Australia Tough, Men At Work, and Comedy with Music w/ Dave Adams | Ep 88

Today I sit with Dave Adams. An Australian Composer, Pianist, Vocalist, and Comedian based in Berlin. We talk about life in Australia, touring with a 9 person band, and moving to Berlin. We also talk about reincarnation, beer, and music.

Timestamps
 (2:01) Australia, Government, And Culture
 (5:24) Freedoms In Berlin Vs Australia
 (12:06) Melbourne & Australian Cities
 (16:48) Traveling In Europe And Music
 (20:40) Setting Up In Berlin
 (24:22) Comedy
 (28:33) Music
 (32:01) Religion
 (37:11) Reincarnation
 (46:26) Berlin 8 Years Ago
 (53:07) Beer And Alcohol
 (57:35) Mixing Comedy And Music
 (1:04:30) Men At Work
 (1:09:45) Advice To Younger Self

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Transcript

00;00;00;00 - 00;00;18;17
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Today's guest is a very dope dude. I met him here in Berlin and he's a very talented dude. You may know him by his beard. You may know him by his hair. You may know him as the Austrian Zach Galifianakis. Who knows? But I do know he's a talented musician and a dope comedian. Let's welcome Dave Adams.

00;00;18;18 - 00;00;35;17
Unknown
Welcome to the Third Culture Talk podcast, your host Nya Yeanafehn. And in this podcast, we talk with people that are raised in a culture different than their parents, home culture or way of life or nationality. And now they live in in today's culture, which is vastly different than it is of our parents or even back in the day.

00;00;35;17 - 00;00;54;25
Unknown
If you like what you hear, rate, subscribe, share with your friends what it takes two seconds to do. So let's begin today's episode. Oh my God, that was. I feel like applauding. But for the intro, that was really good, man. Oh, thank you very much. Yeah. Thank you for inviting me. I really appreciate this. Thanks, man. Thank you very much, man.

00;00;54;28 - 00;01;11;04
Unknown
I mean, thank you for being here, you know? No worries, man. Yeah, I made it all the way to wherever the hell we are. We're somewhere. Yeah, yeah, it's different in these parts, man. Very different. It's like I got here a bit early, so I was, like, walking around, just sort of the neighborhood. You have, like, a little mini, like Eiffel Tower.

00;01;11;06 - 00;01;27;04
Unknown
Oh, yeah, we do. I mean, they just put that up, I mean. Oh, yeah. New thing, very new. I mean, you know, this this neighborhood, they do things slowly, you know, they don't want to shock people. So they're kind of like, all right, let's let's keep it small. Let's, you know, wow. They just put it in because it looks like the old.

00;01;27;09 - 00;01;47;22
Unknown
Yeah. I mean, the neighborhood's coming up, you know, so I, fake Eiffel Tower made out of wood, you know, just strange play like. Well, okay. So. Yeah, but how to house Berlinger and Uma? Yeah. It's awesome. It's the best city in the world, isn't it? I think so, yeah, it's. It's up there. It's up. It's in the top five.

00;01;47;22 - 00;02;06;19
Unknown
I, it's, I think it's the freest place in the world. Like, you know, it's, I think you, it's just a city that, like, lets you be an adult and, like, trusts you to behave yourself. There's no to me that, look, I come from Australia, from Melbourne, okay? So it's different there. It's really. It's really strict.

00;02;06;21 - 00;02;27;00
Unknown
People don't actually, like, ever think about this, really? Australia is like, one of the strictest countries in the world. It's strict. It's so strict. There's rules for everything. I mean, what's an example? I mean, okay, so let's drive. So everyone has to drive, you know, in Australia. Okay. You have to have a car. Okay. That's mandatory.

00;02;27;00 - 00;02;43;22
Unknown
It's pretty much mandatory. Yeah. It's like it's a pretty common like 18th birthday present. It's kind of tradition. On the 18th birthday, you just get your cheap car just to get you on the road because you can't get around any other way. There's no public transportation. There is, man. But it's not. Yeah. Yeah. It's like, you know, it's it's not like here.

00;02;43;24 - 00;03;02;13
Unknown
Yeah. The public transport here is awesome. Oh you know it's great. Yeah. People complain about it. It's like oh the train was six minutes late today. I'm like, dude, the train comes like every five minutes out here. For the most part, it's not bad. Okay, man. Yeah. So I'm in Australia driving and you know, the speed limits, you know, are always changing drastically.

00;03;02;13 - 00;03;24;27
Unknown
You know what I mean? Like it's, you know, you're going 60 and then it's 40, then it's 80 and it's constantly changing and there's just speed cameras everywhere. For example, the the western ring road, it's called like a part of highway has more speed cameras on it than any part of road in the world. So and so it's like in there and they're hidden to, you know, they're like behind bridges or behind trees or sometimes it's like little cars that are set up with cameras in it.

00;03;24;29 - 00;03;50;10
Unknown
This is cameras everywhere, and they're always trying to get you. And so in Germany, if you are driving ten kilometers too fast, but it's something like €30. Yeah, it's the fine. Yeah. It's more ten kilometers in Australia would be like maybe $200, which is like what? Like what's that in euros? Like 100 and 120, €130. Oh, why is it so hard?

00;03;50;10 - 00;04;19;21
Unknown
Everything is expensive. It's just like there's rules and there are fines and, you know, there's just everyone's just kind of. Everyone there is so nice. Right? But it's like there are lots of rules. I think it's because we come from, it's kind of like a convict mentality, you know, like literally like how the whole country started. It's like a bunch of convicts and then like the God's, like putting all these rules on us because Australians even though Australia strict we are natural rule breakers.

00;04;19;21 - 00;04;35;27
Unknown
Okay. Always trying to find little shortcuts. Wow. We'll get through also to cheat the system a little bit. It's kind of like a done thing, you know, like everyone's like, we have some of the harshest, drink driving penalties in the world and we all do it. I mean, I don't know, of course. Of course not. Of course not.

00;04;35;27 - 00;04;49;15
Unknown
One of the cameras are rolling. But when I was young, when I was young, we all did. Yeah, because. Because our parents. Oh, did you know, it was like drink driving was just like a socially acceptable, right? Not anymore. It's not anymore. No, of course not. Of course not anymore. Yeah, yeah, of course not. Especially when the cameras are rolling.

00;04;49;22 - 00;05;06;26
Unknown
Yeah. But hold on. This is crazy because I thought, Australia is a place where it's just very calm, very like. Because, I don't know, maybe the perception, what I see on TV and everything is outrageously bad. You will drink a beer. There's a Barbie, right? Yeah, yeah. So Australians are laid back, but the government is strict.

00;05;06;26 - 00;05;23;28
Unknown
So, like, like. And so let's say like everyone's having beers or whatever. And so then this is how like a night ends in a pub like in Berlin. Yeah. The pub closes when it seems kind of fair to close. It's sort of like they sort of play it by. Yeah. Like, do we have a lot of customers here or is it just two of you drinking, sitting on one beer?

00;05;23;28 - 00;05;43;16
Unknown
All right, guys, come on, get it. Right, right. Like common sense is applied in like Australia. It like hits like midnight. And they'll just turn on all the lights, like, all the lights are on. Music is off. And then they'll just be these big, thuggish bouncers who just come around like, oh, I can't get out, get out, everyone you know, you know, it's that sort of thing, you know, you're having fun until the rules kick in.

00;05;43;16 - 00;06;03;17
Unknown
Yeah. You know, where's Berlin? There's there's like three rules. Yeah. Don't be loud after 10 p.m.. Don't be loud after 10 p.m.. Yeah. What's the other one? I don't know, don't. Don't pee in public or something. Maybe, I don't know. Yeah, that's a general idea. You technically a rule, but everyone. I mean, you have to people do break it, right?

00;06;03;17 - 00;06;23;17
Unknown
May 1st people piss in on the streets, right? Yeah. My first man that would never fly in Australia. Really? No way. Man, like, my day in Berlin is a great example of the freedom we're given. Like, it's like a designated schedule day of, approved mayhem. Yeah. You know, it's just like you're just allowed to walk around and fuck shit up for the whole day.

00;06;23;18 - 00;06;41;27
Unknown
Do anything. It's it's like, all right, kids, go on, get it out. Says it's like New Year's Eve in Berlin. That would never fly you. The military would come in to stop that. Oh. I'm sorry, are there any fireworks in, like I should like you should. Fireworks. They'll have fun. You can't have personal fireworks at all. But the,

00;06;41;29 - 00;07;01;09
Unknown
You can, but it's like you'll just do a little couple of them in the street or whatever. Yeah, but in Berlin, like, you know, fireworks have been weaponized. It really is like. Yeah, yeah, they don't shoot them upwards. They like, shoot them like, no, to burn whole tar flags down. Like every year. Every year. It's so dangerous to buy things burned down.

00;07;01;12 - 00;07;23;19
Unknown
You know, it's like a constant thing. I saw somebody with a fake gun running around. I was like, dive. Okay, this is interesting. It's literally the purge. It really is. It's the purge. Yeah. And it's different subsections of Berlin where it's like, are you go here just a speck to get hit by a flashing object. Yeah. You got to know like it's and, you know, stay home if you don't want any part of it, you know, because, you know, no one is going to attack you in your apartment, you know?

00;07;23;19 - 00;07;41;02
Unknown
So it's like, if you want to participate in the purge, come on down, you know, it's entirely up to you. It's like optional chaos or anything. It's a sad purge. Right? Because I said this on stage before, but, when people light up, fireworks is not happy. It's not like it's it's like it's like a void that they're filling.

00;07;41;04 - 00;08;03;15
Unknown
And this lighting the fireworks, like, I see some light of fireworks and we know. Facial. Yeah. Or be like, disoriented, like, you know, emotions on their face, like. And like what? What what's happening? That's true. That's true. Some of these fireworks are just explosives, like, you know, it's like what? How can you call that a firework? It's just like this big thing that you, like put on the ground.

00;08;03;15 - 00;08;19;16
Unknown
It makes a really loud sound, and it'll just, like, explode anything near it. Like, there's no like, I think the one rule that would be good for New Year's Eve is your firework has to look cool. It has to look cool. I still look cool, and I have to have an acceptable name, because some of the names for these fireworks are like crazy.

00;08;19;16 - 00;08;48;07
Unknown
They go like Megatron five. It's like whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa. It should be no Megatron, no any explosive. No, but that's that's what I mean. Like this. This, freedom we get, you know, to be adults. I mean, like, it's New Year's is a day where, like, people abuse that. That freedom. Yeah, yeah, but just the fact that we're given it in a country like Germany, if you didn't live in Germany, you would assume that Germany is a strict country, and you would assume that Australia is a really laid back country.

00;08;48;07 - 00;09;09;10
Unknown
It's exactly the opposite. That shit is crazy. Okay, man, because look. All right, let me be, transparent here. Why? I see crocodile Hunter. This is way back, right? That he just seemed like a chill. Australian people seem very laid back and chill. So what you say is very strict. I'm like, whoa. But the personality, the convicts are chill, you know, like, it's just the rules are really hardcore.

00;09;09;14 - 00;09;25;16
Unknown
I guess when everyone's a criminal, everyone's like, oh, let's, let's just chill out, all right? Let's, let's, let's have rules. Right? Let's you know they got the government. It got that. Let's chill out. Yeah. You can't drink in public in Australia. That's that has to be a lie. That's true. We we we. So how the hell, y'all what?

00;09;25;23 - 00;09;45;04
Unknown
The rules in Australia are similar to the rules in England, you know, I mean, because it's because Australia's Commonwealth as well. So, like, yeah, for example, like all our letters or documents you'd get from the government, you know, I saw, you know, the ones in Australia. Then I saw some letters, like from some English friends and I'm like, it's the same font, it's the same sort of like structure.

00;09;45;04 - 00;10;02;15
Unknown
But Australia was just sort of gone a bit more, you know, island with it. But, what's it talking about? Yeah, he's talking about, you can't drink in public. Yeah. You can't drink in public. What I said when I came to Berlin and I saw people walking down the street with a beer, I was. And then I saw a police car drive past.

00;10;02;15 - 00;10;21;20
Unknown
I was waiting for someone to, like, hide their beer. That's what we would do in Australia. You just have, like, put it away, like, shit. Right? But because Germans can drink publicly, publicly, and they're trusted to behave themselves and because they're trusted to, they tend to, you know, because they're allowed to they're trusted to be sensible.

00;10;21;25 - 00;10;43;24
Unknown
They tend to be more sensible. But because Australians, they, they assume that we're going to misbehave. That's kind of like, you know, you keep telling a little boy, you're a very naughty boy. You're very naughty boy. He's going to start acting naughty. Oh shit. I wonder if, because it's still part of the Commonwealth, that like the rules, they're like, hey, look, we know how this started and we probably know where it's going to end, so let's be safe here and just have these laws.

00;10;43;24 - 00;11;01;08
Unknown
You can't drink in public. You can't do these things. I don't know Australians. Are they all chill like you know I any party. Yeah I just think party like I mean when I think Australians I think party not maybe I mean the movies. Right. But also to just the just a, you know, like you're a happy dude. Well, in a barrel.

00;11;01;08 - 00;11;28;08
Unknown
So what, she's not I mean, she's, she's, more a New Zealand. All right. New Zealand. Well, yeah. Oh, yeah. That. Right. But like, usually the energy. I don't think I've ever seen a depressed Australian person. Well, yeah. And here's the other thing. You've only met Australians who left Australia okay. You know, and I noticed that too, about, about Americans who live in Europe, you know, like, because you all seem quite sensible, you know, like, you go to, like, the south of America like people.

00;11;28;13 - 00;11;42;20
Unknown
You know, what percentage of Americans don't have passports? I think it's like 50% or. Oh, there's a lot of people that don't got passports. Yeah, yeah. So like, you know, most Americans never actually leave the country, right. You know, but then talk about all the other countries as if they've been there, which is hilarious. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Right.

00;11;42;26 - 00;12;01;01
Unknown
Yeah. They've seen it on, TikTok or whatever. So yeah. You mate, you made Australians that made it to Europe. And so whenever I meet another Australian in Europe, I always get along with them really well because we have this thing in common that we were like, we love our country, but we. You have to go. I think you have to leave home and then come back, you know?

00;12;01;01 - 00;12;19;20
Unknown
Yeah, I don't know. I could never just spend my whole life on an island, you know? Yeah. I mean, because what part of Australia are you from? Like what part? Melbourne. Melbourne. Okay, well, I'm originally from, like, a coastal town. You know what Australia looks like? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, you know, Melbourne is in the south east, right.

00;12;19;20 - 00;12;42;11
Unknown
And I'm from like a town on the very south east. Like on the coast. Okay. Yeah. So like we're on a little tip there. Yeah. The little bottom right corner. Yeah. So but then I, you know moved to Melbourne and studied in Melbourne and that sort of thing. And Melbourne is the most sort of like progressive city in Australia, like it's the most, woke, like not too woke, I'd say tastefully woke tastefully.

00;12;42;11 - 00;12;58;25
Unknown
Okay. For example, it was like the only green seat in Parliament, you know what I mean? Like in Melbourne, it's a bit more forward thinking and it's more, there's more sort of culture, more sort of like art, more music. It's, a lot of people say it's the Berlin of Australia like it is. I think it it's the equivalent.

00;12;58;25 - 00;13;16;21
Unknown
And Sydney is the Munich. Yeah. That makes it interesting. Yeah, it is the Munich. Yeah. I guess it's a bit like it's a bit cleaner and nicer. And Scotland, you know, they've got an amphitheater or something. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like the little, like the little like the little, not Munich and Sydney Opera House. Opera house there.

00;13;16;25 - 00;13;41;03
Unknown
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just more of those sort of nice monuments. And this is sort of like more beautiful. The weather is nicer and that sort of thing. So like, Yeah, Melbourne's like, just cool. You know, the haircuts are weird, and, and the, the coffee is funkier, like, ooh, what's that? You know. Yeah. And it's like, you know, just like weird rock bands playing, like, everywhere, you know, you just sort of walk around and there's just music and.

00;13;41;05 - 00;13;58;17
Unknown
Oh, and stuff everywhere. It's cool, man. I until 1 a.m., then you have to go home because everything's closed. Are you serious? So what is the thing that. Well, most places. And then you all just keep moving to the bar that's open till two. Then you'll move to the one and three. And then if you have to keep going, you just do a nightclub or something like that.

00;13;58;18 - 00;14;20;07
Unknown
Okay. But what we really do like in Melbourne, the culture isn't really about like being in bars all night. It's it's the house party. All the house party. Yeah. There. Our house parties are massive and for some reason, like, neighbors don't complain. They just sort of let it happen. The like, it's like, you know, if you throw a house party once every 3 or 4 months, the neighbors just sort of let it slide.

00;14;20;07 - 00;14;36;28
Unknown
Even though, like, these parties are huge, you know, there's 102 hundred people in this house because we all have big houses. And, contribution to the lounge room will be like the jam session, you know, there'll be like, drums in the corner and then a bunch of keyboards and guitars. And because, you know, everyone in Melbourne, there's just musicians everywhere, hambre.

00;14;37;03 - 00;14;59;12
Unknown
And that'll go to like five, six, seven and sometimes it'll go for like two days bro. So we like I think that sort of came from like bars being like closed early and like pints of beer costing like now $15. That's like €10 a pint. It okay, €10 for €11 for a pint of beer. That's in a country that's meant to be like the beer drinking chill.

00;14;59;12 - 00;15;17;27
Unknown
That's a lot. You know what I mean? Yeah. Damn. Okay, so because Australia is expensive to travel to and I hear also Australia is like expensive and it's expensive, man. Yeah. So I mean damn because I've been thinking about traveling there. I mean why not. It's like closer I think it's from Europe today is closer than it is from America or United States to

00;15;17;29 - 00;15;37;09
Unknown
Oh yeah, I'm assuming so I don't know. Oh, okay. I'm going based on my, eighth grade and a half. Yeah. Yeah, I have two. Right. Yeah. So if I had the wrong map even. Right? Yes. Americans and Australians have bad geography because I bet you were just taught American geography, right? Yeah. I bet you'd be pretty good at saying which states are where in the country.

00;15;37;09 - 00;15;54;00
Unknown
Oh, no you don't. I did, because I had I used to have a puzzle about the, you know, the 50 states. So they got a 51 or 52 state. Yeah. So yeah. Exactly. Australia too, you know, like, you know, our map was like Australia, right? That was kind of our geography. Yeah. I mean, Americans get the same sort of education, right?

00;15;54;03 - 00;16;11;10
Unknown
We were just told, you know, like, here is Australia and the world is north. Just go north, go north. You find the world or that, or we knew the European countries based on the wars that we're a part of. That's kind of like the thing. So yeah. Oh, you know Germany. Yeah. Because of World War Two or France or UK.

00;16;11;11 - 00;16;27;27
Unknown
Yeah. You know, and then Africa, you know obviously I'm African too. So like I know that part. But then otherwise like Europe and all the small intricacies, it's just like, I know the name, but I don't know where it's at. Yeah. So it's like little, like a cluster of all these tiny little lines and stuff like that.

00;16;27;27 - 00;16;41;25
Unknown
I was just like, who's going to. Yeah, North Macedonia all right. You know what? Is there a South one? No. Hi. Home. Thank you for the trick question. Yeah there is one. Yeah. True. All right. You're right. Is it north? Is it you know Greece. This dad is a Balkans. And it's, you know, you know, there's so many.

00;16;41;29 - 00;17;00;03
Unknown
I love it, man. I love living in Europe because it's like, you know, I can get on a bus and go to another country, bro. So how long have you been in Europe? But, like, how long have you been in, like, just living in Europe? I think it's like eight years now. Nice, bro. And like. So Germany. What was the first country you moved to like?

00;17;00;05 - 00;17;21;04
Unknown
Okay. So, I was in Melbourne and I was, I was in a, you know, lots of bands. I was always in bands. And then, I sort of started, started this like nine piece rock bands, like, you know, nine musicians. It was huge, man. And we sort of got signed to this, English, label.

00;17;21;06 - 00;17;43;06
Unknown
Nice. And so they sent us over from so originally to England. Right. So we went to England and we finished recording our album. And so they wanted us to be sort of England based. And that was sort of the idea. So then they were just booking us all these sort of club shows in like London and a lot of like little like festivals in the southwest of England, you know, and they were cool, like nice little sort of in England.

00;17;43;06 - 00;18;07;11
Unknown
They've just got these like music festivals, but they're like village festivals, you know what I mean? Like just like a couple of thousand maximum, you know, but like, you know, they'll have like carousels and all sort of like Circus Fest stuff, but then they'll have bands playing and they'll have like cover band tribute acts, a little tribute acts, and then like, you know, it was just a really sort of like a, yeah, like a fete almost in a big phase.

00;18;07;13 - 00;18;22;29
Unknown
Yeah. We were doing this sort of circuit for a while, and, we make, you know, a little bit of money. And then we were then we were doing these London shows like, well, you know, these sort of city shows. And even though, like, people would come to the shows, you just can't make money in London, you know what I mean?

00;18;22;29 - 00;18;42;23
Unknown
Like, you know what it costs like, to feed and like, accommodate nine musicians. Oh, that's a lot. You can't make money off split nine ways. That's insane. Yeah. That's crazy. So eventually we sort of like, we branched out to, Europe. We just want to like to Europe because, you know, it was cheaper. And, you know, we, crowdfunded like a van.

00;18;42;23 - 00;19;02;02
Unknown
We had, like a 15 seater, like minibus. Oh, several. And we just, like, drove around Europe for like two and a half years, pretty much constantly on the road, bro. You guys stories for a day? Yeah. Dude, I honestly, man, I gonna I'm gonna have to, like, write a book at some point. You have to, 15 seater van throughout Europe and.

00;19;02;02 - 00;19;22;16
Unknown
Yeah. Y'all musicians. Yeah. And, man, like, we like our first, Yeah. I don't even know what to share or not. And what's a PG 13 one you can share to be like, wow. What was one of the. You was like, man, we're really on a van traveling in Europe. I was one moment he was like, damn, Jesus Christ.

00;19;22;18 - 00;19;37;14
Unknown
Well, we had we had a, when when we started, when we were, you know, star driver, we had like, a driver, we had like a sort of two manager driver. That was like the first part of the show, tour. Then we went back to England for a little bit to do some sort of show or something.

00;19;37;14 - 00;19;54;14
Unknown
Then we went back to Berlin and we were waiting for him to arrive in Berlin. He never arrived in Berlin. He, got arrested in England and he spent like two years in prison. I can't even say what he did. I just told this tour manager it was. He wasn't like we didn't know him well enough. We trusted him.

00;19;54;14 - 00;20;13;10
Unknown
But. Yeah, we didn't know him, apparently. Yeah. So then that man that we just had to drive the van, even though it was like an English thing. And so none of us had the right insurance or license or anything like that. Just a bunch of Australians. We just drove around in, Europe illegally for two and a half years.

00;20;13;12 - 00;20;32;10
Unknown
Oh, I would say. Yeah, I would say the worst. I mean, I mean, I got arrested very briefly, but all the charges were dropped, so that was fun. Apparently in Germany, you can drive under the influence of a little bit of cocaine. Apparently, if it's just a little bit, it's okay. He's serious, but not drinking.

00;20;32;11 - 00;20;52;25
Unknown
Yeah. And it's, I don't know. Yeah. Anyway, let's not get into that, that story. Okay. So, so, we, you know, eventually, Berlin just became sort of this home base because the base at the time had been here before, and he sort of knew the ropes, you know, so we sort of followed his lead a bit.

00;20;52;27 - 00;21;18;01
Unknown
And, we also have found, like, cheap little like, you know, little rooms here and there, you know, sort of, you know, places to say, honestly, I spent the first year of Berlin just like hopping from hostel to hostel. Oh, shit. You know, I mean, I'll just, like, get three nights here in this hostel until, like, it would be booked up, and then I would just have to find another one that's like, oh, you know, slept a couple of nights in, like, a park, you know, in the first summer I was here, it was just like, because we didn't know we were living here.

00;21;18;01 - 00;21;35;07
Unknown
We were just like here for right now, you know, some the band were like, sleeping in the van. Someone sleeping in the park, someone sleeping if they could find hostels or, you know, the bass player found like a, you know, a, an apartment to rent for the month because he knew he'd been here before, you know?

00;21;35;10 - 00;21;51;05
Unknown
So then we were just like, you know, so sick of doing all these London shows, losing money. And then we were just like, we just with all the money we had, we went and bought a bunch of, like, battery powered speakers and stuff like that. And so we started, like, busking in parks in Berlin. Nice, bro.

00;21;51;07 - 00;22;04;27
Unknown
Just to like, build fan base and, just actually make some money for once, you know? Yeah. So we started playing these little parks and we were like, you know, we made like 200 bucks the first day, like, oh, shit. You know, it's like everyone's walking. Everyone's like, actually going to eat some hot food tonight, you know? Yeah.

00;22;04;28 - 00;22;24;02
Unknown
Then we went here with there and then we found a park on Sundays. Oh, shit. And like. And this is like, 27 teen or something like that. So it's like Mal Park was like on Sundays was a music festival. Like, it was just like bands everywhere. And we turned up and we were just like the biggest. There was nine of us, you know, the biggest, loudest thing in the park, you know?

00;22;24;02 - 00;22;46;29
Unknown
So, the whole park just sort of gathered around us, like they have that karaoke thing that happens on the beach. Yeah. Comedy. We would we would be like sort of next to it. And like, a lot of people would leave the karaoke and just sort of join us and like, we would fight until like 1000 to 2000 people at Mal Park every Sunday, like by the end of our gig and we were making, like €1,000 to to €2,000 every Sunday.

00;22;46;29 - 00;23;04;10
Unknown
Wow. So we've gone from like losing 60 pounds a show in London to like, actually like being able to like, pay ourselves and live off busking bro in Berlin. So like we just wanted to stay in Berlin. Our management started to get angry at us, like you need to come back, we need to we need to build your London.

00;23;04;10 - 00;23;29;24
Unknown
Yeah. So I can get some piece off of that. Right? And we were like, we don't want to do that. Like they just didn't understand that we'd actually figured out something bigger like our our social media was growing. Everything was working. We were in Berlin, but obviously it was a nine piece band. And so like eventually the band split up, even though, of course, I'm assuming, well, like too many musicians were like, you know, cocaine is so expensive in Australia, it's like 300 and $400 a gram.

00;23;30;01 - 00;23;53;08
Unknown
Whereas in Berlin you know, it's €50, you know, so people were going insane, people going crazy. People lost their minds with it, man. You lose. You know, a couple of them in particular, you know, pivotal members, I dabbled. I thought I always had a healthy relationship with drugs. Yeah, but some of them did not. And so then, you know, people are fighting and people are poor, and, you know, people are like, literally just, like, coming down of drugs all the time.

00;23;53;08 - 00;24;13;15
Unknown
And there's nine personalities in a band, you know, like, you know, everyone hates each other. Now we have to drive ten hours to Switzerland, you know? Oh, yeah. No, no, no, that's not good. That is not good. Yeah. And if you people coming down to that's even worse. Yeah. So eventually, inevitably, the band split up and most of the musicians went back to Australia, maybe like 6 or 7.

00;24;13;18 - 00;24;28;03
Unknown
Yeah. And, I stayed in Berlin because I was like, I love it here. And, I just, I was just sort of. I left Australia for a reason. I was just a bit over it. And, so there's this trying to figure out what to do next, like start a new band or like, so I'm just sort of, like, bumming around naked.

00;24;28;04 - 00;24;52;25
Unknown
And I saw this, like, open mic comedy show, and I was like, man, I've always wanted to do that, you know? Oh, so I went in and saw like, who was people you would soon know. I can't remember now, but like, it was like in this tiny little basement, there might have been seven audience members and, like, you know, I saw, like, six comedians get up there and they bombed so hard, it was just like, oh, it was so fucking brutal to watch.

00;24;52;27 - 00;25;18;15
Unknown
And I and but it gave me so much hope. I say, I'm going to come back to this show next week. I'm gonna talk to the host now. I'll be like, can I do my first show next week? So my goal was to just not be the worst comedian of the lineup. I mean, I'm like, if I can just come in second place, if I can, like, beat someone, like, I'm going to consider that, encouraging and maybe I'm going to try this comedy thing from absolute scratch, you know?

00;25;18;17 - 00;25;38;24
Unknown
So I came back the next week. I sort of had these, you know, what I thought were jokes at the time. And I went the next week and I bombed the hardest. I've oh hard man origin story. There you go. So the, the host who brought me up, do you know, he might be a little bit before your time, you know, Perry, the Scottish guy.

00;25;38;27 - 00;25;57;04
Unknown
Harry, it's just before your time. Perry's, Yeah, he was Scottish. And, where is he now? He's sort of. I don't know, he sort of does it occasionally. Now. He's not, you know, he's okay. Yeah. Yeah. He was he was doing it years before also, he how he brought me up. He's like, he's, you know, he goes, so what's your name again?

00;25;57;04 - 00;26;10;18
Unknown
I'm like, oh, I'm Dave Adams. And he goes, oh, and where are you from? And I said, I'm from Australia. He goes, all right. So he walks on stage. He gets all right, all right. Up next, Big Dave. And I'm like, all right. So this is calling me big day. So I'm like, it's my first time in comedy.

00;26;10;18 - 00;26;26;04
Unknown
I have to walk up as big day. Yeah, right. But then he walks out. He comes, he he says, up next, Big Dave, he's a racist. Give it up for Big Dave, everyone, because I'm Australian, like you. This is Scottish. People just say, you know, like, you know, I have to make fun of everyone. It's like Australians are racist.

00;26;26;04 - 00;26;44;00
Unknown
So. So that's my first time ever doing comedy. The host is all right. Up next, Big Dave, he's a racist. Okay, look, so you didn't bomb. Actually, it's just a series of circumstances that was out of your control of that. All right. Oh, okay. You. If you own it, you own it. But that is wild. If someone brought me up as big Dave, he's a racist.

00;26;44;00 - 00;27;01;12
Unknown
Now. I would totally know how to handle that. Right? You know what I mean? Like, it would be fine. But then in that moment, I mean, you know, I grab the microphone of my. Here we go. All right. First time I'm shitting myself. Right? The first time. It's so scary. Oh, it's like it's a firing squad, you know?

00;27;01;14 - 00;27;15;23
Unknown
And I look at these, like, eight people and they've all like, cross. There are like, they. They already hate you coming in. I don't know if he had long hair at the time, but you got the accent. So it's just all lining up. You'd be like, oh okay. So like an openly racist comedian. Yeah. Let's see what you have.

00;27;15;23 - 00;27;37;13
Unknown
Yeah. Like we hate you already. Yeah. So it was, it was kind of good that like, the first time was so brutal because I like I walked out of there and I was just like, that's the most brutal experience. My, like, you know, performing life, you know, like, I've just never experienced such, like, shock on stage publicly, you know, because, like, this is a thing, right?

00;27;37;13 - 00;27;52;10
Unknown
Especially as a stand up comedian. We always envy musicians because you guys can just, you know, I mean, if you're a talented musician, you guys can sing. And most people have respect for that. There's no back and forth talking or whatever. Whereas stand up comedy, if you bomb this in this, it's it's all your fault. Yeah, yeah. You have nine people to play.

00;27;52;11 - 00;28;10;20
Unknown
You have eight people to blame it on. And a sound guy. Oh yeah. Right. Yeah. I can fuck you. Fuck this sound guy. That's what my voice is. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, totally, man. But I just sort of thought the power of, like, that sort of moment is like, how bad that comedy experience could have made me feel.

00;28;10;20 - 00;28;30;23
Unknown
I just. But I just loved it. I was just like, there's so much at stake here, you know? Like, this is like huge. What what comedy is, is so huge. Like, you know, when and I like and I just wanted to get it right, you know, like the, you know, I've learned an instrument before and I know what that process is to like learn something from beginning and how it feels, recognizing when you're getting better at it.

00;28;30;24 - 00;28;43;13
Unknown
I was like, yeah, I'm going to do this, man. I'm like, I couldn't be in a band anymore. I was so done with bands after nine people. I mean, yeah, after like 40 bands, you know what I mean? Like, you can do a lot of different bands, like in bands since I was 15 years old, you know? Wow.

00;28;43;13 - 00;28;59;28
Unknown
I've been in bands for 20 years now. Oh, damn. Okay. Because, yeah, I mean, you know, I mean, you you're you're very talented. You sing, you can play piano. I think you play other instruments too, right? Yeah. I mean, you know what? Well, you know, as a composer, you sort of play a little bit of everything. I play a bit of bass, but a guitar, a little bit of trumpet and.

00;29;00;02 - 00;29;14;21
Unknown
Damn, bro, do you play anything? Nah, I mean drums, you know, but not the one, you know, you got the djembe. So the djembe, actually, I'm confident enough to some. I say let's do something. I can bring that out and like, I can join. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I won't fuck up everything, you know what I mean?

00;29;14;21 - 00;29;35;02
Unknown
But like any other, like the drums with the sticks like, I'm. I'm good enough for you to feel comfortable in. If you would have wanted this to progress further. But then I will probably fail at that progression. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So you could jam like. Yeah. If there's a, if there's a Sunday church service, I would be able to hold the line.

00;29;35;09 - 00;29;54;22
Unknown
Okay. But if somebody really get into some like, you know, some like, you know, getting Holy Ghost or whatever, I can hyena. It's like great. You have the Holy Ghost. Well, you just you just have that in that space. I can't heighten it from there because I ain't got the skills. Right. Okay. Yeah. That has happened to me before where I was, you know, basically, I had to play for this, this church.

00;29;54;24 - 00;30;13;26
Unknown
I was on a Sunday and my friend was like, oh, man, you should do it. I can't do it. So just feeling for me, I was like, hey, I don't want to do that, do that, do that, do that, that. You know, I could do like a simple join. That's a bit. Yeah. So but you know, in church, especially with those like a black church, black Baptist church, that that's unacceptable, that right there it's like great woo like that.

00;30;13;26 - 00;30;28;27
Unknown
But that's the start. We want this shit to be like you killing it on the drums. Everything. Yeah. So I'm in there I'm talking to my people. You know they begin to be clear that I'm ready now for me, I'm like, this is. This is my peak. You you're baseline is my peak. Yeah. So I'm trying to play.

00;30;28;27 - 00;30;47;14
Unknown
There's a younger guy on the keyboard. He's a young dude. He's trying to give me instructions. He's doing, like, these hand signals and stuff like that. That I guess if you play in a church, you know. But I don't know. Yeah. Church bands have their own signals. Yeah. With the hand open. Yeah. Yeah, I didn't know. So this dude's doing, like, this thing, like, you know, I'm like, what are you doing?

00;30;47;14 - 00;31;01;22
Unknown
He's. He's killing me with one hand as you give me his hand signal. So I'm like, what is happening? He wants me to stop. I'm stopping. People are like, yeah, what? Why stop my. What do you want me to do? Was so kind of rehearsed. I just kind of came in, but, like, what? Why did you get that opportunity?

00;31;01;22 - 00;31;20;07
Unknown
Like, what was the, I think, you know, I was a friend of my friend or whatever. Yeah. You know, maybe I was the. Because the if you have, if you have a drummer that plays well, you're in demand. So if you. Yeah. So I'm just like the, the eighth string, the drummer that can be found in that radius.

00;31;20;09 - 00;31;37;17
Unknown
And I was like, oh, I can get $50. Yeah. Let me try it out. But yeah, I was. So you got paid you first time I got paid. But bro, my soul was spent, because I was snapping people in and out of the Holy Ghost by stopping the music. I never seen that happen where people like, oh, you know what?

00;31;37;19 - 00;31;56;28
Unknown
Like this. Somebody catch the Holy Ghost and lose it, then get it back three times in a church service. That's that will stay in your mind. That's like, Yeah, that's that's a lot of pressure for you. Let's lower responsibility. That was, spiritual edging. Yeah. I still I still need to go to church and repent for those since, there's people that have,

00;31;57;01 - 00;32;18;17
Unknown
That's great. Yeah, there's some prayers lost in that. Service. I'll play the drums wrong. So are you religious now or what's your religion? Yeah. Yeah, I'm. I'm religious. I'm religious in that I have fear of like hell and have belief of heaven, but not so much as to where I'm basing everything on, like religion, if that makes any sense.

00;32;18;18 - 00;32;34;29
Unknown
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, like, I guess. Yeah. Religious. Yeah. But like, I don't know, I guess when somebody says religious, there's like a deeper throughline with that. Do you, do you go to church now or anything? Not really. I mean, like going to go visit my mom, like we went to church, so, like. Yeah. So family. Yeah, I, I think I don't yeah.

00;32;35;02 - 00;32;57;14
Unknown
Like, I won't say no because of the fear and the beliefs and stuff. So I'm like, if someone's like, let's go to church. I'm like, yeah, let's, let's, let's go, let's yeah. You know, I would rather take a nap, but let's go. Yeah, yeah. I mean, how about you, I, I dabble, you know, I spent like, all my 20s being like, atheist because that was like, that was really in at the time.

00;32;57;14 - 00;33;26;17
Unknown
Yeah. Using my purse has been a use. Having fun using it, you know? Yeah, whatever. Cedar van. It's the devil's rock and roll. But. So there couldn't the devil couldn't be real. Yeah. No, but just like, you know, I don't know, in the. Yeah. Ten years ago, atheism was huge, you know. No, you know, I think, like, what's funny about atheism is, you know, atheists be like saying there's no God like, you know, and like, religious people that, you know, they're always, like, trying to, like, bother you and trying to, like, you know, they're knocking on your door and they're like, tell you like, well, you know, you need to believe in this.

00;33;26;17 - 00;33;44;24
Unknown
Just like, you know, they're always complaining about religious people, like shoving their beliefs down your throat. Yeah, but I always thought that atheists were the most noisy people, you know? I mean, they're always go around talking about atheism all the time, like, yeah, would you would you stop with the atheist and, like, you know, they're more annoying, you know, like, like most Christians are pretty chill people.

00;33;44;24 - 00;34;06;24
Unknown
You know, chill, nice people. But yeah, I'm definitely not a Christian. I sort of, I sort of think there's something, but it's just like, I think I'm not nearly sophisticated enough to, like, pick which one or what it is, whatever. But I'm just sort of open to it. Like, I kind of think like whatever will happen as long as I'm like, whether it God or not, I just, I just try to be a decent Reisen, you know, it's like for insurance, right.

00;34;06;24 - 00;34;20;27
Unknown
Because halal sounds very hot. Right. So let me at least for insurance. I don't want to find out on the back end, as my soul is leaving my body and floating somewhere that I. Oh shit, there is a fog and I this whole time I thought it wasn't and then I was. But I can't go back, you know?

00;34;20;27 - 00;34;41;11
Unknown
I mean, so it's just like, hey, look, let me help the old lady go up the stairs there, you know, go ahead and go to church once in a while, you know, just to cover the bases. Yeah. And then, you know, I'll go ahead and, take naps all the rest of the Sundays. Yeah, but it's a but if you like, I don't know, let's say I do end up in hell because, like, you know, apparently you were meant to be a vegetarian all along, let's say, or something like that.

00;34;41;14 - 00;35;03;23
Unknown
You you missed one like, oh, of course, I mean, yeah, it makes sense now. Yeah. The cows are holy. Oh, you were slaughtering the animals and taking their lives and eating it for, you know. All right. Like, yeah, that does, Hindu in Hinduism do have a point. Hindus. Yeah. Fair enough. So, like, maybe there are a bunch of, like, fairly reasonable people in hell, you know?

00;35;03;23 - 00;35;23;21
Unknown
I mean, like, maybe like hell is kind of just like, you know, shitty neighborhood or something. You know, maybe it's because it's not as fiery, you know, it's somewhere like, know, I don't know, far out somewhere inventing or something. Yeah. I mean, yeah, some, some like extreme ghetto sort of thing and like, you know, there's, you know, the living conditions of poor, but like, the music's really good.

00;35;23;24 - 00;35;38;06
Unknown
Go. You know, the roaches are bigger. Yeah. But like the rats, they're right, you know, the rats talk to you. Yeah. You know, they got talking rats. That's that's scary. Right? You could, like, get around. Maybe. You know what I mean? Like, kind of make make the most of. Hell. Yeah. There you go. You have you have rats.

00;35;38;06 - 00;36;00;27
Unknown
Have roommates in hell. Yeah. I mean, because who are all these, like, what are these devils that like, so, like, insistent on, like, just torturing you all day, every day, like, you know, they're going to get sick of that at some point. They'd be like, oh, I just take the day. Yeah. You know, I mean, maybe what you're hoping for a best is like, if a devil in hell is going to do that, they maybe it's that that's just their kink that's being placed in a job that they have to do in hell.

00;36;01;00 - 00;36;20;01
Unknown
Yeah. So it's not all the time it is I think they would like to do, but not all the time. And maybe there's some judgment thing that they do have on Earth as they do in hell. Maybe, and like best case, get that job like they were they people. And then they got sort of like you climb up the ladder in hell, like you eventually get to hold the whip or something, probably.

00;36;20;01 - 00;36;35;07
Unknown
Or it could be like, I don't know. I've, I've got maybe a, like, a commune type of thing or communist thing where it's like, okay, you're you're the guy with strong biceps. So you're going to be this person that's going to put a spike up. Somebody act just like that, right? Yeah. You know, or hey, you good with words?

00;36;35;07 - 00;36;50;18
Unknown
How about you make some I go insane by talking about weird abstract things or something, or hey, you have a strong foot. Kicks my ass, you know? Yeah. So they kind of go based on those, like, type of, you know, attributes you have as a person or on your past, like, oh, this guy's a football player. What?

00;36;50;18 - 00;37;04;22
Unknown
He's going to put a foot on some ice ass. He's going to do that. Oh, this guy's a stockbroker. Oh, okay. He's going to rip somebody off for eternity. They're going to make money. And then he going to tell them to bet on some, you know, price picks or some type of betting service. And then he going to lose all his money perpetually forever.

00;37;04;24 - 00;37;27;00
Unknown
Doesn't sound too bad. I mean, yeah, I can see why people are atheists. That's, maybe like reincarnation. That's fun. That's a cool idea. Yeah, it could be that, too. What would you like to be reincarnated as? Oh, like not a human. You mean like if, let's start with non-human and then we'll go to him? As a non.

00;37;27;06 - 00;37;48;27
Unknown
Well, I would want to be like, probably something that flies, right? Okay. I'd love to fly that fly by the power of flight took my like, eagle a pigeon like. Yeah. Like some big bird that lives really long and flies and nothing else. Tries to fall casually. No. That casually. That's that one. Yeah. That's like, the biggest bird in Australia, a cassowary.

00;37;48;28 - 00;38;11;21
Unknown
Oh, yeah. Is that how it's. I don't know how you say that was my birds. Yeah. Yeah. The biggest possible flying bird plays. Okay. So. Okay. Eagle, you got eagle, you got two. Now, Raven is not that big. Was what it was. Eagles. You got the Mongolian eagles that be like, snatched up by actual sheep or, like, don't you know, big, like, you know, deers and stuff?

00;38;11;21 - 00;38;30;16
Unknown
There's these. See? Where are they from? This is really big birds that are like, you know, like freaking. Oh, like two meters long dead in the water. They're huge. They they go into the water and stuff and dive in. I think I would take that too. Yeah. For that. Yeah. A, a big flying bird. They can also do the water as well.

00;38;30;16 - 00;38;51;01
Unknown
Right. Looked at in, I forgot the name of that. Yeah. No one knows the name of that. Yeah. Let's, put it there. Yeah, put it at the bottom. I make sure to, you know, bookmark that. What animal are you going for? Oh, man. Okay. An animal that would wants. Man. I don't know, man.

00;38;51;01 - 00;39;08;07
Unknown
Because animals, the way they the way they live. Like, I just wouldn't want to die in a certain way, you know? I mean, that's. We all go back to death, right? I don't want to be a cow because, you know, somebody might wrangle you up and not. And, meat processing plant. Yeah. You know, look at the two tortoises that live to, like, 150 years old or something.

00;39;08;07 - 00;39;32;03
Unknown
Yeah, but you see the tortoises, they eat eventually, they eventually end up in captivity, I feel like, because every time I see a tortoise, it's like a wild tortoise. But do you. You always in danger. And you used to slow to escape it. So. So are you always going to be in some captivity? In a best case. So I the most oldest Galapagos turtle is in captivity to some degree, right I see, yeah.

00;39;32;05 - 00;39;49;21
Unknown
And then even the way do you if you're not in captivity, eventually somebody's gonna just knock the shell off with a blunt object and just cook you in your own shell for soup. Right. That's a worst way to go, right? Yeah. It sucks. Yeah. You're on your back and your insides a scooped out is cooking your innards. Yeah.

00;39;49;24 - 00;40;08;18
Unknown
So somebody's got a spoon. Just just whisking away into your innards. Yeah, that is fucked. Yeah. He's like, oh my God, I'm dying on my back. This is whack. Yeah. Is there? And you're like, oh what? What? I'm going to come back as next. Right now you got to contemplate as somebody stirring in like, you know, spend eight life spans of soup, you know.

00;40;08;20 - 00;40;26;13
Unknown
Yeah. Just soup. Soup love unseasoned soup at that too. Right. You know, even worse than being cooked as unseasoned soup in your own shell. Okay, so don't be the tortoise. Okay? So no tortoise. All right. So I would like to be. Damn. Yo, it is hard. Yeah. Not a dog. I was thinking of a dog, but a dog.

00;40;26;13 - 00;40;49;09
Unknown
You know, I don't know dogs. It seems you never know where you're going to spawn. Yeah. I don't want to fetch. Yeah, yeah. If I, if I'm, I'm assuming I still have my mental, my mental awareness from before. Maybe a little bit, let me say 20% and something about fetching. I would be a bad dog. And again, I'll probably put into a kennel or whatever dog thing or whatever.

00;40;49;09 - 00;41;11;00
Unknown
I'll probably be put down. So have you ever been to like, Southeast Asia or anywhere? I haven't, so like, let's say like, Indonesia. Right. So there, this is like, there's wild dogs all over the streets, you know, it's just dogs everywhere. And some of them look pretty rough, you know, because it just sort of like they're wild, you know, and they death.

00;41;11;02 - 00;41;28;27
Unknown
And so I was I was asking, like, you know, an Indonesian friend while I was there, I was like, so do these dogs, like, belong to anyone or have any sort of system at all? Yeah. And he like, they, they always spin it like in Bali especially like they spin everything really positive. And he goes, no, David in, in Bali, dogs are free.

00;41;28;29 - 00;41;48;02
Unknown
Like no dogs are. Yeah. Wild and homeless. Yeah. This freedom has a cause. Apparently. You see it. Yeah. Cause and then, like, I see someone, you know, like walking the dog. Like an actual, like, pet dog, in Bali as well. And this dog was wearing a diaper, you know, I mean, like, you know, it had a dog diaper.

00;41;48;06 - 00;42;07;05
Unknown
One thing because, it was like the dog was like a lady dog. The dog was a heat. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Exactly. But it was like, isn't it funny? Like, you know, they considered these dogs free, and, this dog kind of technically like slave dog, you know, just like they're in a diaper. Like diaper. Just, you know, wagging a tail through or something like that.

00;42;07;05 - 00;42;31;28
Unknown
It's a funny onesie. So no dogs. Oh, this is no dog. All right, so I got I got to pick one. I got to pick one. I would, I would be a maybe a penguin or. Okay. Yeah. Cold. It's cold, but you, you know, you you you you kind of waddling around, you know, you kind of live, you know, you eventually get put on a Pixar movie, you get, you know, exemplified people like you, right?

00;42;31;28 - 00;42;45;25
Unknown
Yeah. Okay. There's no you never you never going to get canceled as a penguin, you know? Yeah, yeah, yeah. If you're a cheetah, I mean, you going, wow. You know, that's so different to Penguin. Yeah. I'm just saying, you gonna need a PR department if you want to be a cheetah. I mean, yeah, boy. Cheetah fast, man. You know?

00;42;45;26 - 00;43;03;23
Unknown
Yes. And like. Yeah, you're in the sun. He's. He's sleeping around all day. That's a good one, man. Dude, can I talk you out of Penguin? Okay, okay. Let's talk. Talk me out of this. Okay. Let's. You're sitting there in the fucking cold. Yeah. And you just sitting there sitting on an egg all day, like, fucking. You can't even, like, walk.

00;43;03;23 - 00;43;18;18
Unknown
I mean, you say one thing, but that's just, like, struggling to walk on ice. Yeah. That's true. I'm sure that would walk better if it wasn't just like what they were walking. You have to walk like that to not fall over or fall over all the time. Do you even have legs? Which is feet, like, got like little?

00;43;18;20 - 00;43;32;19
Unknown
Yeah. Because I don't always see the feet attached to the body, but I don't see the legs. Yeah. The the make up of them is ridiculous. You never be comfortable man. And then like, you know, they get eaten by like, you know, sea lions come up out of the thing on you, you pray and everything. It's fucking called.

00;43;32;23 - 00;43;50;17
Unknown
You got to sit on an egg all day. It's prey you can't even walk is slippery. Okay. Pick again. Man. Okay, I wrong, wrong answer. Okay. Sorry, man. I can't let you because then you said Cheetos. Like. Yes. That's more. Okay. I will be a leopard. Yeah. There you go. There you go. That's more like, okay, I will be a leopard.

00;43;50;17 - 00;44;03;17
Unknown
Thank you for talking me out of it. You. You didn't. I knew you didn't really mean it. Wow. Are you okay? Thank you very much. Because, boy, to judge me on this podcast is going to be strong. Going for it. You go by this piece of shit, Penguin. Are you serious? Yeah. Okay. Do better in your life as well.

00;44;03;22 - 00;44;19;00
Unknown
Yeah, like I would love to be. Yeah. If I wasn't flying. I would like to be really quick on the ground, too. It's the thing with our hands. Because, you know, like the not having hands part, like, have you ever wanted to, I don't know, yeah. Like your feet. But yeah. When there's no animals with hands are there.

00;44;19;00 - 00;44;40;10
Unknown
Oh you, you can sort of cheat and be like whatever. Like the most dexterous like chimpanzee or. Yeah. You know bonobos now bonobos are dangerous right. Oh well one of those like breeds are like very because the thing is some of these, some of these like the chimp, not chimpanzees, but like that whole animal that, that, I don't know, mammal type or whatever they go to war to.

00;44;40;12 - 00;44;58;14
Unknown
Oh yeah. Yeah, I heard, I heard that they be having wars right. Or something. I don't know, like I heard something like that, like, are you just thinking of planet of the apes? You know, good movie. Good movie. I should watch it. Yeah. I mean, they got 20 of them. So have you. You haven't seen this new movie?

00;44;58;16 - 00;45;22;18
Unknown
I think it's already gone now. It's like the Rob Robbie Williams like, like biopic. But you know, Robbie Williams, the singer. Yeah, yeah. But instead of a person, it's like an animated monkey. They use an animated monkey to be Robbie Williams, and they do his whole sort of life and career. But he's an animated monkey, and apparently no one in the whole film ever like mentions that it's why Animated Monkey did.

00;45;22;19 - 00;45;35;25
Unknown
No one went and saw it. I didn't go and see it. I wanted to see this movie, but I couldn't get anyone to go with me. And now I don't think it's there anymore. That's what. No. You never. You didn't even hear about it today. Oh, I did nine. Isn't that crazy? Because, like, Robbie Williams is very famous or.

00;45;35;26 - 00;45;53;06
Unknown
Yeah, he was like ten, 20 years ago. And then they. Why they recreate him as a that's they just that's what they went for. They were just like really because we did the Robbie Williams movie, but you're a monkey instead. Wow. The way people get money to do things, it's like, how did he do it? Right? Because like, I mean, imagine that.

00;45;53;06 - 00;46;11;24
Unknown
Did somebody pitch that? And I mean, first of all, it's like why we're spending this much money on, like, I want to have a real person. Yeah, yeah. Wow. I guess they just asked him, like, you know, if you could be an animal. And he was like, monkey. He just said it straight away. Wow. I wonder if you got a lot of money on the back end for saving money.

00;46;11;24 - 00;46;39;12
Unknown
I don't know, that's crazy. Yeah I wonder yeah, it comes back to monkey. Monkey money. Yeah, it's kind of crazy fam. So. Okay, so also so you do you do, you do, music. You also do stand up and stuff. Then you mentioned like how you started in standup. One thing I always ask about, I feel like it's not important, but as always, interesting I would say, is when somebody comes to a city at a time before now, if that makes any sense.

00;46;39;12 - 00;47;02;20
Unknown
Like a period of time. Right? Like so. You know, Leslie Berlin, for example. Berlin. Most people have this, right, this period of time in Berlin where like it was like, oh my God, like the Berlin at this time was this. It was that. It was a lot of music to what you're saying, in 2006, was a 17 when you got here right around that time when you came here, you know, Mauer Park and all these other things that were going on.

00;47;02;22 - 00;47;16;13
Unknown
What were some of the other things you you notice around that time that was like so different. And it was now like in Berlin pool. What's changed in Berlin in the last eight years?

00;47;16;15 - 00;47;35;18
Unknown
The when it was seven, eight years ago, what I noticed about Berlin was like how, you know, history is still I mean, you know, I'm from Australia, so, like, we don't have history really, you know, I mean, the country's the country's 100 years old sort of thing, you know, I mean, there's nothing, you know? So what I noticed about Berlin was just like Europe in general, like this.

00;47;35;18 - 00;47;51;00
Unknown
This place is just, you know, really rich with history, especially Berlin, you know, and like, you know, it's like, well, like the still parts of the the wall is still there. Jesus. You know what I mean? Like, it's all really here, you know, it's like you can see it and feel it. That was the first thing I noticed.

00;47;51;00 - 00;48;10;09
Unknown
It was it was just like, this place is old and shit has gone down here, you know? Yeah. I thought that was really cool. You know, like, you know, in Australia everything was like, you know, you look at buildings built, you know, 20 years ago, 30 years ago, you know, I mean, you never really see, like, something, you know, that was, that was, that was one thing.

00;48;10;11 - 00;48;24;03
Unknown
Another thing was, I mean, it doesn't sound like a huge deal. The price of things seven, eight years ago, everything was so cheap, I couldn't I couldn't believe it. You know what I mean? Like, you know, I like to drink beer, you know, and so, like, you know, I've just not. I've noticed beer prices over eight years.

00;48;24;03 - 00;48;40;04
Unknown
You know, I used to I used to buy, you know, a bottle of beer and used to cost like $0.90 a euro. And now it's kind of like two years a beer has doubled. That's a bit of a shame, but that's. But basically what I would say is that eight years ago, Berlin was like a really, really cheap city.

00;48;40;04 - 00;49;05;11
Unknown
And now it's just like a fair city, like, you know, like when you see prices of things, you never like what? That's crazy. You just like what? That's like normal. Now, things are to normal. What's going on? Yeah, I know for a capital city, like, you know, it's surprisingly down to earth. You know what I mean? Like what things cost, you know, I don't know, people complain about, like, you know what rents costs in Berlin, and it is more expensive than it used to be.

00;49;05;11 - 00;49;44;02
Unknown
I mean, that's another thing to the eight years, like, the rent is like almost doubled as well. But I just think it's it's gotten to a fair price. I mean, but it's still but we're used to, you know, it being lowered and it also depends on who you renting off. Okay, okay. Central the the biggest I think the biggest problem with Berlin, the biggest, crime that the people commit is, people who rent apartments, from, like, you know, an actual landlord, a real estate company, and sublet them for more money, like people who, you know, sublet their apartments to new people like you were new to the city and don't realize

00;49;44;04 - 00;50;07;13
Unknown
that they're paying 300 and €400 more than they should. Yeah, and they didn't even realize that they're not renting off an actual landlord, you know what I mean? Like these people who just sublet their apartments and they just live off that, like there's their extra €400 a month while they live somewhere else. Like that is the worst part about the city, because it's like, you know, it's just increased, you know, because now all new Berliners come and they see this price of rent that's like 400 bucks more.

00;50;07;13 - 00;50;38;17
Unknown
And that's just eventually slowly becoming the standard price. You know, all the actual landlords say like, oh, everyone else is charging more. It's it's like, yeah, but they're charging more because they're not even the real landlord. They're just like subletting the place to like, turn to, you know, quick profit. All right. You know, it's like I mean, I know it's illegal, but it's just like, it's hard to because some people who come here and they don't have, like, all their documents or paperwork, so are the choice is to like, go with these people who, you know, it's like, you know, and melding not possible sort of, you know, where you can't like be sort of

00;50;38;17 - 00;51;13;13
Unknown
legally living there. So like, you know, people are being ripped off when they first come here and that's like, seems like it's like not our problem. But it's just like that becomes the standard price now. Yeah. Starts to grow. And I mean, also, I think when people newly come here, they don't even know. And in comparison to other major metropolitan cities, it's like very cheap, like me coming from New York City here, even as to how high the prices have doubled or so that it's still, I mean, New York City is like crazy, like you literally need, like, another family person who's rich to, like, even exist in New York City or like, really

00;51;13;13 - 00;51;31;24
Unknown
spend majority of your income to even be in New York City. Yeah. So you come out here you like, it's nice seeing you like, oh, it's almost like a no thought you just. But then you start talking to people are you are the people that have been in Berlin for a while, then you like it. It takes a while because the first you hear you like that's not what you saw was five, 600.

00;51;31;26 - 00;51;50;07
Unknown
And when I came to Berlin eight years ago and I was like, dude, a kebab is 250, right? And then the people who were the longer they were like, yeah, but it used to be 150, you know? So it's like, doesn't matter. Whatever you got here. It used to be they used to be, used to be real.

00;51;50;07 - 00;52;11;04
Unknown
Berlin used to be a penny then. Now they just raise it up. I mean, kebabs, I mean, that was like, you know, a, direct result of the Ukraine war and gas prices, you know, from Russia making gas prices higher in Germany was the direct, like, kebabs went up by €2 like overnight, you know. Oh, I literally like all the kebab people.

00;52;11;04 - 00;52;29;27
Unknown
They had like a a like a union, like unionized. They had like a this is kind of kind of real. They had like a union meeting. They all went, guys, we're all we were all putting the prices of kebabs now like, we all have to do it. If you like, walk past like kebab shops, like in Toyko and let's say, yeah, I wonder if you notice it.

00;52;29;29 - 00;52;47;06
Unknown
A lot of, like, price signs, you know, like where they said the thing. It's like a lot of them have, you know, sticky tape, the sticky tape on prices everywhere here, you know. Yeah. Three years was always the standard price for kebab six, you know, eight years ago, even like five years ago, it was three bucks, 350 for a nice one.

00;52;47;06 - 00;53;10;27
Unknown
Yeah. And now it's like six seven, you know, like that kebabs have doubled, which is like a shame for, you know, people like me. But that happened so quickly because of, Ukraine. Well, Putin, Putin fucked the kebabs in Berlin. There you go. Yeah, he's he just knew what he's doing. He just raise it up. He's like, look, I know the German people and their kebabs and beer is really value.

00;53;11;00 - 00;53;29;16
Unknown
So let's raise the prices have really shifted gears. You like to be like beer is only gone up a little bit. And in pubs it's only going up a little bit, like Germany in general tries to keep beer cheap, which is really cool, you know, because it's a beer country, you know, they've got to keep the population, you know, it's part of their goods, part of their identity, part of their culture, you know, their beer drinking.

00;53;29;19 - 00;53;47;26
Unknown
You got the big thing, you know, Oktoberfest and everything. You know, they have like proper. Do you even have that, one thing, that law of the purity law or something that. That's right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. The it's like, but it's a good purity law in Germany has a good purity. Now it's just to be one that used to be a rule.

00;53;47;29 - 00;54;10;15
Unknown
You have it. It's called like the beard purity law. No no no no no. It's for the beer. What do we know? No, the everybody can have access to beer, you know, some more than others, but yeah. Yeah. That's funny. Is it? Yeah. It's like, for example, I could have spicy, you know, a little corner store in Berlin.

00;54;10;18 - 00;54;34;13
Unknown
Let's say you've got Euro 50 in your pocket and you're thirsty. So you go and you look at like, what's in the fridge? There's a bottle of water, like, you know, 500 mils, and that costs like a euro, €80, €92, you know, or beer costs Euro 40 or 50. Like I remember, sometimes I walk in, I'm like, oh, I can't afford water.

00;54;34;13 - 00;54;53;12
Unknown
I have to get beer. Beer. All that shit is always, I'm talking my those big like you big bottles of, like, the water, even small size water. Yeah. You see, like that and the more expensive than beer that is. That's wild. How can you not be? How can you not always be drinking beer? That's my point exactly.

00;54;53;14 - 00;55;12;25
Unknown
I, I sort of, I, you know, when I started coming, I sort of had this joke that never, never really works. But I was trying to figure out why anyone would make beer in Germany. Like. Because what the main ingredient of beer, is water. Yeah, right. So let's say you have a lot of water and you want to make beer.

00;55;12;25 - 00;55;37;08
Unknown
So what you do, you have this thing that you could sell for two years, a bottle, but instead you add a bunch of ingredients to it, add stuff to it and sell it for €1.50. Like who? Well, why would you ever make beer when you could just sell the water, right? I never understood that the joke doesn't work because I like, you know, like German, you know, like factory heckling is like, well, actually, the water is not as pure the way.

00;55;37;08 - 00;55;53;11
Unknown
Yeah, yeah. I'm like, I'm trying to trigger them more than anything. Yeah, yeah, that shouldn't work. Because people are like, why is that? And then they start like actually trying to put logic to actually like start the form argument against you. They're like, what? Why is it I'm still not can I'm still don't know why. Like it's like not as good water.

00;55;53;11 - 00;56;08;04
Unknown
I'm like are they using bad water for beer then I didn't know I don't go against the purity laws, surely. Right. And the beer is good too, so it makes it even harder to night not drink it. I think they just make it because maybe they sell more beer than water. Maybe that's it. Yeah, I still don't really know.

00;56;08;08 - 00;56;25;22
Unknown
Maybe. And I also too, I mean beer. Most societies when it comes to alcohol and stuff, that's the last thing they try to shut off because like, all right, we want this population to feel we don't we don't, you know, only beer evens out certain things. It's like you drink some beer. It's hard for you to really get angry about something.

00;56;25;24 - 00;56;45;25
Unknown
In the grand scheme of things on the small things, maybe things two levels above at best, when you're drunk or drinking beer. Yeah, but I get mad about an overall like process or something. Or bigger than you. You need like, that's when drugs come up. Maybe mushrooms, I don't know. Yeah. I'm assuming. Well, wait, being legal in Germany now, that's.

00;56;45;25 - 00;57;01;04
Unknown
Yeah, that's a huge step two man. It like. Yeah, just mellow out. Don't think about it. It's just drinking. Like, even when, they had to shut down a New York City alcohol stores was open. Yeah. No, everything was closed. You could have be in a restaurant or whatever, but the liquor store was over. Yeah, yeah.

00;57;01;05 - 00;57;17;13
Unknown
So, you know, I was like that, Yeah, yeah. Just drink it, bring down your house. And you'd be fun to talk about. Beef. Ten minutes down my throat is literally. You can sort of hear my voice, like. Like Pavlov's dog. And I mean, like like the bell is running down my throat is, like, getting dry. And also, it's like 16 degrees.

00;57;17;13 - 00;57;33;27
Unknown
As soon as I leave, I'm going to the nearest. And I'm not going to lie to you, I was like, yo, you want to get a B? I should get a beer. Yeah, I think it's literally, man, it's a beautiful day, man. It's like the first day. It's like blue skies and everything. Like, yeah, you made it. This is the time to really be out and stuff, right?

00;57;33;27 - 00;57;54;14
Unknown
Yeah, yeah. To have a good time. Yeah. So, I'm curious, right. When how did you start mixing comedy and music, man? Because, like, the way you do a bro is very smooth. Oh. Thanks, man. Yeah, he's very nice, man. Well, you know, I, I didn't want to originally, like, you know, the first five years of doing comedy, I just wanted to do stand up.

00;57;54;14 - 00;58;14;28
Unknown
Like, I didn't want to, like, do musical comedy. I hate musical comedy. I don't like to, you know, I always find it really cringe. It's my. It's my least favorite type of comedy, and it's my least favorite type of music, you know, like, they never they cause most, most, musical comedy acts are comedians who weren't very good at comedy.

00;58;14;28 - 00;58;32;08
Unknown
So they picked up, like, a ukulele and then they, like, get a couple of chords, and then they're not very good at music either. Yeah, but they these two things, they're not very good at, but they just do them together at the same time. And everyone's like, well, you're doing two things. So okay, that's good enough. You know, I just like always hated it, you know.

00;58;32;10 - 00;59;05;13
Unknown
And musical comedy songs are too long and like, you know like, you know, music, comedy songs are there's always like, a third verse or there's a bridge, and so there's too much in it. Like, for me, you know, my songs are as short as possible. I want to treat them like bits. You know, I mean, if I can get in and out in 60s, that's perfect, because once the once the audience knows what the joke is about of the song, you know, once you've sort of said the punchline, then you're just sitting around like, like taking a victory lap, you know, it's just like the joke has been told.

00;59;05;15 - 00;59;28;25
Unknown
Like, you know, if you're gonna add a third verse for voice verse, you can like get some like, some variation to it or, but essentially you've already told the joke. So it's like, let's like tell another joke now, you know, like so yeah. So I just never really liked it. So I did like just pure standup for the first five years, maybe because I wanted to learn that as its own skill.

00;59;28;25 - 00;59;44;05
Unknown
And also I just love stand up, you know what I mean? Like, yeah. So I just wanted to be able to, like, be able to survive on my own, just like as a standup comedian. And so I wanted to, you know, I want it to be booked for, like, headline spots, you know, as, like, not a musician, you know?

00;59;44;05 - 01;00;03;04
Unknown
I mean, I just, like, wanted to earn it, you know? So, like, so then once I was like, you know, headlining and closing as just a standup comedian, then I was like, all right, I'm going to put them together now and say, oh, that's dope right there. Yeah, that's actually very dope. Yeah. I just thought I should add it because I thought some people, some people like see me.

01;00;03;04 - 01;00;19;14
Unknown
They're like, yeah, but you're playing music, so you're kind of cheating, you know. No no no no no no. You good. Now you can you, you were really saying and then even the way you do like your jokes, why are you playing like when you played a keyboard and sing it. It's like good. It's it's already funny. But then you can sing good for real.

01;00;19;14 - 01;00;36;23
Unknown
So just be like, well, yeah, because I come from a thank you because I come from a musical background. I studied music, you know, I mean, I studied at my Bachelor of Jazz performance, you know, whereas most comedians like music comedians sort of just sort of pick it up. And do you know, I sort of, I sort of come from music then comedy.

01;00;36;23 - 01;00;54;26
Unknown
So that's. You don't really see that often. Yeah. Well, the nicest thing anyone, the, the nicest thing the most famous person ever said about me, I opened for, oh, my God, this when I opened for Reggie Watts a couple of months ago when he's in Berlin. Oh, shit. And like, And that was awesome, right?

01;00;55;03 - 01;01;10;23
Unknown
But then he was doing his, set, and, and he was like, hey, just quickly, I just, like, shout out, my opening act, Dave Adams. And then he, like, spoke for, like for like a minute or two. He's like, he's like, you know, I see most comedians kind of surprised most comedians, you know, they can't really play.

01;01;10;23 - 01;01;26;15
Unknown
You know, he's like Dave Adams. He can actually fucking play. I'm like, I can't believe this is happening right now. Like Reggie once it's like told the all the whole audience specific reasons about why I was awesome and I was like, this is a fucking like, I don't even think I'm here right now. Like, I'm just absolutely wild.

01;01;26;15 - 01;01;42;12
Unknown
Dude, I love that guy. He's he's a really nice guy. Nice, bro. That's fucking doe, man. That was cool. Yeah. No, no, no, I mean, you know, you definitely kill him and come to the music and everything. I'm like, damn, you know how the fuck you know? I mean, because, yeah, you you probably a tough act to really follow, man, because I, you know, you.

01;01;42;12 - 01;02;00;02
Unknown
Come on, you can really sing for real. You play your jokes are not like, you know, it's like this is a bit like an actual like. So you're like, fuck them, all right? You know, I'm I'm starting to sort of get to the point where I'm doing, you know, like my comedy sets. So sort of becoming more like gigs.

01;02;00;03 - 01;02;13;13
Unknown
It sort of feels more like a music gig, you know what I mean? Like where I'm just sort of. I'll start my set by, like, doing jokes and just sort of getting some laughs in. And so just like building some trust with the audience that I'm, you know, a comedian. Right. And then it was this sort of got him.

01;02;13;13 - 01;02;28;12
Unknown
Then it was like, sit down the piano. I'm like, now I'm just sort of doing a gig in a casino. You'll see, like, you know, singer songwriters who play songs, and then they'll get those laughs in between songs, and then musicians who actually sort of kill in between, you know, like, yeah. So you is you could be doing a lot of work going on.

01;02;28;14 - 01;02;46;15
Unknown
Yeah. So it's just like I'm sort of like starting to do that now. Like not really worry too much about the jokes. The jokes just sort of come in between, like, you know, funny songs. Yeah. You know, I live in Europe, bro. So I mean, like, you already playing good, like, you can sing you, you study in jazz or, you know, all like the layers, you know, how to improvise and everything, right?

01;02;46;17 - 01;03;04;23
Unknown
So that alone is like. Yes. Like what? Like I need to just see that. Yeah. And then you have a personality where you have jokes and everything and not awkward. I mean, bro, that's like crazy. Like, honestly, I've been saying this for years. I appreciate it, man. It's really nice. You know, I'm just say broke. I'll be here.

01;03;04;23 - 01;03;16;19
Unknown
And I was like, yo, wow. But you can think, you know, I mean, I'll be hearing you up like, yo, you can sing. I think every time I go on stage after you get get off, I'm like, yo, give it up for him. I wish I can sing like that. Yeah, we can see. Yeah. That's right. You came.

01;03;16;22 - 01;03;33;10
Unknown
You were great the other day too, man. Oh. Thank you. That was a great show. Thank you. There. Yeah, that was great. But yeah, you followed me. You came. Yeah. Yeah. I did like 15 minutes of songs and shit. And you went out there and did just fine, actually. Yeah, I did great. Well, by heading knowledge, what you did, I was like, let's give it up for him.

01;03;33;10 - 01;03;49;10
Unknown
This dude, I can sing and everything as a black dude, I'm jealous as hell. Then he hit those notes. That was good. Yeah, that was good. I was like, bro, if I try to sing like that, y'all going to be disappointed by all black people like you after that. Before? Yeah. No, you follow me. Fun man. You did?

01;03;49;13 - 01;04;02;06
Unknown
Yeah. But I mean, you know, you. Yeah, that that shit was. But I guess, like, maybe because you knew, like, all right, he's going to do songs or I'm going to have to like, whereas maybe if it was just like we were just on the bill and you didn't know me and you were just sitting backstage going, oh, fuck, fuck, fuck.

01;04;02;11 - 01;04;16;08
Unknown
Yeah. I guess it's like the awareness of knowing what it what's it where the level of the room and the energy is. Yeah. That's a that comes with time because like, all right. If somebody is multi-talented and you better follow them, it's like you just address it like it's it. That's the the elephant in the room. You coming off.

01;04;16;08 - 01;04;31;11
Unknown
Hey guys. So it's like nah nah nah nah nah nah. There's just yeah. The magic happened before you got onstage knowledge what happened and go from there. Yeah. Write it off and stuff. Yeah, yeah. You had a great set, man. Oh thank you. Thank you dude. Thank you very much, man. And, so two more question I have for you.

01;04;31;11 - 01;04;47;29
Unknown
Right. Great. So one question I have is I heard around the grapevine that you, you was part of a famous group or something or a part of, you played for some famous, I don't know, this is what I heard. I think I know what you're talking about, like in Australia, I think. So what did you hear?

01;04;48;01 - 01;05;08;29
Unknown
It was a it's a very multinational, popular band. I don't know the name, but. Yeah. You okay? I think I know what you talking about. Yeah. So when I was like, when I was nine, this is when I was 19, I did this show and the saxophone player from an Australian band called Men at Work.

01;05;09;04 - 01;05;35;19
Unknown
Is this what you're talking about? Think so? The the band that that had that song Land Down Under. Okay. The land. Yes. Okay, okay. And this is like a bit of a like you tell me, you know, and so we, we were sort of just doing this sort of corporate, cover gig together, let's say, and, he, he quite, you know, we got along and he was like, hey, I've actually got a few shows, books about that, coming up, and I don't have a singer.

01;05;35;19 - 01;05;52;22
Unknown
He's like, would you be interested in singing with, like, with, me and the boys and whatever that meant, you know? And he was the saxophone player of men at work, you know, men. So not the. So meanwhile, that that band's broken up and the singer, Colin Hay is like a Scottish guy that's like, doesn't live in Australia and he does his own.

01;05;52;25 - 01;06;08;29
Unknown
He does his own thing as Colin Hay. He doesn't call himself Men at Work. So apparently the arrangement was Colin said to the rest of the guys, I'm going solo, you guys, but you guys can keep the name men at work and do whatever you want with it, because I think they one of them named the band. Right?

01;06;09;00 - 01;06;31;09
Unknown
Okay. So the the story is, you know, so I go there and I do rehearsal with like these guys, you know, like these. It was the sax player and the drummer from Men at Work. So they're in like their 60s and they're kind of like, you know, hopeless old rockers, you know, and their young 20s and they're I am like, I'm 19 years old, you know, and he's like, gives me this address and like, tells me to come here for like, rehearsal.

01;06;31;09 - 01;06;47;16
Unknown
So I go to, like, rehearse at his house, you know, he's got this huge, like, you know, house. You can tell he bought, you know, in the 80s for like, you know, it's really big. You know, it's sort of like, so I'm knocking on the door and like, there's like, no answer at all. And, and I'm like.

01;06;47;16 - 01;07;07;18
Unknown
But I can hear something in the, in, in the lounge room. So I'm like knocking again eventually. Like, you know, Greg Hamm is his name. The Sexpert opens up the door. He's completely naked, and he's like, who are you? Who are you? And I'm like, I'm Dave. And the scene is like, rehearsal? Yeah, yeah, yeah, come in, come in.

01;07;07;20 - 01;07;25;22
Unknown
Nick, you. He was fully naked. He's like, who are you? I'm like me. And he's like, yeah. Like literally from a movie, you know? So we go in and he's like, he's like, you sit down and like, you know, there's just like weed and shit and like, papers and ashtrays everywhere. And, the noise I could hear was like the TV.

01;07;25;22 - 01;07;48;04
Unknown
It was just like the DVD menu of family Guy, like on loop. You remember them if they lose DVD menus that were just lose. Yes. So it's like he's just fall asleep naked to like, family Guy and just a bunch of, like, joints and stuff. So yeah, we did a couple of shows like 3 or 4 shows in Melbourne at the time, but we were, we were cold like, you know, was there written on the board like men at work.

01;07;48;09 - 01;08;05;26
Unknown
So it's like, obviously not the real men at work. Bec because I'm not calling, hey, I'm not the singer of the band. Yeah, but we were called Men at Work, you know, so they wouldn't, you know, so it's a technicality, like I was the singer of Men at Work. Oh, I mean, but I'm not. You know, that night I was, you know, like tonight, men at work.

01;08;05;28 - 01;08;21;27
Unknown
But anyone noticing or really just knew the song, like, I know the song. Yeah, well, I don't know the people in Australia, you know, you like. Well, it's funny, like, the biggest ever Australian song Land Down Under was sung by a Scottish guy. It's kind of funny, you know? Yeah. Well, I mean that, Yeah, that's I think, I don't know, I think that's what you're talking.

01;08;21;28 - 01;08;38;29
Unknown
Yeah. I've heard it's like. Yeah. Then. No, this is the actual thing that I heard, but this is good that you explained it because I thought it was technicality. You know, it was like I, you know, I didn't I didn't start the band was, from the 80s before I was born, right? I mean, did you at least try to like, you know, like, use that to some leverage or kind of like a,

01;08;39;02 - 01;08;59;08
Unknown
Well, the thing is, like their whole audience, like, whenever they would come, it would be like a bunch of, like, you know, 60 to 70 year old women, you know, that that was their sort of demographic. You know, it's it wasn't like anything like that. Did anyone ever say hello to you when you funnily, a lot of people would come up to me, even though I'm a 19 year old Australian boy and they were like, oh, Colin, it's so nice to meet you.

01;08;59;08 - 01;09;12;17
Unknown
I'm like, I'm not a 70 year old Scottish man, you know that, right? You know? But they were just bit like they were just so sort of taken up in men at work. Like they didn't even sort of really, I don't know, it was a strange thing. People kept saying, calling me Colin. I'm like, I'm not the guy.

01;09;12;18 - 01;09;28;16
Unknown
You probably learned a lot about perception, how warped it can be. Yeah. It was. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I've always found that interesting. Like, why do they. Or maybe they just know, but they just like, maybe they just wanted to sort of live the fantasy that they saw. Men at work. I still never understand why people were coming up to me saying, oh, Colin, that was great.

01;09;28;21 - 01;09;42;13
Unknown
I mean, it's 67 years old. I only got like, what, 1020 years left? Right? So was like, why not? Whatever it is, it is. Right. Yeah. Yeah, sure, sure. They're like, yeah, I saw I saw men at work. Why live in reality when the end is near, you know, let's, let's let's live it up. Yeah. Collins. What's up?

01;09;42;13 - 01;09;59;27
Unknown
How are you doing? You know. Yeah, yeah. All right, so one more question I have is that I usually like to ask people this before the end of the podcast is that you've been through a lot of different stuff, man. You know, came from Australia then to, I mean, you know, the UK, then you travel all around Europe with a nine person band in the van.

01;10;00;00 - 01;10;21;29
Unknown
You guys broke up and everything came back. You made a transition to standup comedy. You've been to a lot of things, man, culturally speaking. So if you just go back to your younger self, what's the number one advice you would give to your younger self? Oh, God. Oh dude. So what advice would you give to my younger self?

01;10;22;01 - 01;10;40;14
Unknown
Does everyone just say bitcoin? That's what. What does anyone else I think I think I think 1 or 2 people maybe. Yeah. That's the first. Yeah, I don't know. I mean I would give myself heaps of advice, you know, like, you know, stay in shape because it's harder to lose weight when you're older. Don't drink so much.

01;10;40;16 - 01;11;04;04
Unknown
There'd be so many things. What advice would I give myself? He's a bit of a cliche. Just, you know, trust your instincts, you know? And if people try to convince you to go different ways and, you know, just maybe, like, you know, just trust your gut a bit more like, I think whenever things in my, like, sort of professional life went the wrong way, I was always because I sort of got talked into it or something like that.

01;11;04;05 - 01;11;22;14
Unknown
And I was like, you know, I thought, you know, more. The adults knew what they were doing, but they they never really do. But is that was the advice I would give myself, what I have, what I, you know, heaps of heaps of stuff. I'm trying to think anything that I would not even want to like.

01;11;22;17 - 01;11;41;22
Unknown
No offense. Share with you and your audience. Yeah. I mean, I will like my audience. I don't know, where that in in life, but, Yeah. Yeah. Have. Yeah. Have a have a good time. You'll you'll you'll you'll be great. There you go. Spoken like a real Australian. Like it. Yeah, yeah. Just, take it easy.

01;11;41;24 - 01;11;56;06
Unknown
Shit. All right. Well, cool, bro. Bro, thank you very much. Thanks, man. Thanks for having me, I appreciate it. Thank you very much. This is very, very dope. And guys, thank you for listening and are watching the Third Culture Talk podcast it’s Nya Yeanafehn and this is Dave Adams and I'll see you guys in the next one. Peace.