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

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Speaker 1: from News Talks at b.

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Speaker 2: It is twenty five past ten, which means it's screen

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Speaker 2: time time. Carl Pushman is here with his picks for

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Speaker 2: this week for shows to watch your stream from the

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Speaker 2: comfort of your place. Good morning, Carl. Oh, we're just

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Speaker 2: lost you there, and I'm sure we will manage to

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Speaker 2: get you back up. Let's begin this morning. We've got

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Speaker 2: two shows. Let's begin with one that is streaming on

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Speaker 2: TV and Z plus. I've seen the previews for this.

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Speaker 2: It looks so good. Tell us about Run Run.

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Speaker 3: Yes, the brilliant Robin Malcolm Channel's in a Bogan to

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Speaker 3: starring the sixth part Ossie crime drammer. But that's where

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Speaker 3: the comparisons to our beloved crime centered series Outrageous Fortune ends.

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Speaker 3: Run is no comedy. Instead, it tells the true story

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Speaker 3: of Australia's most notorious bank rubber, Brendan Abbott. Like fellow

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Speaker 3: outlaws Ned Kelleam chopper, Abbot's story has also shifted to

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Speaker 3: modern Ossie folklore. After robbing a bank by dropping in

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Speaker 3: from the ceiling through an airvent back in the eighties,

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Speaker 3: Abbot was quickly captured and sent to Freemantle Prison, but

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Speaker 3: that's just the beginning of his story. While there, he

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Speaker 3: executed one of the most famous and ingenious jale breaks

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Speaker 3: in Australian history and went on the lamb for over

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Speaker 3: five years, robbing banks up and down the country and

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Speaker 3: evading all police attempts to nab him. During this time,

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Speaker 3: he was nicknamed the Postcard Bandit thanks to reports that

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Speaker 3: he was taunting the police on his tail by sending

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Speaker 3: them postcards from around Australia. It's a neat story that

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Speaker 3: really capture the imagination, but sadly was later debunked as myth.

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Speaker 3: As we all know, crime doesn't pay, and eventually the

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Speaker 3: cops did get their man. He was in a sentence

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Speaker 3: to Queensland Prison, where remarkably he escaped again. A major

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Speaker 3: police man hunt apprehended him five and a half months later,

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Speaker 3: which is still an incredibly long time for a high

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Speaker 3: profile criminal to be on the loose. So with all that,

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Speaker 3: you can see how Abbot's story makes for a gripping,

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Speaker 3: action packed series, and run doesn't trip up telling it.

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Speaker 3: It's incredibly well made, with a look that resembles a

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Speaker 3: gritty Australian film rather than a standard TV drama. I

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Speaker 3: also really enjoyed how Run catches its eighties early nineties

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Speaker 3: settings in a far more relatable way to Kiwi's than

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Speaker 3: American retro based if it's like Stranger Things and shows

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Speaker 3: like that, it really did take me back to that era.

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Speaker 3: The show's big set pieces are fantastic. The opening episode's

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Speaker 3: prison break is an especially tense ride. Occasionally, however, Run

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Speaker 3: does run out of puff. It's time shifting tom foolery

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Speaker 3: can slow its pacing down. You get the feeling it

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Speaker 3: could have been a little bit tighter as it jumps

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Speaker 3: around its timeline. I'm sure there's details the show skips over,

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Speaker 3: as adaptations of true stories often do, but overall, it's

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Speaker 3: an enjoyable series that I think is worth a run.

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Speaker 2: Fantastic, very good zing.

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Speaker 1: So that's Run.

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Speaker 2: It's plus where you can see that starring George Mason

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Speaker 2: and Robin Melfam mixed up on Disney Plus. Scrubs is back.

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Speaker 3: Yes, the popular naughty sitcom Scrubs has been resuscitated after

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Speaker 3: more than fifteen years. The comedy that followed wide eyed

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Speaker 3: medical interns learning the ropes from a grizzled senior veteran

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Speaker 3: in a private hospital was hugely popular back in the

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Speaker 3: day thanks to its unique structure. Each episode would see

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Speaker 3: a new patient wield in while the crew traded fast

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Speaker 3: pace as any gags that often led into cartoonish dream

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Speaker 3: sequences and non sequitur cutaways. Then in its final minutes,

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Speaker 3: it would shift gears and hit you with an emotional

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Speaker 3: wallop that would really pull out the heart strings as

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Speaker 3: patients would die or have complicated medical outcomes. Lead JD

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Speaker 3: would have a reflective voice over while an indie music

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Speaker 3: tear JERKERD played in the background. It was a winning formula.

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Speaker 3: The show was off the wall but also had that

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Speaker 3: emotional impact, giving you something to invest in as you want.

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Speaker 2: And oh dear, we seem to have just lost car.

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Speaker 2: All right, well here's the second show there with Scrubs

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Speaker 2: that's streaming on TV and Z Plus, or see if

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Speaker 2: we'll go back up.

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Speaker 3: No, we got on there. I think I'm here.

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Speaker 2: I don't know what happened there. I think we had

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Speaker 2: a green flash over the internet this morning. Mine so sorry.

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Speaker 3: We were well, I was gonna say, pleasingly. The old

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Speaker 3: Gang is all back, led by Zach Braff, who has

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Speaker 3: aged annoyingly well, it must be said, the verbose and

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Speaker 3: viatrolic doctor Cox played by John C. McGinley is as

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Speaker 3: delightfullly insulting as ever, but sadly he doesn't stick around

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Speaker 3: past episode one. This leads it to the core for

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Speaker 3: characters JD, Turk, Elliott and Karla the shoulder of a series,

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Speaker 3: which is no problem o. Their comedic chemistry and off

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Speaker 3: kilter exuberance is as strong as ever. Time or changing

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Speaker 3: comedy trends has not impacted the show at all. As example,

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Speaker 3: you get Turk leading his in turns through a robot

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Speaker 3: dance off and JD murdering his new rival and a

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Speaker 3: gruesomely silly Goldfinger inspired dream sequence. The show's fun and funny,

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Speaker 3: even if it does take a minute to acclimate back

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Speaker 3: to its comedic style. As wacky as all that is,

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Speaker 3: Scrubs hasn't gone the other half of that winning formula.

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Speaker 3: The first two episodes both line up satisfying, highly emotional

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Speaker 3: endings that criticize and highlight the failings of the American

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Speaker 3: for profit healthcare system. Got to say, after all this time,

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Speaker 3: scrub still works. It's warm and likable, easy and fun

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Speaker 3: to watch, and where's it's hard on its sleeve with pride,

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Speaker 3: it could be good for it ailsier.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's great to hear, because usually when you hear

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Speaker 2: a show is being revamped or something I thinks're gonna

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Speaker 2: be any good, sometimes you sort of wish that just

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Speaker 2: leave things, leave things rest. But that sounds fantastic. Rank

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Speaker 2: you for them. Okay, so that's Scrubs. It's on Disney Plus.

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Speaker 2: Carl's first pick for us this week is Run, which

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Speaker 2: is on TV and Z Plus, And of course you

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Speaker 2: can hear more from Carl on his substack screen.

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