1 00:00:00,680 --> 00:00:02,960 I'm Michael. Che and I'm Colin Jose, and 2 00:00:02,960 --> 00:00:05,280 we've got a little secret. Actually, it's a pretty big 3 00:00:05,280 --> 00:00:06,480 secret. Well, now you got to give the 4 00:00:06,480 --> 00:00:08,360 people something. I'm not saying a word. 5 00:00:08,560 --> 00:00:09,920 Oh, then people will know to tune in. 6 00:00:09,920 --> 00:00:12,080 Come on, tell them a little. Like how we're hosting of comedy 7 00:00:12,080 --> 00:00:14,640 events streaming only on Peacock, exactly how it's called 8 00:00:14,640 --> 00:00:17,200 New York After Dark and it's a comedy show that only features 9 00:00:17,200 --> 00:00:18,960 drop in comic. Boom, you nail. 10 00:00:18,960 --> 00:00:20,360 Into Michael Chase phone numbers. 11 00:00:20,360 --> 00:00:21,960 Whoa, whoa, whoa. Hey, hey, hey. 12 00:00:22,960 --> 00:00:25,720 New York After Dark. It's some kind of comedy thing, 13 00:00:25,720 --> 00:00:28,000 and it's streaming now only on Peacock. 14 00:00:29,760 --> 00:00:37,520 You love it. Zippers. 15 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:41,200 Hello and welcome to this week's episode of the Tea With Me 16 00:00:41,200 --> 00:00:43,440 podcast. If you don't know by now, we're 17 00:00:43,440 --> 00:00:46,880 doing 3 episodes a week, Patreon episode on a Monday, which is 18 00:00:46,880 --> 00:00:50,320 like a wee secret Under the Counter private audio episode 19 00:00:50,520 --> 00:00:55,240 which you can access on patreon.com/tea With Me podcast, 20 00:00:55,760 --> 00:00:59,360 thatspatreon.com/tme podcast and there's loads of other cool 21 00:00:59,360 --> 00:01:02,000 things over there. But then just for everyone, for 22 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:05,760 the Grid Unwashed, we do the podcast on a Wednesday night on 23 00:01:05,760 --> 00:01:08,520 a Friday and I don't know why I went in a little bit trouble 24 00:01:08,520 --> 00:01:11,160 with my hands there. OK, if you're watching the video 25 00:01:11,160 --> 00:01:14,800 episode and a lot of people are going mate, that's potentially 26 00:01:14,800 --> 00:01:17,560 the worst Trump I've heard. Well, I didn't say which Trump 27 00:01:17,560 --> 00:01:19,200 always doing. It wasn't Donald Trump, I was 28 00:01:19,200 --> 00:01:23,680 actually doing an impression of Gareth Trump. 29 00:01:23,720 --> 00:01:25,160 Who's a different guy that you don't know? 30 00:01:25,160 --> 00:01:27,720 It's not just because I can't do an impression of Donald Trump. 31 00:01:27,880 --> 00:01:30,600 I've got a guest this week, not literally in the studio because 32 00:01:30,600 --> 00:01:33,880 thy shall not pass. OK, we're keeping the quarantine 33 00:01:33,880 --> 00:01:36,120 going here. The bridge of the Fort Collis is 34 00:01:36,120 --> 00:01:37,280 up. Everybody knows I live in a 35 00:01:37,280 --> 00:01:39,720 mediaeval style 16th century castle. 36 00:01:40,200 --> 00:01:42,600 This guest and I have done a podcast. 37 00:01:42,600 --> 00:01:45,280 Get ready for this. Get ready to blow your fucking 38 00:01:45,800 --> 00:01:48,800 clogs off. We've done an episode virtually 39 00:01:48,960 --> 00:01:51,840 over the Internet. What? 40 00:01:52,080 --> 00:01:53,800 Yes. I wouldn't have believed it if 41 00:01:53,800 --> 00:01:56,360 you told me this two weeks ago. I wouldn't have believed you, 42 00:01:56,360 --> 00:01:59,480 but it's possible. Now, here's where the small 43 00:01:59,480 --> 00:02:07,120 print is me. I normally do this with producer 44 00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:10,560 Dan and Big Mike, OK? They do all the technical stuff 45 00:02:10,560 --> 00:02:14,000 and I just sit here, speak and look damn good. 46 00:02:14,280 --> 00:02:17,000 But I'm having to do it by myself, OK. 47 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:20,920 And the guys are on hand for me to call for me to text or 48 00:02:20,920 --> 00:02:24,480 whatever. But, and producer Dan 49 00:02:24,560 --> 00:02:29,840 specifically said use the app Zoom to do these video podcasts. 50 00:02:29,960 --> 00:02:31,880 And we spend last night setting it up. 51 00:02:31,880 --> 00:02:37,360 And what did I do today? Did not use him, did no use the 52 00:02:37,360 --> 00:02:39,320 1 he told me to. And you know what? 53 00:02:40,040 --> 00:02:45,120 I fucked it up and there's a moral on this and that is that 54 00:02:45,360 --> 00:02:49,880 Dan is always right and I was, I don't know why I did it. 55 00:02:49,880 --> 00:02:52,600 It was really rude, but I tried to get the Zoom going. 56 00:02:53,480 --> 00:02:54,840 The guest, by the way, is Jim Owen. 57 00:02:55,360 --> 00:02:58,240 I should say that Jim Owen is a comedian originally from 58 00:02:58,240 --> 00:03:00,560 Northern Ireland who moved over to Australia. 59 00:03:01,320 --> 00:03:03,640 He'll talk about this, but he had no aspirations of being a 60 00:03:03,640 --> 00:03:05,280 stand up. He moved over there to work on a 61 00:03:05,280 --> 00:03:09,320 building site, ended up becoming a comedy superstar over there, 62 00:03:09,320 --> 00:03:13,160 like literally a comedy superstar, TV films, all that 63 00:03:13,160 --> 00:03:15,920 kind of stuff. And he's done live at the Apollo 64 00:03:15,920 --> 00:03:19,040 a number of times. And I met him when we did a 65 00:03:19,040 --> 00:03:21,800 sketch show for BBC Northern Ireland called Monumental. 66 00:03:22,400 --> 00:03:28,080 And a spoiler alert, it wasn't, but it was a fun episode that I 67 00:03:28,080 --> 00:03:31,160 did and the highlights of my me on it or on my YouTube channel, 68 00:03:31,160 --> 00:03:33,200 Monumental if you want to see me wearing a cool cardigan. 69 00:03:33,720 --> 00:03:39,320 But Jim Owen stood out to me as a very, very, very nice guy when 70 00:03:39,320 --> 00:03:42,680 I was doing the show. I am a big fan of a stand up. 71 00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:43,920 If you haven't seen it, a lot of you will. 72 00:03:43,920 --> 00:03:46,320 If you haven't seen it, check it out on YouTube. 73 00:03:46,320 --> 00:03:47,440 You'll get a lot of it on YouTube. 74 00:03:47,720 --> 00:03:53,640 He's very, very funny and in a, in a both a traditional way of 75 00:03:53,640 --> 00:03:56,760 like storytelling when you go and see him live, but also like 76 00:03:56,760 --> 00:03:59,320 a physical way, like he clowns about on stage. 77 00:04:01,040 --> 00:04:03,120 I don't know, I don't think there's many chameleons like 78 00:04:03,120 --> 00:04:04,200 him. I think he's got his own 79 00:04:04,200 --> 00:04:08,080 distinct style and that's not very common nowadays in comedy. 80 00:04:08,440 --> 00:04:11,120 So enjoy this episode with Jim Owen. 81 00:04:12,120 --> 00:04:16,560 But the small print is the way I recorded it. 82 00:04:16,760 --> 00:04:19,560 Jim sounds good and we both look OK. 83 00:04:19,560 --> 00:04:21,160 We've got the split screen going on. 84 00:04:21,160 --> 00:04:24,040 That's fine. For some unknown reason, I sound 85 00:04:24,040 --> 00:04:27,880 like a chipmunk. My voice is slightly elevated 86 00:04:27,880 --> 00:04:30,280 and I don't know why because I definitely don't speak like 87 00:04:30,280 --> 00:04:34,040 this. But for some reason when you 88 00:04:34,040 --> 00:04:39,960 watch this video, I speak like this here and this will be the 89 00:04:39,960 --> 00:04:41,960 last time I get it wrong technical wise. 90 00:04:42,320 --> 00:04:45,120 But I don't know why, but for some reason, Jim Owen talks in 91 00:04:45,120 --> 00:04:47,960 his normal voice and I speak like this here. 92 00:04:48,680 --> 00:04:51,800 No, that's here. It's my normal voice, but for 93 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:53,880 some reason in the video, that's what it is. 94 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:57,560 So from now on, I'm going to do Producer Dances because we're 95 00:04:57,560 --> 00:05:01,000 doing loads more video episode interviews with really well 96 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:03,920 known people, some cracking guests coming up. 97 00:05:05,200 --> 00:05:06,680 So I'm really going to figure that out. 98 00:05:06,680 --> 00:05:08,880 I'm actually doing that after recording this. 99 00:05:09,120 --> 00:05:11,680 We're going to figure it out, but enjoy it. 100 00:05:11,680 --> 00:05:14,200 There's a little bit of an echo with the start as well. 101 00:05:14,280 --> 00:05:16,960 That's my bad. It gets better as it goes on. 102 00:05:17,320 --> 00:05:18,640 It's something a wee bit different. 103 00:05:18,800 --> 00:05:22,400 Next week will just be me on the podcast, Sorry, the next episode 104 00:05:22,400 --> 00:05:25,000 on Friday because we're doing Wednesday, Friday, and then 105 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:27,680 we're just going to split it up. We're going to do me doing one, 106 00:05:27,680 --> 00:05:29,800 me and a guest, me doing one, me and a guest. 107 00:05:30,400 --> 00:05:33,160 And who knows, maybe I'll just fire it more because there's so 108 00:05:33,160 --> 00:05:36,120 many people I want to podcast with and hey, I've got the time. 109 00:05:36,600 --> 00:05:40,520 OK, I've got the time. So enjoy this episode. 110 00:05:40,520 --> 00:05:44,520 There's a Tea With Me episode with the legend that is Jimmy. 111 00:05:51,120 --> 00:05:53,040 God, we've done it. Can you see me OK? 112 00:05:53,760 --> 00:05:54,800 Yeah. Can you see me? 113 00:05:55,160 --> 00:05:58,240 Yes, yes. All right. 114 00:05:59,080 --> 00:06:00,760 You're going to, they're going to write about this down the 115 00:06:00,760 --> 00:06:04,440 line. We that we that we figured this 116 00:06:04,440 --> 00:06:06,280 out. Hello. 117 00:06:07,080 --> 00:06:10,400 Are you in? Are you in Australia? 118 00:06:12,160 --> 00:06:17,760 Melbourne. And, and I don't know how far, I 119 00:06:17,760 --> 00:06:21,160 don't know how far ahead time wise user, but do you know about 120 00:06:21,240 --> 00:06:24,960 coronavirus yet? No tell. 121 00:06:24,960 --> 00:06:28,120 What's the latest? You're going to, you're going to 122 00:06:28,120 --> 00:06:29,360 enjoy it the. Porch shirt. 123 00:06:29,720 --> 00:06:32,040 I know that much. Yeah. 124 00:06:33,240 --> 00:06:35,920 So are you properly like in lockdown? 125 00:06:35,920 --> 00:06:41,080 Are you isolating? Yeah, the shop shop today. 126 00:06:42,600 --> 00:06:45,280 Well, what's happened today? Schools closed. 127 00:06:46,160 --> 00:06:48,960 Schools closed officially tomorrow, but we didn't bother 128 00:06:48,960 --> 00:06:52,880 sending our 8 year old today. You have a runny nose? 129 00:06:54,040 --> 00:06:56,240 Oh dear. Well, that's just we're all 130 00:06:56,240 --> 00:06:58,680 paranoid. Kids get runny noses all the 131 00:06:58,680 --> 00:07:02,280 time, so who knows. Yeah. 132 00:07:02,280 --> 00:07:07,320 And hang on one SEC. I'm just going to plug this into 133 00:07:07,320 --> 00:07:11,600 here. Yeah, that's better. 134 00:07:11,600 --> 00:07:13,480 Now, can you still hear me? Yeah. 135 00:07:14,280 --> 00:07:16,280 Perfect. All right. 136 00:07:16,280 --> 00:07:19,000 This is the first, this first Skype one of these have done, 137 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:21,480 this first international one that I've done. 138 00:07:21,480 --> 00:07:24,120 Definitely. It's a big moment. 139 00:07:24,640 --> 00:07:29,480 This podcast gym is called Tea with Me and it's where sometimes 140 00:07:29,480 --> 00:07:31,880 I have a guest on, sometimes it don't, but it's mainly just 141 00:07:31,880 --> 00:07:34,400 about drinking tea. Do you drink tea? 142 00:07:34,440 --> 00:07:36,920 What are you drinking right now? Do you actually? 143 00:07:37,440 --> 00:07:39,480 Yeah, I've got a cup of pepper and tea. 144 00:07:39,480 --> 00:07:41,880 I'm going to top it up. Still counts. 145 00:07:41,880 --> 00:07:45,720 Yeah, still counts. And I'll stick the kettle on 146 00:07:46,920 --> 00:07:51,400 genuinely for sound effects. This is the first, this is the 147 00:07:51,400 --> 00:07:54,360 first live team making we've had on the podcast. 148 00:07:55,080 --> 00:07:58,240 On the other side of the world, courtesy of the Internet. 149 00:07:58,920 --> 00:08:02,120 How's it, how's it, how's it stand in the cup if you're on 150 00:08:02,120 --> 00:08:04,960 the bottom of the world? Yeah, yeah. 151 00:08:06,040 --> 00:08:11,800 And those horses called those vocational forces. 152 00:08:13,400 --> 00:08:17,040 I don't know, I did double award science and got a double image 153 00:08:17,080 --> 00:08:23,000 ECSC but what I want to ask you is how badly are you missing 154 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:30,760 doing stand up? Luckily I had done a lot of gigs 155 00:08:30,960 --> 00:08:34,520 league not to this so, but even within this year I did. 156 00:08:34,520 --> 00:08:40,679 January I did a tour of the East Coast of Australia, then I did a 157 00:08:40,720 --> 00:08:46,840 tour of the UK and then I did Adelaide Fringe and I was always 158 00:08:46,840 --> 00:08:49,440 pushing my luck, you know, weigh too much. 159 00:08:49,440 --> 00:08:54,720 So Adelaide Fringe was the Sunday where on the Saturday 160 00:08:54,720 --> 00:08:59,720 they said, right, that's it. And the Sunday I had a show and 161 00:08:59,720 --> 00:09:02,440 that was the last. Everything was cancelled after 162 00:09:02,440 --> 00:09:05,520 that. So I've been doing like, you 163 00:09:05,520 --> 00:09:07,040 know, a hell of a lot of gigs up until now. 164 00:09:07,040 --> 00:09:15,400 But yeah, I'm kind of curious to see how rusty we all get because 165 00:09:15,400 --> 00:09:19,280 if I haven't done a gig honestly for a couple of weeks, I get 166 00:09:19,280 --> 00:09:23,440 quite nervous and forget what it is, how it goes, You know, you 167 00:09:23,440 --> 00:09:27,280 don't really, you know, you don't really kind of overly 168 00:09:27,280 --> 00:09:29,400 rehearse it. It's just when you do it a lot, 169 00:09:29,400 --> 00:09:33,320 it seems to get fluent. And if you haven't done it, then 170 00:09:33,840 --> 00:09:38,080 it's plenty, so we'll see. Yeah, my big fear is that we all 171 00:09:38,080 --> 00:09:39,920 come out of this when everything's back to normal and 172 00:09:39,920 --> 00:09:42,560 the comedy clubs are open with exactly the same material. 173 00:09:44,160 --> 00:09:46,760 Just asking people backstage, are you doing a bit about this 174 00:09:46,760 --> 00:09:48,560 coronavirus? Because we all will be. 175 00:09:48,720 --> 00:09:50,560 We all have a show called Lockdown. 176 00:09:51,440 --> 00:09:54,040 Yeah, yeah, I'm sorry. I didn't have any kind of right 177 00:09:54,040 --> 00:09:56,200 new jokes. I've been really busy. 178 00:09:57,600 --> 00:10:00,200 Yeah, that's the thing. No, but nobody's busy. 179 00:10:00,520 --> 00:10:03,480 So when I ask people to do this podcast, I mean, I feel like 180 00:10:03,480 --> 00:10:06,040 everybody should say yes because we don't have anything else 181 00:10:06,040 --> 00:10:09,400 going on. Jumping on board, I saw an Irish 182 00:10:09,400 --> 00:10:13,680 news that the Port Stewart become this sort of place where 183 00:10:13,680 --> 00:10:16,360 everyone's going to because they're getting out of the big 184 00:10:16,360 --> 00:10:20,000 smokes. Yeah, it's sort of defeat the, I 185 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:23,440 mean we're not, we're not doing the whole social isolating thing 186 00:10:23,440 --> 00:10:27,120 great here because what we're doing is going, let's just get 187 00:10:27,120 --> 00:10:29,520 outside, get in, in nature where there's not really going to be 188 00:10:29,520 --> 00:10:31,840 many people. So people are going to forest 189 00:10:31,840 --> 00:10:33,600 parks, the beach and all that kind of thing. 190 00:10:33,600 --> 00:10:36,160 But the problem is everybody's going to the beach. 191 00:10:36,680 --> 00:10:39,640 So Portrush and Port Stewart are just like peak season at the 192 00:10:39,640 --> 00:10:42,400 minute. And you know, you have 7 people 193 00:10:42,560 --> 00:10:45,920 per dolgium in barracks. So it's not, there's no social 194 00:10:45,920 --> 00:10:50,200 isolating going on here. See See where you where you live 195 00:10:50,200 --> 00:10:53,440 in Australia? Is it like built up area? 196 00:10:53,440 --> 00:10:55,400 Spread out place? Do you live in a middle of 197 00:10:55,400 --> 00:10:58,000 nowhere? Or I live in Melbourne, which is 198 00:10:58,040 --> 00:11:04,000 four and a half million people, and they're trying to sort of 199 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:07,720 isolate, you know, as best as you can. 200 00:11:07,760 --> 00:11:09,440 They had a big thing in Bondi Beach. 201 00:11:09,480 --> 00:11:12,080 Everyone went to Bondi Beach and they were raging with them. 202 00:11:12,600 --> 00:11:16,520 Yeah. But today, you know, I didn't 203 00:11:16,560 --> 00:11:21,160 see anybody at all. I went to the park, but we 204 00:11:21,160 --> 00:11:22,840 didn't, you know, get near anybody. 205 00:11:22,840 --> 00:11:25,520 Other people were in the park, but you weren't near anybody. 206 00:11:26,120 --> 00:11:28,840 And like, you're super paranoid with your kids going. 207 00:11:28,840 --> 00:11:32,600 Don't touch that. You know, they're all telling me 208 00:11:32,600 --> 00:11:35,160 that. Chillax, you know, calm down. 209 00:11:35,720 --> 00:11:38,680 It's funny as well how you look at people that aren't isolating, 210 00:11:38,680 --> 00:11:41,320 like people that are having parties, people that are going 211 00:11:41,320 --> 00:11:45,040 to bars and your raging going. I shouldn't do that like what 212 00:11:45,040 --> 00:11:48,200 decades but then parties gone. That looks like a lot of fun 213 00:11:48,200 --> 00:11:51,000 though. I. 214 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:55,280 Just, it seems to be quite a big thing in Ireland or, you know, 215 00:11:55,280 --> 00:12:00,400 people with the, it's hard to talk about this, talk about 216 00:12:00,400 --> 00:12:03,960 something else. But it's hard to go in the, the 217 00:12:03,960 --> 00:12:06,720 tea is nice. So I'm just gonna be tea. 218 00:12:07,120 --> 00:12:11,320 First of all, I I I appreciate a good mug and that looks like a 219 00:12:11,320 --> 00:12:15,640 nice mug to drink tea. Yeah, that was a party that my 220 00:12:15,640 --> 00:12:17,520 wife went to and they give everyone a cup. 221 00:12:18,400 --> 00:12:20,880 I mean I feel like I'm translating that to your wife 222 00:12:20,880 --> 00:12:23,720 stole it but. Yeah, well, she got one. 223 00:12:23,720 --> 00:12:28,040 And then all other people who didn't want their cups, she 224 00:12:28,040 --> 00:12:30,080 started. Luckily she had a big handbag on 225 00:12:30,080 --> 00:12:34,160 her. We ended up we did well. 226 00:12:34,160 --> 00:12:37,280 Freaking good cups. It is a It is a life. 227 00:12:37,280 --> 00:12:40,720 Drinking out of bad cups. You know, like even a mug. 228 00:12:42,520 --> 00:12:43,120 Didn't. Didn't. 229 00:12:43,120 --> 00:12:45,560 You start. Didn't you? 230 00:12:45,560 --> 00:12:48,760 You were builder at one point, was that right, like when you 231 00:12:48,760 --> 00:12:51,360 left school when you first moved to Australia or tradesman 232 00:12:51,360 --> 00:12:54,480 anyway, so you're probably used to drinking out of just whatever 233 00:12:54,480 --> 00:12:57,680 mugs we're going. So now you can appreciate a good 234 00:12:57,680 --> 00:13:00,320 cup. Yeah, well, I was never really, 235 00:13:01,040 --> 00:13:06,040 I never really understood the difference until I had a cup of 236 00:13:06,040 --> 00:13:11,240 tea from a thin cup and the way it holds the heat quite well. 237 00:13:12,120 --> 00:13:15,200 But do you not feel yourself getting a bit with a thin cup? 238 00:13:15,440 --> 00:13:18,040 Do you not find yourself, body language wise, getting a bit 239 00:13:18,040 --> 00:13:20,160 more dainty? Yeah, yeah, you do. 240 00:13:20,160 --> 00:13:23,280 Your little finger so. Just a bit lighter, you know? 241 00:13:23,680 --> 00:13:28,120 Yeah, yeah, absolutely. They're not a big cup, but 242 00:13:28,120 --> 00:13:30,120 that's a big cup there. That's a nice big cup. 243 00:13:31,240 --> 00:13:37,280 I've stopped taking sugar about maybe a year ago and I, I was 244 00:13:37,280 --> 00:13:38,720 almost going to give up on it going. 245 00:13:38,720 --> 00:13:43,640 I used to really love a cup of tea, but like the sugar, it 246 00:13:43,840 --> 00:13:47,840 wasn't, you know, we just wasn't working for me. 247 00:13:47,840 --> 00:13:50,720 And it took quite a while, maybe a month or more. 248 00:13:51,320 --> 00:13:53,960 I was drinking tea thinking more is the point. 249 00:13:53,960 --> 00:13:57,800 And then I just sort of thing I was back on board again. 250 00:13:58,520 --> 00:14:02,520 So yeah. So you like you, you know, no 251 00:14:02,520 --> 00:14:05,280 sugar at the minute, No sugar or you're back in. 252 00:14:05,880 --> 00:14:08,400 Over a year, no sugar. Over a year bored. 253 00:14:08,400 --> 00:14:09,000 Really. Yeah. 254 00:14:09,520 --> 00:14:12,200 You know, I think you. One Cup of tea, that's a petrol 255 00:14:12,200 --> 00:14:14,560 1 cup of tea because this is night time. 256 00:14:14,560 --> 00:14:17,160 My wife was drinking a petrol cup and I kind of like it, you 257 00:14:17,160 --> 00:14:18,560 know, it's kind of nice, different. 258 00:14:19,320 --> 00:14:22,280 It's still illegal back home. Peppermint tea, we're still not 259 00:14:22,520 --> 00:14:26,000 we're still not accepting that in the in the tea culture. 260 00:14:26,560 --> 00:14:28,960 But I feel like I. Would be quite judgmental on 261 00:14:28,960 --> 00:14:30,840 people drinking that stuff too to be honest. 262 00:14:31,320 --> 00:14:35,480 I feel like once you stop having sugar and tea, you'd appreciate 263 00:14:35,480 --> 00:14:39,200 tea more as a drink because when you're having sugar, you're just 264 00:14:39,200 --> 00:14:42,600 sort of tasting the sugar. Whereas, you know, sometimes you 265 00:14:42,600 --> 00:14:45,640 just got to go bareback with the T and go, this is the way. 266 00:14:45,880 --> 00:14:48,320 This is the way the Lord Jesus intended us to happen. 267 00:14:48,720 --> 00:14:50,760 Yeah, yeah. You know. 268 00:14:51,920 --> 00:14:57,120 Where's it from India? I thought it was Ballymena, but 269 00:14:57,320 --> 00:15:02,600 I mean, if you know, if you know different, then I feel like we 270 00:15:02,600 --> 00:15:05,120 were the first ones to put milk in it, you know, I feel like 271 00:15:05,120 --> 00:15:07,880 there shouldn't naturally be milk in it, but we were like, 272 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:09,040 you know what? Do you drink? 273 00:15:09,480 --> 00:15:12,360 What's your builders team give cover? 274 00:15:12,840 --> 00:15:17,880 Them and just like a a strong cup of Tetley. 275 00:15:18,560 --> 00:15:21,480 Tetley. Do you go living in Australia? 276 00:15:21,480 --> 00:15:24,800 Do you shop out there? I guess there's loads of like 277 00:15:24,800 --> 00:15:27,280 British and Irish shops doing all that kind of stuff. 278 00:15:27,600 --> 00:15:30,360 Do you go and seek that out or have you been there so long you 279 00:15:30,360 --> 00:15:32,920 just get the the Australian Branson? 280 00:15:33,280 --> 00:15:35,040 Yeah, just the Australian brats, yeah. 281 00:15:35,080 --> 00:15:38,120 There's a novelty of that wear off like when you first sort of 282 00:15:38,120 --> 00:15:41,720 see like peedo cheese and onion and stuff and Veda, are you like 283 00:15:41,720 --> 00:15:43,320 this is it? I'm always going to buy this. 284 00:15:43,480 --> 00:15:46,920 And then very quickly, do you go, OK, that's moving on? 285 00:15:46,920 --> 00:15:49,000 Yeah, yeah. I never really remembered having 286 00:15:49,040 --> 00:15:53,200 that sort of nostalgia and the 1st place I get to go home quite 287 00:15:53,200 --> 00:15:56,080 a bit so. That's what I was going to ask 288 00:15:56,080 --> 00:15:58,720 you. How often do you how many months 289 00:15:58,720 --> 00:16:01,880 of the year on average do you spend down Under? 290 00:16:02,920 --> 00:16:07,400 Yeah, well, yeah, I live here, but then I tour and I would do 291 00:16:07,840 --> 00:16:13,240 three months in the UK and Ireland and you know, just doing 292 00:16:13,400 --> 00:16:17,680 doing gigs around there. Or it's like a fly in, fly out 293 00:16:17,680 --> 00:16:21,880 sort of lifestyle where you, you know, people work on on on mines 294 00:16:22,680 --> 00:16:27,640 or the oil rig that sort of like they fly, they call P4 or 295 00:16:27,640 --> 00:16:29,400 something. They call where they fly in, fly 296 00:16:29,400 --> 00:16:33,640 out, Yeah. And that's really what I just 297 00:16:33,640 --> 00:16:36,360 recommend. Work solid, which is great. 298 00:16:36,720 --> 00:16:40,680 I did the whole February flying to Birmingham, drive around the 299 00:16:40,680 --> 00:16:45,600 country and then fly back again. So yeah, three months and then 300 00:16:45,600 --> 00:16:48,520 the rest of the time I tour and live in Australia. 301 00:16:49,400 --> 00:16:54,800 See when so take me back a bit. So I feel like I know your story 302 00:16:54,800 --> 00:17:01,080 a bit of I think, I think you left here like between 18 and 303 00:17:01,080 --> 00:17:03,840 21, something like. That yeah, no, 22. 304 00:17:04,280 --> 00:17:06,680 Oh yeah, yeah. That's like, yeah, that's home. 305 00:17:07,040 --> 00:17:07,920 Yeah. Northern Ireland. 306 00:17:07,920 --> 00:17:09,960 Yeah. Fort Stewart, 18. 307 00:17:10,359 --> 00:17:12,800 And then I went to London until I was 22. 308 00:17:13,160 --> 00:17:19,280 At 22 I was at college doing a building management course and 309 00:17:19,280 --> 00:17:27,040 then I went to Australia 22 And then when I was there a year 23, 310 00:17:27,040 --> 00:17:32,400 I started doing stand up. And when you lived here, like 311 00:17:32,400 --> 00:17:34,920 back home, did you ever do stand up? 312 00:17:35,040 --> 00:17:38,040 The stand up something you only picked up when you went and was 313 00:17:38,040 --> 00:17:43,440 there no notion to doing it? No, I didn't even know what it 314 00:17:43,440 --> 00:17:45,000 was. Really naive. 315 00:17:45,720 --> 00:17:49,280 I knew who Billy Connolly was, A New Deal Allen was, but didn't 316 00:17:49,280 --> 00:17:51,440 really know there was a scene beyond that. 317 00:17:51,800 --> 00:17:55,640 I just thought they were two cats out there doing and I 318 00:17:55,640 --> 00:17:58,720 suppose, you know, I was aware of Tommy Cooper, but they were 319 00:17:58,720 --> 00:18:03,760 on TV or and I never really shouldn't, didn't it that much. 320 00:18:03,760 --> 00:18:09,760 I really wasn't seeing it as an art form or something that I was 321 00:18:09,760 --> 00:18:12,920 interested in until I came to Australia. 322 00:18:13,440 --> 00:18:16,440 Yeah, because you, I mean, you don't know there's an amateur 323 00:18:16,440 --> 00:18:19,480 scene a lot of the time when you, when you don't do stand up 324 00:18:19,480 --> 00:18:22,400 like the first. I think I was about 18 the first 325 00:18:22,400 --> 00:18:26,360 time I did it and I was just Googling stand up comedy nights 326 00:18:26,360 --> 00:18:28,480 in Belf. I knew the empire was gone and 327 00:18:28,480 --> 00:18:30,920 that was it. I was like the empires for like 328 00:18:31,160 --> 00:18:33,880 guys like Colin Murphy, Jaco King that are on TV. 329 00:18:34,360 --> 00:18:37,040 But I thought that's it. I was like there's no other, 330 00:18:37,600 --> 00:18:41,200 there's no other gigs. And then you find out actually 331 00:18:41,200 --> 00:18:43,320 there's a Saturday night, there's a show that Saturday 332 00:18:43,320 --> 00:18:48,120 night for a fibre in and yeah, it's mad how you your perception 333 00:18:48,120 --> 00:18:49,680 of stand up. And then once you do it, you 334 00:18:49,680 --> 00:18:54,320 realise there's a million comedians in the in the I love 335 00:18:54,320 --> 00:18:56,560 the. Ruins first story of So what was 336 00:18:56,560 --> 00:18:58,840 yours? You're 18 and you were where? 337 00:18:59,440 --> 00:19:01,960 Black You ever heard of the black box in Belfast? 338 00:19:02,280 --> 00:19:04,840 No. So it's like a same new theatre. 339 00:19:04,840 --> 00:19:08,080 It's probably been going for about 15 years, but it's in the 340 00:19:08,080 --> 00:19:11,880 Cathedral Quarter, which is, you know, been totally rebound. 341 00:19:11,880 --> 00:19:13,960 It. Was a stand up night and the 342 00:19:13,960 --> 00:19:17,360 lineup was. Do you remember Dermot Core? 343 00:19:18,600 --> 00:19:22,040 There was a guy called Dermot Core from Coal Island who had a 344 00:19:22,360 --> 00:19:25,080 two series in BBC Northern Ireland of like his own sketch 345 00:19:25,080 --> 00:19:29,600 show. He did stand up and it was him 346 00:19:29,880 --> 00:19:32,160 fella called Paul Curry. Would you know Paul from like 347 00:19:32,160 --> 00:19:33,520 Dindy? Fringe and stuff like that. 348 00:19:33,760 --> 00:19:37,160 Yeah, yeah. Paul, Paul Rana, Paul gave me my 349 00:19:37,160 --> 00:19:41,520 first ever gig and Neil Dugan. Yes, I know Neil. 350 00:19:41,520 --> 00:19:43,120 Yeah, totally. I've been Gigs and Neil in 351 00:19:43,400 --> 00:19:46,440 Glasgow. Neil, Neil Neil Brilliant. 352 00:19:46,440 --> 00:19:49,000 I appreciate comedians that still wear a suit. 353 00:19:49,480 --> 00:19:50,640 You know, there's something about that. 354 00:19:50,640 --> 00:19:52,560 I don't do it, but there's something about that where I go. 355 00:19:52,800 --> 00:19:58,960 I'm glad that people do do that. Think about it, he does this 356 00:19:58,960 --> 00:20:01,920 thing about his mate, reckon he can take it down. 357 00:20:01,920 --> 00:20:05,920 And then they all watched over the fence, the dab. 358 00:20:06,960 --> 00:20:09,080 Yeah, yeah, yeah. He. 359 00:20:09,480 --> 00:20:11,880 Actually happened to his friend. He did. 360 00:20:11,880 --> 00:20:15,440 Neil would be, I'm sure when I was saying this, like what, 361 00:20:15,440 --> 00:20:18,080 early 50s maybe something like that. 362 00:20:18,160 --> 00:20:21,560 Yeah, yeah. And he, he, so we did a show on 363 00:20:21,560 --> 00:20:24,600 Radio Ulster a couple of years ago called Live at the Sunflower 364 00:20:24,600 --> 00:20:28,320 where it was for basic new, new comedians to do 5 minutes goes 365 00:20:28,320 --> 00:20:29,480 out in the radio, that sort of thing. 366 00:20:29,960 --> 00:20:33,800 And I, I asked Neil to do and he was really don't know if he was 367 00:20:33,800 --> 00:20:37,600 nervous, but you know, every comedian almost from the age of 368 00:20:37,600 --> 00:20:41,960 like 20 to 30 maybe. And we're all wearing, you know, 369 00:20:41,960 --> 00:20:44,720 jeans and T-shirt. Neil shows up in a suit. 370 00:20:44,960 --> 00:20:48,760 And I remember some people in the audience maybe or other 371 00:20:48,760 --> 00:20:52,280 comedians sort of giving him a look of, you know, this guy's my 372 00:20:52,280 --> 00:20:55,320 dad's age. He got up and delivered the best 373 00:20:55,320 --> 00:20:58,920 set of the night, just an unbelievable set. 374 00:20:58,920 --> 00:21:04,680 And he, he he's taken like a year's break from stand up just 375 00:21:04,680 --> 00:21:08,600 because he, he works full time. He is a like a like a big job 376 00:21:08,600 --> 00:21:10,640 kind of. But I hope he comes back because 377 00:21:10,760 --> 00:21:13,360 there's something about that like more traditional style of 378 00:21:13,360 --> 00:21:16,680 stand up, you know? Yeah, proper punch lines that I 379 00:21:16,680 --> 00:21:18,120 that I really, that I really like. 380 00:21:18,120 --> 00:21:23,280 So everybody that did that first gig that I did is, is now now 381 00:21:23,280 --> 00:21:25,640 headlines everybody. It's it's, it's a weird one 382 00:21:25,640 --> 00:21:28,760 because how many times do you look back at a poster or line up 383 00:21:28,760 --> 00:21:31,080 and go, that guy doesn't do stand up anymore. 384 00:21:31,080 --> 00:21:34,360 That guy doesn't do it. But this was one where everybody 385 00:21:34,360 --> 00:21:36,200 has gone on to do way more stand up. 386 00:21:37,120 --> 00:21:44,720 I, I died so badly my first gig so bad because as whenever I was 387 00:21:44,720 --> 00:21:48,760 18 or 90, I think it was 18, I looked 13. 388 00:21:48,840 --> 00:21:52,240 So I already had that in with the crowd where they looked at 389 00:21:52,240 --> 00:21:55,360 me and thought God bless him, You know, I I was already 390 00:21:55,360 --> 00:21:58,440 getting laughs because of how young I looked and out of place 391 00:21:58,440 --> 00:22:00,800 at a comedy club. But I wrote a script. 392 00:22:01,200 --> 00:22:02,840 I don't I didn't know how to write stand up. 393 00:22:02,840 --> 00:22:04,960 So I wrote a script like word for word. 394 00:22:05,240 --> 00:22:07,160 I was like, I'll learn Nestle do material. 395 00:22:07,720 --> 00:22:11,240 But I'd never performed before. So as soon as I got on stage, I 396 00:22:11,240 --> 00:22:13,360 didn't realise the nerves would throw me off. 397 00:22:14,320 --> 00:22:17,600 I forgot a couple of words, a couple of words in the script 398 00:22:17,920 --> 00:22:19,800 and then I couldn't remember one more thing. 399 00:22:19,800 --> 00:22:23,280 So I just fell apart, but I started talking about it, you 400 00:22:23,280 --> 00:22:25,280 know, it's like I don't know what I'm doing here. 401 00:22:25,280 --> 00:22:27,160 I was like, I've forgotten all the jokes. 402 00:22:27,360 --> 00:22:29,200 That kind of bought me a better laughter. 403 00:22:29,360 --> 00:22:32,480 But it was, it was so bad. I remember walk leaving that 404 00:22:32,480 --> 00:22:33,840 comedy club the first time going. 405 00:22:34,560 --> 00:22:37,040 I am glad that I did that, but I'll never do it again. 406 00:22:37,040 --> 00:22:40,840 And then like 6 months later I was like, I'll see, we'll see 407 00:22:40,840 --> 00:22:43,800 how this goes. Went a wee bit better and I just 408 00:22:43,800 --> 00:22:45,320 sort of started doing it from there. 409 00:22:45,320 --> 00:22:48,560 But it's not like I turned my hand to it and it started great. 410 00:22:49,480 --> 00:22:50,440 But. Those. 411 00:22:52,320 --> 00:22:54,360 So your first gig was in Australia? 412 00:22:55,400 --> 00:22:58,360 Yeah, I told jokes, like, as in joke jokes. 413 00:22:58,960 --> 00:23:00,760 Yeah. I love guys. 414 00:23:00,800 --> 00:23:05,200 I love a good guy. And I sort of tell them. 415 00:23:05,200 --> 00:23:08,120 And then they started laughing at the fact that I was telling a 416 00:23:08,120 --> 00:23:10,920 joke. And I thought they'd heard the 417 00:23:10,920 --> 00:23:14,080 joke because they started like, yeah, like, I know that joke. 418 00:23:14,720 --> 00:23:16,240 And then I go, oh, you've heard that one. 419 00:23:16,440 --> 00:23:18,240 Do you know that one? And then I stopped. 420 00:23:18,360 --> 00:23:20,160 All right. I thought, OK, forget that. 421 00:23:20,560 --> 00:23:22,160 And then that I was getting laughed. 422 00:23:22,200 --> 00:23:24,800 I was getting like to say they thought that was my ACT. 423 00:23:25,200 --> 00:23:26,040 Right, right. They knew. 424 00:23:26,080 --> 00:23:30,520 Any genuinely thinking, oh, they know this 10, they know this 425 00:23:30,520 --> 00:23:32,160 one. Then I eventually got the gags 426 00:23:32,160 --> 00:23:34,400 that were good gags. I knew nobody. 427 00:23:34,640 --> 00:23:37,360 Like, they weren't run-of-the-mill gags wanted to 428 00:23:37,360 --> 00:23:40,000 catch you off guard, you know, like, ah, yeah, fair enough. 429 00:23:40,600 --> 00:23:44,480 And and then that was my introduction to watch the rest 430 00:23:44,480 --> 00:23:46,440 of the night. I loved it. 431 00:23:46,440 --> 00:23:49,840 I just thought, oh, my God, we've been standing in bars 432 00:23:50,320 --> 00:23:55,160 playing pool, you know, going to bands or doing what we were told 433 00:23:55,160 --> 00:23:57,000 to do. And I just thought, this is so 434 00:23:57,000 --> 00:23:59,240 different. This is, I felt like I had 435 00:23:59,240 --> 00:24:02,960 discovered it in this little dark room in the back of Sydney. 436 00:24:02,960 --> 00:24:05,880 It was the only club in Sydney. There was a comedy club there. 437 00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:09,600 It was shit. This was a Monday night and I 438 00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:14,080 just felt I just couldn't wait to go again the next week and 439 00:24:14,080 --> 00:24:17,240 watch. And I got up and I wrote a 440 00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:19,840 script the next week and it didn't kind of go too well. 441 00:24:19,840 --> 00:24:23,880 It's like your thing where you say you were getting laughed, 442 00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:25,120 saying it wasn't getting laughed. 443 00:24:25,440 --> 00:24:33,040 And and then sort of, I just sort of, you know, there's a 444 00:24:33,120 --> 00:24:36,480 there's a guy, Bob Franklin, who became a real big inspiration 445 00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:41,400 and he was living with these two guys from Belfast and they were 446 00:24:41,400 --> 00:24:44,200 flat and Bondi and we all became friends. 447 00:24:45,440 --> 00:24:47,440 And he was doing stand up for a while. 448 00:24:47,960 --> 00:24:52,360 And I would say to him things socially and he'd laugh and 449 00:24:52,360 --> 00:24:54,320 they'd look at me and go. So they have a few times he'd 450 00:24:54,320 --> 00:24:58,000 laugh and he'd go, you should say that on stage, you see. 451 00:24:58,120 --> 00:25:00,840 Yeah. And I go, they wouldn't get 452 00:25:00,840 --> 00:25:02,000 that. And he goes, oh, you'd be 453 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:03,800 surprised. You'd be surprised. 454 00:25:04,440 --> 00:25:08,200 And then he started back like saying things you should say 455 00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:10,120 that. So then I started saying the 456 00:25:10,120 --> 00:25:15,640 things that he would say that I had said and they they would get 457 00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:20,600 big laughs, you know? Yeah, I'll tell you what it was. 458 00:25:20,600 --> 00:25:22,080 It just gives you the timing of it. 459 00:25:22,080 --> 00:25:25,880 Right. So the Berlin Wall came down and 460 00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:28,480 we're watching TV and some of the over the moon. 461 00:25:28,480 --> 00:25:29,800 We're all over the moon. And I go. 462 00:25:30,240 --> 00:25:32,360 You wouldn't have been if you've been digging a tunnel for the 463 00:25:32,360 --> 00:25:36,840 last six months. And, you know, Bobby kind of 464 00:25:36,840 --> 00:25:40,640 laughed in behind his book and then did this look over at me. 465 00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:46,640 You should say that on stage. And that was the line that got a 466 00:25:46,640 --> 00:25:49,240 big laugh. And I was, oh, fuck yeah. 467 00:25:49,240 --> 00:25:52,400 Now I know what to. This is the sort of shit I 468 00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:54,360 should be trying to sort of tap into. 469 00:25:54,800 --> 00:25:59,840 And from that sort of, I did tap into all these kind of little 470 00:25:59,840 --> 00:26:03,440 comments and little sly remarks that you probably have in your 471 00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:06,160 repertoire, but you don't realise those are the things 472 00:26:06,160 --> 00:26:10,280 that people want to laugh at. You were thinking, oh, to be, 473 00:26:11,120 --> 00:26:14,200 you know, it was things that made me laugh and then the 474 00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:18,080 friends laugh with the things that would benefit. 475 00:26:19,040 --> 00:26:23,000 And what was the transition of not working on the building side 476 00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:25,360 and just go more full time in the stand up over there? 477 00:26:25,360 --> 00:26:28,000 Was it like a very quick thing for you or was it? 478 00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:35,000 Well, Laura, you know, back then there was a recession and 479 00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:39,080 interest rates went from 6% to 17%. 480 00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:44,840 I was working on a golden site and they I had holidays off and 481 00:26:44,840 --> 00:26:47,480 I was booked to do this comedy club in Melbourne. 482 00:26:48,360 --> 00:26:52,760 And then they asked to come back again and the guy said to me, 483 00:26:52,760 --> 00:26:55,360 they employed me goose drone, I'd do it because we don't 484 00:26:55,360 --> 00:26:57,760 really have a job view at the end of this job. 485 00:26:58,840 --> 00:27:01,680 So you should. So he kind of told me like the 486 00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:06,560 job had finished. So I went she should go down 487 00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:08,320 because there is no job really for you. 488 00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:13,280 After this finished went down, did the four weeks work in 489 00:27:13,280 --> 00:27:19,520 Melbourne, which led into I have a think I still have the tools 490 00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:22,920 and stuff like that. I can work as a Carpenter and 491 00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:28,080 that led into this other job, which was six weeks became 10 492 00:27:28,080 --> 00:27:30,720 weeks. And then I got so it sort of 493 00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:35,360 like it was one of those things where I just, I opened a bank 494 00:27:35,360 --> 00:27:38,120 account, a deposit bank account, I thought, but if I put this 495 00:27:38,120 --> 00:27:42,920 money in from construction, from gigs, I could see maybe I could 496 00:27:43,120 --> 00:27:45,720 buy something with it. And then it became my full time 497 00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:48,200 job. Like I didn't have, I didn't 498 00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:51,200 have any other job. But because I moved to Melbourne 499 00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:54,240 and there was lots of work, there was loads of comedy clubs 500 00:27:54,240 --> 00:28:00,920 that Sydney had two, Melbourne had about 5 or 16 and all little 501 00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:03,680 gigs as well. And then there were TV shows, 502 00:28:03,680 --> 00:28:08,560 which were big national TV shows and they were employing comics 503 00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:12,320 to write on it. And if you get a wage, you've 504 00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:15,600 got two or three minutes of a week, which is, you know, clear. 505 00:28:17,040 --> 00:28:18,760 Were you? And. 506 00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:24,320 At that time was there loads of people from home going over to 507 00:28:24,320 --> 00:28:27,000 Australia or is without after that? 508 00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:29,720 Because I was going to say we're we're a lot of the audiences in 509 00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:32,320 the comedy club. Would you get people from home? 510 00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:34,320 No, it wasn't. There was no. 511 00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:38,040 That was before that first real big wave of Irish people. 512 00:28:38,080 --> 00:28:40,760 There was nobody I knew in Melbourne that was Irish really. 513 00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:45,440 I, I think that's probably a good thing as a performer 514 00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:48,720 because if you've gone to the comedy clubs and you know, you 515 00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:52,120 say who's from home and, and you get a huge cheer, sometimes 516 00:28:52,120 --> 00:28:55,560 it's, it's not cheating, but sometimes you, you know, you, 517 00:28:55,560 --> 00:28:57,560 you know, the things that are going to work. 518 00:28:57,560 --> 00:29:01,080 So you sort of focus on that. Whereas, you know, there's 519 00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:05,600 definitely a difference. If I do a gig in Boston and it's 520 00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:08,360 just people from home that have come to see me, I'm going to 521 00:29:08,360 --> 00:29:11,720 talk a fair bit about home. But when you do a comedy club 522 00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:14,920 and there's nobody from home, you definitely have to work that 523 00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:17,320 bit harder and that. Was all I knew. 524 00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:21,920 And that was kind of really a great thing if you just know 525 00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:23,760 that you can't make any of those references. 526 00:29:23,760 --> 00:29:27,880 And I never really did make any references to the Troubles or 527 00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:32,960 Northern Ireland or Ireland. I just thought I'll make it 528 00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:37,360 about universal things. Then indirectly it travelled 529 00:29:37,360 --> 00:29:40,000 well, but ultimately it worked really well there. 530 00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:44,520 And you know, as soon as you open your mouth, people know 531 00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:47,440 you're Irish. So and then and then they would 532 00:29:47,440 --> 00:29:52,320 play on it like the worst way. If you're getting TV or press. 533 00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:58,320 It was the worst sort of cliche of being Irish, you know, can we 534 00:29:58,320 --> 00:30:00,640 get you holding potatoes or chuckling potatoes? 535 00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:05,640 Stay on top of the morning and you know, like you say, it was a 536 00:30:05,640 --> 00:30:08,160 pursue Australian that and you go. 537 00:30:08,200 --> 00:30:10,560 Can you wear one of those hats for the corks hanging off that, 538 00:30:10,560 --> 00:30:12,120 you know all the work thing? Yeah. 539 00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:19,080 So, so yeah, on the not mention, it was, you know, great. 540 00:30:20,280 --> 00:30:24,120 And then and then you seem to do like you did like a lot of 541 00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:27,800 films. And I actually remember seeing 542 00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:31,440 posters. I remember some of the posters 543 00:30:31,440 --> 00:30:35,760 of those films because it kind of whenever I was probably still 544 00:30:35,760 --> 00:30:38,680 in school, it was a guy from home. 545 00:30:38,680 --> 00:30:41,720 I remember people saying there's a guy because I had such a big 546 00:30:41,720 --> 00:30:44,720 interest in comedy. And I remember in school a 547 00:30:44,720 --> 00:30:47,960 couple other guys did and I just remember what was the film. 548 00:30:47,960 --> 00:30:50,440 Where do you have like a Guinness moustache? 549 00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:53,440 The crack. Yeah, yeah. 550 00:30:53,720 --> 00:30:56,880 That did really well. We have the big hit over here. 551 00:30:56,880 --> 00:31:00,280 I did well on Ireland but it was a really big hit over here, 552 00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:02,640 which is great. That was the first time I did 553 00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:05,640 it. But before that I did ATV show, 554 00:31:06,360 --> 00:31:12,160 which was there was a Tonight Show which I hosted a few times 555 00:31:12,840 --> 00:31:17,160 and then they asked me to host it on a regular on a Friday 556 00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:20,600 night and the network intervened and they said no, we don't like 557 00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:23,960 this guy doing it. You find it actually too strong. 558 00:31:24,040 --> 00:31:27,200 So we don't want him to do it and we don't even want him on 559 00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:30,960 the channel. I mean, that's harsh. 560 00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:36,080 I know. And, and they had to come to me 561 00:31:36,080 --> 00:31:39,560 with this news going like now you can't host it and you can't 562 00:31:39,560 --> 00:31:41,320 even be on as a guest. And you have to. 563 00:31:41,320 --> 00:31:45,000 Get out. Literally what I did, I got out 564 00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:48,720 of the country, I went back to the Uki was in London. 565 00:31:49,280 --> 00:31:53,680 I was doing a show in London. I just done Edinburgh and I've 566 00:31:53,680 --> 00:31:57,440 done a show in the West and one night in the West End and they 567 00:31:57,440 --> 00:32:04,720 had this TV show which was, you know, of everyone, all these 568 00:32:04,720 --> 00:32:08,800 comics together, you know, a, a, a group of like all these 569 00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:11,840 different comics, all the different stand ups on one TV 570 00:32:11,840 --> 00:32:16,160 show. And it died in it, that comedy 571 00:32:16,160 --> 00:32:18,080 supermarket. So like it was a still water in 572 00:32:18,080 --> 00:32:21,280 the supermarket and they all went down and it took everyone 573 00:32:21,280 --> 00:32:24,160 dying like everyone that was involved with the show. 574 00:32:24,160 --> 00:32:26,720 Was what what are their names would have done it? 575 00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:30,040 You know, was there anybody like anybody that's well known now as 576 00:32:30,040 --> 00:32:31,760 well that would that was on that show? 577 00:32:32,560 --> 00:32:35,640 OK, it was every comic. Yeah, I don't know. 578 00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:37,560 Peter Roadshorn, I think, was on it. 579 00:32:37,560 --> 00:32:42,280 He was in Katherine Kim. You know, this is quite a while 580 00:32:42,280 --> 00:32:44,480 ago now. This is back in 1991 or 581 00:32:44,480 --> 00:32:46,040 something. So Brad, right. 582 00:32:46,080 --> 00:32:47,400 And they were all Australian comic. 583 00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:51,040 Everyone on the circuit would have known them that if we're on 584 00:32:51,040 --> 00:32:54,400 stage or on screen or writing, everyone was involved. 585 00:32:55,200 --> 00:33:01,160 Edge, edge sign big time. And the the executive, one of 586 00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:04,440 the executives happened to be in the West End and saw me and 587 00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:07,480 goes, oh freaky, why don't we get him the next thing I got a 588 00:33:07,480 --> 00:33:10,320 phone call. Can you come back? 589 00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:16,040 Oh, it's forgiven 180, the biggest 180 I've ever heard in 590 00:33:16,040 --> 00:33:19,960 my life, where next thing I'm back in Australia and these guy 591 00:33:19,960 --> 00:33:24,560 goes please, like you can do a pilot for your own show in three 592 00:33:24,560 --> 00:33:26,640 weeks time. So could you still get writing 593 00:33:26,640 --> 00:33:28,560 to do this? Yep. 594 00:33:28,800 --> 00:33:31,680 And we did it. And on that night, the guy goes, 595 00:33:31,880 --> 00:33:35,400 I love that we're doing it. And it was just commissioned and 596 00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:41,280 it was on on a Sunday night at 7:30, which is a ridiculous like 597 00:33:41,440 --> 00:33:46,800 seller black kind of surprise, surprise what you know, and I 598 00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:48,480 and I would win, they would win it written. 599 00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:54,600 So it became this ridiculously big kind of family comedy show 600 00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:57,720 that, you know, that everyone could watch together, but just 601 00:33:57,720 --> 00:34:04,440 sketch and and stand up. And because of that, I got to do 602 00:34:04,440 --> 00:34:06,560 the films and do those other things. 603 00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:13,480 But that was my initial, you know, introduction to to a 604 00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:16,120 bigger audience other than stand up. 605 00:34:16,600 --> 00:34:19,800 You did. I remember you did a documentary 606 00:34:19,800 --> 00:34:25,520 for BBC Northern Ireland. This is going back 12, maybe 12 607 00:34:25,520 --> 00:34:27,400 years. Was it? 608 00:34:27,440 --> 00:34:30,080 And it was, it was just you and it was like a travel diary 609 00:34:30,080 --> 00:34:31,360 almost. It was like you and a mate. 610 00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:34,480 Yeah, Yeah. Yeah, Yeah, that's right. 611 00:34:34,480 --> 00:34:36,760 Yeah. Yeah, we did. 612 00:34:37,159 --> 00:34:38,679 Are you? Are you just, Are you just 613 00:34:38,679 --> 00:34:42,080 remembering that you did this? So there's two that I did, there 614 00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:46,480 was 1 I did on Northern Ireland for Australia, but then there 615 00:34:46,480 --> 00:34:50,440 was one that I did in Australia for Northern Ireland, so. 616 00:34:50,480 --> 00:34:55,080 Yes, that's the one I saw. Yeah, It went from Broome to 617 00:34:56,840 --> 00:35:00,400 Room to Fire and which is over the top, that weird part of the 618 00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:05,320 sort of. Yeah, I like those stories about 619 00:35:05,320 --> 00:35:09,440 how things got up because the guy was telling he goes back up 620 00:35:09,440 --> 00:35:13,040 because they put it on in a meeting at the BBC. 621 00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:17,680 And within about two minutes someone said no, that, you know, 622 00:35:17,680 --> 00:35:19,800 the person ahead of the meeting goes, no, we don't want to. 623 00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:22,480 This is not for us. And they are OK. 624 00:35:22,720 --> 00:35:25,720 And then they tried to turn it off, but for some reason they 625 00:35:25,720 --> 00:35:28,680 couldn't turn the thing off. So they just turned the sound 626 00:35:28,680 --> 00:35:33,000 down and then kept it on. And then he goes slowly through 627 00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:36,040 the meeting. People started watching it and 628 00:35:36,040 --> 00:35:38,080 then someone goes turn now, turn now. 629 00:35:38,560 --> 00:35:42,000 And at the end of the meeting, we're doing this so because they 630 00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:45,320 couldn't turn it off. So are you saying that if I'm 631 00:35:45,320 --> 00:35:47,800 pitching any projects the BBC in the next couple of years just 632 00:35:47,800 --> 00:35:52,360 hide all the remote? The basic, Yeah. 633 00:35:52,360 --> 00:35:55,000 But you know, the two guys in the meeting were very adamant 634 00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:57,160 that that's what happened. He goes, I swear to God, this is 635 00:35:57,160 --> 00:35:58,560 what happened. They said no. 636 00:35:58,560 --> 00:36:02,320 And they said, yeah, that's. Crazy. 637 00:36:02,520 --> 00:36:07,000 I've got a couple of a couple of quick questions from Instagram 638 00:36:07,520 --> 00:36:10,080 and I put out the way we're doing this and people got in 639 00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:12,040 touch. So just give me. 640 00:36:12,040 --> 00:36:15,400 People I owe money to because that list is getting pretty long 641 00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:17,440 at the minute. Yeah, it's people, just that 642 00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:21,440 many people asking for your PayPal details, cap Catherine 643 00:36:21,440 --> 00:36:24,800 Blair says. What do you love about Northern 644 00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:27,120 Ireland the most? So is there anything when you're 645 00:36:27,120 --> 00:36:33,640 away that you go, ah, missed? That it's not when I'm away, 646 00:36:33,640 --> 00:36:36,560 probably when I'm at home, I go, Oh, yeah, that's great. 647 00:36:37,560 --> 00:36:39,480 Yeah. The time I grew up in, there's 648 00:36:39,480 --> 00:36:41,240 nothing like home. Sometimes, you know, you're in 649 00:36:41,560 --> 00:36:47,080 in the house you grew up and and that sense of just being in that 650 00:36:47,080 --> 00:36:49,400 you're you're in a place where you can really drop your 651 00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:55,640 shoulders is, I suppose, more to do with home than somewhere in 652 00:36:55,640 --> 00:36:57,720 Northern Ireland. But for me, that just happens to 653 00:36:57,720 --> 00:37:00,800 be Northern Ireland. Are you are you Port shared to 654 00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:06,000 Port Rush port shirt What shirt is Harry Shack in Port Stewart? 655 00:37:06,520 --> 00:37:11,280 Yes, it is. That is the quality, we just the 656 00:37:11,280 --> 00:37:15,080 setting of it. We used to live in Port Rush in 657 00:37:15,080 --> 00:37:18,280 the summertime. We used to rent our house out in 658 00:37:18,280 --> 00:37:20,080 the summer and go and live in Port Rush. 659 00:37:21,120 --> 00:37:24,920 So, you know, I can hang with the Port Rush ones. 660 00:37:25,280 --> 00:37:27,120 Yeah, they always, they're giant talk. 661 00:37:27,240 --> 00:37:32,960 Alright man. I did a game in Port Rush about 662 00:37:33,560 --> 00:37:35,440 a month ago and it was really fun. 663 00:37:36,600 --> 00:37:40,400 I feel like I wish everywhere locally had a comedy club. 664 00:37:40,400 --> 00:37:44,920 Every town, village, whatever it was in what What was the theatre 665 00:37:44,920 --> 00:37:46,000 called? The Playhouse. 666 00:37:46,840 --> 00:37:49,320 Yeah. They have a bar in there called 667 00:37:49,320 --> 00:37:50,960 Kiwis. I'm sure you've been to me when 668 00:37:50,960 --> 00:37:53,080 you've been home. But it's great venue. 669 00:37:53,120 --> 00:37:55,640 Yeah, yeah, it's brilliant. It's in the venue. 670 00:37:56,360 --> 00:37:59,560 It's in that middle bit, umm, where the sort of where the bar 671 00:37:59,560 --> 00:38:02,840 is and the IT was, it was class. It's really good. 672 00:38:02,840 --> 00:38:03,360 Fun. We used to. 673 00:38:03,960 --> 00:38:06,880 We used to spend the summer. There used to be an amusement 674 00:38:06,880 --> 00:38:09,640 arcade. The guy that used to change the 675 00:38:10,040 --> 00:38:12,960 the key, he had the keys, a big bunch of keys. 676 00:38:13,680 --> 00:38:15,360 Big John's Arts. We'd call him because he'd 677 00:38:15,360 --> 00:38:17,120 always bend down. You see the crack of his ass. 678 00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:20,080 So he changed in the key, Big John's Arts. 679 00:38:21,560 --> 00:38:24,960 So yeah, we used to. I was in Port Rush and they blew 680 00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:27,160 it up. Remember that quite vividly 681 00:38:27,920 --> 00:38:31,600 standing at the end of the park when like 3 or 4 bombs went off 682 00:38:31,600 --> 00:38:33,680 at the same time. What do you do you? 683 00:38:34,720 --> 00:38:38,320 Think we were about 12 at the time, yeah. 684 00:38:39,440 --> 00:38:45,440 Oh well, is it and you just you saw this happen and you're I 685 00:38:45,440 --> 00:38:48,320 actually don't what year without at the main without have been 686 00:38:48,320 --> 00:38:54,320 way before my time. In 19801979, you'd probably look 687 00:38:54,320 --> 00:38:58,080 at exactly what year it wasn't that that that happened, but the 688 00:38:58,080 --> 00:39:01,240 Playhouse was blowing up. Oh, I had no idea. 689 00:39:01,880 --> 00:39:05,560 All those amusement because like 5 bombs are off at the same time 690 00:39:06,800 --> 00:39:08,800 and yeah they blew the whole straight up. 691 00:39:09,520 --> 00:39:11,840 I remember another time there were two guys there once they 692 00:39:11,840 --> 00:39:15,240 bought a karaoke machine because they wanted to do karaoke when 693 00:39:15,240 --> 00:39:16,960 it first started. But. 694 00:39:16,960 --> 00:39:18,360 Not the paranoid trees, by the way. 695 00:39:19,320 --> 00:39:24,840 No, they hadn't discussed they maybe they hadn't discussed who 696 00:39:24,840 --> 00:39:27,640 was going to do the, the, the MC ING and talking. 697 00:39:27,640 --> 00:39:31,320 And there was a little bit of a scuffle over who was going to be 698 00:39:31,320 --> 00:39:34,120 talking to the mic. And there's just people on stage 699 00:39:34,560 --> 00:39:38,040 and one of the guys grabbing the mic, he would kind of hold on to 700 00:39:38,040 --> 00:39:39,200 it. And then the other guy, like go 701 00:39:39,200 --> 00:39:43,720 over and it like sort of hit him in the lip and bust his lip 702 00:39:43,720 --> 00:39:45,760 open. And then the two of them started 703 00:39:45,760 --> 00:39:48,440 punching on. And that was the first night of 704 00:39:48,440 --> 00:39:54,240 karaoke in Portrush. If I'm the last, I've got a 705 00:39:54,240 --> 00:39:57,240 question from Ross who says opinions in Northern Ireland, 706 00:39:57,240 --> 00:39:59,840 people bumping into Northern Ireland, people abroad. 707 00:40:00,040 --> 00:40:04,840 So I guess I'll ask you, do you get many shouts in Australia 708 00:40:04,840 --> 00:40:07,080 when you're in the street? Do you get people coming up to 709 00:40:07,080 --> 00:40:11,920 you from home? You do a gig, you can really, 710 00:40:11,920 --> 00:40:14,680 really tell people a gig. Being from Northern Ireland, 711 00:40:14,840 --> 00:40:19,480 just the accent, of course. Yeah, yeah, totally, totally, 712 00:40:19,480 --> 00:40:21,760 all the time. Well, it's a. 713 00:40:21,760 --> 00:40:23,680 Weird piece. So we all come from minute here. 714 00:40:24,040 --> 00:40:26,920 Yeah, yeah, I mean, but there's something beautiful about that 715 00:40:26,920 --> 00:40:29,720 because our accent cuts through every other accent. 716 00:40:29,720 --> 00:40:32,840 So, you know, if there's a million people talking, you'll 717 00:40:32,840 --> 00:40:37,040 pick up the guy from home, pick up our accent because it's, it's 718 00:40:37,040 --> 00:40:39,240 unique. Yeah, totally, totally. 719 00:40:39,280 --> 00:40:44,440 Like I was in Paris and we're at the airport and next thing I 720 00:40:44,440 --> 00:40:51,680 could hear, I'm thinking what's going on with the honey bun? 721 00:40:52,400 --> 00:40:57,600 There's loads of this going on, but why they keep hearing and 722 00:40:57,600 --> 00:41:01,480 then next thing you know, EasyJet flight to Belfast. 723 00:41:03,160 --> 00:41:08,280 Oh yeah, yeah. We we, we build from here, go to 724 00:41:08,280 --> 00:41:09,440 Paris. We shouldn't be allowed to 725 00:41:09,440 --> 00:41:11,120 speak. It's such a beautiful city. 726 00:41:11,120 --> 00:41:13,560 We should only be allowed to speak in our hotel rooms and not 727 00:41:13,560 --> 00:41:17,160 in public that Daniel Houston asks the big question. 728 00:41:17,200 --> 00:41:20,080 Get ready for this, he says. Best meal you've ever eaten? 729 00:41:21,720 --> 00:41:25,960 That's meal. So normally the last meal that 730 00:41:25,960 --> 00:41:27,960 you've ever had tonight was a cracker. 731 00:41:28,680 --> 00:41:31,200 What do you have? My wife? 732 00:41:31,720 --> 00:41:33,720 Salad. And then there's this thing, 733 00:41:35,720 --> 00:41:39,840 it's an Italian thing that she had to go cooking and take a 734 00:41:40,240 --> 00:41:43,800 quiche. Basically a quiche, potato, eggs 735 00:41:43,800 --> 00:41:49,800 and faggot. And yeah, it's hard to be a good 736 00:41:49,800 --> 00:41:55,320 steak, mind you. Is there a place you go when you 737 00:41:55,320 --> 00:41:58,000 come back home? Like if you if you go home to 738 00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:01,240 Port Stuart, is there like a cafe or a restaurant that you 739 00:42:01,560 --> 00:42:03,200 make a beeline for straight away? 740 00:42:07,080 --> 00:42:09,680 Is it that one? That's the old Golf Club. 741 00:42:09,800 --> 00:42:14,080 It's called Amici's. It's right across the road from 742 00:42:14,080 --> 00:42:21,200 our house, the old corner there. And because that's again, you 743 00:42:21,200 --> 00:42:25,680 can see, you know, catch up with a lot of people, you know. 744 00:42:25,680 --> 00:42:28,640 But you know, I'm not a big, I'm not a fussy eater, to be honest. 745 00:42:28,640 --> 00:42:31,920 I like that hungry. But yeah, I like that. 746 00:42:32,800 --> 00:42:38,520 Chris Henning says, fucking legend, first of all, and he 747 00:42:38,520 --> 00:42:41,280 says ask him if he would ever consider coming back home to 748 00:42:41,280 --> 00:42:43,360 live. I mean, I feel like Chris is 749 00:42:43,800 --> 00:42:46,360 offering you an invite there to move in with him. 750 00:42:46,360 --> 00:42:50,280 But yeah, are you? Are you in Australia for good? 751 00:42:50,440 --> 00:42:55,920 Or, I don't know, I tend to come home quite a bit. 752 00:42:55,920 --> 00:42:58,040 I tend to enjoy going home quite a bit. 753 00:42:58,040 --> 00:43:03,680 So as like somebody who's a job where you travel, not at the 754 00:43:03,680 --> 00:43:05,760 moment, like you haven't said all of that. 755 00:43:06,440 --> 00:43:07,640 We're not going anywhere, are we? 756 00:43:08,080 --> 00:43:10,960 I'm doing a gig in the kitchen next next next Wednesday. 757 00:43:11,600 --> 00:43:13,880 Right, right. People outside the window or. 758 00:43:14,640 --> 00:43:18,680 Yeah, no, just no. I do enjoy coming home. 759 00:43:19,120 --> 00:43:22,600 I don't know if if I, who knows? Who knows? 760 00:43:22,600 --> 00:43:25,040 I enjoy coming, coming home. I can tell you that much. 761 00:43:25,800 --> 00:43:27,840 Are there any gigs at home or what are you doing? 762 00:43:28,840 --> 00:43:32,800 He's trying to do gigs or what? Oh, at the minute, no, God no, 763 00:43:32,960 --> 00:43:36,000 no. There was, I mean, this, this is 764 00:43:36,040 --> 00:43:39,520 this gives you an idea of our collective Iqs on the local 765 00:43:39,520 --> 00:43:41,760 company scene. We were like, we really need to 766 00:43:41,760 --> 00:43:44,800 still bring people stand up. And the idea was we had like a 767 00:43:45,120 --> 00:43:48,240 WhatsApp group with a couple of mates and the idea was floated. 768 00:43:48,480 --> 00:43:51,960 Why don't we do a gig and stream it to people? 769 00:43:52,320 --> 00:43:55,520 But then we were talking about getting like 12 of us together, 770 00:43:55,920 --> 00:44:00,560 sharing a microphone in a small confined room and streaming it, 771 00:44:00,560 --> 00:44:04,000 which which totally would would defeat the purpose of isolating. 772 00:44:04,000 --> 00:44:06,960 So Nah. At the minute I'm just trying to 773 00:44:06,960 --> 00:44:08,880 put out as many videos as possible. 774 00:44:09,160 --> 00:44:12,480 Going through old stand up footage which is my pet. 775 00:44:12,480 --> 00:44:17,440 Hate watching myself back and trying to put some clips up. 776 00:44:18,000 --> 00:44:21,640 The question for two more questions, the the Remor in Port 777 00:44:21,640 --> 00:44:25,680 Rush says what's the difference between Port Stuart and Port 778 00:44:25,680 --> 00:44:27,640 Rush? So is there is there a key 779 00:44:27,640 --> 00:44:30,800 difference between people from both of those places? 780 00:44:33,640 --> 00:44:35,840 Yeah, I don't know. The two lovely parts of the 781 00:44:35,840 --> 00:44:38,560 world really is. There any beef? 782 00:44:38,600 --> 00:44:42,560 Is there any like you know, is there any like rivalries or? 783 00:44:42,560 --> 00:44:45,080 Port Rush rivalry? Oh yeah, for sure. 784 00:44:45,440 --> 00:44:47,560 Absolutely. Does that ever get ugly? 785 00:44:49,400 --> 00:44:51,480 It has over the years, but I'm not really. 786 00:44:51,480 --> 00:44:55,080 There used to be that Easter weekend thing where they come 787 00:44:55,080 --> 00:44:56,840 down and big fights on the beaches. 788 00:44:58,040 --> 00:45:01,480 Yeah, by Quadrophenia. That's going back a while. 789 00:45:01,640 --> 00:45:04,320 We should get, we should get that going again soon as this 790 00:45:04,320 --> 00:45:06,480 last time is over, we should get that going again. 791 00:45:06,960 --> 00:45:10,800 That's right, working a movie, reenacting the fights and the 792 00:45:10,800 --> 00:45:12,960 beaches. And. 793 00:45:13,800 --> 00:45:17,160 Yeah, with both of them, you know, both of them were two big 794 00:45:17,160 --> 00:45:22,880 beaches and they they got that East Strand and and then Port 795 00:45:22,880 --> 00:45:26,080 Shirts got that Pompton Beach. Yeah, they're all good times. 796 00:45:26,080 --> 00:45:29,520 Castle Rock was always tricky to get to because you have to go to 797 00:45:29,520 --> 00:45:33,280 Colerain and around. And you know, now that we're 798 00:45:33,280 --> 00:45:35,920 talking about these beaches, these lovely pictures places, 799 00:45:35,920 --> 00:45:38,560 I'm going as soon as this lockdown is over, as soon as 800 00:45:38,560 --> 00:45:40,640 it's over, I'm going to go to all. 801 00:45:41,200 --> 00:45:43,760 No one's going to do anything. I love that we're all being 802 00:45:43,760 --> 00:45:46,240 like, as soon I'm taking up yoga, I'm going to go horse 803 00:45:46,240 --> 00:45:48,720 riding. You know, it's going to be a new 804 00:45:48,720 --> 00:45:50,880 me after this. And the reality is it's not 805 00:45:51,920 --> 00:45:52,720 final. I mean. 806 00:45:52,760 --> 00:45:56,280 All the time. I just reinvent the stuff every 807 00:45:56,480 --> 00:46:01,120 Tuesday and then shit come Friday is a. 808 00:46:01,840 --> 00:46:04,880 Question from Baz, which isn't really a question, it's more of 809 00:46:04,880 --> 00:46:07,600 the doth of the cap. He says ask Jim, does he know 810 00:46:07,600 --> 00:46:11,080 where the toilets are? Which is of course a call back 811 00:46:11,080 --> 00:46:14,440 to your final question, because I'm going to let you go here. 812 00:46:14,440 --> 00:46:18,800 But final question. Do you have a stock line or like 813 00:46:18,800 --> 00:46:21,600 way of basically like acknowledging people when they 814 00:46:21,600 --> 00:46:23,400 come up and reference your stand up? 815 00:46:23,400 --> 00:46:25,880 So if someone says, do you know where the toilets are? 816 00:46:26,120 --> 00:46:28,960 Do you have a, do you have a like a get out where you'll just 817 00:46:28,960 --> 00:46:32,240 like, give them a thumbs up and walk away, but say something 818 00:46:32,240 --> 00:46:35,200 that does that make sense? I do. 819 00:46:35,200 --> 00:46:37,800 I just drew my eyebrows up. Give them a look. 820 00:46:37,920 --> 00:46:42,480 Yeah, I know where you're at, but it's nice that people make a 821 00:46:42,480 --> 00:46:44,760 reference to the gag that you've done. 822 00:46:45,040 --> 00:46:47,160 Absolutely. Do you ever get it when people 823 00:46:47,160 --> 00:46:49,920 make references to gags that you've forgotten so someone will 824 00:46:49,920 --> 00:46:51,720 say something really out of context? 825 00:46:52,960 --> 00:46:53,880 That joke. What joke? 826 00:46:54,240 --> 00:46:55,160 That joke. You did that? 827 00:46:55,280 --> 00:46:58,800 Really. You did remind me, yeah. 828 00:46:59,200 --> 00:47:01,560 Yeah, exactly. I've had a bit of that. 829 00:47:02,840 --> 00:47:04,480 Yeah, Jim, thanks very much. The big one. 830 00:47:05,800 --> 00:47:09,680 Thanks very much for taking the time to chat to me, appreciate 831 00:47:09,680 --> 00:47:11,280 it. No problem. 832 00:47:11,280 --> 00:47:13,520 I'm glad we got there with the technology in the end. 833 00:47:14,120 --> 00:47:17,600 Eventually, eventually, yeah. I mean, I this is just, I need 834 00:47:17,600 --> 00:47:20,720 this locked down to be over so that I can have, you know, guys 835 00:47:20,720 --> 00:47:23,320 do this for me because I don't know how to. 836 00:47:23,640 --> 00:47:26,080 I mean, it would have been quicker me flying do you or us 837 00:47:26,080 --> 00:47:28,560 meeting halfway just with a camera. 838 00:47:29,120 --> 00:47:32,640 Oh, when all this is over, I'm coming to Australia. 839 00:47:32,920 --> 00:47:35,600 I won't. Well, we'll we'll shake hands 840 00:47:35,600 --> 00:47:39,400 and hugs when all this is over. Until then, you're a. 841 00:47:39,400 --> 00:47:45,040 Strand on the strand and then we'll pitch the Netflix the Port 842 00:47:45,440 --> 00:47:48,960 Stewart strand fights. We will fight them on the 843 00:47:48,960 --> 00:47:51,960 beaches. We'll fight them in the beaches, 844 00:47:51,960 --> 00:47:54,280 we'll fight them on Barry's. That's it. 845 00:47:54,760 --> 00:47:55,960 All right here. Good to speak to you. 846 00:47:55,960 --> 00:47:56,560 Shame. Them. 847 00:47:56,600 --> 00:47:57,680 Cheers. Thanks very much. 848 00:47:57,680 --> 00:47:59,880 Good luck. Cheers, see you again. 849 00:48:00,400 --> 00:48:01,440 Bye. Stay safe. 850 00:48:01,760 --> 00:48:08,280 Bye. There we go guys. 851 00:48:08,280 --> 00:48:10,760 There's the Jim Owen episode of the TV Me podcast. 852 00:48:11,000 --> 00:48:14,880 Thanks a million to Jim Owen for giving up his time and just 853 00:48:14,880 --> 00:48:17,440 being a thoroughly nice and funny guy. 854 00:48:18,120 --> 00:48:21,160 I've got really, really good guests coming up and I'm really 855 00:48:21,160 --> 00:48:25,000 excited about who we've got. I'm recording one tonight and I 856 00:48:25,000 --> 00:48:27,520 think it's going to be extremely interesting for people. 857 00:48:27,640 --> 00:48:30,160 Not the usual sort of guest that would have on the podcast, but 858 00:48:30,320 --> 00:48:33,760 let's just go with it because when we're locked up, we're 859 00:48:33,760 --> 00:48:35,920 doing things a bit different. If you guys could do me a 860 00:48:35,920 --> 00:48:39,120 massive favour, you could rate and review the podcast on Apple 861 00:48:39,120 --> 00:48:41,880 Podcasts, the TV With Me podcast. 862 00:48:41,880 --> 00:48:46,560 If you give it a nice review and Uno Dos Tres cut, Sanko stars, 863 00:48:46,680 --> 00:48:49,640 that'll be great because we'll rocket up that iTunes chart and 864 00:48:49,640 --> 00:48:53,120 eventually we'll just make tea. The number one drink we're going 865 00:48:53,120 --> 00:48:54,800 to take. We're looking to take over water 866 00:48:55,200 --> 00:48:56,360 is what is what we're looking to do. 867 00:48:56,520 --> 00:48:59,680 I want to turn on taps in households and I don't want hot 868 00:48:59,680 --> 00:49:01,800 or cold to come out. I just want tea to come out. 869 00:49:02,000 --> 00:49:04,800 That's the dream. So guys, thank you very much for 870 00:49:04,800 --> 00:49:07,840 watching and listening. Monday, the Patreon episodes go 871 00:49:07,840 --> 00:49:08,760 out. If you want to support the 872 00:49:08,760 --> 00:49:11,440 podcast, you can do that's how you get to Patreon episodes, 873 00:49:11,760 --> 00:49:15,880 patreon.com/T me podcast and the podcast, as always goes out. 874 00:49:16,720 --> 00:49:19,400 I need to swallow so the actress to the Bishop. 875 00:49:19,760 --> 00:49:22,400 The normal podcast goes out Wednesday and Friday. 876 00:49:22,520 --> 00:49:23,840 I don't know. I'm doing Donald Trump hands. 877 00:49:23,840 --> 00:49:26,560 I'm very Trumpy today. Not in that way like trap gas. 878 00:49:26,560 --> 00:49:28,080 I just mean I'm using my hands a lot. 879 00:49:28,960 --> 00:49:31,200 The video episode goes on YouTube, my channel, she and 880 00:49:31,200 --> 00:49:33,480 Todd. You can see my gorgeous face 881 00:49:33,480 --> 00:49:34,760 there. Thank you very much for 882 00:49:34,760 --> 00:49:36,720 listening and stroke watching. See you next time.