Two In The Think Tank - 214 - Jimmy Barnes, Working Class Man

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Starting point is 00:02:59 by our island and UK tour starting this weekend. Wait, what? I don't even pack. I don't either of our own gone. By the time you hear this, we'll already be in the air on the way there. Well, don't worry, because I've already converted my cash into Benjamin, so I'm ready to go. Oh, no. This is just not good.

Starting point is 00:03:21 We'll have to tell him off here. There are currency. There's clearly Michaels. Hold it. He does miss every time. Michael and I. Oh, and also I'm doing a live standup show with more funny stuff like that on the seventh of December in London.

Starting point is 00:03:35 Did I say that yet? It's getting late. Yeah, we didn't mention any of our shows yet. Do you want us to just jump in? Also, should we start again? No, just quickly we we've doing shows, the first ones this Sunday in Dublin, and then we are moving over to the UK

Starting point is 00:03:50 for a week to the show, so we're not moving there permanently, sorry. We're going to Glasgow, Bristol, Leeds, Birmingham and London. Some of those are sold out. Look up which ones, and it's... And some aren't. All right, good intro do one pot dot comfort tickets

Starting point is 00:04:06 Matt's your comedy comm slash gigs if you want to come see me and land it on the 7th of December you should come Love me always have to do the slash gigs like people won't be able to navigate Here now, where do I go? Oh, no, what do we click on this thing contact contact is this where I click? Hmm, oh well, I won't be going. Hello and welcome! I'll do it. I'll do it. Hello and welcome to another episode of Do Go On. My name is Dave Warner-Kill and I'm here with Matt Stewart and Jess Perkins. That's how you do it Dave. Fantastic.

Starting point is 00:04:50 For everyone out there, I do two podcasts now, which is one too many. Now Bookcheat is a slightly different intro and... You had a meltdown. Yeah. Hello and welcome to Bookcheat versus Hello and welcome to another episode of DugoOn. It's very confusing. That's okay. We got there and this this is Dooggo One, Dave. Thank you so much.

Starting point is 00:05:07 Can I take my voice back for the rest? Maybe. I'm sitting here with Jess Perkins and Matt Shoea. How are we? Hey Dave, thanks for having us on, book, cheat, it's good to be in the video. Oh no, man, no. So this primates, so did you not listen

Starting point is 00:05:22 to another episode of Dooggo One? This isn't that hot new podcast, listen now. Oh my God. Well did you not listen to another episode of Doo Go On? This is in that hot new podcast. Listen now. Oh my God. Well, actually, listen now to this intro because it's not just a three of us here. It's not just the three of us here. This is it.

Starting point is 00:05:34 We have a special guest reporter and that is your listen now, co-host. Hello to Sam Tonkin. Hey, hello. Hello, Sam Tonkin. Holly mats to it. It's nice to meet you. Oh, so I thought you were shaking Matt Stewart. Flossum H.U. Oh, so I thought you were shaking my hand, grabbing the...

Starting point is 00:05:47 What's happening? Oh, this is not a thing we're doing. Okay, and then mine. Matt's just fixing my microphone because I still haven't learned how to fucking talk into the... No, I can't see my computer. Life is hard. Yeah, this is the struggle of this podcast.

Starting point is 00:06:04 Now, very very recently the podcast Network within a podcast network, which is doger one podcast within planet broadcasting podcasts Add another podcast The song podcast. Yeah, our sexy news So it's recording you're trying to hit the family voice recording. You're trying to hit the family. 16 new sons, not right? Oh, my son's so sexy. Obviously you got old man, do you go on in the corner.

Starting point is 00:06:32 Yeah. I'm always... I'm always... I'm always... He's looking his hair back, listen to music from the 70s. Yeah, he's the phones in the cafeteria, elbowing the locker. Juba, can we, let's start this episode? What I'm trying to say is Matt, you and Sam have launched a new podcast, fairly recently

Starting point is 00:06:52 called Listen Now. That's right, yes, and it's a podcast that goes through some of the rock-n-us bands that catalogs. Starting with... Starting with Australian pub rock legends called chisel There you go Have you chis before Dave? Oh, I live to choose you Just your chisel that's actually really funny because that sounds a little bit like

Starting point is 00:07:15 Cheers. Oh, so that's a different meaning what you guys are saying there. That's disgusting I did not mean that at all, which is probably makes it even funny That's disgusting. I did not mean that at all, which is probably makes it even funny because I didn't mean it. No, I'm glad I could point it out for you. That is good stuff. Very good stuff, one and all. Yeah, so cultures are great band anyway. Not relevant for now. This is a different podcast. This is a do-go-on. How does this one go, Dave? Well, this one usually goes like this. Three of us, or a guess Sam, welcome. So great to have you here. Thanks.

Starting point is 00:07:47 Do a report on a topic suggested often by a listener, or often suggested by a listener, and the people that aren't reporting, they don't know what the reporter's going to talk about. And usually we start with a question. I hope that one of us told you that. Yes. And if not, well, you already once step ahead of Jess because she really runs a question.

Starting point is 00:08:05 I was forget and when I write in there, no good. So it's better if I riff them. But we're all different Sam. We're all different. If you wrote a question call, if you didn't, that's all right too. Excellent. Jess thinks you're a nerd because you wrote a question.

Starting point is 00:08:18 Shut up. It's the glasses, isn't it? Fuck. If I take them off, I can't see the screen. I've just started wearing glasses at work to look when I look at a computer. And I reckon today someone asked me a question they wouldn't have last week because I was wearing glasses. Was it an eye-take question?

Starting point is 00:08:34 Because I get them all the way through the window. Have you tried turning it off and on? You heard me surprise how much that fucking work. And so just clear cookies. Clear cookies and your cashed data. It works every time. Sounds so clever. Thank you.

Starting point is 00:08:48 Cache. I used to work for a website and I would help in customer service and that was generally the go-to and it would fix most things. It really does. It fixes everything. And they go, oh thank you so much. I go, yes, I have a degree.

Starting point is 00:09:01 My office is on fire. I clear the cache. Have you cleared the cage? You're gonna leave that cage. I'm gonna have to Google it. Google it, it'll be fine. Don't put Google into Google. Anyway, yeah, let's kick things off.

Starting point is 00:09:16 We'll let the question. I'll let the question. The anticipation is building now. Yes, the tension. So, which Australian icon found their biggest fame in the US as a screaming cowboy? Oh! Okay, please stand again.

Starting point is 00:09:30 So many options. Shanna Null. Oh, the famous Aussie screaming cowboy? Yes. Who is better known as? The man from Snowy River. Yes. No, it is in fact, back to the cold chisel reference,

Starting point is 00:09:46 Ellie, it's Jimmy Bar. Jimmy Bar. None of us could get it. If only you had known. It was sitting right there in front of us all along. You can literally see a screen, Matt. You could have cheated there. I don't.

Starting point is 00:09:59 Doesn't have glasses on. Oh, yeah, you can't see shit. I'm not gonna say that. Can I only see the screen if you got glasses? My glasses aren't saying knee glasses, they're seeing far glasses. Seeing far. They're seeing far glasses, okay? So don't even try and come at me, because I got your measure.

Starting point is 00:10:14 Is that how the optometrist gave you the? Yeah. Yeah, yep, excellent. Anyway, so you will, you guys, we may welcome guys to my new podcast. Maddie and the Detective Herbert Corvington, Corvington have both requested my boy Jimmy Barnes, which is nice, convenient, easy, because I know him's life. I know him's life. I know him's life. I know him's life.

Starting point is 00:10:46 That's a self-suffering. But in a way, you know, you feel like you know him. Through reading his book and watching many of your YouTube video, I feel like I really know him. Yeah, I feel like a lot of Australians feel a little bit that way. Even without reading his book, you're just sort of like, oh, yes, Barnes is. It feels like that friendly neighbor. Uncle Jim. Yeah. Uncle Screaming Jim.

Starting point is 00:11:04 Yeah. God, he's loud. But he's a friendly neighbor. Uncle Jim. Yeah. Uncle Screaming Jim. Yeah. God, he's loud. But he's a friendly guy. Oh, yeah. It feels like the type of uncle that would just always give you like 20 bucks or something. You know? And then say, can you pick me up a six-page? Yeah.

Starting point is 00:11:15 You can keep the change. Yeah. Uncle Jimmie, I'm seven. Is that what? Fine, four-pack, whatever. What are you carrying? Tiny, unblasted. So should we just do this?

Starting point is 00:11:23 Yeah. Yeah. What do you care? Tonya Blaster. So, should we just... Yeah, I can't wait to learn more about Jimmy. So, the tumultuous life. We're going to start sad here. I'm not going to lie. It's a sad start of Jimmy's life. And most of his life. Hopefully they'll be alive in here. I don't know. I've not written this in any sort of a fun form. James Dixon Swan was born in 1956 in Calcadans in Central Glasgow, Scotland.

Starting point is 00:11:53 He was the fourth of six children born to Jim and Dorothy Swan, who all lived together in Calcadans until December 1961 when they decided to jump on the SS Strathneva to Australia, with the intention of escaping the depressing grainess and poverty of Scotland. So what? So sorry, Scotland, which we will be in this time next week. And Glasgow. Yeah. Where else go?

Starting point is 00:12:19 How old, what year was he born, sorry? 56. So he was like five or four or five or something? Yeah. Yeah, right. He's really held on to the accent. Yeah. And he still remembers a lot of those times in Scotland. Like he's still, he's got quite a strong memory for someone who drank for most of his life. Yeah. Well, that's probably the only time he's like, he wasn't drinking you. Yeah. Funny. Funny. You say that. He started at the age of nine. What? Not even

Starting point is 00:12:42 joking. Oh, Jimmy, I did not realize that Barnes is at a stage name. No, but we will come to the lead-up. Oh, I think, because I was gonna say, because it's now a classic name, because it's him. But yeah, Jimmy, but it doesn't seem like the name that you would pick. It could have been swan-y.

Starting point is 00:12:55 Yeah. Oh, I know, I think someone else took that actually. I moved to Melbourne when I was five as well from Comtri Victoria, and I, like, retained the accent as well. I did, I took, too,vic Tori and I like I retained the accent as well. I did I too right I did and I am. But I remember quite a bit from those early as well so I make sense and yeah you're right you're too right that I do have the Comtrivic Tori accent. But the accent is

Starting point is 00:13:20 interesting because generally it's like mid teens is sort of the cutoff. Yeah. After an L set, Trombaille Burtjule, he has the Canadian accent or a lot of it from when he moved over when it was 13, but his younger brother is going to Australian accent. And exactly the same with Dave Callan. That's right, yeah. Irish accent and his younger brother sounds Australian. What? Yeah, it's sort of like that 13 to... Yeah, maybe it's 13. I always sort of said 15, but it's probably a little bit earlier than that. Jimmy was very mature for his age. Yes, he was dreamy.

Starting point is 00:13:49 But yeah, he's sort of got a little bit, it's faint. Yeah. It's never left. Yeah, cool. And Jimmy, so I read his books recently, which also we will come to, and he recalls living in a city slum filled with alcohol and violence, whereas a kid, you couldn't step outside the house without a parent to protect you

Starting point is 00:14:10 from the roaming gangs of teens. So teenagers are going to beat up some little kids? Yeah, there was like, he has some story about him and his mate at like the age of four or five and they decided to, you know, take a risk and go for a walk. They got cornered by this gang of kids between like five and 15, who they like kind of trapped them in an area and were like throwing rocks and shit at them and then they're like,

Starting point is 00:14:32 you've got five seconds and run or else we're gonna cut you up. And Jimmy said he just took off like nothing. And his friend just basically shit himself and stood still. And so there's gang like cutting up and lit the little shit on fire that he was in. And the last time he ever heard of him was that he went to

Starting point is 00:14:51 hospital and that he thinks that he was okay because the family moved away. But he doesn't know what happened to the kid. That normally means the kids survive when the family move away. Yeah, definitely. But yeah, like inside. So that was Glasgow was that Adelaide?

Starting point is 00:15:06 Glasgow. Glasgow, holy shit. It doesn't feel very Adelaide, but you know, it was a different time. Yeah. And also, it's not much to do in Adelaide. Yeah, they, yeah, the gangs were all drinking full body red. Hahaha.

Starting point is 00:15:17 Ah, it's really more psychological bullying when you get to Adelaide. It's like, oh, you don't know anything about what? It's not only $15, but it's not all that embarrassing. Oh, that's cute. Far out, that's insane. Yeah, it's pretty fucked up, eh? It's messed up. So, and then to add to this, Jimmy's parents had a violent relationship where they fought

Starting point is 00:15:40 constantly, usually to his father's drinking. Jim Sr. would get paid, get head straight to the pub and spend pretty much the whole income for the week. Would return to his wife who was fuming, swearing, would turn to yelling, which would turn to punching, and Jim Sr. in his day was a featherweight prize fighter. Okay. So Jim's mom Dorothy was constantly on the losing end. Oh. So it was real,

Starting point is 00:16:05 it's a real fucking depressing start to life. And also this podcast, sorry, sorry guys. I was like trying to be like, where can I just like, you know, lighten it up, it's fucking nothing. Yeah, it's sort of hard to brush over like, so he had a really bad life, he's dad's a bad dude anyway. Yeah, and I was saying it like a message Matt earlier, and I'm like, have I spent too much time with like the early stages, but so much of it explains why he was, how he was, and what's in his life, totally. I think we're gonna go into it, it's touching.

Starting point is 00:16:32 Yeah, and you got to, I can tell you that we've covered some pretty fucked up stuff. So it's, it's, yeah. You're fine, cool, excellent. It's a, yeah, it's, And we've made jokes about some pretty fucked up stuff too. So don't worry. Remember when the Zodiac wore clip-on glasses and a bib and a bib

Starting point is 00:16:51 How do you do clip-on glass onto his bala clava? He clipped him on his bala clava I think He's a thinker anyway He's a they I don't know what I'm anyway. No, good assumption. lot. He's a thinker. Anyway. Anyway. No, a good assumption. Hey. Oh, good. Oh, wait, did they catch him?

Starting point is 00:17:09 No, but the descriptions were pretty. That was a report I did. No idea, Sam. Excellent. But have a listen. I'm. I've got no idea. Cool.

Starting point is 00:17:20 So, this one family then arrived in Adelaide in January 1962 and we're taking to Finsbury Hotel, which was basically a really shitty government housing type of thing. So Finsbury housed about 2300 people in small, cramped, corrugated iron huts that had no insulation from the biting cold or the searing heat. Oh ho ho. Because Adelaide goes both ways. Both ways. It gets hotter than Melbourne.

Starting point is 00:17:48 And probably as cold. It's like regularly upwards of 40s. Yeah, there's some as a even more brutal than ours. So it sounds like they took them a few months to get here. Did it? Was it on the boat? What was it just over? Makes it sound like I'm now picturing like,

Starting point is 00:18:02 E oldie times, catch it coming over with the first fleet of things. They called themselves the 10-pound tourists because it calls like 10 pounds to escape anywhere in the UK by the sounds of it. And then go to Australia to a fucking desert. Yeah. How are we getting to Dublin? We're catching a 10-pound boat. Oh yeah, 30 pounds. We'll get in there. No return ticket. Good to fall.

Starting point is 00:18:24 How long is it going to take us to get there? Six weeks. We're gonna miss the show. Oh, I know. I'm gonna take a bow. Who's done the logistics here? That makes him calls. It's my travel agent.

Starting point is 00:18:34 Hello flight center. Why did you book a boat? You call it flight center. Ridiculous. Ridiculous. I'm giving them a terrible, yellow preview. Oh, come on.

Starting point is 00:18:45 Yeah, now you're right. Sorry, but two and a half at least. So the tenants had to share toilets, bathrooms, and wash houses, which was much to discuss of most of them who had moved from similar conditions in Scotland and England. So Jimmy talks about, in his, in Glasgow, they'd be in like also kind of government type buildings. And if you had to go to the toilet, it was like a separate building out the back.

Starting point is 00:19:10 You'd have to walk past like Drunks and you know, people getting killed and stuff. With a parent. Yeah. And then they've moved to Australia, you know, the lucky country. And I have to deal with the same thing again. So I've been in Tim Shed.

Starting point is 00:19:21 Pretty, yeah. And they're in circular. So they like couldn't hang up picture frames and make it homey. They were just in a fucking water tank by the same time. Yeah, that sounds like a water tank. And weird. Could they keep in water at least? Yeah, I mean, not with people in it, but when some lose some, I suppose.

Starting point is 00:19:41 Could they live under the sea? Can we fill it with water? That would be a bit more comfortable in the heat. Yeah. Oh, but not good in the cold. Lila, it's water. What if it's warm water? You guys are thinkers. So after two years of living in this shitty public housing, this one's got a place of their

Starting point is 00:20:00 own in Elizabeth, which is about 24 kilometers north east of Finnsbury, which is slightly north of Adelaide. Right. Geography fans. Oh, there's a few geography fans who listen in. Adelaide's like west of Melbourne, but east of Perth. Yeah. Sort of north west of Melbourne, south of Alice Springs. Yes. Yes. Probably south west of Brisbane. Yeah. South of Dublin. Is it west? Quite a margin. Unless you keep going north. OK. Oh, yeah.

Starting point is 00:20:29 That's really fun. Up and over. Mm. So unfortunately, the drinking and fighting only got worse until one day when Jimmy was eight years old, his mother left. He describes waking up one morning to find that she just wasn't there and quote, I didn't wake up expecting to find her gone.

Starting point is 00:20:46 I didn't hear any fighting in the middle of the night. There was no breaking glass, no swearing or cries for help. There wasn't even any shouting she was just gone. So eight years old, he's got I think three older siblings, two younger siblings, including like a real young white baby. And his mother was just letting up. I mean, that's too much. So in the time after Dorothy, his mother left, the poverty only got worse and worse. One of the saddest

Starting point is 00:21:12 stories that he talks about is the complete lack of food that they had available. His oldest sister, Dot, had stolen and hidden 10 bucks from their dad while he was like passed out on the couch Taken it to buy a sack of potatoes to cook for the kids to eat. She's only like 16 or 17 at this point And meanwhile the youngest sister Linda had brought home some stray cats who decided to shit on the sack of potato Oh, that was so disgusting. The old rockabilly band. Isn't it all the stray cats? Oh, yeah. Jeez, shit, that's got the Russian rollus. Your sack of potatoes wasabilly band. Isn't it all the stray cats? Oh, yeah. He's shitin' on that's class of Russian rollus.

Starting point is 00:21:46 You're like a potato's was all sort of band. The stray cats did not like them. Violent times in Adelaide, 60s. But he, there was no desperate for food that they had to like scrub the shit off the potato and it was gagging into the sink just so they could eat something for dinner. Catch it is bad. That's bad. Some of the worst shit.

Starting point is 00:22:07 Thanks for clarifying. I was almost certain that you were going to tell me that they ate the cats with the potato. So you know what? Yeah, we said, you know what? Cats was like, oh no, don't eat cat meat. I think it's poisonous. It's cat meat poisonous. Fairly sure that's why it's not a delicacy right?

Starting point is 00:22:21 Oh, I don't know. Oh, delicacy. Yeah, that makes us in a lot of countries they do eat dogs. Yeah. They're good eatin' apparently. I don't. I have no idea, but I mean, I imagine if it's a delicacy in some countries. Yeah, right, true.

Starting point is 00:22:36 But no, Dave, they didn't eat the cats. They just grapes the cat shit off of a tatus. Oh, it's a nice real step out. This is how we can work through the tragedy. Just imagine the worst thing in the world and it doesn't seem as bad. You can't shit. That's way better than eating a cat. Is it, I don't even know.

Starting point is 00:22:51 It's all about perspective. Yeah, exactly. So an unspecified period of time later, Jimmy's mom came back for them, bringing her new partner, Reginald Victor Barnes. Oh, Barnes. Red, just right now.

Starting point is 00:23:04 Red Barnes, isn't that. Oh, Barnes! Yeah. The Red just like right now. The Red Barnes, Red. Isn't that so bloody strayer? Yeah. We used to have neighbors that lived across the road from us, like next door to each other. Who brothers, Red and Des. Oh yeah, that's so good. And also the guy who came up with neighbors, the TV show, was named Red Grundy. What?

Starting point is 00:23:21 Actually, there you go. Red. Excellent. When he said a neighbor's and it was a red fact, I'm like, well, I know where this is going. What? Actually? There you go. Reg. Excellent. When he said a neighbours and was a Reg fact, I'm like, well, I know where this is going. And did you, Matt, and did you? No, I don't think I took a little left turn there. He's done a neighbours episode.

Starting point is 00:23:34 No. I guess, yeah, there would be. How many of us watched neighbours? I watched it going up religiously. I never watched it. In this country? In this country? In this country, people commonly refer to neighbors and home and wife characters and

Starting point is 00:23:47 I cannot differentiate between them. They're like, you know, Dr. Carl and Sue or something. Are they home in a way? Are they still on it? Are they like Tinks, though? Totally. Basically, the difference is they're home in a way they're blonde. Yeah, they're by the seaside.

Starting point is 00:24:02 Right. And the ocean. And Dr. Carl's on one. Yeah. They're neighbors. Who's the home by the seaside. Right, and the ocean. And Dr. Karls on one. They're neighbors. Who's the home in a wakeover to them? Chris Hemsworth. Yeah, the Hemsworth. Back in the day.

Starting point is 00:24:12 Oh, Kim. That's right. Have a crush on him then. Have a crush on him. Oh, right. What a bad guy. Sign a flaming crow. He's the home in the way.

Starting point is 00:24:20 Yeah, and there's Elf on one. And there's another angry old man on the other. Harold. Harold. He was the jolly old man. The angry old man on the other. Harold. Harold. No, he was the jolly old man. The anger on was Lou Carpenter. I'm thinking of Harold.

Starting point is 00:24:29 Get out of my pub on the Lou Carpenter. Oh, yeah, that's right. So, when we were in Thailand for the podcast, a festival, this year was it a last whenever it was, we went to the elephant sanctuary. Did you come with me? I can't remember. Oh, so you went to any day?

Starting point is 00:24:44 I was in June. You didn't leave it room. You were there with me? I can't remember. Do you want anything? I was in June. You were in June. You didn't leave it room. You were there with me? Yeah, I went with you. Remember, and then there was a video beforehand telling us about the park, and it was Lou Carpenter. What?

Starting point is 00:24:54 I remember you telling me, this is one of the classic situations I had to pretend to know. You went, oh, look, it's Buddy Lou from home to my end on Naples. And I feel like, yeah, yeah, I know him. Wow. That's a fun fact. And I'd be like, yeah. Yeah, I know him. Wow, that's a fun fact. That's a gap in your knowledge. I find, but at least I know some characters.

Starting point is 00:25:12 Comin' with you. Anyway, we've derailed, but she's turned up with a new man who I think from memory of hearing this story is a nice man. He is. Yes. Good on you Dorothy. Jimmy describes him as an angel in his life, which is really lovely. Nearly all of this one siblings seemed to love red and the calming effect that his regular

Starting point is 00:25:34 routine life brought to them was visible across the board. There's something to be said about, you know, just a like a boring dad. Yeah, apparently. The stability was really good for their emotional state. Yeah, funny that. Funny that. And with that, they knew every day that Red would go to work. They knew that he would come home each evening.

Starting point is 00:25:58 They knew that he would have his wages and that dinner would be on the table every night at 6. Was it a catch-it? With potatoes. Yeah. Because they want to. They want to. They want to. They want to.

Starting point is 00:26:10 They want to. They want to. They want to. They want to. They want to. They want to. They want to. They want to.

Starting point is 00:26:18 They want to. They want to. They want to. They want to. They want to. They want to. They want to. They want to. They want to. They want to. They want to. to see the first time he called Redged Dad. I reckon Red would have starically sort of held back the tea, but one would have rolled down his cheek.

Starting point is 00:26:27 And he just pat him on the shoulder. Yeah, he calls him son. Well, actually, he calls him apparently Redged just called everyone love, so he'd be like, oh, it's all right. Love, help me. It's like tea. Can you imagine like this little tiny little Jimmy Barnes

Starting point is 00:26:38 who's just been like watching his dad beat his mom up for life? And now he's got some old bloke just being like, all right, love. Yeah, that's so nice. It's funny too, because if you grow up with it, because that was 100% my dad. Like, when always had good jobs, we were fine. But you're always kinda like,

Starting point is 00:26:55 oh, dad's boring. Yeah. It's like coming from that, coming from abusive. Yeah. That dad is dream dad. Yeah. No emotional scurrying. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:27:03 Oh, dad's home and he's the same as he always is. Thanks, dad. Yeah, no emotional scurrying. Yeah. Oh, dead time. And he's the same as he always is. Thanks dad. Um, while all of that was happening, they eventually moved in with Dorothy and Reg and it would be another 14 years until they saw their biological father again. Wow. Um, Jimmy's just ran into him. It came up. Actually, I was talking. just ran into him. It came up. Actually. I was talking. Big W. No, I don't actually think I put this in the report, but he, it's long after Jimmy's been a bit famous for a while and he's at a pub in Sydney, I think. And some bounce of Comstrom and says there's some bloke on the other end of the bar asking for you, says he's related. And Jimmy's like, who fucks gonna, who fuck is it? And he goes over and he like spots him for me for a ride.

Starting point is 00:27:48 He's like, fuck, that's my dad. Wow. And they have a brief chat. And then he gets, his dad eventually asks him for money. Of course. And Jimmy thought he's just fucking heartbroken. Cause he's like, he's like, he's coming back to say hello. He said he's like, in the back of his mind,

Starting point is 00:28:03 he thought that that was gonna be it. But he's like, nah, nah, not this time, dad's not. He's come to say hi, he's come to you know, be back. And then you don't want to be proven right on that. Yeah, and then yeah eventually. And he's just like, nah, fuck off, that's sorry mate, but see, yeah. So that's pretty depressing as well.

Starting point is 00:28:18 Yeah. So we've got red, we've got red. Beautiful, beautiful red. Connor did him a favor a bit and went away and let reds? Yeah, big time. Beer actual var. Beer dead. So Jimmy's teenage years were mostly spent either fighting, drinking or sleeping around.

Starting point is 00:28:34 He describes the Elizabeth boys that he hung around with as some of the toughest blocs he'd ever meet. They used to drive around town looking for a fight and it was on one of these nights that Jimmy ended up singing in a proper band for the first time. He made a driven past the local disco looking for trouble and decided to head in and check out the girls. The band that was meant to be playing that night was asking around for someone to help them out because they're singing was sick.

Starting point is 00:28:57 Jimmy had had enough beers to get up and ended up performing. That was his first gig, man. No, the songs. I think it was. I think it was. I think it first gig with it. No, the songs. I think it was... Oh, I have a cry. I think it was covers for the most part, but ended up performing so well that the band, later known as Tarkas, decided to keep him on.

Starting point is 00:29:16 During this time, he also briefly sang in a band fraternity, replacing Bond Scott, who would later go on to find fame with a little band you might know as ACDC. I've heard of them. I've heard of them. I've heard of them. I've heard of them. I've heard of them. I've heard of them.

Starting point is 00:29:28 I've heard of them. I've heard of them. I've heard of them. I've heard of them. I've heard of them. I've heard of them. I've heard of them. I've heard of them. I've heard of them. I've heard of them. I've heard of them. I've heard of them. I've heard of them. I've heard of them. I've heard of them. I've heard of them.

Starting point is 00:29:36 I've heard of them. I've heard of them. I've heard of them. I've heard of them. I've heard of them. I've heard of them. I've heard of them. I've heard of them. I've heard of them. I've heard of them. I've heard of them. I've heard of them. I've heard of them. I've heard of them. I've heard of them. I've heard of them. I've heard of them. I've heard of them. I've heard of them.

Starting point is 00:29:44 I've heard of them. I've heard of them. I've heard of them. I've heard of them. I've heard of them. I've heard of them. I've heard of them. I've heard of them. I've heard of them. I've heard of them. I've heard of them. I've heard of them. I've heard of them. I've heard of them. I've heard of them. I've heard of them. I've heard of them. I've heard of them. I've heard of them. Whoa Share the same spot and abandon not that many people yeah and fraternity fucked up and let them both go idiot. Where are they now? Dig heads yeah, probably bring home steady-pature support your family Idiots Probably helping your kids with their homework and nerds Probably got a really good open dialogue with helping your kids with our homework in nerds Probably got a really good open dialogue with all your kids They feel like I can talk you about anything During this period in Tarkas and all fraternity you can't quite remember which one Tarkas is not a good bad. I'm pretty sure that there is a laptop Tarkas is a lot of good brands. I'm pretty sure that there is a laptop, or generic laptop brand, laptop charger brand called Tarkas.

Starting point is 00:30:31 Yeah, I don't know that. I don't know that. Because I work in a retail store that stocks it. That sounds like, that suits it though, like for a laptop charger. Generic laptop brand. I got the Tarkas laptop charger. I'm gonna go see TarkCUS round at the corner.

Starting point is 00:30:46 You know? Along with TARCO. Jimmy was approached by a Rudy one night who asked him if he wanted to be a singer in a new band called Orange. Since his older brother John, later known as Swanee, had turned them down. This new band had gone on to Jimmy through Swanee who had played it with the piano player whose name was Don Walker Also, do you know any of Swanee's big hits because I was listening to his top five on Spotify? I couldn't I've never heard the

Starting point is 00:31:12 No, I know I know he was apparently huge and a really well-known singer like I've heard of Swanee, but I'll make John's one But not a single song no, no, I don't yeah It doesn't have the longevity that Barnes is younger brother, dude. Doesn't ring a bell. Yeah. So he rocked up to the audition, which happened to be at a women's liberation center, and he started shooting himself because he's like, I'm not a fucking feminist. I don't know what that is.

Starting point is 00:31:36 What if all these books are? I don't know what to talk about. Jimmy described his first impression of the band. The first guy I saw had thick curly hair that stuck out like an afro. Bushhy eyes and a big mouth. Ian Moss was the young guitarist from Alice Springs. He didn't wear shoes and didn't talk. Les. Let his guitar do the talking. Yeah, he did. He did the mating. Oh hi, I'm Jimmy Barnes. We're down real, real. Nice to meet you Ian. And that's how they knew.

Starting point is 00:32:05 Was it laddy's guitar to the walking? Where's the machine? He goes for a lot of guitars. It's actually really wasteful. Just get this man a pair of shoes. And for fuck's sake! That's my guitar! They had Les Cash and Jumaric. Yep, who is a young?

Starting point is 00:32:27 You sort of faded out there with a man, what was that? Oh no, we're not editing, it's fine, I'm wondering. You're the Marcus Fader, don't worry about that. Was a young Polish bass player with long light brown hair and a pretty face? And Don Walker was a bearded university student who looked too intelligent to play rock. He was wearing a bow tie. Yeah, too intelligent to play rock. And he was like, real sass on him,

Starting point is 00:32:49 because he's like, this blow looks too clean-cut. He must be up to something. He's probably an undercover cop. He's a knock. He's a knock. He's a knock man. No, we're just recording the songs. What's that marked in for?

Starting point is 00:33:00 This is a studio. This is how we put out albums. No. No, I want to. I, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, decades later and they still don't know who the original drummer was. He can't even ask, he's still two of us with the other guy. And I remember the name of that drummer. Nah. Just text Mossy. Yeah, Mossy, do you remember? He writes back.

Starting point is 00:33:32 He writes back, BOOM! He writes back four finger on the third thread. Three. I was just gonna say. That's how he talks about his guitar. Every thread is a threat. Amoji's really changed the game.

Starting point is 00:33:45 He just sends back three guitars and Bans is like, ah, thank you. His name was Greg. So after a short while later, and some successful shows around Adelaide, Don announced that he was going to go back to uni in Sydney to finish his master's degree. The band, the intelligent, yeah. The intelligent. But it finish his master's degree. The band to intelligent care. So intelligent.

Starting point is 00:34:06 But it's a master's in knocking. What is knock actually shortfall? Knock ellipsey. They're really sleepy. Yeah. Makes all the sense now. Narcotics, I think. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:34:18 Just people doble on each other for having. Yeah. I don't know. Anyway, we're not knocks if that's what you're suggesting. Why would we even know what that means? What's the stuff on your head there, mate? What are you talking into? Is that a wire?

Starting point is 00:34:34 No, no, I'm just having a casual conversation. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no buy some illegal drugs from you. Do you have one ecstasy please? Yeah I'll take one if you got one. Yeah or maybe even a traffical amount. I did not have a traffical amount. Yeah can I have 15 to 25 years in prison worth? I mean I'm not a problem. So the band decided that they had something good going and decided to follow him. This is orange. Orange, well, a band that we all know and love orange. Oh, well, orange. But it was the best band.

Starting point is 00:35:14 It was the best band. It was the color, the fruit, all the town. Oh, all the state of mind. Oh, it's the fossil of a flavor. Oh, oh, hang on. It's the best name I've heard so far. Orange. Tarkas.

Starting point is 00:35:28 Tarkas, socks. Orange is better than Tarkas. Tarkas, Sarkas. Oh, so bad. Good ones. Sarkas is better. Sark, I would prefer to listen to Sarkas. Sarkas?

Starting point is 00:35:39 Yeah, Tarkas is better than I do. I've been embarrassed to tell people I'm going to see Tarkas live. Tarkas. Oh, I've just got the new Tarkas out. Yeah. Hi, guys, where's Tarkas. I've been embarrassed to tell people I'm going to see Tarkas live. Tarkas. Oh, I've just got the new Tarkas. Yeah. Hi, guys. Where? Tarkas.

Starting point is 00:35:49 Anyway, thanks for coming out. This is a new song. That's the first and only time we'll say our name. Anyway, so they all go back to Sydney. They all went to Sydney. This was in 1974 and over time Phil Small and Steve Prusswitch would join the band as bassist and drummer and not long after that they changed their name to Cold Chisel.

Starting point is 00:36:09 Where's Steve Presswitch from? Liverpool's. And Big Phil Small. Big Phil Small from Adelaide. From Wasie? He's a real clean cut Adelaide boy. Adelaideian. So they call it?

Starting point is 00:36:23 Ahead, never at a place. This is Jimmy Bond's The Scarlet. So I call it? A hair, never at a place. It's a Jimmy Barnes, the scribe. So I like that. I'm gonna listen to it. Sounds great. Oh yeah, I've listened to the audio book, yes. Have I mentioned that all the time?

Starting point is 00:36:35 Rest in the comments. I actually listen to books, so keep reading, you know. Jimmy's quite good on the book, the book season. He does some accents. He goes all in. Does some sound effects? Are you gonna talk about the Tommy was on Countdown? No, I wasn't. Oh, well.

Starting point is 00:36:54 We can bring it up later if you want. If we can bring it up later. If we can bring it up later. If we can bring it up later. If we can bring it up later. If we can bring it up later. If we can bring it up later. If we can bring it up later.

Starting point is 00:37:04 If we can bring it up later. If we can bring it up later. If we can bring it up later. If we can bring it up later. If we can bring it up later. We could maybe play, I don't know. Anyway, Coach's a was on Countdown one time. Oh, well, funny you mentioned that. So Countdown, big Australian show hosted by Ayn Molly Meljum. She's, people would name Dian back in the night, were they? A lot of Ayns. Oh, yeah. That's what you said Ayns. I'm like, there's no Ayns anymore.

Starting point is 00:37:19 What happened to Ayns? But it's a... Can you imagine a baby called Ayn? Ayn. That's what's happened to Ains. Did all Baba Ains. Oh, did Ian shit himself? I reckon Ains wouldn't shit themselves.

Starting point is 00:37:31 But so Bhandi was recounting the time they were on countdown, which was a bit of a holo blue. They made a big scene. They smashed up the stage and stuff. But he to talk about it at the start of his chapter He sings the countdown theme, which is like a drum fill Chapter 12 Dig yourself a favor

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Starting point is 00:38:32 I wish I could. I need someone in IT to help me. So. Yeah, hang on, just let me have a look at that. Have you tried turning it off? Yeah. Excuse me. Coach is quickly developed a strong presence on the local music scene.

Starting point is 00:38:48 So they've changed their name? Yeah, I mentioned that. Cool. Well, actually, I have already mentioned that once before. Actually, I just said that. Yeah, say Coaches are now. They are Coaches are now. Do you say or do you know where that name comes from?

Starting point is 00:39:04 Because I've been thinking about what, you know, obviously any band name. Yes. No matter how ridiculous it is, the more you hear it, it just becomes, it doesn't, you don't think about that anymore, but a cold chisel. Yeah. I mean, it's no Tarkas.

Starting point is 00:39:18 It is no Tarkas, though obviously didn't think about it, but why? What does that mean? It is a chisel made of tool steel, of a strength-shape and tempers suitable for chipping our cutting called metal. Oh, yeah. So an obvious choice for the band

Starting point is 00:39:35 that wants to know this. Because they were influenced by metal, like 70s metal. So maybe that's come off from there somewhere. Yeah, I don't know if they actually go into it at any point I've not been able to find exactly like a quote from any of them being like this is why it's just Anyways, we changed our name. Here's no context quite a lot of the time though like Yeah, even if you do hear the story of where a band name came from it's not always interesting No, it's just like you're just throwing words around then you go. You know that sounds good

Starting point is 00:40:04 I mean, that's not particularly interesting. No, it's just like you're just throwing words around then you go You know that sounds good. It's not particularly interesting story for an interview 20 years later. Okay, like word association map first word comes in here now cold Jess Empanada Scared Yeah Cold scat that's our band It's not bad. Chili scat that's our band. It's not bad. Chili scat

Starting point is 00:40:26 Chili scat that's probably top two bad names. I've heard on these episodes All right Dave firstly on your mind go trinkets. Hello Pointed about he said hello Trinkets comma hello What about hello trinkets hello trinkets? Oh hello trinkets comma there trinkets comma. Hello. What about hello trinkets? Oh, hello trinkets. Hello trinkets. Hello Trinkets. That's cute. Estimation mark after hello. Yeah. They've just like all your other bands. I guess we'll be a scar band. Yeah. Yeah. I'll be the sing up.

Starting point is 00:40:58 Think that's Scott. Um actually Um, actually. Anyway, so sorry Sam, do go on. Do go. So now they're cold, they're chiseling away. They are Sydney. They're developing a strong presence in the music scene, due to their hard and fast playing in Jimmy's wild stage presence.

Starting point is 00:41:18 Unfortunately, his relationship with the band was often volatile and he left several times, our best mate maple syrup moss To handle vocal duties. I love that idea that he's like that's it. I'm leaving several times Jimmy You're already out. You don't have to he comes back. I go guys. I'm leaving again Yeah, you may move don't yeah, well for that comment A lot of storm out. Yeah, I love them. I'm fucking. I'm fucking. I love a storm out. Yeah. I love him. I love multiples.

Starting point is 00:41:46 Yeah. You know when you're like, you're not quite finished, so you slam the door and you're like, fuck it. They come back in. They come back in. And while I'm, that is spang. Yeah. And another thing.

Starting point is 00:41:54 Yeah. Well, he comes back in like all in a half and he comes in and he starts, they've already moved on and, and monster seeing and he's like, oh, fuck. Shit, he's good. he's better than I am. Oh. What are we doing? That's so scary. So serpy.

Starting point is 00:42:10 Beautiful. God, what a beautiful, anyway. Don completed his engineering studies and coaches will move to Melbourne in August 1976. Yeah, Melbourne. And three months later moved to Sydney. Damn it! Woo!

Starting point is 00:42:24 Those are a good three months, I reckon. Oh, banging on it. The laneways. Yeah, look, look, coffee. So much coffee. The nightlife. Do we claim them as a Melbourne band? Yeah, Melbourne band.

Starting point is 00:42:32 Melbourne band. Yeah, they. Do we claim everything? We've been claiming it for three months. We claim whatever we want. We've claimed. Yeah, we've claimed whatever we want. They're out.

Starting point is 00:42:41 Mine, mine, mine. Just point it. Yeah, I just point it at your drink bottle. So if you touch that again, you'll grow a little mouth. It will go thirsty, boy. Wild. Um, uh, progress was slow and bonds announced he was leaving once again. Uh, in May. Progress is too slow.

Starting point is 00:43:01 That seems to happen a lot actually throughout their career. They're like, oh, it didn't work the first time pocket. We're giving up. This is shit. Quit dumb like that. If you never try, you never fail. Exactly. If I didn't let people in, they can't leave me.

Starting point is 00:43:15 You never fail. You never fail. So he left to go. Johnny's brother, Swoney, in a band called Feather. However, his farewell performance with coaches went so well that he changed his mind. And decided to stay in the band. And a month later they signed to W.E.A. That's embarrassing though to everyone that's come out to your last gig.

Starting point is 00:43:36 Yeah. How do you feel about the name Feather? How do my Feather? Oh, OK. What's better than Orange? And it's better than Tarkas. All right, we definitely agree it's better than Tarkas. better than orange and it's better than tacos. Alright, we definitely agree it's better than tacos. I don't think it's better than orange.

Starting point is 00:43:49 I like feather better. I think they're all bottom five. It's a better looking word visually. I like it. It rhymes with more things. Feather? Weather. Feather.

Starting point is 00:43:59 Weather? Player. Player. Player. Player feather. Yeah. It's one he's like, alright, we all wear play that because we're on with feather. Play the feather. Yeah. So, one of these, like, alright, we all wear play that because we're on with feather. But, he's like, I think I'm going to stay in culture soon.

Starting point is 00:44:12 Let's go back to my leather. My understanding of rhyming is just changing the first weather. Feather... BLEVER! It rhymes. It's a match. What rhymes with theinkets? Hello? What does blinkets? Buelo. She's done it again. The master of the rhyme. He did? Yeah. Blinkets. Blinkets. Blinkets.

Starting point is 00:44:40 Blinkets 182. That's like I'm up with it. Just actually getting the notes. Yeah, they called me and I said, Jess, we need you. I said, I'm with trinkets. Hello. I said, let me go into my dark space. I switched half my brain off like an artist.

Starting point is 00:44:56 Did I just do that? I think so. I think it's them or it's some bird that flies long distances. Is that like, autopilot? They sort of, yeah, they shut half of their brain off. Oh, wow. And sort of have a sleep and then turn the other half on. I've been doing that for the last month, though, because.

Starting point is 00:45:12 Yeah. Um, so their first album was self-titled and included the track that would become one of their most iconic Australian, most iconic Australian songs of all time, K-San. Wow, on their first album! First album! It's like what, second track or third track or something? Yeah, and first single. Yeah, I didn't even realize that that was like, really?

Starting point is 00:45:31 Not really, for their... Wow! Neither did we. Yeah. So that is, you've chucked that on to the end of the night at a party or a pub or something, and people sing. Goes off. Yeah, loudly and sadly. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's it.

Starting point is 00:45:43 Arms around, strangers. Yeah. Yeah. No one's even mad about it. Yeah, loudly and loudly. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Arms around strangers. Yeah. No one's even mad about it. Yeah. So by 1980, cold chisel was the biggest band in Australia and Barnes had developed a notorious reputation as a hard-drinking wild man who drank more than two bottles of vodka a day. Oh, much of it on stage during performances. So you're like, which any of the old clips of them live and he's usually swinging us man off, like just a flutter. Not even a good vodka. Oh, I don't drink that much water a day.

Starting point is 00:46:10 Too bottle. I should. I saw an interview with Don Walken, who was telling a story when they were in, there was a country town in New South Wales, a camera of Aubrey or something like that. I might have been orange actually. And they, someone in the crowd, a young guy goes, that's water.

Starting point is 00:46:28 You're not drinking real vodka. And he grabbed the bottle and swigged it quite a bit of it and fell to the ground. Instantly getting black out drunk and apparently his mates dragging him around to after parties after the show, like they're sort of, they're living trophy. Yeah, this is the guy from Barzi's vodka. Sad mascot. What a weird time. The 70s and the 80s is just, yep, well, what if...

Starting point is 00:46:57 But two bottles a day, because spoiler, Barzi's still alive and you look like he's in pretty bloody good-knit. Yeah, but if you start early in the day and just sip it Not shouting from like Yeah, two two bottles in an hour. You're dead two bottles over the course of Your alcoholic. Yeah, it's my crediting. He's fine. That's very alert. It's got a buzz What does man out of potatoes? Circle makes sense. He's making

Starting point is 00:47:25 sense. He got a taste. He got a taste for it. Anyone in the lab. He got a cat's around here and you know, washed this down with something. I hope I now is at least moved on to like a gray goose or something. Like he can afford good vodka. He can get pink Dom Perignon champagne. Oh, it talks about that later. What's he doing like 16 bottles of that a day to get the same amount of votes too? Vodka bottles. Yeah, it talks about that later. What's he doing like 16 bottles of that a day to get the same event about those two vodka bottles? Yeah, it's about that. Yeah, it's about that. Champagne and vodka, he sort of still does have the taste, the pallet of a non-your-hode. Non-your-hode, I think vodka and don't burn them. He's a real girl, I'm sure. They kind of fall out the dome, they go with the

Starting point is 00:48:01 pink or the yellow. But I always thought that he was on stage swinging a bottle of Jim Beam or something. I could, yeah. Yeah, well, the Scottish thing you think would be Scotch or. Oh, yeah, true. Not vodka. Yeah, vodka. Just, you know, straight to the old brain hole.

Starting point is 00:48:18 So during this period of great success, Jimmy got married and had a family and he'd never been careful with money and the increasing pressure on him to provide for his family caused even more tension between him and the rest of cold chisel. Despite being hugely successful in Australia, the group still had not been able to crack the market internationally, including a disastrous tour of the US in 81, which pulled them further apart. Management was mostly to blame with mismatched tour lineups,

Starting point is 00:48:49 and they lead single my baby being sent to radio stations wrapped in a diapal. Which was pretty fucking heartbreaking. What a weird choice. Yeah, management. The American manager, so they were in a meeting and the band were rule there in America.

Starting point is 00:49:06 And I like how Jimmy tells it. He does all the accents in his book. So he's explaining walking through the record label offices. In my feet we're going, dig it, I get it. And he says, everyone's poking their head out of their office so on, hey, called Chisels, love the new single. And he's doing this amazing. Love the single. My baby, hey, love the single. Oh, whoa, God, your chisels cold. Whoa, he's got a cold out there.

Starting point is 00:49:35 And then he's like, I think everyone was afraid of us because they'd always clear out at the moment when we were coming through. And then he said they were in the office and they looked over the back of the guy was looking after him and there was their single. My baby wrapped in a napi or a diaper and they're like, what's going on there?

Starting point is 00:49:53 And then producer go goes, oh, you're gonna love it. I've sent it to every radio station in the country wrapped in a diaper. That's where shit goes. Oh, you're gonna love this. It's full of fake poo. But people want notes fake, huh? That'll get their attention.

Starting point is 00:50:12 Jimmy's like, cat? Cat? Cat thing, is that I can relate to you? So you imagine that a lot of these DJs are getting the record in a napby or a diber and throwing it straight through the bed. It's like, oh, this is weird. Really, and it didn't really take off.

Starting point is 00:50:28 Can you buy this on eBay now? The nappy's a little came in? Fuck, that'd be interesting. It's true. It's true. Get a nappy. J.B. High five. How could you prove it's true?

Starting point is 00:50:39 How could you prove it was like an original nappy that was wrapped was wrapped in. He put some catch. Yeah, you couldn't. Yeah, DNA test is catching. It's legit. Certainly tastes legit. Oh, no. There's a lot of the audio book as well and probably the actual book. I reckon you can't get through a chapter without there being a scenario where something like that happens and Jimmy goes, I wanted to smack him there and then. It does come up on that. He does it. I think in the whole book, this is the second book. I haven't read this first one which a lot of stuff is from and but I think there's maybe hits one or two people but there's a lot of him guys. I wanted to whack him there and then.

Starting point is 00:51:25 He thinks about it a lot. It does. I feel a lot of self-conjured. It's a beloved guy now in Australia and you know, it seems very together. Yeah. Really well-liked and respected. Yeah, it was a, it was a,

Starting point is 00:51:38 you know, but I mean, yeah, hearing about his childhood, you like, well, we did he didn't grow up to be well-adjusted straight away. Shocking, yeah. True. about his childhood, you like, well, we did he didn't grow up to be well-adjusted straight away. Shocking, yeah, true. So, after this period, basically the band broke up. There's a lot of stress, a lot of money issues, and pretty much straight away, he decided to jump into a solo career. Right.

Starting point is 00:52:01 Hey, that's a good point to mention that if you do want to hear more about the Cultures albums, our podcast, listen now. We went through all of them. You really skipped over them. I was waiting, they're like, oh, yeah, let's go through them. Track by track. But we are. If only there was a different podcast. Oh, wait, hang on, there is. Listen now. Pause this. Listen to all the episodes up until this point. So you understand the full picture. Yeah. And Jess and I were on a written or upcoming episode.

Starting point is 00:52:29 Yeah, I think it should be next week. Hey. Exciting. That was a good time. That was a good time. I had a fine to know. It was okay. It was okay.

Starting point is 00:52:39 It was okay. Let's see, politely speak for us. It was a good one. So, the final, the farewell tour, the last stand, became the highest grossing concert series by an Australian band ever. And there was announced as a, this is a farewell tour. Yeah. Giving, they gave their final performance in Sydney on the 12th of December 83, about 10 years after the original formation. Wow. And only about five years after the first album came out.

Starting point is 00:53:08 Yeah. So five years. It's one of those ones. You don't realize how short they're actual. Wow. And they have a lot of Beatles. Yeah. Totally.

Starting point is 00:53:16 So much, so much variation and sound. Yeah. And all in such a short period of time. The part of the reason why they broke up apparently according to Jimmy's book, was they were getting paid through like their biggest band in Australia selling out state or at least arenas and multiple nights at certain arenas and they were getting paid 25 bucks a week each.

Starting point is 00:53:38 Yeah, like what? Like fuck all. No. And apparently you'd come in and meetings and be like, hey, let's talk money. I need more money. We're a big band. Where is it? Where is our money? Where is the money? And the manager was like, we've invested it.

Starting point is 00:53:51 Apparently one of the investments was in a pyramid scheme that went under. No. They just lost one in a housing development and they lost money in Sydney property. They're like one of the only times that that would have happened. Wow. And the rest of the band, whenever, the way Jimmy tells it, I imagine the other members probably remember it differently, but Jimmy goes, come on, pay us more,

Starting point is 00:54:13 and their manager will be like, hey, I mean, we're invested in elsewhere, but if you want more money, it's got to be even through the whole band. And the rest of the band will be like, we're happy with what we've got. Apparently, Steve Prest pressurgy would be like, what do I need with fucking money? I've got everything I need. That was Liverpool, if anyone was one of that. No, you should be getting paid well at least

Starting point is 00:54:36 at least $30. At least some of the stories were in the bands with him wanting to knock a few people's blocks off. Shockingly yes. So pretty much, yeah, less than a month after Cold Chisel's last hand tour ended, he formed his own band, which they pretty much began touring and writing for a solo album straight away. They signed to mushroom records and Jimmy released his first solo album, Body Swarf. He was now billing himself as Jimmy Barnes

Starting point is 00:55:05 instead of Millie Jim Barnes, as he had been pretty turned. Did not realize that. I don't know, is that either? Until researching for this report. Do you know that one of the members of his band that he put together was from Feather or Fraternity?

Starting point is 00:55:19 Fraternity. Fraternity. Really? Yeah. Thought I had a real hot fact there. The bass player Place the fish That is wordplay I really enjoy it. Yeah, you're welcome there

Starting point is 00:55:41 Is that a hominem or a hominem hominem hominem hominem How many times? How many times? How many times? How many times? Duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh. How many times? Duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, That was in Perth, that was a blue-tooth spaker in the last room. So I just ran him times, I'd play it from my bedroom. I would all laugh every time, so funny. So, the album was immediately successful. He entered the Australian charts at number one on the 8th of October. Wow. It was the first of a remark I will run of top charting albums as each of his first six solo albums debuted in the number one position

Starting point is 00:56:33 That's a hot stop. A feat that I think no other Australian no other Australian musical. No, say it like you said it Australian no other Australian artist is just fucking habit. You know, bloody right, too, right? First album, Body Swirl, that came out. Didn't it come out the same year as Cold Tizzle's last album? It was definitely within 12 months. Yeah, it was a, he just low-key like, fuck you guys. It was almost like he was anxious to not leave it. He just wanted it to make it happen. Yeah, didn't want the time to stop and think because that's when the demons would set in. So, yeah, pretty much no other Australian musical artist has achieved that since. Embarrassingly though, I don't think off the top of my head I can name a Jimmy Barnes song.

Starting point is 00:57:19 Working class man. Okay, yeah. There you go. It usually follows K-San on a night out. Yeah, your forces and you're the voice. Yeah. They're the big three. Which one does Ahn Zsingh? Uh, you're the one. He paints.

Starting point is 00:57:33 That's the kind of great painter. Amazing painter. That would that'd be his biggest award. I mean, I'm trying to think of it. I think I do have a good balance on his show. I think so. I brush with Ahn. Is that what it is?

Starting point is 00:57:44 Yeah, yeah. Brush with fame. Brush with fame. I think so. I brush with on. Is that what it is? Yeah, yeah. Brush with fame. I think he has had Banzion. So what we're referencing there is an Uber Eats ad. That's stars. Yeah, we were talking about that the other podcast. Yeah, that stars Jimmy Barnes, OK, Banzi. Another famous Aussie singer, like extremely famous John Farnham aka Fancy, and then on drums as a joke, they have the comedian slash artist Arndo aka ANZ. It's a good genius. It's a good, it's a good, it's a good, it's a good, it's a good, it's a good, it's a very funny, whoever writes those ads is doing good stuff.

Starting point is 00:58:15 Yeah, good on them, they're doing God's work. I'm happy about it. Yeah, they should get a low-key. Yeah, of course, working class man, Yeah, of course, that was an oversight. But yeah, I just sort of mean like, I'm surprised, although this was still, when's this? The 80s? Yeah.

Starting point is 00:58:32 I'm still not alive yet. I'm not gonna beat myself up too much. And where does working class man slot into this? Is that an early, second album? Fuck me, so good, so quick. He does, he does it well. Yeah. He didn't write that song, did he?

Starting point is 00:58:45 He did not. Do you know who wrote it? Someone from one of those bands, like a Chicago girl, step, Boston. He even. Almost.

Starting point is 00:58:55 And they're more than a feeling. Oh, journey. What's journey's other song we sang it up? Journey. They were real fun to sing on to. I can't remember what they're all the song is. Oh, it's really good too. I can't remember either.

Starting point is 00:59:06 It's just people is screaming at their devices right now. We'll sing, we'll outro the episode singing it. I promise. If you'll forget. Yep. Absolutely. So he, the list of number one albums, now, totals 11, which includes three coaches albums. In the final, I don't know what's going back to coaches, I've clearly not done this very well.

Starting point is 00:59:31 Anyway, early on in his solo career, Barnes was determined to, oh my goodness, determined to break into the US market. And signed to Gaffin Records for the release there. His second album for the working class man was tailored in this direction with some remixed songs from Body Swerve plus five new tracks including working class man that was written by journey musician Jonathan Kane and would become Barnes' signature tune. Several US musicians worked on the album including Charlie Sexton, Kim Kahn's, Kahn's, Kahn's, Kahn's, and British drummer, Mick Fleetwood or Fleetwood Man. He worked on the album.

Starting point is 01:00:13 Apparently, yeah. I don't know, I did. That's so cool. The album was released as a double vinyl set and shifted to 250,000 copies in 12 months in Australia. Daybeard at number one, remained at number one for seven weeks. It was simply titled Jimmy Barnes in the US and was issued in February to tie in with the release of the Ron Howard Film Gang Ho,

Starting point is 01:00:34 which featured working-class man. I think the movie flopped, though apparently it was a piece of shit. Damn. Yeah, that feels like if that movie was bigger, that could have been- Could have gotten going, yeah. Unfortunately. And just where I've just for overseas listeners, so 250,000 units is huge in Australia because just to go platinum in the US you have to sell a million copies, but in Australia

Starting point is 01:00:53 it's only 70,000. Yeah, they're much smaller population. So 250 that's huge in the 80s right? In the 80s. Our population would have been under 20 million right? Yeah, very small compared to like that's a fair. That's more than 1 percent more than point one percent more than point I one percent yeah all of those are true yeah I just want to give you a few

Starting point is 01:01:15 picky favorite in 1986 Barnes recorded two songs with in excess including an easy beats cover good times and easyats had George Young be older brother of Malcolm and Angus of A.C.D. So the music scene in Australia was quite small apparently. Well, do we be with that just a few families? Yeah, honestly. The young family is so important on the rock history. And the monogues. Let's not forget the monogues. Carly from neighbours. Yes and Danny from I don't know. She's got a target line. The masking her. For petite women. Yes. Finally the actual. Yes.

Starting point is 01:01:58 Danny Monogboate. It's apt. So he with the Good Times cover, he toured with Inexess across 86 and 87. The tour was called Australian Made and was the largest touring festival of Australian music talent that had ever been attempted to that point. Wow, because Inexess was here. Yes. Oh, wait for the lineup though. Like, jup the lineup though. Like, j- Wow. Barnes and in excess headlined,

Starting point is 01:02:27 the rest of the lineup featured mental as anything, the divinals, the models, the saints, and the triffits. That's a six line. Lots of the, lots of there is a lot of those. That was a thing back in the day. Yeah, in the day. That is a big line up.

Starting point is 01:02:43 Isn't that wild? It was probably costing like two2 freaking dollars or something. Everyone's like, oh, I don't know if I can afford it. Mate. $2.00, get it up here. I love our language. I love our language. Where else we got in here?

Starting point is 01:02:58 Anyway, so good time speaking at number two on the Australian chart and was featured in a movie called The Lost Boys Later on as well. Do you know that film? No. It's a vampire film with Keefer Sable. Oh, Keefer.

Starting point is 01:03:12 Yeah, and maybe in some of that park troll the other day. I feel like someone else, yeah, one of the one of the brat packers, what are they called? No, one of the, what's the one? There's two of them that are in the same name. Lisa calls, Lisa calls the number and just listens to them. Oh, Cory, yeah, Cory, one of the Cory's. It's one of the Cory's in saying. Lisa calls, Lisa calls the number and just listens to them. Oh, Cory, yeah, Cory.

Starting point is 01:03:25 Cory, one of the Cory's. It's one of the Cory's in it. Yeah, thank you for giving that reference. Cory, sorry. Here is some words that rhyme with Cory. Montessori. That's Jessus sex. I don't know.

Starting point is 01:03:37 Hope you and I can get married someday. Yeah. Maybe even both Cory's around. Let me look it up. I have a funny feeling that both the core I can't remember. Yeah, Cory Hame was also on an Ancory Feldman. Wow. The two Cory's. Thanks the two Cory's. The two Cory's. And Diane West was in it as well. Really?

Starting point is 01:03:58 Playing the mom I think. The mom. It's a good bear name. The mom. The mom. And... It will stop. It's a good band name. The mom. The moms. They're all uncomfortable dreams. Mom, gentle. This show ends at 9pm. It's gone of it.

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Starting point is 01:06:51 and simply the best with Tina Turner. Simply the best! Dun dun dun dun! Better than I'd wish! Jimmy, why did you get me? From Grabbley Tone. Tina Turner's pretty cool to the collaborative. Yeah, that's that also. He was a big fan of hers growing up, apparently, I think.

Starting point is 01:07:10 And yeah, that ended up being the rugby NRL theme. Really? So they were in all the promo and stuff. That's so good. And I think they may be saying it at the grand final, something like that. Of course. Of course. Peaked at number 13 in Australia as well. Wow. Should have been higher. Yeah, she's way higher. She's been higher. Watch the film with those two having a great time in the studio.

Starting point is 01:07:33 Bit of muckin' about. Where they? Where they? Where they? I don't know, good time. Couple of Americans. Yeah, yeah. So that is after his first album I think and then on his second album. So then he third album, Freight Train Heart, released in 1987. Oh yeah, Trotkin Wheels. Drafton Wheels.

Starting point is 01:07:50 Drafton Wheels, off, bang up. Featured, a whole bunch. Oh, brown, a Jimmy actually went over and drank a lot of vodka in India and he was influenced. And that's how the third freight train hard came about. It also featured... That's the pink one. That's the pink one. Featured Huey Lewis.

Starting point is 01:08:19 A few more members of Journey, former Rod Stewart drummer, and the recording process was deeply problematic. A lot of ISIS. So ISIS. So unfortunate. Look, can you just play the drums I might? I don't need to hear your opinions. Dignage, stop ranking ISIS.

Starting point is 01:08:44 Stop fucking hell. mate. I don't need to hear your opinions. Dignage, he claimed the master's back, returned to Sydney, and finished the recording with English producer Mike Stone. Oh, because all that, that sound like some legendary musicians he's working with, and he's like, no. No, he does. He does make a smack him. Yeah, and often it ends up, it just sounds like he, he, it's almost self-sabotaging sometimes. He doesn't do a lot of diplomacy.

Starting point is 01:09:24 No. So this is his chance for the big break. He doesn't do a lot of diplomacy. No. So this is a chance for the big break. He's got all these American things lined up. All these great people involved. And he's like, no, this isn't what I want. I'm going home. I'll get someone else to finish it off. They still put it out, didn't they? They did. And I tried, like it made it. And it went to number one in Australia.

Starting point is 01:09:40 I don't think it smashed the show. I don't think it smashed the show. It did particularly well in... I think it made it the top 107. I think you were right, actually. It's particularly well in. I think it made it the top 107. I think you were right actually. That's what you want. So remixed a lot of the songs with some of the members from the Angels and Johnny Diesel,

Starting point is 01:09:57 the 20-year-old guitarist and frontman of Perth Band, Johnny Diesel and the Injectors. What do they give a name? No, it doesn't say. Well, that's the weird thing about them is the band was called Johnny Diesel and the injectors. His name's Mark Luzot. And so afterwards, he, when he tried to go solo,

Starting point is 01:10:16 he's like, oh, I'm not actually Johnny Diesel. That's a, like, it's not a real thing. That's just a name for the band. Nameguess. But he's still known as Diesel, because he could just couldn't escape it. So he's still known as Diesel, because he could just gonna escape it. So he's still known as Johnny Diesel or Diesel. He tried to go as Mark Lazzot for a while

Starting point is 01:10:29 and it just wouldn't stick to people like this. And it's like, who? Who then? Oh, you mean Johnny Diesel? That's not a real thing. Yeah, I definitely know of Diesel. Yeah. And it's just one of those names you accept.

Starting point is 01:10:43 But now thinking about it's like that's silly Diesel oh, mate. Diesel has right on the tip of my tongue It looks incredibly young now, yeah, he's a real sort of a Kiana Reeves or a pull run type. Oh my god pull run my Reeves or a pull run type. Oh my God, pull run. Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Some men cat call. Perkins whoops. You're claiming a bag. Woof! I don't know if I'll start doing it. I'd never get a cat call.

Starting point is 01:11:30 It's not going to be a problem. That was a cat call. That's what I'll start doing. No one cat calls me. There was a cat in footballer in the 90s called Ange Christu. And whenever he kicked it, the whole crowd would say, woof! That's because he kicked it far.

Starting point is 01:11:44 That's really fun. And he doesn't imagine that was probably start about like a group of like 10 people there doing it. Stating's start doing it. Woof. I love that. I love the idea of people coming in for the first game of football. And they'd just been one of those things like,

Starting point is 01:11:59 oh, fuck is going on. It's all right. They keep using enough. He's in front of the goal square. He's got to kick a goal to win the match. It's after the saw and here we go. He knows everyone's going to say whoop, he just couldn't concentrate. So that album with all of the Australian powerhouses on it went to number one. Of course. As recently as 2003 was named as one of the top 100 rock albums of

Starting point is 01:12:25 all time by a British magazine. Wow! Which I found interesting because I don't think it actually did that well over there. It's a growing out of shower. Yeah. So the in Australia Barnes' success remained virtually unmatched. The number one success of his first three albums continued with the live album, Bond Storming. So good. So good. That's fucking, I actually brought it here. I'll put a picture of it up later on your socials.

Starting point is 01:12:55 Yes. We'll give you the code. Yes. Or whatever they call those things. Um, he also released. I'm, You think I'd try to give you a word? I'll give Sam a discount code.

Starting point is 01:13:03 I'm, I'm winking at it once again. It's such a man nose. Social media. I'll pass what his nose. Now I've got to change it. He did a cover of When a Man Loves a Woman, which was in number three hit. His next to a brought controversy by being underwritten by Pepsi, which allowed him to expand the production-increased promotion.

Starting point is 01:13:27 And to make up for it at the end, he donated $25,000 to the children's hospital in Sydney. You think that they're like an anti-Pepsy charity? To Coca-Cola. I don't know why that was a whole thing. Do people just feel like he was selling out or something? Probably. Do they not understand how businesses work? You kind of need to make money.

Starting point is 01:13:47 Did he change the lyrics to War, War, War, War? What's a Pepsi class man? Is that their problem? That might have been the problem. Yeah, actually now that you're missing. Stop dreaming about Pepsi. He's not only thinking about Chris' Pepsi. Behind those Pepsi wee.

Starting point is 01:13:59 Yeah, the Uber Eats thing at the moment's going to make those people feel good. It's the Orpheus about Pepsi. It's like, it is an Uber Eats man. It's like, it's an Uber Eats man. It's like, it's an Uber Eats man. It's like, it's an Uber Eats man. It's like, it's an Uber Eats man.

Starting point is 01:14:13 It's like, it's an Uber Eats man. It's like, it's an Uber Eats man. It's like, it's an Uber Eats man. It's like, it's an Uber Eats man. It's like, it's an Uber Eats man. It's like, it's an Uber Eats man. It's like, it's an Uber Eats man. It's like, it's an Uber Eats man.

Starting point is 01:14:21 It's like, it's an Uber Eats man. It's like, it's an Uber Eats man. It's like, it's an Uber Eats man. It's like, it's an Uber Eats man. It's like, it's an Uber Eats man. It's like, it's an Uber Eats man. It's like, it's an Uber Eats man. It's like, it's an Uber Eats man. Love it. I praise them. What Iberates do is they don't pay their workers. They pay Allegedly alleged the legend celebrities I pay workers. I just poorly paid. Oh, sorry So basically the 90s went particularly Interesting he released a couple of No, no, don't walk

Starting point is 01:14:41 Just do on the thing. Yeah Relaged, released. Released a few albums that went to number one, but don't really have any songs on them now that are well-known. I love that idea. Yeah, I had a few more number one albums anyway. Blah, blah, blah. Nothing, right?

Starting point is 01:14:57 Whatever. I'm in a new challenge. Yeah. But one of them that I will mention is Lay Down Your Guns, which is an absolute banger and he re-released it later with Living End, which is even more of a banger. It's got great lyrics like, oh the lion and the cheating. When we ought to be lovin' and, what is it?

Starting point is 01:15:18 Squeed and... So that's probably it, yeah. I'll come back to fix this later in the video. No, sweet and he said, all the line and the cheating when we ought to be loving and sweeten. It was great. It makes as much sense as whatever it said. Sweeten, they're a sweeten.

Starting point is 01:15:36 You think sweeten. When we ought to be loving and sweeten. That makes more sense than anything you've said in your life. Like a puzzle piece going together. Four. Four. got a lot. Four. Shots five. His 1993 album, Heat, was influenced by then-current grunge trend

Starting point is 01:15:52 and the music of Red Hot Chili Peppers. Really? Got a wig, give it a wig now. OK, bouncy. Got a hair, this. We're just kind of weird, hey, because it's like, he's just done a... He did a couple of soul albums around the 90s as well, where he's just doing covers, but then he was also trying to return to his hard rock.

Starting point is 01:16:10 And the Spasco's got big and he's like, all right, I'm forming an old girl group. Show power in my right girls! Alcoholic Spice, where are you? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no number two, so it broke his number one streak, but it did feature a song by former coach, or bandmate Don Waker. Don Waker. Also, that was when they started sort of healing there. Yeah, so it was a really significant moment because they'd kind of started patching up the older friendship.

Starting point is 01:16:43 Friendship, thank you. I was going to go on with, I don't even know. It's very lighted. No, it's not. Yes. So then after that, the mid-90s onwards, he's career suffered a slump. He faced financial ruin as his music company, music publishing company, and his wife's children's fashion label, both went broke.

Starting point is 01:17:04 Oh, his wife's children's fashion label. That's always the first to go. Not the essentials. He was pursued by both ANZ and the ATO for amounts exceeding 1.3 million. Which I didn't know. I didn't know either. And it, yeah, the way that's the tax office here. The way it tells it in his book is like he's not really thinking about that stuff and he's like all of a sudden they're like we he talked about all these like lander guineas and stuff and brought and his mate is a country house into a mansion and they're like you're out of cash you can't

Starting point is 01:17:40 have anything. He's like I'll just do another two of them like no it's too far gone for that you're gonna basically bank I think you have to go bankrupt. Pretty much. I can't see the clown star. Yeah. It was like lining a secret from like lighting the pill. Yeah, it was on fire. I did that sound it almost like comical and he's like I don't know and obviously he just didn't have people looking after it enough for him.

Starting point is 01:18:02 But he was living the lifestyle of Lamborghini and he's in things for a year. Yeah. Yeah. He just doesn't seem like a guy that would drive that. No, I don't. Yeah. Yeah, it just doesn't fit the business. I'd imagine him in like a, like what's

Starting point is 01:18:13 like an old Holden EH, but like, yeah. Yeah, he swooped up. Yeah, yeah, like imagine a yut or like a 450 for a one or a, is that what it's called? Yeah, I could. Maybe a land Rover now. Yeah, I could see it or a black. For me, there's a Jeep.

Starting point is 01:18:27 A black Mercedes with black windows. I could say that. You want to be in? Soundproof. Oh, I'm a mess. Yeah, so you can sing along the song. So you can warm up on the plane. Sounds like that.

Starting point is 01:18:38 He's warming up in that car. A window goes in. Oh, he used it. That's him. When you go from being paid 25 bucks a week to actually getting paid for the working doing all of it, saying like, oh, fucking hell. He also, when he signed his first solo deal with mushroom with Michael Godinsky, his manager,

Starting point is 01:18:57 he just, he got a new manager after Colchisel guy. Obviously, he was, I think he talked about him like it was a good manager, but yeah, he was a bit tall. Doesn't sound like it was great with money, yeah. And then he just got this bank manager guy that he became friends with this Irish guy, and he took him to that meeting, and now we're about to sign, and his Irish manager goes,

Starting point is 01:19:19 actually I'm gonna add another clause, and he took out a pen and started writing on this contract that Gidenskid printed out, and Gidenskid was like, what are you doing? You can't just write and pen on a contract. We've given you everything you've asked for, everything you've always asked for. And the Irish guy goes, oh well, we'll walk. There's other people who want us and Gidens go, whoa, whoa, whoa, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, and he reads and it says, on this date every every year we will pay Jimmy 25 grand in cash and he goes

Starting point is 01:19:47 All right, we'll do it. So that was like he went from 25 bucks a week To just as a little bonus on top of everything else 25 grand Did say that guy was just his accountant that yeah, it was I think he bought it. Yeah, it was a weird thing just his account and that he was a manager. Yep, I think he bought it. Yeah, it was a weird thing he bought. It was in town with him and he goes, I love this era, I want to live here and the guy goes, I know a place you might want to buy

Starting point is 01:20:12 and he showed him this place and he was like, oh, this place is great, but I do know if they want to sell and the guy goes, yeah, I can aim at, it's my place. So they ended up being friends and then he got him on as a manager. Cool. He just seems like he made a lot of decisions by the seat of his pants or just on the feel for someone.

Starting point is 01:20:29 Yeah. He trusted him. And that one turned out well, think. Yeah. And a lot of him, yeah, a lot of him turned out really well and a lot of him didn't, you know, as a mix. Yeah. But we're up to the bit where he's deeply in debt.

Starting point is 01:20:39 Yes. So they released a hits anthology, which put him back to the top of Australian charts as any good band does. And it also featured the hit single Love A Love A Which was actually written by his wife. And he talks about that in the book and she says I want to try and write a song and he says, I already need help and she's like, no, not giving me a minute. And she goes off and like, he talks about her like figuring out the maps of it, like how many beats for the whole song she wants

Starting point is 01:21:05 and then figuring out lyrics around it. It was a real strategic way to write it rather than just using feelings and shit. He tells her she's walking around with a clipboard sort of tapping it out. And he's like, you're right. And he tells her, I'll support her, but. We'll say.

Starting point is 01:21:21 And then. Hit single. Amazing. Take that, Jimmy. Has he been married a couple of times? No one once in 1981 and Pretty cool. Yeah, he had a kid before that we do go into that shortly, but he yeah, he He met Jane early days in Colchisel and you know, they just said this long. They're still together Yeah, yeah, they're an long. They're still together.

Starting point is 01:21:45 Yeah, they're in iconic couples' goals. Yeah, but they're great. You know, rising suddenly Colchisel, something might not. If he wrote that about her, because she, they'd had a fight in 1980 or something, not in 1981, and she'd gone to live with her parents in Japan. And so that's why I write the song.

Starting point is 01:22:01 The rising song has stole my girl away. I'm gonna go and catch a plane and steal it back again. And then he tells the book he tells his whole story about going over and living. They make them stay in separate rooms in the Japanese house and her stepdad's like sort of all sort of like big dog. Some diplomat.

Starting point is 01:22:22 He's like, oh Jimmy's like hungover real bad as he gets there. And he goes, oh, you're like squash. And Jimmy's like, I don't know what squash, but he goes, oh, yeah, love squash, great squash. And then he goes, let's go play. And he goes, what now? So he's wearing his leather pants. He's just thinking of the pants.

Starting point is 01:22:39 And he goes, it was hard, but I. I'm not sure you own one pants for all of the eighties. And they do, yeah, just, he was too proud to not do it so he just goes and plays yeah Jimmy but I think I think the stepdad ended up respecting it because he could see at least I was having to try and have a crack out Yeah, I also see his balls through the I respect that It's also fun like back at home is in the biggest band in Australia, and they're touring around. Like, the ace was out, and then he goes over there, and he has to, his girlfriend's

Starting point is 01:23:15 stepdad's making him sleep in a different room. So funny. Just real, like, humbling. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, later in 1998, he released the album Love and Fear, which was the first album to miss the Australian top 10. Oh, and then from there, he kind of takes a bit of a break. I think this is where he actually,

Starting point is 01:23:37 a lot of his drug use and alcohol abuse was later, like he did it all through his life pretty much, but it got particularly bad in the 2000s? Oh wow! Um, where he, like he talks about singing at the, um, what's it called? The Olympics, and he's just like, high as a fucking kite. And like, just can't function, and he like, I think, oh, from the year, like, 1998 or 1999 or something, right up until when was his last inton rehab? It was not only in like the last, I don't know, 15 years or something.

Starting point is 01:24:12 Wow. And he's gotten three times and it's all in like later stages of life because he's just like too active. It's always the other way around, usually. Yeah, always usually. Always usually. Yeah, like they do when they start out, they get really like caught up in that lifestyle.

Starting point is 01:24:27 And then eventually they straighten out a bit. Or don't. But it's funny that he's, I mean, he was doing it anyway, wasn't he? But he's got worse as he got older. Imagine you're middle age, like he's got teenagers in middle-aged dads coming home off his face. But telling you off-front-age drinking,

Starting point is 01:24:43 you're like, oh'm fuck off, Dad. He talks about being in rehab, and the first time he went, and it was just real awful, like they're sitting in group therapy, and they're explaining why they're there, and why they've got an addiction. And the first woman to speak tells this horrific story of basically being held captive,

Starting point is 01:25:02 and it's pretty fucked up story about what happens to it. And then the next bloke is this like world rescue who starts crying because his dad bought a mish-stick shift instead of an auto car. And Jimmy just like rips into him like, did you just fucking hear what this lady said? What the fuck is wrong with? And like shreds him a new one.

Starting point is 01:25:20 Oh my god. He actually wanted to hit him there. My daddy bought me the wrong kind of card. It has tick-shift and I can't drive in manual. I turned to drugs. What a shit gun. It was a terrible person. Sorry.

Starting point is 01:25:36 Anything about it. So later on he released in 2010, Rhaegin Ruwen, his first album of original material in 2007, and it came, though it is for most of the lyrics, came from a journal that he kept during the period of the late 90s to the early 2000s when he struggled most with his addiction. Things like, gone of the shops and bought a vodka bottle. Was that a big hit? Probably. Probably, I assume.

Starting point is 01:26:04 I know one had to hit him there With live with the bottom of the bottle after it's empty. Yeah, I'm gonna waste it In 2014 he released a new album called 30 30 hindsight which celebrated 30 years 30 years since his chart topping debut solo album There is a solo that's wow, Which is yeah, a whole other. Wow, it doesn't seem that old to me. No, but also that's how old I am. So 30 years is quite a-

Starting point is 01:26:33 Right. It's a long time, right? You're an 89 child? No, it's not. It's not yet. But I was gonna cut corners. All right, geez. For getting technical.

Starting point is 01:26:41 It's like, do you only podcast with people born in 1999? Not in 90, that's one of the things that- Are you things that he both 1990s yeah yeah I can get friends your own age Yes, oh they're all dead You know these whippersnappers without technology and what not in electronic mail So 30 30 hindsight he rereleased all of his bigger singles, featuring other artists. So he's got the living-in, baby animals, Keith Urban, Diesel, Tina Arena, Ian Moss,

Starting point is 01:27:14 Journey, she had John Stevens, Bernard Fanning, and Troy Cassaday. Oh my God. As well as tracks with some of his kids, which is pretty cool. Oh, tin lids. The tin lids. Oh, yeah lids. The tin lids. Oh, yeah.

Starting point is 01:27:26 Yeah. So we'll come to that. Oh, how did that happen? Well, so I was like, I'll write, do all of his career, and then I'm gonna go into like life and stuff, otherwise I was just getting bogged down with details and it was taken longer than I had initially planned for. So I needed to fix myself up.

Starting point is 01:27:44 I forgot about the tin lid. Um, so, he talks about a lot earlier on in 1979. He remembers the exact minute that he saw his wife for the first time. Ah. Four in the afternoon, the 29th of November, 1979. She was so beautiful I literally had to walk out of the room and regroup. Which is pretty cute, except that they fought like fucking cats and dogs for the most of their relationship. That tumultuous relationship, and she left in March 1980 to follow her family to Tokyo.

Starting point is 01:28:16 And then they eventually got back together and got married in 1981 and had their first child, Mahalia in 1982. They have four children together. Mahalia, Eliza, Jane, LMA and Jackie, who formed with a group of the 10 Lids. Who had a number one hit, I think. Number one or number two or something? When they were real little. They were little tackers.

Starting point is 01:28:39 I was saying, Gaglar, please. Was it a Christian Salvo or something? Yeah, I was. Yeah. Yeah. So in, on top of all of this, Barnes had already fathered a son who is a now famous singer in Australia,

Starting point is 01:28:54 David Campbell. And host of Breakfast TV Show. Oh, yes, too. Morning show. Morning show, great. Morning's time. So he said, it's on your crew, girl. I first saw him in a play, the MTC.

Starting point is 01:29:07 Right. No idea that he was Barnes' son. But he might not have either of that. True. He was great. But yeah, because he's, Jimmy Barnes and David's mom were only like somewhere between 16 and 18 when he was born. He was raised by his grandma thinking

Starting point is 01:29:22 that that was his mother. Thought his mother was his sister. And thought Jimmy was just a random Scottish uncle, even though no one else had a Scottish accent in his family. So Jimmy like knew him growing up. Yeah, and talks about later on, I think he missed a lot of the formative years, like the real young years and regretted it a lot. And there's a clip of him talking about it with David in an interview. And David said, it's the first time I'd read or heard you kind of say that.

Starting point is 01:29:50 And they both got really emotional about it because during the book, Jimmy talks about David spending a lot of his teenage years really lost and put it a lot of it back to his childhood, which was a bit of a mess around. It was 16 when he found out that Jimmy Barnes was his dad. It was like added, added cultures or concert or something. Sorry. It's just like, must have just been told or something,

Starting point is 01:30:12 it walks up and he's like, yo, my dad. Imagine if he was his sister-leens over and goes, that's your dad. Also, I'm your mom. Yeah. What a conversation. Any questions are we good?

Starting point is 01:30:24 Do you want the word canine? Yeah. Mom's your Nana. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, We're just tricking you out, mate. It was testin' you. So to add to this already family of five children that he has, in 2005, he received a letter from a young woman named Amanda, who spoke about wanting to find her birth father and her mother thought that Jimmy was him. They took a paternity test, and the result came back positive. But Jimmy stated when he saw her for the first time, there was no doubt that she was his child.

Starting point is 01:31:04 She also had a couple of kids who Jimmy thought looked like other members of his family. And Amanda and David actually went to school together, but didn't particularly like each other, which Jimmy says like, thank God. Imagine they start going steady and then find out later they're related. Yeah, that's pretty. A couple of years after that, Jimmy receives another letter. Oh my god. She went to the first.

Starting point is 01:31:26 Jimmy had done it. From a woman named Megan, and again, they did the test and it all came back legit, but he said, all it took was one look and he knew that she was here. They all look like him. Yeah. These poor people. I reckon he was hot back in the day.

Starting point is 01:31:41 Oh right. Not so much now. David Campbell's got a good thing. David Campbell's got a good thing. David's a very good looking man. Do you, as a's a good guy. David Campbell's a good guy. He's a very good looking man. Do you as a lady, do you want to look like to me, Bons? As a lady, do you want to look like to me, Bons?

Starting point is 01:31:51 No. I look like my dad and here we are. I look like my dad. It's a thing. Yeah. We can see you with that. We can see you with that. She's gorgeous.

Starting point is 01:32:00 And a beautiful voice. Yep. Bonsie, no, he's a stud. Yep. I know dad's a stud. Yep. I know that about that, but I was just imagining him. There's pictures of him. With different hair basically, and then me and my car. And just me and my car.

Starting point is 01:32:13 Me? Yeah, they call his voice too. Dad. Yes. No, she is mine, yeah. My child. So Jimmy's wife, Jane, through all of this was very supportive and insisted that

Starting point is 01:32:27 his children, all of his children were, and their families be welcomed into the family. So the Barnes clan is large but very close. That is very, very nice. But with these before he married Jane, David was. David was. The last two were 2005, 2007. Wait, what? Yeah. No, sorry. No, no, no, no. So they're like full adults with husbands and, 2007. Wait, what? Yeah. No, sorry.

Starting point is 01:32:46 No, no, no, no. So they're like full adults with husbands. Oh, no. No, he thinks it was back from when he was still living in the Elizabeth. All right. Oh, shit. Okay.

Starting point is 01:32:55 I don't actually know. He doesn't want. He doesn't hear. Basically, I'm just wanting to make sure that he's been faithful to Joey. No, I definitely think he talks about it a lot. He definitely plays up on her a lot. Damn it!

Starting point is 01:33:06 Jimmy, you fucking dog. You dog. So that's basically Jimmy and his family. And then I just found a bunch of other random facts that I liked that I thought I'd throw in. Would you have them fun facts? Most of them, yes. We like that on this show.

Starting point is 01:33:20 We do. It's a lot funnerer than all the depressing shit from the start. In March 1999, he performed at the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras annual party, which with the 1978 Sylvester hit, you make me feel mighty real. Which if you don't know that song, that's a cracker. I don't know if I do know it. You make me feel mighty real.

Starting point is 01:33:40 You make me feel mighty real. It's a banger. Yeah, I actually have somebody else sing on the pod for once. Yeah, a poll I do better. No, I only know it because it was on featured on an episode of RuPaul's Drag Race. And also, that's a bang in song. And now it's on my running playlist.

Starting point is 01:33:58 So other fun facts for you, he was raised a Protestant, considers himself a Buddhist, and found out later on in life that he has Jewish relatives. So I think from what I have learned over the years, is that it's like passed down through the mother's side. So he recalls that he asked his mum in 2009. So he recalls that he asked his mom in 2009. She said to him, he said to her, I remember when I was about 18, you gave me a star of David, why? And she said, oh, your mother gave that to me,

Starting point is 01:34:33 her mother gave it to her. I thought I'd give it to you. And he said, okay, was your mother Jewish by any chance? And she says, yeah, so name was Esther. And so he was like, shit, if that's the way it works, then I am also Jewish apparently. Jewish Protestant Buddhist. Yeah, but yeah, it calls himself a Buddhist.

Starting point is 01:34:50 Is that I mean God? Yes. No, he needs one more. Yeah, if you pay three or four. Or is it five, go the quenella. Is that five? Quintuplets. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:35:01 I think it's standard Captain Planet rules. Five rings, then you create God. Captain God. So he needs two more. He still needs heart. So nice try. Go collect two more religions. Then come back to me with one more.

Starting point is 01:35:18 What a rookie. In 2011, he planted a flame tree made famous by the Colchisel song, Flame Trees, at the National Arboretum in Canberra, which I am doing environmental science, so I found that really interesting. He's done a tree. Cool. Jimmy did a tree. In 2015, this is a less fun fact, but he had to ask the reclaimed Australia political

Starting point is 01:35:41 party to stop playing his music at their alleys. It's a nice fact. It's a nice fact. It's a fun fact. No, but it's nice. And we know he's not a racist. And he was like, no, don't use my music. Yeah, Probs, please don't. But who would be like, yeah, use my, it would be shit.

Starting point is 01:35:55 It would be something I call Darren recorded on his iPhone. Who would it be? Yeah, but didn't they have trouble having finally a band to play at Trump's inauguration because of reasons like that? Yeah. Because you don't want to be associated with, you know? Three doors down, I think ended up doing it. I'm playing there one here, Kryptonite.

Starting point is 01:36:10 Oh God, one of their hits. Name another. I don't want to. No, I don't think I should have to. Don't put me on the spot. That day you come into my house. My house. Which there were a couple.

Starting point is 01:36:21 I live in this sub of the street. Oh, excellent. Things are not going well for matter. Three doors down. I embarrassing. Dally partner has song called Two Doors Down. Do you reckon that's why they made it three? Yeah, they live next door to it.

Starting point is 01:36:33 Just trying to one up her. Yeah. They live next door to Journalist. Or trying to tribute her because they love Dally partner. Probably did. Who doesn't? It's true. Good luck.

Starting point is 01:36:43 That's a short list, isn't it? Even shorter than people willing to play Trump's noggin. In 2017, he won the Aria, or he and the Wiggles won the Aria for Best Children's album. Yes. We've done an episode on the Wiggles. Wait, do we? Wee!

Starting point is 01:36:59 I'm in two podcasts. So weird for you to meet each other. I'm a second podcast fan. You're not my sister. You're my mom. You're not my cat. You're my ghost. We did an episode about the history of the Wiggles.

Starting point is 01:37:18 They were my very first concert. I saw them at Springvale Town Hall in the mid-90s. I saw them at the end of Hall in the mid-90s. Yeah, that's it. Class of vintage. I thought it was vintage. Dead, Jeff Stink. No, Greg. Was Greg Stinky? I can't remember.

Starting point is 01:37:31 Jeff was sleepy though. I'll tell you that. Yeah. You've got to always go to wake that bastard up. Yeah, come on. Get to do it. Get to see a doctor. Must be having the same foot, could you me?

Starting point is 01:37:39 Yeah. He's a knock. He's a knock, man. So Jimmy has been inducted into the Aria Hall of Fame, which was like, I don't know what I thought. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but the Australian version, so small look. Twice, once with Goldchisel in 93, and once in...

Starting point is 01:37:55 Once I get that up to Tenids. Yeah. The Shepherd, he's still a Shepherd. He's still a Shepherd. In 2005 as Solor, he was also a patron of the choir of Hard Knocks. Gryt Korra group formed by Jonathan Welch and consisting of homeless and disadvantaged people in Melbourne. His brother-in-law is Diesel.

Starting point is 01:38:18 Him and his wife Jane set Diesel up with Jane Sister Jepp and they married in 1989. Oh, that's nice. Keep it in the fame. He also has 13 grandchildren and one grandchild. A great grandchild. That's a great grandfather. That's why. Why is he not how old is he?

Starting point is 01:38:36 I guess because his first kid was 16 or something. Yeah, David was 16 or 17. Yeah, David, he was young, but I think it's one of his daughters that he found out about. Right. Yeah, right. And David's got three kids. Yeah, if you have kids when you're 16 and I have kids when they're 16 and I have kids when they're 16 and I have kids when they're 16 and I have kids when they're 16 and I have

Starting point is 01:38:58 kids when they're 16. That's like a lot of maths. So, I have kids when they're 16. Don't you think? I'll ask you. Get it. Dave. Do you get it I'll ask him. I'll get it. Dave? Do you get it now?

Starting point is 01:39:07 Yeah. That's like, you could be like a great, great, great. Really good, great, great. But you didn't have any kids at 16. I, you're a bit behind then. Well, we don't know that for sure. He hasn't got the hasn't checked his mailbox today. Ooh.

Starting point is 01:39:20 That's the one out the front of the house. Something like that. What else have we got here? Oh, that's the one out the front of the house. Something like that. What else have we got here? He is the only person to ever win the Australian, or is it book award? I've written down the acronym, but not what it stands for. But he won whatever that award is, best book in Australia for a year, for working class boy in 2017,

Starting point is 01:39:47 and then again for working class man in 2018. So if the only person to have won it twice. Oh right, if the only person to have won it at all, I've really made up an award for it. They keep, they keep, they keep, they keep, they keep, they keep, they keep, they keep freeing up. They just love Jimmy so much. No good enough books this year. It's the Jimmy Barn book award. It's the Jimmy Barn Book Award.

Starting point is 01:40:05 It's got a very tight criteria. Oh, right. Never really thought about that. You know when you're a kid, you dress up for book week? Yeah. Yeah, kids can go dressed up as Jimmy Barnes. Oh, I agree. Put it in the bottle of vodka.

Starting point is 01:40:17 That would be good. That would be very cute. It's accurate. Australian Book Industry Awards. There we go. Oh, sexy. That is a sexy name We logies

Starting point is 01:40:27 Australian book awards. Oh, yeah, I was nice Industry award Australian recording industry award association association award. I would have I would have gone with that That's fine. Um not the award awards the award awards Not the water warts. The water warts. And my final fun fact for Jimmy Barnes. In 2017, he featured in the song Big Enough by Karen J. Calanen. The song was featured on the tonight show with Jimmy Fallon in a comedic skit. In addition to this, his cameo in the song's music video became a popular internet meme in late 2017.

Starting point is 01:41:03 In 2017. Basically 2017. Yeah, I felt real old. I thought it was pretty on top of the meme scene. Yeah, I thought that was a bit more current. Turns out I am old as fuck. Yeah. But basically, he met Kirin for the first time a few years earlier when they both sung with Neil

Starting point is 01:41:17 Finn in Sydney. Kirin said, would you scream on one of my tracks? And before he'd even heard the song, he'd said, yes, he's like, fuck yeah, sounds great. He said, Kirin sent him big enough. It was not what I expected. I remember just thinking, what a weird song. But it was so infectious.

Starting point is 01:41:36 And I was singing the melodies everywhere I went. So I just screamed on it like a band-cheat for about five minutes. Do we have a clip of that? Most beautiful vocals you'll ever hear. It's not good for you Jimmy. It's so good. So you don't have like during comedy festival you'll run into Zach from anti-donna and on day two he's already on vocal rest because they've done our show

Starting point is 01:42:26 Jimmy Barnes must be on vocal rest all the time. He can speak for one hour of day. Yeah, that is the noise that he makes He can't like Ian Moss just shreds guitar at people Jimmy just screams that That is coffee. La-da! Sorry! That is wild. Yeah, it hurts. We're not trained like Jimmy. I'm okay.

Starting point is 01:42:48 That concludes my report. Well done. Bam, that's a fantastic WFF. That is an incredible report. Like you've done it many times before. It's almost like I've known this topic for a different podcast. Honestly, one of the biggest, the best feedback we get when we have a guest reporter in I've kept on it many times before. It's almost like I've known this topic for a different podcast. Honestly, one of the biggest, the best feedback we get when we have a guest reporter, especially

Starting point is 01:43:10 when they bring in something that they're passionate about is that people can hear the passions. When Matt did an episode on Pantera, a lot of people said, I've never heard of Pantera. I didn't know what it was going to be, and then the passion really shone through, and I could feel that in your report. Yeah, and unlike Matt's episode onantera, I wasn't throwing up. So I was able to help you with the vibe, which I did not do for Matt. I reckon I learned a bunch there. I didn't know how rough his childhood was.

Starting point is 01:43:38 Oh, fucked up. It's awful. It's round metal. Yeah, metal, yeah, raising, and just like needing an escort just to go out so hard. But it's a four and five year old. What the hell? Yeah, being scared of teenage gangs. Oh no, we're gonna be in Glasgow next week. Just having an escort. Yeah, we're gonna go together. Be adults with you.

Starting point is 01:43:57 Yeah. No. Poddad. Poddad. Poddad will have to escort us to the bathroom. But yeah, if you get your hands on it to either read or listen, it's really interesting, it's just real fucking depressing.

Starting point is 01:44:09 So go into it in a good mood, so at least you're not like super depressed afterwards. Oh, wow. Good, a good tip. Great tip. Well, thanks so much for that report, Sam. A section of the show that you probably know and love very much is the fact-quot or question segment,

Starting point is 01:44:26 which we do after the report. This week, we're doing two as we do every week. The way to get into this section is by supporting us at patreon.com slash do go on pod, on the Sydney Sharnberg Deluxe VIP Rest in Peace Edition level, or something like that. I haven't looked at it in a long time, but it's definitely got Sydney Sharnberg in it. And then you get to give us a fact-quot or a question and also get to give yourself a title. or something like that, I haven't looked at it in a long time, but it's definitely got to see me Sean Bergen in it. And then you get to give us a factor quote or a question and also get to give yourself a title. This week Paul Jacob has entered

Starting point is 01:44:52 into the fact quote of question section. And he's given himself the title of additional comptroller regarding inventory of lost ideas. Oh, that's handy. We lose. I do so much. I wish we had someone to just keep track. Yeah, that's handy. We lose so many. So much. I wish we had someone to just keep track. Yeah, that's great. Great. We got it.

Starting point is 01:45:09 Comptroller is a fun. I've never heard Comptroller in the Simpsons. What does it mean, Dave? What's a Comptroller? It's easy to say, but they're not. Okay. They're not a police officer. Okay. They're not a fighter pilot.

Starting point is 01:45:24 Okay. They're not a fighter pilot. Okay. They're not my mom. All right. They're not teachers. Okay. Thank you. It's an end of list. They're everything else.

Starting point is 01:45:35 Everything else. Yeah. Wow. They're a dog cat pig. Yep. It's really ugly. So he writes a question. So. Great, love it. And I know Sam, I don't read

Starting point is 01:45:46 him until I'm reading him. Good to know. Yeah. He writes. Thank you for all. Oh my god. Thank you. Let me make this font bigger one thing. Yeah. Oh yeah. Stuck screen. I guess I'm working. Oh, there was a problem. I've turned it off. I'm again. All right, let me just struggle through this. Thank you all for such great laughs and good times. I enjoy every week and while I'm still catching up on Patreon episodes, I've been listening ever since Matt Stewart decided to invade my other favorite pod, the weekly planet.

Starting point is 01:46:21 As you all are my go-to for laughs every week, wondering where you guys go to when you need a laugh? I mean other than each other. Oh, we do not turn to each other. I need to shatter that impression that you have, that we turn to each other for anything. Other than money, sometimes we ask Dave for cash. I'm good for it. I'm in a lot of debt today. That's what I said. And his interest rates are crippling. But I don't play it on paying him back.

Starting point is 01:46:54 He said 12 months interest free and we said too good to be true, but we signed up. And now he's broken, it leaks. He's small but he's feisty. What makes you laugh, Dave? That video on the internet where I say, Scottish woman and her child has not flushed a poo. It's disgusting. This girl's fucking one of you.

Starting point is 01:47:15 It wasn't me. Oh, fucking one of you. Who's filming it? Who's filming it? I mean, she first filmed one of the film. No, it's like the two girls are trying to record some shit on YouTube videos. Yeah, so they're like sort of on a webcam and the mum comes into yellow them. Which one of your-

Starting point is 01:47:31 I'm too cynical for the internet. I assume that's a setup. No, that was the year's and years ago. And then, um, Pre-suprise setups. One of the girls later came out and did a video saying, yeah, it was me. It was me. I was too scared to admit it.

Starting point is 01:47:45 Of course you were. It's very funny. And then I have heard that the mom still gets people in the supermarkets and stuff recognizing it as the angry shit all over. Really? Disgusting. Let's track it down and let's go next week. I stream it somewhere around there.

Starting point is 01:47:58 Yes. Why do I go for comedy? Why am I struggling to think? Yeah, is there any podcasts religiously? No. Yeah, Josh Elz. Josh Elz, don't you know who I... Oh, listen. I was there religiously.

Starting point is 01:48:12 Don't you know who I am? What else do I listen to? Let me look at my podcast. I actually like to listen to a little bit of Jimmy Barnes' audio book. Ha! Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. You can do something about Countdown.

Starting point is 01:48:24 Countdown. That dude. That's one of the biggest laughs I've had recently. be able to do that. I'm talking about countdown. Countdown. That's one of the biggest laughs I've had recently. The many times I've played that and shared that with friends and family. So funny. D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D Very much so just what makes you laugh sitcoms are I can I revisit a lot of sitcoms No, I watch like I reckon I've watched Brooklyn nine nine several times like parks and wrecks a favor to my Watching 30 rock again at the moment. That's a lot of fun. I think sitcoms are how I kind of switch off But genuinely make me laugh aren't you Donna sketches?, big time. Oh, this was so good.

Starting point is 01:49:06 A couple of weeks ago, I was just in one of the offices here at Stupid Old, and I was talking to another comedian, and then Broden came in and said, could you mind just coming to our office and watching a sketch we've made? And I was like, oh, yes. So it hasn't been released and I get to sit. But then I had to sit, got to.

Starting point is 01:49:23 I got to sit in their office, surrounded by them while they watched me watch their sketch. That's terrifying. It was a little bit stressful, but it was also a very funny sketch. I was laughing a lot, and then I didn't have to give them any feedback because I laughed and they went,

Starting point is 01:49:38 all right, you can go. So they did. So whenever that sketch comes out, it's good stuff. That's funny. Sam, do something you make you laugh in particular? Yeah, looking at Jimmy Barnes screaming cowboy memes. That is pretty good one. It's still fun.

Starting point is 01:49:53 I'm also surprised it's 2017. Yeah, I know it is. It's funny, but it's also catchy as fun. Yeah, it is amazing that a man screaming is so nice to listen to. Yeah. It's a little under watch It's a great running

Starting point is 01:50:07 So I was over there I'm gonna bed, I'm gonna meditate on it He's screaming with his completely in tune That's the... He's a genius, I can't tell He's also a Buddhist, I think that's one of that Buddhist chants I hope I don't say that ignorant there to the Buddhist chants Is he saying om?

Starting point is 01:50:23 Yes AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH Saddick, you're in there to the Buddha's chant. Is he saying, oh, the whole town. Yes. Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Oh, nice one. Well, thanks to the, thanks to the controller there for controlling us too.

Starting point is 01:50:33 Oh, so good. Yeah, I'd say, I'd say Josh Apokas, Ben Russell, someone who always makes you laugh. Yes. Oh, yeah. I was at a gig the other night, he was hosting, I was on it, and he did his character, funny lady. Funny lady.

Starting point is 01:50:47 Is he doing her live now? He's gonna, yeah, he does it live, and he's doing for the comedy festival, he's doing funny lady walking tour. That is so good. So there's like, there's only, like 15 people max each night, and he's gonna do a walking tour with a headset and stuff. It's funny, there's only like 15 people max each night and he's gonna do a walking

Starting point is 01:51:05 tour with a headset and stuff. It's funny. It's gonna be good. It's gonna be good. So good. I'm very excited about that. And then secondly, thank you so much Paul. And secondly, Manny Garza, who's called Manny being a man name, the Manny name. Saved it, saved it.

Starting point is 01:51:26 Man equals. Just say you know what you should have done. There you go, yep, that's what you could have done. But. Spar associate at Chernobyl Chemical Clands Co. Oh no. Well, you got to burn your face off. Yeah, but the skin underneath will be so supple.

Starting point is 01:51:41 Baby butt fresh. You'll look 30 years younger. And Manny, you look good. I get it now, thanks I didn't get it at first. I'm not even making fun, I didn't get it. Me either. But it's good. Thank you.

Starting point is 01:51:56 Manny's given us a fact. And this fact starts with an intro. Hey crew, this week I have a medical factor share with you all. Love medical facts. Well, was that a personal medical fact? I have testicles! Woo! The procedure known as a hysterectomy,

Starting point is 01:52:16 the removal of the uterus is broken down into two parts, hyster, which is related to the word hysteria, or strong emotions, anectomyomy which means to cut out. A bit bizarre that to this day a common procedure that thousands of women have a day for a variety of reasons has a literal translation to cut out the hysterical bit. Sorry if it's all a bit uncomfortable. Please don't shoot the messenger.

Starting point is 01:52:41 When he said that it's in two, what do you say? Two parts. Two parts. I thought it was the operation as well. I thought he said that it's in two, what do you say? Two parts. Two parts. I thought he was going to describe in detail how they get it out. How you're, I don't know if I want, we need to know. Wow. That is wild. Historic to me.

Starting point is 01:52:57 As a person with a uterus, I don't want to know. I know. I'm pretty sure I might have been a hysterical. I'm just going to have to ask, I know. Maybe you may be cutting hysterical. Maybe you may be cutting hysterical. Maybe you may be cutting hysterical. Maybe you may be cutting hysterical. Maybe you may be cutting hysterical. Maybe you may be cutting hysterical. Maybe you may be cutting hysterical.

Starting point is 01:53:09 Maybe you may be cutting hysterical. Maybe you may be cutting hysterical. Maybe you may be cutting hysterical. Maybe you may be cutting hysterical. Maybe you may be cutting hysterical. Maybe you may be cutting hysterical. Maybe you may be cutting hysterical. Maybe you may be cutting hysterical.

Starting point is 01:53:17 Maybe you may be cutting hysterical. Maybe you may be cutting hysterical. Maybe you may be cutting hysterical. Maybe you may be cutting hysterical. Maybe you may be cutting hysterical. Maybe you may be cutting hysterical. Maybe you may be cutting hysterical. Maybe you may be cutting hysterical. Maybe you may be cutting hysterical. Maybe you may be cutting hysterical. Maybe you may be cutting hysterical. Maybe you may be cutting hysterical. Thank you so much, Manny, that is a fascinating fact. I call that all. That's borderline fun. Is that fun?

Starting point is 01:53:26 No, but it's fascinating. Not for the uterus holders in the... Yeah, okay. We're pretty sensitive about a uterus. I might get hysterical if we keep talking. Yeah. I'm already on the bloody one the way there. And then I'm gonna smack you.

Starting point is 01:53:41 And another thing we like to do, Sam, is thank a few of our other Patreon supporters. Jess, now we give us a little bit of a game and some sort of a thing that we can give him or something. I explain that well. I think using game in this sense is weird anyway. It's not really a game. It's just a topic that we can... I reckon we, because we have had a lot of fun

Starting point is 01:54:02 teasing band names, maybe we give them a band name. Oh, great. Something better than Tarkas or worse. Better than Tarkas, but worse than Orange. Okay. Somewhere between Tarkas and Orange. It's so basically feather. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:54:14 All right, well, can I kick it off? Please. I'd love to thank from Washington, DC. Andriana Genoldy Andriana Genoldy and the Cookoo clocks. Oh, that's good. That is in that spot. I reckon the Cookoo clock is not quite as good as our engine but it's better than Tark. Tarkas. Oh, God, it's still bad. It hurts to say a question whether I'm not So this is can't be right. Can't be Tarkas. That's Saka has bad mouth feel

Starting point is 01:54:48 Tarkas makes me list on that is Tarkas. I don't like it the kuku clocks. Yeah, I like that Because if it would have been too good if it was the kuku That would have been better. Oh kuku kuku. Choose kuku. Choose would have been better. Kuku Kuku Kuku. Oh, Kuku Kuku Kuku. Kuku Kuku Kuku Kuku Kuku would have been better than even further. But Kuku Kuku clocks is right in that sweet spot between Orange and Tarkas. Thank you so much. Andriana Januldu. I'd also love to thank from a place that you have not told us where. Vincienzo Vinigia Giovanna, Bonadonna.

Starting point is 01:55:26 Whoa! That's a name in itself. Okay. Vincienzo Giovanni Bonadonna. The Greyhounds. Oh, the Greyhounds. So, Vincienzo, Vinny Giovanni Bonadonna and the Greyhounds. So, that's awesome.

Starting point is 01:55:39 My neighbors have an Italian Greyhound, which are tiny Greyhounds. Oh, they're so cute. They're so cute and they got them as a puppy and they're like, oh, this is Vincienzzo because he's Italian. And we want to give him an Italian name. And I said, do you call him Vinny? And they went, nah, Chenzo. Oh, Chenzo.

Starting point is 01:55:55 Oh, I just see Chenzo around the house. Chenzo. And I go, Chenzo! I'm like, Chenzo! And he runs away because he's so little. Chenzo is great. Chenzo is the best. So yeah, Vincienzo isenzos band is the Greyhounds.

Starting point is 01:56:07 Whoa, Vin Chenzos on the Greyhounds. I'd go see them play. Yeah, that sounds good. Yeah. All right, Dave, do you want to have a go? Yeah, let me have a go. I would like to thank all the way from Paranount. Okay.

Starting point is 01:56:21 California, Paranount. Is that? I mean, if that's a mistake, we didn't type that in. No, I'm just trying to underlining that, so I don't get blamed. We'll read it out loud. It definitely says, Paranount. Paranount, California.

Starting point is 01:56:38 It auto-corrects the paramount when I Google it. I would like to thank George Fuente. Oh, my God. Oh, George Fuentes. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh, for Fuentes. That just did an ear comb. George, we don't know if you missed about your city name, but actually, fucking regret face. Ear comb.

Starting point is 01:56:55 You've definitely not. Did you come in your own ear? Yeah, that's a real skill. That's precision. When the wind is just right. Just the right hip movement. You too can come in your own ear. George Fuentes and the correct wind. Oh. Fuentes is so good. So good. Oh my god. Well, you just need a whisper. Fuentes. Oh, the correct wind. Fwentes. Oh, yes. A light breeze. Okay, the correct wind. Thank you, George Fwentes.

Starting point is 01:57:30 And the light breeze. No, the correct wind. The correct wind. But when they tour certain countries, they have to be called the light, right, light breeze. Because there's another band. Thank you, George. I'd also like to thank from Carmen Thancheer in great Britain. Oh beautiful make other words beautiful love a beautiful make other words with a beautiful name rolls of the tongue I'm all than she that was someone making up a fake place. Oh, you live you've you've set up your own town What's it called? um month What's it called? Um, calm, month, and chew.

Starting point is 01:58:05 And that is a Sam and Drieson. Ooh, another fennel. Or Sam and Drieson. Oh, Sam and Dries fault. Oh, same. In Wales, Sam and Drieson. Oh, that explains how I mispronounce it. Does that, don't get away with that?

Starting point is 01:58:21 Yes. Sam and Drieson and the faults. Oh, the faults. Do you just say the Sam and Dresan and the... Faults. Oh, the Faults. You just said the San Andreas Fault. Oh, yeah. The Faults sounds good. I think that might actually be too good. Yeah, maybe the vaults.

Starting point is 01:58:33 The vault. Oh, it's good. I was thinking Sam and the Dresans. I like it. Yeah. Sam and the Dresans. Yeah, that's worse. That's not quite as good as Orange.

Starting point is 01:58:43 That's definitely better than Tarkas. Tarkas. Oh, yeah, I think all of these have played the Tarkas So thanks to Sam And Dresan and the Dresans Well, I would like to thank a couple of people too if I may I'm just saying the next thing Yeah, I would like to thank from Germany. Ooh, the witchlanders they call it. Andreas, Mulawer?

Starting point is 01:59:13 Might even just be like Mula. Mula. Mulawer, what does an omelette do to a U? It stretches it, right? Like Mulawer. Mulawer. We've had Sam and the dragons, and now we have Andreyas. They're from K.O. with an O. I think that's Cologne, right? What we call Cologne?

Starting point is 01:59:33 Or are they from the Kylm? They're in the Kylm? Getting the Kylm. Don't get in the Kylm. All right, so what would Andreyas' band name be? Mulana and the Dreyasons. Yes. I'm going to call it. So, Kalo, if it's the, so you, okay, the little glass. The little glasses.

Starting point is 02:00:03 Yeah, Andreas Mewis. You just look at Sam's glasses. The little glasses. Yeah, and try and smule on the little glasses. Can you just look at Sam's glasses? No, it's in Cologne. They have small glasses of beer. The little glasses. Because I think Sam was telling me before about how the living ends.

Starting point is 02:00:17 The long necks. Their secret name is the long necks. I thought it was going to end up being as the opposite of that. The long necks is a type of it's a tall Be a bottle of the little Short glasses better probably the short glasses. I like that and finally bringing it home From island where we're gonna be today when this comes out We're finding now exciting. I would love to thank Richard Fisher.

Starting point is 02:00:45 Oh, Richie Fisher. Richie. Dick Fisher. Oh, no. Actually, that means something else. Oh, no, you don't want to dick Fisher. Wait, what? Actually, okay, all right.

Starting point is 02:01:03 Someone corrected Jess on Twitter if people are trying to figure out why she's sounding like this My favorite but the fun of sing about it is you can never tell if people are actually ironically or not. Yeah Ironically I would assume usually, and I'm actually is an ironic thing, but anyway, that's a bit of fun. Dick Fisher. Dick Fisher. And all right, let's each do one word for this last one.

Starting point is 02:01:35 All right. So it's first word that comes to mind. I'm gonna start it. The wet. Barn. Behind. Me. The wet bar behind me. BAN Behind Me?

Starting point is 02:01:46 Wet barn behind me That is better than Pakistan I've reigned into the island The red barn behind So Richard Fisher and the wet barn behind me That is actually, I kind of love that Yeah It might almost be too good for orange

Starting point is 02:02:02 It sounds like the wet barn behind me The title of an oil painting. Yeah. Yeah. It does. Well, that's the kind of music that Richard Fisher makes. Yeah. Art. Yeah. He lets his guitar do the talking, and it says,

Starting point is 02:02:14 Finally, you. Art. Thanks so much. Richard, Andreas, Sam, George Finchenzo, and Andrea Arna. And also, finally, before we start wrapping up, it is time to induct some listeners into the TripTitch Club. So these beautiful people, Sam, have been supporting us on Patreon for three years. I want to say, hit the three-year level, they get inducted in the TripTitch Club, which

Starting point is 02:02:43 Dave is, I think 24 hours a day is working on an extra page of the website Which is gonna list all the things. It's don't stop saying it in gold glitter. I'm not gonna do it You did it for your mum's butt and you put a picture of you flipping off the camera but and you put a picture of you flipping up the camera. You think I'd take your hat and put it in. I forgot how to get in there. I've lost the password. Let it go. Let it go, Matt.

Starting point is 02:03:11 All right, he's not gonna do it. He's gonna do it. He, he's short me, is winking at this. How about let's just put him on a piece of paper and we'll hang him up on the wall. Oh. And then we can just add to it. On the fridge, sure.

Starting point is 02:03:24 This knowledge, get some more. I say these names out loud before I get a bit every night. Just know that. Stop saying it. I'm not going to do it. Your mum's butt we did. Yeah, that was a one time only. Oh, yeah, this would be, you'd have to check in. Anyway, let's read the names. From Norwich, Douglas Allen Whiteside, from Provo, Daniel Ryan, from Campa Down, Connor Saunders, from Wolverhampton, Sam Jones, and from Manchester. Go Wolps!

Starting point is 02:03:53 Benjamin Brissen. Oh, thank you so much, you absolute legends. So good. Thank you so, so much. Douglas is a great name, you don't hear it enough of anymore. Douglas, Daniel Connor, Sam, Benjamin, a fantastic group of names. Beautiful. Benjamin, of course, being the kind of money that I got out to go visit. I can't wait to spend some of them Irish Benjamin. Oh dear. What do you, I don't know why you're making those. No, it's alright.

Starting point is 02:04:20 We'll just wrap up and we'll tell you later. Thanks everyone that does support the show on Patreon. You can get those bonus episodes that we put out every month and no one else hears if you go to patreon.com slash do go on pod. There's some of the funnest episodes we ever do or those episodes. Hot tip. It's like we almost pretend that no one will ever hear it. Which means we can say whatever you like. That's true. Anything else we need to plug?

Starting point is 02:04:46 Our social media or everything is do go on pod. And it's on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, at Gmail for email and our website do go on pod.com. And you can get tickets to upcoming live shows at do go on pod.com slash something or other, but yet you can click on a link there. Or I can, there'd be a link in there. And if you want to hear more of Jimmy Barnes

Starting point is 02:05:10 and Screaming Cowboy, as some people know him as, listen, I'll listen now with me and Sam, if you search in your thing, listen now with Matt and Sam, it'll come up and it's a real good time we go through him album by album. And we also, the first episode, we go through the history of pub rock in the early days of Chisel, which is a bit of bloody fun. But I guess before we go there's nothing else left to do apart from say, anywhere you want

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Starting point is 02:06:05 Thank you! Bye, bye! Sam, just shut up! Shut up, Sam! Thanks for coming! Shut up! Bye! Bye!

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Two In The Think Tank - 214 - Jimmy Barnes, Working Class Man

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