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The following took place in March of 2021 in the city of Los Angeles, California.

We joined Joan Broden in the foyer of a very big tech company in Los Angeles.

Broden, how are you?

Hello, Joan, Joan Broden.

Joan Broden.

Joan Broden.

Great to see you.

Hi, I'm Broden.

It's actually Broden.

Oh, hi.

Great to meet you guys.

Great to meet you, Jesus.

I'm Steph Stephanen.

Sorry, Joan is cold to the touch.

Yes.

Stephanan, we always say that about you.

Introduce yourself.

My name's Blanche.

Doofus.

Blanche Doofus here is, he's new to the company.

He came over from,

I don't know if I can say he came over from a streamer.

He's here to help us with the content strategy.

Strategy.

And we are so excited to meet you.

My blood runs cold.

Well, it's so exciting to be in front of you both today.

I'm from a comedy group called Auntie Donna.

Oh, we know all about you.

We know

we saw the series.

We saw the

pilot you made for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

That one shot.

That shot.

Loved it, man.

That single shot.

Oh, thank you.

And we love that shot.

We love your Netflix house of fun.

Love it.

Thank you.

Listen.

Everything's a drum.

So good.

Has Tina offered you a water or coffee or anything like that?

I would love a black coffee.

Tina, Tina, Tina, Tina.

Tina.

You want a coffee as well?

No, I'm fine.

You sure you want a water?

I'm on a detox.

You want a water?

No.

You sure you don't want a water or a coffee?

I can't drink any liquids for six months.

You don't want a water or coffee?

I can only eat foods that are the color gray.

You're going to get a coffee, yeah?

Yeah.

Tina, we're going to get two coffees and just a water for the table, okay?

All right, bring that into meeting room four.

We're gonna go to meeting room four.

Wow, this is so fancy.

But these people are so vapid, I think to myself.

Their lack of depth and

their weird medical diets.

No water for six months.

I love that you're sort of monologue.

I'm monologue.

Is that monologuing?

Do Australians do that?

Oh, that's fun.

That's so fun.

That's so cute.

Now, tell me a little bit about Snapchat.

Okay, sure.

So, let's go to meeting room four.

Let's sit down and we're going to talk to you a little bit about Snapchat.

Okay.

Let's talk to you about.

And we can't wait to hear about where

we come from.

And then I'd love to hear about what you're up to.

Yeah.

Okay.

So, Broden.

Yeah.

You're a star.

I've been at Snapchat since,

when have I been?

Since 17, I believe.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I started a day ago.

So they started a day ago.

I started in 17, 2017.

Now, my my predecessor was here for three days.

Wow.

You understand?

This is, we're really changing things up a little bit.

So, as you know, okay,

Snapchat, a lot of people don't know this, but I think you might have the idea in your head.

All right.

So Snapchat.

The ghost icon.

The ghost icon.

Oh, yeah.

Sure.

The yellow Snapchat.

I love it.

Obviously, Snapchat got its start with the instant messaging that deleted itself, okay?

But Snapchat is so much more than that.

And that's something we really want to impress on people.

Snapchat is more than just pictures of balls.

We're branching out from

pictures of balls.

It's not just pictures of balls.

It's not just pictures of breasts.

You know, it's not just pictures of vagina.

It's not just pictures of bottoms.

That's what I think it is.

That's what I think it is.

We're known for pictures of balls, bottoms, breasts, and vaginas.

No, we know that.

Okay, we know that.

We're aware of the fact that, you know, a lot of people, you know, I grew up in the Midwest, okay?

I saw it.

It's true.

I grew up in the Midwest and I moved to LA with a dream.

It's true.

You had to move to LA with a dream.

He had a dream.

Now, did I expect to be working?

And

I remember when they called me, one of the guys that started Snapchat called me and said,

hey, you want to come work for us?

I love what you're doing over at HBO.

It's true.

Okay.

It's true.

And I said, excuse me, who are y'all calling me from?

And he said, I'm calling from Snapchat.

And I said, and I got to admit.

What did you say?

I got to admit, I said, Snapchat,

is that not the place that does the pictures of balls?

And breast and vagina.

At bottoms, you know?

Bottoms and vaginas.

Bottoms, balls, breasts, and vaginas.

That's what I know.

We're in the vagina room now.

You know, and that's exactly it.

This used to be, before we caught it,

vaginas and balls.

I was the guy that said, why don't we number them?

Instead of making them pictures of breasts, vaginas, balls, why don't we number them?

And that's true to what I'm doing.

It was the first big change.

It was the reason I wanted to come to Snapchat.

And I gotta say, the reason I want to come to Snapchat is he said to me, listen, yeah, we do pictures of balls that go away real quick.

All right.

That's the ghost.

The ghost is evidence.

Pictures of Eve.

No evidence.

No evidence of the balls.

But it does.

But you mean, no, no, no, no, no.

But that's not my business.

That's the tech guys.

You see them down the hall.

We see them at when we get the free little wraps for lunch.

Yeah.

I see those tech guys that go, what are you doing?

How are you making the pictures disappear?

Yeah.

Yeah.

I said, where does it go?

And they said, it disappears.

Okay, okay.

So you

can, I don't know anything about like the science and the tech behind it.

No.

We are all

we are.

We are all about innovation and creativity.

So what?

Forward thinking, no balls.

I grew up in the Midwest, you know, it's true.

I remember I used to go to the pictures and I used to go, this is the only way you can tell a story.

So

what is Snapchat isn't?

It is not just pictures of balls.

It's not.

It's not just pictures of vaginas.

It's so much more.

Or at least it can be.

It can be so much more than that.

So.

Do you have a live feature?

No.

That's this now live feature.

Oh, playing it out live.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But these are, again, that's on the tech side.

So the live, the stories, you know, that, well, that's what they call it on Instagram.

We call it something different.

You know, the little, tiny little things that stay around for 24 hours.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Well, that's why they call it over on Instagram.

They took the app from us, but that's all it's cost.

If you swipe left

you swipe left again there's content happening there there is content happening there that is engaging young people at seven times the rate no are they thinking it's television right is that going to be balls though do they think it's going to be balls a lot of it's balls i mean i come from hbo okay you know we're kind of the home of balls on prestige television yeah yeah yeah i was the guy that said we need more more balls yeah uh because there was a lot of breasts did you when i was there it was a lot of breaths and i I said, too many breasts.

That's sexist.

We need more balls.

He said, let's see some dong.

Let's see some hanging dong.

And I said that.

And I know there was a lot of people higher up that they were like straight guys.

And I was like, dude, so am I more or less, you know, but I want to see more balls and dongs for.

for because i i think the the feet the women yeah they want to see balls and dongs the gay guys they want to see balls and dongs even the straight guys are going to be okay with balls and dongs so long as they're still getting their serve breasts yeah as long as it's preceded with a serving of breasts.

You understand what I'm saying here?

I was a guy that bought balls.

But tell us about you.

Tell us about you.

What have you been up to?

We want content and we love you.

You just did the Netflix show.

We want to bring HBO quality balls

to Snapchat.

We're not going to lose the balls.

Do you want to pitch the balls?

You probably read that deadline article that said we're going to lose the balls.

We are not going to lose the balls.

Have you seen girls?

Balls.

Have you seen girls?

No.

Imagine girls' balls, but on Snapchat.

Snapchat.

Quality of balls.

Tell me, when you look at a flaccid penis,

what way is it going?

Is it up and down, right?

It's a vertical.

Vertical.

Jonathan is vertical.

And hey, bro, maybe

hanging a little to the left.

A little bit to the left.

Then I would say like breasts are horizontal.

Sure.

One breast, though.

Shoot.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So what we're saying here is we think that vertical content is the perfect place for premium balls.

We're not losing the balls.

We're upscaling the balls.

And we've got a contact.

We're in touch with the youth of the world.

What we learned watching HBO shows is to get a full dong in balls.

They need to be lying horizontal.

And it's an international world, right?

You got gotta have balls from all over the world.

What am I supposed to do?

Remount my TV to be horizontal?

It's true.

So you guys are crazy.

I saw you at Largo.

Yes.

I'm from a comedy group called Auntie Dog.

Tell us about you.

Yeah, I saw you at Largo 18, 2018, and I said, I gotta have, I gotta see these guys.

I gotta see those balls.

I gotta see those guys.

Tell us about your balls.

I got two balls that hang below my penis.

Below your penis?

That's all.

That's not.

That's a loose ball.

You You don't see that every day.

But that's not the most important thing.

The most important thing is story.

I have baby perspective.

And he has a wolf nut.

So what is your perspective on your balls?

What is your story?

Tell us.

We want to hear your story.

Isn't that the thing?

Tell us your.

That's what we want Snapchat to become.

We're thinking of changing the name to your story.

Your story.

Your story.

You understand?

So I love your Netflix show, the way you did that drum thing.

Everything's a drum made up.

Everything is a drum.

That's the first 10 seconds of the show.

So funny.

So funny the way everything is.

Everything was a drum.

You know, that.

I imagine they go about their lives thinking, oh, everything is a drum.

We watched the whole show,

but everything, we laughed.

And didn't I, this was before the meeting.

I said, you got to, I saw these guys at Largo

years ago.

I went with my friend.

Do you know, well, no, maybe not.

I went there and I said, I got, because I was a fan of USINCA Midwest when I grew up in the Midwest.

I'm not like these people.

It's true.

Okay, I grew up in the Midwest.

You grew up in the Midwest.

Yeah.

Okay.

So, oh, here's the coffees.

Thank you, Tina.

Thank you, Tina.

You just put them on the table.

Thank you, Tina.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Tina's great.

Tina's great.

Did you talk to Tina?

Yeah.

She's great.

She's got a future here.

Yeah.

She's really good.

Yeah.

She's really good.

So we started doing sketch comedy in Melbourne, in Australia.

Oh, cute.

And we found our audience online.

Oh, cute.

Cute.

About 400,000 subscribers on YouTube.

Sure, sure.

Nice.

Okay, that's nice.

That's nice.

I mean, we're not really looking for much more than that.

That's a good number.

That's a good base, in our opinion.

Yeah, so we could do more of our series.

We could do more sketch shows.

Yeah, you do sketch?

You're a star.

You're a star.

You do sketch?

You do more songs.

Yeah.

Everything's a drum.

Oh, yeah.

I love that.

Do you do a sketch as well?

Yeah.

Wow.

We predominantly sketch.

Star, sketch.

I love everything's a drum.

I love that.

I love that drum.

Okay.

Would like a show, please.

So tell us your

show?

Really?

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

We got money, bro, man.

Good feelings about this.

There was like some Saudi prince here yesterday, and I saw him and I was like, fuck,

we got a lot of money, bro.

Yeah.

And it's true.

He's given so much money, man.

Okay.

Can I ask you a question about Snapchat?

Sure.

Sure.

I mean, and bear in mind, we're creative.

we're not the tech guys so if it's about your zeros and your ones you're we're gonna have to maybe get

someone else in here like magic to me i i got staff chat when i first downloaded it yeah when i first got the job or when i was first talking to them i downloaded it i said and i remember saying i said where's my picture

someone had to explain to me no that's the point it goes away

i said but i screenshot it i screenshotted it they said you can't screenshot it.

I said, thank God.

I said, where's the picture?

Remember the picture?

I remember it.

I laughed.

I'm going to be honest.

Auntie Donna had a Snapchat in like 2016.

Okay.

Sure.

I think we stopped using it.

I don't even

know the logins anymore.

Yeah, no, no, no.

I thought you had gone defunct because I know there were series coming out, like, there was a spooky series and a spooky series.

Oh, sure.

Snapchat original series came out in like 2019.

There's always a market for balls.

Yeah.

But you just said you want to move away from balls.

We're not.

More than balls.

Okay.

So that's.

You never move away from balls.

We're more than balls.

It's your story.

Your balls.

We're also vagina breasts.

We're also bottoms.

Feet, if that's your thing.

Oh, we'll do feet.

But we're more than even that.

We also want to tell your story.

We also want to do your story.

So tell us your idea.

Tell us your ideas.

I should have sketches, I guess.

Oh, no, no.

Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no.

We want to make premier television.

Tell us your ideas.

I heard you got some ideas.

I was talking to your people.

What's your ideas?

So, what about all of Auntie Donna?

We love it already.

And we're in a fire station.

Yes, I love it.

And sketches come through.

With the pole.

Yeah.

Would there be a pole?

Vertical pole.

Yeah.

Oh, I love that.

You could get the whole pole.

You wouldn't have to turn your TV horizontal.

So we run a fire station vertical I mean we're firemen and we and maybe sketch so good nice sketch

we're not really looking for anything fireman related no we're not there's not really a market right now but what I love is the work element I think the work element is really exciting are they friends are they are they hanging out yeah do they work together what's their perspective you know what what what's their because that's really what we're talking about now yeah is we're looking for perspective what are their balls like what are they what's their perspective on balls what's their perspective

the three of our perspective on balls as we have them

okay sure yeah describe each of the members balls sure well my left one how many people are in the oh sorry no no

no no please you got you got how many guys working at this fireplace three

oh nine three okay is there room for more yeah because we're loving uh the bro stuff at the moment yeah you know we love all the bro stuff.

We were doing other stuff for a while, but like the guy, like people love, you know, bros hanging out.

You can't be afraid of masculinity.

I think you say in your country.

Bros shooting the shit.

And bros of different generations, intergenerational bro.

Yeah.

Okay.

And that's something we're noticing a lot of.

You know, I hang out with my uncles.

Yeah.

It's hot.

I hang out with my dad's friends.

I hang out with little boys.

You know, I hang out with all generations of bros bro geration see it's hot right now all you guys are around the same age yeah you're like 50.

No, I'm 30.

I'm 33.

Oh, oh, wow.

You look great for your age.

You look fantastic.

You just said I was 50.

Well, you know, it's a little different down here.

You look LA 50.

You look beautiful.

LA 50 means you're not.

You're not pumped up full of everything.

I'm from the Midwest.

I came here.

I said, everyone's so pumped up full of everything.

You know?

Yeah.

I'm playing with you, though.

That's so fun about

this idea of like intergenerational.

Is it your dad?

I love that.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's actually what we're looking for.

Who are you thinking for that?

Who are you so?

Famous person.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

How about this Patton Oswald?

Yeah.

Patton Oswald.

Okay.

Remy.

Remy from Ratatouille.

You know who would be a great dad for him, Louis C.K.?

Oh, yeah.

Well, he's not around anymore.

Oh, no, he is.

He's back.

So who's going to play the lower generation?

What are you thinking there?

I don't know.

Are you thinking little boys?

Yeah, Timothy Chalamay.

Oh, he's love Chalamay.

He's hot.

He's hot.

He's funny and he's funny.

Yeah.

You know, when he's, he's doing, I saw him on the

SNL, right?

And he's funny.

Oh, he's funny.

He makes me look like a lot of fun.

He would probably, you know, I don't know for sure.

I don't know for sure, but I think he would want to do something fun.

Yeah.

You know, I think I see him on SNL and I think this is a guy who's doing all that serious stuff.

Yeah, he's a, he's a real, you know, he's known to be a wallflower,

you know, peeking and

spying on other people.

Why not come off of that?

Maybe that Isra

guy.

Sure, yeah.

Sure.

Yeah, we can bring him.

Sure.

Now tell me, what's the, what's the, what's the emotional perspective here?

Yeah.

So it's

intergenerational bro.

I love this idea.

Intergenerational bros.

But it's about sketches.

Sure, sketches.

And that's perfect.

We want short form.

Yeah.

Sure.

But like over the course of the six episodes.

Yeah.

Over the course of the six

episodes.

Over the course of the six episodes.

Yes.

What?

What?

What's the journey and what's the perspective?

And how is that perspective of the rose going to change?

But can I just say one thing?

I don't want to go too into it.

I'm liberal right we're all liberal here i don't want to make assumptions here but you know the world is very divided right now yeah america is very divided now we want to see a perspective and we want you to take a stand and we want you to be clear on that stand but we don't want anything too divisive is that the word we're looking at we don't want to put people off

we want you to be sharp We want you to say something.

We want to hear your perspective, okay?

But just, you know what I'm saying.

Yeah.

So we're just a.

I'm from the Midwest.

You know,

Our idea is

there's three generations of men in a fire station.

Sure, sure.

Sketches, short forms.

Yeah, but we're kind of conservative with our

well, no, no, because then you're going to lose.

I mean, and not losing.

We're not thinking of this.

It's a creative place.

You're going to lose the coasts there.

So we don't.

So we're not.

We're a bit conservative, but we're quite liberal as well.

Oh, great.

Oh, okay.

Sure.

Both at the same time.

That's great.

Understands both perspectives.

Yeah, and we've got our nuts out.

You got your nuts out balls

you've got balls

more than just balls yeah yeah you got your ass out as well and yeah what about vagina

uh

yeah sure great okay sure

because

snapchat is making good television but also balls we want to change the game but we can't get rid of balls okay tell me who's so i'm thinking maybe the dad the son there's a bit of a thing going on there yeah yeah sort of a bit of tension.

Yeah, maybe son doesn't want to be a firefighter.

It's mostly a sketch show.

Yeah, but

what's the journey we're going on?

Does he stay with the firefighting?

What's the journey there?

He wants to leave it.

Does the boy

become a man?

I feel like you're.

Do you have an idea you want to pitch to me?

Because

you're coming in with this great.

I'm just kind of, I'm echoing what you're kind of saying, the direction you're leading me down a path.

No, no, I don't think so.

No,

we're really a wide open book here.

We know we're more than balls.

We know we're more than balls.

We know we want to do content.

We know a Saudi prince just gave our boss $3.5 billion.

So, I mean, really, we're an open book.

And you're coming in here with this idea of

intergenerational bro drama.

Set it a...

Firefighting.

Does it have to be firefighting?

No.

No.

What sort of workplace, other workplaces are you thinking?

I'll just say some a new responder.

Oh, no.

I want to hear from you.

I want to hear your perspective.

A bank.

Okay.

What else are you thinking?

That's a bad thing.

A cop shop.

A place.

Okay.

Interesting.

Yeah, sure.

What do you like about the cop shop?

Yeah.

The intergenerational men.

Sure, yeah.

But what else about the cop shop?

The crime of it.

The crime?

The crime.

Okay, sure.

You're interested in crime.

What else?

The administrative part.

Administration, okay.

Yeah, pencil pushers.

Pencil pushers?

You like that?

Oh, that's funny.

Yeah, that's funny.

Like the office?

I think it's time for the office to come back.

Yeah.

We could do it.

How's it set in an office?

Oh, in an office.

Oh, okay.

Intergenerational.

Intergenerational.

Grogerational office.

You won't make me.

I'm becoming a man.

Everyone's got balls.

Why are the Aussies there?

They're fish out of water.

Oh, well, that's been done quite a lot.

I've seen that.

That's been done quite a lot.

Maybe it's just Americans.

I'm perfectly okay.

No.

No.

It's an intern.

I'm perfectly okay.

I see an Aussie accent now.

I think, think, no, I just watched, oh, did you see the one with the one take about the boys?

Oh, adolescents.

Intergenerational bros.

Yeah.

And it's where the bro goes wrong.

It's very scary.

Yeah.

And I got a sound.

Terrifying.

It's terrifying.

As a father?

Oh, my God.

Terrifying.

I'm not a father, and I'm not a son.

I'm not a father.

I know fathers.

I came out of the Midwest.

Yeah.

Just sort of...

I just grew up.

Yeah, you just grew.

He grew up.

I just grew out of a

cornfield.

I grew out of a cornfield.

I was like, like, they thought they were picking corn in the Midwest, though.

Yeah, in the Midwest.

I have 17 fathers, no mother.

No mother, 17

adolescents freaked the hell out of those 17 men.

Those 17 men all called at the same time.

We had to get on a Google meet.

One take.

Are you making fun of me?

Is this a matter of time?

Oh, no.

I love you.

I love this idea of the office drama, the intergenerational stuff.

I think

You're absolutely right.

We don't need to explain the Australian accents.

We're just in an intergenerational, international world.

We've got to get some New Zealanders in there.

And what we're going to do, what we're going to do is, I want to know, okay, who is Broden?

Are you playing Broden?

Yeah.

Who is

that?

Who are you playing?

A guy.

Oh, that's a shame.

I'm playing Broden.

Nice.

We love that because you're a star.

Yeah, we love you.

You're a star.

We love that.

We love you and the long boy and

the one with the beard.

Yeah.

Cool.

Tell me, Brody.

You want me to make the office?

What's that?

You want me to make the office?

Sure, sure.

Yeah.

Your version of the office.

That's very funny.

Why?

Bit funny.

Funny.

Serious office.

Yeah, sure.

Yeah, drama.

You want to do a drama?

Oh, that's exciting.

Nice, nice.

So tell me about Broden, the character.

He's cool.

Oh,

okay.

Cool.

Tell me about Cool.

That's got big muscles.

Oh, nice, nice, nice.

He's got a love interest.

Nice.

How does he get around?

In a car.

Oh, good, good, good, good.

Tell us about the love interest.

As a lady.

Good.

Yeah,

that's sort of what we're going for now.

We might change again back.

You know, we don't want to be.

So, who's she played by?

What are you seeing?

A very popular lady.

Maybe Rosita Jones.

Oh, she'd be fun.

And I think she'd be up for that.

I worked with her on a project at HBO.

Oh, nice.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Oh, this is really fun.

She's hot right now.

I think you're coming up with some really cool ideas here, bro.

You've done it already.

We really love this idea of a new

dread hunting bro drama.

All we are are conduits.

That's all we are.

All right, well, let's get it done.

Do you want to make this show?

Oh, sure.

Sure.

Talk to people.

We need to figure out the economics of it, but I don't think it should be too expensive.

Where are you wanting to film it?

Here.

Yes, okay.

Yeah, yeah.

And by here, you mean Atlanta, yeah?

Yeah.

Yeah, sure.

Yeah, we want to do that in Atlanta.

That's great.

That's so good.

That's really good.

A lot of Aussies coming in here wanting to film in Australia.

Well, so fun.

Yeah.

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We've had a wonderful time.

Oh, we've had such a good time.

We think you're a star.

We think you're such a star.

We're going to talk to, is it

your people?

I can't, I'm so sorry.

We're going to talk to them.

We'll talk to your people.

Yeah.

And we're going to figure this out, I think.

But it's feeling good.

It's feeling good.

Listen, you got any tickets to

your show tonight?

Yeah, you want some?

Oh, I'd love to come.

I'd love to.

I've been telling you about.

Have I not been telling you about the tightrope walker and his route?

He fell down on the audience.

And you walked right over me, bro.

Sounded good.

Yeah, I did that.

Yeah.

Oh, it was so funny.

And he laughed.

I literally did the idea of it.

I felt like I was in the room, you know?

It was so fun.

Oh, yeah.

It was so fun.

Are you doing that one tonight?

No.

Okay, sure.

That's a shame.

That's a shame.

We will do it.

Okay.

Sure.

Nice.

will improve your comment you are from snapchat well no i'm originally from hbl in the midwest before that

yeah yeah okay broden thank you so much honey do you know your way out you can talk to tina yeah bye thanks babe so love talking to you bye-bye all right let's we're just gonna check we're just gonna check in now bye okay sure he was fun cool yeah he was fun yeah he's a star he's such a star i don't think i don't know

i don't know about snapchat for him i i didn't quite like

for a comedian to be pitching a drama yeah a drama was confusing

i sort of thought you know when he was originally talking i mean i thought he was gonna go down like a sketch route yeah like more comedy you know i was like this guy's got muscles maybe sketch route maybe an emergency worker yeah but the fact that he was pitching an office drama where you got my hat oh hey red

hey broden how are you good excited for that chat i hear you love i hear you love food.

You love food.

What are you saying?

Before you love food, I got to make a recommendation for you.

You got to go down my down.

I have a soft gray, sort of mushy brick.

Yeah, you can't listen to him.

He's on like a thing at the moment.

Oh.

You got to go.

What's sort of food you like?

Cheese.

Okay, you got to go down to

you got to go down corner Hollywood and Will Begua.

There's this beautiful place.

It's a Mexican sort of place, right?

But they do like salads, they do like, and you get like the

gotta get the lemonade.

Yeah.

You're gonna think lemonade, sure.

I mean, I get it.

That's a thing you buy from the, you know, but it's more like Sprite.

It's crazy.

It's run by Aussies.

You'll love it.

Yeah.

It'll be so much fun.

I went there with Millie Bobby Brown.

Oh, really?

Yeah, sure.

Is that when

you were like, okay, bye-bye?

You got to go.

Tell me what you think.

I'll see you after the show tonight.

Get a flat white.

Hilarious that you call it that.

Oh, that's fun.

Hilarious.

That's so fun.

Okay, see you later, Broden.

So fun.

So fun.

Such a star.

Such a star.

Shame he didn't come in with a sketch concept, you know?

And I just wish, you know, I wish he'd had a harder take.

He was being a little wishy-washy with the liberal conservative thing.

And his obsession with balls.

Yeah.

When...

We're trying to move away from balls.

Could have done with a few more balls, though.

I would have liked to see more balls.

I just, I'm seeing this concept, right?

And there's all these men with balls.

Yeah.

And I'm like, where am I going to see the balls?

Where am I going to see them?

There was not enough opportunity.

Opportunity for balls.

Light of that knot after the Auntie Donna show.

Broden, hey.

Thanks for coming.

Oh, great to see you, Broden.

Love the show.

Love the show.

It's crazy.

You must be so tired.

Yeah.

So much energy.

I mean, I go down the Equinox.

I mean, I don't think I work up as much of a sweat as you.

Yeah.

You're working up a sweat up there.

You know who you remind me of?

You know who you remind me of?

Workaholics.

Workaholics.

Yeah.

With a bit of...

Buster Keaton.

Oh, you got a bit of Buster Keaton.

We're old cinema fans, you know?

Yeah.

Oh, we love that.

That's so much fun.

How is the show for you?

How is it for you?

Good.

I was laughing my ass off of you.

I'm going to be honest with you.

I said, about halfway through the show, I leaned over.

I said, you know, I know we're co-workers, but you got to just realize I'm probably making a fool of myself here.

Yeah.

I'm guffawing.

Do you know guffawing?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Slapping my knee.

I felt like a bottle of wine being decorked.

Yeah.

Oh, my gosh.

You're so fun.

You're so fun.

And the other ones are so fun.

Thank you for coming.

The big boy with the long hair and the little one with the beard.

Yeah.

Oh, so fun.

So fun.

Do they have a TV show?

Oh, we can talk about that later.

We got to y'all about that, but we love it.

We're feeling really good.

It's really good.

It's feeling really good.

Tell me, Broden, what are you going to do?

Have some.

Where are you going after it is?

Norms.

Norms.

Norms.

Love norms.

You got the black and shrimp pasta.

I remember when I first came here from the Midwest.

Yeah.

I don't know if I tell you from the Midwest.

It's just

grew from a field of corn.

I would go, I would go after I would do, I was doing internship.

Yeah.

I would go to Norms every day.

Oh, every day.

It's so funny you bring up norms.

I can't believe I didn't mention norms to you.

I would go to norms every day and I would get, they used to do a butt coffee.

I would get the coffee and I would just get coffee.

Bottomless.

And I would just have coffee and I would write my dreams down.

All right.

It's true.

It's so true.

And I think norms is fun.

Norms, cafe, diner culture.

That's really fun.

You Yeah, it should be

a comedy set.

Thanks for coming.

Oh, thank you so much, Broden.

Thank you, Broden.

You're so funny.

Oh, my God.

And Broden never heard from them again.

It was if as he flew out of LAX, back to his home in Australia, that that never happened.

Like a dream.

And all the optimism that flowed through these boys from the Midwest

dissipated away like jet streams on an A380.

And as the plane landed down in Melbourne,

he began again.

He began again.

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