WEBVTT - #8 - Dave Thornton 0:00:06.320 --> 0:00:08.400 Hey, everyone, welcome back to the Mason Cox Show. Now 0:00:08.400 --> 0:00:10.880 today we have an amazing guest. He's got a plenty 0:00:10.880 --> 0:00:14.360 of backdrop. He's gonna design and art at the Gordon 0:00:14.440 --> 0:00:17.280 Institute of TAFE. That is probably not what he's known for, 0:00:17.360 --> 0:00:19.200 but i'll start that off the top. And two and 0:00:19.239 --> 0:00:21.200 five two thousand and five, he was searched for Funny 0:00:21.200 --> 0:00:24.880 Bone winner two thousand and seven Melbourne International International Comedy 0:00:24.920 --> 0:00:27.840 Festival Best Newcomer, Appear on Row, which I feel like 0:00:27.880 --> 0:00:30.160 everyone does nowadays. He does the project, he's in TV 0:00:30.320 --> 0:00:34.400 radio comedy and you probably recognize his voice as the 0:00:34.680 --> 0:00:38.400 HbF Quaker. At the moment, he is the great man, 0:00:38.520 --> 0:00:40.159 Dave Thornton. I want to say it massive, thank you 0:00:40.200 --> 0:00:42.159 for coming on mate, nice, It's good to be here. 0:00:42.159 --> 0:00:44.120 And I just realized the dog's breakfast of a career 0:00:44.159 --> 0:00:47.240 that I have lined up this whole way through, even 0:00:47.280 --> 0:00:48.680 as he went then on. Yeah, I did all of 0:00:48.720 --> 0:00:51.199 those things and somehow I feel really disappointed. I'd like 0:00:51.240 --> 0:00:51.640 to give. 0:00:51.479 --> 0:00:54.080 People a bit of an idea of something you've done different. Yeah, thanks, 0:00:54.120 --> 0:00:56.680 you know there's everyone knows you're the comedic genius. Everyone 0:00:56.720 --> 0:00:59.279 knows you love your stand up and you're great impersonations 0:00:59.280 --> 0:01:01.720 and everything else. But I like to really like people 0:01:01.720 --> 0:01:03.160 now and give people a bit of an idea with 0:01:03.160 --> 0:01:05.880 the design. And I at the Gordon Institute of Taife. 0:01:06.120 --> 0:01:08.280 I know, mate, well for people that listen overseas, because 0:01:08.280 --> 0:01:11.320 no doubt you've got an American listenership. Taife is like Harvard, 0:01:11.520 --> 0:01:16.800 so it's not easy to get into. That was four 0:01:16.920 --> 0:01:19.400 hundred dollars for a diploma, I think a certificate four 0:01:19.440 --> 0:01:21.639 an arts design. Because he's been four one hundred dollars. 0:01:22.160 --> 0:01:24.319 How long did it take you to finish? Two years? 0:01:24.560 --> 0:01:27.240 Two years? Four hundred dollars for two years of education? 0:01:27.360 --> 0:01:29.160 But there was a little come up and because a 0:01:29.240 --> 0:01:31.200 degree takes three years. And I remember I got my 0:01:31.319 --> 0:01:33.240 job as a graphic designer, and then I had an 0:01:33.319 --> 0:01:36.640 underling who started tertiary education at the same time I did, 0:01:36.680 --> 0:01:39.000 but took three years, and so I was their senior 0:01:39.080 --> 0:01:41.399 after finishing two years up to two years. Like, suck it, 0:01:41.480 --> 0:01:43.119 suck it, bro, and you've still going to pay your 0:01:43.120 --> 0:01:44.360 hex back what I lose. 0:01:44.400 --> 0:01:46.479 Idiot, I like, pay four hundred dollars for this. Yeah, 0:01:47.200 --> 0:01:48.560 we'll jump right into it now. I want to talk 0:01:48.600 --> 0:01:50.240 to you about a lot of different stuff. Obviously comedy 0:01:50.280 --> 0:01:51.200 is going to be a big part of this, but 0:01:51.200 --> 0:01:52.640 I want to talk to you about travel. You're a 0:01:52.640 --> 0:01:54.520 man that shoveled the world, and I love a bit 0:01:54.560 --> 0:01:56.920 of travel. I know you've done a little bit of 0:01:56.960 --> 0:01:58.560 a You're a Mission. 0:01:58.440 --> 0:02:00.560 Was what was called I Believe the Little You Had. 0:02:00.720 --> 0:02:02.720 That was the first solo show that I ever had 0:02:02.760 --> 0:02:06.200 Mason stand up comedy, firstival show in two thousand and seven, 0:02:06.640 --> 0:02:09.080 and I mean, yes, I'm a citizen of the world, 0:02:09.120 --> 0:02:10.960 if you must call it that. Years I still obviously 0:02:11.000 --> 0:02:13.359 haven't learnt a lot because I still jumped into the 0:02:13.400 --> 0:02:19.440 back of a stranger van to this podcast. Love that. Yeah, 0:02:19.440 --> 0:02:21.200 I feel like as we're filming this right now, this 0:02:21.240 --> 0:02:23.560 footage could be on the news right our last scene 0:02:24.000 --> 0:02:26.600 jumping into a white van because I don't know your 0:02:26.600 --> 0:02:29.160 listeners know this is all recorded from a van. And 0:02:29.240 --> 0:02:31.720 he's incredibly convenient. You've turned up, You've possibly got a 0:02:31.720 --> 0:02:35.520 parking fine, but you've turned up here and and yeah, 0:02:35.680 --> 0:02:37.919 I love this setup. This is amazing. I did see 0:02:37.919 --> 0:02:40.480 You've got Eddie Maguire on. Yeah, Edi didn't want to 0:02:40.480 --> 0:02:42.480 get in the bus. Though he didn't want to, he 0:02:42.560 --> 0:02:44.440 put us to the MCGS box. 0:02:44.919 --> 0:02:46.720 It was a bit of a yeah, it's a bit 0:02:46.720 --> 0:02:48.880 of a King Deck kind of thing. Is like, mate, 0:02:48.960 --> 0:02:51.640 I've got something better. I putted your box at the 0:02:51.720 --> 0:02:55.280 MCG overooking the massive ground that is. Yeah, yeah, it 0:02:55.280 --> 0:02:57.440 was pretty cool experience. I'm gonna lie, so did you 0:02:57.520 --> 0:02:58.400 parallel park at the G? 0:02:58.520 --> 0:03:01.560 Is that what happened? Gave us private parking underneath? I'm 0:03:01.600 --> 0:03:04.880 not gonna lie. City. Yes, it's got a few few 0:03:04.919 --> 0:03:07.680 little friends there. I think in this world it's good 0:03:07.720 --> 0:03:11.680 to know you got these media titans on. It's any 0:03:11.840 --> 0:03:14.240 group at Murdoch, Dave Thornton, they're the big three. 0:03:14.480 --> 0:03:17.200 What else do you need to have? But we'll get 0:03:17.240 --> 0:03:19.120 into trouble man. So you've been to Europe, I'm assuming 0:03:19.200 --> 0:03:21.120 is kind of one of the places. I feel like 0:03:21.120 --> 0:03:23.840 a lot of Australians love to go to Europe. It's 0:03:24.080 --> 0:03:28.160 Europe or America, the two furthest places probably possible. Now 0:03:29.520 --> 0:03:31.280 you've been to Europe and you say you've you've gone 0:03:31.320 --> 0:03:34.480 with a bunch of mates. This is pre marriage, pre 0:03:34.600 --> 0:03:35.600 kids and everything else. 0:03:37.360 --> 0:03:38.360 It really was. 0:03:38.800 --> 0:03:41.440 I'm sure it was, mate, I've done it yet I 0:03:41.480 --> 0:03:43.640 still have not married or have kids or anything. But 0:03:43.680 --> 0:03:45.360 some of the best stories come out of travel, and 0:03:45.400 --> 0:03:47.080 I feel like you really find yourself in travel. 0:03:47.120 --> 0:03:49.200 Mate. I want to ask you, what is some of 0:03:49.240 --> 0:03:50.120 your favorite moments? 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:51.960 Give me maybe like one of the favorite places you've 0:03:51.960 --> 0:03:53.839 been to, one of the favorite things you've done. 0:03:54.040 --> 0:03:57.600 Oh, good question. Admittedly I didn't get drafted into a 0:03:57.640 --> 0:04:00.480 foreign sport league like you seem to have worked out. 0:04:02.040 --> 0:04:04.800 You know, I was explaining your story before I bore 0:04:04.840 --> 0:04:07.080 you with all my travel stories. I was explaining to 0:04:07.120 --> 0:04:10.120 my partner and she said, who's coming around to park 0:04:10.160 --> 0:04:14.240 out the front and inside the house I need to 0:04:14.240 --> 0:04:17.839 clean up, And I said, I'm Mason Cox. And then 0:04:17.880 --> 0:04:21.320 I explained your story, and no doubt people who listen 0:04:21.360 --> 0:04:23.919 to this know your whole story of you know, you 0:04:24.360 --> 0:04:30.279 played four years at Oklahoma State ohmall State. Yeah, that's it, Oh, 0:04:30.400 --> 0:04:32.440 because you were teammates with what's there for the Boston 0:04:32.960 --> 0:04:36.640 Marcus smartt Marcus, Matt Macish, Matt and then and then 0:04:36.680 --> 0:04:38.680 you come over here, he said, You get drafted, you 0:04:38.680 --> 0:04:40.680 get poached, you're playing a foreign sport, but you just 0:04:40.720 --> 0:04:43.800 work hard to get here. And it's amazing that that, 0:04:43.960 --> 0:04:46.839 in taking advantage of situations is a talent in itself. 0:04:46.880 --> 0:04:48.320 You know, you say like, okay, there's an opening, now 0:04:48.320 --> 0:04:49.679 I'm going to go for it. And you've worked extremely 0:04:49.720 --> 0:04:51.880 hard to get in your position. But you are like 0:04:52.360 --> 0:04:56.240 the thinking man's forest gump, like everything's happened to you. 0:04:56.240 --> 0:04:59.000 You just landed in the middle of it all. I mean, like, yes, 0:04:59.040 --> 0:05:02.680 Sick Collingwood, Okay, this works, it's wrong with it. Keep running, 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:06.880 keep running, just keep running that. It is not me 0:05:06.960 --> 0:05:09.640 imposing on you that you've got you know, your slow 0:05:09.680 --> 0:05:11.920 off the mark. I'm just saying that I'm very slow 0:05:11.960 --> 0:05:15.880 from that. We've hung out a bit, but I'm saying, 0:05:16.120 --> 0:05:17.960 you know, it's so cool that all these experiences have 0:05:17.960 --> 0:05:19.280 happened to you and you were like, okay, let's just 0:05:19.360 --> 0:05:20.000 keep going with this. 0:05:20.160 --> 0:05:22.679 Yeah, I think it's great. Says what was your wife's oppression? 0:05:22.760 --> 0:05:24.600 She was like, what what the F do you mean? 0:05:24.640 --> 0:05:26.200 He's just moved over to Australia to play a sport 0:05:26.240 --> 0:05:27.680 he's never heard of, in a place he's never been. 0:05:28.000 --> 0:05:30.400 I'm not going to lie. It's a very hard elevator pitch. 0:05:30.480 --> 0:05:33.479 It's hard to get a little story into two sentences. Yeah, 0:05:33.600 --> 0:05:35.400 like Nason Cox, he plays for colling when she's, Oh, 0:05:35.400 --> 0:05:38.640 that's amazing that he's an American. What what? So he 0:05:38.760 --> 0:05:40.320 just liked a felt he didn't know what it was, 0:05:40.360 --> 0:05:42.520 and then he comes across here and she was as 0:05:42.560 --> 0:05:44.640 bewildered as you would expect that situation to be. 0:05:44.720 --> 0:05:46.120 Yeah, I'm still trying to find a great way to 0:05:46.160 --> 0:05:48.600 describe it. I still don't know, even to Americans, like, oh, 0:05:48.600 --> 0:05:50.400 what do you do? I'm like, I played soccer and 0:05:50.480 --> 0:05:53.640 rugby and basketball and into one sport and then there's 0:05:53.640 --> 0:05:55.000 no pads and you can essentially just do it the 0:05:55.040 --> 0:05:55.479 hell you want. 0:05:56.279 --> 0:05:58.400 That's what I do. I don't know, but yeah, and 0:05:58.880 --> 0:06:00.760 you're the rarest Pokemon. You know that, don't you? 0:06:00.920 --> 0:06:04.800 What is the rarest Pokemon of Pokemon or something like that, 0:06:05.120 --> 0:06:06.960 Like that's really bringing the back mewtwo. 0:06:07.279 --> 0:06:10.920 Yeah, you're like a sixteen American who plays AFL. That's 0:06:10.960 --> 0:06:13.359 not it doesn't really make There's not any other people 0:06:13.360 --> 0:06:14.440 sitting in that Ben diagram. 0:06:15.000 --> 0:06:16.839 I'm not here to brag, but I did make the 0:06:16.880 --> 0:06:21.840 AA team this year, the All American Team. I was 0:06:21.839 --> 0:06:24.000 the best player, I was coach, I was full back. 0:06:24.040 --> 0:06:25.360 Even really couldn't believe that. 0:06:25.360 --> 0:06:26.080 It is incredible. 0:06:26.200 --> 0:06:31.320 It's pretty amazing even head coach every year eight years 0:06:31.360 --> 0:06:32.200 running AA team. 0:06:32.600 --> 0:06:35.560 I understand every rue's at Grand Casino there for the 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:36.440 Brownlow Metal count. 0:06:36.600 --> 0:06:40.920 I'm sitting at the craps table. You don't really make 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:43.680 much of the AAA team, but you have a damn 0:06:43.720 --> 0:06:46.080 good night. I'll tell you that on your mate. 0:06:46.720 --> 0:06:47.800 Well, we'll go back to the travel. 0:06:48.279 --> 0:06:50.080 We've kind of got off Tracky, I love it, but 0:06:50.440 --> 0:06:52.080 what is one of your best what's your favorite place 0:06:52.120 --> 0:06:52.920 you've ever been to in the world. 0:06:52.920 --> 0:06:56.120 We'll start with that. See, that's hard to pick because, yeah, 0:06:56.120 --> 0:06:59.280 I went to Europe. Well, see, my father was English 0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:02.120 my mother's so I wanted to see obviously where they 0:07:02.120 --> 0:07:05.560 came from. And then and because I had I've got 0:07:05.560 --> 0:07:08.120 an English passport. So that's what broughbably to Europe initially. 0:07:08.760 --> 0:07:11.200 But since I've been pretty lucky with stand up and 0:07:11.280 --> 0:07:16.760 just with backpacking. I've been South America, Sri Lanka, I've 0:07:16.760 --> 0:07:24.080 been South Africa, Europe obviously, America, Canada. So I mean 0:07:24.120 --> 0:07:26.520 each has their own little I know, I'm acting like 0:07:26.560 --> 0:07:29.280 I'm being diplomatic right now, but there is there's always 0:07:29.280 --> 0:07:31.600 something cool about a place when you go to visit it. Yeah, 0:07:31.640 --> 0:07:33.800 and I mean one thing that was amazing. I remember 0:07:33.800 --> 0:07:36.160 going to South America and I did the Patagonia Trail. Well, 0:07:36.600 --> 0:07:39.880 are you serious? Yeah? Did you really do the Partigona Trail? Yeah? 0:07:39.880 --> 0:07:40.040 It was. 0:07:40.080 --> 0:07:43.240 It was incredible. I'm assuming named after all the cool 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:43.920 jumpers that all the. 0:07:43.920 --> 0:07:46.520 Hits an the jumpers came first and then the Mountain 0:07:46.600 --> 0:07:47.559 Range is essentially what happened. 0:07:48.200 --> 0:07:50.040 Did you do the W track? I did the W Trap? 0:07:50.040 --> 0:07:52.600 Are you serious? I've never met anyone else that's on 0:07:52.640 --> 0:07:54.280 the W track. You've done it? I did it? Yeah, 0:07:54.360 --> 0:07:56.200 I did it like five years ago. How funny is 0:07:56.240 --> 0:07:58.960 because lamas are going everyone else? Did you see any 0:07:59.000 --> 0:08:00.360 because there's pumas out there? 0:08:00.520 --> 0:08:03.440 Yeah, we saw condor whenever it's condors, like the biggest 0:08:03.600 --> 0:08:05.560 bird in the world. I think wingspan wise just let 0:08:05.560 --> 0:08:08.280 everyone out there. But we're really on Puma watch. Didn't 0:08:08.280 --> 0:08:09.000 see you Puma's that? 0:08:09.640 --> 0:08:11.920 No? I did see a puma? Did you? How do 0:08:11.920 --> 0:08:14.960 you say it again? Can you say what said? Puma? Puma? Puma? 0:08:15.360 --> 0:08:19.160 Puma sounds like puma. There's like an h in there 0:08:19.240 --> 0:08:23.000 or something. To be honest, if you've got a concussion test. 0:08:23.200 --> 0:08:25.680 I never asked him to say puma because you'll get 0:08:25.720 --> 0:08:30.040 dragged off for two off. You did the well. I 0:08:30.120 --> 0:08:32.559 stayed in the because there's hats all you can bring 0:08:32.600 --> 0:08:32.920 a tent to. 0:08:33.040 --> 0:08:37.319 Oh you did the classy thing. Yeah, man, what did 0:08:37.320 --> 0:08:39.840 you bring a tent? We had a four person t 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:43.320 there's three of us over six foot four that My 0:08:43.440 --> 0:08:46.160 feet were hanging out. The first night, it snowed about 0:08:46.280 --> 0:08:48.560 the whole foot and I walk up in the middle 0:08:48.559 --> 0:08:50.520 of night to wet feet opened up the like the 0:08:50.640 --> 0:08:54.040 zip just white Christmas everywhere. It was just it was 0:08:54.080 --> 0:08:56.680 the worst start to anything. Everything's drenched, Like, would you 0:08:56.760 --> 0:08:57.040 do that? 0:08:57.320 --> 0:08:59.920 We didn't you. I'm not a person that organizes the 0:09:00.400 --> 0:09:01.280 I just go into it. 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:04.360 Literally, this is five years ago and it was literally 0:09:04.400 --> 0:09:06.560 the day right there's like during the off season around 0:09:06.600 --> 0:09:09.400 October and we had gone to this place and my 0:09:09.440 --> 0:09:11.600 friend's very organized. He was like, no, we need to 0:09:11.600 --> 0:09:13.200 do like figure out what day we need to do this. 0:09:13.240 --> 0:09:14.640 How long is it going to take to hike this, you know, 0:09:14.760 --> 0:09:16.640 if the train's tough for what we need to wear. 0:09:17.280 --> 0:09:19.160 I kind of rocked up and I was like, Nah, 0:09:19.360 --> 0:09:21.280 we'll just go We'll figure it out. I'll be five 0:09:21.360 --> 0:09:24.280 days in the wilderness. We'll be fine, and about the 0:09:24.320 --> 0:09:26.880 first two hours I realized I was vastly wrong. I 0:09:26.920 --> 0:09:29.360 was extremely wrong. I would have died within a day. 0:09:29.960 --> 0:09:32.520 Mason, you seem like such a lovely guy, but I 0:09:32.559 --> 0:09:35.840 would fucking hate you on that track because I realized 0:09:35.840 --> 0:09:37.680 I am that guy. If I'm left to my own devices, 0:09:37.720 --> 0:09:39.440 I would prefer someone else to organize it. But I 0:09:39.480 --> 0:09:41.640 am the organizer because I want to mitigate any risk, 0:09:42.240 --> 0:09:43.839 and you would be the mate that I'm like, no, 0:09:43.880 --> 0:09:46.480 you're not borrowing my socks. Your feet will freeze off 0:09:46.640 --> 0:09:48.520 and then you have to drag those stumps along the 0:09:48.600 --> 0:09:51.200 track and hopefully yeah, and you would get eaten by 0:09:51.200 --> 0:09:56.679 a pooma. And it's I really liked it, But I 0:09:56.880 --> 0:09:59.360 was I said in my partner because we went pre kids. 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:01.960 Mind you in saying that I was with your partner, 0:10:02.040 --> 0:10:03.559 I was on the fight. Yeah, and we're still together. 0:10:03.600 --> 0:10:06.360 Oh that's awesome. Going on the five day track, there 0:10:06.400 --> 0:10:09.680 was a person that had a toddler in those baby beyonds. Wow, 0:10:10.040 --> 0:10:12.360 was doing the five day track with a kids trap 0:10:12.360 --> 0:10:16.360 to them, and I'm like, dogess, that's that's a solid effort. 0:10:16.600 --> 0:10:19.920 Well, it's for everyone out there. It's like ten to 0:10:19.920 --> 0:10:21.920 fifteen k's of walking every day and you're going like 0:10:21.960 --> 0:10:23.600 into a mountain range in the back some of the 0:10:23.600 --> 0:10:26.719 most beautiful stuff in the world. Like proper background of 0:10:26.720 --> 0:10:29.800 the desktop to describe this thing. But yeah, it is tough. 0:10:30.120 --> 0:10:32.600 It's not like casual stroll. 0:10:33.320 --> 0:10:37.280 No, it's not. And I mean we went in their summer, 0:10:37.679 --> 0:10:39.200 which is the same as our summer, but it's just 0:10:39.200 --> 0:10:42.200 Southern Hemisphere summer. And I mean, yeah, when you go 0:10:42.240 --> 0:10:44.160 up to the top of the mountains, it's still zero 0:10:44.200 --> 0:10:48.080 degree celsia freezing. It's freezing, so it's not easy to 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:50.920 track around there. And yeah, I thought five days with 0:10:51.000 --> 0:10:52.959 the kids rep t is a bit march for that child. 0:10:53.000 --> 0:10:54.800 Hey, credit to the missus for going with you, though. 0:10:55.400 --> 0:10:57.840 That was like, that's a pretty tough, gruelling high mate. 0:10:58.000 --> 0:11:02.720 It is niggas awesome. But she is way better equipped 0:11:02.760 --> 0:11:05.760 to do this stuff than I am. Outdoors she's the 0:11:05.760 --> 0:11:11.840 outdoorsy one. She's also like we did a ten to 0:11:11.840 --> 0:11:13.480 be honest, after I'm finding out how useless you are, 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:17.520 I don't need her. If you're going to turn up 0:11:17.520 --> 0:11:19.520 to every barbecue be like I didn't bring anything, didn't 0:11:19.559 --> 0:11:22.520 organize anything. I'll be like, God, damn. It was defeated. 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:26.400 Frozen enough backing Patagon, I don't need this. But we 0:11:26.480 --> 0:11:28.120 did a ten k run at the end of last 0:11:28.200 --> 0:11:31.199 year and it was for the good people Beyond Blue 0:11:31.360 --> 0:11:32.760 do a little bit of work with them, and of 0:11:32.800 --> 0:11:34.679 course I needed the carrot. At the end of all 0:11:34.720 --> 0:11:37.040 the lockdowns that Melbourne had to go, I'll get myself 0:11:37.040 --> 0:11:40.400 in shape ten k run. She barely trained. I did 0:11:40.400 --> 0:11:42.839 a bit of training at five k's my calf went 0:11:42.880 --> 0:11:44.960 and I just strolled off because everyone went, wasn't that 0:11:45.000 --> 0:11:46.880 the guy who was promoting this whole race and now 0:11:46.880 --> 0:11:47.720 he's just carcked it? 0:11:47.920 --> 0:11:49.760 And I went, thanks for that, and he's get in 0:11:49.800 --> 0:11:51.480 a car and drive to the end and then walk 0:11:51.520 --> 0:11:52.240 across or something. 0:11:52.640 --> 0:11:55.240 I just wanted to find a hole and fall into 0:11:55.280 --> 0:11:58.360 it then, so I walked to the finish line to think, oh, well, 0:11:58.400 --> 0:12:00.199 I'll be encouraging for Nicky whenever she cross is that. 0:12:00.240 --> 0:12:01.839 I'm looking at the finish line. I'm like, oh, yeah, 0:12:01.880 --> 0:12:03.360 well she should be over soon. And then she just 0:12:03.360 --> 0:12:04.680 strolls up next to me and I said, what are 0:12:04.679 --> 0:12:06.839 you doing? And she's like, oh, I finished. I finished 0:12:06.840 --> 0:12:08.600 a couple of minutes ago. I was like what did 0:12:08.600 --> 0:12:11.360 you run? Ten k's in and she's like forty two 0:12:11.360 --> 0:12:13.400 minutes And I was like, mane, you're running four and 0:12:13.440 --> 0:12:16.880 a half minute case for twenty seconds and she said, oh, 0:12:16.920 --> 0:12:20.120 I did. I. So she's a beast casual, she's a beast. 0:12:20.360 --> 0:12:23.400 So that is I was the dead weight mate in Patagonia. 0:12:23.679 --> 0:12:25.200 I was the one that was like, just leave me 0:12:25.240 --> 0:12:27.319 here just so you can make it. You can make it. 0:12:28.559 --> 0:12:31.720 But that was incredible because that's also Patagonia is the 0:12:31.840 --> 0:12:34.280 southernmost tip just about of South America. So as long 0:12:34.280 --> 0:12:36.040 as you think about with South America, it's not like 0:12:36.080 --> 0:12:38.440 you think, oh it's like Carnaval, No, No, this is 0:12:38.800 --> 0:12:41.920 this is like, you know, further down than Tasmania. This 0:12:42.000 --> 0:12:44.680 is close to Antarctica. So it's cold. But then there's 0:12:44.679 --> 0:12:47.680 glaciers everywhere, and there's glacier water. How clear the water wall, Well, 0:12:47.720 --> 0:12:49.080 you can drink it off the side of the mountain. 0:12:49.120 --> 0:12:50.760 I've never really done that one of those bottles. 0:12:50.760 --> 0:12:52.400 You're just literally any water it's coming out on side 0:12:52.400 --> 0:12:53.640 of the mount you just can drink straight from it. 0:12:53.760 --> 0:12:55.520 Yeah, Like there were streams and we would just jump 0:12:55.520 --> 0:12:59.280 in them. We were sullying that water. I'm hoping I 0:12:59.280 --> 0:13:04.600 didn't get some of the five days of grit, grime 0:13:04.600 --> 0:13:06.439 and smegmuth. That's what you want. 0:13:07.840 --> 0:13:09.280 All the best parts of that is like at the 0:13:09.360 --> 0:13:11.640 very end, you catch the boat back across the lake, right, 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:13.439 I want to say, if you've done the same thing. 0:13:13.640 --> 0:13:16.080 There's a little casual like store there right now. I 0:13:16.080 --> 0:13:17.280 don't know what you'll call them here. I think we 0:13:17.320 --> 0:13:19.800 call him stubby holders. I'm not sure what you're calm, Yeah, 0:13:19.800 --> 0:13:23.280 we calm koozies. Koozies is what you calm? 0:13:23.320 --> 0:13:23.760 Yeah? Yeah. 0:13:23.800 --> 0:13:27.520 And my brother who's been hiking for five days disgusting right, Like, 0:13:27.559 --> 0:13:30.960 we're sweated through everything. We're just absolutely drenched and sweat 0:13:30.960 --> 0:13:32.400 and he's like sitting there. We're like, oh, there's a 0:13:32.440 --> 0:13:34.880 Patagonian beer, and we bought three Patagonian beers and we 0:13:34.920 --> 0:13:36.680 got cheers beers to the Patagonian apps. 0:13:37.200 --> 0:13:39.040 And then I'll come to the realization. We bring these 0:13:39.040 --> 0:13:39.439 beers out. 0:13:39.480 --> 0:13:41.720 My brother whips out three koozies out of his back 0:13:41.760 --> 0:13:42.720 pocket and he goes. 0:13:42.840 --> 0:13:45.720 I've been king these for five days waiting for this moment. 0:13:45.880 --> 0:13:46.720 He chucks him on. 0:13:46.800 --> 0:13:48.840 There was skull a beer in the middle of the 0:13:48.840 --> 0:13:50.960 Patagonian apps. One of the best experiences I've ever done. 0:13:51.040 --> 0:13:53.079 But that's great, But your beer hold of them was 0:13:53.160 --> 0:13:58.240 soaked in his ass cracks. But it's a glass glass protection. Well, 0:13:58.240 --> 0:13:58.839 that's a tank. 0:14:00.000 --> 0:14:01.840 That point, we were happy to have anything. We're eating, 0:14:01.840 --> 0:14:04.439 like race and beans. I think for about five days straight. 0:14:04.280 --> 0:14:07.439 So delusional, but I don't know what's happening. 0:14:07.559 --> 0:14:09.520 Yeah, we made it onto the glacier. We have to 0:14:09.520 --> 0:14:11.280 put out a photo there to everyone to understand how 0:14:11.320 --> 0:14:12.679 beautiful it is. But it is one of the most 0:14:12.720 --> 0:14:13.920 amazing places in the world. 0:14:14.040 --> 0:14:16.040 It really is. But I mean that's different travel. When 0:14:16.040 --> 0:14:17.760 I was traveling with Nikki because she's traveled a lot 0:14:17.800 --> 0:14:20.960 as well, so we were pretty good together traveling. There 0:14:21.000 --> 0:14:22.920 was only a few blowouts, which is to be expected 0:14:22.920 --> 0:14:25.920 when you've got six weeks away together, which is always 0:14:25.960 --> 0:14:28.600 something that threw me off as well when I bumped 0:14:28.600 --> 0:14:31.440 into Americans because we do the trek and it takes 0:14:31.440 --> 0:14:33.320 five days, but that was part of our six weeks 0:14:33.320 --> 0:14:36.440 over in South America, and I talked to Americans and 0:14:36.440 --> 0:14:38.680 they're like, no, I got two weeks off. It took 0:14:38.720 --> 0:14:40.480 me four days to fly down here. I do the 0:14:40.520 --> 0:14:42.760 trek and then I head back to New York and 0:14:42.840 --> 0:14:45.200 live in my cramp department and work in a law 0:14:45.240 --> 0:14:46.720 firm for nothing, to hope that I'll get up an 0:14:46.720 --> 0:14:48.280 ocean one day. And I was like, this is the 0:14:48.320 --> 0:14:50.720 worst set. Like they it broke their minds that we 0:14:50.720 --> 0:14:52.680 were off for six weeks. They're like, what did you 0:14:52.720 --> 0:14:54.800 just quit your job? You're like, nahn, you just tell 0:14:54.840 --> 0:14:56.720 them I'll be back in a bit and then it'll 0:14:56.760 --> 0:14:59.520 be fine. I was always heartbroken that the Americans only 0:14:59.520 --> 0:14:59.880 get two. 0:14:59.800 --> 0:15:01.440 Weeks fall in two weeks when one brother and I 0:15:01.480 --> 0:15:02.720 we had to do it in four days. Usually it 0:15:02.720 --> 0:15:04.400 takes five days of track. We're doing fourcus my brother 0:15:04.440 --> 0:15:05.360 would go back to work. 0:15:06.160 --> 0:15:07.520 It's just the way it is in the US. I 0:15:07.520 --> 0:15:08.200 don't have two weeks. 0:15:08.240 --> 0:15:09.680 And then like, depending on how long you work, you 0:15:09.680 --> 0:15:11.160 can work there for longer and you can be you 0:15:11.200 --> 0:15:13.440 can get more or more time off if the longer 0:15:13.480 --> 0:15:15.680 you work for a company. But like everyone starts two 0:15:15.720 --> 0:15:18.480 weeks and that's just normalized. Like I'll tell people, I'm like, oh, yeah, 0:15:18.480 --> 0:15:21.120 I get like two months off a year, and they're like, mate, 0:15:21.320 --> 0:15:23.720 what is there any other like any other things I 0:15:23.720 --> 0:15:23.960 can do? 0:15:25.000 --> 0:15:27.440 You're only working for half of the year now, so yeah, 0:15:27.520 --> 0:15:28.240 that's sitily. 0:15:28.320 --> 0:15:30.200 Yeah, I mean we got off season. Don't get me wrong. 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:32.320 We've got a few little little bie weeks here and there. 0:15:32.360 --> 0:15:35.040 But it's not a bad man. It's part of the whole. 0:15:35.080 --> 0:15:35.440 I think. 0:15:35.720 --> 0:15:37.600 I guess South for me to come over here is 0:15:37.600 --> 0:15:39.000 they have two weeks off of vacation to be able 0:15:39.000 --> 0:15:40.080 to travel anywhere in the world. 0:15:40.760 --> 0:15:42.520 Yeah, I mean that's I think it's trains like to 0:15:42.520 --> 0:15:45.200 travel because most of us, other than the first trains, 0:15:45.200 --> 0:15:47.800 we're all immigrants, so you've got some lineage, your reason 0:15:47.840 --> 0:15:49.680 to go overseas and check stuff out and have a 0:15:49.680 --> 0:15:53.280 look at things. But when I was backpacking though through Europe, like, 0:15:53.360 --> 0:15:56.800 it's a different travel. You're twenty two years old, twenty 0:15:56.800 --> 0:15:59.680 three years I'm time to be summer in Europe, sure, 0:15:59.760 --> 0:16:02.160 but you're also skinned, so you just to grub because 0:16:02.200 --> 0:16:04.840 you're just trying to save money every which way. And 0:16:04.880 --> 0:16:06.560 I remember a friend and I we hired a car 0:16:06.600 --> 0:16:09.760 in France, so we went all through the French south coast. 0:16:10.400 --> 0:16:12.800 So it's brilliant. It's summer, it's wonderful. But of course 0:16:12.840 --> 0:16:16.800 we're just sleeping wherever we can because hustles for ten 0:16:16.880 --> 0:16:19.800 dollars and yeah all that, but even then sometimes you're like, oh, 0:16:19.880 --> 0:16:21.880 I don't have the euros for this, so maybe I'll 0:16:21.960 --> 0:16:24.600 just sleep in a garter somewhere. And in Europe are 0:16:24.560 --> 0:16:26.400 always much more las a fair about that. They're like, oh, 0:16:26.560 --> 0:16:28.960 someone's just sleeping in a guther, that's fine. And we 0:16:29.320 --> 0:16:32.320 remember we got into the coastal village and it was 0:16:32.400 --> 0:16:34.120 late at night and my mate says, let's just park 0:16:34.120 --> 0:16:35.560 in this car park and we'll just sleep in the 0:16:35.600 --> 0:16:37.920 car and be fine. I'm like, yeah, you're sick, so 0:16:37.960 --> 0:16:39.680 we put the seats back, and then it was real 0:16:39.760 --> 0:16:42.280 early in the morning, as sun's just breaking. There's a 0:16:42.320 --> 0:16:45.280 French police officer knocking on our window and we're like, oh, 0:16:45.480 --> 0:16:49.280 bonois and that's about the extent of my French and 0:16:49.480 --> 0:16:51.000 he's screaming at us in French and we're like, I 0:16:51.040 --> 0:16:52.960 don't know what's going on. So we get out, but 0:16:53.000 --> 0:16:54.600 we're just in our underwear because we just you know, 0:16:54.640 --> 0:16:57.680 you get into your sleeping bag and you're out and 0:16:57.680 --> 0:16:59.040 he's screaming at us, and we're like, I don't know 0:16:59.040 --> 0:17:01.440 what's going on. Mate, just at a car park, and 0:17:01.480 --> 0:17:03.680 of course you're laying the Australian accent on thick, so 0:17:04.040 --> 0:17:08.000 he might know English, but he does from here, getting 0:17:08.160 --> 0:17:13.919 from like the seagulls from finding Nemo. And then he's 0:17:13.920 --> 0:17:16.040 screaming at us, and I do remember someone else came 0:17:16.080 --> 0:17:18.600 across that was that knew a little bit of English 0:17:18.600 --> 0:17:20.399 and was trying to be the go between. But then 0:17:20.440 --> 0:17:22.720 we realized what happened was a car back, sure, but 0:17:22.760 --> 0:17:25.600 it was a car back to a kindergarten, so we're 0:17:25.640 --> 0:17:29.119 next to preschool. And then two men who were sleeping 0:17:29.160 --> 0:17:31.879 in their car that was fogged up by this stage, 0:17:31.920 --> 0:17:33.879 so he didn't know what was happening inside. The jocks 0:17:34.040 --> 0:17:35.840 just get out in their underwear and they're like, what's 0:17:35.880 --> 0:17:37.960 going on And they're like, I know what's going on, 0:17:38.040 --> 0:17:40.639 your creeps. You need to be at least three hundred 0:17:40.720 --> 0:17:43.280 yards away from any children, so you can't go back 0:17:43.320 --> 0:17:45.639 to friends. Well, he was like, I think once we 0:17:45.640 --> 0:17:48.320 puzzled it together, he was just like just go like, 0:17:48.880 --> 0:17:50.760 I'm not even anger, I'm just disappointed. What's wrong with 0:17:50.800 --> 0:17:55.040 you people? We say five euros? I mean, we're sex 0:17:55.080 --> 0:17:58.879 offenders on a French registerry, but still we save some money. 0:18:00.600 --> 0:18:03.679 It's grass, that's the fun. Of traveling. 0:18:03.840 --> 0:18:06.200 Oh, it's just it's seriously sometimes every year because I 0:18:06.200 --> 0:18:08.520 won't remember. I was twenty three on saying I was broke, 0:18:08.560 --> 0:18:10.439 I had no money, and I was just I slept 0:18:10.440 --> 0:18:12.440 in train stations like everything. 0:18:12.880 --> 0:18:14.080 The thing is no one bat's an eye. 0:18:14.119 --> 0:18:17.800 Everyone's like, oh jeez, another nomad traveler just rolling around 0:18:17.800 --> 0:18:18.760 sleeping wherever he wants. 0:18:18.800 --> 0:18:20.960 Piece of shit. You know. You know this is also 0:18:21.000 --> 0:18:23.639 a story because I bumped into some old friends. I 0:18:23.640 --> 0:18:25.560 was doing a gig in Sydney last week and some 0:18:25.600 --> 0:18:27.359 old friends came to the show. When we were we 0:18:27.520 --> 0:18:29.639 met overseas, so we were just talking about all this 0:18:29.680 --> 0:18:31.560 and we're all now in our forties, we've got kids. 0:18:31.840 --> 0:18:33.359 It was getting to ten o'clock. I'm like, we all 0:18:33.400 --> 0:18:34.879 got to go. We're going to get up early in 0:18:34.880 --> 0:18:37.120 the morning. And so we're channing all these old stories 0:18:37.160 --> 0:18:40.040 and this one, I mean, this proves how much of 0:18:40.080 --> 0:18:42.440 a grubby when you travel. And I had a girlfriend 0:18:42.440 --> 0:18:45.119 and she was Norwegian, and so we met for a 0:18:45.119 --> 0:18:46.760 little bit, but then I went traveling and then she said, 0:18:46.800 --> 0:18:48.239 do you want to stay in Oslow? And I was like, 0:18:48.280 --> 0:18:52.280 for free, absolutely, And then you get their version of 0:18:52.320 --> 0:18:56.240 Jetstar Ryan airfly. Yes, Ryan, get on a few of those. 0:18:56.359 --> 0:18:58.199 You know what. Never lands on a normal airstrip. It 0:18:58.280 --> 0:19:00.600 lands at some ex military airstrip. It's in a different 0:19:00.600 --> 0:19:03.240 country to take a bus. Yeah, you're like here, but 0:19:03.240 --> 0:19:05.320 I'm still trying to kill me away my destination. Can 0:19:05.359 --> 0:19:08.160 someone come pick me up? So she comes and picks 0:19:08.160 --> 0:19:10.520 me up. And all the Norwegian countries are really expensive, 0:19:10.520 --> 0:19:12.960 which I didn't realize. Yeah, when you're back back, the 0:19:13.000 --> 0:19:16.720 Scandinavians are very expensive countries totally because they've just got 0:19:16.720 --> 0:19:20.800 good infrastructure. Places eleven. Yeah, and everyone's hot. You're like, okay, 0:19:20.800 --> 0:19:22.640 I'll pay more for this, so true, like the men, 0:19:22.680 --> 0:19:24.639 the women, everyone's hot. I remember. 0:19:24.680 --> 0:19:27.240 Still you feel like an idiot going there, mate, I 0:19:27.280 --> 0:19:28.280 know your bottom of the barrel. 0:19:29.040 --> 0:19:31.720 Remember standing at train stations and I was waiting for 0:19:31.760 --> 0:19:33.240 it to come out of a train station and every 0:19:33.280 --> 0:19:35.719 person was tall and blonde and gorgeous, And I'm like, 0:19:36.440 --> 0:19:39.320 I'll take any I'll just eat he whatever. What do 0:19:39.359 --> 0:19:40.760 you think is a three to me? He's an eleven. 0:19:40.760 --> 0:19:42.960 I'll take that. I don't care. The only chance you 0:19:43.000 --> 0:19:46.000 got is the Aussie accident. You sliming that thing on. 0:19:46.520 --> 0:19:48.679 As far as you care, yeah, you go, I used 0:19:48.680 --> 0:19:53.040 to be a sex offender in front. And so so 0:19:53.080 --> 0:19:55.600 we're there and I wasn't working, she's working. And it's 0:19:55.640 --> 0:19:57.920 one of those weird things where when you travel, when 0:19:57.960 --> 0:20:00.639 you meet people traveling, you don't have work and you 0:20:00.680 --> 0:20:02.359 don't ask what you do for a living. You just 0:20:02.400 --> 0:20:04.800 hell hanging out and it's blissful. But then sometimes when 0:20:04.840 --> 0:20:06.480 you come back to reality, you go, oh, is this 0:20:06.560 --> 0:20:08.959 working because you met that person when they were free 0:20:09.000 --> 0:20:11.120 and easy. You didn't meet them in their natural habits 0:20:11.119 --> 0:20:14.120 for day to day. Yeah. And so we get there 0:20:14.160 --> 0:20:16.320 and I realized I'm staying at her parents house. She 0:20:16.320 --> 0:20:17.880 still lives with her parents because, like I said, we're 0:20:17.880 --> 0:20:19.800 only twenty three, twenty four whatever. She's just come back 0:20:19.840 --> 0:20:21.560 from travel. She needs to save money. So I'm like, oh, 0:20:21.600 --> 0:20:24.640 I'm staying with your whole family. Okay, but again I'm 0:20:24.640 --> 0:20:26.600 a backpack. I'm like, God, it is free. And then 0:20:26.640 --> 0:20:28.880 so I had nothing to do during the day. I'm 0:20:28.920 --> 0:20:31.880 just hanging out like a slob, eating their food because 0:20:31.880 --> 0:20:36.000 I was skint, and I can't believe I'm telling this story. 0:20:36.640 --> 0:20:38.400 She's going to work. Whenever I'd meet her after work, 0:20:38.440 --> 0:20:40.000 we kind of hang out and then I remember one 0:20:40.080 --> 0:20:41.840 night she goes to par at the house with the 0:20:41.840 --> 0:20:44.440 whole family while she's at work, just being a parasite. 0:20:46.720 --> 0:20:49.480 They must have just thought I was a sponsor child 0:20:50.200 --> 0:20:53.480 to make a wish kid. Yeah, totally, yeah, this is 0:20:53.480 --> 0:20:55.440 my last wish to eat you out of house and home. 0:20:56.160 --> 0:20:59.840 And so I'm just I'm a six foot two locust. 0:21:00.040 --> 0:21:02.600 It's in their house. But then she came home from 0:21:02.600 --> 0:21:05.040 work early, so we're sitting on the couch. I'm being 0:21:05.080 --> 0:21:09.520 bored all day. What's on TV? One thing led to another, 0:21:09.800 --> 0:21:16.920 and what do you know? But then her mom came home. 0:21:16.960 --> 0:21:18.760 But of course you don't knock if it's your own house. 0:21:19.880 --> 0:21:24.320 Been there. So she comes in and you're like, oh no, 0:21:24.600 --> 0:21:27.280 and there's no getting out of it. But I'm just 0:21:27.880 --> 0:21:30.400 and her mum just walks straight straight past us through 0:21:30.400 --> 0:21:32.240 the lounge room to her own bedroom and then locks 0:21:32.280 --> 0:21:35.560 the door, and I'm like, oh, do you make eye contact? 0:21:35.760 --> 0:21:39.440 Well no, But then but then we're like this is embarrassing, 0:21:39.520 --> 0:21:42.520 and I'm laughing because again, I've been backpacking now for 0:21:42.640 --> 0:21:46.440 eighteen months. I've been staying in dorms, like it's my 0:21:47.680 --> 0:21:51.440 guide for what is normal and not has gone down considerably. 0:21:51.560 --> 0:21:54.040 You know, it's very like because again you're a grubby backpacker, 0:21:54.080 --> 0:21:55.960 like you're sneaking into everything. You just look good to 0:21:56.040 --> 0:21:58.679 be fine, and I haven't been sober for a year 0:21:58.720 --> 0:22:01.080 and a half, so I'm like to be that's hilarious. 0:22:01.080 --> 0:22:04.680 This is just a funny story part of it. And again, well, 0:22:04.720 --> 0:22:07.720 my parents were well, like my mum is still, they're 0:22:07.760 --> 0:22:10.879 pretty like we just through jokes around growing up. We 0:22:10.880 --> 0:22:13.640 were always just having fun. So I don't know if 0:22:13.640 --> 0:22:15.399 my parents would have taken offense in that situation, but 0:22:15.440 --> 0:22:17.320 we probably would have laughed at it pretty quickly, been 0:22:17.400 --> 0:22:20.680 like oh, this is embarrassing. No, no, no, like a mum 0:22:20.720 --> 0:22:23.040 just goes in the room. The girl at the time says, 0:22:23.040 --> 0:22:24.800 we're going to go for a long walk, like I 0:22:24.800 --> 0:22:26.280 don't know what we're going to do, and I'm laughing. 0:22:26.320 --> 0:22:27.920 I'm like, come on, we're gonna laugh at this sooner 0:22:28.000 --> 0:22:29.800 or later, like it's going to be a funny story. 0:22:29.880 --> 0:22:31.760 And she's like, no, no, you don't understand what my 0:22:31.800 --> 0:22:34.199 parents are. Like I'm an only child, you know, we 0:22:34.280 --> 0:22:36.280 never talked about anything like this, And I'm like okay. 0:22:36.720 --> 0:22:38.960 And then of course, again because of my backpack, and 0:22:39.000 --> 0:22:40.879 I'm like, yeah, but I'm not flying out for like 0:22:40.920 --> 0:22:42.919 another seven days, so what are you going to do? 0:22:43.040 --> 0:22:45.840 I'm still here for another week. Yeah, I'm sitting in 0:22:45.880 --> 0:22:48.720 this situation. And it was funny because most Scandinavians have 0:22:48.840 --> 0:22:52.920 unbelievable English, like better English than I have. This is 0:22:52.960 --> 0:22:55.480 my only option and it's their second option, and they're 0:22:55.480 --> 0:22:58.439 grammatically perfect. So English was always fine. We'd be at 0:22:58.440 --> 0:23:01.520 the dinner table well speaking English since the situation happened, 0:23:01.800 --> 0:23:04.200 they just spoke in Norwegian the rest of the time. 0:23:04.400 --> 0:23:06.520 Like It's like they ignored me, like I was like 0:23:06.560 --> 0:23:09.880 I was a ghost in their house, like the present. Yeah, 0:23:09.880 --> 0:23:11.720 I would just be going like it was like I 0:23:11.720 --> 0:23:13.919 didn't exist. They just ignored me for five days. But 0:23:14.000 --> 0:23:18.919 I stayed there because you couldn't fly out the cash 0:23:18.960 --> 0:23:20.880 too to move my flight would have cost twenty dollars. 0:23:20.880 --> 0:23:23.239 I'm like, well that's two dollars I don't have. So 0:23:23.280 --> 0:23:25.840 I just sat there like a pest for the next week, 0:23:26.240 --> 0:23:27.920 just going yeah, I know I've eaten all your food 0:23:27.960 --> 0:23:31.760 and you know what we've been up to. Otherwise, that's gross, 0:23:31.800 --> 0:23:34.520 isn't it. That's gross. We talked about awkward moments on 0:23:34.560 --> 0:23:36.720 this podcast a lot. I think that might trump it. 0:23:36.840 --> 0:23:40.119 To be honest, I think that for a whole week 0:23:40.359 --> 0:23:43.800 after being caught doing the deed by the mother of 0:23:43.880 --> 0:23:46.280 our people, you have to sit there at the dinner 0:23:46.320 --> 0:23:48.840 table and just cop it in a different language. 0:23:48.920 --> 0:23:50.600 Don't cut this up and put that out of context 0:23:50.640 --> 0:23:53.840 on Instagram. Know, I know everyone does this in podcasts, 0:23:53.880 --> 0:23:55.160 like you got to listen to it because everyone will 0:23:55.160 --> 0:23:59.399 be like that guy's horrific. What a human what a 0:23:59.440 --> 0:24:02.719 horrible human being. Look, I'm aware of it. I tried 0:24:02.760 --> 0:24:05.240 to what are they saying twenty twenty one, I'm now 0:24:05.280 --> 0:24:07.120 listening and trying to make attention and be better. 0:24:07.400 --> 0:24:11.840 Yeah, that's it. That's a wild one, right. I don't 0:24:11.840 --> 0:24:14.520 know if I should tell my story about being Yeah, okay, friends, 0:24:14.560 --> 0:24:15.960 not in has had told me to tell the story 0:24:15.960 --> 0:24:19.720 about me in Sweden, I was just a guy I 0:24:19.800 --> 0:24:20.600 met in college. 0:24:20.600 --> 0:24:22.000 I don't even really know him. He's a friend of 0:24:22.000 --> 0:24:24.080 a friend. As you have, you know, and this is 0:24:24.080 --> 0:24:26.520 your entire life, is god. I went to the other 0:24:26.560 --> 0:24:29.400 side of the world from Collingwood. It's just like cool. 0:24:29.440 --> 0:24:32.560 No one showed up the airport. What's going on? And 0:24:32.560 --> 0:24:34.400 I was in Sweden. I was like, oh, go see 0:24:34.400 --> 0:24:36.400 this guy, and he was in Finland. So I took 0:24:36.600 --> 0:24:39.439 the boat over to Finland. I had no selfhone service, 0:24:39.480 --> 0:24:41.119 so I just show up and he's no one's there, 0:24:41.200 --> 0:24:42.920 so I just get off the boat. No one's there 0:24:42.920 --> 0:24:44.760 to pick me up, and I'm just aimlessly in Finland 0:24:44.800 --> 0:24:47.359 with no idea he's in. I think Turku is the 0:24:47.359 --> 0:24:49.560 place that's called or something like that. Okay, he goes, Oh, 0:24:49.600 --> 0:24:51.159 we'll go. We'll go out to my family's you know, 0:24:52.119 --> 0:24:54.240 you know, my family's lake house. Beautiful place. You know, 0:24:54.280 --> 0:24:56.399 there's like on a lake and there's beautiful trees and 0:24:56.440 --> 0:24:58.840 it's amazing, quite isolated, and I'm like, whatever, you know, 0:24:59.000 --> 0:25:01.040 I'll be able to hold my own. So he drives 0:25:01.080 --> 0:25:03.199 me like three hours out of the way in the 0:25:03.200 --> 0:25:04.920 middle of nowhere, and I was like, give about a 0:25:04.920 --> 0:25:06.320 hour out. I was like, this might be the last 0:25:06.359 --> 0:25:08.600 day of my life, Like this guy is going to 0:25:08.640 --> 0:25:09.280 probably we're not. 0:25:09.359 --> 0:25:11.240 Going to wake up in a nice tub with a 0:25:11.280 --> 0:25:12.680 little missing, no doubt. 0:25:12.760 --> 0:25:15.119 And it was it was proper middle of nowhere, Like 0:25:15.160 --> 0:25:16.760 there was like like dirt roads to get to this 0:25:16.800 --> 0:25:18.800 joint and everything like there was I had no way 0:25:18.800 --> 0:25:20.360 of like contact from the outside world. 0:25:20.560 --> 0:25:22.400 I had no way. And I get there. 0:25:22.400 --> 0:25:25.120 It's the first day of the World Cup and they 0:25:25.119 --> 0:25:26.639 do the opening ceremony. We watch that and stuff and 0:25:26.720 --> 0:25:29.200 goes on. In Finland we do signas and I was like, Okay, 0:25:29.760 --> 0:25:31.880 that's a bit freaking weird, all right, and I'm sure 0:25:31.880 --> 0:25:33.520 you probably get an idea where this is going. And 0:25:33.560 --> 0:25:35.879 I me, being a twenty three year old, I was 0:25:35.960 --> 0:25:39.000 quite conscious of my body still and like in Australia 0:25:39.080 --> 0:25:41.239 where speeders, we would never do that in America, like 0:25:41.280 --> 0:25:43.119 you just yea, you don't. You don't show off the 0:25:43.119 --> 0:25:44.680 body as much as you do here. Everyone here is 0:25:44.760 --> 0:25:47.000 quite proud because I'm proud of what's going on. 0:25:47.040 --> 0:25:49.840 Because America, even though even though you gained independence, you 0:25:49.840 --> 0:25:52.240 were colonized by the British like we were. So we've 0:25:52.280 --> 0:25:54.800 got that British thing of going there and to cover up. Yeah, 0:25:54.800 --> 0:25:57.800 and then you get to mainland Europe. No one in Paris, 0:25:57.920 --> 0:26:01.399 no one cares on the corner of things, and families 0:26:01.400 --> 0:26:03.359 will sit in sauna's just being like here's my bits, 0:26:03.880 --> 0:26:05.879 and they're like cool, the great awesome. 0:26:05.960 --> 0:26:07.679 Well I ended up going so I go into this 0:26:07.680 --> 0:26:09.160 place I'm like, He's like, I'll go get changed whever. 0:26:09.200 --> 0:26:09.840 I was like, all right, cool. 0:26:09.880 --> 0:26:12.320 So this sauna is no bigger than maybe like half 0:26:12.359 --> 0:26:14.040 a meter by half a meter. It is a very 0:26:14.280 --> 0:26:16.000 very enclosed sauna. 0:26:16.160 --> 0:26:18.000 And I walk in. There's like the read to get 0:26:18.000 --> 0:26:21.440 a safety for me. This is me. I was like 0:26:21.760 --> 0:26:24.960 a cool, Oh fine, whatever, We're just going to sign it. 0:26:25.000 --> 0:26:25.560 No big deal. 0:26:25.600 --> 0:26:27.399 There's like this prep room where you put like the 0:26:27.480 --> 0:26:29.439 towel and I was like, oh, put my tale up. 0:26:29.720 --> 0:26:31.200 And I opened the door and I kid, you know, 0:26:31.240 --> 0:26:34.000 because the signings have two stories, right, He's not sitting 0:26:34.040 --> 0:26:35.920 on the bottom. He's sitting on the second story where 0:26:35.920 --> 0:26:38.480 it's like head level, and he's got his legs out 0:26:38.560 --> 0:26:42.400 spread eagle and he's got nothing on, just nothing on, 0:26:42.680 --> 0:26:45.360 and it's this awkwardness of like it's only us out here, 0:26:45.560 --> 0:26:48.280 like and he just looks at me and goes in Finland, 0:26:48.480 --> 0:26:49.640 we going naked. 0:26:50.160 --> 0:26:51.520 And I just look back at him. 0:26:51.520 --> 0:26:54.119 I was like, I'm either going to die tonight or 0:26:54.200 --> 0:26:55.480 have to bet naked in front of the student and 0:26:55.520 --> 0:26:56.719 try to act like this is normal. 0:26:56.800 --> 0:26:58.679 So you know, now you've got to rebrand this to 0:26:58.720 --> 0:27:02.720 the Mason Cox Out Show. It would be the first time. 0:27:04.000 --> 0:27:04.360 So yeah. 0:27:04.480 --> 0:27:07.439 So anyway, I sat there, took my jocks off, got naked, 0:27:07.800 --> 0:27:10.439 and essentially my head was right next to his is junk 0:27:10.480 --> 0:27:13.080 for about an hour and we went and ran down 0:27:13.080 --> 0:27:14.639 into the lake and back up. And I will say this, 0:27:14.720 --> 0:27:16.200 it was one of the best feelings in the world 0:27:16.200 --> 0:27:18.639 saunt at the cold bath. But I woke up that 0:27:18.680 --> 0:27:22.280 next morning feeling very refreshed and also very worried that 0:27:22.359 --> 0:27:23.880 something might have happened in the night that I wasn't 0:27:23.880 --> 0:27:27.439 sure was going to be ashamed, Yeah, slightly ashamed. But 0:27:27.720 --> 0:27:32.159 we shared a bond Facebook friends as I count I 0:27:32.160 --> 0:27:34.720 don't know, but I haven't talked to him a few years. 0:27:34.720 --> 0:27:37.639 But that was very interesting than fans only friends, our 0:27:37.640 --> 0:27:42.639 guess friends, true and ever only what could happen? There 0:27:42.680 --> 0:27:44.399 was no there's no interne out there. I'll give you that. 0:27:44.520 --> 0:27:47.040 So but we'll move on from travel man. We could 0:27:47.040 --> 0:27:48.520 I can talk to each about trouble forever because I 0:27:48.520 --> 0:27:50.840 feel like we've both done the euro trip. But we'll 0:27:50.880 --> 0:27:52.960 go back into your comedy mate. Now, obviously everyone knows 0:27:52.960 --> 0:27:55.720 you for your comedy and along the lines of travel, 0:27:55.760 --> 0:27:58.960 you did the Edinburgh Comedy Festival, Yes, how was that. 0:28:00.680 --> 0:28:03.359 It's just finished now because it happens in August every 0:28:03.440 --> 0:28:06.120 year and it is a lot. It is a lot. 0:28:06.440 --> 0:28:08.560 There's a big deal though. It is a big deal, 0:28:08.640 --> 0:28:12.600 and it takes over all of Edinburgh, like Edinburgh's a decent, 0:28:12.640 --> 0:28:14.840 outsize city, and it takes over the whole thing for 0:28:14.880 --> 0:28:18.080 a month. And I'm talking there's shows from ten am 0:28:18.200 --> 0:28:21.880 till four in the morning. Yeah, and bigger than Melbourne Hearing. Yeah, 0:28:21.920 --> 0:28:24.840 because Melbourne's a comedy festival. This is a fringe festival. 0:28:24.840 --> 0:28:28.200 So yeah, a rething. Like there was a show one year. 0:28:28.600 --> 0:28:31.080 It was called man sits in gorilla suit for an 0:28:31.200 --> 0:28:34.280 hour and does nothing and people all turned up like, oh, 0:28:34.280 --> 0:28:35.679 what's going to happen, Like, yeah, it's a man in 0:28:35.680 --> 0:28:38.240 a suit like sitting there doing nothing. But the thing 0:28:38.320 --> 0:28:40.840 is he had a camera on. This was probably about 0:28:40.880 --> 0:28:44.200 twenty ten. He had a camera on the audience because 0:28:45.040 --> 0:28:47.040 he said it was funny because it was an hour. 0:28:47.480 --> 0:28:49.720 I don't know the guy, yeah, but I just read 0:28:49.720 --> 0:28:51.640 about stuff and I saw a bit of a highlighted 0:28:51.680 --> 0:28:54.440 video footage. It said it was people just they'd go 0:28:54.520 --> 0:28:57.120 a little weird because they're going, oh, this is exactly 0:28:57.200 --> 0:28:58.680 what it is, and then they would all look at 0:28:58.680 --> 0:29:00.120 each other, but we've paid a ticket for the we 0:29:00.120 --> 0:29:01.880 don't want to leave. They made money for it, yeah, 0:29:01.920 --> 0:29:04.040 because well, I mean it might only be a couple 0:29:04.080 --> 0:29:06.440 of quid. But once that happens, it's almost like, well, 0:29:07.040 --> 0:29:09.680 I want to play this out. I'm invested. And then 0:29:09.720 --> 0:29:12.000 he said it was really funny because he's watching people 0:29:12.200 --> 0:29:14.480 because he's not moving a muscle. But then they almost 0:29:14.480 --> 0:29:17.360 have becoming the show because they're going like, well, that's 0:29:17.400 --> 0:29:19.920 just what's happening here. And then and then you slowly 0:29:20.040 --> 0:29:21.920 start going, well, I could go up to the monkey, 0:29:21.960 --> 0:29:25.440 I guess, and oh, like a mascot. But then you 0:29:25.480 --> 0:29:26.640 know what I mean, you could just think, oh, I 0:29:26.640 --> 0:29:28.640 can toil around him. I could I could do a 0:29:28.680 --> 0:29:31.240 lap dance, you know what I mean, because you're thinking, 0:29:31.400 --> 0:29:32.120 like what you do whenever. 0:29:32.160 --> 0:29:33.720 The outside the Royal Palace with the people on the 0:29:33.720 --> 0:29:37.280 red coats and the big habite. 0:29:36.560 --> 0:29:40.400 Edinburgh was great. But then because there's so many shows on, 0:29:40.800 --> 0:29:43.120 it's a needle in a haystack thing because people you're 0:29:43.160 --> 0:29:45.160 from the other side of the world. I mean, when 0:29:45.200 --> 0:29:46.800 I went I sound like an old man, but you know, 0:29:46.840 --> 0:29:49.720 this is kind of pre well, social media was around, 0:29:49.800 --> 0:29:52.840 but you know this out this does make me sound 0:29:52.840 --> 0:29:54.840 like an old man. There wasn't Wi Fi around. If 0:29:54.880 --> 0:29:56.080 you're on the internet, you had to go to a 0:29:56.120 --> 0:30:00.200 cafe and get the Internet from a computer, not justting 0:30:00.240 --> 0:30:01.600 on your phone the whole time. Like we didn't have 0:30:01.600 --> 0:30:04.640 smartphones really then, and so you kind of had to 0:30:04.640 --> 0:30:06.000 get the word out and you spend the whole month. 0:30:06.000 --> 0:30:09.760 You're flying people in the rain the whole time. And 0:30:10.160 --> 0:30:13.280 it was there that I received the most pleasant yet 0:30:13.400 --> 0:30:17.000 most cutting heckle I've ever received. Really, because you do 0:30:17.040 --> 0:30:20.520 a show, it's an hour long show, and because too, 0:30:20.560 --> 0:30:23.160 they get audiences from all over, like they get a 0:30:23.160 --> 0:30:25.440 lot of people from America. I notice Canada and America 0:30:25.520 --> 0:30:29.280 because relatively, I think a fly over the Atlantic, yeah, 0:30:29.280 --> 0:30:30.920 it's a bit of a trek, but it's not that 0:30:31.320 --> 0:30:33.320 big in the scheme of things compared to say Australians 0:30:33.360 --> 0:30:34.960 going to the other side of the world. It's what 0:30:35.040 --> 0:30:38.080 a six hour flight or so. Quite often they know 0:30:38.080 --> 0:30:40.440 that the Edinburd Fringe festival's on it's summer, so they go, okay, 0:30:40.480 --> 0:30:41.920 we'll do that, and then a bit of a sojourn 0:30:42.040 --> 0:30:45.760 through Finland to do a sauna and then so you're 0:30:45.760 --> 0:30:48.480 getting audiences from everywhere and you just don't know how 0:30:48.480 --> 0:30:51.680 they're going to react, Like sometimes your jokes are tailored 0:30:51.680 --> 0:30:55.120 for certain audiences, right, like yes, and also with the accent, 0:30:55.280 --> 0:30:58.640 because if you say English as your second language, you're 0:30:58.720 --> 0:31:00.600 used to maybe hearing an English person an an American 0:31:00.600 --> 0:31:02.480 person speak. And then all of a sudden again yeah, 0:31:02.560 --> 0:31:04.760 hair gown. They're like, I don't know what's happening here, 0:31:04.800 --> 0:31:06.280 and I'm sitting here for an hour and this guy 0:31:06.360 --> 0:31:09.240 squawking away. So and I was relatively new to the 0:31:09.280 --> 0:31:12.240 game like that was I was probably six years in, 0:31:12.920 --> 0:31:14.760 and so I didn't have the tools to know how 0:31:14.800 --> 0:31:16.560 to adjust or anything. You're just going, well, this is 0:31:16.560 --> 0:31:22.080 the hour show, and so I had I remember this 0:31:22.240 --> 0:31:24.280 was three nights in a row. I wasn't getting a 0:31:24.280 --> 0:31:26.479 lot from the audience, Like three nights in a row, 0:31:26.520 --> 0:31:29.400 and you'll get audiences that are just flat. There's only 0:31:29.400 --> 0:31:32.280 so much you can do. Maybe the worst feeling though, Yeah, 0:31:32.280 --> 0:31:34.320 but I also think to myself, oh, because I mean 0:31:34.360 --> 0:31:36.720 it also dictates on whether it dictates what time of 0:31:36.720 --> 0:31:38.480 the week it is, because Saturday night people are like, 0:31:38.520 --> 0:31:42.680 I'm out, I'm drinking yacht. If it's Wednesday, people are like, yeah, 0:31:42.680 --> 0:31:44.400 I'm having an all right, but I'm going to go 0:31:44.440 --> 0:31:45.920 home after this and get my head out of sleep. 0:31:46.080 --> 0:31:47.720 There's not a lot you can do. Yeah, okay, you 0:31:47.720 --> 0:31:49.960 can only get it moving so far. There might be 0:31:49.960 --> 0:31:51.680 comedians listening to this gun now, they could be out 0:31:51.960 --> 0:31:53.880 Wenesday Night's prime night. Now you just choose not to. 0:31:54.440 --> 0:31:56.240 But and so the first night you're like, okay, there 0:31:56.280 --> 0:31:57.960 was just a flat audience. Second night you're like, okay, 0:31:57.960 --> 0:31:59.760 that was weird. It was two nights in a row. 0:32:00.080 --> 0:32:03.080 A third one you're going, I don't know what's happening anymore? 0:32:03.280 --> 0:32:05.280 Is it me? Is it me? Yeah? Maybe this is 0:32:05.320 --> 0:32:07.480 just me? And again you're every night for a month, 0:32:07.720 --> 0:32:10.000 like for a month, every night for a month, every 0:32:10.080 --> 0:32:11.960 night for a month. So you think, is this just 0:32:12.000 --> 0:32:13.120 it for the rest of the run? Am I just 0:32:13.240 --> 0:32:15.000 not going to get a laugh for the next three weeks? 0:32:15.880 --> 0:32:18.280 And then just drive myself into the middle of Siberia 0:32:18.280 --> 0:32:21.959 I never come back. So in this third night, it's 0:32:22.000 --> 0:32:24.080 about twenty minutes into an hour show, and there was 0:32:24.200 --> 0:32:26.040 a couple of people laughing like they were up the 0:32:26.040 --> 0:32:28.840 back is probably eighty people in the crowd. There's three 0:32:28.880 --> 0:32:31.240 people who are going rogue, but everyone else is silent. 0:32:31.680 --> 0:32:35.240 And in that situation, because they're in the dark, you 0:32:35.240 --> 0:32:37.440 can only see so many people, but every person looked 0:32:37.480 --> 0:32:39.800 like they're at a funeral, like, oh my god, man, 0:32:39.840 --> 0:32:42.640 this is Goma. So twenty minutes in I drop a gag. 0:32:42.960 --> 0:32:45.960 The rogue laughers laugh, but then once a peter away 0:32:46.560 --> 0:32:50.200 through the silence, some spokesperson from the rest of the crowd, 0:32:50.280 --> 0:32:53.960 the silent majority leans across to those people and goes. 0:32:54.200 --> 0:32:58.320 Sh oh, no, can you stop laughing. 0:32:58.320 --> 0:33:01.160 If it's a lectures yeah, none, we're trying to break 0:33:01.200 --> 0:33:03.360 this man's hopes and dreams. Could you just be quiet 0:33:03.480 --> 0:33:05.760 now and let it play out? And I was like, 0:33:05.800 --> 0:33:07.280 I can't believe because there was nothing I could say 0:33:07.320 --> 0:33:10.320 to him, like, oh no, they're allowed to laugh. Yeah, 0:33:10.400 --> 0:33:13.240 you people are in the wrong. And it was such 0:33:13.240 --> 0:33:15.040 a like it felt like I don't know where they 0:33:15.080 --> 0:33:17.040 was from, but it felt like such a British yeah, 0:33:18.000 --> 0:33:21.560 like a very proper head. No, no, no, the colonial 0:33:21.600 --> 0:33:24.080 boy is wrong. There is no reason for him to 0:33:24.120 --> 0:33:28.240 be here quiet. Oh geez, how did you react to it? 0:33:28.240 --> 0:33:30.200 Did you just kind of go ah, just keep going, 0:33:30.320 --> 0:33:33.240 just keep just keep noting on stone, just keep getting 0:33:33.240 --> 0:33:33.480 through it. 0:33:33.600 --> 0:33:35.200 Well I did laugh. I laughed, and I think I 0:33:35.200 --> 0:33:39.880 said something to those words I just said, and then everyone, 0:33:40.240 --> 0:33:42.120 most of them, looked at me and went yeah. And 0:33:42.120 --> 0:33:44.880 funnily enough, the next year I opened with that story 0:33:44.920 --> 0:33:46.400 because I would be like, the last time I was here, 0:33:46.480 --> 0:33:48.560 this happened. And then there was a big laugh and 0:33:48.560 --> 0:33:51.240 this guy's like, yeah, that was us, that was us. 0:33:51.080 --> 0:33:55.320 Last propose. Know, the people who laughed come back. So 0:33:55.360 --> 0:33:58.880 I'd won over three people and lost seventy seven of them, 0:33:59.160 --> 0:34:02.680 which isn't good old next year, but they came back 0:34:02.800 --> 0:34:04.920 and I was like, that's actually quite lovely of you. 0:34:04.880 --> 0:34:08.240 You have some super fans. Yeah, yeah, su three guys. 0:34:08.960 --> 0:34:11.120 I hope you're still hanging on. Guys. I've given you 0:34:11.160 --> 0:34:13.359 every reason not to thank you for hanging on. So 0:34:13.719 --> 0:34:15.360 it was a lot, and I did two years straight 0:34:15.440 --> 0:34:20.040 and then and I was like, I'm done here. It's 0:34:20.080 --> 0:34:21.960 a long way to go. Yeah, and it's a grind. 0:34:22.160 --> 0:34:23.839 Some people get out to go after a year after 0:34:23.920 --> 0:34:27.160 year and then really accruel an audience. Like Jamoen. He 0:34:27.200 --> 0:34:29.319 goes back after every year and he's got it. He's 0:34:29.480 --> 0:34:32.160 really big in Edinburgh, but I just was like, I can't. 0:34:32.520 --> 0:34:33.120 This is a lot. 0:34:33.320 --> 0:34:35.160 Yes, it's very much an aftert, especially if we get 0:34:35.239 --> 0:34:37.880 silence from the client for a whole month straight. 0:34:39.719 --> 0:34:41.200 You think you are maut hardened and then it's just 0:34:41.200 --> 0:34:44.000 something like that. It breaks you. It would break you 0:34:44.080 --> 0:34:47.680 up for sure. But surely you've got stories of I've 0:34:47.719 --> 0:34:50.279 been lucky enough now to meet guys in you know, 0:34:50.280 --> 0:34:52.760 professional sports people, and then when they tell me stories, 0:34:52.800 --> 0:34:56.160 because sport is there for people to roast, like in comedy, 0:34:56.160 --> 0:34:58.120 it's almost like, Okay, you want to come up and 0:34:58.760 --> 0:35:00.040 we're going to go toe to toe if this this 0:35:00.120 --> 0:35:02.279 is what you want. Not that I ever encourage it, 0:35:02.320 --> 0:35:04.279 but it may happen. But in sports people like, no, no, 0:35:05.040 --> 0:35:07.480 I'm going to spend the entire time shitting on you. 0:35:08.080 --> 0:35:09.640 And if you shit back on and then they throw 0:35:09.680 --> 0:35:11.919 a fit, well, sure you can't like it, you can't 0:35:11.960 --> 0:35:14.000 react too much. Everyone can shooit on you. But if 0:35:14.040 --> 0:35:16.200 you like say anything back, then it's like a big deal. 0:35:16.640 --> 0:35:18.319 I know. I always found that a bit weird when 0:35:18.320 --> 0:35:20.279 they I can't believe people say that, are you once 0:35:20.320 --> 0:35:24.360 I retire? Chains are off? Baby? Come at me on Twitter? 0:35:24.600 --> 0:35:27.080 Have you had anyone that have thrown stuff at you 0:35:27.120 --> 0:35:30.120 that has actually put you off, like you've got that 0:35:30.160 --> 0:35:31.040 one actually hit home. 0:35:31.520 --> 0:35:33.759 No, I'm not really I don't really care because I'm 0:35:33.840 --> 0:35:36.440 kind of like this probably sounds really big headed, but 0:35:36.480 --> 0:35:38.520 most people are probably sitting there watching me playing the stands. 0:35:38.520 --> 0:35:40.120 I always wish they could have played AFL and some 0:35:40.200 --> 0:35:42.319 dipshit out like American doesn't know what it is out 0:35:42.320 --> 0:35:44.200 there playing off for them, so kind of. 0:35:44.160 --> 0:35:46.200 It's really just a slap in their face, if anything. 0:35:47.120 --> 0:35:48.920 I will say once, I think we were playing Richmond 0:35:48.960 --> 0:35:51.160 and I wasn't having the greatest game, and the Richmond 0:35:51.200 --> 0:35:54.080 fans actually chanted Usa to me as a bit of 0:35:54.160 --> 0:35:56.560 like a you're playing like shit mate, like it just 0:35:56.600 --> 0:35:58.160 kind of getting abby, and I was like that's I 0:35:58.239 --> 0:35:59.759 was like, fair col, fair col, you know, like you 0:36:00.200 --> 0:36:01.319 cop it able to. 0:36:01.320 --> 0:36:05.200 Give it fair enough. This is obviously this isn't my story, 0:36:05.480 --> 0:36:08.200 and this is Bob Murphy told me this story. Yeah, 0:36:08.320 --> 0:36:11.279 he was playing and I can't remember which injury it was, 0:36:11.480 --> 0:36:13.920 but it was a significant injury. It might have been 0:36:13.960 --> 0:36:18.040 the one in the twenty sixteenth season and he was 0:36:18.080 --> 0:36:20.759 getting stretched off. And again, this is Bob's story to 0:36:20.840 --> 0:36:23.520 tell but I have said it before on radio shows 0:36:23.560 --> 0:36:25.120 and things, and I've said, Bob, I've all their stories, 0:36:25.160 --> 0:36:27.400 like here you go for it. And he said he 0:36:27.480 --> 0:36:30.759 was getting stretched off. So you've got thoughts of this 0:36:30.920 --> 0:36:33.200 is the end of my career? Will I ever come back? 0:36:33.520 --> 0:36:35.440 I can't believe this has happened right now, because I 0:36:35.480 --> 0:36:37.279 can imagine for a sports person too, it's like this 0:36:37.480 --> 0:36:39.880 is it's not just my career, it's my earnings, Like 0:36:39.960 --> 0:36:42.399 what will I do after this? He said he's getting 0:36:42.400 --> 0:36:45.200 stretched off? And about a ten year old kid leans 0:36:45.239 --> 0:36:48.280 across and goes, Murphy, you just fuck my super coach. 0:36:51.680 --> 0:36:55.360 A ten year old kid? How is that? Like a 0:36:55.520 --> 0:36:57.880 kid of visceratity for a super coach? I hate you 0:36:57.920 --> 0:36:59.600 that much, really, mate, I don't know how I'm going 0:36:59.640 --> 0:37:01.040 to pay for my mortgage. I don't know how this 0:37:01.160 --> 0:37:02.840 is going to work out. It's even what a mortgage 0:37:02.920 --> 0:37:05.080 is at that age. That's true. Oh my gosh, that's 0:37:05.120 --> 0:37:06.920 just like mom and dad teaching the wrong things to 0:37:07.040 --> 0:37:07.439 that kid. 0:37:07.920 --> 0:37:09.840 Yeah, well yeah, you really look at their parents and 0:37:09.840 --> 0:37:12.040 that one go like, you know, you're the asshole in 0:37:12.080 --> 0:37:12.640 this situation. 0:37:13.239 --> 0:37:16.520 It's not really your kids, faar, But I mean that's 0:37:16.600 --> 0:37:19.040 way worse than anything that's been thrown at me. Really, 0:37:19.560 --> 0:37:21.399 I think so I haven't had too many. 0:37:22.040 --> 0:37:23.560 I feel like it's in the comedian you kind of 0:37:23.600 --> 0:37:26.400 work that line sometimes of like offending people like I know, 0:37:26.520 --> 0:37:28.719 I know recently you've you've talked you live in I 0:37:28.760 --> 0:37:31.680 don't say this, you live in the now, the talk 0:37:31.760 --> 0:37:34.920 about yeah yeah, you live in Brynsburg, And they're kind 0:37:34.960 --> 0:37:36.919 of known to be the people people take the piss 0:37:36.960 --> 0:37:39.759 out of right, and you do it in good faith, 0:37:39.840 --> 0:37:41.680 you know, you know, you take the piss out of 0:37:41.719 --> 0:37:43.560 them here and there. And like, have you had anyone 0:37:43.640 --> 0:37:44.719 like to come out to you and said, like, I've 0:37:44.760 --> 0:37:46.279 been offended by something you've said while you're in a 0:37:46.560 --> 0:37:47.600 like in comedy. 0:37:47.960 --> 0:37:51.880 It's funny. I Online especially, that's different that people just 0:37:51.920 --> 0:37:54.319 signed the balls to say that your face. I feel like, Yeah, 0:37:54.400 --> 0:37:57.360 online is when people like I post old stand up 0:37:57.400 --> 0:37:59.800 clips on my Instagram, Dave. 0:38:00.000 --> 0:38:05.960 Score yet the Twitter, Instagram, you do Facebook, it's all there, mate. 0:38:06.040 --> 0:38:09.200 It might even be Apple Music and Spotify just like us. 0:38:09.239 --> 0:38:10.560 Everyone listening anyway. 0:38:10.520 --> 0:38:12.880 At all the great places you listen to your podcasts? Now, 0:38:12.960 --> 0:38:15.560 what is your Usagram? Though? Shout it out Dave underscore 0:38:15.600 --> 0:38:17.960 Thorno all right, I want to check it out follow me. 0:38:18.239 --> 0:38:20.520 But only put up a clip recently that I did 0:38:20.600 --> 0:38:22.800 on row of years ago, and it was just about spelling. 0:38:23.440 --> 0:38:26.719 It's the most innocuous subject you could think of. And 0:38:26.800 --> 0:38:28.399 I just said, oh, English is the hardest thing which 0:38:28.400 --> 0:38:30.520 is spelled, because there's silent letters and there's things like this, 0:38:31.040 --> 0:38:34.480 and it's amazing. People like, why don't you try Danish? Mate? 0:38:34.640 --> 0:38:37.120 What don't you try? And people are roasting over spelling. 0:38:37.239 --> 0:38:40.279 You're like, okay, but man, if you look at it. 0:38:40.360 --> 0:38:43.680 This was two thousand and eight. I I didn't have 0:38:43.760 --> 0:38:45.880 the ability to look up Danish to see in what 0:38:46.040 --> 0:38:49.040 ranking order was the hardest spelling language. But that's that. 0:38:49.280 --> 0:38:53.239 That is a microcosm of what you know. It's like online, Yeah, 0:38:53.360 --> 0:38:58.640 people will taking with everything. Yeah, the Brunswick thing I 0:38:59.719 --> 0:39:02.000 always do say. I'm like, I love it and that's 0:39:02.080 --> 0:39:05.960 why I give it shit. Yeah, you know, I sometimes 0:39:06.000 --> 0:39:07.960 have to explain this to people. And again it's online 0:39:08.160 --> 0:39:10.080 where people like, even though say, ah, you complaining about 0:39:10.080 --> 0:39:13.040 your kids. The more I have kids, I'm like, it's such. 0:39:13.160 --> 0:39:16.080 I don't say that I don't love them, it's just 0:39:16.160 --> 0:39:18.880 that and maybe it's an Australian thing or whatever, but 0:39:18.960 --> 0:39:21.560 it's like the closer someone is to you, the more 0:39:21.600 --> 0:39:23.879 you're probably going to give them shit. That's the That's 0:39:23.920 --> 0:39:26.400 how I grew up. Like it's with love that you 0:39:26.480 --> 0:39:29.239 wind someone up and people go, look, you hate it. 0:39:29.280 --> 0:39:32.680 You're like, that's like I wouldn't make jokes when I 0:39:32.760 --> 0:39:34.680 hate something. I don't find it funny. I hate it. 0:39:35.320 --> 0:39:39.200 I'm not ignore it. Yeah, yeah, it's in the rubbish 0:39:39.239 --> 0:39:41.040 bin of my mind. I'm like, throw it out because 0:39:41.080 --> 0:39:43.479 it just frustrates me that much. When I enjoy something 0:39:43.560 --> 0:39:44.920 I have done with it, it's like that's when I'm 0:39:44.920 --> 0:39:47.319 winding it up. Like it's fine to give each other shit. 0:39:47.719 --> 0:39:50.040 I mean, you're in a football club. I'm very sure 0:39:50.120 --> 0:39:52.719 none of you are like, great game, well done, some 0:39:53.000 --> 0:39:55.239 pat on the back. Should we all hold hands of 0:39:55.360 --> 0:39:57.320 incomeboy ar? Do you know you want to do that? 0:39:57.400 --> 0:40:02.360 After the game? We all are We do a whimsical 0:40:02.480 --> 0:40:04.719 tune at the end of the game. It's funny. I 0:40:04.719 --> 0:40:08.960 had a Canadian friend. The whole pomp and ceremony of 0:40:09.000 --> 0:40:11.839 AFL is hilarious, Like when I've brought a friend from 0:40:11.880 --> 0:40:14.200 overseas to watch a game. There's so many things. He's like, 0:40:14.239 --> 0:40:16.200 they're running through tissue paper and you're like, yeah, man, 0:40:16.239 --> 0:40:19.359 it's that's when the gladiatorial battle is about to begin 0:40:19.680 --> 0:40:22.000 with through tissue paper. And then you're right at the end. 0:40:22.719 --> 0:40:25.719 I remember, because I'm a Geelong fan. Well, you win 0:40:25.800 --> 0:40:30.840 the match, and then there's this year oldie song and 0:40:30.960 --> 0:40:33.839 my friend's like, what is happening and you're like, oh, 0:40:34.000 --> 0:40:34.320 I don't know. 0:40:34.480 --> 0:40:37.600 Brass Band comes out, like we're living in the nineteen twenties. 0:40:37.960 --> 0:40:40.200 It's the first era win to It was a July game. 0:40:40.600 --> 0:40:43.799 Geng fan. It was like we are Geelong the ghotos tab. 0:40:44.200 --> 0:40:44.919 I just looked at my brother. 0:40:44.920 --> 0:40:47.600 I was like, are these motherfucker seriously, this is the 0:40:47.760 --> 0:40:51.359 weirdest shit. What is happening is weird? And then port 0:40:51.360 --> 0:40:53.279 Adelaid plays in excess and everyone goes, well, that's weird. 0:40:53.360 --> 0:40:55.680 Why would you do that because it's a modern song 0:40:56.080 --> 0:41:01.120 happen been around undred nineteen hundred. You're right. Then they'll 0:41:01.120 --> 0:41:03.800 get around and you know, it's the weirdest thing. Between 0:41:03.880 --> 0:41:05.320 that and the pink runners I run out in the 0:41:05.360 --> 0:41:06.759 field and middle of the game. I always found that 0:41:06.800 --> 0:41:10.440 really weird. But that the umpires, the umpires suit. I 0:41:10.520 --> 0:41:13.080 want to bring back the old white white coats mount 0:41:13.160 --> 0:41:16.960 telling you it like the an arts teacher or something. Yes, 0:41:17.960 --> 0:41:19.680 never thought that's a great way to put it. They 0:41:19.719 --> 0:41:21.480 all come across here. They're wearing the full trench coat 0:41:22.040 --> 0:41:24.560 like your teacher, and would work. Okay, guys, get out 0:41:24.560 --> 0:41:27.000 of the circular sort. I forget to where you gogles like. 0:41:27.160 --> 0:41:29.839 It was very strange. You know, it's funny you said 0:41:29.840 --> 0:41:31.680 that because I remember being in America and I went 0:41:31.719 --> 0:41:34.000 to a baseball game. I saw there some weird stuff. Yeah, 0:41:34.040 --> 0:41:37.239 I went saw the Cubbies in Chicago. The field and 0:41:37.360 --> 0:41:42.279 then first base coach is hilarious because I'm always like sign, 0:41:42.400 --> 0:41:44.400 I'm always like, what the fuck is he telling? Is 0:41:44.440 --> 0:41:46.960 a professional? Like he goes, you know, after first we 0:41:47.040 --> 0:41:49.520 go to second? Yeah, you know, you know, sorry, I'm 0:41:49.560 --> 0:41:51.520 probably getting in your ay more than anything. I'm like, 0:41:51.840 --> 0:41:53.719 you need someone to walk out and explain how a 0:41:53.800 --> 0:41:54.520 diamond works. 0:41:56.560 --> 0:41:58.440 I can only imagine they'd just be talking shit to it, 0:41:58.719 --> 0:42:02.440 like this guy's trash. He's gonna fucking throw you at here. 0:42:02.880 --> 0:42:04.520 There's gonna be something, sure, But then I don't know 0:42:04.520 --> 0:42:06.560 if you've seen it. The signs they do because the 0:42:06.600 --> 0:42:08.279 first base coach. What they really do is they show 0:42:08.360 --> 0:42:10.759 signs to the batter sometimes and they'll be like, you 0:42:10.800 --> 0:42:12.960 know the the you know, they left right up and 0:42:13.000 --> 0:42:14.400 then left right and then it's like they're doing some 0:42:14.480 --> 0:42:16.879 kind of weird prayer. I'm not really sure, but that's 0:42:16.960 --> 0:42:18.480 kind of I think what they do. But I can 0:42:18.560 --> 0:42:20.279 only imagine being a first base coach. Did you just 0:42:20.320 --> 0:42:22.279 sit on it's essentially just sitting on the sideline, just 0:42:22.320 --> 0:42:24.440 talking to people and maybe taking a helmet every once 0:42:24.440 --> 0:42:25.200 in a while off someone. 0:42:25.440 --> 0:42:26.840 Sure, and that's it. Yeah, that's it. 0:42:27.040 --> 0:42:28.160 But then I thought I thought you were going to 0:42:28.200 --> 0:42:30.080 say the dot race. Did you have a dot race 0:42:30.080 --> 0:42:33.799 at regular field? No, they have these like dots, right, 0:42:33.840 --> 0:42:35.600 So it's colors and they have everyone gets a color. 0:42:35.640 --> 0:42:37.239 They hand out these pieces of paper. Everyone gets a 0:42:37.239 --> 0:42:39.040 color and if you if your dot's the winner, you 0:42:39.080 --> 0:42:41.120 get like a free a dot free mix. 0:42:41.280 --> 0:42:43.279 In a Poka dot like like a Poka dot. 0:42:43.400 --> 0:42:44.799 Yeah, just a color and you get like a free 0:42:44.840 --> 0:42:47.279 big Mac if your thing wins, right, and they'll have 0:42:47.360 --> 0:42:49.160 it are different teams have different things, but they'll have 0:42:49.480 --> 0:42:51.239 the dot race on the screen, will go blah bla blah, 0:42:51.239 --> 0:42:52.759 and then all of a sudden, now like left field, 0:42:52.800 --> 0:42:54.640 you'll have. What they'll do is we'll get three drunk 0:42:54.719 --> 0:42:56.279 mates and they'll be like, hey, you want to be 0:42:56.320 --> 0:42:59.399 the dots for the day, And of course they're all like, hell, yes, 0:43:00.000 --> 0:43:02.640 we get three people put on this like ridiculous outfit 0:43:02.680 --> 0:43:05.399 wherever it is, so they look like an M and M. Yeah, 0:43:05.640 --> 0:43:07.319 kind of different ones do different things. So I think 0:43:07.320 --> 0:43:09.800 the Nationals do like different like presidents, like ex presidents. 0:43:09.800 --> 0:43:11.200 They put like a president's head on. It is like 0:43:11.200 --> 0:43:13.360 a big, huge thing right f every point break and 0:43:13.400 --> 0:43:15.719 you get three just drunk idiots and they're all trying 0:43:15.760 --> 0:43:17.640 to race to home to see who's going to be 0:43:17.719 --> 0:43:18.439 the first one. 0:43:18.600 --> 0:43:20.680 So it's like you can imagine just shoving like life 0:43:20.880 --> 0:43:21.520 right center. 0:43:21.840 --> 0:43:24.239 Everyone's just shoving each other over and everyone's cheering for 0:43:24.360 --> 0:43:26.520 whatever person they got on their little piece of paper 0:43:27.200 --> 0:43:28.680 just for a big back. You know, I know, what 0:43:28.840 --> 0:43:30.759 really gives a shit about the outcome, but everyone just 0:43:30.800 --> 0:43:33.000 wants to see someone get taken out, and it's one 0:43:33.000 --> 0:43:34.520 of the most entertaining things at baseball. 0:43:34.719 --> 0:43:36.680 But that's one of the nice things I always think 0:43:36.719 --> 0:43:39.680 about slow sports like that because cricket's the same, and 0:43:39.800 --> 0:43:43.040 I now with cricket and they have it was obviously 0:43:43.120 --> 0:43:44.759 tests and then one days came in and now it's 0:43:44.800 --> 0:43:47.160 twenty twenty. But the only thing is when it was tests. 0:43:47.200 --> 0:43:48.800 And I've been to a few tests matches at the 0:43:49.320 --> 0:43:52.440 mcg and boxing day where because there's more of not 0:43:52.640 --> 0:43:55.480 doing the thing than doing the thing. You know, baseball 0:43:55.560 --> 0:43:56.959 is like one hit and then we all stand around 0:43:56.960 --> 0:43:59.200 and scratch ourselves. Stupid shit like that happens all the 0:43:59.200 --> 0:44:01.239 time because people and drunk, yeah, and they've been there 0:44:01.239 --> 0:44:04.600 all day so they're like and then stupid stuff that happens, 0:44:04.920 --> 0:44:07.360 and you're like, this is way more entertaining than the 0:44:07.480 --> 0:44:10.319 actual game itself. It's proof that if you just don't 0:44:10.400 --> 0:44:12.200 do a lot and put alcohol in it, it's a 0:44:12.239 --> 0:44:13.880 lot of fun. They do like the cup stack so 0:44:13.920 --> 0:44:15.680 you can get the highest cup stack. Of course. I 0:44:15.680 --> 0:44:17.480 remember a guy walking out and he had four bees 0:44:17.480 --> 0:44:19.160 on him and then everyone's like, skull and he skulls one, 0:44:19.200 --> 0:44:21.320 then one, keeps going, keep going, and then he finishes 0:44:21.360 --> 0:44:23.200 four and then my mate went to the bathroom. This 0:44:23.239 --> 0:44:25.359 guy's just yacting on the tiles and you're like, oh, 0:44:25.719 --> 0:44:27.320 he's having a glory. You really have to pay for it. 0:44:27.440 --> 0:44:27.920 Good stuff. 0:44:28.000 --> 0:44:30.479 It's like Bob ha like y'all love people scrolling stuff, 0:44:30.520 --> 0:44:32.560 even like Bob Hawke, the old Prime Minister of Scold 0:44:32.600 --> 0:44:34.279 a beer at the cricket and everyone lost their mind. 0:44:34.600 --> 0:44:37.200 Anything albu and easy. Recently at a gang of youth's concert, 0:44:37.320 --> 0:44:39.640 scold a beer and it's just I feel like it's 0:44:39.760 --> 0:44:41.920 very Australi. And Daniel Ocrdo does the skull out of 0:44:41.960 --> 0:44:42.239 the shoe. 0:44:42.320 --> 0:44:46.120 That's showy. It's just a very Australian. The tiny draft. Yeah, 0:44:46.200 --> 0:44:49.040 it's good. It's just something you'll love. I don't know. Yes, 0:44:49.400 --> 0:44:51.520 I did find that when I went to America, and 0:44:51.760 --> 0:44:55.120 it could be wrong because we shotgun beers. A shotgun 0:44:55.239 --> 0:44:57.040 is I know, a shotgun? But I just found too 0:44:57.080 --> 0:44:59.840 in America, your casual drinking is a lot less than 0:45:00.239 --> 0:45:02.880 as a rule of thumb, I found the casual drinking 0:45:02.920 --> 0:45:05.400 gets to go home, back home. Well that's what I 0:45:05.440 --> 0:45:07.400 always feel like, like they'd always be like, man, you 0:45:07.520 --> 0:45:10.160 drink it a lot and you're am I isn't this fine? 0:45:10.400 --> 0:45:11.840 But maybe that was the place I was going to. 0:45:12.040 --> 0:45:14.400 But I did want to ask you. Circling back to 0:45:14.480 --> 0:45:16.440 the runners, Have you ever had that thing where like 0:45:16.480 --> 0:45:18.239 a runner has come out. Have they always been really 0:45:18.280 --> 0:45:20.160 serious or do they sometimes just come out and be like, Hey, 0:45:20.640 --> 0:45:22.040 they tell me to come out and say something. I 0:45:22.080 --> 0:45:22.320 don't know. 0:45:22.920 --> 0:45:24.399 Yeah, a lot of times they'll come out and say something. 0:45:24.440 --> 0:45:26.120 I'm just look at Pendles like you got that? Yeah, 0:45:27.080 --> 0:45:30.320 just run the other way and you keep going. Feddles, 0:45:30.320 --> 0:45:31.480 He'll figure it out for everyone else. 0:45:33.080 --> 0:45:33.720 You go between. 0:45:33.920 --> 0:45:36.279 He just looks at me and goes say something. I 0:45:36.320 --> 0:45:38.680 look at Pendles. He goes that means hit to this number, 0:45:38.680 --> 0:45:43.480 and I'm like, okay, gun, Yeah, Pendles runs the show. 0:45:43.600 --> 0:45:45.960 Pendles just runs a shot there. I'm telling you, he's 0:45:45.960 --> 0:45:46.480 the main man. 0:45:47.120 --> 0:45:47.640 But now they do. 0:45:47.800 --> 0:45:50.560 There's there's never like I feel like at a professional level, 0:45:50.640 --> 0:45:52.520 like it's always very serious. But if you were like 0:45:52.600 --> 0:45:54.440 kind of a local level, like surely you're just having 0:45:54.440 --> 0:45:56.160 a bit of fun just going out there roasting players 0:45:56.239 --> 0:45:56.919 left front and center. 0:45:57.320 --> 0:46:00.680 Yeah, absolutely, I just think that. Yeah, the whole concept 0:46:00.719 --> 0:46:02.839 of a runout, like even if you went to VFL level, 0:46:02.880 --> 0:46:05.160 I think there must be guys running out gone got 0:46:05.239 --> 0:46:06.480 nothing to say to you. But I was just on 0:46:06.600 --> 0:46:08.880 tinder and have they got that? That's pretty good, isn't it? Like, 0:46:09.000 --> 0:46:12.440 surely it's just chatter. Surely if you're up by sixty 0:46:12.520 --> 0:46:15.879 maybe I'm not really sure at all. You're about sixty. Really, 0:46:15.920 --> 0:46:17.719 anything goes for the runner. I feel like it's his 0:46:17.840 --> 0:46:20.000 time to shine. Actually that's a good point. If it's 0:46:20.080 --> 0:46:22.640 over sixty, it should be. Yeah. The lesson is him 0:46:22.719 --> 0:46:25.120 just coming out and just working. I've got a booking 0:46:25.160 --> 0:46:26.840 tonight at a restaurant. Do you reckon? We should be 0:46:26.880 --> 0:46:28.480 eight or ten of us? What do you reckon? I'll 0:46:28.480 --> 0:46:29.880 put ten in and see how we go, Like he 0:46:29.880 --> 0:46:32.799 should just you know, you've been whatever time he's left 0:46:32.840 --> 0:46:34.040 in the show, just organizing shit. 0:46:34.640 --> 0:46:36.600 Yeah, he's sortain beers out for after the game. Actually 0:46:36.640 --> 0:46:38.040 is probably what he's doing. He's like, Ah, you know, 0:46:38.120 --> 0:46:40.040 booking at this pub, this pub, you know you think 0:46:40.080 --> 0:46:41.160 we need two kegs or three? 0:46:41.680 --> 0:46:43.600 Yeah, surely, surely we'll move on there. 0:46:43.600 --> 0:46:44.839 I know you've done a lot of different stuff. You've 0:46:44.840 --> 0:46:46.319 done radio, which I want to talk to you about. 0:46:46.360 --> 0:46:49.120 You've done the fifty Dave faven Byron. You've also done 0:46:49.280 --> 0:46:51.439 like the Project, and you've done the Rove. Like you said, 0:46:51.920 --> 0:46:53.839 I feel like the Rove might be a cult because 0:46:53.840 --> 0:46:55.719 I feel like every comedian here in Australia has been 0:46:55.719 --> 0:46:56.319 on Rope show. 0:46:57.120 --> 0:46:59.320 Yeah, well it was, I mean the closest thing to 0:47:00.160 --> 0:47:02.320 like it was a late night chat show. 0:47:02.200 --> 0:47:04.560 Yewan Peter Hollier on he talked about Rowe being one 0:47:04.600 --> 0:47:06.400 of the first original things he started with and like 0:47:06.440 --> 0:47:07.960 being able to get into comedy from that, and. 0:47:08.120 --> 0:47:11.080 Yeah, man, I mean those So it was nineteen ninety nine. 0:47:11.080 --> 0:47:14.120 I remember they were on air and Roe for ten 0:47:14.239 --> 0:47:17.520 years was like ow Dave Letterman. It was our Johnny Carson. 0:47:17.719 --> 0:47:19.440 It was like the late ninth thing and that was 0:47:19.480 --> 0:47:21.520 the only spot you could do stand up on, so 0:47:22.080 --> 0:47:25.080 all those comedians got we were on that and that 0:47:25.239 --> 0:47:28.560 was us doing our first ever real stand up spot. Yeah, 0:47:28.600 --> 0:47:31.480 you know, and yeah it was great. I mean it was. 0:47:31.640 --> 0:47:33.160 It was. It was a hell of funny show. Like 0:47:33.200 --> 0:47:36.279 I mean, Pete, I was only talking to him about 0:47:36.320 --> 0:47:38.520 this recently, like he was twenty four or something. When 0:47:38.560 --> 0:47:43.319 life goes on and then becomes like nationally famous, I'm like, oh, man, 0:47:43.360 --> 0:47:46.000 you've been famous for like twenty years, you know, like 0:47:46.120 --> 0:47:49.560 Pete's been. It's done a lot. Yeah, man, like so much, 0:47:50.160 --> 0:47:54.200 and so you know you think like maybe some kids. 0:47:54.280 --> 0:47:56.600 Now there's probably a generation of kids that maybe didn't 0:47:56.600 --> 0:47:58.600 grow up on it. But for us, for my age, 0:47:59.080 --> 0:48:02.200 it was like Rove was many. He won Logis Mate. 0:48:02.239 --> 0:48:05.360 People listening overseas, there's big news, big news the Logis. 0:48:05.560 --> 0:48:09.399 Big news is that the Oscars of Australia. Unfortunately, yes, yeah, okay, cool. 0:48:09.560 --> 0:48:12.919 No one got slapped in these oscars to they maybe 0:48:12.960 --> 0:48:16.279 in the after party, yeah, a few loose units in 0:48:16.320 --> 0:48:16.920 the after party. 0:48:17.200 --> 0:48:20.240 The Logis is a place where not so much anymore. 0:48:20.280 --> 0:48:22.239 But we used to get Americans over, like you would 0:48:22.239 --> 0:48:24.719 find find the star that was desperate for cash. Yes, 0:48:24.920 --> 0:48:27.160 and then they would come over and it was usually 0:48:27.200 --> 0:48:28.560 one way or the other. They're either on the way 0:48:28.600 --> 0:48:30.279 up or the way down. Like we would never get 0:48:30.320 --> 0:48:32.480 someone at the peak of their powers. You'd get like 0:48:32.560 --> 0:48:36.319 a Matt LeBlanc who friend Joey trailing from friends Friends 0:48:36.360 --> 0:48:38.239 would have finished ten years ago, and he's turning up 0:48:38.280 --> 0:48:40.480 going what is my manager said yes to? And they 0:48:40.560 --> 0:48:42.320 just couldn't understand what is going on. 0:48:43.480 --> 0:48:45.239 He's just gone, I'm just here for the after party, 0:48:45.280 --> 0:48:46.759 to be honest, Just give me a script and I'll 0:48:46.760 --> 0:48:47.000 read it. 0:48:47.440 --> 0:48:49.520 Oh totally. Yeah, he's probably ying out the home and 0:48:49.560 --> 0:48:52.239 away table, like what girls there is going to be 0:48:52.280 --> 0:48:55.160 the next one in the in the American actress scheme. 0:48:55.520 --> 0:48:58.680 Yeah yeah, yeah, so coming away far out, Yeah, neighbors 0:48:58.760 --> 0:49:03.680 no longer rip ip, it's only home and away now, 0:49:04.160 --> 0:49:05.360 that's where all the actress have to go. 0:49:05.680 --> 0:49:09.520 That's the only one left. Yeah, I think dark times 0:49:09.560 --> 0:49:10.520 in Australian television. 0:49:10.560 --> 0:49:12.640 We'll talk about television because you actually were on Better 0:49:12.719 --> 0:49:15.239 Roses and your character, Shannon Shannon was it. 0:49:15.719 --> 0:49:16.279 I've read it here. 0:49:16.280 --> 0:49:17.879 It says he was an injured twenty four year old 0:49:17.880 --> 0:49:20.160 AFL player who found himself in trouble and return home 0:49:20.239 --> 0:49:23.320 to the series fictional town of Rainbows in and to 0:49:23.440 --> 0:49:23.799 his mum. 0:49:24.840 --> 0:49:26.480 That's it. Give us a little bit of a backtra 0:49:26.680 --> 0:49:30.359 for that, mate. It was. It was my first ever 0:49:30.480 --> 0:49:32.759 kind of really acting. I don't because I've never studied acting. 0:49:32.760 --> 0:49:34.520 People I go to study acting like no, I don't 0:49:34.520 --> 0:49:38.680 know if you've seen my performances design, Yeah, that's exact t. 0:49:39.080 --> 0:49:42.120 Thank you mate. I was working on Pantoon colors, a 0:49:42.120 --> 0:49:44.320 bit of a pluggre. Maybe I'll love it. I was 0:49:44.400 --> 0:49:46.560 genuinely love it. It's funny I've been asked to do 0:49:46.840 --> 0:49:48.839 talks at the Gordon Institute of tape with you when 0:49:48.880 --> 0:49:50.920 he wanted to talking. You realize I used none of 0:49:50.960 --> 0:49:54.000 that education to be where I've gotten. That's not a 0:49:54.040 --> 0:49:56.320 good self for students. None of it was worth it, 0:49:56.600 --> 0:50:03.560 So enjoy but yes, you better row. And it's a 0:50:03.560 --> 0:50:05.960 funny situation because the character was kind of based on 0:50:06.040 --> 0:50:11.040 Ben Cousins. Yeah, okay, yeah, and that's such as life exactly, 0:50:11.280 --> 0:50:13.560 so yeah, you've got context. So it was so it 0:50:13.640 --> 0:50:15.560 was like, oh, so just act like you're in some 0:50:15.680 --> 0:50:17.919 real trouble here, And I'm like, at what level will 0:50:17.960 --> 0:50:21.160 I method act this? How far am I going to 0:50:21.360 --> 0:50:22.960 do some research? Did you just watch? I mean there 0:50:23.000 --> 0:50:25.320 was enough. There was enough research going on. It was 0:50:25.480 --> 0:50:27.839 the front page news, So like, yeah, I think I've 0:50:27.840 --> 0:50:30.320 got it. And it was kind of alarming that people go, 0:50:30.400 --> 0:50:32.760 you can pay the role of some wheels have completely 0:50:32.840 --> 0:50:35.239 fallen off. Who do we think of it? Dave? Dave 0:50:35.280 --> 0:50:37.560 will fill this role. Pera looks like a man who's 0:50:37.560 --> 0:50:42.520 barely got it together. Let's get him on fits the bill? 0:50:42.800 --> 0:50:44.959 Yeah yeah yeah. But because I was young and probably 0:50:45.000 --> 0:50:47.319 taking myself a bit too serious, I then said, yep, 0:50:47.360 --> 0:50:49.800 I'm going to hack my hair, I'll get bleached blonde tips, 0:50:50.000 --> 0:50:51.960 I'll look like loose. But then you realize you've got 0:50:52.000 --> 0:50:53.920 to live with that. Like I was at mate's weddings 0:50:54.000 --> 0:50:55.359 just going They're like, what are you doing? What are 0:50:55.360 --> 0:50:58.719 you doing? I'm a character? Is the character like an 0:50:58.719 --> 0:51:01.279 absolute spanner because you look like an idiot? And I 0:51:01.360 --> 0:51:03.080 was like, Oh, You've got to live with this for 0:51:03.160 --> 0:51:05.680 the rest of my time. I remember I remember this 0:51:05.760 --> 0:51:08.040 small part in a movie with Portia de Rossie. It 0:51:08.120 --> 0:51:11.839 was an Australian movie now made, put together by Robin 0:51:11.880 --> 0:51:14.319 Butler and Wayne Hope, and it was great. But they 0:51:14.360 --> 0:51:16.440 had me on as a cop in this situation and 0:51:16.520 --> 0:51:20.560 I was into a narrative device where the main Portia 0:51:20.600 --> 0:51:23.520 de Rossi's character was over here in Australia, and then 0:51:23.560 --> 0:51:25.960 she was caught with a lot of kind of over 0:51:26.000 --> 0:51:29.040 the counter drugs that were legal in America that illegal 0:51:29.080 --> 0:51:31.080 here in Australia. So then she was she had to 0:51:31.120 --> 0:51:33.160 stay in Australia. But I was the cop that kind 0:51:33.200 --> 0:51:36.760 of found her. Remember Portia Rossi is like Allan's wife, 0:51:37.520 --> 0:51:41.440 you know, like she's like she's a big deal. And 0:51:41.520 --> 0:51:43.279 of course I'm coming thinking, oh, I'm a cop, like, 0:51:43.520 --> 0:51:44.680 you know, I want to act like a cop. And 0:51:44.719 --> 0:51:47.840 I was even living in authority, you know it, Mason. 0:51:48.320 --> 0:51:49.960 And then so I remember going to a cop station 0:51:50.000 --> 0:51:51.480 in sin Kilda. I remember turning out and like, what 0:51:51.480 --> 0:51:52.840 would a cop do in this situation? And the cops like, 0:51:52.840 --> 0:51:53.960 what are you talking about it? And I said, I'm 0:51:53.960 --> 0:51:55.759 doing this script like this is a serious I took 0:51:55.800 --> 0:51:59.160 it and he said what, like, maybe we got bigger 0:51:59.200 --> 0:52:00.719 fish to fry, like we're in and killed her. I'm 0:52:00.719 --> 0:52:02.520 trying to get the junkies off the street and you've 0:52:02.560 --> 0:52:04.520 come in, going who would work look a cop? He's like, 0:52:04.560 --> 0:52:05.759 I don't put a suit on and get a bat. 0:52:05.760 --> 0:52:07.960 I don't care. So I get there and I'm supposed 0:52:07.960 --> 0:52:10.640 to be dragging her into the station, and so I'm like, 0:52:10.760 --> 0:52:13.400 I don't because I hate watching movies or TV shows 0:52:13.719 --> 0:52:16.040 where you'll see the extra or the person that's off 0:52:16.080 --> 0:52:18.080 to the side and they're not doing their job, you 0:52:18.160 --> 0:52:19.920 know what I mean, Like I look for that. Yeah, 0:52:19.920 --> 0:52:21.759 in a sports movie, they'll cut to the crowd and 0:52:21.840 --> 0:52:24.480 it's an extra who's barely gotten off their seat. You like, mate, 0:52:24.480 --> 0:52:27.279 this is supposed to be the winning touchdown of the 0:52:27.560 --> 0:52:31.359 college game. That finishes the movie's nothing, and you look 0:52:31.480 --> 0:52:32.880 like you're pissed off because you didn't get all the 0:52:32.920 --> 0:52:35.120 catering you wanted. And so I'm like, I'm going to 0:52:35.160 --> 0:52:37.600 commit to this. And so I've got Porsche and I'm 0:52:37.640 --> 0:52:41.040 taking her down the stairs and she just goes cart 0:52:41.280 --> 0:52:43.360 because I'm grabbing her arm and she's like, he's about 0:52:43.440 --> 0:52:45.520 to throw me down the stairs. And I was like, 0:52:45.840 --> 0:52:47.320 like the director and everyone's going to have I'm like, 0:52:48.239 --> 0:52:52.000 I almost killed Ellen's wife like that, don't know I 0:52:52.040 --> 0:52:55.839 should go. I think I've lost this role. Yeah, that's 0:52:55.840 --> 0:52:57.880 when I was looking back through my tape credentials to 0:52:57.920 --> 0:52:59.919 be I can fall back and meet your graphic design. 0:53:00.360 --> 0:53:02.719 Maybe this isn't for me. There's a better option. Yeah, 0:53:02.960 --> 0:53:04.960 maybe maybe acting is not good for me because I 0:53:05.040 --> 0:53:09.919 also then traversed a homicide. So yeah, it wasn't great. 0:53:11.320 --> 0:53:13.920 Gosh, well we'll move on into too sport mate. I 0:53:13.960 --> 0:53:16.600 know you love your basketball and we recently saw each 0:53:16.600 --> 0:53:19.400 other in the NBA store with Jamal Murray, which was 0:53:19.440 --> 0:53:20.760 a very interesting experience. 0:53:20.880 --> 0:53:22.800 Hey girl, it was a Monday morning and it was 0:53:23.120 --> 0:53:25.520 just AFL players and comedians. 0:53:25.719 --> 0:53:28.239 That was easy becausees with Monday off is a very 0:53:28.360 --> 0:53:31.319 awkward scenario. I felt like, I don't know why, maybe 0:53:31.360 --> 0:53:32.920 you had a different experience, but they kind of like 0:53:33.040 --> 0:53:34.400 throw you in front of these people and they're like, 0:53:34.440 --> 0:53:35.839 i'll speak on hang out. 0:53:35.920 --> 0:53:36.239 It's like. 0:53:38.480 --> 0:53:40.560 I played basketball back in the day, and this is Davie. 0:53:40.560 --> 0:53:43.960 He does comedy. Because you've got no touchstones. But yeah, 0:53:44.080 --> 0:53:46.800 you know if you feel like oh, I felt like 0:53:46.880 --> 0:53:49.120 grabbing Jamal and going, hey, I like what you do. 0:53:49.160 --> 0:53:50.800 I'm not I'm not a super fan. Yeah, I just 0:53:50.840 --> 0:53:52.560 want to let you know, like I like watching you play. 0:53:53.560 --> 0:53:55.000 I'm not I'm not some weird. 0:53:55.120 --> 0:53:56.400 Yeah. I don't want to cut off some of your 0:53:56.440 --> 0:53:58.279 hair and sniff it at night. I just want to, 0:53:58.520 --> 0:54:00.359 you know, just hang for a bit. And it seems 0:54:00.440 --> 0:54:02.320 kind of cool. Please don't take me for a widow. 0:54:02.680 --> 0:54:04.399 But then by right of you saying that you feel 0:54:04.400 --> 0:54:05.160 like a weird, you're weird. 0:54:05.239 --> 0:54:07.080 Yeah, there's nothing that can get you out of that scenario. 0:54:07.120 --> 0:54:08.680 I feel like of just being that awkward guy on 0:54:08.719 --> 0:54:10.920 the side just going hey, Mal, what's up there? 0:54:11.000 --> 0:54:13.680 You going yeah, and he's gonna, well, you realize you 0:54:13.760 --> 0:54:16.080 can't have a normal chat like we're having now because 0:54:16.520 --> 0:54:18.919 I said, oh, hear it's from how's your injury going? 0:54:19.200 --> 0:54:20.840 Because he had an ACL and he was out for 0:54:20.880 --> 0:54:22.759 the season, and of course he's he doesn't want some 0:54:22.840 --> 0:54:25.040 schmuck in Australia, then getting online and going I just 0:54:25.120 --> 0:54:26.600 heard Jamal said he's going to be out for another 0:54:26.640 --> 0:54:30.160 six months. He's god day to day. It's on PR 0:54:30.400 --> 0:54:32.280 and I can understand that. And then all of a sudden, 0:54:32.880 --> 0:54:34.680 because it's not a conversation, he's not going to go 0:54:34.760 --> 0:54:37.040 and how are you and the family, He's just going, 0:54:37.239 --> 0:54:38.960 I just want to move through this and get my paycheck, 0:54:39.080 --> 0:54:41.919 which I understand. He was nice, he was lovely, very lovely, 0:54:42.120 --> 0:54:44.960 but it was just weird. And but yeah, I mean 0:54:45.040 --> 0:54:48.440 I am. Yeah, I'm a bit of a tragic when 0:54:48.440 --> 0:54:50.040 it comes to basketball, Like I love it a bit 0:54:50.160 --> 0:54:52.799 too much. What do you mean in that sense? Well, 0:54:52.880 --> 0:54:56.560 like anything, like my go to is just if I'm 0:54:56.560 --> 0:54:58.200 sitting there and I'm a bit tired on the couch, 0:54:58.320 --> 0:55:00.200 I just look up YouTube and I'll watch any thing 0:55:00.239 --> 0:55:03.880 related with basket really, like I watch horrendous things like 0:55:04.040 --> 0:55:07.200 I'll watch highlights of Michael Jordan and Len Bias playing 0:55:07.239 --> 0:55:12.000 Maryland unc unlike a YouTube old school. Yeah, that's old. 0:55:12.400 --> 0:55:14.520 I will watch I just watched a Penny Hardaway Magic 0:55:14.600 --> 0:55:18.759 Johnson thing on YouTube, Like I followed dudes that You're like, 0:55:18.840 --> 0:55:20.279 why are you watching this? And I'm like, I don't know. 0:55:20.320 --> 0:55:22.960 I will just take anything that's basketball related. What's your 0:55:22.960 --> 0:55:27.040 favorite team? What's your team? The Knicks? Yeah, so it sucks, 0:55:27.080 --> 0:55:29.160 so you can understand why I don't actually like watching 0:55:29.200 --> 0:55:33.200 games YouTube replays. It's probly the vast idea. Yeah, but 0:55:33.280 --> 0:55:35.400 are you, like, are you a basketball fan? Because I 0:55:35.440 --> 0:55:37.040 know you you grew up kind of playing soccer and 0:55:37.080 --> 0:55:38.520 then you I'm. 0:55:38.360 --> 0:55:40.239 More of a fan of like players in the NBA. 0:55:40.480 --> 0:55:42.920 I'm fans of people I've had interactions with and dealton 0:55:43.040 --> 0:55:44.799 life with, so like I used to both with Michael Smart, 0:55:44.840 --> 0:55:47.840 playinst Johan and Beid Andrew Williams, people like that. I'm like, 0:55:47.880 --> 0:55:50.040 I hope they go well because the more they go well, 0:55:50.120 --> 0:55:51.640 then it's kind of a cool story for me to tell. 0:55:51.840 --> 0:55:53.920 Yeah. Sure, and it's kind of like you're somewhat connected, 0:55:54.000 --> 0:55:56.080 Like if I do either number or anything like that. 0:55:56.440 --> 0:55:58.080 Now, I don't know, I am. I'm sure they're just 0:55:58.160 --> 0:56:00.840 like there's some random dude over in Australia. But it 0:56:01.000 --> 0:56:03.120 is cool to be like, you know, I'm somewhat I 0:56:03.200 --> 0:56:05.279 guess like that was the reason that it got me there. 0:56:05.320 --> 0:56:07.040 Playing against those people and being able to play at 0:56:07.080 --> 0:56:08.520 the high level got me to where I'm at now. 0:56:08.560 --> 0:56:10.000 So it's kind of a cool story to tell the people. 0:56:10.200 --> 0:56:11.960 Yeah. Yeah, but I'm from Dallas, so I've got to 0:56:11.960 --> 0:56:15.160 be a Dallas Mavericks fan. Oh so you're from Dallas. Yeah, 0:56:15.600 --> 0:56:18.120 because he was a school in Oklahoma. Yeah, that's right. 0:56:18.120 --> 0:56:20.840 It was engineering or something here. Yeah, it was. 0:56:20.960 --> 0:56:23.279 It was almost as good as the design and art 0:56:23.400 --> 0:56:28.000 from Gordon's institu day as much from it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:56:28.000 --> 0:56:30.040 it's it costs a little bit more than four hundred dollars, 0:56:30.160 --> 0:56:30.880 but I. 0:56:30.920 --> 0:56:33.799 Have her terachury does last a bit in America? Does 0:56:34.040 --> 0:56:35.759 it does? But then do you have a student loan? 0:56:35.920 --> 0:56:36.720 Similar situation. 0:56:37.400 --> 0:56:40.359 I was fortunate enough to have parents that paid for schooling. Yeah, 0:56:41.000 --> 0:56:42.799 you do usually take out loans and stuff. And then 0:56:42.840 --> 0:56:45.480 but basketball players, because I was I played basketball in 0:56:45.520 --> 0:56:47.440 college and a lot of the guys that play basketball 0:56:47.480 --> 0:56:48.840 get their education paid for. 0:56:49.400 --> 0:56:52.320 On scholarship, right, sure, I was never that guy. I 0:56:52.400 --> 0:56:53.440 never really got that opportunity. 0:56:53.440 --> 0:56:55.279 Although I played over guys that were on scholarship, which 0:56:55.520 --> 0:56:57.439 doesn't really make sense in the whole grand scheme of things, 0:56:57.520 --> 0:56:59.480 but yeah, I never got any money for it, so 0:56:59.480 --> 0:57:01.279 I just showed up every single day and just they 0:57:01.320 --> 0:57:03.440 flew private jets around the world around the country. We 0:57:03.640 --> 0:57:05.279 flew over to Spain and Europe and did the like 0:57:05.360 --> 0:57:08.080 tournaments over there, and then yeah, it's all paid for. 0:57:08.200 --> 0:57:10.200 You get like you know, private escorts to games and 0:57:10.280 --> 0:57:12.520 the buses and like state these really fancy hotels and 0:57:12.520 --> 0:57:14.960 all the fancy dinners and all that stuff. And like 0:57:15.360 --> 0:57:16.960 I walked into Collingwood and the first time I went there, 0:57:16.960 --> 0:57:19.400 They're like, how good is this? This is the greatest 0:57:19.560 --> 0:57:21.600 facility in all of Australia. And I was like, that's 0:57:21.600 --> 0:57:22.200 pretty shit. 0:57:24.880 --> 0:57:27.400 Comparative he was. 0:57:28.080 --> 0:57:30.439 I didn't really want to say it to him, but yeah, 0:57:30.520 --> 0:57:32.120 and he's no longer there, so I can say whatever 0:57:32.160 --> 0:57:32.400 I want. 0:57:33.400 --> 0:57:35.520 But yeah, I wasn't thoroughly impressed. 0:57:35.520 --> 0:57:37.200 It was impressive in a sense of like, you know, 0:57:37.280 --> 0:57:39.320 it's a professional environment the people there and all the 0:57:39.360 --> 0:57:41.160 different weights and all that kind of stuff. But if 0:57:41.200 --> 0:57:42.560 I were comparing it to what I had back in 0:57:42.600 --> 0:57:44.640 the university and some of the football stuff and basketball 0:57:44.640 --> 0:57:45.320 stuff that was there. 0:57:45.840 --> 0:57:49.280 It didn't probably stack up. Gordon Institute of Tafe was 0:57:49.280 --> 0:57:55.560 the same man. It was just private shuttles everywhere everywhere 0:57:55.600 --> 0:57:57.880 you want. Yeahs to be honest, I don't feel like 0:57:57.920 --> 0:58:00.600 lobster for lunch today. We got anything else on the Men? 0:58:01.880 --> 0:58:06.360 Anything anything? What's Oklahoma like? Because all I know is 0:58:06.480 --> 0:58:09.720 Oklahoma City thunder. I have no other reference points. I 0:58:09.760 --> 0:58:10.880 think tornadoes ripped through. 0:58:10.880 --> 0:58:13.280 There is the Tornado Alley we talk and we talked 0:58:13.280 --> 0:58:14.960 about on the podcast all the time with Tornado Alley, 0:58:15.000 --> 0:58:16.640 and Brendon always says, why the hell would you ever 0:58:16.680 --> 0:58:19.080 live in Tornado Alley? And that's literally I spent a 0:58:19.120 --> 0:58:24.560 whole life so barbering in Australia. Oklahoma is just flat planes, 0:58:25.280 --> 0:58:28.320 whole whole state flat planes. And then there's Oklahoma City. 0:58:28.680 --> 0:58:30.720 There's Norman South there and then there's still Water. 0:58:30.800 --> 0:58:32.400 Well. Went to University's about an hour away. 0:58:32.480 --> 0:58:34.880 So you have the university towns, which are awesome because 0:58:34.960 --> 0:58:37.280 like university Town's you got tailgag. You know, it's like 0:58:37.320 --> 0:58:40.200 the whole college experience and everything else, which I try 0:58:40.240 --> 0:58:41.480 to touch on, but try not to touch on it 0:58:41.480 --> 0:58:41.960 too much. 0:58:41.800 --> 0:58:43.960 Because I'm like, get in trouble. I'm still playing, but 0:58:44.040 --> 0:58:45.760 there's all that kind of stuff that happens, you know. 0:58:45.800 --> 0:58:47.160 And then like Oklahoma City is kind of like the 0:58:47.240 --> 0:58:49.120 city that's kind of close to not a massive per 0:58:49.200 --> 0:58:51.880 se city in the in the country. It's a lot 0:58:51.920 --> 0:58:53.720 of oil and gas industries there and everything else. But 0:58:54.200 --> 0:58:56.400 the team is there, the Oklahoma City Thunder. They've got 0:58:56.480 --> 0:58:58.680 Josh Giddy, who's obviously Australian, and. 0:59:00.240 --> 0:59:03.640 Twelve gallon cowboy hats that kind of stuff, is it, Yeah, 0:59:04.040 --> 0:59:04.920 like real cowboys? 0:59:05.000 --> 0:59:08.560 Oh yeah, genuine like two step in like little honkey 0:59:08.640 --> 0:59:09.840 tonks at school and stuff. 0:59:09.960 --> 0:59:12.360 Man, the holy thing. Yeah, you had to learn how 0:59:12.400 --> 0:59:14.800 to step in college. What's what's too? 0:59:15.120 --> 0:59:17.320 Is it like the type of dance but square dance? 0:59:17.360 --> 0:59:20.000 Square dancing's kind of like that but different. We were 0:59:20.000 --> 0:59:20.760 all the girls and stuff. 0:59:21.040 --> 0:59:22.560 We got the nutbush, mate, we get it. We got 0:59:22.560 --> 0:59:25.040 the nut bush. Hey. I recently saw there was like 0:59:25.120 --> 0:59:26.240 the world's largest. 0:59:26.000 --> 0:59:28.960 Nut bush like gathering in Australia, like a year ago, 0:59:28.960 --> 0:59:30.560 I want to say, in the middle of nowhere. We'll 0:59:30.600 --> 0:59:32.320 have to look it up recently. But I didn't know 0:59:32.360 --> 0:59:33.960 what the nut bush was until then. And then I 0:59:34.040 --> 0:59:35.920 saw like two thousand people doing at the same time. 0:59:36.040 --> 0:59:37.200 I was like, this must be a thing. 0:59:37.760 --> 0:59:40.600 I don't know. Yeah, because I only found out that 0:59:40.680 --> 0:59:44.080 the Nutbush is really Australian. I never heard of it. Yeah, no, 0:59:44.200 --> 0:59:46.200 that's what. How do you do the nut Bush? No? 0:59:46.480 --> 0:59:48.960 Because I find it's the communism of dancing. I'm like, 0:59:49.000 --> 0:59:50.480 we're all doing the same, are we? I can't even 0:59:50.680 --> 0:59:52.960 cut a rug on my own. No, I'm freestyling. I'm 0:59:52.960 --> 0:59:55.800 not doing this. It's not freestyle. The nut Bush. You 0:59:55.880 --> 0:59:59.240 know where the whole name comes from. Well, the I 0:59:59.240 --> 1:00:02.200 mean nutbush limits Is that what it is? Yeah, that's 1:00:02.240 --> 1:00:03.800 it all card But that's what because it's an old 1:00:03.800 --> 1:00:06.000 Tina Turner and Ike song. That's what I thought I 1:00:06.160 --> 1:00:09.240 was from America. It's no, No, we just somehow created us. 1:00:09.600 --> 1:00:11.960 Did it for? I think Australian men who don't have 1:00:12.040 --> 1:00:14.600 rhythm where they like just follow suit like this and 1:00:14.720 --> 1:00:17.400 this is your peacocky, rather than standing in the corner 1:00:18.440 --> 1:00:20.800 getting yourself extremely drunk and slurring your way to a 1:00:20.880 --> 1:00:23.240 woman at about midnight. That's me. That's me. 1:00:24.880 --> 1:00:29.000 If I try to dance. Actually would have thought I 1:00:29.120 --> 1:00:31.120 tried to dance. It's really a hazard elbows you know, 1:00:31.400 --> 1:00:33.880 just like head height copped a few in the head. 1:00:33.920 --> 1:00:36.640 Some of the girls ever walking past could image never 1:00:36.840 --> 1:00:37.480 the greatest intro. 1:00:37.520 --> 1:00:40.760 I'll tell you that, you know, talking about the division 1:00:40.800 --> 1:00:45.080 between Americans and Australians. Got a good friend of mine, 1:00:45.160 --> 1:00:47.680 Monty Franklin, who I started doing stand up with, and 1:00:47.760 --> 1:00:49.919 he now lives in LA and he's a great stand 1:00:50.000 --> 1:00:52.240 up Monty, and he was telling me a story where 1:00:52.680 --> 1:00:54.360 and you would have found this out when you came 1:00:54.400 --> 1:00:57.600 across here, is that in America you don't do hip 1:00:57.680 --> 1:01:01.440 hip paray at the end of Happy Birthday, do no. 1:01:01.840 --> 1:01:03.800 You guys go on a hole like you know, you know, 1:01:03.840 --> 1:01:05.560 you guys go on the whole like you go longer 1:01:05.720 --> 1:01:08.320 after the actual song, talking trash. 1:01:08.080 --> 1:01:08.760 And whatever it is. 1:01:08.840 --> 1:01:11.240 Yeah, there's like the extension of the Happy Birthday is 1:01:11.280 --> 1:01:13.840 actually longer than the happy Birthday song here, well it's 1:01:13.880 --> 1:01:14.560 happy birthdays. 1:01:14.680 --> 1:01:17.160 You get to the end. And I always say, because 1:01:17.160 --> 1:01:19.160 I've got young kids that when you're at a kids 1:01:19.240 --> 1:01:21.400 party too, I'm looking at the parents going, you've got 1:01:21.440 --> 1:01:23.680 a hip hop paray. This is your this is your 1:01:23.800 --> 1:01:25.880 job now, like you don't want to stranger gun, Well, 1:01:25.880 --> 1:01:27.960 I guess I'm leading the parade hip hop, and then 1:01:28.000 --> 1:01:30.200 everyone goes hooray, and we do that three times and 1:01:30.240 --> 1:01:32.200 then if you're want to there, well it was he 1:01:32.400 --> 1:01:35.480 born so beautiful and there's just some You're right, it 1:01:35.640 --> 1:01:37.600 just keeps it just keeps going. Yeah, it's like we 1:01:37.640 --> 1:01:41.160 can't say goodbye to each other. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, 1:01:41.360 --> 1:01:43.520 like that's we keep doing that. But my mate learnt 1:01:43.520 --> 1:01:45.040 the hard way because he said he was in America. 1:01:45.160 --> 1:01:47.640 Oh no, you're all doing happy birthday, and he said 1:01:47.720 --> 1:01:52.240 with confidence, he's gone hip hop and everyone's gone, what 1:01:52.400 --> 1:01:54.520 did you just say? Because when you have it in isolation, 1:01:54.960 --> 1:01:59.200 what is hip hop? Like? It's not You realize it's 1:01:59.200 --> 1:02:01.400 a rally call. But if no one responds to the rally, 1:02:01.800 --> 1:02:06.040 you've just said something out loud, just two syllables. 1:02:05.680 --> 1:02:08.880 Hip At the prime moment of the end of the song, 1:02:09.040 --> 1:02:15.840 over goes quiet. You just decided it's my time to shine, and. 1:02:15.920 --> 1:02:18.680 He lent the worst way possible. Not everyone's like, what 1:02:18.840 --> 1:02:20.200 did you just happen? What happened? 1:02:20.240 --> 1:02:23.240 Oh my gosh, that would be degrading almost like I 1:02:23.320 --> 1:02:26.920 was spending thirty minutes but no one you're laughing at 1:02:26.960 --> 1:02:30.280 the Editburn Frinch Festival immigration you need to go take 1:02:30.320 --> 1:02:31.880 it just actually got citizenships? 1:02:32.440 --> 1:02:36.840 No chance anymore? You have yeah, official Aussie Wednesday. This happened. 1:02:37.480 --> 1:02:40.760 This happened four, four or five months ago. Did you 1:02:40.800 --> 1:02:42.680 get a little gum tree? I did. I got a 1:02:42.680 --> 1:02:45.960 little gun try and it died within a week. I 1:02:46.080 --> 1:02:48.560 mean idiot. I watered it and it just was like 1:02:48.880 --> 1:02:51.040 too much, too much. You can't take it out once 1:02:51.080 --> 1:02:53.400 you order it. So I was like, I'm stuffed. You 1:02:53.520 --> 1:02:55.280 got to trade a man, keep him cane gun. He's 1:02:55.280 --> 1:02:58.000 not only one so much water? Yeah? Was there anything 1:02:58.040 --> 1:03:00.080 else you needed to research to become in Australian? Do 1:03:00.160 --> 1:03:01.080 they all have the citizen? 1:03:01.240 --> 1:03:03.600 Yeah, there's a test man and it's it's actually quite easy, 1:03:03.680 --> 1:03:06.680 but yeah, it's I think most Australians would probably fail 1:03:06.720 --> 1:03:09.040 it because a lot of Australians don't really care for 1:03:09.120 --> 1:03:11.640 patriotism per se here. No, it's a very big thing 1:03:11.680 --> 1:03:15.240 in America. In Australia it's kind of like ah whatever, mate, 1:03:15.480 --> 1:03:18.040 like Green and Gold, you know her Pepper Ray. Oh 1:03:18.120 --> 1:03:19.480 that Chatz it is, isn't it. 1:03:19.480 --> 1:03:21.600 We all have this little bit of It's like when 1:03:21.640 --> 1:03:23.360 I explained to phone as where they say, well, what's 1:03:23.360 --> 1:03:25.280 a bogan? And Americans usually say it's a red neck, 1:03:25.760 --> 1:03:27.760 but you go, yeah, but it's not because in the 1:03:27.800 --> 1:03:30.240 fact that redneck seems like a slight, like a flat out. 1:03:30.240 --> 1:03:32.360 If you said to someone with your redneck, they'll be like, well, 1:03:32.400 --> 1:03:34.400 what did you just call me? When Australia we have 1:03:34.480 --> 1:03:36.600 that thing, someone goes, you're a bit of a boguin 1:03:36.760 --> 1:03:40.400 and guaranteed everyone goes, yeah, yeah, a bit of a 1:03:40.440 --> 1:03:44.040 bug I'm proud of it. Yeah, we're a big ship. 1:03:44.400 --> 1:03:45.920 Like we all have that thing of like it's a 1:03:45.960 --> 1:03:48.400 badge of honor to be a bit ship and we 1:03:48.480 --> 1:03:50.160 all go yeah that, like to hang. 1:03:50.040 --> 1:03:52.960 Shit on each other is a thing. He just talked 1:03:53.040 --> 1:03:54.840 trash about each other. I came here and I was 1:03:54.880 --> 1:03:56.840 like literally blind. I was like, these people are freaking 1:03:57.000 --> 1:04:00.560 a householes everyone. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's a sign of 1:04:00.640 --> 1:04:01.800 endearment totally. 1:04:02.400 --> 1:04:04.760 I used to follow a group on Facebook that was 1:04:04.800 --> 1:04:07.840 subtle Bogan traits and it genuinely made me laugh. Usually 1:04:08.040 --> 1:04:09.800 Facebook groups, you're like, ah, this is not good, and 1:04:09.840 --> 1:04:12.000 people put up memes and they're a bit shit. But 1:04:12.120 --> 1:04:15.040 this one was just little things that you notice that 1:04:15.120 --> 1:04:17.640 we all do and you go, yeah, that's very funny, 1:04:18.200 --> 1:04:23.200 Like things like having the fridge door open. No one's 1:04:23.360 --> 1:04:26.200 ever not sworn at when the fridge door starts beeping 1:04:26.240 --> 1:04:28.280 at you know, it's like it starts coming b Get 1:04:28.320 --> 1:04:30.920 the fuck fucking shut up. And then the one that 1:04:31.040 --> 1:04:33.040 really made me laugh. And this is a very subtle 1:04:33.080 --> 1:04:35.880 Australian trait, and I reckon I could say one hundred 1:04:35.880 --> 1:04:39.000 percent of people do this in Australia when you say, ah, 1:04:39.120 --> 1:04:41.800 what can you do? But realistically there's heaps you can do. 1:04:43.160 --> 1:04:44.760 You know, we always come to a conclusion of like, 1:04:45.080 --> 1:04:48.040 what can you do? Probably heaps. They're probably heaps, So 1:04:48.120 --> 1:04:50.520 we all just come to that conclusion like nah, that's 1:04:50.560 --> 1:04:52.080 all the thing. He's a bit ship. Yeah, what are 1:04:52.080 --> 1:04:53.560 you going to do? We'll vote him out, Like there's 1:04:53.560 --> 1:04:55.200 heaps you could do, but we just go up. We're 1:04:55.240 --> 1:04:58.280 just like yeah nah nah, yeah, yeah, yeah, no. No. 1:04:58.920 --> 1:05:01.040 I always thought that was a weird I was like, okay, 1:05:01.080 --> 1:05:03.160 so yes or no no where, yes, I get it. 1:05:03.720 --> 1:05:06.240 You know. The closest thing I've noticed is that when 1:05:06.240 --> 1:05:08.280 I did travel to Srilanka, Oh this has come back 1:05:08.440 --> 1:05:10.000 on the pod come full circle? 1:05:10.520 --> 1:05:10.680 Is that? 1:05:11.400 --> 1:05:13.720 And anyone from the subcontinent have you traveled over there? 1:05:13.720 --> 1:05:17.520 To India. Na, it's on my list. I have to 1:05:17.920 --> 1:05:20.560 I really have to laugh because my partner said, oh, yeah, 1:05:20.600 --> 1:05:22.560 you haven't seen this before. And everyone I talked to, 1:05:23.280 --> 1:05:25.800 like Dealick Joire Singer who's a great comedian. When I 1:05:25.840 --> 1:05:28.240 sit to him, I'm like, how is that reaction? Because 1:05:28.240 --> 1:05:32.080 there's a non committal, like a head nod that people 1:05:32.120 --> 1:05:34.440 will give you that doesn't mean anything, like you were 1:05:34.520 --> 1:05:36.520 quite off when I was in Trilanka and I was like, oh, 1:05:36.680 --> 1:05:38.919 so so I need to get to this other town. 1:05:39.840 --> 1:05:42.320 Is it easier? It is probably trained quicker, and they'll 1:05:42.440 --> 1:05:45.000 just go yeah, and it's like this head like, it's 1:05:45.040 --> 1:05:46.800 not a nod, it's not a shake of the head. 1:05:46.960 --> 1:05:48.840 It's just a movement of a head. Where you go, 1:05:49.480 --> 1:05:53.320 that wasn't an answer, could you just say to me? 1:05:53.440 --> 1:05:55.360 And they're just like, yeah, I just answered you to 1:05:55.440 --> 1:05:57.800 make sure that you got an answer. It's non committal 1:05:57.840 --> 1:05:59.480 either way. And I was like, oh, this is yeah 1:05:59.520 --> 1:06:03.480 nah ah, it's the Australian word of h let's go 1:06:03.560 --> 1:06:08.240 ahead and then just trail. Yeah. And if it goes 1:06:08.320 --> 1:06:11.080 tits up, I didn't give you that advice exactly, you'll 1:06:11.120 --> 1:06:14.480 never find me again. And if it does work out, 1:06:14.520 --> 1:06:16.280 you'd be like, oh, yeah, that guy kind of encourage me. 1:06:16.800 --> 1:06:20.000 You know, he's a really nice fere. I just don't 1:06:20.040 --> 1:06:21.720 really speak the language I think you were saying, go 1:06:21.840 --> 1:06:25.800 on the train, go on the trade. Just a non commitment. Gosh, 1:06:25.880 --> 1:06:28.320 that's so good man. We'll wrap it up on that man. Well, 1:06:28.400 --> 1:06:30.080 before I do that, I want to ask you the charity. 1:06:30.120 --> 1:06:31.520 I know you're part of the Big Umbrella you talked 1:06:31.520 --> 1:06:34.040 about Beyond Blue. Yes, some of the work you've done there. 1:06:34.040 --> 1:06:36.240 We love shoutowing out charities on the podcast to tell 1:06:36.320 --> 1:06:37.120 us some of the work you've done. 1:06:37.840 --> 1:06:40.280 The Big Umbrella tBu. They're great. You can look them 1:06:40.360 --> 1:06:44.000 up online. That they rescue food. So there's a lot 1:06:44.000 --> 1:06:48.400 of food wastage from a Baker's, supermarkets, whatever, and they 1:06:48.480 --> 1:06:50.680 rescue food, cook it up and then they give it 1:06:50.760 --> 1:06:53.480 to people living rough. So I started doing work with 1:06:53.560 --> 1:06:56.160 them during the lockdowns and pandemic and they do amazing 1:06:56.240 --> 1:06:58.840 work and it's so great delivering food to people who 1:06:58.960 --> 1:07:00.960 are living rough and this is sometimes the only hot 1:07:01.040 --> 1:07:04.400 meal that they've got for the week, and it is 1:07:04.440 --> 1:07:06.760 amazing when you think the amount of wastage that we 1:07:06.880 --> 1:07:09.720 do have, but it doesn't take relatively a lot of 1:07:09.720 --> 1:07:11.840 effort to cook all that stuff up and then deliver 1:07:11.880 --> 1:07:14.960 it to people. And there's like I realized you're in that. 1:07:15.040 --> 1:07:19.880 Like food is just the international handshake for everyone. If 1:07:19.920 --> 1:07:21.440 you're giving someone food, they're not going to be like, 1:07:21.520 --> 1:07:23.480 oh what's this about. They're like, oh, thank you, this 1:07:23.600 --> 1:07:26.040 is really lovely, very apprecive. Yeah, and it's just and 1:07:26.200 --> 1:07:28.760 you think it's effort because it's that's all it is. 1:07:28.880 --> 1:07:31.840 Like it's not relatively costing anything because this is food 1:07:31.880 --> 1:07:34.120 that people didn't want. It's so true. I feel like 1:07:34.240 --> 1:07:36.280 like whenever you get to a supermarket, everything there is perfect. 1:07:36.800 --> 1:07:38.440 You realize that whenever you go to a fine not 1:07:38.480 --> 1:07:40.720 everything's perfect now. So only the best of the beast 1:07:40.800 --> 1:07:42.640 makes it to the supermarket where there's so much that's 1:07:42.720 --> 1:07:44.760 kind of wasted that you can actually use on a 1:07:44.760 --> 1:07:46.360 different thing. So it's cool to see places like that 1:07:46.440 --> 1:07:49.520 doing it. Yeah, and they get a lot of corporate 1:07:49.520 --> 1:07:51.920 people coming in and so the corporate teams will help out, 1:07:52.000 --> 1:07:54.160 and every time that people finish, they say, oh, this 1:07:54.360 --> 1:07:57.640 is this is so much fun. Because also opposed to 1:07:58.440 --> 1:07:59.840 like white collar work, which a lot of us do 1:08:00.040 --> 1:08:04.440 our laptops doing all the work is that you it's physical, 1:08:04.560 --> 1:08:06.440 it's meant just manual labor. It's crunt work, and it's 1:08:06.480 --> 1:08:08.880 quite nice because you start and then you do it 1:08:09.040 --> 1:08:11.040 and then you finish. Yeah, you know, it's not like 1:08:11.040 --> 1:08:13.120 an office job where you go, I'll just leave now 1:08:13.200 --> 1:08:16.040 and I'll come back to where I left it yesterday. 1:08:16.360 --> 1:08:17.840 You know what I mean. You feel like you've you've 1:08:17.920 --> 1:08:20.680 physically done something physically. Yeah. Yeah, and the people are 1:08:20.720 --> 1:08:22.880 really grateful for it. So yeah, check it out the 1:08:22.920 --> 1:08:24.280 big umbrella. That's the thing. I thank you. 1:08:24.320 --> 1:08:26.200 You probably you've probably come out of that feeling better, 1:08:26.320 --> 1:08:29.400 you know, doing something for someone else. Yeah, it's that cliche, 1:08:29.520 --> 1:08:31.519 you know, like you feel better for doing something positive 1:08:31.560 --> 1:08:33.440 for someone else, not necessarily for yourself. 1:08:33.120 --> 1:08:36.439 Admitediately my barner. I can't really cook. She's like to 1:08:37.360 --> 1:08:39.760 take cooking. Is that your cooking? Lesnses going there? Well, 1:08:39.920 --> 1:08:41.680 people tell me what to do, you know what I mean. 1:08:41.720 --> 1:08:44.600 I don't have that. Like quite often there will be 1:08:44.800 --> 1:08:46.800 chefs that also volunteer, and so they'll get in there 1:08:46.840 --> 1:08:48.160 go then needs a bit assault and I'm like, yeah, 1:08:48.160 --> 1:08:50.519 that's that's what I thought. Because I'm very bad at it, 1:08:50.600 --> 1:08:52.160 and so She's like, you can't cook for us, but 1:08:52.240 --> 1:08:54.479 you cook for them. I don't know. We all have 1:08:54.520 --> 1:08:56.439 our strengths. We all have our strengths. We'll do our 1:08:56.479 --> 1:08:59.280 own things. Oh man, all right, well, thanks so much 1:08:59.320 --> 1:09:00.880 for coming on mate, Absolute pleasure. 1:09:01.479 --> 1:09:03.559 It's so good stories. A lot of the travel stories 1:09:03.600 --> 1:09:05.600 are awesome. I feel like we need to riff on 1:09:05.680 --> 1:09:08.080 this a bit more, but allan sty thanks so much 1:09:08.120 --> 1:09:09.320 for coming on mate. I want to shout out to 1:09:09.320 --> 1:09:09.960 the seven platforms. 1:09:09.960 --> 1:09:14.599 So we are Apple, Spotify, Twitter, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram. 1:09:14.960 --> 1:09:18.400 Check us all out and check out Dave on his platforms. 1:09:18.439 --> 1:09:21.360 And what is your user name? Dave underscore Thorno. So 1:09:22.320 --> 1:09:24.640 get that on the Instagram. You get that onto, I 1:09:24.720 --> 1:09:27.120 said the Instagram. The Insta makes you sound like an 1:09:27.160 --> 1:09:30.360 old man, you know. TikTok all that the meta yeah, 1:09:30.520 --> 1:09:33.240 the metaverse. Yeah, just get onto it. There for all 1:09:33.280 --> 1:09:37.000 stand up content and any touring details that I have. Beautiful, 1:09:37.120 --> 1:09:38.720 well too easy. Thanks so much for going on, and 1:09:39.160 --> 1:09:40.439 hopefully we get to catch up in soon