1 00:00:01,440 --> 00:00:03,320 Speaker 1: And Amanda jam Nation. 2 00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:06,600 Speaker 2: We were so lucky yesterday we had an Australian exclusive. 3 00:00:06,760 --> 00:00:10,479 Speaker 2: We were granted the Australia's only interview with Barbara Streisen. 4 00:00:10,520 --> 00:00:14,640 Speaker 2: She's releasing a new book, an autobiography. It's out today, 5 00:00:15,400 --> 00:00:19,040 Speaker 2: and she was so warm and so lovely. I was 6 00:00:19,120 --> 00:00:20,959 Speaker 2: just you know, when you interview such a big starle 7 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:23,360 Speaker 2: you never know whether they're the sort that won't tolerate fools, 8 00:00:23,360 --> 00:00:24,880 Speaker 2: in which case you and I are in big trouble. 9 00:00:25,239 --> 00:00:28,760 Speaker 2: But she was so warm and wonderful. I got an 10 00:00:28,800 --> 00:00:32,000 Speaker 2: email from Craig Douglas Dowling. He said he was driving 11 00:00:32,040 --> 00:00:35,280 Speaker 2: the bus. He turned the radio up so everyone could 12 00:00:35,320 --> 00:00:38,240 Speaker 2: hear the interview, and for the first time in eighteen years, 13 00:00:38,240 --> 00:00:40,280 Speaker 2: a lady came up. She walked off and said, you've 14 00:00:40,320 --> 00:00:41,040 Speaker 2: made my day. 15 00:00:41,760 --> 00:00:42,400 Speaker 1: Love that, so. 16 00:00:42,360 --> 00:00:45,160 Speaker 2: Everyone got to hear it on the bus. I told 17 00:00:45,280 --> 00:00:48,440 Speaker 2: Barbara about a girl I know whose name is Violet. 18 00:00:48,800 --> 00:00:51,480 Speaker 2: She's sixteen years old. From the time she was six, 19 00:00:51,640 --> 00:00:54,480 Speaker 2: she has been obsessed with Barbara streisand to the point 20 00:00:54,480 --> 00:00:58,960 Speaker 2: where her whole room is decorated. She wanted in Barbara stuff. 21 00:00:59,040 --> 00:01:01,880 Speaker 2: She's got a shrine to Barbara. She's just so in 22 00:01:01,880 --> 00:01:02,600 Speaker 2: love with Barbara. 23 00:01:02,680 --> 00:01:05,960 Speaker 1: She even changed to Judaism. Was she didn't convert, She 24 00:01:06,040 --> 00:01:07,800 Speaker 1: just she wanted to do all the stuff. 25 00:01:07,840 --> 00:01:10,800 Speaker 2: She wanted to become Jewish because of Barbara, and so 26 00:01:11,120 --> 00:01:13,960 Speaker 2: in her heart she's Jewish. She adheres to the holidays, 27 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:15,880 Speaker 2: the food requirements, all of that stuff as if she 28 00:01:15,959 --> 00:01:21,080 Speaker 2: is Jewish, as a homage to Barbara. And Barbara, who 29 00:01:21,160 --> 00:01:24,800 Speaker 2: has a million, gazillion fans around the world, seems so 30 00:01:25,040 --> 00:01:27,479 Speaker 2: tough to hear that story. I was so taken by her. 31 00:01:29,240 --> 00:01:30,800 Speaker 2: Can I tell you about a young girl. I know 32 00:01:30,880 --> 00:01:33,720 Speaker 2: she's sixteen years old and her name is Violent, and 33 00:01:33,800 --> 00:01:36,720 Speaker 2: when she was six she saw Funny Girl and it 34 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:41,520 Speaker 2: just changed her life. She has become absolutely obsessed and 35 00:01:41,560 --> 00:01:45,720 Speaker 2: in love and so admiring of you. She has bought 36 00:01:45,800 --> 00:01:50,200 Speaker 2: every record, she's watched every film. She wanted to become Jewish, 37 00:01:50,360 --> 00:01:52,800 Speaker 2: and she couldn't make that happen within her family. 38 00:01:52,920 --> 00:01:55,360 Speaker 1: So she lives the spirit of me Jewish. 39 00:01:55,400 --> 00:01:58,760 Speaker 2: She was Jewish, No, she wanted to be because of you, 40 00:01:59,240 --> 00:02:02,520 Speaker 2: and so she adheres to the holidays and all the 41 00:02:02,520 --> 00:02:06,360 Speaker 2: food requirements. In her bedroom is a shrine to you. 42 00:02:06,720 --> 00:02:08,240 Speaker 2: When I told her I was going to be talking 43 00:02:08,320 --> 00:02:10,240 Speaker 2: to you, She burst into tears. 44 00:02:10,480 --> 00:02:13,040 Speaker 1: Wait a minute, that that is so interesting to me. 45 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:16,320 Speaker 1: That is so interesting. How old is she now? 46 00:02:16,400 --> 00:02:19,840 Speaker 2: She's sixteen now, and she's been loving you in an 47 00:02:19,840 --> 00:02:22,680 Speaker 2: obsessively wonderful way since she was six. 48 00:02:23,680 --> 00:02:26,840 Speaker 1: Well, do you realize that that whole time is the 49 00:02:26,919 --> 00:02:31,680 Speaker 1: time it took me to write this book for ten years? Really? 50 00:02:31,960 --> 00:02:34,560 Speaker 1: You know? There are yeah, there are mystical things in 51 00:02:34,600 --> 00:02:38,560 Speaker 1: the universe. I love that. I love that story about 52 00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:40,040 Speaker 1: that girl, little Violet. 53 00:02:40,240 --> 00:02:43,440 Speaker 2: I will tell her she's listening to this, she will 54 00:02:43,440 --> 00:02:47,240 Speaker 2: be going. She will beside herself. She will be beside herself. 55 00:02:47,280 --> 00:02:51,640 Speaker 1: What is her name for Violet? Violet, Violette. But that's 56 00:02:51,680 --> 00:02:56,119 Speaker 1: the name of my dog. I have a dog named Violet. 57 00:02:56,200 --> 00:02:57,639 Speaker 2: This is getting spooky out. 58 00:02:57,919 --> 00:03:02,480 Speaker 1: I have I have herr twin is Scarlet. They have 59 00:03:02,600 --> 00:03:07,560 Speaker 1: totally different personalities. They look exactly alike, and one wheres 60 00:03:07,560 --> 00:03:10,920 Speaker 1: a red rose around her neck or she's scarlet, and 61 00:03:10,960 --> 00:03:14,000 Speaker 1: the other one wears a lavender rose around her I mean, 62 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:16,359 Speaker 1: they're made of silk, you know. I'm going to tell 63 00:03:16,440 --> 00:03:21,720 Speaker 1: violence that her name is Violet. Oh, she must be special, 64 00:03:21,800 --> 00:03:23,320 Speaker 1: she must be very special. 65 00:03:23,760 --> 00:03:28,000 Speaker 2: So hello, Violet, amazing do you know those two dogs 66 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:30,040 Speaker 2: have been cloned from a former dog that she had. 67 00:03:30,880 --> 00:03:32,880 Speaker 1: Barb's a little crazy, she's a little she's. 68 00:03:32,720 --> 00:03:34,600 Speaker 2: A little out there, but in a gorgeous way. I 69 00:03:34,600 --> 00:03:37,280 Speaker 2: got a text yesterday from Violet. She said, I want 70 00:03:37,280 --> 00:03:38,640 Speaker 2: to thank you from the bottom of my heart for 71 00:03:38,680 --> 00:03:41,280 Speaker 2: confirming my theories that I'm peaking in high school. I 72 00:03:41,280 --> 00:03:43,080 Speaker 2: haven't been able to talk since I heard the interview. 73 00:03:43,080 --> 00:03:45,600 Speaker 2: I'm in complete shock. Not only has it made my day, 74 00:03:45,640 --> 00:03:48,080 Speaker 2: but it's made my life. I'm so beyond happy that 75 00:03:48,120 --> 00:03:49,680 Speaker 2: I don't know what to do with myself. Thank you, 76 00:03:49,720 --> 00:03:51,640 Speaker 2: thank you, thank you. I don't know what to say. 77 00:03:51,840 --> 00:03:53,640 Speaker 2: Just know that if I wrote a memoir, I'd be 78 00:03:53,720 --> 00:03:55,200 Speaker 2: dedicating it to you and Barbara. 79 00:03:55,280 --> 00:04:00,240 Speaker 1: Of course, she's so loved. This is the future, this 80 00:04:00,280 --> 00:04:00,320 Speaker 1: is 81 00:04:00,360 --> 00:04:01,280 Speaker 2: The beginning of it all.