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Speaker 1: Joe White just in town for Fringe with his show

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Speaker 1: Emotional Blackmail in Scarborough, Rockingham and the CBD between now

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Speaker 1: and February fifteen. Tickets are available through Fringe world dot

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Speaker 1: com dot you.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Joe, Joe, Hello, thank you so much for

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Speaker 2: having me days.

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Speaker 3: You're very welcome Fringe time. Everyone's in town.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, tell us about your show briefly.

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Speaker 2: What it's about.

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Speaker 3: What an Emotional Blackmail is?

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Speaker 4: Well, it's it's me crying three am in the morning

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Speaker 4: because I've got a newborn in my hands.

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Speaker 2: Please go to sleep.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a lot of emotions. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Well it's a completely different title to my last year title,

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Speaker 4: which was Ethiopian and Still not Hungry.

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Speaker 2: And I went, where do I go from here?

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Speaker 4: I went, Well, I am emotional and man, so emotional Blackmail.

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Speaker 2: Suits the card. I love a good play.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: And it's the most personal show I've ever done.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and it just talks about, you know, going from

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Speaker 4: because of you guys, you know, as an Ethiopian man.

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Speaker 2: My real name is not Joe White, you know.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, when you went back through the family tree and went, hey,

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Speaker 3: hang on.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, my African parents didn't have me. Looks like Joe White.

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Speaker 4: Some people get surprised. They're like, what your that's not

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Speaker 4: your real name, and I'm like, no, I changed that.

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Speaker 4: They're like, well, why don't you change your middle name

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Speaker 4: to super and you can be Joe super White. And

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Speaker 4: I'm like no, no, So the show is really going

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Speaker 4: from my real name, which is alone is pronounced with

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Speaker 4: it noise you have to in Ethiopian alphabet.

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Speaker 2: We've got that noise.

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Speaker 4: That and I always tell people imagine the will of

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Speaker 4: Fortune in you know that game show where you yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 4: and then it's.

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Speaker 3: Like, I would like to guess It's an easy point

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Speaker 3: of reference to remember.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I like that, and so it's like I would

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Speaker 4: like to guess that, and what's the word you know?

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Speaker 2: Times?

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Speaker 4: So we were honestly the first bit boxer. That's what

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Speaker 4: I would like to say. But my real name is Talahorn.

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Speaker 4: But because you don't have the noise in the English alphabet,

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Speaker 4: you can pronounce it with a tear, so you can

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Speaker 4: say Tila Hornen.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so that's my real name.

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Speaker 4: And you know, growing up in Australia from the age

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Speaker 4: of eleven, I was a very quiet, nervous, shy, just

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Speaker 4: worried that we won't get not to say the wrong

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Speaker 4: thing and not fit in and get set back home blended.

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Speaker 2: I wanted to blame you are Tillhorn.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, And so when I told people my name was Tillohan,

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Speaker 4: the look on their face.

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Speaker 2: I was like, I got to do something.

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Speaker 3: About this shy, shy and retiring until he gets up

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Speaker 3: on stage, then it's a different story.

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Speaker 4: Well, now it's a different story now. And now as

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Speaker 4: an adult, you know you can't you can't shut me up,

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Speaker 4: you know. Well, in the beginning, I was very quiet.

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Speaker 4: So I got the nickname Joe. And then at twenty nine,

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Speaker 4: so I was Joe from fifteen all the way to

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Speaker 4: twenty nine. And then at twenty nine I started doing

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Speaker 4: comedy and I went, how can I be extra funny? Yeah,

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Speaker 4: and so I added white And so I've been white

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Speaker 4: for ten years, and I've decided it's too hard.

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Speaker 2: For you at all.

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Speaker 1: It was it also because you were a bit concerned

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Speaker 1: about people not investing in you because they couldn't.

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Speaker 3: Everything.

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Speaker 1: Make him do it, educate them.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, growing up, I didn't have the confidence to do so.

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Speaker 4: I just wanted to fit in. I just wanted to

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Speaker 4: be accepted.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, when I went to school. I was the only

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Speaker 2: black guy in my year.

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Speaker 4: And so it's like, and you know, kids, kids at school,

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Speaker 4: if you don't accept the nickname, they'll give you one.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so you might as well get on the front foot.

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Speaker 2: You might as well choose one. I had a buddy

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Speaker 2: he didn't want a nickname.

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Speaker 4: His name was and everyone just called him Abka.

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Speaker 2: Like I was like, I'll take John, thank you.

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Speaker 4: So you know, I went above and beyond to try

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Speaker 4: and fit in into the Australian culture. And there's nothing

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Speaker 4: wrong with fitting in, but there's also like an unhealthy

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Speaker 4: amount of going, you know, above and beyond to try and.

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Speaker 2: Fitting to the point where you're not yourself, to the

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Speaker 2: point where you.

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Speaker 4: Give up your own identity, your heritage, your quality, your name,

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Speaker 4: you know, which denotes all of those things.

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Speaker 2: So and that's what I did.

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Speaker 4: And this show is about reclaiming my identity and going

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Speaker 4: back to my real name, Tila Hunt.

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Speaker 2: This is my last performance as Joe White.

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Speaker 1: Just having a new baby, who by the way, is

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Speaker 1: half ethy Open and half Maltese, must be I'm sure

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Speaker 1: you're biased, but she must be ridiculously gorgeous. I think,

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Speaker 1: I guess that makes you reassess things too, in terms

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Speaker 1: of well, I'm not Joe White, my new little baby,

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Speaker 1: I'm your dad, I'm Tihu.

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Speaker 2: You've butchered my name.

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Speaker 4: But everyone, you got it right, You got it right.

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Speaker 4: Mispronoun I apologize. How do I pronounce Lisa? You got

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Speaker 4: it right, just as the regular right.

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Speaker 2: And you're right.

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Speaker 4: She's half Maulty's half ETHYOPI so I own a little Malteser.

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Speaker 2: We love it a bit.

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Speaker 4: She's amazing, and you know I've been serious. I go

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Speaker 4: home and I give her just a big bite and

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Speaker 4: a kiss, and I just say, you taste like Maltita

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Speaker 4: and she's amazing, and you.

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Speaker 3: Know, enjoy that, well you can, because you won't be

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Speaker 3: able to do that for too much longer.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they tell me, and I'm like, I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I just yea.

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Speaker 4: The first thing I do is just kiss and cuddle her.

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Speaker 4: She's just the best thing that's ever happened to me.

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Speaker 2: And you're right.

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Speaker 4: Having a kid does change your whole perspective online. And

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Speaker 4: you know, I want to teach her to be her

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Speaker 4: true self. I want to teach her to not change

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Speaker 4: who she is just to fit in, you know, And

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Speaker 4: a lot of the times like we think that's what

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Speaker 4: society wants, and we do it, and it's not your

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Speaker 4: true self, but what the society needs that a lot

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Speaker 4: of the time is your true self.

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Speaker 1: I think she's been born into a true self era.

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Speaker 4: So I think that thataken at the.

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Speaker 1: First show last night, everything gone well, ironed out the kinks,

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Speaker 1: so the rest of.

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Speaker 4: Us kick yes, right, I filmed that as well. Can

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Speaker 4: I tell you something that happened that last night shirt?

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Speaker 4: That was absolutely hilarious? Right? And this is just again

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Speaker 4: the extreme level I went to to fit into the

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Speaker 4: Australian way of life.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 4: I got this guy up on stage is from Manchester

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Speaker 4: to try and pronounce Tila Hunt.

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Speaker 2: He was in struggling a bit, right, but he had

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Speaker 2: a shirt that said Ghetto Australia.

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Speaker 4: Oil and one of the punters heckled me and he goes, mate,

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Speaker 4: have you got a shirt like that? And I said,

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Speaker 4: I'll do you one better, and I showed him my

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Speaker 4: chest and I've got a Southern Cross tattoo on my chest.

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Speaker 2: A true story.

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Speaker 4: That's the extreme level I went to just to show

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Speaker 4: how much I love this country and threw it.

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Speaker 2: I'll put Land of Freedom because that's what it meant

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Speaker 2: to me.

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Speaker 1: All right, Well, the last people do to show how

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Speaker 1: much I love you is get your name right.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you can call me till the hunt.

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Speaker 3: Joe White emotional blackmail in Scarborough, Rockingham and in the

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Speaker 3: city center between now and the fifteenth Feb and Klamuanda.

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Speaker 3: He's getting around while he's still Joe White.

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Speaker 4: Yes.

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Speaker 3: Tickets are available through fringeworld dot com dot au