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Yeah, I'm allergic to the red, you know Die red died number two. Yeah, there's no two ways about it and then I'll give people also my You know my Facebook stuff and Instagram and all that's yeah and cellular It says hi you've run basil One for tickets Good morning. Good afternoon. Good evening listening to the old talk car podcast hosted by Peter around us joining me today is her little Mustafa That's very professional because today we've got our first We've got our first international guest this this gentleman like we meant to be professionals out come on This gentleman if you recognize a laugh you might know who already is we have an international guest his day job is listed as at night as a comedian Basically just want me performing all around the world and on cruise ships recently He has done a lot of voice over work including the voice of bullwinkle on the card in network and Japanese anime series You've done over a hundred television appearances in many networks HBO show time J Llanot featuring the stolen car of cocks and was also nominated for an Emmy award for the worker We're gonna introduce the gentleman in a moment in the 30 for 30 series on the boxer Jimmy the greek Snyder host his own podcast We'll see your big factory wedding if you know you do not write that movie We welcome that we welcome the talented the funny and great guy basil mate welcome.
Hey, what's going on guys? How are you and I just want to know is it halleel? Yeah, that's it. I Yeah, I'm sorry.
I'm sorry. I'm sorry Just control your little controls and go from there Mate Hey, go good brother, you know, it's exciting to come on back to Australia I gotta be honest with you. I'm really excited. It's been a long time and it's been like, you know seven years I want to come back a few years ago We were planning on something of course covid head and it's been the most craziest time for live entertainment To be honest with you and just to be able to get back on stage right now in headlining in Vegas I'm at the Tropicana casino and it's pretty cool people can always go to my Instagram or Facebook at basil V comedian be a s I lee T he comedian and Check it out It's really cool to see your name on a huge marquee and then we just got an offer from MGM to do a four-wall deal right across the streets I'm very excited doing that's my general audience show that I do so I'm kind of excited about that So it's boring and doing all that crap.
It's fun. So how'd it stop? I mean, okay? So your parents got married but arranged for everything so the new aboard like did you like were you one of those funny kids?
Like you just crack jokes or your parents want you to be a doctor loyal run a diner And you just happened to fall into comedy had to come about like you know when I was born My mom and dad, you know great senses of humor and they always wanted me to do something I was a basil imitate Richard Nixon Basil do this basil and I was like they're a little bitch, you know Here's I guess some strains will be the mary and that puppet that you want me to be but I was always kind of funny to be with and stuff Like that and then I was a hardcore athlete I played American football and I wrestled wrestled throughout high school and wrestled throughout junior high school and then played college football And then wound up playing high school football and then even junior high school football So I was a really hardcore athlete I really thought I was gonna go pro and it just wasn't in the cars I got hurt pretty badly and so I kind of pull the tail between my legs up I said let's go ahead and I'm gonna finish my education I'm gonna go to law school and and right when I was in law school and I'm got really ill so one day We go to a comedy club I can't go come over gonna go to a comedy club I don't want to go to a comedy club. He says I'm feeling depressed this shit There's no we gotta go so we wind up going and we see this comedian professional comedian I don't want to see who he was and he sucked He was just terrible and my my ego is like oh shit, dude. I can do circles around this guy I've never been on stage nothing so my cousin goes up there to tell you what next amateur night work on me I bet you 20 bucks that you won't get on stage and I'll give you another 20 bucks if you win I won I've got up on stage. I came up with five minutes of material I won and the reason why I go by basil and I basil can see is because I never want the law firm to know what I was doing Because I was working also at a law firm and I was clerking and then I was doing stuff for the court system And I also got a chance to work for the government as well And I thought maybe I'll do that I wasn't too sure You know when you're kind of in flux you really didn't know what you want to do But I really got the big I got bit by this comedy thing and I know it's gonna be good and one thing led to another I started doing a lot of voice work and then I started working for a radio station Cleveland which was one of the best called W MMS and Cleveland home of the buzzard and They said you do any voices and I said yeah because I learned English by watching cartoons Yeah, I was basically in a you know in a home where we all spoke Greek and for the Greek members out there I was like I put me lying on a spas mena a lot of weeks at the line of coffee I put me in a school school.
You know what? No, I'm just kidding. I didn't have to go but my mother taught me and I didn't speak English until It's like six years old that's so I'd watch yes. I was doing Bullwinkle as in Greek You know to my mother, you know, and I'm like me.
That's not about listening me. I'm a good. Yeah, and my mom will go That's it. Okay, we gotta teach you me So I wound up going ahead and yeah I still remember going to the maple tree deli that was right next door to me Which is a place I had sold like little you know goods breads and stuff like that I thought you'd know you've ended it was a small little deli delicatuss and made sandwiches So and I still remember going to the guy go in doing I need bread bread to eat But it and I had a you know quarter game a quarter I was like half loaf of bread and he goes goddamn foreigners Jesus Christ, you know and you know one thing led to another a little bit I know that I would be good at doing Bullwinkle to the point where I do it for Universal Studios So I'm a redubbing master I fixed the old loops from a from 1959 early 61 and I do a bunch of other characters from Japanese anime And I let my voice to do the 30 for 30 stuff work Yes, me and we just finished doing another documentary sports documentary called one more round And it's about a guy like my guy Cassao who was it's a wonderful documentary and I got a chance to lend my voice for that as well So I mean, I said they reproduce the all clips and re every work to say on he says that how yeah because basically when Bullwinkle Take Bullwinkle for example a lot of people don't know that Bullwinkle believe it or not the animation and some of the audio was done in Australia Okay And the other half was done in Mexico City So the production value wasn't the greatest at the time and the reason why they did it is to be that way is because they Wanted to boy the union costing United States So my job to go in there is to fix them.
So you might hear hey, Ruck Let me do the you know and all of a sudden you hear but the so the audio track kind of broke up And my job was going there and because I could actually recreate it just the way you know They had it from before Bill Scott was the original voice and I did it and I could fit and actually go with the actual way the flow It was and it was seamless. So worked out pretty well. So you look at the projector Well, you just know if you ever watch Bullwinkle Bullwinkle's mouth was like this Hey, bro, it was so easy where Japanese anime is so intricate where the lip movement is so so when you do Japanese anime You know you might have to hear something like this No, there's nothing much. They lose you lose somebody day I'm helping the dialogue for English dialogue to go in the lip movement But they want you to either that you have a really bad.zilla like movie if you remember back in the day where we all went You saw this Godzilla It's like you never could match up the words They didn't want that and they paid a lot they paid like four hundred dollars an hour And I would do for three hours every session to do that and you get a check right there It was great $1,200 check bam right through you and it was a beautiful thing So the Japanese stuff.
Are you speaking Japanese? Yeah, well you get it, you know if you ever done any cartoon work or anything like that You're in a studio. I got a headset like you have now and all of a sudden you're watching the screen and they will give you three tones I'll give it to do it and then also you got delivered along the way They rewrote it from Japanese to English and if you notice all of the cartoons that the Japanese have made are all round I none of them have slanted eyes. Yeah, he's right like the Asian So it's a little bit different and then one thing led to another with my comedy career And then one day my mom goes, you know, you really should do something in for the Greeks And I had no clue what the hell she meant I said what do you mean?
So do some stand-up comedy for the Greek and the first time everyone to Greece was in 96 I got so pissed off as I was treated because you know, but to be honest with you My Greek was atrocious because I forgot a lot. Yeah. Yeah, it wasn't the hot deli was is a cenokio It's not you know got all that stuff So I learned but I learned the hard way by going through some of that But some of the bullshit that I went through and I went to Greece and I took two legal paths to this day I still write on legal paths two legal paths filled them with with information and just instead of putting someone against the wall or throwing Against the wall with my anger. I just took my frustrations out on a piece of paper and a pencil That was about it That's why I came up the series of growing up Greek and America and little did I know I was gonna go ahead and you know Do the crap that I was doing, you know for my stand-up So it was pretty nice.
So what years did it all start for you when you got into comedy? 96 when I really started heavy, but I started really in basically in 87 88 Because what I'm getting at I mean was that a niche to be a Greek based comedian in America? Like there was no it was there a there was no real ethnic there was really no ethnic thing everyone wanted to be a comedian And someone got the right idea. Well the mobity were doing you know the the black kings of comedy and this and I started all sudden I said well, yeah, why can't I go ahead and do Greek comic and I started and once I started that thing It's so slowly evolved well sudden, you know this comedian popped up and that comedian popped up and then which is great I think you know, there's a big enough It's a big enough pie where everyone can have in Australia have Georgia Camping Harris whom I love and George is fine He's great and when I toured Australia, we did one of the largest ethnic comedy Economy tours with Joe a body myself George Camping Harris and Tahir Bill check whom I love and you know my daughter's like, but he's a turk dad Yeah, he's a turk, but he's a funny turk and I love him to death He's one of the sweetest guys in the world.
I loved us So and you know, he always says hey, we got to do something together So that's when we did after we did that tour I came back and then we did another tour called a good the bad knee ethnic and we did that tour as well And that was a lot of fun to do I think that's where I first met you I think that was that the tour with you and George and Java. Yeah, I mean first came out It was good stuff. So it's it so when you first started was all observational I mean was it you just know about your family and everyone's laughing and you thought oh shit This is funny. Yeah, I mean I started doing invitations.
You know it was kind of funny I was looking back at some of the old material and you know some of the stuff that I can't get away with now Because of the wokeism, you know, and you gotta be really careful So someone said to me says well, can you do something about the birds and bees? I said you want me to explain the birds and bees to kids today? Yeah, could you I don't want to I don't want to do that. You wear that look at you limited.
Do you really feel that on stage like shit? I really can't say that there's certain things that you cannot do that you once could do but the birds and bees now I'm like my sister-in-law. Maybe sing it to the kids you go ahead and tell them the birds and be this I don't want to just do it. I'm like They're birds and their bees and there are some bees that don't want to be bees anymore And they just they want to go ahead and smell the flowers instead of pollinating the flowers and they get their little stingers cut off And I don't know what to say and then the queen bee She doesn't want to go ahead and be known as the queen bee She wants to be known as that that that gets birth to them And so you try and do your best, you know to try and imitate what's going on here Especially in the United States and I'm sure it's happening in Australia But I literally had to go ahead and just change the act slightly because it was all about me And that's what I did now But it completely all about me I just forgot anything that may have been somewhat offensive But you know when you play Australia, there's so many thick wonderful cultures in the mix It's just like America, but you're a thicker stew You know what I'm saying?
You only have 23 million people that live in Australia and in those 23 million Maybe what? 8% 10% are Greek? Maybe? Yeah about that And then you got the Italians You got the Russians and Melbourne has more Greeks than anywhere else Yeah, that's the problem Wait, I think it's Athens, Melbourne and New York City Something crazy like that By the way, Alissa, man, you're missing a lot of shaving You're not shaving properly I just got a lot of crap here on the sides and whatnot I'm sure I guess that I Did you really?
My God, you're my friend You are the modern-day wolfman, that's what you are And you know why you're wearing a necklace, so you know when it stops shaving Exactly, thank you very much You can have that as a move So I find that with a lot of that You got Greek comedy, you got Russell Peters with the Indians A lot of it is consistent, it's just changed the flavour change The stories are similar with what growing up in a foreign land in a particular culture You know, with parents wanting to get to us and earlier, be a lawyer, be a doctor You know, things like that, they move to a new country to make their families life better Not necessarily their life better, because a lot of the immigrants worked a lot of hours in big jobs To make it better for their family My grandparents came here after World War II Because my granddad didn't want my dad to go into the army and see war again And just to make it better for their family A lot of these cultures are more worried about the next generation than about themselves I mean growing, so you were born in America, weren't you? Yeah, I was born in America, but the thing is every parent wants it It doesn't matter where you're from It could be you could be in the depths of Africa You could be in the depths of Mexico and South Central America It doesn't matter every parent wants better for their children Than they have for themselves And that's the way it's always been And my mom and dad, but my mother gave me the best backhanded compliment I've ever got When I told her I was going to take us a radical from law school to try this comedy thing My mom looked at me and she goes, you know, you've always been a conniver I'm sure you'll make it work And I'm like, conniver has like the most negative connotation I'm like, really? I said, why don't you just be, I said, this is bullshit You're like, this is you, a conniver But she was right, you know, I made it work while we were the other And I was always blessed to be able to do a lot of different things in the genre of entertainment May have been, because I sang us If you look at Aladdin on Nice with Kristin Yamaguchi I sang Friend Like Me Because Robin Williams put a temporary restraining order for them to use that song So I sang it, because it was a Disney property So I sang it, so I sang it As a matter of fact, I have to sing tonight Because the people at the casino are coming And they want to see me sing the closing And I got to rework my whole freaking ending on my show to make it work When you said on Ice, what were you on Ice skates? No, no, no, I sang it For when Kristin Yamaguchi They did it on Ice, like it's a theme show like Aladdin on Ice And it was like Aladdin, but it was all with Ice skaters and stuff like that So I sang a Friend Like Me for that When I was getting out before you were born in America, I mean, it is a car podcast We'll get there, I had a list of that I could actually I had a recently a guest complain that we wander off cars So what I wanted to ask you is that When you grew up in Cleveland, were you born in Cleveland?
I was actually born in New Jersey, raised in Long Island, played my college ball at Purdue And then wound up coming ahead and do my stuff over I got cut, I couldn't play anywhere, I was injured So growing up in a typical Greek immigrant household in North America Was there a traditional car that the Greeks or the Italians always bought? Like in Australia, we had the Valiant And we called it the Wogchariot The Wogchariot Does Wogchariot like in the US? No, not really When my father had a Delta 88, a nose mill, Delta 88 My mother had the Cadillac, you know And then I got whatever was left over And when they gave me, they put me in a pinto Which was known to blow up and someone hit it from behind That's why my parents had a lot of insurance money on me, just as someone So was the Cadillac? Was General Motors the go-to?
What was the go-to? You know, Pontiac, GM, General Motors, Ford, Chrysler I mean, those were the big three And you know, you don't really get a chance to choose when you're a kid You get whatever's given to you or what's... You try and make it work And I don't know, I mean, Halil probably was very, very wealthy Because he saved money on his razors And he pulled forward, you know, those types of cars that are, you know, really good cars Peter, I mean, you come from an extremely wealthy background I mean, you are just the catch me out And I'm sure you have a Rolls Royce and, you know, stuff like that I had a 19... I had a 1968 Pontiac Bonneville That my Theo Yortgo gave me And you could fit our whole defensive squad In the car coming back from college And it was like, I remember we had eight guys in the car And I drove from West Lafayette, Indiana, all the way along Ireland, New York And it was like, I'm like, this is the craziest thing But, you know, I lost my virginity in that car I had a lot of great memories I really did, it was a beautiful memory, it really was, to be in that car But yeah, the stories I could tell you, but I really don't want to get that far It's even to my self-exploits in my car But yeah, no, the car is, you know, I have a GMC Arcadia, okay Which is like a...
That's SUV Yes, an SUV, it's a great-looking vehicle I love it But I hold onto my cars for 12 years I'm not one of those guys who took it for a year That's a cheap lease, is that why? No, no, no, I wear the damn thing to the ground I'm not a car guy, I'm not a car guy who's going to wind up going and buying a BMW for the sake I got a BMW, it's just not one of those cats So when you catch your first million dollar paycheck when you're done one show You didn't go out there and buy a Porsche or anything like that? I think if I ever bought any car, it'd probably be an Austin Well, those old British ones Yeah, Austin Martin, yeah I'm sorry, there is an Austin in the Aston Yeah, no, it's Aston Martin Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah, that's what I'm trying, yeah, I probably get something like that But you know what, again, I wish I could tell you that I was this great car guy And I love cars, and I gotta have the newest thing Not so much, I go to the beach, I love to go fishing I take my SUV on the beach, I wind up doing stuff there And then when I do travel, sometimes instead of me flying Because I have over 2 million miles with American Airlines alone So I fly everywhere I go So if there's an opportunity for me to drive someplace I'm going to drive Yeah, I'm going to drive because I just like the idea of driving You know, smoking a cigar once in a while, listening to the news We have an American in America, we have XM Radio And I love listening to my XM radio Because I get news all the time, I'm a news guy, I love the news And then I love listening to old radio shows that they have from the 40s and the 50s So I love listening to that type of stuff too So is there a stigma in the industry, in your industry where If you turn up in a big car, you're made of, or it's not so much nowadays Everyone just does their own thing No one ever sees me in my car, you know, depends Sometimes when I rent a car and I know if I'm going to go You know, if I'm going to go somewhere real fancy or whatever Sometimes they'll get the top class what they have and sometimes it depends what her has It could be, you know, a Mercedes, it could be a BMW, whatever they have and I think then I'll get something But typically for me, I'm not a big car guy, what do you drive? At the moment I got a Tesla That's the reaction That's the reaction When you grow up, get a car, something that runs on gas Am I the boot of the big days?
I'll hear my friend My God, hold on, I got to plug my car in Does anyone have a plug? I need to plug my car in I need to plug my car in I need to plug my, I just need to get to the electric station We need to get to the electric station, plug my car in Yes, I get to the, I'm knocking on the door, hello That's a plug out, we need to plug my car in I just need like a gallon of electricity Just to pour into my car Oh for God's sake, I'm getting a real vehicle Something that has, you know, a heat yeah, you know what I'm saying? So you want to hear, you don't want to hear Oh my God, it's a fast with his car Yes, look at him go, yeah, that's a wonderful car Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the baseball show We're going to be the first to see Sorry, boys, we just cut out there for two minutes or so When you come to Australia, you're going to have to go in Halleles' car If you want, I'd hear ya Yeah, listen, I love Halleles' car Halleles' car, he's, how many years old now? Three, four years old, how?
And he's never used the steering wheel The car just goes straight, quarter mile at a time That's beautiful, that's wonderful And where do you live? Where do you live to get such a story? And the funniest story, I got to tell you, boys, The listeners have heard this before, but The time when you were lighting up there, the Christmas, what's the light goer? Where they go down from red to green?
And you're about to... A traffic light? He's about to... A traffic straight?
Yeah, you keep off the road if you don't know what a traffic light is And basically, your telephone rang And instead of hitting the on button, you hit the launch button What was that? Yeah, I'm talking about the phone off, the drag strip, I'm not the white It's getting the phone ringing in front of the phone off And I'm probably hitting the wrong button, go away! So he shows us these times, 12 seconds, 12 seconds, 15 seconds, 12 seconds What happened there, hell? Someone fucking rang me So you can go down here to your car with hell?
I'll take Basil for a drive Thank you, as long as we go straight So you can't do it that way No dude, we'll take him, roll racing We'll go, roll racing We can go down there, I have no problem with that I see, I love racing, I really do I'm a big fan of dragsters and stuff like that We've got a problem, hell, because his head's bigger than mine They probably didn't fit me, so we need to get Basil Basil, we can make something fit over the bus We go roll racing together, we can make a passenger It's drag racing but a rolling start What would happen if you were driving around with your mates and someone pulls up next to you? But Peter forgets the brain, I'll help it I've got to help it, but it's my wife's one It's not quite as big as Peter's head So we put it on and we're hitting it down It's not a bad ever And there's a photo on Instagram There's a photo on Instagram The photo on this one, Peter with a helmet on It's not a good photo It's not a good photo on this one, it's not a good photo on the shape You're giving his cheeks the big mouth, you should take one and push it further down this way It looked like I got pushed down the space shuttle This space vacuum is making my cheeks bigger Poor guy looks like a zit-ray to be popped without snakes Yeah, it was red, not white, but not a mate So that's the fun we get up to down here, so we are Oh my god You can't do that in a Tesla, you're right, the cord wasn't long enough to reach the powerpoint No, no two ways, you have a really long extension cord, absolutely And the guy with the Hero's Machine with Media for his food truck, so yeah We could not plug it, so They're making such a big deal about electric cars here in the United States, yeah The problem is, you know, I don't think there's anyone who wants to say No, we want dirty air, we want dirty air, everyone would love to have the clean energy, right? The problem is, is that we do not have the supply for people to stop And no one has an hour or two to load up with electricity in their car You know, yeah, gas, you know what, in about two minutes, I'm filled up, I'm on my way We are not prepared, like we have all these windmills in the ocean And we have the windmills here and solar this and solar that We got 300 and roughly probably with all the illegals and everything, about 360 million people in the United States Okay, 360 million, my future son-in-law is a nuclear engineer And he goes, even if you had it all over, there's not enough power to do that, to create that One day, in the very near future, there'll be cold fusion Then you know what, we can do anything we want to do And to hell with gas, to hell with oil, we don't have to go to war for it, we don't have to do anything There'll be cold fusion then, but now we're not ready for it I know about Australia, you know, except for you, you're the only one with electric car Right, because there's a plug just with your name on it, you can plug your little car That's interesting you say that, Basil, about in the United States Because I was really an article about a gentleman who they trialled, I think they're part of the trial for the electric trucks And the battery alone in an electric city trailer is £8,000 So it's too family sedans, right? And they went to one of the major cities where they had their truck depots, where their warehouses are And they said, well, if we buy 3070 trailers, electric, okay?
This is the power we need when they're back at the warehouse to power up, because they'll often us Because that's more power than the city uses It's true, and I'm not but grudging, I'm not but grudging them trying to look for a better way to save our beautiful, you know, I don't I think it's great, but how about we slowly bring it in, and as we get more modernization through technology and development Little by little, by little, unless I said I'm a big fan of the idea of cold fusion actually taking us when they're going to figure out And that, like I said, that will happen, it might happen even before we go, before we pass on And that'll be the savior of this planet, you know, who the hell wants to dig for oil, who wants to... But if there's a way to go ahead and have something a car run on a banana peel or something like that Rather to that, then have to try and sit there and wait until you wind up finding a plug like Peter, you know what I'm saying? Peter, it must be very romantic, you open the door for your wife, your wife gets in the car And all of a sudden, you get in the car and you tell your wife, oh, honey, Jesus, I forgot it, opens up the door, I have to unplug the car And you go to unplug the car, and she goes, oh, he's so romantic, the way he bends over and unplug the car And he says, you know, he has a little retractable, little thing like your vacuum cleaner does with a fork and a pull and everything, beautiful, beautiful Sorry, if I so you dropped out again, what was that? Just tell me how wonderful Tesla is with all of the front of the car, they're just wonderful Hey, what's going on, I love this episode, so I'm telling you what Oh my gosh, I mean, it's great, it really is, you know, but things haven't changed that much enough, really, I mean, I haven't been there in like, I think eight years, I haven't been there No, it's good, we're letting it back in, so it's good, you know I've waited for your life, and none of the less, so you try using your pre-pass, what next time I think you'll be there Sure, that'll do just wonders, yeah, probably.
No, we haven't really changed, I mean, so there's some buildings that are going to be higher, but other than that, Australia's pretty much the laid back usual I mean, we do get, not that political, it's not like the Greeks or, and it's not a side show like it is in America, like the political system at the moment, so you can try to root in it It's somewhat humorous, and I don't do political humor, because you're going to lose half your audience, because it's separated us as a country as a people, because You're very sensitive to the idea of that stuff, yeah, people like family and friends, you have breakups of friendships because of your republic and your democrat And we're here, I mean up until now, you have very similar, you've got the liberals which are the conservatives and the The Lego party, which are more left leaning and social, but we don't do that extreme, you might have disagreements and you're, you don't have this I'm a card carrying, you know, no. No, you get some, listen, you get some nutcases in both parties, it doesn't matter from the extreme left or the extreme right, you do My thing is, I've always been conservative when it came to fiscal and military issues, social issues, I'm somewhat liberal, okay, very simple, you know, and people say we've got to be one way or the other, no I don't, I'm voting, not you, you vote who whom you want to, and that's it, but I always look at what's the proof, you know, what do we have And I think a lot of times, politics, they will hide their messes that they've made, and it's sad, you know, but I sit back and I just let them be what they want to be, I know what I want, I know who I'm voting for, I know why I'm voting for this I mean, our mess, you're one country, you are surrounded by water, okay, we are surrounded by Canada and Mexico, and then we have the Atlantic and the Pacific, you know, our borders should be closed and have legal people coming in and out, very simple, but it's, it's crazy with at the borders, the way those Canadians were coming to America, it's just a moment. Okay, it's coming a million times, they really are, you know, you have a story with Victorians, as a stip based, we have, I remember one time I was going down south that we were cutting through, and they inspected me because they wanted to make sure that it had TCC flies on me and I'm like, you know, should we be doing a cavity search for the looking for the TCC fly in my ass, should we? Yeah, it's, to me, it's always been a little bit crazy when it gets a little bit like that, you know, sensitive stuff like when I came to the abortion, whatnot, I always thought that was a family thing, you know, but that's me, you know, and I always felt that it was so sensitive of an issue, and I'm like, they make such a big deal of it here, you know, you got to be one way or the other, no, no, there are reasons and rationales why people do certain things, I think if men started giving birth, you know, a lot more liberal and they would sit there and go, oh no, no, I need one right now, I don't look good nine months pregnant, you know, that's a different person, that's a different person of base stories, isn't it?
Oh my God, yeah, and then, you know, then we get up, think, we have the LGBTQ community and they're upset because they want to be able to teach and it's like, you know, Mr. Morgan now is wearing a dress teaching Jim and I'm like, you know, kids are a little bit concerned, you know, but my daughter's a teacher and a great teacher. Is Mr. Morgan a great dad stage up?
Yeah, well, yes, yes. He saw the Evzones dancing and goes, I got to get me one of those, you know, and he's just, well, it's always, I used to laugh with you, but dad, why are you making me wear a dress? He goes, get myself that. This is where the Greek soldiers in Greece were today and I was looking at it.
It's all just weird to die. You know, is anyone in white Greece is not a world power anymore? I mean, what the hell were we thinking about hundreds of years ago fighting to try to kill the Turks? There's Gossa and Yani trying to figure out what to wear to kill them.
Okay. Yeah, of course, though, what should we wear to kill the Turks? I don't know. You got a white dress, you know, something with pleats in it and it was really nice.
We can wear it with white pantyhose and a white blouse and a blue vest. Yes, how about some red shoes with a big pop on my face? What's your problem? What is that?
It's a nice touch. You know, it really is a nice touch. The palm palm always concerned me. If you ran out of toilet paper, we couldn't find leaves out of the pool.
Yeah, the palm palm. It's always surprising. The palm palm really wasn't brown. It was always this red and blue and green.
You know something? Mate, thank you for your time. I hope you're enjoying your time in Vegas. I could see all your minions around you and looking after you and...
Please, sit. All of you. Yeah. They're holding their breath.
They really are. And you'll have access to the minibar. They're giving you a budget. Yes, I do have a budget.
I get all the water I want for free. Let me see. That's called the tap, buddy. Is that what that is?
Yeah, that's what it is. But I am going to be in Australia. We're starting in November. I think November is second.
I'm going to date soon. Before November, you started Sydney in a lot of the local clubs. You got a Melbourne crown casino on the 12th of November. Back in Sydney, you're all over Sydney.
Brisbane on the 23rd of November, the Greek club there. Adelaide 26th of November. So much will be there open the lights for you. We'll have gone 30 November.
Some more Sydney shows. And then you're in Canberra at the Hellenic Club on the 7th of the League. I don't know if you're finishing in Perth on the North. But there's also a lot of things.
I'm finishing on Perth right now. This Darwin is jumping on. And I think Darwin is jumping on. And then I think we have a few more shows that they have yet to post.
And I'm really excited about it. But to come back to Australia, listen, I'm serious enough. The audience has always been having some. They've been always sweet.
They've always accepted my characters and craziness on stage. And I'm so thankful that I have such a great Australian backing. I really do. Listen, I want people to go to my website.
They can go to basallive.com. That's B-A-S-I-L-E-L-I-V-E.com. Or for them to go on my social outlets, which is basal V-comedian for Instagram and Facebook. And that's B-A-S-I-L-E-T-H-E-C-O-M-I-D-A-N-Comedian.
So basal V-comedian, go check us out. Follow me. You'll find out. And then we're going to have giveaways.
We got the new concert shirt that people are going to love. And it's on the back. It says, it's not a party until my gift that has come out. So everyone's back.
So I want everyone to come to the show. It's going to be great. And it's just not for Greeks. It's for everyone.
It doesn't matter if you're Lebanese, if you're a Turkish. It doesn't matter if you're Jewish, Greek. I don't care. Everyone.
This show's going to be a little bit different. Everyone's used to. So Peter, thank you so much. Thank you.
We can also get tickets at Ben, Morion, Inter-Tammer.com. We're going to catch up again when you come down under. We'll probably do another show with you if you don't mind. Or maybe bring some other friends as well.
And can't wait to catch up again, mate. I'm going to come into your show because I want to hang out with Hal. We're hoping to come out and see you as well. Lost him.
He's got it. He's got it. He's got it. He's got it.
He's back. We're going to take him role racing. We're going to go role racing. And Basil, we'll get him to film and show his audience around the world what role racing is all about.
We'll go down a day. It's a Wednesday or a Friday. We'll work it out. What is it, Sydney?
It's here for a whole month. We'll work it out. We'll get him onto the track. I'll have a car wreck.
Yeah, I know. He says up there. He says up there. He says up there.
So that was a funny episode with Basil. Right as reviewers. No. That was reviewers.
Follow us on Instagram. If you've got any questions or if you want questions for Basil, when he comes back, email us at alltalkoutlook.com.au. And now we're going live somewhere on the internet because there's a camera on the camera. God knows what Basil's doing.
But, mate, thank you again. And we'll see you when you're cut to Australia.