Off The Vine with Kaitlyn Bristowe - Thunder Down Under

Episode Date: April 13, 2019

Kaitlyn and a beleaguered hungover Clio meet up with three members of the Las Vegas cast of Thunder Down Under Alex B, Alex C and Kurt! The guys talk about the auditioning and interview process including a shocking omission from the process, Kaitlyn confesses an embarrassing moment from spin class, and the guys take time to dispel some the common rumors they've heard about the show. F Factor - Check out FFactor.com and enter Vine15 for $15 off your first purchase See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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All right, this is a very exciting day on the pod. Welcome to Off the Vine. I'm your host, Caitlin Bristow. I'm sitting here with three Australian hunks. Do you guys ever get called that, hunks? Good night. Who spend every night of the week making girls and guys. maybe swoon.

That's right. I'm talking about the guys from Thunder Down Under, which should be on everyone's to do list when it comes to Vegas. So I have Alex B. Which one's Alex B again?

I'm Alex B. Alex C. I feel like this is like from the Bachelor, you know, when they have like two Alexes. You're Alex B and Alex C. And Kurt with me today. You can see them for yourselves

on at Thunder Vegas on Instagram, which I highly suggest you all go check out and follow. Oh yeah. And Cleo's here. Cleo's going to be like a screen door on a submarine. today just useless useless useless no point you being here you're just here for buffer i almost

missed the podcast but yeah cleo threw up twice this morning what uncleio good effort three times what you say you threw up to yeah she threw up three little hungover rakes happened welcome to vagus yeah like we were talking about this before we started the podcast that the drinks here are just like you could start a car with the drinks like they're just so aggressive Pure gasoline. It's one of the things I love slash hate about Vegas, you order a shot. Yeah. And it's like back, it's about, it's a normal drink.

Yeah. It's like, you're right. It's insane. And I was like, oh, I'm not going to have that many drinks. I only had four drinks. So you have 10. So you have, yeah. But which is like, 10 in Vegas.

It really is. Because today is technically a work day, so I was like, I cannot be hung over. And I shouldn't have said that because then it's like Murphy's law. Are you guys allowed to drink before a show? No, we're not allowed to drink. Yeah. It's, yeah, work and work health safety thing. Oh.

Oh, that makes sense. Every now and then we might sneak a couple, but it's frowned upon very much. Really? Yeah. So you should, do you want me to edit that out so you don't get fired? No, it's right. I'm sure. Oh, my God.

Who's your audience? We just need to make sure. Yeah, that's crazy. A lot of ladies. Yeah, my audience is like 98% females from like 20 to 50, 60. I don't know. Just like our audience. Yeah, I was going to say you're probably used to that.

Yeah, we went to the Backstreet Boys concert last night. it was amazing have you guys seen it no not yet it's someone that's the things you do this though oh my gosh it's so good i was like fan girling i never fan girl about things like i'm i don't like the whole like oh my god that was me i was just like freaking out i was like reaching out to them like i was going to touch them i was like not anywhere close to them like crying at some of the songs it was i was that girl last night which again is different because you're like 15 comes out you know you just have those pressures and yeah You look rough.

Oh, I know. Like, I just looked over at you. I mean, I look rough too, but. We need to get one of those IVs. They have the IV doctor's hair. And they make you feel 150 times better. I think I'm going to do it after this, for sure. You can probably start drinking straight after it.

Oh, yeah. Okay, that sounds good. Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah, it's perfect. You a little hair in the dog. I might need like a bloody Mary. So you three are all from Australia. Yes.

And when did you move to Vegas? I moved here in 2015. Okay. I moved, I started the job in 2010. Okay. I was only going to be here for 12 months. Really? 2019, here we are.

Wow, that's amazing. And I'm the newest. I've been here just on a year. Okay. Yeah. And, okay, this is my biggest question. I want to know what the audition process is like to become part of the show. Like, are you, I used to audition for commercials back in the day in Vancouver.

And I've done some weird shit for auditioning, like some weird, weird stuff. I remember having to, like, throw a girl on a couch and, like, kiss her neck. What sort of auditions are you trying out for this? It was, like, it was for, um, it was for a music video, that one. I don't know what I got. It was, um, do you guys know who Biff Naked is? She's Canadian. Yeah, she's awesome.

I had the show every night at Excalib. My last name is Biff and everyone calls me Biffo. Oh, really? Yeah. Biff Naked is, we know him well. Yeah. That's crazy. You are now Biff naked in my mind from now on.

I've been called worse, so I'll go with it. There you go. But yeah, what's the audition process? It's actually surprisingly not what you think. But is it like dancing? No. So they don't hire dancers. What?

I mean, you've got to have a bit of rhythm, but it's, first of all, it's like personality, and then kind of looks, and then dancing comes later. Really? They want us to all be, you know, the down-to-earth Aussie boy next door kind of guys. Yeah. And that's what I think separates. us from the other shows, which are all strippers.

Yeah, yeah. We're not strippers. Right. Well, we have tickets to the show tonight. Yeah. Oh, you're coming. Yeah. The late one or the only one?

I don't know which one. Sorry? Late one or what's... Oh, the earlier one, the 8 p.m. We'll know to look out for you. Yeah. No. Don't turn up at 8.

Yeah. Oh, nine. It's a 9. Oh, perfect. It's a 9. We're just like those girls, like, just so eager to be there. Pre-gaming. Yeah.

Did you have to do an, like, like, a dancing audition? to join? I did not. Really? You did? You did? Yeah, I had to... Must have changed. I went to the audition and I showed up... Sorry, I went to the interview. Yeah? And beforehand, I had got some dance lessons because I was riding horses at the time I was performing on the Gold Coast was performing on horses. And I was like, oh, well, I want to get in this job,

so I have to go and dance. So I got a couple of lessons, and then Billy, our big boss came and watched. Yeah. And I completely screwed it up. No way. And I go, I walk back over him, head between my legs, going, oh, man. And he goes, oh, good, you count to eight. Do you want to start? I'm like, okay.

Really? Yeah, like Kurt was saying, we have to have good personalities. I love that. We won't deal with any cockiness or anything like that. It's sort of gets stamped out pretty quick if it is there. So you guys like to have fun. Yeah, exactly. Our whole show is about fun.

I mean, once we get here, we do get trained by some really, really good dancers. And we do have some really good dance. We got some B-boys in the show. We got some acrobatts. the show and stuff. Really? Yeah, with that being said, there are phenomenal dances that we have.

Of course. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's not the first criteria. How many of you guys are there? There's like 26 of us in total, because there's our Las Vegas residency guys, which is us with their seven nights a week. Then there's two touring teams that two are the world.

Did you know that I dated 26 guys at once one time in my life? Hey, well done for that. So you're going through auditions where you're getting girls around and they, what sort of job did you have before? A line of work? It's a weird, weird life I live. I've got a lot of stories. I love to hear more about this after the interview.

Yeah. Have you ever heard of the book? I hope they serve beer in hell. Heard of it. I haven't read it, but I've seen it. It's like this guy that has crazy stories. I was reading it and I'm like, this is nothing. Is this the guy that would write stories about girls that you've been with?

Yeah, there's some of those. There's just his, yeah, like crazy stories. I was just thinking, like, if I ever wrote a book, which I want to, I would have some wilds. I would have some wilds. might have to use like fake characters to play me in my book my boyfriend might break up with me i've always thought that it'd be cool to get like a thunder cartoon series yeah and just change the names of people and just yeah we can compare notes yeah that's actually a great idea some good stories yeah when can people record um can you like record on your phone in the show

there's a section where you can yeah um but otherwise no yeah what what is do you want people to be in the moment like what's the reason behind not having your phone or do not want people to steal your choreography. No, it's more along the fact that if someone's there, they don't want to be seen there. It's more of a safety thing for the girls. Okay. Oh, that's interesting. That's always been the thing.

You know, they've always been worried about someone sneaking to watch a show and then all of a sudden it's up on YouTube or hashtag Thunder from Red Under. Yeah, yeah. Babe. It was quite, on that note. On that note, it was quite funny. We were touring the Netherlands, over in Holland. Yeah.

And all the women, it was quite strange because you do shows here in the States where, you know, there's a bar before the show, and everyone's drinking, and then they're drinking in the show, and then they're drinking out of the show where, and we're in the Netherlands, and the girls, there's, like, they're drinking cups of tea outside. No way. Yeah, and then afterwards, they go out and they're having, like, scones, scones, and, like, muffins and tea, and they tell their husbands that they're out of play. Oh, really? Yeah. Is it really? That was, yeah. That's really, that's why they're a little bit quieter.

very quiet reserved no one wanted photos there should be no shame yeah that's I'm like but what do you guys is it something like I mean I'm going to experience it for myself tonight but what is like do you like touch the girls or what? Yeah I mean we bring them up on stage we do it in a classy way

but you know there's a stigma that goes along with stripping in the rain so people you know we have a lot of girls that come to the show like we invite some people and they're like oh it's not really our thing you know yeah just come and have a look we have a lot of even like the guys are boyfriends and husbands that come.

They end up having so much fun. Yeah, they start out with their hands over the face and by the end of it, they're sitting there laughing and yeah. Yeah, we got some good emcees to get the crowd going and the dancing's kind of cheeky. It's not sleazy. Right, right. Yeah, yeah. To give you an idea, I had my mom and my dad there two nights ago.

Oh, really? So, yeah, it's family friendly at the same time. My whole family's come. It was funny, though, with you saying that, though, my uncle's like a very man's man. Yeah. You know, like, and we're like, you know, come to the show and he's like, no. And he comes and he's standing up the back at the bar and the rest of my family and they're like seats. And it was funny because at the start you can see him looking over like, oh, yeah.

And then by the end of it, he's down amongst it clapping. Yeah. He's loving it, yeah. That's because you're right. It's probably the stigma of like what goes along with it. But when people are there seeing it, you're like, this is, it's, you guys are talented, you're fun, you're down to earth. It's a fully choreograph show. Yeah.

It's a performance. Yeah. Yeah. Acrobatics, breakdancing. Yeah. It's more of a party, you know what I mean? Yeah. It's fine for the girls to let loose.

So there are guys that go. Yeah. Is Adam going to come? Yeah. And I think he's excited. Well, yeah, he should be. Adam's your man? Yeah.

Yeah, okay. Have a good time. How are you feeling today? Is he in bed nursing and hangover or is he? Yeah. No, he's working actually. Oh, really? Good for him.

He came down to, I didn't know where my phone was this morning, and he came down because Cleo had it last night. And so he brings it to my room. And I open the door. door and he just laughed at me. I just looked like absolute hell. And he looks down and there's like a table of just room service like disgusting

amounts of food just sitting there. He's a room service meat and cheese burgers. Oh yeah I just live for room service at the end of the night. I don't like I live for it and in the morning I'm always like shame on you. No I would feel better if I ate last night for sure. Really? Absolutely. I always have to get rid of it in the morning so when I wake up

but I feel so guilty you know what I mean? Yeah I was that was a rookie mistake. I should have just wheeled it. Yeah it was It was, I was really embarrassed. If I have McDonald's at the end of the night, I'm usually not hungover. Really? Yeah, I feel like it's the hangover cure. Well, McDonald's is just everything. Yeah.

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It's 13 shows a week. Wait, wait, you guys work every single show, Monday to Sunday. At the moment, yeah, there's been a couple of injuries. So, every night, I think Alex did the longest. It was a few months. Yeah, four months, maybe. Four months. The new guy.

The new guy. The new guy. Yeah. Yeah, you're still fresh. Fettney's wing, earning his wings. But then, yeah, usually if you do get a night off, it'll be one night. Wow. Is that just exhausting?

Because you're also on. Honestly, like, yeah, it is. It is that it's not. I mean, I was doing construction back in Australia. Okay. We all come from, as I said, we're not professional advances. Right. We all come from pretty humble backgrounds.

Yeah. And I was on construction sites for nine to 12 hours a day. Wow. Busting my ass with, like, calluses on my hands. Wow. And then you come here and you're working in an hour. If you can't work an hour or night, like there's something wrong with you wow and it's fun too it's not like yeah that's easy to be on

it's easy to be on yeah once you get out there it's like adrenaline too and it's fun and everybody's just so they're there's there to see you and oh and i'm sure there's the ladies are screaming oh yeah when you're on stage it's a lot of fun it's after a couple months of doing like if you do well it's only at the fourth the fourth month of doing triple shows you're a little bit worn out your body yeah anyway i do it's a little bit older now so wait so have you been doing a thunder down under for the whole nine years. Yeah. Yeah. So I toured for the first four years. So when you first join your tour. Yeah. And they tour now. Yeah. So they tour all over the world. They tour Asia, Europe. Wow. Australia. South Africa. Canada. Obviously, Australia, New Zealand. That's so fun. So, yeah.

Do any of the girls ever get, like, too crazy? Like, kind of cross the line. My first, my very first show ever was actually the largest show he'd do in Windsor. Really? That was your first. That was my first show. Or were you dancing? I was dancing that one. That's epic. Welcome to Thunder.

I was backstage and like, it was 5,000 women. So it's like, it's just in Sazers and Windsor. And I was just like, what have I got myself into? And I'm sitting out back and the first guy's gone out to do his routine. And he came backstage and he's got blood just all down his back, like pouring out. He's like, yeah, that happens, you know. Nails and rings, they kind of get caught. Girls like to scratch.

No way. Seems to be a female thing. They get excited. They get for the scratch. I don't know what their husband. like this nipple twisting seems to be a thing sometime

Yeah They just come up Two-handed Beeline for your nipples And you're like Oh you like that But no It's normally not too bad

But yeah It's not uncommon To come off With welt marks With clear handprints I mean Tour tour is the Is the crazy time

Like in Vegas We do about 400 night per show Yeah On tour like Kurt was saying You do up to 5,000 women You normally average around 1,000 women a show on tour. Tour shows are very different from Vegas shows. I mean, tour is you're going to small towns.

We've been to towns in the Midwest where the population's like 1,500, but the show's 3.5,000. What? But these women have booked these tickets months, maybe like nearly a year in advance. They've planned this weekend, this girl's weekend. We're in Vegas, it's a great show, and it's an awesome vibe. However, a lot of the girls do, like, oh, what do we do tonight? Let's get a Thunder. And it's like a last minute thing.

Yeah. We're on the road. It's like they've looked forward to it for so long. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're right. They're pretty crazy out on the road. Yeah. Yeah, that's it. It's like they're once a month thing that they plan because like sometimes we'll be

driving for two hours and there's nothing but plowed fields. Yeah. Show up to this casino like who's going to come? Yeah. Like, it was say next minute you're doing two shot out shows to thousands. They're like, where'd you come from? It's nothing around here. Where do you live?

Was it crazy? Like was Canada nuts? Canada was good I love Canada The girls up there are lots of fun They like that They let loose They have fun

Oh yeah Canadians are very similar To Australians too So we get along great Yeah I bet Even at the shows in Vegas I feel like Canadians Always stand out

Yeah they do You can always You can always be Canadian Yeah Yeah Yeah crazy Good crazy Clearly

I like that you know it As well Yeah That's Yeah we know it And we'll admit it And we own it Yeah

Did you both come from up From Canada Or do you live here or? Nashville now, but... Okay, you live back. You're Nashville. Yeah, yeah. I moved to Nashville, like, almost four years ago now, which is long...

Disney is a lot. Yeah, it's so much fun. It's too much fun. Too much fun. I live, like, outside in, like, a quiet little neighborhood, but I'm, like, 15 minutes from the crazy. You venture in every now and then. Yeah, so when I'm feeling brave, I'll go in, and I go for it when I go in. But then I, like, recover at my house for, like, the next three weeks.

Oh, yeah, that was the last time I got really drunk was in. I call it Nash Vegas. Yeah. Yeah. It's a mini Vegas. I've heard of Australian city or something in America or something. There's like over 100 people move there a day. Oh.

Yeah. Wow. Really? Yeah. Yeah. That's like, that's a fact. Google it. Lots of Bachelorette's too, right?

Yeah. So many Bachelorette parties. Like it's the Bachelor, Bachelorette Capital. It used to be Vegas, but now it's Nashville. Yeah. I don't know what. I mean, you still probably get lots of Bachelor at parties. Yeah.

But that's probably like the main thing for you guys to show, right? bachelor at parties i was gonna say that would be a perfect one doing a show in nashville but have you not done one yet yeah they did one we do that we do there oh we do yeah we're like a permanent show i'd move to nashville in a minute yeah wait they do a permanent one no no no we just do we just do tour shows there oh yeah we'd love to get a permanent one there yeah that would be great residency everyone tweet he would like a residency and let's all go in on it together We should open up one that all five of us.

I was like, please tell me he did the right math. I did good. I did good. But yeah, we'll go in on it together. Yeah. That would be awesome. I'm trying to think because even I see, like, I see all the bachelor parties downtown and just how they fan grow

over like country singers and stuff. What is the most awkward thing that's happened at one of your guys' shows? Would you remember factions or? What's, uh, what? It's like a G-rated show? No. You know how you're talking about how, like, it's a show, and you convince people to come and watch,

and, like, guys are like, oh, they end up liking it by the end. I always have to think, I'm like, my boyfriend's mom listens to my podcast, and sometimes she's like, you get raunchy. And I'm like, but it's like a show, too. You know, like my podcast definitely goes there. I talk about very inappropriate things. It's not G-rated at all,

but it's a performance, too, kind of thing. So go there. You can go back on my money. I get in trouble anyway if I say anything. anything too bad. Yeah, you got to... There was a... Bo told me one night the first

the first time he went on stage and put his G-string on the wrong way. And it wasn't containing much. Me and Bo, another performer, we started at the exact same time, and we were doing... Before we, you know, you're kind of in like training camp, getting rehearsals and stuff. And it was our first performance before going out

to do the shows, and it was at a convention for a flight center. And it was like six or seven thousand people. in one of the big showrooms and it was all filmed and they had us in these G-strings and that were like we knew we didn't like wear G-strings

and he's put it on holding flags as well mind you yeah and we're walking out with these Australian flags and he goes I'm not sure but I think my nut was hanging out and I was like no no you would have been okay

and then next minute Instagram hashtag thunder from down under there's a video of Beau with his nut right up to say it was actually the left side That's why we nicknamed him Lefty. What was his name? Good nickname.

Bo. Oh, Bo. I was hoping it was like Nick or something. You can call him like Left Nut Nick. He's going to hate me for saying this too, by that. G-strings, no straightforward as they're saying that, too, actually. Now everyone's going to go, like, look this up. All the girls are going to be like, you do.

I think he managed to get it down. I think he managed to get it taken down, so that's pretty funny. Oh, my, oh, really? Yeah. Oh, that's amazing. That's, I was, I don't know if you guys know this, but I was The Bachelor. And one of my dates was sumo wrestling, and same thing. One of the guys, he was stretching, and his legs were out.

And I'm like, your ball sack is out. Fully, one of the sumer wrestlers. Yeah, one of the guys from my season, he was wearing a little, like, sumo diaper thing. And his nut, Joe Bailey. And he didn't care. I was like, your nuts are out. And he was like, me. That sounds like.

It sounds deliberate. It sounds like Alex. That sounds like Alex. Yeah, dude, man, you're showing. He's like, yeah. Yeah, that's what happens when you're on year nine. You're like, man. Does Joe we need a new person?

Yeah, maybe you guys need to hire Joe Bailey. You have to be Australian, right? Correct. Yeah, so that's the... That's the first criteria. Yeah, first criteria, Australian. Everyone actually gets hired in Australia. Oh, okay.

Because our company was, it was started in Australia. It was massive in Australia for 10 years and they moved over here. So, yeah, everyone gets hired in Australia. You go to the Gold Coast. You do your interview. and then, yeah, if they like you, you get sent over here for training and everything else that goes along with that. And everything happens really quick.

It does. Yeah, but I had my interview and I was on a plane like five days later. No way. Pack up your life. Wow. Okay, well, my next question is, have you ever hooked up with somebody from the audience? A gentleman never tells. Oh, yeah, they do.

On this podcast, they do. That's what a segue into my confession segment. I mean, yeah, I mean, yes, I mean, you know, you've always, it's one of the perks of the show to, you know, hang out and get to know some girls. Yeah. Meet American ladies. Yes, meet some American girls, you know. But, yeah, no, you know, details will be.

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Now back to Off the Vine with Caitlin Bristow. Usually I drink wine on this podcast. I'm sorry. I can't hang today. Really? Have you got some? I'll drink it for you. I should have brought some.

It probably would have made me feel. Do we have any alcohol back there? Is it? I'll go get it. I wait here. I'll be back in five minutes. Yeah. I usually helps with the confessions a little.

Yeah, I bet it does. It really does. I warm up all my guests. I butter them up with alcohol. And then when we get to the confessions, I'm like, Spill it. Yeah, that's my trick. I have to think about the one that I want to do.

Well, Leo's confession can be that she threw up three times. times today. Yeah, that's my confession. I'm trying to think of one. Oh, I have a funny confession. This isn't, I usually have like pretty dirty ones, but this is very G-rated.

I went to a spin class the other day. And I was feeling myself. And I was just like, we're doing this like move and you like do this body roll and we're, I was getting it. And the song cut out and I was hitting a high note while I was spinning. And it was like

Beyonce's like, finally, you got a love on top. Hey! And I was like hand in the air like, hey and the music just stopped and I was like okay it was really embarrassing like I was hitting the note because the the music's so loud and it's dark in there and I was just like get it Caitlin like yeah and then I just hit the high one's gonna know yeah well they yeah they definitely knew after that everyone just ever laughed too yeah yeah yeah I was like well at least I nailed it I mean I am a combination of Fergie and no

What is that, stepbrothers quote? A combination of Fergie and Jesus? Your voice is like a combination of Fergie and Jesus. Why can't you do that in front of people? That was me. The songbird of the generation. Yeah, the songbird of my generation, I nailed that note. Anyways, that's my confession.

Well, I'm basically, like, now we're on the alcohol subject, and we're in Vegas. Yep. I'm sort of like Frank the Tank. I don't drink. Oh, okay. But when I do, like, hits my lips and I just don't stop. I just, yeah. It's like, I have, like,

One, and that's a struggle, or I have like a hundred. What's your go-to drink? Bourbon and Coke. Okay, yeah, that'll get you. And, yeah, so last week, 4.30 a.m. at the wind, walking through the reception. Oh, boy. Someone said, someone bought up, as we were with a group of people that didn't know of my profession. Yeah.

And someone said, bust a dance move. So, Kurt, with confidence, level through the roof. Puts Pony on. Puts pony on. And I do this, like, jumping move where I kind of go from standing. to, in the air to, meant to be on my chest and I ended up on my face and, uh, my tooth got knocked straight out. Yeah, I'm going to need that photo to promote this podcast. This is his confession. Tune in. Yeah. So wait, so now you just got a. I've got a temporary cap and then the, um, the

porcelainette is getting made right now. So that's, yeah. Gosh, okay, that's, that like teeth to me, like, I take such good care of my teeth. And if I ever broke a tooth, I feel like I would just, you know, My mom did this to me, okay? When I was little, my mom would chase me down to the park if I didn't brush my teeth. And she'd, like, be in, like, curlers in her hair and her robe. And she'd, like, run to me and, like, shaking the toothbrush. Like, she... He must have been quickling a little.

I wouldn't go out the front door. Oh, yeah. I snuck out because I was like, I know I didn't brush my teeth. I was, like, rebellious. So I was like, ooh, I'm going to get away with it. But my mom, like, conditioned me to feel like teeth or everything. So that's... But the crazy thing is now they can do such a good job.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. You're fine. I would have never even been able to, and that's a temporary. Yeah, this is like one off the shelf. It's quite funny to have, like, a drop-in-on- Really? I'm going to take that one.

Yeah. Recycled. This one's just right. Yeah. Pop it on. Okay. Have you thought of one? Oh, no.

I actually haven't thought of one that I can share. I was just flipping through my phone photos to see if I could trigger a memory, but you go, you go Alex first, Alex C. Alex C. Take it away, Alex C. I had a funny night at the show, the other, last week. weekend when I was doing like for the routine that I share with Alex had come out in like a cloak yeah about Tarzan oh Tarzan oh Tarzai okay yeah yeah it's like a jungle themed

routine you definitely look like like Tarzan vibes yeah yeah yeah that's why they picked it for me yeah um and it's a bit of a quick change from our first our first routine that we open with into the second one so I've got I've got like my underlayers on and I chuck on this cloak and I've got like a big lionhead thing too with a big man It looks like a Tina Turner wig, but it's got a lionhead on it. That's full-blown. And I run out into the crowd, go, like, scare some girls from behind and end up at the back of the, end up at the back of the showroom, hop out onto the table to, like, start

the music, and I'm there, like, making a big entrance. And I could feel something like dangling around my legs, and I thought, oh, I must have, like, picked up someone's cup or something or, like, something hit the back of my leg. And I carry on, march to the crowd, end up on stage, and then I was like, I was like, I've like lent over to pull off the big lionhead. I realize it's just full of coat hangers. Some

still with like t-shirts on them. What? They were like on the clothes rack and where the lionhead was. And one of the boys is going to help him. The other boys go, no, leave it. How do you not notice that?

I don't, well, I just got so much going on the clothes. It's a big thick. And it's dark. It's like it's like, yes. And yeah. I was right in these blind spots. I had like Some tiny inclination that something was hanging on there, but that was like five coat hangers, a t-shirt hanging off. And I'm like making this big like entrance into the crowd like, like, this is my moment. And I, after that stuff would come off, I saw like all the stuff lying on the ground.

I was like, who the fuck brought the coat hangers? Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's hilarious. That's funny. I mean, we can come back to you if you need some time. I don't want to put you on the spot. There's levels. You don't want to go too far. You need something good.

Some people have definitely gone really far. The boss is going to hear this. Because, I mean, I don't get embarrassed that easy. Yeah. You know what I mean? So I take something extreme to get me a little bit, uh-oh. Yeah, that's me too. To give you guys an example of a confession to see where you can go.

The last one when we were in Chicago, so Caitlin was doing a tour, Blake confessed that he was masturbating and then what happened? Then it... The fan was on and it shot up and swung a little. around yeah and then so then he started he had the he was jerking off the corn yeah it like I guess

it like shot up and then it there's the fan going on and then all of a sudden yeah and then it shot up and then he got in his face yeah because it's a decent shot that's a short roof yeah it was

I gotta start aiming for the ceiling and one of the most embarrassing parts of that story was he asked his friend to leave the room so he could do it He was like, man, can you like, give me a sec? I got to, like, masturbate. Along those lines, I had a girlfriend once, and, you know, I started looking up porn. Yeah.

I'm like, well, isn't the sound working anywhere? I realized that it was Bluetooth to the speaker where my girlfriend was staying, like, the next couple of rooms across. Oh, and so she knows what kind of porn you watch them. So, yeah, yeah, yeah, so there's no imagination. I mean, yeah. That's funny. That's my profession.

That, a lady could. And I could hear it faint. I'm going, what? And then you're praying. Babe. Pop-ups. Pop-ups. Problems.

I mean, brave of you to do it while she was in the next room. Well, not the next room. Yeah, she was, it was, I was, sorry, I went to the bathroom. I don't know. Small details. Yeah, exactly. She's like, got her headphones on or so. Yeah, I don't know.

I think she might be mad at me, so nothing was, you know. A lady confessed to me on the podcast that, that, that, um, she was like a billet for, like, a hockey. a couple hockey players and she was trying to watch porn upstairs and the boys were downstairs and it was on her Bluetooth speaker down there yeah that would be I mean it sucks that it was your girlfriend

but at least it wasn't like you know that would be mortifying yeah yeah that's a shocker do girls ever ask you to do those moves like in the bedroom like your dance moves bring the stripper moves yeah

are you like no that's my job so yeah sometimes I mean when I first sure I was like yeah he was like yeah he was offering. You're like, that was my thing in the bedroom. Yeah. I was like, yeah, that's all I knew, actually.

And then, so then, yeah, but nowadays it's more, oh, yeah. I just did five shows in a weekend. I want to do a hair flick every now and then. You're like, my glue. Oh, yeah. A little tight right now. A little sore. I mean, I probably would.

I danced my whole life, so I feel like sometimes I whip out the dance moves in there, you know. You got to. Hey, space it up. I think we had one guy in the show that he was, he's a really good backflipper. Okay. And he was, I don't know, anyway, so he ended up, this is years and years ago. Yeah. He ended up hooking up with one of her friends' friends, and she said that he was, he back handsprung into the bed.

And as he flipped, he ripped his jeans off. No! Like, he obviously wore his show pants. And then she was already done. She was like, oh, yeah, I don't know. Oh, okay, you can go now. I'm good. You know what, don't worry about it.

That's amazing. Okay, I have a little game to play with you guys. It's called Fill in the Blank with the first thing that comes to your mind. That's the name of the game. I made it up. I made it up. Okay, we'll go like in a row. So, Kurt, Alex B, Alex C.

I nailed it. Okay. So I get really excited when I see Blank in the audience. titties whew no sorry you can't think it's funny

no I didn't because I was thinking bourbon I was like oh you can see we're two different people

yeah that's hilarious bourbon okay that's that's fair because we can't drink right

and then you know you are running around the crowd and then you do get a little whiff of bourbon you're like

oh I'm thirsty I'm parched I'd love to drink that yeah it's nice when the girls

offer it up can you can you can you drink if they offer it The showroom we're in has, they serve jello shots. Oh, you get that too.

Yeah. I've had, like, yeah. I've loved to offer up a jello shot. Yeah, right? Every, when we walk along the table at the beginning and you get at the end of the table and it's like two jello shots just be there. I'm like, oh, so yeah, ladies, when you go to the show, buy them some jellos shots, right? You won't say no. Okay, my favorite thing about being in Vegas is?

Titties. Non-stop titty. No, I don't know. There's always something to do. You're never bored in this town. If anyone says they're bored, then you're not meant to be here. My makeup artist last night, she's amazing. Danielle Summers, if anybody needs makeup in Vegas.

She was like, yeah, I don't know what there is to do here. I'm like, would you like a list? I mean, like, at the moment, you go snowboarding 40 minutes away. Yeah. Really? Mount Charleston, yeah. Full snow. Oh, that's cool.

But then you go hiking. Like, there's a lake, you know, jet skiing. Like, you can do anything. Wow. You can hire wake boats. You can, you know, there's something in winter and summer. Then, of course, there's always, you know, always a nightlife. Yeah.

You've got the best performers in the world here. Yeah. So, you've got the shows. And then you've got the normal day stuff. Dining as well. Hips all. Oh, the best. Amazing food scene.

They do have amazing food here. I actually do love the fact as well that I can, when I went home to Australia, the last time before last, I hadn't been home in like five years. And the last time I was home there, it was not, because I grew up in a smaller. country town so it hit nine o'clock and i wanted an ice cream and everything was shut and i've been living in vagus i'm going what i just want an ice cream what you get everything 24 hours yeah yeah that's true that's true that's true even like we had dinner last night and um we're on the balcony and like in uh at the belagio and you're just looking at the most beautiful fountain show and then i and then you're looking at the

iful tower i'm like wait are we in paris yeah yeah it's just it's it's beautiful Okay, it's your moment. My turn. I'm nervous. You should be. One thing I take from stage to the bedroom is... Body rolls. Oh, I love a good body roll.

Always with the body rolls. Always with the body rolls. I love that you, like, knew that. You didn't even hesitate. You're like, body rolls. So you actually do that. Yeah. Like, I believe you.

Yeah. That was very convincing. Guilt in general. Yeah, guilt. Blank is the biggest misconception about our show. It's a strip show. Like that, it's a, it's a, it's a, the sleazy, you know.

And none of us are Australian as well. No, everyone, everyone are always asked. They won't believe us most of the time. Even when they are you Australian? Yep. No, you're not. No, I'm like, say something to me. I'm like, get a mate.

They're like, you're faking it. I'm a terrible actor. You should hear my American accent. Why don't people believe you? I have no idea. I guess. Because they're like ready to be deceived, I feel like. And they've all be, every, like all the girls are told by security, by security staff, by

cab drivers. by boyfriends, you know what I mean, they're not really Australian and they're all gay. Really? Yeah, yeah, that's the other thing. Everyone thinks that we're gay. No one is gay. Interesting.

I don't believe that. You're like tidings. You're lying. If I wasn't performing in Thunder from Down Under, I would be? I'd be a DJ. Really? Yeah, I was a radio DJ. Part-time I was radio DJ and performing DJ for 10 years.

Oh, that's cool. You've performed all over the world, haven't you? Yeah. What? Yeah. It's not a big deal. Modest. Oh, that's cool.

Yeah, a couple record deals so far. Really? Yeah. Cool. Yeah. Well, that can be like, can that be like a little, or is it a little side hustle for you? No, it could be it. It's, I'd passed.

I'm not. Yeah. I just don't have the time. You got to, like, the thing nowadays is that kids in school are getting taught how to do production, and you've got 13-year-olds, absolutely killing it. Yeah. I learned, like, I'm 31, and I'm 31. And I started learning that stuff when I was like mid-20s.

And it's just, there's just so many far ahead of you. As fun as it is, professionally-wise, it's just not kind of an option anymore. But that's what you would do if you would come. I would do that, yeah. The most famous person who has seen me perform is? Leona Lewis, probably. Oh, I love her. Me too.

She was cool. That was awesome. I've only been here for a year. It's probably a better question for the veterans. I mean, we've done. We've done shows with Project Runway, so Heidi Klum. Oh, yeah, yeah, oh, that's cool. We did, we've been, I was lucky enough to be on a movie, a Disney movie, believe it or not.

Really? It's part of Thunder from Down Under with Steve Corral. Oh, that's cool. In the credit, it's playing himself, Alex Biffin. What movie? Alexander. Sorry, it was Alexander and the No Good, Horrible, Terrible Band. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

That's the name of the movie. Yeah. That's a book too, isn't it? That's a book too, I think. I think so, yeah. The funny thing about that movie actually was that the guy, the little kid, was an Australian pretending to be, like, acting as an American, pretending to like Australia. Really? Yeah.

Oh, wild. I mean, we've had, yeah, I'm trying to think of it. There's one other person. She came, I can't remember her name. She came in and gave us, like, pronounced her name differently. Yeah. Oh, really? That looks like.

Anyway, she comes up I can't remember a name now I want to know who that was now I'm going to pointless I'm like now on people I'm into it I'm into it We always have like people coming in from L.A. though like

Kardashians, friends Oh yeah Is it Malika? Yeah Yeah she came not long ago Chris Browns X Rihanna Yeah I was like that Rihanna

Coochie I don't know that does Croce Chan yeah That's cool Oh We've Yeah she's Sometimes you

I need to write all this down. I had Farah from Teen Mom like two nights ago. Oh, yeah? Yeah. She'd be a good time, I feel like. Videos to do. You just know. Oh.

Well, isn't she on that show right now, like the challenge or something? I can't remember what it's called. Yeah, I don't know. I was just watching it the other night. I was like, that girl looks like she could hang. Okay, last one. A character I wish I could play on stage that I haven't is. You guys can all answer this.

You mean like a character? Like a... Yeah, like you do the Tarzan thing. I'm excited. it's actually in the works I'm excited for the we're doing like a lifeguard lifesaver

it's yeah yeah it's coming up in the future I'm excited that's actually what I was going to say too because it's very Australian like you go to Australia you go to the beach yeah definitely I reckon a surfer would be cool too yeah

I'd like to put together my own cowboy routine we already have a cowboy routine we already have a cowboy routine big finale yeah but I'd like to do mine one day if that one was ever shifted in Nashville you can do it Oh, yeah.

It's perfect. I just have a feeling that Nashville is going to do something like that. So that would be... Come on, Nashville. Yeah, it would be kind of stupid if they didn't. Like, it makes so much sense. Like, they said, we've already had one show there, but I think that they are looking at trying to get a permanent show there.

Yeah, it just makes sense. What bar did you, what was it at, you know? I couldn't tell you. I didn't do it. I can't remember. Was it like on Broadway, like a honky tonk or something? No. Oh.

I think it was a small bar, wasn't it? Yeah. When you're on the road, you're doing that so many shows all over the world. So you kind of just, everything turns into a blur. Yeah. And do you guys each have, like, individual Instagrams, or are you just, like? We do, but they mainly just put everything towards Thunder Vegas. Yeah, so it's at Thunder Vegas.

Yep. Hashtag Thunder Vegas. Okay, hashtag Thunder Vegas. And it's seven nights a week. Yep, seven nights with Excalibur in Vegas. And then if it go on the website, Thunder from Down Under. you can see where we are all over the world okay yeah now i just thought of something i usually i sometimes do the segment called can you not uh can you not uh can you not

where people like will just say something that like drives them nuts and be like can you not so what's from each of you a can you not about like during the show like can you not like grab my nuts or something during the show like can you not uh for me because i'm uh i'm emcee yeah um sometimes i dance i think i've done that's i think i've done that tonight so you get to see me shaking my thang yes um for me it's just don't talk like they i have women that for some reason sometimes they feel entitled to stand up and just start yelling at me and while you're trying to like give information about the show and what's going to start happening and i was like can you know it yeah can it that's a good one can you just can you wait up because i've done it

before i've gone i've stopped and i've gone okay have you got something to say love what yeah yeah yeah yeah that's what i thought please stop yeah are you allowed to like be a little like cheeky with I'm cheeky, I am, yeah. I feel like I would be. The girls come to the show, and I've come to the show regularly or have been in the show before, and you're like, you're going through the spieling and saying the jokes, they say the answer for you. And then they yell at the punchline.

Oh, the worst. Really? I hate that. You need to go. Get out of it. Yeah, security. That's a big candy nut. Yeah, you don't ever ruin the punchline. Okay, what's one for you?

I don't know, probably just a nipple twisting thing. Yeah, can you not? That's fair. repair you know like i don't care like a bit you know slapping and stuff but when you come up and just be lining like don't even don't even make eye contact with my with my eyes yeah it's making it's like eye to nipple contact you yeah can you know i'm ready for you yeah half the time i'd even see it coming because i'll be smiling this way and they sneak up from that way and i'm like oh yeah and you got a prep for a nipple twist you can't oh you got to prep it's not just a twist you're excited you're

like slap me i don't care just don't twist my And then you have to smile and grit it. Like, oh, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks for coming. Thanks for coming.

Ladies, no nipple twist. Can you not nipple twist? At least be a gentle one if you're going to do. Gender's not too bad. Yeah, if you must. Maybe a nipple. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. My can you not is when you're doing your routine and it's time to bring the girl up. Yeah. That comes later. It's like you've got the girl up and sometimes you pick someone who's a performance. themselves they want to come up on stage and put the show on but it's kind of like oh you're like no this is my this is me doing it for you yeah yeah take it back seat yeah yeah you've been a nice comfortable chair to be in just relax mind you every girl that's too drunk comes up on stage

you think Sarah performance yeah yeah really oh you just start going for it yeah yeah turn into performance yeah yeah um yeah so it's like can you not do too much just yeah just sit there and enjoy the show enjoy the show yeah this is for you that's amazing okay well we're so excited to see you guys tonight yes I started to have you please don't pull me on stage

because I will outperform you she will she absolutely when you're saying can you not I'm like shit that would totally

be me I'd like grab the mic I'd like start saying dancing do the splits probably I know you sit yeah I'd reverse the rolls

I make you sit down you'd be like Caitlin we just talked about this sometimes the roles there was a girl on stage the other night who decided to take

her shirt off She got brought up. No. I was just sitting there in a bra in jeans. Oh. I mean, get it, girl. Yeah. It says a lot about her confidence.

Yeah, the things you must see. Yeah. Well, we're so excited to come to the show and everybody go follow at Thunder Vegas on Instagram. Go see the show. Anything else I'm missing? No, I think that's it. Just Excalibur seven nights a week. Where is it?

Excalibur. Okay, okay. I was like, wait, I don't even know where we're going tonight. Okay, amazing. Well, thank you guys so much for coming in. I feel like it was nice to have like three good personalities. Well, you two, Clem, but you're, again, summary. You're not really bringing it.

Because I was like, yeah, Cleo's got to go puke, so we're going to wrap this up. You do? Oh my God, Cleo. That sucks. Okay. Caitlin Bristol. I'll see you next Tuesday. Thanks for listening to Off the Vine with Caitlin Briscoe.

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