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Speaker 1: Jersey and Amanda gem Nation.

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Speaker 2: Our next guest is the krem Del like crem of comedians.

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Speaker 2: John Bishop is celebrating a career milestone twenty five years

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Speaker 2: in the business. He's in Australia ahead of a string

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Speaker 2: of stand up gigs, bringing his new show Back at

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Speaker 2: It onto the stage. John High, how are you very well?

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Speaker 2: Back at It? Has it been a while since you've

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Speaker 2: been at It?

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Speaker 3: No?

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Speaker 4: You know what it is.

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Speaker 5: I end up calling it back at It because I've

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Speaker 5: had so many other things going on. I've been doing television,

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Speaker 5: doing some acting, and I was losing the stand up.

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Speaker 5: The stand up kept on being thing that I was

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Speaker 5: fitting in and it's the thing that I love the most,

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Speaker 5: and I just thought, why am I doing this? So

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Speaker 5: I've just reversed it and put the stand up as

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Speaker 5: the main thing that I do now, which is why

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Speaker 5: I came to Australia on tour in twenty fifteen. I've

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Speaker 5: not been back since.

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Speaker 1: There. You go, well, actually i've been back.

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Speaker 5: I came back in twenty sixteen doing a travel documentary,

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Speaker 5: but I haven't been on the air. And you call

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Speaker 5: here and you look at that view and think, wait, doll,

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Speaker 5: just live here.

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Speaker 2: Don't you live here?

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Speaker 5: Sure?

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Speaker 2: Why don't you?

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Speaker 5: Of course, I've got a wife, You've got two lives.

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Speaker 3: It's like it's like Keith Richards, He's got houses all

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Speaker 3: around the worlds and well, no, he's got the one wife.

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Speaker 1: But he does have in his house a selection of dogs.

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Speaker 3: And he'll have one dog in you know, the Bahamas

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Speaker 3: and one dog in England.

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Speaker 1: And so those dogs have never met each other.

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Speaker 5: They don't know that, they don't know that there's another dog.

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Speaker 5: Could you do that with wives?

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Speaker 2: I think I think the Internet has made.

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Speaker 1: It hard, Yes, a damn internet.

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Speaker 3: I like the story of you how you got into

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Speaker 3: stand up comedy because I had a similar thing. And

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Speaker 3: I was just saying this before, How I got into radio?

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Speaker 3: Well I was doing radio already, but I was just

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Speaker 3: one of those DJs. Didn't say anything other than twenty

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Speaker 3: six degrees.

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Speaker 1: He is Nickelback.

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Speaker 3: And then one night I started doing Open Mike back

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Speaker 3: in the early two thousands, and I'm so addictive.

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Speaker 1: And I put my name down at the thing, and

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Speaker 1: this is like you you put.

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Speaker 2: Your name stumbled into it, didn't you?

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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, No. I had no intention of

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Speaker 5: doing being a stand up comedian I am. I was

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Speaker 5: thirty four coming up to thirty five, and I was

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Speaker 5: basically the best. I've been to two comedy clubs in

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Speaker 5: my whole life. And I was looking for something to

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Speaker 5: do on a Monday night because I'd split up with

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Speaker 5: my wife, so when I had the kids every weekend,

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Speaker 5: so Monday was the day where i'd give them back.

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Speaker 5: And it was horrible giving your kids back and not

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Speaker 5: going to see them. So I just did what you're

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Speaker 5: doing when you're a bloke, and I just started drinking

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Speaker 5: on a Monday, and I thought, I've got to stop

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Speaker 5: doing that. I need something to do on a Monday night.

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Speaker 5: And I literally ran out of options because all of

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Speaker 5: my mates are just blokes, so you can't go and

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Speaker 5: talk to them about your impending divorce because they're not

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Speaker 5: really that interested to go. Do you want to gain

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Speaker 5: a dart?

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Speaker 1: You know what I mean?

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Speaker 5: They weren't really supposed So I'm just looking for something

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Speaker 5: to do. And I literally stumbled into a comedy club

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Speaker 5: and then and when I when I when I arrived,

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Speaker 5: the guy said it's four pounds to get in unless

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Speaker 5: you put your name down, and I said, we'll put

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Speaker 5: my name down for what he said it's an open mic. Now,

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Speaker 5: I actually didn't even know what that meant. I said,

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Speaker 5: what's that means? He said, that means you can get up.

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Speaker 5: And I because I've been to two comedy clubs that

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Speaker 5: had always been full, I assumed it's going to be full.

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Speaker 5: I assumed there be two hundred people in. I assume

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Speaker 5: that can put my name down and never get called out.

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Speaker 5: And I was getting divorced, so I thought, well, that's

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Speaker 5: four pounds she's not getting, so put me name down.

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Speaker 5: And I got called I got Literally my life would

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Speaker 5: be so different within a window of ten minutes because

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Speaker 5: I got called out. Second, if I'd have been called

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Speaker 5: out third, I might have left, because.

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Speaker 1: You know what open mike nights are like.

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Speaker 5: Yes, oh, I mean the first before he was just

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Speaker 5: doing chicken impressions and there was only seven people in there.

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Speaker 1: There was only seven people.

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Speaker 5: Five had put the name down, and the first guy

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Speaker 5: was just out stage your ma, and I was saying.

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Speaker 2: Must have had some material, you must have had some

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Speaker 2: stuff to say.

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Speaker 1: No, And this is genuinely the truth.

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Speaker 5: And I've said the story a lot of times because

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Speaker 5: it's just the way it happened. I didn't know I

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Speaker 5: didn't know the rules. I didn't know like the light

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Speaker 5: flashed when you're supposed to get off. I remember being

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Speaker 5: on stage and the light flashed and I'm all, your

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Speaker 5: lights broke, and and what happened There was a It

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Speaker 5: was just at the time that I don't know if

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Speaker 5: it was reported here, but the French farmers were you know,

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Speaker 5: I said, it's twenty five years ago, but the French

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Speaker 5: farmers were blocking the border by man and hay bales,

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Speaker 5: and so English lorry drivers were stuck at the boarder.

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Speaker 1: Saying I can't get home.

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Speaker 3: I can't get home.

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Speaker 5: So I went on stage, I mean name got called

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Speaker 5: out and I remember walking on stage thing what am

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Speaker 5: I doing here? And then I thought, well, I'm not

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Speaker 5: going to lose because there's only seven people here. I'm

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Speaker 5: only going to go back to the MLF. So there's

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Speaker 5: only seven people, and one of them thinks he's a chicken.

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Speaker 1: I'll just I just and.

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Speaker 5: I just said, oh, you see, the French farmers blocking

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Speaker 5: the borders wouldn't have been handy if dude had done

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Speaker 5: that in nineteen thirty nine.

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Speaker 4: That was my first line.

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Speaker 5: And then and then I had no notice to say,

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Speaker 5: and I just went I'm only here because and get divorced.

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Speaker 5: And I just started talking about get divorced, and I

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Speaker 5: literally I was meant to do I think seven minutes

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Speaker 5: and I didn't know, so I did about twenty five.

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Speaker 1: And he's just like, I.

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Speaker 5: Remember you know that Pearl and de music.

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Speaker 4: He played that to get me off right, and I

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Speaker 4: when I rolled off, I was so lucky because the

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Speaker 4: guy who was the compare was a professional comic call

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Speaker 4: Mickferry was brilliant and he said, if you've ever done

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Speaker 4: this before and I said no.

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Speaker 5: And the fella who's running the club, so look here

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Speaker 5: every Monday, there's some funny bit. He said the bit

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Speaker 5: wh he started to talk about divorce and started crying.

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Speaker 5: He said, don't do that. Come next week and say

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Speaker 5: some jokes. And I literally did it for something to

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Speaker 5: do on Monday, and look at you and it became therapy.

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Speaker 3: Look at you've noticed, but it is I would I

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Speaker 3: would recommend anyone to give it a go and open mic,

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Speaker 3: not because I never know. And like when I put

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Speaker 3: my name down, it took weeks before I got up,

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Speaker 3: so I was the opposite to you. I put my

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Speaker 3: name down and there was an old guy that used

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Speaker 3: to play a squeeze box at Old Accordion and he

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Speaker 3: get up every week and I go, come on, surely

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Speaker 3: I'm better than this guy.

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Speaker 1: And then by the end the first time I went up,

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Speaker 3: Expecting it because I put my name down as Brendan

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Speaker 3: Brendan Jones, and my opening bit was that under the

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Speaker 3: actually my name's Brendan Jones, but my pen ran out

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Speaker 3: and then that's just the you know, the warm the

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Speaker 3: people up. And then all of a sudden my name

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Speaker 3: got called out. And it's so scary but so satisfying.

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Speaker 5: But when you said the change staving in for you,

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Speaker 5: did that mean you want to be this type.

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Speaker 3: Of the Yeah, definitely, because in those days of radio,

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Speaker 3: I used to work at the rock station here and

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Speaker 3: you didn't say anything about your life.

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Speaker 1: You weren't allowed to talk.

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Speaker 3: You'd say, there's nickelback coming up, more nickelback, and how

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Speaker 3: was the breakfast crew this morning?

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Speaker 2: What do you tell us about how your stand up

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Speaker 2: career kind of don't mean to say ended, but ended.

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Speaker 3: Well, my last gig, so all I wanted to do

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Speaker 3: was get paid for it, and one night they said,

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Speaker 1: It's happening for you. You've got fifty dollars, and I went,

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Speaker 1: this is it.

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Speaker 3: I'm gone from open mic. So I did it for

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Speaker 3: two years, and then that night just happened to be

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Speaker 3: September eleven. Oh no, oh no, and I missed the

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Speaker 3: whole September eleven.

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Speaker 1: I did the show and I killed. It was a

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Speaker 1: great night and.

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Speaker 3: I I was heading home and the next morning will change.

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Speaker 3: I thought, We're all going to war. I'm not gonna

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Speaker 3: have a job. We're all going I'm going to start.

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Speaker 3: I gonna have to go into the trenches. Do you

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Speaker 3: like remember it?

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Speaker 1: But oh no, I was.

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Speaker 5: I remember that because I was working for a pharmaceustical

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Speaker 5: company at the same I was a sales and marks

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Speaker 5: and direct and so I was having a sales meeting

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Speaker 5: when that happened. And that's why this this stand up

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Speaker 5: was so, I don't know, a big leap because I

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Speaker 5: had a good job, so I never thought I'd ever

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Speaker 5: do it as a job, and that's why I did

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Speaker 5: it for six years and kept me me normal job,

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Speaker 5: which was bunkers. They used to be responsible for the

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Speaker 5: drug to stop people rejecting their organs after the transplantation,

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Speaker 5: which is not funny at all.

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Speaker 2: Did you find were you able to turn that into

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Speaker 2: any material at all?

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Speaker 5: Absolutely not. I'd be aware sometimes I go to the operations.

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Speaker 5: I'd be at work, wats you alive? Kidney transplant and

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Speaker 5: be doing it like, hey, what a kidney's like?

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Speaker 1: There you go. It's great to see you.

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Speaker 3: Get tickets now to see John Bishop live a ticket master.

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Speaker 1: Literally, there's no.

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Speaker 5: Reason for me to be I'm not promoting anything.

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Speaker 1: I just wanted to see you two and.

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Speaker 4: Look at the view.

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Speaker 2: Get a chance to see John, please and please.

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Speaker 5: What I will be doing is I want to come back.

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Speaker 5: I want to come to Australia much more often. So

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Speaker 5: I'm promoting the tour that I have in you put

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Speaker 5: on and John riding.

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Speaker 3: He's riding around a fair city on a motor sox,

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Speaker 3: so please don't kill him and.

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Speaker 2: We'll have a radio competition to find your local wife.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I've cooled down a

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Speaker 1: John, thank you, thank you,