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Speaker 1: Tonight's guest Tales from the talk show Trenches, is at

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Speaker 1: Studio Underground at State Theater Center next week from February

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Speaker 1: eleven to fifteen. It's available through fringeworld, dot com dot you.

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Speaker 2: It's row Hello, he's come back early because he's come

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Speaker 2: back for home.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 1: I am.

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Speaker 3: I am the guest of my own show, the one

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Speaker 3: guest I could never get on the show. Guests to

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Speaker 3: ask I reckon, I'll clam up, I'll ask myself something

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Speaker 3: and then say, how dare you do not ask me?

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Speaker 1: We did want to ask who's the one guest that

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Speaker 1: you tried and tried and tried and never cook guest.

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Speaker 3: For a long well? John Howard? Oh, then prime minister Yep,

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Speaker 3: but it actually happened. No, he never did.

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Speaker 1: Never did.

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Speaker 3: We got Kevin rud when he was Prime minister, but

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Speaker 3: Howard never came on, which I was kind of happy

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Speaker 3: with because at the time I don't think I would

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Speaker 3: have been ready for it. I think the biggest antidote

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Speaker 3: for this big campaign we did. It turned into like

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Speaker 3: a national a viral sensation of any time someone else

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Speaker 3: had the prime minister on their program or he was

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Speaker 3: out campaigning on the streets, strangers would come up to him,

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Speaker 3: or people on other TV shows would say to him,

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Speaker 3: why don't you do V's show, And he was dodging

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Speaker 3: it and dodging it, but the antidote would have been

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Speaker 3: him turning around and go okay, yeah, because I had

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Speaker 3: a panic, I would have known how to interview a

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Speaker 3: prime minister in my twenties.

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Speaker 2: E I'm terriforied. He would have loved everything to be controlled. Yes,

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Speaker 2: you see, and he knew that if he went on

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Speaker 2: your show, yes, no control and anything could happen.

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Speaker 3: And yet Kevin Rudd came on and answered the question

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Speaker 3: who would you turn gay for? When I was asking

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Speaker 3: that back in the day, who was it? Get his wife? Oh?

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Speaker 1: He didn't understand the question.

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Speaker 3: Which led to Howard, jeez, wouldn't that have been an

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Speaker 3: interesting campaign? So yes, me, well, telling tales like that,

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Speaker 3: I guess it's pretty much the show. But there is

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Speaker 3: an element where anyone who comes to the show there

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Speaker 3: is an open Q and a element. So anything, I

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Speaker 3: tried to cover all the things that I think everybody

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Speaker 3: wants to know, and then towards the end there's an

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Speaker 3: open mic section where everyone can ask me something that

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Speaker 3: They've always wanted to know or anything.

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Speaker 1: I've skipped questions like who would you say is the

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Speaker 1: biggest celebrity you ever had on the show?

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Speaker 3: Oh, that's interesting questions like that the biggest? Well, look,

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Speaker 3: We've I've had members of the royal family. I've had,

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Speaker 3: I've never had like I would have loved to have had,

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Speaker 3: like Barack Obama, like a president would have been interesting.

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Speaker 3: Maybe what George Clooney? Would that be one? Oh so

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Speaker 3: David Hattenbrush, surely I've.

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Speaker 1: Did had everyone's number one.

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Speaker 3: And like spans generations I have When interviewing him. The

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Speaker 3: last time I interviewed him was in London. I was

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Speaker 3: in London with him because he doesn't travel so much anymore.

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Speaker 3: Cameramen who were there on the day older than me.

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Speaker 3: My daughter was asking me about him because I said

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Speaker 3: I'm going to interview Sir David Attenborough. And she was

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Speaker 3: much younger at the time. She's twelve now, but at

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Speaker 3: the time her response was, oh, is that is he

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Speaker 3: an actual person? She thought he was just this mysterious

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Speaker 3: voice she heard over footage of mating animals.

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Speaker 2: I've just heard him on YouTube.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought he was he was just a soothing

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Speaker 3: ai bot voice. So that's you go. That's a generational,

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Speaker 3: multi generational name.

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Speaker 2: Because you were when the whole Row Live thing start.

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Speaker 2: You were only in your mid twenties, weren't you.

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Speaker 3: I was twenty five.

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Speaker 2: So how does a twenty five year old fella convince

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Speaker 2: a TV network to go, Hey, I've got this great

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Speaker 2: idea for a live chat show.

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Speaker 3: How dare you? They came to me I was doing

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Speaker 3: I was doing community Why did they come to you

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Speaker 3: my owniness?

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Speaker 2: Why did they come to you were twenty five year

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Speaker 2: old to give him his own show?

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Speaker 3: Well, I was doing Community TV Channel thirty one, which

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Speaker 3: used to exist here in WS and they were obviously

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Speaker 3: watching doing a very similar show there that i'd got

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Speaker 3: through through doing stand up and had someone just call

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Speaker 3: out of the blue and said, do you want to

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Speaker 3: come in for a meeting. They'd heard about me because

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Speaker 3: we'd had guests on the show, and some of those

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Speaker 3: people were local TV talent. So I think Larry enda

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Speaker 3: was was a big name back in the day Channel nine,

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Speaker 3: And if you've read his autobiography, he mentions the letter

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Speaker 3: that he sent me afterwards to kind of he said,

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Speaker 3: I went back to the network and said, this kid's

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Speaker 3: pretty good, Like, if anyone else is asked to go

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Speaker 3: on this show, you should do it. It's professional and

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Speaker 3: he's really good. So he now claims that he's responsible for.

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Speaker 2: Grecial success major yeah, gracious.

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Speaker 1: So he.

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Speaker 3: He earned me three gold logis, I've only earned him one,

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Speaker 3: so flar, but it out.

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Speaker 2: Who's your Who's your favorite TV show host at the moment?

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Speaker 2: Like talk?

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Speaker 3: I love Stephen Colbert Stephen Colbert, and he's one of

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Speaker 3: the few that I haven't seen live. I've been to

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Speaker 3: pretty much every other talk show that's ever existed at

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Speaker 3: some point, so he's his is the only one that

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Speaker 3: I haven't had the chance to see. And I do

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Speaker 3: love John Oliver, although a lot of people think his

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Speaker 3: show is not technically a Oh and John Mulaney, the

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Speaker 3: show that he does on Netflix, yea, Everyone's Everyone's in

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Speaker 3: La is a great one. He It's a very different

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Speaker 3: type of show, but it's a very good one.

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Speaker 1: Are you glad you didn't have to put up with

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Speaker 1: the whole cancel culture nonsense at the time that you

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Speaker 1: were doing the show?

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Speaker 3: These guys, I think cancel culture is still very nonsensical anyone.

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Speaker 1: Actually, they are suffering.

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Speaker 3: Well, certainly like he was me making jokes about prime ministers,

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Speaker 3: and at no point did they say, have that show

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Speaker 3: taken off air? So I think we got we got

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Speaker 3: off Okay, Yeah, But I think there's also just a

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Speaker 3: level to which I think sometimes we weren't really having

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Speaker 3: to deal with social media people getting fired up. We

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Speaker 3: had a lot of you glad inverted commas controversies over

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Speaker 3: the years, but they blew over pretty quick.

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Speaker 1: Good old days. Well, Tonight's guest tales from the Talk

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Speaker 1: show Trenches, as I said, February eleven to fifteen, at

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Speaker 1: the State Theater, Santa. Tickets are available through Fringe world

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Speaker 1: dot com dot are you? Thank you? You know what

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Speaker 1: I'd love to see you do? Is you know? David

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Speaker 1: Letterman's My next guest, needs know.

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Speaker 3: Do one of those like a nice long form.

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Speaker 1: Yes, one person long form lover let them.

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Speaker 3: Roll sounds good, Okay, let's do it.

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Speaker 2: You're in all right.

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Speaker 3: First guest, John Howard, good luck. Thanks