November 13, 2025 • 6 mins
Monty Franklin joins Jonesy & Amanda for a hilarious chat!
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
My Heart podcasts here, more Gold one on one point
seven podcasts.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Playlists and listen live on the Free iHeart app and
Amanda jam Nation.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Always a delight to have Monty Franklin with us. A
brilliant Australian comedian. He's based in la these days, which
gives him a lot of insights into how different I guess,
how different people like to laugh. Monty is performing tonight
in Merrickville, but doing a whole lot of Australian shows.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Monty, Hello there is Hey guys, thanks.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
For having me.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
I love the name of your show. Is that your mate?
Speaker 4 (00:39):
Is that your mate?
Speaker 5 (00:40):
It's my favorite Australian saying, and it happens. I've had
to explain it to Americans of what it actually means.
So it's when you're walking along the street with a
friend of yours and you see, I don't know, maybe
a lunatic, and you just nudge your mate and go,
is that your mate? Insinuating they hang out with that person.
It's a great game to play.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Yeah, it all and sometimes it can be referred to
yourself as well, like a made of mine. He was
out and I went past on my motorbike and his
mate it is that your mate?
Speaker 6 (01:06):
Yeah, And then I thought, well, I'm now part of it.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Is that your mate?
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Yeah, there's different levels of it. Yeah, it's old mate. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:14):
You can say it about your kid if they're doing
something ridiculous to your partner, you go, is that your mate?
Like your kids stumbling around and you go, that's not
my kingness, that's your mate.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
There's so much wonderful Australian thiss in you and your comedy.
How does that translate around the world?
Speaker 5 (01:29):
Well, I have That's why I explained most of our
culture to the world. I didn't realize how ridiculous we
were until you go outside and then you start calling.
The rest of the world calls it a traffic cone,
a normal orange traffic cone, and we've decided to call
it a witch's hat. We're the only people who do that.
We just think it looks like the hat of a witch.
But think about construction workers going, can we get a
dozen witches hats here?
Speaker 4 (01:49):
It sounds ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
And it's funny. You said, I was in Canada last
year and I was taking They said, where did you
meet your wife? And I said, down the snow and
they said, what do you mean? And we go to
the snow, and they said, we're in Canada. The snow
comes to us, but you go to the snow.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
Yeah, we have to search for the snow in Australia
and find it.
Speaker 6 (02:07):
It's just that's what we do.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Yeah, but you're right. You don't realize it about your
own culture until you step out of it.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
No, but then you you know. I love our culture
and I love bringing it to the world and showing it.
I just did twenty seven shows around Europe and people
were coming out. A lot of people come out and say,
you're how we learn how to speak English, and I say.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Well, don't do that.
Speaker 5 (02:24):
I'm just done doing Australian slang. If you do this
anywhere else around the world, it won't make any sense.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
What do the Germans make of it, because they're not
famous for their whimsy.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
No, but they sat quietly and efficiently and listened to
the show.
Speaker 6 (02:36):
Berlin was a hard one.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
They were actually like waiting for me to pause, and
then they would laugh because they're like, oh, this is
the place to laugh. And I realized what was happening,
and then I just made fun of it.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Right.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Hamburg was a great show.
Speaker 5 (02:47):
I don't know why Berlin they were It was like
they were going to a ted talk about how to
speak Australia.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Well, Hamburg that's a home of the that's where the
Beatles got their break.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
Yeah, it's got a minute. They am like the Beatles.
Thank you for the comparison. You know what I'm laughing
is the comparison of you and Robert Irwin dancing on
Dancing with the Stars.
Speaker 6 (03:03):
Jonesy, This is hilarious, isn't it dreadful?
Speaker 4 (03:07):
No, it's fantastic.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
I'm embarrassed in proxy. Do have these people or found
you through your social media?
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Yeah, it's all off social media.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
And that's the great thing about what we can do
as entertainers now, as musicians, comedians and jugglers whoever, anyone.
Speaker 6 (03:22):
And dancers and dancers. Of course, you.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
Can run your own ship now without having to have
some sort of big manager or I'm going.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
To make your star kid. So you can do it yourself.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
So you don't have management.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
You just don't need it anymore.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
I've got big, nice people in my life that help
me out a lot. Joe Rogan has been very helpful.
Rob Schneider has. I'm just name dropping now, but I'm
just going to do it. John Clees is you know,
I've got all these people that if I need, can
I get help getting a show there that will help
and ring for me and stuff.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
You don't need manage anymore, you hear me. Managers, we
don't need you.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
You just need some of the biggest names I've ever heard.
Speaker 6 (03:58):
Yeah, yeah, as your friends.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
I have it with the Joe Rogan And how does
that all work? Does he does he book his stuff
or does he.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
Just get Like let's say I want to do shows
in Denver and I don't really know where the venues
are in the clubs and star He'll say I know
the person, and he'll call them quickly and go, look,
this is a main of mine. He's good and that's
all he needs to say to them, and they go,
all right, that's the endorsement I need. And then I
call them and they go, yeah, we're going to put
you on to this venue, this venue, this venue. So
then they organize. It's like what a manager would do.
(04:27):
So but you just get your high profile mates to
do it.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Or someone who sounds like Joe Rogan.
Speaker 6 (04:32):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
That's all you need is America as crazy as you
would have it believe. And we're talking about Rob Schneider
before he came out on our show, and we're talking
to him and I said, his America is crazy, and
he said, well, when you're online, it looks terrible, but
when you're there, it's fine.
Speaker 6 (04:47):
Is that it is?
Speaker 5 (04:48):
I mean, look, if you go to America, all they
watch is Shark Week about Australia, and they think the
shark is at the post office and going to bite
you on the leg. And it might be, but I'm
pretty sure it's not. So it is an amplified version
of everything that you see and there's Look, if you
go in the middle of the country in America, they
are just having fun. They're watching their football, they're letting
fireworks off. They're really great people. They won't hear this.
(05:11):
They're very simple people. They either just like their football
and their beer and their God, and that's all they
really care about. They don't they don't care about politics.
They don't care about if you want to be who
you have, They really don't care. They're very very simple people.
But in New York and l A. It's very divisive
and they do make a lot of noise. And that's
what you guys see from this vantage point and you
go everything's on fire constantly and there's.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Some fires, but it's not it's not that bad.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
There's some sharks, sharks and guns.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Yeah there's sharks and you have.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
To go to the snow and get the shark.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Yeah, get your gun, Monty. So tonight you can see
Mighty Franklin performing.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
At the Sydney Factory tonight. Shows around Australia.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
Yeah, you're just doing one show many Yeah, I've just
done Melbourne and then you know, do all the majors
and then Gold Coast, Sunny Coast because I want to.
And then I'm finishing off in Bali. I'm doing my
last show in Changu and Barley.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
There's a lot of Australians there.
Speaker 6 (06:06):
Callsgan, help me out with that one.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
That will be like the end of the Blues Brothers
movie with a.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Lot of singlets and a lot of bin.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
Tank What if it's just me around one of those
pool bars with a bunch of Australians drinking bin tangs
in their singlets Sonumbas Like that is a dream.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Also go to Mortyfranklin dot com. Mordy, thank you for
joining us.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
Thanks so much. For having me guys,
My Heart podcasts here, more Gold one on one point
seven podcasts.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Playlists and listen live on the Free iHeart app and
Amanda jam Nation.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Always a delight to have Monty Franklin with us. A
brilliant Australian comedian. He's based in la these days, which
gives him a lot of insights into how different I guess,
how different people like to laugh. Monty is performing tonight
in Merrickville, but doing a whole lot of Australian shows.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Monty, Hello there is Hey guys, thanks.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
For having me.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
I love the name of your show. Is that your mate?
Speaker 4 (00:39):
Is that your mate?
Speaker 5 (00:40):
It's my favorite Australian saying, and it happens. I've had
to explain it to Americans of what it actually means.
So it's when you're walking along the street with a
friend of yours and you see, I don't know, maybe
a lunatic, and you just nudge your mate and go,
is that your mate? Insinuating they hang out with that person.
It's a great game to play.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Yeah, it all and sometimes it can be referred to
yourself as well, like a made of mine. He was
out and I went past on my motorbike and his
mate it is that your mate?
Speaker 6 (01:06):
Yeah, And then I thought, well, I'm now part of it.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Is that your mate?
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Yeah, there's different levels of it. Yeah, it's old mate. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:14):
You can say it about your kid if they're doing
something ridiculous to your partner, you go, is that your mate?
Like your kids stumbling around and you go, that's not
my kingness, that's your mate.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
There's so much wonderful Australian thiss in you and your comedy.
How does that translate around the world?
Speaker 5 (01:29):
Well, I have That's why I explained most of our
culture to the world. I didn't realize how ridiculous we
were until you go outside and then you start calling.
The rest of the world calls it a traffic cone,
a normal orange traffic cone, and we've decided to call
it a witch's hat. We're the only people who do that.
We just think it looks like the hat of a witch.
But think about construction workers going, can we get a
dozen witches hats here?
Speaker 4 (01:49):
It sounds ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
And it's funny. You said, I was in Canada last
year and I was taking They said, where did you
meet your wife? And I said, down the snow and
they said, what do you mean? And we go to
the snow, and they said, we're in Canada. The snow
comes to us, but you go to the snow.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
Yeah, we have to search for the snow in Australia
and find it.
Speaker 6 (02:07):
It's just that's what we do.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Yeah, but you're right. You don't realize it about your
own culture until you step out of it.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
No, but then you you know. I love our culture
and I love bringing it to the world and showing it.
I just did twenty seven shows around Europe and people
were coming out. A lot of people come out and say,
you're how we learn how to speak English, and I say.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Well, don't do that.
Speaker 5 (02:24):
I'm just done doing Australian slang. If you do this
anywhere else around the world, it won't make any sense.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
What do the Germans make of it, because they're not
famous for their whimsy.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
No, but they sat quietly and efficiently and listened to
the show.
Speaker 6 (02:36):
Berlin was a hard one.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
They were actually like waiting for me to pause, and
then they would laugh because they're like, oh, this is
the place to laugh. And I realized what was happening,
and then I just made fun of it.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Right.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Hamburg was a great show.
Speaker 5 (02:47):
I don't know why Berlin they were It was like
they were going to a ted talk about how to
speak Australia.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Well, Hamburg that's a home of the that's where the
Beatles got their break.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
Yeah, it's got a minute. They am like the Beatles.
Thank you for the comparison. You know what I'm laughing
is the comparison of you and Robert Irwin dancing on
Dancing with the Stars.
Speaker 6 (03:03):
Jonesy, This is hilarious, isn't it dreadful?
Speaker 4 (03:07):
No, it's fantastic.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
I'm embarrassed in proxy. Do have these people or found
you through your social media?
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Yeah, it's all off social media.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
And that's the great thing about what we can do
as entertainers now, as musicians, comedians and jugglers whoever, anyone.
Speaker 6 (03:22):
And dancers and dancers. Of course, you.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
Can run your own ship now without having to have
some sort of big manager or I'm going.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
To make your star kid. So you can do it yourself.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
So you don't have management.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
You just don't need it anymore.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
I've got big, nice people in my life that help
me out a lot. Joe Rogan has been very helpful.
Rob Schneider has. I'm just name dropping now, but I'm
just going to do it. John Clees is you know,
I've got all these people that if I need, can
I get help getting a show there that will help
and ring for me and stuff.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
You don't need manage anymore, you hear me. Managers, we
don't need you.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
You just need some of the biggest names I've ever heard.
Speaker 6 (03:58):
Yeah, yeah, as your friends.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
I have it with the Joe Rogan And how does
that all work? Does he does he book his stuff
or does he.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
Just get Like let's say I want to do shows
in Denver and I don't really know where the venues
are in the clubs and star He'll say I know
the person, and he'll call them quickly and go, look,
this is a main of mine. He's good and that's
all he needs to say to them, and they go,
all right, that's the endorsement I need. And then I
call them and they go, yeah, we're going to put
you on to this venue, this venue, this venue. So
then they organize. It's like what a manager would do.
(04:27):
So but you just get your high profile mates to
do it.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Or someone who sounds like Joe Rogan.
Speaker 6 (04:32):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
That's all you need is America as crazy as you
would have it believe. And we're talking about Rob Schneider
before he came out on our show, and we're talking
to him and I said, his America is crazy, and
he said, well, when you're online, it looks terrible, but
when you're there, it's fine.
Speaker 6 (04:47):
Is that it is?
Speaker 5 (04:48):
I mean, look, if you go to America, all they
watch is Shark Week about Australia, and they think the
shark is at the post office and going to bite
you on the leg. And it might be, but I'm
pretty sure it's not. So it is an amplified version
of everything that you see and there's Look, if you
go in the middle of the country in America, they
are just having fun. They're watching their football, they're letting
fireworks off. They're really great people. They won't hear this.
(05:11):
They're very simple people. They either just like their football
and their beer and their God, and that's all they
really care about. They don't they don't care about politics.
They don't care about if you want to be who
you have, They really don't care. They're very very simple people.
But in New York and l A. It's very divisive
and they do make a lot of noise. And that's
what you guys see from this vantage point and you
go everything's on fire constantly and there's.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Some fires, but it's not it's not that bad.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
There's some sharks, sharks and guns.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Yeah there's sharks and you have.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
To go to the snow and get the shark.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Yeah, get your gun, Monty. So tonight you can see
Mighty Franklin performing.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
At the Sydney Factory tonight. Shows around Australia.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
Yeah, you're just doing one show many Yeah, I've just
done Melbourne and then you know, do all the majors
and then Gold Coast, Sunny Coast because I want to.
And then I'm finishing off in Bali. I'm doing my
last show in Changu and Barley.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
There's a lot of Australians there.
Speaker 6 (06:06):
Callsgan, help me out with that one.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
That will be like the end of the Blues Brothers
movie with a.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Lot of singlets and a lot of bin.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
Tank What if it's just me around one of those
pool bars with a bunch of Australians drinking bin tangs
in their singlets Sonumbas Like that is a dream.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Also go to Mortyfranklin dot com. Mordy, thank you for
joining us.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
Thanks so much. For having me guys,
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