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Speaker 1: This is jem Nation with Jonesy.

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Speaker 2: Our next guest is one of Australia's funniest comedians and

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Speaker 2: she's one of our favorite people. In twenty twenty, she

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Speaker 2: released Overwhelmed and Dying, a podcast that's unusual title for

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Speaker 2: a comedian. Well, now she's back with the sequel, Overwhelmed

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Speaker 2: and Living, which sounds more promising. Jude to Lucy, Hello, Hello,

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Speaker 2: delightful to be here, and yeah, you know what I want.

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Speaker 2: Overwhelmed and Living to sound optimistic, and yet it's about

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Speaker 2: climate change, and so I know already.

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Speaker 1: People are going that's going to be hilarious.

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Speaker 2: But if I know you, you've made it funny.

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Speaker 1: Well, I've certainly tried to do that, Amanda.

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Speaker 3: I talk a lot about my own idiocy when it

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Speaker 3: comes to climate change, and then I go off and

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Speaker 3: I do things like, you know, try and live in

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Speaker 3: a tiny house with my with my new partner, which

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Speaker 3: was which was quite confronting. I don't know if you've

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Speaker 3: spent much time at a tiny I can't do it.

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Speaker 2: The thought of it. I'm a hoarder. I couldn't do it.

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Speaker 3: Well, you have to make yourself the size of a weavil. Obviously,

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Speaker 3: which makes the whole thing very difficult. But we'd never

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Speaker 3: gone away together and so I'm sort of trying to

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Speaker 3: dress it up as this is going to be quite romantic,

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Speaker 3: well at the same time thinking we're going to be

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Speaker 3: living in something the size of a coffin and it

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Speaker 3: involves a drop toilet and but you know, somehow, actually

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Speaker 3: I want to say we made it work, but did we?

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Speaker 1: In fact?

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Speaker 3: I was meant to stay there for three nights and

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Speaker 3: after two I said We've got to go home because

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Speaker 3: frankly he snored me out.

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Speaker 2: Ah And yeah, wow, a new relationship in a small

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Speaker 2: and a tiny house.

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Speaker 3: But we're still together, but we're still taking good Look.

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Speaker 3: It's I mean, of course, because as we as we

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Speaker 3: all know, I exploit every single part of my private life.

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Speaker 3: So there's a fair bit of that in the show.

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Speaker 3: But we also interview a lot of amazing people and

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Speaker 3: you know what, it's kind of an entertaining take and

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Speaker 3: gives you lots of advice about stuff you can do

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Speaker 3: as an individual and in your area and if you

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Speaker 3: want it. Look, I went on an extinction rebellion protest.

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Speaker 3: I got out there, who are those people?

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Speaker 1: Extinction rebellions? Which ones.

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Speaker 4: Are they the rebellion against extinction?

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Speaker 2: But I mean which, which are they? Nutbags or good people?

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Speaker 3: Well, you know, I'm to you that there are nutbags

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Speaker 3: and good people wherever you turn, But.

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Speaker 2: Which ones in particular? Of these I've heard the name,

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Speaker 2: and I think I've seen the.

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Speaker 4: Climate change activists.

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Speaker 2: Activists against the activists for climate change.

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Speaker 4: No, there's not activists against.

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Speaker 2: But these aren't people who are against vaccines and stuff?

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Speaker 2: Are they?

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Speaker 1: No good? Would I go and do it? Anti?

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Speaker 2: Well that's what I was wondering, Whether you've gone into

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Speaker 2: an enemy camp Heaven's sake.

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Speaker 3: No, they just you know, they do all sorts of

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Speaker 3: different kinds of protesting. And the protesting I went on

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Speaker 3: was it's they're called the civils of just Obedience. And

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Speaker 3: we dressed up in these amazing costumes and we hang

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Speaker 3: outside the MNGV in Melbourne and we did a lot

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Speaker 3: of sort of slow tide she movements while wearing signs

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Speaker 3: that said stop native logging, Native forest logging.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, anyway, look it was.

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Speaker 3: It was fascinating and a lot of people looked at

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Speaker 3: me like I was completely.

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Speaker 1: Out of my mind. But you know what the crazy

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Speaker 1: thing was at the end of it. I felt better.

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Speaker 1: That's what it is.

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Speaker 2: There's a worldview about it, but you can only well,

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Speaker 2: there's more things you can do, but starting with your

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Speaker 2: own life. It's like people who go to the football

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Speaker 2: and call out go bombers about that loud and it

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Speaker 2: doesn't matter. That's how you're expressing yourself and you're taking

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Speaker 2: part in a bigger story.

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Speaker 3: Well, I think the takeaway is if you're feel and

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Speaker 3: freaked out about climate change, just do something. Action is

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Speaker 3: a great way of dealing with anxiety. So we kind

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Speaker 3: of deal with everything. Like I've got Simon Twey, who

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Speaker 3: is a fantastic Masters Chef Grand finalist. He comes to

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Speaker 3: my place and you know, cook some great Vegearian food.

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Speaker 3: I go and plant some shrubs in my local bay

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Speaker 3: area to do a bit of revegitating it's all happening.

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Speaker 3: There's something And of course on a much more personal level, well,

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Speaker 3: during lockdown, I just from the neck down, I let

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Speaker 3: all my body hair go. And you know, it was

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Speaker 3: a jungle Amanda Amazon rainforest, so I was actually storing carbon.

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Speaker 3: I was doing my bit for the environment right there.

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Speaker 3: It was actually terrifying. Honestly, if you've seen my arm pits.

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you what.

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Speaker 3: If I've stuck a beanie and a couple of googly

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Speaker 3: eyes down me, you would have thought I was holding

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Speaker 3: a couple of bed at Hipster's hostage.

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Speaker 1: But anyway, it was a trying time.

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Speaker 4: Did so with your new romantic partner?

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Speaker 2: Though?

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Speaker 4: Is he into this?

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Speaker 1: Into what into into?

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Speaker 3: He's a gorilla, I'm actually going out with a he's

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Speaker 3: he's I Look, you know what.

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to talk about.

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Speaker 4: I'll come on, come on.

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Speaker 2: I think what Jonesy wants to know is does he

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Speaker 2: mind that you have body?

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Speaker 4: Mind that you you're hairy?

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Speaker 3: But of course he doesn't because he's fifty nine and

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Speaker 3: he's in love with.

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Speaker 1: Your mind and he's in love with you.

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Speaker 3: And I feel like jen X, we were a hairyer generation,

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Speaker 3: you know. I mean, I've never understood. Look, I'm just

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Speaker 3: going to say that. I asked a young woman only

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Speaker 3: the other day. I said, you know, of course she

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Speaker 3: gets rid of it all downstairs. And I said, but

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Speaker 3: why do you get rid of it all? And she

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Speaker 3: said because it gets in the way. And look, I

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Speaker 3: don't know about you, but I've never been in the

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Speaker 3: middle of having sex and had.

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Speaker 1: To yell out, or heard them yell out. I just

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Speaker 1: can't get thrown.

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Speaker 2: It's a history of evolution. Everyone's always got through.

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Speaker 4: Was running a lathe down there.

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Speaker 3: I don't look, I don't know, so I've always you

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Speaker 3: know what, In an ideal world, I would like my

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Speaker 3: downstairs to be a bit like a Stevie Nick's clip,

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Speaker 3: you know, just sort of lighting in shawls.

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Speaker 1: I'm like a bit of mystery down there.

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Speaker 2: Don't light the candles.

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Speaker 4: No candles, no candles, flammable.

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Speaker 5: Always great to talk to you, June of Lucy Overwhelmed

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Speaker 5: and living the podcast Download now on your favorite podcast app.

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Speaker 5: And I just like the idea of you being a

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Speaker 5: weavil living in an Uncle Toby's box.

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Speaker 4: That's such a simple life.

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Speaker 3: It could be the way my career is heading, Jonesy.

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Speaker 3: That could be me sooner rather than later. I could

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Speaker 3: just be a weavil living in a box. That's the

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Speaker 3: takeaway from this interview. Everyone, I'm a weavil living at the.

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Speaker 2: Title of your news show, I'm sure thanks.

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Speaker 3: For having me, guys, love, take my hairy body and

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Speaker 3: get out of here.

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Speaker 2: I can hear it rustling from here.