True Spirit & Popeye Meets Sinbad

True Spirit

Reegs: Ahoy

there, mateys, and welcome to the Good Ship Bad Dads, navigating the treacherous waters of Cinemar in a vessel about as seaworthy as a colander in a hurricane. Batten down the hatches, pour yourself a stiff drink, and prepare for more bad jokes and innuendo than you can shake a wooden leg at, because it's Sailor Week.

But before we dive in, a very quick warning, the podcast contains language saltier than Poseidon's ball bag, so if that offends you you might want to jump overboard now. For everyone else, we're just about to set sail, starting with the top five sailors of course, and then once we're all at full mast, we'll move on to review Netflix's True Spirit, the true story of Jessica Watson, the youngest person to sort of circumnavigate the world unaided.

A heartwarming and inspiring story about pursuing your dreams, or a tale so dull it makes watching paint dry feel like an acid trip. Keep your wireless tuned in to find out. And if you haven't had your fill of semen for one day we'll be pulling into port with a look at Spinach Addict.

Tourette's sufferer Popeye. In 1936's Popeye the Sailor Man meets Sinbad the Sailor, a classic cartoon caper that will really have you yearning for the good old days of domestic abuse. Before we hoist the anchor and trim the sails, let's introduce the crew of this motley ship. First up, he remembers when going viral meant you had scurvy, it's ancient mariner Dan.

And safely docking in second place, the man who just can't spend enough time vigorously swabbing his poop deck, it's

Sidey: his

Reegs: And then there's me res. Hello?

Sidey: then there's me, Reeds. Hello. Yeah, he's

Dan: Yeah, he's rocked the boat, hasn't he?

Reegs: he had a face that could launch a thousand ships, but needs a compass to navigate his way out of a paper bag. If, if, if you were wondering about

Sidey: wondering about it.

Dan: we will keep calm and we'll sail on.

Reegs: Yeah.

Sidey: Do

you remember when we talked about

archers? I say we, I wasn't there, but you did. I don't think that anyone mentioned Robin Hood.

Dan: I'm pretty sure I did.

Sidey: Well, Darren Leafy wonders the same, and he said, Archers, did no one mention Robin Hood? And then he's also put in a matter of life and death, he said, This is my favourite archers.

Dan: Oh, okay.

Sidey: okay. And Susan in Narnia was a great archer, that's Mel. And it also wasn't Brave, you know, the Pixar one.

Dan: I'm pretty sure we mentioned

Reegs: one. You brought up.

Sidey: you mention that one? Okay, cool. So there you go.

Reegs: So those, those are some good nominations and that'll stop that egomaniac res, getting all the nominations

Sidey: it was out of control, wasn't it?

Dan: to do, doesn't

Reegs: Mm-hmm.

Yeah, there's a lot of good puns. I'm really hoping that you, have you done

Dan: done any

Reegs: of, you?

Oh, there's a lot of like puns and innuendo and stuff. I just had like pages of drivel, but

Dan: but There are. There's, there's tons and we won't

Sidey: anything anything new last week?

Dan: I've been to Prime Target as I keep going on with the Apple show.

But I didn't watch much more than the homework this week.

pretty pure on that. What about yourself? Did you get to see

anything?

Reegs: Did you get

Dan: Is that any good?

Reegs: see anything?

Dan: carry on where the last season left off or is it a whole

new

Reegs: where the last season left off, or is it a whole story?

Sidey: I kind of gave up on

it after episode one.

I'm just a bit over dystopian kind of boringness. I fucked it off. I watched the Bones Brigade documentary the other day because I came across it on YouTube. I've seen it before. It's very good.

Dan: Oh is it?

Sidey: Yeah, it's about skateboarding. So it's kind of a companion piece to Dogtown and Z

Dan: Oh really?

Sidey: really good.

Yeah, really, really good.

Dan: You'll notice in the man cave it's heavily decorated with happy birthday signs and

Sidey: It's a bit early, I'm not sure October, but I appreciate the

Dan: well there was a sleepover yeah there was a sleepover stroke cinema night in here the other night where frozen was on still popular Still popular with the kids of 12,

Sidey: There's a third installment coming.

Reegs: in Stormont

Dan: wasn't she?

Yeah, yeah, there

Reegs: In the man

Dan: the man

Sidey: Girl Cave. The Girl Club. The

Reegs: The Girl

Sidey: Girl Cavern?

Dan: I don't

But they were here.

Reegs: around. I've toned

Dan: pink around

Reegs: bit.

Dan: but I've toned it down a little bit for us, us

Sidey: thought it was a lot neater than normal. But yeah, nice one. Did they have fun? Do we know?

Dan: I believe they did. There was some photographic evidence. There was popcorn all over the floor and crisps and things. So it wasn't unlike ourselves.

Reegs: Did you put your collection of chainsaws away, or did you leave that

Dan: they left them all out. They

Sidey: I bought a chainsaw recently. Did I tell you that? No. Yeah, I bought a chainsaw.

Reegs: chainsaw. I've always wanted a leaf blower.

Or a leaf sucker, actually, is what every Yeah, how's that? Oh, does it? Yeah,

Sidey: so you can flip the switch and it can suck and blow. That's what I've always wanted. Like Wayne's and Garth, you know, the start of Wayne's

Dan: they really annoy lots of people, particularly neighbours.

We've got neighbours that are the most,

Sidey: I think if you blow all your detritus onto their bit of garden, that would be annoying. But mine, you suck it up. And then I just put it in a bin.

Dan: think it's a noise pollution.

Sidey: Ah,

Dan: Roy Keane

Reegs: 10 o'clock on a Sunday's

Sidey: Yeah, yeah, I wouldn't do it at the crack of dawn or anything,

Dan: We've got we've got neighbours that like to rev their motorbikes outside for like 15 minutes just to warm up the engines.

Sidey: That's inconsiderate.

Dan: honestly, it's so, so annoying. And then we were dropping Sonny to the airport day. And, were pulling out the, the garage, they were parked in front so they had to move their bike.

And then we were going through the underpass, and we saw this bike come past us, and half an arse sticking out, like, unbelievable, just this big, fat, hairy arse was stuck out the back of it, and it was, it was our neighbour on the bike, so that was it gave us a bit of a

Sidey: Okay.

Dan: I don't know where I've connected, oh, it's the noise, it's the noise connection.

Reegs: And it's what you've seen this week as well.

Dan: we'd best sail through, wouldn't we?

So we're top five sailors.

Reegs: Yep.

Dan: Have you got any to, to kick us off? Or would you like me to create the perfect storm?

Which

is George, George Clooney. Yeah, Cloondog. Captain Billy Tyne. And he, he just couldn't say no to some extra fish.

Reegs: and

Dan: And that ultimately cost them.

Yeah,

Sidey: machine was broken as well?

Dan: there was they weren't going to take home the, the

Sidey: the, So who was it, Mark Wahlberg?

Reegs: in it. Yeah. Who

Sidey: Who was the other victim?

Dan: I can't remember to be honest. But they were you know, in pursuit of their livelihoods and things. But then when you see these films and the sea, the waves that, that they throw up and these perfect storms obviously where it's just so frighteningly crazy.

Sidey: fucking wild out there. And obviously we've seen that in the main feature, but Jersey has a a.

Like quite a strong rowing tradition and quite a few at the rowing club do the transatlantic,

you know. they row the Atlantic. And I think, how the fuck do you do that? In a, you know, a two man kind of, I wouldn't say they're bigger than your standard kind of, you know, they are

Dan: And you've got to get it at the right time of the year

Sidey: you see those massive waves, you think, how the fuck do you do that in a rowing boat?

Just don't, I just can't comprehend

Dan: I mean, yeah, you have to do it at the right time of the year, but now the climate's changed so much, you don't really know what time

Sidey: allowed to use, you can't use terminology like that. If you were stateside, you'd be, be KO'd. Yeah, it's

Dan: absolutely. Yeah, you've got to get, you've just got to say you were blown over by the grace of God

Sidey: Yeah, exactly, yeah.

Dan: But yeah, that was, that was a pretty good film actually, apart from everyone died in the end.

Reegs: Yeah.

Sidey: Did they have good life insurance policy, do we know?

Dan: insurance policies? Oh, I, I,

Sidey: Let's hope so. For the family's sake. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right.

Reegs: Well, is it a little bit boring to go for

Sidey: No.

Dan: not at

Reegs: She's the young

Sidey: You've seen the second, haven't you? No, not yet. Oh, okay.

Reegs: She's the young tribal chief in waiting on the island of Motunui.

Sidey: Yep.

Reegs: And she has to sort of, It's tracked down a demigod, Maui, and, and a stolen heart of Te Fiti, a sort of Gaia like goddess that has to be restored. And her people were once very skilled seafarers, as we find out in one of their gripping, song moments and at the end they take up that heritage again.

And we've done that one before. It's got great songs, strong girl power message. But what I also discovered today was that it was renamed. Vianna, I'm going to say, in most of Europe, so not UK, Ireland and Turkey, but most of Europe it's called Vianna,

due to trademark issues, especially in some Asian countries with a cosmetic brand called Moana, and in Italy it's called Oceana to avoid confusion with the porn actress Moana so,

Sidey: could be unfortunate for a

Dan: I wonder, I wonder how far along the line they got before somebody pulled them up on it.

Reegs: I know. Well, it's like those DVD boxes or whatever that went out for,

Sidey: Oh

Reegs: Wicked.

Sidey: Wicked.

com.

Reegs: Yeah.

Sidey: So hang on, because one of the songs is I Am Moana.

Reegs: I know. I was thinking about that in the car on the way down here,

Sidey: so they'd have to re voice it, I Am Viola na.

Dan: la.

Reegs: we've got listeners in some of those countries. I mean, it would be, yeah, go on, try and tell us

Sidey: yeah, I want to know. I need closure on that. Some old school ones, I guess. Captain, well, I could link this to, actually, Captain Ahab.

Reegs: Oh, well this, you can link to three if you're real clever about this one.

Go on.

Sidey: And is it Ishmael?

Is the yeah, narrator and then I was going to take that into outer space to Jean Luc Picard because maybe Dick is his favorite book.

Reegs: nice.

Sidey: So, there you go. Yeah. And I'm going to have that as sailing. It's kind of like, you know,

Dan: Yeah

Sidey: Conquistadors of the sky.

Dan: Oh, I guess so. Yeah. They're sailing

Sidey: was your, what was the third?

Reegs: I was just thinking that it's quite a lot of fertile ground, isn't it, Moby Dick? But Gregory Peck.

Sidey: Yeah. Oh, Mutiny on the

Reegs: Well, like, yes. He was also Hornblower and Moby Dick, and, and one that doesn't have a euphemism for penis, the Guns of Navarone.

But that was also Gregory Peck as well, but. He, he was sailor in all of those, Dan.

them.

Dan: can you remember, can you remember Captain Edward Teach?

Reegs: Black beard? That's

Dan: Blackbeard, yeah. I liked him best when he was played by Peter Ustinov. And it was the ghost of Blackbeard. And he haunted a small town. This was a late

Sidey: thought you didn't do horror.

Dan: 70s. It was a kind of comedy more than a

horror. But Peter Ustinov was Pretty cool. And he, yeah, he did he had lots of pirate charm.

I just remember this one as a kid because Blackbeard was the pirate, wasn't he? He was the one that everybody had heard of and he Put fuses in his beard and light them to, when he was going aboard to scare

Sidey: other

Dan: just bow to his pirateness and his beard.

was badass.

Reegs: Who is it next?

Sidey: res. Oh.

Reegs: blimey. What

about well sailors are horny. We know that and the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man wore a little sailor suit

Sidey: did actually. Yeah. And

Reegs: I think even there's even a line about We'll try and get him ladies in New York or something that Venkman says so There's that.

Dan: There is that. There is that.

Reegs: Oh And Donald Duck I was thinking and because he's sort of a bit like determinism with him because he's a sailor and he wears a sailor suit, but he's also a duck.

Like, because he's a semi-aquatic. Does he have, what if he'd wanted to be a hairdresser or something?

Sidey: Yeah, and there's always the thing about him being clothed from the top half, but naked. So

Reegs: no trousers.

Sidey: So there's that. What about the, I take it in a literary direction.

Reegs: Oh, please.

Sidey: One of my favorite literary works is

Reegs: Oh

clearly. Oh, oh yeah.

Sidey: clearly better in the page than it was on the screen. And in the comic books, there is in parallel to the main story, a secondary story called tales of the black freighter,

Reegs: Yeah. Oh

Sidey: which echoes and mirrors a lot of the themes and the plot of the main story.

It's very clever. It's very rad. And he murders everyone much like,

Reegs: He doesn't realize that he

has

Sidey: think it's his own family, isn't it, in the end? It's gruesome and fucking brilliant and rad. And it doesn't translate into the film at all.

Dan: No, it's a shame, because it

Sidey: have been quite complicated to

Dan: lent me all those comics, and they were fantastic. I always think of It's cold and I wanna Go home. Tired and I wanna Go to bed.

Reegs: Yeah.

Dan: I mean, Robert Shaw fantastic grizzled shark hunter whose monologue about the USS Indianapolis gives it a little more depth into this three men on a boat situation and Jaws just.

Coming to terrorize him and the way that he goes as well It's just how he would have wanted to go on his boat being taken down by the mother of all great whites Interesting. I was listening

To the news and reading an article about how there's I think 20 different types of great whites

Reegs: Ooh, really?

Dan: so

they think that, yeah, they're learning so much about them.

There's all these different kind of

Sidey: see a young girl was killed by a shark last week from sheena in os

Dan: Really? Always gets the news.

Sidey: Water i guess

They just live in the water.

So,

you're just kind of playing with fire really though.

Dan: they have a lot of water to be fair. They've got a

Sidey: Yeah, well, they're hungry, hungry dudes, so.

There's a shark somewhere near Greenland, isn't there? That's supposed to be like three or four hundred years old. They

Reegs: Oh yeah, I've seen a video on that, yeah.

Sidey: It's pretty obvious, isn't it? It's old

Dan: Somebody will try

Sidey: Yeah. Yeah. That would be bad form.

Reegs: Well, I was thinking a couple we did on the pod Muppets Treasure Island. Smollett. Yeah. It's particularly the great reveal. Remember they're building him up. It's like what a massive badass is.

He's like a raging volcano

Sidey: raging volcano.

Reegs: got a bit. And the Jackal. Do you remember that one? It had a big subplot about a regatta that was happening in Chicago and he sails his little boat in. I think it's the first time he. sees him because he's the only guy who's seen the jackal's face and he's got the sunglasses on as he's Grasping his tiller with both hands.

So that's some stuff we did on the pod. And another one is all is lost the robert redford one.

Sidey: yeah, yeah.

Dan: Yeah, yeah,

Reegs: his boat gets hit by it's that's how the movie yeah shit. Yeah

Sidey: A shitting container.

Dan: a little hit, doesn't it, on the side, and he's, he patches it up, and then something else happens, and it's like one disaster unfolding after another. I think the only word in it is fuck.

Reegs: There's 51 words in the entire movie including anything that you hear on the radio and stuff I looked it up

Dan: And He just plays the perfect sailor, like, given all the things that have gone wrong for him. He done everything as you could possibly hope a sailor

would

Reegs: could possibly hope a sailor would. There was an

Dan: wrong.

Reegs: one that we watched,

Dan: Yeah. I thought he

Sidey: There was an animated one that we watched, it was a silent one as well. The Man. Okay, he washes up, doesn't he, on a desert island.

Oh, yeah. That we all really liked. The Red Turtle. That's the one. Yeah, and also, do you remember a blue stuffed toy with a red blanket, Piggle?

Reegs: Piggle It was

Sidey: in the night garden, arrives at the night garden and leaves the night garden on a little rowboat and we determined there was a dead sailor's sort of dying fever dream as he was

Dan: time for bed.

Reegs: Marine. Out in the middle of the ocean. Piddle.

Dan: Do you remember Nicole Kidman and Sam Neill

Reegs: I've got it here. Dead calm. Yeah. It's a good one. Yeah. Billy Zane.

Dan: Yeah, Billy Zane just

Yeah,

Reegs: Yeah.

They got that massive yacht in the middle of nowhere. It's just they, they find him, don't they? And they bring him on board. It's kind of sexy. That movie as well with

Dan: Yeah, well you see

Reegs: and Nicole?

Sidey: Well, she's just done Baby Girl as well, have you read about that?

Reegs: No, but She's the

Sidey: the CEO, it's nothing to do with sailing, but it's sexy. She's the CEO, and starts bonking one of the interns, but it's in a very submissive way.

It's an H84 movie, and there's been loads of chat about it, because she's well horny in it.

Reegs: horny isn't it?

Sidey: I've got some

musical albums. One of my favorite bands is called Ween and they have one called The Mollusk. It has the title track, The Mollusk. Hey, little boy, what you got there? Kind sir, it's a mollusk I found. And there's various other tracks about the sea and about sailing and just the ocean in general.

It's fucking rad. The album cover is this kind of like bric a brac. Patchwork Mutant Phish thing. Great, great band and a really good record if you want to check it out.

Dan: record. Yeah. I see what you there. A pirate's favorite letter?

Ah, you'd think so but it's the sea.

Reegs: It's on me, yeah.

Dan: Well, there's a few Errol Flynn played a few Pirates and sailors in his time he against all flags in 52 He also

Reegs: flag

Dan: He did captain blood back in 35 as well Captain jack sparrow, of course with johnny depp another captain And long john silver played a couple of different Characters.

But there was Tim Curry who played him in the Muppet Treasure Island, and you may have forgotten Gina Davis

in

Sidey: Oh, cutthroat Island.

Reegs: Island, Rennie Harlin, yeah.

Sidey: a massive flock. Wasn't it?

Dan: Yeah, it was, it was a, it was a, it was a floppy, she was a part.

Reegs: Yeah, or something, yeah.

You interested in a couple of celebrities or movie stars who are also sailors in their part time?

Well, Morgan Freeman has got a big hard on for the for the boats, yeah. He first became smitten, he says, when he got aboard an 18 foot dinghy in landlocked Stouffvermont.

But he's since cruised thousands of open ocean miles aboard his Shannon 43, a solid blue water cruiser. Humphrey Bogart, he was known as a celebrity sailor, along with many of his

Dan: Well, he did the African Queen, didn't he? He

Reegs: And he went out with his wife, Lauren Bacall, and he competed in a regatta, which has now been renamed in his honor, the Bogart Series, and Antonio Banderas with his wife, Melanie Griffith.

Griffith, she's, they're both actors and they, he is a keen sailor as well. He bought he keeps a cruising yacht and birthed in his home city of Malaga and purchased the Royal yacht of the Spanish King when it entered the

Dan: going overboard, isn't it?

Sidey: ever done much sailing yourself

Reegs: I did. I went on a barge. Canals and stuff is that it's that's not really the sailors is it

Sidey: It's a kind of sailing, I would say.

Reegs: Yeah, i've done that and I have been obviously i've been backwards and forwards on a yacht from jersey to france a couple

Sidey: That's

pretty cool. I'm

Dan: gonna say like in the bath, you know, when you just push the water to and fro,

Sidey: about You done, ever done any

Dan: I've been a passenger. I'm not so much of a sailor, but I have done a few epic boat journeys. I went from Madras to the Andaman Islands, four days or five days,

Reegs: On a, on a

Dan: on a boat.

which

saw whales all kinds of things.

Reegs: You went via Wales?

Sidey: that is a hell of a

Dan: Yeah,

Sidey: No wonder it took so long.

Dan: And

also

Sidey: an hour round trip.

Dan: What now would be thought of as a terrifying trip between, and Neas, one of the islands just off Sumatra went through a storm.

The boat was absolutely rampant with people and mangoes. And, like, there were people lying on the steps. You couldn't move anywhere in this store because First of all, they're all outside, but then the storm came, so everybody moved inside, and it was clearly like, just,

Sidey: and safety hazard.

Dan: oh, absolute nightmare, where everybody would have gone down, if I managed to sneak through a window and find myself onto the captain's bed or something but he was at the wheel all night, so he didn't need it and and then in the morning, it cruised and, and sailed through, and he bought me tea.

Yeah, which was nice. Yeah. Or yeah, but I'm not a great sailor Are

you gonna narrow this down to,

Reegs: choice? A choice? Yes. Shall I go first? Yes, go on. I'm going for, in one of the episodes of Brass Eye, they do an expose of homosexuality in the Navy. Exposing that sailors doing ridiculous things like marching in pairs pressed right up against each other and devoting 90 percent of their medical training to treating penis wounds.

Sidey: failures.

And it's

Reegs: And it's also got a guy who's like fellating a gun as well. Yeah, Brass Eye, The Sailors in Brass Eye.

Sidey: Cool. I'm going to keep it musical. Kate Bush, the album Hounds of Love, side two is called the ninth wave, which is a taken from apparently the ninth wave of a storm is in nautical terms, the one that always gets you. But all the songs on that side of the album are about a woman who has been taken from one another over the next 10 years.

probably, you know, flung off a boat or a boat has sank. So she's not a great sailor, it would seem, but it could have been just a, you know, unfortunate mishap. But you have songs like and dream of sheep. Let me be weak. Let me sleep and dream of sheep under ice where she visited envisages herself, you know, stuck in the water under under ice, waking the witch, which is then Drowning the witches and more watery stuff jig of life where she potentially is saved Hello earth and the morning fog fucking brilliant I've listened to that one or two times.

Um big big fan

album? And i've seen that perform it live as well fucking incredible

Dan: Well, I'm going to go for Sinbad the Sailor.

It was yeah, the classic ones. It was brilliant when I was a kid growing up. He was just fantastic. and

Reegs: Inspired as well, Dan, unless, maybe you knew this already, but he was inspired by the cartoon that we are watching.

Dan: little bit like one and we have done with reviewing. Yeah. So there we go. Let's hear your sailors.

Sidey: But hang on, because we

Reegs: Hello, sailor.

Sidey: we might have already

Reegs: We might have already had

Dan: What?

Down

Reegs: at the dock.

Go and see what's happening down at the dock side.

Sidey: Darren Leafley he's, we've, we've gone for it already, but, because it's such a classic one. It was Quint from Jaws. Survivor of the sinking of the USS Indianapolis.

Is what he

Dan: He couldn't survive Jaws.

Reegs: No. he could

Sidey: not.

Dan: Eventually got him.

Sidey: so we need some more sailors.

Reegs: You alright, Uncle Tommy,

Dan: Uncle Tommy, he's a great sailor, aye.

just sit in for Daniel. Aye, aye. True spirit. like spirits, you know. Had a few spirits last night. Ha ha! Carry on.

Reegs: I

was just going to say it was rated 10 plus for fear.

Dan: Aye, it's a scary film.

Reegs: Well, film, I think is how they say

Dan: the

piss?

Sure.

Sidey: fat, boys.

Dan: I'm, back boys.

Sidey: It was

nice to hear from Tommy there.

Dan: Yeah. . Well, you know, keep him under control.

Reegs: Yeah, definitely keep him on a leash.

Sidey: When I was editing, because I wasn't at the pod last week, but when I was editing last week's episode I did enjoy the interaction where you were describing this film that we're watching, True Spirit. And Riggs live reaction to it. Which was, sounds absolutely fucking shit.

Ha ha ha

Dan: Yeah, and now you got to see it for your

Sidey: We'll find out how that plays out.

Dan: your own three eyes.

Sidey: Yeah. It is a true story.

Reegs: Yes.

Sidey: About a 16 year old Australian girl.

Reegs: An incredible true story. Yeah. you a little

Sidey: Were you a little bit worried

that she was super hot and you were perving at a 16 year old

Dan: That wasn't really, I watched this with, I watched this with my daughter and my better half and looking for nice family films, you know, as you do

Reegs: you do. I

mean

Dan: I

can't believe you hated on this already before we

started.

Sidey: Could be, toying with you.

Dan: It could

Reegs: Who knows?

Dan: who knows. Did you watch this with anyone?

Reegs: No, just me.

Dan: Ha ha ha, you dirty son.

What about you?

Sidey: Me and the Mrs.

Dan: Yeah, okay, sensible. So you just watched a 16 year old girl on your own rigs.

Sidey: So we have watched a a sailing movie before, as we mentioned earlier, the Robert Redford. Yeah. And so going into it, I was,

Dan: That's pretty gritty, that one,

Reegs: one.

Sidey: concerned that the nature of the beast is a solitary character out at sea and that potentially is problematic cinematically because it's really boring.

So I was I was hoping that that wasn't going to be a problem with this

Reegs: be a problem with this film. Do you have make

Sidey: the story is, I sort of, it sort of flicks around a bit with her as a, you know, much younger

Reegs: of flicks

Sidey: Yeah

Reegs: a

Sidey: Yeah We

Reegs: but I was about, you know, much younger

Sidey: homeschool.

Reegs: Yeah, and

Sidey: I think that's more challenging than circumnavigating the globe.

Reegs: Yeah, homeschooling, yeah. But they are incredible people and they've got a real love of the ocean embedded throughout the family but particularly in

Dan: yeah, they live right,

Sidey: there on the water, they're playing around on the water, and just one day at the dinner table, she says, well, you know, this is as a, I don't know what she would have been at the

Reegs: Nine, I think.

Sidey: Yeah, dead, dead young.

Reegs: We get this through flashback,

Dan: yeah. And just before that, what leads to this moment is that she has, I think she's a dyslexic or she had some trouble reading, didn't

Sidey: She's a test, a test, one of the test

Dan: Yeah. And she. Learns that her first book and is about somebody, a

Reegs: The Explorer, yeah.

Dan: is sailed around the world and I forget the name of the, the other person. We'll, we'll try and find it

Reegs: no

we won't. But

Dan: one day. We might. Let's not give up hope. And So she's inspired and it, it made me think, well, you know, imagine that you're young and you've not really been able to read,

Reegs: mm-hmm.

Dan: and you've had a lot of trouble doing it.

And then as you're learning a book for the first time, you're also learning this story of an amazing adventure of, it really just ingrained deeply into her, I guess. So she really read every word and really tried to understand every word.

Sidey: And she's absolutely inspired by it, and she says to her folks, as a very, very young child, That this is what I'm gonna do. And they were like, okay, cool, yes.

Reegs: yeah, and they support her fully and but she pulls her own way as well.

We see her working like a variety of jobs and stuff and yeah saving up money to achieve her dream. The story really, though, kicks off for us with a kind of near miss a test run that happens. Jessica's boat. is the pink lady I think it's called and she's out on the waters doing a test run and she's hit by a freighter that strayed off course and she didn't notice because she'd gone to sleep and turned off the proximity alarm so I mean it you know it wasn't really a rookie error it wasn't really her fault in some way she's saying she's out in the middle of nowhere but she's come back she's been hit

Sidey: The master's fucked. She's kind of stranded and she, because she's stressed understandably when she radios in to the crew at home and they're asking for her coordinates, she's not able to read them out properly because of the dyslexia

Reegs: Yeah. It's,

Sidey: the, you know, the high stakes situation is like, got her muddled.

So that's going to have to be an obstacle she'll need to overcome

Reegs: And there's also a whole load of other shit going around because there's already the start of a media circus and opposition and

Sidey: A government bill!

Reegs: her motor her mentor Ben that will come to know a little bit more about but he off the back of this test run, he even go goes out and says, Oh, don't call the coast guard because we don't want the media to find out.

And they're already calling her irresponsible and whatnot for, and the family as well

Sidey: She had asked, as

Reegs: I know.

Dan: she had asked, as you said, at nine years old, I'm going to do that. I'm going to, and they're like, well, yeah. Okay. As you do to nine year olds, you're going to have to do this. You're going to have to do this. You're going to have to do this course in that course. You're going to have to learn. Yeah.

Reegs: Yep,

Dan: And over those. Kind of six years. That's what she does. She just throws herself into learning it all and

Sidey: Yep. She's very committed. Yeah,

Dan: Yeah, she's really committed and she's just a sponge for information and she wants that a mentor in Ben Who is obviously quite?

know apprehensive about

Sidey: got so

high profile that the government are going to try and even pass a bill that would forbid this to even get off, get off the ground law.

And so they're kind of rushing this through now so that they can get set off before this thing goes through, that would stop it, stop it in its tracks. So, it's been like contact this bit, there's a second boat. Effectively that they've got in a warehouse that Crue's been working on that is going to enable her to still

Reegs: back up and get it all going for her. So the attempt that she's going to do this circumnavigation, it's a non stop, if she has to port, she's disqualified.

So she has to cross all the lines of longitude and round all four capes for it to

Dan: which is what jesse martin did

Reegs: Jesse Martin. Oh, we did look it up. Well done,

Dan: Yeah, you go

Reegs: So she's, you know, the plan is to start with going from Sydney up north past the equator and then south around Cape Horn in Chile and then cross the Atlantic to the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa and then over the Indian Ocean to Western Australia again and then back round,

Sidey: Yeah.

Reegs: back round home.

Dan: And you have to kind of go. up and down so you do a wide

Reegs: the equator.

Yeah.

Dan: a wide enough belt of the, you can't do this skinny bit just in the bottom or at the top. You've got to go the widest circumference or a certain

Reegs: There's a certain minimum distance. Yeah. To, to say that you've Yeah. Done a

Dan: Which we only learn at the end.

Reegs: it's gonna take seven months, 210 days. I mean, it's crazy to think really of a 16-year-old going

Sidey: that. Well, it's like 5 years from now our daughter's doing it. It's just not fucking possible, not in a million years.

Dan: I've only got, like, three years. Better Yeah. So they,

Sidey: So they get, they, they sort of put her, load her stuff into the ship and they write slogans on there and she points out to where the shitter is. Yeah.

Dan: Danny, mate. Yeah.

Sidey: away we go. Sleazy kind

Reegs: guy called Atherton who may have been named after the reporter in Die Hard or

Sidey: Michael Atherton,

Reegs: Atherton. Yeah, the cricketer or the sleazy guy in

Dan: that's what it was, over the cricketer.

You know what the Aussies are

Reegs: Oh, it could have been actually. Yeah.

Dan: and they wanted to to put the boot

Reegs: he's the sort of face of the disapproving media back home. And then there's.

Sidey: They kind of portray him and all these people asking questions as being, you know, the enemy. But I think they're all completely valid questions about

Dan: not like that she hadn't She wasn't prepared though. It wasn't just sending out any sixteen year old. She had done certain,

sailing

Reegs: 10,

Sidey: 000 nautical miles and blah, blah, blah.

But still, it's like,

you

know, fucking rough out there.

Reegs: Yeah. And her mentor as well, Ben, that we haven't it's Cliff Curtis. We probably said that, did we?

Sidey: No, I

Reegs: He's popping up in this and he's kind of a bit tortured.

He lives on a boat. His backstory has something to do with a companion who was killed in the, in the Continental Cup or something. Is

Dan: you, you would have seen him in maybe the piano once were warriors.

Sidey: Once Were Warriors is what I was

Dan: yeah. While wider as well.

Reegs: He was in a few, he was in something we watched recently as well.

Can't remember for the pod,

Dan: really good.

Reegs: Anyway, so she sets off on her journey, doesn't she? And she makes, it goes in pretty smoothly. She's calling in daily. She's got a little vlog

Dan: It all

Reegs: the go,

Dan: well, yeah.

Reegs: her coordinates and all that. And they're tracking her at home on a map that's up and all this stuff.

And there's whales and other marine life. It's all pretty good. She gets to the equator. She. Drinks a cup of tea and, or whatever, drinks some of the water or sloshes some of her own stuff into it as well and salutes Poseidon or something, toasts Neptune. And then,

Sidey: gotta be a storm at some point.

Reegs: yeah, that comes on day thirty three.

A massive big storm and she decides to lower this thing, they've already talked about it once, the drogue.

Sidey: Yeah. A soft anchor. Yeah. It will keep the boat steady and hopefully stop it from

Dan: Yeah, and you hope, hope that the storm just blows over, goes past you while you slow down.

Sidey: And you're meant to be then,

Dan: yeah, you

Sidey: everything locked down, you

Dan: and everything.

Reegs: to the boat and No,

Dan: didn't do that so well this time and she gets knocked

Sidey: Well, she's trying to bring the sail in, isn't she? She's trying to, she's trying to do all this stuff and this storm just comes in

Dan: left, she's left it too late, hasn't

Sidey: And she is tethered to the boat on a rope, but a wave comes and smacks her and she very nearly goes out. It's just the, the wire kind of like thing that stops her.

And so she gets back in, puts the sort of door thing up in stages and then a frying pan, like a comedy frying pan, just whacks her in the face and she's out cold.

Reegs: So it's tense stuff, but back home and she tells her parents, obviously they're worried and there's a bit of a dilemma about should they, you know, call it off or not, but she's determined to follow her dream. They've talked a lot about it being her dream and she's maintaining this video blog, which is starting to get out now and is a sort of,

she's controlling her message to the media in a, but

Dan: a, in a blip.

I thought they were alright. kids. Yeah, she's alright.

Reegs: they were all right, those two.

Dan: dreadful. We do

Sidey: She

Reegs: Yeah, she did all right.

Sidey: fucking

Reegs: Ha

Sidey: but we do see some clips of, of people around the world. Yeah. And really cheesily done

Reegs: Oh, the British one was great. She just, this woman like clutching her pearls, like that's

Sidey: she was like Dolores Umbridge from fucking Harry Potter. And so we can see that it's inspiring people further afield.

Reegs: Yes.

Dan: She goes through a period then of dead calm.

Reegs: Yeah.

Dan: Which is exactly that, there is no wind and it lasts for

I don't

know, six, seven, eight days or something, or longer,

Sidey: crazy. She's

Reegs: something,

Dan: Yeah, well, she's just not going anywhere, and it's strange, isn't it?

Reegs: and it's strange, isn't it? She gets into a heated

Sidey: going

Dan: and she gets she gets into a heated argument with Ben. Yeah. And says words that she can't really take back, which puts him on the back foot and, and less kind of inclined to help her.

And she feels like she's, you know, just drives her further into depression. But she's alone out there at sea. She's 16 years old and things aren't going well.

Reegs: She eventually does, I think speak to her mum, who helps her, kind of gives her the mental strength to keep going. She reminds her of a song that she used to sing to her at night, which she'll then Serenade herself to be it's an awful cover version of Starman by David Bowie.

Sidey: clearly

didn't have the budget for the real licensing.

Reegs: So they decide to stare at the North Star, I guess, and no, you know, says, Oh, you know, I'll be staring at it too. It's a nice touching And there's a bit more like you were talking about her backstory. She talks about no one explores anymore. This is her dream as a nine year old. There've been more people in space than have circumnavigated the globe, the globe.

And that's her motivation to do this stuff.

Dan: But the wind gets going. Yeah. And she continues her journey and she's getting closer to, to Australia.

And there's another storm. In fact, there's three storms.

Reegs: Mm.

Dan: It's a fucking nightmare. I mean, can you ima the, the waves

Sidey: They tell her this one, no, this one you've got to, you've just got to get to port, fuck it's too dangerous,

Reegs: She's already like poly fill in her

Sidey: Yeah, she says it's not, it's not great when there's leaks in the boat, but you know, it's what it is.

Yeah, I know.

Reegs: And these three storms, like you say, are converging into kind of one mega storm. And she decides this crazy plan.

They're like, well, you know, put the drug out like you did last time. Lash yourself down. She's like, no. We're going to surf it we're going to use the momentum of the ocean to push it, you know, yeah, it's crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy, but she has done a load of calculations, you know, imagine how difficult this must be already for her and she's, you know, she sends them back to Ben to double check and all that stuff, he's kind of back in the fold at this point, he says, I'll come out to meet you if you make it through the storm.

It

Dan: Because it doesn't look good and the

Sidey: It's gonna get a heck of a lot worse. So,

Dan: So, she says she makes the final call, that's what I'm going to do, I'm not going to put down the, the drogue, which would have slowed her down and and potentially, you know, Not got a home when she, she wanted to. She was so close then I guess, you know, a thousand miles away.

Which sounds a lot still to me, but considering, you know, St. Marlowe is a bit of a mission for us when we're going over. Mean, you can see that and the waves are just. Awesomely big

Sidey: this time she does, she does strap herself in. And then we

Reegs: can just, see the

Sidey: we just see the size of the wave and the boat just getting further and further up it.

And

Reegs: then it

Sidey: it gets vert and then it goes over and she's then facing the wrong way. And it just hits

Dan: And

Sidey: it goes under. It's a

Dan: it's a wave, it's like a

Reegs: like a It's

Dan: and she's 15, 20 feet underwater

Sidey: And it's not going anywhere.

Completely,

Dan: and the boat is just still. And you can imagine on top, it ain't smooth either, you know, it's

Sidey: They can, they can see the readings of the boat. They know that it's gone.

Dan: Yeah.

Sidey: And there's, they're not reaching her.

Reegs: Yeah.

And it's kind of serene for her in there because she's underwater. Like the carnage has actually stopped for a second and she's reaching out to a photo that's above her bed. But yeah, like you say, they don't know. It's

Dan: a point of acceptance for her like

Sidey: under ice. Yeah. Can't

Dan: Can't do anything and she pops up like a cork Because

Sidey: Not, not before we've had, like, everyone at home fucking blubbing and

Dan: Oh yeah, they've all given up

Sidey: Mother's Anna Paquin, by the way. Crying, obviously. And her siblings. We've not talked about them much, but we do get some stuff about them.

And her getting gradually more and more homesick when she, she's kind of missing out on all their

Reegs: felt their relationship felt kind of authentic, the siblings and like within the confines

Dan: they're the, a sister who's going off to university,

Sidey: brothers start to date, Yeah, a

Dan: and they're all absolutely so proud of her and

can't believe

Sidey: believe but they're they're doing stuff in their own right as well and she kind of gets a bit sad that she's missing out but anyway she does she does emerge from the depths and brings home and they're fairly relieved to hear from her

Reegs: And then she sails back, and this is nice, wasn't it?

You know, going back round into, into Sydney Harbour, and loads of people come out to meet

Sidey: the reporter guys come full circle he's like super into it yeah

Reegs: what an

Dan: Ben sails out and gives a bit of a captain salute. And

Reegs: Prime

Sidey: She looks absolutely immaculate.

Reegs: Yes.

Dan: well, she's got a fork for her hair, hairbrush. So

Sidey: you said, it's where we get another little

Reegs: like he said as well, we get another little montage of people around the world celebrating a British person, Indian person, and I can't remember what other stereotypes they abused, but Maybe it was like a French person with a baguette, and a Spanish person with a bull cape or something, I don't know.

Sidey: or

Reegs: was like that. And she gives the, he declares her a hero, the Prime Minister,

Sidey: she says, fuck off mate.

but

she does shoot him down. She goes, no, I'm just a person who just wanted to do something. Followed

Dan: their dream.

Sidey: Yeah.

Reegs: And worked really hard. She taught, you know, because it is a big theme about it. But and then it says here in my notes, more terrible music and then finish with actual footage, which really was incredible. From 2010 and a bit of text explaining how her journey actually entailed seven storms and knockdowns, 70 feet waves.

She's written two books, you know.

Sidey: With dyslexia.

Reegs: dyslexia is and she continues to sail to this day. What an incredible woman.

Dan: Yeah. And I, you know, I like to watch these things with my daughter. These kind of films, these inspiring female characters, true stories and, and have her go, Oh, look. You know, 16 years old, she just put her mind to it and she did it and,

Sidey: yeah, what are you doing?

Dan: and yeah, and you're, you know,

Sidey: you're just sitting there watching the

Dan: you're watching Modern Family you can say that you binged like all of Brooklyn Nine Nine, but yeah, no, it, it was a fantastic movie.

Story being that is true, you know, and this girl has done it. It may not be the strongest film I I get the sense that you you didn't like it, but I really enjoyed watching it with my daughter really enjoyed this positive kind of role model and somebody so young who's done this it's just So brave, I mean I don't, yeah.

Say I

Sidey: know.

Dan: I dunno. I don't think it, because she did it and she, she was determined that she could

Reegs: And there would have been less chat, I think, if it would have been a boy. Yeah. And you know, so, women being excluded from these sorts of things, and then having significant achievements a big thing

Dan: And yeah. What, what did you think?

Sidey: Yeah, amazing story and yeah, like what a phenomenal achievement that I, in no way, shape or form would've allowed my daughter to do

But it will never crop up anyway, so it's kind a moot point. The film itself getting on fin nearly two hours is way too long. All the stuff I was,

Like, concerned about, you know, long sequences of someone just sitting in a boat. Yeah, it's a bit boring. It's Yeah, it's too long. I mean, it does, you know, it's absolutely a direct to TV movie.

That's what it looks

Dan: We watched it over a couple of nights to be fair. It was one of those we put on around about, know, 9 o'clock or half past

Sidey: I think the, I think the lead was, was good.

Reegs: Teagan Croft, she was quite good, I thought.

It

Sidey: all right. Yeah. It was kind of

Reegs: It's a very good story and they do some really nice visual things where the budget stretched where they could like that. Do you remember the scene with the stars reflected in the ocean and the gaseous nebulas and stuff? That was pretty good. The writing was again, I've said this, I think about Bromley boys.

It's a little bit, just kind of TV soap opera. It really felt much above that. And so, a lot of the characters were very one dimensional. And the tensions felt very forced. Especially around the coach and that sort of stuff. So, as a movie, it's a kind of, you know.

Dan: must admit that the missus didn't like the mother, she just didn't believe her at all.

Reegs: Oh

Dan: Yeah, and I

Reegs: was good

Dan: one of the better ones, but yeah Anna Paquin,

Reegs: There's a really nice moment where, towards the end, where they're all split on whether to let her do this sort of thing. It's like Ben says, yes, mum says no, and it falls to dad. And he says, I, it's what you say is should be the deciding you know, giving her the power and a nice moment in the story.

Dan: Yeah, I

Sidey: it's ginger

Dan: if, if,

Reegs: exactly. So, there's always a bad sign. It's a bad thing, isn't it?

Dan: She makes it, that's the nice bit.

It's

Reegs: an incredible story though. What, what a huge achievement. Even though like you

Sidey: it. did

Reegs: off air, Dan, she didn't actually quite

Dan: enough.

Sidey: Yeah, but who cares about that because she did she did she fucking did she went did all that

Dan: There are some kind of rules around it. She could have done another 50 miles, or I don't know, whatever.

The bad

Sidey: The bad thing is I watched on a Sunday night, you know the Sunday night vibe when you know fucking work tomorrow And then I was thinking some people are doing shit this and I'm like going to work wank. So I

Reegs: Well she's done that 16 and then done a load of other Yeah, exactly.

Dan: this is it. She's, she's an author now.

That's it. She's an

Sidey: it's boring. Boring.

Reegs: A lucky.

Dan: is explorer.

Reegs: I know, and look at you, you're just a pitiful piece of shit.

Dan: So if you want to feel good about yourself, don't watch this one.

Reegs: one. It's

Sidey: It's a streaming movie, so there's no financial data to tell you about.

Precious little trivia really about it either. The trivia is the film, I suppose.

Dan: cost a boat.

Reegs: So, yeah, strong recommend for Jessica

Dan: Australian of the year in

Sidey: wonder what

Dan: wonder what The Australian of the Year

Sidey: Australian of

Dan: must have. Yeah, it must but Strong.

Reegs: Yeah.

Let's bring this ship home.

Dan: Okay. Popeye the man

Sidey: meets Sinbad.

Dan: Yeah. They're all in

Sidey: 1936.

Reegs: start of the

Sidey: Yeah.

Reegs: 1936. And considering what this looks like, 1936, honestly, it's amazing.

Sidey: came in, and she's like, oh, what's this? And I said, this is Popeye, and this is nearly 100 years old. And she went, how can it be? They didn't, they hadn't invented color.

Reegs: colour. The

Sidey: the whole world was just black and white until, like, the 50s when they invented color.

Well,

Reegs: when they invented

Sidey: it for ages, there was

Dan: for ages. Everybody wore black

and

Reegs: all black and

Dan: Yeah, absolutely incredible animation.

there was one scene about halfway through this where Sinbad is singing and he's going through the tunnel and the animation was, it was like a.

I just couldn't believe how, how clever it was, but this starts anyway of,

Reegs: just on that note, because it was a patented technique, Dan. From Max Fleischer, the guy who produced this. It was called the Stereo Optical Process. Using 3D model sets with the animation cells photographed in front of them.

So this was a completely new technique that had been developed for this and two other Popeye

Dan: Pretty simple now, but

Sidey: see

Popeye for a fair while of the runtime. Mostly it's, it's Sinbad and he kind of lives on like a monster island.

Reegs: It's basically Bluto, isn't it? It is Bluto, but it's Sinbad. Yeah, he lives on Monster Island with all of his crocodiles and monkeys

Sidey: He's got some dragons there.

Fiber in the dragons and giant buzzard.

Reegs: Yeah, and he's abusing them.

Sidey: Yeah.

Dan: He's

got all kinds of weird creatures. He's

Sidey: Dr.

Dan: yeah, he's got a two headed

Sidey: ogre thing,

Dan: ogre thing. He's got a

Reegs: He's

got a huge skull,

Dan: And

he's also got the deepest sort of baritone voice and he loves to sing about how amazing and strong

he is.

Reegs: he is.

Sidey: He was

Dan: And

as he's singing, he's he's goes past all these creatures and they show how strong they are. He just, he hits two lions in the face.

Sidey: They cry, it's

Dan: yeah, just to prove how strong he is. The, the ogre with two heads breaks out of his chains and then he puts him back into his place and just shouts at

Sidey: intimidates him, doesn't he, yeah? I know,

Dan: they cry. He's a real

Reegs: of abuse.

Dan: He's a real bully.

Sidey: And he spies Pluto,

Dan: Well, he's singing, and, I am the strongest, and then Popeye sort of butts in, he gets a, an ear of his song,

Reegs: He's looking for trouble, is what I would say, Sinbad. Because Popeye is just not, he's minding his own

Dan: Well he's literally looking for trouble, he's got a telescope.

A telescope

Reegs: that he pulls out to find him, yeah.

Dan: he gets an eye of olive oil, and he thinks, ooh,

Reegs: The camera like, it zooms into her stick legs, just for a minute, like, ooh! So he sends the

Sidey: So he sends the giant buzzard to go and get her. Yeah. What's the name of the hamburger dude?

Reegs: handbagger dude? It is J. Wellington Wimpy.

Wimpy? Wimpy.

And

yeah, that's when you hear the first of his, like, Whatever that is, Tourette's, like, scat.

Oh, that buzzard. The buzzard comes

Dan: A. M.

Sidey: Yeah, the buzzard comes and Kidnaps Olive Oyl.

Dan: Well, he's under the command of of Sinbad who says wreck that boat and bring me the woman and he gives it all Give you it gives it the buzzer gives a wink says I don't know what you're talking

Sidey: Yeah, you do.

Dan: And he circles three or four times and he does exactly that he karate chops with his massive wing the sail then the boat in half

Reegs: And this is really only over a song. Yeah. It's like a rap battle that got well out of control, isn't it? It's like Tupac

Dan: you can't you can't go Dissing Sinbad and saying that you're the strongest. Popeye was saying he's the strongest. That was his song, wasn't it? Yeah. So

Sidey: Oliver, at one point he's

Reegs: gets a bit rapey.

Sidey: he's making a dance by he's got his they're kind of like bullets, aren't they? Like ball bearings,

Dan: us a, give us a big

Reegs: grapes? And he was spitting out things or olives or something.

Dan: He goes, give us a big old smacker. And she goes, I'll give you a smack. And she starts trying to lay into him. Popeye then grabs Mr. Wimpy. Power swims to the island and says, we've got to save Olive.

Sidey: I'm not sure

what Wimpy was going to

Dan: Wimpy straight away sees a duck, doesn't he?

he goes, oh, lunch!

And

Reegs: And then he pulls a meat grinder out of his

Sidey: and

Reegs: that, and follows it for the rest of the thing and then it steals his

Sidey: Yeah, goes in a cave and steals things. Let, we just need to get to the fight. Really?

Reegs: Yeah. So he goes through, he, he, he goes through the lions he drills through the castle wall. He fucking fights the giant which he, he knocks it out when it's got its head between his legs.

Dan: Yeah, he's ran between his legs and as the giant looks, both heads kind of look between his legs, he

hits him and he just levels him.

Reegs: and he cooks the chicken in a volcano. Brings it back all like served on a plate for it. Buzz the buzzard. Yeah, so then it is a fucking knockout ding-dong. Fight between Sinbad Sinbad and he

Dan: the animals and all the

Oh, what's

Sidey: Oyl's like, quite the aggressor as well, she's egging him on to be super violent.

Dan: she, her life depends

Reegs: is a certain type of person who likes to see that kind

of

Sidey: kind of

She says, she says, Popeye do the twist punch or whatever the fuck it is where he like winds up his entire arm round and round again and then punches Bluto. Of course we've got to have the bit with the

Reegs: the flex of the

Sidey: and then we get the, the flex of the arm and his bicep is like a turbine, it's a huge engine thing.

Super, super

masculine.

Dan: tail is going

through the

Reegs: going through the room. He

Sidey: mutates him into a giant radish. Is it a radish? Or I was wonder I was wondering, is it a beetroot or a radish?

Reegs: like a pepper. I wasn't sure what the, but yeah, he just squeezes him so hard that

Dan: He goes beetroot red.

Sidey: That's right, yeah.

Reegs: So yeah. Anyway, he fucking humiliates him basically after the spinach bats the shit out of him. I think he uses his face as a speed,

speed

Dan: they've, they've, they've kind of fought in a, in a

Sidey: in a, in a And he punches him so hard that he goes over a tree and is like hooked onto the top of it and then from somewhere a flag appears with spinach on it.

Reegs: yeah, and he's just like hung there, humiliated.

Dan: spinach flag. And then it cuts. That's

Sidey: And was that, was his ship, his ship is, it was overturned, it didn't capsize, did

Reegs: it? The cost of Concordia?

Dan: he split it in

Sidey: So how's, is he stuck on the, is he still

Dan: I'm sure he will manage it. I didn't There might have

Sidey: One thing about Popeye is he's grotesquely ugly. He's a real fucking mutant

Reegs: Yeah. I mean, his arms, like

Dan: forearms. Have you

Sidey: you ever seen a guy called bazooka hands on tick

Reegs: TikTok? I haven't seen Bazooka Hands.

Sidey: Have you seen the thing about synth synth oil?

Reegs: The people who inject muscles? Oh, what the

Sidey: Because Popeye's got he's got it in his forearm. There's literally no way you can have forearms like that But he's got like pencil arms and then enormous But this bazooka and there's countless other ones where they've I think they're all Russian for some reason and he's injected So he's just like, I'm a puny dude, but his bicep is fucking enormous, where the skin is like almost starting to rupture because it's so unnatural, I'll show you after.

Dan: Doubt.

Sidey: and that's what Popeye looks like.

Reegs: Yeah, yeah, he's, he's grotesquely, he's suffering from some sort of disability as well. Oh, that was the other thing that bothered me a little bit about the, Jessica Watson thing. I wanted the disability dyslexia thing would have been nicer to have lent into that a bit more and because it would have been a big obstacle for her to overcome breezed in about like

Sidey: did it in a test voyage and that was it, wasn't it? Yeah.

Reegs: he almost, Popeye almost certainly has dyslexia or, you know, something

Sidey: think just from all the violence, he's Well

Dan: something

Sidey: He's punch drunk, yeah, I think.

Dan: just from all the violence he's, um You know, he's, he's rope a doping him here, isn't he? He's just taking all the punches tired him out

Reegs: He's like, eye

Dan: had, had his I mean, spinach or performing

Sidey: enhancing stuff. There's something going on,

Dan: going on because it kicked him fast and he

Sidey: fast, and he just

Dan: he, he won big time after that. But for 1936

Reegs: Oh, he looks incredible.

Dan: Wow.

Reegs: The fluidity of the animation and then the imagination of it as well, you get this impossible physics that sometimes works for the character's benefit and sometimes against them and all this sort of stuff, it's

Sidey: Yeah, it's really

Dan: There was Robbie, Robin Williams, not Robbie Williams, Robin Williams

Sidey: You've got a bit of a pacing on Discord, by the way, about your hate of,

Reegs: Yeah man, why did you say that?

Dan: you say that?

Sidey: Mel was, Mel was all over it, and to you. Yeah. To point out that he was, he was well liked in

Dan: Australia.

Sidey: Still to this day. So that came up. But no, it was Robin Williams that played him. Did

Dan: played

Sidey: No.

Reegs: one? Yes, Robert Altman. It's, it's a crazy, crazy movie. Maybe we should do it for POD one time. Maybe episode 901, whatever, but Yeah,

Sidey: We've not done a Robert Almond yet, I

Dan: Okay.

Reegs: This,

Dan: scene.

Reegs: right, obviously the Oscars are complete bullshit now, but this got cheated out of the Oscars losing to something called the Country Cousin and you've never heard of that, but you have heard of Popeye,

Sidey: Of course.

Reegs: so fuck you the Country Cousin and fuck you the Academy Award

Dan: This was a solid choice.

Sidey: Yeah, this is the best thing we watched this week.

Reegs: Definitely.

Dan: There we Go Catch it on,

Sidey: on YouTube. Strong, strong recommend.

Dan: So more choices next week.

Sidey: think Riggs, I think it's

Reegs: it? Or Peter

Sidey: Peter's in Hong Kong, he goes to Hong Kong on Saturday.

Dan: I'm off. I'm I'll be in Elizabeth next week.

Sidey: week. We've still got access to the

Dan: we still got access? You've still got access,

so, there's no reason to to not do a pod. Do you have your choices ready to go so

Sidey: choices ready to

Reegs: your

Dan: choices. Oh, perfectly, perfectly unprepared.

Sidey: here.

Okay, well, happy days.

We'll be here, you won't be.

Dan: I will be

here in

Reegs: be. I'll be here in I'm

Dan: I'm not.

Sidey: fine. Reeds has left

Reegs: Dan has

Dan: and Dan has gone.