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Welcome To The Freakshow With SAMORA SQUID · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: So today I'm some more a squid.
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  Speaker 2: I'm here at Heavy to talk about my upcoming freak
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  Speaker 2: show residency at the.
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  Speaker 3: Tote Fantastic may Thanks for drawing for you tomorrow or squid.
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  Speaker 3: Either is fine or both together preferably.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, if you're talking about me, best to say that,
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  Speaker 2: best use both if you're talking about me, but talking
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  Speaker 2: to me is.
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  Speaker 3: Fine, Bey Maybel. Thanks for joining us today anyways.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, not a problem. Thanks for having me my pleasure.
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  Speaker 3: So you're going to be taking up residency at the
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  Speaker 3: Tote in Melbourne for forty second in Sunday is for
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  Speaker 3: the Squids Sunday side show, kicking off on Sunday, March
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  Speaker 3: twenty ninth.
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  Speaker 4: Mate. So the first question is is the Tote ready
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  Speaker 4: for you?
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  Speaker 1: Well, they say they are. I trust their judgment.
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  Speaker 2: You know they're it's It's not only is the Tote
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  Speaker 2: still running, it's being run by people from crazy insane
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  Speaker 2: punk bands, SOS.
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  Speaker 1: The Toads.
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  Speaker 2: Better than it's ever been, I think, like it's it's
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  Speaker 2: a it's a really iconic rock and roll venue.
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  Speaker 1: You know, a lot.
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  Speaker 2: Of people will take issue with what I just said
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  Speaker 2: about it being better than it's ever been and I
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  Speaker 2: can't really, to be fair, I can't really say that
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  Speaker 2: because you know, the Toad's been around longer than I have,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and as a visitor to Melbourne though, it's
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  Speaker 2: nice for there to be a little bit of consistency
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  Speaker 2: in the in the venue department, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 4: Damn right. Your press release describes you as a world
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  Speaker 4: renowned genuine sideshow freak, which doesn't sound too complimentary, especially
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  Speaker 4: in the modern satitized world.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. No, I'm a side show freak and I've always
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  Speaker 2: called myself that, and I've always shown off my deformities
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  Speaker 2: I got. I got strange bones and ligaments. I got
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  Speaker 2: elasticity and flexibility that's very, very natural. The downside is
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  Speaker 2: that I've had to do a lot of strength training
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  Speaker 2: so that my arms and legs don't just fall out
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  Speaker 2: of their sockets.
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  Speaker 1: But I mean, apart from that, it's the souper power.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm kind of I'm kind of okay with being
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  Speaker 2: a genetic freak if it means I get to go
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  Speaker 2: on stage and do cook ship make people laugh and scream,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, it's it's It's been a good life
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  Speaker 2: being a side check freak. It's taken me all sorts
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  Speaker 2: of places and help me see and experience all sorts
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  Speaker 2: of cool ship.
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  Speaker 3: Now there's probably people out there watching this thinking, what
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  Speaker 3: the fuck is the side to freak and what does
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  Speaker 3: he do? So run us through your acting and what
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  Speaker 3: people can expect from you.
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  Speaker 1: Sorry, that was a big car that just went past that.
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  Speaker 4: Just run running through your acting and what it actually
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  Speaker 4: is that you do.
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  Speaker 1: I'll be doing all sorts of cook ship in this show.
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  Speaker 2: Like usually when I'm performing solo, I'm doing that on
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  Speaker 2: the street or like a sort of agricultural shows of
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  Speaker 2: food and wine festivals and stuff like that. So in
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  Speaker 2: those shows, I do like the most I can get
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  Speaker 2: away with, which is dislocating my limbs, squeezing through a tennis.
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  Speaker 1: Racket and swallowing a sword.
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  Speaker 2: That's what people who have seen like my solo show
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  Speaker 2: have probably seen when they've seen me doing my outdoor
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  Speaker 2: solo show or even you know, sometimes I do that
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  Speaker 2: on stage indoors.
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  Speaker 1: But this is the first thing I put together that
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  Speaker 1: is like.
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  Speaker 2: Gonna be all me, and it's gonna like the reason
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  Speaker 2: I'm only doing it once a week is because it's
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  Speaker 2: going to be like stupidly intense and I'm gonna need
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna need rest time between shows. This show, you
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  Speaker 2: can see me swallow swords. I'll be swallowing two swords
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  Speaker 2: at once. I'll be doing some other really cooked with
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  Speaker 2: sort of swallowing stunts. And I'm also going to be
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  Speaker 2: doing stuff with the better nails and see me, see
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  Speaker 2: me performing Yeah, weird strange feats of mind over matter,
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  Speaker 2: but I don't have any supernatural powers.
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  Speaker 1: And just a side.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll be doing live piercing. I'll also be in
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  Speaker 2: these shows.
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  Speaker 1: Again.
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  Speaker 2: I've got a week a week between shows, so I've
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  Speaker 2: got time to heal.
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  Speaker 1: I'll be doing my.
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  Speaker 2: Hook suspension act, which is where I suspend my body
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  Speaker 2: using meat hooks through my skin, and I'll be swinging
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  Speaker 2: around up there for everyone to see. Now, it is
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  Speaker 2: a very low ceiling venue, so it might look a
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  Speaker 2: little different to the way I would do it in
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  Speaker 2: a high ceiling venue, but you will see hanging from
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  Speaker 2: my flesh.
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  Speaker 4: No, it's all good and well.
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  Speaker 3: Look like for us to have a chat about a
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  Speaker 3: lot of this, and there'll be people will be scoffing, going,
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  Speaker 3: oh yeah, you know that that before.
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  Speaker 4: But I've looked through your photos made it and it
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  Speaker 4: really is.
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  Speaker 3: A visual show that you put on, like it's you've
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  Speaker 3: got to see it to actually appreciate the magnitude of
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  Speaker 3: what you're doing.
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  Speaker 2: I do, Like I mean, I think I sing in
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  Speaker 2: grindcore bands as well, and this is as close as
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  Speaker 2: I can get to doing grindcore theater, I guess, like
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's it's it's what I do solo when
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  Speaker 2: I'm not when I'm not playing.
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  Speaker 1: In bands and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 2: This is this is what I do, you know, Like
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  Speaker 2: like I said, I do, I do the most I
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  Speaker 2: can get away with on the street and like outdoor
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  Speaker 2: festivals and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 1: But somewhere like the Tote.
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  Speaker 2: And a DIY sort of punk environment, that's when you
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  Speaker 2: can see me doing really really weird ship.
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  Speaker 3: Is there a very real chance of you injuring yourself
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  Speaker 3: or permanently disfriggering yourself doing this stuff?
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah absolutely, Like you know, especially when I'm
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  Speaker 1: working with.
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  Speaker 2: Unpredictable substances like broken glass, you know, like that can
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  Speaker 2: end up in all sorts of places. And but yeah,
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  Speaker 2: like I mean, I carry carry first aid kids, I
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  Speaker 2: carry super glue. I got, I get everything I need
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  Speaker 2: to patch myself up on the way through.
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  Speaker 1: And you know the other stuff.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, well, yeah, I mean, yeah there's risk and
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  Speaker 2: yeah there's pain, But I mean that's why not everybody
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  Speaker 2: does this shit, you know, like it's it's I'm not
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  Speaker 2: saying you have to be crazy to do it, but
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  Speaker 2: it does like a certain type of brain that I
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  Speaker 2: think is predisposed to performing this kind of stuff, even
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  Speaker 2: people who aren't like a natural sideshow freak like me,
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  Speaker 2: Like I started off showing my my weird bones and
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  Speaker 2: everything like that. But you know a lot of people,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of people just like a self made freaks.
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  Speaker 2: You know, like maybe they they get tattooed an insane amount,
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  Speaker 2: or you know, like maybe they start off with the
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  Speaker 2: sword swallowing or the or the live body piercing and stuff.
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot of people ways people present this stuff.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to be preventing present that are preventing presenting
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  Speaker 2: it my way at the tote for four weeks in
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  Speaker 2: a row. Well, I already know what I'm going to do,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, I've written the show and I've I've
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  Speaker 2: got it all together. This will be the first time
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  Speaker 2: I've performed this show. It like and it's my first
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  Speaker 2: like solo, self produced show that I've made from scratch,
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  Speaker 2: you know, like that's meant for the indoors. Like I
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  Speaker 2: have performed a lot of solo stuff over the years,
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  Speaker 2: but mostly it's been like short pieces as part of cabarets,
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  Speaker 2: or or like short little bits opening up the bands,
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  Speaker 2: or or like doing yeah, my outdoor street show.
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  Speaker 1: This will be this would be very very different, and
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  Speaker 1: there's there's going to be a lot.
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  Speaker 2: Of stuff, Like I reckon, there'll be something that horrifies
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  Speaker 2: anyone like some It's it's different. Everyone's different, right, Like
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  Speaker 2: some people are fine with the piercing stuff, or like
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  Speaker 2: when I do the glass and they see blood or
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  Speaker 2: something like that, then they're fine with that. But then
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  Speaker 2: the dislocations and of the thing that like freaks some
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  Speaker 2: people out. Some people are fine with the dislocations, but
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  Speaker 2: the sword swallowing is what freaks them out.
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  Speaker 1: Like most people who see what I do.
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  Speaker 2: End up laughing and having a good time. I can't
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  Speaker 2: stress that enough. Like it is, I try to put
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  Speaker 2: the same energy into this as I would like fronting
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  Speaker 2: a grindcore band, you know, like it's it's just a
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  Speaker 2: different type of energy. You know what I mean, but
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  Speaker 2: that actually that energy is infectious, And even after twenty
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  Speaker 2: five years of performing, it never ceases to amaze me
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  Speaker 2: how excited a group of people will be to see
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  Speaker 2: you do something really fucking cooked.
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  Speaker 4: You know. That's the way alive.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Like, and like I was performing at a at an
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  Speaker 2: agricultural show the other day, Like and like I said,
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  Speaker 2: that's where I do.
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  Speaker 1: You know, like I swallow a sword.
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  Speaker 2: I do a bit of contusion, you know, I do
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  Speaker 2: as much as like the general public can sort of handle.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 1: Again, different vibe to I'm playing somewhere like the Tope, But.
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  Speaker 2: I was looking around and it's like, man, this is
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  Speaker 2: this is bringing people together?
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  Speaker 1: Like it actually it actually.
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  Speaker 4: Goes through your ban.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Man, Like there's people people who don't know each other
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  Speaker 2: end up sitting standing in an audience together and watching
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  Speaker 2: something they've never seen before.
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  Speaker 1: And then they start chatting to each other, and they
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  Speaker 1: might find out they.
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  Speaker 2: Got more in common than they realize, you know, and
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  Speaker 2: they've at least got the trauma of seeing me do
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  Speaker 2: something really fucked up.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's a bond. Can they can turn a bond?
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  Speaker 1: That's what I invite my own bond.
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  Speaker 4: That's awesome. So you've got the visual side of it,
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  Speaker 4: which you've spoken about, and then there's the obvious physical
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  Speaker 4: side of it. But how much of it is mental?
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  Speaker 3: Like you do you sort of train your brain to
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  Speaker 3: ignore the pain. But that's sort of things I'd like,
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  Speaker 3: Is there a big mental component to.
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  Speaker 4: What you do?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a mental component, but it's not it's not
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  Speaker 2: ignoring the pain. There's a lot of pain acceptance required,
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  Speaker 2: and there's a certain amount of relief once like doing
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  Speaker 2: something like the suspension or the sort swallow, you know,
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  Speaker 2: like it's you can and if you can lean into
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  Speaker 2: that tension and that it feels like being in another dimension,
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  Speaker 2: you know. And if you can't accept the pain and
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  Speaker 2: you can kind of stay present with it, you'll often
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  Speaker 2: get adrenaline and endorphins and dopamines and all that sort
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  Speaker 2: of lovely stuff, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 1: It's yeah, like I look at it. I look at
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  Speaker 1: it as as chasing a high, you know, just.
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  Speaker 3: Say, like you come across something new that you want
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  Speaker 3: to try out, Like how do you go about that?
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  Speaker 4: Like do you know firmly where your own pain threshold is?
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  Speaker 3: So like you look at something and go, nah, I
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  Speaker 3: can't do that, or when you have a crack at
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  Speaker 3: it and push your limits and try and get over that.
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  Speaker 1: Look.
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  Speaker 2: Look, most of that I did when I was younger.
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  Speaker 2: Like it was like I was seventeen when I started
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  Speaker 2: swimming swords, and by.
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  Speaker 1: The time I was.
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  Speaker 2: Like twenty twenty one, I'd worked with broken glass, I'd
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  Speaker 2: worked with beds of nails.
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  Speaker 1: I was, you know, shoving things up my.
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  Speaker 2: Nose, and by twenty five I was doing sort of
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  Speaker 2: piercing my skin on stage. And then by the time
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  Speaker 2: I was twenty nine, I was doing suspension and hooks.
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  Speaker 5: And nowadays I sort of spend more time thinking about
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  Speaker 5: how I'm going to present the stuff, you know what
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  Speaker 5: I mean, Like, like I spent a lot more time
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  Speaker 5: thinking like.
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  Speaker 2: How is this, how do I how do I how
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  Speaker 2: do I get people to connect with this? How do
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  Speaker 2: I how do I make make a show that has
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  Speaker 2: all this really fucked up stuff in it that an
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  Speaker 2: audience is willing to go along with and accept the
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  Speaker 2: same way they would like a bugs Bunny cartoon or
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  Speaker 2: ren and Stimpy or something like that.
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  Speaker 3: You know, Like.
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  Speaker 2: That's kind of where my head goes with a lot
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  Speaker 2: of this stuff. I'm thinking about how it's going to look,
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  Speaker 2: you know, how it can how I can.
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  Speaker 1: Make that environment more engaging.
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  Speaker 2: And and yeah, like because because I do think theater
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  Speaker 2: and music and stuff brings people together, like like through
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  Speaker 2: that COVID thing like that was that was the main
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  Speaker 2: thing people mixed was shared group experiences, you know. And
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  Speaker 2: and this is like one that is it's high stakes
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  Speaker 2: for me the performer, but it's it's it's low stakes
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  Speaker 2: for the audience, you know what I mean, Like they
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  Speaker 2: like I mean, I guess there are high stakes in
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  Speaker 2: that they might see something really fucking bad like happened,
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  Speaker 2: but for the most it's like it's it's someone else
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  Speaker 2: going through that the spectacle of an uncertain outcome, you
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  Speaker 2: know what I mean. Like it's it's kind of like
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  Speaker 2: like with sport, we don't actually know how it ends
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  Speaker 2: until it ends, you know, like it could go either way,
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  Speaker 2: you know.
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  Speaker 1: And that's something that I like reading about a lot.
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  Speaker 2: Like I've got quite a few books that have eaten
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  Speaker 2: that are that are about like ancient spectacle, like in
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  Speaker 2: the in the Greek and ancient Greek and roaming world,
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  Speaker 2: but also in like ancient Central America as well, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm fascinated by the ways in which sport, theater, and
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  Speaker 2: religion converge, you know, Like it's the more you read
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  Speaker 2: about it, the more you go. Right, there's a big
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  Speaker 2: part of human history where they're all the same thing.
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  Speaker 4: It's scary, but it's also awesome.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And like I like going and checking out like
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  Speaker 2: really cooked stuff around the world. You know that that
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  Speaker 2: isn't what I do, but it's definitely part of the
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  Speaker 2: inspiration for what I do. Like I lent to for
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  Speaker 2: the second time in my life. I went to the
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  Speaker 2: nine Emperor God's Vegetarian Festival and forget last year. And yeah,
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  Speaker 2: some of the practitioners the mass song they're called, they
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  Speaker 2: do all these like insane rituals where they're putting big
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  Speaker 2: spikes through their skin. And I'm not just needles either,
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  Speaker 2: like swords, and it's.
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  Speaker 1: All this really really full and stuff.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm very inspired by that, you know what I mean,
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  Speaker 2: Like you know, when I when I do look at
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  Speaker 2: what I'm doing, or when I have in the past
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  Speaker 2: looked at what I'm doing and learning the new stuff
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  Speaker 2: as being like humans have been doing this stuff for
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  Speaker 2: a very long time, and it is part of so
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  Speaker 2: many cultures that it is.
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  Speaker 4: No, Like.
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  Speaker 2: I don't look at it as any different as being
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  Speaker 2: a dancer or an athlete or something like that. Like
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  Speaker 2: what I'm doing is using my body to tell stories.
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  Speaker 2: You know. Like, yeah, so a lot of a lot
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  Speaker 2: of the show is going to be like silent routines
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  Speaker 2: to music, you know, and it's like the whole the
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  Speaker 2: whole show fits together, but it is. There are lots
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  Speaker 2: of little stories in there. And sometimes it's sometimes it's
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  Speaker 2: me just addressing the crowd talking as me sort of MC,
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  Speaker 2: and other times other times it's sort of yeah, like
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  Speaker 2: a weird little silent cartoon going on, you know, And
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  Speaker 2: like I use, like freak Show is the kind of
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  Speaker 2: thing that makes it what it is. But like I
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  Speaker 2: try and use all the skills I got and in
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  Speaker 2: terms of like minimalist set design that packed, you know,
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  Speaker 2: creates a.
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  Speaker 1: Little world still and.
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  Speaker 2: The soundtracks and stuff pieces of music that I've you know,
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  Speaker 2: composed and reworked at various points in my life that
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  Speaker 2: are music that I really enjoyed making and writing but
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  Speaker 2: don't really fit any of the music projects that I've
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  Speaker 2: been involved in, but make great soundtracks to the cooked.
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  Speaker 1: Little worlds that I want to make on stage, you.
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  Speaker 3: Know, speaking of that side of it, bro, like, do
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  Speaker 3: you do you write pieces of music specifically for the
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  Speaker 3: stage show or do you just sort of go back
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  Speaker 3: through old material and going it don't work well here
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  Speaker 3: and that'll work all?
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  Speaker 1: A bit of both, a bit of both.
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  Speaker 2: Like yeah, Like there's a couple of the routines in
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  Speaker 2: the show that I definitely like made that music to
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  Speaker 2: go with what I.
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  Speaker 1: Wanted to do on stage. But then there's other ones.
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  Speaker 6: Where I'm where I have just had a bit of
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  Speaker 6: music that I haven't used anything for that I've wanted
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  Speaker 6: to use, but never really had the right thing to
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  Speaker 6: put it.
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  Speaker 1: With, you know what I mean. And then I come
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  Speaker 1: up with an.
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  Speaker 2: Act I'm like, oh, you know, I actually this bit
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  Speaker 2: of music here, you know, and then you end up
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  Speaker 2: you end up pulling it apart and making remixes all
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  Speaker 2: of that sort of fun stuff.
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  Speaker 4: Completely from start to finish.
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  Speaker 2: Well yeah, yeah, like I sort of I sort of
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  Speaker 2: wanted you know, this is like, especially coming out of COVID,
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  Speaker 2: I was working on a lot of other people shows.
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  Speaker 1: Like you know so and and the like.
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  Speaker 2: I've been living off performing for my whole life since
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  Speaker 2: I was a teenager, and a lot of that's been
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  Speaker 2: because I was able to sort of present this stuff
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  Speaker 2: in a street show context.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: And while whilst street shows.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: Are really amazing for connecting with community and bringing community.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: Together, and.
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: You are pretty limited by what you can do and
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: what you can say and what's going to be too
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: horrific or too dark or or too political even you know,
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: like the because the fact is, if people are uncomfortable,
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: they will just walk away, you know. Whereas on stage
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: like once you know, like once the lights go down
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: and then like the stage lights go up, it's like
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: they're in your world.
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: So it's like there's I think you've got a lot
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: more room to play.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: You know. You can go on with tangents.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: You can you can say, you know, controversial stuff if
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: you want.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: You can do a lot more.
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: Confronting things, especially if people have sort of got some
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: idea about what it is they're going to see what
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: they're getting themselves in for. You know, it's a bit
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: of a buy the ticket, take the ride sort of scenario,
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: you know.
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: Fantastic, All right, bro, Well, thanks very much for your time.
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: I'd been absolutely pleasure chatting with this squid. Sunday Sideshow
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: starts at the Choke Sunday, March or twenty ninth, runs
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: for four consecuted Sundays. From that, I realized in Melbourne
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: break because I'd come along. It sounds sounds like a.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: More than worth the trip.
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: Now, where can people find out more information bro and
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: get them Selve tickets?
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: Well, you can look on the Melbourne International Comedy Festival website.
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: Look look for Squid Sunday Sideshow or just some more
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: a Squid. Check out my website some more a squid
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: dot com and also you can find me a some
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: more Squid on two of the evil social media platforms,
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: but I don't want to say their names here