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Speaker 1: Sign for another Fringe Festival act with Clazy and Lisa.

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Speaker 1: Fringe continues. You can catch Australia's Funniest Lawyers at Lenot's

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Speaker 1: Lounge in Northbridge from the eleventh to the sixteenth of February.

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Speaker 1: Tickets are available through fringeworld dot com dot AU. One

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Speaker 1: of those lawyers is Nathan Chin. He's joining us.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, I mean, guys, how's it going good?

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Speaker 1: So, Nathan, are you a practicing lawyer?

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Speaker 2: Not anymore? Some of them went to my show?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, my career wouldn't past very long, might not get

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Speaker 3: to the clients.

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Speaker 1: Well, tell us how the show works. You've got four

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Speaker 1: lawyers turn comedians, not an uncommon switch of careers I've

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Speaker 1: noticed over many years. And you all performs, I know,

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Speaker 1: I know.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So basically, yeah, it's a bunch of us. We've

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Speaker 2: gone together. A lot of people were doing our own

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Speaker 2: solo fine show as well, so this is a bit

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Speaker 2: of an opportunity to fly for that as well. You get,

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Speaker 2: you know, a bit of a short ten to fifteen

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Speaker 2: minute taste of their set, you know, but it's obviously

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Speaker 2: also tailored to a law crowd, a corporate crowd. But

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Speaker 2: obviously you know, if you enjoy witty political that style

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Speaker 2: of humor anyway, then like I think it's is for everyone.

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Speaker 2: It's not just for lawyers.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, gotcha and Nason. When I got divorced about twenty

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Speaker 3: years ago, I saw the billing the way my divorce

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Speaker 3: lawyer builed me, and I thought that was a bit

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Speaker 3: of a comedy. Do you cover any of that kind

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Speaker 3: of stuff because people are very critically the cost of lawyers?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely. I mean were you charged more than the

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Speaker 2: actual divorce settlement? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I've never talked so fast in a phone call in

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Speaker 1: my life.

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Speaker 3: One phone call forty five dollars.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean if I was on the if I

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Speaker 2: was back at my job now, I think this would

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Speaker 2: cost five hundred bucks as well.

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Speaker 3: Yes, you're right, lucky, Yeah, we got you.

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Speaker 1: Sure. Why do you think so many lawyers and it

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Speaker 1: often happens while they're still in UNI turned to comedy

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Speaker 1: the similarities.

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Speaker 3: It's all performance, isn't it. Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Probably it's firstly, maybe a bit of the it's where

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Speaker 2: all the smart asses go, especially in Australia, I reckon.

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Speaker 2: I don't know, maybe the narcissism, maybe just the constant

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Speaker 2: need to like talk, you know, justify things, justify your

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Speaker 2: whole existence, you know, because we work by the billable minute. Yeah, basically,

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Speaker 2: so every single second, you know, yeah, we can charge.

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Speaker 2: So I think it's a very common over the lack

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Speaker 2: of skills.

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Speaker 1: I've asked a few people that question, and I think

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Speaker 1: it's where the smart asses go. Is the best answers.

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Speaker 2: Heard.

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Speaker 1: I don't need to ask that question ever.

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Speaker 3: Again, funny nothing you say that because I did dry

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Speaker 3: duty last year. We've got cut short in the end.

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Speaker 3: But one of the lawyers in there, he was a

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Speaker 3: real smart ass, and I was I'm not thinking should

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Speaker 3: I be talking like that? You spot on?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Did it make you like him or her?

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Speaker 3: Because it wasn't that clever with it. It was just

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Speaker 3: like school Yardie, you know. I didn't not like him

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Speaker 3: at all.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's yeah, it's funny. It seems to

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Speaker 2: be more of an Australian thing as well. You don't

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Speaker 2: really see the lawyer comedian that comment in the UK

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Speaker 2: or the US, so I think it's a bit of

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Speaker 2: an interesting phenomena. Maybe we all watched Dennis Denudo in

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Speaker 2: the Castle.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Jeri Mora, is that Yes, Yes, that was pretretty amazing.

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Speaker 1: Will you be accepting legal advice questions from the crowds.

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Speaker 2: I mean, we'll see. I mean we'll do a crowd work.

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Speaker 2: We're not afraid to any anyone. But yeah, we can't

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Speaker 2: be charged. That's that's an important part.

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Speaker 3: How do you go with hecklers? Mate? Because you're all

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Speaker 3: all four of you, you're all pretty quick on your there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think, I mean you'll have to come and

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Speaker 2: see for yourself, but I think, yeah, I think we

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Speaker 2: do okay. But yeah, it's a mix of everything, so

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Speaker 2: there'll be an interactive part. We love to hear about

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Speaker 2: what people do. You know, hear the reasons people give

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Speaker 2: for wanting to do law and picking the professions they choose.

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Speaker 2: You know, I think you hear a lot of you know,

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Speaker 2: crap made up reasons that I think it's funny to

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Speaker 2: pick a part. You know, people think they're changing the

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Speaker 2: world when they're just making corporations a lot more money.

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Speaker 1: So lawyers and comedians handle hecklers in a very similar manner.

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Speaker 3: Really yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Oh well, well, my learned friend, we will catch

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Speaker 1: you and the rest of your lot at Lenott's Lounge

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Speaker 1: in North Bridge from February eleven to sixteen. Tickets are

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Speaker 1: available through Fringe world dot com dot are you Thanks

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Speaker 1: for chatting Nathan, Thanks so much, guys,