August 4, 2025 • 24 mins
Meet our oldest guest to date! 92-year-old Edith.
She loves her local bingo night, has few notches on her belt, and you don't want to get on the wrong side of this granny!
But not all is what is it seems with Edith, there are a few more layers to her... What or who is she concealing?
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Why, hello there, you gorgeous thing.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Oh we're on.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Sorry I got distracted by my reflection for a second.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
There.
Speaker 4 (00:15):
It's great you're here too, because we're moments away from
meeting someone. They may seem like your regular average Joe,
but they're concealing something exciting from us, and I will
find out what that is.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
This is concealed with me artsimone, let's go.
Speaker 5 (00:38):
Hello. My name's missus Edith Yale. I'm ninety two years old.
I love pulling my balls out at bingo and I've
never once put a sholtana in a scone, and today
I'm shieling the fact.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
That I have a very high body account.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Ollo. It is, how you going to doing all right?
Speaker 5 (01:01):
Out? I'm doing all right. I like to go out
and you know me, I'm a lovely old woman and
I care about the community. So every now and then
I like to do a little bit.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Of charity work.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
Oh yeah, helping those in need, which is why I've
come on your podcast today.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
It's very nice of you.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Now you've got a beautiful silver up to at the
moment did you did you put that up yourself?
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (01:26):
You would know a thing or two about ridiculous haircuts,
wouldn't you out? I know, I don't put this up myself.
I go and see a woman once a month, and
then I sleep like a Geisha with a little wooden
block under my neck. I barely move.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
How have you been doing that for?
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (01:43):
What am I ninety two years old? About ninety one
years You should have seen me as an adorable little
baby with you know, babies first beehive.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Now you've brought with you a handbag, and nobody of
my guests bring a handbag and pluck it next to
them for the whole interview.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
What secrets are you hiding in your handbag?
Speaker 5 (02:00):
A lady never likes to tell, but just between us,
girl fringe that's off Paul's drag racing.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Have you seen that? Yeah? I may have.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
It's absolutely ridiculous. But I like to keep a few
little essentials in here. I've got my medication, which I
like to sell to gay men for thirty dollars a pill.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Oh an entrepreneur.
Speaker 5 (02:24):
Yes, well, you know the pension doesn't go farther. I
have a can of beer.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Yes, because you never know when.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
You'll be having to sit through some sort of horrible
amateur fringe production or something like that.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
True alcohol always helps.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
And of course I have my name and address written
in case I get lost and I forget where I
live and the ambulance driver has to take me home again.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Okay, now that's how I pick up. Now it is
what we're going to do today is I'm going to
ask you three questions. And from the answers to those
three questions.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
Oh, I'm familiar with the pod okay, a long time listener,
first time visitor to the PUD. But explain it for
those who probably have just tuned in to hear me
and have never bothered listening to another and probably won't
bother listening to another episode ever again after this.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
So from the answer to those three questions, I have
to work out what it is you are concealing from
us here today, are you ready?
Speaker 5 (03:18):
I'm concealing a few little well not so little, but yes,
all right.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
All right.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
The first question I have for you is what is
a food you just can't live without?
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (03:29):
I might have to say, a fat free fruit?
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Fat fruit? Is it cryptic enough for you?
Speaker 5 (03:37):
Okay, your little simple brain.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Ticking a yeah, wow, right, okay, is there a particular flavor?
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Is the fat free the flavor.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
Fat free is a flavor. It's bland. There's no sugar
in it, there's no fruit in it, there's nothing in it.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Yeah, it's just younger.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Okay, okay. Question number two, can you describe your perfect date?
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Sticky?
Speaker 2 (04:04):
So you like your dates sticky? Sticky date?
Speaker 4 (04:07):
I did ask this earlier, Edith. Do you have a
special someone in your life? Are you married?
Speaker 5 (04:11):
I have a special someone in money. Yes, when you
get to my age, as you probably won't. But when
when people get to my age, you know, it's just
another notch on the bed frame. I see these pearls
I'm wearing, guess you know. And for the for the
listeners at home listening to this podcast, you poor things
(04:32):
not being able to see my beautiful face.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
It's a shame.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
It's really a crime for me to go on an
audio based media like this, because I'm robbing people of
an opportunity to look at my beautiful face. But I'm wearing.
I've lost count and many strings of pearls I'm wearing
here today. I have one for every husband I've.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Ever Wow, that's a lot of husbands.
Speaker 5 (04:53):
I know. There was Don, Yes, Don Vale, he was
lovely Pasco Spanish fellow.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Well, they're part of the same family, but no, they.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
Take my name. Yes, I don't change my name. It's confusion,
you know, once you get through the first cheveral husbands,
you'd stop changing.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
And were they all sticky at one point?
Speaker 2 (05:13):
All loved my sticky date? Okay?
Speaker 4 (05:17):
And the third and final question I have for you
is could you describe yourself in three words?
Speaker 2 (05:23):
For me?
Speaker 6 (05:23):
Oh, let me think gosh all right, effluent, oh yes, yes,
hornbag yes, and I gush.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Foxy oh okay, right, so I'm putting together my clues okay.
So yeah, you like fat, free fruit, love them? Okay, okay,
you like your dates, sticky, stickish, you can get and
you consider yourself to be effluent, high maintenance.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
And I've already gotten the third one.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Look, I'm to be honest because if you haven't quite
worked it out, if you're listening, I know exactly who's
sitting in front of me. We've changed things up because
I've got a very special guest here today.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Why don't you tell the listeners who you are.
Speaker 7 (06:14):
Hi, I'm Thomas Jaspers, I am a comedian, I'm a writer,
and I'm the creator of Fountain Lakes Live, which is
currently touring Australia with you in it.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Oh right, we've got my boss here.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
I don't know if it's nepotism. I don't know how
I've managed to get.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
You're just trying to get into the next showy.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
Look, if I can guarantee another season, I'll be a
very happy chapter.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
So we've been touring the last eighteen months with Fountain
Lakes in Lockdown.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Why don't you give us a little you know, give
us the elevator pitch?
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Yeah? Sure, so.
Speaker 7 (06:43):
Fanlinks in Lockdown is a parody of the Australian television
show Kathy Kim, with some other characters from other shows
thrown in there as well and parodied as well. And
it's set in the midst of Melbourne's COVID nineteen Lockdown.
So it's August twenty twenty one. They've been in lockdown
for eighteen months and just Chao is raining in found Lanths.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
I think it's an interesting story of how this all
came into fruition, because I don't think people really know
the full breakdown on it.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
So would you want to tell us why you decided
to write this?
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Why? Why would you dare do something, and.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Also why were you so brave to touch something as
sacred as Kath and Kim?
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Because that fan base I know, yeah, I mean I
am that fan base. I know we're crazy.
Speaker 7 (07:28):
So it started in obviously, I was living in Melbourne
in the lockdowns, and after the first like six months,
it wasn't There was nothing fun anymore.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Like we'd watched everything we wanted to watch.
Speaker 7 (07:39):
Everyone had done all their puzzles, everyone had cleaned their house,
everyone started baking. They've gotten addicted to something, they've gotten
off something else. It was not fun anymore. So, I
because I've been watching so much television and consuming so
much television. I don't know about you, but I get
like an inner monologue of whatever show I'm watching at
the time.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
I remember when I had the flu once and I.
Speaker 7 (07:56):
Watched Scrubs and then I started having that like in
a byologue of JD.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
This.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
I can't even think about Scrubs because I once was
at a sleepover in high school. We were watching Scrubs
and we all fell asleep and it went back to
the DVD menu. Oh yeah, and no one knew where
the remote was, And for some reason, I just had
that DVD theme song.
Speaker 7 (08:16):
In mind, they don't understand that damage a DVD. So
I was watching heaps of heaps of television and then
as a joke with friends, I started like writing little
vignettes of different TV shows of what they'd be doing
in Lockdown, so like you know, Seed Change and ab
Fab and all those you know, amazing camp classics which
(08:38):
always have strong female leads because I'm a gay man,
and thinking about what they were doing, and the Kathink
Kim went was really resonating with people. I think a
lot of people rewatch Kathink Kim in Lockdown.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
I think it had just kind of gone on to
Netflix as well, and a whole new generation were able
to watch it.
Speaker 7 (08:54):
Yeah, So I was writing that for friends and it
sort of became stop being little vignettes and started being
full like scenes basically, and a friend said, oh, you
should do something with that, So I sort of started
piecing them together, but I didn't really know what it
was exactly, And then Lockdown ended and everything went back
to norm and they just sat on my hard drive
for a while. And then after a year or so,
(09:16):
a friend was like, what are you doing anything with
those things that you're writing are really really funny, and
I don't know why, but I just thought, oh, it's parody.
I mean it is a parody, like it's sitting outside
of the real Kath and Kim. It's sort of like
tongue in cheek looking at these exaggerated characters and then
making them even more ridiculous by having them played by men,
(09:39):
and then setting them in a completely different time zone,
which is also nostalgic because it's in the past, but
it's not quite as far and far in the past
as the TV show was, and all that sort of
stuff just seems to really have struck a chord with people.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
I guess, Yeah, it's really resonated well, and props to
you for your writing, but also our amazing performing and.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
The performing is incredible. I mean that's what makes it. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (10:01):
In research for this, I went to a lot of
parody shows of different things, so you don't have to.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
And it's got to be acted well because you're not
doing the show, you're not doing the original show.
Speaker 7 (10:12):
It can't be exactly the same, but it has to
be reniscent of it to parody it properly, but it
can't be too far away from it either. So you've
got to find a really great balance for it to work.
And that's why I think. You know, you've been amazing,
as have the rest of the cast, which includes me.
So I'm talking about myself as well. I'm amazing as
what of it?
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Yes, well you are, Yeah, you are very amazing.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
And I think the thing that's really exciting is that
we have really managed to do the fans proud, which
is a very high honor because it's such a beloved series.
Why do you think Kath and Kim is so popular
still to this day. It's over twenty years, it's been
you know, out in the ether, and people still keep
going back to it.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Over and over and over again and hold it in
such high regard.
Speaker 7 (10:57):
Well, it's from a time when there was a lot
of character comedy happening, but a lot of it was
punching down. You know, there's a lot of stuff that
you wouldn't do today, but you look at kathin Kimyen,
those jokes could be done today. That's fine, that it's not.
It was a really great reflection of middle class Australia,
and Australia has always been good at having a bit
(11:19):
of a laugh at itself. If you look at Day
Medner now, Barry Humphries himself is obviously quite prom laritic,
but Dave Medner and Barry as a comedian is absolutely brilliant.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
There's no denying that.
Speaker 7 (11:29):
And that's because he was, especially in those early days,
holding up a mirror to Australian society. And I think
that that's what Gina and Jane and Magda and the
rest of the us do so incredibly.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Well.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Look, this show has taken us everywhere. Infant we're in Scotland, Scotland.
The accent has been a bit of an interesting thing,
which I know is a hypocritical thing to say, because
we talked, because we told really really badly. But yeah,
we're in Edinburgh. We've done over one hundred and what
ten shows or something. What are the festivals we've done.
(12:01):
We've done the whole East Coaster of Australia. We've done.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Do see if I can get them all?
Speaker 7 (12:05):
Yeah, Melbourne, Geelong, Ballarat, Bendig, Woggle, Wogger, Newcastle, Sydney twice, Brisbane, Nursa.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
There was somewhere else in his Bathhurst, Townsville, No, Cairns.
We did Cans didn't.
Speaker 7 (12:23):
I don't know Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne twice and we're about
to do we.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Did Ringword whatever it was. Yeah, anyway, everywhere it's been everywhere,
it's been amazing. It's been so much fun.
Speaker 7 (12:37):
And you know what's amazing I find. I don't know
about you, but like some of my favorite shows were
like Woggle Wogger Aubrey. We did Aubrey.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
That was probably the best show we've done. It was amazing.
Speaker 7 (12:46):
And to go to these regional towns and cities, To
be honest, I was a little bit nervous going and
doing a drag show in a regional town. But they
are the most supportive audience. They are so up for it.
And and the ninety eight percent of that audience was
not queer or LGBTQA plus identifying, but they were so
up for it. Like it was sold out in the
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in Wogga Wogga. I think we're on a Wednesday night
in Wogga Wogga, on a Sunday night in Aubury, sold
out and these people just like on their feet cheering
at the end of the show.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
It's really beautiful.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Coming up.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
Edith joins us again and she's bringing her friend Camilla
Parker Bowls and always tells us the story about the
time Edith's medication got him and some unnahble to live
stuck on the side of the road, raving to blame
his While waiting for the RACV, we're joined by comedian
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and my stage daughter Thomas Jaspers. So what was your
life before Kathy Kim Because I've really only known you
exceptionally well for this period of time, But what's the
pre Kathy Kim era?
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Like?
Speaker 7 (13:52):
Yeah, I mean I've been doing comedy for fifteen years
or something like that, maybe a bit more. And I
started out doing just straight stand up, which was fine
and farm but it wasn't quite hitting that itch that
I wanted. And then I got in to start doing
character comedy. I started with a parody of Rhonda Birchmore
called Roonda Butch Moore.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Yes and looker Now so you do like a television
cross like in.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
The Momore with Rod Yeah on Studio Jam And I
think that came from inspiration from a lot of that,
like Australian character comedy stuff like like Barry Humphries and
and Auntie Jack.
Speaker 7 (14:30):
And all that sort of thing, and then from there
other things have have come up. I got to go
and open for Joel Creasy at the New York Comedy Festival,
and I didn't have a lot of characters back then,
but I was like, I don't know From the birch
Moore was going to land, So I invented Tracy from
to Woomba, which was a short lived character was basically
Ron the Birchmore if you didn't know who Ron the birch.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
More was, which there you go. And then Granny Bingo,
which is a big thing that I've I've been doing.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
So yeah, let's let's come back to Edith, who he
got to at the beginning of the show. Who is
I've to say the first time I met you as
Edith it was so confronting, only because you never crack. Yeah,
that's one of the best things about you as a character.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Comedian is you were in it. Yeah for the long run.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
But where did Grady Bingo come from? Because it is
how many years have been going for?
Speaker 2 (15:18):
So it's ten years.
Speaker 7 (15:19):
This year we've got a massive, I will give it
a little plug, massive ten year anniversary show that we're
doing at the Collingwood Town Hall. So the celebrities coming
to pull our balls out for us, it's going to
be like a proper old school like nineteen fifties fake vibes.
If the granny is hosting bingo all night on a
Saturday night on the twenty fourth bog type, I want
to say, okay to Granny Bingo dot com today, you
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to grab your tickets. So they started in a funny way.
So Kyle and I got booked to host a Bingo
night as boys. But back when we were both doing
stand up and we were young, like we were how
were we like in our mid twenties or something like that,
So our stand up material consisted basically of like dick
jokes and jokes about like everything that a drag queen's yeah, yeah, yeah,
(16:03):
basically it was like but this was to host at
the Mooney Pond's Sports Club for the movie I don't know,
I've seen there was some lovely gay man. So these
two young gay guys in like low cut singlets come
into host bingo and we're doing all these dig jokes
and ball jokes to actual like pensioners and retirees who
were complaining and we're.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Expecting a proper bingo Yeah, well.
Speaker 7 (16:24):
Yeah exactly, and we're lid I'm like, I got so
fucked up last week and I wake up in this
guy's house and I had no idea what his name was,
and I had to find his wallet to look for
his ID.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
It's like people don't want to hear.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
Well, the same thing happens because a lot of like
you know, people that play bingo like as a sport,
they love it.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
They come to some.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Of my drag bingo kids and they get so stroppy
and grumpy throughout the bingo. They're like, faster, dude, I
don't want another story to go faster, fast and faster,
more numbers, and like you're playing for a drink ticket.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Cheryl like shut up, like it's fine, and you know
that is it.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
That is a valid way of playing. Yes, fine.
Speaker 7 (16:58):
But so we got in the car to drive home
after that gig and we were like, oh, we're getting fired.
Like there's no way we're going to be doing this
for very long. So we were like, well, next week,
let's just come back as because I have to think
they had to give us two weeks notice or something,
so we were going to be here next week. Let's
come back as those old ladies that were complaining about us.
So we went to the op shop and I bought
like a dress for nine dollars. I had an old
(17:22):
party wig that wasn't even gray that I wore, and
I think I put lipste conn and that was it.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
And Kyle did the same.
Speaker 7 (17:28):
And we came back the next week and the coaches
we're not that polish any think, but we had a
great dynamic between us and the booker blessed him, loved us,
so he kept us on for a few weeks. Even
though these people were like literally one woman we walked
in on, hello, darling, how are you nice to show
you again?
Speaker 2 (17:44):
And she just puts a knife and fork down half
of you remembers.
Speaker 8 (17:46):
I don't think so I'm gonna and like she became
a huge inspiration for Edith, Like because my character Edith
is like this the strop you off, more nasty, older
and more in sort of like the soul of the
earth kind of you know, lovely old broad.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
That woman became a big inspiration from my character.
Speaker 7 (18:03):
So I went for a few more weeks, and you know,
the gays and that sort of stuff started coming along.
It did get canceled because their core audience absolutely hated it,
but we were like, there's definitely something in this. So
we refined the carriages a bit and then we opened
it and it's literally been running for a decade since that. Yeah,
there's very little bingo played our Bingo nights. So we
do play bingo and there are prizes, but I always
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say at the start of the night.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
If you've never played one of the things, you need
to give in minders that Granny Bingo goes to the
page that I just shied that it goes out at
the time that I'm just shiding at Chill Go.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
And there was Nan in a caravan, which was one
of the craziest experiences.
Speaker 7 (18:40):
We bought a secondhand caravan, we decked it out. We
bought like all these collectible teaspoons off eBay, and it
was really sad because it was like clearly like these
lovely old ladies had been hoarding these teaspoons and then
their kids are going, oh, chuck out on abay for
ten bucks, and we're buying hundreds of them. So when
you went into the caravan, there was the walls were
just lined with souvenir teaspoons, and then there was some
on the table and was six tickets per show and
(19:02):
the show they went for fifteen minutes and you'd come
in for Nan to make you a cup of tea,
and you'd pick one of the teaspoons out of the
holder on the table, and whichever teaspoon you picked was
the show that you got. So we had like twelve
different fifteen minute shows. And if you picked the Big Banana,
then you get the story about the Big Banana. If
you picked the Big Pineapple, you get you know whatever,
or the commemorative nineteen fifty four Royal Tour.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Or something else.
Speaker 7 (19:25):
We had to do like twelve shows a night to
break even because it was only six tickets the show evenant.
We didn't know what show we were about to do
until people came in and picked out a teaspoon, and
then we tell them that story.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
Yeah, so you have done comedy all across the world.
There's got to be some juicy gossip. I want a story,
because you, as a comedian, you tell stories, and I
want a story.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Okay, this is a.
Speaker 7 (19:45):
Very naughty story though, so I can't tell any other
names because the other people in so this is from
when I first started outing. Okay, but the other people
in this story have all become very famous in their
own fields, and I can't ruin their careers.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Okay, I'll just ruined my own.
Speaker 7 (19:59):
So a very very long time ago, myself and some
other friends got booked to a festival and we had
one sober person and the other four of us were
not sober people at the time, and I was definitely
doing lots of things that I wouldn't.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Do today, being a naughty being a naughty boy, and
you know.
Speaker 7 (20:18):
Taking some of Edith's medications before Itith even existed. And
so the sober one was driving us in this because
we were all fucking broke this shitty old car that
they had up to this festival, and we timed that
we could drop out our medication at the exact right
time so that when we got into the festival we
could have a really fun, fun night, and then we
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went performing into the following night. So we were like, well,
we'll have a really fun night on this first night.
And then the car broke down after we dropped Oh no.
So then we're on the side of the road waiting
waiting for our ACV out.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
In the middle of nowhere.
Speaker 7 (20:52):
There's no we hadn't seen a town for ages, we
hadn't seen the poor sober person is just sitting there
where We're all uh, and.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Then we're I need some music. I need to dance.
I need to dance.
Speaker 7 (21:02):
And we had the hazard lights so on because it
was pitch black and we're on the side of the
road and we'll road that someone had come and like
hit us, so the hazard lights on. But this was
pre intimate, like this is pretty smartphones, so no one
had music on them. The only CD that we had
in their car was the Lean Miss Sound Fat So on.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
The side of the road was me.
Speaker 7 (21:20):
And sometimes every now and then I'll see these people
on television or you know, a a fancy event or whatever,
and I'm like, I remember dancing on the side of
the road to at the end of the day with
the hazard lights, just.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Fucking party, having your own bushtoof having our own little
bush dove. And we made it to the festival, made it.
Speaker 7 (21:36):
But when that Ore ACV person came, the four of
us that we're not saying about just sort of stood
there with.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
The side of a horror movie, yeah, going, yeah, we're
just going to the festival.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
So you mentioned all your characters. So far, we've got Rhonda,
Butch Moore we got Tracy from to Woomba. You eat
at the Veil, of course, Kimberley Cray.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
It's true. There's actually more though, Peter and.
Speaker 7 (22:00):
Paul, but they're basically just two old bears that met
at a house party and arrive in the Docklands in
the nineties, just weakened after Princess di As.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
You also do Camilla and Camilla Parker Barls. Yes, and
what is said?
Speaker 4 (22:16):
I want to be a Camilla very similar to this.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
It's really it's really just Charles a bit more. It's
better with a wig.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
Before we go, I thought, you know, you say you're
a good character actor.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
I thought I'd put it to the test.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
Okay, So I'm going to give you some lyrics to
a song that you will know, which a lot of
us will know, and I'm just gonna yell character names
at you and you have to switch between them.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Are you up for the challenge?
Speaker 7 (22:48):
I would just like to make it clear to everybody
listening that when I do these characters, it's like not
it's usually for a whole night.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
It's okay, let's kick us off with Kim and Gar.
Speaker 7 (23:00):
There's always a joker in the pack. There's always a
lonely clean There is a jester, just a fool, as
foolish as.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
He can be. A Camilla that's almost a joker, but.
Speaker 5 (23:19):
Fake deals a hand, and I she.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Jaker is.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
There's always a joker in the pack. There's always a
lonely Claire. Do you think I'm going to get some
sort of Is there a podcast award?
Speaker 4 (23:35):
I'm going to submit it for the Guinness World Book
of Records. And I am looking forward to your new
one woman play, One man, one person.
Speaker 7 (23:43):
Play, One people play, the People's Play, and the People's Princess.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
So that was Thomas and Edith and Camilla and Kim
Craig and a few others. If this chat has taught
me anything it's to respect your elders, because you never
know when it might be a man in a week
who doubles as a hornbag.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Want to check up Fountain Lakes Finus check us out
on the Socials
Why, hello there, you gorgeous thing.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Oh we're on.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Sorry I got distracted by my reflection for a second.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
There.
Speaker 4 (00:15):
It's great you're here too, because we're moments away from
meeting someone. They may seem like your regular average Joe,
but they're concealing something exciting from us, and I will
find out what that is.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
This is concealed with me artsimone, let's go.
Speaker 5 (00:38):
Hello. My name's missus Edith Yale. I'm ninety two years old.
I love pulling my balls out at bingo and I've
never once put a sholtana in a scone, and today
I'm shieling the fact.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
That I have a very high body account.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Ollo. It is, how you going to doing all right?
Speaker 5 (01:01):
Out? I'm doing all right. I like to go out
and you know me, I'm a lovely old woman and
I care about the community. So every now and then
I like to do a little bit.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Of charity work.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
Oh yeah, helping those in need, which is why I've
come on your podcast today.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
It's very nice of you.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Now you've got a beautiful silver up to at the
moment did you did you put that up yourself?
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (01:26):
You would know a thing or two about ridiculous haircuts,
wouldn't you out? I know, I don't put this up myself.
I go and see a woman once a month, and
then I sleep like a Geisha with a little wooden
block under my neck. I barely move.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
How have you been doing that for?
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (01:43):
What am I ninety two years old? About ninety one
years You should have seen me as an adorable little
baby with you know, babies first beehive.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Now you've brought with you a handbag, and nobody of
my guests bring a handbag and pluck it next to
them for the whole interview.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
What secrets are you hiding in your handbag?
Speaker 5 (02:00):
A lady never likes to tell, but just between us,
girl fringe that's off Paul's drag racing.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Have you seen that? Yeah? I may have.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
It's absolutely ridiculous. But I like to keep a few
little essentials in here. I've got my medication, which I
like to sell to gay men for thirty dollars a pill.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Oh an entrepreneur.
Speaker 5 (02:24):
Yes, well, you know the pension doesn't go farther. I
have a can of beer.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Yes, because you never know when.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
You'll be having to sit through some sort of horrible
amateur fringe production or something like that.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
True alcohol always helps.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
And of course I have my name and address written
in case I get lost and I forget where I
live and the ambulance driver has to take me home again.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Okay, now that's how I pick up. Now it is
what we're going to do today is I'm going to
ask you three questions. And from the answers to those
three questions.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
Oh, I'm familiar with the pod okay, a long time listener,
first time visitor to the PUD. But explain it for
those who probably have just tuned in to hear me
and have never bothered listening to another and probably won't
bother listening to another episode ever again after this.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
So from the answer to those three questions, I have
to work out what it is you are concealing from
us here today, are you ready?
Speaker 5 (03:18):
I'm concealing a few little well not so little, but yes,
all right.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
All right.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
The first question I have for you is what is
a food you just can't live without?
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (03:29):
I might have to say, a fat free fruit?
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Fat fruit? Is it cryptic enough for you?
Speaker 5 (03:37):
Okay, your little simple brain.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Ticking a yeah, wow, right, okay, is there a particular flavor?
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Is the fat free the flavor.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
Fat free is a flavor. It's bland. There's no sugar
in it, there's no fruit in it, there's nothing in it.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Yeah, it's just younger.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Okay, okay. Question number two, can you describe your perfect date?
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Sticky?
Speaker 2 (04:04):
So you like your dates sticky? Sticky date?
Speaker 4 (04:07):
I did ask this earlier, Edith. Do you have a
special someone in your life? Are you married?
Speaker 5 (04:11):
I have a special someone in money. Yes, when you
get to my age, as you probably won't. But when
when people get to my age, you know, it's just
another notch on the bed frame. I see these pearls
I'm wearing, guess you know. And for the for the
listeners at home listening to this podcast, you poor things
(04:32):
not being able to see my beautiful face.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
It's a shame.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
It's really a crime for me to go on an
audio based media like this, because I'm robbing people of
an opportunity to look at my beautiful face. But I'm wearing.
I've lost count and many strings of pearls I'm wearing
here today. I have one for every husband I've.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Ever Wow, that's a lot of husbands.
Speaker 5 (04:53):
I know. There was Don, Yes, Don Vale, he was
lovely Pasco Spanish fellow.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Well, they're part of the same family, but no, they.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
Take my name. Yes, I don't change my name. It's confusion,
you know, once you get through the first cheveral husbands,
you'd stop changing.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
And were they all sticky at one point?
Speaker 2 (05:13):
All loved my sticky date? Okay?
Speaker 4 (05:17):
And the third and final question I have for you
is could you describe yourself in three words?
Speaker 2 (05:23):
For me?
Speaker 6 (05:23):
Oh, let me think gosh all right, effluent, oh yes, yes,
hornbag yes, and I gush.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Foxy oh okay, right, so I'm putting together my clues okay.
So yeah, you like fat, free fruit, love them? Okay, okay,
you like your dates, sticky, stickish, you can get and
you consider yourself to be effluent, high maintenance.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
And I've already gotten the third one.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Look, I'm to be honest because if you haven't quite
worked it out, if you're listening, I know exactly who's
sitting in front of me. We've changed things up because
I've got a very special guest here today.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Why don't you tell the listeners who you are.
Speaker 7 (06:14):
Hi, I'm Thomas Jaspers, I am a comedian, I'm a writer,
and I'm the creator of Fountain Lakes Live, which is
currently touring Australia with you in it.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Oh right, we've got my boss here.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
I don't know if it's nepotism. I don't know how
I've managed to get.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
You're just trying to get into the next showy.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
Look, if I can guarantee another season, I'll be a
very happy chapter.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
So we've been touring the last eighteen months with Fountain
Lakes in Lockdown.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Why don't you give us a little you know, give
us the elevator pitch?
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Yeah? Sure, so.
Speaker 7 (06:43):
Fanlinks in Lockdown is a parody of the Australian television
show Kathy Kim, with some other characters from other shows
thrown in there as well and parodied as well. And
it's set in the midst of Melbourne's COVID nineteen Lockdown.
So it's August twenty twenty one. They've been in lockdown
for eighteen months and just Chao is raining in found Lanths.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
I think it's an interesting story of how this all
came into fruition, because I don't think people really know
the full breakdown on it.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
So would you want to tell us why you decided
to write this?
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Why? Why would you dare do something, and.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Also why were you so brave to touch something as
sacred as Kath and Kim?
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Because that fan base I know, yeah, I mean I
am that fan base. I know we're crazy.
Speaker 7 (07:28):
So it started in obviously, I was living in Melbourne
in the lockdowns, and after the first like six months,
it wasn't There was nothing fun anymore.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Like we'd watched everything we wanted to watch.
Speaker 7 (07:39):
Everyone had done all their puzzles, everyone had cleaned their house,
everyone started baking. They've gotten addicted to something, they've gotten
off something else. It was not fun anymore. So, I
because I've been watching so much television and consuming so
much television. I don't know about you, but I get
like an inner monologue of whatever show I'm watching at
the time.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
I remember when I had the flu once and I.
Speaker 7 (07:56):
Watched Scrubs and then I started having that like in
a byologue of JD.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
This.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
I can't even think about Scrubs because I once was
at a sleepover in high school. We were watching Scrubs
and we all fell asleep and it went back to
the DVD menu. Oh yeah, and no one knew where
the remote was, And for some reason, I just had
that DVD theme song.
Speaker 7 (08:16):
In mind, they don't understand that damage a DVD. So
I was watching heaps of heaps of television and then
as a joke with friends, I started like writing little
vignettes of different TV shows of what they'd be doing
in Lockdown, so like you know, Seed Change and ab
Fab and all those you know, amazing camp classics which
(08:38):
always have strong female leads because I'm a gay man,
and thinking about what they were doing, and the Kathink
Kim went was really resonating with people. I think a
lot of people rewatch Kathink Kim in Lockdown.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
I think it had just kind of gone on to
Netflix as well, and a whole new generation were able
to watch it.
Speaker 7 (08:54):
Yeah, So I was writing that for friends and it
sort of became stop being little vignettes and started being
full like scenes basically, and a friend said, oh, you
should do something with that, So I sort of started
piecing them together, but I didn't really know what it
was exactly, And then Lockdown ended and everything went back
to norm and they just sat on my hard drive
for a while. And then after a year or so,
(09:16):
a friend was like, what are you doing anything with
those things that you're writing are really really funny, and
I don't know why, but I just thought, oh, it's parody.
I mean it is a parody, like it's sitting outside
of the real Kath and Kim. It's sort of like
tongue in cheek looking at these exaggerated characters and then
making them even more ridiculous by having them played by men,
(09:39):
and then setting them in a completely different time zone,
which is also nostalgic because it's in the past, but
it's not quite as far and far in the past
as the TV show was, and all that sort of
stuff just seems to really have struck a chord with people.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
I guess, Yeah, it's really resonated well, and props to
you for your writing, but also our amazing performing and.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
The performing is incredible. I mean that's what makes it. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (10:01):
In research for this, I went to a lot of
parody shows of different things, so you don't have to.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
And it's got to be acted well because you're not
doing the show, you're not doing the original show.
Speaker 7 (10:12):
It can't be exactly the same, but it has to
be reniscent of it to parody it properly, but it
can't be too far away from it either. So you've
got to find a really great balance for it to work.
And that's why I think. You know, you've been amazing,
as have the rest of the cast, which includes me.
So I'm talking about myself as well. I'm amazing as
what of it?
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Yes, well you are, Yeah, you are very amazing.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
And I think the thing that's really exciting is that
we have really managed to do the fans proud, which
is a very high honor because it's such a beloved series.
Why do you think Kath and Kim is so popular
still to this day. It's over twenty years, it's been
you know, out in the ether, and people still keep
going back to it.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Over and over and over again and hold it in
such high regard.
Speaker 7 (10:57):
Well, it's from a time when there was a lot
of character comedy happening, but a lot of it was
punching down. You know, there's a lot of stuff that
you wouldn't do today, but you look at kathin Kimyen,
those jokes could be done today. That's fine, that it's not.
It was a really great reflection of middle class Australia,
and Australia has always been good at having a bit
(11:19):
of a laugh at itself. If you look at Day
Medner now, Barry Humphries himself is obviously quite prom laritic,
but Dave Medner and Barry as a comedian is absolutely brilliant.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
There's no denying that.
Speaker 7 (11:29):
And that's because he was, especially in those early days,
holding up a mirror to Australian society. And I think
that that's what Gina and Jane and Magda and the
rest of the us do so incredibly.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Well.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Look, this show has taken us everywhere. Infant we're in Scotland, Scotland.
The accent has been a bit of an interesting thing,
which I know is a hypocritical thing to say, because
we talked, because we told really really badly. But yeah,
we're in Edinburgh. We've done over one hundred and what
ten shows or something. What are the festivals we've done.
(12:01):
We've done the whole East Coaster of Australia. We've done.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Do see if I can get them all?
Speaker 7 (12:05):
Yeah, Melbourne, Geelong, Ballarat, Bendig, Woggle, Wogger, Newcastle, Sydney twice, Brisbane, Nursa.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
There was somewhere else in his Bathhurst, Townsville, No, Cairns.
We did Cans didn't.
Speaker 7 (12:23):
I don't know Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne twice and we're about
to do we.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Did Ringword whatever it was. Yeah, anyway, everywhere it's been everywhere,
it's been amazing. It's been so much fun.
Speaker 7 (12:37):
And you know what's amazing I find. I don't know
about you, but like some of my favorite shows were
like Woggle Wogger Aubrey. We did Aubrey.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
That was probably the best show we've done. It was amazing.
Speaker 7 (12:46):
And to go to these regional towns and cities, To
be honest, I was a little bit nervous going and
doing a drag show in a regional town. But they
are the most supportive audience. They are so up for it.
And and the ninety eight percent of that audience was
not queer or LGBTQA plus identifying, but they were so
up for it. Like it was sold out in the
(13:07):
in Wogga Wogga. I think we're on a Wednesday night
in Wogga Wogga, on a Sunday night in Aubury, sold
out and these people just like on their feet cheering
at the end of the show.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
It's really beautiful.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Coming up.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
Edith joins us again and she's bringing her friend Camilla
Parker Bowls and always tells us the story about the
time Edith's medication got him and some unnahble to live
stuck on the side of the road, raving to blame
his While waiting for the RACV, we're joined by comedian
(13:39):
and my stage daughter Thomas Jaspers. So what was your
life before Kathy Kim Because I've really only known you
exceptionally well for this period of time, But what's the
pre Kathy Kim era?
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Like?
Speaker 7 (13:52):
Yeah, I mean I've been doing comedy for fifteen years
or something like that, maybe a bit more. And I
started out doing just straight stand up, which was fine
and farm but it wasn't quite hitting that itch that
I wanted. And then I got in to start doing
character comedy. I started with a parody of Rhonda Birchmore
called Roonda Butch Moore.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Yes and looker Now so you do like a television
cross like in.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
The Momore with Rod Yeah on Studio Jam And I
think that came from inspiration from a lot of that,
like Australian character comedy stuff like like Barry Humphries and
and Auntie Jack.
Speaker 7 (14:30):
And all that sort of thing, and then from there
other things have have come up. I got to go
and open for Joel Creasy at the New York Comedy Festival,
and I didn't have a lot of characters back then,
but I was like, I don't know From the birch
Moore was going to land, So I invented Tracy from
to Woomba, which was a short lived character was basically
Ron the Birchmore if you didn't know who Ron the birch.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
More was, which there you go. And then Granny Bingo,
which is a big thing that I've I've been doing.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
So yeah, let's let's come back to Edith, who he
got to at the beginning of the show. Who is
I've to say the first time I met you as
Edith it was so confronting, only because you never crack. Yeah,
that's one of the best things about you as a character.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Comedian is you were in it. Yeah for the long run.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
But where did Grady Bingo come from? Because it is
how many years have been going for?
Speaker 2 (15:18):
So it's ten years.
Speaker 7 (15:19):
This year we've got a massive, I will give it
a little plug, massive ten year anniversary show that we're
doing at the Collingwood Town Hall. So the celebrities coming
to pull our balls out for us, it's going to
be like a proper old school like nineteen fifties fake vibes.
If the granny is hosting bingo all night on a
Saturday night on the twenty fourth bog type, I want
to say, okay to Granny Bingo dot com today, you
(15:39):
to grab your tickets. So they started in a funny way.
So Kyle and I got booked to host a Bingo
night as boys. But back when we were both doing
stand up and we were young, like we were how
were we like in our mid twenties or something like that,
So our stand up material consisted basically of like dick
jokes and jokes about like everything that a drag queen's yeah, yeah, yeah,
(16:03):
basically it was like but this was to host at
the Mooney Pond's Sports Club for the movie I don't know,
I've seen there was some lovely gay man. So these
two young gay guys in like low cut singlets come
into host bingo and we're doing all these dig jokes
and ball jokes to actual like pensioners and retirees who
were complaining and we're.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Expecting a proper bingo Yeah, well.
Speaker 7 (16:24):
Yeah exactly, and we're lid I'm like, I got so
fucked up last week and I wake up in this
guy's house and I had no idea what his name was,
and I had to find his wallet to look for
his ID.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
It's like people don't want to hear.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
Well, the same thing happens because a lot of like
you know, people that play bingo like as a sport,
they love it.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
They come to some.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Of my drag bingo kids and they get so stroppy
and grumpy throughout the bingo. They're like, faster, dude, I
don't want another story to go faster, fast and faster,
more numbers, and like you're playing for a drink ticket.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Cheryl like shut up, like it's fine, and you know
that is it.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
That is a valid way of playing. Yes, fine.
Speaker 7 (16:58):
But so we got in the car to drive home
after that gig and we were like, oh, we're getting fired.
Like there's no way we're going to be doing this
for very long. So we were like, well, next week,
let's just come back as because I have to think
they had to give us two weeks notice or something,
so we were going to be here next week. Let's
come back as those old ladies that were complaining about us.
So we went to the op shop and I bought
like a dress for nine dollars. I had an old
(17:22):
party wig that wasn't even gray that I wore, and
I think I put lipste conn and that was it.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
And Kyle did the same.
Speaker 7 (17:28):
And we came back the next week and the coaches
we're not that polish any think, but we had a
great dynamic between us and the booker blessed him, loved us,
so he kept us on for a few weeks. Even
though these people were like literally one woman we walked
in on, hello, darling, how are you nice to show
you again?
Speaker 2 (17:44):
And she just puts a knife and fork down half
of you remembers.
Speaker 8 (17:46):
I don't think so I'm gonna and like she became
a huge inspiration for Edith, Like because my character Edith
is like this the strop you off, more nasty, older
and more in sort of like the soul of the
earth kind of you know, lovely old broad.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
That woman became a big inspiration from my character.
Speaker 7 (18:03):
So I went for a few more weeks, and you know,
the gays and that sort of stuff started coming along.
It did get canceled because their core audience absolutely hated it,
but we were like, there's definitely something in this. So
we refined the carriages a bit and then we opened
it and it's literally been running for a decade since that. Yeah,
there's very little bingo played our Bingo nights. So we
do play bingo and there are prizes, but I always
(18:26):
say at the start of the night.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
If you've never played one of the things, you need
to give in minders that Granny Bingo goes to the
page that I just shied that it goes out at
the time that I'm just shiding at Chill Go.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
And there was Nan in a caravan, which was one
of the craziest experiences.
Speaker 7 (18:40):
We bought a secondhand caravan, we decked it out. We
bought like all these collectible teaspoons off eBay, and it
was really sad because it was like clearly like these
lovely old ladies had been hoarding these teaspoons and then
their kids are going, oh, chuck out on abay for
ten bucks, and we're buying hundreds of them. So when
you went into the caravan, there was the walls were
just lined with souvenir teaspoons, and then there was some
on the table and was six tickets per show and
(19:02):
the show they went for fifteen minutes and you'd come
in for Nan to make you a cup of tea,
and you'd pick one of the teaspoons out of the
holder on the table, and whichever teaspoon you picked was
the show that you got. So we had like twelve
different fifteen minute shows. And if you picked the Big Banana,
then you get the story about the Big Banana. If
you picked the Big Pineapple, you get you know whatever,
or the commemorative nineteen fifty four Royal Tour.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Or something else.
Speaker 7 (19:25):
We had to do like twelve shows a night to
break even because it was only six tickets the show evenant.
We didn't know what show we were about to do
until people came in and picked out a teaspoon, and
then we tell them that story.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
Yeah, so you have done comedy all across the world.
There's got to be some juicy gossip. I want a story,
because you, as a comedian, you tell stories, and I
want a story.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Okay, this is a.
Speaker 7 (19:45):
Very naughty story though, so I can't tell any other
names because the other people in so this is from
when I first started outing. Okay, but the other people
in this story have all become very famous in their
own fields, and I can't ruin their careers.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Okay, I'll just ruined my own.
Speaker 7 (19:59):
So a very very long time ago, myself and some
other friends got booked to a festival and we had
one sober person and the other four of us were
not sober people at the time, and I was definitely
doing lots of things that I wouldn't.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Do today, being a naughty being a naughty boy, and
you know.
Speaker 7 (20:18):
Taking some of Edith's medications before Itith even existed. And
so the sober one was driving us in this because
we were all fucking broke this shitty old car that
they had up to this festival, and we timed that
we could drop out our medication at the exact right
time so that when we got into the festival we
could have a really fun, fun night, and then we
(20:38):
went performing into the following night. So we were like, well,
we'll have a really fun night on this first night.
And then the car broke down after we dropped Oh no.
So then we're on the side of the road waiting
waiting for our ACV out.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
In the middle of nowhere.
Speaker 7 (20:52):
There's no we hadn't seen a town for ages, we
hadn't seen the poor sober person is just sitting there
where We're all uh, and.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Then we're I need some music. I need to dance.
I need to dance.
Speaker 7 (21:02):
And we had the hazard lights so on because it
was pitch black and we're on the side of the
road and we'll road that someone had come and like
hit us, so the hazard lights on. But this was
pre intimate, like this is pretty smartphones, so no one
had music on them. The only CD that we had
in their car was the Lean Miss Sound Fat So on.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
The side of the road was me.
Speaker 7 (21:20):
And sometimes every now and then I'll see these people
on television or you know, a a fancy event or whatever,
and I'm like, I remember dancing on the side of
the road to at the end of the day with
the hazard lights, just.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Fucking party, having your own bushtoof having our own little
bush dove. And we made it to the festival, made it.
Speaker 7 (21:36):
But when that Ore ACV person came, the four of
us that we're not saying about just sort of stood
there with.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
The side of a horror movie, yeah, going, yeah, we're
just going to the festival.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
So you mentioned all your characters. So far, we've got Rhonda,
Butch Moore we got Tracy from to Woomba. You eat
at the Veil, of course, Kimberley Cray.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
It's true. There's actually more though, Peter and.
Speaker 7 (22:00):
Paul, but they're basically just two old bears that met
at a house party and arrive in the Docklands in
the nineties, just weakened after Princess di As.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
You also do Camilla and Camilla Parker Barls. Yes, and
what is said?
Speaker 4 (22:16):
I want to be a Camilla very similar to this.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
It's really it's really just Charles a bit more. It's
better with a wig.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
Before we go, I thought, you know, you say you're
a good character actor.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
I thought I'd put it to the test.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
Okay, So I'm going to give you some lyrics to
a song that you will know, which a lot of
us will know, and I'm just gonna yell character names
at you and you have to switch between them.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Are you up for the challenge?
Speaker 7 (22:48):
I would just like to make it clear to everybody
listening that when I do these characters, it's like not
it's usually for a whole night.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
It's okay, let's kick us off with Kim and Gar.
Speaker 7 (23:00):
There's always a joker in the pack. There's always a
lonely clean There is a jester, just a fool, as
foolish as.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
He can be. A Camilla that's almost a joker, but.
Speaker 5 (23:19):
Fake deals a hand, and I she.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Jaker is.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
There's always a joker in the pack. There's always a
lonely Claire. Do you think I'm going to get some
sort of Is there a podcast award?
Speaker 4 (23:35):
I'm going to submit it for the Guinness World Book
of Records. And I am looking forward to your new
one woman play, One man, one person.
Speaker 7 (23:43):
Play, One people play, the People's Play, and the People's Princess.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
So that was Thomas and Edith and Camilla and Kim
Craig and a few others. If this chat has taught
me anything it's to respect your elders, because you never
know when it might be a man in a week
who doubles as a hornbag.
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