Aunty Donna Podcast - Buttering Up Mr Hollywood Michael Shanks

Episode Date: August 26, 2025

Michael wrote and directed the new movie ‘Together’. Go see it! LINKS  Follow Michael on Instagram @timtimfed Hear Michael on The Last Video Store with Alexei Toliopoulos https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-last-video-store/id999728026  Our DREM World Tour has started! Buy tickets here https://tour.auntydonna.com/ Follow @theauntydonnagallery on Instagram https://bit.ly/auntydonna-ig  Become a Patreon supporter at http://auntydonnaclub.com/  Join The Aunty Donna Club: https://www.patreon.com/auntydonnaSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This episode is brought to you by us and our new sketch comedy hour, Drem, heading stages globally now. Book at tour. Dot Auntie Donna.com. A listener production. Hello everyone out there in Auntie Donna Land. We have a very special guest today here on our Auntie Donna podcast. We have a sometimes silly, sometimes earnest chat with Hollywood director Michael Shanks,

who made a film in the Docklands in Melbourne. It's sick. We love him. We've been working with him for a long time. It's a lot of fun. And it's pretty long. Enjoy. Hello.

Hello, everyone. Boy, do we have very, very, very special, Spooky. Spooky. Spooky. Nauty. Spooky. Horsy? Horsy. Sexy. A little bit horny. Should we give a warning if you get spooked easily? Yes, if you get spooked easily. Keep listening, but just be ready to get spooked.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, because we're talking to Mr. Spooky. Spook expert, if you will. Yeah, and that's not a character that Broden's playing. Although, write that down because I think that's good for a Halloween episode. Mr. Spooky. Don't look at me like that. I'm just making an offer. Do you want me to do Mr. Spooky now?

Just try. No, because now I'm more concerned about the way Broden's sort of just kind of like looking at me because I suggested Mr. Spooky. You want me to tell me what characters I play. That was just an offer, mate. That was just an offer. How would Mr. Spooky sound? Tell me, come on.

I don't know. I was just about to do Mr. Spooky. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, Broden's Mr. Spooky now. I get it. Look, guys, we're, we're tearing each other apart when really what we should be doing is coming together. Now, that has not a lot to do with what, no, no, no, doesn't you see? So, I thought it was cool intro music for Shanks. Oh, for Michael Shanks.

Well, okay, sure, but I just wanted to throw it out there, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So just then, when you said we were tearing each other apart. Yeah. But, Mark, not Justin. No, just now Apologies Mark

Yep Jesus fucking Christ Guys we are tearing each other apart When really what we should be doing Is coming together Justin No, Mark

You do know you said the name of the film That Shanks is here to promote When you say that Together Yes Shanks we will introduce you Yeah, you need to Dude

chill out man you know how this works we know you've been zip zapping all around the world in business costs don't you know it you know we know that maybe in Hollywood maybe the interns at the Hollywood studios let you speak whenever you want

but it's a little different here we're in our but awesome to have you here should we introduce yes can I just say Justin if I can for a second Mark that have I confused you by saying just now do you think his name is Justin

I for years have been calling him Mark and I'm trying to make the smooth transition to your name His name is Mark Yeah we can apologize I'm actually chill with whatever Because I don't give a fuck That's what I've learned from our new guest Is like if you just don't give a fuck

And you just do like Kind of nothing Then eventually someone will hand you a bunch of money What? What have you done? What's what I kind of want to say Before we get any further Because a lot of people are going

Why? Why? What is this? Yeah in Melbourne. Yes. Who has made, he was just some YouTuber. Yeah, and then Adam Sandler ripped off his high school project he did out of high school.

Oh, that's true. Yeah. What was it? Pixel. Remember the... Pixel? Remember the pixels? Oh, Happy Gilmore.

No, yeah, there was a movie where Adam Sandler fought Pac-Man and other various video game characters. Little did he know that I had previously been fighting Pac-Man myself around the streets of Altoona North. Oh. Wow. So, yes, we've been friends with a gentleman for a while. Yeah.

Been watching them from afar being brilliant. They did a sketch with us once. Uh-huh. We collabed with them on a sketch, yeah? Yes. Called PUD. He did all the VFX shots for PUD. And another one.

The Pud were originally filmed in the green screen. Yes. So you created the office. Anyway, we were doing YouTube's with him. And then he stopped making YouTube for a bit, right? this guy, and I was like, why has he stopped making YouTube? We need more Max Payne parody videos.

We need more... Tank versus tennis player. We need more if George Lucas had done the new Star Wars. Which he dropped on the same day as that trailer. That is true, yeah. It was less than 24 hours. Explain that video. Man, still, Michael, if I may be earnest

for but a moment, still one of the funniest... One of the funniest fucking things I've ever seen. It was right in your wheelhouse. It was right in the zeitgeist wheelhouses. Absolutely, especially because, you know, I saw all the Star Wars films in 97 for the 20th year anniversaries. I was aware of the trailers. I had it on VHS, the gold, the box set, that gold Star Wars logo very meaningful for me. So when the, uh, in what, 2015, when the Force Awakens trailer dropped, less than 24 hours later on his, uh, popular channel Tim Tim Fed on

YouTube, Michael Shanks dropped a Force Awakens, the George Lucas edition trailer, which was the same trailer, but just had more bullshit in it. Just had more tie fighters and some fucking, yeah, dinosaurs. Ironically, by the third Star Wars, they were pretty much doing. Yes, they were. All the Star Destroyers. And anyway, so around then, that video blew up. You'd had a lot of videos blow up.

And I remember thinking to myself from about 2015, God. He's hardly ever uploading to YouTube. What a shame. What a shame. And what a wasted career opportunity. Lazy fuck. Little did I know for the last 10 years. You've been tinkering away at your Hollywood debut.

It's Michael Shanks. Thank you, boys. Thanks for having you. Writer director of Together. The new Hollywood hit from neon pictures. This is the intro now with the music. The new writer director of Together, the new, Hollywood hit from Neon

Productions. Yes. Do three and a half. Co-produced by Michael Cowab with additional CGI renderings done by Tim Tim Fed. Second unit. Second unit. Oh, by Max Miller. From Auntie Donna. From Auntie Donna.

It is you know him as Tim Tim Fed and as the writer-director of together the latest hit out of Sundance or South West? Sun dance. But we then played South by Southwest. West as well. Wow, wow, wow.

Sydney? We did do Sydney Film Festival. Reigniting, hope and drive. After years of distributors not doing big purchases from independence, he changed the game. He changed it again with the release of the hilarious, horrific, funny, but touching personal story that is together. Starring, what's her face from, Community?

And what's his name from the Magist? From Scrubs. From Scrubs. From Scrubs. From Scrubs. Yeah, the final, like, Scrubs is the new class, whatever they were called. And the disaster artist. Let's not forget about the disaster artist where he played Greg Sestero.

And in the supporting role, the guy from every Australian film in the last 50 years and every American film in the last 20 years. Damon Harriman. Michael Shags as in changing the game first in YouTube, now in cinema. And he's our guests. Today, Brodyn is telling me I have to keep the intro going for the length of the song. I think we could just cut off the track, maybe. Well, I reckon, I reckon Michael could play this on the drums. Oh, maybe I could.

What's he telling me? This Renaissance man can play the drums as well. And the guitar. And the guitar. He does his own CG. He did his own CG, but now he's brought on a team. But I did notice that credit. You did a little bit of additional work.

I did. You actually noticed the Tim Tim Fent credit. That's funny. I did like, sorry to, but there's like 170 VFX shots in the film. I did about 130 of them. Wow, while we were. Wow, that's a lot of effects. How you doing that in Resolve or after effects?

Adobe After Effects. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You don't mind that subscription model? I don't at all because now I've got that Hollywood Shmoney. Oh, Hollywood Shmoney paying for you. You know where we're right across from Adobe. I know. Where we record.

I flick them the finger every time I walk past them. That's my little, that's how I get through the day. We lived in Hollywood for a time. Yeah. You spend much time in Hollywood? How long is this track? A little bit. Not too much, though.

That's my answer. Wow. Wow. It's Michael Shanks. I watched together last night. I had been meaning to get around to watching it. And then I thought, fuck, I'm seeing Shanks tomorrow. You've got the spectrum of people and how they've consumed it.

I had been seen it a while ago, seen it last night. And never seen it. seen it. I was going to fly up to Sydney to see it opening night at the Sydney Festival but we were working on something. Yes. And then I thought I'll see it when I see it and then and then I was going to see it on tour

and then I remember no shanks is coming in tomorrow so I went and watched it at the Docklands and I thought how fitting! Ah, we filmed it at Docklands! It's next door to the very place you filmed it and did I tell the 17 year old girl selling me the ticket that fact? Yes I did and did she give any level of shit? No she did not.

Hey, the song's finished. And then I asked for a beer and she said, I can't serve you that. I'm 17. I said, okay. And then I stood there for a good five minutes while the movie was about to start. And then I said, well, could you get someone that's 18 that could serve me a beer? And she was like, oh, yeah. And then she went and got someone that was 18.

And what did you get? What beer did you get? Bolter, XPA, I think they had. Nice. A fine choice. Here's what I want to know. Michael, thanks for being here. Hey, hey.

It's good to see you. Thank you so much for having me. Yeah. Sometimes it can feel. if I can say briefly, sometimes when your friends, may I call you a friend? Of course. You can lie. Yeah, we're friends on air.

But sometimes you see friends just doing wonderfully and you're like, well, I can't reach out to them now. They're too successful. Yes. And the fact that you're sitting here with us or wanted to come on means the world to us. Because we're just worms now. We're just worms.

Yeah. For you to grace us with your Hollywood presence is a very big thing for us. Binding and dining with the big guns now? Well, I mean, present company excluded. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We did one Hollywood show. Yeah, we went to Hollywood.

And we're obviously in the Australian release of Dungeons and Dragons. Oh, yeah, yeah. We've tasted Hollywood. Can I find that? I've tried to... No, okay, no, no. Oh, shit, I believe, if you watch the one on streaming here, I've heard mixed reports.

Really? Well, Michael, if you don't know, brought us in to do three voices in the resurrected skeletons yeah yes yeah and then the man just said can you try and replicate the voices doing it and so it was a very slow process of us replicating the voices that were already there because they didn't want to do the lip sync again kind of thing no it was more just they were happy with it and the performance is given and and i guess people had told other people that this was happening and not everyone got to say well i don't really want that to happen, but it just went ahead and happened.

Yeah. Some people thought it was a good idea, and then what I imagine happened is that other people thought it was a bad idea. Which it is. So the compromise that was made was, well, we'll just get these people to do exactly what's already been done with very little change or alteration, to the point where our own team had a private screening. They had a private screening for us at a full-class cinema.

Which they after demolished. Did they? Gem Factory's gone. Oh, yes, it's gone, yeah. They were like, yeah, bring it down, boys. Yeah, yeah, that were bringing it in as we were walking out. Income the Bommi knocker. What's it called?

It's called a Bomi knocker. I don't know what the fuck you're talking about. Is it a thing called a Tommy Knocker? What's a Bommi knocker? I think you've made that out. No, I haven't made up Bommi knocker. I've been saying Bommi knocker since I was a child. Have I been saying...

You might not have made that. What's a Tommy knocker? Tommy Knocker is like a horror thing, isn't it? Isn't it a Tommy knocker like a Stephen King? A spiky mate. Who's your best friend now? Oh my gosh, yes. Wait, did you hear about this?

Stephen King wrote a tweet saying your film was good. He's always right in Stephen King. And Stephen King doesn't just endorse literally anything. No. He's pissing out novels, though. Oh, yeah. Pissing him out. You can't stop him.

Shoreshank Redemption he wrote. Yes, he did. When you go to Hollywood and you go and you're there and you're sort of seeing all the Hollywood people, because that's sort of like our dream too and we did it for a time. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I remember. We came back and COVID happened.

There was things got in the way of us staying there. I remember I waking up every morning in L.A. A lot of mornings and just rolling over in a sweaty bed and I had the flu for a large period of it. Yeah, which I think was COVID. Yeah, it's pretty kind of was COVID. I lost my, I couldn't taste for six months. But I could, really?

I couldn't taste for six ones. And I thought it was related to some mental health stuff. going on. Right. And then years, then like months later, they were like, that's a,

that's a COVID thing. Yeah. And COVID was around and people got COVID. Broden had a bad flu. We hung out with a guy who brought COVID to Australia. Hollywood was sick.

I think maybe we had COVID. Hollywood was dope. Yeah. You liked it? Not a nice place to live, no. I don't love it, to be honest. Every time I'm over there, I find it,

I get sick. I don't know, something about the food. I always just get sick. I always just feel like ill and it's overwhelming and nobody walks anywhere and you're always in cars and I don't know I mean like speaking of COVID I think that was a thing that kind of weirdly even the playing field

for non-locals in terms of the film and entertainment industry that everything became a Zoom meeting and so I think that it like my raps were very much like you don't need to move here anymore just everything they still even if you're over there yeah they will still zoom with you they will still zoom for pictures rather than going in Still. Still, just because that's the way of Hollywood life now.

So do you, when you go to a Hollywood party, and you're there with the glitz and glam of Hollywood? What do you talk about? Have you been to many Hollywood parties? Because we went to one once, and we'll probably never go to another one ever again. No, I think, you know, I got some ideas in my head that maybe, you know. Yeah.

I'll talk to Cali. That'll get you back there. That's just Act 1 in our wonderful career. Yeah, yeah. Cowan should guest on the show. That would be great energy. Cowan of course, being one of the producers of Together.

On Together, the Hollywood movie that you did. That's it? Because we pitch Hollywood movies all the time. Yes, we do. Hasn't quite a happen for us yet. Yeah. Yeah.

I don't know what you have to do to get it, but I'd love to hear it. What have you been... Suck off. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What shortcut did you take that doesn't involve spending your own money, making something to impress people

like your short film reboot. That helped rebooted but I'm sorry. Oh but yeah reboot, I remember that. Yeah, yeah. A skeleton man. Wonderful short film. I remember thinking to myself he should be working on his YouTube. He's thrown away this beautiful online career. Oh my God, yeah. For what?

For what? A skeleton man? Of every six months making a video game parody. I mean, like the sincere answer is that like after After making The Wizards of Oz the fantastic web series starring Mark and Broden and me. No, you did make up a character

that you said you allegedly cut. You said, oh, there was a character for you but then we cut him or something. You had come up with a lie that I've held to you. No, no, they're actually, there actually was. I know. But it's crazy because I remember you saying to Mark, like, hey, I've got an idea, I've got an idea for a movie,

and it's going to be you and Dave Franco. Did you have to sit Mark down and say, look, Dave wants Alison Brie as the partner instead of Mark? Was that a tough conversation? It was, but the truth was just Mark didn't quite open up the funding possibilities that Allison's involvement. Dave also didn't want her. It was, we all wanted Mark creatively.

I offered to put in 10K. Yeah. I have my own money. He offered to put up $10K. Not enough. Not enough for the docklands, apparently. No, not even a day at the docklands, I don't think. You know that Alison Brie is going to be, even if she didn't put in any money,

she's going to be a bigger draw than you. Like 10K's not going to cover the loss. Do you have any idea how many socks I could fit in me? You want to talk about a big drawer, all right? How many socks? You're saying you're a big drawer full of socks. I'm saying if you were to talk about who's the bigger draw, yeah, you could.

I'm saying depending on how you fold them, you could put more socks. You can put more socks in you than Alison Brie, absolutely. Yes. You've mistaken, even though the word is the same. Yeah. The fact that you've got a larger intestinal system than Allison Brie is irrelevant. All right. I understand.

It sounds like a great segment on Fallon mode to kind of figure out. Have you done Fallon yet? Allison did do Fallon. Allison did Fallon. Allison did Fallon to promote your movies. movie. You've got a movie. I do. So, Zach's in his twilight years, by the way. Yeah, I get it.

I did do a Bravo show. I was on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen. Oh. That's amazing. That's genuinely the most thrilling thing. I didn't know what it was but like, so I'm doing this thing and several of my friends were like, what the fuck are you talking about? He was a real housewives producer and then he started. Well, that show's

quite sassy, isn't it? It is a little sassy. He started, he started, he did the reunion episodes and then he was so good on that they gave him his own talk show what was it like doing that show well the show uh as i understand it has like they'll have the guests usually too and then there's like a bar tender who's a sort of like Trevor marmalade type situation oh oh yeah from the footy show Trevor marmalade to sam newman and Eddie maguire sure yeah i'll take your word for you yeah what was their name wasn't Trevor marmalade the bar person yeah i was the bar person so you're Trevor marmalade

i'm sorry Trevor marmalade doesn't resonate with you i'm sorry that's so funny because i'm not a footy boy. But you know Trevor Marmalade. I served him once at a cafe on Chapel Street. Really? Yeah. Trevor Marmalade, the footie shows, Eddie McGuire, Sam Newman and Trevor Marmalade. I've heard of the footie show. Tell you something about Trevor Marmalade? He has an American Express card. Well, did. We don't know. We did. I don't know if he still has American Express card money. But he paid with American Express. And this is back in 207. He would have had a bit of Money, TV back then. How much money do you think Trevor Marmalade had in 2007?

Well, you're a Hollywood guy now. You know how it works. Oh, yeah, we see everybody's bank account. I know you don't know, but that bar was always very well stocked. I think that was art department. Yeah. I don't think that had anything to do with Marmalade. I think he paid for his own liquor.

No, I'm pretty sure that would just be art department. I agree to disagree. I mean, you're Mr. Hollywood. You would know about how things work. Well, the bar on Andy Cohen's show was a, that was all art department. I thought I was actually going to have to make drinks. Wow. They said be camera ready throughout the whole show,

Dave and Allison are the guests, but you need to be ready to be thrown to it any time. Wow. I was thrown to not once. Wow. So I just stood there being like, wow. Did they introduce you? Yeah, Andy introduced me as somebody completely different.

Like he read off the teleprompter wrong and it was like, and of course, behind the bar, Andrews Simons or something like that. What? Wasn't him. But that was, and so there was, he was somebody like whispered in his ear. He's like, oh, Michael Shanks. And I came away. And he never through to you.

No, and I had so. many good zingers. I kept being like, because I was mic, but I know. Wow. That's insane. What other shows? You did Jimmy Fallon. Are you going to do Corridor Crew? They would love you. They would fucking love you. I've been communicating with them, yeah.

Yeah. I hope to. I do that. Oh, shit, my dick. I love that show. That is sick. That's the coolest thing. That's very cool. I met those guys before. The first time I went to L.A., I actually, I borrowed some costumes off them for Wizards because we shot a tiny Really?

A little wizard thing in LA because we had an actor over there we shot like one half of a scene and we just like I went to corridor because I kind of knew them via just being cool YouTube guys and borrow some stuff

that were really straight. One of someone who was adjacent to them that was on their show recently was wearing an Auntie Donner t-shirt. Say that again? Someone that is adjacent they're not part of the crew they have another channel

they're often with the crew doing stuff I was watching a video and they were wearing an anti-donnet t-shirt You're telling me one of the corridor crew guys wore an auntie don't No.

You're telling me that they were all wearing Arty Donner shirts on the Corridor crew. They get too excited. One person. Not the Corridor crew, but one of the guys on that, on Corridor, on a Corridor video was wearing the shirt. Was wearing an Auntie Donner shirt? On Corridor crew.

On Corridor crew. They're not from Corridor crew. Was it on Corridor crew? They're often on Corridor crew. So is a guest on Corridor crew? A regular guest on Corridor crew. Was wearing a t-shirt? What was the video?

Was it VFX Artist React? Or was it one of the other one? Yeah, one of them, I don't know, I can't remember. Oh, no, it was a, do you know what it was? It was, can we put a camera in a bowling ball? I watched that video. Yeah, yeah, he was an anti-donauty shirt. I didn't see the shirt.

I didn't see the shirt. See, we got shit going off. Yeah, I'll fucking bring it up now, cunt. I'm not lying. I'm not lying. Michael didn't see it. That's because he was probably, it's not something that you sit and you watch intensely. You're doing stuff.

You're doing stuff. You think he's going to Hollywood parties. He's whining and dying and Dave and Allison. you think he has time to give a shit about our t-shirt and pull your fucking shit together, man. If he's watching the video, you're an aesthetic, you're looking at the frame of a movie,

you would see a shirt. It's the mizant scene of the video. Are you telling me? Are you telling me? It's French. It's French for yum. Now he's a French guy. It's French for yum, all right?

Now listen. Listen. It's French me young. You got, you're not sitting there watching Corridor crew intensely. You got it on. It's on, right? It's on while you're gym jamming on your guitar. Yeah, yeah.

Playing that this motherfucker can play. I'm hyvin, I'm jamming. Yeah, like, when we were talking about drums, because we both play a little bit of drums. I got a kid, he's got a kit. You know, and we're just banging away. So happy this is coming up. Doing quarter notes.

Oh my God. What about those eighth notes? I don't, I don't touch up the first. Hey, shut up. If I'm doing eighth notes, I might as well be doing 16. 16 notes. Dude, I'm trying to get in with Mr. Hollywood. I know.

Can you shut the fuck up? This motherfucker, he's playing what about how band we're talking about? What is it? The Dave Grohl was in it at the start. Oh, Queens of Surin-Ech. This motherfucker's playing Queens of Stone Age. Which one? Which era?

The whole shit. He's doing songs for the deaf. You're doing Dave Grohl stuff? Yeah, well, that was Dave Grohl's album. Although I think the only track he didn't play on was no one knows. and that's the one where he's in the music video for, which is crazy, really? Yeah.

Strange, but that is a great album for drums. Incredible. Songs for the deaf? Yeah. That's what he's playing? That's it, the Terminator thing. I'm doing, I'm doing dreams Fleetwood Mac. I'm doing selfless by the strokes.

I'm doing dream theater, dance of eternity. Fuck off, you're doing Prague. I try to do a bit of Devon Townsend 10 minutes songs. It's hard, man. Stop, stop. I got a question about together. The movie you just released. Yeah, so you've got a major Hollywood film now.

You got a major Hollywood film. Kind of. And it's, and it's, we had a good seven days until weapons came out. Oh, weapons looks good. It is, it's pretty good. I've not seen it yet. But, it is, it is. I've heard good things about it.

Again, earnest, go on earnest for a second. Boy a ticket to together. It's not going to weapons. Like, I ain't given my money. You're a good job. Put a ticket to together. Yeah. It is, it is being.

When you go see weapons, buy. If it's still in cinemas when this comes out, just buy tickets together. Go see Fantastic Four or whatever. The director of together used these, used being the director of Together to get a free ticket to see together and you use that to go and see where to see it. What do you think? No, I paid

for the ticket to together. Oh, okay, great. So I'm like, I want to give money to the theatre but I can't give it to the competition. Hell yeah. My question is, when you pay for your own ticket to see your own movie and then sneak in and watch another movie because you're a dog, right? What is the return on that money you've paid

that you will then see back in your own pocket? I'm definitely losing money in the transaction. It's negative. But it's probably cents, but an amount. Yes, surely there's an amount? Or is that not how it works? I do get something, I do get a little taste. Yeah, a little taste.

Yeah, nice. And that's why you go download it when it's available on the download for the $30 download. I can't remember who did it. I saw it, it came up in my feed. Someone released a film recently, and then what they did was they put the torrent up for it themselves and put up the big, really good

like 8K 5.1 dobley version of it with a video of him at the start going, hey, you've pirated my movie. Congratulations, that's fine. This is a really good version of it. And if you want to give us a bit of money, go to this website, payformymovie.com, and then you can donate to it.

Check with Neon if they'd be cool with that. Yeah, just check in. Yo, Neon, do you be cool with this? My friend Mark had this idea. I thought that was the coolest thing I'd ever seen. I think it's so cool. I would actually be 100% down with that. I love it, because you can't stop it.

Yeah, Michael. Have you, there's a festival on in Melbourne right now called MIF. Yes. Now, I just saw some of the people at Miff yesterday. I don't really roll in those crews. And neither do I. I roll in the footy crew with the footy boys.

With Marmalade. I was like, yeah, with the Marmalade boys. Yeah. Do you know the Marmalade boys? Oh, yeah, of course. I travel marmalade's another boy, but there's some boys called Marmalade. Anyway, you walked around Miff? I haven't this year.

You should walk around Miff. I think I'd be funny. Because you're a big director. I think they would know. You would have been. You had the big. The Sydney Film Festival thing was good So opening night, opening night

Tell them that opening night movie It's Siff Well, I Tell them what the opening night Tell them, it was together And tell him who the director of together It was Michael Shanks Not the Canadian actor

That is me That's you But Ernest said you would have been The God of that party Yeah, have you walked around missed It was good It was fine Do you get recognised?

Very rarely If you weren't to MIF they would all know I get recognised when I've done a Q&A at a film screening Nice, yeah. Did you get recognized at the after party of the opening night movie at Siffith? I did. I did.

It was very nice, but it was also kind of a nightmare. I would imagine it would be horrible. I couldn't move, you know. Yeah. And people kept, like, my girlfriend kept coming up to me and being like, do you need help kind of signaling me. There was one point I was locked in with this guy and we couldn't stop talking. And she came up and said, like, do you need help?

And I was like, no, no, I'm fine. And then after what she said, was that guy. I was like, oh, that was Alexi. Yeah, no, he was nice. He was nice guy. We know Alexi, friend of the podcast. Yeah, yeah. So, Shanks, I've got a question for you about the movie, right?

Please. It's a fun one, guys. He's done real interviews. I thought I'd do a fun line. Yeah, yeah, I thought I'd be careful. I think he'll like, he'll get a kick out of this, right? So, in the movie, there's a photo of a couple. Oh, yeah.

There's a photo of a couple that have gone through a similar thing as the main characters. And Dave Frank, of course, is the main. main guy in the film. And as I'm watching it, tell me, can you explain to me? Why'd you cast that Uggo Dave Franco when you could have cast the Hoddy in the photo? Yeah, the guy in the photo is pretty sexy. Well, Broden hasn't seen it, but he is the star of the film. It is, uh, it's Michael Shanks in the photo.

He put it, he did an M-Night Sharmuland. Well, it's like Alfred Hitchcock did as well. That's true. Altrid Hiffcock. Orson Wells. What are you doing? It was fun. You know, there's a photo.

Zach Play-Cole. Zach, like, I'm like, cool. This is my one fucking shot to get into the Hollywood. You said Alpruditchcock. Alperd-Alpred-Chiccock. Zach, if you treat Michael Wright, you will be neon. I'll be in the, I'll be in the, I'll be the neon. You could be the next guy in a photo in a movie that has no lines.

I would, I would. Yeah. Hit me up. Yeah. That's my, that you've heard it here first. Michael Shanks has promised that I will definitely. I definitely have a photographic cameo in his next spill. Have you walked around MIF?

I haven't. Walk around Miff, man. I kind of like, like, I have been, I did something a little thirsty, like on my final day in L.A. Where I was like, you had a big, you had a big jumper juice? Yeah, I had a big golf. I was, uh, I wanted to buy a ticket to the movie in L.A. I just thought, I don't know that.

Yeah, fuck. Yeah. Arklyde back or not? No. No, it was, um, it was at the Grove. Oh, the Grove. The AMC at the Grove. It's like, Northland without.

A roof. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sorry, listeners, we're talking a little bit inside baseball. There's the American doll factory there as well, and it's like Northland without a roof. We had, like, the American, like, real doll? Yeah, you know, you go and have a tea party with little dolls. Oh, okay, right. We had this thing that kept happening to us where we just kept happening to be in L.A.

whenever Lee Warnel was releasing a new film. And we've seen a lot of his movies in the Cinema Dome at a... Upgrade's great. At Arcline, which is no longer there. But anyway... Oh, my God, balty bridge and, like, the opening shot, I was like, this is going to be gone. Yeah, yeah.

It's something really cool about watching an Australian film in America. Like, you feel very proud. Like, I watched it on Yahoo series. I bought the ticket, went to Fantastic Fall. Stop! Michael! I love his liar. He's seen it enough.

Yeah, I've seen it enough. You should go to MIF, man. Yeah. I think you'd love Miff. But can I just say, do you see what I did there? When I asked that question before about the hottie, because Dave Franco is a conventionally a very attractive holiday. Beautiful man.

He's married to... Play Greg's sister, right? Alison Breer, conventionally a very attractive Hollywood person, right? So what I've done there is I've given you a bit of a compliment. Yes. A bit of fun. A bit of fun. But I thought it'd be nice to give you a bit of that compliment

because the photo was of Shanks, you see. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But, Zach, I know, man. What are you doing? I'm just trying to explain. Well, I also got to be turned into a prosthetic, which was another reason to kind of... I sort of cast myself in that thing

because, well, firstly, it meant we didn't have to pay an actor. Spoiler warning. Spoiler warning, but, uh, yeah. Yeah, so, yeah, of course. Of course. That was you. So I had to, uh, I had to like fully be, you know, ensconced in goo for 45. No, no, no, they made a cast of my head, like a, of my head being like, wah.

Yeah, yeah. That is then worn by, uh, somebody else who's in kind of a full body. Frank Oz? It was Frank Oz. Wow. Dave Frank Oz. That's Grover. Michael.

I've heard, uh, indirectly about some of the cool things that have happened since you've become Hollywood, man. Can you talk about any of the people you've met? I can. It's all right. It's a hot scoop. We don't want to get you in trouble with Hollywood. Yeah. I'm trying to be real. Hollywood are listening. What are you doing now? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Can you, who's like, are there cool people who've reached out and said they like your movie? Have you met David Allison? I have met Devin Allison. What are you doing, man? Of course. What do you mean?

Is that he, they're in this movie, man. He directed, he wasn't in it. It's no different to your MIF bit. Don't act, don't get on some fucking high horse like you're not doing some bit. You tell me he hasn't been, he shouldn't go to MIF? No, you should fucking go to MIF. He went to Smith. My brother-in-law I saw it Miff yesterday.

They were excited to see us at Miff. Imagine you going to Miff. I don't think, is us playing at Miff? I think that came out a couple years ago. Not the movie you Ove. Ah, Smeda! Would you say that Jordan Peel is now one of your contemporaries? Uh, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, yeah, for sure. Because you both have your starts in sketch comedy. Would you say Trevor Marmalade is one again? Pardon? Can you have the one again about Jordan Peel? Would you say Jordan Peel is one of your contemporaries? Nope. Oh.

Oh, get out. Very good. Very good. Say, some of the list is probably struggling to follow along. Those are Jordan Peel films. It's a bit of a Hollywood thing that we do. Who, any cool people, apart from these boys messaging? Sincerely, like, the day after I got back from Sundance, I did.

I was watching the Royal Rumble in an apartment in Hollywood. Nice. And somebody sent me a text saying, hey, save this number. It's Robert Danny Jr. Whoa. Wow. And then Joe Hendry had just entered at number 15 in the World Rumble.

Fucking hell. From T&A. And exactly, the TNA world champion at the time. And my phone decided going, Robert Danny Jr. is FaceTiming here. And I was like, oh, I've got to finish the rumble. So you didn't, you paused Joe Hendry? I paused Joe Hendry. I don't know how TiVo or whatever works over there.

Had a lovely chat with Robert and his wife. It was very cool. By the time it ended, the pause had stopped, missed the rumble. Robert Downey Jr. Face-timed you to say he liked the movie. Yes. And he's playing Dr. Dr. Love.

He is playing Dr. Doom Little. Did you come back? Dr. Doom Little. And he also played Dr. Doolittle. Did you get back in time for the heel turn? Were you back on the TV for the heel turn? No, I saw the heel turn late. I think the heel turn was better than a photo.

But that was elimination chamber. Oh, that's true. That was a different PLA. Yeah, absolutely. I got that wrong, I got muddled up. Sina turned, but he's back now. He is, inexplicably. That's pretty cool that you got that phone call from Robert Daniel Jr.

A couple weeks later, I had an encounter with McConaughey. Whoa. Wow, mud. Yeah, mud. Mr. Mud. Texas Chain Saw a Massacre 2, I think. Four. Really?

Four? Four. Okay, four. Was that early in his career? Yeah, him and Renee Zellwick. They tried to get it, like, unreleased. Because they did it then got famous before it came out What did he say?

What did he say? I had a long interaction with, it's a long story so I won't go into it. I will say two things that the aforementioned Mike Cowap was the person that accompanied me to be like to stop freaking out because I had this meeting with McConaughey about the project. Kyle was a producer friend of all about.

Was it at like a cafe in the lobby of a hotel? That's where I imagine all these things happened. It was in a private room of like the Marriott in Austin. Wow. And as we're going up. In Austin, Texas. That's where he's from. Mike is like, not other things to talk about. I've listened to his book. He used to live in

Sydney. Here's a thing about his life in Sydney. Tell him about that. And I'm like, okay, okay, okay. That's a good Mike. And then, um, I spent a lot of time with Mike. And the commission 99, I think. He would have, yeah. And Wizards of Oz, you know. Yeah, he's working screen Australia. Yeah. So a bit of nepotism. Yeah. No. I just think he could have, what in he? No, it's just he worked for screen odds and he saw talent support. That's not how

it makes sense now. He's not related to me now. He's not related to him. He's just worked with him in different capacity. What Mike did was at Green Australia was identify, like, young up-and-coming talent and created, like, a harum of people who liked him and then, like, branched out to, like, reduce that stuff. Yeah, yeah. In a very good way.

He did a good job with that. Yeah, he did that thing where he helped people at the start and then didn't just forget about them. Yeah. Like the Australian industry loves to do. So who else? You got McConaughey, you got Downey. I just quickly around the little private room.

Let him finish the story, right? We're in a private room in Austin. And then marry it. This whole story goes for about, like, 30 minutes. So I'll do like the one-minute version. Okay, the assistant comes down and says, okay, you know, Shanks, you want to come and meet Matthew? And, oh, Mike Howard, would you like to come as well?

He's like, oh, no, I'd love to him. Oh, no, I shouldn't. You're just going on your zone. You tell it's like breaking his little heart. I go up, you know, I have this meeting with it's kind of weird. Yeah. You know, I, I run out of things. Is he pacing?

All right, all right, all right. Yeah. Is he a little. Is he a little dazed and confused? Was he a little Dallas Byers Club? Yeah, the dark tower Yeah Ha ha ha ha

Don't fuck this up for me, Brodard Anyway, I'm so sorry, was he pacing I just imagine he paces Nah, he was sitting back He was sitting back? He was sitting back like that That's how he does it Yeah, that's the Hollywood way

Yeah Texas is New Hollywood Did you tell him that pilot in Australia running ads to say he used to be bald And you don't, you shouldn't be bald I've seen that stuff Yeah, yeah, I did tell him that You shouldn't be bald

Because Matthew McConaughey isn't Did you tell me about that? I didn't. I assume he signed off on that. Oh, yeah. Oh, if not, he should reach out and sue him. Yeah, yeah, exactly. So you got...

Anyway, long, that's very short. Long, long chat with McConaug, wraps up. We're trying to kind of end it. It ends on a slightly kind of weird note. I'm like, okay, I've got to get out of here. Yeah. At the door, he's like, hey, man,

ask me, like, yeah, thanks, Matthew, thank you, as I'm closing the door, I just here running up the door. Excuse me, excuse me, one minute. Oh, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry. Oh, Matthew, sorry. I just couldn't come up and not not talk to you. I had to come with me.

And I'm like, Mike, we've got to go. Mike has just, like, pounded his way into the area. And he's like, oh, I heard you still live in Sydney. And he gives the anecdote that he already gave me to tell to McConaughey. And now McConaughey is being so polite, retelling the anecdote that already happened at the beginning of the thing. And I'm like, we've got to go, we've got to go, we're going to go. We end the meeting.

I leave. And I'm just like, God, God, that ended up a train wreck. And Mike is just like, skim and be like, I can't believe I met Matthew McConaughey. Can't wait to tell me soon. So was Mike just like downstairs pacing back and forth for half an hour ago and, no, I should. He wouldn't have out. He must have called the assistant back and be like, oh, I'm so sorry, I regret not coming up. That's funny.

Who else? Who else? Who else? Feed me. Feed me. He's led with the big ones. I have led with the big ones. I'm happy to get tier three. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What's the least interesting person that's giving you a call? I'd love to meet Roeve. We know Roeve now. Roeve sick. We hugged him on a bed once.

We can ring Roe Corrin, Pete, the whole gang I can ring Peter, hell yeah Even I can probably ring Pete Hellier Yeah, yeah, that's fair He's not that hard to get old of old Pete Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Pete'll be around Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, he's great

Who have I met? Gosh, uh... Damien Harriman, I imagine Oh yeah, I did mean him actually, yeah, yeah he was a dream, he was absolutely wonderful Yeah, I imagine he would be, yeah, yeah, yeah What bits did you film at the Duckland? Well, there's a cave set, there's a big set,

that's a cave, we built that in Docklands and there's also a I originally thought hey we'll build the whole house we build all the sets and then we realized we had no fucking money to make this movie and so we had enough to make the cave set much smaller than we wanted to and then we also had to build a bathroom scene that for a shower

sequence that involves. Yeah so we built a little bathroom and everything else we shot in the house at the Ducklands and then we definitely built the whole exterior school we built Wow where all the forest This is what everybody needs to Castle Main. Is that up in

Fern Tree Gully? Alinda. Al-up in the hills. Yeah, absolutely. That's where we shot our Drem trailer. Yeah. It's where we fucking shot our Drem trailer. Yeah, it is.

Did you shoot the park there? I think I saw you guys there. That's where we shot the Drem. He should tell Robert Downey Jr. To come to Drem. We're doing Drem in L.A. What day? Can we have his number?

Can we have his number, please? I do have a number. Last time I texted him, he did not respond. Yeah. What did Max do? Because Max is our director for Auntie Donnie. He's shot and directed everything we've ever done. And he did second unit.

Yes. Which is kind of like crumbs. You kind of throw someone a bit of crumbs. It's quite a substantial little meal in the film. It is. It is. It absolutely is. What did he shoot?

Well, so there... Was there Hayes? I didn't... Does he love a bit of Hayes? Oh God, we can't fucking get him to stop. He loves Hayes. I love Hayes too. It's great.

Yeah, you fucking people with your haze. It just adds depth. Yeah. Well, there was a... I didn't want to do any... second you'd in the film because I wanted to like direct the whole thing. But from a scheduling point of view, there was one scene where it was going to be impossible for

sort of the alpha director to be in two places. Did you put him in his face though? Did you go you're a little bitch and my little bitch, Max? I was like, hey Max, how was that Netflix show a few years ago? Welcome to my film set. Nice. What'd you shoot on? Oh my God, video. Nice. It was a Sony Venice. They love the sonies these

days. That's Italian. Well, the reason that we did Shut up with this Italian shit. It is. It's a co-lab between the Japanese and the Italian, the Sony Venice. It's very wet. You're talking about the canals of the place. I don't know, man. But no, it makes sense because there is a little Venice in Tokyo, Disney Sea.

So it's all coming together. Have you heard that they've built... It's all coming together! Have you heard they've built canals in Mars? It's proved there's Martians. Thank God. What are you doing? You want to build canals.

You look through a telescope. You can see canals of Mars. It's true. Are there gondolas? Probably. I won't believe it unless there's gondolas. There's gondolas. There's surely for...

Michael. It stands to reason in Martian Venice. Do you want to talk about your thoughts on the space gondolas in Star Wars episode two? Mark! Mark! Shut up. In Star Wars episode two? In Naboo, we're in Padmey and Adikin Good in a boo.

They're in a gondola and it's slightly futuristic. And I wanted to get... This is a man who's... making Hollywood level movies now. I just wanted to know what camera they shot on. You reckon they fake the Moonlandie, bro? Because you know now you'd have the inside scoop. Oh, I met Matt Johnson from Devanda the band of the show.

Wow. Oh, here we guys going to get this man. Operation Avalanche which is a film about faking the Moonlandland. Broden's pacing. Yeah. Favorite show. I mean, and Jay actually. They were really nice.

Jay messages us. Uh-huh. Jay's coming to our show. Oh, fantastic. What's the movie like? Yeah. Really? The movie is the second best movie of the year.

Like, bye, nice, nice, nice. No, it's good. Nirvana, the band, the show, the movie. Can I just say to the audience quickly, you hear that, this is, if you want to get lessons in how to break Hollywood. This is a fever dream. If you want to hear how to break into Hollywood, you've got to hear that. He wanted to say it was the best movie of the year, but he knew he's here promoting a movie. So he said second best movie of the year.

He's getting in with the boys at the Nirvana band show, but he's also promoting his movie. That's the kind of hustle you have to deliver. Who are you talking to? I'm talking to our listener. If you want more inside Hollywood scoops, you've got to get on our Patreon.com. We're going to give you the inside scoop of how to make it like in Hollywood.

We've had a Hollywood show. Our friend here has had a Hollywood movie. We're going to help you. He's got to get on that Patreon for the inside scoop of how to make a Hollywood show. He's got a fucking point, man. But Zach's speaking truth, dude.

He's dropping truth bombs. And you know, they're being like denial, denial. You cunt did a tangent about Venice gondolas. Can I tell you something for a second? I'm sorry, my. I'm sorry, I'm ashamed of these motherfucking... Because he's got his Matthew and his Robert stories. I've got a story.

I'd like to share. Yeah, sure. So I'm driving around. What is his Woody and Buzz are you? Toy Story? No. No. Cunt.

So I'm driving around... Mark, listen to me. Yeah. Even if his story's not about Hollywood, Mark, don't shoot Mark. Hey, hey, hey, you know what? Shoot me. I fucking dare you.

Pull the trigger. Shoot at my head. I knew it wasn't loaded. Don't do it again. Don't do it again, please. Don't do it again. No, don't do it again because now there's a point in the chamber on the Nerf gun

that you pointed at me. I'm sorry, Michael. Because this is, we've all got, we've all got stories. Mark, before you tell the story, can you remember that our one last shot at season two of Netflix is a standing in front of us? Don't worry, don't worry. So make sure the story has a little bit of Hollywood glitz and glim.

This has got the Hollywood and it's got the, I'm going to butter him up a bit. So, I'm so sorry, man. So I'm driving around. I go to friend. He's a musician. Puppy Mountain. Nice.

His EP's coming out soon. It's called Soft. He's got a track for a single. It's called No Reason. We're driving around. I've got no reason. Yeah, Grinspoon. No, no, no.

It goes, no reason. It's an EDM track. Okay, right. And we're driving around. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And we're shooting this film clip. We've got no money. We're shooting on mini DV.

You ever heard of it? I have. I used to shoot on that when I made my little shows in high school. I love Mini-D-V. You know I love it, Broden. Mate, don't you make me ever, you fucking try and stop me talking about Mini-D-V? Oh, come at you. Listen to me. Listen to me. Listen to me. Listen to me, man. That 9-11 is mostly in TV. Yes, right. Yeah, okay.

Found footage of 9-11 is in DV. What? He knows what DVD is. He made Hollywood movie. Mark, you listen to me, me. I said you butter him up. I said you do Hollywood. But if you're just buttering him up for yourself, you've got to bring us along for the ride. Yeah, don't worry. Tell him about my footy pod. He listens, mate.

He loves it. Don't know. Just let me just let me tell him, buy him him up. So we're driving around. I'm shooting this film clip for him for his thing. I'm shooting on mini-divie. We've got on our money. And we're going down.

We go down to the Williamstown Botanical Gardens. Oh, yeah. That's get some nice shots. That's where I used to get drunk when I was 14. Now this is, now this folds in. We're driving around Williamstown. Now I'm not a fucking idiot. I know this cunt.

I know this cunt grew up in Williamstown. We drove past Williamtown high school. Yeah, he's just saying. Where I went to school? My friend, he's a sinner. Williamstown High School. Now, my friend, he's a cinephile. Which loves his movies.

No, not just Michael. My friend, Puppy Mountain. Loves it. Just saw together we're talking about together, talking about how great it is. Talking about how you landed that plane. You did land a line. What a great fucking ending. What a great fucking ending.

No. They were trying, weren't they? I can't. They were trying, weren't they? Shut the fuck up about Mini-Divacant. They were trying. It was just an accident. Yeah.

So we're driving around. We drive past William Towns High School. And I turned to my friend and I go, Michael Shanks went to our high school. Michael Shanks being the director of Together. And we were just talking about together before. Yeah, and he goes, wow. He's like, that's pretty cool. I'm like, yeah.

So we're shooting, you know, shooting some stuff. And we're in the botanical gardens. And I go, I reckon Michael Shanks, when he was younger, probably would have walked around here, had done some stuff, done stuff around here. And he goes, wow, wow, that's cool. And then he wanted to get ice cream. afterwards, but I was like, I'm too tired, so I didn't let him get ice cream. We're driving through Williams Town.

We drive past a couple of gelardi shops. What the fuck is the story? And I go to him, I turn to my friend, I go, I reckon Michael Shanks at some point would have gotten Jolardi from one of these shops. And at that point, my friend turned to me, was, you go, shut the fuck up there. You've been doing this all day. We've been Williamsstown for an hour and a half, and you have not stopped doing that. And I went, yeah, all right.

And then I have not spoken to him about you since. Broden and Zach are fucking awesome. Tell him, tell him, I've folded you in. Tell him we're good at... He'll butt it up now, man.

You can ask him for whatever you want. And also, I don't know if you know, but Grouse House has a podcast network. And both Bruton and Zach have incredible podcasts on those shows.

Oh yeah, yeah, on those shows. Tell him about... I am, dude, I have just, I'm knee deep in butter at the moment. This dude is a slippery, buddy. buttery boy. I want to use that butter

to season some popcorn. Yeah, fuck yeah, and you can get that. You can go buy a ticket to together and go and watch something else. Just watch whatever you want.

This is the system. I'll go see it tomorrow morning. Mm-hmm. At Pentridge. Okay, cool. Beautiful cinema. It has genuinely become, because I know you say

you had a good run until weapons came out, whatever. Any fucking bullshit I follow on Instagram to help just pass the time of, you know, just how,

until we're gone. Just get through it all. So just fucking time. Just get through it right here until I'm asleep which is just a blessing you together is coming up as best one of the best films of the year

horror films of the year it's being put right fucking up there man and quite genuinely to have someone who has been I think we would all agree here no I'll do my own genuine bit thank you very much you can have I have 50% of this genuine is mine

you do not want to Throw him under the bus. All right. He has to do his own genuine. You have to do your own genuine. But, Michael, you are someone who has been just making stuff since you were young. This is just the path you have always been on. And it is so fucking cool to just see someone who has just been working hard, make this fucking movie.

And it'd be fucking sick. And it's awesome. And congratulations. Thank you so much. That's the nicest thing ever. Don't shoot me. Fuck, that was a good. And this kind started shooting stuff on mini-TV.

I did that. And now he's shooting on Italian-Japanese cameras. Sony Venice with the Rialto-detaching thing. Wow. Yeah. My genuine bit, if you give me a part in your next movie, I will suck you off. Zach, you don't have to do that. No, no, go back, go back.

Let me have another go. Let me have another go. Let me have another go. Let me have another go. Oh, God. As I sat down in cinema to watch your beautiful movie. I felt my cried.

No, actually, no, I've set it up as a bit. I'll just tell you after. No, I'll do it for real. I had a very big thrill when Rucker Raka started making really good movies, right? But I only ever met them once at a VidCon. I also spent time with them at a VidCon. But I don't.

I don't even know if I met them as much as I walk past them. But I've always been like, it's so cool that our generation are making movies now. and I feel so proud and excited and that they're good is incredible but to be like to sit in that cinema and the photo of you

there's a photo the photo pops up a lot right and when the photo first popped up as much as it needs to like it it was a bit indulged it was a bit much yeah no no the first time it popped up I was like holy fuck

oh my God because I forgot you done it it was you like I was sitting and watching a Hollywood movie and then your photo popped up I'm like oh fuck I know the guy that made this and I thought wow that really took me out of it hopefully that photo doesn't pop up more

and it kept coming back and every time I'm going to holy fuck holy fuck I just keep getting drawn in promptly drawn in like real movie real movie and then your face and pop up I'll be like what the fuck I know

that guy and then it'd go back to the movie you're yelling this in the movie at Hoyts Yeah, there were some nice couples being spooked. Some nice couples in this late Saturday always getting spooked. And then every time this innocuous photo would show up, one of the men in the cinema would go, fuck, I did a co-lap with him in 2017. I did a co-and, and he made it!

And then it'd go back and... And then you didn't get to see the ending because I imagine you were escorted out of the cinema. Escorted out of the cinema. But I've been told that the ending is wonderful I think I fucked up that genuine bit No thank you

I'm very before we get to Broden's genuine thing I just want to say like you know I'm so proud and impressed to the work that you guys are doing and I'm so lucky that I've got to make this film and the racker racker have made the film and I just don't think we give enough credit

to The Slot which was all of our launching there is the Slot Can we talk about the Slot? I came so close to wearing my crew hoodie from the slot that I found last week You do this recording. Sean,

Comedy Channel. People know the slot. You don't need to do it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, no, let's explain it just in case anyone. Episode 7 was called Michael Shanks. One of the episodes was called Auntie Donna. Was it?

I believe you were offered to host the show. No, no, that was Christian and Adele's. They would have killed us. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But no, the slot was like, we all made some videos for a sketch show for Fox Tell.

It was, let's get the hottest talent from the internet and put them on a paid TV service and not a lot of people watch not really bring any sort of sense of cohesion to it very little money to make anything Yeah We just we shot a few sketches for it

Yeah I think once we've all done a show A movie Once we've all done a A really well-made beautiful horror movie Pressure's on us Two out of two so far Two for two Well three for three

but they've done it twice. Two for two, like, fucking stick in the landings here. But when we make a beautifully shot horror movie, all of us together. Yeah, yeah. And then when, who else did the slot? Michael Cusack? He's doing a lot of good stuff. Cusack?

He's actually has to do it. Jenna and Vic are in it? Jenna and Vic. So once everyone's done their horror movie, package it doesn't make a box set. The slot's in. Yeah, the slot series, nice. You got, you got beautiful, horrific exploration of grief from Raka, Raka.

You got this beautiful horrific exploration of codependency from you. You'll have a beautiful horrific exploration of, I don't know, we'll figure it out. And you package it up, you go, the slot. And you have a little booklet in it, and you go, where these folks, and it's kind of like those magical bars or like, you know, those things in history, it's like, can you believe they used to all go to this like Greenwich Village for folk music

can you believe they're all going to the same bar so can you believe they're all doing the slot? Your movie's about codependence amongst other things I like to say

that a relationship is like an uppercase H not like an uppercase A yeah that's actually a very good Burden loves he love you love this

I love it too you love this letterology Our friend Tannen has got us onto this. Two standing pillars that are connected is an H, but can stand on their own. And the other one is a leaning on one another but are unhealthy. Because if one falls, the other falls. Broden.

I can't wait to see the movie. Now, imagine if that A, imagine if that A got all fucked up. Imagine if that A turned into an eye over a third act. I think of a relationship as an H or an A. But imagine if that A got all fucked up. It turned into an eye. face on it. You got up.

I'm doing something so cool and you're ignoring me and it's really upsetting me. Sorry, Mark. I've said it twice now. No, no, no, no. I'm sorry, man. If I have to say it a third time to no audience. Can I just do my bit and then you do your bit? I'm going to pull that fucking trigger and just take me out.

Do your bit. Spoiler warning, though. You've got a spoiler warning them. I'll do my bit. Okay. Imagine if that A, look, you got a choice. We've got to stop this podcast. Oh, yeah, it's been going for ages.

You do your bit. You do your bit, but spoiler warning. Nah, it's gone. I was a good bit. A, and I? Well, yeah. And then, yeah, I don't know. But it's a spoiler.

Can I give a spoiler warning? You can give a spoiler warning? I wrote two reviews on Letterbox after I watched it. I deleted my first one and then I wrote a more... Deleted the two star. Not for me. Yeah, ducked an extra star.

Not for me. No, I wrote... This is a spoiler warning. Sorry, skip 30 seconds. I wrote, Damon Harriman kind of does look like two people's shmoo. together. Somebody else said that to me.

He's in Ned. He really does. He's in Abe Forsyth's Ned. He is. I loved Ned. And Computer Boy. Yeah. You once gave me

comp tickets to a show of yours under the name. Yeah, I got you four tickets under Computer Boy. Yeah. He does that. He makes you have to ask. What a silly sausage.

So you have to ask for Computer Boy. I think I've got tickets under it. He has computers. They veck all that shit. But I will say, I'm very, I watch a lot of media and you are being lorded and the thing is being, it's legit and it might not feel like you're in it. Like, I hope you do feel this, but you are genuine zeitgeist right now and you are genuinely

perceived by everyone as an immense success. Oh, thank you so much. And you might take a while for the swelling to go down for you to ever recognize that, but you really are. You really have made it and you should know that. You probably do feel like that with the massive successful international. film with the sales were massive produced

distributors. The one of the hottest, coolest fucking film distributors in the world. But if you had it, that might feel condescending me saying that, but it genuinely does feel like that and you should be immensely proud. And also like, check out the footie pod. Yeah, the footie of Kelly, Mission Zach.

Enjoy the ride. Enjoy the Arama or whatever it's called. Oh yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You met John Leguizama yet? I haven't. But, uh, you know, a boy can dream. Yeah. But yeah, Zach's right. Enjoy the ride because it's like a roller coaster, mate, you're going up right now but it's going to go down

I mean, yeah, yeah Do you remember when you direct that Bunnings ad? Did I direct a Bunnings ad? Or you did maybe SFX on it? You know, probably more, I did do a lot of special effects on Bunnings ads. Yeah. What do you want special effects you go on Bunnings ads? No, they're not real people.

He put like a trestle table in and shit. Oh, wow. I don't even remember. I remember this about you. Remember you did the Boxing Day ad? Shut the cricket one? Yeah, I did. I did to do the cricket ad. was my high point as a commercial direct

before I realized I'm not good at directing commercials. I reckon he'd be good at it, but not lot. What would you prefer to be? If you can only pick one, would you prefer to be good at ads or movies? Ads. Make more money. Go and see everyone who's listening to this. Genuinely go and see this or buy it or download it

illegally. No, buy it if you can. Now, the man sitting... If you can't, go for it. The man sitting next to us has said this thing about buying tickets to the movie and seeing something else. I haven't seen weapons yet I can't talk for weapons

But if you're thinking of buying a ticket to together And going to see Fantastic Four Think again Just go see together It's better than Fantastic Four Thank you And I clarify, don't do the ticket thing For another independent film

Just the studio film Yeah, just the studio films Hey congratulations Zach This is going to be our last time I can't wait to see you off Go off to Hollywood Be so proud of you brother

Zach was so excited I'll see you on set Zach was very excited for you to come today dressed up I'm dressed up all my time. And you heard it here first. Zacharywayne will at minimum be a photograph in Michael Shanks' next movie. Good night, Australia.

Thanks, Michael. And thank you, Michael. Thank you, guys. I appreciate it. Love you all. We're in the episode there. But I saw you having a look at that piece of paper. Do you want to read?

Do you want to say it's me, Michael Shanks, and then read the post roll? I love to. For this. That'd be great. What's up, you? crazy cats and kittens, it's Michael Shanks here. And look, seriously, if you've been sitting on the idea of launching your own online store for a while, now, the time, fuck. Yeah, no, it's not that easy. It's not that easy. Can I get that easy? Yeah, one more shot. It's all right, mate. You

don't have to if you don't want to. This is a big opportunity, Zach. For us? Yes. Yeah, okay. Hey, everybody, this is Mr. Hollywood, Michael Shanks. And seriously, if you've been sitting on the idea of launching your own online store for a while, now's the time to go for it. Because with Shopify, Getting started is easier than ever. Shopify has AI tools that help write product descriptions, clean up images, and create marketing prompts to make things easier for you. And right now, your first month is just $1 with a three-day free trial before the $1 per month trial kicks in.

Sign up for a $1 per month trial at Shopify.com.a u slash auntie or head to www.shopify.com slash AU. This has been Mike Perso from SmoothFM. Fuck. Yes. Yes. very quickly we have ended it shanks i just as you were reading that i had an image in my head of the reddit comments being like i just wish i hadn't been so silly if anyone wants to listen to a

real interview with you about your actual filmmaking process what's some good ones you've done that people can get um oh i did one with alexie on his show yeah so alexia'll have done a good one of yeah we got we talked about some fun movies talking about science by mnacht shamalan one of my favorite films. So if you didn't like us being goofs and gaggers and you want to hear them talk to us, don't worry about what they think. Go listen to Alexitolopoulos, as their podcast will do. You've been listening to the Auntie Donna podcast.

Thanks for joining us for another rip episode brought to you by Auntie Donner Club.com. See you next week.