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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Team podcast

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Speaker 1: from News Talks a'b.

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Speaker 2: Green Time expert Tara Award is here with her three

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Speaker 2: picks for this weekend. More than a Tara Modena Jack. Okay,

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Speaker 2: let's begin with a new show streaming on Netflix based

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Speaker 2: on a true story, tell us about Toxic Town.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, if you watched Mister Bates in the Post Office

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Speaker 3: last year and were outraged at that story about how

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Speaker 3: ordinary people were caught up in this shocking scandal and

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Speaker 3: how they took the government, took the government on to

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Speaker 3: get justice, then Toxic Town is a new show in

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Speaker 3: a very similar kind of vein. It's shocking and heartbreaking,

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Speaker 3: and it's a story about ordinary people fighting back. It's

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Speaker 3: set in the nineteen nineties in the English town of Corby,

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Speaker 3: where some old steel works were being redeveloped and the

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Speaker 3: ground was contaminated and as they redeveloped the site, the

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Speaker 3: practices were pretty sloppy and it was a bit of

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Speaker 3: a rush job to try and get the town back

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Speaker 3: on its feet, and the toxic waste ended up getting

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Speaker 3: into the community and around the same time, babies in

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Speaker 3: the town being born with physical disabilities and the mothers

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Speaker 3: of those babies made the connection. Some of them worked

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Speaker 3: at the steel work site, some of them had partners

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Speaker 3: who worked there, some lived nearby. They realized what was

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Speaker 3: going on and took on the council to prove that

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Speaker 3: there was negligence there and to prove that the officials

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Speaker 3: knew the soil was contaminated and that there had been

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Speaker 3: a cover up. Jodi Whittaker stars in this, and she's

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Speaker 3: just fantastic. She plays one of the mothers who leads

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Speaker 3: this campaign, Robert Carlyle's and this as well Amy lou

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Speaker 3: Wood just such a really strong British cast and the

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Speaker 3: storytelling is really compelling. It's quite a complex story, but

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Speaker 3: they've told it in a very heartfelt, relatable way, one

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Speaker 3: that captures you right from the very opening scene. Really

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Speaker 3: strong performances in this, and such a shocking story, you

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Speaker 3: know you kind of can't look away from it, but

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Speaker 3: pet your tissues handy because it is quite emotional as well.

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Speaker 2: Okay, cool, Yeah, sounds amazing. So that's Toxic Town. It's

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Speaker 2: on Netflix. Also on Flix tell Us about the Mission.

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Speaker 3: This is a new Australian true crime documentary series and

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Speaker 3: it's one of those crimes that just makes for the

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Speaker 3: perfect true crime documentary. It's bizarre when you first look

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Speaker 3: at it, and then it just gets weirder and weirder

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Speaker 3: the more you drill down into it. This is about

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Speaker 3: an art heist that took place in the nineteen eighties

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Speaker 3: and the Western Australian outback, when two guys turned up

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Speaker 3: at a Spanish monastery in the middle of nowhere and

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Speaker 3: stole twenty six artworks valued to be worth millions of dollars.

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Speaker 3: The thieves were real amateurs. They hired a getaway car

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Speaker 3: and they chose a gold Ford Falcon.

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Speaker 4: Which is not the most inconspicuous car debian when you're

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Speaker 4: committing a crime. So the police were onto them pretty

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Speaker 4: quickly and they end up sort of unraveling this very

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Speaker 4: strange crime, one that raised a lot of questions like

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Speaker 4: what were all these valuable European masterpieces doing in a

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Speaker 4: monastery in the Australian bush and who was actually pulling

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Speaker 4: all the strings behind this crime. So the documentary talks

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Speaker 4: to the people involved in the case, the detectives who

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Speaker 4: were investigating it, the journalists who were covering it. There's

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Speaker 4: so many colorful characters in this it's in a really

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Speaker 4: intriguing story, and they've told it in a very watchable,

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Speaker 4: dramatized way. There's lots of twists and turns, but I

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Speaker 4: think partly because it was a crime done so badly,

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Speaker 4: that these were such bad criminals, that's what makes it

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Speaker 4: such a fascinating one.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Great, Okay, this sounds really interesting. That's the mission.

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Speaker 2: So that's also on Netflix. And last, but not least,

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Speaker 2: streaming on Netflix. You guessed at running point.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: This is a new sports comedy created by Mindy Kayling.

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Speaker 3: It stars Kate Hudson and Justin Thurreau, and it's a

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Speaker 3: bit like a cross between Ted Lasso and Succession. Kate

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Speaker 3: Hudson plays this reformed party girl who is unexpectedly put

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Speaker 3: in charge of her family's Los Angeles basketball team and

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Speaker 3: has to suddenly prove herself as this strong and capable

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Speaker 3: businesswoman and prove all the doubter's role from the team themselves,

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Speaker 3: to the public, to her brothers who are angling for

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Speaker 3: the job themselves and really want her to fail. It's

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Speaker 3: that classic fish out of water situation. Didn't feel entirely

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Speaker 3: new or original, and it doesn't have that same kind

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Speaker 3: of charm as Ted Lasso, but I think that's the

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Speaker 3: vibe they're going for. It is still light and easy

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Speaker 3: to watch and does get better as it goes on.

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Speaker 3: It's one of those comedies that you can just kind

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Speaker 3: of put on, have a lazy weekend on the couch,

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Speaker 3: put on, relax into, and not have to think too hard.

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Speaker 2: About nice, okay cool. That's Running Points, so that's on

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Speaker 2: Netflix as well. Those shows once Again, Toxic Town, The Mission,

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Speaker 2: and Running Point. All of those will be up on

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Speaker 2: the News Talks he'db website.

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