1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:02,679 Speaker 1: Jersey and Amanda gam Nation. 2 00:00:03,120 --> 00:00:06,720 Speaker 2: In April twenty twenty two, Peter Hellier was pronounced dead 3 00:00:06,840 --> 00:00:10,280 Speaker 2: on Twitter, remember this, joining the ranks of Nicholas Cage, 4 00:00:10,400 --> 00:00:15,040 Speaker 2: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jeff Goldblumer. More recently, Kouchy trolled in death. 5 00:00:15,080 --> 00:00:17,320 Speaker 2: He somehow survived to tell his story, and he's based 6 00:00:17,360 --> 00:00:21,000 Speaker 2: his new comedy show on this. It's called Deconstructed Origami. 7 00:00:21,560 --> 00:00:24,160 Speaker 2: He joins us. Now, Pete Hellier, Hello. 8 00:00:24,760 --> 00:00:27,080 Speaker 1: Hello, Amana, gave a Jonesy. How are we, Pete. 9 00:00:27,080 --> 00:00:30,000 Speaker 3: We're not speaking to you from beyond the grave. We're 10 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:31,880 Speaker 3: not doing this through the station. Weed your board. 11 00:00:33,040 --> 00:00:36,760 Speaker 1: No, No, Richie Wilkins has confound I'm still alive, which 12 00:00:36,800 --> 00:00:39,000 Speaker 1: it is good. Yeah, good news for everyone hopefully. 13 00:00:39,080 --> 00:00:39,559 Speaker 3: How did you? 14 00:00:39,560 --> 00:00:41,159 Speaker 2: How did all this come about? And how did you 15 00:00:41,240 --> 00:00:42,120 Speaker 2: hear that you died? 16 00:00:43,760 --> 00:00:47,040 Speaker 1: It was it was a strange experience, Aman And finally enough, 17 00:00:47,080 --> 00:00:50,400 Speaker 1: I was on my way to the Melbourne International Comedy 18 00:00:50,479 --> 00:00:53,920 Speaker 1: Festival to sly had good friends Judih Lucy Anthonise Scott, 19 00:00:54,080 --> 00:00:56,800 Speaker 1: and I got a couple of weird messages on the 20 00:00:56,800 --> 00:00:59,040 Speaker 1: way in. There's people who I hadn't heard from for 21 00:00:59,080 --> 00:01:02,720 Speaker 1: a while saying hey, it's just saying if everything's okay, 22 00:01:02,840 --> 00:01:05,280 Speaker 1: and just kind of like throwing a bit of a 23 00:01:05,360 --> 00:01:06,959 Speaker 1: rod in the water. I think they were. And I 24 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:09,200 Speaker 1: was like, yeah, yeah, yeah, oh good, you know, catch 25 00:01:09,240 --> 00:01:11,520 Speaker 1: up soon, I'm sure, and didn't think much of it. 26 00:01:11,600 --> 00:01:14,080 Speaker 1: And then as the show went on, my phone just 27 00:01:14,160 --> 00:01:18,320 Speaker 1: kept on buzzing, and I eventually got to the end 28 00:01:18,680 --> 00:01:20,640 Speaker 1: of the show and I looked at my and I 29 00:01:20,640 --> 00:01:24,520 Speaker 1: had all these miscalls, and I checked the messages, and 30 00:01:24,640 --> 00:01:26,320 Speaker 1: my first one I saw was from my manager to saying, 31 00:01:26,319 --> 00:01:28,160 Speaker 1: please tell me you got to the Art Center and 32 00:01:28,520 --> 00:01:29,800 Speaker 1: you're in there and give me a call so as 33 00:01:29,840 --> 00:01:33,039 Speaker 1: you get out. The second one was from Chris Bendle, 34 00:01:33,080 --> 00:01:35,920 Speaker 1: who is the executi producer on the project, and he 35 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:38,720 Speaker 1: went straight. He's been a bit more of a straight shoot, 36 00:01:38,800 --> 00:01:41,200 Speaker 1: he said to me. The message was Twitter says you're dead? 37 00:01:41,319 --> 00:01:45,600 Speaker 1: Is this true? The project always goes straight to the sauce. 38 00:01:45,840 --> 00:01:50,880 Speaker 1: And I checked Twitter and there I was trending. The 39 00:01:50,960 --> 00:01:53,720 Speaker 1: number one trending topic was Peter Hellier is dead. And 40 00:01:53,720 --> 00:01:56,840 Speaker 1: the weird thing is because I think, particularly when you're 41 00:01:56,840 --> 00:01:59,440 Speaker 1: work in showbiz, you kind of think we were all 42 00:01:59,440 --> 00:02:03,000 Speaker 1: guilty of thing. Everyone's on Twitter, so I was leaving 43 00:02:03,800 --> 00:02:06,800 Speaker 1: the Art Center and going out into the streets of Melbourne, 44 00:02:06,840 --> 00:02:11,280 Speaker 1: thinking everyone thinks that I'm dead. And my second thought 45 00:02:11,320 --> 00:02:14,680 Speaker 1: was if they think that, why is why is everyone 46 00:02:14,680 --> 00:02:19,480 Speaker 1: that's going about their lives. Why the clock's not stopped? 47 00:02:19,480 --> 00:02:20,640 Speaker 1: Why why the flags? 48 00:02:22,480 --> 00:02:23,440 Speaker 3: What's going on. 49 00:02:24,840 --> 00:02:26,639 Speaker 1: Whaling at all? 50 00:02:26,720 --> 00:02:28,520 Speaker 3: Imagine if you walked down into the street dressed as 51 00:02:28,520 --> 00:02:30,320 Speaker 3: a ghost with some chains, that would. 52 00:02:30,120 --> 00:02:31,760 Speaker 2: Have been great for the two people on. 53 00:02:34,440 --> 00:02:36,160 Speaker 3: So how did it actually start? Did you ever get 54 00:02:36,200 --> 00:02:36,800 Speaker 3: to the bottom of that? 55 00:02:38,560 --> 00:02:43,960 Speaker 1: So somebody, somebody in California with my name died in 56 00:02:43,960 --> 00:02:47,240 Speaker 1: the car accident and some of that, and I don't 57 00:02:47,280 --> 00:02:51,480 Speaker 1: know how if it was malicious or as far as 58 00:02:51,560 --> 00:02:55,120 Speaker 1: the room of v then transferred onto me, or if 59 00:02:55,120 --> 00:02:59,640 Speaker 1: it was an honest mistake. But yeah, he kind of 60 00:02:59,720 --> 00:03:04,119 Speaker 1: he kind of wires were crossed deliberately or accidentally, and 61 00:03:04,160 --> 00:03:07,600 Speaker 1: they kind of caught caught on like wildfire a little bit, 62 00:03:07,720 --> 00:03:10,200 Speaker 1: and there was some confusion. And in the show, I 63 00:03:10,280 --> 00:03:12,800 Speaker 1: go through some of the messages and a bit of 64 00:03:12,800 --> 00:03:16,600 Speaker 1: a of a timeline as to how it all surfaced, 65 00:03:16,639 --> 00:03:19,560 Speaker 1: and some of the reactions and some are some are 66 00:03:19,639 --> 00:03:22,160 Speaker 1: you know, some are people are ver upset and some 67 00:03:22,240 --> 00:03:25,760 Speaker 1: are some people just mean the people. Some people were 68 00:03:25,760 --> 00:03:27,600 Speaker 1: confused and so. 69 00:03:28,040 --> 00:03:29,080 Speaker 2: And that's just your family. 70 00:03:31,280 --> 00:03:34,600 Speaker 1: Well, it's funny. I text my kids, you know, when 71 00:03:34,600 --> 00:03:36,400 Speaker 1: I go up on the streets and I said, there's 72 00:03:36,440 --> 00:03:39,440 Speaker 1: a room one on tweiteter saying I'm dead. It's not through. 73 00:03:39,920 --> 00:03:42,560 Speaker 1: Your Dad's alive. He loves you. And to this day 74 00:03:42,600 --> 00:03:43,960 Speaker 1: it was the rest a year ago. They have not 75 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:44,960 Speaker 1: responded today. 76 00:03:46,480 --> 00:03:47,000 Speaker 3: Naturally. 77 00:03:47,520 --> 00:03:50,119 Speaker 2: Well, look, you're just out of the jungle. You did 78 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:53,400 Speaker 2: so well. I know you've got a lot from that experience. 79 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:55,200 Speaker 2: You lost seven and a half kilos and you're hoping 80 00:03:55,200 --> 00:03:56,560 Speaker 2: that as soon as you got out you could start 81 00:03:56,920 --> 00:03:58,560 Speaker 2: reloading on the food. But you said there was a 82 00:03:58,560 --> 00:04:00,600 Speaker 2: whole lot of processes that happened when you come out. 83 00:04:02,320 --> 00:04:04,280 Speaker 1: Yeah, well, when you come out you kind of had 84 00:04:04,280 --> 00:04:07,240 Speaker 1: this I think speaking to everyone when we're in the jungle, 85 00:04:07,600 --> 00:04:09,920 Speaker 1: like we had these plans. So we thought, we're going 86 00:04:09,960 --> 00:04:12,200 Speaker 1: to get out and we'll chat at Christ and Juliet 87 00:04:12,200 --> 00:04:14,400 Speaker 1: and then we'll go to a you know, find a 88 00:04:14,440 --> 00:04:17,120 Speaker 1: pub or find a meal and this, you know, and 89 00:04:17,160 --> 00:04:20,320 Speaker 1: maybe going to oh and then when you come out, 90 00:04:20,360 --> 00:04:24,760 Speaker 1: you actually are there for hours going through various you know, 91 00:04:25,160 --> 00:04:26,680 Speaker 1: you do a couple of interviews, but then you kind 92 00:04:26,680 --> 00:04:28,359 Speaker 1: of chat to the sark to make sure you know, 93 00:04:28,560 --> 00:04:31,359 Speaker 1: if you come out you know good good mentally. And 94 00:04:31,400 --> 00:04:33,640 Speaker 1: then you go to the doctor and that you get 95 00:04:33,640 --> 00:04:36,680 Speaker 1: weighed and you get a medical done, and there's all 96 00:04:36,760 --> 00:04:39,200 Speaker 1: this process. You know, there'd be a big process that 97 00:04:39,200 --> 00:04:41,720 Speaker 1: you go through before you get out. So the first 98 00:04:41,760 --> 00:04:44,760 Speaker 1: three for hours, you're basically talking to people and then 99 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:48,200 Speaker 1: they're making sure you're okay, and so you know, I 100 00:04:48,200 --> 00:04:51,000 Speaker 1: have eaten since I'm pretty sure I put my most 101 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:52,839 Speaker 1: of that seven and a half kilos back on the 102 00:04:52,880 --> 00:04:57,600 Speaker 1: flight homes. 103 00:04:58,240 --> 00:04:59,880 Speaker 3: Well, Peter, it's always great to talk to. You can go. 104 00:05:00,440 --> 00:05:02,719 Speaker 3: You did a great job on Celebrity And now the 105 00:05:02,760 --> 00:05:07,680 Speaker 3: new show Deconstructed Origami is at the Factory Theater this Saturday. 106 00:05:07,880 --> 00:05:11,240 Speaker 3: Tickets from Sydney Coomedyfest dot com dot au pete hell 107 00:05:11,240 --> 00:05:11,920 Speaker 3: are you thank you? 108 00:05:12,800 --> 00:05:13,960 Speaker 1: Oh wait to pleasure guys.