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Speaker 1: Jersey and Amanda gam Nation.

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Speaker 2: The next guest really needs no introduction. He's an Emmy

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Speaker 2: Award winning actor, a best selling author, a director, a producer.

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Speaker 2: He's the man known as the Fawns, but so much

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Speaker 2: more than that. He's just landed in Australia for a tour.

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Speaker 2: Tickets to Being Henry are on sale now. Being Henry's

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Speaker 2: also the name of his autobiography. We're talking about Henry

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Speaker 2: Winkler and we're so thrilled to have him on the show.

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Speaker 3: Hello.

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Speaker 1: You know what, I am thrilled myself. As a matter

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Speaker 1: of fact, I am standing. I cannot even sit.

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Speaker 4: Because you've just got straight off a plane and you're

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Speaker 4: talking to us.

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Speaker 2: What a dream for.

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Speaker 4: You, you know?

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Speaker 1: But isn't that the way of the world. But here

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Speaker 1: I am in wonderful Australia. Yesterday walking on the streets

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Speaker 1: of Sydney. Everyone said to me, oh, welcome to Australia.

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Speaker 1: It was like the warmth enveloped me like a rap.

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Speaker 2: Well, we're thrilled to you here, and your story is

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Speaker 2: an extraordinary one and everyone knows you as the Fonds.

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Speaker 2: But you've had such a resurgence in your career since then.

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Speaker 2: But was there a time after that where you thought, well,

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Speaker 2: that's it. That role made me, But that might be

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Speaker 2: the only role I'll get.

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Speaker 1: You know what that is for sure? When I finished

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Speaker 1: the Fonds, I had lived my dream. I had no

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Speaker 1: plan B. I had never dawned on me what I

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Speaker 1: was going to do next, nor did it really dawn

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Speaker 1: on me how intense our type casting would be. So

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Speaker 1: my lawyer, Skip Brittenham the Third said, you know what,

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Speaker 1: I'm going to start a production company for you. I said,

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Speaker 1: but I'm so learning challenged. How am I ever going

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Speaker 1: to do that. I don't know about business? He said,

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Speaker 1: You'll learn. And the first show I got to produce

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Speaker 1: was mcgiver.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, when you say learning challenge, you grew up with

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Speaker 2: dyslexia and didn't really You weren't aware till much later

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Speaker 2: that that's what all that had been.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, I was told I was stupid, I was lazy,

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Speaker 1: I was not going to meet my dream, And in

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Speaker 1: my mind, I thought, how is that possible? I really

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Speaker 1: know what I want? How is it I'm never going

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Speaker 1: to meet my destiny. And one of the things in

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Speaker 1: the book is that you don't know what you can

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Speaker 1: accomplish until you just try it exactly till you put

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Speaker 1: one foot in front of the other.

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Speaker 3: I was reading.

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Speaker 4: I was actually watching Sylvesters Lions documentary Sly recently, and

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Speaker 4: he's talking about Lords of Flatbush, and I just love

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Speaker 4: that story. How you guys were both in that movie.

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Speaker 4: Your star had risen, You're off to Hollywood, and then Sly,

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Speaker 4: he hasn't even done Rocky yet. He just shows up

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Speaker 4: in Hollywood and he ends up staying with you in Hollywood.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, his car broke down his first wife, Sasha,

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Speaker 1: and they had a bowl master who took up the

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Speaker 1: back seat. So I went to pick them up. I

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Speaker 1: went to pick up the human beings and all of

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Speaker 1: their clothes, and there was so much slobber in the

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Speaker 1: back feet. I had to wear a snorkel in order

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Speaker 1: to get their suitcases out. So then he gives me

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Speaker 1: a script. I take it to ABC, I sell it.

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Speaker 1: I bring it back to Sly. I say, Sly, here's

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Speaker 1: the good news, here's all the money. The bad news.

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Speaker 1: They want to replace you as a writer. He said, Henry,

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Speaker 1: don't let them do this to me. I said. I

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Speaker 1: went back to ABC. I said, ABC, please, here's all

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Speaker 1: the money. I just need that script back. They said,

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Speaker 1: we don't do that. I said, no, you don't do that.

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Speaker 1: That's adorable. But this time I need you to give

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Speaker 1: me that script. I finally got it back. I wrestled

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Speaker 1: it back from ABC, gave it to Sly a year

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Speaker 1: and a half later, Rocky Wow.

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Speaker 4: Wow Wow, and all the things that spun out of

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Speaker 4: Happy Days as well, like Tom Hanks when he took

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Speaker 4: you on in a fight, in a kung fu fight.

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Speaker 1: Now, that is so interesting because Tom Hanks at that time,

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Speaker 1: I had finished his television show. He had not really

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Speaker 1: become a movie star yet, and so he was just

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Speaker 1: Happy Days and kicked me through the window in Arnold's

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Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, we all know what

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Speaker 1: happened after that. He went on to win the Oscars

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Speaker 1: and be in incredible movies.

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Speaker 2: But also your resurgence like Barry. You playing the acting

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Speaker 2: coach in Barry. What a gift of a role that is,

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Speaker 2: How brilliant for you?

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Speaker 1: Do you know what that is the perfect word to use.

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Speaker 1: It was a gift, I'm telling you. I am I

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Speaker 1: am honored that I got to be in that group

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Speaker 1: of people in that particular show. I don't know that

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Speaker 1: I will ever equal that show again in my career,

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Speaker 1: but that I got to do it, that I got

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Speaker 1: to be friends with all of those people, and Bill

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Speaker 1: Hayter is just a mirror in my life. And that's

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Speaker 1: not hyperbole, that just is the truth. If you watch Barry,

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean.

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Speaker 4: It's absolutely fantastic. And do you like being on camera

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Speaker 4: or behind the scenes? What's your poison these days?

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Speaker 3: Do you know?

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Speaker 1: There was a time when I tried to do everything.

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Speaker 1: I tried to direct and produce and act, and I

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Speaker 1: finally realized, since I was seven, my dream was to

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Speaker 1: be an actor, and maybe I'm dissipating everything by doing

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Speaker 1: too much, and so I then started to focus on

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Speaker 1: just being an actor. And then out of nowhere came

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Speaker 1: being a book writer with my partner. I've written forty

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Speaker 1: children's novels. A lot of them are here in Australia

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Speaker 1: Hank Zipser. And then this is really my first adult attempt.

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Speaker 1: And my son Max, who is now forty and a director,

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Speaker 1: he was the one who convinced me that being Henry

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Speaker 1: had to exist.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Well, such a fantastic read and if anything, I

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Speaker 4: just like seeing a picture of you on water skis

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Speaker 4: with a motorcycle have the jacket on.

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Speaker 3: I think that's no one's ever done it.

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Speaker 1: They ripped out the lining so that, you know, the

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Speaker 1: jacket would be more buoyant. This is true if you

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Speaker 1: watch that episode of Jumping the Shark. At the end,

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Speaker 1: I pull up on the sand, I walk out of

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Speaker 1: the skis and they and they end on a smile,

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Speaker 1: and half that smile is the fun's going. Hey, look

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Speaker 1: I just did this. This is great, And the other

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Speaker 1: half of the smile is all my lord, I just

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Speaker 1: actually am still standing as Henry. So I had fun.

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Speaker 4: I had a lot of fun with that, and you

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Speaker 4: continue to do so. Henry, It's so great to talk

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Speaker 4: to you. Tickets to Being Henry The Fawns Are Beyond

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Speaker 4: are on sale September nineteen. Is that when the show

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Speaker 4: is coming to town? Fine dot com dot you.

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Speaker 3: But it's just great to have you in our city.

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Speaker 3: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: You know I'm here now. So I'm I'm going to

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Speaker 1: be in in February. This this wonderful month. I'm going

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Speaker 1: to be touring all the different cities, Adelaide and Brisbane

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Speaker 1: and Perth and Melbourne and uh Cambria uh. And I'm

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Speaker 1: looking forward to it. And we have a little town

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Speaker 1: hall and I get to tell wonderful stories about my

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Speaker 1: life and about that I am no different from anybody else.

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Speaker 4: Well it's actually Canberra. But they went, mind if you

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Speaker 4: get it wrong, they went mind.

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Speaker 1: You know what, when I get to Canberra, I will apologize.

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Speaker 2: You don't need to apologize.

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Speaker 3: You are the mayor of this you are now and

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Speaker 3: your prime minister. I'm happy. That's it.

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Speaker 1: Well, you have a wonderful country that from the beginning

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Speaker 1: has been so support or of me and what I

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Speaker 1: have done in my life. The name of my company

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Speaker 1: that produces television is called Faid Income. Wow.

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Speaker 2: Really, well there you go.

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Speaker 1: You go.

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Speaker 3: Well mate, that's a that's a big a from all

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Speaker 3: of us.

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Speaker 2: Oh, it's lovely to talk to you, and thank you

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Speaker 2: for sharing your time with us this morning.

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Speaker 1: Do you know what. Thank you for inviting me.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, Henry. You look after yourself.