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Speaker 1: This is jam Nation were Jonesy.

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Speaker 2: Next guest is one half of Australia's greatest duos in

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Speaker 2: comedy for nearly thirty years.

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Speaker 1: Incredible.

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Speaker 2: They've been making us laugh with some of Australia's most

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Speaker 2: love comedy shows. They're back with their latest endeavor called

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Speaker 2: Moby Dick. I'm talking about Leno and Woodley. We have

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Speaker 2: Frank Woodley with us right now.

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Speaker 3: Hello Frank, Hello, nice to see you. I like to

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Speaker 3: think of myself as more like three fifths of Lena Woodley.

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Speaker 1: But look, you do the maths. That's what you're the

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Speaker 1: brains of the operation.

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Speaker 4: And you notice we might you might have noticed we

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Speaker 4: were playing Moby Dick by led Zeppelin.

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Speaker 1: I know that was lost on you, Amanda.

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Speaker 2: The background music there.

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Speaker 1: Your show is Moby Dick.

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Speaker 3: That's exactly what our show is.

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Speaker 5: Well, I mean, if you're studying Maybe Dick at university,

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Speaker 5: don't come along expecting to get insights from our show.

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Speaker 2: They're not in the crib notes.

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Speaker 3: No, No, I mean I have read Maybe Dick.

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Speaker 1: Well, I have.

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Speaker 3: I've read most of I've read.

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Speaker 5: Well.

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Speaker 3: I got about two thirds of the way through the

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Speaker 3: Wikipedia page. It was entertaining.

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Speaker 5: I found but I know Cole read the book, and

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Speaker 5: I watched the Gregory Peck nineteen fifties film with Gregory Peck,

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Speaker 5: which I thought was great. In fact, in many ways,

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Speaker 5: I think, don't come and see Lana Woodley. Just hire

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Speaker 5: Gregory Becks, Lana Lana Woodley and Gregory bexs Laner Woodley.

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Speaker 3: What am I saying?

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Speaker 1: You've linked yourself to him forever?

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Speaker 3: Gregory Peck did a great film all about Lana Woodley.

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Speaker 3: Check that out.

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Speaker 2: But why have you picked Moby Dick of all the classics,

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Speaker 2: of all the things. What spoke to you about Moby Dick?

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Speaker 5: Well, I'd like to I'd like to be able to

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Speaker 5: say that it was because, you know where we were

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Speaker 5: inspired by the deep and profound themes of the book.

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Speaker 5: But it's really that Cole had read it during lockdown

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Speaker 5: and we needed to do a new show and he said,

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Speaker 5: I've just read Maybe Dick. Why don't we do Maybe Dick?

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Speaker 5: And I said, Okay, you know that's about the extent.

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Speaker 5: I'm just glad he hadn't been reading Fifty Shades of Gray.

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Speaker 5: Very different production.

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Speaker 4: Not again deal with Dick in the title. So with

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Speaker 4: Maybe Dick, is there going to be props. Are we

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Speaker 4: going to whale on stage?

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Speaker 5: Well, there's there's a we have a big a thing

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Speaker 5: that kind of represents a sailing boat, sail that's hanging

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Speaker 5: behind us. It's very theatrical, and then we're projecting a

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Speaker 5: lot of images onto the onto that screen, so at

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Speaker 5: the moment that a whale will appear on stage, but

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Speaker 5: not in three D form, more like as a projection.

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Speaker 5: I had an idea I wanted to see cold can

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Speaker 5: be quite a kill joy to my creativity.

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Speaker 3: I wanted to for the climax, climactic story.

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Speaker 5: Where just a bit of a spoiler here where the

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Speaker 5: whale rams the ship and sinks the ship. I thought

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Speaker 5: it'd be great if we handed out scuba gear and

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Speaker 5: just flooded the theater. But you know, such a nanny state,

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Speaker 5: you know, they wouldn't let us do that.

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Speaker 3: At the moment.

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Speaker 1: The costings would be would they be pretty high? Though?

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Speaker 1: Wouldn't they imagine scuba gear? Then you've got to flood

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Speaker 1: the theater.

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Speaker 3: Like I'm hearing it all again.

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Speaker 5: Show, I wanted to do a little routine like a

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Speaker 5: reality kind of a satire of a reality show called

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Speaker 5: so you Think he can survive?

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Speaker 3: A panther attack and they wouldn't.

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Speaker 2: Let me do that either, n you know, no, it's outrageous.

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Speaker 5: But in many ways, the way that our show kind

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Speaker 5: of devolves over the course of the show is that

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Speaker 5: in the same way that Ahab is driven crazy by

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Speaker 5: by his hatred for maybe Dick, the great white whale

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Speaker 5: that injured him by biting off his leg before the

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Speaker 5: story begins, in many ways that is mirrored by the

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Speaker 5: fact that I have.

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Speaker 3: Kind of psychologically injured Colin, and.

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Speaker 5: His hatred for me grows over the course of the story,

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Speaker 5: and mainly my adhd is his problem, but rather than

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Speaker 5: my great girth and size and dimensions.

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Speaker 2: But you survive years. But all those years with the

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Speaker 2: two of you as a duo, how is he not

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Speaker 2: stabbed you?

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Speaker 3: Well, I take a front at that time, and in

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Speaker 3: the back as well. Possibly no, I I that's exactly right.

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Speaker 5: And that comes to a head during the production and

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Speaker 5: at the end, although there isn't a whale on stage,

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Speaker 5: there is a crazy man chasing another being around the stage.

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Speaker 1: With that So that could be be the other show.

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Speaker 1: Lano stabs Woodley. That's the that's the next show.

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Speaker 3: That could well be.

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Speaker 1: You could be right, one night only.

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Speaker 2: And despite what you said, I've actually learned more about

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Speaker 2: Moby Dick from this conversation and I.

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Speaker 1: Actually and we didn't have to read it.

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Speaker 4: Lano and Woodley, maybe Dick get your tickets from ticket

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Speaker 4: tech dot com dot are you it could be nothing

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Speaker 4: but a success.

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Speaker 5: Yes, And if you say when if you come to

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Speaker 5: the show and you don't actually really love it, it's

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Speaker 5: my personal guarantee that if you go to the box

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Speaker 5: office and say, I heard Frank Woodley on Jonesy and

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Speaker 5: Amanda and he said that I could get a full

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Speaker 5: refund for my ticket if I didn't.

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Speaker 3: Enjoy it, it's my personal guarantee.

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Speaker 5: That they'll say, well, I haven't heard anything about that.

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Speaker 2: Wow, you really put your money over your mouth.

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Speaker 1: An iron clad guarantee. Certainly. It's always great to talk

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Speaker 1: to you. Thanks for Jody is Frank, Thank you Frank.

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Speaker 3: Thanks for having me. You know, oh look there she blows.

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Speaker 1: Thank you