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Speaker 1: The Wiggles acknowledged the traditional custodians of country throughout Australia

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Speaker 1: and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay

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Speaker 1: our respects to elders, past, present and emerging.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to Wiggle Talk, a podcast for parents. My name

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Speaker 2: is Lachlan Gillespie.

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Speaker 3: I am the Purple Wig, and my name is Simon Price,

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Speaker 3: and I am the Red Wiggle. And we're joined here

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Speaker 3: by Anthony Field, who is.

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Speaker 4: The blue and gray haired Wiggle.

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Speaker 3: And it's great to have you back in the pod.

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Speaker 3: As we say now.

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Speaker 5: I love it the pod yeah here, and I love

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Speaker 5: getting up at five in the morning to.

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Speaker 3: Be We all love that, you know, the pods evolving.

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Speaker 3: We used to have the ask Anthony segment. Yes quite

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Speaker 3: frankly there were complaints when we stopped doing it.

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Speaker 4: Oh I thought it was.

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Speaker 3: People thought we'd shoveled you off to the back room somewhere.

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Speaker 4: It was my decision.

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Speaker 5: It was harder to get up in the morning than

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Speaker 5: I thought, so I left it for the younger of

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Speaker 5: mines of Lockey and Simon and that.

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Speaker 3: You know, as we've discussed, there's always a lot going

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Speaker 3: on here. There is something administration level of creative level

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Speaker 3: all across the board.

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Speaker 5: But I tell you what I love hearing people talk

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Speaker 5: to me about how much they get out of what

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Speaker 5: you guys are doing, and all the incredible guests you've

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Speaker 5: had on very knowledgeable people and a lot of people

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Speaker 5: out there learning and having a laugh at the same.

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Speaker 3: Time, which is kind of what we hope to achieve,

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Speaker 3: isn't it, lock We do try.

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Speaker 4: Weigle talk, Talk Talk, weigle Talk.

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Speaker 3: It's Dear Wiggles, Authorized by Simon Locky.

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Speaker 2: There is no question too big, or too small, or

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Speaker 2: too wonderfully random, and today's question is all of them.

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Speaker 2: It's quite delightfully specific. Jess has written in with a

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Speaker 2: very important inquiry about Anthony and your famous golden tooth,

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Speaker 2: and she asks, Hello, Wiggles, I have a rather trivial

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Speaker 2: toothy question. I can't help but wonder what the story

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Speaker 2: is behind Anthony's golden tooth. Is it a fashion statement

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Speaker 2: or just the result of some dental work. Either way,

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Speaker 2: good on him, Shine on Jess. Thanks Jess.

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Speaker 4: That's a great question.

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Speaker 5: Yes, and I must say gold tooth has moved over

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Speaker 5: the years I've had in different positions. I sadly I

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Speaker 5: got this tick bite when I was in the army

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Speaker 5: years and years ago, and it resulted in infections. I

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Speaker 5: got meningitis and about fifteen years ago and I got

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Speaker 5: these infections in my jawbone. I lost all my teeth,

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Speaker 5: so I don't have any real teeth. So I've got

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Speaker 5: these implants. And even the couple of the implants the

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Speaker 5: bone got infected. I had to have them out. So

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Speaker 5: is the thing, all the teeth I've got what do

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Speaker 5: they call those porcelain porcelain? They were not finished, They're

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Speaker 5: just porcelain. But my grandfather, now he.

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Speaker 3: Was half an his gold teethape No, they're not his.

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Speaker 5: But he's a quick story. My grandfather, his mother, Theresa

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Speaker 5: Serruti Cheruti. I've not even saying it properly. So he

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Speaker 5: was half Italian, half Scottish. His name was Donald Riggie,

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Speaker 5: but his mom was Italian, and he was really Italian.

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Speaker 5: He was more Italian than Scottish in the way he

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Speaker 5: hated so he wore these flashy suits things, and he

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Speaker 5: had gold teeth. He had a lot of gold teeth,

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Speaker 5: and I love them. So when I had all this

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Speaker 5: dental work done, I said to my doctor, doc, could

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Speaker 5: you put a gold teeth in because I just want

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Speaker 5: to pay homage to my grandfather. Now, of course, gold

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Speaker 5: teeth have been around since the Egyptian times. They found

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Speaker 5: You probably didn't know that, did you know that? So

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Speaker 5: gold teeth are actually stronger than porcelain, so they're not

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Speaker 5: going to crack.

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Speaker 4: But the real reason is I just think they're fantastic.

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Speaker 5: But my dad had an expression always flashy as a

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Speaker 5: rat with a gold tooth.

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Speaker 4: So now I'm as flash as a rat with the gold.

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Speaker 4: I hope I'm not a rat with the gold too.

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Speaker 5: For just that's why I actually need teeth for all

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Speaker 5: sorts of reasons. I don't have real teeth, and I

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Speaker 5: just thought, yeah, to pay how much to my grandfather,

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Speaker 5: I'll just love them.

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Speaker 4: I actually like the way it looks now.

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Speaker 3: They look great. And you've had so much dental work

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Speaker 3: over the years to the point where you will go

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Speaker 3: and get dent to work and you'll be all swollen,

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Speaker 3: but you'll come in do shows the next day like

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Speaker 3: it's pretty much very constant.

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Speaker 5: Sadly because of the infections. I get it's an ongoing thing.

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Speaker 5: And I'm not saying this is a joke. The Wiggles

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Speaker 5: have been so successful that I've been able to have

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Speaker 5: dental work that if the Wiggles weren't and I was

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Speaker 5: a preschool teacher, I just would have false teeth, you know.

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Speaker 5: So I'm very grateful that we've been successful enough to

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Speaker 5: pay for my dental work.

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Speaker 3: Yes, hopefully people keep coming to show. I remember was

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Speaker 3: celebrity family feud we did and after we finished your bit,

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Speaker 3: oh that's a minty, do you remember?

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Speaker 4: That's right?

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Speaker 3: And your whole teeth just cracked and yeah, but that

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Speaker 3: was the startup.

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Speaker 4: That's right.

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Speaker 5: The teeth have been linked with all sorts of medical challenges.

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Speaker 5: But you know what, the funny thing about the gold

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Speaker 5: teeth Culturally, when I go to the United States, a

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Speaker 5: lot of the Mexican community love that I've got a

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Speaker 5: gold tooth. And in Australia have a lot of Pacific

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Speaker 5: Islanders come up and go made, I.

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Speaker 4: Love your tooth. I love your tooth because they've got

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Speaker 4: gold tooth. For children always notice them.

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Speaker 5: They say, do you know your tooth ish gold?

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Speaker 4: They always do so, which is nice.

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Speaker 3: You know, there's two things about you. I think they

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Speaker 3: get probably mentioned the most, and the question is why.

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Speaker 3: So one is probably your teeth. Can I guess the

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Speaker 3: second one, Yeah, barefoot, barefoot, and there's nothing to do

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Speaker 3: with work.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: In interesting I've often wondered about whether the children are

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Speaker 3: They notice, they.

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Speaker 5: Notice everything, and I'm going to go on through. University

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Speaker 5: professor Kathleen Warren said to us, don't be alarmed. If

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Speaker 5: a child comes up, it just says you've got a

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Speaker 5: beard or you've got whatever.

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Speaker 4: Whatever.

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Speaker 5: They do notice everything, and they're comment and they're not

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Speaker 5: commenting in a disparaging way. They're just noticing. And so

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Speaker 5: just yeah, take you this a better fact. Yeah, I

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Speaker 5: do have a goal too. Or you know you've got

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Speaker 5: great hair.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I've got gray hair. You've got a receding hairline. Oh, yes,

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Speaker 4: I've got Well.

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Speaker 3: I hope that helped Jess. There was some health and

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Speaker 3: fashion reasons.

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Speaker 4: Homuch to Donald Richie, my grandfather.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's amazing.

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Speaker 2: Well that is a wrap on, Dear Wiggles. Thank you

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Speaker 2: to Jess. Now, if you've got a burning question, a

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Speaker 2: tiny mystery, or something you're toddlers asked that's left you

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Speaker 2: completely stumped, you can send us a voice note at

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Speaker 2: an email at podcast at the wiggles dot com dot au.

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Speaker 3: And if you've been enjoying will Talk, you can rate

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Speaker 3: or review us. And now that goes a long way. Now, Anthony,

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Speaker 3: we say this every time and I have no idea

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Speaker 3: how you do it, but some people might know how

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Speaker 3: to right or apparently it's a way for other parents

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Speaker 3: to help find the show.

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Speaker 4: Good idea.

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Speaker 3: Thanks for tuning into wiggled Talk. It's a podcast for parents.

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Speaker 4: Beauty Mate