1 00:00:00,920 --> 00:00:02,280 Speaker 1: This is gem Nation with. 2 00:00:04,400 --> 00:00:07,240 Speaker 2: Our next guess is one of Australia's most famous expats, 3 00:00:07,520 --> 00:00:10,400 Speaker 2: Jim Jeffries. He says whatever he wants and people love 4 00:00:10,480 --> 00:00:13,880 Speaker 2: him for it. His unapologetic social commentary has one in 5 00:00:13,960 --> 00:00:15,920 Speaker 2: millions of fans across the globe. He's one of the 6 00:00:16,040 --> 00:00:19,319 Speaker 2: highest selling comedians on the planet, and fans who missed 7 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:21,520 Speaker 2: out on tickets to his previous sold out Emore shows 8 00:00:21,600 --> 00:00:24,680 Speaker 2: last June are in luck because he's back, joins us. 9 00:00:24,680 --> 00:00:29,120 Speaker 1: Now, Hollo Jim, how I how are you guys? Great? 10 00:00:29,240 --> 00:00:29,840 Speaker 1: Really well? 11 00:00:30,040 --> 00:00:32,080 Speaker 2: When you come to Australia, I know you live in 12 00:00:32,080 --> 00:00:35,320 Speaker 2: the States. How much do you have to change your material? 13 00:00:35,400 --> 00:00:38,080 Speaker 2: Obviously the gun stuff that's made you so famous in 14 00:00:38,120 --> 00:00:40,839 Speaker 2: the States, you don't necessarily do that here. But are 15 00:00:40,840 --> 00:00:42,160 Speaker 2: we very different audiences? 16 00:00:44,600 --> 00:00:47,800 Speaker 1: That's pretty much the same. I always had a few 17 00:00:47,880 --> 00:00:50,560 Speaker 1: routines that are about growing up in Australia or being 18 00:00:50,600 --> 00:00:53,559 Speaker 1: Australian that the American bank get. I'm surely rattling out 19 00:00:53,560 --> 00:00:57,400 Speaker 1: when I get to Australia. But this is a show 20 00:00:57,480 --> 00:01:01,480 Speaker 1: that I was working on over COVID and I'm going 21 00:01:01,520 --> 00:01:05,200 Speaker 1: to record it as a special in about two weeks, 22 00:01:05,240 --> 00:01:07,280 Speaker 1: and I don't think it'll be out of Netflix until 23 00:01:07,360 --> 00:01:10,480 Speaker 1: the New Year sometimes. So I was coming over for 24 00:01:10,800 --> 00:01:15,240 Speaker 1: Christmas and New Year's and I said, I'll do one 25 00:01:15,319 --> 00:01:17,960 Speaker 1: show and that's all that real quick, so we added 26 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:21,000 Speaker 1: another one on. So I'm quite humbled. 27 00:01:21,240 --> 00:01:23,119 Speaker 3: Well, and I just love the way you tell a story. 28 00:01:23,160 --> 00:01:24,959 Speaker 3: It could be anything about the time you're hanging out 29 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:28,520 Speaker 3: with Axel Rose, which was one of my favorite stories. 30 00:01:28,800 --> 00:01:31,360 Speaker 3: Then you were talking about it, was it possibly Axel 31 00:01:31,440 --> 00:01:33,200 Speaker 3: Rose or a middle aged woman? 32 00:01:35,360 --> 00:01:39,720 Speaker 1: Oh no, no, it was one hundred percent act of Roseye. 33 00:01:39,880 --> 00:01:42,000 Speaker 1: I was not a hold. I've taken a whole lot 34 00:01:42,040 --> 00:01:45,160 Speaker 1: of mushrooms in Vegas after my show and then the 35 00:01:45,280 --> 00:01:47,800 Speaker 1: Axl Rose asked me to come in to meet him, 36 00:01:47,800 --> 00:01:49,760 Speaker 1: and it turned out that he's been in the audience 37 00:01:49,720 --> 00:01:51,840 Speaker 1: to my gig and I've been slagging him off, saying 38 00:01:51,840 --> 00:01:54,640 Speaker 1: how lady is the concerts all the time, not knowing 39 00:01:54,680 --> 00:01:57,400 Speaker 1: he was not knowing he was in the room, and 40 00:01:57,440 --> 00:01:59,680 Speaker 1: he was like, Hey, I just want to tell you 41 00:01:59,680 --> 00:02:03,440 Speaker 1: that we overstated how how late I am for a constance, 42 00:02:03,520 --> 00:02:06,000 Speaker 1: and I was on so many mushrooms. He just looked 43 00:02:06,080 --> 00:02:09,160 Speaker 1: like he looked like the cowardly lines and the Wizard 44 00:02:09,200 --> 00:02:14,440 Speaker 1: of our just and I went, oh, thank you so 45 00:02:14,560 --> 00:02:17,120 Speaker 1: much for having me, mister Rose, I really appreciate it. 46 00:02:17,160 --> 00:02:20,040 Speaker 1: And then a photo and security was like, he doesn't 47 00:02:20,080 --> 00:02:22,640 Speaker 1: take photos, and then out of nowhere he said he would, 48 00:02:22,680 --> 00:02:25,480 Speaker 1: So I've got to photo me pretty mashed up with that, right. 49 00:02:25,919 --> 00:02:28,920 Speaker 2: Because apparently isn't the bandana has that fake hair attached 50 00:02:28,960 --> 00:02:29,840 Speaker 2: to it. I think. 51 00:02:31,800 --> 00:02:34,360 Speaker 1: I'm never going to get into a man for he's 52 00:02:34,600 --> 00:02:40,960 Speaker 1: trying to look like he has hair. I'm someone who's 53 00:02:40,960 --> 00:02:43,959 Speaker 1: body had a transplant. I take my T shirt every day. 54 00:02:44,040 --> 00:02:46,240 Speaker 1: I can't take it every day. I can't take it 55 00:02:46,240 --> 00:02:47,760 Speaker 1: every day. I have to take it every four days. 56 00:02:47,840 --> 00:02:52,000 Speaker 1: I take it every day. My penis doesn't work too much. 57 00:02:52,480 --> 00:02:55,040 Speaker 1: Like either I could have hair or I can'd of 58 00:02:55,160 --> 00:02:57,200 Speaker 1: fix with anyone. I'm bold, and no one wants that 59 00:02:59,160 --> 00:03:03,919 Speaker 1: deliver the idea that we'd see actual writers for wearing 60 00:03:03,919 --> 00:03:10,880 Speaker 1: a wig. But it's called Jada Pinkett Smith's brave, like 61 00:03:12,280 --> 00:03:18,760 Speaker 1: one had one bold man been called brave, you know 62 00:03:18,800 --> 00:03:22,040 Speaker 1: what I mean? How do we live in a society 63 00:03:22,080 --> 00:03:24,600 Speaker 1: where women are allowed to wear wigs over there four 64 00:03:24,680 --> 00:03:26,840 Speaker 1: heads of there and they're just having a bit of fun. 65 00:03:27,160 --> 00:03:29,400 Speaker 1: But if a bald man. Where's the wiged a loser? 66 00:03:30,200 --> 00:03:33,360 Speaker 3: I've just I was looking at the news. America's just 67 00:03:33,400 --> 00:03:36,600 Speaker 3: had its fortieth shooting for the week, and last week 68 00:03:36,840 --> 00:03:39,920 Speaker 3: it was so we're we're in the forty third week 69 00:03:39,960 --> 00:03:41,920 Speaker 3: of the year. That's one a week. 70 00:03:43,720 --> 00:03:47,520 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, no, no, no, they're they're they're very common. Now. 71 00:03:48,120 --> 00:03:49,360 Speaker 1: I'm not going to tell you as the parents that 72 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:51,640 Speaker 1: I don't worry about it all the time, but you know, 73 00:03:51,800 --> 00:03:54,240 Speaker 1: it's the same thing is because that gun control routine 74 00:03:54,280 --> 00:03:56,480 Speaker 1: that I did. If I wake up in the morning 75 00:03:56,480 --> 00:03:59,440 Speaker 1: and I'm trending on Twitter, I go, oh, there must 76 00:03:59,440 --> 00:04:01,560 Speaker 1: have been a shoe, you know what I mean, Like 77 00:04:01,640 --> 00:04:06,320 Speaker 1: it's it's not it's not a fun thing. Now they're 78 00:04:06,400 --> 00:04:09,080 Speaker 1: going to have like people ringing in Like when we're 79 00:04:09,120 --> 00:04:12,000 Speaker 1: a kid, remember when you wanted to do an exam 80 00:04:12,040 --> 00:04:13,920 Speaker 1: and then one kid would ring in a bomb scare 81 00:04:13,960 --> 00:04:16,440 Speaker 1: and you'd be like through like an extra data studies. 82 00:04:16,760 --> 00:04:20,039 Speaker 1: You know, thank you whoever did that. Right over here, 83 00:04:20,080 --> 00:04:23,160 Speaker 1: they're ringing in the school shootings now so terrifying. 84 00:04:23,400 --> 00:04:26,480 Speaker 3: Yes, that's a scary ass and one of your routines. 85 00:04:26,640 --> 00:04:29,440 Speaker 3: I just like the way that you compare our constitution 86 00:04:29,839 --> 00:04:32,720 Speaker 3: to the American Constitution because I wouldn't even know what's 87 00:04:32,760 --> 00:04:33,760 Speaker 3: in our Constitution. 88 00:04:35,680 --> 00:04:38,560 Speaker 1: I don't know where it is. Is it written on 89 00:04:38,600 --> 00:04:42,599 Speaker 1: a bit of paper like has anyone like? Is there 90 00:04:42,680 --> 00:04:45,719 Speaker 1: is there some parchment paper like some old school sort 91 00:04:45,720 --> 00:04:49,120 Speaker 1: of treasure map looking paper with it written on because 92 00:04:49,200 --> 00:04:51,240 Speaker 1: I've never seen it? Have you ever seen it? 93 00:04:51,360 --> 00:04:53,400 Speaker 2: Never seen it? It wasn't even where we had one, 94 00:04:53,440 --> 00:04:55,200 Speaker 2: to be honest, what's written on it? I wouldn't know. 95 00:04:56,800 --> 00:05:00,000 Speaker 1: The most I learned about this trained Constitution was from 96 00:04:59,880 --> 00:05:02,480 Speaker 1: the movie The Castle because they mentioned it at two sides. 97 00:05:02,880 --> 00:05:05,120 Speaker 1: That's about. That's as far as I've gone. 98 00:05:05,360 --> 00:05:06,800 Speaker 2: Can I ask you what it's like being on the 99 00:05:06,880 --> 00:05:08,880 Speaker 2: road these days? I mean, do you take mushrooms after 100 00:05:08,880 --> 00:05:11,200 Speaker 2: every show? Or of you move to sort of tumoric tea? 101 00:05:11,279 --> 00:05:12,560 Speaker 2: What kind of traveler are you? 102 00:05:12,600 --> 00:05:19,760 Speaker 1: Now? I've been sober now for eighteen months from alcohol. 103 00:05:19,920 --> 00:05:23,640 Speaker 1: So I live in California. So I taken up weed 104 00:05:23,760 --> 00:05:26,320 Speaker 1: and that's changed my life. So what I do is 105 00:05:26,320 --> 00:05:29,080 Speaker 1: I take it. I take an edible or a storeboard edible 106 00:05:29,120 --> 00:05:31,640 Speaker 1: after I get off stage, and that just chills me out. Man, 107 00:05:31,760 --> 00:05:34,840 Speaker 1: No more any depressivets name more or nothing reads the 108 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:37,840 Speaker 1: greatest thing that ever come into my life. They call 109 00:05:37,880 --> 00:05:41,320 Speaker 1: it California sober. I like to call it high and. 110 00:05:41,320 --> 00:05:45,760 Speaker 3: Drive because we're drinking in America's attitude to drink in 111 00:05:45,800 --> 00:05:48,800 Speaker 3: a strains attitude to drinking are two different things in America. 112 00:05:48,880 --> 00:05:51,719 Speaker 3: You know, I'd be considered an alcoholic a. 113 00:05:51,720 --> 00:05:52,440 Speaker 2: Little bit here too. 114 00:05:52,680 --> 00:05:57,479 Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, the Americans Americans to go into a comedy 115 00:05:57,520 --> 00:06:01,400 Speaker 1: club and they have on the table, they have a 116 00:06:01,440 --> 00:06:05,120 Speaker 1: little sign on your favorous is to drink minimum. Everyone 117 00:06:05,160 --> 00:06:07,240 Speaker 1: has to buy two drinks, like when they get in 118 00:06:07,240 --> 00:06:09,000 Speaker 1: the comedy club, you know the other one. You can't 119 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:13,240 Speaker 1: sit there drink minimum. Could you imagine how insulting that 120 00:06:13,279 --> 00:06:16,200 Speaker 1: would be to an Australian as you walked into a 121 00:06:16,279 --> 00:06:19,240 Speaker 1: bar and they said to drink minimum, you go, but 122 00:06:19,320 --> 00:06:24,440 Speaker 1: I'm allowed more right the maximum as well. When when 123 00:06:24,440 --> 00:06:28,159 Speaker 1: I first moved to America, I you know, I go 124 00:06:28,240 --> 00:06:31,320 Speaker 1: into bar and I try to be responsible, so I go, 125 00:06:31,760 --> 00:06:34,159 Speaker 1: I'll have a light beer, thanks, And I was drinking 126 00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:37,760 Speaker 1: about you know, five or six seven light beers, and 127 00:06:37,800 --> 00:06:40,239 Speaker 1: then I was driving home thinking I was a good person, 128 00:06:40,680 --> 00:06:42,840 Speaker 1: and only to find out that light beers in America 129 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:47,880 Speaker 1: mean low cars. 130 00:06:47,240 --> 00:06:54,520 Speaker 3: Which your figure though, Jim, I look great. You look great, 131 00:06:54,760 --> 00:06:57,200 Speaker 3: good hair, good cats around a tree, But jeez, you 132 00:06:57,240 --> 00:07:02,240 Speaker 3: look good. Jim. It's always great. We just love you. 133 00:07:02,320 --> 00:07:04,560 Speaker 3: We love catching up with you. It's always a treat 134 00:07:04,560 --> 00:07:06,320 Speaker 3: to have you on our show. Take us to see 135 00:07:06,400 --> 00:07:10,240 Speaker 3: Jim Jefferies available now at frontierturing dot com. Thank you 136 00:07:10,280 --> 00:07:13,480 Speaker 3: for joining us. 137 00:07:12,720 --> 00:07:15,320 Speaker 1: Thanks for having me. Anytime you want me, I'll be honest.