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Speaker 1: Comedian, musician actor. We've seen him on the Telly a

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Speaker 1: Bit QI, never Mind, the Buzzcocks and Black Books and

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Speaker 1: on the ABC Bill Bailey's Wild West Australia. Mister Bailey,

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Speaker 1: good morning, Good morning. So where are we talking to

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Speaker 1: you from today?

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm in West London in my house at the moment.

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Speaker 2: It's yes, it's kind of a it's in the evening.

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Speaker 3: We've had. It's a big day over there. It's a

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Speaker 3: big day over here.

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Speaker 2: There's sort of polling booths have all closed, so we're

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Speaker 2: now waiting for the results of.

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Speaker 3: The general election. So it could be a historic name.

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Speaker 1: Well they're talking about the biggest in maybe nearly two

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Speaker 1: hundred years. So indeed the eyes of the world are

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Speaker 1: upon your part of the world. But the good news

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Speaker 1: is you are coming to our part of the world.

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Speaker 1: You'll be here in November Saturday the second and Sunday

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Speaker 1: the third at the Riverside Theater, but you're playing out

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Speaker 1: of town two of October at the Regional Entertainment sent

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Speaker 1: up in Bunbury and on the thirty first of October

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Speaker 1: at the Performing Arts Center in mandra Thought a fire

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Speaker 1: couldn't find it in the Oxford or the Colins or

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Speaker 1: Macquarie dictionary. Here it's a Bill Bailey Wood. Tell us

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Speaker 1: what does it mean? Because it's the name of your tour,

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Speaker 1: isn't it.

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Speaker 2: It's right, the name of my tour thorifier, and I

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Speaker 2: guess it's it's I like to make.

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Speaker 3: Up new words. Really a bit of a hobby.

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Speaker 2: Well, you know, you've got a hobby, and it's quite

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Speaker 2: handy when when you're doing a new tour, because as

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Speaker 2: you've discovered, you can't find the word anyway. In fact,

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Speaker 2: the only way you'll find it is if you google

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Speaker 2: up my tour and then you know, there we go.

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Speaker 2: So it's quite a good way of, you know, guiding

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Speaker 2: people to the show. That's the first thing on a

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Speaker 2: practical basis, and the other thing as well. It's basically

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Speaker 2: some way it's a combination of I suppose amplified music

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Speaker 2: and thought, which is basically what my shows are on

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Speaker 2: a basic level. So I do a lot of music

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Speaker 2: in it, a lot of stories. I'm trying to kind

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Speaker 2: of very in a very loose way, show how extraordinary

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Speaker 2: humans are through history. We're able to create music and

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Speaker 2: harmony and rhythm and melody and so all of that

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Speaker 2: gets that I talk about in the show. I get

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Speaker 2: the audience involved. We create songs, we create sounds just

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Speaker 2: right there. And then I've got lots of bits of

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Speaker 2: tech that I've been using working with a little bit

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Speaker 2: with AI, just to show that its limitations more than

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Speaker 2: anything else.

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Speaker 3: Really in fact, that we are after us.

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Speaker 2: All you know to come basically is that it's saying, look,

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Speaker 2: don't panic, it ain't.

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Speaker 3: All that you know, We're humans are amazing.

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Speaker 2: So that's the sort of celebratory quality nature of the show.

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Speaker 3: And just have a you know, a couple of hours

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Speaker 3: of laught.

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Speaker 1: So when you when you tour, it's like like a

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Speaker 1: band going on to it. You've got your small keyboard

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Speaker 1: with you, guitar songs as you go to different places.

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Speaker 1: I saw a picture on the when I was looking

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Speaker 1: for thoughtifire and I saw a picture of you with

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Speaker 1: your guitar looking, may I say a little semmy Hagar

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Speaker 1: from Van Halen.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it was a bit of it. It was

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Speaker 3: a yeah, well I'll take that as a compliment. I think.

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Speaker 2: The thing is when I started to see watch comedy

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Speaker 2: many many years ago. I remember going to see a

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Speaker 2: comedian called John Hegley, who was a poet and a comedian,

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Speaker 2: and he had he had a mandolin within and I've

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Speaker 2: never seen that before. I've never seen that combination, and

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Speaker 2: it always stuck with me for many, many years. I

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Speaker 2: just thought it was so unusual, and I think really

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Speaker 2: that was a sort of an early light bulb moment

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Speaker 2: going off in an inspiration for me, because I thought,

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Speaker 2: you know that comedy allows you to do that. You know,

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Speaker 2: if you can play lots of different instruments, you know,

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Speaker 2: you can show these instruments things aren't necessarily seen or

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Speaker 2: showcased that often. And to get comedy out of it

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Speaker 2: as well, well, that's to me. I always think it's

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Speaker 2: a bit of a challenge. So the gigs, as you say,

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Speaker 2: it's very much that when the tech rider shows up

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Speaker 2: at the theater, they say, well, when's the band coming,

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Speaker 2: and they go, no, there isn't a band, it's just

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Speaker 2: one bloke.

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Speaker 1: I guess it helps you to mix the show up

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Speaker 1: and keep everybody guessing. You never know what you're going

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Speaker 1: to get. I guess you're thinking on the fly a

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Speaker 1: little as you do the show.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well that's right. I mean, you know the show

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Speaker 2: it's got a basic shape to it. And you know,

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Speaker 2: I've been touring the show now quite a bit. It's

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Speaker 2: been all around Britain and Ireland and around Europe, and

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Speaker 2: I've just done a huge European tour, so it's been

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Speaker 2: to about, you know, eighteen countries already before it's got

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Speaker 2: to it comes to Australia. I like to keep it

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Speaker 2: a little bit open, so that there's a basic structure

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Speaker 2: to it, which is the shape of the bits.

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Speaker 3: The sort of the mainian section, the foundation of it. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: can go off pieced a little bit depending on where

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Speaker 3: we are, And I guess that's right.

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Speaker 1: I was just going to say, I guess that may

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Speaker 1: allows you then to tailor the show for wherever you go.

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Speaker 1: And I expect you're already doing some research to taylor

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Speaker 1: the show for our part.

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Speaker 3: Of the world.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, I will be yes, we're under the microscope. We

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Speaker 1: better watch how we act, otherwise we're going to become

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Speaker 1: part of the act.

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Speaker 2: But the thing was, I did spend quite a lot

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Speaker 2: of time in West Australia last year when I was

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Speaker 2: filming this this TV doco, so I've got quite a

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Speaker 2: lot of stories and characters that I can talk about,

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Speaker 2: which will be very per specific.

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Speaker 1: As you said you were here, you were you were

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Speaker 1: doing the TV documentary a limited series called Bill Bailey's

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Speaker 1: Wild West Australia. Any parts of WA you'd like to

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Speaker 1: see or you know, and come back and maybe do

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Speaker 1: another series.

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Speaker 3: Because it's a big place. It's hard to get to everywhere,

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Speaker 3: isn't it? Well it is. I mean that's that's the thing, really,

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Speaker 3: I mean, that's what was so staggering. Is this the

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Speaker 3: scale of the place. It's really you know, I.

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Speaker 2: Mean, and there's up there's the very low population density

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Speaker 2: in compared to to where I'm in Europe, you know

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Speaker 2: where where I mean this, you know, w is a

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Speaker 2: size of Western Europe. I mean, it's vast, and the

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Speaker 2: populations is about two minutes of population of Manchester, you

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Speaker 2: know around and this is Judge HANSI.

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Speaker 3: It's two hundred kilometers to the next petrol stop.

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Speaker 2: I got to the point I was driving along and

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Speaker 2: we hadn't seen anyone for so long. A car would

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Speaker 2: go past, I would waive them, I go hello.

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Speaker 3: Off.

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Speaker 1: Etiquette is just to lift the finger up from the

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Speaker 1: that's the the West Ozzie Way, just a couple of.

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Speaker 3: Fingers from just the one finger. That not me wildly, just.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, remember me if I get into trouble a little

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Speaker 1: further down the desert track.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Well, Bill, we look look forward to having you back

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Speaker 1: here in Wa. As I said, you're here in November.

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Speaker 1: The tour is called Thorti Fire. You're here on the

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Speaker 1: second and the third of November at the Riverside Theater

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Speaker 1: and if you're listening in Bumbrey, which you may be online,

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Speaker 1: thirtieth of October at the Regional Entertainment Center and on

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Speaker 1: the thirty first of October at the Performing Arts Center

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Speaker 1: in mandra Bill Bailey, been a pleasure to talk to you.

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Speaker 1: We look forward to seeing you when you get here

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Speaker 1: in November. Four thoughtifier look forward to it.

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Speaker 3: See