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“Where the fuck is it?” he wrote.
“There’s no Sacha Baron Cohen movies on here. Do you have a torrent?”
Nobody on Darcy Pegmann’s group chat had a torrent because piracy is bad and only people who download cars do it – but one friend did offer to point him in the right direction.
Late last night, on the recommendation of more than one mate he values the opinion of, the 25-year-old found time before he drifted off to sleep to watch Who Is America?
But as he came to learn, it’s only available on a streaming service called Stan – which he tells The Advocate is an Australian-owned alternative to the faceless US giant.
“Fucks sake,” he said to himself, tapping a credit card number into his comically-heavy seven-year-old MacBook Pro.
“This better be worth it.”
And worth, says the frugal Libra, it was.
Speaking candidly to The Advocate this evening on the D45 bus back up the hill to Betoota Heights, Pegmann said the fun didn’t end after Sacha Baron Cohen did.
“I ended up going downstairs and having a beug [a water pipe shot of cannibis] with my housemate Phil and then I went back upstairs and ended up watching Bend It Like Beckham off my tree, which was great,” he said.
“Then after that, mind you it was pretty late, I greened out later watching Paperback Hero. You know that old Australian movie with a young Hugh Jackman and Claudia Karven? If there’s a better snapshot of Australia in 1999, I don’t want to hear about it.”
However, Darcy was on the fence about keeping or cancelling his subscription after the free 30-day period expired – but ultimately conceded that he’d probably forget about it and just keep it.
“It’s like keeping a pen in your briefcase,” he said.
“You’ll never know when you need it,”
“But you can always borrow somebody else’s if you really need one.”
More to come.
