1 00:00:00,920 --> 00:00:04,080 Speaker 1: This is gam Nation with jonesy Land. 2 00:00:04,400 --> 00:00:04,600 Speaker 2: Well. 3 00:00:04,600 --> 00:00:07,440 Speaker 3: Anderson has had a huge year with comedy tours, grew 4 00:00:07,520 --> 00:00:10,080 Speaker 3: and question everything, and now he's got a book. It's 5 00:00:10,119 --> 00:00:13,160 Speaker 3: part memoir, part manifesto, but it's all comedy. 6 00:00:13,200 --> 00:00:15,440 Speaker 1: It's called I'm Not Fine. Thanks. 7 00:00:15,840 --> 00:00:20,160 Speaker 3: It's about enduring turbulent times with humor, with community and 8 00:00:20,200 --> 00:00:21,919 Speaker 3: a dash of apple side of vinegar. 9 00:00:22,239 --> 00:00:24,160 Speaker 1: Will Anderson, Hello, there is Hello. 10 00:00:24,320 --> 00:00:25,640 Speaker 2: Shall we start with apple side of ana? 11 00:00:25,760 --> 00:00:27,320 Speaker 1: Can we are most curious about that? 12 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:28,080 Speaker 4: Well? 13 00:00:28,360 --> 00:00:30,160 Speaker 2: All you need to do to have your questions answers 14 00:00:30,200 --> 00:00:32,440 Speaker 2: is moved to the Northern Rivers in New South Wales, Amanda, 15 00:00:32,440 --> 00:00:34,559 Speaker 2: because ninety five percent of the conversations you will have 16 00:00:34,840 --> 00:00:36,839 Speaker 2: for the rest of your life will involve the wonders 17 00:00:36,880 --> 00:00:39,519 Speaker 2: of apple side of vinegar. There is no conversation. They 18 00:00:39,520 --> 00:00:41,600 Speaker 2: can't bring it into Oh your voice is a little 19 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:43,680 Speaker 2: scratch you. They're what you need is some hot water 20 00:00:43,720 --> 00:00:45,720 Speaker 2: and some apple side of vinegar. I noticed some bird 21 00:00:45,720 --> 00:00:47,959 Speaker 2: shit on the window of your car. What'll get that off? 22 00:00:47,920 --> 00:00:49,960 Speaker 2: It's some apple side of vinegar and you're having a salad. 23 00:00:50,120 --> 00:00:52,279 Speaker 2: Will we make a delicious vinigrette? Is some apple side 24 00:00:52,320 --> 00:00:54,560 Speaker 2: of vinegar? One day I actually said to someone. I 25 00:00:54,600 --> 00:00:56,280 Speaker 2: thought I was going to stump them. I said, oh, well, 26 00:00:56,360 --> 00:00:58,520 Speaker 2: my problem is I spilled some apple side of vinegar. 27 00:00:58,680 --> 00:00:59,400 Speaker 2: I'm by carpet. 28 00:00:59,400 --> 00:01:00,400 Speaker 4: What do I do about that? 29 00:01:00,440 --> 00:01:02,520 Speaker 2: And without missing a beat, they said, oh, what you 30 00:01:02,560 --> 00:01:03,760 Speaker 2: need is more apple. 31 00:01:05,560 --> 00:01:07,800 Speaker 5: Because I was one of these people who fell in 32 00:01:07,840 --> 00:01:09,199 Speaker 5: love with the apple side of vinegar. 33 00:01:09,680 --> 00:01:11,800 Speaker 1: You take it straight early in the morning. 34 00:01:11,640 --> 00:01:14,199 Speaker 5: And then one day I took so much I necked 35 00:01:14,360 --> 00:01:16,720 Speaker 5: a big, like a nip glass of it, and I 36 00:01:16,800 --> 00:01:17,880 Speaker 5: burnt my esophagus. 37 00:01:17,880 --> 00:01:18,319 Speaker 4: Remember that? 38 00:01:18,560 --> 00:01:20,959 Speaker 1: But also to strip all the enamel off your teeth. 39 00:01:21,040 --> 00:01:23,080 Speaker 4: Yeah, that's the other thing. Yeah, yeah. 40 00:01:23,080 --> 00:01:26,160 Speaker 2: And also look, the main ingredient of apple side of vinegar, 41 00:01:26,200 --> 00:01:28,440 Speaker 2: if you know any thing about it, is snake oil. 42 00:01:31,440 --> 00:01:34,279 Speaker 4: Where do you get this snake oil? Where's that? 43 00:01:34,280 --> 00:01:37,560 Speaker 1: That's in the shop next to the place bunk this stuff. 44 00:01:38,400 --> 00:01:40,639 Speaker 3: So with this book, the thing is that your life 45 00:01:40,720 --> 00:01:43,200 Speaker 3: changed overnight with COVID, as it did for many people. 46 00:01:43,280 --> 00:01:45,319 Speaker 3: But you've said I lost a month of work in 47 00:01:45,360 --> 00:01:47,840 Speaker 3: a minute and a year of work in a week. 48 00:01:48,160 --> 00:01:50,400 Speaker 3: So is this book your way of dealing with how 49 00:01:50,400 --> 00:01:51,800 Speaker 3: your world termed upside down? 50 00:01:52,440 --> 00:01:55,200 Speaker 2: It very much is, in fact, so a lot of 51 00:01:55,200 --> 00:01:57,200 Speaker 2: it is actually just material that had been written to 52 00:01:57,200 --> 00:01:58,960 Speaker 2: be on stage, and then of course there was nowhere 53 00:01:58,960 --> 00:02:01,080 Speaker 2: to do that material. Lot of it went into the book. 54 00:02:01,160 --> 00:02:04,240 Speaker 2: But at the end of twenty nineteen I left a 55 00:02:04,280 --> 00:02:08,239 Speaker 2: pretty lucrative breakfast radio job because I was sick of 56 00:02:08,280 --> 00:02:09,960 Speaker 2: getting up early in the morning and I wanted to 57 00:02:10,120 --> 00:02:12,239 Speaker 2: stay out late at night doing stand up comedy. So 58 00:02:12,320 --> 00:02:14,680 Speaker 2: I had not one, not two, but three different shows 59 00:02:14,880 --> 00:02:16,760 Speaker 2: that I was going to tour all over Australia in 60 00:02:16,800 --> 00:02:20,160 Speaker 2: the world, and then April twenty twenty something happened. April 61 00:02:20,200 --> 00:02:22,840 Speaker 2: twenty twenty would have been my twenty fifth year in 62 00:02:22,880 --> 00:02:25,920 Speaker 2: a row and the Melbourne International Comedy Festival twenty five 63 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:28,320 Speaker 2: years in a row, which means that my career is 64 00:02:28,400 --> 00:02:31,360 Speaker 2: now so old that Leonardo DiCaprio would not date it. 65 00:02:34,360 --> 00:02:37,679 Speaker 2: But unfortunately the Melbourne Comedy Festival and the Australian Grand 66 00:02:37,680 --> 00:02:39,919 Speaker 2: Prix were the first two major events that went away 67 00:02:39,960 --> 00:02:43,000 Speaker 2: in Australia. That was the harbinger that suddenly this COVID 68 00:02:43,080 --> 00:02:45,120 Speaker 2: virus we were hearing about from overseas was going to 69 00:02:45,120 --> 00:02:49,720 Speaker 2: have ramifications in Australia. So it coincided with me moving 70 00:02:49,800 --> 00:02:52,360 Speaker 2: to Nea Mullam Bimbi which we all know is the 71 00:02:52,400 --> 00:02:55,840 Speaker 2: scientific capital of Australia and it was quite an interesting 72 00:02:55,919 --> 00:02:58,600 Speaker 2: experience to move to the anti vax capital of Australia 73 00:02:58,639 --> 00:03:01,120 Speaker 2: at the start of a global pandemic as someone who 74 00:03:01,160 --> 00:03:04,399 Speaker 2: believes in science and the scientific method. Now, Jonesy, I'm 75 00:03:04,440 --> 00:03:08,280 Speaker 2: a middle class, middle aged white Australian man. I've never 76 00:03:08,320 --> 00:03:11,680 Speaker 2: been a minority before, and I did not like it. 77 00:03:11,680 --> 00:03:12,320 Speaker 4: It's not fun. 78 00:03:12,480 --> 00:03:13,600 Speaker 2: People don't listen to you. 79 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:15,320 Speaker 4: I disrespect your opinions. 80 00:03:15,639 --> 00:03:17,960 Speaker 2: I don't know how everyone else is put up so long. 81 00:03:18,800 --> 00:03:21,280 Speaker 4: Well, apple side of vinegar that gets rid of COVID. 82 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:24,760 Speaker 2: If they wanted people to take the vaccine up there, 83 00:03:24,760 --> 00:03:26,960 Speaker 2: they should have changed the name of Astrazenka to apple 84 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:29,320 Speaker 2: side of vinegar. People would have been binding around the block. 85 00:03:29,440 --> 00:03:31,760 Speaker 4: And it's got the same alliteration almost when you think 86 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:32,519 Speaker 4: about it, astro. 87 00:03:32,680 --> 00:03:36,120 Speaker 2: You say it faster than yeah, it would have been fine. 88 00:03:36,240 --> 00:03:38,440 Speaker 2: They'd be like, they're injecting it now. I'll get in here. 89 00:03:39,280 --> 00:03:40,880 Speaker 5: You get some of this or take it in some 90 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:45,400 Speaker 5: pository form. There's a thing or apple side of vinegar. 91 00:03:45,520 --> 00:03:50,200 Speaker 4: Animals this guy you heard it here first? 92 00:03:50,520 --> 00:03:53,080 Speaker 5: Well, well, I'm so looking forward to reading this because 93 00:03:53,080 --> 00:03:56,480 Speaker 5: I just finished Thursday Murder Club, the whole series of that, 94 00:03:56,840 --> 00:03:57,880 Speaker 5: and I mean. 95 00:03:57,840 --> 00:03:59,240 Speaker 1: I think this is a different style now. 96 00:03:59,280 --> 00:04:01,240 Speaker 5: Of course, of course I'm in book depression at the 97 00:04:01,280 --> 00:04:03,080 Speaker 5: moment I finished it, and then I thought, well, am 98 00:04:03,120 --> 00:04:05,080 Speaker 5: I going to read next? And then this, which I'm 99 00:04:05,120 --> 00:04:07,360 Speaker 5: holding up to our zoom chat just to prove that 100 00:04:07,640 --> 00:04:08,200 Speaker 5: we've got it. 101 00:04:08,360 --> 00:04:10,200 Speaker 4: I'm going to start reading this tonight. 102 00:04:10,560 --> 00:04:10,920 Speaker 3: Thank you. 103 00:04:11,160 --> 00:04:13,560 Speaker 2: Hopefully it's funny, like I really wanted to write, Like, 104 00:04:13,600 --> 00:04:15,240 Speaker 2: I mean, everyone's got to take on what happened in 105 00:04:15,280 --> 00:04:17,240 Speaker 2: the last couple of years, but the way that I 106 00:04:17,320 --> 00:04:19,359 Speaker 2: process what happens in the world is through humor. So 107 00:04:19,400 --> 00:04:21,920 Speaker 2: I wanted to write something that hopefully you get, like 108 00:04:21,960 --> 00:04:24,080 Speaker 2: a few good laughs on every single page, even though 109 00:04:24,080 --> 00:04:25,520 Speaker 2: I'm talking about some pretty dark stuff. 110 00:04:25,560 --> 00:04:26,800 Speaker 5: Well, I've got your number, do you. I'm going to 111 00:04:26,880 --> 00:04:29,480 Speaker 5: ring each time I finished in chapter say I will. 112 00:04:29,839 --> 00:04:32,600 Speaker 5: I know it's late, but I really this really cracked pa. 113 00:04:34,960 --> 00:04:36,920 Speaker 2: I would like a bit more than that, Actually, Jones, 114 00:04:37,040 --> 00:04:38,600 Speaker 2: if you could just put me on speaker for her 115 00:04:39,320 --> 00:04:41,320 Speaker 2: while you were reading it and I can just hear 116 00:04:41,760 --> 00:04:44,040 Speaker 2: the laughs in the background, that's what I would actually like. 117 00:04:45,279 --> 00:04:47,560 Speaker 4: Well, it's always great to catch up with you. I'm 118 00:04:47,600 --> 00:04:48,600 Speaker 4: not fine. Thanks. 119 00:04:48,680 --> 00:04:52,440 Speaker 5: Available now in all good bookstores and online, Will Anderson, 120 00:04:52,480 --> 00:04:52,920 Speaker 5: thank you 121 00:04:53,480 --> 00:04:54,320 Speaker 2: Thank you for having me.