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Speaker 1: If at first you fail, you continue to try and

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Speaker 1: try again. We're about to talk to someone who's been trying,

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Speaker 1: well three or four times to get to wa.

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Speaker 2: Michael Schaeffer is at the Oasis Comedy Club this weekend.

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Speaker 2: He really is tickets through megatics dot com dot EU

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Speaker 2: and he's with us right now. Good morning, Michael.

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Speaker 3: I'm so excited. I can't believe it.

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Speaker 2: I hope they're not famous last words, because at this

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Speaker 2: stage you are still in Melbourne, but I think we're

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Speaker 2: pretty rock solid that you're going to be here. You

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Speaker 2: had to reschedule four times assistance.

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Speaker 3: I can't. I feel like I'm a bit concerned about,

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Speaker 3: you know, rigging it, just because a couple of years ago,

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Speaker 3: I was going to come to Perth and the borders

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Speaker 3: were open, and then I did a radio interview with

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Speaker 3: another radio station, a lesser radio station. Let's says joking,

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Speaker 3: and I was joking about how oh I can't. I'm

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Speaker 3: sure Mark mcgamm will find a reason to close the

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Speaker 3: borders me as a new variant comes through when he

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Speaker 3: closes the border. So I think I might be the

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Speaker 3: angel of death. And so if another variant comes through

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Speaker 3: in the next forty eight hours, I'll take play for

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Speaker 3: that radio in Perth. Ever again we'll call it shape

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Speaker 3: of variant, called the shape of variance. Another one comes

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Speaker 3: through that gets in the way of this show. I

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Speaker 3: think we're good though, I think we're going to be okay.

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Speaker 2: I'm I'm feeling confident. So tell tell us about the show.

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Speaker 3: Oh, it's a really fun show. I've just been doing

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Speaker 3: it around the country. A big part of the show

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Speaker 3: is about how my testicular cancer survivor and kind of my

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Speaker 3: journey going through that and losing a test sicle, and

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Speaker 3: some of the benefits of going through that experience, like

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Speaker 3: you know, finally being able to feel comfortable in skinny jeans,

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Speaker 3: which is you know, a huge benefit. Yeah, so that's

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Speaker 3: a huge part of the show talking about that experience.

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Speaker 3: I've also got this like crazy story about how I

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Speaker 3: went viral in China as the face of an anti

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Speaker 3: Zach's scandal over there, which was Yes, so now I'm

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Speaker 3: really big over in China. Someone to try and or

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Speaker 3: tee up a tour in like Shanghai and Beijing. Be

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Speaker 3: worried about you proud though, Yeah, I'm worried about your

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Speaker 3: right shann up there. Yes, it was really fun show.

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Speaker 3: I'm really excited to get over there finally do it

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Speaker 3: for the people of Pert.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, is it true? Call you're a hopeless romantic.

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Speaker 3: I wouldn't say my hopeless romantic. I did get engaged though,

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Speaker 3: a few months ago, and we we got engaged in

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Speaker 3: beautiful Adelaide, which is very nice. I got my partner

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Speaker 3: a ring, and like we've been the other for years,

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Speaker 3: so for years. My friends like, Michael, you know, you

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Speaker 3: got to got to get a ring. Gott to spend

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Speaker 3: three months salary on this ring. And I was like,

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Speaker 3: I'm a comedian, you know, I don't have like seventy

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Speaker 3: five dollars just lying around. But that's obviously a joke,

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Speaker 3: because you know, I was on job Keeper last year.

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Speaker 3: So it was fine proposed with. I did propose with

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Speaker 3: a fakering. I shouldn't. I shouldn't have put that on

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Speaker 3: social media. A fakery you guys, you guys have done

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Speaker 3: your research. I respect that. I like it, but it wasn't.

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Speaker 3: It wasn't a cheesel. That wasn't Michael. It was well,

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Speaker 3: it was just like a In fact, I got a fakering.

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Speaker 3: The wreck was rich hundred fifty dollars and I got

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Speaker 3: on discount of nine dollars and I was like, I'm

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Speaker 3: absolutely killing it here. But but and when I propose,

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Speaker 3: you know, I said, hey, this is just you know,

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Speaker 3: you can, this is just for the proposal. It's not real.

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Speaker 3: We'll get you yes, yeah, just for the day, Just

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Speaker 3: for the day. I'm hoping that she'll forget about it

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Speaker 3: and it we'll just with our lives. But yeah, Well,

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Speaker 3: we put a photo up on Instagram with her holding

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Speaker 3: up the ring and all of her friends are commenting like,

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Speaker 3: oh my god, the ring is huge. Where is it from.

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Speaker 3: I'm like, i think it's from Bangladesh. I'm pretty sure

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Speaker 3: it's definitely not real.

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Speaker 2: Look, I'm sure Travis Barker and Courtney Kardashian did the

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Speaker 2: same thing, so.

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Speaker 3: I'm sure. I mean they're famous for loving Siligan, so

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Speaker 3: I'm sure that was absolutely.

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Speaker 1: It could have been worse. I could have come from

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Speaker 1: the Royal Show Games.

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Speaker 2: You mentioned testicular cancer and we're we're very pleased that

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Speaker 2: you are through that. Just how important is it to

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Speaker 2: laugh when something like that does come into your life,

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Speaker 2: do you think, Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Well, definitely change like my perspective on things like I'm

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Speaker 3: just trying to be more present in my life now,

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Speaker 3: just enjoying what I'm doing. I'm really lucky by the

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Speaker 3: way that like health is really good good. So yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 3: I don't want audiences to come along and think like

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Speaker 3: it's going to be a ted talk or something like that. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: there's going to be some jokes. It's a fun show,

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Speaker 3: chill out, but yeah, it changes your perspective on things

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Speaker 3: and are going to make it more grateful, And you know,

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Speaker 3: it's like a big part of like what I want

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Speaker 3: to achieve this year is go out and do more

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Speaker 3: shows and travel the country more. So Yeah, I'm just

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Speaker 3: excited to be doing that. And you know, I've you

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Speaker 3: know now that kind of I've had that experience. I

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Speaker 3: just want to get the most out of what I'm doing.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, might you've been viral in China, but maybe even

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Speaker 1: on you know, with that TikTok video, you're talking about

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Speaker 1: dating apps being quite dangerous in small towns.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. I was just up in cans and I had

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Speaker 3: a really nice time performing there, but and I was

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Speaker 3: talking about like online dating and then this lady started

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Speaker 3: hair clinging about how really bad it is in Cans

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Speaker 3: because it's all she described it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so to speak, so to speak.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and so she was just like told, she just

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Speaker 3: started talking about her experiences on Tinder, and they none

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Speaker 3: of the more funny experiences. They were just like, oh,

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Speaker 3: I'm sorry that you had to go through all these

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Speaker 3: bad dates. And I was like, this is a very

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Speaker 3: terrible time to bring up. This is not therapy, this

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Speaker 3: is a commination. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Well, Michael fingers crossed. Yeah, I'm sure you'll be here.

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Speaker 3: And you started very optimistically on the conversation.

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Speaker 2: I think everyone can contribute to the Ring Fund by

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Speaker 2: getting tickets through megatics.

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Speaker 3: Michael, thank you guys.

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Speaker 2: Have a good morning.

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Speaker 1: Michael. The