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Speaker 1: This is jem Nation with Jones.

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Speaker 2: Well, our next guest has been making us laugh for

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Speaker 2: decades on our televisions and on the big screen. He

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Speaker 2: rose to fame with a movie that took Australia by storm.

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Speaker 2: We're talking about Nick Gianopolos. He's back, no longer out

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Speaker 2: of work. He has a job, and there's a prequel.

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Speaker 2: This one's called Wog Boys Forever Joining us now, Nick

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Speaker 2: Gianopolis Hello.

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Speaker 1: Yes, all, good morning, yasas. How are you pronunciation of

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Speaker 1: my name Amanda John?

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Speaker 2: Oh excellent. I might have said nak by mistake.

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Speaker 1: If you say prequel, it's not a prequel. It's definitely

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Speaker 1: a sequel.

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Speaker 2: A sequel. Okay, So this comes after yeah.

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Speaker 1: Okay, ten years after we saw the boys smashing plates

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Speaker 1: doing use those shots and dancing the zorba and nikodos.

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Speaker 2: Yes, because I thought you may have gone into a

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Speaker 2: time machine and Benjamin buttons yourself.

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Speaker 1: Oh I wish, I wish, But unfortunately I couldn't play

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Speaker 1: that part. I'd have to recount.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 3: I went to Mikonos on the strength of that movie

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Speaker 3: because I thought that looks like a hoot, And I

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Speaker 3: got to tell you I had the best time in Michonos.

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Speaker 3: I will say this, though someone died the night I

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Speaker 3: was there on the on the beach.

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Speaker 1: Oh oh yeah, that happens quite a bit. What you're

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Speaker 1: in sex?

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Speaker 3: Well no, no, that was just I was. We're all

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Speaker 3: partying on, parting on, and then a friend of mine

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Speaker 3: comes up and he says, there's a guy on the

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Speaker 3: beach and he's dead. And I went, oh, what that drunk?

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Speaker 3: And he goes, no, he's he just died just then.

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Speaker 1: Yea the Great would have said, don Whyley would bury

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Speaker 1: him tomorrow.

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Speaker 3: There was a there was alecase fair attitude to it.

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Speaker 3: I must admit, Oh.

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Speaker 1: You gotta you know what the funny thing about Mikolas,

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Speaker 1: all these Aussies guy there and the Mikolas shop owners

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Speaker 1: go ah, you know Whereolo and they go yes, of

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Speaker 1: course yes. The long point he goes, yes, my carsin

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Speaker 1: for your ten percent off? Love it. So what happened?

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Speaker 1: They do?

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Speaker 2: That's how they own their living. So what happens in

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Speaker 2: this storyline this time around?

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Speaker 1: Well, since we last saw the boys, thinks have changed dramatically.

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Speaker 1: For Steve, he's lost a bit of his mojo. He's

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Speaker 1: lost a girl from Mikinos he's driving a cab and

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Speaker 1: he hasn't spoken of Vince Colossmo's character Frank for about

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Speaker 1: eight years. Oh yes, so the Wog Boy is in

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Speaker 1: a midlife crisis and definitely, you know, trying to find

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Speaker 1: who he once used to be and very much still

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Speaker 1: single and very lonely. But of course being a wog

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Speaker 1: Boy film, you know, what goes around comes around, and

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Speaker 1: you can't teach an old wog new tricks.

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Speaker 2: You know, your work is always very funny, but you

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Speaker 2: actually did something very important. You made a film where

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Speaker 2: it was okay for people of other cultures to call

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Speaker 2: themselves wogs. We didn't have cultural diversity on our TVs

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Speaker 2: or our movies in those days.

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Speaker 1: No, we certainly didn't. Man, And look, you know I

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Speaker 1: called my first show Wogs Out at Work, as I

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Speaker 1: was literally a wog out of work. You know, I

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Speaker 1: was an actor out of the VCA who couldn't find work.

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Speaker 1: They kept telling you they couldn't cast me anything four

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Speaker 1: nineteen fifty because there were no Greeks in Australia before

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Speaker 1: nineteen fifty. And you know, back in the mid eighties,

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Speaker 1: all we had was a man from Snowy River and Neighbors.

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Speaker 1: Could you imagine me on Neighbors?

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Speaker 2: You do it?

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Speaker 1: Boy on Ramsey Street.

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Speaker 3: Well, the only time they put anyone of a foreigner

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Speaker 3: on there was the Chinese family and then they accused

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Speaker 3: them of eating a dog.

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Speaker 1: Mate. Ramsey Stream was the only Australian in Australia without

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Speaker 1: a Wog family on it. Let's be on it really was.

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Speaker 1: But more importantly, you know that stage show led onto

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Speaker 1: Acropolis now which became The Ridman, that became the first

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Speaker 1: show on the Australian TV with a non Anglo Saxon

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Speaker 1: main cast.

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Speaker 2: Well, unfortunately for you, thanks to goggle Box, everyone knows

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Speaker 2: what malucca means now, so you don't have to be careful.

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Speaker 1: Well, no, it's healthy. The opening well I don't want

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Speaker 1: to give the film away, but the very first opening

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Speaker 1: visual is the word malaka, and I won't kay where

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Speaker 1: people getting to know Greek words has actually helped my comedy.

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Speaker 3: Right, that's true. Well, look at a Tom Cruise. If

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Speaker 3: he can do it, if he can come back as Maverick,

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Speaker 3: you certainly can come back as the walk Boy.

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Speaker 1: Well I went the same age, mate, my fingers crossed,

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Speaker 1: you know, because and I don't know if I'm going

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Speaker 1: to make a fourth one, because my then will be

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Speaker 1: wogs in the old HK.

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Speaker 2: That'll still work.

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Speaker 3: That'll work well, n It's always great to talk to

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Speaker 3: you wog boys forever. It's in Cinema's October sixth, Nick Gianopolis,

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Speaker 3: thank you for joining us.

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Speaker 1: Thanks guys, and let me say this great to see

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Speaker 1: it and obviously film back on Australian screens too, right,