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Morning, all. Okay, co-key.

Do you know, I mean, do you know that I was on a ladder at 6.22 this morning?

Wait, were you filming a Benny Hill sketch?

I was, um, I tell you what I was doing. Have a guess, Al.

You're a man about the house.

I'm going to guess that you've become a method comedian and you're working out how many comedians does it take to change your life?

Oh, good one. I, I, I tell you what, I was, I had the fire, the smoke alarm thing was beeping.

Oh.

And they are the most difficult, uncompromising things to deal with, to get off, to get the batteries out.

I thought maybe if I pressed this button, because I was worried it was going to wipe the rest of the family up.

So I thought, yeah, if I pressed the button, maybe it'll stop.

I pressed the button and the whole alarm went off completely through.

I was trying to recall, Mr. I mean, oh, man, and always, I always have that moment when I'm not sure if it, if that first one I heard was the beep of the smoke alarm,

or my trainer stopping against the linoleum.

No, that, he.

So I was up a ladder doing that, which is I really hate those things.

I mean, I don't want people who've had their house burned down texting and saying, yeah, well mate,

it's better than better to have the beeping.

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