January 31, 2023 • 9 mins
Comedian Claire Hooper is back in Perth for the first time since the lockdowns and it seems she really did miss *checks notes*… Kalamunda’s Zig Zag.
But you know what she doesn’t miss? The dreaded ‘pop-in’.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Claire Hooper is in town for Sweet Charity, her Fringe
show until February the fifth. You can get tickets through
fringe world dot com, dot e U and Claire's joining us.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Hello, welcome home, oh mate, thank you so much. It's
not fun too.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
It was the start of the pandemic the last time
we saw you.
Speaker 4 (00:16):
Yeah, it was just it was nipping at our heels. Well,
I wonder what happened here.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
I know, remember the good old day. I miss not caring.
I really, I was just talking outside. We were like,
remember when you didn't care if you had a sniffle.
Speaker 5 (00:32):
I miss it so much, and all of a sudden
it was a mask. We have to that.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
And remember the first few days of mask yould, Oh
my gosh, you were in a sci fi film and perfectly.
I mean, I'm still wearing them on the planes. Yeah, yeah,
I'm one of the only people. But I'm also like,
I don't want to land in Perth and get sick.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
So yeah, I think I'm always going to wear one
on a plane now, because you know, it's okay to
learn a few things from the pandemic as well. There
are times when yeah, it's not a bad idea, not
have everyone's germs all over you. Yeah, plane as a
breathing ground space.
Speaker 5 (01:05):
Yeah, yeah, didn't we.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I feel like we always had it in us on planes,
like because in pre masks on planes, you'd be sitting.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
There going these feels too close? Yes, yeah, too intomate.
Yeah yeah, we used to.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
We we used to be really confessed once are they
incredibly ill?
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Are they from? Yeah? Like also you'd be yeah, I
used to.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
I used to see people in masks when you're on
like trains traveling in other parts of the world, and
you'd be like, what do they think they're going to
catch from me? Yea? Now I realized no, you know,
liketually they probably had a cold and there being now
we understand sometimes it's courteous, it's not yea.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Rather than being you know, jumping to being offended.
Speaker 5 (01:48):
Year last year, my first plight anywhere was to Geraldon
for work last year, and I'm looking at the magazine
in the back. I've never really thought about who touched
the magazine before, and I went probably.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
No, no, now we're yeah, all right, don't overthink anyway.
That is how long it's been, I believe, and I'm
in the same venue you know, and it's it's a
weird like.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
No times past.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
But actually three of the hardest years of anyone actually passed.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
When you, I mean you are from Perth.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
When you get back to Perth, the things that you
really miss that you think, I must do that immediately,
or I must go you know, such a.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
Place for.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Oh yeah, well I did one of them this morning.
I took one of my favorite runs. Okay, I know
you were hoping for. This is my favorite hartspot.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
This is what I was like when I lived away
from Perth.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
I couldn't wait to get back to watch a sunset
at the beach because I get a sunset.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
No, you don't do it's a weird the ocean. I
get a sunset out front of my house. I just
look down Moreland Road towards the freeway and the sunsets
over the freeway and it's so beautiful.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Guys. It's almost as good.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
As yeah, out in there up at the zigzag, you know,
like yeah, where you run up the hill you get
the hardest bit first and then you fall down the
gravelly slopes.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
Home absolutely brings back those cure crime memories.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Yeah, yeah, I had because I grew up in Lismurdy
and I had a friend who used to be able
to drive his Mini down the Zigzag with his feet
while he was rolling a should we say cigarette?
Speaker 5 (03:29):
You can say that.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
I don't advise it. I don't think you can even
drive this anymore?
Speaker 5 (03:35):
Can you?
Speaker 3 (03:37):
You can?
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Actually you can drive, and you can still.
Speaker 5 (03:39):
Drive it, Okay, maybe just on an scooter.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Yeah that maybe that's smart.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
Yeah, great, dangerous.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
I've got a story.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
In my show about my my husband's cousin was his
hero when he was growing up. Yeah, and it's all
based on this one experience where he was eleven and
his cousin took him to terminator too and let him
hold the steering wheel.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
While he rolled a cigarette.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
And it's just like when you're an eleven year old boarn,
You're like, well, that's it. That's my guy.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
I am print on him.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
He's my new dad. Yeah, yes, yeah, And I mean
it's so weird for me because I'm now knowing this
man as someone who's thirty years older and keeps a
Fedora in an acoustic guitar in the boot of his
car just in case the situation should arise. When I
know and I just feel I'm like such an awful person.
I can't handle the fact that it makes me. I mean,
(04:27):
good on him having a fedora and acoustic guitar that
nobody ever asked him to take out, But good on him.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
But I'm always like, I'll just I'll just see it happen.
I'll see it. I'll see that point in the barbecue
where he's rummaging in the boot of the car.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
I'll be like, I need to go to the toilet
for forty five minutes.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
I can't do it.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
I'm such a horrible Amy Shark's gonna walk around the
corner and ask for an audition. What's going on.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
I think he's just a good guy.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Yeah, Yeah, we've had Yeah, we've had We've had this
CD on for long enough. Now it's time for me.
And he's such a week man. Honestly, he's a really
sweet man. I just have a very complicated relationship with him. Also,
he's someone who doesn't call before he drops in.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
So I hate the popping.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
We have children, you know, like when you have children,
you can't just have a popping because you don't know
if they're like you're going to catch them in the
middle of being monsters, right, and you just because you
need you really need to find tune your children for
about half an hour before anyone comes over, so that.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
They need to find you in myself. First of all,
I need to get dressed. Then I need to do
a quick tidy up.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
I don't like I don't like it. What if I
was just about to go to the shops. I don't
understand anyone.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
Okay, guys, Annie Claire's coming over in about forty minutes.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Generation it was all about the pop in. I remember
people popping in left, right and center.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
You're not don't know. I don't mean it.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
I don't mean anyone who's into them except the people
that do them. And I don't understand that's telling you.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
So Claire family always a great source of material, but
sometimes you have to get clearance. What's going on with you?
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Oh all right, yeah, I look I am.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
I'm doing I'm doing due diligence at the moment. My
kids are six and eight, and one of them has
forbidden me to tell her stories, and I'm like, it's
really interesting, but I'm on board. I'm like, if that's
what you've chosen, you're not in the show. So I mean,
I only tell stories about the eight year old. The
poor eight year old is now carrying double to load. Fine,
(06:32):
but I will not mention the other one. My sister
in Laura is going through a marriage breakup. She's just
stayed with us for four months. I'm so sorry, love,
but you make it into like if you've been four months,
you got to pay you You've got to pay your rent.
When Monday morning, I was like, I've put it off
for too long. I had to send her a text
(06:54):
with all the jokes I'm telling about her failing marriage
in my show. I was like, can you please approve
these before I do them to hundreds of people?
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Good honor?
Speaker 2 (07:03):
She wrote back, the they're funnier than they are sad?
Speaker 4 (07:09):
Which is I mean? Is that permission?
Speaker 1 (07:12):
I don't know it is think so.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
I think i might have paid backed her into a corner.
But I've got permission and that's the good news.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
But the six year old, no, because they know they're
rights these days, these six year.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
Olds totally appreciated. She's a very private person.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
Yeah. Is that a little bit like the Osbourne's or
the Kardashings. When one of the family members doesn't want
to be part of the that's.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Right when we make my incredibly soon to be incredibly
successful reality show. Yes, the Hooper duffhins. No, there'll be
one missing. They will be like, why are the two
beds in the children's.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Room and only one child in this family?
Speaker 2 (07:52):
That's because there's a six year old hiding under one
of those beds for the entire filming schedule?
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Is there any TV on the horizon in there any more?
All TV the horizon and the question?
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Now I'm being I'm being very fickle at the moment. Okay,
so I'll drop in on things and I don't not a.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Drop in on TV. Yeah I should.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
I mean, they've been all these things floating around and
now I'm very noncommittal, and it's it's actually a really
nice thing at this time of the year. I'm about
to do Perth Fringe and then I don't know if
you've heard of that I did going on stage last night,
I was like, well out of Melbourne Fringe everyone. I mean,
I started started with a mistake, moving on got Perth
(08:36):
and then Adelaide and Canberra and Brisbane and Melbourne and
it's this.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Lovely that's going to take up a bit of time.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Yeah, it's lovely because it means you don't have to
think about anything else.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
It's just like a few months of touring and I
realize I should be thinking about what happens in June,
but I'm.
Speaker 5 (08:53):
Not, and that's good. Indeed, to say, good evening, Perth
when you get to Melbourne, or.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
I don't, will I promise I'll do what is footage? Yeah,
all right, good evening Perth.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
All right, I'll do it.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
The shows that Johnny Foxes, Yeah, yeah, in the Pleasure Garden, yes,
all right, Well come on down.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
It's going to be a lot of fun.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Lovely to see you. Welcome home, enjoy your your time
at home.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
Thank you. I'm home now. I've seen you guys. Thank you.
Claire Hooper is in town for Sweet Charity, her Fringe
show until February the fifth. You can get tickets through
fringe world dot com, dot e U and Claire's joining us.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Hello, welcome home, oh mate, thank you so much. It's
not fun too.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
It was the start of the pandemic the last time
we saw you.
Speaker 4 (00:16):
Yeah, it was just it was nipping at our heels. Well,
I wonder what happened here.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
I know, remember the good old day. I miss not caring.
I really, I was just talking outside. We were like,
remember when you didn't care if you had a sniffle.
Speaker 5 (00:32):
I miss it so much, and all of a sudden
it was a mask. We have to that.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
And remember the first few days of mask yould, Oh
my gosh, you were in a sci fi film and perfectly.
I mean, I'm still wearing them on the planes. Yeah, yeah,
I'm one of the only people. But I'm also like,
I don't want to land in Perth and get sick.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
So yeah, I think I'm always going to wear one
on a plane now, because you know, it's okay to
learn a few things from the pandemic as well. There
are times when yeah, it's not a bad idea, not
have everyone's germs all over you. Yeah, plane as a
breathing ground space.
Speaker 5 (01:05):
Yeah, yeah, didn't we.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I feel like we always had it in us on planes,
like because in pre masks on planes, you'd be sitting.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
There going these feels too close? Yes, yeah, too intomate.
Yeah yeah, we used to.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
We we used to be really confessed once are they
incredibly ill?
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Are they from? Yeah? Like also you'd be yeah, I
used to.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
I used to see people in masks when you're on
like trains traveling in other parts of the world, and
you'd be like, what do they think they're going to
catch from me? Yea? Now I realized no, you know,
liketually they probably had a cold and there being now
we understand sometimes it's courteous, it's not yea.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Rather than being you know, jumping to being offended.
Speaker 5 (01:48):
Year last year, my first plight anywhere was to Geraldon
for work last year, and I'm looking at the magazine
in the back. I've never really thought about who touched
the magazine before, and I went probably.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
No, no, now we're yeah, all right, don't overthink anyway.
That is how long it's been, I believe, and I'm
in the same venue you know, and it's it's a
weird like.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
No times past.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
But actually three of the hardest years of anyone actually passed.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
When you, I mean you are from Perth.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
When you get back to Perth, the things that you
really miss that you think, I must do that immediately,
or I must go you know, such a.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
Place for.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Oh yeah, well I did one of them this morning.
I took one of my favorite runs. Okay, I know
you were hoping for. This is my favorite hartspot.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
This is what I was like when I lived away
from Perth.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
I couldn't wait to get back to watch a sunset
at the beach because I get a sunset.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
No, you don't do it's a weird the ocean. I
get a sunset out front of my house. I just
look down Moreland Road towards the freeway and the sunsets
over the freeway and it's so beautiful.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Guys. It's almost as good.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
As yeah, out in there up at the zigzag, you know,
like yeah, where you run up the hill you get
the hardest bit first and then you fall down the
gravelly slopes.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
Home absolutely brings back those cure crime memories.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Yeah, yeah, I had because I grew up in Lismurdy
and I had a friend who used to be able
to drive his Mini down the Zigzag with his feet
while he was rolling a should we say cigarette?
Speaker 5 (03:29):
You can say that.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
I don't advise it. I don't think you can even
drive this anymore?
Speaker 5 (03:35):
Can you?
Speaker 3 (03:37):
You can?
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Actually you can drive, and you can still.
Speaker 5 (03:39):
Drive it, Okay, maybe just on an scooter.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Yeah that maybe that's smart.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
Yeah, great, dangerous.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
I've got a story.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
In my show about my my husband's cousin was his
hero when he was growing up. Yeah, and it's all
based on this one experience where he was eleven and
his cousin took him to terminator too and let him
hold the steering wheel.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
While he rolled a cigarette.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
And it's just like when you're an eleven year old boarn,
You're like, well, that's it. That's my guy.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
I am print on him.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
He's my new dad. Yeah, yes, yeah, And I mean
it's so weird for me because I'm now knowing this
man as someone who's thirty years older and keeps a
Fedora in an acoustic guitar in the boot of his
car just in case the situation should arise. When I
know and I just feel I'm like such an awful person.
I can't handle the fact that it makes me. I mean,
(04:27):
good on him having a fedora and acoustic guitar that
nobody ever asked him to take out, But good on him.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
But I'm always like, I'll just I'll just see it happen.
I'll see it. I'll see that point in the barbecue
where he's rummaging in the boot of the car.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
I'll be like, I need to go to the toilet
for forty five minutes.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
I can't do it.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
I'm such a horrible Amy Shark's gonna walk around the
corner and ask for an audition. What's going on.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
I think he's just a good guy.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Yeah, Yeah, we've had Yeah, we've had We've had this
CD on for long enough. Now it's time for me.
And he's such a week man. Honestly, he's a really
sweet man. I just have a very complicated relationship with him. Also,
he's someone who doesn't call before he drops in.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
So I hate the popping.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
We have children, you know, like when you have children,
you can't just have a popping because you don't know
if they're like you're going to catch them in the
middle of being monsters, right, and you just because you
need you really need to find tune your children for
about half an hour before anyone comes over, so that.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
They need to find you in myself. First of all,
I need to get dressed. Then I need to do
a quick tidy up.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
I don't like I don't like it. What if I
was just about to go to the shops. I don't
understand anyone.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
Okay, guys, Annie Claire's coming over in about forty minutes.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Generation it was all about the pop in. I remember
people popping in left, right and center.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
You're not don't know. I don't mean it.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
I don't mean anyone who's into them except the people
that do them. And I don't understand that's telling you.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
So Claire family always a great source of material, but
sometimes you have to get clearance. What's going on with you?
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Oh all right, yeah, I look I am.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
I'm doing I'm doing due diligence at the moment. My
kids are six and eight, and one of them has
forbidden me to tell her stories, and I'm like, it's
really interesting, but I'm on board. I'm like, if that's
what you've chosen, you're not in the show. So I mean,
I only tell stories about the eight year old. The
poor eight year old is now carrying double to load. Fine,
(06:32):
but I will not mention the other one. My sister
in Laura is going through a marriage breakup. She's just
stayed with us for four months. I'm so sorry, love,
but you make it into like if you've been four months,
you got to pay you You've got to pay your rent.
When Monday morning, I was like, I've put it off
for too long. I had to send her a text
(06:54):
with all the jokes I'm telling about her failing marriage
in my show. I was like, can you please approve
these before I do them to hundreds of people?
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Good honor?
Speaker 2 (07:03):
She wrote back, the they're funnier than they are sad?
Speaker 4 (07:09):
Which is I mean? Is that permission?
Speaker 1 (07:12):
I don't know it is think so.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
I think i might have paid backed her into a corner.
But I've got permission and that's the good news.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
But the six year old, no, because they know they're
rights these days, these six year.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
Olds totally appreciated. She's a very private person.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
Yeah. Is that a little bit like the Osbourne's or
the Kardashings. When one of the family members doesn't want
to be part of the that's.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Right when we make my incredibly soon to be incredibly
successful reality show. Yes, the Hooper duffhins. No, there'll be
one missing. They will be like, why are the two
beds in the children's.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Room and only one child in this family?
Speaker 2 (07:52):
That's because there's a six year old hiding under one
of those beds for the entire filming schedule?
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Is there any TV on the horizon in there any more?
All TV the horizon and the question?
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Now I'm being I'm being very fickle at the moment. Okay,
so I'll drop in on things and I don't not a.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Drop in on TV. Yeah I should.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
I mean, they've been all these things floating around and
now I'm very noncommittal, and it's it's actually a really
nice thing at this time of the year. I'm about
to do Perth Fringe and then I don't know if
you've heard of that I did going on stage last night,
I was like, well out of Melbourne Fringe everyone. I mean,
I started started with a mistake, moving on got Perth
(08:36):
and then Adelaide and Canberra and Brisbane and Melbourne and
it's this.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Lovely that's going to take up a bit of time.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Yeah, it's lovely because it means you don't have to
think about anything else.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
It's just like a few months of touring and I
realize I should be thinking about what happens in June,
but I'm.
Speaker 5 (08:53):
Not, and that's good. Indeed, to say, good evening, Perth
when you get to Melbourne, or.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
I don't, will I promise I'll do what is footage? Yeah,
all right, good evening Perth.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
All right, I'll do it.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
The shows that Johnny Foxes, Yeah, yeah, in the Pleasure Garden, yes,
all right, Well come on down.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
It's going to be a lot of fun.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Lovely to see you. Welcome home, enjoy your your time
at home.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
Thank you. I'm home now. I've seen you guys. Thank you.
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