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The Big Show With Jesse Griffin! · The Hauraki Big Show

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  Speaker 1: Jeez, this is such a treat.
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  Speaker 2: The man we're about to speak to, I tell you what, Mogies, multi-talented,
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  Speaker 2: is that a fair comment?
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  Speaker 3: That sounds about right.
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  Speaker 2: Actor, director, comedian. Lover.
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  Speaker 4: Stallion. Stallion.
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  Speaker 2: I'm talking about the one and only Jesse Griffin. Jesse,
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  Speaker 2: you mad bastard. How's life?
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  Speaker 4: Good, thanks, Jase. How are you? Yeah, good, thanks, man.
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  Speaker 2: Well, actually, I've been a bit sneezy and snotty today.
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  Speaker 2: I'm about to go on holiday for two weeks, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm getting the feeling that my body's about to shit
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  Speaker 2: the bed.
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  Speaker 4: Well, that's different to being snotty in the nose, though,
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  Speaker 4: isn't it?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's slightly different.
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  Speaker 3: That's a precursor for Jase. If his nose starts getting runny,
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  Speaker 3: his arse is about to fall out. Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, that's lovely.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, but Jase, great to have you in, mate. Now,
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  Speaker 2: you've made a short film. I have. And old Mogi here,
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  Speaker 2: he was just raving about it. I'll be honest with you,
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  Speaker 2: I haven't seen it yet, but I've read the premise.
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  Speaker 2: Lucky Luke, tell us all about it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: It's a film that I wanted to make because it's
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  Speaker 4: about sort of a whole lot of adults that are
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  Speaker 4: sort of hopeless.
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: And a young guy who isn't. And it's sort of
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  Speaker 4: often I like that as a premise and sort of
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  Speaker 4: tension because that's largely what Educators is, essentially the TV
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  Speaker 4: show that I make, of sort of these inept adults
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  Speaker 4: that are sort of immature, but the young people are
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  Speaker 4: kind of the prism by which you kind of see
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  Speaker 4: their behaviour. And it's a great comedic sort of tension
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  Speaker 4: as well where adults get to behave really badly.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: And then you've got sort of this maybe like a
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  Speaker 4: more of a soulful kind of younger kind of perspective
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  Speaker 4: on it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and in the film, so the set-up is the
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  Speaker 3: 18-year-old Luke has just finished school when his mother announces
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  Speaker 3: they're becoming flatmates. And need to split the bills 50-50.
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  Speaker 3: Sounds good to me.
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  Speaker 4: Straight away you're in.
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  Speaker 2: Straight away I'm in.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And that's how the film starts. And his mother's mad. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: She's an individual.
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  Speaker 4: She was a young mum.
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: And so she's never really had a life.
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  Speaker 3: No, that's right. It looks like she's making up for
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  Speaker 3: lost time. She's off on a long weekend.
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  Speaker 4: With the girls.
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  Speaker 3: With the girls and is leaving her young son. defend
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  Speaker 3: for himself and he gets in touch with dad played
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  Speaker 3: by rhino cane yes um who's a hopeless shocking bastard
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  Speaker 3: and uh he sort of threw a uh threw a
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  Speaker 3: hungover haze can vaguely remember that a mate of his
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  Speaker 3: might have had a job going yes and and puts
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  Speaker 3: him in touch with this mate um who's a furniture
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  Speaker 3: removalist which is dear to my heart because i did
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  Speaker 3: that for four years played by what's his name Barney Duncan.
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  Speaker 3: Barney Duncan.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, he's great.
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  Speaker 3: Very, very good.
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  Speaker 4: And the great Robbie Nichol is his stoned kind of assistant.
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  Speaker 2: It's interesting, Jesse, because it kind of sounds like you're
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  Speaker 2: describing my life. Oh, well.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, is that in what way?
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  Speaker 2: In the sense that I've still got my youngest at home.
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  Speaker 2: She's 18.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I'm an idiot.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And I often, quite seriously, she explains the world to me. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, no, for sure.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm sure that she often looks at me and
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  Speaker 2: sees the insanity and madness. And what she sort of
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  Speaker 2: watches with a kind of indifference.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But when I'm trying to understand the world, I find
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  Speaker 2: her very useful.
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  Speaker 4: Well, yeah, that's right. I think as you age, you
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  Speaker 4: lose a lot of your ability to be a functioning
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  Speaker 4: human being, really. And it's not like the people that
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  Speaker 4: are adults in this film are that old, but they
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  Speaker 4: just haven't sorted their shit out, I suppose.
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  Speaker 3: No, and that's what it is, right? It's not like
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  Speaker 3: they don't carry... I think the difference is, Jase, you're.
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  Speaker 4: Very aware of your shortcomings.
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  Speaker 2: True.
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  Speaker 4: True, I am.
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  Speaker 3: Whereas these characters.
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  Speaker 2: Well, he has to be, doesn't he?
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  Speaker 4: They're just so glaring.
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  Speaker 2: She's so massive. You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 3: And on this radio show, they're constantly pointed out to you.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Whereas the characters, the adults in Lucky Luke, have an
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  Speaker 3: arrogance about them. They have a know-it-all sort of an
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  Speaker 3: attitude to them.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, or just an unaware of themselves. An obliviousness. Obliviousness.
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  Speaker 4: And they put him, they put Luke, through just carelessness
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  Speaker 4: into this kind of crazy situation that he has to
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  Speaker 4: sort of find his way out of.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, g'day, Matt.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, hi, mate, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Look, if you want the chance to win all our
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  Speaker 1: The Hauraki Big Show with Jase, Mike and Keezy. Tune
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  Speaker 1: in weekdays at four on Radio Hauraki.
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  Speaker 2: We've got the one and only Jesse Griffin, director, actor, comedian, director,
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  Speaker 2: Probably best known, would you say, Jesse, for your work
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  Speaker 2: with educators?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I suppose.
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  Speaker 4: I suppose, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, TV-wise probably. Oh, I did the show with you guys.
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  Speaker 3: That's true.
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  Speaker 4: That's true.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yes, true. You did too. My God.
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  Speaker 4: I did The Office in Australia as well, which was
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  Speaker 4: really cool.
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: That was fun.
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  Speaker 2: I've never seen that, actually. I really need to check
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  Speaker 2: that out.
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  Speaker 6: It's always interesting when you go out on a limb
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  Speaker 6: and you say, probably best known for, because as soon
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  Speaker 6: as he said that, I was like, shit, what's Jase
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  Speaker 6: going to say here?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Because you've done a lot.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that chutney commercial, maybe.
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  Speaker 3: There's that one when you're in the mouth of a shark.
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  Speaker 2: Shark of the shark. Yeah, that's a good one. That's
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  Speaker 2: a cracker. That one.
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  Speaker 4: That will be the thing that most people actually are.
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  Speaker 3: Have you actually heard what's happening with Talkback? Because we
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  Speaker 3: were hoping for a second season, but I've heard nothing,
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  Speaker 3: and I know Keezy's dying to see more.
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  Speaker 2: I am.
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  Speaker 6: And just in case you're not aware, Talkback is a
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  Speaker 6: comedy show on TVNZ Plus.
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  Speaker 1: Check it out.
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  Speaker 2: Is it still there, is it?
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  Speaker 3: Probably not.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Starring these two, written by these two, directed by me
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  Speaker 4: and James Ashcroft.
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  Speaker 2: Who's gone on to bloody... Big time projects. As have you, Jesse.
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  Speaker 2: As have you, Jesse. Now, we're talking about your short film,
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  Speaker 2: Lucky Luke.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: About adults that are kind of incompetent and their children
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  Speaker 2: who are kind of competent.
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  Speaker 4: I guess so.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I... I remember back in the day, Jesse,
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  Speaker 2: talking to my dad and being confused about something. And
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  Speaker 2: I was one of those kids that was always questioning
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  Speaker 2: my father. I used to drive him to distraction. And
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  Speaker 2: I remember him saying, you know, I'd ask him a question.
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  Speaker 2: And without a word of a lie, so many times
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  Speaker 2: I'd go, why? And my dad would go. Because I
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  Speaker 2: said so.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 4: That's helpful, isn't it?
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  Speaker 2: And for some reason, when I'm thinking of your film,
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  Speaker 2: that comes to mind. I don't know why.
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  Speaker 5: Why?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I just wanted to make a film joke. Is
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  Speaker 4: that what you mean?
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  Speaker 2: The adults, you know, just because you're an adult doesn't
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  Speaker 2: mean that actually you have all the answers. Well, that's right.
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  Speaker 4: I think that there's like a spectrum actually of maturity
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  Speaker 4: that we all sit on.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: And you could be eight and be more mature than, like,
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  Speaker 4: an 80-year-old, you know, like, you know, Axl Rose.
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  Speaker 3: There you go. Great example.
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  Speaker 4: I reckon my kids are probably more mature than him. Yeah. Probably.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, he's a fellow ginger. I probably shouldn't have
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  Speaker 4: thrown him in there like that, but, you know.
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  Speaker 2: Who, incidentally, is your young star in this movie?
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  Speaker 4: He's a great young actor called Kahukura Royal, and he's
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  Speaker 4: also a muso, and he's– Just a very great, really
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  Speaker 4: great creative young guy. He was in Educators, actually, for
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  Speaker 4: a couple of seasons, playing one of the students.
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  Speaker 2: He's very good. He's very, very natural.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, very natural and really... Very still on screen as well,
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  Speaker 4: like in the frame, you don't kind of, he's not trying,
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  Speaker 4: he's not acting. He's just in it. He's great.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I bloody, I really enjoyed it. And it felt,
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  Speaker 3: it was weird because I felt like I'd seen it before.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe you sent it to me months ago, but I
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  Speaker 3: saw it a couple of weeks ago.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, that would be, it's a full rip off of
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  Speaker 4: an English film from the 90s.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, is that what it is? Yeah, with the same actors.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Lucky Luke. Very, very good. No, it was, I
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  Speaker 4: think I did see it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well it's bloody great and it's competing at the
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  Speaker 3: Show Me Shorts Film Festival which is running from October
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  Speaker 3: 7th to October 31st and I think it was last week.
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  Speaker 3: where you would have found out that you'd be nominated
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  Speaker 3: for a few awards.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. You don't care about that, though, eh, Jess?
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  Speaker 4: Well, you care about it.
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  Speaker 2: It's the only thing I care about. Oh, is it really?
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  Speaker 4: No, not really.
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  Speaker 3: And I think you're nominated for Best Director. Does that
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  Speaker 3: sound about right?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, Best Director. Best Short? Not Best Short, but Best
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  Speaker 4: Director and Best Actor for Cove.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, how good.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: That would be marvellous.
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  Speaker 6: Jesse Griffin, as we've said, you've got a multitude of
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  Speaker 6: titles within media, within broadcasting, within screen and film. As
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  Speaker 6: a director, when you see a young fella come through
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  Speaker 6: for an audition, you know.
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  Speaker 4: What I mean?
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  Speaker 6: What are you looking for from the other side of
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  Speaker 6: the lens? Because these guys have recently tried to get
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  Speaker 6: me into acting.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: It's been going for years now.
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  Speaker 6: And I'm terrified. Hmm. You know, but what are you
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  Speaker 6: as a director looking for in someone? Like, for example,
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  Speaker 6: if I was to audition for Lucky Luke, even though
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  Speaker 6: I'm 35.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. You know, what are you looking for?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, you'd be good as the incompetent sort of parent.
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  Speaker 3: That's just sitting on the couch.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Like a sort of crackhead dude.
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  Speaker 2: A crackhead dude?
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  Speaker 4: Like one of his dad's mates? Oh, look, I think
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  Speaker 4: what I look for is someone that's just– they're comfortable–
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  Speaker 4: in their own skin, I suppose. Oh, God. And so
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  Speaker 4: this is terrible news for you. Yeah. And they also
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  Speaker 4: just have the ability to kind of communicate without it
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  Speaker 4: being a, I don't know, complicated, I guess. They're not
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  Speaker 4: putting stuff in the way of it. They're just being themselves.
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  Speaker 2: Right, okay.
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  Speaker 4: And that's what you sort of look for, just naturalness
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  Speaker 4: and sort of the ability to kind of connect with
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  Speaker 4: an audience by... Shit, okay.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, so you're fucked, Because connecting with an audience, that's... Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, shit.
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  Speaker 3: Never mind.
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  Speaker 2: If there was only a thing.
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  Speaker 3: You've still got radio.
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  Speaker 4: If there's only a thing that you could do where
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  Speaker 4: you could connect with people every day, if there's only
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  Speaker 4: had that. Something in your life. When pigs can fly, Jesse,
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  Speaker 4: maybe I'll find something.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe you'll find something. So, Jesse, again, where can we
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  Speaker 2: see this? Because I'd love to see it.
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  Speaker 3: It's on at the Show Me Shorts Film Festival, which
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  Speaker 3: is running from the 7th of October to the 31st
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  Speaker 3: of October. Give it a Google and get your tickets now.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's across the country. It feels like a
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  Speaker 3: little bit of Auckland, a little bit of Wellington. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it's over the country.
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  Speaker 4: I think so, yeah. Pretty busy around then. Oh, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: You used to do acting on that telly show you
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  Speaker 4: were on, though, didn't you? You used to do those
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  Speaker 4: sort of pieces that were, you were acting in those.
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  Speaker 3: Crack Goes Wild?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you were doing that. They were really good.
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  Speaker 2: Was it? It's my favourite show, man.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's very funny.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Brilliant.
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  Speaker 4: You've never watched it, Jase, don't lie.
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  Speaker 2: I love it, Keezy.
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  Speaker 6: Jesse Griffin, thanks for coming in, man.
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  Speaker 4: Just trying to make you feel good. But it's not lies.
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  Speaker 2: It's not lies.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. Unless you can prove it.
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  Speaker 6: Lucky Luke is the name of the short film if
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  Speaker 6: you'd like to see it. Yeah, Jesse Griffin, thanks for
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  Speaker 6: coming in.
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  Speaker 1: The Hodaki Big Show with Jace, Mike and Keezy. Tune
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