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Speaker 1: A bit of a treaty here on a Friday morning list.

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Speaker 2: Do you have a very very favorite Monty Python moment.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to bring up with Eric Idle is something

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Speaker 1: that happened post Monty Python, and it is to do

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Speaker 1: with lumberjacks and a beatle that I'm going to be

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Speaker 1: talking about, So it's not necessarily from a movie.

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Speaker 2: Your favorite Munty Python moment? To answer my question, which

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Speaker 2: you did not know, we wouldn't be are you saying

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Speaker 2: it's I'm a lumberjack and I'm okay, work all night? Absolutely,

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Speaker 2: get parrots sketch for me love?

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Speaker 1: Really? There you go.

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Speaker 2: Well, all of that I expect will be discussed at

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Speaker 2: the Perth Concert Hall on Monday, the eighteenth of November,

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Speaker 2: But only those who've managed to secure tickets to the

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Speaker 2: very very very sold out show will know. Always look

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Speaker 2: on the bright side of life live, Eric Idol, I

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Speaker 2: know that.

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Speaker 1: Giggle.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much for joining us this morning.

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Speaker 3: Eric, You're very welcome. It's nice to say hello to Perth.

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Speaker 2: It's nice to say hello to Eric Idle. Will we

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Speaker 2: hear about at the show? Will we hear about Monty

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Speaker 2: Python Shenanigans?

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Speaker 3: What's Shenanigans. I thought it was going a kind of

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Speaker 3: Irish dance sounds. Doesn't use them. They of course, nothing

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Speaker 3: but trouble. You know, we had to move them.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, hey, Eric, my wife about all sorts of things. Really,

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Speaker 1: I was good. Yeah, that's what we want, that's what

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Speaker 1: the fans want. Actually, what do the fans talk to

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Speaker 1: you most about? When you bump into them or you

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Speaker 1: see them after shows and they like Eric, they want

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Speaker 3: I don't really know, to be honest, I mean they

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Speaker 3: I always try, and you know, just ask them their

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Speaker 3: name and where they're from, and make sure that we

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Speaker 3: have a human contact rather than a sort of pam

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Speaker 3: legend contact, because there's very little to say when people

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Speaker 3: say you're a legend. You go, no, I'm not a

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Speaker 3: married man. No married man is a legend, not in

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Speaker 3: his own lunchtime anyway.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I'm sure they quite often lost the words.

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Speaker 1: That's the thing. When you may tell him that you

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Speaker 1: idolized that as way, I guess so.

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Speaker 3: I mean I always found that when I found somebody

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Speaker 3: hello you you know, yes, well, most of those people

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Speaker 3: have died now, so at anybody.

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Speaker 2: How did you meet the other members of Monday Python.

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Speaker 2: How did it all come together?

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Speaker 3: Well, oddly, I met John Cleese sixty one years ago.

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Speaker 3: I was married sixty two years ago. I was nineteen

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Speaker 3: and it was at Pembroke College, Cambridge. I was actually

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Speaker 3: performing a sketch he'd written, and then he was there

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Speaker 3: to watching me do it, and he said, join the footlights.

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Speaker 3: And I went to the end of festival and there

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Speaker 3: I met Michael Palin and Terry Jones. Wow. And then

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Speaker 3: I met Graham Chapman, who was you know, he was

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Speaker 3: in London and he was at the same guy's hospital qualifying,

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Speaker 3: find alcoholic. You're working hard on it, right, Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 3: he got a degree in it.

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Speaker 3: The doctors, doctors, you know, I'm mad they are. Yes,

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Speaker 3: we've met six years, six years. We've met six years

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Speaker 3: before we actually did pint.

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Speaker 2: Yes, you know, they say, fine, do something that you

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Speaker 2: love and you'll never work a day in your life. That,

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Speaker 2: I mean, nothing could apply more surely to being a

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Speaker 2: how much you laughed on a daily basis.

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Speaker 3: There was a lot of laughter. There was a lot

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Speaker 3: of laughter, but you know, it's also interesting hard work.

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Speaker 1: If you see what you were going, I guess, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 3: I think PA's funny. Yeah, it's fun It.

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Speaker 3: No? No, I think the fish snapping dance is very silly.

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Speaker 3: we first did it, right, And then only when we

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Speaker 3: we've done it for this May Day celebration, a tradition.

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Speaker 3: We paid sure said it was a tradition, the fish

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, maybe more so than break dancing, which we're

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Speaker 1: seeing now.

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Speaker 3: Eric Sports.

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Speaker 2: Slept with the trout, so so good.

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Speaker 1: Than that. Speaking of the Olympics, the London Olympics, how

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Speaker 3: The city I was singing at the Olympics was the

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Speaker 3: Olympic Games.

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Speaker 3: Fairly incredible and also a bit scary. You know, you

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Speaker 3: but you've got to make sure. I was singing live.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's quite I reckon, it's such an honor. Can

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Speaker 2: Life was green lit by the movie studio? But eventually,

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Speaker 2: after you wrote them a poem.

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Speaker 3: That's right, they wanted to see the script and he said,

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Speaker 3: And they took that argument, and so I wrote them

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Speaker 3: a very rude poem and we gave them a budget

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Speaker 3: and they green lit the movie on that, which is

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Speaker 3: that was very brave. He said, not at all. He said,

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Speaker 1: We're talking about innocent times, pre internet, phone cameras and

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Speaker 1: were very different times. How do you see it now?

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Speaker 1: When you walk on stage, do you get concerned about

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Speaker 1: upsetting people? Erica? You just get out there and do

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Speaker 3: I like entertaining people. I keep one hand in, you know,

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Speaker 3: make them laugh. And it's interesting because they tell you

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Speaker 3: what's funny. You don't tell them what's fun You propose

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Speaker 3: something is funny, and if they laugh, they agree with you.

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Speaker 3: If they don't, you should leave the business.

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Speaker 2: Eric, I guess it's safe to say that one of

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Speaker 2: the brightest moments in your illustrious career was spent hanging

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Speaker 2: Do you recall how long you were up there for?

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Speaker 3: Oh? Yes, you don't forget being crucified.

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Speaker 2: You had your chance to get out any Badi's offer.

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Speaker 3: I think we were all up on the cross at

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Speaker 3: one point and there was only three labbages and people

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Speaker 3: between breaks. Want to feah over here quick, pee boy boy.

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Speaker 1: That's my best boy. That's amazing. Hey, every I walked

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Speaker 1: into my lund room the other night and your butt

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Speaker 1: my wife was watching, so sorry.

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Speaker 3: I tried to leave the room before you got in, But.

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Speaker 1: What do you mean my wife was my wife is

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Speaker 1: watching concert for George George Harrison twenty odd years ago,

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Speaker 1: and you guys were doing Lumberjack and you turned around

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Speaker 1: in there were those butt cheeks, which was no. We

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Speaker 1: were one on my face, said my face love.

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Speaker 3: We were singing it, yes, but I thought that was

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Speaker 3: you know, because they aren't. It was a concept. It

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Speaker 3: I said, you know that's not what we do. We're

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Speaker 3: why don't we do this? On my face? So good,

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Speaker 3: very very bravely, he said yes. I thought. I thought

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Speaker 3: Joyce would have loved that. I thought he would have

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Speaker 3: loved he did that. He did love you, Yes, see absolutely.

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Speaker 3: He paid for the Life of Brian.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Mortgage's house, Mortgage's business, raised the cash from the

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Speaker 3: It was not amazing. It was his last money. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: they haven't been made money, he got his go up

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Speaker 3: and back on his house back anyway.

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Speaker 1: Actually, that night backstage YouTube to Tom Hanks and said,

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Speaker 1: I think I might get a butt tuck. Did it

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Speaker 1: ever happen there?

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Speaker 3: I think it was too late.

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Speaker 2: Well, look, Eric, we're going to have to let you

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Speaker 2: go Monday the eighteenth November. For those lucky enough to

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Speaker 2: have been able to get tickets, can I just say

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Speaker 2: that no one has made me personally laugh more in

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Speaker 2: my life than you and your lot and your mob,

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Speaker 2: and continues to do so to this day. I thank

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Speaker 2: everything for Monty Python, and thank you so much for

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Speaker 2: joining us this morning.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, look forward to seeing you in perthin.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely been my pleasure. Thank you, Eric.

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Speaker 1: Thanks