WEBVTT - Live Show Diaries - Michael Hing 0:00:09.680 --> 0:00:11.800 Hey guys, and welcome back to another episode of Black 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:14.600 Fun Card. I'm producer Keisha and this is our third 0:00:14.680 --> 0:00:18.520 installment of bringing you some of the wonderful conversations that 0:00:18.640 --> 0:00:21.200 Britain Laura had with our great guests. 0:00:20.760 --> 0:00:23.160 At each of our live shows across the country. 0:00:23.280 --> 0:00:25.680 We got to fly around to seven different cities across 0:00:25.680 --> 0:00:28.920 Australia and we were joined by some of the best 0:00:29.000 --> 0:00:32.160 people like I could ever have imagined joining us on stage, 0:00:32.600 --> 0:00:34.560 and so we wanted to bring some of those conversations 0:00:34.560 --> 0:00:36.159 to you while we were taking a bit of a 0:00:36.200 --> 0:00:36.920 summer break. 0:00:37.280 --> 0:00:41.080 Today's episode is with the hilarious Michael Hing. 0:00:41.360 --> 0:00:43.720 Now Michael Hing, you might know him as Hangers because 0:00:43.720 --> 0:00:44.639 he was on Triple Jay. 0:00:44.720 --> 0:00:45.959 He's also on the Project. 0:00:46.040 --> 0:00:48.839 He does a bunch of comedy and a bunch of 0:00:48.920 --> 0:00:51.560 other podcasts. He's a very very busy man and he's 0:00:51.640 --> 0:00:56.080 also an absolute laugh and a half. In this chat, 0:00:56.480 --> 0:01:00.240 he shared two actually I was gonna say the most 0:01:00.280 --> 0:01:03.760 outrageous accidentally unfiltered, but he decided to share both because 0:01:03.760 --> 0:01:06.399 why not, they were both equally as. 0:01:06.319 --> 0:01:08.920 Outrageous as each other, which I love for him. 0:01:09.240 --> 0:01:12.000 He also spoke about having two Chinese doctors as parents 0:01:12.080 --> 0:01:14.640 and wanting to work in comedy because it's a little 0:01:14.640 --> 0:01:17.240 bit of a contrast to the narrative of being you know, 0:01:17.560 --> 0:01:19.440 successful to want. 0:01:19.200 --> 0:01:20.360 To work in the arts. 0:01:20.680 --> 0:01:23.520 They spoke about being a finalist for Cleo Bachelor of 0:01:23.560 --> 0:01:26.959 the Year and using culture in comedy. He also spoke 0:01:26.959 --> 0:01:29.880 about some deeper things, but of course he's a comedian, 0:01:30.000 --> 0:01:32.200 so that there was still hilarious, which I don't know 0:01:32.200 --> 0:01:34.679 how he managed to do. He spoke about things like 0:01:34.760 --> 0:01:38.880 microaggressions and some racism that he's experienced being an Australian 0:01:38.959 --> 0:01:41.679 Chinese guy who worked in media, as well as speaking 0:01:41.720 --> 0:01:45.880 about what he finds worthy of speaking out against and 0:01:46.000 --> 0:01:49.000 how a lot of people who experience microaggressions can feel 0:01:49.040 --> 0:01:52.120 quite exasperated from the experience. So it was a really 0:01:52.280 --> 0:01:54.560 great chat. There's so many laughs in this one, but 0:01:54.600 --> 0:01:57.880 there's also some really impactful lessons, so I hope you 0:01:57.920 --> 0:01:59.840 love it. Let's get into the chat that Britain Laura 0:01:59.840 --> 0:02:02.400 had with Michael Hing at one of our live shows. 0:02:03.080 --> 0:02:05.760 We have our very last guest for this evening now. 0:02:05.800 --> 0:02:08.919 He is a comedian. He was also a radio host. 0:02:09.000 --> 0:02:12.040 He has a podcast and he is a host on 0:02:12.160 --> 0:02:14.639 the project You guys probably know him from being the 0:02:14.720 --> 0:02:16.200 drive show on Tripper Jay as well. 0:02:16.400 --> 0:02:20.119 We have Michael Hang joining our hangers. 0:02:21.760 --> 0:02:25.679 Get on in here? Wrong with the red? Oh yeah, 0:02:25.720 --> 0:02:26.520 I brought some one. 0:02:26.919 --> 0:02:28.519 I think this is I don't know if this is 0:02:28.560 --> 0:02:31.839 your writer or something, but I've stolen someone Samfish's writer. 0:02:32.280 --> 0:02:35.240 Come on, take the welcome you look at me? What 0:02:35.280 --> 0:02:35.760 does your top? 0:02:35.800 --> 0:02:40.519 Says the black eyepatch. It's from a Japanese shirt maker 0:02:40.600 --> 0:02:44.160 that I can't afford to buy things from, so I 0:02:44.200 --> 0:02:45.799 asked him for sponsored content and have it done the 0:02:45.840 --> 0:02:46.839 post anyway, Look, it's fine. 0:02:46.960 --> 0:02:47.800 Swipearp, swipeper. 0:02:47.919 --> 0:02:49.160 We'll put links in the show notes. 0:02:49.919 --> 0:02:53.160 Now, Michael, we start every podcast episode the same way. 0:02:53.200 --> 0:02:54.600 You might not know, because I don't know if you've 0:02:54.600 --> 0:02:58.200 listened to many episodes of Laugh on Cut, this might 0:02:58.240 --> 0:03:00.480 all come as a surprise to you. Sure, but we 0:03:00.600 --> 0:03:03.960 start every interview the same way, and that is with 0:03:04.000 --> 0:03:05.680 your accidentally unfiltered story. 0:03:05.960 --> 0:03:12.120 Oh sure, well, I have some options. My life is humiliating. 0:03:13.480 --> 0:03:15.720 Do you want to hear about Do you want to 0:03:15.720 --> 0:03:21.040 hear about dick pics? Or the option about there's also 0:03:21.120 --> 0:03:23.480 an STI story, So I don't know what you prefer. 0:03:23.480 --> 0:03:27.520 Do you guys want to dig pic? Okay, we have 0:03:27.639 --> 0:03:30.640 time four, we can do both. 0:03:30.680 --> 0:03:34.720 Okay. Well, the Dippic story is very from a very 0:03:34.720 --> 0:03:40.040 long time ago. And I was dating someone. She was 0:03:40.080 --> 0:03:42.920 in a different part of the country, and I was 0:03:42.960 --> 0:03:45.960 having dinner with my parents because I lived with them, 0:03:46.200 --> 0:03:51.120 and we were. 0:03:51.000 --> 0:03:51.880 Like kind of just texting. 0:03:51.920 --> 0:03:53.200 I was like, I gotta go have dinner, and she 0:03:53.360 --> 0:03:56.280 was like, oh, before you go get dinner, I have dinner. 0:03:56.720 --> 0:03:58.040 Can I show you something? And I was like what? 0:03:58.120 --> 0:03:59.640 And then she sent me sort of a I guess 0:03:59.680 --> 0:04:05.120 a an amorous photo and guys, I'm a virgin anyway, 0:04:05.160 --> 0:04:09.240 I and I was like, oh, thanks, like because you 0:04:09.280 --> 0:04:11.200 got to be polite, you know, thank you. 0:04:11.760 --> 0:04:14.160 It was not your response, there is, Michael. There's nothing 0:04:14.160 --> 0:04:14.800 worse than. 0:04:14.680 --> 0:04:18.279 Getting a reply to a sexy photo that is thank you. 0:04:18.320 --> 0:04:20.040 Well, what are you supposed to say? 0:04:20.080 --> 0:04:21.800 I'm gonna have I can't be like, oh, because I'm 0:04:21.800 --> 0:04:23.520 gonna go dap dinner with mum, Like I can't. 0:04:24.160 --> 0:04:27.560 What am I gonna do? No, you can? You can 0:04:27.600 --> 0:04:29.000 compartmentalize the horniness. 0:04:29.080 --> 0:04:32.560 Yeah, that one in the microphone. 0:04:32.560 --> 0:04:34.640 Look, sorry if you missed that, Lauria said, at least 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:39.560 send the squirting emoji. Anyway, thanks for the souper mum anyway. 0:04:39.600 --> 0:04:42.640 So I so we're getting bucked out of the details, 0:04:42.680 --> 0:04:45.159 she says to this photo. I say, I'm very grateful 0:04:45.160 --> 0:04:46.279 for that, but I have to go get dinner. 0:04:48.080 --> 0:04:49.760 Oh thank you, I'm grateful. 0:04:49.880 --> 0:04:50.040 Yeah. 0:04:50.080 --> 0:04:52.679 And then she says to me, she says, to you, oh, 0:04:52.880 --> 0:04:54.919 I got this quite I don't know not it was 0:04:54.920 --> 0:04:57.200 a nice text, but it was like quite forceful. It said, 0:04:57.800 --> 0:05:00.000 I've shown you what you're missing out on. I will 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:02.120 you just show me what I'm missing out on? Right, 0:05:02.880 --> 0:05:06.560 So the implication there is very clear. So I go 0:05:06.600 --> 0:05:09.800 and have dinner, and then after dinner, I say, Mum, Dad, 0:05:09.800 --> 0:05:11.479 excuse me, I've got some homework to do whatever, and 0:05:11.520 --> 0:05:12.840 I go home work. 0:05:12.920 --> 0:05:15.760 How old are you? I was probably like nineteen or twelve. 0:05:16.600 --> 0:05:19.039 I was sorry. I wasn't. I wasn't like fifteen, to 0:05:19.080 --> 0:05:20.480 be clear, I was. I was. 0:05:20.520 --> 0:05:23.720 I was at UNI and I went back upstairs and 0:05:23.760 --> 0:05:25.520 then I've never done this before, but you know how 0:05:25.560 --> 0:05:26.920 when you don't want your parents to come in your room, 0:05:26.960 --> 0:05:30.359 you're like jam a chair under the door because you're like, 0:05:30.360 --> 0:05:32.040 what I'm about to do is going to be so 0:05:32.200 --> 0:05:35.640 humiliating that I don't want anyone to ever see this. 0:05:35.839 --> 0:05:38.760 So then I like, I'd never I'd never taken a 0:05:38.800 --> 0:05:41.560 dick pic before, so I wasn't sure like what. 0:05:41.640 --> 0:05:43.279 Angle to take it from? What lighting? 0:05:43.520 --> 0:05:45.000 Well, yeah, no, not just not just that, because like 0:05:45.000 --> 0:05:46.839 because obviously it's like I could take it from the 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:51.880 from like my perspective, but I was like, I don't 0:05:51.880 --> 0:05:54.200 think she would have ever seen a dick from that 0:05:54.279 --> 0:05:57.800 angle before, so maybe I've got to try and do 0:05:57.839 --> 0:06:00.000 it from her perspective. Like it's a front I'm selfie, 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:05.200 but then it's like just a weird like oh god, yeah, 0:06:05.200 --> 0:06:07.120 it's a bit full on, so you're like, oh god. 0:06:07.279 --> 0:06:09.479 So then I'm like getting lamps and shit into try 0:06:09.520 --> 0:06:12.479 and do like I'm like, oh no, just just point 0:06:12.480 --> 0:06:13.599 oh five camera, make it better. 0:06:13.600 --> 0:06:15.720 I don't know, like, and it took me. 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:17.920 I was like twenty minutes trying to sort out the 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:20.720 lighting and stuff and felt quite self conscious. And during 0:06:20.760 --> 0:06:23.360 that time, obviously, you know, blood flows an interesting thing, 0:06:23.680 --> 0:06:27.760 and you know, I lose the erection and you can't 0:06:28.200 --> 0:06:29.640 you can't say, you can't be like, hey, what are 0:06:29.640 --> 0:06:31.520 you missing out? And then you send her a photo 0:06:31.560 --> 0:06:33.000 of your soft dick, you know what I mean, because 0:06:33.000 --> 0:06:40.320 that's horrifying. So so, without not knowing what to do, 0:06:40.480 --> 0:06:45.960 and again being quite young, I was like, oh, I'll. 0:06:45.240 --> 0:06:46.200 Just look on the internet. 0:06:49.080 --> 0:06:51.479 I put on the into Google. I was like, I'll 0:06:51.520 --> 0:06:55.200 just have a look what dick pics are available. But 0:06:55.480 --> 0:06:57.240 I don't know if you guys have ever googled for 0:06:57.400 --> 0:07:00.720 dick pics before, but most of the place to send 0:07:00.800 --> 0:07:03.720 my dick to somebody, most of the penis is available 0:07:03.720 --> 0:07:08.720 on Google that they're sort of white and my penis 0:07:09.160 --> 0:07:11.240 like it look it matches my face, you know, I 0:07:11.240 --> 0:07:14.200 mean like it's the it's the same design team has 0:07:14.200 --> 0:07:18.000 worked on both of these items. So now I'm like 0:07:18.080 --> 0:07:21.320 half an hour after dinner and I'm googling Asian dick pics. 0:07:21.400 --> 0:07:22.040 And that's. 0:07:25.960 --> 0:07:27.680 And again I don't want to embarrass anyone who want 0:07:27.720 --> 0:07:29.280 to have done this, but like, if you google it, 0:07:29.360 --> 0:07:31.480 most of the deck pics coming out of Asia, a 0:07:31.480 --> 0:07:35.040 lot of them are censored. So now I'm googling uncensored 0:07:35.080 --> 0:07:36.400 Asian dick pics. 0:07:39.400 --> 0:07:40.520 And I'm like, I find. 0:07:40.320 --> 0:07:43.840 One that I think looks a bit like mine, I think, 0:07:43.920 --> 0:07:46.600 and I'm like, oh, so then here, okay, here's the 0:07:46.920 --> 0:07:49.840 here's how obviously I'm the villain in this story, but 0:07:49.880 --> 0:07:52.320 this is how fucking crazy my brain is. I like 0:07:52.720 --> 0:07:55.520 found the photo, I then sent it to my emailed 0:07:55.520 --> 0:07:58.760 it to myself, opened it on my phone kind of 0:07:58.800 --> 0:08:01.440 like cropped it in the phone in the photos app, 0:08:01.760 --> 0:08:04.680 then screenshot at it right so the metadata would be 0:08:04.680 --> 0:08:05.800 the same, Like do you know what I mean, I'm 0:08:05.800 --> 0:08:08.520 trying to smart man in case a c I was 0:08:08.520 --> 0:08:12.480 looking at my dippics or whatever. I send this to 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:15.920 her and I'm like, here you go. And then obviously, 0:08:16.000 --> 0:08:17.920 like we've been together for like three years at this point, 0:08:18.240 --> 0:08:20.160 and she just text me you back, being like, that's 0:08:20.200 --> 0:08:20.800 not your dick. 0:08:25.880 --> 0:08:27.920 You've been together three years. 0:08:28.040 --> 0:08:30.559 You left that out of course she knows your dick. 0:08:32.240 --> 0:08:35.559 And I was like, oh, well yeah. So I was like, oh, 0:08:35.559 --> 0:08:36.240 here's what happened. 0:08:36.240 --> 0:08:37.640 I tried to use the lighting and I've never done 0:08:37.640 --> 0:08:43.960 this before, and I lost the blah blahlah blah blah. 0:08:44.559 --> 0:08:46.080 Anyway, we obviously didn't make it. 0:08:48.280 --> 0:08:49.960 So where did the sci come into it? 0:08:50.040 --> 0:08:56.000 Yeah, this is a separate one. Okay, So this is 0:08:56.640 --> 0:08:58.320 again a long time ago. This is an x I day. 0:08:58.400 --> 0:09:00.480 And to be clear, in these stories, I think this 0:09:00.520 --> 0:09:03.880 is obvious, but I'm not. I'm the object of mocker 0:09:03.920 --> 0:09:05.200 in these stories, you know what I mean. 0:09:05.240 --> 0:09:06.680 I don't want to do we got it one of 0:09:06.679 --> 0:09:07.200 these people. 0:09:07.800 --> 0:09:09.160 No, I was confused, don't worry. 0:09:09.240 --> 0:09:12.760 Yeah, So I'm like, this is this is again. Quite 0:09:12.760 --> 0:09:14.320 a while ago when I just started doing comedy. I 0:09:14.360 --> 0:09:16.400 just started doing stand up and I was like traveling 0:09:16.400 --> 0:09:18.440 around the country a lot, touring and it was like 0:09:18.480 --> 0:09:21.600 living my dream. But my girlfriend at the time, she 0:09:21.840 --> 0:09:24.920 was working full time back where we lived in Sydney, 0:09:24.960 --> 0:09:27.240 and so she was like pretty unfulfilled by the relationship, 0:09:27.240 --> 0:09:29.680 which I think is like very understandable. So I came 0:09:29.720 --> 0:09:31.920 back from a three month tour and she was like, 0:09:31.920 --> 0:09:34.400 I can't do this anymore. It's been three months while 0:09:34.400 --> 0:09:36.280 you've been away. It's been really hard. I think we 0:09:36.280 --> 0:09:39.880 should break up. And I was like, hey, I understand, 0:09:40.320 --> 0:09:43.280 you know what I mean, fair enough, So we split 0:09:43.360 --> 0:09:48.280 up that two and a half weeks later, I am 0:09:48.800 --> 0:09:51.040 going to the bathroom and I noticed some what I 0:09:51.080 --> 0:09:57.200 would broadly describe as some symptoms in like the danger zone, 0:09:58.280 --> 0:10:00.559 and I'm like, oh, this isn't good, right, Because I'm 0:10:00.559 --> 0:10:02.200 a bit of a germophobe as well. 0:10:02.800 --> 0:10:03.240 Right now. 0:10:03.320 --> 0:10:05.559 I'm like, I should go get this checked out. So 0:10:05.600 --> 0:10:07.400 I don't know if you like me. I've got two doctors. 0:10:08.800 --> 0:10:11.440 I've got the doctor I go to when everything's fine, 0:10:12.679 --> 0:10:14.560 and then I've got the shameful doctor I go to 0:10:15.520 --> 0:10:18.560 when I'm like I need help, you know. Like there's 0:10:18.559 --> 0:10:20.439 one doctor I go to. I'm like, oh, I need aspapapas. 0:10:20.520 --> 0:10:22.000 This doctor's like I need a test, you know what 0:10:22.000 --> 0:10:26.360 I mean. So I go into a place in Sydney 0:10:26.360 --> 0:10:28.240 call King's Cross, which is like kind of a I guess, 0:10:28.280 --> 0:10:31.200 like what was previously quite a sleazy area, and there's 0:10:31.200 --> 0:10:33.080 a sexual health clinic there that's like they'd be very 0:10:33.080 --> 0:10:33.600 good work. 0:10:33.800 --> 0:10:35.679 It's very anonymous. They just give you a number. 0:10:35.720 --> 0:10:37.880 It's like it's like totally it's very safe and very 0:10:38.000 --> 0:10:41.920 like very helpful. I went in there and I'm in 0:10:41.960 --> 0:10:43.960 the waiting room with my number, waiting to like at 0:10:44.000 --> 0:10:46.680 like a fucking Deli number, getting waited to be called 0:10:46.679 --> 0:10:49.600 into the doctor's office, and the doctor and the person 0:10:49.640 --> 0:10:51.679 comes out and they're calling the person before me. And 0:10:52.200 --> 0:10:54.480 when you've ever been to a sexual health clinic in 0:10:54.520 --> 0:10:59.079 the waiting room, everyone's so tense, like no one's in there, 0:10:59.120 --> 0:11:01.240 being like I'm gonna fucking nail this test, you know 0:11:01.240 --> 0:11:05.040 what I mean, Like, you know, yeah. 0:11:05.080 --> 0:11:07.480 So I'm there and I realize what's happened. 0:11:07.520 --> 0:11:11.720 I'm like, oh shit, like I think i've because I'm like, 0:11:11.760 --> 0:11:13.959 I know, I haven't you know, messed around. 0:11:14.280 --> 0:11:15.800 So that's what's happened. Oh sorry. 0:11:15.880 --> 0:11:17.920 What I didn't mention was the night we broke up, 0:11:17.960 --> 0:11:20.040 we also had crazy you know what I mean, like 0:11:20.120 --> 0:11:21.839 just one night. One night only said you know what 0:11:21.840 --> 0:11:26.160 I mean, kind of goodbysex. Right, So I was like, 0:11:26.200 --> 0:11:28.000 I know, I haven't missed around. So if I have 0:11:28.080 --> 0:11:31.040 got something, does that mean she's cheated on me while 0:11:31.080 --> 0:11:33.640 I've been away, which I guess I would understand. But 0:11:33.720 --> 0:11:35.480 then we're back and then it's you know, is that 0:11:35.520 --> 0:11:36.800 what's happening? Is that how I've got this thing? And 0:11:37.040 --> 0:11:38.439 my mom begins to squirl. I think, I think my 0:11:38.440 --> 0:11:40.559 girlfriend cheatd on me. So then the doctor comes out 0:11:40.559 --> 0:11:42.840 and she goes, oh, you know number eight eighteen or whatever, 0:11:42.840 --> 0:11:44.120 and I go into the thing and she goes what 0:11:44.160 --> 0:11:45.960 seems to be the problem and I just haven't told it, 0:11:46.000 --> 0:11:47.319 talk to anyone about this. So I break down in 0:11:47.320 --> 0:11:49.800 tears and I'm like I think my girl friend cheated 0:11:49.880 --> 0:11:50.160 on me. 0:11:51.800 --> 0:11:54.000 And she was like, oh, we mostly do pathology here. 0:11:54.040 --> 0:11:59.000 So I So then she goes, all right, give us 0:11:59.000 --> 0:11:59.280 a look. 0:11:59.320 --> 0:12:02.400 And so it was like these three marks that kind 0:12:02.400 --> 0:12:05.360 of went through down the center of my I guess, 0:12:05.400 --> 0:12:10.640 like you know, danger zone, right, and we can here, yeah, yeah, 0:12:10.720 --> 0:12:14.120 well do it was it was above the penis, right, 0:12:14.600 --> 0:12:17.760 And so she gets me too, there's. 0:12:17.520 --> 0:12:19.720 Three these three like welts, and I'm like, what the 0:12:19.760 --> 0:12:20.720 fuck is this? Right? 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:24.440 So she gets me to undo my pants and when 0:12:24.480 --> 0:12:25.800 you're at the doctor and you so, I down did 0:12:25.800 --> 0:12:28.760 my fly and you know, and they're like, went down 0:12:28.800 --> 0:12:31.840 to my jeans and I pulled down the jeans and 0:12:31.920 --> 0:12:34.520 I remember this, I pulled out my underwear, but I 0:12:35.040 --> 0:12:39.280 pull it down beneath my knees. But like so I'm like, 0:12:39.280 --> 0:12:40.880 I'm showing it my dick, but I'm like covering my 0:12:40.920 --> 0:12:42.040 ankles just in case. 0:12:44.320 --> 0:12:47.360 She goes and she goes, what's this, I'm like, it's this, 0:12:47.400 --> 0:12:48.680 and she goes, I've never seen anything like that. 0:12:48.720 --> 0:12:51.079 But I'm like, what do you mean, don't tell me this. 0:12:51.640 --> 0:12:53.600 Tell me this is just a I don't know, tell 0:12:53.640 --> 0:12:56.640 me it's a panetole can fix it, and then she's 0:12:56.679 --> 0:13:00.280 like getting the like the fucking magnifying glassing. They get everything, 0:13:00.320 --> 0:13:01.760 and she's got another. They shine the light on and 0:13:01.800 --> 0:13:05.960 I'm like, oh God. And then she's like oh, and 0:13:05.960 --> 0:13:07.560 I'm like what she and she grabs the sort of 0:13:07.559 --> 0:13:09.959 flaps of my jeans and she pulls them up like 0:13:10.000 --> 0:13:10.760 that and she goes. 0:13:10.880 --> 0:13:11.160 Oh, I. 0:13:13.000 --> 0:13:15.199 Think those marks are from the buttons on your jeans. 0:13:18.240 --> 0:13:23.080 And I was like what, and she was like, oh, yeah, 0:13:23.120 --> 0:13:24.640 I don't think you've got an s C. I think 0:13:24.720 --> 0:13:29.679 I think your jeans are just too tight. And I 0:13:29.720 --> 0:13:33.640 was like, oh, like I have had sex before, like 0:13:34.360 --> 0:13:35.320 I haven't risked. 0:13:35.600 --> 0:13:38.559 I'm dying for you. But I mean, I guess that's 0:13:38.559 --> 0:13:39.960 the best possible outcome. 0:13:39.720 --> 0:13:40.880 Best possible outcome. I don't know. 0:13:41.080 --> 0:13:43.280 Yeah, I just I just in the loneliness of the 0:13:43.280 --> 0:13:45.000 two and a half weeks, I may have eaten a 0:13:45.000 --> 0:13:46.680 couple of large pizzas just for you know, just for 0:13:46.760 --> 0:13:47.280 me or whatever. 0:13:48.000 --> 0:13:50.000 And and your jeans. 0:13:50.040 --> 0:13:52.520 Okay, all right, well Michael, You're I fucking love that 0:13:52.640 --> 0:13:54.960 you're both of your parents are doctors. 0:13:55.920 --> 0:13:59.480 Yes, but obviously you can't ask m'm about that, you 0:13:59.480 --> 0:13:59.920 know what I mean? 0:14:00.679 --> 0:14:02.079 Yeah, so you didn't want to go to mum talk 0:14:02.120 --> 0:14:05.000 about the flaccid penis and maybe the no. 0:14:05.120 --> 0:14:08.360 Both your parents and doctors, how did they feel when you. 0:14:08.200 --> 0:14:11.840 Decided to go into the creative arts acting stand up comedy. 0:14:13.440 --> 0:14:15.880 Gosh, well, not only are they two doctors, they're also Chinese, 0:14:15.920 --> 0:14:19.520 which you know is a relevant factor in this specific instance. 0:14:20.240 --> 0:14:21.840 At the time, though, I did a bait and switch. 0:14:22.240 --> 0:14:26.000 So I this is for if anyone is like my 0:14:26.120 --> 0:14:29.920 parents are like concerned about me, you know, going into 0:14:29.960 --> 0:14:31.920 a career in the arts, do what I did. So 0:14:32.640 --> 0:14:34.400 I knew I wanted to do comedy. But the other 0:14:34.400 --> 0:14:35.760 thing I was doing at the time was playing a lot. 0:14:35.960 --> 0:14:38.760 I was playing a video game a lot called StarCraft 0:14:38.800 --> 0:14:43.160 because again virgin and I was thinking about So, there's 0:14:43.160 --> 0:14:44.840 this thing called esports. You wouldn't know because you will 0:14:44.880 --> 0:14:47.280 fuck But there's a thing called esports, which is like 0:14:47.440 --> 0:14:50.160 video game competitions, and they do it a lot in Korea. 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:52.760 And I was thinking about going to Korea to play 0:14:52.840 --> 0:14:53.920 video games professionally. 0:14:54.280 --> 0:14:57.160 So I had led with that and I said, mom, Dad, I'm. 0:14:57.040 --> 0:14:59.120 Thinking about going to Korea, moving to Salta to play 0:14:59.200 --> 0:15:01.000 vide games professional that, no, you can't do that that's 0:15:01.040 --> 0:15:02.720 not a career, and I was like, Okay, don't worry. 0:15:02.720 --> 0:15:06.840 I've got a backup, stand up comedy and and that 0:15:06.920 --> 0:15:07.400 and that. 0:15:07.400 --> 0:15:08.480 So they've been pretty happy with I. 0:15:08.440 --> 0:15:10.760 Think parents are just fine, right if they love you 0:15:10.800 --> 0:15:12.200 and you love them, and they just they know you 0:15:12.200 --> 0:15:13.760 can pay rent and feed yourself. 0:15:13.760 --> 0:15:15.040 That's mostly mostly they're happy. 0:15:15.360 --> 0:15:17.800 I mean, we spoke about some of your accolades very briefly, 0:15:18.160 --> 0:15:21.040 but something and a really amazing accolade that I think 0:15:21.080 --> 0:15:24.280 most people may not know of is that in twenty fifteen, 0:15:24.440 --> 0:15:27.360 you were actually a finalist for Cleo Bachelor of the Year. 0:15:29.720 --> 0:15:36.720 Okay, scattered applause, mostly confused, some confused faces. Yeah, so 0:15:36.760 --> 0:15:39.560 I got nominated. This is if you don't remember. Cleo 0:15:39.880 --> 0:15:41.200 was a sort of a magazine that used to do 0:15:41.280 --> 0:15:43.760 sort of they used to find one hot guy every year, 0:15:44.320 --> 0:15:46.480 but before that they had elimination process with the find 0:15:46.480 --> 0:15:49.880 other other guys to compete with him. And I don't 0:15:49.920 --> 0:15:51.520 know how, but I got on their short lists for 0:15:51.560 --> 0:15:53.200 some reason, and I felt very flat and I thought 0:15:53.200 --> 0:15:54.560 it was quite funny that I was going to be 0:15:54.560 --> 0:15:58.040 on clear Bachelor of the Year, and they said, oh, 0:15:58.040 --> 0:15:59.360 you've got to come to this photo shoot and I 0:15:59.360 --> 0:16:00.840 was like, I'll go to a that sounds like fun. 0:16:00.880 --> 0:16:03.720 I've never done a proper like photo shoot before. And 0:16:05.000 --> 0:16:08.440 they said wear a white T shirt and uh and 0:16:08.680 --> 0:16:09.320 and some jeans. 0:16:09.320 --> 0:16:11.000 I was like, I can do that. And then when 0:16:11.000 --> 0:16:12.160 I turned up, they were like. 0:16:12.200 --> 0:16:13.280 I was like, why did you want to sort to 0:16:13.320 --> 0:16:14.480 wear a white T shirt? And I was like, oh, 0:16:14.480 --> 0:16:17.040 because it's it's magic Mike thing. Am I gonna get 0:16:17.040 --> 0:16:21.800 you to strip? And I was like, well that you 0:16:21.800 --> 0:16:25.440 should have told me that before I and I was like, what, 0:16:25.720 --> 0:16:27.000 why's the white T shirt? She goes, oh, well, if 0:16:27.000 --> 0:16:28.240 you don't want to strip, we'll just make it. 0:16:28.240 --> 0:16:28.800 A wet T shirt. 0:16:28.840 --> 0:16:29.960 I was like, oh, maybe that'll be a bit better 0:16:29.960 --> 0:16:33.120 because my body's whatever. And she I was like, can 0:16:33.120 --> 0:16:34.440 I do the wet T shirt seat of the stripping? 0:16:34.440 --> 0:16:37.640 And she goes okay, So she got me to stand 0:16:38.520 --> 0:16:41.080 like and you got to there's like when you turn 0:16:41.160 --> 0:16:43.480 up to these shoots, there's like twenty five. The only 0:16:43.480 --> 0:16:45.600 way I can describe them is like hot media girls, 0:16:45.640 --> 0:16:48.040 you know what I mean, Like women who have studied 0:16:48.080 --> 0:16:50.880 media at UNI, and they they're kind of they don't 0:16:50.880 --> 0:16:53.400 want to go into like I guess like hard journalism, 0:16:53.440 --> 0:16:55.960 but they want to use their degree, right, And so 0:16:56.120 --> 0:16:58.440 these people are like living their best lives, and they're 0:16:58.480 --> 0:17:03.000 all so attractive and fashionable, and they've all got clipboards 0:17:03.000 --> 0:17:04.760 and they all they were all like rating you out 0:17:04.760 --> 0:17:08.119 of ten. And you feel very emasculated at that time. 0:17:08.359 --> 0:17:11.160 And they got me to stand up against a wall 0:17:11.320 --> 0:17:13.440 in a kiddie pool and then one of the women 0:17:13.680 --> 0:17:17.440 had a bucket fill with water and she just threw 0:17:17.480 --> 0:17:20.040 a bucket of water at me, you know, like you 0:17:20.119 --> 0:17:22.680 might see someone washing an elephant. 0:17:22.359 --> 0:17:25.760 To the zoo, right, just throw a bucket of water 0:17:25.800 --> 0:17:28.640 at me. And then they like like take it. She's 0:17:28.680 --> 0:17:32.400 like funck and the photographers like, yes, more of that. 0:17:34.520 --> 0:17:35.120 So did you win? 0:17:35.560 --> 0:17:36.159 Yeah? I did not. 0:17:36.480 --> 0:17:40.760 I think I lost to Larry Emder's son. I think, oh. 0:17:40.240 --> 0:17:40.920 He's pretty hot. 0:17:41.119 --> 0:17:46.600 Okay, well, but so were you so much? 0:17:48.640 --> 0:17:49.000 Michael? 0:17:49.119 --> 0:17:53.000 You you actually use a lot of politics in your comedy. 0:17:53.200 --> 0:17:55.200 As you can tell from the three stories I've told tonight. 0:17:56.720 --> 0:17:59.159 Believe it or not, No, but I feel like, I 0:17:59.160 --> 0:18:03.720 mean politics comedy independently can be quite polarizing when you 0:18:03.720 --> 0:18:06.439 put them together, very polarizing. What made you want to 0:18:06.920 --> 0:18:10.000 use We're so political when with your stand up routines. 0:18:11.000 --> 0:18:12.720 So it's like in stand up, and I also like 0:18:12.760 --> 0:18:14.199 I work on the project and I've used to work 0:18:14.240 --> 0:18:15.760 at SBS on a show called The Theed, and you 0:18:15.840 --> 0:18:20.119 just kind of like, if you're reading a lot of 0:18:20.119 --> 0:18:22.120