1 00:00:00,360 --> 00:00:03,680 Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda's. 2 00:00:02,960 --> 00:00:07,840 Speaker 2: IMO's mum, Judy is a massive, massive record fan, and 3 00:00:07,880 --> 00:00:10,520 Speaker 2: she's given me a bunch of records, but one record 4 00:00:10,560 --> 00:00:11,000 Speaker 2: I got. 5 00:00:11,200 --> 00:00:15,160 Speaker 3: And she was a big fan of John Laws up 6 00:00:15,240 --> 00:00:16,759 Speaker 3: until the cash for comment thing and then she went 7 00:00:16,840 --> 00:00:17,680 Speaker 3: a bit soft on him. 8 00:00:17,760 --> 00:00:20,960 Speaker 2: But before that though, she was a huge fan. 9 00:00:21,079 --> 00:00:22,840 Speaker 3: And look what he's Look what she's given me. 10 00:00:23,040 --> 00:00:26,000 Speaker 1: He looks like he's the scene of a truck accident. 11 00:00:26,120 --> 00:00:30,240 Speaker 2: Yeah, no, no, no, it's motivating man. John Laws's album 12 00:00:30,360 --> 00:00:32,400 Speaker 2: that he recorded in the seventies. 13 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:33,480 Speaker 1: And they're trucking songs. 14 00:00:33,760 --> 00:00:36,639 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's about Can I ask. 15 00:00:36,440 --> 00:00:38,880 Speaker 1: You what's his connection with trucks? 16 00:00:39,120 --> 00:00:42,000 Speaker 2: He drove a track for a Nano second seventies or 17 00:00:42,080 --> 00:00:43,760 Speaker 2: sixties or the fifties or something a bit like I 18 00:00:43,800 --> 00:00:45,800 Speaker 2: did I drive a truck around Sydney. She could do 19 00:00:45,840 --> 00:00:47,640 Speaker 2: a truck I reckon, I drive a truck for as 20 00:00:47,680 --> 00:00:49,720 Speaker 2: bad as long as John I heard truck now. 21 00:00:50,360 --> 00:00:51,800 Speaker 3: But John's retired these days. 22 00:00:52,640 --> 00:00:53,239 Speaker 1: I know he's not. 23 00:00:54,240 --> 00:00:58,360 Speaker 2: It works at two acent But anyway, this album motivating man, 24 00:00:59,000 --> 00:00:59,560 Speaker 2: it's classic. 25 00:00:59,560 --> 00:01:02,200 Speaker 3: Look at it. There's Lawsy on the front of Do 26 00:01:02,200 --> 00:01:03,280 Speaker 3: you want to read some of the blurb? 27 00:01:03,480 --> 00:01:03,880 Speaker 1: Please? 28 00:01:04,640 --> 00:01:07,119 Speaker 2: When you do what you like in this world, whether 29 00:01:07,160 --> 00:01:09,759 Speaker 2: it be driver track or sing about them. 30 00:01:09,880 --> 00:01:10,840 Speaker 1: Leave you two options. 31 00:01:10,920 --> 00:01:12,160 Speaker 3: You have to do a good job. 32 00:01:14,120 --> 00:01:16,800 Speaker 2: And for a man who says he can't sing, I 33 00:01:16,800 --> 00:01:19,520 Speaker 2: think you'll agree with me after you've heard this album. 34 00:01:19,680 --> 00:01:22,280 Speaker 3: The John Laws has done a great job. 35 00:01:22,880 --> 00:01:28,080 Speaker 2: Actually, I thought himself. PS has written whoever that is? Anyway, 36 00:01:28,080 --> 00:01:29,080 Speaker 2: this is motivating man. 37 00:01:29,319 --> 00:01:30,479 Speaker 1: Let's hear it? Are they trucking song? 38 00:01:30,520 --> 00:01:30,640 Speaker 4: Well? 39 00:01:30,640 --> 00:01:32,040 Speaker 3: What do you want to hear? We've got motivating man. 40 00:01:32,080 --> 00:01:34,720 Speaker 3: That's the time. Oh, there's. 41 00:01:35,959 --> 00:01:40,440 Speaker 2: There's so many there, tombstone every mile, truck driving cat 42 00:01:40,480 --> 00:01:44,240 Speaker 2: with nine wives, Sam. 43 00:01:44,040 --> 00:01:46,360 Speaker 3: The tricky trucky. Sure I like a literation. 44 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:48,919 Speaker 2: It's in the record. 45 00:01:48,960 --> 00:01:49,360 Speaker 1: Here we go. 46 00:01:51,600 --> 00:01:52,800 Speaker 3: This is John Lewis. 47 00:01:54,800 --> 00:01:56,680 Speaker 1: Hill, the. 48 00:02:00,280 --> 00:02:04,600 Speaker 5: Man lugging drive up to a transporting mans idn't let 49 00:02:04,640 --> 00:02:09,399 Speaker 5: him by while those other trucks were waiting. Sam hesitated, 50 00:02:09,960 --> 00:02:13,359 Speaker 5: did driven years move on with goon in his. 51 00:02:18,560 --> 00:02:21,600 Speaker 1: Sorry do you dream? 52 00:02:21,600 --> 00:02:23,839 Speaker 3: This is my ding man? This isn't a matter, biddy man. 53 00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:31,480 Speaker 2: This is the title track of the album. 54 00:02:26,400 --> 00:02:34,280 Speaker 4: I'd drown that big old truck from a bit long 55 00:02:34,360 --> 00:02:38,760 Speaker 4: reach all the way cross country to the coast, and 56 00:02:40,080 --> 00:02:43,440 Speaker 4: I've got another load and I was under way again, 57 00:02:44,400 --> 00:02:48,840 Speaker 4: back to where the Murray River flows. I like to 58 00:02:49,040 --> 00:02:53,200 Speaker 4: hear that rhythm mass some other hers along Themandon big winds, 59 00:02:53,320 --> 00:02:55,360 Speaker 4: keep a rolling clean freeze. 60 00:02:56,360 --> 00:02:59,799 Speaker 5: Ride, ride the drive truck Land of Ben's a millionaire. 61 00:03:03,160 --> 00:03:06,320 Speaker 6: I'd rather drive a truck than be a millionaire. The 62 00:03:06,360 --> 00:03:08,200 Speaker 6: most authentic words John Law. 63 00:03:08,480 --> 00:03:15,000 Speaker 3: Has ever said. The John Laws record Motivating Man. I 64 00:03:15,080 --> 00:03:16,640 Speaker 3: played a little bit of this earlier this morning. 65 00:03:16,680 --> 00:03:20,600 Speaker 6: It's trucking songs because he's when he's not on the 66 00:03:20,680 --> 00:03:21,679 Speaker 6: radio for the last. 67 00:03:22,200 --> 00:03:22,680 Speaker 1: Is he truck? 68 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:24,480 Speaker 2: I think John drove a truck about as much as 69 00:03:24,520 --> 00:03:25,600 Speaker 2: I did around Sydney. 70 00:03:25,600 --> 00:03:26,400 Speaker 3: You know I did. 71 00:03:26,440 --> 00:03:29,080 Speaker 2: I drive a truck for a while there, but I 72 00:03:29,080 --> 00:03:31,679 Speaker 2: didn't release an album. Do You'm going to read some 73 00:03:31,760 --> 00:03:32,600 Speaker 2: of the blurb on the back? 74 00:03:32,880 --> 00:03:33,400 Speaker 1: Not really. 75 00:03:34,040 --> 00:03:36,400 Speaker 2: When you do what you like in this world, whether 76 00:03:36,440 --> 00:03:39,080 Speaker 2: it be drive a truck or sing about him, you've 77 00:03:39,080 --> 00:03:39,960 Speaker 2: got to do a good job. 78 00:03:40,040 --> 00:03:42,840 Speaker 1: Okay. There are only two options, to drive a truck 79 00:03:42,920 --> 00:03:43,720 Speaker 1: or sing about them. 80 00:03:43,800 --> 00:03:46,200 Speaker 3: Yeah, if you're a truckie right now, is that what 81 00:03:46,240 --> 00:03:46,480 Speaker 3: you do? 82 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:48,160 Speaker 1: But if you're if you're. 83 00:03:48,320 --> 00:03:51,160 Speaker 6: A brain surgeon, where are your options? You either drive 84 00:03:51,200 --> 00:03:52,360 Speaker 6: a truck or you sing about them. 85 00:03:52,400 --> 00:03:54,320 Speaker 3: My son pointed, out to me, said, what a truck 86 00:03:54,360 --> 00:03:54,760 Speaker 3: drivers do? 87 00:03:54,800 --> 00:03:56,920 Speaker 2: They had to set up a record player in their 88 00:03:56,920 --> 00:04:01,920 Speaker 2: truck and listen to this while their trucking. I'm just 89 00:04:01,920 --> 00:04:04,280 Speaker 2: reading the other bit here. I think you'll agree with 90 00:04:04,320 --> 00:04:06,920 Speaker 2: me after you've heard this album. John Lews has done 91 00:04:06,960 --> 00:04:07,560 Speaker 2: a great job. 92 00:04:08,480 --> 00:04:11,840 Speaker 6: I think he wrote that self a third person. But 93 00:04:11,880 --> 00:04:13,680 Speaker 6: there was a song you played earlier that made us laugh. 94 00:04:13,720 --> 00:04:13,960 Speaker 2: What was that? 95 00:04:14,200 --> 00:04:17,839 Speaker 3: It was motivating? Man? This is what we used to 96 00:04:17,839 --> 00:04:20,080 Speaker 3: do in the old day. Kids. We'd get on the radio. 97 00:04:27,400 --> 00:04:30,240 Speaker 4: I'd brought that big old truck, my middle long reach 98 00:04:31,880 --> 00:04:36,160 Speaker 4: all the way across country to the coast. I've got 99 00:04:36,160 --> 00:04:40,960 Speaker 4: another load noise on the weekend than to where the 100 00:04:41,080 --> 00:04:46,160 Speaker 4: Murray rhym. I like to hear that rhythm. Man's a 101 00:04:46,200 --> 00:04:49,960 Speaker 4: lot of persand MG wheels. Keep it all with clear 102 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:52,280 Speaker 4: and freeze. 103 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:55,279 Speaker 5: I'd run and driving trucks than beers movie and. 104 00:04:56,200 --> 00:05:00,680 Speaker 6: To stop you detector, I'd rather drive a truck than 105 00:05:00,760 --> 00:05:01,719 Speaker 6: be a millionaires? 106 00:05:01,760 --> 00:05:02,400 Speaker 3: Is that true? 107 00:05:03,360 --> 00:05:05,560 Speaker 1: What else is on the album? 108 00:05:05,760 --> 00:05:06,200 Speaker 4: What do you want? 109 00:05:06,480 --> 00:05:08,040 Speaker 1: Is he lying to us? In other songs? 110 00:05:08,360 --> 00:05:11,120 Speaker 2: There sam the tricky Trucky. There's a bit of a 111 00:05:11,120 --> 00:05:16,640 Speaker 2: theme here. There's truck driving cat with nine wives, oh nine. 112 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:21,320 Speaker 5: Long highway. 113 00:05:22,120 --> 00:05:29,159 Speaker 4: It took him nine days. Sometimes was a little confuse. 114 00:05:30,279 --> 00:05:34,520 Speaker 5: Walking around like he would. 115 00:05:34,760 --> 00:05:36,159 Speaker 4: Remember the name. 116 00:05:37,080 --> 00:05:43,680 Speaker 5: Yeah, so he wrote them all down. Truck driving man, 117 00:05:45,040 --> 00:05:47,160 Speaker 5: This cat is at nine. 118 00:05:48,560 --> 00:05:51,960 Speaker 3: The name of the wives in his logs? Pretty so good? 119 00:05:52,040 --> 00:05:53,880 Speaker 1: Where's current of fair when you need them? 120 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:54,960 Speaker 3: What about this one? 121 00:05:56,040 --> 00:05:59,640 Speaker 2: See you in the windshield he is driving? 122 00:06:01,400 --> 00:06:04,320 Speaker 3: I really could have cued this up with See him 123 00:06:04,320 --> 00:06:06,159 Speaker 3: in the windshield. 124 00:06:06,960 --> 00:06:07,880 Speaker 2: Made my eye twitch. 125 00:06:10,160 --> 00:06:14,400 Speaker 5: I could see. 126 00:06:15,200 --> 00:06:17,440 Speaker 2: Accident as he had because he run people. 127 00:06:17,440 --> 00:06:23,000 Speaker 6: Anyway, Remember he was a big hero of your. 128 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:25,320 Speaker 3: Yeah, and then I went on his show. 129 00:06:25,320 --> 00:06:27,440 Speaker 2: I remember we because he came on our show because 130 00:06:27,440 --> 00:06:31,119 Speaker 2: we had the shared the same publisher, and he came 131 00:06:31,560 --> 00:06:33,599 Speaker 2: on our show to talk about his book, and we 132 00:06:33,640 --> 00:06:35,080 Speaker 2: were civil and we had a great. 133 00:06:35,360 --> 00:06:37,320 Speaker 1: Were a big He's a big inspiration of yours. 134 00:06:37,320 --> 00:06:39,880 Speaker 2: For that part of the reason him and Doug Morae 135 00:06:39,920 --> 00:06:42,280 Speaker 2: is the reason I do this job. So anyway, I 136 00:06:42,320 --> 00:06:45,000 Speaker 2: was quite chuffed when his people ran up and said 137 00:06:45,040 --> 00:06:49,080 Speaker 2: will you come on John Show on SM And I said, well, sure, 138 00:06:49,880 --> 00:06:50,760 Speaker 2: I'll give it a crack. 139 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:54,080 Speaker 3: I was quite chuffed. Of course, the interview took a 140 00:06:54,120 --> 00:06:56,120 Speaker 3: strange twist. Why are you here? 141 00:06:56,160 --> 00:06:58,920 Speaker 2: What are you doing in my well John, he rang 142 00:06:59,040 --> 00:07:00,520 Speaker 2: up and said, look, you know you gotta come on 143 00:07:00,520 --> 00:07:00,880 Speaker 2: my show. 144 00:07:01,160 --> 00:07:02,920 Speaker 3: I didn't say that at all. We've got we've got 145 00:07:02,920 --> 00:07:03,400 Speaker 3: to talk about. 146 00:07:03,400 --> 00:07:05,159 Speaker 4: I didn't say that, don't lie and. 147 00:07:05,080 --> 00:07:06,839 Speaker 3: Uh and I said, well, I'm happy to. 148 00:07:07,200 --> 00:07:08,080 Speaker 4: I didn't say that. 149 00:07:10,040 --> 00:07:11,600 Speaker 6: I'm looking at the back and you would rather be 150 00:07:11,680 --> 00:07:14,040 Speaker 6: a truck driver than a millionaire would. 151 00:07:14,280 --> 00:07:15,960 Speaker 3: And then then it just got stranger. 152 00:07:16,320 --> 00:07:17,640 Speaker 4: Must be a good time to come in here and 153 00:07:17,680 --> 00:07:19,680 Speaker 4: be given buggary. 154 00:07:19,880 --> 00:07:24,760 Speaker 3: Actually that's track twelve. Just after a pen or a watch, 155 00:07:25,920 --> 00:07:28,920 Speaker 3: do yourself a favor. I'm enjoying that. I want someone. 156 00:07:29,880 --> 00:07:34,320 Speaker 3: This is just a show, just a what about if 157 00:07:34,320 --> 00:07:34,920 Speaker 3: you spin it up? 158 00:07:36,360 --> 00:07:41,920 Speaker 4: But I can see what if we wrap it John 159 00:07:41,920 --> 00:07:42,840 Speaker 4: Wills wrapped. 160 00:07:51,240 --> 00:07:53,240 Speaker 1: What's of things come up on our show? Apartment having 161 00:07:53,400 --> 00:07:57,720 Speaker 1: John what a dream? And Amanda's