1 00:00:01,440 --> 00:00:03,320 Speaker 1: And Amanda jam Nation. 2 00:00:03,640 --> 00:00:06,600 Speaker 2: Our next guest is a ruggedly handsome and very talented 3 00:00:06,640 --> 00:00:09,800 Speaker 2: actor him because he's so self effacing, he'd be horrified 4 00:00:09,800 --> 00:00:12,879 Speaker 2: that I've started. You may remember him as the bad 5 00:00:12,880 --> 00:00:15,320 Speaker 2: boy Bracks on Home and Away or the charming handyman 6 00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:18,560 Speaker 2: Ben from Five Bedrooms. Well now he's flying high as 7 00:00:18,600 --> 00:00:22,040 Speaker 2: heroic nurse in his second season of the thrilling drama 8 00:00:22,120 --> 00:00:25,480 Speaker 2: series r FDS Royal Flying Doctor Service. Of course, it's 9 00:00:25,520 --> 00:00:26,480 Speaker 2: Stephen Peacock. 10 00:00:26,600 --> 00:00:31,720 Speaker 3: Hello, how are you always a treat to talk to you? 11 00:00:31,720 --> 00:00:36,440 Speaker 3: How many shows can you be on? It's just Peacock FM. 12 00:00:37,560 --> 00:00:40,360 Speaker 1: I now I've had I've had a pretty lucky string 13 00:00:40,400 --> 00:00:44,880 Speaker 1: of work in Melbourne and Broken Hill and Sitney in 14 00:00:44,920 --> 00:00:47,040 Speaker 1: all over the Shop. So it's been, it's been, it's 15 00:00:47,040 --> 00:00:47,640 Speaker 1: been great fun. 16 00:00:47,840 --> 00:00:51,120 Speaker 2: Well, this show is inspired by real life stories of 17 00:00:51,200 --> 00:00:53,159 Speaker 2: the Royal Flying Doctor Service. What are the what are 18 00:00:53,159 --> 00:00:54,800 Speaker 2: some of the services that they do? What are some 19 00:00:54,840 --> 00:00:55,520 Speaker 2: of the cases. 20 00:00:57,200 --> 00:01:00,000 Speaker 1: It's crazy, it's funny. We get the scripts every where. 21 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:03,040 Speaker 1: We had a Meadows Claire Phillips and a leading up 22 00:01:03,120 --> 00:01:06,319 Speaker 1: sort of team of really awesome writers and you sort 23 00:01:06,360 --> 00:01:08,520 Speaker 1: of read the scripts and the craiky no one's going 24 00:01:08,560 --> 00:01:11,360 Speaker 1: to believe this, then you find out that it actually happened. 25 00:01:12,480 --> 00:01:15,560 Speaker 1: So every everything we do on the show comes from 26 00:01:15,560 --> 00:01:18,880 Speaker 1: something that's actually happened. And in the first episode, I 27 00:01:18,880 --> 00:01:22,480 Speaker 1: mean the stakes are pretty high and things get pretty 28 00:01:22,640 --> 00:01:25,480 Speaker 1: very pretty quickly. But yeah, there's there's a bloke with 29 00:01:25,560 --> 00:01:27,880 Speaker 1: it in dark and his eyeball and you think that's 30 00:01:27,880 --> 00:01:30,440 Speaker 1: never going to happen, and you find out no, chump 31 00:01:30,480 --> 00:01:33,280 Speaker 1: a cub someone was looking past the darkboard. Next thing, 32 00:01:33,280 --> 00:01:37,880 Speaker 1: he's got a dark and he's crazy things things like this. 33 00:01:38,840 --> 00:01:42,240 Speaker 1: And aside from that, the RFTS they do incredible things 34 00:01:42,280 --> 00:01:46,160 Speaker 1: with there's a lot of mental health stuff that's really 35 00:01:46,240 --> 00:01:49,200 Speaker 1: become a big issue in the Bush and in the 36 00:01:49,240 --> 00:01:52,040 Speaker 1: regions over the last decade. Mean, it's always been there, 37 00:01:52,040 --> 00:01:54,080 Speaker 1: that people are thankfully talking about it a lot more 38 00:01:54,120 --> 00:01:57,360 Speaker 1: now and there's there are clinics every week all over 39 00:01:57,400 --> 00:01:59,840 Speaker 1: the place and the most remote parts of Australia you 40 00:01:59,840 --> 00:02:03,880 Speaker 1: can think of. So it's an incredible service, the lifeblood 41 00:02:03,880 --> 00:02:05,040 Speaker 1: of the boss. 42 00:02:05,120 --> 00:02:07,040 Speaker 2: Really, if you've got a dart in your eye, how 43 00:02:07,080 --> 00:02:08,919 Speaker 2: long would you have to wait for the Flying Doctor 44 00:02:08,960 --> 00:02:10,480 Speaker 2: service to arrive while you just lying there with a 45 00:02:10,560 --> 00:02:11,440 Speaker 2: dart in your eye? 46 00:02:12,440 --> 00:02:14,880 Speaker 1: I wouldn't. I'll just be wondering what score that is? 47 00:02:17,800 --> 00:02:18,360 Speaker 1: Win the game. 48 00:02:19,240 --> 00:02:21,480 Speaker 3: Yeah, there's certainly someone to be buying you a beer 49 00:02:21,600 --> 00:02:21,919 Speaker 3: for that. 50 00:02:22,040 --> 00:02:25,359 Speaker 2: When you're filming, Steven, When you're filming, do you you're 51 00:02:25,400 --> 00:02:27,040 Speaker 2: obviously having to go up in the air. Do you 52 00:02:27,080 --> 00:02:32,040 Speaker 2: have a bad conditions and dodgy Tom Tom? I? 53 00:02:32,680 --> 00:02:34,280 Speaker 1: Well, I do in a car, I can tell you. 54 00:02:34,400 --> 00:02:39,600 Speaker 1: But thankfully, air sickness has never it has never struck 55 00:02:39,600 --> 00:02:41,400 Speaker 1: me down. I shouldn't. I shouldn't say that it probably 56 00:02:41,400 --> 00:02:46,560 Speaker 1: will now until now that's right. Most of the stuff 57 00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:51,040 Speaker 1: we do is actually in this incredible replica plane that 58 00:02:51,639 --> 00:02:55,200 Speaker 1: our art department built. But it's gyroscopic, so you've got 59 00:02:55,320 --> 00:02:58,240 Speaker 1: the lads there on both sides of it sort of 60 00:02:58,360 --> 00:03:01,560 Speaker 1: tilting the plane and create turbulent So you get off 61 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:03,120 Speaker 1: at the end of you know, you'd be on there 62 00:03:03,160 --> 00:03:06,000 Speaker 1: for twelve hours some days, and you get off and 63 00:03:06,040 --> 00:03:09,080 Speaker 1: you'll be standing in the shower that night and sort 64 00:03:09,120 --> 00:03:11,840 Speaker 1: of you'll get a bit giddy or sort of like 65 00:03:11,960 --> 00:03:14,320 Speaker 1: when you get off a boat. 66 00:03:13,680 --> 00:03:14,440 Speaker 3: A lot of. 67 00:03:14,440 --> 00:03:18,920 Speaker 1: Them weird feeling, but it's it's incredibly real and lifelike, 68 00:03:19,120 --> 00:03:21,519 Speaker 1: and yeah, it's it's a lot of fun. 69 00:03:21,680 --> 00:03:23,680 Speaker 4: I used to like watching those old episodes are Skippy 70 00:03:23,680 --> 00:03:25,679 Speaker 4: And I remember a guy telling us about it, and 71 00:03:25,720 --> 00:03:27,080 Speaker 4: they get in the car and they just be the 72 00:03:27,080 --> 00:03:29,600 Speaker 4: crews shaking the car around while they drove around, and 73 00:03:29,639 --> 00:03:30,720 Speaker 4: then they get Skippy. 74 00:03:30,800 --> 00:03:32,880 Speaker 2: That don't say Skippy was a puppet. 75 00:03:33,160 --> 00:03:35,520 Speaker 3: Skippy was real. But like when Skippy went. 76 00:03:35,480 --> 00:03:37,920 Speaker 4: And there's a bit where Skippy flies a plane when 77 00:03:38,040 --> 00:03:41,320 Speaker 4: you'd have to suspend a bit of belief. But what 78 00:03:41,440 --> 00:03:43,800 Speaker 4: they did is they just had two kangaroo paws that 79 00:03:43,840 --> 00:03:44,680 Speaker 4: have been hacked off. 80 00:03:45,800 --> 00:03:50,040 Speaker 3: Put some sticks and that's up on the plane the plane. 81 00:03:50,040 --> 00:03:51,880 Speaker 2: Stephen, on the day that they chop your arms off 82 00:03:51,920 --> 00:03:54,400 Speaker 2: and just use your hands, get a new agent. 83 00:03:57,240 --> 00:04:00,200 Speaker 1: Direct as long as as long as you get to termple. 84 00:04:02,440 --> 00:04:04,480 Speaker 3: Good news and bad news, you get you ten percent. 85 00:04:04,520 --> 00:04:07,960 Speaker 4: But how do you feel about having no arms? 86 00:04:08,280 --> 00:04:12,000 Speaker 1: Well the Castle Society now anyways. 87 00:04:13,200 --> 00:04:14,920 Speaker 3: Well, Steve, it's always great to talk to you. 88 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:17,320 Speaker 4: Season two of our f d S starts tonight nine 89 00:04:17,400 --> 00:04:19,200 Speaker 4: fifteen on seven and seven plus. 90 00:04:19,200 --> 00:04:23,320 Speaker 3: Stephen Peacock, thank you, thanks for having us. Nice to