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Speaker 1: Hello, Hello, Rube, I'm here.

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Speaker 2: I'm here to claim the twenty four k for twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty four you have to get on the list.

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Speaker 1: How have you two been?

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Speaker 3: Very well? Very well.

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Speaker 2: We've been on a summer holiday and we both look

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Speaker 2: so rough. It's going on.

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Speaker 3: It's the third day back after holidays. Is it gets

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Speaker 3: harder every day? You are here for Fringe?

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Speaker 1: Of course I am indeed, k Hole is back, that's it.

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Speaker 1: And apocalypstick double the fun.

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Speaker 3: The smell of lip bum in the morning is.

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Speaker 2: That well, let's just be honest. Petroleum makeup, fashion, it's

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Speaker 2: all pollution. But if it's not killing a dolphin, I

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Speaker 2: won't wear it.

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Speaker 1: Are you happy? Can I just say? Also, what a

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Speaker 1: thrill it is to be back in Perth.

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Speaker 2: But the car you guys sent for me today from

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Speaker 2: my hotel, it was not a car. It was a

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Speaker 2: nineteen twenty five Volvo. This car was so old it

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Speaker 2: voted no. And the air color on this thing, the

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Speaker 2: air cut on there, It had no air cot. It

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Speaker 2: was just an old Sweetish man blowing off my face.

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Speaker 2: Chosen that I should chosen that phrase. So one of

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Speaker 2: the old boxing bolbos. One of the old boxing bolbos

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Speaker 2: I guess what broke down? No, no, absolutely broke down.

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Speaker 2: So there's me standing on the court and I don't

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Speaker 2: know how to drive. Last time I was in a car,

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Speaker 2: I chipped my teeth on the gearstick. So do you

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Speaker 2: think you think I know what to do? I have

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Speaker 2: to call the R a CV, and what's happening like?

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Speaker 1: Well, the room from it doesn't go waiting a while?

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Speaker 1: Is that that's a long distance drive for them? I

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Speaker 1: don't even know. I just drop the V here the

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Speaker 1: V I I often do.

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Speaker 2: I often do try and drop the V, but it

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Speaker 2: comes back every so often.

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Speaker 1: What can I say? But it was nice.

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Speaker 2: I stopped by on my way to get my next

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Speaker 2: COVID vaccine. I got it fire and I got it

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Speaker 2: in the forehead purely out of habit. I don't want

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Speaker 2: to say. My plastic surgeon is busy, but she lives

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Speaker 2: with her knees. Absolutely the K hole.

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Speaker 3: Yes, it's back bye, you know, by great demand. Let's

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Speaker 3: not beat around the bush. The K hole is not

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Speaker 3: for the feth hearted.

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Speaker 1: The K hole is not the K hole.

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Speaker 3: You're find yourself a bit of a complainer, stay away?

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Speaker 2: Do you know what if you do find yourself a

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Speaker 2: bit of a complainer. Come along, I've had my fair share.

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Speaker 2: I know what to do with you.

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Speaker 1: That's it.

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Speaker 2: Well, look, here's the thing. The k Hole is what

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Speaker 2: I like to call late night done right. It's fast,

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Speaker 2: it's messy, it's loose, it's hilarious. I take my favorite

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Speaker 2: acts from the fringe and I tell them to get angry,

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Speaker 2: get drunk, get naked, get on stage. Okay, he is brilliant.

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Speaker 2: Every time we do it here it is an absolute party,

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Speaker 2: and Perth crowds are the loosest. I mean up to

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Speaker 2: the elbow. It's just a magnificent, fun, terrible, outrageous, messy time.

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Speaker 2: So come along. And then there's the other show, Apocalypstick.

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Speaker 2: You tell us about that, Okay, I'm going to be honest.

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Speaker 2: Twenty twenty four. We need it to be a good

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Speaker 2: year because twenty twenty three was rough. Yeap twenty twenty

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Speaker 2: three was awful. Twenty three he was so bad. Gallaine

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Speaker 2: Maxwell was glad she was in jail for it. Right,

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Speaker 2: it's a rough time. So this show is a bit

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Speaker 2: of a release for that. It's a bit of a

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Speaker 2: hopeful view of the future. It's a lot of laughs.

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Speaker 2: I think we need to relax a laugh. But also

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Speaker 2: it's a story that I have been investigating for about

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Speaker 2: three years or four years of my family, which need

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Speaker 2: their own Netflix series. If anyone from Netflix is listening,

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Speaker 2: ninety six air ffm per call.

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Speaker 1: Me, I'm available.

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Speaker 2: My uncle Helmut, my mum's brother, was raised in East Berlin,

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Speaker 2: became a clown and a comedian in eastbourl Now, if

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Speaker 2: you don't know what East Berlin was like in the sixties, seventies, fifties,

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Speaker 2: the Cold War, it was a walled in occupied city

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Speaker 2: where all aid and materials were monitored and controlled going

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Speaker 2: in and out, and people were basically prisoners. I know

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Speaker 2: that's unthinkable in today's society. There's nothing like that. No,

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Speaker 2: no learned from my mistakes, none at But there's something

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Speaker 2: amazing right in the human spirit needing to laugh in

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Speaker 2: these like crazy times, and for him to have that,

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Speaker 2: and then for me to kind of find this out.

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Speaker 2: I never met him. I only met him once when

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Speaker 2: I was six, so I never really met him. To

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Speaker 2: then find this out, I've been investigating this story. He

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Speaker 2: ends up getting thrown out of East Berlin because he

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Speaker 2: just makes himself a nuisance, which is the most Australian

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Speaker 2: form of protest i've ever heard. And then he becomes

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Speaker 2: a bank robber. Yeah, so it's about it's about rebellion,

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Speaker 2: it's adventure, it's funny, it is crazy.

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Speaker 1: There are so many.

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Speaker 2: Twists and turns in this there's a great reveal at

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Speaker 2: the end which I can't I can't tell on here because.

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Speaker 1: It's a bit adult.

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Speaker 2: But the costumes as well. I have been traveling around

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Speaker 2: the world mainly because I haven't been allowed back in Australia,

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Speaker 2: so I went to London and I haven't been in

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Speaker 2: London for a long time. In fact, last time I

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Speaker 2: was in London was when the Queen died. If you

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Speaker 2: want something done, and I then the costumes from this

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Speaker 2: show are gordgeous.

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Speaker 1: Yes, right, so you've got to come for that, is

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Speaker 1: it? It's outrageous.

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Speaker 2: It's kind of the combination of comedy and rebellion, protest

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Speaker 2: and fun and it's a party.

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Speaker 3: It's amazing. He was just thrown out for being a

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Speaker 3: nuisance though, I.

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Speaker 2: Mean, yeah, exactly right, because they could have shot him,

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Speaker 2: but therefore they him to say the bullets.

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Speaker 1: I guess.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Was a dancer, was a dancer and then a filmmaker

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Speaker 2: and my dad was a painter, so there was no

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Speaker 2: hope for me.

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Speaker 1: So how are you so shy and retire? Would you

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Speaker 1: come out of your shell? They kept on.

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Speaker 2: I say to me, please, Reuben, be an accountant, be

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Speaker 2: a plumber, be a funeral director, so you won't run

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Speaker 2: out of business.

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Speaker 1: So have you had the call from the directors or

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Speaker 1: at least the producers of one of the dancing shows,

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Speaker 1: you know.

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Speaker 4: Like Joe what, I would love that the world or

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Speaker 4: I started quickly come dancing. I started as a dancer.

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Speaker 4: I would love that. But I just don't think I'm

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Speaker 4: famous enough. You don't reckon It hurts me to say it.

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Speaker 4: I don't want to say it. No, I don't want it.

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Speaker 2: So can people come to the show and make it

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Speaker 2: a reality because some of those people are on there

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Speaker 2: now who just yeah, they're on the reality shows because

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Speaker 2: they've been on other reality shows.

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Speaker 1: Isn't an interesting thing? We kind of have this.

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Speaker 2: I think it's kind of like we keep on selling

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Speaker 2: the imaginary world while the real ones kind of running out.

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Speaker 2: So people are just kind of rising up to fame

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Speaker 2: without doing just by being visible, just because you're visible,

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Speaker 2: just because you've got cheek bones doesn't mean you're an

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Speaker 2: authority on anything, right, and I should Dancing with the

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Speaker 2: Stars will start a Yeah, just one.

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Speaker 1: Question, what do I do? Do I lead or do

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Speaker 1: I follow?

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Speaker 2: In that?

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Speaker 4: Oh?

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Speaker 1: Actually, that's interesting.

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Speaker 3: Well, I think we're living in an age where you

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Speaker 3: can mix it up.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, are you flirting with me? What is this is?

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Speaker 2: This is pulled back in circular.

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Speaker 1: Not the only thing that pulls back. I didn't aze

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Speaker 1: the f here super foreskin.

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Speaker 3: You are a person of the people of the world.

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Speaker 1: I am, I'm a princess Diana.

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Speaker 3: I'm curious in your thoughts of I feel like so

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Speaker 3: many ways we have stepped forward in the world, but

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Speaker 3: we've taken a really big step back recently with the

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Speaker 3: criticism that drag queens have been copying, particularly in the US.

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Speaker 3: I mean, but none of them were on Epstein's flight log,

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Speaker 3: were they?

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Speaker 2: So you know, it's almost like drag queens have been

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Speaker 2: around toxic people for so long and have been abused

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Speaker 2: by them that we're a really good judge of character.

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Speaker 1: Who knew? Here's the thing.

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Speaker 2: People keep on saying, old drag queens are coming for

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Speaker 2: the kids. But let me ask you this, have you

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Speaker 2: ever met one. They're awful, they're messy, they can't do

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Speaker 2: anything for themselves, they never have any money, no, no,

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Speaker 2: and children are worse. I just think it's a total

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Speaker 2: beat up. People use religion as a trojan horse for

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Speaker 2: their biggotrey or their fear, or they get sold a

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Speaker 2: lie that isn't true. And the thing is, here's the

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Speaker 2: real thing that tells you. My view on this is

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Speaker 2: summed up really perfectly. And I might get in trouble

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Speaker 2: for saying this, but if you think drag queens are

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Speaker 2: the ones coming for your kids, just remember.

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Speaker 1: Drag queens pay taxes. Churches pay hush money.

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Speaker 3: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: We had a similar conversation. Yes we did, we.

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Speaker 3: Did, we did. Indeed I have gone that note.

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Speaker 1: Let's sell some tickets. Yeah, that will be Dancing with

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Speaker 1: the stars.

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Speaker 3: I can't wait for Apokalypstick the Netflix series, and don't

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Speaker 3: of course at the Wrecker Butte. You can book your

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Speaker 3: tickets through fringeworld dot com dot au and don't forget

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Speaker 3: the k hole.

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Speaker 2: You can also if all of that is too complicated,

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Speaker 2: just go to reubenk dot com. It's a one stop

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Speaker 2: shop for your ruben knee and the void vol always Please.

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Speaker 3: Now I shall call you silly boxy things.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, thanks, pleasure,