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00:28Today I'm Adam Halls. Welcome to Spicks and Specs, the music quiz show that's going to
00:35tear the roof off the sucker but has obtained all necessary council approvals first. Joining
00:40me as always are our two team captains. His buddies and him are getting real well known
00:43and the bad guys know her and they leave her alone. It's Alan Brough and Miff Warhurst.
00:50Alan's first guest tonight is an up and coming hip hop artist who loved the TV show Glee
00:54so much as a kid she referred to herself as a Gleek. These days she's just a badass blitz
00:59with no flux to give. Please welcome Devorah. Alan's second guest tonight is a laconic comedian
01:07and actor who also loves playing frisbee. Unlike his stage persona sometimes he does give a
01:13toss. Please welcome Colin Lane. This first guest tonight is a legendary Aussie drummer and
01:20the lead singer of Spider Boat whose iconic stage name is simply his first name but spelt
01:24backwards. Thank God his parents didn't call him Gav. Please welcome Cram.
01:28Ms. Final Guest is a comedian who as a rebellious teenager used to annoy the neighbours by singing
01:38Paramore songs while using her ride on mower. Because nothing encapsulates the spirits of
01:43early 2000s pop-punk more than conscientious lawn maintenance. Please welcome Danielle Walker.
01:56What sort of mower did you have? I don't know because it came with the house. The front
02:01was missing off it so it was just sort of exposed. It's like a hot rod mower. Yeah it was exposed
02:05and one time I got it stuck in a ditch and then I had to pull it out and I put my knee
02:09on the muffler so I have a muffler shaped scarf on my knee. Wow. Yeah. I thought it was actually
02:15pretty cool. We're also celebrating Australian music tonight with a powerful closing number
02:21from singer songwriter Grace Cummings. Congratulations are in order. So American Rolling Stone magazine
02:30last year named their top 100 albums of 2024. Oh is that right? I thought it was Australia.
02:36That's pretty cool. No it was American Rolling Stone magazine. I didn't even know that.
02:40So there were only two Australian albums in that 100. Nick Cave and yours.
02:46Oh wow. Now Devorah. Present. You won the Triple J competition to appear at Laneway. Yes I did.
02:54And I've noticed that in a lot of your videos and even on stage you have a teddy bear with
02:58you. Yes. It's like your comfort teddy bear. Ollie. Ollie and friends. Well we thought just
03:03to make you feel at home we've actually got a teddy bear on standby for you.
03:05All right our first game tonight is called Know Your Product. Miff and Alan are going to pick a
03:17topic. Everybody will be quizzed on that topic. Your choices tonight are Brit Awards, Aria Awards,
03:24Grammy Awards and Felicity Award.
03:26Alan you can pick first. We'll have the Grammy Awards please. Yes. Okay Miff. And I'm pretty
03:37sure I'm sitting next to an Aria Award winner. So yes Aria's. Okay we'll start with Grammy
03:42Awards. Everyone on your buzzers let's play Speaks and Specs. First question for one point.
03:46Which artist made history in 2025 becoming the third woman to receive the Grammy Award for
03:51best rap album. Miff side. Do-chi. It was Do-chi. Yes correct. Two points. Identify both
03:58members of this hip-hop duo who famously boycotted the Grammy Awards. The slapper.
04:03Will Smith. Will Smith. Jazzy. Jazzy something. DJ Jazzy Jeff. DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince
04:14also known as Will Smith. Two points. Your final question for three points. Order these three
04:21artists from least to most Grammy wins. I unfortunately know who is third. Oh who's
04:27third? Miss Nicki Minaj. Nicki Minaj is third. She has no Grammys. No Grammys. Um I think
04:34I'm just gonna I'm gonna lock it in with Erykah Badu, Kendrick Lamar, then Nicki Minaj. No you
04:39got one point. You got one point. Erykah Badu five. Kendrick Lamar 22. Won a Grammy last year
04:47for his diss track about Canadian rapper Drake. Oh. In a ceremony that saw the auditorium
04:52join in with lines from the track. I love that. Devorah do you have any beefs with anyone?
04:57I have beef with the prices at Kohl's. I'm... Yes. Yes. Yes. I mean while we're talking food
05:07beefs, Danielle you have food beef right? Yeah well I've received a lot of angry emails from
05:12grain farmers in America. Um because there is a different Danielle Walker who they confuse
05:17me with who's a New York Times best-selling author who's a celiac. Um. Oh. And she's written
05:25a book called Against All Grains and she's... Against all grains. And they keep emailing me saying
05:32I'm ruining their industry and I have to say I eat grain and like so much grain. If you want to send
05:43me some free grain I'll promote it or something to help out. I don't know. Meanwhile there's a celiac
05:49author in New York getting emails saying you were great on Task Force. Alright let's move on to ARIA
05:54Awards. Your first question for one point. In 2007 the ARIA Awards found itself in hot water after viewers
06:01realised they were being subjected to an unusual marketing technique. What was it? Oh. That was
06:08what do you call it? Subliminal marketing. They were chucking like images in the broadcast really
06:12quickly. Yes correct. Subliminal advertising. It was bizarre. It was as they showed the nominees
06:17there'd be a flash that would go you know the category and then there'd be the sponsor just appearing
06:22for a second. I know and look I just want to say we here at the ABC think that is absolutely appalling
06:27and would never sink so low as to slip in subliminal advertising during a show.
06:36Alright for two points. In 1995 one of the members of Silverchair knocked himself out with an
06:41instrument while performing in front of the ARIA audience. Oh yes. That's a two-part question isn't it?
06:47Yeah. Though it's a bass player. Okay. Is that the first part correct? No. Oh. So I'm going to ask
06:55this side. Which member was it and what was the instrument? It was the drummer. Yes. And his name
07:01is Ben Gillies. And what was the instrument? The instrument was the drum kit. He head-butted the
07:05drums. It looked sick. I was there. It was awesome. And then he knocked himself unconscious. Oh my
07:11day. Final question for three points. Three of these artists are currently tied for the most best
07:17female artist award at the Arias. Which three? It's got to be Sia. It's got to be Sia. That's one.
07:27We'll go Kylie and Delta. No. So I'm going to let you have a crack at the other two. Sorry Miff. So Sia
07:32is correct. Who are the other two? I'm imagining it's Tina Arena and probably Casey Chambers.
07:40You got Casey Chambers correct. The other one was Wendy Matthews. Oh. Oh. Sorry.
07:46All right. At the end of that round, Alan, Devorah, Colin are on four points. Miff Cram, Danielle, five points.
07:55Round two tonight is called Look What They've Done To My Song Ma. Teams have to buzz in and identify
08:00the tunes being performed live in the studio. Tonight, your songs are being played by Miles Brown on The
08:05Theremin. Could we have Song One, please?
08:12Yes. Is it a fine line between Pleasure and Pain by the Divinals? Yes, it is. Oh. Yeah.
08:31Wow. Dude, that just sounds so amazing. That makes me want to cry. You're incredible. That's sick.
08:38Can you play Good Vibrations by the Beach Boys? You know, the...
08:44Oh, yeah. Is that the most requested theremin song?
08:47It's like the stairway to heaven. Easily. Easily.
08:51And for those watching at home, not actually played on a theremin. True. Oh.
08:55It's a tenor and, yeah, invented by this guy who couldn't play the theremin. Wow. There's a beef.
09:04Next song, please.
09:18Yes. It's Buddy Holly by Weezer. It is Buddy Holly by Weezer.
09:22All right. All right, final song, please.
09:36Yes, riff. If I go out in the rain... It's Rain by Dragon. Yeah, correct. Amazing.
09:43Can we have a round of applause for Miles and the theremin?
09:49That was amazing. At the end of that round, the scores are Alan, Devorah, Colin, five points.
09:54Miff, Cran, Danielle, seven points.
10:02The next game tonight is a new one and it's called Instrumental as Anything. I'm going to show each team a word.
10:07Teams have to decide is it an instrument or is it anything. Miff's team, you can go first.
10:13Is a hydrolophone an instrument or an early underwater communication device?
10:18Is it too obvious that it is a phone?
10:20I reckon it's... I reckon it's... So they try and trick you on this show.
10:22I know.
10:23They put things out there. They try and... I reckon my instincts, my spics and specs instinct sells me.
10:29There's every chance this is an instrument.
10:32Okay, we'll go with that. A hydrolophone is a tonal acoustic instrument that's played
10:36by direct physical contact with water and it looks like this.
10:42Oh, wow. It's beautiful.
10:44You'd get a bit of the dishpan hands after a long concert though, wouldn't you?
10:47Probably just 10 kids at school just going, I just want a drink, mate.
10:53Oh, listen, while we're talking about phones though, Devorah,
10:56is it true you have a diabolical amount of unread text messages?
11:00Look, I will say that the notification number got up to the... the four digits.
11:08Do you have any friends, Lee?
11:10Well, see, what they do is they send a carrier pigeon.
11:16Alan, your team's up next.
11:17Is a gassoon an instrument or 18th century Irish slang for a serving boy?
11:24It seems too close to bassoon.
11:27Yeah, that's what I was thinking.
11:28Like, you've got a bassoon, why would someone go, we need a different sort of bassoon?
11:36Maybe that's why.
11:37I've got some gossip, but I've got to tell somebody really soon.
11:41I think it's Irish slang for a serving boy.
11:45Okay, gassoon is an Irish slang word for servant boys and the French word bas-sham.
11:52That's Cram and his youth.
11:53Yeah.
11:56All right, you're up next, here's your word.
11:58Is a wham-ola an instrument or a board game based on the songs of the 80s band Wham?
12:03Oh, is that okay?
12:05I mean, it has to be a board game.
12:06So it's not a breakfast cereal that they brought out when they were, yeah?
12:09Nah.
12:10Yes, it's a George Michael muesli.
12:13Does that make you go-go after you wake up?
12:15It sounds like something you'd shout.
12:22Wham-ola!
12:22Like board games, yeah.
12:23Would they really release a board game for Wham-ola?
12:26They were pop stars.
12:27They were gorgeous, I loved all of them.
12:29I don't think they came up with the idea.
12:31I think someone in their marketing team said, we've got a game and then they went, yeah, whatever.
12:36God, how cynical.
12:37Imagine when a marketing team say, oh, we've got a board game and you go, yeah, sure, put our faces on it.
12:42All right, it's got to be a board game.
12:48A Wham-ola is an instrument with a whammy, but it's a good scream that you pluck, slap or hit with a drumstick and it looks like this.
12:59That's not an instrument.
13:00That's awful.
13:01That's sick.
13:01That's kind of funky.
13:03Like, if Tony Levin played that, it would sound sick.
13:06I love that you love different types of music as well.
13:09Oh, yeah.
13:09You have a bit of a soft spot for Enya, is that right?
13:12I love the first Enya record called The Celts, released in 1983.
13:17Yeah.
13:17It was a soundtrack when she first left the family and left Clannard.
13:21And I listen to this record almost every day.
13:23It's beautiful.
13:24She made all her millions and she bought a castle, lives in it on her own with her eight cats and she is living her best life.
13:30All right, Alan, here is your last word.
13:36Is a flexitone an instrument or an exercise device advertised on late night television?
13:42That does look like ITVN.
13:44Surely not an exercise equipment.
13:45It just sounds too much like a piece of exercise equipment.
13:48Or is that because it is a piece of exercise equipment?
13:50Flexitone.
13:52It's messing up with your mind.
13:54It's messing with you.
13:55I...
13:56Alan, are you all right?
14:00As soon as he started talking about Enya, you just went off into somewhere else.
14:03Oh!
14:04I was talking about Clannard and I'm a big Clannard fan.
14:09How good is that?
14:09How good is that?
14:10Oh!
14:11Harry's Game.
14:12Harry's Game.
14:13Oh, yeah.
14:13Which is a fantastic show.
14:15Yeah, Jacob's shit, Jacob's shit.
14:18Oh, it's an amazing show.
14:19Harry's Game is so good.
14:22Yeah, it's all right.
14:24You know, Harry's Game, you've got to see it on, like, it's on YouTube, right?
14:31It's a little bit violent, okay?
14:40It's really good.
14:42Sorry.
14:44Anyway, we're back.
14:45It's so funny.
14:48Tell us more about...
14:52The Flexitone.
14:54Is the Flexitone an instrument or an exercise device
14:57advertised on late night television?
14:59I think it's an instrument.
15:02Yeah?
15:02Because it's...
15:03You don't see...
15:03Like, I feel like it's not like some type of ab...
15:05abductor type...
15:08Flexitone.
15:09Flexitone.
15:10Flexitone.
15:10Like a...
15:12You think it's a musical instrument or you think it's an exercise equipment?
15:14Alan?
15:15Uh...
15:20Which one are you nodding violently about?
15:23The one that you as the captain think is the correct one!
15:28Musical instrument.
15:29Alan?
15:31It's a musical instrument.
15:33The Flexitone is a percussion instrument facing a flexible metal sheet often using classical cartoons with
15:39Glissando Effect!
15:40There's so many people I want to thank.
15:49This is what the Flexitone looks like.
15:51Just enjoy this.
15:52Can I ask what the metric is between just something that can make noise and an instrument?
16:07Yeah!
16:09This is the Pada-phone!
16:11Yeah!
16:19At the end of that round, the scores are Alan, Dvorah, Colin on seven points.
16:23Mif, Cram, Danielle...
16:24Eight points!
16:24All right, the next round tonight is called Substitute.
16:30One member of each team will be singing well-known songs using the words of an unrelated piece of text.
16:36Your teammates have to identify the songs.
16:38Cram, you'll be singing for Mif and Danielle, and you'll be taking your lyrics from Against All Grain,
16:44Delectable Polio Recipes to Eat Well and Feel Great by Danielle Walker.
16:51Those are your songs.
16:52There's your book, Cram!
16:58Okay, song one, please.
17:01Palio is not so much, a diet is a way of life.
17:06In time, it will come naturally, and you'll know what to eat, eat, eat.
17:17Grains, lactose, and really fine sugar.
17:23Yes.
17:23You've got to hide your love away.
17:27That's correct.
17:28Well done.
17:28You've got to hide your love away by the Beatles.
17:33Song two, please.
17:34Okay.
17:34I can trace my passion for cooking to a failure in the kitchen.
17:44Was my first time to attempt cooking on my own.
17:50I vividly remember serving chicken parmigiano.
17:58But when we cut into the chicken, it was undercooked.
18:04Because I'm undercooked.
18:06Chicken and bread.
18:08And you didn't.
18:10A, C, D, C, T, N, T.
18:11Yes!
18:12Yes!
18:14Okay, final song, please.
18:16Delectable Polio Recipes to Eat Well.
18:23Oh, lemonade and carbohydrates can reduce inflammation.
18:29So I'm careful for spinach, chicken with beat.
18:33Let's parley, parley, parley, parley, parley, parley, oh.
18:37La, la, la.
18:37Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
18:39Oh, yorra!
18:40Yeah!
18:44Rock and roll.
18:45It was rock and roll by Led Zeppelin.
18:46Three out of three.
18:51Cole, you're going to be singing for Alan and Devorah.
18:53Yes.
18:54And you're going to be taking your lyrics from...
18:56Printouts of Devorah's unread text messages.
19:01Oh!
19:10Volume one.
19:13I didn't realise I was going to be out from behind the panel.
19:16Lucky I've got my good going out jeans on.
19:19Um...
19:21All right.
19:24What are you, a farmer?
19:28Cole, before you start this,
19:29this might be slightly triggering for Devorah,
19:31so can we bring in the support Teddy, please?
19:33Aww!
19:38There you go.
19:38Just have a seat there next to Devorah.
19:40Aw.
19:41I know this is supposed to support me and my triggers,
19:43but it is quite daunting.
19:47Full on.
19:47Big eyeball!
19:49Okay, song one, please call.
19:55Hey sis, will you be coming back to Sydney on the 10th?
20:02If so, I was wondering if you could bring a friend's laptop with you.
20:09I'll be going to Melbourne from Auckland.
20:15Do you think you could bring it back for me?
20:20Hey, did you get this?
20:22Sis, will you reply?
20:26Sis, really, are you okay?
20:34Sis, are you there?
20:36Can you answer?
20:37Never mind, I've found another way.
20:41Angry red face, angry red face, sad face, angry red face.
20:50I think you know what the song was.
20:51Uh, Piano Man.
20:52Piano Man by Billy Joel.
20:54Oh.
20:54Yeah.
20:57Song two, please.
20:58Oh, God.
20:59Here we go.
20:59Double fees for foreign students, free for Australians.
21:05Take your super anytime, 3% home loans.
21:10Cut immigration pie, 80% forgive student debt.
21:14Authorized by H. Fong, Trumpet of Patriots.
21:20Levitating by Dua Lipa.
21:21But there's a sample that she uses.
21:23It was Levitating by Dua Lipa.
21:28And your final song, please, Cole.
21:29Hey Duvar, it's Jana.
21:33We've had a strange request to go on spics and specs.
21:40Please let me know what you think.
21:44Did you get my last message?
21:47We really need to give them an answer.
21:51Okay, I've said yes on your behalf.
21:54But I'd really appreciate if you'd get back to me.
21:58Duvar, did you get this?
22:01It's a good opportunity.
22:04You've got to sit next to Cullen Lane.
22:06Have you ever heard of him?
22:09Are you okay?
22:17Can you let me know?
22:19Woman shrugging, question mark.
22:23They need to know if I can lock this in.
22:25Adam Hills won't wait forever.
22:28Adam Hills!
22:31Adam Hills!
22:34Adam Hills!
22:37Come on ammy everybody.
22:44La ja ja moins!
22:46La ja la la la…
22:47La ja la la…
22:49La ja la la…
22:51The Dominican Classes I'll rock something.
22:55The Cruiser dominates by Eldon John!
22:57herkes praise for honor and feelingá»™t.
23:01Alan, Dvorah and Colin are on 10 points.
23:03Smith, Cran, Danielle.
23:0411 points.
23:09All right, it's time for the final countdown.
23:12One point for a correct answer, one point off for a wrong answer.
23:15Teams, hands on buzzers, your questions start now.
23:17In Glee's first Diva Off,
23:19Rachel and Kurt compete to sing which song from Wicked?
23:22Defying Gravity.
23:23Defying Gravity, yes, correct.
23:24In 2025, which British rock band celebrated the 20th anniversary
23:28of their debut album, Silent Alarm?
23:30Block Party.
23:32Correct.
23:33California by Phantom Planet was the theme song
23:36to which noughties TV hit?
23:38Is it the OC?
23:40Yes, it's the OC.
23:42The musical Miss Saigon is based on which opera?
23:45Yes.
23:45Madam Butterfly.
23:46Yes.
23:47Which superstar performed at the Super Bowl whilst pregnant?
23:50Rihanna.
23:51Yes.
23:52The 1991 hit protest song Treaty was released by...
23:56Yothy Yindi.
23:57Yothy Yindi.
23:57Your final question.
23:58In Outcast's song, Roses,
24:01what do roses really smell like?
24:03Roses really smell like poo-poo-poo.
24:06Yeah.
24:09So at the end of the show,
24:10the final scores are...
24:11Miff, Cram, Danielle, 12 points.
24:13Alan, Devorah, Colin, 15 points.
24:15Yes.
24:16Yes.
24:17Yes.
24:19Yes.
24:19Would you please thank all our guests,
24:22Cram, Danielle Walker,
24:25Devorah,
24:26and Colin Lane.
24:28And our two-team captains,
24:29Mick Warhurst and Alan Burrow.
24:34Taking us out tonight,
24:35it's Grace Cummings
24:37with a song from the album
24:38that made American Rolling Stones' top 100.
24:41It's called Everybody Somebody.
24:42Thanks for watching Specs and Specs.
24:44My name's Adam Hills.
24:44Good night, Australia.
24:45You just don't know what you're missing
24:55Every day without me
25:02And every day without her
25:09Oh, you miss it so much
25:14You're missing a sweet touch
25:20And somebody to be holding you
25:27And oh, somebody to be praising you
25:33And you're missing so much
25:39Smoke in your room
25:50Till the sun rises
25:54And tell yourself
25:57That you're number one
25:59And maybe write a letter
26:03To your son
26:06If you miss him so much
26:11But you'll be there waiting
26:16At a door to a stage, you know
26:23For some people that you think you know
26:29And you're missing so much
26:35And you're missing so much
26:36Everybody knows
27:05Everybody knows
27:08That you want to know
27:10Who you're missing
27:12Cry, cry, cry
27:18You want to know
27:22Who you're missing
27:23I'll see you
27:27Yeah
27:27I'm
27:29I'm
27:30I'm
27:31I'm
27:32You're missing
27:34That you're missing
27:35I'm
27:36I'm
27:37Everybody sing
28:07Everybody sing
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