05-29-25 *INTERVIEW* Australian Comedian Monty Franklin at Comedy Works This Weekend

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I am so happy, I should say strewths. I am so.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Happy to have my Australian friend Bonnie Franklin back in uh,
back in studio with me and I went to see
Monty at Comedy Works last time he was in town.
I'm not sure about the time before, because I think
I've seen you more than once and uh and and
Monty's playing Comedy Works out at the Landmark tonight Tomorrow night,
Saturday night one show tonight too, Friday to Saturday.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
I'll give you all the time details later, but just hi, it's.

Speaker 3 (00:28):
Good to see you again, cracky crust backstay kiss. That's
not enough, This is enough. I just that's all I do.
Real off Australia.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
My wife has thought.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
She should go get a job at out Back like
she just get the biggest tips because she's legit Australian.

Speaker 1 (00:42):
She got the great.

Speaker 3 (00:42):
Food when we go in there, I should go get
a hey guy, and I go right this.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
Way right just then they serve you up a kangaroo steak.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
Good, pretty good. Yeah, this is so.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
When I lived in did you know I lived in Australia,
I did so. When I lived in Australia, i'd go
over to the super market and sometimes I'd buy a
kangaroo steak and my wife would look at me like.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
Isn't it like, are you a homeless person? Why are
you eating that?

Speaker 3 (01:07):
It's like if you go to the supermarket here and
there's the turkey section and the chicken and stuff, and
there's a full kangaroo section in Australian supermarkets. But it's
really really good meat, Like it's I mean, it's kind
of like eating deer venison right for sure.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
It's very lean meat.

Speaker 3 (01:23):
And yeah, we'll have kangaroo burgers and kangaroo spaghetti and
all sorts of stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
What are you up to these days? I haven't seen
you in a year ish.

Speaker 3 (01:31):
How are you doing just eating kangaroos. I'm doing a
big tour. This is the second weekend I did San Diego,
started at last weekend and then here and from here
I go all around the US. I do Canada, I
do about thirty shows in Europe, I do about fifteen
shows in Asia, and then I do New Zealand and Australia.

(01:52):
It takes me all the way to February. This is
the biggest tour I've ever done. So if you want
to see the start of the tour when I haven't
figured it out. Probably no, I've got this.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
So how do you how do you handle doing a
show in a place where people don't speak great English,
like Rome or New Zealand.

Speaker 3 (02:09):
I did that in Berlin. Everyone it was.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
And I just.

Speaker 3 (02:17):
You just take your time. You realize that people are
there to enjoy the show, so I slow it down.
I asked some questions. I didn't talk about anything too
detailed or slang words and stuff.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
But they love it, so they're there to enjoy it.

Speaker 3 (02:32):
And yeah, a lot of these places I did, Zurich,
I've done. I'm doing Paris for the first time. Wow,
I don't know how that's going to go, but we'll see.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
Well.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
Plus, you also get a sense like how many Europeans
speak English, which is exactly you know, not very many
Americans speak other stuff. I don't know how many Australians
speak other stuff.

Speaker 3 (02:51):
I don't speak another language. I can speak a little
bit of Indonesian, which helps.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
Really nowhere anywhere.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
Actually, I told you that I had listened to at
least some of your podcast with Rogan and you were
talking about Bali and all this.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
So what's your connection? Well, Bari's for us.

Speaker 3 (03:08):
So for Americans, Mexico and Hawaii is your beach destination
piece to go to, right And for us it's Bali
and Thailand because they're you know, they're the six hour
flight away. And so if you go to Bali or
Thailand you will see what I like to call bogans
in the wild. So bogans are somewhere between a cowboy

(03:29):
and a redneck. I'm not really sure where they sit,
but they're very fun to watch. So if you're ever there,
you'll know what I'm talking about. You'll see them immediately.
They're in singlets and flip flops and no pants and
they're drinking beer at nine in the morning at the
pool bar in the pool and they don't leave all
day and they have to go to the toilet at
some stage, but they don't. And so Balley and Thailand's

(03:52):
filled with Australian bogans, but they're actually really fun.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
Bogans are great. Were you ever one.

Speaker 3 (03:57):
I'm kind of a bogans in Australia. If you're a
if you're about like fifty percent bogan, it's pretty good.
Just means you down to earth and fun like that's
the difference. It's not like a redneck. Then there's not
necessarily a full Bogain. That's the problem. But if you
like half Bogan, it's all right.

Speaker 2 (04:14):
Are full Bogans from like Inland or did they? No
one know there's like a dozen people there, there's like
six yeah, but no full Bogans.

Speaker 3 (04:24):
Just present themselves when you least expect it, and you'll
be like at the train station they go, oh, I
hate yeah.

Speaker 1 (04:32):
Get away from the Oh my gosh.

Speaker 2 (04:37):
All right, one other thing, just in case anybody else
is going to New York, tell tell all my listeners
about your friend's bar.

Speaker 3 (04:44):
Oh Old Mates Pub in New York if you're ever there.
So they've just built this new, massive, three story Australian
pub in New York called Old Mates, and it's all
Australian themed. They've got all Australian food, they've got all
Australian beer.

Speaker 1 (04:58):
Australian people run it.

Speaker 3 (05:00):
If you want to go and get drunk with a
bunch of Australians but you can't get to Australia, go
to Old Mates because it's happening on a daily basis.

Speaker 1 (05:07):
That sounds awesome. It's so much fun.

Speaker 3 (05:10):
Do good Australian food too, you know, I'm part of
this like.

Speaker 1 (05:15):
That, like a meat pie or a sasage roll. They
got meat pies, they got sausage rugs A long way
if you want a sausage roll.

Speaker 3 (05:23):
Yeah. They play all Australian music there. They've got Australian bands,
Dom Dollar, Big DJ was there, Oh my god, yeah,
all sorts of people. I'm doing my Australian, my New
York shows there. Actually, I got like a residentiality there. Yeah,
that's amazing. It's just so much fun. That's absolutely amazing.
But no chicken Parmesana is Australia's national dish. There'll be
a doll from the Italians because we're criminals, how dare we?

Speaker 2 (05:46):
All Right, Money's got to get going, so we're gonna
let him get going. But Money is playing tonight at
seven thirty, and then Friday seven and nine thirty, and
then Saturday because it's the suburbs at six.

Speaker 1 (05:57):
Thirty and nine. Yeah, because we can't stay up very
later on. Let's all go to bed, let's all go
to bitter folks.

Speaker 2 (06:04):
You can get tickets at comedyworks dot com.

Speaker 1 (06:06):
Great to see them.

Speaker 2 (06:06):
Money, So I'm not gonna be able to get to
the show this time because I'm going out of town.

Speaker 3 (06:10):
But it's great to see you now. I just get
to that old Night's public. You'll do fun, enjoy the
rest of your tour. Thanks mine, Thanks having me.