WEBVTT - BONUS: The wait is (almost) over... 0:00:00.520 --> 0:00:04.320 Hello, and welcome to a bonus episode of the occasionally 0:00:04.360 --> 0:00:08.440 Funny Podcast ahead of tomorrow's main episode, which will be 0:00:08.480 --> 0:00:11.719 the big result as the winner of the co host 0:00:11.800 --> 0:00:16.040 role is finally announced. And I'm gonna be honest with you, guys, 0:00:16.560 --> 0:00:20.119 I'm still conflicted. And every time I think that my 0:00:20.239 --> 0:00:23.640 mind is made up and the winner is the obvious 0:00:23.680 --> 0:00:28.160 one who currently has the majority of public support, something 0:00:28.200 --> 0:00:31.800 pops up that makes me go, am I making a mistake? 0:00:31.960 --> 0:00:35.879 Because we all remember the last time Australia was this 0:00:36.040 --> 0:00:39.080 divided over the winner of the competition. 0:00:39.680 --> 0:00:45.319 The winner of Australian Iron two thousand and three is. 0:00:49.880 --> 0:00:53.559 Got Seves. Now, that was over twenty years ago now, 0:00:53.640 --> 0:00:56.960 and the public outrage is still present. And even Guy 0:00:57.480 --> 0:01:01.520 and Shannon themselves they still often question and did the 0:01:01.600 --> 0:01:06.400 right man win? You know, the questions on everybody's lips. 0:01:07.120 --> 0:01:11.160 Do you think I was robbed? Geez? Hard hitting questions 0:01:11.160 --> 0:01:15.360 straight away. I don't know if you were robbed? Over 0:01:15.400 --> 0:01:18.920 the weekend. They even started to think to myself, in 0:01:19.040 --> 0:01:22.039 decades to come, will Sam and my mum be sitting 0:01:22.080 --> 0:01:26.959 there like Guy and Shannon asking themselves was the right 0:01:27.080 --> 0:01:30.400 choice made? Or will the winner be neither of them, 0:01:30.440 --> 0:01:33.960 and will a wild card be chose to sit alongside me? 0:01:34.120 --> 0:01:38.000 Because I'm going to be honest again, The search for 0:01:38.120 --> 0:01:41.240 this co host has become much bigger than any of 0:01:41.360 --> 0:01:45.280 us ever anticipated. I've had friends come up and ask 0:01:45.280 --> 0:01:48.160 if they can audition. I've had long forgotten Maths cast 0:01:48.200 --> 0:01:52.120 members who barely remember reaching out. I've even had strangers 0:01:52.600 --> 0:01:55.480 coming up to me on the street saying, Hey, Josh, 0:01:55.520 --> 0:01:57.480 can I give it a go? And I was thinking, 0:01:57.480 --> 0:02:00.880 when did this become an open composition? When did everyone 0:02:00.880 --> 0:02:04.640 apparently want to become a podcaster? And one person and 0:02:04.720 --> 0:02:09.080 am not joking even turned up to my studio unannounced 0:02:09.520 --> 0:02:11.680 and said Hey, I'm here for my audition and I 0:02:11.720 --> 0:02:17.480 was like, uh, what audition? And with my mind this unsure, 0:02:17.720 --> 0:02:21.080 over the weekend, I decided to hit up both Sammy 0:02:21.639 --> 0:02:24.919 and my mum just to have a casual chat, not recorded, 0:02:25.040 --> 0:02:28.640 just to see if speaking to them again could help 0:02:28.720 --> 0:02:32.520 me make my decision. And well, as I text dear 0:02:32.600 --> 0:02:35.200 Sam saying YO for me when you get him in please, 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:39.079 he was in the midst of traveling around the Sunshine 0:02:39.120 --> 0:02:41.919 Coast and going to Australia Zoo and then flying home 0:02:42.120 --> 0:02:45.760 and he said can I call you tomorrow? My friend? 0:02:45.800 --> 0:02:49.799 My day is flat out, which, of course she can, Sam, 0:02:49.840 --> 0:02:55.440 and that was a perfectly fair response, to which I responded, wow, 0:02:55.760 --> 0:02:59.400 I feel snubbed and neglected, quickly followed by another message 0:02:59.400 --> 0:03:03.320 from me saying nah, JK, yeah, easy, no stress, to 0:03:03.400 --> 0:03:07.320 which Sam responded saying, wow, you're as sensitive as me. 0:03:08.080 --> 0:03:11.840 This potential partnership is going to go swimmingly. But then 0:03:12.000 --> 0:03:15.239 as I ruminated on that message, I started to think, 0:03:16.280 --> 0:03:20.800 is two needy homosexuals the way forward? Is that the 0:03:20.960 --> 0:03:23.640 duo that the world needs to hear once a week 0:03:23.680 --> 0:03:25.840 every Wednesday at six am, set in a lamp please? 0:03:26.800 --> 0:03:31.480 Or is blood thicker than what I shared sexuality and 0:03:31.560 --> 0:03:35.000 shared interest? And is my mum the way forward? Or 0:03:35.280 --> 0:03:38.200 is there too much history there? I a the accents 0:03:38.200 --> 0:03:40.080 too thick when we talk together, because that's been the 0:03:40.120 --> 0:03:43.520 main feedback, so I apologies for that. Then as I 0:03:43.680 --> 0:03:47.360 phoned her, it took just minutes for a former disagreement 0:03:47.400 --> 0:03:51.240 of ours to reach the surface as we discussed how me, 0:03:51.440 --> 0:03:54.760 as a teenager would often sleep outside concert venues in 0:03:54.800 --> 0:03:57.320 the city to be on the front row for bands 0:03:57.400 --> 0:03:59.840 I were going to see in concert, and as we 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:02.720 clashed on the phone. I said, mother, pause that for 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:06.040 a second, because I must press record on this decade 0:04:06.240 --> 0:04:10.200 long dispute of ours. I went very quickly, what was 0:04:10.240 --> 0:04:12.400 that story you just said? Mommy, you just reminded me 0:04:12.480 --> 0:04:14.040 what I once did as a child. 0:04:14.920 --> 0:04:17.280 Oh yeah, when you used to cure all part night 0:04:17.400 --> 0:04:18.239 to get your tickets. 0:04:18.320 --> 0:04:20.080 Well, so context, I used to be a big fan 0:04:20.120 --> 0:04:21.960 of a certain button and I'd line upon night to 0:04:21.960 --> 0:04:24.039 buy front road tickets in the city, which is quite 0:04:24.120 --> 0:04:25.560 dangerous as a young teenager. 0:04:25.560 --> 0:04:29.640 But that's okay, yes, yes, And you've made friends with 0:04:29.680 --> 0:04:32.880 some homeless guy. You wanted to bring him home so 0:04:33.000 --> 0:04:34.680 I could gave him a tree and he could have 0:04:34.720 --> 0:04:35.080 the bath. 0:04:35.839 --> 0:04:38.480 Yeah, because he protected me and my friends as young 0:04:38.560 --> 0:04:40.599 teens queuing up all night and thought the least they 0:04:40.640 --> 0:04:43.720 can do is bring him home. And what did you say? 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:47.280 Yeah, well, well I don't know him. 0:04:48.040 --> 0:04:51.440 What's the background? You didn't say that you had absolutely 0:04:51.440 --> 0:04:51.920 bloody not. 0:04:53.040 --> 0:04:53.840 Well that's right. 0:04:53.960 --> 0:04:56.320 Yeah, look at you, because we're recording, pretending you did 0:04:56.320 --> 0:04:57.599 a question. 0:04:57.920 --> 0:04:59.000 Put me on the spot. 0:04:59.320 --> 0:05:01.680 But he could have changed his life together. 0:05:01.400 --> 0:05:06.920 Mom, But yeah, you know you know his story. 0:05:06.960 --> 0:05:07.479 What happened? 0:05:08.240 --> 0:05:12.200 No, I actually don't know, feel really guilty. 0:05:11.880 --> 0:05:14.080 Yeah, because I remember everything when he spent like what 0:05:14.200 --> 0:05:17.000 twelve hours with us in that tunnel. Now, Richard is 0:05:17.040 --> 0:05:19.479 a man that I've not thought about in fifteen years, 0:05:19.520 --> 0:05:22.360 but on the phone to my mum there, I suddenly 0:05:22.400 --> 0:05:26.080 remembered everything about him. He was born into like a 0:05:26.080 --> 0:05:29.520 traveler community, like his mom and dad were like gypsies, 0:05:29.920 --> 0:05:33.560 you know, caravans and that. But this sounds silly, and 0:05:33.560 --> 0:05:35.680 I remember they were. His mom and dad were from 0:05:35.760 --> 0:05:38.880 rival gypsy towns or gypsy communities. I don't know why 0:05:38.920 --> 0:05:41.960 they were rivals, but when his dad got together, they 0:05:42.000 --> 0:05:45.240 both had to leave their traveler communities because they weren't 0:05:45.240 --> 0:05:48.360 meant to be together, all right, So then his mum 0:05:48.400 --> 0:05:50.200 and dad all they have is each other. They've left 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:52.279 I think it was Ireland, and they're in England and 0:05:52.279 --> 0:05:54.240 you know, it's just them too, no family, no friends, 0:05:54.240 --> 0:05:57.440 know anything, living in the caravan. Then they get pregnant, 0:05:57.640 --> 0:06:01.200 and then obviously along comes Richard are coming home from 0:06:01.200 --> 0:06:03.200 the hospital. There was a few complications so they had 0:06:03.240 --> 0:06:06.320 to stay a bit longer, and then Richard stayed in 0:06:06.320 --> 0:06:08.880 the hospital, like having a couple of weeks because of 0:06:09.040 --> 0:06:13.680 whatever the complications were But then when his parents were 0:06:13.680 --> 0:06:15.600 finally coming to pick him up, driving the caravan back 0:06:15.640 --> 0:06:18.159 to the hospital, I don't know why they had to leave. 0:06:18.200 --> 0:06:20.240 I don't know. They could have just packed outside. Thinking 0:06:20.279 --> 0:06:23.799 about it now, anyway, they were in a car crash 0:06:23.800 --> 0:06:28.680 and both died. Ah, yes, Oh that was it. He 0:06:28.800 --> 0:06:30.520 was born with a thing, a hole in his heart 0:06:30.600 --> 0:06:32.880 or something. Then he told me no, he went to 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:36.880 prison because he had a foster sister. Something happen with 0:06:36.920 --> 0:06:39.920 Earth and Shadow bad boyfriends. Then he like tried to 0:06:40.000 --> 0:06:41.680 kill him or beat him up or something. So he 0:06:41.720 --> 0:06:43.680 went to prison for a few years. Then he came 0:06:43.720 --> 0:06:46.480 out and was homeless. That's when I met Oh too. 0:06:47.279 --> 0:06:47.479 Then. 0:06:47.760 --> 0:06:50.719 Well, as conversations often go with my mum, one thing 0:06:50.839 --> 0:06:53.719 just led to another m before we knew it. I 0:06:53.720 --> 0:06:55.520 don't even know what we were talking about. 0:06:55.720 --> 0:06:58.520 Well, you as well, also, of them nights when you 0:06:58.560 --> 0:07:01.680 were crying up outside ever all night you dad used 0:07:01.680 --> 0:07:04.040 to get all drive down in the middle of the 0:07:04.160 --> 0:07:06.800 night because I couldn't sleep to check that you were okay. 0:07:07.360 --> 0:07:09.600 Well, the interesting thing there is that you couldn't sleep, 0:07:09.600 --> 0:07:11.360 but you my dad do the drive by to check 0:07:11.400 --> 0:07:13.320 on us. Did you not care? Enough to do the 0:07:13.400 --> 0:07:13.880 drive by. 0:07:14.880 --> 0:07:18.560 All right, okay, well you wasn't your mother driving around 0:07:18.560 --> 0:07:20.800 at three o'clock in the morning. Would you on their own? 0:07:21.040 --> 0:07:22.840 Or did you want your son sleeping on the streets 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:25.400 in the city at three am in the morning. 0:07:25.640 --> 0:07:27.680 That's why I couldn't sleep, and that's why I sent 0:07:27.760 --> 0:07:29.000 you Dad to check you were Oh. 0:07:29.040 --> 0:07:30.720 I didn't care enough to get in the cow with Dad, 0:07:30.760 --> 0:07:31.040 did you? 0:07:31.960 --> 0:07:35.240 Oh? My god, no, because you know why I am 0:07:35.400 --> 0:07:36.760 such a terrible mother. 0:07:37.200 --> 0:07:39.680 Following the lack of phone call with Sam, who was 0:07:39.800 --> 0:07:42.520 up in Queensland having the time of his life and 0:07:42.680 --> 0:07:47.200 Australia Zoo, and following the confusing phone call with my mum, 0:07:47.760 --> 0:07:51.280 I was still no closer to making a decision, and 0:07:51.320 --> 0:07:55.680 now walking the streets thinking while randomly listening to Earth 0:07:55.760 --> 0:07:58.960 Song by Michael Jackson, which has no relevance to anything 0:07:59.000 --> 0:08:01.320 to do with this podcast other than the song feeling 0:08:01.360 --> 0:08:04.920 like a defining moment blasting through my AirPod. So I'll 0:08:04.920 --> 0:08:06.840 play it now in the background, just so you really 0:08:06.880 --> 0:08:10.840 feel what I was feeling. I started to look over 0:08:10.920 --> 0:08:14.240 my entire life and I questioned, have I always had 0:08:14.240 --> 0:08:18.000 a burning passion to share my personal chaos with strangers 0:08:18.400 --> 0:08:22.080 on the Internet like I do now with this podcast. Then, 0:08:22.720 --> 0:08:26.320 with my mind still swirling back and forth between Sam 0:08:26.360 --> 0:08:29.520 and my mother. Once I got home and turned Michael 0:08:29.600 --> 0:08:32.800 Jackson's Greatest Sits off, I did something I hadn't dead 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:37.040 do in over a decade. I got out my old laptop, 0:08:37.440 --> 0:08:40.520 I plugged it in, and I found a folder full 0:08:40.559 --> 0:08:44.440 of my old, long forgotten YouTube videos from high school, 0:08:44.480 --> 0:08:48.440 which I wiped from the Internet a very long time ago, 0:08:49.080 --> 0:08:52.280 because I suddenly thought, hey, maybe in these videos, which 0:08:52.280 --> 0:08:55.560 were the start of me over sharing on the internet 0:08:55.600 --> 0:08:59.280 and storytelling to strangers, which I suppose has led me 0:08:59.360 --> 0:09:04.120 here to this dilemma, I thought, maybe they hold the answers. 0:09:04.920 --> 0:09:08.080 But my god, I was not prepared for what I 0:09:08.200 --> 0:09:10.840 found in that folder, which was this video I'm going 0:09:10.920 --> 0:09:14.400 to play now, age fourteen, I think, detailing my very 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:17.320 first heartbreak in life. 0:09:17.559 --> 0:09:20.520 Like I can't get past what's happened, because every day 0:09:20.600 --> 0:09:22.920 this hurt is with me, and you know, the pain's 0:09:23.000 --> 0:09:27.000 just increasing every day, and I just never felt like 0:09:27.040 --> 0:09:27.560 this before. 0:09:28.080 --> 0:09:30.880 Just to interrupt myself briefly, there, Yes, this video was 0:09:30.880 --> 0:09:35.480 filmed before I had hit puberty, before my testicles had descended, 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:38.240 and yes, before my voice broke. 0:09:38.040 --> 0:09:39.480 And DiPT into the town the other day. It's like 0:09:39.480 --> 0:09:43.400 a big weekend coming up, chaining back aboutside Prima, like 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:45.880 now I'll gonna go treat myself to some new seven 0:09:45.960 --> 0:09:48.320 pound Jeanes, because it's what you're doing. You've got a 0:09:48.320 --> 0:09:54.320 big weekend. And I come back and and my bike. 0:09:54.520 --> 0:09:57.600 And also apparently before my life had any actual real 0:09:57.880 --> 0:09:59.160 issues in it, like I. 0:09:59.360 --> 0:10:01.000 Always put too locks on because I like to be 0:10:01.000 --> 0:10:03.600 extra secure because I love my bike, and it was 0:10:03.640 --> 0:10:05.319 just gone, so I didn't know what to do. So 0:10:05.320 --> 0:10:08.400 obviously filmed nine and nine emergency my bike's being robbed. 0:10:08.559 --> 0:10:11.640 This isn't an emergency, she said, another interruption from me. 0:10:11.679 --> 0:10:15.720 I'm sorry, I can't the voice is. You can't see 0:10:15.840 --> 0:10:19.400 I've gone read. I am so embarrassed. I can't believe 0:10:19.440 --> 0:10:21.080 I actually sounded like that. 0:10:21.240 --> 0:10:24.000 Obviously as an emergency, my back's being robbed. She puts 0:10:24.040 --> 0:10:25.800 me on the hold down and just passes me off 0:10:25.840 --> 0:10:27.839 to someone else. You know, I don't know what the 0:10:27.840 --> 0:10:30.440 police purderon. I didn't really expect like a search party. 0:10:31.920 --> 0:10:34.280 But they could offer me a lift down, couldn't they. Like, 0:10:34.320 --> 0:10:36.000 my bike's being robbed, You've just hung over on me. 0:10:36.280 --> 0:10:38.160 I'm going to actually pitch down the rest of this 0:10:38.440 --> 0:10:41.719 just because I can't. I cannot listen to that anymore. 0:10:42.400 --> 0:10:44.160 It is multifying, And. 0:10:44.120 --> 0:10:46.040 Then it's just like why did you get a new bike? 0:10:46.080 --> 0:10:48.679 Why don't you get a new bike? But it's like, no, 0:10:49.480 --> 0:10:51.800 that was my bike. I was like, you imagine you 0:10:51.880 --> 0:10:54.079 changed your mum aboutside prowmat for ten minutes, you come 0:10:54.080 --> 0:10:56.000 back and she's gone. You won't just get a new mom, 0:10:56.040 --> 0:10:58.439 would you? You at least look for it, at least 0:10:58.520 --> 0:11:03.240 mon at least you know process the loss, and you know. 0:11:03.400 --> 0:11:05.520 If you're out there bicycle thief and you happen to 0:11:05.520 --> 0:11:09.400 watch this, then I don't hope that you fall off 0:11:09.440 --> 0:11:11.840 and die. I hope that you have a nice life. 0:11:11.840 --> 0:11:13.440 I hope bring joy riding Jessica. 0:11:13.640 --> 0:11:15.240 Now, I don't know what I was going through at 0:11:15.240 --> 0:11:17.200 that time in my life as a young teenager. But 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:21.840 why did I name my bicycle Jessica? I distinctly remember 0:11:22.240 --> 0:11:25.560 loving that bicycle. I remember what it looked like, the color, 0:11:25.679 --> 0:11:28.880 the shape, the everything. I also remember often referring to 0:11:28.920 --> 0:11:33.240 the bicycle as Jessica. But why where did this name 0:11:33.280 --> 0:11:34.920 come from? I'd literally I hope you. 0:11:34.880 --> 0:11:37.719 Treat it with the TLC that I gave her, and 0:11:38.640 --> 0:11:40.959 she treats you well. And then when you found the 0:11:41.000 --> 0:11:43.800 connection that we had, I hope that someone rips it 0:11:43.840 --> 0:11:45.800 away from you and suddenly takes it from your life 0:11:45.880 --> 0:11:46.600 like you've done with me. 0:11:46.840 --> 0:11:49.240 I have no idea was I this lonely for friends 0:11:49.280 --> 0:11:54.280 back then? That I would name my bicycle was Jessica. 0:11:54.360 --> 0:11:57.760 My friend was Jessica me trying to convince the world 0:11:57.800 --> 0:12:02.840 I'm straight because it's me and jess seeker against the world. Anyway, 0:12:03.200 --> 0:12:07.359 after realizing those old videos of mine contained no answers 0:12:07.400 --> 0:12:10.880 and only embarrassment, I had it to work, which is 0:12:10.960 --> 0:12:14.320 where I was greeted by a wild card and my 0:12:14.480 --> 0:12:18.280 friend Louisa, who's a former radio producer who I used 0:12:18.280 --> 0:12:21.520 to work with at Kiss FM, who's been listening to 0:12:21.559 --> 0:12:25.239 the auditions on her from Samma my Mum. She decided 0:12:25.280 --> 0:12:28.120 to throw her hat in the ring and just turn 0:12:28.240 --> 0:12:31.679 up unannounced for an audition that I didn't ask her 0:12:31.679 --> 0:12:35.559 to do. And yeah, if anyone is familiar with the 0:12:35.640 --> 0:12:37.959 Kyl and Jackie OO Show in recent years, you may 0:12:38.400 --> 0:12:42.400 recognize Louisa. She was called Teacher Lou on the show 0:12:42.440 --> 0:12:47.160 and I'll be honest, Louisa's funny is even rarer than occasional, 0:12:47.400 --> 0:12:51.640 and it's actually just just listen to this and Sean 0:12:51.720 --> 0:12:54.880 Connery would have been ninety five that he did ah, 0:12:54.920 --> 0:12:56.200 and he was great, wasn't he? 0:12:56.520 --> 0:13:01.640 And knock knock? What knock knock? 0:13:02.880 --> 0:13:04.240 Is this this Sean Connery joke? 0:13:05.320 --> 0:13:08.600 Who's there? Oh my god? What school teacher, lou I 0:13:08.640 --> 0:13:09.400 know you love your. 0:13:09.360 --> 0:13:11.160 Jokes right in the myth of it, but. 0:13:11.640 --> 0:13:15.000 Today we're not making sense. What was that supposed to be? 0:13:16.000 --> 0:13:18.360 Knock knock? Are we supposed to say? Who's there? 0:13:18.600 --> 0:13:18.760 Yes? 0:13:19.320 --> 0:13:25.000 That was my Yeah, okay, go again, knock knock? Who's there? Dishes? Dishes? 0:13:25.000 --> 0:13:27.839 Who Sean Connory? Yeah, okay, thank you. 0:13:30.160 --> 0:13:33.040 And you know what, despite all of the Wizer's jokes 0:13:33.080 --> 0:13:36.359 falling flat on that show like mine did two episodes 0:13:36.400 --> 0:13:39.800 back now in my stand up routine, one thing I 0:13:39.880 --> 0:13:43.520 do admire about the Weezer is how well she never 0:13:43.600 --> 0:13:44.120 gave up. 0:13:44.360 --> 0:13:47.400 I think my sense of humor doesn't quite land Sometimes. 0:13:47.520 --> 0:13:51.880 What do you call a snobbish criminal going downstairs? 0:13:54.840 --> 0:13:57.679 I don't think, okay, yeah, go on, I don't know, 0:13:58.160 --> 0:14:01.360 a condescending con descending. 0:14:03.679 --> 0:14:07.360 Even when she really really really should have given up. 0:14:08.360 --> 0:14:08.920 She didn't. 0:14:09.160 --> 0:14:11.200 Okay, do you have anything you would like to say? 0:14:12.120 --> 0:14:14.439 Wow, there's always something I'd like to say, but the 0:14:14.600 --> 0:14:20.360 time is against this. Okay, do you want to say something? 0:14:21.240 --> 0:14:22.520 Just thanks for the birthday gift? 0:14:22.600 --> 0:14:24.720 Jackie? 0:14:25.720 --> 0:14:30.920 Knock knocks? 0:14:33.600 --> 0:14:36.760 I can't knock knock? Who's there? Howard? Who? 0:14:37.520 --> 0:14:40.560 How would I know? I just stands to the phone. 0:14:41.880 --> 0:14:48.600 Just stop, shouldn't stop? Sorry, So I thought, since humor 0:14:48.800 --> 0:14:52.240 is so subjective, and also since Louisa is actually here 0:14:52.360 --> 0:14:55.280 when invited at my studio, I will give her a 0:14:55.400 --> 0:14:58.720 go as a potential co host. But I made one 0:14:58.800 --> 0:15:02.240 promise to her before. I said, in my head, I'm 0:15:02.280 --> 0:15:06.040 now ninety nine percent sure who's going to get the job. 0:15:06.520 --> 0:15:08.840 You're not really in the running, but that one percent 0:15:08.920 --> 0:15:11.440 of doubt try and change my mind. 0:15:12.000 --> 0:15:14.720 Well, I couldn't believe when I saw I listened to 0:15:14.720 --> 0:15:16.800 the first podcast and you said it was between your 0:15:16.880 --> 0:15:19.920 mum and Sam, And I was like, what about me? 0:15:20.000 --> 0:15:20.440 Hang on a. 0:15:20.400 --> 0:15:24.560 Minute, it's called occasionally funny. 0:15:24.720 --> 0:15:27.120 Who better to fit that than me? 0:15:27.480 --> 0:15:29.160 Yeah? And then I didn't reply to that text. 0:15:30.520 --> 0:15:33.040 Well, look, I'm here now and I'm really happy to 0:15:33.120 --> 0:15:34.680 be in the running. Even though I think I should 0:15:34.680 --> 0:15:35.640 have been from the beginning. 0:15:35.800 --> 0:15:37.600 Now, I wouldn't say you're in the running. I say 0:15:37.600 --> 0:15:41.000 I'm giving you you're a wild card. If this is 0:15:41.000 --> 0:15:42.760 the ex fact that you're the wild card. So that's 0:15:42.760 --> 0:15:45.560 in the running in this one episode. Yeah, but the 0:15:45.600 --> 0:15:49.360 wild card can win. But remember it's not to impress me. Yeah, 0:15:49.400 --> 0:15:54.160 it's the audience. So yes, here is Louisa's unexpected audition. 0:15:54.400 --> 0:15:56.520 I didn't ask for you, didn't ask well, but she 0:15:57.480 --> 0:16:00.400 made happen. I think I should just give the listeners 0:16:00.400 --> 0:16:02.920 a bit of background context on you, Louisa and how 0:16:03.120 --> 0:16:03.800 you came to me. 0:16:03.840 --> 0:16:05.120 In my life. 0:16:06.360 --> 0:16:09.120 Yes, so we met about three years ago. Now, we 0:16:09.120 --> 0:16:11.680 were both working on the Carl and Jackie O show 0:16:12.080 --> 0:16:14.960 I Kisses. I started a few months before you. 0:16:15.080 --> 0:16:17.800 Yeah, and then when I came in for like my audition, 0:16:18.280 --> 0:16:19.120 you were kind of helping me. 0:16:19.160 --> 0:16:21.720 Do you remember, because you came in as like, wasn't 0:16:21.760 --> 0:16:24.160 it No, there was multiple people being considered for your 0:16:24.240 --> 0:16:25.880 role and everyone was doing like a half day. 0:16:26.080 --> 0:16:28.120 I think, yeah, it was down to like four or 0:16:28.120 --> 0:16:30.240 five people or something, and I came in and like 0:16:30.360 --> 0:16:32.120 you would like whispring to me and telling me stuff 0:16:32.120 --> 0:16:33.080 to do yeah, because. 0:16:32.800 --> 0:16:35.320 You're my favorite of the options, and whoever we chose 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:37.120 was going to have to sit next to me, and 0:16:37.160 --> 0:16:38.600 there was a few people. I was like, we're not 0:16:38.640 --> 0:16:40.440 going to get along. Then I was like, you seem 0:16:41.440 --> 0:16:47.440 fun yeah, occasionally fuzzy, yeah, But then you became known for, 0:16:48.160 --> 0:16:51.320 like in the nicest way, being. 0:16:53.000 --> 0:16:57.920 A little bit like geezy or dorky or I don't know. 0:16:58.000 --> 0:17:00.480 Yeah, And that so is to me that sure is 0:17:00.520 --> 0:17:02.600 that you think you're hilarious. 0:17:02.960 --> 0:17:07.359 I really thought I was so cool and funny and stuff, 0:17:07.400 --> 0:17:10.119 But then when I started working at Kiss, I realized, 0:17:10.840 --> 0:17:13.199 I think people are laughing at me. 0:17:13.840 --> 0:17:17.280 The thing I like about you is you own the 0:17:17.320 --> 0:17:20.320 fact that you are, like, as you said, maybe a 0:17:20.320 --> 0:17:22.800 bit lame with your sense of humor. Like you would 0:17:22.840 --> 0:17:25.880 interrupt the radio show, live radio show, a million people listening, 0:17:25.960 --> 0:17:28.840 Kyler and Jack doing the show, Yeah, you buzzn' excuse me? 0:17:29.800 --> 0:17:32.080 Give me an example, And you got known by the 0:17:32.119 --> 0:17:35.200 listeners for these I start even understand half of these jokes. 0:17:35.600 --> 0:17:37.159 I thought of a joke while I was driving you 0:17:37.640 --> 0:17:40.040 go on, do you want to hear an Irish joke? 0:17:40.800 --> 0:17:41.080 Sure? 0:17:41.240 --> 0:17:41.800 Potato? 0:17:42.560 --> 0:17:43.160 Was that the joke? 0:17:43.440 --> 0:17:44.200 Yeah? 0:17:44.800 --> 0:17:47.560 Listeners should know as well that Luisa has a bizarre 0:17:47.640 --> 0:17:51.439 fascination with Ireland. She's married an irishman. She's obsessed with 0:17:51.480 --> 0:17:53.119 westlife and boys. 0:17:54.600 --> 0:17:57.639 I guess it's also Bewitched. 0:17:58.359 --> 0:18:01.440 Oh yeah, I remember that phase a kiss when you 0:18:01.520 --> 0:18:02.880 were dressed like you were in Bewitched. 0:18:03.840 --> 0:18:04.520 What do you mean? 0:18:04.600 --> 0:18:07.520 There was a lot of weird. 0:18:08.359 --> 0:18:10.600 I know everyone always had something to say about my outfits, 0:18:10.640 --> 0:18:12.240 but again I thought I always dressed. 0:18:12.240 --> 0:18:14.760 Really, this is why I liked you, because you didn't. 0:18:14.920 --> 0:18:16.520 Some people would go to a place like that or 0:18:16.520 --> 0:18:19.640 a workplace. I almost conform. I must be like everyone else. Yeah, 0:18:19.760 --> 0:18:22.800 you stay true to yourself. You spoke about Hanson as well, 0:18:22.840 --> 0:18:25.639 the boy by yours. Yeah, you remember once you almost 0:18:25.680 --> 0:18:29.639 crying with excitement because the moment the Hansen singer. 0:18:29.720 --> 0:18:31.720 Oh my gosh, I got catfished so bad. 0:18:31.960 --> 0:18:35.120 So I got a message on Instagram from Diane Hanson, 0:18:35.600 --> 0:18:39.480 Hanson's mum, messaging me saying hello when that she was 0:18:39.520 --> 0:18:40.960 so glad I was a fan of Hans and blah 0:18:40.960 --> 0:18:43.320 blah blah. I got so excited and I wrote back 0:18:43.720 --> 0:18:45.840 and then she asked for money, and then I realized 0:18:45.920 --> 0:18:46.879 it was a fake Hans. 0:18:47.200 --> 0:18:49.880 That was such an elaborate like scam the moment hands 0:18:50.200 --> 0:18:52.200 how many people in the world, even. 0:18:54.000 --> 0:18:57.440 And embarrassing, and yeah, that's probably not the best story. 0:18:57.480 --> 0:18:59.920 I also met them once at a handsOn concert. Hanson 0:19:00.080 --> 0:19:02.040 his parents were sitting like two seats down from me, 0:19:02.119 --> 0:19:04.480 so I said hello. I was like, it's so weird 0:19:04.520 --> 0:19:06.119 that I know what Hanson's parents look like. 0:19:06.840 --> 0:19:08.520 So, how do you think the audition's going? 0:19:12.160 --> 0:19:12.360 Well? 0:19:12.960 --> 0:19:17.520 Then, out of nowhere, Louisa made her strategy and game 0:19:17.600 --> 0:19:20.800 plan to get their job known, and she thought she'd 0:19:20.920 --> 0:19:23.640 get one up by bringing the competition down. 0:19:24.200 --> 0:19:26.040 The thing is, I was thinking about it, and I 0:19:26.160 --> 0:19:27.639 love your mom. I actually want her to be the 0:19:27.680 --> 0:19:30.320 host no offense. Sam, I really do like you too, 0:19:30.440 --> 0:19:32.000 But I was thinking. 0:19:32.000 --> 0:19:33.560 Realistically, you're trying to get this job. 0:19:34.280 --> 0:19:38.520 Yes, yeah, well okay, hear me out. So you and 0:19:38.640 --> 0:19:41.159 Sam had a lot of chemistry, right, You guys were 0:19:41.240 --> 0:19:42.560 flirting like you were both. 0:19:42.760 --> 0:19:44.399 Everybody says we're so flirty, But. 0:19:44.440 --> 0:19:47.160 To me, we were just talking and you were both 0:19:47.200 --> 0:19:48.639 going red and it was very cute. 0:19:48.680 --> 0:19:49.360 He was going red. 0:19:49.600 --> 0:19:52.000 But I know you, Joshua. I've known you for a 0:19:52.080 --> 0:19:57.440 long time, and you seem to have this thing where 0:19:57.520 --> 0:19:59.199 you fall in love very quickly. 0:20:00.040 --> 0:20:01.640 Can I just say I'm not in love with something? 0:20:01.720 --> 0:20:04.560 Yes, but you're going to fall in love and then 0:20:04.600 --> 0:20:06.120 three days later you'll get the EK and then it'll 0:20:06.119 --> 0:20:07.200 be over. And then what are you going to do 0:20:07.240 --> 0:20:08.680 for a co host? If he's your co host? 0:20:09.040 --> 0:20:11.359 So you're hoping you're pushing this for this to happen. 0:20:12.600 --> 0:20:15.360 No, I'm just saying think of it like long term. 0:20:15.440 --> 0:20:17.680 You want this podcast to be long term, right, so 0:20:18.000 --> 0:20:20.960