Episode 5 - Big Brodie Marshall

This week on The Davey Damaged Show, we're joined by one of Adelaide wrestling’s biggest stars and arguably its nicest giant; Big Brodie Marshall!

We dive deep into the albums and films that helped shape him, hear stories from his life both inside and outside the ring, and uncover some of the passions that make him tick.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:02

This program has been classified MA. It contains sexual references, occasional coarse language, and adult themes.

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Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to The David Damit Show!

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The Telavings of the Show! The Telivans I'm in the show!

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The Deliving Show!

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This is the Davy Damage Show. It is fantastic to be with you, cans, whatever you are doing. Now, as many people know, this is kind of a continuation of an old podcast, and it was only gonna be so long before it became about pro wrestling. And I thought, who better than to join me on the Davy Damage Show than a very longtime friend, one of the greatest wrestlers in the history of the world with the name Marshall in their name? We are joined by Big Brody Marshall. How are you, dude? Good, my friend. How are you? You lovely looking human. You uh you had a wrestling show last night.

SPEAKER_02 1:08

Did have a wrestling show last night. Not for my normal my normal company, but uh went to an ACW show and uh did some uh introducing of people. Nice, nice MC. Yeah, there we go. That's a way better professional way of talking about it. But yeah, no, it was good. It was good, something different.

SPEAKER_04 1:25

So um now, have you given any more thought to last time we discussed your wrestling career of changing your name to Big Toadie Marshall and being called Toadfish and fucking having the Kolak Powerbomb as your finisher? You could have uh someone come out of stingray with you, it'd be fantastic.

SPEAKER_02 1:42

The the story arc is deep, yeah. Every day, mate. I think about that every day, but uh still haven't had the guts to pull the trigger.

SPEAKER_04 1:49

Nice, nice. It's still there. Hey, you've always got a rebirth. Anyway, how's things going? For those that don't know, who is Big Brody Marshall?

SPEAKER_02 1:56

Big Brody Marshall is a six foot six bloke from Adelaide, uh, professional wrestler. Uh heard's the weather up there. Oh good man. God, I've heard that a lot. Um you must be good at basketball. Oh, yeah. I get that a lot too.

SPEAKER_04 2:11

And I'm shit, and the air's terrible. Do you this is one I bet you get all the time just from knowing you? You're a huge cunt. Nothing to do with my height. Yeah, I already said it twice today. I've got to ask, um, part of your in-ring persona, you wear a cowboy hat.

SPEAKER_02 2:29

I do.

SPEAKER_04 2:30

This morning, was there a moment where you just looked at it like the Green Goblin masking, like, Dave's gonna tease me if I wear that? Is that why you're not wearing it?

SPEAKER_02 2:37

You want to know something. This is legit. It's in the car. It's in the car.

SPEAKER_04 2:42

You were looking in the rear view, just going one hat to the other. You're like, no, Dave's gonna tease you.

SPEAKER_02 2:47

No, it's in the car from last night. I had to wear it last night, so it's still in the car. I actually looked at it and thought, do I walk in with that? And I was like, uh nah. So those that don't know, how long have you been wrestling? Uh 15 years now. So I started in 2011, so almost 16. Yeah. I started in 2011 with Variety Wrestling, back when it we used to train opposite the Gypsy Jokers headquarters.

SPEAKER_04 3:10

So I went to a few house shows back in that day, that was fantastic. Yeah, took a little bit of a uh a dip into the waters, and I was managing uh I think his name's Carl Ballantyne and I remember Dean Brody for a couple of them. Yep. Uh there was a young Demi Bennett who just started, and I was like, whatever happened to her. Yeah, fucking. What'd she ever do? You know, you don't hear the name anymore. So you don't. Where are her and Carl Ballantine gone nowadays?

SPEAKER_02 3:41

Yeah, no, it was it was um those were the good old days. Those wrestling's very different now. So we were discussing this before. Back in those days, you stayed with your own fed. There was no crossing and going to wrestle for someone else. We hated each other. Yeah, yeah. All those sorts of all those sorts of things. It was like pure rivalry between the wrestling feds. Now everyone's friends, and it's all Kumbayarum people wrestling for.

SPEAKER_04 4:16

There's different levels, but it's your digestive's getting around. And it is the cream rises to the top, and but it is it is such a fun place, obviously a small town. I do I have noticed over the last five years, we were talking about this before we started, where like, you know, you're quite often now you're gonna see Riot City talent on other shows and stuff. That was a no-no back in the day, but obviously it's a new age. And uh, how are you finding the changes? Like, are you one of those like oh fucking because one thing I found weird in Melbourne was seeing um a lot of the wrestlers hanging out together after it, like outside and stuff, and like you know, someone that had a match that night standing there having a DM.

SPEAKER_02 4:54

Oh, there's nothing I hate more.

SPEAKER_04 4:56

You were there, you were there. Yeah, I was there with you.

SPEAKER_02 4:59

I said that I said that to the promoter at the time, right? Yeah, it felt weird. Yeah, um, and look, that's that's that's each to their own. I'm a little bit old school in that in that sense. Like, I kind of figure if you're going out and sitting with the audience after your match, you just all all the the specialness and the superstardom of you just dissipates.

SPEAKER_04 5:16

Yeah, but not I think another part of it as well is obviously now it's almost like wrestlers aren't just wrestlers anymore, they're social media influencers. Yeah, you've got to sell shirts. Yeah, you didn't. And back in the day, bad guys didn't sell shirts. So I think it's now that's probably a part of it, is like, you know, they're they've got to be on an even playing field and you you say that.

SPEAKER_02 5:37

Like uh look at the NWO. They were I mean the cool bad guys, right? But their their merch is still selling too.

SPEAKER_04 5:43

Sorry, uh, you're in a team Wolfpack house right now.

SPEAKER_02 5:46

There we go, there we go. I like it. I I was Team Wolfpack as well.

SPEAKER_04 5:49

Um good old Sting and Did you ever think about growing your hair and just going Nash as fuck?

SPEAKER_02 5:54

I did have long hair. Did you really? Yes, I used to have long hair.

SPEAKER_04 5:56

I need photos of that.

SPEAKER_02 5:57

I'll I'll I'll send you some.

SPEAKER_04 5:59

Because the first time I saw you was it was not in my wrestling career. I didn't have long hair in my wrestling career. I was gonna say, because in your wrestling career back in the early days of Riot City, um there was that little bald guy won the championship. I can't remember his name. Little bald guy. Yeah, he could jump real far from the turnbuckle, was the only thing. AJ. TJ Rush. TJ Rush. Yep, yep. Back in those days. Yeah, yep. You were cowboy, then you were a gladiator, and then you were hybrid.

SPEAKER_03 6:25

Yep.

SPEAKER_04 6:25

And now you're a cowboy cat uh uh cowboy hat guy.

SPEAKER_02 6:28

Cowboy, cowboy hat.

SPEAKER_04 6:29

That's uh you're uh group boot scooting, uh big boot scooting marshall.

SPEAKER_02 6:37

Yeah, oh look, I I feel uh I I went back to the cowboy thing when I came back um just because that's except for the cowboy hat, that's my normal attire. That's what I rock on.

SPEAKER_04 6:47

You do do you do rock a cowboy hat.

SPEAKER_02 6:49

Yeah, I'll still tease you about it.

SPEAKER_04 6:50

And I'm the one from the Outback. I'll be like, fucking, look at this cat.

SPEAKER_02 6:55

Yeah, no, but it's um it's wrestling has been a huge part of my life in and has um put me into places and given me opportunities that never would have been there and available for me. And it's it's been a huge there's been positives and negatives with wrestling, but there's it's it's been a huge positive in my life in my life. That's why I'm still a part of it.

SPEAKER_04 7:15

And that's not just your blood tests.

SPEAKER_02 7:16

No, 100%. 100%. But you're saying before, in regards to do I like um that other wrestlers are wrestling for other feds. There's pros and cons in it. Yeah. So like I was saying to you before as well, I think I think um if you're wrestling for every federation that's in your state, it waters down who you are and what you do. But in saying that, it gives you experience and you're you're learning the craft a whole lot more.

SPEAKER_04 7:40

But at the other side, it to a degree, it's probably a little bit gatekeepery because if if no one was allowed to cross promote, like allowed to wrestle the thing, yeah, you're gonna have these shit first week guys that can't get anyone of name and can't get you know can't get off the ground because that they don't have the talent or the you know the brand recognition. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 8:00

Pros and cons in that too, mate. Yeah. So yeah, no, no, I get I get what you're saying. I get what you're saying. So but that's where, like, you know, here in South Australia, I'd say Riot City and Rampage are the two prominent prominent ones in regards to talent and and uh uh production. Um and I think that's like people gotta try and reach for the gold standard. That's how I think anyway. So um you know, you make choices in that space.

SPEAKER_04 8:28

Wrestle for the federation you want. Yeah, not the federation.

SPEAKER_02 8:31

Absolutely. And you know, sometimes people come to us and they train and they they don't get in, and and it's not it's not a um it's not a negative, it's just for me that that should be it took me a year before I got on a show. So I busted my ass to try and to try and get on a show. And it was disheartening at times because I'm there they're training there three times a week back in those days. Not that anymore. Um no, but I was training three to three to three times a week, wrestling training, and I wasn't getting anywhere. And I'm like, am I just wasting my money? Uh but then you know, shit clicked for me. So people picked up.

SPEAKER_04 9:03

Because at the time you were dressing as Jodie Foster from Silence of the Lambs, that was big Jodie Marshall's big run, and that didn't work either. I'm never gonna stop.

SPEAKER_02 9:11

I'm never gonna stop. Fun fun fact, my very first match, my very first match ever at the Riot City Wrestling Academy, which was our Mean Street Mayhem number one, our first ever house show. Yep, uh, I came out as Jesse Marshall.

SPEAKER_04 9:24

Jesse Marshall, I like that.

SPEAKER_02 9:25

Yeah, and then we came backstage and and Chris Basso came up to me and goes, Yeah, good match, but what do you think of the name? And I'm like, Yeah, Jesse sounds a bit weird. He goes, Yeah, it sucks. He goes, Let's change it. He goes, What do you reckon? I said, Oh, I don't know. He goes, What about Brody? I'm like, done. That's how my name came about. So yeah.

SPEAKER_04 9:43

I like it. Jesse Marshall sounds like an uncle in like a sitcom.

SPEAKER_02 9:46

It's like well back in those days, it was a Jesse in Home and uh Neighbours? Neighbours, I think. Yeah, right. Yeah, so I was like, oh nah, it just sounds a bit weird. I didn't really like the character, so yeah. She was a bitch, that was a bloke.

SPEAKER_05 9:58

I sure it was.

SPEAKER_04 9:59

Alright, let's get to know a little bit about Big Brady Marshall. If you had a MySpace profile, what would the profile song be?

SPEAKER_02 10:06

So nowadays it would be a song called Consume by Polaris. Right. But I remember what my last one was on my actual MySpace. What's that Polaris song that goes all of them? I'm here wearing a Polaris t-shirt. Um my my actual MySpace last song that I heard on there. I used to have My Chemical Romance up there for. Oh, nice one. But the last one was um Black Sheets by Birds of Tokyo.

SPEAKER_04 10:34

I had lots of him and 69 eyes because I was just a band fan. So anything he likes, I like.

SPEAKER_02 10:40

Yeah, there you go.

SPEAKER_04 10:42

Who would be cast in a movie about your life?

SPEAKER_02 10:44

Well, I uh you've asked me this question on the previous pod, and like so there's Russell Crowe, but I would love Keanu Reeves to to play it. So I love his stuff. So um, and you know, we look nothing like each other. Yeah. Russell Crowe for the for the physical similarities or the facial similarities, let's put it that way. But Keanu because I think he's a cool dude.

SPEAKER_04 11:04

I saw only recently on social media a clip come up. He used to work as a um news journalist on a TV show back when he was like before Bill and Ted days. Oh really? So he still looked like that. His hair was a bit longer, and he went along and like covered like a fucking cat show, like one of the local cat shows. Yeah, it's incredible to watch, and it's like it's what you'd expect AI to make it like everything you're imagining is what it is, and he's like interviewing the owners about what it is, and he's like, Oh, that's weird. Oh my god. I know I will 100% check that out. Radio, what would the film be rated about Big Brody Marshall's life?

SPEAKER_02 11:39

Oh, there's there's like the if I wanted to make it a cool movie, I'd say, ah, but probably PG. I'm pretty vanilla.

SPEAKER_04 11:48

Yeah, nothing wrong with that. It's so funny that like I'll be skipping through all my socials, particularly Instagram, where it's like everyone's like stories, yeah. So it'll skip to the next person that you don't realise. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And there'll just be this tranquil, lovely shot of a skateboard just slowly going down the beach side. I'm like, who the fuck is this influence? Oh, it's you. I love it though, dude. I legitimately did one this morning. Duality is the you know the spice of life.

SPEAKER_02 12:17

Absolutely, my friend. Did you have any posters on your wall growing up? I had heaps. So um I grew up on a on a on a farm, like just a lot of farm. Um so I was distant from sort of everyone. So my room was my sanctuary. Fuck yeah. Um look at the room you're sitting in. Oh, this, like, I I I know this is a podcast, but holy crap, I want to spend two days in here just looking at everything. It is insane, mate. You've done so well here.

SPEAKER_04 12:43

You know what? Take this shirt off. My wife will allow that for sure.

SPEAKER_02 12:47

You can move in if you're shirtless out here, dude. Done, done deal.

SPEAKER_04 12:51

So let's hear the posters.

SPEAKER_02 12:52

Yeah, um, so I used to have like different phases.

SPEAKER_04 12:57

So when I was Did you have the yellow um GTS Ford GT uh XYZ? No, no cars. It wasn't a car, dude. Speaking of cars, just quickly, yeah. I've discovered a new time hole. I spent a lot of time watching hydraulic presses crushing stuff on the internet. On the internet, yeah. You know my new hole. Time trials of matchbox cars on the orange track. Yes, I've seen this. I've seen that. Yes, I don't know how it came up because during COVID, I was loving they were doing um tilted treadmill car racing where they'd put on it. Yes, yes, yes, yes. And I don't know why, because I hate motorsport, but watching these these fucking matchbox cars, I'm like, maybe this is what motorsport enthusiasts get out of that because this is sick.

SPEAKER_02 13:42

Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely. No, no, no, I've seen I've seen that as well. Yeah, well, I'm like I'm addicted to five seconds.

SPEAKER_04 13:48

But anyway, sorry.

SPEAKER_02 13:50

No, no, no. Um, so I used to have big cats like tigers, panthers, and all that sort of stuff. Yeah, then as I got older, um, I had like reservoir dogs. The one where I think it's Steve Bassumi and uh Michael Madsen with the guns pointed at each other.

SPEAKER_04 14:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 14:02

Um I had the crow, the original crow. Yeah. Um I had a big Jim Morrison. I was I was a massive Doors fan. Yeah. So Jim Morrison is the reason why I grew my hair long back in the day. Oh wow. So um and I had one of his poems on there, which I can't even remember which one it was. So did you grow taste or you just heard the Doors music?

SPEAKER_04 14:21

Like what what got you out of the doors?

SPEAKER_02 14:23

Um Yeah, I did so yeah, like I don't know. I I like I it was it was the 90s, right? So uh they had like some weird resurgence back then. When the movie, the Volkilmer movie, yeah, yeah. Yep. So um yeah, so I I got heavily into that and I've got I've still got at home, I've still got doors VCRs and all that sort of stuff. Yeah. Um and uh I'd have chicks as well. But like when I say chicks, it'd be like those old little chickens, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was just chicks, baby, baby chickens, comedy gold.

SPEAKER_04 14:57

That's why you tune in, ladies and gentlemen. No, it was like those generic 80s, like it'd be Samantha Fox. I know, I know the ones.

SPEAKER_02 15:06

But it would be like like it's like three baseball chicks, like you they're not even famous people, but one's in a bikini, one's got a baseball over a shoulder, or something like a baseball bat over a shoulder or whatever, but she's like scantily clad.

SPEAKER_04 15:17

I'm all for I'm all for the current resurgence of obviously um women's AFL.

unknown 15:24

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_03 15:24

I think it's fantastic, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 15:26

But can we not deny that in like 2002 every club had all topless women with the Guernseys painted on them? Yes, and that was an official AFL thing you could buy. That's right. No one brings that up for you pretending that doesn't exist. I forgot. Yeah, dude, I know exactly what you're talking about because I used to, every time we'd come to Adelaide, I'd go to like off your tree or places like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I'd go through every poster. I wouldn't buy one, but I'd go through every poster in the fucking shop. And there was always like, it was kind of like the little kid photos of like the fucking babies on pumpkins, like the angeti shit. There was that bit of scantily clad women. So it's like, oh, here's three of them sitting on like a fence outside of a cornfield, and they'd like their butt cleavage would be hanging out or something. It was just enough. It wasn't rude, but it was just enough to be like, eh.

SPEAKER_02 16:12

A little bit of sauciness.

SPEAKER_04 16:14

Yeah, it was it was great. I like sauce on my chick. Nice. That that's I love that time capsule of posters because like it's not something anymore that really happens, but it does represent something that you want to look at every day, summed up part of who you became.

SPEAKER_02 16:30

Yeah, yeah, totally. Actually, you're right.

SPEAKER_04 16:32

Like, yeah, speaking of assumed ladies, uh, first celebrity crushes.

SPEAKER_02 16:38

You actually mentioned her name. Samantha Fox was my very first one. So um I remember, geez, I was I was young because she was like a page three girl that made made made made good.

SPEAKER_04 16:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 16:49

Um I think she's a lesbian or a nun or something now. She's or both.

SPEAKER_04 16:53

Hey, Google any of those words, you'll find something. I promise you.

SPEAKER_02 16:58

But no, she was um provided.

SPEAKER_04 17:01

Oh she's serious. I love that you mentioned Sam Fox and your phone's like back to your search history.

SPEAKER_02 17:08

Reopening tabs. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Do that. That's that'll be an interesting story within itself. Um, no, but she was the first one that like, you know, as a real young kid, I got tingles. So um she's your Kate Soprano.

SPEAKER_04 17:21

Yes. 1992 Kate Soprano got me there. Yeah. Um This one's a great question. I didn't even think of when I sent it. If you were a wrestler, what would your theme music be?

SPEAKER_02 17:34

My current theme music is It's Raining Man. It's Raining Man. Um is uh come together, the Beatles cover by uh Glara Gary Clark Jr. But with this cowboy gimmick thing, what I'd love to come out to is Bon Jovi's Dead or Alive. But the whole fucking song, all five minutes and six seconds.

SPEAKER_04 17:54

Especially the slow start. Yes, yeah, and don't come out.

SPEAKER_02 17:58

Don't come out until like it fucking Until it goes!

SPEAKER_04 18:02

And that's when you come out. Yep. Yeah perfect, mate. You nailed it. First concert you ever went to. Because we bonded over being the only two people at the time that we first really met that remembered what a she had was. Yes.

SPEAKER_02 18:17

Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Um this like uh this was a concert that I did not take in the gravity of what I was watching when I did. Peter Coomb. Rolf Harris.

SPEAKER_04 18:33

My wife has a program. Suanita, all the best, Rolf Harris. And I won't let her throw it out.

SPEAKER_02 18:40

Oh, that's amazing. Um, no, I went and saw Michael Jackson. That was my first concert. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 18:47

No, the I don't think there's a better answer than that.

SPEAKER_02 18:51

Yeah, it was it was because that was at Adelaide Oval. It was um it was so surreal because I got invited to it the day before it happened because someone had a ticket and they couldn't, yeah, they couldn't go. So I went with a friend from high school.

SPEAKER_04 19:04

I hope you ring them weekly and be like, hey, remember that time you didn't go and I did.

SPEAKER_02 19:09

I remember at the end of the concert, we were walking around the back and there was vans coming out, and look, there was a van coming out, and whether Michael Jackson was in that van or not, people thought he was. Yes, and people were rocking this van from like sideways, two wheels to two wheels, it was insane. I'm like, they're gonna kill Michael Jackson. I was so worried.

SPEAKER_04 19:31

No, like it is I wasn't here at the time, but I'm imagining Sky Show Times a thousand, where just the whole of Adelaide were in one place.

SPEAKER_02 19:38

Yeah, it was it was and we were so far away from the stage, you could like it was a speck in the distance, but um, it was still like I remember it being amazing, but I like I said, at the time I didn't take it for what it was.

SPEAKER_04 19:48

Yeah, so it was really weird that like you were dressed as Macaulay Colkin and like smacking sexy face at him the whole time. But that's for another part from a distance as well. He saw me though, he just noticed, he noticed. I love there was that trend a couple of years ago, it was like girls making like here's how I dressed when I thought I'd go to the concert and like Harry Styles would fall in love with me, and it's like just the cringiest year. Um obviously you said you didn't at the time realise how big of a cultural effect it it was that concert, but what's the best concert you've ever been to?

SPEAKER_02 20:20

Um I'm gonna say so well, I mean, I whether you want to call it a concert or not, the big day outs and the sound waves were fucking amazing. I went to almost all of them. Um and and like I went with a group of mates. We still do a thing called the big day in now. Nice where we catch up, we get absolutely shit faced, but we just listen to And you don't even drink. No, no, no, no, it's a lot of kissing.

SPEAKER_04 20:44

It's an alcohol-free instead of a girlfriend where we just smear shit on our faces. Oh, I went to a bar yesterday, and the nerdiness, I know, unrelated to that, the nerdiness of this argument I had, the owner of the bar clearly thinks I'm a bigger fucker than ever. One of their drinks, one of their cocktails was called the blue light disco. Yeah. And I'm like, does that have alcohol in it? And he goes, Yes. I'm like, Well, it's not a fucking blue light disco. That was the point of it. 100%. We just wanted something with the blue in the title that was nostalgic. I'm like, nope, not having it. Yeah, you'd think that'd be the only alcohol-free drink in the whole video. This should be the name. And this was my argument. And the man that I met for the first time, I think it's the last time that he wants to meet me. I was like, no, it shouldn't have alcohol. It's a blue light disco.

SPEAKER_02 21:31

If I was there, I would have backed you 100%.

SPEAKER_04 21:33

And it could have been called the Eiffel 65 Blue or Leon, Leanne Rhymes Blue.

SPEAKER_02 21:40

Oh, nice. Deep Dick. Nice. But it like individual concerts, there's two. There was um Slipknot came and played with all the original members, and Machine Head were um supporting them, so that was fucking amazing.

SPEAKER_04 21:53

And that was uh And because that would have been the Burning Red days of Machine Head, so they were doing new metal. Was it later than that? No, no, it wasn't later than that. Because I saw that were 2002 at Slipknot where at Big Day R where Corey was sick as hell.

SPEAKER_02 22:08

This was before that. Right. This was before that. So late 90s would have been. Yeah, yeah. And that was at the Wavel Showgrounds. Um, and also a couple of years ago, I went and saw Kiss. And that was that was fucking insane for me.

SPEAKER_04 22:21

So I forget your ethnic and you just showed it. I am, I am why you just put Kiss over. And it's like, okay, we get it. You're a Wog, mate. We get it. I can't say that word anymore, but that's that's where my brain goes straight away. I'm like, I get it.

unknown 22:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 22:39

So that you either got a Kiss t-shirt or a cement line. It's one or the other. What have you got both? Oh, there you go. A cement line with Gene Simmons makeup painted. Oh, look, it's the mare of Mikanoff. I get it. Um, what format was the first music you remember owning?

SPEAKER_02 22:59

So uh well so that I owned, not my parents. Not your parents. That I owned was a tape. So tape. Cassette tape. Yeah, cassette tape. So on here. It was Bros. Yeah. My very first one was Bros, and then I got Death Leopard Hysteria, so I totally redeemed myself. That's fine. That's fine, yeah. Yeah, yeah. So but other than that, it was records. Like listen to my old man's bloody meatloaf record, Hot August Nights, Neil Diamond, Elvis.

SPEAKER_04 23:26

You grew up on a farm, you're lying, it was slim dusty. And it was warped. I would no beer. Yeah, just that on Duncan. What is your death row last meal? I know you're not a big sugar guy. You hide it well though, you big fat piece of shit. Why don't you look like me?

SPEAKER_02 23:42

Why don't you look like me? Um I'm simple, man. Like and you know this. I know I've I've seen the test results. Um it like if I could, it would be my nunna's cooking, but she's passed away, so that's not a thing. But um, if it's not that, it's just literally a medium rare steak, like roast veg, and I'm having some salt and pepper.

SPEAKER_04 24:06

Some vanilla ice cream, maybe to go with your big your big journey of flavours.

SPEAKER_02 24:12

I just like barbecue, so it it would just be that something simple like that, man.

SPEAKER_04 24:17

I'm picturing they're like, Alright, big Brodie Marshall, you're being put to death. What is your last meal? And you like give it to them, they're like, fuck, where are we gonna find all that? Oh, any pub ever?

SPEAKER_02 24:27

Yeah, yeah, cool. No, it has to be cooked like to perfection, but um, yeah, yeah. Simple, man.

SPEAKER_04 24:34

Favourite store growing up. Would you come to I'm guessing you were regional SA, so would you come into Adelaide quite often?

SPEAKER_02 24:42

I like not until later years when I started going to TAFE in the city. So um honestly, I don't know if you'd call it a store, but the video shop video store was my like I know it's not buying I didn't really buy much when I was. Doesn't matter, doesn't matter. So it would be it'd be yeah, that but the video store was like my my introduction to the world outside of Australia.

SPEAKER_04 25:06

For me, it was a portal out of Broken Hill, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 25:09

Same sort of thing, right? And for me it was like um like that's where I I would go and hire wrestling all the time. The dude down there, he knew he knew me, so he would put he would always get two of the videos.

SPEAKER_04 25:21

Coliseum home video.

SPEAKER_02 25:23

Yes, yes. And he'd he'd save it for me because he knew that as soon as it came in, I would hire it straight away. So um that was awesome. And then that's where my first got exposed to UFC number one, like all that sort of stuff. I just I just loved it. So um, and it was like nowadays everything is so if you want it, you get it. Yeah, just on your phone. But that anticipation and that I was trying to explain this to the kids with waiting a week for a TV show.

SPEAKER_04 25:49

Yeah, it just built a love for it. Yeah, absolutely. And like, you know, I just think how many shows on like streaming services where me and my wife have pretty much in two days streamed the entire season. Yep. But I'll be fucked if I can tell you a thing about it. And you know, I've seen every episode. Yeah, 100%. Fuck, I can't even remember who who's that guy, who's that guy? Like it's it was a different time, and I think it was that thing where like they say, you know, like necessarily is the like fucking key to invention or whatever it is. But we were so happy with what we had because we couldn't have everything, yeah. Whereas you now live in a world with fucking, you know, what you want you get, yeah, and it it doesn't create a passion, and that's I think even with like kids nowadays don't really give a shit about toys, yeah. They'd rather be iPads, phones, all that kind of stuff. Well, this is old uncle our here on the David Dam show. But it is it is that thing where the the passion that we have for nostalgia, like my kids are more nostalgic for the stuff I grew up with than they are the stuff they grew up with. 100% because it just has no staying power because it's not hard to get every episode ever of something. Like we went, I think the biggest barometer is we saw 11 episodes of Mr. Bean ever.

SPEAKER_02 27:00

Yes, yeah, yeah. Totally right.

SPEAKER_04 27:01

I'm positive that I saw 800 episodes of Mr. Bean over the years, and you had to wait years between it on ABC.

SPEAKER_02 27:09

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 27:10

But then you realize that no, we were just so happy with what we had because we were desperate for it.

SPEAKER_02 27:14

Yeah, yeah, well, totally. And that's like I think that's where my love for wrestling grew because of that passion of knowing that it it like I I had to wait for this. This was a journey, yes, and then I would watch it and I would hire that tape. I knew I had that tape for either a day or seven days, whatever the the time span was when you hired a video. Um and then I knew I didn't have wrestling until the next one came. Yeah, so it was a special, special thing for me. So because we didn't show wrestling on TV back then, no, no, and there was no there was no internet, so it was just waiting for that next endorphin fix.

SPEAKER_04 27:50

Like my kids are big fans of the product now and they will watch it the day it comes on Netflix, yeah. But I've already seen more than they have just on fucking social media because everything's instant. Absolutely, absolutely, yeah, 100%. Alright, one day you stumble into a corner shop, it has all the old posters, all the things you remember. It's stocked with every snack and drink you've ever had. You're also not being a fucking sugar-free wanker. What are you getting? You've got to get an ice cream, a drink, and a snack.

SPEAKER_02 28:18

Okay, ice cream. I went with ice block. Is that okay?

SPEAKER_04 28:21

Yeah, okay.

SPEAKER_02 28:22

Are you sure that won't upset your rich meal of a steak? Um, an orange sunny boy for what?

SPEAKER_04 28:31

Friday afternoon. Yep. I bought two things of coconut milk. Yeah. Because they come in Sunny Boy packets. Oh I'm emptying them out and putting red orange cordial in both of them. I will get back to you.

SPEAKER_02 28:46

Good answer. Brilliant. Um now uh this I the the drink I put down more as sorry, this creaming soda. I'd I'd love that. I still get it. They make a sugar-free kirk's make a sugar-free cream.

SPEAKER_04 28:59

It's good and it doesn't have that fucked up aftertaste. Yeah, 100%.

SPEAKER_02 29:02

Or the old tab.

SPEAKER_04 29:04

Oh so, which is a crime that that's not a I I misremember it probably, but so do I. For me, it's just Snowdrop is how I remember it tasting. I also liked mellow yellow as well. Yep, they re-released that about 10 years ago. Oh no shit. Before they got rid of lift, it was the it was just lift, but it was mellow yellow like thing. Yeah. Yeah, right.

SPEAKER_02 29:25

Good choice. In my brain, it tasted different.

SPEAKER_04 29:27

So snack. Snack. Well, because you your flavour, like your your taste buds were going overdrive because you just had a steak. The palate was on fire at the time. True.

SPEAKER_02 29:41

What snack are you having? Um just salt and vinegar chips. And the more vinegar and the more bite where it rips your mouth out is like my favourite. So um that that would be it.

SPEAKER_04 29:52

Or Samboy, I don't think people realise that Samboy chips, particularly salt and vinegar ones, used to literally be little blades fashioned out of potato. And like, much like your old-fashioned fish and chip shop squirt of sauce of vinegar, that's how much flavour there was in them. Yeah, you'd get a snot nose from eating salt and vinegar chips. It's a different type. It was a different type, it's the best time.

SPEAKER_02 30:17

All right.

SPEAKER_04 30:18

Video games, you're obviously you're a kid, you're isolated, but you love pop culture. So video games obviously played a big part of your childhood. What are the standout consoles and games that you had?

SPEAKER_02 30:28

So video games they still play a massive part of my life. Like I'm I'm a gamer today.

SPEAKER_04 30:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 30:34

Um I think it's pronounced man.

SPEAKER_04 30:38

Oh, gamer!

SPEAKER_02 30:40

Ah sorry, I'm my headphones weren't working. I was just happy with that man part of the world. Um I I didn't get a console until I was way older. So we had a PC, my old man was the richest poor Italian in the world. What I mean by that is he had money but didn't spend a fucking cent on it.

SPEAKER_04 31:03

I thought that was par for the course.

SPEAKER_02 31:06

Yes. So we we didn't get much technology, but then I got myself a Nintendo 64 and I got it because I went to a mate's place and I played um WCW slash NWO Revenge.

SPEAKER_04 31:17

Fuck yeah. That game changed my life.

SPEAKER_02 31:19

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_04 31:20

Only saw it in an interview the other day, Ravens on the front, because it was the developer's favourite wrestler. Wrestler? Yes. Because it doesn't make sense otherwise.

SPEAKER_02 31:26

No, no, it doesn't.

SPEAKER_04 31:27

It doesn't. That game changed my life because you could change the names of the wrestlers. Yep. And so like I'd be like, oh, I don't like this person. So I'd make like a WWF wrestler in it and have them with their skin. What a fucking game.

SPEAKER_02 31:40

That was and and like just the fact that for me back then, like they had the belts, they came out with the belts you could do tattooing, and the gameplay itself was it's still, I think, the best wrestling gameplay games. Yep. So that and no mercy and 2000. WrestleMania 2000 and World Tour is another the WCW versus NWO. Yep. Um so I've got all of them. I still play every now and then.

SPEAKER_04 32:02

I um I loved World Tour because like there was all those wrestlers that were clearly they made the wrestler then couldn't get the rights, so just changed them. Yes, so you knew who it was, but then I was like, I always played with Frank, the big Frankenstein guy that spun you around.

SPEAKER_02 32:18

So that he was in the he was in Revenge.

SPEAKER_04 32:20

Oh, that was Revenge, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 32:21

Yeah, so Revenge you couldn't create a character.

SPEAKER_04 32:26

World Tour, yeah, yeah. And Rey Mysterio Jr. was the best playable character in World Tour, or Sting.

SPEAKER_02 32:31

And and you had Goldberg in there, so which was cool. Like I I don't know. I did like those games today, like I said, still hold up. Um and that that I just just fucking played to death. But the Nintendo 64, like I also had Goldeneye and another game called Knockout Kings 2000, which is one of the best boxing games ever made. Yeah, right.

SPEAKER_04 32:49

Um I never got around to that one, but fuck yeah.

SPEAKER_02 32:52

Yeah, so that that's that's that was my that was my life. Then I got a PlayStation 2 later on. I didn't do the PlayStation 1 thing, I didn't I didn't wasn't a part of that.

SPEAKER_04 33:00

I did only because it involved pirating and I got it chipped. So I didn't have to.

SPEAKER_02 33:04

Yeah, all my mates had it.

SPEAKER_04 33:05

We're a poor family, so any way to gain the system.

SPEAKER_02 33:09

We weren't, but we were. We weren't allowed to spend any money.

SPEAKER_04 33:11

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 33:11

But um GTA 3 made me buy a PS2. So and now GTA 6 has made me buy a bloody PS5.

SPEAKER_04 33:19

It is the Rockstar are the gift they keep on giving. Agreed, agreed. Best Christmas or birthday present you ever received.

SPEAKER_02 33:25

You know what? I haven't put an answer down for this one because I cannot remember. Because no one loves you. No one loves me. No, I I've never I've never been a big I don't know, I don't know. I can't I can't.

SPEAKER_04 33:40

So what's it like being a Jehovah's Jehovah's Witness we don't celebrate Christmas?

SPEAKER_02 33:44

Yeah. No, it's not that, but uh like uh maybe my parents just didn't love me enough. I got a uh uh uh an Aussie Boomer's signed basketball one year, so that was pretty impressive. Fucking there you go. I don't play basketball, I've never fucking enjoyed it, but you know, that was a great.

SPEAKER_04 33:57

Sorry, mate, you're almost seven feet tall. You you've been sanctioned by Andrew Gaze to have this.

SPEAKER_02 34:03

Um yeah, no, there's nothing like I've I I I I apologise, I struggle to answer that one because there's nothing that stood out that was like, holy shit, yeah, this is amazing.

SPEAKER_04 34:10

All right, while you're looking at your phone, how many unread text messages are? Fucking shitloads. I I am You're a monster too.

SPEAKER_02 34:18

Oh I used to be this phone needs to be clear, I can't have any red numbers on anything. Nowadays, I'm like, I'm a if if I I I if I if I get back to you, it means I know you uh like I like you.

SPEAKER_04 34:30

The only the only notification I get my iPhone that bothers me is if you send a text and it doesn't go through, it gives you a red exclamation. And I'm like, I'm gonna get rid of that. Everything else, I don't give a fuck. Yep. Alright, uh speaking of phones, what is your ringtone? Are you uh I bought one or are you just fucking it it would be whatever's on it?

SPEAKER_02 34:50

In saying that Has your phone been silent for 10 years? My phone has been in silence the day I got it. Perfect. So I would not know what it sounds like. The world we live in.

SPEAKER_04 34:56

Yeah. Okay, Batman got his fear, he got his name. He got his fear from a name of bats. Using the same logic, what would your hero name be? Heights man. Amen. I am scared shitless of natural. You know what? It is survival.

SPEAKER_02 35:15

So I cannot go on a Ferris wheel. That's how bad it I am. Yeah. Like I've shit myself in elevators, like and that's unrelated to height.

SPEAKER_04 35:22

Yeah. It's just incontinence. It's just what I do. That's just too much of those no sugar lollies. The like weight watches on to make you shit your pants. The best. You're in charge of choosing one movie and one song for the entire world to listen to and watch. What are we listening to?

SPEAKER_02 35:40

What are we watching? So, listening to, I don't think anyone would have heard this song. It's a song called Sweet Symphony by Joy. I'm gonna butcher her last name, Olla De Cun. That sounds really awesome. And Chris Stapleton. Ella the Cunt.

SPEAKER_04 35:54

I haven't heard Ella.

SPEAKER_02 35:55

Like Gigi Allen. Olla Do Kun. Cun. Whatever.

SPEAKER_04 35:59

Um No, don't get ashamed. It was your answer. I know. Sit in it.

SPEAKER_02 36:03

It's one of the soft side of me, mate. It is one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard in my entire life. So um if you get a chance, Sweet Symphony, it's cool. If you get a chance, listen to it. And uh it's just bloody amazing. Amazing.

SPEAKER_05 36:18

Sensitive new age girl.

SPEAKER_02 36:20

Yeah, yeah. The older I get, the worse I am with that sort of stuff. What are we watching?

SPEAKER_04 36:25

Oh so it's a fucking house movie, isn't it? House movie. My life as a house. But no, no, no, no. That is a great movie. You made me watch it with no notice of how sad it would make me feel like that. You gave shit about it when I ever I was like, if I ever want to feel like shit, I just think about that movie, I'm like, oh that's so depressing. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 36:46

Um my original answer was gonna be Godfather, but I think that's my ethnic roots just shining through.

SPEAKER_04 36:53

Was Saturday night Saturday night fever out that night? Did you think that?

SPEAKER_02 36:59

Um, but just I think Rocky III. Okay.

SPEAKER_04 37:02

So robot one, um, Drago, is that that one? Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 37:06

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 37:06

Good choice. My cat's trying to fight its way in here right now. Alrighty. Um what's a film you loved growing up simply because you had it on VHS or DVD?

SPEAKER_02 37:18

Foot rot flat. Fucking yeah. The cartoon. I loved that. I've watched that, I could rattle off every word in that movie. Um, so can my brothers. So, and we'll do that every now and then.

SPEAKER_04 37:31

I used to always, there was two guys I used to play football with, they're called Murphys, they were for out of town. They'd never seen that film, but anything they did, I'd just say those bloody Murphy. They didn't know what it was from, they just thought I was a bully in a can.

SPEAKER_02 37:44

Both true.

SPEAKER_04 37:45

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 37:47

Yeah, no, that that um and even like growing up on a farm and stuff, that that sort of resonated with me heaps. So, uh, and I've I've still got every Foot Rot Flats book somewhere in my house. All the comics.

SPEAKER_04 37:59

Yeah, them and Garfield.

SPEAKER_02 38:01

I'm like, why are they shaped like this?

SPEAKER_04 38:03

Yes, yes, yeah. And I've got heaps of Garfields. It's such a specific don't fit on a bookshelf book.

SPEAKER_02 38:08

Yes, yeah. They're like four foot wide and a foot high.

SPEAKER_04 38:13

Um, just trying to find there was another Okay. This is a Patreon question. Don't forget you can join the uh David Damage Show Patreon. Okay. And uh this one's from Floppy, good friend of the show. Right. If you could experience one movie and one album for the first time again, what would they be?

SPEAKER_02 38:33

Matrix for the first time. And this comes up in my thing. The first time I saw that, that fucking blew my mind. Yeah. Um and I went in not knowing what it was about. So that's the only movie I've uh ever been to the movies twice to go see.

SPEAKER_05 38:47

Wow.

SPEAKER_02 38:47

Yeah, so I went back to see it again. Um yeah, that's still just one of the greatest movies I think ever. Uh, what was what was the other question? And uh song.

SPEAKER_04 38:57

Uh album for the first time.

SPEAKER_02 38:59

Album? Geez, good question. Boney M's Christmas album. Yes, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 39:04

Rolf Harrison's Jake the Peg. Um for me it'd be The Mist, Frank Darabont's directorial uh Stephen King film. Yeah, greatest ending of a film ever. Yeah. And I just wish I didn't know the ending, so I could see it again for the first time.

SPEAKER_03 39:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 39:20

Album would be oh, that one's hard. Like it is hard. For me, it would be Limp Biscuit's significant other. Oh, it's nice that became my personality for a good to now.

SPEAKER_02 39:33

26 years. Yeah. I might you're gonna hate this. Already do. You know, you absolutely will. Oh no, actually, it'd be two. It'll be one is Silver Chair's Frogstomp.

SPEAKER_04 39:49

Hey, perfect album. Oh, really? I thought you'd hate that. Dude, Frogstom for up until Neon Ballroom, yeah, Silver Chair were the greatest band of on a not any other bands have done three perfect albums. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Silver Chair have.

SPEAKER_02 40:03

Yep. And the other one would be My Chemical Romances Black Parade.

SPEAKER_04 40:07

I love that too. It's Summer in the CDs. Yeah, you go. You've picked two from my collection, so I love it. Done. All right, we're gonna get into Big Brody Marshall's favorite movies and CDs. But before we get to that, I think we need to hear from this week's sponsor.

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SPEAKER_02 41:31

The look on your fucking face when that ad started. I I remember that so vividly. That won like marketing awards and everything. It's fucking yeah, what a time.

SPEAKER_04 41:41

What a time. Speaking of 1987, let's go back to the first film you have chosen. It's based on a Mattel He-Man toy line directed by Gary Goddard, starring Dolph Lundgren and Frank Langello as Skeletor. We are talking about Masters of the Universe, an absolute childhood classic.

SPEAKER_03 41:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 42:00

I used to have to watch this film and run to the V because Nan didn't have a VCR with the remote. I had to run and turn the TV off before Skeletor pops up in the water at the end.

SPEAKER_02 42:08

It scared me so much. So I watched, I had I had that on um VHS. I know you've you've got on VHS now, and I didn't know about that Easter egg until one day I forgot to turn the play. I was just letting it play. And then he popped up at the end saying that he'll be back. And I was like, oh my god. It was like I love the idea that like we were idiot kids.

SPEAKER_04 42:29

Because you like I think as much as the kids are robbed of a lot of their imagination with the way the world is now, they're also robbed with a lot of a lot of their dumbness that we had because you didn't know other. You might have thought that yours was the only copy that did that.

SPEAKER_02 42:42

Did that, yeah, yeah, 100%. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Somehow special. Yeah. Um, this movie means so much to me. So I'm a massive Masters of the Universe fan, have been for since I very first saw the cartoon. Yeah. Um I have a love-hate. You saw the name of it, you're like, Yeah, yeah. It wasn't they then man. Um I I have a love-hate relationship with this movie as well. This is my childhood, so I I r relate it and respect it that in that space, and because it was He-Man, um, I was into it. But it's so distant in many ways from the lore of He-Man that it they we're talking about with the turtles, right? There's characters in there that are just not in any sort of storyline whatsoever. Um, there is no Battle Cat, there is no Adam. He-Man is not Adam at any stage. There's no Orco. No, no, no, no. It's Gwildor instead. Gwildor, which is a weird thing.

SPEAKER_04 43:38

I hate the idea of like, because obviously they want to fish out of water, which is all well and fine. Yeah. But give us a movie set on Eternia, which obviously the new one is. But it's like, for fuck's sake, like, stop being cheap. Like, and famously behind the scenes, it was like Mattel had made these rules whether, like, you're not allowed to kill any of our characters, you're not allowed to do all these things, and they were going to bring Half the money. Canon films spent their half of the money, and then Mattel, like, no, we're not giving you more money. And so they're like, they had to do that. That final, that final sword fight was just filmed with no lights and like fucking done for free kind of thing. Because the movie they just ran out of money. Oh, really? It was there was all these other elements. You should look into like the history of Canon Films. There was all these other things. The sets were going to be used for Spider-Man 2 and something else. And like, oh, it's just absolute craziness. This is one of the earliest toy-based blockbuster attempts. Most of the movie takes place on Earth due to the budget. Yep. Franklin Gella Skeletor is considered one of the greatest performances of the 80s. Agreed. And a young Courtney Cox appealed in this and became famous on Friends. Yep. Um I always such a fat kid. Every time I used to watch this, I wanted KFC because when they sit and eat the channel.

SPEAKER_02 44:59

Yeah, it's it's a it's a great movie. Like I once again, it's that nostalgia thing for me. And Dolph London, yeah, amazing as He-Man.

SPEAKER_04 45:07

Oh, I didn't care. They gave him like two chances at doing the lines and then they were gonna dub him because of his accent. I'm like, that would have ruined the movie.

SPEAKER_02 45:14

Yeah, totally, totally. It was like, I don't know, it it it just holds a lot of a lot of sentimental value for me. Um, it's not a real, like I said, to the law He-Man, yeah, but um, I won't talk about the new one. Back to what we're talking about, it was being happy with what we got. Yeah, absolutely, absolutely, 100%, 100%. So, and I've watched that movie shit. Oh, I would say 80 times, I reckon. I've watched it a lot, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 45:43

A lot.

SPEAKER_04 45:44

Let's talk about a movie from 1999 that changed the world. It changed pop culture, it changed the way movies were made, the way movies were marketed. We're talking about The Matrix, directed by the Wachowskis, starring Kiana Reeves, Lawrence Fishburne, and Carrie Ann Moss. It is a computer hacker that learns the reality he is living in is actually a simulation. Simulations, multi-universes, all this other stuff was popularized by this film.

SPEAKER_03 46:09

Yep.

SPEAKER_04 46:10

Um, Bullet Time was the first time we saw that cool slow motion that's in every movie now.

SPEAKER_03 46:15

Yes.

SPEAKER_04 46:16

Um, influence movies, video games, fashion, fucking black leather became the go-to. Yep. A blends philosophy, cyberpunk, and martial arts won four Academy Awards.

SPEAKER_02 46:27

And what a film. Like I said, this was a like you know, how you have those moments where it's like, oh shit, this is a bit life-changing. So this this was um this was huge for me. Even that's that scene where the helicopter hits the building and the glass really liquefies, yes. Oh my god, that just it blew my mind. And I like I said, I walked into that movie not knowing anything about it, um, and it it was like I was just awoken. I love it.

SPEAKER_04 46:55

Some weird way. I love revisiting it now because I hadn't seen it for a long time. I'm like, there's Katarina from Heartbreak Heart. I know, I know, and that's Spud from Home and Away.

SPEAKER_02 47:03

Yes, um, that that's eating the porridge or whatever. Yes, yeah. Yeah, uh there's there's a lot of Aussies in it. Because they went to an actual BDSM club to film that scene where they where that chick from Home and Away is on there.

SPEAKER_04 47:16

Um everyone discovered Dragula from a zombie because of this. This or Idle Hands, which we talked about last week. Alright, we're gonna go back to 1987 again. So two of your favourite movies from the same year. Yep, there you go. Directed by Rob Reiner. Yep. It is one of the coolest fucking fantasy films. I don't think it gets the respect it deserves when you mention a lot of other fantasy, like you know, the Dark Crystal, stuff like that. But we are talking about the Princess Bride. Yep. What a fucking lovely movie. Anything Rob Reiner touched had heart put into it. Yep, yep. Oh, that was a horrible joke I just thought of. But anyway. Um Farmboy Wesley embarks on a quest to rescue Buttercup from an unwanted royal marriage. I love that um the dark web has a big tie. I don't know if you know this, the actual dark web has a huge tie to the this film because the man that started the dark web uses used the dread pirate robots as his thing, and also had it set up that if he got caught or thing, someone else would take over as Dread Pirate Roberts and keep the dark web going. Really? Silk Road, it was called the Silk Road, which is where you'd hire a hitman, buy a gun. All this big part of the dark web ties back to this film, which is a lovely. It's like I don't think anyone thought, oh, this is a heartwarming film with Andre the Giant, Mandy Patinka, fucking, you know, uh um Wallace Sean, all these incredible hard felt actors. One day this is gonna feel the inspiration of the worst thing ever. I didn't know why do you love this movie?

SPEAKER_02 48:54

I I I I just think it's so well done and it doesn't it makes fun of itself, which I enjoy. Um the fact that Andre the Giant is in it is is an added bonus. Have you heard of the on the set story about his giant fart?

SPEAKER_04 49:08

Yeah, uh I I've I've seen his back was pretty much broken.

SPEAKER_02 49:15

He was like a crippled because they had those they had a part where I I don't know the actress's name, you just mentioned it, but I've already forgotten it. Um like he was holding her, yes, and he could only do it for a small period of time, even though it's a massive dude because his back was given out.

SPEAKER_04 49:29

Probably because Hulk just slammed him so hard because Hulk's the best.

SPEAKER_02 49:35

RIP. Um, this is childhood nostalgia for me, and just like I said, I I th I think it was so well done. I I 100% agree. I don't think this movie gets the credit it deserves. Um, but it it it is still folklore in our generation, I think.

SPEAKER_04 49:54

Absolutely. I love that Deadpool 2. I don't know if you saw they did a because that's when Disney bought Fox. Oh yeah. So Deadpool 2 couldn't be put on there at the time because it was an R-rated film.

SPEAKER_03 50:06

Yep.

SPEAKER_04 50:06

They recut it to something called Once Upon a Deadpool, I think it's called.

SPEAKER_03 50:11

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 50:11

They got the start of the film, Deadpool goes and kidnaps Fred Savage, takes him to the room from Princess Bride, and gets him to read the story of Deadpool 2, and they've cut out all the bad bits. Oh, that's so good. It is so fantastic because not only have they perfectly recreated the room, which I remember as a kid being obsessed with the room from because it had those Star Wars toys, there was He-Man toys, there was all these fucking cool real life toys in the background of that room. Yep, yep, yeah, yeah, yep. Um, yeah, this I fucking love this film. It's been too long. We're gonna do this fratical rewind, but then the cinema did it themselves. It's like, give fuck. Did they really? Yeah. Anyway, let's go back to 1986.

SPEAKER_02 50:55

They're doing they're doing way back Wednesday.

SPEAKER_04 50:57

I know. Good luck to them. I have a good as well. Let me know how it goes. 1986, The Labyrinth, starring David Bowie, Jennifer Connolly, directed by Jim Hansen, and uh financed by George Lucas. Uh it's just a recipe for success. Super weird and gay in a lot of ways, but I love it.

SPEAKER_02 51:17

Yeah, but like it was trippy too.

SPEAKER_04 51:20

Absolutely, camp. It's it really leaned into the fantasy in the best possible way. Yep. Like um, just fucking the practical effects. Still to this day, I re-watch this film, it's one of my all-time favorites. Yep. Stands up, looks incredible. You know you're looking at a set, you're not looking at any CGI other than the hour, which was the first full CGI.

SPEAKER_02 51:40

Yes, yeah, which you can 100% tell is uh CGI. Songs all written by David Bowie.

SPEAKER_04 51:47

This film contains over 70 different puppets. Scared as shit of both the fire gang and the hand puppet people. Yes. That scared the shit out of me as a kid.

SPEAKER_02 51:59

I love the fire gang song though. That was my get down with the fire gang. So so did David Bowie Bowie write that as well. Potentially. He wrote most of the other songs.

SPEAKER_04 52:07

Wow. That's unreal. But that does sound more of a Jim Henson Muppet. Legit. That weird Muppet Jazz kind of thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I'd I'd I'd love who's your favourite character in the Labyrinth? Um just called Labyrinth, but I can't stop saying the Labyrinth.

SPEAKER_02 52:22

Yeah. What's the dog's name? Ambrosious. Yes. Yeah, he's fucking awesome. Um I I fell in love with what's her name, Jennifer Connolly? Yes. Yeah. And I had a crush on her too. I was like, oh.

SPEAKER_04 52:39

Have you ever seen the movie Career Opportunities where she's on the coin operated horse in a white singlet? Yes, I have. For reasons it's good.

SPEAKER_02 52:50

Um yeah, but I I I once again watched to me, once again, childhood, all that sort of fun stuff. But just the trippiness of this movie, like, sort of freaked me out as a kid as well. Yeah. Even I once again I've gotten the character's name, but the lady that hoards everything and stuffs it all on her back. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 53:05

The Dave of the Dave of the Lapisdorf. Yeah, the junkyard lady.

SPEAKER_02 53:11

Yes, yeah, yeah. Just stuff like that. Like she freaked me out. Um, even the ballroom scene where it like it all just disintegrates and like I said, being I we talked about with another guest, but I was like finding out as an adult when we screened it at Radical Rewind, seeing that the whole storyline is in her bedroom.

SPEAKER_04 53:31

Yes. Because there's like they go back to the labyrinth. There's a picture of her and David Bowie on the mirror, like all this other stuff.

SPEAKER_02 53:38

Yeah, it's it's cool. It's a fever dream. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a cool little tiny at the end of the day.

SPEAKER_04 53:42

I love they're like, we don't know how to end it. Oh, everyone's still here in your room, yeah, yeah, they'll just come back. It's the most abrupt ending. Yeah, no shit. I got nothing. Yeah, yeah. I brought the puppet. Like, I didn't write this bit. There it is. No, perfect. All right, let's. There is a connection to this next choice, and there's something deep-seated about wrestlers in this film. I've through the history of like my old radio show and everything, talking about films and stuff. Nearly every wrestler I talk to fucking loves this movie. We're talking about the karate kid from 1984. Okay, that's it must be a combat sports thing. So this this was uh like the first I'm the kid that likes sidekicks better. Have you fucking seen that? There's a rip-off of Karate Kid called Sidekicks. Really? With Jonathan Brandis and Chuck Norris. What? Taking the role of fucking um Mr. Miyagi. Fuck yeah. It's it's a time, man. Okay. It was it was I think because of just the age, and I saw it first. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then I watched Karate Kid and I'm like, this rips off sidekick. Sorry, continue your love.

SPEAKER_02 54:48

This, like, I think I did like to me, I thought that it was the coolest movie that was ever made. That and BMX Bandits back in the day.

SPEAKER_04 54:55

Fuck yes.

SPEAKER_02 54:56

And Rad. Yeah, and Rad, yes, yes. Um, but for me, it was the first movie that I saw that I thought was also like very violent. Like kids beating up kids. Yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_04 55:09

I was like, and not beating up like the scene where Mr. Miyagi beats up Cobra Kai dressed as skeletons. Yeah, you forget that that's an adult beating up 17 kids.

SPEAKER_02 55:19

But even when they're trying to beat up Danny, like they they almost kick his head off and he like gets out of the way and he kicks the the mesh mesh wire. Yeah, like it was it was brutal, like more brutal than I think you'd get about you'd be able to get away with today. Oh, absolutely. Um but have you seen all the legacy sequels and stuff? No, I haven't seen it. Not bothered. I I did see the um show. No, no, no, no, no. I did see the um Jackie Chan and what's his name? Oh yeah. Will Smith's Will Smith's kid, yeah. I did see that. Um but you know, I just um so Karate Kid 1 and 2 I I saw, but that that that was it.

SPEAKER_04 55:51

Yeah, um I even watched, I think, after because I was obsessed with martial arts and when there was kids' martial arts, so three ninjas surfed just fucking even the next karate kid with I think it's Jennifer Garner or someone like that. Okay, it's funny. She was the girl karate kid. Oh right. And um Mr. Miyagi came back for it. And then he died just because he made the movie. He got decapitated by a helicopter on set. Is that the grease two of karate kid? How dare you! So that's your favorite movies. Let's jump over to your five CD stacker and run through what we're looking at as we go back to 1997. We are talking about Triple J's Hottest 100 from the year. Features songs that were voted in the Hottest 100 of 1997. Number one song that year was Powder Fingers The Day You Come. So I'm seeing a theme here, The Day You Come, Karate Kid, because you said that you love to wax off. Um Torn by Natalie and Brulier, Prisoner of Society by Living End, which was the biggest people don't give the dues to don't give ju, sorry, should I say, to Living End. Not at all. They are not the heroes that they should be.

SPEAKER_02 57:08

I totally agree.

SPEAKER_04 57:09

I totally agree. Have contributed more to Aussie music. Uh like I think to a degree, no, not even to a degree. They should be up there in mansions with Silverchair and Grinspoon. Yep. But it's almost like they're a second tier, which isn't fair.

SPEAKER_02 57:22

Yeah, no, I I I 100% agree. And they bought like that, they were the first sort of Aussie well, what do you want to call it, scar punk band that uh Rockabilly. Yeah, there you go. That's a way better term than what I said. Um, to sort of like hit it big here in in Australia. So they bloody killed it, which is great. So this album to me, um, it's funny, I listened to your Patreon um of the what's it called Greatest Hits.

SPEAKER_04 57:47

Oh, yeah, yeah, the CD Sardes?

SPEAKER_02 57:49

Yeah. Um you were saying that um Smash Hits, you was the one that you just did, right?

SPEAKER_04 57:55

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 57:56

And and every single one of those is went to number one, every single one. Which is crazy, yeah. Crazy hit machine, there you go. So this to me, so these these these CDs that we're gonna talk about.

SPEAKER_04 58:04

But this this was also a double CD. So all the triple Jaze ones were. So I'm gonna run through the track listing, yeah, and you just give me what you've got about. Number one, no aphrodisiac by the Whitlams. I hated the Whitlams as a kid, love them as an adult. I think it's that Smiths thing where I'm a boring old 40-year-old now, and so I enjoy the Whitlams.

SPEAKER_02 58:25

I like this song. Yeah, I didn't really like the Whitlams either, but I did like this song. So um, yeah, it it it's it's it's a mess song for me, but I I did enjoy it back then.

SPEAKER_04 58:35

It's got a translur in it, so welcome to 2020, Sid. Chumba Wamba Tub Thumping, probably my most hated song after Love Shack by B52. There you go.

SPEAKER_02 58:45

So that's one of those songs that I loved when it first came out, and then after hearing it twice or more. I do. I'm done.

SPEAKER_04 58:51

The Verve's Bittersweet Symphony, which was a fucking monster song. I remember it being used in um Cruel Intentions.

SPEAKER_03 58:58

Yep.

SPEAKER_04 58:59

Found out recently that like about 10 years ago, because that orchestra sound is from an unused Rolling Stones song. Oh, is it? The Verve had to pay out astronomical amounts of money, like in royalties back to the Rolling Stones.

SPEAKER_02 59:13

It's like, fuck you. Do you know that the they the band broke up after that song? Like not long after that album came out.

SPEAKER_04 59:20

I'm just trying to think what their other song was. They had a really sad song. I think it was The Drugs Don't Work. Is that the verb?

SPEAKER_02 59:29

I know that song, I don't know if that's the verb or not. It could be.

SPEAKER_04 59:31

Blur, song two. Yeah, well that's it. Party song.

SPEAKER_02 59:34

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 59:34

Blink 102's Dammit. Fuck this album has a great track list on it. Yep, it does. Radiohead's Paranoid Android, my favourite Radiohead song.

SPEAKER_03 59:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 59:43

Manson's a Beautiful People. So that was the that was the reason why I bought the album. Yeah. Was that song? Um and I didn't like I literally bought the album uh let's say a week after it came out because I knew that song was on there and I didn't want to buy a Marilyn Manson album. Yeah. So um, and then I just absolutely loved this CD.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:02

Leaving Home by Jebediah, another unsung hero of the Aussie music back in the day. They're still touring. Yeah. I saw them in 28 days and like uh someone else on the one lineup and I was like, this is perfection. Silver Chair's Freak. There you go. Smash Mouth Walking on the Sun, Walking on the Sun. Yeah, I couldn't give two fucks about Smash Mouth.

SPEAKER_06 1:00:23

Anyway.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:23

If you're gonna have trumpets, be real big fish or fuck off. The Super Jesus down again, pretty good song. Yeah. Prisoner of Society, Perfection. Yep, agreed. Beastie Boys Intergalactic, Perfection again, everyday formula, Ben Folds, One Hungry Dwarf, uh, One Angry Dwarf. One hungry dwarf. Uh I'm gonna do this for a CD Saturday. It's fucking perfect. It is, it's real good, but nothing bad to say. Josh Abrahams and Quinton Tarver's Everybody's Free to Wear Sunscreen, which I like.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:53

I didn't think I'd like that song, but I really do. It's it's not even like it's a it's just a sample mix.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:58

Yeah, it's uh you know, someone had a boner for oh, you got your Baz Lerman in my fucking drum and bass album. Yeah, sneaker stern pimp 3000. I don't think I even know what that song is. Chemical Brothers with Block Rock and Beats, fucking great loops, uh The Prodigy Breathe, shout out Ben Sacks, Daft Punk's Around the World, Fat Boy Slims Get Out of My Head, The Crystal Method with Busy Child, U2 with Disco Tech, because everyone forgets the the fucking cross section that the hottest 100 was at the time. Like now they they're like, oh, we're not touching big artists for it. But back then it was like it was you'd have a U2 song next to some company's basement in Brisbane made a song. Like it's there was no yeah, there was no discern. Brinspoon's Just Ace, which is perfect, yeah, yeah. Calypso from Spider Bait, Off Springs All I Want, their best song. Friends of Rom's Punch in the Face, another best song, not the same from Body Jar, another best song, and Custard with girls like that, another best song. Blue's dad singing the best fucking song he could.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:06

What a great choice, man. Yeah, so that that the reason why so these CDs have that we we're gonna talk about have all impacted my taste in music. So I was always not always, but like in my my um later teen years, I always listened to Triple J. So I'd hear that stuff, but I'd hear it once or twice, and then that was it. And I always listened to the Hottest 100. We used to have Hottest 100 parties all the time back on Australia Day when it was when it was done that way. Um so it has it resonates with me nostalgically too, but it it opened my eyes up to music. The C D opened my eyes up to music that I would normally not listen to just because I put it in back in those days. Yes, you listen to the whole CD.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:48

Even in a much later era, I was so one-tracked with the music I listened to and loved. Hottest 100 come along, and yeah, I'd fall in love with the presets. Yeah, and I'm like, I would never fucking listen to this, or like a block party song, and I'm like, this is fucking sick. I would never give them time of day. Like 100%. It really was that you know, just that touchstone of cultural music at the time, and it yeah, it gave you a bit of everything. Yeah. Let's go back to 1991. Let's. The world wanted it to wanted everyone to know it wasn't the 80s anymore. You can fuck off all your big hair and your V, your flying V guitars, all the glam rock, which is perfection. Yeah, glam rock is the new medal of rock, and I love it too. Bit of cockrock is always. We're back in 1991. Yep. This is a debut album. This is yeah, much like Frog Stomp, fucking the strongest, save the best for first. We're talking about Pearl Jams 10 featuring tracks Alive, Jeremy, even flow, black. All iconic songs that have stood the test of time, and you know, are you know, you'd want you'd want to write one of these songs in your career. Well, 100%. Have fucking five of them on the one album. Yep. And also the I love the fact that this came out, I think within a month, this Blood Sugar Sex Magic. Never mind. Blood uh Sugar Sex Magic. Yeah, Stone Temple Pilots, Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusion, was it? Yeah, yep. And I think Smashing Pumpkins all came out in the same month. Yes, yeah. Oh, and Soundgarden. Yes, yes, all in the same fucking month. It's insane, right? What was in the water in 1991? Everyone was excited from seeing Terminator 2. That's what I'm gonna say it is. Terminator 2 inspired all these films.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:31

What a banger of a movie that is, too. Oh man.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:33

Um, yeah, sold over 10 million copies just in the US, yeah, helped establish the Seattle sound, and 10 refers to the basketball player Mookie Babylon's jersey number. Well, there you go. This is fucking perfection. I don't like Pearl Jam now just because of much like the Chili Peppers thing where it's like it got so overplayed, but it wasn't these songs. No. Because you hear that opening riff of Alive, I'm like, yep, I'm here. Yep, even like things like black and stuff, they start and I'm like, yep, I'm here for the this whole track.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:02

Well, the song release to me is like one of the best songs on the album, and it's it's it's the one at the end. And Oceans is a an amazing song too. Um you love a release at the end? I do love a release at the end. Okay. Normally it's tears quote for the episode tears or blood. Um but this not only changed music, this changed culture. These this this like the whole grunge scene changed the way that we uh well, once again, groomer hair long, bloody war flannel, you know, all that sort of stuff. It changed the way that we looked and felt about each other as well. So this was like um uh a huge turning point for me in my music space just because it was it was rock, but it was the culture that went went along with it as well. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:46

You couldn't listen to this without putting a flannelette shirt on.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:48

No, I know, and it was my first CD I ever bought. So Alright.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:52

Up next, we're gonna talk about a release from George Michael that didn't get him arrested and didn't make the news. We are talking about from 1998, George Michaels, ladies and gentlemen, the best of George Michaels. This is a career-spanding highlight. We're talking about a man that released Faith, Careless Whisper, Freedom 90, Frost Love, Jesus to a Child. There were covers on this. He capitalized on his controversy basically.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:21

100% he did. If you listen to the lyrics of his song, he takes the piss out of himself and the industry.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:26

I can't remember what show it is, but they're listening to Careless Whisper, and some one of the characters in the game was like, Man, this guy must get so much pussy.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:38

Well, there's a song on there on the album called Outside, and I don't know if you've seen the film clip, but he's dancing in like a toilet screen. Yeah, and then they will spin around into disco balls.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:47

He lent into the controversy, and I I love the way he handled it because even um the Ricky Gervais show Extras, he lives near a the character lives near a park. He's like Australia, uh, a failing actor. Yeah. And he'll go and sit on the park bench. And quite often, George Michael will come there and he'll say to like they'll sit on the bench next to her, and Ricky Gervais will be like, Oh, aren't you worried about the press saying that you're just gonna be here to fuck some people? Yeah, it gets a bit much. He goes, So what are you here for? He goes, to fuck some people. It's like anyway, I'm going over into those bushes, and that's how you leave the scene. George Michael get up and walk into the bushes in the park. It is, I just love he did not let it like as much as it was a controversy, yeah, he did not let it get to him. And honestly, it's entrapment. An undercover cop went in and offered to have sex with him in a public toilet and then fucking arrested him for it. Like, yeah. Which, you know, whatever.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:41

Whatever floats your boat.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:42

It's no different if someone come up to me and went, Do you want some fucking some of these lollies? And I'm like, Yes, please, eat them. They're like, You're arrested for being fat. It's like you made this happen. This is entrapment. 100% without the lasers. Alright, let's put our toe into gently into post-new metal because obviously the late 90s, early 2000s, new metal was the biggest and best thing. You had your limp biscuits, your corn of the world, but then you had like that second tier of bands like Incubus is the art of science, or whatever not the art of science, whatever that science album was fucking insane. It was jazz metal, it was new metal, it was all these different things, certain shade of green of that. And then they kind of they put their big boy pants on and they stepped up and made it. They basically like, oh, if you like Hubert Stank, here's Hubertank if it doesn't suck. Like, I think fucking Brandon from Incubus has one of the most chick-getting voices of all time. We're talking about Morning View from 2000. It was their fourth studio album named after the street where it was recorded, featuring uh radio mainstays of the early 2000s. Wish you were here. Nice to know you, warning, and are you in? Um were you uh were you a surfy guy? I was right, because there's a big cross section of music and dudes that like incubus. It was kind of Did you have white guy dreadlocks?

SPEAKER_02 1:09:07

No, I shouldn't I wasn't Chris.

SPEAKER_04 1:09:09

Um excuse me, voodoo was very important. You mean Mimic?

SPEAKER_02 1:09:14

Not voodoo, so mimic Grim versus Mimic versus voodoo every month old school year, yeah, every month for a year, yeah, Adelaide Wrestling. Um yeah, this like I I I remember hearing Drive, like the music song Drive, which isn't on this album. Um, and I was like, who is this pretentious wanker at the front of this band? Like I love the song. What a song. It it's bloody great. So and then um I was working at Woolworths at Stirling at the time. I didn't live in Sterling, I'm not a rich wanker.

SPEAKER_04 1:09:49

Oh, money bags over here.

SPEAKER_02 1:09:52

Um and one of the chicks that was working at the checkout came up to me and said, I'm going to see Incubus tonight. And I'm like, oh, I bet you the lead singer just stands at the front of the stage with his shirt off, posing and blah blah blah. She came back, she came back the next day and goes, No, it was actually awesome, you should listen to their music. And I started to, and I fell into Incubus.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:13

How many dudes got into music because a girl told them to? Because that is like half my music taste. There you go. It's like I don't think you'd like this. Yeah, anyone else could tell me about it. Yeah, no, I'd be like, no, no way. It's like, yeah, okay, girl. All right, all right, lady. Um that's how I heard uh fucking the dandy warholes. Oh, yeah. Yeah, there you go. A girl I wanted to uh you know shake hands, shake hands with anything finger related. Um yeah, this was definitely their departure from the heavier stuff. Like science was heavy as fuck. Yeah, new metal, because you had to be. If you wanted to release an album, it's like you're gonna slap that bass or have a DJ scratch. It's like I'll do both. You're like, you're in. Get on MTV right now, take your shirt off.

SPEAKER_02 1:10:58

Well they um they they ended up getting the guitarist from Roots, the band Roots of um eventually. So he moved on. Uh the the original guitar, uh bass guitarist, I should say, moved on, and then they got um their new one. And like I I I've I've seen Incubus several times now. Like I I just love their music. Full stop. Back catalogue, front catalogue, middle catalogue, catalogue catalogue.

SPEAKER_04 1:11:20

More catalogue than those weird people that walk around with prams filled with catalogues and put them in the put 'em in the mail. Absolutely. I love it's always a pram without a kid in it. Yeah, I know. I like it, it's ingenuity. I just steal a trolley. Alrighty. Let's speak of new metal, let's hit on a very lesser-known new metal band. Yeah. Uh I don't know if anyone's heard that. They had no impact on the musical scene of not only just new metal, but metal itself. Never heard of them. Uh they sound like a bunch of Boy Scouts that name their band after Knots. We're talking about 1999's Slipknots, self-titled. They made your label debut, introduced the band's masks, and their names were just numbers. We didn't all know who Corey and Sean and fucking Joey Jordison was.

SPEAKER_02 1:12:05

You had to look that stuff up. And then it was it was really disappointing to see that they had names like Corey and Joey and Paul and Mick.

SPEAKER_04 1:12:15

You're like, I want your name to be like sounds like other uncles of Full House. Yeah, yeah. So we've got the big tracks of the album, Wait and Bleed, Spit It Out, which Spit It Out was a cultural phenomenon. It was on Rage, channel red at the time. Like it was everywhere, yeah. Surfacing in Eyeless. I don't think they've played a show since then that they haven't hit one of these fucking songs. It blended new metal, extreme metal, and industrial influences, one of the most influential heavy metals of its generation. Shocked a lot of parents, and let two guys be in the band to do fuck all except hit kig. I'm having a stroke.

SPEAKER_02 1:12:51

Smack kegs and hit kegs with baseball bats. Yeah, this like this was the first I bought the CD not really knowing the music because I thought the cover was cool. Yeah. So it's like these dudes in masks, what these are these are cool.

SPEAKER_04 1:13:08

I fell in love with them because the spit it out music video was set to the story of the shining. I was like, oh, yeah. Yes, yes, yes, yes, with the riding a little bike and all that sort of stuff.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:17

Yep. But then I I got into Slipknot very early before um the like sort of the fame sort of took off. Um and I listened to the CD for the first time and went, oh, okay. And then I like an earworm just it just grew. And these guys were my foray into metal metal.

SPEAKER_04 1:13:36

This was that album for me and my group of friends that they didn't really like metal metal, yeah. And so they were like, turn off that rah-rah rah shit. But the perfect conduit was the song. Um, because I had the first version of it, yeah, was um purity and weight and bleed. It's like there was enough melodic bits that it kind of brought them. It was like Nevermind's album, where it was like, I don't like grunge. It's like, you like this though.

SPEAKER_02 1:14:01

They they did it so well. Because you got songs like that, then you got songs like Scissors or Eeyore, where they like at the end, Corey's just losing his fucking mind and like dying in in the sound studio. Yeah, it's just screaming his tits off. Um, and that like it opened up a new world. Like, I liked Pantera, I liked well, Metallica. I wouldn't put in that same sort of metal space, but I like the harder metal, and then this like really angry metal. Yeah, this was like, holy shit, this is new, and it like it was gritty.

SPEAKER_04 1:14:29

This felt dangerous, yeah. This felt like, oh fuck, I shouldn't be listening to this. Yeah, yeah, 100%. This is gonna make my nose bleed, and I'm gonna try to kill my family with a fucking you know, it just yeah, there was danger to it. Yeah, 100%, and even the music video, like that thing I was saying about like where you'd watch the end of Skeletor, you'd be like, Oh fuck, I'm the only one seeing this. Yeah, um, Slipknot video would come on rage and you'd be like, Oh fuck, like I'm the only one seeing this happen.

SPEAKER_02 1:14:55

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And they were doing like, you know, there's been masks and face paint and all that sort of shit before. Yeah, but not to the like almost like the morbid fascination. Like Corey's original mask with like the dreads and shit. No, no, not at all.

SPEAKER_04 1:15:09

They couldn't do interviews, they like had all these rules set out. It was fucking incredible.

SPEAKER_02 1:15:14

Well, that's um um for years people didn't know what their faces looked like. Yeah, but then Stone Sour, people put Corey together from Stone Source.

SPEAKER_04 1:15:22

But I like that he managed to carry it to the point where he outed himself. Yes, those are like Spider-Man Center, so like 2001. So there was that good five years of like mystery. Yes, and it built that like I want to see them now. And it's like, who gives a shit what anyone looks like?

SPEAKER_02 1:15:37

Yeah, yeah, yeah, totally, totally. And now, like it's almost um obviously that's their gimmick, and that always has to be their gimmick, but some people are like Corey's original mask always reminds me of the mask that Sia still wears all the time.

SPEAKER_04 1:15:48

Oh no, that's her actual face. Sorry. That's why she covers. That's why she's got the fringe.

SPEAKER_02 1:15:54

She's an ad she's a handsome woman. But the cool like well the cool and bad thing about like the whole slipknot journey is you find out how much turmoil this band has gone through and the music that they've produced, like, is absolutely so you know I mean um bloody Joey's dead, Paul's dead, um, and they've replaced a couple of other kick Max Weinberg's son out like last year or whatever. Um, but yeah, it's it's like you'll you'll hear the story about like Iowa, the album, and how much they all just about hated each other. Oh, dude. But then made amazing. Well to me, that's their best album. Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_04 1:16:36

I there was an interview that I always found fascinating. Like, even Slipknot became this thing bigger than the band to the point where even they couldn't control it. Like Corey tells the story of one time he went backstage and um there was two dominatrics in a bathtub, and they were like peeing in this bathtub. And when he got back there, like everyone was standing around watching this happen, and like everyone turned to him at once and like get in the thing. It was just expect like everyone had built it, like, oh, this is a normal thing that Corey will just do.

SPEAKER_02 1:17:06

No joke.

SPEAKER_04 1:17:07

And he's like, So I'm standing there, I can't not do it because I'm a pussy, but I'm fucking horrified. This is disgusting, and he goes, but it was just what Slipknot had become. Like he goes, the maggots, which were the fans, yes, became so rabid that he not only had to basically became a performing monkey, where he's like, I've got to do what they expect of me. Yeah, but this is shit I would never do in my whole life. No, 100%. And I love that like he was obsessed with music, all music, and got fired from like the music story he worked in because he had long hair and he looked alternate. Oh, he had black fingernails and long black hair. And they're like, you can't be shocked, you can't be thing. And I just think like even when I started at um big W back when like it would have been 98, I got a job Big W. Yeah. And they were like, you don't have any tattoos or anything that we don't know about? I'm like, no, like, but that's that's and it's like I'm selling potting mix. Yeah, yeah. What the fuck? 100% I'm mixing paint colours and selling potting mix at Big W. Doesn't matter if I have and there you go, and it's like I love you go into like uh super cheap auto, it's like this kid is 16 and has a throat piece, yeah. 100% it's so different.

SPEAKER_02 1:18:18

It's our old man version, it's like well, JB Hi-Fi sort of started that trend off allowing that to happen. So um, yeah, yeah. I no, I 100% remember that. It was no exposed tattoos, no couldn't have piercings, no piercings.

SPEAKER_04 1:18:31

I remember having my library and I had to have a band-aid, like a little square cloth thing over the yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure.

SPEAKER_02 1:18:43

Uncle Corner again. No, it was uh, but yeah, going back to slip knight, this was uh uh uh another life-changing musical piece for me. So I just want to jump back to George Michael. I didn't didn't finish off the page. Oh, sorry. No, no, no. I just like so I like all sorts of music. I think I'm very much like yourself. And George Michael was the the catalyst for me getting into jazz, so um, yeah, there's a couple of songs on there where he's got some really strong jazz jazz vibes in his in his um in his repertoire, and that sort of opened the door for me in that space as well. And the song What's that?

SPEAKER_04 1:19:17

Everyone wants Lover Like That's the one.

SPEAKER_02 1:19:19

Yeah, that's the jazz.

SPEAKER_04 1:19:20

That m no no, what is that song? Because that music video used to give me the tingle, it was all models dancing.

SPEAKER_02 1:19:26

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:19:27

Um one had Harley Davison.

SPEAKER_02 1:19:31

Um Eva Evangelista or whatever name was.

SPEAKER_04 1:19:33

Um what's uh her whole like rap was out, but she had like handlebars.

SPEAKER_02 1:19:37

Yeah. Yes, yes, yes, yes.

SPEAKER_04 1:19:38

That still gives me the tingle now when I see girls on motorbikes.

SPEAKER_02 1:19:41

How are you just too funky for me? Too funky. Too funky, that's the one. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:19:45

That's not jazz, but fuck Ivan. That's not jazz. Fuck jazz was the point I was trying to make.

SPEAKER_02 1:19:49

But even like this RB stuff, like the song As, it's got it's him and Mary J. Blige. Um, that is my favourite song of the album, and it's just fucking amazing. Like fucking amazing. It's it's like people are like, oh yeah, it's George Michael, but I don't listen to realise the cultural phenomenon that he was.

SPEAKER_04 1:20:08

He was the UK's version of Billy Joel.

SPEAKER_02 1:20:10

Absolutely he was.

SPEAKER_04 1:20:11

Singer, songwriter, fucking just monster artist.

SPEAKER_02 1:20:14

Have you seen the Wham documentary? No. Check that out.

SPEAKER_04 1:20:17

Yeah, right.

SPEAKER_02 1:20:18

Yeah, it's post his death.

SPEAKER_04 1:20:20

I hope they asked the other guy heaps of questions. No, he's he's he's he's the I was gonna say, what's it like not being famous while your best friend is like Well, he like it's funny, like he pulled out of the band.

SPEAKER_02 1:20:29

He was like, No, I'm I'm done with this. And George Michael went on and did his own thing. It's really, really interesting.

SPEAKER_04 1:20:34

I always thought it was the other I thought it was the classic Beyoncé situation. It was like, I'm going to be the most famous person on earth, catcha later.

SPEAKER_02 1:20:41

Well, he started getting like right into the drinking and like the party life, and then he just went, I'm done with this shit. Yeah. Um, and then went off and did his own thing. And George Michael just kept being George Michael.

SPEAKER_05 1:20:51

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:20:51

Um, but it's it's super fascinating because it's all done post-George Michael's death. Yeah. So um, yeah, it's just really, really interesting. Fuck yeah. Yeah, fuck yeah. But it's it's crazy. Like people have this, I th I find people have this stigma about music or artists or whatever, but there's some like fucking take nickelback. There's some really fucking good nickelback songs.

SPEAKER_04 1:21:13

Hero by him and Josie Scott.

SPEAKER_02 1:21:17

Burn it to the ground. The the the um the old WWE entrance music. They Rockstar is a fucking good song.

SPEAKER_04 1:21:24

They've got a song with they did uh I believe it yeah, with Steel Panther called It Won't Suck Itself. Fucking great song. I love it.

SPEAKER_02 1:21:34

Nickelback in Steel Panther's It Won't Suck Itself is the number one hit. There you go. I haven't heard that, but I need to, I fucking need to.

SPEAKER_04 1:21:41

Just the title alone.

SPEAKER_02 1:21:42

Yes, exactly. Exactly. It's provocative. Oh, but this whole thing about stigma and music and artists and whatnot, like good music is good music. I don't care where it comes from.

SPEAKER_04 1:21:51

And that's and that's what I'm finding, like looking back at all these older kit machines and stuff.

SPEAKER_02 1:21:56

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:21:57

This is fucking rubbish, but they managed to just put the rubbish in the right place. Yeah, perfect song. Yeah, 100%. Like some of the greatest pop songs are written by people you would not expect.

SPEAKER_02 1:22:08

Well, once again, I listened to your Patreon of your last one, and like you're talking about um was it the Backstreet Boys song? Yeah. You're like, and I was like, oh shit, I didn't think Dave would like that. And then he's like, oh no, this is an absolute banger. It really is. Yeah, yeah. That's great. I I I respect that a lot.

SPEAKER_04 1:22:23

Yeah, and it is funny, like, because a lot of the nine, and I think it's a product of the 90s, there was so much music everywhere. There's songs I'm finding that I'm like, I never actively listened to this, I didn't know who it was by, but I know every fucking word to this song. It's like there's and the beyond the nostalgia, it's a great song.

SPEAKER_02 1:22:43

Do you find do you think that we grew up in the greatest? I think either the 70s or when we grew up.

SPEAKER_04 1:22:48

As much as I hate that loaded question because it is such a like something that a baby boomer would be like, we're the best generation and fucking we got Neil Dimes. Like, suck a fucking bag of dick. The 90s was all in it I think it was so eclectic. I think every the 80s were a bit that way, but I think the nineties were the one that the 80s felt like everything was kind of pointed in the same direction, trying to melt together. And very nineties did the opposite where it's just like everything and anything all at once. Absolutely. Like it just we had grunge, we had euro, and that's that's what I love about these compilations is you've got like fucking, you know, the rhythm of the night right next to like you know, run away train by fucking yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. This song makes you want to kill yourself, this song makes you want to dance. Absolutely. And I don't think that the world's like that now to that degree. You I and talking back about what you were saying about the way that we experience things back then. Yeah, now it's too easy to cater to yourself. Yeah, like if you only like one kind of music now, yeah, you can get away with just hearing and listening to that and not knowing anything else. But back then you had no choice. Like I said, I'm hearing songs that I don't know the name, don't know the artist, but I know every word to it. I'm like, I know this song.

SPEAKER_02 1:24:04

Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_04 1:24:06

I don't get that now.

SPEAKER_02 1:24:09

Like we were talking about before, like the Triple J album. Yeah. It just opens up your your ear and mind to other things that you normally wouldn't. And you're right, nowadays you just would not even bother. No.

SPEAKER_04 1:24:21

And that's like you you see the like the punchline that like mumble rap became. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't think I've heard two mumble rap songs ever. No, and I'm not actively avoiding them. It's just the world where now you don't get that like mitosis that you used to get of music where it's like I don't love the like you know, why do we know like fucking Katie Lang and all this other stuff that we didn't listen to? Yeah. It was just the way the world was. Yeah, absolutely. We were so happy with so little.

SPEAKER_02 1:24:48

Fuck us out old. And and the music charts meant something back then. Oh dude, rage, rage was great.

SPEAKER_04 1:24:54

You mentioned the video. I love that thing that you said about the video shop being a portal out of a small town. Yep, yep. Rage was that for me as well. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. Wow, this is the world? Yeah. Only to be disappointed to find out nope. The two places I check stuff. So true. Dude, believe it or not, that is you in a nutshell.

SPEAKER_02 1:25:16

In a nutshell.

SPEAKER_04 1:25:18

Love a nut in a nutshell. Good times. Where can people check out everything you have going on in the end?

SPEAKER_02 1:25:26

Uh just Big Brodie Marshall on Instagram, I think.

SPEAKER_04 1:25:29

Also, everyone listening, I need to, before we move on, go and find fit after 40 on TikTok and fucking bully Big Brodie Marshall. In no measurement can someone that looks like me bully someone that looks like Big Brodie Marshall. But TikTok has leveled that playing field, and I upset Big Brodie Marshall, and then I get angry inboxes from house mives that are just watching him like cook with his shirt off. They're like, can you leave him alone? I'm like, no.

SPEAKER_02 1:25:59

So get into it. It's and you've made the word sprog infamous on the TikTok.

SPEAKER_04 1:26:05

The best ones are when you're live and you try to ignore it. I'm like, I saw in your face you read it. I love it. Because you'll be reading comment after comment after comment. It was like, that looks yummy, big brody. That looks yummy. Ooh, that looks nice. Ooh, come over and cook for me. Sprog. And then there's just a second of silence, and then you read the one under it. I'm like, yeah. Anyway, dude. I'm dying. Thank you so much for being a part of this. Thank you, my can people check out what?

SPEAKER_02 1:26:32

Um Big Brodie Marshall on Instagram. I think that's pretty much all I got. So, or the TikTok fit after 40 if you're ever interested in it.

SPEAKER_04 1:26:38

If you want to bully a bully me, fit after 40.

SPEAKER_02 1:26:44

And I'm as I'm meal prepping.

SPEAKER_04 1:26:45

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