Aunty Donna Podcast - Podcast Ep 254 - Hug The Sun

Episode Date: May 11, 2021

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Get a Legends and welcome to another rip episode of the Hanty Donna podcast. This week's episode is brought to you by Hug the Sun and we are joined by creators Ben Russell and Xavier Michael Eadies. Check out Hug the Sun by going to the Hanty Donna Instagram and clicking on the link in the world. Brody, my cat's hacking sometimes and yes, we hope you enjoyed the part of the fucking podcast. Hello everybody and welcome to the Anti-Donna podcast. We don't know when this is coming out, but a few weeks ago you may have noticed that Brody and Lesick,

you may have noticed that Broden was sick. Mark and Zach took the podcast and did it on their own. I just want to say Broden is still sick, but he's not sick again. We are recording this podcast the day after he was sick, but maybe releasing it a few weeks later. So I don't want you to worry that Broden keeps getting sick. This is all part of the one illness Broden had a few weeks ago. Because it's not the day after he was sick. It's the second day of him being sick as well. I just want to clarify that. It's the day after him being sick. Well, then he'd be here, Zach.

That's exactly right. So Broden is not here. Yes, the next thing is just fucking. Zach and Mark again. that's exactly right. So Broden is not here. Yes, the next thing is just fucking. The next thing is just fucking. The next thing is fucking. The next thing is fucking. The next thing is fucking. The next thing is fucking.

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is he's an improviser, well both of them are improvises, they're really funny guys, really fun, they've done shows together, and separately, one's got a mustache, the other has a beard. One has glasses. One has glasses, the other doesn't have glasses. One has glasses, they love doing comedy. They've been doing comedy for years, they're really funny, with big fans of them. Welcome.

One white and bakes. One white and bakes. One methadenaakes One methadena One that's a tea time one methadena he likes to get through the day before he maths My name is Xavier Michael Lee Damn right wow you bloody wish mate you bloody But then so Ben is using a voice mod there to make him sound exactly like Xavier Michael Lee, but we actually have Xavier Michael Lee, and Benjamin Russell here.

I'm the fuck up. Thank you all, man. Oh, Ben, you're being a fucking cunt. He's going to do some whole episode. He's going to do some whole episode. I can't wait. Yeah. I should say I was just pretending to not remember your names and I was hoping

that would eventuate in something like, hey, do you not know their names, Zach? But then because it just sort of did flow naturally into you doing stuff, I just want to say I do know your names, that was a bit. I didn't want that to like go away and be like, I think Zach, you didn't know Ben and Xavier's names. I thought you couldn't think of things we've done. And you had that moment, that realization of, what have these counts done? I can't even think of it. That was all part of the bit.

That was all part of the bit, you know. Yeah. Welcome. What are you doing here? Well, we are at our homes. This is done remotely. So COVID, we're not here. No. We're there.

So when you think about that, you're here on the Zoom. That is true, but we're also here at home as well as, so are you. Yeah. You know, so saying, what are you doing here? I mean, that's, that's not completely fair. For the listener, I'm trying to create a sense that we're all in this room together. Well, we are all in this together.

Yeah, we're all in this together. But now they know we're on Zoom. So they'll be noticing all the awkward pauses and I'll know you go first. Or they wouldn't have noticed if we'd just pretended we're in a room together. we just pretended we were in a room together. Well, if we were in a room together, why am I a tiny man now? Oh, you're a cunt. Why are we thinking about that? Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha What's your job, tiny man? I got people's househalls. I just got there and I say, I'm not one or a random.

I come back and I say, this is what's your problem. And it'll cost you quite a bit to get fixed. Do you do this three doctors or is this like a private little service? It's just me, I'm not a doctor, mate. I just go in there and I just have a look. I've got a flashlight and I've got, I usually put a doctor made, I just go in there and I just have a look, I've got a flashlight and I've got, I usually put on like a little like overalls, yep. I just have some questions.

Is the flashlight tiny or is it a regular size flashlight? It's a regular sized flashlight, so I take that regular sized flashlight up people's hearts. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, but your tiny. So it takes long, do you have to, you have to lube the flashlight up people's ass. Yeah, yeah, yeah, but you're tiny. So it takes long, you have to, you have to lube the flashlight up a whole bunch. And then as a little man, you're pushing against it and hugging it and going, I can't get it in. Well, I've got an assistant who's regular sized and they put me up there and then they put me up.

And the flashlight next. Yeah, usually we do a little bit of training with the patient's asshole. Yeah. Because you can't just, you know, go from zero to a hundred with shoving a flashlight up there. It sounds like a sort of, um, ant-man hawk eye situation. In many ways, I was just going to say that. If you've seen Civil War, yeah, it's very much a, um, ant-man situation. Hawk eye, ant-man hawk eye. I actually had this service done and luckily the little man told me that my

butt was fine, but after him going out there and a full-sized flashlight, it's now ruined. Yeah, your butt hole was actually one of the best butt holes that I've ever seen. Thank you. It was. And I'm sorry that we fucked it up a little bit. Pusted up now. Yeah, it's not as busted. Yes.

Well, because there are many different types of flashlights in there. And butt holes. And butt holes. Of course, everyone is like a unique flower. Yeah, it's amazing. It's like a fingerprint. Well, they do.

They solve prongs now with butt hole prongs. They can't. They can take a mold. A sick mold. Yeah, I had to get my mold in the other day. I saw I witnessed a an act of physical violence on the street and then the police officer. I'm pretty sure it was a police officer.

It was like I need to get a mold of the outside. So I had to sit in plaster. And they get Sally's. Sally celli filler. Yeah, yeah, celli poly filler. You know that too. Which is not the tour all the hairs out and I need those hairs as like a filter to stop all the bad stuff going in. Kind of like your eyelashes. Yeah, I was also going to say like the teeth of a whale. How it like feels, it just gets that plankton. I'm gonna use goblin.

Don't ever fucking call me that again. Because if you do, I'll go right off. It's borderline racist, you know I'm Italian. Balini. All right, well, Zach, you're gonna have to take over there because I'm a bit upset. Just because you're a little man, doesn't mean you're both punches. Okay, get the braces. I'll punch the shit out of you.

Because punching down for you is just punching regularly. So that's the thing about being into any man. Well, yeah, you can't punch down, never bit to punch down. All the punches that I do are punching up, so, you know.. I know if you're punching down, you'd be making jokes about ants. That's about it. There's not a lot else that you could be making. Exactly. Maybe sand, which you would just refer to as rocks. That was definitely punching dirt. That's amazing, tiny man. It's so good for you to have joined us.

Now I guess, tiny man, Xavier Michael, ladies and Penn Russell, Xavier, have you known tiny, this tiny little man for a long time? Yeah, yeah. I mean, we went on journeys together when I was a small boy. I didn't have many friends and I didn't really know many people in one time I was at school and I just saw tiny man,

piecing on the window of my classroom. And I tried to show everyone, look at this and he just disappeared whenever and else looked to make me look like I was crazy. People thought he was crazy, I ended up putting him on, you know, different medications. Yeah. And that had side effects.

Yeah. And they sent him away for a little bit. And but it was always me. And it was always just a little practical joke. And you'd always pop up, even when I was, you know, put into that center. Yeah, I knew where you were. And you would always, you know, turn up and do little dances and stuff to cheer me up. But that made it worse because I said that doctors, I just saw, he was literally just here. I just saw the tiny man. Yeah. And

they'd go look, we have to put you on more medication because there is no such thing as a tiny man. And that medication had, you know, pretty, pretty severe side effects. Yeah. Yeah. You couldn't be creative. You kind of just kind of the light. I mean, you were in so much, I put you on so much, you know? And they didn't know what they were doing. They weren't real doctors. I was just trying stuff out. Man, I was just trying it out. I was, what about this one?

Well, you know, what a great story. And you can read all about it in my new book, the same Michael Gettys and the Tiny Man. Yeah, well, I'm not gonna title, so I'm not crazy. I'm not crazy. in my new book, same like ladies in the tiny man. Yeah, well, I'm not gonna title, so that's been. I'm not crazy. I'm not crazy. Yeah, I'm not crazy.

Well, that's a photo of me in the tiny man. Yeah, I mean, those doctors, I was taking to court. Very hard to see the tiny man in that photo, by the way. Yeah, yeah, I mean, you're really small. Yeah, little. Yeah, I know. I go out, I host for breakfast. Well, that doesn't make any sense now because I thought you went up there to help people

Yeah, I do but I'd go up assholes to help people for breakfast. Are there tiny cafes? Getting breakfast up there. Yeah, that's it. I did off you know tried bits of excrement or something That's disgusting grow up. I want to know what your bedside manner is like. If you find like something real shocking up there. Listen, it's not great. It can be quite abrasive. I don't have a lot of tact. I am, you know, what I eat.

Can I ask a question about going up our cells? I was going to ask you about hug the sun. but instead I'm going to ask you a tiny little person. Thank you. When you go up an arsehole, is it important that people don't eat? Do you have rules similar to surgery that they don't eat? Do you do that sort of thing? Or do you just sort of wade through the poo?

Listen, I would prefer if someone ate a big meal. Oh, I got it. Yeah. So you're digging. You're really digging in there. No, not so much digging. You know, it's actually, I don't want things moving. I can't.

You want something to work with. Yeah, exactly. I want, you know, if I ever say it, and that is when the tiny man comes a knockin' and you don't shit yourself as the tiny man, you know, started working at all, and that's a long saying to say every day. That's huge. It doesn't make sense, but to me it does. And to my customers.

When you say a big meal, do you mean something like black rice, beef strips, greens, maybe with a little bit of soy sauce, or are you like, I like a breakfast burrito, like, you know, with the side of enchilada type meal? Yeah, I mean, I would love for you to eat a breakfast burrito on the side of enchilada in front of me. Um, but, you know, maybe, or maybe even just a, a curry. Or, you know, okay, yeah, fantastic. I love a curry. What are you guys talking about, a curry?

I love a curry. I love a curry. What's a curry? Tell me right now. What, I mean, curry is a, a British colonial word, a, that there's been applied to so many countries. What country are we talking about when we talk to her? Any Carrie that you want?

Mm, give me a prawn. Well, they're all good. Yeah, Massaman's a good one. Yeah. You love a Massaman. Yeah, yeah. If I ate a spicy carrot, you feel the heat when you're in my bum? I feel the heat at all times when you eat a spicy curry

I'm like gonna hop with my family because I've got a family And I all little now they're met regular size yeah, yeah Um yeah nice and I'll be like oh anyone feel that they're like we don't know what you're talking about tiny man or Dad Yeah, and um I'll be like, ooh, anyone feel that? They're like, we don't know what you're talking about, tiny man or dad. Yeah. And, um, and I'll be like, I reckon Mark's just eating something a bit spicy, a bit too spicy, you know? That's crazy.

Now, tiny man, Mark played a tiny man in episode six about show Untie Donors Big Old House of Fun. Yes. What did you feel about that portrayal of tiny men? Listen, I thought I was a bit pissed off. Yeah, OK. To begin with, it was like, well, my culture is not a costume. My culture is not you, you know, just, just these broad strokes that

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You just, you know, coming in and saying, I reckon people live in tiny mouse holes. There's no, there's nothing behind it. You know what I mean? You weren't trying to say anything and you're just trying to make fun of it like it was a punishment and it was so, it was so, it was so, it was so, it was so, it was so, it was so, it was so, it was so, it was so, it was so, it was so, it was so, it was so, it was so, it was so, it was so, it was so, it was so, it was so, it was so, it was so, it was so, it was so, it was so, it was so, it was so, it was so, it was so, it was so, it

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We made a little saddle out of a thumbnail. See, this is another thing that's happening right now. Mark is not tiny. No, but I was for that sketch. Okay, yeah, you were your acting like it. Yeah, but Mark's acting is sometimes so realistic. He's there. Yes.

Like he goes into it. He lived it. I mean, also Mark, like Mark at least employed, you know, force perspective and a physical set. I mean, all you've done is a voice modifier. So I think of anything. Mark, it's the tiny amount. Yeah, but I think that's unfair, Zach,

because this is an audio medium. Well, if I did employ for prospective then for what reason? Because I'm on Zoom now, so there's no perspective to in order to get sort of accept, accept for the fact that you're recording this in front of what I assume is the smallest golden gate bridge in the world. Yeah, well, that's it's a virtual background. But you could have picked a you could have picked a big place. You could have picked a big place.

You could have picked a big place. And also, there's no evidence that it's a virtual background. I mean, this is a visual. Oh, there we go. All right. You are just listening. If you're not a part of the page, you are just listening. Tiny Man, Ben Russell, just removed his virtual background

and replaced it with his real background, which is big grass. Ben Russell is different to me, Tiny Man. I'm a separate character as well. So this is actually quite, it's quite offensive. Did you have any involvement in hug the sun, the web series that Ben and Xavier hit him from? I mean, I just sort of supported Xavier. Yeah, I've never met Ben. Oh, okay. Right. Yeah, yeah. But I've heard his asshole is no good. Oh, no, right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I've heard his asshole is no good.

Oh, no, it's a rough answer. Yeah, I've been up there and it's awful. It's not a great answer. Yeah. Now, it looks like a lunch bag. Excuse me? Fill with mud. It does, it really does.

I mean, that's the talk of the comedy scene. It's been Russell's lunch bag mud, but. Yeah. And a brown paper lunch bag as well. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Because the thing about that is that it soaks through the oil. Exactly. Ben doesn't say much shit. He just sort of seeps out the shit from the lunch bag.

Yeah, yeah. It's not a good stream. It's not a solid. Stop it, guys. Stop it. I'm getting hungry. Oh, it's cool. Yeah, I'm thinking a good stream. It's not a solid stop it guys stop it. I'm getting hungry Yeah, I'm thinking about work. Yeah, um, yeah, I don't want you. We're here to promote

Hungry sandwiches a series. I'm gonna go. Oh, yeah, do you know do you want to go to sleep in my pocket? Yeah, I love that Bye-bye. I'm in oh, there he goes. Bye-bye tiny man. Where are we? What a cool guy. If you're just joining us, we're here with Xavier Michael ladies. Ben Russell. And tiny man who has sleep apnea. And tiny man who is currently sleeping if Ben Russell's pocket, not in Xavier's pocket Xavier's pocket which pocket is he sleeping in Xavier? Just my top pocket yeah My tummy pouch and mine is got a pouch in the front of a tummy. Oh like a Musubile yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, but it's all our we're all my subuiles We hello, I'm Ben Russell. Hey Ben. We're all my soupiuls. You're my soupiuls, man. I mean, hey, hello, I'm Ben Russell. Hey Ben.

We're all my soupiuls. Yeah. That's a fact. Yeah, we share a lot of DNA with my soupiuls, simply like, it'll be over 90% surely. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're 20% human and 80% marsupial. I don't think it works like that,

but because that equals 100%. That equals 100%. You're arguing that Ben's 10 years science degree. And okay, 10 year or 10 year. I've got 10 year. But I took him 10 years. 10 years to get 10 year. Yeah. We are talking to Ben Russell, Xavier Michael Eadies, about a project they approached us to EP on.

Tell us about it. Tell us about it more. Did you find it? We discovered this. We found it. We found it. We took obviously Xavier and I grew up in Perth, Western Australia. Not obviously. No, that's not obvious. That's absolutely not obvious. Obviously from our accent. You think so obvious.

Every Australian accent is very distinct and we have thick Think perth accents and you can always tell by as well a dead giveaway is our love of meth Yes, yes, we absolutely love it man and Tim winter novels The way I find out is I go hey hey do you want to go get some takeaway chicken? Yeah, and I'm like thank you. And you go no thank you or or where do you but if you were going to go where would you

go where would you go for some chicken? I would probably go to chicken treat. See that band there you go. And another way is that I go can we get a browns chock chill please? Yeah, yeah or can I have a super shake please? Yeah. Yeah, well maybe let's go to Cloud Street. Yeah, Cloud Street, yeah.

Well let's go to Cloud Street. I don't find they say that. Right as much. Oh no, they do, Zach, you just need to go to the right places. Yeah. Yeah, right. Okay, I didn't realize that. Yeah, let's go listen to some dirt music.

Yeah. Yeah. I hear people from Perth say that all the time. I hear there's something for Kate. I don't understand that. What? Something for Kate to band. It's not for Perth. But we love them in Perth.

They're great. We love them in Perth. They sell out arenas. Fantastic stuff. So you obviously from Perth and go on, tell us more, boys. I say we were nine when we were children. We used to curl up together and watch hug misson. It was a kid show that was really popular amongst the kids of the day. It was right next to Heyman and all the other great shows. And it was fun.

We all loved it. And I remember, but I thought it was a dream. I didn't think, did this really exist? Ben, we watched it every day. Did that really exist? Yeah, it did. It did. You're in it. What. You're in it.

What? You're in it. No. No, no, those are the hosts, BJ Trent. That's you. It looks like you. Oh, look, if we look a bit like them, it's maybe because we love them so much

and we slowly want them to look like them. We've adopted our styles. Yeah. I don't think so. That's the only reason that we look like them. That makes a lot of sense to me. I mean, like the show, come on, I'll give you this,

the show's set in the late 80s, early 90s. I was made in the late 80s, early 90s. Yeah, yeah, sorry, made. I mean, it's just, yeah. Yeah, you're not, I mean, I'm in episode like made in the early 90s and you would have been, you would have been a, you know, we shot a stupid ass studio.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, that was just pickups. Yeah, because we, that was the missing footage. And we've restored, we've levered, we've restored the footage. It's stupid, you stupid man. What? You stupid fucking idiot. You fucking idiot. Stupid you stupid man Fucking you fucking idiot

Idiot man. He's the shit mark why why why What do you mean you test it's a test you can't test you can't test silence. It's not possible Yeah, okay Is he just you need to believe it? Have faith that it's real, okay? Never fucking question science. So you found the footage. Or did you find the footage? How did you find the footage?

Well, we, there's a long journey. Yeah, we were, it was such a journey. And journey, we went to the very first place. People are gonna watch it, they're gonna know I'm. And we went to the people are going to watch it. They're going to know I'm right, but keep going. We're going. We called a bunch of people and we said get it. And they said, what? And we were like, fuck get it brother. Get in there. So how the sun is a I have I get it. Children's religious variety hour.

So it's a kids after school specials, an after school show, you would come home and it would be on it around 330 and you'd sit down and you enjoyed the sun with your friends and they would make your laugh, make you think and make you worship the sun. Be it with Oxthos. That's right. Oh, okay. So it's the sun God. Yeah, it's ox toss. That's right.

Oh, okay. So it's a sun religion. So it's a sun based religion with the sun God. And a lot of people are saying, you know, nowadays, you know, we would call it a cult. But back in the 80s, it was something that was different and it was a religion and it was a way of life. Look, everything, you know, in hindsight,

you go, okay, maybe I was in a cult, and maybe Ben and I, and I, Ben and I, parents were in a cult. But at the time, that was just religion. That was just, you know, worship. And it was time. Christianity, when it first started, would have been called a cult.

Yeah. No, Scientology. When it first started, would be called. But now we accept Scientology. I mean, we know it's real So I don't think they would have I do have to trump you there guys because I don't think they would have called Christianity a cult because cult is an English word And they were speaking Arabic Aramaic They may have called it something else that that word for it. Yeah, that's what I thought.

I would actually got an Aramaic translation here. Do you mean to find out the Aramaic work for Colt? Do you just find it? You're an Aramaic translation. Running it all the time? I keep it open all the times. That's good. You're a good boy doing that.

A good friend. A good theological. I'm just looking up now. The translation for Colt is, fuck you, Zach. I'm sorry, no,, the translation for cold is, fuck you, Zach. Oh, that's interesting. That's interesting. I'm the one, sorry, no, no, sorry, I got the wrong.

Go fuck yourself, you piece of shit. That's interesting. That's interesting. Yeah, that's really interesting. Well, I wonder if there's like an edamological link between, Edamame, and Edamame, Edamame, and the between, go fuck yourself, Zach man a man a little between go fuck yourself Zach and the modern phrase go fuck yourself Zach

The must be connection there. I like that. It's all Latin It's all Greek to me I'll say that much I should say we got involved, unless Mark wants to challenge this. We got involved as EPs because you found the footage, you found the VHS tapes, which you lovingly restored, except for a few little glitches. But you didn't have the rights to the show and you brought us on board. We spent the entirety of the money that we made, both as a group and as individuals, we pulled it in that we made

from our Netflix show to buy the rights to this show. And thank you. I know it was a lot more than we thought. Thank you so much for buying the rights to the show. Because you made a lot of money off the Netflix show, but that's all gone now from getting the rights. It's all gone. It is. And you'll be surprised how little we made.

Yeah, we made a lot less than you'd think. Yeah. And then we spent all of that plus a little bit more. I took up a second job at a supermarket to be able to afford the rights of this show. But that's how much we believe in it. That's how much we believe in my experience of this show is vastly different from everyone else's here. Right.

So I remember with some sort of like comedy show we're making up ourselves. I remember you guys pitching it to us. I remember helping getting funding for it through screen Australia. I remember getting up at six in the morning and you guys dressing me up, part of my French, like a cant. And then shooting with you, coming home, vomiting from exhaustion, and then missing doing a podcast the next day. At the time, we were doing a lot of promo for. Have you seen Antidona's big old house of fun? No, no, what's that? No.

That's some found footage. We found this footage of the show. That's true. I, Mark, it's funny that you remember that playing. Yeah. Because I remember about 30 minutes ago us having a conversation about how we were going to approach the marketing of this series the friends of work so hard up. I just remember a conversation along the lines I have terrible short-term memory man I can't. Yeah we have pretty good midterm

mate. I can't ask you a question I want. I want you to know that this question comes from a pit of respect. Absolutely. In my sort of lower like stomach read abdomen region. Okay. Now I've got a little pouch and it's fuller respect. And I'm dipping my little fingers in like I'm in like I'm a weightlifter. It's just about to fucking snatch. A fucking massive load, okay? All right.

Okay. So, last question I want you to know that is where this is coming from. That's where it's coming from. I'm about to snatch a load, but I've dipped my hand to a pit of respect for you. But what the fuck is your fucking problem? You stupid cunt. Well, are you fucked in the head? You didn't give me a chance to answer the first question, which was, can I ask you a question

to which now having heard the question, absolutely not. Absolutely not. Why are you allowed to answer that question? I don't care how deep from a snatch you've taken it from. I don't know if that was the term. It was different. I was a weightlifter that's ready to have a big snatch. And I've deep-riacked it with the powder.

Big snatch, little snatch, it doesn't matter. They're all beautiful to me. Okay, it's not. I'm not. I wasn't talking about that sort of snatch, it's actually a weightlifting term. Okay. Snatch and clean, clean snatch and jerk and clean it up.

Right. Yeah. Let's say how are you feeling about Mark right now? Oh look, I think, you know, there, you can approach Pr promo in so different ways. And one is to play along with the fun thing we all came up with. And one is to completely block it and break down the reality of what we're trying to set up. Yeah.

And that's all Mark, what you're trying to do. We're trying to undermine every sort of construct we came up with in it and say that it's not real, much like someone on their first day of an improv class. I want to talk to people, that he was the one that sort of helped come up with this idea that we would do beforehand. And the choice, which was, I'm gonna pretend none of this happened.

And, you know, like in space jump where everyone is coming up and giving suggestions, he walks in and just goes, what are you guys doing? You're not my dad, you're my brother. Yeah. What? Which is how I talk. That's not my dad, you're my brother. Yeah. What? Which is how I talk.

That's a choice though, that's a choice. Well, here's my issue. What you guys call improvising, I call lying. Okay. And I have a deep problem, I have a problem with lying to the audience, I'm a non-ass person, I'm not gonna fuck them around. If we're sitting here going,

Oh, we found foodie, George, from the 80s, I grew up in Perth. And then they watch it, and it's got both of you in it. What the, they're gonna be like, That's fine, I think, yes. That into, I think that what you just said is valid. Okay, I'm going to say it. I think it's valid and brave, but you did have an opportunity at the beginning of this meeting to voice those concerns and you did not. In fact, you said, let's do it this

way. Here's the thing, when I raised the idea of, how are we gonna go all in with this, Xavier very politely said, look, I had a different plan. I had a plan involving Ben's penis about, I had a really well-organized, creative idea, but you know what, I like this idea, it's fun. I'm happy to give up on my concept to go with this. And I thought, oh jeez, all right, well I've really got to honour the sacrifice that Xavier has made here,

15 minutes in, what do we get? Well I was expecting a yes and I got to know how about this. And that's just not on. That's not cool. It's not cool. You've been devious. You've been deceitful. You've been treacherous. You've been underhanded. Underhanded.

You've been cruel. Cruel. You've been, I would say sort of ill willed. But Ben, this doesn't, this is just how you describe European people. So, I've heard you talk this way many times. This isn't a shock to me. You've sneaked in. This isn't a shock to me.

You've sneaked in. This isn't a shock to me. This isn't a shock to me. You've sneaked in. This isn't a shock to me. You've sneaked in. This isn't a've done here. And steal new born babies. Well, that is a mark-specific thing. But we all do, we think we have too many drinks. And the last is still, you bring them back. I keep bringing them straight back. I bring them straight back.

I take them outside just for a set, I bathe them in the moonlight, because I think that's not something that pubs get enough of. Bathe them in the moonlight. Yeah. Because I think that's not something that, um, Bubbs get enough of. Bae the minimum light. Everybody's snatching babies put in their mouth. Outside in the moonlight. Everybody will just mark not everybody apparently.

The parents hear this, they hear someone singing, they go, what is that? They go, look outside, they see Mark holding the newborn baby. Ah, but this is the thing I'm working on, Zavis. But by the time they reached the window, the baby's back in the crib and they think that it was all the dream. Or maybe they're going crazy.

But I'm still in the bushes watching them do it. I'm not. I think it's weird that we say cribs, and we know what cribs means. And there was a show called MTV Cribs, but at no point did they show any Cribs in MTV Cribs? Are you 100% sure they never showed Cribs? Sure they showed one Cribs. Surely they showed a Cribs and Cribs. I think surely that in the many seasons of Cribs there was a Cribs with a Cribs.

Surely. Unless you've seen every episode I think that's a very bold clip. You're not for a baby. I'm sure there was some sort of pop star who is like, you know, I have a condition where I can't sleep in a regular bed. I need to sleep in a crib. A little jail. I think I'm also wearing a diaper and I like to shit myself and pay someone to change it. But surely you like a crib.

A crib is fine for a baby, but it wouldn't do what's here in adult and you get into a crib. It's just a jail. It is a tiny little jail. Yeah. With very easy to get in and out of. A real life. once you're an adult and you get into a crib, it's just a, it's just a jail. It is, it is a tiny little jail. Yeah. With very easy to get in and out of. My question is when you grew up, were you cribs or bluts?

Yeah. Yeah, I was neither of those things. That's not my lived experience. There were, there were cribs and bluts in where it be. Were there. Yeah. That was, I was part of the sword boys. Nice. Yeah.

We had sword boys in Perth. Really? Mine was my, the Legion of Machetes. My question is, is anyone seen that special, our 36 minute long episode of Cribs with that kid who had the McDonald's in his house? No. No. There was a kid.

He had a McDonald's in his house. He was really rich. Yeah, I believe it was. The thinking of. The thinking of Richie Rich, I believe. Oh, so that wasn't an episode of Chris That was a pretty sure I was it ever No, it was mccollick. I don't think he could miss remember something like this. I don't know this this

I've got a pretty good he set up he set something up here And we've got to play along with it for as long as it can go for okay, yeah, and that's where the fun comes from Do you cut it down to early, we got nowhere to go. Listen, Mark, I think you'd benefit really well by taking my improv course. Okay, I teach improv. Yes, Anne. It's gonna cost you a lot of money.

It's gonna cost you a lot of money. It's gonna cost you a lot of money. It's gonna cost you a lot of money. It's gonna cost you a lot of money. Okay, and at the end. Jesus, you know, it's a five minutes long, okay? And at the end. Jesus. Lessons of five minutes long, yeah, okay? And they'll be happening every 24 hours for the next eight years.

All right, that's a big financial investment. It's worth it, you need it. I wanna get good at improv. I'm already in the red from buying the rights to this 80s show that you made him do Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Which is I can't wait to see Hug the Sun

The Sun a lot of you did you have to get did you have to get to find the footage on vHS like is that how you found it? You know when you found it? You know, when you went and found the footage. We just went to people's houses and we say, how you got any recordings of public sign. And a lot of people had from ages. From the tapes that had been recorded over. Yeah. And they, and we'd say hug the sign on it,

and then we'd pop it in and it would be, you know, Darryl Summers racially vilifying someone. Yeah. You know, you know know sexually harassing someone yet Yeah, this is not even you know on her hand so today just you could get that in Perth At any time it was just footage from him on the street. I'm back on back on board by the way with the Why with the making it like we found it in the 80s why I Just I wanted to please you.

Yeah, why now? Why not at the beginning? Well, I've seen my mistake. You've pointed it out. I wonder if you know it's better this way. I'm improving as well as improving. Improving. Yeah.

That's great. I like that. That's growth man. You're kind of proud of you. Thanks guys. I like that. I like that. That's growth man. You're kind of proud of you. Thanks guys. I'm actually proud of you. We've seen, and that's just a little taste of what you can get at my improv workshops.

Ben Russell be in Provin and that's $500 per minute for 24 hours and 365. You see, you might say, oh, sorry, go, my. I just want to know if Zayv's getting a sweet slice of that. Of course, I always get a little sweet slice. I always give, I always grease, great, Xavier's palms. Yeah, you got to grease those palms. They're incredibly dry.

So Ben's always slid me, you know, a couple of pineapples every now and again. And I do. I do. I go grease them up. You know, you're gonna grease me up, good. I do agree. I go agree some up. You know, it's me up good. Can I say I saw the week one's up. I saw the week one show of Ben's, of Ben's, in Prove School. I spent the $70 to see my friends and family in that show and I just thought, yeah,

yeah, it's just $70 for a ticket and straight into Ben's hands, I gave him that 70. And I just thought it was such a wonderful show. A small section of that money slip ride to my greasy palms as well. Oh, did it. Well, and I remember, Zach, you don't remember this. Yeah, I spat into your mouth. Yeah, I do remember that.

I do remember that. That would be hard to forget. I've got bad short term memory, but I would remember Ben spitting in my mouth as well. Oh yeah? How to show. You remember me spitting in your mouth, Mark? No, I don't.

When did that happen? Because I did. Oh, Ben! You cheeky bastard. And you forgot. Mmm. But it's a good show. It's a great. But it's a good show. It's a great show.

It's just a lot of scared people being shouted up by Ben and Ben being the main characters of the time. All right, what platform is it out? Where can we watch it? It's in rough show. No, whatever the show is, what's it called? It's streaming on TikTok. And it's going to be...

Live streaming? We live streaming on TikTok. Oh, that's right. Let me tell you, people are toxic. Oh, people are toxic. It's a real toxic situation. Yeah, yeah. You've got to hear most of the dialogue

because Renegade's playing over the top. But that gets clicks. That does get clicks. Get it, it gets clicks. Yeah. You know, I've got to hear most of the dialogue because Renegade's playing over the top, but you know, that gets clicks. That does get clicks. Yeah, that does get clicks. Yeah, that does get clicks. Yeah. And you know what they say? If it gets clicks, it gets licks.

Yeah, that I don't. I don't think they do say that. They say that, man. They do say that. They say that. But they do say. They do say. They do say. A good show boys.

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Is that real? Huh? Does it really do that? I don't know. My question to you is, what do you hide? And true. A bunch of stuff. Why do you, oh right.

Yeah, that's why you care. I got nothing to hide. Mine, my dad, I mine it. Like it was. I mind my data, mind it. Like it was Ballerat in the 1860s. Mind the shit out of it. So like they would mind your everything. Mm. What?

No. They don't get that stuff. Yeah, it do. It's data. What? Money's data. It's all data, brothers. It's all data. You're thinking. Apple knows where you, brothers. It's all data.

You're thinking Apple knows where you go. Apple knows everywhere you go. I want them to know. I want them to know. I want them to know. I want them to know. Bring it on. I've got nothing to hide. What about Google? What about Google? Google. What about Google? Google What about Google? What about Google indeed Ben and Zac are Listen I love this. It's just the most fucked can't try to run it, like, out of the four of us, on the most

fucked can. You call the one who's being the serious. Oh, God. Oh, this is what happens when Broden's sick man. Broden's not sick. Broden's right here. Hello Broden. Hello Broden Kelly. I'm Broden.

I don't get it. Actually, very sick. Oh wow. I'm sick. Rolling. How gay. This is me. That was Ben Russell's performance,

Broden Kelly in a big hollow tank. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Very good. Thank you. If you want to watch, hug the sun, go to Ann, go to Ani Donner's Instagram or our Twitter, go to Xavier's Instagram or whatever. What's your Instagram? Xavier, Zav Michael Eadies. And yours Ben.

I believe it's Bond Member. Go to any of those Instagrams, go to the Michael Eadies. And yours Ben. I believe it's Bonn member. Go to any of those Instagrams, go to the link in the bio, and that's where you'll be able to watch episode one of this show. It's very, very funny. We're so excited about it. Go watch the show.

We can't wait for you to see it. It's out now. No matter what Mark does, he can't stop this show from happening. Yeah. Nice to have you there. Doesn't want it to happen. Challenge accepted. Everything again.

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