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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 ab.

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Speaker 2: Right, it is time to get your screen time picks

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Speaker 2: for this weekend. Carl Pushman is here with two shows

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Speaker 2: to watch your stream from your place today. Carl, have

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Speaker 2: you Valentine's Jack? Happy Valentine's Day? No, No place I'd

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Speaker 2: rather be than than with you, Carl, I can assure

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Speaker 2: you of that. Hey, let's start off with your first

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Speaker 2: show so streaming on Neon tell Us about Tom Sainsbury's

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Speaker 2: Small Town Scandal is This is.

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Speaker 3: A comedic who Done It? An eight part series that

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Speaker 3: is based on his hit fake true crime podcast If

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Speaker 3: You Can Follow Me There. In it, he plays Toby At,

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Speaker 3: a s grace journalist who's fled Australia and moved back

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Speaker 3: home with his mum in the fictional small ki town

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Speaker 3: of Tehiho. That's the kind of place where most everyone

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Speaker 3: knows most everyone else. The show kicks off when his

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Speaker 3: wealthy uncle dies in a suspicious, fairly gruesome lawnar accident.

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Speaker 3: His journalistic instincts kick in. When the official police line

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Speaker 3: on the murder doesn't line up with the facts staring

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Speaker 3: in front of him, he decides to investigate, and being unemployed,

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Speaker 3: start the true crime podcast following this investigation. This is

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Speaker 3: sort of familiar territory now. We've seen the same kind

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Speaker 3: of premise with Steve Martin and Martin Short's excellent Only

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Speaker 3: Murders in the Building. Will Forte had a show called

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Speaker 3: Bodkin which had a similar premise, and like those shows,

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Speaker 3: the small town here is almost solely inhabited by eccentric types,

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Speaker 3: and the deeper Toby dives into the death, the more

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Speaker 3: suspects and motives he uncovers. You know, Sainsbury's a very

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Speaker 3: funny chap and having been adapted from his podcasts, means

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Speaker 3: there's plenty of great gags and fast quips throughout. There's

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Speaker 3: also a really pleasing absurdist streak sort of laid over

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Speaker 3: the top of the whole thing, which I really enjoyed.

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Speaker 3: He's assembled a great cast with him local Emmy winner

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Speaker 3: morgana O'Reilly, most recently seen in The White Lotus last year.

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Speaker 3: She's there. She stars alongside our award winning comedy treasure

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Speaker 3: Rose Mattafayo as his cousin, who is humorously referred to

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Speaker 3: as cousin Kate the whole time, and as toby'smum's dear

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Speaker 3: old Felicity Kendall, she of the Good Life.

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Speaker 2: So good. Yeah, Yeah, it's fantastic.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's really funny. If you've listened to the podcast,

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Speaker 3: it's still worth tuning in because he's reworked the crime,

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Speaker 3: which I think is quite a nifty thing to have done,

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Speaker 3: so this time is a different murderer. If you haven't,

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Speaker 3: it's a killer watch with sharp humor and plenty of

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Speaker 3: red hearings to keep you guessing as you try to

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Speaker 3: puzzle out who done it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I just think Tom Sagery is a national treasure. Honestly,

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Speaker 2: give that man a knighthood. That the amount of joy

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Speaker 2: that he gives to hundreds of thousands of people, I

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Speaker 2: honestly reckon would be unrivaled.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, i'd agree with that. And he's doing great

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Speaker 3: stuff with like he did a movie I forgot the

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Speaker 3: name of it, but it's really good at sort of

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Speaker 3: a comedy horror, and he's just trying his hand at

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Speaker 3: lots of different things and pretty much nailing everything he does.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I mean, he's on Educators on TVZ Plus at the moment,

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Speaker 2: which is such such good fun as well, and obviously

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Speaker 2: his Instagram gags, you know, never that they never fail

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Speaker 2: to delight me. So I'm really much, really really looking

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Speaker 2: forward to this so small town scandal is as well. Yeah, yeah, exactly,

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Speaker 2: Yeah to such a good guy. Right next up on Netflix,

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Speaker 2: Queen of Chess.

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Speaker 3: Yes now, this is a documentary and the Hungarian chess

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Speaker 3: player Dude at Polgar. She's the greatest woman chess player

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Speaker 3: of all time. In nineteen eighty seven, at the age

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Speaker 3: of twelve, she was rated the number one female chess

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Speaker 3: player in the world. Four years later, she became chess's

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Speaker 3: youngest grand master, beating Bobby Fisher's record by a month.

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Speaker 3: She was an extraordinary player. She had a highly aggressive

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Speaker 3: style that one expert describes as ferocious, and in the

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Speaker 3: documentary she herself says, I wanted to kill my opponents.

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Speaker 3: I would sacrifice everything to get a checkmate. So it's

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Speaker 3: chess less as civilized game and more as blood sport

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Speaker 3: her in her eyes. The main focus of the doco

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Speaker 3: is her long running rivalry with Gary Kasparov, the undisputed

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Speaker 3: greatest chess player of all time. And you know they

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Speaker 3: had these insane clashes, and this footage of all of

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Speaker 3: them from the earliest meeting to their final meeting. And

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Speaker 3: these are just riveting intents, filled with vivid descriptions from

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Speaker 3: both of the players as they explained what they were,

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Speaker 3: you know, what their moves were, and what was going

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Speaker 3: through their head with each crucial move. And these games,

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Speaker 3: was huge pressure, huge stakes on the line each and

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Speaker 3: every time. But Judas wasn't just battling Gasperov. She was

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Speaker 3: also battling the boys club that was a chess world

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Speaker 3: of showing just how stacked against her it was. She's

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Speaker 3: not taken seriously at all, even while dispatching contender after

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Speaker 3: contender and winning titles and tournaments, and you know, you

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Speaker 3: see her being belittle by those she's just defeated. It

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Speaker 3: is crazy. From the enlightened year of twenty thirty six,

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Speaker 3: it's crazy to see the insane sexism of the establishment

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Speaker 3: at that period of time. Doc Also, yeah, it also

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Speaker 3: brings up ideas of nature versus nurture. Her dad wanted

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Speaker 3: to prove that geniuses were made and not born so

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Speaker 3: by the age of five, he had her taking chess

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Speaker 3: lessons from three different coaches, starting early morning and going

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Speaker 3: until late at night weekends to holidays. Just a brutal regime.

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Speaker 3: It's it's telling when she was old enough to seize

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Speaker 2: She did.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, it's an abundance of archive footage, archive fal

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Speaker 3: footage which is just fascinating, an awesome soundtrack of female

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Speaker 3: led post punk bands, and these new interviews with all

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Speaker 3: the main players due to Kasparov family members, fast paced,

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Speaker 3: intriguing and well worth watch.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that sounds good good. They're really probably trying to

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Speaker 2: tap into the whole chess thing at the moment. Hey,

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Speaker 2: it was a queen's gambit. Was the was the Netflix

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Speaker 2: area that obviously went gangbusters? Does it sort of feel

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Speaker 2: like it's trying to you know, trying to lean into that,

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Speaker 2: Well that was that.

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Speaker 3: Was fictional and you know, a riveting watching and really

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Speaker 3: cool how they did it all. This being real life

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Speaker 3: is just so much more impressive and so much more

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Speaker 3: like I was fully absorbed. And it's only ninety ninety

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Speaker 3: minutes or so. It's fast watch as well. Yeah, and

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Speaker 3: it's just you know that just that that something real

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Speaker 3: and tangible. But yeah, Chess, it has got a resurgence

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Speaker 3: going on and that interest in the game, and I

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Speaker 3: think if there is any passing interest that you have,

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Speaker 3: then Queen of Chess is one definitely not to miss.

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Speaker 2: Oh superb. Thank you, Carl. So that's Queen of Chess.

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Speaker 2: That's on Netflix. Small Town Scandal, Tom Sainsbury's comedy is

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Speaker 2: on Neon. All the details of the show for both

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Speaker 2: of those shows will be up at NEWSTALKSDB dot co

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Speaker 2: dot nz, and you can hear more from Carl on

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Speaker 2: his substack screen.

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