1 00:00:00,920 --> 00:00:04,200 Speaker 1: This is jam Nation with Jonesy and Lander. 2 00:00:04,559 --> 00:00:06,800 Speaker 2: Our next guest is known for being one of Australia's 3 00:00:06,920 --> 00:00:10,760 Speaker 2: funniest people on social media. His viral videos and unique 4 00:00:10,760 --> 00:00:13,160 Speaker 2: sense of humor has brought much comic relief to many 5 00:00:13,200 --> 00:00:15,360 Speaker 2: of us when we're in lockdown and going through your 6 00:00:15,360 --> 00:00:18,400 Speaker 2: hard times. He has a fabulous character called the Guy 7 00:00:18,440 --> 00:00:22,119 Speaker 2: who Decides, and he decides everything from COVID restrictions to 8 00:00:22,239 --> 00:00:24,000 Speaker 2: one of our favorites here packaging. 9 00:00:24,320 --> 00:00:25,239 Speaker 3: What should we put down? 10 00:00:25,600 --> 00:00:26,400 Speaker 4: Strawberries it? 11 00:00:26,520 --> 00:00:28,479 Speaker 3: Pull it in a little box that you can see 12 00:00:28,520 --> 00:00:31,840 Speaker 3: through blueberries, an even smaller box that you can see 13 00:00:31,840 --> 00:00:33,160 Speaker 3: into a brocolini. 14 00:00:33,479 --> 00:00:36,199 Speaker 5: Just put a little elastic band around them, a purple 15 00:00:36,280 --> 00:00:37,120 Speaker 5: elastic band. 16 00:00:37,159 --> 00:00:38,200 Speaker 4: It must be purple. 17 00:00:38,240 --> 00:00:43,120 Speaker 3: Oranges, a net potatoes, a sack, lemons, they can get 18 00:00:43,159 --> 00:00:46,839 Speaker 3: them themselves, mushrooms, a paper bag, yogurt. 19 00:00:47,040 --> 00:00:49,800 Speaker 5: Pull it in a tub with a little paper lid, 20 00:00:49,960 --> 00:00:51,920 Speaker 5: jam jam. 21 00:00:51,920 --> 00:00:54,400 Speaker 3: Pull it in a glass jar with the metal lid 22 00:00:54,440 --> 00:00:56,560 Speaker 3: that goes when you open it. 23 00:00:57,320 --> 00:01:00,880 Speaker 5: Okay, bed you mind put that in a glass with 24 00:01:00,960 --> 00:01:04,959 Speaker 5: a little lid that goes pop to no, a plastic lid. 25 00:01:06,480 --> 00:01:08,720 Speaker 2: Well. He's got a brand new comedy special on Binge 26 00:01:08,760 --> 00:01:11,200 Speaker 2: called Meanwhile in Australia, Jimmy rees. 27 00:01:12,480 --> 00:01:14,360 Speaker 1: Hey guys, there you go and thanks for having me. 28 00:01:14,720 --> 00:01:18,440 Speaker 2: What a pleasure to talk to you. These characters do 29 00:01:18,440 --> 00:01:19,440 Speaker 2: do they come from people? 30 00:01:19,480 --> 00:01:19,760 Speaker 1: You know? 31 00:01:19,959 --> 00:01:24,080 Speaker 2: The woman from the Brighton Ladies, the guy who decides. 32 00:01:24,400 --> 00:01:25,959 Speaker 2: Are these people you've seen? 33 00:01:27,160 --> 00:01:29,040 Speaker 1: Oh well, the guy decides. 34 00:01:29,080 --> 00:01:33,160 Speaker 3: Particularly, I think is there's someone making these decisions somewhere 35 00:01:33,280 --> 00:01:35,680 Speaker 3: And when you look at life, you know, you think 36 00:01:35,720 --> 00:01:38,280 Speaker 3: this person is under the influence of something, you know, 37 00:01:38,360 --> 00:01:40,160 Speaker 3: like who decides all these things? 38 00:01:40,200 --> 00:01:41,959 Speaker 1: Like it could be applied to. 39 00:01:41,920 --> 00:01:46,360 Speaker 3: Anything, really, you know, like who decides who wears suits? 40 00:01:46,560 --> 00:01:48,440 Speaker 3: You know, like a car salesman wears a suit you 41 00:01:48,480 --> 00:01:50,120 Speaker 3: have to go to court to wear a suit, like 42 00:01:50,120 --> 00:01:50,880 Speaker 3: a real estate. 43 00:01:50,680 --> 00:01:53,680 Speaker 1: Agent wears a suit. But then like why why, like 44 00:01:53,840 --> 00:01:55,720 Speaker 1: why car salesman wear a suit? 45 00:01:56,120 --> 00:01:58,240 Speaker 3: If you're buying like a full drive, why would you 46 00:01:58,280 --> 00:02:00,480 Speaker 3: not want someone who looks like they go full driving? 47 00:02:00,640 --> 00:02:02,720 Speaker 1: Not some the old dude in the suit. 48 00:02:03,160 --> 00:02:10,440 Speaker 2: Seriously, so true, It's so true. Most people knew you 49 00:02:10,520 --> 00:02:14,639 Speaker 2: first of all from Giggle and WoT, a kids show 50 00:02:14,639 --> 00:02:17,800 Speaker 2: that you fronted for ten years. It was a big decision, 51 00:02:17,840 --> 00:02:20,520 Speaker 2: I know to leave that show. Did you picture this 52 00:02:20,720 --> 00:02:22,680 Speaker 2: in your future or have you made this up as 53 00:02:22,720 --> 00:02:23,360 Speaker 2: you went along. 54 00:02:24,520 --> 00:02:28,280 Speaker 3: Well, it's a bit of both, actually, Amanda, Like probably 55 00:02:28,320 --> 00:02:31,040 Speaker 3: the first the last few years of Giggle and Who. 56 00:02:31,160 --> 00:02:32,800 Speaker 3: You know, I was trying to think of, you know, 57 00:02:32,919 --> 00:02:34,920 Speaker 3: like what am I going to do next? And I 58 00:02:34,919 --> 00:02:36,680 Speaker 3: think when you're in kids TV, you've got to sort 59 00:02:36,680 --> 00:02:38,600 Speaker 3: of break the mold of not being just the kids 60 00:02:38,639 --> 00:02:40,520 Speaker 3: presenter if you have desires to go. 61 00:02:40,440 --> 00:02:42,480 Speaker 1: And do something else. And comedy is always something I 62 00:02:42,480 --> 00:02:43,240 Speaker 1: really wanted. 63 00:02:42,960 --> 00:02:46,200 Speaker 3: To do, so I always write things down, and you know, 64 00:02:46,240 --> 00:02:47,880 Speaker 3: I knew that that was what I wanted to do. 65 00:02:47,960 --> 00:02:49,440 Speaker 3: I thought it would take a lot longer for me 66 00:02:49,520 --> 00:02:51,400 Speaker 3: to sort of break the mold of dressing up in 67 00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:53,800 Speaker 3: my pajamas and talking to puppet owls for a living. 68 00:02:54,760 --> 00:02:57,399 Speaker 3: So I yeah, and then you know, when the pandemic 69 00:02:57,400 --> 00:02:59,720 Speaker 3: came around, it really just gave me the impetus to 70 00:02:59,760 --> 00:03:02,520 Speaker 3: just do something and put something out there a because 71 00:03:02,560 --> 00:03:05,399 Speaker 3: I have three children and I had to feed them. 72 00:03:06,080 --> 00:03:06,960 Speaker 4: Should do something. 73 00:03:07,520 --> 00:03:10,280 Speaker 3: And everything went to nothing, you know, so like a 74 00:03:10,360 --> 00:03:11,800 Speaker 3: Giggle and Who came to an end and it was 75 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:14,320 Speaker 3: just the timing thing. And yeah, I just threw out 76 00:03:14,320 --> 00:03:17,200 Speaker 3: a few things which I thought were funny and yeah, 77 00:03:17,240 --> 00:03:19,200 Speaker 3: I just sort of like you, Zip, I just created 78 00:03:19,200 --> 00:03:21,680 Speaker 3: these random characters and people seem to enjoy them, so 79 00:03:21,680 --> 00:03:22,360 Speaker 3: I just kept going. 80 00:03:22,360 --> 00:03:24,160 Speaker 1: And now it's yeah, now I got a book and 81 00:03:24,200 --> 00:03:25,080 Speaker 1: a special. 82 00:03:24,680 --> 00:03:27,320 Speaker 4: And it's all got a amazing and it is a pivot. 83 00:03:28,120 --> 00:03:30,680 Speaker 6: I remember the guy from Blues Clues and he decided 84 00:03:30,760 --> 00:03:32,360 Speaker 6: he's going to leave Blues Clues and he was going 85 00:03:32,400 --> 00:03:36,800 Speaker 6: to become a university or they the ined he died 86 00:03:36,840 --> 00:03:38,920 Speaker 6: and he was Marilyn Manson and there was all that 87 00:03:38,920 --> 00:03:41,480 Speaker 6: sort of stuff, but he actually just went to university 88 00:03:41,560 --> 00:03:44,280 Speaker 6: and became a doctor. But with you to go from 89 00:03:44,280 --> 00:03:46,680 Speaker 6: a child's entertainer, and I'm not saying that you should 90 00:03:46,760 --> 00:03:50,200 Speaker 6: become a doctor, but I completely almost forgot that you 91 00:03:50,240 --> 00:03:52,720 Speaker 6: did giggle and who. So that's in a way, you know, 92 00:03:52,760 --> 00:03:55,480 Speaker 6: you've got that legacy. But here you're doing this and. 93 00:03:55,560 --> 00:03:57,840 Speaker 4: The guy who decides is like, I just love that. 94 00:03:57,920 --> 00:03:59,080 Speaker 4: I just love watching those. 95 00:04:00,040 --> 00:04:01,400 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's very so. Yeah, I. 96 00:04:03,040 --> 00:04:06,440 Speaker 3: Think back to the Blues Clothes guy who think you know, 97 00:04:06,480 --> 00:04:08,240 Speaker 3: we all thought he died. I think it's a rite 98 00:04:08,240 --> 00:04:12,240 Speaker 3: of passage for anyone who's finished children's entertainment to have, 99 00:04:12,480 --> 00:04:14,240 Speaker 3: you know, I think people just think I must have 100 00:04:14,280 --> 00:04:17,719 Speaker 3: had an overdose or something. I remember Jimmy Giggle or 101 00:04:17,720 --> 00:04:20,440 Speaker 3: something was trending on Twitter one time, and I can't 102 00:04:20,440 --> 00:04:22,839 Speaker 3: remember what it was for, but I got so many 103 00:04:22,880 --> 00:04:25,520 Speaker 3: messages and people were replying going, oh no, what. 104 00:04:28,960 --> 00:04:31,480 Speaker 1: If a children's presenter was just trending on Twitter that there? 105 00:04:31,520 --> 00:04:32,120 Speaker 1: Thumbs up. 106 00:04:33,680 --> 00:04:37,360 Speaker 4: Your Marilyn Man. What about so the guy who decides? 107 00:04:37,360 --> 00:04:39,000 Speaker 6: Have you ever done one on the guy who decides 108 00:04:39,080 --> 00:04:42,760 Speaker 6: radio or radio stations or radio formats or radio co hosts. 109 00:04:43,360 --> 00:04:45,280 Speaker 1: No, but we could probably just do one right now. 110 00:04:45,360 --> 00:04:46,760 Speaker 1: It's probably keep it. 111 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:49,800 Speaker 4: I would. I would just love to go as crazy 112 00:04:49,839 --> 00:04:50,520 Speaker 4: as you want on it. 113 00:04:51,040 --> 00:04:53,960 Speaker 3: Well, it was something that's always okay, let's just get 114 00:04:53,960 --> 00:04:55,840 Speaker 3: the guy decides in here. So the guy decides, he's 115 00:04:55,839 --> 00:04:58,880 Speaker 3: making the decisions basically, you know, and he has to 116 00:04:58,920 --> 00:05:00,400 Speaker 3: be under the influence on the thing. 117 00:05:00,320 --> 00:05:02,960 Speaker 1: That the guy decides will probably think of. It's just like, oh, 118 00:05:03,040 --> 00:05:07,480 Speaker 1: good morning, oh hello, sir. Radio stations, fill the studio 119 00:05:07,600 --> 00:05:12,920 Speaker 1: with cameras. It's radio. And I don't think we should 120 00:05:12,960 --> 00:05:15,280 Speaker 1: fill the studio with cameras. It's radio. People can't see. 121 00:05:15,360 --> 00:05:19,200 Speaker 5: Shut up, Jason, fill the camera. Put cameras in every studio. 122 00:05:19,240 --> 00:05:21,320 Speaker 5: Oh Okay, so trying to be like TV? Yeah, make 123 00:05:21,360 --> 00:05:23,240 Speaker 5: it like TV? Or why are we doing that too? 124 00:05:23,480 --> 00:05:24,960 Speaker 5: We are we going to give them hair and makeup? 125 00:05:25,040 --> 00:05:25,360 Speaker 1: No? 126 00:05:25,360 --> 00:05:27,080 Speaker 5: No, they got up at three o'clock in the morning. 127 00:05:27,080 --> 00:05:29,760 Speaker 5: They were horrendous and tired and over it. Jason, why 128 00:05:29,760 --> 00:05:31,800 Speaker 5: are we filming them? Shut up, Jason, that's the way. 129 00:05:31,640 --> 00:05:37,120 Speaker 1: We're going to do it. What I mean we could 130 00:05:37,160 --> 00:05:37,560 Speaker 1: go on. 131 00:05:38,800 --> 00:05:40,680 Speaker 4: And put some rock's head on Jason play. 132 00:05:42,400 --> 00:05:43,960 Speaker 1: How about we think about. 133 00:05:45,560 --> 00:05:48,159 Speaker 5: Try and think of new ways to sell the same 134 00:05:48,200 --> 00:05:51,080 Speaker 5: one hand songs who've been playing for the last three decades. 135 00:05:52,760 --> 00:05:54,760 Speaker 4: Who's going to be number one? Gee? Will it be 136 00:05:54,800 --> 00:05:55,560 Speaker 4: a c DC? 137 00:05:56,680 --> 00:06:00,520 Speaker 6: Oh, you've nailed Jimmy. It's just great to see that 138 00:06:00,560 --> 00:06:02,280 Speaker 6: you've pivoted. It's good to see that you're not dead 139 00:06:02,400 --> 00:06:06,680 Speaker 6: or Marilyn Manson or are you Meanwhile in Australia now 140 00:06:06,720 --> 00:06:08,560 Speaker 6: streaming on binge brilliant. 141 00:06:08,560 --> 00:06:11,119 Speaker 4: Congratulates check it out. Thank you for joining us, Jimmy 142 00:06:11,279 --> 00:06:12,120 Speaker 2: So nice to see you.