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Speaker 1: This is the Fits In with Her with Kate Richie podcast.

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Speaker 2: We adore this Lady And there is a brand new

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Speaker 2: original series on STAN. I am looking forward to this

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Speaker 2: so much. It's called Prosper Now streaming only on STAN.

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Speaker 2: And this lady plays a razor sharp or she I'll

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Speaker 2: tell you what you don't want to miss with this

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Speaker 2: young lady on a show. And when she gets told

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Speaker 2: you need to be a lady who is disliked, she

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Speaker 2: puts her hand up. I am putting my hand up

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Speaker 2: for that challenge. It is the magnificent Rebecca given she's.

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Speaker 3: Are you talking about the character, but if you talk

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Speaker 3: about the show, Rebecca, it's fascinating because Richard Rocksbrough obviously

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Speaker 3: plays the leader of and I didn't say cult, but

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Speaker 3: a very powerful church.

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Speaker 4: And what's interesting is he's kind of the face of it,

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Speaker 4: but at the same time his wife is really the

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Speaker 4: brains and the power of the trust.

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Speaker 3: Richard, Richard, Yeah, that's why he's not here.

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Speaker 1: That's what happens when you don't show up.

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Speaker 4: The show's awesome. It's a really great show.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it is really good. Well done.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, thanks no, and it only gets it's more unravels

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Speaker 5: every episode.

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Speaker 1: She is kind of the woman behind the man.

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Speaker 5: She's a woman with a very deep faith, but she's

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Speaker 5: kind of forced to do things that she probably wouldn't

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Speaker 5: normally do if she didn't have a husband that was unraveling.

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Speaker 2: Why is Australia this is I mean, these are real stories.

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Speaker 2: Why are we the epicenter for some of these megachurches

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Speaker 2: that have gone global before beck like, they get celebrities involved,

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Speaker 2: they seem to be really really popular around the world.

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Speaker 5: Finally, that's why Matt Cameron and Jason Stevens, who created

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Speaker 5: the show, that's the very reason they created it, because

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Speaker 5: they wanted to look at what is it that Australians export,

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Speaker 5: What do we do really well? And they came back

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Speaker 5: with megachurches. We do really well with megachurches. We are

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Speaker 5: huge around the world, and so that's what inspired them

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Speaker 5: to write the whole premise. And then of course what's

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Speaker 5: happened recently in the news that kind of also spurred

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Speaker 5: them along. Not that we are based on any church.

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Speaker 5: We've actually got advisors from a number of different megachurches

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Speaker 5: who have since left and they've been advising throughout.

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Speaker 3: I think the thing about the churches or religion generally

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Speaker 3: is that it's so intriguing as well, because a lot

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Speaker 3: of the big ones you either don't know a lot about,

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Speaker 3: or you're not allowed to know a lot about it,

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Speaker 3: or it feels like this kind of a cloak of

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Speaker 3: secrecy even when they're in your face. It's what they

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Speaker 3: want to be delivered or what we're allowed to know.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely.

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Speaker 5: But having said that as well, I have been to

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Speaker 5: a few megachurches in my time, and the thing about

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Speaker 5: them that I think is so appealing is it's like a.

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Speaker 1: Sense of community.

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Speaker 5: The music is incredible, and the music and Prosper by

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Speaker 5: the way, it's done by Tim Finn and Harperfin and

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Speaker 5: it's phenomenal, and so the songs really get you in.

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Speaker 5: And then once you're in there, you're in with these

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Speaker 5: people who are desperate to be a part.

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Speaker 1: Of something and to be accepted and to belong.

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Speaker 5: And once you feel like you're there, you feel like

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Speaker 5: you belong, You feel like you are a part.

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Speaker 1: Of this thing.

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Speaker 5: And so what I do love about Prosper is we're

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Speaker 5: not having a go at the church, and it's not

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Speaker 5: having a go at faith at all. It is really

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Speaker 5: about this family and the unraveling of the family as

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Speaker 5: they try to kind of control this mega business.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, have you been approached to join certain churches in

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Speaker 2: your career? In your career over the years, have you

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Speaker 2: been approached?

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Speaker 1: No. I've been raised in a Christian family.

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Speaker 5: So I used to got a batter was a Baptist

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Speaker 5: bubble college when I was a kid. In fact, my

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Speaker 5: family asked to a Christian. I had to ask them

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Speaker 5: before I even did this show. Are they okay with

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Speaker 5: me doing it?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, And they were all, you know, we sat around

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Speaker 5: as I said, it's not about the church, and it's

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Speaker 5: not about having a.

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Speaker 1: Go at faith.

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Speaker 5: It's about They were actually very happy because they said

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Speaker 5: they think this does need to happen. We do need

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Speaker 5: to look at these organizations and what they're doing.

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Speaker 2: Talking about jostling for positions. Kate Richie and Rebecca Giveney,

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Speaker 2: I dare say it would have been head to head

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Speaker 2: on a few awards at the Low House over the years.

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Speaker 1: They had always won. It is so far from the

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Speaker 1: you always how many have you got, Rebecca give I've

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Speaker 1: got four?

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Speaker 2: Were you you would have been up for a couple

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Speaker 2: of gold.

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Speaker 1: She always won the gold. When we're up against each other. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that I won the gold. She wasn't nominated that year.

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Speaker 1: She was sick or something.

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Speaker 3: Please, I think we kind of we we overlapped like

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Speaker 3: that because we were part of the Channel seven state.

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Speaker 3: We were you know, packed to the pack to the rafters,

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Speaker 3: was down the corridor and for a very long time.

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Speaker 1: She still more popular though.

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Speaker 3: It's not about popularity or.

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Speaker 1: One hundred years older. But it's fine. Do you know what?

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Speaker 3: Though Rebecca and I have talked many times over the

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Speaker 3: years of like, when are we going to get to

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Speaker 3: do something, to get to do something together the season

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Speaker 3: write that down someone who has arrived at the church

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Speaker 3: and somebody listening, Look, I would love to work with.

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Speaker 1: Richard as well. I know he's phenomenal. It was it

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Speaker 1: has it been thirty years twenty seven since we worked together. Wow, yeah,

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Speaker 1: we know takes together.

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Speaker 5: I got so it's like a masterclass working with him.

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Speaker 5: Every single scene. He is he is phenomenal. He's there's

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Speaker 5: no one else that could do this role.

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Speaker 3: Extraor lucky that you're speaking so nicely about him and

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Speaker 3: he hasn't turned up for the public. Did turn up.

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Speaker 4: He did turn up to the opening of the largest

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Speaker 4: Lego store in the world. I saw no matter do

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Speaker 4: him there. I think he was trying to get the Titanic.

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Speaker 4: We were both eyeing off the legos the Titanic.

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Speaker 1: I think he's mad.

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Speaker 3: He's mad for the opening of an envelope because I

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Speaker 3: think I saw him at the State Theater for Frozen

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Speaker 3: or something. Knowing this, I know.

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Speaker 2: And he's always at Matt Moran's for a free feed

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Speaker 2: as well.

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Speaker 4: He's just scamming his way around town.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I can't wait to send him this into We're

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Speaker 1: on the Rocks. Yeah, we love you. You'll want a

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Speaker 1: church next to your shop.

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Speaker 2: The Stan original series Prosper is now streaming only on STAN.

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Speaker 2: The Magnificent Rebecca Gidney, We'd love you, beg thanks for coming.

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Speaker 3: He sits in Whipper with Kate Ritchie is a Nova

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Speaker 3: podcast walk great shows like this.

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