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☀️ Ben Mckenzie tells us whether he's down for an O.C reboot! · KIIS Breakfast

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  Speaker 1: This is Kiss Breakfast. All right, we're doing a Remember
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  Speaker 1: Me this morning.
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  Speaker 2: So basically how this works is the producers have organized
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  Speaker 2: a guest for us.
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  Speaker 1: They're on Zoom right now. They're about to join us.
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  Speaker 1: But there's one catch. For right now, we don't know
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  Speaker 1: who it is.
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  Speaker 3: Not even the gender. You're using non-binary terms here.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, because we have to ask a series of questions
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  Speaker 2: to try and determine who this person is.
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  Speaker 1: All we know is that we do know who they are.
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  Speaker 3: It'd be embarrassing if we don't.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, and it always gets awkward because sometimes you get
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  Speaker 2: them really quickly, other times it doesn't matter how big
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  Speaker 2: they are, you just can't land on the person. So
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  Speaker 2: I am a little bit nervous, but let's start by
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  Speaker 2: saying hello, mystery guest, and we'll hear if this is
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  Speaker 2: a male or a woman.
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  Speaker 4: Hello.
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  Speaker 2: Hello.
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  Speaker 5: Hello.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I said dude, but let's just check. Wait, can
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  Speaker 1: you confirm that you're a male?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, I can.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, that's a nice voice.
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  Speaker 6: Now, would we know you from like a movie, a
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  Speaker 6: TV show or?
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Not music.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, he's not giving us much. Wait, wait, movie or
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  Speaker 2: TV show. So would we know you from a TV show?
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  Speaker 5: Yes. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: We're not getting much. He's going to be a 21.
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  Speaker 3: He's just doing yes. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: What.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, and he laughs. What era? Like when would we
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  Speaker 3: recognize your TV?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, the biggest thing you're known for. What era was that?
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to say in Australia, early aughts.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: The early noughties.
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  Speaker 2: And were you like a heartthrob in this TV show?
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  Speaker 4: I was.
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  Speaker 3: So he's a hottie.
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  Speaker 2: And were you, okay, was this a long-running TV show
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  Speaker 2: or did it only have like one or two seasons?
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  Speaker 5: Longer than one or two. Burned bright.
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  Speaker 6: Did you so have like a famous theme song or
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  Speaker 6: something like that?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, that's a good one.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, because like Friends and all that. Oh, okay.
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  Speaker 3: Can we ask what the theme song?
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  Speaker 1: Wait, okay.
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  Speaker 2: Were there other people from this TV show who went
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  Speaker 2: on to have like careers beyond their roles that they
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  Speaker 2: had on that show?
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, okay.
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  Speaker 3: This is really hard. And was it a funny show
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  Speaker 3: or was it, like, quite serious?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: It had humour and drama. You know, I think we
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  Speaker 4: often got classified as a teen soap opera.
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  Speaker 7: Uh-huh, teen.
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  Speaker 3: Okay. Teen early noughties.
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  Speaker 2: I think I'm getting it here from the voice. The
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  Speaker 2: more he talks, the more I could be wrong, though,
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  Speaker 2: so I just don't want to go in.
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  Speaker 3: Do we want one more question, then?
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  Speaker 2: Can you ask a question, because I'm fresh out, of
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  Speaker 2: one that'll get a long answer, please?
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  Speaker 6: Are you over 40 and how did you celebrate your
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  Speaker 6: birthday if you are? What did you do for it?
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  Speaker 5: I am over 40.
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  Speaker 4: My last birthday, I can't remember, which shows you how
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  Speaker 4: past 40 I am.
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  Speaker 5: I went to dinner with my wife. And my kids
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  Speaker 5: probably gave me a card.
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  Speaker 3: Married kids over 40, big in the noughties.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to take a stab in the dark here
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  Speaker 1: because I think I'm right.
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  Speaker 2: The reason that this came to me is because A,
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  Speaker 2: huge fan, but also B, rewatched it recently.
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  Speaker 1: Is it Ryan from the OC?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, it is.
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  Speaker 3: I knew that voice. Ben McKenzie. Oh, hello, Ben McKenzie.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, hi, Ben.
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  Speaker 3: Hello. Extra.
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  Speaker 4: Extra points would have been given if you'd gotten my
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  Speaker 4: actual name, but that's okay.
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  Speaker 5: You got my character name.
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  Speaker 3: That's important. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Atwood.
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  Speaker 2: No full character name. I was a huge fan of
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  Speaker 2: the OC.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Now we've got to remember the theme. Oh, do you
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  Speaker 3: hate hearing that?
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  Speaker 4: Good song.
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  Speaker 5: No, I mean, you could do a lot worse.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: What is it, Phantom Planet?
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: How good is that? This takes me back.
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  Speaker 2: I honestly, Ben, every couple of years, if not once
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  Speaker 2: a year, will watch the OC from start to finish.
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  Speaker 2: Like for me, it's like my ultimate TV show.
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  Speaker 1: Huge in my world.
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  Speaker 4: I now have kids come up to me, like kids, teenagers,
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  Speaker 4: and they talk about how what a fan they are
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  Speaker 4: of the show. You know, you weren't even alive when
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  Speaker 4: it came out. They watch it with their parents.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, well, they remade a couple of the
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  Speaker 2: older shows because they redid Beverly Hills 90210. They've redone
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  Speaker 2: Gossip Girl. Has there ever been talks, do you know,
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  Speaker 2: of redoing the OC? And wouldn't it be cool if
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  Speaker 2: you went back and you were one of the, like
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  Speaker 2: you were like Sandy, you were one of the dads?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I don't know that there's ever
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  Speaker 5: been serious talks, but I'd be up for it, sure.
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  Speaker 3: You'd do it?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think so, under the right circumstances. It was
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  Speaker 5: a great show. We had a great time. I learned
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  Speaker 5: a lot. I was so young. We were all so young.
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  Speaker 6: Do your kids watch it? How young are your kids?
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  Speaker 6: Have you shown them?
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  Speaker 4: They're too young to watch it, and yet I showed
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  Speaker 4: my middle child, who's 10... the series. And I forgot
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  Speaker 4: that in the pilot episode, the first episode, there is
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  Speaker 4: binge drinking, cigarette smoking, cocaine, and a threesome in the
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  Speaker 4: pilot alone.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: And of course, my 10-year-old loved it and wanted to
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  Speaker 4: watch more.
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Show me more dad yeah how did you handle though
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  Speaker 2: so much fame so young because you were in your
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  Speaker 2: early 20s though weren't you.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah I had graduated from university I was the oldest
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  Speaker 4: of the cast members but I was still yeah I
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  Speaker 4: was early 20s I had no experience that was my
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  Speaker 4: first thing uh effectively and uh I handled it, I don't.
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  Speaker 5: Know, well enough.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, being early 20s would be better than what
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  Speaker 6: we hear with a lot of teen stars where fame.
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  Speaker 5: Screws them up, right? It's hard, especially, I think, being
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  Speaker 5: a child actor, which I was not.
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 5: It was a particularly difficult thing.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, and as well, you just said you'd already
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  Speaker 2: graduated from uni, so you'd kind of studied something.
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  Speaker 1: Your whole life wasn't wrapped up in acting. And what
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  Speaker 1: did you study?
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  Speaker 7: Economics.
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  Speaker 5: Economics.
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  Speaker 7: Which would make sense with your current project. Yeah, well,
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  Speaker 7: which is what we're looking at here. So you've deep
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  Speaker 7: dived into crypto, which a lot of people hear this word,
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  Speaker 7: they don't even actually know what crypto is. Is that
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  Speaker 7: what you're working on now?
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  Speaker 4: During the pandemic, I was really bored and a buddy
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  Speaker 4: of mine came to me and said I should buy crypto.
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  Speaker 5: All the celebrities were selling it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. And my friend has given me terrible financial advice before,
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  Speaker 4: like a lot of us.
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  Speaker 5: Have this friend.
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  Speaker 4: My friend Dave literally has cost me money in the past.
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  Speaker 4: And I said, Dave, I'm not going to buy this stuff.
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  Speaker 5: But what is it?
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  Speaker 4: And he couldn't explain it. I went down a rabbit hole.
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  Speaker 4: I ended up writing a book that was a New
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  Speaker 4: York Times bestseller about my journey into it. But I
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  Speaker 4: also turned a camera on. I made a movie out
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  Speaker 4: of it called Everyone is Lying to You for Money.
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  Speaker 4: And it's about how stupid the whole thing is. I
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  Speaker 4: ended up interviewing Sam Bankman Freed, that guy that's now
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  Speaker 4: in prison.
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  Speaker 5: You probably have seen his picture. The curly haired.
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  Speaker 4: Kid who was a billionaire for a half second and
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  Speaker 4: now is doing 25 years in a federal prison.
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  Speaker 3: He ripped off a whole bunch of people, didn't he?
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  Speaker 5: A whole bunch of people, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And I interviewed him before it all went sideways. So
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  Speaker 4: it's a comedy documentary film with me and my wife,
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  Speaker 4: Marina Baccarin, who you might also recognize from television and film.
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  Speaker 4: And yeah, I'm really proud of it. And you can
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  Speaker 4: watch it in Australia. The movie's about money and lying.
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  Speaker 4: I know about money because of economics. I know about
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  Speaker 4: lying because I'm an actor and I do it for
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  Speaker 4: a living. I'm a professional BS-er. We do lie for
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  Speaker 4: a living. We're also students of human behavior. And what
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  Speaker 4: I saw with guys like Sam Begman-Fried and others is
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  Speaker 4: Just lying.
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  Speaker 5: I wanted to have fun with it.
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  Speaker 4: I wanted to make a movie that people, that it
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  Speaker 4: would entertain people and not be sort of like a
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  Speaker 4: boring lecture about crypto. And I think I've done that.
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  Speaker 4: The critics are loving it. And honestly, a lot of
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  Speaker 4: people in Australia are watching it, which is phenomenal.
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  Speaker 6: Well, if you want to find out more about the film,
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  Speaker 6: Everyone is Lying to You for Money, head to everyoneislying.com. Hey, Ben,
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  Speaker 6: in a nutshell, crypto, bullshit or not? Like, should we bother?
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  Speaker 4: Bullshit.
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  Speaker 5: Simple advice that your parents probably give you.
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  Speaker 4: Don't invest in something you don't understand. If you don't
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  Speaker 4: actually understand what it is, Don't put your money in. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Everyone is lying to you for money. Go and check
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  Speaker 3: it out. There we go. Ben McKenzie.
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  Speaker 2: Ben McKenzie, I want to see an OC reboot and
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  Speaker 2: I want you as the lead.
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  Speaker 1: I just need more OC.
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  Speaker 5: Let's make it happen.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, let's make it happen. Thank you so much for
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  Speaker 1: joining us this morning.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks, guys.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I regret putting that $ 50, 000 into crypto now.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, see, I've just never bothered understanding it, which is
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  Speaker 2: why I haven't put money into it.
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  Speaker 1: Same as the stocks. I don't understand that.
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  Speaker 6: Stocks I get, which can also be a gamble, but
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  Speaker 6: I still don't actually know What is crypto?
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  Speaker 1: Nor do I.
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  Speaker 3: Do you get it, Sean? Do you know what it is?
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  Speaker 3: Not really.
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  Speaker 5: I know a lot of people that do it. It's
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  Speaker 5: never tickled my fancy.
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  Speaker 1: Even beyond that, NFTs.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, was that the digital drawings? No, what were they?
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  Speaker 3: Is that what it is?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they're like digital images. Something, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: But people were making money off that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but these are the things you've got to be
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  Speaker 1: ahead of the game.
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  Speaker 2: So if you bought crypto early, for example, like I
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  Speaker 2: know someone who cashed it out and got a decent
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  Speaker 2: chunk at its peak because they bought it for nothing.
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  Speaker 2: But now I'm not sure that unless you really know
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  Speaker 2: what you're doing and you make it your full-time job,
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  Speaker 2: same as the stocks, you need to know and watch
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  Speaker 2: it daily.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Stocks make more sense. Like all our super is
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  Speaker 3: in stocks.
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  Speaker 5: Right?
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  Speaker 3: But they know what they're doing. They're kind of gambling
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  Speaker 3: with it, right? It is gambling.
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  Speaker 1: And what happens if they lose it? We lose our super.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And it happens, but then it can recover.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't approve of that, did I? When I gave
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  Speaker 1: my money to them.
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  Speaker 6: I think you want your super in stocks because it
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  Speaker 6: can make a return of like six.
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  Speaker 3: To nine percent.
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  Speaker 1: Wait, my money can go up?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. It can also go down.
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  Speaker 1: But who's making the decisions on behalf of my money?
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  Speaker 6: So to be a super company, whatever company you're with,
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  Speaker 6: and they employ a whole bunch of experts that decide
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  Speaker 6: what they're going to invest their money.
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  Speaker 3: In for Super.
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  Speaker 1: I may as well give people cash to play the pokies.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I know you are fond of the pokies. You
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  Speaker 3: do all right on them too, I've seen.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: What's your latest win on the pokies?
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  Speaker 2: I haven't won in a little while, but Kane on
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  Speaker 2: the weekend won like $ 1, 900.
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  Speaker 1: Really?
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  Speaker 3: Forget Super, invest in pokies.
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  Speaker 1: That's it, everyone. The gamble responsibly.