Speaker 1: What happens when two of the most iconic Australian things combined,
Speaker 1: you get.
Speaker 2: This banger of a remake. You vegimind and the Wiggles
Speaker 2: was the combination we all need. Please welcome a couple
Speaker 2: of Wiggles into the studio.
Speaker 3: Good eight guy, Good morning, Good morning, a couple of Wiggles,
Speaker 3: A couple of Wiggles and Simon, Welcome to the show.
Speaker 3: How are we great?
Speaker 2: Thank you great to chat me this morning.
Speaker 4: What's been happening happening in Wiggles world?
Speaker 2: We've been eating a lot of vegemi vegemit. Yes, actually
Speaker 2: jokes sosiety.
Speaker 3: You're getting hooked up with a fear free sample too many.
Speaker 2: You know, we did a promo thing and all the
Speaker 2: vegemite jars had our names on them. Oh that's crud.
Speaker 1: And then they also sent us more vegemite for our family.
Speaker 1: So I have about five different at the moment.
Speaker 4: Are you guys jar people? Because I quite like the
Speaker 4: squeezy part. You don't have to put a knife in
Speaker 4: it squeezes out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that says a lot squeeze. I'm a jar,
Speaker 2: I'm a jar guy. Yeah it makes sense for you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're an original.
Speaker 2: You're an ij Well, how do you have your vegimi?
Speaker 2: It's on toast, butter and a light spread, A.
Speaker 1: Light spread, I see. I love Vegemi so much. I
Speaker 1: just do a lot, but I do it with butter.
Speaker 1: I do Vegemi cheese, do Vegimi Soldiers.
Speaker 3: Hey guys, Simon, I heard a very funny story about
Speaker 3: you the other and I don't want to be done.
Speaker 3: I don't want to embarrass you, but I've got three
Speaker 3: young boys. But it made me feel pretty crap about
Speaker 3: the birthday parties I have put.
Speaker 2: On from my kids over the years.
Speaker 3: Would you like to tell the guys how much of
Speaker 3: a high roller you are when it comes to curring
Speaker 3: kids parties?
Speaker 2: Yes? Well, well it was as a complete accident. So
Speaker 2: I was having a birthday which was a big number.
Speaker 2: It was fifty. Well, originally it was my birthday and
Speaker 2: Lauren and I my wife, and I got married at
Speaker 2: Luna Park and we went, okay, let's get have my
Speaker 2: birthday party at Luna Park from my fiftieth and have
Speaker 2: a big party. Now we booked the venue. We could
Speaker 2: never get the right date because of all the touring
Speaker 2: and everything have a going on, and so we just
Speaker 2: kept putting it back and back and back until it
Speaker 2: no longer made sense to have my fiftieth birthday. But
Speaker 2: we paid a deposit, a substantial amount of money deposit,
Speaker 2: and so then it was Ash's third birthday coming up,
Speaker 2: and so we ended up having ashes third birthday at
Speaker 2: Luna Park with everyone getting their wristbands having the you
Speaker 2: know on the right.
Speaker 3: That's iconic, I know, But how did the other parents feel?
Speaker 3: That would have been like, how is this guy bloody
Speaker 3: rolling into the school?
Speaker 2: And see, these are all parents I've never met before
Speaker 2: day care and so they're all coming for the first time.
Speaker 2: I didn't know them, they're all coming along.
Speaker 4: And yes, also you're an og Wiggle. If I was
Speaker 4: a parent, I would make my kid be friends with
Speaker 4: your kid because I would expect it to be an amazing.
Speaker 3: Especially after that power move.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well we're in the park now, I have a
Speaker 2: little bit of soccer in a jumping cast downhill.
Speaker 3: Welcome to reality, kid, Yeah that's right.
Speaker 4: What happens like when the Wiggles have little kids around,
Speaker 4: like kids must just stare at you in absolute awe,
Speaker 4: like do they think you're the party entertainment?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I mean yes, I think so I tend to
Speaker 2: I tend to end up having to look after a
Speaker 2: lot of children a birthday parties, yeah, with a lot
Speaker 2: of children, but also children when you're not in your colors.
Speaker 2: They really, depending on their age, don't really know. But
Speaker 2: see what's life like for you? How I mean it's
Speaker 2: it's sort of it's actually in the blood.
Speaker 1: It actually is. My dad is Anthony for context for
Speaker 1: anyone it doesn't know. He actually never he was never
Speaker 1: the star at my birthday parties. I will say he
Speaker 1: wasn't he Actually he chose to stay at the barbecue
Speaker 1: and yeah, which is fair enough.
Speaker 2: So it was there he's a blue wiged was there
Speaker 2: some sort of ceremony like a skivvy handing over ceremony?
Speaker 2: It's like the baggy.
Speaker 1: No, it was it was actually it was quite rushed, really.
Speaker 1: They were changing the lineup and I got a call.
Speaker 1: I was at my cousin's place and it actually wasn't
Speaker 1: even Dad's idea. Uh, and he was like, we're changing
Speaker 1: the lineup. Would you like to be a blue wiggle?
Speaker 1: Of course I said yes. Two weeks later I was
Speaker 1: in the recording studio. So wow, no special ceremony.
Speaker 3: But growing up. Like I mentioned before, I got three
Speaker 3: young boys. They don't really care what I do for
Speaker 3: a living, Like, you know, it's just not cool to
Speaker 3: your kids. Like do you remember growing up and did
Speaker 3: you care that dad was part of one of the
Speaker 3: biggest groups in the world.
Speaker 4: I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't think I understood how big it was, honestly,
Speaker 1: and looking back at it now, I'm.
Speaker 2: Like, whoa, well, but did you listen to the Wiggles.
Speaker 1: I did, for sure.
Speaker 4: I was.
Speaker 1: I was actually Dorothy's biggest fan, no offense, Dad, Yes,
Speaker 1: I was Dorothy's biggest fan, and I loved coming to
Speaker 1: the show. It was a tradition every year, end of
Speaker 1: the year.
Speaker 4: Yeah, are there any new additions coming? Like we've got
Speaker 4: the Tree, We've got Wags, We've got Dorothy, We've got
Speaker 4: Because I once came on set of The Wiggles when
Speaker 4: I was working on Kids w B. I got to
Speaker 4: go on the set and do it dance. I thought
Speaker 4: I was auditioning, and I never got a call back.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, Well you never know that we need sometimes
Speaker 1: if somebody is sick.
Speaker 3: No, No, you were quite a second ago saying you don't.
Speaker 2: Need any more someone's sick. Feeling we've got mighty the
Speaker 2: vegemite mascot.
Speaker 4: I don't want to be mighty.
Speaker 3: You've got those mighty strong legs about I want to
Speaker 3: be you are a mighty girl.
Speaker 4: Okay, I'll feel in as mighty if you need amy.
Speaker 2: Look at those.
Speaker 3: Mighty strong legs, a little mighty you.
Speaker 2: Is that they're wearing a blinged up version? Is that
Speaker 2: the club version or it.
Speaker 1: Could be known as that. Yes, it's kind of like
Speaker 1: fully transitioned into the sparkles now.
Speaker 2: Here we have it was a little every now and
Speaker 2: then and now we're just go full sparkle. But these
Speaker 2: originally these skips originally designed on Rugby League jerseys, the Tigers,
Speaker 2: and now we're waiting for the West Tigers and the
Speaker 2: Rugby League teams and to start putting on there. I
Speaker 2: think you really love that.
Speaker 3: Have you got a have you got a mesh version
Speaker 3: or rash shirt type?
Speaker 2: Johnny? And where's Jeff?
Speaker 4: Is he still sleeping?
Speaker 2: He's at the Suddy Valley Retirement Village.
Speaker 1: They don't wake him up, which is.
Speaker 2: Great every now and then.
Speaker 3: Jeff for we will guys, thanks very much for joining us.
Speaker 3: And hey have a great Christy as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah you too, great to talk to you guys. Take care.
Speaker 1: Merry Christmas, Lauren, wake up feeling good, follow on the
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