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Speaker 1: Jersey and Amanda jam Nation, We've got a treat for

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Speaker 1: you today.

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Speaker 2: He's a man of many talents, a comedian, a podcast

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Speaker 2: a radio host, and of course a familiar face on

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Speaker 2: the project. His name is Michael Hing, and he's about

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Speaker 2: to bring us his own comedy special to Channel ten

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Speaker 2: called Long Live the Heing.

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Speaker 1: Michael, Hello, Hello, Amanda, Hello Jos.

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Speaker 3: This is a big deal, mate. We're great, But what

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Speaker 3: a big deal for you hosting your own comedy special.

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Speaker 3: This is usually for people like Tom Arnold, Michael Michael Crawford.

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Speaker 3: I was thinking about it. This is an evening with

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Speaker 3: the Hing.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, this is the dream for any comedian. You know,

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Speaker 1: you get to do a full hour of your jokes.

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Speaker 1: You know, you too them around for years or in

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Speaker 1: this instance, you know for a while, and then you

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Speaker 1: and then you get to film it and make it

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Speaker 1: into something and then get to put on TV. It's

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Speaker 1: a real dream.

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Speaker 2: I love it. There was one particular incident in your

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Speaker 2: life that led to a lot of the stuff you

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Speaker 2: talk about.

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Speaker 1: Talk us through that. So this show is an hour

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Speaker 1: long story basically about me trying to propose to my girlfriend.

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Speaker 1: And look, let me tell you, if you guys ever

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Speaker 1: had to do a proposal, Amanda. Ever, no, I haven't enough.

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Speaker 3: I was told how I was going to propose and

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Speaker 3: how it was all going to work out.

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Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, who told you that? My wife?

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Speaker 3: My wife said she organized it. She just organized it.

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Speaker 3: She just said. And I was younger, you know, because

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Speaker 3: I'm from the Shire. So you get married when you're

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Speaker 3: about twelve. So we're getting married. This is the engagement,

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Speaker 3: and you will buy me and and this is done.

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Speaker 1: We want to get engaged at Splendor in the Grass,

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Speaker 1: which is like a music festival that goes to every year.

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Speaker 1: We have a fun time there, great time. But it

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Speaker 1: was in twenty twenty two, so that was the year

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Speaker 1: that Splendor flooded and was an absolutely nightmare, so dreadful.

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Speaker 1: So there's just a lot of like a lot of

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Speaker 1: stories about me trying to get a ring through some

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Speaker 1: mud and you know, losing it and finding in the

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Speaker 1: end and having to heist it out of a at

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Speaker 1: my apartments. Here's the thing, though, if you'd never bought

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Speaker 1: an engage ring before, it's quite a daunting task.

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Speaker 2: So do you buy one without your partner's involvement, because

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Speaker 2: isn't it supposed to.

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Speaker 1: Exactly to wear it, so you're like, so you're like,

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Speaker 1: you don't want to make all the decisions, so you

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Speaker 1: kind of have to like look at their current lineup

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Speaker 1: of jewelry or look at like jewelers they follow on

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Speaker 1: Instagram and then kind of look at the vibe that's

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Speaker 1: going there. You can kind of do some spy work

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Speaker 1: with some friends, but then you've got to go to

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Speaker 1: the actual jeweler. And when you're buying an engagement ring,

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Speaker 1: you've you've already lost the negotiation, Like you can't haggle

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Speaker 1: with them, right because they know you're buying it because

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Speaker 1: you love them so much, right.

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Speaker 2: And then you don't want to look cheap in front.

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Speaker 1: Of it exactly exactly, so you can't be like, hey,

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Speaker 1: can I have a ten percent discount? Said are like,

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Speaker 1: why do you love them ten percent less?

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Speaker 2: Like now you mention it.

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Speaker 1: And also they go, I wasn't sure because I don't

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Speaker 1: know if you did this. But they tell you how

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Speaker 1: much you meant to spend as well. He tells you that,

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Speaker 1: but the jeweler, which is crazy, they say to you,

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Speaker 1: so they say, you meant to spend two months of

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Speaker 1: your salary on an engage ring and I was like,

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Speaker 1: you want me to spend five hundred dollars on an engagement?

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Speaker 1: I don't think so.

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Speaker 3: Which two months in? Two months in bad?

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Speaker 1: But it is fraud, it is well, actually there's a

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Speaker 1: happy ending to this story. You'll be able to watch

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Speaker 1: the show to kind of work out exactly how the

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Speaker 1: proposal went. But we did get married recently, got married

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Speaker 1: about a month ago. So pretty well, thank you so much.

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Speaker 2: I said it had never last, but.

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Speaker 1: She asks. But since then, it's been because we've had

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Speaker 1: a lot of our family come from at from Hong Kong,

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Speaker 1: which is where my family from, or from Banglalash, which

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Speaker 1: is my partner's family from, and we've been spending a

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Speaker 1: lot of time we sort of disgruntled uncles and ours

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Speaker 1: over the last couple of weeks. And let me tell you,

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Speaker 1: that's a great way to take the romance out of

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Speaker 1: her marriage, just like some elderly people being like, oh

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Speaker 1: now the real work begins, Michael. Every day I make

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Speaker 1: a choice to love my wife, and you're like, I

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Speaker 1: understand this is right for you. But we've been married

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Speaker 1: for literally four days at this Why do I see.

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Speaker 2: I have to carry around an advert we're.

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Speaker 1: In the literal honeymoon period.

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Speaker 3: Michael Higgs comedy special Long Live the Hing premiers Channel

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Speaker 3: ten this Thursday night. It's a big You're a big deal.

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Speaker 3: This is a big deal.

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Speaker 1: I'm really excited. I'm really really excited. I hope people

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Speaker 1: enjoy it.