October 14, 2025 • 5 mins
The extraordinary Tim Minchin joins Jonesy & Amanda for a 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):
Well, we know our next guest isn't one to sit
still and thank goodness, because the world without Tim Minchin
isn't worth living in. The musical Mastermind has released a
new album called Tim Minchin Time Machine. I think he's
missed an opportunity. Tim Mintion and Tim Machine would have
been better genius.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
And also he's about to go on tour and he's
recently well, just turned fifty last week and has run
a marathon. The smell of Denker rub is thick in
the air.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Tim Minchin, Hello, it's good to see you, bro.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
This is the time when you're about to turn fifty.
This is when you start doing marathons because.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Or you do Kakoda, you read christ.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Once you get over fifty, then you go into that
zone where you just drop dead for no reason. Yeah,
and that's what happens. And they say, what happened to me?
He just died and no one has any didn't have
cancer and he just died.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
I don't mind that.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
I actually was discussing that yesterday with my wife. I'm like,
if I dropped dead from now on, it'll be incredibly disappointing,
but I won't be like, oh, I should have should
have spent my time better, Like I've had a crack,
you know, in the last little while, and.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Speak of having a crack. Tell us how the marathon went.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
I was great.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
I are you a constant marathon runner?
Speaker 4 (01:31):
No, I've never done a marathon. I did a half
marathon about fifteen years ago and loved it, but thought
I probably I love running. I've run since I was
a teenager, just by myself. Though. You know, everyone told
me at the marathon on the weekend that running sort
of exploded as a thing and everyone's doing it now,
and I sort of had missed that. I've just been
trotting around Centennial gardens, you know, for years and years,
(01:52):
and yeah, you're the only one I thought have Yeah,
I thought it was my I thought I'd made it
up me.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Yeah, I'm going to run anyway I had.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
I went down to Melbourne and ran it and raised
a bunch of money for Beyond Blue because a bunch
of I didn't.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Raise it, like sixty three thousand.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
This is the amazing thing I mean, social media is
such a horror show these days. But because I was
quite early on social media and have all these followers,
if I go I'm running a marathon, it doesn't take
a huge percentage of them to contribute to get good numbers.
So I'm super proud and pleased with my followers.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Away from your philanthropic endeavors, from running to raising money.
Tim mentioned time machine, So these are songs that you
wrote when you're in your twenties.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Yeah, we begs the question.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
And I've often thought this of musicians, is that when
you're your most prolific, you look at the Beatles of
Rolling Stones. You know, Mick Jagger was twenty seven when
he wrote Symphony for Sympathy for the Devil.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
I know, the Beatles wrote everything before they turn thirty.
It's just completely bonkers. I compared myself to the Stones
and the Beatles. Yeah, I had a really prolific time
before things started going In a couple of years before
two thousand and five, which is when things kicked off
for me as a comedian, I wrote a lot, and
(03:04):
some of that stuff's good. And because the stuff I
wrote in the first five years of the twenty five
century was not seen or heard because I wasn't No,
I didn't have an audience yet. They've just sat there
a lot of those songs, and I thought I might
as well put them out. So I didn't intend to
make a big fuss of it. But then my record
company heard the songs and went, we should, we should.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
This is an album, let's get behind. Have you re
recorded them? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Yeah, completely new recordings, quite live recordings, all done in
a five day period in a studio and not massively altered.
But just I've never properly recorded these songs.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
When you look.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Back at your young twenties self, is he still really
close to the surface to you? Or can you see
how you've changed?
Speaker 4 (03:48):
How do you feel about that?
Speaker 1 (03:50):
I feel that my daggy teenage self is still so
close to this.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Right, Yeah, I feel that about you. I feel a
bit of both.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Sometimes I look at my songs and I think, oh,
you were doing all right back then. But he feels
like a stranger to me. Yeah, especially in my childhood
in a way that I don't. I don't have contempt
for old me. I just sort of think a lot
of things have changed, and I've had to change with him.
You know, I think I write differently now, I approach
(04:19):
the world differently now, but I feel continuity and the
type of brain I have, I still have a The
way I view the world is very much born of
the sort of brain you're given. I think everyone's like that.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
First or the songs.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
I'm pretty I tend to find a lyric idea or
a hook that I think that's a good idea for
a song, and then it grows outwards in both directions.
But usually it comes from a conceptual idea, not a
musical idea, but not always.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Sometimes because Jonesy was a musician when he was younger.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
Now I just heard some that drum.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Fell well pretty much it's hard.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
I know you made you made it clear in that
recording that it is hard to sing and a.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Perfect example of how hard it is. And a man
of mos, Phil Collins. But when he did in the
Air tonight, that poor.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Guy a guitar still the bass player or just a
lead to see you they don't do anything.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
They're off. Yeah, it's absolutely, it's difficult. It's difficult. Although
the lyrics.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
No lies, you're telling me what to do, No lies,
you're telling me what to be.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
No lies, I'm going to see this through. I love
it doesn't really make.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
Really, it's strong, It makes more sense than most of
the stuff people.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Right, So this is I'm getting praised and Tim he
knows stuff.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
He's going to Well you have to pay Jones if
you want to make that part of your show.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Oh sure, sure, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Tim suddenly lost all my details memories writing on an
nexsheld keep it safe. The new album Tim Minchin, Time Machine,
Tim Machine, Yeah do it? What would you rather no
lies on tour with you or Amanda's pun humor.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
I don't know, man, I'm going to have to spend
some time running away thinking about Tim.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
It's always great to talk to you. Thank you for
coming in.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
No worries. Yeah, thanks for having me come to I'm touring.
It's there's still there's still tickets.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
You can get tickets right now. Tim mintionin, Thank you.
Cheers 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):
Well, we know our next guest isn't one to sit
still and thank goodness, because the world without Tim Minchin
isn't worth living in. The musical Mastermind has released a
new album called Tim Minchin Time Machine. I think he's
missed an opportunity. Tim Mintion and Tim Machine would have
been better genius.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
And also he's about to go on tour and he's
recently well, just turned fifty last week and has run
a marathon. The smell of Denker rub is thick in
the air.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Tim Minchin, Hello, it's good to see you, bro.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
This is the time when you're about to turn fifty.
This is when you start doing marathons because.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Or you do Kakoda, you read christ.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Once you get over fifty, then you go into that
zone where you just drop dead for no reason. Yeah,
and that's what happens. And they say, what happened to me?
He just died and no one has any didn't have
cancer and he just died.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
I don't mind that.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
I actually was discussing that yesterday with my wife. I'm like,
if I dropped dead from now on, it'll be incredibly disappointing,
but I won't be like, oh, I should have should
have spent my time better, Like I've had a crack,
you know, in the last little while, and.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Speak of having a crack. Tell us how the marathon went.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
I was great.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
I are you a constant marathon runner?
Speaker 4 (01:31):
No, I've never done a marathon. I did a half
marathon about fifteen years ago and loved it, but thought
I probably I love running. I've run since I was
a teenager, just by myself. Though. You know, everyone told
me at the marathon on the weekend that running sort
of exploded as a thing and everyone's doing it now,
and I sort of had missed that. I've just been
trotting around Centennial gardens, you know, for years and years,
(01:52):
and yeah, you're the only one I thought have Yeah,
I thought it was my I thought I'd made it
up me.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Yeah, I'm going to run anyway I had.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
I went down to Melbourne and ran it and raised
a bunch of money for Beyond Blue because a bunch
of I didn't.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Raise it, like sixty three thousand.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
This is the amazing thing I mean, social media is
such a horror show these days. But because I was
quite early on social media and have all these followers,
if I go I'm running a marathon, it doesn't take
a huge percentage of them to contribute to get good numbers.
So I'm super proud and pleased with my followers.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Away from your philanthropic endeavors, from running to raising money.
Tim mentioned time machine, So these are songs that you
wrote when you're in your twenties.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Yeah, we begs the question.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
And I've often thought this of musicians, is that when
you're your most prolific, you look at the Beatles of
Rolling Stones. You know, Mick Jagger was twenty seven when
he wrote Symphony for Sympathy for the Devil.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
I know, the Beatles wrote everything before they turn thirty.
It's just completely bonkers. I compared myself to the Stones
and the Beatles. Yeah, I had a really prolific time
before things started going In a couple of years before
two thousand and five, which is when things kicked off
for me as a comedian, I wrote a lot, and
(03:04):
some of that stuff's good. And because the stuff I
wrote in the first five years of the twenty five
century was not seen or heard because I wasn't No,
I didn't have an audience yet. They've just sat there
a lot of those songs, and I thought I might
as well put them out. So I didn't intend to
make a big fuss of it. But then my record
company heard the songs and went, we should, we should.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
This is an album, let's get behind. Have you re
recorded them? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Yeah, completely new recordings, quite live recordings, all done in
a five day period in a studio and not massively altered.
But just I've never properly recorded these songs.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
When you look.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Back at your young twenties self, is he still really
close to the surface to you? Or can you see
how you've changed?
Speaker 4 (03:48):
How do you feel about that?
Speaker 1 (03:50):
I feel that my daggy teenage self is still so
close to this.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Right, Yeah, I feel that about you. I feel a
bit of both.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Sometimes I look at my songs and I think, oh,
you were doing all right back then. But he feels
like a stranger to me. Yeah, especially in my childhood
in a way that I don't. I don't have contempt
for old me. I just sort of think a lot
of things have changed, and I've had to change with him.
You know, I think I write differently now, I approach
(04:19):
the world differently now, but I feel continuity and the
type of brain I have, I still have a The
way I view the world is very much born of
the sort of brain you're given. I think everyone's like that.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
First or the songs.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
I'm pretty I tend to find a lyric idea or
a hook that I think that's a good idea for
a song, and then it grows outwards in both directions.
But usually it comes from a conceptual idea, not a
musical idea, but not always.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Sometimes because Jonesy was a musician when he was younger.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
Now I just heard some that drum.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Fell well pretty much it's hard.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
I know you made you made it clear in that
recording that it is hard to sing and a.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Perfect example of how hard it is. And a man
of mos, Phil Collins. But when he did in the
Air tonight, that poor.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Guy a guitar still the bass player or just a
lead to see you they don't do anything.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
They're off. Yeah, it's absolutely, it's difficult. It's difficult. Although
the lyrics.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
No lies, you're telling me what to do, No lies,
you're telling me what to be.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
No lies, I'm going to see this through. I love
it doesn't really make.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
Really, it's strong, It makes more sense than most of
the stuff people.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Right, So this is I'm getting praised and Tim he
knows stuff.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
He's going to Well you have to pay Jones if
you want to make that part of your show.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Oh sure, sure, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Tim suddenly lost all my details memories writing on an
nexsheld keep it safe. The new album Tim Minchin, Time Machine,
Tim Machine, Yeah do it? What would you rather no
lies on tour with you or Amanda's pun humor.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
I don't know, man, I'm going to have to spend
some time running away thinking about Tim.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
It's always great to talk to you. Thank you for
coming in.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
No worries. Yeah, thanks for having me come to I'm touring.
It's there's still there's still tickets.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
You can get tickets right now. Tim mintionin, Thank you.
Cheers guys,
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