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Speaker 1: Well, good morning, Ben, good morning. If you're seen on

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Speaker 1: our behalf this week, Well, look, I waited till the

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Speaker 1: first of December. Christmas move which yes, is I think

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Speaker 1: that's the dignified thing to do. Absolutely I thought it

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Speaker 1: should be wearing an ugly Christmas sweater. I'm not, unfortunately,

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Speaker 1: but your addressed is enough. I'm not just anybody radio.

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Speaker 1: You would not catch me a dresses. Although I will

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Speaker 1: be in the Christmas pageant this weekend, just as the

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Speaker 1: knut cracker. I've made that my own. That role we

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Speaker 1: did not crack the last last year. I'm reprising the role.

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Speaker 1: Got such a great spont being the ball breaker. I

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Speaker 1: nut cracked the heck out of that. Done so and

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Speaker 1: so anyway, So Christmas movies, though, like we get a

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Speaker 1: ton of them every year now because of all the

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Speaker 1: streaming platforms like Netflix alone will probably have thirty Christmas movies,

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Speaker 1: of which thirty of them are terrible, not new ones,

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Speaker 1: new ones. There is an in Street and Christmas movie.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, but this has been going on for a

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Speaker 1: live time in America, like the Hallmark Channel and all

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Speaker 1: of the real duds, real duds. But but now we're

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Speaker 1: getting them because of Netflix. Oh, they're really really bad.

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Speaker 1: There was a Housewife one last year. Housewives. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: everybody's getting into it. There's a Lindsay Lowhand one on

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Speaker 1: Netflix at the moment that is so bad that it

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Speaker 1: actually has crossed over and become good. He has that power.

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Speaker 1: But most of them are bad. Most of the movies

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Speaker 1: are bad. They're like Christmas crackers. Like back in the day,

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Speaker 1: Christmas crackers, like they would explode with a big bang,

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Speaker 1: and then they'd have some sort of like die cast

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Speaker 1: car or something like actual genuine like quality toy. These days,

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Speaker 1: they just fizz out. They don't choking has bad and

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Speaker 1: it just adds more rubbish to the world, essentially the

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Speaker 1: Christmas movie industry. True, And so you're always left scraping

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Speaker 1: around with the kids over the school holidays trying to

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Speaker 1: find the one decent Christmas movie. And it's like, can

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Speaker 1: I watch Elf again for like the fifty seventh time? Yeah? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: a home alone die Hard one of my favorite Christmas movies.

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Speaker 1: Maybe not one for the kids, that's a bit too much.

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Speaker 1: But so along comes this new movie, and for fans

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Speaker 1: of Will Ferrell and Ryan Reynolds, I don't even need

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Speaker 1: to tell you anymore. They're both in this one. So

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Speaker 1: that's enough to make a lot of people watch it

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Speaker 1: straight away. They maybe have a pause for concern because

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Speaker 1: it's a musical, right, and so it's a bit of

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Speaker 1: a red flag, right, But I can put your minds

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Speaker 1: at ease. It's actually this is probably one of the

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Speaker 1: better Christmas movies to come along since Elf. If you're

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Speaker 1: into that style of if you're a Christmas Grinch, probably

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Speaker 1: not going to be up your alley. But this retells

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Speaker 1: Charles Dickens is famous a Christmas carol, which is what

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Speaker 1: hundred and seventy nine hundred and eighty years old. Now

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Speaker 1: there's probably been twice as many adaptations since then. And

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Speaker 1: so it's a story of Ebeneze Scrooge and he gets

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Speaker 1: visited by the three Christmas Ghosts, goes to Christmas past,

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Speaker 1: goes to Christmas present, goes to Christmas future, and it

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Speaker 1: shows him different aspects of his life and what will

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Speaker 1: happen if he doesn't become a better person. That's the

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Speaker 1: gist of it. This film flips that idea by telling

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Speaker 1: the story from the perspective of the ghosts, and so

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Speaker 1: Will Ferrell is Ghost of Christmas Present, who has been

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Speaker 1: the most successful Christmas Ghost, and he loves his work.

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Speaker 1: He loves changing people for the better, and all of

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Speaker 1: a sudden realizes that, you know what we're just changing,

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Speaker 1: you know, like a hedge fund manager or a bloke

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Speaker 1: who works at the local Walmart who is just mean

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Speaker 1: and change the world. And so he realizes the perfect

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Speaker 1: person to try and improve is this PR spin doctor

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Speaker 1: who kind of rebrands the images of the Republican Party

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Speaker 1: and the you know, the gun lobby in America, basically

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Speaker 1: this despicable dude who makes evil people seem good. And

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Speaker 1: so he goes, this is the guy that I want

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Speaker 1: to change. Of course it's Ryan Reynolds, who is perfectly

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Speaker 1: cast as that kind of sleazy PR guy who at

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Speaker 1: one point at the start of the film does this

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Speaker 1: musical number where he's trying to read and the like

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Speaker 1: real Christmas Tree Growing Association because they're being dominated by

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Speaker 1: plastic trees. And so he says, the secret to the

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Speaker 1: secret to winning the Christmas Tree War is you have

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Speaker 1: to make it a culture war. You have to say,

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Speaker 1: if you buy a plastic tree, you're not into good

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Speaker 1: old fashioned American values and you're into you know, you're

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Speaker 1: too woke and all of this sort of stuff, and

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Speaker 1: so the film kicks off from there. But of course

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Speaker 1: Ryan Reynolds doesn't take this sort of self improvement commitment

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Speaker 1: lying down. He pushes back of the Royal Ferral's Ghost

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Speaker 1: of Christmas Present and says, well, what about yourself, mate,

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Speaker 1: Like your life doesn't look all that great, And so

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Speaker 1: then they start to get into his history. It turns

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Speaker 1: a Scrooge, and the movie unfolds from there. The songs,

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Speaker 1: which you know, like this is probably not at the

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Speaker 1: absolute apex of cinema musicals, but they were written by

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Speaker 1: the Oscar winning songwriting duo Pasek and Paul, who wrote

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Speaker 1: the songs from the Greatest Showman ah La Land and

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Speaker 1: Dear Evan Hansen. So the real deal, real deal top shelf,

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Speaker 1: some really really good satire And if you're fans of

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Speaker 1: Will Ferrell and Ryan Reynolds, like this will be right

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Speaker 1: in your wheelhouse, like you, the jokes are so familiar

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Speaker 1: to people who like both of those actors. All right,

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Speaker 1: So how many chestnuts roasting on an open fire. Come on,

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Speaker 1: nut Cracker, what do you go? Cracked? Well, you know

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Speaker 1: what I'm going Maybe maybe it's because it's the calendar

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Speaker 1: has turned to December and I'm feeling a bit festive,

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Speaker 1: but I'm going to give this three and a half chest.

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Speaker 1: You've been alright bed Okay, So this weekend Christmas pageant, Yes, yep,

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Speaker 1: Saturday place going down St. George's Terraces on the Perth.

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Speaker 1: Now float as the Nutcracker to say hello, don't anything

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Speaker 1: but officially topcast you guys,