Cop Chat w/ Greg Larsen

The Mish and Zach Podcast

Mish and Zach host comedian Greg Larson for a wide-ranging chat covering podcast production quirks, audience feedback, and intense personal anecdotes about police

Key takeaways

• Greg Larson details a road rage incident in Melbourne where a driver deliberately rammed his car twice before police dismissed it as a civil matter.
• The hosts discuss a chair crossover with the Aunty Donna podcast, swapping studio seating arrangements for Mark Bonanno and Greg Larson.

Main topics

• Podcast studio setup and chair crossover
• Police interactions and law enforcement criticism

Notable quotes

This is why I hate the cops, by the way. This is why I hate the cops.

Conclusion

The episode blends comedic podcast meta-commentary with serious critiques

Transcript preview

Speaker 2 (0:00) This is a Grouse House podcast. Speaker 3 (0:02) The crossover event of the century. Aunty Donna's chair is here. Also, guest Greg Larson gives his opinion on the cops. Speaker 2 (0:30) Mish! Speaker 3 (0:33) Hello, Speaker 2 (0:34) welcome to the Mish and Zach podcast, a podcast where I get together each week with my mate Zach and we just have a little bit of a chit chat. But sometimes we just don't cut the mustard and we've got to bring in a friend. So we brought in a friend this week and it's the legend that is Greg Larson. Hello, Speaker 1 (0:48) thank you. Hello. So lovely to have you here. Thank you so much. Speaker 2 (0:52) Now, for anyone who's watching on our YouTube channel, fucking subscribe. And also you would notice that there's something a little bit different in the room and that's a... Big-ass fucking chair. Speaker 3 (1:04) Just if you're a fan of the Aunty Donna podcast, which I assume you are. No. I don't think there's a huge. I've never listened to an Speaker 1 (1:11) episode. It's unlistenable. Oh, yeah. I could never. Speaker 3 (1:14) It's Speaker 2 (1:14) just Speaker 1 (1:14) not Speaker 3 (1:15) good. Like it's not a good Speaker 1 (1:16) podcast. It's not very good. Speaker 3 (1:18) Well, maybe there are people that like this and not the Aunty Donna podcast. Oh, yeah. Great. Speaker 1 (1:22) I mean the world is full of sickos. Speaker 1 (1:26) Like, let's be honest, the world is full of sickos. Yeah. So who knows what people do or don't like. I don't know why anyone likes anything, to be honest. That's true. People are sick in their head. What do Speaker 3 (1:37) you Speaker 1 (1:37) think is Speaker 2 (1:37) universally enjoyed? Is there anything? Pornos. Speaker 3 (1:41) Pornos. Most people like pornos. Some people can't admit it. If you can Speaker 2 (1:44) choose the porno, sure. But there's not. But just as a genre. The genre of porno. Just Speaker 1 (1:49) as Speaker 2 (1:49) an Speaker 1 (1:49) idea, as a concept. Wouldn't Speaker 2 (1:52) you then say also comedy? No, some people don't like comedy. I know. I've Speaker 1 (1:55) met heaps of people that are like, I hate comedy. Laughing. Speaker 1 (2:00) No. Speaker 2 (2:00) I reckon. You think people enjoy pornos more than laughing? Yes, Speaker 1 (2:04) 100%. I think. I hard disagree. I don't know. I've met so many people in life. But you've worked retail, haven't you? Yeah. You've worked in porno retail. Speaker 2 (2:17) Well, Speaker 1 (2:17) I haven't worked in pornos, but I've worked in porno retail. Speaker 2 (2:20) Porno retail. Yes, that's Speaker 1 (2:21) what I mean. Porno retail. I guess I don't know what the kind of – I don't know what kind of customers you get in a porno retail, right? But I've worked in retail and I feel like if you're in any kind of customer – customer facing role. You meet like the most people I would meet I would say would be like I don't want to say the words scum of the earth but like Scum of the earth like people who are just I hate everyone. I don't have humor in my mind or body Speaker 2 (2:53) I Speaker 1 (2:54) don't have love in my heart. I am a hateful spiteful evil person and I think that's most people on earth Yeah, Speaker 2 (3:00) but I love I remember everybody's Speaker 1 (3:03) like you can see the stats Tell the story. More people are looking at pornos than they are watching, you know, Stuck on You. Okay. Speaker 2 (3:12) I agree with you. I totally agree with you. I remove comedy from it. Laughing. I think people would prefer to have a laugh than watch a porn. Speaker 1 (3:21) See, I just think there's people that just don't laugh. I've met people like that in my life. They love arguments. They love. Like have you ever watched those Beverly Housewives shows? No, I've never actually gotten into one of them, but I Speaker 2 (3:34) can imagine. My Speaker 1 (3:35) partner watches the Beverly Housewives. I love Beverly Housewives. And they don't laugh. They don't have joy. They have arguments and that's their passion. That's what they love. And there's people like that on earth. It's true. I Speaker 2 (3:48) need to talk Speaker 1 (3:49) about the chair. We need to talk about the chair. Yeah, I do need to just Speaker 2 (3:52) give some context. I think I touched on this in an episode a few weeks ago, but I just wanted because we're on it. It's like I like Love Island. Did your partner watch Love Island as well? Speaker 1 (4:00) No. And I know what vaguely it is. Okay. So Speaker 2 (4:04) Love Island's a reality dating television show, right? Yes. And they're all hotties, like just banging hotties babes, right? Yeah. And occasionally they'll have like a funny one in who's like the funny goofy guy, but he's never had to be funny because he's just a hottie. So like he's just a big hottie that only ever really needs to be hot. And so when he says something goofy. It's not funny and people still Speaker 1 (4:27) piss themselves laughing because... See, that's interesting to me that the hotties piss themselves laughing because I've been... I notice, you know, doing live shows when there are hotties in the room. Do Speaker 3 (4:41) you get a lot of hotties in the crowd? I Speaker 1 (4:42) get a lot of hotties in the crowd. Yeah, it's your demographic. My demographic Speaker 3 (4:45) is hotties. Speaker 1 (4:47) And when I say I'm not referring to any specific gender when I say hotties as well. Oh, yeah, across the board hotties. Yeah, across the board hotties. Speaker 3 (4:54) Yeah. They just sort of Speaker 1 (4:56) blankly stare at you like, what? Yeah. Like you're not talking about being hot. That Speaker 2 (5:02) is very true. They Speaker 1 (5:04) kind of just go like, what? Speaker 1 (5:06) I don't, Speaker 3 (5:07) what? Yeah. Like they don't, they don't. They haven't had to develop laughter as an evolutionary trait. They Speaker 2 (5:14) don't need to. They don't need to laugh. They don't need to be funny because look at them. But if you showed them a porno, you think that they'd be like, awesome. Yeah. That's awesome. Yeah. Everyone Speaker 3 (5:22) loves porno. Yeah. Speaker 2 (5:24) Everyone loves porno. Let's talk about the chair. May I? Please. Can Speaker 3 (5:28) I talk about the Speaker 2 (5:28) chair? Speaker 3 (5:29) Because there's been a lot of talk about hotties and porno. Yeah. No, I'm ready Speaker 2 (5:32) for the chair chat. Speaker 3 (5:34) So. A lot of people that listen to our podcast know I'm not a fan of the chairs. Tom bought these cheap-ass fucking bullshit chairs. Speaker 1 (5:42) And Speaker 3 (5:43) I've been complaining about those chairs, and I can't remember the exact context because we banked it ages ago, but basically. Speaker 3 (5:53) The biggest crossover since Marvel's Avengers has happened right now. Yeah. We have done the biggest podcast crossover ever in the history of podcasts. Yeah. This is like when CSI went to CSI Miami. Huge. We have done a chair trade. So over on the Aunty Donna podcast, Mark Bonanno will now be sitting on the Mission Zack chair. Yep. And I am now sitting in an Auntie Donna chair. Does Mark like the Missions Speaker 2 (6:23) Act chairs? Yeah. Mark likes these chairs. He prefers Speaker 3 (6:25) the Missions Act chair. Also, he's excited about the concept of the biggest crossover in podcast history. Oh, it's Speaker 1 (6:31) huge to be part of. I'm so sceptical about the excitement levels that Mark has for both the chair and the crossover. The Speaker 3 (6:39) crossover, you'd be pretty shocked how he was really the one that pushed the crossover concept. Speaker 1 (6:45) Yeah, I'm sceptical. But more than that. I want to say, I just want to be honest about what I'm seeing and what this is and whatever. Like, this is my first time in this new environment talking to you. This is not my first time talking to you. Speaker 3 (7:00) No, we've done podcasts before. Greg's a friend Speaker 1 (7:02) of the podcast. This is my first time in this environment. This is my first time with this setup. And now... With a podcast, there is the listening element and some people are driving their cars and they're listening. Speaker 2 (7:13) They Speaker 1 (7:14) can't see what's Speaker 2 (7:15) happening right now. No. Speaker 1 (7:16) And other people, they're on their YouTubes and they're watching. And some people, naughty boys, Speaker 2 (7:22) and Speaker 1 (7:23) it is the boys. Yeah, it is the boys. It is the boys. They're watching on YouTube in their car as they're driving. Naughty Speaker 2 (7:28) boys. They've got a little Speaker 1 (7:29) thing set up, a little phone holder. Maybe they've got YouTube in their thing somehow. The old Bill Shorten, we like to call it. Why? Speaker 3 (7:39) Because he was once caught on his phone in 2006, I think. Yeah, Speaker 2 (7:44) damn. Yeah. Anyway. You did a real Shorten there. Yeah, I did a Speaker 1 (7:48) real Shorten. Yeah. The setup is that there are two brown shit, just shit chairs. Yeah, really shit chairs. I Speaker 2 (7:56) don't know, man. Go on. Speaker 1 (7:58) Well, they're not shit, but, like, compared to Speaker 2 (8:01) the red chair. Speaker 3 (8:02) I mean, yeah, we see where Tom's priorities are in the podcast network. Greg Speaker 2 (8:06) walked in before. So I was here first as perfect. I'm always very early. Then Greg walked in before Zach, and Greg saw the big red chair and literally was like, hey, Misha, how have you been? Then saw the big red chair, started to walk slowly towards it, goes, oh, so what's the chair set up? Where am I sitting? And I said, oh, you've got to sit in the brown chair. And Greg. lost a year of his life yeah Speaker 1 (8:26) i went that's fucking bullshit but not not just not just for me not just not just because i think i should get the good chair it's not that no i get it it's because when i'm looking at this visually yeah it is crazy that you both host a podcast yeah you have a guest on yeah and the symmetry yeah it's all is one host is sitting off to the side in a brown chair. The other is sitting like a king in his court. Yeah. In this luxurious red chair in the middle. And then the guest is off to the side in the brown chair. You've got two hosts. Squeezed between props. You've got two hosts. I would have a host on either side in the brown chair and the guest sits in the nice chair as the guest. So would I. I don't want to say you look like a cunt. Yeah. But you look like Speaker 2 (9:19) a cunt. Speaker 1 (9:20) You look like you're. You look cunting. Yeah, you look like I'm king of the castle. I'm the boss of this podcast. Yeah. It looks like it's not the Mish and Zach podcast. It looks like the Zach podcast with Mish as the off-sider. Yeah. And then sometimes a