God Loves You, Mark Bonanno Feat. Tom

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Speaker 1 Wow, wow, wee. You all have been waiting a whole week.
So have we. One week we've been waiting.
Finally, we get to play our concept album to Mark. We know what the songs are about.

Speaker 1 We know what the songs are. Mark doesn't.
Get ready for a very tight listen as we play those songs to Mark.

Speaker 1 You're listening to the Auntie Donna podcast. The greatest fucking podcast in the world.
Burning like a tack and sometimes a guest. We hope you enjoy the motherfucking podcast.

Speaker 1 Welcome to another wonderful week, folks, of the Auntie Donna podcast. Right.
With a new backdrop if you're watching. Yeah, we've got a new backdrop.

Speaker 1 And sometimes it'll go back to the old backdrop, but for the most part, we are locked into this new backdrop. But

Speaker 1 they've also made another backdrop, so we're going to interchange it.

Speaker 1 Oh, very nice.

Speaker 1 Anyway, very good. Anyway, Mark.
If you're watching, are you feeling better?

Speaker 1 From

Speaker 1 last week, you weren't here. I was so sick.

Speaker 1 But you're feeling better? Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 Now?

Speaker 1 Much better.

Speaker 1 Last week? No good. So as you all know.
Next week? Next week, we'll see. We'll see but this week we've got good

Speaker 1 and last week no good this week though right as rain last week cloudy days did you check about next week next week don't know the forecast i would love to add in the week before last week

Speaker 1 uh

Speaker 1 i was on my tippy toes ready for what was to come which was cloudy days rainy skies oh no what about this week this week

Speaker 1 beautiful blue clear clouds. No grey cloud in the sky.
Sunny days. Next week.
I haven't checked the forecast. Don't know.
Need to ask the weatherman. Can I just check it?

Speaker 1 Are we talking about the weather right now? I don't know. Yeah, you're talking about your health or the weather? I've gotten caught.

Speaker 1 We were asking you about your health, and then you started talking about weather. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 I

Speaker 1 am unsure what's going on. Great.
That's where we want you right there. Good.
Don't eat the fruit. Can I ask that you don't eat the fruit? This is my breakfast.
Yeah, but this is before.

Speaker 1 I know. And I don't have a fork.
So I've been...

Speaker 1 So for everyone listening at home, I've got a plastic box of fruit.

Speaker 1 Yeah, we're so good. There's so many different kinds of fruit, Mark.
For the listener. Yeah.
This is a tropical fruit me. So tropical fruit.
Now we're getting closer.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, we've got some blueberries now. Now we're talking about some pineapple and some kiwi fruit, if I may say, the holy trinity of my favorite fruits.
Now, fruit ratio, Mark.

Speaker 1 I'm sitting at home and I'm thinking, wow, they've really splashed out to be one-third blueberries, one-third. You wish, mate.
You wish. No, we're talking about a 90% pineapple ratio.

Speaker 1 We have one Kiwi fruit chopped in half and then there are maximum 10 blueberries scattered in it. You get one of them fruit salads and it's just that fucking green rock melon shit.

Speaker 1 Oh god, now I don't even fucking touch it. I don't touch it.
And I always hide it. This one, I just wanted the one melon that everyone hates the most.
Sorry.

Speaker 1 No, I just see it cheap as I admire the honesty. It's in a clear container.

Speaker 1 Like, they've tried to get you by putting all the good stuff on top yeah but also i quite like pineapple you know i would have gone on full pineapple i was looking for full pineapple and then when i saw pineapple with a peppering of blueberries and a kiwi fruit in there i was like well that's a that's a very lovely would you say blueberries are the pepper of the fruit world yeah i would say that of the fruit

Speaker 1 don't you open that fucking container no well yeah i don't want to get my fingers all sticky and mark you don't have time for that last week we brought in tom who is here hi yes now tom zahariu is a musician sound designer and father father father and podcast uh a producer and father father fast these days yeah father

Speaker 1 father figure to

Speaker 1 a number of people and a father to to two children and father figure as well to his children i call him daddy truly yeah

Speaker 1 well daddy has taken on a different meaning in popular culture in the last few years mark yeah Pedro Pascal is a daddy. Yeah.
You're goddamn right he is. Tom is both.
Too touchy-feely for me.

Speaker 1 Dad at home. It's his anxiety.
Tom is dad at home, daddy at work.

Speaker 1 Anyway. Or daddy at the club.

Speaker 1 Father figure at work. Yeah.
Are you a daddy figure at the club? Yes.

Speaker 1 Tom is daddy at the club.

Speaker 1 When daddy's at the club, daddy be smacking that ass.

Speaker 1 Okay, let's move on. So,

Speaker 1 as you all know,

Speaker 1 we made a commitment

Speaker 1 Don't

Speaker 1 three years ago don't mention it. Don't you don't have to no, but I'm just going to say we made a commitment a few months ago a few years ago to not bank podcast.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and we've been recording them fresh every week since

Speaker 1 Zach and I and Tom were

Speaker 1 hit in the head by a large piece of wood.

Speaker 1 A very big piece of wood, the same piece of wood that made my weight fluctuate months.

Speaker 1 And yeah. And mine and my hair.
And mine. And my hair.
My hair grew six months worth. But yeah, we were background change.
Very powerful piece of wood.

Speaker 1 The biggest, it was a magical piece of wood. In fact, there was a wizard holding the wood.
Really?

Speaker 1 True.

Speaker 1 There was a wizard holding the wood, and the wizard said to us, this be not no normal piece of wood.

Speaker 1 This piece of wood holds magic within it.

Speaker 1 For when you are hit with it, it will not be a memory lost, but many months will have passed. The memory will not be gone, it will be faded at the length that your hair be grown.

Speaker 1 And I said, Is it going to travel us through time? He said, No, time will stay, but you will move. It's kind of like Interstellar, he said, but opposite.
And he hit us, and then the police shot him.

Speaker 1 So it's

Speaker 1 opposite of the case. What's the bookcase?

Speaker 1 A

Speaker 1 streaming service.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Are you trapped in like fiber optic cables?

Speaker 1 No, we've gone to less gravity, I guess. Maybe it's heavy.
Yeah, right.

Speaker 1 No, with the opposite, it would be really light. I would say the opposite of a bookcase is a giant book filled with tiny bookcases.
Yeah. Oh,

Speaker 1 clever. Write in, if you're thinking about a tiny book.
Book. Tiny book.

Speaker 1 You would call that bookcase a bookcase case. A book is knowledge, and you gain knowledge from reading books.
I guess the opposite of that is getting shot in the head, maybe. So maybe it's a gun.

Speaker 1 That's what happened to the wizard. Maybe it's a gun store.
Anyway, what we've been informed is before we were hit in the wood, I mean, we were hit with the wood by the wizard.

Speaker 1 Just think about though.

Speaker 1 The fourth act of Interstellar happening in a gun store rather than a bookcase. And he's pulling the trick.
And he's really making the guns go off. He's really old.

Speaker 1 And at the very end, he's really old. old.
And they're like, we want you to meet your daughter. And it's the same child actress.
He's like, oh, I've missed your whole life.

Speaker 1 The dialogue is the same.

Speaker 1 And then she's like,

Speaker 1 this little girl, she's like, you have to go.

Speaker 1 You have to keep on going. Stop talking about Interstellar.
Do the opposite. For five seconds.
And in this one,

Speaker 1 can I say one thing? No.

Speaker 1 More interstellar. No more Interstellar.

Speaker 1 Now, what we've been told. Yeah, so

Speaker 1 basically, what's happened is we've forgotten last week a bit.

Speaker 1 But we,

Speaker 1 we wrote some songs without you.

Speaker 1 Why would you do that? Because you fucking were sick, I get.

Speaker 1 Well, they haven't announced that, can't we?

Speaker 1 Just beep that. Just beep that.
Just beep that. Just beep that.
You'll know what that was. He was working on something that you'll find out about soon.
Yeah, so we wrote a song.

Speaker 1 Lindsay, is that right?

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yep.

Speaker 1 What was that? Confirmation,

Speaker 1 Why did we do that? No, because it was last week. It was only last week.
Why did we do that? But it gets Lindsay, a wizard assaulted Tom Zack and I. With his wizard wood.

Speaker 1 And then he was shot by a policeman. You know the wizard wood?

Speaker 1 He walks around South Melbourne sometimes. The wizard wood.
Have you seen the wizard with his big piece of wood?

Speaker 1 Me personally. Yeah.
Oh, no, I haven't seen him. That's crazy because I was here for the podcast.
Lindsay.

Speaker 1 So wizard, last he hit us in the head and changed how we look and our memories you remember this lindsay uh i remember mark wasn't here why

Speaker 1 because of the beeped project oh no why why why were we making songs because tom was here right

Speaker 1 sure yeah great that's a great reason but that makes sense do you remember more detail because or were you oh my god lindsay were you also hit with the wizard's wood oh that everyone okay I just need a little bit of clarity.

Speaker 1 What happens when you did you get hit with the wizard wood pre-song or post-song? And it's made pre-song to make you write the song or post-song to make you forget what happened last week.

Speaker 1 So last week, when we recorded the podcast last week, of course,

Speaker 1 we did some stuff.

Speaker 1 And then we said, next week we'll have Mark on. We'll play these songs for Mark.
Yes.

Speaker 1 I thought my life would be the same. Then we stepped out.
This is, I believe, what happened. Again, we stepped out of

Speaker 1 the offices of Listener and the wizard with his wizard wood approached us, explained to us. We were going out for burgers.
He's saying to us,

Speaker 1 your memory, and then he hit us with the wood, right? So then, and the affliction of that wood is that it feels like it's been months since you've done the podcast. But did he explain?

Speaker 1 Because in your version, he went, you're meh, and then he hit you.

Speaker 1 But did he.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that annoyed me that he did that. Did he cut himself off? You went, the wizard came out and he said, you're meh, and then he hit us with the wood.
And I just said that. Yeah.

Speaker 1 So what I'm asking is, did he cut himself off before he explained himself and struck you and assaulted you? Or did he explain himself? Sorry, I was doing that to like make the space, right?

Speaker 1 So he said, you're meh, and then he hit us. But this is all in one motion, right? So I want you to imagine the hitting happening because he was like, and then he was like, you're,

Speaker 1 you're.

Speaker 1 Your memory will, you know, so he kept talking, right? And then your memory will, but to us, us, because we were hit with the wood at Met,

Speaker 1 it felt like your Met hit with the wood, and then

Speaker 1 it felt like months later. Marie.

Speaker 1 Marie? Yeah, because my first memory is Marie will be gone shortly. You will only remember certain things, and how you look will fluctuate.
Who's Marie? Exactly.

Speaker 1 But I'm positing that he said your memory will.

Speaker 1 So because in that line, he did the magic.

Speaker 1 Right? you understand

Speaker 1 Because this is important law building in order for us to cover up the fact that maybe Zach

Speaker 1 Anyway have not banged all you need

Speaker 1 us with

Speaker 1 all you need to know is that we recorded some songs None of us remember because a wizard hit us with wood right

Speaker 1 now

Speaker 1 We're gonna play them to you beautiful to get feedback

Speaker 1 feedback Lindsay? Is that.

Speaker 1 I didn't remember.

Speaker 1 I think by the end of the episode, you were talking about recording it all as an album. Yeah.

Speaker 1 You guys wrote a whole album. And now it's to get a whole album.
And it's just to get your sign-off. That's really important.
My understanding. Knowledge how incredible that is.

Speaker 1 People, you two have worked for years writing songs and making albums. And you guys did it in one banked podcast a month ago.
Like, we have

Speaker 1 last week? We will have the first album that is longer than the time it took to make.

Speaker 1 Wow. So, I understand there's seven songs.

Speaker 1 That's incredible. Is that an EP? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's an EP.

Speaker 1 So, I think of it as a sharp

Speaker 1 burst onto the scene. It depends.

Speaker 1 Is it prog? Because if it's prog, you can make the songs go for 20 minutes. You tell us.

Speaker 1 Have you seen that footage of Green Day playing Dookie?

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Or what's the time of your life on or Good Riddance? What's Good Riddance on? What's it on?

Speaker 1 It's on Nimrod. Yeah, so they play Nimrod through and people listening.
Okay, yeah. Or, you know, in some kind of monster when they play through Saint Anger.
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 You're the producer or the father figure or whatever, but we just need your tick of approval. Okay, great.

Speaker 1 Shall we play track one?

Speaker 1 Do I get the names of the tracks?

Speaker 1 No. No.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 We can name them after we listen. We can name them after we listen.
I don't remember them. All right, sweet.
But what you're going to hear now is

Speaker 1 recordings we did last week. Last week.
Last week. Are there any points of inspiration you want to talk to me about? I think we talk about all that stuff after we've played it.

Speaker 1 I think it would be nice to hear something before it.

Speaker 1 Does Tarantino say you're about to watch a movie that is about this? Well, I've never sat in his private screening room. I've never.
But you go to the movie and you. I mean, he does.

Speaker 1 He does show up and he talks about it. So, yeah.

Speaker 1 Bad example. Because I made a movie.
Ton talks a lot.

Speaker 1 Here it is.

Speaker 1 I made that at the Aster, I believe,

Speaker 1 a few times. Yeah.

Speaker 1 But if you, if we...

Speaker 1 Sometimes Tom Cruise does a little video. Yeah, he sometimes does a little bit of a lot of people.
Tom does them at screenings at Lego. Sometimes.
He's got a point. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I guess every director always gives a preamble to every movie. Their Q ⁇ A sessions.
Let me bluff it. Okay.
Here we go. All right.

Speaker 1 So this song, Mark, this was the first song we worked on, or at least the first one of the collection you're about to hear that we worked on. First track on the EP?

Speaker 1 I think that's something we really want to leave up to you.

Speaker 1 Put it in an order for a reason. I want you to realize that there is a sense of discovery here and we were trying to explore different genres.

Speaker 1 This piece, see if you can guess what genre this is and what we were trying to do with this one. And have these been mixed and mastered, Tom? No.

Speaker 1 Okay, so this is just raw. This is raw.
This is a demo. This is demos, yeah.
All right, cool. I would have expected to have

Speaker 1 been given something a little more. Look, we only had a a week.
Ah, that's fair. That's fair.
All right. Hit that track.
Spin that shit, DJ.

Speaker 1 Nike Bonano was born in 1988. He exploded onto the scene with their unique brand of sketch comedy.

Speaker 1 He's got a beard

Speaker 1 and

Speaker 1 barefoot and bomb. Bad bit bomb, that's what you are.
You'll wear it on your face.

Speaker 1 A bad bit bomb, a bad bit bomb. Take it away, You know what it is.
You're the bad bit bomb. I'm interested

Speaker 1 in the space between

Speaker 1 what once was

Speaker 1 and what remains.

Speaker 1 That's good, Zach.

Speaker 1 Salt of light.

Speaker 1 Salt of light.

Speaker 1 Salt of light?

Speaker 1 I'm interested in what once was and what remains.

Speaker 1 Back to the chorus. Bad beard bum!

Speaker 1 Bad beard bum! I keep accidentally turning my headphones up.

Speaker 1 What remains? Oh, the bad beard bombs.

Speaker 1 Bad beard bum. I see you.

Speaker 1 Don't be afraid.

Speaker 1 Pause.

Speaker 1 So there's that.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 the song ends with me saying pause. Yeah.
And that's deliberate. Right.

Speaker 1 That's just a demo. Yeah.

Speaker 1 But that will stay. Okay.

Speaker 1 Bad beard bum?

Speaker 1 I'd rather leap. I don't want to.

Speaker 1 I don't want to. You know I don't do lyrics in my line of notes.

Speaker 1 I understand that. And I do understand the idea of ambiguity in art.

Speaker 1 But I'm just asking if that's what you said.

Speaker 1 Which is like, that shouldn't be ambiguous. Just like what was said.

Speaker 1 Pardon me? Like, that's not part of the ambiguity.

Speaker 1 That's not an abstraction. I'm just literally, are those the words? So you're asking, what words was I singing? Because it sounds like bad beard balm.
Bad beard balm. Oh, no, no, no.

Speaker 1 No, that's not what's being said. What listen to the whole album? All right.
Just a couple, like

Speaker 1 a couple thoughts. What did you think of that?

Speaker 1 I did not expect to hear my date of birth

Speaker 1 tied in with.

Speaker 1 I didn't expect to hear my date of birth and then my bio, which is actually the Auntie Donna bio. I believe that's the one that is on most Wikipedia pages.

Speaker 1 Yeah, so that was odd to hear that kind of just put into me. I was surprised that it was about me, but I guess makes sense.
You guys are obsessed with me, especially when I'm gone. Am I right? Yeah.

Speaker 1 So that's fine. And then...

Speaker 1 And then I liked how it was about my beard, but then what's confusing is bad beard balm. Oh, I don't think that was the lyric.

Speaker 1 And what was it?

Speaker 1 I think it's important for you you to interpret that yourself. Right.
All right.

Speaker 1 I did like the

Speaker 1 good music. Yeah.
That was beautiful. Next track.
Hit it. Got a friend called My Bonano.

Speaker 1 He does not wear his shoes.

Speaker 1 My bonano.

Speaker 1 He loves blues clues. Wow.
I know my bonano from a place called Whereaby.

Speaker 1 And that's the only way

Speaker 1 he knows where to be.

Speaker 1 My banano,

Speaker 1 he works hard.

Speaker 1 My bonano,

Speaker 1 he does jokes about FUDs.

Speaker 1 He knows it can be the hardest of journeys.

Speaker 1 He knows it can be harder than you can see.

Speaker 1 My bonano,

Speaker 1 he did not come today.

Speaker 1 My bonano,

Speaker 1 it makes me sad to say

Speaker 1 God loves you

Speaker 1 my banana

Speaker 1 God

Speaker 1 loves you

Speaker 1 Mike Banano

Speaker 1 Bring it down now Got a friend called Mon Banano Met him out back ballarat

Speaker 1 Down by the gravy spot

Speaker 1 He put a sock on his head

Speaker 1 Little man

Speaker 1 Got a big heart.

Speaker 1 Works hard every day.

Speaker 1 That's my banana.

Speaker 1 Got a beard, got no shoes. Gotta loves to show blue sklues.

Speaker 1 He's my banana.

Speaker 1 Banano. Ain't nothing hard

Speaker 1 but working hard

Speaker 1 to make the people

Speaker 1 the people of

Speaker 1 God loves you

Speaker 1 my banana

Speaker 1 my banana

Speaker 1 my banana

Speaker 1 God loves you

Speaker 1 my banana

Speaker 1 My bonado

Speaker 1 Samuel

Speaker 1 This is great.

Speaker 1 That's it.

Speaker 1 So you'll see through a thing, a refrain we have.

Speaker 1 Self-affirmation. Yeah, we don't need to discuss every song afterwards, do we? We can just play the next one.

Speaker 1 Why don't you have it? There's just a part of me that kind of just wants to get through it now because I'm

Speaker 1 starting to feel a theme emerging. What?

Speaker 1 Mark Bonano. Oh, really? Yeah, a little bit.
That's interesting that that's how you would interpret those lyrics. I don't like blues clues that much.

Speaker 1 Oh, well, I think the figure in that song, dude. See, that's a power of like, I think we were going.
I think that song's about you.

Speaker 1 Well, I mean,

Speaker 1 I don't mean to be egotistical here. It's really interesting.
It's just, you know, it says my name a lot, says God loves me. Does that make you feel good?

Speaker 1 Well, the I well, can I say beautiful harmonies?

Speaker 1 That's that's two that we can agree on. That's two performers working in unison.

Speaker 1 You know, that's that's 14 years of harmonizing, of harmonizing

Speaker 1 and beautiful. And did you play the guitar on that? Yeah, I found some loops.
Yeah, nice. Yeah, all right.
That's even better in some ways. Yeah, I'm feeling good.
It's interesting.

Speaker 1 So, you're thinking there's a pattern emerging. It's hard to say it too.
Let's see.

Speaker 1 I can't remember if there is a pattern. Let's see.
Track three. This, to me, all would make sense if I was dead.
Let's play the next one.

Speaker 1 Fucking fucking hell.

Speaker 1 Just finding it.

Speaker 1 Oh, God.

Speaker 1 Made them alive.

Speaker 1 Sit at home and cry.

Speaker 1 He wanted to know

Speaker 1 what life was like.

Speaker 1 James Blunt in the

Speaker 1 world of sin.

Speaker 1 World

Speaker 1 Signal

Speaker 1 for LinkedIn.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 My banana,

Speaker 1 my banana,

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 I just remembered one of the

Speaker 1 through lines. Does that come back? That comes back.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I know about that too.

Speaker 1 There's another through line.

Speaker 1 What did you think of track three?

Speaker 1 It was very delicate. What did you hear?

Speaker 1 I heard a fart. Oh, yeah, the fart.
Yeah, yeah. Always funny.

Speaker 1 What else did you think about the going for a bit of a i'll i'll give away some of the influences there yeah going for a bit of a perfume genius sofian stevens vibe oh okay yeah i heard james blunt yeah i love a bit of james yeah love a bit of blunt how very soft there was a bit about sin

Speaker 1 yeah so there's a godly sort of christian well sofian is a christian really yeah he he he finds he he finds his own version of christianity right through his work right

Speaker 1 Obviously, the country music of earlier.

Speaker 1 We're really trying to embrace the themes of the genre there. I wouldn't read too much into the gospel.

Speaker 1 Now, a vibe for the album. It's a concept album.
Right.

Speaker 1 Should we play track four?

Speaker 1 I guess it'll be masked. All right.

Speaker 1 Hit it.

Speaker 1 Know a man who tells a lot of lies. He's the best when you improvise.

Speaker 1 His name is Margarano.

Speaker 1 Improvising is what he knows.

Speaker 1 My banana.

Speaker 1 Mark Banano.

Speaker 1 Mark Banano. No.

Speaker 1 Mark Banana.

Speaker 1 Mark Banano. I'll just pause it there.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 So, what do you think? What do you think that one?

Speaker 1 Well, that just sounds like a mistake.

Speaker 1 A mistake remember. I think it sounds a mistake.

Speaker 1 No,

Speaker 1 no,

Speaker 1 yeah. Well, I mean, both, right? Yeah.

Speaker 1 I believe you're mistaken.

Speaker 1 That's not a song. That was an attempt.
It was short, sharp, punky. That was an attempt at something.
Why do you think that was an attempt at something?

Speaker 1 Because it starts, not much happens, and then someone says, pause. I believe it's broken.

Speaker 1 It's interesting you read it that way. All right.
Okay.

Speaker 1 it sounds like a like a softer blood duster track to me. I don't know if that resonates with anyone on this table.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, sadly. There's no short

Speaker 1 shadows. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
A little more brutal. I'm a little more on the grind

Speaker 1 of thing. Was that track four or five? Yeah, that was four, I think.
Good track four, isn't it? Yeah. Whoa, where am I? You know?

Speaker 1 We want the album. We wanted the album, I think, to it's a it's it's not defined by genre,

Speaker 1 but there are eclectic

Speaker 1 we tried to do an album that's not combined by genre but there are thematic links between the songs right Mark Donano oh yeah that's one sure

Speaker 1 I would say I would say the ones that are coming up for me yeah oh yeah yeah I guess they are yeah yeah yeah Mark Donano

Speaker 1 Christ

Speaker 1 and in like in you know when talking about God and sin I think that's more of a genre thing you you hit Sophie Anne Stevens you find but there was God in the early ones that was a country song right right right right right I wouldn't read too much into it we don't think you're a sinner

Speaker 1 okay

Speaker 1 I mean that yeah I'm not

Speaker 1 all right Sylvia Stevens explores sin in his work yeah yeah yeah five track five now this is I'm very keen for your thoughts on this one hit it

Speaker 1 All right, this is a four minute.

Speaker 1 Yeah, four minutes. Here we go.

Speaker 1 I think I can do a verse here. Yep.

Speaker 1 What's that trumpet?

Speaker 1 I like that. It is a little Justin Timber-like, but I don't mind it.
Well, then you take it away, you go.

Speaker 1 I know a man called Marbonano.

Speaker 1 He has lots of style, that is what I know.

Speaker 1 I know a man, his name is Marbonano. He's got great style.
Cool. Wore a suit around for a little while.

Speaker 1 Marbonano, yeah, he wears different things.

Speaker 1 Thinks about his brand and ways, pens could be a fling.

Speaker 1 That man, my banana, he wears cool clothes.

Speaker 1 And that, for that, I don't loathe.

Speaker 1 Style, substance, fun,

Speaker 1 passion. Oh shit, he's a good song.
That's the mat banana way. Style, substance, fun,

Speaker 1 sun, sun, style, fashion.

Speaker 1 That's my banana way.

Speaker 1 My banana, that man's got great style.

Speaker 1 I once stole a suit and wore it round for a little while.

Speaker 1 My banana.

Speaker 1 Great, great style.

Speaker 1 My banana. Stole a suit, wore it round for a little while.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Just solo.
Yeah. Just vibe it out.

Speaker 1 Can't believe how well this is working, Daniel.

Speaker 1 Spoken word I'm really enjoying. My

Speaker 1 He's got great style.

Speaker 1 Works a suit around for a little while.

Speaker 1 My banana,

Speaker 1 he's got great style.

Speaker 1 Once I stole his suit and wore it around for a little while. Fashion, sashion.
Ah, yeah, huh? What? Fashion. Sasha.

Speaker 1 Fashion.

Speaker 1 My banana.

Speaker 1 Stole his suit, wore it round, don't you know?

Speaker 1 I know my banana. They're not playing with my banano.

Speaker 1 He ain't no bitch.

Speaker 1 He likes to play his Switch.

Speaker 1 Play his elder, play Mario Kart, too.

Speaker 1 Puts his beanie on, eats the dinner, says thank you.

Speaker 1 My banana.

Speaker 1 He's got great stuff.

Speaker 1 Took his suit, wore it round for a little while. Style.
My banana. Substance.
My banana. Fashion,

Speaker 1 that man's got great style, don't you know? Fashion, passion, style, substance, Mark Banana.

Speaker 1 He's normal heights. He's just around our two guys who are taller than him.

Speaker 1 Bern and Zach are 6'1, you see.

Speaker 1 And they've got big kings, and they fling them around.

Speaker 1 Fashion, passion, style, substance. My banana.
fashion,

Speaker 1 style, must call it suitable

Speaker 1 for a little while. That I need a good explain to me.

Speaker 1 It's a tough punk vibes. Yeah, that's good.
No, Roger's vibes. Very good.

Speaker 1 I'm just into this. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I'll put a joke here for you. Let's say a joke.
Let's never learn a joke.

Speaker 1 Passion. Passion.
Style. Substance.

Speaker 1 See, now that has something that I've been missing in music for a while, which is the vocalists

Speaker 1 just commenting on the song and how much they like it during the track. Not enough music does that.
Well, this is the thing about comedy, we know this.

Speaker 1 The audience feels about the show the way you tell them.

Speaker 1 If you tell an audience, you know, a comedian, when you have you ever been to a comedy show where you're watching it and the comedian goes, God, this show's going badly.

Speaker 1 And you think, well, I thought it was all right. That's clearly your impression.
And now you've imposed that on me. I guess it is doing badly.

Speaker 1 Number one rule of comedy: you don't say the show is going badly.

Speaker 1 We thought, what if we reverse it and apply it to music? This is good. This is good.
And then people go, yeah.

Speaker 1 So, like,

Speaker 1 the EPism is like evolving. There were some extra themes in that one, which I thought were interesting.

Speaker 1 It introduced my friends Broden and Zach,

Speaker 1 who have big dicks. And swing them around.
And swing them around. And that I'm not as short as maybe people think.

Speaker 1 You're all quite tall. The chorus is, Matt Banano, he's got great style.
Took his suit, wore a ring. Yeah, so what's up?

Speaker 1 I'd like to drill into that for a little bit. Well, yeah.
So in there's a meteorite coming,

Speaker 1 I wore your suit that you found somewhere. Like it was like a plaid brown suit and it had flares and very nice.
It fit me beautifully. Oh, I remember I got that at Retrostar.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and so I wore that around for a little while. First suit I ever bought for myself with my friend Kira.
She was there. I know Kira.
I don't remember.

Speaker 1 I do remember that suit. I didn't remember that it was Mark's.
But now that I think of it. I definitely don't remember you just wearing it around.
For a little while. Right.

Speaker 1 All right. Did I say that was was okay yeah i think can i do an impersonation of you in 2010 please

Speaker 1 i'll go uh hey can i i was like i love this can i wear it to something

Speaker 1 yeah man that's all right

Speaker 1 now your voice has lowered since then yeah my balls dropped but

Speaker 1 spirit of you yeah yeah yeah yeah that song's about a guy we know who has great style yeah he's a very stylish guy we know in that kind of like i would love to

Speaker 1 make a video clip for that and put it on YouTube. It's a fucking banger.
Yeah, it is. It's a genuine.

Speaker 1 It's really good. And just you being stylish.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 You reckon Mark could play that friend? Well, if you're not. I think it's better we leave it a mystery who that friend is.

Speaker 1 Would you like, maybe you could play him? No, I just think ever since Leonard Cohen revealed who Chelsea Hotel Number Two is about, it took a little bit of the magic away.

Speaker 1 And I think it's the same thing. I can't remember one of them.
And it's the the same thing with this I think that if we say exactly which friend that is

Speaker 1 it's about a friend of ours who has great style who's shorter than us but is normal high yeah and people think he's short and we're normal rather than he's normal and we're tall and there's an anecdote about me taking his suit around a little while similar to the one that I did with you.

Speaker 1 Which happened 15 years ago. That's interesting.
I just thought that you rhymed style with a while. I never realized there was truth to that.
Isn't that amazing?

Speaker 1 Even in collaboration, there are things to discover about a work. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 Shall we hear the

Speaker 1 seven tracks? Yeah, I think we moved into it. Yeah, okay, let's have a listen.
I think we're getting longer. And also,

Speaker 1 I would love to preface a little bit. We really started to feel the vibe.
Yeah, I think we were vibing at this point. So, does that mean the tracks get longer?

Speaker 1 I think they get longer, and I think they also get like a certain degree more confident and

Speaker 1 less feeling the need to be funny. Because

Speaker 1 record there's a record that i love

Speaker 1 there's a record that i love by an artist i love it's called empath by a man called devin townsey yes now you guys might know about devin townsend from my soil work speech that i uh every detail that i gave right

Speaker 1 um i mentioned him strapping young lad he produced natural born chaos if you remember correctly and uh he in 2018 released an album called empath and it was him just going this is what i want to do and in the liner notes in in the notes on the album he says, this is not an easy listen

Speaker 1 because it ends with a 20-minute track. Yeah, I think that's a lot of the tracks are long.

Speaker 1 It's kind of really him just doing exactly what he wants, you know, really doing the put the audience last kind of mentality. That is so important for this record.

Speaker 1 What you add. I think we would.
You add a note just saying, not an easy listen. In fact, it gets more difficult.
I'm struggling. I think it's this podcast like slow day.

Speaker 1 Well, yeah, it should be. This is not entertainment.
This is not entertainment. And I would add,

Speaker 1 nor is it an easy listen.

Speaker 1 This is not entertainment. Nor is it an easy listen.
Yeah. Now, Mark, I just want to say one thing.
These are just demos.

Speaker 1 Right.

Speaker 1 So, so when you hear that,

Speaker 1 you know, the one that's giving James Blunt, Sufian Light.

Speaker 1 Obviously, we're going to re-record the vocals, give them a more

Speaker 1 serial quality. Let's add some reverb.
If we can be fine.

Speaker 1 If there is enough demand.

Speaker 1 We're on tour right now, I believe, as this is coming out.

Speaker 1 Well, not just, I believe, we're recording this. We're recording this.

Speaker 1 From wherever we're

Speaker 1 from New York. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Because we vowed never to bank. We've got a show tonight in New York City.
So we better get on with it, I think. All right.
Here's the next track, the sixth track. Yeah.
Let's try this.

Speaker 1 I haven't listened to it.

Speaker 1 I think I can take this. Take it.

Speaker 1 I I knew a man, he was taller than you'd think.

Speaker 1 He was surrounded by two men that were taller.

Speaker 1 Two men, a six foot tall.

Speaker 1 One man, a five ten.

Speaker 1 Everyone thinks that they were normal.

Speaker 1 What is normal?

Speaker 1 He's got the same size shoe as Zach.

Speaker 1 Before that, the man

Speaker 1 doesn't lack. Here we go.

Speaker 1 I know a man that was taller than you think.

Speaker 1 He went to town and made you taller drinks.

Speaker 1 He'd like to sing and make a happy time.

Speaker 1 Baby darling, baby darling. But he did not know what to be sublime.

Speaker 1 What's that bass? Just testing some stuff down there, I think. There we go.

Speaker 1 Is normal height

Speaker 1 Brown

Speaker 1 and Zach are taller than Martin

Speaker 1 Mark Bernardo is taller.

Speaker 1 He's just surrounded by men that are taller than they look. I know that's okay.

Speaker 1 I'm afraid.

Speaker 1 Gonna be okay.

Speaker 1 It's gonna be okay.

Speaker 1 Gonna be okay.

Speaker 1 He's taller than okay.

Speaker 1 We're all gonna be okay.

Speaker 1 We're gonna be okay.

Speaker 1 He's taller than okay.

Speaker 1 We're We're gonna be okay.

Speaker 1 We're gonna be okay.

Speaker 1 Sorry, I did forget some subtle queer themes emerged in the latter end of the album.

Speaker 1 What? I don't understand that. It's gonna be okay.

Speaker 1 But I think that's a message that can be. be.
It's for everyone. Yeah.

Speaker 1 It's for everyone. Like Pet Shop Boys is for everyone.

Speaker 1 What did you think of that? What'd you think of that, Mark?

Speaker 1 I genuinely, really liked the idea that one person is saying

Speaker 1 one man is taller than you think, and the other is saying it's going to be okay. Comedically, I think that's really quite good.

Speaker 1 Isn't that funny? Over this journey of this album, where you are now. That's genuinely like

Speaker 1 that's that's genius. Like that's this close to being like a proper song that I want to put out as if you don't.

Speaker 1 It's really quite good. Well that'll be on the album.
I really be a good song.

Speaker 1 There's just something very funny about one singer going, a friend I know is taller than you think and the others going it's going to be okay. Those two ideas on top of each other

Speaker 1 is inspired. And I'm not being sarcastic.
I'm not joking.

Speaker 1 If someone pitched that in a meeting, that would be the one that I would then go, we need to make sure that that stays pure and we don't infect that with trying to turn it into anything else.

Speaker 1 No, what's the joke? Just do it. No, what's the joke? That's really good.

Speaker 1 But I think what we're trying to say in that piece is if you live in a world of tall people, you're going to feel short, but there's no such thing as normal. Yeah, yeah, whatever.

Speaker 1 It's just really good.

Speaker 1 But it's a funny way you've come on this album. I feel at points, there's been a reticence from you to really embrace it.
But at that sixth one, all of a sudden it's all starting.

Speaker 1 When you go back and think of the older ones, how do you think about them now?

Speaker 1 They're not as good.

Speaker 1 They're nowhere near as good. What about that 10-second one? The 10-second punk one, I think, could be easily cut.

Speaker 1 Down, I think it's already quite. It's expanded or expanded.
I meant cut from the album.

Speaker 1 Or the EP, rather. Make it around six.
It just needs a bit more substance. It's a nugget.

Speaker 1 Like you said, they're demos.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 It's not as strong.

Speaker 1 Are you ready to end this?

Speaker 1 Yeah. Now, once again, I will reiterate as this comes back to me, we do,

Speaker 1 as we just said, we do start to sell. There's a bit of self-indulgence.
It's a little bit self-indulgent. How long is this next one? I don't know.
I don't remember. Lindsay, how long is it?

Speaker 1 Four minutes, 42. It's a full song.
I think maybe I was listening to a lot of pet shop boys at the time. I don't know if that influenced this one.
Yeah, at the time of last week.

Speaker 1 Still listening to them. Yeah, so it checks out.
yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 All right, well, strap in four minutes,

Speaker 1 fuck there. We go, here it is.
I love a long song, by the way. Wow, but four minutes is quite short.
When it's just a final one, it's almost radio play. Yeah, anyway, here we go.

Speaker 1 Hey, Mark.

Speaker 1 I know this is just the final one.

Speaker 1 Oh, this is a great one.

Speaker 1 This has been a concept album.

Speaker 1 Oh, it's over to the reveal.

Speaker 1 Wow, you got it.

Speaker 1 I didn't know how good you were.

Speaker 1 I jokes enough.

Speaker 1 Oh, fuck.

Speaker 1 Monk Bonano, we made this album for you

Speaker 1 to tell you how smart and clever, stylish, and funny you are.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 I'm so deep in this comedy world now that

Speaker 1 I don't know where the joke is exactly because you are smart and talented and this music is good. I guess it's the fact that we're only getting one take.

Speaker 1 It's Mark

Speaker 1 Bano Ha ha ha ha.

Speaker 1 Good batu birth,

Speaker 1 monk bo

Speaker 1 nano

Speaker 1 nano

Speaker 1 good

Speaker 1 batu

Speaker 1 monko nano

Speaker 1 magano hoo

Speaker 1 Higher, higher

Speaker 1 beautiful control

Speaker 1 voice there. I'm just gonna figure out what that's doing, and then I'll go higher.

Speaker 1 What are they saying?

Speaker 1 I thought we were gonna say my banana there.

Speaker 1 What are they saying?

Speaker 1 Trying to clear your mind, I think.

Speaker 1 I just

Speaker 1 can't do it.

Speaker 1 Bye-bye. Alright.
Maybe a rap? Okay.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, and then I'll.

Speaker 1 I'll go high right at the end. So let's get the rap in.
Let's do a bit. This is a 12-minute song.

Speaker 1 Yeah, no, this is a deliberately long one so that you can't burn the CD.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 This is a vibey one, you know. J-E-S-U-S

Speaker 1 Jesus.

Speaker 1 That spells Jesus, Mark.

Speaker 1 Won't you let me go? No, you never come back. I'ma be the best that you never, never had.
I'ma keep quiet when you fake like that. Head out of the game, I don't play that back.

Speaker 1 This is for you, Mark.

Speaker 1 I'ma be the best that you never never had.

Speaker 1 My good love

Speaker 1 tomorrow.

Speaker 1 None of who this concept album's about.

Speaker 1 Goodbye tonight

Speaker 1 And safe travels on your journey

Speaker 1 Alright, now's the time.

Speaker 1 You do a bit of goodbye and then I'll come in.

Speaker 1 Goodbye

Speaker 1 to

Speaker 1 Mark

Speaker 1 Boombang when you sing like that.

Speaker 1 Sun that down a bit in my headphones.

Speaker 1 Goodbye, June,

Speaker 1 Mark,

Speaker 1 Mark

Speaker 1 B.

Speaker 1 Nah. You say how deep you can go go now?

Speaker 1 Goodbye to

Speaker 1 Mark Ba Na

Speaker 1 Goodbye to

Speaker 1 Mark Bairno

Speaker 1 Eh

Speaker 1 and then the farm

Speaker 1 Mark, this is for you, brother.

Speaker 1 Thanks for being such a great comedy companion.

Speaker 1 Well, all was revealed at the end, I suppose. So as what we said at the start of this, listen to the whole thing.
Yeah. You know, as we were talking about that friend and that person we worked with

Speaker 1 that was talented and stylish,

Speaker 1 funny and smart, a great improviser. And you said that could never be me.
I don't think I did. Isn't that interesting? When you were listening, you thought, well, that sounds like a really cool guy.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 But Mark, that was... it was me yeah yeah yeah they said my name in every song

Speaker 1 was every song no it was

Speaker 1 it absolutely was um so tell us what you thought

Speaker 1 yeah it's like that's something like

Speaker 1 it's what it's in the context of a comedy podcast it's interesting because you know that's sometimes what friends do on for the other friends on their birthday

Speaker 1 you know is make them songs as like a funny personal joke yeah um

Speaker 1 and so this i don't know where it's coming from.

Speaker 1 I think it just struck us, you know, how cool of a guy you are and we just wanted to sing about it.

Speaker 1 I can't tell you where the where it comes from.

Speaker 1 I don't know from whence the well of creativity finds its water. All I know is that we found it.

Speaker 1 If I was to explain my muse to you, it would kill my muse. Yeah.

Speaker 1 It's about you, Mark. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Also, I just want to apologize for saying I'd been listening to a lot of

Speaker 1 Pet Shop Boys because that had no impact on that final song.

Speaker 1 I thought it did. I thought we did one that was more pet shop boys-y.
I think it was more on the one before. That last song.
It's going to be okay, that kind of vibe, but that's more 2000s.

Speaker 1 That last song was in the style of jazz.

Speaker 1 Was it? But do you know who it was about, Mark? Me. You.
Yeah, yeah. You.
You. It's.

Speaker 1 Like, you know, I can't stand happy birthday being sung to me at my time. Right, no, I didn't know that.
Because it's very, it's like the the attention thing

Speaker 1 so i'm i'm like quite shook

Speaker 1 because of all the attention yeah and the seven songs about me

Speaker 1 it's a lot it's actually genuinely a lot to uh process and handle lindsay initially told me there was nine

Speaker 1 but there's not is that what you because at one point

Speaker 1 During one of the songs, I looked over at you and you were looking at Lindsay going, you're just shaking your head and going, well, and so was that cut the last two songs?

Speaker 1 Above Lindsay's head, I thought I saw the the lead actor from strictly uh ballroom

Speaker 1 which one the guy the guy the paul

Speaker 1 paul mercurio yeah yeah i thought that was him in there and was it so i just started pointing at him

Speaker 1 and then lindsay and courtney both looked over like what does he want us to get that does he want us to get that man so i was like no no don't get him don't get him Don't get that man.

Speaker 1 But I felt I saw the leaf. I saw the lead actor from Strictly Ballroom.
So I had to start pointing at him. It was him? You know it was him? No, I don't know.

Speaker 1 But a lot of famous people walk through here. Like once I was sitting here and Bruce McEvaney was over there.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 I haven't seen Street Lee Ballroom in so long and I've been meaning to re-watch it for years. Great.

Speaker 1 It is, from memory. Yeah, yeah.
I re-watched it not too long ago. It's really good.
Yeah,

Speaker 1 I'm pretty sure it was him.

Speaker 1 Wow.

Speaker 1 Was it I ride on his name? Mercurio? Yeah, Paul McCurio. Yeah, wow.
Host of Dancing with the Stars, right? One of the judges? No, she,

Speaker 1 the Lee

Speaker 1 Kruger. Yeah, but one of the judges was I think he may have have passed her at some point, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, but Mark, um, that's pretty exciting, isn't it?

Speaker 1 The Strip of Ball, very cool, very cool. The thing is, right, when we were really in it, we started to feel like here is an album that's that's special, right? Here is an album that's bigger than

Speaker 1 here is an album that's bigger than Donna that could actually cut through before. I don't know about that, it's got such a wealth of influences and styles again.
Demos, demos, yeah, okay, right.

Speaker 1 So, what's up for change

Speaker 1 um and you can watch her show uh on grousehouse

Speaker 1 sonia kruegers demis demi demi no yeah demos demos is uh what demo is uh demo is uh like a quick scratch track to give an idea of the song

Speaker 1 our mate

Speaker 1 kind of like an animatic you're fucking you're acting like a fucking idiot don't be a fucking idiot broden we're gonna get mark's sign off on this i need some time to think. Yeah, you take some time.

Speaker 1 I need at least a week to process, re-listen to the songs, which is,

Speaker 1 that's a lot to ask of someone. We need to re-listen to that.

Speaker 1 To separate your own personal feelings about the fact that all the songs are. Well, that's hard.

Speaker 1 We need to extremely hard to do.

Speaker 1 It's a loving tribute. It would be better if I was dead.
So I would say play them at my funeral and never. Can we get that in writing that you endorse that?

Speaker 1 Because that's pretty funny absolutely no if i die on this tour that we're currently on oh that's a very short window or if i get hit by another car

Speaker 1 the woman in seattle finishes the job this time

Speaker 1 she comes back for me and finishes it mark got hit by a car once yeah in seattle yeah um and uh it was a hit and run it was great and uh

Speaker 1 so yeah if that comes still did the show that night he still did the show that night i had to go to hospital afterwards and then he went my back spasmed out out.

Speaker 1 But yeah, so if that, you know. Just, I think the lesson of this episode is be safe on the roads.
Be safe in your car.

Speaker 1 Don't be on your phone. Don't be drinking.
Yeah. Because that one person you hit that you bump with your car,

Speaker 1 sure, you might think, fuck, I've just ruined one guy's day. You might be ruining hundreds of alt comedy fans' nights.
Yes.

Speaker 1 And on that show. That was a really good show.
It was a great show. That was a great show.

Speaker 1 Well, thanks for listening. Bye.

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