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Speaker 1: And Amanda gem Nation.

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Speaker 2: Now the story of the inspired unemployed is quite extraordinary.

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Speaker 2: Jack Steele and his mate Falcon went from suburban tradees

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Speaker 2: to hilarious social media megastars seemingly overnight. They have a

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Speaker 2: following in the millions, they have a successful podcast, they're

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Speaker 2: about to add TV show to the list of all

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Speaker 2: that they've got on there on their case at the moment,

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Speaker 2: and I know you did a show at the end

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Speaker 2: more last night.

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Speaker 1: Jack Steele, High it is thank you for those who.

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Speaker 2: Don't know your story, you and Falcon tradees. How did

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Speaker 2: you go from filming little videos to it absolutely taking off?

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Speaker 2: Did you just see funny things everywhere and put them

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Speaker 2: on socials?

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Speaker 1: And that was it pretty much.

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Speaker 3: So we went to Europe and we had no ambition

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Speaker 3: of this obviously happened at all. But before we even

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Speaker 3: meet our first skit, it was our goals have a

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Speaker 3: TV show. And then we just started filming skits and

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Speaker 3: getting more invested in it. And then we got home

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Speaker 3: from Europe and we were going to work at the

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Speaker 3: same time, we're doing a four our week on the

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Speaker 3: job site and then putting all this time and effort

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Speaker 3: into making videos and you know, none of it.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't really going far. Like we get like one hundred.

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Speaker 3: Followers a week whatever, dressing up as girls and like

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Speaker 3: just completely embarrassing ourself and then going to the jobs

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Speaker 3: the next day and you know, Falcon's dad's a yeah,

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Speaker 3: what's it, bricky?

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Speaker 1: My dad's a plaster He was my boss at the time.

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Speaker 1: And then we're like, mate, what do we doing?

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Speaker 4: And they'd have no time.

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Speaker 3: No, you're doing No, They're like because it's not a

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Speaker 3: proven concept yet, so they're like, what do you do?

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Speaker 1: What do you get a trade?

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Speaker 4: Stay plastering?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and they get brick on crazy. They're like what

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Speaker 1: are you doing? And then it was literally.

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Speaker 3: Three weeks later we had a chat like well, what

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Speaker 3: are we doing? Should we stop or you know, pursue it?

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Speaker 3: And we just kept going and it was like yeah,

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Speaker 3: one week later, it just went from like seven thousand

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Speaker 3: followers to thirty like a day, and then it just

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Speaker 3: never stopped.

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Speaker 1: It was like thirty thousand a week from So how

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Speaker 1: did how did that end up happening like that? Though?

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Speaker 3: I think we just honestly it might it sounds it

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Speaker 3: does sound cliche or a bit cringe, but I felt

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Speaker 3: we just built a skill set up of editing, scripting

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Speaker 3: and filming that when we got to the right moment,

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Speaker 3: it just happened, and three videos just went from their fountains,

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Speaker 3: dressed up as a girl.

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Speaker 2: Looked the Footy show saying hang on, So your new

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Speaker 2: TV show starting on Channel ten tonight. It's the Inspired

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Speaker 2: Unemployed Impractical Jokers. I've seen the American Impractical Jokers. It

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Speaker 2: is such a funny show. Tell us the premise of this.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so it's a it's a hidden camera prank show,

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Speaker 3: but the jokes of the expense of the joke is

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Speaker 3: on us. So it's and it was a real hard

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Speaker 3: act to follow because those guys have done like twelve seasons.

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Speaker 1: They're in their fifties or yeah, and they're hilarious.

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Speaker 3: So you know, when we got the call up for

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Speaker 3: the show, it was scary because you know, to back

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Speaker 3: that up is hard. It's a proven concept already, but

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Speaker 3: yet it's hidden camera prank show. Say we're posing as

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Speaker 3: like a pt instructor or like a waitress or working

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Speaker 3: at subway, and you go out, it's one of you

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Speaker 3: and then the three of your mates are in the

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Speaker 3: back room with the microphone and they're telling you in

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Speaker 3: your earpiece what to do and what to say. Ye,

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Speaker 3: so it's highly cringe. Like I did a wedding speech

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Speaker 3: in the first episode you'll see to all that a

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Speaker 3: wedding speech in front of three hundred people, and the

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Speaker 3: boys wrote me a speech and.

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Speaker 1: I did real wedding three hundred people. No one knew

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Speaker 1: who I was and what about the briden and groom.

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Speaker 3: The only people that knew so the Brian groom, the

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Speaker 3: MC and there's three hundred people that had no idea

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Speaker 3: and I'm literally there in front of everyone saying marriage

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Speaker 3: is set up to fail. And like the b I

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Speaker 3: was like, the best man are a bunch of dickheads,

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Speaker 3: and they're like Noah.

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Speaker 1: Turn around and skull they be in front of him.

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Speaker 1: It was.

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Speaker 3: It was so bad that one of the ladies was

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Speaker 3: trying to get up and pulled me off stage, and

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Speaker 3: then one of the uncles.

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Speaker 1: Was like sitting her back down. It was so bad.

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Speaker 2: It was it takes balls of steel to do it.

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Speaker 1: I was. You can see in it, I'm like shaking.

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Speaker 4: But don't you as well. The jeopardy is that you

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Speaker 4: have like a shock collar or something as well. So

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Speaker 4: the guys if you don't do the thing, they shock you.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: So it was like at the end of every episode

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Speaker 3: there's a punishment, and if you lose in the episode,

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Speaker 3: you have to do the old punishment.

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Speaker 1: And so Falcon, for example, was the worst punisher.

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Speaker 3: So he had to wear the shock collar a lot

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Speaker 3: because you know, we just love putting it on him,

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Speaker 3: and we made him do stand up comedy in front

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Speaker 3: of him about I think four hundred people started out show,

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Speaker 3: and we gave him no material. We'd set him up

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Speaker 3: for a joke. We'd we'd be like, how's the reason

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Speaker 3: men and women don't get along, Hay, and then we're

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Speaker 3: be like, good luck, buddy, Say he's just on his own,

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Speaker 3: and then we'd start shocking.

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Speaker 1: Him with electric cho and the crowd had no context

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Speaker 1: to any of this, but it was pure torture.

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Speaker 4: How do you do it? It must be so hard.

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Speaker 2: Do you have no goal?

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Speaker 3: No shame? No, no, we have so much shame, Like

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Speaker 3: people don't understand, like we cringe and hate doing this

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Speaker 3: stuff so much. I think that's why it makes it

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Speaker 3: so much better, because we know you care. We care,

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Speaker 3: and we don't like, we don't enjoy how much it

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Speaker 3: sucks you know, and we know each other so well,

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Speaker 3: so our biggest fears we know, so we don't tell

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Speaker 3: each other what our punishments are or pranks are into

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Speaker 3: that moment. So it's all real, all the reactions and

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Speaker 3: it's it's all real.

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Speaker 4: Well, we've come a long way since Alan Funt.

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Speaker 1: You're probably too young.

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Speaker 4: Remember Alan Funny did show his name's the Funniest.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I just like saying fun to on air.

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Speaker 4: But he he hosted a show called Cannon Camera.

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Speaker 1: He was the original one.

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Speaker 4: I heard, so people walking down the street and a

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Speaker 4: ton of bricks and four of them and again, smile,

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Speaker 4: you're on Cannon Camera.

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Speaker 1: That's probably the same premise. I remember being shocked.

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Speaker 4: But apart from that was that was simple times back then. Well,

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Speaker 4: The Inspired Unemployed. It's on tonight Channel ten, eight thirty

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Speaker 4: Jack Steele say hi to the rest of the gang

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Speaker 4: when they get out of bed, and.

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Speaker 2: Also tell you what you're on after. Thank god you're here.

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Speaker 2: So it's a big night on Channel ten tonight.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, scary. I hope we do well. Yes, I think

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Speaker 1: you will or you'll be shocked.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, we probably won't speak. I probably won't

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Speaker 3: speak to you every.

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Speaker 4: No, unless we need to, unless we need a plaster.

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Speaker 1: Tonight. Good on you mate,