>> James: OUR NEXT GUEST IS AN ABSOLUTELY
BRILLIANT MUSICIAN, ACTOR, WRITER, COMPOSER AND DIRECTOR
WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR WHAT I AM CERTAIN WILL BE YOUR NEW
FAVORITE SHOW ON TELEVISION, THE SHOW IS CALLED UPRIGHT AND ST ON
SUNDANCE NOW.
PLEASE WELCOME THE INCREDIBLY TALENTED MR. TIM MINCHIN, HOW
ARE YOU, FRIEND?
HOW NICE TO SEE YOU.
>> I WANT TO TELL YOU MY OWN THING.
>> YOU ARE GOING TO DO YOUR OWN THING.
>> OH, I LOVE IT.
IF ONLY EVERY GUEST COULD DO THEIR OWN.
>> THEN WE COULD GET RID OF REGGIE.
>> James: LOOK AT REG.
>> THE SHOW WOULD BE BETTER.
>> James: REGGIE HAS CHOSEN TO JUST LIE DOWN DURING THIS
INTERVIEW.
LAKE THE GUY HAS GOT HIS OWN THING, WE'RE FINEMENT NOW TIM,
YOU'RE JOINING US FROM SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, WHERE IT IS ALREADY
TOMORROW.
IT IS TOMORROW MORNING.
>> YEAH.
>> James: SO YOU CAN TELL US RIGHT NOW WHAT IS TOMORROW LIKE?
>> TOMORROW BRILLIANT, THE FUTURE IS BRIGHT, JAMES, YOU
SHOULD TRAVEL HERE.
YOU SHOULD COME TO THE FUTURE WHERE EVERYTHING, EVERYTHING IS
FINE.
THE PANDEMIC IS GONE, ALL THE WORLD LEADERS ARE INTELLIGENT,
THOUGHTFUL, WELL-READ, IT'S BRILLIANT, GET HERE.
>> James: IT IS ALL HAPPENING OVERNIGHT, WHEN I FALL ASLEEP
TONIGHT AND WAKE UP, WE'RE BACK ON.
>> YOU WILL HAVE TRAVELED THROUGH TIME AND SPACE TO A NEW
REALITY.
>> James: WELL, I CANNOT WAIT FOR THAT, I REALLY CAN'T.
BUT I REALLY WANT TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT, I WANT TO TALK ABOUT YOUR
BRILLIANT SERIES UPRIGHT, IT DEBUTED ON SUNDANCE NOW, IT IS
THE MOST BRILLIANT SHOW.
YOU SHOULD FEEL SO PROUD OF IT.
IT IS COMPLETELY BRILLIANT.
AND YOU DID SOMETHING, WHERE YOU SAID TO YOUR AMERICAN FOLLOWERS
ON INSTAGRAM, YOU TOLD THEM THAT IF THEY WATCHED THE SHOW AND
THEY DIDN'T ENJOY IT, YOU WOULD SEND THEM SOMETHING VERY
PARTICULAR FOR BEING AN AUSTRALIAN, WHAT WAS IT,
EXPLAIN.
>> I'M VERY CONFIDENT THAT, YOU KNOW, IT HAS ALREADY BEEN ON IN
THE U.K. AND AUSTRALIA AND A WIDE VARIETY OF PEOPLE SEEM TO
LOVE THE SHOW.
I THOUGHT I BETTER PUT MONEY WHERE MY MOUTH IS, I SAID IF
THEY DIDN'T LOVE THEM I WOULD EXTEND A KANGAROO FROZEN BOTTLE
OPENER, POSTAGE NOT INCLUDED.
>> James: THIS IS A BOTTLE OPENER MADE OF CAN GA RADIO
SCROTUM.
>> WHEN I SAY KANGAROO SCROTUM, I MEAN IT HAS A METAL ATTACHMENT
AS WELL, YOU CAN'T OPEN THE BOTTLE WITH THE SCROTUM.
>> JUST LIKE IN REAL LIFE STRKTS HANDLE, YES, I'M CONFIDENT THAT
I AM NOT GOING TO HAVE TO SEND MANY BECAUSE I DO THINK THERE
IS, THERE MIGHTS BE A LITTLE-- THERE MIGHT BE I'M NOT
ENTIRELY COMFORTABLE USING AN ANIMAL AGAIN TALES TO OPEN A
BOTTLE.
>> James: NOW THAT YOU MENTIONED IT YOU REALLY SUCKED
THE AIR OUT OF THE WHOLE GAME.
NOW FOR ANYONE WHO HASN'T CAUGHT UPRIGHT YET, EXPLAIN WHAT IT IS
ABOUT AND WHO YOU PLAY.
>> WELL, MY CHARACTER IS LUCKY WHOSE NAME IS IRONIC BECAUSE HE
HAS HAD A PRETTY BAD TIME.
IS HE SORT OF INCREDIBLY ANXIOUS, NOT VERY SUCCESSFUL
MUSICIAN WHO WE CATCH UP WITH AS HE IS DRIVING TOWARD PERTD FROM
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA IS BASICALLY THE SAME SIZE AS THE UNITED
STATES BUT HAS LIKE FIVE CITY, SO IT IS INCREDIBLY NONDENSE,
WHATEVER THE OPPOSITE OF DENSE.
IS AND HE IS DRIVING ALONG AND HE HAS GOT A TRAILER WITH A
PIANO ON THE BACK.
AND BECAUSE HE IS SO ANXIOUS, HE HAS A CAR ACCIDENT AND WRECKS
HIS CAR AND THE PERSON HE SLAPPED INTO IS A TEENAGE LIKE A
16 YEAR OLD MIDDLE POCKET ROCKET RUNAWAY TEENAGE GIRL DRIVING
WHAT WE CALL A UTE WHICH YOU IN AMERICA CALL A PICKUP TRUCK AM
AND VERY QUICKLY REALIZE THAT THESE TWO COMPLETELY DURCH
PEOPLE FROM DIFFERENT WORLDS, HE IS VERY-- SHE IS GUT ERHAL AN
SWEARY, THAT THEY WILL HAVE TO JOIN FORCES BECAUSE SHE IS
HEADING TO WESTERN AUSTRALIA TOO.
THEY GO ON THIS EIGHT DAY JOURNEY, EIGHT EPISODES, EIGHT
DAYS.
AND AS YOU GO ALONG YOU ARE HAVING WILD ADVENTURES AND CRAZY
STUFF THAT HAPPENS IN REAL LIFE WHEN YOU TRAVEL ACROSS
AUSTRALIA.
BUT AS YOU ARE GOING ALONG YOU ARE FINDING OUT WHY LUCKY HADN'T
BEEN HOME FOR EIGHT YEARS, YOU LEARN HIS MOM ESSENTIALLY DIES
AND YOU DON'T REALLY KNOW WHY HE IS TALKING THIS PEA ANO BUT YOU
START GETTING CLUES THROUGH FLASHBACKS AN AT THE SAME TIME
YOU ARE LEARNING ABOUT THE TEENAGE GIRL AND WHY THEY IS SO
SCREWED UP.
SO IT BECOMES A REAL HEART STORY ABOUT TWO PEOPLE WHO ARE TOTALLY
DIFFERENT BUT LEARN THAT THEY NEED EACH OTHER.
>> James: WHEN YOU ARE TRAVELING A CROSS AUSTRALIA, YOU
RUN INTO A LOT OF CREATURES, KANGAROOS, HORSES, AND WE HAVE
GOT THIS PHOTO HERE, THIS IS YOU WITH A SNAKE WHO BITESES YOU IN
THE SHOW.
WHAT WAS IT LIKE WORKING WITH THESE ANIMALS?
THIS IS A NIGHTMARE TO ME.
>> I ABSOLUTELY LOVED IT.
I GOT TO HOLD A JELLY, WE CALL BABY KANGAROOS JOEY, I GOT TO
WORK WITH CAMELS AND ALL THESE WICKED ANIMALS, THAT GUY WAS
TROWSER, A HILL TARIOUS JOKE, HE IS ACTUALLY, HE LOOKS LIKE A
BROWN SNAKE AND HE WAS PLAYING A BROWN SNAKE VERY CONVINCINGLY
BUT HE IS A CHILDREN'S PYTHON WHICH SAY TOTALLY HARMLESS SNAKE
WHICH I THOUGHT WAS CALLED A CHILDREN'S PYTHON BECAUSE OF ITS
HARMLESSNESS BUT IT WAS ACTUALLY NAMED AFTER JOHN CHILDREN WHO
IRONICALLY WAS MARRIED THREE TIMES AND ALL HIS WIVES DIED AND
HE DIDN'T HAVE ANY CHILDREN, ANYWAY, THAT IS SOMETHING YOU
DIDN'T FOE BEFORE.
BUT ONE OF THE MANY LUCKY MOMENTSES, WHEN YOU ARE PHYSICAL
AMING SOMETHING IN THE OUTBACK, THUNKINGS GO WRONG ALL THE TIME,
WEATHER AND STUFF BUT EVERY NOW AND THEN SOMETHING GOES RIGHT
AND THAT SNAKE IS, THE MAKEUP ARTISTS PUT A SNAKE BITE ON MY
ANKLE WHERE WE THOUGHT ONCE THE CAMERA PANS DOWN WE WILL SEE
WHERE HE HAS BEEN BIT ENBUT WE THOUGHT WE HAD TO PUSH IN ON THE
SNAKE AND PUSH ON THE LEG AND TRY AND COULD BE ELEVATOR
TOGETHER THE IDEA OF A SNAKE ATTACK, THIS SNAKE WENT LIKE
THIS TOWARDS MY LEG, REARED UP AND WENT, PUT HIS HEAD NEXT TO
THE BITE, LIKE HE WAS LITERALLY A BETTER ACTOR AND LESS SLIMY
THAN MOST PEOPLE I HAVE WORKED WITH IN HOLLYWOOD.
>> NOW YOU HAVE A NEW ALL IMUM COMING OUT IN NOVEMBER CALLED
APART TOGETHER.
THIS IS YOUR FIRST STUDIO ALBUM.
TELL EVERYBODY ABOUT THE RECORD.
>> YEAH, I HAVE BEEN WRITING SONGS FOR 35 YEARS.
AND I'M FINALLY PUTTING DOWN A STUDIO RECORD.
I HAVE BEEN A BUTT DISTRACTED, JAMES.
>> James: YEAH.
>> AND THIS SINGLE IS COMING OUT TODAY WEIRDLY.
AND IT IS CALLED APART TOGETHER.
AND ST MY THIRD SINGLE FROM THE ALBUM.
AND THE ALBUM THERE WILL BE CALLED APART TOGETHER TOO.
SO IT IS COMING OUT TODAY.
AND IT WAS CALLED THIS LONG BEFORE COVID.
IT WAS COMPLETE COINCIDENCE BECAUSE IT COMES FROM A SONG
ABOUT HOW WHEN ARE YOU IN A MONOGAMOUS RELATIONSHIP AND
DECIDE TO STAY TOGETHER FOR LIFE, WHAT YOU ARE ACTUALLY
DOING IS COMMITTING TO WATCHING EACH OTHER FALL APART.
SO THE CHORUS GOES GIRL, LET'S FALL APART TOGETHER.
IT IS ONE OF THOSE ROMANTIC UNROMANTIC SONGS THAT I
SPECIALIZE T IS ACTUALLY QUITE SAD, THIS ONE AND BEAUTIFUL
VIDEO, GO AND HAVE A LISTEN.
I THINK YOU WILL LIKE IT IT HAS A TRUMPET IN IT, I LIKE
TRUMPETS.
>> James: I CAN'T WAIT TO LISTEN.
I REALLY CAN'T.
AND CONGRATS ON THE SHOW. IT IS AN ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT SERIES