Speaker 1: Welcome to them, Christian No Common Show podcast. So, how
Speaker 1: many of you have ever thought about doing stand up
Speaker 1: comedy and then your very next thought is, oh, my god,
Speaker 1: it'll be terrifying I die up there. It will kill me,
Speaker 1: it will destroy me, it will crush me or break
Speaker 1: my heart. That's a conversation a lot of people have
Speaker 1: in their heads. Isn't it about stand up when you're
Speaker 1: not just watching it laughing along thinking I'd love to
Speaker 1: do that? Is that it is a great feeling. And
Speaker 1: you've all had this when you're with your friends and
Speaker 1: you make them laugh. Everyone's had that experience, right, whether
Speaker 1: it's in the office or over a couple of drinks
Speaker 1: with family, with friends, and it's one of the best
Speaker 1: feelings in the world is to hear laughter, right. It
Speaker 1: just this. It's why stand up comedies are one of
Speaker 1: the biggest sort of art forms in the world and
Speaker 1: one of the biggest Netflix shows, and they pay people
Speaker 1: like Ricky Gervais and de Chappelle millions to have an
Speaker 1: hour long stand up special on there. There's something really
Speaker 1: amazing about the sound of laughter when you can create it.
Speaker 1: And you would have done this in your life when
Speaker 1: you're incredibly relaxed. It actually just happens. You don't even
Speaker 1: think about what did I just say? It just came
Speaker 1: to you, didn't it. The words they all just came together,
Speaker 1: and it's like it came through you. And then the
Speaker 1: thought of like, oh, on a manute, how the hell
Speaker 1: do I make that happen in a room? And then
Speaker 1: I'm really really nervous. I don't suddenly feel remotely funny.
Speaker 1: And now I'm annoyed that I've actually even got into
Speaker 1: this situation where I'm going to get up there and
Speaker 1: do it, and what will I say? So I think there's
Speaker 1: a lovely Tibetan thought where they always say first thought,
Speaker 1: best thought, because we're often in life. I'd love to
Speaker 1: do that. Then you have all these other thoughts that
Speaker 1: get in the way, and that's fear, isn't it holding
Speaker 1: you back? I just think, do you know what? Mel
Speaker 1: who works on the show, said to me Friday that
Speaker 1: she really wants to give stand up comedy a go,
Speaker 1: but she was frightened about heckled. It will just be
Speaker 1: too much for her. So I said, what about if
Speaker 1: I host tonight and we hire a pub and the
Speaker 1: audience are there, and there are lovely, big hearted listeners,
Speaker 1: which we know you all are. And there's one golden rule.
Speaker 1: You don't heckle anyone who's coming up because you respect
Speaker 1: what it is they're doing and what giant their little
Speaker 1: steps to get up to that look stage. But they're
Speaker 1: really really big steps, and often it's only a little
Speaker 1: steps sometimes going from fear to join happiness. It's a
Speaker 1: scene in your life, that's what it is. And I
Speaker 1: think one day, if you're lucky, you'll be looking back
Speaker 1: on what you did for those highlights, those scenes in
Speaker 1: your life, and the only highlights you will have on there.
Speaker 1: There are things that you said yes to even if
Speaker 1: you didn't know. You couldn't guarantee how it was going
Speaker 1: to go because you wouldn't get married. The overwhelming odds
Speaker 1: are it won't work out. We all know how many
Speaker 1: couples end up breaking up, getting divorced. You wouldn't get married,
Speaker 1: you wouldn't have kids, because that will break your heart
Speaker 1: as well. That's hard as well as joyful as well.
Speaker 1: So I heard you. If you've really thought about it,
Speaker 1: come and do it. Email me, call me. I'd a
Speaker 1: lovely email from a guy yesterday evening who literally been
Speaker 1: having almost like a heckling conversation with himself, just simply saying, bloody,
Speaker 1: el is taking me all day just to sum up
Speaker 1: the courage to send you this email. But what the hell,
Speaker 1: Life's too short for regrets. I'd love to give it
Speaker 1: a go. They go, Shane Faulkner, well done. That's the
Speaker 1: kind of and we want, right someone who's just a
Speaker 1: bit curious at the moment. And please don't see it
Speaker 1: that you have to be brilliant up there. You have
Speaker 1: to be amazing up there. I can't do stand up
Speaker 1: that way. I can't do this radio show this week.
Speaker 1: You can't do any anything like that. You simply just
Speaker 1: have to go up there and tell us a story.
Speaker 1: And we will help you find that story. I will.
Speaker 1: I'm literally going to clear time after the show. We
Speaker 1: will help you find the story. We're coaching through how
Speaker 1: you actually tell us story, and give you some little
Speaker 1: skills that you can use up there. And I tell
Speaker 1: you one thing, I guarantee that when you come off stage,
Speaker 1: you feel amazing. You really did something that ninety nine
Speaker 1: point nine nine nine nine percent of the world are
Speaker 1: terrified of. It's always number one, it's number one ahead
Speaker 1: of dying is a fear of public speaking, right, and
Speaker 1: you're going to go and do it. And I'm going
Speaker 1: to put on a night where people want to come along.
Speaker 1: They will want you to do well. Everyone that I
Speaker 1: think has got a good story in them, at least
Speaker 1: we hear them every day on the show. So who
Speaker 1: is interested in a moment and all we got a
Speaker 1: bit at the moment is curious. Don't start to thinking
Speaker 1: I don't even know what the story is. We can
Speaker 1: out with that. Nine one four, one oh four three
Speaker 1: up first this morning, very excited by this, Gus. Good morning, Good,
Speaker 1: good morning, Christian. How are you now, Gus? I got
Speaker 1: your email yesterday. You're fifteen, is that right?
Speaker 2: I'm fifteen?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 1: And you're interested in doing standup comedy?
Speaker 2: I have always, ever since I can remember, I love
Speaker 2: loved comedy like It's something that I love so much.
Speaker 2: And you know, if I had the opportunity to give
Speaker 2: it a go, you know that'd be a dream come
Speaker 2: true to me.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And what kind of comedians or comedy shows do
Speaker 1: you like, Gus?
Speaker 2: I loved Ricky, I love RICHI Davais, I idolize him.
Speaker 2: I love his stand up comedy shows. And his shows.
Speaker 2: I think he's a genius.
Speaker 1: Yeah he is. Yeah, he's a brilliant standard commit You've
Speaker 1: got good standards and good taste already, Gus. And what
Speaker 1: kind of thing do you think you would talk about? Gus?
Speaker 1: At fifteen, would you talk about your life at school?
Speaker 1: And mom and dad?
Speaker 2: Would I would think so. I think i'd talk about
Speaker 2: my life at school and some other interesting stories. I've
Speaker 2: moved schools eight times, so I've got a bit of
Speaker 2: a bit of experience. I've got some interesting stories, and
Speaker 2: I would think that I'm a funny person and I'd
Speaker 2: love to give this a guy to be awesome.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you one thing you are. You're a natural talker, Gus.
Speaker 1: You're very very good. Are you really fifteen? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I was fifteen year ten?
Speaker 1: You could actually just be a DJ. Just hear you chat.
Speaker 1: You've got more presence than I do.
Speaker 4: Thanks.
Speaker 2: That means a lot, mate.
Speaker 1: You notice he didn't say no. I like the confidence
Speaker 1: there and the swagger. You need a bit of that
Speaker 1: Gus as wells Can I just ask you? Why have
Speaker 1: you moved school eight times? What's happened? Have you been
Speaker 1: thrown out?
Speaker 2: I've lived in many different places, and.
Speaker 1: All right, James Bond, this is incredible, Gus. I think
Speaker 1: you're the kind of person that we need on there. Gus,
Speaker 1: I'd love to have you as part of this.
Speaker 2: Oh thanks, it'd be awesome great, all.
Speaker 1: Right, so you off to school now, Gus.
Speaker 2: Awesome, Yes, thanks Christian, Thanks, thank you for your time. Christian.
Speaker 1: All right, if you want to come and join no
Speaker 1: night nine four one four one I four three first thought,
Speaker 1: best thought, don't overthink it. If you're interested, that's it.
Speaker 1: Just call me nowto Christian O'Connell Show podcast. Do you
Speaker 1: want to come and join us? Then I'll be hosting it.
Speaker 1: Ja's gonna do a spot as well. The rest of
Speaker 1: the spots will be you. If you've ever thought about
Speaker 1: doing stand up comedy, let that be the only thought
Speaker 1: you need. Pick up the phone. Email me if you
Speaker 1: want today, Christian at Christian O'Connell dot com dot AU
Speaker 1: A night where there's one golden rule, there's no heckling.
Speaker 1: We're gonna host it. We'll find a little pub the
Speaker 1: next two weeks. The audience will be on your side.
Speaker 1: We will help you out with your set that you'll perform.
Speaker 1: Who wants to give it a go? Who wants to
Speaker 1: have an adventure up there? You know what's nothing worse
Speaker 1: some nice When you see a friend and they go,
Speaker 1: what are you mean up to you? You go, oh,
Speaker 1: not really, but as if you go, oh, I didn't
Speaker 1: stand up comedy, then I'm like, they're gonna go You're
Speaker 1: gonna be a hero. They go, what when did that happen?
Speaker 1: You've already got a story. They won't even care about
Speaker 1: whether or not you did well. You did stand up comedy,
Speaker 1: and you can tell them what story work and what
Speaker 1: it was all like. They're actually jenious you managed to
Speaker 1: do something like that. Nine four one for one oh
Speaker 1: four three. Good morning Sue, Good morning Christian. All right, Sue,
Speaker 1: So tell us about yourself first, Sue, What do you do? Sue?
Speaker 3: Well, I'm a professional. I've got a doctorate in philosophy.
Speaker 3: So i can't tell you exactly what I do because
Speaker 3: i'm a professional and I have to represent these two places.
Speaker 5: I work on my own.
Speaker 3: Business and one is for a well known university. I
Speaker 3: can't do my brand because I have to be professional.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess you've got a job like that and
Speaker 1: you've got to perform it to a certain level. There's
Speaker 1: I guess no outlet you know for human mucking around.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, I mean my students and I'm we muck around
Speaker 3: quite a lot because we work with kids. When where
Speaker 3: I work with people who are going to work with kids,
Speaker 3: and so we do play and we do muck around.
Speaker 6: But there's no space for dark humor, gotcha?
Speaker 1: And so you've always stands a given, stand up a go. Uh.
Speaker 3: It was only when I was listening to you yesterday, really, Christian,
Speaker 3: I guess it just struck a chord. It was. It
Speaker 3: was that moment of inspiration where I went, oh my gosh,
Speaker 3: this could be my outlet. I just I was listening
Speaker 3: to you, and I'm like, I've been searching for something.
Speaker 3: I spent my life helping people and doing awesome stuff
Speaker 3: and giving back to the community because I'm such a
Speaker 3: privileged white Anglo Celtic woman that I had a great life.
Speaker 3: But you know, when I want to get into that
Speaker 3: dark kind of Judas Lucy kind of before her kind
Speaker 3: of jam, I'm not allowed to do it.
Speaker 1: Great, Well, it sounds like you do need an outlet
Speaker 1: for that soup. All right, Well, Sue, thank you very
Speaker 1: much for finding the courage to actually give us a
Speaker 1: call come on the show today.
Speaker 3: Okay, thank you, good and hey, Gus is awesome fifteen.
Speaker 1: I know, I know, I know, all right. So at
Speaker 1: the moment then what we're doing is we're just chatting
Speaker 1: to people who were interested in the moment where we
Speaker 1: try and sort of look at numbers and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: But Sue, thank you very much.
Speaker 3: Thank you, and my nubby, love you.
Speaker 6: Nubby, my nubby compass over an espresso any or a
Speaker 6: breakfast juice and in different times, what's Christians?
Speaker 1: Gotcha?
Speaker 3: He's my non hubby, right yeah.
Speaker 1: Okay, so I don't know, We've got a lot of
Speaker 1: work to do with some of these people. They're all okay,
Speaker 1: we are so cooling, they're very very well. Maybe that
Speaker 1: isn't the closer, the whole nubby bit, you know, we
Speaker 1: lose that, We lose that closer, all right, Debbie, Good morning.
Speaker 3: Debbie, Good morning, Christian.
Speaker 5: How are you today?
Speaker 1: I'm good, Debbie. Why don't you tell us about yourself? Dips?
Speaker 5: All right, Well, I'm a street I think comedy is
Speaker 5: something always enjoyed.
Speaker 1: We couldn't hear the beginning bit, mate, Sorry, I don't
Speaker 1: know if it's your phone connection round a bit, but
Speaker 1: we missed out the start, so well, sorry, that's your fault.
Speaker 1: I think it was just yes, So tell us take
Speaker 1: you from the top. Then who are you?
Speaker 5: Okay? So I'm a grandmother of three grandchildren. I am
Speaker 5: in my six years. The only public speaking I've done
Speaker 5: is like back in the day, like a topwear lady,
Speaker 5: you know some.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, my mom used to go to all those
Speaker 1: tupperware parties.
Speaker 4: And I have worked in the veterinary industry and I'll
Speaker 4: currently work in a hospital of work you need to.
Speaker 4: And I have lots of really funny stories that I
Speaker 4: think will make people laugh and you will have yeah,
Speaker 4: And I enjoy making people laugh. And there's nothing better
Speaker 4: than a good belly laugh. So when I heard you
Speaker 4: guys talking about.
Speaker 3: I reckon that might be a bit of fun.
Speaker 6: I reckon I could get that a crack.
Speaker 1: You will be able to give it a crack. I
Speaker 1: can tell you you're going to smash it. You're going
Speaker 1: to join You're so like you. I like you, Ready,
Speaker 1: you cheer this up. I'll tell you what. Those tupperware
Speaker 1: ladies are pretty tough crowds. If you can deal right
Speaker 1: with the Tupperware ladies are one of those. You'll be
Speaker 1: fine in a comedy club. Trust me, that's going to
Speaker 1: be a cakewalk for you. Afterwards, you want a little
Speaker 1: bit of commission on the side. Say you listen, I'll
Speaker 1: be down the downstairs and the bar sitting tupperware.
Speaker 5: That's a good idea.
Speaker 1: Well listen, you know what you you sound like you've got.
Speaker 1: I bet you've got loads of great stories that you've had,
Speaker 1: a proper stuff. You've got stuff that is tying to
Speaker 1: be shared.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, Debbie, I'm.
Speaker 1: Going to hire you right now. You're on the bill.
Speaker 5: My goodness, Oh wow, awesome, thank you so much, Christian, you're.
Speaker 1: On the lineup. Yep, Debbie, you're going to do really well. Okay,
Speaker 1: we'll be in touch. But you.
Speaker 5: Oh, thank you so much. That's awesome.
Speaker 1: Day yay up, Aware, I'll speak to you later. Bye.
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