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October 8, 2024 36 mins

Yesterday Clairsy & Lisa spoke to Dionne Warwick who told them she ran into Elton John at the grocery store, so they decided to open the phones and text line and get your stories about which celebrity did you see doing a normal thing.

Lisa told Clairsy that her favourite purple boots are finally on their last legs and she’s sad to see them go.

Clairsy opened his Tragic Music Box to go back to the year that gave us Donkey Kong, A Country Practice and the very naughty movie Porky’s, 1981.

In The Shaw Report, Taylor Swift becomes Forbes richest female musician plus bad news if you’re a fan of Jeff Goldblum’s TV series KAOS.

The local movie business is ramping up here in the West and on Clairsy & Lisa’s continuing series How To Make It In W.A, today they went hi-octane and spoke to Sam Desmond who is a stuntman where he told them how he got into a job where he does really dangerous stuff.

Clairsy & Lisa had a chat about the Perth F45 fitness instructor who was inspired by a movie to fake her own death for a $700,000 pay out.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
This is Clarzy and Lisa's podcast Coming up.

Speaker 3 (00:10):
On the podcast, we took calls and which celebrity you
saw were doing something normal.

Speaker 4 (00:13):
We delved into Clarsey's tragic music box looking at the
nineteen eighty one.

Speaker 3 (00:18):
We caught up with a stunt man and had so
many questions with how to make it in wa and
San Desmond copped all of the questions.

Speaker 4 (00:24):
Taylor Swift has become Forbes's richest female musician.

Speaker 3 (00:28):
And Lisa's boots are on their last heels.

Speaker 4 (00:31):
Perhaps celebrities doing stuff that us normal folks.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
Exactly because it's so about much chat with Dan Warwick, Yeah,
the legendary deal on.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
Warwick had this to say to.

Speaker 4 (00:45):
Us that moment with Elton, John, Gladys Knight and Stevie
Wonder and that's what friends are for. How was it
getting them to collaborate with you? Was it hard or
were they? Did you make one phone call and they said, Dion,
I mean.

Speaker 5 (00:57):
Yeah, basically, you know, I ran at Elton actually in
the grocery store.

Speaker 4 (01:03):
That's good. Yeah, I'm shopping at the shop.

Speaker 3 (01:09):
Famous people bumpet and famous people doing their grocery shopping
picking up carrots.

Speaker 4 (01:13):
Yes, that's so cool, bumping into Elton in the supermarket,
so damn good. We want to ask you, have you
seen a celebrity, you know, at the supermarket or just
basically doing normal things, doing normal stuff, doing normal stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:26):
I go for jopping off their dry clean Yeah, someboding. Yeah,
going to the ATM, which happened to me. I visited
the Old Man in Sydney about twenty years ago and
I went to a place called I was meeting for lunch.
He goes, let's go to Double Bay. And all I
knew about Double Bay was people called a double pay
and yeah, every second shot was a fancy, high brow
salon or a boutique. And I looked across and heard
this squeally noise and it was people, young girls, very

(01:49):
excited because at the ATM. Yeah, the a n's at ATM.
One el McPherson was either putting money in or taking
some cash out.

Speaker 4 (01:57):
Don't reckon she was putting money in at the AM
cleary might be cash. I don't think she was putting
it in, didn't get I think she was taking a
few so.

Speaker 3 (02:10):
I soon knew why the squeals were there because there's
this excitement and people asking it for photos and well macpherson,
that's pretty cool.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
McPherson uses money.

Speaker 3 (02:19):
Yeah, she's a human being, munchy. She wasn't Double Bay
checking out a double pay.

Speaker 4 (02:24):
Yes, even have ATMs in double.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
That was in the late nineties.

Speaker 4 (02:30):
We're talking about when you see famous people doing regular stuff.
There's always a bit of a jolt. This is someone
you know squeezing the avocado next to you at the
supermarket and it turns out to be some of my
famous Christine in Canning Vale, so she was at SeaWorld
and San Diego. I hadn't had to just nip off
to the toilet walk smack bang into Jane Fonder.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
That Jane Fonder was exiting the toilet.

Speaker 4 (02:52):
Now, you don't expect Jane Fonder to even go to
the toilet.

Speaker 3 (02:56):
So that was my sting moment, wasn't it? At the
radio station things walking out of the din Urinal I
was he went mate?

Speaker 4 (03:03):
Did he wash his hands?

Speaker 3 (03:04):
He washed his hands and it took him about four hours.
He did at Tantrick Styles. He's a very good hand washer.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
Cherylie Clarkson h Cheryl.

Speaker 6 (03:13):
Hello, Hello Lisa, Hello clas Welcome Cheryl.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
What you go for?

Speaker 4 (03:17):
Where did you see? What were they doing?

Speaker 6 (03:19):
I saw Gordon Hendrix. He's a Elvis tribute artist and
he was in the bank in high Wickham.

Speaker 4 (03:27):
Oh oh goodness me. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (03:29):
He was sort of without the dark you know, I
have to be him, you know, with the sideboard and yeah,
he was just casually, casually dressed.

Speaker 4 (03:37):
And that's the day.

Speaker 6 (03:40):
A bit shocked when I said you Gordon Hendrick?

Speaker 4 (03:44):
Did he say thank you very much? Cheryl?

Speaker 2 (03:47):
Thank you very much. He took the money out.

Speaker 6 (03:51):
I think he's a bit shocked when I recognize. Yeah, yeah,
he hasn't. He hasn't mazed for a little while because
of COVID and his last concert he had to cancel.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
But it's very good, all right.

Speaker 4 (04:04):
The sidebirds definitely give it away.

Speaker 6 (04:07):
Yeah they dooars.

Speaker 2 (04:10):
Yeah, yeah, that's cool. Loved it, Cheryl.

Speaker 4 (04:17):
Although didn't they say for years that Elvis faked his death.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
And was walking around.

Speaker 4 (04:21):
I was stocking shelves in supermarkets and was.

Speaker 2 (04:25):
In the i g A I think in West Leable,
something like that.

Speaker 4 (04:29):
Carolyn and Willerton said in the UK in the eighties.
Watching a game of Village Cricket, Hobby went to the
loo and found himself at the urinal next to Michael
Parkins and well you would know where to look Parky.
And then park he heard his accent. I didn't know that.
I don't know what goes on at the urine all yeah,

(04:51):
but I didn't know there was chatting.

Speaker 2 (04:53):
Goes on the urinal stays.

Speaker 4 (04:55):
So anyway, Parky heard his accent and started talking about
the new lights at the Oh. Yeah, and they so
that they had a cricket chat.

Speaker 3 (05:04):
Loved his cricket absolutely big time. He and John Major
love their love the cricket. It's get the doors that Sean.

Speaker 4 (05:11):
Hey, here you go, hi Sean? Who was it?

Speaker 7 (05:14):
I was playing a rose and corn?

Speaker 4 (05:16):
Oh and what was he doing? A face and chip shop?

Speaker 7 (05:20):
I was. I was actually over here up your life
on holidays and I was in Fredy Manchel and both
to the fish chip.

Speaker 4 (05:28):
Shop for Orner and there he was. So yeah, I
had a really good competition with him.

Speaker 7 (05:34):
My wife was a huge fan.

Speaker 2 (05:38):
Captain Kim. But it was awesome. Yeah he's a very
friendly bloke.

Speaker 4 (05:42):
Yeah he's awesome, but and he loves fish and chips.
He doesn't this to be true?

Speaker 2 (05:47):
Yes, city chips and going the bakery and my place.

Speaker 4 (05:50):
Yeah, thank sere fancy that walking into the fishing shot
a potato scallop as well?

Speaker 2 (05:57):
Four or five in river Vale?

Speaker 4 (05:59):
Hello, Hello, hey, going guy? Who'd you say?

Speaker 6 (06:03):
What you got?

Speaker 2 (06:05):
Go?

Speaker 8 (06:05):
Brightwait? Going to get macas?

Speaker 4 (06:07):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (06:08):
Wait that I work it? And now hungry he'll go
and get macas or buy himself.

Speaker 3 (06:15):
Yes, okay, didn't need a minder or anything to go
and get it for him.

Speaker 8 (06:21):
The little things by d self.

Speaker 4 (06:24):
We're getting maccas is a very personal thing. You don't
want anyone knowing just how many calories you can give me.
One guy to yourself.

Speaker 3 (06:32):
I might have asked for a mcflurry and he might
have found it embarrassing that others around.

Speaker 4 (06:36):
Did you see what he ordered?

Speaker 9 (06:38):
No?

Speaker 10 (06:38):
No, I was busy.

Speaker 4 (06:41):
Thanks, that's getting macas.

Speaker 2 (06:44):
I wonder I Daryl said I could eat a horse.
I'm so hungry. Maybe not.

Speaker 4 (06:48):
Warret in mirror says he saw Ernie didn't go at
a boot juice in ocean Ki shopping center.

Speaker 2 (06:52):
I was just getting getting a boost. How about this one?

Speaker 4 (06:55):
Claire in Thornley says, my mother once told me when
she was young in Wales and the UK, she was
Christmas caroling and they knocked on the door of Missus Hopkins,
and Missus Hopkins called out for her son to come
and have a listen. Anthony, No, yes, please, yes, Anthony

(07:15):
Hopkins and he came out and he said, they all
had beautiful Welsh singing voices.

Speaker 2 (07:21):
Oh no, that's a beauty.

Speaker 4 (07:23):
That is a beauty.

Speaker 2 (07:24):
Let's go to Willigi.

Speaker 4 (07:26):
Get a Marie, Hi, hy Marie. What did you say?
Who did you see? What were they doing?

Speaker 2 (07:30):
Drop a name for us.

Speaker 8 (07:31):
I've got two names to drop in a twenty four
hour space of each other. Really, we were, really we
were in New York in twenty eighteen and we were
walking down this street and there is Alec.

Speaker 11 (07:46):
Baldwin one morning in his ratty old shorts and T
shirt and joggers with two big escalade cars with his
brood of seven million children unloading the car with you know,
the help as well.

Speaker 8 (08:05):
And then twenty four hours later we were on the
subway and Paul Rudd was sitting opposite.

Speaker 3 (08:11):
Us, Paul funny Man, handsome. Yeah, that's a that's a
good get. What a double banger that was?

Speaker 4 (08:19):
Yes, catching a train with everyone.

Speaker 2 (08:22):
Else you hang around those big cities.

Speaker 4 (08:24):
Yeah, that the New York could be good for that. Yeah,
like la yeah, yeah, thanks Marie, thanks by.

Speaker 8 (08:30):
Thanking signs bye.

Speaker 2 (08:31):
That's pretty cool.

Speaker 4 (08:32):
Got to love that, especially of shopping to be unloaded
and ball needed to.

Speaker 3 (08:37):
So many kids in such a Saint seven or something
in nine years.

Speaker 4 (08:41):
Yeah, it's a lot.

Speaker 2 (08:42):
That's a lot of stick.

Speaker 4 (08:42):
Do you do the math? That doesn't matter up.

Speaker 2 (08:44):
Yeah, and he can't afford.

Speaker 4 (08:45):
Some of them were had by other people.

Speaker 3 (08:46):
Yeah, he can't afford to, on their behalf have anything
better than the old sts on.

Speaker 4 (08:50):
I mean, if you're having one already, don't you want
someone else to have one as well?

Speaker 12 (08:54):
I mean I'm not sure. It's almost like a bit
of an addiction, baby addiction. It's a bit straight words probably, okay,
Sandra in Mindari, who did you see? What were they doing?

Speaker 5 (09:05):
I saw Simon Baker and he was delivering his homegrown
excess of pumpkins to my workplace for all our stuff.

Speaker 3 (09:13):
That's a good one. Mentalist with the pumpkins, eh.

Speaker 4 (09:16):
I know, fourteen years.

Speaker 5 (09:18):
Ago up in Lismore when I worked up there, very
good and I had to make conversation with him for
about twenty minutes. He was friends with my boss and
I had to make conversation with him. So he just
leant on my doorway of my office.

Speaker 4 (09:31):
So casual.

Speaker 3 (09:32):
Yeah, Sandra, was he as handsome as he was in
Devilwe's Brother?

Speaker 7 (09:36):
Is he?

Speaker 2 (09:37):
Very hell?

Speaker 8 (09:37):
Hell?

Speaker 2 (09:37):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (09:38):
Okay us twenty minutes of your love?

Speaker 11 (09:43):
I know.

Speaker 2 (09:44):
And I had photos of pumpkin.

Speaker 11 (09:46):
I know.

Speaker 2 (09:47):
He was just laurrently his pumpkin, not his dried fruit. Okay,
very good, very good, thank you with his hands.

Speaker 4 (09:57):
Oh dear, that's great. Justin How did you say? What
were they doing?

Speaker 7 (10:03):
Whitney Houston Whitney, Yeah, thirty years ago. It was down Scarborough.
I used to live in Scarborough, up in Scarborough, and
I was in the pizza shop across the road from
Observation City, the pizza shop there he plays by the sea, yep.
And it was quite late at night, probably eleven o'clock

(10:23):
or maybe after my sure email. Was in the shop
by myself and Whitney Houston walks in with two bodyguards.

Speaker 13 (10:31):
Yes and ye, and I ordered a pizza and then
she asked if she could join me at the table,
and she told her bodyguards to go away.

Speaker 7 (10:41):
So we had a pizza and had a chat. It's
pretty awesome.

Speaker 4 (10:46):
That is awesome. I can't go past that year. Our
winter today cool Whitney Houston, pizza and y split it.

Speaker 2 (10:54):
And then she said always love you.

Speaker 7 (10:57):
Oh she was gorgeous.

Speaker 4 (10:58):
Yeah she was.

Speaker 2 (11:01):
Thanks justin Thank God your hand. I'm ready, you're ready
for the ke music.

Speaker 4 (11:09):
Delving deep into the archives of the Perth music history
clesy Tragic music Box.

Speaker 3 (11:19):
All right, okay, ready, yeah Tragic music Box meet music Box.

Speaker 2 (11:22):
Today from nineteen eighty one.

Speaker 4 (11:25):
Still such a fresh faced young thing.

Speaker 2 (11:27):
Just a little thing, and you haven't changed.

Speaker 3 (11:30):
Eighty one was the year English band Madness played a
gig at the Perth post Ball. After the assembled Skinheads
a couple of our school agreement. After the assembled Skinheads
from London Court, yeah exactly, because of London, they were
told to remove their bobber boots and line them up
in the foyer.

Speaker 2 (11:47):
Do you reckon that went down? And of course Madness
literally ensued with the first fifteen rows of the seats
absolutely smash destroyed and the windows kicked in.

Speaker 4 (11:58):
I did I didn't know it was has that been
asked to take off their.

Speaker 2 (12:01):
Boots and line them up.

Speaker 3 (12:02):
Gentlemen, if you can take your bother boots off and
line them up in the foyer.

Speaker 4 (12:07):
So fun fun.

Speaker 3 (12:12):
I don't know if it was a lot of fun
for the concert hall staff they were said to be at,
and a spokesperson for said concert hall staff said, this
has never happened when Silla Black or max Bygrave played
here in the past. On TV in nineteen eighty one, least,
we were watching a new Azie drama called a Country Practice,
Good Old Wander Valley, The Life of Times of Grizzard

(12:33):
Life and Times of Grizzly Adams from America that was
different and American heart throb Greg Evigan as a truck
driver named b J. McKay and his best friend was
a chimpanzee. You can't write this stuff, can you? Let
It was a chimpanzee. His name was Bear and it
was BJ and the bear.

Speaker 4 (12:57):
Geeze.

Speaker 6 (13:05):
Oh my god.

Speaker 4 (13:05):
You know when you hear something that you haven't heard
forty years and it just feels like it was yesterday.

Speaker 3 (13:11):
Beer, so bizarrek cheesy? What was hot in nineteen eety one? Well,
for some after doing some research, Cordroy Shorts, cord Roy shorts,
corn Roy shorts, spell Cordroy knickerbockers.

Speaker 4 (13:26):
Yeah, I never liked nick Safari pants or shorts make
a decision.

Speaker 3 (13:31):
Suits were still in me mentioned my dad Don Dunstan
from South Australia.

Speaker 4 (13:35):
My dad had Safari suits in with the shorts, long
socks in a range of colors.

Speaker 2 (13:42):
That's our hair and pants were big in nineteen the.

Speaker 4 (13:45):
Book You've Done Something in Your Pants Really.

Speaker 3 (13:49):
In October of eighty one, a young Australian band, former
of Perth in Excess, went to the next level with
their second album, Underneath the Colors, was produced by Aussie
rock legend Richie Clapton, and the songs were good. You

(14:13):
could tell that we're going to take on the work.

Speaker 2 (14:15):
And they just.

Speaker 3 (14:17):
There were some signs they had it in Spade Swagger
and the song in the Daily News, our afternoon paper
newspaper which you could buy from a kid in the
city who sounded just like that, ready for the bus.

Speaker 2 (14:28):
Right home because you get in the bus.

Speaker 3 (14:29):
I remember getting on the bus stuff to do some
work experience and all you'd see is in the pages
of the back in front page.

Speaker 4 (14:35):
There were true yeah the editions that yeah man.

Speaker 2 (14:38):
After newspaper and the kids.

Speaker 3 (14:39):
Yeah, we'd be in the straight game daily news paper
and from the pages of the paper. Premier Sir Charles
court I said on this day the average member of
State Parliament wasn't paid enough. At twenty eight thousand dollars
a year. One it was a pretty handy wage. Okay,
eighty one got some rapid fire effects for you.

Speaker 2 (14:57):
One. Trevor Chappel bold under arm, blame his brother.

Speaker 4 (15:00):
Oh that was a moment.

Speaker 2 (15:01):
In nineteen eighty one, Robert Redford was the hottest man
in Hollywood.

Speaker 4 (15:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (15:04):
In nineteen eighty one, a medium house price in Mount
Lawley fifty four thousand bucks stopper. In nineteen eighty one,
Smiley Pasco was nine. How cutees that guess what he
was doing?

Speaker 4 (15:15):
Smiley?

Speaker 3 (15:16):
You how dotal Christmas and excited about Santa To wrap today,
Sticky Beak. In the box lease, we feature an album
called Dare by English synth pop band The.

Speaker 4 (15:26):
Humanly, one of the greatest albums of the early eighties.

Speaker 3 (15:30):
Despite being the band's third album, was the first with
the new lineup led by frontman Philip Pokey, with a
more commercial sound in mind. Okie recruited a pair of
high school students, joe Ane Casseroll and Susan Saley's background singers,
and it just took off, joining the wave of UK
bands who were experimenting with synthesizers like Ultravox, depeche Mode
and spanned out Ballet, and this new technology help humanly

(15:51):
hit the sweet spot with the album Dere did it did?
The first single, Love Action, went to number three in
the UK chart, number twelve here in Australia and we
fell in love with them and that album Yeah, the
album right, I had the album just about wore it
out with the white cover and the close up fight Yeah.
Only months later the flood goes open with a single
called Don't You Want Me, raced to number one in
the UK and the US and they were off, off

(16:11):
and racing. It was the biggest selling UK single of
eighty one, and the coverted Christmas number one. And of
course there's more to Dere than the two monster hits.
The third single Open Your Heart, the menacing song seconds
and they're pretty much ignored. First single the Sound of
the Crowd, and there was an instrumental called get Carter
which was great to start of track two or side
to all help Dare Cell over six million copies worldwide,

(16:33):
and Philip Okie is still touring with his modern updated version.
I think one of the girls is still in the
band for human Ak and his voice, it's the same
I saw him a.

Speaker 2 (16:42):
Couple of years ago. Very good.

Speaker 3 (16:43):
The Tragic Music Box from nineteen eighty one on ninety
six AFM, More Crazy.

Speaker 4 (16:47):
More Lisa More podcast Soon.

Speaker 2 (16:51):
They don't over there. Look you're on here.

Speaker 4 (16:54):
Yeah, I'm fine.

Speaker 2 (16:55):
I was checking. You just walked in a bit strangely
when you came out.

Speaker 4 (16:58):
That's because my shoe is a bit skew it bit
skew it. I have this favorite, as you know, of
purple boots. They are just the best because purple is
my favorite color and these are the best shade of purple.

Speaker 2 (17:13):
I have ever found.

Speaker 4 (17:14):
And I love these shoes so much. And I've for
the last few years they've been starting to fall apart
of them, and I've been to the cobbler about six times.
The cobblers were cobbling and they've been like living on
some kind of life support where we've been putting. The
cobbler has been putting them back together, try to, you know,

(17:37):
sort of keep the heel.

Speaker 2 (17:38):
Attacked, so no more cobbling. You can't put it on.

Speaker 4 (17:41):
This morning, and I've thought, I think it's time you reckon.
I think it's time to turn off the life support.

Speaker 3 (17:48):
Well, you know, I love purple and you can see
your face, you can see your reflection in them. They're
so shiny.

Speaker 4 (17:52):
I feel as though today I might do it. The
last day I can get away with it.

Speaker 2 (17:58):
Don't do it.

Speaker 4 (17:58):
And I'm only I'm only in them because I'm only
here in the office where it's safe and going straight home.
If I wouldn't have worn them, if I was going
to the shop or something afterwards, because.

Speaker 2 (18:06):
I might catch this.

Speaker 4 (18:08):
Yeah, you might walk your heel and go you know, you.

Speaker 2 (18:11):
Might go flying lace at the girl.

Speaker 4 (18:13):
But it won't be very souper. And I'm very impressed.

Speaker 2 (18:15):
It's too sad. It can be sad.

Speaker 9 (18:20):
Okay, I know it be the last day for Lisa's
shoes because I saw that robbly heel this morning.

Speaker 2 (18:26):
Sez bots, that's not helping, and that's just what they're doing.
You're just waking up.

Speaker 4 (18:32):
That is not health.

Speaker 2 (18:35):
Beloved purple shiny purple boots.

Speaker 4 (18:37):
Favorite boots in the world, look like they're on their
last word to maybe going to their maker, the bootmaker.

Speaker 2 (18:44):
What time of the morning do you get up?

Speaker 3 (18:45):
That's three thirty right, So I reckon this is caused
by you getting your boots on and clicking your heels
together to start your day.

Speaker 2 (18:53):
Yes, you've done it too many times, I know.

Speaker 4 (18:55):
And it's been day to day too. It'd seemed the
appropriate day that if they've got to go, they've got
to go.

Speaker 9 (19:00):
Please do me a favorite and do what I do.
When you get rid of a bloody piece of clothing
and just say thank you for your service as you
drop it in the bin.

Speaker 4 (19:05):
There will be some kind of ceramoniyes.

Speaker 2 (19:07):
To be a ceremony.

Speaker 4 (19:08):
They will have to be yeah, wine, it's going to.

Speaker 2 (19:12):
Say a flag and a trumpet, but you go wine,
all right?

Speaker 3 (19:16):
Lisas how to make it in wap this, I'll make
you a start.

Speaker 4 (19:21):
Oh, we're very excited in you today because we've got
Sam Desmond, who is a stunt man. Good morning, and
you just came in through the door. I'm not going
to say I was disappointed, but maybe you'll leave through
the window. I had to know, Sam, it's very exciting
to have you in here as part of our series
that we've been, you know, diving down a rabbit hole,

(19:42):
because so much is happening here recently, and you've been
in the heart of it up in York being in
runt But I've never met a stunt man, and I thought,
what it must be such a conversation starter when you're
at a dinner party or whatever.

Speaker 2 (19:57):
What do you do cool gig?

Speaker 4 (19:58):
I'm in film, which is already a really cool answer,
and then I'm a stunt man.

Speaker 14 (20:03):
That's right, it is. My missus usually takes over then, yeah, yeah,
that's right. You just back off a bit exactly. I
always get what's the most dangerous stunt that you have
full body, fire burned with.

Speaker 3 (20:17):
No mask, just gel you get a ready made answer
that's pretty much the most dangerous.

Speaker 14 (20:22):
And my favorite is a four story header, which is
headfirst into an airbag. Yes, story is high. Yeah, so
they are my two favorites.

Speaker 2 (20:31):
What do you like with heights? You're okay, Yeah, I'm
pretty good man.

Speaker 4 (20:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 14 (20:35):
Well, when I was younger, I used to have a
bit of a fear, so I went skydiving.

Speaker 2 (20:40):
Yeah, and I loved it, So I sorted it out.

Speaker 4 (20:43):
Solved it.

Speaker 2 (20:44):
Yeah, face the fears, head on.

Speaker 4 (20:45):
Yeah, head on. As you said, when you did that
head on out of a four story do you remember
who it was you were doing that on?

Speaker 14 (20:52):
Behalf of Oh that was for the training actually really yeah,
exactly at the stunt Academy in Queensland.

Speaker 2 (21:00):
You want to go to get most of your training.

Speaker 3 (21:02):
Yeah, because that's what they do at the shows, you know,
if you're going and see those shows in Anaheim or whatever.

Speaker 14 (21:05):
That's right, they used to have it at the Wild
West in Yes, yeah, in Queensland, the studios there.

Speaker 4 (21:11):
I tell us about the stunt Academy then, what I mean,
what was it like a day in you know, stunt school.

Speaker 14 (21:18):
All sorts of stunt You get a taste of everything, yea,
from car hits to basic body control, high falls, fire burns,
how to land, how to land, that's the main main
thing you learn, Yeah, stat hurting yourself.

Speaker 3 (21:33):
There was a time in the seventies and eighties it
was a guy called Buddy Joe Hooker was he was.

Speaker 2 (21:37):
He was doing stunts for everything in Hollywood. He's still around,
he's still going though. Yeah, So did you have was
there anyone like him that you saw? And I thought
I would love to do that?

Speaker 14 (21:46):
Well, Jackie Chan and Tom Cruise obviously they do, so
they're they're out there.

Speaker 2 (21:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 14 (21:52):
But Buddy Joe, Yeah, he's great at car crashes absolutely.

Speaker 2 (21:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 14 (21:56):
Death Proof was one of his movies with Quinton Tarantino,
and he did a multiple car rolls and landed on
the roof into the frame.

Speaker 2 (22:03):
You see him on the credits on almost everything that
was coming out. A legend for sure, was that your
favorite thing to do?

Speaker 4 (22:08):
Like car because you're a boy.

Speaker 2 (22:11):
So I put on a farm in mid so you
were already doing it. I was cars, bikes, horses.

Speaker 14 (22:16):
My sister always chucked me on a horse if she
couldn't couldn't break it in, so stummy for that.

Speaker 2 (22:22):
My dad, Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 14 (22:24):
Dad taught me how to drive a car backwards before
I could even the kettles.

Speaker 4 (22:28):
Really right, Yeah, yes, What are some of the things
that you've been in?

Speaker 14 (22:34):
Well, most recently Runt is out in cinemas right now
doing quite well. So I was actually lucky enough to
get a call and come back home to start as
location scout on the job right and then went into
production assistant for a few weeks into construction. I have
a backgrounding trade, so I was able to use that
in the industry as well, and then once filming started,

(22:56):
I went on to stunt assistant, safety assistant, and also
a couple of cameos on the film as well.

Speaker 2 (23:01):
So yeah, that was very exciting.

Speaker 4 (23:06):
But I mean building stuff, you just build stuff and
then jump off at the end of the day.

Speaker 2 (23:12):
Had a big part in the windmill that right. Tell me.

Speaker 3 (23:16):
I read once where Bert I read Burt Reynold's autobiography
and he had really bad damage to his face and
he had to reconstruct his jaw in his teeth because
they used to hit him.

Speaker 2 (23:25):
With the bird's face. Yeah, Bert's face.

Speaker 3 (23:28):
What he's taking a lot of those movies in the
eighties and that smoking the band and stuff. But from
those stunt chairs they used to use, that's what they
called them, meant to be collapsible breakaway. People used to
get really damaged by those, and he his life changed.

Speaker 2 (23:39):
Because of it.

Speaker 6 (23:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (23:39):
Well, safety has definitely changed a lot since.

Speaker 4 (23:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (23:42):
Yeah, it was almost like they're a bit too tough
to chairs, yeah exactly.

Speaker 14 (23:47):
So yeah, okay, yeah, exactly unless their phone made now
theys right, Okay, you can make props out of foam
and it looks you're going to be hit the right
way by these things exactly. Okay, that's right.

Speaker 4 (23:58):
Sure is it a silly question to us if you
have been injured.

Speaker 14 (24:02):
Most of the injuries I did was before I became
a stunt man. Oh okay, freestyle motocross and I broke
my wrist and located on my kneel at the same time.
And yeah, even when I was a fencing contractor him perfect, Yeah,
jumping off the top of the fence when I finished,
I broke a couple of ankles. So yeah, yeah, most
have happened before my stunt career, which is kind of interesting.

Speaker 2 (24:23):
So just shows you how safe it is in the industry.

Speaker 4 (24:26):
And most people on set, I mean, Tom Cruise is
the exception. Of course, he loves to do his own,
but most people on set more than happy to just
say you take it from here.

Speaker 2 (24:36):
Yea, that's a bigerencely back out. Yeah, that's right. If
anything happens to them, then the film just stops completely.

Speaker 14 (24:44):
Yeah, So we step in and take the hits and
especially yeah take the falls, and yeah, we're trained to
do it so well.

Speaker 3 (24:51):
If I've been working on funding for ten years on
something on a project, which often happens or five years exactly,
I wanted to fall Yeah.

Speaker 4 (24:57):
Actually, you probably hurt yourself less than the average person
because you do know how to fall over and things
like that.

Speaker 2 (25:03):
Yeah, definitely helps in every day life.

Speaker 4 (25:06):
It does help it everyday life home from the pub. Yeah,
I have a profession.

Speaker 3 (25:15):
It always makes me overways curious because I'm a nerd
and I'm watching shows to see if you can pick
the stunt man and things or a stunt.

Speaker 2 (25:21):
The crossover point.

Speaker 8 (25:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (25:22):
Yeah, there's a movie called Face Off with Trevoltera and
Page Right and the stunt you can in the boats
you can pick the stuntman almost every time, but they're
very careful to make it blend and look perfect, doren't they.

Speaker 10 (25:33):
You get critical when you're watching other productions you're not in.
You're watching so much now. I've always been a film lover,
so I can't get sucked into whatever I'm watching. But
there are times when it's like, oh, that's a stunt
man body size or the way they move. Yeah, there's
a lot of things.

Speaker 14 (25:49):
There's a lot of acting that goes into stunts actually,
sort of absolutely, when you are doubling someone, you have
to move like them and obviously look like them is
up to wardrobe and makeup, but yeah, you know, but
also with stunts, you also get an opportunity to act
and do your own stunts, not just double other people.
So yeah, it which is what I did on Ront, was

(26:10):
I was my own character doing.

Speaker 2 (26:14):
Even better. I'm a continuity nerd.

Speaker 4 (26:16):
I like to watch the glass, you know, go up
and down in its liquid, or the ice cream that's
stripping and then it's not, And that would apply, I
guess apply a lot to the scenes where you come
in because they've got to find that moment where the
swap happens exactly. Yeah.

Speaker 14 (26:30):
Well, one of my recent films was Late Night with
the Devil, which is a great Australian horror movie Kahnes Brothers. Yeah,
and I doubled one of the actors who was the
first death and his head spun around backwards and it
just happened.

Speaker 2 (26:45):
So I had a green sock on my head and
I was.

Speaker 14 (26:50):
The moment when you do watch it in the film,
it's like you can't tell it's completely seamless.

Speaker 4 (26:56):
I've heard of a green screen for a green sock.

Speaker 2 (26:58):
Yeah, mini screens.

Speaker 4 (27:00):
Exactly what it was. A green screen was So how
excited are you for what's been happening in w WA
with the and we've got the Malaga Film Studios coming,
so a lot of that post production stuff that might
have had to go elsewhere can all be done here.
The industry is this is the happening time.

Speaker 2 (27:18):
Yeah, definitely.

Speaker 14 (27:19):
So hopefully it'll attract a lot more people back home
that have had to leave because a lot of us
stunties have to go over East and training room and
then we make our contacts in the East, so most
of the work happens over there for us.

Speaker 2 (27:33):
So unless we can get.

Speaker 14 (27:34):
Our foothold in here, you know, the work is fairly
slim picking.

Speaker 4 (27:38):
And we're making all genres of movies now too, which
of course is you know where are you coming?

Speaker 2 (27:44):
Definitely lots of comedy that usually has the most.

Speaker 7 (27:47):
Stunts in it.

Speaker 3 (27:49):
Yeah, like a car chase from some of the classic
movies out of Hollywood.

Speaker 2 (27:54):
Particularly car chases. Yeah, they're the best.

Speaker 3 (27:57):
The other thing about Malaga unless I mentioned Ala, it's
very excited, but Sounds Studios a great big structure, that
building out there, and that adds to it the versatility
of the venue.

Speaker 14 (28:06):
Oh, definitely, there will be places for us to train
and versatility. Yeah, it would attract more people and more productions,
and yeah, hopefully they'll use more local cruis and.

Speaker 3 (28:16):
Yeah, I want to see car chase of Alexander drive
into my lagger like the Blues Brothers.

Speaker 4 (28:21):
I saw one recently, but I don't think it was sanctions.
Are there a lot? Is there a lot of work
for stunt people? If you know, for people are going,
I'm going to get in here into this industry somehow?
Is this a good angle to go?

Speaker 2 (28:36):
Definitely?

Speaker 14 (28:36):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean if you're willing to put
in the hard yards for the training, yes, get the grading,
and then it's definitely pays off anything from driving cars
to fighting and stunts on film, big stunts like yeah, going.

Speaker 2 (28:49):
Through a glass table with a green sock, with a
green sock in your head.

Speaker 4 (28:53):
So what's your advice to someone thinking I'm going to
I'm going to make my move today.

Speaker 14 (28:57):
The main thing is you need twelve months worth of
body control, so some sort.

Speaker 2 (29:01):
Of fighting, martial arts, gymnastics.

Speaker 14 (29:04):
Okay, that's definitely going to help you go towards your training,
and then six months with a stunt coordinator, which is
where most of us end up in Queensland training with
a coordinator and then once you've got your grading, then
you're able to work on films.

Speaker 3 (29:18):
Yeah, okay, have you seen the Dev Patel movie that
came out this year called Monkey Monkey Man?

Speaker 2 (29:24):
I haven't seen. That's brutal. It's like one long flight
scene for two hours.

Speaker 4 (29:28):
One long fight.

Speaker 9 (29:29):
Incredible, but it's like the Raid, right, okay, pretty full
on definitely, But some of the sequences in that obviously choreographed,
but it is quite at times ridiculously for sure.

Speaker 4 (29:43):
Sam, thanks for coming in today.

Speaker 2 (29:45):
I'm going to be a pleasure.

Speaker 4 (29:46):
I'm looking for you out out of the green stock
now every movie that I see how to make it
in w way as a stunt man. Thank you, More
more Lisa More podcasts.

Speaker 3 (30:02):
The Sure Report on ninety six AIRFM.

Speaker 4 (30:07):
One year after officially becoming a billionaire, Taylor Swift's estimated
net worth has risen to one point six billion dollars
according to Forbes, making her the world's richest female musician,
surpassing Rihanna, who was in the top spot. And that's
one point six billion US so about two point three
billion Oussie dollars. Taylor's international eras tour is largely credited

(30:28):
for the Big Jump. She'll have done one hundred and
forty nine shows by the time that wraps up in December.
And for further more, to Swift is credit because credit
where credits to you Forbe says she's the first musician
to make the billionaire ranking primarily based on her songs
and performances. She's not flooding the market with perfume and
lip gloss. She's doing it just with.

Speaker 2 (30:48):
Her music that the compound interest is working for it to.

Speaker 4 (30:50):
Dolly Parton just announced she's personally donating one million dollars
from her own bank account, along with an additional one
million dollars from the Dollywood Foundation, to assist in LEAF
efforts after Hurricane Helene hit several southern US states last month,
including you know the state where Dolly's from. This is
why we love this woman.

Speaker 2 (31:07):
Did she get any better?

Speaker 4 (31:09):
She's just a lovely lady. Kiss is working on a
five part documentary about their end of the road farewell tour.
Paul Stanley announced the news while sharing a photo of
his wife being interviewed for it. And Jeff Goldblums Netflix
show Chaos, a Greek mythology comedy series, just premiered a
month ago, has already been canceled. Chaos starred Jeff as

(31:31):
the almighty Zeus, albeit in a modern day setting. The
reviews never were good.

Speaker 2 (31:35):
Did you see the of it? No? I lasted fifteen minutes.

Speaker 4 (31:38):
Yeah, the reviews were good. One said, Chaos fails to
delight because the narrative buckles under the weight of its
own ambition.

Speaker 2 (31:44):
Yeah, that's pretty weird. Weird.

Speaker 3 (31:46):
And by the way, Gene Simmons is jealous of Taylor Swift.
You know that, without even talking to absolutely, He's going.

Speaker 4 (31:54):
When was it you were called up recently for jury duty?

Speaker 2 (31:57):
Was a couple of months ago, months ago?

Speaker 4 (32:00):
And I guess you know. You show up and for
the most part, most of the cases are going to
be fairly bog standard borderline boring that you have to do.
But then every now and then there's an absolute ripperer
gorka that you might have the fortune of being, you know,
on the jury for, and I reckon this would be

(32:21):
one of those cases. Have you met this Perth woman
Karen Sulkled, who was inspired by a movie to fake
her own death for a seven hundred thousand dollars insurance payout. Well,
Prosecutors have revealed how the plan unraveled. She faked her
own death for the hefty insurance payout, but became unstuck.
She was inspired by a movie to pretend to die

(32:43):
to try to secure more than seven hundred thousand dollars.
They're not saying what movie. The only one I can
think of where someone fakes their own death is that
Sleeping with the Enemy that Julia Roberts was in back,
and that was quite a while ago, though that was
in the nineties. There's a few where they've faked their disappearance,
like Gone Girl and things like that. Said, the Dead's

(33:03):
Sake was the Julia Roberts movie?

Speaker 2 (33:05):
Did you say that one? The Thief's Wife and the Canoe?
The story of that John Such a bumbling fool. It
was a bumbling fool, very far well.

Speaker 4 (33:15):
This woman, who previously pleaded guilty to gains benefit by
fraud and intended to fraud using a false record, faced
court again on Friday over her elaborate web of lies.
She almost got away with it, but prosecutors are revealed
how it did eventually unravel. She pretended to be her
ex partner when she claimed that she died in a

(33:35):
car crash in Broom in December. The court was told
she started a life insurance claim lodging falsified documents, including
a death certificate and the coroner's report, a week later
though the insurance. A week later, the insurance company paid
more than seven hundred grand into a bank account opened
in her ex partner's name, but when she moved some

(33:55):
of the money around, the bank flagged it a suspicious
and promptly froze the account.

Speaker 2 (34:01):
So there's the problem. Start moving the.

Speaker 4 (34:03):
Money, you start panicking. Then when you went and found
your account frozen, wouldn't.

Speaker 2 (34:06):
You Absolutely, they're on to me. Oh that's horrible, isn't it.

Speaker 4 (34:10):
Anyway, she visited a police station to certify her fake documents,
but after three visits, officers realized something was up and
she was arrested. I don't know that. If this was
me and I was having to go, I don't reckon.
I'd go there three times. No, I reckon, you know,
once my my account was frozen and I was heading
in there for a second time, I'd be off.

Speaker 2 (34:32):
You're hitting the road. Would you have that out? She's
got fairly cut.

Speaker 3 (34:36):
Please, I know it's seven hundred grand and the moment
that went into your account, you'd be going, or into
that account, you'd be going, I think I've got away
with this.

Speaker 4 (34:43):
Oh yeah, I think I was not cut out for
a life of crime because I'd be too mustphinker.

Speaker 2 (34:48):
Couldn't take it, do you reckon?

Speaker 4 (34:49):
I'm just lying, Always be sorry. You know how you
get you get nervous, and yet you get a bit.
I would be living.

Speaker 2 (34:58):
Never mentioned your speaker on the show again, thanks, So.

Speaker 4 (35:02):
I'd always be on the edge of feeling like I
was going to be busted. I would be able to
enjoy it, enjoy my spoke.

Speaker 3 (35:07):
Looking over your shoulder and going, oh, I want to
spend a bit of that money. But you're moving around
to other accounts with other names and all that. So
someone smelt a rat.

Speaker 4 (35:14):
She admitted the idea to fake her own death came
from a movie, but never specified which one's that's that's
the question.

Speaker 7 (35:23):
Writing.

Speaker 4 (35:24):
Her defense called the plan an amateurish brain snap with
no thought to the consequences. Yeah, well, I mean that's
the standard defense.

Speaker 2 (35:32):
For anything is right.

Speaker 1 (35:33):
And when you lie, and you had start telling lies,
they have to be very elaborated. And that's what I
mean about it. I'm not cut out for it, because
once you go down that path you've.

Speaker 4 (35:43):
Got to keep.

Speaker 2 (35:43):
It's so much easier to just It's almost like you
need a diary to say who you've lied to and
what you've said.

Speaker 4 (35:49):
God, no, I couldn't be bothered anyway. She was due
to be sentenced on Friday, but prosecutors didn't have the
exact amount she owed the insurance company, So once they
get that math taken care of, she'll be sentenced. And
she is staring down a penalty of seven years behind bars.

Speaker 3 (36:06):
Yeah, and whether it's seven grand or seven hundred grand,
you know, like it makes me go, I could I
just I'm not People get to that. But it's a
very long brain snap too, because it's quite a long Yeah, exactly,
y lengthy snap.

Speaker 2 (36:18):
Yeah, not good at all.

Speaker 4 (36:19):
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