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00:00G'day, I'm Adam Hills, welcome to Speaks and Speaks, the music
00:29quiz show that likes it Stones Rolling, it's Dead Grateful, and it's Crosby, Stills
00:33and Nash Young. Joining me as always are our two team captains, he's shaking you all night
00:37long and she's complaining to the body corporate, it's Alan Brough and Miff Warhurst.
00:42Alan's first guest tonight is an iconic Australian musician whose band The Go-Betweens were humbled
00:49when one of Brisbane's busiest bridges was named after them. 30 years later and he still
00:54can't get over it, please welcome Robert Bolster.
00:59Alan's second guest is a comedian and TV star who has spent so much time in the African
01:03jungle she's not only met a Def Leppard, she's literally tamed Impalas. Please welcome Jillian
01:08Morris.
01:11Miss first guest starred in Tina Turner the Musical and as a teenager loved Beyonce so much
01:15she once received five copies of the same album for her birthday. If you like it then you should
01:20have got a receipt with it, please welcome Ruba Nguenna.
01:23Miss Donovus tonight is a comedian whose mullet has so much party in the back the business
01:29in front may have to go into administration. Please welcome Brett Blake.
01:34Now Robert we mentioned it then and it has come up on the show before, The Go-Betweens do
01:41have a bridge named after them in Brisbane.
01:43Yes, it's a great honour but it's unusual because when you start a band, you know, you're young
01:49and you're in a room and you're talking about your goals, getting a bridge named after you
01:54does not come up in the conversation.
01:56I also want to mention the book that you've released which is The Ten Rules of Rock and
02:01Roll. And I want to go through some of the rules because they're bang on. Number one,
02:07great bands tend to look alike.
02:09This happens because they're always hanging out together.
02:11Right.
02:12The second last song on every album is the weakest.
02:15Oh yeah, yeah. You start strong, you've got to end with a big song, so when you've
02:20got a song you're not sure about, that's where you put it.
02:24Okay, this is a good time to mention we have Pseudo Echo on the show.
02:28I'm going to say, that rule, great bands tend to look alike. You guys are rocking that.
02:34Do you agree that the second last song on every album is the weakest?
02:37Yeah, I think that's where we put the point.
02:39Okay, how about this one? No band does anything new on stage after the first 20 minutes.
02:44Yeah, I think everyone goes on, they're nervous, they want to impress, so you throw everything
02:51in the first 20 minutes.
02:52Agree, Brian?
02:53He hasn't seen Pseudo Echo live.
02:55Alright, we'll see you guys at the end of the show, but right now let's get in a round
03:01one.
03:02Alright, our first game tonight is called Know Your Product.
03:07Miff and Alan are going to pick a topic, everybody will be quizzed on that topic.
03:11Your choices tonight are W. Mozart, D. Bowie, T. Turner and C. Frog.
03:19Oh, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.
03:25You've just answered all three questions about C. Frog.
03:29Miff can pick first.
03:31Oh, okay, well you play.
03:32Come on, Tina, come on.
03:34Yeah, you are the best, Tina there is.
03:36I mean, technically, Tina might have been the best Tina there is, but the second, the
03:40second best.
03:41The second best.
03:42Alan.
03:43Bowie, please.
03:44Yes.
03:45Okay, we'll start with Tina Turner.
03:46Everyone on your buzzers, let's play Specs and Specs.
03:48Your first question for one point.
03:50What was Tina Turner's name at birth?
03:52Anime Bullet.
03:53Anime Bullet, correct.
03:57For two points, according to the lyrics of Tina Turner's 1973 hit song,
04:01name two of the buildings that can be found in her hometown of Nutbush, Tennessee.
04:06Church House, Gin House, School House, Outhouse.
04:09Yes, all of them, all of them, correct.
04:13Final question for three points.
04:14Have a look at these images of Tina on screen.
04:17Name the films they are from.
04:19Ooh!
04:20Mad Max in the middle.
04:22Yes, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.
04:23And Tommy's the first one.
04:24Tommy's the first one.
04:26She was in an action film with Arnold Schwarzenegger.
04:29The last superhero, the last action man figurine.
04:37Hero, hero, hero.
04:38The last action hero.
04:40I love the story of you playing Tina Turner is amazing.
04:45It's almost like you were destined to do it, right?
04:48Mmm, I definitely feel that.
04:50So when was it that you first...
04:51When I was 16 in high school, I played Tina Turner in the High School Musical.
04:56My first time on a stage singing and I was wearing my mum's clothes as Tina Turner and I killed
05:03it.
05:04And this is the picture of you at 16 next to the picture of you as Tina, which is so lovely.
05:08I didn't realise you were dressed in your mum's clothes.
05:10Yeah, yeah, yeah.
05:11I said, Mum, I'm Tina Turner.
05:12She's like, I got you.
05:13I got you.
05:14I believe she's in the audience tonight.
05:16She is.
05:17Yay!
05:18Yay!
05:19That's so sweet.
05:22Now, Julia, I know you're not averse to dressing up as some of your idols.
05:27Yes, I do that a lot.
05:29And I have footage of you at a recent fancy dress party and you went as Freddie Mercury
05:35from the I Want to Break Free video, which looks like this.
05:43I also love that you had fake boobs for that night.
05:47Yes, I know.
05:48And you left them behind at the party, which was at like a church hall.
05:53It was on...
05:54Yeah.
05:55Maybe some genuflection before a friction is what I should have thought.
05:58Was there like a big Jesus and did anyone like put the knockers on Jesus?
06:02Check out Jesus big natties.
06:05Hell yeah.
06:06I believe it was Leviticus who said, check out Jesus big natties.
06:11On to David Bowie for one point.
06:14A Chris Hadfield cover of which David Bowie song became the first music video recorded
06:18in space?
06:19Oh, you did Space Oddity.
06:21Correct.
06:22He did Space Oddity.
06:23Yeah, well done.
06:24For two points.
06:25David Bowie is known as one of the greatest artists of all time.
06:27He also has one of the greatest mug shots of all time.
06:30I mean ground control to Major Hottie.
06:32Oh yeah.
06:33I need two things.
06:34What was he arrested for and who was he arrested with?
06:35Yes.
06:36Marijuana.
06:37Yes.
06:38And he was hanging out with Iggy Pop.
06:39Yes.
06:40Two out of two.
06:41Is he having an Iggy Siggy?
06:43Yes.
06:44Your final question for the three points.
06:47Name these Bowie albums from their covers.
06:49Yes.
06:50Pin-ups.
06:51Yes.
06:52Diamond Dogs.
06:53Yes.
06:54Heathen.
06:55In the house.
06:56Robert, I also want to talk to you about your current music.
07:00Yes.
07:01Your last two albums I found really, really moving because the second to last one you made
07:06with your wife Karin after her cancer diagnosis and while she was going through the treatment
07:11made an album.
07:12Yeah.
07:13Did it help the recovery?
07:14It was certainly part of it wasn't it?
07:15It did and it just gave us something to talk about.
07:17You know like so you're not just talking about hospitals and you're not talking about seeing
07:21specialists.
07:22Suddenly there's a whole other pool of conversation you can have.
07:26And what's lovely is the new album and especially the videos that you've made.
07:29Yeah.
07:30Almost answer the question how is she now?
07:32Yes.
07:33I made a video for the last album it's me singing in the kitchen.
07:36Yeah.
07:37By myself.
07:38And then on the first single I start where I'm in the kitchen and sing the song and then
07:42Karin walks in to sing the second line.
07:45I mean we knew it was going to be a big moment for you know fans to see suddenly her walk
07:49into frame.
07:50Mm.
07:51It really worked out beautifully.
07:52And what I love about it is that no matter how much you think you're the stars of it,
07:56your cat in the background with perfect timing just goes, it's about me.
08:00Yeah.
08:01Miracle days of happiness.
08:06Joyful moments of bliss.
08:10It's the only time a cat's done something useful.
08:18Mine recently thought it was funny in the bathroom to push a pot plant into the toilet
08:24and it made the toilet bowl explode.
08:26Yeah.
08:27And it cost me $5,000 to repair it in a rental.
08:31I was like God if he wasn't cute I'd kill him.
08:34I'm looking at you Mirf.
08:36Alright, at the end of that round Alan, Robert, Julia are on 5 points.
08:40Miff, Ruva, Brett 7 points.
08:42Our next game tonight is a new one and it's called Plant Music.
08:50I'm going to show teams a bunch of names.
08:52They have to decide if it's a band or a Gardening Australia story.
08:57People sometimes ask how we come up with ideas for games.
09:00This one is because we share an office with Gardening Australia.
09:03And to help me out tonight, it's none other than the host of Gardening Australia.
09:07Please welcome Costa.
09:09Alright, so these are your names.
09:19Miff, you can have first pick of the board.
09:21Which one would you like?
09:22Oh, let's go with Ultimate Spinach.
09:24Yeah.
09:25Ultimate Spinach.
09:26Is that a band or a Gardening Australia story?
09:28It's definitely not a band.
09:30You reckon it's not?
09:31That's not cool enough to be a rock band.
09:33Man, no one's wearing that on a shirt.
09:35No, nah.
09:36Alright, so what do you think, Ultimate Spinach?
09:37I do feel like the Gardening Australia audience are very interested in, you know, what sort
09:41of greens go in their bodies so that what comes out the next day, you know, fibre and
09:45stuff is good.
09:46A solid on the way out is very important past 30.
09:50That's Gardening Australia all the way through to me.
09:54Okay, Ultimate Spinach is...
09:57A band!
10:00Costa, tell us more.
10:01Oh, now have we offended you?
10:03No.
10:04No.
10:07No, you couldn't offend me if you tried.
10:09I'll give it a go, mate.
10:10I'll give it a go.
10:13No offence, Costa, you look like you live under his bridge.
10:21I'm so sorry.
10:22If my nan ever found out I disrespected you, she would roundhouse kick me in the face.
10:25I'm so sorry.
10:26I grow good spinach under that bridge.
10:29So tell us more about the band Ultimate Spinach.
10:31Ultimate Spinach were a short-lived American psychedelic rock band from Boston, Massachusetts.
10:38They formed in 1967.
10:40Wait for some of these song names.
10:42Mind Flowers, Vision of Your Reality, and the big one, Gilded Lamp of the Cosmos.
10:49Oh, hell yes.
10:50That's why no one's ever heard of them.
10:52Yeah.
10:53You've heard of them, haven't you?
10:54Yeah, I...
10:55Yeah.
10:56Oh, really?
10:57And if they're watching, they've just come up with a new album title, Solid On The Way Out.
11:05Alright, Alan's team, have your pick of the board.
11:10We'll start with Destiny Potato.
11:13Destiny Potato.
11:14Is that a band or a Gardening Australia segment?
11:18Oh.
11:19Well, it feels like a band.
11:21Does it?
11:22Really?
11:26My team are gaslighting.
11:29I'm happy to listen to counter-arguments.
11:32I mean, it could literally go either way, because you know, like you're hanging out,
11:35you think this would be a cool, fun name.
11:37Like, I had a friend at school, and she named her band Slut Cupboard, which I just thought
11:40was heavenly.
11:42So, really.
11:43My one point would be, isn't there a band called Destiny Child?
11:48Yes.
11:49And so if there's a band called Destiny's Child...
11:52Would you go for the double Destiny?
11:53Exactly.
11:54They could be the Irish spin-off of Destiny's Child.
11:56Ah!
11:57Destiny Potato is three old Irish guys who do Destiny's Child songs.
12:03Yeah.
12:04Yeah.
12:05Or they're a Gardening Australia segment.
12:08You got it.
12:09Okay.
12:10So what's your answer?
12:11I'm going to the Slut Cupboard in my mind.
12:12Yeah.
12:14It's a Gardening Australia segment.
12:16Oh!
12:17Okay, let's find out.
12:18Destiny Potato is...
12:20A band!
12:23You should have trusted yourself!
12:25Yeah!
12:26Kosta, tell us more.
12:27Destiny Potato are an experimental project from Belgrade, Serbia.
12:32Oh!
12:33Ironically though, Slut Cupboard is a Gardening Australia story.
12:36That's right.
12:39Pick of the board again.
12:41We'll take your Worm Alert.
12:42Worm Alert.
12:43Is that a band or a Gardening Australia story?
12:45I feel like Worm Alert would be...
12:46Oh!
12:47Oh!
12:48Worm Alert!
12:49Worm Alert!
12:50Worm Alert!
12:51It's got that...
12:52It also feels like what Costa's missus yells out when he's gardening naked.
12:54What?
12:55What?
12:56That's a round!
12:58God, there's no way you don't garden for sure.
13:01That's right!
13:04Just give me an idea for a new TV show, The Roast of Costa.
13:08What do you reckon?
13:09Worm Alert Ban?
13:10My confidence is killed, because I thought that was a band, but now...
13:13I don't know.
13:14Look, let's think about it in terms of Gardening Australia.
13:16What would a Worm Alert be?
13:18Or maybe the worms, Costa, correct me if I'm wrong,
13:21just sometimes you have too many worms, they might eat the root system of a plant.
13:24Oh, Worm Alert.
13:25Worm Alert!
13:26Worm Alert!
13:27Do worms eat roots, Costa?
13:28No.
13:29No, they don't.
13:30No.
13:31There goes my debut on Gardening Australia.
13:34Oh, that was shot minutes ago.
13:38It's Worm Alert!
13:39Like, it sounds like a band.
13:40I'm...
13:41I think you're right.
13:42Like an angry band.
13:43I don't know.
13:44Worm Alert!
13:45Look out for the worms!
13:47Yeah!
13:48Worm Alert is...
13:50A band!
13:51Yeah!
13:52Yeah!
13:53Yeah!
13:54Yeah!
13:55Yeah!
13:56Costa, tell us more about Worm Alert.
13:58Well, Ruva, you carried the team there, because Worm Alert
14:01described themselves as depressing, ghetto internet slams from Fargo, Indiana.
14:09Yep.
14:10I felt that.
14:11Nailed it.
14:12Alright, final pick of the board.
14:15Alan?
14:16Um, look.
14:17I'm gonna choose Laneway Love.
14:19Oh, we all do.
14:20Oh, okay.
14:21But...
14:22I don't even...
14:25What the hell does that mean?
14:27Sometimes, with White Warren you get a bit confused.
14:32Right.
14:33Sometimes it's nice to have a little roll around in a lane.
14:36Laneway Love, is it a band or a Gardening Australia segment?
14:39Okay, let's pull it back to what does Laneway Love have to do with gardening?
14:45Oh, because sometimes you need a little window box to brighten up an otherwise wooden forward slash iron based Laneway.
14:55That was absolutely amazing.
14:56That was good.
14:57That was good.
14:58That was amazing.
14:59That was good.
15:00That was amazing.
15:01Yeah.
15:02Yeah.
15:03Looks like my segment from Gardening Australia has been cut and you're in.
15:06Um, look.
15:07You're in.
15:08That's the best possible explanation for what Laneway Love is.
15:12So, we'll go with it being a Gardening Australia segment.
15:15Oh.
15:16Laneway Love.
15:17Ooh.
15:18Is...
15:19A Gardening Australia segment!
15:20Oh!
15:23Costa, what was Laneway Love?
15:25Well, in this story I met a couple who transformed a neglected urban laneway into a green oasis.
15:31Ooh.
15:32I'm going to be honest, I thought Julia's white wine reference was correct when you started with,
15:36so in this story I met a couple.
15:40Can we have a round of applause for Costa?
15:47At the end of that round, Alan, Robert, Julia are on six points.
15:50Miff, Ruva, Brett, eight points.
15:56The next game tonight is called Art for Art's Sake.
15:58Teams have to identify a musician from a piece of fan art drawn by an admirer and posted online.
16:04Buzzing when you think you know who the musician is.
16:06Okay.
16:07Here is your first drawing.
16:09Oh!
16:10Oh, Allenside, yes.
16:11Oh, God.
16:12It's the girl who keeps, like, bending over and doing the naughty stuff in her concerts at the moment.
16:16And her name is...
16:17It's Sabrina Carpenter.
16:18Sabrina Carpenter.
16:19Yes, it's Sabrina Carpenter.
16:20Well done.
16:21Well done.
16:23That could have been her or Donatella Versace.
16:25Hard to tell.
16:27Next picture, please.
16:30Oh.
16:31Miff side.
16:32Who's that?
16:33It looks like David Hasselhoff, but you'd barely call his a recording career, wouldn't you?
16:37I had a feeling it's Robbie Williams and I think it might be.
16:39Oh, it is.
16:40It is.
16:41It's Robbie Williams.
16:42Yeah.
16:43Okay.
16:44Awesome.
16:45Next one.
16:47Oh!
16:48Yes.
16:49Celine Dion.
16:50Yes, it's Celine Dion.
16:51Come on!
16:53Biggie Smalls.
16:54Yes.
16:55Biggie Smalls.
16:56Yes, it's Biggie Smalls.
16:57Yes!
16:58The trainer of us.
16:59All right, last one.
17:00Myth.
17:01I think it's my friend Kenny Rogers.
17:02I was going to say, love, Rog!
17:03After the surgery.
17:04Yes, it is!
17:05Yes, it is!
17:06Yes, it is!
17:07Yes, it is!
17:08I actually think that is good, because I got it from that.
17:12In terms of the brush strokes, the artist has certainly known when to hold it and to
17:26when to fold it.
17:27Lovely.
17:28He's known when to walk away.
17:30Lovely, Julia Morris.
17:31That's very nice.
17:3275 years in the business.
17:34At the end of that round, Alan, Robert, Julia on seven points.
17:37Myth, Ruva Brett, 12 points.
17:39All right, the next round tonight is called Substitute.
17:45One member of each team will be singing well-known songs using the words of an unrelated
17:49piece of text.
17:50Their team mates have to identify the songs.
17:52Ruva, you're going to be singing for Myth and Brett, and you're taking your lyrics from
17:57Talking Dirty with the Queen of Clean.
18:00Those are your songs.
18:02Ruva!
18:03Thank you!
18:04Thank you!
18:06Thank you, guys.
18:07Thank you, guys.
18:08One, one, please.
18:09Remove perspiration stains from your clothing.
18:18Be applying a paste of baking soda and let it soak for half an hour prior to laundering.
18:33Baking soda will get it done.
18:38Ba-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da.
18:44Isn't she lovely?
18:45Isn't she lovely by Stevie Wonder?
18:47Correct!
18:48Thank you!
18:49Song two, please.
18:50lemon juice is nature's bleach and disinfectant apply to clothes undiluted to remove fruit-based
19:06stains I love that it was beautiful I was like oh I use lemon hell yeah it's hero by Mariah Carey
19:18yeah final song please river oh this is a banger people want everything to smell fresh and clean
19:32there are some ideas to try that will perk your nose right up oh yeah yeah boil a few slices
19:45of lemons in a saucepan to clear the air of the smell of burnt food I nearly sang that
20:02it's back backstreet boys that every everybody everybody by the backstreet boys
20:13amazing all right Julia yeah you're gonna be singing next I can't wait to sing after river
20:28you're gonna be getting your lyrics from the water of life a treatise on urine therapy oh
20:35those are your songs thank you love Julia Morris everyone
20:41there's one objection which may be raised against urine intake it is that the taste could be
20:58revolting that only heroes themselves could drink it but the taste is healthier and it's not as bad as
21:08the Epsom salts fresh morning urine is nearly somewhat a whisper bitter and salty the more frequently it's taken then you can it it's innocuous and it becomes the taste fairies
21:27yes there's no business like show business correct yes and song two please I saw the victim his bowels had not functioned for a week
21:40his body was all swollen testicles as large as tennis ball the victim groans were heart-wrenching and for three days he drank no water
21:57but he passed no urine of his own so I was obliged to give him a pint to drink
22:06is that because you knew the song or you just didn't want to hear it
22:13yeah it was a bit was a bit from column A and a bit from column B yeah throw your arms around me by the
22:18Henderson Colleen correct
22:20okay final song please
22:21um it is argued if a man was going to drink his own urine he would have been born with the instinct to do so
22:33but the urine therapy can cure the common cold as well as arthritis and obesity
22:43I need a wee wee
22:46I need a wee wee
22:50I need a hero
22:53yeah
22:54yes it's holding out for a hero by Bonnie Tyler
22:56holding out for a hero
22:57yeah three points out of three
22:58Julia Miles
23:00I like that
23:01alright at the end of that round Alan, Robert, Julia 10 points
23:04Miff, Ruva, Brett 15 points
23:06alright it's time for the final countdown
23:13one point for a correct answer one point off for a wrong answer
23:16teams hands on buzzers questions start now
23:18Eddie Vedder is the lead vocalist
23:20Pearl Jam
23:21of which band Pearl Jam
23:22what's going on is a 1971 album by which late musician
23:25Marvin Gaye
23:26Marvin Gaye correct
23:27which iconic American folk duo originally went by the name Tom and Jerry
23:31Paul Simon and Garfunkel
23:33yes Simon and Garfunkel
23:35what do these artists all have in common
23:37Fiona Apple, Chuck Berry, Thelma Plum
23:40their surnames are all fruits and vegetables
23:43uh fruits
23:44oh yeah fruits
23:46which item of furniture was Missy Higgins sitting on
23:51yes
23:52oh it was the staple of the 90s
23:55the futon couch
23:57it was the futon couch in her song of the same name
23:59final question complete the lyric
24:01there she was just a walking down the street
24:02singing do
24:04not allowed to sing it
24:05can't afford it
24:06ABC
24:07no judgement
24:08walking down the street
24:10singing
24:11diddy
24:12diddy
24:13dum
24:14diddy
24:15doo
24:16correct
24:17yeah yeah
24:18not only correct but the lawyers say thank you
24:20have a pleasure
24:21you guys can't afford lawyers
24:23so at the end of the show the final scores are
24:27Alan, Robert, Julia ended up on 13 points
24:29Mif, Ruva and Brett won the day in 18 points
24:32give it up for all our guests Ruva Nguena
24:37Brett Blake
24:39Robert Froster and Julia Morris
24:42and our two team captains Mick Warhurst and Alan Brough
24:48to take us out tonight Pseudo Echo are going to play their international smash hit Funky Town
24:54thanks for watching speaks and specs my name is Adam Hills good night Australia
24:57great way brother
24:58fellowship
24:59thank you
25:00thank you
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