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01:00Oh, Zan, what do I owe you from Avon order?
01:03$28, my mom.
01:05$28? For makeup? What's the point? I already know what you look like without it.
01:08I think he means you're naturally, Primo. I don't need makeup.
01:12Well, certainly not $28 worth. I mean, you're not joining the circus.
01:17Maybe he's right, girl. Money is tight. I'll just take the lipstick.
01:22Fox's mother sold Avon products like a New York City drug pusher.
01:26Shut up, Mike. You should sell your own Avon, Mary. Make your own bit of money.
01:31You'd make a great salesman, Mom.
01:33Will you crowd be quiet? I'm trying to watch the news.
01:35You know what, Zan? I will take that makeup and the job.
01:43All right, girl. But don't go taking any of my customers, because if you do, you're going to need to cover up your bruises with fresh look foundation.
01:51That's a sample. It's on page 12.
01:54Oh, I won't have any trouble getting my own. You just try and keep up.
01:58Come on, girl. I've got to get you your own catalogs.
02:02For more, let's go to Glenn.
02:04Excuse me, Dougie. Thank you.
02:06Good God, it's a mob scene. Volume.
02:10Beer strike. Canadian brewery workers walked off the job today to protest the switch to aluminum cans.
02:17Leaving the entire province dry.
02:19Glass is class. Ban the can!
02:23Ban the can!
02:25As the last few cases of Canadian beer disappeared, the boozers were left with only one option.
02:30American beer.
02:32Oh, God.
02:33Look at them fighting over the last few cases like it's the only life jacket left on the Titanic.
02:37I've got to get down there.
02:39You don't drink beer, Dad.
02:40Not to buy it, to cover it.
02:42This is the biggest beer-related news story since that woman downtown found that baby Ratner stubby.
02:47What's so bad about American beer?
02:55Oh, it sucks.
02:56There's no booze in it.
02:57You can barely get a buzz.
02:58You've got to have like three or four before you can even...
03:00I mean, so I'm told.
03:03Wouldn't know, of course.
03:04You know, that Yankees will.
03:07It tastes the same going in as it does coming out.
03:10You know the expression, going on the piss.
03:13Well, American beer, that's the piss.
03:17Hello, Donnie.
03:18It's me.
03:19Yeah, listen.
03:20Are you still working on that beer truck?
03:24I may have a little proposition for you.
03:30Strike B, Dan.
03:31Pop wasn't going to let go of the beer necessities.
03:40What the hell?
03:41Share the wealth, nerd.
03:43Starved to death.
03:45Mom's at an Avon convention and Dad got an abandoned last night.
03:48No lunch.
03:49Well, I got corned beef and a tin of Vienna sausages.
03:58Whoa.
03:59Fancy.
04:01Oh, how kind of you.
04:03Hey, lunch.
04:05Let's go.
04:07Where are they going?
04:09We're going to get fried chicken.
04:12Off-school cramps?
04:13The Fox Brothers were old enough to teach,
04:15so they could leave the school at lunch.
04:17But the rest of us were doomed to brown bag it.
04:20How I longed for a stomach full of the regret that Greece brought.
04:24Look at the sookie babies with their lunch tins.
04:28Mommy coming to put you on the team, isn't she?
04:31We could go if we wanted to.
04:33What's that, little baby?
04:34All I hear is sock, sock, sock.
04:37We didn't ask permission.
04:42Oh, that's cute.
04:43Come on, Richie, my boy.
04:44We're dining out today.
04:45But I don't have any money.
04:47I've still got some cash from my own lawns.
04:49My treat.
04:50You hear that?
04:52His trees.
04:53We'll walk you there.
04:54All right.
04:55Just leave him alone.
04:56He can't mooch off him just because he's small.
04:58Small?
04:59What are you, his mommy?
05:01Mommy?
05:01He'll get in trouble.
05:03It's not big enough to eat off school grounds.
05:05Not big enough?
05:05The woman I love thought I was a baby.
05:10I had to prove my manhood.
05:11It's fine.
05:12I said it was my treat, and I meant it.
05:15I did not mean it.
05:18Gentlemen, shall we take her lunch?
05:22Have to go.
05:23Sweet.
05:24Idiot.
05:26Better keep an eye on him.
05:27Come on.
05:28Let's go.
05:29Hurry.
05:30Come on.
05:33Let's go.
05:38Dick Dunphy with your VOCM on-the-spot traffic.
05:43I'm in a bumper-to-bumper jam because of a three-car smash-up on the arterial.
05:48Avoid the area.
05:50Drive safely.
05:51Arrive alive.
05:53VOCM cares.
05:55Dick, I need to run to the liquor store.
05:57Jeez, Mike, I can't even look at a beer after the night I had.
06:01I was the emcee for a strip bingo down to the Strand Lounge.
06:06Let's go.
06:06They're about to sell the last beer in Newfoundland.
06:08I'm pretty sure I already drank it.
06:12Oh, God.
06:16Come on, will ya?
06:18You sure, Gertie?
06:20Not even a skin so soft.
06:21It's almost mosquito season.
06:24I understand.
06:25All my best to Frank.
06:28Stuck-up old bat.
06:29Any bites?
06:31No.
06:32I've been on the phone all day and I haven't sold a bloody thing.
06:35You know, it's a lot harder to say no to someone if they're standing on the doorstep with their foot in the doorjamb.
06:44I guess that's true.
06:45Yeah, come on.
06:46Let's get this stuff solved.
06:48What are you rushing me for?
06:50I'm not rushing you.
06:52No, no, come on.
06:52Come on, you've got to sell.
06:53Come on.
06:54My catalogs.
06:55Good, good.
06:57All right.
06:58Close the door.
07:09Donnie, you packed?
07:11Good.
07:12Now we have an empty nest here.
07:13I repeat, empty nest.
07:18Jesus.
07:19Give me your press pass so I can borrow some beer.
07:21They're almost out.
07:22Are you mad?
07:22You can't cross a picket line.
07:24Besides, I'm live in four, three.
07:26VOCM on the spot news at the liquor store where the scene is sobering.
07:32It's a bottleneck as Thirst Craze customers are desperate to lay their shaking hands on the last bottle of Canadian beer.
07:39Mike Critch for the VOCM News Service.
07:42Come on.
07:43What are you?
07:45That's it.
07:45Next week.
07:46Come on.
07:47Out of the way.
07:47Mike.
07:48Mike.
07:49Hang on, Mike.
07:50Just got to grab a case booster.
07:52Chris.
07:54Chris.
07:55Chris.
07:58Arsehole.
08:01There was no denying it.
08:03I was one of the big kids.
08:05Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy chicken.
08:07Well, I'm got founded.
08:09You're for snack bags, Mark.
08:11Mark?
08:12You guys have called me Arse, Tool, Dick.
08:15An Arse, Dick, Tool.
08:16But you've never called me by my real name before.
08:19Hey, Dick.
08:21We gotta go back.
08:22It's quarter to one.
08:23Is that chicken?
08:25What are you doing here?
08:26Tools are just using you.
08:27What?
08:28And you're not?
08:29I can tell you only went because you were scared.
08:31Textbook peer pressure.
08:33Look, I'm big enough to eat here, and I don't need you two mooching off me.
08:36Fine.
08:37Be an Arse.
08:38I don't care.
08:40Come on.
08:41We're gonna miss the bell.
08:43We're on a pit for the rest of the day.
08:45Wanna come with Mark?
08:47You're cutting class.
08:49Come on.
08:51Got something you're gonna wanna see.
08:53It was time to prove that just because I ate chicken didn't mean I was one.
08:57Forget it.
08:58You're still a baby.
08:59I told you.
09:00He's too young.
09:01People will know he's on the pit.
09:03It's fine.
09:04Lead the way.
09:04Okay.
09:04I felt like Little Red Riding Hood, except I was a little brown-haired boy, my wolf was
09:14a fox, and everyone had already eaten the contents of my basket.
09:17The big kids hang out in the woods.
09:26A dark place between childhood and adulthood, where boys became men.
09:32And then, wait.
09:34Wait.
09:36This is it.
09:40Party time?
09:41Is that...
09:42It's Dad's.
09:44He ate some American beer.
09:45You won't miss it.
09:46He's always drunk anyway.
09:48He'll just think he drank it.
09:49Shut up.
09:51So, baby won his bottle.
09:55Can.
09:56There was peer pressure, and then there was beer pressure.
09:59Dad, what are you doing up?
10:11I mean, home.
10:13Shouldn't you be at school?
10:15The boys pipped off, so I thought I would, but I'll just go.
10:20It's fine.
10:21No, wait.
10:23Day off won't kill you.
10:25Missed school never hurt me.
10:26Oh, this American stuff tastes like fish piss.
10:34I can barely drink it.
10:35I don't.
10:37What?
10:40None.
10:41No.
10:42Don't be checking.
10:43What?
10:46If you don't like it, then why do you drink it?
10:51Jesus, I'm not an alky boy.
10:53It's just a few beer.
10:54I know.
10:54I know.
10:55Just forget.
10:57It's fine.
11:00Jagged.
11:02Can't even get a buzz off of the doll.
11:07You eat?
11:10No.
11:11Help me get these empties together.
11:13We get some money to get some chicken and chips or something.
11:16What do you say?
11:17Okay.
11:18Yeah.
11:22That's better, huh?
11:23Mr. Perez, where is everyone?
11:36We, we, we...
11:40What's the matter, Richie?
11:41What's the matter, Richie?
11:42Chicken?
11:45Tina.
11:47Well, Richie?
11:48We're away with you.
11:57Get off of it!
11:58Get off of it now!
12:09Good God, Dick.
12:10You almost got me killed.
12:11I'm sorry, Mike, but I can't go drinking the American stuff, eh?
12:13I'll drink anything.
12:14I mean, I'll even drink the bits left at parties with putts in them.
12:17But I wouldn't use Dad to flush the toilet.
12:19Nick, this is American beer.
12:21It's all that left.
12:22I'll eat a straightener if I'm gonna drive.
12:25Drive!
12:25Drive!
12:26What are you doing?
12:38You should be out there pounding the pavement.
12:40I tried Putts Farm, Kirkland's Garage, nothing.
12:43I got all the way down to the Flemings where they already bought theirs off Suzanne's, got
12:46the whole road limbed out.
12:48Well, get back out there.
12:49No!
12:51I'm, uh, here for the, um, uh, package.
12:54Oh, yeah, yeah.
12:56There you go.
12:58What are you up to?
13:01Beer?
13:02Good.
13:04Look, I know a guy who works on a beer truck.
13:07A few cases got redirected.
13:10Stolen.
13:11Diverted.
13:12And I'm just out there to help him get it out into the world.
13:16Catch and release.
13:18You bloody bootlegger, this is illegal.
13:20Plus, those hard-working boys down at the brewery trying to save their jobs, you frigger.
13:24Look, calm down, will you?
13:26It's not going to happen again.
13:27Mm-hmm.
13:27Mm-hmm.
13:27What's that?
13:30Ah.
13:32Loyola.
13:33Did you change your mind about that citrus soap?
13:35Oh, no, Mary.
13:36I'm here for Pat.
13:38Pat, dear, that package.
13:39I do indeed.
13:40He can't sell you any beer, but he can give it to you for free with the purchase of select
13:49Avon products.
13:51Ignore her.
13:52$4.
13:53Hey, either we do this together, or I drop you outside that beer factory with a sign around
13:59your neck saying bootlegger.
14:04Pay the woman.
14:06Here.
14:10You going to drink it or what?
14:12No, thank you.
14:13I'm more of a Canadian beer guy.
14:15Ha!
14:15Sook.
14:17Sook.
14:18I knew the dangers of drinking.
14:23Oh, are you okay?
14:24Oh.
14:25I'm the iron bucket.
14:26From watching my brother.
14:31Just like I told my sister.
14:34You're a baby.
14:35He had a point.
14:37There was no way Fox could say I was a baby if I was a drinking man.
14:40I mean, how bad could it be?
14:47Gentlemen, to your health.
14:55That stuff sucks.
14:56I mean, that American stuff sucks.
14:58Oh, no booze in it.
15:01You don't leave here without drinking?
15:03Oh.
15:03I don't want you to narc us out.
15:05Ha, ha, ha.
15:06Very funny.
15:06Chug.
15:07Chug.
15:07Chug.
15:07Chug.
15:08Chug.
15:09Chug.
15:09Chug.
15:10What was that?
15:11Come out, come out, wherever you are.
15:15I can hear you.
15:17I can't see.
15:18Sister Rose.
15:19But God can.
15:20He sees you when you're sleeping.
15:22He knows when you're awake.
15:23I followed a trail of denuded chicken bones.
15:28Come out, my little Hansel and Gretel.
15:32Don't.
15:32You can't hide.
15:33If I find you deserters, I'm going to smack the arse right off of you.
15:39I was terrified.
15:41It was a good thing I wasn't sober.
15:43Come out and talk to me.
15:46Never having experienced booze, I took my anxiety for being drunk.
15:52Fee, fi, foe, fum.
15:54I smell the beer of someone dumb.
15:58They say humans have two modes in crisis.
16:03Fight or flight.
16:04I had a third.
16:05Freeze.
16:06Freeze.
16:07The Fox Brothers ran smack into the nun, just like moths to the flame.
16:13I thought I was old enough to eat lunch off school grounds, but not even Pop was old enough for this.
16:20So, you want to watch some rest with the old man, Rick Fleer is about to take on Angelo Mosca.
16:25Yeah, sure.
16:26I guess.
16:30Dad?
16:30You're a kitten?
16:32It's nice when you don't drink.
16:34Jeez, but she really does think I'm an alky.
16:37No, no, I never meant it like that.
16:40I just meant I want to spend more time here.
16:48It's your house, too.
16:50Now, look, Rick Fleer, the styling, profiling, limousine riding, get flying, kiss stealing, wheeling and dealing, son of a gun.
17:00Woo!
17:04Here, come here, friend.
17:05Come here, friend.
17:06It's my five.
17:07Stop it.
17:09Oh.
17:13All right, that's a two blue star and a skin so soft that comes to...
17:17$14.
17:18$14?
17:19But if you take a bar of Moonwind soap and a rope, we'll throw in two bottles of Black Horse and call it $20.
17:25All right, thank you.
17:26There you are.
17:28All right.
17:29How we doing?
17:31$57 so far.
17:32You home?
17:33Officer Butt, quick, hide the stuff.
17:36Quick, throw that over.
17:39Oh, Officer Butt, what brings you here?
17:42I heard there might be some beer for sale here.
17:45Oh, that's ridiculous.
17:46All right, look, we haven't got time for this, Piggy.
17:49Either arrest me or get lost.
17:50Your cop car out there, it's scaring off our customers.
17:53Avon customers.
17:55I've been selling Avon products.
17:56No law against that.
17:58Oh, that's too bad.
17:59I was looking for a few beer to take up to my cabin.
18:04I can't drink dead American piss.
18:05Oh.
18:06Well, in that case, it came to the right place.
18:11Ford Jockey Club.
18:13Ooh.
18:13And a bottle of Sweet Honesty Cologne for 30 bucks.
18:22I was as sober as a judge, but convinced that I was drunk.
18:27I was terrified that the nun would call Dad and I'd be sent to Juvie like Mickey Rooney in Boys Town.
18:33What the hell are you doing?
18:37Taking a walk.
18:39Hmm.
18:39In the hallway.
18:41Sure.
18:42Sure.
18:43Okay.
18:44So, walk.
18:47Oh, yeah.
18:50Hmm.
18:51School called.
18:52Said you pipped off.
18:53Uh, I can explain.
18:54I was just...
18:55I told them you came home sick.
18:58So?
18:59What?
19:01Is that pee?
19:03Oh, it's a beer.
19:05No, it's pee.
19:06It's not mine.
19:07It's somebody else's.
19:08Oh, you smell like the floor of a legion.
19:11How many did you have?
19:14One.
19:16Okay.
19:18Act normal.
19:19You're fine.
19:25Oh, dear God.
19:28I tallied up our take.
19:29I sold all my product in one day.
19:33Ha!
19:34A regular Estee Lauder.
19:35I had a pretty interesting day myself.
19:38I wouldn't make it out of there alive.
19:40Recovering NAMM.
19:42The battery of bottle-breaking bottlers left this broadcaster black and blue.
19:46They're gonna be out for a hell of a long time.
19:48Take my word on us.
19:49Father.
19:50Mother.
19:51Pop.
19:51How is everyone?
19:52I took my brother's advice.
19:55The least suspicious thing to do was to act normally, which, when you try to do it, always
19:59seems suspicious.
20:00Is that coffee?
20:02He drank tea.
20:03Uh, felt like a cup of joe.
20:06What's that smell?
20:07It's, uh, uh, deep.
20:13Oh, it's Mark.
20:14Little weirdo got any rave on.
20:16Come on.
20:17What?
20:18Uh.
20:18Bup, bup, bup, bup.
20:21Now go wash up, because you friggin' reek.
20:24Uh, apologies.
20:26Breaking news.
20:27Workers in the union resolved the beer strike today after a 22-hour bargaining session.
20:32The hangover is over.
20:34I knew it wouldn't last.
20:36No more American beer.
20:38You must be happy, Pop.
20:40Hmm.
20:40Good.
20:41That American beer is awful.
20:43Hmm?
20:44So I hear.
20:45Good night.
20:49The strike resolution means that Newfoundlanders can once again buy Canadian beer.
20:54Sales of beer had dropped 50% in the capital city, with some stores...
20:58I gotta pop out for a minute.
21:00Dad?
21:01I'll be right back.
21:04Fox had been the only person in town happy for the beer strike.
21:08Her father was a rare man who promised more sober than he did drunk.
21:14Fox knew the reality of beer.
21:16I had been seduced by the mystery of it.
21:21But like Fox, I too had become a teetotaler.
21:28You alive?
21:29The room's spinning.
21:31Here.
21:34Come on.
21:35Take it.
21:37Oh, I do want beer.
21:39It's not beer.
21:39It's flat ginger ale.
21:40It was pretty much the same stuff you were drinking earlier, though.
21:45I remember my first beer.
21:48How old were you?
21:50Sixteen.
21:51Wait, I had my first beer before you did?
21:53Ha ha, shut up.
21:56And hey, uh...
21:57Saying yes to things doesn't make you tough.
22:00Saying no does.
22:02Don't let people push you into things.
22:03My brother was right.
22:07Why worry about beer pressure when I barely had any beers?
22:11I would be on my own personal beer strike for a long time.
22:15Um...
22:15My brother...
22:16My brother...
22:17My brother!
22:18No more others!
22:18All right.
22:48All right.
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