Plants & Toscana

What was this movie? Just Toscano is the movie. No, but we talk about plan. Plant? Have you got an intro, Riggs? No. No. In Spanish, preferably? Oh no, side is go one in French. Buenvenido Bad Dads. No, what they do al Bad Dads Film. Well Mancave. Grotto del Hombre. Grotto del Hombre, yeah. Grotto del Hombre is correct, I would say in Spanish. I don't know if it's certainly Grotto del Hombre. Should we get the bad news out of the way first? Disappointing. Disappointed. Disappointing. Walking football uptake. You know, it wasn't what we how we wanted to finish. We didn't win the playoff final. Well, much like another set of champions this week, you lost a crucial game after extra time. Well the manager of walking football is a Guna, so he lost the final on Friday and then lost the Champions League final. Yeah, two terrible penalty defeats this week for English football. One in the shape, of course, of Premier League champions Arsenal. But also more devastating. More devastating, I think. Much more devastating was the uh the walking football. Although I think we can all be very proud of how we played over the last season. And sadly for us, we weren't at full strength with our team. So we know we've got levels to go through into the new season. But uh you had to choose love over football. Oh yeah, I love football, so I should have chosen that. Yeah, I was unavailable because uh there was no game on that date, and uh we were out for our wedding anniversary, so I couldn't play. Yeah. I don't think it would have made a difference because we didn't think we're not convinced, yeah. Yeah, but uh everybody had a great time anyway, uh, because football was the real winner. Okay. Anyway, we won a cup and we finished joint top of the league. Yeah. I mean I mean we were second best in a three-kick penalty shootout, so you know, very, very s small margins. Fine, fine margins. But still cup winners and uh champions. Yeah, we don't know. There was so much love on the group as well. It was a beautiful place to be. It was, yeah. Uh you'll come back. It's just gonna make it feel even sweeter when we win it next year. Yeah. We will remember the the hurt and pain of one year of hurt. Yeah. But uh that links nicely, actually, to uh to this week's uh theme and film because it's all about uh food. Uh food and plants. Yeah. So you can see that link, can't you? Did you watch anything this week? I did actually. Uh a good friend of mine recommended a series called Spider Noir. Oh, okay. And uh thank you, Simon. And I ended up getting quite hooked on it. Nick Cage. Black and white or colour? Because you can I I went both, actually, because the I watched the black and white. You can flip between them. You can flip between them, and it's a very interesting experience to do so. Yeah. Yeah. So I I kept it. Yeah, I kept on flipping between them because I really like the black and white though. I've watched it all black and white first, but I have occasionally, because it is a very different experience in colours. Well, I just black and white. There was one scene, I think maybe in episode three, where he's looking at ties in the drawer, and I was just really curious over to what ties what they were like. So and then it just hit you with all this colour, and it's like, wow, that's like a green tan suit or something. It's really clever because it when you watch it in black and white, because it plays off of so many established black and white tropes, and like he's just doing a Humphrey Bogart impression for a lot of it, and like it looks and it's all lit like an old-fashioned black and white, and all the performances are like an old 30s movie and all that sort of thing. But then you put it into colour and it's really vibrant, like really different. So I mean, we we know about the the Spideyverse and these different kinds of universes that Spider-Man might live in through that amazing Spider-Man film where he went through all that. So this is just another one of those, and in which case this Spider-Man is not like Peter Parker. It's uh the the characters uh that are in the bugle and uh you know all the other that it's completely changed. Love interest has already died, uh, whereas in you know Peter Parker would have saved her and everything. So he's actually given up being the spider. He's given up being the spider story, he he starts to be the spider again after plot shifts him into motion, but he's old and yeah. And he's he's actually quite cynical and he doesn't mind working a little bit for the bad guys, he's got that selfish streak in him and things. He's got Brendan Gleason as Silver made. Brendan Gleason is is the the the gangster. And it was just a really clever idea, and I've yeah, I watched sort of one after the other after the other after the other until it was time to go to bed, and I've still got a few more to watch, but that's what I've been watching. That was uh other than the homework, that was all I had time for. Same period. Yeah, I was watching that too, yeah. Well, you're right. Yeah. Okay, nice. What about you, Chris? Nothing. Not even bit busy. You're working too hard, Chris. Busy, I've been yeah, but I need the money, so I can't do anything. Count the coins. Count the coins. Coin, coin, coin. Yeah. I have watched this week eleven episodes of The Pit. Okay. Wow. Eleven? Yeah, real good. How many minutes in an episode? Well, if it had adverts it'd be an hour, but it's forty five minutes where I'm Okay. What what is it about? It is a hospital drama. But it's it's hour by hour, so it's their shift, so it's one day going through the whole shift. Really good. Really, really, really good. Yeah, set in Pittsburgh. Do you have like a whole hour where nothing happens? No. No. So there's there's various characters in it. So there is the first day of three new medical students going in, yeah, and then there's uh there's one lady who has forced her she's taken something to force herself to be sick because she wants her son to be looked at. And when they're quizzing her, he's got a list of people uh women he wants to eliminate at school. Yeah. So you're like, okay, is he the gonna be the the through the the through plot that goes through every episode? Then there's another guy in the waiting room who's getting more and more irate at having to wait. The the waiting room's crazy, it's just like there's there's no even chairs for everyone there, and then another emergency comes in and everyone gets more annoyed at having to wait a bit longer, and there's one guy he fucking clocks one of the properly whacks and breaks the nose of one of the uh the lady who basically does all the admin in the ER. And you're like, Oh, maybe he's gonna come back and shoot up the butt. You know, you're like waiting for like what's the bit, because it's all individual cases. You're like, well, something has to be a little bit more than a bit more. Wait for something in the overarching to go. And we are now, yeah, I think we've got four or five episodes left, and you're like, I think it might be the kid, I don't know. Because it's got it has to happen at the pit, yeah. Because it's all there, you know. But there's other like little light-hearted moments, and there's bits where you you actually lull, and there's bits where you're like some of the injuries are fucking grim. Like the first one you see is a completely like de-gloved foot. Someone's a hate crime of a an Asian lady's been pushed in front of a train, yeah, and the guy's managed to like pull her out of the way, and but it the the thing's gone over a foot and fucking ripped all the stuff. It's so grim. But it's it's excellent, yeah. It's it's Noah Wiley who was a doctor carter in ER. So I think he was like, I don't want to do another hospital thing, but it's something different. So strong recommendations. You like that kind of stuff though. I do like, yeah, I do like hospital drama. It sounds like a hospital drama which you like crossed with 24, which I mean you also like, yeah. And the guy, the guy who's created it, he he has he wrote on ER and he also wrote NCIS Los Angeles, which is total trash, but we all we have to watch that as well. So this guy's got previous that we've enjoyed, so yeah, it's a it's a strong recommend. Okay. Interesting. Well, that's the things we watched this week. Should we get on to talking about plants? Yeah, we're gonna go top five plants. Yeah. This is your scategory, Danny. Yeah. Um is this because we were talking about your that might have been the uh the seed that was planted. Very good. Echium. Echium. There's a ton of them off at the zoo. Yeah, we've got a giant Echium in the garden there, and I think we were talking about how the garden was had a bit of colour in it last week and and we were recording it outside last week. Yeah, we had to be. And it's forecast to rain actually. And we're probably a little bit later. Yeah. But uh Yeah, there's actually quite a a rich uh lot of films that that we could choose for with plants in. If I went right, right back and then to the 1960s, the day of the triffids. That looks like the Eckhen John John Wyndham? It would have been uh Howard Keel. Yeah, but it was the book. The book was John Wyndham, wasn't it? Oh, right, okay. Do you remember read the book? I don't think I ever read the book. I remember seeing the film, bits of the film on TV. They could kind of like shuffle around. Yeah. That's right. Yeah. They were brought to Earth via a meteor. That's right. And uh they're kind of spore-bearing plants began to to walk around and ruthlessly hunt human beings. But yeah, it was it was a a race against survival against these this kind of multiplying uh foliage that was just hunting people down and that will be represented quite a lot, isn't it? Like evil plants or plants that can attack you. It's quite it is quite a lot in in films, you know. I mean, there's probably a couple more in in the list that I could produce, but some that you may have as well that where plants have that kind of strangling eating. It's like the Venus flytrap, isn't it? You've got uh I had one at university, but died. Yeah, they had tough to keep alive. We had uh a competition at work recently where we had to grow sunflower seeds, they're still going on, and I planted three and none of them came up and everyone. Well, they're quite hard though. No, they're really, really easy. Uh like they go up in a day if you know anything about plants. You've got something about you've got to get them in the right place though. Well, obviously, yeah, that's true, because I didn't You got nothing. I got nothing. Although I just scattered like loads in the end and put us and I had five that came up recently, so I'm I'm not as downhearted as I I might have been. But you know, people can say, you know, it's the uh they're the root of all evil, but uh god you you carry on. Go on. Well I'll carry on with more sort of evil trees I'm going for Audrey. Well it was Audrey too, apparently, according to my research. I remembered it just as Audrey, but I remember it as Seymour. Oh no, Seymour was the that was Rick Moranis. Feed me, Seymour. Little shop of Little Shop of Horrors 1986, Frank Ozzy's movie. The first time I saw it. Because it was a music movie. That's why I think I hated music. Yeah, we hide it. I remember my brother and I, we were like really excited about it. We were like, Oh, I didn't see bullshit. And we were like, What the are we just been cutting the whole evening? We just wasted, but we had to watch it because when you watch it and you're a bit older you realise the plant is sort of psychologically manipulating him as well, and he's a bit uh you know, it's a bit more going on for you. But uh it had a great cast as well. Steve Martin is the dentist. Bill Murray played uh he was the patient, and obviously Rick Moranis, but there was a previous version in 1960 by Roger Corman as well. I don't think I oversaw that one. No, but I think I was put off after after this one, to be honest. Because I really But the plant itself really made a big impression, and it looked amazing. The sort of stop motion or whatever they use for it. It it was nominated for Best Visual Effects in 1987, but I don't think it won. Uh but they it had famously had two endings. One in which the bad guy wins and the plant sort of eats everybody and wins and goes on to take everything over. So I think it kind of ends up taking over New York and all that sort of stuff. So that's quite good. Yeah. I'm surprised there wasn't a few more, you know, it didn't branch out. Wow. He mentioned, I think, earlier, that I I nipped out for dinner on Friday and I snapped a photo of myself. Well, Kaylee snapped a dark photo of me next to my cheese plate. Yes. And then you followed up with a and it did look uncannily like Tree Beard at the end from at Lord of the Rings. They're in the Two Towers, aren't they? It's Fangorn Forest, I think, where they first appear after Hemerian Pippin run off from a battle and and hide in there. And they are required to help in the battle against Saruman specifically. Yeah. And they they speak very slowly and they move very slowly because they are supposed to be ancient trees. They're a bit nimby, aren't they? They don't they're like, They don't give a shit unless there's something happening to them. So many foreigners. And they kind of they they have a conference, you know, with all these other trees, these other ants, and they decide that they like you say that it's not really that they're not going to put themselves in harm's way. And then one of the I can't remember if it's Mary or Pippin says, Okay, well, could you just drop us over there cunningly taking them through where all these other trees have been felled by Saruman to power his furnaces and whatever? And at that point they get like fairly miffed about all that, and they really like start the the turn of absolutely tear it up. It's great, the battle sequence, because they it almost looks a bit like Jason the Argonaut sometimes where they the stop motion stuff and it's probably I'm sure it's not, it's a dying computer, but they without them like they wouldn't have beaten Sorman and you know so we'd all been living in darkness now, yeah. Yeah, they turn the tide and there's some great bits of them tearing the dam down and all that, and some of them are on fire, but they chuck themselves in the water and save themselves. Yeah, it's cool. That it would it's really good, that bit. It's probably the best out of the three films, I think, actually. That segues really nicely into a a slightly smaller plant in a different film called Leon the Professional. And he's uh got famously got the plant with him that because he has no roots like cleans every leaf, and he just kinda always looks after the plant and at the end of the film until the plants the plant to show that it's got roots. He plants it in central part, does she? Yeah, it's not really the greatest place because the chapel is up someone just gonna take a shit on it or something. Yeah, he'll like uh murder endless people, but he loves his plant. Yeah, but but he he's a gentle soul. Yeah. So so plant. I can't tell you what plant it was. I can though. It is an agli and aglionema. Green. It was green. It was green, yeah. I can tell you that. I read today that he was doing a g Gary Oldman was doing a David Bowie impression. Oh really? He's quite mega in that, isn't he? Yeah, big time. Okay. I guess it was just time for him to do it. The plant I'm going to suggest here is potatoes, which is Solanum Turtle Busum. Oh, the humble potato. The humble potato. Because uh do you know which one I'm gonna talk about? I do, I reckon, yeah. It's the potato head? Close. It's the marsh, it's gonna be the marsh, you know. Oh right, okay. Science is good, the book. The science is good, yeah. That's what it is, basically. The movie's like, Science is great, isn't it? Well he's stranded on Mars at a chap called Mark Watney, who is also known as Mad Damon. Does he have to use night fertilizer? He's got to use shit. He uses his own. That's what they call it in North Korea. He's he's basically going to eat his shitty potatoes at the end. He didn't have a whole lot of choice though, did he? No, he didn't have a lot of choice. It was eat shitty potatoes or die. He's he's got a a very limited rations, he's got to s like mathematically work it out and uh make all these calculations until a rescue mission can um come in and save him. But uh potatoes in the end. I mean Who couldn't live on chips? Yeah. Yeah, the English though. Cornerstone of the English Empire, I'd say. Vinegar it was piss, I think. Pissed on his chips. But yeah, it was uh it just goes to show, you know, if you can grow a potato on Mars, then you can probably eat and shit with potatoes and live on it. I think that's maths now. I think that's that's what Elon's gonna do when he gets out there. I've got a little list for you if you're interested of uh planty movies. Yeah. Chive Angry, uh My Little Peony, Kill Dill, War Gorse, Time Bandits, Fronds with Benefits, Mulchar Do About Nothing, Das Root, My Own Privet, Idaho, Full Petal Jacket, Uh The Hedge of Tomorrow, and The Thicket of It, All Of Music by Uh Sage Against the Machine. Wow. I'll tell you what, that is mint. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you. Good lot. And I did have a list here of actors who could be in it Orlando Bloom, Chris Pine, Carrie Ann Moss, Oliver Reed, Daisy Ridley, Rose Burns, Sage Stallone, and Rowan Atkinson, which being a tree, as I learned today. Nice. Apparently so. Okay. I was thinking that Yeah, no, I didn't yeah. Yeah. Wow. Okay. There's a few Doctor Who ones. Of what, trees? Um, plants. Manage the managing plant in the episode The Seeds of Doom from 1976. That's a crinoid uh from an alien plant that takes over mammals. Um I didn't list them all the same on. And the verdant, uh they were in various Doctor Who episodes. They were just sentient plant aliens. Just that? Yeah. Yeah. What about did anyone see I think it was also a book, uh, Annihilation? Yeah. That was some sort of plant monster thing. Yeah. The film was really Well, it was the Shimmer, really, wasn't it? It was a place where the Shimmer, and inside the shimmer, it was like this dome, and inside there like DNA ended up getting spliced together, so you got like crocodile fucking humans and really difficult. Yeah, it was weird. I mean, I think it was a weird book anyway, but then it was Alex Garland was the screenwriter, and he purposefully only read the book once and then wrote the screenplay. So his screenplay is kind of an impression of the book as well. So that's quite mad too. So I just want to say what else, because other stuff that I've been watching this week was for the movie Backrooms out. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I was going through watching all the old web series stuff. Yeah. Like creepy. Yeah. We've seen it all. Some of it and the idea. So it's not creepy scary, it's like X-Fas. No, yeah, I know. The idea is a bit like there's a book called House of Leaves that I really love, and uh in it it's like a it's it's quite a sort of postmodern book. It's like a book about stuff that's happening, it's commenting on itself all the time. And a bit of it is called the Navidson record, which is about wandering like this weird space and it's really creepy, and the back room's a similar vibe. Oh yeah. It was that you Sonny said it was shit though, didn't you say? He didn't like it, no. He remembered his friend and thought it was thumbs down for him. Worth it. Yeah, yeah. Worth it, Sonny. Any more plants, Chris? Yes, there are some plants, apparently 500 acres of them, in Interstellar. Remember Nolan planted planted the cornfields. Oh he did, yeah, he went. Because he didn't want to have CGI for the plants for the cornfields, and although that's okra in the film He sold all the corn at a profit. Yeah, afterwards he he made profit on the corn and he that was profit on the on the budget, I guess. So film pay for itself. Yeah. So yeah, from corn. Yeah. So I don't know how many corn hub. Corn star. I don't know how many, yeah, exactly. Corn stellar. I don't know how how many more people have done that, but I I thought that was actually thought it had been all ears. Um yeah, I don't know what that means. Is that a joke? It is of corn. That's uh that's a thing that that's the thing that they say. I tell you what, it it makes you think of build it and they will come. Yeah. Filled of wet dreams. Yeah. That's also got lots of plants and corn and things where the the baseball players just come out of the shooter accent. No. Never seen that of Kevin Carson. Oh, we're gonna see that one. Oh white, okay. Sounds like we're gonna have to uh genetically modify tomatoes uh for you because the attack of killer tomatoes is also um a film. Yeah, it it's uh Sentinel giant red tomatoes have been genetically modified, Chris, and they gain consciousness. Is that the one that Clooney's in? Yeah, he's in one of them and they roll through cities to consume people. It's not very good, I have to say. It doesn't really attack at a killer tomatoes that doesn't promise something to you. That does to me. Maybe, but not so much. Trauma film? No, no. But it it was that name just gave it a I think it was Glooney's first ever screen appearance, wasn't it? Something like that. Which is probably I remember him having to more famous now. His best ever, some say. Some say. I mean there there's there's quite a lot, isn't there, in in Plants when we we go to to think about it. I've got uh another one uh that I would like to uh it's a really good film, uh Into the Wild. Do you remember that with Emil Hirsch? He's it's based on a true story, and I think John Krakow, who did Into the Wild and also he did Into the Wild, also did uh the Everest um Pre-Solo track. No, he did that like where a guy had to drop another guy into the void. Into the void. Touching the void. And uh but this was the the story of uh Christopher McCandless. Oh McCandless, yeah. And he missed basically in the plant side of it, he he misidentifies a toxic and poisons himself um eating I remember him in the film he's just going down through belt buckle, you know, belt holes. Having to like get his knife and stab more holes and eventually he's life, he's fucked. He's he's he's losing weight and he basically went out there to kill himself anyway. Well, no, he he went out there to live off the the land, and for a part of the film he was really enjoying that getting back to nature. He was obviously, you know, a little bit lost and and wanted to find himself within nature and try to give himself a a chance. He he'd looked into smoking food, uh but that didn't work right. He didn't really know what he was. But he killed an entire animal, didn't he? But he didn't have anywhere to preserve it. That went wrong, and he just ended up starving. And he ended up trying to live off like berries and and roots and things, and he misidentified uh I think it was a sweet pea instead of uh like a sweet potato or whatever it was and and then killed himself and did um I think there was a van, wasn't there? It was an old school bus, yeah. Which people go out to and um and visit. Oh really? Probably not now because it imagine it's just a rust bucket now, but um this happened back in the day and it was um yeah, I I really enjoyed the film. Yeah, I was really sad. Emil Hirsch, he he he's done he did Lords of Dogtown, I think, which is uh hitting Netflix at the moment, or or Prime or something we hadn't seen in a long time. And I thought he was a he's ledger in that as well. Um might be, might be, yeah. Uh there was a a few And he was in Speed Racer as well, which is fucking awesome. But this was I think probably his his best in a little while anyway. He seems to make some cool choices, if not hugely popular and mainstream and stuff. It's quite good. So Yeah. That one as well. I I'll plant that one. Adaptation was the Spike Jones movie written by Charlie Kaufman. Splant Pots are on the cover of the film? Yeah. Yeah. And uh the film it was written by Charlie Kaufman, and the film is about the struggles of Charlie Kaufman adapting the book The Orchid Thief by Susan Orleo, who also features then in the movie played by Meryl Streep. And does it go into being John Malkovich, the set of it? Uh yes, there is a bit of that because he's also uh sent away from that set as well. And he also in this one he has a so the the the film is sort of about his struggles adapting this book that he's supposed to be writing, which is what he was commissioned to do, was write the story of the orchid thief, and in because he couldn't do it, he wrote about the struggle of not being able to do it. And he it's also about his insecurities and his love relationships, which are all comically wrong, and he's got this twin brother, also played by Nick Cage, who's like the opposite of him, like kind of a bit suave, also a screenwriter, but a really trashy one, who's gonna be famous by the end of it. And the movie is like all postmodern and clever, and then at the end it devolves into the kind of trashy shootout stuff that it's been talking about, so it's quite a cook funny little movie that I really, really like. So that's adaptation, and then Sam Raimi's Evil Rapey Trees. Oh yeah. In The Evil Dead. Yeah. Famously now, he says he went a bit too far. It's really rapey. Um but yeah, I mean he does show a branch basically going up a woman's chufty, so that's not very nice, is it? Horny trees. Yeah, you know, like Daggle. Yeah. Sound Garden, yes. The Roots, Guns and Roses, yes, Cypress Hill, The Vines, uh, and then song titles Rose Garden, Thorn in My Side. Yeah. Scarborough Fair, obviously that's got Parsley Sage, Rosemary and Thistle and Weeds by fucking Bumford and sons. Uh Willow by Taylor Swift, everyone's favourite. Yeah. Cactus by one of my favourites, the Pixies. Um Poison Ivy by the Coasters, who was then character in Batman DC Well. Yeah. Um then I was thinking well I was thinking about the brilliant Joel Schumacher um wanna say Batman and Robin. Yeah. With Poison Ivy, Umothermas. She's really hot. And she seems to be in control of Bane in that one. Bat nipples. Yeah. That is Batnipples, yeah. Yeah. So those, and then I probably just Nom next, I think. Alright, okay. Chris, what you got? I have got um Batman begins. Oh yeah, the fictional Himalayan blue flower, which he gets told to bring up to Razal Gul. Razal Ghoul. And then the tw there's another twist to the powers of that plant because it's hallucinogenic and the the scarecrow. Yes, the Killian Murphy. Yeah. He uses it uh as a way to this yeah, as a toxin and to to make people lose their minds. You get that great scene of where Batman makes him inhale a load of it and he's like threatening him and he just appears as like this demon with his melting face and stuff like that. Yeah. So I I thought that was quite a good one. It's a real life, a rare real life Himalayan blue poppy or a blue thistle. Okay. And uh very thistly, didn't it? Apparently the New York Times made a botany piece detailing the film's inspiration. But the actual properties of these of the blue thistle aren't hallucinogenic. That was just the that was just the the plot for the film. Who used to blow on their thistle whistles? Who was that? That was Faminess, wasn't it? Was it? They used to blow on the Thassle Wassle. Thusle whistle. Yeah. Oh well Okay, and then I've got my nom. Well, this will be nice. I've never seen these films, uh The Evil Bong and the Evil Bong 2. Which well, Cheech and Chong was gonna be my nom, right? Because there was the up in smoke uh movie, which really isn't funny unless you are high as a kite. But then it's it's super funny. And and Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong uh were were uh smuggling a van entirely made of marijuana, and at one point the they're looking for weed, like you know, they haven't got anything to smuggle, they've got absolutely nothing, but they don't know that the van, the entire van is made of weed, like um and it's smoking out the back and it's fucking awful, it's sort of coming back to me now. Yeah, a cop has uh pulled up behind them, you know, like on a chips kind of uh style motorbike. And by the time he's Eric Strada, yeah, by the time he's pulled up to them, he's ab he's just been breathing in the fumes of the van, and he knows like what the hell is that like? And then by the time he gets to the window, he just can't remember why the hell he's there or anything, and they're looking at him going, that's just the weirdest conversation we've ever had. Like, you know. I I remember uh years and years ago uh watching this and not finding it funny, and then maybe a few months later watching it again and finding it really, really funny, and it just goes to show you, doesn't it? Definitely a cult classic. It's a cult classic, uh, and yeah, I thought I would I would sow that seed. Is that your norm then? I'm gonna keep that as my norm. I don't I I just because there is loads. Mr. Nice was in there. I mean, if we're thinking of plants uh in the uh more smoking site, Howard Marks one, yeah. Yeah. I watched an interview of Howard Marks a little while ago, and it was you know, obviously he was put in prison, he was he was a big big time drug dealer. It was industrial industrial scale, and he got a lot of people involved in it, and he would play it down like no, there were just like, you know, just people that were just helping somebody get a smoke, but he was making multi, multi millions out of he was making coin coin coin out of it. Uh but he did also have that opportunity to work for the British uh MI6 because they wanted to use him to get into the people that he knew and would cross those fields and he he didn't ever really do that, but he said he would do it, and then he said he would work for them, and then he used that as part of his defence in a court case against him, and they had to concede at one point, yes. Well, he was kind you know, employed by us for a very short period, and that gave him then the cover to say Well, it gave you credibility, didn't he? They're just putting me out in the cold here, like you know, they're throwing me under the bus, but actually I was a spy working with the British secret service and all the rest of Howard Marks, that's how he got off on YouTube on the guy from the Sparks hanging out with Howard Marks. And he was in one of the something was he in Human Traffic talking to the Yeah, I think he was. He was Danny Dyer? Yeah, or one of them, yeah. And I'm so excited because Rivals Season 2. That is very exciting. Well, there we go. Yeah. That's Danny Dyer's not Howard Marks. No, yeah. It's nominating time, isn't it? So just quickly Swamp Thing. Oh, wasn't it? Well, no, I've got a candidate. I've got I've actually got a few candidates, so you you go. Swamp Swamp Thing, Wes Craven made the movie uh 1980s movie. Uh Uncle Wes. He has a bit of Yoda type dialect. He says much beauty in the Swamp if only you look. Uh he was a great little character, a swamp thing, and they tried to redo it. Well, there was the comic the the novel graphic novel by the series by uh oh my god, the one who did the dude that I really like, and I can't think of his fucking name. Did Watchmen and all the rest of them. Alan Moore. Oh yeah, it was Alan Moore, yeah. And yeah, like you say, they did they did the TV series. I mean, it was one of those ones where the TVs was actually really good, but it didn't find an audience, so they cancelled it before it was finished. It's still on Amazon, isn't it? Actually, I really, really liked it. Yeah. But I liked the swamp thing as a character anyway. Yeah, because it's got that real tragic sort of Jekyll and Hyde type thing as well. Yeah. Um, so that was really good. Uh there's obviously Groot from Guardians of the Galaxy, um, which was a great way for Vin Diesel to get paid for saying the same three words. Yeah, for direction, like I know. And then he did it in Spanish and all that as well. So whatever. Um true, yeah. Yes, yes, yes, yes, very true. And he got paid a lot to do it. Um why not? I am Grue? Yeah, exactly. Well, what's he thinking here? Say the fucking line together. Yeah. But my nomination is going to be oh Herbie goes bananas. Okay. Because bananas are free. Okay, there is a Simptons for everything, and I'm going for season eleven. The episode is called EIEI Dough, and it's tomaco. Tomaco, yeah. Homer grafts a tomato plant onto a tobacco plant using a plutonium rod. Crazy sounds so healthy. Yeah. Uh tomato plant that contains nicotine. Yeah. Tastes disgusting, and they immediately went to eat. Yeah. So that's that it's a big boom. I think Laramie Cigarette Company ended up trying to buy it. Ah, tobacco. Yeah. Season 11 is like when it's the may start to not be separate. Because so, yeah, anyway. The norm I have is from Sherlock Holmes' The Game of Shadows, where Sherlock Holmes sees Professor Moriarty's dried plants. Oh, yeah. And that's the plot twist to deduce the cipher from his notebook. Yeah. Because he We watched that one, didn't we? Yeah. We did it for the pod, yeah. And Moriarty has a book called The Art of Domestic Horticulture, but he doesn't actually look after his plants. So that's how Sherlock deduces that he's like, How can a such a meticulous person not look after his plants but have that book on his Jared Harris is he's so good. I like it. Richard Harris's son. Is it? That's not one of our shifted things. Yeah, yeah. Ed Harris's nephew. Yeah. And Rolf Harris's brother. Brother-in-law, yeah. Um yeah, the irony of the dead plants exposes the book importance, and Holmes has the key to Krack Moriarty's code. Yeah, nice. I like that film. Yeah, I liked it, so that's why I was like, plants, but they're dead plants, but they are still plants, nevertheless. I think I'm remembering pretty much the final scene of the movie where somebody's blending into the furniture. Yeah, well, he's in the urban camouflage, it's called, and he's got half wallpaper, half armchair, or something like that. And he just kind of gone over the Rick and Back Falls. Yes, yeah, he went off the falls, but he had the breathing device that he had from his brother, I think, from Mycroft, yeah. So that was a plant. That's a very diverse uh selection of plants we've got there. I thought so. Yeah. Apparently, there was a subsection of plants in the industry or plants in film, as in someone planted. I didn't really interpret it. I thought somebody might go for that. Actually, I thought we might. I thought you would have gone for that. All right, okay. Which is which is somebody, yeah, obviously, who's in perhaps one of our listeners might give us that. Oof. Would you? Would you now? Well, let's find out. Toscana. Which is the channel for Tuscany. Yeah. It was called Toscano's actually. But we would go there quite a lot after a night out because they did a great breakfast. Okay. And Pete and I would often debate like recently what what is mandatory on a full English breakfast. Beans. Yes. I hate beans in a ramekin. Put them on a fucking plate, especially even in a greasy spoon. So they would have beans on the plate. Okay. Beans, bacon, sausage. I don't think that sausage and and and and I didn't think Pete would agree with me on this. I don't think that actually sausage is mandatory on a on a breakfast. Eggs, bacon, eggs, beans, and mushrooms. Mushrooms. You have to have that. Tomato, even though I don't want it. And they would they would do fried bread, which is about a game changer. Fried bread is where gold standard. Yeah. They add what? Like deep fried bread. Yeah. Yeah. So they'll probably do the bacon and whatever in the fat in the pan. Oh, yeah. And then and then it doesn't disintegrate when you put the beans on. No. Because it's it's solid. Yeah. I used to go to a grease spoon in Timoth. And you would just go through and add on what you wanted, like it was like a buffet style thing. And you get to the fried bread, and it was just like deep, deep fried bread. And I would have that with mushrooms, it'd be some egg and beans. I also say that black pudding, it has to be on the phone. Well, you know, I I go I go the I go the veggies style. I think most people would say you add it now, don't you? I mean, I love it on a thing, but you expect to probably add it on. I like it when it's mandatory and then people don't want it and you get it off their toast as well, and and tea, obviously, that will go with that better. I like to have so the real absolute dream would be to have fried bread and then you can have a side of toast with preserves, so you can have marlood job so almost like a dessert and fried bread. Yeah, okay. So then you can have your bread with your brecky, but then you can also have a serving different hash brown. No, that can get to fried bread. Hash browns is an American thing, I think, isn't it? I like it. It's not mandatory on anything. You can like the Swiss do it better, actually. They have a Swiss. They do they do a really good one. I like a roasty one. Yeah. A thin hash brown is is really kind of like. So in summary, it's not for English preference. So in some strong recommends. But when we get into this movie, there is like almost out of the gate, there's cookery. Like, because what this is, this is a fine dining dude. Yeah. So it defaulted to me to be dubbed, but I didn't realise at first that it was foreign language. And I was like, fucking voices in this are weird. And I was like, oh hang on. Oh, there wasn't. It's Danish, so I like immediately swapped it back for and then you then you get a lot of Danish, Italian, and they speak English as well. So this is a dude who is running. Well no, initially you get the funeral. Yeah. You get the old man's funeral. Yeah. And you get Sophia and Pino crying. Yeah. And then it goes to Copperhag and all the time. He is cooking extremely refined, fine dining cuisine. But with zero joy and struggling to freedom, like really in it. He's all quite sterile. He's not he's not enjoying what he's doing, and he's he's that's reflected in his team, he's quite overbearing on his team. And they're they're trying to start a new restaurant venture, aren't they? Yeah. And they're looking for investment, and the some guy just like bundles into the kitchen. He's trying to dem first of all you see him demonstrating these dishes, and it does look like immaculate. Yeah, like a bird's nest, there's something that simulates a bird's nest. It's tweezer food, you know. Yeah. It's very, very precise. And sort of stuff that I used to be like and now fucking hate. Anyway, this guy who he's hoping that he's got a business partner and they're hoping to wow this guy who will pump some money into the restaurant. Nine million euro. Yeah, so like it's not a small amount. He's like looking for a big so this guy figures like, well, they want money out of me, I'm gonna go back, I'm gonna fucking. I just think though, it's just for a pause there, like nine million euro for a restaurant. You're never making that back. When are you where I mean, how much do you have to charge? And how much you have to how long do you have to go? We can tell you how much you can charge before. Yeah, I mean we went to the fact that they were 700 foot ahead. So that's how much you can charge that. But even things like this people with euro, that's a lot of seven hundred you could how many people would say like if you go through all the fine dining restaurants in the world, El Buy, you know, in Barcelona. Outside of Barcelona, coastal, you know, thing. Impossible to get a table, you get a table, blah blah blah blah blah. Loss making every year. Yeah. Yeah, they had to make up all of the money by doing public appearances, speaking after dinner stuff, to make it make ends meet. But the restaurant would never ever noise. If somebody's investing nine million euros in a so this so this guy he he comes into the kitchen and he's like, Oh, he's a bit flashy, he's young, he's obviously got money, he's got his like he's got his missus, his missus is taller than him. And the and you can see uh Tia Dahl is like, yeah, okay, fuck off, we're cooking. Do you know what I mean? He's not at home for this dickhead. And it very, very quickly loses his shit, doesn't he? Well, he he's just read that day, actually, a letter, isn't he? He's just had that his father had passed and that he should go and claim the funeral at the beginning. Yeah, he should go and claim the uh inheritance, but he never liked his father at all. Flashback of him making him cook like a million eggs in a row or something. Yeah. And that's so this is where he's like got his cookery skills from, but he's also like resentful of it. He's got a complicated relationship with his father. And so this big day that they've kind of He fucks it in the air. He tells the guy to fuck off, he insults the missus, and the guy's like, Okay, okay, fine, we'll go. And then he just launches all the stuff off the the the what you call it, place. Where he's serving all the food. I call it a table, the pass. The pass, yeah, he he fucks all that onto the floor and he shouts at everyone and he stumps off and uh yeah, that went well. And and you we learn that he's lost the i investor at no surprise the next day and he says, you know, well what are you doing? He's going, well, you know, I'm looking after my team. I wouldn't ask them to because he's cleaning the kitchen and everything. Which by the way, if you're a chef and a head chef, you're never touching. I've worked in a million restaurants and pubs and hotels and bars. If you're a chef, especially if you're a head chef, you've done that stuff on the way out, yeah. You never touch anything that you if you touch a bar of soap is to wash your hands and to wash your ass. That's it. They are getting tickets, shouting them out to the team to put it back. And looking at stuff. And make the menu and go outside to look immaculate and speak to the guests. If you're a Michelin like a fictional Michelin star restaurant chef, you're not getting involved to wash dishes. I'll tell you that. So he's he's doing this, like, you know, he's this tube Michelin star kind of chef, and he's he's doing this, and the woman says, Why are you doing it? He says, Well, you know, I'm not gonna ask the team to clean up my mistakes, and then she twists that back on him and says, Well, we've just lost that investment, so you what you're doing now to help your team. Uh you why don't you go and she knows about the father passing away and him having this But he has actually inherited it. Yeah, he's he's inherited this kind of place. And why don't you just go and sell it, you know, and then we can start again maybe it's worth a million euro or nine hundred thousand or or whatever it is. So begrudgingly he's sets off to Tuscany and he goes down and sits in the restaurant and he finally gets there going up little hills and mountains and things. And it looks beautiful, you know, but it's all very, very rustic. A million miles away from. Well, exactly. A million miles away from one other. I wonder if he'll find himself. I wonder if he'll reconnect with his passion for cooking. Yeah, but but that's okay. Knowing the formula is part of the fact that it's not. Well, straight straight away he he goes in, he sits down, and it's not impressed by the table that's that's not sitting properly on the floor. It's got a bit of a aesthetics are a problem for him. He asks for some water and she tips it on the ice. This girl who he lay by now is is her name super. He has a huge freak out because he's like, What he goes, What are you doing? What are you doing? And she's like, With water, and he's like, Yeah, but uh I don't know what where this ice cube is from, you know, it could be out of the fucking pond or something. And she's like, This guy's a fucking dick. Yeah, yeah. And he is a dick. Yeah, because he's in the middle of nowhere, you got his face. So she's like, right, fine, and she just tips the water back from the into the bottle and fucking bangs him down, and then the the other person has to come over and apologize and blah blah blah. And he says, Listen, I just want to fuck off. He eats some of the food, doesn't he? Some bread and the oil, and the oil's the oil. He's like, he's like, and she goes, Yeah, it's fucking good, isn't it? And he's like, Yeah, okay, I'm gonna go. And then she sees his name on his credit card, she's like, Oh, you're Theodell. He's like, Yeah, fucking I'm big time. Yeah. And she says, No charge for you. And he's like, He ends up staying there the night because he owns a place, right? So uh he's staying there the night and he just wants to sell this place as quickly as possible. He's got to find the lawyer who's called him in the first place, who turns out to be the fiance to Sophia. And he uh says, Look, set me up a meeting. Anyone that wants to buy this, like I'm ready to get the fuck out of here. The guy's Italian, right? So he's like, Oh my friend, this is Italy. Well, tomorrow, I'll bring in the paperwork, it's okay. He he kind of goes into the kitchen, doesn't he? And they're like, Well, just a bit of that and a bit of this, you know, everything would feel. Not like he would have like the everything made to the gram, you know, the set and they're like, I don't think it needs a bit of this, bit of that. Dishes aren't done. He can't walk past the kitchen without giving it a deep clean just to make it the most perfect sandwich that you've ever seen just for himself. He makes sense for himself, he cuts the salami, yeah. We'll get into that. He makes that the the sandwich, to be in fairness to him, look really good because you know, he's like this pine nuts, there's fresh bazoo, there's you know, salt pepper. He does it. All the ingredients does everything just like that. And then he goes outside to sit on the thing to eat a sandwich. So if I go to speak to him, doesn't even eat the sandwich. Yeah. It goes back to sleep, and in the morning he's just like, well, they have a bit of an argument where she's saying, you know, this is this is my home, and you know, it all kicks off basically because she say because when they have that moment, that's where his dad would go and sit with a glass of wine, and he's still being a bit of a prick about his dad. And then it he realizes then that she is the girl he knew when he used to go. He doesn't realize yeah, that he they're talking about a wedding. Yeah. That he wakes up the next morning, he's like, Oh, there's gonna be an event. She's like, Yeah, yeah, it's gonna be a wedding. Oh, he says the food, it's like you can't fucking say. He's like, You're serving that to people. It did look shy. He goes, Yeah, it's it's slot, it's a fucking wedding. Like, you know, it's a like it's probably tasty because it's still Italian, they they know how to cook, but it's a bulk pasta. Yeah, it's like it's not banquet food or wedding food or you know, this is fine for like you know, if it's fine for lunch, but this is not wedding food. But this isn't like Yeah, so how does he turn it around? And so uh he he's kind of just uh she's stormed off at this point, kind of insulted by it, and he's like, Well, what the fuck? Like Because she kind of turns around, it's like there's no budget for fancy food. You don't have he's like, Well, you have the best plants there, tomatoes and all that, you have the olives, you got this. She's like, You don't have people to pay to cook, we got this guy and me, and that's it. There's no other no one else. And then he meets the lawyer and some other guy from the south of Italy who found a buyer in that evening, and he they kind of have a chat about what can potentially happen. And the guy makes an offer, he's like, the lawyer says when it was evaluated uh Castelli Stonky, it was evaluated at 300 grand. I'd pay 700 grand for that. Well, I can imagine it looks amazing. But the the Italian guy's like, I'll give you 500. And Theodal kind of the ego, right? He kind of goes, Well, what if I cook for this wedding and if everything is done the right way, you give me 900. Okay. And if it's not done, 500. You get it at five. I'm telling you, this place can be amazing, I'll show you what it can be, the potential of it. And he goes, Right, I'll show you. So basically his professional pride. So he's invited to the to the wedding, and then he finds it. No. He then he finds. See people going, Oh, it's nice, but you never actually see. No, you see them making the sauces and all that, but it doesn't really show you what they're actually cooking. We see the wild boar, doesn't we? Yeah, they're hunting. We see the wild pig. And you kind of get to see him and her becoming close and so they do connect, and he does he does then realise that he has known her when they were kids, and they have a connection from way back when. Like when they were five and six or seven or eight or something. You can see where it's going, even though well she realize that it's her wedding. She's getting married to Pino, who is the lawyer brokering the kind of sale. And then you can see he's he has got he's like, Oh, actually I really fancy her. Especially comp compared to him. Yeah, he's like a he looks like a potato. Um he kind of spins her a bit of the he's obviously reconnecting with like what he you know, this sort of more rustic and hands-on approach to cooking and what's around you and cooking the seasons and all that. And and he kind of spins her this yarn and all that sort of stuff, and then later so they they do reconnect. They make the risotto, they she gives him his old man's recipes and stuff like that. They make some risotto and they have a laugh, and she's considering she's getting married in a few days, she's spending a lot of time with him. They're on the back of the bike, she's holding on to him, she's going dancing, learning how to talk about it. That's one of the ways they show you the transition, because at first that she's on the back of the moped and she's like a bit standy offy, and later then a bit later on, she's all hugging him and they're laughing. And is she showing to be having problems with her current partner or this is coming up? She says she I don't know if it's after they because they do kiss or whatever, but she says, Oh, no, it is after, because they fuck, right? So they fuck the night before the wedding, they fuck your fingers her and they fuck. Right. Um we don't see him fuck, we just see him kiss. Yeah, but they do, definitely. And he says the next day she's like, Oh, I just wanted to say because he goes to see her when she's in her wedding dress, she's like, it's really hot. And she says, Oh, uh Pina says something about you were gonna sell it, and you know all that stuff you said, and all the sort of romantic stuff that's going on with her bollocks, and you're just here to transact. And he's like, Well, yeah, I d I did yes and no. Because she thinks that she's doing the he's doing all the food for her, like you know, and to make it better. Actually, he's doing it. And probably in his head he's doing it for that, and he's also doing it so he can just vlog it. But he this is the thing with the film, I think, where it where it sort of fails a little bit is you don't really s you can't really feel that conflict. Yeah. And so they do they th so she's fucked someone else on her wedding night, the night before. And then when it comes to the wedding, he's just doing the catering, and then uh at the actual ceremony, yeah, the guy's like, Do you? and he's like, Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then it goes to her, he's like, and do you take? And she goes, she just pauses for ages, and he's like, My love, you know, and she and she goes, Yeah, yeah, yeah. And you're like, afterwards, you'd be like, What the fuck? What's this? He never says it to her. And then he's and then the Skypenos saying to uh teo Dal, he's like, Well, you know, you've done the cooking now, it's amazing. Come and join us, yeah. I really want you to come. And you're like, Oh, that's awkward because he's fucked your wife right now. Yeah, and he's like, I don't know, I just I need to clean up the kitchen, like you're saying, there's no way that motherfucker's cleaning up the kitchen. And he's like, No, come on, it really means a lot for us. These are like important memories. I really want you to come and have a He's a nice guy, Peter. Yeah, he's the look. He's obviously imperious about what's going on. And he I think he he does he stay for a little bit, but he kind of stays in the back. You can see drinking wine from the bottle, and his business part of randomly turns up, the one who's completely done over in Denmark. And he gets absolutely wasted and does in the cut, yeah. No, and then makes a speech has a speech. Makes a really weird speech about everyone's so nice apart from her, she's not that nice, and she doesn't pretend like and then goes and throws himself in the pool where one of the uh guys one of the chefs, yeah. The chefs, the helpers, kind of digs him out and he wakes up in the next morning with a massive hangover and breaks his old man's statue. Yeah, it's a it's a done deal, he breaks a statue out front. There's a statue out front where he always kind of just like slags off because it's his old man has said like extraordinary is As everyone else. As everyone else, and he's like he just can't understand the any positive sentiment from that because he doesn't like it and and smashes that to pieces. And then goes back. We see him back in Denmark, and he's back in his kitchen where he started, and it looks absolutely just bleak and and cold and shit. But you can see the shift. You can see the shift in him because whereas before he would look at one of the girls and she would be like, Oh, gloves. And then he would be someone who'd be like, Oh, I've tried this off the menu, and he'd be like, Don't get any fucking ideas. You do what I say. Yeah, it's my menu, don't you? Whereas this time he kind of goes to the guy, tastes the thing, and he's like, Oh yeah, the honey was great idea, keep it like that. He goes to the girl and she's like, Oh, I've I've tried this, is this okay? And he's like, Pour a bit more, just do what your feeling tells you rather than is this enough. Now he's like it's all about the feel. But he's obviously he's he's Tuscany has released something in his uh in his cooking blood stuff. Yes, his own blood allows him to and then you get the thing, the the his business partner, the woman comes in and she's like, Well, the Italians send the money, the money's in the bank, and then you see him going to the young lad, the young guy with a with a million dollars. So he's 900 grand. He sold it. Yeah, he sold the place. The the guy loved the event, he loved the food and everything. He sort of paid out the big money. So he paid out the big money, and less than a week later, he's back there in Tuscany. The guy the guy rolls back on the deal so easily. Doing the the deal, he's giving him one and a half million dollars. He goes, he goes back to the biggest, he says to the guy, so the guy's already made he made like five, six hundred. So he's made four hundred grand, but he says to the guy, listen, I've like fucked you in the ear here. I I I want to go back on the deal, I'll give you a million and a half. And the guy's like, Yeah, sounds I like money, and I also don't want to stand in family tradition or you know, because it was his it's a long-standing. He knows the one that's uh broker in the deal, and as soon as he sees Theodal, he punches him in the face because she's come clean and said, Look, I thought she's already left him. She left him already. But he's he's a lawyer, so he still sticks around for the money. And you know, he's not gonna say goodbye to the money, so he's uh he's a lawyer, so he's still brokering the deal, and they're both wet because they go into the pool fighting and everything, and they have to get split up. But he then takes the business over and he brings his crew of a very expensive Danish uh Yeah, they all just fuck Denmark off. They all fucked Denmark off. Oh, Denmark's a hellhole, we need to go and live in Talk's name. They're you know, instead of charging £700 uh a meal and a head over there, they're charging probably It's probably like pay what you pay what you feel. Yeah, pay what you feel. Everyone's doing it by feel now. Yeah. Nobody's no I don't understand how they can make the same money in that restaurant as they could do in Denmark. It didn't matter because it's a lot of people. Well, you know, these these sort of He's doing a barbecue with dipping beer that he's drunk out of the barbecue. But it's a whole hog, isn't it? And they're they're detasting it on it. I mean, I'm sure it would be if if you like that kind of thing. But it's all about feel, and then she does turn up. She turns up because feel does turn up. We're guessing well, it's made me think like zero charisma of anyone in the entire film, so it's not. Yeah, that's the yeah, sorry, we'll get into it, but yeah. It made me think like it was all a bit weird this because like the Pino, the the fiance and Pino seemed there's absolutely nothing wrong with Pinocchio. He was sound, yeah, yeah. He was absolutely sound, he was just trying to be helpful. Smooth as fuck, he didn't do anything wrong to anyone in the film, and he gets completely shot on by a guy that looks like a potato. Yeah, and uh he's uh he comes back and he's got the place, he's got a few quid, of course. Uh he's got the guy who was originally gonna give him nine million euros to invest into the the business with him, just wrap that bit up again, didn't they? Gave it a few more quid uh for the fund, I guess. So uh you realise he's got some money to pay or or to do everything. And it looks lovely, it's idyllic, it's Tuscany, there's green rolling hills and everything, the food you can almost smell uh through the the shots on the camera and everything that they've got. Uh and she comes back, she's started university, she always wanted to be a botanist. Do you assume that that's what she's she's gonna be doing? Uh the bottom. And um if uh you know if she's available to to start because the business partner doesn't really know service, and she says, Yeah, sure. And they walk up the hill to the restaurant. She says you can stay here because they've got it's like got rooms there. They've got a room. She imagined that they don't see him thinking. They they knew each other when they were kids. They had this hand-holding photograph, it was just hands, and when he saw it on the city. Danish it reminded of him one that was similar at his mum's house, and he couldn't believe that this was it, all these old memories that he suppressed because of his father uh not being a great guide to him and his mum. Yeah. But that kind of wraps it all up the film. Um that's all quite interesting theme-wise. Well, I quite liked it. I I know that uh it was an easy film to watch. Another 90 minutes. It was it was a it was a short one. I actually chose it because I thought it might be something me and the missus might sit down and watch together and spend 90 minutes with me. No, no, that's right. Uh and timing didn't work out quite well enough for that. But it was a really uh easy film for me to watch. There wasn't anything you know um that you uh felt you had to turn on my phone to to get away from, you know, um and hide away. There was no high-stakes drama or anything, really. It was obvious when things were were where things were going with it. Um but it strangely kept me watching the whole way through. And you're right, there there wasn't like a amazing acting or cast in it that you or you're really rooting for any of the characters, but maybe it was just because of the food. It was really kind of really show you that much food though. And but but just the four pints of food you see. His one's in the feeding company. That's pretty much it. The rest of it is not show you. And when they they get the pig and they just kind of spray it with beer, and that's it. It's not really few feathers. I kind of agree with Dan in terms of I didn't have to look at my phone, I didn't do anything else, I just kind of watch it. It's a breeze, it's an hour and 20 minutes, it's it's nice and simple. We're now at 25 or something like that. Yeah, uh, there's no surprises in it, but it's hardly believable. You know, like don't get me wrong, there is a possibility that a Michelin star chef would want to move to Tuscany when here terrorists inherits a castle and that my high fall is in law. Um it's a possibility. But I've seen enough of these films to know that that's what's gonna happen. I worked with chefs and I worked with high-end chefs. Especially I worked with a Norwegian guy that was very similar to this guy, only he was tall and skinny, not he wasn't fat at the arts club in London. And these people are not normal. That's not he's not gonna that guy is a germophobe, he's not gonna move to Tuscany and wash his hands with dirt in the fields with olives. That's where I found it really difficult to believe. You didn't f feel feel it was very authentic. It wasn't it wasn't very authentic, felt a little bit kind of everything was forced, plus there was no chemistry between the girl and him. It didn't it's a lot of people. Of course, that's really d difficult to understand that relationship and what we've got. It was just so difficult to to understand and to believe that in the space of three days or a week, the how however long even if it would have been a week, but by the way the film was, it was three days. It's really quick, yeah. That he's got she's gonna rekindle their relationship that they only had one until he was eight or nine. And then now then he's addict to her. As soon as they meet, he's a dick to her. Yeah. And then all of a sudden, just like that, oh, he's got money, he's Theo Doll. Oh my god, he's such an only believable chef. And I've heard this before that he cooks so uh I love him because he cooks me food and he's a chef. And but is that he's never gonna be around because he's gonna work on social hours. I don't know. It's just a bit in that kind of and then he sells it and then he gives them another six hundred grand or four hundred grand to to buy it back, and I don't know, it's hard to believe. But as a f as a as a breeze through and incredible scenery, all you could imagine but from filming in Tuscany and then going to Aarhus in in Denmark where industrial and you see the cranes and the docks and all that. Docking. You can you can understand that, but it's a it's a it's alright, but it wasn't good. Actually, very it wasn't well received critically, but was in the top five films in like twenty, thirty countries on Netflix, you know, it was one of those that seemed to really people's sort of landscapes are quite attractive. Yeah, landscapes are very attractive. And I don't know whether it's cooking kind of films that romantic and well, you know, short and my take on it is that it's very predictable. Like you know how they go, oh yeah, he's a high-end. Did you think And I don't I don't mind that, but you need something in the movie to hang it out on, and there's like nothing in it. It's so it's so thin, like the ploy. He doesn't sound very likable, so you don't sound like you're rooting for him very much. There's nothing about him that you want him to succeed. You feel you actually end up feeling bad for the Pino who gets fucking like jilted in the end. Their relationship is so unbelievable because he's got there's no spark and he has no charisma. You just don't understand why she would jeopardise everything to want to get with this guy. We watched, I think it was the second film we ever did on the pod Chef. Yeah. And the plot of that is like quite similar in like high-end chef who like loses it and you know finds himself reconnecting to more simple food. And that plot is again that was fairly predictable as well. But you've got people like John Favreau and other people who like you like to watch and you well, a lot of that was about the actual cooking and they show you stuff, and also they've they chucked into the his relationship with his son, and so you did root for him because you wanted him to do all that. There's there's no one in it that you're like, oh, that's great, you know. And I don't what the camera points at all the people correctly and everyone remembers their lines and they only get together right at the end. And I didn't think at one point she was gonna go through with the wedding. I thought that Pino might have been a bit more of an arsehole to give him a bit more of an excuse to make that romance work a little bit, but the film doesn't, it just says, Well, he's an arsehole and she's a bitch, and actually they're gonna end up together. Is he an arsehole? Well, yeah, he is, he's definitely been an arsehole, but he's he's you know, I suppose the film gives him an excuse in the street. It's still with mommy's boy, he has to keep going back to his mum for advice as well. You know, you're fucking grounded. And she says to him, Look, takes two to tango, it's not just your father. And then he has a he does have a flashback about his dad where he he remembers his dad differently, doesn't he? Yeah, when they're playing pool. Wait, was it all imagined that his dad wasn't actually that bad? And and so, you know, the the tricks that maybe he's just a complete so sip at but she also um maybe she you see her kiss him when he was very, very young on the cheek and he's so pleased with himself and she's run off, and maybe it was like a first love kind of thing. She's never lived anyone else, she's Romany and never had it. Could have been in last week's Top Five Gypsies. Um so there was it was I didn't see like the the romance quite going the way that it did. So it wasn't completely plot obvious in that regard. Uh well it was to me, it was obvious that that's what they were gonna do. It wasn't obvious to why they would actually like each other. No, but you know, I mean But it's a strong recommend. It's yeah, it's uh it's something you should check out. Strong week. Strong week two incredible movies. They have grown. Well both of them were Scandinavian, not yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. Yo Head X and Peel. Yeah, nice. So uh it would have been my nominations this week, but I think this week. So I suppose we're gonna flip reverse it. Yeah, back to the flip mo. All right, I'll come up with something. Okay, well uh Dan's gone. A lot of it is starting out, and Reeves has left the building.