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Speaker 1: You're listening to Amma Mia.

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Speaker 2: Podcast From Mama Mia. Welcome to the Spill, your daily

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Speaker 2: pop culture fix.

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Speaker 1: I'm Laura Brodneck and I'm Cascena Lukicic.

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Speaker 2: And this summer we have curated your Spill playlist with

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Speaker 2: some brand new episodes and some of our absolute favorites

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Speaker 2: from the archives. So this year, there have been so

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Speaker 2: many incredible new TV shows released, and look, it's easy

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Speaker 2: to miss them. There have been so many new releases

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Speaker 2: this year. So if you're looking for your next holiday,

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Speaker 2: what you want to find a new favorite TV show

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Speaker 2: just to get lost in. Let's revisit the best TV

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Speaker 2: shows that have come out in the first part of

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so I wasn't on this episode.

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Speaker 3: You did this one with Taylor Strado and you kind

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Speaker 3: of picked a bunch of different TV shows.

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Speaker 1: What was the criteria for the shows?

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Speaker 2: I'm so glad you asked, because the criteria criteria, Yes,

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Speaker 2: because I made it up. I met a very strict list.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes we went till the end of the year to

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Speaker 2: the best TV shows. But there were so many incredible

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Speaker 2: new TV shows that popped up in the first half

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Speaker 2: of twenty twenty five that we had to collet them all,

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Speaker 2: and there's so many streamers at the moment, there's so

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Speaker 2: many releases, it's easy to miss things. So that's why

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Speaker 2: we thought we would just kind of pull them all together.

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Speaker 2: We didn't talk about a few shows that people I'm

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Speaker 2: gonna guess had heard about, like The White Lotus season three,

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Speaker 2: in those kind of things, because returning shows with a

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Speaker 2: huge fan base, they're like appointment television viewing, like The

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Speaker 2: Last of Us and those kind of things I personally

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Speaker 2: felt didn't need to be on the list, So we

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Speaker 2: kept it just to shows that was like the first

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Speaker 2: season or the first time they'd seen them and the

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Speaker 2: first time they had come out in twenty twenty five,

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Speaker 2: and it was very varied. We had the Mindy Kaling

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Speaker 2: created show with Kate Hudson running point, Did you watch that?

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Speaker 4: Yes?

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Speaker 1: Okay?

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Speaker 2: So that had some like mixed reviews. We had mixed reviews,

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Speaker 2: but not from us. I feel like we kind of

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Speaker 2: on the Spill because obviously the first if it you

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Speaker 2: haven't watched it, it's Kate Hudson playing this woman who

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Speaker 2: takes so for her family's company, which happens to be

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Speaker 2: a professional basketball league, and she kind of turns around.

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Speaker 2: The first episode a little bit clunky, but as it

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Speaker 2: so good. And there's all these kind of smaller shows

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Speaker 2: from the first half of the year that were missed,

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Speaker 2: Like Adults on Disney Plus. Did you watch that?

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Speaker 3: No said, this is the perfect episode for me because

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Speaker 3: I have the mind of a sieve and I forget

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Speaker 3: what happened yesterday. So to be able to like go

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Speaker 3: is very exciting. I think I'm excited about this one.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there were so many TV shows I feel like

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Speaker 2: it's a gen Z show, comes across just you know,

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Speaker 2: It's not very often that I would be like cackling out.

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Speaker 1: Loud Isaiah M.

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Speaker 2: Cackler, Yeah, you would be cackling of this. I'm covering

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Speaker 2: her eyes. It's so so good. We also talked about

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Speaker 2: the Michelle Williams series Dying for Sex. Did you watch that?

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Speaker 1: I love I Love, love love that.

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Speaker 3: I listened to that podcast when it first came out,

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Speaker 3: and I thought it was so like heartwarming and funny, yeah,

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Speaker 2: I was so angry when she didn't win an Emmy.

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Speaker 2: Jenny's so good in Dying for Sex And it's just

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Speaker 2: an incredible show. It was nominated, but it just didn't

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Speaker 2: an oscar one day, and I was like, I know,

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Speaker 2: this isn't the rules, but can we not just give

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Speaker 2: her the oscar for this TV show and just break

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Speaker 2: the rules because that was the performance of her career.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, Well, we hope you enjoyed this episode and

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Speaker 3: we will see you back after the break.

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Speaker 4: This has been a very tall order to fulfill, so

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Speaker 4: I hope that I do the spiller's justice. I feel

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Speaker 4: like you and I, Laura watched a lot of TV.

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Speaker 4: We rewatch a lot of comfort TV, so I had

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Speaker 2: That's been a new release this year. Yeah, okay, so

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Speaker 2: you touch on a good point, because first we're going

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Speaker 2: to do rules, because what is the pop culture and

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Speaker 2: Entertam podcast without some hard and fast rules type a

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Speaker 2: girls stuff. But if anyone breaks, I will yell at them. Okay,

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Speaker 2: so not you. No, that was a dick at Emily

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Speaker 2: Vedam for when G's on the show. So the criteria

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Speaker 2: for this year that we were looking at for the ones.

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Speaker 2: We're going to deep dive on TV shows that have

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Speaker 2: premiered their first season this year. Okay, the brand new

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Speaker 2: So we've picked our faves, but there's a few others

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Speaker 4: Yes, honorable mentions, because what a roundup of the best

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Speaker 4: shows that were technically a new season and this year, however,

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Speaker 4: silly to not talk about The White Lotus. Ye.

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Speaker 2: Season three took us to Thailand this year, brand new cast,

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Speaker 2: nice to see Natasha Rothwell back in this season. Yes,

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Speaker 2: he keeps changing it. Greg. Oh yeah not Greg, yep,

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Speaker 4: I think season one was the worst, and I'm like

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Speaker 4: almost fearful that people watch that and then didn't return

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Speaker 2: I have told so many people to go and watch

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Speaker 4: I think the point of difference this season was there's

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Speaker 4: course Victoria Ratliffe. Oh yes, because like razy yeah play

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Speaker 1: We flew over the North Pole.

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Speaker 5: Most people don't have good values, they're scammers.

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Speaker 2: We haven't even seen the place. I promise you it

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Speaker 2: is very legit. The monk who runs it he has

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Speaker 2: written major books. So Charles Manson wrote books, Bill Clinton

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Speaker 5: On you're young, you're beautiful.

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Speaker 2: Why are you with this middle aged weirdo?

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Speaker 4: Piperno, So definitely worth an honorable mention. The other one

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Speaker 4: for me, Laura is Big Mouth, which wrapped up its

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Speaker 4: It is such a silly little show and it is

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Speaker 4: It's really really silly, but it has such a banging

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Speaker 2: What about you? What are some of the honorable mentions

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Speaker 2: they were like, is it fiction? And in happy will

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Speaker 2: google it a podcast? Let me check? No, this really happened,

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Speaker 4: And when you do, go back and listen to the

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Speaker 4: quickie because we did a what is factory fiction in

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Speaker 4: apple Cider?

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Speaker 2: Yes, I feel like that's the kind of information that

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Speaker 2: people are still looking for now they've watched that show. Okay,

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Speaker 2: So getting into the best new TV shows of the

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Speaker 4: Okay, the first one that I'm putting out there is

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Speaker 4: from Netflix is four Seasons.

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Speaker 2: Have you watched this? Yeah? The Tina fe one right,

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Speaker 2: Tina Fey. So created by Tina Fey.

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Speaker 4: It's comedy drama, and there's like this really lovely cast

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Speaker 4: her husband is played by Will Forte and he plays Jack,

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Speaker 4: And basically they're these three couples, so like Tina Fey

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Speaker 2: Trips like group trips together. A group trip terrifies me.

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Speaker 4: Lose you with Oh okay, next recommendation again from Netflix.

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Speaker 4: This is a docu series called Power Moves based on

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Speaker 4: Power Moves is a Netflix docu series that follows NBA

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Speaker 4: legends Shaquille O'Neil and Alan Iverson as they lead Rebox

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Speaker 2: it pitch perfect in all of those moments. It was

434
00:19:10,474 --> 00:19:14,114
Speaker 2: a difficult watch sometimes, but just the cultural conversations it started.

435
00:19:14,514 --> 00:19:16,474
Speaker 2: We had so many people like writing into us and

436
00:19:16,514 --> 00:19:18,754
Speaker 2: writing articles and saying that like they either watched it

437
00:19:18,754 --> 00:19:20,794
Speaker 2: with their kids or they went into their kids afterwards

438
00:19:20,794 --> 00:19:22,514
Speaker 2: to talk to about it. It just launched all these

439
00:19:22,554 --> 00:19:25,553
Speaker 2: conversations and yeah, just like one of those pieces of

440
00:19:25,594 --> 00:19:27,674
Speaker 2: TV that I feel like it really stays with you

441
00:19:28,154 --> 00:19:29,954
Speaker 2: after you've watched it. I think you're so right.

442
00:19:29,954 --> 00:19:33,434
Speaker 4: This stirred up so many conversations and really raised this

443
00:19:33,554 --> 00:19:36,554
Speaker 4: question that maybe also spread a bit of panic amongst

444
00:19:36,674 --> 00:19:39,954
Speaker 4: young parents and people who are maybe thinking about becoming parents,

445
00:19:40,554 --> 00:19:42,714
Speaker 4: which we tried to answer on the Quickie as well,

446
00:19:42,834 --> 00:19:45,634
Speaker 4: like what is the answer to the question that adolescence poses?

447
00:19:45,834 --> 00:19:47,234
Speaker 4: But it turns out that it's not all doom and

448
00:19:47,274 --> 00:19:50,194
Speaker 4: gloom like there is apparently some you know, hope for

449
00:19:50,194 --> 00:19:52,553
Speaker 4: the younger generation that it is good to hear. I

450
00:19:52,594 --> 00:19:54,674
Speaker 4: think that, like, you know, it's so easy to say

451
00:19:54,714 --> 00:19:56,553
Speaker 4: this is one of those shows that will sweep award

452
00:19:56,634 --> 00:19:57,234
Speaker 4: season and.

453
00:19:57,154 --> 00:19:59,434
Speaker 2: It will be given all of the acclaim and victory.

454
00:19:59,474 --> 00:20:03,634
Speaker 4: But I do think, like rightfully so that one take

455
00:20:03,674 --> 00:20:05,474
Speaker 4: thing we said was really hard to do, and it's

456
00:20:05,514 --> 00:20:07,754
Speaker 4: even harder to do when it's something of such severe,

457
00:20:07,834 --> 00:20:10,553
Speaker 4: like serious content. So props to the whole people that

458
00:20:10,594 --> 00:20:11,313
Speaker 4: were involved in that.

459
00:20:11,674 --> 00:20:13,234
Speaker 2: And if you haven't watched it because you were turned

460
00:20:13,234 --> 00:20:15,874
Speaker 2: off by I guess just like the very brutal themes

461
00:20:15,874 --> 00:20:17,874
Speaker 2: in it, I'd say still go back and watch it.

462
00:20:17,914 --> 00:20:20,114
Speaker 2: Because you kind of get swept away in the story.

463
00:20:20,234 --> 00:20:23,354
Speaker 2: It's worth the anxiety. Of course, it's only four parts

464
00:20:23,354 --> 00:20:25,114
Speaker 2: as well, so yeah, you don't have to commit, you know,

465
00:20:25,274 --> 00:20:28,034
Speaker 2: nice little Saturday night binge. Sure, I'm not sure who's

466
00:20:28,034 --> 00:20:29,154
Speaker 2: watching that on a Saturday night.

467
00:20:29,194 --> 00:20:32,954
Speaker 4: I don't do that, absolutely, Okay, change your pace here

468
00:20:32,994 --> 00:20:35,634
Speaker 4: and heading across to Disney Plus for a.

469
00:20:35,714 --> 00:20:38,634
Speaker 2: Show and a man who I love. I think you

470
00:20:38,674 --> 00:20:42,394
Speaker 2: do as well, Laura Tucci in Italy. Oh yeah, hot

471
00:20:43,034 --> 00:20:47,634
Speaker 2: and also culturally important, but yeah important. It's a lot

472
00:20:47,634 --> 00:20:50,194
Speaker 2: of my identity in there. But Stanley Tucci is the

473
00:20:50,234 --> 00:20:50,674
Speaker 2: name thing.

474
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Speaker 5: Whoa that is delicious? Oh man, you stomach? Wow, Now

475
00:20:57,914 --> 00:21:03,034
Speaker 5: I'm I'm more hungry.

476
00:21:04,194 --> 00:21:05,314
Speaker 1: I'm Stanley Tucci.

477
00:21:05,674 --> 00:21:08,194
Speaker 5: And I believe that's the best way to understand what

478
00:21:08,314 --> 00:21:14,194
Speaker 5: makes a country and it's people unique is through their food. Okay, manjamo,

479
00:21:14,634 --> 00:21:17,273
Speaker 5: And this is true nowhere more than Italy.

480
00:21:17,554 --> 00:21:18,354
Speaker 1: Yeah is a secret.

481
00:21:18,674 --> 00:21:20,754
Speaker 5: Oh really, because it's going to go on television and

482
00:21:20,754 --> 00:21:24,553
Speaker 5: then where even the shape of your pasta and the

483
00:21:24,594 --> 00:21:27,994
Speaker 5: sauce you serve it with. I love that differentiates the

484
00:21:28,074 --> 00:21:31,794
Speaker 5: character and history of each region sharply from the next.

485
00:21:32,234 --> 00:21:33,474
Speaker 2: I just smell that.

486
00:21:35,594 --> 00:21:40,474
Speaker 5: It is amazing. You have sustained this culture for thousands

487
00:21:40,514 --> 00:21:41,033
Speaker 5: of years.

488
00:21:42,354 --> 00:21:42,634
Speaker 2: Now.

489
00:21:42,954 --> 00:21:45,674
Speaker 4: I hope that you'll forgive me because this technically does

490
00:21:45,794 --> 00:21:46,994
Speaker 4: not break the rules.

491
00:21:47,034 --> 00:21:48,794
Speaker 2: Oh rely, and this is going to happen.

492
00:21:49,394 --> 00:21:53,034
Speaker 4: So Tucci in Italy not to be confused with Stanley

493
00:21:53,074 --> 00:21:56,434
Speaker 4: Tucci searching for Italy. Completely different shows. They were on

494
00:21:56,514 --> 00:21:57,274
Speaker 4: different networks.

495
00:21:57,314 --> 00:21:59,674
Speaker 2: Hey, that one there was from CNN in ed and

496
00:21:59,714 --> 00:22:01,234
Speaker 2: twenty twenty one and twenty two.

497
00:22:01,714 --> 00:22:04,834
Speaker 4: This is Tucci in Italy. It's a nat GEO production

498
00:22:05,234 --> 00:22:07,874
Speaker 4: which we get to watch via Disney Plus. Is the

499
00:22:07,914 --> 00:22:10,593
Speaker 4: premise pretty much the same, where Stanley Tucci is just

500
00:22:10,594 --> 00:22:14,074
Speaker 4: being adorable and traversing Italy and eating all the food

501
00:22:14,114 --> 00:22:15,313
Speaker 4: and engaging with the locals and.

502
00:22:15,314 --> 00:22:17,514
Speaker 2: All the different regions. Absolutely.

503
00:22:17,954 --> 00:22:19,514
Speaker 4: Am I still gonna make a case that you should

504
00:22:19,554 --> 00:22:20,874
Speaker 4: watch it because it came out this year.

505
00:22:21,154 --> 00:22:23,234
Speaker 2: Absolutely, That's all I want from that man. Rape. I

506
00:22:23,274 --> 00:22:25,154
Speaker 2: just want him to go through Italy and I want

507
00:22:25,194 --> 00:22:27,474
Speaker 2: him to roll up his shirt sleeves and show off

508
00:22:27,514 --> 00:22:30,634
Speaker 2: his little buff tad and I want him to explain

509
00:22:30,714 --> 00:22:32,954
Speaker 2: to me the different flavors of wine and the cheese

510
00:22:32,994 --> 00:22:35,073
Speaker 2: and why I should have a particular sandwich and why

511
00:22:35,154 --> 00:22:37,354
Speaker 2: should get wine from particular places. All I want from

512
00:22:37,354 --> 00:22:39,714
Speaker 2: that man, Well, that's all you get from exactly. Well,

513
00:22:39,714 --> 00:22:41,074
Speaker 2: that and for him to be in The Devil wes

514
00:22:41,114 --> 00:22:41,714
Speaker 2: pritus equal.

515
00:22:41,754 --> 00:22:43,354
Speaker 4: There's two things I want from that man, and he's

516
00:22:43,394 --> 00:22:46,794
Speaker 4: delivered one well interestingly. So the reason that I knew

517
00:22:46,794 --> 00:22:49,074
Speaker 4: about this show before any marketing kicked me is because

518
00:22:49,074 --> 00:22:51,394
Speaker 4: he talked about it literally NonStop.

519
00:22:51,434 --> 00:22:53,634
Speaker 2: I reckon every chapter. There was a mention of making

520
00:22:53,674 --> 00:22:55,793
Speaker 2: this show in his latest book, What I Ate In

521
00:22:55,794 --> 00:22:58,674
Speaker 2: One Year. Yeah, But in his memoir that came out

522
00:22:58,674 --> 00:23:01,634
Speaker 2: a couple of years ago, he spoke so fondly of

523
00:23:01,674 --> 00:23:04,834
Speaker 2: working with Meryl Streep and like they have this beautiful relationship.

524
00:23:04,874 --> 00:23:06,354
Speaker 2: And so I'm like, if he's not in The Devil

525
00:23:06,514 --> 00:23:10,154
Speaker 2: was prior to with Meryl Stree, Yeah, I will be devastated. Well,

526
00:23:10,194 --> 00:23:13,194
Speaker 2: he's married to Emily Blunt's sister as well. Yes, they met.

527
00:23:13,234 --> 00:23:15,874
Speaker 2: I'll just become a deaf worst protetect, which if you

528
00:23:15,914 --> 00:23:17,874
Speaker 2: don't know the law buckling, Yeah, exactly.

529
00:23:17,914 --> 00:23:17,994
Speaker 4: No.

530
00:23:18,074 --> 00:23:20,074
Speaker 2: Well, he even Emily bomb DeVos prior and she's like,

531
00:23:20,114 --> 00:23:22,274
Speaker 2: you love my sister introduced them and now they're married

532
00:23:22,274 --> 00:23:22,714
Speaker 2: with children.

533
00:23:22,794 --> 00:23:24,674
Speaker 4: Yeah, and he speaks so lovingly of his wife in

534
00:23:24,714 --> 00:23:27,954
Speaker 4: the city. Just that whole family dynamic is fantastic. But yes,

535
00:23:28,034 --> 00:23:30,194
Speaker 4: Tucci in Italy, it does what it says in the box.

536
00:23:30,474 --> 00:23:32,194
Speaker 4: It is a box worth opening. I think it's like

537
00:23:32,274 --> 00:23:35,434
Speaker 4: six episodes in Disney Pluss. Oh my god, so lovely. Well,

538
00:23:35,474 --> 00:23:36,994
Speaker 4: I'm going to keep us on Disney Plus.

539
00:23:37,034 --> 00:23:40,074
Speaker 2: But take us to a very different section, Okay, which

540
00:23:40,114 --> 00:23:43,474
Speaker 2: is the TV show Dying for Sex. Okay, this TV show,

541
00:23:43,514 --> 00:23:46,314
Speaker 2: I wonder what it's about. Yeah, I mean well buckling

542
00:23:46,714 --> 00:23:48,874
Speaker 2: because it doesn't exactly do what it says in the

543
00:23:48,914 --> 00:23:51,954
Speaker 2: teen in a way. So this show has completely stayed

544
00:23:51,954 --> 00:23:54,594
Speaker 2: with me. And it's based on a true story. So

545
00:23:54,634 --> 00:23:57,033
Speaker 2: it's based on the story of Molly Ktran who was

546
00:23:57,114 --> 00:24:00,513
Speaker 2: an American podcaster. She lived in LA and after she

547
00:24:00,594 --> 00:24:04,154
Speaker 2: was diagnosed with terminal cancer, she decided to blow up

548
00:24:04,194 --> 00:24:06,754
Speaker 2: her life. She separated from her husband and she wanted

549
00:24:06,794 --> 00:24:10,154
Speaker 2: this kind of odyssey to discover what she wanted from sex,

550
00:24:10,154 --> 00:24:13,033
Speaker 2: from herself, from partners, and she documented it all this

551
00:24:13,154 --> 00:24:16,434
Speaker 2: podcast and Michelle Williams plays her in the TV show

552
00:24:16,554 --> 00:24:19,154
Speaker 2: and she is incredible. Like I know, this is a

553
00:24:19,194 --> 00:24:23,154
Speaker 2: TV show, but also Michelle Williams is due her it's

554
00:24:23,234 --> 00:24:25,634
Speaker 2: time Oscar because she's one of those actresses who's been

555
00:24:25,714 --> 00:24:28,994
Speaker 2: so incredible and has been nominated for an Oscar so

556
00:24:28,994 --> 00:24:31,114
Speaker 2: many times, and it gets that point where they'll just

557
00:24:31,154 --> 00:24:33,594
Speaker 2: give it to her for something, just for her career. Yeah,

558
00:24:33,594 --> 00:24:35,474
Speaker 2: And I was like, I know, like this is breaking

559
00:24:35,514 --> 00:24:37,354
Speaker 2: the rules, but just give her the Oscar for dying

560
00:24:37,394 --> 00:24:41,274
Speaker 2: for sex because it is the performance of her career. Wow.

561
00:24:41,314 --> 00:24:45,034
Speaker 2: She's so incredible, so funny, so heartbreaking. And Jenny Slat

562
00:24:45,154 --> 00:24:47,434
Speaker 2: plays her best friend based on the real woman in

563
00:24:47,474 --> 00:24:50,194
Speaker 2: the show. And as much as it's a show about

564
00:24:50,234 --> 00:24:54,513
Speaker 2: Michelle Williams's character signing out she has terminal cancer, leaving

565
00:24:54,514 --> 00:24:56,994
Speaker 2: her husband who's perfectly lovely, but also going on this

566
00:24:57,074 --> 00:25:01,273
Speaker 2: like wild sex odyssey to discover things about herself, mending

567
00:25:01,314 --> 00:25:04,154
Speaker 2: her relationship with her a strange mother, it's really about

568
00:25:04,154 --> 00:25:07,114
Speaker 2: these two best friends and the way that Jenny Slate's

569
00:25:07,274 --> 00:25:09,914
Speaker 2: character is there for her. Like there's such a heartbreaking

570
00:25:09,954 --> 00:25:13,033
Speaker 2: scene when Michell Wiams's character is like close to dyeing

571
00:25:13,074 --> 00:25:16,434
Speaker 2: and Jenny Slayts's character is supporting her through it all

572
00:25:16,514 --> 00:25:17,754
Speaker 2: and they say to her like should we take the

573
00:25:17,754 --> 00:25:20,313
Speaker 2: breathing tubout? But she could die, and she's just like,

574
00:25:20,434 --> 00:25:22,714
Speaker 2: I don't know, Like I haven't slept in days, I

575
00:25:22,714 --> 00:25:25,073
Speaker 2: haven't showered in weeks. I'm watching my best friend die.

576
00:25:25,074 --> 00:25:26,914
Speaker 2: I'm wearing toilet paper for underwear, and you want me

577
00:25:26,954 --> 00:25:30,194
Speaker 2: to decide what to do. And so you have those moments,

578
00:25:30,234 --> 00:25:32,634
Speaker 2: but then you're also funny moments where she's like reenacting

579
00:25:32,914 --> 00:25:35,434
Speaker 2: movie scenes in the hotel room, and also you have

580
00:25:35,554 --> 00:25:38,674
Speaker 2: all these like crazy sex scenes as she discovered what

581
00:25:38,754 --> 00:25:41,514
Speaker 2: she likes. And I also think, like death is so uncomfortable,

582
00:25:41,754 --> 00:25:43,714
Speaker 2: Like I can't stand TV shows and movies that death

583
00:25:43,754 --> 00:25:45,474
Speaker 2: I find a way too confronting. I would just love

584
00:25:45,514 --> 00:25:48,674
Speaker 2: to pretend that doesn't happen, but the show makes you

585
00:25:48,714 --> 00:25:50,994
Speaker 2: confront it in such an interesting way. Like there's a

586
00:25:51,034 --> 00:25:53,434
Speaker 2: scene where one are the nurses who's looking after it,

587
00:25:53,514 --> 00:25:55,994
Speaker 2: comes in and she gives this speech that's really stayed

588
00:25:56,034 --> 00:25:57,914
Speaker 2: with me, where she talks about the fact like your

589
00:25:57,914 --> 00:26:00,074
Speaker 2: body knows how to live, but your body knows how

590
00:26:00,114 --> 00:26:02,553
Speaker 2: to die. Isn't that amazing? Like your body, She's like,

591
00:26:02,554 --> 00:26:04,554
Speaker 2: you don't have to worry when she goes into palliative care,

592
00:26:04,674 --> 00:26:07,073
Speaker 2: she youd have to worry. Your body knows how to die.

593
00:26:07,234 --> 00:26:08,674
Speaker 2: It's going to do this, and then it's going to

594
00:26:08,754 --> 00:26:10,354
Speaker 2: do this, and it's going to do this, and then

595
00:26:10,394 --> 00:26:11,994
Speaker 2: you're going to go into a euphoria and you're going

596
00:26:12,034 --> 00:26:14,594
Speaker 2: to feel so comfortable because your body is preparing and

597
00:26:14,674 --> 00:26:17,634
Speaker 2: like you're watching like Michelle Williams react to that, but

598
00:26:17,674 --> 00:26:19,394
Speaker 2: I'm also just watching it as if you were being like,

599
00:26:19,434 --> 00:26:23,634
Speaker 2: holy hell, that's amazing, So like dying for sex so good,

600
00:26:23,674 --> 00:26:26,714
Speaker 2: Like everyone should watch it, like you'll sob but it's

601
00:26:26,794 --> 00:26:29,994
Speaker 2: so worth it. I think that's a really interesting point

602
00:26:30,034 --> 00:26:33,674
Speaker 2: about how we approach death in pop culture and television

603
00:26:33,754 --> 00:26:35,834
Speaker 2: just in our everyday lives as well, because like, yeah,

604
00:26:35,874 --> 00:26:38,754
Speaker 2: sure it's inevitable, but whenever people try to portray that

605
00:26:38,834 --> 00:26:41,793
Speaker 2: in television and film, it usually so often misses the

606
00:26:41,834 --> 00:26:43,834
Speaker 2: mark where they go too hard with the hand and

607
00:26:43,874 --> 00:26:46,553
Speaker 2: the comedy, or they go a too sincere. And this

608
00:26:46,594 --> 00:26:49,074
Speaker 2: feels like it strikes a really nice balance between you

609
00:26:49,154 --> 00:26:51,513
Speaker 2: two exactly, and the fact that it's also based on

610
00:26:51,514 --> 00:26:53,514
Speaker 2: a true story, and like you should definitely like watch

611
00:26:53,554 --> 00:26:55,474
Speaker 2: the show and then listen to the podcast because they

612
00:26:55,474 --> 00:26:59,874
Speaker 2: really go together very well. Okay, I'm back on my

613
00:26:59,914 --> 00:27:02,513
Speaker 2: sport ber Okay, oh wow, that another sports show came

614
00:27:02,514 --> 00:27:03,434
Speaker 2: out this year. Laura.

615
00:27:03,474 --> 00:27:05,114
Speaker 4: It's very very rare that I get to come on

616
00:27:05,114 --> 00:27:07,914
Speaker 4: this podcast, so when I do, I will abuse that Powell. Okay,

617
00:27:08,194 --> 00:27:10,474
Speaker 4: you've seen this though, I'm sure that you have a

618
00:27:10,474 --> 00:27:11,834
Speaker 4: take on it. It's from NETFLIXX.

619
00:27:11,994 --> 00:27:15,194
Speaker 2: It's running point. I work in a family business, the

620
00:27:15,234 --> 00:27:17,354
Speaker 2: greatest basketball franchise.

621
00:27:16,874 --> 00:27:19,514
Speaker 5: In the history of the game, the Los Angeles Waves,

622
00:27:20,794 --> 00:27:23,354
Speaker 5: and this is the story of the fucked up family

623
00:27:23,354 --> 00:27:23,794
Speaker 5: that runs.

624
00:27:26,114 --> 00:27:29,474
Speaker 1: Tila, I'm making you the president of the Waves.

625
00:27:29,994 --> 00:27:32,954
Speaker 2: When I was a little girl, Daddy never believed in me,

626
00:27:33,714 --> 00:27:35,194
Speaker 2: and I started to doubt myself.

627
00:27:35,274 --> 00:27:36,634
Speaker 1: I need you to stop because I don't care about

628
00:27:36,634 --> 00:27:40,354
Speaker 1: any of that shit. You were the president of the Waves.

629
00:27:40,514 --> 00:27:42,434
Speaker 1: Its shocking were on the half of all women. Don't

630
00:27:42,434 --> 00:27:44,554
Speaker 1: ever make a mistake. It looks bad for all of us.

631
00:27:46,034 --> 00:27:48,234
Speaker 1: We're a family, sys we got your back no matter

632
00:27:48,274 --> 00:27:48,874
Speaker 1: what people say.

633
00:27:49,114 --> 00:27:50,714
Speaker 5: What are they saying, just the fact that you're a

634
00:27:50,794 --> 00:27:52,674
Speaker 5: nepple baby and you don't know what you're doing, but

635
00:27:52,754 --> 00:27:55,154
Speaker 5: you're old, so it's like you're kind of you're like

636
00:27:55,154 --> 00:27:55,914
Speaker 5: a nepple chrome.

637
00:27:56,034 --> 00:27:58,314
Speaker 1: Oh my god, don't go on red it unless you

638
00:27:58,314 --> 00:27:59,954
Speaker 1: want to kill yourself.

639
00:27:59,994 --> 00:28:01,914
Speaker 2: You are the smartest Lord, and I know, I know

640
00:28:01,954 --> 00:28:02,754
Speaker 2: that's not a high bar.

641
00:28:03,754 --> 00:28:07,874
Speaker 1: Now, we're a family brand. You Ness and Sandy don't represent.

642
00:28:07,594 --> 00:28:08,074
Speaker 3: For a value.

643
00:28:08,234 --> 00:28:09,874
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe there's a couple of pictures of my dad

644
00:28:09,914 --> 00:28:14,514
Speaker 2: is sadamastein, but we are good people. When I die, sock,

645
00:28:14,674 --> 00:28:15,874
Speaker 2: I want to know what you're going to do to

646
00:28:15,914 --> 00:28:17,914
Speaker 2: stop the sock. I know the record doesn't show it,

647
00:28:17,954 --> 00:28:19,594
Speaker 2: but this is a winning last year and I have

648
00:28:19,634 --> 00:28:22,274
Speaker 2: a team to run. So if you'll excuse me, wait,

649
00:28:22,554 --> 00:28:26,234
Speaker 2: this is my office. You get a Yeah, I really

650
00:28:26,314 --> 00:28:29,474
Speaker 2: liked Wanting Point. I understand the criticism though. Okay, guys,

651
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Speaker 2: I get it.

652
00:28:30,034 --> 00:28:33,354
Speaker 4: Okay, So if you don't know Running Point Netflix comedy series.

653
00:28:33,434 --> 00:28:35,634
Speaker 4: It was created by Mindy Kaling, who we love. It

654
00:28:35,674 --> 00:28:39,634
Speaker 4: stars Kate Hudson as Isla Gordon, who unexpectedly like becomes

655
00:28:39,674 --> 00:28:42,314
Speaker 4: the president of the Los Angeles Waves.

656
00:28:41,954 --> 00:28:44,354
Speaker 2: Which is a basketball team.

657
00:28:44,114 --> 00:28:48,194
Speaker 4: I'm in my basketball villain error, but basically she becomes

658
00:28:48,234 --> 00:28:50,514
Speaker 4: the president. She's got a couple of brothers who also

659
00:28:50,514 --> 00:28:52,394
Speaker 4: work at the family company, and they're all kind of

660
00:28:52,394 --> 00:28:55,114
Speaker 4: annoyed that she's the president. She was the party girl,

661
00:28:55,234 --> 00:28:57,434
Speaker 4: she was the black sheep, a little bit of the

662
00:28:57,474 --> 00:29:00,594
Speaker 4: family and now she's sort of trumped them all into

663
00:29:00,634 --> 00:29:03,994
Speaker 4: this high ranking role and they're conspiring against her.

664
00:29:04,034 --> 00:29:05,794
Speaker 2: Nobody thinks she can do this job. She's out to

665
00:29:05,834 --> 00:29:08,474
Speaker 2: prove them all wrong. The best friend slash assistant is

666
00:29:08,474 --> 00:29:10,394
Speaker 2: played by Brenda Song, which I know we've already talked

667
00:29:10,434 --> 00:29:11,954
Speaker 2: about this, but like, how nice is it to see

668
00:29:11,954 --> 00:29:14,954
Speaker 2: Brenda's song that greens That is the best part of

669
00:29:14,954 --> 00:29:16,594
Speaker 2: that show for being Like, there's other bits I liked,

670
00:29:16,594 --> 00:29:18,954
Speaker 2: but it is the best role that's been written for Brenda,

671
00:29:20,074 --> 00:29:22,314
Speaker 2: and she just nails And I hope she gets all

672
00:29:22,354 --> 00:29:25,234
Speaker 2: the award nominations for that role in the comedy genre. Yeah,

673
00:29:25,234 --> 00:29:28,554
Speaker 2: I'm like pushing for her and Kieran Coulkin. I'm pushing

674
00:29:28,594 --> 00:29:31,034
Speaker 2: for her and Macaulay Culkin, but like I would also

675
00:29:31,074 --> 00:29:33,034
Speaker 2: be okay if it was Kieran Culkin to like play

676
00:29:33,074 --> 00:29:35,234
Speaker 2: a couple in The White Lotus season four. That needs

677
00:29:35,274 --> 00:29:37,114
Speaker 2: to happen. Yeah, she needs to be on the White Lotus.

678
00:29:38,394 --> 00:29:40,994
Speaker 4: I like this show because, like we said, Brenda Song's great,

679
00:29:41,074 --> 00:29:42,514
Speaker 4: Kate Hudson's good.

680
00:29:42,794 --> 00:29:44,114
Speaker 2: But I also love that there's like.

681
00:29:44,114 --> 00:29:47,474
Speaker 4: A bunch of sort of subplots going on while the

682
00:29:47,514 --> 00:29:50,114
Speaker 4: main thing is like her trying to keep the company

683
00:29:50,154 --> 00:29:53,434
Speaker 4: the family business, which is a bloody basketball franchise, while

684
00:29:53,434 --> 00:29:55,354
Speaker 4: she's trying to keep it all afloat, like there's a

685
00:29:55,434 --> 00:29:58,834
Speaker 4: secret extra brother nobody knows about he and I love

686
00:29:58,874 --> 00:30:01,834
Speaker 4: that the brothers that we do know about are all very.

687
00:30:01,514 --> 00:30:05,074
Speaker 2: Flawed, bad individuals in their own ways. What did you think, because,

688
00:30:05,154 --> 00:30:06,834
Speaker 2: like you said, there was a lot of criticism when

689
00:30:06,834 --> 00:30:08,514
Speaker 2: this came it was I think there was just so

690
00:30:08,634 --> 00:30:11,034
Speaker 2: much hype for it. One is that Mindy Kaling just

691
00:30:11,114 --> 00:30:14,234
Speaker 2: makes shows that people feel so strongly about, from the

692
00:30:14,274 --> 00:30:16,954
Speaker 2: MINDI Project and all these other TV projects she's done.

693
00:30:17,114 --> 00:30:19,594
Speaker 2: It was the first time Kate Hudson had been in

694
00:30:19,634 --> 00:30:22,154
Speaker 2: a TV show and like played a role like this,

695
00:30:22,354 --> 00:30:25,234
Speaker 2: and so the height from it was huge. Netflix really

696
00:30:25,234 --> 00:30:26,874
Speaker 2: put it up as their big comedy of the year,

697
00:30:27,354 --> 00:30:29,034
Speaker 2: and I really loved it. But I feel like it

698
00:30:29,034 --> 00:30:31,554
Speaker 2: did take a few episodes to find its feet, and

699
00:30:31,594 --> 00:30:33,754
Speaker 2: I think it's because the first episode is just like,

700
00:30:34,034 --> 00:30:38,514
Speaker 2: it's like, plot, plot, plot, plot much almost Yeah, it

701
00:30:38,834 --> 00:30:41,034
Speaker 2: kind of felt like lazy storytelling, but I almost think

702
00:30:41,074 --> 00:30:43,154
Speaker 2: they just wanted to pull you into the world really quickly.

703
00:30:43,314 --> 00:30:44,714
Speaker 2: But a lot of people, I know, I just watched the

704
00:30:44,714 --> 00:30:46,794
Speaker 2: first episode and turned off, which I've been yelling at

705
00:30:46,794 --> 00:30:49,474
Speaker 2: people about because it's like, this is Isla Gordon, she

706
00:30:49,514 --> 00:30:51,274
Speaker 2: does this, and this is her brother and he does this,

707
00:30:51,354 --> 00:30:53,154
Speaker 2: and this is what their dad. I hate.

708
00:30:53,314 --> 00:30:55,994
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know people probably either don't have an opinion

709
00:30:55,994 --> 00:30:57,194
Speaker 4: of this will feel very strongly.

710
00:30:57,354 --> 00:30:57,874
Speaker 2: Yeah.

711
00:30:57,954 --> 00:31:00,914
Speaker 4: I hate when shows like stop freeze frame and then

712
00:31:00,954 --> 00:31:02,274
Speaker 4: like scribble on the screen.

713
00:31:02,234 --> 00:31:04,434
Speaker 2: And that's what they do through the fall. They dost episode.

714
00:31:04,554 --> 00:31:06,274
Speaker 2: They do that so much because there's like so much

715
00:31:06,314 --> 00:31:06,994
Speaker 2: to establish it.

716
00:31:07,834 --> 00:31:09,674
Speaker 4: But I agree, like you have to persevere through the

717
00:31:09,674 --> 00:31:12,074
Speaker 4: first episode and then it ends and it's really like

718
00:31:12,234 --> 00:31:15,114
Speaker 4: it's not like a huge twist, but it's an interesting twist.

719
00:31:14,874 --> 00:31:16,594
Speaker 2: It is, and I thought like especially it's one on

720
00:31:16,674 --> 00:31:18,274
Speaker 2: like it had a lot of heart as well as

721
00:31:18,314 --> 00:31:21,034
Speaker 2: being like quite funny. And Kate Hudson just knows how

722
00:31:21,114 --> 00:31:22,954
Speaker 2: to carry something that she can carry a movie, she

723
00:31:22,954 --> 00:31:25,474
Speaker 2: can carry a TV show. I'm really excited it's coming

724
00:31:25,554 --> 00:31:27,994
Speaker 2: back for a second season. Kate Hudson's never played a

725
00:31:28,034 --> 00:31:30,554
Speaker 2: character twice because she doesn't do sequels. This is the

726
00:31:30,554 --> 00:31:32,434
Speaker 2: first time she gets to revisit a character, and I

727
00:31:32,474 --> 00:31:35,754
Speaker 2: find that with Mindy Kayling's writing, it is perfect always

728
00:31:35,794 --> 00:31:37,714
Speaker 2: I'm such a fair girl. But I also find that

729
00:31:37,874 --> 00:31:40,834
Speaker 2: as shows go along, she only gets better. So I

730
00:31:40,834 --> 00:31:43,354
Speaker 2: for like season two, it's gonna be where it's up. Yeah,

731
00:31:43,394 --> 00:31:46,954
Speaker 2: it'll hit it strid, I hope. Okay, the other TV show.

732
00:31:46,954 --> 00:31:48,354
Speaker 2: And I've been obsessed with this and I feel like

733
00:31:48,394 --> 00:31:50,274
Speaker 2: the longer it goes on, more people have mean too,

734
00:31:50,554 --> 00:31:53,194
Speaker 2: which is the studio on Apple TV. Plus you've ever

735
00:31:53,234 --> 00:31:55,514
Speaker 2: heard so no, but I've heard so much about that.

736
00:31:55,554 --> 00:31:58,394
Speaker 2: I think you'd really like I love Seth Rogen. Yes, well,

737
00:31:58,394 --> 00:32:00,274
Speaker 2: then you're gonna love this because he stars in it

738
00:32:00,314 --> 00:32:03,394
Speaker 2: and he created he was involved in that big Sony

739
00:32:03,554 --> 00:32:06,394
Speaker 2: email leak many many years ago, which if you're not

740
00:32:06,434 --> 00:32:09,354
Speaker 2: a cross guy, don't worry. We did a whole episode

741
00:32:09,354 --> 00:32:14,034
Speaker 2: on it. It's my favorite celebrity Hollywood scandal really when well,

742
00:32:14,074 --> 00:32:16,114
Speaker 2: there's so many, but this is so the fact that

743
00:32:16,234 --> 00:32:19,274
Speaker 2: all of the emails sent by a list stars and

744
00:32:19,354 --> 00:32:22,794
Speaker 2: studio heads were all made public and you saw what

745
00:32:23,034 --> 00:32:27,114
Speaker 2: huge celebrities like Channing Tatum and Seth Rogan stuff were saying,

746
00:32:27,154 --> 00:32:29,954
Speaker 2: but also what studio heads were saying about Angelina and

747
00:32:29,994 --> 00:32:31,034
Speaker 2: Jolly behind her back.

748
00:32:31,114 --> 00:32:33,314
Speaker 4: Like I know, it was wrapped up in terrorism that's

749
00:32:33,394 --> 00:32:37,434
Speaker 4: really bad. But the juicy Hollywood gossip that was leaked

750
00:32:37,514 --> 00:32:42,554
Speaker 4: every day for a month paralleled so Seth Brogan because

751
00:32:42,674 --> 00:32:44,874
Speaker 4: his movie at the time was involved in the Studio

752
00:32:44,954 --> 00:32:46,834
Speaker 4: League and so he kind of looked at all of

753
00:32:46,834 --> 00:32:48,634
Speaker 4: that and use that to make the studio. So the

754
00:32:48,674 --> 00:32:52,194
Speaker 4: Studio is kind of like a satirical comedy, which is

755
00:32:52,234 --> 00:32:55,074
Speaker 4: about a Seth Rogan who gets made the head of

756
00:32:55,074 --> 00:32:58,234
Speaker 4: this very embattled Hollywood studio and he's has to turn

757
00:32:58,274 --> 00:33:01,554
Speaker 4: it around. And the cast is incredible. It's Catherine O'Hara,

758
00:33:01,714 --> 00:33:05,634
Speaker 4: like Baron Holtz, Chase, Sue Wonders, Catherine Hahn, They're all incredible,

759
00:33:05,674 --> 00:33:07,594
Speaker 4: and it's got all these like wild story is about

760
00:33:07,634 --> 00:33:11,114
Speaker 4: like the inner workings of this Hollywood studio. But what's

761
00:33:11,154 --> 00:33:13,794
Speaker 4: really great is they have all these big stars come

762
00:33:13,834 --> 00:33:17,634
Speaker 4: in and play caricatures of themselves.

763
00:33:17,954 --> 00:33:19,634
Speaker 2: Yeah, it works so well. It's kind of like he's

764
00:33:19,674 --> 00:33:21,354
Speaker 2: on a few movies where he has people play themselves.

765
00:33:21,354 --> 00:33:23,834
Speaker 2: It's always works so well. But like Olivia Wilde comes

766
00:33:23,874 --> 00:33:25,954
Speaker 2: in and plays like a caricature of myself and she's

767
00:33:25,994 --> 00:33:28,474
Speaker 2: so good. Zach Efron does it, He's really fine. I

768
00:33:28,474 --> 00:33:31,034
Speaker 2: love this. Jean Smart does it. Charlie's Throne. I think

769
00:33:31,074 --> 00:33:34,354
Speaker 2: my favorite one though, was Martin's called Saz playing himself

770
00:33:34,434 --> 00:33:36,834
Speaker 2: away because he just like what would get it? I know,

771
00:33:37,034 --> 00:33:39,514
Speaker 2: like as if he would do that, and he's so good.

772
00:33:39,634 --> 00:33:42,514
Speaker 2: Loki kind of a bastard, right, yeah, but he comes

773
00:33:42,514 --> 00:33:45,154
Speaker 2: in and just plays like this wild caricature of himself

774
00:33:45,194 --> 00:33:47,234
Speaker 2: and I'm sure it's actually kind of what he's like,

775
00:33:47,354 --> 00:33:49,114
Speaker 2: but like that is just such a wild ride. So

776
00:33:49,194 --> 00:33:51,754
Speaker 2: it's already been renewed for a second season, and you

777
00:33:51,794 --> 00:33:53,754
Speaker 2: don't have to be super interested in like the inner

778
00:33:53,794 --> 00:33:56,354
Speaker 2: workings of Hollywood to watch it. You can just watch

779
00:33:56,394 --> 00:33:57,994
Speaker 2: it as a comedy. It doesn't even matter if you

780
00:33:58,034 --> 00:34:00,914
Speaker 2: don't know who half these people are who are playing themselves,

781
00:34:01,034 --> 00:34:03,714
Speaker 2: and some of the best people are playing fictionalized characters.

782
00:34:03,754 --> 00:34:06,194
Speaker 2: So love it. Yeah, so good. The other one I

783
00:34:06,194 --> 00:34:07,994
Speaker 2: want to mention, just to finish us off, is a

784
00:34:07,994 --> 00:34:10,593
Speaker 2: show that came out this year called The Last Anniversary

785
00:34:10,594 --> 00:34:13,194
Speaker 2: that came out on Binge. So it's based on a

786
00:34:13,314 --> 00:34:16,354
Speaker 2: Leanne Moriarty novel and there's so many reasons to love it.

787
00:34:16,394 --> 00:34:18,393
Speaker 2: I think, like usually when a TV show comes out

788
00:34:18,434 --> 00:34:20,553
Speaker 2: that's based on a book, I've always read the book. First,

789
00:34:20,754 --> 00:34:22,993
Speaker 2: I'm such a big reader, but this is the one

790
00:34:23,234 --> 00:34:25,314
Speaker 2: Leanne Moriarty book I hadn't read, so I got to

791
00:34:25,354 --> 00:34:29,154
Speaker 2: experience the unfolding of this chastory for the first time.

792
00:34:29,354 --> 00:34:31,754
Speaker 2: So Teresa Palmer is the lead, and she plays this

793
00:34:31,794 --> 00:34:34,234
Speaker 2: woman called Sophie. And this is where things got a

794
00:34:34,234 --> 00:34:36,514
Speaker 2: bit tense when I was at the premiere watching it,

795
00:34:36,554 --> 00:34:39,994
Speaker 2: because watching it in this beautiful theater. And Sophie is

796
00:34:40,394 --> 00:34:42,954
Speaker 2: a woman living in Sydney who writes for a women's

797
00:34:42,994 --> 00:34:46,274
Speaker 2: media publication. She's in her late thirties. She's going on

798
00:34:46,314 --> 00:34:49,234
Speaker 2: a series of bad dates and when she's ever like

799
00:34:49,434 --> 00:34:53,194
Speaker 2: stressed out about life, love or anything, she gets this incredible,

800
00:34:53,234 --> 00:34:57,114
Speaker 2: like intense flush through her neck and cheeks. How you

801
00:34:57,154 --> 00:35:00,194
Speaker 2: Oh no, I'm like I was watching it and I

802
00:35:00,274 --> 00:35:03,834
Speaker 2: literally like, did you know this when you interviewed Teresa Palmer? Yeah,

803
00:35:03,834 --> 00:35:06,714
Speaker 2: because okay, yeah, I interviewed her after the premiere and

804
00:35:06,754 --> 00:35:09,594
Speaker 2: I so in case you don't know me, that's me, Like,

805
00:35:09,634 --> 00:35:13,913
Speaker 2: that's me to a tea, including the intense flush, the

806
00:35:13,994 --> 00:35:16,114
Speaker 2: same age and even when she was like she's talking

807
00:35:16,154 --> 00:35:17,834
Speaker 2: to her ed about stories and she was like, oh yeah,

808
00:35:17,874 --> 00:35:19,393
Speaker 2: just do this and do that and like just the

809
00:35:19,434 --> 00:35:21,433
Speaker 2: way she talks about working in the women's media. I'm like,

810
00:35:21,714 --> 00:35:24,393
Speaker 2: this is the bad dates everything, Like it's just so

811
00:35:24,474 --> 00:35:27,114
Speaker 2: I feel like attacked and I also feel seen. Yeah,

812
00:35:28,034 --> 00:35:29,554
Speaker 2: so that's the only part that Sophie and I are

813
00:35:29,554 --> 00:35:32,114
Speaker 2: the same person. Because after that, this man that she

814
00:35:32,194 --> 00:35:34,474
Speaker 2: had dated years and years and years ago, who's a

815
00:35:34,474 --> 00:35:37,754
Speaker 2: bit of a jerk, lets her know that his grandmother

816
00:35:37,954 --> 00:35:41,074
Speaker 2: has passed away and left Sophie, his ex girlfriend of

817
00:35:41,114 --> 00:35:44,354
Speaker 2: many years, her house on this tiny little island off

818
00:35:44,354 --> 00:35:47,314
Speaker 2: the coast of New South Wales called Scriplgum Island and

819
00:35:47,514 --> 00:35:50,034
Speaker 2: all the family members live there and there's a mystery

820
00:35:50,074 --> 00:35:51,954
Speaker 2: attached to the island. So this is where it's like

821
00:35:51,994 --> 00:35:55,194
Speaker 2: a love story of Sophie, like moving to the island,

822
00:35:55,394 --> 00:35:57,754
Speaker 2: living in this house and trying to discover why it

823
00:35:57,794 --> 00:35:59,834
Speaker 2: was left to her. And one of the reasons she

824
00:35:59,874 --> 00:36:01,674
Speaker 2: decides to go is at the end of the letter

825
00:36:01,714 --> 00:36:03,994
Speaker 2: it says, I think you'll find love here. There's a

826
00:36:03,994 --> 00:36:06,074
Speaker 2: man that you should meet. So she goes there and

827
00:36:06,114 --> 00:36:08,154
Speaker 2: she meets all these different and every time she meets

828
00:36:08,154 --> 00:36:10,794
Speaker 2: a man, including a man who she used to date

829
00:36:10,794 --> 00:36:13,634
Speaker 2: who was married to her ex boyfriend's cousin. It's the

830
00:36:13,674 --> 00:36:16,274
Speaker 2: whole thing. Oh, it's a whole living on the island. Yeah,

831
00:36:16,314 --> 00:36:18,274
Speaker 2: So as much as it's about Sophie, like meeting all

832
00:36:18,274 --> 00:36:20,514
Speaker 2: these different men, some of them are great, some of

833
00:36:20,514 --> 00:36:22,874
Speaker 2: them that shares wild sex with, some of them are awful.

834
00:36:23,314 --> 00:36:27,433
Speaker 2: It's like also this mystery because the island Scribblely Gum

835
00:36:27,514 --> 00:36:30,314
Speaker 2: is known for this mystery where a couple moved to

836
00:36:30,354 --> 00:36:32,674
Speaker 2: the island and then they disappeared and a baby was

837
00:36:32,754 --> 00:36:35,154
Speaker 2: left and the baby is like a now and a

838
00:36:35,194 --> 00:36:38,074
Speaker 2: grown up woman living on the island. So then Sophie,

839
00:36:38,074 --> 00:36:40,913
Speaker 2: who's a journalist, goes back and tries to solve the

840
00:36:40,954 --> 00:36:44,754
Speaker 2: Mystery's yeah, I just really loved it. I found out

841
00:36:44,754 --> 00:36:46,034
Speaker 2: such as so I went to the premiere and I

842
00:36:46,034 --> 00:36:48,234
Speaker 2: watched it and I interviewed treesa Palmer and that was amazing.

843
00:36:48,274 --> 00:36:49,834
Speaker 2: But then every week, and I've got a lot of

844
00:36:49,874 --> 00:36:51,594
Speaker 2: TV to watch, so I don't watch stuff unless I

845
00:36:51,594 --> 00:36:53,514
Speaker 2: have to. But then every week I turned on Binge

846
00:36:53,514 --> 00:36:55,794
Speaker 2: to watch the next episode because I loved the weekly drop,

847
00:36:56,034 --> 00:36:57,714
Speaker 2: and I just found like a personal It's got all

848
00:36:57,754 --> 00:37:00,674
Speaker 2: these incredible like female characters like Daniel McDonald's in it

849
00:37:00,714 --> 00:37:03,114
Speaker 2: as well. But it's really about all these women in

850
00:37:03,154 --> 00:37:06,754
Speaker 2: this unconventional family living on this island, solving the mystery,

851
00:37:07,514 --> 00:37:09,274
Speaker 2: the love story. But I also just love when they're

852
00:37:09,274 --> 00:37:11,114
Speaker 2: just like cooking in the kitchen and making cakes and

853
00:37:11,154 --> 00:37:13,194
Speaker 2: drinking wine. I know, I just really loved it, Like

854
00:37:13,274 --> 00:37:14,834
Speaker 2: I know keeps people have watched it and loved it,

855
00:37:14,874 --> 00:37:17,474
Speaker 2: but I just feel like more people need to watch it.

856
00:37:17,514 --> 00:37:19,433
Speaker 2: I'm sold. Yeah, I think you would really love it.

857
00:37:19,434 --> 00:37:21,754
Speaker 2: Don't if you haven't read the book, don't google the ending. Okay,

858
00:37:22,074 --> 00:37:24,514
Speaker 2: when you find out the mystery of the baby and

859
00:37:24,554 --> 00:37:26,794
Speaker 2: how she was left there and how it's like intertwined

860
00:37:26,834 --> 00:37:28,554
Speaker 2: with the family, you'll be like, wow, I have.

861
00:37:28,554 --> 00:37:30,674
Speaker 4: So many like theories running through my head, having not

862
00:37:30,714 --> 00:37:33,314
Speaker 4: watched or know any of the characters names Keayla, bring

863
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Speaker 4: us home one more very quick.

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Speaker 2: Okay, we've done it recently, but in case anyone hasn't

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Speaker 2: watched it adults on Disney Plus. Yes, and I'm not

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Speaker 2: saying this, guys, one of the funniest shows I have

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Speaker 2: ever seen, because it's so rare that I would sit

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Speaker 2: in my apartment alone and watch a TV show and

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Speaker 2: be hysterically laughing out loud. And when Emily Vernon and

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Speaker 2: I did this on Weekend Watch. We don't look at

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Speaker 2: any other reviews first, so we watch a show, we

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Speaker 2: give out honest review and usually we're like fairly with

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Speaker 2: other people. This was like quite badly reviewed, and really

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Speaker 2: I would not normally say this about my colleagues, but

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Speaker 2: they're wrong. I just don't think they were watching it.

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Speaker 2: So so it's about a group of four twenty somethings

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Speaker 2: who are living in New York, like you know, out

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Speaker 2: in the world for the first time, in a sharehouse

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Speaker 2: together and it just tracks their life. There's eight episodes.

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Speaker 2: They should have been longer. They're like twenty two minutes.

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Speaker 2: That wasn't enough for me. I needed more. Like Charlie

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Speaker 2: Cox is in it. He's so funny. Julia Fox does

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Speaker 2: is an episode playing herself. Fantastic, so good. There's so

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Speaker 2: many laugh out loud moments, so many kind of like

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Speaker 2: wild moments, Like it starts with a character masturbating on

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Speaker 2: a train because a man's doing it. She's trying to

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Speaker 2: stand up for women's rights and like you know and

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Speaker 2: diggerate quality and stuff. But it is just really funny.

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Speaker 2: So I'm just saying, like, don't trust the reviews unless

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Speaker 2: it's Yeah, don't trust all the reviews. But Adults is

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Speaker 2: on Disney Plus right now. It's eight episodes or are

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Speaker 2: about twenty minutes each. It just felt so fresh and

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Speaker 2: funny and I just really loved it. What a way

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Speaker 2: to end public pleasure on a train. Yeah, It's what

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Speaker 2: all TV shows should have, obviously, Laura Rodnett, thank you

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Speaker 2: for having me back. Thank you for coming on and

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Speaker 2: talking about basketball. I'm sure you did well. Thank you

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Speaker 2: so much to Taylor for joining us, and thank you

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Speaker 2: all for listening to the Spill. And there are so

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Speaker 2: many other great summer listeners via the link in our

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Speaker 2: show notes, with some incredible episodes covering everything from true

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Speaker 2: crime to beauty to powerful interviews. And we have an

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Speaker 2: absolutely hilarious new Spill episode dropping on Friday, where Emily

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Speaker 2: and I debate which of our favorite romcom couples would

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Speaker 2: have broken up in real life, and of course we

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Speaker 2: very much disagree. We're back with daily shows from Monday.

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Speaker 2: Have a wonderful New Year's bye. Mamma Mia acknowledges the

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Speaker 2: traditional owners of the land. We have recorded this podcast

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Speaker 2: on the Gatigor people of the Eorination. We pay our

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Speaker 2: respects to their elders past and present, and extend that

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Speaker 2: respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.