Now, Comedienne, is there a new show in the works? Is the Comedienne working on a new show for the festivals next year?

No, no, I'm not.

But what I'm doing is I've started writing my second novel and I'm really excited about that because I wrote this science fiction novel a number of years ago, Symphony Under Siege, and I finally worked out a story and now I'm interrogating the story and making sure it all hangs together and I've been doing loads and loads of preparatory work before I start.

Thank you.

Just thought of it.

And before I start work on chapter one.

But I'm really excited.

Are you

Like, it doesn't feel tied to any one place or time, and it, it seems like that maybe gives people permission to just feel like it's, it's theirs a bit.

I think so.

One word I used today was cosmopolitan, because I think my, my listener is somewhat, uh, could be somewhat of a world traveler ideally, and, um, so exposed to different cultures, uh, at least...

And if not, you know, at least open to different cultures, because I present, you know, there's various influences that I present, either in a very subtle way, you know, in my phrasing, my, my harmonies may not be standard Western harmonies.

They may be harking back to an earlier like Baroque or early church music time or other cultures, you know, where they have different ways of doing harmonies, or to introduce those influences specifically.

Um, but I, I don't like the idea of, of like Asiana, of like a kind of cuteness, I mean, or like the French way of looking at Japanese art as something that's exotic.

I don't see the, those El- Asian elements as being exotic, because that's a kind of fetishization of the, of the culture.

Yeah, thank you so much.

One more thing to do.

It's not one more thing to do.

It's removing all things to do.

And so that's really the key.

Just to give a vision.

First of all, I want to make sure that everyone listening understands that Sabbath is not a heavy burden.

So Sabbath doesn't have to be 24 hours.

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How did you kind of discover them somewhat? Or did they discover you?

I don't know.

Yeah.

So we have a very long history with USTDA.

One of our primary responsibilities working with USTDA is supporting them in what are called definitional mission efforts.

We've had five separate lengthy contracts dating back to, 2018 with them where we look at the different proposed projects that come to them from the various countries around the world and determine whether they're viable, determine what sort of U.S. export potential they have, and then we provide a final recommendation to USTDA on whether or not they consider that project worthy of a grant to support a feasibility study.

So knowing all of that and our existence with them, we were very aware of the work that USDA has been going on.

also down out

Right.

So we live what I would what I've taught and understood and try to communicate to people.

We live pipeline lives.

And if I can give you a quote from Bernard of Clairvaux, Bernard of Clairvaux is an old poet.

you know, 11th century, 12th century teacher of pastors.

And he said this, and this is for anybody, not just pastors.

And by the way, everything I talk about here, although I come at it often from a ministry standpoint, because I'm teaching pastors, this is for any human being, any human being.

So

I mean, you know, we always talk about Mercedes as the standard of the engineering, but standing here for a moment, just the quality of the paint job is very, very impressive.

Yes, yes, it's been well looked after.

It was shown it spent a year at Mercedes-Benz World on their plinth, I think about three or four years ago, a few years before I bought it.

And yes, one of the questions I had about the car when I bought it was concerning the paint, And I was just told it's all original.

There's nothing, it's just been looked after.

And I think that's, it shows actually.

And I love that.

You're looking at what, Greek history? So not sure I can do that.

What's your approach in actually building consensus when it comes to IP policy rather than friction?

My approach is twofold.

One of them is stories, which I'd like to come back to.

But the other is something that I've learned recently.

over the years.

And this is just the structure that I put it into.

We're in our interactions.

From your vantage point, working with a number of different institutions, what do you think are some of the biggest IP challenges facing university TTOs right now?

ago.

How long? Almost 40 years ago.

Wow.

I was 17 when I started doing stand-up and I'm 57 now.

So...

Things have changed a lot, and back then there were free-to-air comedy shows that got made, and they employed comedy writers who knew each other through the stand-up circuit.

So obviously stand-up comedy is still alive and thriving, even outside the comedy festival.

So there's such a bottleneck now to those who stand out and can make it into a sustainable career.

Yeah.

That's it for

Big hits for a giant decade.

You can play that game, you're playing it.

And rather I should have got a graphic designer to create that.

It, it's a thorny issue, and it's one that's n- I, it's been on my mind a lot lately, because I've recently done a project where I've written a lot of parody songs.

I've written lyrics for parody songs.

I'm a lyricist, not a, not a songwriter, not a music writer.

And I put them up on my website, thestephenhall.com. And I, I put a disclaimer up there as well, because I've used the AI, I've, uh, you can read all the lyrics there.

They're in the styles of various artists, but I also created some music tracks to illustrate what they might sound like with music behind them in the style of this performer or that performer.

No. [laughs]

But, um, I'm doing a show next month on June 24th at the Gle- as part of the Glen Iris Storytelling Festival, uh, which you can find at storytellingfestival.com.au. And, uh, I'm bringing back my comedy festival show from last year, which is a film live show mashup.

Yeah,

just to, like, yeah, that accent's good.

Also, you can do neighbourly favours.

Like, you could put her bins out for her and bring them in for her, that kind of thing, and then stop slamming the Commonwealth door.

You must stop slamming

got to stop.

You're making me laugh too much.

Yeah.

And you think, well, how can things change so quickly?

Well, absolutely.

I mean, we saw I think it was even a month ago.

I mean, it's a long time now, but it was a month ago when Donald Trump was talking about sanctioning Russia significantly.

That changed.

And then there was obviously the fallout 10 days ago between Trump and Zelenskyy.

And now it seems to have changed again.

But have we got to a point now where you think it's a realistic possibility?