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Speaker 1: Joined the and Amanda, Good morning on one point seven.

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Speaker 1: Tell you.

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Speaker 2: It's a good day when we get to talk to

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Speaker 2: our next guest. Best known as the trock wrestling comedy

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Speaker 2: Hero's responsible really for bringing the Aussie laraton to the

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Speaker 2: international stage. His life before and after the success of

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Speaker 2: Crocodile Dundee is equally as entertaining, and he's finally written

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Speaker 2: all about it in his autobiography, The Tap Dancing Knife

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Speaker 2: Thrower without the boring bits. That's his title, not mine.

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Speaker 2: Legendary Paul Hogan, Hello.

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Speaker 1: Here he is, Hello yours.

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Speaker 3: You know it's flicking through this book and it just

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Speaker 3: takes me back. The reason I do this today is

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Speaker 3: because of you. And I remember going on a school

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Speaker 3: excursion when I was twelve to a radio station and

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Speaker 3: you were just there doing the radio commercials for cigarettes,

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Speaker 3: and we saw you in the fourer and I remember

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Speaker 3: just standing there and it was just it was like

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Speaker 3: seeing God and we were standing there. I just remember

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Speaker 3: saying my dad smokes, Dunny or mister Hogan, and you said,

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Speaker 3: good on your spider, and.

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Speaker 1: That was it. That that was a good ol days

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Speaker 1: when smoking was good.

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Speaker 3: For you exactly.

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Speaker 1: Oh wow, it no longer is no.

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Speaker 2: But a million great stories in this book. And I

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Speaker 2: find it fascinating that even if you'd remained as a

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Speaker 2: rigor on the Harbor Bridge, you would have had an

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Speaker 2: extraordinary life. I mean, you saved a man's life on

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Speaker 2: the job. It's not like your life began after tell

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Speaker 2: us about that.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that was just a young man who was

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Speaker 1: very distressed and just wanted to jump off the bridge.

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Speaker 1: That was part of my job was talking out of it.

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Speaker 3: I didn't realize you worked on the bridge for so long.

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Speaker 3: I always thought it was sort of like a fleeting moment,

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Speaker 3: but it was ten years.

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Speaker 1: Really, it was hard to leave the bridge. It was

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Speaker 1: just just a wonderful view and outdoor and sunshine and

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Speaker 1: a cruise and the pace I get stay me.

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Speaker 2: And even when you found success, was it a big

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Speaker 2: deal for you to say I'm not a rigor anymore,

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Speaker 2: this is what I do full time. Did it feel

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Speaker 2: like you're just playing at the other staff.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. It took years before I sort of thought, oh no,

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Speaker 1: this is pretty good. I belong here. Yeah. I was

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Speaker 1: always waiting when the early news for someone to come

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Speaker 1: up and tap me on the shower and say I

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Speaker 1: always made a mistake.

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Speaker 3: Let's talk about your outfit. That outfit on Telly and

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Speaker 3: it's so iconic, the stubbies, the cutoff flannel and the

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Speaker 3: long footy socks. It's like you combined every footy code

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Speaker 3: in Australia for the one outfit. Was that intentional?

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Speaker 1: That was my that was my summer work in uniform

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Speaker 1: on the bridge and that was a stubbies and the

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Speaker 1: torn off shirt. It's the sort of standard Builders laborers

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Speaker 1: uniform in the seventies.

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Speaker 3: And didn't your mum say to you when you went

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Speaker 3: on the Willaite Show? She said, Oh, goodness sake, you

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Speaker 3: could have worn something better on TV.

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Speaker 1: Oh you wanted to dress up nice, she said, Tony

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Speaker 1: Barbara was dress nice.

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Speaker 2: Didn't she also say that when you wore that outfit

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Speaker 2: to meet the Queen, oh.

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Speaker 1: Everyone said that everyone was horrified except the Queen. She

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Speaker 1: didn't mind.

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Speaker 3: What did the Queen say?

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Speaker 1: She apologized that she wouldn't be able to come to

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Speaker 1: dinner at my place. Partly react on stage was I

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Speaker 1: grew lucky seat prizes and it just turned out that

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Speaker 1: the lucky two numbers I drew with the Queen and

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Speaker 1: Philip and the prize was, you know, dinner at my

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Speaker 1: place brilliant and when I met her artress you sir,

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, dear, I don't think you'll be able to

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Speaker 1: make them.

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Speaker 2: But you're right also about the sense of humor. Like

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Speaker 2: Charles and Diana. You said that they were great company.

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Speaker 1: They were. Actually I've sort of had a few dinners

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Speaker 1: and a few meetings with Charles because he was the

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Speaker 1: patron of the Variety Club children's charity. And then I

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Speaker 1: met them a few times and they came to the

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Speaker 1: premiere of Clock two in London for their charity where

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Speaker 1: I found myself. That was one of the most real moments,

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Speaker 1: sitting in the chair of child on one side of

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Speaker 1: me and Briana on the other.

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Speaker 3: Well, I always like that story used to tell us

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Speaker 3: about You're an awards ceremony and Clyt Eastwood comes up

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Speaker 3: to you with a knife or you were holding a

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Speaker 3: knife or something like that and he said, that's not

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Speaker 3: a knife, where he said welcome to the club.

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Speaker 1: Yes, but it wasn't. It was a charity ball dinner.

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Speaker 1: It was Taylor organized and I got invited to it

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Speaker 1: and found out that I was sitting at here, So

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Speaker 1: I'm sitting with Louise and at the table just to

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Speaker 1: cross rooms you can I have been picked up my

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Speaker 1: butt knife just save me? Said, how many times have

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Speaker 1: you heard it?

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Speaker 3: If there was one one character from the Paul Hagen

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Speaker 3: Show that you would like to do forever, who would

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Speaker 3: it be? Out of all of them?

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Speaker 1: Ankle was the most fun, of course he was a

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Speaker 1: great maker.

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Speaker 3: Well, Paul, it's great to talk to you. The tap

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Speaker 3: Dancing Knife Thrower is in all good bookstores today, Paul.

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Speaker 3: It's always a treaty. Absolutely, and we look forward to

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Speaker 3: coming back to Australia. I hope everything's going okay over

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Speaker 3: there in crazy La.

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Speaker 2: Next weekend sounds pretty scary, I reckon, I think you

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Speaker 2: should hide under a table.

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Speaker 1: Yes, I'm speaking to you now from under the day. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I look forward to coming back to Australia to the

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Speaker 1: into you in person.

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Speaker 2: We love that, Paul. You take care, Thank you, see

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Speaker 2: you soon.

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Speaker 1: Thanks you joined the and Amanda Morning setn