1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:03,280 Speaker 1: It is here The Neighbors finale as tonight on ten 2 00:00:03,400 --> 00:00:08,480 Speaker 1: at seven thirty thirty seven years Nellie, nine thousand episodes, 3 00:00:08,640 --> 00:00:12,119 Speaker 1: sixty three weddings, twenty births, and sixty eight deaths. More 4 00:00:12,160 --> 00:00:16,040 Speaker 1: than a couple of bounces and one Tody, Ryan Maloney, 5 00:00:16,200 --> 00:00:17,279 Speaker 1: good morning. 6 00:00:17,840 --> 00:00:18,920 Speaker 2: Good morning God. 7 00:00:19,040 --> 00:00:22,000 Speaker 1: How are you very well? Ryan? What year did you 8 00:00:22,120 --> 00:00:22,840 Speaker 1: join the show? 9 00:00:24,360 --> 00:00:27,840 Speaker 2: In ninety five? I was fifteen years old. 10 00:00:27,920 --> 00:00:29,920 Speaker 3: You were a baby, just a baby? 11 00:00:31,160 --> 00:00:34,320 Speaker 2: No, thanks God, I am apparently Yeah. 12 00:00:34,800 --> 00:00:38,240 Speaker 1: What's been your favorite storylines over the years? 13 00:00:39,840 --> 00:00:42,000 Speaker 2: Favorite story probably the one that is closer to my 14 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:46,520 Speaker 2: heart is Sonya's death storyline. I just absolutely loved working 15 00:00:46,560 --> 00:00:49,159 Speaker 2: with Eve Morey, and you know, we had such a 16 00:00:49,159 --> 00:00:52,280 Speaker 2: beautiful time together, and that storyline nut will be forever 17 00:00:52,320 --> 00:00:54,400 Speaker 2: in my heart. But the thing that will be forever 18 00:00:54,480 --> 00:00:58,760 Speaker 2: in my brain is the six thousand episode where Tody 19 00:00:58,800 --> 00:01:03,560 Speaker 2: has a nude lunch and yeah, and and Carl has 20 00:01:03,600 --> 00:01:07,160 Speaker 2: a winning scratchy ticket that is lost in Tody's house, 21 00:01:07,520 --> 00:01:10,440 Speaker 2: and in order to get that scratchy ticket back, he 22 00:01:10,480 --> 00:01:14,560 Speaker 2: has to strip off and come into the lunch. So 23 00:01:14,640 --> 00:01:18,080 Speaker 2: it's just the image of Alan Fletcher running around my 24 00:01:18,160 --> 00:01:19,440 Speaker 2: house nude. 25 00:01:19,880 --> 00:01:21,400 Speaker 1: Episodes Ago and you haven't forgotten. 26 00:01:21,480 --> 00:01:22,080 Speaker 4: How bizarre. 27 00:01:22,319 --> 00:01:25,560 Speaker 2: No, No, that's it. That's forever. I'm emotionally scaring. 28 00:01:25,600 --> 00:01:27,800 Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, the therapist to that way. Well, I was 29 00:01:27,800 --> 00:01:29,440 Speaker 4: going to ask you when you know how many times 30 00:01:29,800 --> 00:01:31,399 Speaker 4: over the years did you see a script and go, 31 00:01:31,520 --> 00:01:33,880 Speaker 4: we're doing what But that's one of them right there? 32 00:01:33,959 --> 00:01:34,440 Speaker 3: Or two of them? 33 00:01:34,560 --> 00:01:37,080 Speaker 2: Oh? You know, but that's soph isn't it. That's that's 34 00:01:37,120 --> 00:01:40,039 Speaker 2: the joy of sop there just kind of go, let's 35 00:01:40,120 --> 00:01:42,960 Speaker 2: let's go down this avenue, Let's take the viewers on 36 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:44,880 Speaker 2: this kind of ride. And I think that's you know 37 00:01:44,920 --> 00:01:47,919 Speaker 2: what people kind of really love, is that that fanciful, 38 00:01:48,440 --> 00:01:51,000 Speaker 2: you know kind of ride. 39 00:01:51,560 --> 00:01:54,840 Speaker 1: There's one thing that I've really never heard of happening 40 00:01:54,840 --> 00:01:58,720 Speaker 1: before in all of television is all of these incredible 41 00:01:58,760 --> 00:02:02,560 Speaker 1: people coming back for the final week. What was it 42 00:02:02,680 --> 00:02:05,559 Speaker 1: like on Ramsey Street when you were filming that those 43 00:02:05,680 --> 00:02:10,399 Speaker 1: kind of you know, there's Kylie's there and there's Guy Pierson. Incredible. 44 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:13,240 Speaker 2: It was absolutely amazing to have all these you know, 45 00:02:13,280 --> 00:02:16,720 Speaker 2: these amazing people come back and I think there's something like, 46 00:02:16,760 --> 00:02:20,520 Speaker 2: you know, sixty people in the last scene. It's absolutely huge. 47 00:02:20,880 --> 00:02:24,560 Speaker 2: But I think it probably just points to how important 48 00:02:24,560 --> 00:02:28,720 Speaker 2: Neighbors has been within you know, the television landscape, and 49 00:02:28,840 --> 00:02:31,000 Speaker 2: you know kind of how dear it holds in people's 50 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:33,200 Speaker 2: heart that all of these people you know, who have 51 00:02:33,280 --> 00:02:36,040 Speaker 2: gone off and done quite well overseas have gone well. 52 00:02:36,120 --> 00:02:39,600 Speaker 2: Yet Absolutely, I'm coming back to pay our honor and 53 00:02:39,639 --> 00:02:41,440 Speaker 2: respect to this fantastic show. 54 00:02:41,680 --> 00:02:45,320 Speaker 1: Two favorites were definitely the bishops Harold and Madge, and. 55 00:02:47,280 --> 00:02:48,919 Speaker 2: Madge standing on the rocks. 56 00:02:48,639 --> 00:02:55,600 Speaker 1: Going Mold, is it true that Madge is making some 57 00:02:55,800 --> 00:02:56,760 Speaker 1: sort of appearance? 58 00:02:57,800 --> 00:03:07,040 Speaker 3: Well, look, I can't say, Ryan, be honest, mate, Paul 59 00:03:07,080 --> 00:03:09,079 Speaker 3: Hogan can't walk down the street without that's not a knife. 60 00:03:09,120 --> 00:03:11,080 Speaker 4: The knife thing, you know, all those years later, how 61 00:03:11,120 --> 00:03:12,840 Speaker 4: often can you give us a percentage of how often 62 00:03:12,840 --> 00:03:15,080 Speaker 4: people call out Ryan or Tody when. 63 00:03:14,880 --> 00:03:19,280 Speaker 2: They see you? Of course, But the thing that I 64 00:03:19,320 --> 00:03:22,360 Speaker 2: really love is that when people are really trying to 65 00:03:22,400 --> 00:03:25,519 Speaker 2: be polite and trying to call me by my real name, 66 00:03:25,840 --> 00:03:32,440 Speaker 2: and they go, Hi, Jared, how are you going, Jared? Moiadi, Vincenzo, Rebeccy. 67 00:03:32,560 --> 00:03:39,400 Speaker 2: That's that's funny, That's so nice. So it's so cute. 68 00:03:40,040 --> 00:03:43,440 Speaker 1: That is cute, Ryan, What is what is the plan 69 00:03:43,640 --> 00:03:44,280 Speaker 1: post show? 70 00:03:46,240 --> 00:03:48,280 Speaker 2: Look, I'm open to it. That's the way I kind 71 00:03:48,320 --> 00:03:50,160 Speaker 2: of look at you that. Over the years, I've seen 72 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:54,200 Speaker 2: everybody leave the show, and when they leave, I think, look, 73 00:03:54,240 --> 00:03:58,080 Speaker 2: they're off on their adventure. So now I actually feel like, 74 00:03:58,200 --> 00:04:02,200 Speaker 2: you know, my adventure is actually just starting. So I'm 75 00:04:02,240 --> 00:04:04,400 Speaker 2: literally open to everything. And in fact, if you've got 76 00:04:04,440 --> 00:04:07,640 Speaker 2: a spot on your radio show on there, absolutely yeah, 77 00:04:07,800 --> 00:04:10,560 Speaker 2: throw your bone. I'm out of work. I need it. 78 00:04:11,360 --> 00:04:12,080 Speaker 4: That sounds right. 79 00:04:17,560 --> 00:04:17,720 Speaker 3: Right. 80 00:04:17,760 --> 00:04:19,640 Speaker 4: It is time to flyte but you can actually fly. 81 00:04:20,200 --> 00:04:22,480 Speaker 4: That's pretty cool. You can be guy's a bit more. 82 00:04:23,080 --> 00:04:27,159 Speaker 2: Yeah, I got my commercial pilot's license. But you know 83 00:04:27,240 --> 00:04:29,520 Speaker 2: then obviously with COVID and I got that, you know, 84 00:04:29,560 --> 00:04:31,640 Speaker 2: just in case I got fired off neighbors, which has 85 00:04:31,640 --> 00:04:35,400 Speaker 2: happened eventually, but you know, COVID hitting. Now there's all 86 00:04:35,440 --> 00:04:38,320 Speaker 2: these really skilled young pilots out there who are out 87 00:04:38,320 --> 00:04:40,279 Speaker 2: of work. So the same way I'm getting a job, 88 00:04:41,839 --> 00:04:45,039 Speaker 2: I've actually just started a civil construction course. So I'm 89 00:04:45,040 --> 00:04:46,960 Speaker 2: going to do what every every little boy dreams of, 90 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:49,080 Speaker 2: and I'm going to go and you know, learn how 91 00:04:49,080 --> 00:04:51,080 Speaker 2: to drive some big machines and dig some big holes. 92 00:04:52,080 --> 00:04:56,480 Speaker 1: And I think your fame in the UK probably even 93 00:04:56,680 --> 00:05:02,119 Speaker 1: superceeds what goes on in the streets. Yes, so yeah. 94 00:05:01,600 --> 00:05:03,479 Speaker 2: Look, you know I'm also open for you know, going 95 00:05:03,480 --> 00:05:06,279 Speaker 2: out to the UK. Yeah, I wouldn't even mind, you know, 96 00:05:06,320 --> 00:05:08,360 Speaker 2: having a crack of directing as well. I mean we 97 00:05:08,480 --> 00:05:11,240 Speaker 2: kind of get that a lot when working on Neighbors. 98 00:05:11,279 --> 00:05:14,360 Speaker 2: Is that's probably the thing that happens the most within 99 00:05:14,440 --> 00:05:16,520 Speaker 2: Neighbors is that we're all there to help each other out. 100 00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:20,520 Speaker 2: So we're you know, like the older kind of more experienced. 101 00:05:20,520 --> 00:05:23,680 Speaker 2: The actors are always there to help the younger ones 102 00:05:23,720 --> 00:05:26,480 Speaker 2: out and you know, help other directors out and all 103 00:05:26,480 --> 00:05:28,440 Speaker 2: that kind of jazz. And you know, quite often well 104 00:05:28,520 --> 00:05:32,480 Speaker 2: Will kind of directs the scenes from from you know, 105 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:33,599 Speaker 2: from the set. 106 00:05:33,960 --> 00:05:37,599 Speaker 1: Well, I bet you've made some contact contacts over the years. Ryan, 107 00:05:37,680 --> 00:05:42,159 Speaker 1: So whatever you do next, we wish you well and 108 00:05:42,680 --> 00:05:46,240 Speaker 1: we look forward sadly to the final episode tonight on 109 00:05:46,320 --> 00:05:49,640 Speaker 1: ten at seven thirty. It is going to be huge. 110 00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:51,120 Speaker 4: And thanks for all the memories of the year. 111 00:05:51,200 --> 00:05:54,640 Speaker 1: Yeah, thanks thanks Ryan, Thanks Tony, thanks Jared, thanks as. 112 00:05:54,520 --> 00:05:58,400 Speaker 2: Well, thank you to everybody you know who has just 113 00:05:58,440 --> 00:06:01,159 Speaker 2: given so much the thought. You know, we are definitely 114 00:06:01,200 --> 00:06:03,720 Speaker 2: feeling the lover you know as as we finish up. 115 00:06:03,720 --> 00:06:07,200 Speaker 2: So thank you all. Thanks Ryan Jeers, guys,