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Speaker 1: This is the Fitting In with Kate Richie podcast. We're

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Speaker 1: talking about this for a while. The oldest joke? Could

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Speaker 1: it possibly be the first joke ever told? How far?

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Speaker 2: How far are we going back here?

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Speaker 1: We've got a rough estimate four thousand years? Oh, it

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Speaker 1: was documented when ninety It's very very funny. The joke

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Speaker 1: hasn't matured much.

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Speaker 2: And where did they find it? Am I asking too many?

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Speaker 1: No, I'm glad you're asking this. The history of joke

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Speaker 1: nineteen hundred BC. That's not BC. The oldest joke on

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Speaker 1: record was discovered on tablets from the Old Babylonian period,

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Speaker 1: which could possibly date back two thy three hundred BC,

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Speaker 1: so it could be going back even further. And it

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Speaker 1: it was an area in southern Iraq that they found

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Speaker 1: this well known for now, you know the Southern Comedy

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Speaker 1: Festival with Montreal. It's so funny. That's just a couple

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Speaker 1: of weeks of joy. Now the joke, the joke goes

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Speaker 1: something like it and it's a proverb warning new husbands

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Speaker 1: about their brides.

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Speaker 2: Proverbs warning. Yeah, I mean that's a funny area of movie.

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Speaker 1: Is very funny. Thing goes on to say, but what

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Speaker 1: is the oldest joke known to exist. As I mentioned fits,

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Speaker 1: A team of twenty spent two months going back and

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Speaker 1: looking at the history of comedy and jokes. This is

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Speaker 1: where they dated it too.

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Speaker 3: You're really building it up. I mean, I don't want

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Speaker 3: to put any more pressure on you, but better be good.

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Speaker 1: The joke and what was inscribed on the wall was

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Speaker 1: picture two words tom ivey. No, it wasn't guys mate.

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Speaker 1: It goes something along the lines of here we are.

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Speaker 1: I would get up. Let's say it's an old Babylonian

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Speaker 1: comedy night right, what.

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Speaker 2: Are you wearing?

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Speaker 1: Is that the joke? No doing some stuf? And you

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Speaker 1: stood up and I go, hey, something which has never

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Speaker 1: occurred since time a young woman did not fart in

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Speaker 1: her husband's lap.

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Speaker 2: That that is the biggest loaded the tray A joke

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Speaker 2: was the first ever joke.

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Speaker 3: I believe that, actually, I actually believe that because it

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Speaker 3: is as funny as.

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Speaker 2: Time is it.

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Speaker 1: It is because if you were to ask the question

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Speaker 1: even before, let's say, humans couldn't speak, but they could

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Speaker 1: still make a funny noise and they'd lie in bettert

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Speaker 1: no with a funny result. And they let's say they

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Speaker 1: couldn't even talk, they would still find comedy in that

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Speaker 1: someone would be the biggest comedian. Classic course it again,

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Speaker 1: mister left, what is it? Who was the guy? Mister

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Speaker 1: So you.

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Speaker 2: Mean like the sound is funny?

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Speaker 3: Or do you think they would at the beginning of

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Speaker 3: time they'd still do the sometimes pull my finger where

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Speaker 3: it's and it's not me like it's silent, completely silent,

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Speaker 3: and then just wait for the effect.

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Speaker 1: Wait for the aftershock.

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Speaker 2: Serious crops, you crop dusted. That's not me. I'm not

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Speaker 2: talking about me. I wouldn't even know where to be.

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Speaker 1: We were playing a game of Runo last night as

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Speaker 1: we all sat on the floor in a circle. Now

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Speaker 1: no one has put their hand up. Who caused the

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Speaker 1: absolute murderous situation as we all had to put our

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Speaker 1: cards down and leave the room. Some suggest that it

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Speaker 1: was tactical to look at other people's cards, but it

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Speaker 1: was a clearer yeah. And then what was laughter? There

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Speaker 1: was laughter, And I thought at the time they would

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Speaker 1: have the Babylonians would have been laughing at I would.

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Speaker 2: Have loved this.

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Speaker 3: We still haven't broken down the unpacked the whatever you

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Speaker 3: call it. What do you do about the joke.

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Speaker 1: You unpack us? Something's obviously happened, and then the guy

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Speaker 1: has had to turn around and say that a young

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Speaker 1: woman and did not find in her husband's lab Where

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Speaker 1: did that sound come from?

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Speaker 3: No, I think the joke. Actually, I'm going to have

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Speaker 3: a go. Let me have a look at it again.

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Speaker 3: I think what their meaning is. Any young woman who

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Speaker 3: is going to let fluffy off the chain.

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Speaker 2: Is never going to have a husband. Isn't that the joke?

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Speaker 3: It's like a oh, isn't that like it never happened

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Speaker 3: something which has never occurred since since the beginning of time.

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Speaker 3: A young woman did not fluffy her husband's lap because

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Speaker 3: a young woman who does such things would never find

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Speaker 3: herself a husband.

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Speaker 1: Yes, I think you're right, Kane.

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Speaker 2: I think that's the joke.

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Speaker 1: It's a lesson. There's a lesson in there as.

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Speaker 2: Well, is there If you don't want a husband, keep

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Speaker 2: your bumpshut.

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Speaker 3: No, do the opposite, don't sit, must open crop dust,

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Speaker 3: do it from abouteen meters away and just go.

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Speaker 2: You'll never find a man if you have flatulence. There

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Speaker 2: you go. I said it.

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Speaker 1: That's me seeing anyone at the moment. Very windy in

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Speaker 1: the afternoon, we laughed, don't we cap.

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Speaker 2: I mean good joke Mate, great joke.

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Speaker 1: Where do we go from here? It's in Whipper with Kate.

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