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Speaker 1: Luy podcasting Now.

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Speaker 2: Right now, we are joined by someone very special.

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Speaker 3: Our next guest is a genuine Ossie legend who can

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Speaker 3: do it all on any screen. Seriously, He's done it

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Speaker 3: all from his days on sketch comedy series Full Frontal

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Speaker 3: to being critically acclaimed as march Opper Read.

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Speaker 4: Because I reckon I could shoot you from where you'll

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Speaker 4: sit into the front door.

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Speaker 1: Because that's about as long as you've got to produce

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Speaker 1: some money for me right now.

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Speaker 3: These flekes his action muscles in blockbuster films like Troy.

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Speaker 1: I thought it was you.

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Speaker 2: I was fighting yesterday and I wish it had been you.

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Speaker 1: But I gave the dead boy the honor.

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Speaker 2: He gave him the honor of your sword.

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Speaker 3: I'm still mad at Brad Bitter Gillingham and that he's

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Speaker 3: starting the film Munich, directed by our little mind.

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Speaker 2: Director.

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Speaker 3: You may have heard of Steven Spielberg. I mean the

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Speaker 3: New York Times named it the best film of the

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Speaker 3: twenty first century so far. How's that for high prose

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Speaker 3: throwing the fact he's also made the perfect date night

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Speaker 3: film with the time Traveler's wife.

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Speaker 1: Could we pretend, just for a minute, this is the

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Speaker 1: first time.

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Speaker 4: I've been a nice you only life.

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Speaker 3: Can you tell what massive fans of this guy yet

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Speaker 3: we haven't even mentioned Dirty John or Star Trek here

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Speaker 3: to chat all about his new Australian film, The Dry,

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Speaker 3: which drops January first. It's the one and only Eric Banner.

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Speaker 1: Pretty epic. I got to say that sounds pretty epic, mate.

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Speaker 4: I'm going to be honest here, ol button push and

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Speaker 4: Joel made that. It's the first opener he's made by

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Speaker 4: himself for the show.

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Speaker 1: Okay, he's got the job. Yeah, I'm going to get

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Speaker 1: him to make me one of those every day. It's

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Speaker 1: something different to wake up to.

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Speaker 2: That was well, look, I was chopping with it.

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Speaker 4: I'm going to admit at three and a half minutes

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Speaker 4: I was like, shit, Joe, I think we've only got

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Speaker 4: Eric for five so.

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Speaker 2: And that's actually our time.

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Speaker 5: So thank you Eric Banner for joining.

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Speaker 1: Us The Dry.

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Speaker 5: Eric, Actually, something that just comes to mind when you

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Speaker 5: listen to that opener is you are one of the

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Speaker 5: few actors, in my opinion, who has really successfully made

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Speaker 5: the trend isition from comedy stuff earlier on in the

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Speaker 5: career and then later on your career with like funny people.

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Speaker 5: Jad Avataos film funny people and then playing the most

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Speaker 5: serious characters like Chopper and of course Dirty John last year.

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Speaker 2: What do you think is harder to do drama or comedy?

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Speaker 1: Oh, that's that's a good one. I think it depends

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Speaker 1: on the material. I think comedy is definitely harder. When

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Speaker 1: you're reliant on creating your own material. I think it

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Speaker 1: definitely hardens you. So I think, you know, coming from

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Speaker 1: a stand up comedy background is really really great training.

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Speaker 1: You know, it makes you so thick skinned, and I

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Speaker 1: think it's been helpful for me going into the dramatic

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Speaker 1: stuff because you just kind of like think, well, what's

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Speaker 1: the worst that can happen? You know what, we just

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Speaker 1: do another take it that is that what happens? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so I think in some ways the comedy is harder.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, right, Well, Wods is right.

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Speaker 4: The transition has been amazing And if anyone's read The

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Speaker 4: Dry I'm sure to be honest, a heap of people have,

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Speaker 4: because it was the number one selling book in Australia

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Speaker 4: for a couple of years there. Jane Harper, she was

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Speaker 4: obviously a journalist for The Herald's son I think she

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Speaker 4: was originally and she wrote this really gritty gripping novel

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Speaker 4: that runs two separate timelines. You're playing the lead character

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Speaker 4: in Federal Agent Aaron Fork all the way through.

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Speaker 2: Mate.

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Speaker 4: I was really excited to see you in the trailer

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Speaker 4: for this one. I'm sure for anybody that lived through

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Speaker 4: the drought or any drought in Australia, particularly rurally, this

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Speaker 4: will really touch a nerve. I was going to ask you, mate,

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Speaker 4: have you had any experience with the sort of tension

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Speaker 4: that arose Because the book's obviously but it's a murder mystery,

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Speaker 4: but that's all about the underlying resentment and tension that

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Speaker 4: can arise in a country town and all throughout Australia while.

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Speaker 2: This was going on. Did you have any experience without.

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Speaker 1: Yourself you know, it was definitely intentional. Jane felt as

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Speaker 1: though the background of a small country enduring a very

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Speaker 1: long drought adds to the tension and kind of adds

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Speaker 1: to the emotional toll of the characters. And I love

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Speaker 1: I love the idea of someone going back to a

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Speaker 1: place they came from twenty later and there's something that's

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Speaker 1: happened in the past that we're not really sure what

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Speaker 1: it is. I've had a big emotional effect on the

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Speaker 1: sort of center of the story is a bit of

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Speaker 1: a gift. Really yeahodcasting now we.

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Speaker 4: Are joined by Eric Banner right now, Now, guys, we've

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Speaker 4: got the fai to pull down. I just confirm that, yes, beautiful,

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Speaker 4: Eric can't hear us still thinks for a song, this

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Speaker 4: is a bad idea. I'm keen. I think you're soft,

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Speaker 4: I think you're weak. He's a serious guy, serious, seriously.

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Speaker 4: Used to do a bit of comedy though. You want

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Speaker 4: to see to be a good bit of comedy.

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Speaker 2: You want to play the banana man theme. Has the

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Speaker 2: Arab ever been known as Eric the banana Man?

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Speaker 4: Eric Banana?

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Speaker 2: That team puts everyone in a good mine at the end.

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Speaker 2: Can you do it at the end, because I've got

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Speaker 2: a good question, Elie. He does take me. We haven't

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Speaker 2: only got a little laughs with him yet. Well I'll

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Speaker 2: get him here, I get it. Okay, you get a

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Speaker 2: hold at the end, right cool, Eric Betner, that'll be awesome. Eric,

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Speaker 2: you're still there?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay great.

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Speaker 5: Just before during the song, Eric will was talking about

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Speaker 5: your new movie The Dry and he was talking about

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Speaker 5: when he was reading the book that he could really

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Speaker 5: see you as the main character. Aaron fork Eric, when

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Speaker 5: you were reading the book, were you sitting there chapter

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Speaker 5: three and you're going bloody hell, I can I can

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Speaker 5: see myself.

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Speaker 2: I just keep seeing myself as Aaron Well.

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Speaker 1: I actually had a bit of a head up. My

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Speaker 1: wife is is a voracious reader, so she she flipped

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Speaker 1: it onto me and so you've got to read this.

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Speaker 1: I think they're going to make this into a film.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I did sort of read it with you know, a

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Speaker 1: tiny eye on the future perhaps, But then when Robert

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Speaker 1: Conley was was attached as a director, who's a dear

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Speaker 1: friend of mine and we share an office together, so

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Speaker 1: it was a pretty quick yes. I thought it was

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Speaker 1: a really amazing opportunity to bring, as you say, I mean,

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Speaker 1: the dry sole of a million copies, and it's the

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Speaker 1: book that I love, and I felt protective of it.

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Speaker 1: I felt like, you know, as a producer as well,

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Speaker 1: I wanted to make sure that the readers weren't disappointed

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Speaker 1: and that we did a true adaptation of the novel

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Speaker 1: they love.

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Speaker 4: Hey, mate, it's obviously an aussy story and you've you've

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Speaker 4: recently been in that massive Netflix show which was Dirty John,

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Speaker 4: and in the seven minute opener we had for you

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Speaker 4: before as well, Like we listened to all the international

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Speaker 4: movies that you've done before. Obviously as an Australian, it's

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Speaker 4: great to see you back on the Australian screen. Is

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Speaker 4: that something that you're going to be targeting moving forward

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Speaker 4: as well? And can I ask you how different is

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Speaker 4: it to be backshooting something in Australia.

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Speaker 2: Do you prefer it?

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Speaker 4: Is it something that you're going to see yourself doing

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Speaker 4: in the future or would you want to see more

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Speaker 4: international Aussies do it more?

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Speaker 1: No, I don't. I never really think of it that way.

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Speaker 1: So I just I just read everything that that sceense

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Speaker 1: and I just who's the best stuff I can find.

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Speaker 1: It's probably, in some ways a shock that it's been

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Speaker 1: ten years since I filmed nothing here. But in a way,

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Speaker 1: I'm not that shocked because material like Rominless my Father

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Speaker 1: and the dry that I don't grow on trees and

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Speaker 1: they are few and far between. I'm very, very fortunate

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Speaker 1: to be able to take that opportunity and be given it.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, I don't look at things sort of Australian

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Speaker 1: and international. I just read what I like, and yeah,

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Speaker 1: the only difference here was I was a bit concerned

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Speaker 1: about the distraction of the footy season. That's something I'm

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Speaker 1: not used to when I'm working on a film. But

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Speaker 1: fortunately we were ensconced deep in regional Victoria in the

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Speaker 1: Malley so good more hours away, I wasn't able to

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Speaker 1: watch the.

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Speaker 4: Same as they had such a good season as well

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Speaker 4: a night there.

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Speaker 1: Well, I was twenty nineteen, so yeah, we were early

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Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen.

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Speaker 5: Actually I heard a rumor Eric actually changed the location

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Speaker 5: of the film to ensure there was no reception, so

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Speaker 5: you wouldn't.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't far off off definitely out of the drive

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Speaker 1: zone for sure.

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Speaker 4: Well, Eric, it's been wonderful talking to you mate, Thank

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Speaker 4: you so much for joining us on the show. We

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Speaker 4: had a quick question from our listener and knew that

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Speaker 4: you were going to come on today. They wanted to

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Speaker 4: know whether you had ever been played this ever before?

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Speaker 2: Have listened to this one?

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Speaker 4: Eric is Banana mar.

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Speaker 2: Has anyone ever played that to you?

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Speaker 4: Eric?

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Speaker 2: Eric is banana Man? Eric is Bana anyone going with that?

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Speaker 1: No? No? I mean, you know, I've had the banana

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Speaker 1: connection for many years, but I don't know that I've

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Speaker 1: been presented with such a high level production. I began

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Speaker 1: dig that up see what you're hearing.

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