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00:00i am sarah and our guest today in studio z is a man of many talents he's a pilot he's a brewmaster
00:06he's an author he's a podcaster he's a fantastic storyteller and also one of the greatest living
00:12voices in heavy metal as the front man of iron maiden i speak of no one else but bruce dickinson
00:18thank you so much for joining us today bruce oh hello i'm not sure how i stand up after that
00:24that introduction i'm like goodness me is that really me no i mean so yeah it must be hard to
00:29summarize everything that you currently do and have done and my very first question right off the
00:34bat is do you drink coffee i feel like there must be some sort of caffeine fueling all of this activity
00:39oh i know i'm drinking coffee right now so everything that gets my heart started in the
00:44morning you know at least four cups at least four cups of coffee before even you know that the blood
00:49starts to circulate yeah so yeah i do i do uh i do like a really good uh good cup of coffee i start
00:56drinking it you know like first thing in the morning and stop sometime before midnight you know
01:01no that makes me feel better about my own caffeine consumption habits so thank you very much yeah no
01:06i uh um i mean the the show is um the show's quite energetic and there's quite a bit of physical comedy
01:12comedy in it it basically is a sideways pretty comedic look ironic look at uh how on earth this uh you know
01:23little short ass uh english kid ends up wearing some of the world's most ridiculous trousers
01:28and being in this mega um heavy metal band i'm doing all these other weird and wonderful things
01:34as well all of the weird and wonderful things and you you're talking about an evening with
01:37bruce tigginson the spoken word tour that you're on right now and i understand this is a one-man show
01:42is that right uh there is no other to someone who hasn't been to something like this before
01:47what can you expect when you come to see an evening with bruce tigginson which comes to
01:50philadelphia next week i can't wait to see it well i'm i'm i'm i'm hoping that people uh go away
01:57from the show having laughed a lot and maybe having learned a little and mainly um feeling that was
02:05really worth three hours out of my life to go and have that experience and and share some stories
02:13because um i mean i'm a glass half full kind of guy uh and so i try to get that across there are
02:22some very stories it is rude i mean i have to say the show is it's not for the not for the faint-hearted
02:28we get some what a selling point yeah we get some kids come in i'm like does your mom know that you're
02:35actually at the show you know and we're going to be saying words like penis or worse you know um
02:41so um you know the the that's uh you know but but people laugh i mean i get different audiences some
02:50audiences depends on the venue actually very often you know when they go into somewhere that's like
02:55pretty rough and you know the audience tends to be a bit more like you know but if you get someone
03:00there's like a nice theater they're like they get all the little ironic touches and things like
03:06that but then every now and again you know you say the p word or something oh god and uh and people
03:12and people are like oh i said the moment that they've been waiting for it's the moment they paid for
03:19yeah well possibly i don't know you know it depends on their gender proclivities i suppose you know right
03:25you know that's a whole minefield all on its own which i addressed but so you know
03:30um there's there's lots of stories is it improvise so is it improvised oh yeah i mean the whole show was
03:41improvised from the beginning uh but obviously now the first two-thirds of it has settled down into a
03:48kind of a routine um but that can change during the show depending upon whatever the last third of it
03:56is all improvised because it's written and scripted by the audience they write cue cards i start with
04:02maybe five or six hundred cue cards questions statements you know whatever um from the audience
04:09about anything absolutely any topic on the planet um nothing's you know off the table
04:17and i basically turn that into an improv script
04:20um so i obviously i don't have 500 questions but i i whittle them down to sort of like 30 or 40
04:30and some of them are just straightforward funny just with the question and people start
04:33peeling over laughing because it's a funny question some of them are statements some of them are things
04:37that you you put one behind the other and it's funny and some of them are like oh that's kind of cool i
04:42could actually answer that in a serious way and and and people go whoa oh we didn't know that you know
04:49and and and then on the back of that you go but yeah we're getting a little serious here what about
04:54this question boom and so and we'll i also address some uncomfortable subjects like having cancer and getting
05:04over it but in a way that that there's a dark humor in in these in these things um and i try and bring
05:13that out because that was me i mean i can talk about you know having cancer because i had cancer
05:18and people are scared of it oh my god they're scared of it i mean i understand why but um to have somebody
05:25talk about it and have people actually laughing about it within a couple of minutes because as soon as you
05:29say cancer people go oh right and then you you so you develop that a little bit and people start
05:40and they start to chuckle and then all of a sudden stuff starts getting really funny because some of
05:45the ironies and things that happen to you um are funny i mean from one from one perspective from my
05:53perspective with my personality i was just like i can't believe this is happening this is ridiculous you
05:58know um has there ever been any fan uh question that has totally thrown you off or caught you by
06:06surprise because you are you're definitely opening yourself up when you open up to any topic from
06:12any fan about anything that's got to be daunting i mean obviously there's a degree of you know there's
06:18there's a degree of selection the question i mean so you know i get to pick that there's a process if i
06:24get if i get a question that's um uh if i get a question that is is is intensely personal i'm not
06:33not necessarily about me but is intensely personal about the other person you know uh like you know
06:41some some some i'll make one up but a situation like i i only imagine a question where somebody goes
06:47you know uh you know all my children were killed recently and my marriage is breaking up do you have any
06:52advice right that's a question suddenly you're an advice columnist yeah no well that's the question
06:59you just go are you standing on stage i can't help you with that and actually uh you know there's 600
07:09700 people in the audience that that can't help you with that either because that's your thing and
07:15really you need to go and see a doc or somebody or a professional to go and help you through whatever
07:22this journey is you know um so i'm not a an agony aunt you know i don't do agony on stage you know uh
07:31it's it's it's not what i'm equipped for so i imagine that your warm-up for something like uh well gosh you
07:41do so many intense things but we'll take warming up for an iron maiden concert uh you know you've
07:47played stadiums i imagine that the warm-up for something like that has got to be pretty intense
07:52to match the scale of the event so what is your warm-up like for a show like this that is
07:57three hours of storytelling and q a and speaking um i changed my t-shirt
08:06so this is this isn't heavy lifting at all for you compared to all the other things you've done
08:11this is like easy no i mean i i mean you know i just uh i put on my t-shirt my hoodie and i'm like
08:19okay we got the mic everything all uh revved up and i um i walk on stage and
08:27in the moment before i walk on stage i have absolutely nothing in my head nothing big empty
08:40space blank canvas now as soon as i walk out on stage i go where should we start where should we
08:47begin well let's start with um and then you're then you're into because it worked you know yeah the the
08:55story that the story begins there you know sure but i just i honestly a head full of nothing when i
09:04when i walk when i walk out because the first thing i want to have imprinted on inside my head is is
09:12the audience yeah who are they what are they what do they feel like what do they sound like
09:17and then you try and and work work with that you know um and and that that affects how you
09:26present how you how intense you are how not intense you are you know i mean it so a head full of
09:33nothing is a good place to start nice wow that's i mean that's terrifying to me but it also sounds
09:39like a lot of fun so i'm really looking forward to an evening with bruce dickinson here in philadelphia
09:43next week uh just a couple more questions before we let you go you've got this podcast called
09:49psycho schizo espresso oh you love that have you heard it i i have yeah i've i'm only one episode
09:54in so far because the episodes are lengthy but it was really fascinating about the end of times and
09:59where the origin of like 666 and how it became this pop culture uh satanic thing and it's pretty wild
10:06but i noticed that a few episodes into uh the podcast there's one that's titled is bruce dickinson
10:13a psychopath so i figured i would just ask him the man himself is bruce dickinson a psychopath
10:20well as as my buddy uh professor kevin dutton dr kevin dutton who's the oxford psychology professor that i do
10:28the show with um if you if you're worried about being a psychopath you're not one okay basically
10:37because psychopaths as he put it psychopaths don't worry about anything uh and we interviewed some
10:45sites so he's a world expert on psychopaths he's on uh uh psychopathy questionnaires for
10:52all of the us presidents and uh and and associated personalities um the only one that doesn't come
11:01up pretty darn high on the scale is jimmy carter who's just a straightforward nice guy um uh but but
11:08everybody else everybody everybody from joe biden to donald trump to obama to hillary clinton she's
11:14right up there with trump you know on on the on the psychopath in the index but interestingly we
11:20interviewed for example a leading cardiothoracic surgeon world leader diagnosed psychopath he
11:28couldn't do what he does without not worrying about carving somebody open opening up their chest
11:36fixing their heart you know and somebody going this this patient is not curable they said yeah go on
11:41i'll have a go oh but you might kill him yeah yeah but i might not oh wow right um so we are
11:50interview uh andy mcnab who's a uh an author he's also uh it's not his real name uh he's next
11:58member of the special forces like the the uk equivalent of seal team um you know the sas special air
12:06service and he talks about his time undercover doing undercover jobs and and how he dealt with the
12:11pressure and um and he's a fascinating character he's a man that never gets angry interesting
12:20i mean i mean you never get angry now never get angry mate so even if you have to go and do some
12:27job when you were doing your job he goes yeah yeah you have to you know if you have to do the job you
12:32know you've got a mission you've got to go and blow something up or do something and somebody gets in
12:37the way yeah you have to kill them you know he said so you know you kill oh my goodness and uh you just
12:41get on with the job it's just part of the job right and i said but you don't it doesn't you don't have
12:46any rage or anything no just a job just kill them get on with it you know come on and that's it have
12:52a cup of tea i said about an on and off switch don't you get angry let's say you know you're having
12:58your cup of tea and it's your favorite tea mug and you you drop it on the floor don't you ever feel
13:04you know angry like daft like oh my god i've broken my favorite mug he goes no no it's no point
13:10no it's just she's broken isn't it get another one wow are you angry about anything he goes no i
13:18said how does that work with your relationship you know he goes oh yeah the wife gets angry all the
13:24time yeah that's so interesting he said but i don't understand that he said so he he has a sheet that
13:33she's his wife has a laminated sheet of emojis yes so when she's angry she goes andy look this is me
13:43and i need you to be that and he's like oh yeah all right got it i mean and so we have loads of
13:52people we've got a guy coming on don't think we've been to view i don't think we had the episode yet
13:58with professor pain world expert in pain about you know pain is it all in the mind is it any fun
14:06is it useful no no no no i mean i believe it i believe it i'm really intrigued by all of this
14:13so we've got an interview with a couple of musicians we got the francis rossi from status quo um talking
14:20about how to stay sane within a rock and roll band we've got an old uh um r&b guitarist rhythm and
14:27blues not r&b like black r&b but as in you know pub rock band from india in the block heads and dr
14:35fieldwood wilco johnson who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and told he had six months to
14:40live so he sold everything went on tour and then after six months a surgeon who was a fan of his
14:49came and said wilco i've been taking some pictures of you and i've noticed there's an enormous growth
14:55coming out of your side but if you had pancreatic cancer you should be dead right now or at least
15:00very very ill so somebody's got it wrong so come into the hospital right now it turned out he did
15:07have pancreatic cancer but it was the rare kind that was completely operable so he had a 15-hour
15:14operation with seven surgeons taking bits of him out um and he's alive and well he had the same cancer
15:22that steve jobs had that's that's incredible oh my goodness uh well i can't wait to delve into more
15:28of these we have him talking about mortality but also about an awful lot of illegal chemicals that he's
15:33taken throughout his life as well wow that is wild wild stuff bruce you are such an amazing storyteller
15:41and again i cannot wait for this show and evening with bruce dickinson that's coming up next week
15:46my final question for you on that note is what do you think makes an excellent storyteller
15:54um the ability to see to get the audience to see the essential absurdity of your life
16:05the essential absurdity i that's just chef's kiss right there i love it uh well again we cannot wait
16:11to see you next week thank you so much for taking the time today and we hope to see you back in philly
16:15again and again and again in the near future well thank you very much i'll be on the rocky steps
16:20cheers i'll meet you there
16:25i love it thank you all so much i appreciate you taking the time great thank you cheers
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