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The Kings Of Freaks Head North: LIZARDMAN And CAPTAIN RUIN Talk CIRQUE LE STRANGE · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, my name's Captain Ruin. That's my stage name.
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  Speaker 1: I run our company, which is called Oozing Future. We
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  Speaker 1: make kind of experimental, weird, punk sideshow. And this is
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  Speaker 1: our first full national tour of a show called Circle
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  Speaker 1: of Strange. And the show mixes a bunch of different
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  Speaker 1: performance varieties. It's got all sorts of stuff. It's got
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  Speaker 1: world-class contortion. It's got pole dancing. It's got drag. It's
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  Speaker 1: got punk clowning. And it's got our very special.
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  Speaker 2: Guest, the Lizardman. It's got me, that's right. I'm the Lizardman.
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  Speaker 2: I am a professional freak. I'm here to be part
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  Speaker 2: of Cirque du Soleil.
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  Speaker 3: Fantastic, guys. Thanks for joining us from your tour van today.
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  Speaker 2: No problem.
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  Speaker 3: Very rock and roll indeed, my friend. You guys kick-started
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  Speaker 3: the Circle of Strange regional tour in Victoria and New
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  Speaker 3: South Wales last weekend, and now the Travel and Showcase
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  Speaker 3: hits Queensland this week. Start on the Gold Coast on
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  Speaker 3: Thursday before hitting the Mansfield Chubbin in Brisbane the following night,
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  Speaker 3: then winding your way through the Sunny Coast, Bundaberg, Rockhampton, Mackay,
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  Speaker 3: and finishing in Townsville on September 26th, guys. Do you
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  Speaker 3: know where you got yourself in for going up there, mate?
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  Speaker 3: It's pretty crazy up north.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. It is pretty crazy.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, it's an interesting cast of all sorts of strange, queer, eccentric,
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  Speaker 1: alternative people. And what I think is really cool is
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  Speaker 1: that our audiences are all joined together by their love
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  Speaker 1: of weird shit, you know. So what's your form in Albury,
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  Speaker 1: you perform in Melbourne, you perform in Bundaberg. And it's
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  Speaker 1: the same people coming up to you after the show going,
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  Speaker 1: that was fucking sick.
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  Speaker 2: We need more of this in our town. Please come
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  Speaker 2: back next year.
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  Speaker 3: I've got to say, though, good on you guys for
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  Speaker 3: doing the regional shows. Even a lot of bands don't
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  Speaker 3: get out there because I'm from Cairns originally, so I
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  Speaker 3: know what it's like up there to not get much
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  Speaker 3: stuff happening. But you guys are doing the full track regionals,
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  Speaker 3: so good on you.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks, man. Thank you, yeah. I mean, that's what's important.
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  Speaker 4: I actually come from a very small town back in
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  Speaker 4: the States, and I remember growing up not getting live entertainment,
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  Speaker 4: not getting shows, having to travel if you wanted to
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  Speaker 4: see anything. So if I can go out to someplace
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  Speaker 4: like that, I feel that kind of pays it back
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  Speaker 4: for me.
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  Speaker 3: For sure. Like I say, you're a couple of shows deep.
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  Speaker 3: You've done the shows in Sydney and New South Wales.
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  Speaker 3: So how'd they go? What was the audience reaction?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so we started in Geelong and then we went
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  Speaker 1: up to Albury, just on the border of New South Wales.
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  Speaker 1: And then we did a hometown show in Melbourne, which
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  Speaker 1: is where most of us are from.
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  Speaker 2: And they've been excellent.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so far we're having lots of great feedback after
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  Speaker 1: the show. people saying they just can't believe what they're seeing.
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  Speaker 1: Also people saying that they feel really comfortable to be
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  Speaker 1: themselves in the audience, that there's a lot of room
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  Speaker 1: for people to be different and strange and unusual. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and it's also really great taking a show that moves,
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  Speaker 1: you know, so we're just getting into the kind of
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  Speaker 1: habit of the pack up and the pack down, which
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  Speaker 1: is all part of the rehearsal process.
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  Speaker 2: All the fear in the back.
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  Speaker 3: You've done well to fit all that in, guys. You've
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  Speaker 3: done really well.
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  Speaker 1: I think the best part of the tour so far
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  Speaker 1: is realising that the whole show does actually.
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  Speaker 2: Fit in the van. It's a very important moment.
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  Speaker 3: Very, very important.
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  Speaker 2: And not to be taken for granted because it wasn't
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  Speaker 2: for sure. There's no guarantee.
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  Speaker 3: Well, there you go. See, Queensland's working out for you already.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. It's beautiful. 24 degrees. It was raining when
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  Speaker 2: we left Melbourne, which is always the best time to leave. Yep.
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  Speaker 3: This show has been described as a punk circus of
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  Speaker 3: your craziest dreams. I've got to tell you guys, I've
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  Speaker 3: had some pretty crazy dreams over the years, so this
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  Speaker 3: show must be next level.
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  Speaker 4: Well, in your dreams, do people's skin get peeled off?
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  Speaker 4: Do they bend in weird ways? Do things happen you've
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  Speaker 4: never seen happen in real life before? If I said yes.
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  Speaker 3: Would you think any less of me?
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  Speaker 2: More of you, more of you. I forgot to mention,
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  Speaker 2: we've also got puppetry in the show as well.
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  Speaker 1: So there's a bunch of kind of crazy costumes that
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  Speaker 1: have layers to them and that kind of stuff and
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  Speaker 1: bits that move. because we're just trying to build a
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  Speaker 1: world that's really visually surreal. You know, it looks like
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  Speaker 1: a crazy dream and anything can happen, basically. Anything can
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  Speaker 1: happen and it probably will.
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  Speaker 3: And it probably will. So more accurately, guys, I reckon
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  Speaker 3: the evening's essentially an unconventional night of circus, sideshow and cabaret,
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  Speaker 3: but with a difference. So for those who might still
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  Speaker 3: be thinking this is a normal run-of-the-mill circus with sugar
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  Speaker 3: and spice and all things nice, tell us more about
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  Speaker 3: Circular Strange and how it differs to your normal ringside experience.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I guess I've always been kind of inspired by
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  Speaker 1: the Lizard Man, you know, so we've been working together
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  Speaker 1: for maybe like 10 years now. And I love the
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  Speaker 1: idea of like human cartoons, you know, like the line
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  Speaker 1: where the human crosses over into something that's more than human.
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  Speaker 1: And I think the circus is one of those places
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  Speaker 1: where really it's like surrealism.
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  Speaker 2: It's like dreams come to life.
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  Speaker 1: Like when you watch a contortionist like Soliana, who's in
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  Speaker 1: the show, you just find yourself thinking, how can a
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  Speaker 1: human body actually do that?
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  Speaker 2: Like, how is that physically possible?
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  Speaker 1: So I guess the thing that we have programmed the
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  Speaker 1: show around is really leaning into that kind of cartoonish,
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  Speaker 1: surreal element of making extremely visual material, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: There's that moment, right, where you're watching something and you
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  Speaker 4: have expectations based on the normal world and normal experience,
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  Speaker 4: and then it gets subverted by the fact that we can,
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  Speaker 4: with our bodies, do things.
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  Speaker 2: That shouldn't be done.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Don't try this at home.
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  Speaker 3: Don't try it at home. Is it interactive with the crowd? Like,
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  Speaker 3: do you engage with the crowd while you perform it,
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  Speaker 3: or do you have to keep it serious while you're
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  Speaker 3: on there?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I start the– well, I tried to crowd surf
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  Speaker 1: at the ESPY, but they were a bit– I was
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  Speaker 1: wearing a massive clown nose and a mini skirt.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe that had something to do with it.
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  Speaker 4: To people who are coming out to the shows at
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  Speaker 4: the start of the show, get your hands up. Some
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  Speaker 4: support for the captain when he comes over that barricade.
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  Speaker 1: We actually, we don't use audience volunteers, but you know,
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  Speaker 1: because we're playing these kind of band rooms, it is
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  Speaker 1: very interactive because we're feeding back off the energy of
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  Speaker 1: the audience. And like, that kind of comes from our
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  Speaker 1: experience doing festivals as well. So, um, this company oozing future,
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  Speaker 1: we also program a stage at good things called stage six, six, six, which, uh,
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  Speaker 1: this amount of past year. And like, We really feed
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  Speaker 1: off the energy of the crowd, just like a band does,
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  Speaker 1: you know? So we get people involved, we get them cheering,
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  Speaker 1: we get them, you know, feeding back to us what
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  Speaker 1: they're into.
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  Speaker 4: Even if it's not like physically bringing a volunteer onto stage,
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  Speaker 4: it is very much an energy exchange that goes back
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  Speaker 4: and forth. It is interactive intensely in that way. We
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  Speaker 4: draw a lot from the crowd and we give a
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  Speaker 4: lot back to the crowd. We just don't physically move
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  Speaker 4: them onto stage.
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  Speaker 3: For legal reasons, of course.
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  Speaker 2: Well, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You sort of touched on this before, guys, but the
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  Speaker 3: cast features, you've got the world-famous Lizardman, the contort sensation,
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  Speaker 3: Soliana Ursi, pole artist, Stenbot, drag-less performer, Winchard Green, and
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  Speaker 3: Captain Ruin, the Puck Clown. Is it controlled chaos up
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  Speaker 3: there on stage or is it anything goes?
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  Speaker 1: It's the same show every single night. That's the last millisecond.
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  Speaker 1: It's fine, but it's not orchestrated.
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  Speaker 4: Look, we will tell you it's controlled, but just know
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  Speaker 4: that we're not always completely honest.
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  Speaker 2: It may or may not be controlled.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, there's a certain kind of magic that comes
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  Speaker 1: from putting on a new show and having a couple
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  Speaker 1: of days of rehearsal and just throwing it all on
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  Speaker 1: stage and seeing what happens. And that's part of the,
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  Speaker 1: that's part of the excitement really of how we make
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  Speaker 1: stuff is that it is very punk and it is
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  Speaker 1: very DIY. So there's a lot of handmade stuff in
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  Speaker 1: the show and we're sort of figuring it out as
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  Speaker 1: we go, but that's, That's part of the fun for
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  Speaker 1: the audience, really, is seeing where the wheels might come off.
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  Speaker 2: It's fun for us and for the audience. See what happens.
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  Speaker 3: Awesome. Now, yourself, listen, man, you're one of the main
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  Speaker 3: draw cards, I guess. You've been on Ripley's Believe It
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  Speaker 3: or Not. You're known all around the world, mate. So
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  Speaker 3: what the hell is a lizard doing over here in
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  Speaker 3: Australia where it's fucking hot? And so far, what are
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  Speaker 3: you doing over here, man? How did you get involved?
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  Speaker 4: You just said it yourself. This is lizard country right here.
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  Speaker 4: This is good climate for a lizard. I'm loving it.
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  Speaker 4: Because back home, it's just starting to get cold. So
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  Speaker 4: I'm happy to get down here in the sun. I've
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  Speaker 4: been coming down to Australia since about 2012, I think
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  Speaker 4: was my first trip. And from that first trip, it's
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  Speaker 4: just been a love affair on my side. I've never
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  Speaker 4: had a bad time down here, no matter what show,
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  Speaker 4: what time I've done.
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  Speaker 2: And it just keeps getting better.
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  Speaker 3: Very nice. Andy, you know, you perform as Captain Ruin
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  Speaker 3: and you mix punk clowning with extreme stunts, including hanging
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  Speaker 3: weights off your no-no special place. How do you mentally
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  Speaker 3: prepare for that level of physical vulnerability in front of
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  Speaker 3: a live, unpredictable crowd every night?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, what a great question.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it is a great question.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. How do you prepare for it? Well, I shave
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  Speaker 2: my balls.
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  Speaker 5: Because actually the worst part of that routine is if
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  Speaker 5: you get your hair caught in the equipment, that's when
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  Speaker 5: it really hurts.
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  Speaker 2: Hair removal is very important to sideshow. It's bizarre the
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  Speaker 2: things you end up doing to get ready for a show, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: That could be where you get the crowd participation. You
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  Speaker 3: could have someone come up and shave your balls every night.
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  Speaker 2: Whoa. They'd need a very steady hand.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. So you're not a very trusting guy.
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  Speaker 1: We encourage our audience to get drunk, you know, support
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  Speaker 1: local pubs, have a couple of beers, get tipsy, make
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  Speaker 1: us look even wobblier and weirder.
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  Speaker 4: We're not asking you to be responsible when you show
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  Speaker 4: up to the show just to come and watch and
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  Speaker 4: have fun.
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  Speaker 3: Thank fuck for that. To do with the stuff that
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  Speaker 3: you guys do, like it's bound to have gone pear-shaped
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  Speaker 3: on more than one occasion. So what's the most freaked
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  Speaker 3: out you've ever been for your own or someone else's safety?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that's a good one.
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  Speaker 1: Have an act that i don't do so much anymore
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  Speaker 1: where i get out of a straight jacket while i'm
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  Speaker 1: on roller skates and um i was doing the australian
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  Speaker 1: tattoo expo and i just misjudged my landing and instead
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  Speaker 1: of landing on my elbow i landed on my forehead
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  Speaker 1: and i split my entire eyebrow open um but of
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  Speaker 1: course i was on stage and i'm a professional i
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  Speaker 1: got back up and went flick and like blood went
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  Speaker 1: all over the front row and uh just kept going
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  Speaker 1: got out of the straight jacket went straight to hospital
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  Speaker 1: i think i had five stitches came back and then
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  Speaker 1: did the next show an hour later nice.
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  Speaker 3: Now you're gonna top that one lizard man.
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  Speaker 4: Uh i was doing a a live tv show in
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  Speaker 4: malaysia And we were waiting. So it was supposed to
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  Speaker 4: be a Malaysian performer went and he walked on a
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  Speaker 4: bed of coals. And the person that I was with,
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  Speaker 4: we were in teams of performers with the Space Cowboy,
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  Speaker 4: actually another Australian performer.
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  Speaker 2: We were there.
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  Speaker 4: And after he walked across the bed of coals, I
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  Speaker 4: kind of looked at Cowboy and said, I'm going to
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  Speaker 4: walk on the coals. And I took I took the
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  Speaker 4: first and he climbed up on my shoulder so I
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  Speaker 4: would carry him across the coals. I put my foot
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  Speaker 4: down the first step and went, hey, wait. I didn't
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  Speaker 4: prepare these. I don't know how he does this. So
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  Speaker 4: at that point, I was just like, okay, I got
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  Speaker 4: to run across these coals as fast as possible without
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  Speaker 4: falling with another dude on my shoulders.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus.
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  Speaker 3: So I was a.
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  Speaker 2: Little dicey in the middle of that.
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  Speaker 3: How blistered were your feet after that?
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  Speaker 4: Actually, my feet did not get blistered from the coals
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  Speaker 4: at all, but they were also doing broken glass, and
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  Speaker 4: a piece of glass had flown outside of the area,
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  Speaker 4: so that went in my foot when I stepped off
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  Speaker 4: the coals.
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  Speaker 2: Stepped off the coals onto a piece of glass. Classic.
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  Speaker 3: Unfortunately, commercial break.
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  Speaker 2: Pull it out of my foot. Keep going.
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  Speaker 3: That's unreal. I notice you aren't even selling upgrades by
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  Speaker 3: the book either. You've tossed aside the traditional VIP upgrade
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  Speaker 3: in favor of VSP tickets. What the fuck does that
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  Speaker 3: stand for? And what does that get the person?
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  Speaker 2: It's kind of like a halal snack pack.
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  Speaker 3: It blows up in your face.
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  Speaker 2: So we offer.
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  Speaker 1: Early entry to people who want to come along and
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  Speaker 1: have a bit of a chance to chat and hang
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  Speaker 1: out with us from the show. You know, people often
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  Speaker 1: have really burning questions about Lizardman. As you mentioned, he's
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  Speaker 1: known around the world. So it just gives people that
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  Speaker 1: chance to kind of come in. They get a free T-shirt.
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  Speaker 1: They get a free drink. They get to sit around
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  Speaker 1: with us. And then we take a photo and give
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  Speaker 1: it to them, print it out right there and then.
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  Speaker 1: So they've got like a signed piece of merchandise souvenir
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  Speaker 1: to take away.
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  Speaker 4: And the idea of calling it very special people instead
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  Speaker 4: of VIPs is historically.
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  Speaker 2: Very strange people. Oh, great. Well, anyway, I'll still say it.
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  Speaker 4: Historically in the States, behind the scenes, freaks were referred
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  Speaker 4: to as very special people. That was language that was
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  Speaker 4: used within the industry at one time.
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  Speaker 3: Sounds like everyone's learned something.
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  Speaker 2: We're always learning here. Always learning.
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  Speaker 3: On a little side thing, Mitch, I came across something
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  Speaker 3: you've done, mate. You've just launched a book called No
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  Speaker 3: Horizon and Australian Punk in a Turkish Prison. That sounds intriguing, man.
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  Speaker 3: Tell us more about that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's my self-published memoir, which I brought out
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  Speaker 1: last month with the assistance of a Kickstarter campaign.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, look.
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  Speaker 2: It's my copy. You can't have this one.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's about something that happened to me about
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  Speaker 1: 15 years ago when I was hitchhiking around the Middle East.
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  Speaker 1: and got in a street fight in Istanbul and someone
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  Speaker 1: got stabbed and I got blamed. And so I went
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  Speaker 1: to jail while I was waiting to go to court
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  Speaker 1: to try and clear my name. And the book is
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  Speaker 1: kind of about the lessons of emotional maturity that I
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  Speaker 1: learned from some older prisoners who took me under their
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  Speaker 1: wing while I was inside.
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  Speaker 2: And it's a.
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  Speaker 1: Very punked story, not only because of the actual tale,
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  Speaker 1: but because of the way that it's come about, you know,
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  Speaker 1: so it's quite a, I call it Do It Together
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  Speaker 1: rather than DIY. It's D-I-T, Do It Together. So with
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  Speaker 1: the support of our community of people who are interested
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  Speaker 1: in alternative culture, we've brought this book out, which means
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  Speaker 1: that everybody gets access to a story that I hope
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  Speaker 1: will be useful, particularly for young men who might be
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  Speaker 1: struggling with anger or for people who are interested in
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  Speaker 1: men's behavioral change more generally.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, that's really cool, man. Really cool. But enough
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  Speaker 3: about you. Let's get back to the circus. Yeah, that's right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And it's fair to say the circus or Cirque du
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  Speaker 3: Lestrange isn't for the squeamish man, but people shouldn't let
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  Speaker 3: a little thing like a soft belly put them off
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  Speaker 3: either because the show isn't just about making people swim,
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  Speaker 3: is it? It's like it's more about embracing the inner
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  Speaker 3: freak in all of us.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly.
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  Speaker 4: And if you do get that little bit of scrum there,
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  Speaker 4: if that's concerning someone, remember that we always present in
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  Speaker 4: a way that's going to make it palatable to you.
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  Speaker 4: We want to show you something weird, strange and bizarre
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  Speaker 4: that if you hear it described, you might be like, oh,
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if I want to see that. But
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  Speaker 4: when you see it in the context of the show,
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  Speaker 4: you're going to be laughing.
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  Speaker 2: You're going to be cheering. You're going to be loving it.
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  Speaker 4: You know, we we give you that context by building
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  Speaker 4: the world that we perform in. Yeah, nice.
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  Speaker 3: And just say people are still a bit unsure and
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  Speaker 3: they're on the fence about going. Guys, here's your last chance.
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  Speaker 3: Push them over the edge and tell us why Cirque
• 15:07
  Speaker 3: du Lestrange is a show not to be missed.
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: Well, we just want to make people part of our
• 15:11
  Speaker 2: freak family.
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: Around the whole east coast of Australia, we're joining people together,
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: making them part of something bigger, which is alternative culture
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: and punk culture that we need to keep alive here
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: in Australia. It's important to show up for stuff like this,
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: going out to live entertainment, essentially keeps it alive in Australia.
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: And that's really significant.
• 15:30
  Speaker 4: And you'll always regret not doing something more than doing something.
• 15:33
  Speaker 4: So don't miss your opportunity here. Take your chance.
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: Come on out. Have a good time with the freaks.
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: That's it.
• 15:39
  Speaker 3: Fantastic, guys. Well, thanks for your time. It's been a pleasure.
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: Tickets for all shows are available through Austec. So get
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: your tickets now because I've got a feeling there won't
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: be many left come showtime on any of the nights, guys.
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: And I'll see you on Friday in Mansfield.
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: Excellent. Look forward to meeting you in the flesh. Thanks
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: very much for the interview. Thank you.