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Speaker 1: So when you're pregnant, you often get gassy.
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Speaker 2: It's just a side effect. It happens.
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Speaker 1: And I've realized that being pregnant with a boy, I'm far more gassy than I was when I was pregnant with a girl. I blame it on the fact that it's a boy.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Look, I don't know the science behind it. But, you know, obviously it checks out.
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Speaker 2: It feels right.
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Speaker 4: You've done the research.
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Speaker 1: So up until Wednesday... I've managed to keep it under wraps at work.
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Speaker 2: Mostly. Unfortunately, our toilets are not very soundproof. Have you noticed that?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I've noticed.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's really bad.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: But at least if I contain it to the bathrooms, I'm happy with that.
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Speaker 4: You can't say you haven't tried.
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Speaker 5: Right? Right.
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Speaker 2: That's as good as I can get it.
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Speaker 3: Right.
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Speaker 1: And then on Wednesday, I was sitting at my desk and I was like, oh, got to go to the bathroom.
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Speaker 3: Right.
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Speaker 1: And I was walking past and a lot of the time in our office... People work from home, so there's people here, there's people there, but sometimes it's quite empty. On Wednesday, it was full. Every single member of staff was in the office. And I was walking past a very full sales section. Every person sitting.
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Speaker 2: At their desk.
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Speaker 3: And I farted.
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Speaker 4: That's fine.
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Speaker 3: It's not.
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Speaker 1: It's very embarrassing. But in my head, I was like, it's fine. They just thought your shoe squeaked. Like, just play it off like it was your shoe. And so then I did a bit of a scuffle as if I was like, oh, my shoe's weird, like trying to cover it up. And then I was like, well, I can't walk into the bathroom now because it is really obvious. So I bypassed and went to the kitchen and pretended to get a pack of chips.
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Speaker 5: Right.
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Speaker 4: So now they think you've all gone to fart in the kitchen. So that explains the lack of people in the kitchen.
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Speaker 3: No, no.
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Speaker 4: I'll tell you why. As soon as you said it to me, I said, that's fine. And the reason I said it's fine is wherever you work, you know, you do. There's ebbs and flows when it's busy times and quiet times. Maybe a busy day is quiet days. And if you unwittingly walk through a space that you think is empty and there is just one sole person sitting in the corner or whatever, and you're like, I'm clear, guys. And then the one person's there going, what is happening here? There's no confusion.
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Speaker 2: That's right.
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Speaker 4: You walk through a busy space, that could have been anyone. Yeah, it was probably you.
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Speaker 2: There could have been anyone.
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Speaker 4: I think they knew. No, go with that. You should have turned and gone, what, guys?
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Speaker 2: I'm pregnant.
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Speaker 4: No, you should have blamed someone else. Oh.
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Speaker 1: I could see your face at the start of that, by the way. You were worried I'd done it in studio. I could see it in your eyes.
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Speaker 4: I think I would have realised. I was confident that I, unless you were about to say, and moments ago. And then.
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Speaker 2: Then it hits you.
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Speaker 4: Then, yeah, you would have seen my eyes start watering.
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Speaker 5: All right.
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Speaker 4: You've got to have a sense of humour if you're going to be a healthcare professional.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: But at a certain point you go, hmm, despite all the study and the investment in time and dollars to get this qualification, I may be better at being a comedian.
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Speaker 2: Maybe.
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Speaker 4: Is that the path? I don't know. Our next guest may be able to tell us. He is a BAFTA-winning author, TV writer, comedian. And former doctor, his first book, This Is Going To Hurt, which I think was the name of the last tour as well. The book spent over a year at number one in the Sunday Times bestseller list. It won 10 national awards and sold over 3 million copies. Adam Kay, good morning.
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Speaker 3: Good morning. How are you?
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Speaker 4: Well, we're very well. I mean, there's so much time and effort that goes into being a doctor. From what we can tell, we don't know, not having done it. What a career switch. But you're not the first. Doctors seem to need a sense of humour. And then you go, well, let's step it up a notch and tour the world doing it.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, the more traditional route for doctors leaving the NHS is to come and work in Australia. So it's quite a novel route for me, just going to Australia through the route of comedy.
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Speaker 1: Well, that's interesting, right, because you only came to Australia to tour the first time in like 2024. Have you ever been to Canberra with your show before?
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Speaker 2: I don't think you have.
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Speaker 3: I have indeed, yeah.
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Speaker 4: Oh, have you?
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Speaker 3: I was there two years ago and I'm excited to be back in December. I went with my first show, This Is Gonna Hurt. which is, uh, funny slash disgusting slash weird, uh, diary entries from my time as a, as a doctor and, uh, and I'm back, uh, It feels wrong talking about Christmas in September, but nonetheless, I'm back with a Christmas show. It was the night shift before Christmas, which is the same sort of funny, smash, disgusting, smash, whatever stuff, but from the most wonderful time of the year.
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Speaker 4: I wonder, and I don't know whether or not you can get the statistics on this, how many health care professionals do... attend these shows because it would almost feel like the talk from the front line that they're used to. This is a tribute of sorts to them.
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Speaker 3: Isn't it? Oh, very much. It's a love letter to everyone who works in the profession, wherever they are in the world. But it's very much geared towards whatever non-doctors are called, patients. And I reckon from having done previous shows of hands when I've been touring Australia, it's about a quarter of the audience. are medical, which is useful to know because it's probably going to be the safest place in Canberra on the 3rd of December because there's going to be a few hundred medics in the audience if anyone's feeling a bit iffy or can't get an appointment.
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Speaker 4: That's a smart point. You can loiter in the foyer even if you don't have a ticket. You're not feeling 100%.
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Speaker 2: 3rd of December, I'm going to be very pregnant.
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Speaker 1: So if I do go into labour because of all the laughter, doctors galore.
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Speaker 4: I'm probably reaching, but of all the shows you've done, you hear about it from time to time. Is there a doctor in the house? Don't tell me you've ever had to put your medical training to work in that environment.
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Speaker 3: Thankfully not on... Thankfully, we have had a few medical emergencies. This is a show I've now performed to a couple of hundred thousand people all over the world. And so just by law of averages, some people will die. will have emergencies. There's mostly been faints at some of the more extreme stories, to be honest. But when it has happened and there's a sort of, is there a doctor in the house, it's very much a case of which specialty. Because we've got them all. There are normally options.
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Speaker 1: So has that ever happened to you just in real life then, like not at a show where you're on a plane or you're, I don't know, somewhere and someone yells, is there a doctor?
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: It has, and it still happens. There's something sort of quite magnetic about being a doctor. We seem to attract this sort of stuff. Now, I've not been working as a doctor for over 10 years now. So whilst I will still sort of, you know, make myself known.
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Speaker 2: I still trust you over Rod or, you know, someone else.
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Speaker 4: Wisely. I don't know.
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Speaker 3: It's still quite a roll of the dice.
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Speaker 4: Well, hey, we've been warned. And as you say, there'll be other professionals in attendance. Do you find, I think as a normie, as a non-medical professional, when throwing a dinner party, to have a doctor or a nurse in attendance, you're guaranteeing the best stories. And I wonder whether or not that's your experience. And perhaps that led to what you're doing now as a profession.
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Speaker 3: Well, yeah, you do end up in some situations that are Other professions don't. And they lend themselves very well to a dinner party anecdote. And thankfully, I've got enough of them to fill 70 minutes of time on stage. But it started, these are all my diaries I wrote down at the time I was working as a doctor. And I think, you know, it's, it's not all fun and games on, uh, you know, in hospital wards. Um, and so I think I was writing down the, all this, the funny stuff to look for the light in the dark and to focus on that when there was some less fun stuff happening. And, uh, and, and, uh, and looking back through it, it's, uh, Yeah, it's not... The stuff I tell on stage is all funny. It's very much a comedy show. But the stuff in my books does a bit of the drama of it as well.
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Speaker 1: Have you ever had a patient come to a show and go, oh, my God, he's telling my story?
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Speaker 3: So there's... Yes, I don't like it because I meant to have changed all of the details in the stories so I don't go to prison for breaking medical confidentiality. which I'm very keen doesn't happen. Um, but unfortunately a few people have had such specific, uh, things happen to them. They were like, that was me. Wasn't it? Um, but an amazing thing's happened, uh, recently over the last couple of years. So, um, I worked on Labour Ward for most of my time. And I'll always, off these shows, I'll always do a book signing if people want to bring all their books or buy books or whatever. And I'll happily do that for an hour or so. And a couple of times recently, you know, someone's come along, someone in middle age, holding some sort of gangly teenager, you know, with them. And they'll say, you're not going to remember this person, but you delivered them 15 years ago. Wow. So that's quite a cool thing to happen. It's also a very good business, Marco, isn't it, delivering your own audience?
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Speaker 2: Absolutely. You've got all the generations.
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Speaker 4: That's a long-term plan. And so a young Adam Kay clearly saw the vision there. ahead. Here, Adam, fly close to the sun and hopefully not end up in prison. It's twas the night shift before Christmas. It's starting in Perth at their Regal Theatre. and then you're straight across to the capital, the Canberra Theatre, Thursday, December the 3rd, before you continue along the east coast of Australia. Thank you so much for coming back. We appreciate the time. Travel safe, and we can't wait to see you here in Canberra.
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Speaker 3: See you then. Look forward to.
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Speaker 4: It. Ashley Nolan, g'day again.
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Speaker 2: Hello.
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Speaker 1: There's a time capsule that has been lost, which is not the point of a time capsule.
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Speaker 4: No.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: You do hope to find it once again, to be able to have a peek into life at the time. So this was buried in Bungendore more than 150 years ago. Buried underground during the construction of Bungendore's St. Philip's Anglican Church in the 1860s. And it was, they think it contains newspapers and other documents from the era. How cool. And I think there was a note that was like, oh, people will find this when they need to knock the church down and build a bigger one.
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Speaker 2: The faith is really growing.
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Speaker 4: Yeah. The Anglicans were pretty high on life a hundred years ago.
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Speaker 2: They were really optimistic, weren't they?
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Speaker 4: I really feel like this Anglican thing is coming together, guys.
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Speaker 1: And now it's a heritage building, so there's no way it's gone anywhere.
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Speaker 2: So we're never going to find it. Is it under the footings or something?
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Speaker 4: Is that what happened?
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Speaker 6: They don't know exactly where it is, obviously, but they laid protective concrete around the church a while ago to protect it from... moisture and cracking and that kind of thing um so they assume it's under there so very hard to get out if it is there.
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Speaker 2: We gotta get it 150 years.
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Speaker 1: That's incredible oh that newspaper would be fine how do we know it's there how do we.
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Speaker 4: Know it hasn't just become part of the soil maybe that's why we haven't been able to find it over 100 years.
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Speaker 1: It's just disintegrated well the nah nah nah Back then, they had stuff that lasted for centuries.
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Speaker 4: Oh, like wine barrels. What else could they have used?
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Speaker 6: It was packed into a glass jar, which was then put into a metal box.
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Speaker 2: Ah, there you go.
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Speaker 4: And then it was thrown in the ocean. And we assumed it would just come back.
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Speaker 6: In 50 years.
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Speaker 3: All right.
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Speaker 2: We've got to find it.
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Speaker 4: If it's there.
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Speaker 2: It's in a metal box. Let's get the metal detectors out.
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Speaker 4: And this is the thing. There's got to be detection stuff. There's things that can look through the ground.
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Speaker 3: Right.
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Speaker 2: Because you can look for, like, Pipes and crap, can't you? Is that a thing? That's a thing. Plumbers use before they dig a trench.
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Speaker 4: We've put about as much thought into finding this as the Anglicans did.
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Speaker 1: They'll have to build a bigger one. I'm going to have to go have a look on the weekend.
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Speaker 4: They don't let the Catholics in, mate.
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Speaker 2: They've got markets there tomorrow.
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Speaker 4: I'm sure they do.
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Speaker 2: So I'll sneak in.
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Speaker 4: The Catholics go to gloat. They're like, how's it going?
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Speaker 2: We found a house.
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Speaker 1: No, the two churches do work together in Bugondor, so it's fine.
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Speaker 4: Those of us from the Uniting Church really, we think we can just make fun of everyone, and we shouldn't, and we won't. And I'm shutting up real fast. Our next guest, we know him from Netflix, the specials, heard around the world on BBC Radio 4. His name is Randy Feltface. Written, performed, dozens of solo stand-up shows. He's got the comedy specials, the sold-out theatres. and of course was nominated for Best Comedy at the Edinburgh Film Festival, as well as making his US television debut on NBC's Bring the Funny, the one and only Randy Feldface. Good morning, Randy.
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Speaker 3: Good morning.
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Speaker 5: Thank you. It's great to be here. Thank you for having me on the show. How's it going in the sunny nation's capital?
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Speaker 2: It is actually very sunny. Thanks for asking.
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Speaker 4: Sunny, but still fresh. Let's get straight to brass tacks. You know what?
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Speaker 5: I think we should get straight to brass tacks.
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Speaker 2: Okay, let's do it.
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Speaker 4: Gabby is 24 weeks pregnant. She's expecting a boy. A little bit of a backstory. The gender reveal was.
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Speaker 2: It was a wrestling match.
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Speaker 4: It was a wrestling match. And the wrestler that won, his name was.
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Speaker 1: Randy the Revolver Chambers.
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Speaker 4: Randy Chambers. I said, well, you should name your son after Randy. Gabby's not sure. As a Randy, how do you go as an Australian? There aren't a lot of Randys.
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Speaker 5: There's not a lot of Randys. Firstly, Gabby, may I say congratulations on the gender reveal wrestling match, which doesn't sound at all like a commercial radio stunt that you were cornered into as Potter. well you know she's pregnant we've got to get some use out of this let's have a wrestling match gender reveal party um i i i gotta say i feel like other parts of the world randy is a very common name australia has some sort of um i mean i've popped it for a lot of my early career oh there's only one reason you call her randy but it's genuinely just the name i was given and uh So I feel like if you're willing, you know, and ready for your son to have to handle the shtick, it'll toughen him up. Right. That's for damn sure.
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Speaker 2: It creates character, right?
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Speaker 4: Well, that's the question. I mean, if you go to.
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Speaker 5: And you know what?
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Speaker 4: Yes.
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Speaker 5: I will wrestle Randy the Chainsaw. In grudge match, if you name your child Randy, here we go. Let's double down on this commercial radio shtick.
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Speaker 4: Here we go.
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Speaker 5: If you name your child Randy, Randy Feltface will wrestle Randy the Chainsaw to decide.
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Speaker 2: Decide what? Who he was named after.
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Speaker 5: The middle name of your child. Yes.
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Speaker 3: Yes.
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Speaker 2: What would your middle name be? Feltface.
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Speaker 3: Feltface.
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Speaker 5: Self face.
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Speaker 2: Reggie Self Face Andrews. I don't know if my husband's a girl.
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Speaker 4: That's a name.
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Speaker 5: But I've got to tell you, also touring Australia as a comedian, going to every country town I could get my hands on, particularly in that 2021 was a big year for me in Australia. I just ran. Remember, there were lockdowns. There was a lockdown. There wasn't a lockdown. I fled to Canberra. I managed to get across the border from Victoria into Canberra at the end of 2020. Well done. Yes. I've never told anyone this, but I fabricated a theatre workshop at Canberra, at ANU, and got forms to cross the border. And then as soon as I crossed the border, I cancelled that theatre workshop... And I did comedy for the first time in a year.
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Speaker 4: Randy Feldface, take us back to that moment. You're running the gauntlet. You're trying to cross the Murray. You're in Aubrey-Wodonga. You've got fake paperwork. The Victorian coppers, I'm not going to lie, I don't think federal authorities are going to hear this story and start chasing you down. ACT Police and New South Wales Police at a certain point during the lockdown really weren't too fussed. But the Victorian Police, they were on high alert. Well, yeah, that's what I.
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Speaker 5: Was going to say. I don't know if you know this, but there are no sharks in the Murray.
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Speaker 6: So.
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Speaker 5: It wasn't too. There's a stretch just near a chupamoama, pretty skinny, little bit. There you can get across. Yeah, you've got to know, although I did get quite waterlogged. I'm quite felty. I'm mostly fine. Did get a little waterlogged. Made it across, made it across.
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Speaker 2: Just.
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Speaker 5: One piece. And then it's just a short, A four-day walk to Canberra. No, it's fine.
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Speaker 2: With all the legs you have.
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Speaker 4: Well, that's the benefit, I imagine, of being predominantly foam. Yes, you would be waterlogged, but you just need someone to come along and wring you out and you're back on track.
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Speaker 5: Exactly. Yep, yep, yep. Give me a squeeze and I'm ready to go.
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Speaker 4: Brandy Feldface, this is an incredible story. You're touring the US. We're speaking to you from the other side of the world right now. However, the Australian leg of the world tour, it begins in Canberra. Thank you for coming back to the Canberra Theatre and then obviously you continue along the east coast and this show takes you right around Australia. But it starts here on Friday, February the 5th.
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Speaker 2: Canberra Theatre is where you get your tickets, by the way.
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Speaker 6: Yes.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, don't get waterlogged or anything go wrong with the.
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Speaker 5: I'm going to be in the States for the midterms. So hopefully, just wish me luck that I make it out in one piece. And I'll be back. I'll be back on the steps of Parliament before you know it.
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 5: In our beautiful nation's capital.
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Speaker 4: Randy Feldface, thank you for the time. Good luck. Travel safe. We'll see you back here in the capital soon.
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Speaker 5: See you at the wrestling match for the middle name. Let's do this.
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Speaker 4: It's Randy versus Randy. It's on. The middle name rights.
Speaker 1: So when you're pregnant, you often get gassy.
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Speaker 2: It's just a side effect. It happens.
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Speaker 1: And I've realized that being pregnant with a boy, I'm far more gassy than I was when I was pregnant with a girl. I blame it on the fact that it's a boy.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Look, I don't know the science behind it. But, you know, obviously it checks out.
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Speaker 2: It feels right.
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Speaker 4: You've done the research.
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Speaker 1: So up until Wednesday... I've managed to keep it under wraps at work.
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Speaker 2: Mostly. Unfortunately, our toilets are not very soundproof. Have you noticed that?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I've noticed.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's really bad.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: But at least if I contain it to the bathrooms, I'm happy with that.
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Speaker 4: You can't say you haven't tried.
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Speaker 5: Right? Right.
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Speaker 2: That's as good as I can get it.
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Speaker 3: Right.
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Speaker 1: And then on Wednesday, I was sitting at my desk and I was like, oh, got to go to the bathroom.
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Speaker 3: Right.
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Speaker 1: And I was walking past and a lot of the time in our office... People work from home, so there's people here, there's people there, but sometimes it's quite empty. On Wednesday, it was full. Every single member of staff was in the office. And I was walking past a very full sales section. Every person sitting.
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Speaker 2: At their desk.
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Speaker 3: And I farted.
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Speaker 4: That's fine.
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Speaker 3: It's not.
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Speaker 1: It's very embarrassing. But in my head, I was like, it's fine. They just thought your shoe squeaked. Like, just play it off like it was your shoe. And so then I did a bit of a scuffle as if I was like, oh, my shoe's weird, like trying to cover it up. And then I was like, well, I can't walk into the bathroom now because it is really obvious. So I bypassed and went to the kitchen and pretended to get a pack of chips.
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Speaker 5: Right.
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Speaker 4: So now they think you've all gone to fart in the kitchen. So that explains the lack of people in the kitchen.
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Speaker 3: No, no.
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Speaker 4: I'll tell you why. As soon as you said it to me, I said, that's fine. And the reason I said it's fine is wherever you work, you know, you do. There's ebbs and flows when it's busy times and quiet times. Maybe a busy day is quiet days. And if you unwittingly walk through a space that you think is empty and there is just one sole person sitting in the corner or whatever, and you're like, I'm clear, guys. And then the one person's there going, what is happening here? There's no confusion.
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Speaker 2: That's right.
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Speaker 4: You walk through a busy space, that could have been anyone. Yeah, it was probably you.
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Speaker 2: There could have been anyone.
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Speaker 4: I think they knew. No, go with that. You should have turned and gone, what, guys?
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Speaker 2: I'm pregnant.
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Speaker 4: No, you should have blamed someone else. Oh.
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Speaker 1: I could see your face at the start of that, by the way. You were worried I'd done it in studio. I could see it in your eyes.
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Speaker 4: I think I would have realised. I was confident that I, unless you were about to say, and moments ago. And then.
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Speaker 2: Then it hits you.
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Speaker 4: Then, yeah, you would have seen my eyes start watering.
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Speaker 5: All right.
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Speaker 4: You've got to have a sense of humour if you're going to be a healthcare professional.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: But at a certain point you go, hmm, despite all the study and the investment in time and dollars to get this qualification, I may be better at being a comedian.
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Speaker 2: Maybe.
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Speaker 4: Is that the path? I don't know. Our next guest may be able to tell us. He is a BAFTA-winning author, TV writer, comedian. And former doctor, his first book, This Is Going To Hurt, which I think was the name of the last tour as well. The book spent over a year at number one in the Sunday Times bestseller list. It won 10 national awards and sold over 3 million copies. Adam Kay, good morning.
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Speaker 3: Good morning. How are you?
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Speaker 4: Well, we're very well. I mean, there's so much time and effort that goes into being a doctor. From what we can tell, we don't know, not having done it. What a career switch. But you're not the first. Doctors seem to need a sense of humour. And then you go, well, let's step it up a notch and tour the world doing it.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, the more traditional route for doctors leaving the NHS is to come and work in Australia. So it's quite a novel route for me, just going to Australia through the route of comedy.
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Speaker 1: Well, that's interesting, right, because you only came to Australia to tour the first time in like 2024. Have you ever been to Canberra with your show before?
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Speaker 2: I don't think you have.
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Speaker 3: I have indeed, yeah.
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Speaker 4: Oh, have you?
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Speaker 3: I was there two years ago and I'm excited to be back in December. I went with my first show, This Is Gonna Hurt. which is, uh, funny slash disgusting slash weird, uh, diary entries from my time as a, as a doctor and, uh, and I'm back, uh, It feels wrong talking about Christmas in September, but nonetheless, I'm back with a Christmas show. It was the night shift before Christmas, which is the same sort of funny, smash, disgusting, smash, whatever stuff, but from the most wonderful time of the year.
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Speaker 4: I wonder, and I don't know whether or not you can get the statistics on this, how many health care professionals do... attend these shows because it would almost feel like the talk from the front line that they're used to. This is a tribute of sorts to them.
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Speaker 3: Isn't it? Oh, very much. It's a love letter to everyone who works in the profession, wherever they are in the world. But it's very much geared towards whatever non-doctors are called, patients. And I reckon from having done previous shows of hands when I've been touring Australia, it's about a quarter of the audience. are medical, which is useful to know because it's probably going to be the safest place in Canberra on the 3rd of December because there's going to be a few hundred medics in the audience if anyone's feeling a bit iffy or can't get an appointment.
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Speaker 4: That's a smart point. You can loiter in the foyer even if you don't have a ticket. You're not feeling 100%.
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Speaker 2: 3rd of December, I'm going to be very pregnant.
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Speaker 1: So if I do go into labour because of all the laughter, doctors galore.
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Speaker 4: I'm probably reaching, but of all the shows you've done, you hear about it from time to time. Is there a doctor in the house? Don't tell me you've ever had to put your medical training to work in that environment.
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Speaker 3: Thankfully not on... Thankfully, we have had a few medical emergencies. This is a show I've now performed to a couple of hundred thousand people all over the world. And so just by law of averages, some people will die. will have emergencies. There's mostly been faints at some of the more extreme stories, to be honest. But when it has happened and there's a sort of, is there a doctor in the house, it's very much a case of which specialty. Because we've got them all. There are normally options.
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Speaker 1: So has that ever happened to you just in real life then, like not at a show where you're on a plane or you're, I don't know, somewhere and someone yells, is there a doctor?
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: It has, and it still happens. There's something sort of quite magnetic about being a doctor. We seem to attract this sort of stuff. Now, I've not been working as a doctor for over 10 years now. So whilst I will still sort of, you know, make myself known.
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Speaker 2: I still trust you over Rod or, you know, someone else.
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Speaker 4: Wisely. I don't know.
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Speaker 3: It's still quite a roll of the dice.
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Speaker 4: Well, hey, we've been warned. And as you say, there'll be other professionals in attendance. Do you find, I think as a normie, as a non-medical professional, when throwing a dinner party, to have a doctor or a nurse in attendance, you're guaranteeing the best stories. And I wonder whether or not that's your experience. And perhaps that led to what you're doing now as a profession.
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Speaker 3: Well, yeah, you do end up in some situations that are Other professions don't. And they lend themselves very well to a dinner party anecdote. And thankfully, I've got enough of them to fill 70 minutes of time on stage. But it started, these are all my diaries I wrote down at the time I was working as a doctor. And I think, you know, it's, it's not all fun and games on, uh, you know, in hospital wards. Um, and so I think I was writing down the, all this, the funny stuff to look for the light in the dark and to focus on that when there was some less fun stuff happening. And, uh, and, and, uh, and looking back through it, it's, uh, Yeah, it's not... The stuff I tell on stage is all funny. It's very much a comedy show. But the stuff in my books does a bit of the drama of it as well.
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Speaker 1: Have you ever had a patient come to a show and go, oh, my God, he's telling my story?
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Speaker 3: So there's... Yes, I don't like it because I meant to have changed all of the details in the stories so I don't go to prison for breaking medical confidentiality. which I'm very keen doesn't happen. Um, but unfortunately a few people have had such specific, uh, things happen to them. They were like, that was me. Wasn't it? Um, but an amazing thing's happened, uh, recently over the last couple of years. So, um, I worked on Labour Ward for most of my time. And I'll always, off these shows, I'll always do a book signing if people want to bring all their books or buy books or whatever. And I'll happily do that for an hour or so. And a couple of times recently, you know, someone's come along, someone in middle age, holding some sort of gangly teenager, you know, with them. And they'll say, you're not going to remember this person, but you delivered them 15 years ago. Wow. So that's quite a cool thing to happen. It's also a very good business, Marco, isn't it, delivering your own audience?
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Speaker 2: Absolutely. You've got all the generations.
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Speaker 4: That's a long-term plan. And so a young Adam Kay clearly saw the vision there. ahead. Here, Adam, fly close to the sun and hopefully not end up in prison. It's twas the night shift before Christmas. It's starting in Perth at their Regal Theatre. and then you're straight across to the capital, the Canberra Theatre, Thursday, December the 3rd, before you continue along the east coast of Australia. Thank you so much for coming back. We appreciate the time. Travel safe, and we can't wait to see you here in Canberra.
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Speaker 3: See you then. Look forward to.
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Speaker 4: It. Ashley Nolan, g'day again.
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Speaker 2: Hello.
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Speaker 1: There's a time capsule that has been lost, which is not the point of a time capsule.
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Speaker 4: No.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: You do hope to find it once again, to be able to have a peek into life at the time. So this was buried in Bungendore more than 150 years ago. Buried underground during the construction of Bungendore's St. Philip's Anglican Church in the 1860s. And it was, they think it contains newspapers and other documents from the era. How cool. And I think there was a note that was like, oh, people will find this when they need to knock the church down and build a bigger one.
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Speaker 2: The faith is really growing.
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Speaker 4: Yeah. The Anglicans were pretty high on life a hundred years ago.
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Speaker 2: They were really optimistic, weren't they?
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Speaker 4: I really feel like this Anglican thing is coming together, guys.
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Speaker 1: And now it's a heritage building, so there's no way it's gone anywhere.
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Speaker 2: So we're never going to find it. Is it under the footings or something?
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Speaker 4: Is that what happened?
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Speaker 6: They don't know exactly where it is, obviously, but they laid protective concrete around the church a while ago to protect it from... moisture and cracking and that kind of thing um so they assume it's under there so very hard to get out if it is there.
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Speaker 2: We gotta get it 150 years.
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Speaker 1: That's incredible oh that newspaper would be fine how do we know it's there how do we.
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Speaker 4: Know it hasn't just become part of the soil maybe that's why we haven't been able to find it over 100 years.
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Speaker 1: It's just disintegrated well the nah nah nah Back then, they had stuff that lasted for centuries.
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Speaker 4: Oh, like wine barrels. What else could they have used?
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Speaker 6: It was packed into a glass jar, which was then put into a metal box.
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Speaker 2: Ah, there you go.
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Speaker 4: And then it was thrown in the ocean. And we assumed it would just come back.
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Speaker 6: In 50 years.
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Speaker 3: All right.
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Speaker 2: We've got to find it.
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Speaker 4: If it's there.
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Speaker 2: It's in a metal box. Let's get the metal detectors out.
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Speaker 4: And this is the thing. There's got to be detection stuff. There's things that can look through the ground.
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Speaker 3: Right.
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Speaker 2: Because you can look for, like, Pipes and crap, can't you? Is that a thing? That's a thing. Plumbers use before they dig a trench.
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Speaker 4: We've put about as much thought into finding this as the Anglicans did.
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Speaker 1: They'll have to build a bigger one. I'm going to have to go have a look on the weekend.
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Speaker 4: They don't let the Catholics in, mate.
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Speaker 2: They've got markets there tomorrow.
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Speaker 4: I'm sure they do.
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Speaker 2: So I'll sneak in.
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Speaker 4: The Catholics go to gloat. They're like, how's it going?
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Speaker 2: We found a house.
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Speaker 1: No, the two churches do work together in Bugondor, so it's fine.
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Speaker 4: Those of us from the Uniting Church really, we think we can just make fun of everyone, and we shouldn't, and we won't. And I'm shutting up real fast. Our next guest, we know him from Netflix, the specials, heard around the world on BBC Radio 4. His name is Randy Feltface. Written, performed, dozens of solo stand-up shows. He's got the comedy specials, the sold-out theatres. and of course was nominated for Best Comedy at the Edinburgh Film Festival, as well as making his US television debut on NBC's Bring the Funny, the one and only Randy Feldface. Good morning, Randy.
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Speaker 3: Good morning.
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Speaker 5: Thank you. It's great to be here. Thank you for having me on the show. How's it going in the sunny nation's capital?
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Speaker 2: It is actually very sunny. Thanks for asking.
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Speaker 4: Sunny, but still fresh. Let's get straight to brass tacks. You know what?
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Speaker 5: I think we should get straight to brass tacks.
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Speaker 2: Okay, let's do it.
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Speaker 4: Gabby is 24 weeks pregnant. She's expecting a boy. A little bit of a backstory. The gender reveal was.
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Speaker 2: It was a wrestling match.
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Speaker 4: It was a wrestling match. And the wrestler that won, his name was.
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Speaker 1: Randy the Revolver Chambers.
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Speaker 4: Randy Chambers. I said, well, you should name your son after Randy. Gabby's not sure. As a Randy, how do you go as an Australian? There aren't a lot of Randys.
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Speaker 5: There's not a lot of Randys. Firstly, Gabby, may I say congratulations on the gender reveal wrestling match, which doesn't sound at all like a commercial radio stunt that you were cornered into as Potter. well you know she's pregnant we've got to get some use out of this let's have a wrestling match gender reveal party um i i i gotta say i feel like other parts of the world randy is a very common name australia has some sort of um i mean i've popped it for a lot of my early career oh there's only one reason you call her randy but it's genuinely just the name i was given and uh So I feel like if you're willing, you know, and ready for your son to have to handle the shtick, it'll toughen him up. Right. That's for damn sure.
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Speaker 2: It creates character, right?
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Speaker 4: Well, that's the question. I mean, if you go to.
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Speaker 5: And you know what?
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Speaker 4: Yes.
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Speaker 5: I will wrestle Randy the Chainsaw. In grudge match, if you name your child Randy, here we go. Let's double down on this commercial radio shtick.
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Speaker 4: Here we go.
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Speaker 5: If you name your child Randy, Randy Feltface will wrestle Randy the Chainsaw to decide.
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Speaker 2: Decide what? Who he was named after.
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Speaker 5: The middle name of your child. Yes.
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Speaker 3: Yes.
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Speaker 2: What would your middle name be? Feltface.
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Speaker 3: Feltface.
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Speaker 5: Self face.
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Speaker 2: Reggie Self Face Andrews. I don't know if my husband's a girl.
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Speaker 4: That's a name.
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Speaker 5: But I've got to tell you, also touring Australia as a comedian, going to every country town I could get my hands on, particularly in that 2021 was a big year for me in Australia. I just ran. Remember, there were lockdowns. There was a lockdown. There wasn't a lockdown. I fled to Canberra. I managed to get across the border from Victoria into Canberra at the end of 2020. Well done. Yes. I've never told anyone this, but I fabricated a theatre workshop at Canberra, at ANU, and got forms to cross the border. And then as soon as I crossed the border, I cancelled that theatre workshop... And I did comedy for the first time in a year.
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Speaker 4: Randy Feldface, take us back to that moment. You're running the gauntlet. You're trying to cross the Murray. You're in Aubrey-Wodonga. You've got fake paperwork. The Victorian coppers, I'm not going to lie, I don't think federal authorities are going to hear this story and start chasing you down. ACT Police and New South Wales Police at a certain point during the lockdown really weren't too fussed. But the Victorian Police, they were on high alert. Well, yeah, that's what I.
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Speaker 5: Was going to say. I don't know if you know this, but there are no sharks in the Murray.
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Speaker 6: So.
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Speaker 5: It wasn't too. There's a stretch just near a chupamoama, pretty skinny, little bit. There you can get across. Yeah, you've got to know, although I did get quite waterlogged. I'm quite felty. I'm mostly fine. Did get a little waterlogged. Made it across, made it across.
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Speaker 2: Just.
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Speaker 5: One piece. And then it's just a short, A four-day walk to Canberra. No, it's fine.
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Speaker 2: With all the legs you have.
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Speaker 4: Well, that's the benefit, I imagine, of being predominantly foam. Yes, you would be waterlogged, but you just need someone to come along and wring you out and you're back on track.
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Speaker 5: Exactly. Yep, yep, yep. Give me a squeeze and I'm ready to go.
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Speaker 4: Brandy Feldface, this is an incredible story. You're touring the US. We're speaking to you from the other side of the world right now. However, the Australian leg of the world tour, it begins in Canberra. Thank you for coming back to the Canberra Theatre and then obviously you continue along the east coast and this show takes you right around Australia. But it starts here on Friday, February the 5th.
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Speaker 2: Canberra Theatre is where you get your tickets, by the way.
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Speaker 6: Yes.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, don't get waterlogged or anything go wrong with the.
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Speaker 5: I'm going to be in the States for the midterms. So hopefully, just wish me luck that I make it out in one piece. And I'll be back. I'll be back on the steps of Parliament before you know it.
00:18:44
Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 5: In our beautiful nation's capital.
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Speaker 4: Randy Feldface, thank you for the time. Good luck. Travel safe. We'll see you back here in the capital soon.
00:18:52
Speaker 5: See you at the wrestling match for the middle name. Let's do this.
00:18:55
Speaker 4: It's Randy versus Randy. It's on. The middle name rights.
