1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:03,160 Speaker 1: James and Amanda jam. 2 00:00:02,960 --> 00:00:05,600 Speaker 2: Nation pum above the jam twenty years of Jojie Amanda's 3 00:00:05,640 --> 00:00:07,000 Speaker 2: Onte now through Bootopia. 4 00:00:07,080 --> 00:00:09,680 Speaker 1: Details are on our website just in time for Christmas. 5 00:00:09,760 --> 00:00:12,039 Speaker 3: We've lost lots of big celebrities through the years, one 6 00:00:12,080 --> 00:00:15,600 Speaker 3: of whom Carrie Fisher, a much loved person. We know 7 00:00:15,680 --> 00:00:18,240 Speaker 3: her from Star Wars, but she is one of the funniest, 8 00:00:18,320 --> 00:00:21,280 Speaker 3: most caustic and hilarious women you could hope to meet. 9 00:00:22,320 --> 00:00:25,560 Speaker 4: Help me, You'll be one, Canobi. You're my only hope. 10 00:00:26,360 --> 00:00:29,400 Speaker 3: I recognized your foul stench when I was brought on board. 11 00:00:29,520 --> 00:00:32,320 Speaker 4: Good morning, Carrie Fisher, Good morning. 12 00:00:32,280 --> 00:00:35,920 Speaker 1: Oh, good morning. I'm so excited about seeing your show. 13 00:00:37,120 --> 00:00:40,360 Speaker 1: I just can't wait. So welcome in advance to Australia. 14 00:00:41,080 --> 00:00:45,360 Speaker 4: Well, thank you, it's good to be here in advance. 15 00:00:45,840 --> 00:00:47,200 Speaker 1: Your show Wishful Drinking. 16 00:00:47,240 --> 00:00:50,400 Speaker 5: Would you call it an autobiography that you haven't quite 17 00:00:50,400 --> 00:00:51,600 Speaker 5: got around to writing down. 18 00:00:52,720 --> 00:00:58,160 Speaker 4: Oh no, I've written it down. It's yet. I would 19 00:00:58,320 --> 00:01:00,920 Speaker 4: call it like anecdote memoir. 20 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:03,960 Speaker 2: A lot of people might not know this about you, 21 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:06,360 Speaker 2: carry but you are a writer. I remember reading you 22 00:01:06,400 --> 00:01:11,440 Speaker 2: were writing speeches for something Different in the Academy Awards. 23 00:01:11,880 --> 00:01:16,039 Speaker 4: Yeah, I've written the Academy Awards three years, and I 24 00:01:16,319 --> 00:01:19,479 Speaker 4: probably will do it this year because my friend's producing it. 25 00:01:19,880 --> 00:01:22,280 Speaker 4: But it used to be a good job, because they 26 00:01:22,360 --> 00:01:25,520 Speaker 4: used to give you, pay you in those baskets where 27 00:01:25,560 --> 00:01:29,280 Speaker 4: they have all sorts of cool things in the basket. Yeah, 28 00:01:29,520 --> 00:01:34,600 Speaker 4: but there's no more baskets now come. I think it 29 00:01:34,959 --> 00:01:43,720 Speaker 4: was Edward Norton complained that it was something like, why 30 00:01:43,840 --> 00:01:50,280 Speaker 4: give rich people more rich things or something? These are 31 00:01:50,360 --> 00:01:56,080 Speaker 4: high class problems. 32 00:01:55,680 --> 00:01:57,920 Speaker 1: And I bet he wants an iPod as much as anyone. 33 00:01:58,680 --> 00:02:01,800 Speaker 4: Oh, it was like they would give you, give you 34 00:02:02,040 --> 00:02:06,760 Speaker 4: mattresses and watches and stuff, and for those of us 35 00:02:06,800 --> 00:02:09,119 Speaker 4: that were writing it, we deserved it. 36 00:02:09,400 --> 00:02:10,360 Speaker 1: Of course she did. 37 00:02:10,480 --> 00:02:13,840 Speaker 5: Of course, I'd like to ask you why you haven't 38 00:02:13,840 --> 00:02:15,160 Speaker 5: gone completely bonkers. 39 00:02:15,400 --> 00:02:20,639 Speaker 1: That's what I admire about you. But you're staying power. 40 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:22,840 Speaker 5: Because you're you're the product, I guess, in the way 41 00:02:22,880 --> 00:02:26,200 Speaker 5: of the world's most famous divorce. You've survived the incredible 42 00:02:26,200 --> 00:02:28,520 Speaker 5: fame of Star Wars and you've come out the other 43 00:02:28,600 --> 00:02:30,760 Speaker 5: side as a writer and a comedian. 44 00:02:31,080 --> 00:02:34,000 Speaker 1: How come you? How have you managed to mutate into 45 00:02:34,080 --> 00:02:35,000 Speaker 1: interesting things? 46 00:02:35,639 --> 00:02:41,720 Speaker 4: Mutate being the proper word. I you know, I think 47 00:02:41,760 --> 00:02:46,120 Speaker 4: I watched my mother get through a bunch of stuff. 48 00:02:46,440 --> 00:02:50,560 Speaker 4: I mean, what are the choices? I think, But you know, 49 00:02:50,840 --> 00:02:53,919 Speaker 4: the point is it just to sort of survive. It's 50 00:02:54,080 --> 00:02:58,880 Speaker 4: too have fun. I mean, for me, I look at 51 00:02:58,919 --> 00:03:03,840 Speaker 4: it as soon as I possibly can it with humor, 52 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:07,480 Speaker 4: you know, because if it's if my life wasn't funny, 53 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:14,040 Speaker 4: it would just be true, and that's frequently unacceptable. So 54 00:03:14,440 --> 00:03:17,840 Speaker 4: I I, you know, take things that aren't funny at 55 00:03:17,840 --> 00:03:21,080 Speaker 4: the time, and eventually they're funny. 56 00:03:21,880 --> 00:03:24,919 Speaker 5: I enjoyed one of your recent entries in the Twitter 57 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:26,600 Speaker 5: verse that you know, there's a whole lot of young 58 00:03:26,600 --> 00:03:29,120 Speaker 5: guys who are discovering you through Star Wars, and I 59 00:03:29,160 --> 00:03:30,880 Speaker 5: think that you're still going to be a twenty year 60 00:03:30,919 --> 00:03:33,919 Speaker 5: old girl, and they're shocked to discover, like all of us, 61 00:03:33,919 --> 00:03:37,400 Speaker 5: you're mad, you're a middle aged woman, and you fought back. 62 00:03:37,440 --> 00:03:39,520 Speaker 1: Tell me how you fought back. I loved what you said. 63 00:03:40,840 --> 00:03:44,320 Speaker 4: I said that I didn't realize that when I donned 64 00:03:44,320 --> 00:03:47,320 Speaker 4: the metal bikini back when I was twenty three, that 65 00:03:47,440 --> 00:03:51,560 Speaker 4: I had made an invisible contract to stay looking the 66 00:03:51,720 --> 00:03:57,280 Speaker 4: exact same way from the next thirty to forty years. 67 00:03:57,840 --> 00:04:02,320 Speaker 4: So obviously I've betrayed made the contract. I've had a child, 68 00:04:03,040 --> 00:04:07,680 Speaker 4: I've taken pounds of medication to stay sane for the child. 69 00:04:08,600 --> 00:04:11,240 Speaker 4: And sanity comes at a heavy price, you. 70 00:04:11,200 --> 00:04:15,000 Speaker 2: Know, car you a marriage to pull someone for eleven months. 71 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:17,960 Speaker 2: But he managed, no way, He managed to write nine 72 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:19,760 Speaker 2: songs about you. That was quite anymore. 73 00:04:19,880 --> 00:04:22,440 Speaker 4: But we were we were We could say we were 74 00:04:22,520 --> 00:04:28,160 Speaker 4: engaged or not or we catd for I don't know, 75 00:04:28,320 --> 00:04:31,120 Speaker 4: like nine years before that. 76 00:04:32,680 --> 00:04:34,839 Speaker 5: What's it like having someone write a song about you 77 00:04:34,839 --> 00:04:36,440 Speaker 5: with the all nice? 78 00:04:36,920 --> 00:04:43,320 Speaker 4: No, not at all. There's one called allergies, which is 79 00:04:43,680 --> 00:04:46,120 Speaker 4: my heart is allergic to the woman I love and 80 00:04:46,160 --> 00:04:51,279 Speaker 4: it's changing the shape of my face. Is that nice? 81 00:04:51,960 --> 00:04:52,359 Speaker 1: Really? 82 00:04:53,080 --> 00:04:54,480 Speaker 4: No? I don't think so. 83 00:04:55,240 --> 00:04:57,080 Speaker 2: Is there any other ones? Is there a good one? 84 00:04:57,760 --> 00:05:01,000 Speaker 4: Yeah? Yeah, there's a bunch of good ones. Hearts and 85 00:05:01,120 --> 00:05:05,520 Speaker 4: Bones one and one half wandering Jews, I'm the half 86 00:05:05,680 --> 00:05:16,800 Speaker 4: Jew and Graceland the lyric of I can never something 87 00:05:16,880 --> 00:05:21,000 Speaker 4: of Let's see, was it something about waking up with 88 00:05:22,839 --> 00:05:26,520 Speaker 4: oh I can't remember I you know, I had just 89 00:05:26,600 --> 00:05:30,680 Speaker 4: had electric convulsive therapy and my memory shot to hell. 90 00:05:33,279 --> 00:05:36,760 Speaker 1: Ah fun, just for fun, just for the singing. 91 00:05:37,640 --> 00:05:42,159 Speaker 4: For diversion, you know why? Now I've been to Disneyland, 92 00:05:42,279 --> 00:05:45,080 Speaker 4: Disney World. You know, I've been traveled a lot of 93 00:05:45,120 --> 00:05:48,880 Speaker 4: places and one of the things I hadn't done was 94 00:05:49,240 --> 00:05:51,760 Speaker 4: ect So I just thought, why not. 95 00:05:54,440 --> 00:05:56,960 Speaker 2: Did it drive you crazy with the Star Wars and 96 00:05:57,080 --> 00:06:01,320 Speaker 2: let's just put this delicately, freaks come up and harass. 97 00:06:00,960 --> 00:06:02,520 Speaker 4: You with the Star Wars trivia? 98 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:04,279 Speaker 2: Does that drive you crazy? 99 00:06:05,360 --> 00:06:10,240 Speaker 4: No? Nothing drives me crazy. Sometimes if I'm in like 100 00:06:10,839 --> 00:06:15,919 Speaker 4: a airport, someone will we shout out, hey, print this law, 101 00:06:16,279 --> 00:06:20,520 Speaker 4: Like I'm going to turn around the yes and get 102 00:06:20,560 --> 00:06:21,800 Speaker 4: confused for a moment. 103 00:06:22,600 --> 00:06:24,640 Speaker 2: That would be. But what do you do because they're 104 00:06:24,680 --> 00:06:26,800 Speaker 2: yelling at so clearly you know they're talking to you. 105 00:06:26,839 --> 00:06:28,680 Speaker 2: Do you turn around or do you just ignore it? 106 00:06:28,720 --> 00:06:29,400 Speaker 2: What do you do? 107 00:06:30,560 --> 00:06:36,320 Speaker 4: It depends on the airport. Oh, you know, I generally 108 00:06:37,160 --> 00:06:41,840 Speaker 4: don't really respond. If it's a child, I'll respond. What 109 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:47,159 Speaker 4: if it's a so called adult, probably you don't want 110 00:06:47,200 --> 00:06:48,240 Speaker 4: to encourage that. 111 00:06:48,520 --> 00:06:51,400 Speaker 2: And they're dressed like Boba fette. Yeah, I could say. 112 00:06:51,240 --> 00:06:54,440 Speaker 4: That, Well, that would be that's when you're. 113 00:06:54,360 --> 00:06:57,040 Speaker 2: Right for the hills. Well, Carrie Fisher, it's so great 114 00:06:57,080 --> 00:06:59,520 Speaker 2: to talk to you. Wishful drinking is that the state 115 00:06:59,640 --> 00:07:02,479 Speaker 2: thieves on the nineteenth of the twentieth of October. You 116 00:07:02,480 --> 00:07:05,159 Speaker 2: can get tickets right now. In fact, I would imagine 117 00:07:05,160 --> 00:07:08,000 Speaker 2: they're all sold out because this will be a great show. 118 00:07:08,080 --> 00:07:09,240 Speaker 1: We can't wait to see you. 119 00:07:10,160 --> 00:07:12,000 Speaker 4: Well, I can't wait to be there. And it's on 120 00:07:12,160 --> 00:07:15,400 Speaker 4: my almost My birthdays are the twenty first, so it'll 121 00:07:15,400 --> 00:07:17,840 Speaker 4: be my birthday even Sydney. 122 00:07:17,960 --> 00:07:20,360 Speaker 1: Why don't we all have electric shock therapy together? 123 00:07:20,640 --> 00:07:23,640 Speaker 4: Yes, together, and pour out the candles in our hair. 124 00:07:27,560 --> 00:07:28,760 Speaker 2: Thank you carry for shocking. 125 00:07:28,880 --> 00:07:30,240 Speaker 4: Aye. Good to talk to you. 126 00:07:30,520 --> 00:07:31,040 Speaker 1: Bye.