1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:03,840 Speaker 1: This is the Fitty and Whipper with Kate Richie podcasts, the. 2 00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:06,920 Speaker 2: Brand new one for Keith Urban, Chuck Taylor's and the 3 00:00:06,960 --> 00:00:10,240 Speaker 2: man himself. We absolutely adore him. Keith is on the line, now, 4 00:00:10,280 --> 00:00:11,039 Speaker 2: how are you, Keith? 5 00:00:11,280 --> 00:00:14,160 Speaker 3: Lay it? Well, you're still strong, so you know what. 6 00:00:14,200 --> 00:00:15,319 Speaker 3: I'm excited. You've got it. 7 00:00:15,400 --> 00:00:17,520 Speaker 2: You've got a T shirt on with you Chuck Taylor's 8 00:00:17,560 --> 00:00:19,840 Speaker 2: as well, which will be in every interview at a key. 9 00:00:19,920 --> 00:00:22,160 Speaker 3: Look at that. Geez, you're on, Keith. 10 00:00:22,239 --> 00:00:24,880 Speaker 2: Were you a Chuck Taylor's man growing up, I would 11 00:00:24,880 --> 00:00:26,960 Speaker 2: have seen you as more of a Doc Martin's man. 12 00:00:27,960 --> 00:00:32,080 Speaker 1: No, like Chuck Taylor's. You know, just yes, whatever, just kicks. 13 00:00:32,120 --> 00:00:35,200 Speaker 1: Whatever kicks. We're lying around probably my brother's hand me down. 14 00:00:35,680 --> 00:00:40,600 Speaker 4: I put you like Molly Meldrim to the hat, I reckon, 15 00:00:40,680 --> 00:00:43,480 Speaker 4: Chuck Taylor's on you everything like. 16 00:00:43,400 --> 00:00:44,400 Speaker 3: That's you're the guy. 17 00:00:44,520 --> 00:00:47,919 Speaker 4: I'm surprised we it's taken so long for this, well 18 00:00:47,920 --> 00:00:49,960 Speaker 4: it's not a collaboration, but for the love of Chuck 19 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:51,200 Speaker 4: Taylor's to come out in the song. 20 00:00:51,600 --> 00:00:55,200 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no, I'm thrilled and people are now bringing 21 00:00:55,280 --> 00:00:57,760 Speaker 1: Chuck Taylor's to the gig. It's all happening. 22 00:00:58,040 --> 00:01:00,760 Speaker 2: Is there is there a reason why people thro Chuck 23 00:01:00,800 --> 00:01:03,320 Speaker 2: Taylor's over the telegraph. 24 00:01:02,960 --> 00:01:06,000 Speaker 3: Powerline, the power lines over in the States. What does that? 25 00:01:06,280 --> 00:01:07,280 Speaker 3: What does that signify? 26 00:01:07,400 --> 00:01:08,480 Speaker 2: Keith? No? 27 00:01:08,520 --> 00:01:11,200 Speaker 1: But I mean I saw I saw the same thing 28 00:01:11,280 --> 00:01:16,600 Speaker 1: in ye people. What happened after that? To the guy 29 00:01:16,680 --> 00:01:18,200 Speaker 1: that threw them up there? 30 00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:22,039 Speaker 3: I didn't think this through? God, what am I going 31 00:01:22,080 --> 00:01:24,480 Speaker 3: to wear it tomorrow? Well, it wasn't meant to represent that. 32 00:01:24,520 --> 00:01:26,920 Speaker 4: If you're looking to pick up something illegal, you could 33 00:01:26,920 --> 00:01:30,119 Speaker 4: get it from the house where the shoes were hanging. 34 00:01:30,319 --> 00:01:31,880 Speaker 3: Oh that's what I have. 35 00:01:32,560 --> 00:01:38,320 Speaker 2: It was a rumor, But mate, congratulations because we do 36 00:01:38,440 --> 00:01:40,959 Speaker 2: love the pace of the song. It's unbelievable and the 37 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:43,160 Speaker 2: line we're still hanging in there, just like Chuck Taylor's 38 00:01:43,160 --> 00:01:47,160 Speaker 2: on a power line. Is We've been we've been dissecting 39 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:49,480 Speaker 2: some of the biggest hits on our show. We've got 40 00:01:49,480 --> 00:01:51,640 Speaker 2: a segment called song to be Is it something as 41 00:01:51,720 --> 00:01:54,360 Speaker 2: simple as that, Keith, that you see a visual and 42 00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:56,080 Speaker 2: go I can write a song about that. 43 00:01:56,480 --> 00:01:58,680 Speaker 1: It's funny, man, all the years of playing clubs and 44 00:01:58,760 --> 00:02:03,360 Speaker 1: gigs and Brisy comes out in sort of sometimes rule 45 00:02:03,400 --> 00:02:04,960 Speaker 1: meat and Potatoes melodies. 46 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:05,880 Speaker 3: If that makes sense. 47 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:08,280 Speaker 1: The choruses, you know, like choruses that you know people 48 00:02:08,280 --> 00:02:11,480 Speaker 1: can sing along with really easily. That chorus came to 49 00:02:11,520 --> 00:02:14,240 Speaker 1: me as I was driving to the writing session and 50 00:02:14,360 --> 00:02:16,680 Speaker 1: I just heard it like fully formed, but I had 51 00:02:16,680 --> 00:02:18,519 Speaker 1: no idea what the hell it would be about. 52 00:02:18,680 --> 00:02:19,920 Speaker 3: Sure, just so weird. 53 00:02:20,080 --> 00:02:21,679 Speaker 1: It's a weird thing to show up the session and 54 00:02:21,760 --> 00:02:29,920 Speaker 1: go and I'm like, i have no idea what the 55 00:02:29,960 --> 00:02:32,000 Speaker 1: song's about. But I'm pretty sure that's the male that's. 56 00:02:33,120 --> 00:02:34,799 Speaker 4: It needs that pace though, doesn't it. 57 00:02:35,280 --> 00:02:38,480 Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, it's It's frantic in all the right ways 58 00:02:38,520 --> 00:02:42,400 Speaker 1: and just grimy, concrete simplicity to it. 59 00:02:42,440 --> 00:02:43,840 Speaker 3: Did you have you ever. 60 00:02:44,040 --> 00:02:46,640 Speaker 2: Has a riff ever come or a chorus ever come 61 00:02:46,720 --> 00:02:49,440 Speaker 2: to you in your sleep? I know that. Keith Richard 62 00:02:49,520 --> 00:02:52,400 Speaker 2: said the riff of Satisfaction was in a dream that 63 00:02:52,480 --> 00:02:52,799 Speaker 2: he had. 64 00:02:52,880 --> 00:02:54,040 Speaker 3: Keith that before. 65 00:02:54,760 --> 00:02:57,600 Speaker 1: H No, I haven't had that. I thought the Keith's 66 00:02:57,680 --> 00:03:00,800 Speaker 1: Richards story was he had a little set player and 67 00:03:00,800 --> 00:03:04,519 Speaker 1: he was just noodling, jamming and stuff and he apparently 68 00:03:04,720 --> 00:03:09,400 Speaker 1: passed out. Imagine that, and woke up the next morning 69 00:03:10,080 --> 00:03:13,400 Speaker 1: and rewound the tape and there's like noodling, noodling, and 70 00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:18,840 Speaker 1: then there's like then he's a he just like just 71 00:03:18,919 --> 00:03:20,800 Speaker 1: him snoring for the rest of the taste for. 72 00:03:25,400 --> 00:03:25,880 Speaker 3: Read. 73 00:03:26,400 --> 00:03:29,720 Speaker 2: I read his book Life And when they did exile 74 00:03:29,760 --> 00:03:32,360 Speaker 2: on Main Street and they were and they were in 75 00:03:32,400 --> 00:03:36,320 Speaker 2: that French chateau. He went seven days without sleep and 76 00:03:36,360 --> 00:03:38,240 Speaker 2: they were saying, like, was it just a party the 77 00:03:38,280 --> 00:03:38,720 Speaker 2: whole time? 78 00:03:38,760 --> 00:03:40,720 Speaker 3: He said, no, no, no, I was. I had a 79 00:03:40,760 --> 00:03:42,760 Speaker 3: guitar in my hand the whole time. So he was 80 00:03:42,800 --> 00:03:47,040 Speaker 3: recording music for seven days straight. Keith, Yeah, I. 81 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:48,560 Speaker 1: Mean, I'm sure there was a little bit of assistance. 82 00:03:49,720 --> 00:03:51,560 Speaker 4: I don't thin. He just gone to music so much 83 00:03:51,600 --> 00:03:52,280 Speaker 4: he couldn't sleep. 84 00:03:52,320 --> 00:03:53,560 Speaker 3: He didn't want to lose that rhythm. 85 00:03:53,840 --> 00:03:55,800 Speaker 1: How many pairs of Chuck tailors were hanging on the 86 00:03:55,800 --> 00:03:56,600 Speaker 1: power line. 87 00:03:59,640 --> 00:04:03,520 Speaker 4: Look, don't set up a factory outside the house. We 88 00:04:03,560 --> 00:04:06,800 Speaker 4: want to say congratulations. The Triple Crown Award during the 89 00:04:06,840 --> 00:04:11,040 Speaker 4: American Country Music That is massive, mate, that is really 90 00:04:13,240 --> 00:04:16,480 Speaker 4: Australia and what you've done for country music, it's massive, 91 00:04:16,720 --> 00:04:18,360 Speaker 4: not just country music music all over. 92 00:04:19,560 --> 00:04:23,360 Speaker 1: I was blown away. Look, it's awesome to win. I mean, 93 00:04:23,960 --> 00:04:26,080 Speaker 1: it is not why I do it. That's bloody good 94 00:04:26,080 --> 00:04:26,560 Speaker 1: when you do. 95 00:04:26,680 --> 00:04:28,440 Speaker 3: So, you celebrated, Keith. 96 00:04:28,440 --> 00:04:30,440 Speaker 4: Can you have a chance to celebrate that or do 97 00:04:30,480 --> 00:04:32,359 Speaker 4: you kind of like you said, it's not why we 98 00:04:32,440 --> 00:04:34,800 Speaker 4: do it. But at the same time, there has to 99 00:04:34,839 --> 00:04:36,520 Speaker 4: be a moment where you look back and go, oh, 100 00:04:36,800 --> 00:04:37,960 Speaker 4: that's great recognition. 101 00:04:38,360 --> 00:04:43,520 Speaker 1: Oh it's Bloody stokesh absolutely Stokes. I mean yeah, yeah, yeah, 102 00:04:43,520 --> 00:04:45,440 Speaker 1: And I actually it's one of the rare ones that 103 00:04:45,520 --> 00:04:48,400 Speaker 1: actually put on the on the piano. Like, I don't 104 00:04:48,440 --> 00:04:50,920 Speaker 1: have trophies out anywhere, but that one I put right 105 00:04:50,960 --> 00:04:53,880 Speaker 1: on the on the piano in the middle living it. 106 00:04:53,960 --> 00:04:57,360 Speaker 4: So you've painted a beautiful picture of that award sitting 107 00:04:57,360 --> 00:04:59,799 Speaker 4: on the piano. When you're in a household like Keith 108 00:05:00,200 --> 00:05:03,320 Speaker 4: and Nicole Kidman, where are the rest of the awards? 109 00:05:03,880 --> 00:05:04,400 Speaker 3: Yeah? 110 00:05:04,400 --> 00:05:06,280 Speaker 1: I just shut her out there? 111 00:05:06,720 --> 00:05:10,440 Speaker 3: And do you have a pool room, Keith? Do you 112 00:05:10,480 --> 00:05:13,000 Speaker 3: have like a man cave? Is it a man going 113 00:05:13,040 --> 00:05:13,880 Speaker 3: in the poolroom? 114 00:05:13,960 --> 00:05:14,120 Speaker 2: Man? 115 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:16,279 Speaker 3: Keith? 116 00:05:16,320 --> 00:05:16,920 Speaker 1: My dad. 117 00:05:17,080 --> 00:05:20,520 Speaker 4: My dad ran three marathons. I don't know how many 118 00:05:20,520 --> 00:05:22,200 Speaker 4: times I had to look at the little medal he 119 00:05:22,279 --> 00:05:23,880 Speaker 4: got for crossing the line growing up. 120 00:05:23,960 --> 00:05:25,720 Speaker 3: He'd hang them in his room, he. 121 00:05:25,680 --> 00:05:28,440 Speaker 4: Had them in his study. Yeah, he was so proud 122 00:05:28,440 --> 00:05:31,880 Speaker 4: of himself. So where do you put a million awards 123 00:05:31,880 --> 00:05:33,440 Speaker 4: that the two of you have won. 124 00:05:33,720 --> 00:05:35,320 Speaker 1: Over the years. I've sent a lot of mind to 125 00:05:35,360 --> 00:05:41,880 Speaker 1: my mum. She's got him on the splay. It's really nice. 126 00:05:42,160 --> 00:05:44,960 Speaker 3: She's run a couple of marathons too. Keith mate, love 127 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:47,400 Speaker 3: it buddy. We always thank you for your. 128 00:05:47,320 --> 00:05:47,800 Speaker 2: Time, mate. 129 00:05:47,800 --> 00:05:48,840 Speaker 3: We know how busy you are. 130 00:05:48,920 --> 00:05:51,520 Speaker 2: Your new single Chuck Taylors is out now, plus tickets 131 00:05:51,520 --> 00:05:53,960 Speaker 2: for the High and Alive Tour World tour. You can 132 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:56,120 Speaker 2: go to Keith Urban dot com to get your tickets there. 133 00:05:56,360 --> 00:05:58,040 Speaker 2: Love you mate, Thank you for your time and we'll 134 00:05:58,040 --> 00:05:58,600 Speaker 2: speak you soon. 135 00:05:58,680 --> 00:06:00,280 Speaker 3: Legend you two guys. 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