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Speaker 1: It's a woman Woody podcast minis. But when you're in

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Speaker 1: blather on for half an hour.

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Speaker 2: We have a very special guest in the studio right

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Speaker 2: now in Adam Hill's who joins Us Now? Adam first

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Speaker 2: time in a radio studio for a very long time.

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Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, and you'd.

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Speaker 2: Like to start off by having a crack at someone

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Speaker 4: Not a crack I want, I want to stick up

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Speaker 4: for it. Yeah. I thought that during that last quiz

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Speaker 4: and then all of a sudden just caught in the moment.

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Speaker 4: I thought, Joel, he was doing that radio thing of

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Speaker 4: that's going to be your new thing?

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Speaker 3: Were you Joel accident? Adam? I appreciate you. If the

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Speaker 4: Can that be your new thing?

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Speaker 3: On this show though? Is playing random songs.

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Speaker 4: When someone just drifts off and gives it a terrible

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Speaker 3: It worked pretty well well.

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Speaker 1: All good things happened by accident. I mean, Adam, is

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Speaker 1: it true that Spicks and Specs, Yes, is getting going

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Speaker 1: again and the reason behind it is sort of accidental.

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Speaker 3: Yes.

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Speaker 4: So I was meant to be covering the Paralympics last

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Speaker 4: I had a lot of time on my hands, and

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Speaker 4: the ABC you went, hang on, if you're in Melbourne,

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Speaker 4: we all went, yeah, let's have a crack at this.

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Speaker 4: So we busted out ten episodes. We filmed them all

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Speaker 3: Do you know? Social distancing and masks.

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Speaker 4: So everyone had to have their own buzzer, do you

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Speaker 4: We had to wear masks right up until the camera

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Speaker 4: We couldn't even bring anyone in from into state. Luckily

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Speaker 4: Melbourne's the place to make a music quiz show.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you had some good comedians.

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Speaker 2: It's doing because I mean you get your great comedians

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Speaker 3: So that's back April eighteen.

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Speaker 4: And the first time I have to say, I think

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Speaker 4: the first episode we did was with the Teski brothers.

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Speaker 4: And when they they hadn't even rehearsed together because they

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Speaker 2: When you ask for the budget for two more buzzes

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Speaker 3: Well, you guys can check it out Speaks and Specs

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Speaker 3: on April ten. Adam Hill's going to stick around.

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Speaker 2: He's gonna shot the Melbourn Comedy Festival as well, Tuesdays

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Speaker 2: April sixth, all the way through to Sunday, April ten.

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Speaker 3: You can see him there. He's got more of Adam

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Speaker 3: hills by. Don't make some of them, would you?

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Speaker 2: Hey?

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Speaker 3: Well, and what are you Monday doing? Great news for

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Speaker 2: Speaks and Specs, obviously one of the greatest shows to

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Speaker 3: Is back April eighteen. Adam Hills is going to be

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Speaker 2: It's gonna be in the Melbourne Comedy Festival as well,

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Speaker 2: Tuesday April sixth all the way through Sunday April eighteen.

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Speaker 3: Now made it.

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Speaker 2: It is a pleasure to have you back in Australia.

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Speaker 2: But obviously that has come with the You've been quarantining.

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Speaker 4: I well, okay, So I got to Melbourne last year

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Speaker 4: I got out mate, Wow, got home, went into lockdown here.

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Speaker 1: Have there been any like real, like pivotal or like

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Speaker 4: I really wish I'd learned something about myself.

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Speaker 3: The only thing I've learned is.

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Speaker 4: That I'm quite okay with being stuck in a hotel

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Speaker 4: The hardest part of quarantine is going back to normal life.

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Speaker 4: It's like the first day at home. It gets to

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Speaker 3: All right, so we have to go out and do

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Speaker 4: It's really and the weirdest thing is I'm now doing So.

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Speaker 4: I'm starting at the Melbourne Comedy Festival next week. I'm

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Speaker 4: doing a show in Sydney at the m Or Theater.

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Speaker 4: I'm doing Canberra. I've got a trial show tonight.

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Speaker 4: So I'm going from here to a very small audience

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Speaker 4: I haven't done for twelve months, Oh wow, because I

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Speaker 1: Do you doa zoom gigs or any things? I know

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Speaker 1: Dave Thornton did a couple of zoom gigs, which he

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Speaker 1: got Dave Thornton here to do some stand up over Zoom.

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Speaker 4: The only thing we did was in May and June

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Speaker 4: last year we did some shows at Easy Comedy in Collingwood,

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Speaker 4: excuse me, and we had about twelve people in the audience,

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Speaker 4: Oh wow. But we had three hundred on Zoom and

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Speaker 4: And it was amazing to watch comedians turn up having

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Speaker 3: It's so nourishing for you. It's what you need.

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Speaker 4: So and normally at the Comedy Festival, I would say,

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Speaker 2: The establishments, you more than ever ignore the new comers.

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Speaker 3: Miss don't worry about the the big dogs.

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Speaker 4: Dave Hughes has got a big house to pay for. No,

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Speaker 4: it's the opposite Shoesy, myself, Tom Lease and Julia Morris,

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Speaker 3: So yeah, it just so flipped you there. You realize

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Speaker 3: you said something totally unethical, and I line that you

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Speaker 3: all right, you.

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Speaker 2: Can go and see you real patron of up and

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Speaker 2: coming comedy, And.

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Speaker 4: Just imagine Dave Hughes on radio right now again.

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Speaker 3: Come on, I've got a new car. Daddy's got to

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Speaker 3: feed the kids.

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Speaker 2: Melmur Comedy Vessel, Tuesday, April sixth, all the way to Sunday,

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Speaker 2: April I tend you can see Adam Hills and you're

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Speaker 2: gonna see it. As you said in Sydney do and

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Speaker 2: the Nmore Theater touring all over straight. So check out

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Speaker 2: comedy dot com dot a for all his dads. Mate,

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Speaker 2: thanks for coming in.

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Speaker 4: Oh you busted my cherry. Yes, I feel like yes,

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Speaker 4: I've got through that awkward.

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Speaker 3: It was our first radio interview.

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Speaker 4: Do you know what this is like when you've had

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Speaker 4: a dry spell relationship wise for quite some time and

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Speaker 4: you get that first one out of the way. I

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Speaker 4: just want to apologize to you, but I'm glad you

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Speaker 4: were here for it.

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Speaker 3: Hear more of the boys on the Full Show podcast.

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Speaker 4: You know you want to