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Speaker 1: Nazim Hussein is coming in May for the you paid

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Speaker 1: for This tour. He's going to be at the Regal

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Speaker 1: on the fifteenth and the sixteenth. Tickets are available through

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Speaker 1: ticket Taking. Azem's with us now, good morning.

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Speaker 2: Good morning morning.

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Speaker 1: Now is it you paid for this or you or

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Speaker 1: you paid for this? I'm thinking there's no question this.

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Speaker 3: Or you paid for this.

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Speaker 1: It's all in the delivery.

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Speaker 3: So what is it doesn't matter.

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Speaker 2: I think it's almost like a legal disclaimer, you know.

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Speaker 2: So it's sort of sort of like preempts any heckling,

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Speaker 2: any refund or quests. I hope people don't look into

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Speaker 2: the law around refund you know, because because hopefully it

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Speaker 2: just discourages people from going.

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Speaker 1: It's a disclaimer.

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Speaker 2: Dotcha. My friends are like you, You're not a bad comedian.

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Speaker 2: Why are you so worried about it. I'm a dad

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Speaker 2: of three now I need every dollar to go. Like

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Speaker 2: this is just a this economy is not sustaining itself

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Speaker 2: at home, you know, Like I don't know how anyone

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Speaker 2: survives or gets anything done with three kids. You know,

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Speaker 2: I've got a three month old now, and you know,

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Speaker 2: it's just it's just like I'm currently in the car

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Speaker 2: doing this interview and you know, you know I've been

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Speaker 2: I've been in the car all day. You're doing an interviews.

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Speaker 3: That's your escape, it's your escape room. You mentioned having

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Speaker 3: the kids, you know, in this role of a lifetime.

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Speaker 3: This has been a great one that's got so much attention.

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Speaker 3: On speaking of the ABC Parenting Doctor series, got a

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Speaker 3: lot of people talking.

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Speaker 2: Oh, it's you know, it's when it was described to me,

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Speaker 2: it was it was kind of difficult time to sound

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Speaker 2: and that you like us. I love the sound of it.

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Speaker 2: I completely understand the concept, but it wasn't until I

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Speaker 2: saw on air that I was like, wow, this has

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Speaker 2: all come together really well. It's sort of like a

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Speaker 2: comedy factual show, but parenty cap riches in there and

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Speaker 2: now people, you know, stop me on the street and

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Speaker 2: genuinely asking me for parenting advice, thinking I'm some sort

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Speaker 2: of authority and I don't correct them, you know, I'm

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Speaker 2: out there just giving advice. But no, it was, it was.

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Speaker 2: It was a great experience. Like Katie is such a

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Speaker 2: brilliant actress that she you know, there were times she

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Speaker 2: was playing my wife and you know, I'm the dad.

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Speaker 2: She's mum and a couple of kids, and you know,

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Speaker 2: in scenes, you know, would be sharing moments where we're

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Speaker 2: supposed to act like husband mine and I've been looking

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Speaker 2: in love with me, you know, and then yeah, and

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Speaker 2: then you just switched back off, and I was like, oh,

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Speaker 1: I always think that the best way of conveying serious

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Speaker 1: information is through something that's a bit funny.

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Speaker 2: Well, absolutely, if you can make kids laugh generally don't

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Speaker 2: really you know, you're going to get some sort of

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Speaker 2: thing works for adults. Yes, you get people laughing. I

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Speaker 2: might not agree with you, but at least they're kind

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Speaker 2: of they're listening, they're computing what he's been said, and

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Speaker 2: I might do something in their brain.

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: For me, it's make the career on laugh.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Well you're teaching as well, So there you go,

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Speaker 1: and you learn.

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Speaker 3: And did you learn an him from the show that

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Speaker 2: The thing is like, it's most of the show is

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Speaker 2: you know, faking their own death for tax purposes. Different

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Speaker 2: my own death, or she would say. I remember, like

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Speaker 2: one time with bullying, you know, like where you know,

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Speaker 2: the advice out of the show gives us great advice,

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Speaker 2: but it is it is all center around staying calm,

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Speaker 2: finding out some information supporting that was not like my

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Speaker 2: One week late Friday, afternoon, school finished and I walked

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Speaker 1: And he also learned that a car is not just

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Speaker 1: for driving, it's also for protection.

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Speaker 2: Something to be experienced.

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Speaker 1: Tell us about because this is fascinating. This is a

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Speaker 1: very very big name, Dave Chappelle open opening for Dave Chappelle.

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Speaker 2: Crowd like, oh, the crowd were absolutely hyped, like so

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Speaker 2: much to open him around Australia and T thirteen. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: and it was, you know, that was a dream when

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Speaker 2: I first met him, you know, I was. It was

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Speaker 2: actually go, hey, Dave, this is Zim's really excited to

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Speaker 2: But like four years later in New York City, I

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Speaker 2: I saw it, saw me. He remembered my name here,

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Speaker 2: he remembered all the things that I've been up to,

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Speaker 3: At least Dave Chappelle didn't then think you were just

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Speaker 1: The end of the two hour age, you worked up

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Speaker 2: Hey. Well, like I was hanging out there afterwards with

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Speaker 2: the alf party like Bradley Coopuls there. I was talking

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Speaker 2: He goes, hey, everyone, this is NAS. Every time I

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Speaker 2: me and it's only come up. But he was very

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Speaker 1: That's very cool.

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Speaker 3: It's a tough game you're in. Were not in comedy,

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Speaker 3: but I was, like I've told Lisa before, I was

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Speaker 3: When they're practicing. They're working the jokes in a very

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Speaker 3: there for about an hour and he's working the jokes.

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Speaker 3: But I turn around and there's a group and a

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Speaker 3: and those people work it looking out of it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and at least if you're if you've got joke writers,

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Speaker 2: if a joke doesn't work and just blame one of

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well that's that's what Helen was doing.

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Speaker 2: Well. They make the room really cold as well, so

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Speaker 2: apparently the encourages laughter if two warms while people sit back.

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Speaker 3: I don't want people getting sleepy.

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Speaker 2: One room at them. Yeah. The Melbourne Town Hall has

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Speaker 2: this one room called the Council Chambers, which looks beautiful

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Speaker 2: and it's real comfortable where they have council you know,

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Speaker 2: for comedy. People just get relaxed and so comedian will

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Speaker 2: come up with their best jokes and they will four

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Speaker 2: and it'll be bad for performer and audience because they're like,

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Speaker 2: why is anybody laughing? There's no vibe and they're just

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Speaker 2: I'm looking for joke riders if anyone subject you know, women, what.

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Speaker 1: We are looking forward to seeing. You paid for this

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Speaker 1: at the Regal in a climate controlled venue because because

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Speaker 1: you are confident in your content material, your.

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Speaker 2: Material prepared, yeah and ready to go.

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Speaker 1: And of course if you call Nazim you will get

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Speaker 1: a recorded message from David saying, hey, you've called Nars.

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Speaker 1: Tickets tickets are ticket lovely to catch up with you

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Speaker 1: nars

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Speaker 3: Please please tell us the next two is called Life

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Speaker 3: from My Car, See you in My