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Speaker 1: Not long now to go until we celebrate the big

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Speaker 1: fortieth anniversary of Australia winning the Aura as we like

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Speaker 1: to think of it.

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Speaker 2: West Australia.

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Speaker 1: Of course, Robert America's Cup and Taking Liberty is on

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Speaker 1: at the Doubly Way Maritime Museum from September sixteenth to October.

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Speaker 1: The first tickets are through the WA Maritime Museum website.

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Speaker 1: This is a fabulous play and it's a three parter.

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Speaker 1: So one of those roles is Alan Bond. A playing

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Speaker 1: Alan Bond in Taking Liberty is Luke Hewitt.

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Speaker 2: He joins us. Now, Hollio Lake mate good a.

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Speaker 1: Well, Luke, Now, I don't tell me if I was wrong,

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Speaker 1: but I said, I think it was first done in

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Speaker 1: twenty eleven. And we you You were Alan Bond in

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Speaker 1: that one too, weren't you?

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Speaker 2: I was, Yeah, that was the second time.

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Speaker 3: That was the second time.

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Speaker 2: Okay, it was first down in two thousand and nine.

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Speaker 3: All right, oh wow.

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Speaker 4: And I wasn't in that, but our director was in that,

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Speaker 4: and our director for this production played John Bertrand in

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Speaker 4: those first two productions.

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Speaker 3: Awesome, So I get Joel Jackson this time. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So for those the uninitiated, tell Us quickly about the play, Well, it.

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Speaker 4: Sort of tracks all of Australia's involvement in the challenges

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Speaker 4: for the Cup and eventually winning the Cup. So we

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Speaker 4: go right back to like nineteen seventy when Bondie decided

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Speaker 4: he was going to throw his hat in the ring

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Speaker 4: for the Cup, and yeah, we track along. There's three

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Speaker 4: actors play all of the roles. So Joel plays John

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Speaker 4: Bertrand and others. Kasimir South plays Ben Lexton and others.

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Speaker 4: And I am Alan.

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Speaker 2: Bond and others.

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Speaker 4: And the others are like various commodoes of the New

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Speaker 4: York Yacht Club and Warren Jones and of all the

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Speaker 4: people that were around around the challenges at the time.

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Speaker 4: So it's a funny play. It is moving at the end,

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Speaker 4: and it's exciting during the races. And it's all set

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Speaker 4: in front of a large cinema screen. So the screen

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Speaker 4: is actually the fourth actor, and you'll see some wonderful

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Speaker 4: historical pictures and videos.

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Speaker 1: And that's where we'll see the key will come up

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Speaker 1: and that sort of thing.

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Speaker 2: Is it.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely we're also around sound as well, Yeah, cinema sound.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, it's a real experience.

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Speaker 5: It was a real It was a huge time for

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Speaker 5: Australia with a cultural cringe going on in nineteen eighty three,

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Speaker 5: and felt like we could take over the world, Luke,

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Speaker 5: But you know so much passion at the time was

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Speaker 5: such a huge celebration.

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Speaker 3: But let's be honest. I saw the doco.

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Speaker 5: I think it was last year they made the doco,

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Speaker 5: maybe the year before, and John Bertrand was still nearly

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Speaker 5: forty years later in tears. It meant so much to

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Speaker 5: Australians and the people who were there. It meant so much,

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Speaker 5: didn't it.

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Speaker 4: Yes, Well, we've spoken to many of the crew both

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Speaker 4: in twenty eleven and this year preparing for this play,

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Speaker 4: and it all it affects them all in a similar way.

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Speaker 2: They missed. They get missed the eyed really quickly when

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Speaker 2: they're talking about it.

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Speaker 1: Well, I think it's the greatest moment in Australian sporting

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Speaker 1: history and the greatest achievement in Australian sporting history. Do

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Speaker 1: you remember not do You might have just been a

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Speaker 1: little baby, Luke, but how do you remember where you were,

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Speaker 1: where you were.

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Speaker 2: Where we were baby?

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Speaker 4: I certainly do remember. I was in high school. I'm

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Speaker 4: not going to tell you which year of high school.

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Speaker 2: I was in high school. Yes, it was. It was

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Speaker 2: a massive thing.

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Speaker 4: And you know when we brought the cup home, there

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Speaker 4: was like half a million people on the foreshore celebrating.

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Speaker 4: Jackie Love was doing numbers to five hundred thousand people.

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Speaker 4: It was.

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Speaker 2: It was a massive thing. Yeah, and you was just

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Speaker 4: The America's Cup is the oldest international sporting competition in

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Speaker 4: the world, exactly.

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Speaker 2: It predates the modern Olympics. Yes, so it was.

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Speaker 4: A big thing one hundred and thirty six years before

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Speaker 4: it was won by anyone else, and that someone else.

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Speaker 3: Was easy to forget.

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Speaker 5: Luke, what a story was because it wasn't just the

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Speaker 5: underdog story because Australians have been trying for a long

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Speaker 5: time to win the greatest. We were done and dusted,

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Speaker 5: gone and Jennis kind of was strutting around because I

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Speaker 5: was so far in front of it was a strut.

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Speaker 5: They thought they had it all wrapped up, and then

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Speaker 5: all of a sudden we came back from pretty much

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Speaker 5: from dead.

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Speaker 3: It was an incredible comeback, as asie as you can get.

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Speaker 4: Definitely like it was three to one. It's a best

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Speaker 4: of seven competition. It was three to one. So from

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Speaker 4: that point on, every race was due or die and

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Speaker 4: we ended up winning the next three and yeah, it was.

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Speaker 2: It was. We were all hanging on the edge of

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Speaker 2: our chairs. It was.

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Speaker 1: It was really it's amazing chills now just thinking about it.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it never ceases to make me get those chills,

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Speaker 1: Like I'm like, I'm seeing the story for the first

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Speaker 1: time whenever I watch anything about it.

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Speaker 5: It was mind blowing, especially for us here in the West.

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Speaker 5: It was such a West Australian celebration.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Massive, and look I'll tell you also, the show is

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Speaker 4: part of the massive exhibition from Australia to forty Years

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Speaker 4: On that's on at the WA Maritime Museum. It's on

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Speaker 4: until February. Okay, yeah, till the fourth of February, so

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Speaker 4: there's plenty of time to see it. But if you

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Speaker 4: buy a ticket to the show, it gives you free

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Speaker 4: access to that exhibition. And I've been through the exhibition

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Speaker 4: and it's absolutely amazing. It tracks all of what we've

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Speaker 4: just been talking about. You can have a selfie in

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Speaker 4: the Australia jacket that Bob Hawk put on and got

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Speaker 4: spray wow. Really yeah, yeah, they've made up because of

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Speaker 4: that jacket.

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Speaker 2: So people can have selfies. Yeah you can.

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Speaker 4: You can do a little virtual sailing of a twelve

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Speaker 4: meter as well as look at all of the history

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Speaker 4: leading up to and videos and interviews of people that

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Speaker 4: were involved.

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Speaker 2: It's really amazing.

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Speaker 1: That is amazing once again. Fremantle is going to be

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Speaker 1: the place to be taking Liberty is on from Saturday

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Speaker 1: night at the Maritime Museum through to October first, and

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Speaker 1: of course there's the big free concert on the twenty

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Speaker 1: four September twenty fourth, so and that Saturday.

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Speaker 3: Week sensational celebery, Monday.

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Speaker 1: Week a big pun Sunday Sunday Week, Luke, thank you

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Speaker 1: so much. Should we look forward to seeing you take

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Speaker 1: on the Bondi roll again?

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Speaker 2: Yes, come along, let's go silent.

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Speaker 3: Thanks LOUCN.

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Speaker 5: Always remember made any employee, any boss who's there's a

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Speaker 5: bum of that you have the next day off?

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Speaker 2: Helly, thanks bye

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Speaker 3: Look you unreal