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Coming up on this show, we've got the precursor ghosts, the hot galactic hygienists,

and when your fertile man womb is impregnated by aliens. I'm your host, Benjamin Grundy, joining me is Aaron Wright? How much sleep did you get? I've got nothing. You always do this to me. You're just sitting there over there. We're about to record a show. Neither us have slept properly. And you're like, oh, I don't know what I'm going to do for a headline. And then you come up with the most mundane thing. I'm like, let's run with it. And the next second you give me hygienists and manwounds. Fertile manwom. True story. I have your boss. Well, we were going to record last night, and it was really late.

It got really late, yeah.

And I just thought, well, let's just go and get a great night's sleep and we'll come back fresh. We'll come back fresh in the morning. So I get home, what does my retarded Australian brain do? Just keep me up all freaking night. And I knew, like, you know, at about 10.30 at night, because I have a certain, there's a certain feeling.

Oh, yeah, it's like, it's a panic. You're still wired, and your body isn't tired, and you just know it's game over. There's not, there's no sleep coming. I reckon this year I've gotten less sleep than when my kids were babies. Yeah, I reckon, yeah, you're probably right. It's just... It's just nuts. See, I walked home last night and because I was like, tired but why, I walked into a fucking waddle bush. What? There's this waddle tree at the front and I was like, because all my lights went off. I don't know why. It was like the programming's out. So I like water and I walk straight into this wattle bush.

And of course like I've got massive allergies at the moment. So I'm just like, oh, and then I end up with this allergy attack. I'm like coughing and sneezing. Neighbors are looking. I'm like from that point. I was like, it's done. Can we put up a picture of a wattle bush?

It's like in full bloom, and it was so dark that it's walks straight.

One of these things. Yeah, you still get a little bit of yellow on your shirt. I'm just a mess. I'm just such a mess. You look a bit inflamed. I'm extremely inflamed. It's just ridiculous. But doesn't matter. Who cares? We're here this morning. We've got a good show coming up. Yeah, we'll do a good show. I was saying to you before we were recording that we're getting so close to the end of our career that we're going to, there's going to be an episode this, the end of the season, where we just blow it up. Oh, pardon me. We just blow it up. So this morning, the truth will come out. As I'm driving to work, I've actually, like, in my mind, pending, because I hate using Twitter. But I was like, I'm like, I made a mind as always said to me, he's like, you don't owe anyone an explanation. He's like, never give anyone an explanation. and I'm just like, in my mind, depending of like, why I'm done. People don't get it. It's not just the show. Like, I will say this, I was thinking about it. It's not just the show, right? And this, this strict regimen that we've followed for 16, 17 years. Yes, the disciplined two shows a week regimen. Yeah, it is.

And because of that, like, we've always had the same set holiday breaks, which means, like,

it's really hard to coordinate with your family and you miss out on things.

But it's also, like, people don't understand how shit it is dealing with admin in Australia,

of, like, an office space.

It's the red tape country.

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