Sitting Under A Tree with Aidan Jones

Well if it isn't a grumpy little boy getting angry at himself for RUINING EVERYTHING!! That's right, even after a beautiful hike through the rainforest and a night at an Airbnb with a pool overlooking the city, I still can't manage to not flip out when I make a mistake uploading content to TikTok. The best moment of this podcast was when I laughed for ages remembering an old man zipping up his jac...

I've got a sponsor on the podcast! Manscaped emailed me direct and sent me a bunch of free stuff, so I shaved my balls at my mates place in Brisbane, then talked about it on the podcast. Also talked about not engaging with anger and trying to be happy. Something for everyone, really. Use my code 'SITTINGUNDER' for 20% off all orders and free worldwide shipping at manscaped.com

Happy New Year! Same giggling idiot on the mic. Smoking is cool again, and one day soon I reckon the vape companies are going to buy an airline and let people smoke on flights. It makes so much sense! So glad I don't vape, it somehow seems way more fucked. I hope you guys had a great NYE. 2022 feels wonderful!

I'm starting to understand Adelaide. Every year I come back here, and every year it makes me so angry, but I'm starting to realise: I'm not supposed to like it here. Adelaide isn't for me, I'm supposed to find it difficult to get around on public transport, and to find a cool cafe on a public holiday. It's not for people like me with our vain ambitions and selfish dreams, it's for people who want...

I'm in Adelaide for Christmas. I spent the first 30 mins of this podcast getting angry at various aspects of the covid testing process that I've been subjected to during the last few days. Some lady in Sydney, the queues in Adelaide, the bureaucratic nonsense of the whole thing. Then towards the end it dawned on me that maybe the reason I'm a little emotional is because that's just what happens at...

Just landed in Sydney after what I am confidently proclaiming was the best weekend of the year! Our house party on Saturday night was amazing, and various stressful things are feeling more and more resolved with time. I bought a weird thing from a two dollar shop on Thursday - couldn't tell you what it was, but the package said 'COMMODITY'. My housemate's boyfriend called it 'the detritus of capit...

I spent the weekend in Boort staying at the beautiful caravan park next to the lake with some friends, and even performed to the mayor of Boort. But all the caravans in the world couldn't stop me from utterly humiliating myself in front of the physio today. Truly humbled. At least I'm not a ten year old kid smoking a cigarette.

Another podcast recorded at 11pm after another breathless day of pointless stressing. I'm trying to remind myself to take moments for me - on Saturday night I took myself to dinner at Marion Wine Bar on Gertrude St and it was absolutely incredible. Also last week I went to the Van Gogh exhibition at Lume, and then got a massage. It's been great, but somehow today I'm right back to freaking out all...

I've been stressed for the last few days. I've been working a lot and doing gigs and not giving myself any time to unwind. I've been feeling irritable and sad. Last night I had some friends over for dinner which was really nice. The reason I'm typing in such short sentences here is I want to say how I'm feeling without getting too far into it, that's what the podcast is for. Enjoy!

I went to a dietician today because I had a blood test and my cholesterol is a little bit high. Learnt all about trans fats, which I've started calling trams fats, because I think it's funny to pretend to be really stupid. I'm not stupid though, I'm actually a very clever boy, with slightly high cholesterol. Thankyou.

I'm taping my special on Friday, it's finally happening! After months of waiting and delays and lockdowns and bullshit, this Friday at Stupid Old Studios I'm recording my first hour of stand up comedy and I am very excited.

Melbourne is back and the people are voracious for LIFE!! I feel so rushed and manic which is honestly my favourite state to be in, however unsustainable. How manic, I hear you ask? Well, I waited 15 minutes for a coffee at a cafe this morning and somehow I managed to talk about that for around 20 minutes just now. Pretty manic, eh?!

Another guest this week! Casey Gothard is an artist and comedian based in Melbourne. She's had a bit of exciting national and international press in the last few weeks for doing a portrait of Dan Andrews out of fairy bread, but she's been making cool shit for years. We talked about her high school art teacher supporting her and bringing the principal of her grammar school along to watch her fill t...

I've been re-reading a bit of Bukowski this week. His writing is so direct and free from moralising and sappy reflections. It feels like as the reader, he doesn't feel the need to explain himself all the time. He gives you credit for being an intelligent, thoughtful person, and so rather than justifying all the things he's saying, he just tells you them as they are and lets you make up your own mi...

I feel down this week, I had hoped to talk about British comedy classic 'The Young Ones' and how the irreverent violence of it reminds me of 'It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia'. I did a little, but also just meandered around for a while. That's how I feel right now, so if we judge the podcast by how well it reflects my current state of mind, then I guess this is a resounding success!

This week I read Truman Capote's novella 'Breakfast At Tiffany's', then I watched the movie inspired by it. The novella was a beautiful representation of the feeling of loving someone who used to be in your life, missing them, and remembering who they were to you. The character of Holly Golightly felt so enigmatic and real, and reminded me of a few people I've known in my life. The movie was prett...

Last week I moved out of my beloved Brunswick house where I've lived for the last 3.5 years and into a share house in Coburg. I've moved a lot of times in my life, usually from one shithole to another. This time the move feels much more intentional. I told a few stories about the first place I lived in after I moved out of home when I was 19 - running through wet paint barefoot on acid in the livi...

This week on the pod I chatted to Aurora Campbell, she's an artist I know through comedy friends and from being around Melbourne, but she escaped back to Brisbane before lockdown. We spoke about art, creativity and why we do the work that we do. Great chat, good vibes, strong heart. Follow Aurora on Instagram @aurora_campbell And follow the podcast @sittingunderpodcast

I forgot it's the 200th episode!! Hahaha well there you go. I've been thinking a lot about how useless it is to get angry about things we can't control. Anger is a painful thing to hold on to, and no matter how much we hold onto it, there are some things we can't change, so in being angry we're really just hurting ourselves. The one thing we can control is how we react to things. I spoke about tha...

The Mighty Mighty Bosstones are widely regarded as a pretty uncool band. All of ska music even, it's just not what cool people listen to. But I listened to it, I went deep when I was a teenager, and I loved it. Then in my early 20s a guy who I thought was really cool said that ska is "just white boys playing fast reggae", and it was never the same for me. This week I've revisited them and the guy...

This week to distract myself from how fucked our lives are, I spent some time diving into Nas' 1994 classic 'Illmatic'. The album was huge for me when I discovered it in my teens, but this week I dug into some old reviews and interviews from when the album came out, and also went back and watched 'Wild Style', the 1982 movie sampled in the opening track of the album. That led me onto 'Style Wars'...

This week in another attempt to dig myself our of the emotional mire that is extended lockdown, I decided to talk and tell stories about something I love very much. The album 'The Calling' by The Hilltop Hoods was released in 2003. I first heard it in the summer of 2003/04 when I was 12 years old, at the Australian Scouts Jamboree, and it changed everything for me. After listening again this week...

August 15th marks ten years since the first time I ever did stand up comedy. This week, rather than wallow in the mess that is our collective experience, I reminisced about starting out as a comedian, read the messages I sent to book my first ever spot, and talk about what comedy means to me. I honestly find it difficult to go too hard at the sincerity, but I really enjoyed this. Just what was nee...

I am absolutely hating this lockdown. I feel sad, hopeless and bored. The one thing I can take from this week's podcast is that hopefully I've hit somewhere close to rock bottom so we now have something to build on. God this podcast was so bad hahaha.

I've been asked for a lot of advice this week, which feels really nice! Feels like people respect me enough to ask for directions on the journey that is their life. Then again, whenever I've asked for literal directions in the world, I'm not ever too picky who I ask, I just ask whoever is nearby, and then based on how certain they are I decide for myself whether I'm going to ignore their direction...