March 12, 2026

Ballad of a Small Player & Gardens

Ballad of a Small Player & Gardens

This week Sidey, Dan, and Cris fly solo — Simon's been called to Southampton on urgent business (he was spotted in a pub surrounded by tea cups, so make of that what you will). The dads are reviewing Ballad of a Small Player (2024), the new Netflix film from Edward Berger — the director behind All Quiet on the Western Front and Conclave — starring a very much on-form Colin Farrell. The Film: Colin Farrell plays Lord Doyle, a dissolute British gambler drowning in debt in the ...

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Season 28

 This week Sidey, Dan, and Cris fly solo — Simon's been called to Southampton on urgent business (he was spotted in a pub surrounded by tea cups, so make of that what you will). 

The dads are reviewing Ballad of a Small Player (2024), the new Netflix film from Edward Berger — the director behind All Quiet on the Western Front and Conclave — starring a very much on-form Colin Farrell.

 The Film: Colin Farrell plays Lord Doyle, a dissolute British gambler drowning in debt in the casinos of Macau — and if you thought Vegas was the gambling capital of the world, think again. Doyle owes 352,000 Hong Kong dollars to the house, is blagging his way past the front desk in a crumpled cravat, and somehow still looks magnificent. 

He falls in with a mysterious young woman at the Baccarat tables, and from there the film slides into gorgeous, ambiguous territory — is she real? Is any of this? And does it even matter when the rush of the bet is the only thing that feels true? Themes of addiction, redemption, obsession, and the question of whether you can ever really stop — all wrapped in the stylised, sun-drenched visual language of Macau's casino underworld. 

The lads give it two words each: "All in" (Dan), "Bizarre but funny" (Cris), and "Strong recommend" (Sidey). Consensus: go watch it. 

Top Five: Gardens The boys dig into their favourite cinematic, televisual, musical, and gaming gardens. From the gnome in Amélie and David Lynch's suburban lawn horror in Blue Velvet, to the brutal communal fields of Midsommar, Spirited Away's otherworldly beauty, and the garden in Saltburn that had certain members of the pod seeing quite a lot of a particular actor. Wonka's chocolate garden gets a nod, as does Miss Peregrine's hedge-portal to another time. 

Sidey & Reegs are also going to see Wu-Tang Clan at the O2. Protect ya neck. 

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Intro and on Danello.

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And Simon has left us high and dry, hasn't he?

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Yeah.

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Some sort of work priority unbelievable is not here.

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Yeah, you went to Southampton as well.

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Yeah.

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I know.

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What's going on in Southampton?

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He's such a worker.

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When you're the at the top of the tree, I don't know.

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The big boss man.

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You've got to go to Southampton.

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You just gotta drop everything and go.

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Yeah.

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We miss you, Cy.

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Dearly.

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We miss you dearly.

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Although we have seen him on Friday.

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We did.

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He was in the man cave, a rare night out.

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Yeah.

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And in the pub.

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Yeah.

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He was in the pub.

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He had loads of Garries with him.

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He had loads of sniff.

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Is he off the hook?

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He was off the hook.

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He had I don't know how many girls just in tow around him and everything.

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And he was dancing.

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Yeah, the entourage.

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That's what he'd done.

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I think he would want us to caveat that by saying it's not true.

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He probably would.

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Yeah, it's not true.

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He had his mates, but he he did, and and he was definitely but he had at least two cups of tea.

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Yes.

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Yeah.

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I think I probably I know I had half a glass of wine and I went home.

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That sounds like an absolute tear-up.

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Yeah, it was.

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Yeah, it was madness.

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Madness.

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But he has left us, which is why we're just mumbling and bumbling here.

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Um Yeah, the just for the usual this is Bad Dad's film review and these are the dads.

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Well, the things that are gonna happen is we're gonna talk about film.

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Yeah.

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We've got top five about gardens.

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Yeah.

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Nice.

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We do give away plot spoilers, and we do swear.

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We do.

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And I enjoyed hello.

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Yes.

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Now is the chance to press the objector button if you don't want to hear any of that content.

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Did you sorry, before I start.

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Walking football update, we didn't have a game.

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I know that's why they tune in these days.

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Sorry about that, but we have got a game on Mother's Day.

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Yeah.

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Perfectly timed.

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Yeah.

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Did you watch anything, Daniel, apart from the homework?

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I did.

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Let's circle back while I remember walking football.

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That sounds like that sounds like jargon talk.

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Yeah circling back.

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We are thank you.

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Yeah.

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Did you see that that that struck a nerve on Discord?

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I imagine it did, yeah.

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Oh, I've got something else going on on Discord, I'll tell you all about it in a minute.

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Disco cordio.

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We had, I'm sure, I'm sure, I'm sure, I'm sure.

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Sure, I'm sure.

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I thought that Darren had commented about what but Breachy got in touch to say that last week it was very triggering episodes.

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Yeah.

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Because she was sat in the office hearing someone say, Let's align on the logic.

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And then she put a gif of Adam Sonner saying a sudden kill me, please.

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And Mel, just following up on your thing about Elvis, says she saw that movie last week and it was fucking excellent.

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Thanks for that.

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Strong recommend for Mel.

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I'm looking forward to seeing that.

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I align with that logic.

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Perfect.

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What about you, Christian?

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What have I watched anything?

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Yeah.

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Yes, I have watched it took me about two weeks to finish it, but I watched that series on Netflix, His and Hers, with John Berthall.

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Right.

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That is her name, right?

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With him and I can't remember her name.

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I think she's British.

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She was in one of the Creeds.

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She's a black lady, quite a good actress, to be fair.

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Is that not Tessa something?

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Tessa Sanderson.

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Yeah, no, Thompson, Tessa Thompson.

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Yes, yeah, that's her.

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Yeah.

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Her and the John Arpal.

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And it's like a police cop thriller in the woods of Atlanta.

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Somewhere in Georgia.

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I I don't know.

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And it's to be fair, by the last episode, I was just like, just kill me now.

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Not going after season two.

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Definitely not.

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But provided the end.

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I know who killed all these women, and it's quite interesting.

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It's seven, six episodes.

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So for me, yes, six episodes.

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So for me, that's spot on.

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It took me two weeks to watch it.

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And I don't know if I've said this before.

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I did watch that House of Guinness.

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Okay.

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I'm probably bothered with that.

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Which is the series as well.

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Again, I like the costumes and like that kind of period and whatever.

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It's like Peaky Blinders, right?

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Yeah, yeah.

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Yeah, similar to that.

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I've not watched Peaky Blinders, but for me, as you are well aware, it attracts me the limited series.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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If it's that one and done.

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But the thing is with the House of Guinness, it's definitely geared up for the second season.

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Whereas with this one.

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But it's even worse on Netflix because what they will do is they will do that.

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They will plan for second series or the third series or fourth series.

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But if numbers drop off, they just kill it.

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So there's some so even if you watch them all, it might not even end properly.

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That's really fucking annoying.

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They just don't they won't put any more money into it.

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They're just fucking ruthless about it.

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And I think that's it.

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I don't think I watched anything else.

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I do remember some low-hanging fruit that I'm circled back to me.

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I watched Young Sherlock, which is Guy Richiewell.

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I've seen that advertised, yeah.

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So did you like it?

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The first episode of the book.

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I quite liked it, I must say.

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Yeah.

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We weren't straight into the next episode afterwards, like one was enough, but I will watch another one.

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It's I think it's Hero Tiffin Finds, which I believe is Ralph Finds.

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That's his name.

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Yeah.

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Hero Tiffin Finds.

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And I'm not a hundred percent sure it is anything to do with Ralph Finds, but I think somebody it might have been Irons as well.

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And I've just got the feeling that it might be Jeremy Irons.

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Just a whole network thing.

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And yeah.

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And I watched the first episode, and actually me and the missus watched it, and we both enjoyed it.

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I think she did, but she was sat behind me and she sometimes closes her eyes and just nods along, but like a Sherlock.

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And this was another take on it.

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He teams up with Moriarty at school and they're kind of pals for a bit, which is an interesting dynamic on it, yeah.

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Cool.

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I don't think I watched anything other than my usual sort of collection of YouTube stuff, yeah.

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No extra movies, I don't think.

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And then all weekend I got I I got a I built myself my own AI chatbot.

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Do it, I mean to do what?

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Whatever I want it to do.

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Turn up to work for you.

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No, but I could in theory get it to do some of my work, yeah.

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Can you build me one?

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Probably.

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Yeah.

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It's got nothing to do with entertainment or movies, so let's move on.

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We're gonna talk about top five gardens.

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Are you ready?

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I'd hope so.

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I can't guarantee, but are you a keen are you a keen gardener, Christian?

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Do you know what?

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I have discovered that I like gardening.

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I have to be in the mood and I have to be that I like it.

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I wouldn't go and be in the w I don't have a garden, we have a balcony which is fairly big and it's got plants, and you know, I like to I like every year to have cherry tomatoes, raspberries, yeah.

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Stuff that is fairly easy to grow, you just put them there, I only like to grow stuff if I'm gonna get something back in return.

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Yeah, we've got uh an olive tree which is not gonna make any olives, and a few other kind of just like decorative bushes kind of things.

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And this year I'm gonna have some British invasive ivy.

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Dan, do you like a decorative bush?

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I do a decorative bush.

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You've got quite a mature garden out there.

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That's yeah, yeah.

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Having worked in gardens and on farms for a good few years, I must admit I it it although it taught me some things and I learned some stuff, I've tended not to then get involved quite as much because I feel like I've done my bit.

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I do enjoy I like growing plants to eat.

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Yeah.

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I like edible gardens as much as any others, to be honest.

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But a little bit of colour around the the spring and summer, some for the bees.

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Yeah, like all that.

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As the same, we got some lavender, some You know what lavender's good for?

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No.

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Keeps mozzies away.

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Is it?

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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We've got a couple of these ones and there's some what is it?

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Oregano and all these other kind of herbs.

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Herbs.

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I always find I with herbs, I always find I don't have enough time.

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Yeah?

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Yeah, there we go.

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That is the one.

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So we're talking about films now with garden.

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I've got films, TVs, songs, and video games.

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Right.

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You've got the beat.

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Go for it.

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Wow.

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Okay.

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Can I have garden gnomes?

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Really technically elaborate.

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Yeah, they're they grow in garden.

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They well grow, they don't really grow.

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They reside in.

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In the movie Amelie, there's a gnome and it goes on a world tour and it gets polaroided all all around the world, which I like.

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God, we've got quite a few.

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I wouldn't say gnomes, but we've got other garden ornaments.

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Got hedgehog, dog.

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We did have a snail, but that's disintegrated.

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We've got a deer with glasses on.

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Okay.

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Uh yeah, we've got a few.

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I've got a wire sort of chicken, but I don't actually have a gnome.

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I feel like they're too ubiquitous.

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Do you have a Buddha?

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No.

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They're quite common as well, no?

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Yeah, we've got like as when you go to ransoms, there's various different ones.

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You can get like Darth Vader and stuff like that, but I like them to be more animal-based.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, if it's a garden, yeah.

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Years ago, and it's been done to death now, but I'd the first time I'd heard it was back in the late 90s.

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I was in Cambodia and this guy was travelling with a gnome that he'd stolen from a garden.

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Um he was sending pictures back, and it it even it put him in all kinds of situations because back in those days you could get guns in Cambodia and go to shooting ranges.

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So he had him there, he had him in various nightclubs in Thailand and things, this gnome.

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And he was sending pictures back to this random person he'd never met.

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He'd painted him a little bit to give him a tan and everything, and he showed me the gnome that he was gonna go put back in the garden when he got back one one day in a few months' time.

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Tickled me.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, nice.

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That was I've got uh we I think we did it for the pod, the Miss Peregrine's special Oh yes, yeah, home for the special needs.

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For the special needs.

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That uh had a a garden.

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Yeah.

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And you went through a hedge to get into the house.

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Yes.

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And the outside was the war, and inside was the same day repeating or something like that.

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I'm pretty sure that's how the day was going.

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And uh the garden was really nice and had all sorts of special children.

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Can I have that?

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You can.

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You just reminded me of a Simpsons one going through the hedge is the moment where Homer backs away.

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Yes, yeah, that's the mean like T 1000.

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And you can even get like a Christmas ornament to go on the tree of him.

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Just halfway.

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So there is literally a Simpsons for everything.

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I've got blue velvet.

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We did that for the blue velvet.

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Do you remember that?

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It starts off with a garden scene.

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It's like David Lynch right there, the white picket fence, and then what goes on behind the somewhere Carmaglock and finds the severed ear in the garden there.

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And then it ends, I think, with the guy.

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Does he have a heart attack?

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And he falls onto the garden floor, and then the camera goes further, like further down through the grass, and it's all like millions of beetles scurrying around, and it's all like really creepy and horrible.

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Yeah.

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He did another one, David Lynch, the lawnmower one.

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Straight story.

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Yeah.

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Um, which obviously featured gardens as well.

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Talked about edible gardens.

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You don't get much more edible than Willie Wonker's chocolate factory garden, where he's got This is the Gene Wilder version, yeah.

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Yeah.

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He's got a chocolate river, he's got candy, flowers, and boiled dildos.

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Dillies.

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Boat sweets and things, and Yeah, we it was fantastic.

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We all you could eat everything, couldn't you?

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You could eat the big mushrooms there and the leaves and Gene Wilder was just fantastic.

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You think who's done that that role now?

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You've had and Timothy Chalamet.

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I didn't like that one.

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No, I didn't like any of them apart from the He upset people at the weekend, did you see that?

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He did.

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He said ballet and opera is shite and no one cares about it, and everyone who cares about ballet and opera were up and arms.

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But full respect for those people that do like it, no disrespect.

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You try to roll back a little bit.

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Yeah, so fuck what I said.

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It's already around the world and he's taking shots that he doesn't need to take.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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To be fair, I don't want to defend him, but that's his opinion.

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He's entitled to it.

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No, I don't think he is.

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Yeah, but why is he not allowed to say stuff and just Yeah, that's his opinion.

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He can be wrong.

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I think I think he is wrong, but it's yeah, again, he's that's okay.

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Yeah.

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I uh like the garden in a film that we watched and we all loved, especially for the penis content, was Saltburn.

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I didn't see that.

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Did you not?

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No, I was away that week.

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Oh, you should watch it.

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Oh yeah, you need to watch that.

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That's good.

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Right.

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I like dick.

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You see a lot of dick.

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Okay.

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A lot of dick.

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And it's quite substantial.

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But also the gardens are very nice.

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Very nice property.

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And you can see there's quite a few scenes in the gardens on in different areas of the garden as well, because it's a big property.

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There's the young lady watch that she fingers herself and he goes down on her while she was on her period.

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Yeah.

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And there is also the scene when they're sunbathing of the pool.

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Kids.

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And he's trying to and she tells him that he had another toy friend and toy friend.

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Yeah, because like a boyfriend guy, what's his name?

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The sexiest man alive.

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Jacob Ed Laudy.

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Yes.

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He brought this guy as a as each summer he brings a friend over to stay over, and when if someone touches his sister, that's it, it's game over.

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And anyway.

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Lot of rumours about him and Margot.

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They're in that movie together, no?

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And they are both.

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And she's a married woman.

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Oh, is he?

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Okay, I don't I don't know.

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Yeah.

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Anyway, look, I'm not here to spread rumours.

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What about did were you around in the pod when we did Midsummer?

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I was.

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It's kind of I'm still haunted by it.

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Is that the Danish thing?

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Is that the thing?

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Scandalous.

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It's Sweden.

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It's a place, it's a rural Swedish area.

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There's one bit where they're taking acid and she's looking at her hand and it's like moving in and out of the floor.

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Lulling is into a false sense of security.

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So then there's all sh she's the Midsummer Queen, she gets all the floral wreaths and all the flowery dresses on, all that and it all takes place.

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It's more rural than it is like specifically someone's garden.

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But it is out in a rural area and like absolutely horrendously brutal violence.

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Right.

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Was that some like a terrorist attack where someone just machine guns everyone?

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Is that the one?

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No, no, this is a this is like a big Swedish commune where they euthanise, they voluntary voluntarily euthanise all the old people, so you get to a certain age, and it's a privilege that they don't see it as a some sort of barbaric act.

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They're like, Sam, we've had a great life, boom, we've got to, I don't know, say 75.

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So the there it's her and th her boyfriend and two other people, two or three other people, and they don't fully know, but they don't know at all what's going to happen.

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No.

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And the first time you get there's all sorts of tapestries of stuff, but it's like crudely sewn, and you're like, and there's a bear, and you're like, and the first one that they see is there there's this big dinner out in the garden, or everyone's sitting at what big long tables, and then these the two it looks like the matriarch and the patriarch of the group get up and they go up a hill and they go up to basically like a cliff, and they still don't really know what's gonna happen, and they just jump off.

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And right, and it's and it's so graphic, it's so graphic, and she the lady dies, I think, but the the old man's still like groaning, and they just get this enormous mallet just fucking crushes head, but it's explicitly shown on the screen, and Florence Pierre's just like fucking freaking like what the fuck are we doing?

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She's there, she's come along in this chip because her parents have just died, so it's enough trauma going on, yeah.

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But it's all set in this like really idyllic sort of garden setting where it's fucking terrifying.

00:16:19.519 --> 00:16:23.200
It's not terrifying, it's just it just stays with you because it's so fucking grim.

00:16:23.360 --> 00:16:24.799
Yeah, it's madness.

00:16:25.440 --> 00:16:32.159
Yeah, I've got a cartoon film, Spirited Away, and you can be pretty much blown away by this film.

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It's Oscar winner.

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Have you ever seen this, Chris?

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No, I don't think so.

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Oh, it's fantastic.

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Studio Jubilee did a collection of really amazingly animated films that seem to just connect with kids, adults, everyone, and they tell these kind of fantasy stories about the animation is so beautifully done and very uh easy to spot.

00:17:00.080 --> 00:17:02.159
It's Studio Ghibli after you've seen one.

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Some of the characters have a similar look, but in the age of computer and digital animation, this is all still, as far as I know, hand-drawn.

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But the main guy, Miyazaki, is it his name?

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Yeah, uh Haro Miyazaki.

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Um and when I was in Japan, which is nearly a year ago now, just thinking back to that earlier, that's gone quick.

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You can see all these characters are well represented within the culture.

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Still, there's shops and cartoons and printouts and posters and stuff of them all around still.

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But the this particular one, Spirited Away, I think it was the first one that I'd seen of Ghibli, and it's got the most amazing kind of pictures of flowers.

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I'm showing Chris a photo here of one scene, and it's magical.

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You just can't believe the detail and time and effort they've gone into every single scene when they're drawing flowers, like every petal is purposely made, drawn.

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It's a wonderful story, brilliant animation, and that's got loads of flowers to choose from.

00:18:10.720 --> 00:18:12.480
Yeah, interesting.

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Is that is that just one thing?

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Is that spirit that you said?

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That spirited away, okay.

00:18:18.240 --> 00:18:23.519
I've got a little badge of the ghost, you know, the white and black demon ghost thing.

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I've got a bad I've got that in Thailand when I was there.

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It's on one of my shirts at work.

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But they've got no, they've got my neighbour Tototo.

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My neighbor Totoro, How's Moving Castle is another one.

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Uh they'll always tend to have quite an environmental message in them as well.

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Princess Mononoke is really all that about the forest and the forest stores.

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Kiki's delivery service.

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Yeah, there's a ton of them.

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And is this like uh an hour and a half or two hours, or are they?

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They could be about two hours, yeah.

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Alright, okay.

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Yeah.

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The red turtle is a fantastic one.

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I don't even think there's any words in that.

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I'm pretty sure I've seen that actually.

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Is that the kid with a turtle?

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Yeah.

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Yeah, I'm pretty sure I've seen that.

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I think.

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Uh we did two turtle weeks, we didn't we?

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Yeah.

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Let's move on because it's taking notice.

00:19:06.480 --> 00:19:06.880
Chris?

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I've got a band called Savage Garden.

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Yes, you have.

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And they'll take me to the moon and back.

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Yeah.

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And I've got my nom.

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Okay.

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What about the home of the New York Knickerbockers?

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The Madison Square Garden.

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Yes.

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It's a square garden.

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The garden.

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I watched Michael Jordan play for the Washington Wizards in his final year of playing in the NBA.

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Wow.

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He wore a pair of grey Jordan 11s, they were fucking cool.

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And he was still the best player on the court.

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Yeah.

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Which he basically slated everyone else saying, why is the guy who's 40 something still the hungriest guy on a court of the So that was quite interesting.

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Was there anyone good at the Knicks then?

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I think um I think Carmel Anthony or someone.

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Yeah, Carmel Carmel.

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Yeah, Marshmallow was there.

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Yeah.

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Couple of songs for you, a couple of Beatles songs.

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Okay.

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Can you guess?

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Ringo.

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Octopus Garden.

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I'd like to be under the sea.

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And also Lucy Garden.

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Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.

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Tangerine Trees and Marmalade Skies.

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Marmalade Skies, yeah.

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And then Janie Mitchell.

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Big Yellow Taxi.

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They paved paradise.

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How fucking dare they! And then Van Morrison, I'm not a fan, in the garden song by John Denver.

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Other stuff of that nature.

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And Scarborough Fair by Simon and Garf Uncle.

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Past this age, Rosemary, and Time.

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Yeah.

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A great sound guard, doesn't it?

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And then I'll just put my nom in off that.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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I will add in one more, and it may as well be my nom.

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No, I'll add in one more and then I will then nom.

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Kill Bill.

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Yeah.

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Volume one.

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The blood sprouter on there.

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And she finally overcomes her.

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There's a couple of garden scenes in this.

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There's one where she's going in volume two.

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Yeah, she's going up to the old kind of Chinese guy in his Zen garden.

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Was that two?

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Two, yeah.

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Whereas she's fighting Lucy Lu at the end.

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No, that's one.

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I'll just say kill Brennish is, I think, is in that Japanese thing garden in this like.

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That's one, yeah.

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Oh, sorry.

00:21:14.799 --> 00:21:14.960
Sorry.

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That's okay, Chris.

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There's lots of there's lots of good things in it.

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The Shining would be another one as well, where we've got the maze.

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There's a few great mazes in films, actually.

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Yeah.

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You're thinking Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter.

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Amazing.

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But my nom will be because I do like an edible garden, it's gonna go back to Willie Wonka.

00:21:33.920 --> 00:21:34.240
Okay.

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Nice.

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Right, okay.

00:21:35.839 --> 00:21:36.319
Christian?

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I have got a a real garden in which you can also visit, and I highly recommend it, and I've been twice, and it's the Garden of Versailles.

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Right.

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At the Palace of Versailles.

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Right, yeah.

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And you can cycle through the gardens, you hire a bike, and because if you walk, it takes you two days because it's that vast.

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Which part of Barcelona?

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Have we got a Hornet in the house?

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It's a big fucker.

00:22:03.119 --> 00:22:04.960
We may not make it out of this pod.

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Who is the point guard for Charlotte Hornet?

00:22:07.359 --> 00:22:08.880
It was small, a six-foot guy.

00:22:09.839 --> 00:22:09.920
No.

00:22:10.160 --> 00:22:10.559
Yes, it was.

00:22:11.759 --> 00:22:18.400
Anyway, The Garden of Versailles, it has been the backdrop for iconic films for over 200 films.

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I was gonna say a lot of period stuff.

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Since 1896.

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The best and the most Marie Antoinette by Sofia Coppola in 2006.

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Little Chaos, directed by Alan Rickman.

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Ah, Rickman.

00:22:32.240 --> 00:22:38.640
Dangerous Liaisons, Midnight in Paris, and Jefferson in Paris.

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And The Royal Exchange.

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Anyway, that and also I would if anyone wants to visit, I don't have any skin in the game.

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But honestly, if you ever decide to visit the palace and the gardens, the palace is amazing.

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It's really nice and loads of history and all that, but the gardens are really and that's my nom.

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Do you like topiary?

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Remind me what it is?

00:23:07.279 --> 00:23:10.079
Shaping bushes into shapes.

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Okay.

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Yeah, because I was thinking of this is my nom, but I was thinking of Edward's scissor hands.

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He does that.

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Of course, with his scissory hands.

00:23:16.480 --> 00:23:18.960
But my nom is going to be the godfather.

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Have you seen that?

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Came out in 1976.

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Oh, okay.

00:23:21.759 --> 00:23:28.960
We're talking about in the final fucking, he's all powerful, but he snuffs it with his grandchildren.

00:23:29.359 --> 00:23:31.119
And his tomato plants.

00:23:33.519 --> 00:23:34.160
I thought it was tomatoes.

00:23:34.319 --> 00:23:35.519
He's got that old school spot spray.

00:23:36.400 --> 00:23:37.440
And he just collapses.

00:23:37.759 --> 00:23:38.400
What a way to go.

00:23:38.799 --> 00:23:38.960
Yeah.

00:23:39.200 --> 00:23:40.400
But he's with his family and you know.

00:23:44.000 --> 00:23:45.039
Not gunned down in the street.

00:23:45.440 --> 00:23:47.039
He was gunned down earlier, but he survived that earlier.

00:23:47.279 --> 00:23:48.319
Yeah, but he survived all that.

00:23:48.960 --> 00:23:49.599
To die at home.

00:23:49.759 --> 00:23:51.119
That's how people want to go, I think.

00:23:51.359 --> 00:23:51.920
So there you go.

00:23:52.160 --> 00:23:52.640
Great colours.

00:23:53.200 --> 00:23:53.759
Great choices.

00:23:53.920 --> 00:23:57.200
It's actually quite a rich flower-based.

00:23:57.519 --> 00:23:58.000
Fertile ground.

00:23:58.640 --> 00:23:59.519
Fertile ground.

00:23:59.680 --> 00:24:00.240
There we go.

00:24:00.319 --> 00:24:01.519
That's the link we're after.

00:24:01.680 --> 00:24:03.759
So I'm sure people could give us a few.

00:24:04.160 --> 00:24:05.279
Yeah, give us a few ideas.

00:24:05.599 --> 00:24:09.599
There's going to be a lot that we missed, or a lot that we've not one or two, maybe.

00:24:09.759 --> 00:24:10.000
Yeah.

00:24:10.160 --> 00:24:12.160
We need two more nons, and then we're going to talk.

00:24:12.240 --> 00:24:17.039
We are now going to talk about it's completely not really that gardeny, but ballad of a small player.

00:24:17.279 --> 00:24:18.000
Exactly.

00:24:25.599 --> 00:24:31.359
We are going to talk about the ballad of a small player.

00:24:32.160 --> 00:24:32.480
Okay.

00:24:33.039 --> 00:24:34.319
This is directed by Edward?

00:24:36.000 --> 00:24:36.319
Yeah.

00:24:39.599 --> 00:24:40.960
Any relation to Patrick?

00:24:41.279 --> 00:24:42.079
Yeah, this is Dad.

00:24:44.160 --> 00:24:47.039
Or quite on the Western Front and Conclave.

00:24:47.119 --> 00:24:49.279
So some pretty like punchy stuff.

00:24:49.519 --> 00:25:00.000
Yeah, and and quite sorry, topical and strong rather than I think Conclave was lucky because it came out around the time that the Pope snuffed it, like pure coincidence, I think.

00:25:00.160 --> 00:25:00.240
Yeah.

00:25:00.400 --> 00:25:04.000
Unless he hadn't killed in a publicity study, which is like pretty that's pretty hard.

00:25:04.319 --> 00:25:06.720
Was that based on the Robert Harris book?

00:25:07.039 --> 00:25:07.519
Don't know.

00:25:07.839 --> 00:25:08.319
Hang on.

00:25:09.119 --> 00:25:11.839
Robert Harris Science of the Lambs.

00:25:12.000 --> 00:25:16.559
Or am I thinking a different Thomas Harris's Thomas Harris was the science of the lambs?

00:25:16.880 --> 00:25:18.880
Anyway, that's got nothing to do with Ballad of Small Player.

00:25:19.039 --> 00:25:20.480
No, this is based on a novel though.

00:25:20.640 --> 00:25:20.799
Yeah.

00:25:21.200 --> 00:25:22.400
By Lawrence Osborne.

00:25:24.640 --> 00:25:25.119
Yeah.

00:25:25.839 --> 00:25:26.160
Okay.

00:25:26.480 --> 00:25:27.200
Do you know him?

00:25:27.359 --> 00:25:27.519
Well.

00:25:28.559 --> 00:25:30.079
It's just doing our stupid play on words thing.

00:25:30.319 --> 00:25:30.559
Okay.

00:25:31.440 --> 00:25:34.559
All I knew about this going into it that it was that it had Colin Farrell in it.

00:25:34.799 --> 00:25:36.480
I d that was the only thing I knew about it.

00:25:36.880 --> 00:25:42.079
We're on a like a rich run of form in movies that we've reviewed with him in have been strong.

00:25:42.400 --> 00:25:49.279
Yeah, he does have um a good habit of choosing lots of good films we watched recently.

00:25:49.359 --> 00:25:53.680
Yeah, we had a 'cause we watched the Total Recall we made, which is fucking gross.

00:25:53.920 --> 00:25:57.599
And then everything else after that seems to have been like he seems to have given himself a good shake.

00:25:58.319 --> 00:26:13.279
But it's also it's similar to what you were saying earlier, the what the about the film that we did the midweek, where it almost seems to me that because he's done all those films and blah blah blah blah blah the Banshee Zoe and Sharon was it was a small budget.

00:26:13.440 --> 00:26:15.920
It was he he basically decided to do that.

00:26:16.160 --> 00:26:28.000
The what is the one with the lobster one, the one with the goat, the the horror one that we re something to do with the goat, I can't remember the deer or something, the sacred skilling of the deer.

00:26:28.240 --> 00:26:32.880
Yeah, they had the really weird language the way they talked they just talked all like that the whole way through.

00:26:33.680 --> 00:26:34.480
Yeah, yeah.

00:26:34.960 --> 00:26:41.519
Look, uh it almost feels like he's got to that stage where now he just says yes to Yeah, yeah, he's he's paid his dues, and now it gets.

00:26:42.000 --> 00:26:43.440
I've made money, I've done this, I've done that.

00:26:43.599 --> 00:26:50.000
Now I just wanted And he still does a rom-com or a in-between, but he's also anyway, we'll get into this one.

00:26:50.400 --> 00:26:53.039
Can you remember the first word of this film?

00:26:54.240 --> 00:26:54.559
No.

00:26:55.039 --> 00:26:55.519
Fuck.

00:26:55.759 --> 00:26:56.079
Yeah.

00:26:56.240 --> 00:27:03.519
I was about to go the camera gets right close up to his face and his his size goes fuck.

00:27:04.079 --> 00:27:09.039
And then he's he's well dressed, he's looking okay.

00:27:09.759 --> 00:27:10.960
It's quite sweaty though.

00:27:11.119 --> 00:27:20.480
Yeah, he's a little bit sweaty, he's not under press and he said fuck, so he's something he's under pressure a little bit, and the camera sort of stays on him as he goes he's cleaning the hotel room, but we don't see immediately the state of it.

00:27:20.559 --> 00:27:25.359
It's a couple of hints, he just goes to a safe and you can see there's a champagne bottle on the floor.

00:27:25.839 --> 00:27:26.400
There's phew.

00:27:26.559 --> 00:27:29.519
And he and then the camera moves and he but it doesn't show that immediately.

00:27:29.759 --> 00:27:35.440
Then he opens the door to the safe and it's a bollocks, there's nothing in the safe.

00:27:35.680 --> 00:27:37.519
And then we see the extent of his hotel.

00:27:37.599 --> 00:27:39.920
Well, it's a suite, it's not room, is it's a fucking big suite.

00:27:40.160 --> 00:27:40.240
Yeah.

00:27:40.640 --> 00:27:46.000
It's like you know, the hangover, there's just bottles of food everywhere, like the face fucking trashed.

00:27:46.319 --> 00:27:50.880
There's about eight uh room service trolleys, it's yeah, it's just carnivores.

00:27:51.200 --> 00:27:58.319
And he then is searching through different things and he goes to a great big kind of vase on the surveys.

00:27:58.559 --> 00:28:01.440
Yeah, so it'll be something else because they're in Macau, aren't they?

00:28:01.599 --> 00:28:06.640
But under the TV, and he's got a big fat roll of cash under there.

00:28:06.880 --> 00:28:09.839
And then yeah, I think it it reveals then that he's in Macau.

00:28:10.079 --> 00:28:12.000
The people think Vegas is the gambling capital.

00:28:12.240 --> 00:28:14.480
It is fucking not by a long shot.

00:28:14.640 --> 00:28:20.720
And this is like the gambling mecha, number one in the world, and he's there gambling away.

00:28:21.200 --> 00:28:23.599
He is Lord Doyle.

00:28:23.759 --> 00:28:24.559
Lord Doyle.

00:28:24.799 --> 00:28:26.559
But I think I don't know how you felt watching it.

00:28:26.640 --> 00:28:30.799
I was like, this is obviously a grift, like not a fucking Lord, not by a long shot.

00:28:31.039 --> 00:28:37.680
Because he's also got this English accent, and I'd I'm sure he wouldn't play someone with a fucking dopey English accent like that.

00:28:37.920 --> 00:28:41.039
I'm the way that it pans out in it a little bit is what we'll get to.

00:28:41.119 --> 00:28:47.920
I'm glad the way it does because yeah, you he's in these outrageous kind of velvet suits and cravats.

00:28:48.319 --> 00:28:49.279
Yeah, love a cravat.

00:28:49.359 --> 00:28:56.880
Um yeah, and he's looking great, uh his hair's slipped back, he's got this little It does start to deteriorate quite a bit.

00:28:57.039 --> 00:29:12.319
It does, it does give it half an hour, but he's he's blagging it, he's playing the game, he's and as he goes downstairs and avoiding the hotel staff as best he can to you realise he owes money all over the shop, this guy.

00:29:12.720 --> 00:29:17.359
He goes downstairs and he sees the valet guy and he's He tries to look the other way as he walks past the front desk, isn't he?

00:29:17.519 --> 00:29:19.599
Yeah, checking his watch and everything.

00:29:19.920 --> 00:29:20.480
Lord Doyle.

00:29:20.960 --> 00:29:22.079
But they're already on to him.

00:29:22.160 --> 00:29:29.200
The car, the limo that would leave that hotel, um has left, and they've got to call him a taxi.

00:29:29.279 --> 00:29:34.319
He decides, no, I'm about to I'll walk, but just as he's pissing down, isn't it?

00:29:34.480 --> 00:29:35.920
Yeah, it looks a lovely evening.

00:29:36.160 --> 00:29:37.200
I think I'll walk it.

00:29:38.480 --> 00:29:39.440
The weather starts.

00:29:39.759 --> 00:29:49.519
He gets called back in and says, Look, you owe 352,000 Hong Kong dollars, which is around about 350,000 pounds, I think.

00:29:49.599 --> 00:29:50.400
Um Yeah.

00:29:50.559 --> 00:29:54.480
He says, Oh, I'll have my I'll have my private banker wire the funds immediately.

00:29:54.559 --> 00:29:58.319
But it's this is a weekend and it's a bank holiday back home or Monday.

00:29:58.480 --> 00:29:59.680
You'll have the money by Tuesday.

00:29:59.839 --> 00:30:00.000
Yeah.

00:30:00.400 --> 00:30:03.759
And they say, right, Tuesday afternoon, or we're calling the police.

00:30:04.160 --> 00:30:11.519
And the guy is he goes to the valley, and the guy's like, Look, go to the Crystal Sunshine Casino or something, you might get credit there.

00:30:11.680 --> 00:30:11.920
Yeah.

00:30:12.079 --> 00:30:13.200
And that's where he goes.

00:30:14.640 --> 00:30:21.680
Yeah, he and heading into there, he's playing at a few tables and he's got his what of money.

00:30:22.079 --> 00:30:24.240
But they just very meet the killer, isn't it?

00:30:24.480 --> 00:30:25.279
The old lady.

00:30:25.839 --> 00:30:27.279
His game of choice is Bacarak.

00:30:27.519 --> 00:30:27.599
Yeah.

00:30:27.759 --> 00:30:29.359
Which I still don't know how to play.

00:30:29.680 --> 00:30:37.119
Well, you've got Yeah, I thought I knew until the last hand of the film, and then I was like, But it was high cards.

00:30:37.519 --> 00:30:37.680
Yeah.

00:30:37.839 --> 00:30:40.799
So he said, Baccarat, very simple game to play.

00:30:41.039 --> 00:30:47.039
You've picture cards, tens are worth nothing, and the highest score you can get is nine.

00:30:47.759 --> 00:30:50.559
Although clearly two sevens would be fourteen.

00:30:51.359 --> 00:30:53.200
Do you bust if you go over to I just couldn't work?

00:30:53.599 --> 00:30:59.759
No, so I don't know that bit, but this lady, grandma, keeps on pulling over they say they call her the killer or something.

00:31:00.079 --> 00:31:06.160
Yeah, she she's He's here gambling with her like multi-billionaire husband's money while he's out shagging.

00:31:06.240 --> 00:31:06.400
Yeah.

00:31:06.559 --> 00:31:08.880
And that's the arrangement they've got it works for everyone.

00:31:09.279 --> 00:31:12.640
And he's nine, she keeps on pulling out nine.

00:31:12.799 --> 00:31:16.799
And you're betting against the other table, I think it's the the highest bid against the city.

00:31:16.960 --> 00:31:18.400
Did you watch it with subtitles?

00:31:18.799 --> 00:31:19.759
Yeah, I did.

00:31:20.000 --> 00:31:21.599
I mmm can't remember.

00:31:22.640 --> 00:31:23.519
I don't think I did.

00:31:23.839 --> 00:31:25.759
What you the effect I didn't know would have done.

00:31:25.920 --> 00:31:33.599
I didn't know if they put subtitles on for what she was saying, because she's talking to Yeah, I did watch it with subtitles.

00:31:33.759 --> 00:31:34.079
Down.

00:31:35.599 --> 00:31:36.960
Yes and she's being like really.

00:31:37.599 --> 00:31:38.240
He's an arsehole.

00:31:38.400 --> 00:31:40.400
This guy's gonna crush my balls, all this sort of stuff.

00:31:40.640 --> 00:31:45.519
I didn't know if they put that translation on because then she she's not getting the she's not giving him the proper translation.

00:31:45.759 --> 00:31:47.039
No, because yeah, he's oh what's she saying?

00:31:47.119 --> 00:31:48.319
He's high, you're in for a ride.

00:31:48.880 --> 00:31:55.119
You're in for a tough game here, and really she's saying this guy's a fucking loser, he's gonna run out on your hornet's back.

00:31:57.119 --> 00:31:58.160
Just a wasp.

00:31:58.559 --> 00:31:58.720
Okay.

00:31:59.039 --> 00:32:00.319
Has it got yellow legs?

00:32:00.640 --> 00:32:01.680
We can't see from here.

00:32:01.920 --> 00:32:02.240
I think so.

00:32:02.400 --> 00:32:03.039
It does next to yellow.

00:32:03.200 --> 00:32:04.319
Yellow legs is a hornet.

00:32:04.559 --> 00:32:05.759
It does Asian Hornet.

00:32:06.240 --> 00:32:07.839
It does next to that yellow light.

00:32:08.079 --> 00:32:09.599
Yeah, it's I'm getting blinded here.

00:32:10.160 --> 00:32:15.440
Um so he yeah, he's Dao Ming, she's becomes an important character.

00:32:15.599 --> 00:32:16.240
Yeah.

00:32:16.880 --> 00:32:19.920
He's been told that she might be able to offer him credit.

00:32:20.079 --> 00:32:26.000
So she does, and the terms are like fucking astronomical, it's like 16% plus commission on top of that.

00:32:26.160 --> 00:32:27.920
And he likes to be all blase about that.

00:32:28.079 --> 00:32:28.319
Okay, great.

00:32:28.640 --> 00:32:29.279
50 at 10.

00:32:29.519 --> 00:32:31.200
And you've got to sell your drinks bill first.

00:32:31.440 --> 00:32:31.759
Yes.

00:32:33.039 --> 00:32:37.039
Okay, I'm just get me another bottle and I'm just gonna be back go to the toilet.

00:32:37.200 --> 00:32:48.960
Because he doesn't have the$300 for the cristal champagne, which he asked for in perfect Chinese or at least decent Chinese, says, Don't give me the cheap champagne, give me the good stuff.

00:32:49.119 --> 00:32:51.680
And yeah, he's he's just a gambler, isn't he?

00:32:51.759 --> 00:32:53.440
He's an absolute addiction to gambler.

00:32:53.759 --> 00:32:54.799
Degenerate gambler, yeah.

00:32:55.039 --> 00:32:58.240
So he loses that, but what that roll of cash that he had, that's gone now.

00:32:58.480 --> 00:33:04.400
And he wakes up in the morning in the same hotel suite, uh in the same mess.

00:33:04.799 --> 00:33:05.839
In the same state, yeah.

00:33:06.079 --> 00:33:08.880
But without that water money and a vase to fall back onto.

00:33:09.119 --> 00:33:09.759
Yeah.

00:33:10.400 --> 00:33:11.920
This is where he goes outside, doesn't he?

00:33:12.000 --> 00:33:13.119
And there's the jumper.

00:33:13.599 --> 00:33:15.599
Yeah, he's having a pullover.

00:33:15.839 --> 00:33:35.519
He's having a meal, and you just see it go past the window, and he looks, but he does and then he hears a thud and a scream, and he runs downstairs and he sees Dao Ming, the lady who had offered him credit the day before from the rainbow, and runs after her and chases after her.

00:33:35.839 --> 00:33:37.039
He starts running.

00:33:37.519 --> 00:33:42.960
One lady has tried to start a fight with Dal Ming and said, Why did you lend him any money?

00:33:43.200 --> 00:33:50.000
Because obviously she had, he lost, and saw his only way out was to kill himself.

00:33:50.720 --> 00:33:55.920
Which means that Daming is going to be in trouble because she's lending the money and there's no money coming back.

00:33:56.240 --> 00:34:14.960
He works that out when he goes back to her place and asks her, Oh, let us a bit of money, and she's saying, No, look, but you're just a degenerate gamble, and he says, Look, I may be, but I ain't no different to you because if you were any good, you would be earning commission on when people lost money.

00:34:15.199 --> 00:34:17.840
You wouldn't be up to your neck in it either.

00:34:18.000 --> 00:34:25.519
You're taking risks here on side bets and hustles, and like me, you're pretty fucked up as well.

00:34:25.760 --> 00:34:42.559
And so they have this kind of kindred spirit relationship where they both realise, yeah, we're we're both in the It's also mental the difference between and I've seen that before with people that work in these high-end places, but they live in basically just a room.

00:34:42.800 --> 00:34:56.159
Because it's she basically works, she lends people money, she gives them line of credit for 300,000 Hong Kong dollars, but she lives in a studio flat with a houseboat, maybe.

00:34:56.559 --> 00:34:57.920
Yeah, or a who knows.

00:34:58.239 --> 00:35:04.559
It certainly wasn't the luxury that Lord Doyle was was used to in his wonderful suite.

00:35:04.880 --> 00:35:08.960
We're gonna learn a bit more about him because it gets into a lift, doesn't he?

00:35:09.119 --> 00:35:09.280
Yeah.

00:35:09.679 --> 00:35:12.079
And Cynthia is there, Tilda Swinton's character.

00:35:12.400 --> 00:35:14.480
She's already clocked him once before.

00:35:14.800 --> 00:35:15.679
Does she call herself Betty?

00:35:16.000 --> 00:35:16.639
Yeah, she does.

00:35:16.800 --> 00:35:29.440
She's already clocked him once before as he's walked out of the hotel, and she's followed him a little bit, but this time she gets a selfie of herself in the lift, and he's clearly in behind.

00:35:29.599 --> 00:35:30.719
He knows what's going on.

00:35:31.039 --> 00:35:36.639
And he follows her into the ladies and demands that she deletes the photo of him.

00:35:36.719 --> 00:35:36.960
Yeah.

00:35:37.119 --> 00:35:40.559
And at that point, we start to see a layer of the colour.

00:35:40.719 --> 00:35:41.760
But the accent goes, doesn't it?

00:35:41.840 --> 00:35:44.480
Yeah, now he's Irish again.

00:35:45.039 --> 00:35:46.400
And he's saying Mr.

00:35:46.480 --> 00:35:47.760
Riley, she calls him.

00:35:48.000 --> 00:35:50.400
And yeah, she's obviously And he's denying that he's Mr.

00:35:50.559 --> 00:35:51.199
Riley, right?

00:35:51.280 --> 00:35:51.760
At this point.

00:35:52.000 --> 00:35:52.159
Yeah.

00:35:52.559 --> 00:35:53.519
She's accusing him.

00:35:53.679 --> 00:36:04.719
She's working for a lady that has had a load of money stolen from her, which he tries to deny at first, but we're gonna learn that it's actually true, yeah.

00:36:04.880 --> 00:36:06.159
And it's not the only person.

00:36:06.880 --> 00:36:10.559
And I think with this lady was sorry, 900,000 was she said.

00:36:10.960 --> 00:36:12.000
953,000.

00:36:12.320 --> 00:36:13.679
Yeah, it's a a big chunk of cash.

00:36:13.760 --> 00:36:18.639
So he's he owes he's stolen millions and just gambled the whole lot away.

00:36:18.880 --> 00:36:21.599
He was a I think he was the private banker for these people.

00:36:22.239 --> 00:36:36.000
We find out that he was also in the Philippines where he faked his own death, and but the trail had gone cold, but she'd been able to pick it up again, as we find out a little bit later, the reasons why.

00:36:36.239 --> 00:36:38.079
And he's got charm though.

00:36:38.320 --> 00:36:41.199
He's got good looks, he's got charm, and he insists.

00:36:42.800 --> 00:36:47.840
Yeah, he's insisting to everyone, look, my luck can't be that bad for this long.

00:36:48.400 --> 00:36:48.960
It will change.

00:36:49.039 --> 00:36:55.119
It's just the guy, the ballet, the guy that he met when he was trying to get the limo, and he says, I just need one big win.

00:36:55.280 --> 00:36:55.440
Yeah.

00:36:56.000 --> 00:36:57.199
I don't know if that's gonna pay off.

00:36:57.440 --> 00:36:59.920
I think he goes to meet his mate who who is the prince.

00:37:00.239 --> 00:37:01.679
We'll have a di we'll have a dinner and a dance.

00:37:02.000 --> 00:37:03.119
He keeps saying that to it, doesn't he?

00:37:03.199 --> 00:37:07.199
Yeah, we'll have a dinner, a dance, and maybe we can s come to some kind of agreement.

00:37:07.440 --> 00:37:08.480
He loses it, doesn't he?

00:37:08.559 --> 00:37:11.840
He goes, he's he's just his like appearance is starting to get more disheveled.

00:37:12.000 --> 00:37:15.599
He's now he's like looking a little bit like more unshaven, he's sweating all the time.

00:37:15.679 --> 00:37:17.119
It's has heart palpitations.

00:37:17.519 --> 00:37:19.920
It's like he's in deep into all this.

00:37:20.079 --> 00:37:28.559
Yeah, so he gets pissed and he goes to see his mate that they've you get the impression they've done scams together before and this guy owes him about eight grand.

00:37:28.960 --> 00:37:31.280
He's pretending to be someone have you hosting a party, isn't he?

00:37:31.440 --> 00:37:33.599
Yeah, and he's saying, Look, I need it now, and he gives him two.

00:37:34.000 --> 00:37:35.840
Screaming at him doesn't he's like properly lost it.

00:37:36.079 --> 00:37:37.519
I give he gives him two.

00:37:37.599 --> 00:37:40.880
This is great, because he gives him two out of his wallet and he goes, I haven't got it.

00:37:40.960 --> 00:37:42.400
Come on, let's go and have dinner and a dance.

00:37:42.480 --> 00:37:43.920
And I fucking that's my line.

00:37:44.239 --> 00:37:44.960
My fucking line.

00:37:45.119 --> 00:37:51.840
But they do go down and have dinner, and he goes, Oh, come on, Riley, and he goes, Well you just call me Riley.

00:37:52.000 --> 00:37:53.039
Why'd you call me Riley?

00:37:53.119 --> 00:37:55.199
And he goes, You fucking give me away, didn't you?

00:37:55.280 --> 00:37:56.880
And he goes, Yeah, I did.

00:37:56.960 --> 00:37:58.480
Um, he doesn't deny it too long.

00:37:58.880 --> 00:38:07.440
He goes, I've got my own problems and I did it for amnesty because they'll be after me next, so yeah, I threw you under the bus.

00:38:08.159 --> 00:38:17.519
And they talk a little bit about the shame and the death of shame, and how he's got to get to that position where he's doesn't even give a shit anymore.

00:38:17.840 --> 00:38:32.079
Shame has died, and then he gets up to walk out and he goes, You better pick up the bill for this, and it's all the money that he's just lent him, which just goes to show what an expensive place a Macau can be if you're in two thousand pounds.

00:38:33.440 --> 00:38:39.440
He has had this interaction with Cynthia and he's robbed, he said to her, for that photo, you've got to give me 500 bucks.

00:38:39.679 --> 00:38:42.559
And it at one point he he runs off with her purse, doesn't he?

00:38:42.719 --> 00:38:46.400
Yeah, and he he takes her phone and he and she eventually gives him the 500.

00:38:46.559 --> 00:38:48.639
And at this point he does have a bit of success.

00:38:48.800 --> 00:38:52.079
He turns that 500 to 50 grand, yeah.

00:38:52.239 --> 00:38:54.559
Um she says, take that and give that to your woman.

00:38:54.800 --> 00:38:57.519
She says, Yeah, fuck that's not like it's gonna be enough.

00:38:57.760 --> 00:38:58.079
Scratch it.

00:38:58.400 --> 00:39:01.760
He goes, There's ten thousand for you though, just disappear a go.

00:39:01.920 --> 00:39:03.199
And she's not having any of it.

00:39:03.280 --> 00:39:05.360
Yeah, she's in there to do a job.

00:39:05.519 --> 00:39:08.000
This old lady's been on his trail for a long time as well.

00:39:08.639 --> 00:39:16.880
And we start to hear a little bit more about the Filipino death certificate and how she managed to track him down a little bit.

00:39:17.039 --> 00:39:22.559
But he's just Just a bit about the way it's filmed, all these casinos, like it looks stunning.

00:39:22.719 --> 00:39:24.400
It is shots down the corridor.

00:39:24.480 --> 00:39:27.920
I was getting a bit like shining vibe of those shots down hotel corridors and stuff.

00:39:28.159 --> 00:39:28.719
Looks amazing.

00:39:28.800 --> 00:39:35.599
A lot of overhead stuff where it's looking down on the floor while people are walking around, look looking into the sky straight scrapers and everything.

00:39:35.840 --> 00:39:36.639
Very stylised.

00:39:37.199 --> 00:39:38.079
Yeah, really good.

00:39:38.159 --> 00:39:44.639
And his suits and his his whole kind of get up is brilliant, but he is looking more and more pasty as this goes on.

00:39:45.199 --> 00:39:46.079
He completely loses it, isn't he?

00:39:46.239 --> 00:39:47.440
He has solo dinner.

00:39:47.599 --> 00:39:47.840
Yeah.

00:39:48.000 --> 00:39:53.679
He's racked up another big tab and he asks for more drink, and then he says, You've got to pay for what you've had first before you can have anymore.

00:39:53.840 --> 00:39:56.000
And he says, Just go and get that one and I'll sort it out.

00:39:56.159 --> 00:39:58.559
But he collapses here, he has a full-on heart attack.

00:39:58.719 --> 00:40:00.079
And then from this point in the movie.

00:40:00.400 --> 00:40:02.559
Dow Dow Ming is coming at this point.

00:40:02.880 --> 00:40:03.599
She picks him up.

00:40:03.760 --> 00:40:09.840
Yeah, she picks him up and he's Oh and she takes him to a houseboat.

00:40:10.480 --> 00:40:11.840
First of all, she he's been in hospital.

00:40:11.920 --> 00:40:14.000
She says you slept in hospital for two days.

00:40:14.320 --> 00:40:19.599
And then we says that and then we're on this houseboat, and you're a bit like he's got a number.

00:40:19.920 --> 00:40:20.880
Different gaff though, isn't she?

00:40:21.199 --> 00:40:21.360
Yeah.

00:40:21.760 --> 00:40:33.119
He's had a number since they met one night and went back to the beach of Hong Kong or Macau, and it's looking onto Macau, and it just looks a real kind of muddy.

00:40:33.599 --> 00:40:37.280
Yeah, because then the tide comes in in the morning when he wakes up.

00:40:37.599 --> 00:40:44.400
And he's got this kind of these digits almost tattooed on his hand, but it looks like it's written in a pen.

00:40:44.480 --> 00:40:47.599
But he we see him have a shower and go swimming and everything.

00:40:47.679 --> 00:40:49.119
This number's still on there.

00:40:49.280 --> 00:41:08.880
And in this houseboat on on a river or just in the sea, there's a kind of shed off it with a padlock, and it's a combination padlock and But this is he comes to the conclusion of that through a series of hallucinations.

00:41:09.119 --> 00:41:09.280
Yeah.

00:41:10.239 --> 00:41:11.519
But she disappears.

00:41:11.679 --> 00:41:11.920
Yeah.

00:41:12.079 --> 00:41:17.280
We don't know because they really they have this night, they really she says, Tell me one thing about yourself that's true.

00:41:17.440 --> 00:41:21.920
And he says about his gambling and all this sort of shit, and the shame he has from ripping off all these people.

00:41:22.000 --> 00:41:23.119
And she says her truth.

00:41:23.199 --> 00:41:24.000
And they have the bottom of the room.

00:41:24.480 --> 00:41:26.800
Her family and stuff, no, her and then she's fucking gone.

00:41:26.960 --> 00:41:38.079
And and then she's and they talk a little bit about the Buddhist hell where people have very thin necks and wide mouths, and they just can't get enough, right?

00:41:38.320 --> 00:41:46.719
The greed that it's just greed, it's like a a a Buddhist kind of hell, and that's where she says, It's too late, it's not too late for you, she says.

00:41:46.800 --> 00:41:48.000
But it's me.

00:41:48.239 --> 00:42:03.679
And she's just lent money to too many people who have now killed themselves and and too many bad stories involved with her, whereas he is very selfish and he has hurt a lot of people, and he's uh but maybe not to the levels where she has.

00:42:03.840 --> 00:42:15.760
But he's starting to reflect on this because he actually gets a shit ton of money from this combination lock, and there's two I thought he was gonna drag her up from the two, yeah.

00:42:16.079 --> 00:42:18.719
But it's two bags filled with money.

00:42:18.960 --> 00:42:19.360
That's me.

00:42:19.840 --> 00:42:26.000
Absolutely tons of it, and he's he doesn't want anything to do with it he's not gonna it for a bit.

00:42:26.159 --> 00:42:45.519
That lasts about yeah, that last that lasts about five minutes, and then suddenly he's back on the boat, he's going, he looks like shit, he's dressed not like Lord Doyle, he's got those clothes on, but it's in a bad way, they're dishevelled, he's he's not shaved, he looks pasty as hell, and he's going back into Macau with all this money.

00:42:45.760 --> 00:42:46.880
He's got a plan, hasn't he?

00:42:47.039 --> 00:42:49.679
He's gonna go the back around tables is the plan.

00:42:49.920 --> 00:42:56.800
He says to Cynthia, I'm gonna win the most amount of money in a game of back around that's ever won in the history of the world.

00:42:57.039 --> 00:42:59.280
And she's she's no, you need to go to the police.

00:42:59.440 --> 00:43:01.519
She's just I found you, you're coming in, blah blah blah.

00:43:01.679 --> 00:43:03.440
He's I can make it right, I can do it all.

00:43:03.760 --> 00:43:06.400
He said, I've only got about two-thirds of what I owe you.

00:43:06.639 --> 00:43:10.800
It's one one more grift, but it's his mate.

00:43:11.039 --> 00:43:18.559
He's arranged this game with the the prince of blah blah blah blah blah, and it's his mate, like strides in and they sit opposite ends of this table.

00:43:18.639 --> 00:43:18.719
Yeah.

00:43:18.880 --> 00:43:23.199
They play a game of just a single hand, everything's all in on this game in Baccharat.

00:43:23.440 --> 00:43:26.480
And this was like, I've never seen this uh in Baccharat before.

00:43:26.719 --> 00:43:30.559
This is what confused me with the game because he's two cards each, yeah.

00:43:30.880 --> 00:43:34.079
He gets something, and then his mate gets two.

00:43:34.800 --> 00:43:36.400
A nine and a two, didn't he?

00:43:36.559 --> 00:43:37.920
And so it goes one over.

00:43:39.360 --> 00:43:40.559
I was like, I don't know what the fuck's.

00:43:40.800 --> 00:43:41.280
No, I'm out.

00:43:41.360 --> 00:43:41.840
I don't know.

00:43:42.159 --> 00:43:43.760
Um but yeah, his mate.

00:43:44.320 --> 00:43:46.159
He's had this thing with his gloves, hasn't he?

00:43:46.480 --> 00:43:53.760
He's got these yellow gloves, and he really like takes a long time to check the card, and really I was like, You're fucking but ruining every single card.

00:43:54.079 --> 00:43:54.400
Yeah, yeah.

00:43:54.800 --> 00:44:00.400
Because he bends it right back, and they really draw this out this is the suspense of what his his On his card.

00:44:00.559 --> 00:44:01.360
They don't actually show you.

00:44:01.440 --> 00:44:06.239
He you see him look at it, and he's trying not to give anything away, and it doesn't give it away.

00:44:06.320 --> 00:44:10.800
And if they like then turns the card over, boom, he's won the fucking lot wallet.

00:44:11.199 --> 00:44:12.880
He's he's come up trumped.

00:44:13.039 --> 00:44:13.760
You can't believe it.

00:44:13.840 --> 00:44:18.719
He's his mate is gutted because I think it must be his last money as well.

00:44:19.760 --> 00:44:20.719
And he goes back.

00:44:20.960 --> 00:44:22.000
Where was his money from?

00:44:22.159 --> 00:44:22.719
The other guy.

00:44:22.880 --> 00:44:23.199
I don't know.

00:44:23.280 --> 00:44:28.159
I think the argument would have been, I think the insinuation was that it was he was backed by someone else.

00:44:28.559 --> 00:44:34.320
That and that was the same thing that he was owing money to so many people that he's I'm gonna give you him.

00:44:34.480 --> 00:44:38.719
And then once he got him, he said, Oh, this guy's coming in with money, I'll win the money for you.

00:44:39.039 --> 00:44:39.920
Just back me, I'll win the money.

00:44:44.639 --> 00:44:47.920
But then that's where now they try to take him to the grandma.

00:44:48.079 --> 00:44:48.400
Yeah.

00:44:48.559 --> 00:44:50.960
And then it goes a pair.

00:44:51.199 --> 00:44:57.519
But that's the thing, because in Macau and in that kind of culture, they show that he's got a dead person with him.

00:44:57.840 --> 00:44:59.360
They said that when that he's with a ghost.

00:44:59.840 --> 00:45:00.400
Sorry, he's got a ghost.

00:45:00.800 --> 00:45:04.480
But the first time they won the fifty grand, they call him in and they said, There's a ghost behind you.

00:45:04.559 --> 00:45:06.239
And I'm watching again.

00:45:06.639 --> 00:45:10.719
So that he literally has a ghost behind him and it's her, isn't it?

00:45:10.880 --> 00:45:10.960
Yeah.

00:45:12.559 --> 00:45:15.039
Because then he finds out that she's been dead for ages.

00:45:15.360 --> 00:45:15.599
Yeah.

00:45:15.840 --> 00:45:18.079
Yeah, and they have the he's got a couple of shit.

00:45:18.320 --> 00:45:19.039
She's surrounded herself.

00:45:19.280 --> 00:45:26.639
In his in his room where he's looking in the reflection of a bucket he's being sick in.

00:45:26.880 --> 00:45:27.599
He gorges himself.

00:45:27.679 --> 00:45:30.000
And one of the things I couldn't work out what the fuck it was he was eating.

00:45:30.159 --> 00:45:30.320
Yeah.

00:45:30.559 --> 00:45:33.119
There's a big lobster bit, and then there's something like that.

00:45:35.280 --> 00:45:36.320
It's that till he pukes.

00:45:36.559 --> 00:45:45.760
It's the greed, is this kind of look onto no matter how much he's eating, he can't be full, no matter how she's drinking, he he can't actually be satisfied.

00:45:46.000 --> 00:46:01.199
They talk a little bit at one point, him and his mate, about oh, do you hear the one where the gambler dies and he goes to he dies and he's finds himself at a table and he's got loads of lovely girls around him and he can't stop losing.

00:46:01.360 --> 00:46:02.639
He just can't stop winning.

00:46:02.719 --> 00:46:04.159
He just wins and wins and wins.

00:46:04.320 --> 00:46:08.159
And he turns to one guy and he goes, Oh, I thought I might be going to the other place.

00:46:08.239 --> 00:46:08.960
You can't believe this.

00:46:09.039 --> 00:46:10.960
And he goes, This is hell.

00:46:11.280 --> 00:46:14.400
Because you never lose you just always win and always win.

00:46:14.480 --> 00:46:16.159
But there's no satisfaction in it then.

00:46:16.480 --> 00:46:19.599
His mate has said to him earlier, the winning will kill you quicker than you're losing.

00:46:19.920 --> 00:46:27.599
And and so we see him have the opportunity to have a 500 to one shot in his favour.

00:46:28.079 --> 00:46:34.559
Because he's given he's paid everything back via Cynthia that he's got two suitcases.

00:46:35.679 --> 00:46:44.639
He knows his Dalmins, he goes, This is her money, I'm a lord, he's he's mentioned before, and I will pay back my debt.

00:46:45.599 --> 00:46:55.519
And so he does, he tries that, but then she says, Oh, she's dead, and just for a moment there's a flicker across his eyes where he thinks, Well, I might as well just gamble it all then.

00:46:55.599 --> 00:46:57.920
And you're thinking, Don't do it, don't do it.

00:46:58.800 --> 00:47:00.239
I thought he was gonna do it and win.

00:47:00.320 --> 00:47:01.360
I thought they'd give another win.

00:47:01.679 --> 00:47:18.320
I I was just thinking It's gonna be the end of you if you do it, and I think he feels that as well, and I think that's what the film's saying as well, because he doesn't, and he goes to the the festival of the ghosts, yeah, which they mentioned before, and burns all the money.

00:47:18.639 --> 00:47:20.480
He goes full KLF, yeah, yeah, he burns a lot of money.

00:47:20.639 --> 00:47:23.599
He burns fucking money for her, for Dalmin.

00:47:23.840 --> 00:47:24.960
He says, This is your money.

00:47:25.360 --> 00:47:26.559
And he drops the gloves.

00:47:26.800 --> 00:47:27.840
And he does that.

00:47:28.079 --> 00:47:28.800
Because that's his gamble.

00:47:29.119 --> 00:47:30.320
I'm never I'm never gambling again.

00:47:30.880 --> 00:47:34.639
So it was his big it was a big pretense because he would say the Savaro a bit of China.

00:47:35.760 --> 00:47:39.119
And he was getting rid of that, exercising that persona in a little bit, I think.

00:47:39.199 --> 00:47:39.360
Yeah.

00:47:39.679 --> 00:47:45.760
And so he's he burns all the money, and I think that's pretty much the last scene, isn't it?

00:47:45.920 --> 00:47:47.039
I don't think there's anything else.

00:47:47.840 --> 00:47:48.079
Yeah.

00:47:48.320 --> 00:47:54.159
And so he is a gambler who has found redemption and a second chance.

00:47:55.440 --> 00:47:56.320
Weird film.

00:47:56.800 --> 00:47:57.360
I liked it.

00:47:57.519 --> 00:47:58.159
I liked it though.

00:47:58.559 --> 00:47:59.199
I like the look of it.

00:47:59.679 --> 00:48:00.159
I liked it.

00:48:00.400 --> 00:48:05.280
I liked it, but I like the styling, the stylistic side of it, the style in it.

00:48:05.440 --> 00:48:13.920
I like the themes of gambling and just going for it and these compulsive gamblers that just and also the philosophy behind it, right?

00:48:14.000 --> 00:48:25.599
Where you can't stop and you can't be satisfied, you can't win, but you win, but you you're still not happy, you're still chasing that, you're still w what is important there's no happiness.

00:48:26.159 --> 00:48:27.199
The rush is the bet.

00:48:27.360 --> 00:48:27.519
Yeah.

00:48:28.000 --> 00:48:29.840
Not the win or lose, it's it really doesn't matter.

00:48:29.920 --> 00:48:33.679
This the rush is actually the chance that there's something unknown of what's gonna happen to it.

00:48:33.760 --> 00:48:34.400
That's the rush.

00:48:34.639 --> 00:48:41.840
It's weird because as a main character protagonist, like he's a fucking criminal, right?

00:48:41.920 --> 00:48:45.519
Yeah, he's robbed fucking loads of people, pension funds, the rest of all of that, gone.

00:48:45.760 --> 00:48:56.559
And his She was a bitter twisted old woman, he's and his problem is gambling, and the redemption arc of him is through gambling and pulling another con with this guy, and you're like, I don't know, it's weird.

00:48:56.639 --> 00:48:58.159
But always watching Colin Fowell.

00:48:58.320 --> 00:49:02.159
The film looks great, stylistically, it's so nice, so it's so nice to look at.

00:49:02.320 --> 00:49:06.639
It is I don't know, it felt a little bit hollow in terms of the morality tale, I suppose.

00:49:06.960 --> 00:49:09.119
But I did it because it it was different.

00:49:09.280 --> 00:49:12.639
Normally you see them do one more gun and they lose.

00:49:13.199 --> 00:49:15.119
Normally a bit fucking much as well.

00:49:15.360 --> 00:49:16.800
Yeah, weird clubber in there.

00:49:17.519 --> 00:49:18.320
Yeah, mad clubber.

00:49:18.559 --> 00:49:21.199
And then the whole thing, she just looks like a boy scout.

00:49:21.280 --> 00:49:21.440
Yeah.

00:49:21.760 --> 00:49:27.760
Until right at the end where she's in a very um Yeah, she gets a bit because he tells her, like dinner and dance.

00:49:27.920 --> 00:49:28.719
Live a little.

00:49:28.880 --> 00:49:29.440
Live a little.

00:49:29.519 --> 00:49:29.760
Yeah.

00:49:29.920 --> 00:49:31.039
But when did she die?

00:49:31.599 --> 00:49:34.239
What was the point where she where Dao Ming is supposed to have died?

00:49:34.480 --> 00:49:36.159
She left him there in the boathouse.

00:49:36.559 --> 00:49:37.280
She was real there.

00:49:37.360 --> 00:49:37.599
Yeah.

00:49:37.760 --> 00:49:38.800
And she went off a kill herself.

00:49:40.400 --> 00:49:48.639
No, I'm not even I'm not even sure because we flash back at one point and he's he thinks that he sees Dao Ming in the restaurant when he has that heart attack.

00:49:49.280 --> 00:49:50.559
Because she's already because they're saying she's a ghost.

00:49:51.039 --> 00:49:51.519
She was a guy.

00:49:51.679 --> 00:49:53.199
She's not it was just a guy and she's not.

00:49:53.519 --> 00:49:56.800
Because they're saying she's a ghost when he's gambling with the 500.

00:49:56.880 --> 00:49:56.960
Yeah.

00:49:57.440 --> 00:50:01.440
The only thing is the question I have for that was because I don't know how he got there.

00:50:01.920 --> 00:50:05.119
If she didn't take him to the boathouse, how would he get there?

00:50:05.440 --> 00:50:11.679
I I I think he's probably done it all himself, but he's hallucinated that he's with her the whole time.

00:50:12.800 --> 00:50:22.400
Potentially It's probably something that he's known about that with his emergency fund or whatever he's all it but he's just She had told him that other night, maybe.

00:50:22.719 --> 00:50:32.239
He's yeah, he's just had a that is where yeah, that is where it's unclear because that period it's all hallucination rather than revealing.

00:50:32.480 --> 00:50:34.000
But a bit of ambiguity like that's okay.

00:50:34.239 --> 00:50:43.679
Yes, I it just goes to show that he's been so untruthful to himself you don't even know what's real or not anymore.

00:50:43.840 --> 00:50:59.119
He's not until that time where he's lying down on the bed with her and they're doing opium and she says, Give me the truth, he actually gives the truth and says, I'm a scoundrel, really, I'm a fraud, I've been horrible, I've robbed a load of people.

00:50:59.519 --> 00:51:08.079
It's almost like that was his confessional and the that was his and he doesn't go back after that.

00:51:08.320 --> 00:51:14.800
He says, I'm gonna win back the money that I owe people, and that's what he does, but he doesn't know.

00:51:18.480 --> 00:51:20.320
So it wasn't just gambling, it was drugs too.

00:51:20.800 --> 00:51:26.400
If you had to sum up your feelings for this movie in a two-word uh review, what would you say?

00:51:26.880 --> 00:51:27.519
All in.

00:51:28.719 --> 00:51:31.039
Bizarre but funny.

00:51:31.280 --> 00:51:32.559
I would say strong recommend.

00:51:32.880 --> 00:51:33.280
Yeah?

00:51:33.920 --> 00:51:35.199
Well, I think that wins.

00:51:39.280 --> 00:51:42.800
That was an abrupt ending to that movie review, wasn't it?

00:51:43.039 --> 00:51:43.199
Yeah.

00:51:43.360 --> 00:51:47.599
We didn't do any I didn't we didn't do any usual did it cost money, it's a Netflix.

00:51:47.760 --> 00:51:49.119
It's a Netflix for a second, you don't know.

00:51:49.280 --> 00:51:53.119
It cost a trillion and it made none because they don't they just don't do it.

00:51:53.840 --> 00:51:59.440
So the But nice to see another good addition to Friend of the Pod Corin Farrell.

00:51:59.599 --> 00:51:59.840
Yeah.

00:51:59.920 --> 00:52:00.079
Yeah.

00:52:00.239 --> 00:52:02.159
He should get on the he should come and see us, I think.

00:52:02.800 --> 00:52:04.480
He loves Siggies in real life.

00:52:04.719 --> 00:52:05.199
Does he?

00:52:05.440 --> 00:52:05.760
Yeah.

00:52:05.920 --> 00:52:06.800
Have you not seen him?

00:52:07.039 --> 00:52:11.119
Every interview he just sparks a Siggy just anywhere.

00:52:11.440 --> 00:52:12.159
I think it's you.

00:52:12.480 --> 00:52:12.880
Is it me?

00:52:13.119 --> 00:52:13.599
I think so.

00:52:13.760 --> 00:52:14.239
Is it me?

00:52:14.400 --> 00:52:15.360
I don't know if it is me.

00:52:15.920 --> 00:52:16.800
It's definitely not me.

00:52:17.039 --> 00:52:19.840
Oh, we do have a bit of a problem because I'm away next week.

00:52:20.000 --> 00:52:24.400
Chris is away next week, and Riggs and I are away on Tuesday and Wednesday.

00:52:24.719 --> 00:52:27.360
So it m who knows what's gonna happen then.

00:52:27.599 --> 00:52:29.199
So might have to take a week off.

00:52:29.440 --> 00:52:30.239
Where are you going?

00:52:30.400 --> 00:52:31.599
To watch the Wu Tang Clowns.

00:52:31.679 --> 00:52:32.480
Oh, yes, the Wu Tang.

00:52:32.719 --> 00:52:33.920
At the at the O2 Arena.

00:52:34.079 --> 00:52:34.960
You better protect your name.

00:52:35.119 --> 00:52:36.159
We could, yeah, I know.

00:52:36.400 --> 00:52:38.880
We could record Monday.

00:52:39.519 --> 00:52:41.039
We probably won't go down well at home if I'm there.

00:52:41.119 --> 00:52:42.079
Anyway, we'll figure something out.

00:52:42.239 --> 00:52:44.480
All that remains is to say tidy signing out.

00:52:44.719 --> 00:52:45.519
La revedere.

00:52:46.079 --> 00:52:46.880
Dan's gone.