Speaker 1: Get a Peter Hally here and you ain't seen nothing yet.
Speaker 1: Excited about today's episode, Sam Pang has not seen the Castle.
Speaker 2: And for something a bit different.
Speaker 1: Because I have friends who are in this movie, I thought,
Speaker 1: why not reach out to them just to let them
Speaker 1: know that Sam hasn't actually seen the movie. They either
Speaker 1: made or were in good mates with Steve Curry, who
Speaker 1: of course played Dale Kerrigan. He was fantastic in this movie.
Speaker 1: And I thought, why not give cousin call and let
Speaker 1: him know that Sam, a good mate of piece as well,
Speaker 1: hasn't seen the Castle. Peter Elliott as I Stephen Curry,
Speaker 1: how are you, buddy, mate?
Speaker 2: That's carrying one? I'll get I'll get straight into this.
Speaker 1: I'm recording a podcast about Yeah, I saw, I saw
Speaker 1: a niche in the market and I I had a
Speaker 1: window some interviewing this morning Sam Pang. So the podcast
Speaker 1: is about movie classic movies that movie lovers haven't seen.
Speaker 1: I was rather shocked to hear that Sam Pang has
Speaker 1: not seen the Castle.
Speaker 3: That's so Pang. It is so Pang. I like that,
Speaker 3: like that you haven't sink because you.
Speaker 2: Think I'll find out.
Speaker 3: Because maybe maybe.
Speaker 4: Even have you have you encountered many people close to
Speaker 4: you over the years who actually have the balls to
Speaker 4: admit they haven't seen the castle.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: With my life, I'll often get people that are happy
Speaker 6: to interrupt the dinner to tell me.
Speaker 3: They have seen it.
Speaker 6: Occasionally you'll have someone who's happy to.
Speaker 2: Interrupt your dinner this stage. Sorry, mate, didn't see it.
Speaker 3: So you go, hang on, so why are we Why
Speaker 3: have you interrupted my dinner with my list to tell
Speaker 3: me if you haven't seen the film? And so what
Speaker 3: I'll do.
Speaker 6: I've got a pretty good I think I've got a
Speaker 6: pretty good bullshit radar.
Speaker 5: So if I.
Speaker 6: Picked, if I feel like they're just saying that just
Speaker 6: to kind of ruin by entree, I'll go to the
Speaker 6: s degree and I'll just say, yeah, well it's just
Speaker 6: about this and that Casis in my life, Cass, Yes,
Speaker 6: it's about this family who's sort of lived near the
Speaker 6: airport and the government want to take your house. That
Speaker 6: we're doing you one way, and you can see them
Speaker 6: starting to get a little bit more annoyed.
Speaker 3: So that's when I really.
Speaker 5: Put the big artillery out there and I say it's
Speaker 5: got Eric Banner in it.
Speaker 3: He was in a film called Chopper which is about
Speaker 3: this guy used to be like.
Speaker 6: A criminal and then finally they would just get to
Speaker 6: this point where they go so so much.
Speaker 3: I know what you talk on Australia, but you didn't.
Speaker 6: We start with the well anyway, maybe certainly's entertained Pete.
Speaker 3: That probably shouldn't be quite frankly.
Speaker 1: Well excellently, well, well, thanks for thanks for taking a call,
Speaker 1: and so to be the bearer of bad yous.
Speaker 6: Can you can you tell fampang for me that I'm
Speaker 6: very very disappuoted.
Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us, mate, and hey, Steve yes, dug
Speaker 2: into the hole people.
Speaker 6: I realized I've just become part of your podcast with
Speaker 6: that actually knowing you.
Speaker 1: If we're going to stretch his phone call that for
Speaker 1: another forty five minutes, I've got another episode.
Speaker 2: Sorry, Oh no, bake it up.
Speaker 1: The line was so good until I asked and okay,
Speaker 1: thanks Dave, Thanks.
Speaker 2: Buddy, he's looking at your kid.
Speaker 5: I love you.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 2: They got me happening right now.
Speaker 3: You ain't seen nothing.
Speaker 1: Near gooday, Peter Hally here, welcome to the podcast you
Speaker 1: Ain't seen nothing yet, where I chat to movie lovers
Speaker 1: about classic movies or beloved movies.
Speaker 2: They haven't quite got around the scene until now.
Speaker 1: In today's guest Sampang, Sampang took a slow burned strategy
Speaker 1: to his entertainment career. He started comedy in the most
Speaker 1: unlikely of places, the Collingwood Football Club under nineteens, then
Speaker 1: on the tripa r and then he became in Inverted
Speaker 1: Commas an overnight sensation with his appearances on have You
Speaker 1: Been Paying Attention? Produced by Working Dog, That's Important and
Speaker 1: The Nova Brecky Show hilarious, dry and never takes a
Speaker 1: backward step. Sampang just may be the Clint Eastwood of
Speaker 1: Australian comedy.
Speaker 3: Hi everyone, I'm Sampang and my three favorite movies are
Speaker 3: Hete Brother, You are Going Down notting Hill.
Speaker 1: I just wondered whether if mister Thaka realized he'd been
Speaker 1: a daft prick.
Speaker 3: And the Canniball run we got a secret weapon God
Speaker 3: our cold payment. But up until recently, I had never
Speaker 3: seen the castle ergonomic chairs for of them.
Speaker 2: What do you want a dream? Sampang, Welcome to You
Speaker 2: ain't seen nothing.
Speaker 3: Yet, Pete. It's wonderful to be here. It's one of
Speaker 3: the few things that I've actually really looked forward to doing.
Speaker 1: Oh well, thank you, thank you. What are the joys
Speaker 1: of doing this podcast?
Speaker 3: In saying that how long is this going to take?
Speaker 2: It's three hours and I'll cut it down to a
Speaker 2: really tight twenty minutes.
Speaker 3: No, it's great because I know historically with podcasts, you know,
Speaker 3: the edit is very important. It's not like there's there's
Speaker 3: not many podcasts that just pulled out everything. I know,
Speaker 3: there's a craft and they take out everything that doesn't
Speaker 3: work or is you know, just long winded. So I
Speaker 3: really appreciate that about you in advance.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you, thank you. Sam.
Speaker 1: One of the great joys of this podcast, and we
Speaker 1: have recorded, you know, some in advance. That is watching
Speaker 1: movies that either I've seen before and I've loved and
Speaker 1: watching them through fresh eyes with my guests, or movies
Speaker 1: that I hadn't seen before and watching them for the
Speaker 1: first time. That's happened already a few times with The
Speaker 1: Clock of Orange and Butch Cassidy in The Sundance Kid.
Speaker 1: But The Castle is certainly a movie that I've seen many,
Speaker 1: many times. And we'll get to the Castle because obviously
Speaker 1: that's it's significant that you haven't seen The Castle. But
Speaker 1: I just want to want to go back on the
Speaker 1: film that you listed as your favorite.
Speaker 2: Heat is a classic.
Speaker 3: It's a classic, and it's you know, I like that
Speaker 3: in this modern day of digital channels and you know
Speaker 3: streaming that it's on almost every day, you know, so
Speaker 3: that's that's always handy. I don't know about you, Peter,
Speaker 3: but I remember the lead up to this movie back
Speaker 3: I think it was ninety five, and I says, I
Speaker 3: can't remember what it was, but it was massive build up.
Speaker 3: The idea that DeNiro and Pacina were going to be
Speaker 3: on the same in the same movie, on the same
Speaker 3: screen was mind blowing. And I know at the end
Speaker 3: of the day everyone knows they've been Godfather too, but
Speaker 3: different parts of that movie they never shared a scene.
Speaker 3: So it was like I could not wait for that
Speaker 3: movie and Irene I saw it twice at the cinemas.
Speaker 1: We do cover off Heat in an episode a future
Speaker 1: episode with Dave. Thoughton had never seen Heat, and I
Speaker 1: was saying the same thing to him that the lead up,
Speaker 1: the anticipation of this scene with Danira and Puccino at
Speaker 1: the diner was was huge, particularly that scene because there
Speaker 1: was one on one I.
Speaker 6: Do what I do best. It takes course, you do
Speaker 6: what you do best, trying to start guys like me.
Speaker 1: The biggest compliment I can give that scene is that
Speaker 1: it was worth every moment, like it actually did.
Speaker 2: It lived up to its expectation.
Speaker 3: That scene and that movie. Absolutely it's justified the hype.
Speaker 3: And by the way, how hard is narrow down to
Speaker 3: three just mentioning three movies? Is that's you know, that's
Speaker 3: pretty tough. But yeah, that that movie is just like
Speaker 3: you know, whenever it comes on, there's just no point
Speaker 3: where you can't like keep yeah, yeah, like wherever you
Speaker 3: come in. If you just discover it flicking around, I'm here,
Speaker 3: that's it. I'm gone.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, Sometimes though, I will work out is that dynascene
Speaker 1: ahead of me or has it already been on? If
Speaker 1: it's already been on, I may have to get on
Speaker 1: with the rest of my day. But if it's if
Speaker 1: it's half an hour away, I will I will plant
Speaker 1: myself and wait for it.
Speaker 3: You are You're much more disciplineman than me. People.
Speaker 1: Did you have a favor a character? Look, you were
Speaker 1: you on Team de Niro or Tampa China.
Speaker 3: I was in Team de Niro. It's just cool. The Baddie.
Speaker 3: You know, I really his character really resonated with me,
Speaker 3: but Gino won me over just because of his you know,
Speaker 3: to not be out shown or outdone by de Niro,
Speaker 3: I was pretty impressive. But you know, you know, one
Speaker 3: of the funniest things I've ever heard the show in
Speaker 3: the States in Miami, and they were supporting the ice hockey.
Speaker 3: You mean ice hockey in Miami obviously not that big,
Speaker 3: and so they did a deal with the broadcast that
Speaker 3: after a goal that they would do a line for
Speaker 3: a movie. And because because the sport was so you know,
Speaker 3: it was just not on the on the radar that
Speaker 3: they were, they were just happy with any sort of promotion.
Speaker 3: So I remember hearing an audio of a goal in
Speaker 3: ice hockey where the commentator said something like, you know,
Speaker 3: Hellia goes around one, Hellia shoots and his scores, and
Speaker 3: then he was The deal was that he had to
Speaker 3: do a line from a movie, and they gave him
Speaker 3: this line. So it was like, Helly, it goes around,
Speaker 3: one goes around to his shoots, he scores. I just
Speaker 3: had Coffy with McCauley a half hour ago. That's what
Speaker 3: he had. This this brought this professional broadcast had a
Speaker 3: real game. The radio station give them all these lines,
Speaker 3: and that was one of them. Of course, you know
Speaker 3: liked Nero's N's character Neil McCauley, and I just amazing.
Speaker 2: I thought they would have gone for she had a
Speaker 2: green ass and you.
Speaker 3: Had your head all the way up. And I don't
Speaker 3: know if that made sense, but you know, hopefully it did.
Speaker 2: Absolutely.
Speaker 1: I might try to track down the audio, but I
Speaker 1: appeared on your breakfast show Chrissy, Sam and Brownie on
Speaker 1: Nova in Melbourne a few weeks ago, and I forget
Speaker 1: how it came up, but I think I mentioned Nodding
Speaker 1: Hill and you concurred that it was one of the
Speaker 1: great films, one of the perfect films. And I wasn't
Speaker 1: sure at the time whether you were taking the piss.
Speaker 1: I'm glad it's been confirmed that you weren't.
Speaker 3: Hey, WHOA. I can't believe that you've had any sort
Speaker 3: of doubts about something I said, notting Hill. Notting Hill.
Speaker 3: I may have seen about thirty times. Wow, and I
Speaker 3: suppose it has to start somehow, but that seemed like, okay,
Speaker 3: I'll suspend this belief and then wow, we can enjoy
Speaker 3: the rest of the movie. Yeah, yes, and you talk
Speaker 3: about scenes that scene in the book store where Julia
Speaker 3: Roberts pours her heart out to Hugh Grant.
Speaker 7: And don't forget I'm also justin girl standing in front
Speaker 7: of a boy asking him to love.
Speaker 3: That scene is for me as watchable as Denier the
Speaker 3: Channel and heat.
Speaker 2: Wow, it is an incredible scene.
Speaker 1: And again, like the movie we're going to start discussing soon,
Speaker 1: just peppered with enough comedy to make at work. And
Speaker 1: when you can get that balance of the tag of
Speaker 1: the heart string and the tickle of the funny bone
Speaker 1: correct in the.
Speaker 3: Right proportion, absolutely, which is what not to pree it.
Speaker 3: But that's what the That's what I loved about the Castle.
Speaker 3: But we'll get to that. But I just wanted to
Speaker 3: finish too with that the Notting Hill being that scene
Speaker 3: being seminal and important to me as I was once
Speaker 3: asked to I suppose be a speaker, but it was
Speaker 3: it was a literary night, and the night was titled
Speaker 3: Unaccustomed as I am, and that was, you know, as
Speaker 3: unaccustomed as and to public speaking dot dot dot, and
Speaker 3: the premise was that all ten speakers had to just
Speaker 3: recite a famous speech from history, And I remember Julian Burnside,
Speaker 3: the great social justice quirerying man of the law. He
Speaker 3: started with the Gettysburg address, Noni Hazlehurst brought it home
Speaker 3: with Paul Keating's Red Firm speech, and a wedged him
Speaker 3: between was me giving Julia of speech from the l
Speaker 3: Notting Hill.
Speaker 2: Can you can you recite a little bit of it
Speaker 2: for us?
Speaker 3: The last bit's the best bit, it's the last most
Speaker 3: powerful bit. But just can you imagine these words? Can
Speaker 3: you imagine these words in between the Gettysburg addressed and
Speaker 3: Keating's Redfern speech, Me standing there in a packed auditorium
Speaker 3: saying these words been Hello, I'm just a girl standing
Speaker 3: in front of a boy asking him the love one.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, if anyone has video, oh what's the
Speaker 1: whole thing? I'll sit through in the Gettysburger dress. I
Speaker 1: believe in Peting's Redfern speech afterwards, just to just to
Speaker 1: hear Sam Pangus Julia Robert's.
Speaker 3: Put it this way too, in terms of like that
Speaker 3: you know the way it's described that does actually sound
Speaker 3: like perfect. And you know, I love that you appreciated it.
Speaker 3: But don't think for a second I had any idea
Speaker 3: what everyone else was doing, you know what I mean,
Speaker 3: That's just like how the how the cards fell. I
Speaker 3: didn't I knew that they were on the same night,
Speaker 3: but I didn't know what they were going to do.
Speaker 3: And it's like I just you know, in terms of
Speaker 3: speeches that were really important to me, I really like
Speaker 3: that one of them is really beautiful and that. So yeah,
Speaker 3: you get there on the night, a speaker after speakers
Speaker 3: doing these, you know, different different addresses are going Have
Speaker 3: I really made the decisions?
Speaker 2: Are you? Are you in the green room or are
Speaker 2: you watching this in the auditorium.
Speaker 3: The eight of us possibly sitting on staging chairs then
Speaker 3: getting called up one by one, so.
Speaker 2: You couldn't even do a rewrite you could have.
Speaker 3: I was going to war with you know, my great
Speaker 3: idea a few weeks ago. But anyway, like it's what
Speaker 3: I couldn't get out of it, what we're gonning.
Speaker 1: And no regrets now, absolutely not, certainly not right now.
Speaker 1: Cannonball run discuss.
Speaker 3: Important because it was I think it was maybe a
Speaker 3: teenager or that I can't remember it was or whenever.
Speaker 3: The first time I saw it, it was like I
Speaker 3: saw it with my dad and my brother and it
Speaker 3: just looked like fun. Like that isn't you talk about
Speaker 3: an ensemble cast being you know, you've made movies, you
Speaker 3: made television. They put together it's like they've just decided
Speaker 3: to grab everyone who are mates and just yeah, you
Speaker 3: can hang out for a couple of months. Here we're
Speaker 3: going to shoot this stuff. There's a Burt Reynolds, Don Delawes,
Speaker 3: Dean Martin, and Sammy Davis Junior playing priests to driver
Speaker 3: Red Ferrari. It's there was Roger Moore, there was that.
Speaker 3: It just looked like a fun it's just a fun movie.
Speaker 3: And it was also it was one of those ones
Speaker 3: that might have been helped for me by I Reckon.
Speaker 3: I had it in the house early on on VHS
Speaker 3: for a few listeners. That was used that the tape
Speaker 3: tape for movies and then and once yeah, if that
Speaker 3: was if you had a tape of a movie, you
Speaker 3: watched it thirty times. So we just kept on.
Speaker 1: Might only have you might only have a dozen, you know,
Speaker 1: a half dozen dozen tapes in the house, VHS tapes.
Speaker 1: So some of those were footy replays, you know, a
Speaker 1: few might be a music clip from video smash hits.
Speaker 2: And then another.
Speaker 1: You know, you might have six or eight movies a
Speaker 1: long time VHS is in our house.
Speaker 2: There was a Mamphisno River.
Speaker 1: There was National Lampoon's Vacation, A Night in the Town
Speaker 1: I remember starring Elizabeth's Shoe was it was one.
Speaker 3: I definitely had National Lampoon Vacation on VHS too, so
Speaker 3: we did. We did that plenty of times.
Speaker 1: But yeah, what a funny thing about the vacation is
Speaker 1: if you taped it off the TV, you got the
Speaker 1: Channel nine version which took all the swearing out. So
Speaker 1: did you ever watch it the non TV version is
Speaker 1: that there's a lot more swearing than I.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the first time you saw the version that you
Speaker 3: hadn't watched twenty times because you watched the Channel nine
Speaker 3: version was mind blow. But it's funny. But when he
Speaker 3: which is that moose, when he punches Wally, I've.
Speaker 2: Never seen my mum laugh so much. And she laughs
Speaker 2: a lot. She's a great laugher.
Speaker 1: And nothing's more contagious to me to see my mum laugh,
Speaker 1: like her whole body laughs and she starts.
Speaker 2: Crying really easily.
Speaker 1: But I've never seen laugh more than seeing John Candy
Speaker 1: on that roller coaster.
Speaker 3: I just remember Nationally and Vacation being wow. And by
Speaker 3: the way, I was still all in it European, yes,
Speaker 3: because that the game show at the start where they
Speaker 3: win the where they win the vacation pig in a
Speaker 3: poke And then what did you think about the decision
Speaker 3: to just obviously it's the right decision, but to just
Speaker 3: to just randomly keep changing Rusty and Audrey.
Speaker 1: I don't know why they did, because Michael Anthony Hall
Speaker 1: was such a good Rusty, great Rusty, you know, and
Speaker 1: maybe he was shooting Breakfast Club when they when they
Speaker 1: wanted to shoot European Vacation. I look into that, actually,
Speaker 1: I want to find out why they changing.
Speaker 2: They changed Rusty as much as Neighbors changed.
Speaker 3: It's very anyway, I was all in so yeah, Canniball
Speaker 3: run so going way back. Also, the first time ever,
Speaker 3: Pete don't know if you remember the bloopers at the end.
Speaker 2: Yes, maybe the first time I'd seen that done actually,
Speaker 2: and so that was.
Speaker 3: Oh wow, look how much the look how much fun
Speaker 3: they had making this movie because the bloopers were the
Speaker 3: credits were rolling and seeing Burt Reynolds and Don Delawise
Speaker 3: would have taken about fifteen takes for them to get
Speaker 3: the ambulance beside the side of the road scene right,
Speaker 3: and you're going, this just looks like they just laughed
Speaker 3: for two or three months.
Speaker 1: The only slight thing I'll maybe have against cannon Ball
Speaker 1: Run is you mentioned it was basically just mates hanging
Speaker 1: out making a movie together. If we didn't have cannon
Speaker 1: Ball Run, then maybe we wouldn't have grown up swamen too.
Speaker 2: I reckon Sam was taking this idea.
Speaker 3: That's a good point. And also he said, these they're
Speaker 3: all made through all legends, they're all having a good time.
Speaker 3: It feels like, and I'm not a director, but it
Speaker 3: feels like there needed to be a little a few
Speaker 3: more times where the director may have said, hey, bird,
Speaker 3: we maybe we should do that one again. We'll just
Speaker 3: do another We'll do as opposed to Yeah, that's fine,
Speaker 3: let's just get cut it roll it whatever. I reckon,
Speaker 3: I reckon. Dean Martin officially just does not know where
Speaker 3: he is at the time, which is why.
Speaker 2: All right, let's get stuck into why we are here. Mate.
Speaker 1: When you told me, when I pitched this idea to you,
Speaker 1: you were very receptive. You came up with two movies.
Speaker 1: If you remember one movie was I think Gone with
Speaker 1: the Win.
Speaker 3: Can you check what the running time of that was?
Speaker 1: It was it's three hours. I think it's three hours plus.
Speaker 1: So I think you went and checked. You found out
Speaker 1: how long it was and said I'm out. So he
Speaker 1: came in with the castle.
Speaker 3: I loved the idea. I was. It was a very
Speaker 3: quick yes, and then I thought it would be fun.
Speaker 3: You know, Gone with the Wind. You're like, how have
Speaker 3: I never seen Gone with the Wind? Have you seen
Speaker 3: On with the Wind?
Speaker 2: I have not seen Gone with the Wind?
Speaker 3: And you know, you know, it's like, you know, almost
Speaker 3: the most famous movie of all time and you haven't
Speaker 3: seen it. That'll be good. I'll watch that. And then
Speaker 3: you go to the running time, you go, oh geez,
Speaker 3: that's a pretty big commitment for a podcast. So when
Speaker 3: I saw and then you convinced me the castle. The
Speaker 3: castle's funnier for reasons I'm sure we'll get into. And
Speaker 3: then when I saw the running time at a very
Speaker 3: crisp eighty one minutes, Pete, it was a little there
Speaker 3: was a little punch in the air.
Speaker 1: And I nuzzed you towards the castle because obviously, and
Speaker 1: for those who don't know this is a podcast.
Speaker 2: Who knows where this ends up traveling to, but here
Speaker 2: in Australia.
Speaker 1: You have had an amazing career, particularly over the last
Speaker 1: ten or so years on a show called Have You
Speaker 1: Been Paying Attention, which is produced by the Working Dog Legends,
Speaker 1: who have no one's got a bigger comedy legacy in
Speaker 1: this country than the Working Dog Crew, made up of
Speaker 1: Rob Sis who directed The Castle, Tom Gleisler, who hosts
Speaker 1: Have You Been Paying Attention? The great sant Achlaro and
Speaker 1: Jane Kennedy also wrote The Castle. So you do these shows.
Speaker 1: You've done the World Cup Fever shows as well with Santo.
Speaker 1: You know you are great mates with them. They've been
Speaker 1: very supportive. How how even let's go back, Why didn't
Speaker 1: you see it? Because why do you see it when
Speaker 1: it came out? Because you're in the age bracket.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Firstly you say great friends, I say work colleagues.
Speaker 3: Nothing more, Pete in terms of what So it was
Speaker 3: seven which made me twenty three And I can't work
Speaker 3: out if you know these stages of your lives where yeah,
Speaker 3: the stages of the lives where you go in the
Speaker 3: movies all the time. Once again, everyone, this is a
Speaker 3: different time where you couldn't actually just watch every movie
Speaker 3: you ever wanted on the TV in front of you
Speaker 3: wherever you want it, but you had to go to
Speaker 3: the cinema. And I reckon it just twenty three, you know,
Speaker 3: maybe not the happiest, you know, like let's go and
Speaker 3: see a movie. Probably not with definitely not with a girl.
Speaker 3: I didn't have a girl, So it's not like we
Speaker 3: you know, it was date night or movie not or
Speaker 3: something like that. And so you know, a big commitment
Speaker 3: to just go and see it, you know, a little
Speaker 3: Ossie film at the cinemas. I don't think I was
Speaker 3: going to I was going I wasn't gonna be spending
Speaker 3: my hard earned ten dollars on going to see this movie.
Speaker 3: I reckon. Also, I don't know about you, Pet, you
Speaker 3: have the stigma attached to so once once, once it's
Speaker 3: gone from the cinemas and it gets to the video store,
Speaker 3: when it gets the blockbuster or video easy the idea
Speaker 3: that you're going into the video store with your with
Speaker 3: your you know, with your money for an overnight and
Speaker 3: you're getting an Aussie movie? Were you getting an American blockbuster?
Speaker 3: Every time I picked the blockbuster, so I just defend
Speaker 3: myself as like, yeah, I don't know why I didn't
Speaker 3: see it at the time. I reckon that. The more
Speaker 3: of the point is, how have you not seen it
Speaker 3: in the last teen as an adult with plenty of
Speaker 3: time on my hans? How have I not seen in
Speaker 3: the last ten fifteen years?
Speaker 1: Absolutely, I mean the build up was quite big, because
Speaker 1: you know, these guys were already had amazing career as
Speaker 1: a late show, which I'm sure you watched. Or maybe
Speaker 1: I'm assuming too much. When when you started working on
Speaker 1: how You're paying attention? Did you have any idea who
Speaker 1: working Doug were?
Speaker 3: I thought guys with the comedy company. I was very disappointed.
Speaker 2: Sama Sama's on the Fruit was always my favorite character.
Speaker 3: I was a big lave show fan. Yes, and I
Speaker 3: used to listen to it on the radio.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 3: But now I'm having trouble defending myself as the y
Speaker 3: You just didn't go and see their first movie at
Speaker 3: the cinemas. No, I saw their second one of the cinemas.
Speaker 3: I saw The dish Peak and I loved it. Yeah,
Speaker 3: even that didn't inspire me to go back and watch
Speaker 3: the first Pie, that one that broke me.
Speaker 1: Okay, so so since then, the more like, when you
Speaker 1: started working with these icons, did you ever think to yourself,
Speaker 1: maybe I should sneak a sneak a look, just how
Speaker 1: I can say, how's the serenity with some confidence?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know once again, yeah, you start working. Santa
Speaker 3: Salmonid's Cup Fever was in twenty ten and that's the
Speaker 3: covering the World Cup with Santiathol. But it's produced by
Speaker 3: working well and every day for six weeks. And not
Speaker 3: even in the build up to that, did I think
Speaker 3: maybe just Chris watched the cast at a walking point,
Speaker 3: it's not you know, maybe you've got something to go on.
Speaker 3: I didn't do it then in there. You know, this
Speaker 3: probably says a lot of that. Not once have they
Speaker 3: you know, tested me like there wasn't early on, Like yeah,
Speaker 3: they're they're giving me little quotes from the castle to
Speaker 3: watch all their back as well. They've never because that
Speaker 3: we know them as well, but they don't care, thank you.
Speaker 2: They're extremely humble.
Speaker 3: Yes and there and they're all looking forward. So you
Speaker 3: know the fact that I hadn't seen the castle didn't
Speaker 3: obviously it didn't affect the working relationship. You know, I
Speaker 3: don't know, it didn't make it didn't mean it hasn't said,
Speaker 3: it hasn't been an issue. If anything, this podcast, if
Speaker 3: they even this could be that this could be the
Speaker 3: thing that you know it was a part.
Speaker 1: Well, I think this is probably timely now that before
Speaker 1: we get into your thoughts on the on the the movie,
Speaker 1: and this isn't I want to point out this isn't
Speaker 1: also a review podcast. We just chat about These are
Speaker 1: usually people who have just seen a movie they've never
Speaker 1: seen before. So it's us processing the films. You know,
Speaker 1: I've recorded some already. Where we start off, I'm not
Speaker 1: sure how we've thought about the film, and then we
Speaker 1: get to the end and we're like, actually, I want
Speaker 1: to watch it again. And so it's not a review podcast,
Speaker 1: but we just will chat about whatever comes our way.
Speaker 1: But I sent you a message, Sam, and I just
Speaker 1: want you to maybe play that message if you can,
Speaker 1: from one of the creators of the Castle.
Speaker 3: All right, from one of the creators.
Speaker 1: All right, here we go, Sado. So we're doing this podcast.
Speaker 1: You ain't seen nothing yet. Two movie lovers who haven't
Speaker 1: seen a classic movie. And it's you know, Judith Wlusey
Speaker 1: hasn't seen the sound of Music. Luke McGregor hasn't seen
Speaker 1: a godfather, but there was one that shocked us a
Speaker 1: little bit. A good friend of yours, somebody you've supported
Speaker 1: and you've worked with for many years, Sampang. And this
Speaker 1: is hard for me to tell you, but I don't
Speaker 1: know if you know already, but he's never seen the Castle.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 5: I was trying to react with surprise there, but I
Speaker 5: can't muster up any surprise because nothing about Sampang actually
Speaker 5: surprises me. When I think you maybe even asked the
Speaker 5: wrong person.
Speaker 2: Though you know I was involved in it.
Speaker 5: You know, I was the cameraman and wrote, you know,
Speaker 5: co wrote it and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 3: I feel a little bit.
Speaker 5: The pot calling the kettle black beest, just personally. I
Speaker 5: know every single character and every single plot line of
Speaker 5: every single Jerry Lewis and Elvis movie. But you know,
Speaker 5: I still haven't seen Crocodile Gundee. So so I wonder
Speaker 5: whether it would have been different for Sam had had
Speaker 5: Burt Reynolds played the part of Daryl and Don de
Speaker 5: Lawiz played the part of Dennis Denudo, or had the
Speaker 5: film contained the word cannon balls, I think there.
Speaker 3: Would be more chances of him watching.
Speaker 5: I hope, I hope you understand it because it's quite
Speaker 5: a complex film.
Speaker 2: First sea.
Speaker 5: You know, it's difficult plot lines, complex, complex characters. It's
Speaker 5: funny fair because you sort of you've asked the wrong
Speaker 5: person again, not just because I've got my own films
Speaker 5: that are the great films that I haven't seen, and
Speaker 5: also that we had such low expectations for the film
Speaker 5: Full Stops that there were surprised that anyone's seen it
Speaker 5: because it was sort of like it was it was.
Speaker 2: I mean, we made it as.
Speaker 5: A real movie, but it was sort of a practice movie.
Speaker 3: So the fact that it even.
Speaker 5: Got to the cinema for us is this an incredible thing.
Speaker 2: Incredible thing.
Speaker 1: So obviously you'll be seeing Sam for Have you been
Speaker 1: paying attention this week so there's no awkwardness or maybe
Speaker 1: you want to inject some awkwardness.
Speaker 2: What would you like to say to him?
Speaker 5: I'll just have to tell him. I know you haven't
Speaker 5: seen the Castle, but I've got an admission to make
Speaker 5: to you. I've only seen the episode that I did.
Speaker 2: In BBC in your Spears show if you.
Speaker 5: Made in the in the late two thousand and so
Speaker 5: I'm story I haven't seen it. I know, I know
Speaker 5: it's a great show. I know it's only been rested
Speaker 5: since I think two thousand and eight, but I think
Speaker 5: I'll have to.
Speaker 3: Admit that to him.
Speaker 2: Well, he was, he was on message with Burt Reynolds
Speaker 2: and Cannibare run.
Speaker 3: I know it's made see because you didn't know what
Speaker 3: my three movie is going to be. Sander doesn't know
Speaker 3: what they were going to be either, So well, I
Speaker 3: may not be as hard to read as I think Pete.
Speaker 3: That was great to hear from Santo, but yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 3: no apologies for me. I'm glad I haven't seen it.
Speaker 3: Now I'm actually disappointed I had.
Speaker 2: Well, okay, well what did you what did you make
Speaker 2: of it?
Speaker 3: This is this may be slightly controversial because in terms
Speaker 3: of you know, without I know, I hadn't seen the movie, Pete,
Speaker 3: but you know, it's such part of the Australian psyche
Speaker 3: and it's part of popular culture in this country that yeah,
Speaker 3: you know, I had heard that serenity thing and you know,
Speaker 3: I mean the pool room and all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I know this may be hard to hear,
Speaker 3: but can you ask me the question again?
Speaker 2: What did you make of it?
Speaker 3: I thought it was UnAustralian.
Speaker 2: Because of a.
Speaker 8: Rook needed more, needed more for and I needed like
Speaker 8: how he hasn't been involved in it, like hitting I
Speaker 8: know The Dish was their second movie, but goes to
Speaker 8: Hollywood or something like that.
Speaker 3: That would I would have watched that. Well what a surprise. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I love so I loved it. But what we were
Speaker 3: saying earlier about so, yes it's a comedy, but that
Speaker 3: that heart is there the whole movie and bud Tingle
Speaker 3: and a cad and at the end, you know, in court. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it was just a reminder of yeah, like you know,
Speaker 3: the best the best comedies are like that. They're not
Speaker 3: just a series of like funny scenes. There's a you know,
Speaker 3: there's a there's this through line or there's this heart
Speaker 3: to it that you care and you and and the
Speaker 3: themes are universal or that it makes it feel and
Speaker 3: so yeah, it was so easy to watch. As I
Speaker 3: was watching it, I was going, well, you are an idiot.
Speaker 3: How have you. I've expressed some regret for that. I
Speaker 3: you know, I've seen every series of Mine Amy Vice,
Speaker 3: but I haven't seen the Castle.
Speaker 2: You know. Well, well I'm glad we're we're rectifying that now.
Speaker 1: I obviously, I've seen it so many times, how many
Speaker 1: I reckon, I've all have seen it twenty twenty five times,
Speaker 1: and I what you say is absolutely right. It's got
Speaker 1: the perfect, perfect measure of comedy and heart. And also
Speaker 1: there's a reason for ever everything, Like there's there's so
Speaker 1: many jokes in there that they're all there for a
Speaker 1: reason and they're all earning their keep, you know. And
Speaker 1: the first ten to fifteen minutes is Steve Curry as
Speaker 1: Dale Kerrigan, you know, talking about the house and the
Speaker 1: and there's jokes everywhere, the greyhounds and the you know,
Speaker 1: the cars and the poor room and there's all it's
Speaker 1: all set up in the front of what his dad
Speaker 1: thinks of all those things and how much he loves him,
Speaker 1: and how much they love his mum's cooking and and
Speaker 1: all these things are set up.
Speaker 2: But it's all done.
Speaker 1: Really beautifully to the show how much this house means
Speaker 1: to them. And you know, you could you could argue
Speaker 1: that could have been done quicker, but why do it
Speaker 1: quicker when it's so entertaining.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's funny to start with the you know, like,
Speaker 3: and I'm glad you said this is not a review show.
Speaker 3: Because you know, the critiquing and reviewing is not you know,
Speaker 3: I can't. I have so much admiration for anyone who
Speaker 3: just makes something that that trumps everything. You don't how
Speaker 3: did you make anything? So I don't have the language,
Speaker 3: you know, to critique or anything. So that that that
Speaker 3: that's as good as I've got in terms of what
Speaker 3: I said before. So and that was sincere obviously not
Speaker 3: a massive surprise like it's It's beloved in this country
Speaker 3: for a reason. If I was going to revert back
Speaker 3: to form, I would have said at eighty one minutes
Speaker 3: still seemed long to me. And talks about you know,
Speaker 3: him being the cameraman on it. I did notice because
Speaker 3: he told me that he was the cameraman on it.
Speaker 3: So yeah, So I noticed that there is one shot
Speaker 3: in the whole movie, Peek, where the camera actually does
Speaker 3: anything where and it's the it's it's first it's early
Speaker 3: shot where Carrigan's talking at the house and then it
Speaker 3: and then the camera pans to the airport, right think,
Speaker 3: that's the only time in the whole movie that the
Speaker 3: camera actually moves for Santo to go around town talking
Speaker 3: about it.
Speaker 8: It was the cameraman, you go what are you talking
Speaker 8: aboutbout you?
Speaker 3: You put a camera on a tripod and then you
Speaker 3: let the actors do the thing. You're the camera man.
Speaker 3: Where you unbelievable.
Speaker 1: If if I was being generous, I would suggest that
Speaker 1: that's there were Where's Anderson?
Speaker 2: Before Where's Anderson? I was just a couple of locked
Speaker 2: up shots. You know, you're right, the camera doesn't doesn't
Speaker 2: move a lot. But you know, I.
Speaker 1: Think you'd be aware of this great comedy doesn't need
Speaker 1: the camera to move.
Speaker 2: A whole a whole bunch, and all those scenes scenes work.
Speaker 1: I think it was Woody Allen who or might have
Speaker 1: been Woody Allen or Peter Sellers who said each each
Speaker 1: time you cut, you basically take away laughs, you know,
Speaker 1: like it's it's and you look at Ricky Gervay's and
Speaker 1: Ricky Gervays there's nothing flash going on with the way
Speaker 1: he operates a camera. He just he just you know,
Speaker 1: lets the actors do to work. Let's the script do
Speaker 1: the work. So I think they had at the time,
Speaker 1: Sam to be generous.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's really generous. You're you're you're really generous man.
Speaker 3: After listening what you say, I want to take it
Speaker 3: all back, and I want to acknowledge Sandy Hilaro is
Speaker 3: one of the great cinematographers.
Speaker 1: I love maybe also Sando. It's our humble Sando is
Speaker 1: he refers to himself as the camera man. I'm not
Speaker 1: the DP.
Speaker 3: He doesn't. That's because he doesn't have a language.
Speaker 1: Now, in context of watching the movie, do you have
Speaker 1: a favorite line, whether it be the Serenity you know,
Speaker 1: it's going straight to the poor room.
Speaker 2: Did one stick out more than the others?
Speaker 3: It's funny those ones are Pete, I'd heard because you know,
Speaker 3: like you said, for those who haven't or if you
Speaker 3: for listening wherever you're listening, but they may not be
Speaker 3: aware of how how big this movie is in Australian culture.
Speaker 3: So I'd heard of the Serenity House of Serenia and
Speaker 3: that's going straight to the poor room and you're dreaming.
Speaker 3: So it's funny that I probably you know quotes have
Speaker 3: stuck out for me were ones that I'm hearing these
Speaker 3: for the first time. So when when I hear it's
Speaker 3: not a house, it's a home. Yeah, the heartstrings are
Speaker 3: going Pete. And that's beautiful in this in this comedy,
Speaker 3: in this comedic film, you go, oh my god, that's like,
Speaker 3: that's just a beautiful sentiment. And then I loved it
Speaker 3: was early on, Pete, would you would you stop pretending
Speaker 3: to be on my side?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 3: I really like that. It was like it kind of showed.
Speaker 3: It showed that it was not simpleton, you know what
Speaker 3: I mean? He could, he could, he had like his
Speaker 3: street wise. He knew when someone was just bullshitting to
Speaker 3: him and when he was when they weren't. And found
Speaker 3: not about that. When when Darrell was trying to convince
Speaker 3: Dennis Dodo to present him in court, and he says,
Speaker 3: you know, you defended Wayne. Of course you should do this.
Speaker 3: You defended Wayne. He got eight years.
Speaker 2: I had forgotten.
Speaker 1: I'll watched it with my kids a few years ago,
Speaker 1: and I really had forgotten how much Dennis Nudo swears
Speaker 1: at that photocopy.
Speaker 6: Jesus, this photo copy is just that I cleared Trade three.
Speaker 1: Well, I love the most. I love the trading post
Speaker 1: running gag dad. Some guys sell on an overhead protector.
Speaker 5: Nah, Now, hang on, Steve, what's he asking one fifty?
Speaker 2: Tell him he's dreaming.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: It pops up perfectly in so many great moments, just
Speaker 1: to just to tag a scene. And then I remember
Speaker 1: watching it in the cinema in nineteen ninety seven when
Speaker 1: it opened, and the scene like it comes back so
Speaker 1: many nice times when they're driving at Bonnie Dune and
Speaker 1: they get they got to slow down because of the
Speaker 1: there's a there's a raidar up ahead.
Speaker 2: And then he.
Speaker 1: Asked, yeah he has he has his son. How much
Speaker 1: did that cost? And he tells him just pay for itself.
Speaker 3: That was amazing. I think it was like seventy bucks
Speaker 3: or eighty bucks is like adding it just paid for itself.
Speaker 1: And then when the the goon comes to their house
Speaker 1: and you know it says take you know, take the offer,
Speaker 1: don't make any trouble. And then Steve's his name is
Speaker 1: Steve Kerrigan comes up with the rifle and I remember
Speaker 1: I remember the audience cheering during that. It was a
Speaker 1: pack center that they were cheering. And then is if
Speaker 1: that wasn't funny enough and great enough. Then they go
Speaker 1: into Dalkerrigan, you know, blasting him. You know, I said
Speaker 1: no more guns in the house, which is a really
Speaker 1: you know, full on thing. You know, their sons in
Speaker 1: jail for armed robbery. I said, no more guns in
Speaker 1: the house.
Speaker 2: How much did you pay for it?
Speaker 3: Was I just I couldn't believe. Just there was so
Speaker 3: many jokes in it. There's just so many, so many
Speaker 3: laughs in it. It's like, yeah, that's a fair effort
Speaker 3: for what. Did Santo describe it as a practice movie?
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's basically saying they did this to make money
Speaker 1: so they can make the dish, which was their ultimate
Speaker 1: kind of ambition. And it was done in eleven days
Speaker 1: for a million bucks, which is just incredible and to
Speaker 1: the point where they were doing things to save money,
Speaker 1: like Santa his dad's a lawyer.
Speaker 2: Dennis de Nudo's office is Santo's dad's office.
Speaker 3: Yes, there were bits, So what is it. I've worked
Speaker 3: with them for a decade now and you just hear
Speaker 3: stories and so yeah, I could see bits of them
Speaker 3: in the movie. So yes, I knew Santa's dad or
Speaker 3: you know, I've met Santa's dad. Can can he pull
Speaker 3: off a cream suit? By the way, mister, I knew
Speaker 3: that he was he was a lawyer. I could see
Speaker 3: even when they go fishing, Pete, you know that Rob
Speaker 3: and Tom you know that they're fishing, is a bit
Speaker 3: kind of so that you know, so that you know
Speaker 3: about Riot or film what you know, like so when
Speaker 3: they're doing fishing scenes that they know what the you know,
Speaker 3: they know what they're talking about. The details are spot
Speaker 3: on because they know straight away. Same with the law.
Speaker 3: Did you know that? Do you know that Santo and
Speaker 3: Tom studied law, they studied law together?
Speaker 1: Well, yes, yes, that was kind of part of the
Speaker 1: the Djen kind of folklore that I think they met
Speaker 1: in at Melbourne UNI.
Speaker 3: Yes, because me and Cindy always think what a missed
Speaker 3: opportunity that because because the Celaro lies in the law
Speaker 3: firm could really have been one of the great that's
Speaker 3: that's a sliding doors moment and the jury is still
Speaker 3: out as to whether the right decision was made. Yes,
Speaker 3: it was great to see. It was great to see
Speaker 3: that those those guys like parts of their lives so
Speaker 3: clearly in the movie.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean it was.
Speaker 1: It was such a beloved and instantly it felt like
Speaker 1: an instant classic when it came out. Do you remember
Speaker 1: there being some kind of you know, people who thought
Speaker 1: it was looking down it was kind of punching down.
Speaker 1: But if you know, if you exactly what you just said,
Speaker 1: if you know Rob and Tom and Sano and Jane,
Speaker 1: you can completely see this is their movie, and this
Speaker 1: comes from a very personal place. I think Jane actually
Speaker 1: lived near an airport, like so I imagine that's made
Speaker 1: where the idea came from, which she was growing up.
Speaker 1: So it's it's I it's a very personal movie. Let's
Speaker 1: talk about some of the performances. It's perfectly cast. I
Speaker 1: guess that does get spoken about it, but maybe not enough.
Speaker 1: Everyone is so good in this movie, like Michael Kayton,
Speaker 1: it's as good as a performance that's ever been seen
Speaker 1: in the Strain movie, I think. And that's with considering
Speaker 1: Paul Hogan, you know, Tony Collette, Mirror's wedding, It's it's
Speaker 1: it's a masterpiece.
Speaker 3: Yeah, who's serious, you know all the big ones. Yeah,
Speaker 3: he is amazing because he obviously carries the film, but
Speaker 3: with this amazing cast and great performances. But yeah, he's
Speaker 3: he's there the whole way. Are you ever to work
Speaker 3: with you?
Speaker 2: You would have done with Michael Kateon or Yeah, who's serious?
Speaker 3: I go with you don't much Cayton's time, No, I
Speaker 3: actually haven't.
Speaker 2: I haven't I've met him, but I'll be very quite briefly.
Speaker 1: I think, you know, doing radio interviews and TV stuff
Speaker 1: over the years, but never spent much time with him.
Speaker 3: Sadly, you know, yeah, the young Eric Banner, Sophie Lee
Speaker 3: dephen Carry who obviously good frame is amazing, and I.
Speaker 1: Gotta say, I think it's worth pointing cars out. I
Speaker 1: think he is so good in the I think I
Speaker 1: said they're all good, They're all great. But I think
Speaker 1: Cauz is you know, if Daryl's not you know, if
Speaker 1: Daryl's not the heart of it, and he probably is
Speaker 1: that then and Becuz as as Dale Kerrigan is a
Speaker 1: close second.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Bud Sing well, yeah, I think Jane cast it,
Speaker 3: so she did an amazing job. This is, by the way,
Speaker 3: who what if? I yeah, this is this is coming
Speaker 3: dangerous and close to critiquing Pete.
Speaker 2: I don't know what.
Speaker 1: It's only critique if there's if there's criticism, and this
Speaker 1: is all praise for these for these acts.
Speaker 2: This is Eric Banner's debut, a film debut.
Speaker 1: I think you've done the frontles and yeah, yeah, his
Speaker 1: debut and that scene when he's chatting, when he's chatting
Speaker 1: about coming back from the honeymoon and all the airplane stuff.
Speaker 1: The movies they watch and CAUs is just just obsessed
Speaker 1: with finding out what movies they watched.
Speaker 2: Is just hilarious.
Speaker 3: Twister and Jim the Big Two drive in those two. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I I wrote down a couple of other things. They
Speaker 3: just some you know some, there's some almost some you
Speaker 3: know word association, the kickboxing groom on.
Speaker 1: The cake and and and then the kickboxing down at
Speaker 1: Bonnie Bonnie Dune.
Speaker 2: With this with his with his father in law just
Speaker 2: looking on admiring.
Speaker 3: As the new bride holds the bag. I don't know why.
Speaker 3: Just fake chimney made me laugh. Fake chimney. Yeah, and
Speaker 3: I'm sure this is not the first time it's been celebrated.
Speaker 3: But jousting sticks, that is amazing, Dad, But.
Speaker 2: Jousted sticks tell him he's dreaming.
Speaker 3: How much is jousing stick worth that.
Speaker 2: I've couldn't be more than two fifty And of the
Speaker 2: condition I never hear jousing sticks ad Middly.
Speaker 1: It's not something you hear a lot, but I never
Speaker 1: hear justin six without thinking of the castle.
Speaker 2: It's great.
Speaker 1: Also the effort they have to go to to get
Speaker 1: to the the back.
Speaker 2: Car in the driveway, the amount of cars they have
Speaker 2: to move.
Speaker 1: Steve, could you move the Camira I need to get
Speaker 1: the tarana around so I can get to the commodore.
Speaker 3: I have to get the keys of courteen if I'm
Speaker 3: going to move that camera.
Speaker 2: You watch the boat mate, Yeah.
Speaker 3: Wow, And it's it's really those things are such a
Speaker 3: different time, and yet they're still kind of it's still around,
Speaker 3: it's still relevant today. It's still easily identifiable it. So
Speaker 3: that's that's amazing. I will say this too, I reckon,
Speaker 3: you're not not having It's probably the worst adaptation of
Speaker 3: Karka's nineteen twenty six book ever.
Speaker 1: He's come with a he's finishing off with a high
Speaker 1: brow just a balance up the cannonball run.
Speaker 3: Listen, I don't mind and full disclosed for you. You
Speaker 3: know that, you know that I googled that. I went,
Speaker 3: I went. But if you google, if you put the
Speaker 3: Castle into Google, the movie is not the first thing
Speaker 3: that comes up. It's's novel from nineteen twenty six. And
Speaker 3: I thought, yeah, I'll just I'll write that down then
Speaker 3: use that when I've got nothing else to say with Pete.
Speaker 1: Well, that possibly is a lovely place to wrap this up.
Speaker 1: It's been, it's been, you know, it's always a joy
Speaker 1: to chat with you.
Speaker 2: When we find the time.
Speaker 1: But this this felt like a special some special time spent.
Speaker 3: Thank you for having me. You know you probably could
Speaker 3: tell immediately how excited, how genuine I thought in terms
Speaker 3: of what a good idea this is, and I was
Speaker 3: looking forward to doing it with you. But this is
Speaker 3: this is a wonderful time to spend with you, because
Speaker 3: I don't get enough of it. And the last time
Speaker 3: we did do it, we did an episode of paying
Speaker 3: attention and it was great to have a few beers
Speaker 3: afterwards in the green room, to the point where it
Speaker 3: was on a Sunday night where I had to leave
Speaker 3: my car there, do the right thing, get an uber home,
Speaker 3: then before radio next morning, get an uber to the
Speaker 3: two channel ten and just do a walk of shame
Speaker 3: to my car. It's genuine and I enjoy spending time
Speaker 3: with you. But that was that was I did, mate.
Speaker 3: It was did I come? Did we cover everything? We
Speaker 3: did everything?
Speaker 2: Well, if you have anything else, please throw me.
Speaker 1: There is one a little the fact which is quite interesting,
Speaker 1: particularly for Australians listening, which will be the blog majority.
Speaker 1: I imagine Dennis Denudo's bm Black BMW. At the end,
Speaker 1: this is all goes to working dog trying to save
Speaker 1: money and you know, calling favors belong to Eddie maguire.
Speaker 3: Did it really? Well, that's actually that's that's now that
Speaker 3: I know that that has dated because knowing those guys
Speaker 3: right now, if they shut that movie, Pete, they could
Speaker 3: have chosen any of about eight.
Speaker 1: And the reason the reason the family is called the
Speaker 1: Karrigans is so they could match up. There was a
Speaker 1: Caragan toe trucking company, so they could match up the trucks.
Speaker 1: They could get the Caragan branding on the trucks. So
Speaker 1: that's you know, that's how you make a movie for
Speaker 1: a million bucks.
Speaker 3: Well, that's you know, yes, you celebrate and appreciate how
Speaker 3: resourceful they work. And hearing these things, Pete, this makes
Speaker 3: me think, I can't believe that that they're not in it,
Speaker 3: that you know, to save to save money on actors,
Speaker 3: that Tom Santo and Rob are not in it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a good it's a good point.
Speaker 1: Tony Martin pops up in the end as the as
Speaker 1: Charles bud Tingwell's barrister son.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure if you saw him at the party
Speaker 2: at the end.
Speaker 3: I saw it, and only because I know you're here
Speaker 3: this I want to say that he almost single handled it.
Speaker 3: Brought down one of one of my favorite films ever.
Speaker 3: Like to do so much damage was so little was
Speaker 3: an amazing effort. And yeah, like Rob, Rob's a great actor,
Speaker 3: but probably for the best. Santo and Tom aren't in it,
Speaker 3: to be honest. Otherwise Santo, Tom and performance, we may
Speaker 3: not be here talking about this movie. People.
Speaker 1: Well, Tom famously in Frontline played the photocopy of repair
Speaker 1: Man and only had I think one line, which you
Speaker 1: I think either finished an episode or even the series,
Speaker 1: which was It's fixed.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you, I'll tell you we possibly finger this,
Speaker 3: but I'll tell you how bad an act Tom Bleisner is.
Speaker 3: They they did a show called Funky Squad.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, Tom was in it.
Speaker 3: He played a character called Poncho. I think this is
Speaker 3: how bad an actor he was. His character didn't have
Speaker 3: to do any lines because they wrote in so that
Speaker 3: his character had his tongue shot out in a line
Speaker 3: of duty. So Tom didn't have any lines because his
Speaker 3: character didn't have a tongue. Ra had a bullet and
Speaker 3: he's done or something like that.
Speaker 2: Going wow, going to remember the line being he got
Speaker 2: shot in the tongue?
Speaker 3: Is did I get did I get to know of
Speaker 3: the character? I was a poncho?
Speaker 1: I believe so, Yes, I don't have the quite the
Speaker 1: encsychopedic knowledge of Funky Squad as I do maybe some
Speaker 1: of their other works, but I believe yes, and punch
Speaker 1: he got shot in the tongue.
Speaker 3: Well, I think I think I've I think I've been
Speaker 3: sincere enough and given it. It's but then, you know,
Speaker 3: I can't so boring to just say how great are
Speaker 3: these guys and how good is this? So I think
Speaker 3: Tom and and Alkopterer. I think Rob's got off scot free.
Speaker 3: So I'll just say I thought the direction was poor.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, you know, the cameraman has to you know,
Speaker 1: follow the director's you know, wishes. So if you're saying
Speaker 1: it coming in to move, maybe it's you know, Santo
Speaker 1: and Rob take half the blame.
Speaker 3: What I can't think of a better way to finish
Speaker 3: by just bagging bagging them all.
Speaker 2: I know we've do about three or four finishes. It's
Speaker 2: doning to feel like a Star Wars film.
Speaker 1: But I want to point out whether we spoke about
Speaker 1: the performances and an Tanny is fantastic as Sol and
Speaker 1: Sophie as his Sophie Lee. I mean we did briefly
Speaker 1: mention Bud ting well, but I really laughed. I watched
Speaker 1: it again this morning. I really laughed at his listening
Speaker 1: to Daryl Kerrigan, and there's been careful not to insult Denniston,
Speaker 1: you know, like just his' I'm not wanting to bag
Speaker 1: him out, just like yeah, so I'm not sure if
Speaker 1: he's across constitutional law.
Speaker 2: It was such a beautiful comedic performance understated.
Speaker 3: That was that was wonderful and it reminded me to it.
Speaker 3: He was very gentle with when when he was listening,
Speaker 3: which was beautiful, funny and also I should mention too.
Speaker 3: Then Dennister nudos the two notes that Dennis Neudo passed
Speaker 3: budzing Wile in the court drink of water question mark
Speaker 3: and then effing brilliant like I could you know, if
Speaker 3: you love that movie, I could like in terms of
Speaker 3: you know, I have your bigger memorabilia, but having those
Speaker 3: two having those two pieces of paper I would have
Speaker 3: that would be upframed in my office. I mean, if
Speaker 3: I had anything to do with that movie like that.
Speaker 1: That just well, well, I've had a good laugh today
Speaker 1: with you, mate, and mainly I think it's been it's
Speaker 1: been review ish. We've had some laughs, we've sung some praise.
Speaker 1: I've seen the internal struggle that you've had throughout this.
Speaker 1: But then I think that's going to really shine through.
Speaker 1: It's going to be the vibe.
Speaker 3: It's a vibe. Yeah, there's another one I didn't It's
Speaker 3: much like the serenity and the pool room and the dreaming.
Speaker 3: The vibe I've been hearing out for twenty years and
Speaker 3: now now I've finally seen it in its natural environment
Speaker 3: in this in this wonderful movie.
Speaker 2: Good on you, mate, Thanks for joining us.
Speaker 1: Thanks Bete, well, that was a lot of fun catching
Speaker 1: up with Sam Pang talking about the castle. As soon
Speaker 1: as he told me he hadn't seen it, I was
Speaker 1: so excited and kind of pounded in to make sure
Speaker 1: we got that conversation going. So thanks Sam for joining us. Christy,
Speaker 1: Sam and Brownie check that out. Have you been paying
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Speaker 1: you like us to get on the show, and anything
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Speaker 1: that this episode with Sampang was actually recorded during isolation,
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Speaker 1: have a wonderful actress, Pia Miranda, who burst into our
Speaker 1: scenes years ago.
Speaker 2: In Looking for Ala.
Speaker 1: Brandy also won Australian Survivor Amazing Effort.
Speaker 2: Pe Miranda, she is fantastic.
Speaker 1: I've had the pleasure of working with Pea before and
Speaker 1: she has never seen the notebook. I would have thought
Speaker 1: she had for some reason, I have her peg. There's
Speaker 1: a romantic film fan, but it's not the case. So
Speaker 1: you've never seen a notebook. So we get our mccadams
Speaker 1: and gosling on in the next episode of You. You
Speaker 1: ain't seen nothing yet, see then, hmm.
Speaker 2: And so we leave old Pete safe and soult and
Speaker 1: To our friends of the radio audience, we've been a
Speaker 1: pleasant good night.