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Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda's well.

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Speaker 2: With the country starting to open up, we're excited to

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Speaker 2: reintroduce live events again, particularly stand up Ben Elton. We

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Speaker 2: spoke to me a year ago. He was due to

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Speaker 2: start his stand up show this time last year, but

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Speaker 2: a little thing called COVID gotten the way, so we're

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Speaker 2: excited that he's back for take two.

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Speaker 1: Ben Elton, Hello, Hello, thanks for having me back. It's

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Speaker 1: been it's been quite as interrupt well, show interrupted for

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Speaker 1: a whole year. Theater is not the has been dead

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Speaker 1: and all the theater stark. It's been such a terrible time,

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Speaker 1: but I'm back and I hope no fingers crossed and

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Speaker 1: borders permitting making people up and having a good time

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Speaker 1: right across the nation through April.

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Speaker 3: And you're in Western Australia at the moment, so life

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Speaker 3: has been fairly normal over there. Would you say with

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Speaker 3: the COVID.

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Speaker 1: Amen, Amen and st Mark, he's kept us safe, he's

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Speaker 1: kept us safe, or he runs the border. Someone sneeze

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Speaker 1: is in Tasmania a week slam it shut pick at

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Speaker 1: a nigan South. We're very farm over here. We brush

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Speaker 1: no question we've had, we've had a very good We've

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Speaker 1: been so fortunate, and I know everybody's, you know, very

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Speaker 1: grateful that it's been so good for us, so much

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Speaker 1: fewer restrictions than in Britain than in the rest of Australia,

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Speaker 1: and infinitely more than in Britain. Of course, for me,

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Speaker 1: that good fortune comes with a with a sadness because

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Speaker 1: of course our borders are locked. My family, many of

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Speaker 1: my friends and my work has a lot of it's

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Speaker 1: in Britain. My mum's ninety two. I haven't seen it

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Speaker 1: for a year now. So you know, everyone has their

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Speaker 1: everyone has their their their COVID stories and we'll we'll

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Speaker 1: try to we all recognize that we have it better

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Speaker 1: than so many people. Certainly I do. But yeah, the

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Speaker 1: the isolation from from my families, Yeah, that's that's that's

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Speaker 1: not been great, and it continues because I don't think

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Speaker 2: When you decided then, okay, now's the time to get

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Speaker 2: this show back on the road, did you look at

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Speaker 2: your content that the show you were going to do

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Speaker 2: a year ago and find that well, this this no

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Speaker 2: longer applies. Did you have to start again?

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Speaker 1: Oh? My goodness, Manda. Yeah, I mean, well it's I'll

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Speaker 1: start again. It's interesting a lot. Yeah, last a year

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Speaker 1: fifty fifteen years away from the road. I got it

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Speaker 1: all home and ready. I think I remember saved you.

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Speaker 1: I've the ninety gigs in the UK, which was just

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Speaker 1: and everything was ready perfectly. And of course then it

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Speaker 1: stopped for a year. And yet of course not just

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Speaker 1: any year, the weirdest year in any of our lifetimes.

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Speaker 1: So certainly I'll be looking at the material again. But

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to do two hours about COVID. I'm

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Speaker 1: not going to do two hours of lockdown. Don't you

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Speaker 1: run out of Netflix really quickly? Fruit bread? Can you bake?

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Speaker 1: I think because my material has always been about I

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Speaker 1: suppose myself, the human condition, the way we view each other.

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Speaker 1: You know, that doesn't that doesn't change. In adversity, there'll

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Speaker 1: be some COVID stuff. I mean interestingly, I mean I

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Speaker 1: about the Cowery funny. It is very funny. But my father,

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Speaker 1: you know, he got outsiders, the last five years of

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Speaker 1: his life were, without questioning, the most challenging. And I

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Speaker 1: do some material around that and talk about how we

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Speaker 1: need a more adult attitude to end of life care. Well, goodness, gracious.

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Speaker 1: Suddenly a whole generation has been you know, young people

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Speaker 1: everything changes a different time. But that's that's why I

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Speaker 1: hope I'm good at my job. You know, I look

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Speaker 1: part of it. And I guess I factored my world

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Speaker 1: and our world into my material. So yeah, there'll be changes,

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Speaker 1: but so much of what I did a whole routine.

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Speaker 1: this whole millennial dining habits, the way we have to

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Speaker 1: share everything at a table, little gold of salt, little

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Speaker 1: little dishes of olive oil, wells. Nobody's fozzing anybody else's

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Speaker 1: condiments anymore. Mate, we're all standing two meters apart trying

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Speaker 4: So that's a good thing that's coming.

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Speaker 1: I agree. I mean, I was very anti the rock salt.

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Speaker 1: The rocks are very anti it. You try to grind

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Speaker 4: Brink and the small and the smallest world, Yeah, and

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Speaker 4: the smallest. The buffet is gone. The buffet as we

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Speaker 1: I don't know I regret that. I mean, somebody, you know,

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Speaker 1: my wife always would be oh, you know, that's been

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Speaker 1: But I liked her breakfast buffy. I suppose because I've been,

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Speaker 1: you know, touring all my life. There's a certain nostalgia

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Speaker 1: to sort of wondering whether, you know, scraping the last

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Speaker 1: water to keep them warm, and that brown is sulky.

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Speaker 1: That's why it's been left. I miss the hotel buffies

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Speaker 1: when I'll get back on the road. But yeah, I

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Speaker 1: think the buffys will be a while returning. But I

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Speaker 1: hope we don't all start feeling we've got to be

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Speaker 1: desperately sanitized. It would be, you know, it would be

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Speaker 1: a shame if well, let's see how it goes. We

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Speaker 1: have to, we have to be sensible about these things.

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Speaker 1: But I'm looking forward to hugging next time we do

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Speaker 1: an interview face to face.

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Speaker 4: That's I like to say, Jones, A man is working

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Speaker 4: on a tongue, just for.

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Speaker 1: Exercise. Again, well thought at this time in the.

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Speaker 4: Morning, working on we had a tanker of listerine just

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Speaker 4: pull up the other day.

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Speaker 1: Okay, gargling, I'm coming over. I'm coming over.

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Speaker 4: I never thought it turn into this, but it has. Ben,

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Speaker 4: It's always great.

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Speaker 1: Sorry, carry on, we're all we're all talking at once.

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Speaker 1: I can't see you.

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Speaker 4: I was just going to say, we're so looking forward

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Speaker 4: to seeing you. It's always a treat. And I will

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Speaker 4: say this on the breakfast buffet.

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Speaker 3: Isn't there anything more awkward than standing next to someone

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Speaker 3: as the toast conveyor belt goes through so slowly?

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Speaker 4: Is that the slowest thing in the history of the world.

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Speaker 1: Well, not normally, that's the problem. I mean, the problem

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Speaker 1: is it's notally the fastest thing. So you basically your

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Speaker 1: toast comes out fairly tepid. So you just tweaked the

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Speaker 1: little dial one little notch. Of course, the burst in

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Speaker 1: the flames aren't way. And then they come over and say,

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Speaker 1: have you put a quest on it? You put a

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Speaker 1: It's just it's gone very early. Yes, spending by a

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Speaker 1: flaming toaster while you've burnt. Everybody else is on your arm,

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Speaker 1: that pancake after yours, priving your two bits of bread apart,

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Speaker 1: and pushing him to the edges where there's no heat elements.

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Speaker 1: I know I won't miss I won't miss the toaster

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Speaker 1: conveyor belt, that's for sure.

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Speaker 4: Then we miss you.

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Speaker 3: You can buy your tickets to see Ben Elton from

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Speaker 3: Live Nation dot com dot au.

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Speaker 4: You can have him in your lounge room. Ben. We're

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Speaker 4: looking forward to catching up when this is all over.

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Speaker 1: I cannot wait to come over and put that big

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Speaker 1: hug and the big knotted tongue moment, the three of

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Speaker 1: us together, they'll never be able to unknot us.

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Speaker 3: I'm looking forward to it, Ben, Thank you, Bye, Thanks Ben, wonderful, wonderful.

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Speaker 1: Sorry I'm sorry of talking over.

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Speaker 4: That's fine. So you know what, I went down the

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Speaker 4: YouTube wormhole.

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Speaker 3: I watched you and Rick Male talking about the early

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Speaker 3: days of the Young Ones just that, and I just thought,

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Speaker 3: you show Rick the script.

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Speaker 1: To thee oh yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, that was thanks. Thanks,

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Speaker 1: for that hotel conveyor belt. I was writing a routine there.

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Speaker 1: I think I might go down and there.

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Speaker 4: Did you just make that up?

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Speaker 1: Just then?

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Speaker 4: That's you, mate, that's I did.

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Speaker 1: Indeed, that was not that was not old material. I've

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Speaker 1: never done anything about it, but I'm going to I

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Speaker 3: To say, was you're a person of noe and what

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Speaker 3: I've found if you stand in that conveyor belt, then

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Speaker 3: the awkward small talk comes on, and it's always this

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Speaker 3: thing's going too fast, or these things take too long,

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Speaker 3: or you know. And then as you say, the Nazi

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Speaker 3: comes over because you've adjusted the temperature control, I said,

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Speaker 3: he touched that button, and then you'll blame some other

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Speaker 3: guy that walked off.

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Speaker 4: That's that guy over there.

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Speaker 1: I'd always I'd always own up to causing a conflagration

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Speaker 1: at the breakfast.

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Speaker 4: Well, great to talk. Yeah, you take cabin really good.

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Speaker 1: And I hope you managed to get one of the

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Speaker 1: gates in the Maybe get chance, Salo. But I'll see

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Speaker 1: you in studio next time. This dreadful business, all right?

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Speaker 4: Thanks Ben

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Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda's gamination