Hot Drinks & Green Room

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This week, the dads head into the mosh pit with Jeremy Saulnier’s brutal, claustrophobic thriller Green Room — where a struggling punk band finds themselves trapped in a neo-Nazi club after witnessing a murder. It’s one part siege movie, one part social horror, and all parts grim.

When the Ain’t Rights take a last-minute gig deep in Oregon’s backwoods, they expect low pay and bad beer — not blood, dogs, machetes and Patrick Stewart as a terrifying skinhead ringleader. What follows is a night of panic, violence and duct-tape surgery, as the band fights to survive against an organised fascist militia who’d rather clean up witnesses than pay for another gig.

We dig into:

• Punk authenticity — the grime, the DIY spirit, and how Saulnier nails the small-venue chaos.
• Patrick Stewart’s casting — calm, chilling, and galaxies away from Captain Picard.
• Anton Yelchin’s tragic final performance — and what a loss he was.
• Violence that hurts — no jump scares, just sudden, stomach-turning realism.
• The Nazi problem — why these villains feel horrifyingly believable in 2025.
• The A24 factor — another lean, mean indie proving the studio’s knack for smart brutality.

Elsewhere in the episode:
 ☕ The Top 5 Hot Drinks delivers peppermint tea, Dirty Harry’s coffee, and more filth than a builder’s thermos.
🎸 Reegs spirals into video-game documentaries (Tony Hawk: Pretending I’m a Superman, Speed Runners).
🎤 Dan gets nostalgic about The Last Dance, Sidey recounts a surreal Lady Gaga show, and everyone somehow ends up discussing Tracker bars.

It’s one of those episodes where the jokes come thick, the violence is thicker, and nobody leaves unscalded.

🎧 Listen now for fascists, feedback, froth and a quiz that can only be described as “Hot Coffee or Tea-bagger?”

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