Speaker 1: He's an author, podcaster and Western Bulldogs number one fair.
Speaker 2: I thought I would never see the Bulldogs play in
Speaker 2: a Grand final in my lifetime.
Speaker 1: Star of our screens for years with massive shows like
Speaker 1: The Glasshouse That Question Everything at Our Faith Grew It You,
Speaker 1: Ris Jeditally and one of Australia's most prolific standard comedians,
Speaker 1: with such shows as Philosophy, Free Will and You Guessed
Speaker 1: It Jagged Little Will suddenly.
Speaker 2: Like Man's Flaming things A Sorry, do you know what
Speaker 2: man's flaming is? That?
Speaker 1: Sum Now what you're talking about? Will in the Rhino
Speaker 1: Room until March eight tickets and fringe dicks. Please welcome
Speaker 1: to the show, Will Anderson.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's rare in your own opening that you get
Speaker 2: a drop. Yeah, you know that was nice. I felt
Speaker 2: like I was really at Vegas. That is Squirrell X
Speaker 2: concert or something. This is real fun.
Speaker 1: So when we do those little preproduced intros, I like
Speaker 1: to watch people's reaction. I've never seen anyone get around
Speaker 1: their own intro more than you will.
Speaker 2: I was saying this, actually just say I mean this
Speaker 2: is one of the rare things they don't tell you
Speaker 2: about the career in show business is that everyone goes
Speaker 2: what's it like to be on TV? And you're like, oh, actually,
Speaker 2: to be honest, that's my job. So like most of
Speaker 2: the time it's really hard. I'm in meetings, I'm thinking
Speaker 2: about it in an intellectual sense. But the fun bit
Speaker 2: of the job is you go into a radio station
Speaker 2: and someone's gone to so much effort until a summary
Speaker 2: career and put it to cool music. There's no production
Speaker 2: level in my actual show that's as good as that.
Speaker 2: So this is the real thrill of the morning. So
Speaker 2: if you can't enjoy that, what can you enjoy being
Speaker 2: it doesn't spark a bit of energy, then what's going on? Also,
Speaker 2: the funny thing is when you've got little clips that
Speaker 2: I can't remember ever saying, I'm like that all sounds
Speaker 2: like me could also could just be AI. Yeah.
Speaker 1: No one is more excited to have you in the
Speaker 1: studio than our own boy, Andrew Hayes, who has wanted
Speaker 1: to meet you for a very long time.
Speaker 2: So yeah, well I'll followed joy for a long time.
Speaker 3: When you've been around from what and we weren't saying
Speaker 3: you're about to go in a few times that next
Speaker 3: year's thirty It's true.
Speaker 2: Yeah, next year of these thirty shows that is, and
Speaker 2: I've been coming here to Adelaide for I think twenty
Speaker 2: eight of those, I believe, So yeah, it's really fun.
Speaker 2: Can I just say, have you mentioned to your listeners
Speaker 2: this might be a secret that I'm not meant to
Speaker 2: talk about, but you are not broadcasting from a studio
Speaker 2: at the moment. You're in a makeshift studio. Not a secret.
Speaker 3: You've mentioned it several times every time we stuff up
Speaker 3: in it's regular.
Speaker 2: So it's a studio, I.
Speaker 1: Can tell you will so much shit has gone wrong
Speaker 1: that we can't hide the fact we are in a
Speaker 1: makeshift boardroom.
Speaker 2: Well, you know what I love about you being in
Speaker 2: a boardroom. I get to tell my favorite of a
Speaker 2: story that was told to me by Molly Meldrum. So
Speaker 2: Molly Maldrim was working at a radio station, and it's okay,
Speaker 2: this is one of the Molly Maldrum stories I can
Speaker 2: tell on air. But he had a big night. He
Speaker 2: was he was dejaying all night. He had like a
Speaker 2: residency at like Heat nightclub in Melbourne or something like
Speaker 2: that or whatever the equivalent was back in the day,
Speaker 2: and he would DJ through the night. And then he'd
Speaker 2: had a pretty big night and he rolls straight into work.
Speaker 2: It's fair to say he's probably not in the best
Speaker 2: shape to be on the radio. So the phone is
Speaker 2: rung in the studio that like, the boss of the
Speaker 2: company's like, you have got to get him off air
Speaker 2: right now. So Molly's like, all right, yeah, I've got
Speaker 2: to get off air. He's like, I've got to go
Speaker 2: and have a nap, right So he's just like, I've
Speaker 2: got to go and find somewhere that's quiet to go
Speaker 2: and have a nap. Now. Molly told me this story,
Speaker 2: by the way, so I'm not speaking out of school.
Speaker 2: He went into the boardroom because there was nobody in
Speaker 2: the boardroom, and he went under the table in the boardroom.
Speaker 2: This will be a nice place to happen, just seeing
Speaker 2: feet all around him. They were having a boardroom meeting
Speaker 2: discussing his future through and they're liked, I don't think
Speaker 2: it's looked good. You just hear them.
Speaker 1: Well even worse, this little a Kubra.
Speaker 2: Style that is unbelievable. So it's nice to be here
Speaker 2: in the boardroom. I appreciate you having me. There's no
Speaker 2: no that.
Speaker 1: I don't think, So all right, go on ask about
Speaker 1: the Western Bulldog.
Speaker 2: You're bods fan.
Speaker 3: I'm not a Bulldogs fan, but I just love how
Speaker 3: much of a fan you are. Yes, so I want
Speaker 3: to know as well. This is this is from a
Speaker 3: man very on a straight shoot. You've got to see
Speaker 3: a flag in twenty sixteen. What happens this year? Will
Speaker 3: if they don't make finals? Do you think you'll have
Speaker 3: a new coach in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1: Oh mate, this is not sn What are you doing?
Speaker 2: I want to get that was good? Give us a
Speaker 2: call now I've got I've got a volcano coming up here.
Speaker 1: You know, funny story He worked with a volcano for
Speaker 1: about four.
Speaker 3: Years of yes, right, and it regularly was corns v beverage.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, for sure. I mean look, here's here's what
Speaker 2: I will say about the Bulldogs. Is I am of
Speaker 2: the camp? So there are all sorts of different camps.
Speaker 2: There are the camp of people are like, oh, yes,
Speaker 2: the Bulldogs won't make the finals, we're going to have
Speaker 2: to get rid of the coach. And there's the camp
Speaker 2: of people who see my team. Can I say this?
Speaker 2: We won one premiership way back in nineteen fifty four,
Speaker 2: one right one, the year that television came to Australia
Speaker 2: was the one time that what we have won a premiership.
Speaker 2: We had only played in one other in nineteen sixty
Speaker 2: one up until the point where Luke Benfrey started coaching
Speaker 2: our club. And since he's been coach of the club,
Speaker 2: we've won another premiership in twenty sixteen, we've gone to
Speaker 2: another Grand Final in twenty twenty one. He is the
Speaker 2: third most successful coach to coach the finals in the
Speaker 2: competition at the moment, and apparently at the Western Bulldogs
Speaker 2: we're like, we could do better. When when have we
Speaker 2: ever done better? Give me any evidence in the last
Speaker 2: century that we have made a better, better choice than
Speaker 2: this one. He can literally coach for the next fifty
Speaker 2: years without making the finals and still be our most
Speaker 2: successful coach.
Speaker 3: So will if you don't get hired by Luke Grevis
Speaker 3: himself for the next contract and I don't know what's going.
Speaker 2: On, I'll just go into the meeting like that. I'll
Speaker 2: tell some facts.
Speaker 1: Have you met him, because from all accounts he is
Speaker 1: a lovely, lovely, lovely man.
Speaker 2: Now, when he first started coaching, maybe I should get
Speaker 2: off him for this, But when the first two three
Speaker 2: years that he was coaching. He used to come to
Speaker 2: my shows that the Bulldogs would all come down as
Speaker 2: a group. It is tough for them these days because
Speaker 2: it's like the comedy festivals, like gather around and that
Speaker 2: part of it, so it's not as much. But yeah,
Speaker 2: he used to even come to the show. So yeah,
Speaker 2: I've definitely met him. Yeah, that's nice. Yeah, I will
Speaker 2: say the one that twenty six seen, the worst one
Speaker 2: was eastern Wood was our captain that year, great player,
Speaker 2: but Bob Murphy was actually our captain and he did
Speaker 2: his knee in round three and then eastern Wood captain
Speaker 2: the club and they won the premiership, right, and so yeah,
Speaker 2: that big famous moment Bob Murphy gets invited up on stage.
Speaker 2: But my memory and eastern Wood's memory of that night
Speaker 2: every time he sees me, is that the function afterwards
Speaker 2: where I see eastern Wood like yeah and like want
Speaker 2: to give him a hug because he's just won the
Speaker 2: premiership for the Bulldogs. The only thing I forgot was
Speaker 2: I was holding a glass of shep and pain in
Speaker 2: each of my hands, So when I have hugged him,
Speaker 2: I have literally just pourn two glasses on the back
Speaker 2: and he brings that up a lot.
Speaker 1: Wow, that is incredible. Okay, Will the show? What can
Speaker 1: we expect what you're talking about?
Speaker 2: You can't expect anything because it is what you're talking about. Will.
Speaker 2: It is my completely improvised stand up show, so it's
Speaker 2: all made up in the room as you go. Just
Speaker 2: did twelve of them in Perth, completely different show every night,
Speaker 2: literally made up with the audience in the room. I
Speaker 2: talk to people. So if you are the sort of
Speaker 2: person who's nervous about being talked to it a comedy show,
Speaker 2: just sit in row three. I only ever get past
Speaker 2: row one, row two. I'll talk to you. But it
Speaker 2: is also consensual crowd work. That's what I say to them.
Speaker 2: It is the opposite of primary school rules. If you
Speaker 2: put your head down, I will not call upon you.
Speaker 2: You know at primary school that was the if you
Speaker 2: put your head down, you knew the teacher would ask you.
Speaker 2: It's the opposite of that. Head down, You're fine, You're safe.
Speaker 1: I so desperately want you to go along to Will show.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, I'd be just sitting there marveling that
Speaker 3: you can do that. Do you have a night where're
Speaker 3: like I'm not feeling it tonight, or can you just
Speaker 3: even on those nights, can you flick into a mole
Speaker 3: and go it's showtime and just feel it.
Speaker 2: I think the most interesting thing of all of doing
Speaker 2: a lot of them because I've been doing this show
Speaker 2: for over a decade. Yeah, but this is the first
Speaker 2: time I've done it as a touring show, so normally
Speaker 2: to be one off, maybe two or three shows, but
Speaker 2: special events to do it. So the idea of doing
Speaker 2: it every single night means that you have to work
Speaker 2: out a way to make every single night very exciting.
Speaker 2: And the truth of it is that no, because you
Speaker 2: need to go what's next? What am I going to
Speaker 2: do next? It's actually more engaging than doing your regular
Speaker 2: show because there is a chance in your regular show
Speaker 2: that you can get into a groove with it and
Speaker 2: you could be two or three minutes forward and kind
Speaker 2: of go. I haven't really been concentrating it on what
Speaker 2: has been going on, Like the words have been coming
Speaker 2: out in the right order and everything's going fine, But
Speaker 2: I've really been thinking about whether I'm going to get
Speaker 2: it at a bow in the gardens after the show, not
Speaker 2: about at the end of the show a bow bud
Speaker 2: after the show, and I with this one. You just
Speaker 2: have to constantly, constantly be thinking, engaging with the show.
Speaker 3: So it's super fun. Oh, it's incredible. Just before we
Speaker 3: let you go as well, I love how punny your
Speaker 3: titles are, by the way, and so this is what
Speaker 3: you're talking about. Will can you take us through what
Speaker 3: some previous ones and maybe some future shows what they were?
Speaker 2: Well, the first, the first one was I am the Willris.
Speaker 2: You can still send me an email at the willress
Speaker 2: at yahoo dot com. I will not I will not
Speaker 2: receive it, but I've never shut down that email like
Speaker 2: how that was the first one. The one that I
Speaker 2: hate is that the first show I ever did was
Speaker 2: called Diet Life, and then everyone since then has had
Speaker 2: a will pun. So there's been twenty nine will puns
Speaker 2: and one not will punt that annoys me so much.
Speaker 2: But there's a few that I've never used. Triumph of
Speaker 2: the Will is a good name for a show, but
Speaker 2: Triumph of the Will was that horrible book by the Nazis.
Speaker 2: So that's not about associate yourself. That girl's gone. Will
Speaker 2: that couldn't do that way? Will that will?
Speaker 1: You had a couple up your sleep?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, I'm not sure if you're going out like,
Speaker 3: there's what about kill Will Volume one?
Speaker 2: You will love done? Have you? It's already done. It's
Speaker 2: a good one. That's a good and the title was
Speaker 2: the poster was really good. It had that yellow sort
Speaker 2: of theme in the same way as the post that
Speaker 2: it was good. I knew it was. I knew it
Speaker 2: was too good to be by.
Speaker 1: Kick on that for forty five minutes.
Speaker 2: I don't know what done it? Well, hey, I haven't
Speaker 2: done part two. Kill some as well. You've got clean
Speaker 2: will of health? Yeah, yeah, well I'm saving a few
Speaker 2: for the end, like terminally Will and Last Will and Testament.
Speaker 2: So I think that's clean Willow Health will fit in
Speaker 2: today timeline to Will a Mockingboard's Will a Mockingbird. I
Speaker 2: like it's just too big for a poster, but it's
Speaker 2: a good I think it's a good title. Everyone's favorite
Speaker 2: ice cream Bubblo Will, No, no, hang on, I got
Speaker 2: to be honest with you, Bubbalo Will. I'm not sure
Speaker 2: that's on the list. I feel like it's rare. You've
Speaker 2: just seen something because up until this point you're experiencing
Speaker 2: what everyone experiences when everyone brings this topic up and
Speaker 2: has done for the last twenty five years, since they
Speaker 2: know this, there was a pattern me patronizing it. Oh, yes,
Speaker 2: that is original. I've never heard that before. I've got
Speaker 2: to be honest with you. Bubblo Will. That's good too.
Speaker 2: Maybe with a poster with a little gum on my nose.
Speaker 1: Yes, that is so hard to bite into.
Speaker 2: Yes, break your teeth. Yeah, that's good. All right, I'll
Speaker 2: arrange it my own ice creams, maybe to sell afterwards.
Speaker 2: What you're talking about, Will is on the right around.
Speaker 2: I like this.
Speaker 1: It says here on the sheet one other venue. What
Speaker 1: does that even mean?
Speaker 2: Howling our on Sundays for accessibility.
Speaker 3: Say absolutely outstanding and like we just discovered as well,
Speaker 3: any get something new every night? You could watch Will
Speaker 3: Anderson night after night after night, and you did a
Speaker 3: new show.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Some people do come back, which I love. But
Speaker 2: if you come back, don't sit in the front row again.
Speaker 2: It's not already talk to you Will always a pleasure.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much for coming in.