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August 20, 2025 • 30 mins

The guys opened the phone and text lines for their brand new segment - Lisa & Russell's Book of Records. Hayden Young dropped by to talk about this weekend’s do-or-die match against the Bulldogs and whether he’ll be on the field. Ben O’Shea reviewed the new Pedro Pascal film Eddington, while Lisa’s still undecided about the big announcement from the Galleria. And on The Shaw Report — a judge said what?

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Christian be empowered by the iHeart app from ninety six
a VM to whenever You're.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Listening today, This is Lisa and Russell's podcast.

Speaker 3 (00:11):
Coming up. On the podcast, Fremantle docer Hayden Young discusses
this Sundays must win game against the Bulldogs and with
nothing to lose, will he play? We launched our book
of records today with the first record being who Said
I Love You First?

Speaker 2 (00:26):
A judge has caused pandemonium in a court room when
he gave out the wrong verdict. And beno'chet reviews Eddington,
starring Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal.

Speaker 3 (00:37):
Also, the Galleria is getting a revamp and I'm kind
of in two minds about it, purely selfish.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
Reasons, Lisa, I haven't been. I must admit to Morley
gallerya for look. It'd be a little bit over a year.
It's been been a while and you know it wasn't
what it.

Speaker 3 (00:56):
Was, certainly not, and it's been it's been getting less
and less so over recent times. I don't think there's nothing.
There's nothing upstairs at the moment at all. And you
know people have talked about how it's a it's just
a ghost town. Of a shopping center now and there's
you know, been talk of are they gonna come back
or are they just gonna It's been promised, it's been promises.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
Promise, But now you're telling me that I should go back.

Speaker 3 (01:21):
Well all soon it looks like it is coming back.
They're making some noise on their website, the Galleria, saying
we're excited to start writing the next chapter in a
much awaited transformation. With construction kicking off this September and
completion expected in late twenty twenty six, The two hundred
and forty million dollar redevelopment of Galeria will reshape the

(01:43):
center into a vibrant shopping, dining and entertainment destination for
Perth's northeast. You can expect a complete revitalization of the
fashion and lifestyle mall and there will be nearly one
hundred of Australia's most love brands there when it's all
done and dusted.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
Opening up upstairs again, Yes.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
Yes, they'll need to do that. Introduction of the.

Speaker 3 (02:04):
Terrace, a vibrant new alfresco dining, entertainment and lifestyle precinct.
Maybe maybe it'd be a bit car uppy, because that's
that's pretty good there and major upgrades. It definitely needs
to look at major upgrades to Center Court and the
introduction of new casual dining options. So I mean, I'm
in two minds because I mean, obviously I want them

(02:25):
to be successful.

Speaker 1 (02:26):
I wanted to come back and everything, but I was there.

Speaker 3 (02:28):
The other day. I was there on Sunday. I had
to go to Maya, and I was in and out
and home again with my purchase in less than an hour.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
So for purely, you wouldn't even find a car park
at car you'd be happy for selfish reasons. You'd be
happy for them not to spend because at the.

Speaker 3 (02:48):
Moment, I feel like I've got my own personal Maya.
I feel like therelm a bullpit. And in fact, the
lady at Maya said to me, she said, thank you
for shopping with us today, gallery and all the help
we can get. Oh my god.

Speaker 4 (03:03):
At that point.

Speaker 3 (03:04):
So there's a couple of shops there that you know
I might want to go to, and I know that
I will get a car park right at the door.
I'm in, I'm out.

Speaker 1 (03:12):
It's like my own personal shop at the moment.

Speaker 3 (03:14):
For very selfish reasons, I wanted to become the next Karen.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
Lisa's car Park is there until late twenty twenty six. Yes,
the Morley Galleria, it was. It was a big deal.

Speaker 3 (03:25):
It was a very big deal. And I know, in
all seriousness, I do hope it comes back to its
former glory because you need that shop being center in
that spot.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
You have to, because that's a bit of a you know.

Speaker 3 (03:38):
The spread of Karen Gallerria Garden City, which also could
do Parausel Carousel.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
Now to a but that's just sort of been added on.

Speaker 3 (03:48):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's a bit.

Speaker 2 (03:50):
But still there's pretty good.

Speaker 3 (03:52):
But very nicely done, well, very nicely.

Speaker 2 (03:59):
Yeah, So yes, they need to be very differently and
Claremont they do it the right way, certainly do.

Speaker 3 (04:07):
And if they could have an expression, they were their
faces would say, oh this is nice, but they don't
have you ever paid paper watching it Claremont Corner.

Speaker 1 (04:17):
Yeah, it's pretty funny.

Speaker 3 (04:21):
I say this because I'm jealous. So yeah, I do
hope that galeria come on back to your former glory. Galeria.
Let's let's get it happening again.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
Late twenty twenty six.

Speaker 3 (04:32):
Not long to wait, not long to wait or kicking
off next but there, that's already a bit of you know,
sort of internal scaffolding your stuff around the maya bit
so just to.

Speaker 2 (04:42):
You know, build the anticipation. But you've got your personal
car parking too.

Speaker 3 (04:45):
I do.

Speaker 4 (04:50):
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Speaker 3 (05:10):
Good morning morning, now, Hi, are you see very up? Yeah,
Adam Onward.

Speaker 2 (05:19):
Look he looks fit. Yeah, yeah, he looks fit. We're
calling it.

Speaker 3 (05:22):
Well, the game against Brisbane on Friday night we have
to Go did not go as planned. The pressure the
Raining Premiers brought from the first bounce was immense.

Speaker 4 (05:35):
Yeah, it was. It was.

Speaker 6 (05:36):
They're obviously a quality side, and yeah, I think also
the occasion of the night brought a little bit pressure
with itself because we.

Speaker 3 (05:43):
Actually looked at so many things, yeah, so.

Speaker 6 (05:45):
Many factors, and because we actually looked at it. When
we were reviewed, they only laid thirty seven tackles, so
that's really low. And you're trying to argue, well, all
their pressure, like wasn't that great, but the perceived pressure
of the.

Speaker 3 (05:56):
Night, yeah.

Speaker 6 (05:58):
More line, Yeah, their ability to sort of take away
time and space was really good. And I think also
when you don't sort of hit the scoreboard early, that
builds pressure and you sort of feel like we need
to kick a goal, we need to kick a goal,
when really the game actually if you look at sort
of the x's and o's, was looking pretty good all night,
pretty even in terms of inside fifties, clearance numbers, shots

(06:20):
on goal. We're actually pretty even. It's just the scoreboard.
It obviously didn't look didn't look the way we wanted to.
They did some things really well in terms of their
ball movement. They controlled the ball, took a lot of
uncontested marks. But the reality was we actually created a
lot of opportunities, and they did it through their sort
of uncontested game. We did it through contests and using
our hands. So I mean, there was some positives on

(06:42):
the night. There were some things that we definitely could
have done better, but we definitely created enough opportunities and
probably just didn't deal with the pressure of not kicking straight.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
And of course they can handle the pressure. They showed
it last year, didn't they. Yeah, that's the thing and
at the point of the end of the season.

Speaker 6 (06:56):
Yeah, they're a mature side and you know, you want
to be playing in those sort of games where you're
playing against quality opposition and testing yourselves, and they tested
us out in a few areas, which it's good to
get that lesson now so that you know, going forward
we can tighten the screws on a few things, which
is what we're going to do this week.

Speaker 3 (07:13):
Well, let's go straight forward. The game against the Bulldogs
at Marvel Stadium on Sunday is critical. I'm not going
to say the D or D words. It's critical for
both sides. It's rather important whoever wins secures a spot
in the finals, whoever losers does not.

Speaker 2 (07:32):
How tight is that?

Speaker 3 (07:33):
That is? Well, that it has been tight.

Speaker 2 (07:37):
Calid and Geelong.

Speaker 3 (07:38):
I mean it's as evidenced by what's sort of happened
to Free over the last couple of weeks. But I mean.

Speaker 1 (07:44):
It's it's it's critical.

Speaker 6 (07:46):
Is Yeah, we spoke about pressure in the last game,
but it's only going to increase. So it's a great,
great opportunity for us and I mean we're super excited
As I said, these are the sort of games you
want to be in, and we've got a great opportunity
destinies in our hands. And yeah, I think off last
week's game, there's some sort of things we can take

(08:06):
away from it to learn and improve and some positives
that are going to be really important this week against
what are a pretty pretty solid opposition.

Speaker 2 (08:15):
Did you did you make contact with the Eagles and
say you could you have not gone down by like,
you know, eighteen points.

Speaker 6 (08:23):
Yeah, there was a small I thought, oh, maybe maybe
the Eagles could win and make it a bit easy
for us, but it wasn't the case. But yeah, no, Obviously,
one thing that the Bulldogs have done really well this
year is they've beaten up on sort of worse opposition.
So yeah, I know we're looking forward to challenging them.
We know that we're a quality opposition, and we think
that you know, when they come up against really good opposition,

(08:44):
it's more of an even game, and when you put
the game in a contest, it can sort of challenge.
And they love sort of free flowing games where they
can move the ball really quickly, and we want to defend. Well,
I'll take that away from them and hopefully make the
game a little bit more of a contest where we
know it could be a bit more even.

Speaker 3 (08:58):
And one of the things the docors have been so
good at is being so focused and not thinking about,
you know, parallel positions of the past, which is probably
why you would rather I didn't say you were in
the same position. And is it hard to not let
that niggle into the side of your hand. It's because
I do think that's something the docors have become very
good at, not letting that get them.

Speaker 2 (09:21):
Are you having training for that, well, we do.

Speaker 4 (09:25):
We do have a sports and we speak about these things.

Speaker 6 (09:28):
And as it was mentioned earlier, the way that you know,
we obviously know the game, we know sort of the
headlines and all this sort of thing. And I suppose
we just came back to what's made us a really
good team this year and particularly over the last sort
of fifteen. We've won thirteen of our last fifteen games,
So we know that our process works. We know what
we need to do to perform well on the weekend,
and regardless of the you know, the results after this

(09:51):
weekend or the outcomes, you know, we can only really
take care of business.

Speaker 4 (09:55):
And that's a preparation for this weekend, and Jail leads
away with that.

Speaker 6 (10:00):
He dialed in on preparation and making sure we cover
all the x's and o's and get our mindset right.
So yeah, we obviously we don't need to hype the
game up any more than what we're all going to
be pretty aware of the situation.

Speaker 2 (10:12):
So I want to do it for the two F's
finals and five.

Speaker 4 (10:16):
Exactly right, exactly exactly right.

Speaker 6 (10:18):
So there's plenty of plenty of reasons to play for
this weekend, and we don't internally, we definitely don't need
to harp on it anymore.

Speaker 4 (10:24):
We just need to focus on what's important.

Speaker 3 (10:26):
Are you It seemed like mostly a precaution that you
didn't play on Friday night, so I guess it's you
definitely playing well.

Speaker 4 (10:35):
I feel really good. I feel really good. Yeah, it
looks good.

Speaker 2 (10:41):
Walked into the studio.

Speaker 3 (10:42):
He surprised.

Speaker 1 (10:43):
If I don't see you out there on side, that's.

Speaker 6 (10:45):
Pretty that's a fair call. I felt good yesterday train well,
so I'm excited.

Speaker 3 (10:50):
All right, Well, unless there's you've got any final.

Speaker 2 (10:54):
All I wanted to hear was he's fit and he's playing,
and the team sych has so done, good, done the job.
That's all we need to know.

Speaker 3 (11:04):
Bounce down. Our time is one fifteen go the Dockers
More Lisa More Russell More podcast.

Speaker 2 (11:13):
Soon.

Speaker 3 (11:15):
Well, we are going to launch something that we are
going to build over time with your help.

Speaker 1 (11:21):
And it's all going down in record. We are launching this.

Speaker 2 (11:24):
Let's hit the launch button now. Have we set another record?

Speaker 5 (11:29):
Incredible world records around Russell's Book of Records.

Speaker 7 (11:34):
We've never seen anything like it?

Speaker 2 (11:39):
The ultimate coffee table book, isn't it just you could.

Speaker 3 (11:42):
Be although it will probably just be online, but that's
how life goes now you can you probably could take
a binder put it together. We are building the book
of records. We are going to find you know, perths, this,
that and the other. Longest drive to work, longest, longest.

Speaker 1 (12:02):
Drive to work longest, the.

Speaker 2 (12:06):
Longest time to find a car park in the shopping
time to find a car park which is not which
is not Molly Gallery.

Speaker 1 (12:11):
Or at the moment you know that's the quickest in
it out of Alla Galleria.

Speaker 3 (12:14):
I got that one already in the back and we
are going to look event we will put it online
at the you know, at ninety six and m dot
com dot au. It'll it'll have the records in it,
so you will be in it if you are the
record winner.

Speaker 2 (12:29):
So and it's got to be big because that music
will intro.

Speaker 3 (12:32):
You can't mean that Zarathustra something that what it's called
to most people theme from two thousand and one to
those not classically trying and if you want a really
big enough Zarah like the monkey, how are you going.

Speaker 2 (12:48):
To build this book? What are we going to?

Speaker 1 (12:49):
What today's record that we're looking for is in your.

Speaker 3 (12:56):
Love of your life? Who said I love you the quickest?

Speaker 2 (13:01):
Does it have to be the love of your life?

Speaker 3 (13:03):
Or maybe no, well just someone of you had had
some semblance of love with at some stage, perhaps not
the love of your life. You might have thought that
one through a bit better slightly, But basically, who said
I love you the quickest?

Speaker 2 (13:22):
I loved you the quickest? Just how quick was it?

Speaker 3 (13:25):
Can you do what you care to share? Russell? Was
it you? Was it your wife?

Speaker 2 (13:31):
You know what it's it's like about it so long ago,
years ago that I don't remember, but I don't remember
these finer details, but I do believe it. It took
a little longer this time. Yeah, yeah, probably just caution
yeah on both sides.

Speaker 3 (13:47):
Absolutely, yeah, we can't build it without you. And the
first record, well, actually we might need to put this
one in. First of all, a Perth school has broken
the world record for the largest gathering of people wearing
parties hats. Students at staff at Peter Moy's Anglican Community
School in Mindari gathered on the school over recently, one
three hundred and eighty one of them to surpass the

(14:10):
record of one thousand, one hundred and sixty one held
by a school in the UK.

Speaker 2 (14:14):
So that's that humans, no no limit.

Speaker 3 (14:17):
So that's a proper Guinness World record that we're building
our own.

Speaker 5 (14:22):
But I need you.

Speaker 2 (14:24):
But I must say we've got Zarathustor. That's a hell
of an effort that all that is.

Speaker 3 (14:30):
I wonder if that you probably can't have Fairybread's School anymore.
You can't have any sugar in school. So we need you.

Speaker 1 (14:38):
We are building the book of records.

Speaker 3 (14:40):
It will be an actual book in time with your
names in it. But first record that we're going for
today is who said I love you the quickest to
Marissa and Miranda says on the text, I told this
guy I loved him after we'd known each other for
five years, and so five years, you're probably not.

Speaker 2 (15:02):
Gonna be the quickest massa.

Speaker 1 (15:03):
And when I told him, he ran off on me.

Speaker 3 (15:06):
So now I take my time, Marissa, you're taking your
time on five years. Okay, okay, Chris in Haines says
on the text, the very first time I turned on
the radio and listened to ninety SIXFM, I fell in love.
So I love you ninety six CFM. It took about
thirty seconds to a minute.

Speaker 2 (15:28):
Chris trying to get Kevin Buddy Wilson tickets. That's what
that is.

Speaker 3 (15:32):
We got one. Now you must leave your name. We
can't put you in the book of records without your name.
But someone says, Hi, I had a guy tell me
he loved me and try to buy me an engagement
ring after one date. Run But my husband told me
after six months of meeting. We worked together, and years
later I told him I loved him before our first date. Well,
because you work together, so you're already new. Yeah, I

(15:55):
take it that was not the guy who tried to
buy you an engagement ring after one date. Techa in
Grove said, my husband said I love you first, and
I said thank you. Michelle and Jane Brook, Hello.

Speaker 7 (16:06):
Good morning, How are you good.

Speaker 3 (16:09):
Who who said I love you the quickest? Was it you?

Speaker 4 (16:13):
So?

Speaker 7 (16:13):
Yes?

Speaker 8 (16:14):
Well it was us both.

Speaker 7 (16:16):
Okay, it was our third date. We met at a pub.
I was working at the pub and he asked me
out for dinner. We went to a movie and after
the movie we went for some drinks and we declared
our love. We thought, no, this is it, and he
proposed a month later, Oh my god, at a beautiful

(16:39):
resort and then next month we'll be married twenty nine years,
beautiful children.

Speaker 2 (16:48):
So both at the same time. So it was oh
did you say snap snap?

Speaker 7 (16:52):
Yes, it was love at first sight. Honestly, that's amazing.
And he still gives me the happy vibes in terms
of just so excited and yeah, it's it's been an
amazing journey for us both.

Speaker 3 (17:09):
It's say, when you know you know you obviously knew you.
That's awesome.

Speaker 2 (17:17):
Thanks Michelle, you're our first ye into the book.

Speaker 3 (17:21):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (17:22):
Absolutely. Now Debbie in Thornley, Hello.

Speaker 8 (17:26):
Good morning, good morning Debbie.

Speaker 2 (17:28):
Big build up, big build up beat that.

Speaker 3 (17:31):
How who said I love you the quickest?

Speaker 5 (17:35):
I did?

Speaker 7 (17:37):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (17:37):
I did?

Speaker 8 (17:37):
Yes, How it straight back.

Speaker 2 (17:41):
That's good.

Speaker 3 (17:44):
How quick was it?

Speaker 8 (17:47):
Three days?

Speaker 2 (17:47):
Oh? Three days?

Speaker 8 (17:50):
I think this.

Speaker 3 (17:52):
Record? Yes, we need the backstory.

Speaker 8 (17:55):
We met each other about seven years ago, probably the
last two or three best friends. Been through everything, no,
everything about each other, but both said no, no, not
want to be single. Well, it makes the heart grow fonder.
He went away for Christmas to see parents and had

(18:16):
a bit of a chat about me. Came back and
on the twenty eighth of December, he in between Christmas
and New Year, I think we should have a relationship.
So we went to that next level. So we kind
of loved each other as friends.

Speaker 6 (18:30):
Yes and yeah.

Speaker 8 (18:32):
And three days later we were sitting around talking. It
just came out my mouth and he said, you.

Speaker 3 (18:38):
Were full of the festive spirit. Of course, but.

Speaker 8 (18:42):
He was drunker.

Speaker 7 (18:43):
Get nice.

Speaker 3 (18:45):
But that's another record for another time, Debbie, that's fantastic.

Speaker 1 (18:50):
And so as to tell me you're still together.

Speaker 8 (18:55):
Yeah, it's been a whole eight months now.

Speaker 2 (18:58):
Eight months hanging in there.

Speaker 8 (19:01):
I know we're not getting married.

Speaker 3 (19:03):
No, okay, he's one for the record books.

Speaker 8 (19:09):
I always said if I got married, I wanted to
change my name. We've both got the same last name.

Speaker 3 (19:15):
Oh that could be some kind of roundabout weird sign.

Speaker 8 (19:19):
Yes, and we have checked we are not related far back.

Speaker 2 (19:24):
We've gone to ancestry dot com. Done all the checks
that we're not. Oh well done done. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (19:31):
I think that's going to be the record.

Speaker 2 (19:32):
Three days more of Lisa and Mussell's podcast. It's on
the way, so the Sure Report. On ninety six airm.

Speaker 3 (19:44):
Guy Peerce is in talks to play Rupert Murdoch in
a movie that's being made by the wonderful English filmmaker
Danny Boyle Train Spotting, slum Dog, Lily Loved a twenty
paces Oh Yes. Boyle's making an adaptation of the stage
production inc, which debuted in London's West End in twenty
seventeen and dramatizes the moment Murdoch bought The Sun newspaper

(20:05):
in nineteen sixty nine. At the time, The Sun was
a publication on the Wayne, and Murdoch's acquisition kicked off
a whole new era of tabloid media. Guess which comic
is the next one headed for the big screen?

Speaker 2 (20:20):
Let me guess, jeesy good guess, Oh lord A.

Speaker 3 (20:27):
Christopher Miller, the filmmaking duo behind Spider Verse, the Lego
movie and twenty one Jump Street. How I feel about that?
That is a resume. I have signed to deal with
Universal Pictures to bring Archie to life. It's not known
yet if the big screen Archie adaptation will be animated
or live action. There have been recent small screen versions

(20:47):
from the Archie comics family, including the series Riverdale and
Netflix's Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.

Speaker 1 (20:53):
But this will be the original deal.

Speaker 4 (20:56):
I haven't heard that.

Speaker 3 (20:58):
Yeah, I know.

Speaker 2 (20:59):
I hope they is that for the.

Speaker 3 (21:00):
Movie, and they'd better they're going the original deal. They
have to have the original theme. The people up in
arms about Snoop Dog performing at the Grand Final, and
I'm gonna love this.

Speaker 1 (21:09):
Snoops just got into the arch business. The Double O Double.

Speaker 3 (21:13):
G's Ashes to Art collection was recently featured in an auction. Basically,
it's the remnants of his joints and not Sunday's roast.
The seven original pieces that went to auction combined resin
pigment glitter because glusion makes everything better, and actual cannabis
remnants actually smoked by Snoop Dog. One of the pieces,

(21:37):
hold on Your Hat, fetched a whopping one hundred and
eight thousand dollars at auction. Another called Golden Now cipher
displaying three road chains framed in gold, brought in just
short of twenty grand cockroachins Yes sorry yes, the ends
of cockroaches that has.

Speaker 2 (21:56):
Yes Snoop is a businessman. He is a business maran first.

Speaker 4 (22:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (22:03):
As the headline that really grabbed my attention this morning
court room erupts where judge mistakenly gives out wrong verdict.
You got do God, but I know. The judge in
Atlanta tripped up during the most tense part of the trial,
Judge Henry Newkirk mistakenly delivered a guilty verdict to a
defendant he was supposed to say not guilty.

Speaker 1 (22:25):
Alton Oliver was on.

Speaker 3 (22:27):
Trial over the twenty twenty two fatal shooting of a
Fulton County deputy in phase six counts, including three of murder.
After Judge Newkirk announced the guilty verdict, the courthouse in
Georgia erupted in chaos, with people shouting out what and no.
The judge proceeded then to check his papers and he said, oh,
didn't I say not guilty? When several people in the

(22:48):
court shouted no, no, you didn't. Newkirk re read the
correct verdict, which acquitted the defendant of all charges. Then
he apologized for what he called a mispronunciation.

Speaker 1 (23:00):
Of mispronunciation, your honor, This is.

Speaker 2 (23:02):
A mistake, Judge Judy never never would have made, never
would have made the great per flick with Ben Russell.

Speaker 5 (23:14):
Russell, Ben, it's great to hear you on the wireless.

Speaker 2 (23:19):
Good to see you again, sir. Yeah, so you're still
going to the movies.

Speaker 3 (23:25):
Going around, so you and I don't have to, although
this is not good, this one I might have to.

Speaker 5 (23:30):
Yeah, this one I think is the least dreadful least,
this one is one that you have to see. Although
I will warn everybody it is long. It's agreed to
and I know some people are just get so frustrated
at the moment about how long movies are. This one's
nearly three hours, so it is quite long. So it
might be almost one that you do wait, you do
almost wait for streaming and then you watch it in installments. Still,

(23:55):
but it's it's one of those movies. So it's Eddington,
directed by Arias who is he's an auteur of horror movie,
so he's like Jordan Peele. He's one of this new
wave of horror directors in horror movie. It is not
a horror I didn't think, although some bits of it
are a bit horrifying. So he makes movies that are
not your traditional horror movies, but they do inspire dread,

(24:18):
mostly just because of you know, he finds terror in
pretty ordinary situation four A twenty four of course, movies
like Hereditary, he did Creepy Midsummer Boa Is Afraid, where
he worked with Jaquin Phoenix, who's reunited with on Eddington.
And so this is a movie where you know something happened,
maybe a celebrity dies, and you're down at the pub

(24:40):
and you have a mate who cracks a joke about
that celebrity and.

Speaker 3 (24:43):
You go, oh, mate, soon too soon.

Speaker 5 (24:46):
This is what you'll be thinking as you're watching this
movie because it's set in May twenty twenty.

Speaker 2 (24:52):
It's a time.

Speaker 5 (24:53):
What a time?

Speaker 2 (24:55):
What a time?

Speaker 5 (24:55):
And we all just want to be reminded of it,
don't we. And so it's not it's not a true story,
but it's inspired by actual events. So you've got the
global pandemic just kicking off. You've got the murder of
George Floyd and then how that restarted the Black Lives
Matter movement globally, You've got conspiracy theories exploding online, this

(25:17):
stuff social distancing mask mandates.

Speaker 2 (25:19):
All of this kind of I think this has ended yet.

Speaker 5 (25:22):
Well that's why it feels too soon, because I'm not
sure if we've fully processed a lot of this stuff.
And so Ariasta wrote this movie when he was in
lockdown in twenty twenty. He lived, he grew up in
New Mexico. He returned there to kind of bunker down
during the pandemic. And so the film is set in
this fictional town of Eddington in New Mexico. It's kind

(25:43):
of like this sleepy little backwater and the local sheriff,
Joe Cross, is played by Jaquin Phoenix. He's ultimately he's
a decent guy, but as the film goes on and
things start to spiral out of his control, I guess
his moral compass stuff to wiggle all over the shop

(26:03):
a bit. Yeah, so you didn't go back then, people
you know, really lost their marbles, you remember, But we were
fighting over to And so even though there hasn't been
any cases of COVID in this town, everybody's very worried
about what it all means. Because back in that point
in twenty twenty, we didn't know if everybody was going
to die, if there was ever going to be a vaccine,

(26:24):
if it was if we were going to turn into zombies,
who knows, you know, anything, anything was possible.

Speaker 2 (26:29):
Sounds like Eddington needed Mark McGowan.

Speaker 5 (26:31):
Yeah, yeah, exacted exactly. Well, they did have their own
state daddy. They had the Internet daddy. Pedro Pascal, who
played the mayor of the town. Yeah. Yeah, he's probably
probably maybe just a couple of notches above Mark McGowan,
Mark and Mark and so. Anyway, So Pedro Pascal is
the mayor, and just like Mark McGowan, he wants to

(26:52):
keep everybody safe. He believes in COVID mandates and you know,
sort of locking the town down. The sheriff Joe, he's
not so into that. He's more into the freedom for
the people, all of that kind of stuff. And he
does he refuses to wear his mask because he's as
mad as shoff. Yeah, because you can't breathe so and so.
But but but generally he wants just everybody to get along.

(27:15):
But he's so he has he has this huge rivalry
with the mayor. So he sets up this incredible dynamic
between Pedro Pascal and Joaquin Phoenix it which is like,
just is so awesome to see these two incredible actors
just go at it. And it's made even more complicated
by the fact that the mayor used to date the
sheriff's wife, who's played by two time Oscar winner Emma Stone.

(27:39):
She is she is reclusive, she sort of stays in
the house. She's a conspiracy nut, and so she is
kind of going down these rabbit holes.

Speaker 2 (27:47):
Very real.

Speaker 5 (27:48):
Yeah, it's so realistic. You'll be watching this just going,
oh my.

Speaker 2 (27:51):
God, he must have sat a couple.

Speaker 5 (27:56):
This is all unfolding for Yeah, he was just writing
down everything that he saw and so and so. Joe
the sheriff, he kind of, you know, he wants to
make sure everything is going well with his wife, so
he starts to go down the conspiracy rabbit holes. He
decides to run against the mayor in the mayoral race
for the town. So then you've got this election campaign
and misinformation, which again is a very real thing that

(28:17):
happens in our society. The George Floyd thing happens in Minnesota,
but the Black Lives Matter movement reverberates all the way
to Eddington. You've got protests. Everyone's against the police. Of course,
Sheriff Joe is a police officer, and even though he
hasn't done anything wrong, he's got people saying, oh, you know,
you're racist, and so he's dealing with that. It gets complicated,
it gets a bit convoluted, and then it you know,

(28:39):
because Ariasta specializes in this sort of stuff, you know,
you've got this little bit of dread building at the start,
and then it just gets worse and worse. You just
feel it in the piteous stomach as you're watching it.
You know something bad is going to happen. And then
things really snowball out of control to a conclusion that
is wild. Wow, Oh yeah, wild conclusion. This like all

(29:01):
I'm just I'm not going to give you any spoilers.
Just imagine one phoenix with an M sixty right.

Speaker 3 (29:09):
It all comes down to this, how many this town
is big enough for the both of us? Are you
that's Pedro?

Speaker 1 (29:19):
Are you giving it?

Speaker 2 (29:20):
I would have said, how many COVID shots out of five?
Would you give it?

Speaker 5 (29:24):
Good rus? No town is small enough that you can't
have Jaquin and Pedro. I want both those guys in
my town. But I'm going to give it four, oh like,
as long as you can, as long as you can
get your head around how long it is. This is
such an interesting film. The tone of it is unlike
anything you'll see this year, is so well made, and

(29:46):
the performances of just fantastic Ostar Butler is as well
as of a cult leader.

Speaker 3 (29:50):
And four is the number of Cots and its stone
did not happen? Yes? M. Russell, ninety six FM
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