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Sitting Under A Tree with Aidan Jones
by Aidan Jones
Australian comedian Aidan Jones laughing at his own jokes and stories. Every Tuesday, for ever.
Episodes
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Ep 418 - The End
Eight years ago I started recording a weekly, solo podcast, and resolved to keep going every week. I had no idea what it was or why I was doing it, but it felt like a good idea so I kept going. In that time I have gone from a lonely, open mic comedian to being a professional artist living in...
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Ep 417- Second Last Ep
Tomorrow I'm going to upload every episode of this podcast to a voice-to-text engine, then run all of the text through an AI chatbot like ChatGPT or something, to effectively have this AI engine experience 8 years of my weekly thoughts. Then I'm going to ask it some questions. If you have any...
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Ep 416 - Third Last Ep
This is the third-to-last episode of my podcast. I talk about feeling unfocussed and frustrated this week, and trying to find a renewed sense of focus. I'm sick, which isn't helping. Time to pop a Vitamin D tablet, I reckon.
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Ep 415 - I Bought A Car
I bought a car on Friday from a car dealer in Coventry, then drove it to Birmingham, Preston, Liverpool and finally back to London today! I've never owned a car before and it's really exciting and scary to have invested so much into this thing. Still, better than lugging my trolley with the...
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Ep 414 - Back From Holiday
Back from almost two weeks in Poland, and for the first time in a year I gave myself permission to completely neglect my professional life. What a joy!! But I'm back in London now and have a very busy week of gigs and travel lined up. Also looking at buying a car. Still need to find a permanent...
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Ep 413 - Zamosc
Spent a wonderful 24 hours in Zamosc, this medieval town in the South-East of Poland. I fired a cannon! I'm in Krakow now, in some dodgy tenement-type accommodation with thin walls and the guy in the room next to me is snoring like a motherfucker. It's alright though, I'm travelling, and learning...
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Ep 412 - Autumn Leaves
I'm tired today, and it's making me grumpy. I'm off to Poland tomorrow to watch the International Chopin Competition which is just so incredibly exciting! I can't wait to see the city and feel the energy around this celebration of Chopin's music, and I feel very lucky to have the opportunity to go.
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Ep 411 - First Month in London
I've been in London for a month now, and in that time I've performed at the best club in the city, done a paid 20 for a promoter who didn't even know my name at the start of the month, and done a bunch of sets at great clubs and rooms! I'm feeling really good about the way things are going. This...
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Ep 410 - A Fucken Awesome Episode
I went to the media night of 'Emma' at the Rose Theatre last night, this is the play my girlfriend is in and has been rehearsing for the last 6 weeks. It was INCREDIBLE!! Fuck I loved it so much, as did the 800-odd people who packed out the theatre. I went to the opening night on Wednesday, and...
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Ep 408 - What Else Do I Want To Say
I've been in London two weeks now. I'm writing every day, and the gigs I'm doing are going great. Like always, I can't help but think about what things will be like 3 months, 6 months in the future. The one thing I am absolutely certain of is my phone is destroying my brain and ruining my ability...
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Ep 407 - Cloudstreet
I've just finished reading the book 'Cloudstreet' by Tim Winton - I've been reading it for like six months, so god damn it, it's about time! It struck me how all the characters had, by the end of the story, found some semblance of home by virtue of simply staying put. Some of them left, and in...
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Ep 406 - Hit The T
I've finally arrived in London. The Edinburgh Fringe is over, and I'm booking spots for the next few months around the UK. Today is my first full day as a resident of London, and I'm feeling great about the future! Let's go.
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Ep 405 - The Future Is Looking Bright
The last week at the Fringe my ticket sales have gone up and up! Also I've seen a bunch of wonderful, inspiring shows, I've been getting a good amount of sleep but also have seen friends, and managed to even work on a few ideas for a new show. It's been perfect, honestly, so I'm just reminding...
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Ep 404 - Day Off
I've had a day off today, no shows! In 10 years of coming to the Fringe I've never had a day off, and I'll tell you what I FUCKING LOVE IT!! I'm feeling so good right now, this is smack-bang in the middle of the run, and everything is ticking along smoothly. I've got some plans for after the...
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Ep 403 - Snotty Nose
I have a snotty nose and everyone can fuck off. Nah I'm actually doing great other than that, the show is selling and I have a review coming out tomorrow which I am NERVOUS about. I guess I'm nervous about a lot of things, just thinking about the future. Ruminating. At the end of the podcast I…
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Ep 402 - Waiting For The Great Leap Forwards
First week of the Edinburgh Fringe, got into town today and I haven't had a good, proper night's sleep in over a week. It's currently half past midnight as I upload this and I can't wait to finish, shower, and get into bed. I am going to launch into that fucking bed mate. Don't you worry about me.
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Ep 401 - Jetlag
Honestly man I always thought jetlag was just like, you wake up earlier and go about your day. I feel TIRED AND WEAK! I've never had it like this before and I hate it. Other than that, and forgetting to pick up one of my checked bags from the airport, everything is sweet. hehe.
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Ep 400 - I'm Very Curious About Myself
Two more sleeps until I leave Melbourne! I've almost finished selling my stuff, just a few more bits and pieces, but the plan is tomorrow night for the last night in my room, I'll be sleeping in an empty room with just packed bags and a mattress on the floor. Pretty romantic image hey? And I'll...
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Ep 399 - Two Weeks Left
Two weeks from today I'll be about to land in London and start a new life! How dramatic. This week I did two of my favourite rooms in Melbourne for the last time, the next week is going to be full of more last times of stuff and it feels like the process of saying goodbye is really intensifying...
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Ep 398 - I Don't Have Wardrobes Anymore
I sold my wardrobes on Sunday for $200 which was what I was asking, and honestly more than I thought I was going to get! There's a big wardrobe-sized hole in my room now, and all of my clothes are either on the floor or packed in vacuum-seal bags ready for the move. I had a headache for like two...
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Ep 397 - Blinky Bill
The venue I did my show at in Sydney was owned by this legend of a guy (named Guy) who as it happens, also wrote the music for the hit 90s children's show Blinky Bill. Remember that?! "Good old Blinky Bill!" hahaha. I'm sick as a dog right now, my voice is fucked and I'm coughing up a storm.…
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Ep 396 - Dra Meg Baklengs I Fuglekassa
The title of the pod this week is Norwegian, it's a really funny phrase that a Norwegian person I met on Friday night taught me and I've committed it to memory so that I can impress any Norwegian people I meet in the future, such is my commitment to ingratiating myself to strangers. I'd love to...
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Ep 395 - They Just Don't Get It
This week my football club Tottenham Hotspur fired Ange Postecoglou as manager after he led us to win the Europa League a few weeks ago. There are arguments for and against this decision from a footballing perspective, but ultimately it feels like a complete failure on behalf of the…
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Ep 394 - New Bit
I did two gigs tonight, and got out an ending to a bit I've been working on for like six months - exciting! I talked about the story around it a bunch on the podcast today, which is a day late I'M SORRY! But it wasn't nearly as shambolic and unfocussed as I would expect after the long day I've…
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Ep 393 - South Australian Sunset
I've just finished 2500km of driving from Brisbane, to the South Coast of NSW, to Melbourne, and then Victor Harbor to visit my grandparents. I forget how flat South Australia is - as soon as you go West of Ballarat it's just flat in every direction. It's really beautiful. This afternoon I traced...
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Ep 392 - Energised By The Performance
I saw a wonderful band called FERLA on Saturday night with some friends. The lead singer was bald with his hair completely gone up top, but at the back where it still grew he'd let it go out into a mullet! Awesome. His voice reminded me of the singer from that band Future Islands who did the...
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Ep 391 - This Fucken Sucks
Bit of a dramatic title this week, I'm feeling pretty good about things and blah blah, but I guess I'm just in a grumpy mood because I sat down this morning to try and do a bunch of things, and try as I might, none of them are completed. There's always more bullshit isn't there. Right now I'm…
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Ep 390 - Peter Dumbcunt
I try not to engage with politics too much because I feel it's a part of life that only leads to anger and frustration, and I think our time is much better spent working hard (and the work is VERY hard) to be good to the people around us. Having said that, when something beautiful happens like a...
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Ep 389 - Australia
I'm annoyed that I have to leave Australia to keep pursuing my dream in stand up comedy. I'm scared, and excited, and all of that other stuff, but at the core of it, I am annoyed. By which I mean, heartbroken. Also it's late and I'm really tired right now.
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Ep 388 - Thankyou
I took MDMA on the last night of comedy festival and it really brought the emotions out of me. The mixture was strong, and I'm glad I got to feel it all at the festival club, surrounded by my community of comedians all at the end of this beautiful thing we do every year. I'm proud of everything...
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Ep 387 - Last Week
It's the last week of the Melbourne Comedy Festival and I'm feeling reflective. The show has been a dream, and with seven still to go I've smashed my goals for attendance and profit. I've got an idea for the next show, which I'll keep nurturing, but for the next three months, all my focus is on…
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Ep 386 - Tullamarine
I've got a joke that I've been doing in the show the last few nights about how the airport in Warsaw is called the 'Frederic Chopin International Airport', like that's how much of a big deal this guy is - they don't name airports after anyone! Who's Tullamarine, you know? After the second show…
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Ep 385 - Return To The Flower Festival
Going to the Melbourne Flower Festival last year was what originally inspired me to host my Melbourne Comedy Festival show in a beautiful, bespoke space this year. I went back on Sunday and it was just as beautiful as I remembered, but I didn't enjoy it as much because I was busy worrying about...
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Ep 384 - Here We Are
This week has been intense, gratifying, exhausting, terrifying, humbling, exciting, overwhelming, and over in the blink of an eye. The gallery is ready for opening night tomorrow, which is sold out by the way! And so is the night after. I can't believe how many different people have stepped up…
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Ep 383 - Meditative Podcasting
I've had the best month in Adelaide doing my show to great audiences, winning an award in the first week and getting five star reviews! Then on Monday, my last day in town, I accidentally crushed the door of my Mum's partner's car in the carwash. It was really scary actually, and it's going to…
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Ep 382 - Just Imagine You're A Cow Floating Through Space
I had the best day yesterday at WOMAD with a wonderful bunch of friends. Khruangbin were incredible, I was soaring through the trees for the entire 90 minutes that they played. And I'm still having the best time at the Adelaide Fringe in what has turned from a two-week, eight-show run, into a...
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Ep 381 - Five Stars
This week I got five stars in The List and The Advertiser, and I won a weekly award at the Adelaide Fringe for best comedy! This kind of week is really as much as I could have dreamed of when I started working on the show a couple years ago, but still on Sunday I felt tired and sad. I took a walk...
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Ep 380 - I See The Moon
The other day my Mum reminded me of an old nursery rhyme she used to sing to me when I was a baby called 'I See The Moon' and it's been stuck in my head the last few days. It's got a really beautiful melody and I'm looking forward to playing around with it on the piano. I've been reflecting on…
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Ep 379 - Countless Summer Mornings
I'm all over the shop on the podcast today... I got a tattoo on my butt on Thursday night... I'm $12k in debt... I saw the new Captain America movie on Sunday night and I absolutely hated it... my money from Perth hasn't come through yet... tickets for Adelaide are still selling well... I'm…
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Ep 378 - I Don't Know How To Read The Ocean
I recorded this podcast last night in the back of a hire car parked in the carpark at Point Addis near Anglesea. I love coming down the coast and getting out into the ocean in the morning, how lucky are we in Australia that this is something we can just go and do whenever we want! I'm stressing...
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Ep 377 - Birthday Week
It's my birthday on Wednesday! I haven't planned a party or anything, I figure I'm moving away in July so I'll have a going-away party then, but now I'm still kind of in the midst of doing all this stuff with the show and it just doesn't feel like the right time for a party. And it's my birthday,...
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Ep 376 - Advance Australia Fair
Australia Day this week, always high emotion on both sides. When I was doing my bus tours, I would always explain the situation in Australia with regards to indigenous people by saying that it's a very emotional issue for everyone. Some people think we should talk about it more, and that we need…
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Ep 375 - Beach Day
I went to the beach today with a bunch of friends. What a wonderful sentence to be able to say! It was 42 degrees, but down by the water it was much cooler, the waves were big and scary and I got thrown around a bunch, it was awesome. I have been worrying about ticket sales a bit, but what makes…
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Ep 374 - Little Cunts
Yesterday at my removals job we worked for a customer who was sending some of their furniture to an auction house to be sold - that is to say, this person was extremely well-off. They had two children there with them, both around 5 years old, and these kids were, as it transpired, two of the most...
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Ep 373 - New Years Skinny Dip
Lately I've noticed I get anxious when I find myself with nothing to do. I guess that's why I am so enamoured of the Edinburgh Fringe - a month where every moment of every day is relentlessly full of people and places and things and stuff and you NEVER get a break. You NEVER have to stop!! You…
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Ep 372 - 2024
At this time last year my goals were to put my head down at work and make as much money as I could, while spending all my creative energy working on the new show. It was the first year since I started doing solo stand-up shows that I'd planned to not do a show at the Australian festivals, and my...
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Ep 371 - Happy Holidays
Last night I saw a movie called 'The Substance', it was great! Go look it up if you don't know what it's about because their copy will explain the premise much better than I can here, but the premise of the film is an ageing Hollywood star takes an experimental drug to create a younger, "more...
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Ep 370 - Dad I Want To Hear Your Story
Yesterday I got an ad for this garbage book called 'Dad I Want To Hear Your Story'. It's not even a book that you read, it's a book that you give to your Dad that he writes his life story in. There are all these questions about your first kiss or your school years or whatever the fuck stupid...
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Ep 369 - Eugen Cicero
The modern world of classical piano seems to be split into two groups: First there are the people who play the classics, they go through the music from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries and play the same pieces over and over again in search of the "composer's intention", while attempting to also...
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Ep 368 - One Week Closer
Huge shock in the Australian Comedy world this week with one of the biggest management companies declaring bankruptcy, leaving dozens of artists without representation heading into the 2025 festival season. Also a bunch of comedians have lost tens, or in some cases HUNDREDS, of thousands of...
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Australian comedian Aidan Jones laughing at his own jokes and stories. Every Tuesday, for ever.
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