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Speaker 1: Ben Elton is bringing his Authentic Stupidity Tour to the

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Speaker 1: Ask the Theater March thirteen.

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Speaker 2: Tickets gone sole Tuesday through Ticketmaster and Ben Elton is

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Speaker 2: joining us now.

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Speaker 3: Good morning Ben, Hello, nice to be back. Nice.

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Speaker 2: The show is called Authentic Stupidity. You fear the greatest

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Speaker 2: threat with face right now is not AI.

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Speaker 4: It's as Yeah, I mean, that's just a little archived

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Speaker 4: people who know me, and it's been forty four years

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Speaker 4: of stand up comedy and in my first Eusie gigs

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Speaker 4: back in eighty six, so.

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Speaker 3: There's been a long haul and people know I always

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Speaker 3: bring a new show and I don't normally give it

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Speaker 3: a title. It's just called Ben Out and Live. But

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Speaker 3: if any of my tours could have been called Authentic

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Speaker 3: Stupidity because basically that's what I think good comedy does.

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Speaker 3: I think it interrogates the essential absurdity of existence in

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Speaker 3: it's every form, from the minw tie to the vast

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Speaker 3: and global, and that's what I always do. But yeah,

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Speaker 3: the AI thing gave me that little extra push because

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Speaker 3: you know, everybody has been banging on about what an

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Speaker 3: existential threat it is to our to our very being.

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Speaker 3: You know, it's replaced us effectively. And they say it's

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Speaker 3: the greatest threat we've ever faced, and of course I

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Speaker 3: couldn't resist thing. I think the greatest threat we've face

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Speaker 3: is an artificial intelligence, but the same one we have

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Speaker 3: always faced, which is authentic stupidity, not lead that we've

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Speaker 3: allowed a bunch of unelected, unaccountable, tax avoiding billionaires floating

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Speaker 3: in their yachts off Malibu or blasting off in their

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Speaker 3: private phallic symbol space shifts up into space. Yeah, to

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Speaker 3: develop technology that's going to put us all out of work.

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Speaker 3: I mean, if a terrorist went on the telly and

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Speaker 3: announced in ten years we will have made you redundant,

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Speaker 3: we will literally we'd activate the sas quick sharp. Because

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Speaker 3: it's a bunch of billionaires, we go, oh, well, you know,

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Speaker 3: at least it's going to be able to write a

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Speaker 3: new Beetles song.

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Speaker 5: You know, it's like, not just write the song, but

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Speaker 5: do the vocal as well, which terrifies that.

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Speaker 1: I'm laughing, but I'm a bit crying as well.

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Speaker 3: It was a James Bond plot, you know, yeah, a

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Speaker 3: good James Bond plot. But you know, and of course

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Speaker 3: the people are pointed out, must could make a good

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Speaker 3: James Bond villain. This is for real. You know, this

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Speaker 3: is for real anyway. But you know I'm seeing the

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Speaker 3: funny side because of in hard times and difficult times,

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Speaker 3: we all need a laugh and that's what I'm delivering.

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Speaker 6: And I'm doing a hundred dates here.

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Speaker 3: In the Wow in order to.

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Speaker 7: Be super shape. But we bumped into it all work.

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Speaker 5: Speaking of AI, we worked an old work made of

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Speaker 5: ours is in advertising and marketing. Yesterday he said he

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Speaker 5: had a whole lot of work on and then all

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Speaker 5: of a sudden AI took over. And maybe they're just

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Speaker 5: pressing the button to get the copy written, which is

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Speaker 5: pretty pretty sad, but it's really affected.

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Speaker 7: He's he's work world. Sometimes it's had to fight.

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Speaker 3: And will it Yeah, And of course the big question is,

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Speaker 3: you know, could it could it do my job? You know,

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Speaker 8: Leonard McCartney's job. I mean that has yet to be seen.

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Speaker 8: I mean I can't I can't believe it. I can't

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Speaker 8: believe that just by feeding all the old Beatles songs

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Speaker 8: into a machine, it could write a brilliant new Beatles song,

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Speaker 8: probably a good pastiche but then the Ruffles was a

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Speaker 3: I don't know. Look, it is scary. I don't talk

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Speaker 3: because it's you know, it's interesting, and I always I

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Speaker 3: always based my material on stuff I find interesting. But

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Speaker 3: then of course I go on to do what I

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Speaker 3: always do, which is unpack the essential smallness, vulnerability, and

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Speaker 3: silliness of being alive, starting with myself. My wife started

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Speaker 3: claiming that she's the biggest target of my routine, but

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Speaker 3: she's not. She comes off really lightly. I'm the biggest target.

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Speaker 2: You were last heuring in twenty twenty one. It doesn't

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Speaker 2: sound like a long time ago, but in comedy years.

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Speaker 2: At the moment, comedy is I find changing so quickly.

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Speaker 2: How do you feel about the landscape of comedy and

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Speaker 2: the you know, the things that comedians I can't do anymore?

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Speaker 3: Well, I don't know. There's some I mean, look, there

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Speaker 3: and it is coming from the left rather than the right.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I don't think me oh yeah, canceled. In fact,

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Speaker 3: I mean, I think in academia there is a problem

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Speaker 3: I think there is a problem, but I don't think

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Speaker 3: it wouldn't worry me because I've always plugged my own parah.

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Speaker 3: I don't know what comedy is like at the moment.

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Speaker 3: I don't watch Netflix comedy specials. I don't watch other

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Speaker 3: stand up comedies. The only the actually stand up I'm

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Speaker 3: interested in me, Yeah, because I do it from material

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Speaker 3: I do it. I mean, that's not me being arrogant.

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Speaker 3: That's like, you know, that's you know, I'm I'm I'm

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Speaker 3: a and when I'm a comedian on stage, I'm delivering.

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Speaker 3: You know, there's this phrase gen z use stand in

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Speaker 3: your truth. Well, that's what I'm doing on stage, So

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Speaker 3: you know it's not an arrogance. I just to me

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Speaker 3: other stand up comments, it's not my favorite form of entertainment.

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Speaker 3: I'd rather watch a drama or play, or indeed a sitcom.

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Speaker 3: Band up, I don't. I don't really find it that attractive.

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Speaker 3: I do mine as a kind of stream of personal,

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Speaker 3: personal outrage and delight. You know, it's a very personal thing,

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Speaker 3: my standard, and no one else could do my materipate.

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Speaker 5: And I'm sure therapeutic at times as well. You're got

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Speaker 5: to get it out there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, kind of my wife again might have who needs

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Speaker 2: Cathley, As someone who has made a lot of television yourself,

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Speaker 2: I'm curious, what is the last thing that you watched

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Speaker 3: I just watched. I don't think it's made it to

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Speaker 3: and you know, I'm not drinking while I'm doing gigs,

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Speaker 3: because you know, I'm sixty five and I have to

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Speaker 3: with me for the first three weeks, but I've been

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Speaker 3: I've been watching an hour each night. I've watched the

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Speaker 3: thing called The Rivals. You know, the Jilly Cooper novel

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Speaker 6: You know, it's all.

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Speaker 3: You know, it's all it's sort of like Benny Hilbert drama.

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Speaker 3: Rather it's for fun. So I just you know, the

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Speaker 3: Jilly Cooper sort of sex and sex and snobbery and

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Speaker 3: intrigue in the Dropshire novel from the eighties.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, fun be all doctors.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's the eight anyway, he's always good at

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Speaker 3: everything he does. So that was the thing I watched

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Speaker 3: this week. Oh gosh, I can't even remember I've been

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Speaker 3: I've been watching. I actually watched them. I rewatched some

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Speaker 3: of Succession because I liked it. I don't, you know,

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Speaker 3: as I say, not not necessarily comedy by any means. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: but you know I like to read a book.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, me too, Ben, you talk about Succession, I mean

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Speaker 5: I literally had withdrawal symptoms after it finished.

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Speaker 7: You don't want it to finish? How did you feel

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Speaker 7: you go back and watched it again.

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Speaker 9: guess I didn't couldn't find You know that thing when

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Speaker 9: you're scrolling through Netflix and there's two hundred shows you

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Speaker 9: haven't seen and you can't be bothered to watch anything,

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Speaker 9: yet you watched something you watched already.

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Speaker 10: I love Succession. I actually, to be honest, I was

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Speaker 10: I thought it was right to finish. I thought it

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Speaker 10: had become a bit repetitive if you don't this other

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Speaker 10: people's work. Jesse is such a genius and he's done

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Speaker 3: I mean, it was a work of true greatness. But

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Speaker 3: I thought the Roys went on that circle.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I thought, okay, well, I think we can just

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Speaker 6: let it, let them lie for a bit now, you

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Speaker 6: know that with the endlessly like the greatest crisis the

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Speaker 3: It was great. It's a great show. And he did

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Speaker 1: Speaking of you know, you like to read.

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Speaker 2: You're obviously very busy at the moment, but we likely

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Speaker 2: to have another book maybe in the near after that future.

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Speaker 3: Well, i'd love to write a new novel. I haven't

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Speaker 3: but yeah, I will get I'd love to think I'll

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Speaker 3: won't plan I'll write a novel next year because if

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Speaker 3: to stand up. You know, it's what I want to do.

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Speaker 3: I'm really lucky I've been able to spend my whole

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Speaker 3: that means I can, for conchuse so you can, honestly,

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Speaker 3: even if you don't like what I can do, you

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Speaker 3: can honestly anything I do. I think, I think it's brilliant.

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Speaker 3: Sometimes retrospectively I realized perhaps I overstated the case. But

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Speaker 2: Where you know, I've always thought you you're some kind

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Speaker 2: And I think of you every Tuesday in the office

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Speaker 4: That was blind faith.

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Speaker 1: Wasn't that a physy cough?

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Speaker 3: Whether that would blind me yeah, your physical office. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: a physical I did that fifteen years ago.

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Speaker 7: I forgot you did.

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Speaker 1: That's why I say you are nostra dummers. There was

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Speaker 1: so much faith has come true.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's lovely because that one, you know, I didn't

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Speaker 3: as long as all my novels. I'm happy to stay too.

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Speaker 3: But it wasn't particularly. No, I must have my mum's

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Speaker 3: favorite one. She's gone now, but that was my that

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Speaker 3: was her favorite. Express Certainly there's lot of tattoo bottoms

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Speaker 3: on display. Was early and early early and on that.

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Speaker 3: We see a lot of tattoo bottoms on display these days.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, no, it's not. Honestly, it's lovely that you

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Speaker 3: look back on that every Tuesday.

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Speaker 7: She just mentioned it in the office to be quite

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Speaker 7: regular again it up.

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Speaker 3: Well, I'm very pleased if it's sending anyone to watch

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Speaker 3: read the novel I remember. Yeah, yeah, great West Australian.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I recommend that to anyone.

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Speaker 3: It is.

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Speaker 2: We we look forward to seeing authentic stupidity. I think

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Speaker 2: as a species we're probably generally a bit thick. That's

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Speaker 2: while we have the Darwin Awards it's going to be

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Speaker 2: the Asta Theater March thirteen. Tickets on out November twelve

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Speaker 2: through Ben Elton dot live or live Nation dot com

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Speaker 2: dot au. Ben can't wait to see you back in

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Speaker 2: town taking.

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Speaker 3: Free So good to speak to you guys.

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Speaker 7: We'll buy your coffee of Genos next you go.

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Speaker 3: Down there.

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Speaker 1: What a lovely man.

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Speaker 7: You triggered him to them. That was great because he

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Speaker 7: hadn't thought about that. It's very very cool.

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Speaker 1: I love his book.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, absolutely really loved him