WEBVTT - Getting feral 🥴 0:00:08.560 --> 0:00:13.040 I'm back. Yes, it is me, Art Simone, and I 0:00:13.080 --> 0:00:15.400 think it has been far too long since I've been 0:00:15.400 --> 0:00:19.480 in your e holes. So I have returned, and with me, 0:00:19.720 --> 0:00:23.759 I have brought along more fascinating and peculiar people. So 0:00:24.120 --> 0:00:28.000 together we can uncover the weird ways seemingly normal people 0:00:28.200 --> 0:00:31.440 make money, spend their spare time, or even the big 0:00:31.480 --> 0:00:35.479 secrets have kept hidden until now. This is concealed with me, 0:00:35.920 --> 0:00:39.680 Art Simone, let's get to it. Bring me now. 0:00:40.120 --> 0:00:44.160 Guess hi. 0:00:44.520 --> 0:00:47.320 My name is Emma. I run a successful or a 0:00:47.400 --> 0:00:51.400 medial massage business. I'm a sole practitioner. I also used 0:00:51.400 --> 0:00:54.000 to be an intensive care cutting of thoracic. 0:00:53.640 --> 0:00:57.200 Nurse for many years. I live in the suburbs. I 0:00:57.240 --> 0:00:59.720 have two kids. I'm actually in a blend of family 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:01.160 that's six kids. 0:01:01.440 --> 0:01:06.319 But Art actually knows me, but would not recognize me 0:01:06.440 --> 0:01:07.280 if she saw me. 0:01:14.680 --> 0:01:17.880 Oh my goodness, Hello Emma, how are you going? Thank 0:01:17.920 --> 0:01:22.640 you are the mystery, the mystery I may know you. Yes, so, 0:01:22.920 --> 0:01:27.000 remedial massage practition person, practitioner, sole person, all the above, 0:01:27.840 --> 0:01:31.440 all of that remedial that means like fixing things with massage, 0:01:31.520 --> 0:01:33.120 right it does. Yeah, I'm a bit dumb. So I 0:01:33.160 --> 0:01:33.480 just like that. 0:01:33.640 --> 0:01:36.400 No, everybody asked, what is remedial? What's the difference. 0:01:36.480 --> 0:01:39.200 Yeah, so you're not doing, like, you know, massages in 0:01:39.240 --> 0:01:41.320 that dark, little like venue that I walked past with 0:01:41.360 --> 0:01:43.559 the red light out the front. You know, you're doing 0:01:43.640 --> 0:01:45.640 things in which you can help people. 0:01:45.720 --> 0:01:47.280 That's right, and you can claim on your health. 0:01:47.440 --> 0:01:50.840 Oh that's good. Actually, that's good. What's your favorite thing 0:01:50.840 --> 0:01:52.400 to massage? 0:01:53.600 --> 0:02:00.120 I would say probably shoulders. I'll give you a nice clean. 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:02.840 Answer there, shoulders. Okay, just thriting that down. This could 0:02:02.840 --> 0:02:05.240 be a clue. This could be a clue, shoulders. And 0:02:05.240 --> 0:02:08.760 you used to be a nurse in akasak about. 0:02:10.520 --> 0:02:11.640 With hearts, and. 0:02:12.600 --> 0:02:15.720 So you can do nursing with heart's intensive care. What 0:02:15.840 --> 0:02:18.120 got you out of it? Too many hearts? Too much love? 0:02:18.240 --> 0:02:21.000 Well, the other thing that you'd know me for. I 0:02:21.040 --> 0:02:24.560 would dovetail the two of them. So I eventually got 0:02:24.639 --> 0:02:28.240 out of nursing because I'd been out of it for 0:02:29.000 --> 0:02:31.359 probably about five years, and I had to do a 0:02:31.440 --> 0:02:33.280 refresher cause and it was going to cost me ten 0:02:33.360 --> 0:02:36.040 thousand dollars and I went no, Hence why I am 0:02:36.040 --> 0:02:37.480 now a medial massage therapy? 0:02:37.560 --> 0:02:40.800 Yes, speaking of are you and your massage remedial massage uniform. 0:02:40.840 --> 0:02:42.400 At the moment, I wasn't sure when you walked in, 0:02:42.520 --> 0:02:44.280 because you look like you've come straight from work? Is 0:02:44.280 --> 0:02:46.280 that correct? Or you just wear this? Do you just 0:02:46.320 --> 0:02:48.360 go to Cols? You like to put it on? Is 0:02:48.400 --> 0:02:50.079 it part of your advertising? You put it on to 0:02:50.120 --> 0:02:50.919 go walk around Cols? 0:02:51.040 --> 0:02:51.919 You know I came straight from what? 0:02:52.120 --> 0:02:54.120 Okay, so it looks like a nursing top. 0:02:54.200 --> 0:02:55.840 It does at the hospital scrubs. 0:02:55.919 --> 0:02:58.919 Yeah, but blue hospital scrubs. Your hair's tied back, You're 0:02:58.960 --> 0:03:02.400 all prim and proper and ready to help remedy some shoulders. 0:03:02.520 --> 0:03:03.040 That's right. 0:03:03.200 --> 0:03:06.800 Okay. Now, what I'm going to do is ask you 0:03:06.840 --> 0:03:09.399 three questions, and from the answers to those three questions, 0:03:09.720 --> 0:03:13.080 I have to determine what it is you're concealing from me. 0:03:13.400 --> 0:03:15.079 May the odds be ever in your favor? 0:03:15.280 --> 0:03:17.800 Okay. With all the information put together, right, we've got 0:03:17.800 --> 0:03:21.640 remedial message, We've got shoulders, we've got six kids, blended family, 0:03:22.000 --> 0:03:25.000 nurse hearts, and apparently I may know you. 0:03:25.520 --> 0:03:27.920 Okay, Yes, I think you might even love me. 0:03:28.120 --> 0:03:31.840 I might love you, Oh my goodness, adore me. I 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:34.639 might know you might love well, this is so, it's 0:03:34.680 --> 0:03:36.120 so koky. This is like what I met a meet 0:03:36.120 --> 0:03:37.839 and greet and I meet someone and they're like, we've 0:03:37.880 --> 0:03:41.280 met three times before, you don't remember me. I'm like, ma'am, 0:03:41.640 --> 0:03:45.560 I'm sorry. Okay, you're just another person at the moment. Okay, 0:03:45.600 --> 0:03:47.960 I meet a lot of people really lovely, but I don't. 0:03:48.000 --> 0:03:51.000 I don't remember you. I'm sorry. Okay. Have I met 0:03:51.000 --> 0:03:52.040 you at a meet and greet before? 0:03:52.480 --> 0:03:54.200 No, not that I'm aware of. 0:03:54.320 --> 0:03:57.040 All right, let's get that out of the way. Okay, 0:03:57.200 --> 0:03:59.720 first question, do you have any pets? 0:04:00.160 --> 0:04:03.280 I do? I have two dogs and a cat. 0:04:03.800 --> 0:04:04.920 Okay, what are their names? 0:04:05.280 --> 0:04:07.960 Buddy Maker and Ziggy? 0:04:08.320 --> 0:04:11.080 Oh my god, my car was called Ziggy because their 0:04:11.120 --> 0:04:14.040 number plate was d HD. But she just went out 0:04:14.040 --> 0:04:16.760 to pasture. I had to upgrade. I know, little blue 0:04:16.800 --> 0:04:22.320 yarist's gone. No more. Question number two, Yes, what vegetable 0:04:22.960 --> 0:04:24.600 do you most align with? 0:04:26.880 --> 0:04:31.200 A vegetable would have to be a carrot? A carrot? 0:04:32.120 --> 0:04:35.080 And what do you like about a carrot? What functions? 0:04:35.640 --> 0:04:36.200 Crunchy? 0:04:36.440 --> 0:04:39.839 Oh yeah, crunchy. That's so you're more of a raw 0:04:39.920 --> 0:04:42.120 carrot rather than a cook. Well you can eat them 0:04:42.120 --> 0:04:45.479 cooked too, Yeah, I love a cooked carrot, baked carrot. 0:04:45.920 --> 0:04:49.680 And it is full of vitamin C. 0:04:50.360 --> 0:04:53.480 Okay, stop selling me the carrots. It's fine. Vegetables, it's fine. 0:04:55.360 --> 0:04:58.320 And the third question is do you have an alter ego? 0:04:58.680 --> 0:05:01.520 If so, a bit about them? What's their personality? 0:05:02.200 --> 0:05:02.440 Yes? 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:10.839 Absolutely, Cheeky gets away with anything, completely inclusive of everybody, 0:05:10.920 --> 0:05:16.800 loves everybody, and naughty as all get out and non 0:05:16.839 --> 0:05:17.479 stop talking. 0:05:19.560 --> 0:05:24.200 This is really hard this week. Okay, I'm going to 0:05:24.240 --> 0:05:27.760 talk it out all right. Suck radial massage, used to 0:05:27.800 --> 0:05:30.359 be an earth work with the hearts, likes to touch shoulders, 0:05:30.400 --> 0:05:33.960 six kids, two dogs, and a cat, ziggy car that's 0:05:34.000 --> 0:05:40.240 my thing. Carrots, crunchy and cheeky gets away, inclusive, naughty. 0:05:41.200 --> 0:05:43.600 Oh Emma, this is a hard one. And I may 0:05:43.839 --> 0:05:47.680 know you somehow, do Okay. All that's coming to mind is, so, 0:05:47.800 --> 0:05:51.520 there's this man that walks around in Melbourne with a 0:05:51.560 --> 0:05:54.520 giant carrot. He's the Carrot Man and he has a 0:05:54.520 --> 0:05:56.760 giant carrot and he just shows up all the time 0:05:56.960 --> 0:05:59.480 and walks into venues and has his carrot. No one 0:05:59.560 --> 0:06:01.559 knows why, except for the fact that he just says 0:06:01.720 --> 0:06:04.799 it makes people feel good. So maybe, just maybe because 0:06:04.800 --> 0:06:07.800 you're in Sydney. Maybe you were the Sydney equivalent of 0:06:08.160 --> 0:06:10.880 carrot person or is it a carrot man your carrot woman? 0:06:11.200 --> 0:06:14.400 Maybe that's maybe that's who you are. Are you, Emma? 0:06:14.480 --> 0:06:15.480 Are you a carrant woman? 0:06:16.839 --> 0:06:19.560 I would love to be, but I'm not. No, I'm not. 0:06:22.200 --> 0:06:26.039 I am a professional puppeteer and voice artist. I have 0:06:26.120 --> 0:06:30.360 been doing professional puppeteering since the early nineties. One of 0:06:30.400 --> 0:06:34.599 my most favorite things I've ever worked on was the Ferrals, 0:06:34.960 --> 0:06:39.159 where I was mixy for two series Affairs and then two. 0:06:40.279 --> 0:06:42.799 Wait, I pulled my headphones out. Wait, don't say anything, 0:06:43.400 --> 0:06:48.279 don't say anything, let me pull Then well, I have 0:06:48.320 --> 0:06:51.599 to start again. I pulled my headphones out. Go back, 0:06:51.760 --> 0:06:52.240 Go back. 0:06:54.320 --> 0:06:58.159 I am a professional puppeteer and voice artist. I have 0:06:58.279 --> 0:07:02.400 been doing professional puppeteering since the early nineties. One of 0:07:02.400 --> 0:07:06.640 my most favorite things I've ever worked on was the Ferrels, 0:07:06.960 --> 0:07:10.320 where I was mixy for two series of Ferrels and 0:07:10.360 --> 0:07:14.440 then two series of Feral TV. I've also been a magpie, 0:07:14.560 --> 0:07:19.760 metrtoise and multiple farm yarn animals on bananas in pajamas, and. 0:07:19.720 --> 0:07:22.080 A whole hip of other things. I can never remember. 0:07:22.320 --> 0:07:27.560 This is so exciting ever, whoa. 0:07:29.160 --> 0:07:32.960 This is cooked? I love it. You're a papetier. You're 0:07:33.000 --> 0:07:42.840 like a famous papetier. You are my childhood. Oh why 0:07:42.920 --> 0:07:46.600 Emma's not a current person. She's Mixy MIXI sitting in 0:07:46.600 --> 0:07:50.440 front of me. Mixy Mixy Metoda Mixy the puppet got you. 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:52.160 Do you think she knows that I've got a tattoo. 0:07:52.160 --> 0:07:54.000 I've got a tattoo with it? Is that weird? Should 0:07:54.000 --> 0:07:55.400 I show it? I don't know it's weird, But I've 0:07:55.400 --> 0:07:56.760 got a tatto show show. I'm gona thing. I'm going 0:07:56.800 --> 0:07:57.120 to show it. 0:08:06.680 --> 0:08:11.240 Niche watching them. 0:08:12.640 --> 0:08:14.880 Okay, we're here with Emma, and I've just found out 0:08:14.920 --> 0:08:18.160 that no, she is not carrot woman from Sydney. She is, 0:08:18.200 --> 0:08:21.400 in fact a puppetier, such a famous puppeteer, in fact 0:08:21.440 --> 0:08:25.200 that she was the puppeteer for MIXI in the Ferals 0:08:25.440 --> 0:08:28.800 Mixed Mitosis. Oh my goodness. Well you got so much 0:08:28.800 --> 0:08:31.200 to get into. We'll go back to the start. How 0:08:31.200 --> 0:08:34.080 did you get into puppeteering and voice work? 0:08:34.800 --> 0:08:39.600 Well, puppeteering I basically learned through some friends. I'd always 0:08:39.640 --> 0:08:43.520 wanted to be a performer of some description, and I 0:08:43.559 --> 0:08:46.320 happened to be at the studio where they were making 0:08:46.600 --> 0:08:49.280 these friends doing their own little puppet thing, going to 0:08:49.360 --> 0:08:53.160 be making kids series. ABC came to see their puppets 0:08:53.240 --> 0:08:54.960 and to see if they were the type of animals 0:08:55.000 --> 0:08:57.520 they wanted to make for their show, The Ferals, and 0:08:57.600 --> 0:08:59.400 I happened to be there that day, and they went on, 0:08:59.559 --> 0:09:01.959 not really the puppets. Does anyone want to audition? Though, 0:09:02.520 --> 0:09:04.480 i'd probably last time I picked up a puppet was 0:09:04.520 --> 0:09:07.080 a year before that, and had very rudimentary. 0:09:06.600 --> 0:09:09.920 Skills, But I went yes, yes, yes, yes. 0:09:10.040 --> 0:09:14.480 And they said, well, yeah, come on in. I auditioned 0:09:14.679 --> 0:09:19.559 and my skills were abominable, but I had the little 0:09:19.640 --> 0:09:22.520 voice that they wanted for the little pink bunny rabbit. 0:09:22.559 --> 0:09:23.640 They so that's perfect. 0:09:23.840 --> 0:09:29.200 So your first proper puppeteering gig was the ferohs it was. 0:09:30.040 --> 0:09:31.240 It's pretty cool, isn't it. 0:09:31.400 --> 0:09:33.360 I know, it was very cool. It was a dream 0:09:33.400 --> 0:09:35.280 come true. It was so much fun. 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:39.840 So you get told you're going to be mixy. How 0:09:39.840 --> 0:09:42.560 does it work into developing? I guess she's like scripted, 0:09:42.600 --> 0:09:44.959 of course, but how much of that, like, is there 0:09:44.960 --> 0:09:47.360 a lot of development in you working out like who 0:09:47.400 --> 0:09:49.160 she is and what she's going to be like and 0:09:49.640 --> 0:09:51.200 how does that how you develop the character? 0:09:51.640 --> 0:09:52.640 Sure, so. 0:09:54.040 --> 0:09:56.360 To start off with we I think we had a 0:09:56.520 --> 0:09:59.320 big chunk of time where we had rehearsals and your 0:09:59.600 --> 0:10:05.440 work out relationship between the different characters, and we really 0:10:05.480 --> 0:10:08.880 as a series developed, we'd realize, oh, my character would 0:10:08.920 --> 0:10:11.400 never do that or say that or be like that, 0:10:11.920 --> 0:10:15.880 so very much it became what how we reacted. We 0:10:15.960 --> 0:10:18.640 had our scripts always set up underneath the set so 0:10:18.679 --> 0:10:21.200 we could see. We'd be doing the script and watching 0:10:21.760 --> 0:10:24.440 television monitor which was reverse scan, so it looked like 0:10:24.480 --> 0:10:27.560 we're looking in a mirror. So we could often get 0:10:27.600 --> 0:10:30.319 some ad lib stuff, stuff that just worked with it. 0:10:30.640 --> 0:10:33.400 And yeah, often scriptwriters a new scriptwriter and write something 0:10:33.440 --> 0:10:35.560 because they've been given the brief, and then we'd go, ah, 0:10:35.640 --> 0:10:38.760 my character never to say that, so we'd end up 0:10:38.800 --> 0:10:42.880 rewriting things on the go. Basically, Wow, didn't you have. 0:10:42.880 --> 0:10:45.160 A dream about during the world with a rock band? 0:10:45.520 --> 0:10:48.120 Oh right, it's it's never got to work. Even the 0:10:48.120 --> 0:10:50.840 Beatles started somewhere with music lessons. 0:10:51.040 --> 0:10:54.280 There's no Beatles in you just call quotes you guys mind, 0:10:54.320 --> 0:10:57.120 We've got to practice. How did you develop the voice 0:10:57.160 --> 0:10:57.679 to mix you? 0:10:58.400 --> 0:11:01.320 I think that came from being an ID and just 0:11:02.000 --> 0:11:05.480 making funny noises and funny voices, and I think it 0:11:05.679 --> 0:11:09.160 was actually a baby voice that I sort of developed 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:13.600 and then it became Mixy. One time we were showing 0:11:13.720 --> 0:11:17.240 This is Chinese Delegate the studios and they wanted to 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:19.640 hear me doing the voice, and they actually said, through 0:11:19.679 --> 0:11:22.720 the translator, what has she got in the mouth doing? 0:11:23.000 --> 0:11:24.800 What do you mean? What have I got in my mouth? 0:11:25.080 --> 0:11:27.120 How are you making that noise? They said, how are 0:11:27.160 --> 0:11:28.000 you making that noise? 0:11:28.520 --> 0:11:33.400 And surprisingly, it's exactly whatever I'm doing is whatever helium 0:11:33.440 --> 0:11:36.680 does dear throat. Ah, So if I suck helium, I 0:11:36.720 --> 0:11:37.440 sound like Mixy. 0:11:37.920 --> 0:11:40.000 Oh when you can just get your vocal cords to 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:46.720 do that? Can you put an extra dose of helium 0:11:46.760 --> 0:11:48.679 on Mixy? And then she's just super high. 0:11:48.720 --> 0:11:50.960 I've tried that, Yes, I haven't they And then she 0:11:51.080 --> 0:11:53.320 talks in a registered and nobody can hear. 0:11:53.200 --> 0:11:53.920 Except the dogs. 0:11:54.040 --> 0:11:56.800 Only the dogs can hear. Only the dogs, only Darren 0:11:56.880 --> 0:12:04.160 can hear. What was it like basically being famous but 0:12:04.360 --> 0:12:05.679 having no one know it? 0:12:05.800 --> 0:12:06.400 Hilarious? 0:12:06.559 --> 0:12:08.880 Like would you sometimes be on a telephone and just 0:12:08.880 --> 0:12:11.440 like slip into voice just to like confuse people. 0:12:11.559 --> 0:12:12.600 I would do it for people. 0:12:12.640 --> 0:12:15.320 I'd get people who would request that I ring up 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:18.160 some and so for their birthday, and so I do 0:12:18.320 --> 0:12:23.160 that for them. It was a weird time when any 0:12:23.200 --> 0:12:26.880 other famous Australian would be recognized or ask for an 0:12:26.880 --> 0:12:30.160 autograph and you'd walk through and no one would know 0:12:30.200 --> 0:12:30.600 who you were. 0:12:30.720 --> 0:12:33.560 No, do you know that I have a mixy tattoo? 0:12:33.720 --> 0:12:35.000 I've seen it, yes. 0:12:35.640 --> 0:12:38.400 But it's crazy though, because you're a celebrity, but you 0:12:38.440 --> 0:12:40.560 get to be in disguised because most people they just 0:12:40.600 --> 0:12:44.360 know the puppet. But even puppeteering is really hard. I 0:12:44.400 --> 0:12:46.680 have like a box filled with all puppets that I 0:12:46.720 --> 0:12:50.000 can't even begin to operate at all because there's so 0:12:50.080 --> 0:12:53.920 many motor skills that are being used. Because you're retraining 0:12:53.960 --> 0:12:54.719 your hand. 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:56.959 Yeah, to move at the same time as your mouth. 0:12:57.320 --> 0:12:59.080 Yeah, at the same time as your mouth. The puppets 0:12:59.120 --> 0:13:01.160 are like you can have with them for their hands. 0:13:01.200 --> 0:13:02.880 Yeah, their muppet style puppets. 0:13:02.960 --> 0:13:05.440 Yeah. Were you operating both her hands at the same time. 0:13:05.520 --> 0:13:09.000 Yeah, So I just sort of had my arm stretched 0:13:09.040 --> 0:13:09.560 up in the air. 0:13:09.600 --> 0:13:12.640 A perfect just put it this way, A perfect. 0:13:12.760 --> 0:13:15.679 Gene pool of people that would be born with those 0:13:15.840 --> 0:13:18.600 with an arm sticking out where their head was and 0:13:18.640 --> 0:13:20.560 their headstcking out where their arm was, because you've got 0:13:20.600 --> 0:13:22.080 to keep your head out a shot all the time 0:13:22.120 --> 0:13:23.480 and have your arm up in the air and the 0:13:23.520 --> 0:13:26.679 other hand sort of like chopsticks operating the other rods 0:13:26.720 --> 0:13:29.440 coming out from the rabbit's arms. 0:13:29.640 --> 0:13:32.000 You have to tell me, because I don't remember. Was 0:13:32.040 --> 0:13:33.760 it like a big hit or was it? Is it 0:13:33.800 --> 0:13:35.200 something that's just grown. 0:13:35.520 --> 0:13:37.280 It certainly was very popular. 0:13:37.400 --> 0:13:37.720 Yeah. 0:13:37.760 --> 0:13:40.480 It was aimed at the eight to twelve year olds, yes, 0:13:40.520 --> 0:13:42.520 and it was very popular. 0:13:42.559 --> 0:13:43.079 When I was on. 0:13:43.360 --> 0:13:45.240 We used to get a lot of fan mail, a 0:13:45.320 --> 0:13:47.480 lot of kids racing home from school to watch it. 0:13:47.520 --> 0:13:48.920 This is before digital. 0:13:48.600 --> 0:13:51.600 TV, of course, so you didn't get to really choose 0:13:51.600 --> 0:13:55.440 what you were watching. And then in later years when 0:13:55.480 --> 0:13:59.240 it came was no longer being aired, had lots of repeats. 0:13:59.240 --> 0:14:01.959 But when it wasn't anymore, we seem to get at 0:14:02.120 --> 0:14:04.839 that era of kid it was growing up became cult 0:14:05.040 --> 0:14:06.720 like in the following event. 0:14:06.559 --> 0:14:09.719 Yeah, because I think I hooked onto it during like 0:14:09.840 --> 0:14:12.640 the reruns, because I'm a bit I'm a ninety two baby, 0:14:12.720 --> 0:14:15.600 so little one, lidle one, so I was a bit 0:14:15.600 --> 0:14:17.199 too young when it first came out, but I remember 0:14:17.360 --> 0:14:20.360 still watching it like with reruns repeatedly and falling in 0:14:20.360 --> 0:14:22.240 love and I think it's so funny. If no one 0:14:22.240 --> 0:14:24.600 has seen The Ferrels, I just love it because it's 0:14:24.640 --> 0:14:29.560 like this weird, like Bogan version of like the Muppets, 0:14:29.560 --> 0:14:31.840 but it's like the Australian version because everyone is a 0:14:31.840 --> 0:14:34.040 bit rough around the edges. They're all feral. Of course, 0:14:34.400 --> 0:14:38.040 it's so disgustingly camp and it makes me so happy. 0:14:39.640 --> 0:14:42.520 It's good. Do you have any like fun stories from 0:14:42.720 --> 0:14:45.800 filming The Ferals, Like, what are some of the funniest 0:14:46.080 --> 0:14:46.880 best moments? 0:14:47.320 --> 0:14:51.000 Ah, there are way too many to recall, but a 0:14:51.040 --> 0:14:55.040 couple of occasions it'd be scripted a funny line and 0:14:55.080 --> 0:14:58.320 we'd shoot it, but we'd have to reshoot it because 0:14:58.920 --> 0:15:00.920 one of the camera guys to be laughing his head 0:15:00.960 --> 0:15:05.480 off and it would bleed through into the MIC's. 0:15:04.440 --> 0:15:07.960 That happens sometimes? I wonder where that happens sometimes, So 0:15:08.160 --> 0:15:10.680 I'm just looking at my producer at the moment, who 0:15:10.720 --> 0:15:15.480 loves to laugh, and I'm very hilarious jokes. I've seen 0:15:15.520 --> 0:15:19.200 the rolled mixing out many times, like in the later years. 0:15:19.600 --> 0:15:23.080 She's now dressed a lot nicer who gets to perform 0:15:23.120 --> 0:15:25.320 her in those points. Have you been able to me? 0:15:25.640 --> 0:15:27.840 You still get to go back and. 0:15:27.760 --> 0:15:31.560 Do her there is fortunately, well it's a bit sad actually. 0:15:31.640 --> 0:15:34.720 When the ABC moved from in Sydney from it's one 0:15:34.760 --> 0:15:37.920 place to its next place, there was a huge clean 0:15:37.960 --> 0:15:41.800 out from the ABC there and I got a phone 0:15:41.800 --> 0:15:44.600 call from one of the wardrobe women saying, am I 0:15:44.720 --> 0:15:47.160 quick come. They're putting all the puppets and all the 0:15:47.200 --> 0:15:50.480 clothes and everything into the bin. So I went, I've 0:15:50.480 --> 0:15:53.840 got a garage quick, I'll grab them. So they came 0:15:53.880 --> 0:15:57.680 to live with me for a while. They started to disintegrate. 0:15:57.240 --> 0:15:59.080 Because they're just mostly foam, aren't they? 0:15:59.200 --> 0:16:04.800 Rich Texango and so I wasn't in a hermetically sealed environment. 0:16:05.440 --> 0:16:08.200 Mixy is the version that you see now. She's the 0:16:08.320 --> 0:16:11.800 newer version. There were two versions of her Maid because 0:16:12.400 --> 0:16:14.880 for about five years. 0:16:14.440 --> 0:16:16.800 Mixy hosted all the kids programs I did that. 0:16:17.120 --> 0:16:20.920 Yeah, it seems like they've brought Mixy and Medigliana out 0:16:21.160 --> 0:16:23.400 a lot because she hosted this pet. 0:16:23.200 --> 0:16:25.320 Show for a while was called Creature Features. 0:16:25.400 --> 0:16:27.080 Yes, because I used to watch that too, and so 0:16:27.120 --> 0:16:30.160 it's funny that they've been able to have lives. They're 0:16:30.200 --> 0:16:33.440 like real celebrities, which is, you know, like it's so 0:16:33.480 --> 0:16:35.040 good that they don't just have to live within the 0:16:35.040 --> 0:16:36.720 world of the falls. They're like, how we can bring 0:16:36.760 --> 0:16:39.600 out Mixy for this? Yeah, that's so fascinat because I 0:16:39.640 --> 0:16:42.240 was worried that someone else gets to perform her. But no, 0:16:42.360 --> 0:16:42.800 it's true. 0:16:43.200 --> 0:16:46.080 Well, the last thing I did, which was for New 0:16:46.160 --> 0:16:50.400 Year's Eve, yes in Sydney and ABC had a little 0:16:50.400 --> 0:16:53.920 pre recorded thing and one of the things was it 0:16:54.040 --> 0:16:59.240 had Moody and Mixy there and unfortunately I was away 0:16:59.360 --> 0:17:01.520 when they were going to be filming it. So the 0:17:01.560 --> 0:17:06.080 puppet maker puppeteered for me and then I revoiced it. 0:17:06.160 --> 0:17:09.199 Oh yeah, So that's one of the very few times 0:17:09.400 --> 0:17:12.280 that I have not actually been the pupperteer for the puppet. 0:17:12.440 --> 0:17:15.600 So when they had to move out of your garage, 0:17:15.640 --> 0:17:17.440 where did they go? Where are they living? Now? 0:17:17.920 --> 0:17:21.160 Well, very sad truth, they went to the next garage 0:17:21.480 --> 0:17:24.479 and they just disintegrated, Yes, and they fell apart and 0:17:24.520 --> 0:17:25.959 they were on the curb side cleaner. 0:17:26.280 --> 0:17:29.520 Oh not went to the bin. They became an offering 0:17:29.560 --> 0:17:30.719 to the landfilled gods. 0:17:31.000 --> 0:17:33.399 So the ones we see today are like remax. 0:17:33.720 --> 0:17:38.720 Well, Mudy isn't and Mixy isn't because they were sort 0:17:38.720 --> 0:17:41.840 of precious to Mal and myself and I grew up 0:17:41.880 --> 0:17:44.640 with Mao. That's how I learned my puppetry. Really, yeah, 0:17:44.680 --> 0:17:46.120 who does Moudy and. 0:17:47.480 --> 0:17:47.720 They? 0:17:48.040 --> 0:17:50.760 I think because Mudy been used for creature features as well, 0:17:50.880 --> 0:17:54.879 so those two had been kept at the ABC. The 0:17:54.960 --> 0:17:58.359 rest of them were just being thrown out, so that's 0:17:58.400 --> 0:18:01.359 why they were. The Mixy that you see now was 0:18:01.440 --> 0:18:03.720 made for the link, so she's not feralized. 0:18:04.000 --> 0:18:08.200 She's not. She's very sweet looking these days, but underneath 0:18:08.280 --> 0:18:08.560 she's not. 0:18:08.880 --> 0:18:11.600 If you had to adapt your character play with her 0:18:11.680 --> 0:18:12.879 a little bit, well. 0:18:12.920 --> 0:18:16.359 Well, I did have an extended season of me just 0:18:16.400 --> 0:18:19.399 writing the script for Mixie. We then brought in another 0:18:19.480 --> 0:18:22.320 character as well, which was a kangaroo, which Mal did 0:18:22.600 --> 0:18:25.399 and it was so it was so boring, just you 0:18:25.560 --> 0:18:28.959 talking to camera over and over again. So I developed 0:18:29.040 --> 0:18:33.280 for MIXI a little sock puppet called Sally, Sally the 0:18:33.320 --> 0:18:36.800 sock Puppet, which was Mixy's puppet. And Sally the sock 0:18:36.920 --> 0:18:41.560 Puppet was awful. She was a complete b r. She 0:18:41.720 --> 0:18:44.400 screamed at everybody and hated everybody, and it was. 0:18:44.760 --> 0:18:46.399 Fine, and you can be like, well, it's not Mixie 0:18:46.440 --> 0:18:48.720 that's saying it. It's the sock puppet dolls. That's exactly. 0:18:49.200 --> 0:18:52.199 It's not me. It's not even mix It's a sock puppet. 0:18:52.240 --> 0:18:57.440 It's hilarious. So yes, that's easy to get around those moments. 0:18:57.600 --> 0:19:01.360 But do you feel a certain level of ownership over 0:19:01.480 --> 0:19:06.679 Mixy one? And what's that like? Because I guess ABC 0:19:07.119 --> 0:19:08.280 owns who are owned. 0:19:08.320 --> 0:19:10.359 Oh yes, you said that with a question and voice, 0:19:10.400 --> 0:19:14.520 as everybody does. Because once they went, they can go 0:19:14.600 --> 0:19:16.560 off and to the Skip Pico and go where. 0:19:16.920 --> 0:19:19.320 Yeah, you're ready to show it out, like I know. 0:19:19.880 --> 0:19:24.000 So out of integrity, I know Mal wouldn't and I wouldn't. 0:19:24.040 --> 0:19:25.879 We wouldn't just go and start our own thing with 0:19:26.000 --> 0:19:29.320 those puppets and make something with them. Why not having 0:19:29.359 --> 0:19:31.320 the money to do it. But I think we've out 0:19:31.359 --> 0:19:34.760 of integrity and for memory sake, we've looked after them 0:19:35.000 --> 0:19:37.520 and kept them and I'll bring them out for kids 0:19:38.000 --> 0:19:40.520 and do the puppet thing for them and stuff like that. 0:19:40.800 --> 0:19:42.800 But at the moment, the last few years they've been 0:19:42.880 --> 0:19:47.119 down in Melbourne at the ACMI, which is Cinema and 0:19:47.920 --> 0:19:51.720 ACME Institute, and they've been on display there. But I'm 0:19:51.760 --> 0:19:54.359 the one they've contacted and I'm the one who signs 0:19:54.359 --> 0:19:56.200 all the contracts that it's okay, and if they want 0:19:56.200 --> 0:19:58.400 to extend it, they have to get my permission. 0:19:58.720 --> 0:20:02.280 So you like, the rules are, if she comes out, 0:20:02.520 --> 0:20:05.040 you have to be able to do her unless you like, Sorry, babes, 0:20:05.040 --> 0:20:06.240 I don't want her. You get someone else. 0:20:06.440 --> 0:20:09.000 Basically, I get asked, it has been off at all? 0:20:09.040 --> 0:20:10.720 Can we just since you're not about it, can we 0:20:10.800 --> 0:20:11.639 just get someone else to do it? 0:20:11.680 --> 0:20:12.080 Again't know? 0:20:12.480 --> 0:20:14.880 But that's good though, That's fabulous, because I'd be worried. 0:20:14.920 --> 0:20:17.040 You know, you put in years of work and this 0:20:17.280 --> 0:20:19.600 is your character. You know, it'd be like someone else 0:20:19.760 --> 0:20:21.159 voicing Bart Simpson. Why no? 0:20:21.640 --> 0:20:26.000 Exactly exactly the point I made to a friend yesterday. Actually, 0:20:26.080 --> 0:20:29.119 they said, well, couldn't anybody don't know, be like saying, 0:20:29.440 --> 0:20:31.320