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Speaker 1: Get A. I'm Lala Berry, nutritionist, author, actor, TV presenter,

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

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

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: Radio on the pod Today is a returning guest, Monte Franklin,

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Speaker 1: incredible stand up comedian, writer, actor, producer, I want to

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Speaker 1: say director too, NonStop Go get A Today. He really

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Speaker 1: talked about the importance of balance. He's a surfer as well,

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Speaker 1: and talked about to be a really great creative or

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Speaker 1: to be a creative in general, you need to have

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Speaker 1: that thing that is like a mental and spiritual cleanse,

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Speaker 1: and for him, it's a surf trip. So it was

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Speaker 1: really cool because in the first episode or the first

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Speaker 1: pod we did together, so at three hundred and ninety,

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Speaker 1: he talked a lot about work ethic and what we

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Speaker 1: see is that tip of the iceberg and all the

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Speaker 1: work that has underneath it all you rarely see, whereas

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Speaker 1: this time he talked about the importance of finding balance

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Speaker 1: to be a better creative, so it was so cool.

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Speaker 1: We also got really nerdy over Elvis and movies and

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Speaker 1: it was so much fun talking about Australian horrors and

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Speaker 1: I learned loads today. Monty, you are welcome back on

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Speaker 1: this pod any day, my friend, to you the listener.

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Speaker 1: Literally next week he kicks off a huge global tour.

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Speaker 1: He's already started it, but he's just got this chunk

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Speaker 1: of little time now back in Los Angeles, which is

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Speaker 1: why we were able to record this pod. But he's

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Speaker 1: during all over America, the UK, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore,

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Speaker 1: then Australia from November. I believe he's in Australia. I'm

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Speaker 1: going to post all of the tour dates in the

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Speaker 1: show notes so that you can grab yourself a ticket.

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Speaker 1: Monte Franklin, You're wonderful, my friend. I'm so excited for

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Speaker 1: what's next for you, and I can't wait to do

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Speaker 1: more things with you and have you back on this

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Speaker 1: Potter Roony All right, gang, big love, hooru? How are you?

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Speaker 2: I wish everyone Gulzia T shirt. It's an old photo

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Speaker 2: of Heath Ledger looking like a legend.

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Speaker 1: Isn't he the best episode? After he passed away. His

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Speaker 1: family set up a charity and this was, yeah, part

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Speaker 1: of it. And I have two of these because it's

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Speaker 1: my favorite T shirt in the entire world.

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Speaker 2: I want to get one. Can I go online and

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Speaker 2: get one on it?

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Speaker 1: I don't know if they're still there. I'll find out

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Speaker 1: for you.

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Speaker 2: I'll find one.

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Speaker 1: Isn't he the best?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? I still when I see pictures of him or

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Speaker 2: in movies and stuff, I feel very proud. That was

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Speaker 2: someone who made us proud. A lot of people make

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Speaker 2: Australians proud, but there's a few that you really like.

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Speaker 2: Living Newton John and you just see a smile and

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Speaker 2: you just go, oh, I miss home in that smile.

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Speaker 2: And he's got that look in his eyes of just

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Speaker 2: mischief and fun and person and beach and set. Like

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Speaker 2: there's a lot that goes into that that the rest

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Speaker 2: of the world probably don't resonate as much as we

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Speaker 2: do with him.

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Speaker 1: Do you remember the movie Ten Things I Had About You?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? I watched it recently. I watched it all the time,

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Speaker 2: like on planes. You know, you just go, I want

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Speaker 2: something easy that I like, and I'll watch that quite often. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Apparently his audition, like he rolled in I don't know

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Speaker 1: as Heath.

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Speaker 2: I saw that. I saw the audition. It's very charismatic.

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Speaker 2: And they said that. Actually the guy said he was

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Speaker 2: And that's what auditions are like half the time. And

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Speaker 2: if you've been on both sides of the audition, either

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Speaker 2: auditioning or being the auditioner looking for the right person,

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Speaker 2: as soon as they walk in, you can't know because

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Speaker 2: you feel, yeah, if you're the writer of something, you've

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Speaker 2: as when you're doing those auditions and you try your

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Speaker 2: just comes down to someone else's vision in their head,

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Speaker 2: which is also fine. It's a creative process and sometimes

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Speaker 2: I remember I've gone into things and then walked out

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Speaker 2: I remember I booked a big commercial job years ago

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Speaker 2: because I fit the wetsuit that they wanted and the

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Speaker 2: director wanted the wetsuit afterwards, and he was the same size.

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Speaker 2: That's why I booked, like this American in America. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: It was like a decent pain job, like thirty fifty grand,

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Speaker 2: like a big one, Oh my god. And so I

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Speaker 2: That's what it comes down to.

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Speaker 1: I got my first acting gig in a pilot at

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Speaker 1: the start of this year, like proper La and from

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Speaker 1: teaching yoga. Oh really, they came to my yoga class

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Speaker 2: Did they come seeking you or they just came and

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Speaker 1: And we were hanging a bit and working together a

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Speaker 1: literally this friend was like, actually, you're going to be

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's how a lot of things work.

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Speaker 1: That way, right, And then You're like, is that the thing? Like,

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Speaker 1: it's so strange. La is a beast, and you, my friend,

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Speaker 1: have been here longer than me. So I want to

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Speaker 1: unpack a bit of your journey. First of all, you've

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Speaker 1: been on the pod before for the Listener, episode three

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Speaker 1: hundred and ninety, if you want to go back and

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Speaker 1: listen two years ago to the day. Pretty much, you

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Speaker 2: I made sure of that, did you know? But I

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Speaker 1: And then a year before that, you shot, produced, wrote,

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Speaker 2: I've got so many things that I feel like one

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Speaker 1: That we shot it in like some office in Santa Monica.

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Speaker 2: Proud of what we did there. I wrote and directed,

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Speaker 2: of just did it for myself. And that's the thing

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Speaker 2: what you're doing? Because I did that because I really

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Speaker 2: I went, that's pretty cool, and then I forgot to

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Speaker 1: Do you know what else you told me when we

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Speaker 1: chatted last time. You really wanted to hone your skills

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Speaker 1: as an editor, and you were like, it was the

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Speaker 1: best way for me to like sharpen all those skills.

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Speaker 1: And then you said it's coming so handy because when

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Speaker 2: Can exactly and I can go control alt this and

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Speaker 2: that's a big lesson I've learned being in LA for

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Speaker 2: Knowing all facets of what you're doing creatively is massively beneficial.

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Speaker 2: So don't ever think that you're wasting your time by Oh,

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Speaker 2: I don't think I need to do an improv class.

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Speaker 2: I don't need to do an editing class. I'm not

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Speaker 1: It's this idea of I love this idea of like

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Speaker 2: That's the biggest thing. And that's why you were teaching

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Speaker 2: yoga and someone said you were ready, right, So it's

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Speaker 1: Have you This is going to be real nerdy theater stuff.

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Speaker 1: I'm quite a theater talk. There's a famous Hamlet quote,

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Speaker 2: All, The readiness is all.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it actually means being always ready for death, like

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Speaker 2: That's good. I mean that sound it sounds mormond, But

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Speaker 2: all that means is live your life like it's your

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Speaker 2: last day, Like live life to the full. That's all

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Speaker 2: it really means, isn't it right? But it's a morbid

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Speaker 1: But it's a nice thing to think business wise, those

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Speaker 1: like stand up comedian, writer, director, producer, actor. You've done

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Speaker 1: if you're ready for one of those things to like

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Speaker 1: spark and got like you're being ready, as I think,

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Speaker 2: I kind of like being ready in that zone too.

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Speaker 2: I like being like, I will always say that I'm

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Speaker 2: the best shape I've ever been, you know. Yeah, So

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Speaker 2: all it would take is me being real strict with

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Speaker 2: working out stuff, and I will be in the best

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Speaker 2: So it's always being ready so you don't have to

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Speaker 1: have had so many years behind you as an amazing

437
00:20:56,080 --> 00:20:59,360
Speaker 1: stand up. You've done shows in Australia, like you were

438
00:21:00,800 --> 00:21:02,800
Speaker 1: top of the top of your game in Australia, and

439
00:21:02,800 --> 00:21:05,560
Speaker 1: then you come here and because Americans don't know you, yep,

440
00:21:05,680 --> 00:21:07,280
Speaker 1: like you were having to buy a ticket to go

441
00:21:07,280 --> 00:21:10,080
Speaker 1: to a comedy club before you could get the opportunity

442
00:21:10,119 --> 00:21:11,080
Speaker 1: to get on that stage.

443
00:21:11,240 --> 00:21:15,080
Speaker 2: Beer ego, beer g ego. Check. And once you can

444
00:21:15,200 --> 00:21:17,679
Speaker 2: come to terms with that and go what am I

445
00:21:17,760 --> 00:21:20,320
Speaker 2: actually again? What am I actually doing here? Do I

446
00:21:20,359 --> 00:21:22,840
Speaker 2: want to create? Do I want to make things for people?

447
00:21:22,880 --> 00:21:26,159
Speaker 2: Do I want people to love and me and indulge me?

448
00:21:26,880 --> 00:21:30,120
Speaker 2: Then go back and be on you know, farmer wants

449
00:21:30,119 --> 00:21:33,440
Speaker 2: a wife or whatever is the new love? At first

450
00:21:33,520 --> 00:21:37,840
Speaker 2: Farmer's site, some crap, it's being spat out, and then

451
00:21:37,920 --> 00:21:41,239
Speaker 2: go to the bird cage at the Flemington Races and

452
00:21:41,280 --> 00:21:43,680
Speaker 2: tell everyone that you're on TV. But if you want

453
00:21:43,680 --> 00:21:46,360
Speaker 2: to actually create and do things for people and stuff,

454
00:21:47,160 --> 00:21:51,360
Speaker 2: you commit to coming out here. You suck up your

455
00:21:51,359 --> 00:21:56,240
Speaker 2: ego and you get into the zeitgeist of what's going

456
00:21:56,280 --> 00:22:00,600
Speaker 2: on here. You meet people. This is what you met

457
00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:02,760
Speaker 2: someone at yoga class who gave you a thing. You

458
00:22:02,800 --> 00:22:04,919
Speaker 2: might meet someone at a coffee shop here who's a

459
00:22:05,680 --> 00:22:09,560
Speaker 2: very creative something and also balances out your thing. I

460
00:22:09,600 --> 00:22:11,040
Speaker 2: didn't know how to do that. Let's team up and

461
00:22:11,200 --> 00:22:13,120
Speaker 2: what do you think about that. Let's make that. Let's

462
00:22:13,160 --> 00:22:14,800
Speaker 2: make things. There's a lot of people here that want

463
00:22:14,840 --> 00:22:17,200
Speaker 2: to create and make There's also a lot of people

464
00:22:17,240 --> 00:22:20,640
Speaker 2: that want people to look at them. So weeding out

465
00:22:21,119 --> 00:22:22,720
Speaker 2: which which side do you want to sit on? You

466
00:22:23,160 --> 00:22:25,080
Speaker 2: can be someone who just wants to be looked at,

467
00:22:25,560 --> 00:22:28,280
Speaker 2: but you're going to fall into There is a lot

468
00:22:28,320 --> 00:22:30,199
Speaker 2: of them. Do you know. There's like a it's an

469
00:22:30,200 --> 00:22:32,520
Speaker 2: actual group of people here that have been on like

470
00:22:32,600 --> 00:22:34,320
Speaker 2: the Love Island and that, this and that. They've all

471
00:22:34,400 --> 00:22:37,240
Speaker 2: been on each one three or four times because they're

472
00:22:37,280 --> 00:22:39,200
Speaker 2: all part of this group of Let's say there's three

473
00:22:39,280 --> 00:22:41,840
Speaker 2: hundred people walking around in la that are part of

474
00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:46,960
Speaker 2: this reality island Fuckfest show. Yeah it is.

475
00:22:47,040 --> 00:22:48,240
Speaker 1: It's wild, yeah.

476
00:22:48,240 --> 00:22:50,560
Speaker 2: And they all go to the same parties and it's

477
00:22:50,560 --> 00:22:52,320
Speaker 2: weird and I don't want anything to do with that.

478
00:22:52,440 --> 00:22:57,840
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no. Even seeing you at the Australian

479
00:22:58,080 --> 00:23:00,919
Speaker 1: in La thing, like it was so fascinating because I

480
00:23:00,960 --> 00:23:04,000
Speaker 1: was like, oh, friend, and I do you because like

481
00:23:04,040 --> 00:23:06,200
Speaker 1: it's hard. There's a lot it kind of like really

482
00:23:06,200 --> 00:23:08,480
Speaker 1: big events. I'm like, I need to find the real

483
00:23:08,520 --> 00:23:10,239
Speaker 1: I need to find the real where I know, like

484
00:23:11,119 --> 00:23:13,359
Speaker 1: I can just be. I get to be real with

485
00:23:13,440 --> 00:23:15,320
Speaker 1: I don't know if that makes sense. Like events, I'm

486
00:23:15,440 --> 00:23:16,560
Speaker 1: quite anxious before event.

487
00:23:16,680 --> 00:23:22,200
Speaker 2: People think I'm antisocial and like socially inept because they, oh,

488
00:23:22,200 --> 00:23:23,879
Speaker 2: you don't know how to act around people, and I go, no,

489
00:23:23,960 --> 00:23:27,359
Speaker 2: I just I don't feel the need to go up

490
00:23:27,359 --> 00:23:29,119
Speaker 2: to everyone and go, whow what do you do it

491
00:23:29,440 --> 00:23:31,600
Speaker 2: like that. I don't feel the need anymore to do that.

492
00:23:31,680 --> 00:23:33,400
Speaker 2: I remember when I was first he thinking I had

493
00:23:33,440 --> 00:23:35,720
Speaker 2: to or I have to tell everyone what I do

494
00:23:35,760 --> 00:23:37,679
Speaker 2: so they think I'm great stuff. I don't care anymore.

495
00:23:37,720 --> 00:23:40,840
Speaker 2: I don't care it's not and I care about what

496
00:23:40,880 --> 00:23:44,480
Speaker 2: I do. I don't care about impressing random people, so

497
00:23:44,640 --> 00:23:46,800
Speaker 2: I don't feel the need to do it. So I'm

498
00:23:46,800 --> 00:23:49,119
Speaker 2: more than happy to sit down at an event like

499
00:23:49,160 --> 00:23:52,239
Speaker 2: that and quietly eat the food and think about if

500
00:23:52,240 --> 00:23:55,080
Speaker 2: it's nice or not, rather than needing to go around

501
00:23:55,160 --> 00:23:58,840
Speaker 2: and present yourself and sell yourself and do the thing

502
00:23:58,920 --> 00:24:01,440
Speaker 2: and all that sort of stuff. I don't care about

503
00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:02,000
Speaker 2: it anymore.

504
00:24:02,359 --> 00:24:04,960
Speaker 1: But that's what's I think that's what's very refreshing about

505
00:24:04,960 --> 00:24:06,960
Speaker 1: you as a person. You're just like, this is who

506
00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:09,040
Speaker 1: I am. I'm going to do shit that makes me

507
00:24:09,080 --> 00:24:11,959
Speaker 1: feel really good as far as I lit up creatively

508
00:24:12,640 --> 00:24:14,480
Speaker 1: and take it or leave it, And I think that's

509
00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:16,040
Speaker 1: a really great.

510
00:24:16,080 --> 00:24:17,760
Speaker 2: Do you want to know something? And I don't want

511
00:24:17,760 --> 00:24:21,359
Speaker 2: this to sound arrogant, but I am confident in what

512
00:24:21,440 --> 00:24:23,800
Speaker 2: I've done and what I've got coming up that I

513
00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:26,679
Speaker 2: don't need to sell myself if someone asks me, I've

514
00:24:26,720 --> 00:24:28,439
Speaker 2: got a pretty good bloody story to tell you if

515
00:24:28,440 --> 00:24:30,600
Speaker 2: you want to know, but I don't need to go

516
00:24:30,640 --> 00:24:33,560
Speaker 2: around selling it. And so if someone comes up and says, oh,

517
00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:36,080
Speaker 2: what do you do and I say, oh, I'm a comedian,

518
00:24:36,160 --> 00:24:38,840
Speaker 2: and they go, oh, do you work at the local thing?

519
00:24:38,880 --> 00:24:40,840
Speaker 2: And I go no, Actually, I'm on a World Tour.

520
00:24:40,920 --> 00:24:43,760
Speaker 2: Right now, that goes like it's nice that I'm at

521
00:24:43,800 --> 00:24:45,800
Speaker 2: a point in my career where I'm proud about what

522
00:24:45,880 --> 00:24:49,720
Speaker 2: I've done that if asked about it, I actually have

523
00:24:49,840 --> 00:24:55,000
Speaker 2: a decent thing to say, and that I think that

524
00:24:55,160 --> 00:25:01,560
Speaker 2: confidence gives you ownership of yourself, of what you're doing

525
00:25:01,560 --> 00:25:03,600
Speaker 2: and everything to sit there in silence.

526
00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:07,439
Speaker 1: And I rounded confidence. It's not that like airy the

527
00:25:07,480 --> 00:25:10,480
Speaker 1: way we were talking about like reality stars say nothing

528
00:25:10,560 --> 00:25:13,440
Speaker 1: as reality stars like courses for courses, but like there's

529
00:25:13,440 --> 00:25:16,560
Speaker 1: a groundedness in like I've done the work, I know

530
00:25:16,760 --> 00:25:20,040
Speaker 1: my skill is there like that is few decades, yeah,

531
00:25:20,680 --> 00:25:24,080
Speaker 1: especially of a comedian, And I think it's like knowing

532
00:25:24,119 --> 00:25:27,000
Speaker 1: that and like trusting in yourself a bit. I also

533
00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:29,760
Speaker 1: think it comes with age. I'm thirty nine, and I

534
00:25:29,800 --> 00:25:32,639
Speaker 1: know now I give such less of a shit about

535
00:25:32,640 --> 00:25:35,760
Speaker 1: what people think of me than say, even like five

536
00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:36,320
Speaker 1: years ago.

537
00:25:36,560 --> 00:25:40,000
Speaker 2: It's interesting, isn't it? Because it's not that I don't care.

538
00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:43,240
Speaker 2: I want you to. I want you to think highly

539
00:25:43,320 --> 00:25:46,359
Speaker 2: of me. Everyone does. Yeah, I just don't find myself

540
00:25:46,520 --> 00:25:49,600
Speaker 2: needing that gratification as much as I might have in

541
00:25:49,640 --> 00:25:53,320
Speaker 2: my twenties, or needing to know that you Yeah, I

542
00:25:53,359 --> 00:25:56,679
Speaker 2: hope they thought I was good enough. Yeah, that crowd

543
00:25:57,520 --> 00:26:01,520
Speaker 2: liked me enough. That's something extrinsic. Val picture is not

544
00:26:02,040 --> 00:26:04,080
Speaker 2: your thing. Anyway. When I do stand up, I know

545
00:26:04,160 --> 00:26:06,240
Speaker 2: I've done a good show. I know the audience has

546
00:26:06,240 --> 00:26:09,439
Speaker 2: felt good, and I feel good. I feel good. I

547
00:26:09,440 --> 00:26:12,440
Speaker 2: don't need afterwards to say to anyone, what did you think?

548
00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:13,120
Speaker 2: Did you like it?

549
00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:14,000
Speaker 1: Yeah?

550
00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:16,560
Speaker 2: Like I don't do that anymore because I don't I know.

551
00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:19,119
Speaker 2: I know if it was a good show, yeah, I know.

552
00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:22,760
Speaker 2: If it was a bad would it was rough?

553
00:26:23,640 --> 00:26:26,159
Speaker 1: Yeah? But that I mean, that's what is so amazing

554
00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:28,360
Speaker 1: about stand up means. I feel like every night you're

555
00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:29,320
Speaker 1: going out there, it's like.

556
00:26:29,280 --> 00:26:35,320
Speaker 2: The instance, you instantly get a feel for how you are,

557
00:26:35,600 --> 00:26:41,760
Speaker 2: what that joke was, what that means, Like, there's instant feedback, feedback,

558
00:26:42,240 --> 00:26:43,120
Speaker 2: exactly what it is.

559
00:26:43,960 --> 00:26:46,840
Speaker 1: In preparation with this, I watched one of your show

560
00:26:46,880 --> 00:26:48,240
Speaker 1: that you did in America and then a show you

561
00:26:48,240 --> 00:26:49,800
Speaker 1: did in Australia, because I was like, I've got to

562
00:26:49,840 --> 00:26:53,320
Speaker 1: see how you are the two different audiences, because your

563
00:26:53,760 --> 00:26:57,639
Speaker 1: content online is very much about like the differences, like

564
00:26:57,720 --> 00:27:00,359
Speaker 1: being in Australian living in America, and you made me

565
00:27:00,680 --> 00:27:04,640
Speaker 1: refall in love with the phrase stop piss fighting around.

566
00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:07,160
Speaker 2: Isn't It's such a funny fit, Like there's so many

567
00:27:07,280 --> 00:27:09,719
Speaker 2: funny phrases we casually just throw around.

568
00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:13,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, and like I had no idea that hippip hoay

569
00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:15,760
Speaker 1: was an Australian thing after we see Happy Birthday.

570
00:27:16,119 --> 00:27:20,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, but that one blew up fairly big online. And

571
00:27:20,480 --> 00:27:23,000
Speaker 2: the Brazilians do it, and a few other people do it,

572
00:27:23,040 --> 00:27:25,359
Speaker 2: but they do it in different ways. The Germans wrote

573
00:27:25,359 --> 00:27:26,919
Speaker 2: to they all right and they go we do that.

574
00:27:26,960 --> 00:27:30,840
Speaker 2: We just go hip ah, like they just do it

575
00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:33,400
Speaker 2: slightly differently. Yeah, there's all these different ones around the world.

576
00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:34,520
Speaker 1: It would originate then.

577
00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:37,639
Speaker 2: I don't know. I haven't gone into this. That's so fascinating,

578
00:27:38,359 --> 00:27:42,080
Speaker 2: but I'm not sure. But yeah, the you know what,

579
00:27:42,119 --> 00:27:45,439
Speaker 2: I feel like the difference sometimes with the way that

580
00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:49,280
Speaker 2: I do stand up in America and Australia. I feel

581
00:27:49,280 --> 00:27:55,400
Speaker 2: like sometimes in Australia, I'm I'm talking with a closer friend. Yeah,

582
00:27:56,600 --> 00:27:59,400
Speaker 2: I'm very I mean, I've been doing this for twenty

583
00:28:00,040 --> 00:28:02,920
Speaker 2: plus years. I'm very comfortable on stage. I know how

584
00:28:02,960 --> 00:28:04,679
Speaker 2: to talk with an audience and everything like that. But

585
00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:07,720
Speaker 2: when I'm in Australia, I almost feel like I'm I'm

586
00:28:07,800 --> 00:28:13,359
Speaker 2: closer and I have a more secondhand. They'd be that

587
00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:18,040
Speaker 2: shorthand a little bit yeah, and I can almost say, hey, also,

588
00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:21,760
Speaker 2: did you like as opposed to in America, where sometimes

589
00:28:21,800 --> 00:28:24,879
Speaker 2: I go and what you think about this is actually that,

590
00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:29,159
Speaker 2: But in Australia, it's more like get this, yes, you

591
00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:31,359
Speaker 2: know what I mean. It's a little bit more like

592
00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:34,199
Speaker 2: I'm having a beer at the pub with a friend

593
00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:37,640
Speaker 2: and talking a bit easier.

594
00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:41,320
Speaker 1: In Australia, I had no idea about the witch's hats

595
00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:43,800
Speaker 1: thing either. That's like one of your things that's totally

596
00:28:43,840 --> 00:28:44,440
Speaker 1: blown up.

597
00:28:44,520 --> 00:28:47,280
Speaker 2: It's so funny that we call it them witches hats

598
00:28:47,320 --> 00:28:49,720
Speaker 2: like traffic cones, but just because they look like the

599
00:28:49,760 --> 00:28:52,800
Speaker 2: hat of a witch. And the funniest is, like, you know,

600
00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:55,760
Speaker 2: builders on building sites in Australia, like, can we grab

601
00:28:55,800 --> 00:28:56,680
Speaker 2: six witches hats?

602
00:28:56,720 --> 00:28:59,680
Speaker 1: Like totally it's just the norm, Like we would not.

603
00:28:59,760 --> 00:29:02,320
Speaker 2: Think, yeah, you don't think that that's a weird thing.

604
00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:03,840
Speaker 2: Whipper snipper people found.

605
00:29:05,280 --> 00:29:08,920
Speaker 1: We whack a whipper snipper. I had a big meeting

606
00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:10,600
Speaker 1: with an agent here when I first got here, and

607
00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:12,880
Speaker 1: it just fucking dragged on. It was literally like five

608
00:29:13,080 --> 00:29:14,880
Speaker 1: over five months. I had to go back in and back,

609
00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:16,120
Speaker 1: and by the end of it, I was like, I

610
00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:19,440
Speaker 1: got nothing to lose, and they go, so, you know,

611
00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:21,480
Speaker 1: what's your goal? Why are you're here? Do you want kids?

612
00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:23,400
Speaker 1: Were asking really deep questions. I might this is for

613
00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:24,440
Speaker 1: acting representation?

614
00:29:24,760 --> 00:29:25,400
Speaker 2: Do you want kids?

615
00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:28,720
Speaker 1: By the end? My age, by the end, I go, listen,

616
00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:31,560
Speaker 1: I'm not hit of fuck spiders, Okay, And that's what

617
00:29:31,760 --> 00:29:33,600
Speaker 1: that's how they signed me. They called me up an

618
00:29:33,600 --> 00:29:35,000
Speaker 1: hour later and they're like, Laula, we're not hit a

619
00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:36,160
Speaker 1: fox spaders. Really. Yeah.

620
00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:38,120
Speaker 2: See, that's the kind of thing that Heath Ledger walked

621
00:29:38,120 --> 00:29:39,600
Speaker 2: in and said and got him the wrong.

622
00:29:39,800 --> 00:29:41,680
Speaker 1: Right, it's being.

623
00:29:42,280 --> 00:29:46,880
Speaker 2: Unashamably yourself and make it. Then that's interesting, and that

624
00:29:47,040 --> 00:29:50,360
Speaker 2: is that's I mean. My social media has blown up

625
00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:52,480
Speaker 2: in the last two three years.

626
00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:53,280
Speaker 1: Yeah right, Yeah.

627
00:29:53,320 --> 00:29:56,320
Speaker 2: Before that, I was like everyone trying things and all

628
00:29:56,360 --> 00:29:59,840
Speaker 2: people like this and maybe that's what will strike a chord.

629
00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:02,560
Speaker 2: And then I started doing things that I actually found

630
00:30:02,560 --> 00:30:05,680
Speaker 2: funny myself, but I thought were interesting because every day

631
00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:08,160
Speaker 2: here in America, as you know, you say something that

632
00:30:08,200 --> 00:30:10,200
Speaker 2: someone looks at you sideways and goes, what is that?

633
00:30:10,920 --> 00:30:12,840
Speaker 2: And you go, that's a very normal thing to say,

634
00:30:12,920 --> 00:30:17,400
Speaker 2: what's wrong with you? And then so I just started

635
00:30:18,560 --> 00:30:21,800
Speaker 2: saying them online and then people just started sharing them,

636
00:30:21,840 --> 00:30:25,040
Speaker 2: and then it started this thing. And I still liked

637
00:30:25,120 --> 00:30:27,800
Speaker 2: doing them. If I wasn't if I was doing them

638
00:30:28,120 --> 00:30:30,440
Speaker 2: at any stage, if I think, oh, I'm doing this

639
00:30:31,320 --> 00:30:34,240
Speaker 2: because I think that's what they need, it never works.

640
00:30:34,680 --> 00:30:37,240
Speaker 2: And so sometimes I'll go a couple of weeks without

641
00:30:37,320 --> 00:30:39,360
Speaker 2: doing them because I just I'm not feeling anything. But

642
00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:41,760
Speaker 2: then something comes and I go, ah, I'm going to

643
00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:44,160
Speaker 2: do that one. That's funny. I'm going to do one

644
00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:45,840
Speaker 2: about that. It's so good.

645
00:30:46,200 --> 00:30:51,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a lot of fun to consume your content

646
00:30:51,040 --> 00:30:53,280
Speaker 1: because it does feel like it genuinely is something that

647
00:30:53,320 --> 00:30:56,080
Speaker 1: comes from you and it's just through your life experience

648
00:30:56,120 --> 00:30:57,120
Speaker 1: and it's real.

649
00:30:57,320 --> 00:31:01,240
Speaker 2: I've always been a very patriotic Australia and I love Australia.

650
00:31:01,280 --> 00:31:04,440
Speaker 2: I love Australian mounds, Melvis Boy, Melbury's Boy.

651
00:31:04,560 --> 00:31:04,760
Speaker 1: Yes.

652
00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:07,640
Speaker 2: But I lived on the Gold Coast, so I traveled

653
00:31:07,640 --> 00:31:10,200
Speaker 2: all around Australia doing stand up. I did the mining

654
00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:12,480
Speaker 2: camps in West Australia and the territory. I've been to

655
00:31:12,560 --> 00:31:16,600
Speaker 2: the Rock, have been everywhere, and I love our country

656
00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:21,239
Speaker 2: and our culture and what that is to me, like

657
00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:23,960
Speaker 2: I was saying, is a is a smile from Olivia

658
00:31:24,080 --> 00:31:29,800
Speaker 2: Newton John and an existence there where people there's a

659
00:31:29,840 --> 00:31:32,760
Speaker 2: genuine care in Australia. Do you know what is the best?

660
00:31:33,760 --> 00:31:37,360
Speaker 2: I walked into a bakery and got a sandwich at

661
00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:39,760
Speaker 2: a bakery. You don't get astra in Australia. You don't

662
00:31:39,760 --> 00:31:41,360
Speaker 2: get that in America. You don't go and get a

663
00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:45,640
Speaker 2: sandwich a salad sandwich at the bakery. And the lady said,

664
00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:48,880
Speaker 2: where where are you coming from? And I said I

665
00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:51,640
Speaker 2: actually live in la And she went oh and was like, oh,

666
00:31:51,760 --> 00:31:54,320
Speaker 2: God's very dangerous over there. And I'm like, no, it's

667
00:31:54,320 --> 00:31:56,200
Speaker 2: all right. And then she made my sandwich and she's

668
00:31:56,240 --> 00:31:58,440
Speaker 2: asking these questions. At the end she goes, now you

669
00:31:58,480 --> 00:32:00,800
Speaker 2: take care of yourself over there in l A. Okay,

670
00:32:01,120 --> 00:32:03,959
Speaker 2: Like just some random lady at the bakery who genuinely

671
00:32:04,360 --> 00:32:06,640
Speaker 2: wanted me to take care of myself. She wasn't just

672
00:32:06,680 --> 00:32:09,320
Speaker 2: saying it. A lot of times Americans will be like,

673
00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:13,960
Speaker 2: have a nice day, I help you have a great travels. Yeah, yeah, okay,

674
00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:15,480
Speaker 2: you just said the thing you were meant to say.

675
00:32:15,560 --> 00:32:18,240
Speaker 2: She thought about me later that day. I hope it's

676
00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:20,840
Speaker 2: okay now, you know, you know what I mean?

677
00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:23,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I do like that care it does.

678
00:32:23,360 --> 00:32:24,600
Speaker 2: It does exist still.

679
00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:26,680
Speaker 1: The one thing, and I know we can we can

680
00:32:26,720 --> 00:32:29,840
Speaker 1: bang on all day about American Versustraia. It's so funny

681
00:32:29,840 --> 00:32:33,440
Speaker 1: that like the amount of Americans will be like, oh

682
00:32:33,480 --> 00:32:37,040
Speaker 1: my god, as is just so dangerous. Spiders can you

683
00:32:37,160 --> 00:32:37,760
Speaker 1: play them?

684
00:32:37,880 --> 00:32:41,880
Speaker 2: Everything that is a snake jumping out at you a spider.

685
00:32:42,080 --> 00:32:44,320
Speaker 1: And I have lived in Byron Bay for a lot

686
00:32:44,320 --> 00:32:46,720
Speaker 1: of the time. You know, you'll have a python in

687
00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:50,560
Speaker 1: your backyard. Probs, that's super normal. Whip snakes like it's

688
00:32:50,880 --> 00:32:55,120
Speaker 1: part of it. Yeah, And like old showmates here videos

689
00:32:55,120 --> 00:32:57,680
Speaker 1: and they'll be like, I'm never, I'm never, And I'm like,

690
00:32:57,680 --> 00:32:59,440
Speaker 1: it doesn't bite you, like if you've got a cat

691
00:32:59,560 --> 00:33:00,920
Speaker 1: or dogs. Yeah, be careful.

692
00:33:01,280 --> 00:33:04,000
Speaker 2: It is when you think about it, though. We grew

693
00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:08,360
Speaker 2: up in a dangerous place where we know. I don't

694
00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:10,560
Speaker 2: walk through the tall grass, you know, not to do

695
00:33:11,360 --> 00:33:13,440
Speaker 2: you know, not to swim in that. You know the

696
00:33:13,520 --> 00:33:15,880
Speaker 2: current is no, don't swim over there or at the

697
00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:18,239
Speaker 2: river mouth. No, there's probably sharks everywhere. We know all

698
00:33:18,240 --> 00:33:21,040
Speaker 2: these things, right, so despite the fact that there is

699
00:33:21,160 --> 00:33:27,080
Speaker 2: danger everywhere, we have an in built radar to navigate

700
00:33:27,120 --> 00:33:29,720
Speaker 2: through that Americans don't. So you can see from their

701
00:33:29,760 --> 00:33:32,560
Speaker 2: perspective that what do you mean, there's a jellyfish that

702
00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:34,360
Speaker 2: will keep you gets all right? Toning up north, You're

703
00:33:34,360 --> 00:33:36,520
Speaker 2: gonna be fine, and you know, we know that. They

704
00:33:36,520 --> 00:33:39,560
Speaker 2: don't know that. So for them, it is a crazy

705
00:33:39,560 --> 00:33:41,680
Speaker 2: place where everything will kill you. And the truth is

706
00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:44,480
Speaker 2: it's a crazy place where everything can kill you. It's

707
00:33:44,560 --> 00:33:48,720
Speaker 2: just we know not to step left there, step right there.

708
00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:51,240
Speaker 2: That's as simple as it is. Yeah, because there is

709
00:33:51,280 --> 00:33:54,840
Speaker 2: a huntsman in your roof, but you know he's not

710
00:33:54,880 --> 00:33:57,400
Speaker 2: going to hurt you. Yeah, he's going to move when

711
00:33:57,440 --> 00:33:59,680
Speaker 2: the rain goes, and he's going to be back outside.

712
00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:04,440
Speaker 2: He's not a shark at the post office like the Americans.

713
00:34:04,440 --> 00:34:06,960
Speaker 2: What shark? We can come up with fantasies in the head,

714
00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:11,640
Speaker 2: but it's not that far fetched. It's just we are

715
00:34:11,719 --> 00:34:14,279
Speaker 2: accustomed to know where the danger is.

716
00:34:14,840 --> 00:34:16,839
Speaker 1: Question. This is going to feel really off topic. I

717
00:34:17,320 --> 00:34:19,399
Speaker 1: every time I interview a surfer, I have to ask

718
00:34:19,520 --> 00:34:21,360
Speaker 1: have you seen sharks? When you serve.

719
00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:24,040
Speaker 2: Absolutely I've hit a shark? Was yeah, I like to

720
00:34:24,080 --> 00:34:25,560
Speaker 2: say I punched it, but I didn't. It was an

721
00:34:25,600 --> 00:34:26,759
Speaker 2: open faced slap that one.

722
00:34:26,920 --> 00:34:27,160
Speaker 1: Again.

723
00:34:27,239 --> 00:34:29,520
Speaker 2: Mick Fanning did that for us, but it was similar

724
00:34:29,560 --> 00:34:31,560
Speaker 2: to the MiG Fanning thing. I was out surfing on

725
00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:34,840
Speaker 2: the Gold Coast sunset, that's when sharks I should have

726
00:34:34,840 --> 00:34:37,360
Speaker 2: gone in. It was me and an old guy. He

727
00:34:37,440 --> 00:34:39,400
Speaker 2: was about twenty twenty meters away from me, and a

728
00:34:39,440 --> 00:34:41,640
Speaker 2: shark popped up between us. And the shark was massive,

729
00:34:41,719 --> 00:34:44,120
Speaker 2: like the fin was like a foot and a half.

730
00:34:44,160 --> 00:34:46,080
Speaker 2: The shark would have been over ten feet.

731
00:34:45,920 --> 00:34:47,000
Speaker 1: Like a white point. Do you reckon?

732
00:34:47,080 --> 00:34:50,960
Speaker 2: Like probably a gray nurse up there. But I panicked

733
00:34:51,080 --> 00:34:57,160
Speaker 2: and went and hit the shark like a terrible slap,

734
00:34:57,800 --> 00:35:00,279
Speaker 2: and then paddled in and I looked out to the

735
00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:01,840
Speaker 2: ocean and it was flat, and I thought, I know

736
00:35:01,880 --> 00:35:03,759
Speaker 2: the old guy's been killed. I left him out there

737
00:35:03,760 --> 00:35:05,960
Speaker 2: to die. And then I looked on the beach and

738
00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:07,640
Speaker 2: he was running down the beach. He'd beat me in.

739
00:35:07,760 --> 00:35:10,759
Speaker 2: He was even quicker into the beach than me. I've

740
00:35:10,800 --> 00:35:13,759
Speaker 2: had another time I was surfing over Stradbroke Island, which

741
00:35:13,800 --> 00:35:14,680
Speaker 2: is like, yeah, that's.

742
00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:18,399
Speaker 1: Because it's got a bit deep near there, isn't it.

743
00:35:18,440 --> 00:35:21,160
Speaker 2: Well, it's that. And then North Stradbroke Island is a

744
00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:24,279
Speaker 2: feeding and a breeding ground yeah for sharks, so there's

745
00:35:24,480 --> 00:35:26,840
Speaker 2: tons of them. And I looked over at my mate,

746
00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:29,799
Speaker 2: who never paddles very fast. He's kind of a slower guy,

747
00:35:29,840 --> 00:35:31,960
Speaker 2: and I looked at his paddling so fast. I'm like,

748
00:35:32,080 --> 00:35:36,880
Speaker 2: what are you doing? He's just time to go.

749
00:35:37,040 --> 00:35:39,840
Speaker 1: In Stratia, I've heard stories.

750
00:35:40,040 --> 00:35:43,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Strati is probably that. And like over in

751
00:35:43,080 --> 00:35:47,160
Speaker 2: Perth and then around the where the Great Australian Bite is,

752
00:35:47,200 --> 00:35:49,200
Speaker 2: there's a lot of sharks and stuff like that. But

753
00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:50,680
Speaker 2: I've seen a lot of them. Yeah.

754
00:35:50,719 --> 00:35:54,080
Speaker 1: Well, okay, one thing just on the shark thing, because

755
00:35:54,080 --> 00:35:55,840
Speaker 1: I can talk about sharks all day long, like I want.

756
00:35:55,680 --> 00:35:57,960
Speaker 2: To get a shark tatoo, I want to get a

757
00:35:58,000 --> 00:35:59,520
Speaker 2: shark love to.

758
00:36:00,719 --> 00:36:02,920
Speaker 1: But there is a movie that was all shot in

759
00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:06,319
Speaker 1: Queensland called Dangerous Animals. It came out about two months

760
00:36:06,320 --> 00:36:09,640
Speaker 1: ago premieric Can and all of that Australian like actors

761
00:36:09,680 --> 00:36:13,960
Speaker 1: everything as Jay Courtney is the lead psychopath and he

762
00:36:14,040 --> 00:36:17,200
Speaker 1: takes people out on shark diving tours and fees him too.

763
00:36:17,200 --> 00:36:20,360
Speaker 1: The shot. Yeah, but it's all shot like Strati, like

764
00:36:20,440 --> 00:36:21,799
Speaker 1: all in the Goldie Good.

765
00:36:21,840 --> 00:36:23,960
Speaker 2: That'll help our reputation worldwide.

766
00:36:25,280 --> 00:36:28,719
Speaker 1: In shark horror. But you should. You should just see

767
00:36:28,719 --> 00:36:30,919
Speaker 1: it for like you'll be like, surf there, surf there,

768
00:36:31,040 --> 00:36:31,640
Speaker 1: You'll love it.

769
00:36:31,760 --> 00:36:32,440
Speaker 2: Oh that's great.

770
00:36:32,560 --> 00:36:32,759
Speaker 1: Yeah.

771
00:36:32,880 --> 00:36:33,920
Speaker 2: Jai Courtney's unreal too.

772
00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:37,919
Speaker 1: By the way, he plays a phenomenal serial killer. Yeah,

773
00:36:38,160 --> 00:36:39,360
Speaker 1: crazy Eyes perfectly.

774
00:36:39,400 --> 00:36:41,319
Speaker 2: We do that well in Australia, the serial killer, I mean,

775
00:36:41,360 --> 00:36:44,000
Speaker 2: Wolf Creek and everything like that. We do horror very

776
00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:46,400
Speaker 2: well in Australia. I mean the sore guys are all Australian.

777
00:36:48,120 --> 00:36:50,440
Speaker 2: A lot of people don't know that that all of

778
00:36:50,440 --> 00:36:53,600
Speaker 2: that stuff that was Blumhouse and all that is James

779
00:36:53,680 --> 00:36:57,799
Speaker 2: Wan and Lee Wenell who did Soar Yeah, which was groundbreaking,

780
00:36:58,120 --> 00:37:02,480
Speaker 2: and now they you know, they sort of have this empire.

781
00:37:04,040 --> 00:37:05,839
Speaker 2: But my uncle dad to tell you that my uncle

782
00:37:05,880 --> 00:37:06,600
Speaker 2: did horror films.

783
00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:07,000
Speaker 1: Nice.

784
00:37:07,080 --> 00:37:09,120
Speaker 2: So my uncle was a director. He did he worked

785
00:37:09,200 --> 00:37:12,959
Speaker 2: under Hitchcock, so he did Psycho two and he did

786
00:37:14,360 --> 00:37:16,440
Speaker 2: what was it? It was Road Games, I think was

787
00:37:16,520 --> 00:37:19,280
Speaker 2: one of Quentin Tarantino's favorite movies. So when my grandpa,

788
00:37:19,480 --> 00:37:22,640
Speaker 2: my uncle passed away about fifteen years ago, Quentin Tarantino

789
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:25,560
Speaker 2: wrote a huge eulogy that we read out at the funeral.

790
00:37:25,600 --> 00:37:27,920
Speaker 2: He didn't come to the funerals in Australia, but it

791
00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:29,960
Speaker 2: was he was one of his favorite directors because my

792
00:37:30,040 --> 00:37:32,719
Speaker 2: uncle worked for, like I said, under Hitchcock. He did

793
00:37:32,760 --> 00:37:35,320
Speaker 2: Blue Lagoon. That was his biggest one. Not a horror,

794
00:37:35,360 --> 00:37:36,440
Speaker 2: but you probably know them.

795
00:37:36,480 --> 00:37:36,880
Speaker 1: Yeah.

796
00:37:36,920 --> 00:37:43,239
Speaker 2: But so there's there was this horror in Australia, this

797
00:37:43,880 --> 00:37:46,239
Speaker 2: sort of research, a lot of resurgence that started in

798
00:37:46,239 --> 00:37:48,840
Speaker 2: the seventies and stuff. There's a really good documentary on

799
00:37:48,880 --> 00:37:52,879
Speaker 2: it called Not Quite Hollywood. It explains all about it.

800
00:37:53,200 --> 00:37:56,680
Speaker 2: And so then this other resurgence came in when Saw

801
00:37:56,800 --> 00:37:59,440
Speaker 2: came in the what do you reckon to two thousand.

802
00:37:59,239 --> 00:38:02,239
Speaker 1: Early yeah, I would say two thousands, very early two

803
00:38:02,239 --> 00:38:02,919
Speaker 1: thousand yeah.

804
00:38:02,960 --> 00:38:05,480
Speaker 2: And then all these other ones came like the Babbadoo

805
00:38:05,520 --> 00:38:08,600
Speaker 2: Can and then Wolf Creek Can, all these. So we've

806
00:38:08,600 --> 00:38:11,960
Speaker 2: always done horror with it really well. What we've struggled

807
00:38:11,960 --> 00:38:16,160
Speaker 2: to do globally well is comedy, which is strange because

808
00:38:16,200 --> 00:38:20,080
Speaker 2: we are a very funny bunch of people. But comedy

809
00:38:20,560 --> 00:38:24,280
Speaker 2: we honestly bar a few other ones. And I'm sorry

810
00:38:24,360 --> 00:38:26,960
Speaker 2: because there's tons of them, and theah they're good. The

811
00:38:27,120 --> 00:38:32,000
Speaker 2: last really great worldwide comedy we had was Crocodile.

812
00:38:31,560 --> 00:38:33,080
Speaker 1: Dundee, and I knew you were going to say that.

813
00:38:33,160 --> 00:38:36,480
Speaker 2: Unfortunately, I've been to forty three states in this country.

814
00:38:36,760 --> 00:38:39,400
Speaker 2: Everyone says, oh my god, I love Crocodile Dundee, and

815
00:38:39,440 --> 00:38:41,560
Speaker 2: I'm proud of that. But I'm like, you know what,

816
00:38:41,760 --> 00:38:44,560
Speaker 2: it's time for you guys to get another taste of

817
00:38:44,600 --> 00:38:46,480
Speaker 2: the kind of comedy we should be making, the kind

818
00:38:46,480 --> 00:38:50,000
Speaker 2: of comedies that Richard Curtis makes in England, like The

819
00:38:50,040 --> 00:38:54,640
Speaker 2: Love Actually, all of those sort of romantic ones with

820
00:38:54,800 --> 00:38:57,240
Speaker 2: Hugh Grants and stuff like that. There is no reason

821
00:38:57,280 --> 00:39:00,440
Speaker 2: that we should not be on the same level of

822
00:39:00,960 --> 00:39:04,479
Speaker 2: comedy and intellectual humor. What happens sometimes is we fall

823
00:39:04,480 --> 00:39:07,440
Speaker 2: into the trap of bogan humor, which is very funny,

824
00:39:08,160 --> 00:39:11,960
Speaker 2: or we get two colloquial lies and do the Castle,

825
00:39:12,040 --> 00:39:15,520
Speaker 2: which we all loved, but it does not travel because

826
00:39:15,520 --> 00:39:17,359
Speaker 2: they don't know what scoopa down o the punt. It

827
00:39:17,400 --> 00:39:22,280
Speaker 2: means they don't know what you know Jumanji and twist

828
00:39:22,280 --> 00:39:25,360
Speaker 2: that they don't get it like we do. Okay, so

829
00:39:25,400 --> 00:39:27,759
Speaker 2: it's almost like and Captain Kim didn't work over here,

830
00:39:27,800 --> 00:39:33,440
Speaker 2: same thing, right, So there is a there is a

831
00:39:33,560 --> 00:39:36,120
Speaker 2: market in this is where I come in. So there

832
00:39:36,200 --> 00:39:41,680
Speaker 2: is a new you know what Tiger Wytt brought New

833
00:39:41,760 --> 00:39:45,000
Speaker 2: Zealand comedy to the world, didn't he And now everyone

834
00:39:45,480 --> 00:39:52,520
Speaker 2: loves that quirkiness and that edging fun. Right, So we

835
00:39:53,640 --> 00:39:58,000
Speaker 2: as Australians, I think it's time for us to sort

836
00:39:58,040 --> 00:40:01,400
Speaker 2: of not rebrand, but just a re fresher of what

837
00:40:01,520 --> 00:40:03,600
Speaker 2: Crocodile done it because if you watch that again, it

838
00:40:03,640 --> 00:40:07,759
Speaker 2: is still great. It is unreal because I'll tell you

839
00:40:07,840 --> 00:40:10,640
Speaker 2: the one reason I think that it works still is

840
00:40:10,680 --> 00:40:13,520
Speaker 2: because he knows he's full of shit. You know when

841
00:40:13,520 --> 00:40:15,759
Speaker 2: he looks at the sun and then he looks at

842
00:40:15,840 --> 00:40:17,560
Speaker 2: him watch and then he goes on it's twelve plus

843
00:40:17,640 --> 00:40:19,800
Speaker 2: thing and the smile on his face. He goes and

844
00:40:19,920 --> 00:40:21,520
Speaker 2: I'm full of shit. But she doesn't like it. And

845
00:40:21,760 --> 00:40:24,120
Speaker 2: so as Australians were like, yeah, that's basically whatever it

846
00:40:24,239 --> 00:40:26,360
Speaker 2: does in the country is just takes the bis and

847
00:40:26,440 --> 00:40:31,719
Speaker 2: then and so that endearing character that he brought to

848
00:40:31,760 --> 00:40:35,839
Speaker 2: the world still exists around in Australia and stuff like that.

849
00:40:36,200 --> 00:40:41,000
Speaker 2: But some people think that it's gone because politics has

850
00:40:41,080 --> 00:40:45,399
Speaker 2: such a big day to day in everyone's lives and

851
00:40:45,440 --> 00:40:48,200
Speaker 2: oh but with this now and with that, we're still

852
00:40:48,239 --> 00:40:50,319
Speaker 2: a great bunch of people. I'm telling you, we are

853
00:40:50,360 --> 00:40:52,600
Speaker 2: a beautiful bunch of people. And when you go home

854
00:40:52,640 --> 00:40:55,359
Speaker 2: and you and you sit and you talk with someone

855
00:40:55,400 --> 00:40:58,759
Speaker 2: at a pub and you just remember, there's some good,

856
00:40:58,840 --> 00:41:03,760
Speaker 2: kind hearted people here. The world is ready and Australia

857
00:41:04,120 --> 00:41:12,680
Speaker 2: is prepared to showcase our nature, our beauty and our

858
00:41:12,880 --> 00:41:16,560
Speaker 2: humor and the way that we can do it intellectually

859
00:41:16,600 --> 00:41:18,680
Speaker 2: as well. They're ready for it again.

860
00:41:18,760 --> 00:41:22,840
Speaker 1: So yes, can you share a tiny bit about your absolute.

861
00:41:22,160 --> 00:41:25,440
Speaker 2: I've I wrote a movie with Rob Schneider and John Clevees.

862
00:41:25,719 --> 00:41:28,560
Speaker 1: Can you write in like Scottsdale, Arizona.

863
00:41:28,560 --> 00:41:30,920
Speaker 2: During COVID during lockdown? And we all just bunk it

864
00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:33,600
Speaker 2: in a house together and wrote. Jim Jeffries came out

865
00:41:33,640 --> 00:41:37,640
Speaker 2: and wrote with us, and so yeah, we wrote about

866
00:41:37,680 --> 00:41:40,319
Speaker 2: the Ema war that happened in nineteen thirty two. So

867
00:41:40,360 --> 00:41:42,319
Speaker 2: for those who don't know true story, you can look

868
00:41:42,320 --> 00:41:44,480
Speaker 2: it up. Nineteen thirty two, the Australian government went to

869
00:41:44,560 --> 00:41:48,120
Speaker 2: war with the EMUs. There was twenty thousand EMUs running

870
00:41:48,480 --> 00:41:51,040
Speaker 2: through an air in Western Australia, tearing up farmers crops.

871
00:41:51,360 --> 00:41:54,200
Speaker 2: So the army came in with tanks and machine guns

872
00:41:54,400 --> 00:41:57,080
Speaker 2: and went to war with the EMUs and they lost.

873
00:41:57,239 --> 00:41:59,640
Speaker 2: The Emmys were too quick. They ran circles around the army,

874
00:41:59,640 --> 00:42:02,000
Speaker 2: They blew a truck trying to chase them, they jammed guns,

875
00:42:02,040 --> 00:42:06,000
Speaker 2: they made fools of themselves. So we have written what

876
00:42:06,320 --> 00:42:10,880
Speaker 2: is actually in the end a very very heartfelt, beautiful

877
00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:16,280
Speaker 2: story about a father and son really coming to terms

878
00:42:16,280 --> 00:42:19,680
Speaker 2: with themselves with each other, all on the backdrop of

879
00:42:20,840 --> 00:42:24,560
Speaker 2: fighting these unknowing the EMUs don't know there at war,

880
00:42:25,800 --> 00:42:29,080
Speaker 2: this unknowing enemy that is actually beating them severely and

881
00:42:29,120 --> 00:42:33,439
Speaker 2: making them look foolish. And then they kind of they

882
00:42:33,520 --> 00:42:36,759
Speaker 2: see the beauty in these animals, in this creation in

883
00:42:36,800 --> 00:42:42,720
Speaker 2: the land, and then change and work together with nature

884
00:42:42,880 --> 00:42:46,239
Speaker 2: and the land, and the land plays a big part too.

885
00:42:46,360 --> 00:42:49,239
Speaker 2: That's a big part about Australia that nowhere else in

886
00:42:49,280 --> 00:42:52,440
Speaker 2: the world has. Having said that, other places are pretty

887
00:42:52,680 --> 00:42:55,719
Speaker 2: exciting and different. Alaska's crazy and awesome. You know, there's

888
00:42:55,760 --> 00:42:58,840
Speaker 2: beautiful place in the world, but there's nowhere like Australia.

889
00:42:58,880 --> 00:43:00,680
Speaker 2: We have a different ecosystem and then anywhere else in

890
00:43:00,680 --> 00:43:03,880
Speaker 2: the world. That's why we have the first most stringent customs.

891
00:43:04,600 --> 00:43:06,799
Speaker 2: We have animals that don't exist anywhere else in the world.

892
00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:10,680
Speaker 2: That could be argued about Africa as well, but we're

893
00:43:10,680 --> 00:43:14,719
Speaker 2: talking about Australia now, so shut up. And so to

894
00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:20,279
Speaker 2: showcase that land and that has a big character in

895
00:43:20,320 --> 00:43:24,680
Speaker 2: the movie too, and then the EMUs do because they

896
00:43:24,680 --> 00:43:27,560
Speaker 2: inhabited that land for thousands and thousands and thousands of

897
00:43:27,600 --> 00:43:30,000
Speaker 2: years well before any of us and stuff. So there's

898
00:43:30,040 --> 00:43:33,520
Speaker 2: a beauty to that. And then so yeah, the Great

899
00:43:33,560 --> 00:43:36,439
Speaker 2: Emy War that we are filming in Australia next year

900
00:43:37,120 --> 00:43:40,680
Speaker 2: is going to and I used to say I hope

901
00:43:40,680 --> 00:43:42,480
Speaker 2: he's going to and now I've changed it too, is

902
00:43:42,520 --> 00:43:51,480
Speaker 2: going to give the world that beauty, that charm, that humor,

903
00:43:51,640 --> 00:43:55,840
Speaker 2: that that fun that they got from Crocodile Dundee, that

904
00:43:55,880 --> 00:43:58,359
Speaker 2: they got from Babe, that they got from Happy Feet.

905
00:43:58,480 --> 00:44:01,759
Speaker 2: Was it made in Australia. No, these film loved And

906
00:44:02,560 --> 00:44:06,439
Speaker 2: what Steve Irwin was in Happy Feet, Yeah, of course

907
00:44:06,440 --> 00:44:10,520
Speaker 2: he was, he had Happy Feet. But what Heath Ledger brought,

908
00:44:11,080 --> 00:44:14,560
Speaker 2: well that again to bring to the forefront of everyone,

909
00:44:14,840 --> 00:44:17,319
Speaker 2: for the world to fall in love with again and

910
00:44:17,360 --> 00:44:21,399
Speaker 2: for Australians to be very proud of again. So it's

911
00:44:21,480 --> 00:44:22,120
Speaker 2: very exciting.

912
00:44:22,200 --> 00:44:24,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's going to be unreal. Yeah, it's going to

913
00:44:24,480 --> 00:44:26,560
Speaker 1: be so good. I'm really proud of you. Thank you,

914
00:44:26,640 --> 00:44:29,200
Speaker 1: and I'm so excited for you. I can't wait for

915
00:44:29,239 --> 00:44:32,640
Speaker 1: We'll have to do another pod. Oh definitely, and give

916
00:44:32,680 --> 00:44:34,640
Speaker 1: me updates along the way. I'm so pumped.

917
00:44:34,680 --> 00:44:35,879
Speaker 2: Oh well, we'll let you know for sure.

918
00:44:36,000 --> 00:44:37,920
Speaker 1: It's going to be unreal. And you're doing it. You're

919
00:44:37,960 --> 00:44:41,000
Speaker 1: doing the thing, which I love. Can we talk now

920
00:44:41,080 --> 00:44:45,920
Speaker 1: about your global domination as far as your world tour?

921
00:44:46,480 --> 00:44:48,839
Speaker 1: Like when we caught up on the weekend, we were

922
00:44:48,840 --> 00:44:50,319
Speaker 1: talking about that, We're talking about your movie. Then we

923
00:44:50,320 --> 00:44:52,560
Speaker 1: were talking about the pod and and I was like, yeah,

924
00:44:52,560 --> 00:44:54,719
Speaker 1: of course I come on back like love having you

925
00:44:54,760 --> 00:44:56,359
Speaker 1: on the pod, and You're like yeah, so it's got

926
00:44:56,400 --> 00:44:57,239
Speaker 1: to happen in the next week.

927
00:44:58,520 --> 00:44:59,040
Speaker 2: What do you mean?

928
00:45:00,400 --> 00:45:02,719
Speaker 1: What do you mean? And You're like, well, I start

929
00:45:02,800 --> 00:45:05,799
Speaker 1: doing and I went on your website. You literally start

930
00:45:05,840 --> 00:45:07,719
Speaker 1: during is it like the first of August.

931
00:45:07,520 --> 00:45:10,399
Speaker 2: I've been touring. Yeah, but I'm doing the US and

932
00:45:11,480 --> 00:45:13,840
Speaker 2: so this is how it works. I start the shows

933
00:45:14,440 --> 00:45:16,799
Speaker 2: in comedy clubs and by the time I get to

934
00:45:16,880 --> 00:45:19,280
Speaker 2: Australia back in the thing, I do the big theaters.

935
00:45:19,360 --> 00:45:23,200
Speaker 2: So it's like a build up of bigger and bigger

936
00:45:23,200 --> 00:45:24,719
Speaker 2: and bigger and bigger till you get to the big

937
00:45:24,760 --> 00:45:27,839
Speaker 2: theaters in Australia. And so I've been the last couple

938
00:45:27,880 --> 00:45:31,439
Speaker 2: of months like San Diego, Chicago, Denver, all the big ones.

939
00:45:31,800 --> 00:45:34,040
Speaker 2: And then I've got a week off now in La

940
00:45:34,239 --> 00:45:37,000
Speaker 2: so I'm just sort of doing the pod. Yeah, and

941
00:45:37,920 --> 00:45:39,400
Speaker 2: then you know, hanging out with my sister and my

942
00:45:39,440 --> 00:45:41,160
Speaker 2: niece and nephew and stuff and doing that. And then

943
00:45:41,200 --> 00:45:45,040
Speaker 2: I go back. I do Canada, and then I do

944
00:45:45,120 --> 00:45:47,520
Speaker 2: the East Coast. I do like New York, Philly, Boston,

945
00:45:47,560 --> 00:45:49,560
Speaker 2: all those sort of ones, and then I go over

946
00:45:49,600 --> 00:45:54,319
Speaker 2: and do UK Europe. I do about twoty this. Yeah,

947
00:45:54,360 --> 00:45:57,600
Speaker 2: I'm doing Zerich and Geneva this time. Like I don't

948
00:45:57,640 --> 00:46:00,000
Speaker 2: know why I've got Japan. I'm doing Japan for the

949
00:46:00,160 --> 00:46:02,839
Speaker 2: first time. I'm doing Bali and Thailand and Hong Kong,

950
00:46:03,000 --> 00:46:06,640
Speaker 2: Singapore and then yeah, and then I head back down

951
00:46:06,680 --> 00:46:08,960
Speaker 2: to Australia doing New Zealand for the first time. I've

952
00:46:09,000 --> 00:46:11,399
Speaker 2: never done New Zealand, so that'll be.

953
00:46:11,480 --> 00:46:13,480
Speaker 1: It's got a huge comedy. New Zealand is like a

954
00:46:13,560 --> 00:46:16,319
Speaker 1: huge comedy. Yeah, Like some of the if you think

955
00:46:16,360 --> 00:46:18,440
Speaker 1: of some of the big oz like what we call

956
00:46:18,520 --> 00:46:21,480
Speaker 1: Oussie comedians. So many of them are Keeway's, like the

957
00:46:21,480 --> 00:46:23,320
Speaker 1: ones dominating in Australia.

958
00:46:23,200 --> 00:46:27,600
Speaker 2: Derby in our movie too, Yes I did read that. Yeah,

959
00:46:27,640 --> 00:46:31,319
Speaker 2: so yeah, and all Tiger and all those guys I

960
00:46:31,320 --> 00:46:35,600
Speaker 2: mean New Zealand. Yeah, fantastic an Sax what I like. Yeah,

961
00:46:35,640 --> 00:46:38,680
Speaker 2: but yeah, so it is a it's a lot though,

962
00:46:38,760 --> 00:46:41,000
Speaker 2: Like I'm in Paris for the night and then I'm

963
00:46:41,040 --> 00:46:43,719
Speaker 2: in think for like I won't experience my I'll do

964
00:46:43,800 --> 00:46:45,920
Speaker 2: one thing in each place type thing. I'll look at

965
00:46:45,920 --> 00:46:47,680
Speaker 2: the Eiffel Tower and go there it is, and then

966
00:46:47,719 --> 00:46:48,799
Speaker 2: I'll go and do the show.

967
00:46:49,239 --> 00:46:51,719
Speaker 1: I've got a massive crush on Mumford and Sons. You

968
00:46:51,719 --> 00:46:54,080
Speaker 1: know the band. You're a millennial, You've got the similar

969
00:46:54,080 --> 00:46:57,239
Speaker 1: age and I we went and saw them at the

970
00:46:57,239 --> 00:47:01,000
Speaker 1: Hollywood Bowl. But apparently because they true so they're touring

971
00:47:01,080 --> 00:47:03,839
Speaker 1: right now, and they tour and his whole thing is

972
00:47:04,000 --> 00:47:05,600
Speaker 1: no matter if they're in a place for just like

973
00:47:05,680 --> 00:47:08,799
Speaker 1: one night, they have to walk like they get out

974
00:47:08,800 --> 00:47:11,600
Speaker 1: and walk to like live it's the best, get the smells,

975
00:47:11,719 --> 00:47:12,279
Speaker 1: like get air.

976
00:47:12,520 --> 00:47:15,799
Speaker 2: But that's why some of these cities made for that

977
00:47:15,920 --> 00:47:20,800
Speaker 2: walk cities. Amsterdam's great Copenhagen was awesome. Just walk cities.

978
00:47:21,120 --> 00:47:22,319
Speaker 2: There's ones that are La is.

979
00:47:22,239 --> 00:47:24,440
Speaker 1: Not a walk obviously, so yeah.

980
00:47:24,080 --> 00:47:26,719
Speaker 2: They're ones that are walk cities great, the ones that

981
00:47:27,280 --> 00:47:29,200
Speaker 2: you know if you go to and you just ask,

982
00:47:29,280 --> 00:47:31,200
Speaker 2: what's the thing I need to see? Like when I

983
00:47:31,239 --> 00:47:34,600
Speaker 2: was in Seattle. There's a mount there, a mountain called

984
00:47:34,800 --> 00:47:38,040
Speaker 2: Mount rain or sorry forgetting that wrong. Seattle people, I

985
00:47:38,080 --> 00:47:41,480
Speaker 2: called it Mount Fuji, but it's this huge mountain and

986
00:47:41,520 --> 00:47:43,520
Speaker 2: they said, yeah, you could go out there for the day.

987
00:47:43,560 --> 00:47:44,960
Speaker 2: And I go, I'm going to do that, and they go, well,

988
00:47:45,000 --> 00:47:46,480
Speaker 2: the best place to see it is from here. So

989
00:47:46,520 --> 00:47:48,400
Speaker 2: I went and looked at it from a distance and went,

990
00:47:48,440 --> 00:47:51,040
Speaker 2: there is great tick and it was awesome. But I

991
00:47:51,080 --> 00:47:53,840
Speaker 2: was like, all right, that's done, and so you just

992
00:47:53,880 --> 00:47:55,400
Speaker 2: got time to do one sort of thing. When I

993
00:47:55,480 --> 00:47:57,000
Speaker 2: was in Berlin, I was u there for the night,

994
00:47:57,040 --> 00:47:59,640
Speaker 2: so you know, I went, I saw the wall, I

995
00:47:59,640 --> 00:48:01,279
Speaker 2: looked at it. There it is good.

996
00:48:02,040 --> 00:48:03,719
Speaker 1: Can I can I give you something to do? When

997
00:48:03,800 --> 00:48:06,040
Speaker 1: I know you're touring Nashville? Can I give you something

998
00:48:06,080 --> 00:48:07,400
Speaker 1: amazing to do in Nashville?

999
00:48:07,440 --> 00:48:07,720
Speaker 2: Please?

1000
00:48:08,200 --> 00:48:11,279
Speaker 1: The Johnny Cash Museum is off the chain. I'm a

1001
00:48:11,320 --> 00:48:16,200
Speaker 1: massive Johnny, but like spend some time, especially, like so

1002
00:48:16,239 --> 00:48:17,600
Speaker 1: you can do it in like an hour if you want.

1003
00:48:18,440 --> 00:48:21,239
Speaker 1: But the very end, not to give it away, but

1004
00:48:21,360 --> 00:48:25,560
Speaker 1: like watch is there no, just watch It's like, you

1005
00:48:25,600 --> 00:48:29,120
Speaker 1: know his cover of Hurt, Yeah, yeah, incredible. So you

1006
00:48:29,360 --> 00:48:33,040
Speaker 1: like you walk out of the museum like ball pretty bad.

1007
00:48:33,120 --> 00:48:33,719
Speaker 1: It's so good.

1008
00:48:34,040 --> 00:48:38,400
Speaker 2: I read somewhere or made it up that hrsor is

1009
00:48:38,400 --> 00:48:41,439
Speaker 2: that so he said, all right, that's his song now,

1010
00:48:41,719 --> 00:48:44,520
Speaker 2: like he actually just said that's.

1011
00:48:44,480 --> 00:48:47,880
Speaker 1: Apparently when Johnny Cash asked to cover it, he's like,

1012
00:48:47,960 --> 00:48:50,759
Speaker 1: I don't know that. He's like, I'm honored, but I

1013
00:48:50,760 --> 00:48:53,680
Speaker 1: don't know that this is a fit. Yeah yeah, obviously

1014
00:48:53,840 --> 00:48:57,359
Speaker 1: right naturally. And apparently when he saw it, he sat

1015
00:48:57,480 --> 00:48:59,000
Speaker 1: like sat down, watched the video, OKAP, and he said,

1016
00:48:59,000 --> 00:49:01,480
Speaker 1: I was taken back to like my first heartbreak man,

1017
00:49:01,640 --> 00:49:02,920
Speaker 1: and like, yeah, it's.

1018
00:49:02,760 --> 00:49:05,360
Speaker 2: Such a good There's not many covers that are better

1019
00:49:05,440 --> 00:49:08,040
Speaker 2: for that one, for sure, the number one do you reckon?

1020
00:49:08,080 --> 00:49:10,080
Speaker 2: There's a few good ones, I mean Houston.

1021
00:49:11,480 --> 00:49:12,239
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, this is true.

1022
00:49:12,400 --> 00:49:15,080
Speaker 2: Well I've done this before, drunken with friends, trying to

1023
00:49:15,120 --> 00:49:17,759
Speaker 2: think the best color and the cover I get buy

1024
00:49:17,760 --> 00:49:19,840
Speaker 2: a little help with my friends Joe Cocker is actually

1025
00:49:19,840 --> 00:49:22,080
Speaker 2: better than the Beatles one, which is very rare.

1026
00:49:22,600 --> 00:49:25,440
Speaker 1: Also, like what about Can't help Falling in Love with You?

1027
00:49:25,480 --> 00:49:28,760
Speaker 1: That's Elvis's. There's so many of Elvis's.

1028
00:49:28,360 --> 00:49:30,200
Speaker 2: That cover covers pretty much.

1029
00:49:30,239 --> 00:49:33,200
Speaker 1: If you do doing Memphis, are you doing anywhere else?

1030
00:49:34,239 --> 00:49:36,200
Speaker 1: I was going to say Graceland. I'm obsessed with Elvis.

1031
00:49:36,400 --> 00:49:37,840
Speaker 2: We went. I went because I went and did the

1032
00:49:37,880 --> 00:49:40,040
Speaker 2: show with Rob Schneider. Because I was with him, we

1033
00:49:40,080 --> 00:49:45,120
Speaker 2: got to go into different parts of Graceland quality more

1034
00:49:45,160 --> 00:49:47,839
Speaker 2: than the average bear. And then we did a night

1035
00:49:48,040 --> 00:49:50,879
Speaker 2: show that night at Graceland. No, yeah, it was the best,

1036
00:49:50,920 --> 00:49:54,560
Speaker 2: one of the best nights of my life. We got

1037
00:49:54,560 --> 00:49:57,000
Speaker 2: the full Elvis thing. Is there's a you know that

1038
00:49:57,120 --> 00:49:59,000
Speaker 2: Elvis Comeback special where he sings in front of the

1039
00:49:59,000 --> 00:50:01,319
Speaker 2: big red Elvis picture of me and Rob Schnid are

1040
00:50:01,320 --> 00:50:03,480
Speaker 2: standing in front of that. Because we got to We've

1041
00:50:03,480 --> 00:50:05,520
Speaker 2: got to do the full thing. And I'm a huge

1042
00:50:05,520 --> 00:50:06,640
Speaker 2: Elvis fan. It was unreal.

1043
00:50:06,800 --> 00:50:09,279
Speaker 1: His energy is one hundred percent still there. Not to

1044
00:50:09,280 --> 00:50:10,480
Speaker 1: get hippie on you.

1045
00:50:10,280 --> 00:50:14,120
Speaker 2: No I say it. I'm not a religious person, but

1046
00:50:14,160 --> 00:50:16,959
Speaker 2: I felt the presence of the Lord in that house, And.

1047
00:50:17,080 --> 00:50:18,640
Speaker 1: Did you go to his grave, like where the water

1048
00:50:20,040 --> 00:50:23,000
Speaker 1: it's really something happened, do you know what was?

1049
00:50:23,800 --> 00:50:25,600
Speaker 2: Because I've been there a couple of times, to Graceland,

1050
00:50:25,640 --> 00:50:28,600
Speaker 2: I love it, Yeah, but this time Lisa Marie was

1051
00:50:28,640 --> 00:50:32,040
Speaker 2: there and that really took me back because I went, oh,

1052
00:50:32,040 --> 00:50:36,040
Speaker 2: ship that just happened years ago. She's there and she's

1053
00:50:36,160 --> 00:50:40,360
Speaker 2: part of this world, and it's a it's a very

1054
00:50:40,480 --> 00:50:43,280
Speaker 2: very overwhelming experience Graceland.

1055
00:50:43,480 --> 00:50:46,000
Speaker 1: When you get to the grave in his meditation area,

1056
00:50:46,160 --> 00:50:48,320
Speaker 1: something happens. Everyone just stops, like it goes.

1057
00:50:48,200 --> 00:50:51,760
Speaker 2: Quiet completely and every understands and stars and everyone stops

1058
00:50:52,160 --> 00:50:52,920
Speaker 2: taking their phones.

1059
00:50:53,640 --> 00:50:55,600
Speaker 1: I just touched the ground. I was just like sitting

1060
00:50:55,600 --> 00:50:56,040
Speaker 1: there like.

1061
00:50:56,320 --> 00:50:58,239
Speaker 2: I just was, Yeah, I just kind of stand and

1062
00:50:58,280 --> 00:51:04,160
Speaker 2: look and what I Unfortunately, my brain goes to this

1063
00:51:04,920 --> 00:51:09,720
Speaker 2: human being was so talented, so incredible, gave the world

1064
00:51:09,800 --> 00:51:13,640
Speaker 2: so much, and it felt a little bit like we

1065
00:51:13,719 --> 00:51:18,360
Speaker 2: let him down a little bit as people, as humanity,

1066
00:51:18,640 --> 00:51:21,800
Speaker 2: we just kept we want more, we want another movie.

1067
00:51:22,080 --> 00:51:24,000
Speaker 2: And I feel the same a little bit with Michael Jackson,

1068
00:51:24,360 --> 00:51:26,600
Speaker 2: like we just want more, just keep taking from these

1069
00:51:28,719 --> 00:51:31,719
Speaker 2: but you never really know the true story of everything.

1070
00:51:31,960 --> 00:51:33,960
Speaker 2: But it just felt felt a little bit like that

1071
00:51:34,040 --> 00:51:36,560
Speaker 2: like I felt. I almost felt like we'd let it

1072
00:51:36,640 --> 00:51:37,479
Speaker 2: some him down.

1073
00:51:37,840 --> 00:51:39,279
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well he never left America.

1074
00:51:39,560 --> 00:51:41,600
Speaker 2: I never left America. The best he did was Hawaii.

1075
00:51:41,840 --> 00:51:46,120
Speaker 1: Yeah America. Yeah, yeah, no, no, no. I love that

1076
00:51:46,120 --> 00:51:48,560
Speaker 1: we can bond over Elvis by the way, I am.

1077
00:51:49,080 --> 00:51:52,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, my love forever started with Elvis movies, not his music.

1078
00:51:52,360 --> 00:51:54,200
Speaker 2: I used to watch them with my grandma. Clan Baker

1079
00:51:54,239 --> 00:51:55,000
Speaker 2: was my fam flan bake.

1080
00:51:55,040 --> 00:51:58,000
Speaker 1: My mum had a clam bake. It's just like we're

1081
00:51:58,000 --> 00:52:00,400
Speaker 1: moving out of the house. I'm having a summer clam

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Speaker 1: bake finally. So yeah, but yeah, incredible. Yeah, I could

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Speaker 1: deep dive that with you for ages. But I'm it

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Speaker 1: was so nice just to sit and chat with you

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Speaker 1: and to the listeners. All the two were info is

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Speaker 1: going to be in the show notes to the Aussie listeners, Chrissy,

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Speaker 1: time you're there from like November.

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Speaker 2: All of November is Australia. So and I'm doing all

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00:52:23,440 --> 00:52:26,600
Speaker 2: the major this the major city biggies. Yeah, you know,

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Speaker 2: but I've added Darwin, not that it's not a major one,

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Speaker 2: but I hadn't done it before.

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Speaker 1: I feel like you've had Townsville or something. I feel

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00:52:33,880 --> 00:52:36,520
Speaker 1: like I've seen something or there's a word that I

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00:52:36,560 --> 00:52:39,120
Speaker 1: was like, oh, that's out of Australia. Maybe it was

1095
00:52:39,160 --> 00:52:40,040
Speaker 1: a wor I don't know.

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Speaker 2: It could have been Auckland.

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Speaker 1: No, oh my goodness. But anyway, you're doing so much

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00:52:48,640 --> 00:52:52,680
Speaker 1: and to the America. I know there's some amazing American

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00:52:52,719 --> 00:52:54,439
Speaker 1: listeners on this pot as well. I'm going to pop

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Speaker 1: it all here. Do you have a favor, Go and

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00:52:56,680 --> 00:52:57,640
Speaker 1: see Monty Franklin.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, come and see me live. Thanks guys, thanks for

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Speaker 2: having you knowwed it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a wrap on another episode of Fearlessly Failing.

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Speaker 1: As always, thank you to our guests, and let's continue

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