The James Donald Forbes McCann Catamaran Plan - SEASON 2 DEBUT - James Donald Forbes McCann Catamaran Plan - Hello Singapore

Episode Date: January 28, 2026

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Thank you for listening to this episode of the James Donald Forbes-McCand-Catamaran plan. If you'd like to listen to bonus episodes, go sign up to the Patreon. That's patreon.com. Clom? Ah, we f***ed that. Anyway, you'll, look, you'll find a way. Hello, and welcome to this episode of the James Donald Forbes-McCand Catamaran Plan. Very special and important episode.
Starting point is 00:00:38 Episode one of, uh, season two on this show of me trying to raise enough money to buy a boat. Boy, we've had a big step up in production quality. Not to say that there aren't still a few things we would like to bring in. You'll be getting weekly episodes here, weekly episodes on the Patreon. What else? Well, the first thing I'd like to add is the ringing of a bell. I've meant to go out today and get a bell to ring to start the episode. Didn't get a bell.
Starting point is 00:01:12 I'll start with maybe the positives of things that we do have. The visual element, very strong. Sam Clark has been working extremely hard and interesting. So the visual element, we've got that. Next thing, preparation. We always worried on the earlier incarnations of the show that we didn't have proper preparation. Well, no one dare accuse us of that now. I've written down, I mean, these are the creme de la creme of the ideas.
Starting point is 00:01:41 So that'll be exciting. Not this first one. This first one is mission meeting. statement summary notes but we have the great ideas and we also have a substantial audience and that's important because you're watching something great and when you're watching something great on your own that's devastating that's sad that makes you question whether or not great things can thrive in this world and that really robs hope so thank goodness there are thousands of us now all gathered together to watch this program of incredible quality.
Starting point is 00:02:23 Oh, there are a few things that I'm thinking we could do differently next time, Sam, dare I say, thinking about being inside. See, I'm a big fan of, we didn't discuss this, I'm a big fan of the inside in general, and who knows, perhaps in the future we'll make it inside. I'd also like a ladder to be involved somehow. I'd like different levels to come into it. I'd like a sign language guy.
Starting point is 00:03:02 I don't see why the progressive left should be the only ones with a sign language guy. I bet there's stacks of deafies who'd love to be a part of this very important catamaran plan a show in which I'm trying to raise enough money to buy a boat. I was looking for $500,000 before. Looking for substantially more now. That's just the cost of getting the boat. I now, I'm faced with the idea of actually like, I don't have time to learn how to say.
Starting point is 00:03:28 I'm going to need to get a crew. Anyway, we'll see. We'll see. More involved costuming. Today I've managed to pick up this jacket, which is made by the shack company. This is a Shaquille O'Neal branded suit jacket. We already covered inside, didn't I?
Starting point is 00:03:52 I was going to save that to fifth. Yes, Sam. Did we get you a microphone? We didn't get you a microphone? Hey, don't worry about it. That's the sort of thing that we'll think about when we're inside. I'd also like a music act. I ran into David Blumberg, one of the great hot clarinet players.
Starting point is 00:04:16 And so I'm considering David Blumberg would get him. I ran into him at IKEA. That's funny, isn't it? and a fascinating interview at the end. We'll see what we can do in terms of a fascinating interview. Well, that's it. That's the minutiae covered. I thought that would be a good start to the podcast.
Starting point is 00:04:37 It's just covering off, you know, like, I was thinking about it as a liturgy. And in that case, I've done the announcements in the wrong place. I should have left that until somewhere in the middle. There's no comfortable place for the announcements to go. You want to start off hot and strong with the Asperger's May. But we've already got Sam Clark. setting us out outside, so maybe that's Asperger's enough. I read an article today. I'm in the Catholic Herald, and they spend about 2,000 words
Starting point is 00:05:08 asking, is it okay that I use curse words in my act, potty language, despite being so flamboyantly Catholic, which is, I find interesting. I mean, people seem more at peace. I would say in this movement with mafioso dons being Catholic, that a man who says pussy dare I say they're all a bunch of big internet-based pussies out there but Thomas Aquinas
Starting point is 00:05:41 we can use playful language anyway that's enough for me we've got to get on with the show I've got all these huge ideas I've secured lines of credit and advertising and we're trying to follow up with that we haven't done it at this point but this is maybe the point at which advertising would go if we'd manage to secure
Starting point is 00:05:57 it which we have not we have the offer it's going to be a lot of money I had to turn down gambling advertising because I've publicly postured and said, oh, I wouldn't do that. But then they come to you and they say, you want five grand to talk about something
Starting point is 00:06:13 that you already do? So that's a mistake. Well, I won't say it's a mistake, but I've been through never thinking I would get that successful. I've stumbled into a moral stand. Gee, I'm in a bad mood. Hopefully this enormous beer will help.
Starting point is 00:06:40 I've been drinking every night. I've come back home. We're making a movie. My wife's having a child. We're not talking about my private life on this podcast. You can only get that on the Patreon. But I am drinking every night because I've had to, really, I was in America. I've got a standing ovation from 18,000 people. And then I hopped on a plane where three children screamed at me for 18 hours. And then I arrived back home. And I just, I took that opportunity to quit smoking. So I really am a little, um, I'd like to work on that. I'd like to work on not being such a nasty little grump. But it is difficult having the nicotine withdrawals. And, you know, I realized in America, everything looked fake to me all the time. It looks sort of fake to me. I thought I was having a dissociative episode pretty constantly.
Starting point is 00:07:36 And whatever that means. But I realized on coming back to Australia, why it seemed like everything was clean and fake. It's because we live in a country where everything, sort of, we have. have many permanent deciduous trees. And there's just crap on the ground. There's just leaves, gumnuts. It's just things constantly falling off of tree, bark coming off of trees. You can't move without just having a sea of sort of rainforest.
Starting point is 00:08:04 Really, the whole country is like the top, top, you know what I'm saying? The floor of a rain, there's always, there's things decomposing everywhere. You never really have a direct line of sight to the floor in Australia. And in America, there's one season. There's like a month where the leaves come down. And otherwise, the leaves stay right where they're meant to be. Thank you very much. And everything is crisp and clean and lines and manicured.
Starting point is 00:08:26 And it feels like, I mean, that's how most of the world is. But as an Aussie, it feels fake to me. Anyway, so that was a little breakthrough. Are we ready to start the show? Do I need to take a pause? So we have an intro music or something? Yeah, all right. I'll do the pause now.
Starting point is 00:08:43 And then we will come back with the show. And the show today is entitled, Hello, Singapore. You are listening to The James, Donald, Fordsch, Macon, Katamaran Plain. Here's some other things that I see happening on the podcast. I mean, what is a podcast? Is it a couple of humbres, cracking a beer, and talking tight about, oh, Maduro abducted this week. Oh, Ice Agent shoots lesbian.
Starting point is 00:09:15 You know, that stuff's going to age. That stuff's going to age. Impactful, though it is. I think more interesting to take podcast. podcasting and move it in the direction of cinema. Fine cinema. We're doing European podcasting now. You understand?
Starting point is 00:09:36 There's a timeless quality. It's not pulp. We're doing literature. That's what I see as being possible for podcasting. And we'd sure as anything better start pumping things out on the internet because we have come back here. My wife is pregnant. We're having a fourth child.
Starting point is 00:09:54 We've got money and time to make a movie. right in in Adelaide and that'll be a real joy but uh the dopamine that I'm missing from not living in a country that has more black people is very upset I miss I'm you know I would wear a fur coat in America and people every time I left the house wearing a fur coat someone would stop me and go hey man love that oh or something similar man you got let me buy that I loved it it made me extremely happy. I wear a fur coat here. People look at me like this. Even though in their heart, I know, they think it's a sick coat. We've got Greeks instead of black people in this country. I know they think it's Aboriginal people that's the black people, but it's in terms of sheer numbers. I think about
Starting point is 00:10:59 13.5% of our population is Greeks. Excuse me, I don't want to talk about race at all. The only race I want to talk about is the race towards me buying a boat. Now, hello, Singapore. This is the first. Card I've got. This is an important one. We have a couple Singapore's listeners. Pay attention. This one's specifically for you.
Starting point is 00:11:23 The podcast, admittedly, does not have a large audience in the English-speaking nation of Singapore. How do we remedy that? All right? Because New Zealand, we've got it. Australia, we've got... I can do shows there. Canada, we've got it. In the United States of America?
Starting point is 00:11:44 done. Ireland, the United Kingdom. Some people out there saying, hey man, that's the same country. I say distinct. But we've got them. They're interested. They love it. India?
Starting point is 00:11:59 Question mark. But Singapore. You know, you've got to go to Singapore to get to a lot of other places. So if we have to do a show, you know, either by boat or by airplane, we're probably going to have to be in Singapore. And, you know, I don't have a big audience in Singapore. So the question is, how do we get a big audience in Singapore? I've been thinking about this a lot.
Starting point is 00:12:22 Here's my first idea. Singapore, on my research, seems to have something called a, you might have heard of this before. It's a rule by a one-party state. Effectively, there is democracy, as best I understand it in Singapore. But the same party wins over and over again. The People's Action Party, once helmed by Li Kuan Yu. LKY, Lee Kuan Yu, helmed the People's Action Party,
Starting point is 00:12:51 and they win so much. James, how much do they win? Here's how much they win, is that something like 12 losing candidates in electorates, in districts where they run off. The 12 who win by the smallest margin are also allowed to be in Parliament.
Starting point is 00:13:11 I think they're from like the Workers' Party, usually, who tend to be, I think that's sort of Indian and I think the People's Action Party is more Chinese. So as best I understand, they break down along those sorts of lines. But that's how successful the People's Action Party is in Singapore. They have to coax in. They're going, please. It's a bit embarrassing that we don't have an opposition.
Starting point is 00:13:37 Guys who lost, do you want to hang out here? We won't pay you as much money, but you want to hang out here anyway. So here's my first thought for getting a big audience in Singapore. become the voice of the opposition party in Singapore. That would be a motive, because you don't need everybody to want to come and see a show. If genuinely, if 10% of the people of Singapore, it's a 6 million people, 10% of that is,
Starting point is 00:14:00 wow, I'm going to take a big swing and say, 60,000? 600,000? 600, that would be, again, if 10% of singing, if only like 10% of voting for the opposition party, if all of that 10% was fired up about me and no one's being.
Starting point is 00:14:16 voice for them. I'm going to sell out a stadium of 600. They're going to have to go to Malaysia just to get enough seats to come and see me in Singapore. So that was my first thought. You know, is I'll become the spokesperson for the opposition party of Singapore. I will speak. Here's the thought. I mean, just talk. Why would they like that? Because I'll be talking about Singapore a lot. And non-Singaporeese listeners, well, they'll, they'll go, oh, that's exotic. Wasn't there a Tom Wait's song called Singapore. Didn't something happen in the war with Singapore? Singapore, single rich, I've heard.
Starting point is 00:14:52 Crazy rich agents. Runny Chang. Certain kind of noodle. You know, they'll be interested. It'll be exotic for them. And the people of Singapore, when I'm talking about them, they'll go, oh, he's talking about us. He's talking about us.
Starting point is 00:15:07 I can't believe he's talking about us. That's how some of the Singaporeans I've known in my experience have spoken. So I think it would be good to talk about Singapore, okay? Get the Singaporeese people interested. Then I can do shows in Singapore when I'm there. Then I have a big, I diversified audience, you know. If I have a scandal in one of these countries, if I say, ah, Canada, those guys, they drink, drive and they hit and run
Starting point is 00:15:40 while they're getting away from a child bordello, people might say James you can't perform in Canada anymore and I'd go damn I shouldn't have shouldn't have given away the secret about all those Canadian people but I could still play in Singapore and you notice this with Kanye he can't really do a show in Israel right now that's a big no no for him but he is able to do music in Korea and also I think the Muslim countries okay diversification and Singapore is one of the few English-speaking Asian countries. I don't think there's a second one.
Starting point is 00:16:19 Correct me if I'm wrong. Do we count Papa New Guinea as Asian? And do they speak English? Excuse me, the persistent cough will not go away. Anyway, that's my thought. So it's a one-party state. That was just one idea. I mean, I thought about following a football team there.
Starting point is 00:16:38 I thought about... Really, those were my two ideas. It's following a football team and supporting the opposition. Oh, man. imagine how effective it's going to be to talk about my plans for Singapore domination inside. They love doing things inside in Singapore because they've got air conditioning. So here's an example of something that I could say to like power up the opposition in Singapore to make them feel like I'm on their side.
Starting point is 00:17:08 Here we go. Here's one. The most terrifying despot of the 20th century was Lee Kuan Yu. The most terrifying. single-party state in the world is Singapore. You see, Hitler was dead in a ditch. Mussolini, a joke. Stalin reviled, Mao ignored. But Li Kuan Yu remains a role model for the tyrannical leaders of today. A quiet and respectable tyranny, tyranny that materially improves people, that grows in virtue, a very pernicious tyranny indeed. did you know
Starting point is 00:17:47 that Lee Kuan Yew promoted and incentivized women to be sterilized in the 1970s government slogans included please stop it too and one, two, that's ideal is enough. That was a big slogan for the Singapore's government in the 1970s.
Starting point is 00:18:11 Do you want to know about just out of interest, do you want to know how many children Li Kuan Yu, the head of Singapore at the time. We want to guess how many children he had, you better, you better believe it was three. Small family, brighter future. That was on, that was, the government got people saying that. Shame. Do you know the foreign minister of Singapore at the moment is a man and his name is Vivian. Weird. Weird name for a man. Oh, emergency. In 1987, Catholics in Singapore, were arrested without trial and accused of plotting a communist uprising.
Starting point is 00:18:56 Historians say this was a fully trumped up political nonsense charge. They were totally innocent. They were arrested over and over again and I think their lawyer died in exile. Change of course. Singapore, so this is what I want to say now. Singapore's ruling party is wise and just. all respect to the sagacious People's Action Party and the founding father Lee Kuan Yew, who was a great man?
Starting point is 00:19:29 And may I add that current Prime Minister Lawrence Wong is a great man and that Vivian is not a silly name for a man. Vivian is a cool name for a man. Vivian, it's a cool, manly name, and I respect him. I hate communism, and I love the existing Singaporean regime. Another reason it would be good to go to Singapore. One of the few places there's a direct flight to from Adelaide. And I like that.
Starting point is 00:20:03 I like if we're going to go somewhere and do shows. I like doing a direct flight, you know? I mean, if you have to do a connecting flight through Singapore, rather than like running, oh, we're going to get to this flight. Wouldn't it be nice to just go, Hey, we're making half our money here. So how about we go to the four seasons, chill out, visit the grave of Lee Kuan Yew and Lay Flowers?
Starting point is 00:20:22 I don't even know if they do that. He might have been cremated, Asia. And we say, thank you, Vivian, for giving us a visa. We love, I love, listen, democracy is one thing. Order is another. And I think in a democracy with Singapore's characteristics, there should only be one ruling party and the mandate of the people's action party
Starting point is 00:20:46 should never sway so we're going to do some more work to figure out the political situation in Singapore I have no interest in getting involved in the political situation in Australia or America but it feels more fun to get involved doesn't it sound fun to get involved in the politics of Singapore
Starting point is 00:21:08 off we go to Singapore we also we have a plan at the moment we're bringing I believe we're bringing Kieran J. Kalanen, over from Sydney to work on an album for the Japanese. Now, the Japanese, sometimes they will rally behind. You know, Pitbull's Mr. Worldwide? You better call me Doctor Worldwide. I got a prescription for the world. It's a little more James Donald Ford's McCann in your life.
Starting point is 00:21:38 Now, sometimes the Japanese will get behind a Western artist. It's not always clear who they'll do. Some people are big in Japan. are not. I anticipate that we will be big in Japan. We will be big in Japan. No point in me doing stand up comedy in Japan. They don't speak English. What am I going to stand there with? I'm not going to learn Japanese. I'm not going to stand there with a Japanese guy. One joke at a time. Fool me once. It'ssame. Bannabana. You know what I mean? I'm not doing that. Fool me twice. Ni san what I'm not going to do it. Okay. But through the power of music,
Starting point is 00:22:14 that's what I'd like to think is through the power of music we could we could bring the Japanese people on side I'd love to go and perform in Japan so Kieran J. Kalan who I believe is of all the people I know the has the biggest audience in Japan musically I don't know that many rock stars so really it came down to between like Kieran J Kalan and like honestly three other guys most of whom are well-known in Adelaide and well-known is a stretch. So, Kieran, we're going to go and hang out with Kieran this week and I'm going to ask him. I've asked him once and he went, yes,
Starting point is 00:22:52 but he does sometimes just agree to things and you go, is that ever happening? That's crazy. I think he was going to introduce me to Enya. Anyway, you'd love to meet Enya, would you, right-hand man, Sam? Yeah. He says he knows Enya.
Starting point is 00:23:07 So, anyway, that's my plan, is that he would come here for a week two weeks, we would record an album for Japan. I think of all my friends, the one who looks, you know, they love a boy band in Japan, and they love a handsome one. And I know at least one handsome guy. So I'm thinking my friend, Kieran, distinct from Kieran J. Kallon,
Starting point is 00:23:31 I think it's good to have nominally deterministic pairs. Kieran and Kieran, you know? Who works on this podcast? Sam, Sam, Sam, Sam and Sam. Who's the legal counsel? Sam, who's the right-hand man? Sam. Who does the research out of Melbourne on socks?
Starting point is 00:23:46 Sam. Sam, Sam, Sam. Kieran, Kieran. We don't know that I'm doing well. You are listening to the James Donald Fulnerd-Fulner-Plame. Like, share, subscribe, Paitreone. And we're back with Jack Blanche, co-host of The Catacast.
Starting point is 00:24:14 Jack, thanks so much for coming on the James Donald Fools McCann, Kettermarant. Thank you for having me, James. My honor. You got anything you're here to promote? I do, in fact. I do. Oh yeah, I told you to take notes while we were doing the first part of it.
Starting point is 00:24:30 So I just wanted to start by saying, huge honor to be here, first guest in season two. Appreciate that a lot. I had some ideas about with the soft reboot of the catamaran implants and things that you might return to tradition with. Oh, I see. Yeah, so I miss the captain's hat. You know, I chopped my way into a captain's hat earlier this evening
Starting point is 00:24:52 because it was too small and I looked at it and I thought I haven't earned that. You have, James. Also, we're in talks with a British fashion house to bring out our own Oh, this is your mate that you and Sam went and saw. I can't give any details.
Starting point is 00:25:06 But we are in the earliest, excuse me, preliminary talks to bring out our own captain's hat. Very exciting. What about affirmations? Yeah, I'm really down. I've been really depressed. When you scroll through like the comments
Starting point is 00:25:21 of you on Rogan and stuff, It's just a bunch of guys going, affirmation. Yeah, but I am, you know, in my honesty, I give birth to my work. It's weird, Jack, because I read that article that you sent me today on the Catholic Herald. Yeah. Nice article, nice article, nice guy. Nice article, nice guy. I didn't necessarily see myself in that article.
Starting point is 00:25:43 Should we talk shit about him? No, no, he seems like a great guy. He's a guy who takes my work seriously, and for that he should be highly commended. Yeah, I enjoy that, like, you know, people are trying to. discern some deeper meaning to your comedy. Every second that we have a guest on who's not famous, is a waste of time. 10 to 100 people switch off.
Starting point is 00:26:04 But I don't mind. I think people should know you, Jack. That's very nice for you to say. How good is this going to be inside? Good, we'll start again. Should we keep going? Should we keep going? No, we'll keep going.
Starting point is 00:26:19 All right, it doesn't matter. People will deal with the win. I thought, what about other nefarious advertising opportunities. Go on. The Benson and Hedges James Donald Falls McCann Catamaran plan. There are laws around it. What about the illegal tobacco
Starting point is 00:26:36 community sponsoring? I'll tell everybody where to buy their chup-chop. That's what we call illegal tobacco in this country, is chop-chop. You've got to get down Rundle Street. What about just like normal pharmaceutical companies? Oh. You know, because you listen to other podcasts and they do a lot of like erectile dysfunction
Starting point is 00:26:52 thing. Yeah. And I think... Oh, I love that. All right, let's start now. Let's start now. All right. Welcome back. Welcome back to the podcast. I'm joined by my friend and confidant,
Starting point is 00:27:08 Jack Blanche. Hello. Co-host of the Catacast, Jack Blanche, which we should talk about whether or not we're going to get around to finishing. Maybe we should talk about what it is as well for people who don't know. The Catacast, we did a Catholic podcast.
Starting point is 00:27:23 Just go and check it out. Yeah. It's dead. It's, well, dormant at the very least. Give it three days. Yeah, that's right. So, yeah, you know, go and look it up and you'll find it and all this sort of stuff.
Starting point is 00:27:36 It's good. I don't know. It's okay. I'm not super proud of it, but, yeah, thanks, Sam. There are men that I would meet all around the Midwest of the United States who would say, oh, love. I didn't talk like that. Why do I, I always got to give them a broad Australian accent. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:27:50 They said they loved it. Oh, that's nice. Well, I was just saying maybe there are some, I've written some notes. I asked Jack to take notes I think this is important Can I preface to this? I think it's important that we learn and we grow I'm not reading the content
Starting point is 00:28:04 I'm not reading the comments anymore That's great On the internet Yeah great My mom sometimes will send them to me Yeah And we'll say look they think you're fat No she doesn't say that
Starting point is 00:28:14 She goes You know she'll go It's happened once Where she was saying like I think you should do this And I was like No I'm good Yeah
Starting point is 00:28:20 And then she found comments That agreed with her That's really funny But I think it's bad when you do this Or whatever I love my mother I love her creative input I miss the affirmations
Starting point is 00:28:31 You miss, yeah Yeah Well when I get it together And I've never done an affirmation on this show Without feeling it in my heart And I frankly feel genuinely Like I go home We're moving into this house at the moment
Starting point is 00:28:43 It's just full of crap I can't get my head above water I'm drowning We've had to come out here to the outside To do the podcast Because we couldn't do it at my house I'm running out of money at an alarming clip because everyone thinks I've got money now
Starting point is 00:29:01 and I feel an incumbent on me when I'm hanging out and we go oh let's get a pizza for our four adults and 76 children however many effing children are coming together at this point I bought my own beer and I'm really grateful to that I'm burning through my people
Starting point is 00:29:17 I know you're poor I know what you're like You know I'm poor Yeah well I know that even when you're rich You're going to be poor soon that's just who you are. I think I promised to buy Max a brewery today. I can't pay my taxes. I'm poor.
Starting point is 00:29:32 But we're figuring that out. That's important. I tell you now, if this podcast fails, not even fails. This podcast is sitting at a level that if it can grow a tiny bit, yeah, thousands of dollars a week, we're going to be fine. How's that? How's that?
Starting point is 00:29:47 Is that tipping out right now all over you? You got real wet? Beautiful. Anyway. Very pleasant. It's a good thing I'm a new father. I'm very used to being... Covered in fluids, many fluids.
Starting point is 00:29:59 That podcast must... Fool me once. Ah, Jackie, it's... Yeah, it's... Because you think I'll just... I'll just improve, you know? You think life is a straight line and progress is a straight line, but it's not.
Starting point is 00:30:13 It actually involves you... I mean, I was doing this show in my car alone. I'll keep talking while you get less damp. Yeah. And now we're... Now, you know, there has to be... There has to be a whole operation. There has to be, you know...
Starting point is 00:30:25 You got that? Oh, it's nice. You got that sort of? Thank you. Anyway, it's just all complicated and difficult. And things must change for them to stay the same. Well, that's all very depressing. Affirmation! I'm feeling it now!
Starting point is 00:30:40 I'm going to keep on getting drunk every night. I'm getting drunk every night. Around about 10 p.m. Around about now. I start seeing shadows out of the corner of my eyes, and I'm scared in my own home. So that's when I really start drinking. It's because your new home is heavily.
Starting point is 00:30:55 Massive. Come on. So many shadows. Come on. James is living in a large lifestyle. I have some ideas for the podcast. How about keep that to yourself? I'm renting it, number one.
Starting point is 00:31:09 I got a good deal number two. I think it's a walkable area number three. Some morally questionable. I deserve a big house. Advertising opportunities. What do you think we should advertise? with. I think illegal tobacco, you could get, you know, apparently there's problems with legal
Starting point is 00:31:24 tobacco. Yes. A legal tobacco sponsorship. Very funny. Yeah. That's great. Well, thank you. Vapes are us.
Starting point is 00:31:31 Nicotine things. I love nicotine. I did. You're a great salesman for it. I've come off it. I don't know why I've done it. I briefly had a moment of hope. The Adelaide Festival could sponsor this podcast, of course.
Starting point is 00:31:42 They're probably looking for the opportunity. I've landed back in Adelaide. And the whole writer's festival's collapsed. As Australia's number one. best-selling poet. I'm Australia's number one. And just in terms of sheer numbers, I'm the best-selling poet in the country.
Starting point is 00:31:56 Okay? It's sad, but true. Sometimes that's true. When my books come out, temporarily I'm the number one best-selling poet in the country. And, yeah, they fired, like, the whole board resigned.
Starting point is 00:32:08 Yeah, it was really... Because they all hate Jews. Like, first, it seemed like they all hated Muslims. I guess that's fine. I guess we all hate Jews. Yeah. And then eventually they said, well, let's not get tied down in this.
Starting point is 00:32:19 Clearly, nobody involved. involved in the LA Festival listen to this podcast so you're not going to get in any trouble. Yeah, because they didn't invite me to come in...
Starting point is 00:32:24 Anyway, so the Adelaide so the Writers' Festival has had to collapse and no one's giving me a call and no one said, do you want to be in charge of it? Like, they had to put a whole new board together.
Starting point is 00:32:33 I know. If I was putting a board of writers together, you wouldn't... Ring ring, hello! Have you sold more books of poetry than anybody?
Starting point is 00:32:40 Yeah! You think you might know a thing or two about writing? Cheat, baby? I don't know. They didn't do it. It's voices like that maybe... And then they all...
Starting point is 00:32:50 talk about, it's about free speech. It's the free speech. What about my right to be paid, the taxpayer? To put me in charge of a festival. What about my speech? Well, yeah, I mean, you're not free. I guess that's the problem. All right, some other ideas of the podcast champs? I thought, you know, we could, you
Starting point is 00:33:07 wanted, you could do like a history series. You could arrest his history sort of thing, you know? We're doing, we're getting dad on. Oh, nice. To give a lecture. Love, love it. And then we're going to fill earns with people. Nice. To listen to his lecture. Uh-huh. and where he makes some sort of point about China,
Starting point is 00:33:21 and then we'll do a section where the audience gets to push and provoke him. I can see no way that would go bad. Wouldn't that go well, though? Yeah, I could see many ways it would go well. That could be really fun because dad's an interesting guy. Your dad is very interesting guy. I don't have anything to say about communist China. I'd love to listen to a podcast about communist China or non-communist China.
Starting point is 00:33:40 Footbinding for and against. Which side does daddy go down? Every time you say daddy, I normally think you're referring to yourself. Feels so wrong. It looks so nice. smell so satisfactory. I also thought literature,
Starting point is 00:33:53 you could read a book, James. I've been talking about that. We were talking about that. I like that. These have very quickly gone from changes to the podcast to ideas we've had together about things we could do.
Starting point is 00:34:04 It's my own ideas. I like it. Yeah, yeah. I like the book club. Politics, James. You could do a social commentary. You know, they say man is a political animal? Well, I say,
Starting point is 00:34:14 no. Wow, Aristotle, take that. Suck a fat one, Aristotle. Here is a genuine idea that I think some of your fans would enjoy. Not all of your American fans, but like when the football season starts, you live stream a YouTube channel where you commentate the football game. We need to do something to get more Crows fans out there in America because the Crows have become America's team. Yes. I think everybody's saying that.
Starting point is 00:34:42 And I think that's a way to get sneaky sponsorship from the Adelaide Crows as well. You know what? They were all keen. They were all keen on us until. until F-A-W-G-O. What's that last letter? Gate. When one of our players called someone an F-A-W-G-O.
Starting point is 00:35:00 What's that last letter? Hey, what are you saying? Al, I go for the cats, all right? None of that. Sorry, no, the cats. Some other stuff going down to the cats. Wasn't there a terrible, terrible scandal? No, I don't remember.
Starting point is 00:35:14 Anyway, so one of our players, he does that. And the crows have been all about it. they've been like, Shrad Gillis, it's a big Camille. Crows, this is great. And then that happened and the crow's like, hey. But they'll come back around. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:35:25 When we start winning and we start, it's going to be a more muted year for us this year. Sure. Expectations have come down. Yeah, you'll top four again. I hope we win one final. You'll do. Steelers had a bad finals campaign,
Starting point is 00:35:38 playoffs. All right. On the issue of race that you said you didn't want to speak about. I'm done with race. I thought I could share a funny anecdote. Oh, yeah. My wife will hate because it's about her. Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 00:35:50 She went and got our car service the other day by a very nice Italian mechanic. And she was very tired because we have a young child. It's just very sleepless. And he was sort of talking to her about some other... The young child? She's also very sleep. He was talking to her about some car he'd been servicing for somebody else. And it was an Italian mother-in-law.
Starting point is 00:36:12 And she just sort of went, oh, I'd hate to have an Italian mother-in-law. And he went, why? What's wrong with us? I like that. Yeah, like what's wrong with Italians? And he'd just given her a massive discount for being such a sweetie. And she racially vilified him. Can I tell you something my sister-in-law who's Chinese told me?
Starting point is 00:36:28 Yeah. I said, how's it hasn't gone? Adelaide since I've been gone. She said that so I can do the accent. Did she say it like that? Yeah, okay. No, she doesn't talk quite that extremely. She said, that too many India.
Starting point is 00:36:43 She has an accent. And I'm trying to do, I'm doing maybe more vaguely the accent than her specific accent. She said there was too many Indians. And I said, oh, that's interesting. Mm. She said, that's not so correcting to say. She said, starting to look like Canada. So many Indians.
Starting point is 00:36:57 And I didn't have the heart to tell her that that is not the international stereotype about. That's not what we say about Canada. What do we say about Canada? Oh, I didn't know that. It's super Chinese. I like the Indians. Well, I knew there was a big Indian diaspora in Canada because of the Secret Service hit thing that happened the other year. you know.
Starting point is 00:37:20 I don't know about that at all. The Indian Secret Service like oft, like this guy who was like an anti-Hindu nationalist in Canada. And they just came out like, yeah, we did it. And Trudeau was like, uh, that's not cool.
Starting point is 00:37:33 Please don't assassinate people. That's, see, that's why number one Asian English-speaking language country. Yeah. We're going to go with Singapore. And that brings me to my next sheet.
Starting point is 00:37:46 On Singapore, yeah. I had some of my, ideas. Singer rich. You sail to Singapore. I love that. Sam, live streams you selling to Singapore. Love that. You're like the Greta Thunberg of Singapore. I love that. Yeah. On that, on Greta Thunberg being on people's boats and doing that. Yeah. Let me say this. I'm going to say right down the barrel of the camera. There's a family called Sailing La Vagabonda who took Greta Thunberg on a boat one time and that was good for them and their media strategy and that was good for Greta.
Starting point is 00:38:15 sailing the vagabondor family give us a call give us a call big fan surely somebody knows him can I come on your boat do you want to sail to Singapore I don't even know if that's something you can do I love what we've done with the notes
Starting point is 00:38:32 this is good this is good I've spoken about this before he's another idea and this is I don't know how you feel about this I know this was contentious in the States when it happened okay did you get invited to the Saudi Arabia Comedy Festival If not, why not? And what's happening next year?
Starting point is 00:38:48 I did not get invited to Saudi Arabian comedy, first of all. I feel like you're right up there, Allie. I don't think I was successful enough. Maybe next year, maybe the year after. But clearly they enjoy English-speaking comedy there. And you're, you know, irreverent. That's true. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:39:05 That's true. I hadn't thought about that. There are many other countries that do speak English but are not English-speaking. Man, I should open myself up. Brunei? Do you have any Saudi- Listeners that you're aware of? Are they all using VPN?
Starting point is 00:39:18 No, I think we have Saudi listeners. Ooh, interesting. I think we've got two Iraqi listeners. If this is how you die, your wife is going to be very upset with me. I've wanted to go to Iraq for a long time. I just think it's worth... Now I've seen a little bit of the world. I've got to go and see the United States of America.
Starting point is 00:39:34 Now I'm back home in Adelaide. And I love going and seeing parts of Adelaide. You can see the whole world by just being in Adelaide. You drive through Kilburn. Check out a little Ethiopia. Check out a little Sudan. Check a little Cameroon. I don't feel like that's accurate about Kilburn.
Starting point is 00:39:50 You go to McGill, you go to some, you got to Greece, you go to Italy, you know. You go to Henley Beach, you got to wherever all those big, dumb whores come from. I'm sorry, that was not very nice. I just thought that as a good gag. Hey, you want to go to Methanfetistan? You catch the train 45 minutes north. Have a walk around. Yeah, well, that was all the notes that I was.
Starting point is 00:40:15 I had, James. I'm sorry. I did my best. But it's hard to keep up with this rapid fire machine gun-ass. I think this is a good one. It was important to do one back. I was starting. We'd left it a while, and it was time to come back. I'm just, honestly, it's been a big couple of years. Well, if you've enjoyed this witty repatee, please do check out the Cattercast. That's the podcast we did together for some years, some years ago.
Starting point is 00:40:42 And if you didn't enjoy it, please don't look it up. You will not enjoy it. Now, we've got to find something to do. I keep thinking of. You know what I'm just scared of is AI. It's all I think of. We could get AI to finish the catacars. No, we're not going to.
Starting point is 00:40:54 But it's, I really, I am concerned by the AI, and I don't know why we're not putting a blanket ban on it and blowing up the data center. I've seen this movie. It's great. There's that guy who's holding a thing. Terminator 2. Is it?
Starting point is 00:41:08 It's also a precursor to Dune. It's every great sci-fi movie. They're all about AI going wrong. And we've learned nothing. We've learned nothing. I think I just, I, it makes me feel scared. Yeah, I work a corporate job where, yeah, you're getting phased out. I'm phasing people out.
Starting point is 00:41:29 I know, I'm building my own redundancies in. It's terrible. If you walk with that rhythm, you won't attract the worm. That's true. Yeah, that's tough. I lost my, I quit my job and then it was swallowed up by AI as entry level copywriter. Mm-hmm. and they haven't come for
Starting point is 00:41:46 foreign are doing stand-up comedy yet and our local well they'll probably come for the locals first the foreigners will always have an appeal maybe there's nowhere anywhere in the world that I can go to that will fill the part of me you know what I'm saying Saudi Arabia I don't know
Starting point is 00:42:06 I heard about genuinely here's my here's one of many problems I have with the Saudi Arabia Comedy Festival thing is they said it's like great shows I think they all have to say that but then you look at photos from it you go it does look like a bad show it does look like a
Starting point is 00:42:22 totalitarian regime trying to say no we're cool why does it look like that I don't see the way the audience is set up the number of people who were there it looks like a like a gig you wouldn't want to do sure I couldn't imagine that would be a good gig to do but I don't want to ruin your chances of doing that kid
Starting point is 00:42:38 no I mean I think Qatar open to it you know I've always been interested to see where those six strings come from. Oh, man. I was so down this week. I bought an Xbox. That was last week.
Starting point is 00:42:56 Was it? Yeah. Man, time is a flat circle. Have you played your Xbox yet, Jane? I only play one game because I don't have the internet at my house yet, and I have to use my phone. I don't have a lot of data. And the discs don't do nothing?
Starting point is 00:43:07 So you got to, you know what I'm saying? You've got to download the game. You've got to download the game, so I had to download a small game, so I play a game called Catamari Daimasi, I think that's what it's called. where you're a little guy with a round head and you want to make your dad happy.
Starting point is 00:43:19 So you push a ball around and you pick up small things and you get bigger. And then you get to pick up bigger and bigger things. And then you get to, then you make a big ball, 12 minutes go by, 13 minutes, whatever. And then your dad looks at it and goes,
Starting point is 00:43:32 he goes, I think you could have made a bigger one of these? Yeah. Next time, Dad. So we'll have that on the podcast. We'll have that on the podcast and he'll do a lecture. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:43:45 I'm having big. thoughts we've I've I meant there was a couple months ago I had a lot of money and I laid out a fair amount of money for things for the podcast yeah that I now go like man I wish I had financially people should join the Patreon yeah that's I agree I definitely didn't let mine lapse there's very special did you it's fine if you did there's no it's really I'm not I'm only a part of two Patrions and I I shouldn't in my state now financially it's fine it's just like I can see I was going out.
Starting point is 00:44:17 I was on the road a lot. I was doing a lot of gigs. Sure. And I think I have more gigs coming in the future, but we need to get this baby born. Yeah. And my wife is much happier. Yes. And it is weird coming back to Adelaide where I have enemies.
Starting point is 00:44:33 I've come back home. Don't say, you had enemies in Austin too. No, I had like a rival. That's the closest will be said in terms of like ongoing tit-for-tat boying is like, three or four guys who'd be jostling for position to be number one. And Adelaide, I've got anywhere you grow up
Starting point is 00:44:57 in your hometown, you know, you can't walk down a street. Enemies, I've got people who I always see them across town. And this is not like, oh, James has done terrible things or whatever. It's just like, of course, you live a life, you're a young man, you get to disagreements to people.
Starting point is 00:45:11 You know, just walking around town and you'll see someone you know how many hundred feet away. Someone's going, hit me one on one of those. The lefties don't like me. In America, the lefties don't even know about me. But here, the progressive left people, you know, of which I think they should be fans of the cast. Honestly, I subscribe to the New York Times.
Starting point is 00:45:32 I do the busy beat. I do the little bee hexagon game. Is this supposed to charm them? I say, hey! What'd you get for the pentagram on the busy bee? I don't know what's meant to do it, but I'm sorry. saying, I think I'm a man for everybody. I'm a man for all seasons.
Starting point is 00:45:51 Yeah, sure. And if you're a man for all seasons, everybody should like you. Isn't that the point of a man for all season? Is if you're a man for all seasons, everybody likes you. And they'll leave you alone. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's how it ends. No, but like I remember, you know, I shared a meme and the people who are in charge of the Greens in South Australia unfollowed me.
Starting point is 00:46:10 I got to university with them and I shared like one meme when I was tired. Was it your cheap defending Australia Day meme? Because I think that's probably the best meme. I think that was real. That'll get another post. It'll be a little more full on this year. It'll be Australia Day dying. Me is the lamb on top of it.
Starting point is 00:46:27 Yeah. And it'll be like losers. Aboriginals. Adelaide festival. Aboriginals people. Yeah. It's like Governor's General. Yeah, governors.
Starting point is 00:46:43 88% of the audience doesn't know how very, I think that was good. That was very funny. That was very funny, James. I love Australia now. My grandma's having a party, birthday party for lunch, and we're going over there and stuff. Oh, all right. And then we'll go over somewhere else after that.
Starting point is 00:46:55 Yeah, yeah, okay. Man, politically, this is a weird time in Australia. I think we're about to have our right-wing moment. It feels like it feels right. Well, who knows. Our Trump moment might be brewing. Pauline might be. It's got to be you, James.
Starting point is 00:47:07 It's going to be you. Now, it's a serious option. You can be our Lee Kuan, you. Hard to cast him as a populist rightist. and I have thought about canings in the public square. I know you. You know I'm in favour of public executions. As a Foucaulium.
Starting point is 00:47:25 I don't know if you read that book properly. I'm in favour of a little boy putting on high heels and walking around on my back and killing a guy in public because I am a subscriber to the most popular and influential academic of these times. I'm pretty sure I read that book and that's not what he was saying in it. I think he was saying... The little boy parts arrived, but the other part. There was some sort of public execution thing in there.
Starting point is 00:47:48 Yeah, he was saying it's bad. I think he was saying it was good. I think he was saying that's bad. But look how bad it is now. He was definitely saying that. Yeah, he didn't like prisons. Yeah. I have a card that I wrote about him.
Starting point is 00:48:02 Would you like to hear it? Yes. All right. I was one of my better cards. I had a lot of cards I didn't get to tonight. We're ready? And you can chirp in after the card's done. Probably one.
Starting point is 00:48:09 All right. Foucault, as best as I remember, thought madness was a bourgeois capital. construction. It does make me wonder, did he actually ever meet a crazy person? Because they are crazy. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:48:28 It's good. I had a big interaction with someone who I would, anyway, I wouldn't go on to it. Yeah, I'm sitting right here. I just want to say this to anybody who has ever sent me a voice memo over 15 seconds long. I didn't listen to it.
Starting point is 00:48:47 I'm not going to listen to it. I don't know what you wanted to say. I'm never going to listen to it. True. Truth. I think these are going well. Yeah, that's good. Men and women.
Starting point is 00:49:02 Oh, that one should not come immediately after the Foucault one. Hey, would it be illegal to start my own lottery? Probably. Yeah. I don't even want to do anything with the money, you know. I just want to count numbers while a beautiful woman in an evening gown stands. next to me and that seems like the easiest way to make that happen.
Starting point is 00:49:28 Abuse! Is it a funny sort of word? Because depending on who is using it, abuse can either mean like locking someone in a sex dungeon for 20 years and sodomizing them with electrodes or it can mean
Starting point is 00:49:44 vaguely, emotionally manipulative. It's also... Abuse. Or not bad. Abuse. some abuse is worse than that it's like people like people always said
Starting point is 00:49:56 Michael Jackson's abusing little boys and he would be like hey I was abused as a child my father abused me and I would always think it was like Michael Michael's dad was raping him
Starting point is 00:50:07 and it's like why is no one looking into that yeah it's like his dad made him dance too often yeah seems like I might have had some it doesn't seem as bad doesn't seem as bad
Starting point is 00:50:16 you ever see people having an argument over something you don't know anything about mm-hmm It could be like physics. Sure. Or economics.
Starting point is 00:50:25 Yeah. And you, even though you don't really understand any of the points of what they're arguing. You weigh in. No, no, no. I just mean you can tell
Starting point is 00:50:34 that they're not really arguing about whatever it is that they're talking about just from the body language and the sounds. Yeah. You can tell that what they're, one guy is really saying
Starting point is 00:50:41 is I'm the top dog and you're a little bitch boy. And the other guy's going, you think you're all that shit. And maybe what they're going is, actually, that's not what Aristotle meant at all. But that's all hogwash.
Starting point is 00:50:54 Yeah. That's all top level stuff. Sure. And the power, naked power. Yeah. I do know that. Yeah. Clothed power.
Starting point is 00:51:05 Not a bad name for a Japanese rock and roll band. Closed to power. When was the last time an entirely new dance burst out onto the scene? Gangneap's not. Oh, yeah. I think these are good. See, they're not quite jokes. I couldn't do them on stage.
Starting point is 00:51:27 I couldn't do them on stage. But I think I've just, what I've tried to do is, and I've got like hundreds more of these, is I've just boiled down podcast ideas to the car. So then people don't have to wait around and have bad. And I know that's not what, I know what people want from a podcast is like a friendship simulator. I find that to be gross. Parasocial relationship.
Starting point is 00:51:46 Oh, no. Oh, dear. Quick. Thank you. Thank you. We don't, we don't want to lose very important things that I have to say, such as. and including that was the one I wrote
Starting point is 00:52:05 huge honour to be first guest on season two I just wanted to start strong I just wanted to make sure I remember to say that you know yeah touch is very important yeah it's beautiful you want to read one of these sure too bad can I do a lucky dip though
Starting point is 00:52:23 no no writing's not good enough we should do that I just think it's important to have little poems that people can Timothy Shalamey is over-exposed. Yeah, that could be a real. That could be a real.
Starting point is 00:52:40 In breaking news, Timothy Shalameh Over-exposed. You know who I want to see less of? Timotee Shalame. I quite like him. Where's Pedro Pascal gone? I'm ready for Pedro Pascal to come back.
Starting point is 00:53:02 He's taking some time off. He's taking some time off. Yeah, well, he's got no more franchises to conquer, and he wept. Hey, I've got a question, are all these actors gay now, or what? These actors all seem like Isaac Rankin would have something to say about it. Salomey's dating a jana, bro. Yeah. A lot of gay guys.
Starting point is 00:53:30 Elton John was married. He seems gay. It seems like a gay dude. Elton John, he does. Yeah. Yeah. I was reading a book called The Prisoner of Zender by Anthony Hope. Harry Potter and the prisoner of Zenda.
Starting point is 00:53:42 No, it's the prisoner of Zenda. Right. And I'm just going to read this quote that moved me. And then I was a young man and I loved action. And I was offered such a hand in such a game as perhaps never man played yet. Isn't that nice? That's great. It's really nice.
Starting point is 00:54:01 God. Hope. I like this. Faith. Love. Spite. Wisdom. Money.
Starting point is 00:54:09 A book. Perspective. that unmistakable grandeur that comes with real socially acceptable misfortune. This is a list entitled, If You Don't Have Your Health, What Do You Have? The attention of both doctors and nurses, oily operators trying to lubricate an inheritance, an excuse not to go to parties, and answer, time, stillness. That's great.
Starting point is 00:54:38 I yearn to collect historically interesting wine. Then I can have people over for dinner and I can say, Oh, you like that wine? That is Charles Manson's wine. You know, sometimes in life is hard to tell where things have gone wrong. And other times, the answer is Milo Xiloto, Coldplay's fifth album. Yeah, it doesn't ring a bell at all, actually. you only get out what you put in
Starting point is 00:55:14 you only get in what you pull out you out pull in only what you get get in you what you only pull out that's what I'm saying these are the best ideas for podcasts yeah no they're great yeah you're doing a great job James
Starting point is 00:55:38 keep going maybe you only do three more that sort of no more guests Only famous. No, we should have more games. I don't know, man. Can I read you a funny tweet that I saw it, James? Oh, God.
Starting point is 00:55:54 You will love it. Did you write it? No. Put it away. No, no, no. People deserve to escape from the algorithm. It was Alan Kohler, dude. I don't know who that.
Starting point is 00:56:01 Oh, yeah, he's actually good. He's great. The economist who sometimes says things he's not supposed to say. The economist, he sometimes says things he's not supposed to say. Like, sometimes he'll be like, what the fuck? All these immigrants. He wrote that. And you go, Alan, are you meant to say that?
Starting point is 00:56:13 He's like, mate, that's a little, fuck him. I'm just saying He wrote a very critical piece about AI on the ABC today And somebody just criticized it And he quote tweeted Their comment
Starting point is 00:56:25 And said Yeah well What's pathetic Is writing shit like that anonymously At least by put my name To my shit That was really great From Alan Tyler
Starting point is 00:56:34 Like Wouldn't mind Have an Alan Cola on the podcast I feel like he's getable Casey Briggs Probably won't come on the podcast I went to a university With Casey Briggs
Starting point is 00:56:43 I mean I'm thinking of a big guest, David Byrne is in town this month. You know who else who is in town? Nick Cave. I feel like you could have got Nick Cave. Yeah, Kieran was trying to get me to have Nick Cave on the podcast, Kieran Hookway. And I like Nick Cave, I'm a Nick Cave fan.
Starting point is 00:56:58 But I think I'm a big fan of. Yeah. It's his opening act for that show. I've no idea. Aldous Harding. One of the most bird-like women ever to write a song about being forced to live in Dubai. I guess that's funny if you know what you're talking. talking about but I don't know it is she's funny she's New Zealand woman and so we
Starting point is 00:57:23 don't really they don't understand her I went to go and see her one of the only shows I've ever I've been to see three music shows in my whole life I've done so many more shows than I've seen yeah I've written more poems than I've read I believe that I took a vulnerable man into my automobile and I put three bullets in his head that right I was I hope that was on a car. That was a poem. That was a poem. I was working on a poem.
Starting point is 00:57:57 I was thinking about hobbies. Yep. Some hobbies are small aura. Might call them gay hobbies. But I'd call them small. Other people out there would say, gay hobbies. I'd say small aura hobbies.
Starting point is 00:58:10 Right, right. But I'm going to tell you some now. Journaling. Sure. Being a diarist? Sick. But journaling. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:58:21 That's not for. That's for tomorrow. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's my feelings. The gym. Yep. Computers. Sure.
Starting point is 00:58:32 Collaging. Again, so many great people collage. But it's small aura. Small aura. You never hear like, the Queen of England. You used to love to collage going to a therapist. Is that a hobby? Yeah, for some people.
Starting point is 00:58:51 I'd put it down as that. Fair enough. Unicycle. No, that's got aura. That's got a big or not, no, no, no. No, no, you'd think it does. You'd think it does. Have you met a unicycle who's like,
Starting point is 00:59:05 Hey man, I know how to, you've been at a party and there's a unicycle? One guy's like, I've been that guy. I know how to unicycle. Shame's like that guy. But does, do you know how to unicycle? Yeah, I've done it before. Itty bitty aura. Yeah, all right.
Starting point is 00:59:15 I thought I was cool, but, you know. You'll understand the big aura ones when I start reading it. Yeah, all right. What are you guessing for big aura hobbies? Having lots of kids. I'm going to assume all the things that you do on a day-to-day basis. No, no, no, no, I don't do any of these. These are ones I'm thinking of doing.
Starting point is 00:59:29 Right, right, great, okay. Two-wheeled cycles. Horses, man. Horses, big aura. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Horses. You want another one? But only for men, though.
Starting point is 00:59:43 No, no, woman horses. No, no, no. No, horse girls, fine. Horse woman. Yeah. You know what's a high-ora hobby is horse-faced woman. I love horse women. Sure.
Starting point is 00:59:57 I've married a New Zealand woman. She's the least horse-like woman I've ever seen. There's an equine quality to women from New Zealand. I don't think that's true. Kimbra. Who is their Prime Minister? Lord. Lord.
Starting point is 01:00:10 Should have been. Prime Minister Lord. Now, who's that woman? Jacinta Ardern. Horse-like. Big horse energy. Not negative. Not being negative.
Starting point is 01:00:17 Sure. Just commenting on her appearance. She's not feline, though, is she? If Thatcher was a sex kitten, Jacinda Iderne was more of a chastity horse. She had a baby. And isn't that really something? Because when I see Jacinda Adirne, I'm not being negative.
Starting point is 01:00:40 She doesn't scream fecundity. I've never seen her scream for... It'd be a great thing for her to do as the first Bemae Prime Minister of Museum. Fecundity! You know how they do that? They could do that with the word fecundity. Scuba. scubaing sure yeah that's big orah
Starting point is 01:00:57 huge aura snorkeling yeah yeah true itty bitty aura scuba scuba piloting a glider yeah
Starting point is 01:01:11 sailing obviously hunting bonus points if the hunting involves red coats hounds and a bugle of course bigger aura skiing can be either I think
Starting point is 01:01:25 yeah that's true depends on how you do it. I'm so glad you agree. Jack, can come on this podcast again. My fantasy is saying no. I yearn to find exciting new ways of saying no. Please, my dog is in that burning building. Will you go and get him?
Starting point is 01:01:45 No. I'm going to keep going until these are all done. I don't know what chemicals the government has exposed us to, because I don't know how chemicals work. I think that might be the result of the chemicals. Yeah, that's good. Men and women, you have a duty to be sexy. Anybody who is not sexy is a traitor or a child.
Starting point is 01:02:18 Important distinction. I was on something called NyQuil when I wrote that. Is that some sort of amphetamine? It's a relaxing time. Oh, okay, there you go. I think I'm losing anyway. We'll save that one for another name. It's a good one.
Starting point is 01:02:43 Fun arc idea for the podcast. All right, great. Descent into alcoholism. Let's talk about it. What would that mean for the show? Sam is now, you know, able to upload the podcast. Yep. I don't have to take care of that.
Starting point is 01:02:57 I just have to be present for an hour. Right. And have something to say. Yeah. So what if I just absolutely let my life fall apart now? And that's the arc. No, no, no, no, no. No, no, no.
Starting point is 01:03:11 It is coming apart, but what if I let it? Oh, I see. At the moment, I'm hanging on to it, trying to keep it all together, like an egg breaking in my hand as I hold the yolk between my palms. But what if I was to say, See, this is the sort of depressing talk you were doing hotel rooms in America that made me stop listening to the podcast. Yeah, I feel like I'm in an entire country that is a hotel room now.
Starting point is 01:03:40 I've been alienated from my own home. I don't understand it anymore. He's gone native, everybody. He loves America. He loves America more than Australia. That is being a traitor. I never said that. Many people are saying that about me.
Starting point is 01:03:54 I am. We're crabs in a bucket in this country. We have tall puppy syndrome. We don't like greatness. We elected Albo. We elected ScoMo. We elected Scotty Momo. Yeah, we should have elected Clive.
Starting point is 01:04:11 Big Clive. We had an opportunity. Clive was on the ballot. Yeah. And we didn't vote for Clive. Yeah. We've had exciting people. Clive was our Trump moment, for sure.
Starting point is 01:04:21 We missed it. I think Abbott was the Trump moment. He was too early. No, it was Clive. I'm alienated. I'm been devilt, abundant, unguecommon. I'm very concerned with it. I'm not speaking German to me.
Starting point is 01:04:36 I think I need to not have a podcast anymore. The podcast makes money. I think what I need to do is write an opera. for Japan I feel like you could do both why are you making that face Sam have you got your microphone one hour in a week
Starting point is 01:04:51 James maybe two for your Patreon people deserve greatness if you only get one hour to spend on something a week that's exciting shouldn't it be an opera that a man has spent three months on and not just this the garbled conversation
Starting point is 01:05:02 of losers and waste rolls I'm talking about you I owe myself to opera then write the opera while doing the podcast. The arc of the podcast can be you trialing out. How about this piece of music? Let me sing
Starting point is 01:05:18 you a sonata. Mozart didn't do that. Mozart didn't do that. Mozart would have. You know what Margot said to me yesterday? What a Margo said? I was that Mozart? Baithoven. And she said, Baithoven sounds like this. Like big man. If it sounds kind of gay, it's Mozart.
Starting point is 01:05:35 So, yeah, Mozart did have a telling comment, James. And yet of the two of them, who bended the ladies, I don't know It was Mozart But also Betting the ladies is gay Go to bed with a woman It's gay
Starting point is 01:05:52 Women flowers, pink All right I think we could probably wrap it up No It's great I'll leave you with this I was in the town And I saw a horse
Starting point is 01:06:05 And the horse's penis was out It had a huge dangling, bouncing penis And when the horse left Everybody who was around started talking about the horse's penis. Started saying,
Starting point is 01:06:21 did you see the size of that penis on that horse? Yeah, man, that's big. Mr. Hans guy, of course. He don't look at the horse, man. And my question is, you know, back in the day when horses were everywhere, there must have been so many horse penises bouncing around, so many.
Starting point is 01:06:42 And you'd probably just get invisible to it, wouldn't you? You'd probably just stop noticing the horse penis. You just go If someone said Oh look at a horse penis You'd go My God
Starting point is 01:06:53 The immaturity Disgusting But then as horses Started to get phased out And replaced by the motor car There must have come a day When when I mean certainly the day is here now
Starting point is 01:07:07 When we see the horse's penis We all remark on it No one says Ghosh Ghosh Gosh to remark on the penis Of the horse So when was the pivot
Starting point is 01:07:16 When was the last day That it was gauche to see a big cock on a horse and not talk about it or to talk about it you know what I'm saying we can talk about it now it would have been nothing then boy it's a lot now this has been the first episode back of the James
Starting point is 01:07:40 Donald Forbes-Bakhan-Catman-Catman plan I've had a good run of it thank you for having me James Jack This has been another episode of the James Donald Pobuz-Macken Catamarant Plague.

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