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Speaker 1: Job mission with Jones and Amanda.

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Speaker 2: Did you pick this song?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Our next guest is called Daniel. That's why we have

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Speaker 2: that song. He's a lonely winning actor, a television presenter,

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Speaker 2: and now is the latest member of the Elusive sci

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Speaker 2: Fi Club. Dan McPherson stars in a new series on

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Speaker 2: Apple TV Plus called Foundation Now. This is based on

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Speaker 2: the groundbreaking novels written in the nineteen forties, and these

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Speaker 2: novels are credited with influencing sci fi franchises including Star Wars.

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Speaker 2: Heard of That Star Trek, Heard of That Dune, Heard

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Speaker 2: of that extraordinary Daniel McPherson.

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Speaker 3: Hello, good morning, lovely to see it's been ages since

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Speaker 3: we've spoken. And what an intro song that was. Thank you.

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Speaker 1: It was either that or Daniel by Elton John.

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Speaker 4: So I would have preferred that, I think, you know,

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Speaker 4: I would have taken I've been watching Foundation and it's

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Speaker 4: such a big show and I'm not saying it's too

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Speaker 4: big for you, but I'm going, wow, he's actually in this.

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Speaker 5: This is a really good shot. And once again that's

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Speaker 5: all due respect, because I love you very much is.

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Speaker 2: A fan of such a great massive so.

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Speaker 3: Isaac Asimov was the author of the original original novels,

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Speaker 3: and it took many, many years for people to try

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Speaker 3: and bring them to the screen, and they were deemed

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Speaker 3: unfilmable until a little company called Apple came along and

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Speaker 3: decided they weren't going to stand for unfilmable anymore. So

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Speaker 3: for the last eighteen months or so, I was part

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Speaker 3: of this band of production traveling around the world Iceland Island, Malta, Berlin, Switzerland,

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Speaker 3: the Canary Islands. It was it was monumental, monumental to

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Speaker 3: be a part of it. We're great people and it's

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Speaker 3: it's great to see the feedback. And I've never I've

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Speaker 3: never been in a show that's been in a one

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Speaker 3: hundred countries around the world, so it's been a heck

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Speaker 3: of a ride for me in the last couple months

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Speaker 3: as well.

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Speaker 2: Well, sci fi fans are like no other fans. I mean,

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Speaker 2: are you preparing for your Comic Con appearance already?

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Speaker 3: Well, look, it's big cast man, So I'm a little

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Speaker 3: bit down the pecking order and I'm not sure where

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Speaker 3: that who gets the tickets to comic on But but

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Speaker 3: it's that the feedback has been incredible, Like you said that,

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Speaker 3: the sci fi fans because this this source material has

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Speaker 3: been around for so long, So there's either people that

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Speaker 3: go as with any kind of sci fi. Oh it's

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Speaker 3: different to the books. We're not sure if we love

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Speaker 3: it all those people that have never read the books

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Speaker 3: and never realized that that sci fi in the last

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Speaker 3: fifty years has been inspired by this as a source

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Speaker 3: material and with those ones that you mentioned and are

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Speaker 3: coming to it fresh on Apple TV Plus and and

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Speaker 3: enjoying a ride. And I think I think today is

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Speaker 3: episode eight, so we're a fair way through the release

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Speaker 3: of the episode.

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Speaker 1: Come in and catch up.

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Speaker 5: You come in in episode three and you play this

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Speaker 5: like like a rogue trader type guy.

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the closest I'll ever get to Han solo.

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Speaker 1: To be honest, you did.

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Speaker 5: And I was going to say, there's a bit of

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Speaker 5: a hard there's a hard vibe to you in this.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, it's lots of there's a kind of big hair

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Speaker 6: and big beard and lots of swagger and some great

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Speaker 6: cheeky one liners and and I don't have to kind

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Speaker 6: of carry that the gravitas of the storyline, which is,

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Speaker 6: you know, the fate of humanity, of good versus evil

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Speaker 6: and all those sort of big, big heady sci fi themes.

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Speaker 3: But I had a I had a young child, my son,

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Speaker 3: Austin was very young when I had to go back

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Speaker 3: overseas and I'd sign on the Foundation, and ultimately the

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Speaker 3: eighteen months meant that I was actually spent able to

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Speaker 3: spend a bit more time back here. But in signing

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Speaker 3: on to the job, it was simply going, my son

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Speaker 3: is going to get to grow up watching me fly

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Speaker 3: spaceships and try and save the universe. So but you know,

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Speaker 1: That's pretty cool, pretty cool.

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Speaker 3: So he's able to watch it now, you know, he's

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Speaker 3: about to turn two, because that that was it's worth worthwhile,

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Speaker 2: Books were written in the forties. Seeing them realized was

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Speaker 2: was Isaac Asimov just a genie? Because the stories stand up.

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Speaker 2: They've written in the forties, and yet they've predicted a

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, he was, he was, he was the guy.

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Speaker 3: He was. He was certainly ahead of his time. And

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Speaker 3: and the series of Foundation inspired so much other sort

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Speaker 3: of seminal sci fi, but all sort of relatable stuff.

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Speaker 3: But it definitely has taken a reimagination in the way

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Speaker 3: that television and the television industry has has grown, particularly

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Speaker 3: in the last five years. It is it is the

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Speaker 3: golden age of TV. And and so you bring in

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Speaker 3: people like David Goyer, who's our show runner, who's worked

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Speaker 3: I mean, there's big, big names involved in taking what

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Speaker 3: it's to television and cinema have been locked in this

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Speaker 3: kind of battle for the last couple of years.

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Speaker 1: McPherson, that's a big McPherson. That's a big name. Daniel

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Speaker 1: mcphell remember el Remember Hell, she was pretty big.

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Speaker 3: She paved the way.

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Speaker 1: So there's the McPherson. Think.

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Speaker 5: Someone came up to me the other day and said,

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Speaker 5: is it true that Dan McPherson left Dancing with the

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Speaker 5: Stars because of you me as my dancing And I said, no,

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Speaker 5: he was because of Mark Holden when he did that

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Speaker 5: creepy CLOMPI I pushed you too far. But I was

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Speaker 5: reading about because that danced with the Stars gig. That

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Speaker 5: would have been the sweetest gig in the world. And

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Speaker 5: you probably could have been still doing that, but you

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Speaker 5: had to, As you said, you wanted to expand you

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Speaker 5: wanted to be a better actor, so you kind of

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Speaker 5: turned your back on that.

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Speaker 1: That would have been really hard.

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Speaker 3: Well, it was a really nice It was a really

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Speaker 3: sweet gig, like you said. Jones. And I was living

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Speaker 3: in Los Angeles at the time, and I was still

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Speaker 3: racing trathon, I was still keeping fitting, so I could

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Speaker 3: come back to Australia and work for ten or twelve

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Speaker 3: weeks down in Melbourne. I could visit my mate back

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Speaker 3: in Melbourne, worked with one of the people like yourselves,

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Speaker 3: only work weekends, which is even better, and then go

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Speaker 3: back to Los Angeles and and not have to get

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Speaker 3: a job because I just worked and the Channel seven

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Speaker 3: were lovely and they were paying me very well, and

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Speaker 3: I could go back and ride my bike in Malibu.

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Speaker 3: After a couple of years of that, I realized that

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Speaker 3: there was no way I was going to get an

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Speaker 3: acting job because I was over there dicking around riding

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Speaker 3: a bike and going to nightclubs and not sort of

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Speaker 3: having my head down working. So ultimately I realized that

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Speaker 3: that I had plenty of years left in me and

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Speaker 3: I could always come back and go back to Live TV.

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Speaker 3: And I really enjoy live TV and I will continue

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Speaker 3: to do it at some point.

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Speaker 2: But Daniel, really give it a.

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Speaker 1: Go over there.

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Speaker 2: Well, Jonesy seems to forget that I hosted an incarnation

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Speaker 2: of that. Daniel, you could have kept going.

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Speaker 6: Ten.

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Speaker 1: I did host it. He's forgotten that I have.

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Speaker 5: Kept going with that, that was with grants were great

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Speaker 5: on that, Yes, thank you, but I'm just it's got energy.

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Speaker 2: It's gone back to Channel seven again. But when Josie

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Speaker 2: said you, Daniel, it should have stopped there.

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Speaker 5: You're just being sensitive. You're being sensitive. You were great,

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Speaker 5: and you.

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Speaker 2: Don't have to say it.

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Speaker 1: You don't have to say Daniel.

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Speaker 3: But it still works.

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Speaker 1: It works. It still works.

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Speaker 2: People like to see famous people dance badly and they.

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Speaker 1: Will always be And where do I fit into all

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Speaker 1: of that?

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Speaker 5: Danuine Dancing Badly Foundation is streaming now on Apple TV.

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Speaker 1: Plus. It's so great to catch up with you, my man.

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Speaker 3: Great to see I'm sure I'll see you back around

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Speaker 3: the localhood. May have just moved back to town at

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Speaker 3: plenty of family time and bring on summer down to California.

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Speaker 2: You'll see.

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Speaker 1: How about you put a shirt on?

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Speaker 5: Okay, instead of wandering on the beach without a shirt.

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Speaker 3: Take this off now you take careers there.

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Speaker 1: Check it out Apple TV plus

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Speaker 6: Jonesy and Amanda's