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Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda's.

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Speaker 2: What a thrilled to catch up with my old mate.

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Speaker 2: From talking about your generation, we're talking course about Josh Thomas.

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Speaker 2: Since those days, he has gone on to become a

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Speaker 2: giant international star. What happened to me being an international star?

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Speaker 2: Season two of his smash hit Everything's Going to Be

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Speaker 2: Okay is coming soon to stand and it's a thrill

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Speaker 2: to say, Hi, Josh, how are you here?

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Speaker 1: He is, Hi?

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Speaker 2: Look at you? Writer, producer, executive producer. Are you also directing?

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Speaker 2: Are you being the Swiss Army Knife of television people?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? I did some directing this season, but not because

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Speaker 1: anybody really wanted me to, just because because of COVID.

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Speaker 1: It just meant there was like one last mouth on

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Speaker 1: the set. So I like, did it? I did? Fine?

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Speaker 2: Is it daunting? Because I've heard David Lean, who's I

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Speaker 2: think he directed Lawrence of Arabia saying you turn up

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Speaker 2: on set that first day He's look at all the extras,

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Speaker 2: look at all this, and he just had this feeling,

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Speaker 2: if I can't do this, I've got no idea.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, of course every day you think I do

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Speaker 1: know how to do this, So every day's a bit weird.

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Speaker 1: But I've been on sets a lot, and all it

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Speaker 1: is is you point the camera at the actor and

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Speaker 1: then you do a different size shot of the camera

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Speaker 1: on the actor, and you just repeat that no matter

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Speaker 1: what's going on, and it'll be fine. Right, So it

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Speaker 1: was I'm not like the most like increadively inspiring director.

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Speaker 1: I don't think I just like, do it again, go again,

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Speaker 1: let's not get COVID. Okay, let's go again. This time

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Speaker 1: we won't also won't get COVID, and let's just keep

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Speaker 1: doing that until we finished shooting the season.

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Speaker 3: And all you do is just point the camera at

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Speaker 3: the actor, and that's what you got to.

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Speaker 1: Do the actor. Sometimes you got to point it at

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Speaker 1: like a mobile phone or something like that, but usually

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Speaker 1: it's just like there's their face, put the camera at

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Speaker 1: their face. You know. The thing about directing is you,

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Speaker 1: like everyone else on set is way more expert about

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Speaker 1: everything that they do, right, Like the camera people they

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Speaker 1: know how to do that, and the sound people know

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Speaker 1: how to do that, and the actors they know how

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Speaker 1: to do that. So all you've got to do is

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Speaker 1: say do it and they'll they'll do it for you.

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Speaker 2: You have become so beloved and famous in Australia, but

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Speaker 2: also with all the comedy heroes in the States, who

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Speaker 2: has blown your mind the most by them saying I

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Speaker 2: love your work?

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Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, that was exciting, you know, and that's

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Speaker 1: very very important to my people. And you know who is.

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Speaker 3: Just because we're heterosexual people, suddenly we don't understand who

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Speaker 3: rupeaul is.

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Speaker 2: We've heard of Bob Hope and that's where it ended.

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Speaker 3: For us white people if we know about a drag queen.

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Speaker 1: And that was Yes, she's a big fan of you.

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Speaker 1: And also David, I love you. Yes, that was exciting.

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Speaker 2: Yes, So tell us about the new series. Everything's going

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Speaker 2: to be okay Series one, smash it for those who

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Speaker 2: don't know the story, fill us in.

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Speaker 1: And it's like me taking of apparenting two teenage girls,

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Speaker 1: well than teenage girls is autistic because like a pretty

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Speaker 1: important part of the show. And I'm gay.

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Speaker 3: What a stretch. And then and then you just get

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Speaker 3: the camera and you point that at yourself. But where

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Speaker 3: are you in all of this? You're directing it, but

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Speaker 3: you're in front of the camera.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's fine, it's fine. You just you

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Speaker 1: just you just stand in front of the camera. And

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Speaker 1: they just pointed at me at that.

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Speaker 3: Time, right, and that's on the whiteboard, point at me

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Speaker 3: at this point. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And then and then you say like, well, do we

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Speaker 1: get more than one signe? And they say yes or no,

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Speaker 1: and then you proceed.

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Speaker 2: So you don't abuse yourself for giving a bad performance.

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Speaker 1: No, no, no, no no no, never.

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Speaker 3: Come on, do you yell at yourself? Well, I like

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Speaker 3: the idea of this. I see you as a Does

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Speaker 3: this make you yearn to be a parent? Because I'll

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Speaker 3: tell you right now, if you've got a teenage girl,

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Speaker 3: the last thing you want to be is a parent.

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Speaker 3: Anybuddying parent. Just give the parent a fourteen year old

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Speaker 3: girl to look after for a while. And I think,

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Speaker 3: I don't want to have kids now.

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Speaker 1: No, I never wanted to have kids. And whenever I

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Speaker 1: bring this up in front of my mom, she says, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I never thought you'd be a dad. She was even

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Speaker 1: when you were like when you were like five years old,

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Speaker 1: I thought he's not going to be a dad. I thought,

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Speaker 1: that's not a compliment, is it? Like usually if somebody

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Speaker 1: says about you, you'd make a wonderful father, that's sort

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Speaker 1: of quite sweet. And my Mom's like no, I don't

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Speaker 1: think you should, and I don't think I should either.

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Speaker 1: My friends have started having kids. You know, I'm in

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Speaker 1: my thirties, so now like all my friends, they start

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Speaker 1: having children and the children are more important to them

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Speaker 1: than I am. And that's been like quite hard challenging

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Speaker 1: because you really can't compete.

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Speaker 2: But also you've been a great dad to John Jonathan.

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Speaker 2: Your dog is John still willis.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's still alive.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, just he would be old.

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Speaker 1: Now. Yeah, I've got and I got a new puppy

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Speaker 1: and they're best friend and now he's like a bit

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Speaker 1: more happy there.

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Speaker 3: You see, you're a parent. If you look after dog,

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Speaker 3: you look after child kind of Is that how it works?

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Speaker 1: Sometimes I'll just lock the doors and leave the dog

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Speaker 1: inside and go out.

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Speaker 3: Can I do that with a Probably? Maybe parenting is

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Speaker 3: not for you. Maybe if if so, don't have a

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Speaker 3: camera on you at the time or the DOCSMI I

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Speaker 3: don't think everything's going to be okay. It premiere is

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Speaker 3: April nine on stand. Josh. It's always a great treat

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Speaker 3: to talk to you.

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Speaker 2: Lots of love, Nice to see you, Josh, Take care.

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