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Speaker 1: This is jem Nation with Jonesy.

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Speaker 2: At the end of last week, it was touch and

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Speaker 2: go for a next guess. The rumor was that Peter

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Speaker 2: Hellier had passed away. He took to Twitter with a

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Speaker 2: photo holding a beer, saying the afterlife goes okay, not dead,

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Speaker 2: carry on. But he wasn't holding a newspaper with a

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Speaker 2: date on it. So I don't know if I believe him.

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Speaker 3: I've done the research, and I expect people to do

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Speaker 3: their research. I believe Peter Hellier is dead.

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Speaker 2: Well, let's see Peter. Are you there, hello.

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Speaker 1: Jones? Do you know how hard it is to find

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Speaker 1: a newspaper these days for a proof of life photos?

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Speaker 1: I tried to take a photo and show my screen

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Speaker 1: at the same time. I just don't know how to

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Speaker 2: I have a lot of trouble when I go to

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Speaker 2: do my ransom notes. I can't get hold of a

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Speaker 2: newspaper anymore.

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Speaker 3: How does someone take someone for ransom? Yes, it's hard,

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Speaker 3: It's very hard. So Pete, we've confirmed that you are alive.

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Speaker 1: Well, I'm very much alive. I feel oh am, I

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Speaker 1: this could be technology, this could be a recording.

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Speaker 2: Deep fake.

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Speaker 3: You remember Paul McCay Artney. Remember Paul McCartney with the Beatles.

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Speaker 3: There was a long held rumor that Paul McCartney had

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Speaker 3: died at the age of twenty one, just before his

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Speaker 3: twenty eighth birthday, and they replaced him with a Lookie line.

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Speaker 1: I would not believe that I'm alive until Richard Wilkins

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Speaker 1: reports on it.

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Speaker 2: It's bizarre. Can you just tell us briefly how it

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Speaker 2: came about? Did you heard you'd passed away?

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Speaker 1: I was watching The Wonderful Judi Flucy and Denise Scott

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Speaker 1: at the Melbourne National Comedy Festival with a friend and

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Speaker 1: I did received two messages on the way in on

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Speaker 1: the train from two different people saying how are you

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Speaker 1: going in the UK? And I just kind of I

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Speaker 1: noted it was weird because I was well. I was

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Speaker 1: trying to say engage with my friend and you know

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Speaker 1: the conversation we were having, so I didn't reply. And

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Speaker 1: then at the last five minutes of the show, my

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Speaker 1: phone was buzzing in my pocket on silent, but I

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Speaker 1: I could feel it vibrating. And after the Shaw Finnish

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Speaker 1: I checked him and my manager saying did you make

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Speaker 1: it to the show, Please call me urgently and one

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Speaker 1: of the one of the producers from the projects saying, Twitter,

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Speaker 1: Twitter says you're dead. Is this true? And he said, well,

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Speaker 1: you either word dad, You're never going to get a message,

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Speaker 1: or you know you're alive and you'll find that funny.

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Speaker 1: So I checked Twitter and there you go. I was trending.

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Speaker 1: I think I was a number one trending topic on

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Speaker 1: Twitter saying that I had been killed in a car accident.

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Speaker 1: So we start, well, apparently there was a guy in

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Speaker 1: California realized that agent who has the same name as me,

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Speaker 1: who did actually going a car accident. So I think

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Speaker 1: there was a little bit of mischief from somebody in

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Speaker 1: Australia connecting the two knowingly falsely. But yeah, it was

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Speaker 1: we walking around the Melbourne and Comedy Festival. You know,

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Speaker 1: we've reports that I'm dead, and my first thought was like,

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Speaker 1: why hasn't somebody shut down the festival? Why people are

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Speaker 1: still carrying on with their lives?

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Speaker 3: Every I say, nothing to see here, let's.

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Speaker 1: Carry on And based on some of the tweets I saw,

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Speaker 1: I don't think I'm getting a grand down at the

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Speaker 1: MDD names.

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Speaker 3: Well tell us about rageous. What I'd be there. I'd

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Speaker 3: be there with a single carnation, say what about p.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, peace, thanks mate, and tell us about Loopy because

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Speaker 2: you're going to be at the comedy store tomorrow night.

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Speaker 2: What's Loopy about?

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Speaker 1: Well, lupy, it's kind a bittersweet. I've got I've got

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Speaker 1: three more shows, but one in Sydney on Friday night,

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Speaker 1: a foreign night. And then I got a reason for

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Speaker 1: the last two shows. I started this pre pandemic. This

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Speaker 1: was like, the world is crazy. I wanted to talk

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Speaker 1: about how crazy the world is and how you know,

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Speaker 1: the whole Trump was probably the craziest thing in the

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Speaker 1: world down and then something out Trump's Trump really and

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Speaker 1: that was the pandemic. So it's kind of you know,

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Speaker 1: my experiences. So the shows evolved basically over those two years.

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Speaker 1: And you know I speak a lot about my my COVID. Well,

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Speaker 1: last week, this is pre online death. It's now experiences

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Speaker 1: because I got COVID again for a second time last week,

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Speaker 1: so I've had it. Oh now, So I think I

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Speaker 1: in some of my COVID gears. Yeah, so he gave

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Speaker 1: nothing about it.

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Speaker 3: And the first time you were the first time you

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Speaker 3: had it, because I got it on ne Year's Day

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Speaker 3: and I thought I had a hangover it. I had

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Speaker 3: the double vaccination by that stage, and I was about

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Speaker 3: to get my third vaccination, and I thought, I'll do it,

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Speaker 3: you know, when I get round to it. And then

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Speaker 3: I got COVID. But I just found that brain fog

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Speaker 3: that they talk about. I just and using my brain.

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Speaker 3: Amanda says, it's.

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Speaker 2: Like a It's like a jar of bees.

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Speaker 3: And it just went dead quiet, and I really enjoyed it.

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Speaker 3: But it went so I enjoyed it too. There was

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Speaker 1: Funnily enough, I've had family members who have spoken about

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Speaker 1: this fog. I don't think maybe that's my natural state.

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Speaker 1: I haven't had that fog that so many people have

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Speaker 1: actually spoken about. I've been pretty lucky in regards to that.

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Speaker 2: I love the idea that you said I had to

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Speaker 2: write a show called Roopy, and then the world went

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Speaker 2: even more roopy than you could possibly imagine.

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Speaker 1: It's completely incread because I really did think, Okay, this

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Speaker 1: is as crazy as the world could possibly get right now.

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Speaker 1: And about a month after I did the very first

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Speaker 1: the Brisbane Comedy Festival, and that's when everything shut down.

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Speaker 1: And so after I do Sydney, I'll go to Brisbane.

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Speaker 1: They finally do those shows. These shows have been delayed

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Speaker 1: for two years, and then that'll be the end of

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Speaker 1: the of this tour. So it's been it's been fun.

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Speaker 1: It's been a disruptive tour.

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Speaker 2: Yes, and being officially declared dead probably adds to it

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Speaker 1: Well. It's a nice way to hit refreshing, you know,

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Speaker 3: We couldn't have you walking around dead. Imagine that would

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Speaker 3: be embarrassing. Pete, you're dead, you died ages ago. What

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Speaker 3: are you doing walking around you're dead?

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Speaker 1: Well, there's a phone line between being canceled and dead

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Speaker 1: on Twitter.

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Speaker 3: Well, a man and I would be there with a

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Speaker 3: carnation asking for.

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Speaker 2: A stand in your name. We would.

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Speaker 1: I personally think this is why Elon Musk bought Twitter.

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Speaker 1: I think he thought, like, we can't have these rooms.

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Speaker 2: Hell are you there?

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Speaker 1: So it's no coincidence.

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Speaker 3: Perfect sense. Peter Helly is show Loopy is on Friday

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Speaker 3: at the Comedy Store. Tickets on sale ticket tech dot

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Speaker 3: com dot are you, Pete? It's always a treat. Thank

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Speaker 1: Thanks Legends