3.6.1 Hi, this is Johhny Knoxville and welcome to my Newtown ARI

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You’re listening to Hung Up. My name is Matt. G’day, I’m Aiden. You got enough space over there? Yeah, I got space. Cool. Do we need some plot points in front of us? No, I have one. Chapter one. I already have a plot point. Okay. A really good one. Okay. So there’s this professor of art.

called Sean Patrick Carney at Berkeley in California. I’ve heard of it. You know it. And I’m just looking at his Instagram. It’s social malpractice. And actually he must really like Ira Glass. He’s followed by Brad Trammell and Jack Mannix. Oh, cool. I like Jack Mannix. Brad Trammell. I’m on the fence about it. Are you off? Off? I think he’s doing cool work, but I find it very annoying to listen to. Yeah. Okay. I’ve got a lot of fun.

Ira Glass is a huge red flag though. I think he’s being ironic. He’s like, I’m Ira Glass. Welcome to Jackass. Anyway, I don’t really know what this guy does, but he’s an artist. And I found an essay on Art Forum called Hurt Locker. Cool. The sublime stupidity of Jackass forever. Hmm. I like it. That’s kind of cool. We talked about this briefly on the way to see the film. Oh yeah. I brought it up. Yeah. I liked it. Yeah.

Skims. Let’s just, yeah. Should we give it a headline? Or no, let’s just keep going. Just keep going. Give it some skims. You want some skims from the essay? They can figure out the context. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. 10 years ago, I got thrown through a wall in a shopping cart at an artist run space in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Massachusetts. It was a histrionic and injurious opener to a half hour set wherein I restaged stunts from Jackass alongside visually similar works of early performance art by Yoko Ono, Chris Burden, Marina, Vito Acconci.

And then he goes on and on. And he’s kind of just like, he says he’s proselytizing to a gallery audience that the transcendent trauma comedy of Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O and Bam was a meta text as culturally significant as anything curated into the performer. And then he’s like, I wasn’t the only believer. Two years prior, Jackass 3D had screened at New York’s MoMA, which I think is funny.

Cool. In 3D or did they say? I imagine so. Did I see that? Yeah, I saw that. Did we see that? I don’t know. I’m sure I saw that at the cinema. It was good though. I don’t know if I saw it. By the late 2010s, waxing philosophical about Jackass was Oat Discourse.

Oat?

Oat? In 2017, Screen Slate published the Jackass. Wait, stop. What’s Oat? What’s Oat? Like Oat Couture. Oh, right. Yeah, yeah, cool. I know French, obviously, so. In 2017, Screen Slate published the Jackass Reader. That sounds cool.

Huh. A zine of cheekily insightful essays exploring the dick demolishing empire’s legacy.

Critique in a journal of gender studies. White male backlash. Now they’re saying it’s Probo. Okay. The following year, writers Charlie Mark Breiter and Alex E. DeRola delivered a winking workshop on white impotence, heteronormative paradoxes, and self-destruction in Jackass. This is like the takedown paragraph.

Incorporating critical architectures from scholars Lauren Berlant and Lee Edelman. Mark Breiter introduced me to a 2007 critique in the Journal of Gender Studies by Sean Brayton, who framed Jackass’ ambiguity as perhaps intentionally incomprehensible. Hmm.

Satire, ballist, white male backlash. Occasionally achieved authentic gay camp. Cool. That’s kind of cool. Cool. Yeah, totally. Totally. I don’t think we should keep all this in, but at least you are getting the sense of the essay. Yeah. The intelligentsia hasn’t unequivocally loved Jackass, but they’ve ordained it consequential.

Yeah. My perpetually self-effacing Midwestern inadolescent delighted at such heady validation. Huh. Meanwhile, ringleader Knoxville has repeatedly and perhaps cannily declined to intellectualize his output. Yeah. They’re like, what does it mean? Good fucking move. Yeah. Never answer that question. Cool, huh? If you’re an artist, never answer that question.

What’s curious is though, is the spectrum of rationale arguing why it’s comedy, which has barely evolved, while it warrants popular praise. To some, forever constitutes a noble response to the fading cultural relevance of straight white men. Simultaneously, somehow it’s also a confirmation that Knoxville’s not a pussy. Forever. True that. Which extensively passes the torture to millennial newcomers, Rachel Wolfson, the first woman cast member.

It was actually like- She was cool. But she was hardly in it, which I thought was kind of annoying. Yeah. It’s like, she was cool. And I liked her personality. She seemed like a funny person. Yeah. But she literally had two stunts in it. Yeah. She had like two stunts. Yeah. She had the scorpion. Kind of annoying. And she like licked the battery, I guess. No, she licked a taser or something. Yeah. She licked a taser. But I mean- Oh yeah. It’s the mimes.

It’s this guy who’s like- Yeah. Mentioning that. But I guess it’s still kind of cool. Yeah. And I talk about Jasper Dolphin and Eric Menaka, the first black cast members. Cool. But actually, it’s Gen X veterans are anti-woke. It proves that it’s dudes rock. It’s an unlikely addition to new queer cinema. What confounding convergences?

Okay. I don’t even know what the dudes rock thing is. You don’t know what dudes rock is? In times of trouble, we turn to Johnny Knoxville getting gored by a bull.

Have you never heard the phrase dudes rock before? What is that? Do you think dudes rock? Yes or no?

It’s not a trick question. No, not really. Okay. You’ve correctly passed the dudes rock test. No, I don’t know. That’s not really a real thing. It’s like dudes rock is kind of self-explanatory. It sort of comes from if you’re imagining American frat dudes from 2001, those are the dudes

maybe that made someone come up with the phrase dudes rock. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I’ve heard a frat boy say dudes rock. I get it. Yeah. I, for one, I think dudes do rock. The article that they linked to is really annoying. It was like, yeah, life’s really hard and we’re all depressed and there’s about to be a war.

So we need to like watch Johnny Knoxville like getting smashed. And it’s like weirdly wholesome because it’s violent, but like it soothes our soul. It’s the dudes rock propaganda that we need to like boy our spirit in these troubling times. Yeah. I like this. Where does Jackass take place? A specificity offers audiences a blank projection screen.

Oh my God. So what we said on the way to the movie was like, I think like I was saying, you were like this guy and like all these people have been like theorizing the fuck out of it. And like, it’s all deep and it’s like, it’s a matter of like fun, like maybe for them fun discourse in the like, yeah, maybe in the art world or whatever.

And I was like, that’s cool. But like, I wouldn’t want to like, I just would want to leave it there. You know, like I don’t, for some reason, I don’t want to get into it with that. Like, I mean, I will, if you, if you ask me to, but it’s not like I’m going to come up to in the party in a party and be like, yo, like actually Jackass is a symptomatic

of a cultural asphyxiation that are troubling times, like yada, yada. I don’t know. I’m just not, I’m not going there. Yeah. I don’t know. Cause it seems, it seems like it’s, it’s dumb as hell. And like, that’s fine. It feels, it feels like that’s fine for it to be really dumb. And like, if people are expecting some piece of like stupid, dumb culture to like save the

world, like in a fucking, even in a cultural, like totally hands-free cultural sense, seems like asking a bit much of like, it’s literally called Jackass. Yeah. I agree with you. I don’t think that would be cool if you were like running around wanting to like poke holes

in it or like really running around and wanting to like hold it up. But I think there’s something juicy about it. And there’s something like, there’s a reason we want to talk about it on this like podcast because I think it is kind of sexy for what this dude is doing to like point out how it was shown at the museum of modern art, like, you know, where like Frank O’Hara was writing

poems and taking himself quite seriously. There is definitely something very compelling about it. Totally. Yeah. There’s something, I mean, it, for me, it’s part of, uh, it’s part of the like being prideful in like pop culture thing or something.

And it’s like cool when you can actually completely wholeheartedly enjoy pop culture. You know what I mean? Being prideful in pop culture as the consumer of pop culture. Or as like a consumer of like underground culture. Yeah. As well as pop culture. Mostly. Yeah.

Mostly. As a consumer of like mostly. Yeah. True. Like, you know, small things. Yeah. I do like it when I just like don’t even have to explain it to myself. Yeah. I don’t have to be like, this is shit. But like these people like it and it must have some value. And I like listened to it five times. I’m like, oh yeah, it’s kind of cool. Like, I’m like eking out.

No, this one you don’t even have to force it. And so, yeah, I like that for me.

And I also think it like suits my like annoyingness. Because like people maybe that meet me would think that I would think it’s dumb. You’re too sensitive for it or too smart for it or something. Not too sensitive, but they just think that I wouldn’t like it. Yeah. And I get to be like, I like it. I actually like it.

Yeah. Cool. Those are some of the reasons I like it. Yeah. It’s a good surprise on your CV of references. Maybe I’m just, I’m happy that some part of myself genuinely likes it and is like excited to see. I think that part like, yeah, not even trying to fluff you up or anything, but like that

part of you, that’s real. Like, and you know, like, yeah, you don’t even, you don’t even have to put it on. Yeah. I think like, it’s very fun and sometimes productive to like, get deep about big, dumb pop culture things. Because I truly believe that they, that they tend to, they don’t always, but they tend to

reflect like deeper, like sort of emergent feelings in big populations of people during like interesting times or different times. Like there’s all this, there’s all this like, you know, like even in, if you think of like cinema film studies, people talking about pre and post nine 11 cinema, you know, like nine

11 definitely like changed the vibe and like Trump changed the vibe or whatever, like big sort of world events changed the vibe up. So like, yeah. And like analyzing the, it’s like a, you know, it’s like doing a core sample or something. If you’re a fucking geologist, like I get it. And sometimes it’s, it’s uninteresting or unimportant like to do that work.

And I guess that’s what it sounds like we’re debating, but we’re not, we both agree about doing the work. Yeah. I don’t know. Like it’s, I keep getting like images. Like I was kind of interested in talking about it. Uh, not like so much like culturally, but like visually. And like, I was just thinking, I wanted to ask you like what your favorite bit was.

And before I even let you answer, I remember there was one that I, uh, that we both really loved because I’m just judging this by how much we were laughing. Eric Menaka, who’s like one of the mentioned two or three new black dudes. He was like the British skater one. Yeah. I really liked his style. He was always so like fresh in that skater way.

Yeah. But yeah, anyway, one of the bits he’s always like, they have these little like, um, they’re like one liners. So like, you know, if you haven’t seen Jackass, like there’ll be, there’s like tiers of bits. There’s one that’s like a few minutes, one that’s like five minutes with like differing levels of setup. And then there’s some that are just like one liners. Yeah. And in this one, it’s like this skater dude, like he’s, I think he’s got like a pink beanie

on and just like looking like swaggy and stuff. And he just like, looks like he’s cycling towards like a jump. Yeah. But then it’s just like a big, uh, what do you call it? Like a big, it was like photo of a printed photo of like the jump. So he just like cycle straight into a wall. It’s like a classic Looney tunes gag. And it fucking killed me. You’re right. That was one of my faves.

And then they give this like long, like 15, 20 seconds of just like the camera on him, like on the ground. And it’s like, I think that, and there was one like that in the credits where a guy just is like holding a two by four and walked into a doorway. That also killed me. Yeah. Yeah. Something. He ran into that doorway. You know, that is like some classic slapstick.

Yeah. Um, physical comedy. Yeah. Yeah. I think that’s pretty, that, that like really, I don’t know. And I, I liked that idea of like, yes, it was, it was exciting me to think about talking with you about like, yeah, maybe how you could like categorize the bits or like what made a bit your favorite bit. Cause at the end of the day, it’s a pretty unique form.

Yeah. Like there’s not that much. Yeah. No one’s really doing that in cinema. I’m less interested in like the history of the show and like the history and politics of the participants, but more interested in like, like just taking it like, you know, like we do when we go to the gallery and we’re like, what’s on the wall? What are we looking at? Yeah. Fuck. Yeah. And like, what was happening?

Yeah. Like filmically. Yeah. Like totally. Yeah. Well, like, um, there was some stuff, there was some interesting stuff with like the hidden camera element, which I always find like fascinating to watch. Like for starters, like that fucking genre is filled with fakes. I think like, or some, some strange trickery.

Like there’s, there’s some, like, it’s like a sort of crappy, like cable hidden camera TV show where I swear they go to like fucking like Kazakhstan or something to do all the fucking gags. Cause it’s not legal or something in America or it’s too expensive. It’s like a YouTube series or something. It was on cable TV, but now it just, now it comes up on YouTube.

Like this was before YouTube was really producing that kind of shit. But, but yeah, like seeing like hidden camera shit in America with a budget is like, it’s crazy. It’s like, it is very, very special to me for some reason. Like the gag is like they’re in a, a fucking sofa shop or something. And like the fat guy from the crew, like jumps on this like massive inflatable, like jelly

bean thing that like Johnny Knoxville is dressed up as a grandpa sitting on the other end. And it just like launches him into the fucking sky, like into the roof and the other people’s reactions are amazing. And like seeing, yeah, it’s, it’s always so strange to me. Just like seeing some, like, it’s not every day, you know, it’s not, it’s not quotidian cause it happens like once and it’s like a strange setup.

Like, you know, they, it looked like they’d like hired the warehouse and set that up as a shop or something, you know, in order to film it. And that’s the only way I could think about they could do it. But anyway, seeing these, there’s like totally natural, candid reactions, like in a cinema is, is wild to me. Like that is a total structural, like it’s like a lightning bolt, dude.

Like normally it’s like mediated by hundreds of layers of makeup and effects and sound and audio. And these guys were just like straight from their normal, every like from their day, from their lives straight into the screen, which I think is really cool. That’s my, like, that’s, that was one of the structural things that always jumps out to me. I was talking about the Eric Andre film that sort of does that even more, I think it to

a beautiful extent, but we won’t get into that today. That trip. Yeah. That’s for next time. Yeah. I was thinking like, I really liked that scene as well. And I thought the same thing and I really, it’s nice to, to bring up like, yeah, what that means for us as an audience, like in a cinema and like, even, you know, you’re walking to like the cinema and we’re like laughing at like the posters and like, even today with

all the like crazy ruptures and like, you know, uh, fucking streaming bullshit of like, you know, how small the cinema can be and how personalized and how you can torrent everything. Like you don’t have to go to the cinema. And like, I guess I was going to say people do, and I know they do, but yeah, it was surprisingly quiet in that cinema on a Friday night.

Yeah. We were in the Bowood Westfield and there was like the literally 20 people in there, but you know, what was nice is that we all agreed that it was a dumb film that we could yell at. Like, yeah, we were talking, which was nice. But yeah, that scene stood out to me. It made me feel kind of sad. Which one? The one where the guy, the fact that I fall.

Johnny Knoxville goes through. Flight hour right now. Sorry about that. Yeah. So the one Matt was just talking about, it’s like, it made me feel sad. And because, because of the reactions of the people. So like we’re in this like kind of fucked up warehouse and it’s like a furniture warehouse and there’s like two workers in there. One of them’s like this older black dude and he looks just like super American.

Like, I don’t know. He just looks like he’s had a tough existence. He’s like bald and he’s maybe like 55 and he’s weathered. And, uh, I forget what, what the woman was like. She was a younger woman, maybe black woman too, or like mixed. I think, was she wearing like a COVID visor? I thought that was kind of funny. And that’s like, that’s another like cool through line.

It’s like people are like on and off wearing masks. Um, but, uh, once they reveal that it’s a prank, like after the bit ends, the older guy gets like a straight to camera, like little mini interview. This played in the credits. Oh, was that in the credits as well?

Yeah. Yeah. And I saw that and he was just like really stoked about it. He was like, fuck, like, I can’t believe that was a prank. Like, that’s the best thing I’ve ever seen. And it just like this whole like corporate sadness has been like in my face, especially like a special kind of American corporate sadness, like Amazon worker shit.

Yeah. Nomadland. I don’t know if you saw that, but that’s kind of about that. Yeah. I was watching the South Park episode recently that was set in like an Amazon warehouse, an Amazon fulfillment center. It’s like the constant like pun. Concentration cam. Yeah, exactly. It’s like, but how will the citizens be fulfilled if the fulfillment center goes on strike?

Yeah. Yeah. It just, that clued me into that. And it, um, yeah, just, it kind of like, I don’t know. It hit me when I wasn’t expecting to be here. Yeah. Yeah. Gotcha. Of this guy’s life. Yeah. Like chaos of all these like rich skater boys, like in there, like causing trouble, but he like kind of liked it like as well.

He’s like, well, you know, everything sucks. See, that’s the kind of fucking emotion that I don’t think I would have gotten from a regular narrative plot. Like, yeah, I just don’t think it can evoke that stuff in me. I could definitely feel even keener emotions than that, but I think there would be more abstract, you know, like that’s a really real thing. Like, did you get that feeling watching Nomadland or whatever it’s called?

It’s not, not quite like that. No, because yeah, because it’s not a real person. I love that take that like, yeah, there’s something, it’s funny. It’s like, whenever you start like looking at art, like, yes, you’re just looking at humans on the screen and like from a distance, it all looks the same. But like the fucking, one of the cool things about like art and paying respect to like any

mediums, history and realities is that, yeah, it is a fucking crazy thing to put just that dude on the screen. It’s wild. Yeah. Yeah. It’s a big deal. Yeah. Listeners. It’s a big fucking deal. It’s a big fucking deal. I wonder if he got a credit. He must have. They got paid or something. See, this is what I thought it was.

Like they, my, my theory was that they hire a warehouse and then hire people like, yo, we need you guys to sell furniture. So I feel like those guys, that was their job for the day, you know? Yeah. That’s the, that’s the vibe I got. It was a weird place, but I could, I just like, and I thought. How could you fuck up a building like that unless you were renting it and made the fucking

set inside it, you know? Yeah, I guess. Yeah. That’s another interesting, but I thought it was just like some weird, like American suburban fucking furniture warehouse. And there was, there was another sad piece that was like, they like set it up there being like, what’s on sale? And he’s like, I’m just doing the pillows right now, but I think everything will be on

sale. Yeah. And the guy, see, it was his first day. Cause it’s his last day too. He has to put like a fucking sticker on everything. Yeah. Maybe you’re right. Maybe it was weirdly fake. Cause the fat guy was like a worker there. Yeah. Anyway. Yeah. Fuck. But still. Whatever. Yeah. Huh. Overall impressions of the movie. We’re keeping this segment short, by the way. Are we?

Yeah. We said 20 minutes. We’re doing a whole Jackass episode. Yeah. And also we got to go soon. I know. Yeah. Well, I wanted to say like, we went to Gordon’s yesterday and we came back. I thought one of the fun chats we were having was like, someone had just like found Bruno like, and had seen the interview where Bruno, it’s like a, when is that piece of footage

from? That’s from like, yeah. From around 2001 or something. Yeah. Exactly. And Sasha Baron Cohen is asking like this, uh, fashion designer, like to give him like pre and post nine 11, like looks and faces. Yeah. Yeah. And he’s like getting him to categorize like what is pre and what is post 11.

But yeah, it was cool because that whole, well, like you’re alluding to, yeah. Like Eric Andre, Sasha Baron Cohen, um, and Jackass, like they’re in that, like there was a narrative, Jackass film called something, I think it was like bad. Something about his grandpa. Uh huh. I don’t know if you, and Johnny Knoxville plays that old man character for like a whole episode

and it’s mixed a whole movie and it’s mixed in with you know like bad trip uh-huh yeah yeah no i don’t know about that but i i kind of know about that but that’s a world of yeah you know media yes totally that they’re all in a fucking 2005 time capsule together yeah le g but i think

i didn’t say in the car but i was thinking like i think that type of content is now like punked with like ashton kutcher yeah you know what i mean i forgot that even existed until you said it yeah exactly like yeah but you could do it i think so much easier back then because people were generally

genuinely surprised now it’s like you’re expecting the camera yeah true everyone’s just got a camera anyway australia but like if that happens to you in like la or new york you’re just yeah you’re like where’s the camera exactly but maybe like crazy shit does happen all the time over there all right let’s fucking keep this short and snappy anything any final words to say i think we’ve we’ve we’ve uh

well and truly taken starring liam neeson this fucking yeah it’s cool it’s cool i think topic i think you should think about we got some takes jackass in the context of performance art yeah that seems fair seems fair to me yeah like it’s it’s cool because it’s kind of like there’s they have no theory or like there’s no grounding in terms of like you know like uh um their peers or like the

history of art or they’re not even trying to be artists but like it also just happens to be like kind of profound how like this guy’s literally willing to get his nutsack like beaten up by a machine like for money yeah but also like kind of not just for money like yeah yeah it’s like so that’s enough you know that that crosses that that crosses the hurdle for me in my book and it’s or it’s

like punk music where like they don’t care about the theory but it will get put onto them afterwards like historians and scholars and maybe that’s like the way it’s always done like even with like fucking traditional art yeah movements yeah the artists themselves were probably less interested in that shit yeah yeah like we were yeah totally yeah true all the fucking impressionists were like

yeah it’s a living like it’s a living like it looks good you want a freaking haystack it’s a freaking it looks mad yeah bro they’re like it looks and look i can buy more paint with this sale literally like it looks mad it looks mad cuz the light in this painting looks fucking

so my friend turned that i met at a house party and when i met him he was like filming stuff him and mika who we’ll talk about in a sec anyway their place is like one of those houses above king street and they were like we’re showing some art there so we like got the addy dm for addy and we did that

and it was really cool it was like i think what like eight of his pictures and then like um a projected movie that like mika had shot maybe him and miko shot oh it was just her but yeah it was like really sweet it was like footage of the party that we met at and i was like in in it you know it was so cool i walked it one guy was like i fucking recognize you from the thing i’m like whoa

uh and it was so cool it was like hot and sweaty in there was like one of those really rainy nights that we’ve been having and everyone was fucking smoking darts and vaping inside and like chatting and yeah it was a really cool thing and i’m like fully endorsing if anyone does a show in their house we’ll like shout it out or whatever i don’t know i want to i want to like make it happen more

it’s really nice yeah i really want to do it at my place and i think yeah it just gives you that like fucking you know i was thinking about it before as i came over here i was like you know you obviously you’re doing the shit where you just get to like live with the work but also you get to like i know there’s no rush you’re just at a party you’re chatting like chatting to someone

on the couch and you’re surrounded by the work yeah it’s no big deal like it’s not you’re not in that like a mode of going to see a show true you know people are like smoking joints and like drinking red bull and like true fucking talking about stupid shit yeah i haven’t you know what i mean am i like getting older but i just like haven’t had that moment where you’re like talking to

someone at a party and they’re like in the conversation like light up a joint like don’t even offer it to you it’s just like i need this and like i didn’t want it but i was like cool man right on all right i’m cool with this i can be cool yeah that’s pretty funny yeah that was cool but yeah i don’t fucking know but i uh i do want to do edibles i got to get onto uh yeah my roommate

got on that medical weed and i that’s crazy i do want to fuck i want to fuck with that like yeah i’m making a real edible is like so tun’s style is is extremely cool it’s like um and he’s actually just like i think he’s in melbourne now so you already missed him sorry sydney um he’s got

this really lovely like slow shutter speed style so all the pictures are like blurred out and like it just fucking like it’s so expressive and usually like like uh if you’re being taught photography by someone who’s trying to get you to get you know in air quotes good pictures like they’ll look like

like mistakes or like you you had the settings on the camera wrong you know but yeah he’s intentionally going for this blurry like fucked up style and i just think it’s really cool um and he had printed them on this kind of reflective like shiny backing which i thought was really cool too kind of adds to the sort of like yeah the shimmering kind of like resistant nature of the images i

thought it was very cool and the subject was pretty like street photography right there was like and like friends yeah yeah friends and then yeah some of those like a degrees of abstraction like this kind of blurriness that you’re talking about like sometimes you could make out a subject and sometimes it was completely that’s true yeah like blurred up like fogged up my favorite one was um it was like in a bus

like in like a just old or just like standard bus and there was like two people like a few seats away and one was like wearing like a bucket hat and then one was just wearing like what are they it’s like a trucker cap it’s like the one with like the white front it’s like mesh on the back white on the front yeah and it’s like the white panel on the front is like padded yeah yeah yeah but it’s like

such a classic hat and like no one really wears i mean i feel like people that like make it look cool like you have to be like pretty underneath that or yeah or like they they’re really deep in that like fucked up whatever that like yeah they’re like ed hardy revival yeah exactly yeah exactly i think that’s

what the hat was but i really liked that was my favorite photo it was just like the two hats yeah and the two hats and the two people underneath that yeah it was a cool on the bus and the man in the right in the center of that picture was like looking so like matter-of-factly at the in at the camera you know yeah i really like that pic um and then mika’s video was really sweet it was like

yeah it was like a picture of like i mean like a beautiful like recollection of this party and i was saying to her like while we were chatting afterwards like um i had this feeling like i needed to take a camera to that party too because i was like i just get a feeling like this is going to be a really beautiful scene and it was like my photos that i got back from that were just so special i love them

um and yeah it was some kind of like magic of one’s like fucking party life i don’t know there was something really special about it and like she was being bashful about it but i was like mika this rocks yeah i wonder if that exists anywhere because it is a pretty cool like sydney portrait our mate griffin was like being interviewed in the audio over that yeah it was so cool i was like

please upload this yeah yeah that would be sick yeah upload it or like sell it or something true yeah yeah nft it hit us up if you want to show at my house as well yep because that would be cool that’s cool no one’s gonna do that it’s that’s more cool than that would be cool saying

yeah yeah i see yeah all right fuck you too then uh all right what else we got here we got jackass yeah we got we could talk about paramount road uh-huh if you want here’s my plan for paramount road and in fact it’s like a plan for all of sydney

so everyone’s crying about there being um like too many fucking it used to be frozen yogurt and now it’s like holy moly and like fucking bad vegan food on king street here’s my idea okay you fucking buy this is what the government’s gonna do we’re gonna buy like six or twelve houses all along

paramount road you knock them down and then you dig a massive tunnel all underneath paramount road all the way out west don’t worry about the money we’ll come up with that somehow uh the houses turn into ramps that go down so you can access this tunnel five six seven times from either side of the road maybe it’s like all the trucks are legally required to go no more trucks above street level all the

cars it’s just quicker to go in the tunnel so now everyone’s using the tunnel and paramount road just dries up there’s no reason to drive on paramount road anymore okay so now you knock down well you like dig up the middle of it and you plant a bunch of trees and you reduce the speed limit to like 40 k’s an hour and suddenly it’s like whoa you got this massive like beautiful strip and it’s got all the

fucking charm of new town like it looks gorgeous it looks like something out of a fucking movie set in like some american town in like the 70s you know it looks like that today you know we didn’t have to do that and then you can have all your fucking artists moving in for like cheap rents and then you can have as many putt-putt and shit vegan places as you want there and then we can have the

sando back everyone’s happy you know what i mean we just have to pay for the fucking tunnel that’s my plan for sydney that’s the proposal yeah who do we need to get this in front of well i’m gonna run for for local government not bad i like it we need to get that in front of i don’t know let’s do it let’s do it man i fucking rate it yeah art we’re finished narrow campaigners i love

that street i was walking home down there the other day and i saw like a new sign shop i hadn’t seen before it was like a chinese medicine shop it was really beautiful it’s like this kind of golden yellow sign with like blue writing on it it’s a shut one of these shutdown shops like most of them and the slogan was this really wordy slogan it was like when you come in like don’t tell me what’s

wrong with you i will look at you and i will tell you what is wrong with you and i was like fuck yeah dude like it’s so beautiful i was like it’s so it’s so bang on yeah what’s the that’s like a rip-off of the like funny like famous quote it’s like western doctors will or like if you go in with

a sore knee the western doctors will treat your knee but like if you come here like we’ll treat your whole body or whatever i like it yeah that’s something to do with that yeah that’s so cool yeah but it just looks doesn’t it look beautiful and it’s such a special place like if it wasn’t for all that massive thundering traffic it would be like a cool place to hang out i love it and i was like i was

kind of looking for a restaurant to go to i know there’s like sharon kwan i was like oh yeah i want to have like a dinner by myself or whatever yeah i hit you up you weren’t around and i was like i’m gonna fucking eat but the only place was like a kebab shop and it was like the petersham inn yeah which is like doing stripper shit but yeah i’m not like trady enough to like have a steak at the

strip club like on a sunday night although people do say that’s like a cool strip club cool again happy to hear your takes yeah i’m i’m glad that’s in or sorry that’s out you can’t hide your bets on this show dude you have to have to be um do you want to talk about sharon kwan’s place

yeah we can talk about sharon i mean it’s just a cool small malaysian restaurant yeah all right we don’t have to talk about it don’t blow up my spot man i really want to go back there takes i don’t have any more i have i’m out of takes i quit takes why don’t we do some rec um you go first okay my recommend is the record that i listened to on repeat on saturday

sasami’s new record squeeze and it blew my fucking mind i like i think like like just listen to the whole album it’s like half an hour but like the i think i showed you like the last track and the first track or something and like i guess that’s a bit of like a sneaky way of showing someone the

record but i was like i need you to like understand this like right now and like the last track is like this like i don’t know kind of like indie pop like kind of like uh melodramatic but very beautiful love song called like not a love song or something and then the first track is called skinner rat and it’s got these like weird creepy like whispered vocals and then like a big like nasty

like metal guitar fucking clanger and yeah i just it was just so exciting to listen to that like i don’t really know much about metal or listen to much metal but like it’s just so fun to listen to such a like an emotionally intense and like genre like fucked up record i like literally like it got like

straight up rewind out of me i like finish this thing to it and then i was like like straight back to the top back run that back like run the whole thing um so yeah that’s probably my favorite record of the year so far nice so that’s my rec i’ve also got a album to recommend actually it’s an ep i think um and it’s uh by a local like a melbourne artist i think she’s in melbourne called montgomery

um i posted on my story it’s like pop music it’s kind of like 80s influenced pop music i guess like in terms of the like like the tempo and the drum sound but i just thought the production on the whole thing is just flawless like my jaw drops when i hear it it’s just so like so carefully put together

yeah it just really shows how much like care people fucking take for this stuff like i don’t think she’s signed to a label or there was any like serious studio time booked so yeah it was cool like i produce music from home too and i just thought it was like ah damn like people are doing this quality of stuff like that’s cool we should be aiming like that high i don’t know it really gets me uh so that’s my

recommendation for the week opal 67 by montgomery nice i’ll listen to it for sure fuck yeah all right time for dinner hey yeah let’s eat all right see you next time uh

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Show notes

Jackass analysis 🤔 with an article from Sean Carney, a house party/art show with Tun and Mika, and Matt foretells the King-Street-ification of Parramatta Road. https://www.artforum.com/film/the-sublime-stupidity-of-jackass-forever-87843 Sean J Patrick Carney on ig Uume on ig Tun on ig