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Speaker 1: And Amanda gam Nation.

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Speaker 2: Well, when you think about rock bands on people selling

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Speaker 2: out Madison Square Gardens you for twelve days straight, you

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Speaker 2: think of maybe Billy Joel, you think of somebody like that.

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Speaker 2: But there's one band that did it with songs about

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Speaker 2: fruit salad and hot potatoes. I'm talking, of course, about

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Speaker 2: The Wiggles. The Wiggles are the most successful children's act

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Speaker 2: of all time, and they're about to open up like

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Speaker 2: never before in a new documentary called Hot Potato The

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Speaker 2: Story of the Wiggles. To talk us through, this is

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Speaker 2: the original and only Blue Wiggle, Anthony Field.

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Speaker 1: Hello, Amanda, how are you? I'm not the only Blue Wiggle.

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Speaker 1: By the way, there's another Blue Wiggles, Gia, my daughter.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right, she is also joined as a Blue Wiggle.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, there's another Blue Wiggle about.

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Speaker 3: But in our minds, Anthony, it's just you.

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Speaker 2: Well, no, we have to move with the times bad.

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Speaker 1: That's all you. It's all you.

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Speaker 3: And this documentary, what are we going to see there's

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Speaker 3: going to be any any juice.

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Speaker 1: Well, it's not really gossipy. It's more about just behind

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Speaker 1: the scenes. And I've got to say when I watched it,

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Speaker 1: which was the first time the other night. You forget

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Speaker 1: so many things, the amount of time we spend together,

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Speaker 1: the times we had, the sad times that you know,

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Speaker 1: there's a few mentioned to a few little arguments in

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Speaker 1: the big red car and.

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Speaker 2: Are we there yet? No exactly, Well, that you did

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Speaker 2: spend a lot of time together. I mean the fact

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Speaker 2: that you started back in nineteen ninety one, you were

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Speaker 2: studying early childhood education at Maccuorra University and then you

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Speaker 2: scaled those dizzying heights. It's a long journey with those

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Speaker 2: same people for years.

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Speaker 1: It isn't Honestly, we've watched each other lived, you know,

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Speaker 1: we've spent so much time together. But also we're growing up,

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Speaker 1: so we've seen you know, our friend get have children's families,

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Speaker 1: all sorts of things go through your heart, you know,

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Speaker 1: Gregor with his heart condition, just with his heart, like

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Speaker 1: just what normal you go through with your friends and

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Speaker 1: your mates. And we're still good mates. The stories quite incredible,

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Speaker 1: the success that we had in America, and you know,

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Speaker 1: you know, we continued the wiggles going on, but it's

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Speaker 1: I was amazed about that Madison Square Garden as well

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Speaker 1: at the time. That's still end.

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Speaker 3: Well that's a big deal. Madison Square Garden. You don't

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Speaker 3: have to where Billy Joel performed. That's where Elton John

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Speaker 3: and John Lennon performed.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, now you're going to have to help me here.

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Speaker 1: There was a guy who was side stage, Chris Martin,

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Speaker 1: and I've forgotten the group he was with, but it

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Speaker 1: was they had a song called Yellow Coldplay cold Play.

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Speaker 1: Now he was side stage having a look at Madison

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Speaker 1: Square Garden and he famously said, who were these guys?

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Speaker 1: What are they doing? Years later he had to his show,

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Speaker 1: and again I didn't know much about it, not really

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Speaker 1: up with the times, so I thought it was an

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Speaker 1: amazing show. And at the show, and you can see

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Speaker 1: it on YouTube, he sang fruit salad, yummy, yummy with

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Speaker 1: cold Play cold Play, unbelievable.

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Speaker 2: Well that's the thing. You have long attracted very famous

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Speaker 2: people who bring their kids along to see you. What

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Speaker 2: have been some of those pinch me moments?

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Speaker 1: Well, Saquila O'Neil came a few times to the show,

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Speaker 1: but last time he came, he came in a red

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Speaker 1: skivvy that he had made up himself, and on side,

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Speaker 1: yeah big skivvy and his manager jumps on on the

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Speaker 1: side stage and he was out, Shack one sign. What

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Speaker 1: did you do?

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Speaker 3: Flick Murray? You say, see you, Murray?

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Speaker 1: You're around for you Murray? What happened with you there? Murray?

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Speaker 1: For that he took off? You didn't he I'll put

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Speaker 1: Murray on. I'll put him Urray on.

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Speaker 3: What Murry's with you? Hi?

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Speaker 2: Murray?

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Speaker 1: Hi?

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Speaker 2: Your skippy would have been one eighth the size of Shacks.

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Speaker 4: You know, he had to have especially made. And then

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Speaker 4: he came out. The boys was I was off stage,

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Speaker 4: and the boys were saying, where's Murray? Where's Murray? And

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Speaker 4: then Shack walks out with my guitar and they do potato.

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Speaker 4: And it was in Miami and he was playing for

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Speaker 4: the Heat at the time, and and the crowd just

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Speaker 4: went nuts when he came out, which is but then

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Speaker 4: it was mentioned on ESPN because he was he was

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Speaker 4: out with an injury and and the guys on esp

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Speaker 4: and are saying, how injured is Shack? If he can

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Speaker 4: get up on stage and dance.

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Speaker 1: With the.

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Speaker 4: Controversy wants on absolutely controversy.

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Speaker 3: Murray put Anthony back on.

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Speaker 4: I'll put him on, thanks mate.

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Speaker 1: It was also Kobe Bryant came to the show right. Wow, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we've got a great him. A couple of times got beautible.

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Speaker 1: He was a nice, nice man and what a great

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Speaker 1: sporting stuff. Robert DeNiro.

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Speaker 2: Robert DeNiro has been in the crowds.

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Speaker 1: It was there. We met him too. He came backstage,

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Speaker 1: which was great.

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Speaker 3: And there's Greg and Jeff with you guys as well.

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Speaker 3: Are you all together at the all live together?

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Speaker 1: We all bunk Betts just burrying me. We hang out.

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Speaker 3: That's okay, Bernie and her.

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Speaker 2: Out Why that didn't sound right?

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Speaker 1: And Ernie.

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Speaker 3: That could be a thigh? Anthony, it's always Can I

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Speaker 3: just say this to you? For years in our kid's

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Speaker 3: toy boar box, my eldest son got your doll when

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Speaker 3: he was a kid. Do you remember this this little doll?

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Speaker 4: Hi, my name is Anthony.

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Speaker 3: And then that went from my eldest son to my

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Speaker 3: daughter and then my youngest son, and the battery never

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Speaker 3: died and it just kept going. It was the hangover

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Speaker 3: toy because I'd always bring it in on a Saturday

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Speaker 3: morning where I'd be bleary and I just hear I

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Speaker 3: just hear this. WHI Okay, how about you go back

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Speaker 3: into the toy box, mate, I hear more from Earth.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure we've taltured a lot of parents over the

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Speaker 1: last thirty two.

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Speaker 3: And we've loved every minute and we have well so

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Speaker 3: to the rest of the gang. Murray, who's right next

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Speaker 3: to your hot potato? The Story of the Wiggles premier

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Speaker 3: is on Prime Video Australia tomorrow. Anthony Field, thank you.

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Speaker 1: Thanks