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The Motorsport Brief - Christmas with Damien Power · Rusty's Garage

• 0:02
  A listener production.
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  What's more daunting, stand-up comedy or holding it flat around the famed Indianapolis Motor Speedway?
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  We're about to find out.
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  Sort of.
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  Merry Christmas, everybody.
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  Rusty here.
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  For this ep of the short cast, I thought it would be good to have a bit of a laugh, use a long bow to connect it to motorsport, and take a break from the usual news and interviews.
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  We will get to our guest in just a moment.
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  Quick thanks to all of you for the feedback on the Mark Winterbottom feature episode two.
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  We released a two-parter with him in early December.
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  If you haven't heard it, check it out and let your mates know.
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  They might enjoy it as well over the holiday period.
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  He talks candidly about leaving Team 18 and how he feels now with a little bit of time to reflect, plus his excitement for rejoining Tickford and the chance to pair up with Cam Waters there, memories of his Bathurst win, the championship title, and how Owen Wilson had to be called back to the voiceover booth when Frosty picked up a cameo in Cars 2.
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  He loved working on that movie.
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  We have a few short casts rolling out over the break too, so keep an eye out for notifications on those, including the seat maker who's worked with all sorts of great racing names.
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  And what he does is world class.
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  More recently, he got to shape a seat.
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  for Brad Pitt.
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  That is a cool industry story, that one.
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  On the line in Queensland is Damien Power.
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  Now, a few years ago, he and I had the chance to work together.
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  It was a lot of fun.
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  If you haven't seen his stand-up comedy before, check him out on Instagram, at Damien Power.
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  Try and find him at a show near you.
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  You will possibly know him from appearances in things like the awesome working dog comedy, Utopia.
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  Damien has a bit of news on something that he's up to as well, and we'll get to that.
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  But what has this all got to do with motorsport, I hear you say?
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  He is Will Power's brother, and he has been stateside, Damien, for some very special moments in Will's career.
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  I thought we'd get him on for a chat and a giggle.
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  Hello, mate.
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  Merry Christmas.
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  G'day, Rusty.
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  Good to see you, man.
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  Merry Christmas to you too.
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  Thanks for having me.
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  It's great to catch up with you.
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  Will's been on the pod before.
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  Take people there.
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  What was Christmas like in the power household growing up?
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  And are the family all together again this year?
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  What was it like?
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  Well, a lot of fighting.
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  That I can definitely tell you.
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  Are we allowed to swear on this thing?
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  Yeah, of course you can.
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  Go for it.
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  Go for it.
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  It's Christmas.
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  Okay, yeah.
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  No, it was fucking nuts.
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  I mean, I don't know.
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  There was four boys and just chaos and, yeah, I mean, Will's not, yeah, I don't know if you can tell, but Will's crazy.
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  He's a crazy dude.
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  Yeah.
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  We'd steal the go-kart out of Dad's garage and take that around the residential areas there and get out like two strokes until the cops came and stuff like that.
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  The neighbours called me up, tried to have a go at me for letting off a firebomb in their yard.
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  Oh.
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  Don't try this at home, kids.
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  Yeah, no, it was pretty wild growing up there, yeah, in Toowoomba.
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  Love it.
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  What is in the water in Toowoomba, right?
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  All these great things have come from there, a lot of motorsports, success and so on.
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  Sport, yeah, yeah, for sure.
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  Yeah.
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  Just loneliness.
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  There's just not a lot to do, man.
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  There's nothing.
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  Yeah.
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  Look, Toowoomba's gotten a lot better, you know.
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  There's...
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  There's a lot more there now, but when we were there, there was really nothing to do.
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  So I guess you do tend to get in a car or something.
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  You know what I mean?
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  Or run fast.
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  You have to get out.
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  Yeah, you have to get away.
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  Aussies shorten everything, right?
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  So are you Damo?
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  What nickname did the family give you?
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  And did you have one for Will that the motorsport audience isn't aware of?
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  Well, I mean... Well...
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  He's hesitating.
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  He's hesitating.
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  I'd like to say Chicken Hawk because if you look at him from side on, he didn't like that one much.
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  So hopefully this one doesn't get back to him.
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  Did you ever, I mean, you talked about the go-kart there before, did you ever race anything?
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  And, I mean, is that motorsport love that's in the family, is there a little bit of that in your veins?
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  I really thought it was all so boring myself.
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  Really?
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  Yeah, yeah.
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  I guess I was just surrounded by it, so I found it pretty boring.
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  But I did get in cars.
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  Yeah, we got in the go car.
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  We got a Datsun 180B.
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  Is that right?
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  Or is it a 120B?
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  Or a 1600.
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  I can't remember.
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  I can't remember.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah, I don't know if that's one.
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  We had a VB Commodore.
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  These were done up for touring cars, you know, and they were the dirt track cars.
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  Yeah, we took the Datsun out at Ipswich Motorway and, yeah, I mean, I liked it.
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  It was fun.
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  All the comedians in Edinburgh this year had a go-kart race for Aaron Chan.
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  I don't know if you know Aaron Chan.
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  How cool.
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  He does a lot of really great stuff.
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  Yeah.
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  And his birthday and...
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  I won.
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  Congrats.
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  So I guess it's in the blood.
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  It is in the blood.
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  Before I went out there, yeah, the guys were like, you better fucking win this.
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  You better win.
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  If you don't win this, it's fucking embarrassing.
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  So there's a lot of pressure, yeah, because it was just like vicariously, I should in theory be fast in a go-kart.
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  Yeah.
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  So, yeah.
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  Were you always a joker, mate?
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  And when did the idea of pursuing comedy as a career kind of become a thing for you?
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  Yeah, I mean, I was, yeah.
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  I mean, everyone in our family is very funny, really.
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  You know, especially dad.
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  There's all those times you're laughing at him, to be fair.
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  But yeah, we're all very funny.
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  And I got a degree and did all some boring stuff in IT.
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  This is in my early 20s and I just didn't think that was really for me, you know.
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  And so, yeah, in my early 20s, I decided to give all the things that I was doing as a, you know, screwing around and stuff in school and getting in trouble and all that.
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  I thought, you know, maybe there's something to this.
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  And so, yeah, it was pretty early on that I got into it.
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  So I've been going for a long time.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  They talk in business, right, in the motor racing business, I mean, about the struggle for drivers in the early days.
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  You would have seen that with Will acutely.
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  How that stuff invariably shapes them as athletes and as competitors and so on.
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  How tough was that comedy road for you given – I mean, that's more or less midlife crisis stakes, isn't it?
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  You've gone and got a degree.
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  You could have been quite easily earning a comfortable salary in that IT space, and you've turned hard right, mate, haven't you?
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  yeah yeah you do wonder sometimes might be time to get back to fixing the printer you know what i mean
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  Was it tough?
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  It's not easy, man.
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  Yeah, yeah.
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  Look, the thing is that the comedy's gotten easier.
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  You know, like I really think this comedy special that I'm putting out is a good one.
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  It's high quality and it was hard earned, you know, working all the jokes really and that whole process has gotten easier.
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  It was harder earlier on.
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  It's just you're more scared.
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  There's higher risk.
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  You're failing more.
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  It's more embarrassing.
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  It's just humiliating.
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  But the career part of it is always...
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  precarious, you know, and, and, um, it's up and down and it's all, it's all over the place.
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  And that's really the part that's hard.
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  Uh, the, the, the, the actual doing of it, um, has gotten a lot easier and I put a lot of, a lot of work in, I guess.
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  So,
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  Cool, cool.
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  We'll chart a bit more of your career here in a second.
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  Alone in the Crowd was the last one.
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  Just tease a little bit about the new special, where people can find it and- It'll be free on YouTube, although I'll put like a- It's a crazy story, actually.
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  The management in spectacular fashion and public fashion went bankrupt that were producing it.
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  Yeah, some big names too and they that aren't getting paid and oh yeah, yeah, it's crazy.
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  So the people that shot my special haven't been paid the crew as a result of that.
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  So there is a there is a link to contribute to the special.
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  I mean, it's not a charity.
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  It's just a way of sort of paying for what you're watching.
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  Nice.
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  But this special, yeah, the last one was a bit of a best of and there's other specials on my YouTube.
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  But this one is just my latest stuff from the last couple of years.
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  I toured it to the UK and toured it all around Australia and worked it up, you know, put a lot of time into it.
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  And it's really like just the very best bits and stuff.
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  So, yeah, feel good about it.
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  I think people will like it.
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  Hopefully they fucking watch it.
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  We want to encourage that too, right?
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  Yeah, yeah.
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  Your brother's performed on some incredible stages, mate, from Indianapolis Motor Speedway, I mean, the hometown hero, if you like, at Gold Coast Indy back in the day, Melbourne Comedy Festival for you, Edinburgh Fringe and so on.
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  I mean, what is that like in your world?
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  He steps onto the stage and has to perform how –
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  daunting is that?
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  How adrenaline charged is that?
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  And just like a car racer, it's quite a long parallel I'm trying to draw here.
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  But if things aren't going right, he's got to change it up.
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  The team's got to change it up.
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  In your case, I guess, if you're feeding off the audience and you don't feel like it's going as you planned, I guess you have to change tack too.
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  Oh, absolutely, yeah.
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  I mean, I think a good comedian does.
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  And, like, it is a bit like Will talks about tracks and being able to look at them and just tell very quickly what the track's about and what's dangerous and good and fast and slow and everything, you know?
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  And that does remind me a bit of an audience.
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  Like, now that I'm, like, 20 years in, it's very quick to go out and just sort of go...
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  you know, these guys are this certain way.
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  On the Gold Coast, you know, they're a certain way.
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  And no, every audience is kind of different and it kind of reminded me when Will was talking about that stuff, it reminded me a lot of you get better at reading it
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  You know what I mean?
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  And like I can get to an audience now and turn up and go, oh, shit, well, I'm not opening with that joke and I'm not doing this and that or I might be high energy, lower energy.
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  And that's really what you get better at is like knowing what the audience will take and being able to push that further and stuff.
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  And I'm sure it's the same with Will and Trax, like I'm given any given day, the heat, the cold, the rain, the da-da-da-da-da.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  When it's a festival, right, where you are in the queue of comedians coming out, does that affect things as well?
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  I think I've heard a couple of people talk about that, knowing how the audience is with a presenter, a comedian, one or two before you, and how that might impact what you're about to do and so on.
• 11:26
  Yeah, absolutely.
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  You know, if the guy before you has done a bit about something that you're about to talk about, for example, that can, yeah, you just have to, oh, man, sometimes like if it's on TV, I mean, they're the really tough gigs.
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  Because on TV you actually submit a script of what you're going to say.
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  So they've got to kind of, you've got to sort of get stuck in it.
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  But, you know, live you can do whatever, but when it's on TV, like I've seen some horror stories, you know, where guys have been placed in the order and live they bomb because they've been put after someone talking about the same thing.
• 12:03
  A quick break on this edition of Rusty's Garage.
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  Stick around.
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  More of our fun Christmas special ep with Damien Power on the other side of this.
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  You're listening to The Motorsport Brief, our garage shortcast.
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  A little Christmas special for you with comedian Damien Power, Will Power's brother.
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  Actually, he likes to think of it the other way around.
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  Brothers, hey?
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  Let's get back to the convo now.
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  I mentioned in the intro about even that little cameo on Utopia.
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  What is it like working with those guys?
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  Neil Crompton tells a story about working with Rob Sitch and Co. when they did the celebrity race at the Grand Prix all those years ago.
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  And he reckons the dinners, he would be, you know, sore from laughter and so on.
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  I mean, that show...
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  It must have been a lot of fun, mate, was it?
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  Yeah, they were great.
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  They're very casual.
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  They're just like, yeah, yeah.
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  They're just like, yeah, yeah, sit there and, oh, yeah, that was good.
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  Yeah, but all right, let's keep going.
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  They're just shooting.
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  They're going.
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  And he's just having a yarn the whole time, Rob.
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  He's just like, yeah, no, this is what my dad was, this and that, and I grew up here and, yeah, we used to really personable guy.
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  Okay.
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  Like super, yeah, charismatic, I guess, yeah.
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  But they were just like, yeah, yeah, just shoot it there and, yeah, oh, well, I guess we fucking got that.
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  Like, it's really low key.
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  That leads me to the next thing about sticking to script, right?
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  I was very lucky once to interview, for the grand total of 10 minutes, Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly about Talladega Nights.
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  It was one of the funniest things.
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  Oh, awesome.
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  I loved it.
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  It's one of the best things I've been lucky enough to do, seriously.
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  And...
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  I said to them at the end, how much of the movie is to script and how much do you just sort of free will kind of thing?
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  Damien, I might not get the percentages right here, but I think it was like 30 to 40%.
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  They just kind of free will.
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  They go off script and invariably that ends up funnier than what they perhaps had first planned.
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  Yeah, yeah.
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  There's a very different tone to something that's genuinely funny.
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  improvised or like, yeah, yeah.
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  You can see it.
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  And as an audience member that maybe doesn't have their eye trained for it, but you feel it subconsciously that it's genuine.
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  And that's the best stuff, especially on film.
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  Can't beat that.
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  Yeah, that's right.
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  And that's really the craft of it.
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  And that's where huge with stand-up is that you, like, I never script what I'm going to say.
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  I just know roundabout what I'm going to say.
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  So I think a lot of people in stand-up, yeah, they have that ability to make it appear like they're making it up.
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  That improv thing intrigues me.
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  Back in the Sports Tonight days, in my early time at Channel 10 there,
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  The boss of the show would make a number of us, reporters and presenters and so on, go along to improv classes.
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  If he felt that you were going to be nervous in that live space, that it would be a good way for you to be more fluid when it came to live TV.
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  They never sent me, so perhaps, Damien, they thought it'd be a bloody waste of money.
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  Yeah, don't send Greg Russ to the improv class.
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  Exactly.
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  But was that a self-taught thing for you?
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  Did you go and learn that somewhere?
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  I've done loads of training, yeah.
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  Have you?
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  Heaps of, yeah, like acting training and improv classes and all that.
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  But the stand-up thing you just have to do.
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  There's really no – they do classes and stuff, but really they're just –
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  Helping you sit down and write a thing and then encouraging you to get up and do it because it's so terrifying for people the first time they do stand up.
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  But you just have to do it.
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  I mean, I'd like to think all the acting training stuff because, you know, I do a lot of that stuff as well.
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  As well, yeah.
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  I've done a lot of live shows that aren't stand up stuff that are like plays and stuff.
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  And I've been shooting films and stuff lately.
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  Actually, I just shot a film with Will playing himself.
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  Excellent.
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  Exploring his... Yeah, it's actually not a comedy.
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  It's a drama.
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  Tell people about that.
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  Yeah, that's a short film that we just shot.
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  I'm just editing it together.
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  So I've been screenwriting and shooting stuff a lot as well.
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  Yeah, I'm in it as well.
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  Nearly killed me, to be honest.
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  Did it?
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  It was one of the most... Oh, it was one of the most...
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  strenuous.
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  Like I've done some directing.
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  I shot like an hour of really ridiculous little films before this, but this is, this was, um,
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  Just, you know, everything sits on your shoulders if you're direct to everything.
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  Like, oh, it's windy.
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  Where do we move the sound and the vision because of the sunlight's at this angle?
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  And, you know, this guy's not feeling well.
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  So the performance, you know, how do we get that?
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  And it's like in time before we move on to the next thing.
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  And we've only got two hours.
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  It's just like...
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  Huge.
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  Never ending.
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  It's raining.
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  Now it's not.
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  How do we match it up?
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  And it's, yeah, it's full on, but it's awesome.
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  It's a really amazing medium.
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  I think you and I had a conversation about this off camera some years ago about your want to do this.
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  That's super that you've done this.
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  Just tease a little bit, if you can, about when it might be out and what people can kind of expect.
• 17:22
  This sounds fantastic.
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  Well, I really don't know what to do with it, which I probably should have put more thought into before shooting it.
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  LAUGHTER
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  Because like I said, it's not a comedy.
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  There's funny moments in it.
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  The idea was to shoot something extremely naturalistic with all non-actors playing themselves.
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  So it's me and Will in our family home exploring Will's retirement.
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  Potentially.
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  He's not actually retired.
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  So, yeah, it's pretty dark.
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  Okay.
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  Actually, I'm not even joking.
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  Yeah.
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  It's funny as well because we get, you know, there's a guy in it who was Will's engineer when he was in the Formula Four days, Trevor Owen, if you can get a more Bogan name.
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  It's Trevor and Owen.
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  That's his fucking name.
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  It's not just Owen and Trevor.
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  It's Trevor Owen.
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  And he's got one of Australia's fastest tyrannas.
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  Super.
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  Yeah, it's naturally aspirated.
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  Okay.
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  Yeah, yeah, as he tells me.
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  Naturally fucking aspirated.
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  Naturally aspirated.
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  Yeah, it's fast.
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  Fucking like this, like he's...
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  He was amazing, by the way, in the film.
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  He loved it.
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  He just hung around and said, oh, fucking hang around.
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  I'll have a look myself.
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  Yeah.
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  Like he was awesome.
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  So everyone's playing themselves, but it's not a doco, but it's playing and blurring the lines between documentary and film.
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  It's a film.
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  Okay.
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  It's not a documentary at all, but it's extremely...
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  Natural.
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  Yeah.
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  Watch this space.
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  Couple to finish here.
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  You're ahead on Facebook.
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  Will's leading the race in terms of Insta followers.
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  Socials, mate, can be a brutal place at times.
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  Is it a source of material for you?
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  Do you have a thick skin?
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  Do you switch off and so on?
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  Definitely switch off.
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  Good.
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  Encourage everybody to switch off.
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  Switch off, yeah.
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  You cop a lot and everyone does.
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  And I know Will does.
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  Yes.
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  And it's easy to get caught up into it.
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  I don't keep the apps on my phone.
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  I keep it strictly for work.
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  I take it pretty serious, to be honest.
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  That's great advice.
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  Honestly, it's like it's...
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  If you want to be creative, you can't have your phone on.
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  That's just it.
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  And the apps just become a way of just constantly, yeah, I really don't like it but it's great for, but what it is incredible for is being great for my career because the stuff I do isn't really for TV.
• 19:53
  I'm not finding it as I go along and if people watch this latest special, they'll see why it isn't on TV.
• 19:59
  Yeah.
• 20:00
  So me putting my stand-up out directly on social media has been huge for me and I sell out my shows now and that's really to do with just putting clips out on social media.
• 20:12
  That's been the biggest boost.
• 20:13
  Yeah.
• 20:14
  Yep, yep.
• 20:15
  Theourpower.com is where you can go.
• 20:17
  You'll also find 60-plus episodes in there of neurotic news, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts for that very funny pod, details of live shows that Damien's just been talking about when they're in a city near you, plus that awesome new special.
• 20:32
  Just tell people what it's called again.
• 20:33
  It's going to be called Not So Funny Now, is it?
• 20:36
  Watch out for that and give a little if you can.
• 20:38
  Damien talked there before about the production.
• 20:40
  So good luck with that.
• 20:43
  We want to finish with the shittiest Christmas present you've ever received.
• 20:47
  And is there a little something you hope Santa delivers on the 25th?
• 20:52
  Probably spending it with Dad, I reckon.
• 20:54
  Oh, that's harsh.
• 20:59
  I shouldn't have said that.
• 21:00
  That's really mean.
• 21:01
  He's a good guy.
• 21:03
  No, no, no.
• 21:04
  He's a good guy.
• 21:05
  He's just mental.
• 21:06
  He's the subject of some of your material at times though, isn't he?
• 21:09
  He's the subject of about fucking an hour of my material.
• 21:11
  There should be a special just for him.
• 21:15
  No, no.
• 21:17
  Yeah, no.
• 21:19
  He's a funny guy, Dad, and he's just fucking crazy, and that's where Will gets it from.
• 21:25
  So that's the truth.
• 21:26
  That's the truth.
• 21:27
  We love his success.
• 21:28
  The fact that he's been the champion there on more than one occasion, won the Indy 500, had a really good crack at the title this year and went down to, I think, to Nashville there.
• 21:39
  So we hope he has a great...
• 21:41
  2025, but most importantly, all the best to you as well.
• 21:44
  Good luck with the special.
• 21:45
  Thank you for coming on to talk about it.
• 21:48
  And just generally, it's been great to catch up and have a little giggle before Christmas.
• 21:51
  Thank you.
• 21:52
  Good on you, Rusty.
• 21:53
  So good to see you, mate.
• 21:54
  Thanks for having me.
• 21:55
  Yeah.
• 21:55
  Have a great Christmas.
• 21:56
  Good on you.
• 21:58
  That is it for today.
• 22:00
  I hope you enjoyed that.
• 22:01
  On behalf of our little team here at Listener and Rusty's Garage, including Link, Tom, Rudy and MJ, Merry Christmas to you and all of your family and friends.
• 22:11
  Hope it's a safe and prosperous one for you.
• 22:14
  Thank you for listening during the year and for all of your feedback, especially for the guests.
• 22:19
  that you would like us to get on.
• 22:21
  Keep those suggestions coming.
• 22:23
  A few of you have asked for Robbie Farr and Jock Goodyear from Speedway.
• 22:26
  We will do that in the new year.
• 22:28
  And for no particular reason, we've looked back through the library and realised that we haven't had Larry Perkins or Dick Johnson on yet.
• 22:36
  We need to correct that, and that is part of our...
• 22:39
  Christmas wish list here for 2025.
• 22:41
  We're going to ease off the throttle a little over the next few weeks, but we will be back into it very, very soon.
• 22:48
  I'm going to be at the historic GP in Topor in New Zealand in the coming weeks.
• 22:52
  Roberto Moreno, Russell Ingle, Stephen Richards, Murph, Steve Millen, and a whole lot more will be there, along with Tony Quinn's epic six-wheel Tyrrell.
• 23:02
  We will definitely get some content from there for you to enjoy.
• 23:06
  Have a safe and happy