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00:00I'll see you next week.
00:30Ta-da! I'm Adam Harrells. Welcome to Sticks and Specs, the music quiz show that's going
00:40to tear the roof off the sucker but has obtained all necessary council approvals first. Joining
00:45me as always are our two team captains. His buddies and him are getting real well known
00:48and the bad guys know her and they leave her alone. It's Alan Brough and Miff Warhurst.
00:52Alan's first guest tonight is an up and coming hip hop artist who loved the TV show Glee
00:59so much as a kid she referred to herself as a Gleek. These days she's just a badass blitz
01:04with no flux to give. Please welcome Devorah. Alan's second guest tonight is a laconic comedian
01:12and actor who also loves playing frisbee. Unlike his stage persona sometimes he does give a
01:17toss. Please welcome Colin Lane. This first guest tonight is a legendary Aussie drummer and
01:25the lead singer of Spiderbait whose iconic stage name is simply his first name but spelt
01:29backwards. Thank god his parents didn't call him Gav. Please welcome Cran. Ms. Final Guest
01:36is a comedian who as a rebellious teenager used to annoy the neighbours by singing Paramore
01:43songs while using her ride on mower. Because nothing encapsulates the spirits of early 2000s
01:49pop punk more than conscientious lawn maintenance please welcome Danielle Walker.
01:56What sort of mower did you have? Oh I don't know because it came with the house and the front
02:06was missing off it so it was just sort of exposed. Like a hot rod mower. Yeah it was exposed and
02:11one time I got it stuck in a ditch and then I had to pull it out and I put my knee on the
02:14muffler so I have a muffler shaped scarf on my knee. Yeah. I thought it was actually pretty cool.
02:21We're also celebrating Australian music tonight with a powerful closing number from singer-songwriter
02:26Grace Cummings. Congratulations are in order. So American Rolling Stone magazine last year
02:35named their top 100 albums of 2024. Oh is that right? I thought it was Australia. That's pretty cool.
02:40No it was American Rolling Stone magazine. I didn't even know that.
02:45So there were only two Australian albums in that 100. Nick Cave and yours.
02:50Oh wow. Well done guys.
02:53Now Devorah. Present.
02:55You won the Triple J competition to appear at Laneway. Yes I did.
02:58And I've noticed that in a lot of your videos and even on stage you have a teddy bear with you. Yes.
03:02It's like your comfort teddy bear. Oli. Oli and friends.
03:06Well we thought just to make you feel at home we've actually got a teddy bear on standby for you.
03:18Alright our first game tonight is called Know Your Product.
03:21Miff and Alan are going to pick a topic. Everybody will be quizzed on that topic.
03:24Your choices tonight are Brit Awards, Aria Awards, Grammy Awards and Felicity Ward.
03:31Alan you can pick first.
03:37We'll have the Grammy Awards please. Yes.
03:40Okay Miff.
03:41And I'm pretty sure I'm sitting next to an Aria Award winner. So yes Aria's.
03:45Okay we'll start with Grammy Awards. Everyone on your buzzers let's play Specs and Specs.
03:49First question for one point. Which artist made history in 2025 becoming the third woman to receive the Grammy Award for best rap album?
03:56Miff side.
03:57Do-chi.
03:58It was Do-chi. Yes correct.
04:00Two points.
04:01Identified both members of this hip hop duo who famously boycotted the Grammy Awards.
04:06It's um...
04:07The slapper.
04:08I'm sorry Will Smith.
04:11Will Smith.
04:12Will Smith.
04:13Jazzy, Jazzy something.
04:15DJ Jazzy Jeff.
04:16DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince also known as Will Smith.
04:19Two points.
04:20Your final question for three points. Order these three artists from least to most Grammy wins.
04:29I unfortunately know who is third.
04:31Oh who's third?
04:32Miss Nicki Minaj.
04:33Nicki Minaj is third. She has no Grammys.
04:36No Grammys.
04:37Um I think I'm just gonna, I'm gonna lock it in with Erykah Badu, Kendrick Lamar then Nicki Minaj.
04:43No you got one point. You got one point. Erykah Badu, five. Kendrick Lamar, 22.
04:50Won a Grammy last year for his diss track about Canadian rapper Drake.
04:53Oh.
04:54In a ceremony that saw the auditorium join in with lines from the track.
04:58I love that.
04:59Dvorah do you have any beefs with anyone?
05:01I have beef with the prices at Kohl's.
05:03I'm...
05:04Yes. Yes. Yes.
05:08I mean while we're talking food beefs Danielle you have food beef right?
05:14Yeah well I've received a lot of angry emails from grain farmers in America.
05:18Um because there is a different Danielle Walker who they confuse me with.
05:22Who's a New York Times best selling author.
05:24Who's a celiac.
05:25Um.
05:26Oh.
05:27And she's written a book called Against All Grains.
05:31And she's...
05:32Against all grains.
05:34And they keep emailing me saying I'm ruining their industry.
05:38And I have to say...
05:40I...
05:41I eat...
05:42Grain.
05:43And...
05:44Like so much grain.
05:46If you want to send me some free grain I'll...
05:49Promote it or something to help out.
05:51I don't know.
05:52Meanwhile there's a celiac author in New York getting emails saying you were great on Taskmaster.
05:56Yeah.
05:57Alright let's move on to ARIA Awards.
05:59Oh.
06:00Your first question for one point.
06:01In 2007 the ARIA Awards found itself in hot water after viewers realised they were being
06:06subjected to an unusual marketing technique.
06:09What was it?
06:10Oh.
06:11That was sub...
06:12What do you call it?
06:13Subliminal marketing.
06:14They were chucking like images in the broadcast really quickly.
06:17Yes correct.
06:18Subliminal advertising.
06:19It was bizarre.
06:20It was as they showed the nominees there'd be a flash that would go you know the category
06:24and then there'd be the sponsor just appearing for a second.
06:27Oh.
06:28I know and look I just want to say we here at the ABC think that is absolutely appalling
06:32and would never sing...
06:34Never sing so low as to slip in some subliminal advertising during a show.
06:40Alright for two points.
06:42In 1995 one of the members of Silverchair knocked himself out with an instrument while performing in front of the ARIA audience.
06:48Oh yes.
06:49Oh.
06:50That's a two part question isn't it?
06:51Yeah.
06:52So it's a bass player.
06:54Okay.
06:55Is that the first part correct?
06:57No.
06:59So I'm going to ask this side.
07:01Which member was it and what was the instrument?
07:03It was the drummer.
07:04Yes.
07:05And his name is Ben Gillies.
07:06And what was the instrument?
07:07The instrument was the drum kit.
07:08Yes.
07:09He head butted the drums.
07:10It looked sick.
07:11I was there.
07:12It was awesome.
07:13And then he knocked himself unconscious.
07:15Yes.
07:16Oh my days.
07:17Final question for the three points.
07:18Three of these artists are currently tied for the most best female artist award at the Arias.
07:23Which three?
07:25It's got to be Sia.
07:27It's got to be Sia.
07:28That's one.
07:29Kylie and Delta.
07:31We'll go Kylie and Delta.
07:32No.
07:33So I'm going to let you have a crack at the other two.
07:35Sorry Miff.
07:36That's alright.
07:37So Sia is correct.
07:38Who are the other two?
07:39I'm imagining it's Tina Arena and probably Casey Chambers.
07:44You got Casey Chambers correct.
07:47The other one was Wendy Matthew.
07:48Oh!
07:49I'm sorry.
07:50Alright at the end of that round, Al and Devorah Collin are on four points.
07:54Miff Cram Janiel five points.
07:55Round two tonight is called Look What They've Done To My Song Ma.
08:03Teams have to buzz in and identify the tunes being performed live in the studio.
08:07Tonight your songs are being played by Miles Brown on The Theremin.
08:11Cheers.
08:12Oh yeah.
08:13Cheers.
08:14Should we have song one please.
08:16Yes.
08:17Is it a fine line between pleasure and pain by The Divinals?
08:34Yes it is.
08:35That just sounds so amazing. It makes you want to cry. You're incredible. That's sick.
08:43Can you play Good Vibrations by the Beach Boys?
08:46Oh yeah.
08:49Is that the most requested theremin song?
08:52It's like a stairway to heaven.
08:54And for those watching at home, not actually played on a theremin.
08:59True. It's a tenor, invented by this guy who couldn't play the theremin.
09:05Wow. There's a beef.
09:08Next song please.
09:22Yes?
09:23It's Buddy Holly by Weezer.
09:24It is Buddy Holly by Weezer.
09:28Alright, final song please.
09:35Yes, Miff.
09:41If I go out in the rain.
09:44It's Rain by Dragon.
09:45Wow.
09:46Yeah, correct. Amazing.
09:47Can we have a round of applause for Miles and the theremin?
09:53That was amazing.
09:55At the end of that round the scores are Alan, Dvorah, Colin five points.
09:58Miff, Cran, Danielle.
09:59Seven points.
10:00The next game tonight is a new one and it's called Instrumental as Anything.
10:10I'm going to show each team a word.
10:12Teams have to decide is it an instrument or is it anything.
10:15Miff's team, you can go first.
10:17Is a hydrolophone an instrument or an early underwater communication device?
10:22Is it too obvious that it is a phone?
10:24I reckon it's, I reckon it, so they try and trick you on this show.
10:27I know.
10:28They put things out there, they try and, I reckon my instincts, my speaks and specs instinct
10:33sells me that there's every chance that this is an instrument.
10:36Okay, we'll go with that.
10:37A hydrolophone is a tonal acoustic instrument that's played by direct physical contact with water
10:42and it looks like this.
10:45Aww.
10:46Oh, wow.
10:47It's beautiful.
10:48You'd get a bit of the dishpan hands after a long concert though, wouldn't you?
10:52Probably just ten kids at school just going, I just want a drink, mate.
10:55Just stop.
10:57Oh, listen, while we're talking about phones though, Dvorah,
11:00is it true you have a diabolical amount of unread text messages?
11:04Look, I will say that the notification number got up to the four digits.
11:11Do you have any friends left?
11:14Well, see what they do is they send a carrier pigeon.
11:20Alan, your team's up next.
11:22Is a gassoon an instrument or 18th century Irish slang for a serving boy?
11:29It seems too close to bassoon.
11:31Yeah, that's what I was thinking.
11:32Like, you've got a bassoon.
11:34I've got s-
11:35Why would someone go, we need a different sort of bassoon?
11:39Well, maybe that's why.
11:41I've got some gossip but I've got to tell somebody really soon.
11:44I think it's Irish slang for a serving boy.
11:49Okay, gassoon is an Irish slang word for serving boys and the French word bassoon.
11:54That's cramming his youth.
11:57Yeah.
11:58All right, Niff, you're up next.
12:01Here's your word.
12:02Is a wham-ola an instrument or a board game based on the songs of the 80s band Wham?
12:07Oh, it's not a game.
12:08I mean, it has to be a board game.
12:10So it's not a breakfast cereal that they brought out when they were...
12:13No.
12:14Yes, it's a George Michael muesli.
12:16Does that make you go-go after you wake up?
12:24It sounds like something you'd shout.
12:26Wham-ola!
12:27Like board games, yeah.
12:28Would they really release a board game called Wham-ola?
12:30They were pop stars though.
12:31They did everything.
12:32They were gorgeous.
12:33I loved all of them.
12:34I don't think they came up with the idea.
12:35I think someone in their marketing team said, we've got a game.
12:38And then they went, yeah, whatever.
12:40God, how cynical.
12:41Imagine when a marketing team say, oh, we've got a board game.
12:44And you go, yeah, sure, put our faces on it.
12:51Alright, it's got to be a board game.
12:53A Wham-ola is an instrument with a whammy, but yes, it will scream that you pluck, slap
12:58or hit with a drum stick and it looks like this.
13:03That's not an instrument.
13:04That's awful.
13:05That's sick.
13:06That's kind of funky.
13:08If Tony Levin played that, it would sound sick.
13:11I love that you love different types of music as well.
13:13Oh, yeah.
13:14You have a bit of a soft spot for Enya, is that right?
13:16I love the first Enya record called The Celts, released in 1983.
13:21Yeah.
13:22It was a soundtrack when she first left the family and left Clannard.
13:25And I listen to this record almost every day.
13:27It's beautiful.
13:28She made all her millions and she bought a castle, lives in it on her own with her eight cats
13:33and she is living her best life.
13:35Alan, here is your last word.
13:40Is a flexitone an instrument or an exercise device advertised on late night television?
13:45That's good.
13:46That does look like ITPN.
13:48Surely not an exercise equipment.
13:50It just sounds too much like a piece of exercise equipment.
13:52Or is that?
13:53Because it is a piece of exercise equipment.
13:55Flexitone.
13:56It's messing up with your mind.
13:58It's messing with you.
13:59Alan, are you alright?
14:01As soon as you started talking about Enya, you just went off into somewhere else.
14:08I was talking about Clannard.
14:11And I...
14:12A big Clannard fan.
14:13How good is that?
14:14How good is that?
14:15Harry's Game.
14:16Harry's Game.
14:17Which is a fantastic show.
14:19Yeah.
14:20Harry's Game is amazing.
14:21Harry's Game is so good.
14:22You know...
14:23It's the best on here.
14:24It's the best on here.
14:25You've got to see it on...
14:26It's on YouTube.
14:27Right?
14:28It's a little bit balanced.
14:29Okay.
14:30It's really good.
14:31Anyway, we're back.
14:32It's so funny.
14:34Tell us more about...
14:35The flexitone.
14:37Is the flexitone...
14:40Is the flexitone...
14:41It's really good.
14:45Sorry.
14:47Anyway, we're back.
14:49It's so funny.
14:51Tell us more about it.
14:55The flexitone.
14:57Is the flexitone an instrument or an exercise device
15:01advertised on late-night television?
15:03I think it's an instrument.
15:05Yeah?
15:07I feel like it's not some type of abductor type.
15:11Flexitone.
15:13Flexitone.
15:15You think it's a musical instrument or you think it's an exercise equipment?
15:19Alan?
15:21Which one are you nodding violently about?
15:27The one that you as the captain think is the correct one.
15:31Musical instrument.
15:35Alan?
15:37It's a musical instrument.
15:39The flexitone is a percussion instrument facing a flexible metal sheet often using classical cartoons.
15:43It's Glissando Effect!
15:49There's so many people I want to thank.
15:53This is what the flexitone looks like.
15:55Just enjoy this.
15:57Yep.
15:59Yep.
16:01Yep.
16:03Yep.
16:05Wow.
16:07Can I ask what the metric is between just something that can make noise and an instrument?
16:11Yeah.
16:13This is the pad-a-phone.
16:15The pen-a-bana-kira.
16:19At the end of that round, the scores are Alan, Dvorah, Colin on seven points.
16:27Miff, Cram, Danielle...
16:28Eight points!
16:29Alright, the next round tonight is called Substitute.
16:35One member of each team will be singing well-known songs using the words of an unrelated piece of text.
16:41Your teammates have to identify the songs.
16:43Cram, you'll be singing for Miff and Danielle and you'll be taking your lyrics from...
16:47Against All Grain, Delectable Paleo Recipes to Eat Well and Feel Great by Danielle Walker.
16:55Those are your songs, there's your book, Cram!
17:03Okay, song one please.
17:05Paleo is not so much, a diet is a way of life.
17:12In time it will come naturally, and you'll know what to eat, eat, eat.
17:21Grains!
17:22Lactose and refined sugars.
17:26Yes.
17:27You've got to hide your...
17:30Yes.
17:31...love away that one.
17:32Yes, correct, well done.
17:33You've got to hide your love away by the Beatles.
17:37Song two please.
17:38Okay.
17:39I can trace my passion for cooking to a failure in the kitchen.
17:48Was my first time to attempt cooking on my own.
17:55I vividly remember serving chicken parmigiano.
18:02But when we got into the chicken, it was undercooked.
18:09Because undercooked chicken was...
18:14AC, DC, TNT.
18:15Yes!
18:17Yes!
18:19Okay, final song please.
18:21Lactable Paleo Recipes to Eat Well.
18:27Oh!
18:28Lemonade and carbohydrates can reduce...
18:32Inflammation.
18:35Some care for spinach, chicken for beet.
18:37Let's parley, parley, parley, parley, parley, parley, oh.
18:42Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
18:44Oh!
18:45Yeah!
18:46Yeah!
18:48It's rock and roll.
18:49It's rock and roll by Led Zeppelin.
18:51Three out of three.
18:55Cole, you're going to be singing for Alan and Devorah.
18:57Yes.
18:58And you're going to be taking your lyrics from...
19:02Printouts of Devorah's unread text messages.
19:05Yes.
19:14Volume one.
19:18I didn't realise I was going to be out from behind the panel.
19:21Lucky I've got my good going out jeans on.
19:25Alright.
19:29What are you, a farmer?
19:31Cole, before you start this, this might be slightly triggering for Devorah,
19:36so can we bring in the support Teddy, please?
19:38Aww.
19:42There you go.
19:43There you go.
19:44Just have a seat there next to Devorah.
19:45I know this is supposed to support me and my triggers,
19:48but it is quite daunting.
19:51Full on.
19:52Big eyeball!
19:57Okay, song one please, Cole.
19:58Hey sis, will you be coming back
20:03to Sydney on the 10th?
20:07If so, I was wondering
20:10if you could bring a friend's laptop with you.
20:14I'll be going to Melbourne
20:17from Auckland
20:20Do you think you could bring it back for me?
20:23Hey, did you get this?
20:29Will you reply?
20:32Sis, really, are you okay?
20:39Sis, are you there?
20:41Can you answer?
20:43Never mind, I've found another way.
20:45Angry red face, angry red face, sad face, angry red face.
20:54I think you know what the song was.
20:56Piano Man.
20:57Piano Man by Billy Joel.
21:02Song two please.
21:04Here we go.
21:05Double fees for foreign students, free for Australians.
21:09Take your super anytime, 3% home loans.
21:14Cut immigration pie, 80%
21:17Forgive student debt.
21:19Authorised by H. Fong, Trumpet of Patriots.
21:22Levitating by Dua Lipa, but there's a sample that she uses.
21:28It was Levitating by Dua Lipa!
21:33And your final song please, Cole.
21:35Hey Duvar, it's Janna.
21:38We've had a strange request
21:41To go on spics and specs
21:44Please let me know what you think
21:48Did you get my last message?
21:52We really need to give them an answer
21:55Okay, I've said yes on your behalf
21:59But I'd really appreciate if you'd get back to me
22:03Dvar, did you get this?
22:06It's a good opportunity
22:08You've got to sit next to Cullen Lane
22:11Have you ever heard of him?
22:13What?
22:21Are you okay? Can you let me know?
22:24Woman shrugging?
22:26Question mark
22:28They need to know if I can lock this in
22:30Adam Hills won't wait forever
22:33Adam!
22:35Adam!
22:37Adam!
22:39Adam!
22:40Adam!
22:42Adam!
22:44Come on, happy everybody!
22:46Love!
22:48Love!
22:50Love!
22:52Love!
22:54Love!
22:56Amen!
22:58Crocodile rock something!
23:00Crocodile rock something!
23:02Yeah!
23:03At the end of that round, Alan, Dvorah and Colin are on 10 points
23:08Smith, Crane, Danny Elf!
23:0911 points!
23:14Alright, it's time for the final countdown
23:17One point for a correct answer, one point off for a wrong answer
23:20Teams, hands on buzzers, your questions start now
23:22In Glee's first Diva off, Rachel and Kurt compete to sing which song from Wicked?
23:27Defying Gravity
23:29In 2025, which British rock band celebrated the 20th anniversary of their debut album Silent Alarm?
23:35Block Party
23:37Correct!
23:39California by Phantom Planet was the theme song to which noughties TV hit?
23:43Is it the OC?
23:45Yes, it's the OC!
23:47The musical Miss Saigon is based on which opera?
23:50Madam Butterfly
23:51Which Superstar performed at the Super Bowl whilst pregnant?
23:53Rihanna
23:56Yes!
23:58The 1991 hit protest song Treaty was released by?
24:00Yothy Yindi
24:02Your final question
24:04In OutKast's song Roses, what do roses really smell like?
24:08Roses really smell like poo-oo- poo-poo!
24:14So at the end of the show, the final scores are
24:15The scores are Miff, Crane, Danielle, 12 points, Alan, Devorah, Colin, 15 points!
24:21Yes! Yes! Yes!
24:25Would you please thank all our guests, Crane, Danielle Walker, Devorah and Colin Lane.
24:33And our two team captains, Miff, Orhurst and Alan Breaux.
24:39Taking us out tonight, it's Grace Cummings with a song from the album that made American Rolling Stone's
24:44Top 100, it's called Everybody Somebody.
24:47Thanks for watching Speaks and Speaks, my name's Adam Hills, goodnight Australia.
24:56You just don't know what you're missing
25:03Every day without me
25:09And every day without her
25:14Oh, you miss it so much
25:21You miss it in a sweet touch
25:27And somebody to be holding you
25:33And oh, somebody to be praising you
25:37And you're missing you
25:38And you're missing you
25:40And you're missing you
25:42So much
25:44Smoke in your room till the sun rises
25:59And tell yourself
26:01And tell yourself
26:02That you're number one
26:05And maybe write a letter
26:07To your side
26:08If you miss him so much
26:13Miss him so much, but you'll be there waiting at a door to a stage, you know, for some people that you think you know, and you're missing so much.
26:43Everybody knows that you're missing.
27:13But you want to know who you are.
27:21Cry, cry, cry.
27:25You want to know who you are.
27:29You want to know who you are.
27:33You want to know who you are.
27:35You want to know who you are.
27:45You want to know who you are.
28:01You want to know who you are.
28:17You want to know who you are.
28:21You want to know who you are.
28:23You want to know who you are.
28:23Before we got married...
28:25Just L
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