Mm-hmm.

Played footy in, in the winter, nippers in the, in the summer, like most other kids.

And through his early 20s, late teens, Duane, um, lived with depression and bipolar and, and the stigma associated kept him quiet.

It, it prevented him from accessing support.

It made him feel as though he was a burden, and that the world would be a better place without him.

Uh, Duane had the perfect family.

Uh, they were such a tight-knit family, and they all got along so well.

Mm-hmm.

[laughs]

... entire body right now.

Um, but, uh, uh, you know, but, but so, so he wanted to write.

Like, he wanted to write his own, his own ticket kinda thing.

He wanted to write his own movies, write and star in his own movies.

And he was like, "Oh, if I get on Saturday Night Live, that's gonna give me the notoriety that I need to be able to do that." And sadly, actually, he did write a couple of properties that were gonna go, but then ended up, for whatever reason, uh, falling apart, one of which, fucking fascinating, he wrote this thing called Mr.

Fix It that was a horror comedy basically about this family, um, where the son and the mother, like, murder each other or something, and the dad rips his face [laughs] off.

Right