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Speaker 1: This is gem Nation.

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Speaker 2: We're Jones.

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Speaker 3: I'm so chuffed to be talking to this man. We

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Speaker 3: know him best for his unforgettable roles on Monty Python,

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Speaker 3: from Flying Circus to the Meaning of Life Now. Eric

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Speaker 3: Idle reflects on the meaning of his own life and

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Speaker 3: the meaning of comedy in a one note only show

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Speaker 3: Say No More. He's going to be chatting about his

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Speaker 3: life and his career, but before he does all of that,

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Speaker 3: he's going to chat to us, Eric Idol, what a thrill.

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Speaker 4: Hello, Hello, Actually it was about my wife and my

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Speaker 4: career after life.

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Speaker 2: I think it's a misery did she insists she's not

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Speaker 2: coming so.

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Speaker 4: I can talk about finally Lash, you know, five years

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Speaker 4: in I can tell the truth.

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Speaker 5: At last we get to hear it.

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Speaker 1: Eric.

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Speaker 3: This show sounds great because our mate Sean mcarloff is

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Speaker 3: going to be talking to you for the first half

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Speaker 3: of the show, and then the second half is you

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Speaker 3: discussing comedy and life. You've had an interesting time of late.

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Speaker 3: I know you only spoke recently about about of pancreatic

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Speaker 3: cancer that you got early and all seems to be

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Speaker 3: going well for you. So you've lived a rich life.

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Speaker 3: How do you pick which bits to talk about.

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Speaker 2: Well, that's quite a question. Actually, I try and think.

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Speaker 4: Of things I haven't said. You talked about areas I'm

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Speaker 4: discussed before. And Shaw's very good. I mean, he's very efficient,

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Speaker 4: and he's feelings from feeding me questions and things which

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Speaker 4: I will have actually get.

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Speaker 2: He's working on that.

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Speaker 4: And so I don't really know. I mean, I shall

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Speaker 4: play some songs on the guitar, and it's still in progress,

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Speaker 4: so I'm not entirely sure. In fact, you're updated.

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Speaker 2: It's very good. Where did you get that from? See

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Speaker 2: you in the first half? You can talk all the

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Speaker 2: way through the damn show.

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Speaker 3: As far as I'm concerned, I love that the show

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Speaker 3: is called say No More from the very famous Nudge

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Speaker 3: Nudge sketch. I've been reading that that was one of

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Speaker 3: Elvis Presley's favorite sketches. He used to do Monty Python

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Speaker 3: sketches in bed with his partner Linda Linda Thompson, and

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Speaker 3: he used to call people squire. He was so taken

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Speaker 3: with you guys. Did you know all of your connection

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Speaker 3: with Elvis?

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Speaker 2: I did found out about it.

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Speaker 4: It was it was I think because we did the

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Speaker 4: nice Nuch sketch very early.

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Speaker 2: On on the television on the TV show.

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Speaker 4: But Linda told Thompson herself told me that she helped

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Speaker 4: after TV closed down in Nashville. She Elvis would make

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Speaker 4: us sit next to her in bed and do python sketches.

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Speaker 4: And I didn't believe her, and she'd no.

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Speaker 2: Missus thing, I Missy's entity. I need a new brain.

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Speaker 2: And I said no, no, no, no, no he didn't,

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Speaker 2: and she said he did. And then I thought, well,

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Speaker 2: how the hell did she know the words?

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Speaker 4: Otherwise? I want to Carry's brain what Elvi's saying. I

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Speaker 4: want to Curry's brain, which relates to a small shop

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Speaker 4: in London that sells, you know, electronics. It's just you

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Speaker 4: can't make that up. So I believe Finally, isn't he

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Speaker 4: in the Elvis movie? No, they didn't put.

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Speaker 2: What's bas Leermon doing?

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Speaker 5: Come on?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 4: It's like they didn't put the song in that other

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Speaker 4: one about Jesus. They didn't put the song with the

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Speaker 4: you know your guy wats his name? The Australian boy?

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Speaker 3: Which one?

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Speaker 2: Which one? The one?

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Speaker 4: You know, the one, the bloody, the very bloody one,

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Speaker 5: Barry mackenzie, Barry mckenno.

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Speaker 2: The only film from about Jesus. No, hang on, let's

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Speaker 2: do this.

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Speaker 3: Well about mel Gibson.

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Speaker 5: Mel Gibson, the Passion Christ.

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Speaker 2: He didn't put the song in the end, No it didn't.

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Speaker 2: It was calling with a bloody song. The best of film,

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Speaker 3: It was calling for that song.

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Speaker 5: It really was because in the Passion of the Christ

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Speaker 5: there was a joke in the Passion of the Christ

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Speaker 5: and everyone kind of did you pick up the joke

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Speaker 5: in the Passion of the Christ? And it's about there's

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Speaker 5: And Mary, his mother, is sitting there and she goes,

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Speaker 5: you sit down and you eat at it? And Mary says,

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Speaker 5: it'll never catch on. And that was that's that's what.

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Speaker 2: It's a carpenter joke. It's a carpenter But it was when.

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Speaker 1: We first started to do the Life of Brian Gilliam

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Speaker 1: and I started to do terrible jokes about him being

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Speaker 1: crucified and he kept falling down the cross and he

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Speaker 1: kept saying, no, no, you need.

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Speaker 2: To want to give it in there down against We

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Speaker 2: didn't do that. Of course, when.

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Speaker 3: You write your material, were you aware which of the

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Speaker 3: ones would become parts of the vernacular and which ones wouldn't.

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Speaker 3: Or when you saw your babies go out into the world,

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Speaker 3: have you been surprised at the ones that have stuck?

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Speaker 2: I think on the hole the ones were stuck were

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Speaker 4: And it's only afterwards, maybe by a repetition and people

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Speaker 4: repeating them to us, that you found out which were

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Speaker 4: the more popular ones. So not really, because I mean

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Speaker 4: the thing about it is we were all writers, and

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Speaker 4: we all put sketches in, but you never know quite

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Speaker 4: who's writing at any moment when you're watching the show,

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Speaker 4: do you know. I mean that there's a seamless transitions

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Speaker 4: as to Michael Paynan bit and then that goes into

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Speaker 4: a CLEAs and Chapman bit, you know. So we were

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Speaker 4: mainly keen on getting our bits into the show, I

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Speaker 4: think really, And.

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Speaker 5: That would be the other thing. It's like, you know,

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Speaker 5: in a band presenting a song and you're just hoping

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Speaker 5: that the other guys like it.

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Speaker 4: Well, That's why I thought that George Harrison and I

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Speaker 4: had such a good bond because we both played similar

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Speaker 4: roles in our groups. You know, we were both the younger.

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Speaker 4: You know, we were both facing strong, powerful people to

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Speaker 4: work with. You know, he had to work with Leon

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Speaker 4: McCartney and I've got you Clease and Chapman and Palin

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Speaker 4: and Jones, both of which are writing. Do you so

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Speaker 4: it's harder to squeeze in when they've got two votes

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Speaker 4: and you've only got one.

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Speaker 5: Is this when you try to bring a citar into

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Speaker 5: Monty Python?

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Speaker 4: Yes, it was a good idea. Dudes are on a

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Speaker 4: sitar very nicely.

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Speaker 3: How do you feel with people coming up to you

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Speaker 3: reciting your sketches to you? I know, we spoke to

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Speaker 3: Seinfeld a number of years ago, and he always seemed

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Speaker 3: a bit narky that he said, yeah, I know I

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Speaker 3: wrote it.

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Speaker 2: So I think he liked it.

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Speaker 5: He's kind of circumspect Jerry's New York.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but how do you feel?

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Speaker 4: I think I think the trouble is it it leaves

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Speaker 4: you with unable to say anything because they've just done

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Speaker 4: this thing, and you go, yes, just have a conversation,

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Speaker 4: or I like him?

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Speaker 2: You say hello, I you know, hello, what do you do?

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Speaker 2: You know?

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Speaker 4: I mean, you have a human conversation. But if somebody

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Speaker 4: comes up and says, you know, recites an whole sketch you,

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Speaker 4: there's nothing to be said. You where do you pick

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Speaker 4: up from there?

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Speaker 2: Someone comes up very.

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Speaker 3: Rude, yeah, or someone come up and just says you're

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Speaker 3: Eric Idol, Then you're right, there's no conversation.

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Speaker 4: Is this I would saying no, I'm not at that point.

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Speaker 4: I'm Michael Palin.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's rude, so rude.

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Speaker 5: Well, Eric, it's always great to talk to you. Just

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Speaker 5: for laugh. Sydney has announced an exclusive one show only

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Speaker 5: I Say No More in Conversation with Eric Idle at

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Speaker 5: the State Theater. It's December one.

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Speaker 3: It's amazing. I can't wait.

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Speaker 2: Well, I can't wait either. I'm very looking forward to

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Speaker 2: coming to Australia. I love Australia.

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Speaker 5: And the last time we caught up with he was

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Speaker 5: like twenty sixteen and nothing's happened between then and now.

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Speaker 2: So absolutely nothing.

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Speaker 4: So next time we'll find something to talk about the

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Speaker 4: next four years.

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Speaker 3: Okay, So great to talk to you, Eric, Thank you,

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Speaker 3: thank you, thanks for having me.