[SPEAKER_01]: The Laurel Gary and Mark Classic Conversations podcast with Laurel Edwards, Gary Claire and Mark Hline.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Hooray, I didn't actually stuff it up that time.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, but you did the first six times we tried.
[SPEAKER_06]: I know, it took us a while in practicing.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's all of those rehearsals that you've been at.
[SPEAKER_02]: Music rehearsals in the week.
[SPEAKER_06]: My wife's been really annoyed because I'm all crying out and done it.
[SPEAKER_06]: Can you get it right, she says?
[SPEAKER_06]: How have you both been?
[SPEAKER_02]: Pretty good, actually.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, not bad, not bad.
[SPEAKER_05]: I am a bit sore because yesterday I went and played golf.
[SPEAKER_05]: Technically, I was on a golf course with instruments for playing at the sport, whether I was actually playing golf is debatable.
[SPEAKER_02]: Remember that golf game we played that time and I nearly killed you.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that's great.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Actually, you know, it was my husband Troy that nearly killed you, because we, uh, Gaz said, come out and have a game of golf.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: So we didn't have any golf clubs.
[SPEAKER_02]: So we went down to cashies and picked up some very cheap golf clubs.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: The reason why they were cheap is because Troy went to put in a big swing and the whole head came and mine also nearly as well, at least you'll fall, not at all.
[SPEAKER_02]: He looked down and thought wins, wins the end of the whole thing.
[SPEAKER_05]: The same thing was, his drive was still longer than mine.
[SPEAKER_05]: So you played the round with the head instead of all.
[SPEAKER_05]: I look that's good.
[SPEAKER_05]: He played it like
[SPEAKER_06]: We look we have a really great show.
[SPEAKER_06]: We'll get to what we've been doing during the week in just a moment I want to mention the show because we're so excited about these Anthony Field from the Wiggles Will we joining us have a little bit of a chat?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, they've been touring the world as they have been doing for many decades How interview goes back a little ways But more recently they've been back in New York and a very special superstar person in the audience that got to meet the Wiggles
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, we'll revisit that interview, because that's what we're doing, classic conversations, all the interviews that we've done throughout our entire time in radio, we haven't we just wanted to highlight them, but the really big one that we'll be getting to in just a moment is Rod Stewart.
[SPEAKER_06]: What a great get, Rod, such a lovely guy.
[SPEAKER_05]: We actually talked to Rod, I think about three times over various tours and book launches and so forth, but this is a favourite one.
[SPEAKER_02]: and he's totally unaffected.
[SPEAKER_02]: I just love the way he's still a rock star.
[SPEAKER_02]: He has the most incredible stories, but he's just a genuine everyday guy.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's sort of person that you reckon if you walked into a pub over there in London and he was sitting there you'd be able to go up and sit down and have a chat.
[SPEAKER_02]: What I would do if I saw Ron Stewart.
[SPEAKER_05]: You say, Ron Stewart, shout the whole bar, come on man!
[SPEAKER_05]: There's that whole Scottish thing.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, they've born in England, but he likes to think he's Scottish.
[SPEAKER_06]: So we will get to that very soon.
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[SPEAKER_06]: We'd love to hear from you.
[SPEAKER_06]: Maybe you heard an interview on our show.
[SPEAKER_06]: Why don't you write to us and say, hey, I heard in a few years ago, I'd love to hear that again, and we'll get it on for you.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Or you might have a relatable story as to one of the guests we've had on the show.
[SPEAKER_06]: and we will read them out, but let's get to what we've been up to during the week.
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, I just told him I might break up to see if he can go.
[SPEAKER_05]: Of course, so I'm done.
[SPEAKER_02]: Go, that's it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I had a real walk down memory lane because we had the family reunion on mum's side and on the laid Anderson's side and the cousins, the derrikes from down the coast.
[SPEAKER_02]: We all started yarning about the days that we'd go down the coast and visit, we'd stay at my aunties place, and then the cousins would come over and we'd all stay in the one house with Auntie Linda, and her place was in Lavraq Road, which is in Norby's Beach, and her backyard backed on to Magic Mountain.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, remember when they had the little chair lift that went to the top?
[SPEAKER_06]: I lived on the Gold Coast, but I was like to what I think magic mountain in the close down, but every time I would look at that mountain and go, oh, that would be such a wonderful place to see.
[SPEAKER_02]: Mark, growing up in Victoria, you would have possibly seen the ads for it and thought, that is the Gold Coast, we're talking along.
[SPEAKER_02]: See, well, was there, but this is long before you dream well to movie world.
[SPEAKER_05]: And who would have thought a place called Magic Mountain would disappear?
[SPEAKER_02]: No, I can tell you one very horrifying memory was that because we didn't want to pay, we would climb up the cliff.
[SPEAKER_02]: My two older sisters, later in Shona, myself and my cousin Leanne, we would actually climb up the cliff face and get to the top post about six or seven at the time that I remember at one stage day going, I'm gonna die, I'm gonna die, I'm gonna die.
[SPEAKER_02]: Anyway, we'd get to the top.
[SPEAKER_02]: We'd go along and see Arthur Cogland doing his magic shows.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_02]: Getting for free, of course, because we hadn't paid.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then we'd want to get the chair lift to go down to the bottom.
[SPEAKER_02]: And they'd say, where's your ticket?
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, we lost that ticket.
[SPEAKER_02]: I got get on.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think they had a bit of a system going down there.
[SPEAKER_06]: Remember, this was back in the days where parents would just go, where are the kids?
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, no.
[SPEAKER_06]: Fine.
[SPEAKER_06]: Why don't we face or something?
[SPEAKER_06]: They'll be back in time for two.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, we'll get a call from the hospital.
[SPEAKER_06]: That's right.
[SPEAKER_06]: There was another one of those two things.
[SPEAKER_06]: They'd either be back for two, or they'd get a call from the hospital.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, that sounds like fun.
[SPEAKER_06]: And what a beautiful memory.
[SPEAKER_06]: My week really consisted of getting our table fixed.
[SPEAKER_06]: We've had this table.
[SPEAKER_06]: And it
[SPEAKER_06]: 10 years ago, I was screwing a light globe in above it, and I had to use some Phillips head screwdriver.
[SPEAKER_06]: I, of course, my wife walked past me about three times and said, I wouldn't be doing that over the table.
[SPEAKER_06]: You're bound to drop it and it didn't the table.
[SPEAKER_06]: It'll be fine, sweetheart.
[SPEAKER_06]: So, go, guess what I did.
[SPEAKER_06]: Drop it, put a huge divot in the middle of the table.
[SPEAKER_06]: Right in the center.
[SPEAKER_06]: and she's made me wear that for 10 years so we got to go around and he came out and he sounded the whole table down, filled it and he could not tell it's there so hopefully that ends the story but it was a lovely man and he his name is part interesting he said like the golf course part
[SPEAKER_06]: And he said to me, said at the end, he said, we built up a bit of a friendship chatting and he said, would you like me to pray for you tonight?
[SPEAKER_06]: And I've gone, oh, I didn't realize you were religious and that's fine.
[SPEAKER_06]: And he said, yeah, yeah, yeah, he said, I've had a lot of stuff going with my life.
[SPEAKER_06]: He said, and this really helps me.
[SPEAKER_06]: And I've gone, great.
[SPEAKER_06]: I've gone, could you pray that I get a job?
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, maybe that's so self-sensitive.
[SPEAKER_04]: Maybe it's just gone for world peace.
[SPEAKER_05]: Like, there's some things even God comes.
[SPEAKER_04]: You've got a well-peasable, you know, save the children of the world, something on, oh, me, me, me.
[SPEAKER_02]: How's that prepping going?
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, not so well, yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: I wanted to pray a little harder if we possibly could.
[SPEAKER_02]: Isn't that good?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it's very fair.
[SPEAKER_02]: And, you know, as far as getting a new table, do what I do, roadside pickup.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's always something available.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, all right.
[SPEAKER_06]: Look, that was our week.
[SPEAKER_06]: We're going to get to our first interview in just a moment.
[SPEAKER_06]: And it is a great interview with Rod Stewart.
[SPEAKER_06]: I think in it, you talk about his hair or something.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think it's quite incredible.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, after reading it in the book, that there's something very special he does to keep that.
[SPEAKER_02]: Caffoeud hair.
[SPEAKER_05]: So we didn't get that interview where I talked about angry and this and this and here.
[SPEAKER_05]: You didn't have a lot to say when you talked about Rod Stewart.
[SPEAKER_05]: We're not one of the greatest.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't think it made it to you.
[SPEAKER_01]: The Laurel Gary & Mark Classic Conversations podcast
[SPEAKER_06]: Well, it is called Laurel Gary and Mark's Classic Conversations.
[SPEAKER_06]: One of the greatest stars, biggest stars in the world that we've had as he was Rod Stewart.
[SPEAKER_02]: Easily.
[SPEAKER_06]: And he was lovely.
[SPEAKER_06]: We did it.
[SPEAKER_06]: You mentioned probably about three times.
[SPEAKER_05]: I think three of their various books and two was and so forth.
[SPEAKER_02]: I remember the first time being very, very nervous about it because when you've got albums in your collection of rods that date back to the faces and stuff like that, all of a sudden you go, oh my goodness.
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, I have to jiff that group.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, wow.
[SPEAKER_05]: That is going.
[SPEAKER_05]: He does vote.
[SPEAKER_06]: We're not showing off here.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm showing off my oldness.
[SPEAKER_06]: So the one thing I got.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's a really look.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's a really great interview.
[SPEAKER_06]: I mentioned a moment ago that we talked about his hair and the interview.
[SPEAKER_06]: But also he talks about having to give up playing soccer as well.
[SPEAKER_06]: One of his true lovers.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_06]: So we'll get to that, but let's just check in with when we did this interview.
[SPEAKER_06]: It was around the same time that he released an album live, 1976 to 1998, tonight's the night now.
[SPEAKER_06]: That came out March 17, 2014.
[SPEAKER_06]: So it's sort of timing and I can't give the actual date and time, but I've sort of narrowed it down because you mentioned in the interview about touring USA with Santana.
[SPEAKER_06]: That happened
[SPEAKER_06]: in 2014 and then Rod announcing his Australian tour here in September 2014, he announced it for March and April 2015.
[SPEAKER_06]: So I'm guessing around September 2014.
[SPEAKER_06]: Let's take a listen.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well there's not too many artists still touring that you can say make up the soundtrack of your life.
[SPEAKER_02]: I actually had Broken Arrow as our wedding wall so you didn't know that handy Gary.
[SPEAKER_02]: We've got him on the phone, absolutely living legend, Mr. Rock Stewart!
[SPEAKER_02]: Everyone's really well-wrought and you obviously are, I saw a shirtless photograph of yourself recently.
[SPEAKER_02]: No, I saw recently that you've had a few knee problems, you know, playing as much soccer.
[SPEAKER_00]: Back to him about seven months ago.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's, you know, I was getting in a way of my profession, which obviously is seeing, you know, I would be a cripple for three days now to swallow bottles of Adville and I just wasn't giving one hundred percent on the stage because of my knees, but so that's a pack of dinner.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I missed it, you know, I missed it still.
[SPEAKER_05]: was not slowing you down or I see that you're doing a tour in the states with Santana plus also the new live album 76-98 how much funded you have lock in yourself in a room and pick and tracks for that well first of all but i know nothing about this album this is uh... what happens in a career that's spanned as many years as i do they release album
[SPEAKER_00]: and they forget to tell me about it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know him about that.
[SPEAKER_02]: Rod, I recently read your book and thoroughly enjoyed it, but it was really interesting to see some of the people that influenced you, one in particular, Long John Baldry.
[SPEAKER_00]: If it wasn't for Long John, I wouldn't have made it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm pretty sure he was instrumental and get me started and teaching me various tricks, stagecraft and the way to, you know, to vocalize.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was a big influence in, as I say in the book,
[SPEAKER_00]: There he goes by, but I don't think about him.
[SPEAKER_02]: And fashion, as well, a very important part of setting up the image.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was very passionate and conscious before I made it in the music business.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm trying to say, you know, to have money to look good, you know, and you have all the money in the world still make big mistakes.
[SPEAKER_02]: In particular there's a you talk about the hair.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's a whole chapter in the book dedicated to your hair.
[SPEAKER_02]: Rod, did you ever think in the early days?
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, what if I lose my hair?
[SPEAKER_02]: Alah, Elton John, would you have gone that route?
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's, you know, I've been so fortunate and been able to keep me here.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's, uh, I probably would have done.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if it's out now that I've had a hair once and it all suddenly went.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, I do look after it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I get it cut every two weeks.
[SPEAKER_00]: and it has to be six centimeters long, especially.
[SPEAKER_05]: But you can always wear a hat.
[SPEAKER_05]: When was the last time you wore one of those lovely boats or hats?
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, don't wear a budget wear hat sometimes.
[SPEAKER_00]: If I want to go out and not get noticed, the most important thing I had to cut her up is, uh,
[SPEAKER_00]: The hair, that's not much I could do about me knows.
[SPEAKER_02]: You're written some amazing songs, but you've also recorded some incredible songs from other writers.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, first cut is the deepest, my favorite version of that is your version.
[SPEAKER_02]: How in the world do you know a great rod song, whether you've written it or not?
[SPEAKER_00]: It's the lyrics that first interest me before the melody or anything.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm very hot on lyrics.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you just said yourself, it's, I suppose it's like going out and buying a dress or a suit.
[SPEAKER_00]: and if the song fits you then you buy and if the song fits me I think it and I'm happy with it.
[SPEAKER_00]: There are songs that you know I don't feel I can deliver of the well so I just feel well clear of those.
[SPEAKER_05]: you are doing the hits to a very happy to see that the last time I saw you do that I thought one of the problems is how do you stop people from singing along because I was at the show and there was about an eight-foot bike-y behind me singing along to every song and a colleague that I was with actually turned around to the eight-foot-tool bike and said, maybe I've paid to hear Rod Stewart not you.
[SPEAKER_00]: He shot up.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know it's sections of the when we do a show that I really enjoy the audience singing.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know the same stage singing is very good for you.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's very good for the soul.
[SPEAKER_00]: Very good for the heart.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's really good to get out there and sing.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think that's why people enjoy it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Who was Eto despite it a shot?
[SPEAKER_00]: It was a very brave movement.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to tell you, you beat.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, I do enjoy the singing.
[SPEAKER_00]: I really do.
[SPEAKER_02]: Rod Stewart, thank you so much for your generous time this morning.
[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you so much, guys.
[SPEAKER_00]: Take care.
[SPEAKER_00]: See you soon.
[SPEAKER_06]: So that was our interview with Rod Stewart.
[SPEAKER_02]: too late.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, this late stage 2014 that was when we recorded Rod.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, and of course more recently it's still performing around the world.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't think the stage gets any bigger if you're a Brit than Glastonbury.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's the ultimate, yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: It is the ultimate Rod Stewart performed there.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was so great that you know pretty much it's a predominantly younger audience very fashionably dressed glass numbery and you know he had them whipped into a frenzy and to do that at 80 years of age is quite amazing but when he came off and he had special guests Ronny Wood and Lulu who still looks 25 and Ronny of course played with him in the front
[SPEAKER_02]: and the faces.
[SPEAKER_02]: They did guess performances with him.
[SPEAKER_02]: But I loved how when he came off, there was a lady chatting to him and he said, look, it's just such an emotional event.
[SPEAKER_02]: He shared it to you.
[SPEAKER_02]: He said, especially if you're British, this is our woodstock and there's nothing bigger in the world and we do it best.
[SPEAKER_02]: So you had a really great time.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I know the last time I saw a lot, I think I've seen him about three or four times, but the last time was at a day on the green.
[SPEAKER_02]: He would have been about 77 then, and he just ripped up the stage.
[SPEAKER_02]: His voice was fantastic, and doing a muddy water song, doing songs from the phase I wish that I knew what I know now.
[SPEAKER_05]: Which he did not sing the original vocals on.
[SPEAKER_05]: He didn't want to do it.
[SPEAKER_05]: I was running, want to sing the original vocals on that.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, because Rod didn't want to.
[SPEAKER_02]: And yet he sang it live, but yeah, he's so fantastic.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'd love to see him back in Australia.
[SPEAKER_05]: It doesn't look his age.
[SPEAKER_05]: He's just new single, do you think I'm 60?
[SPEAKER_05]: It's not, it'd be happy with that, I'm sure.
[SPEAKER_02]: What was the gag that Ron Stewart had to cancel his Australian tour?
[SPEAKER_02]: Because his voice cleared up.
[SPEAKER_06]: No, look, he's a real professional and just listening back to that interview just then the stuff about giving up soccer because he couldn't give 100% to his concerts and that is a really, you could learn a lot from a guy like Rod Stewart that his main focus is performing and getting that shown, giving the audience exactly the best that he can and soccer was interfering that so he gave up with one of the great things in his life.
[SPEAKER_05]: And I love the fact that the Scottish National team would just turn up because Rod had his own pitch and they just turn up.
[SPEAKER_05]: There's Rod.
[SPEAKER_05]: Hey, down, fellas.
[SPEAKER_06]: I bet he'd be happy about that, wouldn't he?
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, I think he will.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, man, that's so good.
[SPEAKER_06]: Alright, we are doing classic conversations.
[SPEAKER_06]: We've done part one of the show.
[SPEAKER_06]: Coming up in just a moment, we're going to go to a break first of all.
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, our show was pretty packed and we didn't think we'd get the second guest in, but we discovered some wiggle room.
[SPEAKER_06]: And that's that.
[SPEAKER_06]: Who better love that?
[SPEAKER_06]: We might just leave it at that and we'll find out who that guest is in just a moment.
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[SPEAKER_06]: It is our classic conversations we've already heard from Rod Stewart, what a great interview that was.
[SPEAKER_06]: Going to move now to the Wiggles, one of Australia's biggest exports, I suppose.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's not Australia's biggest export.
[SPEAKER_05]: And for such a long time, too, I mean continuously successful.
[SPEAKER_06]: they are really great and they were doing obviously all the kids shows and things and the reason that they that we chatted to Anthony Field from the Wiggles is he's talking about the Wiggles OG Tour which is their original tour and must have been a bizarre thing to stand up there on stage and look out to a sea of people who were like in their 30s or so or 20s and go
[SPEAKER_06]: I'd have a new grown-up.
[SPEAKER_05]: See, you're a little kid.
[SPEAKER_05]: Of course, the weekals do their adult show as well.
[SPEAKER_05]: I think they call it Giegels.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, I sold out.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm trying to get it.
[SPEAKER_06]: By the way, look out for that joke in the interview again.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, he's a good kid.
[SPEAKER_02]: See, he doesn't pay.
[SPEAKER_02]: He doesn't pay.
[SPEAKER_06]: Do I tell him better?
[SPEAKER_06]: I think you do, and you get a really good laugh from Anthony.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, okay.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm really should listen to these things.
[SPEAKER_06]: It was a headache, I just said it there.
[SPEAKER_06]: We go to OG to at the end of time and said,
[SPEAKER_04]: Good on me for having a memory.
[SPEAKER_04]: Good on you for only having one joke.
[SPEAKER_06]: The 3rd of April in 2022, let's take a listen.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, in our scrapbook, we've got many photos.
[SPEAKER_02]: I've got photos of myself with one of the most famous bands in the world.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I've even got this famous band holding in a, I think it's about a nine-month-old clay who's now 24 years of age.
[SPEAKER_02]: I am talking about the one and only Wiggles and we've got Blue Wiggle Anthony.
[UNKNOWN]: Yay!
[SPEAKER_03]: Good memories from me too.
[SPEAKER_03]: I tell you what, the cast of the day that you said, well, I've been here with just bed pasty.
[SPEAKER_02]: I must say, thank you so much.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I'm not saying thank you, Troy is because all I've put up with now is a whole lot of banjo in the house.
[SPEAKER_02]: You gave him one of your beautiful prized banjo's.
[SPEAKER_03]: I played a tenor banjo, and I had a six-string deering banjo, and I never played it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Out of the blue he just said, do you know anyone who's got a six-string banjo?
[SPEAKER_03]: I set it up to him at every time I hear him play, I say, it's at a better home.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's found a better player.
[SPEAKER_05]: And it's quite fitting that you actually gave him the banjo, because every time he plays it, it starts a blue with laurel.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, look Anthony continued success.
[SPEAKER_02]: Congratulations.
[SPEAKER_02]: This has been incredible.
[SPEAKER_03]: We had our first ever number one hour.
[SPEAKER_03]: You're album with the rewigled album.
[SPEAKER_03]: We've been going round to each show to the children at daytime and at night times the original Wiggles get together for what I can only describe as the crazy as turning up the Nutrikin cordial.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I'm in a great
[SPEAKER_05]: So in the adult shows, what do you wiggle?
[SPEAKER_03]: We kind of wobble, we're a little bit older these days, but the audience said that the children that grew up now are adults, they come to the show, they want to re-gleave their childhood.
[SPEAKER_03]: It is so beautiful.
[SPEAKER_03]: We do the same show we did those years ago.
[SPEAKER_06]: When you first started the Wiggles and you put on those colors of those shirts, did you realize that they were going to be so synonymous?
[SPEAKER_06]: It's like kiss with the makeup on.
[SPEAKER_06]: They can kind of swap members a little bit easier because of the makeup and did you realize when you were starting out the Wiggles that that was going to be such an important part?
[SPEAKER_03]: We're straight out of university of teachers and it was just a way for the children to identify
[SPEAKER_03]: You're a wiggle and to the children.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's not so much a matter to the children that it's empty, or so high, or Murray, or Lucky, or it really doesn't matter for the young two-year-olds.
[SPEAKER_03]: They just see the color.
[SPEAKER_05]: Did you get to choose your own color?
[SPEAKER_05]: When you're all starting up the band, were you able to do that?
[SPEAKER_03]: Greg and I had a race to the bend.
[SPEAKER_03]: It was a skivvy bend.
[SPEAKER_03]: So we got to ask you, ZFIC.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's a great loss.
[SPEAKER_03]: You got yellow.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, speaking of the yellow scivey, I must admit when I saw young, so high for the first time, I thought, oh my goodness, she is so young, but I saw her the other day in an interview and what an articulate and bright young girl.
[SPEAKER_03]: She's from Ethiopia and she has the most beautiful family she has adopted at six months.
[SPEAKER_03]: Her brother, Candle, is from Columbia.
[SPEAKER_03]: Robin, her
[SPEAKER_05]: I was just wondering if the adult shows are the female wiggles known as jiggles?
[SPEAKER_05]: Gary?
[SPEAKER_03]: Gary?
[SPEAKER_03]: I would have said it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Don't go there for Gary.
[SPEAKER_03]: Gary?
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, captain doesn't saw that.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_03]: He says off when we're not on camera, I got daddy.
[SPEAKER_02]: Daddy.
[SPEAKER_02]: Are you getting a different reaction from the audiences with these adult shows?
[SPEAKER_02]: Because a lot of adults have grew up with the wiggles.
[SPEAKER_03]: That was a really nice part of their life, thankfully.
[SPEAKER_03]: Dorothy had that they had when they were five or the Dorothy tail of a T-shirt that doesn't fit to many more.
[SPEAKER_03]: And we played for it.
[SPEAKER_03]: There was an AFL game on across the road and they all came from the guys.
[SPEAKER_03]: So they were, you know, ready to go.
[SPEAKER_03]: you know what I mean and it was quite incredible.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay well we can get to see you guys having fun and of course you always involve the crowd and the good thing is when the crowd come along to the Wiggles OG concerts that after bring the then you know the wipes and the napis and the the bottles and all of that stuff.
[SPEAKER_03]: Make for yourself.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't think there'd be as much cordial inventory, but it's not, but it's not, it's not, it's just a lot of time.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, how are you going, by the way, you've looked at COVID?
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, getting to the end of it, I have a feeling it came from a super spreader event called the Borem Bay Blues Fest, of which I think 95% of people came down with it, but on the end of
[SPEAKER_03]: and he had a theory it might have been people but take it well I won't say it on the center of your face was poking through and exhaling so for what you're saying Anthony the blue space was more of a splendor in the grass i think he's there you go he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he's
[SPEAKER_02]: Well Anthony, are the Blue Wiggle we so look forward to this.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's the Wiggles OG Tour at the Brisbane Entertainment Center.
[SPEAKER_02]: This weekend tickets are available.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're on sale now at thewiggles.com.
[SPEAKER_02]: Dot AU always a pleasure chatting to you Anthony.
[SPEAKER_02]: Thanks so much.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'd love to all the family and congratulate you with all this guy.
[SPEAKER_06]: This is Laurel Gary and Mark's classic conversations.
[SPEAKER_06]: Now don't race off to go and see Anthony.
[SPEAKER_06]: Well, the Wiggles.
[SPEAKER_06]: No, they sell it really fast.
[SPEAKER_06]: I got to go.
[SPEAKER_05]: No, they don't buy tickets.
[SPEAKER_06]: I do these days.
[SPEAKER_06]: We're playing the audio of these interviews just pretty much straight up.
[SPEAKER_06]: We're not editing our dates or anything like that because it's nice for people to think, oh, that's where I was on that date.
[SPEAKER_06]: So when we say things like playing this weekend, please don't rest there.
[SPEAKER_02]: But they are still playing of course.
[SPEAKER_02]: And more recently, the voice had famous people in the audience.
[SPEAKER_02]: The goal on and see the wiggles.
[SPEAKER_02]: And during New York,
[SPEAKER_02]: with his two-year-old.
[SPEAKER_06]: Grandn't.
[SPEAKER_02]: No, shawl.
[SPEAKER_06]: Go, go, go, go.
[SPEAKER_07]: Two-year-old, that's too caprient.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, that's right, yeah, come on.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, so Robert Genera has seven children, and 81 years of age has a two-year-old.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, that's nice.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, that's life.
[SPEAKER_05]: Why was he doing it?
[SPEAKER_05]: It was a bit of pudding for the wiggles, because he kept looking up the stage on.
[SPEAKER_05]: You're looking at me.
[SPEAKER_05]: Are you looking at me?
[SPEAKER_05]: No one paraphrasing fans.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was so exciting for both parties actually because the Wiggles got to meet Robert Danero and the little daughter and his wife at backstage.
[SPEAKER_02]: So they had photos taken together and the little daughter she wouldn't give up on the little bubble blind machine.
[SPEAKER_02]: She just kept that going the whole time.
[SPEAKER_06]: Kids are funny like that.
[SPEAKER_06]: Even though the cameras are rolling and taking photos, the kids are they're fixated on something.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's like that beautiful story of when it was, uh, this is your life and jammer and shove something up in the nose.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, I think she was about.
[SPEAKER_02]: Is it a peanut?
[SPEAKER_02]: It was about your e at the time and, um, clay was about six.
[SPEAKER_02]: And she was just going through the stage of shoving everything up the nose.
[SPEAKER_02]: Anything that would fit, of course.
[SPEAKER_05]: And now she's a musician and, oh, oh.
[SPEAKER_02]: we went off to the doctor's many a time to hospital to emergency to try and get a bead out of a nostril get a piece of Lego out of the nostril I must admit when the bead was stuck up there and I'm trying to get it out with two pieces.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I'm thinking, I can't afford to have this go back into her sinuses or whatever.
[SPEAKER_02]: So up to emergency, sat there in emergency for two hours.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'd say, is it still there, she go, yes, mummy, still there, still there.
[SPEAKER_02]: Anyway, the young attendant, like it wasn't even a doctor, because they know exactly what to do in this case, sat her up on the bed, covered one side of the nostril, and said, blow, which you are being in a shot out like a bullet.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I thought,
[SPEAKER_02]: Why did I think of that?
[SPEAKER_06]: That's so funny.
[SPEAKER_06]: That she's been most of the whole show, hadn't she?
[SPEAKER_06]: What was it?
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, this is your life.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's right, backstage.
[SPEAKER_02]: Because of course, it's all surprised.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I'm standing backstage and she's getting stuck into the grapes and everything in the green room.
[SPEAKER_02]: She waits until I'm standing there, clay in one hand, gem in the other.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're just about to open the doors to race out to Daddy, who's on the set.
[SPEAKER_02]: And she goes, see, that my nose, mommy, and what, why now?
[SPEAKER_07]: Did you block the other side, nostril, and yet, just as the doors open?
[SPEAKER_07]: That was good.
[SPEAKER_07]: And I know that.
[SPEAKER_05]: That was the end of Mike Monroe's TV career, because she took an eye out with her.
[SPEAKER_05]: Now, they actually, because I was doing warmer on that show, and they record them live.
[SPEAKER_05]: So they don't stop for anything, that little gem has to be released.
[SPEAKER_05]: She got Mike Monroe to close that book and stop.
[SPEAKER_02]: And she takes after a month for sure, because we sat down and the whole time, because Gem not understanding it three years of age, what the whole thing was about.
[SPEAKER_02]: She's looking down at the monitoring, and she's looking at my hand, she's going,
[SPEAKER_02]: Hello, nanny, no, it's nanny, no, I was in the audience and the whole time in Mike goes, did she ever shut up?
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm actually takes up for a mom.
[SPEAKER_02]: Did that take a cut or not?
[SPEAKER_02]: No, no, no, they really wish you good luck.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, man, kids, we've all grown up.
[SPEAKER_06]: Poor James, we're probably embarrassing her right now.
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, speaking of kids, this is something, well, actually we're talking Anthony Field before from the Wiggles.
[SPEAKER_05]: Anthony and I, we have something in common.
[SPEAKER_06]: He's successful with loads of money.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, yeah, yeah, and that's not all that children actually don't run away from him we I have a card We've both performed with tourcassad only.
[SPEAKER_06]: Whoa.
[SPEAKER_06]: What did you do?
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, I know the wiggles have performed with Troy, and he's on albums and live as the brown wiggles.
[SPEAKER_05]: But come to the wiggles.
[SPEAKER_05]: Before those days, I took a young puppy and kiddo.
[SPEAKER_05]: I thought it a bit of a bit of a hope Troy.
[SPEAKER_05]: Troy, okay.
[SPEAKER_06]: So you're trying to claim all of his...
[SPEAKER_05]: I gave him a chance.
[SPEAKER_06]: Do you see Laurel here that there's a familiar thing?
[SPEAKER_06]: He's trying to claim.
[SPEAKER_06]: Anthony Fielden him and now he's trying to claim, you know, Troy trying to claim what he's written.
[SPEAKER_05]: I always leave you out of the conversation, but we did, well, actually, know you're in the conversation because Troy helped me out as we did a little song for your son Felix.
[SPEAKER_06]: now this was he he was born he just been born yeah he just been born and and I came into work and you prepared this beautiful so my wife loves this song by the way and place it every birthday that he has she really really loves it well because when we said what did your name your gorgeous little boy when you said Felix we all went uh it's not that uncommon now it's a lot of Felix but I hang on him well to see
[SPEAKER_06]: He's actually just turned 18.
[SPEAKER_06]: So that's a real change in our family because he's gone.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm off to the pub and it's like, well, what?
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, then we only knew Felix the cat and Gary decided he was going to pin a special little song for Felix and also with Troy Casadale on Gettin.
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, my daddy goes to work about 10 to 3.
[SPEAKER_05]: Don't ask much of him to marame.
[SPEAKER_05]: Just don't slam the door and think about the name you picks.
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, he must have had a big night on the booze because of all the names he had to choose.
[SPEAKER_05]: Before he left, he went and named me Felix.
[SPEAKER_05]: Friends, try to tell him I'd need therapy for that being named after some magic bag carrying cat and a school you know I'd get my share kicks.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's like that neat guy from the odd couple, the one they call younger.
[SPEAKER_05]: If only you went with his second choice, Calabonger.
[SPEAKER_05]: I tell ya, I've been easy for a boy named Felix.
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, a thorn a month's of five till the day I turned five when this hippie kickle buttercup roaps me alive and then all those bullies got into their rhyme and tricks.
[SPEAKER_05]: You see this cow, licks and bootlicks, and I'll be another.
[SPEAKER_05]: I just won't tell ya, well not in front of a mother.
[SPEAKER_05]: I've been easy for a boy named Felix.
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, I'm a grown man, now I made it all in my own I still visit daddy and the old people's home And I got overwhelmed in the crush him Like a healer I went times got tough and times got bad I think at least I'm not a radio now until I grow old dad And I think if I have a son I'm gonna name him Cyril Marigeuk, Sunflower Blossom, anything But Felix, I still hate that name
[SPEAKER_06]: RG that brings back some lovely memories that look thank you for that because it's such a beautiful sign.
[SPEAKER_06]: Now you're taking the Mickey a little bit but yeah that's really good.
[SPEAKER_05]: Hold on in one take I may say because Troy didn't want to let me rehearse.
[SPEAKER_06]: All right, well, that's going to bring our show to a close.
[SPEAKER_06]: It is Laurel Gary and Mark's classic conversations every week.
[SPEAKER_06]: We do the podcast and we play usually at least two.
[SPEAKER_06]: And next week, we've got some really, really great ones coming up.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's Russell Crow here, Laurel.
[SPEAKER_03]: I just wanted to call you and congratulate you for your 20 years.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, have we got Russell Crow?
[SPEAKER_06]: Yes, we do.
[SPEAKER_06]: We have a Russell Crow in a few next week.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, we've always had some great chats with Russell actually and, you know, even at times when people are going, oh, can he be a bit prickly as like, well, never with us.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's been wonderful.
[SPEAKER_06]: Look, Paladin is you and Troy know him very, very well, very well.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, but when we did the interview that we'll be playing next week, that was pretty early on in the, uh, in the friendship.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, uh, it's about the water diviner the movie that he did.
[SPEAKER_06]: Excellent film.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, and there's about 20 minutes talking about South.
[SPEAKER_02]: South.
[SPEAKER_02]: Let me rabbit us.
[SPEAKER_06]: They just won the premiere and he's pretty excited about that.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, I have a South Sydney Revitator's cap, which was owned by Russell, who gave it to Troy.
[SPEAKER_06]: He gave it to me.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm that close to Russell.
[SPEAKER_06]: Again, your bandwagon job again, aren't you?
[SPEAKER_05]: Every time I put it on, there's a little bit of Russell B and A, it gets into my hair.
[SPEAKER_02]: He didn't actually wear it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Hey, he did so.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's really about five of them and said, hand them out to people who are Southspan.
[SPEAKER_02]: You became a Southspan instantly.
[SPEAKER_06]: He actually mentions in that about the rabbit as well.
[SPEAKER_06]: There's little symbol.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's a really interesting interview.
[SPEAKER_06]: So that coming up next week on Lawyer Marks, Classic Conversations podcast, also Graham Gouldman will be joining us.
[SPEAKER_05]: TNCC, but wrote a lot of hit-herments, hermits, some holy stuff in the 6th grade guy.
[SPEAKER_02]: He was just a teenager.
[SPEAKER_02]: When he wrote all those fantastic songs.
[SPEAKER_06]: There's a really fun part in the interview as well.
[SPEAKER_06]: We're Gary, you could've got a lot of royalties from his song, Dredlock Holiday.
[SPEAKER_06]: But then you refused it.
[SPEAKER_06]: Laurel said it out beautifully.
[SPEAKER_04]: I was wrong with me.
[SPEAKER_06]: Let's take a little listen to a grab from that interview right now.
[SPEAKER_05]: Went in, CC is touring Australia this time.
[SPEAKER_05]: Will you be changing the lyrics of Dredlock Holiday, too?
[SPEAKER_05]: You cheat at cricket.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, I don't think I'm going to go there.
[SPEAKER_03]: Come on, we can take it.
[SPEAKER_03]: You know what, you've given me an idea.
[SPEAKER_02]: Is, does he get a royalty?
[SPEAKER_02]: We should do it.
[SPEAKER_06]: Now, you can, you can have a Grainman to give.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, it's going to be a great interview.
[SPEAKER_06]: Grainman Gorman from TNCC.
[SPEAKER_06]: Well, that's it for our show.
[SPEAKER_06]: Have a really great time.
[SPEAKER_06]: We love ending our off on the way that we always used to end off the radio.
[SPEAKER_06]: Show with us Laurel's last word.
[SPEAKER_02]: Here we go, although no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.