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Speaker 3: No, I don tell it's all no.
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Speaker 5: Ship me, never gash.
Speaker 3: I'm a show.
Speaker 6: Welcome back midnight viewers to found the Malone's weekly round up.
Speaker 6: I'm found them alone and with me as always is
Speaker 6: my pal My Pug, my partner Ripley Jean say hi,
Speaker 6: rip No, that isn't our usual theme song, and this
Speaker 6: isn't our usual theme. We're going back to the motherland
Speaker 6: for this one last. It's it's about to get away.
Speaker 6: Too irish on this podcast. Too irish, No such thing,
Speaker 6: Sure you're irish? Do you not know your own name?
Speaker 6: Ripley gene O'Shaughnessy maguire O'Shea Lynch malone. Well it isn't Korean, sweetie,
Speaker 6: and we're here to give you three streaming recommendations, and
Speaker 6: well two streaming and one theatrical, because that's how it's
Speaker 6: been working out lately. And as usual, we're gonna start
Speaker 6: with the absolute most current one. Like I said, this
Speaker 6: one's still in theaters, and you should go get in
Speaker 6: the car, drive to the theater, buy a ticket, skip
Speaker 6: the concession stand because you've wisely stopped at a convenience
Speaker 6: store or a grocery store, and you've already secreted upon
Speaker 6: your person several candy bars and at least two cans
Speaker 6: of soda that are now so cold that they might
Speaker 6: blow your cover. Now, of course that aroma of popcorn
Speaker 6: is alluring, but after three bites, it's going to be samey,
Speaker 6: and it's going to be greasy, and you're not really
Speaker 6: going to enjoy the rest of it. But you're going
Speaker 6: to keep on crunching away mechanically into the first reel.
Speaker 6: So now that we've avoided all of those pitfalls of
Speaker 6: the movie coming experience, you can enjoy the film. I
Speaker 6: think I'll have a hard time finding it's better this year.
Speaker 6: This is kneecap.
Speaker 2: Tell me something about you, something you've never told anyone else.
Speaker 2: I'm a rapper.
Speaker 6: Eighty thousand.
Speaker 2: The varied speakers in Ireland be fuck each gan, tanga
Speaker 2: a la Nasho, bavers, hypercom rappers.
Speaker 4: You may know the words if you don't understand the language.
Speaker 4: Asphon as you pray for horse for cure, George goes
Speaker 4: to you, ocus wrench, Bates can.
Speaker 3: Well he abide, abi w.
Speaker 4: A, show boys and ruling it Oh it yes.
Speaker 5: For Kyoto if we like grandmar when she's blast us
Speaker 5: bend you on hip hop, your do I look like
Speaker 5: I want to read subtitles here.
Speaker 4: See budget and you should have this series.
Speaker 3: The knock at the door before they knock of the door,
Speaker 3: him and his wee peals music, strong attention from all
Speaker 3: the wrong places. Not I'm gonna h double od no
Speaker 3: life scum. Well, I end up pastin and and I know.
Speaker 1: You have a life, the career, the future.
Speaker 3: Remember I can take it all away from you like
Speaker 3: that special delivery. More music every day.
Speaker 4: I am not captured. As a psychological victory against the occupiers.
Speaker 3: So called Irish language rappers promoting anti social behavior and
Speaker 3: followed stups to talk of enough time it's just use
Speaker 3: the thing. You never want to see you again.
Speaker 2: I never want to see you.
Speaker 5: Look good.
Speaker 3: It's phone fogs and no harmony.
Speaker 5: Got those hoods after you say this that it doesn't need.
Speaker 4: To be hearing.
Speaker 5: He's here a certainness rate to speak Irish about That
Speaker 5: band has been criticized for chanting out of British.
Speaker 4: So good game, Larcherpellier Escape, there are some seers naharam us,
Speaker 4: Why don't you just speak? The Queen's Anglice.
Speaker 5: Ran to Doctor Drena again.
Speaker 6: On April tenth, nineteen ninety eight, the Good Friday Agreement
Speaker 6: was signed and for the first time in thirty years,
Speaker 6: hostilities in Northern Ireland ended. The conflict that had come
Speaker 6: to define every aspect of life was now gone. Two
Speaker 6: of the three picks tonight deal directly with the Troubles,
Speaker 6: as most Irish entertainment seems to do. But this first choice, Kneecap,
Speaker 6: is a contemporary film and it should be seemingly the
Speaker 6: most irrelevant, based loosely as it is, on the lives
Speaker 6: of a couple of former drug dealers turned unexpected hip
Speaker 6: hop superstars, but the film gives the mess look at
Speaker 6: life post troubles I've seen, and moreover actually gives us
Speaker 6: a glimpse of how fucked up the whole region continue
Speaker 6: used to be in the wake of those years of
Speaker 6: division and hatred. Like the recent hit show Dairy Girls,
Speaker 6: it's giving a voice to a generation who previously only
Speaker 6: ever been portrayed as victims of the violence. And voice
Speaker 6: is an important thing. It's nearly the most important aspect
Speaker 6: of Kneecap. Voice and the language used here. That's Gaelic,
Speaker 6: a foreign language in its native land. It's about its
Speaker 6: importance as a national identity and as a form of freedom.
Speaker 6: Remember that Goofy riverdance craze, that stiff armed, only moving
Speaker 6: below the waist dancing that developed during the years when
Speaker 6: all Irish culture was outlawed. You could dance on one
Speaker 6: side of a wall and be seen as standing still
Speaker 6: on the other. That's how hard and oppressed people will
Speaker 6: fight to feel free. When Kneecap hit the scene back
Speaker 6: in twenty eighteen, it was easy to dismiss them as
Speaker 6: a gimmick. Two white kids in Ireland rapping in English
Speaker 6: and Irish. It reminded me a bit of Blood of Abraham.
Speaker 6: Remember them, I doubt it, but they were a solid group.
Speaker 6: They just had nothing to say anyway. Kneecap seemingly also
Speaker 6: had nothing to say. But it's the fucking way they're
Speaker 6: saying it. Resistance they came up against that forms the
Speaker 6: basis of the film. It's a fictionalized account of their
Speaker 6: formation and their rise amidst the real life events of
Speaker 6: a referendum in Northern Ireland to give the Irish language
Speaker 6: equal standing to English, a privilege the Welsh had been
Speaker 6: enjoying since nineteen ninety three. Okay, time for an annoying
Speaker 6: autobiographical pause. Fond Malone's a pseudonym, But I'm pretty goddamned
Speaker 6: Irish and I grew up in Boston in the seventies
Speaker 6: and eighties. I was surrounded by Sullivan's and Splanes and
Speaker 6: McCoy's and Murphy's, and there was a period of my
Speaker 6: life in high school where I felt pretty well defined
Speaker 6: by my Irishness. If it wasn't the Pogues or the
Speaker 6: water Boys, I wasn't listening, I'd be watching Mickey Rourke
Speaker 6: movies and reading about the troubles in the nineteen sixteen Revolution,
Speaker 6: devouring the works of Brendan Bayen and James Joyce, But
Speaker 6: even if you'd ask me then if there are any
Speaker 6: forms of film or TV out there expressing the actual
Speaker 6: feelings and frustrations of those living through those situations, I'd
Speaker 6: have said no. I'd have said it was all ponderous
Speaker 6: purple prose, poor theatrical nonsense, no better than TV movie
Speaker 6: of the weekly artistry. Certainly, nothing is surefooted with a
Speaker 6: singular vision that allows flights of fancy equal weight to
Speaker 6: scenes of genuine, harrowing violence that we get here. This
Speaker 6: film could have been Spice World. It could have been Disorderlies,
Speaker 6: remember Disorderlies with the fad Boys. It could have been
Speaker 6: Purple Rain, which it mostly resembles. And when I saw
Speaker 6: the trailer for Neecap, I assumed that that's all. It
Speaker 6: was going to be a Purple Rain or eight Mile
Speaker 6: style fictional biopic. Nothing too weighty, nothing too flighty, just
Speaker 6: an honest story of music lifting up a musician and
Speaker 6: bringing them glory and Kneecap Is that, oh my, yes,
Speaker 6: with enough fiction to even out the fact. But I
Speaker 6: know this is sacrilege. It's better than Purple Rain, not
Speaker 6: the soundtrack, obviously, I'm not an idiot. You got a
Speaker 6: mouth on you lately, We'll see how your attitude changes
Speaker 6: at supper time, little lady. The three leads are charming
Speaker 6: as fuck, and they can act. Man. One of them
Speaker 6: has Michael Fassbender playing his dad, and he holds his
Speaker 6: own against him. The direction is ingenious and innovative. The
Speaker 6: script is smart and funny. The music is killer. Here's some.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be a Plaud's.
Speaker 1: It's it's going for at a bird. I sink a
Speaker 1: quick turn down fire and not of birth for calling
Speaker 1: me a fruit, for trying to take the alert.
Speaker 2: I believe we bought a red anymore?
Speaker 4: This COMPLI cash. Do you want it in your chest,
Speaker 4: or your knees or your head? Did you prove he
Speaker 4: has the lead?
Speaker 1: You can back you complete, you can kill us well
Speaker 1: my name, you can change journey.
Speaker 2: But you're all the fucking sim.
Speaker 6: If I see this in high school, trust me, I'd
Speaker 6: be fluent in Gaelic right now as is. I'll have
Speaker 6: to settle for listening to these two hoods shouting in
Speaker 6: it on the radio, and definitely in this movie. I
Speaker 6: intend to see this one a lot. I loved it.
Speaker 6: I can recall only two recent films that made me
Speaker 6: openly weep with Joy Dolomite is my name. When Rudy
Speaker 6: Raymore got up into that light, and multiple times throughout
Speaker 6: this film, multiple yeah, well you're tough. Oh you've got soul?
Speaker 6: How appropriate? I guess that means it's time for rips picks.
Speaker 6: Thank you, HP, you have once again crystallized my thoughts exactly. Okay,
Speaker 6: here's the non ira A film in the bunch and
Speaker 6: I did see this in high school and while it
Speaker 6: didn't inspire me to start a band, I did run
Speaker 6: out and buy a bunch of Wilson Pickett records afterwards.
Speaker 6: This is Alan Parker's film of Roddy Doyle's novel The Commitments?
Speaker 3: Have you got sold? If so, the world's hardest working
Speaker 3: band is looking to contact ja rappers putting the band together?
Speaker 3: Can you a singer? What men say?
Speaker 2: Who that Zeppelin?
Speaker 3: O'Connor, Barrie Model, John Bias, Johnny Mitchell Wings?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 3: What kind of music are we going to be playing
Speaker 3: to me?
Speaker 1: So, so.
Speaker 2: That's what you got to measure up to that. But
Speaker 2: like maybe you're a little boys.
Speaker 3: Have to see if you could play before I play
Speaker 3: for them. You're trying to tell me you.
Speaker 2: Play with Bob King, Martha Reeves, Sam Cook Oldest Ready.
Speaker 3: That's you're looking at the commitment. Let's keep relations on
Speaker 3: a professional basis. We professionally have never been paid.
Speaker 1: It feels much better than an applied versation than another applied.
Speaker 2: Part f Oh, You've got to.
Speaker 3: Yes, Yes A Collectments.
Speaker 2: I'm Black and I'm Proud.
Speaker 3: M h.
Speaker 6: In the mid to late nineteen eighties, Roddy Doyle wrote
Speaker 6: about the working class in Dublin. His Barrytown trilogy has
Speaker 6: become a bit of legend. All three have been adapted
Speaker 6: into films, all starring Cole Meeni, which is a bit
Speaker 6: of a feat considering each of the books were adapted
Speaker 6: by different studios and different filmmakers, but the most successful
Speaker 6: in terms of film and the film's popularity was The Commitments.
Speaker 6: It's the story of Jimmy Rabbit, an enterprising young lad
Speaker 6: who decides to gather together a group of similarly directionless
Speaker 6: youth to form a soul band like Kneecap. It's the
Speaker 6: story of the oppressed finding their voice in the similarly
Speaker 6: oppressed culture of African American artists, a fact that is
Speaker 6: not lost on the characters of each of the films.
Speaker 6: We're talking about cultural appropriation is a real problem when
Speaker 6: it's about using that bit of culture without respect and
Speaker 6: no other motive than a few miserable dollar bills with
Speaker 6: the aid of an aging trumpet player, a role originally
Speaker 6: meant for Van Morrison, but I guess after a disastrous
Speaker 6: meeting with Alan Parker, Morrison agreed to let him use
Speaker 6: his music and wanted nothing more to do with the project.
Speaker 6: Rabbit assembles a fearsome band or the makings of one.
Speaker 6: I am a sucker for band formation films, particularly when
Speaker 6: the plot isn't predicated on their success. I don't mean
Speaker 6: artistically or creatively. I mean I don't need them to
Speaker 6: win a Battle of the Bands or get some crawl
Speaker 6: at the end informing us that there eventually were a
Speaker 6: massive success somehow. The stories of Ulso Rans or never
Speaker 6: was Those are way more impactful to me. I'm thinking
Speaker 6: about like that thing you do. He's speaking of fictional
Speaker 6: bands in their biopinks. Can we get a figurin Dan
Speaker 6: in the Modal Nodes movie, you know, the Cantena band
Speaker 6: from the original Star Wars. Get them on like a
Speaker 6: road trip movie, like out on Tour, visiting all the
Speaker 6: dives in the Outer Rim trying to make it big
Speaker 6: on chorus ants someday just an idea. Anyway, The Commitments
Speaker 6: was made by Alan Parker. He was the filmmaker behind
Speaker 6: Bugsy Malone, where children star as adults in a nineteen
Speaker 6: thirties gangster drama that's also a musical with Tommy Guns
Speaker 6: that you'd cream pies. And he made Pink Floyds to
Speaker 6: the Wall, that's a film everyone will tell you to
Speaker 6: watch when you're high and you will instantly regret doing so.
Speaker 6: And he made Fame, which I think is pretty much
Speaker 6: perfect except for casting Barry Miller as a praeto Rican.
Speaker 6: He's operating here from a place of pure musicale, which
Speaker 6: is rare after films like Mississippi Burning and Birdie. There
Speaker 6: are no oppressive themes, no aggressive hatred, just a bunch
Speaker 6: of working class kids fighting for their own identity and
Speaker 6: fighting with each other to create something joyous in the
Speaker 6: midst of a crushing existence. None of the performances musically
Speaker 6: are going to replace the original artists on your turntable.
Speaker 6: If you have a turntable, what's a turntable? Oh God,
Speaker 6: what am I going to do with you? But just
Speaker 6: like anytime you see someone performed live. There's something electric
Speaker 6: at play, and it should be noted that the performances
Speaker 6: you see in the film are in fact recorded live.
Speaker 6: Parker recognized that the scruffy, rag taggedness of the whole
Speaker 6: affair was its charm, and while ultimately music won't save
Speaker 6: them from their economic situation or even their social situations,
Speaker 6: it does show them a new way of thinking of surviving,
Speaker 6: of thriving in the face of adversity. How it's impossible
Speaker 6: for anyone to keep you down when you have the
Speaker 6: strains of midnight hour thrumbing in your head. We're running
Speaker 6: an Irish time machine here, young We started now the
Speaker 6: contemporary age, and then we jump back to the early nineties.
Speaker 6: Where will we end up next? The twenties? Were you crazy?
Speaker 6: That's a little too old timey for the popular music
Speaker 6: in Ireland theme we're going for here? Would you settle
Speaker 6: for the nineteen seventies a splendid because that's where we're
Speaker 6: going back to Belfast, back to the tunes, back to
Speaker 6: Terry Hooley and good vibrations.
Speaker 3: Once upon a time, the Messettia Belfast, there lived a
Speaker 3: boy named Terry.
Speaker 2: Do you want to come back to my mom and Dods.
Speaker 5: No.
Speaker 3: Do you want to go back to my MoMA?
Speaker 2: Dodds No, I want to open a record. Shove we
Speaker 2: in every kind of beautiful record on our shops.
Speaker 5: I'll put that record right.
Speaker 3: So what you're nick and a record?
Speaker 2: Will you record us to you?
Speaker 3: Not that good? If you don't care records soon, I'd
Speaker 3: be too late.
Speaker 2: Would you say your name was Sar?
Speaker 3: That's the first thing I ever recorded? Everybody has everybody?
Speaker 3: Does he have any good looking friends?
Speaker 2: What is wrong with cigs?
Speaker 3: Jas? It was all going to be absolutely thank you
Speaker 3: trust me. You gave me the best two minutes of
Speaker 3: my life.
Speaker 2: John, It's so good. I'm going to do something I've
Speaker 2: never done before.
Speaker 3: Jess. We made it. We cracked the code, but we
Speaker 3: did it with items money couldn't buy. Six of Christians
Speaker 3: isn't a record shot, it's not a level that's so
Speaker 3: liable person.
Speaker 6: This one's on Prime and I just happened upon it. Honestly.
Speaker 6: It's from twenty thirteen, and it is a biopic of
Speaker 6: Terry Hooley, who had a pretty mundane existence growing up
Speaker 6: in Belfast in the fifties and the sixties. Sure he
Speaker 6: had only one eye, but he had lots of friends,
Speaker 6: which would change once the troubles arrived in a late sixties.
Speaker 6: Suddenly all of his old Protestant friends were more than dismissive,
Speaker 6: they were aggressive. He watched the dreams of all the
Speaker 6: sixties peace and love disintegrate, and now all that was
Speaker 6: left was rancor on both sides, not just amongst the civilians,
Speaker 6: but the threat of violence from both the RUC and
Speaker 6: the IRA hung over everything. So Hooley did what any
Speaker 6: self respecting music lover would do. He opened a record
Speaker 6: shop in the most heavily bombed street in Belfast. He
Speaker 6: was a visionary in the mold of Hilly Crystal, who
Speaker 6: opened a music venue to feature bluegrass and country music
Speaker 6: in the Bowery in New York City, which turned into
Speaker 6: CBGB's Hooley opened a shop featuring reggae when that would
Speaker 6: become Belfast ground zero for punk rock, with Holey eventually
Speaker 6: producing and releasing a clutch of important Irish artists. The
Speaker 6: film is anchored by Richard Dormer as Hooley, a kind
Speaker 6: of musical ed Wood who pulls people into his sphere
Speaker 6: through sheer enthusiasm. It also has a young Jody Whittaker
Speaker 6: years from becoming the doctor as Terry's long suffering wife.
Speaker 6: It gets a bit formulating at the end, attempting to
Speaker 6: expose Hooy's unsavory elements while simultaneously absolving him. It has
Speaker 6: one of those bullshit scenes you'll see in biopanks where
Speaker 6: every character who was wronged during the course of the
Speaker 6: film shows up to let them know that all is
Speaker 6: forgiven and they really understand that they didn't mean it.
Speaker 6: And it's predicated on a concert that will save the shop. Yesh,
Speaker 6: But that's a small price to pay for the story
Speaker 6: that comes before and the music that you get to
Speaker 6: hear throughout, which, while leaning in the direction of punk,
Speaker 6: doesn't pretend that there weren't other forms of music going
Speaker 6: on at the same time. Anything that can get our
Speaker 6: lead on stage singing a cover of a sunny Bono
Speaker 6: tune as an active defiance gets a pass. In my book,
Speaker 6: Good Vibrations was the name of the shop, it's the
Speaker 6: name of the film, and it's something I hope will
Speaker 6: be leaving you with today. That's because I'm corny. I'm
Speaker 6: Corny Collins. You should come on my show. Oh it's
Speaker 6: a dancing show. I'm sorry, you need rhythm and coordination
Speaker 6: in order to dance. See how that feels? Not very good?
Speaker 6: I'd say apology accepted. And you're a fine dancer, and
Speaker 6: you're a fine listener, and I mean fine. Thank you
Speaker 6: once again for joining us here this week and every week,
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Speaker 6: of myself and Ripley Gene. We'll sign off with a
Speaker 6: line from Kneecap that lad has made something of himself
Speaker 6: despite you, and if you're thinking of getting in his way,
Speaker 6: I'll show you a woman gone to war. Very fucking irish,
Speaker 6: speaking of fuck your.
Speaker 5: Morning, Come shop denistrats, come bring cloys. Coma fucker say
Speaker 5: about me?
Speaker 1: I thought were the job?
Speaker 3: What the focused up?
Speaker 4: When art we were making Josh sitting in the flat
Speaker 4: sipping noise, cons and smoke and roll because all the
Speaker 4: best jobs are taken by the dogs.
Speaker 1: Switchy planck can cracking, must play fun love the fast
Speaker 1: kind of says Cat.
Speaker 5: I thought I'm buying tick chunking this.
Speaker 1: Hit the stats on the pass and I chunk of turns.
Speaker 5: Come Alina sol on area, so I joh