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It's recording, that's a good start.

Full disclosure fellas, brand new system's been installed.

Yeah.

So I have no idea if this is gonna work or not, but we'll have a crack.

Here we go.

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Oh, g'day, Phil.

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Hello, it seems...

Look at Keezy's furrowed brain.

Yeah, he's...

What's happening here is it sounds like the sound effects, like the outro admin just then, was way quieter than our voices are.

It's the best it's ever been.

Looking at the waveforms, you know.

Never better.

It just felt crystal to me.

You can't even see...

The whole new system.

Hey, Mogey, Mogey!

Old Keezy's got a Coke.

He's got a can of Coke there.

Oh dear.

Oh, shuffling.

He's looking a bit glassy-eyed as well.

Yeah.

A few beers last night, brother.

Damn.

The old freebies there.

Didn't ya?

one of those lights off the tray there.

What is that, a pinot?

I had a couple of beers, yes, with pugs.

However, no, I just didn't sleep very well last night.

You're really struggling at the moment, aren't you?

But there's a bit like you're right.

This apple cart's been rocked a little bit.

Yeah.

Apple cart's rocked a little bit.

You've got moves on.

There's things happening.

You're stressed out.

A lot of stuff happening.

You're not in control, Keezy.

Everything's not how it's meant to be.

I'm careening out of control right now.

The trailer's a bit open, and the apples are just dropping out the side.

I'll tell you what will help, man.

Wake up in the middle of the night and think about it.

That's what I did.

And it didn't really help.

No. I couldn't think of anything.

No. But then today I've just been a bit like, so now that I'm here I'm just like, fuck, I'll have a Coke, man.

Yeah, man, yeah.

So I got to that with, because I do a lot of that.

Sort of it's been better this year.

And you just get to a point where being tired just becomes your normal.

Yes, very much so.

Which is really good.

It's a great place to get to when you eventually get to that.

Just becomes your normal.

I'm not tired anymore.

This is just how I feel.

This is good.

So you're awake all night and then you just work all day.

You have a shit sleep and then you get up again, so on and so forth.

You see these massive sacks under my eyes there, Keezy?

Yeah.

I've been doing that three or four years.

Just, I mean, you've got legit things to worry about.

Just invents things.

I just invent stuff.

Yeah, right.

But having said that, I've also had some very legit things to worry about.

You have, actually.

I do invent stuff.

You've forgotten about that stuff.

Oh, that's right.

Your wife's leaving you.

Oh, my God.

That's the least of my problems.

Yeah, and on the downside.

That's a blip on the radar for you.

There's nothing.

Yeah, man.

Yeah.

No, I mean, I don't know about you guys, but I wake up every morning and I'm like, oh, fuck.

Here we go again.

Here we go.

I do.

I wake up and I'm fucking fizzing.

The only thing I'm not super thrilled about is, last night was good, because I went home and I had a bath, and I listened to the This Worry Is Life,

watched it on This Warrior's Life podcast on YouTube in the bath.

Had a soak there, Keezy.

Straight to bed.

Lights out at eight o'clock.

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Wow.

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And then my wife, because my wife can't handle any light coming into the room, so she puts her arm over her eyes.

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Yes.

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Right?

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And then her arm slips off her face and she elbows me.

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So I'm on her right.

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She always uses her right arm to cover her eyes.

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Never left.

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her right, so just elbow me, put it back up.

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Elbow me, put it back up.

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You can see the pattern here, Keezy.

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It's just one of those things where I'm just like, she should get an eye mask.

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100%.

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And she's got two.

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Doesn't wear them.

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No, she likes them.

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She just doesn't wear them.

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Yeah.

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So that's all good, man, because I'm sleeping like a baby over there anyway.

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Yeah.

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Do you know what would fix?

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I reckon you guys should have bunk beds.

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Yeah, it does feel like...

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My daughter's got a bunk bed.

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So swap that out and give her the double.

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It's getting to that point, you know, where you have your single beds with your ornaments in between.

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Look, you know.

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You know what I mean?

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Matching quilted beds.

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What my wife does, she doesn't bash me, but she slowly slides down the bed.

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And so I'm like, you know.

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She's trying to slide out.

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And I'm trying to get my arm around and nestle into the buttock area.

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She doesn't want that.

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And she's just sliding further down the bed.

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But that's what got her into this problem in the first place is you doing that.

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What, trying to settle into it? successfully doing that.

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Into her butt-offs.

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So she'd be fuming if she heard this.

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So she slowly makes her way down and out of the bed, whereas you- No, not out of the bed.

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She's got a bag packed by the door.

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And I'm like- She's just trying to get out.

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I'll wake up at like three in the morning and I'll put my- Oh, she's not- and she's way down the bed.

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And she's out the door like this.

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And I'll go, hey!

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Hey, where are you going?

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Get back.

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Whereas you grab all the blankets and turn it into a big pretzel.

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Oh, hi, mate.

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Yeah.

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What I do is I get sweaty thighs, so I like cool duvet and sheets.

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So even in the winter you get back?

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No, I don't really, but it's a comfort thing.

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And I put it between my thighs, right, and I clamp it.

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What do you do with your massive nutsack?

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And then I roll over, and as I'm doing that, because I've clamped the duvet between my thighs, I pull the duvet with me.

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Right.

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And I'll toss and turn all night.

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And so I end up like a caterpillar in a cocoon.

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And my wife has a corner of it.

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You haven't answered my question about the nut sack.

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Well, my nut sack...

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Do you push your balls out to sit on top of your thighs, or are they tucked in between your thighs?

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Well, they're in my undies, so they're not really doing anything anything yeah i don't go

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nude like you guys you have to go nude man otherwise

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you're wearing your entire life you've got a waistband around your

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midriff you've got to let it breathe let it breathe man

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you're choking it out man you're choking it out bro brother um i don't know

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that my wife would be stoked

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if i was nude in bed really my wife wouldn't give a shit

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because we're married and And she doesn't mind me being nude.

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Yeah, it's disgust here.

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It is just how it is.

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She loves it, man.

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I find that interesting because...

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Do you know she rang Jason tears?

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Because for someone that doesn't like being nude in front of everyone, you'll get your kid off.

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What?

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Me?

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Yeah, I mean, you're nude in bed.

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What do you mean?

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Of course I don't like being naked in front of everyone.

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Who likes being naked in front of everyone?

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I can see you.

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Through the window.

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He can see you through the window.

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If I didn't know that, I would see you as a full-pressed pyjama man.

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Yep.

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You know what I mean?

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I agree.

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You know, probably buttoned up.

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Long sleeves.

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Long sleeves.

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It's got a pocket on it, probably monogrammed.

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Yes.

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Little handkerchief folded up in there.

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You've got slippers.

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Slippers by the side of the bed.

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Yeah, a pipe.

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You just blow bubbles out of it.

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And you'll be in the lounge like, doosh, doosh, doosh, doosh, playing your game dressed like that.

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Yeah.

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And your wife will be like, are you coming to bed? and you'll be like, in a moment, darling.

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That's not my fault.

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And I'll just finish my glass of sherry.

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Port, actually, Jase.

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Port.

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Port.

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Penfolds, my favourite.

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God, I haven't had port in a long, long time.

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Well, I hope you're ready to have it again.

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Oh, yeah.

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Oh, yeah.

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As part of my come dine with me, we're going to send all the wives to bed.

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Simply must.

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And then have a small glass of port and play PlayStation together.

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Circle jerk.

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Is that the name of the game you're playing at the moment?

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Doosh, doosh, doosh.

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Jerk, jerk.

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Did you not do the hand movement with that?

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It was a double joystick.

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Yeah.

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Two joysticks, a couple of joysticks.

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Oh, it's funny stuff, guys.

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Oh, great stuff.

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We're doing breakfast tomorrow, by the way.

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So I want you to realise that we're going to go straight from here, straight to bed, sleep for two hours, get up and back into it.

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Well, it's good, isn't it?

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I always enjoy the first hour of breakfast because old Keezy takes about an hour to wake up.

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He does.

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And so you can just sort of have your fun with him.

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Yeah, you can.

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Yeah, just have your way with him.

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It's fine.

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What I actually remind us when I come in is you guys just are super chill.

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I'm always chill in the morning, man.

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Being good fellas about it.

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I'm depressed in the morning.

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Why do you wake up in the morning and go, oh, fuck, you've got this beautiful apartment, beautiful wife, lovely family you know great job yeah I think it's the job

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you're probably going to have hot pot at some stage during the day

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but you still wake up going I don't know what it is apparently

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if I was watching this thing it's low cortisol I'm burning all my cortisol up.

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How do you get cortisol?

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I don't know, but it's something in the system where you're constantly in anxiety mode

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and you're burning shit up all the time.

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Right.

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And so you wake up just like, ah.

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Really?

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Even in your sleep, you're like that.

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But then I'll have a coffee.

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Is that true?

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You're heightening it.

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Yeah, too much cortisol.

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Here you go.

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ways to support a healthy cortisol rhythm.

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Exercise.

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Yeah, I do that.

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I walk all over the place.

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Moderate to high intensity physical activity.

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No. Get morning sunlight.

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Step outside.

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View natural light within an hour of waking up.

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Where do they get that shit from?

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Where do they get that bullshit?

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I don't know, man.

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That's a new thing, that.

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That's just telling me to get some D.

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Vitamin D, 100%.

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Stay hydrated.

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That makes sense.

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Drink a glass of water right after waking up.

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This is a real thing.

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When you wake up have a big glass of water don't have a coffee for an hour.

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Oh I definitely have a coffee, but I always I start with a glass of water same

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But don't have coffee for an hour and you'll feel way better.

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Nah fuck off.

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Yeah fucking do what I want.

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Whoa whoa And eating a balanced meal so you know no hot pots.

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I don't eat until about at least Midday and what are you eating?

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Go and say it baked beans today Come on, man.

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Some chopped up bacon, a bit of grated pepper.

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Some chilli I put in my beans and bacon.

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What's that?

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Hand motion.

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That's me chopping chillies.

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Doesn't look like it.

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I had a, we have a loaf, a sourdough loaf.

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Oh, yeah.

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Chopped a little bit off that, Keezy.

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Stick it in the toaster there.

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A little bit of butter, a little bit of avocado.

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Sardines.

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My wife started getting into the sardines.

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Oh, my God.

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But not the cheap version.

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These different ones in a round can.

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Oh, the fancy ones.

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Not the ones with a key.

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And they're all wearing top hats.

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They've got top hats on, that's all the sardines wearing top hats.

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Nice.

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We've got canes and they're swirling them around.

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Very nice.

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I haven't had a sardine in years.

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Sardines and that other shit, kimchi.

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I see as to her, I see as to her, I see as to her, I'm going to be popular in the office.

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Kimchi rules, mate, well you'd be ripping ass, but...

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Oh, I meant my breath.

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And then she goes, oh yeah, it does reek and that was that.

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Did you have all those on the one piece of bread?

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Yeah.

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Oh God, how...

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It was fucking nice, bro.

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Hey, listen to the big show, 407 Weekdays.

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Better than what's that shit you had?

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Radio Hodaki.

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I had baked beans.

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Yeah, fucking shit.

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With chopped up bacon.

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Straight away that's crap.

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I fry off some bacon.

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Nah, baked beans is shit.

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Chuck the beans in there, pepper, white toast.

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I love beans.

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I would rather eat his.

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Thank you.

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Because I don't want to eat fish.

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Yeah, I know.

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Because you don't like fish, which is why you go to Japan, you goose.

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I'm going to Japan to eat fish.

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It's funny that you mention sardines, though.

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Because I used to eat them all the time.

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So did my wife.

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She loved them.

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They're fucking good, man.

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Those ones are really good.

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They're a different sort of a thing.

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I saw, Jase, you were holding a sardine.

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It was massive.

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It's like one of those photos of a guy with a prize-winning fish.

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Hey, this is the big show.

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Four little seven weeks, Jase Radio.

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Is that the best you've got, man?

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Yeah, it's all I've got.

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This casual, conversational video is perfect for practicing natural fluency and real-time interaction—key milestones for learners aiming to sound less scripted. The unplanned, back-and-forth dialogue mirrors everyday chats, making it ideal for mastering how to respond quickly, use filler phrases, and maintain a relaxed tone. It’s also great for honing shadow speak (repeating speech immediately after the speaker), a technique that builds listening and speaking speed simultaneously.

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"Full disclosure" – A friendly way to admit something upfront.
"Have a crack" (informal) – To try something, even if unsure.
"Apple cart's been rocked" – A situation has been disrupted or upset.
"Careening out of control" – Losing control of a situation quickly.
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The video’s laid-back rhythm and Australian slang challenge you to improve English pronunciation of reduced sounds and casual contractions (e.g., "gonna," "didn’t ya"). The speakers often overlap and speak quickly, which is perfect for practicing the shadowing technique: pause, replay short clips, and repeat them immediately, matching the speed, tone, and stress. Focus on mimicking the rise and fall of their voices—this trains your mouth to move like a native. Shadow speak with this clip to tackle common issues like rushing or misplacing stress in longer phrases. Learning English with videos like this bridges the gap between classroom learning and real-world communication, making you more confident in unplanned conversations.

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Conditional sentences if + clause, will/would + verb — a condition and its result	If I didn't know that, I would see
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	been installed · been rocked · would be stoked
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	I've just been · You've forgotten · I've clamped

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Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.

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