1 00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:03,320 Speaker 1: Jersey and Amanda gam Nation. 2 00:00:03,520 --> 00:00:05,680 Speaker 2: Now you might know our next guest as a master 3 00:00:05,840 --> 00:00:08,879 Speaker 2: of stand up comedy. But he's hitting the big screen now, 4 00:00:08,920 --> 00:00:11,760 Speaker 2: which walk me about ARJ Barker. He's bringing back that 5 00:00:11,880 --> 00:00:14,320 Speaker 2: eighties style of humor in his new movie that he's 6 00:00:14,360 --> 00:00:16,920 Speaker 2: written called The Nut Farm. To tell us about it, 7 00:00:16,920 --> 00:00:20,520 Speaker 2: he is Arge himself. Hello, Arch, Hi, good morning, how 8 00:00:20,560 --> 00:00:21,240 Speaker 2: are you great. 9 00:00:21,280 --> 00:00:25,160 Speaker 3: It's a big deal. This is your first big movie. 10 00:00:25,440 --> 00:00:28,120 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's actually the first movie. It's my first lead 11 00:00:28,200 --> 00:00:30,280 Speaker 1: role in the film. I've had little tiny bits here 12 00:00:30,320 --> 00:00:33,920 Speaker 1: and there, cluding some folks might might have seen me 13 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:36,320 Speaker 1: in Flight at the Concourse without a very small part. 14 00:00:36,880 --> 00:00:41,680 Speaker 1: You at my character Dave. Oh that's I think that's 15 00:00:41,720 --> 00:00:45,160 Speaker 1: a stretch. But anyway, it was cool. But this film, yeah, 16 00:00:45,200 --> 00:00:47,080 Speaker 1: my friends and I wrote it, and it was in 17 00:00:47,120 --> 00:00:50,080 Speaker 1: my original idea from quite a few years ago when 18 00:00:50,080 --> 00:00:52,040 Speaker 1: I was living in the Northern Rivers for a minute 19 00:00:52,320 --> 00:00:55,240 Speaker 1: and had some thought experiences. But I thought I should 20 00:00:55,400 --> 00:00:57,600 Speaker 1: try to build a movie around this, and it eventually 21 00:00:57,680 --> 00:01:00,000 Speaker 1: happened through fast forward, through a lot of hard work 22 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:02,080 Speaker 1: and a bit of luck. In it's opening this week 23 00:01:02,200 --> 00:01:02,880 Speaker 1: in cinemas. 24 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:05,760 Speaker 3: So, Sonny and you play a character called Brendan Brandon. 25 00:01:05,840 --> 00:01:09,360 Speaker 3: My first name being Brendan, it usually gets confused. When 26 00:01:09,360 --> 00:01:12,120 Speaker 3: I go to America, they call me Brandon. Hey, Brandon, 27 00:01:12,240 --> 00:01:15,240 Speaker 3: so you've you've nipped it in the body with Brendan Brandon. 28 00:01:16,160 --> 00:01:18,119 Speaker 1: Yeah, so there's a bit of confusion about my name 29 00:01:18,160 --> 00:01:19,440 Speaker 1: in the film, so we have a bit of fun 30 00:01:19,480 --> 00:01:22,000 Speaker 1: with that. It is a It is a comedy. I 31 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:24,680 Speaker 1: would describe it as a like a family friendly comedy. 32 00:01:24,720 --> 00:01:28,399 Speaker 1: So it's it's a based around kind of a disappearance 33 00:01:28,440 --> 00:01:30,360 Speaker 1: of caper, if you will. There's a villain, there's a 34 00:01:30,560 --> 00:01:33,160 Speaker 1: there's a love interest. There's a lot of wacky humor, 35 00:01:33,280 --> 00:01:37,640 Speaker 1: big characters, and I think that's where they some reviewers 36 00:01:37,640 --> 00:01:39,480 Speaker 1: got the idea that it does have a little bit 37 00:01:39,520 --> 00:01:42,240 Speaker 1: of an eighties feel. And to be honest with folks 38 00:01:42,280 --> 00:01:44,920 Speaker 1: that wrote it, my friends and I we all we 39 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:46,960 Speaker 1: grew up on those kind of movies. So yeah, there 40 00:01:47,040 --> 00:01:49,520 Speaker 1: is a there is a sense of that in this film. 41 00:01:50,040 --> 00:01:54,000 Speaker 1: But it's really a lovely Australian made comedy. In these days, 42 00:01:54,040 --> 00:01:57,320 Speaker 1: you get so many gritty comedies, great comedies, you know, 43 00:01:57,360 --> 00:02:00,480 Speaker 1: like the tourists, excuse me, serious Australian. He's like the 44 00:02:00,560 --> 00:02:05,120 Speaker 1: tourist murder murder dramas, but this is a nice change 45 00:02:05,120 --> 00:02:08,000 Speaker 1: from that, and it's not that many comedies that are 46 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:09,760 Speaker 1: getting made in this country at the moment, so we're 47 00:02:09,760 --> 00:02:10,679 Speaker 1: happy to contribute. 48 00:02:10,760 --> 00:02:14,160 Speaker 3: And your character, Brendan Brandon, is a crypto trader, and 49 00:02:14,200 --> 00:02:16,480 Speaker 3: all of a sudden he's not he's a blogger. He 50 00:02:16,520 --> 00:02:19,040 Speaker 3: is suddenly he's making good money, and then he's not 51 00:02:19,120 --> 00:02:22,320 Speaker 3: making money. But then he moves into the macadamia nut 52 00:02:22,360 --> 00:02:26,560 Speaker 3: business because his uncle owned a macadamia farm. But your 53 00:02:26,680 --> 00:02:30,200 Speaker 3: uncle is a conspiracy theory guy, but he's gone missing, 54 00:02:30,280 --> 00:02:33,600 Speaker 3: so you Brendan Brandon slides in there. 55 00:02:34,680 --> 00:02:37,840 Speaker 1: Well, yeah, I mean my uncle I've never really met 56 00:02:38,200 --> 00:02:41,440 Speaker 1: bequeathed me his macademia farm in his will. And that 57 00:02:41,520 --> 00:02:44,239 Speaker 1: was right around when my character does go broke trading crypto, 58 00:02:44,280 --> 00:02:46,400 Speaker 1: which some people thought it was this a documentary or 59 00:02:48,919 --> 00:02:51,040 Speaker 1: but no, it's a it's a Actually now the crypto 60 00:02:51,160 --> 00:02:53,880 Speaker 1: market's doing really well, so it goes up and down. 61 00:02:53,919 --> 00:02:58,280 Speaker 1: But uh, I go to Australia thinking I'll just sell 62 00:02:58,320 --> 00:03:01,400 Speaker 1: the farm and buy more crypto. Yeah, naturally, the movie 63 00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:03,360 Speaker 1: would have been ten minutes long if that could happen. 64 00:03:03,840 --> 00:03:07,920 Speaker 1: But they one of the conditions in the wheel is 65 00:03:07,919 --> 00:03:12,000 Speaker 1: that I have to successfully farm twenty tons of macadamias, 66 00:03:12,440 --> 00:03:15,400 Speaker 1: and that really sets the adventure in motion. So I 67 00:03:15,440 --> 00:03:18,160 Speaker 1: have to really dig my heels in and basically, you know, 68 00:03:18,200 --> 00:03:19,840 Speaker 1: step it up and grow some nuts. 69 00:03:21,440 --> 00:03:24,359 Speaker 2: And did you enjoy the filming experience? Did you enjoy 70 00:03:24,800 --> 00:03:27,959 Speaker 2: TV on steroids to make a movie? 71 00:03:28,240 --> 00:03:30,280 Speaker 1: I did, but I'd say it's possibly the hardest I've 72 00:03:30,280 --> 00:03:32,600 Speaker 1: ever worked as a comedian. You know, I'm pretty used 73 00:03:32,639 --> 00:03:34,840 Speaker 1: to you know, a fair bit of travel, but a 74 00:03:34,840 --> 00:03:37,640 Speaker 1: lot of time to sort of lounge around and prepare 75 00:03:37,720 --> 00:03:41,680 Speaker 1: and do my thing and then working very focused for 76 00:03:41,760 --> 00:03:43,480 Speaker 1: an hour plus an hour and a half a night. 77 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:47,760 Speaker 1: But this was pretty much full time hours, five days 78 00:03:47,800 --> 00:03:50,120 Speaker 1: a week. And I'm not complaining, like I know, lots 79 00:03:50,160 --> 00:03:51,839 Speaker 1: of people listening are like, yeah, so I've been doing 80 00:03:51,840 --> 00:03:55,880 Speaker 1: that for twenty thirty years. But it was definitely a 81 00:03:55,920 --> 00:03:58,520 Speaker 1: big for me. A lot of work and took a 82 00:03:58,520 --> 00:04:00,760 Speaker 1: lot of focus because I'm in about nine out of 83 00:04:00,800 --> 00:04:03,720 Speaker 1: ten scenes in the film, so it was like, get okay, 84 00:04:03,760 --> 00:04:06,080 Speaker 1: so we finished, okay, cut all right, now you need 85 00:04:06,120 --> 00:04:08,040 Speaker 1: to go to wardrobe and change and go over to 86 00:04:08,080 --> 00:04:10,280 Speaker 1: that one. And I meanwhile, I'm trying to learn all 87 00:04:10,320 --> 00:04:12,200 Speaker 1: the lines on the fly because I'm not the type 88 00:04:12,240 --> 00:04:15,360 Speaker 1: to memorize the whole script at once. So it was 89 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:18,000 Speaker 1: a lot of work and it took. It was wonderful. 90 00:04:18,040 --> 00:04:20,880 Speaker 1: I mean the month it was actually five weeks of 91 00:04:20,920 --> 00:04:24,160 Speaker 1: filming blew by, but man, and I was surrounded by 92 00:04:24,200 --> 00:04:27,560 Speaker 1: super pros too, so like all the other cast are 93 00:04:27,800 --> 00:04:31,680 Speaker 1: really professional actors, I'm more of an occasional actor and 94 00:04:31,720 --> 00:04:33,719 Speaker 1: that was part of the strategy, was to surround me 95 00:04:33,760 --> 00:04:37,560 Speaker 1: with real pros, like you know, Madeline West and he's 96 00:04:37,600 --> 00:04:42,720 Speaker 1: an amazing legend of Australian TV and film. And John 97 00:04:42,760 --> 00:04:45,960 Speaker 1: O Roberts, this incredible Kiwi actor with a ton He's 98 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:48,960 Speaker 1: done a ton of TV and stage. And also Tei 99 00:04:49,040 --> 00:04:53,440 Speaker 1: O Mora. Folks might not put the name together, but 100 00:04:53,520 --> 00:04:56,960 Speaker 1: he played the lawyer in The Castle. Yeah, classic Australian 101 00:04:57,480 --> 00:04:59,480 Speaker 1: iconic film. He's the guy who's always going on about 102 00:05:00,040 --> 00:05:02,120 Speaker 1: you know, it's the vibe of the contentation, you're honored, 103 00:05:02,160 --> 00:05:04,800 Speaker 1: it's about the vibe. Well, he plays a lawyer in 104 00:05:04,880 --> 00:05:10,240 Speaker 1: our film. Furthermore, like considering us a low budget, we 105 00:05:10,320 --> 00:05:13,000 Speaker 1: have so much in this film. We have a soundtrack 106 00:05:13,040 --> 00:05:17,000 Speaker 1: that includes Paul Kelly mental as anything and crowded house 107 00:05:17,480 --> 00:05:20,320 Speaker 1: songs in the in the film soundtrack, so there's a 108 00:05:20,360 --> 00:05:22,719 Speaker 1: lot to love. Like I mean, I'm pretty excited. We 109 00:05:22,800 --> 00:05:26,320 Speaker 1: did our first premiere last night in Melbourne, heading up 110 00:05:26,320 --> 00:05:30,720 Speaker 1: to Sydney tonight for the Cremorne Orphium Theater you and 111 00:05:30,800 --> 00:05:34,000 Speaker 1: a handful of tickets are still available to that too, 112 00:05:34,040 --> 00:05:35,400 Speaker 1: so if you guys want to come down and see 113 00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:38,560 Speaker 1: it before it's even officially opens, that's tonight in Sydney 114 00:05:38,560 --> 00:05:42,520 Speaker 1: at the Orpheum on Cremorn. I'm pretty excited. I'm jazzed up. 115 00:05:42,560 --> 00:05:44,120 Speaker 1: I haven't even I've only had half a cup of 116 00:05:44,120 --> 00:05:45,280 Speaker 1: coffee and artists like that. 117 00:05:45,600 --> 00:05:50,760 Speaker 3: Sam say, and do you have do you dabbling cryptocurrency 118 00:05:50,800 --> 00:05:51,400 Speaker 3: in real life? 119 00:05:52,480 --> 00:05:55,280 Speaker 1: Yes? I do. As a matter of fact, I hold 120 00:05:55,320 --> 00:05:57,440 Speaker 1: some crypto and I've seen it go up and down, 121 00:05:57,480 --> 00:06:00,839 Speaker 1: up and down, and I'm I think it's gonna go 122 00:06:00,920 --> 00:06:04,000 Speaker 1: higher and then eventually crashes, and so then I I 123 00:06:04,120 --> 00:06:07,040 Speaker 1: just I'm terrible at getting off the ride. Probably a 124 00:06:07,080 --> 00:06:07,279 Speaker 1: lot of. 125 00:06:07,279 --> 00:06:10,000 Speaker 3: Invest because I don't know anyone that's actually bought anything 126 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:11,800 Speaker 3: with crypto currency. I know plenty of people that have 127 00:06:11,839 --> 00:06:13,560 Speaker 3: got it, but I got what what did you buy? 128 00:06:13,560 --> 00:06:15,039 Speaker 3: Did you buy a jet skate, you buy something and 129 00:06:15,080 --> 00:06:17,920 Speaker 3: they say, well, no, because I gotta keep it in there. 130 00:06:18,680 --> 00:06:20,240 Speaker 1: Yeah, you want to hold onto it because you think 131 00:06:20,279 --> 00:06:22,200 Speaker 1: it's going to go up and up and up. And 132 00:06:22,440 --> 00:06:24,680 Speaker 1: it's pretty funny. I mean I only took a bottle, 133 00:06:24,760 --> 00:06:26,400 Speaker 1: you know, just a little bit for a laugh, and 134 00:06:29,839 --> 00:06:32,000 Speaker 1: it's been a fun ride. I don't have a Lamborghini yet, 135 00:06:32,440 --> 00:06:34,719 Speaker 1: so I'll be holding out, holding out for that. 136 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:36,960 Speaker 3: Well, you don't have it, you don't have one yet. 137 00:06:38,040 --> 00:06:40,440 Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, Well, well let's see how the film goes. Yeah, 138 00:06:41,800 --> 00:06:44,320 Speaker 1: thank you for letting me tell your audience, because this 139 00:06:44,520 --> 00:06:47,279 Speaker 1: is being a small film, small budget. We don't have 140 00:06:47,320 --> 00:06:50,599 Speaker 1: a big studio behind this, and we honestly most movies 141 00:06:50,640 --> 00:06:54,960 Speaker 1: you see will spend more on pr then we spent 142 00:06:55,120 --> 00:06:58,520 Speaker 1: making the entire film. So for for what we've achieved 143 00:06:58,560 --> 00:07:02,599 Speaker 1: for a lower budget is incredible. And Scott Corfield, the 144 00:07:02,600 --> 00:07:05,920 Speaker 1: director and producer, did an incredible job. I can't even 145 00:07:05,920 --> 00:07:07,400 Speaker 1: tell you how good great of a job he did 146 00:07:07,640 --> 00:07:10,480 Speaker 1: well this movie for for the budget he had. But 147 00:07:10,600 --> 00:07:12,640 Speaker 1: we need the public to get behind it. Well we're 148 00:07:12,680 --> 00:07:13,960 Speaker 1: going to get You're going to see. 149 00:07:13,840 --> 00:07:16,080 Speaker 3: It well of course, and with you nine out of 150 00:07:16,160 --> 00:07:18,960 Speaker 3: ten scenes. That's that's that's got me and you had 151 00:07:18,960 --> 00:07:19,640 Speaker 3: to be there. 152 00:07:19,600 --> 00:07:22,560 Speaker 2: So it's in all cinemas starting tomorrow tomorrow. 153 00:07:23,120 --> 00:07:26,040 Speaker 3: Thank you for joining us, No Paun. 154 00:07:25,840 --> 00:07:27,880 Speaker 1: Thanks for having me. I was great to learn a 155 00:07:27,880 --> 00:07:29,800 Speaker 1: little bit about the royal family too while I was waiting. 156 00:07:30,400 --> 00:07:32,280 Speaker 2: Does share the goss? 157 00:07:32,280 --> 00:07:33,680 Speaker 3: That's all part of it. Thank you.