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Speaker 1: Stan Walker. Great to see you again Christmas. This is

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Speaker 1: that Christmas chat to. Yeah, it's great to see Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Now you've had a bit of a hectic week. Just

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Speaker 1: got back from Australia playing over there, and it seems

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Speaker 1: like someone took a bag of yours.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if it was taken. I don't know

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Speaker 2: what's happened, but yeah, my bag of like I've got.

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Speaker 2: I had heaps of stuff in there, all my clothes,

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Speaker 2: but I had my tallna all of them because I take.

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Speaker 3: Them everywhere with me.

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Speaker 2: I wear them on stage, but I just take them everywhere.

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Speaker 2: And yeah, so it's just gone missing. So if anybody

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Speaker 2: sees it or anybody has it or wherever it is,

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Speaker 2: give it back. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I'm willing to pay money for it because priceless items

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Speaker 1: and because they mean so much to you and you

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Speaker 1: and your family.

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Speaker 2: It's got my whole family stuff in there, like my wife, mine,

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Speaker 2: my kids, and some of the stuff is like hundreds.

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Speaker 3: Of years old.

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Speaker 4: Someone took that.

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Speaker 1: It's like, I hope they get yeah, I say they, well,

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Speaker 1: then come and they can just give it had.

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Speaker 2: Well hopefully it's just stuff somewhere and it just got

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Speaker 2: put somewhere. Like, you know, that's what I'm hoping.

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Speaker 3: I'm not.

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Speaker 2: I don't ever want to assume or blame anybody or anything.

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Speaker 2: But I started to get like, I'm like, it's been

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Speaker 2: a week.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I need it.

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Speaker 1: Hey, now the side of song, it's like the conclusion

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Speaker 1: of what it was almost like seven year project for you, right.

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Speaker 2: I don't know, there's it's been many years. But because

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Speaker 2: I had like three songs, I Am Maldil and Back

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Speaker 2: to the River or they're like a trilogy. I wrote

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Speaker 2: them last year and it was the first writing camp

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Speaker 2: that I've ever done for myself, and I just got

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Speaker 2: my boys to come along. My mate's my fan name,

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Speaker 2: and literally because we did it in Tota the first

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Speaker 2: time ever recording there and going back home, I had

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Speaker 2: just like a pool of like all.

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Speaker 3: The singers bringing up my cousins. Hey, what do you

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Speaker 3: have to do?

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Speaker 2: I need you to come and sing on this. Oh yes,

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Speaker 2: wee because I'll be there. So all those songs were

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Speaker 2: written then, but they were just they kind of explained

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Speaker 2: three different chapters within like a a long season of

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Speaker 2: my life.

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Speaker 1: That's very cool because your journey, when you look back

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Speaker 1: at your career, you've done so many amazing things, but

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Speaker 1: you know, starting off in Australia and there I was

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Speaker 1: reading an article last night where you were kind of

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Speaker 1: told that's to not sound in some ways in your

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Speaker 1: words too brown. You know, you know, and to do

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Speaker 1: this now, it must be quite fulfilling to be who

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Speaker 1: you are.

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Speaker 3: You know, it's beautiful.

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Speaker 2: Like I've just been talking about it lately with a

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Speaker 2: lot of my mates. I was like, man, I can't

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Speaker 2: imagine staying like seven years ago or ten years ago

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Speaker 2: talking to stand now, Like just the difference of like

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Speaker 2: a Maori song, I don't think I'll be ever able

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Speaker 2: to do that to me now. I don't think twice

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Speaker 2: about it if I'm going to write a song or

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Speaker 2: do a song on Maori or English, like, it's just

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Speaker 2: normal for me. Yeah, if I decide to write a

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Speaker 2: song on Mali, I just decided. I'm not like trying

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Speaker 2: to force it or trying to be about it. It's

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Speaker 2: just that's how far I've come.

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Speaker 4: What do you think changed you? Do you think it's

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Speaker 4: just age as you get older, You're like, no, this

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Speaker 4: is me. I'm going to celebrate who I am Or

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Speaker 4: do you think there was a turning point for you?

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Speaker 2: I think there was many turning points. I think it

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Speaker 2: was turning around constantly. Oh just youah, just I'm getting

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Speaker 2: to know myself more and getting older and becoming myself

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Speaker 2: more and more authentic and unapologetic about everything of who

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Speaker 2: I am, where I come from.

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Speaker 3: What I'm about. I don't mince my words.

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Speaker 2: I don't I don't second guess myself maybe what I

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Speaker 2: look like, but like and it's taken years to become

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Speaker 2: that version of me, and I'm still becoming the better

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Speaker 2: version of me, hopefully.

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Speaker 4: I love that about age. That's a really good message

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Speaker 4: for like younger people because there's been so much time

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Speaker 4: trying to find yourself and yourself.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah about the bills about I.

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Speaker 1: Was so great to see you again and write that,

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Speaker 1: you know, this new chapter for you. It's awesome. And

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Speaker 1: even like last year, you would begin talked about as

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Speaker 1: an Oscar. Well at the start of the year, like

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Speaker 1: you're one of your songs up for an Oscar. They

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Speaker 1: were talking about you like that would be pretty cool

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Speaker 1: in America been talked about.

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Speaker 3: It's it's weird.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm very grateful for like the opportunity that Ava

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Speaker 2: Duvenet gave me with the song. It was such a

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Speaker 2: trip going there doing promo on that scale, and like

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Speaker 2: having to be at everything, like I haven't done a

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Speaker 2: recoupled or done photos and stuff for like ages.

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Speaker 3: I get like nervous.

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Speaker 2: I don't like going around heaps with people, so I

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Speaker 2: just kind of stay home and do that thing. And

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Speaker 2: I was like, oh, I haven't done this for a

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Speaker 2: long time. They're like, well, you're going to be doing

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Speaker 2: it every day and you get that photo right, But

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Speaker 2: now it was cool.

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Speaker 3: It was it was cool, it was buzzy.

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Speaker 1: Just before you go, I wanted to take a walker

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Speaker 1: stand walker down memory lane for you and you tell us.

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Speaker 1: I play a little bit of audio and you tell

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Speaker 1: us where this was in your career. Okay, first up,

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Speaker 1: you got it. Okay, you've got that already, your crite

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Speaker 1: cry just.

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Speaker 3: As we launched you.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's not the video I think played in

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Speaker 1: the video before and then we won't do that again.

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Speaker 2: That sound amazing.

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Speaker 3: This is you on on idol.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Australian Idol. This is the audition.

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Speaker 2: I'm very good, don't get me wrong. I am so grateful.

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Speaker 2: That was one of the best experiences of my life.

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Speaker 2: But just looking back and hearing beck one.

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Speaker 1: You must be so new this as a young kid.

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Speaker 2: Though, I was, I was like fully shaking every every

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Speaker 2: performance at Idle. I was shaking at the Beck and

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Speaker 2: so like, I can't I can't look at anything because I'm.

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Speaker 1: Just like, here's another bet of audio as well. This

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Speaker 1: is more recent. This is pretty incredible.

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Speaker 6: How did she find Stan Walker? Somebody in her company,

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Speaker 6: Paul Garner bought a video of him. So Ava goes

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Speaker 6: to Instagram to see if they have any mutual Instagram friends,

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Speaker 6: her and Stan Walker. She finds that they have. What

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Speaker 6: they have a couple of uh, a couple of mutual

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Speaker 6: friends reaches out to them through d MS. Next thing

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Speaker 6: she knows, twenty four hours later, she's on the phone

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Speaker 6: with Stan Walker.

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Speaker 3: So this is this is the morning show.

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Speaker 5: Yes, this Morning show.

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Speaker 1: This is Gail King talking about you and the story

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Speaker 1: of how you were found just from social media from

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Speaker 1: the director for the movie.

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Speaker 2: She's amazing, honestly, she she like had she loved the song.

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Speaker 2: I met her. I met her in Oprah together and

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Speaker 2: I was like, oh my gosh, thank you so so

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Speaker 2: dand I'm god, we love the song. We loved the

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Speaker 2: blah blah blah, and they were doing the winning They're

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Speaker 2: like what does this mean? And I was like, oh,

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Speaker 2: you're kind of there walking around the office going hello.

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Speaker 1: Oh that's a great and the final but here from

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Speaker 1: Walker down Stan Walker's career.

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Speaker 5: Can I do it? Oh?

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Speaker 2: I actually I don't even want to do this song.

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Speaker 5: We'll give my good key weeks.

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Speaker 1: Show them what you really do.

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Speaker 2: You got it out.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, this is when we dress you up in disguise

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Speaker 1: and it was like a Tuesday night night yeah yeeah,

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Speaker 1: and put them in a karaoke competition, put them in

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Speaker 1: disguise and you started singing bad and they were They

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Speaker 1: started booing you, and then all of a sudden You're like,

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Speaker 1: oh I can maybe I'll do another song. And then

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Speaker 1: as soon as you started singing still in disguise, they know,

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Speaker 1: they knew exactly.

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Speaker 2: By your voice who it was.

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Speaker 1: Got a standing ovation at the end, from booing you

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Speaker 1: to standing ovation.

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Speaker 2: Oh man, I was honestly, even then I was nervous.

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Speaker 5: I was so nice to see you.

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Speaker 1: I think we've got a little bit of the song.

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Speaker 5: Now, a beautiful song. Congratulations.

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Speaker 2: JE think you so nice to have your heir as well.

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Speaker 5: It's good to be