November 6, 2023 • 9 mins
Barbra Streisand joins Jonesy & Amanda for her only Australian interview.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
And Amanda gam Nation Brendon and Amanda, And you're on
the same show.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
For what aren't you lucky?
Speaker 3 (00:11):
That's a discount.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
We can't see you. Should we be seeing you?
Speaker 1 (00:16):
No?
Speaker 3 (00:16):
No, no, no, I can't but you can see No. Yeah,
well I wish we could see. But can you see us?
Speaker 2 (00:23):
I can?
Speaker 1 (00:24):
We can.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Well, let me show you what I've got here, Barbara.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Yeah, I have got there.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
I have the Barber Strides and Barbie collectible. It's been
on my mantelpiece for a couple of decades.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
That's the first, one of the first things I ever
designed for myself, the MIDI blasts out of Saturn. Yeah,
because I know I need I need. I can't have
anything tight around me when I sing, So that's why
I designed that.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
And you did and dolphins, dolphm replicated.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Don't understand how it works.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
I don't think Barbara wiped it up on her own
sewing machine for each dog.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
No, I didn't sew it myself. I just drew it
and had it made. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
We are so thrilled to talk to you.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
And I know that so many people over the duration
of your life have said you have to write the
story of your life.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Even Jackie on Nassas when she was an editor and said,
please do it.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
How does it feel to have done it?
Speaker 1 (01:22):
It actually feels quite good. Not while I was doing it,
I'm thinking what am I doing here? You know, gushing
of not gushing? Wrong word? Sorry? What am I doing? Writing?
Reliving my life? You know, been there, done that. But
as the years went by, it was actually helpful to
(01:49):
stop and in a sense prepare my legacy in one book.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
And did it come easy to you as you writing?
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Certain certain things did because I kept I kept journals,
you know, many journals at thirty five at least. I
even wrote something called My thirteen Years when I was
thirteen years old, little contents and talked about my experiences
as a child, but not a child, I was a teenager.
(02:29):
Rather than talk about myself personally, I prefer talking about
the process, which I knew, really never had to talk about,
you know, what happens when you make a film, what
happens when you make a record. I never listened to
my records. I don't watch my films, so that was
(02:51):
difficult and yet interesting for me to do.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
We learned a lot about your character. I just find
the fact that you're mind didn't shower you with praise,
and yet you had this, You found some tenacity to
keep going. I just find that extraordiny. Where did your
confidence come from?
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Maybe it came from the lack of confidence In other words,
I know, and I talked to a lot of people
that are successful and their parents did encourage them and
believed in them. I understand that. But then there must
(03:32):
be a lot of people like me that became something
because their parents didn't believe in them. That actually gives
you the drive, the energy to prove them wrong.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
And I loved how you grew your nails so that
you couldn't learn to type because you didn't want to
go down the clerical road that your mother wanted.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
From exactly exactly. I knew in a way she was
looking out from me, you know when she explained, if
you work for the school system like your father, did
you know he was a teacher at least that's interesting.
But to work in the office like my mother did
as a bookkeeper in the school system, no, thank you, No,
(04:17):
I had other dreams.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
It's a gift. Did you curse the fact that you
didn't learn how to type, because now you had to
write a book.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
That's funny. Well, I had somebody else type for me,
so I could just speak to a But then I
had to see it typed. Then I corrected, it's already typed,
and then I go on to change it or whatever
you know, do with it.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
That was.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Can I tell you about a young girl. I know
she's sixteen years old and her name is Violent, And
when she was six she saw Funny Girl and it
just changed her life. She has become absolutely obsessed and
in love and so admiring of you. She has sport
every record, she's watched every film. She wanted to become
(05:04):
Jewish and she couldn't make that happen within her family.
So she lives the spirit of me the Jewish. She
was Jewish, No, she wanted to be because of you,
and so she adheres to the holidays and all the
food requirements. In her bedroom is a shrine to you.
When I told her I was going to be talking
to you, she burst into tears.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Wait a minute, that is so interesting to me. That
is so interesting. How old is she now?
Speaker 4 (05:31):
She's sixteen now, and she's been loving you in an
obsessively wonderful way since she was six.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Well, do you realize that that whole time is the
time it took me to write this book for ten years. Really,
you know. Yeah, there are mystical things in the universe.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
So good. And do you still have your shop in
your house, the little shop that you've got on that
whole shopping mall you've got under your house. That is
so cool.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Well, I like to design things and I like to
collect things like dolls. Because my doll, as I write
about in the book, was a hot water bottle because
I didn't have a doll. And the lady who took
care of me, Toby Burrikaut, when I came home from school,
(06:23):
she was a knitting lady. She knitted a little pink
hat for the top of the water bottle, hot water bottle,
and a little sweater for it. And so what I'm
saying is and it felt warm, like a real baby. Yeah,
most kids didn't have dolls that felt warm. I was
happy with it. Yeah, it's still very much part.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Of me and the optimism of a young German.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
This is great. This could be a range of stuff
Barbarstreis and hot water bottles.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
What do you think, Well, maybe if it's Barbara Streis
sand hot water bottle. Did you get the hint?
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Did we are we are bad in Australia?
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Swallow England?
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Swallow it? Oh, yes, of course, yes, yes, that's yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
It's not interesting the way you say it.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
It's like, you know, because we have like it's like
Susan Sarandon, but.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
We'll say and we say Brisbane.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
What did you call her?
Speaker 3 (07:19):
We call her Susan Sarandon, but surrounded like abandoned. Oh yeah, yeah, exactly,
Will Farrell.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
But we also say Brisbane rather than Brisbane. We swallow
all that we go in the back of the nose.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
And yes, that's that's right.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Blame the blame, the the you know the translation, I guess.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Blame our convict parts, the colonialism.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Yeah. In my show, I remember saying, why do they
mispronounce my name so much? You know, like you don't
say Judy Garland to say Judy Garland. Yeah, yeah, so
I never thought I was that famous, tell you the
truth because so many people mispronounced me.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
But you're as some one who's just known by Barbara
as well. You're so famous you only need one in Australia.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
You're known as Babs.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Oh, Robert Redford calls me bab really you're so loved.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Well, thank you, you are so loved.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
I love that. I love that story about that girl.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Little Violet. I will tell her she's listening to this,
she will be going.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
She will beside herself, she will be beside herself.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
What is her name?
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Violet? Violet, Violet.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
But that's the name of my dog. I have a
dog named Violet.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
This is getting spooky now.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
I have I have and her twin is scarlet. They
have totally different personalities. They look exactly alike, and one
wears a red rose around her neck or she's scarlet,
and the other one wears a lavender rose around her
I mean, they're made of silk, you know. I'm going
to tell Funny that her name is Violet. Oh she
(09:03):
must be special, she must be very special. So hello, Violet,
I send you lots of love.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Thank you, thank you, thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Oh my pleasure.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Thank you guys, thank you.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Bye.
And Amanda gam Nation Brendon and Amanda, And you're on
the same show.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
For what aren't you lucky?
Speaker 3 (00:11):
That's a discount.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
We can't see you. Should we be seeing you?
Speaker 1 (00:16):
No?
Speaker 3 (00:16):
No, no, no, I can't but you can see No. Yeah,
well I wish we could see. But can you see us?
Speaker 2 (00:23):
I can?
Speaker 1 (00:24):
We can.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Well, let me show you what I've got here, Barbara.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Yeah, I have got there.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
I have the Barber Strides and Barbie collectible. It's been
on my mantelpiece for a couple of decades.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
That's the first, one of the first things I ever
designed for myself, the MIDI blasts out of Saturn. Yeah,
because I know I need I need. I can't have
anything tight around me when I sing, So that's why
I designed that.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
And you did and dolphins, dolphm replicated.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Don't understand how it works.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
I don't think Barbara wiped it up on her own
sewing machine for each dog.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
No, I didn't sew it myself. I just drew it
and had it made. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
We are so thrilled to talk to you.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
And I know that so many people over the duration
of your life have said you have to write the
story of your life.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Even Jackie on Nassas when she was an editor and said,
please do it.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
How does it feel to have done it?
Speaker 1 (01:22):
It actually feels quite good. Not while I was doing it,
I'm thinking what am I doing here? You know, gushing
of not gushing? Wrong word? Sorry? What am I doing? Writing?
Reliving my life? You know, been there, done that. But
as the years went by, it was actually helpful to
(01:49):
stop and in a sense prepare my legacy in one book.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
And did it come easy to you as you writing?
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Certain certain things did because I kept I kept journals,
you know, many journals at thirty five at least. I
even wrote something called My thirteen Years when I was
thirteen years old, little contents and talked about my experiences
as a child, but not a child, I was a teenager.
(02:29):
Rather than talk about myself personally, I prefer talking about
the process, which I knew, really never had to talk about,
you know, what happens when you make a film, what
happens when you make a record. I never listened to
my records. I don't watch my films, so that was
(02:51):
difficult and yet interesting for me to do.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
We learned a lot about your character. I just find
the fact that you're mind didn't shower you with praise,
and yet you had this, You found some tenacity to
keep going. I just find that extraordiny. Where did your
confidence come from?
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Maybe it came from the lack of confidence In other words,
I know, and I talked to a lot of people
that are successful and their parents did encourage them and
believed in them. I understand that. But then there must
(03:32):
be a lot of people like me that became something
because their parents didn't believe in them. That actually gives
you the drive, the energy to prove them wrong.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
And I loved how you grew your nails so that
you couldn't learn to type because you didn't want to
go down the clerical road that your mother wanted.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
From exactly exactly. I knew in a way she was
looking out from me, you know when she explained, if
you work for the school system like your father, did
you know he was a teacher at least that's interesting.
But to work in the office like my mother did
as a bookkeeper in the school system, no, thank you, No,
(04:17):
I had other dreams.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
It's a gift. Did you curse the fact that you
didn't learn how to type, because now you had to
write a book.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
That's funny. Well, I had somebody else type for me,
so I could just speak to a But then I
had to see it typed. Then I corrected, it's already typed,
and then I go on to change it or whatever
you know, do with it.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
That was.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Can I tell you about a young girl. I know
she's sixteen years old and her name is Violent, And
when she was six she saw Funny Girl and it
just changed her life. She has become absolutely obsessed and
in love and so admiring of you. She has sport
every record, she's watched every film. She wanted to become
(05:04):
Jewish and she couldn't make that happen within her family.
So she lives the spirit of me the Jewish. She
was Jewish, No, she wanted to be because of you,
and so she adheres to the holidays and all the
food requirements. In her bedroom is a shrine to you.
When I told her I was going to be talking
to you, she burst into tears.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Wait a minute, that is so interesting to me. That
is so interesting. How old is she now?
Speaker 4 (05:31):
She's sixteen now, and she's been loving you in an
obsessively wonderful way since she was six.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Well, do you realize that that whole time is the
time it took me to write this book for ten years. Really,
you know. Yeah, there are mystical things in the universe.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
So good. And do you still have your shop in
your house, the little shop that you've got on that
whole shopping mall you've got under your house. That is
so cool.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Well, I like to design things and I like to
collect things like dolls. Because my doll, as I write
about in the book, was a hot water bottle because
I didn't have a doll. And the lady who took
care of me, Toby Burrikaut, when I came home from school,
(06:23):
she was a knitting lady. She knitted a little pink
hat for the top of the water bottle, hot water bottle,
and a little sweater for it. And so what I'm
saying is and it felt warm, like a real baby. Yeah,
most kids didn't have dolls that felt warm. I was
happy with it. Yeah, it's still very much part.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Of me and the optimism of a young German.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
This is great. This could be a range of stuff
Barbarstreis and hot water bottles.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
What do you think, Well, maybe if it's Barbara Streis
sand hot water bottle. Did you get the hint?
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Did we are we are bad in Australia?
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Swallow England?
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Swallow it? Oh, yes, of course, yes, yes, that's yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
It's not interesting the way you say it.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
It's like, you know, because we have like it's like
Susan Sarandon, but.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
We'll say and we say Brisbane.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
What did you call her?
Speaker 3 (07:19):
We call her Susan Sarandon, but surrounded like abandoned. Oh yeah, yeah, exactly,
Will Farrell.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
But we also say Brisbane rather than Brisbane. We swallow
all that we go in the back of the nose.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
And yes, that's that's right.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Blame the blame, the the you know the translation, I guess.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Blame our convict parts, the colonialism.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Yeah. In my show, I remember saying, why do they
mispronounce my name so much? You know, like you don't
say Judy Garland to say Judy Garland. Yeah, yeah, so
I never thought I was that famous, tell you the
truth because so many people mispronounced me.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
But you're as some one who's just known by Barbara
as well. You're so famous you only need one in Australia.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
You're known as Babs.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Oh, Robert Redford calls me bab really you're so loved.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Well, thank you, you are so loved.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
I love that. I love that story about that girl.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Little Violet. I will tell her she's listening to this,
she will be going.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
She will beside herself, she will be beside herself.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
What is her name?
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Violet? Violet, Violet.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
But that's the name of my dog. I have a
dog named Violet.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
This is getting spooky now.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
I have I have and her twin is scarlet. They
have totally different personalities. They look exactly alike, and one
wears a red rose around her neck or she's scarlet,
and the other one wears a lavender rose around her
I mean, they're made of silk, you know. I'm going
to tell Funny that her name is Violet. Oh she
(09:03):
must be special, she must be very special. So hello, Violet,
I send you lots of love.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Thank you, thank you, thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Oh my pleasure.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Thank you guys, thank you.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Bye.
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