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Speaker 1: The Stan original series Population eleven premieres on Thursday, all

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Speaker 1: the episodes all at once, only on Stan. Ben Feldman

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Speaker 1: plays Andy Pruden, taking the population to twelve temporarily, and

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Speaker 1: he joins us now, hello, Ben, Welcome Ben.

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Speaker 2: Good morning. How you doing? Good morning? Or how you going?

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Speaker 2: Are you good? Oh?

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Speaker 3: I'm going well, Ben.

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Speaker 1: Population eleven is inspired by true events. Said true event

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Speaker 1: being the disappearance of Larima Man Paddy Moriarty, do you

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Speaker 1: know a lot about that case?

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Speaker 2: I you know, I watched the documentary I.

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Speaker 3: Read The Last Stop Larima A.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, And it's such a bummer because that came

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Speaker 2: out a lot of people ask us if we based

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Speaker 2: our show on that documentary, and had we had done that,

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Speaker 2: it would have taken us like a month and a

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Speaker 2: half to shoot the show and you'd be about to

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Speaker 2: watch just the worst show ever. So we actually had

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Speaker 2: finished shooting and that documentary came out going okay, yeah,

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Speaker 2: but yeah, it was all based on an article that

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Speaker 2: that Phil the creator read a long time ago. That's fascinating.

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Speaker 1: Well, the Australian Outback sort of is famous for some

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Speaker 1: quirky unusual stories. Well, this is the quirkiest of all,

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Speaker 1: how did you come across the story?

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Speaker 3: How did you get involved?

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Speaker 2: The guys who had created it reached out to me

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Speaker 2: sort of a loose connection. I share like an agent

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Speaker 2: sort of with one of them. I don't think they

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Speaker 2: thought they were going to find an American who was

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Speaker 2: going to give up his life on the other side

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Speaker 2: of the globe and go out to the outpack for

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Speaker 2: three months and leave their family. But I was just

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Speaker 2: just dumb enough to do that. The script was amazing.

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Speaker 2: It was. If there's any testament to how good the

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Speaker 2: show is, it's the fact that I read this thing

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Speaker 2: and then apologized to my wife and kids and backed

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Speaker 2: my bags and moved to the outpack.

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Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, how worried with I? And how about yourself?

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Speaker 4: Because you have so many stories about the out back

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Speaker 4: and how dangerous it is.

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Speaker 3: We'll let filming.

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Speaker 2: I wasn't terribly worried. I will say that absolutely every

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Speaker 2: eye animal out there is homicidal. Yeah, so you kind

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Speaker 2: of you don't you don't go outside in your bare feet.

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Speaker 2: We had a snake stumper. I've never I've never worked

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Speaker 2: on the show. There's a man who stumps around right

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Speaker 2: before you're about to scare them.

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Speaker 3: All all right, Yeah.

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Speaker 2: He's holding up he's holding a boom box and he's playing.

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Speaker 2: It's like it's like often get rid of them Metallica. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: so it was a bizarre. It was you you can't

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Speaker 2: drive at night because you're going to hit a kangaroo. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: you're here, the jetty crocodile. It was a lot.

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Speaker 4: No, they do not just kangaroos. They're not dinosaur CLLs. Man,

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Speaker 4: they and some of them have been.

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Speaker 2: They're everywhere. I explained all my friends at home. It's

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Speaker 2: kind of like I was like, you know how, you're

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Speaker 2: there's squirrels running across the road, but it doesn't it

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Speaker 2: doesn't threaten your life. Threatened your life?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well you wouldn't put them in a boxing ring

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Speaker 1: and no, and guys rounds with them and come out

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Speaker 1: you know, well if you did, you'd probably come out

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Speaker 1: on top. Then, you know, the northwest of our state,

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Speaker 1: well the north of our western state, it's you know,

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Speaker 1: the space is pretty overwhelming for any of us, let alone.

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Speaker 1: You said you you know you was brave to move

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Speaker 1: to film there. What was your first sort of take

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean it's the most boring answer. It's the

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Speaker 2: beauty of it. I mean, it's a gorgeous area, an

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Speaker 2: incredible part of the earth. And I had already been

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Speaker 2: google imaging it constantly to find out what I was

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Speaker 2: about to get into before I left, so it wasn't

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Speaker 2: really a surprise, but it was still pretty incredible to

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Speaker 2: see how beautiful the land is out there, and then

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Speaker 2: how happy. Everybody's so happy out there, you know, like

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Speaker 2: people aren't that happy. You go out there, and everybody's

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Speaker 2: story is, you know, we came here for a two

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Speaker 2: last night who lives there in Derby who moved from Paris.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, that's a change from Paris to Derby.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess that was My take? Is it? It's

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Speaker 2: it's beautiful and everybody's incredibly happy to be there, and

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Speaker 3: Theater, of course. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, we've seen the

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Speaker 3: trailer man. Does this mean you're the new crocodile? Dundee?

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Speaker 3: Be honest.

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Speaker 2: Essentially, I mean that's what I've been telling my friends

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Speaker 3: Of course, that'll impressive. That's a knife.

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Speaker 1: The series comes from the director of oh, one of

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Speaker 1: my favorite shows of recent years, Hacks, which Harlow Season

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Speaker 1: three is just around the corner. Expectations are pretty high,

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Speaker 1: also Brooklyn ninety nine, which is, you know, no slouch

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Speaker 1: in the comedy department. I should point out that this

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Speaker 1: story is not you know, well, I mean, it's loosely

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Speaker 1: based on Paddy, but the Paddy Mariati story is not

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Speaker 3: I mean it is, but it's it's so typically austraili In.

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Speaker 1: The expectations are high in regard to the meeting of

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Speaker 1: that real, you know, weird Australian out backstory with the

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Speaker 1: director of Hackson Brooklyn not.

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Speaker 2: Not yeah yeah, I mean, well what's nice is that?

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Speaker 2: Were that the Patty story? Is it just a jumping

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Speaker 2: off point? Yeah? Yeah yeah. Ultimately, our show is complete fiction,

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Speaker 2: which is how I think we get away with making

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Speaker 2: it funny and silly and strange, because I don't think

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Speaker 2: we're really disrespecting a specific tragedy. We're just kind of

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Speaker 2: telling our own ridiculous one.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and an Aussie sense of human at least. I've

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Speaker 4: been watching the people on the red carpet at the

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Speaker 4: Oscars this morning, because it's a big day in Hollywood.

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Speaker 4: And you walked a blue capet with with Kerry made

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Speaker 4: that last audor.

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Speaker 3: On the weekend.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that was just last night.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we wonder if people enjoy the radi or blue capet,

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Speaker 4: whatever the color of the cap it is, doesn't really matter.

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Speaker 3: Do you enjoy that?

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Speaker 2: I don't, No, No, it's it's I mean and the

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Speaker 2: look I was telling some of the people there last

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Speaker 2: And there's a significant difference between like what some of

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Speaker 2: because that those the Oscars and the Emmys carpets, those

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Speaker 2: are massive and there's bleachers and bleachers and bleachers of

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Speaker 2: other side. Yeah, it's a hard to go through it. Yeah, yeah, Dick,

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Speaker 2: it's stressful, it's sweaty. Yeah, you just want to drink.

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Speaker 2: All you're doing is waiting to get to the bar.

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Speaker 3: Ben Ben, Ben just want all this one, Ben Ben?

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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, if you're lucky, they're saying, Ben Ben, Ben.

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Speaker 2: Usually they're shouting the name of the person's directly in

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, Yeah, We're very proud of our local actors, Ben,

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Speaker 5: And you're working with a couple of you know, classics

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Speaker 5: in this one, the likes of Genevieve Lemon, Stephen Curry.

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Speaker 1: Did you did you enjoy your time here making this?

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, yeah I did. I mean I was.

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Speaker 2: Fortunately for me, I was. I was in quite a

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Speaker 2: bit of a show, so I was working the whole time. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: and these people made it so, I mean the cruise

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Speaker 2: first of all, the West Australian crew, it was amazing.

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Speaker 2: They're all great, they're happy to be there, they're they're

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Speaker 2: just they work harder than the Americans. And then the

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Speaker 2: actors are I mean, these guys are all legends, and

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Speaker 2: they're all hilarious, and they all they all sort of

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Speaker 2: confirmed my idea that I was going to get here

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Speaker 2: and all the Aussie's are going to know each other

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Speaker 2: and I was going to be the outsider. And every

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Speaker 2: single one of them seem to have just gotten done

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Speaker 2: with the production of Flame is like last week together whatever.

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Speaker 2: They all knew each other really well, but they were

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Speaker 2: extremely welcoming and quite a few drunken nights. Was I told,

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Speaker 2: thank god, you're not the jerk that I thought you

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Speaker 2: were going to be.

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Speaker 1: That's good, and it would be right not to take

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Speaker 1: part in those drunken knights, understand.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I came to learn that is the AUSI

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Speaker 2: compliment I thought you were. I thought you were going

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Speaker 2: to be an a hole. That you're not.

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Speaker 3: That's good, that's good, I'm probably said in a.

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Speaker 4: Simile life and you I've been here in the west

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Speaker 4: night in the industry is that we've got this big facility,

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Speaker 4: you know, sound stages and studios being built now northeastern

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Speaker 4: suburb here in Perth. But I'm back in my Laga way.

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Speaker 4: So you back for more productions, I hope.

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Speaker 5: So.

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Speaker 2: I love it over here, and I love that. This

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Speaker 2: is the most time I've spent in Perth right now,

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Speaker 2: and I love it. I love Perth. We're having a

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Speaker 2: great time and we're sad that we're headed over to

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Speaker 2: the other other country.

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Speaker 1: Well, Ben, before you go, can we ask just a

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Speaker 1: random question. It is Oscar's day, of course, the big day.

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Speaker 1: What gets your vote for the best picture of the.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna I feel bad because America is a good

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Speaker 2: friend of mine. But I'm an Oppenheimer person through and through.

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Speaker 2: But I'm rooting for her too. Yeah. But yeah, I

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Speaker 2: don't know. I'm just I don't know, guys.

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Speaker 1: I just going to absolutely clean up.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I hope. So, I mean, I'm excited for the whatever,

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Speaker 2: the snubs. I like the drama. I want to see

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Speaker 2: accidents snubs.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I like that. And looking. I love the

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Speaker 3: word snob. You're not snubbed, you just didn't get nominated.

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Speaker 2: Whatever it is. If it's making people angry and it's

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Speaker 2: delacious that I'm.

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Speaker 3: You want have been aboutrage? Yeah?

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Speaker 5: Nice.

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Speaker 3: Well.

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Speaker 1: The stand original series Population eleven premieres on Thursday only

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Speaker 1: on stan Ben. Thank you for sparing some time for

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Speaker 1: us this morning.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much for having me. It's great to

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Speaker 2: talk to you.

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Speaker 3: Bend your

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Speaker 5: Bye.