Sarah Konoski

How big a deal was that to you?

At 21.

Describing when you were a little kid recording cassettes, you'd imagine this audience, this huge audience that you wanted and wanted to connect with.

Did that happen once you had this role with Triple J?

Were you able to kind of find your people and then find you?

What about, you know, you described as a kid feeling so lonely.

Did having an audience change that feeling?

Is that because at home that would be considered big noting yourself or something or what's that voice in your head about?

I mean, you were then performing live shows, started performing at comedy festivals.

What would audiences get, Justin, if they came to one of your shows?

What would they have experienced?

You kept a pretty frantic pace over those years of performing and writing and it seems like you were doing a million projects at once.

How did that kind of all fall in a heap?

So when you crashed through a wall that you couldn't crash through anymore, what did that look like for you?

Did writing it down, Justin, into your book, into Get Up Mum, did that help shift the weight of it?

What kind of response did you get from readers after you'd published that book?

You know, you spent all this time writing about Burnie, thinking about Burnie, talking about it.

Had you spent much time in the place since you'd left all those years ago to go to university?

What led you to move back in 2019, Justin?

I see, I see.