Aunty Donna Podcast - Glennridge Secondary College

Episode Date: March 28, 2018

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A list of production. Welcome morning everyone. Good morning, Zach, good morning, Mark. Good morning, Mark. Oh, this is a filmed podcast, this one. We're filming, we're onto a, so we're filming on a mobile phone and it's Sam instead of Matt. So the quality of, if you want to head to YouTube, to see the quality of our film podcast drop significantly. Not only in the quality of the film,

but of the filming itself max is a an experienced Award-winning camera man seasoned with Perry Perry salt. He is a little spicy, isn't he? He is a bit spicy. Perry Perry is just chilly. Yeah, well, it's just the Portuguese. That's just what they call it It's the word for Chile, but Perry Perry. Oh, here we go. Well, Perry Perry and Ann comes in Zach with his fucking information. What has been citrus notes? There's a lot of citrus in the Perry Perry source. I think you're thinking of lemon. Lemon has citrus. Yeah, they use lemon.

Dingbat. So all bad start. if you go to the video for this week You'll see that we filmed this with a beautiful landscape of Canberra behind us Or actually We listen I'm listening in this pot Most honest and so star. I don't know how many episodes have done in this I think this is a 300 350,000 podcasts we've recorded. Occasionally, okay, I'm so sorry, before you start,

is it 357,300 or 3 million? We all said a different number. 357,000. Are you sure of that? I'm 100% sure. Well, can we get the Twitter fact check on that, please? Hey, I gone in in these podcasts we occasionally do since Sia and honest ones like we did a we did a recap of

1999 once if you haven't heard that I don't remember And people seem to like them when we do them occasionally So we do that one and then we go do them one the next week about a dick doctor Okay, yeah kind of theme yeah this week we've decided that we're going to talk about our live shows and the process of seven years of working together and how we've created live shows and where we are now with live shows because it's not something that a lot of people see us do

or like, you know, more people see us online and then of a select few see us perform it then I select few CS perform Yeah It on stage though. This is true, but it's a really big part of what we do and The live shows. Yeah, yeah fun fact, bro. No, no, no, you know this But we actually started out as a lot as a lot as a lot. I think I do not know that many times I've got a fact I don't know if you know this. We actually started with four members as a live group at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.

That's right. But well, five, it was five members, and then we had two cuts that tagged along, and then they got, and then they were like, fuck and put us in the group. Fuck and put us in the group. Figure nine's not going that well. Put us in the group.

It's true. Which was of course Thomas, I'm a sick, I'm strong and Max, I need me that money, that sweet Dona money miller. And now the two other performers who left were called Joe Koski and Adrian Dean for anyone who's not up to the, up with the Dona. Joe, I will stand by this, Joe was never never in the group he was never a part of the group He didn't do anything for the group he contributed to He did a lot of work with the group early on but he got into a touring production of Jersey boys And went off to be a very successful music theater performer. He's in Priscilla Queen of the desert in Melbourne, Garcia in my heart

Joe was never a's in Priscilla Queen of the Desert in Melbourne, go see him. In my heart, Joe's never remembered. This Priscilla has. And I think it's a lawyer. This Priscilla have songs from the movie, like, is it a bit of a jukebox? Dan, yeah, I have a lot of abba songs. Cool. That's great, that's good to know. I think you're thinking of Mamma Mia.

No. He's there like any like, original songs, is there any like, Oh, I'm Priscilla.illa I go in of the desert Honestly, don't remember but it has its raining man and it has finally by chachay peniston and it has mama mea and it has dancing queen You're thinking you're definitely thinking of mama mea too That wasn't me it wasn't it is coming out and it looks Is streep still in it? No, Streep is not in it.

Oh, she is the best. Why is anyone making movies without Meryl Streep? Well, unfortunately, she's only one person. By the maker movie, it'll be cast entirely but with Meryl Streep. Oh, no, there's room for Stanley Tucci. Oh, she Tucci and Strait together are unstoppable combo, unstoppable, unstoppable.

And unstoppable. Anyway, so we actually, we came from a theater school and we wanted to do theater shows. So our whole ambition was to just make theater shows, never to do YouTube, never to do podcasts, definitely never to do podcasts. We never, we, YouTube, what even was YouTube when we started? YouTube, I didn't know what it was.

When we started, it was just, it was pretty similar. We just weren't on it as much. I didn't know what it was. I never went on it. I only, the only websites I visited were xxn.com and red tube and big.com. Those are the only websites I ever visited. And I ended up seeing a psychologist about those issues I was having. Is it fair in saying, though, that deep down, the live show is something that we are the most passionate about, really, like when we're in the creative process.

Yeah. Fun fact. Fun fact, we do a new show every year, did you know that, Broden? Oh, I know that. Did you know that we're doing, one year we did two. I'm saying that for the audience,

just so they, so that, because I don't know that. So, did you know that we do a new show every year, Mark? I'm a very aware. Broden, did you know we're doing a new show every year? Yeah. I'm very aware. Bro, did you know we're doing a new show every year? Yeah, I do know that. And it's been the most taxing thing about working in this group is having to make a new show every year, but it's also very important. Oh, do you guys do a new show every year? You just brought it up. Yeah. I'm going to play, I'm going to play from here on out. I'm going to

play like an audience member that has never been to a live show Yeah, only knows Donna from YouTube. Can I am guys can help fill me in on all the details? Can I jump in on that? Can I ask that you please don't? Is that cool? It's put me in a difficult situation. I mean you do what you want to do, bro. Do I say yes and to your no? Or do I reject your no, which would be all? It's a bit of a Ben Della Creme Morgan Michael situation. It is. Hey, did you know that we started as a live group?

No, I didn't. I only know you from 1999. See, this is good. I asked you very nice. This is good. Not to do this. Hey, I'll tell you from 1999. See this is good! I asked you very nice. This is good! Not to do this. Hey, I'll tell you from 1999, I'm not gonna see your live show

because I saw a live show two years ago. I imagine it's the same. No, not at all. I said good. This live show is a live show that is different. It was written by a man called Finnbar, Finnbar Todd. He wrote it, that is true. We had an intern come in a guy and what a seven 18-year-old He was 18 18-year-old emailed us and said I wanted I want to be a I want to do comedy

I live in Melbourne and I want to intern for you guys and we said fuck all right So we get these emails all the time and And this isn't an invitation to send this more of those emails. We're very often overseas, we often can't do it, but it just worked. And so he came in and wrote down everything we were saying, and that's what this show became, Fimba Todd. I hope he comes to the show that little boy.

We should give him some cheap tickets. No. You should, I'm not in the show. I want to, as you know, we should do. We should invite him some cheap tickets. No. You should, I'm not in the queue. I wanna, as you know, we should do, we should invite him to the show and then print out a picture of him that says do not let this man into the theater and put it next to the box office.

I got a quick question to you, writing. Earlier, you said Finn Byte was 17, he was definitely 18, was it? He was a uni, so he has to be here. Cool. Next, next. I don't know where to go from there. You just, it's in your way.

No, go a next point about your show. Oh God. Oh God. Anyway, I'm in Bar of You watching. Anyway, why do we make a show a year? Why do you make a show a year? Why do you make a show a year? Because Australia has a very small population, and if we don't, then there's no way we can

possibly survive. As we've gotten bigger, we've found out that in America, when we're two in America, we've found out there's people who do the same hour, just forever. Forever. They'll just do the same material ever and ever and ever. Which sounds very easy. It sounds like a lot of people. But also to support that.

Very boring. So wait, let me get this straight. This Melbourne comedy festival show that's debuting tomorrow. It's really good. It's a completely new show. No best of, no old stuff. There's a, there's, there's, there's like Daniel's direct. Um, it is, it's, it's, uh, it's not completely,

there's gonna be some stuff in there that you've heard before, but not seen live in the new one. And we are of course talking about Glen Ridge, second-year college, which is a new show. This is the name of the show that we're touring around Australia, ATM, not Auto Tele Machine at the moment. We're opening up in Melbourne on tomorrow. Can I get a quick question?

Yes, we can. Where can I buy tickets? Don't do this. Don't do this, we're on. I want to ask a sincere question. Can we be sincere for 30 seconds? All right, but I'm gonna, but I will answer it with one eye close.

Because yeah, that's fair enough. Because I deep down know that everyone cares very much about this show. It's been the last three months working on our soft trying to make this show really good. I want to know what's the one thing more than anything else that excites you about this show, Mark. With sincerity. Being on stage with my two best friends.

There it is. There's that sincerity. There's that sincerity. What? I genuinely... Tell them about the hotel room situation in Canberra and your journey. Or maybe I'll tell you, because you told me very funny.

Okay, I don't remember. Mark, because we are a large touring group and we're still povos, we don't get our own hotel rooms yet because we can't afford them. So often what will happen is there's four of us usually on tour and we will split around and share double rooms. Which means we all know each other very, very well.

I know how each of you hide the sound of your masturbates. Come on, Zach. You don't say it. You think you know mine, but you don't. I'll tell you that right now. You don't, man. Anyway, go. You would be surprised. Anyway, when we, when we camera comedy festival, we got our own hotel rooms for multiple

reasons. And Mark got here and he said, and he said to our manager, he said, great, I just get my keys from him, there you go, there's your key for your room. And Mark went, oh, no, no, no, I think there's been a mistake. I need two key cards, one key card for for me and one for one of my best friends Please wears the key card for one of my best friends Mark's acro Tom No, no, no, you have your own room It's really funny because my journey since I've been in a room on my own is last night

I slept next to my own is last night I slept next to my own spilt kimchi juice. Of course eating kimchi I spilled some juice on the bed and I slept next to it. Since earlier one thing that I'm very excited about with this show, it's always really exciting getting to do new material for the first time. Like that is always just really cool because like you are, it's just a fun feeling. Like you spend like you know we've been touring America with big boys that we've sort of put some old classics in that we haven't performed for a long time. So those feel quite new and those feel quite exciting to perform again.

But then all the stuff in big boys from last year's show, I just want to fucking kill myself rather than perform again. That's not true, boys. That's not true. Well, if you rewind the tape there, what you'll see is a man on a bit and then realize that we have to do this show in June and sell it. If you rewind the tape, you'll see that. That was really fun. Big boys is a really fun show.

And so now, but doing new that. That was really fun. Big boys is a really fun show. And so now, but doing new stuff is really, really great. But I love the pace of this show. We set out going, big boys was all about how far can we push this sort of rock show element of what we do? Because that was in a lot of the reviews, people were like, it's like a big rock show and more like, well, what if we actually did and and got time and put him on stage? Which we'd wanted to do for years and have him play all live instruments and it be big and showy and this was all about

What is what is an evolution of that without going? bigger Almost yeah, because it was like we couldn't really go much bigger than we had unless we were doing like fucking Yeah, yeah, you know and we and we didn't really want to do that just yet that's for when we break up and Then come back like ten years later if there's a demand something about us all being 50 I want to talk about that at some point is our reunion show I actually wish to do that next year There's something about us all being 50. I wanna talk about that at some point. Is our reunion show?

I actually wish to do that next year. We should do our, like, we're all 50 reunion show next year. That's a very funny idea for a show. It's a good idea for a best of. Yeah. To do a best of. We'll be funny though as well. That's the best of next year or old. And there's like all these classic sketches,

but they're all brand new. That brand new sketches. they're all brand new. Brandy sketches. It's best of from 2020 to 2025. Oh, it's Captain Parrot. But yeah, I really love that we've evolved the show without going bigger because I feel like every year up until big boys was always about bigger bigger bigger how can we be bigger how can we be louder how can we push that rock show element and this year is a step forward but without doing that which

I think is super cool and it's feels very different performing this show to our other shows and I really like that. Do you find that interesting new person outside of the world? Now I find it lame. You okay? Zach, we're doing a sincere podcast. I know, just I think it's very nice. Do you make jokes like that? Yeah.

All right, can we rewind that? Ask me the question. How did you feel about that? I agree with him. It's that we went, we made a big show and then we made a bigger show in a different way. I really like that I'm asking the question What do you think of that good? It's good

I'll tell you what I'm excited about Farts no, I can be genuine boys I'm I can be genuine boys. Oh my god Boom boom no boys. I can be genuine give me a second boys. Let me be genuine here. Oh Let me be genuine boys come on boys. No one's stopping I'm sorry. I'm really excited about the single location element of the show. That's something I've wanted to... What does that mean? ...and years. Well, it's all set at Glen Ridge Secondary College.

It's all set in a single location. Something we've done in our web series a number of times. We've never done it in a live show and it's just something that has always intrigued me. There's a theatricality to that and it's really exciting to do that. I'd be boring. Oh. I'm excited for the... We sort of did it with our second show ever, Antidonna and the Fax machine shop, which was all set in a massive Sprottville.

Remember it got a real set. That's all scrubbed. So what happened? This is a bit of a corner history. So the first show we ever wrote,'d none of us had ever really written comedy before and performed comedy We've written comedic plays we've written little things here that we have performed in a comedic play the year before um and Which is spectacular

We did it exactly. I did a show for comedy festival year before and I got half a star review It was great shows did a show for coming in Fistley, you've been foreign, I've got half a star of you. Anyway, I was written by a very funny guy, director, I have very funny, and a lot of people would say, a lot of people would say half a star more than it deserved. That's true. That's very cruel. It's very good people attached.

Some bad people attached to that show, but some very good people attached to that show. Back on track. So our first show, we just wrote, let's write what we find funny. And we wrote this show and we had no idea if it was funny. And the first time we did it, we were all absolutely horrified if anyone would laugh.

We did it and it got nominated for an award. Your mum was very upset. Your mum was very upset. Your mum was very upset. Your mum came the first night and looked at me like, what have you done? I still remember the look on your mother's eyes, like still to this day.

And I remember like the next day calling my mum and warning her about the show. Just saying, but I was gonna say, I remember I was telling some of the other day, I remember we were in a little 50 seat of venue and I remember being just outside near the pool table and all four of us, the three of us in Adrian, and maybe Sam,

you were probably doing this as well. We were all sharing a pint of beer. We all had one pint of beer and we're all just taking little sips out of the beer. We were so nervous. I don't remember that. So the main review of that show is like, it's so rude and it had sketches like fan Adam Gay, trendy cafe, Xbox and other ones that end up in YouTube sketches. Hot dogs, appreciation fan club, which died at the end of the show. I still love that sketch.

Anyway, so that was so we did that show and all right, we're a rude group. That's what we are. So we said everyone thinks we're rude, so we're rude. Let's do another rude show and we made a show where we said, cunt and fuck and come like more than the word and or the like we just said that we had so much. We had a seven and a half minute sketch all about come. Yes, we call it come. It was about, it was about, the near the crime scene, someone found a cup of cum and then we were calling the DNA expert

who about halfway through the scene like started calling himself a cum expert and then it became a collect call kind of situation where it would be like I'm just going to put you through to this person I'm just oh sorry I'm cool waiting it was cool wait I'm on cool waiting and then it just escalated to the point that we had a character called the come theory who would like fly around and like But so come on people Um, so it was it was it made up I loved it. It made up 20 to 25% of the show Um, and it was about come so if people weren't on board it was seven out of 10 10% 10% yeah, yeah 10% It felt actually no more than 10 closer to 15% of the show was a

Skinny just figure out exactly the percentage place because I feel like this is Really someone's phone for a second because we're filming on my phone I can work I think 15th episode. Let's just land off 15th. Well, I can just quietly work it out while you talk right Well, this is easy enough. I just I just bought it. Can I use your calculator? No, I'm using the running sheet for this podcast I'll just borrow Tom's I'm so sorry guys, we need to work out how important I need to know exactly what the percentage of this was. Anyway, it's vital. But no, I'm excited for this show to be all set in one location too.

Can I tell you what I find? Is it my sincere thing about the show? No, let's move on. Yeah, moving on. Broden, go! Broden! Broden! Broden! Broden Broden Broden Broden Stop it stop it stop it stop it Broden Broden just speak from your heart

This is genuinely what I feel as we've gone on and we've done more and more shows The thing that I've we've learned and is really important is that you, when you write sketches, you write them for yourself, but then you also need the real key to doing comedy is, can you translate that so that a room of people understand it? Because what you and your best friend laugh about is, is different to what a big room of people laugh about. You know, the best comedians in the world are doing, they are translating what they find funny to a big room of people. And so as we've gone on, we've tried to do that a lot. What we've done this year, with this show, is taken nuggets of what we all found funny when we were 13 years old, and we've tried to translate that to a large

group of people, shit that I never thought we would be able to translate that to a large group of people. Shit that I never thought we would be able to translate. Sketch is about like theater groups coming into your school and performing for you or... Well that's a sketch we've been wanting to do for six years. Yes, that is a sketch we have tried to get up for six years and it's always felt too niche. There was a version of it very first rehearsals that we used to use as a warm up sketch.

Yeah. And now it's finally become a show. So what I would say is what excites me and what I'm fucking horrified about is this is the most like personal show that I think we've made. For me at least, it feels the most personal. Yeah, yeah.

Because I'm, it's, a lot of the sketches are built from my, my your all of our memories and we've turned them into into sketches usually it's something a bit more abstract or it's coming from you know something else but this is very personal to me this show in a very dumb way not even yeah this is my journey but like it it's just these are memories these are my memories and I'm performing them now and I'm really scared about that but I'm also very excited about that. What I'm also very excited about is the amount of people that are going to come to this show now that sort of ignore the last bit of what you said.

Expecting like monologues about like I remember I was in year 8 I think. I lost my virginity to a girl named Gabriel look that's not true No, and but I it's funnily enough like almost the same notion but the direct inverse of that is how grounding and in one location has allowed us to go weird in a way we haven't been able to go weird in a lot of true Yes, really long time. Yeah, I found like As we've gone into big event news and stuff, it's been really, really hard to do the weird loose shit that we started out doing and that we do a lot of on YouTube where the grounding of a school has... there's some shit in here that's the weirdest stuff

we've done in years, which is really starting. Yeah, because we've, like we're saying before, we've pushed the show, but not pushed it in terms of scale and wow factor, we've pushed it in terms of scale and wow factor. We've pushed it in terms of things that we're doing conceptually, with costumes and sets and that kind of thing. Just bringing in other theatrical elements that we've never really done before, that we've stayed away from before. It all happened quite organically. That was never the goal for the show.

The goal, I think the goal was to push ourselves and try something different. Yeah, yeah. And we allowed ourselves to open ourselves up to trying to kind of stuff, yeah. Before you go on, based on a length of 52 minutes, which I think is a fair guess at that point in our career, 52 minutes. I don't know. And a sketch going for 52 minutes, which I think is a fair guess at that point in our career, 52 minutes.

I don't know. And a sketch going for seven minutes, the cum sketch was 13.46%. Right, okay. Percent of the show. Which is, which is, you're talking about when we cut it down, it was initially longer.

It was initially eight minutes. Okay, I'll get back to you. Great. No, it was initially seven and then we cut it down to five. That's the fact. Okay. I think it was eight at some point. No, okay.

Well, 13.4. Great, it's a lot of a show. It's a lot of a show to be that divisive because we weren't good enough writers then to warrant spending that long. I'll come. Anyway, go on. But that's what I'm excited about. But you touched on something there is we've, when we started, this is something

also that is interesting to me is that when we started, we were like, we will be the guys who wear the suits. We're going to wear suits for every show. Yeah. Because we want, we were on the first show we ever made was at 11 o'clock at night. And we wanted to be this late night jazz kind of vibe show. And so for every year since then it's been our sort of uniform for doing stage shows is to have costumes, to our costume to be black suits and without going into it too much

we're not doing that this year, which is very comfortable, but very different. Yeah, like not too different, just a subtle little shift, but I like they're not going into it too much. I'm like, what's going on? He's back to the guy he doesn't know. I wonder what we could be wearing at this show, set in a school. Well, I'll tell you one thing, a lot of people have been like, I'm wearing shoes this time. Oh, it's normal. And not just normal shoes, like big, like... The biggest shoes this time. Oh, I see.

And not just normal shoes like big, like. The biggest shoes you've ever seen on a man. They are gigantic. They're wellingtons that cover my, that they come up to my wall Wellington. And it's just, it's one wellington that comes up to the bottom of my scrote. And he hops around.

You said scrroat. Instead of Scrot and I think both are acceptable, that just really struck a chord with me. As in like a good chord? No. About very like an off minor chord. Scroat I think is funny, other than... No, they're both funny. Scroat.

Scroat. I think they're both... Scroat as a part of it. I don't think Scroat could be funny without the pioneering work of Scrot. Scrot, I feel, is a play on Scrot. Because it would have been Scrot first because it's Scrot term. I suppose you're right. So, Nacius D has that line in Wonder Boy where the slashes throat and grab his Scrot.

Yeah, that's true. Right. So, I guess the question is, what came first? The scrot or the scrot? Definitely scrot, because it's scrotum. Scrot, scrot. You wouldn't go from scrotum to scrot. And then add. It's all about peeling back.

It's all about getting to the, how little can you say to get it across. So it would have gone scrotum them, scrolled, scrolled. And if there's any linguists out there that disagree, you don't know what the fuck you're talking about. Yes, up on twits. If there's any linguine out there, you're the great with pesto. Delicious pesto. Can I, as we close out this podcast, can I ask you guys without going into any detail?

Are we closing it out? Is it near the end? Yes. Wait, how guys guys can I just say before we close it out I've had such a great time with I love doing this with you guys these are the highlights of my week I can't believe it's nearly finished I've just had this amazing journey with your boys these are my highlights podcast with the boys not finding blood in my stool not finding blood is a highlight and making love to my partner. Making love to his partner. That's my. Yeah, yeah. What is without going into any detail, your favorite, your most sketch in the new show that you are most excited about performing.

If the name of the sketch is going to give it away, then change the name. A bit cheeky. Yeah. Mine would have to be Trendy Cafe. I love doing that in this. It's not in this show. It's sort of a bit of a best of you've seen it all before There's one there's one's get clear to the audience. We're not doing

Unless unless at the end of the show everyone starts going Trendy cafe trendy cafe and we won't do it Tom would have to line up all the track. It wouldn't work. No. But do that anyway. If a podcast is coming soon, it's that you'll be at Trinity Cafe at the end of the show. We'll know that you listen to watch this podcast.

There's one sketch that I've really been enjoying doing because it's just so stupid and it seems to be resonating with a lot of people where I wear something very silly. And so I'm very excited about that one because I really like that I think it's fun to perform and it's very different for us and I also like the way that it came about from rehearsal To being

Broad you tell I don't remember so what it started out is so just started out as I I don't remember. So what did it start out as? So just started out as I was wearing something to rehearsal, something that I wear normally. And then I did something with it for some reason, just like as a stupid improv, as a part of a different sketch. Was it?

Yeah, right. I just did a thing with it. I never had this idea. It was never pitched. Yeah, right. And so I did it. And then we all went, okay, that you probably didn't really work at whatever.

And then Brodom went, actually, can we talk about what you just did Mark? Can we just talk about that? All right. And then we're like, all right. And then from me just doing that thing, then we came up with the concept for the sketch. So it's one of those ones that was never pitched

and it just came out of a stupid funny thing that happened in the room. I love those sketches. Those ones are always so interesting. This is good, because if I was a podcast listener and I came to the show, I would like that, because I think you'll know immediately what we're talking about. Definitely. You'll know.

You did the same. Like, name a sketch and then sort of give how it came about, but without any detail. Can you do it? Cause I can't think of what I can. Right, okay, well I'll just say the one that we're talking about. So I'll just say a theater group coming into a school.

Oh yeah. That's the one I'm excited about the most because it was the one I was like, this will never be in the show. Yeah. There's no way this will ever be in the show, but we'll do it at test shows. You're out of time, is it nearly got cut? But now sometimes you write a sketch out,

this will go great, and then sometimes you go this will do this, and then we'll all agree to never do it again. But this one just kept working without any understanding why. And then what also happened is there's, because the front end of it needed an intro. And also because my job before being comedian was to tour through high schools and do theatre shows. Really bad theatre shows written by an idiot. And so when... Are you gonna wanna beat that? No.

And when the teachers that would introduce you were very funny. And so... I think that's enough. Well, you sound like my mom went at a wedding and I've drank too much. Right. I think you've had enough to drink.

No, but this is great. This is a great part of the show. great. But then part of the show. But the energy that the show created, that that stuff in this show is surprising me how it's going. So I'm excited for that. That one and that one was one that just it was like, rocks my world so much. I just, I love pure parity. I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I probably feel similarly. It's just got really great perspectives, like Brodon's perspective of what he's witnessed from doing school shows, and just taking that,

literally, and just putting it in the show, like just copy pasting it from real life, and it working is the best thing ever. Fucking love that moment in the show. It is zack and I stand at the back of the stage and all we're trying to do is not laugh because it is generally one of the funniest things I think we've ever put in front of people. I love it so so much. And then on top of that, the element of like all of us having seen theater in education more and then just doing the most Ridiculous stupid fucking version of the thing about the act. Yeah, the actual theater theater and Ed bit

is Because I you before you both have performed in theater and Ed I've directed like a version of theater and edit. Yeah. And then we've all seen theater and edit. And it's just something you don't need to have a point or a joke. It's the funniest thing in the whole world. And what's your one? Probably the same.

Probably the same. It's not that. Unfortunately, it's not that. It's a cup out. I like the whole shot. I think there's something you do in this show that's very special. I'm having fun. That's very different for you and that you've never done before, really, in one of our shows.

Yeah, I'm having fun with that. I don't know what that is. The monologue. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I'm having a lot of fun with that. Yeah. And it's very similar, very similar slice of life sort of parody. And that comes very much from two very real things.

That's the same thing of just like very real, very real, and all you've got to do is add some jokes and just real. And I would say because of the show we chose to do, that is the reason that sketch is in it, because those are the kind of sketches that we usually develop that get cut, I think from a high-paced, like a really fast-paced rock and roll sketch show. We very, really have time and moments for like drawing out more roles and just one person on stage doing the thing. But because of this setting and where it is, that felt so like integral to making this show special is having that sort of element in it. So it's really cool.

The whole, I quite mean it when I say the whole show. It feels, it's the same. I don't know if it's gonna feel different for an audience. I don't know if an audience is gonna go away saying that's different to what you normally do, other than the fact the costumes are a bit different to stage, you know, to a normal, like, I don't know, it'll be interesting to find out in the meet and greet.

So maybe people will go, that's more of what you do and we love what you do. But to us, it feels very different. It feels like a real step and it feels like it feels like yeah like like well that's exciting that we can move it that way yeah yeah that's a good easy is what I imagine someone would say if they were a part of it hey guys tell me how can I get tickets to this show it's been a very sincere conversation and I've enjoyed it. I hope you have too.

Yeah, if you had the artidonna.com slash shows, you can grab tickets to Melbourne Perth Sydney Brisbane dates. But I'm poor. I'm a poor student at Auckland. If you're in Melbourne for the next, for Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, this week. It's preview shows so you can get Cheap tickets getting it's getting quick. I don't know how many are left now, but Now that's all I do want us this is something if someone listens through to the end of this thing

I want to this is this is something I want to give to like our hard core listeners who listen to the whole podcast Mm-hmm, or watch all of our YouTube stuff. I was something we were talking about If you come to the show Dressed in your in your school uniform. Yes If you come to the show dressed in your old school uniform or your current school uniform We're gonna give you one of them little badges We'll see how it goes in Melbourne, but if you come in your school uniform I'm gonna lose so much money. Yeah, they're

I'll give you one of them little badges. We're gonna do a part if you want to see what the badge You were yeah, I just did a little bit. I don't know when the gap is gone is if you want to do You know as I get older have some water mate. I just had a spicy dinner It's like a 12 p.m. Yeah mate. I just had a spicy dinner. It's like a 12 p.m. Yeah mate, that's how bloody it, it's at its worst when you wake up. But you said you just had a spicy dinner.

I had a spicy dinner then I slept and then I woke up. So if you want to see what these little pins look like on all our social media is the post today on Wednesday when we did this, put this up, we'll be us holding up the pin so you can see what the pin looks like coming to school. And if everyone just comes in the school uniform then they will run out in the first day. If we run out of pins, you're not getting a pin, but that's your fault for not coming to the first three or four shows.

In your school uniform. In your school uniform. All right, well, great. And so you were saying, so where were we going? What? He said where we're going. But you say it, okay. Do you say everywhere we're going?

Yeah, and people in Adelaide. Oh, wait, wait, I'll ask it as a question. I'll ask it as a question. So I'm from Adelaide. Why aren't you coming to Adelaide? Because we've decided not to do Adelaide this year. I'm here. Are we out coming to Adelaide?

Is this not coming to Adelaide yet? We just haven't booked the venue yet, but it's happening. Don't worry, we'll get to see good bridge. I don't know if you guys like it. I sincerely enjoyed that. And we were next week, we'll do a Dick Docto one. That was torture, that was torture for me.

Sincerely? No. I love you boys. I love you boys. I love you boys. You know what I'm saying, I've got to love you boys. I love you, Mark. Thank you.

Like I love you. No. Good boy. You've been listening to the Aunty Donna podcast. Thanks for joining us for another rip episode brought to brought to you by AntidonaClub.com. See you next week!