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Speaker 1: Jersey and Amanda jam Nation. Our next guest is someone

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Speaker 1: who I would describe as brilliant. She's written books, She's

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Speaker 1: hosted shows, so I'm very envious of all the shows

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Speaker 1: that I want to do she's doing. She's made podcasts,

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Speaker 1: she's cooked for some of the most powerful people in

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Speaker 1: the country, and she's created her own one woman's show

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Speaker 1: called fifty Years of Crab, where she reveals her stories,

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Speaker 1: her tips and lessons from five decades of being Annabelle

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Speaker 1: Crab And here she is Annabelle Crab.

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Speaker 2: H I am here.

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Speaker 1: I just love this because I know that you're also

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Speaker 1: a TV host and a presenter, but you're a wordsmith,

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Speaker 1: You're a words person. How did you go about creating

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Speaker 1: a stage show?

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Speaker 2: Okay, so here's what happened. I turned fifty and I

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Speaker 2: try to do something most years that really terrifies me.

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Speaker 2: And the director of the Adelaide Friends rang me up

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Speaker 2: and said, do you want to do a show? Like

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Speaker 2: a one woman show? And I of course framed the

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Speaker 2: word no loudly in my head, and then I found

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Speaker 2: myself going, yeah, why not? Because I actually took some

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Speaker 2: long service leave, I'm I have plenty of time to

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Speaker 2: write this thing, and then of course I didn't until

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Speaker 2: about three weeks.

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Speaker 3: Before I was supposed to.

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Speaker 2: And what am I doing? This is madness.

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Speaker 1: People who have been interviewed by you, are they nervous

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Speaker 1: that you're going to blab the secrets?

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Speaker 2: Well, look, I am not cruel to people. So I

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Speaker 2: tend to tell stories that are funny but that the

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Speaker 2: person can have a laugh along with. Like, I'm not

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Speaker 2: really a vicious storyteller, and the person that's probably most

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Speaker 2: targeted for humiliation in the stories that I tell me

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Speaker 2: and you know, I mean, they are connected to things

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Speaker 2: that I've learned over my life. One of them is

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Speaker 2: just getting better at saying no. Because I have what

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Speaker 2: particularly hair raising story about being asked to organize a

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Speaker 2: charity dinner with Tony Jones from my school P and C.

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Speaker 2: And I was so unable and it was so funny.

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Speaker 2: This lady came up to me, you said, we're thinking about auction,

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Speaker 2: you know, a dinner with an ABC celebrity. And I'm like,

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Speaker 2: I'm sure, happy help, and she's like, so can you

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Speaker 2: ask Tony Jones? And I'm like, my terror of asking

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Speaker 2: Tony Jones to come and like have dinner with totally

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Speaker 2: random primary school parents from a school that his kids

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Speaker 2: don't even go to. Giving up one of his few

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Speaker 2: nights off was sort of like absolutely equal to my

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Speaker 2: terror of saying no to the I mean, you know

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Speaker 2: what these P and Z mums are, like, they are

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Speaker 2: a type man. You can't disappoint them.

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Speaker 3: And did you go through with them? Mate?

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Speaker 2: I did the like I did this incredibly unwieldy thing

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Speaker 2: where I wrote to Tony Jones and I said, look,

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Speaker 2: here's the situation that've asked me to do this. I'm

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Speaker 2: not going to ask you to do this. What I'm

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Speaker 2: going to do is I'm going to pretend that I've

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Speaker 2: asked you, and then when the auction comes up, I

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Speaker 2: will buy the auction prize. So that way I'm making

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Speaker 2: a donation to the school. Cool, and you don't have

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Speaker 2: to have dinner with anyone. And this email rant about

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Speaker 2: three pages and I read it back later. I thought

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Speaker 2: I just sound crackers and anyway, and when he wrote back,

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Speaker 2: he wrote back and he's like, wow, just well, I

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Speaker 2: know right again, I'm overthinking that you should have a

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Speaker 2: thought track from my partner Jeremy through this entire process.

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Speaker 2: It's just like you're an absolute fool, like this is

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Speaker 2: going to go pear shaped. And so then I'm like, oh,

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Speaker 2: I can't bid on it at the trivia night because

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Speaker 2: they'll know. Yeah, right, So then I recruit and buy

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Speaker 2: a ticket for the trivia night for my friend Duncan,

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Speaker 2: who's childless at that point, to bid. So he's bidding, right.

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Speaker 2: What I haven't factored in is that drunken, drunken Duncan

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Speaker 2: then just jumps in. When the bidding starts, he's going crazy,

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Speaker 2: like he's upping it. He's bidding against himself. He's like

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Speaker 2: upping it by hundreds of bucks. And I'm sitting there going,

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Speaker 2: oh lord, because of course, of course, of course, of

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Speaker 2: course there's a whole table there of like these mums

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Speaker 2: who who wanted and they've got disposable income anyway.

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Speaker 3: So after you more, she has to pay for this.

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Speaker 2: Right anyway.

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Speaker 1: So look, the lesson is the lesson is just the first.

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Speaker 2: Right, And it was an expensive way to learn that.

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Speaker 2: But I am getting I can't.

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Speaker 3: You can't say, is it that bad?

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Speaker 2: It's pretty bad?

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Speaker 3: Is it more than more than a thousand? Yeah, just

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Speaker 3: like if it's I'm going to stop at five thousand?

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Speaker 3: Is it more.

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Speaker 2: I'm not three guys.

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Speaker 3: In my mind.

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Speaker 2: I've cast myself before you. I have humans, just I

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Speaker 2: mean ab.

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Speaker 3: So you're on a fixed income, so I we.

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Speaker 1: Turn ourselves inside out so you don't have to say,

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Speaker 1: notice someone and your anxiety all that period of time

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Speaker 1: meant nothing.

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Speaker 2: Ridiculous, absolutely not. And anyway, anyway, it's funny. It's funny now,

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Speaker 2: it's funny.

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Speaker 3: You know. I'm sure you could write it off on

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Speaker 3: your tax I'm pretty sure.

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Speaker 2: Share and laugh, just shaking his head.

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Speaker 1: I see myself in that story, and that's just.

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Speaker 3: A small morsel of what you're going to get. Saturday

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Speaker 3: the twenty fifteen and Wednesday, twenty November, the Pavian Performing

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Speaker 3: artsetter in Sutherland, Annabel Crab, get your tickets for fifty

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Speaker 3: odd years of Crab. Not you, you've already got tickets.

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Speaker 3: What are you going to do this? You're gonna set

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Speaker 3: people up to buy tickets.

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Speaker 2: Actually, the first five ticket buyers will get dinner with

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Speaker 2: Tony Jones.

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Speaker 3: Conditions apply head to ticket Tech. Annabel, thank you,