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Billy Darcy one of Australia's funniest up and coming stand up comedians. Sat down with Hamish and Hugh to discuss his Comedy career to date and also have a laugh.
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hello and welcome to another episode of west underground today we are doing something different
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we're having our our third comedian on on this on our little podcast and uh it's none other than
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billy darcy you got the man who's probably been making you guys laugh on tick tock and if you
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don't know who he is you will now so uh let's just start off mate and just ask like what was the you
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know what was the decision um that made you want to be a stand-up comedian what what did it for you
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oh lads firstly what an honor third third comedian i thought you were gonna stay first one ever yeah
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you know but that's okay who were the first two so we because we're a music podcast like that's
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that's how we started we had a guy come on um dave eastgate and he's still like yeah medium
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but also does a bit of music stuff yep and then that kind of segued and opened the door
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a little bit and we're like man why haven't we interviewed comedians before it's like it's
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it's it's you know i feel like comedy and music kind of border on the on the same like wavelength
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a little bit yeah it's true here for us to interview comedians and it is the interview
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like actors and i feel like when you get into acting that's a whole different world all together
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yeah yeah well i think there is a thing with comedy and music because we play like all the same
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venues and you know it's very much like a similar journey on on the gigs and stuff and as you so i
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reckon there's definitely a bit of a kinship there i would say yeah yeah for sure and also i feel
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like it's sometimes on the same same wavelength as well what like when you you sit down to write your
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you know your comedy special you're obviously sitting there with you know
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like you know kind of waiting for inspiration or also then just kind of writing down ideas all
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the time and noting it down just like as if you were doing song lyrics and stuff like that yeah
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i think i think musicians are probably braver than comedians though really no i can't agree
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no i can't agree either really no but like with what what i feel like if you're writing a song
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yeah and people are like you know talking about all this wild stuff and i'm just like oh i missed
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the bus the other day that was pretty wild you know what i mean yeah i see what you mean but i i
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i think it's braver because they're kind of getting up and they're singing you know they're
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singing songs and it's kind of like you you you're you're standing behind you've got music kind of
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behind you you've got a band you're standing with other people usually where you're you you
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are just in front of the rumor people there's no kind of music going on you're the center focus
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the light is just on you and you're talking about like you know whatever's on your conscious yeah
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all right then i'm happy to agree comedians are in fact braver than musicians so there you go i
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don't know i would actually i don't know if you brought this up with dave eastgate because he's
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like a rock and roll comedian almost like he's like shredding the guitar up there and stuff
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but um they always say and it's definitely true for me that like most comedians would want to be
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like rock stars but they like we just can't see if i could sing i would love to be like a front man
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like a million percent it would be sick but like like i can't sing at all and i never will
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be able to so that's that you know next thing you know i'm seven years old in primary school
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just ripping a few zingers from the back row i thought we could be onto something here lads hey
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oh man well like you're you're still young man just go get a few singing lessons while you're
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over in you know lit manly i'm sure there's a bunch of good singing teachers around
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i'll probably i'd probably give some like three thousand dollars and still sound
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freaking terrible by the end so i don't know with singing i reckon you either have it or you don't
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you know yeah but i've also i used to believe that and then i saw that there's people that
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have actually like trained their voice and were like disciplined with themselves and got better
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yeah um and then i've also seen people that had the ability from the start and they're
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just [ __ ] amazing so yeah well which brings me back to my comedy career um no i'm kidding
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i'm kidding just a bit of banter um but yes what was the question oh i forgot how did i sort of get
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into this oh yeah that's it that's it yeah so it's a good question but i never really have a very
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good answer um like i tried comedy once when i was 18 at an open mic but i just did it just to do it
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just to try it once because i wasn't thinking about pursuing it properly but then and then i
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actually didn't do it for like i think another two years like it just wasn't something that you know
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i thought it was cool i did it once but it wasn't really something i wanted to like pursue full time
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but then um in the following two years like i just didn't really know what else to do so then i kind
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of just sort of got like do you know what i mean like there was nothing else really coming up like
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i lived in england for a year playing cricket and then when i was over there because i dropped out
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of uni then moved to england and when i was in england i was trying to work out like what to do
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with my life and then i was like dude i think i actually want to get back into comedy and give
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it a crack but then i also like went changed uni degrees and did like an arts degree just to keep
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like just to keep mum out of my face a bit you know yeah so so i went back to uni but i was
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really like within six months of going back to uni or three months i don't know why but the second
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time i went back to comedy it really like took it like stuck for me you know um so and then yeah so
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then like three six months later i was like i was at uni i finished that degree it was like media
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yeah right i always knew i was like oh man this this degree is trash like but um yeah i always
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knew that i wanted to pursue it from about then so that was about six years ago i think so it's
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that's that's been it ever since and then dude once you get into it and you start making friends
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with like the other comedians it becomes like its own like world yeah you're now a part of so
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it's sick like yeah it's it's great i love it oh man i'm glad you did and it looks like it's uh
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you know like really you're you know your career is taken off you know in a large way like you got
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a good you know kind of yeah you know you got a good start yeah yeah i can only assume it would
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appear that way to the naked eye from looking from the outside that i am about to explode but
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um i can assure you that is not the case uh like i like music like kovid just [ __ ] comedy dude like
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yeah it's the dream is over to a certain extent because uh i would say there's probably like
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a quarter of the gigs in sydney for comedy as they used to be and then you know and it's just
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like it's been like a crap two years for comedy in general just like music like i've had like
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four tours cancelled and then yeah because we've you know you're booking stuff for three months
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in advance yeah so you're thinking which was fine before you know three months from now
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what's the weather going to be doing who gives a [ __ ] you know but now it's like
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april next year is the melbourne comedy festival you have to book that in now
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and it's like well what the hell is the world going to look like in april yeah you know and you
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got to pay for venues and put money down up front and then like you just so it's just been wild but
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yeah i think um comedy will return and hopefully uh then you'll see that explosion of billy darcy
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you're just referring to hopefully we have no doubts we have no doubts i love that i said um
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is the money in comedy in touring like like uh or is the money in comedy in like because you
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you know like uh all the you know in the specials and stuff like that and uh in in tv like in media
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i'm just wondering is it from you kind of going city to city to city is that how comedians make
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the most of their money or is it the actual trying to get tv deals and stuff like that
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yeah i would say i would say in australia specifically the bulk of the money is from touring
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because every city has its own comedy festival and then you know once you sort of get a if you get a
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good agent and then you you know you're playing the right venues and they're sort of pushing you
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that way then you're sort of snowballing with the festivals you just like you just see comedians get
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like bigger and bigger every year yeah um so i'd say it's mostly in the touring like
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in australia as far as comedy there's not a whole lot going on like there's like probably you know
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there's like four or five radio jobs and then the abc does like majority of the television
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but it's like there's not really like that many crazy opportunities going
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i would say it's mostly in um mostly in touring for sure yeah yeah i suppose that's
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what's different about you billy is that you've kind of embraced youtube and tick tock as well
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yeah um because i know that's how i like i kind of discovered your comedy was because on my for you
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page on tick tock i got recommended this one about dating in australia and you're saying like no one
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actually dates you just kind of invite them to the pub at like 10 30 yeah yeah mate is a predator
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and they were chuffed they thought it was [ __ ] hilarious because it's so
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sick yeah well i think um yeah tick tocks mad like
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uh people people that like rip on tick tock it's like actually it's like the wildest platform
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ever like some of my videos get views that like you could never get them on any other platform
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so it's like super handy um and i think yeah it's good to be able to have that stuff because
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you know especially during covert in that where there's like no gigs and like you know you might
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have nothing going on well now you can just sort of like i was really lucky i recorded an hour in
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may of my sydney shows so when we went back in a lockdown i had like all this material to
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to release so like tick-tock and youtube and and instagram it's like so it's so good it's like you
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can get like i didn't do any gigs for like three months but you know i was still kind of going well
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you know like my online stuff was still ticking along so it definitely makes it
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feel like you haven't wasted any time and it's kind of it kind of gives you a tool because
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you know there's like two or three major comedy management companies in australia i would say
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and if they're not really [ __ ] with you then like you're kind of on your own
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so like tick tock is just such a great tool because now you're like oh man this is kind
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of like going all right here whereas otherwise no one would see it you know what i mean yeah yeah
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so tick tock gives you that opportunity but i think it goes both ways with tick tock because
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like it's so good you can get like so many views and stuff yeah and then also like i
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don't know about anyone else but people are just so mean on tick tock wild dude
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one time this is true what a couple months ago i posted a tick tock in the morning
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and it was like a little podcast clip it was like nothing controversial at all
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and then i was getting just lit up on tick tock so hard people were messaging me on instagram saying
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dude you gotta check your tick tock because like like it was like four you know i don't know how
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many comments like 100 comments of just everyone being like you [ __ ] suck like what is this like
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it was about like the olympics so i think i don't know if people get fired up about the olympics but
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but yeah like i think uh tick tock yeah it's good it's good but yeah people will light you
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up on there as well because there's not really any accountability you know they're just like yeah one
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two three four and then that's that so i have a theory about why that is because i feel like tick
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tock's demographic is like you like younger people so you remember back in the day when you would
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go on like um like like ps3 like chat rooms or xbox chat rooms yeah all those kids like swearing
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now they've gone from that to tick-tock and now they're just typing away yeah yeah it's a bit of
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that yeah for sure but um yeah i don't i try not to go on tick-tock too much because i don't know
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about you guys i find like tick-tock is like instagram on like steroids yeah like scrolling
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like if i'm like got five minutes if i jump on tick-tock and then like
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20 minutes later i'm like i blacked out what happened i'm looking at like some korean guys
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chopping down a tree i'm like what even is this you know yeah and you've just been scrolling
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for like 25 minutes it's crazy yeah it's like it's the real sunken place you know what yeah
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get get out yeah it's like it's like that you know it's like yeah so i just try and post before i
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either get sucked in by someone else's video or or someone comments that i'm in fact a [ __ ] loser
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so you know trying to get in and get out with tick tock but it's a very fun app it's a very fun app
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oh man like have you ever like have you ever replied to one or have you just been like i'm not
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gonna do it because if i give you into one then then then it's just gonna start like you know like
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arguing with the people nah because i don't know i think it depends maybe if you get in there early
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but sometimes like i'll post a video and then like you know i'll check it like that afternoon
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because i like go to work or whatever and uh and also just try and stay off it in general so like
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because it's just such a you know a time hole but then um you know then i'll check it and like the
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top comment is like this is so unfunny but it's already got like 200 likes so it's gonna be very
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hard to push up against that momentum that this young commenter has you know yeah yeah
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no i don't know yeah i just try to just don't even worry about it yeah i mean i think that's the best
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that's the best decision i just don't know how some people have the time to like you i wonder
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too like when you even even facebook sometimes like go like when so anyone post something you
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just click on the comments and you see some people just have the time to be able to write
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not paragraphs but [ __ ] novels for comments yeah i think anyone who comments on stuff like what do
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you do if i tag you lads in something and i'm like check this out that's one thing you know tag away
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but people who just reply to no one like just out here like giving out a double dose of [ __ ] jason
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from who gives a [ __ ] yeah you know and it's just like no one's prompted them and and it's like
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the most toxic thoughts it's like this is wild if i asked you then fair enough but like come on dude
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yeah yeah they reply to like a video or a clip from the today show or some [ __ ] like carl
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stefan over because yeah you're reading this yeah yeah yeah yeah some guy he's like carl you son
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of a [ __ ] i've i've been a fan for the last 15 years but you just lost me as if as if there will
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be any sort of consequences for this whatsoever like carl stefanovic's just reading these from his
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million-dollar mansion i think his wife is 20 years younger than him i don't think you're
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going to get in into his mental state you know what i mean yeah and if it is he's probably
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laying in the bathtub with a ball of champagne next to him going babe have a look at this yeah
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yeah now like you did you have like a like a normal job as well to do in comedy
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so when you go to the office do they tr oh you know if they treat you like a superstar at work or
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they they just treat you as regular billy no no it was kind of weird at this job because i um i was
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working a casual job before covid and like doing comedy like i was kind of like two-thirds comedy
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income and then a third casual income and then i was at the adelaide fringe uh last year and like
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i was doing my week of shows there and then the next week i'll come back to sydney
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and then the next week after that i'll go back to melbourne for a month and do the whole festival
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yeah then i was in adelaide and it was like the friday show they were like we didn't even know
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if our own friday shows were going to happen on the day it was when covered was first happening
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and you're like what even is this yeah but then um it's actually a pretty funny story because and
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then i did my um saturday show and then flew back to sydney and on the saturday they cancelled the
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whole melbourne and sydney comedy festivals that was like 30 shows for me so but then i had this
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casual job up my sleeve so i was like okay i'll just go back to sydney and work and till this
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thing sorts itself out i don't know what's going on you know but then i flew back to sydney i was
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immediately fired from my casual job as well due to kovitz so it was a double barrel for me
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it was pretty good um but yeah so i was working a little bit and then i was unemployed for like
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six months last year yeah so then when i and then my mate got me this office job
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but um he told them all that i was a comedian and like maybe people don't care yeah you know
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what i mean like they live in la vida loca it doesn't matter if i'm a comedian or not like
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um and yeah it was kind of weird though because on my second day at this office job
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my boss the guy who got fired the guy who hired me sorry got fired right and it was like i hadn't
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even unboxed my pens and this guy's like you know it was like the dramatic thing where he
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came out of his office and he was like well the suits upstairs have had their final word
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that's the end of me like and like it was really really but then i ended up
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writing like six minutes about this stupid prick but it was kind of weird because then
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all the people from my office came to see my show yeah and i had like six minutes [ __ ] on
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our former boss yeah and so i think a lot of maybe a few people from my office were like
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let's just [ __ ] watch our p's and q's around this darcy bloke because he's going around town
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telling everyone about everything you know what i mean so i think if anything it made
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them like me a little less but um but you know all's fair in art and or whatever i don't know
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yeah yeah so it is it's a bit weird at times yeah do you cop like if like you know like
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i play music man and like if you tell people you do that right somebody's like oh could you do you
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could play me a song or something like that oh yeah dude all that stuff like tell me a
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joke right now and it's like you want to just break into a bit of stand up at this bus stop
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i hate that dude i hate it i get worse man yeah so i've just been promoting this show recently
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i was chatting you boys about it before but do you guys get this one with your music where
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you put up on your thing hey everyone come to the show and then maybe a friend of yours or someone
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misses out on the show and he's like oh you should have messaged me that the tickets were on sale
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and it's like what do you should i also pay for the ticket and deliver it to your house
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you [ __ ] clown like you know what i mean and they're like oh no it's like some guy i went to
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primary school with he's like billy i missed out on on tickets i'm like we're not close
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like you know what i mean like people just want like a personal they just want everything coming
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straight to them they just love it yeah yeah but it also had you been promoting the shows
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for usually like a month beforehand yes that's the other thing yes thank you the other thing
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is they're like oh billy what the hell i missed out on tickets and it's like oh that's okay i've
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just been begging people to come for about six weeks i felt like i did my bit you know
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freaking can i give these things away now it finally sells out and every bloke you've ever
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met wants to wants a ticket it's always the way yeah yeah yeah it is isn't it like people have to
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you the people other people have to see that other people want to go to your show before they
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start jumping in yep yep yep 100 so yeah there's definitely a bit of that yeah man and um oh i was
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going to say something before i feel like comedy is is very close to music i think i you you were
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talking before about how you you are more braver but i i think for you i think i think comedy is
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slightly easier than music because you don't have to practice or rehearse with four dudes like you
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know several times a week for a month before one gig you know what i mean it's kind of yeah yeah
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yeah i know what you mean um i think anything is easier by yourself like podcasting music comedy as
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soon as you get a group it definitely becomes harder yeah but i i'm jealous of uh musicians
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in that um like you guys can write songs and and practice by yourselves whereas i have to go and do
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it in front of strangers yeah it can be yeah you know what i mean so it's kind of like that and um
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but yeah there's definitely heaps of um overlap between it's just like
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that gig yeah i think yeah yeah yeah you know what i mean and it's definitely i mean you got
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to be a bit of a renegade to do either because it's not like you sign up at the music factory
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for 60 grand a year to play base in some band you know after tax here's your superannuation like
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there's no certainty whatsoever like and everyone in the industry i don't know about
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music but is everyone a [ __ ] weirdo in that industry as well yeah man yeah in comedy like
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people in positions of power are like mentally ill you're like this is crazy this is insane
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i think i think that was like the the first thing that like that i that i realized when i was a kid
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kind of becoming like going through you know from 16 to like playing music around sydney is like
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you kind of get this insight of who does what and then you try then you get to meet them for
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the first time everyone's told you oh this person does this and you think you're meeting some like
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oh very nice to meet you young man but it's not that case at all it's just
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everything's really really loose yeah and also like it's not like there's a university
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to go and become a music manager or like a venue booker or something it's usually just some guy
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yeah just like hung around the longest yeah so yeah it's but i also like that as well because
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you then you don't have like some [ __ ] with you know from like you know it feels a bit more um
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like like personable and like you know easier sometimes than it does because you don't have
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to deal with a whole hr team sometimes yeah yeah and when that person really loves music or comedy
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and then it's there because they love it not because they you know stumble into this thing
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yeah it's the best you know yeah yeah i feel like i'm just [ __ ] on the whole
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industry there's heaps of people in the comedy industry absolutely adore so yeah yeah no but
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i i i definitely see the boy man like that nobody is certainly going oh i became this
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because my parents were forcing me to do it you know what i mean yeah a hundred percent yeah but
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did do you have a question here i'd love to hear
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some absolute gems of stories from a few of your shows um okay i haven't seen the clips
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on like tick tock and whatnot and you've spoken about them on get around me which by the way i do
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commend you for because you talk for a long time just spinning yarns about your own life weekly
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there was one episode in particular where you talked about going to orange for a show okay and
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i laughed so hard that i woke my mom up oh really yeah like i was for some reason because i think
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we had been to orange yeah like the week before like like oh what did we go for like some family
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reunion or something yeah and like everything you were saying was like [ __ ] pinpoint true
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i don't even remember that orange story to be honest but um but yeah i got a couple of good
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yarns um so one time i was i was hanging out with one of my mates yesterday actually we went on this
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um like uh big tour with all my mates like four years ago it was called the young guns comedy tour
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yeah and you know don't look at the books for that tour because we lost [ __ ] loads of money the
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memories we made along the way i would argue uh far more valuable um it was so good it was like me
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and um five of my mates are all comedians we just jumped into like a bus and started up at byron
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and then like zigzagged all the way back down to sydney i think we did like 15 shows or something
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over like three weeks so much fun so much fun but we have like some pretty rough ones like um
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we were in grafton and like we were doing a we had like we had different deals with each of the pubs
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so for this deal it was like we did no tickets um
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like it was like a free show so we didn't know how many people were coming and you know we like
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we should have been playing rooms to about 50 people like maximum capacity but we rock up to
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this grafton pub and this room to put it this way the prior weekend tiesto had played this
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room yeah okay so we were just like i think it's seated about 300 and it was like some huge stage
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we are complete no-name comedians no one has ever heard of us this is a huge booking era
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um it's like when you walk on stage it says like billy darcy and like flames on this like
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huge led screen like wild so we get to grafton a night early and we're in the beer garden
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and there's an all in brawl in the beer garden like the whole pub the whole pub i've never
25:56
seen anything like it people just run in there's like three security guards and they're just like
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you just see them throw their hands up they're like i can't deal with this this is way too much
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and then like you can spot the uh the city boys like we're the only ones not throwing hands yeah
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like i think one of the lads is like calling his mum like we're just like what the [ __ ] and
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grafton's a pretty rough town it's like a prison town and um i'm pretty sure it's like uh you know
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correct me if i'm wrong but i'm pretty sure they say like everyone in westcraft and he's like
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racist they told us to stay out of the western part so it was pretty full on and uh the next
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night we rock up and um out of like the 300 seats we sold 11 tickets or 11 people have turned up
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so it's like jesus christ this is not good seven of them were the owner of the pub and his family
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and and then two of them were a couple we met the night before ourselves
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so really we've sold like two tickets and it's crazy like and also i was headlining and i had
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to do like half an hour like this is just suicide at this point so we crack into the show so bad
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it's a horrendous show and the were you guys expecting me to be like most electric show
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i think it's just honestly it gets me yeah and i
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yeah yeah picture well in my head like i'm just imagining this [ __ ] huge room no one there yeah
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and you you can you just see all the empty seats before you get up there oh yeah but then here's
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the thing so this woman starts heckling like all the lads in the first half but here's the thing
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no one can say anything to her because it's the owner of the pub's wife
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so so she's sitting next to the owner just going like you [ __ ] suck you losers like and then all
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my mates are up there just going hey it's the owners he's like uh thank you ma'am like we didn't
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want to because we've already like the show's a disaster like the owner probably hates us you
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know he could have booked tiesto for a second night that would have been a much better option
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so so then um this woman is just teeing off on everyone yeah and then i went up there at the end
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and um and you know i was trying to do some crowd work and stuff i think like some more people came
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in we might have been pushing sort of 15 to 17 at this point so you know there's a bit of
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extra oomph in the room as they say and anyway so i'm just trying to do a bit of crowd work
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and then this lady is just like shut up and do some jokes and i was just like and keep in mind
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i've seen her just absolutely run through all of my best mates here yeah like just tearing strips
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off them so i just went up okay sorry do a joke and then i do a joke and she interrupts the joke
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and then i just went in my head it just it was so clear burn it to the ground darcy [ __ ] this
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chick you know we're never coming back to grafton again yeah don't even worry about it so now i'm
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just teeing off on this on this chick i'm just like you think you're so cool it's only because
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you're [ __ ] the owner of this place that you're getting away with any of this okay and then like
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now it's just on for young and old like the wife is yelling at me i'm yelling at her the other 12
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people ironically are having a pretty good time at this point which they weren't before so there's a
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bit of momentum there but then um we ended up we did finish the show and uh the owner's son came up
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this is one of my favorite like things i've seen i think so we're having beers after the show and
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fair play fair play the owner he was like i think he respected us for just doing the show
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no matter what even though it was horrendous yeah i think he just appreciated that we just gave it
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a go and tried our best um so afterwards he was like boys as many beers as you want
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go nuts you know this sort of stuff so it's kind of cool we're having a good time now yeah and
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then and then the owner's son um he's like this big big fat country bloke and uh he he comes out
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and he goes he goes up to my mate rowan who's on the tour and he goes uh rowan did it had the this
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suicide joke at the time i can't remember how it went but it was it was really really good really
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good and uh yeah it was obviously pretty dark but it was hilarious and this uh this country
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blow conduction goes to my mate rowan he goes may we don't talk about that [ __ ] out here okay you
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know you city boys don't know what you're talking about he goes don't ever do that joke again
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yeah and he's probably got about 70 kilos on rowan and rowan's a big old stoner rowan
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and you just see he just takes a sip of his beer right rowan just leans in and goes mate i don't
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give a [ __ ] what you have to say or think now [ __ ] off yeah and then this country like just
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shut himself and [ __ ] left and then the boys are on free beers it's his dad's pub so that's coming
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out of your [ __ ] retirement fund you stupid [ __ ] you know so the boys are up and about
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ended up being i ended up weird i'm having the best night ever from a completely horrific
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situation so it was great i can't believe he if someone tried to cancel him and graft it
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yeah i know that's what i'm saying what we got the [ __ ] woke blokes out here what's doing
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you're telling me half the town is racist is the other half extremely progressive i
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don't see that happening like so the whole thing was just a bit much but
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yeah i believe the other boys were playing into it a bit you know like just trying to
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you know keep you know keep the peace with the the management and graft and
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around you oh well the other thing was the other little snag was we were staying at the pub
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there was nowhere to run after the show like so yeah otherwise you know i would have just
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like as soon as i left the stage i would have just run home was the bloke of the like the
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owner like having a bit of a laugh that you would you were telling his wife to you know
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shut up a little bit was he yeah yeah yeah he was cool like yeah because if he wasn't i would like
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you know it wasn't as aggressive as like like it started out aggressive but if everyone wasn't
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laughing i would have stopped immediately yeah because we're literally staying in the
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pub so unless you want to sleep on the bus yeah i probably wouldn't go too hard but it ended up
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being great and um the owner loved it he was like yeah he was like yeah you get what goes around
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comes around that's what he said afterwards so yeah you know nice that's that and uh my favorite
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part about that was that the owner's son like thought that suicide was exclusive to grafton
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well that was the thing he was like mate out here out here like as if people in the
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city don't have mental health issues you know but only pacific just a grafton thing yeah no dramas
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oh man and um oh i wanted to touch on too like you know how you were talking about like touring
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in comedy and like i asked a question earlier about like uh you know where's the you know
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where's the bulk of income come from comedies or touring or you know youtube media whatever
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um what's happening with australian comedians at the moment because i feel like they're
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all all of the newer new new fellas or new blogs like there's a generation of you're
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you're in your 20s aren't you darcy yeah i'm 26. all right all right you're older than me um
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you look weathered brother is everything okay oh [ __ ] man i just haven't moved for a while
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no i'm just kidding but um but yeah like you know like the friendly geordies the isaac butterfields
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and those fellas like they've just seemed to you know be right onto the youtube like what's going
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on what's happened um well i mean youtube's just great like yeah yeah like they're just killing
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it on youtube so they just sort of lent into that um i don't know about friendly geordies
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like some of these guys like were youtubers and then started doing stand-up or vice versa so
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yeah everyone sort of got their own um thing going on but like the real thing if yeah these guys are
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doing it the right way because if you can build up enough online presence then you like even if
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i think uh isaac butterfield doesn't make that much money on youtube or because he swears so
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much like i can't get the advertising money but but uh don't quote me on that that but uh i'm sure
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he makes heaps through other avenues um but if you like all the people watching his youtube videos
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if he's not making the money then and i'm sure his videos are sponsored or whatever
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but then when you say hey i'm coming to grafton now he's selling out 500 seats and grafting so
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even though like uh the youtube um sort of seems like that beal and endor like all those guys
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two are heaps and that's where they they make heaps of money so yeah i'd still say it's um
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it's probably still majority touring for the money coming in but yeah you have to speak to those guys
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but yeah that that's how that's really the whole point like of getting on tick tock or instagram
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or whatever uh because it's kind of like it's a lot of extra work you know like most people
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just want to do stand-up um so if you can sort of build a following to a point where
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you know like i'm mates with um will gibb i don't know if you know him on tick tock
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but yeah he's hilarious but he's just blown up like you know 350 000 followers or something
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um like when we'll give tours or like whatever whatever will gibb's doing
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people are going to bloody come to it because he's got heaps of followers so that's where i
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would so i would say even though it seems like it's all youtube i would say it's it's still you
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get the money in the touring yeah right wow yeah that dude's um that bloke in primary school who
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always lies and whatever those types of videos like they kill me yeah they're so old because
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they're always so like like i was what am i made about because he watches them religiously and he
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says they're just so spot-on yeah yeah that's the thing i think that's yeah like that's kind of like
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a big uh if you can say something from like your perspective and everyone's like that is exactly
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the same in my life as well there's just nothing better yeah yeah you know but it's hard to do
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have you had to go the opposite way where you've like recalled a memory thing
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like trying to do that and then it's kind of gone it's just not hit you know dude
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yeah yeah big time like sometimes you go up there and i'm like oh i got this great little relatable
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anecdote and then like four minutes later you've told it on stage and it's become apparent that
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it only has happened to you and you're actually quite a weird bloke for even bringing it up
36:48
so you're like right right guys right you know when you get your dick stuck in the vacuum guys
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and then everyone's like like what the hell so yeah definitely that's it that's why you get the
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badge for [ __ ] bravery man like uh going back to that at the start you know because like i feel
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you know with music you can just [ __ ] play everything's loud no one you don't have to hear
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people you know laughing yeah and get your cues from it's like when you get off people like oh
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that was all right and they're probably half deaf anyway because you've been blaring their eardrums
37:20
but you you're up there all by yourself man and like you have to kind of bomb i imagine to kind
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of get good at it which would [ __ ] suck i reckon and just make make you just you know contemplate
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life sometimes yeah yeah for sure i think um that's why it's good when you make some friends
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like at the start because when you don't know anyone and you go to these open mics and then like
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uh i remember the first time i bombed really bad it was like uh
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like i couldn't breathe or something it was like the air was taken from my lungs
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yeah and you're just like having this experience and then like oh you just get the bus home
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by yourself and you're like what the [ __ ] am i doing out here dude like
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what is happening but then once you make some friends on the open mic scene
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and then like sometimes you'll be bombing and you can just hear your mates on the back going like
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laughing their heads off or like stuff like that so and then it's way more fun and then yeah so
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once you make a few friends in the open mic scene it's like way better and you do you know build up
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a thick skin and all of that sort of stuff like yeah yeah yeah yeah man i'd like did you have did
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you have me like it would probably make you funny pretty quick when you just bombing yeah i don't
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know i don't know i don't really at the start you just need a bomb heaps just to sort of um
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just sort of get a feel for it because when you're doing an hour show by yourself you just you need
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to be able to manage the energy in the room so if you like losing them or like maybe you were
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too mean to someone or something like that and you've still got 35 minutes to go you need to
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get these people back or you know be prepared to sit in it for like 10 minutes or whatever
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like you need is kind of like um you need to kind of your energy has to match what's required
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so you need to know when to oh [ __ ] i'm losing them this next joke is dark as well that's now out
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we need to do this self-deprecating thing so they like me more or you know maybe i'm going
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really well for the first 20. oh [ __ ] these guys love me i can say whatever i want and then
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oh i've done a suicide joke this guy does like people didn't like it let's bring it back a
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bit so there's like a lot going on you can't just do comedy in this way where like you're
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like you're not always going to go well no matter what so you need to be able to to handle those
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situations and even if you're doing like you know some nights you'll be doing your best jokes
39:47
when you're at a festival like i'll be doing like you know seven shows in a row or seven nights of
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my solo show you might have like shows the exact same every night but like as far as my content
39:59
but it's like tuesday wednesday thursday or tuesday wednesday killing it thursday the exact
40:04
same show rough show you know for whatever reason so you know all crowds are different
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and uh you know a joke that got like killed the night before might get nothing tonight and now
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we have to deal with this situation and you know manage it and make sure the show still rips
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you know yeah yeah so it's all good experience have you seen somebody just like
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bomb like heaps like you know like somebody that like hasn't been able to break through
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and get you know get the laughs you mean like just terrible comedians yeah yeah terrible comedians
40:42
yeah absolutely dude comedy is like anything like um yeah some people are good and some people um
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you know they're terrible dude yeah and then some people are terrible and then they get better and
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then some people are terrible and they never get better yeah you know so it's like anything
40:58
i remember i went um i went to la a few years ago to do some gigs and i was at like a couple
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of gigs in la or and then a couple of open mics i don't think in because you know los angeles
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is kind of like one of the epicenters of stand up in the whole world yeah then i remember thinking
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a couple of few of the comedians on these shows i was like man these guys [ __ ] suck yeah but it's
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like just living in l.a doesn't magically make you like the funniest comedian ever yeah you know
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what i mean like people suck everywhere it's all just a skill really yeah so yeah there's heaps of
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people that yeah having a tough time with it and then even myself like oh i have peaks and troughs
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and stuff yeah yeah did you meet any of the big guys when you're out there like did you meet like
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uh you know joey diaz or like any of you no i saw heaps of them though because i went um if
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you've got to like the comedy store in la yeah just like on a tuesday night like the lineups
41:51
are just crazy like you can see like bill bird joe rogan like all these guys for like 20 bucks
41:58
and so it was cool it was like it was such a good experience just to even watch them and
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just be like yeah these guys these guys it's like music again where it's like it's different live
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yeah you can listen to a band like over and over again when you see them live because i don't know
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is this a common thing in the music industry but i definitely know musicians i like that i i don't
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particularly think they're that good live when i've seen them and i also know musicians that i
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sort of liked and then i saw them at a festival and they were so [ __ ] good live yeah it was
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like a different thing comedy's like that as well seeing them live is completely different
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yeah like it either sometimes it either like makes when you see that person and they're
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unbelievable in real life it really makes it for you and then goes the opposite way sometimes and
42:43
you're like oh yeah yeah it's a bit that way for sure yeah and um you we we spoke briefly
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off the air about meeting like andrew schultz what was that like oh yeah yeah so this is a not a bad
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little story actually um so andrew schultz was coming to australia a couple years ago
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and uh i absolutely like he's like my hero love this guy so and i knew the agent that
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was touring him out so i i just call like i would never usually do this but i just i just called
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the age and i was like dude i have to open for andrew what do you reckon and um they were like no
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so i ended up just buying a ticket to the show um with my mate pat and um you know i was still so
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excited so um like shows at like seven on a sunday we get to the pub at like two just so excited like
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just drilling piss all afternoon get in there um and uh what happened was uh oh we immediately buy
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some merch and then like we got like i've had like 10 beers at this point we get a beer in each hand
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i got my andrew schultz t-shirt on i'm in the second row i might as well have like a
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little [ __ ] foam finger i'm just absolutely loving it lads i'm loving it and uh and i was
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so drunk but it was kind of like it was kind of annoying because the show was running heaps late
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like he was supposed to be on at 7 30 and like it's like eight o'clock and i was like [ __ ] all
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right so um i'm like what the hell but don't really care whatever anyway so my phone rings
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and it's this agent and uh and he's like i think he must have seen me there or something yeah
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he was at the factory theater in like the big room upstairs so um he was like hey billy how drunk are
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you right now and i was like two beers max i've had like 14 but he's like he's like seriously
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don't [ __ ] this up because i need you uh can you open for andrew for right now and i'm like i'm so
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hammered but i just think it's one of those things where even if i i just think win lose or draw
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there's no way i'm not doing this yeah like come on like so he's like mate honestly if you're too
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drunk don't worry about i can get someone else and i'm like mate shut the hell up what's telling you
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i'm drunk you know what's this rumor going around town i said no worries i got this and he goes okay
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you guys security will pick you up in two minutes you're on straight away and you're doing um 15.
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and i am like hammered and it's like 800 people at the factory it's like i was like jesus christ
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it's it's like one of those things where like now that he said yes i'm like oh [ __ ] i don't
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know about this yeah yeah you know what i mean yeah then so next thing you don't get a tap on
45:27
the shoulder security guard takes me backstage and then now i'm just meeting andrew schultz i'm
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like oh this is sick dude and he's like thanks so much for doing this brother i'm like please please
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i got a refund on on the t-shirt i bought which is pretty cool um and then yeah because i'm so drunk
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i was trying not to like um you know give it away or whatever so one of the managers is there i go i
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go mate um could you get me two red bulls please i said i'm really superstitious before i go on stage
45:54
i always like to have a couple of red bulls you know it's just like one of my things i never go on
45:58
stage without a red bull in reality i'm thinking i just need to chug as much red bull as i can here
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to try and get something happening upstairs you know nothing going on in the top paddock
46:08
so then next thing you know i'm just like sculling red bull as quick as i can and you just hear like
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welcome to the stage and i'm like oh for [ __ ] sake so then next thing you know i'm just walking
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out to like 800 people blind like this is just wild like this red bull all over my t-shirt like
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just horrendous and then but i remember thinking as i walked on i remember thinking like dude zero
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or a hundred either this is going to be sick or i'm going down badly but let's find out you know
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so and then i ended up having a great set like i'm just like the first
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first couple of jokes went well and then i was kind of like i was like i was in it
46:47
i was like this is great and then uh some guy like heckled me and i was like sort of gave him
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a bit of a bit of a serve and then we're off to the races you know so it ended up going so well
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and um i got to introduce him as well which was so cool because like you know when like you see like
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sometimes you see comedians and their opener like clearly doesn't like their comedy or whatever yeah
47:07
yeah and they're like all right coming up next uh andrew whereas you know i'm blind i was like and
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ut this guy so i was like in:47:17
going nuts on the intro it's the best intro anyone's ever received and then everyone's
47:23
going nuts and i gave a big high five i was like kill it brother and he was like cheers billy
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and i was just so blind i was like this is rock star [ __ ] darcy like i was just
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loving it so it was super fun yeah but it could have gone so badly but i think i was just lucky
47:38
dude i think you're probably in a good state to do it in a way like because you've got your like
47:44
you you know when you you're in that when you're [ __ ] and you you just kind of it kills off
47:48
the fear like didn't you yeah there was a bit of that yeah yeah and also like then you you because
47:54
you've got told you're going to do it so kind of you've got a very small time frame and you're
47:59
also drunk you're not going to be sitting there thinking oh my you know your thoughts are probably
48:03
a bit slowed down which is hell yeah i don't think i really had time to freak out so it was good
48:08
yeah yeah yeah and like did you find that like because you were probably like you're
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you're boozing like you you had that booze like confidence as well on the stage uh yeah i'd say
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a little bit but yeah i would say with comedy it's not like it's not good to be drunk though because
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like anything after four beers i think you kind of like lose touch with the room a bit
48:30
like i remember um everything to be honest yeah like i remember one time uh i got so drunk at an
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open mic um and it was like it was like a big it was like the christmas show so like all the comics
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are there everyone's just doing five minutes we're all just like drinking having the best time
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and i came out up like so drunk like i was like wow how are you guys going what's going on
48:52
and i had so much energy but um you know i was like you know i was a beacon of energy really but
48:59
but once i started doing comedy it was actually it was actually really bad it was quite poor
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so and like i was just all energy but i had no i had nothing upstairs yeah like my rhythm was
49:08
all off i was just like screaming so yeah i think it's it's really not good to do a drunk if you can
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help it but you know when in doubt you've got to pull it out so that's how it is what's that
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comedian from the 80s that would just like scream everything um like the the oh sam kinnison yeah
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yeah yeah yeah he's great yeah was it like that or not quite not quite there well um the the time
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at the open mic i was just talking about was like that yeah hopefully yeah updating this girl like
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it was too much um and also i think when you're hammered sometimes you think you're killing it
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yeah you're actually not like at all like but you just think you're the man so it's it can be
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a bit up in the air yeah yeah i think i think that goes for like anything too when you when you when
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you're boozing like you think you're killing it doing whatever you do and you're waiting oh yeah
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that happen yeah yeah 100 dude i actually i have one on saturday night where um like this guy was
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playing music at this bar and um he was so good and he like knew my comedy sony was like oh mate
50:20
can you um introduce me for one of my songs and like my introduction was pretty aggressive uh
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you know what i mean like yeah so it's it's stuff like that where you think at the time i was like i
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am the biggest legend on planet earth but then like because someone filmed it and then sent
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it to me and it's just the worst dude and like you're kind of slurring a little bit and like
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i thought it was hilarious but it was just kind of aggressive i just told everyone to shut the
50:50
[ __ ] up basically it's kind of it's kind of a bit much but uh yeah so i totally get that yeah
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it's not embarrassing oh man that's the worst too when it's on [ __ ] it when it's filmed as
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well yeah yeah and you can't argue with people too because you're like i know it was it wasn't that
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bad now dude yeah i know and it never looks good it never yeah man it's like the ego just deflates
51:16
when you've had it massively vodka red bulls dancing at a club thinking you're [ __ ] john
51:21
travolta yeah pulled out the phone you watch it the next day and you're like [ __ ] i look like an
51:27
octopus that's been shocked with a [ __ ] electric yeah dude 100 well i can't dance at all so if any
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videos of me surface dancing it's an immediate bad news bear i remember i um i i pretty much like
51:42
i remember when i was 18 i thought like you had to go clubbing and i was like man but i [ __ ] i'm so
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bad at dancing like this is just crap i was going clubbing like every weekend and then
51:51
i just started going to pubs i was like oh this bit more my speed yeah but yeah it's good like
51:56
i pretty much wouldn't never go clubbing unless i was like just doing narcotics for some reason
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like yeah i i just can't dance i don't i don't see it turning around yeah i'm with you there man like
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i never got that scene unless somebody had a like a table where i could like sit down and pretend
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that i was you know kind of cool in that little area yeah it's not for me but also like as far
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as like if you're trying to get with girls like you know i'm an mp3 specialist i need to be heard
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you know what i mean yeah my best my best feature is what's coming out of my mouth so
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if you can't hear me i really see no situation where you would ever even like me so we may as
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well just sort of you know tools down yeah yeah yeah yeah hey did you ever get a club hook up
52:41
oh uh when i was 18 yeah probably kissed a couple girls on the lips sorry sorry to get so blue on
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this podcast um but yeah there's a couple a couple of kisses yeah man that's a bit racy mate it's a
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bit racist yeah sorry what sorry what uh what time is this air 7 p.m yeah bro the kids are in bed
53:01
when this is out um yeah it's one of those things too like the always everyone looks so much better
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in the club than they do once you leave with them yeah oh yeah yeah i don't know i feel like um
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i feel like yeah clubbing is just like it's its own thing you know
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what i mean and there's def there's definitely a time and place for it but
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like if i'm going clubbing i need to [ __ ] go clubbing if you know what i mean
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yeah yeah like plenty of petrol in the engine like i can't just go in after four beers and be like
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yeah pretend to be like yeah just to turn into john travolta or something like it's got to be
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pretty full on for me to go clubbing these days fair enough fair enough i'm with you there man
53:48
i think pubs is where it's at for the for fun yeah i agree yeah oh man
53:56
you're a club dude oh god um yeah they're not it's one of those things where like you
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kind of go for social reasons because your whole group's going but like you're not too fussed on it
54:07
so you kind of sit there outside and just observe and you're just like this is [ __ ] yeah yeah a
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little bit i used to love it when i was like 18 19 and like all my mates were like promoters of
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different clubs yeah and there was all like these lists and you would have to like press
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going on these facebook events and stuff yeah and then like so that was fun for like a bit but then
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it's just like whatever also i'm not really that into dance music to be honest like not really
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into ties though no not really guys selling too many more tickets to me i'm too jealous of fiesta
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yeah man i'm jealous of dj's to be honest i think they've got the best gig man like this
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because you know like they're they they really just have to kind of once they've got their mix
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there they're just playing it and kind of adjusting the volumes to the room you know
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i think djs have got it good man yeah i i disagree because like some dj sets are like three hours
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you know yeah that's crazy yeah i don't know i feel like djing has kind of moved on as well
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like when i was 18 everyone was a dj yeah like sometimes you just didn't ask people
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you could just look at their haircut and assume they were probably a dj
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you know and that's how it was and no one really questioned it but now if you told your
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mates you were becoming a dj you know i'd have to call your parents and just sort of check in
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you know they're not wrong man and djs don't look the same as they used to everyone used
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to have that super bleach blonde hair what's happening yeah it was a thing it would be like
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[ __ ] skrillex on steroids yeah i think everyone realized because when i was 18 i i'm a bit older
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than you boys but when i was 18 so what's this eight years ago everyone wanted to be a dj
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and then they were just playing at the clubs and they're like you know
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hooking up with chicks they're like oh three vodka raspberries this is sick
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and then i think like if you have ambitions of doing anything past like playing a set at scary
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canary it's like wildly aggressive hard work yeah you have to actually like care about music yeah
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yeah and then all of a sudden all these white guys are like whoa whoa whoa what the [ __ ] no
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not at all you know yeah so i think i think actually producing your own music and making
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it as a dj is exceedingly difficult and there was like just a few years where everyone thought it
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wasn't for some reason like if you could set up a facebook page you could actually make it as a dj
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like and uh i don't know if they still do it there was your shot the dj comp yeah and
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everyone's like i came seventh in your shot get around me and it's like you know what i mean
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that was just everyone was delusional yeah yeah dj's like i know of either have either disbanded
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it and become drug dealers or move to the shower yeah and that's all really i mean that's all the
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same conversation really yeah drug dealing and djs that's like one of those it's the circle of life
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yeah that's like you know when you log in on some computers and it's like can you pick out
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the three pictures of both yeah pick out the things that are related yeah you keep those three
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yeah i feel like they all go kind of hand in hand for those dudes but um
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you also said like three hours for a dj set and i remember the last time i was at the argyle
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for [ __ ] whatever reason i was there and the dj i could see because how it's laid out
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i could see what the dj's computer was doing and that they were [ __ ] playing the slots
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oh really yeah like playing my digital [ __ ] sloppy [ __ ]
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100 you can tell djing's [ __ ] because like celebrities can get in the dj booth and if
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they just fist bump with some percentage of confidence they don't look out of place
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you know conor mcgregor is in vegas in the you know with steve aoki going nuts
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yeah yeah mcgregor walks out in the middle of the killer's set what the [ __ ] you're just gonna be
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like kind of get out of the way yeah pretty much like you know what i mean yeah yeah yeah
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i do i do like like stanford's job man and um i was my you know like my boss and you know people
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around me that uh that also you know do the same job man they've all done gigs at like other places
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and stuff and um you know i was talking to god the other day he did he used to do sound of the
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um ivy he's like it was the easiest job in the world man because djs would just literally come in
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load the laptops up and they would all you know just push plate they've all got it mixed in
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so one good job is just to turn it up to the room and they're
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really the only thing that they're really doing is just moving the moving the sound knob and that's
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it and it's fist pumping and doing a few dance moves here and there yeah and fingering birds
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yeah that's it that too that's it sorry that was that was inappropriate i apologize but uh
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dude yeah i don't know that's his life man
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now what what before we start wrapping this up man like what's what's the future look for you
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where are you going man like what what what have you got left on the bucket list um like related to
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comedy yeah yeah because i was gonna say i'd like to find love but i wasn't sure if that was related
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that's definitely probably you know something on the bucket list man yeah yeah um no for me
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comedy i just wanted uh this is a good question i just wanted to sort of uh i just want to get
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back and just do gigs like before um kobe like comedy's back now but you can do like there's
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like one gig a week available really because like you know there's still the same amount of
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comedians and there's like a quarter of the gigs so it's like it's a whole thing but i just want to
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get back to um before covert i would do comedy like five or six nights a week sometimes i do
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like 10 gigs and it was so fun and it's so much more productive like as far as like
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working on material and stuff yeah because i'm doing like one or two gigs a week now
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yeah so to get to 10 gigs of working on the same jokes you know like it's gonna take me you know
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three times as long so like i just want to get back to where it's like super productive and
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uh my number one goal is just to make it my day job like that's my number one goal i was kind of
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sort of close like i was close to doing it before covert but then
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but now it's kind of like it's gonna be a lot harder but um but that's my number one job yet i'd
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say my number one goal would just be to do like comedy four or five nights a week and make like
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50 grand clean and clear after everything dude and just have it as your job you're so [ __ ] humbled
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man we ask musicians these questions and they're like play wembley stay in renbilli arena
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okay well i would also like to play wembley but i just know to play wembley i'm going to have
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to first earn 50 000 australian dollars for the financial year you know what i mean that's my
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that's my big goal immediately here but then after that i'd make no mistake once i hit that 50 grand
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the following week i booked wembley there's no there's no gap in there okay
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yeah i want you reading it out there that i'm not an arrogant piece of
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[ __ ] because i can assure you i am all right man you got to get on rogan as well
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if you're a comedian and you get on rogan are you are you [ __ ] you're set then hey like i
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feel like that's well yeah it's a huge thing they call it the rogan bump like
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everyone whoever goes on rogan you know immediately like your ticket sales get a boost
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your podcast whatever you do gets a boost but apparently um since he moved to spotify it's like
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nowhere near as big now so like i don't know what that says about his numbers but apparently he's
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since he's gone to spotify now comedies are saying like yeah we went on rogue but like
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it's kind of whatever now it's not as big of a deal yeah oh well that's sad but it's
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still a massive deal i think he's still like the number one podcast in the world yeah yeah
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now you're gonna have to go on logan paul's dude i would totally go on logan paul yeah
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i i you know i've gained so much respect for that dude recently like watching oh me too
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yeah like i used to think he was a bit of a like a clown but now i i like actually genuinely like
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to do i have to admit i think he's yeah he's thinking i think yeah well i think with podcasts
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as well because logan paul has been on a couple of my favorite podcast as a guest yeah and you
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know if you just watch like a 10-minute youtube video of someone where they're like i don't know
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going to the pool for the day or whatever you know whatever vlogs he does or whatever yeah it's kind
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of hard to get a feel for someone but when they sit with someone for two hours just talking like i
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reckon he's probably a pretty good dude logan paul from what i can tell seems like a legend you know
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yeah yeah but also like now it's like i don't know like i'm an adult now like
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for me to hate someone you have to have done something pretty [ __ ] legitimate
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yeah you know people like i don't like his hair he should [ __ ] die and it's like all right
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dude keep that on your side of the fence you know yeah it's too much way too intense you're going
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to die young with that sort of energy brother so you know he seems cool to me i do man like i
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you know and then then the other brother i don't want to say anything bad about because you know he
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could definitely bash me man yeah well i would say that i think jake paul is probably i don't really
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like him but i have watched his last two fights and i don't really watch boxing fights like pretty
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much ever really yeah so i thought i thought [ __ ] this guy i'm watching boxing there's
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obviously something about him you know what i mean yeah like yeah i don't know once people like
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once you get to like that level of success i just feel like who gives a you're telling
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like people like jake paul is the biggest idiot on planet earth and it's like what are you even
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talking he's he's a multi-multi-millionaire and it's all he made it all himself yeah
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yeah yeah yeah exactly but the people that are saying jake paul is the biggest idiot
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in the whole wide world man uh also you know still still you know at home living with mom
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and you know just whinging because they're not you know doing yeah exactly yeah but
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once people like uh so successful just let him let him go nuts mate you know like good on him
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anyone who's got to that level of success he's got to be doing something right
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yeah for sure i think anybody like man if you got a like like millions and millions of dollars you
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know i think i think it's fair to say that i think everyone would run wild for you know good good
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probably 12 months or more yeah yeah especially like yeah like 32 year old blokes are like
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judging like 18 year old rich kids yeah like when remember when justin bieber like crashed
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his ferrari when he was like 18 or something yeah everyone's like this kid's off the rails and it's
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like yeah dude he's off the rails how [ __ ] cool is this like he's he's 18 he's like a billionaire
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what do you want him to stay inside and drink water like get a grip you know wrapping ferraris
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around telegraph poles he's getting it done i love it yeah yeah i missed that bieber i think boy
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what about this you guys are in the music world does everyone seem to just like justin bieber
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now because remember everyone would hate him for ages yeah man and i feel like everyone hated him
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because we were all about the same age and every girl had a photo of him on her wall and not of us
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yeah so i feel like that was the real reason and the same with one direction when one direction
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came along everyone were like [ __ ] you and then now we're now i'm even like yeah harry styles is
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all right you know and all of those guys but it was just because we were jealous because
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uh like good little girlfriends in u6 had their photos on the wall not us yeah granted yeah it's
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like justin bieber i could beat the [ __ ] that would be probably cause for concern yeah more so
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yeah i think so yeah i think that babes is cool as well i'm coming around on people these days yeah
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i'm just coming around there's like three people i hate and you know what i'm like i don't know like
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i don't know how you could really hate someone you've never met yeah like because and also
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like um sometimes with comedy and stuff like you meet people and i've met comedians who
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um you know i really was such a big fan of this and they were like pretty rude to me or vice versa
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where someone i was like oh that guy what a [ __ ] hack and he's so much more lovely than this guy
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i've been worshiping for the last four years you know so it's like stuff like that you think you
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think do i honestly know who justin bieber is yeah like you're out to lunch if you think you're like
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mates with the beeps like you know what i mean yeah yeah so i don't know it's just everything's
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so slippery i just try not to take anything too seriously yeah i think i'm in the same boat with
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you there man yeah all right before we wrap this up uh bill you got anything to promote
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yep um so i do i did have a show but it's sold out but um next year i'll be coming to all the major
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cities not darwin get a grip um but yeah i will be touring it's billy darcy on all social media
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and i have a podcast called get around me that i do each week and uh and yeah i got um heaps
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of stand-up clips on youtube check them out i mean yeah what a time to be alive that's it
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