episode four, I think needs to stop being so weird and

Sidey: Right, do something.

Reegs: But yeah. Enjoying it. Andrew?

Dan: yeah.

Reegs: is the guy's

Dan: I started watching that, but it did. It was, I think I was two episodes in and I still felt I should be knowing more than I know now.

Reegs: Don't know why yet, it's a bit Slow but

Dan: I don't, I don't mind. Yeah, a bit of a slow, but you've gotta start getting into it. 'cause they're hour long episodes as well, aren't they? Yeah. Yeah. So

Sidey: He was looking so smooth at the Golden Andrew Scott.

Reegs: Scott Yeah.

Ridiculous,

he's quite a funny looking guy in this, like he's got a weird Chin.

Dan: O Oppenheimer came out as a winner, didn't it?

Sidey: It swept the biggies,

Dan: Yeah.

Cris: I thought it was really good. And the way he's done it, it kind of twists the story on his head.

It's really, yeah, it was really good. It's not much happening, so that's why I can compare it to the Flower Moon, for me. Because I kind of watched them in the same week. And they're both kind of fairly long, very similar

Sidey: It's wild

to think that that's taken nearly a billion dollars.

at the books office for the subject matter. three hour long character study.

physicist.

Reegs: Yeah.

with like multiple boardroom

Sidey: Yeah, but

Cris: Yeah,

but it's, it is, that's, that's what I'm going to say is, it's a lot more interesting.

Sidey: You see his dick?

Reegs: Oppenheim is, yeah,

you do.

Cris: don't know, I didn't really look at him. Do you? Do you? Okay. Everybody's

talking

Reegs: Everybody's talking

about Dick Cian

Murphy. Killian.

Sidey: Cillian.

Cris: Yeah, but again, compared to the Scorsese one, that one is

Sidey: Diggs.

Cris: No dicks.

Loads of Indians. So yeah, so no, yeah.

Reegs: The

dick to Indian content

is

Sidey: It

Cris: It's not, it's not, yeah. I know who's winning on that one.

Reegs: one.

Yeah.

Also what I did want to talk about is you're wearing, is that an actual

Sidey: It's a hoodie, yeah.

Reegs: An Udi? yeah. Right. That and you got an Udi, I got an Udi, like, you know, name brand replacement. Very good as well. The Udi, have you got an Udi?

Sidey: Oh, sorry.

Is it an actual brand? thing? It's, no, it's, this is the next one.

It's just an equivalent, but It's just oversized.

Reegs: blanket.

wearable

Cris: Oh, is that what it's called? I thought I didn't know what you were asking

Reegs: You don't really have it. You just feel like you're in your

Sidey: to wear this to work.

Reegs: all the

Dan: yeah. you don't really have, you just feel like you're in your pajamas all the time, don't you? It's nice. Comfortable, just, yeah.

Reegs: But the actual Udi brand, is like made out of recycled Sherpas or something.

Sidey: It costs

Reegs: a trillion

Sidey: for one, whereas this was

Reegs: could actually get like a really decent coat for that. Or like a bottle of whiskey and a rope.

Sidey: rope.

Yeah. Okay. down with that should we just talk about top fives?

Reegs: Yeah.

Sidey: Let's do it.

Top

five lunches, Dan. Was this brought on by the kids

thing?

Dan: think it was just around lunchtime when we started talking about what we

Sidey: what we

Reegs: I thought that's

what it was!

Dan: yeah, I think it might have been on my

Sidey: have been. Do you want

Dan: bouche? Okay, well, it's a film that Cause,

lunches.

are really

Yeah, in every high school film that you see, so we could, we could choose lots of different examples of that as well.

The one that instantly went in my head with, I didn't even have to look up, was the, the Wivnal lunch when they're in they're in Penrith and in the, in the tea rooms and, and they're, You know, they're horribly drunk in a very stuffy tea room in and, and telling people, you know, we're going to install a fucking jukebox in here and we're multi millionaires and we're going to buy, because we've all had a few drinks at lunchtime sometimes which is, you feel great.

Yeah, it's dangerous. It's lovely, isn't it? You know, when you've had a. a bottle of wine or something and you realize it's still daylight outside and And you're getting a little bit louder. Well, these guys, did all of that and and more

Cris: Sorry,

Dan: no, please please sneeze ahead. And so

Reegs: just looks a little bit like You're giving a nazi salute

when you sneeze,

Cris: I want to get the attention so I don't

Sidey: He's a Lazio

Reegs: know, but the moustache, the moustache part is unnecessary, I

think.

Cris: Sorry, it's not on purpose though, and it's not, I'm not doing that, so you know.

Dan: But there, there's a couple of in wno there, there's a couple of lunch scenes actually. 'cause they go back with Uncle Monty back to the, the house as well. And they're, they're battling with a, a chicken that they have to stick on a brick and one of them's got to kill it.

He goes, well, there's the chicken. One of them's got, oh, I'll kill it and pluck

Reegs: he's battling with more

than just the chicken

Dan: with a little bit more than that. Yeah. So that was my first one to kick his off. I know that's a film we've talked about before anyway, and we've done a review on it.

Sidey: Cool. Chris?

Cris: I, I'm going to be on Dan Point with lunches in prison.

Reegs: Yeah.

Cris: Because I dunno if you have it saved or not. But you, you could name.

I don't know, 10 movies that, there's some bit that happens in prison, and that's part of a lunch, the only one that I

can

Reegs: but in prisons you've got loads of things like plans being set up or people being shiv you know, all that sort of stuff going on in movies, loads of examples.

I wish I had like at least

one.

Cris: one.

The one.

that I have is Law Abiding Citizen. Yeah. When he orders he's like, oh, this, whatever, this restaurant, they deliver Order me the steak at this time. And then he actually has a T bone steak with his cell partner, finishes the steak and stabs the cell partner in the neck with the actual bone. So, so I saw that would be the one to kind of stand out, but there's quite a, there's in Shenzhen, they're in Goodfellas, they're in prison.

That there's a few of them

Reegs: Well, you watched Escape Plan, right? With Stallone. That must have had some

lunchtime

Dan: yeah, yeah, they're,

Cris: that's when they, they meet, I think Schwarzenegger and Stallone at the lunch.

Dan: So, so many lunch trays have been spilt in prison, haven't they?

When they're walking along, they've got their army trays and it's just,

Reegs: they? They're walking along, they've got their army trays and it's just That's right. Yeah. I'm actually reading that

Sidey: dies, yeah. I'm actually re reading that at the moment.

Fucking

Reegs: Yeah.

So yeah, that, that was pretty good. And similar to the prison is the cafeteria at school, like you were talking about.

Dan: Yeah, it is similar.

You've

Reegs: got like the loner, you know, maybe the kid hasn't made friends at school, so he sits by himself. Or, or maybe they've been

Dan: All the jocks sat on one table, all the cheerleaders on another.

Sidey: Romantic version. Or you can have the bitchy. Yeah, Mingo is one where

Reegs: Oh,

you've got like in Napoleon Dynamite,

Sidey: Ah, no, shh!

He

Reegs: you got it? he goes over to see Deb.

Sidey: got that, I've

got it.

Reegs: got like a massive blob of mayo on her lip. And he goes over to sort of chat her up, and he's like, are you drinking 1%? You don't need to, you're not fat. Like She's just eating. She just walks off.

Yeah.

Sidey: I I, I, I have got Napoleon Dymite, but it's part of a Subset about

tater tots that i've got

Reegs: Okay, yeah.

Sidey: So Simpsons, I could think of two separate Tater Tot conversations.

One is a later episode where Lisa tries

to put

Tater Tot on a fork and it flies off and hits another kid in the face and she gets put in detention,

which she then runs like

a prison. and

there's an And there's an earlier one

where Principal Skinner is eating Tater Tots and he says say what you want about the school cafeteria, I still think they're the best tater tots money

can buy.

And

then Napoleon Dynamite,

he's eating

tater tots, and he's

got them in. he's

got like a pantsuit thing, like I don't know, like a play suit And he's got a zip up pocket on the side.

Where he's getting tater tots

out and eating them at his desk. And the kid opposite him is like, give me

some tater tots.

he's like, No. And

he just gets

his foot and fucking squashes them all. And

he has a little freak

out. It's so

weird that film.

but great. So yeah, a

little tater tot subset.

Reegs: those of

Dan: And for those of us that don't know what a tater tot is.

Sidey: Like a really processed ball of potato.

Like

a,

like a tiny little, smaller than a ping pong ball.

That's then deep fried. And so Made

Dan: Right. Okay. They served them in schools. Yeah.

Reegs: yummy.

Um,

also you've got in Spider Man

Sidey: Mary

Reegs: Jane does the slip and

Sidey: the He

catches it all. he

Reegs: catches it and he actually. Did it. No, he actually did. Honestly, he did. It took him 156 takes. Honestly. Honestly, this is true. I thought everybody knew this. I wasn't going to bring it up. Yeah, no. He actually did it. It took him 156 takes. They put a load of sticky stuff on the board so that when it did do it yeah. So, yeah. They actually did that scene.

So that's why it looked so fucking cool, man. And imagine you've got to like not ruin the shot by going like, oh, fuck it

out.

Sidey: up.

Reegs: So yeah.

Dan: Has he come back round to me?

Well, Platform. A movie that we watched not so, so long ago. And Although it wasn't everybody's lunch, It was a, it was a pretty weird one. It would have been somebody's dinner, Or somebody's But as the, the platform of rich foods Drops from floor one down to, Like, what was it?

It went down to

Reegs: down

Dan: 200 and something.

Reegs: or something.

And the

Dan: And the plot of that film, if you're not familiar with it, was each floor was its own kind of prison cell with a big hole in the middle where this platform would drop down with loads of food and as it got further and further down there was obviously less and less And also, the arseholes on top would often spoil the food for those below.

And then every few days, they would all be knocked out and wake up on a different floor. And that might be higher up, meaning that they would get better food and more options, or lower down, which meant they got fuck all. It was a weird movie. It was really good though. It was one of those movies that it It just kind of sticks with you a little bit afterwards and yeah, the, the thought of enjoying lunch with a load of shit and piss over it was was very real for, for some of them as they looked down this this kind of nightmarish dystopian,

tower

Reegs: Well, yeah, also,

Dan: prison and

Reegs: something, something anti capitalist and all

that as well. Yeah.

Chris?

Cris: I've got the, sorry about my absolute cold, but I just can't control it. There's a scene in Goodfellas. I know I said it earlier when they're in prison, but there's a scene when Ray Liotta's making lunch and he's all coked up

Sidey: up! yes, towards

Cris: towards the end. And then he kind of just

Sidey: got the helicopters,

Cris: Yes, he abandons lunch.

And then he just thinks that he's being chased. And I thought that's pretty good scene in a pretty good movie.

Sidey: Yeah, the one in prison, I don't know if that's dinner where they're

Cris: yes, it's dinner when they cut the garlic and yeah, it's very cool, but I think that's. That's them having dinner in, in the,

Reegs: Well, we're big fans of Colin Farrell. and I know we've all watched his 2005 sex tape a few times.

When he, with Playboy Playmate Nicole. And he famously growled he was going to go down on her for breakfast, lunch and fucking dinner. Which became a meme. Type thing. Shared and memed forever. I remember that in the glory days of the internet. What else did I have? Oh, Naked Lunch. It's Got it right there in the title.

Cronenberg, 1991. It's sort of about an exterminator who likes to get high on his pesticides but he might also be a secret agent and his boss, who's a giant talking beetle gives him the mission of killing his wife. Pretty strange when you've seen that one, right?

Sidey: Yeah.

Reegs: Based on the book, of Burroughs' book, and, you know, I personally would not have invented a sort of insect typewriter hybrid that comes, but he's the genius.

Sidey: know, yeah. I've I've got another Cronenberg one.

Reegs: Yeah. Ex Yeah.

Sidey: It's

Jude Law, when he was bearable,

and he's having lunch

in a

Chinese restaurant,

but he's served a

bowl of Kind of like bones and gelatin and it's like completely

horrendous. But he does eat it and when, what he's left with is various bits of organic material that he

pieces

Reegs: It's the bones.

Sidey: It's a gun. Yeah. It's like a organic bone gun. And he's playing, he's, he's in a kind

of video game and he needs

the gun to be able to complete the game. I saw this at

cinema, it was really fucking crazy.

Dan: Yeah.

Reegs: Without the sort of kung fu and

Sidey: What's, who's the lady in it?

Dan: Thatcher?

Sidey: yes,

that's her. Yeah. yeah, yeah.

She's good in this.

Dan: She's, she's good.

Sidey: Think that

Reegs: she was a Prime Minister, I would

Sidey: would

Dan: she, well, she wasn't in Dumb and Dumber, but Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels was, and they play a couple of stupid characters. At one point,

Sidey: he runs

Dan: the, The, salt shaker behind him for luck, doesn't he? And he hits a guy called

Sidey: a guy called

Reegs: kick

his ass.

Dan: who, who's, who's really angry over this and takes it as an insult.

And they,

Yeah,

and well, they play well, he's actually a hockey legend, isn't he? That guy? Yeah, yeah. He's Cam Neely. He's he's a, he's a hockey legend. But he's like a country bumpkin in this. And as you say, a closeted one, but they do the old trick on him where he goes, look, let me get, it's the smartest thing any of them have ever done, isn't it?

He goes. Let me get you some beers and then he goes over and tells the waitress they're picking up the tab And she kind of just goes are you sure about that that guy? And he he kind of waves it over. Yeah, the beers were over here like, you know, whatever it's geranic and he goes Okay, then And they they head off it was yeah, probably the smartest part of the the film on their behalf

Cris: It's a strudel in in Glorious Bastards. When the girl, I can't remember her name, the blonde French girl, comes to lunch and to meet Goebbels and she gets sat down and then she wants to leave and then Christophe Waltz character just sits her down and she's like, Yeah, we're gonna have a chat here.

And it's just, you can, it's just like really nicely filmed and the tension and it's like, oh, wait for the cream. And I thought that was actually quite, quite

Reegs: What are you

saying, it's more like a high tea maybe? It doesn't count, because it's

Cris: Yeah, it's not, it's not

Reegs: Well, i've got i've got a brunch.

So I don't know whether

Cris: it does count as, I think it looks like it's around lunchtime.

So, so I thought,

Reegs: yeah, I'd allow it, I'd

allow

it.

Cris: thank you.

Reegs: can I, can I have a brunch? There's one in Justice League, that's the race between Superman and Flash at the end. The winner buys brunch, or whatever, the loser buys brunch.

You're not going to have top five brunches I wouldn't

Cris: No, definitely not.

Reegs: definitely not. What else? Colin no, no. Falling Down?

Was, that

Sidey: versus lunch. it was.

Reegs: Yeah, it was.

Dan: Yeah, it was a minute too late, wasn't he? Yeah.

Sidey: to order from the lunch

menu.

Dan: It's like Yeah,

Reegs: sent him over the edge.

Dan: just,

Reegs: Stealing lunch money is something that they do in particularly in American dramas. a lot again, can't think of any,

but

Cris: used to do that in real life.

steal

Reegs: lunch

Dan: Or get it stolen.

Reegs: It's

like

Cris: No, I never got it stolen because I never had any money. Right. So I, the only way was to actually steal

Dan: the only way I, whenever I haven't got any money, it's the only way

Sidey: I have become a bit of a kleptomaniac

Reegs: What have you started stealing?

Sidey: from a large supermarket chain. I always steal something.

Dan: good.

Sidey: flaw in their system, and I frequently,

Reegs: Exploit it.

Dan: been known to acquire glasses on a drunken night out. But other than that, I, I try to keep my hands to myself.

Sidey: I'll

Dan: No,

Sidey: to you a

Dan: rattle fewer couple.

Sidey: Our second ever review was Film Chef,

and that is a food

truck, which generally, they were serving seem to be around lunchtime, and that was recently in the news because the real life they have now that Real Life film truck is in Vegas at the

it's cool. an entire

series

on BBC that moved to the Sky was the trip where they, constantly go out eating.

I think the first series was all lunches. We talk about it a lot into it anymore.

Dan: Well, you've got the famous scene in Harry Met Sally, where Meg Ryan has this kind of orgasm reaction in the diner

as she's talking to Harry and saying how easy it is to fake orgasms now.

And then you get Rob Reiner's mum with the kind of classic line of I love whatever she's having. But yeah

Sidey: could never

get on with Billy Crystal.

I

just

Dan: Oh, I really like him you know, city slickers I yeah, I I want to Don't want to kill him. There's a Christmas story Christmas lunch. I know it's another one that you like The dog ravages all the food for Christmas lunch and they have to go to the Chinese restaurant for dinner There's actually another one.

I was so tempted to

I'll wait till summer before I you know, elect it.

Reegs: There's a sequel,

Dan: it again. There's a sequel where he's He's grown up and it's the same actor Ralphie, but he's now the dad, you know, so I've,

I bet it is and I hope one day we can all settle down and watch that together.

There's Groundhog Day as well, where he keeps having the same kind of lunch and he's learning from people about, you know, their, their lives when it comes to it and you realize a few scenes later when he's trying to speak to the lady in it, which I forget her name Andy McDowell. And he says, well, you know, she's got a sister and, you know, he's got a brother over there and they've done all this.

So he, he's got all their background stories for, for everybody to prove that he's, he's lived this same day over and over and over again, but it's in the diner around lunchtime.

Sidey: Cool. Right.

Cris: I've, I

haven't

got any more, so

don't look at me.

Sidey: I

was late putting this out onto Discord, but we have the ever reliable and very excellent Darren

Dan: Leafinator.

Sidey: He's recommended Mr. Creosote, and

they say good

afternoon.

to him.

it's sorry. Heard They They say to him good afternoon, thus proving that it is.

a luncheon

Reegs: Yes, yeah.

Sidey: we

know how that So that's that. Right, let's whittle this down, Dan.

Dan: this down. Dan? I'm gonna

Sidey: Okay.

Nice. Yeah. Chris,

Cris: I will say law abiding citizen.

Reegs: I am gonna say we went to see what, dare I say, was film of the year Paw Patrol, the mighty movie.

Do you remember that? And at the beginning of the trailer for that, there's a bit where he says, when our world is threatened, one team is ready to launch. And Rubble, the fat yellow one that we used to say Meag was like a sexual deviant for he says, did he say lunch? So that was the gag, getting the words launch and lunch

Sidey: brilliant. I'm going to put in Napoleon Dynamite's

tater

tots.

Reegs: Nice. And then we'll get two from the listeners. No, one. Just, just

one. We

Sidey: two if we want.

Reegs: We want. Yeah,

Dan: what we like.

Cris: Biz. Biz and

Sidey: Well, we've

got, we've,

Cris: Biz running and war.

Sidey: got food to accompany the beers.

Dan: Yeah, well, we've

Sidey: we've got

a few Christmas leftovers that I've brought in. I've got a luxury Stollen. And then

some hotel,

Cris: What is that stolen? Is that like that log?

Sidey: It's like a, it's a sponge. but it's quite, It's quite heavy.

sponge And it's got marzipan whirled into it. that You can get different ones that are less luxury and more slaggy.

And I actually prefer those

Dan: vine fruits hand rolled with marzipan and

Sidey: want someone's hands to

Reegs: Is that an M& S one?

Sidey: into

Dan: I must say. But I know people that are.

Sidey: We might have a slice later on.

And then Chris, you've brought us some, just some Cracking sweet selection.

Dan: You've done well with the fizzies. They've the sour

Sidey: Well done.

Dan: which are always going down.

Sidey: that segues really well. into this

week's

Dan: beer. The

Sidey: greatest beer run. That's a huge claim. I don't think you're allowed to advertise over You have to say

leading. You have to say You can't say we're the best company.

have to say we're a leading.

Dan: the, the good

Sidey: Yeah. Yeah. So One of the leading beer runs ever.

Dan: Yeah.

Reegs: Yeah.

Sidey: from

2022 streaming

only.

Yeah.

Reegs: Were you aware of this movie?

Sidey: I remember when it came out,

Cris: yeah. I've never heard of it.

Reegs: No. It's an Apple TV job, isn't it? Did it get a cinema release?

Sidey: I don't think so. And it had various, cast and

directors attached it before it ended up in this incarnation.

Reegs: And it was directed eventually by Peter Farrelly, who did

Sidey: Dumb and

Reegs: Dumb and Dumber. as you were talking about. There's something about Mary. Yeah. And then he veered into this more sort of,

uh,

Sentimental, I guess. Storytelling. Like, we did Green Book, didn't we? That was also him. Oh, was it. Yeah.

Dan: That was really good.

Reegs: Well, was it? I think we were all really surprised that it was,

Sidey: I think everyone

was that it

was an Oscar winner.

Reegs: Yeah. I remember thinking it was okay, and there was some okay themes. Maybe a little bit of some dodgy politics in it,

Cris: Which one was Green Book?

The one with

Sidey: the Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali.

Cris: The guy that turned out to be gay and he was a musician of some sort. Yeah, I liked that movie.

Reegs: Yeah, it was okay, but it didn't, I mean it won everything that year, didn't it? it?

was yeah.

Cris: I didn't know that. I

Dan: Yeah, it was a, it was a big winner,

Sidey: But we didn't, we've already talked about that movie.

This

movie.

is a, is a true story about Chicky. I'll just say from the get go that when I said to my Mrs. We've got a Zac Efron movie. she was Very excited. And then

when we saw his face, she was like, he fucking looks like Super Mario.

Yeah. he's got

Dan: Yeah, he's got a strong moustache game going on. But yeah, that's, that's it. Think. Mario.

Sidey: Yeah.

we're introduced to him.

Reegs: he's

Sidey: as a kind of barfly, isn't he

Reegs: barfly, isn't he?

Sidey: or whatever? Okay. Yeah, he's just

Portrayed as, waster. His old man's giving him loads of just drinking his life

away.

He turns out to be

Reegs: loads of shit, just drinking

Sidey: marine,

He's an ex marine, but now he's now he's just a merchant seaman.

Reegs: With

a massive moustache, have we talked about the

Sidey: It's epic. It's an epic

Dan: very strong moustache game. And yeah, he's, he's kind of living the, the, the dream, his own dream.

Sidey: got like three, four mates they're regularly getting pissed

1. I don't

know why Americans drink pitches of beer, it's fucking weird to me. because it's shit

beer. and

just

buy pints

Reegs: Same in Germany though, they buy Massive pitchers. they know what they're doing with beer in Germany, so, I wouldn't,

Sidey: they drink Steins, which

is a litre, right? Whereas the Americans just drink a Pitch because they're too lazy to go to the bar,

Reegs: get in the

bar. it's warm,

and it's like

Sidey: Yeah,

Dan: yeah.

Sidey: Anyhow, so

Reegs: we get introduced to him mainly other than getting pissed with his mates, one of whom I think has got polio is that why he's got the crutches.

And you know, in the background, some of their mates have been conscripted and some of them have been enlisted for the Vietnam War because it's 1967.

Sidey: And Bill

Murray is the colonel who's the, the bar owner. Bartender. Yeah. And he's, pro America. flag

Dan: Oh, well they All

all, this bar are, you know, they're, they're

Sidey: don't know if it's a veteran's bar

per

Reegs: He was a veteran.

Sidey: He certainly is.

Reegs: and they talk about how they had the clarity of knowing they were fighting the enemy and who the enemy was and they were the bad guys.

Sidey: they don't

Say it to the

end though, do they?

Reegs: No.

well,

Dan: They're, they're hugely patriotic though. And they're, they're, you know, all from the neighborhood.

And it, it gets. Them talking about you know, there's a, there's a, there's a few kind of fingers being pointed. His sister, she, we learn from, like, the family around the family mealtime that she's, yeah,

Reegs: Yeah, their friend's been killed in Vietnam.

Dan: And they're, they're kind of having these debates in the family about She's very anti war, anti

Sidey: BNP.

Dan: yeah and he's kind of, you've got to back, you know, you can't be serious, you've got to back our troops.

They're coming home reading this, that it's all anti war, how does that make them

Reegs: It's not just anti-war. what he objects to is them being described as baby killers. 'cause he is like, You know, they come back to hear that and that's happening at, this, especially a demonstration that's gonna occur, that he's gonna kind of gate

Dan: of gatecrash.

Yeah. So all this backdrop of, it's not quite,

Reegs: a lot of tension.

Dan: Yeah, there's a lot of tension. It's small kind of part America, it is not huge demonstrations, but it's in the park and they're, they've got pickets and they've got signs saying all this kind of stuff. And he spots his sister there one time, doesn't he?

Sidey: he,

kicks over some, There's candles and he stumbles. And that's what kicks off the altercation at the rally.

Dan: Yeah.

Sidey: They're just kind of clumsy at first, and then it descends into, well, why aren't you backing what do

you want just people to go out and killing everyone, and they're just ideologically so

far apart.

Reegs: go out and kill everyone, and they're just ideologically so far apart.

So night

Dan: yeah, so, so one night in a bar he, He announces

Reegs: Well, it's when he learned, sorry, it's important they learn one of their so one of their friends has died and they learn another one.

This Tommy Minogue is missing in action.

And so that it's in the back of his mind when they have this big night out.

Dan: That he should be doing something. I mean, he could have signed up, but he wasn't kind of doing that much He just wanted to to make sure that when people came back from fighting that they knew they've been appreciated That they knew that there was still rooting for him in the corner over in our part of town.

Don't worry about that So he has the bright idea of It's the colonel actually says, you know, I like do I like to give them all a beer and he goes I can do

Reegs: that. Well you could do what? He goes, I could go and give

Dan: I could, well, you could do what? He goes, I could, I could go and give him beer. And and so the The plot and the idea is formulated in the fact that he's going to take over a big old bag of beer to his

Reegs: his buddies on, the front line. Yes you do. You

Dan: a little bit.

As you do, you know, when you've had an idea in the pub that you think was probably a couple of beers might have been a bit of the beer talking there, because he's suddenly putting a few obstacles in the way, isn't he? He's going, oh, I'm not sure there'd even be a boat there. Going. I'm not even, whereas last night it was all so easy,

Reegs: but then when his mates say, I you know, we never thought you were going anyway.

He's like, well, why? Hang on a minute.

Yeah. Why didn't You think I wasn't, going? but why didn't you think I was gonna go? And Then he is like, well now I'm gonna go. So it's, I like the way it flip flops and then it gets especially harder for him because the parents in the neighborhood are like, well if you're gonna go out there?

Can you take these? I think it's rosary beads, is it? Yeah.

all and a load of other stuff out to these guys. out

Dan: Irish, Irish Catholics. You get that kind of feeling, don't you? They're, they're all, you know, very patriotic Irish Catholics. And then suddenly, you're right, rumors got around and it's almost that enough people know now that I've kind of gotta go.

Reegs: And then when he goes to it is quite funny because then when he's, he's got this absurd idea that suddenly he's now committed to. and then He goes to, like, the ship, the Steve Doors, is it, or wherever, and he says, Oh, like, when's the ship going? The guy's like, wow. in about five hours. Like, I don't suppose they need an Osman or a boiler man

Sidey: a boiler

Reegs: like

Dan: An oil man, yeah.

Reegs: Yeah, they do, in fact. he's like, It's like, lit. everything's just lined up for him to do it. But he's got a sail for two months. I

Dan: Yeah, two or three months. I think it's going to go via Manila, isn't it? And and then eventually it's going to, it's going to hit

Sidey: Who's to say It's still going to be going on in two months time, wouldn't you

Dan: Yeah. And, but he's so

Reegs: Wait, he's going to a fucking war zone! he's packed his bag full of the weakest beer ever, I don't know which one it was, Pabst

Sidey: It wasn't Easy to see was it? Because I did like looking at the old can design, but I

couldn't see the label. It certainly wasn't

Budweiser,

Dan: actually there so that you can still kind of get cans like that in Germany. You know, they're all, they're huge, big cans and they've got the ring

Sidey: Yeah, the

Dan: rather than the flip. When I was in Cambodia, they had the ring pull and you could, you could win more cans from the

Sidey: Oh, right. If you get the gold

Dan: you got a gold one, you'd win more cans or money or whatever.

So that was pretty good.

But he's off then in this big bag that he's, the colonel's given him. He says, bring it in this bag because then the boys will know it's from us as well. And it's got the name of the pub on the side, I think. So he takes that down.

Sidey: We don't we're not on board the ship for the

full two

Dan: We don't, we don't,

Reegs: even any of

Dan: no, he's, he's there,

Reegs: over it. It's actually a fairly good shot because it's fairly drab artistically, this movie. But it there's a good transition from the New Jersey, I think it is, to Saigon, just in one, like, one frame. I was like, oh, right, we're there, so.

Dan: Yeah, he's just arguing about shore leave, isn't he, for three

Reegs: Well, and he gets off the boat, and like, yeah, three days.

And then basically he straight finds, like, people who know his mate, straight away, don't they?

Dan: he

Sidey: he meets,

he meets the guy.

in Saigon who's doing the road thingy, the traffic warden He calls him out because the guy's like, ah, you know I've got homework. Sorry. Just

Dan: Well, he's already seen one guy off the port, straight off the

Cris: Yeah, the military

Dan: up one guy.

Reegs: off the

Cris: MPs. Yeah, the MP guy is like, Oh yeah, do you know this guy? Yeah.

Dan: And

Reegs: And they take him and he turns up.

Cris: Are you battalion 27? Whatever. Yes.

Dan: well

Reegs: He starts handing out beers to people and

Sidey: was constantly worried he was going to run out, Way too

Dan: well, he can't believe that he's You know, he's here and doing this and nor can anybody else.

They're all like a little bit of great Look, what the fuck are you here for? Like

Reegs: Well, at first, not yet the movie still playing

it all for laughs, but there will come a time

when it's like, seriously, what the fuck are you doing?

Sidey: Yeah, because he has to go to

Well it, it goes,

it basically gets further and further into the war.

Reegs: He meets these, right? He meets the first guy and it's all laughs and gives him beers, but then the guy's like, just go fucking home. This is a war zone, what you're doing. And coincidentally, we also see his superior officer turns up and through this sort of

you Semi believable in the 60s case of kind

Sidey: are you in the CIA stake

Reegs: identity sort of believes he might be in the cia which then He traffics on this kind of guise that he's got as a cia to get further into the country

Sidey: and he

Reegs: he does eventually get way up north to the LZ.

Sidey: meets

while he's in saigon. He meets this this guy Trafford Woodenbloke, known as Oklahoma, and he

kind of becomes the emotional heart of it

later

Because he meets up with him when he's back in

Reegs: him on his back in

Saigon. He's looking big.

Sidey: looking big in

Reegs: That's

Cris: Huge, wasn't he? He's a

Sidey: a

big unit.

Reegs: yeah.

He's very close. Yeah, the

Sidey: Graham Green stayed there. I think he wrote the Quiet American

Dan: okay, yeah.

Reegs: And, you know, Dickie gives him a hard time saying why are you reporting so negatively from here.

Sidey: sort of repeats his, like, naively patriotic spiel about, well, they're in the army, or they're in the militia, so you should just support them, regardless of anything. Like, people at home don't want to read this shit.

about the

war, like, what's actually happening? you know, He's just got this, like

Reegs: Well, they have an argument because

Lyndon Johnson is

on telly telling everybody it's going to be fine and all this stuff and the journalists are like, what a fucking bunch of bullshit that is and Dickie's

Sidey: giving him a load of

Reegs: yeah.

And he's like, oh, you know, why aren't you supporting people?

Dan: respect the office. Even if you don't like the man, you gotta respect the office. But they clearly don't gotta respect the office because they, they're Giving it the the truth as they see it and the truth as it

Reegs: it is. And they, they tell him

Sidey: and that's

Dan: And

Reegs: way,

Sidey: him. And they tell him there's no way, we can't, we're banned from going

up into

Reegs: into the sun

Sidey: LZ, Jane, is

Dan: LZ Jane in the north or something

Sidey: like, Okay

some of my buddies might be

up there, so he like, you say, he exploits this thing about being in

the CIA.

Dan: you say, he exploits this thing about being in the CIA.

He

Sidey: Because he goes

he goes in, and just goes up to the desk, doesn't he, and organizes some

transport And

the guy looks at him and he says, just go and get your fucking commanding officer. So the guy comes back and says, you're a fucking civilian. And he just kind of looks at him and goes.

Oh,

you're one

of those

Dan: they never tell me anything. And they don't check it and they

Sidey: so there's other guys just constantly badgering him to try and get him into

We put any word for

me so I

can get into Langley and he's like, what's Langley?

Reegs: Yeah,

Dan: Yeah,

he's no idea, is he?

Reegs: But eventually

when he does get up to LZJ and it's a different kind of

Sidey: it's like no you

Reegs: in a very active war zone and when he calls his mate back he gets himself all like hiding under a blanket and all this stuff but you see his mate has had to run across an active battlefield like

Sidey: dodging

bullets.

Reegs: to

Dan: he gets the call then and he goes, oh, it's so and so, you know, his mate there and he goes Yeah, you want me to come now?

Do you not want me to wait till after dark? And he goes, no, no, we need them now because they're frightened of upsetting the CIA guy. Because rumor is, if you upset the CIA guy, you're gonna find yourself on the front line in the worst possible shitstorm. So they're like, right, fucking hell, we better do it.

And he's, he's still down the pub, really, in his mind. He's still very much what is this, gonna be a

Sidey: it,

Reegs: it. He doesn't get it,

Dan: get

Sidey: it.

Reegs: And so when he springs out, ta da! Like, you know, it's predictably an anticlimax where Rick is, you know, it's Duggan gives him an absolute

bellyful.

Dan: bellyful.

Reegs: And eventually then he's dragged onto the front line.

That's the only place for him with Duggan in a trench.

Dan: And they're being shot at as they run back into into position. They find themselves in a ditch. He does all night.

Sidey: One of the guys says, you don't

seem to care about being here. We would rather be anywhere else.

But

Dan: and

you, you don't have to be

Reegs: Well one guy, he's That's what he's like, you, you know, yeah, you came here Voluntarily, like, yeah.

Dan: And, and he, he did say in the morning, then he goes, some of those guys, it's the first time I've seen him do anything, you know, first kind of smirk or smile any of them had. The fact that you've come here with a load of beer. 'cause they, they do and he goes, sorry, it's a bit

Reegs: Well, there's all kinds of stories, isn't there? Because there's another guy who actually volunteered for two more tours because when he went back, people

Sidey: so maladjusted

Reegs: and he couldn't get back into it. So he's back out on the front line. And anyway, so they take a picture in the morning when the battle is over. There's napalm, I think, dropped in the forest, is

there? Or is that

Dan: yeah, yeah,

Sidey: He sees it getting

Reegs: it's,

quite nice in the blue and orange, like it looks quite nice.

Dan: So he, he, he manages there then to give one of the guys, or this is the second guy from

Reegs: they take the photo, don't they?

Dan: Yeah, a beer. From the, the neighborhood and, and kind of he's, he's saying, you know, we just wanted to support you, but he's slowly realizing at this point this is a little bit fucking crazy and this isn't, you know, quite what I thought I was signing up for, but it doesn't deter him anymore.

He still wants to go and see other friends.

Reegs: Well, also he's gotta get back to,

Sidey: Well, they rumble this

Dan: Well, they, they rumble this when he's getting a, a helicopter back with a real CIA guy. Yeah. Who's threatening a Vietnamese guy for intelligence in the helicopter, above the trees, above the jungle and everything.

And he drops him out of it. It is, it's horrible.

Reegs: it's a very bad. CGI shot of him dangling first when they're doing that bit, but then when they drop him, it's a practical effect and his shoes fall off. I really appreciated that. Yeah.

Dan: Yeah, it

Sidey: Because they get the guy to talk? They

eventually, he says to the translator, he said, just fucking ask, just tell him to say what we

Dan: say something.

Say something.

Sidey: so he, this guy panickedly just screams out something in Vietnamese and they're kind of satisfied and then the CIA,

Reegs: drops him This is

Dan: and then

Sidey: what, this is what

Reegs: and then attention comes on to

Dan: and and then attention comes on to to cheeky because they realize just as he's getting out, he goes, Who are you with?

And he goes, Same as you. And he goes, Which company? Who's who's your handler? Like, you know, who's your travel agent? And he goes, Same as you. We see I, I, he's not he's not buying it. The CIA guy and chickies clever enough actually. And I,

Reegs: he's alert

Dan: he's alert enough to, to realize after waiting for a trip out, he goes suddenly it's like, yeah, okay, we'll drop you off.

And he realizes in the back of the van that he was going to get into the CIA guy. Was waiting for him, and obviously he's just seen him throw him out of a plane. He doesn't want this information getting out there. So he runs into the jungle of Vietnam which is, you know, not a great place to be

Reegs: he's got like

24 kilometers to get until the, you know, to like some helicopter base that will then get him back to Saigon.

And that's when there's elephants escaping from napalm, there's

Dan: CIA agents after

Reegs: there's a scene where he comes across a little girl and you know, he tries to sort of smile at her and kick a ball to her as she just screams in like,

Dan: and she just screams, like, Are we the

Reegs: It's a bit like, that Mitchell and Webb thing, Are we the bad guys with the Nazis, like, they stood there in

Sidey: Yeah. he

does manage to make his way back? to

Saigon. he does

and he's now He goes back to the hotel

blah blah.

and he's, he gets

it he gets why They're reporting he's no longer

Dan: he's seen lots of atrocities. He's

Cris: there's a truce, there's a ceasefire. And he's like, no there isn't.

I've just been there, I've just been there like six hours ago and there's no ceasefire, you should tell them up in the north where they're dropping napalm and everything. The journalists all look at him like, hold on a minute. Have you been there? And he's like, yeah, look at the picture. And they're like, oh my God, by this guy drinks all night, ta da da.

And that's now he actually becomes friends with Russell Crowe.

Sidey: Yeah,

Reegs: And it is Tet and they drop it. And I don't know much about Vietnam. but I do know the Tet offensive was when you know, a sort of new year type celebration in which it

Dan: attack on Saigon

Reegs: that they wouldn't attack. And obviously they did. And Americans were very underprepared.

and suffered a lot of casualties.

Dan: Yeah. And this is this night and he, he finds Oklahoma.

Sidey: He sees,

Well yeah, Oklahoma's killed, And my Mrs very upset about that. And that's his real, I I took it in the outrageous. he sees an American tank

that as well, and, And

it's reported the other way.

And he's like, no, I fucking saw it, I watched it with my own eyes.

Reegs: Well he knows now that not, you know, not only they doing savage things, but they're directly lying to the American public. You know, he knows, it's him because it was an American tech And you know,

with Wars and stuff with disinformation being such a big thing around war, and the culture war and all that at the moment.

That, that's one of the interesting things themes in the movie.

Dan: Well, the, it takes Russell Crowe really to bring him up to, to

Sidey: I dunno how he survived. 'cause he just stood constantly. taking photos like get fucking

undercover.

Dan: he, he sort of brings him up to speed and says, you know, it's a lot easier to say that. the Vietnamese did it, then it was an inside job and to destroy the confidence of all the people that are trying to work and trying to

Reegs: But also

Dan: yeah, start on the front line.

But also the guys that working with the Vietnamese in Saigon in the south of Vietnam, who you know, On the side of the Americans and everything. So yeah, it was, it was tough times. They get caught in crossfire and, and have to hide out until the next day. Russell Crow, as you say, is still snapping away photographs.

And every, he's, he's gone to the embassy this day for his tickets out. 'cause when he got back to Saigon, the boat is gone and

Sidey: yeah,

Reegs: And the embassy's gone now as well, Cause

Dan: now the embassy, he was meant to go back there at 10 o'clock next day. Now the Embassy's gone. So he, he wants. Then there's a huge kind of mushroom cloud that goes up and he realizes this big ammunition base.

is absolutely blown up and he's goes, I've got a mate there. I need to get back over there. So, him and Russell Crowe jump in a card and with Russell Crowe's press pass that managed to get

Sidey: It's a bit dicey, but they get

there,

Dan: and he finds his mate who again is just like no sense of humor or joy about. Too much about seeing him as much as he would, you know, love probably a drink with him another time.

He's like, fuck's sake, you know, Chicky, this isn't a joke, you know, yeah, you know, um, and just as he's pulling away, he's again a bit nervous about, you haven't given him a beer, you know, he just lobs him out one right at the end. I thought, go that way and then don't even give him the beer. That would have

Reegs: would have been

Sidey: Yeah, like the room

of requirements or something like magic bag. but We could, we

could drink those tonight. do you know what

Reegs: you know what I

Dan: Yeah, yeah. They'd have gone down quick

over

Sidey: he go, he, He manages, after all of

this, he gets And,

he gives the colonel they're all cheersing him, and he's like, you've been and blah, blah, like, Tells them great, actually.

Dan: out to be pretty bad. Well

he the guys in, in, that, that saved us in two world wars, absolute legends, and we were fighting, and he says, I'll put these guys up with any of them, but I'm just not so

Sidey: we knew who we were

Dan: we're saving the world this time, you know, that we're, we're doing anything really great.

Those guys, those, you know, brave young kids who are sent out on the front lines to, to go and fight. But the politicians are the ones that, and he's starting to grow up now, he's starting to understand

Reegs: well he's reconciled with his sister. But it's come at the cost of like being scarred by what he's witnessed.

That the, knowing that the U.

1. government that he idolized has lied to him and the public, and he's also living with the guilt that. the guy that he was sent out to get there, he, he was having doubt, he enlisted and he was having doubts.

Dan: Yeah, he was

Sidey: talked him into

Reegs: talked him into it, and obviously he's carried, we learned this right at the end of the movie, that he's carried this guilt.

It's quite an emotional scene actually, where he's

Sidey: he'd been given the Rosary, that's the one,

rosary

beads by his mother. And he returns breaks down and apologises to her Telling him

Dan: to go.

Sidey: go.

through with it, to have the, you know, you'll be fine blah, blah, blah. And he's like I wish I'd just fucking let him

know,

doubt, not listen to me, listen to himself.

He shouldn't have gone out there, he didn't need to go out

yeah.

it's

Dan: it was quite a heavy, heavy scene and the mother's incredibly strong and gracious and gives him a hug and everything and says, you know, don't worry about it, but it's yeah

Reegs: And

he has, a, I think he shares the last beer with his sister.

Is that

Dan: that's right on the bench.

Reegs: he says, I'm going to do a little less drinking and a little more

Sidey: A little less conversation.

Dan: And we

also then cut to real photographs on the, on

Reegs: the real guy on

Dan: credits or just before the credits.

Sidey: Yeah. a little side by side with the the

one from the film with the real one. Yeah.

And

So the guy hadn't died, had

Reegs: No.

Sidey: The one that

Cris: None of them have died.

Dan: No the one guy, the, yeah, he, he was dead. Cause he has that, he has that conversation right at the end with just, he goes, you haven't heard yet.

Cris: Oh yes, he did die, yeah, that guy did die, the one that went AOL.

Reegs: Oh yeah, yeah,

Yeah, yeah, Yeah, That's cause that was the one that,

he,

Sidey: the Rosary vs.

Dan: So, yeah, a few of his mates. He met and they made it back. I think two or three of them didn't from the neighborhood there was another couple of scenes where people from the neighborhood over or whatever would go. What the fuck's he doing there? He,

The one part is when he's walking just in the middle of the of the track, isn't it?

And one guy from his neighborhood or a neighborhood over is driving the car and he talks him into giving him a lift back. And he's like, just fucking madness to see you here, like, you know. And it's, it's a, it's a mad story. I mean, if

Reegs: I think because It's true.

It's such an idiotic story, really.

But.

it is true.

Dan: Yeah,

Reegs: It makes it quite something,

Dan: It makes it really kind of

Sidey: How did you get on with the movie, though,

Dan: Yeah, it's I liked it. I must say I didn't dislike the movie. It wasn't anything that I would rush in and want to watch again, but I like the performances. I like the story and I like the fact that eventually it started picking away at some more serious It's

Themes and everything, obviously, the horrors of war and and how, you know,

Reegs: yeah, there's quite a lot of wars really bad, isn't it?

And you were like, yeah, okay, I get

Dan: Yeah, you can, you can, you know, get brushed away by the pocket propaganda at home and how that swell of activity and, you know, people Watch him from pubs on TVs at home going. Yeah, you got to support our boys and everything but actual the truth of it Was very different when he got over there and and somebody is hard lined Is that somebody who's hard lined enough to say?

I support our boys so much i'm gonna go and take him a beer on the front line to tell him Well done is he's kind of reversed

Reegs: It's stupid though,

Dan: thoughts Yeah Yeah, it's it's

Sidey: do,

I couldn't understand

Why he wasn't

Because he was a military man. he not in

Dan: up?

Reegs: Because it was,

There were, the draft was like a sort of lottery system and then people were enlisting, but he obviously didn't enlist 'cause he was a slacker.

So, but yeah, instead risked his life to give guys a bunch of fucking warm beer, but I dunno, At least it meant something in the course of the movie. at it. This stupid story, they hang quite an interesting framework over it. And I had like zero expectations, that never knew about this movie or anything. And then the title made, made it sound like it was going to be awful.

So, when it when it wasn't I was like, oh, right, okay, so I was, I was quite,

Dan: low. So maybe that's the way to go

Reegs: Then I found out, well, the critics hated this

Sidey: movie. Yeah, They really did.

Reegs: absolutely hated it, and that makes me want to just like it even more because, you know, fuck you. But yeah, it's

Cris: Really hated it. I mean, don't get me wrong. I don't think it was amazing, but it had a few funny,

it had a

few funny bits. it had a few good feel factors.

It had a few eye opening scenes where the, the futility of war is, is really the Oklahoma bit. The, the fact that at the beginning. It kind of goes through, yeah, war, man. Yeah. It's supported troops and moves America. And then you see these people in the parking and think fucking all these hippies with their protest.

But then you actually start thinking and you go through the movie and you think also the fact that what the fuck you're doing here, you bellend, really delivering beers to your mates when there's LZ Jane, when there's bullets flying, but also

Reegs: It's kind of a metaphor for America's involvement in the war though, right?

A little bit, because like, why were they there? They, they were just getting involved in something they didn't understand. And,

Sidey: war. really, I kind

of was actively hating

it

Reegs: Oh, were you

Even with Zack Efron?

Sidey: Yeah, I think

I was disappointed with Zach in it. I think his moustache Had me off kilter, but when he started, when he got back to Saigon, I sort of I got

on board with it and I actually

started to appreciate it.

I think he did some good acting, like the best actor ever and when he got emotional, it's hard not to get emotional when you see Zach getting so it did, I thought it was just like whimsy and nonsense at first and then it did have to it. I quite like Russell Crowe in it as well.

I like it. I like fat Russell.

Crowe.

Cris: like

Reegs: he was good,

Cris: Crowe

Dan: presence, hasn't he?

Reegs: Yeah.

Sidey: but it was okay.

I like

you say, six and a half outta 10 is about where

Reegs: right. On a Sunday afternoon, just sitting down, it was

Sidey: It's exactly, yeah,

Dan: The fact

that it's a true story probably makes it a little more interesting.

Sidey: the true story Bit of it annoys me

though

Reegs: annoying.

Yeah, it is annoying, and if it, yeah. maybe

Sidey: what it did, so I don't know I have to say, for me, it's a real story,

Cris: hole. Yeah, so

that was good.

You know, I got to learn some things.

But they would put a lot of effort and they would find a way to do something really, really stupid.

Sidey: I don't that

Cris: say it the right way. So, so I know quite a few of my mates back home that, that they never had a job. And if you tell them, mate, get a job and do this, no, no.

But then they would go and

Reegs: Set up this elaborate

stupid

Cris: they would, they would do all this. Exactly.

Reegs: That requires patience and

ingenuity.

Cris: a way to save money, to go to America, to go to Miami for six weeks or something and play the world poker tour or something like that. So,

Sidey: I like the way you could, in those days, with the help of a bogus CIA, Like travel, basically travel the

world, like for nothing.

Reegs: ID, it was all implied.

It was it was really, yeah. And it's just about,

Dan: tourist and

Reegs: was

gonna say, it's just about believable, it did actually happen. So, crazy.

Dan: Do you know how many Vietnam war vets it takes to change a lightbulb?

Reegs: Go on.

Dan: Oh, you don't know, you weren't there, man.

Reegs: No.

Dan: don't know, that's

Reegs: And the soundtrack was alright as well.

Sidey: Soundtrack was very good, Yeah, it

Reegs: Hard to do anything different with the visual aesthetic or the sound of a Vietnam movie now, but this movie did at least do a few of those things. But it had that sort of glossy thing that streaming movies have.

Sidey: so at the start, before it when it was still set in his his neighbourhood, It had that ultra high definition thing that makes it look fake,

really, like, not believable

Reegs: But A lot of

the movie is set on location and that is really good, so, yeah. Strong recommend.

Cris: Yeah, very strong, yeah. And strong moustache.

Sidey: Lunch.

Dan: Hilarious!

Sidey: It's

Australian, let's just get that out

of the

Dan: Okay, it's

Reegs: It is from the same people who brought us The Investigators, do you remember that? That Vimesy asked

Dan: yeah, yeah,

Sidey: it. yeah. he's still really anti us because we didn't like that as much

Dan: quite like the

Sidey: quite liked it.

Dan: I believe. But I'm not sure they were all from Australia. There was a couple of dodgy accents in there. But basically, this is the tales of children describing

Sidey: a mockumentary. Like, like The Office.

Reegs: yeah,

Dan: kind of like that with kids around their lunchtimes

Reegs: They're based on a series of books. Yeah, is it their lunch break or is it the break in between?

Yeah,

Dan: The the recess so

Sidey: pieces.

Dan: this was a the episode that I asked us to watch was

Sidey: episode

Dan: two and it's kind of split into two parts. So, you have two different stories. We watched the first story, but there was another one talking about onesies and twosies, which was how many bars you swing on the monkey bar.

But we were just all

Sidey: the, the hilarity of that

Dan: We were all enraptured about the, the lunch session that they were on. And it was about what they get. For

Sidey: it was about one particularly

spoilt little Yeah.

Who

didn't like the look of the food that his ya ya

Dan: which is grandma.

Reegs: Yeah. That was what they called John Wick, wasn't it?

Sidey: wasn't didn't like the look of the food that she would put in his lunchbox.

Reegs: His parents had gone to New

Sidey: New Zealand. they'd abandoned him. and rightly so.

Reegs: left him with it and they speculated that grandma was like either Turkish, Russian or Chinese or something. They didn't know. And yeah,

Dan: She

didn't cook the same normal food as

Reegs: she liked everything

pickled.

Yeah.

Dan: Even pickled biscuits. Not for little kids. Kids don't like

Sidey: I can't remember a time in my life when I haven't enjoyed a pickled onion.

Dan: Okay, well, the, the Atticus Atticus, as, as we'll learn a little bit later, may have liked it or may not, he, he was, he wasn't very brave in trying, but it would skip around in various locations and kind of interview kids in, in, Various relaxed states as they're lying on the grass and saying this is the best day of my life because I got a chicken wing or something

Reegs: Well, It's, well the central story is that it's basically every

day Atticus

Dan: story? Yeah

Yeah, go on

Reegs: coming in and trying to find different ways to avoid eating the lunch that he's been sent in by his grandma Or like not sending it in and ordering a bucket of KFC Or going up to the staff, teacher's staff room and making jam sandwiches Or stealing a bit of everybody else's lunch and doing his own and then on the last and on the last day he's going to actually find out that Grandma has sent a load of stuff in everybody's tried it Dan, You were very concerned about allergies, which

Dan: yeah Well that it did thank goodness for that because yeah on the last day after he's at one point as you say even ordered out he he was able to forget his lunch again on the friday, but

Y Ya, ya ye.

Reegs: Yah, Baba Yaga

Sidey: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Dan: Crazy. Or whatever. She dropped the food

Reegs: I remember him!

Dan: Yeah. Yeah.

Reegs: yeah Yahoo. Crazy. That was a real,

Dan: yeah. Yahoo.

Reegs: Yahoo. Serious. that's right,

Dan: Yahoo.

Sidey: yah Turns up.

Dan: And

Sidey: lunch

Dan: not just for him, but for

Sidey: everybody.

Dan: And there, as he's looking

Reegs: They're all sort of looking, it's

Dan: one plate of absolute dog crap, he's looking at like the whole school having it now, or his whole year.

Sidey: Here comes the message.

Dan: and

Reegs: they're poking at it, calling it.

Yaya's Meat Wraps.

Dan: Yeah.

Reegs: But they try Yaya's Meat Wraps

Sidey: and it's sensational.

Reegs: it is,

Dan: tangy, spicy, just enough flavor. And they're all into it. And then you

Reegs: Atticus realises he could

have had lunch all week long if he hadn't been such an

Dan: a well, well, well, he said,

Sidey: Exactly,

That was the message. That's what I took

Dan: I didn't actually try. I just didn't like the look of it. And so when I tried it, it wasn't that bad. And he's a real eater as well.

Sidey: Well, because he, they, they have the group. Portion that Yaya Tore has brought in and

They, they eat all that and, and he looks and the one kid with the football, soccer ball Has eaten the last one, He is devo, but then he realized he's got his own

lunchbox. the

remaining

Reegs: more meat wraps.

Sidey: So he's able to eat his, his

grands flaps.

Dan: Yeah.

And so what this is. Attempting possibly to do is, is to bring a moral to the story of try

Sidey: eat your damn food.

Dan: Yeah, don't say you don't like it before you've even tried it.

Reegs: But he done it in a reasonably humorous way because I think the writing is actually quite sharp and it's all like lit and all that.

Looks really professional.

Dan: I didn't think a lot of the kids, no, I thought, I thought they were pretty good, some of those.

Sidey: I thought

Atticus

Reegs: they weren't actory stage

Sidey: actually okay.

Reegs: which I appreciated. They

Sidey: I, like

I'm joking about it being on Australian, this is actually okay. The bit that we were, I wouldn't want to watch a fucking single minute more, but this actually for a kid's

Dan: want to watch it a fucking single minute more, but this is actually for a kids thing.

Playground today. That might be an interesting conversation. Do, do you kind of swap lunches still or do you check out what other kids

Sidey: can

always

Reegs: I can remember being a kid and you know, I'll give you some of my crisps and some of yours

Dan: and you can't remember being a

Reegs: can I

Sidey: I can also tell exactly when you put down a plate of food in front of your kid, child, daughter, and I can sense straight away that she's already made up her mind that she doesn't

Dan: like.

Yeah.

Reegs: it. And

Sidey: I fucking hate it. It's a real pet peeve of So, when you see it on the screen, I'm see that fucking food

Reegs: thing?

I

Sidey: try it. just Fucking try it before you

Dan: decide. And it is, so it's trying to, you know, encourage kids to maybe come to their, reflect on their own ideas about lunch and things, as Atticus does, and he goes, Oh, actually it

Reegs: about food is like, some days, even something you really love, you just don't

like fancy. it. And as a kid you can't really articulate that and or your parents won't.

Sidey: Well, plus they've got no

choice, they've got this is, this is what I've given you, you

fucking eat

Dan: I remember my sandwiches at school were just like cut into little triangles and they were just

Reegs: full of cu.

Dan: No, 10 did not to be, but they, they were about as appealing to me because they just looked and we used to just

Sidey: Oh, and I'd just fucking, eat

Dan: we just lob em. We wouldn't never, because if you took them home, ea then you get questioned over that. You know, if you haven't eaten your lunch or you're eating now and you're , I didn't want it then I certainly don't want it now.

So it just used to be like going

Reegs: What was so bad? About what kind? of,

Dan: It was just plain sort of white bread. Ham

Sidey: sounds amazing.

Reegs: Yeah. exactly!

Dan: Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. It was all those kind of. No but we were, yeah, just, you know, kids, you don't need bag of crisps in a, you know, you look

Sidey: physi laces.

Dan: Yeah. Fizzy laces and you wanted all that kind of rubbish and you looked at another kid having, you know,

Sidey: what did you have for lunch today?

This very day?

Dan: today I had pasta. I had pasta and I had a little side of nuts.

Sidey: Yeah.

Cris: Yeah, I just made myself a salad after work.

Dan: No lunch. Always after work, lunch for

Sidey: Dinner in,

Cris: dinner and lunch together for me.

Sidey: Well,

Cris: Sorry. Sorry.

Sorry.

Sorry,

Reegs: Can we have him put

We had roast beef yesterday.

Sidey: Oh, nice.

Reegs: some leftover roast beef. I stuck it in the air fryer. With some bread and some cheese.

Dan: sounds disgusting.

Reegs: it was

amazing.

It

Dan: Air fryer is like microwave, isn't it?

Sidey: Oh, put them in a fucking landfill. I hate them.

Dan: not

Sidey: amazing, I just, I can't,

get on board. We've got Soup,

Reegs: board. We've

Sidey: We've got Soup Club at work. In our

team,

And today I was on the rota to provide the team with lunch.

Reegs: tourney.

Sidey: so.

we started off, No,

we started off with onion, celery, sweet potato, and carrot.

Dan: Okay. I'm eight. Sell it. Yeah. I, I'm on board. You

Sidey: cook that, cook that down and then, curry powder,

Mango chutney.

Dan: This is

soup.

Sidey: Yeah. Vegetable. So this is veggie

vegetable stock

Dan: heard of this. Yeah.

Sidey: And

we'd add

we'd add a veggie curry for dinner, so I made extra rice. And then you get a portion of rice and you put that in the soup as well.

Dan: Bulk it up.

Sidey: so, only

after you blended. So you blend it

and Then add the rice later.

Wow.

So, It's like a curry curry.

Dan: Did it go down well?

Sidey: Yeah. it was good.

I was a bit worried it was gonna be a bit sweet cuz of the mango chutney but it was decent. It was a hit. Yeah.

Dan: Good

Reegs: What about the person who, didn't do their turn on Soup club, Have they been banished or

Sidey: club, So

Reegs: ha!

Shall we not talk

about that anymore then?

Dan: let's just end that there. So you got one little Atticus in your own places.

Sidey: a bit, yeah,

Dan: of just being, but this is little lunch. It's not the worst kids thing we've

Sidey: thermonuclear recommend.

Dan: Yeah. So there you go. Wow.

Reegs: Yeah.

So we're gonna, your missus is voting next week,

Sidey: We're

going to try and,

Cris: oh, we're not doing that.

she

Sidey: come on.

Reegs: says, oh god, what have they picked,

Sidey: If your missus doesn't, then it's either Kaylee or Yana. Worse still Cindy.

Cris: Oh okay. I can ask her, but you might not enjoy this. I'm telling you

Dan: okay, it's a mad mum's week,

Sidey: be a mad mum's week, we'll see how that goes. that could be fun.

I'm up For a chick flick

or a rom com or

Reegs: something.

Well, yeah, just whatever she wants to nominate. If she's not impressed with the, the

Dan: The choices

Sidey: then Yeah, she's been vocal, she's been vocal about

the stuff we've been watching, so

Reegs: We'll

Sidey: Let's put the emphasis on

Dan: You've roped her into this now, Chris. And yeah, we're going to go for it.

Sidey: Cool. Right, look forward to that next week. All that

Dan: buckle your belts. Yeah.

Sidey: Is to say SIDEY SIGNING out.

Reegs: Reek saying goodbye.

Dan: Dan's gone.