Welcome to your diary episode. Here's the thing, I'm a bit of a nomad. So these episodes come to you from wherever I'm living or travelling to at the time. So I'll share with you what's going on in my world from book tours, animal encounters, delish meals, nature adventures, health discoveries, to swimming in hidden Byron Bay beaches. Come with me as I share my adventures with you. Hello diary pod coming to you. I'm going to be very transparent and real and honest with you coming to you from a parking lot in Culver City, in LA because I'm working a nine hour day today at the OAG studio and this pod needs to come out tomorrow. I'm not going to get home till about 10 30 tonight. So I thought, well, on my lunch break, I'm just going to duck into the car. Fun fact, if you are everything about podcasting, cars have wonderful acoustics for podcasting. So here I am sitting in the car on my lunch break recording the pod diary for you. So the week that was, I actually have quite a lot of notes for you. First of all, how did you like Monday's app with Damon Harryman? What a ledge he is. Ripper human being. I was pretty nervous to interview him if I'm honest. I have watched so like his body of workers huge and he's just incredible. He's in the new bike riders movie. If you haven't seen it, it's incredible. I also reviewed it on last Friday's pod diary. Oh, no, I don't know that I did because I watched it the day before the pod came out. So I'm going to reveal it for you right now. It's actually my notes to review for you right now. So we saw bike riders because I was like, I have to see this before Damon's pod comes out. Essentially, Damon plays Tom Hardy's right hand man. Tom Hardy in this film is in correct, but like incredible as is Damon. So Damon, you might know him from Quentin Tarantino's one's point in time in Hollywood. He played Charles Manson and also he played Charles Manson in Mindhunter as well. But he's done so much cool stuff like that for Dodger, Mr. Inbetween. I think I did touch on this in last week's pod, but I wouldn't have told you about bike riders. So I was like, we're going to go see it. So boss and I tried it off to the movies saw bike riders. The director is called Jeff Nichols, incredible director. It's all shot on film, great movie, great soundtrack, all set in the like late 50s, early 60s around. It's all based around a motorcycle club. Anyway, amazing. Go do yourself a favor and see it's officially out in Australia. It's been out in America for a little while, but we had to wait for the pod app to drop so that you guys could listen to the pod and then go see the movie. We didn't want to be like talking about all this behind the scenes stuff and you'd be like, what are we? What are they talking about? So anyway, hope you love the Monday pod. Hope it's inspired you to go see the bike riders. Now, what else has happened since we last spoke? It's been 4th of July. Last episode I recorded was 4th of July. We were about to head to the Hollywood Bowl. We went to the Hollywood Bowl, saw the fireworks coming off the Hollywood Bowl. What a quintessential LA experience, highly, highly, highly recommend. I think they do. You should look up if you're ever traveling to LA, look up the Hollywood Bowl because there's performances like nearly every night of the week. And I think about once every couple of weeks they do a fireworks performance and they had a full blown orchestra playing with the fireworks. Incredible. We got to see Harry Connick Jr. up there as well. It was unreal. Such a fun night and such a fun way to celebrate the 4th of July. I have actually spent five, I believe, 4th of July's in Los Angeles and I've never once celebrated because I've always had work either on or around it or the next day. So this felt so nice to celebrate and to just have that beautiful memory now of the fireworks on the 4th of July from the Hollywood Bowl. Right, I have food stuff for you here that I wanted to tell you about. And I have Monday's pod that's about to come out that I want to tell you about foodie stuff. So I'm a big believer in going to the health food store on the way to the movies and taking your own snacks in. So we took in Dil Pickle Chippies, which is Matt's favorite Americana flavor. Dil Pickle is like an actual flavor of chips over here. And we took in delicious gluten-free butterscotch blondie. I've talked to you about it many a time before. It's my favorite gluten-free treat in all of LA. But I was like, I'm going to read the actual ingredients and find out what it's made from. So rice flour, quinoa, flour, brown sugar and butterscotch chips that give it the butterscotch flavor. Oh, it's so flipping good. We also on Sunday went to L1. I got a little salad, a little, they're famous to this kale and white bean salad, Bosco slice of pizza. And he's like, do you want a treaty? And I was like, yeah. So we finally tried the gluten-free carrot cake. It was really good. It was like the cream cheese and everything was amazing because it was like a layered carrot cake, real chunks of carrot, lots of sultanas and all that kind of stuff. Really, really nice. And I think I had pipitas like pumpkin seeds, but boy, filling. That's what I will say that. Oh, another thing we tried is a famous American institution. It's called Cinebon. We did this the day we went to the movies because it was right near the movie theater. Cinebon is essentially a takeaway company that does cinnamon rolls, all different sizes or different flavors. We got the small size and shared it and it was like $8. A small size is almost the size of one of our regular ones in Australia. So that's the combo of food things. Another thing I did have, I took photos. I went yesterday. I caved. Yesterday was a tricky day. I just, oh, I'm leaning on the, did you hear that go a bit funny? I learned that's my fault. I lent on the cord. Yes, I was a tricky day. I worked a full day, an acting audition had come in the night before. I organized to leave work a little bit early to get the audition off, spent an hour and a half in traffic and ended up looking at the timing wrong because they wanted a New York time, not LA time, which means I essentially missed it. But I still put up the audition and sent it straight off my agency. I could just get it off anyway. But Virgo Lola, not my finest hour and I didn't handle it well. So, of course, I emotionally ate my feelings. I got myself two crumble cookies. One is the cake batter flavor, warm, dewy, like imagine cake batter, mountain mouth with cream trees, frosting and these little bits of cake batter crumbled on top. And then the other one was a chilled cookie that was a salted caramel cheese cake cookie, both really good. A crumble is not healthy at all, not gluten-free at all, not sugar-free at all, but it is basically another takeaway cookie place. And Americans have really mastered the art of the heated cookie. So, the cookie cake batter one was heated, so warm as you're eating it. And the cheesecake one kind of has to be chilled because cheesecakes are usually chilled. Anyway, if you ever want to emotionally eat your feelings in LA, I would highly recommend that you do it at crumble. And they're like all over TikTok and Insta. And they change their ingredients, not ingredients, their flavors each week. The other thing I want to say is Monday's episode is with the beautiful Travis Jeffrey. He is in the new movie Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes. He has been in a plethora a bit like Damon. Like, I think Travis has got over 50 credits. So, he's done unbroken, directed by Angelina Jolie, he's done Pirates of the Caribbean. He's done loads of Aussie stuff like Gallipoli. Zero ego, zero. Like, he literally treats me like I'm an actor too, which I know I am, but like, I haven't booked a credit. And he's like, "Oh, you know what it's like?" And I'm like, "Oh my goodness, son, you're so far ahead of me." But it's just such a little sweetie. So, I re-interviewed him on the weekend because he's just done Planet of the Apes. And he's also just written and starred in his own short film called Dusty. And I wrote to him about two weeks ago. And I was like, "Hey, can I re-release your pod that we recorded four years ago because I just want to celebrate you being in Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes?" And he was like, "Well, why don't we do a new pod?" And I was like, "Really?" He's like, "Yeah." So, we record new pod. So, on Monday, I'm going to bring that first one out that we did four years ago. It'll have a brand new intro, it'll feel brand new, but just to give you a lay at a land of trap. And then the following Monday, you'll get our interview, which is us like catching up after four years and talking about the pinch-free moment of him being on a red carpet in Hollywood, on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, out the front of the Chinese theatre, which is where nearly every single movie premiere happens. It's like wildly exciting and insanely cool. Anyway, so we talk about everything from six weeks in ape school to training with Andy Serkis, who is very famous for being golem, but also King Kong and Caesar in the other Planet of the Apes movies. He was in a trilogy. So, yeah, lots of fun stuff that we dive into. So, the next two weeks is like a back-to-back episode of Tribe Jeffrey. He's so cool. I took so many notes. Like, I was like literally like, honestly, I could have tripped chatted to him all day flipping along wearing my notes on such a note taker. I really am, my friends. Okay, why can't I? Anyway, oh, here we go. Got his notes. Yeah, so he, like doing Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, it is a 56-year-old franchise. I ask him all about the audition process. I ask him about studying apes going to ape school. They did six weeks of ape school, and they got trained to ride horses. So exciting. So, his character, if you do happen to see Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes before the pod comes out, is Anaya. So, he's one of the three teen chimps that we see at the very, well, he's in it the whole way through, but yeah, very cool human being, very sweet and humble and kind. It's actually interesting that Damon Zip came out and now Tribe's efforts are going to come out because they've both got that humbleness, that real humbleness, that you don't see in every actor and they've really got it. They're just like, oh, no, I'm just doing my thing. So, anyway, that's me. That's me. So yeah, yes, I was a mental day in that like, yeah, worked, stuffed up the time, my audition. And I'm just now learning that while I'm helping out managing this yoga, I need to be like so like a plus, plus, plus, plus at my time management and like really like being so solid with it, which is cool. And I'm excited about that. But obviously, as you know, I love training and acting school and I want to make sure I can get back to acting school. So I've booked in for an acting class, which is really exciting. But yeah, I'm just trying to yeah, find my bearings and make sure that I can still do all my big, passiona things while still doing this job, you know, so I'm just fumbling my way through, if I'm honest, you know, just fumbling my way through guys. Anyway, I think you're wonderful. Think you're unreal and hooroo. As always, stay in touch on the old instrumentee and please, you know, tell me what you want, what you want me to try or interview or anything like that. I have just booked a pretty big, another big, big Aussie name. So I think I'm interviewing them in August. So the pod is my baby. I know you know that, but I love it so, so, so much. And I always want it to, you know, grow and morph and be better be the best at me. So always write me on insta and give me feedback and let me know what you love or who you'd love me to interview because this pod exists for you, but without you wouldn't even exist. So please bring on any feedback and thank you, as always, from the bottom of my heart for listening to it. It means more than you know, for sharing it, all that kind of stuff. So thank you, thank you, thank you. Big love from the grind of LA, I'm going to say today, because that's what I feel like I'm in. I feel like I'm in the grind at the moment. Going to be real with you. But yeah, make a make a love. Go do that stuff, your love, even if it does feel like a grind some days. All right, Haru, bye.
