March 28, 2025 • 30 mins
- Woody's keyboard shortcuts
- Alex Ward
- Creative parental punishments
- Marcus Mumford
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
The will M.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Woody podcast.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
I don't know how exactly we got there, but I
think somebody mentioned.
Speaker 4 (00:10):
Control A, control T, control matrol T. Anly analy you
don't tell everyone what controlled T does. Control T adds
a new tab to your window.
Speaker 5 (00:19):
Mine blind because usually I'm on the mouse trying to
find that little little plus sign, which is too and
then bagger, I've missed the missed the plus.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
When she told me control T, that has saved me
min hours.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Well, well, because I realized very quickly I forgot how
just bad you are at this stuff. And because would
have only been two years ago the button pushing Tommy
told you about controls E, control.
Speaker 5 (00:42):
V, cutting, controls, no control, control CE control C is cut.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Which means no control ceas coffy coffee.
Speaker 5 (00:52):
Sorry, because because what's cut so cut is you you
remove it from where you But.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
What's the keys to get we're not cutting? It is
hang on? Oh no X, control X control X to
cust it looks like a scissors.
Speaker 5 (01:07):
And then control V control V is paste. Don't fall
for control P. What does control P do paste? You
just said it control V past? What is That's a
good question?
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Actually, what is control?
Speaker 5 (01:20):
Because you'd think paste would be the most popular for
the letter of P.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Yeah, what do you think control V is?
Speaker 5 (01:27):
What?
Speaker 4 (01:28):
What do you think control V is?
Speaker 6 (01:29):
No?
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Control V is paced. I don't know what control What
do you think control P is? See for me?
Speaker 5 (01:35):
So what I'm trying to think about it's something that
starts with P that is more common than pasting.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Involves a computer. Completely outrageous, but could be more common.
Speaker 5 (01:44):
You've got paste four times today?
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Come on, where did you meet down at least before print? Well,
that makes sense.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
You met it by the printer, which is a bit weird.
I got to say, I don't know why you guys
needed to make that a meeting point. What everyone as
well come to meet me by the print.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
To be private, private printed chat? All right, but I've
got a few others.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
But for me, they should change that because how much
are you printing? I'm what I'm saying is you're pasting
more than.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
I think probably when the in the in the advent
of hot keys, But can they change the It's kind of.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Like telling everyone who drives in the left side of
the road and a straight driving the right side of
the road that we'll be doing it.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
And at the end of the day.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Everyone really does know that control V is paced. All right,
let's I'm gonna ask you a few more because this
is fun, just to spice it up.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
A little bit. Surprise you, you might.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
There was an alt F four joke that was made
as we were talking about this, and then that Tim
who's filling in for audio today, said I would.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
Like to alter for this chat. Yeah, and I didn't
get it. Everyone laughed.
Speaker 5 (02:47):
I didn't get it was pretty high brow tech chat,
so that'd have been closed down the chat.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Yeah, close the window. Yeah, alter four A four. Isn't
that just escape or control? Escape won't get you out
of the window?
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Should they should? They probably should.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
I've never done it before.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
No, it doesn't get you out if you if you're
in full screen, if you're in full screen, escapable.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Get you out of the four. Nothing's happening.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
No, No, you're not alter for it because you haven't.
You haven't got the function lock on for the numbers.
You've got the same keyboard. Okay, Well, let's let's get
into the functions, because there's they're the F keys at
the top.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Yeah, yeah, I've got what does F eleven do? Go home?
Go back to the home.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
I never used the FS. I think the fs have
been made redundant.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
That's why they're still on the keyboard. Like what is
an F eleven? Do no idea? You don't know that?
Have you had to have a guess? I don't know
what F one day? What what do you think F
eleven might do?
Speaker 5 (03:47):
That's like asking me, like, just name something that computer does.
That is the level of my guests on right now.
Simple makes the font a little bit smaller. But you
know what, that's just me shooting in the dark. You've
literally said to me, name a function of a computer, because.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
How could that makes them a little bit small?
Speaker 3 (04:05):
But I'm just you know, I'm okay, I'll give it, okay,
enters full screen.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Oh that's handy, Yeah, very handy. How do you get
the control? I? Control? I? What am I in? Am
I in Microsoft?
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Word?
Speaker 7 (04:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:23):
A word?
Speaker 4 (04:24):
You're in a word?
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Duck?
Speaker 6 (04:24):
And I press control I italics yes, by control be
bold nice and then control you underline Yeah, I h.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Highlight Yeah, I don't know know that was.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
I never highlighted, okay, I usually yeah, it doesn't matter.
Uh alt tab alt tab not a word. Dot can
be anywhere. I've heard of alt tabbing before. I feel
like I'm previously knew what an old tab was.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Yeah, I think as a teenager. I think as a
fourteen year old boy, you would have known old tab
very well.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Swap window, it's come back to him.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Yeah, it's really Oh my god, parents can't coming in
the driveway.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Old tab, old tab, old tab, get me out of here.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
Yeah, no amazing, I'm doing it now. Yes, I definitely
used to do that.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
All the comedy festivals are in all the cities at
the moment, and that means all the comedians are in
the studio, and today Alex Ward's in with us and.
Speaker 8 (05:34):
A huge audience for the sounds of that.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Absolutely. Yeah, you travel with him, do you?
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (05:39):
I always have that backing track at my show.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Wait, surely when you walk out? Yeah, natural, just to
beef it up.
Speaker 8 (05:46):
Yeah, actually I have to usually turn it down. Everyone's like,
this is too.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Much, so much going on here.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Hey, I really want to ask you about this expression,
because Woods and I have been throwing.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
It back and forth, and I don't know what pretty
privilege means.
Speaker 8 (06:02):
I'll tell you don't know what pretty privilege. Okay, okay,
you'll know someone I'm looking at both of you. I
won't you could have it. We don't know, so pretty privileged.
I think one of you is really pretty, and I
will reveal which one depending on who treats me the
(06:22):
best throughout this.
Speaker 5 (06:25):
It should be based solely on looks.
Speaker 8 (06:28):
Pretty privilege is based solely on looks.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
So you look good and then you get things.
Speaker 8 (06:34):
Okay, I feel like I've come into this interview on
a bad foot. You're both so beautiful, but you also
maybe you're just pretty and you don't have the privilege
that comes with it, because that's different. So pretty privilege
is the theory that if you are a beautiful person
I'm talking like I'm talking model level, usually you get
things in life quite easily. But the privilege part comes
(06:55):
in that you don't actually know that these people who
have pretty do not realize people have you ever met,
Like I'm mode on, they're so nice, They're just like
the nicest person you've ever met. They're like because everyone
treats them so good all the time. So it's sort
of this idea like.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
You get you've given the benefit of the doubt there
and you go, oh, you don't even realize.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
I think they're lying.
Speaker 8 (07:15):
They could be Yeah, maybe, but maybe I'm nicer than
you will.
Speaker 7 (07:18):
No.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
No, that's what I'm kind of blown away by.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
I'm like, you're a much better person than I am,
because I've always immediately like you.
Speaker 8 (07:27):
You're doubting someone means you probably don't have pretty privilege.
It's like the way they float through the world. Yeah,
And so I worked with a girl who had pretty privilege.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Did she know?
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Did she know she had pretty No?
Speaker 8 (07:39):
So she was like less of a like an office
work and more of what I called like a hot
ghost that would haunt the building because she never had
to touch anything, like to the point that I was like,
can she touch anything? It's like and she could go
through doors. Every door was automatic because someone was there
to open it. I'd be wide be like trying to
walk into it. I just bang like, oh, this isn't automated.
(08:00):
And then so this is when I really she truly,
truly had pretty privileges. One day, I was getting her
lunch because even I was like, please, madam, may I
do something? Thank you for the privilege getting you lunch? Anyway,
So I went and I got her burrito, and I
came back and she starts eating it and she goes,
she goes, where's the gaucamole? And I go, oh, you didn't.
You didn't ask for GK and she goes, yeah, no, no,
(08:21):
she goes, they just give it to you. And I
was like, what do you mean. She goes, yeah, it's
free there, and I was like, excuse in the whole
office started listening. You could feel the whole office, and
I was like, what do you mean it. She goes,
it's free. She goes, they it's free everywhere, and I
was like, oh my god, A but no, it's not.
She'd never paid for guacamole anywhere. And here's what's crazy.
(08:42):
She was twenty three and she had two properties, and
I thought that was just something news court made up. Now,
if you don't have to pay for Avokada, your step
for life, so she has pretty.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Privilege and so something you have those.
Speaker 8 (08:56):
Approached.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
What's that.
Speaker 8 (08:57):
I'm still figuring this out for the reason people are
very willing to come up to me and help. If
it wasn't radio, if you could see my face right now,
people feel very comfortable just coming up to me telling
me things like I have been okay. A friend once said,
I look like I work in every building I'm in.
That's pretty accurate for me, right, So like one one
(09:18):
day I was mistaken for like a lawyer, and I
was also mistaken for a waitress, like on the same day. Yeah,
I guess they're like, yes, she's putting herself through law school,
and so I just have to live my life now
in that way, It's actually easier to just help people
because I got sick of being like, well, I don't
actually work here, and I'm being myself. I'm not like
walking around jbhi if I swinging a lanyard round or something.
(09:40):
I'm just being just being me, Like they're just coming.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Up and sorry.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
So then you will then try to help them.
Speaker 8 (09:47):
Exhausting being like oh, because it's embarrassing for them. So
now I'm like yeah, in fact, I kind of just
like clock every building I walk into now, like I
have blueprints in my head.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
Have you been any sales meetingwhiles you mean the radio
studio people, assuming you're in the haven't.
Speaker 8 (09:59):
But if you you need to get their wody, I
need you to go down the hallway.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
Why did you quit in the first place?
Speaker 8 (10:08):
You know what? I quit just because at the time
I had. This is so boring, but I'll gloss over it.
I had kind of like an acidic stomach, and so
for a week I had to cut out all acid
and I included coffee. But then I went off it
and I wanted to be like, you know what, maybe
I don't need to be a coffee drinker.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
Power YEA understood that.
Speaker 7 (10:26):
Have you.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
Off coffee?
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Like if you like, I get it, if you if
you become a you know, people can overstimulate it and
they get a little bit jittery.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
Right, that's you totally get a week one whatever it is.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
But people that have this, like I've managed to cut
coffee out, I'm like, that's.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
That's the best part of my life. Like I didn't
need you and I was totally fine. So that's the
thing I don't understand.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Yeah, yeah, you feel and I can.
Speaker 8 (10:48):
I say, well after I've done the experiment for you,
so you.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Don't thank you so much?
Speaker 8 (10:52):
All right? It was awful. Firstly, no one cares when
you quit. You know, I went off for a month
for a month, and everyone's like, oh, you go, don't
go off clean, We support you. Where can we give
you money? Like that? And then I was like I
quit coffee, and everyone was just like I could quit, right,
and I was so I don't get I was like,
you idiot. In my head, I didn't have they I
(11:13):
quit coffee, and I'm like, gold coffee, I would get
you back.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
So so pity everybody else in their nine am meeting
on a Monday.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
I'm like, jeez, you must be ship in the morning.
Well you know what happens, right you are?
Speaker 1 (11:23):
You're awful.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
You're awful, yeah, because I just got off coffee and
I'm like, good one, dickhead. You also got off a
good conversation, you know, like I.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
Can't even talk you.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
It used to be a vibe in the morning, you know,
when you go for a walk with someone, you're like,
I'm going to get a coffee. The next fifteen minutes
a shit hot You're both downloading and listening, and you get.
Speaker 8 (11:40):
How embarrassing is decaf because you're like, I don't want
a decaff. But I would be like, can I have
a decaf? But what I said in my head was like,
can I please have an adult baby Chino? Yeah? Exactly.
And the hy and loads I like them. It turns
out like you you must like these highs and loves.
When you wake up in the morning and you sit
on the side of the bend, you don't drink coffee,
(12:00):
that's it. You just wake up the bottom.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
There's nothing the.
Speaker 8 (12:04):
Whole day, however you feel.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
And that's I get no kick. That's that's awful.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Yeah, and I really you know, that's what you found out.
Speaker 8 (12:13):
That's what I found out. But I also realized everyone
is addicted, like well, ninety percent of people are addicted
to coffee, but it's never treated the same. And I
really like thought about that. I think it's because it's
not treated the same, because no one would like steal
from their parents for their coffee. Actually, you know, like
you see that no one's stealing mum's flat screen.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
It's for you.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
He's like, yeah, yeah, so what about what about?
Speaker 4 (12:39):
What about what about the espresso martinis?
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Then?
Speaker 5 (12:42):
So I said, because you you quit espresso, Martini's is
the same.
Speaker 8 (12:46):
I do avoid those now because I think I can't
handle the combo of coffee and alcohol, which I think
is fair. It's chemically it's like coffee and alcol Chemically,
it makes you depressed with energy, right, that's yeah, I mean.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
Yeah, well that's rich. Really that's wild.
Speaker 8 (13:00):
Yes, Will sitting here having a martini.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
Is that right?
Speaker 8 (13:10):
Yeah, it's like it makes you depressed with energy. It
was like one night I had three and found out
it's possible to cry faster.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
Absolutely on the money.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Hey, there's one other thing that I want to talk
to you about, Alex before you go, by the way,
comedy dot com dot you if you see at Alec
alex Ward at all the comedy festivals. I saw this
on your socials recently and this I think you reposted
it for a little while ago, but it really did.
I think you know you're onto a good thing with
this sort of gear. When you unlock a door in
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people's minds that they haven't unlocked before, like a memory.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
And this was on you scared. This is only your
parents using.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
The same bath water when you were kids to save money.
I'd forgotten that my mum used to do that until
I saw that.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
That was did you do it?
Speaker 8 (13:59):
Did you share with just your siblings or did you
have what I had where it was the.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
You're with mum and dad too, as in parents go
through the bath.
Speaker 8 (14:08):
I remember having a bathing dad water like old dad water.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
Parents first, that was that the order so Dad's first.
Dad gets first Dad?
Speaker 8 (14:18):
Well, sometimes your dad took it first. And then I
had to go on old dad dad water? How disgusting
is the idea of Dada? At least it wasn't granddad water.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
Would mum getting there as well? Would you have to
deal with mum water?
Speaker 8 (14:32):
I don't remember being if I did, I don't remember
being like as grossed out by mum water. It's something
about Dad water that's just and yeah, you know, I'm
using the note tears formula. It doesn't work when the
pains on the inside. I was like, I'm still crying.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
That's great stuff, all right.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Running on Alex Ward Comedy dot com dot please come
get down say at any of it shows Melbourne, pro
Brisbane or Sydney.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
Alex, thanks for coming.
Speaker 8 (15:03):
In, Thank you for having me. And by the way, Will,
I'm going to say you're the pretty one, but mostly
because I think you need it more.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
Yeah, I appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
You say that, so good.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
A victim of a man in here.
Speaker 8 (15:22):
We're going back.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Let's go back in time, going back in time? Are
you telling me that a time machine? Victoria Bitterer for
a hard earned first.
Speaker 5 (15:35):
So every single week we like to follow up with
one of the great calls that we've had during the week.
I means truth, almighty will this one stayed with me,
this I think. And it was Ben who called us,
and he told us about a rather extraordinary punishment and
his mum gave him.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
Yes.
Speaker 9 (15:58):
Alone, me and my girlfriend besic bussed by my mum
and my auntie. Oh, I'm doing push ups okay, and
then basically she's like not under my roof and basically
made me walk home while I was in lack of clothing.
So I had to walk my god friend home. She's
fully clothed. I was not allowed to be closed, and
my mom drove for home me with the car to
make sure I walked the whole way home.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Wow, your mum frog marched you nude through the streets.
Speaker 9 (16:26):
Yeah, about one and a half kilometers away from my Wow.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
That's great, Benny joins us.
Speaker 5 (16:33):
Right now, the man who was nude frog marched to
drop off his girlfriend at the time.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
Hello, Benny, hey you guys there. You doing very good. Mate.
Speaker 5 (16:43):
First off, are you on a thousand bucks and a
VB prize pack? So congratulations for my friends, legend, your legends,
your a legend.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
But let's talk about your legendary frog war. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (16:54):
So were you completely nude during the frogs?
Speaker 7 (16:59):
Yes? Yeah, Lily News So I basically had I covered
myself up with my hands. Have you ever tried to
have small talk while you're trying, like getting walked through
the street.
Speaker 9 (17:10):
To time?
Speaker 4 (17:13):
What did you lead with? Were you covering your genitals?
Speaker 9 (17:16):
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
I'm.
Speaker 5 (17:20):
I'm interested, Benny, because for me, this was one of
the most creative parental punishments that I then.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
Did your mom have any other rippers when you were.
Speaker 9 (17:28):
Actually I think my father actually topped the cake with
that one. Actually, my father, I was told not to
dry it. You grabbed Daca carry out, took my car out.
My dad wakes me up the next day and he
goes put a suit on. He goes, here's a suit.
We're going to go to a funeral. I'm like, what
what do you mean we're going to go a funeral.
I'm like, he's passed away, and he's like, no, come on,
I get rested. That's like earlier the morning, I'm half
asleep and I walk out and I go to go
(17:50):
to the car, his car, and he goes now come
with me, and I go out to the actual car,
like out to the actual paddic and there's a there's
an actual cross there bury like like very actual like
grounds being disturbed and on top of the cross was
my number plate buried my car in the middle of
the night. Took the time to make a cross, got
(18:13):
me dressed for a funeral. Do you want him say
any final words?
Speaker 4 (18:18):
Did you say some words? Did you say some words
for your cow?
Speaker 9 (18:20):
Then he I was just like, what the hell the eventful?
Speaker 7 (18:31):
I said, like they obviously they even said got busted
for wagging, Like my mum knew I was wagging. One
time I said, I took my bodyboard to go down
to the beach, and that do that? And I basically
went around the side of the house and grabbed my
body board one day going there. Let's go down to bond.
He went down the BONDEI opened up my bag. There
was a piece of styrofragm written on the stiroprag you
grounded when you get home.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Great, Well, if you get him on the show, I
think so a few because Woods and I are very
young parents ben, so it'd be great to have a
laugh with, you know, just count with some ideas.
Speaker 5 (19:11):
Yeah, I wouldn't like getting like getting one over then
though as well. It sounds like they've just dominated you
all through, so maybe let's try and get some.
Speaker 7 (19:19):
Actually, I think I have one. I got over my
mother once, and I will say this was the funniest one.
She asked me, she's trying to buy a present from
my partner, and she said I said, like, She said,
like a massage, like a voucher for a message of that,
And I said, go get You asked for a voucher
for a massage with a happy ending. So I sent
her around to all these massage places. I was for
(19:40):
this gift voucher six places before actually before later on
what was actually happening.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
That's family.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
That is awesome, mate, you are so so deserving on
the BB Friday, fol what made you get yourself a
thousand dollars and a BB Prize pack and a happy ending?
Speaker 4 (20:05):
Well done, Victoria for a hardened first. Congrats Bend, Thanks
for the laughs. Mate.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Man responsible for all your children yearing at, yelling at
fat swear word in.
Speaker 6 (20:23):
The car.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Is in the studio with us right now.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Mike is bumping on with the money.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Well, this is why I love Australia because you just
let it all hang out.
Speaker 10 (20:41):
You were like the only country that would play that
song and its proper version, and as a result, the
first place where our band got any kind of success
outside of the UK.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Yeah, that's cool, that's cool.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
You guys like launched our band internationally launched.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
You also launched the swearing cares.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
As I said, of a lot of children, did we
come back to did we come back to bite you
in the art?
Speaker 4 (21:05):
So any feedback about that?
Speaker 3 (21:07):
No?
Speaker 1 (21:07):
But I mean I've got in trouble.
Speaker 10 (21:11):
I got in trouble for dropping too many sea bombs shows.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
Are you slipping seas into your songs?
Speaker 10 (21:17):
Or get in the chat in between? And I got
a bit loose and my solo tour, and then one
night there was a six year old kid on the barral,
six years old.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
It looked like a good but.
Speaker 10 (21:37):
Do you know what bringing a six year old to
a rock and roll shows, that's not my bad?
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 5 (21:42):
If the parents are allowing him to go to a
rock concert, then I reckon he's heard a few seas before.
Speaker 10 (21:47):
Market My kids were not welcome my ur shows. They
still aren't really, so do.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
They want to go?
Speaker 5 (21:55):
Do they want to go to the Because if it
was my daughter, I should be like, nothing you do
is cool. I don't want to come to your shows.
Whereas your kids are they are they do? They think
you're cool?
Speaker 10 (22:03):
I think maybe it's part of my tactic to keep
them away from it, to make them feel like it's
cooler than it is.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Yeah, nice, well played.
Speaker 10 (22:11):
But I can't believe they just let me in this
beautiful studio on my own.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
I'm having a great time. Glad you're not here.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
Actually, know what do you mean?
Speaker 9 (22:21):
Mate?
Speaker 4 (22:21):
We're all in the same room. We're all talking together
the Magic.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
By Sorry sorry sorry.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Yeah, hey, let's talk about the new record.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Actually, before let's not, let's talk about your.
Speaker 5 (22:35):
Yeah, we got exactly who we're going for the inspiration.
Speaker 10 (22:40):
They're lot me in a room with four you love
it one, three photos of you lads with your top
sof you love it?
Speaker 4 (22:46):
You love it?
Speaker 1 (22:47):
I love it?
Speaker 3 (22:48):
Hey, Actually, before we get to the talking about the
new record, I want to talk about sign No More,
which is you know the first time that I that
you guys kind of burst onto the scene. I was
just explaining to Woody, but Tommy here that you guys
have got shakes be littered all all the way throughout.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
That record culture and then culture culture, not just swear words.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
This bike probably do me a few listened to real
I think as I was studying Beth when I heard
the stars Hide your Fires, like, I was like, hang
on a second, this is pretty stealing his maderia.
Speaker 10 (23:15):
Yeah, just stealing my way through songs since seven. But
what he was like, did you get any copywriters ues
for that?
Speaker 1 (23:24):
And I was like, no.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
I think that's the genius is that Shakespeare is not
copyright because no one knows who Shakespeare really is.
Speaker 10 (23:29):
I spent a lot of my time sneaking other people's
words into songs. Brilliant and good good artists copy, but
the great artists steal.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
I think I think that quote has stolen from Bob Dylan.
Speaker 10 (23:42):
Actually, but I I've got I've only got I've only
gotten hot water once.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
That wasn't really hot water.
Speaker 10 (23:49):
I just I just hadn't hadn't asked permission of a writer.
And then they found out about it, and they were
lovely about it, and they talked about it, impressed, and
it was.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
Fine, Ah, are you talking specif Shakespeare?
Speaker 1 (24:01):
No?
Speaker 10 (24:01):
No, he was fine with it. He's got other things
to worry about, like heaven. This was a writer who
called Hillary Mantel, who wrote these amazing books about Cromwell
I love.
Speaker 5 (24:14):
Do you realize when you write a Hilary Mantell line
that it is a Hillary Mantel? Because sometimes I do
find myself sometimes saying things and then claiming it they're
my own thought, and then realizing later when someone pulls
me up on it, that I have actually just stolen
someone's line.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
I think most of the time I am.
Speaker 10 (24:31):
And most of the stuff I think I've referenced lyrically
is public like Shakespeare, so no, and I think, yeah,
I'm mostly just taking inspiration from stuff and then change it,
which is which.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
Is really the way that created the creativity has got
to work, I think for when he got in a
bit of trouble with I can't remember which someone's got
to get lucky or something like Forrell, and he was like, like, guys.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
It was that.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
Robin thinks yeah, and he's like, if we're not allowed
to get inspired by other people's stuff, you know, once
you open the fud gates there, we're all in trouble.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
I think Sharon started record filming every.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
Right, Oh no, really wow.
Speaker 10 (25:10):
I think I know that some people are because they're
worried about being sued. And a lot of the time,
I think most of the time when those copyright things
come up, it's like either coincidence or accident.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
Or yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Of course, of.
Speaker 5 (25:23):
Course, there's a called parallel thinking, which is this is
more in the stand up comedy.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
It's a really tech we're really tech now.
Speaker 5 (25:33):
We went from sea bombs to technical deep chap, full range.
Baby Elton John and I know that he brought you
out on stage, I believe at the twenty thirteen Grammys.
Am I right in saying that he said something to
you right before you walked out on stage markers.
Speaker 10 (25:52):
He did his m my absolute hair for lots of reasons,
but mostly because we're about to play in front of
how many many millions of people at the Grammys and
we're doing a live on helm.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
Trip and he calls it sob just as the curtain's.
Speaker 10 (26:02):
Going on, and he goes when quick, Quick, come here,
and we're like, well, through Elton's calling, we've got to go,
and what's wrong. We're holding our instruments and goes now
it would be a terrible time to get your deck out.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
And he wasn't wrong, wasn't wrong.
Speaker 5 (26:21):
It would have been never He's never wrong.
Speaker 10 (26:25):
And then we like launched straight into the song. I mean,
his timing was unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
It was so good.
Speaker 10 (26:30):
Yeah, he's taught me a lot about giving zero fix
that man. Really amazing, amazing.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
He was the king of that. I mean, that's probably
why he's right. There's a sense of play about him, right,
there always has been.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
Yeah, I hate sort of bringing up other people in
your life, but I think we've spoken enough about your
music for so far, Marcus. But boring, big, big, big
announcement a couple of weeks ago, now that Jason Steak
has said that ted Lasso is going to be back
for season four.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
God, who did that theme song? That theme song is good,
isn't it.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
It does sound like it's copied from somewhere though.
Speaker 10 (27:07):
That's the most anyone's ever heard of that song because
you normally press skip intro.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Yeah, you just.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Got that's a whole song.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Who knew that's a whole song?
Speaker 3 (27:20):
I thought it was just fifteen seconds, So there you go.
Nice hear the nos I've tried, and I'm like, love let's.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
I didn't even reveal now that song? So you wrote
that theme song, I'm in.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Because I've joined those darts at this stage.
Speaker 5 (27:36):
If you're ever watching that show, say at home with
the family, and someone reaches to skip intro, do you
stop them.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
I've never watched that show once.
Speaker 10 (27:46):
I watched it a lot when I was there because
I did all the music for the first two seasons
with my friend Tom Howe and so we I and
I scored it all to pictures so I'd seen it.
And the first season I did during COVID at home,
I was stuck in the studio on my own with
all the techer's ship, which I'm so bad at. I'm
really bad at, like doing the computer stuff. I had
(28:07):
to learn how to do it. It took me six months.
Did not pay me for six months work.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Who paid me for a week's work? But it took
me six months.
Speaker 10 (28:14):
And then by the end of it, I was like,
I have no idea if the show's any good because
I've watched it so.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Much and I had to keep going back and.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
Like, oh I sound you couldn't follow the narrative. You
were skipping around.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
Now.
Speaker 10 (28:25):
I followed it fine, but I just got sick of it. Yeah,
you're too close to when it became really successful. I
was sort of surprised people like us cool.
Speaker 4 (28:34):
You've got a new record out today. So let's talk
about Rushbia trademark, mumvin and sons banjo in the background.
Speaker 5 (28:42):
There.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Floading vocals.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
He's gonna, he's gonna cheers, been going on for this.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
One and I one's here to tell me to stop,
Marcus mom. So Rush mean is where you met? Is
that right where you decided to become a end?
Speaker 9 (28:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Do you know what today?
Speaker 10 (29:00):
Literally this morning Ben and I figured out it was
the name of the building where.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
We first met. We didn't know that, Wow, junior school.
Speaker 4 (29:06):
So how long have you guys been making music?
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Deeo then for like fifteen years or something.
Speaker 5 (29:12):
How did you get sons across the line as if
like you know, they're your children?
Speaker 10 (29:17):
Well, in the UK, I don't know about here, but
in the UK lots of things are cooled answers. And
at the time it was like that time in like music,
where there was lots of like Johnny Flynn and the
Sussex Wit or like band names that had the name
of the lead singer in it, and then and then
the name of the band after it.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Jenny Lewis, and the.
Speaker 4 (29:39):
Whatever Juey Lewis, and the news there go.
Speaker 10 (29:41):
Yeah, And so rather than that we were like, well,
let's not just do That's just what everyone's doing.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
Band names and bullshit.
Speaker 8 (29:48):
They are so hard.
Speaker 10 (29:50):
It's funny, like when you come and get about you
get asked by lot the natural questions to us.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Yeah, but it's not that original, so you could do
better with he but.
Speaker 4 (29:59):
It's good for it's good for you.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
It was a ship.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
Question, Well do you want to get The question you
asked me before you got involved was what do I
think they're family? And I was like, because it's got
ensign in the tur al right, well get out of
your brand new record. Month and Son's new album, rush
Meya is out Friday, the twenty eighth of March, remember
which it's rush Meya, not Rushmore. But he was asking
(30:23):
what reference you guys had to those American presidents in
the rock?
Speaker 1 (30:27):
No whatsoever.
Speaker 4 (30:28):
No, it's overs
The will M.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Woody podcast.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
I don't know how exactly we got there, but I
think somebody mentioned.
Speaker 4 (00:10):
Control A, control T, control matrol T. Anly analy you
don't tell everyone what controlled T does. Control T adds
a new tab to your window.
Speaker 5 (00:19):
Mine blind because usually I'm on the mouse trying to
find that little little plus sign, which is too and
then bagger, I've missed the missed the plus.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
When she told me control T, that has saved me
min hours.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Well, well, because I realized very quickly I forgot how
just bad you are at this stuff. And because would
have only been two years ago the button pushing Tommy
told you about controls E, control.
Speaker 5 (00:42):
V, cutting, controls, no control, control CE control C is cut.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Which means no control ceas coffy coffee.
Speaker 5 (00:52):
Sorry, because because what's cut so cut is you you
remove it from where you But.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
What's the keys to get we're not cutting? It is
hang on? Oh no X, control X control X to
cust it looks like a scissors.
Speaker 5 (01:07):
And then control V control V is paste. Don't fall
for control P. What does control P do paste? You
just said it control V past? What is That's a
good question?
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Actually, what is control?
Speaker 5 (01:20):
Because you'd think paste would be the most popular for
the letter of P.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Yeah, what do you think control V is?
Speaker 5 (01:27):
What?
Speaker 4 (01:28):
What do you think control V is?
Speaker 6 (01:29):
No?
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Control V is paced. I don't know what control What
do you think control P is? See for me?
Speaker 5 (01:35):
So what I'm trying to think about it's something that
starts with P that is more common than pasting.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Involves a computer. Completely outrageous, but could be more common.
Speaker 5 (01:44):
You've got paste four times today?
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Come on, where did you meet down at least before print? Well,
that makes sense.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
You met it by the printer, which is a bit weird.
I got to say, I don't know why you guys
needed to make that a meeting point. What everyone as
well come to meet me by the print.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
To be private, private printed chat? All right, but I've
got a few others.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
But for me, they should change that because how much
are you printing? I'm what I'm saying is you're pasting
more than.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
I think probably when the in the in the advent
of hot keys, But can they change the It's kind of.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Like telling everyone who drives in the left side of
the road and a straight driving the right side of
the road that we'll be doing it.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
And at the end of the day.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Everyone really does know that control V is paced. All right,
let's I'm gonna ask you a few more because this
is fun, just to spice it up.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
A little bit. Surprise you, you might.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
There was an alt F four joke that was made
as we were talking about this, and then that Tim
who's filling in for audio today, said I would.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
Like to alter for this chat. Yeah, and I didn't
get it. Everyone laughed.
Speaker 5 (02:47):
I didn't get it was pretty high brow tech chat,
so that'd have been closed down the chat.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Yeah, close the window. Yeah, alter four A four. Isn't
that just escape or control? Escape won't get you out
of the window?
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Should they should? They probably should.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
I've never done it before.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
No, it doesn't get you out if you if you're
in full screen, if you're in full screen, escapable.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Get you out of the four. Nothing's happening.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
No, No, you're not alter for it because you haven't.
You haven't got the function lock on for the numbers.
You've got the same keyboard. Okay, Well, let's let's get
into the functions, because there's they're the F keys at
the top.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Yeah, yeah, I've got what does F eleven do? Go home?
Go back to the home.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
I never used the FS. I think the fs have
been made redundant.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
That's why they're still on the keyboard. Like what is
an F eleven? Do no idea? You don't know that?
Have you had to have a guess? I don't know
what F one day? What what do you think F
eleven might do?
Speaker 5 (03:47):
That's like asking me, like, just name something that computer does.
That is the level of my guests on right now.
Simple makes the font a little bit smaller. But you
know what, that's just me shooting in the dark. You've
literally said to me, name a function of a computer, because.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
How could that makes them a little bit small?
Speaker 3 (04:05):
But I'm just you know, I'm okay, I'll give it, okay,
enters full screen.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Oh that's handy, Yeah, very handy. How do you get
the control? I? Control? I? What am I in? Am
I in Microsoft?
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Word?
Speaker 7 (04:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:23):
A word?
Speaker 4 (04:24):
You're in a word?
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Duck?
Speaker 6 (04:24):
And I press control I italics yes, by control be
bold nice and then control you underline Yeah, I h.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Highlight Yeah, I don't know know that was.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
I never highlighted, okay, I usually yeah, it doesn't matter.
Uh alt tab alt tab not a word. Dot can
be anywhere. I've heard of alt tabbing before. I feel
like I'm previously knew what an old tab was.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Yeah, I think as a teenager. I think as a
fourteen year old boy, you would have known old tab
very well.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Swap window, it's come back to him.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Yeah, it's really Oh my god, parents can't coming in
the driveway.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Old tab, old tab, old tab, get me out of here.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
Yeah, no amazing, I'm doing it now. Yes, I definitely
used to do that.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
All the comedy festivals are in all the cities at
the moment, and that means all the comedians are in
the studio, and today Alex Ward's in with us and.
Speaker 8 (05:34):
A huge audience for the sounds of that.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Absolutely. Yeah, you travel with him, do you?
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (05:39):
I always have that backing track at my show.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Wait, surely when you walk out? Yeah, natural, just to
beef it up.
Speaker 8 (05:46):
Yeah, actually I have to usually turn it down. Everyone's like,
this is too.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Much, so much going on here.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Hey, I really want to ask you about this expression,
because Woods and I have been throwing.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
It back and forth, and I don't know what pretty
privilege means.
Speaker 8 (06:02):
I'll tell you don't know what pretty privilege. Okay, okay,
you'll know someone I'm looking at both of you. I
won't you could have it. We don't know, so pretty privileged.
I think one of you is really pretty, and I
will reveal which one depending on who treats me the
(06:22):
best throughout this.
Speaker 5 (06:25):
It should be based solely on looks.
Speaker 8 (06:28):
Pretty privilege is based solely on looks.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
So you look good and then you get things.
Speaker 8 (06:34):
Okay, I feel like I've come into this interview on
a bad foot. You're both so beautiful, but you also
maybe you're just pretty and you don't have the privilege
that comes with it, because that's different. So pretty privilege
is the theory that if you are a beautiful person
I'm talking like I'm talking model level, usually you get
things in life quite easily. But the privilege part comes
(06:55):
in that you don't actually know that these people who
have pretty do not realize people have you ever met,
Like I'm mode on, they're so nice, They're just like
the nicest person you've ever met. They're like because everyone
treats them so good all the time. So it's sort
of this idea like.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
You get you've given the benefit of the doubt there
and you go, oh, you don't even realize.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
I think they're lying.
Speaker 8 (07:15):
They could be Yeah, maybe, but maybe I'm nicer than
you will.
Speaker 7 (07:18):
No.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
No, that's what I'm kind of blown away by.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
I'm like, you're a much better person than I am,
because I've always immediately like you.
Speaker 8 (07:27):
You're doubting someone means you probably don't have pretty privilege.
It's like the way they float through the world. Yeah,
And so I worked with a girl who had pretty privilege.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Did she know?
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Did she know she had pretty No?
Speaker 8 (07:39):
So she was like less of a like an office
work and more of what I called like a hot
ghost that would haunt the building because she never had
to touch anything, like to the point that I was like,
can she touch anything? It's like and she could go
through doors. Every door was automatic because someone was there
to open it. I'd be wide be like trying to
walk into it. I just bang like, oh, this isn't automated.
(08:00):
And then so this is when I really she truly,
truly had pretty privileges. One day, I was getting her
lunch because even I was like, please, madam, may I
do something? Thank you for the privilege getting you lunch? Anyway,
So I went and I got her burrito, and I
came back and she starts eating it and she goes,
she goes, where's the gaucamole? And I go, oh, you didn't.
You didn't ask for GK and she goes, yeah, no, no,
(08:21):
she goes, they just give it to you. And I
was like, what do you mean. She goes, yeah, it's
free there, and I was like, excuse in the whole
office started listening. You could feel the whole office, and
I was like, what do you mean it. She goes,
it's free. She goes, they it's free everywhere, and I
was like, oh my god, A but no, it's not.
She'd never paid for guacamole anywhere. And here's what's crazy.
(08:42):
She was twenty three and she had two properties, and
I thought that was just something news court made up. Now,
if you don't have to pay for Avokada, your step
for life, so she has pretty.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Privilege and so something you have those.
Speaker 8 (08:56):
Approached.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
What's that.
Speaker 8 (08:57):
I'm still figuring this out for the reason people are
very willing to come up to me and help. If
it wasn't radio, if you could see my face right now,
people feel very comfortable just coming up to me telling
me things like I have been okay. A friend once said,
I look like I work in every building I'm in.
That's pretty accurate for me, right, So like one one
(09:18):
day I was mistaken for like a lawyer, and I
was also mistaken for a waitress, like on the same day. Yeah,
I guess they're like, yes, she's putting herself through law school,
and so I just have to live my life now
in that way, It's actually easier to just help people
because I got sick of being like, well, I don't
actually work here, and I'm being myself. I'm not like
walking around jbhi if I swinging a lanyard round or something.
(09:40):
I'm just being just being me, Like they're just coming.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Up and sorry.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
So then you will then try to help them.
Speaker 8 (09:47):
Exhausting being like oh, because it's embarrassing for them. So
now I'm like yeah, in fact, I kind of just
like clock every building I walk into now, like I
have blueprints in my head.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
Have you been any sales meetingwhiles you mean the radio
studio people, assuming you're in the haven't.
Speaker 8 (09:59):
But if you you need to get their wody, I
need you to go down the hallway.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
Why did you quit in the first place?
Speaker 8 (10:08):
You know what? I quit just because at the time
I had. This is so boring, but I'll gloss over it.
I had kind of like an acidic stomach, and so
for a week I had to cut out all acid
and I included coffee. But then I went off it
and I wanted to be like, you know what, maybe
I don't need to be a coffee drinker.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
Power YEA understood that.
Speaker 7 (10:26):
Have you.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
Off coffee?
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Like if you like, I get it, if you if
you become a you know, people can overstimulate it and
they get a little bit jittery.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
Right, that's you totally get a week one whatever it is.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
But people that have this, like I've managed to cut
coffee out, I'm like, that's.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
That's the best part of my life. Like I didn't
need you and I was totally fine. So that's the
thing I don't understand.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Yeah, yeah, you feel and I can.
Speaker 8 (10:48):
I say, well after I've done the experiment for you,
so you.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Don't thank you so much?
Speaker 8 (10:52):
All right? It was awful. Firstly, no one cares when
you quit. You know, I went off for a month
for a month, and everyone's like, oh, you go, don't
go off clean, We support you. Where can we give
you money? Like that? And then I was like I
quit coffee, and everyone was just like I could quit, right,
and I was so I don't get I was like,
you idiot. In my head, I didn't have they I
(11:13):
quit coffee, and I'm like, gold coffee, I would get
you back.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
So so pity everybody else in their nine am meeting
on a Monday.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
I'm like, jeez, you must be ship in the morning.
Well you know what happens, right you are?
Speaker 1 (11:23):
You're awful.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
You're awful, yeah, because I just got off coffee and
I'm like, good one, dickhead. You also got off a
good conversation, you know, like I.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
Can't even talk you.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
It used to be a vibe in the morning, you know,
when you go for a walk with someone, you're like,
I'm going to get a coffee. The next fifteen minutes
a shit hot You're both downloading and listening, and you get.
Speaker 8 (11:40):
How embarrassing is decaf because you're like, I don't want
a decaff. But I would be like, can I have
a decaf? But what I said in my head was like,
can I please have an adult baby Chino? Yeah? Exactly.
And the hy and loads I like them. It turns
out like you you must like these highs and loves.
When you wake up in the morning and you sit
on the side of the bend, you don't drink coffee,
(12:00):
that's it. You just wake up the bottom.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
There's nothing the.
Speaker 8 (12:04):
Whole day, however you feel.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
And that's I get no kick. That's that's awful.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Yeah, and I really you know, that's what you found out.
Speaker 8 (12:13):
That's what I found out. But I also realized everyone
is addicted, like well, ninety percent of people are addicted
to coffee, but it's never treated the same. And I
really like thought about that. I think it's because it's
not treated the same, because no one would like steal
from their parents for their coffee. Actually, you know, like
you see that no one's stealing mum's flat screen.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
It's for you.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
He's like, yeah, yeah, so what about what about?
Speaker 4 (12:39):
What about what about the espresso martinis?
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Then?
Speaker 5 (12:42):
So I said, because you you quit espresso, Martini's is
the same.
Speaker 8 (12:46):
I do avoid those now because I think I can't
handle the combo of coffee and alcohol, which I think
is fair. It's chemically it's like coffee and alcol Chemically,
it makes you depressed with energy, right, that's yeah, I mean.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
Yeah, well that's rich. Really that's wild.
Speaker 8 (13:00):
Yes, Will sitting here having a martini.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
Is that right?
Speaker 8 (13:10):
Yeah, it's like it makes you depressed with energy. It
was like one night I had three and found out
it's possible to cry faster.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
Absolutely on the money.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Hey, there's one other thing that I want to talk
to you about, Alex before you go, by the way,
comedy dot com dot you if you see at Alec
alex Ward at all the comedy festivals. I saw this
on your socials recently and this I think you reposted
it for a little while ago, but it really did.
I think you know you're onto a good thing with
this sort of gear. When you unlock a door in
(13:42):
people's minds that they haven't unlocked before, like a memory.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
And this was on you scared. This is only your
parents using.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
The same bath water when you were kids to save money.
I'd forgotten that my mum used to do that until
I saw that.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
That was did you do it?
Speaker 8 (13:59):
Did you share with just your siblings or did you
have what I had where it was the.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
You're with mum and dad too, as in parents go
through the bath.
Speaker 8 (14:08):
I remember having a bathing dad water like old dad water.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
Parents first, that was that the order so Dad's first.
Dad gets first Dad?
Speaker 8 (14:18):
Well, sometimes your dad took it first. And then I
had to go on old dad dad water? How disgusting
is the idea of Dada? At least it wasn't granddad water.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
Would mum getting there as well? Would you have to
deal with mum water?
Speaker 8 (14:32):
I don't remember being if I did, I don't remember
being like as grossed out by mum water. It's something
about Dad water that's just and yeah, you know, I'm
using the note tears formula. It doesn't work when the
pains on the inside. I was like, I'm still crying.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
That's great stuff, all right.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Running on Alex Ward Comedy dot com dot please come
get down say at any of it shows Melbourne, pro
Brisbane or Sydney.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
Alex, thanks for coming.
Speaker 8 (15:03):
In, Thank you for having me. And by the way, Will,
I'm going to say you're the pretty one, but mostly
because I think you need it more.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
Yeah, I appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
You say that, so good.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
A victim of a man in here.
Speaker 8 (15:22):
We're going back.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Let's go back in time, going back in time? Are
you telling me that a time machine? Victoria Bitterer for
a hard earned first.
Speaker 5 (15:35):
So every single week we like to follow up with
one of the great calls that we've had during the week.
I means truth, almighty will this one stayed with me,
this I think. And it was Ben who called us,
and he told us about a rather extraordinary punishment and
his mum gave him.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
Yes.
Speaker 9 (15:58):
Alone, me and my girlfriend besic bussed by my mum
and my auntie. Oh, I'm doing push ups okay, and
then basically she's like not under my roof and basically
made me walk home while I was in lack of clothing.
So I had to walk my god friend home. She's
fully clothed. I was not allowed to be closed, and
my mom drove for home me with the car to
make sure I walked the whole way home.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Wow, your mum frog marched you nude through the streets.
Speaker 9 (16:26):
Yeah, about one and a half kilometers away from my Wow.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
That's great, Benny joins us.
Speaker 5 (16:33):
Right now, the man who was nude frog marched to
drop off his girlfriend at the time.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
Hello, Benny, hey you guys there. You doing very good. Mate.
Speaker 5 (16:43):
First off, are you on a thousand bucks and a
VB prize pack? So congratulations for my friends, legend, your legends,
your a legend.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
But let's talk about your legendary frog war. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (16:54):
So were you completely nude during the frogs?
Speaker 7 (16:59):
Yes? Yeah, Lily News So I basically had I covered
myself up with my hands. Have you ever tried to
have small talk while you're trying, like getting walked through
the street.
Speaker 9 (17:10):
To time?
Speaker 4 (17:13):
What did you lead with? Were you covering your genitals?
Speaker 9 (17:16):
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
I'm.
Speaker 5 (17:20):
I'm interested, Benny, because for me, this was one of
the most creative parental punishments that I then.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
Did your mom have any other rippers when you were.
Speaker 9 (17:28):
Actually I think my father actually topped the cake with
that one. Actually, my father, I was told not to
dry it. You grabbed Daca carry out, took my car out.
My dad wakes me up the next day and he
goes put a suit on. He goes, here's a suit.
We're going to go to a funeral. I'm like, what
what do you mean we're going to go a funeral.
I'm like, he's passed away, and he's like, no, come on,
I get rested. That's like earlier the morning, I'm half
asleep and I walk out and I go to go
(17:50):
to the car, his car, and he goes now come
with me, and I go out to the actual car,
like out to the actual paddic and there's a there's
an actual cross there bury like like very actual like
grounds being disturbed and on top of the cross was
my number plate buried my car in the middle of
the night. Took the time to make a cross, got
(18:13):
me dressed for a funeral. Do you want him say
any final words?
Speaker 4 (18:18):
Did you say some words? Did you say some words
for your cow?
Speaker 9 (18:20):
Then he I was just like, what the hell the eventful?
Speaker 7 (18:31):
I said, like they obviously they even said got busted
for wagging, Like my mum knew I was wagging. One
time I said, I took my bodyboard to go down
to the beach, and that do that? And I basically
went around the side of the house and grabbed my
body board one day going there. Let's go down to bond.
He went down the BONDEI opened up my bag. There
was a piece of styrofragm written on the stiroprag you
grounded when you get home.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Great, Well, if you get him on the show, I
think so a few because Woods and I are very
young parents ben, so it'd be great to have a
laugh with, you know, just count with some ideas.
Speaker 5 (19:11):
Yeah, I wouldn't like getting like getting one over then
though as well. It sounds like they've just dominated you
all through, so maybe let's try and get some.
Speaker 7 (19:19):
Actually, I think I have one. I got over my
mother once, and I will say this was the funniest one.
She asked me, she's trying to buy a present from
my partner, and she said I said, like, She said,
like a massage, like a voucher for a message of that,
And I said, go get You asked for a voucher
for a massage with a happy ending. So I sent
her around to all these massage places. I was for
(19:40):
this gift voucher six places before actually before later on
what was actually happening.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
That's family.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
That is awesome, mate, you are so so deserving on
the BB Friday, fol what made you get yourself a
thousand dollars and a BB Prize pack and a happy ending?
Speaker 4 (20:05):
Well done, Victoria for a hardened first. Congrats Bend, Thanks
for the laughs. Mate.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Man responsible for all your children yearing at, yelling at
fat swear word in.
Speaker 6 (20:23):
The car.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Is in the studio with us right now.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Mike is bumping on with the money.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Well, this is why I love Australia because you just
let it all hang out.
Speaker 10 (20:41):
You were like the only country that would play that
song and its proper version, and as a result, the
first place where our band got any kind of success
outside of the UK.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Yeah, that's cool, that's cool.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
You guys like launched our band internationally launched.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
You also launched the swearing cares.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
As I said, of a lot of children, did we
come back to did we come back to bite you
in the art?
Speaker 4 (21:05):
So any feedback about that?
Speaker 3 (21:07):
No?
Speaker 1 (21:07):
But I mean I've got in trouble.
Speaker 10 (21:11):
I got in trouble for dropping too many sea bombs shows.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
Are you slipping seas into your songs?
Speaker 10 (21:17):
Or get in the chat in between? And I got
a bit loose and my solo tour, and then one
night there was a six year old kid on the barral,
six years old.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
It looked like a good but.
Speaker 10 (21:37):
Do you know what bringing a six year old to
a rock and roll shows, that's not my bad?
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 5 (21:42):
If the parents are allowing him to go to a
rock concert, then I reckon he's heard a few seas before.
Speaker 10 (21:47):
Market My kids were not welcome my ur shows. They
still aren't really, so do.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
They want to go?
Speaker 5 (21:55):
Do they want to go to the Because if it
was my daughter, I should be like, nothing you do
is cool. I don't want to come to your shows.
Whereas your kids are they are they do? They think
you're cool?
Speaker 10 (22:03):
I think maybe it's part of my tactic to keep
them away from it, to make them feel like it's
cooler than it is.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Yeah, nice, well played.
Speaker 10 (22:11):
But I can't believe they just let me in this
beautiful studio on my own.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
I'm having a great time. Glad you're not here.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
Actually, know what do you mean?
Speaker 9 (22:21):
Mate?
Speaker 4 (22:21):
We're all in the same room. We're all talking together
the Magic.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
By Sorry sorry sorry.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Yeah, hey, let's talk about the new record.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Actually, before let's not, let's talk about your.
Speaker 5 (22:35):
Yeah, we got exactly who we're going for the inspiration.
Speaker 10 (22:40):
They're lot me in a room with four you love
it one, three photos of you lads with your top
sof you love it?
Speaker 4 (22:46):
You love it?
Speaker 1 (22:47):
I love it?
Speaker 3 (22:48):
Hey, Actually, before we get to the talking about the
new record, I want to talk about sign No More,
which is you know the first time that I that
you guys kind of burst onto the scene. I was
just explaining to Woody, but Tommy here that you guys
have got shakes be littered all all the way throughout.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
That record culture and then culture culture, not just swear words.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
This bike probably do me a few listened to real
I think as I was studying Beth when I heard
the stars Hide your Fires, like, I was like, hang
on a second, this is pretty stealing his maderia.
Speaker 10 (23:15):
Yeah, just stealing my way through songs since seven. But
what he was like, did you get any copywriters ues
for that?
Speaker 1 (23:24):
And I was like, no.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
I think that's the genius is that Shakespeare is not
copyright because no one knows who Shakespeare really is.
Speaker 10 (23:29):
I spent a lot of my time sneaking other people's
words into songs. Brilliant and good good artists copy, but
the great artists steal.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
I think I think that quote has stolen from Bob Dylan.
Speaker 10 (23:42):
Actually, but I I've got I've only got I've only
gotten hot water once.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
That wasn't really hot water.
Speaker 10 (23:49):
I just I just hadn't hadn't asked permission of a writer.
And then they found out about it, and they were
lovely about it, and they talked about it, impressed, and
it was.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
Fine, Ah, are you talking specif Shakespeare?
Speaker 1 (24:01):
No?
Speaker 10 (24:01):
No, he was fine with it. He's got other things
to worry about, like heaven. This was a writer who
called Hillary Mantel, who wrote these amazing books about Cromwell
I love.
Speaker 5 (24:14):
Do you realize when you write a Hilary Mantell line
that it is a Hillary Mantel? Because sometimes I do
find myself sometimes saying things and then claiming it they're
my own thought, and then realizing later when someone pulls
me up on it, that I have actually just stolen
someone's line.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
I think most of the time I am.
Speaker 10 (24:31):
And most of the stuff I think I've referenced lyrically
is public like Shakespeare, so no, and I think, yeah,
I'm mostly just taking inspiration from stuff and then change it,
which is which.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
Is really the way that created the creativity has got
to work, I think for when he got in a
bit of trouble with I can't remember which someone's got
to get lucky or something like Forrell, and he was like, like, guys.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
It was that.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
Robin thinks yeah, and he's like, if we're not allowed
to get inspired by other people's stuff, you know, once
you open the fud gates there, we're all in trouble.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
I think Sharon started record filming every.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
Right, Oh no, really wow.
Speaker 10 (25:10):
I think I know that some people are because they're
worried about being sued. And a lot of the time,
I think most of the time when those copyright things
come up, it's like either coincidence or accident.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
Or yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Of course, of.
Speaker 5 (25:23):
Course, there's a called parallel thinking, which is this is
more in the stand up comedy.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
It's a really tech we're really tech now.
Speaker 5 (25:33):
We went from sea bombs to technical deep chap, full range.
Baby Elton John and I know that he brought you
out on stage, I believe at the twenty thirteen Grammys.
Am I right in saying that he said something to
you right before you walked out on stage markers.
Speaker 10 (25:52):
He did his m my absolute hair for lots of reasons,
but mostly because we're about to play in front of
how many many millions of people at the Grammys and
we're doing a live on helm.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
Trip and he calls it sob just as the curtain's.
Speaker 10 (26:02):
Going on, and he goes when quick, Quick, come here,
and we're like, well, through Elton's calling, we've got to go,
and what's wrong. We're holding our instruments and goes now
it would be a terrible time to get your deck out.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
And he wasn't wrong, wasn't wrong.
Speaker 5 (26:21):
It would have been never He's never wrong.
Speaker 10 (26:25):
And then we like launched straight into the song. I mean,
his timing was unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
It was so good.
Speaker 10 (26:30):
Yeah, he's taught me a lot about giving zero fix
that man. Really amazing, amazing.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
He was the king of that. I mean, that's probably
why he's right. There's a sense of play about him, right,
there always has been.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
Yeah, I hate sort of bringing up other people in
your life, but I think we've spoken enough about your
music for so far, Marcus. But boring, big, big, big
announcement a couple of weeks ago, now that Jason Steak
has said that ted Lasso is going to be back
for season four.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
God, who did that theme song? That theme song is good,
isn't it.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
It does sound like it's copied from somewhere though.
Speaker 10 (27:07):
That's the most anyone's ever heard of that song because
you normally press skip intro.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Yeah, you just.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Got that's a whole song.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Who knew that's a whole song?
Speaker 3 (27:20):
I thought it was just fifteen seconds, So there you go.
Nice hear the nos I've tried, and I'm like, love let's.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
I didn't even reveal now that song? So you wrote
that theme song, I'm in.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Because I've joined those darts at this stage.
Speaker 5 (27:36):
If you're ever watching that show, say at home with
the family, and someone reaches to skip intro, do you
stop them.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
I've never watched that show once.
Speaker 10 (27:46):
I watched it a lot when I was there because
I did all the music for the first two seasons
with my friend Tom Howe and so we I and
I scored it all to pictures so I'd seen it.
And the first season I did during COVID at home,
I was stuck in the studio on my own with
all the techer's ship, which I'm so bad at. I'm
really bad at, like doing the computer stuff. I had
(28:07):
to learn how to do it. It took me six months.
Did not pay me for six months work.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Who paid me for a week's work? But it took
me six months.
Speaker 10 (28:14):
And then by the end of it, I was like,
I have no idea if the show's any good because
I've watched it so.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Much and I had to keep going back and.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
Like, oh I sound you couldn't follow the narrative. You
were skipping around.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
Now.
Speaker 10 (28:25):
I followed it fine, but I just got sick of it. Yeah,
you're too close to when it became really successful. I
was sort of surprised people like us cool.
Speaker 4 (28:34):
You've got a new record out today. So let's talk
about Rushbia trademark, mumvin and sons banjo in the background.
Speaker 5 (28:42):
There.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Floading vocals.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
He's gonna, he's gonna cheers, been going on for this.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
One and I one's here to tell me to stop,
Marcus mom. So Rush mean is where you met? Is
that right where you decided to become a end?
Speaker 9 (28:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Do you know what today?
Speaker 10 (29:00):
Literally this morning Ben and I figured out it was
the name of the building where.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
We first met. We didn't know that, Wow, junior school.
Speaker 4 (29:06):
So how long have you guys been making music?
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Deeo then for like fifteen years or something.
Speaker 5 (29:12):
How did you get sons across the line as if
like you know, they're your children?
Speaker 10 (29:17):
Well, in the UK, I don't know about here, but
in the UK lots of things are cooled answers. And
at the time it was like that time in like music,
where there was lots of like Johnny Flynn and the
Sussex Wit or like band names that had the name
of the lead singer in it, and then and then
the name of the band after it.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Jenny Lewis, and the.
Speaker 4 (29:39):
Whatever Juey Lewis, and the news there go.
Speaker 10 (29:41):
Yeah, And so rather than that we were like, well,
let's not just do That's just what everyone's doing.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
Band names and bullshit.
Speaker 8 (29:48):
They are so hard.
Speaker 10 (29:50):
It's funny, like when you come and get about you
get asked by lot the natural questions to us.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Yeah, but it's not that original, so you could do
better with he but.
Speaker 4 (29:59):
It's good for it's good for you.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
It was a ship.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
Question, Well do you want to get The question you
asked me before you got involved was what do I
think they're family? And I was like, because it's got
ensign in the tur al right, well get out of
your brand new record. Month and Son's new album, rush
Meya is out Friday, the twenty eighth of March, remember
which it's rush Meya, not Rushmore. But he was asking
(30:23):
what reference you guys had to those American presidents in
the rock?
Speaker 1 (30:27):
No whatsoever.
Speaker 4 (30:28):
No, it's overs
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