Aunty Donna Podcast - Alyssa Limperis is a Funny Mum (and Dad) in Hollywood

Episode Date: October 31, 2023

It's the final episode of our Hollywood Series and we're joined by actress and comedian and very "funny mum" Alyssa Limperis. We're going on a celebrity tour bus adventure around the star-studded driveways of Hollywood. What fun hijinks will our global mums and dads get up to? That’s what your listening ears are for silly, go find out. LINKS Follow @alyssalimp on Instagram https://bit.ly/alyssalimp-ig . Listen to Hollywood Ep 1 with David Cross https://bit.ly/adp-davidcross . Listen to Hollywood Ep 2 with Felix Mallard https://bit.ly/adp-felixmallard . Listen to Hollywood Ep 3 with SungWon Cho https://bit.ly/adp-sungwoncho . Follow @theauntydonnagallery on Instagram https://bit.ly/auntydonna-ig . Become a Patreon supporter at http://auntydonnaclub.com/ . CREDITS  Hosts: Broden Kelly, Zachary Ruane, & Mark Bonanno   Guest: Alyssa Limperis Intro VO: Tom Zahariou  Producer: James Blake Digital Producers: Nick Barrett and Jim Cruse Audio Imager: Mitch Calladine Supervising Producer: Elise Cooper  Managing Producer: Sam Cavanagh   Find more great podcasts like this at https://www.listnr.com/ Join The Aunty Donna Club: https://www.patreon.com/auntydonnaSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A list-n-a-production. Get a legends and welcome to another Ripper episode of the Anti-Donut podcast. It's the final episode of our Hollywood series and what better way to end it than with actor and comedian, Alissa Limperas. It's a funny mums and dads adventure and we join the gang on the pretend bus tour of famous tourist hotspots in LA. Remember, you can get access to bonus episodes and the video versions over at anti-donnaclub.com. You listen to the honeydonna podcast, the greatest fucking podcast in the world.

Burying my Kentucky sometimes and guests, we hope you enjoy the part of the fucking podcast. Yeah, now, the first thing that I've noticed getting here, the portion side. Oh, it's silly, isn't it? I said to them the other day, I said, you can just give me an on-trace size because I don't need the whole big plate of food. Well, that's the thing that on-tray, right? Is the main. That's the main.

What do you mean? Oh, you got me all twisted up. I tell you what, aren't you, if I if I want the Andre that's the big gunna nah I love these this is so cool Friends from different countries. This is what we learn from each other. We really look tell me please back back Back in Melbourne I love what we says it never gets old. Yeah, yeah Entrez your tiny ones

You little boy. Yeah, your little tiny little star Yeah, on Tray's, your tiny ones, you little tiny little start, mean entry, like doesn't it even mean that? You think entry is. Which is by the way, how I pronounced it for the first half of my life. Oh, that's embarrassing. Wow, of course, I'll say the entry.

No, but the entry, it's all French. It's all French. Well, it's our way, you know, it's all French over there. It's all French. Yeah. Yeah, well, I mean, let's where it started. Talk to you. Yeah, You'll go over in France. Well, right. Yeah, well, I mean, that's where it started. Talk to me.

Yeah, we did a cruise, um, the France. Well, we did a- we did a little trip in the wife went around. We did a little practice cruise. So we went around so now. We were in a little place called Tasmania to see if the wife would get spews.

And, um, we get what? Oh, because she- We didn't know how she'd go on the boat. So, we, um, we got on a boat went around Tasie and checked if she'd spew and she didn't spew So we we decided now we're gonna do a big one because we loved it. You'd forget you're on the boat So you'd get on and you go around and you got shows every night on the cruise You got so performers there was four guys and they did that did songs and they'd apparently been in Doreen

Doreen Jersey boys the movie. Did Moves. Yeah, Jersey boys the movie I have watched more times in sin. I have watched that movie so much I can recite it back with I would love to see pictures if you have them later. Yeah, I've got it. I've got it. I've got it.

I've got it. I've got it. Yeah, it sends a lot. People are sending all the time. Oh, right. I thought you meant Sin City. Oh, well, Sin City. You got to be really careful. Oh, if you go in there. You've got to be really careful. I thought you meant Sin City. Oh, well, Sin City, you got to be really careful. Oh, you're going there.

You've got to be really careful. I haven't seen that. I've watched it. It's a cartoon. It's great. I thought we were talking about Las Vegas. My son made me watch Las Vegas. Oh, I've never been to Las Vegas.

God, keep it that way. Believe me. Yeah, no, because my son made me watch that, that Sin City. Back when he was a teenager, he was a bit of a film buff and he made me watch that. He said, oh, mum, you'll like it. It's like the film, the film nois. Oh, for God's sake.

And I said, firstly, I don't know what that is. That sounds like a bit of wank person. Oh, yeah. And then he made me watch the Sin City and it was revolting. Oh, no, you're just sex and violence. Oh, we don't need to be seeing that. I don't need to be seeing that. I don't need to be seeing that. And just, and he was laughing.

No, he thought it was funny. Sex is a beautiful thing that should happen once it's wasted your lifetime. And it's by accident. Yeah, it should be laughed. That it should not be seen in the movies. My youngest Jamie went to film school. So, yeah, Jamie went to film school.

And he, we sat around one night, he chucked on this film, Short Bus. Oh, I don't think I'm familiar. Carry on. Carry on in that movie. Yeah, what happens? Why I believe I've seen that. I can't remember how it starts.

You go, happens at the start. Short Bus? Well, so this is real. Short Bus is Art House film came out. Right, right. out right right is oh, we got to watch it for school Here we go. Yeah, it's quite Money they're watching movies I've said that's exactly what I say about school. We did I dropped out of school when I was 11 Absolutely I worked down at an 18th century military.

Yeah, as we did. And I did all of that for my son to come and say, I'd like to study art. Artists? Yeah. Artists? I don't know what this is, no? I went to school. School of bloody hard-knots. Yes. That's where I learned. That's where I learned, you know, how to deal with your shit. Absolutely. You don't get this in algebra class or whatever it is they're doing these days. Yeah.

We, I did, I was a cab driver. So we, you go, you go, that's the thing. So they just have the trade schools back in Australia. So trade school, you could go through to high school, but it was a waste of time. You go on a trade. So you drop out of school and about year eight, hop into a trade. So cabinet maker, plumber,

chipy, sparky. Oh, look, skeleton, your hands and stuff. Yeah, oh, we're on a Hollywood bus. Oh, yeah, did we not mention that? Did we not set that up? Well, you know why? Because we've been parked for so long. I'm a lot of it.

I was just sitting down. I don't know, we're the bus driver when we're saying saying we're going to take a break. The traffic here actually reminds me Hottles Street. So where are we? So I don't think we've set up where we are, what we're doing, this lady is. Well, all important things. Well, firstly, Hottles Street, so it's the main arterial from the north of the south in Melbourne. I reckon we can get to Hottel Street. I think we could talk about Hottel Street in world, but I just important because it's stuffed. And it's stuffed.

And there was a massacre there. In the 80s. In the 80s. In the 80s. Oh, thank God. I don't know. I've written the news much. And I thought I missed something.

They've stuffed it. So they're doing a big city loop now. So it's a beautiful bit in infrastructure that they're doing. And so the multiple governments. That's beautiful. I love that. So pretty much a massive fuck off tunnel, right?

From the northeast of Melbourne. Couldn't you have just said big? Thank you. You know, these men, these men that would, well, yeah, I say, I don't mind what you're saying down at the cabinet factory. Exactly. Well, it's just a way, man.

It's just a culture. You can say that at the pub, but when you're talking to us, to a couple of ladies is perfectly fine. I think that, thank you. Yes, big. Bigger would have understood that. No problem, salute.

Big. That's what Tom Hanks is, isn't it? That's what people do. That's how I'll get my son went to film school and watched big. I had no problem with that. I know, not a single problem because that's a beautiful film. That's where the, yeah. Yeah, he's a, he's a, he's a small boy,

he gets in the body of a man, he roots someone. Sure. Yeah. Why do you have to say roots? No, no, no. That's all right. Is roots mean?

It's not. It's not. It's not. You know, Australia, that's that's all right. Is Rootsman? Roots is out. It's not no. In Australia, Root means six. Pulling a root in the garden. No, see, this is making love. It's making love. The little boy in the old man's team he may love to the, to the, to the, to the, to the,

you know what they say now about that scene? Do you know what they'd say now? They would say that. Oh, absolutely absolutely that's too Woke and problematic Little boy and they'd say it's too Problem they would say yeah, you can't understand the concepts at play, but I'm afraid of the me too Terrified absolutely don't understand them don't want to know

Yep, and they would nothing that's a lovely scene when the little boy inside the body of a man. Big man makes love to a 30-year-old woman. And the, yeah. So he's kind of, like he's in a mex suit, you know, a Tom Hanks mex suit. A mex suit. Yes, he is in a sort of mex suit.

What if I could buy that Tom Hanks mex suit? I put it right on my husband. Oh, yeah. I'd buy that for Christmas. I'd buy that for Christmas. It's like a Pacific Rim situation. Oh, no, you said this only time. Pacific Rim is sort of the sci-fi version of Big.

I think it's fair to say. I think Jamie is saying it Northland. It's actually quite good. I had a good time. Yeah, you did, yeah. I like silly. Silly with the Big. That's the one with the Big sort of.

I hear, yeah, it's, you know what I'm the big sort of. I hear you. You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? It's space. I don't have any interest. The space, the sci-fi. You know, there's enough problems down here now. Thank you.

Thank you. Well, they are getting on like a else on fall. Oh, no. Thank you. I didn't know how I'd do in America. You know, you see the news and everything, but you're lovely. Oh, you know, that's why I don't watch the news. You have a gun, you have a gun.

Well, I, I, I, I, I, no, you know what? I don't have a gun. Because in Australia, they say that all Americans have guns. No, you know, the, and they say we're laid back. Well, yeah, you guys are laid back. You like the coffee and you like the, the, the, that's what we love in Australia. I love the idea that you think kangaroos

that we ride them to school. Yeah, don't, we don't. And so I call you, I call everyone mate. No, that's okay. I think it's very cool. So no, you know, we got just just because every day, there's a problem with guns in America. Everyone thinks we got a gun problem. I don't get it.

I don't get it. What's the big idea? Okay. So we have a gun incident every day. See, well, it's a lesson you can learn from from from from our solos. These are right. We had a issue with rabbits. Is that right? Yeah. So, uh, so we everywhere, everywhere. Oh, rabbit, rabbit, too many rabbits. They introduced the rabbits and then there's rabbits everywhere. Yeah. Then they introduced, I don't know if you were going to talk about the foxes. Well, the, no, I was going to talk about the fence. Oh, okay.

There's big fence. We got a big fence back there. Right through Australia. Right through keeps the rabbits out. Rather than the great wall of China. Is that right? I'd love to come see that. You got a cruise I could take me there.

Oh, shit, shit fence mate. No, no, no, no, no. Oh, yeah, toilet little. It's a little like, yeah. I'll play this. I'll tell you what, I can guarantee it's not a shitty as the fence that my neighbors put in. Oh, what a nice shit.

They put the tallest fence in. Like they don't want any interaction with us. That is just. What is neighbors for if not for seeing each other? Hey, come on over, take a dip in the pool. I had one neighbor, two doors down, and they were having a party on the Saturday night, 11 p.m. music.

Oh my God. 11 p.m. And I called out to them, I called out to them, I said, turn that down. Yeah. Sure. I said to them, I said, turn that down. Yeah. Sure. I said to them, I said, turn that down. No rude words, nothing aggressive.

Just a nice request. Two minutes later, the music is still blaring, so I have to call the police. Of course. I would know it in two minutes. I tell you that, you had a lot of patience. Yeah, absolutely. So it was 11.0.2 at this point.

The police roll in, they shut the whole party down, and they had the goal the next day to come and say that was rude. Wow, the goal. And can I, can I say this? Yeah. You weren't invited to the party. Where was your invite? Absolutely.

Maybe you wouldn't have had a problem with it if you could have brought your casserole off and had a little bit of a good time with a wine spritzer. Thank you. Hello, by the way. We're on a bus. Hello, yes. God, we got gotta move this travel. Who are you?

Well, you know what? Jonathan Taylor, Thomas used to live there, I think that was just saying. Yeah. Take a picture for me. Take a picture for me. Yeah, we're on a bus. On a bus in Hollywood. So you never believe it.

I come here by myself. I come to visit my daughter. She's busy. Oh, she doing Hollywood? She's doing Hollywood. Yeah. How cool is that? So what I did from Hollywood. I'm not, but I'm

flattered that you think I wouldn't be. I'm really flattered because I got a money belt on every side of my body. And I am flattered that you'll clocked me. My hair couldn't be more, more short and dyed. And I thought it's manageable. You're here. You think? You know what I mean? It's short and manageable. Nothing to stuff around. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You know what I mean? If it's manageable, you hear? You think? You know what I mean? It's short and manageable. Nothing to stuff around with. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You know what I mean? If it's out, down and around, Washington, I imagine it's hard,

but you just got short and manageable. Yeah, yeah. That's exactly right. And there comes a point, and it came from me at about, yeah, 22. Yeah. Every single decision is derived from comfort and ease. Yeah. Yeah, there's nothing exactly.

Exactly. Yeah. Everything easier. Yeah, chop it. Yeah, yeah, don't get what, everything easier. Yep, chop it. Yeah, don't get what I was saying. I was got time for jeans. Nope, not for me.

Everything's gotten elastic. Top and bottom. Top and bottom. And that's what I was saying was maybe you could build a fence for the guns. That's, fence for the guns. Well, I just worked for us back home. It worked for the rabbits.

kept the rabbits out. Yeah, your fence, what have they done there? There was no fence there and they've tracked kept the rabbits out. Yeah, your fence. What are they done there? There was no fence there and they've tracked another one up or they've gone stainless steel. What are they going there? No, there was nothing there. My old neighbors used to live there. Oh, probably, you know, we spread out our stuff a little bit sometimes Sometimes I stuff is gonna spread Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm gonna volleyball game. Maybe the balls going into a window What you having fun? Absolutely. Yeah, and all of a sudden it's a problem. Fans goes up, they don't want anything to do. You didn't have a fence.

No fence. Oh is this a, were you guys seem to look? You think we have a gun problem? Sounds like you guys have a fence problem. Oh well, yeah, we do love our fences. Wouldn't say it was a problem. Wouldn't say it was a problem. We have a lot of cattle.

Well to cattle, a lot of sheep. You know, you can't you bet on fences. I've got a fence, I've got a fence on my 15th property. You, you got 15. You got a house I've got a fence, I've got a fence on my 15th property. You got 15! You got a dough. That's low. You've got a dough to retire. You know, you invest in the property.

So I've got 32, the 15th. But this business woman, look at this. Oh, no, no, it's perfectly normal. These kids, these kids these days, they say. We work. Yeah, they say all bloody boomers, they are. It's like, I worked my ass off, right? I bought a piece of property in Torque

when I was 25 for $8, right? Now I had to work hard for that. Is it my fault? Is it my fault that it's now worth 1.2 million? I know. Am I to blame for that? And am I to blame that I went to the bank, re-appraised that property that I paid $8 for

For two and a half million use that that for leverage to buy 32 homes No, no, no, no, I'm not there. I want to say oh you didn't work. You don't think it's hard a plane for 32 different houses I have one this is exactly my point the house that I was talking about the neighbors said oh We'd like to build a new fence this fence is falling apart. This is exactly my point. The house that I was talking about, the neighbors said, oh, we'd like to build a new fence. This fence is falling apart. This is our home. Would you like to chip in half the amount for a fence? And I said, no.

This is just a rental property for me. I don't want to do that. These young people, they piss and moan about the oil, but yeah, you know, we'd rent increase, but they're the first to come crying when interest rates go up. Yeah, right. Because it's not easy for us. We're paying mortgages. We're paying this interest back. It's not easy. We have to go in,

email them to increase their rent to cover that interest rate. It's a whole email. It's a whole back-and-factor. You got to get on Google. Remember your password, reset it because you forgot it. It's not easy. And not only that, in the 80s, when we bought our first property, the interest rates were at 17%, which I think the repayments on that, because the house was $12. So the loan was $12. So we had to pay 17% on our $12. You see, and I was talking about that. No one talks about our hard we had it.

No one talks about it. No one talks about it. It's about $2. Oh, it was $2. At least, at least $2.50. To 50, something, yeah. You know, every at least, at least. Absolutely. I think at its worst, it went up to $2.50. And you've got to understand, we were making, you know, $50, $60,000 a year. Exactly. It was a different time.

Exactly. So that was quite a cut out of the... So you where are you from? Well, I'm from the East Coast. You guys maybe can't tell because it's... So where on the West Coast here? Right. And I'm pretty sure it's gonna have a little bit of... I don't have a strong accent, but you might pick up on it if you were...

Yeah. It's not that strong, but you would clock it if you were here and you listen to other people. Unfortunately, there's no one else on the God damn bus. I mean, but you'd be here in them if they talk. So you've got a distinct accent for an American to you. I think it's subtle. I think it's. Well, I wouldn't know at all. It all sort of, you know, you sound like I don't assume. I never assume. Right. Yeah, you sound like a sort of, you sound exactly the same to a jewel as a Julia Roberts to me. You know what? You're not the first person to Thank you. And she is just wonderful. Oh, she is wonderful. I went with the hubby to see the new one. She was in with George

cleaning. Oh, Oh, It's the tropical Georgia cleaning. I used to watch it in his image. My eldest said to me the other way it reminded me, I used to say, you know, you can watch whatever television you want. If it's not MA, you can watch whatever you want. But when E.R. is on, that's mum time. That's mum time. Absolutely.

Yeah, he's a bit of a Hollywood hunk. Oh, it's my ex-girlfriend. He was just every week with a little bit of... Oh, it's my ex-girlfriend. Yeah, my ex-girlfriend. He was just every week we'd get a little bit of, I'm so sorry, did you have a, what, it's a divorce? Yeah, I went through a divorce there. Oh my god. Oh, I'm so sorry, I told you what to talk about there. Yeah, now I'm out and give a, I'm like, I'm over it, mate.

Yeah. I'm over it. Like, we went through the ringer, you know, we've been through it. I'm in an iron fight and all that. But, you know, at the end of it, we've got eight kids and all I want is just like peace and glass. I'm just finally in my life. I'm dating again. You know, I'm on a zooke, a zooke. It's one of the date naps. Oh, I'm fucking understand it. But I'm for you for being on the app. So yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. My, my, my, oldest got me, got me onto it.

Took a new photo for me, set me up, I'm getting messages every day, going on dates, having an ad break, and coming back from ads. Now, if you're just joining us from the ad break, we are, we're on a Hollywood bus tour, which we probably should have said. Maybe if James over here on the computer. Yeah. He can chuck in some streaks in.

Yeah. And make sure to make a note for the intro to say that we're on a Hollywood, we're on a celebrity bus tour. Hollywood celebrity bus were being taken for a ride. I'd say what? I got taken for a fucking ride too. Oh, it sounds like it, sounds like it. I was you what, I've got taken for a fucking ride too. It sounds like it, it sounds like it. I was so upset when she left him because we were friends with the both of them.

And she just one day after years of asking for marriage couples there. And years of trying to work on it. Yeah, just up and with. And thank you. You were distant. I wish you were distant for your entire marriage. And I want to say, thank you for picking sides because a lot of them don't. Yeah.

A lot of them try to keep things mutual. Now we like both of you. Thank you for cutting her out. Yeah. And yeah. It's thinking to me, because that to me, that's loyalty. And I've lost 75% of my friends.

Yeah, no, I mean, yeah, that sounds just so unfair. That just says, yeah. Do you do divorce in America? Is that a thing? No, well, personally, and it's no offense to you because we just met on this beautiful bus. Yeah. But I do not believe in divorce.

Yeah, really? No, I'm the same. Yeah. I'm the same. Yeah. I just thought the way she left you after you clearly not have been in love for over a decade Yeah, I know I just eat all the wine sided me What are you doing? Oh

I couldn't believe it because eat eat eat eat you wanted the caravans She wanted else she wanted the car at the end of the else, she wanted the car. And the end of all just like just take it, man. I wasn't worth the flight for me. Yeah, that's good. That's good. Yeah, me eight years and not being in love. That's what you sign up for when you get married.

You sign up for emotional distance and good times and bad. Good and bad and the good was probably even if there was no good, the good might have been coming. Yes. Down the line. She might have not known. Yeah, sickness and health. Sickness and health. Sickness and health.

Well, right, because she was very sick as well. She was sick. So that, yeah, yeah. So she was sick, but she wanted to go to the hospital. But she was saying, she was like, oh, yeah, you're sick. Sicking the head. I don't even know what that means, mate. I don't even know what that means.

Yeah. Sicking the head. I think it means mentally. Oh, what? Because I would wake up and have a shower and scream every morning. Yeah. I just scream in the shower and it's called living. I did. I did.

That's what I said. I said, that's just part of the human experience, mate. When I wake up in the morning, 6am, check on 3am, W, getting the shower. Oh, yeah. Yeah, you got to get all that Lucas out yeah, yeah And it's green sounds like you are very healthy relationship with the life. Yeah, no, she's good you go on vacations I think that's very easy

Melbourne yeah, she's in Melbourne She didn't come on the vacation on this one with you. No, not this one because we're doing different ones this year. So we do three year now, do three year now, one with the lads and you. Yeah, thanks for having me, boys. Well, you're one of us. Oh, that's lovely. That's so kind of you. My husband's a meek man, but I don't think he takes a fence that you invite me and not him.

He's a meek man. He's a meek quiet man. He's a big quiet man. And he's interested in trains. What's his generic one syllable name again? I can't remember the name, he established with him. So I've just called him Hubby. I was changed by mine.

She's gone to see Adam's family. Oh, she is here. She is here. Yeah. So she wanted to go see Adam's family. I don't do the carry on. Not for me. Yeah, yeah. wanted to go see Adam's family. I don't do the carry on So she's seen Adam's family. It's on that on the Hollywood

Oh, we're doing a little run and so we'll go out for dinner tonight. We might go to the Johnny Rockets or planet Hollywood. Oh, I love Johnny Rocks. They sing to you. You know about that Get it up for a good time. Oh wow, that's so nice. Yeah, really nice. They sing to So fantastic. Yeah, for a good time. You'll be wanting to. Oh wow. That's so nice. Yeah, really nice. I sing to you. And yeah, it's a good time. It's a good time. See, I've not enjoyed the food here.

So personally, and we went to one place. Oh, I'm in London. I'm in London. Yeah, we went to one place. Right, through me. We went to one place across the road from our hotel and then just exclusively restaurants in Hollywood, Boulevard.

Oh, yeah. Right. And I've not had one good meal. I haven't gone online to find out where the good meals are. Well, you're in Hollywood. You think the good meals would be in Hollywood? You know, with the movies. First night, when to hooters.

Oh. And they're short. It's too short. The shots are a little bit short there. The next night we went to Johnny Rockets. We'll go there again tonight. We didn't mind that. And then what was the, what is the,

did you go to the cheese? Cheesecake Factory. Yes. They have chicken and passes and things as well though. Oh, they got just about everything. Yes. That was their menu is, yeah. But the lady serving us, we didn't tip her

because it's different culturally in Australia, we don't tip. And she got a bit upset with us and I said, well, you'll get a yelp review for this. Well, you have to respect the culture you guys don't have. We don't see it. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, it's our boy. You know, I just don't rate the food here after everything I've eaten. It just, it's just, it's just, it's just, it's just, it's just, it's just, it's just, it's the same places as that. No, no, no, I've been, I've been, you know. He's been dipping around. Oh, like, you know, I had, I tried, I had Jack in the box, I've had Wendy's, I had Pop

Eyes, I've had Chick-fil-A, I've had Burger King, just got straight through me mate. It's different here. After all, Mark's real diet, so far, it's true. So he's referring to the fact that we arrived in LA yesterday and I had both Chick-fil-A and Pop Eyes for the... This is not in character. I'm not in character right now. It's a line. It's a thin line. It's a thin line.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's neat. And I said to them in confidence, I went, please don't judge me for this, but I do want you to know that yesterday I had two meals and those were the two meals I had. and they've brought it up on the podcast and that's fine, I'm not proud of myself. I'm not proud of, and I did get the same meal from both places as well. I got the spicy chicken sandwich combo along with a side of fried chicken pieces and strips. Oh, the side. A side of chicken with chicken. A side of chicken with my chicken. That'll do it. And, and still only to my character,

he cut straight through and... Oh, look, the mansion where Michael Jackson died. Oh, okay. So... Well, you got any local wrecks for food? What's the local? Yes, I did give it to you. I see the cheesecake backwards.

That sounds like you guys already went through. Oh, yes, yes, yes. That's sort of a staple. What's the local one? Yes, I did give it to you. I see the cheesecake back. It sounds like you guys already went there. Yes, yes, yes. That's sort of a staple. That's just so that they have them in the East Coast. They do. Well, because we've got a version of that back, right? Yeah, so the cheesecake shop. Yeah.

Oh, no, you didn't come to. No, it's much smaller, right? So the factory is a bigger here. So the cheesecake shop, it's a little shop. Oh, no, no, no, only cheesecake. No, no, no, no, no.'s a little shop. Oh no, no, no. Only Chase Kank. No, no, no. It is different. No, no, no.

Fantastic Chase. Trust us on this. That's going to be a different experience if you go to the factory. Why can you see the conveyor belts and stuff? It's a bit like that, but it'll be a classy, it's like walking in. Tell me about Chase Kank factory. Listen to me. I have a reason.

I have a reason. You will be walking in and you'll go, am I in a church? Am I in a callus? This is the most beautiful thing. Am I in a callus, see him? I, you know, I think I'm confusing my words because callus, see him doesn't have a seal in, is that right? I'm looking for what's the one with the big,

the big, the big, Northland. Oh, the big, the big, the big, the cathedral. That's right. The cathedral, we the big art cathedral. That's right. The cathedral.

We went to our room two years ago, and we were going to go to the Colosseum. Venice. No, no, no, Rome. What's it called? Rome. Rome. City of what's in Rome?

There's a city in Rome. Vatican. Vatican. No, no, no, no, that's not it. It's where the Pope is important. It's good to do that. Vatican. We went there. No, we saw not it. It's where the Pope is important. It's good to do that. The Vatican.

We went to them. No, we saw the Pope John Paul. The second. Where? Where? At the Vatican. We're trying to write it down. Oh, wow.

That's not what it's called. We saw him just before he passed. If you could, it was really powerful. It was really powerful. It was really powerful. He was out there and he was just talking about, and I cried. I went, of course. Of course.

That is so beautiful. Thank you for sharing that with me. Thank you. If you come to Melbourne, we'll take you first place. We'll go as cheesecake shop. The most beautiful cakes. For birthday, we don't go anywhere else now for birthday. These are good servings.

Good servings, I know it was. So I had to look it up. Sorry. You fast on his phone. Look at that. Oh, did you just do the little that right on his phone? Yeah. Well, you come here with a tell surely charge you, I think it's like $100 a day to be on Roman. Oh, and you know, what's Roman because I'm a whole load of you board a SIM card. Yeah, I card? I went and paid $200 for a SIM card from my two-day trip to Hollywood.

Yeah, I bought a whole seat so that I could do the roaming. Tell you they just, yeah, they just tell you the best network. I don't know if I'm familiar with that one. What do you got here? When you're on your, when you go to your phone, what are do it. I don't do any of that. You don't do any of that. I don't touch it. I just I use a pay phone when I can get it and I'll buy a flip phone if I need it, but I think it's too much. It is a lot. It's always. Yeah. Yeah. I've got that. I'm fine with my tablet. I'm fine. I have two iPads. I have two iPads. Yeah, I have two iPads. I'm fine with that. And I get the the Harold Sun subscription on the iPad and I knew you read that beautiful photos on my thing. I like to see if you have any of the Pope. Oh, well, no, we didn't because we didn't have the cameras back then. And I'll tell you,

we had a film camera because this was past. Your son was the thing. Well, I was just thinking, oh click, click. Oh my gosh, of course, of course. And I took a photo of the Pope and it was beautiful. And I took a photo of the Pope and you would not believe it. I wound it back. This was, I still remember this like it was yesterday. I wound it back and I opened it.

And it wasn't all the way. We wound back. Yeah. So my picture of the Pope was just, my picture of the Pope was just, my picture of the Pope from nearly a kilometer away, just basically the backs of the heads of the people in front of me. I would have been such a special picture. And it was just gone. But it's forever. Can I tell you something between the two of us? I think that's a higher power. You think so? When you said that to me, I felt a wave. And I felt, oh my gosh, it's his spirit. We're saying, I was saying, no, no.

This is, this lives in you. No, no. I don't cry. Is that even going to be crying? Oh, that's so beautiful. I really think that that's what's happened. That's what happened there. They do big portions of the cheesecafe factory.

So you do like, you have a family of 10, 15, you'll have some left over for sure. But how much are they charging? Come to my place, I'll make you, next time you need a cheesecake, I'll make you one. I'll make you one, I can do it with 10 dollars worth of the ingredients. I can make you a cheesecake, I'm sorry, but I just don't think it's worth what they're charged. I hear that, I hear that. Yeah. Oh, this is a great, I think they're beautiful. Now we're talking about the shop of the factory. We're talking about the shop of the factory We're talking about the shop shop factory We're sat down. I thought I'll get the get the cheesecake. Yeah, get no well I thought you're thinking of the shop. I am why yeah, cuz what when I tell you the factory is a decadent

Experience with every type of food every type of food. I guarantee you could get your chicken sandwich with the chicken on the side You can get that there. Yeah, don't let the name This is blow on my mind set Dan. Okay. I'll get the chicken Parmesan. I think Sit down play put it down smackin' from here. Jesus How big is this how am I supposed to finish this? I bet you did though. Yeah, of course you did me and me and I got through it But oh Jesus Christ. I don't know. I'm happy.

We just, if we get a rap now, I'll fall on, we'll split it. You split the rap? Yeah, we just split a rap. I'll say, I have half you have half. We might get an extra chips or something to sort of, but we don't, I don't need a whole rap. Oh yeah. And that's three points on the white watch.

Please, he's quite meekers. Yeah. He's quite meekers. He's meekers. He actually wants them. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's quite meek. He's quite meek. He's a meek. He actually wants too much. Yeah. Yeah. He usually wants something else that I said, no, you don't need it, honey. Yeah. It's a major sleep. You're not fit. So you're reducing his diet. You're not letting him eat me. No, I just we had the half was enough. You're metabolism changes as you get. I used to be able to put it away, mate. They used to call me the trash compactor.

I finished, yeah. Cause I finished everyone else's leftovers, right? But now these days, you got diabetes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I just need a little, you know, scar home, little, you know, sandwich, put a little bit of water in it, little sandwich.

That's lunch and dinner, mate. That's amazing. But sleep, don't sleep anymore. Because I just thought, you know, you'd just be, yeah, you know, sleep. No, no, no, no, I haven't slept in years. Yeah, I saw you on the plane. I looked over. We're on that, we're on that full month. Two months in can break. Just go and constantly go. I saw you. I was watching Alvin and the chipmunks on my little screen. Yeah, yeah. Oh, how was that? It was pretty cool. And, um, I thought it was pretty funny.

Yeah, what else did you want? I watched, uh, what's the fast nail? How was that? Turbo. Turbo. I thought it was pretty cool. I was pretty funny. That's what you see.

I loved turbo. Chucked on that, um, what's the one there, the animals, the cops? Oh, yeah. I was zootoping. I mean, I was pretty funny. Yeah. Pretty funny. Yeah.

I watched a bat woman. Oh, bat woman. What is that? What is that got? Just unnecessary. They're kicking and they're fighting. Oh, no. I just thought, could we not just talk

about this? Could we not just have a conversation? Well, thank you. It's Batman. Yes. What do you mean, can we not have a conversation? It's so much of the way. It's so much of the way.

It's so much of the way. It's so much of the way. And why do we have to show all the gore and the blood and everything in Batman woman? Yeah. On the CW. Yeah. Yeah. I'll see W. Yeah. Yeah. There was go.

Not exactly, but the she was kicking and fighting. I don't know. You notice on the play in the full corners flight. I was watching that looked over it. John. Yes. And you're just staring straight ahead. Oh, you mostly watching.

No one in the bathroom, but you're just a blank screen. So right. Yeah. What is the thought sometimes I just can't, sometimes, I just can't turn them off. I just lay in bed every night. Fuck. Just kind of fuck up. You know, I just can't stop.

You've got to. So when I hear that, I thought you might maybe like thoughts of your own thoughts, pain, regret, but it's my anger. It's just shit I should have said, should have done. Should have done different. You've always had that darkness in you though. I think she let you. And she helped keep it down,

but now that she's gone, it is coming out in ways I didn't know that before. I just thought, I don't think we're possible, mate. Yeah, okay. When I'm alone, it's not good, mate. Yeah, yeah. It's not good, shouldn't be alone.

I should not be alone. And then it's your kid telling to you, you should go to a psychologist or something. Yeah, when they fucking decide to call me all the time. When they call me. They say that to me. Oh, yeah, they say get therapy. I said, I went once, did fucking nothing for me, mate.

I know, I know what's wrong. I know what's wrong. That's exactly right. I had a doctor checking on me once. Once I was a bit, I was a bit unwell, sort of maybe 1997. I did that thing with your car. Yeah. And my, the doctor popped in once and said, do you need, and they talked to me for 15 minutes, didn't do a thing. That's right. And that's a doctor.

That was a doctor. 15, and nothing. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,'s just a just an you know, no check up And I was going to listen. They gave me they gave me a bro a Little list checklist. Yeah, no, I did the checklist Didn't help one bit now didn't help one bit and I did the whole checklist And I was up front and back and I'm doing the checklist. How do you feel when you feel how do you I did the whole day? Yeah, yeah, I handed in I don't feel any bit better. So what do you what do you want from when your child says to you? Oh, this is mental health. You need to talk to someone. Just like 34 years ago. I did a checklist. I did check with you very much. And you didn't do. It did do nothing. So you nearly said no, but you know I did it.

You know I felt the Pope. I felt the Pope watching us. And I said, you better, I think that's so lovely that you said that it was the Pope. That was a good thing because honestly, I was worried at the time because I meant to sign a petition protesting that dogma film that had come out of stream. Right, yeah, yeah.

Because they had a Lannus Morris set play God. That's right. And they wanted me to side a petition to say that it was offensive for a Lannus Morris set to play God. And I didn't get around to look at it. And this was five years later and I thought, maybe this is this is going to be coming back to you. A lot of more. Yeah. Look, Jagged Little Pill. Oh, well, Jeremy Jeremy Ranner used to live there. Oh, is that right? Oh wow there you go He's very very handsome Very good. You're taking out by a snow. He did he did He's on the men's I think I believe I hope

You know I believe he's on the man. He's tough. He's an Avenger. Yeah, he'll be sure to which I like those ones I'm a fan of the Indian. He's a... It's your turn, T. Which I like those ones. It's their funny. Yeah, I like the Avengers 2, they're funny. They're that's a good... Oh, they make you laugh.

That's why I like playing. I don't really go see films. I saw Top Gun in 1985. I was just thinking film a sort of movie. It was a Top Gun Mabry. Well, do you think of Top Gun and then Top Gun Mabry? First Top Gun? I thought they were good.

I thought they played... I thought they played... I think she's like, oh, fast. Did you know that Tom Cruise was in both of those movies? Yeah. Yeah, I knew that he'd draw a guy in the second one. I didn't think he'd be in the second one. I know, I know.

He's been in all the episodes. He's old, he's old, he's kept it together. He wrote, oh, you're talking about the Rogue Nation. No, I told you, ma, I've seen two films at the movies, Top Gun 1, and then I saw Top Gun 2 last year. Mission Impossible's, ma'am. I've seen two films at the movies Top Gun 1 and then I saw Top Gun 2 last year mission Impossible's mate Action packed. Oh, I love I love give me a movie action pack. I love it. Give me a John Wicks give me your mission impossible

I love it bit action bit of comedy You were turbo Turbo. Yeah, oh, yeah, the bloody kids love that one. Action pack. Is that the first, the first nail one? What do you think of that one? I thought it was pretty good. It's pretty funny. I do know I've not seen one mission impossible since the first one. Oh, Dennis Hopper. Dennis Hopper, who I've liked for years. I saw him in a movie in 1980, early 80s, and I've loved him ever since. I think he's got a bit of a road.

You know what I'm speaking right to, me, absolutely. And then he played just a nasty guy doing nasty things the whole time. In the first one? Yeah. And then his head pops off at the end. Yeah. How do they do that? How do they do that?

Firstly, amazing. Secondly, just unnecessary. Absolutely. As a living animal, what's the first one to do? The first one to be more confusing, who's wearing the mask, who's face is what? Too much for me. Number two.

Action, pack. Action, pack. Not necessarily. You can set you watch that. Tom Cruise on a motorbike. He jumps off from motorbike. Sure, Sydney. Shot him.

He's short in Sydney. That's that's that's that right. Right, right. Yeah, yeah. Well, we got to be next time we got to take our bus in Sydney. Yeah, yeah. No, but they give up them tax breaks I was reading about in the sun. Oh, is that right?

Yeah, I and they give them tax breaks. So no interest. They shouldn't make movies in Sydney in my video because of one article I read. I, I, I, yeah, I don't think they just, I don't think they should be getting tax breaks. They make more money than sin. Ah, you get, you get bread box here. And a bread box. Yeah, bread box. What's bread box? What's bread box? Yeah, bread box. Bread box. A bread, a bread box. So it's a streaming place like Netflix. Red box. No, Brit box. We got Red box. We're on the, I'm on the sun. We're on the sun's Netflix.

Oh, right. But I don't want to watch it. Brit box gets you all the British show. So you got to call the midwife. You get, you know, all those shows. Fantastic. Not so. I said, right. Now the midwife. When I had a kid. Yeah, I have any of that. No, midwife, no meds, no doctors, motion screen to do it. You pull it. No, I didn't do it in a pool. I did it to be quite honest. I was, I did it just in. I was in a restaurant. I said, yeah, here we go. That's how we did it. That's how we did it.

In a restaurant. Yeah, that wasn't the big couple. You're going out to eat a whoopsie pup. Here it comes. Here it comes. And then you carry on and we finished on meal. And that's how we used to do. And now it's all, oh, I got the doula. I got the pool. I got the doula, blongada, and the back and stuff.

Exactly. Too much. Too much. It's too much. Yeah, you have dunas here. Dullas. I mean, I guess. Dundas. Yeah, you got big duna. Yeah, I've got dunas. You have dunes here? Dulles? I mean, I guess? Dunes?

Yeah, you got a big dunah. Yeah, I've got dunes. What's a dunah? You don't have a dunah? I'm not sure if I know the term. There's more. I'd tell them to have a dunah. It's a sort of a big fluffy blanket

with a shade around it. I should. Duna. You don't call that a blanket with a show. You don't call the bed. Duna, you're making your bed. Dubei, dubei. Ah. Nah, my dunah. We call it. Do not you know how nice this is what I'm just had culture shock and that is my first experience of it.

I want to say I really enjoy it. I really don't like it. It was action packed. It was action packed. I got in my room. Hey, a little sheet on the bed. I went, oh, I made a doona. And so I went back down.

I said, where's your doona? Yes. I heard you. I'm a level up. I heard you. I find that so frustrating. Every time I go to talk to the receptionist, I've got to take the elevator, go downstairs, talk to him

in person. It's annoying. Where's your doona? I said, I don't know. I said, what you talking about? I said, fucking doona. A's your donor? I said, I don't know, I don't know, I said, fucking donor. A little bit louder, yeah. Yeah, yeah.

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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. with people that we've met new people, friends, meeting friends, having exotic people. Exotic, exotic, exotic, the East Coast of America. So we're on the West Coast. That's right. That's right. Never eat soggy wheatbeaks. We're on the West Coast.

Listen, is that how you, how do you, how do you, we do never eat soggy waffles. So it's very so cold to shock again. Yeah, we have wheatbeaks in Australia. We fix that'll keep that'll go right through you. And we'll it does that'll be up. Blocks you. Yeah, blocks pay up. Well, that's we have binaurbriets as well. They got wheatbeaks vinaurbriets. Oh, she doesn't care about why I just do I think I'm going to be it's the power of two

wheatbeaks in a milk. What will they come up with next? I mean, innovate, this is really. But I'll just, yeah, I'll use to watch. I think you'd watch guys like a star trek or something, which I was never a fan of. Did you watch that on the plane? Did you, what do you think of it?

Oh, yeah, one of the pecans. Yeah, what do you think of it? Oh, it was alright. What do you think of it? Well, well, the tour is coming to an end. Yeah, it's good. Our bass tour. Beautiful tour.

I saw so many rooms. So many rooms. And so many big fences. So many areas where celebrities that I've sort of heard of used to live. You still have to say that the $80 per head that we spent to see gates and the tips of terracotta roofs was worth it. Well, you know why? Because we got that money coming in from all the rent.

I mean, what's $80 to us? Absolutely. We fly out to know we're going to Memphis, the Elvis. I was going to the house and then we go in over to New York and then we'll fly out to Edinburgh, Scotland, go to the tattoo. It's been in half a day and eight. It's like, well, that's good. That's good. Keep it on. To see the tattoo mate.

Go on the tattoo. That would be great. I don't get any tattoos. I'm going to, it's a old show. It's a rigmarole. I was confused at first. I thought you were getting tattoos. I was going to say that. No, no, no. I was confused at first. I thought you were getting tattoos. I was gonna say don't do that.

I don't do that. Vegas has a tattoo. Best in I said. Did you know that that used to indicate that you're a criminal? I'll pray for him. I'll pray for him. Not a him or her.

She got a tattoo. She got a tattoo. Yeah. She got a tattoo. And this was quite a, I was, I cried for. Of course. Of course. Of course.

Very, yeah. She'll never find a tattoo course I'll never very She'll never get to have 10 years of absolute misery I shall never have 10 years of a distant husband not serving her needs one ounce No, I'm not willing to change so sad poor thing. Well, I'll pray or I'll love it. I'm eight. Yeah. Oh, I'm not sure So all right James will cover that James will cover that with some sounds You've been listening to the Aunty Donna podcast. Thanks for joining us for another rip episode brought to you by Aunty Donna Club dot com See you next week!