This Past Weekend with Theo Von - Chris Lilley

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00:01:11.540 Today's guest is one of the funniest people that I've ever seen.

00:01:29.800 I'm so honored to be able to sit down with him today.

00:01:33.240 He is the guest that I've been trying to get.

00:01:35.840 I sent him a DM probably a year ago, and I had to come to Australia to be able to sit down with him.

00:01:45.700 He is the creator.

00:01:48.420 He's just creative.

00:01:50.440 He has a new series on Netflix called Lunatics.

00:01:53.160 He is the creator and the lead of, like, nine different characters in Jonah from Tonga and Summer Heights High, which are two of the most amazing shows.

00:02:09.980 You might have to go a little deep into the internet to find them, but I think you should.

00:02:14.780 Summer Heights High, Jonah from Tonga, his new Netflix series, Lunatics.

00:02:18.720 And I'm just really happy to be sitting here with Mr. Chris Lilly.

00:02:37.180 Yeah, dude, I actually had a dream, dude, like a couple nights ago that you were at, like, a restaurant or something.

00:02:44.680 It was, like, a fast dream, and you were having, like, maybe, like, a salad or something.

00:02:49.920 I don't even know.

00:02:50.500 Does that seem like something you would eat?

00:02:51.500 What do you think you would even eat, you think?

00:02:53.720 Well, I don't eat meat, but, yeah.

00:02:56.920 Oh, so you maybe within.

00:02:58.000 I'm not really a salad at all.

00:02:59.040 I don't know what I ate.

00:03:00.060 Yeah.

00:03:00.680 Mexican.

00:03:01.340 Mexican food.

00:03:02.580 So maybe, yeah, maybe it wasn't.

00:03:03.900 I think it was you.

00:03:04.720 It was pretty much you because I remember I was meeting you at this restaurant.

00:03:08.260 And because I was excited about meeting you, and so I was meeting you at this restaurant.

00:03:11.540 Yeah.

00:03:11.960 And then it kind of cut to, yeah, it looked like you were having, like, a salad or something.

00:03:17.100 Yeah.

00:03:17.480 I wonder what made you think that.

00:03:19.920 Did I look like, because you don't know what I really look like.

00:03:22.760 You would be thinking of the characters and stuff.

00:03:24.980 Yeah, some of them.

00:03:25.920 I mean, yeah, I'm trying to think of what character maybe would be having, like, a salad.

00:03:31.760 But maybe, oh, not the Earl of Havenhurst.

00:03:36.560 Not that guy.

00:03:37.980 God, dude, that guy is so great.

00:03:39.680 Nah, he's not a salad eater.

00:03:41.480 Bro, that guy is.

00:03:43.000 He's a chasel eater.

00:03:44.140 Yeah, and what's wrong with him?

00:03:45.960 I feel like he's on the spectrum.

00:03:47.700 Yeah.

00:03:47.940 Of some sort.

00:03:49.180 The tism.

00:03:49.740 That's what they call it where I'm from.

00:03:51.540 Oh, the tism.

00:03:52.100 Yeah, there's something going on.

00:03:54.620 Yeah, I don't know.

00:03:55.760 He's, like, kind of a victim of, like, society a little bit, you think?

00:03:58.800 Well, does he do his own thing, or is he, like, a?

00:04:05.300 Yeah, I mean, I feel like he's, like, aspirational.

00:04:10.180 It's, like, everyone wishes they had the balls to do the stuff that he does and say the stuff he does.

00:04:14.560 Yeah.

00:04:14.980 But I think he gets away with it because he's a little bit unaware of how impactful it is, which, yeah, maybe that's the spectrum thing.

00:04:23.420 Yeah, it's kind of a blessing, too, to be a little bit unaware.

00:04:26.940 Yeah.

00:04:27.300 Yeah, once you get too aware, stuff's not that fun a lot of times.

00:04:30.980 Yeah, I think people want to be him.

00:04:34.000 That's why it kind of works.

00:04:35.520 Yeah.

00:04:36.620 Oh, yeah.

00:04:37.160 I think I do a little bit.

00:04:38.280 I think I wish I was a bit more like him.

00:04:41.240 Just fearless, huh?

00:04:42.300 Yeah.

00:04:42.980 And his little cousin, too.

00:04:44.240 What's the guy's name?

00:04:45.420 Dylan.

00:04:45.960 Yeah.

00:04:47.140 How great was it to work with that kid?

00:04:48.820 He's a cool kid.

00:04:49.700 Yeah.

00:04:50.460 He just kept laughing at me the whole time.

00:04:51.820 You could see some scenes where it cuts away from him, I noticed, because he was just going

00:04:59.700 to start laughing.

00:05:01.100 Yeah.

00:05:01.620 Well, because we just keep rolling, I think he didn't quite know when we were on or not.

00:05:07.040 Yes.

00:05:07.800 But he's a really great kid.

00:05:10.740 But he picked up on a lot of the language and he started ad-libbing and throwing in a few

00:05:15.780 C words and stuff.

00:05:17.220 So I had to kind of pull him back a bit.

00:05:20.320 Oh, he started to get crazy, huh?

00:05:21.960 Yeah.

00:05:22.560 But he was just having fun.

00:05:25.280 That's great, though, isn't it?

00:05:26.540 It must be fun to see that as like a...

00:05:28.880 And we're talking about lunatics for people that haven't checked it out.

00:05:31.720 It must be great to see like in the beginning, a guy like Dylan, an actor like him kind of

00:05:37.680 learning his way, but by the end, him starting to get that confidence and stuff.

00:05:41.660 Is that pretty cool to see as a director?

00:05:43.260 Yeah.

00:05:43.920 I was unreal.

00:05:45.240 There's a lot of scenes where we drive off in this little red car together.

00:05:48.260 And I had to like pull out the audio because as we drive off, he was like, fuck, slow down,

00:05:53.460 you cunt.

00:05:54.240 Like swearing at me and just like he was just, he got into it so much.

00:05:59.880 That's crazy.

00:06:00.700 Yeah.

00:06:01.100 I wanted him to be a bit more mute.

00:06:03.260 So I had to pull him out, pull the audio out.

00:06:06.200 You had to take him aside sometimes a little?

00:06:08.640 A little bit, but I just, usually these people that we cast, you kind of just roll with whatever

00:06:14.260 you've got.

00:06:15.140 Like you've, you've chosen them for a reason and you just make the best of what they have

00:06:19.360 rather than trying to shape them too much.

00:06:21.120 Yeah.

00:06:21.860 And do you do most of your casting as well?

00:06:24.660 Yeah.

00:06:24.860 Well, I choose all the people that I'm, um, I have a really great team of casting people

00:06:29.460 that find them.

00:06:30.900 They literally go find them off the street.

00:06:32.840 They walk around the streets and find them or they'll just like rock up to schools or whatever.

00:06:39.040 It's, they'll go anywhere.

00:06:40.460 Yeah.

00:06:40.860 Yeah.

00:06:41.400 Because it's so specific, the kind of people we need that you have to like search far and

00:06:45.860 wide.

00:06:46.660 Yeah.

00:06:47.060 It must be that it seems like you almost need like kind of a garden.

00:06:51.500 You set up a garden and you're kind of the, the rabbit in a way.

00:06:56.060 So it's like every, the other people are still amazing people and humans and everything, but

00:07:01.480 it's almost, does that make any sense to you?

00:07:03.940 It's almost like you have to have a place to put where your creativity just is be able

00:07:08.540 to kind of flow through the, the, the, the slalom poles of the other characters.

00:07:14.680 Yeah.

00:07:15.100 That's it.

00:07:16.140 That's exactly it.

00:07:18.160 Um, and it takes a while to find those people.

00:07:20.760 Also you don't, because they're real people.

00:07:23.140 I mean, not all of them.

00:07:24.120 Some of them have some acting experience, but a lot of them are real people and they're,

00:07:29.260 they behave a certain way in the audition.

00:07:30.700 And then when you're on set, it's kind of like, Oh shit, there's Chris Lee.

00:07:34.820 Oh, he's in a wig.

00:07:35.580 He's swearing at me.

00:07:36.800 And they kind of become a bit different.

00:07:38.760 So you kind of have to adapt to the new version of them.

00:07:43.500 Because you can't talk them back into the regular version.

00:07:46.020 Sometimes it's kind of hard, I guess.

00:07:47.200 I try to a little bit, but then it makes them lose confidence.

00:07:51.760 So sometimes I'm like, I'll fix it in the edit.

00:07:55.660 But I mean, they do, the great thing about that is then you get these magic moments where

00:07:59.980 they just, they do these things that actors never do.

00:08:03.500 Like, and you're like, shit, that's so real and good.

00:08:06.160 And, um, yeah.

00:08:08.140 Is it hard for you sometimes when you know a moment like that is, cause I can imagine

00:08:12.680 there are probably times where in a scene, you know, a moment just happened that was

00:08:16.700 so perfect that it's like, is it hard sometimes to, are you able to notice those as they happen

00:08:24.080 kind of sometimes?

00:08:25.580 Yeah.

00:08:26.000 You're in it.

00:08:26.700 You, yeah.

00:08:27.980 You see it when it happens.

00:08:29.500 Yeah.

00:08:29.880 And then a part of me is also like watching the cameras and I've told those guys what

00:08:33.760 to do while they're doing things.

00:08:35.660 I can see the way the cameras are moving at the same time.

00:08:38.380 I'm like, oh shit, they covered it.

00:08:39.560 Awesome.

00:08:39.960 Got that.

00:08:40.300 Yeah.

00:08:40.780 Like, cause we have two cameras rolling at the same time and yeah, it's a weird thing.

00:08:45.760 And I can sort of, I'm editing it in my head as I'm doing the scene.

00:08:49.540 I don't know.

00:08:50.220 I'm not trying to make myself sound like I'm just like, it's a weird process and

00:08:54.500 you're like, oh shit, that's going to work.

00:08:55.700 Yeah.

00:08:55.840 Yeah.

00:08:55.960 Cool.

00:08:56.180 Oh, and he covered that.

00:08:57.040 And then I'll cut there.

00:08:58.780 It's, yeah, it's exciting.

00:09:00.340 Well, there's not a lot of people that do, that have ever done really kind of what you,

00:09:04.620 what you do.

00:09:05.320 You know, it's rare.

00:09:06.620 It's extremely rare.

00:09:07.580 I think, man, like, I, I don't know.

00:09:11.680 I mean, Ari and I were talking about it yesterday.

00:09:13.760 There's like, you know, in the U S we have, who's that guy, Ari?

00:09:18.840 Sasha Baron Cohen, I think it's similar genre.

00:09:21.820 Yeah.

00:09:22.180 A little bit of Sasha Baron Cohen, but his, some of his stuff is a little more mean spirited,

00:09:26.080 I think, where, um, yours is just kind of like this world that is just so, it's all

00:09:34.280 about fun.

00:09:34.980 It seems like a lot of times, is that the vibe on set or does it get sometimes a little

00:09:38.880 bit too mad?

00:09:40.280 Like you have to manage so much that it's hard to stay in the fun stuff.

00:09:43.760 It's probably more, it's a little bit more serious, but it's pretty relaxed and kind

00:09:48.620 of peaceful.

00:09:49.660 It's, it's a really quiet, thoughtful kind of set.

00:09:53.000 Like it's not, yeah, that's not people like, like often you have like a first, first AD

00:09:58.920 that will be yelling at everyone, but in our world, it's just very peaceful and he's, he

00:10:04.260 talks quietly and it's just about getting those moments.

00:10:07.560 Cause I've thought it through so much before we get on set that I just know I need these

00:10:12.160 little moments.

00:10:13.220 So it's not like everyone's laughing their heads off the whole time.

00:10:17.200 You kind of know, like you sort of, you know how it's going to come together.

00:10:23.000 Um, yeah, it's, it's more like peaceful than hilarious on set.

00:10:27.880 Yeah.

00:10:29.340 Do, um, do you feel like, like recently I was thinking about like what makes like why

00:10:39.640 laughter is like important to me kind of, you know, or what like it's always been to

00:10:43.140 me in my life.

00:10:43.840 Like, and sometimes I was thinking that, you know, I feel like laughter.

00:10:48.160 It's like, it was like when people were laughing when I was young, it was like the only time

00:10:52.680 that I kind of felt okay.

00:10:53.780 Like for some reason in my head, I was always kind of judging myself or, or I thought other

00:10:57.740 people thought something was wrong with me, you know?

00:11:00.040 And so I knew if they were laughing and they couldn't be like not liking me at the same

00:11:05.620 time or something, you know?

00:11:07.040 Like if I have those people laughing, there's no way they could be laughing, you know, see,

00:11:11.540 seeing their smile and hearing the joy come out of them and also not liking me.

00:11:15.540 So it was like a second of like peace in my, in my head or in my spirit or something.

00:11:19.880 Do you, what is, what is laughter kind of been like for you or the, or the ability to make

00:11:24.880 people laugh?

00:11:25.600 Like what's something, do you have any thoughts on any of that from your own experience in

00:11:29.720 life?

00:11:30.020 Yeah.

00:11:30.660 I mean, it's so, it's everything, like every friendship I have, it's a bit about laughing

00:11:35.260 and making jokes about things and just, yeah, I'm not really friends with serious people.

00:11:40.540 So it's like, it's everything.

00:11:42.640 It's like so fun to just, even friends that I just text, it's just all jokes.

00:11:48.120 Like, and it's not like we're like, you know, it's yeah, everything's funny.

00:11:53.500 It's just about seeing the funny side of everything.

00:11:56.120 Um, yeah, similar thing, like growing up, I just knew that there was a sort of power

00:12:02.640 in the idea of making the family laugh.

00:12:05.240 And I think, I feel like you're the youngest as well or something.

00:12:08.760 Are you the youngest?

00:12:10.040 Um, I have an older brother.

00:12:12.560 Yeah.

00:12:13.000 So I'm the youngest.

00:12:13.800 I've got two, two older brothers and a sister.

00:12:15.640 So I remember growing up.

00:12:16.700 Are you the little one then?

00:12:17.660 Yeah.

00:12:18.200 Wow.

00:12:18.480 And so when I was like five or something.

00:12:19.620 Usually the drug addict is a little one.

00:12:21.380 Oh yeah.

00:12:22.080 Well, there's, there's time for that.

00:12:23.700 I don't let me go.

00:12:24.840 Um, but it's, yeah, I remember just being like five and then, uh, my brother and sister

00:12:31.180 were actually born in the same year, January, December, but anyway, they were like, I thought

00:12:38.160 you meant like May and July.

00:12:40.060 Nah.

00:12:40.880 Um, still it's like, that's close.

00:12:42.860 Yeah.

00:12:43.140 Um, and I think they call it Irish twins.

00:12:47.140 Yeah.

00:12:47.460 Yeah.

00:12:49.140 Um, that.

00:12:50.160 Well, I was supposed to be triplets too.

00:12:51.540 Someone told me once.

00:12:52.480 Bullshit.

00:12:53.040 Yeah.

00:12:53.240 And I wasn't, it's just me, which is crazy.

00:12:55.420 Cause I've always felt like there was something else out there for me, you know?

00:12:57.940 How did they, do they do an ultrasound?

00:12:59.740 The doctor said that.

00:13:01.860 Were the other ones in there at one point?

00:13:03.720 I don't know.

00:13:04.200 Told my mom that it was triplets whenever they were going in there and then nothing,

00:13:07.420 just me.

00:13:08.200 Can you have two that don't make it and one comes out?

00:13:11.260 My mom would have told me.

00:13:12.320 I've always secretly thought I was a twin and that my mom is keeping it a secret and

00:13:18.540 I like hit her up with that a couple of years ago and she had a, like a flinch on it.

00:13:23.540 She sort of reacted when I said it.

00:13:25.760 So.

00:13:25.920 So you think maybe it could be something?

00:13:27.260 There could be something.

00:13:28.520 There's.

00:13:29.180 Yeah.

00:13:29.860 But I don't know if that's possible.

00:13:31.560 I don't know much about babies.

00:13:33.220 Well, moms like to keep secrets.

00:13:34.520 I think when it comes to stuff like that, like about birth and like, you know, family

00:13:38.980 history and stuff, I think they don't like to share all of that.

00:13:43.240 Yeah.

00:13:44.100 I guess it's in their day, it was more of a, you just went off and did it and didn't talk

00:13:49.340 about it.

00:13:50.080 Yeah.

00:13:50.280 They used to, sometimes they'd take a car down to, you know, maybe Byron Bay or something,

00:13:55.080 you know, and just have a baby down there and come back and never even have a baby.

00:13:57.900 Yeah.

00:13:58.320 Just like, oh, I was, you know, kind of fat for a bit.

00:14:01.420 Yeah.

00:14:01.760 Just into the toilet or whatever.

00:14:03.180 Yeah.

00:14:03.700 That's it.

00:14:04.520 But I mean, yeah, people back in the day, you'd drive off to another town, Boston, and

00:14:08.960 give the kid to a charity or something, come back, you know, it was.

00:14:11.480 That's true.

00:14:12.060 Yeah.

00:14:12.520 That wasn't that long ago.

00:14:13.400 I was like that.

00:14:14.520 50 years, maybe.

00:14:16.500 Yeah.

00:14:17.780 The only thing my mom said once, cause I talked, I was talking about how the circumference of

00:14:21.640 my head is really big.

00:14:23.040 I was like, I've got a massive head and I have to get extra large hats.

00:14:26.260 And she's like, and she was like, yeah, I remember.

00:14:29.840 So apparently it was a big head when it came out.

00:14:32.940 Oh, I bet that never leaves them either.

00:14:34.740 Yeah.

00:14:35.120 I don't want to think about that.

00:14:36.300 The pain of that.

00:14:37.060 Yeah.

00:14:37.260 That's true, man.

00:14:38.340 And is your mom still alive?

00:14:39.460 Yeah.

00:14:39.980 Oh, good.

00:14:40.440 Yeah.

00:14:40.560 Let's think about it later when she's not.

00:14:42.180 Yeah.

00:14:43.080 She brought it up.

00:14:44.360 Oh, well then you're safe, man.

00:14:46.640 So you had the two older, you had the two older siblings.

00:14:49.600 Um, yeah.

00:14:52.280 Although I was going to say like, they were like kind of pre, no, that would have been

00:14:56.240 like teenagers when I was about five and they're kind of stressing out.

00:14:59.880 The parents are stressing out about them cause they're the eldest and they have to like,

00:15:03.400 there was a kind of stressy vibe going on.

00:15:05.560 And I remember just doing stupid gags and making the family laugh, which mostly involved

00:15:12.360 me like getting my dick out.

00:15:14.340 Yeah.

00:15:14.500 Um, that's a huge thing.

00:15:16.240 Yeah.

00:15:17.260 That was big when I was about five.

00:15:19.040 So there's a lot of, there was a lot of dick jokes going on.

00:15:22.180 So.

00:15:22.900 And I bet it was fun for them too, to see a kid just partying with his dick out and not

00:15:27.960 like in a illegal way, you know, just.

00:15:32.720 Yeah.

00:15:33.400 It was, it was, it was fun.

00:15:35.560 Yeah, man.

00:15:36.080 I actually, when I was born, I had like an adult sized penis on a child's body.

00:15:39.900 Did you?

00:15:40.340 Yeah.

00:15:40.800 And so they had, um, like I couldn't even sleep at night.

00:15:44.340 It would hurt my back, you know, to sleep cause I'd lay on it.

00:15:46.940 You know, babies lay face down.

00:15:48.640 Did you just grow into it or is, is, has it grown like?

00:15:51.600 No, I grew into it.

00:15:52.460 I grew past it actually.

00:15:53.740 Oh, right.

00:15:54.380 And that was kind of disappointing.

00:15:55.460 Oh, I see.

00:15:55.960 Now.

00:15:56.300 Yeah.

00:15:56.560 Okay.

00:15:56.960 Now it's a child's size.

00:15:58.140 Yeah.

00:15:58.380 Now it's, well, it's, I mean, it's, you know, like a healthy kind of teenager's size,

00:16:02.760 you know?

00:16:03.380 Oh yeah.

00:16:04.340 I think, I think I haven't shown it to any.

00:16:07.180 I haven't seen a lot of teenagers.

00:16:08.500 He's dicks, but yeah, I can imagine.

00:16:10.620 Yeah.

00:16:10.960 You think, uh, I guess at five years old, your dick is like your greatest wet.

00:16:16.980 It's like the coolest thing you've ever known.

00:16:19.300 It's the best thing out of it.

00:16:20.920 Yeah.

00:16:21.640 How great is that?

00:16:22.680 Four times a day.

00:16:24.500 It's, it's so fun.

00:16:26.060 Yeah.

00:16:26.300 It's, it's still fun.

00:16:27.840 It's like, yeah.

00:16:29.580 And people laugh at it.

00:16:30.860 My family thought it was hilarious.

00:16:32.200 Yeah.

00:16:33.140 Oh yeah.

00:16:33.660 That's great.

00:16:34.360 Yeah.

00:16:35.260 There's a lot of photos of it.

00:16:37.480 Oh, that's crazy.

00:16:39.200 Um, do you, I remembered sometime, I'll be honest, I would lay in the water in the bathtub,

00:16:44.140 right?

00:16:44.540 And just pee straight up in the air onto myself.

00:16:47.140 Yeah.

00:16:47.340 Same.

00:16:47.760 Oh, that's really good.

00:16:49.120 It was good, man.

00:16:50.220 I just saw, oh, you know what?

00:16:52.320 I just saw the scene last night.

00:16:54.800 I was up watching Lunatics of the one where the, your character, um, with the, uh, the,

00:17:03.740 the, the large buddy realistic guy when he urinates in his mouth.

00:17:07.760 Yeah.

00:17:08.040 Yeah.

00:17:08.560 He loves that.

00:17:09.720 When he's showing the girl Paige, when she's sitting down.

00:17:12.300 He thinks it's amazing.

00:17:13.240 Yeah.

00:17:13.600 And it is like, it was good, man.

00:17:17.600 It was exciting.

00:17:19.000 But yeah, I remember being, it was so much fun when you were young, man.

00:17:22.140 Um, yeah.

00:17:23.500 Making the family laugh.

00:17:24.720 That is definitely a thing.

00:17:27.300 And then you just become a big version of that, I guess.

00:17:30.460 Yeah.

00:17:30.940 Yeah.

00:17:31.920 Did, um, did you, did you realize like, cause I remember when I was young, I would make kids

00:17:37.740 at school laugh, you know, but I never realized that it would be able to translate into doing

00:17:42.440 it like on a stage and stuff, you know, and in a bigger environment.

00:17:45.340 Yeah.

00:17:46.700 Um, did that kind of happen for you?

00:17:48.720 Like, was there a part where you realized like, cause it's kind of scary to think that

00:17:53.340 one of your talent, something you do could be like a marketable talent.

00:17:58.540 It's almost like a, yeah, it's almost cheesy.

00:18:01.600 Yeah.

00:18:01.860 It ruins it a little bit.

00:18:02.840 It's like, yeah.

00:18:05.600 But then you're like, I can have a normal job or I can do this cool thing.

00:18:09.200 And yeah.

00:18:10.280 Yeah.

00:18:10.680 It's sort of worth it.

00:18:11.720 Um, do you know, like a lot of your characters, have they been with you since you were young

00:18:18.460 or some of them are brand new?

00:18:19.560 Some of them are things you just see off of people on the street and you're like, oh,

00:18:22.220 I could do that guy.

00:18:24.240 Yeah.

00:18:24.600 It's usually a combination of like things that, of ideas that you collect over a really

00:18:29.280 long period.

00:18:29.960 So it's not like it's ever one person or one thing you've seen.

00:18:34.480 Sometimes it's like a leftover concept from another show and that's the kind of start

00:18:38.980 of something.

00:18:39.540 Um, but then it just evolves along the way.

00:18:45.520 It's sort of out of, I feel like it's out of my control as well.

00:18:48.500 Like it kind of without trying to like standing like a wanko, it sort of, it comes alive and

00:18:53.280 I don't really have that much control of it.

00:18:55.260 It's like you put the things in place, you know what they're going to look like.

00:18:59.900 And, um, there's the story, but the way they kind of move and the way they sound and everything,

00:19:06.400 it just comes together literally on the first day when we're on set.

00:19:09.920 Like, cause I had an idea for all the hair and stuff and then, but then the hair guy

00:19:14.060 was like, well, why don't you try this?

00:19:15.300 And it kind of evolved really differently, but you don't get to see all the elements together

00:19:20.080 until literally like boom on the first day.

00:19:22.640 Like that Quentin character, we, the first thing we filmed was around the pool when he's

00:19:26.580 having his 30th party and I didn't really know what he was going to sound like.

00:19:30.880 Like I kind of, I knew the character, I knew what he was about, but he really just came

00:19:36.180 alive in that moment.

00:19:37.080 Like around the pool with the, with his mates and they're all going out and, and, um, yeah,

00:19:42.480 I was like, okay, this is, this is who he is.

00:19:45.880 But sometimes people don't get that.

00:19:47.400 And they often say to me, oh, I really liked the voice or like, um, I just love how she

00:19:52.720 moves or something.

00:19:53.680 I'm like, I didn't, how am I moving?

00:19:55.660 I didn't, I haven't noticed.

00:19:56.780 Oh, I see.

00:19:57.100 Like those things weren't even part of the plan.

00:19:58.880 No, I haven't practiced.

00:20:00.100 I'm not, I don't stand in front of a mirror doing this kind of thing.

00:20:03.120 It just, it really just comes alive on the day.

00:20:06.480 It sounds strange, but it's.

00:20:08.840 It doesn't sound that strange to me.

00:20:10.100 I can understand a little bit.

00:20:11.360 Yeah.

00:20:13.440 I've thought about it a lot and I know what the story is and I know what they're going

00:20:16.340 to say and the scripted lines and everything, but it, the combo of everything comes together

00:20:22.760 on the day.

00:20:23.400 Yeah.

00:20:24.100 Like that, the Gavin character, he was sitting on his bed back at the Adelaide house and

00:20:28.020 started talking, but I was like, this is kind of how kids talk, I think.

00:20:32.460 And it was really slow and I was like, it didn't have the rhythm of something that should

00:20:36.480 be funny, but I was like, I think it's better to just make it real, like make it exactly

00:20:41.800 how I think 12 year old boys talk.

00:20:44.380 And that'll ultimately be funnier than trying to be kind of quirky and have that funny rhythm

00:20:50.120 that people usually do.

00:20:51.560 Yeah.

00:20:51.960 Cause some of that I noticed in, in, uh, some of that, it's like, there's something like

00:20:57.920 going for the joke and then there's something like, I trust that this will be funny later

00:21:06.800 and I just have to let it.

00:21:08.980 Yeah.

00:21:09.740 Like sometimes there's a moment I noticed in myself where it's like, there's a little

00:21:14.180 thing that goes on my head.

00:21:14.880 It's like, if I don't say anything else or make another sound or another movement right

00:21:18.180 here, then this is going to land really, really good.

00:21:22.060 But if I do anything else, if I look or move or anything or say one more word, it's going

00:21:28.080 to, it pops the balloon.

00:21:30.440 So I can imagine there's some unique moments where you're doing those characters where you

00:21:35.540 probably really land in like a special spot where you're like, oh, this is a good spot

00:21:38.960 for this character right now.

00:21:40.420 Yeah.

00:21:41.580 That's so cool, man.

00:21:42.880 Because it's just such a, because then the reward is all for the audience.

00:21:46.340 The reward is all, you know, they're going to love it, you know?

00:21:50.120 That's so cool, man.

00:21:51.800 The hard thing is you have to really block out trying to impress the people around you,

00:21:56.720 like the crew and the cast.

00:21:58.260 If the moment's awkward and not funny, it's okay because it'll come together later.

00:22:05.160 But yeah, it's sometimes you have to really remember it's not about pleasing the people

00:22:09.620 around you.

00:22:10.060 It's about the end result.

00:22:11.660 Yeah.

00:22:12.380 So you get over that and just, yeah.

00:22:16.080 No, it's interesting, man.

00:22:17.380 It's, yeah, because then you lose, because then it's interesting because part of which,

00:22:24.560 or what I always noticed with my original thing was to make the people around me laugh.

00:22:29.660 Yeah.

00:22:29.820 So it's then whenever you're taping something, sometimes you have to sacrifice that.

00:22:34.860 Yeah.

00:22:35.380 To know that it's going to make, it's going to play better in this other, other way.

00:22:40.960 Yeah.

00:22:41.420 I think when you were saying making the kids laugh at school, I used to do that, but in

00:22:46.600 a more kind of thought out, planned way.

00:22:49.000 Like I wasn't the class clown, the loud kid, but I would plan out a thing, like a funny

00:22:54.020 scripted thing that I was going to just do.

00:22:57.220 If I had to do a speech, I would write out something really funny and then I'd just get

00:23:01.440 up and do something kind of shockingly funny rather than, I wasn't the kid yelling shit

00:23:06.020 out from up the back.

00:23:07.080 Yeah.

00:23:07.300 But even like primary school days, I remember like you had to, I don't know, drawings and

00:23:12.720 stuff.

00:23:13.040 I'd always do something really funny that incorporated like some in joke about the teacher or something.

00:23:17.820 And, but it was planned out.

00:23:19.560 It wasn't sort of the loud, funny guy thing.

00:23:21.980 Yeah.

00:23:22.480 Which I like, it seems to be what I like to do.

00:23:26.280 Yeah.

00:23:26.680 I was never the class clown.

00:23:28.280 I was never like a physical, I was never physical.

00:23:31.480 I was always like in my head, I was like, oh, this would be a time I was a verbal, I was

00:23:36.000 more verbal than I was physical.

00:23:39.660 Yeah.

00:23:40.140 I still wanted the people around me to laugh.

00:23:41.880 Like I loved it the day that, you know, you'd get up and do the speech and they'd laugh.

00:23:45.640 It was so fun.

00:23:46.840 Did you remember sometimes the fact that they would even continue to let you go back up

00:23:50.920 to the front of the class after you'd already been funny other times and ruin the teacher's

00:23:55.420 day and she's again going to let you go up and do anything?

00:23:58.340 Yeah.

00:23:58.620 Because the teachers just secretly, they're like kind of bored and wondering what they're

00:24:02.660 doing with their lives and they're like, hang on, this is going to, this will be like a

00:24:05.920 little wrong, but it'll, it'll entertain me.

00:24:08.760 Yeah.

00:24:08.980 Sometimes there was no like educational kind of content in what I was saying, but the teachers

00:24:13.500 would give me full marks.

00:24:14.760 They'd be like, you made my day.

00:24:17.260 And you just, yeah, often I started to work out that if you actually pretended to be the

00:24:23.500 teachers, so I'd get up and do like speeches as them.

00:24:26.380 And, um, they were, they were keen to it or some other kind of controversial teacher at

00:24:31.680 the school.

00:24:32.380 And it was like, it can't leave the classroom, but I said this, like, yeah, that was fun.

00:24:39.940 That's fun, man.

00:24:40.860 It was, it was so fun being young like that just to be free, you know?

00:24:44.420 Yeah.

00:24:45.620 It was good.

00:24:46.220 And there was no, it didn't have to lead to anything.

00:24:51.720 It was just that moment of being funny.

00:24:53.760 And then you'd be thinking about that forever.

00:24:56.460 Like, yeah.

00:24:57.740 And then reenacting with your friends or talking about how funny it was.

00:25:01.000 That was so much better.

00:25:02.120 Now it's all captured.

00:25:03.700 So it kind of, it spoils it some.

00:25:07.460 Yeah.

00:25:07.800 And it gets judged for weird reasons and analyzed too much, I guess.

00:25:12.060 Yeah.

00:25:13.040 Well, that's one of the cool things that's been about podcasts.

00:25:15.240 It's like, oh, that shit is dying in the U S like all of that, like, cause there was

00:25:20.140 no fan base for it.

00:25:21.200 It was just like clickbait online.

00:25:22.740 You know, there was no real, you know, people judging stuff.

00:25:26.280 It was just losers sitting around at home with not just on their computers and people,

00:25:30.920 lonely people writing articles.

00:25:32.820 It wasn't actual funny people who like to laugh expressing themselves because they're

00:25:37.320 busy living their lives.

00:25:39.380 Yeah.

00:25:39.720 But now it's like with podcasting, so many more people are just having a good time again

00:25:45.040 and so much less judgmental in the U S anyway, I'm noticing it growing, but I don't know if

00:25:50.660 it's, if it says, if it's the same here, probably.

00:25:53.740 Yeah, I guess it would be.

00:25:55.140 It's seems to be, it seems to be getting really huge, the whole podcast thing.

00:25:59.600 And I can see why.

00:26:02.280 Yeah.

00:26:02.880 It's, it's uncensored and you really feel like you get to know the person you're listening

00:26:06.680 to.

00:26:07.340 Yeah.

00:26:07.580 Yeah.

00:26:07.900 It's, I think it's good.

00:26:10.500 Did you, so when you made your family laugh when you were young, did you make like your

00:26:13.720 mother and father laugh too or no?

00:26:16.240 Yeah.

00:26:16.760 Yeah.

00:26:16.980 No, they were the main ones laughing.

00:26:18.380 Oh really?

00:26:19.700 Um, yeah.

00:26:20.600 That's cool.

00:26:22.020 Was it fun to make your parents laugh?

00:26:23.660 Like who was the funnest to make laugh in your family?

00:26:25.680 Like probably my oldest brother.

00:26:28.740 Yeah.

00:26:29.340 And I mean, he would make me laugh.

00:26:31.140 Like, so we had a kind of, and still does, like we had a good thing together.

00:26:34.860 Yeah.

00:26:35.760 One of my favorite things that he did when I was little was at where I used to go to

00:26:39.680 bed really early and he was teenagers.

00:26:41.740 So he would stay up, but it was really dark and he used to sneak in my room and like jump

00:26:45.960 on my bed and pretend that he was my Chinese mother and did this like ridiculous stereotypical

00:26:53.860 accent.

00:26:54.540 But the whole concept was that the Chinese mother used to sneak in at night to try to steal

00:26:59.300 me back because I was actually a Chinese kid that had had an operation to make my eyes

00:27:03.600 wide.

00:27:03.900 And then he'd do the whole, like, um, I can't do the accent.

00:27:08.240 I'll get in trouble.

00:27:08.980 But, um, yeah.

00:27:10.340 Here, I'll do it.

00:27:10.980 Let me try.

00:27:11.580 Okay.

00:27:13.000 Oh, you're coming home.

00:27:14.680 There it is.

00:27:15.380 Okay.

00:27:15.900 Good.

00:27:17.400 Um, yeah.

00:27:18.700 This is your Chinese mother.

00:27:20.220 Yeah.

00:27:20.440 Um, anyway, he used to do that and then he'd run out of the room and then he'd come back

00:27:24.760 in as himself and he'd be like, oh, Chris, the, um, there was this Chinese woman running

00:27:29.120 down the driveway.

00:27:30.220 She seemed really like freaked out.

00:27:31.840 And I'd have to pretend I didn't know of anything about it.

00:27:34.900 And, and it used to make me laugh so much.

00:27:37.360 He did a lot of those, but my Chinese mother was one of my favorites.

00:27:40.340 That's so cool that he did that because then it leaves you cause then he goes to bed or whatever

00:27:44.240 and it leaves you in your bed laying there with this expansive idea of what can be funny.

00:27:49.700 Yeah.

00:27:50.260 I mean, that was a woman out in the world.

00:27:52.060 That's a fake woman.

00:27:53.400 There's your brother who's just asleep in the other room.

00:27:55.640 There's you laying there with your eyes and your spirit wide open.

00:27:58.420 It was so exciting.

00:27:59.920 Like I'm still like thrilled by it.

00:28:01.840 I mean, that's an example of him being hilarious to me.

00:28:05.080 So, um, but I think it kind of got me excited about those ideas.

00:28:10.000 Do you think that like humor, like creates a special bond between like family members

00:28:13.900 and stuff like that?

00:28:14.960 Yeah.

00:28:15.300 Yeah, definitely.

00:28:18.040 Um, it's sort of, I can't imagine people that don't find things funny.

00:28:23.720 Like that's my whole relationship with the family is everything's a joke.

00:28:27.480 Like I message my mom like every day and it's always something funny.

00:28:30.680 Like it's, yeah.

00:28:32.900 I mean, there's lots of in jokes and, and sort of funny stories, but, um, it, yeah, definitely

00:28:40.480 bonds people together.

00:28:42.160 Do you guys, does your family have a good, like regular connection as well?

00:28:46.020 And then you also have the humor connection or is the humor connection kind of like a,

00:28:51.220 does it kind of suffice for you guys is the way you guys kind of emotionally connect to

00:28:55.900 each other?

00:28:56.260 If that's, I don't know if that's a bizarre question or not.

00:28:57.900 Yeah.

00:28:58.240 I think, yeah, there's, it's not two things.

00:29:00.560 There's like, we talk about regular stuff, but it always has a bit of a funny take.

00:29:04.460 Yeah.

00:29:04.760 Like, and it's that kind of piss take Australian humor thing where you kind of like putting

00:29:09.160 someone down.

00:29:10.280 Yeah.

00:29:10.840 Yeah.

00:29:11.460 My mom's thing is about how all we're all, she used to say we're all thick, like not

00:29:15.280 very smart.

00:29:16.240 And so that's her whole thing is that she, in the family, she's the one that had the thick

00:29:20.120 kids.

00:29:21.960 Especially after hearing about how big your head was.

00:29:24.440 Oh yeah.

00:29:25.340 Yeah.

00:29:26.300 She should have known out of the gate.

00:29:27.860 This one's going to be a bit thicker than most.

00:29:30.080 Yeah.

00:29:30.640 So she still runs with that angle that like, we're really stupid.

00:29:36.920 She's not wrong.

00:29:38.460 She must be really proud of you, huh?

00:29:40.760 Yeah.

00:29:41.020 I think she's really into it.

00:29:42.620 Yeah.

00:29:43.020 She's, she, yeah, really appreciates it.

00:29:46.840 And I think so.

00:29:49.320 We don't really talk about it in that way so much.

00:29:52.660 Yeah.

00:29:52.880 But yeah, she's always telling me.

00:29:54.980 With people that she works with and friends and stuff that are loving it.

00:29:59.100 So I think she's into it.

00:30:00.680 That's cool.

00:30:01.220 That must be, yeah, for a mom, that's pretty cool.

00:30:03.900 Yeah.

00:30:04.020 My mom said she had wore a t-shirt of mine.

00:30:06.240 Because my mom first came and saw me.

00:30:07.640 She hadn't seen me perform in about five years until a couple of weeks ago.

00:30:10.700 And she, I gave her just like a merch t-shirt, you know, which she was just enamored by.

00:30:16.940 She talks about it every day now.

00:30:18.320 And it's got your head on.

00:30:19.240 Yeah.

00:30:19.540 It's pretty, pretty lame, but she likes it, you know.

00:30:22.840 Yeah.

00:30:23.720 And she wore it somewhere.

00:30:25.500 And some guy, a young guy came up and said something to her.

00:30:28.140 And yeah, it was just like the most, yeah, there's something for me anyway about making my mom feel proud that really just like makes me feel okay.

00:30:38.480 You know, it makes me feel like a different level of okay than I'm normally able to make on my own, you know.

00:30:43.900 Because the kind of thing we do, it takes a while to get into the, to get to the level where it's like your job and it's perceived as a successful thing.

00:30:52.520 So there's many years where I am sure parents are like, what the fuck am I doing?

00:30:56.800 Like, I fucked this up.

00:30:58.940 Yeah.

00:30:59.200 What am I doing?

00:31:00.180 I gave birth to this thick-headed baby and now he's out here doing dirty riddles.

00:31:05.000 What's going on?

00:31:05.860 Yeah.

00:31:06.260 I shouldn't have laughed at the dick jokes.

00:31:09.340 Um, but yeah, so I had a similar thing where my mom, there's the character Jemay, the school girl.

00:31:15.680 Oh yeah.

00:31:15.940 The first time I played her, I sent a photo to my mom going, this is what I'm doing.

00:31:19.720 And she was like, what the fuck?

00:31:21.500 Like, this is wrong.

00:31:23.140 Cause it's like, my son's dressed up as a young girl.

00:31:25.440 It's really weird.

00:31:26.460 And she said, her reply to me was, I won't be showing that around at work.

00:31:31.040 And then when the show came out, it was like really popular in Australia.

00:31:34.920 And my mom bought a t-shirt with Jemay on it.

00:31:37.680 And she was walking around wearing the t-shirt with me on it.

00:31:40.180 Oh, that's cool.

00:31:40.680 I was like, oh, you changed the tune.

00:31:42.680 She's like, oh, once I saw the show.

00:31:45.100 She's into it now.

00:31:46.140 She is.

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00:33:22.880 And now back to the episode.

00:33:26.460 Did, you know, what's interesting is a lot of my friends still don't know about Summer

00:33:30.760 High Tide.

00:33:31.320 I regard it as, and that whole series, I saw it about a year and a half ago, or maybe

00:33:35.660 two years ago for the first time.

00:33:36.740 I'd never even heard about it.

00:33:38.260 And I was so shocked when I saw it and I was like, oh my God, this is like everything

00:33:43.040 I've ever wanted to laugh at in one space.

00:33:45.680 And, and I, I couldn't believe that I hadn't just been, I hadn't known about it, you know?

00:33:52.240 And how did you find out about it?

00:33:53.720 Just random.

00:33:54.480 Somebody said, somebody said, hey man, you have to watch this.

00:33:57.380 And then I heard it again, like a week later from somebody just randomly.

00:33:59.840 And then I was like, okay, this thing's coming into my little universe and I got to know about

00:34:04.340 it.

00:34:04.520 And it, uh, oh dude.

00:34:07.460 Cause that show, like I made that in Australia for our local network and I just never thought

00:34:14.600 it would go beyond Australia.

00:34:16.160 Really?

00:34:16.500 The fact that you're watching it in America a year ago is so, it spins me out.

00:34:21.220 Like I could, that I could imagine.

00:34:22.720 I could imagine that a decade later or something to be, have something still swirling and even

00:34:26.440 blowing people's minds.

00:34:27.580 It blew my mind.

00:34:28.500 It was like, I never seen anything like this since I was a kid.

00:34:32.340 And they had a show called In Living Color when I was young.

00:34:35.080 That was really big in the States.

00:34:36.700 Yeah.

00:34:37.040 Um, but yeah, to this day, I think it's probably the funniest, you know, and going off into that

00:34:42.860 series, you know, with Mr. G and the other character, like Jennifer from Tongue, just

00:34:46.880 look at my dick, dad.

00:34:49.560 Just the whole, just so many fucking, it's so ridiculous.

00:34:53.340 It's everything that I felt like was funny to me as like a, as a human, you know, and

00:34:58.000 I couldn't express it.

00:34:59.180 And so somebody had like captured this ability to just make it perfect, man.

00:35:04.680 Yeah.

00:35:04.980 Some people just really get it.

00:35:07.360 Um, yeah.

00:35:08.140 Does it make you laugh?

00:35:08.940 I mean, I, I, I never go back and watch anything that I really do have done, but does it make

00:35:13.820 you laugh sometimes?

00:35:14.660 Are there sometimes a character, like the voice of one of them will pop in your head and it

00:35:18.600 makes you feel good?

00:35:19.380 Oh, definitely.

00:35:20.540 Like, cause you, if you have a look at Instagram and people make all these memes and little

00:35:25.060 videos and the thing is, I forget that I've done stuff, but I relive it through those

00:35:29.640 videos and things.

00:35:30.920 Someone sent me a Jermay one the other day and I was like, I was like, shit, that's funny.

00:35:35.020 I was losing my shit over.

00:35:37.460 Um, yeah, it was just Jermay, like having a go at the principal for, um, for not giving

00:35:42.700 her the Hilford medal.

00:35:43.780 I don't know if you've seen that show, but she, yeah.

00:35:45.900 So her whole thing is that they've given it to a fat lesbian border and she's really like,

00:35:52.100 can't believe.

00:35:53.320 And she says, um, yeah, I'm like the hottest student to ever grace your fucking playground.

00:35:58.400 And I don't know, I just, for some reason that line made me laugh.

00:36:02.800 Um, but yeah, I, I do laugh at it.

00:36:06.040 I love it.

00:36:06.860 Yeah.

00:36:07.400 I don't.

00:36:08.160 Yeah.

00:36:08.480 It's like you sit around and laugh at it, not in an ego way, but that's, that's, I mean,

00:36:13.060 that's just a testament to how entertaining it is.

00:36:15.180 I think that it can even come back and make you laugh, you know?

00:36:18.060 Yeah.

00:36:18.520 And that's okay.

00:36:19.400 It's, you know, it's, it's cool.

00:36:21.060 Sometimes there'll be a moment I'll see in a joke.

00:36:22.820 I'll, you know, I'll see online or something.

00:36:25.020 You know, oh, like, yeah, dude, that got me, man.

00:36:27.480 That was, yeah, that guy did a good job.

00:36:29.480 It's not like I'm thinking I did a good job.

00:36:31.320 Yeah.

00:36:31.600 It's kind of like I'm thinking that guy did a good job.

00:36:33.520 That's a good way to explain it.

00:36:34.680 Yeah.

00:36:34.840 I don't, I feel like I'm not responsible for that.

00:36:37.140 So yeah, I'm not bragging when I say that.

00:36:39.320 It's like, oh, that person was funny.

00:36:42.700 Yeah.

00:36:42.820 It's hard to keep our ego out.

00:36:44.220 It's, uh, Ari, will you mind cutting on the AC for a second or just cutting it on over there?

00:36:48.020 It's on that wall.

00:36:48.820 Just put it at like 19.

00:36:50.200 Yeah.

00:36:50.300 If you don't mind, bud.

00:36:52.940 Oh, and Ari's a, the opener too.

00:36:54.820 He's a, he's a, that's what he is.

00:36:56.380 He's a comedian, but he's like the best.

00:36:57.940 Yeah.

00:36:58.720 He's been, uh, you guys on tonight, a real champ.

00:37:01.520 Yeah.

00:37:02.720 If you want to jump on stage, man, you know, you're more than welcome to practice something.

00:37:05.780 Oh, what?

00:37:07.600 Um, people would lose their minds though.

00:37:09.460 Huh?

00:37:09.840 Is it hard being like a legend in your country?

00:37:11.600 It must be.

00:37:12.380 Is it kind of scary sometimes a little bit?

00:37:14.740 It is a little bit, but, um, I'm pretty low key and I don't do any press and stuff.

00:37:18.940 So I'm not kind of known as like me as myself.

00:37:22.340 So, um, I can kind of walk down the street, but at the moment, because the lunatics thing's

00:37:28.660 been really big, I do get stopped a lot and it's a bit full on.

00:37:32.340 Yeah.

00:37:32.500 And there's a little bit of a like paparazzi thing that happens here, which can be a bit,

00:37:37.020 it's just scary.

00:37:37.740 It's just scares me.

00:37:38.620 It's scary.

00:37:39.380 Like I, you know, I don't care if it's just me walking around the streets and stuff, but

00:37:43.100 the photos are not that weird, but, um, it's scary when you see them and you hear the camera

00:37:48.660 and stuff.

00:37:49.600 It freaks me out.

00:37:50.900 What does that mean?

00:37:51.540 Oh, hear the camera, people show up.

00:37:53.000 Yeah.

00:37:53.660 Oh yeah.

00:37:54.140 The pap thing.

00:37:54.800 Yeah.

00:37:55.040 Yeah.

00:37:55.640 But, um, yeah, it's scary if I go to an event or something and people are all hyped up and

00:38:01.520 excited and you're like, shit, where, how am I going to get away from this?

00:38:05.920 Um, yeah, sometimes it just, it can be a bit full on.

00:38:09.980 Yeah.

00:38:10.340 It's interesting how, uh, is it been tough for you to like, was there moments in your

00:38:16.180 career where you've had to like battle your own ego?

00:38:17.960 Like one thing I noticed for myself is my ego, it's kind of a separate animal than me,

00:38:22.900 you know, it lives inside of me and it's like, it can be a victim to all the things that go

00:38:27.160 on in the world.

00:38:27.940 You know, you know, it's kind of like a sugar lizard.

00:38:30.420 I call it like, it'll just, you know, it just goes for the sugar all the time.

00:38:33.840 It's just the way it's built.

00:38:35.700 Have you had any, and recently I've had to just make sure to myself, like start to do

00:38:39.520 some meditations, just make sure to just keep my mind and focus on what's going on.

00:38:44.400 My job is just to make people laugh and, and not get caught up in anybody else's ideas

00:38:48.620 of what I am.

00:38:50.220 Um, do you have any, do you have any thoughts about that during your career or notice any

00:38:53.680 stuff about your own ego or anything?

00:38:55.160 Um, I think like I'm more the opposite.

00:38:58.240 Like I kind of can't get my head around the, the interest in it.

00:39:04.880 And I don't know, I probably should be more confident about it.

00:39:08.940 I'm just probably a bit down on myself about the whole thing.

00:39:13.100 Um, yeah.

00:39:13.860 If ever I, there's like TV awards nights and I go to those and I'm like, what am I doing

00:39:18.440 here?

00:39:18.760 Like, I'm not part of this.

00:39:20.260 Like who are these people?

00:39:21.940 I don't know.

00:39:22.240 And I'm not saying that to be, I'm so super humble or whatever.

00:39:25.220 It's just genuinely my thing.

00:39:27.200 I'm not, yeah, I don't have that ego.

00:39:30.040 Is it a discomfort?

00:39:31.260 So say you're at a thing like that, right?

00:39:32.800 Cause if I go to something like that in Los Angeles, I feel uncomfortable.

00:39:36.960 Oh yeah.

00:39:37.540 Like I feel like, yeah, I don't know.

00:39:40.460 I feel like maybe these people are judging me or I just feel some sort of uncomfort, which

00:39:44.760 is kind of fine with me.

00:39:45.760 It's kind of some of the uncomfort is what keeps me in a place where I feel like I'm able

00:39:49.100 to be funny anyway.

00:39:51.800 Um, is that the kind of thing you feel or you just feel like, oh, this isn't my vibe

00:39:56.540 or do you like, if you go to something kind of fancy, is there?

00:40:00.300 Yeah.

00:40:00.460 I think because there's, I feel like there's an expectation for me to be a little piece

00:40:06.140 of the show.

00:40:06.780 So I feel like when I'm at those things, people like, can you make us feel the way that we

00:40:10.860 do when we watch you dressed up and in the show?

00:40:13.460 And I'm like, that's, that's not what I do, but like, I, I knew that you would get

00:40:18.380 it.

00:40:18.640 That's why I'm, I like talking to you, but normally I don't do those kinds of interviews

00:40:23.380 and things or go on TV talk shows and stuff.

00:40:26.080 Cause I know that there'll be that expectation.

00:40:29.640 I see what you're saying.

00:40:31.160 Um, yeah, well I pretty, yeah, man, I'm so grateful that you, uh, that you, that we're

00:40:35.920 able to do this, man.

00:40:36.720 Yeah.

00:40:37.000 I just couldn't believe I could be such a fan of something.

00:40:39.100 I've never been a fan of anything that much in my whole life.

00:40:40.860 It's almost bizarre, dude.

00:40:42.460 I was like, man, I'm such a, like, what's going on with me, dude?

00:40:46.180 I thought I was going to go through like a second, uh, puberty or something, you know,

00:40:49.520 I thought I was going to sprout another dick or something, you know, or another beard or

00:40:52.980 something on my neck.

00:40:54.200 You know, I thought it was pretty cool.

00:40:56.580 You just, yeah, it just made me laugh so much, man.

00:40:59.220 Oh, good.

00:41:00.120 That's like the best thing ever.

00:41:01.900 Like to know that.

00:41:03.280 Isn't it fun making people laugh?

00:41:04.480 It's crazy, isn't it?

00:41:06.060 It's the best.

00:41:06.920 Yeah.

00:41:07.720 It's so good.

00:41:08.420 It's, well, that's the whole drive and the reason that we're doing it.

00:41:12.960 It's, it's just to make people feel that, that thing.

00:41:17.600 Yeah.

00:41:18.020 I mean, you want them to feel a lot of things.

00:41:19.540 You want them to be just excited and inspired and kind of maybe sad sometimes or all sorts

00:41:25.260 of things.

00:41:25.780 But the main thing you want them to do is just laugh and find it really funny.

00:41:29.860 So yeah, it's cool.

00:41:32.760 Yeah, it is cool, man.

00:41:33.880 And there's, yeah, there's something, it's so funny laughter because people shake and

00:41:37.980 they make a noise and it's such a, it's almost like you're like Harry Potter, like, it's

00:41:41.700 not like you're Harry Potter, but the process of it is the, the result of it.

00:41:45.680 It's almost like, it's like a magic or something, you know?

00:41:49.460 Yeah.

00:41:50.260 It's very weird.

00:41:51.780 I mean, you would have that immediate thing because you're standing in front of people

00:41:54.800 and they're making noises and shaking their bodies at you.

00:41:58.260 Yeah, that's true.

00:41:59.060 You get it more immediate on stage.

00:42:00.320 That's right.

00:42:00.720 I forget you because you, you, it says online you did stand up.

00:42:04.520 Yeah, I did start doing that.

00:42:05.660 That's sort of how I got into it.

00:42:07.300 But, um, did you find that it wasn't your medium kind of doing it?

00:42:11.580 Did you find like, cause I'm sure you learned from it like, okay, this is this, but did you

00:42:17.000 then find, okay, I work better in this other room?

00:42:19.720 Yeah, I think I prefer doing TV, but it was, that was how I got into it.

00:42:24.140 The, that was the stepping stone because I would stand, it's, there's nothing better

00:42:28.540 than, there's, there's no, um, better way of reaching the, like creating something and

00:42:34.940 reaching people than stand up.

00:42:36.920 Cause you're just, you're thinking of everything you're standing there saying it, it's reaching

00:42:40.640 them immediately.

00:42:42.500 Everything else has layers of stuff that takes away from that.

00:42:46.360 So I found it a really good way to start things and that's, then that morphed into me doing

00:42:53.100 characters on stage.

00:42:54.360 I mean, I always did characters back in school days and my whole life just always did characters,

00:43:00.400 but then stand up, I did the more traditional thing.

00:43:03.040 And then I moved into that, like annoying singing songs, stand up.

00:43:06.640 And then I was like, actually, I'm just going to do characters.

00:43:09.920 Also I'd get on stage and I'd talk about a person, a type of person, and then I'd sort

00:43:13.920 of spin around and become that person.

00:43:16.200 Yeah.

00:43:16.660 And I was like, Oh, this is the thing that's working.

00:43:18.720 Like, yeah.

00:43:20.640 And then started to make little short films and things about those characters.

00:43:24.360 And then that spun me off into TV.

00:43:27.160 So yeah, I definitely did it for a little while and it was, you got to have balls to

00:43:35.020 do that though.

00:43:35.500 It's like so scary just to jump up in front of people.

00:43:39.860 Yeah.

00:43:40.560 You get used to it, but.

00:43:41.800 Well, I think what's scary to me is to make a character and like put it on Instagram or

00:43:46.480 put it on social media or put it on.

00:43:48.440 That to me feels so scary for some reason.

00:43:51.240 Like there are parts of me that I think would love to do it.

00:43:54.020 I want you to do it.

00:43:55.060 You should do that.

00:43:56.780 Yeah.

00:43:57.300 But for some reason that is so scary to me as opposed to getting up in front of people

00:44:02.260 is much less scarier.

00:44:04.480 Yeah.

00:44:04.900 I guess it's just anything you get used to it.

00:44:07.300 It's like if you're scared of flying, you do it all the time and suddenly you're not.

00:44:11.620 It's like that.

00:44:13.460 Well, you know what I think it is, Chris, man, is for me, if they're there live, then I know

00:44:20.240 immediately.

00:44:22.120 For me to give something to a place and let it be seen and not be able to be there and

00:44:27.100 know if they're there laughing.

00:44:28.860 Yeah.

00:44:29.580 That for me, there's some fear in that.

00:44:31.980 Like I need to be right there to know if they laugh or not.

00:44:35.280 I'm okay almost if they don't, it'll hurt me.

00:44:37.400 But to put it somewhere like in a television and let them see it, but not be able to actually

00:44:42.880 be there and see them as they see it and know if they laugh.

00:44:46.180 Yeah.

00:44:47.060 That's something that's really like, to me, very uncomfortable.

00:44:51.320 Yeah.

00:44:51.620 Okay.

00:44:51.960 And the thing with TV also is it's expensive to make it.

00:44:56.060 So there's a lot of expectation on it and a lot of kind of build up and hype and people

00:45:01.180 love to say that you failed at it.

00:45:03.300 So there's this real like expectation thing that I kind of don't get involved in that.

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00:49:40.040 Not really.

00:49:41.080 After the first show I did, We Can Be Heroes, then obviously in the States all the agents

00:49:48.020 start calling and people are like, you need to make a movie here and all that kind of stuff.

00:49:52.880 So that happened, but I could just sense that there was going to be too much involvement

00:49:57.380 from people.

00:49:58.280 Yeah.

00:49:58.760 And everyone just wants you to do more of the same, but they want to tell you how to do it.

00:50:04.020 So it's kind of like, and then I just was like, I'm going to do, that's when I did some

00:50:07.940 high tie.

00:50:08.460 I came back and did that.

00:50:09.620 And I didn't want to go to auditions and all that scene.

00:50:14.260 I just love, I'm just driven by a different thing, which is to create something out of

00:50:19.020 nothing and then see the whole process through from the beginning to the end and be the person

00:50:24.320 driving that.

00:50:25.560 Yeah.

00:50:25.660 That's very different experience to auditioning and being in someone else's film or whatever

00:50:31.040 it is.

00:50:32.560 Yeah.

00:50:32.960 I got offered some roles recently and I just, at first I was like, yeah, I got excited,

00:50:36.460 but then I had to go back and apologize and say, I just can't do this.

00:50:39.460 I said, yeah, I like to be a creator.

00:50:43.360 I don't want to do something unless I, for some reason it feels scary to do something of

00:50:47.300 somebody else's.

00:50:48.040 I only feel comfortable doing something on my own almost.

00:50:50.520 Yeah.

00:50:51.500 It's a different motivation and people don't get that because it sounds so like prestigious

00:50:56.980 and stuff like to be in someone else's film and people still say to me now, they're like,

00:51:02.220 oh, you should act one day.

00:51:04.040 I'm like, what do you mean?

00:51:05.580 I'm like playing fucking six different characters.

00:51:07.960 They're like, no, no, no, act in a movie, like in someone else's movie, like get in a

00:51:11.680 movie with like Meryl Streep and shit.

00:51:13.740 I'm like, dude, it's like, I think I'm already acting.

00:51:18.780 Anyway.

00:51:19.360 That would be so dope to see you in Bridges of Madison County too.

00:51:22.460 Oh yeah.

00:51:23.140 That would be the most legendary shit ever.

00:51:25.460 I'd just be laughing the whole time.

00:51:28.060 Imagine doing a scene with Meryl Streep.

00:51:29.980 That would be hard work.

00:51:31.500 But to me, she's pretty though.

00:51:33.800 There's something always about her because she had like a motherly thing and also like

00:51:36.820 a womanly thing.

00:51:37.840 Yeah, yeah.

00:51:38.900 Yeah.

00:51:39.180 She's a gilf.

00:51:40.020 Yeah.

00:51:40.200 She's like the perfect storm.

00:51:41.400 Like I'd breastfeed off her.

00:51:42.600 Definitely.

00:51:43.840 Absolutely.

00:51:45.240 Who's someone you'd breastfeed you think off of that's over the age of six?

00:51:49.140 Um, Judi Dench.

00:51:53.600 Do you know who that is?

00:51:55.140 No, I'm just thinking of someone over 60.

00:51:56.880 I don't know if I want to breastfeed.

00:51:58.240 Is she a Dame Judi Dench?

00:52:00.960 Yeah.

00:52:01.200 What is that?

00:52:01.640 I've left off the title yet.

00:52:03.200 She's a religious figure or she's a?

00:52:05.020 She's an actress.

00:52:06.240 Oh, she's an actress.

00:52:06.860 Yeah.

00:52:07.640 No, I don't want to suck her.

00:52:09.980 What?

00:52:10.540 Breastfeed her.

00:52:11.360 Yeah.

00:52:11.560 Um, shit.

00:52:14.520 Who was there?

00:52:16.320 It was Betty White, but she's so old.

00:52:18.620 Yeah.

00:52:19.400 I mean, I definitely would go there, but not with Betty.

00:52:22.720 Yeah.

00:52:23.180 Um, but.

00:52:24.260 I'd put a straw in the tit, I think, now that I think about it.

00:52:26.660 If it's really old.

00:52:28.640 You'd have to.

00:52:29.380 Yeah.

00:52:29.600 I'm not going.

00:52:30.140 Yeah.

00:52:31.040 Anything over 50, I don't think I'm putting my lips on, man.

00:52:33.560 I just, you know, I'd be a bit nervous probably.

00:52:38.280 Yeah.

00:52:39.420 Nah, it's going to be straight.

00:52:41.300 Now, your character, Becky, I think, is probably one of my favorite ones, I think.

00:52:45.640 Especially when they made fun of her in the dorm.

00:52:47.360 Like, I could really relate to that.

00:52:48.660 And that's as far as I am on the show.

00:52:50.160 I'm just through, I think I'm now through episode three, maybe.

00:52:52.980 Oh, yeah.

00:52:53.760 Of Lunatics.

00:52:56.320 And some of it, I found myself having to go back because there's more.

00:53:00.840 There's a lot going on sometimes.

00:53:02.460 So, it's almost like I have to listen to the wording again.

00:53:04.960 Like, to hear everything you're saying.

00:53:06.740 Yeah.

00:53:09.820 But, what's up with Becky?

00:53:12.740 How's she doing today?

00:53:13.660 Is she doing okay?

00:53:15.500 She's never going to be that okay.

00:53:16.940 Like, she's got a pretty difficult situation.

00:53:20.900 I just like the idea that this girl basically kind of has a disability.

00:53:25.600 And everyone's ignoring it and pretending she's just the tall girl.

00:53:28.220 And she's got a lot of issues.

00:53:31.220 And her family just have told her how amazing she is, trying to do the right thing.

00:53:35.560 They've, like, given her this false confidence.

00:53:38.500 So, at the point when we meet her, she's kind of faking it so much.

00:53:43.380 But she's just a bundle of insecurity.

00:53:45.760 And as the show goes on, she gets really involved in becoming a YouTube vlogger.

00:53:50.900 So, she gets this confidence boost out of all her followers online and things start to take off.

00:53:58.080 And so, she's just – it's that young girl being so insecure and just – there's no way.

00:54:04.800 She's not an attractive girl.

00:54:06.220 She's got a really – she's got massive legs.

00:54:09.300 She can barely walk.

00:54:10.280 And you think, too, the ankles are very big.

00:54:11.920 Massive ankles.

00:54:12.660 And they get bigger, it seems like, in some of the scenes.

00:54:15.440 You're not the first person to say that.

00:54:16.980 They don't get bigger than I think.

00:54:18.380 There's just more shots of them.

00:54:19.820 Okay, yeah.

00:54:20.320 Because there's a couple scenes where it looked like she put on about 40 pounds in each ankle.

00:54:24.940 Yeah.

00:54:25.900 No, she just has some bad outfits.

00:54:28.100 But she just is never going to be the popular girl and all the kind of – she's always going to struggle in life.

00:54:33.820 And I just like that concept that the dorm life is just – everyone is just relentlessly attacking her every episode.

00:54:41.060 She just is bullied.

00:54:42.440 I don't know why I found that funny, but –

00:54:44.300 Yeah.

00:54:44.580 Because it's actually quite tragic.

00:54:46.760 But to me, it's funny.

00:54:48.600 She hits her head a lot on things.

00:54:50.540 Oh, yeah.

00:54:51.300 Well, I'm so grateful her dad came and put a – you know.

00:54:54.520 Oh, yeah.

00:54:55.140 The poor dad.

00:54:55.420 He loves her.

00:54:56.360 Yeah, that's it.

00:54:56.840 He does his best.

00:54:57.300 He's a busy dad, though.

00:54:58.260 He does his best.

00:54:59.400 And how can you relate to two girls if you're a dad?

00:55:01.240 It's probably hard.

00:55:01.940 Yeah.

00:55:02.640 And he had the perfect daughter and then the kind of freaky daughter.

00:55:05.380 So, he kind of has tried to compensate for it by being super nice.

00:55:10.220 But you can only build someone's confidence up so much.

00:55:13.660 Yeah.

00:55:13.760 And the reality is she's going to have a hard time.

00:55:17.740 I'm curious to see now, man.

00:55:19.160 Now I'm even more invested in the character.

00:55:21.060 Yeah.

00:55:21.280 She has a bit of a love interest thing.

00:55:24.740 With a basketball guy, I'm guessing?

00:55:26.600 Oh.

00:55:27.320 No, don't tell me.

00:55:28.060 Don't tell me.

00:55:28.420 I don't want to tell you that.

00:55:29.260 Okay, don't tell me.

00:55:30.340 It's – she just wants to be a normal girl and it's a struggle.

00:55:36.280 Yeah.

00:55:36.720 That was a lot of fun.

00:55:38.760 I guess everybody had that.

00:55:39.860 Did you have like – was there anything like – I have like a big nose.

00:55:44.420 I have big ears kind of.

00:55:45.700 Like those are things like I was insecure about like when I was growing up, you know,

00:55:48.820 that always like – and a nose is hard because you fucking have to show it to everybody,

00:55:53.320 you know, like –

00:55:53.900 Yeah, it's there.

00:55:54.980 Yeah.

00:55:55.440 I think I also have a big nose and big ears.

00:55:57.800 Is that what you think?

00:55:58.940 I don't think about ears that much but now you've made me think about it.

00:56:02.260 Oh, sorry.

00:56:03.220 Yeah, so –

00:56:05.200 Yeah, you seem like you have a normal look to me.

00:56:07.960 Nah, it's a big nose and a big ears.

00:56:10.200 But when you're a teenager, all that stuff is so much bigger on your face anyway.

00:56:13.840 Yeah.

00:56:14.180 And you had the big dick thing too, so –

00:56:16.060 Oh, yeah.

00:56:16.880 Thank God I had that but nobody wanted to hear about that.

00:56:18.820 After the big nose and ears, they were like, yeah, sure guy.

00:56:22.140 Nobody gets all three big, you know.

00:56:23.820 Yeah.

00:56:25.160 Nah.

00:56:25.880 Nobody's that much of a legend.

00:56:28.840 Yeah.

00:56:31.580 Yeah, man, I'm trying to think of what else really.

00:56:37.420 So you don't have any pets?

00:56:38.600 Oh, you do have pets, you said.

00:56:40.640 I don't have pets but I have two rainbow lorikeets that come to visit me every day.

00:56:45.300 And it's the same ones, you said?

00:56:47.040 Yeah, the same too because one has like a squashed up foot, like an injured foot.

00:56:51.280 Oh, yeah.

00:56:51.780 Like somebody from Game of Thrones kind of.

00:56:53.200 I'll show you the photo because he's my screensaver on my phone.

00:56:56.360 But yeah, they're really friendly birds.

00:56:59.140 They're a big thing here in Australia.

00:57:00.620 Like everyone loves them.

00:57:01.820 I think everyone loves them.

00:57:03.340 They've got good personalities.

00:57:05.080 Do you think that they know that you're on telly and everything like that or no?

00:57:08.900 I thought about that.

00:57:10.220 I reckon they might be on Twitter.

00:57:11.940 But like literally I go away for months and I come back and they're there.

00:57:16.000 But yeah, because they literally come into my house and get in my sink and walk.

00:57:21.260 Like they land on the edge of my laptop.

00:57:23.300 Like they've seen me naked.

00:57:25.140 Oh, wow.

00:57:25.440 They're like, we're really intimate.

00:57:27.320 They're artistic, it sounds like.

00:57:28.740 Yeah.

00:57:29.960 They sound like photographers.

00:57:31.120 They almost sound like a little bit of.

00:57:32.760 Well, yeah.

00:57:33.380 They maybe, maybe they are taking some photos.

00:57:35.640 I don't know.

00:57:36.080 I did cross my mind that maybe, because there's some other like famous people that live in

00:57:43.420 the area, like Hugh Jackman's got a place down in Bondi.

00:57:46.700 Oh, wow.

00:57:47.100 And I've always thought maybe the birds, they're going to him.

00:57:50.100 Because sometimes they come to mind, they've got this powdery shit on their nose.

00:57:54.060 And like, is Jackman feeding them and then they're coming to me?

00:57:57.320 Yeah.

00:57:58.140 Or are they doing cocaine down by Jackman's?

00:58:00.200 Well, yeah.

00:58:01.380 Yeah.

00:58:01.820 There's.

00:58:02.920 They're gramming up down there by Jackman's and then hitting the sink.

00:58:05.700 It's like powder on their nose.

00:58:06.980 Yeah.

00:58:07.600 I could see that, man.

00:58:09.100 A lot of birds, everybody thinks they're doing good shit all the time.

00:58:11.840 That's a crazy thing, man.

00:58:13.060 Yeah.

00:58:13.480 These are smart birds, so it wouldn't surprise me.

00:58:16.680 Dude, I remember like when I was growing up, they have, in America, they have a disease

00:58:20.260 that's called Down syndrome, you know?

00:58:21.960 And it's like people have like a, it's kind of like people just, I don't know what it is

00:58:27.300 really, but they had a good buddy of mine when I was young that had it, you know?

00:58:30.600 And so we were children, you know, and we were good friends.

00:58:33.380 And I remember people always thought that he was, and he would do, we would go drink

00:58:40.920 alcohol sometimes.

00:58:41.700 And like he would do, you know, steel shit, just regular kid shit.

00:58:45.580 And people thought that he was always doing like only sweet stuff.

00:58:50.040 Like he always got the benefit of the doubt.

00:58:52.300 Yeah.

00:58:53.200 You know?

00:58:53.700 Yeah.

00:58:54.020 People always thought like, oh, he's probably doing a puzzle or something.

00:58:57.120 You know, he's with his grandparents.

00:58:58.440 And he fucking wasn't, he was, he was raised in hell, you know?

00:59:03.040 It's like some things like birds or whatever, they always get the benefit of the doubt, you

00:59:06.680 know?

00:59:07.140 Yeah.

00:59:07.520 We need to analyze that more carefully.

00:59:09.620 Yeah.

00:59:10.140 Just because you got colored feathers doesn't mean like you're not a dickhead.

00:59:14.120 Yeah.

00:59:14.880 It doesn't mean you're not really raised in hell somewhere.

00:59:16.960 Yeah.

00:59:17.500 They could be somewhere doing who knows what.

00:59:20.480 I like to, I like to follow them.

00:59:22.340 I bought a drone and my thought was that I'm going to like fly it off the balcony and follow

00:59:28.460 the lorikeets.

00:59:30.120 But they're so fast.

00:59:31.720 The lorikeets are so fast.

00:59:33.160 Plus as soon as they hear the drone, they fly.

00:59:35.840 So it's, it hasn't worked so far because they, they have a nest and they have babies and stuff

00:59:40.920 because they always bring their baby to me when they've had one.

00:59:44.200 And.

00:59:44.420 Oh my God.

00:59:44.800 This is definitely Game of Thrones kind of.

00:59:46.140 I wanted to take the drone and find out where the nest was.

00:59:48.600 Oh.

00:59:49.540 Imagine that.

00:59:50.240 Yeah.

00:59:51.220 That'd be sick.

00:59:51.820 You're fucking watching them, following them.

00:59:53.900 Yeah.

00:59:54.840 Think.

00:59:55.480 It'd be good if I had like a virtual reality drone and then I could go to the nest and like

00:59:59.960 reach out.

01:00:00.900 Yeah.

01:00:01.360 Spend time there.

01:00:02.280 Like I would feel like I was flying with them.

01:00:04.480 Daddy's home.

01:00:05.200 Yeah.

01:00:05.440 Yeah.

01:00:06.060 Oh, I'm a Chinese woman coming to get you in the middle of the night.

01:00:08.640 That's what you do with the babies.

01:00:10.120 Yeah.

01:00:10.680 Yes.

01:00:11.640 I'm the baby's Chinese mother.

01:00:13.220 Yeah.

01:00:13.960 I like that.

01:00:15.300 Wouldn't that be crazy, man?

01:00:16.760 If one day you wake up like in heaven or something and you come to and you just look in the mirror

01:00:20.560 and you're an actual Chinese woman.

01:00:23.340 I would love.

01:00:24.200 Oh, that would be amazing.

01:00:25.280 I don't know if I'd love that.

01:00:26.300 I'd be so surprised.

01:00:29.740 Is that what happens?

01:00:30.580 You go to heaven and the real you is revealed.

01:00:32.380 I bet there has to be some sort of revelation or some sort of like an exposure, almost like

01:00:37.660 you expose a photo where you see, oh, this is.

01:00:40.080 Yeah.

01:00:40.640 You thought you got away with this.

01:00:41.800 This is the real thing.

01:00:42.980 Yeah.

01:00:43.120 This is what was going on.

01:00:44.020 You were fucking around, you know, you were playing with these birds on the balcony in

01:00:47.580 the head, you know.

01:00:48.920 Yeah.

01:00:49.340 Cameras in their eyes.

01:00:51.360 Yeah.

01:00:51.680 You were feeding birdseed to a camera for fucking five years, man.

01:00:57.900 Imagine that.

01:00:59.220 And you have to watch the footage in heaven.

01:01:01.600 And you look like such an idiot, too.

01:01:03.360 You're like, you just keep feeding this camera birdseed.

01:01:06.860 Seriously.

01:01:09.020 That could happen.

01:01:11.080 Was there ever like an entertainer from the States that reached out, like Jim Carrey or

01:01:17.140 somebody like that, that was like, oh, I have to do something with this guy.

01:01:21.260 I can imagine that that's probably happened to you over the years.

01:01:25.580 Oh, that they've reached out to me.

01:01:27.420 Yeah.

01:01:27.640 And they wanted to like, they were just real keen on trying to work with you.

01:01:30.500 And keen means excited.

01:01:31.740 I just learned it like two days ago.

01:01:33.280 But yeah, they were excited to try and have you in their project.

01:01:37.960 Or I mean, even though it wasn't something maybe you were looking for, but.

01:01:41.260 Yeah, there's been a little bit of that, but sort of just more coming from like casting

01:01:45.980 people with directors and stuff rather than actual like.

01:01:49.680 Artists.

01:01:50.500 Artists.

01:01:51.080 Like a lot of them.

01:01:52.880 No, actually, that's not true.

01:01:54.020 Like people do.

01:01:55.360 There's been big, big name people who are fans of the shows and have reached out.

01:01:59.040 Yeah.

01:01:59.700 That happens a fair bit.

01:02:01.380 Yeah.

01:02:02.280 But I kind of feel like a dickhead naming who those people are.

01:02:04.760 Oh, yeah.

01:02:05.120 No, I'm not asking who they are.

01:02:06.440 Yeah.

01:02:06.920 Yeah.

01:02:07.100 No, I'm just asking if that's ever happened.

01:02:08.700 I guess like, yeah, I guess I was just kind of thinking like, because if I thought of like

01:02:14.080 one of my favorite movies is Dumb and Dumber, right?

01:02:16.120 Yeah.

01:02:16.340 So I thought, well, would you ever see, you know, is that something that.

01:02:20.600 Like David Spade the other day was telling me that Chris Farley.

01:02:26.060 Yeah.

01:02:26.380 Got offered the role of.

01:02:29.440 And there's something about Mary.

01:02:31.240 Yeah.

01:02:31.540 That Ben Stiller played the main guy.

01:02:33.740 Oh, yeah.

01:02:34.180 Yeah.

01:02:34.460 And I just never knew that.

01:02:35.880 It just blew my mind because then I start thinking of that movie.

01:02:39.260 And if Chris Farley plays Ben Stiller, it's just interesting, you know?

01:02:42.120 Yeah.

01:02:42.380 So I guess I was just wondering if there had ever been like a unique role or if somebody

01:02:45.820 had ever, or just if it had ever happened, not like specifics, you know?

01:02:49.960 There has been a few roles.

01:02:51.180 It's never like the handsome lead.

01:02:53.200 It's always like the kind of weird.

01:02:54.600 It's like the freak, the weird butler or something, like the kind of, yeah.

01:02:59.760 One of them was like a, it was like James Franco's PA or something, but obviously it was some

01:03:04.900 like camp weirdo.

01:03:06.400 Yeah.

01:03:06.660 Like I get those roles.

01:03:08.220 Like basically they've seen some high tide.

01:03:10.320 They're like, can you do Mr. G?

01:03:11.460 But we're not going to say that, but.

01:03:13.380 Right.

01:03:14.320 And you got to keep that magic for yourself.

01:03:16.420 Yeah.

01:03:17.860 Yeah.

01:03:18.280 I don't want to do that.

01:03:19.420 Yeah.

01:03:20.260 Yeah.

01:03:20.600 I don't like to outsource my magic if I have any, you know, or not magic, but whatever

01:03:24.020 I do have, you know?

01:03:25.260 Yeah.

01:03:25.620 I don't want to just put it into whatever.

01:03:28.600 I'd rather save it and maybe hope that it, you know, that it can be good somewhere specifically.

01:03:33.660 Yeah.

01:03:34.080 I'm the same.

01:03:36.700 So.

01:03:44.620 Well.

01:03:47.660 So you've only seen three episodes.

01:03:49.760 Yeah.

01:03:50.500 Yeah.

01:03:50.820 Right.

01:03:50.980 And also, I also haven't seen, I haven't seen the heroes movie that you did.

01:03:57.720 Yeah.

01:03:58.760 Yeah.

01:03:59.080 I can tell the bits you haven't seen because you kind of just, your eyes glaze.

01:04:02.700 I know.

01:04:02.960 It's hard to hide it, huh?

01:04:03.900 Yeah.

01:04:04.620 I know.

01:04:04.940 I feel bad sometimes, but you can't watch everything.

01:04:07.960 No, you can't.

01:04:08.700 There's a lot of stuff.

01:04:09.680 Yeah.

01:04:10.400 Yeah.

01:04:10.680 And I'm kind of glad I haven't seen everything because then there's some things that I can

01:04:13.440 be like, you know, still amazed by.

01:04:16.380 Like I'm only on season two of Game of Thrones.

01:04:18.700 Oh yeah.

01:04:19.720 I'm on season one.

01:04:20.620 Are you?

01:04:21.620 Yeah.

01:04:21.740 That's awesome.

01:04:22.400 But I'm excited that that's ahead of me because everyone told me to watch it.

01:04:25.440 So I was like, no, I'm not going to.

01:04:26.780 Yeah.

01:04:26.880 Now I'm like, I'm secretly watching it.

01:04:28.620 Dude.

01:04:28.820 I watched Scarface for the first time three years ago.

01:04:31.760 Shit.

01:04:32.740 I don't think I've seen it.

01:04:33.680 I haven't seen it.

01:04:34.280 Are you serious?

01:04:35.240 Is it good?

01:04:35.880 Fuck you, man.

01:04:37.220 You fucking just outdid me.

01:04:38.900 I waited my whole life to watch.

01:04:40.380 People kept telling me, you've got to watch it.

01:04:42.760 It's like a legendary flick.

01:04:44.260 I haven't seen Top Gun.

01:04:45.660 Oh, fuck you, man.

01:04:47.820 Oh, you can end up in hell, brother.

01:04:49.460 You're not going to make it, man.

01:04:51.840 Yeah.

01:04:52.760 What about Thelma and Louise?

01:04:54.720 Have you seen it?

01:04:55.440 Seen it.

01:04:56.200 Mm-hmm.

01:04:57.880 Yeah.

01:04:58.200 The other one was Mad Men.

01:04:59.420 Everyone kept raving about it.

01:05:00.540 And I was like, no, not watching it.

01:05:02.180 And then I've secretly watched it and I liked it, but I didn't want to tell anyone to like

01:05:06.400 had to get through like seven seasons because I didn't want to be in season three and go,

01:05:10.240 oh, it's pretty good.

01:05:10.940 And they're like, oh, haven't you seen season six?

01:05:13.180 Like, you don't want that.

01:05:14.080 Yeah.

01:05:14.680 So I do a lot of secret watching.

01:05:16.680 Oh, I see.

01:05:18.120 What is, what about A League of Their Own?

01:05:20.440 Have you seen that movie?

01:05:22.320 That, is Madonna in that?

01:05:23.600 Yeah.

01:05:23.920 Yeah.

01:05:24.340 Gina Davis.

01:05:25.300 Tom Hanks is in it.

01:05:26.960 The lesbian lady.

01:05:28.840 Yeah.

01:05:29.120 I could have seen you playing one of the characters in that on the team.

01:05:31.680 Yeah.

01:05:32.020 I can, I would suit that.

01:05:33.380 Yeah.

01:05:33.720 A big butch lesbian.

01:05:35.000 Yeah.

01:05:35.520 Or not big.

01:05:36.380 She could just be, yeah, but yeah.

01:05:37.840 Lipstick lesbian.

01:05:39.020 Yeah.

01:05:39.980 Lipstick lesbian, but like in a Chinese city, maybe I see.

01:05:42.860 Yeah.

01:05:44.720 That's, that would be my dream.

01:05:46.240 I could see you being like the hottest woman in like a Chinese village, kind of.

01:05:49.820 Yeah.

01:05:51.280 Pretty cool.

01:05:52.220 Am I a Chinese woman?

01:05:53.320 I'm just a black woman.

01:05:54.820 I mean, I just think, I could see that.

01:05:57.220 Like I could see if I showed up in like a village, like outside of Shanghai, you know, a couple

01:06:00.680 hundred miles out, then being like, oh, this is our queen, you know?

01:06:03.660 Yeah.

01:06:04.440 Yeah.

01:06:05.080 I can see that too.

01:06:05.960 That, that'd be great actually.

01:06:08.360 Yeah.

01:06:08.940 That'd be really good.

01:06:10.840 I wonder what kind of, sometime if I could be like, if I had to be a woman, what type

01:06:14.280 I would be.

01:06:14.580 I would be like, I think the bus driver, you know?

01:06:17.260 Oh yeah.

01:06:18.120 A bit butch.

01:06:19.160 Yeah.

01:06:19.520 Tough, you know?

01:06:20.540 Bowling at night and.

01:06:21.780 Yeah.

01:06:22.060 But she's got a feminine side.

01:06:24.040 Yeah.

01:06:24.920 She can sort of wear a dress on Friday night.

01:06:27.640 Yeah.

01:06:27.880 On Friday night she likes to wear a dress sometimes to go down to the VFW or something.

01:06:31.980 Yeah.

01:06:32.620 Do they have VFW here?

01:06:34.140 No.

01:06:35.020 It's like Veterans of Foreign Wars.

01:06:36.540 It's where I like all the, what do they call it here?

01:06:38.380 We've got the RSL.

01:06:40.100 Yeah.

01:06:40.880 Go down to the RSL and maybe have a cocktail.

01:06:43.340 The Ari.

01:06:44.740 Yeah.

01:06:45.180 I can see you there.

01:06:46.640 Do some video games or something in a dress though.

01:06:48.640 You'd do some swing dancing I reckon.

01:06:50.800 Yeah.

01:06:51.220 But you'd be sort of, yeah, attractive when you wanted to be.

01:06:54.720 Mostly butch.

01:06:55.980 Yeah.

01:06:56.260 Mostly just fucking riding the rails.

01:06:58.200 Yeah.

01:06:59.840 Out there.

01:07:00.500 Just getting people where they need to go.

01:07:02.340 It'd be fun.

01:07:03.420 Yeah.

01:07:04.000 You could just do that for a day.

01:07:06.340 Be a real woman.

01:07:08.220 Yeah.

01:07:08.540 I think in a couple years you'll be able to.

01:07:12.000 I think in a couple years like with all these hormones and stuff they have now I think.

01:07:16.380 Just chuck it on for a day.

01:07:18.380 Yeah.

01:07:18.940 Chuck on a fucking puss and a couple tits, you know.

01:07:21.340 Yeah.

01:07:22.040 And hit the, you know, go watch, you know, something.

01:07:27.380 A film or, you know, walk, take a run.

01:07:30.620 Yeah.

01:07:31.260 I'd like to run as a woman I bet.

01:07:32.820 Go for a jog.

01:07:33.960 Yeah.

01:07:34.500 The sports bra.

01:07:35.700 You have to keep it.

01:07:36.820 Just let it all.

01:07:37.520 You can spit if you want.

01:07:39.000 Yeah.

01:07:40.640 See, you always go butch woman.

01:07:42.680 Yeah, that's true, huh?

01:07:43.540 Yeah.

01:07:43.980 Because if, yeah.

01:07:45.400 Well, being the pretty woman would scare me, I think.

01:07:47.740 It seemed like so much pressure.

01:07:49.540 That would be hard work.

01:07:51.200 Yeah.

01:07:51.540 I don't envy that.

01:07:53.560 Always having to look kind of like perfect.

01:07:56.020 Eat your soup real perfectly.

01:07:57.720 Yeah.

01:07:58.400 It would make me nervous, man.

01:07:59.420 Everyone's staring at you.

01:08:01.060 Yeah.

01:08:01.660 Think about that.

01:08:02.540 Everybody's staring at you and it happens when you're young and then it makes you, that would

01:08:06.160 make me so nervous.

01:08:08.100 Yeah, it'd be hard.

01:08:11.820 Yeah.

01:08:12.180 I don't know what else I would be.

01:08:13.320 Maybe I could see you also being like the guy like on a soccer team that like is in a

01:08:19.220 wheelchair there on the side.

01:08:21.000 Oh, yeah.

01:08:21.940 And he's like, he's in the team, but they just, it's like a sympathy thing.

01:08:25.300 And they wheel him out once a year and kind of wheel him down the grass.

01:08:28.260 Yeah.

01:08:30.060 Down the grass.

01:08:31.260 Or yeah, it's like a, cause the field is a little bit.

01:08:33.300 Oh, yeah.

01:08:33.900 It's a cheap field.

01:08:34.860 Yeah.

01:08:35.240 Yeah.

01:08:35.740 It's downhill a little.

01:08:37.940 Yeah.

01:08:38.300 I could do that.

01:08:40.460 I'm trying to think of some other.

01:08:41.260 Oh, I could also see you doing like a Robin Hood type of.

01:08:44.080 Oh, yeah.

01:08:45.560 I could see you being like a Robin Hood.

01:08:47.320 Yeah.

01:08:47.960 Rob's from the rich and gives to the poor.

01:08:49.560 Yeah.

01:08:50.100 Does he swing through?

01:08:51.460 No, it's Tarzan.

01:08:53.120 Isn't like climb trees and shit, is he?

01:08:54.660 Robin Hood.

01:08:55.260 I could see you being like Tarzan's brother that wants to do something different and wants

01:08:58.440 to get out of the jungle a little.

01:08:59.900 Alternative.

01:09:00.400 Like, yeah, he's a bit of an emo Tarzan.

01:09:04.280 It's skinnier.

01:09:05.500 Yeah.

01:09:06.320 It's got a bit of a gut.

01:09:10.480 Yeah.

01:09:10.980 His girlfriend's not that hot.

01:09:12.620 Yeah, she's not that hot, dude.

01:09:14.200 And she comes to the edge of the forest and like gives him books and shit.

01:09:16.780 Yeah.

01:09:17.580 And cassette tapes, even though he's not a player.

01:09:20.020 Yeah.

01:09:20.820 She's always a bit depressed.

01:09:22.660 Yeah.

01:09:22.920 I could see you doing that.

01:09:25.860 So many options.

01:09:28.100 Do you think sometimes like do you know when a character comes into your head, you're like

01:09:32.540 like for Lunatics, you know, did you have them all planned out and obviously you had

01:09:36.000 ideas and you said once you get to set, you get in makeup, it grows even more.

01:09:41.040 But was there another character that you went to set with that you guys did that you left

01:09:45.940 on the floor?

01:09:46.860 Not that we got that far with, but in the writing stage, I had like about eight characters all

01:09:53.220 up and then I kind of had to narrow it down.

01:09:58.360 I remember doing a drawing actually and I'm not even good at drawing stuff and it was like

01:10:02.140 of all of the characters together.

01:10:03.560 Um, and so I could just look at the lineup and was imagining it, how it would work.

01:10:08.520 And then there was a couple of characters that I just thought, nah, you're kind of crossing

01:10:12.400 out.

01:10:12.640 It's like a little too similar to that.

01:10:14.340 It's similar to something you've done before.

01:10:15.760 That's the thing because I've done a lot of characters now, so I have to always look different.

01:10:20.440 I've done, you know, once you do long red hair, you can't do that again.

01:10:23.860 So you've got to think of different hairstyles and, um, yeah.

01:10:27.300 So a few of them I got rid of, but then as some of the great ideas, I sort of morphed those

01:10:32.120 ideas into the current characters.

01:10:34.760 So, yeah.

01:10:36.020 Yeah.

01:10:36.220 It is hard to find new characters at bed, huh?

01:10:37.680 Because once you've done like a guy, if it's a gay guy, you can't, it's like you could do

01:10:40.740 another one, but it's, it's still kind of sticks on the, it'll stick to the other one.

01:10:44.420 That's it.

01:10:44.960 Yeah.

01:10:46.660 It's hard.

01:10:47.300 And there's always is a little bit of a crossover because there's certain things you find funny

01:10:50.880 or interesting.

01:10:51.360 So you're always kind of going down the same path a little bit.

01:10:56.080 Um, yeah, but that's actually the challenge now is to make it different because I've done

01:11:01.100 a lot, a lot of characters now.

01:11:04.040 Is that kind of, I mean, even though it's like, I'm sure there's a great sense of pride with

01:11:07.980 that, is there a little bit of like, um, is it almost kind of a bummer sometimes that

01:11:13.740 you've gone through like a lot of humanity and character, you know, that you have that

01:11:18.160 much of a body?

01:11:19.200 Yeah, it is.

01:11:19.700 Cause sometimes you've got a slightly different take on it and I'm like, oh fuck, that would

01:11:23.000 be better.

01:11:23.840 But I'm like, yeah, but you kind of did that.

01:11:25.340 Like you've done like the fashion thing or the skate thing or whatever it is, surf or whatever

01:11:29.940 the kind of world is.

01:11:32.000 Yeah.

01:11:32.260 Or I've done an Asian woman before and I'm like, I can't really do that again.

01:11:37.980 Yeah.

01:11:38.480 Um, but I do bring characters back.

01:11:41.000 Like there's been a lot of like, uh, spinoffs and stuff.

01:11:44.440 Yeah.

01:11:44.800 Yeah.

01:11:44.940 They come back.

01:11:45.840 Well, I've seen, I'll think of some, most of some of the stuff I've seen, I've seen like

01:11:48.760 Jonah from Tonga and I've seen, I mean, yeah, it was just too much sometimes.

01:11:52.340 Oh, but so good.

01:11:53.420 And it helped me learn about like Tongan people a little bit and like the characters and it

01:11:56.940 gave me like a sense of like, what it would actually be like to be at a school when

01:12:01.180 you're young like that, you know?

01:12:02.620 Um, and when he goes and lives with his auntie and shit, God, I fucking miss that family,

01:12:07.160 dude.

01:12:07.660 Yeah.

01:12:08.000 I miss the family, miss the fucking auntie, man.

01:12:10.600 It feels so real.

01:12:11.660 Like it feels like that, that they exist out there somewhere still.

01:12:15.520 Yeah.

01:12:15.980 Does it feel like that to you too?

01:12:17.240 Yeah.

01:12:17.500 To me it does.

01:12:18.640 Yeah.

01:12:19.840 It's yeah.

01:12:21.480 And it's kind of, yeah, I'm kind of caught up, caught up in the illusion of it as well.

01:12:26.760 Yeah.

01:12:27.500 Weirdly.

01:12:29.060 Yeah.

01:12:29.500 I can totally, I could totally imagine that, you know, a lot of kids these days their imagination

01:12:35.060 is changing because, you know, with social media, with computers and stuff, it's different.

01:12:39.680 Like you can create stuff actually more.

01:12:43.560 So your imagination is almost like the processor now is in the machine.

01:12:48.360 Yeah.

01:12:48.760 Whether then it used to have to be in your head, you know?

01:12:51.980 It's a little bit scary.

01:12:52.920 I wonder if they'll ever have, you know, if we'll ever be able to do some of the stuff

01:12:58.420 that, you know, you and I have been able to do growing up.

01:13:01.020 Like if the medium will change so much that they won't even, like, why is this guy pretending

01:13:06.760 to be this character when he could just, you know?

01:13:09.080 Yeah.

01:13:09.780 You're right.

01:13:12.200 That's weird, isn't it?

01:13:13.700 It's already kind of evolved a lot in the last 10 years or so.

01:13:17.160 So yeah.

01:13:18.820 Does it scare you a little bit?

01:13:20.140 No, I just kind of roll with it.

01:13:23.380 Like it's funny doing the show with Netflix because they have this sort of episodic thing,

01:13:31.000 but all the apps kind of run together for most people.

01:13:33.460 Most people sit back and watch like one and a half episodes or something.

01:13:36.760 And then the episode length, time, it's so we sort of, they're basing it on the model

01:13:41.880 of old broadcast TV, but it's actually already evolving into this thing.

01:13:46.440 It's just this linear entertainment thing that people just tap into when they want to.

01:13:53.560 And yeah, we're sort of in this weird transition where it's a little bit, there's a little bit

01:14:00.100 left over from the past.

01:14:02.100 Yeah.

01:14:02.240 I mean, kind of like, yeah, like when films first started and it was like vaudeville performers

01:14:08.640 and shit and they were like, it was all just like watching a theatrical production.

01:14:14.600 Like you were kind of looking at it from one perspective and then it kind of evolved and

01:14:18.400 people were like, well, shit, we could get different angles and we could edit this.

01:14:22.000 And yeah.

01:14:22.820 Anyway, I don't know why I'm sounding like, I know what I'm talking about.

01:14:25.880 You just seen it's changed.

01:14:26.860 Yeah, it's evolving.

01:14:28.440 And so I've, I started doing 25 minute episodes or whatever and they went to air once a week

01:14:34.600 and now I'm doing this kind of long thing that just keeps flowing together.

01:14:39.220 And yeah, it's cool.

01:14:40.340 Has it been cool?

01:14:41.060 Has it, has it, has it been, was it as cool of an experience doing lunatics as anything

01:14:45.100 else?

01:14:45.940 Yeah.

01:14:47.540 Well, cool and better in the way that it reached people because normally I have to like launch

01:14:51.760 it in different countries and you kind of deal with different networks where this was just

01:14:55.520 like, they just press the button and suddenly it's all over the world.

01:14:58.740 Yeah.

01:14:59.040 It's a big audience.

01:15:01.340 So, but making the show was pretty much the same experience, I guess, as all of them because

01:15:07.280 yeah.

01:15:10.280 It's so crazy.

01:15:11.140 It's something like, there are moments where I'll look at you and I'll see like just like

01:15:14.380 another character will pop into my head that it's like, I forgot about a little bit.

01:15:17.620 Oh really?

01:15:17.960 You know, even from the past, yeah, there'll be like an angle where it's like, oh, there's

01:15:20.640 a Mr. G and you know, or be like an angle and then be like, oh, that's fucking, you know,

01:15:25.880 oh, I see how he's built.

01:15:27.000 That's how Jonah was built.

01:15:28.160 You know, like if just like the way your arm is bent, it's just kind of bizarre, man.

01:15:32.080 You know?

01:15:32.220 Yeah.

01:15:32.740 It's really cool.

01:15:34.600 I don't see myself, I guess.

01:15:36.740 I don't really get that experience unless I'm looking in the mirror or something, but yeah,

01:15:42.220 I can imagine that must be weird.

01:15:43.560 People often do try to say who they think I'm the most like.

01:15:47.120 They do say that quite a lot.

01:15:49.040 But that must change though, because then suddenly there are moments where I'm like, oh, he definitely

01:15:52.580 seems like Gavin a little bit more, you know?

01:15:54.920 Yeah.

01:15:55.840 The Earl of, what is it called?

01:15:57.600 Gayhurst.

01:15:58.580 Yeah.

01:15:59.200 Yeah, dude.

01:16:00.120 What a fucking great name.

01:16:04.880 Chris Lilly, man, thank you so much.

01:16:07.140 I don't think there's anything else really.

01:16:08.800 I mean, we can kind of chill and wrap it up.

01:16:11.160 Is that okay with you?

01:16:11.760 Yeah, that sounds good.

01:16:13.040 It's been really fun.

01:16:14.140 Has it been?

01:16:15.000 Yeah.

01:16:15.440 I didn't know what to expect, but it's been so relaxed and you're very easy to talk to.

01:16:19.760 Well, thanks, man.

01:16:20.420 I appreciate it.

01:16:20.920 Yeah, I wanted this to be just a, I mean, I think this would be a great episode, man.

01:16:24.220 Our listeners are going to absolutely be over the moon just to have, to be able to have

01:16:28.220 like a, just an experience with you just as a regular person, you know?

01:16:30.660 And, yeah, it's just inspiring, man.

01:16:33.700 It's inspiring to see like, because there's nothing else out there like you.

01:16:37.240 So people need to see it and young people need to see it so they can be reminded.

01:16:41.080 I can, oh, I can do that, you know?

01:16:43.040 Yeah.

01:16:43.440 Because that's how I learned about stuff.

01:16:44.740 Watch it.

01:16:45.280 I would see In Living Color and like Damon Wayans and stuff.

01:16:48.180 I'd be like, oh, I can do that?

01:16:49.340 That's a thing?

01:16:50.220 Yeah.

01:16:50.940 Wow.

01:16:51.520 Now I'm going to do that, you know?

01:16:53.080 Yeah, I get kids sending me videos all the time of characters like they, it doesn't

01:16:56.900 inspire kids.

01:16:57.940 Yeah, it's fun.

01:16:59.100 That would be great.

01:17:00.420 Do you plan to, will you make more stuff in the future?

01:17:02.620 You're not going to, you don't have any plans on quitting being creative, do you?

01:17:05.440 Not at all.

01:17:06.100 No, I love doing this.

01:17:07.320 Thank you.

01:17:07.600 It's so fun.

01:17:08.520 Good, man.

01:17:08.880 I can't wait to do more.

01:17:09.780 Cool, brother.

01:17:10.880 Chris Lilley, ladies and gentlemen, check out Lunatics.

01:17:14.620 And then go back if you haven't and watch Summer Heights High, Jonah from Tonga, and you'll

01:17:22.100 fall into the rest of the world and tell your friends about it.

01:17:25.560 Because, yeah, for some reason, man, Summer Heights High is the greatest gift I can give

01:17:28.720 to any of my friends that haven't, I'm like, have you seen this?

01:17:31.100 And when they say no, I'm just like, oh, fucking Merry Christmas, motherfucker.

01:17:36.160 You know?

01:17:36.880 It's fun.

01:17:38.120 Thank you, brother.

01:17:38.940 Thanks, man.

01:17:39.440 Yeah.

01:17:52.100 And when I reach that ground, I'll share this peace of mind I found.

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