Andy Lee - DO NOT Listen To This Episode!
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How did Andy’s mother’s illness when he was 15 shape his childhood and sense of self?
My mum got given two weeks to live when I was fifteen.
Andy Lee faced the realities of life and death at a young age. She forgot how to walk, how to talk, who we all were.
I found a crazy meeting Sue, my mum, because she was so much like my mum before she got sick. That really makes me quite emotional actually.
to know that. Andy and Ryan reminisce on the early days of their careers. Hame just like I want you to meet this friend of mine, Andy and I'm like, Who the fuck is this guy? He's like, he's way too attractive. I just felt this in enormous amount of like jealousy because you guys were having the career and the experience that I dreamed of. From my
perspective with our company from the whole ride, it was three of you guys who went to school together and me.
I'm never thinking that you felt like the odd one out.
And what it's been like for him to live a public life.
You got sent an email letting you know that, hey, just so you know these photos are circulating, and it was you naked. Yeah. Jesus. And you're like,
oh, shit. Grab yourself a cup. This is the vulnerability house.
This is long overdue and so so exciting and meaningful to me. Was there ever a discussion as to who would do the VO for the start of it? No, I think I just grabbed it.
I think I just did it. That's great. Thank you. And you would have been my choice with all due respect to the others.
I just wondered
whether there
was a
discussion.
There wasn't, was there? No. No. I just I just thought I'd do it the best.
I think that's there. I I think I think he sat back over the last eight years and watched Josh and I attempt to act at times and do things like that and go and it's probably not their strong set.
Look, we you gotta know your strengths and weaknesses. Yeah. And I'm and I'm r really good at voiceover. But um but y y but you do an animation now, so like you know a lot about the voice. Yeah. And like character voices and
I I had I mean, when you watch it you we will go really, but I had two years of vocal coaching before we started the animation.
For the animation. Yeah. Wow. Because it is a very good voice I I d when I first watched it, I didn't know that you were doing the main character. And so when it started, I was like, that's that's Andy doing a character. I've never heard that really.
Yeah. And so I mean people will watch it now and go, Two two years, really? So I don't I don't actually like that information being out there. It's better oh no, I went in and just tried a voice one day and it stuck. For the record you offered up that information. But what was fascinating about working with a v vocal coach, which actually made me much better as a broadcaster, was as Australians, it we're very hard to teach accents to.
Mm-hmm.
Because we don't open our mouths very much. We don't move our tongues very much. So that's that's why she gave me mouth exercises. That I had to do. And I'd wake up with a sore jaw and everything. Really? Oh, to strengthen your to strengthen our tongues. That she she said that the Scandinavians are the are the are the best at picking up accents because they know exactly how to move their mouth and lips and tongue and we don't.
So what are you doing? What kind of exercises are you doing?
Well one was just just your tongue around your mouth like this. Mmm. Mm. And that yeah, like I had to do that for days and days and days. Really? Oh. But to to do all the the sounds, like it'd be hoop, hope, hop, harp, heap, heap, hoop, hope, hawb, harp, heap, heap, hook, hook, hook, and just get all the crispness going. And then there'd be, you know, like hoop, and then you go hoop. Hooped, hopped, harped, heaped, heaped. And then you'd add an S. Hoosped, hoosped, horsped, harsp, hoosped ho. And so you start hitting all the constants of vowels much clearer. I found I was getting less tired during the hundred and during the podcast.
Really 'cause I'm
actually training. Training and I can move my mouth quicker. Normally at the end of a record, my mum would text me and go, Oh, you were tired that episode. Um so I get less of that now 'cause I actually am a bit fitter.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
How did Andy’s mother’s illness when he was 15 shape his childhood and sense of self?
0:01–8:14
2
What was the story behind Andy meeting Hamish and Ryan and the early Radio Karate days?
8:14–17:29
3
How did the team react to the nude‑photo scandal and what did they learn from it?
17:29–25:17
4
Why did the hosts create the Vulnerabilitea House and what does it reveal about their friendships?
25:17–34:57
5
What insights did Andy share about coping with his mum’s two‑week prognosis and the family’s response?
34:57–43:21
6
How did the four‑way split of Hamish, Andy, Ryan and Tim affect their business dynamics?
43:21–50:49
7
What lessons did Andy and Ryan learn about giving constructive criticism and handling success?
50:49–1:00:22
8
How do Andy and his family approach legacy planning, wills and talking about death?
1:00:22–1:09:28
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