Speaker 1: The Chris Jian O'Connell Breakfast Show podcast each day this week.
Speaker 1: Then along with the Small Business Plug, we'll try and
Speaker 1: plug as many small businesses in two minutes, catching up
Speaker 1: with celebrities in captivity to see how they're getting on,
Speaker 1: how they're surviving. This morning, someone who met properly for
Speaker 1: the first time a couple of weeks ago when I
Speaker 1: was a guest on his outstanding podcast. I know we've
Speaker 1: got a lot more time at the moment indoors and
Speaker 1: a bit of burning through podcasts. Will Anderson, obviously you'll
Speaker 1: know in this country normally this time of you he's
Speaker 1: smashing it at the Melbourne Comedy Festival. But sadly luck
Speaker 1: a lot of comedians'm all over the world too normally
Speaker 1: flock here. That's obviously not on at the moment, but
Speaker 1: it does. A couple of podcasts. I was a recent
Speaker 1: guest on Philosophy, which is a brilliant one. There's some
Speaker 1: great guests on there, some really good chats as well.
Speaker 1: Then a footy one which I made the mistake of
Speaker 1: subscribing to thinking I would learn about the game. I
Speaker 1: learned the wrong things about the game, but it's very funny.
Speaker 1: Two guys one cup and I think about twenty others
Speaker 1: like Elton. He's a one man outon John and Bernie
Speaker 1: Torp and anyway, he's on the line right now, Win Andison.
Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Christian O'Connell, and thank you for
Speaker 2: playing a little their journey before. I did do a
Speaker 2: lot of air guitar at the end of that boom.
Speaker 1: Didn't take you back to your triple m days with Eddie.
Speaker 2: Look, I mean, I don't think we actually played enough journey.
Speaker 2: And that's what I was going to say. I mean,
Speaker 2: you know, I think when I did Triple J I
Speaker 2: wanted to do quadruple J and just add an extra
Speaker 2: J for journey. There's just something specifically about that song
Speaker 2: that really does inspire air guitar. And I was up
Speaker 2: in my office, So I am up in my office
Speaker 2: and you've been to my office in my house and
Speaker 2: only one of the dogs, So good news, mate, they
Speaker 2: won't start un relieved during this interview.
Speaker 1: I mean, I've done many interview as well, but I've
Speaker 1: never done one where in the middle of an interview,
Speaker 1: the interviewer, the host, his dogs start enjoying each other.
Speaker 1: One of them who was I guess the boss of
Speaker 1: the enjoyment session was the top was looking at me
Speaker 1: eye to eye, and you just carried on interviewing me,
Speaker 1: which I'm mighty professionalism but also lack of at the
Speaker 1: same time.
Speaker 2: Well, I know, I like to think that this is,
Speaker 2: you know, the level that you know sometimes you know,
Speaker 2: when you're interviewing somebody like you you're a professional, you've
Speaker 2: seen everything. No, not that.
Speaker 1: No, I've never seen that. No, you never saw that
Speaker 1: on parking so neither.
Speaker 2: Well that's just because they couldn't train his dogs to
Speaker 2: do It's not me. Three months trained him to do
Speaker 2: that in that exact moment, and I said, girls, you've
Speaker 2: got to do a while looking Christian in the eye
Speaker 2: about an hour and a half into the podcast, just
Speaker 2: what he's tying to, really relax, come in prison style
Speaker 2: and just steer him directly in the eye, liking the
Speaker 2: guard and say, what are you going to do about this? Mate?
Speaker 1: Do you know this is what the world of TV
Speaker 1: chat shows needs right now? You know this is what
Speaker 1: Channel nine, Channel seven they need a new chat show. Okay,
Speaker 1: this is what you need is well interviewing people. His
Speaker 1: dogs perform in front of them like a revolving kind
Speaker 1: of stage in the round. Take that, Andrew, Well, how
Speaker 1: are you surviving? What are you actually doing to cope?
Speaker 1: How are you getting through it?
Speaker 2: You know, like a lot bunch of things, like everybody
Speaker 2: at the moment. The first one is that, you know,
Speaker 2: the simplest thing you can do is do nothing right,
Speaker 2: stay at home and save some lives. It's the easiest
Speaker 2: time in your life you'll ever get to be a
Speaker 2: life saver. So you know, by that great thing of
Speaker 2: just not going outside the door, You're like, I'm a
Speaker 2: bit of.
Speaker 1: A hero today.
Speaker 2: I don't think they will let me march on and
Speaker 2: Jack David, I'm paying your live today, and I think
Speaker 2: that's a good thing. And then I've been trying to
Speaker 2: you know, find positive ways, you know, to kind of
Speaker 2: you know, not just consume things, but to produce things.
Speaker 2: So you mentioned all the podcasts, and you know we've
Speaker 2: been doing those regularly, trying to get some entertainment out
Speaker 2: to people. But on the day the Melbourne Comedy Festival
Speaker 2: is going to start, I actually went through the program
Speaker 2: and tweeted out links and things to other people's work,
Speaker 2: you know, shows that I wanted to see. Try to
Speaker 2: find positive ways to fill the time rather than just
Speaker 2: constantly consuming. But I've also been doing a lot of
Speaker 2: housework around the house because we wanted to be moving
Speaker 2: house during this time. It turns out we're instead stuck
Speaker 2: in the house, but where we were meant to be house.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I mean, I don't want to be rude anything,
Speaker 1: but when I came around the house, your other half
Speaker 1: was obviously away because it looked like you've gone feral
Speaker 1: for some reason. All your clothes were folded up on
Speaker 1: the dining room table, which I've never a unique way
Speaker 1: to sort laundry out. And then yeah, it looked like
Speaker 1: a house that needed some housework doing well, if you
Speaker 1: don't mind me saying.
Speaker 2: It was a house that was being deconstructed. This was
Speaker 2: like you went to a fancy restaurant.
Speaker 1: How you were in Melbourne a deconstructed house.
Speaker 2: Instructed house. This is what it was. You've moved to
Speaker 2: your city. You've got to understand, mate, occasionally when you
Speaker 2: go to Melbourne suburbs, I'm.
Speaker 1: Still so British and pumming uptight about how I like
Speaker 1: a home to be.
Speaker 2: You're quite I like my washing in the washing machine
Speaker 2: and then folded and put in the coveroared. Okay, mate,
Speaker 2: well that's the old stort. You're in Melbourne. Now this
Speaker 2: is the more. This is why take on what a
Speaker 2: house is?
Speaker 1: And so are you trying to learn any new skills
Speaker 1: because you get all these people right now that are
Speaker 1: overachieving and aren't going to learn a language or learn
Speaker 1: how to play the guitar? Are you doing any of that?
Speaker 2: Well, I've been doing a lot of practical things, which
Speaker 2: is not normally my forte. Normally this is your sort
Speaker 2: of situation where you get a man in I'm very
Speaker 2: much a you know, a hire a harbi, yeah, to
Speaker 2: a trade person sort of thing. So, but of course
Speaker 2: in this current environment that's not something that you can do.
Speaker 2: So I have been you know, I looked yesterday. I
Speaker 2: oiled some decking I would not use.
Speaker 1: I think most men listening have been doing that. But
Speaker 1: what aside from that, just to give that a rest.
Speaker 2: You've got to predict your deck, as the Wu Tang
Speaker 2: claim almost did. So I know I oiled the decks.
Speaker 2: It turns out not quite as easy as it looks.
Speaker 2: I thought, now, be just swap some oil on some.
Speaker 1: And also, but people like you and I that aren't
Speaker 1: actually we work for living, but we don't really work
Speaker 1: for liver. It's not actual proper physical toil. Whenever I've
Speaker 1: done anything like that, you realize how physical labor and
Speaker 1: people that do it must be ripped with their obliques
Speaker 1: whatever those side muscles are called. It's knackering. They should
Speaker 1: have decks in gyms that people that were as part
Speaker 1: of CrossFit workouts where oil the deck like wax on
Speaker 1: wax off. If you want a really good old body workout.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's actually a good way to make some
Speaker 2: money and get your house for it is just you
Speaker 2: put a sign up the front and convinced people trust indoors.
Speaker 2: So you grab that, grab that big box, take that
Speaker 2: down the stairs, and they glad that other thing. Take
Speaker 2: that back up. They said, now this is not part
Speaker 2: of it. Now the barbecue. Cleaning the barbecue is a
Speaker 2: real full body workout. And I discovered that because so
Speaker 2: I moved into this house two and a half years ago,
Speaker 2: and I regularly cleaned the barbecue after I use it.
Speaker 2: But I hadn't done you know, like a full it's
Speaker 2: quite a big you know, barbecue came with the house,
Speaker 2: and I've never done sort of a full top to
Speaker 2: bottom clean of the I.
Speaker 1: Thought the heat does that when you turn the burners on.
Speaker 1: Are they cleaners?
Speaker 2: That's what I saw it too, But it turns out
Speaker 2: we're learning a lot. Haven't been quite his hygie because
Speaker 2: we should have read. I mean, I don't know how
Speaker 2: you have time to do much else when you're just
Speaker 2: washing your hands every twenty minutes about twenty minutes ago and.
Speaker 1: OCD. When we come out of this, we're just going
Speaker 1: to all have OCD about washing our hands.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're good years these guys that we've cured the disease,
Speaker 2: but we've run out of water. We have used all
Speaker 2: the water washing our hands. So I cleaned his barbecue,
Speaker 2: and it turns out underneath it was a different color
Speaker 2: than I thought it was. There were parts of the
Speaker 2: parts of the barbecue that I assumed were meant to
Speaker 2: be black, but that was meant to be silver. And
Speaker 2: I have gone back like I've gone back previous owners
Speaker 2: of this house, because this barbecue is now in better
Speaker 2: shaped than when it was delivered to us. I felt
Speaker 2: like I was at one stage. I felt like I
Speaker 2: needed to get out one of those little archological sort
Speaker 2: of uidusters in case I found some ancient transcription written
Speaker 2: on my bid.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's my archaeological renovation and dig now as time
Speaker 1: team more than just cleaning a barber. You found that
Speaker 1: you're in shrouded somehow in there this imprint of the
Speaker 1: face of our savior.
Speaker 2: No, I don't know what happened, mate, I just said
Speaker 2: this word. I found there three times in a row,
Speaker 2: and suddenly a lot of crazy stuff happening over the how.
Speaker 1: And well, what are you missing right now? And obviously
Speaker 1: you're a big Footy fan, but what are you missing?
Speaker 1: Is it like me that the simple, the small things really.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, for me, it is the community sense.
Speaker 2: And I hope that I remember, you know, and I
Speaker 2: know you remember this. We're both broadcasting after you know,
Speaker 2: September eleventh, you know, and there was after we came
Speaker 2: out of that period. There was such a joy in
Speaker 2: being back in society again, you know, doing things that
Speaker 2: suddenly had been taken away from people. You know, there
Speaker 2: was a real joy in that. And I hope that
Speaker 2: when this is over, there's going to be that same celebration.
Speaker 2: I know. Certainly, suddenly you things that you take for granted,
Speaker 2: I mean, my job stand up comedy. You realize straight away,
Speaker 2: not in the central service in any way. You never
Speaker 2: imagine that could be taken away so quickly. So you know,
Speaker 2: particularly at this time of the year. You know, April
Speaker 2: in Melbourne is normally the time that's time for clowns,
Speaker 2: boomgunk collect This is clown Christmas, you know, clown Mecha
Speaker 2: clowns travel from all over the world to our Clown Festival.
Speaker 2: And this would have been my twenty fifth year in
Speaker 2: a row before at the festival, and so it's it's
Speaker 2: going to see those people who come and see my
Speaker 2: shows every year, going to hang out with them, going
Speaker 2: to be in that community. The thing I've always loved
Speaker 2: about stand up comedy is that you're can have a
Speaker 2: thousand people in the room who all have different opedions
Speaker 2: on topics, and yet you can get them in the
Speaker 2: room and they can all laugh at that one moment
Speaker 2: and there's a great sense of community and that everybody
Speaker 2: putting aside there.
Speaker 1: It's like going to see a live music as well
Speaker 1: as a communal experience. That's why it still works live.
Speaker 1: It doesn't it get so big.
Speaker 2: Or seeing it. That's why I think that everythings like
Speaker 2: stand up you know that people are doing some stuff
Speaker 2: over the internet, but it is an experience that's meant
Speaker 2: to be experienced live, you know, in a room with
Speaker 2: a group of people. So on a personal level, I
Speaker 2: mis that, and yes, on a I think the footy
Speaker 2: is probably the big one for me. My team, the
Speaker 2: Western Bulldogs were well well ahead of the game because
Speaker 2: they were actually practicing social distancing in their first game
Speaker 2: against Collingwood did not go within two meters of any
Speaker 2: of the oppositions and any days. So I am now
Speaker 2: lodging for the entire season to be canceled and the
Speaker 2: draft to be allocated in the positions We are on
Speaker 2: the ladder now, so we'll take good. We'll look good
Speaker 2: for twenty twenty one.
Speaker 1: All right, listen, Well, I got to go. It is
Speaker 1: always a joy catching up with you. Can I give
Speaker 1: you a call another week or two to see how
Speaker 1: you getting on? What else you've cleaned around the house?
Speaker 2: Mate? You can call me whenever you like, you know that.
Speaker 1: Well, if we want to find out more about the
Speaker 1: mega industry that is will Ink and your many podcasts
Speaker 1: and projects, where can I find out more?
Speaker 2: Mate? Yeah, go to toe Fop. This is the best place.
Speaker 2: This is a weird name, but t o f op
Speaker 2: dot com and it has links to my comedy podcast Topop.
Speaker 2: There's a new one called Tofop coming out, the footy
Speaker 2: one there and of course Velocity, and you're the most
Speaker 2: recent guest on that, so I'm sure that people who
Speaker 2: love your show would love that interview.
Speaker 1: All right, well, thank you very much for chance to time.
Speaker 1: Mate stay say stands bye.
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