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Speaker 1: Still Rookers joined us. Your show Heart Stopper is on

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Speaker 1: until this Sunday. Well, Fringe does wrap up this Sunday,

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Speaker 1: so I can't go any longer than that. Tickets are

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Speaker 1: through Fringe world dot com, dot you. There is a

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Speaker 1: very personal story behind the title.

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Speaker 2: Yeah it was a stopper.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, two meanings actually because I'm Sri Lunkan, but my

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Speaker 3: mum's out of the family is Indian and I found

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Speaker 3: out that in a Hindi rook would mean stop and

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Speaker 3: deal would mean heart, so heart stop. It was a

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Speaker 3: pretty app and I made the joke about that, like

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Speaker 3: you know that it's an appt name because my cholesterol

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Speaker 3: is high.

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Speaker 2: In twenty twenty one, but then a year.

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Speaker 3: Later, I actually had a heart attack, no and yeah,

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Speaker 3: proper legit heart attack, which almost went undetected because there

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Speaker 3: was really yeah, because there's a tiny little pinch in

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Speaker 3: my left arm that was it just minor, and I

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Speaker 3: just thought I'll just ignore it and harden up and

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Speaker 3: all that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it would be right exactly.

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Speaker 3: And then I went on, what am I doing? I'm

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Speaker 3: not why am I diagnosing myself? I'm not a doctor,

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Speaker 3: And much of my parents disappointment not a top.

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Speaker 4: Sound still like you jinxed yourself.

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Speaker 3: Actually you brought it up, yeah, exactly. So I just

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Speaker 3: went and go checked out in. The doctors were saying,

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Speaker 3: you know, everything's fine, but you know, the issuge is

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Speaker 3: looking good, and the fact that I walked to the hospital, yeah,

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Speaker 3: it'd be all right. And then they said, well, we'll

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Speaker 3: just do some test to put your mind it is.

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Speaker 3: And then the test came back with this particular enzyme

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Speaker 3: in my blood that shows up all the after a

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Speaker 3: heart event.

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Speaker 2: And he's like, oh, yeah, it looks like you're having

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Speaker 2: a heart attack, and it was. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: So they did the test the next day to see

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Speaker 3: if what the issue is and there was an eighty

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Speaker 3: percent block in an artery that they've they nicknamed the

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Speaker 3: widow Maker, which sounds like a Gems Bond movie branch.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 3: And so I just basically was very I don't know

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Speaker 3: what we'd call it luck, but yeah. The doctor was

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Speaker 3: like the fact that I even came to get it

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Speaker 3: checked out is remarkable because the symptoms are so mild.

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Speaker 3: But you know, five years from now this could have

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Speaker 3: been much more serious and potentially, I.

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Speaker 1: Mean, you're not the only one that would react like that,

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Speaker 1: unless we're gasping for air, we wouldn't think that we're

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Speaker 1: having a heart attack. And to get you know, we

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Speaker 1: do go I'll be right, well yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, a pinch, yeah exactly.

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Speaker 3: I'd rather be a soft us after he was still

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Speaker 3: alive than someone who is buried.

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Speaker 4: It could have been not the first comedian to die

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Speaker 4: on stage, and that would have been good.

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Speaker 3: Now I've done a few times on stage, so that

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Speaker 3: would have been fine. Now would have been just dying

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Speaker 3: at home in front of my desk. That's admit that

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Speaker 3: I'm not used to watching Home and Away.

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Speaker 1: Yes, now, it happened in twenty one, and how many

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Speaker 1: people have said to you, oh, it's because of the vaccine.

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Speaker 3: Well, it happened twenty twenty two. And if people do

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Speaker 3: say it, the VEO, yes, so this is April last year.

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Speaker 3: So the anti vaxes love it. They do love hearing

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Speaker 3: about the heart attack.

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Speaker 4: The emoji.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they love they love it because they're like, I

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Speaker 3: knew it, you shouldn't have got the But the thing

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Speaker 3: is that that was the first question I had, is

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Speaker 3: to to confirm that it wasn't anything to do with

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Speaker 3: the vaccine, because it's Closterol. It's nothing to do with Astrosenika.

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Speaker 3: It's past us anyka of anything. I just you know,

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Speaker 3: boosted it with with gelato, you know. So I basically

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Speaker 3: that was nice to get it cleared, but at the

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Speaker 3: same time also kind of frustrating because you know, I

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Speaker 3: grew up, you know, quite unhealthy and trank a lot

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Speaker 3: or eate a lot. But then the last four years

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Speaker 3: I've been you know, watching my I was running more.

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Speaker 3: I did a marathon.

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Speaker 2: Really, I love it. Yeah, I lost thirty kilos a marathon.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I just I was just so frustrated that going

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Speaker 3: this is this, like, what was the point is it?

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Speaker 3: You know? Yeah?

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Speaker 4: I went and saw Sting the last Friday night, right

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Speaker 4: the concert, and there was a woman sitting two seats

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Speaker 4: down from it for the whole gig was on her phone.

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Speaker 3: See when the song I'll be watching You, you were

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Speaker 3: literally doing it, just staring at her.

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Speaker 4: I was watching her because she's on her phone. She's

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Speaker 4: on Facebook for the whole gig. I'm thinking, are you

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Speaker 4: are you here with someone else? You're not a fan,

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Speaker 4: but you said you're a bit addicted to your phone too.

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Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, But to be honest, I wouldn't go

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Speaker 3: to a concert and then be obsessed with my phone.

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Speaker 4: The artist.

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Speaker 3: My addiction to the phone is meant to do mainly

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Speaker 3: a run falling asleep. I struggled to fall asleep with

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Speaker 3: couple of nights ago, I was on Instagram reels and

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Speaker 3: then passed out during that, which means that I woke

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Speaker 3: up and it was the same video, like a five

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Speaker 3: second video that.

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Speaker 2: Was playing on loop.

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Speaker 3: But I prefer that then what happened before the phone,

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Speaker 3: because back in the day, I used to fall asleep

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Speaker 3: with my laptop. And there's not one, but three from

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Speaker 3: laptops that I've fallen asleep on top of and crushed.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, yeah, exactly, Yes, absolutely destroyed insurance. No, just

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna you know, I used to be an ex accountant,

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Speaker 3: so you know, just just appreciation and.

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Speaker 1: Phones shows still. Dave Chappelle recently made everyone lock their

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Speaker 1: phone in a lock box so that they couldn't record,

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Speaker 1: because I think that the phone is the greatest enemy

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Speaker 1: to live comedy. I want my comedians editing themselves on

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Speaker 1: the run, thinking is that going to come back.

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Speaker 2: And haunt me?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And so I saw that as well, and I'm

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Speaker 3: actually I'm a big fan of the idea, Like the

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Speaker 3: more people that leave, I ll just just leaving the

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Speaker 3: phones locked away, because you know, it's also just a

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Speaker 3: chance to be in the moment. Like, don't get me wrong,

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Speaker 3: there's something nice about taking photos and capturing your sort

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Speaker 3: of your own little for memories.

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Speaker 2: But he can't go too far. Like I remember my dad.

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Speaker 3: I took him to see Elton John when he was

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Speaker 3: doing one of his many farewell concerts, and.

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Speaker 2: My dad, God bless him the whole time. Felt film

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Speaker 2: the whole thing, the whole thing for about two hours.

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Speaker 3: And what makes it even more interesting is that Dad

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Speaker 2: So I'm like, who's going to watch that? Mate?

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Speaker 3: Like genuinely, you know, I was like, unless they're on

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Speaker 3: a roller coaster, they're not really going to be able

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Speaker 2: So now I'm holding the phone. Yeah but I did.

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Speaker 3: He's like, it's it's nice to sort of enjoy the moment.

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Speaker 3: I'm like, take a couple of full sure, yeah.

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Speaker 1: But you're not filming a Netflix special.

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Speaker 2: He's like, I'll show it to my sister's back in

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Speaker 2: Sri Lanka. I'm like, I don't think they're going to

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Speaker 4: I don't know if you know, but that that Dave

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Speaker 4: Chappelle gig, there was a somet kicked out because it

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Speaker 4: was a fight in the crowd. Maybe he was upset

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Speaker 4: about not having his phone because it got locked down.

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Speaker 4: It was actually a scrap in the and Dave was

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Speaker 4: using it for material.

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Speaker 3: But oh well, I'm sure it would be silly I

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Speaker 3: for him not to. But also that's kind of weird

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Speaker 3: that they were. The fight broke out during a comedy show.

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Speaker 2: This is what's how embarrassing.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, hopefully none of that happens at my solo shows. Like,

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Speaker 3: I've never been in a fight my entire life. The

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Speaker 3: closest I've ever come to a fight was there was

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Speaker 3: a punch on at school and everyone was just having

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Speaker 3: a brawl. I just sit sat back and commentated, you know,

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Speaker 3: because I got a smile. I'm like, oh, he's gone

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Speaker 3: through to four weeks minimum. And then this one blog

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Speaker 3: saw me by myself actually comes over grabs him by

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Speaker 3: the collar, clenched his fist to go to punch me.

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Speaker 2: But I think you see so how scared I looked.

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Speaker 3: So he uncleanched his fist and slapped me like it's

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Speaker 3: just so emasculating. In that moment, I was like, actually

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Speaker 3: just punched me because right now I felt both testicles

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Speaker 3: just jump back in itself and got stuck at the

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Speaker 3: back of my throat Like I was just like I

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Speaker 3: wanted them to punch so that they just pop back out.

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Speaker 2: Exactly. Wow.

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Speaker 1: All right, well I just want to mention also, you

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Speaker 1: filmed a stand up special for Amazon Prime, so get

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Speaker 1: around that.

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Speaker 2: It's called Prime Video.

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Speaker 3: I think, yeah, Prime Video. It's called The Bundle of Joys.

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Speaker 1: And you can catch the rook and heart Stopper until

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Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks for coming in. My absolutely pleas