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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Fit and Whippo podcast.

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Speaker 2: She's always love getting this man on. It's been too

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Speaker 2: long between drinks, far too long. They makenives in. Russell cry,

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Speaker 2: welcome us, right man, gentleman.

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Speaker 1: How would you be? How is Fridays resting?

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Speaker 3: Well?

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Speaker 2: The weekends here? We love Friday's Russell.

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Speaker 1: I saw I saw it a little while ago in

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Speaker 1: fier End, say Florida, Oh wow, you know, and I'd

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Speaker 1: said to him months before, because I've seen him a

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Speaker 1: few times. I've seen him in really odd places too well,

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Speaker 1: you know, I considering I live in Australia, but like

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Speaker 1: somewhere in like Cincinnati, I think I saw him. And

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Speaker 1: you know, just whenever I'm sort of close by, just

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Speaker 1: pop in and say get his concerts. If you've never

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Speaker 1: seen aid in constantly, he's amazing, the best, absolutely amazing,

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Speaker 1: so on point, and he makes everything up every night,

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Speaker 1: you know, because because he uses the pedals that hell

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Speaker 1: yeah yeah yeah, So nothing's pre recorded, you know, it's

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Speaker 1: on the night. He's going to make the samples as

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Speaker 1: he goes and then see something's fantastic. But I saw

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Speaker 1: him in Florence, and I talked to him before about

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Speaker 1: how you know. I don't. I don't really dig, you know,

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Speaker 1: consciously big crowds and stuff, you know, so I kind

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Speaker 1: of have to force myself to go. I mean, I

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Speaker 1: love the experience of the music and stuff, not necessarily

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Speaker 1: the crowd, you know, when everybody's gone right, you know,

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Speaker 1: do the load conversations, not necessarily that having you know.

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Speaker 1: I said to him this thing, and particularly in Italy

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Speaker 1: because of Gladiator, you'll get Mark for more. Mark's I

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Speaker 1: arrived for the gig, back age and out all place,

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Speaker 1: you know, and then he's walking, like literally walking on

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Speaker 1: the stage. It's just coming man. So I'm walking on

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Speaker 1: the stage with him. I can see the crowd and everything.

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Speaker 1: They can see him starting to go crazy, and he

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Speaker 1: just points right and off to the side of the

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Speaker 1: stage is like a little table, an ashtray, a couple

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Speaker 1: of bottles of water, and a comfortable chair. Wasn't a

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Speaker 1: comfortable chair, bullshited about that. It was a road case

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Speaker 1: that's comfortable enough. So it's like it's set up a

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Speaker 1: little feeding area right on the edge of the stage.

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Speaker 1: The photograph I got from that position looking past it

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Speaker 1: to the crowd. I mean, just immense I love the

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Speaker 1: city fantastic.

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Speaker 2: In that ash tray, so you can have a couple

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Speaker 2: of darts while you watched him as well, did you say.

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Speaker 1: Where are the man?

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Speaker 3: Where are the bees?

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Speaker 2: Did you make the punch for it? Is he concentrating

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Speaker 2: too much?

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Speaker 1: Well, we haven't actually been in the same room for

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Speaker 1: a while, but he tells me it's it's still is

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Speaker 1: his favorite. However, the thing has come up and I

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Speaker 1: didn't call you about this, but I might as well

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Speaker 1: admit to it to you guys, because you guys will

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Speaker 1: get the most pleasure out of it.

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Speaker 3: What have you done?

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Speaker 1: Put together a little I found this product in Ireland

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Speaker 1: and I put together a little group of guys and

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Speaker 1: I said, try this. Do you like it? Yeah? Like

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Speaker 1: should be dead involved in this anyway. So I'll tell

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Speaker 1: you the story. You'll probably be hearing about this a

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Speaker 1: lot in a little while because it's going to be

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Speaker 1: launched here in Australia by Cole's on the first March

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Speaker 1: in the County of Donegal. There's a little town called Muff,

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Speaker 1: Muff Muff, name of the town muff right now. Back

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Speaker 1: in the day, back in the day, this guy Bill McClanahan,

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Speaker 1: right he was, He's a potato farmer. Of course, right,

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Speaker 1: you're inn Island, there's a potato farmer. But on the

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Speaker 1: weekend he would experiment with what else he could do

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Speaker 1: with potato. So he became a bootlegger. And he used

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Speaker 1: to make a thing called pachin, right, which is like

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Speaker 1: a liquor based on potatoes and beamely strong. If you've

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Speaker 1: had the real stuff. It's sometimes you know, a little

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Speaker 1: more than an alcohol, feels more like magic. Butster rooms

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Speaker 3: No, no, no, just the record.

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Speaker 1: He used to sell his liquor in old medicine podols, right,

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Speaker 1: people finished their cop medicine, what he'd clean them out,

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Speaker 1: And his granddaughter, there's a girl called Laura Bonner. You know,

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Speaker 1: she looked at what her grandfather created and she decided

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Speaker 1: to legitimize the company. The company that makes whiskey potato

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Speaker 1: jin potato vodka. The company is called the Muff Liquor Company.

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Speaker 1: And I can proudly tell you that I've bought into

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Speaker 1: the company and I am a muff licker man. This

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Speaker 1: and coughs out on Tuesday is extraordinary. You're not joking.

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Speaker 2: We're going to get you. See I can see the

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Speaker 2: damn Telegraph tomorrow front.

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Speaker 1: Paid floor and back to the microphone.

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Speaker 2: Front page of the paper. Tomorrow will be Russell christ

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Speaker 2: new venture is a.

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Speaker 3: He's gone from thirty on foot to Mufflicka's going.

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Speaker 1: To be Crow admits he's a muff liquer.

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Speaker 2: Man has given us a call. Just tuned in. It's

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Speaker 2: a new brand about goal that has been released that

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Speaker 2: his goal running.

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Speaker 1: Be on the shelves and March first, just in time

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Speaker 1: for your stock up with Oh my god, I give.

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Speaker 2: It a crack. You'll have to send us a borrow.

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you what the thecato Jim, it's fantastic. Little

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Speaker 1: gin and Tonic at.

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Speaker 3: The end of a long hard days delivers just under

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Speaker 3: your mates as well.

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Speaker 2: You're just talking about it as well, but you've also

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Speaker 2: got a very another close mate and mate. One of

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Speaker 2: our favorite movies was The Nice Guys. Ryan Gosling is

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Speaker 2: here filming the full Guy at the moment. Have you

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Speaker 2: caught up with he and Eva.

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Speaker 1: We haven't actually seen each other because I haven't spent

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Speaker 1: much time in Sydney. I've gone back into Australia and

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Speaker 1: I've gone basically straight up to the bush. And when

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Speaker 1: I did have time in Sydney, when I was down

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Speaker 1: for just before Christmas, el Son, Charlie's birthday and stuff

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Speaker 1: like that, he had actually climb back to La was

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Speaker 1: and fours and he's loving it down here. Man.

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Speaker 3: He's shutting down the bridge on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: Russell. Yeah, I've heard.

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Speaker 2: You've never done that, Russell, You've never shut down mate.

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Speaker 1: We tried to a poker face and they just looked

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Speaker 1: at us like that really no, no know. But then

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Speaker 1: obviously you know there must somebody is getting something out

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Speaker 3: This is something putting it on that the more.

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Speaker 1: That we can encourage film production in this country, I

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Speaker 1: comes with a film production. You know, they might be

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Speaker 1: coming over and spending you know, let's say one hundred

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Speaker 1: whether it's for payment for services, whether it's you know,

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Speaker 1: and stuff. You know, the film industry as an economic

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Speaker 1: catalyst is a great thing to encourage it.

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Speaker 2: Definitely. That is in No Guiden Party, they are playing

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Speaker 2: the iconic Howey Moowey in Coffs Monday and Tuesday night,

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Speaker 2: and a man that's in that band and he looks

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Speaker 2: so excited to be back on stage, as well as

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Speaker 2: Russell Crowney stuck around. Thanks for sticking around, Russ Russell.

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Speaker 3: How many does the Hoey Man?

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Speaker 1: Those shows actually will center around a new band that

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Speaker 1: I've put together called the Gentleman Barbers. So it's sort

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Speaker 1: of it is an indoor garden party, yeah, but it's

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Speaker 1: sort of starring the Gentleman Barbers. The show starts quite early,

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Speaker 1: the doors open at five. There's the Jen and String

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Speaker 1: Quartet goes on first. They're going to play through stuff

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Speaker 1: from various movies I've been in, like now we are

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Speaker 1: Free from gat Gladiator, Bokering his Madrid Mind and things

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Speaker 1: like that. Wow. Then this young Sydney band called mys

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Speaker 1: of Her. They're actually a metal band but for this

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Speaker 1: year they're going to be playing acoustically, got really really

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Speaker 1: good songs. Their musicality is top notch. And then there's

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Speaker 1: this girl, Lorena Riley who plays with Indoor Garden Party

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Speaker 1: but she is our own thing and she's going to

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Speaker 1: sing a few songs. She's from Cabin in Ireland. She's

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Speaker 1: kind of like the Irish Bonnie Rage. She's got this

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Speaker 1: creating voice is fantastic. Missus girl Janet Devil and also

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Speaker 1: Irish from Northern Ireland, and you can look her up

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Speaker 1: and you can look both of them up online. Excellency,

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Speaker 1: lots of song. Janet has this beautiful, breathy, most unusual voice.

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Speaker 1: And then we've got a gentleman Barbers. And there's a

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Speaker 1: couple of other people who can't talk about.

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Speaker 2: This surprise guess Scout It does a special guest.

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Speaker 1: On Monday and Tuesday, different different guests on the night.

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Speaker 2: Hey, you were just talking Gladiator before Russ and every

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Speaker 2: time we speak to you it has been announced. Really,

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Speaker 2: Scott has said that he's making a glad Gladiator sequel.

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Speaker 2: How involved are you in.

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Speaker 1: This not at all, not at all.

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Speaker 2: Has he spoken to you at all?

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Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, we've had dinner and talked about it and

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Speaker 1: all that stuff. Don't know roughly how he's shaping the story,

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Speaker 1: but yeah, it steps up. It's as if the luck

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Speaker 1: meet the gladiators and which leads to my name is speech,

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Speaker 1: you know, yep, yep. So that young kid has grown

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Speaker 1: up and he is now the emperor. Ah right. I

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Speaker 1: don't know what else happens at that point, but that's

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Speaker 1: the idea. But you would say it would not. It's

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Speaker 1: not a remake and it's not a direct sequel. It's

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Speaker 1: not like the day after sure, you know, thirty years

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Speaker 2: You recently took the family to the Colosseum, Russ. What

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Speaker 2: was that like to go there? You were talking before

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Speaker 2: about going to an edgeering concept? But what's it like

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Speaker 2: when Russell goes to the Colosseum? Is it crazy?

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Speaker 1: It's pretty funny?

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Speaker 3: Do you do you go in disguise.

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Speaker 2: Or do you just cop it?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? So that I actually tweeted, you know, taking the

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Speaker 1: kids to see my old office and that got forty

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Speaker 1: three million impressions on Wow Wow. It was it was

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Speaker 1: sort of like, you know, front page is literally you

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Speaker 1: know what they did in the city of Rome earlier

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Speaker 1: in the year they made me thought Munda the ambassador

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Speaker 1: for Rome in the world. So it's an official title

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Speaker 1: and I've got an award for it and left. So

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Speaker 1: that was kind of beautiful like that the city of

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Speaker 1: Rome would sort of reach out and go, you know what,

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Speaker 1: you really promoted tourism without really knowing it, and so

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Speaker 1: here's a little pad on the back thanks to your work. Max.

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Speaker 3: I would have loved I would have loved a tourist

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Speaker 3: that just turn up on that day. Obviously I used.

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Speaker 1: To have I used to have fun when I was

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Speaker 1: going in and out of Rome for press. Right, because

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Speaker 1: as you comes to the to the Colisseum, there's a

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Speaker 4: I love Russell, and Russell always said to me to support,

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Speaker 3: I reckon it's worth it. I reckon it's worth it

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Speaker 3: love that, buddy.

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Speaker 2: We know how busy you are. Poker Face is just out.

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Speaker 2: You can still catch that on stand as well, and

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Speaker 2: more movies coming out. But Indoor Garden Party and The

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Speaker 2: Gentleman Barbers Monday Night, Tuesday Night, Huwei mowey in coughs,

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Speaker 2: It's going to be a magnificent night. It's always a

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Speaker 2: pleasure to get you on, Russell Crowe. We love having

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Speaker 1: Cheers, gentlemen, have a wonderful day and have a great weekend.

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Speaker 3: Thanks great man.

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