The Chaser Report - ARVO: Floyd Alexander-Hunt the Adult-Child Prodigy

Episode Date: February 3, 2022

Comedian Floyd Alexander-Hunt joins Gabbi and Charles for a casual Arvo Chat. Floyd talks about why she wishes she was a child prodigy, what got her into comedy, and the best way to learn violin. Her show "Highly Strung" can be seen at the Melbourne Comedy Festival. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Striving for mediocrity in a world of excellence, this is The Chase of Report. Hello and welcome to the afternoon edition of The Chaser Report for Thursday, the 3rd of February 2022. Gabby, how are you going? Oh, it's another fucking year, isn't it? It's going fine. How are you going, Charles? I'm all right.

Yeah. Hopefully, let's keep this vibe up. This is great. Well, today, hopefully. to cheer us up we've got Floyd Alexander Hunt who's a comedian from Sydney yes uh hello

hello oh I'm happy to bring this room even further down let's let's let's go how low we can go you'll fit right in the energy is just right up there I love it yeah okay well we'll have a chat to her right after this the Chaser Report news you know you can't trust

now Floyd Who are you? God! You cannot call yourself a podcast host and just introduce new guests like that. No, no, I loved it. That was direct. Who are you?

That's pretty much what happens on dates. You know, they're just like straight to the point. I'm a comedian. I'm actually originally from New Zealand. So I'm like Sydney bass. I had no idea. Could not hear that in your voice at all. It's actually very strong my accent at the moment

because I got stuck there last year for five months. Oh, did it come back? Like, did you find that it morphs in an hour? Definitely. It was like more neutral. And then when I came back, my agents were like, your accent's really strong. Like, let's tone that.

So they tone it down. So it's seen as a liability. I mean, it's a little bit, isn't it exotic? No, not in Australia. I think in the UK, I did a gig in the UK and they were like, yeah, we love New Zealand. But in Australia, they're like, oh, God. Stop being better at us than this again.

Yeah, I don't think it's that well. And do you, as a New Zealand expat, do you get the doll? Is that how you make your money here? Oh, yeah. Wow, we're right to the point. No. You just come over here for all the welfare benefits. I did get the welfare when I was at uni.

So, yeah, I did have my time. But at the moment, at the moment, no. Oh, okay. She's just like the rest of us. I'm getting my Australian boyfriend to pay for me. Oh, I love it. That's the real way. Some way.

Yeah. So, so what we, oh, that's right. Yeah. So You're speechless around me, basically Yeah, yeah Yeah, I really never seen him this flustered actually Well, no, before we get into whatever you want to talk about

Yes, whatever that is How did you get into comedy? Like what happened? Why did I do it? Why? Yeah, I think, well, I was damaged as a child, obviously Because my parents had me at 20 As like a joke

Yeah, cool They were like, we'll just not get rid of it See how this goes. Then had a cat and they were like, Yeah, whatever. Yeah, I can't relate. Young parents are the worst. The worst, they are the worst.

I would also say old parents as well, because my parents have had seven kids. They have me in their early 20s, and then the latest one, like, right when they turned 50. So I'd say they actually get worse. Is that medically possible? I mean, yeah. I'm just praying for the time mom goes through men of balls.

She believes too. Totally. It's crazy. It's the best ad for contraception, though, because I'm like, nope. Are you Catholic? No, that's what's embarrassing. It's like, like at least Dom Perrote,

like at least if I was his daughter, it's like, oh, you know, where? What are they evangelist Christians or something? Yeah, they're Catholic. Yeah, but no, my parents aren't. That's more embarrassing. It's like being like, yeah, it's like saying I'm not having sex before marriage

then being like, oh, because of God, no, because I'm a loser. That's basically the life I'm living right now. And so it's been a really vibrant comedy scene here for the last couple of years. Oh, just huge. Just the travel has been exhausting. Obviously, I've just non-stop. From your bedroom to the kitchen.

From my bedroom to the bathroom. Yeah, it's just crazy. And then the money, like, you know, 10 cents at a time. Do you have the 10 cents here? Is that in New Zealand? No, no. We have 10 cents in general. Do you have 5 cents?

We've got 5 cents. No one uses them for anything anymore. I was like, do you have coins? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, okay. I'm sure they're less cool than the coins.

Well, New Zealand got rid of, I think, the 10 cents. Or maybe they got rid of the 5 cents. That's so smart. I don't use 5 cents for anything. Are you all proud of Descender Adern? No, I'd well, God, that was too quick, wasn't it? No, we hate it. No, I think New Zealanders are, but I'm a little bit tainted.

Because I lived here, and I'm so used to, like, politicians not caring and stuff. And then when you go there, she is very empathetic. And I'm like, what the fuck? Yes, there you go. That's not a politician. Yes, she's like talking about how people are feeling and I'm like, what are the cases? Just tell me the numbers.

So I think I've turned into a crazy. Now can we get the death radar? I'm like, that's not high enough. 52 deaths, a year, what's up? This won't do. No. We were going to talk about child prodigies today. Oh, yeah.

Not because I'm a child prodigy. Let me start. That sounds so up myself. It's because I saw that movie. King Richard, have you guys said that? No. Did you love it? Yeah.

Okay, wow, this is going to be such a low episode. You're like, I'm not sure. Is it the Shakespeare? No, no, no, no, God no. It's about, obviously, King Richard, that's great as well. But, no, this is a Will Smith movie, but it's about, it's a bio- It's a form of Shakespeare. It's a modern-day Shakespeare.

It's a biopic about Serena and Venus Williams, which is, you know. Oh, right, yes. So it's about the dad. um and like how that how they sort of became the best tennis players in the world i was like crying during the movie i was like i because i'm you know scarred by having so many siblings i'm like no we're not having kids and then after that movie i was like i'm having kids they're learning tennis i'm writing an 85 pitch plan i will create an army i know yeah um but it made me think that like i wish my parents had taught me something physical

because they taught me all my siblings play the violin to varying degrees so like even the five-year-old was like playing the violin badly. One of my siblings protested and eventually learned the pheromond. Do you know what that is? Yes. Is that the touchless, like, synthy noise? I love those things.

So he's the only one who seems to get away with not practising as violin. Everyone else is doing the violin. Does he get away with not practicing because it just sounds so awful that you... I don't know. I think my mum's like, oh, you've got your own problems.

I think your parents must be the most resilient people on planet Earth because not only did they choose to have seven kids. Like, you all learnt violin in their house, I'm assuming? True, yeah, and that's one of the worst. That is a learning curve. Is that because you had a violin and they thought, oh, well, we've got to use it on the next kid? Yeah, I don't know what it was.

I think that my mum liked the violin. So it was like, they're all learning it. Yeah. It is mad. Or it could be like a, you know, you're for, like self-punishment. She's like, I did a bad thing having all these kids. I'm going to hear screeching violin all the time. It's a form of self-therapy.

Yeah. Violin's good, though, because it teaches your pitch. I played the violin for a few years. Oh, did you? Yeah. And actually, because you have to, you have to listen to know that you've hit the right notes. That's true.

Where's the piano you just like push a thing? Oh, yeah, it's blind trust, not a piano. Yeah. It's nothing, Debbie, what do you do? Anyone who plays the piano is a fucking, you know. We're all shit. Yeah. We have the worst attitudes and like the easiest.

Attitudes. Yes. I love how you said attitudes. Oh, attitudes. That was very musical. I think it might actually just be the bogan coming out of my accent. You know, I'm actually from, not from New Zealand, but just from Bathurst. It's just like, my accent comes in and now, the more I visit there as well.

Bathurst is the sort of New Zealand of New South Wales. It is definitely not. Nope, we still have 10 cent coins. What were you a child prodigy in? Well, I don't know what I was a child prodig. I'm definitely the best out of my seven siblings at the violin. Oh, thank you. That's why you brought it up.

That is all that matters. The oldest as well. So like the seven-year-old, really shit, you know, like just about it. Got a lot way to go. Yeah, but no, not a prodigy. I wish I was a prodigy. That's why I was watching this movie being like, I wish my parents had put more energy into me focusing on one thing

rather than like, you know, a bit of violin, bit of, you know. I did a bit of a cricket. It's like I was never going to be a cricket birthday. But no, see, because I, see, I'm a parent and I get them to do everything because I sort of think, you know, you've got to have a nice variety. I think you're just double down on one. It's master of none. You're just, they're not going to be, yeah, double down.

Yeah. Well, does video games count? Because my 13-year-old is very good at video games. I just don't know how you'd measure... Yeah, like how you'd measure prodigy. I reckon he's a prodigy. You can have like a full-on career as one now. Yeah, totally.

It's bigger than Hollywood. The games industry has more money in it than Hollywood. I think Hollywood and music combined. Well, yeah, I mean... I mean, more than comedy for sure. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Don't even know if there is such a thing as a comedy prodigy.

No. No, that doesn't... The kid start doing a tight five and you're like, shit, he's good. Get him in a room. Tom Ballard probably is the product. Because he sort of was successful the moment he started. Most people have to do like. But isn't that because he was a white man?

I mean, well, you, you sat the book calling them. I mean, as a white woman. Yeah. Yeah, he was good from the stuff, you know. Yeah. Whereas most people fail for a long time. He was brilliant. And I once played the opera house.

And Tom Ballard was on directly before us. Yeah, fuck. And it was just the gala. It was like five minutes. Yeah. But he sort of killed. Like, it was just the funniest five minutes I have ever heard in my life. Did you have to follow immediately after?

I had to follow immediately after. And it was. Yeah. I was not as funny as Tom. No. I had that at the one of the first, like, big person out to follow was Husey. he did like a drop-in at the store so they're like we're just going to sneak him before like he should have been headlining but he just did a sneaky drop-in before me

and I was obviously terrified because this was pretty new to me starting stand-up and he crashed they were all like oh my god then I got on and then one of the like one of the more established comedians was like you know it's probably best to address it because they're going to be like you're like and I shouldn't have and hindsight I should have just gotten on with the jokes and push through but I think I said I think guy said, God, didn't they got to have Husey opening for me at this point in my career? Just silence. Absolutely.

That's a great job. Silence. Silence. I were like, who is this bitch? Oh, that's fucked. My actual, my first comedy gig ever was like a rational fear show. And so that's like a panel of comedians. At that point, I didn't know that.

Didn't know that's what the show was. It was like a hundred, you know, 100 episodes celebrations. So I was like, the big guns. You didn't think to listen to the podcast before. Well, no, no, I did. But like, usually. It's like two or three, yes, you know. So you go, okay, it's going to be like one person trained in something,

like a politician or an environmentalist. And then there'll be like two comedians. I am one of them. So that's good. That's tight pocket. And I think Dan intentionally hid from me what was happening because I've rocked up to my first ever comedy set. And it's Chris Taylor, Hamish Blake, Yumi Steins, Alice Fraser,

Lewis Hubber. Oh my gosh. Yeah, no, it was fucked. And a hot dub time machine on the DJ. Wait, were they all interviewing you? No, they were just all. It was like a panel show where we all kind of did like a tight five, but Dan had let me like scatter songs throughout.

So I didn't even get the relief of just going and then not having to go again. So I had to keep playing. And I was just like, what the fuck am I doing on this stage? Was that where you did that Murdoch song? Yeah. Yeah, that was brilliant. Yeah, but I was shitting my pants the entire time, which is why I look like this.

There's a video of it. My eyes don't blink once. Like the entire time I'm just staring. Sorry, it's a podcast. staring you can imagine it's a credit the eyes right now are popping but yeah no it's horrible when you're not sure how to follow yes a high profile act you want you're like I don't know what to do yeah it makes you understand why they go at the end because you just don't want to I reckon it's okay if they go at the end of like an act and then there's a break they have an interval yeah

I also got I've gone after so maybe I also went after um Ali G once who was doing like a that was an assain as well he was just doing a drop in again just an unannounced you know we Well, I'm sick of drop-ins. Yeah, me too. Like, how don't you tell us? Yeah. And backstage, was he in character or? Yes, in character.

The whole time. That's jarring. Why? I don't know. He was like trailing new stuff or something. You couldn't have... We weren't allowed to really, like, talk or... Yeah, it was...

Imagine that the nerve to drop him. I don't know if he had said that. I actually think it was his entourage. You know, like, when you get that famous, you've got, like, a hundred people around, you'd be like, don't look at him. Can't wait, honestly. Oh, it wasn't funny. Actually, Gabby does that around the office.

Yeah, don't look at me. Oh, yeah, just don't look at me. Just don't perceive me. None of the medical advice contained in the Chaser report should legally be considered medical advice. The Chaser Report. So what's your plan for this year? Now, obviously, that's different to what you're actually going to do this year.

Of course, yeah. It's a pandemic. Yeah, okay. So should I just say things that I definitely don't want to happen? Yeah, probably, yeah. There's the wood. Are you doing the festival? Doing the festival.

Yeah, I was just talking to Gabi about this. I'm doing, not doing Adelaide. I got told I'm going to lose a lot of money there. But Gabby, good luck. I've already broke. I can't get more broke. Yeah. So normally, so we've got to sell about 4,000 tickets in Adelaide for our show.

Oh, wow. So you guys are going to Adelaide. Yeah, which is called Spin. Nice. Good plug. Buy tickets now, guys. My tickets now. So, and it's all about, you know, the world of political spin, corporate spin.

It's great show. Perfect. So normally at this point, we would have sold probably about a thousand tickets. Okay. And we have sold 73 tickets as of this morning. I can't even access my ticket link. I don't know how many I've sold. And you know what?

I'm fine not knowing. Yeah. I'm happy. Well, I'm glad I'm not going to Adelaide. And then I heard somebody else who had to sell, had one performance and they had to sell 2,400 seats. They had some huge venue. And they, and then they decided to pull it.

And I said, oh, how many tickets did you have to refund? And they said, 43. They'd sold 43 tickets. I'm worried. It's really bad. They rang up. They rang up on Friday, last Friday, and said, are you sure you're coming? Because everyone keeps dropping out.

Can you please make it over here? 43. No one's. 43 in a 2400. That would be, that would be human. That would be social distancing. That would be so, yeah, you could have like, come out. Laugh really loudly.

I'm not allowed to tell the act. but it was a big name. Wow. It was like 43 tickets. Wow. No one's buying tickets. Buy tickets. I'm fucking worried.

Like, I don't think I just saw 80 a night and I'm like shitting bricks over here. It was a big name. You know, we've got the advantage of not being massive. Yeah. Risk your life for no one famous. Yeah. Just come and see a regular person. Literally.

Yeah. Take a chance on a woman. Can that be the tagline for both of our shows? Yes. I love that. Maybe if you'd played the. the violin, Gabby. Oh, yeah, an intelligent instrument.

It would have been smarter. It's a lot easier to travel with too. But your shows. Floyd, maybe you can sort of do a violin piano. You know, that's always historically worked very well. When we're struggling to sell our tickets, we'll just say, you know what? Let's pawn whatever we got together. You bring your two.

I'll bring my two. Yeah. Shit, it worked for Mozart. Yeah. Fuck it. Why not? But your show, so you're not doing Adelaide, but we're not doing Adelaide. I'm starting in Melbourne, brave move.

Yeah, good. But I'm going to do trial shows. I think it's what I was like, oh, yay. Here being Sydney. Sydney, yeah, yeah. Yeah, so you could come see how the show gets made for really cheap, if you want to. When are your... I think I'm doing that at the factory on Wednesdays.

Oh, lovely. I think I'm doing it every Wednesday until it gets good. That's great. So we'll see. But I am doing Melbourne for the month. Yep. And then I think I do Brisbane, Sydney, Perth. Nice.

Are you doing Perth? If they let her in. I'd also wanted, I wanted to do New Zealand too, but again, they're probably not going to let me back in. Oh my gosh. Are you excited about doing your, this is your first round? Yeah, it's weird because I haven't really let myself get excited because, I mean, even just, I did like the very, very first version of the show at the laugh at a lockdown festival. Oh, I did that too. Yeah.

But I only did half an hour. I only did two out of my three shows because on that weekend, I was the last weekend of the entire two months sort of, they were giving a weekend away to each person who missed out on fringe kind of thing. and I'd pick the last weekend thinking COVID will be gone by then and also I'll be ready. And then COVID came back that week and people were dropping out like literally as the show was on. So my second show, I found out like five minutes before I went on that like four shows that night had pulled out because they had like contact with COVID. And so I was freaking out and then I cancelled my last show.

And it was just really like, I know it sounds stupid. It was like a 70 seat theatre, but I just got really upset. It was a brilliant show. We went on the first night. Oh, nice. It was called, I hope my keyboard doesn't break. Yeah, thanks, nice. Good memory.

Great show, guys, buy tickets. Charles, I love the difference between you selling your show and you selling a show. It was called, what was the call again? It was very memorable. It was very memorable. I'm not told to do this with a lansom though. I think, you know, friend of the show, Nina Ayama, who I think you know as well. I do, yeah, yeah.

She, I think, caught COVID. She did. That same weekend. I think doing her show. Yeah, she did, yeah, because somebody in the audience had it and then she had to inform. Like, I just also thought, like, having to inform your own audience that they have to go get tested is just like... And that you were the one to... Yeah, and like, oh, my show is the reason you were all in this room.

And so I just, all of that, you have to deal with all of that. And so, anyway, I was really devastated after canceling that last show. And so now I'm like, don't get excited. Because if you get excited and then you have to fucking cancel it again, and you have to go through that whole mental process. So you're emotionally blocked right now. Literally just numb. Just like, I know it's happening. It'll happen. I seem to just have like short-term memory. I'm like, it'll be fine. It's

going to be the best time in my life. Then bad things happen and I'm like, what? And then I'm like, it's going to be fine. It's going to be best time in my life. Every single time. Anyway, I'm hoping it will be fine. It will. Yeah. That'll be good. That'll be fun. By then it'll be omicron 6.7 and it's like a sniff. It'll be fine. The variant's going to hurry out. What are they calling it now the son of Omicron? That sounds terrifying. Yeah. Oh, well, we were talking about it yesterday on the podcast. You're a thing about son of Omicron is that it targets toddlers. Oh, so we're fine.

It's the first one that's really gone after toddlers. And toddlers are fucking annoying. It's terrible twos. He shut them up, once and for all. Wow. That's how old, yeah. Anyway, well, I'm sure we'll all be locked down because of Son of Omicron soon. And I'm going to use that time to actually dust off the violin.

Oh, your family. I would love to hear that. Your family are going to love that? Are you going to teach your children? Do your kids learn the... They learn the keyboard. The keyboard. I'm telling you, it's the dumb kids instrument.

I know. But you're right, they're the violin. It's a painful instrument to listen to. It sounds terrible for seven years, and then you're like, hmm, I can listen to it. Yeah, and then all of a sudden it's like one of the most beautiful instruments. And then you quit. Yeah. And you quit.

Did you, when you were learning violin, did you learn, like, through a system, or did you just learn homeschool or, like... Learned Suzuki, Violin, crazy cult. Oh, did you? Oh, my gosh. I'm a pathetic anime, you kid. And then, like, da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. Yeah.

What did you call that, froggy-froggy jump-jum or something else? Our one could, because it was like, da-da-da-da-da. They called it Pussy-Busy-Satop, which in hindsight, really problematic, actually cool. The first song you learn, Pussy, pussy, pussy. I disagree. I think that's incentive to keep going. Yeah. I think that to like a 10 year old kid who might have picked it up.

That's fucking hilarious. Maybe that's where like, because now I just like played a little bits of violin and then like say weird things over the top. So maybe that's where it came from. Yeah. My violin teacher was literally about 109 years old. Really? Wow.

She was the oldest person I've ever met and I look back and go. Yeah. It doesn't make you want to keep learning. Yeah, but also, you know, now it's time for. Pussy, pussy, stop. Are you being served? One more time, louder, louder. Make the pussy scream.

I don't believe the pussy. Make it a pussy. Stop, Charles. Stop! I did the A-Me-B method, which is a method that makes me wish I was dead. Because I quit a grade before my final grade. And my teacher had the resilience of like, I don't know, just no. one I've ever met because I was a terrible student and I did I think something like 10 years

with her and she was like finally you've got one more one more to go and I went I would like friends on the weekends bye and I just stopped and she was like I did not just put in 10 years of work to have you quit but I did because Amy B's horrible they're all awful you is that where you only have to learn like three pieces in a year and it's really yeah it doesn't teach you to like music it kind of just teaches you to repeat yourself where it's like you learn yeah three pieces and then you pay $75 and you go and do an exam where some 155 year old person

will tell you how emotional you played. And I remember once that the worst exam I ever had, this is such a tangent from what we're meant to be fucking talking about by the way. But I remember once when I went into an exam, it was like my third grade exam. And for once the examiner was really nice. Like really nice to me.

And just everything I played, she'd smile and then write. And I was like, fuck, I'm going to fucking ace this. Like I'm going to get, I just an A plus for me, walked out, failed. Wow. I failed my third grade exam and I was like, I hope you're dead. I literally woke out and I was like, you better, you bet, I hope you drop dead. Oh, wow.

It was horrible. And she was like, great emotion, no technique. And I think she's completely correct. That's still exactly how I play. No, Suzuki's good. Suzuki, we did violin camps as well. Did you ever do that? No.

We'd go every year, all seven of us to violin camp. Contraps. My first boyfriend, I got it at violin camp when I was like, music camp, not to brag, when I was like 14 or something. And his mom was like, I don't think you should be seeing that girl. I'm like, I play really good violin. Were you first violin or second violin? Okay, it depends. Different orchestras.

In like the Auckland youth one, I got to be first violin. But I also, Suzuki, you don't learn to read music first. Oh, that's play by the same. So smart. Well, the concept is that you like learn to read before you learn to write. That's sort of the... So smart. Well, no, learn to speak before you learn to...

There we go. Yeah, before you read to read. Yeah, I'm not telling this one. So I could play to a high level, but I couldn't read. music so then I got like thrown in an orchestra and I was like listening to it and then doing it and then pretending I was reading smart music anyway I did eventually learn how you read music but in my high school I could never be first first violin because there was always like some child prodigy who's who practiced like six hours a day

yeah we hate child we hate child prodigies I mean I hope I have them that's the thing you want to manufacture a child prodigy because yes you do profit from manufacturing one But do you think that it's like probably so many people tried to make their children prodigies and the majority of them just ended up like really damaged people? Yeah, there's like TV shows written about that. They're called like Dance Bums and toddlers and tiaras. It's all about parents who wish not. Yeah.

A lot of damage. King Richard. They were prodigies. But they weren't damaged, were they? Did the movie make them look damaged? No, not. Serena and Venus? No, not.

What did you, well, you didn't like the movie. Well, I didn't mind the movie. I mean, I think it's just that I have a thing about sport. I watch sport movies and go, I probably won't like this. I think it was a fine movie. It was good. It was crazy that he wrote an 85 page plan about how they were going to be the greatest tennis players of all time. And he did say, because I did a big deep dive, like obviously he was watching interviews and stuff,

that one of the scenes in the movie is true where Venus is, because Venus is a couple years older. And she was like number one way before Serena. a long time so serena was like in her shadow yeah always and waiting like the best coaches in the world wanted to coach venus but not her and so she'd wait till like venus took a toilet break and then she'd get in some practice with the coach and stuff and so it's like it's so lovely that like a ven you know she's in the shadow for so long and then the dad says to her at one point you know venus is going to be number one but you're going to be the greatest of all time and then that actually happened that's so you're going to be venus though wouldn't totally if i have children

i'm going to tell them both you're going to be the greatest of all time then they're going to work out they're like, wait, but mom said that I'm going to be the greatest all the time. I'll be like, neither of you. I am. Yeah, I'm going to be the greatest. And it's so funny, like the idea of a child prodigy, you've got to wonder how much of that is a natural capability or how much of that is, like, out the womb on the court, you know? It must be a mix.

You must be, you've got to be a bit blessed, right? Yeah. I guess it depends. It would be fun. It would be inethical. But it would be fun to kind of like, for scientific purposes. Yes. The moment you pop out a baby.

maybe just like stick them in a room with a skill. Yeah. And just flood them with that and nothing else. And you could have two kids and the other one just parent normally. Yes. For a mean, yeah. You need triplets because you need a control. Yes.

And then you, yeah. To do the hypothesis. Yeah. No guidance. One skill, normal kid. Perfect. Okay. If anyone's got any triplets that will donate.

Yeah. To our cause. Unethical science experiment. We call it the prodigy. And think about what you name your children as well because if they're going to be like a superstar you know you can really ruin them like my siblings have mental names

Floyd is pretty ridiculous and then it's then it gets increasingly worse it's Arlo, Romeo Indiana Joe not making this up hypatia not the sexual disease just like after the scientist

then Jupiter and then galaxy yeah that's amazing that's amazing They're not all going to be, not all going to be scientists or tennis stars. Pretty high odds that one of them will, though. Some of them have like stripper names. I'm like, what are we setting them up for? I love it.

No, I mean, Jupiter could be an astronomer. That would be incredible. Or an astronaut. Were your parents hippies? I don't know. I genuinely think they just kept having kids as like a social experiment where they're like, what happens to a child if you give them this name? We should have asked your parents to conduct our children.

triplet experiment. They'd be up for it by the sound of it. And all of us were parented really differently. Like, was, I mean, I was like, I'm always blaming my mum for everything. Like, I have a joke of my stand-up at the moment, which was like, I've joined F-45 because my mum drank during the first trimester. But, like, so she was very irresponsible with me. But then with some of my other siblings, she breastfed them for, like, 18 months.

And I'm like, what the fuck is going on? And then, like, when I was young, they were, like, living in a garage. And they were really broke. So they were like splitting the milk. They would like turn the milk into two cartons and add water and be like, it's skim. And then now my siblings are getting Ubers to and from school. And I'm like, what are you doing? Like, what are you doing to these people?

We're both extremes and both going to be absolutely fucking psychopaths at the other end. It builds resilience, doesn't that? Yeah. Anyway, I'm taking up tennis, that's the point. I'm so proud. Thank you. Yeah, I wonder if you can become a prodigy later. Like the whole thing, it's always child prodigy.

You know, you're about like 28-year-old now prodigy. You wouldn't use prodigy, would you? No. It's not really. It's like, okay, you finally, you're good at something. Using some of your time. I wonder if you could become a prodigy as an adult. An adult prodigy, yeah.

Like an insane amount of skill. Let's do it. Let's become the adult prodigy. There's three of us, I'll be the control. Yeah, great. You go off and try things. I'll do absolutely nothing. Nothing.

And you can become a prodig. I'll focus on one skill. What skill is that? Because comedy, not sure that's going to pay. I reckon it should be something, like, very specific that there's not too much competition as well, so you can feasibly become a prodigy at it. I'll have a think about, like, fip-scotch or something. No, there are, like, so many prodigies of that.

There are, like, people with photographic memories. Yeah, they're sort of people who go, you know, 5,453 times 872. Someone's seen Matilda. Yeah, this is not for me. You feel like, Gabby, you jump in there. Fuck, no. I'm going to, I'll brainstorm. I think of some other.

Square roots is another one. Okay, these are all mathematical. You can be a prodigy of other stuff. Yeah, I'm thinking more like, who can, like, squeeze a lemon the fastest. You know, when I was younger, I was very fast at, like, you know, the noodle? Or, like, a slurper noodle. I could slurp it so fast, like, double. Yes, that's a prodig.

And that's a niche, and no one's really measured that, so you could be a prodig for a while. I can I can flip 22 coins off my elbow and catch them all oh my god 20 22 just 22 2 cent coins oh wow I just thought you meant in succession I was like is he got a 20 and then a two cent is there a two cent coin so right okay you got wow yeah that's pretty cool when did you learn to do this oh when I was young and can you still do it is it well I haven't tried it for about 40 years this is what I was I was bragging to some of the other day that I could, because when I was younger, I could lie on my stomach and put my head, my legs over my head. I tried to do it the other day. I wasn't walking for about a week. Yeah, I can touch my nose with my tongue. Oh, so can I? Yeah, that's

easy. I can't even roll my tongue? Oh, like, well, can you do the one with the back of the throat? What about this one? This is good for the listeners. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Well, that's not a skill. You just got a genetic trait. Oh, that's a, but my siblings can do that. Am I adopted? What's going on? You might be adopted. That is crazy. Okay, well, I've had no idea at this point.

Yeah. Whoops. Yep. Well. Floyd Alexander Hunt, thank you so much. Now, you're playing at the factory theatre on Wednesdays. I am. From now through February and much of March.

Yes, but please come to the actual show when it's formed. What is your show called? It's called Highly Strung. Love it. I use the violin. little bit in it. I know. Comedy and violin. Who would have thought? I'm in Melbourne. Very fly to the concords, really. It's less awkward. It's more sassy than that, but yeah. Better. It's better. Yeah. It's arguably going to be a lot more successful. I'm actually going to say

that she's very much like Floyd Alexander Hunt because the fucking thing that pisses me up about being a musical comedian. Everyone goes, you are like the female version of that male musical comedian. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I get Tim Minchin all the time. Oh, that's all right. You get, oh, She's New Zealander. Flight of the Concord. I mean, Fight of the Concord is amazing. Yeah, no, she's going to come to mind and be like, why is she not being more awkward? Yeah. Where's the other one? Where's the other one? Yeah. It's good in a different way. But I'm in Melbourne. I'm doing Melbourne Town Hall, the tiny room there, backstage room.

Oh, I look. Come to that. Oh, that's a great venue. Yeah. And then I'm doing the fuse box in May and Sydney. Please come to that. Nice, nice, nice. Our gear is from road microphones. We're part of the ACASC creator network. Catch you tomorrow. See you then. Bye.