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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Jonesy and Demanda podcast. Well, it's

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Speaker 1: been well over a decade since one of our most

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Speaker 1: beloved comedians has hit the stage for a solo performance.

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Speaker 1: Sounds like we've got I've got her in a sack

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Speaker 1: to the sid hold on to your hats. Denise Scott

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Speaker 1: is gearing up to make her return to the stage.

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Speaker 1: What's she been up to, What's going on? What's she

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Speaker 1: going to be talking about? Denise Scott?

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Speaker 2: Hello, Hello, lovely to be here with both of you.

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Speaker 2: You look full of beans and I know that you've

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Speaker 2: been going through hell, which is the cancer journey as

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Speaker 2: people seem to say. Yes for a minute, and I

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Speaker 2: thought you were referring to my partner John. He's always

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Speaker 2: been hell, but a delightful chap forty four years.

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Speaker 1: Anyway, Yes, you look great here, feeling great to be honest.

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Speaker 2: No, which I think is a bit disappointed. It fully

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Speaker 2: worth better. I'm still on medication which many many well,

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Speaker 2: I suppose it's women take it after breast cancer or

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Speaker 2: surviving breast cancer, which it just cuts out all estrogen,

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Speaker 2: and that stuff's everything. It stuff's your skin, your mental health,

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Speaker 2: your joints. But you're alive, so you know, you go

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Speaker 2: with that. But the brain fog, but then everything seems

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Speaker 2: a side effect, seems to be brain fog, and mine's phenomenal.

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Speaker 2: So good luck if you're coming to see me perform,

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Speaker 2: because I can't guarantee I won't just freeze and get

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Speaker 2: upsets and walk off lest apologies, I'm on letrasol.

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Speaker 1: Every night will be different, though, So what a gift.

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Speaker 2: What a gift. It'll be a wild ride.

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Speaker 1: Are you talking about all of that in your show?

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Speaker 1: I mean ten years since you've done a solo show.

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Speaker 1: What kind of stuff is interesting you?

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Speaker 2: Well, this is the thing. I never thought i'd do

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Speaker 2: a solo show again, because they're very stressful. And as Judith,

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Speaker 2: Lucy and I have admitted to one another, neither of

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Speaker 2: us has any imagination whatsoever. We really don't, so we

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Speaker 2: just have to write what happens in our life. And

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Speaker 2: of course my kids have grown up. I don't want

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Speaker 2: to be talking about my grandkids. I don't want to.

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Speaker 2: Well I do, actually I want to exploit them, of

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Speaker 2: course I do it but for now. Yes, So after

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Speaker 2: I spent it was all up about three years, I

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Speaker 2: guess dealing with cancer and I thought, oh, well, it's

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Speaker 2: something to write about. And there was a lot of

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Speaker 2: oh jonesy, you're looking so grim and furrow brown, and

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Speaker 2: it is it's quite a hard thing to talk about

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Speaker 2: with it, but it's there's a lot of funny stuff

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Speaker 2: that happens. What's funny about cancer? Oh well, I don't

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Speaker 2: want to now I feel perplexed, but well, for instance,

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Speaker 2: the fact that I did filmed Mother and Son at

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Speaker 2: the same time as having my first lot of chemo.

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Speaker 2: I was diagnosed when we were just about to move

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Speaker 2: to Sydney, because I live in Melbourne and sort of

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Speaker 2: like I've got chemo drugs fizzing around in my body.

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Speaker 2: And I've never been in a sitcom yet alone being

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Speaker 2: the main person yet alone taken on the mantle of

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Speaker 2: Ruth Cracknell. Which can I tell you, if you want

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Speaker 2: who you know, rest in peace but did diet twenty

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Speaker 2: three years ago. World was outrage so now you see

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Speaker 2: I'm having a lectrosol moment. What the hell was I talking?

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Speaker 2: What's body about? Cancer? Yeah? Well, so first day of filming,

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Speaker 2: I'm really not dealing with the anxiety and the drugs,

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Speaker 2: and I'm it was a forty degree day in Sydney

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Speaker 2: handsome that had liquefied in the heat. Oh my god,

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Speaker 2: there's humor. It's terrible. And so I'm in the back

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Speaker 2: what I'd drunk. I didn't know, but I knew my

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Speaker 2: throat was burning and I couldn't breathe. And camera, camera,

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Speaker 1: That was alcohol in that as well.

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Speaker 2: Ninety five percent proof, and I puzzled it. So I

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Speaker 2: of the first day shoot. I'm not recommending it. There's

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Speaker 2: a way to get through it, but yes, there's lots

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Speaker 1: Lord your stoic.

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Speaker 2: No, I'm not not stoic.

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Speaker 1: But the fact that you didn't say, hey, I can't

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Speaker 1: do this production you, I know, are so professional. You

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Speaker 1: would have been aware that all those people are ready

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Speaker 1: to go and you turn up and you do it.

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Speaker 2: Yes, and and that was part of it. And it

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Speaker 2: was like, well that you know when you get something

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Speaker 2: in your head and that's what's happening, and there's a

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Speaker 2: production company involved, in, a crew involved, and Matt o'kine,

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Speaker 2: who plays my son, who created this remake. That I

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Speaker 2: just also, I didn't know what I was doing, and

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Speaker 2: I didn't know what being sick really meant. I didn't

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Speaker 2: know when you get sick, oh you're sick, And so

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Speaker 2: I just thought, oh, well, I'll give it a go.

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Speaker 1: And can I say you look great?

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Speaker 2: You look really good. Yeah. Yeah, Well it's great. It

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Speaker 2: is great to be alive, and it is great to

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Speaker 2: not be doing chemo or radiation, you know, especially combined,

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Speaker 2: That was thorn, but I would see that in itself.

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Speaker 2: So I'm doing six weeks of daily radiation and I

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Speaker 2: and eighty five and I've been doing chemo and then

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Speaker 2: I had to do this radiation and I looked so

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Speaker 2: nurse came out into the four hour and said saw

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Speaker 2: me and said, oh, hooray, you're here. And I'm like,

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Speaker 2: I was always going to be here, and she said,

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Speaker 2: didn't I just see you downstairs and you asked me

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Speaker 2: for directions And I'm like, no, that wasn't me. And

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Speaker 2: then at this very minute second, this woman came around

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Speaker 2: the corner. She would have been ninety eight, and she

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Speaker 2: was bent double, sort of shuffling along, and the nurse goes, oh,

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Speaker 2: there she sorry, I got you too mixed up. It's

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Speaker 2: just writing itself. I can't let this go.

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Speaker 1: In fact, you haven't done a show for ten years.

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Speaker 1: Was there something about what you've been through that gave

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Speaker 1: you a new bravery to say? Stuff it?

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Speaker 2: To a point? I must admit, while I was sick

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Speaker 2: the last thing I thought I'd be doing is another

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Speaker 2: really enjoyed it. I've reflected on it and thought I've

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Speaker 2: had a good time and a good go. But then,

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Speaker 2: you know, I thought, well I'm still here, and I

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Speaker 2: felt like I didn't know what else to do really,

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Speaker 2: because that's all the work I've really done is tell

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Speaker 2: stories that have happened. And I thought, oh, well, here's

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Speaker 2: a story. I'll do that. And honestly, it's pretty like anxiety,

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Speaker 2: the inducing. But here I am. You are doing it, yes.

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Speaker 1: And having something to do is very important. I think, Oh,

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Speaker 1: I think it is too.

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Speaker 2: I think it's I've got grandkids, so that's a great

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Speaker 2: thing to do, and I really love it. I love

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Speaker 2: hanging out with them, but it's it's important to me

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Speaker 2: to keep working, really an important part of my life.

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Speaker 2: And uh, you know, and we've got dogs and my god,

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Speaker 2: if you have ever had a dog, his teeth.

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Speaker 1: Need extracting expensive.

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Speaker 2: Well, I thank god I'm doing this tour my my

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Speaker 2: old dogs. Two of them get to have their teeth extraction.

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Speaker 1: The least. I love it.

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Speaker 2: Have you got to have you got a post it

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Speaker 2: for the that's your poster right there. Yeah. Long in

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Speaker 2: the Tooth Tour, Denise.

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Speaker 1: It's great to see you look great.

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Speaker 2: The show is going to be great. For tickets and

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Speaker 2: tour information, head to comedy dot com dot you yes

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Speaker 2: you can. It's it's going well. When I say all

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Speaker 2: over Australia, yep, it's going to Sydney and MILLBURYE okay,

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Speaker 2: thus far, thus far, but you know, once people here,

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Speaker 2: it's to help the dogs get rid of their teeth.

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Speaker 1: How I can already hear a dog having sixty sixty

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Speaker 2: No, each one of them had nineteen extracted, the other thirteen.

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Speaker 2: And honestly we do look after them. But I don't

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Speaker 2: know what happened. That's one hundred and twenty. Well, yeah,

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Speaker 2: I know it. Yeah, anyway, this is more interesting than

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Speaker 2: cancer or my show. I think tooth extracted from the dog.

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Speaker 2: There we go the third act. Denise, Thank you, thank

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Speaker 2: you very much for having me