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Roasty Toasty Ghosty
#125: Potatoes Are War Starters
In which Lauren & Mattias do kangaReviews on their assigned rewatches. They review their recent movie night films, and discuss various topics such as rumors and big sacks of O'boy.
Content:
- Opening
- Weekly check in
- Debate deccisions & potato wars
- Intermission
- Movie on!
- Air America
Göta kanal 3 - Kanalkungens hemlighet
- kangaReviews
- Strul
- Chess
- Weight update
- What's ruining our lives
- Wrap up
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In a world where everything is unscripted. This is Roasty Toasty Ghost. Do you have something to say?
Speaker 2:I don't, you don't, no.
Speaker 1:You don't want to speak at all.
Speaker 2:I don't want to talk to you, no.
Speaker 1:Is that funny?
Speaker 2:I want to talk to you. No, is that funny?
Speaker 1:I don't want to talk to you when you laugh about it?
Speaker 2:yeah, so I think it's funny, so mean yeah, yeah, it is yeah, I think you still like me, even though I'm kind of mean sure, yes, yes, I do, and you're not that mean. Oh, don't be spreading rumors. That's what I tell the kids.
Speaker 1:When they say you're nice yeah.
Speaker 2:Like mom. Why are you being so nice? Like don't you dare say that to me? Don't you tell people that I'm nice? That's not okay. No, okay, I'm not that nice.
Speaker 1:No, no, I know.
Speaker 2:I'm a mean person.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you're a mean girl.
Speaker 2:I am a mean girl. You can't sit with us.
Speaker 1:True.
Speaker 2:Yeah, alright, do you want to start?
Speaker 1:this yes.
Speaker 2:Okay, go ahead. Okay. Wait, I have to make an announcement.
Speaker 1:Okay, that's how you do that. That was the announcement. Yes, and you talked through it.
Speaker 2:I'm sorry.
Speaker 1:It's okay.
Speaker 2:It was bad timing. Can you do it again?
Speaker 1:Yeah. Can you do it better, you good.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, okay, can I start this?
Speaker 2:oh yeah, yeah, sure okay, hello and welcome to roasty toasty ghosty I'm just making myself ready for my line my name is lauren and I'm matias and we're gonna be your besties for the next hour or so, maybe longer, longer than an hour?
Speaker 1:oh yeah, I hope not but maybe, yeah, we have some things scripted this time we have things to say yeah, okay, so let's jump into it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, let's see. Should we talk about the week? Okay, so last saturday.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there was a day.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think my family went out and watched Folk Race.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm, we got there around like 9, 930-ish and it was kind of chilly but I thought it was kind of fun. It's just broken down cars racing, it was kind of fun. It's just broken down cars racing, it was kind of fun.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, I know you don't agree.
Speaker 1:No, absolutely not.
Speaker 2:But we found it kind of exciting and it was something that my life partner wanted to do for the past few years. So we finally did that Okay few years. So we finally did that and my daughter also had some kind of activity day at the horse riding school the horse stalls. So we were there, I brought her there for a while and then I had left my life partner at the folk race and then it wasn't that fun. It was so fun he wanted to be left alone.
Speaker 1:It was so fun that you left.
Speaker 2:Well, we were double booked, so I fixed that. I gave him some time alone and it was really nice for him. For both of us, I mean, it went well. And then I took all the kids back to the folk race and we watched the very end and one of the cars flipped while we were there and that was fun to watch and that was all okay, everyone survived yeah, we all survived and my kids suddenly wanted to participate in these races.
Speaker 1:Oh, oh, yeah, your oldest.
Speaker 2:Especially my oldest. Yeah, but he needs to be a mechanic first, I think.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so he can fix your car when it breaks down. Mm-hmm, and you met my sister there.
Speaker 2:I did, and I got to listen to her life partner the whole time. He was an announcer.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no wonder you had fun.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, it was lots of fun. What did you do on Saturday?
Speaker 1:I just stayed home. Yeah, did I.
Speaker 2:I didn't see you.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:So I'm assuming you stayed home.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm pretty sure I just stayed home.
Speaker 2:I feel like it's not that often you go anywhere else if I'm not involved. No. Sunday we went for a walk.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we did.
Speaker 2:It was really nice. Your mom offered me coffee, which was really nice. Yeah, I said no.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Because I'm mean.
Speaker 1:I'm so rude, which wasn't very nice. No she was pissed she got so mad. Yeah, no.
Speaker 2:I saw her fuming on the way back inside. Yeah, I said no to coffee.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I did some editing on Sunday. Yeah, I think I finished it on Sunday. Good yeah, that was it yeah.
Speaker 2:On Monday. Then I went to class, I went to school. Yeah. What else did I do? I don't really know. I went to water gymnastics on Monday.
Speaker 1:Okay, vatnyanpam Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2:And it was really fun. Hmm, yeah, I enjoyed it a lot.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And that's what I did, okay.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I enjoyed it a lot, yeah, and that's what I did. Okay, yeah, sounds fun. Were there? A lot of people there.
Speaker 2:There were quite a few. Oh okay, everyone was older than me. But yeah, I mean I never went to this water gymnastics before because it's on Mondays and we usually would work later on Mondays, so I definitely never really wanted to do anything after that.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:After working.
Speaker 1:No, I get it.
Speaker 2:But now I have time.
Speaker 1:You do.
Speaker 2:Right at the end of the season.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I want to work though.
Speaker 2:Yeah, was that fun.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, maybe not, because I was at the department that I don't like that very much, but you know it has to be done.
Speaker 2:You have a job? Yeah, I do, that's good.
Speaker 1:It is good.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and then on Tuesday I took my daughter and sick child to the head gymnastics leader, to her house, and an Easter tradition we have now is to go there and pick eggs because she has chickens. So my daughter and sick child went into the chicken coop and they were hunting for eggs. Oh. And it's really fun for them. Yeah. And then we bring them home and we color them after we boil them.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And yeah, it's a fun activity for them. And of course we had Fika. She had baked cookies and provided tea. So I had tea, yeah, green tea yeah, and she told me that she was expecting another person to come over who also speaks english okay she's from ukraine and um me crane ukraine, ukraine, oh and uh. She also brought Fika, so I had double Fika.
Speaker 1:So much Fika.
Speaker 2:So much Fika. And then we were like, oh well, we're going to go training later, so it'll be okay. But, it was more Fika than the workout would burn.
Speaker 1:Okay, yeah.
Speaker 2:So yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I went to work. I don't know if it was Monday or Tuesday. I saved one of our cats from a tree.
Speaker 2:Aww.
Speaker 1:Because there was a dog, unleashed dog who chased the cats around, and one cat just climbed up the tree and didn't want to come down.
Speaker 2:He didn't want to come down.
Speaker 1:No, he didn't know, so I just got a ladder and climbed up to get him.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I did Good job. Thank you, saved the cat. Yeah, on Wednesday.
Speaker 1:I went to work.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And then we had spinning.
Speaker 2:Was there something else I did during the day? Maybe, On Wednesday, my life partner and I planted some seeds. Oh. For I don't know plants, I don't know. Yeah, he planted tomatoes. Okay.
Speaker 2:Tomato seeds and I planted like small bell peppers oh and spinach, and I moved a basil plant, or two basil plants, into one big pot. Yeah, that's what we did. And then, yeah, I picked you up from work yeah and you helped me rehearse for my spinning instructor. Final, so you got to experience my first spinning class in a way yeah. Please give me your review.
Speaker 1:It was an experience I experienced butthurt, butthurt, butthurt, butter, butthurt.
Speaker 2:Butter.
Speaker 1:Butthurt, Butthurt. And yeah, I mean, it was sweaty.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we worked hard.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but it was good. I think it's good for us to you know, work up a sweat.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And it felt like the songs were going on forever.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, sometimes it feels like that, but overall, it was good.
Speaker 1:Good, it felt good.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was good to actually do my planned class with you, so I could tweak it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, see what worked and not.
Speaker 2:Right class with you so I could tweak it. Yeah, see what worked and not right. And there was one song that I had to cut completely because it just did not work how I wanted it to, which was upsetting, I'm sure you're. You were glad, you're not coming back.
Speaker 1:No, it didn't really matter, because I had to do it.
Speaker 2:So that was Wednesday. Hmm, thursday was yesterday.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And that morning I filmed my actual vinyl for the spinning instructor course. Yeah. It took a while because I was just trying to get everything perfect and the camera was not doing what I wanted it to the whole time. I was supposed to film myself setting up the bike. Yeah. And the first time I just set it up without saying anything. Oh, okay.
Speaker 2:I was supposed to be explaining what I was doing and I was like darn it. So then I had to put it all back where it was and move it around and everything and then do it all over again and actually talk.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Swedish.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I was doing it all in Swedish.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:My class with you was in English.
Speaker 1:It was.
Speaker 2:Would you rather me do it in Swedish, spanish, spanish, spinning Swedish.
Speaker 1:Spanish, spanish.
Speaker 2:Spinning.
Speaker 1:Spanish, spanish Spinach.
Speaker 2:Spinach. Would you rather have spinach? Yeah, swedish.
Speaker 1:I don't know. I know you're not comfortable with speaking Swedish to me.
Speaker 2:No, not really, not intentionally. I mean you hear me speak Swedish with the kids all the time.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but not to me.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:You wouldn't.
Speaker 2:Not usually no. It happens, but no.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's if someone else who you usually speak Swedish with is there. If you're addressing me, you're speaking Swedish.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, I don't speak english, because I think that you don't know what I'm saying in swedish no so there was that, and then later that day, oh yeah, during my thursday, my thursday- your thursday. I did my rewatch. Yeah. Which we'll talk about later. Mm-hmm. And then I went to gymnastics kids gymnastics where we had chaos, gymnastics because it was just all the groups kind of running around, Okay. And yeah, there's like no structure. Ah, there's also FICA, but I didn't have any of it. Wow. I was that good. That's cool.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. My let's see what did I do? I went to work.
Speaker 2:Right On.
Speaker 1:Thursday and.
Speaker 2:You did have fika.
Speaker 1:I did have fika, I had candy.
Speaker 2:Work provided Easter candy.
Speaker 1:Easter candy yeah, happy I had candy work provided. Easter candy. Easter candy yep.
Speaker 2:So yeah, I'm sorry about that, but I had green tea on tuesday, yeah okay, yeah, or even I guess yeah I don't think this lent has gone very well no, no, we haven't.
Speaker 1:We are so bad at this. Yeah, it wasn't like we had punishments or no, there's no consequences no, just guilt. Yeah, that's, and that's it sorry, I failed your challenge yeah, exactly, and we, uh, we're used to guilt yeah, yeah, that's daily yeah, at this point and it ends on sunday finally, yeah, it does.
Speaker 2:And today's Friday.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:It's a long Friday.
Speaker 1:Yeah, in Sweden it is.
Speaker 2:In English, it's a good Friday. Yeah, you had the day off.
Speaker 1:I did.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and so did I. Yeah. I have lots of days off now. We took the kids Easter egg hunting this morning.
Speaker 1:Yeah, more egg hunting.
Speaker 2:Yes, more egg hunting, because that's the most fun thing to do. These were not real eggs, but they had to find one egg and exchange it for a bag of candy. Ah, okay. And that's what happened. And then we grilled hot dogs after and we all had a good time. Yeah, good, what did you do?
Speaker 1:I did my rewatch today. Okay, I was planning on doing it yesterday, but I was too tired to do it.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So I did it this morning and it went well, I think, Good this morning and it went well, I think, good.
Speaker 2:After the Easter egg hunt, my life partner and I we lost the kids somewhere. No sick child went with his grandmother and the big kids went to their father and my life partner and I went and we had lunch together. Yeah. We went to a Chinese place because they had orange chicken, which I had been looking at for a while. Okay, so I finally got my orange chicken and we had some sides as well.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and fortune cookies.
Speaker 2:There were fortune cookies. They were sweet fortune cookies. Oh. They were very vanilla-y. Hmm, so well, they were good, sounds good. They had unusual fortunes.
Speaker 1:Yeah, your life partner is a unicorn.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it said that he was a unicorn, and if I was a superhero I'd be Captain. Nice, yeah, you're nice, okay, thank you, you had that. I got the most generic that generic note You're nice, you're nice, all right, thank you, fortune. Yeah, is that now or is that the future?
Speaker 1:Yeah, and your life partner. He read it as in he's just made up. Yeah, like a unicorn, he's fake.
Speaker 2:He's a fake person because he's a unicorn. Yeah yeah, we also might have picked up some candy at the candy mall.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you might have.
Speaker 2:The store is called Candy Mall.
Speaker 1:Is it?
Speaker 2:Yeah, but yeah, yeah, that's what it means, which I mean serves them right, because it's a really big candy store. I was mainly going for the sugar-free and then I wandered around and accidentally picked up some things were not sugar-free.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that happens.
Speaker 2:It was an accident Didn't mean to.
Speaker 1:I would never have anything with sugar in it.
Speaker 2:No, definitely not. And today's Friday.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:It's April 18th.
Speaker 1:Yeah 2025.
Speaker 2:And we watched movies.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we did.
Speaker 2:Would you like?
Speaker 1:what no?
Speaker 2:What could you possibly have to say?
Speaker 1:right now. No, I just wanted to tell the people about our walk.
Speaker 2:We went for a walk. Today is Friday and we went for a walk. Yeah, Would you like to move Jan?
Speaker 1:No, things happen on that walk.
Speaker 2:Oh boy, okay, go ahead. We saw cats, we did.
Speaker 1:We saw ten of them.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:Ten different cats.
Speaker 2:We counted the cats and we said hi to all of them. I tried to pet one. They ran away.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they were so cute.
Speaker 2:Yeah. We took a long walk. Yeah. And it went from being a regular walk to a hunt for cats and then a hunt for a kebab roll. Yeah. My life partner wanted a kebab roll and we went to the pizzeria like we usually would, but they were closed of course yeah. So then we went to another pizzeria and hoped that they were open, because if they were not open then we'd have to go to the grocery store and get stuff to make a kebab roll ourselves. But luckily this other pizzeria was open.
Speaker 1:Yeah, saved us, yep and I did not eat any other food today before.
Speaker 2:Not food, food no.
Speaker 1:No, that's what I said.
Speaker 2:We had Greek yogurt with strawberries for snacks, and that's not food. Okay, that's breakfast.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I would call that breakfast. Or like melon more? Oh, I would call that breakfast, or like mellonmål.
Speaker 2:Oh, I would call it breakfast.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, it was a little bit late for breakfast.
Speaker 2:It's never too late for breakfast.
Speaker 1:Breakfast I usually eat after I've woken up.
Speaker 2:That should be my debate. It's never too late for breakfast. Breakfast can be had whenever you want to have breakfast.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I disagree.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:That's a morning situation, or whenever you wake up.
Speaker 2:I guess, if you take a nap, yeah, then you have to have breakfast again.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Oh no, I accidentally fell asleep.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I need breakfast. If you're just not off, then the next meal you have is breakfast.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I guess. So After like every 10 minutes of class, I have to wake up and oh, it's time for breakfast. Yeah. I'm going to take out my breakfast now. I have an assignment, assignment.
Speaker 1:I don't know what that word was. Excitement, excitement. Excitement.
Speaker 2:I had excitement. No, I have an assignment at school. I have to debate something or argue whatever, and it's due on tuesday. We had a sign-up sheet and I took the very first spot, so I could just get it over with okay so, um, my original idea was I'm going to talk about my diet and teach them about that and why it's good, but now I'm wondering if I should debate about breakfast being okay at any time of the day.
Speaker 1:I think you should, because I think people would disagree with you.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:That's the point of a debate right I guess, so hmm, all right or, or you could uh debate the fact if a sandwich is a snack or not oh, oh, oh, that's a good one.
Speaker 2:Oh, I have to re-listen to that episode. Uh yeah, I have to ask open eyes some things here. I need some points.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm sorry if I'm making it more difficult for you.
Speaker 2:Maybe I can split it into two things. Yeah, true. Like I was going to debate about this but now I'm going to ramble on and tell you about sandwiches.
Speaker 1:You go from diet to breakfast, to sandwiches yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:I mean I have to stand up there for like eight minutes and talk about this, so I might as well is it in swedish? Yes, oh, it's my swedish class okay uh, so yeah, I made a power point and everything. Now I have to redo it all, okay.
Speaker 1:I'm sorry and you're welcome.
Speaker 2:You ruined my life. We're not there yet, remember that Okay.
Speaker 1:What's ruining your life, matthias?
Speaker 2:Always.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Every single time.
Speaker 1:It's probably Matthias yeah.
Speaker 2:Now I'm conflicted over what I should debate about. That should be a debate. Snacks, it's probably Matias. Yeah, now I'm conflicted over what I should debate about yeah, that should be a debate.
Speaker 1:Snacks.
Speaker 2:My debate is what I'm supposed to debate about. Yeah, oh, my God, stop. No, that would be funny. Yeah, oh.
Speaker 1:That would feel like meta humor.
Speaker 2:Yeah, oh my God, I wonder if my teacher would be okay with that. I have to redo my powerpoint and since I took the first spot, I mean I could just stand up there and ramble and get away with it I'm pretty sure. Yeah, screw the PowerPoint.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I don't need a PowerPoint for this.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:I can go on about food forever. Yeah, I mean, our very first assignment was write down three questions for the group. I had three food questions. Oh, okay.
Speaker 2:My first one was what's the best way to cook a potato? What do you like on your pizza? Yeah potatoes obviously is the correct answer yeah whatever they said was wrong. And my third question was cake or ice cream. Yeah, I mean, ice cream was the right answer there too yeah, which they all were correct on that one good the potato question. Anything would have been okay, except for potato salad. I don't like potato salad. That's the only potato thing I don't like. Huh.
Speaker 2:Hmm, okay, I just don't like I'm going to debate about why potato salad is wrong, okay, or why you should not peel a potato. Peeling potatoes is a sin. People are religious, they'll understand Okay.
Speaker 1:Yeah, peeling potatoes is a sin. People are religious, they'll understand. Okay, yeah, yeah, I don't peel potatoes, so I'm not against that Go ahead. I just think the you know boil oh.
Speaker 2:Why are you punching things? You're really getting aggressive. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Over potatoes. Yeah, that's what starts most wars, I think Potatoes.
Speaker 2:World War. I was over potatoes, I think.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 2:Oh, you just wait. Five episodes from now, I'm going to tell you.
Speaker 1:It was actually called the Great Potato War. Yeah, few people know it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and the Great Potato War. Yeah, few people know it yeah.
Speaker 1:And the rock was there.
Speaker 2:And he was a potato. Yeah, he grew from a rock to a potato, mr Potato Head.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I was going to say something about potato, no.
Speaker 2:You boil potatoes.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's what you said I just think just boiling potatoes is kind of bland. I don't really like that way of cooking potatoes. Potato Other than that, I think you're it's good.
Speaker 2:I'm good.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's good, I like mashed, I like, you know, klyftor.
Speaker 2:Wedges.
Speaker 1:Okay, yeah, wedges.
Speaker 2:Wedges.
Speaker 1:Wedgies.
Speaker 2:Yes, that's what I used to call them.
Speaker 1:And fries of course.
Speaker 2:Obviously, yeah. Anyway, have you ever had a baked potato?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm not sure I'm a big fan. I don't know. I'm not sure I'm a big fan. I don't know, I'm not sure, I don't know. You can do that.
Speaker 2:I would love to. My life partner doesn't like them, though, he says, but I would not mind making baked potatoes. They take a while, but I like them.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they take a while, but I like them. Yeah, there's also one potato dish, whatever you call it. That I'm not the biggest fan of Don't even Get out.
Speaker 2:You can leave now. We're going to take a break, okay.
Speaker 1:We need to work this out. Yeah, okay, yeah, I'm not going to say anything more about potatoes. I feel like we can move on now.
Speaker 2:I feel like we can move on now I feel like we can move on.
Speaker 1:Or maybe like movie on.
Speaker 2:Should we movie on?
Speaker 1:Or should we take a break?
Speaker 2:Maybe we should take a break.
Speaker 1:Yeah, to calm ourselves down a little bit Right, yeah. Because it feels like it started to get heated in here Very tense. Yeah, Heated like an oven for a potato. Yeah, exactly, I mean we were talking about potatoes and that's the war starter.
Speaker 2:I get frustrated.
Speaker 1:Potatoes are war starters.
Speaker 2:That's true, we're gonna take a break.
Speaker 1:Okay, we'll be right back. Yeah, bye.
Speaker 2:Bye, I believe we're back.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay, yeah, I think so too.
Speaker 2:Okay, welcome back. Welcome to the second half. Yes. It is Friday, like I was trying to say. Oh yeah. I think we've calmed down a bit. Yeah. From the potato arguments yes. It is Friday, yes, and we watched movies.
Speaker 1:We did.
Speaker 2:Would you like to move on?
Speaker 1:Let's move on.
Speaker 2:All right, Today we watched Air America.
Speaker 1:Yeah, okay, and Göta Kanal 3, kanalkungens Hemlighet.
Speaker 2:Okay, but I am going to tell you about Air America.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:Air, as in like Air Air around you.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:What else?
Speaker 2:Like an air to the throne.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay, yeah.
Speaker 2:So when you first told me the title, I wasn't sure which one it was until I read the title. So yeah, now I know. It's air in the sky.
Speaker 1:Yeah, things are coming from the sky.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like pigs, yeah and heroin, or oh boys, oh boy. Oh boys, oh boys, oh boy, oh boys. And oh boy Pigs and oh boy Big sacks of, oh boy Opioids. Yeah, that's a weird word to say.
Speaker 1:Opioids Yep.
Speaker 2:That should be a silly word for Mad. Men yeah. In this movie we have Mel Gibson.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:Also Robert Downey Jr. Iron man is in this movie.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Baby Iron man.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I was really young.
Speaker 2:Yeah, this movie is about airplanes and all they do is fly around in the sky and drop pigs from the planes, and it's a Vietnam War movie so. I knew exactly what was going on the whole time they were flying in airplanes.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And that's what they did.
Speaker 1:I tried to get you a little bit worried before we started the movie. Okay, that you, it wasn't. You know it was another movie about Vietnam War, you know.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:We recently. We recently watched Platoon Right, which you weren't the biggest fan of.
Speaker 2:Not at all, not even close to being a fan.
Speaker 1:No, not the biggest.
Speaker 2:At all no.
Speaker 1:No, not the biggest at all.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:Okay, so I just wanted to scare you that, or like make you a little bit worried that this was in the same kind of vein as that one. It isn't right.
Speaker 2:Or is it? No, it was better, because all they did was fly in airplanes. Yeah. That was the movie I think it was. Uh, it was funny. Yes, yeah, yeah, it was kind of funny.
Speaker 1:Was that a question it?
Speaker 2:was a question. It's been a while since I've seen this movie. Okay. So I don't remember. Yeah, there were funny parts. Oh, I liked the part when they were hanging upside down in the trees.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, in the helicopter. Yeah yeah, they crashed into the trees, yeah.
Speaker 2:And they were like you fall first, because they had to fall to the ground, otherwise, I mean, they were going to get crushed by the helicopter. Yeah. And the other guy was like no, you go first. And then the guy was like let's flip a coin. And they flipped the coin and it fell to the ground. Yeah. And I was hoping that they would have found the coin and been like, oh, it was tails, yeah.
Speaker 1:I wasn't supposed to go first. Let's do it again.
Speaker 2:That was the best part.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay.
Speaker 2:Other than the ending. That was it.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:What did I miss?
Speaker 1:What did you miss?
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:There are also like there's a senator there, Uh-huh, and there are some corrupt political figures.
Speaker 2:Politicians.
Speaker 1:Yeah, At the end of the movie they're trying to frame Robert Downey Jr for smuggling drugs, which it really is them doing. So they are the bad guys trying to frame Robert Downey Jr and Mel Gibson is helping the guy Robert. Yeah, that's also a pretty big part of the movie.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:He's also crashing planes, Robert Downey Jr. Yeah, quite a few. No, mel Gibson, he's crashing a helicopter. Okay, downey Jr is crashing planes. Yeah. So they have their own specialties. Also, mel Gibson says in the movie that no one crashes planes better than me, or something like that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he did say that.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:It was funny.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:What did you think about the movie?
Speaker 1:I think it's funny. It's not the best movie ever, but I think it's good for what it is. What did you think?
Speaker 2:I did like the movie, but I guess maybe I didn't follow it that well.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:It was a lot of airplanes.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, too many airplanes. I can't keep up. Okay, but I liked it for the most part.
Speaker 1:Okay, yeah, so this has to be the one you re-watch next time. Yeah, yeah, we'll see. Now you have time to dislike other movies.
Speaker 2:I like yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1:Next Göta Kanal 3, Kanalkungens Hemlighet.
Speaker 2:Yes, that's the third movie.
Speaker 1:Yeah, in the Göta Kanal franchise.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:This movie is not about boat races anymore. The other two were about boat races. In this one they're like nah, not this time. So this time they're on like a treasure hunt. It felt like they were more inspired by the national treasure movies, where they're trying to solve mysteries and also people need money. People owe other people money, one person owes another person, who owes another person, and that's kind of the setup for the movie. So people get their money, so bad things won't happen to them and therefore they are going on a treasure hunt yeah, yeah am I missing something?
Speaker 1:nope, I think yeah, I think this is the second time I see this movie ever. Okay, because I've seen it once before. Wasn't a big fan of it back then. Okay, now what?
Speaker 2:Now.
Speaker 1:Now I mean, this time I knew what to expect, so I could go with the premise a little bit better this time, because last time I was expecting it to be another boat race and then no racing happened and that made me a little bit disappointed and I think it was a little bit like over the top all the fencing that went on and I'm like, okay, well, yeah well, yeah, why. Yeah, I also was kind of disappointed to hear the canoe guy talk. Um, yeah, because he's not supposed to talk.
Speaker 2:No, he's just supposed to be disappointed.
Speaker 1:Yeah, disappointed and like unlucky.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:But in this one he's not that unlucky and he talks.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:This time I knew what to expect, so it didn't bother me as much. This time it felt a little bit better than I remembered it. So what's your thoughts about the movie?
Speaker 2:I kind of felt the same because I was expecting a race. Yeah, it was my first time watching this movie and there was no race. No I was like, okay, so what's the point? But I mean, overall it was an enjoyable movie yeah if you don't expect them to be racing yeah, should I have warned you about that? I don't, I don't know. No, I don't know if it would make a difference.
Speaker 1:No, maybe not, I don't know whatever whatever, now you know yeah oh, by the, they're not racing in this one.
Speaker 2:Oh okay, oh yeah. So now you know. Well, it was a race to a treasure.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's true, and they I mean they did, you know go with boats.
Speaker 2:They ride boats. They were on boats at least.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's more than Janne did in the last movie. Yeah. He never rode the boat at all in that one. He just went in the car at the sidelines. Yeah, I like that character, though he has these funny sayings. He's good at insulting people In a funny way yeah, not in a mean way, it's a mean funny way, like Don Rickles. If people knows who Don Rickles is, that's an old reference.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:Look up Don Rickles.
Speaker 2:Okay, I'm gonna do that Roasting people. Okay, yeah, anything else? No, did you have something else for this one? No, no, roasting people.
Speaker 1:Okay, yeah, anything else? No, did you have something else for this one? No, no.
Speaker 2:No, that was it.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:Should we go to the next thing then? Yeah, we should All right. Well, today we are recording number 125. Yeah, which is a quarter episode, so last week we assigned each other rewatches to discuss. Today I gave you the movie Chess.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:And I got hold on no Strøn, strøn, stroll, stroll.
Speaker 1:Stroll Strøl yeah.
Speaker 2:That's what I said.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:This is why we don't speak Swedish, right it's okay okay, it's the R, so who goes first?
Speaker 1:do you?
Speaker 2:want to go first. Who went first last time?
Speaker 1:I don't remember, but I feel like you can go first Because you watched the movie first.
Speaker 2:Okay so.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, you write down by hand.
Speaker 2:I do, I pause a lot and I have quite a few pages here.
Speaker 1:I do also pause a lot, but I write down in my phone Okay, I have on A5 paper.
Speaker 2:I have like five or six pages here. Okay. Front and back. Okay, so this is my report.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:On stroll, stroll.
Speaker 1:I like that pronunciation Stroll, stroll.
Speaker 2:S.
Speaker 1:What Like he's strolling around?
Speaker 2:Yeah, but it's Swedish S-T-R-U-L. This is a movie from 1988. It is one hour and 41 minutes. Jonas Frick directed it and it stars Björn Hvefs, gino Samil and Johan Ulvesson.
Speaker 1:Yeah, ulvesson, ulvesson, yes, yeah.
Speaker 2:He's the one who's been in all the movies.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:Ever. It is an action comedy crime. Swedish movie.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So the movie starts off with some chemistry being done and there's a guy mowing a lawn and there's children playing and Bjorn Huyfs his name is Connie- so, I'm going to call him Connie. Yeah, he's experimenting, he's doing science stuff.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:Suddenly there's a crazy guy driving a construction vehicle and destroying the neighborhood and he tips over a hill. Yes, he's the.
Speaker 1:Okay, what he's in like a Not tractor, but Is it like a gravskoopa?
Speaker 2:Well, it's not an excavator.
Speaker 1:No, okay, I don't remember. I'm sorry, I don't know.
Speaker 2:No, I was trying to identify the vehicle, but I was not thinking of words properly at this moment, let's call it a tractor. It was a construction vehicle. Either way, scene is over. We're in a hospital. Yeah, the guy was on drugs.
Speaker 2:He was insane, which is a problem in the town. They suspect someone is stealing from the hospital. And back to Connie Bjorn Connie, he is still experimenting and then gets ready to go to work. He teaches chemistry and he sets off fireworks in class. Did I say that right? Yeah, he sets off fireworks in class Did. I say that right. Yeah, he sets off fireworks in class and then someone from the school board comes in complaining about damage done to the school property. But that was not relevant to the fireworks that just went off. No.
Speaker 2:Next scene we see a cult called per per bradena. Yes, the hospital guy is there. The guy in the hospital who was complaining about the drug problem. Yeah, yeah, uh, he was there and he's running the drug business. So he's the one who's stealing drugs from the hospital. He's telling other people like, oh, this is a problem, we need to catch the guy. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Not me. And then we see Connie goes home and sees that someone has broken in. Someone is still inside and people start shooting at him. They raid the house and he gets caught with drugs. I think they were put there, though.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Um or no, he was working with acetone which was the problem and someone knew that he was working with acetone and called the police on him, I guess. Yeah. And they found the acetone and he gets brought to jail into a laundry room with four other guys.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so Connie is a Connie, he's a con, now he's a con man.
Speaker 2:One of the prisoners breaks his hand, which is really mean. Yeah. And then we see Connie doing things in prison like throwing his food away and doing laundry and the prisoners are not nice to him and he's also trying to read. Yeah, he is doing laundry and he backs into a wall and the panel or door or something on the wall falls and he finds a secret passage to a room with a door to the outside world A tunnel, really. Yeah. A guard notices that he's gone. Gwon.
Speaker 1:Gwon.
Speaker 2:He's gone, but Connie goes back to the laundry room where the guard finds him and he put in a request and it was denied, whatever it was.
Speaker 1:Yeah, page missing.
Speaker 2:No, that's all I wrote. His request is denied. But I don't think I caught what the request was.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:So he talks to his lawyer and he explains that he uses the acetone for his science, experiments, his chemistry, and he is convinced that someone set him up. But the lawyer wants him to just go along with his sentence, just ride it out.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Back in the laundry room, one of the prisoners attacks Connie. They torture him and he tries to tell them about. Wow, that's interesting spelling I spelled about with an E at the end Aboot, oh, aboot.
Speaker 1:Oh, aboot. Aboot. Yeah, I don't know. Aboot, Aboot, yeah, I don't know, abut.
Speaker 2:Abut. Anyway, he tries to tell them about the passage, but they already know about it. And then Piagia, who is Juan Unveson. Yes, he suggests that they take Connie as a slave, as you do. Yeah, that they take Connie as a slave.
Speaker 1:As you do.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so PA Gear goes to the outside world with Connie so they can steal watches.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I like that. His name is PG. Yeah, pa.
Speaker 2:Gear and then they go to oh yeah, Connie steals a watch. And then they go to a playground to plan something, and then they go back into the prison At night.
Speaker 1:Let's go out to plan something and then go back.
Speaker 2:They were planning on breaking or something about.
Speaker 1:Is that the one about stealing the money?
Speaker 2:Something about money.
Speaker 1:Are going to be burned anyways.
Speaker 2:I don't know Mint Wurket.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So they were making money, I think.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:The place that makes money.
Speaker 1:The place that makes money. They're going to take the old bills right and burn them. So they're going to take the old bills back before they get burned and no one will miss them anyway. Maybe, I think that's their plan in the movie. That might be it.
Speaker 2:I didn't catch that. Oh, I'm sorry, Well, no, it's okay. Then it makes more sense, I guess. So this is what they're planning, is how to get into Mintverket. I think the place that makes money, yeah. So that night all four go out to set up their plan. I think One of the guys really doesn't trust Connie and they discuss their plans more and run back to prison. The next day Connie is outside eating a banana.
Speaker 1:As you do.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Hey, I'm gonna eat a banana. I'll go outside.
Speaker 2:He's trying to time something with the security truck and everything, but things don't go as planned. He sees a truck rolling down the road towards a lady who is not looking. He yells with the banana in his mouth to warn her, but she doesn't hear. So he runs and pushes her out of the way and the car gets crushed. He sees the security truck drive by and pushes a button. That's him timing. I just saw he pushed a button.
Speaker 2:I was like I don't get what's going on. Why is he pushing it? Is there a bomb or something? No, he pushes the button to start the timer and there's people who run to the lady and ask if she's okay and everything. They're treating her. And she tells oh, people treating the lady. Tell Connie to wait until the police come. So he runs away and gets chased by one of the people. Stop, stop, why this is dangerous. Stop, you can dangerous. Stop, you can fall.
Speaker 1:you can fall, stop I love that scene it is funny it's my favorite scene of the movie.
Speaker 2:Pretty obvious that the voice is done over the video yeah which is just funny it, it.
Speaker 1:yeah, that's kind of the feel of the movie too. I have noticed that, but it's silly.
Speaker 2:So Connie gets away, but he runs into a pole and goes unconscious. He wakes up in the hospital. He's conscious again but he can't speak properly and is acting really weird. But he comes right back when they threaten to give him a shot. He's completely fine again. Uh, he tries to run away but they end up sedating him anyway. Uh, later he wakes up again and he escapes through a window. Uh, the hospital is alarmed. Except he was still hiding in the room. He made it look like he escaped. He didn't actually escape. He's very smart, yeah, but I guess he did escape. Eventually he goes back to the prison and goes to bed.
Speaker 1:He's very happy to go to bed. Yeah, so exhausted.
Speaker 2:And that was when I realized the whole point of going out was to time something, and all of this happened instead. Yeah, time something, and all of this happened instead. Yeah, um, the next day they're all out, all the prisoners, or the four prisoners and connie are out and running their plan. A security truck is early. Oh yeah, things are still not going well because the security truck is early. An old lady distracts them in panic. The firefighters are called, but they go the wrong way. Um, but security stops and connie pops one of their tires and runs into oh, the security truck runs into another truck carrying glass beer bottles in crates yeah and they go everywhere.
Speaker 2:The prisoners get in the getaway car and connie gets hit by a car driven by the girl he saved, uh, and then he goes to her house yeah, her name is susan. Uh, yeah, it's the same one that he saved earlier, um, and he says his name is rutger. So he lies about his name and he lies about everything else about him yeah he insults her painting and breaks her bird figurine. Uh, but she wants to meet him again. The twist here is that she's actually a police yeah oh no.
Speaker 2:So back at prison. The prisoners are mad that connie ran off and their plan failed. So he does more, more laundry. And then he goes back to Suzanne who is painting. She's painting him or it looks like she's painting him. Yeah. And he is singing in the background and they do dishes together and fall in love over dishes, I guess.
Speaker 1:Yep, of course, as you do.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it happens. Back at the prison they discuss a new plan. Three of them sit in a car waiting for security. Oh, this is them trying the plan again.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Okay, so the new plan. Three of them are sitting in a car waiting for security to wait by a barn. One of those is Connie. He's at barn. The guys in the car follow security. Connie inspects and explores the barn, I think, and he sets a fire under a I'm guessing a water boiler yeah or something.
Speaker 2:Uh, the barn blows up and suddenly soldiers run over a hill. I don't know if they were waiting there. I don't know. The car doesn't pick up connie, the getaway car. Yeah, the guys in the car don't pick up connie and the other guy, so they run away into the woods and they find another car and steal it. And this car has acetone in it. Yeah. Back at the prison. Connie is trying to figure out who owns the car and his name is Alf Brink. Well, that's what we're going to say Alf Brink, brink, brink.
Speaker 1:Brink. His name is Alf Brink. Yeah.
Speaker 2:So then Connie goes back to the house where they found the car and breaks in and he finds a lab. There's someone there talking on the phone and of course Connie breaks something and escapes on a bike, and then the person chases him in a car, or it says they I guess there was several people chasing him in a car. So Connie bikes into the woods and falls off a cliff and lands on a military tent.
Speaker 1:Yep more military.
Speaker 2:Them prisoners are fighting. I don't know, it just happened, I guess.
Speaker 1:Yeah, as they do.
Speaker 2:Yeah, connie finds Alf Brink's lab A different lab. I guess he's in a different lab and he snoops around but gets caught and then he pretends to be inspecting the lab for narcotics. That's that.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Next scene Piaget is filming one of the prisoners singing, but the camera isn't working right. Yep. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Next scene police station. We're at the police station now. Uh, someone is calling looking for rutger. Suzanne hears this and recognizes the name and one of the other police answers pretending to be rutger and I don't know. Something happened there, uh. Next scene connie is filming security from a roof. He switches the tape out, leaves the original on the roof. He sees Brink walk into the building that he's sitting on and then Connie sneaks in and a machine crushes her car and carries it away and she escapes as her car goes into a compactor.
Speaker 1:There is someone trying to kill her. Yeah, and I think that that phone call before when the guy they thought it was the Rutger character going there and she went there instead. Okay, and that's why they tried to kill her okay, okay, they they tried to kill her in thinking it was rutger. Okay, yeah, that makes sense, that makes sense um during all that.
Speaker 2:Uh, we're back to connie, who um is sneaking in this building and he gets caught by a revolving door into another room where he can hear Brink and someone else talking, and he gets caught filming them and runs away back to the roof. Yeah.
Speaker 2:But he drops the cassette on the roof and then he saves it Back to Suzanne. She's hitchhiking, um, but is picked up by the same guy who is trying to kill her. Uh, she gets dropped off at home and the guy uh, the bad guy gets a phone call from alf, so he's working for alf. Connie finds her and she's very skeptical about who he actually is. She goes completely crazy. But the bad guy notices Connie. The bad guy notices that Connie gave her the tape that I guess they want. They want the tape.
Speaker 2:So the bad guy attacks her in the stairway and she gets knocked out when they roll down the stairs and that's when he gets the tape yeah at the prison. Prisoners are upset that connie comes back without the camera. He left the camera I guess it was lighter without it I guess, yeah, um, and now they're planning to break into the money-making place again yeah connie goes to su Suzanne but is told that she went to the hospital. Well yeah, she got knocked out.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:And then at Alf's lab they have Suzanne. They give her a shot, or I guess they start to give her a shot, but Connie bursts in as an assistant and messes everything up.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they're about to kill her, I guess.
Speaker 2:Maybe she wakes up. Why, I don't know. I wrote she wakes up. I don't think she was sleeping. No. But anyway, connie starts attacking people with her bed and he bonks her into a door and she goes unconscious. And then he sprays a fire extinguisher in the scientist's face I guess the scientist is a bad guy and leaves with susan and the tape and he escapes with both of them in a car, the susan and the tape, yeah, but he leaves susan in the car bound to her bed. She's still in the hospital bed the whole time Back at the police station.
Speaker 2:Suzanne is, I guess, up and fine. She's watching the tape, but it's just the prisoner singing. So she gets a phone call from Connie and he realizes that she has the wrong tape. He had left the correct tape on the roof. Brink's car is damaged after Connie hit it, so they steal an old, broken lady's car and then Connie meets with the prisoners. They're dressed as police. They're going to break into the money-making place by blowing down the door, but the detonator doesn't work very well and sets something else off. The prisoners get spooked and drive away without Connie. Of course. Yeah.
Speaker 2:The bomb is actually on a timer and blows up the door. There's money everywhere. Connie goes back to the roof to get the correct tape. Brink and his band guys catch Connie escaping and shoot at him. He runs inside the building and they can't find him. So they try to open their safe. Yeah, there's something in there. I guess Connie is sneaking around knocking out bad guys one by one. Brink finds him but he gets back to the roof and locks the hatch so they can't get to him.
Speaker 2:He escapes Connie, goes to Suzanne and leaves the tape in her mailbox with a note that's signed Connie. So that's when he reveals his actual name is Connie. Yeah. Brink is put in a police car with his bad guys. So good yeah, Connie buries a sack in the woods. I couldn't read what the sack was, so I wasn't really sure what it was. I assumed it was money, but I wasn't. I didn't know.
Speaker 1:No, okay.
Speaker 2:And then he goes back to his bed in prison, so he's happy again. He gets proven innocent and gets out of prison, so he's even happier now. Yeah, he gets proven innocent and gets out of prison, so he's even happier now yeah. He gets out of prison and his lawyer is trying to get all the credit. But the lawyer was trying to get him to just ride it out. Yeah, but anyway, the prisoners are working out a new plan. You know, in the prison yeah.
Speaker 2:And they want to get Brink involved, because Brink is now a prisoner as well. Yeah, and they want to get Brink involved because Brink is now a prisoner as well. Yeah, connie goes back to the woods to get his sack, but the grounds are now a construction site, so it's gone. Yeah, he tells Suzanne the whole story, everything. He comes clean. And she apparently had the sack he had hidden. It was filled with money and she wants to buy a car with it, since two of her cars have been completely destroyed since meeting him.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:He takes her to the tunnel to the prison and they dance and she tells him she doesn't like the name Rutger and he had blocked the door to the prison and the prisoners are like trying to the prison. And the prisoners are like trying to get out the real man. And then he sets off fireworks, the end. They live happily ever after, I guess.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think they did.
Speaker 2:So that was that movie.
Speaker 1:Strudel.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:Did you?
Speaker 2:like it, I did like it. Good. It was funny. Yeah, the title pretty much says it all.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Nothing goes according to plan. No, there's. Everything gets messed up.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So yeah, from beginning to end pretty much.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's kind of what it means. Messed up, right yeah, Messy.
Speaker 2:It's messy.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, it was good. Good, now it's your turn.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Good luck.
Speaker 1:Thank you. So this movie is called Chess. Maybe I should start from the beginning.
Speaker 2:Start from the end and go backwards.
Speaker 1:Okay, this movie is based on a musical made by the guys from ABBA, björn Olvius and Benny Andersson, and also a guy named Tim Rice who worked on musicals such as Jesus Christ, superstar, evita, and he also wrote the music to Aladdin One of the guys who won an Oscar for that one. Okay, so this movie is two hours and 16 minutes long. It's directed by Lars Rudolfsson. It's starring Tommy Körberg, helene Sjöholm, anders Ekborg, josefin Nilsson, per Myberg and Rolf Skoglund. This one is made in 2003 and it's a Swedish adaptation of the original musical from 1986. The one from 1986, by the way, björn Schiffs Conny had a part as the Arbiter in Okay.
Speaker 1:That's a fun fact.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and this one, tommy Kjörberg, is the only one returning from the original cast. Okay, so now the story is beginning. The year is 1986. In a snowy Moscow, a boy is coming home to his mormor grandmother. She asks him what 8 times 8 is and he keeps guessing wrong all the time. He's not very good at math. I guess 8 times 8?
Speaker 2:64. Good, I ate, and I ate and I got sick on the floor ah, okay, cool, is that the only one that has that? That I know of right now okay, cool.
Speaker 1:Um, that's a good one I'm sure there's others that haven't been told to me yeah, um, okay so, and then uh, anatoly, played by Tommy Kjörberg, and Svetlana, played by Josefin Nilsson, walks in. They're parents to the boy who can't do math. Svetlana wants to go with Anatoly when he's gonna travel to play chess in like a championship, but he says she can't because of things I don't know. And then Anatoly starts to sing about chess for their son. After that, anatoly is ready to leave his things and question if this was his dream and he also had to keep appearances up, you know.
Speaker 1:Pretend to be happy yeah, exactly, pretend to be happy. And after that he gets on a plane. He's going to Italy, italy, italy, and people there are happy and they sing a happy song. And then in walks, the Americans, freddie and Florence, played by Anders Ekborg and Helene Sjöholm. Freddie sings about how good he is and he tries to psych Anatoly out. Florence is apologizing for that and after that the happy song continues.
Speaker 1:Anatoly and his friend Alexander, played by Per Miber, sings about Freddy and how unpredictable he is in chess. Chess playing is unpredictable. After that scene, florin and Freddy have a sing argument they're singing and arguing at the same and about how disrespectful Freddy is to the other people. In the middle of that sing argument, florence thinks about how her father was abducted by communists when she was young, you know. After that, freddie goes to a party they play One Night in Bangkok. Florence sings about closing doors. Hmm, closing doors. I'm making the songs shorter. Like what are they about? Closing doors? The day after that she wakes up and she's in a hurry. Then she runs into Anatoly. Suddenly after that the Arbiter, played by Rolf Skoglund, shows up and he sings about who he is.
Speaker 2:I have a question. An Arbiter, yeah, what's that?
Speaker 1:Arbiter. I had to look that up.
Speaker 2:Yes, please tell me what you learned.
Speaker 1:That's like a referee.
Speaker 2:Oh, it's referee guy, yeah, okay.
Speaker 1:He's the referee guy.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:So in the original Bjorn Hvist played the referee guy.
Speaker 2:Okay, for the chess tournament. Yeah.
Speaker 1:And now it's about time for Freddy and Anatoly to play chess. For some reason, the Arbiter starts levitating.
Speaker 2:Wow Okay.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I guess he has some kind of superpowers too. Okay, yeah, I guess he has some kind of superpowers too Okay. That's cool, though they play chess for like five minutes in actual film time.
Speaker 2:Okay, five whole minutes.
Speaker 1:Five whole minutes. We just see them play chess. Cool, very exciting, mm-hmm. Freddy loses and he gets mad and walks away. After that, alexander, anatoly's friend Alexander, and Florence have a sing argument about politics and the Cold War. Later, florence goes to a piano bar and the Arbiter comes in to say that the championship is over. Okay, um, why. Why? Yeah, I'm not really sure.
Speaker 2:When is it over?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm not really sure.
Speaker 1:Was it because Freddie walked away? I don't know, I'm not sure. Anyway, anyhow, anatoly walks in to talk to Florence about how silly he is, and then he sings about that he had a similar experience with his father, that her father was abducted by you know men. And then he asks if she's happy with Freddie, her relationship with Freddie, and she starts singing about how they doesn't have the best relationship. So I guess that answers the question. And then she and Anatoly runs away.
Speaker 1:Now Alexander wants to find Anatoly, but Anatoly says he has found a way to get out to reality. Alexander, he calls around to find Alatonji. No, okay, anatoly, back in Moscow that Svetlana, anatoly's wife, and their son are being transported away by some men and they're getting on a plane Soviet men, probably like KGB or something. And then there's a fancy dinner with the Arbiter and his fancy friends and in walks, anatoly and Florence, and Anatoly says that they are seeking political asylum. The media covers all that. They're really excited about that. And Florence gets really worried. She thinks about how weird it must look when they came in there together to break this news. Anatoly, he thinks about how beautiful she is, so he's really helping her, then people think that this is a political scandal. Later, freddy finds out about them being together and sings about how he doesn't care I don't care at all.
Speaker 2:Okay. I feel like he does though it sounds like he does. Now Florence sings about her father. Oh Okay, I feel like he does though it sounds like he does.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm. Now Florence sings about her father, then Anatoly sings about that. There are no borders in his heart's country.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:Yep, and that was act one.
Speaker 2:Okay, should we take a break?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think so. Act two there's only two acts, so.
Speaker 2:Okay, good.
Speaker 1:We're halfway through Florence. Act two there's only two acts. Okay, good, we're halfway through Florence comes back to Freddy. So now they have another sing argument and the argument ends with her leaving him. Freddy sings about how, when he was 10, his father left. Oh yeah, by the way. Now Svetlana comes to Anatoly and Svetlana cries when she reads the papers. I'm guessing that it's about the headlines that he was with another woman. Okay, maybe, I'm not sure. Maybe it's like prices.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:High prices. Right that can also make you cry.
Speaker 2:Daily yeah.
Speaker 1:Daily.
Speaker 2:Daily.
Speaker 1:Now Anatoly sings about how it's not his fault, maybe about the prices. It's not really his fault.
Speaker 2:It might be.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, I think it's about him being with another woman.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:That's not his fault.
Speaker 2:No, of course not.
Speaker 1:No, so this song ends up in another sing argument. Okay, even the KGB and the hotel staff joins in the sing argument. Okay, then in walks the son and hugs both Anatoly and Svetlana, and that ends the sing argument.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:After that, Florence walk on a bridge and sing that she hopes Anatoly will come because she loves him. Then he comes walking on the bridge and they walk away. Svetlana walks around the town and starts singing about Anatoly being a man and a child and that she's a woman.
Speaker 2:Okay, so now we know.
Speaker 1:After that there's a carnival in town and people are dancing and having fun and Anatoly and Florence are also there having fun, but not for long, because in comes a drunk Freddy and he sings about how boring Florence is. That song becomes a sing argument between Freddie and Anatoly, and then Florence also joins in the sing argument and then that is over Because they're like ah, he's just drunk, he's a stupid drunk man. After that we see two trapeze artists. I mean, I kind of like those scenes because I don't have to write, I can just look.
Speaker 1:After a couple minutes of them doing that, florence and Anatoly starts to sing and she's asking him if he wants to be hers. Yeah, you understand what I meant by that. They sing, that they belong together, yep, belong together, yep. After that scene the Arbiter shows up and he sings about chess and that he is the Arbiter again. The chess championship is now on again, and now Svetlana and Florence sings about who knows Anatoly the best and what he wants. After that, anatoly comes to talk to Alexander. Then Alexander starts singing about a lost love of his A past love.
Speaker 2:Yeah, okay.
Speaker 1:After that, alexander says like hey, anatoly, if you want your family to be safe, you must lose the game of chess. He's not nice. No. And that he must cancel his request of political asylum Anyhow. Now the chess game is on and Anatoly loses the game for his family. After the game, he sings to Florence that he loves her and she loves him, and their dreams of glass have shattered. Anatoly's son creeps on them as they're singing. After that, anatoly walks to his son and Florence is watching them as they leave the end.
Speaker 2:Okay, so what did you think about the movie now?
Speaker 1:It's a movie.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:You did watch it now twice. I did I mean, um, it's not, maybe not my favorite, but I I know it's not your favorite either either, but I feel like I have a deeper understanding now on what the story is about. You get into the characters more, yeah, um more than if you just watch it once without taking notes. I mean it has a few good songs did you have a favorite? Is it wrong to say one night in bangkok, because that's.
Speaker 2:I don't think that's an original from the movie no, the play.
Speaker 1:I kind of like the one where Freddy comes in drunk. Okay, that one had a good beat to it, even though he was like an antagonist, I kind of nodded along to it.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And the one of Anatoly singing about his heart's land, the land of his heart, or whatever. That one was also like a powerful song. Okay, yeah, so one of those. Okay, other than One Night in Bangkok.
Speaker 2:All right, anything else?
Speaker 1:No, I feel like this was good enough.
Speaker 2:All right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't have much more to say about that.
Speaker 2:Cool, cool, cool Cool. All right, then, as we near the end of the episode, would you like to do a weight update?
Speaker 1:Yeah, we can do that.
Speaker 2:All right, let's see.
Speaker 1:Okay, this week I lost 0.7 kilograms.
Speaker 2:All right. Yes, good, I only lost 0.5.
Speaker 1:Oh, you still lost.
Speaker 2:I did. Yeah, we're losers. We're losers good like losers with two o's yeah, losers losers do you want to tell me what is currently ruining your life?
Speaker 1:okay, what's ruining my life? Uh, it's probably that at work we're so behind in the department that I don't like, and I know that's where I will end up working for a few weeks probably.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it probably feels like.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so that's not fun to know that I'm not going to do anything other than that.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So that's ruining my life right now.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:How about you?
Speaker 2:For me. I have a mixture of things. First of all, it's you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, good that you remember.
Speaker 2:Because you're making me debate over what I want to debate about.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm making your life so difficult.
Speaker 2:You are Also.
Speaker 1:Maybe you should debate about me.
Speaker 2:I should, why Matias is dumb. Yeah, this is why Matias is dumb. Yeah, also, any of the programs that offer financial aid to students. They're ruining my life because they all turn me down why, uh, that's another story yeah, okay, are you waiting? I am waiting for what? For a line?
Speaker 1:I'm all out of sips.
Speaker 2:So am I. Oh, I finished my tea a long time ago, yeah.
Speaker 1:You wanted this episode over a long time ago.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, Before the second half.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So we're all out of episode.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we are.
Speaker 2:Would you like to wrap this up?
Speaker 1:We should wrap this up.
Speaker 2:Okie dokie, Thank you for listening to the episode hanging out with us. It's been fun. I hope no one fell asleep to the Kanga reviews.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:I think that's what they're called.
Speaker 1:I think so too.
Speaker 2:Rewatches yeah, we'll be back next Tuesday with another, hopefully much better episode. Yeah, and hopefully everyone had a really nice Easter weekend.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:We will be doing Easter things.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I hope you had a good Friday and.
Speaker 2:A long Friday yeah.
Speaker 1:Good long Friday yeah.
Speaker 2:Next Live Mad Libs is May 3rd Right.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So be there or be square. It's going to be fun yeah.
Speaker 1:That's it.
Speaker 2:That's it. Have a great life and, yeah, bye.
Speaker 1:Bye, bye.
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