Speaker 1: Come on in.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, hello, we made it to Friday. We have
Speaker 2: this conversation every week.
Speaker 3: We say Friday and I say Friday.
Speaker 4: We need we need some more materials.
Speaker 5: So we're saying, why don't we just try saying, hey,
Speaker 5: welcome to the pick up.
Speaker 4: Hi, welcome to the pickup.
Speaker 5: Boring Friday.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I heard some more people are actually starting a
Speaker 3: four day work week.
Speaker 2: I really think we need to try and implement that
Speaker 2: with a boss again.
Speaker 6: But what is it that I don't want to implement that.
Speaker 6: I love being here with you guys. This is the
Speaker 6: highlight of my day.
Speaker 4: Is that? Awquipit?
Speaker 5: She loves well I had a knife to so she
Speaker 5: had to say it.
Speaker 3: No, I know what I'm going to be doing all weekend.
Speaker 3: Do you want me to tell you what you guys
Speaker 3: should be doing all weekend?
Speaker 4: What am I doing this weekend?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 3: So Stan's New Wolf Like Me has just dropped season two.
Speaker 4: No, I don't know if you Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, did you guys watch season one?
Speaker 4: I haven't seen season one? No, wait, what happens? It's
Speaker 4: Carla Fisher and though Joshad it's.
Speaker 2: Isle of Fisher Josh Gadd.
Speaker 3: So it's like it's homegrown, right, everyone loves Isle of
Speaker 3: Fisher here in Australia.
Speaker 4: Josh gadd is not so from Frozen.
Speaker 5: Your kids love him.
Speaker 6: I didn't know who he was, but now I the
Speaker 6: snowman in Frozen. Oh my god, amazing. Yes, I love him.
Speaker 6: I love a laugh it's him and Fisher.
Speaker 3: So it's I mean, this isn't a spoiler, but Isle
Speaker 3: of Fisher is a wolf, like she turns into It
Speaker 3: seems like a.
Speaker 7: Pretty big spoiler. Seems pretty spoilish.
Speaker 4: Says it in the title.
Speaker 2: These things were. It's ridiculous because she turns into a wolf,
Speaker 2: but they actually hit so many serious topics. It's amazing.
Speaker 2: Remember I auditioned for this.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we did be auditioned on the show.
Speaker 2: You helped me audition, but you didn't get a call back.
Speaker 5: They wanted no.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they said I wasn't wolf enough.
Speaker 5: It wasn't wolf enough.
Speaker 4: We read a letter to stand and let them know.
Speaker 2: So if stander listening, Yeah, we.
Speaker 5: Do love yourself.
Speaker 7: I saw a giant billboard for that driving into the
Speaker 7: show this afternoon, the new season season two will like
Speaker 7: me out now and well that's.
Speaker 4: What we're going to be doing tonight.
Speaker 6: Well, okay, if you're somebody who's been in a relationship
Speaker 6: for a long time and you want your partner to
Speaker 6: propose to you, they're dragging their feet. I have a
Speaker 6: technique that will be very handy for you. I think
Speaker 6: you should try this. I'll tell you all about it.
Speaker 7: Next last today on the show, Fruit Salad, Yummyummy. The Wiggles,
Speaker 7: Oh my god, I'm so excited, Salibs. We've spoken to.
Speaker 2: Some big names in the presence of royal guys.
Speaker 6: This is the music that gets absolutely slammed in my household.
Speaker 5: I'm sure.
Speaker 7: Well we'll get them on the Wiggles joining us as
Speaker 7: we start a Friday pick up.
Speaker 6: All right, everybody, I have an idea for you. That's
Speaker 6: not my idea, I've stolen it, but I think it
Speaker 6: might help you if you are in a long term
Speaker 6: relationship and you've been waiting for your partner to propose,
Speaker 6: but they're.
Speaker 4: Dragging their feet.
Speaker 6: I'm listening, Okay, Britt, what do you do you know
Speaker 6: if you've got a boyfriend and they won't propose to you, Like,
Speaker 6: how do you try and speed that process?
Speaker 3: But its subtly, not so subtly, like leaving the hints around,
Speaker 3: like pictures of rings with big circles around them and
Speaker 3: highlighted this wonderoman.
Speaker 6: Now she's been a relationship for seven years, which I
Speaker 6: think is a really long time. If one of you
Speaker 6: wants to get married now, her boyfriend says, yeah, in
Speaker 6: the future, but we can't do it. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 6: we don't have the money. We don't have this anyway.
Speaker 6: They're twenty nine years old now. Originally the excuses were
Speaker 6: that it was because they were still studying and they
Speaker 6: had other big things that they were working towards. Now
Speaker 6: he says it's because they just don't have quite enough money.
Speaker 6: But he recently went out and bought himself a motorbike,
Speaker 6: a very expensive motorbike, which made her realize maybe getting
Speaker 6: married is just not a priority to things cost money. Yes,
Speaker 6: they do, yeah, but you don't have to have a
Speaker 6: big wedding. It's not necessarily about the wedding, right like
Speaker 6: a seven years. It's about the commitment, it's about the ring.
Speaker 6: So what she did is she went and she spoke
Speaker 6: to her sister, and now her sister has been married.
Speaker 6: After two years of dating, they got engaged, they've gotten married.
Speaker 4: She's off living her life and doing what she wants.
Speaker 6: To do jealous and her sister said, here is something
Speaker 6: that I did in my relationship and it worked.
Speaker 2: A treat.
Speaker 6: You are going to withdraw all of your wife privileges.
Speaker 6: And what that means is instead of living together, instead
Speaker 6: of cooking and cleaning and picking up his clothes and
Speaker 6: making his life easier, all the things that you would
Speaker 6: do if you are together in a relationship, a committed,
Speaker 6: long term relationship. She was like, you have to remove
Speaker 6: the wife privileges go back to dating. So she's decided
Speaker 6: she's no longer going to sign the new lease with
Speaker 6: her partner unless he is going to propose to her.
Speaker 6: She's going to move out and she's going to go
Speaker 6: back to dating and see what happens.
Speaker 7: Wait, Laura, you're the only one in this room that's married.
Speaker 7: You're the only wife in the studio. Do you know, like,
Speaker 7: do you have wife privileges?
Speaker 5: Is that a thing? What are some other wife privileges
Speaker 5: that we don't know?
Speaker 6: About having a headache and going to sleep earlier? Okay,
Speaker 6: having seven minute missionary? No, okay, wife, I don't think
Speaker 6: that's it, because I think is what she's doing for him,
Speaker 6: not exactly. So, wife privileges is more so, just like
Speaker 6: when you're in a long term and committed relationship, it's
Speaker 6: all the things that you do to make your partner's
Speaker 6: life easier, the things that you would do if you
Speaker 6: were dating as well. But when you're dating, you get
Speaker 6: to go home to your own space and live in
Speaker 6: your you know, you can go back to your own apartment.
Speaker 6: You don't have to be in their space all the time.
Speaker 6: You also don't have to deal with all the things
Speaker 6: that are the undesirable parts of a relationship, like after
Speaker 6: each other. Yeah, and so she's just said, well, you're
Speaker 6: quite happy to live our life like we're married right now.
Speaker 6: You're quite happy to do everything that a married couple
Speaker 6: would do, but you don't have any of the responsibilities
Speaker 6: of being married.
Speaker 7: I think seven years is too long, Ritt. What do
Speaker 7: you stand on it? You need to have had the
Speaker 7: discussion or be ready to propose by.
Speaker 2: It's a pretty blanket statement to be like, seven years
Speaker 2: is too long.
Speaker 3: Who knows what's gone on in their life in seven
Speaker 3: years or other reasons behind it. But she does have
Speaker 3: to make a decision if like, is marriage important enough
Speaker 3: to her that if she's not going to get it
Speaker 3: she'll leave the relationship entirely.
Speaker 2: Otherwise it's an empty threat.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I agree, thirteen one of six five is seven
Speaker 7: years too long to wait to propose.
Speaker 5: Do you what, Laura, where do you stand on this?
Speaker 6: I mean, I think if it's what you want in
Speaker 6: your life, like for some people, marriage is important. For
Speaker 6: some people it's not. But if it's important to you
Speaker 6: and your partner knows it's important to you, then seven
Speaker 6: years of waiting for that is a real long time,
Speaker 6: especially if the excuses are we don't have enough money.
Speaker 4: I have enough money for a motorbike.
Speaker 7: The phone lines look at them like a Christmas tree.
Speaker 7: Lot people are opinionated, Amanda, what do you think seven years?
Speaker 5: Is it too long?
Speaker 1: On?
Speaker 5: No, it's fine.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think like a lot depends on the couple
Speaker 1: and there's a lot of factors weighing into it. But
Speaker 1: I mean they talk about a seven year itch when
Speaker 1: you're married, but I think this is a seven year
Speaker 1: itch to get married.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I agree. All right, Sarah, are you there?
Speaker 2: What do you think is seven years too long?
Speaker 1: I honestly don't think it is.
Speaker 8: You know, you're with someone that you love.
Speaker 1: And it's still working.
Speaker 2: I guess no, let's get to Casey. Casey is seven
Speaker 2: years too long?
Speaker 1: I would probably say yes, my opinion, but I mean
Speaker 1: everyone has their own opinion. But I would say yes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean fair, I'm only a year into my
Speaker 3: relationship and I'm like.
Speaker 6: Taking away the white privileges the last one eleanor quickly?
Speaker 5: Seven seven years too long? Not long enough for proposal,
Speaker 5: Way too long.
Speaker 9: I'd be out of there.
Speaker 5: Wown't even animals.
Speaker 7: We've got, we've done the pole. Eighty two percent of
Speaker 7: calls we've been taking them in the background. Eighty two
Speaker 7: percent say seven years is too long.
Speaker 4: I want to know, though, like, would you withdraw the privileges?
Speaker 4: Would you?
Speaker 6: Okay, if you get to a point where you're like,
Speaker 6: marry me or propose to me, or if you're not
Speaker 6: going to, then something needs to change.
Speaker 4: Don't think it out.
Speaker 3: No, I don't think a ultimatum is actually that healthy
Speaker 3: in a relationships.
Speaker 5: Absolutely not. I would not withdraw Privilegesn't.
Speaker 4: It so you just broke up with them?
Speaker 5: No, I wouldn't.
Speaker 4: And what'd you do? Just keep believing?
Speaker 5: I'd be very sad all the time.
Speaker 6: Yeah, everyone's a winner, Yeah, all right?
Speaker 7: Every next on the show fruit salad, yummy, yummy, big
Speaker 7: red car.
Speaker 4: This is a Wiggle. I've never been more excited to
Speaker 4: have a guest in the studio.
Speaker 5: I mean, we've interviewed some big celebs and Laura for
Speaker 5: the first time goes. I think I'm nervous. You never
Speaker 5: said that before.
Speaker 2: Reckon, they're going to bring a hot potato in.
Speaker 4: I reckon they're going to wear their colored shirts.
Speaker 5: Though.
Speaker 6: Honestly, my kids this morning, when I said that this
Speaker 6: is who we're interviewing, Molly almost climbed into my handbag.
Speaker 7: Seriously, kids, if you're in the car listening with Mum,
Speaker 7: if you've just been picked up from school, the Wiggles
Speaker 7: are joining us.
Speaker 5: They're taking over the pickup next thereby.
Speaker 6: Now we have Australian superstars here today.
Speaker 4: They are megastars.
Speaker 6: And I'm talking thirteen platinum albums, eight Gold albums, fifteen
Speaker 6: ARIA wins, the ARIA Hall of Fame, only six ARIA
Speaker 6: Award nominations.
Speaker 4: Have one more. Guess the.
Speaker 6: Bigger, bigger we have Greg and Jeff in the studio.
Speaker 6: Highs Like, I mean, I think I'm a mega fan.
Speaker 6: My kids are an even bigger mega fan. But I'm
Speaker 6: also a mega fan.
Speaker 9: Well, it's lovely to be here.
Speaker 4: Welcome to the people.
Speaker 3: Well, your documentary Hot Potato The Story of the Wiggles
Speaker 3: is available now on Amazon Prime. Now, look what I
Speaker 3: loved about this, and don't take this the wrong way,
Speaker 3: but I loved how many rejections you got. I loved
Speaker 3: how many failures you had before anyone would take you on.
Speaker 3: And the reason I say I love it is because
Speaker 3: we love a persistent success story.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 9: I think it's one of those things where we kind
Speaker 9: of felt we knew ourselves really well, and we we
Speaker 9: wanted to keep doing what we thought would be good
Speaker 9: for kids, and it ended up being the case. So
Speaker 9: we persisted and belted that brick wall down.
Speaker 5: But they're like a lot of it.
Speaker 7: Laura, you've seen the documentary, right, you were telling us
Speaker 7: some insights into what it actually took to get the
Speaker 7: Wiggles to be formed. There was a lot of resistance, right,
Speaker 7: you were saying, Laura, Well.
Speaker 6: We were watching it last night, and I think one
Speaker 6: of the things I didn't realize about the Wiggles because
Speaker 6: I think every parent puts it on their kids love it,
Speaker 6: but no one really sits down and unpacks. Why did
Speaker 6: the kids love it so much, and it was for
Speaker 6: me understanding the psychology around it and how much not
Speaker 6: just research, but how much effort is put into the
Speaker 6: songs and why kids engage the way that they do.
Speaker 4: And I guess it was learning that.
Speaker 6: So that all of you have come from the childcare
Speaker 6: background from Oh, Jeff's like.
Speaker 2: Me, any of you?
Speaker 5: What was your background?
Speaker 4: Had that interesting?
Speaker 8: Well?
Speaker 10: I studied industrial design.
Speaker 5: Did you design this giving?
Speaker 10: I designed the Dorothy hat Ah? Yeah, so I'm a
Speaker 10: very visually oriented person. I like building stuff with my answer?
Speaker 5: So cool?
Speaker 6: Where did that so in terms of like unpacking the
Speaker 6: psychology of kids and how they engage with the music,
Speaker 6: where did that come from?
Speaker 4: That interest come from?
Speaker 9: Well, it came from the fact that three of us
Speaker 9: were studying to be teachers, and we really just took
Speaker 9: our passion for music and combined it with what we'd
Speaker 9: learned about teaching children, and we made ourselves a much
Speaker 9: bigger classroom by playing to five hundred children at a
Speaker 9: time or you ended up being ten thousand sometimes that
Speaker 9: we'd play to. And once you understand what it is
Speaker 9: that children like and enjoy and how their mind processes things,
Speaker 9: it makes it much easier to write a song for
Speaker 9: a child.
Speaker 10: Oh that was not really simple, to write a simple
Speaker 10: song for children. That's true, it's hard to write a
Speaker 10: simple song.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 6: One of the things that I loved was the idea
Speaker 6: of kids taking power over adults and when they like
Speaker 6: to turn the tables and it makes them feel really
Speaker 6: excited about it. And part of that was your story, Jeff,
Speaker 6: with the whole wake Up Jeff narrative.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 10: I absolutely embraced that because I didn't need to engage
Speaker 10: the children on stage because I didn't have the experience
Speaker 10: of being an early childhood teacher, so it was.
Speaker 2: Like, I'll be the one that goes to sleep.
Speaker 5: Genius.
Speaker 9: The great thing is because Jeff was asleep so much
Speaker 9: for thirty years, he actually got to watch the documentary
Speaker 9: and catch up on what happened.
Speaker 5: That's so true, and it's so good.
Speaker 7: You look the youngest out of all of them, Jeff said, sleeping.
Speaker 4: I mean for both of you, you retired and left
Speaker 4: the Wiggles. When was that?
Speaker 9: What was the well I left in the two thousand
Speaker 9: and six through ill health.
Speaker 10: Yep, myself and marrying twenty twelve. That was I l
Speaker 10: asked you of performing.
Speaker 6: Do you look at the new Wiggles now and do
Speaker 6: you have I guess like, are you proud of where
Speaker 6: they're at, with what they're doing. Do you ever feel
Speaker 6: like you wish you were still a part of it?
Speaker 5: Relation, Yeah, because the drama would also be good.
Speaker 9: No, No, we love them. They wiggle better than us.
Speaker 7: So that hot one, the hot one Wiggles really well,
Speaker 7: who you calling the hot well, all of them, they're
Speaker 7: busy in the purple skip of John John He's had
Speaker 7: global success for being so gorgeous.
Speaker 9: Some of the mums and I'm not speaking for anybody
Speaker 9: in our company, but some of the mums think he
Speaker 9: is quite hot.
Speaker 4: Yes, I think some of the mums still go for
Speaker 4: Locky as well. Don't worry.
Speaker 7: Truth comes out and Captain feathersode too. He goes all right.
Speaker 2: So Greg and Jeff, what are you guys doing now?
Speaker 3: Because it must be hard to have been so popular
Speaker 3: for so long and so busy and touring and filming
Speaker 3: and putting songs down recording. Was it hard to walk away?
Speaker 3: And what does life look like now?
Speaker 9: Yeah, when you go from being popular and unpopular, it
Speaker 9: was hard to walk away. Honestly, it's because the Wiggles
Speaker 9: was so much of our lives. Certainly for me when
Speaker 9: I left in two thousand and six, it left a
Speaker 9: big hole in my life. But I had to leave
Speaker 9: because I was unwell. I had to deal with that.
Speaker 10: What about from the classic baby boomer retiree? And I've
Speaker 10: been dabbling and playing in bands here and there, not
Speaker 10: not a lot, but it's fun when you do. And
Speaker 10: plus getting together with the og Wiggles that has been
Speaker 10: the high life.
Speaker 9: So we still get to do what we love doing
Speaker 9: every now and then.
Speaker 7: Listen, you can watch it Hot Potato, The Story of
Speaker 7: the Wiggles, available on Amazon Prime Now.
Speaker 5: Greg and Jeff.
Speaker 7: Great to have you in your superstars in our eyes
Speaker 7: and the audience is a pick up. This is prime
Speaker 7: Wiggles listenership and has.
Speaker 6: A mom like for anyone who's grown up with the
Speaker 6: Wiggles who has kids that still enjoy it. Today watching
Speaker 6: the doco was so interesting and yeah, it just gave
Speaker 6: a whole new insight into what you've achieved over the years.
Speaker 5: Guys, wake up. Jeff.
Speaker 3: So, I was talking earlier in the week about a
Speaker 3: moment I had where I thought I don't want to
Speaker 3: be friends with Mitch and Laura anymore.
Speaker 4: And it was on the plane.
Speaker 3: It was both of your plane manners, of which there
Speaker 3: were none, and you were talking obnoxiously loud.
Speaker 2: They were swearing.
Speaker 4: There was not swearing. I don't swear because I'm a mom,
Speaker 4: so I don't swear anymore.
Speaker 7: It was jealousy because we were having so much fun.
Speaker 7: Laura and I were connecting, the laughing, and you were jealous.
Speaker 3: Pros I was like another rollaway. So passengers didn't know
Speaker 3: that I was with the same party. They didn't know
Speaker 3: I knew you, and they were literally complaining to me.
Speaker 3: And I was mortified, so I pretended as well. I
Speaker 3: was like, oh, aren't they terrible?
Speaker 8: Yes.
Speaker 3: Anyway, it got us thinking, what did you experience on
Speaker 3: a plane? Because we have a five hundred dollars chemist
Speaker 3: ware house voutcha to give away.
Speaker 4: We wanted you to call up and let us.
Speaker 3: Know the weirdest, most disgusting, the rudest experience you had
Speaker 3: on a plane.
Speaker 4: It was disgusting. Shoes were off, Yes they were not off.
Speaker 4: I was wearing sandals.
Speaker 6: But I think that these calls are to show you
Speaker 6: that what we did was not that bad, and now
Speaker 6: other people have it way worse.
Speaker 2: Well, let's go to them. Lisa, Lisa, what did you
Speaker 2: see on a plane?
Speaker 8: Oh, it's not what I saw, it's what ud smell.
Speaker 8: I was up on the front, right up in front
Speaker 8: of an air bus and this gentleman's was on the
Speaker 8: last row, and because he took his shoes off and
Speaker 8: fell asleep, and the whole plane was just disgusting.
Speaker 5: I hate that.
Speaker 2: There's nothing worse than that, is there?
Speaker 9: Laura?
Speaker 4: Does that all I did?
Speaker 6: Brittany, I am so tired of this. I do not
Speaker 6: take my shoes off. What it's worth while you do?
Speaker 6: She's barefoot in the studio. Now you do take them off,
Speaker 6: but you don't smell.
Speaker 4: They just so many times a day, and I wear sands.
Speaker 5: They look like a pair of oars. Wild.
Speaker 3: I just want to fight between you two. Please, sorry, stop,
Speaker 3: We've got Craig on the line.
Speaker 5: Hi, Craig, What did you see on the plane?
Speaker 8: So?
Speaker 1: My partner and I were traveling from Chiro to the
Speaker 1: Maldives on a flight and we were halfway through. We
Speaker 1: just got our meals and I felt a warm sensation
Speaker 1: dripped down my back on my arm, and I looked
Speaker 1: behind me and a very very drunk passenger had projectile.
Speaker 2: No, Craig, you had someone suck you into the flight?
Speaker 5: Was it?
Speaker 2: What was the consistency?
Speaker 1: It was a chunky but running it was. It was
Speaker 1: about three hours into a seven hour floor.
Speaker 7: Oh did they apologize what they did?
Speaker 1: I had to take off my shirt because I didn't
Speaker 1: I didn't have any extra close with me, so they
Speaker 1: gave me a blanket to refround me for the rest
Speaker 1: of the flight.
Speaker 4: Basically, you're a sng wrapped.
Speaker 1: Around you, basically basically, And just the smell in the
Speaker 1: cabin was disgusting. But yes, it went into my food.
Speaker 2: Into your tomb.
Speaker 6: I'm a sympathetic vometer, so for me this would just
Speaker 6: be Oh, it was.
Speaker 1: Just it was just a smell for me because I
Speaker 1: went into the bathroom. So let me go up to
Speaker 1: the business class bathroom to use their fragrant stuff. But
Speaker 1: it didn't work. The smell was just horrendous.
Speaker 5: Oh, Craig, I can smell it on you now, mate, bro,
Speaker 5: I'm on the last one. What did you see on
Speaker 5: a plane?
Speaker 3: What happened basically on.
Speaker 8: The Longhole flight?
Speaker 1: My onslighte entertainment was watching a man paint his wife's toenails.
Speaker 1: Had he actually been too.
Speaker 2: Put the top on as well.
Speaker 4: It's actually impressive and it was perfect.
Speaker 8: I felt like asking him to do mine as well.
Speaker 4: I thought that they couldn't do that on a flight.
Speaker 3: I thought that, but that's the smell of that would
Speaker 3: be so potent, that would put everyone off.
Speaker 4: At least it would cover up the smell from the
Speaker 4: first caller.
Speaker 3: All right, well, I don't know I'm in the mood
Speaker 3: to give five hundred dollars away Camus Warehouse Botcher.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: I cannot go past Craig and the chunky vomit being
Speaker 3: vomited on. I'm sorry, but that deserves a five hundred. Also,
Speaker 3: it's all yours. I don't know what you're going to
Speaker 3: buy with it. Maybe some perfume in case it happens again.
Speaker 1: Sounds like a good idea.
Speaker 7: If you missed any of the show today, we just
Speaker 7: had the Wiggles on. Laura's talking about her wife privileges.
Speaker 7: It's all on the podcast.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I didn't talk about that at all.
Speaker 4: But anyway, glad that you were listening.
Speaker 5: What did you talk about?
Speaker 4: We're not okay, Just go and listen to it on
Speaker 4: the pick up on the podcasts.
Speaker 5: See you Monday, Bye bye guys,