1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:03,840 Speaker 1: Read the flick with ben o'she on ninety six A M. 2 00:00:04,160 --> 00:00:06,400 Speaker 2: Midding, Ben, how are you, mate? Good morning Clarzy, Good 3 00:00:06,400 --> 00:00:06,960 Speaker 2: morning Rhino. 4 00:00:07,120 --> 00:00:09,640 Speaker 1: Hey Benny. I saw you yesterday walking to the halls 5 00:00:09,680 --> 00:00:13,360 Speaker 1: of seven West, looking magnificent as you always do. 6 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:16,000 Speaker 2: Oh cheers, mate, I appreciate that, well you will. You'd 7 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:19,160 Speaker 2: be happy to know that we've got a sports related 8 00:00:19,239 --> 00:00:21,200 Speaker 2: movie for you today, especially for you, Rhino. 9 00:00:21,600 --> 00:00:23,480 Speaker 1: Thank you you thought of me when you picked it. 10 00:00:23,920 --> 00:00:26,600 Speaker 2: I did, I did. Indeed, now you know more about 11 00:00:26,600 --> 00:00:29,760 Speaker 2: sports than most people will ever know in their lifetime. 12 00:00:30,040 --> 00:00:33,080 Speaker 2: But have you ever heard of a British golfer named 13 00:00:33,280 --> 00:00:34,440 Speaker 2: Maurice Flitcroft. 14 00:00:34,800 --> 00:00:37,279 Speaker 1: I had, I had absolutely not heard of him. And 15 00:00:37,479 --> 00:00:39,400 Speaker 1: this is why I wanted to ask you. Is this 16 00:00:39,479 --> 00:00:40,320 Speaker 1: a true story? 17 00:00:40,880 --> 00:00:43,400 Speaker 2: This is one hundred percent of true story. So when 18 00:00:43,400 --> 00:00:47,320 Speaker 2: it comes to these kind of biographical comedy drama films, 19 00:00:47,479 --> 00:00:51,280 Speaker 2: nobody does them better than the British Eddie the Eagle. 20 00:00:51,360 --> 00:00:53,920 Speaker 2: There's so many examples of them. And so this is 21 00:00:53,960 --> 00:00:56,520 Speaker 2: another film very much in that same vein. And so 22 00:00:56,840 --> 00:01:01,680 Speaker 2: Maurice Flipcroft was a chain smoke crane operator in a 23 00:01:01,720 --> 00:01:06,000 Speaker 2: shipyard in the UK back in the seventies and at 24 00:01:06,040 --> 00:01:07,800 Speaker 2: about you know, so when he got to about mid 25 00:01:07,880 --> 00:01:10,360 Speaker 2: forties in life, he thought, you know what, I need 26 00:01:10,400 --> 00:01:12,600 Speaker 2: a new challenge. I think I'm going to become a 27 00:01:12,640 --> 00:01:16,880 Speaker 2: professional golfer. And so on a whim, he sent an 28 00:01:16,920 --> 00:01:20,399 Speaker 2: application into the British Open, the oldest and one of 29 00:01:20,400 --> 00:01:24,440 Speaker 2: the most prestigious golf tournaments on the planet. The ones 30 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:27,480 Speaker 2: start with one of the easy ones. And so whoever 31 00:01:27,600 --> 00:01:30,000 Speaker 2: was in charge of going through the applications that year 32 00:01:30,040 --> 00:01:33,920 Speaker 2: maybe wasn't paying attention because they have rubber stamped his 33 00:01:34,280 --> 00:01:38,200 Speaker 2: entry giving him a free ticket into the Open. And 34 00:01:38,480 --> 00:01:41,680 Speaker 2: so this is despite the fact that old Morris had 35 00:01:41,720 --> 00:01:44,240 Speaker 2: never played a round of golf in his life. You're kidding, 36 00:01:44,360 --> 00:01:48,560 Speaker 2: that's amazing, Happy Gilmore, what was gone? Well, this is 37 00:01:48,960 --> 00:01:51,920 Speaker 2: like a cross between you know, like Caddyshack and Happy Gilmore. Really, 38 00:01:52,200 --> 00:01:54,400 Speaker 2: and so he's all he's done, has had a couple 39 00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:56,520 Speaker 2: of clubs that he's hit a few golf balls into 40 00:01:56,520 --> 00:01:59,320 Speaker 2: the ocean. That was the extent of his history with 41 00:01:59,400 --> 00:02:02,120 Speaker 2: the game. He rocked up for the qualifying round of 42 00:02:02,160 --> 00:02:05,040 Speaker 2: the British Open in nineteen seventy six and it went 43 00:02:05,200 --> 00:02:07,880 Speaker 2: probably about as well as you can imagine. 44 00:02:07,960 --> 00:02:10,680 Speaker 1: Say this isn't one of those he's just a natural 45 00:02:10,720 --> 00:02:14,000 Speaker 1: that suddenly he's four hundred meters. 46 00:02:14,240 --> 00:02:18,040 Speaker 2: Oh no, no, no, definitely not. So he has hit 47 00:02:18,400 --> 00:02:22,240 Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty one in the qualifying US so 48 00:02:23,240 --> 00:02:26,840 Speaker 2: set the record for the worst sport ever recorded at 49 00:02:26,840 --> 00:02:28,640 Speaker 2: the British Open. And to give that, to give to 50 00:02:28,639 --> 00:02:31,000 Speaker 2: put that in comparison for people listening at home. So 51 00:02:31,200 --> 00:02:36,040 Speaker 2: Rory McElroy, I think hit is sixty three in one round. 52 00:02:36,120 --> 00:02:38,280 Speaker 2: So one hundred and twenty one is you know, like 53 00:02:38,360 --> 00:02:40,919 Speaker 2: even for a weekend hacker, that'd be pretty embarrassing. Like 54 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:43,840 Speaker 2: he was hitting you know, ten on some past three. 55 00:02:44,280 --> 00:02:47,160 Speaker 2: It was. It was bad, and it was all unfolding 56 00:02:47,200 --> 00:02:49,880 Speaker 2: on national and international television. It was like a slow 57 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:52,960 Speaker 2: motion train wreck. And initially, you know, there was no 58 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:54,680 Speaker 2: one following him because he was a no name and 59 00:02:54,720 --> 00:02:57,000 Speaker 2: everyone was following you know, so following a round with 60 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:00,680 Speaker 2: Sevi Ballistaiosis and Arnold Palmer whoever else was playing in 61 00:03:00,720 --> 00:03:02,920 Speaker 2: the tournament that year. But by the end of the 62 00:03:03,040 --> 00:03:07,480 Speaker 2: eighteenth hole, he had this huge crowd following him along 63 00:03:07,480 --> 00:03:10,200 Speaker 2: because they just could not believe what they were seeing. 64 00:03:10,320 --> 00:03:13,320 Speaker 2: For a Morris and everybody in the UK had tuned 65 00:03:13,320 --> 00:03:16,480 Speaker 2: in as well, and he kind of became sort of 66 00:03:16,520 --> 00:03:21,000 Speaker 2: a combination between a walking punchline and a folk hero 67 00:03:21,200 --> 00:03:24,040 Speaker 2: because he was this guy and every man from a 68 00:03:24,080 --> 00:03:27,359 Speaker 2: working class background, blue collar guy and back then as 69 00:03:27,480 --> 00:03:29,600 Speaker 2: it still is now to some extent, but golf was 70 00:03:29,760 --> 00:03:32,919 Speaker 2: very much a gentleman's game in the UK, and so 71 00:03:33,040 --> 00:03:36,760 Speaker 2: people really loved him. And even though he got, you know, 72 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:39,120 Speaker 2: so the nickname of the world's worst golfer, it was 73 00:03:39,160 --> 00:03:42,400 Speaker 2: something that he kind of embraced at the time and 74 00:03:42,480 --> 00:03:45,360 Speaker 2: you'd think, okay, that is probably crazy enough. But his 75 00:03:45,480 --> 00:03:49,520 Speaker 2: story got even wilder from there because he entered the 76 00:03:49,560 --> 00:03:54,760 Speaker 2: tournament again despite being the following year, despite being given 77 00:03:54,840 --> 00:03:58,240 Speaker 2: a lifetime ban on golf courses in the UK by 78 00:03:58,280 --> 00:04:01,440 Speaker 2: the Royal and Ancient because they were soars, so embarrassed 79 00:04:01,440 --> 00:04:04,480 Speaker 2: about what happened from golf, they banned him from gold 80 00:04:05,360 --> 00:04:09,600 Speaker 2: and so so he pretended to be a Frenchman and 81 00:04:09,720 --> 00:04:13,200 Speaker 2: competed they did. He entered. He entered as a French 82 00:04:13,240 --> 00:04:16,120 Speaker 2: golfer named Gerard the Hoppy. 83 00:04:17,360 --> 00:04:19,400 Speaker 1: Tell me he had like a mustache, like. 84 00:04:19,400 --> 00:04:22,120 Speaker 2: A he did. He had a beret and he had 85 00:04:22,160 --> 00:04:25,159 Speaker 2: a mustache. And then and then this was the first 86 00:04:25,160 --> 00:04:27,279 Speaker 2: time that he tried to pull a swift ye on 87 00:04:27,320 --> 00:04:30,280 Speaker 2: the organizers. He did it a number of times, including 88 00:04:30,320 --> 00:04:34,880 Speaker 2: once including ones under the pseudonym Gene paychecky as in 89 00:04:35,080 --> 00:04:40,160 Speaker 2: paycheck and Look, and the funny thing was over. Over 90 00:04:40,200 --> 00:04:42,479 Speaker 2: the years he actually got a bit better, So he 91 00:04:42,560 --> 00:04:45,120 Speaker 2: did actually improve and I think he never he never 92 00:04:45,160 --> 00:04:47,360 Speaker 2: hit one hundred and twenty one again. And so this, 93 00:04:47,360 --> 00:04:51,480 Speaker 2: this incredible true story is told in this new film. 94 00:04:51,640 --> 00:04:54,280 Speaker 2: And they could not have cast a better person as Morris. 95 00:04:54,400 --> 00:04:57,480 Speaker 2: They've cast Oscar winner Mark Rylance, who won the Oscar 96 00:04:57,560 --> 00:05:00,160 Speaker 2: for Bridge of Spies. He was the Russian spo guy 97 00:05:01,200 --> 00:05:04,240 Speaker 2: in there with Tom Hanks, and he is just so 98 00:05:04,480 --> 00:05:07,040 Speaker 2: perfect in this role. He brings that kind of like 99 00:05:07,320 --> 00:05:10,640 Speaker 2: heart to the thing because Morris, ultimately, you know, like 100 00:05:11,279 --> 00:05:13,919 Speaker 2: he's a very sympathetic character. You want to have sympathy 101 00:05:13,960 --> 00:05:16,040 Speaker 2: for him, even though in real life maybe he was 102 00:05:16,080 --> 00:05:18,920 Speaker 2: probably more of a serial pest towards the end. But 103 00:05:19,560 --> 00:05:21,719 Speaker 2: Mark Ryland's is great. Sally Hawkins who was in the 104 00:05:21,720 --> 00:05:24,360 Speaker 2: Shape of Water, she was Oscar nominee as well, and 105 00:05:24,480 --> 00:05:27,039 Speaker 2: Reese iPhones that the wonderful Welsh actor is kind of 106 00:05:27,080 --> 00:05:30,240 Speaker 2: the stuffy you know, sort of a guy who runs 107 00:05:30,240 --> 00:05:32,680 Speaker 2: the Royal and Ancient Gold Society in the UK. So 108 00:05:33,400 --> 00:05:36,680 Speaker 2: it's a beautiful, beautiful film. It's what it's classic British 109 00:05:36,680 --> 00:05:39,119 Speaker 2: feel good cinema. And it's been directed by Craig Roberts, 110 00:05:39,160 --> 00:05:41,160 Speaker 2: who was he's only a young fello. He's only about 111 00:05:41,160 --> 00:05:43,000 Speaker 2: thirty one himself, and he was the star of a 112 00:05:43,040 --> 00:05:46,200 Speaker 2: movie a couple of years ago, a hipster film called Submarine. 113 00:05:46,240 --> 00:05:48,520 Speaker 2: So now he's turned into a director and I would 114 00:05:48,560 --> 00:05:50,719 Speaker 2: say like he's one of the most exciting new talents 115 00:05:50,720 --> 00:05:53,280 Speaker 2: in British filmmaking at the moment. He kind of gives it, 116 00:05:53,480 --> 00:05:54,760 Speaker 2: you know, a bit of a sort of a magic 117 00:05:54,880 --> 00:05:58,839 Speaker 2: realism feel, so which is which is a really wonderful 118 00:05:58,960 --> 00:06:00,680 Speaker 2: kind of touch to it to what is otherwise a 119 00:06:00,720 --> 00:06:03,960 Speaker 2: pretty kind of standard feel good film. But this is 120 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:05,480 Speaker 2: one you've got to go and see that. It's just 121 00:06:05,520 --> 00:06:08,640 Speaker 2: a true story that is stranger than fiction. Mate, he 122 00:06:08,720 --> 00:06:10,360 Speaker 2: sounds like John Daly on a bad day. 123 00:06:10,400 --> 00:06:11,160 Speaker 1: We've got to love that. 124 00:06:11,839 --> 00:06:14,680 Speaker 2: Have any overpart? Are you giving this one? Then? I'm 125 00:06:14,680 --> 00:06:16,239 Speaker 2: going to give this one four stars. 126 00:06:16,360 --> 00:06:19,719 Speaker 1: Hey forever, jeez, love that now, Like I don't often 127 00:06:19,760 --> 00:06:22,680 Speaker 1: hear Ben's reviews. Is that high? That's good, that's high 128 00:06:22,720 --> 00:06:23,320 Speaker 1: for Ben. Yeah. 129 00:06:23,360 --> 00:06:24,839 Speaker 2: Yeah, look I'm a tough market. 130 00:06:24,920 --> 00:06:28,279 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that sounds right up, my Ali. I'm definitely 131 00:06:28,320 --> 00:06:28,800 Speaker 1: gonna watch that. 132 00:06:28,880 --> 00:06:31,320 Speaker 2: You love it right, Thanks mate, we'll catch up with 133 00:06:31,320 --> 00:06:32,720 Speaker 2: it later in the morning for a quick night later 134 00:06:32,760 --> 00:06:35,240 Speaker 2: and n Wembley. Thanks so you guys. 135 00:06:35,240 --> 00:06:38,279 Speaker 1: Thanks Ben too. I reckon, I'm going to do the 136 00:06:38,440 --> 00:06:40,600 Speaker 1: Fans of the Open Challenge. Just find people who you've 137 00:06:40,640 --> 00:06:42,560 Speaker 1: never played golf. Yeah, let's see if they can beat 138 00:06:42,560 --> 00:06:44,760 Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty one. Absolutely, and you've got to 139 00:06:44,760 --> 00:06:46,480 Speaker 1: play off worset ball, not best ball, of course, that's 140 00:06:46,480 --> 00:06:47,000 Speaker 1: the way to do it.