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Denise Scott · Lisa & Russell

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  Speaker 1: Denise Scott's coming to town next year for the Perth
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  Speaker 1: Comedy Festival with her show Tickety Boo. It's at the
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  Speaker 1: Regal Theatre on Saturday the 8th of May. Denise Scott,
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  Speaker 1: good morning.
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  Speaker 2: Morning, Denise.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning to you. So great to chat with you.
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  Speaker 2: Young people, just Google the meaning of Tickety Boo.
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  Speaker 4: It's good.
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  Speaker 1: It's good.
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  Speaker 2: It means good.
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  Speaker 4: It absolutely does.
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  Speaker 1: It's your first solo show in more than a decade.
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  Speaker 1: What's gone into tickety-boo?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, a lot of me lying on my bed thinking
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  Speaker 3: I should really get up and make an effort. But, no,
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  Speaker 3: it really all started because back in 2023, diagnosed with
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  Speaker 3: breast cancer and, yeah, As a friend of mine, true story,
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  Speaker 3: said at the time, oh, who hasn't got breast cancer,
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  Speaker 3: which was a wonderful thing and caring thing for her
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  Speaker 3: to say. But there's a truth in that.
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  Speaker 2: There is, unfortunately.
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  Speaker 3: Yes. But so my treatment for that, the actual treatment,
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  Speaker 3: I had 18 months of chemo and six weeks of
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  Speaker 3: daily radiation and some surgery. So it was all of
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  Speaker 3: about two years of treatment.
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  Speaker 4: I guess that's a long time.
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  Speaker 3: I tell you what, it's a really long time.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it really is.
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  Speaker 3: And if you think I wrote my show during that time,
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  Speaker 3: you're entirely mistaken. I had nothing going on. Anyway, no,
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  Speaker 3: what am I saying? I worked.
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  Speaker 4: That's right, I worked. Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But you were keeping mental notes of what was going on,
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  Speaker 2: so it was always going to be, there was always
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  Speaker 2: going to be material there.
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  Speaker 3: Well, the thing is that there were lots of funny
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  Speaker 3: things happen and what I'd do was because during my
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  Speaker 3: treatment I couldn't bear to, I couldn't deal with screens,
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  Speaker 3: I couldn't deal with typing, I couldn't. So my partner
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  Speaker 3: of 46 years, John.
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  Speaker 3: He'd sit, we've got this sort of old green velvet
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  Speaker 3: chair in the bedroom. If you think it sounds sexual,
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  Speaker 3: it's not. I don't know why I said that.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you were painting a picture there for a moment.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Anyway, he'd sit in the green chair, I'd be in
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  Speaker 3: my bed and I'd dictate and he'd handwrite. He had
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  Speaker 3: to handwrite. He wasn't allowed to type and I had
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  Speaker 3: a notebook and he'd write in the stories.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And they had word for word what I dictated. He
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  Speaker 3: wasn't allowed to go, oh, but that's not funny. Irrelevant.
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  Speaker 3: His opinion was irrelevant. And that's how I got collected
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  Speaker 3: the stories for the show. Yeah. So a lot of
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  Speaker 3: them are. from that time when I was having treatment.
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  Speaker 3: But the show, because I've been doing it a bit
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  Speaker 3: in Melbourne and it's evolved into something, it's quite a
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  Speaker 3: different beast actually. I still tell those stories but I
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  Speaker 3: just am so distracted. Like I blame the medication I'm
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  Speaker 3: on now. I don't know. Anything to do with that.
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  Speaker 4: I think that's a fabulous excuse.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, everyone must try. I'm on this hormone-blocking tablet called
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  Speaker 3: Letrozole and I blame it for everything. Like only yesterday
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  Speaker 3: my daughter rang, said, you know, can you look after
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  Speaker 3: the kids, Mum? I said, no, you know, my joints
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  Speaker 3: are aching. It's the Letrozole. And it sounded so much better.
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  Speaker 3: kinder than saying i'm halfway through a true crime podcast
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  Speaker 3: and i have no interest in looking after my grandchildren
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  Speaker 3: so anyway that's my advice to everyone use medication.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely get a script for something even if you don't
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  Speaker 2: use it just use it for an excuse.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah You say it evolves, but I guess that's the
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  Speaker 1: difference between a comedy show and a written, you know, play.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Well, this is what I got it together as a very,
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  Speaker 3: in the end, after going through all the handwritten stories,
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  Speaker 3: I did type it up into a script, very proud
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  Speaker 3: of it. And honestly, from the moment I got on stage,
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  Speaker 3: all I have to do is see someone I don't know,
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  Speaker 3: do a button up on their coat and I'll go,
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  Speaker 3: what's going on to an audience member? How come you
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  Speaker 3: just did up the button then? Like what? And I
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  Speaker 3: blame the electrosol. It's like I'm distracted, brain fog. And
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  Speaker 3: I'm finding that part of the show and weaving it in.
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  Speaker 2: So there is a framework really, but obviously it's a guide. Exactly.
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  Speaker 2: We follow it loosely. But I guess that's, you know,
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  Speaker 2: what you're talking about is picking things out of the crowd.
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  Speaker 2: That's what keeps the show different every time, I guess,
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  Speaker 2: you know, rather than it being too scripted and structured.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah. And I think, you know, I get bored
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  Speaker 3: with myself and I think, oh, my God, if I
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  Speaker 3: tell that radiation story again. But, oh, sorry, I've got to.
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  Speaker 3: It's the letrozole. It absolutely is. Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 4: It's a bugger on your throat.
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  Speaker 1: Denise, I'm sure you've been a great sounding board just
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  Speaker 1: these last couple of weeks for your good friend Judith Lucy.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, God, no, you don't.
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  Speaker 4: You don't talk.
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  Speaker 3: We work together. We have no interest or care for
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  Speaker 3: one another. She ignored me my whole cancer journey. I'm
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  Speaker 3: ignoring her. Why should I?
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  Speaker 2: Return the favour, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Let me tell you then, she's already made me laugh
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  Speaker 1: more times than I sort of feel comfortable with her journey.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, for God's sake, her doctor's name is Dr Fun.
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  Speaker 1: Do you wonder how people that don't have that comedy
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  Speaker 1: mind like you or Judith, how they get through things?
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  Speaker 3: Well... I think a lot of people do have a
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  Speaker 3: sense of humour, you know, and they use it. And
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  Speaker 3: Judith and I are just very upfront about making cash
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  Speaker 3: from out. So, you know, there's the pressure. By all
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  Speaker 3: means laugh, but we've got to earn money. And I
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  Speaker 3: have been somewhat of a sounding board. For Judith, who's
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  Speaker 3: doing well, I might say, after surgery. But the thing
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  Speaker 3: with cancer, I mean, everyone's different, but I became very quiet, actually.
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  Speaker 3: I went inward, can you believe it? And so I, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: and I started colouring in. I know that's a sexy
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  Speaker 3: image too, but colouring inward. Can you believe it?
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  Speaker 4: I can't believe it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's not as easy as it sounds. They're hugely popular.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. No, neither of you have got another thing to
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  Speaker 3: say about that. So that says a lot about colouring in.
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  Speaker 3: Let's move on. All right. But do you know that
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  Speaker 3: they do have pornographic colouring in books?
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  Speaker 4: No, they don't.
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  Speaker 3: Really? They do, they do, they do. And, you know,
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  Speaker 3: which made me wonder. Denise.
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  Speaker 2: Denise, when you're doing those kind of colouring in books,
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  Speaker 2: do you finish? Do you, you know.
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  Speaker 3: Do you get.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, but I mean, you know.
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  Speaker 3: I thought you were being really sexual.
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  Speaker 4: Do you finish?
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  Speaker 3: Sorry.
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  Speaker 1: I'm saving that one to Google at home, not on
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  Speaker 1: the work computer.
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  Speaker 4: Pornographic colouring in books. The show Back to the show.
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  Speaker 1: It's had sold-out runs in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you for– because quite often people come to the Comedy
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  Speaker 1: Festival and use us as their guinea pig. But we're
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  Speaker 1: getting a highly polished version.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, a refined. A refined version. But just don't do
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  Speaker 4: up your button.
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 4: Because you will lead Denise down.
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  Speaker 3: A whole.
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  Speaker 4: New.
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  Speaker 2: And don't talk about Colouring In.
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 2: Those books.
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  Speaker 3: Or do. Don't move. Don't move. Don't blink. Don't breathe.
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  Speaker 1: Can I just say what I love about it the best?
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  Speaker 1: It's a starting time of 4.45.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, my God. The audience, we all go nuts for it.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: Somehow the anxiety is gone. It's like get in there,
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  Speaker 3: get home or maybe go out.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You're leaving me out for an early dinner.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Not just out in time for dinner but an early dinner.
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  Speaker 3: Home in bed.
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  Speaker 2: Home in bed by 8.30. With a colouring in book.
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  Speaker 2: With a colouring in book. One of Denise's colouring in books.
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  Speaker 1: Yes. So my old-ness thanks you for that. We should
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  Speaker 1: mention you can get your tickets.
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  Speaker 4: For Tickety Boo at the Rio.
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  Speaker 1: Theatre on Saturday the 8th of May, either through the
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  Speaker 1: Perth Comedy Festival or through Ticketek.
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  Speaker 4: It's going to be lovely to have you in town, Denise.
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  Speaker 3: I really look forward to it. I haven't been there
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  Speaker 3: for a while.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm really looking forward to it. I'll be able
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  Speaker 3: to see Aunty Beryl.
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  Speaker 4: Good.
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  Speaker 3: Uncle Ron. Okay. Judith's mum, Jan, of the people I
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  Speaker 3: know in your city. Unreal.
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  Speaker 4: We will see you then.
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  Speaker 2: We'll clean the place up for you.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Ready for your arrival.
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  Speaker 4: It'll be tickety-boo.