Aunty Donna Podcast - Feat. TIM MINCHIN Part 1

Episode Date: June 20, 2017

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Oh, come on man. All right, all right. Is your name... What? What's your name? No, it's not your name. It's not your name. It's your warm.

Well, that was my first... Is it cream... Cream... Ch chimchow. Warm. Warm or warm less? I am, I am, I am, Pinchin. Very warm.

Okay. Are you a minstrel? No. No. Oh, yes. I guess so. I think you're a minstrel. Is a minstrel specifically need a court?

When people say who are you, I always say, oh, he's a famous minstrel from, I went a minstrel. Is a minstrel specifically need a court? When people say who are you, I always say, oh he's a famous minstrel from... I went racial minstrel. Yeah, I forgot about... Oh yes, so minstrel is loaded. Oh, is it? Yeah, very much. You can leave that. Because of the black and white minstrel.

Minstrel is... If you talk about minstrel, it's like... Yeah. I assume it's cultural appropriation. I assume you're talking about, hey, hey, it's Saturday. Oh, all right. Yeah, sure you're talking about hey hey it's Saturday. Oh all right. Yeah, I assume the dark hey hey yeah, I like that red Simon's back in the news Yeah, when reds in the news for saying something a little bit contentious you think everything's all right with the world. Yeah red yeah, he's been in trouble like literally

I said he's he had the article I didn't read the article, I read the top, which is pretty much like reading the article. And I said, red Simon's in quote, what's the deal with Asians? Yeah, that's what he was being met. Obviously. And it's just kind of. Right. It's running. He was pretty met. It's Tim Minch. What was Ronnie mad about just that? Yeah, he did a big post about it. I just think the morning show in ABC breakfast has slipped a bit in quality. Generally across the board. Yeah, he thinks John Faines. And that just sort of set it all off for him. Get back to red faces. Yeah, that's what I said. All right, next question. Tim mentioned. I love to keep going. Yeah, that's what we all know. It's Tim mentioned now.

It's in the title. Would it be a good twist if it wasn't? Yeah. It was just me doing my best Tim mentioned. What do you call Tim mentioned doing bad workplace bullying? Doing bad workplace bullying? I was good. Yeah, I got this. Tim Pinchin.

All right. That's pretty good. What do you call Tim mentioned when he's in the kitchen, talking behind other co-workers' backs? Tim Bitsch and in the kitchen. What do you call Tim Bitsch? By what if he's got a rash as well? What do you call him?

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What do you call Tim Minchin when he's... Oh no, I know. I'll ask Bob. What do you call Tim Minchin when he's doing no I'll ask what do you call Tim mentioned he was doing all that shit Midnight what Tim flinch and mention it's an ambition and bitch and bitch and in the kitchen in the kitchen at the witch and hour Oh, yeah, yeah, I just got it just No, that was clever right that. That's different from time. Oh, we don't think that.

We've clearly never listened to the podcast before. Oh, that's true. What do you call it, Sim? I intend to continue. Minsh. You're ready for 25 minutes of it. Sim Minsh and his career didn't go as well as planned. And he worked at a theatre restaurant in Melbourne.

That... I did that by the way. Got in trouble. Which one? Without saying the name of it. It was in Richmond. In Trish Ditchens. No, it wasn't a theatre restaurant.

It was a cabaret venue where they served dinner. I did. I played Todd McKenney there. I played Todd McKenney. You played Todd McKenney? I played the role of that thing. I played the finger for Todd McKenney. Yeah. No, Todd McKenny there, did the... I played... You played Todd McKenny? You played the role of that thing good for Todd McKenny. Yeah. No, Todd McKenny was playing Peter Allen and I was playing piano.

Oh! So after he played Peter Allen, he did a cabaret show mostly of Peter's songs and some... Well, the first act was sort of Todd McKenny history. Second act was all Peter Allen and I played piano for 100 bucks a night. Wow. That's pretty decent. What was the venue? That's terrible that I don't remember that.

It's a Hawthorn actually. It's on the main road going out that way. Yeah, of course. And it's on the White Horse Road. Yes, the White Horse Road. Or Glen Ferry Road. Anyway, yeah, Glen Ferry Road. Let's get into the details of Hawthorn.

Glen Ferry Road crosses with Bridge Road at the Glen Ferry Station there in the Swimburne Uni. Have you ever been based in a city other than Melbourne? Have you lived in Belorat? There's been Belorat. Yeah, we have lived in Belorat. We have lived in Belorat. It's one of my favourite places. It's about a city but the trove valley.

Oh, yeah. About two hours out. What happens when you move city? Most cities have some greed. I mean Melbourne, famously, offset 27 degrees the, you know, like your main roots, so I'm not going to forget them all, but like in Perth, you have Fitzgerald Street and Charles Street, which get replaced in the map of your head,

because you've done some sort of, you've literally wired your brain to have it, if you are a spatial kind of person? Which traditionally that's how dudes are more than women, but I don't think that's true You have a map in your head and then I when I moved to Melbourne replaced Fitzgerald and Charles the north out of the city northbound two main veins With the one that runs past the hospital and the with wrath down and Nicholson yeah, Nicholson. Yeah, Nicholson, yeah, yeah.

And then when I moved to London, it's really, and you just forget all these names, it's really weird how much in order to put a new map across the kind of city in your brain, your home city in your brain, it needs to delete the other data. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What do you call Tim mentioned?

Okay. Oh, I'm ready. Who rolled his ankle? Tim, Tim Limpin. Oh, yeah. Okay, you've opened up a whole new set of rights. What do you call Tim? What do you call Tim mentioned who's getting bullied by a big bully and he's not taking it too well? Tim, Wingen? I was going to buy a big bully and he's not taking it too well. Tim Wingen? I was going to go Wimpen but Wingen's good. Wingen our life is that we really opens it up. What are you called?

What are you called? What are you called? You called it Bitch and stuck on a highway. Bitch and Bitch and Bitch. Tom, do you edit this? We'll be surprised there, man. So it'll just be the highlights of the show. I'm going to get all the interest in this stuff.

We don't need guests, we just need their name. We can't explain. Anyway, he's not actually here. I find myself talking like I need Donna when I talk to you guys. What are you mean? I don't understand. Well, I was going to say that it's a thing that's not really known by the wider community, but you've written some people know this, you've written large scale musical Grandhog Day, absolute smash hit, Matilda. You also wrote

Biky Wars by yourself. Biky Wars was all my work. Yeah, sorry Tom. The truth is out there. The truth is there. No, we've spoken about this before about how we were talking to you about Baki Wars when we were first writing it and quite flippantly you went, oh and also just put in a little like musical rest before hand cuffies and we're like look we don't understand why but we are talking whatever we are talking to musical comedy royalty here so we'll do it and then we did it and then we put it in the show and then every single night that is the bit that got the laugh every single night. And his comedy is all about silence.

We've always said that about silence. We want as much silence in our work. Yeah, actually I was going to say to you guys, you need a little less stuff. You could make everything shorter and less of you guys. Why am I for less stuff, absolutely? Genuinely, why did that work? Do you know why that worked? So is that just a thing you know? By adding a little beat to the guy. You would have, you might or might not have, you've made 20 decisions like that in that song

without knowing you've made them. Right. That was just one that I went, oh, they made a decision about that, that I would have made the other decision on. You're always making decisions about where words sit on beats, even when you're doing always, especially with you guys, given your comedy is all reliant on just no talent whatsoever. Your comedy is dependent absolutely on your kind of rhythms. So you're always making these decisions and I think it's really important to not think

about it too much because finding a unique comedy voice is a bit about, if you analyse it, it doesn't necessarily help you. No, it might be stuck in a loop. But I think having done musical comedy for so long, I think I have thought about it a little bit. But I try not to get myself into that internal conversation too much. But every time you land a word at the end of a line

or whatever, you're making a choice to either make it sit in a place that is inevitable or sit in a place that's not. You have to decide whether you're going to subvert the oral expectation of where it lands or like it's like a one chord, it's like if you're on a buddha, you're on a bar, and you're hanging and the whole audience wants you to go Ba, you can go, it's sometimes it's funny to go Ba, bomb, and then say yeah That's a punchline, oh you can go Ba, Ba And that's a punchline too, you just go to decide whether you want to land bang in the middle of expectations or subvert it a little bit

And the very coffee sort of does a little bit of listening song Yeah, you're picking up on the music But I'm only saying, I never think about this stuff I'm just reflecting in? Yeah, you're picking up on the music. But I'm only saying, I never think about this stuff under reflecting in hindsight. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And we do that a bit with like, I think we, because we try to avoid kind of punchlines, I think, mostly. Like we don't really do punchlines that much.

Do you try to avoid them? Or if you just found that you don't know how to do it? We don't, I think, I think, like me. Like, I think it's like sometimes you're like, oh, you can throw the sketch out, because you don't have a good punchline. But sometimes you don't need it, like sometimes you're like, oh you can throw the sketch out because you don't have a good punch line But sometimes you don't need it like sometimes you just do the funny and then and then whatever like the end can be whatever Yeah, I think you have to be really careful because if you put a punch line on the end of something what you're saying to the audience is this was all about that We had a conversation about that about

About the kid playing the prank. Oh yeah, yeah. We had a conversation about that where there was a hook on the end and we actually talked about the fact that if you do that punch line, it'll feel like this whole thing has been about trying to earn that. And you've got to be careful of that because it's not often with you guys, it's not about that. It's about seeing how far, how many glasses you can smash on ahead before it gets

Not funny and then starts getting funny again And if you then tag that with a punchline Everyone sort of reverse it. Oh, it was all heading to this and that's like no, no you've devalued what it was actually about Yeah, it's about absurd repetition through like mention Joe There's only there's only so many times you can end a sketch with the dick doctors here as well So like yeah, what is that number by the way? How many times can you do it's 48? Yeah Seven yeah, that's time seven times seven times seven

Sometimes you got to write sketches for two people you've got to write sketches for people who need resolution in everything They see for people and also for people who can write them if you want for people who yeah Some fuck shit I was trying to leave the end of the sentence on resolve So doing it now you can do it now We always get people smarter than us on the podcast and it always ends embarrassing No, that was a bad joke by me because people always finish each other sentences when they pause. I should have known.

Sentences. Time. Yeah. You know that finish each other's sandwiches. Yeah. I've seen that in like three things, you know, people doing that. If people always do that, that's a big joke. Yeah.

Yeah, we've finished each other sandwiches. Hmm Someone's a thief Someone started the right development, but maybe that's just the first time I saw it. It's in frozen It's in frozen. It is an amazing. Oh, it's in frozen. Oh, yeah, it's in frozen. Yeah, okay I'm in the rest of the development. I like frozen that much I prefer tangled I thought tangled was a much better film. Yeah. I thought tangled was a much better film. Yeah, I thought it was a much better film. Without tangled the problem is it to Frozen. I think Frozen probably learned a bit from tangled. Very much so. Very much so. Without Frozen. Now making it into a stage musical that will inevitably, they keep firing artists

off it. Really? So does an actor's is it? Is it creative? No, creative. So Disney's gone, we've got to make frozen into a musical. Why? Because it needs to be a musical? No, because it will make all the money in the world, which is fun. And then they put on their high Alex Timber's amazing young director, and he and the writer,

and Bobby and Christian who wrote the songs, put together a really amazing workshop, and everyone loves it, and then Disney walks in and fires, because it's actually a quality interpretation of the 10th day fire. Timbers, they fired Peter Darling, my choreographer who they fired and my choreographer, the guy who did Matilda and Grandpa Day. And now they've got a new set of people on it and they've done another workshop and it's

awful. Have you? And this is what's going to happen. Yeah. And I could easily get sued by Disney so I should say it it's awful. Have you? And this is what's going to happen. Yeah. And I could easily get sued by a Disney. So I should say it's allegedly awful. It was allegedly good. But they will put on the most because it's being made by executives.

Yeah. They'll put on a, absolutely, I predict allegedly. They'll put on a sort of this sort of middleed out thing where it's like as much like the movie as they can and they will be rewarded for that because everyone will buy tickets whatever it is. So they're facing the decision, this is an art scum association and I've got a chip in my shoulder recently developed but they made the decision so that you put frozen on Broadway and in theaters across America and Australia and the UK and China and Russia.

It will sell all the tickets for 10 years and you will all be billionaires. It's done. Yeah. So now you choose, do you make it good or reductive and crap? And they've gone, well let's do reductive and crap. Have you seen Aladdin? I've seen bits of it. Oh man.

Oh man. That's the same, same. Oh man. The line King's really good. But that's the thing, like that. They are a power's really good. Lion King's very good, but that was pretty, they are a powerhouse because of the Lion King because they took a risk. Yeah, until the time when it was so counter-intuitive.

So what I did on the stand about Aladdin, like they just, I can't believe how, in my opinion, they just, Aladdin, I think, is one of the, in terms of the film. That's why I wanted to do Larratons, it's Aladdin Rip. Yeah, yeah, it's such a solid script, such a great story. I can't believe how hard they fucked it. I just don't understand how you could have taken something so good. Yeah. It made all the wrong choices. I can't find out how to talk about it alone because I got friends in it and you don't want to

forget. But you just, you know, it's like I've got friends in Kinky Boots in Australia and I want with all my heart to just write that thing off because Because it won all the Tony's Yeah, yeah, that Matilda was on Broadway and but I can't my friends are in there every night working really hard to make it work And they do because they're incredibly tough of our founding anti-donna members is in Kinky Boots Australia He's the leading homophobic the last one. Yes No one the lost to Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, so not Adrian that the one who went on to bigger and better things

He's the main homophobic so every night he He's redeemed by the end of it and he has to receive the line. He has to react and be on the end of the line He has to say if he's the character I think he has to say the line and if you win when the trans person when the drag queen is threatening saying let's box This hour. Yes, and if you win and she says he says the drag dude says if I win you have to see someone for who they really are Which is of course so easy that's just the switch that you turn on and off in your brain. I think that's fine I don't want to have no it is and then he has like I'll never thought of it that way before Said that you guys laugh and Jess, but he does eventually see You guys see the extraordinary thing about fighting

You've got a point of people in the face really. It's just things from your point of view. It's stage fighting, Tim. I would have point you. It's stage fighting. Don't worry, it has enough masculine traits. It's exactly right. It's all right to be trans and dress on women's clothing, but you better be out of punts, someone.

Is that redeems you? How would you get an audition for that Frozen show, by the way, just out of like funny curiosity? Um, because I'll send you the details. You'd make it great. You would make it great else. I was thinking, like, I'm a pretty funny guy. I could do this snowman guy or something like that.

And lost. I'll fall into summer. Oh, I'm all off. I'm all in the summer. Yeah. Um, Frozen's great. And Bobby and Kristen, who wrote that amazing. Yeah. Frozen's great. And Bobby and Kristen, who wrote that amazing. Yeah, they're incredible.

He might have three shows running at once. What's he got more than New York? He's got more than an avenue to you. It's gotta be close. Aventine is doing this tiny theater now, but I'm unbelievable, show. Aventine, you cute, beat W wicked at the Tony's famous, like, yeah, that's a first season.

Steven Schwartz just got up and walked out, and I was like, quite inspired by him. Not that, I think it was, like, Avenue Q and wicked are both incredible shows for very different reasons, but Steven's like been writing for so long, and he felt it. Yeah, man, wow. Wow, yeah, few. But Avenue Q just hit, it just did something that no one else had ever done

Yeah, you know like it was the first musical I ever heard that that's what made me love musicals like right really like musicals Yeah, I'm actually I'm gonna you out of there I was in high school. Yeah, of course. Yeah, just blew my socks up. I've never heard anything like this and then Mormon obviously And then more than is just see like on another level reminds me when I was at high school and Tom What my Tom and I went to the same high school and you've had the same experience? I'm not sure about you Mark, but we all wanted to do Jesus Christ super star at high school Yeah, I'm on wheel and everyone always wanted to be other Judas and leather jacket or Jesus and then you'd always try and sing the High Jesus note in heaven on their minds. Jesus!

And you got to do it. Yeah. How was that? Yeah, it's the best thing I've ever done. Really? Literally the best thing I've ever done. It was incredible. I've also never been so excited by anything in my life.

No moment in my career was as exciting to me as the email saying, you know, dude, dude, is, I'm like, yeah. So was the production happening or was it based or you'd be doing it? Yeah, they had bookseal. So, seal. So, seal? You took seal's job.

I took a job off seal. How did you do? Club seal. How does it feel to take a job off seal? Was the coat made out of his skin for the production? Yeah. Beautiful voice. I mean, it wasn't... Seals, amazing. Seeing us, I was like, oh, really?

But what happened is I've always wanted to play Judas with all my heart. I've understudied it twice in amateur and primate productions and never got to do it. And I went and saw Jesus Christ's oops out on Broadway a few years ago, and Judas was actually ill. It was opening night and he went on anyway. But I just went, because

I've always gone, I can't really do it. There's proper singers out there and all that. And then I watched, I just went, I could do better than that. And so I emailed Lloyd Webber and went, I know you'll think I'm joking because everyone always does. But if you are going to, I've heard you're going to put Jesus Christ's back on, I'd heard this arena tour is going to happen. Can I just come and sing it for you? Like just a human me because, you know, Matilda's in your theater and you were mates. Just, you know, and he went, oh man, I always should tell me earlier, I just booked Sting.

I mean, not Sting's seal. Same thing. What? Sting as Jesus. Now, Sting as Jesus, I'm, King Seal? Now, sting as Jesus. I mean, be quite interesting, because Jesus in Jesus Christ, Superstar, is amazing, but slightly annoying.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Seal, a book seal, and I went, shit. And I thought, of course, seals an amazing vocalist with incredible range. Like, it was very humbling. I was like, yeah, of course,

you're going to get someone proper. And then, then, Seal went through a marriage break, I'm going to stuff and he pulled out and I got this email going, we're going on sale next week, help. And I'm like, okay. And I went, well, you have to audition me. And they're like, oh, no, if you think you can do it, we'll just book you. Because in England, you know, I guess, because I thought my name had some tickets. I don't know, bloody hell. And I went, dude, I know, I guess, because I thought my name had some tickets. I don't know, bloody hell. And I went, dude, I'm not gonna,

I just sing this in my lounge room. I've been singing my lounge room for 30 years, but I've never, like, you have to, I need you to tell me whether I'm fucking mad, whether I'm one of those American idol singers who comes and gets, I'm a genius, I mean. So I went to Lloyd Webber's office and he has this atrium, like glass housey bit out the back.

And there was that they had a pianist and the production guy and they went, oh, you know, the Lord is a little late. Do you wanna sing something? And I went, what do I sing? And then musical director said, well, I guess the tough one is the death. So I do wanna have a crack, which starts higher

than the Jesus. Ma-gana-so-him, it looked like Cardinals did. Well, that's shit. Yeaha-da-da saw him, he looked record as dead! He had that shit. Yeah, and I did that, and like, went, and they were all staring at me, and then Lloyd Rebel walks in, and they're like, oh, Tim's just been doing some stuff. Do you want to hear anything? And Lloyd Rebel's like,

well, we should hear the death, I suppose. So I went, Maca-da saw him, and they think, and you know, because I don't know how to do things by half and I've never really done a musical theater audition, I'm like, on the floor, I'm like, I don't know how to lie! I don't know!

Why, and I look up and they're all just like, okay, you can do it. You can calm down now. I'm like, but this is how I've been doing in my lounge room 30 years. I'm making myself cry, man. It was the best thing I've ever seen. Yeah.

Fuck. That's incredible. Did you face the message to the two people you understudied in the... I haven't yet except the Jesus from the one at the quarry amphitheatre in Perth. God in touch. Yeah. And a few of my old Jesus Christ's hypes, our alumni from those Perth productions came and started. Oh, that's awesome.

That's so cool. But we're always, they're talking about how funny it is in like amateur productions of Jesus Christ who's got people talking behind us. Oh, you're telling me. Jesus! You've started to believe. When you say, say, have you, you really do believe

this talk of God is true. Yeah. You're going down the octave. Yeah. All the worst, I mean, this incredible singer did one of the productions I did, but he had one of those floaty ranges. So he'd be like, Jesus! And I'm like, it's written because it sounds, it should sound like it hurts.

Yeah, yeah. It doesn't sound like it hurts. You're not doing what it's written for, you know. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What is Curie what is Andrew Lloyd Webman's email address? Where the boy might be the law. Yeah. How did you have that? How were you able to just go? Well because my daughter's in in one of my daughter's in one of his theaters

So that's just what happens when you book a show Well, it's a little card with There's angelic words. There's a Facebook message group. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. You're joining too. Hey guys, if you just need the message in the back, you know, kind of where the exits and entries are. That's weird. That's his email address. Don't say it out loud. What does that mean? It has the word cat in it.

Interesting. Maybe it's one of the cats that didn't make it into cats. That is just like so funny. It is not magical Mr. Mustafa Lee's. It's so funny you'd have a hotmail. That's so weird. That's not a hotmail, wasn't it? It's not a joke.

I love the idea of like, now there's just like four people right now. I just like going, the cat. The mystery cat. Lord cat. Andrew Lloyd cat. The Lord cat. Andrew Lloyd cat. Andrew Lloyd Webcat. Andrew Lloyd Webcat. Andrew Lloyd Web.

Andrew Lloyd World Wide Webber. That would be my email. That would be World Wide Webber if I had an email. I think it's taken by. Andy Webber. I think it's taken by. Andrew Lloyd who loves cooking barbies. Andrew Lloyd who loves cooking barbies. Andrew Lloyd Webber. Andrew Lloyd Webber's taken by the barbecue cook Andrew Lloyd who loves cookin Barbie. Andrew Lloyd. Andrew Lloyd Weber's taken my one. Yeah. I love a cookin. We had the best barbecue

we've ever had the other day speaking of which. Oh yeah. Where? Have you been to Austin? Have you spent the time in Austin Texas? Right, it's a great place for a gig. Yeah, it's good. Yes, I've really fucked up how good that place was because it's in a heavily heavily I guess republic state. Yeah, but this Really left thinking really progressive city Bazaar how good we were getting photos with fans and and the hug to guys this normal looking guy was wearing a suit Looks like a normal Donna fan, which I'm sure you can imagine what they look like suit Yeah, right. It was wearing a suit and hugged him and I'm pretty sure I'm pretty sure can imagine what they look like. Suit. Yeah, right. It was there in a suit and hugged him. And I'm pretty sure I'm pretty sure he had a gun on him.

Oh, yeah, and I was there. And I was just, I'd never felt that before. And it just kind of like freaked me out. Yeah, first place is where we've had a police officer on with a like, which is. Yeah, yeah, security guard. Like it wasn't out of the front of the line. But there was a police officer there.

Yeah, yeah. It was such a beautiful city. I think with a lot of avoid audience participation in any state with concealed carry. Yeah, apparently you can walk around. It doesn't have to be concealed. Yeah, open carry in that in that city. Yeah, Texas is amazing. It is, I mean, Austin and Houston to a certain extent. And what's the other one that's super liberal in Texas? I was pretty much saying that. Well, Dallas is not.

I mean, Dallas is, Dallas is where I did a gig. I mean, yeah, that pretty straight up and down. But the further you get in there, the more passionate the fans are in my little world anyway, because they're like they come now. I mean what's your videos and you know where I go to I'm a biology teacher and I yeah I get in trouble when I teach evolution you know like that there's actually something. It's like there's something at stake for him. Eddie is doing every state of the US. He's doing of course. Of course. And I'm doing a TV show with him in six hours. Oh you really? Yeah. He's a. course. Of course he is. And now... I'm doing a TV show in the min 6 hours. Oh, you really?

Yeah. He's odd. Oh Eddie, yeah, he's in town. Yeah, we've got the same promoter over here and it looks like he's doing this incredible book tour. Of course, Arnold, yeah, and he's doing this book. Yeah, yeah. What's the TV show?

It's called At Midnight, you know, Chris Hardwick thing? Yeah, I've seen you do that. You were very good. Oh. Yeah, I'm not sure. Restarby's very funny. I think I've done it a couple of times once with Reese maybe they let you prepare jokes I know if you've chosen Australia where they go these are what the questions are gonna be Oh, yeah, no, they so I'll get there an hour and a half before taping and I'll be given a writer. Oh Wow, yeah, it's fantastic. Yeah, it's all cheating. Well, whereas some buzz cocks is not buzz cocks unless you're the host

You get to write but oh no, no, no, there's writing. They all it's all cheating. Whereas, um, Buzzcox is not buzz cox, unless you're the host you get to write But oh no, no, no, there's writing. They all all those panel shows have writers and time. Why they're so good Yeah, that's funny. That's it. Anyway, oh and also the tape for four hours. Yeah, not not at midnight actually But but buzz cox tapes hours and hours and I my mum was so mad at me when she went on I told her her favorite show was all written Like they had writers. Yeah, so mad at me when I told her her favorite show was all written like they had writers for me. So mad at me for killing her fantasy. Yeah have you been paying attention? Did you tell her Elsa's not real? Yeah no she yeah mom she was pissed off that night. I'm so sorry about that. We are in Kelly. We should probably wrap this

one up right now and thank our wonderful guest. Richard in the kitchen. Mention in the kitchen. And we'll be back with another hot podcast with Tim mentioned next week. Oh, all right. No, but we'll record it now. Oh, okay. Do you understand how podcasts work? Yes, but not time.

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