1 00:00:01,160 --> 00:00:06,160 Speaker 1: Podcasting. Now I've got an icon of Australian music, global music, 2 00:00:06,200 --> 00:00:07,280 Speaker 1: really right now on the show. 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:11,760 Speaker 2: This man is literally woven into the music fabric of 4 00:00:11,800 --> 00:00:13,320 Speaker 2: this fine country. 5 00:00:13,520 --> 00:00:16,400 Speaker 1: Not bad for a bloke who was actually born in Scotland. 6 00:00:16,800 --> 00:00:22,200 Speaker 1: His voice is unmistakable. We've all heard of vocal warm ups. 7 00:00:22,280 --> 00:00:28,840 Speaker 1: I listen to this Craig last he. 8 00:00:28,880 --> 00:00:31,720 Speaker 2: Spent a lot of twenty twenty singing duets on Insta 9 00:00:31,840 --> 00:00:34,959 Speaker 2: with his beautiful wife Jean who am my ad has 10 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:37,120 Speaker 2: an eccentual set of babes herself. 11 00:00:41,560 --> 00:00:45,279 Speaker 1: Now that's hashtagable girls. Wow, you need to chatter. Buy 12 00:00:45,360 --> 00:00:48,240 Speaker 1: his new book and single release, Killing Time. 13 00:00:48,520 --> 00:00:53,960 Speaker 2: Welcome to the show, Jimmy Funy. How the hell of 14 00:00:53,960 --> 00:00:56,120 Speaker 2: an intron? How I feel like warming up just listening 15 00:00:56,160 --> 00:00:57,320 Speaker 2: to it? 16 00:00:57,600 --> 00:00:58,760 Speaker 3: Crack in, Jimmy craiging if you. 17 00:00:58,720 --> 00:01:01,600 Speaker 2: Want to warm up that don't. I've been I'm warmed, 18 00:01:01,600 --> 00:01:02,360 Speaker 2: don't actually. 19 00:01:02,880 --> 00:01:05,600 Speaker 1: As a going right? So good, so great to talk 20 00:01:05,640 --> 00:01:08,200 Speaker 1: to you, mate. This is this is really special for us. 21 00:01:08,240 --> 00:01:09,959 Speaker 1: Proba was a huge fans got a copy of the 22 00:01:09,959 --> 00:01:13,080 Speaker 1: brand new book Killing Time in the studio right now. 23 00:01:13,120 --> 00:01:16,120 Speaker 1: It's a series of different stories that you've that you've 24 00:01:16,120 --> 00:01:19,120 Speaker 1: put in there, Jimmy, and we just mentioned your wife 25 00:01:20,160 --> 00:01:22,759 Speaker 1: Jane and the stuff you guys have been doing on Instagram. 26 00:01:22,760 --> 00:01:26,520 Speaker 1: Apparently in the book there's a story about your your 27 00:01:26,600 --> 00:01:30,760 Speaker 1: your wedding anniversary and really celebrating the actual man. 28 00:01:31,640 --> 00:01:34,480 Speaker 2: Man, it's traumatic. You know. We we got married on 29 00:01:34,560 --> 00:01:38,880 Speaker 2: the twenty second of May. Winter winter down here, and 30 00:01:38,920 --> 00:01:41,000 Speaker 2: we live in the Islands, and so it's quite cold 31 00:01:41,040 --> 00:01:43,920 Speaker 2: down here, sure, And so it was a big sort 32 00:01:43,920 --> 00:01:46,440 Speaker 2: of sunny but freezing cold day. It was about five 33 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:48,760 Speaker 2: degrees and the sun was starting to go down. And 34 00:01:48,760 --> 00:01:52,000 Speaker 2: I said to Jane, you know, let me know our anniversary. 35 00:01:52,080 --> 00:01:54,840 Speaker 2: Let me take you for a little romantic canoe, you know. 36 00:01:55,160 --> 00:01:57,000 Speaker 2: And she's going, oh, no, I don't really want up 37 00:01:57,080 --> 00:01:59,040 Speaker 2: to come on, we'll rug up. It'll be nice and 38 00:01:59,360 --> 00:02:01,040 Speaker 2: you know, paddle up the river and all that sort 39 00:02:01,040 --> 00:02:03,520 Speaker 2: of stuff. And I talked. I managed to talk her 40 00:02:03,840 --> 00:02:06,120 Speaker 2: against her better judgment, and we got up the river. 41 00:02:06,200 --> 00:02:08,359 Speaker 2: You know, I've got the straw hair, and I was singing, 42 00:02:08,360 --> 00:02:11,280 Speaker 2: like singing like the gondolier, you know, singing Italian songs, 43 00:02:11,400 --> 00:02:14,960 Speaker 2: and it was all very aromatic. But she was freezing cold, 44 00:02:15,080 --> 00:02:16,720 Speaker 2: and I got about, you know, a couple of hundred 45 00:02:16,800 --> 00:02:19,400 Speaker 2: yards up the river, and she said, maybe we should 46 00:02:19,440 --> 00:02:21,400 Speaker 2: just turn around and go back, Nona. I said, whatever 47 00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:23,920 Speaker 2: you want, your anniversary, no worries. And I don't know. 48 00:02:23,919 --> 00:02:26,440 Speaker 2: I just wasn't concentrating when I turned the canoe row 49 00:02:26,600 --> 00:02:29,120 Speaker 2: and I flipped it over and we both went in 50 00:02:29,160 --> 00:02:33,560 Speaker 2: the water and it was absolutely freezing. It was, but 51 00:02:34,040 --> 00:02:36,240 Speaker 2: luckily the first thing I did was rab my in 52 00:02:36,280 --> 00:02:38,560 Speaker 2: my hand in my jacket pocket and put my phone 53 00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:41,040 Speaker 2: ot my head so the iPhone survived right, and we 54 00:02:41,360 --> 00:02:43,240 Speaker 2: get out. We're get out and we're standing on the 55 00:02:43,280 --> 00:02:44,959 Speaker 2: side of the thing and there's a photo in the 56 00:02:44,960 --> 00:02:48,000 Speaker 2: book of pu Jans. She looks like a grown rat. 57 00:02:48,280 --> 00:02:50,799 Speaker 2: She was. She was crying. She was crying, and I 58 00:02:50,840 --> 00:02:53,280 Speaker 2: was just laughing so much, but it was ridiculous, and 59 00:02:53,320 --> 00:02:55,240 Speaker 2: she just she's crying away and I'm saying, come on, Dylan, 60 00:02:55,440 --> 00:02:57,239 Speaker 2: you have to stop crying, and you have to help 61 00:02:57,320 --> 00:02:59,240 Speaker 2: me drank the canoe out of the river or we're 62 00:02:59,240 --> 00:03:02,760 Speaker 2: going to freeze it. We got it up, I tipped 63 00:03:02,760 --> 00:03:06,320 Speaker 2: it over and I paddled her back up in deathly silence. 64 00:03:06,400 --> 00:03:09,160 Speaker 2: My day and she could have wanted to kill me. 65 00:03:09,360 --> 00:03:12,480 Speaker 2: And I got I got back to home, and she 66 00:03:12,480 --> 00:03:14,440 Speaker 2: she jumped straight at the canoe and left me to 67 00:03:14,440 --> 00:03:16,600 Speaker 2: pull it up myself. I don't think she spoke to 68 00:03:16,600 --> 00:03:18,519 Speaker 2: me for the rest of the night, and it took 69 00:03:18,520 --> 00:03:21,680 Speaker 2: her about two years to ever go anywhere near the 70 00:03:21,680 --> 00:03:22,520 Speaker 2: water with me again. 71 00:03:23,560 --> 00:03:27,359 Speaker 1: Happy anniversary, honey, you called her, and I hope she's 72 00:03:27,360 --> 00:03:29,280 Speaker 1: not listening to this interview because you just called her 73 00:03:29,280 --> 00:03:31,839 Speaker 1: a drowned rat and admitted that you saved your life. 74 00:03:33,080 --> 00:03:35,440 Speaker 2: She looked like one, and she said, And when I 75 00:03:35,440 --> 00:03:37,240 Speaker 2: told her I put the boat in the book, she did. 76 00:03:37,440 --> 00:03:39,600 Speaker 2: I said, yeah, sorry, but it's just so funny. It's 77 00:03:39,600 --> 00:03:41,200 Speaker 2: a big part of the story, you know. For a 78 00:03:41,280 --> 00:03:42,960 Speaker 2: ground rat, she's extremely beautiful. 79 00:03:49,120 --> 00:03:52,280 Speaker 1: I've got a special guess, Jimmy Buns, who's on the phone? 80 00:03:52,440 --> 00:03:54,920 Speaker 3: You going, We've got you on, Jimmy, because you've written 81 00:03:54,920 --> 00:03:57,880 Speaker 3: a new book called Killing Time, which is a collection 82 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:01,840 Speaker 3: of a whole bunch of short story worries. Mate, Can 83 00:04:01,840 --> 00:04:04,120 Speaker 3: you tell us a bit more about, you know, going 84 00:04:04,160 --> 00:04:07,200 Speaker 3: from the heart of rock and roll to now coaching 85 00:04:07,360 --> 00:04:09,000 Speaker 3: your kids' soccer team. 86 00:04:09,760 --> 00:04:11,840 Speaker 2: Oh the man, Well, you know what I used to go. 87 00:04:11,960 --> 00:04:14,000 Speaker 2: I used to my son was in a little school 88 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:16,120 Speaker 2: down here in the island, and uh and he was 89 00:04:16,279 --> 00:04:18,280 Speaker 2: like seven. It was the under sevens. And I used 90 00:04:18,279 --> 00:04:19,960 Speaker 2: to go watch them and none of them, you know, 91 00:04:20,800 --> 00:04:22,840 Speaker 2: kids football, They're all like it was like twenty two 92 00:04:22,920 --> 00:04:24,680 Speaker 2: kids were all running after the ball at the same time, 93 00:04:24,720 --> 00:04:27,120 Speaker 2: looked like ants. And I was there and I used 94 00:04:27,160 --> 00:04:28,839 Speaker 2: to play football, and I had lots of good mates 95 00:04:28,839 --> 00:04:31,520 Speaker 2: to play football. And they and the first school they could, 96 00:04:31,520 --> 00:04:33,760 Speaker 2: they didn't have a coach, you know, and each parent 97 00:04:33,880 --> 00:04:35,800 Speaker 2: was taking their time, you know, coaching them, and some 98 00:04:35,839 --> 00:04:37,720 Speaker 2: of them were really mean, you know, like really like 99 00:04:37,760 --> 00:04:40,919 Speaker 2: trying to live vicariously through their kids and yelling at 100 00:04:40,960 --> 00:04:42,320 Speaker 2: them as all the stre So I thought, you know, 101 00:04:42,520 --> 00:04:44,480 Speaker 2: I volunteered. I said I'll be I'll be the coach. 102 00:04:44,760 --> 00:04:46,800 Speaker 2: So I got in there and it was the hardest job, 103 00:04:46,800 --> 00:04:48,840 Speaker 2: no kidding, because they really none of them listened. They 104 00:04:48,839 --> 00:04:50,839 Speaker 2: didn't really want They just wanted to run around and 105 00:04:50,920 --> 00:04:53,240 Speaker 2: have a good time. So what happened was I, you know, 106 00:04:53,240 --> 00:04:55,320 Speaker 2: I decided that they really they weren't going to learn 107 00:04:55,400 --> 00:04:57,400 Speaker 2: much and it was too little, so I just let 108 00:04:57,480 --> 00:04:59,840 Speaker 2: him do what they wanted. And you know, we used 109 00:04:59,839 --> 00:05:01,920 Speaker 2: to and it was a little private school, so they 110 00:05:01,920 --> 00:05:04,560 Speaker 2: weren't really tough and they used to play against all 111 00:05:04,600 --> 00:05:06,480 Speaker 2: of the local public schools and get the hell beat 112 00:05:06,520 --> 00:05:08,920 Speaker 2: out of them. So and we get beaten. They get 113 00:05:08,960 --> 00:05:11,479 Speaker 2: beaten like fourteen mil you know, which is a lot 114 00:05:11,520 --> 00:05:14,279 Speaker 2: when you're playing soccer. And and they come off the 115 00:05:14,279 --> 00:05:16,160 Speaker 2: field all excited, they go did we win? And I 116 00:05:16,240 --> 00:05:20,520 Speaker 2: go yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, And I get them all 117 00:05:20,560 --> 00:05:22,280 Speaker 2: and that's getting them apart their dance de arming and 118 00:05:22,440 --> 00:05:24,400 Speaker 2: take them all to the ice cream shop. And and 119 00:05:24,400 --> 00:05:26,440 Speaker 2: and every week I would celebrate in the ice cream 120 00:05:26,440 --> 00:05:28,800 Speaker 2: shop because we want but we're getting beaten by by 121 00:05:28,920 --> 00:05:31,520 Speaker 2: ten goals every week. And and I actually did things 122 00:05:31,560 --> 00:05:33,160 Speaker 2: like I got you know, Craig Johnson who used to 123 00:05:33,160 --> 00:05:36,400 Speaker 2: play football for the Liverpool and you know he was 124 00:05:36,400 --> 00:05:38,120 Speaker 2: one of the greatest footballers to come out of Australia. 125 00:05:38,240 --> 00:05:41,240 Speaker 2: Craig was mine. So Craig came down. It's the tiniest 126 00:05:41,240 --> 00:05:43,440 Speaker 2: little school, I'm telling you. And Craig came down one 127 00:05:43,520 --> 00:05:46,440 Speaker 2: day with a couple of soccer roos and did and 128 00:05:46,440 --> 00:05:52,960 Speaker 2: and did coaching clinics for them. Didn't help. The coaching 129 00:05:53,080 --> 00:05:55,520 Speaker 2: was great. That the students weren't listening, but it was. 130 00:05:55,640 --> 00:05:58,960 Speaker 2: It was great, and we still lost. But then one 131 00:05:59,040 --> 00:06:01,080 Speaker 2: day one day. It was at the football and you 132 00:06:01,080 --> 00:06:03,880 Speaker 2: know when those parents who just screaming at their kids 133 00:06:03,880 --> 00:06:06,320 Speaker 2: and driving them really hot. I was what I was coaching, 134 00:06:06,520 --> 00:06:08,560 Speaker 2: and was one of my little guys in defense, and 135 00:06:08,600 --> 00:06:11,600 Speaker 2: his dad was yelling and calling them useless and screaming 136 00:06:11,600 --> 00:06:13,520 Speaker 2: at them, and the little kid was on his knees crying. 137 00:06:13,600 --> 00:06:15,839 Speaker 2: Right that went down, I was up the middle of 138 00:06:15,920 --> 00:06:18,200 Speaker 2: coaching team. I went down to that end and I said, 139 00:06:18,240 --> 00:06:19,640 Speaker 2: what are you doing? And he started yelling and I 140 00:06:19,640 --> 00:06:21,400 Speaker 2: said that raise your boys at me. I bluddy knock 141 00:06:21,400 --> 00:06:25,440 Speaker 2: you out, you know. And just as I, just as 142 00:06:25,440 --> 00:06:28,400 Speaker 2: I said, the referee came down and he thought I'd 143 00:06:28,440 --> 00:06:32,160 Speaker 2: been screaming at the kids, and he reported me. 144 00:06:32,600 --> 00:06:33,640 Speaker 1: They reported me, and. 145 00:06:33,600 --> 00:06:35,239 Speaker 2: They threw me off. I was lost. 146 00:06:36,200 --> 00:06:39,039 Speaker 1: I reckon you you would give one of the old 147 00:06:39,080 --> 00:06:42,279 Speaker 1: time great Spries though as a coach, I mean, young, 148 00:06:42,400 --> 00:06:44,839 Speaker 1: young kid, I mean notorious for a man who can scream. 149 00:06:44,880 --> 00:06:47,000 Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not sure what the Pope's doing right now, 150 00:06:47,120 --> 00:06:50,000 Speaker 1: but would you know, would would you mind giving us 151 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:52,279 Speaker 1: a sample of Jimmy Bonds Spry at halftime? 152 00:06:53,120 --> 00:06:59,920 Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, And that was very calm, I think, guys. 153 00:07:00,520 --> 00:07:03,720 Speaker 2: I'm sad to say guys, you're doing really well. Just 154 00:07:03,279 --> 00:07:05,240 Speaker 2: you know, just say and make sure you have a 155 00:07:05,279 --> 00:07:07,800 Speaker 2: good time. It's even a room for ice cream afterwards. 156 00:07:08,120 --> 00:07:10,080 Speaker 2: You know, they were just they were just like sweet kids. 157 00:07:10,080 --> 00:07:12,080 Speaker 2: So I you know, but I did. I really lost 158 00:07:12,080 --> 00:07:13,680 Speaker 2: that as for a parent. And I was about to 159 00:07:13,720 --> 00:07:15,800 Speaker 2: jump down his strop when the referee saved him. So 160 00:07:16,160 --> 00:07:18,480 Speaker 2: you know, that's just as well. You know, not good, 161 00:07:18,600 --> 00:07:20,120 Speaker 2: not a it's not a good look when your coach 162 00:07:20,120 --> 00:07:24,920 Speaker 2: gets arrested. See what you're hearing. 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