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Speaker 1: Approche production.

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Speaker 2: This is another bonus episode of We Will Always Have

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Speaker 2: Thanks for listening. It's basically just to tide you over

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Speaker 2: before the main course, which is longer ramblings. And sometimes

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Speaker 2: we pepper it in with some screaming and shouting because

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Speaker 2: I've got us into some sort of I don't know,

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Speaker 2: activity that our bodies can't handle.

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Speaker 1: Look what I'm trying to say is.

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Speaker 2: We're old if you haven't learnt that by now, and

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Speaker 2: we love to ramble, so please enjoy.

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Speaker 3: What's some things we're too old to now? Like you know,

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Speaker 3: years ago, you'd be up till midnight or not even

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Speaker 3: four am, and you'd go to work the next day.

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Speaker 3: Could you imagine yourself doing that now?

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Speaker 1: Going clubbing?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Could you imagine when that was never something I did?

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Speaker 1: You're a party animal. I wasn't back in the days.

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Speaker 1: Did you go to Well?

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Speaker 3: When I came to Australia, I hit Oxford Street and

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Speaker 3: there used to be like DCMS and the Taxi Club.

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Speaker 1: I loved all of it.

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Speaker 3: I was what you would call a fair hag, and

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Speaker 3: I hate that terminology, but I was absolutely that.

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Speaker 1: I loved it.

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Speaker 3: I lived with a drag queen for.

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Speaker 1: A couple of years, did you Yeah, do you know them? No?

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Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, yeah, so that was great fun.

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Speaker 3: And we used to did you catch up with him soon?

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Speaker 1: No? No.

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Speaker 3: He used to do my makeup and he would take

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Speaker 3: him two hours and full dream yeah, full drag. You

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Speaker 3: wouldn't even recognize me.

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Speaker 1: Do your photos? Na, No, But we would go up

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Speaker 1: to the club.

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Speaker 3: I was about nineteen eighteen nineteen. And how long were

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Speaker 3: you out for till I met you know, the Ricardo? No?

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Speaker 1: Like how late?

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Speaker 3: Oh at night?

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Speaker 1: Oh, I would rock up to work.

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Speaker 3: My shift started at seven am.

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Speaker 4: When you go straight from there, I would be.

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Speaker 3: Rocking up on the bus, wiping my makeup off and

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Speaker 3: putting my uniform on and walking in morning everyone how everyone, and.

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Speaker 1: I would just do that. I would be by the

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Speaker 1: end of the day.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, that was so much fun.

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Speaker 1: Though, what substances were you taking? None of those? No,

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Speaker 1: just no.

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Speaker 3: No. We would do Mardi Gras on the top of

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Speaker 3: the roof. That was just so much fun.

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Speaker 1: Oh.

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Speaker 3: No, taxi club was over, so we would be right

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Speaker 3: on Oxford Street, so it would be up on the

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Speaker 3: roof watching all the flow.

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Speaker 4: We go back, surrounded by the gates.

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Speaker 1: When you were younger.

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Speaker 3: I loved the games, felt safe, always loved the gaze.

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Speaker 3: The gaze have loved me and protected me my whole

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Speaker 3: entire life. My first love was a gay man. Really yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 3: my first kiss was a gay man. He didn't know

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Speaker 3: that at the time. I suppose he knew at the time.

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Speaker 3: We were living in New Zealand. It wasn't until we

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Speaker 3: came over here and he gave me the little chat

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Speaker 3: we see just to let you know that I'm actually.

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Speaker 1: Were you devastating?

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Speaker 3: I don't know if I was devastating because you come

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Speaker 3: from New Zealand, right, which is all very very quiet,

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Speaker 3: very reserved.

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Speaker 1: You didn't have anything.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, very much. And then we got over here in

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Speaker 3: Oxford Street. It was just like hitting the big time.

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Speaker 1: Beautiful.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was great the first time moved to I

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Speaker 3: moved over to Australia in eighty eight. So X God

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Speaker 3: was one that was so much fun.

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Speaker 1: XBO was so good. Did you go to Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Everyone went to X God.

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Speaker 4: I wish I was alive for that, were you not? No,

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Speaker 4: I was born in eighty seven. I'm Sydney.

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Speaker 1: I wish I could have experienced It was such a

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Speaker 1: great time.

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Speaker 4: There's still remnants of it around Brisberte.

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Speaker 1: That was good fun. We had a great time.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and then Sydney was just magnificent.

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Speaker 4: Do you have a favorite memory from your clubbing days?

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Speaker 3: Do I have a favorite memory.

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Speaker 1: From my clubbing anything nefarious?

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Speaker 4: Ever?

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Speaker 3: Have them? Oh? I used to love going to the

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Speaker 3: town Hall Hotel in Belmaine on the corner you won't

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Speaker 3: know it on a Sunday night and they had all

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Speaker 3: the upcoming drag queens and they would be doing their shows.

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Speaker 3: Oh it was fantastic. Oh wow, it was packed to

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Speaker 3: the rim.

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Speaker 1: Like we shouldered his shoulder in the early nineties.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and everyone was just loving it. Oh, that would

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Speaker 1: have been fun.

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Speaker 3: And it's so sad that we've just lost Maxie Shields.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Maxie was in down Drag Race and magnificent.

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Speaker 1: I told you I did a short Maxie and.

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Speaker 3: I love the fact that they turned up and full dry.

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Speaker 1: It was.

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Speaker 4: It was a late night course, so catered to people

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Speaker 4: that worked full time on the Tuesdays and.

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Speaker 1: A Thursday night or a Friday night.

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Speaker 4: He would come out of drag on the Tuesday and

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Speaker 4: then was like just a peds up, guys, I'm coming

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Speaker 4: in full drag on the Thursday nights. Just imagine a

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Speaker 4: Tuesday's all looking at the lecturer and then on a Thursday,

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Speaker 4: the lectures talking a bit, We're all looking at Maxie

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Speaker 4: because she was just like the biggest fat tits and

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Speaker 4: she like just so just official, spectacular and really devastating.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's devastating.

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Speaker 3: It's just it's really impacted the whole of Marti Gras.

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Speaker 3: Did you see that they were doing a little tribute.

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Speaker 4: For I do know that she was so well loved

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Speaker 4: and respected and just such a really lovely person.

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Speaker 1: And also played Sharon I know in the Kavin kimd the.

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Speaker 3: Music Yah, which are still performing in Scotland. Yeah, and

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Speaker 3: he had to leave that because he had Yeah, well

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Speaker 3: he didn't even know he had cancer at that stage.

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Speaker 1: That was so cool.

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Speaker 3: He just thought he had a gland that was swollen.

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Speaker 3: Oh my god, horrendous. But we'll absolutely miss Maxie.

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Speaker 4: Did you ever see MAXI perform? Y?

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Speaker 3: So funny, so funny, funny, like naturally funny.

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Speaker 4: How do we end on something more positive?

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Speaker 3: Have you ever thought about doing drag?

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Speaker 1: No?

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Speaker 4: I couldn't shave my beard.

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Speaker 1: You couldn't shave You've.

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Speaker 4: Never seen me without a beard.

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Speaker 1: Let me tell you, well, I have when you were

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Speaker 1: like three.

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Speaker 4: Seen my thumb.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what I look like.

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Speaker 4: I look like a thumb. I like to describe myself.

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Speaker 4: My head is an olive and my body's a potato.

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Speaker 4: Like there's no neck, it's just olive into potato. I'm

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Speaker 4: very handsome though, it's also very handsome with the beard.

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Speaker 3: Charlie sent me some vision of him.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, and drag Charlie, your youngest son.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, why beautiful? Oh I just have I not shown

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Speaker 3: you the photo you did?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, stunning, stunning. He's like quite.

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Speaker 3: Beautiful, yes, beautiful, just features great eyes, grape bones to just.

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Speaker 4: A terrible personality, just so mean, to be so many.

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Speaker 1: He's beautifully mean. He's Hello's God is beautiful. It's such

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Speaker 1: a gorgeous woo. I love him very much.

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Speaker 3: Yeah,