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Speaker 1: Get a. I'm Laala Berry, nutritionist, author, actor, TV presenter,

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Speaker 1: and professional overshaer. This podcast is all about celebrating failure

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Speaker 1: because I believe it's a chance for us to learn,

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Speaker 1: grow and face our blind spots. Each week I'll interview

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Speaker 1: a different guest about their highs as well as their lows,

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Speaker 1: all in a bid to inspire us to fearlessly fail. Right. Oh,

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Speaker 1: we have a fellow Aussie on the pod today, Monte Franklin,

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Speaker 1: stand up comedian, writer, actor. I'm going to say director

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Speaker 1: as well. Very lovely human, very grounded, down to earth,

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Speaker 1: all the things the qualities we love about. Ossie's has

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Speaker 1: been living out here in America for ten years now,

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Speaker 1: really building a a pretty incredible career for himself, and

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Speaker 1: he's open about the good days, the tough days, and

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Speaker 1: to you, Ozzie's he's actually about to come back to

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Speaker 1: Australia and tour so Sydney, Perth, Adelaide Brizzy Malbs from

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Speaker 1: July Friday, July twenty eighth is his first gig and

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Speaker 1: then he's gigging all the way until August the twelfth,

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Speaker 1: ending in Malbs, his hometown. So I'm gonna have a

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Speaker 1: link to the I was about to say a link

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Speaker 1: to the show notes in the show notes. A link

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Speaker 1: to the tickets in the show notes. Get behind Monty's

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Speaker 1: a legend and support him, but also listen to this

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Speaker 1: f if you are into not necessarily stand up comedy,

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Speaker 1: but as a creative, you might be a writer an actor.

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Speaker 1: I know Matt would love this. Who's a composer, like

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Speaker 1: anybody with the creative dream. I think you're gonna love

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Speaker 1: this episode. Monty talks about the great the determination, and

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Speaker 1: kind of like, I like this. He talks about the iceberg,

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Speaker 1: you know, like and really what we see when we

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Speaker 1: see people that are successful, we just kind of see

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Speaker 1: like the tip. We don't see all that extra hard

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Speaker 1: work underneath the iceberg that goes into that ten percent

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Speaker 1: of success that you see. So I hope you love

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Speaker 1: this episode. I really hope it inspires you the way

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Speaker 1: it has inspired me. And Monty, thank you so much

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Speaker 1: for jumping on the pod. You're a ripper of a

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Speaker 1: human MATEO U just say whatever you want. Oh that's

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Speaker 1: a good start. Welcome to the Pod. Monte Franklin, Hi actor, writer,

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Speaker 1: stand up comedian. Oh, triple threat mate, how long have

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Speaker 1: we been talking about doing this long enough a year.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but I live in the San Diego and you're

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Speaker 2: those things down the four h five?

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Speaker 3: Are you kidding?

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Speaker 1: This is true? Did you get stuck on it today?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but I knew that I was going.

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Speaker 1: To It's Friday, though, I feel like that happens on Fridays.

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Speaker 2: Well, everything happens on Friday, the traffic does for sure.

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Speaker 1: Right right, Okay, So I am so excited to like

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Speaker 1: unpack a bit of your career, and I'm really excited

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Speaker 1: that you're about to tour Australia. So for everyone listening

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Speaker 1: all about it.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, it's been six years since I've been back

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Speaker 1: That's wild. But first of all, when I did cross

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Speaker 1: your path in the Flesh, even though we both worked

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Speaker 1: on the Circle, probably ten years ago, no longer fifteen

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Speaker 2: I did crowd warm up. It was so much fun.

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Speaker 2: That was the start of my stand up career.

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Speaker 1: They were good audiences, the Circle audiences, well.

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Speaker 2: They were really fun and it was a steady gig

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Speaker 2: my advice to anyone who started comedy, trying get yourself

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Speaker 3: I did. Eddie's mate. He's still I still talk to him.

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Speaker 2: I know there's a lot of controversy around Eddie, but

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Speaker 1: Oh well, I've not heard too much bad stuff, but

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Speaker 1: The other thing Americans can't get their head around is well,

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Speaker 1: we're recording this podcast in the arvo. Oh, the Americans

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Speaker 1: Some people would, some people would so okay. But last year,

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Speaker 1: and was like, this Aussie guy's filming like his own thing.

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Speaker 1: They need extras. Oh I ended up as an extra.

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Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, Well I had an idea for a short film.

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Speaker 2: if there's any Aussies that want to be part of

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Speaker 2: twenty people came out and we've shot this little thing.

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Speaker 2: just you know, I haven't sent it to anyone. I've

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Speaker 2: I edit it myself, and I'm I wrote and directed

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Speaker 1: I've never been on that side of it, but it's

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Speaker 1: And also I think like, if you've directed at written

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Speaker 1: And it's really can I say it was actually really

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Speaker 1: nice to watch you because like, first of all, I

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Speaker 2: I got some really quirky friends and they alway say

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Speaker 1: someone that's like an All Star or your hero, you

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00:20:59,200 --> 00:21:02,600
Speaker 1: can now because pods, interviews, YouTube you can usually do

437
00:21:02,680 --> 00:21:04,119
Speaker 1: a bit of deep diving and be like, oh, I

438
00:21:04,200 --> 00:21:06,000
Speaker 1: like the way their brain works on that thing, and

439
00:21:06,040 --> 00:21:08,520
Speaker 1: you can almost like you can, Yeah, you're right, soak

440
00:21:08,600 --> 00:21:12,439
Speaker 1: up their value system a little bit and learn Like

441
00:21:12,520 --> 00:21:15,440
Speaker 1: I've deep dive like people on podcasts and stuff. I'm like, oh,

442
00:21:15,560 --> 00:21:17,480
Speaker 1: that makes so much sense that that was their process

443
00:21:17,480 --> 00:21:18,040
Speaker 1: for that role.

444
00:21:18,400 --> 00:21:20,520
Speaker 2: Well you're smart, because that's a very good thing to

445
00:21:20,560 --> 00:21:24,280
Speaker 2: do with whatever you pursuit you're in is to look

446
00:21:24,320 --> 00:21:26,840
Speaker 2: at the people that have done it before and try

447
00:21:26,880 --> 00:21:32,000
Speaker 2: and make your own adjustments or observations from other people

448
00:21:32,040 --> 00:21:34,359
Speaker 2: and then go your own path because you don't want

449
00:21:34,400 --> 00:21:37,240
Speaker 2: to just follow someone else's, but to look at other

450
00:21:37,280 --> 00:21:42,520
Speaker 2: people like you you're saying is Yeah, that's definitely something

451
00:21:42,520 --> 00:21:42,720
Speaker 2: to do.

452
00:21:42,840 --> 00:21:44,840
Speaker 3: Particularly in comedy.

453
00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:48,000
Speaker 1: Question were you homeless?

454
00:21:48,359 --> 00:21:50,800
Speaker 2: Brian Gosling thought that was the end of the question,

455
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Speaker 2: Were you homeless?

456
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Speaker 1: Well, yes, that's part of the LA dream, is it not.

457
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Speaker 1: You've got to someone in LA they're like you have nobody,

458
00:22:00,480 --> 00:22:02,879
Speaker 1: Like they call America the Land of the Free, but

459
00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:05,240
Speaker 1: it's like it's the one place where you have to

460
00:22:05,280 --> 00:22:08,320
Speaker 1: like literally crawl your way like you have to do

461
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Speaker 1: the time.

462
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but that's what weeds out the people who aren't.

463
00:22:12,800 --> 00:22:15,760
Speaker 2: Do you know why Australians have such a great name

464
00:22:15,840 --> 00:22:18,280
Speaker 2: here and have you noticed that we do in the

465
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Speaker 2: entertainment industry.

466
00:22:19,600 --> 00:22:21,600
Speaker 1: Because the ones that have made have stuck it out.

467
00:22:21,480 --> 00:22:22,080
Speaker 3: Because it's hard.

468
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you can't just come here as a bogan from Frankston, sorry,

469
00:22:26,280 --> 00:22:29,080
Speaker 2: anyone from Frankston and think that you can jump in

470
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Speaker 2: straight in without putting years and years of working. So

471
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Speaker 2: the ones that do stick it out and do get

472
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Speaker 2: their name out there eventually are tough, have gone through it.

473
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Speaker 2: So that's why. Yeah, it's not easy here, not easy

474
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Speaker 2: at all. And it's not like they hand anything to

475
00:22:47,200 --> 00:22:50,200
Speaker 2: you or anything's presented or there's a playbook to go,

476
00:22:50,280 --> 00:22:52,040
Speaker 2: oh okay, you meant to do that and that and that.

477
00:22:52,600 --> 00:22:55,480
Speaker 2: But you can find other Australians and there's some good

478
00:22:55,600 --> 00:22:58,639
Speaker 2: like the Australians in LA stuff and Facebook and all that.

479
00:22:58,720 --> 00:23:03,679
Speaker 2: There's good communities, but it's it's not not an easy place.

480
00:23:03,800 --> 00:23:07,160
Speaker 2: But I know it sounds very cliche and they say

481
00:23:07,160 --> 00:23:11,160
Speaker 2: it's a land of opportunity. It really is, because there's

482
00:23:11,200 --> 00:23:16,520
Speaker 2: so many different things that you can find yourself involved in,

483
00:23:16,960 --> 00:23:23,479
Speaker 2: Whereas in Australia it's it's smaller. It's smaller, so you know,

484
00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:26,760
Speaker 2: there's only so many people that can fit and do that,

485
00:23:26,840 --> 00:23:28,800
Speaker 2: and there's only so many people that fit in this

486
00:23:28,960 --> 00:23:29,600
Speaker 2: capacity and.

487
00:23:29,560 --> 00:23:30,080
Speaker 3: Stuff like that.

488
00:23:30,119 --> 00:23:35,000
Speaker 2: But here there's so much opportunity that you can you

489
00:23:35,040 --> 00:23:37,760
Speaker 2: can do commercials and you can do acting stuff, and

490
00:23:37,800 --> 00:23:39,399
Speaker 2: you can do short film stuff, and you can do

491
00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:41,760
Speaker 2: stage stuff and you can put your own one person

492
00:23:41,800 --> 00:23:44,359
Speaker 2: act on in LA and people will come out because

493
00:23:44,359 --> 00:23:45,719
Speaker 2: they're interested in it and stuff.

494
00:23:45,760 --> 00:23:48,640
Speaker 3: So there is there. It's a it's a.

495
00:23:48,680 --> 00:23:53,439
Speaker 2: Very interesting, hard place, but the opportunity and the excitement

496
00:23:53,520 --> 00:23:56,000
Speaker 2: is there, and it's kind of is kind of fun.

497
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Speaker 1: What feels more like home? Do you now? He being

498
00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:01,800
Speaker 1: here like being in America or being in I mean,

499
00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:03,200
Speaker 1: you haven't been home for a while.

500
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Speaker 2: It's a hard one because my wife is here and

501
00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:08,800
Speaker 2: we've got cats, and you know, I've lived here for

502
00:24:08,840 --> 00:24:15,680
Speaker 2: ten years and I guess I still I have always

503
00:24:15,720 --> 00:24:19,040
Speaker 2: been and will always be Australian and that's where my

504
00:24:19,080 --> 00:24:21,960
Speaker 2: heart is, and my heart's eating a parma and having

505
00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:24,600
Speaker 2: a pot of VB at the pub, and it always

506
00:24:24,680 --> 00:24:29,080
Speaker 2: will be. But my work, which is obviously a big

507
00:24:29,119 --> 00:24:32,080
Speaker 2: part of all of our lives, is all here. And

508
00:24:32,119 --> 00:24:34,840
Speaker 2: I tour around the I've been to forty two states

509
00:24:34,840 --> 00:24:37,919
Speaker 2: and I'm pretty much on the road every week of

510
00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:41,119
Speaker 2: the year. So that part of my life, which is

511
00:24:41,160 --> 00:24:45,280
Speaker 2: a huge part of me, exists here. But I think

512
00:24:45,359 --> 00:24:51,040
Speaker 2: everywhere I go I carry this just this. It sounds

513
00:24:51,119 --> 00:24:53,520
Speaker 2: like a dumb thing to say, but just a passion

514
00:24:53,560 --> 00:24:57,520
Speaker 2: for our culture and people. And I miss that, the

515
00:24:57,800 --> 00:24:59,800
Speaker 2: people of Australia, and when you go back and you

516
00:25:00,359 --> 00:25:04,160
Speaker 2: get that again. I missed going into the bakery and

517
00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:07,280
Speaker 2: the nice lady behind the counter saying what do you want,

518
00:25:07,359 --> 00:25:10,320
Speaker 2: dah and then you you know, you get a vanilla

519
00:25:10,359 --> 00:25:13,399
Speaker 2: slice or something silly, and then she goes, where what

520
00:25:13,440 --> 00:25:15,680
Speaker 2: do you do? And I said, I live in America

521
00:25:15,760 --> 00:25:17,879
Speaker 2: and this and this happened last time I was there,

522
00:25:17,920 --> 00:25:18,760
Speaker 2: as well, I'm bringing it up.

523
00:25:18,800 --> 00:25:20,200
Speaker 3: And she said, oh, now.

524
00:25:20,080 --> 00:25:22,639
Speaker 2: You be careful there, okay, doubt log And it was

525
00:25:22,680 --> 00:25:27,000
Speaker 2: just really nice and nice interaction and those kind of

526
00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:30,000
Speaker 2: people do exist here too, but it's it's just a

527
00:25:30,040 --> 00:25:30,560
Speaker 2: different thing.

528
00:25:31,160 --> 00:25:35,199
Speaker 3: It's a different it's a different Do you.

529
00:25:35,240 --> 00:25:38,080
Speaker 1: Know what someone taught me about Ozzie's being an Australian

530
00:25:38,080 --> 00:25:39,919
Speaker 1: living in America and it stuck with me. And she

531
00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:43,760
Speaker 1: lived here for ten years and loved it, and because

532
00:25:43,760 --> 00:25:45,040
Speaker 1: I said to her, I was like, oh, because I

533
00:25:45,040 --> 00:25:46,760
Speaker 1: think it takes while to find your feet in LA.

534
00:25:47,200 --> 00:25:51,359
Speaker 1: So this is my third year of spending massive chunks

535
00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:54,280
Speaker 1: of the year here and I said, gee, there's a

536
00:25:54,280 --> 00:25:56,280
Speaker 1: few fake people here. And she was like, you just

537
00:25:56,440 --> 00:25:59,040
Speaker 1: you haven't found your people yet, because she's like, when

538
00:25:59,080 --> 00:26:02,800
Speaker 1: you find your peap they'll be your friends forever and

539
00:26:02,840 --> 00:26:05,760
Speaker 1: they will have your back, Like the story I told

540
00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:08,240
Speaker 1: you about where I'm staying, Like I got scammed on

541
00:26:08,280 --> 00:26:10,199
Speaker 1: a house and I ended up having to have a

542
00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:14,399
Speaker 1: friend and take me in, and like, that's what a

543
00:26:14,440 --> 00:26:16,080
Speaker 1: gift for someone to be able to help you when

544
00:26:16,119 --> 00:26:18,080
Speaker 1: you were quite literally homeless.

545
00:26:18,359 --> 00:26:18,639
Speaker 3: Yeah.

546
00:26:18,720 --> 00:26:21,200
Speaker 2: I think what we were saying before about the people

547
00:26:21,240 --> 00:26:24,120
Speaker 2: that stick it out, they're the real ones. The fake

548
00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:26,360
Speaker 2: ones are the ones that are here for that two, three,

549
00:26:26,760 --> 00:26:30,720
Speaker 2: four year period or whatever when they're and they're full

550
00:26:30,760 --> 00:26:34,040
Speaker 2: of it and they get weeded out. But the real

551
00:26:34,080 --> 00:26:38,000
Speaker 2: ones that are here for the long haul that they're

552
00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:41,399
Speaker 2: the ones that will be your, yeah, lifelong friends, because

553
00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:44,639
Speaker 2: they're in it together. We're all in this very hard

554
00:26:44,960 --> 00:26:47,440
Speaker 2: endeavor that we've decided to do. And then you meet

555
00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:50,640
Speaker 2: someone else who had the balls to do it, and

556
00:26:50,680 --> 00:26:53,960
Speaker 2: you're like, we're probably going to be mates because we've

557
00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:57,439
Speaker 2: got the same values and the same work ethic, and

558
00:26:57,480 --> 00:27:02,520
Speaker 2: the same drive and the same for things and passion

559
00:27:02,600 --> 00:27:05,840
Speaker 2: for movies or whatever it is. So yeah, when you

560
00:27:05,880 --> 00:27:09,840
Speaker 2: find those people, it makes here a lot easier because

561
00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:14,680
Speaker 2: the first three years, the first four probably difficult. But

562
00:27:14,680 --> 00:27:20,840
Speaker 2: my advice to you is, unfortunately you have to move here.

563
00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:24,320
Speaker 2: You can't do six months and six months because you

564
00:27:24,400 --> 00:27:25,720
Speaker 2: never actually.

565
00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:28,520
Speaker 1: Break through that yeah initial bit.

566
00:27:28,720 --> 00:27:32,119
Speaker 2: Yeah, I lived with a guy who still listened to

567
00:27:33,119 --> 00:27:36,240
Speaker 2: Triple J and stuff, and so he never really left

568
00:27:37,119 --> 00:27:41,560
Speaker 2: and dove in here completely, and you have to tie.

569
00:27:41,800 --> 00:27:44,040
Speaker 2: You can't say, oh, well, I can always go back

570
00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:45,879
Speaker 2: and earn that bit of money and stuff.

571
00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:47,120
Speaker 3: You've got to cut all that off.

572
00:27:47,480 --> 00:27:49,280
Speaker 2: I was doing that for a while because I had

573
00:27:49,320 --> 00:27:51,880
Speaker 2: more work in Australia than I did here, so I'd

574
00:27:51,880 --> 00:27:54,760
Speaker 2: always go all right, well, I'll be here for six

575
00:27:54,760 --> 00:27:56,240
Speaker 2: weeks and then I'll go back and do that two

576
00:27:56,280 --> 00:27:57,959
Speaker 2: week run of shows and then come back. And then

577
00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:00,000
Speaker 2: I eventually just had to cut it off, which was terrified,

578
00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:03,359
Speaker 2: and I didn't make any money for I don't know,

579
00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:03,960
Speaker 2: three years.

580
00:28:04,040 --> 00:28:09,119
Speaker 1: It was all, oh, yes, brutal, Yes, brutal, that's the

581
00:28:09,160 --> 00:28:11,680
Speaker 1: hard bit. Like you have a successful career in Australia

582
00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:13,280
Speaker 1: and then you come here and you feel like you're

583
00:28:13,320 --> 00:28:15,439
Speaker 1: literally people get angry at me when I say this,

584
00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:17,240
Speaker 1: but you feel like you're starting at zero.

585
00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:21,200
Speaker 2: Yes, it really does feel like that. Initially, Oh, I couldn't.

586
00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:23,960
Speaker 2: I couldn't go into comedy clubs here. They wouldn't let

587
00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:26,879
Speaker 2: me like just introduce myself. They would say, oh, you

588
00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:28,640
Speaker 2: have to buy a ticket and sit at the back

589
00:28:28,680 --> 00:28:31,879
Speaker 2: and buy and I'm like, what's happening? I had, you know,

590
00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:35,200
Speaker 2: I had some radio show in Australia, I had TV

591
00:28:35,280 --> 00:28:37,960
Speaker 2: shows and everything, and you just have to put your

592
00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:41,600
Speaker 2: ego to one site. You have to otherwise you won't,

593
00:28:41,840 --> 00:28:44,360
Speaker 2: you won't get through. And what I ended up what

594
00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:47,960
Speaker 2: I started doing was I would just take little such

595
00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:51,720
Speaker 2: a like a I don't know, vision board statement or something,

596
00:28:52,280 --> 00:28:54,880
Speaker 2: but I would take little positives from each night. So

597
00:28:54,960 --> 00:28:57,280
Speaker 2: I would go to a club and I would meet

598
00:28:57,320 --> 00:29:00,120
Speaker 2: another comedian and shake their hand and say him, go

599
00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:03,080
Speaker 2: that's enough. That's enough. You met someone and it was positive. Okay,

600
00:29:03,160 --> 00:29:08,400
Speaker 2: next night something else, and eventually it just you know, snowballed,

601
00:29:08,600 --> 00:29:10,640
Speaker 2: and before you know it, I'm on one of the shows.

602
00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:13,400
Speaker 2: And then I know that I can do it because

603
00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:15,160
Speaker 2: I've done it for ten years, So I do a

604
00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:17,040
Speaker 2: good job and then blah blah blah. Before you know

605
00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:19,880
Speaker 2: it builds. So you're not starting from zero because you've

606
00:29:19,880 --> 00:29:24,400
Speaker 2: got the skills behind you, but they all consider you zero. Yeah,

607
00:29:24,560 --> 00:29:28,760
Speaker 2: so it's just a matter of you busting through that

608
00:29:29,120 --> 00:29:32,400
Speaker 2: part of your ego thinking that other people don't think

609
00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:35,320
Speaker 2: you're great because you are great, but they don't know

610
00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:38,040
Speaker 2: that you're great, so assume that you're not. Yeah, so

611
00:29:38,080 --> 00:29:41,880
Speaker 2: you just break through that all and then then they go, oh,

612
00:29:41,920 --> 00:29:44,479
Speaker 2: who's this because you've got the skills to back it up.

613
00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:46,520
Speaker 1: Yeah that's great advice.

614
00:29:46,760 --> 00:29:47,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was good advice.

615
00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:53,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, I forgot that. Did you play our homeless Ryan

616
00:29:53,840 --> 00:29:55,320
Speaker 1: Gosling on rob Trust?

617
00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:58,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's like the eighth episode of the first season,

618
00:29:58,720 --> 00:30:03,280
Speaker 2: so his wife when I first met them, Rob said

619
00:30:03,320 --> 00:30:05,240
Speaker 2: to his wife and he goes, I just met this Australia.

620
00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:07,640
Speaker 3: He looks like Ryan Gosling and his wife saw me.

621
00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:10,040
Speaker 3: And when Ryan goz almost.

622
00:30:09,760 --> 00:30:13,920
Speaker 2: Like because I like almost, I always say that I'm

623
00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:18,520
Speaker 2: hung over Ryan Gosling. So he's such a great So

624
00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:21,280
Speaker 2: when they wrote the things, she wanted to put the

625
00:30:21,440 --> 00:30:22,920
Speaker 2: gos almost character in there.

626
00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:25,120
Speaker 3: So yes, I played in the show.

627
00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:27,840
Speaker 2: Rob was lying to his wife that he had organized

628
00:30:27,880 --> 00:30:30,480
Speaker 2: Rob Ryan Gosling to come to her birthday party, which

629
00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:33,080
Speaker 2: he hadn't and he couldn't afford to get him.

630
00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:34,320
Speaker 3: And he's like, what am I going to do?

631
00:30:34,360 --> 00:30:35,840
Speaker 2: And he looked out and there's a homeless guy that

632
00:30:35,960 --> 00:30:38,000
Speaker 2: kind of looks like Ryan Gosling. So he cleans him

633
00:30:38,040 --> 00:30:40,800
Speaker 2: up and takes him to the party and I kick

634
00:30:40,840 --> 00:30:42,360
Speaker 2: over a table and ruin.

635
00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:46,040
Speaker 1: The amazing I saw this tiny clip and I was like,

636
00:30:46,080 --> 00:30:48,120
Speaker 1: I have to ask. I have to ask the other

637
00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:50,120
Speaker 1: thing I have to ask about because one of my

638
00:30:50,520 --> 00:30:53,200
Speaker 1: ultimate dreams is sitcoms. It's to the point that I'm

639
00:30:53,200 --> 00:30:54,640
Speaker 1: at sitcom school right now.

640
00:30:54,800 --> 00:30:55,840
Speaker 3: There's a sitcom school.

641
00:30:56,040 --> 00:30:58,960
Speaker 2: Yes, oh wow, I thought the sitcom was dying, which

642
00:30:58,960 --> 00:30:59,520
Speaker 2: I always love.

643
00:30:59,560 --> 00:30:59,960
Speaker 3: The sitcom.

644
00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:02,160
Speaker 1: I just I want the skill set. I want the training,

645
00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:08,400
Speaker 1: the two point five gags per page three like multiicam sets. Fun.

646
00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:11,920
Speaker 3: It is fun, but you.

647
00:31:13,360 --> 00:31:16,240
Speaker 1: The money isn't That was? That? Was that a pilot?

648
00:31:16,280 --> 00:31:17,440
Speaker 1: Was that? Sure? What happened? That was?

649
00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:21,280
Speaker 2: That was another thing that I self made make.

650
00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:23,480
Speaker 1: That because I know you wrote it and started right.

651
00:31:24,120 --> 00:31:27,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was the main saying star makes.

652
00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:29,920
Speaker 1: You show for it.

653
00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:34,840
Speaker 2: It was still going out to Australians that go shut

654
00:31:34,920 --> 00:31:35,320
Speaker 2: up door.

655
00:31:36,040 --> 00:31:39,400
Speaker 3: So yes, I wrote.

656
00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:47,600
Speaker 2: And and produced and starred in this sitcom pilot. Yeah here,

657
00:31:47,920 --> 00:31:52,120
Speaker 2: and I crowd funded it. Remember when what was now?

658
00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:53,040
Speaker 2: I forgot what it's called?

659
00:31:53,080 --> 00:31:54,400
Speaker 1: What was the GoFundMe?

660
00:31:54,720 --> 00:31:56,480
Speaker 2: No, the other one. I did it on the other one,

661
00:31:57,560 --> 00:32:00,600
Speaker 2: whatever it was. It was very popular at the time

662
00:32:00,840 --> 00:32:06,080
Speaker 2: and everyone was like getting behind things and people were

663
00:32:06,200 --> 00:32:10,320
Speaker 2: awesome and I got I raised fifty thousand dollars by crowdfunding,

664
00:32:10,400 --> 00:32:12,360
Speaker 2: said I want to make a pilot for a sitcom

665
00:32:12,360 --> 00:32:15,440
Speaker 2: because I've always loved sitcom's my favorite kidding like Seinfeld

666
00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:18,680
Speaker 2: and Roseanne, and we had so many of the America.

667
00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:22,520
Speaker 2: Roseanne was on every night in Australia, so was Tim

668
00:32:22,560 --> 00:32:26,040
Speaker 2: the Tulman Taylor Home Improvement and I mean even back

669
00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:28,520
Speaker 2: with cheers and everything. Like, I've always loved the format

670
00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:31,640
Speaker 2: of sitcom as well. And there's a great thing on

671
00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:33,040
Speaker 2: Netflix right now about a sitcom.

672
00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:33,720
Speaker 3: It's awesome.

673
00:32:33,720 --> 00:32:34,240
Speaker 1: You should watch it.

674
00:32:34,280 --> 00:32:37,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's all about sitcoms. And I watched it

675
00:32:37,840 --> 00:32:38,600
Speaker 2: on the plane the other day.

676
00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:39,120
Speaker 3: It was unreal.

677
00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:43,960
Speaker 2: So I wanted to make one easiest way put. It

678
00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:47,240
Speaker 2: was a man version of the Nanny Friend.

679
00:32:47,040 --> 00:32:48,320
Speaker 1: But Australian you say.

680
00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:50,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, and green card. Yeah.

681
00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:54,000
Speaker 2: And so the reason that I married this woman at

682
00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:57,920
Speaker 2: this wealthy Beverly Hills house was to get a green

683
00:32:57,960 --> 00:33:00,520
Speaker 2: card and blah blah blah. And it was a ton

684
00:33:00,560 --> 00:33:04,680
Speaker 2: of fun and taught me a lot about filmmaking, TV,

685
00:33:04,840 --> 00:33:07,040
Speaker 2: making anything whatever you want to call it and stuff.

686
00:33:07,040 --> 00:33:09,520
Speaker 2: It's all about building your skill set and stuff. So

687
00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:13,800
Speaker 2: that is what led to the movie that I'm doing

688
00:33:13,920 --> 00:33:14,360
Speaker 2: right now.

689
00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:18,560
Speaker 3: Let's I'll give you the quick rundown.

690
00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:21,560
Speaker 2: So I made that pilot for that TV show, went

691
00:33:21,640 --> 00:33:24,760
Speaker 2: out to a bunch of places here and it wasn't

692
00:33:24,960 --> 00:33:27,280
Speaker 2: right for anyone, which happens all the time, and that's fine,

693
00:33:27,280 --> 00:33:30,360
Speaker 2: and that's something you just have to go. Okay, I tried,

694
00:33:30,440 --> 00:33:31,920
Speaker 2: and I put a good effort in and it was

695
00:33:31,920 --> 00:33:33,760
Speaker 2: good and it was received well, but it just wasn't

696
00:33:33,840 --> 00:33:34,560
Speaker 2: right for the time.

697
00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:37,120
Speaker 1: The trailer is still on YouTube, by the way, it's awesome.

698
00:33:37,200 --> 00:33:39,560
Speaker 2: Oh really put it on YouTube. I don't know who

699
00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:43,080
Speaker 2: put that on there, but so, but what happened is

700
00:33:44,920 --> 00:33:48,440
Speaker 2: it got seen by one of the guys at Happy Madison,

701
00:33:48,440 --> 00:33:52,040
Speaker 2: which is Adam Sandler's company. And I had met Adams

702
00:33:52,080 --> 00:33:55,360
Speaker 2: through Rob and everything like that, but he got me

703
00:33:55,440 --> 00:33:57,480
Speaker 2: in separate to all that, not knowing that I was,

704
00:33:57,600 --> 00:33:59,840
Speaker 2: you know, sort of already friends with them and stuff,

705
00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:03,600
Speaker 2: and it didn't work out there, but it progressed to

706
00:34:04,200 --> 00:34:06,920
Speaker 2: the joke that I do about the Great Emy War,

707
00:34:06,960 --> 00:34:09,400
Speaker 2: which has now turned into the movie that we're filming

708
00:34:09,840 --> 00:34:11,120
Speaker 2: this year in Australia.

709
00:34:11,239 --> 00:34:13,160
Speaker 1: So the joke that you do I had. I had

710
00:34:13,160 --> 00:34:15,600
Speaker 1: to fully google this because I was like it because

711
00:34:15,880 --> 00:34:19,399
Speaker 1: this is a start off as because on inter it's

712
00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:22,680
Speaker 1: a real, right, it's real. It's on your TikTok as well, right, Yeah,

713
00:34:22,680 --> 00:34:25,720
Speaker 1: it's your stuff goes freaking viral.

714
00:34:25,960 --> 00:34:27,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, something happened.

715
00:34:27,320 --> 00:34:30,240
Speaker 2: I got in this algorithm that you're talking about about

716
00:34:30,480 --> 00:34:32,640
Speaker 2: eight months ago, and all of my stuff so I

717
00:34:32,680 --> 00:34:35,279
Speaker 2: think that the Great Emy War joke that I put

718
00:34:35,320 --> 00:34:37,760
Speaker 2: on there has had almost thirty million.

719
00:34:38,040 --> 00:34:40,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, you've had over a billion, all up right.

720
00:34:41,239 --> 00:34:44,640
Speaker 3: Well, that joke the laugh Factory put it on their

721
00:34:44,719 --> 00:34:47,520
Speaker 3: TikTok one and that one got a billion.

722
00:34:47,880 --> 00:34:49,960
Speaker 2: No, but they had to take it down. They had

723
00:34:49,960 --> 00:34:52,080
Speaker 2: to take their whole TikTok down, so it's not on

724
00:34:52,080 --> 00:34:54,480
Speaker 2: there anymore. But that one got all you know on

725
00:34:54,520 --> 00:34:57,319
Speaker 2: the on TikTok how they can do the duets, and

726
00:34:58,040 --> 00:35:00,080
Speaker 2: everyone was doing that with my joke and stuff. So

727
00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:05,680
Speaker 2: it went crazy. And so we myself, Rob Schneider, and

728
00:35:05,800 --> 00:35:13,320
Speaker 2: John Clees, very unknown young talented man wrote the film

729
00:35:13,719 --> 00:35:15,359
Speaker 2: for the Great Emy wore from the joke.

730
00:35:15,640 --> 00:35:16,719
Speaker 1: Three of you together wrote it.

731
00:35:16,840 --> 00:35:18,240
Speaker 3: Yeah, we lived.

732
00:35:18,080 --> 00:35:21,600
Speaker 2: In a house together in Scottsdale, Arizona for about six weeks.

733
00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:24,640
Speaker 2: We wrote the film and hung out and I had

734
00:35:24,680 --> 00:35:27,840
Speaker 2: dinner with John every night, and you know, he became

735
00:35:28,080 --> 00:35:30,240
Speaker 2: another one of my mentors and friends.

736
00:35:30,280 --> 00:35:32,280
Speaker 3: And I spoke to him this morning.

737
00:35:32,280 --> 00:35:34,560
Speaker 1: Actually, do you pinch yourself though? Like we were just

738
00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:36,960
Speaker 1: talking about how rough ala is at the start, and

739
00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:39,160
Speaker 1: like you did three years and making no money and

740
00:35:39,239 --> 00:35:41,359
Speaker 1: like just shaking someone's hand being a win and then

741
00:35:41,680 --> 00:35:42,120
Speaker 1: cut too.

742
00:35:42,600 --> 00:35:44,759
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you have to remind yourself of that or

743
00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:48,840
Speaker 2: you forget because you life still hard and there's still

744
00:35:48,960 --> 00:35:51,160
Speaker 2: you know, there's still ups and downs and stuff. And

745
00:35:51,200 --> 00:35:53,120
Speaker 2: then every now and then I have to go, Okay, okay,

746
00:35:53,440 --> 00:35:57,640
Speaker 2: you're getting you're getting complacent. Remember where you are right

747
00:35:57,680 --> 00:35:59,399
Speaker 2: now and who you're talking to, and you just got

748
00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:01,200
Speaker 2: a text from this person and blah blah blah.

749
00:36:01,239 --> 00:36:02,480
Speaker 3: So are you happy?

750
00:36:02,520 --> 00:36:04,279
Speaker 2: And you're like, yeah, yeah, that's pretty good, all right,

751
00:36:04,320 --> 00:36:07,400
Speaker 2: can't yeah, So yes, you do have to keep reminding yourself,

752
00:36:07,440 --> 00:36:12,399
Speaker 2: but it is it's pretty exciting to have to call

753
00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:15,279
Speaker 2: John Cle's a friend, to call Rob Schneider my mate,

754
00:36:15,280 --> 00:36:17,080
Speaker 2: to call Adam Sandler a friend. The fact that he

755
00:36:17,200 --> 00:36:19,200
Speaker 2: knows my name is one of the greatest thrillers in

756
00:36:19,239 --> 00:36:19,640
Speaker 2: my life.

757
00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:23,600
Speaker 1: I've heard. He's meant to be the nicest guy in Hollywood's.

758
00:36:22,920 --> 00:36:24,959
Speaker 3: The truest person you'll ever meet.

759
00:36:25,120 --> 00:36:26,719
Speaker 1: You've seen the meme of him just walking around New

760
00:36:26,760 --> 00:36:28,279
Speaker 1: York City in a pickle. Have you seen it?

761
00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:29,040
Speaker 3: Yeah?

762
00:36:29,440 --> 00:36:31,799
Speaker 2: You know, I walked through the streets of New York

763
00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:34,319
Speaker 2: City at about one in the morning, just with me

764
00:36:34,560 --> 00:36:38,480
Speaker 2: and Adam Sandler and Rob Schneider and his longtime friend

765
00:36:38,560 --> 00:36:41,960
Speaker 2: John lochran the four of us through the streets of

766
00:36:41,960 --> 00:36:44,360
Speaker 2: New York because we just finished dinner and our hotel

767
00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:46,560
Speaker 2: wasn't that far away, and they said, we feel like walking.

768
00:36:46,560 --> 00:36:49,600
Speaker 2: There wasn't many people around, and I thought, I thought, God,

769
00:36:49,600 --> 00:36:53,719
Speaker 2: if we get attacked, I have to defend Adam Sandler,

770
00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:55,560
Speaker 2: like I love.

771
00:36:55,560 --> 00:36:56,879
Speaker 1: That's where the Aussie's brain.

772
00:36:57,239 --> 00:37:00,880
Speaker 2: I'm like, I'm gonna have to fight for him. But

773
00:37:01,080 --> 00:37:04,200
Speaker 2: it was Robin and John the other two were talking.

774
00:37:04,239 --> 00:37:07,239
Speaker 2: So I was talking with Adam for about thirty minutes,

775
00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:09,759
Speaker 2: just walking through the streets, and and it was it

776
00:37:09,800 --> 00:37:12,520
Speaker 2: was so special because he's.

777
00:37:12,120 --> 00:37:12,880
Speaker 1: Part of my heroes.

778
00:37:13,840 --> 00:37:16,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, and now I you know, when I see him

779
00:37:16,960 --> 00:37:19,520
Speaker 2: and he's he's you know, he knows who I am

780
00:37:19,560 --> 00:37:21,360
Speaker 2: and he's my friend. That's that's when those are the

781
00:37:21,360 --> 00:37:24,480
Speaker 2: pinch moments, yes, and you go, this is this is

782
00:37:24,880 --> 00:37:27,960
Speaker 2: as hard as everything has been and still is. These

783
00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:29,840
Speaker 2: are the moments that you really need to sit and

784
00:37:29,880 --> 00:37:34,600
Speaker 2: go wow, yeah, you know, yeah, this is this is

785
00:37:34,600 --> 00:37:38,480
Speaker 2: just really nice to to be part of the of

786
00:37:38,640 --> 00:37:44,279
Speaker 2: this level. Wow, you're kidding, It's it's it's really uh,

787
00:37:45,560 --> 00:37:48,080
Speaker 2: that's that's that's what we're all doing it for to

788
00:37:48,120 --> 00:37:50,680
Speaker 2: feel those moments. So I try and not skim over

789
00:37:50,719 --> 00:37:52,640
Speaker 2: them too much and go yeah, yeah, but I'm still

790
00:37:52,640 --> 00:37:54,160
Speaker 2: trying to do this and that and that and that.

791
00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:57,520
Speaker 2: Just go okay, but just enjoy this now, yeah, because

792
00:37:57,640 --> 00:38:00,600
Speaker 2: this is this is exceptional. I've had few of those

793
00:38:00,640 --> 00:38:04,000
Speaker 2: moments with sort of Adam and Robb and with Joe

794
00:38:04,120 --> 00:38:04,719
Speaker 2: Rogan over the.

795
00:38:04,760 --> 00:38:05,719
Speaker 3: Years and stuff like that.

796
00:38:05,880 --> 00:38:08,120
Speaker 1: So yeah, and going on his pod, I can't believe,

797
00:38:08,200 --> 00:38:11,000
Speaker 1: right before you hit record to the listener, what did

798
00:38:11,040 --> 00:38:11,600
Speaker 1: you say to me?

799
00:38:13,239 --> 00:38:16,080
Speaker 2: I've done two. This is my second podcast. The first

800
00:38:16,120 --> 00:38:19,160
Speaker 2: one I did was Joe Rogan's.

801
00:38:19,160 --> 00:38:24,120
Speaker 1: That's not much pressure like that. That's good, Okay. So

802
00:38:24,520 --> 00:38:26,440
Speaker 1: the movie, that's one of the reasons you're going back

803
00:38:26,440 --> 00:38:27,440
Speaker 1: to Australia, right.

804
00:38:27,360 --> 00:38:29,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, we're doing a little bit of pre production stuff,

805
00:38:29,600 --> 00:38:33,680
Speaker 2: so I'm heading back and I'll be doing shows coinciding,

806
00:38:35,239 --> 00:38:39,520
Speaker 2: I think. Will let me bring up the dates. July

807
00:38:39,640 --> 00:38:44,360
Speaker 2: twenty eight, July twenty eighth, yeah, Perth August three and

808
00:38:44,360 --> 00:38:48,640
Speaker 2: then Adelaide August four, Brisbane August five, and Melbourne August twelve.

809
00:38:48,840 --> 00:38:52,160
Speaker 1: And you're ending on home, right, You're a Melbourne boy, right, yeah, yeah, yeah,

810
00:38:52,280 --> 00:38:55,040
Speaker 1: which means I have to ask you which AFL footy

811
00:38:55,080 --> 00:38:55,759
Speaker 1: team do you go for.

812
00:38:56,080 --> 00:39:00,840
Speaker 3: You're not going to like the answer. Not my fault.

813
00:39:02,040 --> 00:39:04,480
Speaker 1: Well, I'm Melbourne born and bred. Like when I was born,

814
00:39:04,520 --> 00:39:06,560
Speaker 1: I was made an MCC member, like you know, you

815
00:39:06,640 --> 00:39:07,239
Speaker 1: got to put your name.

816
00:39:07,400 --> 00:39:09,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm an MCC member.

817
00:39:09,160 --> 00:39:10,560
Speaker 1: I gave my my dad will.

818
00:39:10,400 --> 00:39:12,520
Speaker 3: Not actually I gave mine up too, I forgot, Yes,

819
00:39:12,560 --> 00:39:15,600
Speaker 3: we don't. I don't know. But now I'm a Collingwood.

820
00:39:15,160 --> 00:39:17,160
Speaker 1: Supporter and Bomber's mate.

821
00:39:18,560 --> 00:39:25,320
Speaker 3: Grand Final that was I was like, what was I?

822
00:39:25,440 --> 00:39:29,320
Speaker 3: I was seven years old and that was that was

823
00:39:29,360 --> 00:39:29,960
Speaker 3: the first.

824
00:39:29,719 --> 00:39:32,239
Speaker 2: Grand Final we'd won in twenty or thirty years or something,

825
00:39:32,320 --> 00:39:33,080
Speaker 2: so that was a big deal.

826
00:39:33,440 --> 00:39:35,839
Speaker 3: But yeah, I was. I was calling with all my life.

827
00:39:35,840 --> 00:39:39,719
Speaker 2: But then I'm friends with Chris Judd who played for

828
00:39:40,480 --> 00:39:42,960
Speaker 2: West Coast and Carton and stuff. So when your second

829
00:39:42,960 --> 00:39:45,440
Speaker 2: and once he started playing, I just followed him and

830
00:39:45,520 --> 00:39:47,440
Speaker 2: supported him because he needed my support.

831
00:39:47,560 --> 00:39:48,960
Speaker 1: Of course, into.

832
00:39:48,960 --> 00:39:53,200
Speaker 3: Terrible, terrible player. So I kind of.

833
00:39:53,480 --> 00:39:55,200
Speaker 1: Tom match though now that you will be back at

834
00:39:55,480 --> 00:39:57,680
Speaker 1: it'll be the season when you get back to Australia.

835
00:39:57,920 --> 00:40:00,279
Speaker 2: I mean I'm working the whole time. It'd be great

836
00:40:00,320 --> 00:40:02,680
Speaker 2: to get to one, but I think I don't know

837
00:40:02,719 --> 00:40:07,360
Speaker 2: if I'll get a chance. There's a lot going on

838
00:40:07,400 --> 00:40:09,960
Speaker 2: with the movie. And then I've got these shows and

839
00:40:11,200 --> 00:40:14,160
Speaker 2: without sounding like a Wayaneka, they're almost sold out.

840
00:40:14,160 --> 00:40:15,680
Speaker 3: So i think I'm going to add more shows.

841
00:40:15,760 --> 00:40:17,680
Speaker 1: So amazing. So I'm going to put in the show

842
00:40:17,680 --> 00:40:21,600
Speaker 1: notes to the listener the details for booking ossitions. You're

843
00:40:21,680 --> 00:40:24,319
Speaker 1: Aussie booking, Yeah, yeah, come out, it'd be great. And

844
00:40:24,400 --> 00:40:26,359
Speaker 1: if there are more shows, will you chuck them up there?

845
00:40:26,600 --> 00:40:28,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, they'll all be on. I'll put them on Instagram

846
00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:29,680
Speaker 3: and wherever.

847
00:40:31,640 --> 00:40:35,200
Speaker 1: So, speaking of the movie, is there any little can

848
00:40:35,239 --> 00:40:36,960
Speaker 1: you give us any little tip bit? Since this is

849
00:40:36,960 --> 00:40:40,440
Speaker 1: your second podcast after Joe, can we get any little

850
00:40:40,440 --> 00:40:44,000
Speaker 1: sneaky cast members anything like that.

851
00:40:44,200 --> 00:40:47,520
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm starring at it, as you said, I'm

852
00:40:47,680 --> 00:40:52,920
Speaker 2: meant to be the star. And John Cleese is playing

853
00:40:52,960 --> 00:40:57,200
Speaker 2: my father, which is unreal. Rob Schneider's playing the head

854
00:40:57,239 --> 00:40:59,960
Speaker 2: of the Australian Army, which will just be downright hilario.

855
00:41:00,320 --> 00:41:01,759
Speaker 2: He's one of the best characters.

856
00:41:01,880 --> 00:41:02,920
Speaker 1: An Australian accent.

857
00:41:03,400 --> 00:41:05,960
Speaker 2: We're toying around with that now because the Australian accent

858
00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:06,480
Speaker 2: is very good.

859
00:41:06,560 --> 00:41:07,120
Speaker 1: Yes, I had.

860
00:41:07,160 --> 00:41:09,279
Speaker 3: And as Australians.

861
00:41:08,600 --> 00:41:11,960
Speaker 2: We what we will what we will do is listen

862
00:41:12,080 --> 00:41:13,480
Speaker 2: and if it's good enough.

863
00:41:13,280 --> 00:41:15,560
Speaker 3: We'll go that's pretty good and accept it.

864
00:41:15,600 --> 00:41:18,040
Speaker 2: But if you if you know good and you sound

865
00:41:18,040 --> 00:41:20,399
Speaker 2: a little bit South African or Kiwi or anything, we'll

866
00:41:20,440 --> 00:41:23,279
Speaker 2: go no, that's crap. But if it's funny and enjoyable,

867
00:41:23,680 --> 00:41:25,840
Speaker 2: we'll allow it and go that's pretty good. Because I

868
00:41:25,840 --> 00:41:29,200
Speaker 2: don't know if anyone nails it properly. Very few people

869
00:41:29,239 --> 00:41:31,000
Speaker 2: have done it. I'll tell you the only person who

870
00:41:31,040 --> 00:41:36,480
Speaker 2: has is and forgive me forgetting her name, Baron Carter

871
00:41:36,680 --> 00:41:37,040
Speaker 2: or whatever.

872
00:41:37,120 --> 00:41:37,760
Speaker 3: Bow and Carter.

873
00:41:38,520 --> 00:41:42,239
Speaker 2: She was married to Tim Burton, Helen Helen and bow

874
00:41:42,280 --> 00:41:44,400
Speaker 2: and Carter. She did a movie. You should listen to it.

875
00:41:44,400 --> 00:41:49,800
Speaker 2: It's incredible, really spot on Australian accent, Like incredible.

876
00:41:49,840 --> 00:41:53,400
Speaker 1: Is it. I've heard Kate McKinnon do an Australian accent

877
00:41:53,400 --> 00:41:54,680
Speaker 1: every now and then with SNL ski.

878
00:41:54,840 --> 00:41:58,440
Speaker 2: Oh she'd be great. Yeah, she's fantastic. Yeah, but I

879
00:41:58,480 --> 00:42:00,920
Speaker 2: think Robert Downey Jr. Did it pretty good one in

880
00:42:01,120 --> 00:42:04,040
Speaker 2: Tropic thunder Action. Really yeah, it was pretty good. Okay,

881
00:42:04,320 --> 00:42:07,840
Speaker 2: like it's only a little bit, but it's a hard

882
00:42:07,840 --> 00:42:11,279
Speaker 2: one to do and we're very, very particular to allow.

883
00:42:11,360 --> 00:42:13,600
Speaker 1: It's so funny as well because you would know this too.

884
00:42:13,640 --> 00:42:16,680
Speaker 1: But like being in acting school here, the moment any

885
00:42:16,680 --> 00:42:20,239
Speaker 1: of my classmates have a veno, they would just like

886
00:42:20,280 --> 00:42:22,279
Speaker 1: tried their Australian accent and we'll have a bit of

887
00:42:22,320 --> 00:42:24,480
Speaker 1: like courage and I'll be like, m hmm.

888
00:42:25,520 --> 00:42:29,920
Speaker 2: It's awful. It makes me feel awful. I'm like, stop it,

889
00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:33,520
Speaker 2: stop what you're trying to do. And they say everything

890
00:42:33,600 --> 00:42:37,080
Speaker 2: slightly wrong. I got one friend he's American and when

891
00:42:37,120 --> 00:42:38,800
Speaker 2: I see him, he goes, hey bloke, and I go,

892
00:42:39,160 --> 00:42:42,400
Speaker 2: not right. You can't just say hey bloke, like it

893
00:42:42,400 --> 00:42:44,680
Speaker 2: has to be you're a good bloke or you're yeah.

894
00:42:45,120 --> 00:42:47,880
Speaker 2: You can't just say oh, he's a bloke. That makes sense, yeah,

895
00:42:47,920 --> 00:42:50,000
Speaker 2: but not hey bloke.

896
00:42:50,200 --> 00:42:51,719
Speaker 3: Very funny, you're slightly off.

897
00:42:52,920 --> 00:42:56,640
Speaker 1: Is there any any castman, so you've said the cast members.

898
00:42:56,680 --> 00:42:58,759
Speaker 1: Is there anything like if you signed on any big

899
00:42:58,800 --> 00:43:01,120
Speaker 1: Aussie or anything like that than your lovely.

900
00:43:00,880 --> 00:43:03,640
Speaker 3: Self Jim Jeffries. Oh wow.

901
00:43:04,200 --> 00:43:05,759
Speaker 2: I mean he's one of the biggest comedians in the

902
00:43:05,800 --> 00:43:08,719
Speaker 2: world right now. He's playing the mayor. And then Rhys

903
00:43:08,840 --> 00:43:13,440
Speaker 2: Darby he's Kiwi. But from Flight of the Concords, but

904
00:43:13,600 --> 00:43:16,680
Speaker 2: he is on and then I'm just going to say this.

905
00:43:16,719 --> 00:43:18,040
Speaker 2: I don't know if I'm allowed to and if I

906
00:43:18,080 --> 00:43:23,480
Speaker 2: get in trouble, but we signed Delta Gudrum.

907
00:43:23,680 --> 00:43:28,640
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, she's got amazing acting chops. She's unreal like

908
00:43:28,800 --> 00:43:30,200
Speaker 1: I came out here for ages.

909
00:43:30,360 --> 00:43:34,440
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, she's fantastic and I think so she's playing

910
00:43:34,520 --> 00:43:36,120
Speaker 2: my fiance in the.

911
00:43:37,080 --> 00:43:38,200
Speaker 1: That's what I can see this.

912
00:43:38,440 --> 00:43:43,080
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, but that's very very exciting.

913
00:43:43,239 --> 00:43:45,080
Speaker 1: And then go down.

914
00:43:45,080 --> 00:43:46,920
Speaker 2: I've got a bunch of We've got some other people too,

915
00:43:47,000 --> 00:43:48,480
Speaker 2: but that was so good.

916
00:43:48,840 --> 00:43:49,400
Speaker 3: Yeah.

917
00:43:49,680 --> 00:43:51,200
Speaker 1: So you're going to shoot it all in Australia.

918
00:43:51,520 --> 00:43:54,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, film, it's an Australian production. It's all happening there

919
00:43:54,880 --> 00:43:57,760
Speaker 2: and in Western Australia where it happened. So if anyone

920
00:43:57,760 --> 00:44:00,120
Speaker 2: doesn't know what I'm talking about. In nineteen thirty two,

921
00:44:00,160 --> 00:44:02,480
Speaker 2: the Australian government, this is a true story, went to

922
00:44:02,680 --> 00:44:07,240
Speaker 2: war with the EMUs. Yes, and there was twenty thousand

923
00:44:07,280 --> 00:44:10,320
Speaker 2: birds running through an area in Western Australia, tearing up crops.

924
00:44:10,360 --> 00:44:13,839
Speaker 2: So the army came in with weaponry and guns and

925
00:44:14,120 --> 00:44:15,440
Speaker 2: went to war with the EMUs.

926
00:44:15,760 --> 00:44:18,319
Speaker 3: And this is the best bit. I'm not making this up.

927
00:44:18,360 --> 00:44:23,400
Speaker 3: It's true. We lost so well more than twice.

928
00:44:23,480 --> 00:44:24,640
Speaker 1: But the.

929
00:44:26,120 --> 00:44:29,640
Speaker 2: Birds were too quick. They ran circles around the army.

930
00:44:29,800 --> 00:44:32,600
Speaker 2: They blew up a truck trying to chase them. They

931
00:44:33,080 --> 00:44:37,040
Speaker 2: So the whole story is about these soldiers who go

932
00:44:37,160 --> 00:44:39,400
Speaker 2: out to try and fight a war and look proud

933
00:44:39,480 --> 00:44:43,359
Speaker 2: of but just look ridiculous. But it's a very I'm

934
00:44:43,400 --> 00:44:46,480
Speaker 2: really really proud of this script. We've worked a lot

935
00:44:46,520 --> 00:44:48,680
Speaker 2: on it and I've had good people like John Clees

936
00:44:48,800 --> 00:44:52,160
Speaker 2: and Rob Schneider and Jim Jeffries helped us right too.

937
00:44:52,280 --> 00:44:58,800
Speaker 2: So is a it is deeper than just a silly comedy.

938
00:44:58,920 --> 00:45:01,440
Speaker 2: It's a heartfelt It's a story between a father and

939
00:45:01,480 --> 00:45:07,400
Speaker 2: his son. It's a family and it's really about adults

940
00:45:08,600 --> 00:45:15,920
Speaker 2: looking to the land and its inhabitants and learning a

941
00:45:16,080 --> 00:45:21,520
Speaker 2: better lesson than where they were heading.

942
00:45:21,960 --> 00:45:26,960
Speaker 3: And it's going to pull out your heartstrings.

943
00:45:27,440 --> 00:45:31,759
Speaker 2: It's going to be very I really want Australia to

944
00:45:31,800 --> 00:45:34,080
Speaker 2: be proud of this film. I think it's been a

945
00:45:34,120 --> 00:45:37,839
Speaker 2: while since we've had a film that we're really proud of.

946
00:45:38,840 --> 00:45:42,760
Speaker 2: I think something you know, how people love the Castle.

947
00:45:43,400 --> 00:45:45,680
Speaker 2: It didn't translate and do well overseas. But for us,

948
00:45:45,719 --> 00:45:46,839
Speaker 2: we love the Castle, we.

949
00:45:46,800 --> 00:45:47,520
Speaker 3: Love Red Dog.

950
00:45:47,800 --> 00:45:49,799
Speaker 2: You know, when there's these ones that just struck a

951
00:45:49,840 --> 00:45:52,960
Speaker 2: nerve and it's going to sit right in there with

952
00:45:53,160 --> 00:45:54,680
Speaker 2: a nice like Babe.

953
00:45:54,880 --> 00:45:56,320
Speaker 3: Babe was one of that people loved.

954
00:45:56,640 --> 00:45:59,759
Speaker 2: And as much as we think that we don't, our

955
00:46:00,080 --> 00:46:04,560
Speaker 2: culture ingrained in Crocodile Dundee still exists heavily in America

956
00:46:05,280 --> 00:46:08,879
Speaker 2: and Steve and everything like that, So it sits right

957
00:46:08,920 --> 00:46:12,160
Speaker 2: in there with that. And what I've done for the

958
00:46:12,239 --> 00:46:14,760
Speaker 2: last ten years is do stand up around this country

959
00:46:15,200 --> 00:46:19,440
Speaker 2: and presenting Americans with the version of Australian that they

960
00:46:19,440 --> 00:46:24,080
Speaker 2: want to see, but also staying true to Australia and

961
00:46:24,120 --> 00:46:27,120
Speaker 2: what we're willing to take the piss out of because

962
00:46:27,320 --> 00:46:30,200
Speaker 2: there's a fine line between having fun and taking the

963
00:46:30,200 --> 00:46:33,800
Speaker 2: piss and going too far and being a dick. And

964
00:46:33,880 --> 00:46:36,640
Speaker 2: I want Australia to be really proud of this, but

965
00:46:36,719 --> 00:46:40,400
Speaker 2: I want the world to love and embrace it like

966
00:46:40,440 --> 00:46:42,120
Speaker 2: they have with some of the stuff that we've done

967
00:46:42,160 --> 00:46:44,120
Speaker 2: in the past. And I think we're due for another

968
00:46:44,320 --> 00:46:47,480
Speaker 2: hero and that's going to be the amazing.

969
00:46:48,160 --> 00:46:50,680
Speaker 1: How are you going to with them? You like even

970
00:46:50,800 --> 00:46:52,359
Speaker 1: us Reelmus like what's the point sun?

971
00:46:52,600 --> 00:46:56,520
Speaker 2: And then cgi we've got a great company called m

972
00:46:56,680 --> 00:47:00,319
Speaker 2: X two and they're coming on board and they did

973
00:47:00,360 --> 00:47:03,279
Speaker 2: all the stuff for Mission Impossible and everything, but they're

974
00:47:03,360 --> 00:47:06,279
Speaker 2: unreal So they're going to make this bird look just

975
00:47:06,400 --> 00:47:11,600
Speaker 2: beautiful and majestic. And we've got we've got an emy

976
00:47:11,640 --> 00:47:15,080
Speaker 2: farm in West Australia right now incubating a baby.

977
00:47:16,000 --> 00:47:20,440
Speaker 3: Our cast well to get a baby because the baby

978
00:47:21,040 --> 00:47:22,319
Speaker 3: is a.

979
00:47:22,000 --> 00:47:26,359
Speaker 2: Big cast member, so incubating and we're going to have

980
00:47:26,400 --> 00:47:29,840
Speaker 2: a couple of baby birds on set and stuff like that.

981
00:47:29,880 --> 00:47:30,879
Speaker 3: It's gonna be so much fun.

982
00:47:31,400 --> 00:47:36,840
Speaker 1: Oh wow, I love it. So is it filming second

983
00:47:36,840 --> 00:47:38,600
Speaker 1: half of this year or are you filming next year?

984
00:47:38,800 --> 00:47:39,000
Speaker 3: No?

985
00:47:39,080 --> 00:47:43,799
Speaker 2: This year, so December will be the bulk of the filming. Yeah,

986
00:47:43,880 --> 00:47:45,440
Speaker 2: so that's why I'm heading over. And there's a lot

987
00:47:45,480 --> 00:47:48,080
Speaker 2: of pre production to do and meeting this person and

988
00:47:48,120 --> 00:47:54,680
Speaker 2: that person and then yeah, it's it's really really exciting

989
00:47:54,719 --> 00:47:57,600
Speaker 2: and fun. But like I said, there's it's it's tough,

990
00:47:57,920 --> 00:47:59,879
Speaker 2: very very hard. This is one of the hardest things,

991
00:47:59,880 --> 00:48:02,719
Speaker 2: you know, Rob Schneider said to me. He said, more

992
00:48:02,760 --> 00:48:06,520
Speaker 2: people have walked on the Moon than have written and

993
00:48:06,600 --> 00:48:10,080
Speaker 2: starred in their own movies, like decent budget movies, you know.

994
00:48:10,760 --> 00:48:12,239
Speaker 3: And I was just like, yeah.

995
00:48:12,280 --> 00:48:13,960
Speaker 2: Right, because you look it up and you go, I'll

996
00:48:13,960 --> 00:48:17,600
Speaker 2: take a look, and there's not many. So it's it's

997
00:48:17,840 --> 00:48:19,960
Speaker 2: very very difficult thing to try and pull off. But

998
00:48:20,160 --> 00:48:23,000
Speaker 2: I've got such great people around me and our producer

999
00:48:23,160 --> 00:48:24,400
Speaker 2: Robin Kershaw in Australia.

1000
00:48:24,480 --> 00:48:26,880
Speaker 3: She did remember looking for Ala Brandy.

1001
00:48:27,120 --> 00:48:28,120
Speaker 1: My favorite movie.

1002
00:48:28,200 --> 00:48:31,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, to watch it at school and yes with.

1003
00:48:30,920 --> 00:48:33,200
Speaker 1: Me, So I just figured were only two years apart.

1004
00:48:33,280 --> 00:48:36,279
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, so we studied and read and watched that.

1005
00:48:36,280 --> 00:48:39,399
Speaker 1: At that Bible that was Yeah, so.

1006
00:48:39,280 --> 00:48:39,719
Speaker 3: She did that.

1007
00:48:39,760 --> 00:48:42,480
Speaker 2: She did Kath and Kim, which everyone knows. So she's

1008
00:48:42,600 --> 00:48:47,360
Speaker 2: very very seasoned and professional. And yeah, it's it's really

1009
00:48:47,400 --> 00:48:51,439
Speaker 2: really fun and exciting and it's movie making. I've wanted

1010
00:48:51,480 --> 00:48:53,560
Speaker 2: to do that since I was a kid. My uncle

1011
00:48:53,640 --> 00:48:55,600
Speaker 2: was a director, That's why I've got this passion.

1012
00:48:55,680 --> 00:48:55,839
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1013
00:48:55,840 --> 00:49:01,160
Speaker 2: He made Blue Lagoon, Yes, Yes, and a bunch of

1014
00:49:01,200 --> 00:49:04,839
Speaker 2: other He was a horror film director and he did

1015
00:49:04,840 --> 00:49:07,200
Speaker 2: a couple of Quentin Tarantino's favorite movie was one that

1016
00:49:07,280 --> 00:49:11,320
Speaker 2: my uncle did. So my uncle passed away and Quentin

1017
00:49:11,320 --> 00:49:14,120
Speaker 2: Tarantino wrote a letter for us to read out.

1018
00:49:13,920 --> 00:49:14,640
Speaker 3: His funeral stuff.

1019
00:49:14,680 --> 00:49:16,880
Speaker 2: So I used to go and watch my uncle on

1020
00:49:16,960 --> 00:49:20,319
Speaker 2: set and doing films, and go to Warner Brothers Movie

1021
00:49:20,320 --> 00:49:22,719
Speaker 2: World on the Gold Coast. My favorite was the backlot

1022
00:49:22,719 --> 00:49:24,319
Speaker 2: to her if it would take you and show you

1023
00:49:24,360 --> 00:49:26,799
Speaker 2: how movies were made in the sounds, and I would

1024
00:49:26,840 --> 00:49:28,960
Speaker 2: make my mum take me two three times and she said,

1025
00:49:29,120 --> 00:49:30,000
Speaker 2: can we do something else?

1026
00:49:30,040 --> 00:49:31,359
Speaker 3: But I was just obsessed with it.

1027
00:49:32,000 --> 00:49:34,600
Speaker 2: So to now be in a position where I can,

1028
00:49:35,400 --> 00:49:41,439
Speaker 2: at the biggest level do what is fun is ridiculous.

1029
00:49:43,000 --> 00:49:44,879
Speaker 1: I'm so pumped for you. You are going to have

1030
00:49:45,360 --> 00:49:49,680
Speaker 1: so fun the best time. My final question is for you,

1031
00:49:49,760 --> 00:49:52,719
Speaker 1: and it's a very big question, so answer it.

1032
00:49:52,719 --> 00:49:56,279
Speaker 3: Having you will I co sign a mortgage for you? Yes?

1033
00:49:57,040 --> 00:50:01,279
Speaker 1: My question is like for like a young aspire inspiring

1034
00:50:01,360 --> 00:50:04,959
Speaker 1: actor or comedian listening to this, like if you had

1035
00:50:05,120 --> 00:50:07,400
Speaker 1: like it's like that question, what would you tell your

1036
00:50:07,440 --> 00:50:09,960
Speaker 1: younger self, Like, you're now doing this thing that you

1037
00:50:10,360 --> 00:50:14,279
Speaker 1: have dreamed of for I imagine like twenty third like if

1038
00:50:14,320 --> 00:50:16,440
Speaker 1: you were doing that, if you were that but if

1039
00:50:16,440 --> 00:50:18,080
Speaker 1: you were that young, you know, like wanting to do

1040
00:50:18,560 --> 00:50:18,920
Speaker 1: that was.

1041
00:50:18,840 --> 00:50:20,439
Speaker 3: The first movie I made. I was eight.

1042
00:50:20,760 --> 00:50:21,200
Speaker 1: There you go.

1043
00:50:21,280 --> 00:50:22,880
Speaker 3: I made it with Lego pieces.

1044
00:50:23,360 --> 00:50:24,719
Speaker 1: As you should, as one should I had.

1045
00:50:24,800 --> 00:50:26,719
Speaker 2: I bought the thirty friends from school came and watched

1046
00:50:26,719 --> 00:50:28,120
Speaker 2: the Lego film that I made.

1047
00:50:28,400 --> 00:50:30,520
Speaker 1: What was the theme, just Lego moving around.

1048
00:50:31,000 --> 00:50:34,240
Speaker 2: They were gangsters, of course, and they robbed a place

1049
00:50:34,280 --> 00:50:36,480
Speaker 2: and then they went on a joy ride and then

1050
00:50:36,600 --> 00:50:38,600
Speaker 2: I can't remember what happened. It was probably it was

1051
00:50:38,600 --> 00:50:42,480
Speaker 2: probably written terribly by an eight year old. I think

1052
00:50:42,600 --> 00:50:45,520
Speaker 2: I had Snoop Dogg playing, which was popular at the time.

1053
00:50:45,840 --> 00:50:49,080
Speaker 2: Of course, of course it was. It was fun, just fun.

1054
00:50:49,120 --> 00:50:51,000
Speaker 2: I just think you always enjoy it with stop motion.

1055
00:50:51,880 --> 00:50:54,160
Speaker 2: So I took a picture of a thousand pictures and

1056
00:50:54,160 --> 00:50:55,759
Speaker 2: I'd sit there and it was just.

1057
00:50:55,840 --> 00:50:59,719
Speaker 3: Something I really enjoyed. But any advice I would give

1058
00:51:00,239 --> 00:51:00,520
Speaker 3: to just.

1059
00:51:00,480 --> 00:51:02,880
Speaker 1: A young person that's like, oh my goodness, this feels

1060
00:51:02,920 --> 00:51:06,040
Speaker 1: like an amazing dream. But it feels so like to

1061
00:51:06,120 --> 00:51:09,839
Speaker 1: get from like having a dream to now you're eping

1062
00:51:09,960 --> 00:51:14,560
Speaker 1: essentially your own movie. Yeah, Like, is it just like

1063
00:51:14,719 --> 00:51:17,120
Speaker 1: don't give up? Or is it like be around like

1064
00:51:17,200 --> 00:51:19,520
Speaker 1: minded people, because that seems like a theme from what

1065
00:51:20,040 --> 00:51:21,759
Speaker 1: you and I have spoken about for the last day.

1066
00:51:21,880 --> 00:51:24,600
Speaker 1: You've always been around people doing the thing that you

1067
00:51:24,680 --> 00:51:26,359
Speaker 1: love in some capacity.

1068
00:51:26,880 --> 00:51:31,480
Speaker 2: It's hard to look at the final end result that

1069
00:51:31,560 --> 00:51:34,560
Speaker 2: you want and think that it's too far out of reach.

1070
00:51:35,080 --> 00:51:42,319
Speaker 2: So something that I've always thought was a good mentality

1071
00:51:42,360 --> 00:51:46,600
Speaker 2: to have is you just you make a plan and

1072
00:51:46,719 --> 00:51:48,960
Speaker 2: tick off steps along the way. Like I said, when

1073
00:51:48,960 --> 00:51:51,160
Speaker 2: I came here and I couldn't get in the comedy club,

1074
00:51:51,280 --> 00:51:53,279
Speaker 2: so I would get I'd go, Okay, I'm just going

1075
00:51:53,320 --> 00:51:55,040
Speaker 2: to go out and meet a comedian tonight and shake

1076
00:51:55,080 --> 00:51:57,960
Speaker 2: their hand. Okay, tomorrow night, I'm going to talk to

1077
00:51:58,000 --> 00:52:00,920
Speaker 2: three comedians and shake their hands and say high and

1078
00:52:01,200 --> 00:52:04,480
Speaker 2: just keep building because before you know it, you look

1079
00:52:04,520 --> 00:52:06,200
Speaker 2: back and go, oh wow, look at all this stuff

1080
00:52:06,239 --> 00:52:09,080
Speaker 2: I've done. But keep looking forward and keep going and

1081
00:52:10,760 --> 00:52:13,200
Speaker 2: pat yourself on the back along the way and enjoy

1082
00:52:13,239 --> 00:52:15,960
Speaker 2: it along the way. And I'm I don't listen to

1083
00:52:15,960 --> 00:52:17,880
Speaker 2: my own advice most of the time, and I forget too,

1084
00:52:17,960 --> 00:52:20,400
Speaker 2: but I have to go sometimes and go, Okay, that

1085
00:52:20,560 --> 00:52:23,560
Speaker 2: was really good. Soak that in for a second. Now

1086
00:52:23,600 --> 00:52:26,560
Speaker 2: move on and keep keep going and keep going. And

1087
00:52:26,640 --> 00:52:30,680
Speaker 2: it's you know what it's like. It's like running a

1088
00:52:30,719 --> 00:52:33,880
Speaker 2: marathon and then at the end of the marathon saying

1089
00:52:34,280 --> 00:52:37,640
Speaker 2: someone's saying to you, go and run it again. And

1090
00:52:37,680 --> 00:52:39,919
Speaker 2: then you run it again, and then they say run

1091
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Speaker 2: it again, and then you run it four hundred times

1092
00:52:44,960 --> 00:52:47,840
Speaker 2: and people are actually trying to stop you running. Now

1093
00:52:48,080 --> 00:52:50,440
Speaker 2: that happens to people get in your way and they

1094
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Speaker 2: try and trip you up. Just keep running it, Just

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00:52:54,320 --> 00:52:59,239
Speaker 2: keep going and like things you think, oh oh my god,

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00:52:59,320 --> 00:53:02,480
Speaker 2: I'm not getting any you are, but just keep going

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Speaker 2: because like I said, and we talked about, the ones

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Speaker 2: that last are the ones that are hardest, that will

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Speaker 2: keep going at it. No one has overnight success. No

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Speaker 2: one does, because it's the iceberg under all that work underneath.

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Speaker 2: And you just saw the ten percent at the top

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Speaker 2: and went they just know they didn't. No one does.

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Speaker 2: And the ones that do fall off pretty quickly. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: the ones that stay are the ones that have that

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00:53:30,040 --> 00:53:32,400
Speaker 2: that iceberg underneath be the iceberg.

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Speaker 1: Oh what a legend you are. Thank you so so

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Speaker 1: much today. And I know I've been talking about it prades,

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Speaker 1: but I really appreciate you coming on and I'm so

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Speaker 1: excited to watch this next chapter for you. Yeah, oh

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Speaker 1: you good thing.

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Speaker 3: Fun. Thanks for having me. It was a great mate.

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Speaker 1: It's an honor, all right. By now, toodles, toodles, that's

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Speaker 1: a wrap on another episode of Fearlessly Failing. As always,

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Speaker 1: thank you to our guests and let's continue the conversation

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Speaker 1: on Instagram. I'm at Yamo Lollerberry. This party my work

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Speaker 1: for podcast is available on all streaming platforms. I'd love

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