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Speaker 1: On today's episode with Scott Tweety, one of the hosts
Speaker 1: of this year's Astray and Idol, which is back on
Speaker 1: Channel seven. Twenty years after Guy Sebastian Pitch Shannanol to
Speaker 1: become Australia's first Idol. The international star making reality TV
Speaker 1: Sensation has returned to Channel seven and seven plus and
Speaker 1: if you aren't watching it, you're certainly missing out because
Speaker 1: it is sensational television. It's set to be the toughest
Speaker 1: season yet, with only room for the best of the best.
Speaker 1: The judges are looking for a complete package, a singer
Speaker 1: with a sound and a style to woo the nation.
Speaker 1: Hosts Ricky Lee and Scott Tweety are also back to
Speaker 1: make their dreams come true and I'm delighted to be
Speaker 1: having Scott back on the podcast. Today we will unpack
Speaker 1: why this season is better, why Scott slid into Amy
Speaker 1: Shucks DMS. We will discuss what Jackie Oh and Marshall
Speaker 1: Heinz have in common. Scott will also share, which singer
Speaker 1: has already had millions of views on social media. And
Speaker 1: also we will unpack what to expect in the next
Speaker 1: couple of weeks, plus a little bit of behind the
Speaker 1: scenes goss from Scott on why some contestants failed to
Speaker 1: make it to the next stage. There's so much to
Speaker 1: unpack with Scott and he is really generous with his time.
Speaker 1: So sit back and relax as we dive just that
Speaker 1: little bit deeper into the world of Australian Idol. How
Speaker 1: are you, buddy?
Speaker 2: You right, I'm good man, So nice to be back
Speaker 2: in the country and I'm loving this season.
Speaker 3: It's it's so good to good season. Yeah.
Speaker 2: When we were recording it, I knew there was something
Speaker 2: special in the air with some of the contestants and
Speaker 2: I was like, this is going to be great. But
Speaker 2: then when I started to see the edits evolve and
Speaker 2: that twist they put in the audition process just to
Speaker 2: have that cliff hanger at the end of every episode,
Speaker 2: and just good feedback from friends and family.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but you know, it was so weird. We were
Speaker 1: so excited to see it back last year that we
Speaker 1: were like yes, and that kind of nostalgia was what
Speaker 1: kept us there while this year. I mean, it's kind
Speaker 1: of the Math's antidote, is what I could say to people,
Speaker 1: because I talked a lot of people who watch Freeware
Speaker 1: television and it does really feel like you can tell
Speaker 1: someone's personality based on if they're an idle person or
Speaker 1: if they're a maths person.
Speaker 2: He put me through these personality traits. What's it come
Speaker 2: down to?
Speaker 1: At the core of it, what Australian idol is is
Speaker 1: somebody who wants to watch people succeed, while Maths is
Speaker 1: a type of personality that wants to watch people fail.
Speaker 1: I think that's that's a basic read of it.
Speaker 2: I mean, if we can have all the people there
Speaker 2: cheering and supporting on the winners, bring them over to
Speaker 2: our side all day every day.
Speaker 1: Mind you, I love both personality types. I don't want
Speaker 1: to I don't want to shade anyone here. I think
Speaker 1: that we need, the world needs both of those sorts
Speaker 1: of people.
Speaker 3: I've got many friends and many family members that watch Maths.
Speaker 3: All right, so I go, that's cool.
Speaker 2: But as soon as you flip that channel over to us,
Speaker 2: you're going to see why it's a piece of magic,
Speaker 2: And yeah, it's it's a really special show to be
Speaker 2: working on and for a second time around, for me
Speaker 2: and for Ricky and a lot of the team, it
Speaker 2: just feels like we learned a lot first time round
Speaker 2: and we were like, Okay, this is a modern version
Speaker 2: of Idol.
Speaker 3: Now what do you want to keep? What do you
Speaker 3: want to change?
Speaker 2: And that's the beauty of going again and every time
Speaker 2: you can refine a show and refine a format. Also
Speaker 2: amazing for Fremantle to let us change the format of
Speaker 2: what is a global show.
Speaker 3: Idle around the world has a set format.
Speaker 2: Eureka Channel seven and Freemantle We're like, let's shake it
Speaker 2: up down Under and then let us do it.
Speaker 3: So that's been magical as well.
Speaker 1: Well, you kind of needed to, I mean, when you
Speaker 1: need to level up, you know, that's what happens. Does
Speaker 1: this feel more like Astray and Idol to you than
Speaker 1: last year?
Speaker 3: It does? It does for many reasons.
Speaker 2: But there's so much Australiana to the contestants, to their stories,
Speaker 2: to the level of talent that they're bringing to the table.
Speaker 2: Because you've got to remember, I live in la and
Speaker 2: I'm very ingrained in the music industry over there as well,
Speaker 2: and I just see how much respect there is for
Speaker 2: Australian musicians, Australian produces, Australian artists, Australian creatives in general.
Speaker 2: So it's so good to see that translating on a
Speaker 2: reality show which is within our own backyard.
Speaker 3: And it's like, this is what I'm talking about, this
Speaker 3: is it.
Speaker 2: And you're seeing that through the clips on TikTok now
Speaker 2: of people watching some of the contestants sing and they're like, yep,
Speaker 2: I mean, Ripley has gone viral around the.
Speaker 1: World, viral.
Speaker 3: He's massive in the Philippines. Now they love him.
Speaker 2: I love him after just one audition. So it makes
Speaker 2: me just really proud. It makes you really proud because
Speaker 2: from the very top to the very bottom of the production,
Speaker 2: everyone's on the same team.
Speaker 1: Well, I want to talk about Ripley in a second,
Speaker 1: but I want to talk about the judging panels chemistry.
Speaker 1: This year, what seemed to have been a really good
Speaker 1: idea by having these big American or global names attached
Speaker 1: to the show didn't seem to work in a way
Speaker 1: in hindsight. Really. I mean, it looked fine last year,
Speaker 1: and it was very glossy and it was very exciting,
Speaker 1: but then when you see Australians judging our Australian talent.
Speaker 1: It just fits better.
Speaker 3: I thought it was.
Speaker 2: I did think it was a really good season last year.
Speaker 2: Maybe it was because my first and it.
Speaker 1: Was exciting for you. I watched, I went and watched
Speaker 1: you do some live episodes, and there's nothing better than
Speaker 1: watching someone who's very good at what they do doing
Speaker 1: what they do. And I thought you looked like a
Speaker 1: kid in a candy store loving it.
Speaker 3: I walk get it and I'm like, yeah.
Speaker 2: But Ricky and I have this magical moment where you
Speaker 2: fist pump before we go like a few seconds walking
Speaker 2: out there with the crowd screaming, and we're just like,
Speaker 2: how good to that job?
Speaker 3: But this is it. We get to facilitate this.
Speaker 2: So what you were saying with the judges, look, I
Speaker 2: think people do agree with that, and I did like
Speaker 2: having the American point of view there. But I do
Speaker 2: feel now after starting this season with an all Australian lineup, and.
Speaker 3: That just that Marsha Gold.
Speaker 2: It's that care, it's that wisdom, it's that pace and
Speaker 2: the way.
Speaker 1: She talks, you know, started saying you're welcome to people
Speaker 1: when it's not even needed, you know, how she does that,
Speaker 1: She's you're welcome, and you're like, it's just so deep
Speaker 1: and it's so meaningful. And so I started doing that
Speaker 1: just in random conversations because talking to Marshall last week,
Speaker 1: she was so gracious and so humble and so acknowledging
Speaker 1: of other people. And I feel like we need that
Speaker 1: more in our life. But I might have taken it
Speaker 1: too far.
Speaker 3: No, I keep going, get it out there.
Speaker 1: You're welcome.
Speaker 3: From like the husky heart. Seeing that chemistry. Her and
Speaker 3: Carle know each other very well. They have the amount
Speaker 3: of respect for each other.
Speaker 2: Yeah, then bringing Amy in as well, Like Amy's just
Speaker 2: grown to another level. I was watching some of her
Speaker 2: stuff on camera this season, just going and I DMed
Speaker 2: her going, Amy, You're on fire, Like, keep doing doing
Speaker 2: it because it's working well. Like the three of them,
Speaker 2: they're just weaving in and out. What I think it
Speaker 2: is is as a view are because I love working
Speaker 2: on it as the host, and then I'm watching it
Speaker 2: right now as it rolls out.
Speaker 3: It just glides.
Speaker 2: It's not that you don't feel like, oh, it's Judge's
Speaker 2: time now, it's just the series is gliding through and
Speaker 2: by having them there as experts, but then also letting
Speaker 2: some people down who kind of aren't the greatest singers,
Speaker 2: and should it be on the.
Speaker 1: Shape We want that though, like the that's what's missing
Speaker 1: from shows these days. We want you want people to
Speaker 1: to try, and you want people to be deluded because
Speaker 1: we are that. Do you know what I mean? Like
Speaker 1: we as people are that. We have ideas of grand
Speaker 1: delusion of becoming Mariah Carey, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Like we we all have that inside us.
Speaker 3: So now our bathrooms make us sound like that?
Speaker 1: The reburb what's your bathroom look like? I do not
Speaker 1: sound like Mariah carry sing.
Speaker 3: Harder, harder, louder and it works. Okay? Can you sing
Speaker 3: not at all?
Speaker 2: To be fair, an effort and found the right range,
Speaker 2: could belt out a good song.
Speaker 1: I think you'd be greater than karaoke booth.
Speaker 3: I can invest in that time and energy. Yet no, I.
Speaker 1: Think because you're this is going to sound like and
Speaker 1: people listening to the podcast will be like, oh my god, Ben,
Speaker 1: you're insane. I think because you're so good looking, I
Speaker 1: think people would forgive you for having not quite the best.
Speaker 3: Excuse. Ben, it's not an excuse.
Speaker 2: Once again, just get into that bathroom and let the
Speaker 2: reverb happen, and that's where the magic happens.
Speaker 4: What I feel sorry for some of the contestants. My
Speaker 4: family's honest, so I sing, they go, nah, don't do that.
Speaker 4: Some people, you know, they've been bigged up all their
Speaker 4: lives for years and years, and their parents are so
Speaker 4: proud of who their children are, and they're happy for
Speaker 4: them to be individuals and put themselves out there at
Speaker 4: the family Christmas party sing and of course they're happy,
Speaker 4: but it's that embarrassing moment where they haven't experimented anywhere.
Speaker 2: Else other than like their home and within their loved ones.
Speaker 2: So then come on National TV and do it for
Speaker 2: the first time.
Speaker 1: That's when I'm like, oh, we've all been at a
Speaker 1: Christmas party where someone in the family's gotten up and
Speaker 1: sung and it's been really shit, and like you're just
Speaker 1: standing there going holding your Christmas bombonds be like, oh God,
Speaker 1: when will this end? And that's why Kyle Sandalans works
Speaker 1: so well on this show, because I think there's a
Speaker 1: small part of all of us as well that want
Speaker 1: to stand up at the Christmas party and say your shit,
Speaker 1: don't don't give up.
Speaker 3: Your day job, get out of here. Stop.
Speaker 1: That's fun so far. Mate, was when Kyle just started
Speaker 1: going like just just the dumb and dumb an nooise
Speaker 1: that Jim Carrey does in that film, just because the
Speaker 1: sound of the person singing was the most annoying sound
Speaker 1: in the world.
Speaker 2: It's correct, It is great, and I back him up
Speaker 2: ninety two percent of the time to say the loose
Speaker 2: eight percent not evolved. But yeah, it's great. It's great
Speaker 2: to have him there. And he does care about this show,
Speaker 2: and that's the thing. All three of them care a
Speaker 2: lot about this show and what we produce out of it,
Speaker 2: which is a great thing.
Speaker 3: And you can see it.
Speaker 1: He's soft of this year. And I want to know.
Speaker 1: I mean, every day, I'm always thinking this. I'd love
Speaker 1: to just be there listening to you and Ricky having
Speaker 1: the conversation on the sideline and knowing what you think.
Speaker 1: But what were you and Ricky saying about Kyle this
Speaker 1: time around because he is softer? Did you have theories
Speaker 1: like maybe Harry Conic Junior's not there and he was
Speaker 1: an asshole or I mean not that one, but maybe
Speaker 1: he's a dad and that's what softened him. What did
Speaker 1: you and Ricky have to say about that.
Speaker 2: Definitely softer, but I think it's the word soft isn't
Speaker 2: the right word. It's more he's more passionate about seeing
Speaker 2: these singers succeed this season. And I think when he
Speaker 2: does be brutally honest, there's only one person I feel
Speaker 2: that can really pull him back. Two people Jackie o
Speaker 2: Marsha Heinz Yeah or understand his way of thinking and
Speaker 2: understand how to operate and bounce with him. And Amy
Speaker 2: Shark's getting very good at it, but she's still the cheeky.
Speaker 3: Voice from the rest of Australia going laughing at him.
Speaker 3: You can't say that and are you serious?
Speaker 1: So you know why that works like that? I mean,
Speaker 1: I think that the reason why it works like that
Speaker 1: you have to love Kyle and you have to know him,
Speaker 1: and I think if you don't like him, he's at
Speaker 1: his worst, do you know what I mean? Like And
Speaker 1: there was a lot of conversations about him and Harry
Speaker 1: and I kind of made a joke about it before,
Speaker 1: But I know Kyle and when he's in a room
Speaker 1: with someone he doesn't gel with, it's like he has
Speaker 1: he wastes too much time sort of thinking about that
Speaker 1: and not just being himself. So when you see someone
Speaker 1: like Marsha or Jackie Oh with him and they elevate him,
Speaker 1: that's where he's fantastic.
Speaker 3: You know, whatever the formula is, he's soaring right now.
Speaker 2: And so you can't get to the live shows because
Speaker 2: we kind of edit him in the live shows, as
Speaker 2: you know, so it'll be interesting to see where he
Speaker 2: takes it from there.
Speaker 3: That's why people.
Speaker 1: Watch the show though, Like, that's why we're spending so
Speaker 1: much money on Idol being back and being live, because
Speaker 1: we get to see people being raw and unedited. And
Speaker 1: in the world of television these days where everything's pre recorded,
Speaker 1: Australian Idol is fantastic and it's amazing because of that.
Speaker 3: I cannot wait for the live shows.
Speaker 2: Same it's so competitive this year that he has to
Speaker 2: up being more harsh soon because they're all great. We're
Speaker 2: going to have well, really good singers, and so he's
Speaker 2: got to nitpick out like, nah, wasn't a good week
Speaker 2: for you?
Speaker 3: You got to lift? Why doing this? Why doing that?
Speaker 2: And he comes He is an expert of pop culture,
Speaker 2: whether you like him or not. He has been living
Speaker 2: and breathing it for longer than most of us because
Speaker 2: that's his job and that's why he has a huge
Speaker 2: radio contract.
Speaker 1: What I was going to also say was it feels
Speaker 1: like not everyone's going to get along this year, where
Speaker 1: last year, you know, I was there and I met
Speaker 1: them all and it felt like you were watching kids
Speaker 1: at summer camp that were all getting along. It felt
Speaker 1: very Disney Channel time. And that's okay too. But if
Speaker 1: we all remember Australian Idle when the first season happens,
Speaker 1: I might be wrong in saying this, but we always
Speaker 1: felt like Cossima was going to cut a bitch, do you.
Speaker 3: Know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Like if you remember with her with Guy Sebastian and Shannano,
Speaker 1: she would have run those blokes over with her car.
Speaker 1: And that's what you need in the industry, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's individuals that already understand the game right now
Speaker 2: and understand the industry, and they want it.
Speaker 3: More than everyone else, and they'll do whatever it takes.
Speaker 2: And you're going to see that Top thirty week was
Speaker 2: a great example where you've got Shane Bouchet who got
Speaker 2: knocked out last year first round, so she's got this
Speaker 2: like second chance card and you know they have an
Speaker 2: option to stay up late, learn a song or go
Speaker 2: to bed and get sleep.
Speaker 3: And she's like, I'm honestly not here to f spiders.
Speaker 2: I want to win this thing, so let's go, and
Speaker 2: was drilling the other two Gab and TJ to go, Nah,
Speaker 2: this is my shot.
Speaker 3: I don't only get one more.
Speaker 2: I don't like you don't normally don't get second chances,
Speaker 2: but this is my second chance.
Speaker 3: I'm going for it. So yeah, there's great reality TV
Speaker 3: coming as well.
Speaker 1: Need tenacious people, we need ambitious people like I mean,
Speaker 1: we don't all need to be amm Rossiano, but and
Speaker 1: that's what this industry is. You aren't going to survive
Speaker 1: the scott You know that yourself from just being a presenter.
Speaker 1: If you want to stay in this industry, you have
Speaker 1: to be ruthless to a certain extent. You have to
Speaker 1: have the talent, but you have to be ambitious. And
Speaker 1: there's so many other words that I could use, but
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. I feel like Jonathan is
Speaker 1: a bit of a personality pick. You know, Jonathan's gotten
Speaker 1: through and yes he can sing, but there's the whole
Speaker 1: package thing going on there with him. Do you think
Speaker 1: that we're getting people through this year? That are a
Speaker 1: little bit more accessible in regards to maybe charisma and
Speaker 1: to sort of make the show more meaty once we
Speaker 1: get to those singing moments, because last year everyone could sing,
Speaker 1: and they could get up there and they could sing,
Speaker 1: but what we were missing was the engagement of a
Speaker 1: Rob Mills. And forgive me for keep going back to
Speaker 1: the first season of Idol, but I do feel like
Speaker 1: that is the blueprint.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we are looking for the entire package.
Speaker 2: We've said that from day dot from this season, and
Speaker 2: so some of the viewers are like, well, this single
Speaker 2: was better than this thing, but it's like, yeah, but
Speaker 2: when the cameras aren't rolling, or when they are rolling
Speaker 2: but they're not singing on stage, we need that rock star,
Speaker 2: pop star pizzaz from them.
Speaker 3: We want.
Speaker 2: I want to take them out as my plus one
Speaker 2: two events in Sydney and have people intrigued by them
Speaker 2: and be like, well, who is this person? I want
Speaker 2: to get to know them?
Speaker 3: Are they cool? Are they an asshole? Are they a diva?
Speaker 2: All of that, And that's what being you know, having
Speaker 2: that X factor is all about. So that's part of it,
Speaker 2: and we are so honest with that. So, yeah, Jonathan
Speaker 2: is a character. He can sing and dance, but there's
Speaker 2: something about him where we're like, we can't let him
Speaker 2: go because he's going to do.
Speaker 3: Something on camera that we want to see and we
Speaker 3: want Australia to see it, but.
Speaker 1: It's also for the viewer at home. We want to
Speaker 1: see ourselves. So if you remember watching any of these
Speaker 1: talent shows when they first came about, people wanted to
Speaker 1: be these people. They didn't just want to hear them sing.
Speaker 1: They wanted to meet them at a bar, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. They wanted them to be their best friend.
Speaker 1: And that's that's a huge part of television.
Speaker 3: Couldn't agree more and that's what we're getting.
Speaker 2: We've got thirty of them getting shopped to twenty one
Speaker 2: right now.
Speaker 3: I know once we tighten it even.
Speaker 2: More to the twelve, we've got a long time now
Speaker 2: as viewers to get to know these people inside and out.
Speaker 2: So you'll know their backstories, yes, but then you start
Speaker 2: to see week in week out what they're doing and
Speaker 2: what's happening, and if they get up to mischief or
Speaker 2: if they go viral again on TikTok or all that
Speaker 2: sort of stuff is going to be fed into the show.
Speaker 2: So that's what like the core essence of Idol's about,
Speaker 2: and that's what is really important. I think that's why
Speaker 2: you're enjoying this new season. I'm enjoying this new season,
Speaker 2: and I think it's going to get better and better
Speaker 2: the more we watch it.
Speaker 1: I couldn't wait to talk to you. I was like,
Speaker 1: this is so exciting to talk about this series. Like
Speaker 1: the series is so good, and I'm remembering people's names,
Speaker 1: and like even just the other week, someone said, oh,
Speaker 1: Amy and Kobe and Dylan, they get paired together in
Speaker 1: a challenge and they're going to see Natalie and Brullly
Speaker 1: as torn and I was like, I have to watch that.
Speaker 1: That's a point in television, do you know what I mean? Like,
Speaker 1: I want to watch those people get up and sing
Speaker 1: like that. I don't want to watch it on catch up.
Speaker 1: I don't need to watch it live.
Speaker 2: And that's a strategy of how we've done those first episodes,
Speaker 2: because it kept looping back into them.
Speaker 3: The contestants are the rock stars.
Speaker 2: I think last season there was a lot of attention
Speaker 2: on these international judges, and it kept coming back to
Speaker 2: the judges.
Speaker 3: But it's like, it's not about the judges.
Speaker 2: It's about the contestants, it's about the Australian characters and
Speaker 2: that's working for us right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's about the singing capability.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: Just before I move away from that song torn being
Speaker 1: sung you song? Do you think songs that are super
Speaker 1: recognizable can hurt a singer in a way because maybe
Speaker 1: an uneducated audience member might expect it to be sung
Speaker 1: like the original artist on that I think.
Speaker 2: It's a double edged sword. I think you need to
Speaker 2: get the votes, you need to have a recognizable song,
Speaker 2: but you must put your twists on it and exhibit
Speaker 2: a which I'm sure we're going to talk about Ripley
Speaker 2: his audition with Mama MEA. I'll follow a song that
Speaker 2: globally everyone knows or in particular least nationally, but then
Speaker 2: put your personality to it. If you're trying to match
Speaker 2: the artists that's made it and put it on the
Speaker 2: map for what it is. Unless you can go a
Speaker 2: step above them in their version, I think you're going
Speaker 2: to fail. I think you're going to be like, oh,
Speaker 2: but if you put your twist to it, then it's
Speaker 2: I think it's a huge success.
Speaker 1: Well, he took us on a journey because when you
Speaker 1: hear an artist being introduced with and now Ripley's going
Speaker 1: to sing Muma Mia from Abba, you know, the audience go, no,
Speaker 1: don't do bad. Yeah, And then they hear a version
Speaker 1: of a song like that from Ripley. It's genius and
Speaker 1: so likable and so warm and god, it's so easy
Speaker 1: to watch, you know. Yeah, just quickly, do you have
Speaker 1: a favorite.
Speaker 3: I've got a couple of favorites.
Speaker 1: Okay, just give me one or two of them, the
Speaker 1: ones you can remember.
Speaker 3: Oh, I can't.
Speaker 2: I'm Switzerland to the world out there inside here they
Speaker 2: tell you.
Speaker 1: To say that, Scott, there you are. You told you're
Speaker 1: not allowed to have favorites.
Speaker 3: We've actually never been told that. I just okay, Judy
Speaker 3: weird y.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I want to see everyone win and have the best advantage,
Speaker 2: and I don't want to contestant seeing me on a podcast.
Speaker 3: Go, well, that other person my favorite, and then I'm
Speaker 3: trying to yeah through the process.
Speaker 1: I heard you on TV. Really Okay, So before you go,
Speaker 1: what is something from behind the scenes of this second
Speaker 1: season that you can tell us kind of like a
Speaker 1: behind the scenes secret, something juicy that audio says won't know.
Speaker 2: I feel that some of the contestants and this wasn't revealed,
Speaker 2: but they and I found out through the contestants. They
Speaker 2: went out in Sydney the top thirty days, We've got
Speaker 2: three days in a row and a couple of them
Speaker 2: went out the night before and had a night out
Speaker 2: in Sydney, crashed on TV the next day, and I
Speaker 2: reckon internally they knew in their minds because I went
Speaker 2: out last night and because I had a big night out,
Speaker 2: I didn't perform and we saw that.
Speaker 3: So look, I can't tell you who.
Speaker 2: It is, but you can do the math, so you
Speaker 2: can go all right, takes twenty one.
Speaker 1: I'd be in Sydney on an idol and I'd be like,
Speaker 1: I can't. I can't not go to the Stonewall on
Speaker 1: Oxford Street and tell everyone I'm on Australian idol.
Speaker 3: I reckon.
Speaker 2: They went to pub trivia and I'm like, I hope
Speaker 2: you're good today, and then they bombed and I was like.
Speaker 1: Did they win the trivia?
Speaker 2: Mate?
Speaker 1: I have to let you go, but you're doing such
Speaker 1: a fantastic job and congratulations on coming back. I hope
Speaker 1: to see you and Ricky doing this show for years
Speaker 1: to come. Good luck as it goes to lives, We'll
Speaker 1: all be.
Speaker 3: Watching come out, come out again. If you're allowed or
Speaker 3: if you want it, you Travesa, I'm allowed, come out,
Speaker 3: I'll let you in.
Speaker 1: Amazing.
Speaker 3: Did you come backstage last year?
Speaker 2: You did?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: I didn't, but I mean I think there was a
Speaker 1: conversation about it. But it was also Marti Gras, and
Speaker 1: so there was a bus leaving and I was like, well,
Speaker 1: Channel seven's paying for me to be here and I'm
Speaker 1: staying in a hotel, which, by the way, during Marti
Speaker 1: Gras is like one million dollars to have a hotel.
Speaker 1: So I was like, take me to Marti Gras. However,
Speaker 1: this time around, you are my Marti Grass. So I'll
Speaker 1: come backstage.
Speaker 3: Mantogra's happening again this year, so you can do the doubleheader.
Speaker 3: You can do that, you can do the Saturday night show.
Speaker 3: Then we'll go out.
Speaker 1: My partner goes to me yesterday, he goes, you're going
Speaker 1: to Marti Gras this year, and I go, why do
Speaker 1: you say you? Like, wouldn't we both be going? And
Speaker 1: he goes, well, you went last year without me because
Speaker 1: you went to Australian Idol. And then you went, and
Speaker 1: I was like, what a day that was?
Speaker 3: What a day?
Speaker 2: Anyway, so good, we'll get again later the season.
Speaker 1: Sounds good.
Speaker 3: Expand schies, yeah, I