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Speaker 3: On the cutting room floor today.

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Speaker 1: Clowns, No one likes them. No one likes a clown.

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Speaker 1: I have a stuffed clown that sat on my bed.

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Speaker 4: Didn't mind that scary clown.

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Speaker 1: Scary clown and did look a bit scary. I think

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Speaker 1: I got it after I had my wisdom teeth out

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Speaker 1: or something. I was probably about fifteen. Who gave you

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Speaker 1: the clown?

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Speaker 3: She thought this would cheat you up.

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Speaker 1: Well, I think so, and I did it sat on

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Speaker 1: my bed for ages. It's the sort of thing you'd

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Speaker 1: normally give a seven year old. But you know, I

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Speaker 1: was a late blue you.

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Speaker 3: Were a late developer.

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Speaker 2: But with the clown, was it was it one of

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Speaker 2: the floppy clowns, Big, just give us something.

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Speaker 4: It was a floppy one.

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Speaker 1: It was one of those creepy porcelain faced Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's no. This was just a stitched one that had

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Speaker 1: like crossed stitch for eyes and things like that.

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Speaker 2: For some reason in my algo, that's our algorithm for

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Speaker 2: the unhip, this popped up. It's a genuine how to

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Speaker 2: instructional video from the eighties on how to be a clown.

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Speaker 3: You're thinking of embarking on being a clown, I.

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Speaker 4: Have embarked on being a clown. I was a clown.

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Speaker 3: Okay, well, let's just sit on that front minute.

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Speaker 2: So there was an instructional video from the Clanning Institute.

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Speaker 4: There's such a thing.

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Speaker 2: About how you go and be a clan and where

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Speaker 2: you go planning too. For example, in this one it

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Speaker 2: demonstrates a retirement home.

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Speaker 5: When you're ready to launch Charlotte into the unknown, possibly

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Speaker 5: the best place to begin is in a nursing home

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Speaker 5: or a care center for the elderly. When you enter

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Speaker 5: the nursing home, do not stand there with your group

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Speaker 5: in a large cluster of clowns. Clowns can look rather intimidating.

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Speaker 5: If you see a lotto than in one place. True,

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Speaker 5: be sure to choose a partner. Two clowns together are

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Speaker 5: really great. If you attempt to make visits with three

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Speaker 5: or four, you outnumber the person so much that they

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Speaker 5: may feel a bit uneasy.

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Speaker 3: Full clowns a.

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Speaker 5: Couple of cautions. Don't fulfill any request that is made

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Speaker 5: of you by a patient. One reason is simply this

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Speaker 5: the elderly really receive you quite well. I think it's

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Speaker 5: because they already know how vulnerable they are. They're lonely,

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Speaker 5: and they long for touch. If they're in need of touch,

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Speaker 5: you touch them.

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Speaker 6: Oh.

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Speaker 5: There are a few common sense rules that every clown

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Speaker 5: ought to be aware of before planning to go into

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Speaker 5: a nursing home. First, call the activities director or the

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Speaker 5: manager of the institution and get permission to come. A second,

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Speaker 5: if it's your first time, plan on about a half

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Speaker 5: hour visit. During that one half hour visit of non

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Speaker 5: speaking clowning, you will discover a lot of energy has

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Speaker 5: been expended. You're going to have your heartstrings tugged as

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Speaker 5: you hear their plenty of voices asking you to help

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Speaker 5: them out of bed or into bed, or to take

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Speaker 5: them outdoors, or to hand them something. The best ruler

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Speaker 5: found is don't do it.

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Speaker 3: Cuts us, don't do it.

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Speaker 4: So there's mixed messages there because it.

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Speaker 2: Says touch a clown, touch a clown.

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Speaker 1: First of all, it says things are going to be

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Speaker 1: asked of you. Don't do it, but you can touch them.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I don't know if I was in hospital.

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Speaker 2: I have been in hospital a few times. For various things.

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Speaker 2: Last thing, I wanted some clown trying to cheer me out.

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Speaker 1: I know there was just someone playing guitar that where

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Speaker 1: it was going around bed to bed when my dad

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Speaker 1: was in hospital and he can be ornery. And my

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Speaker 1: brother and I looked at each other and we saw

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Speaker 1: that the guitarist was coming over to sit near Dad.

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Speaker 4: We saw, how are we going to deal with this?

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Speaker 4: Dad's going to be rude to him. We just know it.

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Speaker 3: And what would Arthur say?

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Speaker 1: Well, in the end, the man said, I just want

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Speaker 1: to play you a song, and Dad looked at our faces.

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Speaker 4: He said that would be lovely. And he sat there

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Speaker 4: with a scrunchy face the whole.

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Speaker 2: Time, because I have ani'scunchie face unless it was slash.

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Speaker 3: And he brought his stratocaster and then started doing Sweet

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Speaker 3: Child of Mind.

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Speaker 1: Well, I've done some clowning in my university. Yes, shoosed

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Speaker 1: to go to I went to Bathist Study and in

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Speaker 1: our drama class we did a clowning workshop, and so

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Speaker 1: we went to Sophala Fair and did street clowning in

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Speaker 1: the streets.

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Speaker 2: You know, Sophala in itself is cute, Yeah, but it's

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Speaker 2: a place where you get old time prospectors.

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Speaker 3: Come on, kids, I'm going to show you a pan

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Speaker 3: gold and you could become a millionaire.

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Speaker 2: And you're looking at this going come on, mate, you

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Speaker 2: don't even have teeth or shoes.

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Speaker 3: How are you going to show me to be a meionnaire.

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Speaker 1: But also you get hippies and you get a cross

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Speaker 1: section of people who were going to enjoy our clowning work.

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Speaker 2: Nice town to drive through and have a bit of

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Speaker 2: a ganderat see a clown.

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Speaker 4: Be kind, don't give them anything. They asked for a spongebath.

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Speaker 4: You say no.

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Speaker 2: One time, many years ago, my mother in law mate

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Speaker 2: who I love dearly, got a part of herself to

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Speaker 2: do a bit of clowning around the community, around the

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Speaker 2: community of more.

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Speaker 3: She go to old folks homes.

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Speaker 4: She'd go just as a clown, dressed.

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Speaker 3: As a clown.

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Speaker 2: And then one time we're up there having a barbecue,

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Speaker 2: and I had my son who at the time was four.

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Speaker 3: My nephew would be similar age, and.

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Speaker 2: His niece or you know that bracket between eight and four,

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Speaker 2: and maybe too good by herself to come out dressed

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Speaker 2: as a clown. I've got a photo of it somewhere,

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Speaker 2: and the kids look anything but happy.

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Speaker 4: Did they know it was their grandmother?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, they're going and one of them, my son's going

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Speaker 6: as grandma as may has Grammy lost it as she should.

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Speaker 3: We be putting it in some sort of home.

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Speaker 4: And what did you say?

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Speaker 2: I said, yeah, probably because when you put a mentally

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Speaker 2: drenched clown into a home, who goes and visits them?

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Speaker 4: Don't give them anything?

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Speaker 2: A psychologist m anyway, if you see a gaggle of clowns,

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Speaker 2: be kind, yeah, or it could be management.

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Speaker 4: Don't ask for a spongebath.

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Speaker 2: Thanks.

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Speaker 3: That's it for to day. Come back tomorrow for more.

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Speaker 3: Josiana Amanda studying.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah,