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Speaker 1: Andrew Hamilton's new book, The Profound Benefits of a Stint

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Speaker 1: in Prison is in major book green tailors now and

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Speaker 1: you can also catch them at the Oasis Comedy Club

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Speaker 1: in Highgate this Thursday, the Brighton Hotel in Manager on Friday,

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Speaker 1: and Froth the craft Bunbrewery in Bumbury on Saturday. Tickets

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Speaker 1: through a list dot com dot a You and Andrews

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Speaker 1: with us now, Good morning, crazy List.

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Speaker 2: Good to chap to you guys again.

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Speaker 3: Hey, doing keeping notes.

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Speaker 2: Around the country at the moment and I'm on my

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Speaker 2: best behavior.

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Speaker 1: Now. What would you say, Andrew, is the profound benefit

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Speaker 1: of a stint in prison?

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Speaker 2: Well? For me, I think it was. It was an

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Speaker 2: existential thing, you know. I asked myself, you know, I've

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Speaker 2: made so many mistakes, so I could start my life

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Speaker 2: over again, what would I do differently? And for me,

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Speaker 2: really the answer was stand up comedy. So that's what

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Speaker 2: I got out and started doing it, and it's changed

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Speaker 2: my life. So I think there's certainly that, and also

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Speaker 2: just appreciating the simpler things, you know, because I lost

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Speaker 2: everything and then I realized I still had the love

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Speaker 2: of my family, and I had my health, and I

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Speaker 2: had my sense of humor, and that was still a lot.

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Speaker 1: We were talking about whether there were any legal hurdles

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Speaker 1: in getting a book like that out because it talks

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Speaker 1: about crime and prison and all that sort of thing.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So from my understanding from when the publisher decided

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Speaker 2: to take it on was that these books are fine

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Speaker 2: if they have cultural or artistic merits. So basically those

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Speaker 2: kind of things are restricting you from just selling your

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Speaker 2: story to a current affair or something like that. But

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Speaker 2: if you write a book and it's a story that

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Speaker 2: the public, you know, should have an interest in hearing about,

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Speaker 2: the number a case. So we're hoping that people will

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Speaker 2: find that it takes those that requirement.

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Speaker 1: Yes, how else could we expect any politician to ever

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Speaker 1: get a book out.

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Speaker 2: So it's been out for a couple of weeks now,

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Speaker 2: and yes, the things I'm loving being on the road

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Speaker 2: with it, and we've had some booksellers at a bunch

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Speaker 2: of the shows to sell the book as well, going

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Speaker 2: really well, Yes, see how.

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Speaker 3: It goes all right?

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Speaker 1: And what can we expect at your shows when you

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Speaker 1: get to town this week?

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Speaker 2: So I'm doing my show which is called Jokes about

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Speaker 2: the Time I went to prison and that was nominated

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Speaker 2: for Best Newcomer at the Melbourne Comedy.

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Speaker 3: First of all, laugh ulation, sensational.

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Speaker 2: Thank you very much. So I'm doing that show and

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Speaker 2: it's all about my time in selling psychoedelic drugs mainly

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Speaker 2: magic mushrooms, me going to prison and then discovering stand

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Speaker 2: up comedy in my life after that. So it's got

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Speaker 2: some great jokes about the very colorful rate I had

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Speaker 2: by the New South Wales Organised Crime Squad, the Raptor Squad,

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Speaker 2: and how they see on me hiding behind my bedroom

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Speaker 2: door Andrew and then that shamed me because I was

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Speaker 2: sticking out from.

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Speaker 3: Behind the doors, you know. So it's putting your toes

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Speaker 3: around that.

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Speaker 2: It rides itself really So yeah, it's a fun show

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Speaker 2: and I'm really proud of it, and it has the

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Speaker 2: thing I'm most proud about it is that at the

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Speaker 2: end I have a quite a sincium moment where I

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Speaker 2: talk about, you know why comedy is so important for

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Speaker 2: me and I think for others, because having a laugh

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Speaker 2: can really just be quite transformative and help you forget

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Speaker 2: about it. Yeah, exactly, that's what I think. For sure.

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Speaker 1: It was very well So I was going to say

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Speaker 1: it was very well received last time, so I missed

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Speaker 1: out a list. Dot com dot au is the place

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Speaker 1: to get your tickets. Have any of the former prison

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Speaker 1: mates ever shown up? Have you ever thought, oh, there's

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Speaker 1: you know such they have?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I have.

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Speaker 2: It's funny you said, I do have a lot of

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Speaker 2: people involved with a criminal justice system on both sides

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Speaker 3: A lot of ex.

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Speaker 2: Cons, a lot of cops, a lot of prison officers,

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Speaker 2: a lot of criminal lawyers, all find my humor quite relatable.

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Speaker 4: Some of those people have been all three. Isn't it funny?

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Speaker 4: And your book would have been turning it all around

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Speaker 4: because you've done beautifully, mate. But people are very curious,

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Speaker 4: so well you're signing books. What kind of weird questions

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Speaker 2: What kind of questions? I mean, I do get asked

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Speaker 2: a lot of the time whether I was doing jokes

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Speaker 2: out in the yard in jail, and the reality was

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Speaker 2: if a joke doesn't go well where it can have

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Speaker 2: quite serious consequences. Right, So I was just usually just

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Speaker 2: testing them all my cellmates. But okay, yeah, I haven't

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Speaker 2: had any kind of weak questions around the book signing

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Speaker 2: just yet by the time I touch you again, I'm

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Speaker 2: sure I have quite a fit.

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Speaker 3: Ye yeah, because I imagine that stock standard what's it liking?

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Speaker 3: There would be would.

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Speaker 2: Pop up every now and then, I think, because it's

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Speaker 2: all in the show, you know, books after I've done

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Speaker 2: a show. But I did have I didn't have a

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Speaker 2: heckler the other night that was in front of yell

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Speaker 2: out all kinds of stuff. But I don't have heckloes

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Speaker 2: at the show because usually when I reisen, people just

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Speaker 2: shut up and listens.

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Speaker 3: And you have a big show.

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Speaker 1: A big fan of a lot of those shows on Telly,

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Speaker 1: like sixty Days In and all the you know, the

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Speaker 1: real go behind the you know the scenes of the

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Speaker 1: jail life thing. And the one thing that they always

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Speaker 1: complain about is the food. And on those American jail

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Speaker 1: shows it does look pretty unsavory.

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Speaker 3: What is the food like in an Australian jail?

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Speaker 2: So, because I was so bored, particularly during the first

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Speaker 2: two weeks when I was locked up during COVID quarantine

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Speaker 2: and Sydney, so I was sucking myself at twenty three

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Speaker 2: my mind active, I started writing prison food reviews of

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Speaker 2: all my lunch units and scoring them out of ten

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Speaker 2: on like an adjusted prison scale. So at the end

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Speaker 2: of every chapter of my book is one of my

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Speaker 2: food reviews. And I found that most of the time,

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Speaker 2: guys in jail can be a bunch of wines. I

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Speaker 2: found most of the food was about a five and

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Speaker 2: a half to six out of ten, which is I

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Speaker 2: think pretty good for jail.

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Speaker 4: Really yeah, yeah, because people complained about airline and hospital food, but.

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Speaker 3: Exactly right, well, good good to man.

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Speaker 1: Not that that means that, you know, people should be

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Speaker 3: Line. The food is better than what we hear.

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Speaker 4: At least is not line. My she watches all these shows.

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Speaker 4: What's that one, Love after lock Up? What that one was?

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Speaker 3: Love after lock Up? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: I actually didn't have a girl. I did have a

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Speaker 2: girl at one of my shows. I was on bail

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Speaker 2: after she could write me when I went back to prison.

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Speaker 2: And then when I got sentenced and I wasn't going back,

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Speaker 2: my messaged her. I'm like, hey, you don't have to

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Speaker 2: write me. We can hang out, and she was like,

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Speaker 2: oh no, no thanks. She was not interested if I

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Speaker 2: was going back.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and do the ladies love a convict because we know,

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Speaker 1: we know where you are.

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Speaker 3: And he's on his way to town.

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Speaker 1: This week Oasis Comedy Club in Highgate on Thursday, the

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Speaker 1: Brighton Hotel in Manager on Friday, and froth Craft in

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Speaker 1: Bumbury on Saturday.

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Speaker 3: As I said, tickets through our list dot

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Speaker 1: Com dot are you Thanks for chatting to us, Good

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Speaker 1: to catch up guys, Bye bye