Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade - Jim Jefferies - Pioneer of the "C" Word
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I think the thing that for me early on was just saying c*** a lot was the big difference from the American Act.
I've always said I'm the Rosa Parks of the seaward, right?
Yeah, burning down Dana Carvey's house did not get picked up.
And they go quickly, any other just quick pitches for season three or is that the one we're going to do?
If the aliens came down and they said give us your two best, not just looking, just your best human beings. And we gave them Hugh Jackman and Margot Robbie.
Come on now.
You can't get better than those two.
That's true.
What's with this?
Okay, welcome to Flying the Wall, which is a,
it's sort of been thrown together year seven.
We almost worked the bugs out.
This is Dana and we're gonna tell you a couple things.
Well, look, we've resolved an issue
because we had Superfly and we had Fly on the Wall
and I know someone personally who had a mental breakdown
because she could not process it.
And she went into an institution for a brief period of time.
I talked to her last week.
In the funny farm.
I just never understood.
Superfly and Fly on thefly, what's the difference?
I never could do it.
And I shook her.
I said, David Spade solves all problems.
Slapped her face.
And she goes, I feel so much better.
You know, I have friends, they finally figured it out.
And now we switched it.
What?
They finally figured out how to do Superfly
and the other one.
And then we switched it.
So everyone's confused.
It'll take a few years and then everyone's going to get it.
But I will tell you.
2037.
I have a quick story that I have a question about 4th of July.
And I think, cause I saw some Joe Dirt, it's kind of a Joe Dirt holiday, this one.
This is where I get the most memes.
It's a Joe Dirt summer.
And of course with, and folded in that as a Joe Dirt holiday. Sort of baked in, right? David Spade memes. It's Joe Dirt Summer and of course, with unfolded in that, it's Joe Dirt Holiday.
Sort of baked in, right?
David Spade Summer, but Joe Dirt.
So I feel like I want to get a big company
to do Joe Dirt fireworks and have the spleen splitters
and the whisker biscuits and all those things.
I think that would be funny.
It'd be funny.
And at the end it's the fireworks,
but it goes into a whole gigantic Joe Dirt image.
I mean, in a perfect world.
Yeah.
We'll say that it won't do that, but we'll say it could do that.
And also just the Roman candles, just a shoot shoot.
Roman candles are great.
A couple of black cats.
You'll do a mixed bag because I've seen some fake ones.
What are you a fireworks specialist?
I'll show you a clip of the movie, but.
Pistol Pete.
Pistol Pete.
What are your favorite firecrackers
when you grew up, do you remember any?
The actual firecracker was fun.
My friends and I were in a Volkswagen bug
and we were going around town smoking weed high school,
throwing firecrackers out the window.
Poking.
So we're lighting them and throwing them,
lighting them and throwing them.
I see someone in the front seat,
they're lighting and throwing them.
I see the other person rolling up the window.
So the guy literally lit the firecracker,
the window closed, and then I'm three too.
And then everyone goes,
oh, I've done it with gum, stunk,
right in the window and I go, Heather.
Is this airing before or after 4th of July?
It's airing right after.
Day before? Oh, it is? Okay. Oh airing right after. Day before. Day before?
Oh, it is?
Okay.
Oh, all right.
That's still good.
What's okay?
I have another...
I wanna ask, you have another firecracker story?
It cannot be another.
4th of July story.
Okay, go ahead.
We're up in the peninsula and Candlestick Park
is blowing off up there, the San Francisco Giants
is blowing off fireworks. And we're Francisco Giants, blowing off fireworks.
And we're down in the peninsula and we're looking up.
And I said, look them candles.
So my friends again were pretty high.
So they laughed for like two hours, look them candle.
And then when a friend would go down to grab his beer
or water or something, you'd always say,
oh, you just missed it.
And that became our running game.
Oh, that's not a big, you missed the best one.
The best one.
I always think the last one is not, you know,
like I go, that's the last one's gotta be.
And then there's more.
Well, that's just funny when they're like,
and then it's fading out.
Okay. And then they go,
yo, it's gotta be the finale.
Wait a second.
And then another buildup.
You know, you got the sound effects. That helps it. Then another buildup. You know, good.
You got the sound effects.
That helps it.
All right, Puff Daddy Trial.
Puff Daddy Trial.
Okay.
What would, as Scooby?
And now we're going with the Scooby news,
brought to you by Scooby Doo and Casey Kasem,
starring as Shaggy.
Yeah, so catch us up Shaggy.
Well, you know, P. Diddy's Trial is resting, Scoob.
Okay, you do the talk.
P. Diddy's trial is resting, Scoob.
Apparently at a thousand bottles of
ABO oil. No one knew what he was doing
with them, Scoob. What do you think
they were doing? What?
I don't know.
We can't say that on a podcast.
A PG-13 podcast.
I said, oh yeah.
I understand what you're saying Scoob,
but I don't ever want to go to a freak off at P Diddy's.
Now let's make like a banana and split.
Yoinks.
Yoinks.
Who dares up a strong, he's too weak.
Fills over there going, what did I sign up for?
He knows his face.
He goes, this isn't the real thing.
When do the real guys come in?
I think-
This is not the A-Team, is it?
If Puff Daddy gets off, which he might have by this time.
His ego will be puffed up.
There's a lot of people that want him to get off.
They just say, oh-
They want him to get off all right.
They want to beat the court system, fuck those guys.
They're just trying to hassle Puff.
He's great.
And he'll run out and be such King Cock
because he'll be like, now everyone knows what I do.
So if you're actively joining in, you get it and you're in.
So that will happen.
Will he go to prison?
I'd say the odds right now are against him going to prison,
but I don't know everything.
What do you think?
Like we said, it's horrible,
but is it illegal to have a freak off with baby oil?
Was it consensual or, you know?
Even when people say it wasn't consensual.
In another interesting court case,
shockingly the Idaho killer
Oh that court court.
wants to committed guilt if he can have life in prison.
And I don't know why everyone thought he was guilty,
but his photo looked like this.
He's terrifying.
By the way.
I would never do that to anybody.
I like when they have all these new things like they go,
but we pinged your phone right where the murderers were. He's like, what? Well you can't do that to anybody. I like when they have all these new things like they go, but we pinged your phone right where the murder story is.
I was like, what?
Well, you can do that.
I can't believe it.
The Idaho killer says he's guilty.
No one ever looked that guilty.
Did you see the picture, Scoob?
No.
No.
He looks very...
We have two new characters.
I don't know the Scooby news.
You're Scooby Doo and I'm Shaggy.
Scooby's good, it's hard to understand him.
Well, that's the funny part.
Yeah.
How would he say, fuck you,
ruck you, right?
No.
Now you're doing Sandler.
He tried.
Off a waffle.
Woo.
Anyway, what else you got David?
Anymore on the P. Diddy trial?
Good for him.
Wrap it up in a nutshell. Good for him, Good for him. Wrap it up in a nutshell.
Good for him, nice little story.
Wrap it up in a ribbon.
Cute little local story.
Oh, okay, so last week we had Julie Bowen,
a lot of people watched it, a lot of people commented,
a lot of people listened,
and I thought she was very fun, entertaining guest.
Bust my balls.
But I do have a quick fix,
because I said we sat courtside one time
in a game with me years ago,
and she said, no, it was great, but they were like seventh row.
It's, I found proof.
You were courtside.
Yeah.
Oh, so Julie Bowen, got it wrong or?
No, just miss.
Not like that.
Miss got it.
Okay. Let me see where the picture is.
Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick.
Here it is.
Okay. Why not only do Dick pic, dick pic, dick pic, dick pic, dick pic, here it is. Okay.
Why do you, not only do you have the dick pic,
you have to say every time you go by it.
I see one, dick pic, dick pic.
You know it's a dick pic, so why do you keep mentioning it?
Because I'm just thinking out loud, like, okay, that's that.
Okay, here's one.
I understand.
Look at that hat.
Oh, wow.
What a damn fool.
God.
Then she looks great.
She looks great now.
I mean, she's not, she's beautiful.
And look, and then it says here,
NBA court side seats.
Bah bah bah bah bah bah bah.
Well look, you've got your tongue in her ear.
I don't wanna see that.
No.
You just see it's proof time.
Yeah, see?
Aw.
So I did send them to her and just say,
just say no.
I like everything I'm hearing.
And she goes, I don't know if that's true.
I'm like, you don't know if proof is true?
Okay.
She still thinks it's a AI fake.
Everyone thinks everyone's, that is AI.
That's funny.
Okay, other than that, what else is in the docket?
Real quick, I got real quick and I cannot talk more.
Oh, I had a, here's my show in Portland on the weekend.
I, the quick story was it was a beautiful day in Portland,
72 degrees, the nice state was it was the beautiful day in Portland, 72 degrees,
the nice state they've had all year.
And I have a show inside and it stays light to like 10. So I don't even want to go to my show.
And then I see some people in Calvary who would say, Oh no, you have a show tonight?
Cause we're going to go see Post Malone and Jelly Pop, Jelly Roll.
And I'm like, Oh, I go, really?
That sounds fun. It does kind of. And I go, really? That sounds fun.
It does kind of.
They go, yeah, it's outdoors.
An outdoor carnival festival.
I get home, the news is live from there.
When I get back to my room, I go, uh-huh.
They're like, we're out here with Jelly Pop and he is really tubby.
Let's show a wide shot.
Really wide. I'm kidding.
I think he's skinny now.
Well, I think they're merging into the same person
in Post Malone, covered in tattoos,
singing songs, I don't know.
They did, you did well.
I did well, but I wanted it to be like off the hizzle.
You were backstage, I had a local news feed,
cause I follow you around Portland,
action news and they had a guy out there
and people in line going in and you go, do you feel about David? Well we love David's
pay but it's so freaking nice out we're really torn. That's very true.
All right let's get to Jim Jefferies. We've had our fun. We've had our fun.
We're gonna slow things down a bit. Jim Jefferies is a good bud and fun dude
I've golfed with. I just did my serial killer face. Sorry. Oh, you want to do the serial killer face for you? I just did it. I threw it out as a code.
Get out of your system.
Jim Jefferies.
I'm very thankful.
Is it where you already started?
Is this started?
No, we're halfway through.
Yeah, it's almost over.
To be honest, we're halfway through.
We don't have any structure or introduction or anything.
We'll do all that later.
Content or anything.
Well, actually, I've met David many times before.
I've met you in passing, Dana, but I'm a big fan, mate.
I'm very excited to do this.
I saw you go crush.
We met at John Lovett's comedy club, right?
That's correct, that's correct.
Yeah, a while back.
And you were kind of unassuming.
You had your accent and everything, whatever.
And it was kind of a rough room
because that high stage and everything.
But then you just-
Three stories.
Then you killed, I go, God, this fucking guy, man.
Got some games.
Oh, thank you.
I don't know when that was.
Yeah, Jim Jeffries got games.
Yeah, Jeffries is, that's you,
powerful and funny.
I was gonna ask you that.
Like you were one of the first that really walked outside,
stepped outside the lines in some of your early specials.
Yeah.
And comedians love it, cause I don't do that,
but I love when I see someone who's literally saying
exactly what they wanna say without any censorship.
It's very, you do it.
I think the thing that for me early on was just saying cunt a lot was the big difference
from the American Act. I've always said I'm the Rosa Parks of the sea word, right? Because
a lot of people are saying that a lot of people before me, there was a restriction. You couldn't say it in the comedy club.
There was, you could say whatever you want.
So my first comedy special for HBO, I swear to God, right?
I swear to God, I had a light at the back of the room
and it was a 15 minute mark.
You know, us comics, we normally have a light
when we have five minutes left, right?
To get off the stage.
I don't know if many people know that,
but that's what we have.
We have a light at the end of the room
to tell us when to get off the stage. I don't know if many people know that, but that's what we have. We have a light at the end of the room to tell us when to get off the stage. I had
a light that at 15 minutes lit up and that meant I was allowed to say the word cunt because
Netflix, because HBO said to me, the ratings go in 15 minute increments. We want people
to like you. We don't want them to turn off in the first 15 minutes. So you can't say
the C word for the first 15 minutes. So I had a light at the back and at 15 minutes, I say aunt pan is a bunch of cunts.
And then I was off to the races.
Can I plummet the ratings now?
Well, let me ask you a question.
Are you like, if an American hears either a British or Australian accent,
saying the word can't, you know, it's softer to our ears.
Are you guys enamored as Australia? Should I go down there and play little tiny clubs? Australian accent saying the wood can't, you know, it's softer to our ears.
Are you guys enamored as Australia?
Should I go down there and play little tiny clubs?
Not like I'm a huge star anymore, but I would play down there.
Are they enamored by the way we are accents are like we are enamored of Australian and
British accents.
The short answer is no, we're not.
You asked the big star down there.
The old movies are massive.
The difference is we grew up watching your TV all the time
So we've we've seen American sitcoms since we're that's why there's so many American
Australian actors doing American accents in films and not the other way, you know
So we grew up watching it's like which is weird because when I was growing up
I was a huge fan of like Wayne's World, right? Loved Wayne's World.
Didn't know it was a sketch from SNL because we never had SNL in Australia.
That was never a thing.
So some of the movies that came out of SNL just seemed a little odd to us.
It's like MacGruber.
You were like, where's MacGruber come from?
You know what I mean?
Also, you thought Garth is a real guy that just has done like 10 movies and
now he's doing Wayne's world and you're like, Oh, that Garth guy is pretty funny.
I had, I had a sitcom back in the day on FX and it went for two seasons and it
was just about me.
Yeah.
That was the one it was called.
It was called, it was called legit and legit was about me taking
care of a disabled guy, which was vaguely based on my real life.
We almost had a season three, but season three, the whole entire arc of season
three that I'd written out, Dana Carvey was the main character and I was going
to ask you to be in the show and you were going to play yourself.
The plot line of the opening episode was I was taking care of my disabled friend,
the wheelchair. My character had become famous, uh, doing stand up by the end of
Stan season two. I see your character,
you doing an impersonation of me on a late night show.
I'm all coked up and I get upset.
And so I go over to your house to confront you, but I'm chicken.
So I can't knock on the door.
So I get the shit out of the disabled guy's wheelchair colostomy bag and I put
it into a paper bag and then we go up and we put it on the doorstep to light it
and do the classic, you know, like the dog shit run away, but we forget to knock
on the door and your house burns down.
And that's the whole season arc from then on that you, that I'm your only friend
and you're sleeping on my couch.
And I hadn't even really met you at that stage, but if you didn't take it, I was
going to ask David to do the role.
I had options.
I'll do it.
Wow.
And that didn't get picked up for season three.
Yeah.
Burning down Dana Carvey's house did not get picked up.
And they go quickly.
Any other just quick pitches
for season three or is that the one we're going with?
I've got full scripts.
I wrote the whole thing out.
I thought it was a good premise.
By the way, the weirder the better, I say.
Like some of these shows are too by the book
and you just can figure them all out.
If you start that way, I'm in.
Well, the first episode of season one was just me taking a disabled guy to a
brothel, which is something I did in my real life.
I had a friend with muscular dystrophy and before he died, I took him to a brothel.
And so it's a sweet, it's a sweet story.
You know, he couldn't get laid.
It's legal in Australia.
I should add that being disabled is legal and prostitution.
And they finally passed the being disabled bill.
And I took him being disabled, Bill.
I'm so glad.
And I took him down to the brothel and this guy had died a couple of times. He's hard to give away, he'd been resuscitated. So me and his brother took him down with the full knowledge that this might
go tits up. You know what I mean? So we laid him down and then the girl did what she did. And then
we put him back in the chair and then we went off and had a couple of
drinks and that was our day.
Now I told the story to so many people.
I made a sitcom about the story and then cut to a few years later.
I see him and he's like, Hey, you made a lot of money out of that story.
I said, yeah, yeah, yeah, I did.
He goes, you should take me to the brothel again.
It's only fair.
Right.
So I'm thinking this guy's going to get his second blow job in his life.
I'm going to do it.
Right.
I'll, I'll take him again.
And I went down and they all greeted him like he was norm from cheers.
It turns out that he gives this sob story to everyone.
As soon as he walked in there, they're like, Dan, by the way, was he
disabled or do we know?
And does the wean work?
I don't know.
Did his experience go, I don't know, Australians think of this phrase.
Did it go tits up or not tits down?
I think tits down.
She was on top of it.
Is tits down something you say or not?
No, no one says tits down.
Tits up is when something goes badly.
There's no tits down.
Right.
Yeah. Yeah.
That's, that's American too.
It feels like tits up would be good.
I think the term tits up means that like a banana pill slip, like
up in the air, tits up means, it means a bit of slapstick, I think.
I want to have Australian actors, cause I've just noticed that they're not
only good at American accents, they're perfect.
And I started with Russell Crowe, like immaculate.
And, uh, I don't know why that is.
And, and the Australian actors you send us all seem alpha alpha, you know, like
just, no, nobody's kind of like a little guy or they're always seemed to be kind
of, you know, they bring men.
Yeah.
You know, there's, you know, there's a third Hemsworth though.
That's a lot shorter.
Who also is an actor.
There's the two main ones and there's a third one, but there's a, and he's the
eldest brother and he's the one who started acting first.
He's really nice.
But the other two good looking ones came along and went, we'll have a go.
Oh, he's not good looking either.
No, he's good looking by our standards, but not by as a Hemsworth.
He cremates us, but against those two.
Next to me, he looks just great. But I'll tell you my one Russell Crowe story, because
you mentioned Russell.
Oh, you know all these guys.
There's like 10 Australians, right?
But you know, you know the committee in David Williams?
Mm-hmm.
From Australia?
Liverpool?
You know, he's British.
He's on Little Britain was his sketch show.
Oh, his sketch show, yeah.
I remember that show.
Yeah, he's the judge of Britain's Got Talent or something like that.
So we all-
Oh yes, now I know exactly who you're talking about.
Yeah, he's kind of pale, really pale,
and kind of chubby face, yeah.
Yeah, so me, David and Russell were going out to dinner
and Russell lives at the end of this pier and in the harbor.
And on the bottom story of the pier,
all these fancy restaurants along Sydney Harbor, right?
They're all like lined up along Sydney Harbor.
And so we went down the lift, we started walking through the car park. And so it's just a
car park with a few sort of like exit doors to different shops and stuff along the pier.
And I said, well, what restaurant are we going to? He goes, oh, we're going to this Chinese
restaurant. I eat there once a week. It's one of the best Chinese restaurants you'll ever go to.
I'm telling you, try the duck. Right? So we, we, we walk in along and then I go, well, how do we get into it?
And he goes, I just walk in through the back. They know me. Right. So we get to the door,
Russell just bashes through the door. He goes past, there's a bloke like washing dishes,
probably thinking of someone from ice coming to get him. Right. He's just washing dishes out
the back. Then we go into like, then we go into the kitchen and there's like all the chefs
in the, in the clean bit. Right. So Russell bounds through, he's way ahead of us. Then me and David
go in through the restaurant like this. We're like, so sorry for coming in through the back.
We're very much looking forward to the meal. Thank you so much for having us. Really appreciate you.
We get out into the dining area and Russell's just staying there and he goes,
wrong restaurant.
I went a door early.
And so it was like, it was like the most famous man in Australia followed by the,
one of the second most famous people in Australia applied by me.
And it just, I was a cavalcade of shit.
We had to go back out in the street and walk out and come back in again.
Anyway, he does a very good American accent.
Yeah.
Brilliant actor.
I mean, he's one of the best actors you'll ever see.
Master and commander.
If anyone listening has never seen it, it's like a miracle of a movie, Russell
Crowe and that the whole ship at sea.
Have you seen it?
I have seen it.
Yeah.
Of course.
Yeah.
It gets you seasick that film.
If you watch it in the cinema.
There's a lot of rocking around.
Yeah.
I think so.
Yeah, I did.
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So you're huge in the UK. I saw your tour.
So what's the name of your tour?
Godson?
Son of a carpenter.
My father's a carpenter and it's just an easy reference point, but yeah, son of a carpenter.
I always try to say it is.
It is extraordinary.
You're playing Istanbul.
You're playing massive dates, Manchester, all over Europe.
What the fuck?
Well I got my comedy chops in Britain.
I did most of my early work in the UK.
I went to the UK in 2001 and sort of stayed there until 2010 and then I moved to America.
But the British comedy circuit I think is the best in the world because the cities are so
close together.
You're never getting on an airplane.
You're going 50 miles, Liverpool to Manchester, Manchester to Leeds.
You can double up in cities.
You can do an early spot in one city and then end up in, you can start in one country.
You can start in Scotland and then finish in England for your night.
You know what I mean?
It's an interesting place.
I got to get a map. Can you count me in? Well, I can get you gigs. You know what I mean? It's an interesting place. I gotta get a map. Count me in.
But I can get you gigs.
You two would do all right.
You'd do just fine.
Don't worry about it.
Well, what are we talking?
Big clubs or small theaters or small arenas, big arenas?
I think you would do some medium to large theaters.
You know, but like, let's not book the O2 just yet,
but let's see how the first two are going. You'd rather sell it out than the 10 percenters book
you in something too huge. What's the biggest room you will play on this tour? I have done the O2
before, but on this tour I'll do the Hammersmith Apollo, which is like 4,000 and I probably will
do two shows there. You know what I mean? Like I'm not, it's pretty juicy.
Yeah.
But that's like a nice room.
And then there's the Manchester Apollo.
And then, um, I think there's a gig in Amsterdam that's quite large that I'll do.
I always do a right in Amsterdam.
I've been gigging a lot in Amsterdam for the last 20 years.
It's just, uh, before weed was legal, I always used to accept gigs in Amsterdam.
It's like how it's like, uh, now that I'm a family guy, I always used to accept gigs in Amsterdam. It's like how it's like now that I'm a family guy
I always seem to find gigs in Hawaii out of nowhere that I need to take the family
I still like 500 tickets, but it's fucking worth it because I get to go to Hawaii
What what culture as when you were at your edges?
I was gonna ask you if you've adjusted anything just because you want to, or you're still just as edgy. What country accepted you? Are
the British looser with this? Are we more patrician?
The British were the loosest country for comedy that I've performed in. Still to this day.
I've always said that everyone always goes, what's the difference between performing in the different continents and countries, comedies,
comedy, laughs are all the same, but the heckling changes.
So I believe that Americans try to correct you.
If an American, if an American heckles you, they're always like, Hey buddy,
I'll tell you what my sister had blood.
You know what I mean?
They're trying to get into an argument or prove you wrong.
Um, Australians are trying to trip you up. So if you get close to a punch line, they'll just go, ah,, I mean, they're trying to get into an argument or prove you wrong. Um, Australians are trying to trip you up.
So if you get close to a punch line, they'll just go, ah, I can't, I'll just
yell something out. So you just get off your speed a little bit.
Yeah. They're niggly little fucks. Right. And then, um, and then, and then the
British try to out joke.
They try to say something funnier than you. There's, there's a classic story,
right. That, um, down at the London comedy store, uh, Kurt Douglas's, uh, Michael
Douglas's brother, Jeff Douglas or something.
I don't know.
One of the other Douglas's that was, yeah.
One of the other Douglas's Kurt Douglas's son.
He's having a, he's having a bad gig at the London comedy store.
He starts getting booed or a few G's or whatever.
And so he tells them all to fuck off and he goes, you can all fuck off.
I don't need this.
I'm Kurt Douglas's son.
And then another, and then one person stood up and went, I'm Kurt Douglas's son.
And then another person said, I'm Kurt Douglas's son.
And they did the entire scene from Spartacus.
The British are very good.
They're very good.
I have a quick story that involves the C word.
So Spartacus, right?
Used to be cancer, but we're changing it.
So Kirk, we're going to set the record.
Anyway, this is so random and it'll amuse like 3% of our audience.
So Kirk Douglas is in Spartacus and he's really kind of buff and you know muscular and Laurence Olivier is in there
So the guy sees Laurence Olivier. He's this famous old British actor
Super famous and he's doing leg presses really hard. They go. Oh Larry. You're really working out
Yeah, he goes I'm doing Spartacus and I don't want that cunt cook Douglas doubt physicalize me
That's all I got.
That was a legitimate use of the word from a story I was told.
Yeah.
That's it.
That's an historical use of the C word.
Do you see Margot Robbie at icebergs a lot?
Margot Robbie.
What's iceberg?
Oh, the iceberg is the restaurant in Bondi.
The fact you know about icebergs.
Geez, you look at me. Look out, Dana.
Look at me. Where's Bondi?
I'm sorry. Bondi Beach is a popular beach that's close to the city center in Sydney.
Right. And sort of where all the British people get sunburnt and skin cancer over Christmas.
But there's a restaurant there that overlooks like a public pool. The public pool has ocean water that pours into it, which is
kind of interesting. It's a fancy, it's a fancy restaurant. I've never, I've
never met Margot Robbie. I'm a fan. I once was on, I once was the other guest
on Kimmel when Margot Robbie was on Kimmel. You know how like you're a guest
on those shows, you never meet the other guests.
Yeah. You have to make a point of it because they're like somewhere else.
You don't even know where they are.
Yeah.
They're in a different dressing room and then you come on, then you leave or they've
already left and you're the second guest and then they're, they're already in there.
They're gone.
Right.
So, so I've been on like episodes of those shows.
Bill Clinton was on one, never met him.
You know, these, these different people.
Um, but Margot Robbie was the other guest.
And so her dressing room was next to mine and I just sort of lingered in the hallway.
Just like acting like I was looking for something.
Just, I'm Australian.
I have an inn, you know, I could have gone, Hey, you know how to linger.
You can, she, she would have accepted me saying the C word in front of her.
There would have been music to her ears.
I'm a local. Don't you hate all these Americans here? That's exactly what I said. I would have said me saying the C word in front of her. It would have been music to her ears. I'm a local.
Don't you hate all these Americans here?
That's what I said.
Exactly.
I would have said something like that.
But I tell you what, you've got to give it up.
The Margot Robbie, flying the Australian flag,
is there a better person on it?
If the aliens came down and they said, give us your two best,
not just looking, just your best human beings,
and we gave them Hugh Jackman and Margot Robbie.
Come on now.
You can't get better than those two.
Let's see.
I'll senior Hugh Jackman and Margot Robbie and raise you Jennifer
Aniston and Russell Crowe.
David.
Russell Crowe is, is he saying Australian versus America?
We're saying the two best humans.
The two best humans we give to the aliens to represent us, to go, this is what we've got.
Okay.
First of all, Russell can't bloody dance and tap dance and stuff like, he's not a triple threat.
That's true.
He's a triple threat.
That huge.
But he can sing.
That guy can sing.
Your buddy, Brad Pitt.
Well, yeah. Brad's, Brad's brilliant.
Yeah, of course.
You were talking about Brad off the air about how, what is he 61 or something like that.
And he still looks, like the fact that we have a 61 year old, I haven't seen the movie
that we are going to watch a, drive a formula one car and go, yep, that seems about right.
Yeah. When they're forced to retire at like 30 and go, yep, that seems about right.
When they're forced to retire at like 30.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. He should, he should, he should have a bloody special pass for the bus.
Brad Pitt at his age and he's going to be driving a Formula One car.
Sure.
And Brad ending in Tom Cruise and Mission Impossible.
I saw Mission Impossible.
Yeah.
I got to co-sign that movie.
It's brilliant.
Tom Cruise.
I haven't seen the new one yet.
It was, it was in the submarine for too long.
I kind of want to think it, oh, it's the greatest movie ever.
And then you're like, well, no, I just see it.
Definitely see it.
Yeah.
It's very cool.
You know, you don't want to overblow something.
But as far as that, like, you know, these people, they don't, they take care of themselves.
We were talking about that before the podcast, the old timey actors, it was booze and cigarettes
and they died around 60.
So for you, like you used to, one of your early specials.
But we just said, we just said Brad Pitt was a smoker and Russell is a smoker.
And then people, they're still smoking.
They've got some special, they're getting blood put into them. You're like the audience correcting us.
Like, well, that's true.
But recovery, you know, so I was going to, because one of your early specials really made me laugh.
The only one I ever saw do this a little bit was Ricky Gervais.
But during the special, I don't know if there is kind of like a set,
you would wander around and all of a sudden from behind something,
you'd pick up another pint of beer.
And I don't know how many beers you did throughout the special.
Well, that's something I've never seen.
I know you stopped drinking, but do you look at those days as any kind of
funniness or because to me, it really got my attention, like when's the
next time he's going to grab a magic beer?
Okay.
So I didn't know that was going to be a joke.
And I only even did that for the special.
I never did that for my normal shows.
I normally used to have my beers, uh, just on top of the box when I'm
performing, just ready to grab.
But because with a special, uh, I don't know if I'm doing some inside baseball
stuff here, mostly we record two, uh, uh, uh, uh, shows that night, edit it together
or just show the best one.
Right.
Um, and so they will, they, they edited in every pint I had over two shows.
So it did look like I had seven pints in one hour.
Oh,
right.
So I can't take credit for it.
I did not have seven pints in one hour.
Now the reason that they were behind the box
was for congenuity because the pint,
the level of the liquid going up and down
and I'd be leaving empty glasses everywhere else.
So just before I went out,
they lined up for each show, four
pints of lager behind the thing. Now, back in the day, people used to like go on about what a great
drinker I was. I actually was a really bad drinker. I would get drunk very, very quickly. It just so
happened in those first two specials, I was also on cocaine. But if they asked, but that's the reason that was propping
me up. Right. And I regret doing that in my life. And I know if my child is watching this
podcast many years later, I was an idiot, but that was why I could drink. So I gave
that I gave up all drugs when my son was born. When my son was born, I never took drugs again.
He's 12 now. And I never took drugs again, but I continued drinking and everyone
just thought I was a bad drinker. Everyone thought I was getting out of control. I was
actually in recovery.
So would you say like two lagers, like two pints, then you were sort of drunk? I mean,
like slurring and like out of...
I started slurring after three pints now.
Okay.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So, and so then I did some specials
and I was just a dribbling mess in all the specials,
but I was just, and so then my wife gets pregnant
with my last child, who's about to turn four,
and I haven't had a drink since then.
So, and I don't miss it at all anymore, not at all.
I don't miss any of it. Don't miss cigarettes, don't miss alcohol, don't miss drugs.
Um, I regret doing all of them.
Really.
I feel a lot better.
Well, I was noticing that you look younger than the last time I saw you basically.
I mean, you look really good.
I'm not sweating as much as I mean, you're more of a, you know, it's just so. But does that-
I've never seen you messy though.
I think when I see you, it's maybe a more professional
setting, but I've never seen you messy.
Well, yeah, well, not anymore anyway, but yeah, no,
I just sort of knocked it on the head.
The cigarettes was the hardest one.
That's the hardest one to quit out of the lot
is this cigarettes.
And I think that's, I read there was a book,
Alan Carr stopped smoking the cigarette. The secret to giving up cigarettes is this,
is you stop envying people who are smoking.
It used to be you'd give up cigarettes for a while,
and every time I'd see a cigarette, I'd go,
oh, jeez, I wish I could have a cigarette.
You gotta start looking at them like they're slaves
to nicotine and that you're free.
That's the only way.
There's my motivational talk for the day.
Oh, that's good.
Hey, I have another Kirk Douglas, I'm sorry.
I'm sorry, but this totally fits.
This fits better than the last one.
The last one was good.
It was good.
That fucking that must be Kirk Douglas.
I did a movie with Kirk Douglas and Bert Lancaster.
So Kirk Douglas told me his dad was a chain smoker and then he quit.
And I said, well, how did you do it?
So his dad took a cigarette, put it in his pocket.
And anytime he wanted a cigarette and he was rushing,
he would pull it out and go, who is stronger, me or you?
Me.
He was so competitive that that just stopped it.
Who is stronger, me or you?
Get back in pocket, cigarette.
I am strong, man.
You are fucking little rolled up nicotine whore.
And that was the quote.
I'm just quoting Kirk Douglas.
I'm just quoting Kirk Douglas.
I was a nicotine whore back in the day, whoring myself to nicotine.
Has it influenced your comedy at all, like your stand-up writing, just being completely
off everything?
Because the specials you're talking about were really well received.
And the last few haven't been as well received.
Once you've gotten sober, I said.
Look, look, Sargent Pepper's was arguably the Beatles' best album, right?
It was nonsensical rubbish, right?
That was all on acid and stuff, yeah.
Yeah, I don't listen to the whole Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.
It was a painting, you know, like, Julian gave me a painting. I'm doing listen to the whole Lucy in the sky with diamonds. It was a
painting, you know, like Julian gave me a painting. I'm doing more Paul there, but you know what I mean.
You sat down for a plonk, you know. Is that how you did it? We would plonk John and I would look
at each other sort of like a mirror. I'm just quoting him now. So, but yeah, but I love Paul.
Are you an opera singer, Jim, before you get a chance to answer?
Okay.
So this is, this is a thing that always has brought up in my life.
Yeah.
I love it.
Is that a fake one?
So, no, no, it's true.
It's true.
So, okay.
So I, I did a school musicals because that was how you met girls.
Right.
If you're not, if you're not athletic, I went and you go and do a school musical,
join the drama club or whatever. That's my theory and why actors are so short. Right.
I think it's because they couldn't play sport at a high level. So they joined the drama
club. It's all about meeting girls. Right. So I think, yeah, that's my theory anyway, because, um, so, so I, I went and did a musical theater at, at, at, at,
um, at school.
And then there was literally like a talent scout came to one of the shows and said, he
could be a tenor and we don't have many tall tenors.
And that's a really like a hard thing in the opera company.
And so they, they, they sent me off to singing lessons with this guy called Richard
Gill, who was the head of the chorus master in Australia.
I sound like an old person talking about relatives you've never met.
And I studied for a while.
And then when I was 17, I was put in the Australian opera in the chorus, uh, for one production of the Flying Dutchman, which was Wagner.
And so I was just like, like, I was literally singing in German, didn't know a fucking word of what
I was saying.
I would just buy a German.
Holy shit.
Well, I was just buying a CD and just mimicking the German, you know what I mean?
And then, um, you know, they teach us the songs, but I didn't know what the songs were
about or anything.
So after that, I went and studied at WAPA and WAPA is the Western Australian Academy
of Performing Arts,
which is where Hugh Jackman studied, which they had a full scholarship ride to study musical theater.
By the time I was two years into that, I was already being paid to be a stand-up comic.
And I just quit it in the middle of the night and just went off on tour. But I always wanted to be a
stand-up comic, but I thought you can't study that at university. You got it. I wanted to study something in the performing arts.
And so I studied musical theater and I would like to, I can't sing anymore
because cigarettes and yelling on stage and I've had polyps and nodules and
nodules I've done.
I've had the surgery on all that.
You can hear me.
Voice is pretty raspy now, but I could sing as a, and it's weird because
everyone always goes,
sing us a song when they find out you're an opera singer. And it's like, you wouldn't have gone up
to Pele when he was like, hadn't played soccer for 50 years and gone, go on, do a bit of keep yuppie.
Let's see a bicycle kick.
Yeah. It's a muscle. I haven't really worked, but I did do that. I still have
So it's, it's a muscle. I haven't really worked, but I did do that.
I still have a fondness for musical theater.
I still go and see any production that comes to LA.
I go to follow up questions.
Okay.
One did that Garner knee Puss because you went through a lot.
Is that a new phrase?
It's Garner.
Okay.
Okay.
I was, I was saying this to any, any young heterosexual man who can sing a little bit.
Right.
If you go to university where they audition thousands of people to get like 30 kids,
it was like going to fame and half of the class is male and half the class is female.
Those girls have been doing dance lessons since they were bloody kids.
Right.
Uh, singing lessons, acting lessons, all that type of stuff, right? All the boys have been doing the same. The 30 kids in my year at university, I think out of the 15 boys, 10 of them were gay.
And that just, the numbers don't lie. That's too good.
It tilts your way for sure.
I'll tell you what, it worked a lot better than being a comedian saying the word cunt
all the time.
Yeah.
Didn't bring as many women in as you think.
You know, you could name your next special.
Only a certain kind of woman likes that kind of talk.
Yeah, they were fun girls who did like me, but they didn't come in their masses.
Yeah.
Oh.
Okay. Here's your special, Jim. Ready? This is a new name. They didn't come in their masses. Yeah.
Okay. Here's your special gym.
Ready?
This is a new name.
Here we go.
Tall tenor.
Tall tenor.
I'm calling it my new special.
It hasn't come out.
It's called, uh, uh, to limb policy is the name of the special.
Okay.
To limb like L I M B to limb policy.
Okay.
I have, and I talk about this on the special, but because I did that
sitcom with the disabled people, a lot of disabled people come to my show.
I have a meet and greet after the show.
I always let the disabled people join the meet and greet.
And I take photos with all the different people with disabilities, but I can't.
Like someone wrote to me and said, Hey, I'm bringing my uncle to your show.
He's disabled.
Can we come backstage and meet you?
And you can't write back how disabled and you can't ask for a photo, right?
But we have to have some parameters.
I just can't have a lineup of people with fucking dyslexia bothering me.
So, so I have a, I have a two limb policy.
You have to be missing two limbs or they have to be doing nothing.
But, and if you have two limbs that are fucked up, you can you're lucky enough.
Welcome with me.
So
take a picture of this.
You're allowed to come backstage and meet this if you're missing two limbs.
OK, that's good.
I have a question also from the audience.
I have a point. You the audience. I think it's a minor on that one. At some point, we gotta get to your show because
we know, you know, we know.
Oh, the show is, go ahead, Dana.
We are out, you're on a little press tour for your show.
Sure, we can't forget the show.
I forgot about that, the snake, the snake on Fox.
The snake.
I saw your billboard hogging fucking Sunset Boulevard.
I'm not on the billboard, that's how confident I am.
No, that was an executive decision.
What? David, what was your Fox show with Snake in the title last year?
Oh, Snake Oil.
Snake Oil. This is called The Snake.
His was called Snake Oil.
Does it have a channel?
We're part of the Snake family of Fox.
Oh, it is the same billboard.
Yeah, it's by the Chateau Marmont.
Yeah. So we we snake it up.
Yeah. The Snake is a reality show that's similar to a big brother or survivor or
fear factor, it's got elements of those three shows.
Um, so it's, it's good looking people living in a house in the jungle, doing
tasks where they have to eat gross food.
But the, what the secret sauce in the show is instead of like an elimination
ceremony or where people get voted off anonymously, what happens is the
person who wins the task gets to become the snake. They get the coveted snake medallion.
And then if they get the snake medallion, they get to save the first person. And the
person who gets saved gets to save one person. The person who gets saved gets to save another
person. It snakes down the chain, setting up a chain reaction. So you don't have to
have a majority rule to like you in the show.
You just need to make really one or two friends that will keep saving you,
but you can't repay the favor. So someone saves you, you've got to save another person.
So, so like, like you get a lot of skullduggery, you get a lot of, um,
skullduggery, skullduggery, skullduggery out there.
Yeah.
Well, I tell you, I was explaining this show the other day, um, on some good
morning, something, and I said the word skullduggery because that's what I was
thinking about the show and you know what skullduggery means like, uh, pirates
and stuff and yeah, old English term.
Skullduggery.
Yeah.
Skullduggery.
And the, and the lady went, so if you want to watch the snake, there's a lot of
skull buggery skull buggery.
Buggery is the English legal term for anal sex, right?
On the Churchill movie.
The word buggery is like the legal term, the buggery happened, blah, blah, blah.
And so she just said on morning TV, come and watch some skull buggery.
And I think it got through.
I don't think anyone noticed.
And everyone tunes in for that.
Could I just for a second.
That look, that's good.
That's a winner.
So just for a second going back,
cause I kind of spaced out for a second.
So you're in, you're in Argentina in a jungle.
Where is everybody?
What are they wearing and who are they?
Okay. So when I, I, I, I set I set out the start of the show, episode one, I'm standing on a crate and there's
all these crates around me, which was meant to be like the crates you'd bring reptiles in, you know
what I mean?
I said, come out of your crates, you know, I've got an earpiece and I don't quite know who's who.
And they, they open the crates up and fair dinkum, man.
We had like, um, we had like, like a priest with the collar on.
We had a, we had a cop, the blue proof vest.
We had a, we had a rodeo rider with the chaps and spurs and all that type of stuff.
The village people.
Yeah.
Oh yeah.
Exactly.
I've been, and we had, and we had, um, I've got a village people story to tell you in a second.
Okay.
So, so we had, we had, uh had an only, an only fans model, right?
I thought, you know, that jury Judy or the Joe Schmo show.
I thought I was the only real person and they were all actors
for like the longest time.
They were tricking you.
They were tricking me, but was, I was the Mark.
I thought I was the Mark.
It's a good idea.
Actually, it's not a bad idea for a show.
Right.
And I'm like, I'm like, what, what the fuck?
And you're in the middle of nowhere.
You don't really know who employees me to be a game show.
Like it's already weird.
And so, so all these people go.
And so right up until the show aired, I wasn't completely sure,
but I'll tell you my village people's story.
So I do another podcast with a comedian called Amos Gill, another Australian.
One percent club.
Yeah, I do the one percent club in Australia, but this podcast is called ATM at this moment
it stands for, different search on the internet.
Anyway, so.
Lingo.
Yeah, Lingo. Oh yeah.
I forgot about the other one.
I got to research that again.
Yeah.
So anyway, so, uh, I was doing a joke about how Trump has the YMCA playing at all of
these concerts at all of these benefits or rallies and everyone does the dance and
all that type of stuff.
Right?
Yeah.
And I said, I said, it's so funny that, that, that song is about having gay sex in the showers.
And now all these evangelical people are dancing and stuff to the song.
It seems a little odd.
I got a cease and desist letter from the village people saying that I was going to be sued for
defamation for saying that the village people music had gay overtones.
Is it, does it not?
It turns Victor Willis, who's the cop.
I guess he was always out the front and he never turned around to notice the
rest of them because, because he's, he's, he's married to a woman called Karen
Willis before that he was married to Felicia, like Mrs.
Huxtable from the Cosby show.
He was married to her back in.
Yeah.
And, um, and, and you're not allowed to say that the village people
music has gay overtones or they will sue.
They were in the Navy.
We get sued now.
Possibly.
We could be sued now.
I said, what about in the Navy and macho man?
They're as gay as fuck.
Come on now, come on now.
Come on now.
There's a lyric in, in the Navy called we want more semen.
Like I'm all for a double ton, but don't try to tell me I'm a moron.
I think they're just saying, come on guys.
Don't, I mean, they haven't been outed to like three people so far.
It's a catchy freaking song, man.
And it is good.
Tell you what, because after that, I started listening to their other music.
It's banger after banger after banger.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's like, it's like it's like the disco music.
You can't stop the music is a hell of a song.
I mean, that's such a hook.
My son watching you in Wayne's World 2.
Oh yeah.
Yeah. He knows every step because he loves that movie so much.
Did you do it in that?
Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You were the construction worker, weren't you?
Yeah. I was dressed as a construction worker.
I think we're running away from the bad guy or something.
Somehow we end up in this nightclub and Wayne and I are now doing YMCA with these people.
Yeah, they're all they're all doing the YMCA and like you're all spies like you were up a telegraph pole.
Oh, that's right.
And then you heard something and then I think Wayne was like a cop and then somehow they found an Indian for no apparent reason.
That's right. And all of a sudden it comes together.
And then all of a sudden it was a little bit like, what's that, police academy.
And they ended up in the blue oyster.
It was a little bit of that.
They ended up in the rocking nightclub and then they do it.
But that's the dance because you guys all did it and then you actually did the thing.
And then I always say like, if the village people actually do get me, if I get my day in court and I am being sued
by the village people, I'm gonna go not guilty.
Yeah.
Is that what I mean?
Act it out.
Is there any character left?
I mean, they've got the construction worker, the Indian.
I mean, maybe you come as other costume.
I don't know.
I just come as crocodile Dundee just off the side.
You know?
What is your son's name that loves that movie?
Hank.
Hank.
Hank, this is Garth.
I got a different haircut, but thanks for watching.
When we end the podcast, can he come up and say hello very quickly?
He's downstairs playing video games.
Of course.
Don't worry about the podcast.
Normally, Jim, that would be fine.
Is the camera shy?
Just bring him up.
We have to whisk Dana off to a meeting.
Will he come on or you want to do it with off camera?
He's also a big Joe Dirt fan.
So, uh.
Okay, bring him on, bring him on, bring him on.
Let's compare box office.
Joe Dirt was my first Australian trip.
I went to Sydney.
Oh, what, you filmed it in Australia?
No, we, when they had a premiere there, it was the same.
It was a night after the premiere of Moulin Rouge.
And, uh, I went down there and I went to a concert and they sat me next to
Basler and all this great Australian stuff.
He, uh, he, he, he still flies the flag.
I always argue that things like, I guess Moulin Rouge is an Australian film,
Australian actress, Australian director, filmed in Australia.
Kylie Minogue plays the Tinkerbell thing.
It's an Australian movie as soon as Kylie's involved.
Yeah, Kylie's out there.
Kylie's out.
Kylie, you can't speak ill of Kylie.
No, no, I think she's great.
I like her.
I have great, Australians are great.
I do like it.
Go ahead, Dane.
And then I have one last story.
It's just weird sometimes.
I was hosting Vegas showcase for movies and Baz
Lerman was there, Mulan Rouge and Nicole Kidman.
So I was hanging out with them.
It's just kind of weird.
And you brought it up.
And that's that's my whole story is no joke.
Nothing other than I met them at the promotion of the thing.
Well, I think it was.
Nick, I go for nicotine.
Or bring two nicotine whore. Nicotine whore. It brings two nicotine whores.
Who is stronger?
Me or you?
Sorry whores.
Sorry, go ahead.
That was just for me.
I'm a little punchy right now.
Like back in the pocket.
Jim, one last question.
We're going to ask everyone again,
so you can have one more shot.
This is a story from a viewer that said,
if this is not a funny story, we'll just take it. I don't know if This is a story from a viewer that said,
if this is not a funny story, we'll just take it out. I don't know if this is a funny story for me.
That your father sat you down, you and your wife,
to tell you something.
I can tell you that off the air,
but I can't tell it off the air.
My dad doesn't...
Yeah, I can tell you off the air.
I can't tell it on the air. Sorry.
Well, we have an after hours.
Because my dad doesn't know how to get onto YouTube
or anything like that, but it will get back to him
on this podcast for sure.
I didn't know what level of it was, but I apologize.
It's 100% true.
It's 100% true that story.
I don't know the story.
That's why I'm waiting to hear.
We are going to, yeah, just, just to tease.
We don't need the story, but just the tease is going to trend.
Hey man, it's all about clicks.
So let me ask you, before you bring Hank out, I'll tell you this.
Okay.
Well, we can cut it out if you want.
I can tell it to you right now.
If you want to actually hear it.
No, I don't want to scare it. I don't want it to actually hear it. No, I don't want to scare it.
I don't want it to accidentally get in. Somehow.
No, we don't want to embarrass you.
I just think that we don't know how this works.
Alex Murray tell you about this story because he knows it.
Oh, okay.
Cause me, me, me and David have the same manager.
So that's what's happened there.
Well, I'll tell you this about the Carvey family, my, my childhood
family with five kids and Bud Carvey and all that stuff that
went on.
Throw away the key because no one would believe it.
There's some things we leave off the podcast.
Something better not shared.
Just know that it's a little wacky.
Look, he's 84 this year.
If I'm back on the podcast in a couple of years, I might be able to tell you.
Okay. Yeah.
We'll give it, give it some time.
2027. We're going to hold you to that.
All right.
Thanks, Jim.
We'll talk to you soon, buddy.
Hang out with you, man.
So thanks for having us, lads.
I really appreciate it.
So it was kind of nice.
We, uh, we just, um, finished with Jim.
Yeah.
Jim Jefferies, who's finished with Jim. Yeah. Jim Jefferies.
It was been around for a while.
It was really, uh, has I found him very affable and funny, uh, likable.
Interesting.
Yeah.
I like, you know, I met him before I was giving him, uh, uh, uh, shit about Brad
Pitt because Brad, you know, Brad's a great guy.
He's he knows Jim.
I think he went on his show in the old days.
Jim and I used to work in the same lot, I think, when I was doing,
maybe Lights Out or something, he was around.
So, super cool dude and big, and he travels, he goes all over the world.
That sort of surprised me, the places he goes and how much, how much he can,
he can fill them up over there because who knows, you just never know who
knows you out there in the world.
It is kind of a thing.
Yeah.
The international comedian who just can go all over.
I haven't done that.
You know, I mean, you, you did Australia.
Yeah.
Maybe I didn't do standup though.
I just went there to do premieres.
I didn't. Oh, okay. Yeah. Hmm. Maybe it's time. I didn't do standup though. I just went there to do premieres. I didn't.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
Hmm.
I wouldn't know.
I just, it's scary to go over there
because I would love to go.
But they said if you go the first time,
don't, you just go a small theater,
just try to fill it up just to see if it works.
And then you go back.
Now people know you do it, et cetera.
Well, I liked the idea when you said
that you can just drive around the UK.
Way better. If you don't like getting in an airplane, you drive around the UK. So that seems kind of
cool. I mean, in Scotland, I have relatives there, distant. I have McDonald on one side,
but it seems kind of cool. Maybe we should do a little tour there. I also like that he has
disabled people come back for a meet and greet. That was kind of a cool Maybe we should do a little tour there. I also liked that he has disabled people come back for a meet and
greet. That was kind of a cool thing I haven't heard before.
It's a good idea.
You know, because his, his standup, at least in the old days, I was
going to ask about his new standup, but it was, it was kind of rough
and tumble and then juxtaposing that, that he helps this disabled person.
And then he, now he has a following backstage and does meet and greets.
I mean, that was fascinating. Cause it makes him,
well, it just makes him extremely likable, of course,
and human that that is his meet and greet
and the two limb thing that can't have,
you have to have more, at least two limbs not working.
Yeah.
I still like Tall Tenor as a name.
That's a good name.
Maybe not for the next one,
but it's a good special name.
Cause it's so odd that he goes,
they don't have many tall tenors.
When do you hear about an opera singing comedy?
Oh, Natolas, can't you ever gonna see in your life.
My Australian accent sucks right now, I'll admit,
but I watched a show, an Australian show once with my wife
and then I had it so fucking good.
Fucking hell, if anyone can get it, you can.
I can't believe they can do Americans so well.
Australians are very tough one too to do.
Right, we mentioned Margot Robbie in that conversation too,
and she also does a perfect American accent.
Yeah.
I mean, there's, yeah.
You know, when they came over here,
because I went to a speech coach for some movie
to do a New Hampshire accent, and she was like, I said, when they came over here, because I went to a speech coach for some movie to do a New Hampshire accent.
And she was like, I said, when they come over,
what do you do?
She said, well, we say, are you from Brooklyn?
Are you from Florida?
Are you from Arizona?
Are you from North Dakota?
Like there's tiny differences all over.
So it's not just American accent.
They can have one bland one, but is it Southern?
What kind of Southern?
So there's so many ways to go with that.
Yeah, it's like we'd be,
Americans are enamored by certain accents.
And of course, if you meet an Irish man, how are you going?
You're sort of like, well, from those Irish movies.
But I have Irish relatives who ended up
in the Bronx in New York.
And they'd seen all the Scorsese De Niro films. And the first guy that talked to me, what do you what
are you two still today? What are you doing over here? They
were like almost weeping with joy that the talking to
somebody who talks to them is like amazing. And if I if I had
someone with a Liverpool accent, I'd be like, Oh, wow, but they
just love that the exportation of the East Coast accent, all those mafia films.
It's huge.
We almost got that story out of them at the end too,
but I have a feeling it was a little rougher on the edges.
Yeah, I think the thing about Jim, he came to play,
he was very funny, had a lot of energy.
And at the end he goes,
"'Was it all right that I talked too much?' I thought that was kind of human. I know, please talk.
We love a comedian coming on and here's a great story, you know, the Russell Crowe restaurant
story and stuff. So very much enjoyable. Well, thanks for listening. As you know,
Monday we have another show. And if you have any questions for us, you could try...
We want questions. Yeah, we could try. Yeah.
We want to hear from you.
Fly on the wall at odyssey.com.
So what are some subjects they can ask about, which is pretty much anything.
Yeah.
I mean, I would think, um, how are you feeling about interacting with AI?
Do you feel it's a good thing or it's going to take over?
Are you frightened of it?
Do you own Bitcoin?
Um, these are questions they can ask us, right? And then we, we answer them. or it's going to take over, are you frightened of it? Do you own Bitcoin?
These are questions they can ask us, right?
And then we answer them. You ask, we're experts.
We're experts in every field.
Maybe I got this wrong, I just want to know.
No, no, you got it right.
They can ask anything they want.
We just say something.
You're thinking about marrying someone, man or woman,
and you want to tell us the situation.
If you have doubts, we will tell you
whether to marry or not.
We will maybe accidentally change your life
with these questions or not.
I'm not saying I have no ego about it,
but feel free to ask us anything
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I guess, do we wanna invite politics?
That's maybe Maybe. Maybe.
Anything.
Religion, politics.
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