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Speaker 1: Well, I thoroughly enjoyed season one of Ten Pound Palms,

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Speaker 1: and I'm glad that season two is finally out on

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Speaker 1: stand today because season one ended up on somewhat of

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Speaker 1: a cliffhanger. You know, Michelle Keegan's character took off with

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Speaker 1: a son, so I can't wait to see where it

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Speaker 1: picks up. And joining the cast for season two is

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Speaker 1: Marcus Graham. Another reason I can't wait to see how

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Speaker 1: it plays out.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Marcus, good morning.

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Speaker 1: Now you've joined as Benny Bates, unscrupulous landlord spoiler alert,

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Speaker 1: spoiler alert, bit of a villain? Is it always more

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Speaker 1: fun playing the quote unquote villain?

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Speaker 3: Oh, there's so much more to do, so much fun. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: because you've just got to go and charm the pants

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Speaker 3: off everyone. Yes, and then be dartedly at the end

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Speaker 3: of the day.

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Speaker 2: It sounds like you're going to tie someone to a

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Speaker 2: railway line.

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Speaker 4: Just a little luck, a little bit of luck with

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Speaker 4: us with an evil snicker without spoilers, mate, we didn't

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Speaker 4: tell us about season two.

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Speaker 3: Oh seasons Well, look, I can think it's really interesting

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Speaker 3: looking at Australia through a British lens because we don't

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Speaker 3: we don't really do that very often, and they just

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Speaker 3: love this country so much, and they going, what is

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Speaker 3: it about it? Like, there's just so much light and

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Speaker 3: sky and so much space, and we all just take

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Speaker 3: it for granted, you know. I mean, look how huge

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Speaker 3: the sky is in Perth. But after a while ago, yeah,

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Speaker 3: you know, that's normal time for these palms. No, So

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Speaker 3: I sort of found that quite interesting. And also the

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Speaker 3: whole the whole look of the fifties. I mean, it

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Speaker 3: must have taken women about four hours to get out

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Speaker 3: of the house, and with the hair rolls and all

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Speaker 3: the beautiful dresses and the hairy one just oh my god.

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Speaker 3: It this was quite a different time. We were shooting

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Speaker 3: this this log chipping thing, right, and and all the

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Speaker 3: men and women segregated, and I didn't sort of realize,

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Speaker 3: and I just thought we were shooting these scenes and

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Speaker 3: there's all you know, and all these men around. Here's

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Speaker 3: your shoot the scene, okay. And I turned went to

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Speaker 3: get get a coffee and I turned the corner and

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Speaker 3: walked into them into this area and it was just

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Speaker 3: full of women and I was like what And then

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Speaker 3: I thought this is what it would have been like actually,

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Speaker 3: and it was just I just suddenly was a strange

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Speaker 3: experience to have only women here and only men there,

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Speaker 3: and I kind of I can't there what And then

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Speaker 3: I looked up and looked up like women's rights and things,

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Speaker 3: and I'm not really a feminist or anything, but you guys,

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Speaker 3: look and Wikipedia told me that women in Australia couldn't

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Speaker 3: have their own bank account until like seventy three or something.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I know it.

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Speaker 3: I know. I can't believe.

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Speaker 1: That they could buy a house, you know, they couldn't

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Speaker 1: say this is I mean, this is why women didn't

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Speaker 2: Get super schemes or anything.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it out of the door now, I'll tell you.

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Speaker 5: But it's quite mean.

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Speaker 3: That's the seventies, so they think about exactly fifty Wow. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: so it's quite quite. It is quite extraordinary, I think.

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Speaker 3: But the show isn't isn't in any way kind of

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Speaker 3: banging on about that sort of politics, although it's very

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Speaker 3: faithful to what it was like then. So I think

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Speaker 3: that's that's kind of great. It's really and I just

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Speaker 3: get to have a lot of fun and wear a

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Speaker 3: lot of great clothes. I drive this really fabulous old jack.

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Speaker 3: There's fifty three. Yeah, and I tell you, no, no

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Speaker 3: power steering. I could metal. Yeah. The car is all

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Speaker 3: metal and all wood. The more you drive it, the

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Speaker 3: more you drive it, the harder it gets. Survive. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: you can survive the Gyman winter.

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Speaker 2: No one's going to smash into it.

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Speaker 3: And he gets hotter and hotter and hotter. So we're

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Speaker 3: shooting in summer and I'm in a three piece woolen

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Speaker 3: suit and We're driving this jag. I'm like, oh, it

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Speaker 3: is so hot, and pretend it's cold. Pretend it's cold.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you, I know. I knew your dad Ron was

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Speaker 1: an actor. But what I've only just read this morning

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Speaker 1: is he was a beneficiary of the assisted passage immigration scheme.

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Speaker 1: So this is brings it even closer to home for you.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it does. But he didn't tell us that. He

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Speaker 3: didn't tell me. He really had some bullshit story that

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Speaker 3: he came out with a Shakespeare company nice. The last

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Speaker 3: stop was per and he said, I'm not getting back

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Speaker 3: So I didn't know that until after he died. And

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Speaker 3: again I went to Wikipedia, and it told me something

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Speaker 3: about my dad that I never knew.

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Speaker 2: Right, Wiki Isn't that incredible, isn't it?

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Speaker 5: And he had he had a mother and father and

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Speaker 5: a couple of brothers in Australia that I didn't know existed,

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Speaker 5: and he had changed his name, and the spelling.

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Speaker 3: Of his name he had given me was incorrect, so

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Speaker 3: there was no way that I could trace him or

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Speaker 3: his family or anything like that.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Really kind of like what drives someone to be like that?

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Speaker 5: I don't know.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, international man, it's a little bit mad men,

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Speaker 4: isn't it mad man?

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Speaker 2: Especially with the seas.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, because my wife is at ten pound pom. She

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Speaker 4: came over with her family in nineteen seventy four and

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Speaker 4: their names on the little you know, the little poles

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Speaker 4: down at Fremantle Harbor and all that. But they they

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Speaker 4: got here and found themselves within a couple of days

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Speaker 4: at Mullalou Beach, and they said it was like heaven

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Speaker 4: but seen this magnificent beach.

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Speaker 2: It absolutely trucked out.

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Speaker 4: And I would imagine there's that kind of thing in

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Speaker 4: the show where people go, jeez, it's beautiful, it's bloody hot.

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Speaker 3: Well they're just there. That's exactly it. They're just in

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Speaker 3: awe of it. But then that's cooking them at the

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Speaker 3: same time.

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Speaker 2: Their relatives and they come over.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's right. I mean I remembers in Mount

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Speaker 3: Lily Primary School actually, and these these kids came came

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Speaker 3: over palms and they would have had their first Perth

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Speaker 3: summer and they turned up at school with these welts,

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Speaker 5: You know, they had to get out in the sun.

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Speaker 3: But they'd never.

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Speaker 1: Yes slop slapping then either, of course, I know we

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Speaker 3: We were going down to Scarborough Beach and putting cooking oil, peeling.

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Speaker 1: Each other's back at the end of the day, Marcus.

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Speaker 1: We've got new film studios, as you probably know, opening

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Speaker 1: next year and they're pretty state of the old art

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Speaker 1: and we've got a lot of people coming to Perth

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Speaker 1: and to w a to film stuff. Are we likely

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Speaker 1: to see you over here a bit more when they

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Speaker 1: open up?

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Speaker 2: We get your home, I hope, Can I bring your home?

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Speaker 3: Yeah. I spent a lot of time in Perth last year,

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Speaker 3: last winter actually writing. I've got this film that I've

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Speaker 3: written that I said in Perth that I want to

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Speaker 3: make it. Yeah, and it's a feature film. Yeah, I'll

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Speaker 3: keep it posted on that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, please do.

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Speaker 3: Yes, it's about social politics. It's not a political film.

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Speaker 3: It's not left or right or anything, but it's about

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Speaker 3: all the madness that we seem to be all going through.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, potential leading lady Marcus we is right here.

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Speaker 3: Okay, a bit of an actress.

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Speaker 1: We know what he is talking about about.

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Speaker 2: We would love you to keep us posted on that.

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Speaker 1: And in the meantime, Season two of Ten Pound Poms

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Speaker 1: is out on stand today.

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Speaker 2: I will I don't.

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Speaker 1: Know if it's all coming out at once or if

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Speaker 1: it's I'll try to pace myself. I'm a shocking binger

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Speaker 1: like I just yeah, it's like a packet of few times.

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Speaker 2: I've got to have the ball, have another one. You

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Speaker 2: needed a Stangini, don't you?

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Speaker 1: Thank you Marcus for joining us this morning.

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Speaker 2: Your voice say yeah about