1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:04,240 Speaker 1: This is a Will and Woody podcast, Nini Jove. Yes, 2 00:00:05,120 --> 00:00:10,280 Speaker 1: you and I were just talking about playing somebody else 3 00:00:10,640 --> 00:00:13,000 Speaker 1: in your life, pretending to be someone Have you pretended 4 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:14,520 Speaker 1: to be someone else in your life? And you were 5 00:00:14,520 --> 00:00:17,720 Speaker 1: telling one of my favorite stories, which is when you 6 00:00:17,880 --> 00:00:22,599 Speaker 1: and three other mates boys I know as well, pretended 7 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:24,480 Speaker 1: to be the band powder Finger. 8 00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:27,159 Speaker 2: Phones could play songs. So I go, this is me 9 00:00:27,440 --> 00:00:33,839 Speaker 2: and then play ma, there's you on the sticks and 10 00:00:33,880 --> 00:00:35,120 Speaker 2: I do the sticks. I'd be like, oh, do you 11 00:00:35,200 --> 00:00:37,440 Speaker 2: mind if I hold your chopsticks? If there were chopsticks around? 12 00:00:37,440 --> 00:00:39,239 Speaker 3: Sorry, South America. 13 00:00:40,600 --> 00:00:43,600 Speaker 1: Great, we have a guest on the phone right now. Guest, 14 00:00:44,560 --> 00:00:46,600 Speaker 1: would you like to reveal yourself? 15 00:00:49,320 --> 00:00:57,440 Speaker 4: It's John Cogle here, formerly a powder Finger. It's not 16 00:00:57,520 --> 00:00:59,920 Speaker 4: really me, it's some other guy pretending to be. 17 00:01:04,319 --> 00:01:04,720 Speaker 5: Johnny. 18 00:01:05,040 --> 00:01:07,520 Speaker 2: You were lucky to you were lucky to stay out 19 00:01:07,520 --> 00:01:12,680 Speaker 2: of the headlines, and you tour of Vargentina and yeah. 20 00:01:13,200 --> 00:01:17,080 Speaker 4: And the funny thing is we never tour you were 21 00:01:17,240 --> 00:01:18,880 Speaker 4: over there. Anyway, We've done it. 22 00:01:19,319 --> 00:01:21,080 Speaker 5: You have now, you have now, and you've got a 23 00:01:21,120 --> 00:01:22,000 Speaker 5: lot of fans over there. 24 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:24,120 Speaker 3: Trust me, it is probably an easy play, like it's 25 00:01:24,160 --> 00:01:26,560 Speaker 3: a believable play, like if you walk in somewhere as 26 00:01:26,600 --> 00:01:28,200 Speaker 3: the front man of a band. Like if you walk 27 00:01:28,200 --> 00:01:30,400 Speaker 3: in somewhere and go, Ha'm Bernard Fannie, you know you're 28 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:32,720 Speaker 3: in trouble. But the truth of the matter is, and 29 00:01:32,840 --> 00:01:35,319 Speaker 3: you know this is a drama, John, Like, unless you 30 00:01:35,360 --> 00:01:38,880 Speaker 3: know the band very well, you guys, well, I suppose 31 00:01:38,880 --> 00:01:39,880 Speaker 3: it's a blessing and a curse. 32 00:01:39,920 --> 00:01:42,400 Speaker 1: You're able to really blend into the crowd a lot 33 00:01:42,440 --> 00:01:42,959 Speaker 1: of the time. 34 00:01:43,360 --> 00:01:47,200 Speaker 4: Yeah. Well, funnily enough, I used to be embarrassed about, 35 00:01:47,319 --> 00:01:49,920 Speaker 4: you know, starting to get a name or whatever, and 36 00:01:49,960 --> 00:01:54,240 Speaker 4: I pretend to be like something else, like an accountant 37 00:01:54,320 --> 00:01:59,480 Speaker 4: or whatever, and and every time I did it, someone go, now, 38 00:01:59,520 --> 00:02:02,960 Speaker 4: you're the guy from powder Finger. And then when I tried, 39 00:02:03,160 --> 00:02:04,800 Speaker 4: when I just went off stuff and I would just 40 00:02:04,920 --> 00:02:07,760 Speaker 4: be the guy from powder Finger, that's when people didn't 41 00:02:07,760 --> 00:02:08,200 Speaker 4: believe me. 42 00:02:09,600 --> 00:02:13,079 Speaker 3: Of course, there's no way the druone from powder You 43 00:02:13,120 --> 00:02:15,639 Speaker 3: faced the same problem that Wo he did Wood. He 44 00:02:15,720 --> 00:02:17,560 Speaker 3: was better at being the drum from powder Finger than 45 00:02:17,600 --> 00:02:18,800 Speaker 3: you were for a little while. 46 00:02:18,639 --> 00:02:22,640 Speaker 5: There, John, No, I just saw that bloke in Argentina. 47 00:02:22,840 --> 00:02:26,720 Speaker 5: I'm sorry you couldn't be the guy. 48 00:02:28,600 --> 00:02:32,160 Speaker 1: Just for the credibility of the bit though, Like obviously 49 00:02:32,280 --> 00:02:35,720 Speaker 1: as the drummer of can you ask Wood? He like 50 00:02:35,880 --> 00:02:40,240 Speaker 1: a question related to playing the four powder Finger, and 51 00:02:40,280 --> 00:02:43,320 Speaker 1: I just want to see how much like how deep 52 00:02:43,360 --> 00:02:44,800 Speaker 1: he can go in the character. 53 00:02:46,040 --> 00:02:52,320 Speaker 4: Oh geez, what's the hardest song to play on Vulture Street? 54 00:02:52,840 --> 00:02:55,839 Speaker 5: Uh, it's going to be my happiness. I mean, it's 55 00:02:55,919 --> 00:03:02,239 Speaker 5: just it's not on Vulture Street. Yeah. 56 00:03:04,240 --> 00:03:07,359 Speaker 4: When when we came off stage at Wave aid back 57 00:03:07,360 --> 00:03:13,119 Speaker 4: in two thousand and five, it's like horribly offensively abused 58 00:03:13,120 --> 00:03:14,919 Speaker 4: by a manager of one of the other bands. 59 00:03:15,080 --> 00:03:22,680 Speaker 5: Yes, yes, yes, I remember Jimmy Barns's manager to shreds 60 00:03:22,680 --> 00:03:22,960 Speaker 5: off me. 61 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:26,600 Speaker 4: There you go, well done. He knows, he knows exactly. 62 00:03:28,639 --> 00:03:29,600 Speaker 3: Jimmy Buns manager. 63 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:35,080 Speaker 4: No was actually was there. We played two minutes too long. 64 00:03:35,360 --> 00:03:37,480 Speaker 3: It was Midnight Oil's manager. Because you played ten minutes 65 00:03:37,520 --> 00:03:37,880 Speaker 3: too long. 66 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:41,280 Speaker 4: Back in the day you got torn shreds off you 67 00:03:41,920 --> 00:03:44,320 Speaker 4: by Midnight Oil and the Angels and that all that 68 00:03:44,320 --> 00:03:44,840 Speaker 4: sort of stuff. 69 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:48,640 Speaker 1: So did you did you then become the shred Terrors? 70 00:03:48,680 --> 00:03:51,920 Speaker 5: When you became the headline. 71 00:03:52,280 --> 00:03:54,960 Speaker 4: We were way too nice. Although that's coming from me, 72 00:03:55,080 --> 00:03:57,800 Speaker 4: of course, it could be completely wrong from someone else. Yeah, 73 00:03:58,320 --> 00:04:01,520 Speaker 4: we tried to change the culture a bit, which we shouldn't. 74 00:04:01,600 --> 00:04:03,320 Speaker 4: We should have just been ripping into people. 75 00:04:03,400 --> 00:04:09,120 Speaker 5: Really, that's your biggest regret, Johnny. 76 00:04:09,760 --> 00:04:11,920 Speaker 1: I've got one question for you before you go mate. 77 00:04:12,480 --> 00:04:17,280 Speaker 1: The cover of Honestly Number five with the jump down 78 00:04:17,279 --> 00:04:18,920 Speaker 1: into the ocean, there was. 79 00:04:18,839 --> 00:04:21,000 Speaker 4: That real of me? 80 00:04:21,560 --> 00:04:24,360 Speaker 3: Yeah, like you like it's their heads jumping into the water. 81 00:04:24,440 --> 00:04:26,120 Speaker 3: Was that a real photo? Well? 82 00:04:26,400 --> 00:04:29,279 Speaker 4: There was some of it was photo shopped off. Okay, 83 00:04:29,400 --> 00:04:34,520 Speaker 4: the bit between my legs, what do you mean that 84 00:04:34,720 --> 00:04:38,240 Speaker 4: wasn't me? It wasn't real. And I think my kids 85 00:04:38,279 --> 00:04:40,000 Speaker 4: think it's me, but no one else does. 86 00:04:42,160 --> 00:04:43,120 Speaker 5: Will think that's real. 87 00:04:43,279 --> 00:04:46,479 Speaker 3: There's there at least half the population of Argentina also 88 00:04:46,480 --> 00:04:48,760 Speaker 3: think that Woody is you. So there's a whole bunch 89 00:04:48,760 --> 00:04:51,240 Speaker 3: of the simulation going on here. 90 00:04:51,320 --> 00:04:52,320 Speaker 5: It's very cryptic. 91 00:04:52,480 --> 00:04:53,920 Speaker 2: But by the way, there are a lot of places 92 00:04:53,920 --> 00:04:55,960 Speaker 2: in Buenos Aires where you are not welcome. 93 00:04:55,720 --> 00:04:59,080 Speaker 3: John How are you done with that? 94 00:04:59,640 --> 00:04:59,839 Speaker 1: Why? 95 00:05:00,240 --> 00:05:03,840 Speaker 2: Check out more from Willen Woodye on The Full Show podcast.