Speaker 1: Hit one one seven's Rod and Gabby for Brecky. Thank
Speaker 1: you so much for sharing the start. What are we
Speaker 1: doing this weekend? Before we even get you into the
Speaker 1: Saturday and the Sunday. Nick White, fantastic comedian, is going
Speaker 1: to be here this evening. He is at the Street Theater.
Speaker 2: He this.
Speaker 1: I love the idea of this. He has different characters. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and so he's working double Judy, I don't have to
Speaker 1: be a double pay you sure the support act is
Speaker 1: him in characters? I think this is right. He posted
Speaker 1: this on his socials.
Speaker 2: Oh hello, hi mum, it's Kari.
Speaker 3: Yes, I know I have Cola ID now remember. Oh yes,
Speaker 3: of course I forgot you have that now?
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I just wanted to remind you that madd and I
Speaker 3: will be stopping by Canberra for a few nights. Yeah,
Speaker 3: on the way home from our honeymoon, on the way
Speaker 3: home from Taddy.
Speaker 4: I guess that's right.
Speaker 5: What are you coming for again?
Speaker 3: Well? I'm actually the opening act for Neck White comedy show,
Speaker 3: Yes at the Street Theater on June thirteen.
Speaker 4: Okay, Nick White as Carlie opening for Nick White. I
Speaker 4: love it.
Speaker 2: Good morning, Nick, how are you good morning?
Speaker 3: I'm good?
Speaker 1: How are you guys, Well, this is janius. Do you
Speaker 1: get double pii?
Speaker 3: Oh I wish they won't let me.
Speaker 4: Oh, just get Carlie your own ABN and you sweet.
Speaker 2: Oh you're clever.
Speaker 3: I should do that. He But then it's like I
Speaker 3: would probably have to pay Carly as my openers, so
Speaker 3: then I'm paying her anyway. So then it's just like,
Speaker 3: let's cut out the admin.
Speaker 4: You know, that's just double tax.
Speaker 5: Probably is re Yeah, that her comedy career may take
Speaker 5: off more than yours, and then you're in a real spot.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Look, sometimes people comment on my tiktoks when I'm myself
Speaker 3: and they're like.
Speaker 2: Oh, where's carl Sometimes I feel like I feel like
Speaker 2: Miley Cyrus and Hannah Montana, but everyone likes Hannah Montana more,
Speaker 2: and then I'm like having a bit of an idea
Speaker 2: toity crisis. But no, you know what, Carlie's just part
Speaker 2: of me. She's just like a facet of my personality
Speaker 2: and my soul. And if people like her more, then
Speaker 2: I'm like that's okay. Like, I know she brings nice
Speaker 2: things to people, so that's good.
Speaker 4: Well I'm a similar ban I'm assuming I really want
Speaker 4: to get some clarification behind your social media name because
Speaker 4: it's on TikTok you are miss Nicky Wanty.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's confusing, how little? Well yeah, how did it
Speaker 3: even start? Well, it's when a few years ago, when
Speaker 3: I was living in New York City. I remember there
Speaker 3: was just this one day where we're working at this
Speaker 3: architecture firm and there was this really cool apartment that
Speaker 3: we might have been working on, and I was just
Speaker 3: in an annoying mood and I was like, ooh, me
Speaker 3: wanty and everyone was like, oh, that's annoying. I just
Speaker 3: so I just kept doing it. I was like me wanty.
Speaker 3: And then and then I got really into drag race
Speaker 3: at the time, and I was like, if I was
Speaker 3: ever a drag queen, I'd call myself Miss Nikki Wanty.
Speaker 5: Yes.
Speaker 3: And then a few weeks after that, I started my
Speaker 3: TikTok and didn't think it would really go anywhere, so
Speaker 3: I just called it Miss Nicki.
Speaker 4: Wantyh My god, you are every eighties and nineties kid
Speaker 4: who has a hot mail with a terrible name that
Speaker 4: they can't get away from.
Speaker 3: Truly, And now I just live with it, and I'm
Speaker 3: fine with that.
Speaker 1: But you're the right personality type of this career that
Speaker 1: you've chosen, because ninety nine percent of us, when presented
Speaker 1: with the rest of the workplace going hmmm, pretty annoying,
Speaker 1: stop and you go, let's step this up a notch.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I can't help it.
Speaker 3: It's just it's like ingrained in my DNA to just
Speaker 3: annoy people and be just really yeah, I just love
Speaker 3: to like scare people, prank people, just make people laugh,
Speaker 3: and I just can't help it be annoying as hell.
Speaker 4: Just take it a step back for a second. Are
Speaker 4: you an architect?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I have a degree in architecture and I work
Speaker 3: as a graduate architect for a few years. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we glossed over that way too. I had to
Speaker 1: court that, Gabby.
Speaker 4: So working in New York as an architect that is
Speaker 4: a phenomenal story in itself.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean I was in New York doing yeah, working
Speaker 3: in architecture and doing stand up for about three years.
Speaker 3: It was really cool.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 1: Are you a fan of How I Met Your Mother?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 3: I get Ted Moseby comparisons all the time, little bit.
Speaker 1: Yeah right, So if you haven't seen that, it's comedy
Speaker 1: series Fantastic and Ted Moseby the lead character is studying
Speaker 1: to be an architect, and if I recall, I think.
Speaker 3: It is New York and yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: His dream was always to be able to point at
Speaker 1: a building or a bridge and go, yeah, that's that's
Speaker 1: one of mine before the comedy career took off. Did
Speaker 1: you have you had that moment yet or is it
Speaker 1: still on the horizon.
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 3: I mean there's a few little buildings in Brisbane where
Speaker 3: I was like, oh yeah, I designed that garden bed
Speaker 3: and everyone's like, oh cool.
Speaker 4: It's like my husband's a painter and we used to
Speaker 4: drive past his archway the time into woom Brood. He'd
Speaker 4: be like, I painted that.
Speaker 3: And no one cares, and I'm like, well sorry.
Speaker 4: I care right really quickly, we wanted to ask you.
Speaker 4: The name of your show is I'm Scared Babe, And
Speaker 4: the show overview says, is Nick White the first comedian
Speaker 4: to struggle with their mental health?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 4: So I decided to ask you about that because it
Speaker 4: is Men's Health Week this week. Is it that kind
Speaker 4: of theme throughout your show that people could actually get
Speaker 4: solid advice from?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean the show I want people to walk
Speaker 3: away feeling lighter and feeling a bit like silly and
Speaker 3: like they had a good time. But yeah, I talk
Speaker 3: about some really serious stuff that I've gone through in
Speaker 3: my life, just anxiety related things, but just talking about
Speaker 3: it just makes me feel a lot better and laughing
Speaker 3: about it with a room full of people. So yeah,
Speaker 3: it's just about anxiety. And the dull coworker opens the
Speaker 3: show and she has a general nervous energy anyway, Sorry,
Speaker 3: that kind of ties in well, so yeah, it's silly though,
Speaker 3: it's fun and silly, but yeah, it's it's a bit
Speaker 3: serious at times.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, your timing is right in Men's Health Week
Speaker 1: and obviously mental health being you know, the part that
Speaker 1: there understandably needs to be more focused on than ever before.
Speaker 1: Normalizing that conversation and god forbid, laughing about it is
Speaker 1: one of the most helpful things I have heard come
Speaker 1: out of the entire week, and we're very privileged to
Speaker 1: have you sharing that story this evening, you're on stage.
Speaker 1: If there are any tickets left, you'll need to be
Speaker 1: very quick to see the Street Theater performance of Nick White.
Speaker 1: This is going to be really cool. Thank you for
Speaker 1: the time today, mate, preemptive welcome back. I know you're
Speaker 1: a couple of hours away we look forward to seeing
Speaker 1: you this evening.
Speaker 3: Thanks so much, guys,