Speaker 1: I'm back. Yes, it is me, Art Simone, and I
Speaker 1: think it has been far too long since I've been
Speaker 1: in your e holes. So I have returned, and with me,
Speaker 1: I have brought along more fascinating and peculiar people. So
Speaker 1: together we can uncover the weird ways seemingly normal people
Speaker 1: make money, spend their spare time, or even the big
Speaker 1: secrets have kept hidden until now. This is concealed with me,
Speaker 1: Art Simone, let's get to it. Bring me now.
Speaker 2: Guess hi.
Speaker 3: My name is Emma. I run a successful or a
Speaker 3: medial massage business. I'm a sole practitioner. I also used
Speaker 3: to be an intensive care cutting of thoracic.
Speaker 2: Nurse for many years. I live in the suburbs. I
Speaker 2: have two kids. I'm actually in a blend of family
Speaker 2: that's six kids.
Speaker 3: But Art actually knows me, but would not recognize me
Speaker 3: if she saw me.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, Hello Emma, how are you going? Thank
Speaker 1: you are the mystery, the mystery I may know you. Yes, so,
Speaker 1: remedial massage practition person, practitioner, sole person, all the above,
Speaker 1: all of that remedial that means like fixing things with massage,
Speaker 1: right it does. Yeah, I'm a bit dumb. So I
Speaker 1: just like that.
Speaker 2: No, everybody asked, what is remedial? What's the difference.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you're not doing, like, you know, massages in
Speaker 1: that dark, little like venue that I walked past with
Speaker 1: the red light out the front. You know, you're doing
Speaker 1: things in which you can help people.
Speaker 2: That's right, and you can claim on your health.
Speaker 1: Oh that's good. Actually, that's good. What's your favorite thing
Speaker 1: to massage?
Speaker 3: I would say probably shoulders. I'll give you a nice clean.
Speaker 1: Answer there, shoulders. Okay, just thriting that down. This could
Speaker 1: be a clue. This could be a clue, shoulders. And
Speaker 1: you used to be a nurse in akasak about.
Speaker 2: With hearts, and.
Speaker 1: So you can do nursing with heart's intensive care. What
Speaker 1: got you out of it? Too many hearts? Too much love?
Speaker 3: Well, the other thing that you'd know me for. I
Speaker 3: would dovetail the two of them. So I eventually got
Speaker 3: out of nursing because I'd been out of it for
Speaker 3: probably about five years, and I had to do a
Speaker 3: refresher cause and it was going to cost me ten
Speaker 3: thousand dollars and I went no, Hence why I am
Speaker 3: now a medial massage therapy?
Speaker 1: Yes, speaking of are you and your massage remedial massage uniform.
Speaker 1: At the moment, I wasn't sure when you walked in,
Speaker 1: because you look like you've come straight from work? Is
Speaker 1: that correct? Or you just wear this? Do you just
Speaker 1: go to Cols? You like to put it on? Is
Speaker 1: it part of your advertising? You put it on to
Speaker 1: go walk around Cols?
Speaker 2: You know I came straight from what?
Speaker 1: Okay, so it looks like a nursing top.
Speaker 2: It does at the hospital scrubs.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but blue hospital scrubs. Your hair's tied back, You're
Speaker 1: all prim and proper and ready to help remedy some shoulders.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 1: Okay. Now, what I'm going to do is ask you
Speaker 1: three questions, and from the answers to those three questions,
Speaker 1: I have to determine what it is you're concealing from me.
Speaker 2: May the odds be ever in your favor?
Speaker 1: Okay. With all the information put together, right, we've got
Speaker 1: remedial message, We've got shoulders, we've got six kids, blended family,
Speaker 1: nurse hearts, and apparently I may know you.
Speaker 2: Okay, Yes, I think you might even love me.
Speaker 1: I might love you, Oh my goodness, adore me. I
Speaker 1: might know you might love well, this is so, it's
Speaker 1: so koky. This is like what I met a meet
Speaker 1: and greet and I meet someone and they're like, we've
Speaker 1: met three times before, you don't remember me. I'm like, ma'am,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Okay, you're just another person at the moment. Okay,
Speaker 1: I meet a lot of people really lovely, but I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't remember you. I'm sorry. Okay. Have I met
Speaker 1: you at a meet and greet before?
Speaker 2: No, not that I'm aware of.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get that out of the way. Okay,
Speaker 1: first question, do you have any pets?
Speaker 2: I do? I have two dogs and a cat.
Speaker 1: Okay, what are their names?
Speaker 2: Buddy Maker and Ziggy?
Speaker 1: Oh my god, my car was called Ziggy because their
Speaker 1: number plate was d HD. But she just went out
Speaker 1: to pasture. I had to upgrade. I know, little blue
Speaker 1: yarist's gone. No more. Question number two, Yes, what vegetable
Speaker 1: do you most align with?
Speaker 2: A vegetable would have to be a carrot? A carrot?
Speaker 1: And what do you like about a carrot? What functions?
Speaker 2: Crunchy?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, crunchy. That's so you're more of a raw
Speaker 1: carrot rather than a cook. Well you can eat them
Speaker 1: cooked too, Yeah, I love a cooked carrot, baked carrot.
Speaker 2: And it is full of vitamin C.
Speaker 1: Okay, stop selling me the carrots. It's fine. Vegetables, it's fine.
Speaker 1: And the third question is do you have an alter ego?
Speaker 1: If so, a bit about them? What's their personality?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 3: Absolutely, Cheeky gets away with anything, completely inclusive of everybody,
Speaker 3: loves everybody, and naughty as all get out and non
Speaker 3: stop talking.
Speaker 1: This is really hard this week. Okay, I'm going to
Speaker 1: talk it out all right. Suck radial massage, used to
Speaker 1: be an earth work with the hearts, likes to touch shoulders,
Speaker 1: six kids, two dogs, and a cat, ziggy car that's
Speaker 1: my thing. Carrots, crunchy and cheeky gets away, inclusive, naughty.
Speaker 1: Oh Emma, this is a hard one. And I may
Speaker 1: know you somehow, do Okay. All that's coming to mind is, so,
Speaker 1: there's this man that walks around in Melbourne with a
Speaker 1: giant carrot. He's the Carrot Man and he has a
Speaker 1: giant carrot and he just shows up all the time
Speaker 1: and walks into venues and has his carrot. No one
Speaker 1: knows why, except for the fact that he just says
Speaker 1: it makes people feel good. So maybe, just maybe because
Speaker 1: you're in Sydney. Maybe you were the Sydney equivalent of
Speaker 1: carrot person or is it a carrot man your carrot woman?
Speaker 1: Maybe that's maybe that's who you are. Are you, Emma?
Speaker 1: Are you a carrant woman?
Speaker 2: I would love to be, but I'm not. No, I'm not.
Speaker 3: I am a professional puppeteer and voice artist. I have
Speaker 3: been doing professional puppeteering since the early nineties. One of
Speaker 3: my most favorite things I've ever worked on was the Ferrals,
Speaker 3: where I was mixy for two series Affairs and then two.
Speaker 1: Wait, I pulled my headphones out. Wait, don't say anything,
Speaker 1: don't say anything, let me pull Then well, I have
Speaker 1: to start again. I pulled my headphones out. Go back,
Speaker 1: Go back.
Speaker 3: I am a professional puppeteer and voice artist. I have
Speaker 3: been doing professional puppeteering since the early nineties. One of
Speaker 3: my most favorite things I've ever worked on was the Ferrels,
Speaker 3: where I was mixy for two series of Ferrels and
Speaker 3: then two series of Feral TV. I've also been a magpie,
Speaker 3: metrtoise and multiple farm yarn animals on bananas in pajamas, and.
Speaker 2: A whole hip of other things. I can never remember.
Speaker 2: This is so exciting ever, whoa.
Speaker 1: This is cooked? I love it. You're a papetier. You're
Speaker 1: like a famous papetier. You are my childhood. Oh why
Speaker 1: Emma's not a current person. She's Mixy MIXI sitting in
Speaker 1: front of me. Mixy Mixy Metoda Mixy the puppet got you.
Speaker 1: Do you think she knows that I've got a tattoo.
Speaker 1: I've got a tattoo with it? Is that weird? Should
Speaker 1: I show it? I don't know it's weird, But I've
Speaker 1: got a tatto show show. I'm gona thing. I'm going
Speaker 1: to show it.
Speaker 4: Niche watching them.
Speaker 1: Okay, we're here with Emma, and I've just found out
Speaker 1: that no, she is not carrot woman from Sydney. She is,
Speaker 1: in fact a puppetier, such a famous puppeteer, in fact
Speaker 1: that she was the puppeteer for MIXI in the Ferals
Speaker 1: Mixed Mitosis. Oh my goodness. Well you got so much
Speaker 1: to get into. We'll go back to the start. How
Speaker 1: did you get into puppeteering and voice work?
Speaker 3: Well, puppeteering I basically learned through some friends. I'd always
Speaker 3: wanted to be a performer of some description, and I
Speaker 3: happened to be at the studio where they were making
Speaker 3: these friends doing their own little puppet thing, going to
Speaker 3: be making kids series. ABC came to see their puppets
Speaker 3: and to see if they were the type of animals
Speaker 3: they wanted to make for their show, The Ferals, and
Speaker 3: I happened to be there that day, and they went on,
Speaker 3: not really the puppets. Does anyone want to audition? Though,
Speaker 3: i'd probably last time I picked up a puppet was
Speaker 3: a year before that, and had very rudimentary.
Speaker 2: Skills, But I went yes, yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 3: And they said, well, yeah, come on in. I auditioned
Speaker 3: and my skills were abominable, but I had the little
Speaker 3: voice that they wanted for the little pink bunny rabbit.
Speaker 2: They so that's perfect.
Speaker 1: So your first proper puppeteering gig was the ferohs it was.
Speaker 1: It's pretty cool, isn't it.
Speaker 3: I know, it was very cool. It was a dream
Speaker 3: come true. It was so much fun.
Speaker 1: So you get told you're going to be mixy. How
Speaker 1: does it work into developing? I guess she's like scripted,
Speaker 1: of course, but how much of that, like, is there
Speaker 1: a lot of development in you working out like who
Speaker 1: she is and what she's going to be like and
Speaker 1: how does that how you develop the character?
Speaker 2: Sure, so.
Speaker 3: To start off with we I think we had a
Speaker 3: big chunk of time where we had rehearsals and your
Speaker 3: work out relationship between the different characters, and we really
Speaker 3: as a series developed, we'd realize, oh, my character would
Speaker 3: never do that or say that or be like that,
Speaker 3: so very much it became what how we reacted. We
Speaker 3: had our scripts always set up underneath the set so
Speaker 3: we could see. We'd be doing the script and watching
Speaker 3: television monitor which was reverse scan, so it looked like
Speaker 3: we're looking in a mirror. So we could often get
Speaker 3: some ad lib stuff, stuff that just worked with it.
Speaker 3: And yeah, often scriptwriters a new scriptwriter and write something
Speaker 3: because they've been given the brief, and then we'd go, ah,
Speaker 3: my character never to say that, so we'd end up
Speaker 3: rewriting things on the go. Basically, Wow, didn't you have.
Speaker 5: A dream about during the world with a rock band?
Speaker 4: Oh right, it's it's never got to work. Even the
Speaker 4: Beatles started somewhere with music lessons.
Speaker 1: There's no Beatles in you just call quotes you guys mind,
Speaker 1: We've got to practice. How did you develop the voice
Speaker 1: to mix you?
Speaker 3: I think that came from being an ID and just
Speaker 3: making funny noises and funny voices, and I think it
Speaker 3: was actually a baby voice that I sort of developed
Speaker 3: and then it became Mixy. One time we were showing
Speaker 3: This is Chinese Delegate the studios and they wanted to
Speaker 3: hear me doing the voice, and they actually said, through
Speaker 3: the translator, what has she got in the mouth doing?
Speaker 2: What do you mean? What have I got in my mouth?
Speaker 2: How are you making that noise? They said, how are
Speaker 2: you making that noise?
Speaker 3: And surprisingly, it's exactly whatever I'm doing is whatever helium
Speaker 3: does dear throat. Ah, So if I suck helium, I
Speaker 3: sound like Mixy.
Speaker 1: Oh when you can just get your vocal cords to
Speaker 1: do that? Can you put an extra dose of helium
Speaker 1: on Mixy? And then she's just super high.
Speaker 3: I've tried that, Yes, I haven't they And then she
Speaker 3: talks in a registered and nobody can hear.
Speaker 2: Except the dogs.
Speaker 1: Only the dogs can hear. Only the dogs, only Darren
Speaker 1: can hear. What was it like basically being famous but
Speaker 1: having no one know it?
Speaker 2: Hilarious?
Speaker 1: Like would you sometimes be on a telephone and just
Speaker 1: like slip into voice just to like confuse people.
Speaker 2: I would do it for people.
Speaker 3: I'd get people who would request that I ring up
Speaker 3: some and so for their birthday, and so I do
Speaker 3: that for them. It was a weird time when any
Speaker 3: other famous Australian would be recognized or ask for an
Speaker 3: autograph and you'd walk through and no one would know
Speaker 3: who you were.
Speaker 1: No, do you know that I have a mixy tattoo?
Speaker 2: I've seen it, yes.
Speaker 1: But it's crazy though, because you're a celebrity, but you
Speaker 1: get to be in disguised because most people they just
Speaker 1: know the puppet. But even puppeteering is really hard. I
Speaker 1: have like a box filled with all puppets that I
Speaker 1: can't even begin to operate at all because there's so
Speaker 1: many motor skills that are being used. Because you're retraining
Speaker 1: your hand.
Speaker 2: Yeah, to move at the same time as your mouth.
Speaker 1: Yeah, at the same time as your mouth. The puppets
Speaker 1: are like you can have with them for their hands.
Speaker 2: Yeah, their muppet style puppets.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Were you operating both her hands at the same time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So I just sort of had my arm stretched
Speaker 3: up in the air.
Speaker 2: A perfect just put it this way, A perfect.
Speaker 3: Gene pool of people that would be born with those
Speaker 3: with an arm sticking out where their head was and
Speaker 3: their headstcking out where their arm was, because you've got
Speaker 3: to keep your head out a shot all the time
Speaker 3: and have your arm up in the air and the
Speaker 3: other hand sort of like chopsticks operating the other rods
Speaker 3: coming out from the rabbit's arms.
Speaker 1: You have to tell me, because I don't remember. Was
Speaker 1: it like a big hit or was it? Is it
Speaker 1: something that's just grown.
Speaker 2: It certainly was very popular.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: It was aimed at the eight to twelve year olds, yes,
Speaker 3: and it was very popular.
Speaker 2: When I was on.
Speaker 3: We used to get a lot of fan mail, a
Speaker 3: lot of kids racing home from school to watch it.
Speaker 2: This is before digital.
Speaker 3: TV, of course, so you didn't get to really choose
Speaker 3: what you were watching. And then in later years when
Speaker 3: it came was no longer being aired, had lots of repeats.
Speaker 3: But when it wasn't anymore, we seem to get at
Speaker 3: that era of kid it was growing up became cult
Speaker 3: like in the following event.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because I think I hooked onto it during like
Speaker 1: the reruns, because I'm a bit I'm a ninety two baby,
Speaker 1: so little one, lidle one, so I was a bit
Speaker 1: too young when it first came out, but I remember
Speaker 1: still watching it like with reruns repeatedly and falling in
Speaker 1: love and I think it's so funny. If no one
Speaker 1: has seen The Ferrels, I just love it because it's
Speaker 1: like this weird, like Bogan version of like the Muppets,
Speaker 1: but it's like the Australian version because everyone is a
Speaker 1: bit rough around the edges. They're all feral. Of course,
Speaker 1: it's so disgustingly camp and it makes me so happy.
Speaker 1: It's good. Do you have any like fun stories from
Speaker 1: filming The Ferals, Like, what are some of the funniest
Speaker 1: best moments?
Speaker 3: Ah, there are way too many to recall, but a
Speaker 3: couple of occasions it'd be scripted a funny line and
Speaker 3: we'd shoot it, but we'd have to reshoot it because
Speaker 3: one of the camera guys to be laughing his head
Speaker 3: off and it would bleed through into the MIC's.
Speaker 1: That happens sometimes? I wonder where that happens sometimes, So
Speaker 1: I'm just looking at my producer at the moment, who
Speaker 1: loves to laugh, and I'm very hilarious jokes. I've seen
Speaker 1: the rolled mixing out many times, like in the later years.
Speaker 1: She's now dressed a lot nicer who gets to perform
Speaker 1: her in those points. Have you been able to me?
Speaker 1: You still get to go back and.
Speaker 3: Do her there is fortunately, well it's a bit sad actually.
Speaker 3: When the ABC moved from in Sydney from it's one
Speaker 3: place to its next place, there was a huge clean
Speaker 3: out from the ABC there and I got a phone
Speaker 3: call from one of the wardrobe women saying, am I
Speaker 3: quick come. They're putting all the puppets and all the
Speaker 3: clothes and everything into the bin. So I went, I've
Speaker 3: got a garage quick, I'll grab them. So they came
Speaker 3: to live with me for a while. They started to disintegrate.
Speaker 1: Because they're just mostly foam, aren't they?
Speaker 3: Rich Texango and so I wasn't in a hermetically sealed environment.
Speaker 3: Mixy is the version that you see now. She's the
Speaker 3: newer version. There were two versions of her Maid because
Speaker 3: for about five years.
Speaker 2: Mixy hosted all the kids programs I did that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it seems like they've brought Mixy and Medigliana out
Speaker 1: a lot because she hosted this pet.
Speaker 2: Show for a while was called Creature Features.
Speaker 1: Yes, because I used to watch that too, and so
Speaker 1: it's funny that they've been able to have lives. They're
Speaker 1: like real celebrities, which is, you know, like it's so
Speaker 1: good that they don't just have to live within the
Speaker 1: world of the falls. They're like, how we can bring
Speaker 1: out Mixy for this? Yeah, that's so fascinat because I
Speaker 1: was worried that someone else gets to perform her. But no,
Speaker 1: it's true.
Speaker 3: Well, the last thing I did, which was for New
Speaker 3: Year's Eve, yes in Sydney and ABC had a little
Speaker 3: pre recorded thing and one of the things was it
Speaker 3: had Moody and Mixy there and unfortunately I was away
Speaker 3: when they were going to be filming it. So the
Speaker 3: puppet maker puppeteered for me and then I revoiced it.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, So that's one of the very few times
Speaker 3: that I have not actually been the pupperteer for the puppet.
Speaker 1: So when they had to move out of your garage,
Speaker 1: where did they go? Where are they living? Now?
Speaker 3: Well, very sad truth, they went to the next garage
Speaker 3: and they just disintegrated, Yes, and they fell apart and
Speaker 3: they were on the curb side cleaner.
Speaker 2: Oh not went to the bin. They became an offering
Speaker 2: to the landfilled gods.
Speaker 1: So the ones we see today are like remax.
Speaker 3: Well, Mudy isn't and Mixy isn't because they were sort
Speaker 3: of precious to Mal and myself and I grew up
Speaker 3: with Mao. That's how I learned my puppetry. Really, yeah,
Speaker 3: who does Moudy and.
Speaker 2: They?
Speaker 3: I think because Mudy been used for creature features as well,
Speaker 3: so those two had been kept at the ABC. The
Speaker 3: rest of them were just being thrown out, so that's
Speaker 3: why they were. The Mixy that you see now was
Speaker 3: made for the link, so she's not feralized.
Speaker 2: She's not. She's very sweet looking these days, but underneath
Speaker 2: she's not.
Speaker 1: If you had to adapt your character play with her
Speaker 1: a little bit, well.
Speaker 3: Well, I did have an extended season of me just
Speaker 3: writing the script for Mixie. We then brought in another
Speaker 3: character as well, which was a kangaroo, which Mal did
Speaker 3: and it was so it was so boring, just you
Speaker 3: talking to camera over and over again. So I developed
Speaker 3: for MIXI a little sock puppet called Sally, Sally the
Speaker 3: sock Puppet, which was Mixy's puppet. And Sally the sock
Speaker 3: Puppet was awful. She was a complete b r. She
Speaker 3: screamed at everybody and hated everybody, and it was.
Speaker 1: Fine, and you can be like, well, it's not Mixie
Speaker 1: that's saying it. It's the sock puppet dolls. That's exactly.
Speaker 2: It's not me. It's not even mix It's a sock puppet.
Speaker 2: It's hilarious. So yes, that's easy to get around those moments.
Speaker 1: But do you feel a certain level of ownership over
Speaker 1: Mixy one? And what's that like? Because I guess ABC
Speaker 1: owns who are owned.
Speaker 3: Oh yes, you said that with a question and voice,
Speaker 3: as everybody does. Because once they went, they can go
Speaker 3: off and to the Skip Pico and go where.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're ready to show it out, like I know.
Speaker 3: So out of integrity, I know Mal wouldn't and I wouldn't.
Speaker 3: We wouldn't just go and start our own thing with
Speaker 3: those puppets and make something with them. Why not having
Speaker 3: the money to do it. But I think we've out
Speaker 3: of integrity and for memory sake, we've looked after them
Speaker 3: and kept them and I'll bring them out for kids
Speaker 3: and do the puppet thing for them and stuff like that.
Speaker 3: But at the moment, the last few years they've been
Speaker 3: down in Melbourne at the ACMI, which is Cinema and
Speaker 3: ACME Institute, and they've been on display there. But I'm
Speaker 3: the one they've contacted and I'm the one who signs
Speaker 3: all the contracts that it's okay, and if they want
Speaker 3: to extend it, they have to get my permission.
Speaker 1: So you like, the rules are, if she comes out,
Speaker 1: you have to be able to do her unless you like, Sorry, babes,
Speaker 1: I don't want her. You get someone else.
Speaker 3: Basically, I get asked, it has been off at all?
Speaker 3: Can we just since you're not about it, can we
Speaker 3: just get someone else to do it?
Speaker 4: Again't know?
Speaker 1: But that's good though, That's fabulous, because I'd be worried.
Speaker 1: You know, you put in years of work and this
Speaker 1: is your character. You know, it'd be like someone else
Speaker 1: voicing Bart Simpson. Why no?
Speaker 3: Exactly exactly the point I made to a friend yesterday. Actually,
Speaker 3: they said, well, couldn't anybody don't know, be like saying,
Speaker 3: now Bat Simpson's voice by somebody else?
Speaker 2: You know, because the whole you know, you just know.
Speaker 1: You and you know the character better than it. It's
Speaker 1: not even about the voice, is it. It's like you
Speaker 1: know the character. It's because it's you. I'd like someone
Speaker 1: else trying to someone playing me exactly. I wouldn't let
Speaker 1: that happen. You could put them in the same dress,
Speaker 1: put them in the same makeup, but it wouldn't be
Speaker 1: the same, not at all. We don't want an Aldie
Speaker 1: version of mixy, do we not?
Speaker 4: Me?
Speaker 1: So the pharaohs ends are awful. We're upset. What other
Speaker 1: work does that push you into? Or you're open for you?
Speaker 4: Do you?
Speaker 1: Did you do more puppeteering and voicemail?
Speaker 2: Absolutely?
Speaker 4: And I haven't.
Speaker 2: I haven't stopped. Basically, if anything comes up, I.
Speaker 1: Work on it.
Speaker 3: It was about a ten year period where I worked
Speaker 3: on some Domeo commercials.
Speaker 2: Yes, I did get out of town so that that
Speaker 2: was like working on a TV series.
Speaker 1: You were not fun. Okay, you can made me adds
Speaker 1: this for me because I swear they used those like
Speaker 1: puppets across the world. They did. So were they based
Speaker 1: from here or were they?
Speaker 2: Yes, they were made here. It was all filmed here.
Speaker 3: We barely saw a fraction of all the ads that
Speaker 3: were made. They made the most beautiful advertisements.
Speaker 1: And mom, I think of these days even bad before.
Speaker 1: That's because the mother's inatun Domio girl has just made
Speaker 1: a resurgence recently. She is like mean fame as on
Speaker 1: my train. Hello, you did Tommio girl.
Speaker 3: I did.
Speaker 2: The one with the long dark Yes, yes, that's me.
Speaker 2: I didn't do a.
Speaker 1: Voice though, it was all no but no of course,
Speaker 1: but you Poppatito, that's cab So one of the ones.
Speaker 1: Have you done? Tell me? Tell me?
Speaker 2: I said, I can never remember. I knowed long list.
Speaker 3: I worked recently on an ad that's in America, but
Speaker 3: it's this squirrel, an amazing squirrel. The special effects company
Speaker 3: that do hates the stuff like Alien and yeah, Massive
Speaker 3: movies and thor and so I operated that. That was
Speaker 3: for investment company. But the voice that I was doing
Speaker 3: it too was Christopher Walker.
Speaker 5: In first thing is not for everyone, right.
Speaker 1: Wrong.
Speaker 4: Wealth comes from pennies like oaks come from Acorn's wealth comes.
Speaker 2: From So that was That was pretty cool.
Speaker 3: But I've worked on a series that was a co
Speaker 3: production with Henson's and with an Australian company.
Speaker 2: This was called Bambaloo. I had live action and puppets
Speaker 2: in it, and I was Porscha of the parish.
Speaker 1: In that.
Speaker 2: I'm Porscha and they make a hollerble And we did
Speaker 2: a couple of series of that. That was about twenty
Speaker 2: years ago.
Speaker 1: And you said, you worked on Bana's in pajamas. Who
Speaker 1: were you in that?
Speaker 3: So I didn't do a banana because they ate and
Speaker 3: a half foot tool and so they were six foot
Speaker 3: tall men in the banana suit.
Speaker 2: But I did some extra characters in there. I did.
Speaker 3: There was a magpie, she was in several series of that.
Speaker 3: I had to sit in the car before I started
Speaker 3: filming that and practice cowardling like a magpie.
Speaker 1: I can't do it. You will have to do better
Speaker 1: than that to get a munchie. Honeycake Maggie. Now say
Speaker 1: pretty Maggie. You know Maggie.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm so good.
Speaker 3: Come to me from any bird calling advice. Then Maggie
Speaker 3: had a little baby as well. So I did that
Speaker 3: and there was a tortoise in it, and the tortoise it.
Speaker 2: His name was to Stoy.
Speaker 1: Toll Stoy and his new friend Thomasina had some exciting
Speaker 1: news for the bananas. You're getting married. You want us
Speaker 1: to be your best bananas sounds like they're scattering in
Speaker 1: a jazz bed, scutting tortoise. You can have that, that's yours.
Speaker 3: Then they did other series and they had farmyard animals
Speaker 3: and there were pigs and chickens and sheep, and it
Speaker 3: was even a cow.
Speaker 1: It's crazy how you can recall them all, because I've
Speaker 1: done some things before, like acting things, and I could
Speaker 1: not tell you what they sounded like. I think I
Speaker 1: just always revert back to sounding like a poor bogain.
Speaker 1: But it's amazing how you get like it looks like
Speaker 1: you can just flip a switch and then it comes
Speaker 1: back to you.
Speaker 3: And I think that's from the repetition of doing it.
Speaker 3: Mixy is just so ingrained into me, and there's no
Speaker 3: way I can forget what she sounds like.
Speaker 1: I know I'm going to wake up in the middle
Speaker 1: of the night and be like, I didn't ask that,
Speaker 1: But we do have to wrap it up. But to
Speaker 1: close it out, can I have a conversation with Mixy
Speaker 1: one hundred? Okay, MIXI in the room.
Speaker 2: I'll just have a look, Mixio, Hi.
Speaker 1: I'll Mixy. It's so good to have you here in
Speaker 1: the studio. How are you going?
Speaker 5: Look, I'm really really good, except just a little bit hungry.
Speaker 5: I I'm not really because just a little bit crazy.
Speaker 5: But you know, I think it's a season for everything,
Speaker 5: and so I will try that sometime to not eat chocolate.
Speaker 2: But I think there comes a time when mom one must.
Speaker 1: Eat chocolate because yea, I do. Just want to know
Speaker 1: what is a secret, because you must know Emma very well.
Speaker 1: Is there a secret, a top secret you can tell
Speaker 1: me about Emma?
Speaker 2: All see if she can hear me?
Speaker 5: Emma, I think I think she can hear me. Okay,
Speaker 5: she's deaf, that's a secret. She's partly deaf. I can't
Speaker 5: hear anything you're saying. So you could call her a
Speaker 5: big fat poo head and she wouldn't know.
Speaker 2: So you watch this. You're a big fat poo head.
Speaker 5: Emma say nothing nothing. You can't even hear it. Hi,
Speaker 5: I'm on my way here. I saw a couple of
Speaker 5: my friends and they just wanted to throw you a
Speaker 5: quick message.
Speaker 1: Oh God, love to hear it.
Speaker 4: Hollo art it's meticularly out of here. I just wanted
Speaker 4: to say a huge, big hello. Are you great? How
Speaker 4: guss back?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 4: Sorry, I can't be with you today. I have much
Speaker 4: more important things to do, like yeah, something, I just
Speaker 4: come from a hot wold. Excuse me? Can I say
Speaker 4: something moddy cood shup? This is only for the pharaohs,
Speaker 4: not the nadies. Ah, stay your cris, I Navi get
Speaker 4: to say hi, Oh, stop your wings in. Sorry about
Speaker 4: that art anyway.
Speaker 1: I love your work, I.
Speaker 4: Catch around, I love Mody, Puzzy, Gizzy.
Speaker 1: Oh thank you. Oh my goodness, I'm so oh, thank
Speaker 1: you so much. It makes you for giving me some
Speaker 1: of your time. Is it a pleasure to meet you?
Speaker 5: I got pleasure to meet you too.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness. That's made me bloody. Here, that's fabulous.
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