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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Document you pay for two minutes.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
You just made one hundred grands. Yeah, okay, guys, cars yup,
Hello Kyle.

Speaker 3 (00:10):
How are you hey? Guys? Thank you.

Speaker 4 (00:13):
We just had to laugh about our producers saying she's
going to doc your pay for being two minutes late.

Speaker 3 (00:17):
That's what I did apologize.

Speaker 5 (00:19):
I was like, guys, if it was me, I would
have already pulled the headphones out and be on the
way home.

Speaker 4 (00:23):
I know, but we're not.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
We're trying to do the maths. Make two minutes would
be about one hundred grand.

Speaker 4 (00:28):
Can we have it for our Christmas party.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
At the end of the year.

Speaker 3 (00:31):
Yeah, you know what, let me put a twenty grand
on the bar. Yeah. You know.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
One thing I know about you is you'll probably do it.

Speaker 3 (00:38):
I'll do it. I don't care about money, I know.
I know.

Speaker 4 (00:42):
Anyway, Idol is back and we absolutely love it. So
well done. Another great year ahead of you. I was
reading an article and you're saying that you're looking for
more rock people, you want more rock, and I know
that you've already done this year, but this could be
good for next year for young Gold Coast rock artists.

Speaker 3 (00:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (00:58):
Absolutely, Well, you know what a few years ago all
you got was rock and it was rubbish rock too,
you know.

Speaker 3 (01:04):
And this year, for some reason.

Speaker 5 (01:06):
There's like a plethora of different types of artists, but
that rocky Like we had that girl last year that
came second that I had to buy the van for because.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
I stupidly said, if you don't win, lit'll buy you
a van anyway.

Speaker 5 (01:18):
Second, and then I had to fork out thirty eight
grand for the girl to have a van because I
was going to just buy an old shitter high as
from you know, an old mine or something. And my
manager was like, do you really want a young girl
broken down on the side of the road in burke
in a shitty old van. I was like, Ah, buy
the good one then, But no big rock voices like that.
But there are amazing voices sweet you know, this new generation.

(01:41):
They're a little soft and they're a little bit they're
a little sweet, like little sweet boys and you know
sweet girls.

Speaker 3 (01:47):
It's it's a different sort of.

Speaker 5 (01:49):
Bag every year that it comes around, but still extremely
extremely high quality.

Speaker 3 (01:55):
Every year.

Speaker 5 (01:55):
We're very surprised that, you know, we because you think
surely we're going to run out some stage.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
No, No, there's always a new batch keying to put
forward what they've got, which is great.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
Now in the promos that are on at the moment,
the young shy Tradee Kilany Artists comes on, but he
when he opens his mouth, his voice is just so
pure and sensational and I think you say something about
goosebumps at the time.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
Was he impressive?

Speaker 5 (02:25):
Oh yeah, yeah, Kilaney's great. The thing that I love
about the audition process is you get them raw, you've
never seen You've got no idea what these people are like.
And then we picked the best voices. But then when
they start going through the process of the elimination, like
the Top twenty one, the Top twelve, they get all
a lot of them get in their head. And this
is why not everyone that sings makes a living out

(02:47):
of it, like, because there's not just you don't just
need the voice.

Speaker 3 (02:51):
There's a show for that.

Speaker 5 (02:53):
To be an idol, you need to be able to
handle the pressure, the stress, the sleep deprivation. And we
put them through the ring because at the end of
the day, whoever wins or is the is the victor
in this contest. We want them to be able to
tour around, do music for a living, make records, and
it's not for everyone. Some people just emotionally can't handle

(03:15):
the stress and the pressure, and some of the better
voices crumble out of the contest. But that's part of
the you know what we do here as we whittle
it down to the best of the best whole package.

Speaker 4 (03:26):
Is there anyone that you've ever come across in your
time doing all of this that you just really thought
was going to be a star and they didn't become one,
and you still think about them?

Speaker 5 (03:34):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (03:34):
Many, many.

Speaker 5 (03:35):
I don't think I don't really think about them, but
Marsa and Amy, they're always like, oh, remember last year
this person.

Speaker 3 (03:42):
You know, maybe it's too much pressure. I was like, listen,
this is this is what happens in real life.

Speaker 5 (03:46):
Like you don't get to like book a gig and
go oh, I'm emotionally traumatized.

Speaker 3 (03:51):
I'm being gaslit.

Speaker 5 (03:54):
Today by my partner, so I won't be able to perform, Like, no, no,
you must perform.

Speaker 3 (03:58):
Come out.

Speaker 5 (03:59):
I've even been backstage where and this is probably not
the best thing, but where an artist has taking a
quarterzone injection in the throat so they can actually sing,
Like that's that's dedication. May not be medically great, I
don't know. I'm no doctor, but you know, the show
must go on. Is the literally the meaning of the business.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
Absolutely.

Speaker 4 (04:19):
Now I've read that you said that the other judges,
Amy and Marsha are rooted than you are.

Speaker 2 (04:23):
I find that hard to believe.

Speaker 5 (04:25):
Class and yes, well no, listen, I know when you
watch this show over the years and you think, God,
this guy's prickly, what you don't see is the twenty
minutes of coddling and you know, and like reassuring of them.
You just see me go, you're disgusting, You're out.

Speaker 3 (04:41):
That's all you see.

Speaker 5 (04:42):
But usually there's a lot of behind the scenes we
are and they don't show it on TV because it's TV.
But like you have to be quite tender and delicate
with some of the auditions because not everyone's as tough
as everyone else, you know, like the last.

Speaker 3 (04:56):
Thing we want. I really don't want anyone to.

Speaker 5 (04:59):
Come perform and leaving tears, and I know some do,
but that's not the aim of the game. It's not
to embarrass these kids. But you know, you put yourself
out there to be judged. That that, unfortunately is you know,
that's the side effect of doing these contests is you've
got to cop the good with the bad, and some
people that have been amazing just can't emotionally handle it

(05:22):
and they disappear early, which is disappointing, especially to the girls,
because you know, Amy loves a girl that can play guitar.

Speaker 3 (05:30):
She's obsessed with it. And if you don't play the
guitar properly, why I bring it to the audition? I'm like,
calm down Amy.

Speaker 5 (05:38):
They probably thought it was the right thing to do.
They've never done these A lot of these people have
never auditioned before.

Speaker 4 (05:42):
I found a new T shirt for you next time.
I want you to get calmed Down Amy printed on
a T shirt and wear it.

Speaker 3 (05:49):
You know what, that's a really good idea. I'm going
to steal that and use it as my own idea. Absolutely.

Speaker 2 (05:54):
Can I have some royalties please?

Speaker 4 (05:55):
You've got enough freaking money.

Speaker 3 (05:57):
Oh, you can wet your beak on the back end somehow.

Speaker 1 (06:01):
Mate, Mate, has your approach changed over the last couple
of years since becoming a dad? Like, do you feel
more almost like a father figure to some of the
kids once they're coming through?

Speaker 5 (06:13):
You know what, I never would have guessed that that's
what I would become, but I think you've seen straight
through the straight through the cloak here because you can't
help but think, oh, you know what if this was
my child. As soon as you do become a parent,
there is a weird switch inside you that does you know.
It sort of knocks the dickhead out of you a

(06:34):
little bit, you know what I mean. We you'd say
or do something.

Speaker 3 (06:36):
Just for laughs. Now that you are a parent, you sort.

Speaker 5 (06:39):
Of think, oh, you'd hate for anyone to do it
to your child. So I think I have cooled a
little bit in the early days when I didn't even
really know what was expected of me, because.

Speaker 3 (06:50):
No one tells you, hey, we want you to do this, this,
and that.

Speaker 5 (06:53):
They just sort of sit you there and film everything
you do and just chop it all up depending on
what someone else.

Speaker 3 (06:59):
Wants to show. Yes. Yeah, but I used to be.

Speaker 5 (07:02):
Like very difficult to please, and I would judge differently
depending on my mood of the day. If they were
dragging out lunch for an hour late, they do it
on purpose to make me a little bit angry, and
then they bring six or seven duds in.

Speaker 3 (07:18):
In a row, and I'd be irate.

Speaker 2 (07:20):
You just want a sandwich?

Speaker 3 (07:22):
I just want that. He wants his sake, and he
wants it now.

Speaker 5 (07:26):
But those days, as the years go on, you sort
of soften because you do want the kids to put
their best foot forward, like.

Speaker 3 (07:33):
You don't want anyone to fail. And in the early.

Speaker 5 (07:36):
Days like I really only I really only wanted to
see the failure. That's where I thought I was shining.
But really it's about the contestant and about them shining.
So you learn these things over the years, you know,
as you soften and get old and fat.

Speaker 1 (07:49):
Oh, it sounds like you've grown with it, mate, Like
it sounds like you've actually evolved through that process yourself.

Speaker 5 (07:56):
Yeah, well there has to be some sort of evolution
with me. You can't just be the same old lump
year in, year out.

Speaker 2 (08:01):
Now it's worked for you, You're going, all right.

Speaker 3 (08:06):
Change trajectory now that you warn you warn, Yes, I
get it.

Speaker 4 (08:09):
No, No, you talked about you know the people that
come in and have a bit of a crack, but
they're they ridiculous.

Speaker 2 (08:14):
Do you actually like that?

Speaker 3 (08:16):
Like? Do you? Because you did.

Speaker 4 (08:17):
Come to the Gold Coast and do auditions and I've
just seen in the lineup there's actually quite a few.

Speaker 2 (08:21):
Gold Coasters that have got through.

Speaker 4 (08:23):
But do you want a few people just turning up
and singing like an idiot?

Speaker 3 (08:29):
I don't.

Speaker 5 (08:31):
Sorry, I'm just getting beats by another dickhead in another merchines.
You know, he had to go around me while I
pulled over on the side of the head. Are you
poor old peasants? It's only in s three fifty. He's
trying to look cool.

Speaker 3 (08:45):
He's trying to look cool in the big car, but
with the little engine. How embarrassing?

Speaker 2 (08:49):
Whatving?

Speaker 5 (08:50):
Kai? Oh, I'm also in the Messines, but the Mercedes
made back, so this guy's got nothing on me.

Speaker 3 (08:58):
He's probably jealous.

Speaker 2 (09:00):
I'm jealous. Just put the little engine person in his place.

Speaker 3 (09:08):
Fifty you pull that bad job. It's too embarrassing.

Speaker 2 (09:10):
Yeah, it may as well be a lawnmower for.

Speaker 4 (09:16):
Funny.

Speaker 2 (09:16):
Give him a finger, see that'll make that.

Speaker 3 (09:18):
Yeah. No, I don't dare because that'll be in the newspaper.

Speaker 5 (09:22):
Is this You just got a smile and nods like yeah,
thank you very much for your insanity.

Speaker 3 (09:26):
Yes, please, I appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (09:27):
At least we can say we were there. Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 3 (09:31):
Do you know what I was doing.

Speaker 5 (09:32):
I was doing a phone interview with the radio station
in perse last year and the police pulled me over
because I was talking not on hands free.

Speaker 3 (09:38):
I was holding the phone up but very naughty.

Speaker 5 (09:42):
Anyway, they pulled me and they were listening and that
they were laughing. I said, I'm being pulled over by
an une marked Torago, which was embarrassing enough. And the
guy got out and I was like, oh, I'm so sorry.
I'm just doing a radio interview.

Speaker 3 (09:54):
And he's like, oh, big fan Kyl, you're right. You
were right, and the radio show in person like, oh
that's what privily It's like, no, no, no, no, that's
famous privilege. It was white privilege.

Speaker 2 (10:05):
It's different. Good for you.

Speaker 4 (10:06):
So you didn't get a fine?

Speaker 3 (10:08):
No fine, no no no, not that time.

Speaker 2 (10:10):
Stop it.

Speaker 4 (10:10):
But you pay for their staff Christmas party, like you're
paying for ours?

Speaker 3 (10:13):
No yeah, I pay things off a lot. Yeah. Where
is it? Where there's a till, there's a way.

Speaker 4 (10:21):
Oh look, well you know, radio, We've actually got to
finish now because they've only given us four minutes with you.

Speaker 2 (10:25):
Before we could to play another song.

Speaker 3 (10:27):
Carle.

Speaker 2 (10:27):
It's been a delight and we love it.

Speaker 3 (10:30):
I appreciate your support, guys. I'll see you back on there. Tonight.

Speaker 2 (10:32):
I always like catching up mate.

Speaker 3 (10:35):
Thanks guys, Thanks Car
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