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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Fitzi and whipp A podcast.

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Speaker 2: You know who else he loves his foot is Eric Banner,

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Speaker 2: massive Saint Kilda fan in the AFL. Actually they've just

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Speaker 2: picked up a gun junior too. You said, we're just

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Speaker 2: trying to get him up online now because the brand

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Speaker 2: new movie is out. Well, it's out New Year's Day.

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Speaker 2: It's called Blue Back. It's a great family movie. It's

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Speaker 2: a Tim Winton book. But we're trying to get Eric kind.

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Speaker 3: Have we got him? Eric? You there?

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Speaker 1: How are you? Fellas?

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Speaker 4: Always good to have you on the show, mate, It

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Speaker 4: feels like home when we hear your voice. A very

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Speaker 4: kind I'm flirting already.

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Speaker 2: Just quickly before we get into the movie. Matthias Philippo.

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Speaker 2: He's a really good kid. Well done, picked up a

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Speaker 2: really good kid there, mate.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he seems like a bit of a gem and

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Speaker 1: he seems like a really mature young fellow.

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Speaker 2: Yes, yes, sorry, sorry for everyone, Just a bit of

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Speaker 2: footy chat with Eric Banner. We always the Saints, always

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Speaker 2: talk the Saints excited.

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Speaker 1: What's going on here?

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Speaker 4: Saints have only won one flag in the history.

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Speaker 3: That don't bring that up with to bring that up

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Speaker 3: and what is what is the absolute relevance about this?

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Speaker 3: I just I was at home the other day, where

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Speaker 3: is it?

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Speaker 4: And supporters? And I was at home and the kids

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Speaker 4: were saying, and.

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Speaker 1: What is it relevant to anyway?

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Speaker 3: Sorry, buddy? Can I say this movie? It is magnificent.

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Speaker 2: It's a great family movie Blue Back. It's in cinema's

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Speaker 2: on New Year's Day. And when you've got someone like

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Speaker 2: Tim Winton, who is just an amazing.

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Speaker 3: Author, you need to put your hand up and get

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Speaker 3: involved with something like this, Eric, don't you. Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, And it's just just a beautiful story, beautiful family film.

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Speaker 1: And my mate Rob Connelly who is my producing partner,

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Speaker 1: and we did the dry together. Of course I wrote

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Speaker 1: and directed, adapted the screenplay and directed this. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: over we went to Brena Bay in Western Australia. It's

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Speaker 1: an amazing part of the world.

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Speaker 4: That's where it is.

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Speaker 1: Film. Yeah, We've got an amazing cat and we cast

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Speaker 1: this young girl in the lead role who was just

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Speaker 1: never acted before. She's from Geelong really and also fog

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Speaker 1: and she plays young added. She's an absolute sensation. She's

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Speaker 1: really incredible. And you know the story follows a young

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Speaker 1: girl who's grown up on this reef and it becomes

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Speaker 1: endangered and needs to be compan adults. She decides that

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Speaker 1: she's going to do everything she can to try and

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Speaker 1: say there. So there's a great environmental message there, but

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Speaker 1: it's just a great, great family film. You have to

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Speaker 1: see the film to even try and figure out how

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Speaker 1: the hell we pulled off the fish.

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Speaker 4: I was trying to work that out.

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Speaker 1: I'm just so real. Robertson.

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Speaker 3: There was that the fish's first acting role as well,

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Speaker 3: were it fish is from.

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Speaker 1: Geelong first acting role yep, and he's available for more

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Speaker 1: because we've got to recoup the cost somehow.

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Speaker 4: Tell me this, Eric, right, there are some scenes where

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Speaker 4: you go, Okay, that's a real groper. Yes, Then there

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Speaker 4: are others where I'm trying to work out you couldn't

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Speaker 4: get a group I mean, the groper looks realistic the

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Speaker 4: entire time, but you couldn't get a grouping to do.

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Speaker 4: What the group of groper does is that a remote

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Speaker 4: control groper.

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Speaker 1: So most films of this type would be totally CGI,

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Speaker 1: you would have a totally gish and we didn't go

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Speaker 1: down that road. And Rob had had an idea from

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Speaker 1: the beginning that we would use puppet and mechanical wow instrument.

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Speaker 1: So this is this is a handmade hand operator. It

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Speaker 1: is a work of art. And as you said, you

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Speaker 1: cannot tell when the fish and when it is when

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Speaker 1: it is a non a non fish.

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Speaker 2: The fake groper needs to be put up somewhere in

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Speaker 2: a museum or somewhere like that.

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Speaker 4: Win an actor award.

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Speaker 2: Do you keep stuff from your movies over the years, Eric,

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Speaker 2: Have you ever kept anything from a movie?

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Speaker 1: No, I genuinely don't. I generally don't. I've got it.

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Speaker 1: I've got, you know, like a stolen piece of jewelry

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Speaker 1: here and there. But no I had. I had my

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Speaker 1: h division jacket from Tropper, which I was to actme

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Speaker 1: I think so. But otherwise no, I don't tend not

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Speaker 1: to hang on to too much stuff, so.

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Speaker 3: There won't be like a Russell Crow auction off down

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Speaker 3: the track.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 2: I remember when Russell had all the Gladiator stuff, and

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Speaker 2: you haven't kept any of that stuff.

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Speaker 1: I contemplated keeping my character's beard for a bit longer,

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Speaker 1: because it took me quite a while to grow that one.

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Speaker 3: You did look a bit of a creature yourself in

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Speaker 3: the movie.

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Speaker 4: It was a good beard. I thought the beard was cgi.

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Speaker 4: I thought maybe the beard was operated by three guys

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Speaker 4: with a remote control, but it was one hell of it.

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Speaker 1: That one once said to me, if you can't see

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Speaker 1: the beard from behind, you haven't got a beard.

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Speaker 3: You're going to go for it.

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Speaker 4: It's a good way to put it as.

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Speaker 3: Actually, have you ever bought a charity item? Did you see?

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Speaker 3: Nicole Kidman just bought Hugh Jackman's hat for one hundred grand?

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Speaker 3: Did you see that? Eric?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? Look similar. I once at a at a fundraiser

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Speaker 1: a local football club. I did a gig and I

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Speaker 1: remember playing sixty bucks for a Tony Locket jumper.

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Speaker 4: Awesome.

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Speaker 1: Have you seen the day?

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Speaker 4: Have you still got that?

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Speaker 1: Very similar?

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Speaker 3: That would be worth.

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Speaker 2: A fortune now, Eric, at least two hundred three hundred bucks.

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Speaker 1: I'd love to get it authenticated. I'm a bit tough

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Speaker 1: because it's a medium. He never wore a medium.

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Speaker 3: It was never a skinny his career. He was skinny.

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Speaker 3: That's hilarious.

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Speaker 1: But this is you know, I mean even I'd struggle

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Speaker 1: to get into this. It's a sleeveless and it is

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Speaker 1: a classic. I'm a bit suspicious of the signature, but look,

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Speaker 1: it went through a good cause.

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Speaker 3: Well, Eric.

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Speaker 4: We were talking about Bob Dylan yesterday on the show

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Speaker 4: because the issue is he's released a new book and

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Speaker 4: there's some limited edition signed copies and they cost about

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Speaker 4: eight hundred and fifty dollars each. But the signature in

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Speaker 4: the book he's done with docu sign it's electronic segnuture.

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Speaker 3: General.

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Speaker 4: It couldn't be bothered signing the books.

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Speaker 3: It's not even a photo copy.

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Speaker 4: It's a computer generated signature.

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Speaker 2: Oh, Bustard, before you go to mate, we need to

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Speaker 2: find out because The Dry was such an amazing movie,

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Speaker 2: but the Dry to Force of Nature, Jane Harper's second book.

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Speaker 2: We spoke to Debra leef and Ess only a couple

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Speaker 2: of weeks ago, and she had just finished filming I

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Speaker 2: think her bit since she was very very excited about

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Speaker 2: She said, it's a it's a step up. It's going

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Speaker 2: to be even better than the first.

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Speaker 1: She's looks Deboraly, is a revelation in this film Force

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Speaker 1: of Nature. It's yeah, we had a lot of fun.

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Speaker 1: We shot that in the middle of winter down here

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Speaker 1: in Victoria this year and it's an amazing story. And

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Speaker 1: Deborahly I got to say, I can't wait for people

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Speaker 1: to see the film. I mean the entire cast, like

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Speaker 1: really incredible, incredible cast, and Deborly leads them, leads them

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Speaker 1: of course, and yeah, she's amazing.

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Speaker 2: The new movie Blue Back, it's in cinemas on New

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Speaker 2: Year's Day.

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Speaker 3: You can go check it out there. Eric Banner, always

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Speaker 3: a pleasure.

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Speaker 1: Family go and see a heartwarming Australian family film.

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Speaker 4: Eric, love you buddy, Thank you mate, thanks.

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Speaker 1: For the time. By you're listening to the Fits and

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