Britney Spears has the best week!

A new album, a number one single in the Aussie charts and the youngest singer ever to get a star on the Hollywood walk of fame… What did you get up to when you were 21? Because all of this happened in just one week in the life of our patron saint, Ms Britney Jean Spears! 

It wasn’t a bad week for Outkast either as they crack into the charts with the single ‘Hey Ya’, which would go on to be a mainstay on hot AC radio stations to this day! 

Sadly the war on terror suffers a major blow this week 20 years ago with two bombings in Istanbul that kills over 30 people, including British Consul-General Roger Short, and injuring hundreds more.

In tech news the Theragun becalmed the latest tool  in the microscopic war against infections.

And in sport, Johnny Wilkinson ruins the Wallabies World Cup Rugby campaign when he slots a field goal in extra time and takes the trophy back to the motherland in England. Back when Rugby was good!

We also revisit the whole “is Die Hard a Christmas movie” BS.

All that and loads more. Have a listen!

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The year is 2003. Tom is your first friend on MySpace. 50 cent costs a dollar on iTunes. The Terminator becomes the Governator and nobody can find those weapons of mass destruction. T minus 20, rewind 20 with Joe, and three rest is history. Nominate Jack. Oh yeah. It's T minus 20, the podcast where we rewind yet again for another week to this week in history. 20 years ago, way back in 2003. Can you believe it? With your host, Joe and Mel. Hello Mel. Hello. Yes. All the way back to 2003. 16 to 22. November to be precise. Yeah, I don't there. Oh, remember that one? I do. That was massive. Back in 2003. Don't want to meet your mama. Just want to, oh, can't say that on. Let's stop right there. Well, you can, but maybe not on the PG podcast. Anyway, we'll have a chat about that a little bit later on. Okay. People, Santa's coming to Death Santa. Oh my God. I know him. I know him. Don't we all? I can't believe that it's getting so close to Christmas. But we're looking at that major motion picture that made its debut and has become a mainstay for Christmas movies, households, the World over the world. Loved that movie. I didn't. Mm. Not a fan. Oh, look, I share your opinion on this film, I have to say, but everybody told me at the time, you have to watch it. It's so good. Yes.

And you'll love it. And you didn't. I'm a bit of a Grinch though, if I'm being honest. You are. I'm seriously speechless right now. This is something that I've dreamt about since I was a little girl. Really? A very big week between 16 to 22 November for Britney Spears. There was a lot going on for her. When is it not a big week for Britney Spears. And when is there not a lot going on for her? Well, she's had a big few weeks lately, actually with the release of her book, the Woman in Me, I purchased it. Yes. How do you, how are you finding it as a fan? Mm. As a what? What do they call Britney Spears fans? Oh, I don't think like Taylor Swift fans of Swifties and stuff. I just think, well, maybe early two thousands was too cool for that. We didn't need that. We didn't actually have Have a label. Yeah. No fans. You'd be like, asparagus, asparagus, spears. I, I don't know. Anyway, I did buy it and I, I thought it was coming out on the Tuesday, but it was Tuesday in America. So it was Wednesday here in Australia. Yes. So full false start to start with this. You didn't queue up a dimmick at midnight or anything? I was ready. I was ready on Tuesday and then I found out, oh no, it's actually one more sleep. So I had to wait another day. Yeah.

And I went down to the Hyper D, the Hyperdome. Yeah. And I thought if Anywhere's gonna have Brittany's book, it's gonna be the Hyperdome. You can tell you're early two thousands person anyway. Because it's no longer the Hyperdome. It is South Point. Yes. So everyone went to the Hyper D. Yeah. Okay. But we were never changing. Clearly my generation we're never changing its name. No, no. We're keeping it name. It's the Hyperdome. Yes. I'll sign the petition. There was a petition, you know, was there. Really? It was to not change the name. Yes. You're getting off topic. What happened with Britney Spears? I know. Okay. So I found out that it was $10 cheaper at Big W. What? I went to Big W and I expected, because there's been a lot of fanfare in the lead up to this. I'm gonna take you off topic now. What were they playing on the music in? In Big W? Big W. I don't dunno. Surely there was some, I was on a mission. I wasn't paying attention to anything else. Maybe a bit of boney MI thought I might have to scra someone for the last copy. Really? I, I was preparing myself for what might eventuate. You think it was that much of a hot ticket item? There was so much fanfare in the lead up. Bits were being leaked across the socials. Yep. I thought it was just, yeah.

It was gonna be impossible to find a copy. So I thought I'll try, I'll try Big W. 'cause that's an unlikely place to purchase it. Yeah. And cheaper. Yeah. And I could also get my disinfecting wipes at the same time. Bulk pack as well. Very cheap. It's great. So it was, it was an armor all to do the dashboard of the car while you're in the car. Case section's. Like I'm, I'm hoofing it down to the book section and I'm expecting, you know, big posters, a display. That is how you run when you're at the Hyperdome in Renno. You don't run, you hoof it, you hoof it. You do, you hoof it or you fang it. Yeah. There's only two speeds in the Hyper D anyway, I'm thinking there'll be this big picture of her, like a cardboard cutout. There'll be like a tower of books. Yeah, maybe. Maybe even a Britney impersonator. Yeah. Maybe somebody, one of the staff vibe has gone to the effort to construct dress up as her to and do a display. Right. They could've all dressed up as that. Wouldn't that be cool? Just all the people from Big W just wearing the school uniform from Hit me baby. One more time. Or the snake. Or the snake. Oh, well that's a bit racy for big dubs. But the snake could've gone. Well, they could and they, they could've just used like the door snakes that they sell. Yes.

You know, so it's like, oh, not only are they actually merchandising, merchandising opportunities, they're merchandising the door snakes that will stop the draft from coming in under your house. Oh, missed opportunity. Oh, well anyway, there was no display. See, this is it. We're ideas people, Mel, we are real thinkers. There was no display. No wonder this, I mean, I don't understand how this podcast isn't bigger with our marketing genius. Sorry. Yes. There was no display. No display. No Britney impersonators. Yeah. There was no snakes. There was, I couldn't even find it. I would've thought it would be in an aisle. So there was no books. Well, I was getting concerned that there was no books. But then I went down into the biography section and I looked up, I thought you were gonna say the basement. And I think it was actually under B for Brittany rather than S for bsb SSPs. Oh wow. Shouldn't it go last name? Well, it's Big W not the library. I think it's last name. Yeah, well it should be in the library. So I looked under S and there's nothing under S. And then I saw this other man walking around and I was thinking, oh, he's probably wanting a copy for his daughter. Right. This is who I'm gonna have to scragg. 'cause I'm not seeing many books here. There's probably only one left. So are you like, Hey mate, you here for the Britney book?

The sizing 'em up. And I was like, he's like, I could take you for sure. And he's like, no, I just wanna pick up like an armor roll kit for my card dashboard. Yeah. Anyway, it was under beef Britney. There was about 10 copies, so it was fine. So wonderful. Got that. Okay. So got my disinfecting wipes. You have the book, you've read Hoofed it, hoofed it back out of the ade. Hoofed it. Well, you hoofed it out the door. Because I was walking around thinking someone's gonna go. Oh my God, I've got it too. I was waiting for that comradery of how excited are you for this book? Love Britney. Yeah. You know, solidarity, whatever. No, no one cares. No spoilers. Don't care cares. Nobody cares. Nobody cares. Nobody cared at all. You care. No, I care. How, how, how is the book? It's, it's quite an easy read if you, that does not surprise me at all. If you have read some of her captions on Instagram, sometimes she'll post her notes. Yeah. She can be quite erratic, I think sometimes. Yeah. Oh, really? Just a little bit. Just a little bit. Shock me. There's there's always a lot going on in her posts. Yeah. So I was half expecting the book maybe to be a bit challenging and a bit frenetic. Yes. Is probably the best word to describe. Yes. Well, but she had somebody help her write, she had a ghost writer.

Which, and that's common. That's not just for her. No. All the celebs have ghost writers. Yeah. Wouldn't that be the best job? A ghost writer? Absolutely. Not for a celebrity. No way. You ring them up every week, you have a chat to, to them. You get all the details of their lives. No, imagine. And you turn it into a book. Imagine being the ghost writer for Britney Spears. Oh my. Oh, just hang on my, I've gotta stand up and twirl around on Instagram. My several thousand, my dream. Oh, you'd be sitting there all day going now Brittany, just focus just for five. I just want five minutes so I can go and put together a chapter, my tour. Happy tol. That's fine. I would've loved to have been her ghost writer. So it's, it's an easy read. And the chapters are really short. So you feel like you're accomplishing something. I'm only up to chapter seven, so I am a bit disappointed in myself. Wow. I thought I would've finished it by now. But I bought the hardcover because I wanted, I wanted something tangible. I didn't wanna just buy it in the, the audio book, whatever called the book thing or the, the ebook. Yeah. Yeah. So I thought I want the hard copy, but as a consequence, I can only read when the lights are on. Whereas when you've got it on your iPad, when the lights freaking still keep reading.

So that's, that's ave a thing set that we never used to worry about. Isn't it? I need to get a book light. That's what I need. Need a book, book light. Yes. Need a must for that. I'm just gonna put it on the Christmas list. I need a, I need a booklet. Yeah. But yeah, I did find out that the Michelle Williams audio book narration, I, I'm a bit disappointed that I didn't get that version. Yeah, there is. Yeah. There's some, there's quite some narration in that one. Yeah. So I think there's the whole thing where she's talking about Justin Timberlake using his black scent. Yes. And I think he bumped into Ginu down in New York and I I think he used for Shizz. Yeah. Or something along those lines. But Michelle Williams pretending to be Britney, pretending to be Justin. That is, that's worth 20 bucks worth. Amazing. The price of admission. Absolutely. Let's move things along. We've got the hatch match and dispatch clue at the end of the show, we will do our hatches matches and dispatches segment. But we'll give you a little clue to somebody who was having a wedding this time 20 years ago. You know, straight out from the country. Yes, sir. From the country. Yes, sir. You love that song. Whenever, whenever I actually do, you get your barbecue on usually about two beers into the barbecue. That song comes on. It's a guilty pleasure.

That's like an early barbecue song. Yeah. And then, and then after I've had about six beers, I go cow tipping. Now that's all been really fun. But the news this week is, is not great. There was a bit of a development with the whole war on terror with a, a very major terrorist attack taking place. Yes. On the 20th of November, at least 27 people were killed. And more than 400 injured in twin bomb attacks in the Turkish city of Istanbul. One of the bombs went off at the British Consulate and the other at the London based bank, HSBC. Now, prior to this, on the 15th of November, we didn't talk about this last week, but it was kind of overlapping and leading into this week. Anyway, improvised explosive devices in trucks were detonated outside the NIV Shalom and Beth Israel synagogues in the same place in the same city, killing 30 people and injuring an estimated additional 300 people. Gosh. So that's 700 in total. Yeah. That were injured. That's right. Over over these attacks. The top British diplomat in the city, the consulate General Rogers short, was among at least 14 people that were killed in the consulate bombing on the 20th of November. That's right. And the, the British Foreign Office also confirmed that another Britain diplomatic staff member, Lisa Hallworth, was among those who died. So it was a very concentrated attack.

Molly Moore from the Washington Post was on the scene and was speaking to Seaspan at the time. And we've got this grab from them. Any tourist who's been to Istanbul has probably been right near where this bomb blast was at the British Consulate. This is the most crowded, vibrant part of all of Istanbul. It's an area called Taxe. It's, it's full of restaurants, shops, traditional open air markets, modern sheet clothing, boutiques. It, the street scene there is crowded with people 24 hours a day. There are a lot of consulates there. There was a, a very large stonewall around the British consulate. The, the main building actually was not damaged. And the reason the, the Consulate General Robert Short was killed is apparently he had just walked into the front door of the consulate. Witnesses this morning are saying that they saw a green suzu pickup truck. And if some of your listeners may remember that the two trucks used in the bombings last Saturday at the synagogues were Isuzu pickup trucks started going slowly toward the front gate. The the guards came out, pointed their guns at it, it hit the accelerator, ran the front gate and blew up and blew up sort of a, a little cafeteria that was in the garden part of the, of, of the consulate.

Now, Jack Straw, the foreign minister of, of Great Britain, was here today and toured the site and gave a press conference afterwards in which he said that it is believed that in fact the consulate general was under surveillance. And that's perhaps why the bombing was timed. Just when it was he, that he had just gone into the building. If he had been in the inner core of the building, he would not have been injured at all. So that's very scary in that they were actually tailing the targeting. Yeah. And, and waiting for him to arrive before they actually carried out the attack. Now that, that in itself is, is terrible. The authorities were saying that the attacks were carried out by suicide bombers. Reportedly with links to Al-Qaeda and a man called the semi-official Anatoli News Agency into Turkey to claim that Alqaeda and the Turkish Islamic militant group, I-B-D-A-C had jointly carried out the attacks. The bomb was so big that apparently buildings hundreds of meters away had their windows blown out. Yeah. It was like it's a ute loaded with explosives. Yeah. Just devastating. And the building, which housed the bank headquarters overlooked a crowded shopping center, which was filled obviously with people at the time that the bomb went off. Yeah. So, as you can imagine, complete chaos in the city. Traffic blocking ambulances as they're trying to reach the wounded. 'cause like, like she was saying, it's that market area.

It's like a central business district type area. She also goes on to say that there's a lot of consulates in that area where the British consulate was, but the US actually relocated their consulate prior to this attack carrying out. They were there as well, but they were like, it's just too risky and we can't secure ourselves properly within this too densely populated. And there's a lot of stuff moving around there. Lot of, yeah. So they closed it, they warned citizens to stay away from the area where the bombings took place as well, the United States. And they, they actually closed their consulate, which wasn't located Yeah. In that area, I should say. George Bush actually said that the bombers had chain uttered contempt for human life. Like, duh. Thanks for stating the obvious. George and the prime minister of Turkey said that he tracked down who would be responsible saying quote, Turkey will be like a fist. The best response for us is to stay calm in the face of terrorism. And that's what he said to the journalists. And these were the two largest terrorist attacks in modern Turkish history at the time. So collectively killing 63 and injuring an estimated 750 others. And within days they'd begun arresting suspects. By February of 2004, a total of 69 people were charged in connection with both bombings. Yeah. Five of them were described as leaders of the Al-Qaeda cell in Turkey. Yeah.

They, so they were all, and I think more will unfold. I don't know how much more we want to talk about it 'cause it's, it's just gross. But there, there was like a huge cell of Al-Qaeda planted in Istanbul that carried out this attack. One of the people that they're after was a guy called Habib Akta, who was the head of the Al-Qaeda cell. And apparently the mastermind of the attack, they never got him. But in September, 2004, he was reportedly killed during a raid in Iraq by US forces. So they have a trial in May they postpone it after they find out that the state security court in Istanbul had been abolished by the government as part of pro EU reforms and hearings don't begin for this trial until September, 2004. So we will talk about it probably in the distant future with a podcast, but just a horrible, horrible news story. Yeah. Thankfully we have sport to distract us and I I I, especially in Australia where Yes, you'll have like a news story like the, the one that we just talked about that will probably go for about three minutes. Mm. And then the remainder of the bulletin seems to be dedicated to sport. I feel like there's a bigger percentage of sport in the news in Australia. Yes. Well, you've got several codes of football to get through. You've got tennis, you've got golf.

I mean, they'll even talk about the yabby races as a color piece at the end of it. Which of the sports are we talking about here? We're talking about the round ball game. First and foremost, we've got two sports. Yes. The world ball game, the football. Thank you. Oh, you have to call it football. The world game football in, in this instance. I know he said the World balls game and that's Wow. Not what I meant. Dangerous maybe. Yeah. 16 year old Lionel Messi. That name is familiar. This is someone who's a bit of a legend. It's one of the greatest of all time. Yes, yes. Okay, good. I thought this was a goat. He makes his official debut for FC Barcelona when he comes on as a substitute in a friendly against Porto Porto. Yeah. He, so he was subbed on, he, he didn't play for very long. So was on, he was on the, he was on the reserve bench. He's only 16. Like he's only just been brought into the game. He's the final 15 minutes. He replaces Fernando Navarro and he's wearing the number 14 jersey. I think he was only wearing that number. Not for any special reason, except that it was the only Jersey available at the time. So he just chucked it on and went and played.

And, and, and during that time he, he has a shot at goal, but the goalie is too quick for him and then he gets another chance and s to pass instead. And unfortunately they couldn't score. But he is Lionel running onto the field. That's right. And you can hear the ground announcer there saying, Lionel Messi, your car is out in the car park and you've left your lights on. No, I I mean obviously it's, it's not in English. 'cause it wasn't in the English competition. But you can hear, I do believe I and I, I I can hear the word marna after in the same sentence as messy. So maybe the commentator was co about him maybe reminding him of a young marad donna. Anyway, it wasn't the day for FC Barcelona that day because Porto won the game. Two nil. Oh, that's a shame. Yeah. And he made his debut Well done. Well yes. Good on your Lionel. Another shame was the November 22 rugby World Cup final that happened at Stadium Australia, which was Australia versus England. When Johnny Wilkinson landed the winning drop goal in extra time and England Beat Australia 2017. They'll set it up, they'll go midfield. Wilkinson will set it up here and he'll wait for his opportunity. Katt absolutely monster seat. He's back now behind the pocket. Wilkinson. He's waiting. Warren Smith ready to sprint and Dawson goes himself. He fooled everyone. Wilkinsons still in position here.

This is England's chance back is there Australia come through. Martin Johnson and England staying composed here. Wilson still in place for the drop goal up Australia. Come back. Here it is for Johnny. Has he done it? He saw has heartbreaker for the Wallabies seconds remaining. And that surely is the stairway to rugby heaven. Sir England Sensational Johnny Wilkinson off his right foot, his unflavored right foot. Three points. Woodward thinks he's got it. Look at Wilkinson. He's composure. He knew it as he hit it. Woodman takes it time almost up seconds remaining. The hands, the words, the player of the tournament. Johnny Wilkinson has snatched it away from the wallabies. Is this it? And England has joined Sir Ralph Ramsey's Immortals of 1966. What an utter bastard. That was extra time. Was it? That was back when rugby was good. So here's the blow by blow for the game. Right. Okay. So Australia opened the scoring after they decide to run a penalty instead of kicking for touch. And Lottie Teri, I remember that name. Yes. Lottie tei. Yes. So Matt Rogers and Lottie Teri had come over from the NRL. That's right. That's that's right. Yes. He contests a, a high cross field kick scores. The first try, Australia fails to convert England, then edge in front and apply pressure. And Johnny Wilkinson's boot puts them up to a nine five lead after Australia gives away several penalties. So they kick penalties here.

Right towards the end of the first half. England stretch lead further and go in at halftime leading by 14 to five, second half Australia puts on their big boy pants and they put on the pressure, England gives away a couple of penalties and suddenly the score is 1411. Then they get another penalty Right before full time Australia scores, the score is 14. All takes the game to extra time. Oh. England opened the scoring in extra time, but then with two and a half minutes to go, they give away a penalty and Australia scores and the scores are tied again, then 20 seconds left before the game is about to go to Sudden Death. Oh, Johnny Wilkinson slots the drop goal on its game over What? Exciting. And I remember exciting. It was very devastating back when rugby was great back then. Yeah. We were so good at it. Yeah. We were so good at it. And now, oh, I love this royal we Oh, you played rugby, didn't you? I did. I was in the, I was in third grade, so I played third grade rugby for my school. Yes. Well that recap was very professional. They used to call us the thirsty. Why was that? Because we weren't very fit, needed a drink. Let's get into some outdated technology, ie. Technology that was groundbreaking. Yes. 20 years ago. We're going to time magazine's best inventions of 2003.

In fact, one of the best inventions for Time Magazine was released this week, 20 years ago. The Fever Finder. The fever finder. Mm. Let me find you a fever. You give me fever, I'll find it. That that would've come in very handy for outing Justin Bieber fans. You just pointed at 'em like I, I'm sorry. She's got the Bieber fan. She's got Bieber Fever. Oh dear. No, this was an infrared fever screening system with a bit of hashtag inspo from the recent SARS outbreak. Oh, so they could So off the back of sars. Yeah. They thought, oh, wouldn't it be handy if we could tell if people had a fever? Well so, but this isn't like, well you can already tell that people have a fever. You stick a thermometer under their armpit or their tongue. Yes. But you have to then go and do that to them, which is probably not acceptable in a public place. This is for public places like airports. Yeah. Supermarkets. And I suppose like even, even something less invasive like the doctors sporting where they stick the thing in your ear. Yes. You don't wanna be sticking things in people's ears. I hate when they stick it in my ear because I'm always worried they'll pull out some wax and judge me. Yeah, that's gross. That's really disgusting. It's always a worry for me. Yeah. Well maybe clean your ears out before you go to the doctor.

Well, or I can just go and stand in the fever finder. Stand in the fever finder. Yes. It was was a system. It was a system that could reveal whether or not you are running a temperature. Right. Obviously a sign whether you were sick or not, might it was like a chamber that you stand in. Is that right? Well it was on a computer thing. Yeah. And it sort of mapped you and presented this color coded infrared map Right. Of your body. Yeah. And I think red meant you've got a fever. Might be a bit of a fever here. Yeah. Green, you're a Bieber fan. Green. You're all good. You're good to go. Right. Yeah. This time in 2003 it was released and dozens had been sold for use in airports, hotels, hospitals as well. That's a good place. Are you say, so was it throughout Asia? Was it like a metal detector? It was a screen. Came you across through the metal detector. It was kind of a screening thing. So think about probably around this time, 20 years ago as well, when they started doing the screens that you stood inside and they were checking you for bombs and that kind of stuff. Oh yeah. Yeah. I think it was similar. A similar scenario to that. Yeah. But what it did was map your body. Yeah. And then it showed red or green. And if you were red Yeah. Come over here.

So it's like, look, I'm so do a double check. Let me stick something in your as well to verify. I'm sorry, Mr. So and so you have tested negative for explosives, but unfortunately you have a very bad cold. You've, you're not going anywhere. Yeah. It was really big in Asia, so Right. A lot of them were sold pretty much when it went to market. Right. And then I don't think anything much happened with them. I, yes. I think that was the end of the, well, the fever finder. Well, I mean, well nowadays though, they've got the gun, not the, the, and they pointed at your head, which is a bit alarming. Infrared temperature, guns, I think they're called. Yeah. Yeah. And so when we went into Covid Yeah. Then we did start this temperature screening again. Yes. Mainly at things like hospitals, airports. I think a lot of workplaces did it as well because sporting events, because the little guns were quite easy to do and you just Yeah. Zap someone on the way in. Yeah. Schools. Schools were doing it. I felt like groceries, I felt like a grocery. 'cause it was like, dude, $2 and then you're allowed in. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. Because at least they didn't tell me what I was worth. 'cause that would've been terrible for my self-esteem. Something I didn't know. The airport here in Canberra was the first major Australian airport to introduce body temperature scanning. Yeah.

As an additional safety measure against covid back in 2020. Right. This was super high tech. So a camera would take your image, it would record your image and your temperature in real time. I don't know how it did that. And then if you were shown to have a temperature, a nurse would come running up to you and be like, put a mask on you. You look sick. Come over here, let's have a chat. Yeah. And ask a series of questions to work out whether someone was ill. Right. And whether or not they could travel. So they're like, have you ever bought or rented a videotape that wasn't quite right. Really? If you're over 37.8, apparently a nurse would pop out of somewhere and surprise you with a face mask. Yeah. Take your temperature again and then do the questionnaire. And then do the questionnaire. Yes. Wow. The, the accuracy of these devices has been brought into question. Has it? Yes. But thankfully, care 11 NBC in the good old USA sent a hard hitting journalist out in the field to get to the, excuse the pun, bottom of the issue. None of our thermometers have the same reading. So what did we learn from this? The most accurate temperature is gonna be a rectal temperature. And so getting a, a thermometer, a contact thermometer that has a heat sensor that can be used as a rectal measurement is probably the most accurate.

We skipped that test for obvious reasons over to music. Now what's happening on the charts, Mel, let's start with the billboard. Top 100 over in the us. Not all hundred though. No. We'll do the top five be here all night. Yeah. Don't, don't damn Throw it up. You damn Throw it up if you don't give damn. Throw the what doing Stop drop. It's, she had me worried when you said a hundred, then I was like, that's what the charts are called. The billboard. Hundred top 100. I was that were doing the top five from the billboard top. We had had to do do a hundred of them. I'd rather have my temperature taken rectally than deal with that. That's Rick d used to do it Or he'd the top Take his temperature rectally. No. Oh no, the billboard. But he, I think he did the top 50, maybe 40. That boy boys' voice was like that. Rick D. Yeah. Amazing Baby boys still number one. Beyonce and Sean Paul stand up. Ludicrous. Number two holiday in Chingy. Ludicrous. Snoop Dogg. Yes. Damn. Little John was that, that was with the Yin Yang twins too, wasn't it? It was Little John and I believe so. A bunch of other people. You don't give a damn. Don't throw it up up. No, no. Don't. Yeah. Good advice. And we have a new Well, good advice for supermodels. Oh, okay. Yeah. Okay. Number five.

A new entry into the top five. Hey ya. From Outkast. Y'all don't, let's see how many times I can play the grab. Hey ya. In this podcast, I actually really liked this album and I know that might come as a surprise to you due to my extensive heavy metal collection. But I loved the album Speaker box and the Love Below the double album was the did. Yeah. 'cause it was just so diverse and interesting and quirky and just different sounding and really groovy and fun too. And hey Yas probably one of the most iconic songs of the early two thousands. Yeah. And it was from the speaker box. Love Below Heyer was from The Love Below Disc, which was the disc that was Andre 3000. Yes. Because there's Big Boy and Andre 3000 and they did a disc each. Yeah. Even though they kind of featured on both. One was responsible for one and one was responsible for the other. So Andre was Love Below and Big Boy was Speaker Box. So hey Ya was more Andre 3000 and it was a bit of a move from their typical hip hop sound leaning more towards that funk and pop inspired by bands like The Beatles and classic pop songs. Well you can definitely see that in the film clip. The film clip is fantastic for it. And it's one of those tracks where it's like, wow, that's 20 years old. Mm. Oh boy. So catchy.

The lyrics were great and the music video was at, it was a retro style, but Andre 3000 played all of the band members. Remember? That's right. Yeah. And they raw, but they, the way that they edited it together made it just look live and he's just appearing in throughout the band. It was, which is really clever. It was fabulous. It was fabulous. Yeah. And then everyone started shaking it like a Polaroid picture was the best, wasn't it? Shake it like a Polaroid picture. Yeah. Yeah. Just a fantastic album. I dare say a classic. Absolutely. A classic. And you can tell because it's still endures to this day. Like there's people, you hear that song on the radio high rotation, well maybe not on the, the news stations, but definitely on the old classic Hits stations. It top the billboard top 100 in the US It reached the top worldwide right across multiple charts. Critical acclaim often cited as one of the best songs of the 21st century and won the Grammy award for Best Urban Alternative Performance in 2004. That's a category. Urban alternative performance. Urban slash alternative performance. Yes. Oh boy. Alright. Well done Grammys. Okay. So we've got a new number one in the UK this week. Mm. From Busted. Crashed the wedding. And aren't they just the epitome of privileged young, white, suburban males And Glad I crash, crashed a wedding. Are you Well that's a bit selfish, isn't it?

I mean, were they the ones that did what I go to school for? Was that busted? Probably. I don't know. Busted. Yeah. I don't know. I remember there was one kid when I did the Hot 30. There was one kid super fan, a stan, a busted Stan. Like, 'cause nobody cared about bus busted. This is like a, except for this one guy. And whenever they had a new song, he'd ring up and he'd vote for it. He'd standard vote for busted and then he'd ring. No, it was, I can't remember what his name was. It was this one guy, I can remember his voice. Quite young. Mm. His voice hadn't broken. Mm. And he'd ring up kind of nasal sounding voice and he'd ring up and he'd vote for busted. And then he'd ring up again and he'd try and do a different voice. He'd vote for Busta Get Oh really? Because he really, really wanted Busta to, and then he got busted. He's, he's heading down a path. Isn't he really? I mean, I just find them. They obviously Pop punk was, was big. Yeah. And, and bands like Blink 180 2 that had a bit of an edge and all of that would Yeah. They're trying to emulate that a bit. Some 41 were big. But this sounds like a record company trying to make a more vanilla version of that. Yeah. To turn a buck. I think you're right. Yeah.

And I'm glad I crashed the wedding. Like I said, it's a very selfish thing to do. That woman has not chosen you kiddo. And you are going to crash the wedding. Why speak now forever. Hold your piece. Oh look, this little emo record company Pop punk dudes up at the back saying, I object to this matrimony. And the chick would've been like, what? Like get him outta here. And then the, the the, the girl's dad would've come down the aisle charging down the aisle towards the dude with busted with all these spiky jelled up hair. He would've hoof piercing. He would it down the aisle. Thank you. You would've hoofed it down the aisle towards him. Yes. And beat the crap out of him. Well, fair enough too. Just ruined the wedding. That's terrible. Terrible. Alright, let's hoof it over to the Australian charts now. Oh, we got a number one there. Yes. Okay. Yes. Brand new number one here in Australia this week. 20 years ago. Megan, the music. Brittany Mads. So I got tick tab to get in the zone. That thing. Speaking of getting in the zone. Yeah. That album was also released this week, 20 years ago. So she's number one here in Australia. Yeah. And she also releases in the Zone. Right. Featuring that song, me Against the Music. A song called Boom Boom featuring the yin yang twins. Oh, the Ms. Little Johns misspelled Yin Yang twins, little John's friends.

And a banjo. It's got a banjo in there. It was, it was an odd, it was an odd fit. The banjo, the banjo kind of stood out a little bit to me. Yeah. I, I didn't And got there. Boom. Boom. Just all of a sudden breaks into this banjo. It's like you're fishing with dynamite. It was, yeah. Okay, cool. I didn't understand every time this single I feel so small. Was that the, that was that the one where she using the bathtub and at the time they said it was in response to Justin's Crimea River. They said it was her response since the book has come out. So she didn't Crya River, she just let her tears fill up the bath, fill up bathtub, and then submerge herself in the, in the tears and exfoliated in her tears. Ooh. Since the book has come out, yes. There's a lot of discussion and people are revisiting this song in light of some of the revelations from the book. Now the books, there's, there is some really heavy themes in the book. I'm not gonna go into it right now. Yeah. But there has been some really deep analysis of the lyrics of this song and people are now viewing it in a different light. Did she write it following some of the things that have come out in the book? But did somebody else write it? I think she co-wrote it with someone. Right.

So she had a hand in it. I believe she, she definitely did. Okay. So now people have, have reanalyzed it. And I think when the book came out, I believe this song, I dunno if it went to number one in the streaming charts. Right. But it, it hit some kind of record or milestone because a few people started going, Ooh, maybe this song actually means this to, based on what we've read in the book, they're trying find new meaning. And so then everybody started listening to it. Well there's got's one thing that the Britney fans love is a conspiracy theory as well. Oh don't they? Oh yes. I mean, you know, and more power to them. I I don't want upset any of them. No, no. She's the patron saint of the podcast. Yes, yes. We love her. Exactly. And of course we would have to play this one, probably the most iconic song from the album in the Zone. It's a karaoke favorite of mine. You are really good at it. Yeah. I do like it. But I do need, 'cause when I'm actually doing the karaoke of it, I need like a long runway to walk down like the aisle of an airplane. Like I'm doing the hostess bit. It kind of helps you pitch as well. Yes. Work your way up to that really hard. I need to start along. Yeah. But it's hard. Yeah. It's not an easy song to karaoke.

It's a very popular Halloween costume as well. This year Paris dressed up as, as toxic Britney. That's the, the Britney hostess. And the, the outfit was exact replica. She looked amazing. Doesn't she doesn't in the film clip, doesn't it? Her earrings were even the same as Britney's earrings. Really? Because this was back when Britney didn't really get naked. Much like now she gets naked all the time. But she was, didn't they alternate? Oh she's that sequin thing that I'm saying looked like she was naked. Did, did she alternate between the hostess costume and then the body stocking with the sequin on? Well was the sequin overprotected? No, I think that was toxic. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. There was a bit of skin in that one mate. She wasn't overprotected in those sequences. She's barely protected. Dangerous sequence. Definitely toxic. Definitely toxic. That's right. Don't swallow them. 'cause they got the glue on the back of them. It's not, not good for you. It's very toxic. Poor fish. Yeah. Yeah. So that poor fish, Brittany Spears, I was reading 'cause I was admiring Paris dressed as as Britney. And I I love that she shows so, 'cause they're good friends. Yeah. And I love, she's always been there to support Britney bit of solidarity and you know, they had their early two thousands party days. But she's always supported her, always giving her shout outs and she dresses her as her 'cause she's like icons, supporting icons.

I'm like, oh my God, you're so good. But Britney is actually probably one of the most popular Halloween costumes year on year. Like she's never number one. Is that right? Like Pirates of the Caribbean. Yeah. But she's a constant every year. She's constant. Yeah. There is always a really high volume of Britney's out there at Halloween. Is that right? Make consistent, consistent Halloween costumes. Well, I mean, you've got options. You could do the schoolgirl school girl, Brittany Baby. One more time. Toxic. A toxic Britney Snake. Britney Snake Britney. Yeah. You, you got to kind of do six months in the gym before you do Snake. Britney, you drive me crazy. Brittany, what's that one? Was that the one? Oh no. Oops. I did it again. Brittany was a red leather. Right. Dangerous if you're dancing around and getting sweaty. Yeah. Uncomfortable as well. Oops. I did it again. I think it was a green boob tube and maybe some jeans. Right. Okay. Yeah. There's plenty of options. You've got options. Plenty of options. That's the most important thing. You've got options three times Platinum in the US Great album. And I think a lot of people said it was a real departure from her previous albums. Quite a different sound. And I was listening to it today. It's good. Still good. Well, and she had the collab with Madonna. Like she basically made Madonna relevant again.

Although, or that's, that's, that's harsh because I do like Madonna and I don't think Madonna's ever not been, or did Madonna give her a bit of extra cred? Oh, it's hard. It's hard to say Chicken Egg Dunno. I did, I did watch the film clip for that, that me against the music song. Mm. And and Brittany kind of pulls Madonna through that film clip. Like Madonna's kind of, you know, looks like she should perhaps be going to bingo instead of riding around on the floor in that. It's just, it's just an observation. It's just my observation, I think. Not a criticism, just an observation. Maybe, maybe was a, a passing of the torch. I, I don't know. Possibly. Yeah. Possibly. Yes. Anyway, let's extinguish the torch and do something a little bit more emo We had an album released from Blink 180 2. And up until this album I could not stand this band, but I could not deny how good Blink 180 two's Fifth Studio Self-titled album was, where are You? And I'm so sorry. I cannot sleep. I cannot dream Tonight. I need Somebody. And always the Sink Strange Darkness comes creeping on so haunting every time. Oh. And hasn't that just become a meme under itself where I go Yeah. That takes me straight back to when we were doing breakfast radio. Yeah. Because we had it would play every shift. Every shift. High rotation. Yeah. Yeah. That one.

And that was a called the Feel Good hit of the summer or whatever. No, that was, that was Queens of the Stone Age. Anyway, that was, they did some song about summer. I don't know the And it was a change of style. Yeah. Because they were normally just so tongue in cheek. And this was actually quite a serious emo album. Well, the album before this was called Take Off Your Pants and Jackets jacket. Yes. And, and and I believe it had a, a porn star on the cover. It took me a while to get that. Mm. Because I was thinking, oh yeah, you know, make yourself comfortable. Yeah. And oh, that's okay. Yes. Wow. Yeah. Yeah. That's pretty funny. They were very juvenile. Yeah. And they still were on stage. So Yeah. Because we went and saw them live. It was great. They were touring this album. Yes. And I I and I was And you were so excited. Well, I was, I've ne I've seen Blink 180 2 a couple of times live and they are terrible. They're just really loose and messy and they don't, you know, and I'm, I'm like from from heavy metal land where it's like instruments played to absolute perfection and these guys just didn't care. Well there they had a lot of fun. They they were very loose. They had a lot of fun. Yes. Anyway. And Travis Barker held it all together. He's a, he's a very good drummer.

They came to Canberra on and they toured on this album and we did a meet and greet with them. And I like, yeah. We took some listeners, didn't we? To meet them. Yeah. We took a whole bunch of listeners to a meet and greet. And I'd never really been starstruck meeting. This is when you cried. I, I didn't cry. I did not cry. I'm sure you, I'm sure you had a little tear. There is no, I'm sure you had a little tears. There is absolutely. I was so you were shaking. I you, your hand was shaking. You were nervous. I nervous before you met Trav. I was nervous. I did not cry, mark. I did not cry. And I, I'm very tempted to edit that whole comment from you out of the podcast. I did not cry, but I I was starstruck. I know you were Cotr and it's so weird. Did you say, you said something really dumb. I have met like Incubus, matchbox 20, Henry Rollins, like Chopper, Reed, like all of these, the list goes on. And I've never been Starr. I've always been at managed to keep my cool. You made 180 2 and you get craft. And the only thing I can put it down to, and I really liked the album. I thought it was a fantastic album and I was playing it a lot.

I know the only thing I can put it down to is that they were so over hyped. Yeah. Not over hyped. That's, that's not fair. But they were, they were everywhere. Everywhere. They on video hits like three or four times a day. I can Visual of cover Visual. Visual as well with the fluoro pink and the Green and the Circle of film clips, magazines. Yeah. And they were funny guys. And they were nice guys too. And so I meet Mark Hoppa and, and and, and it's like, oh, they sign the album and then I meet Travis and he sends the album and I meet Tom DeLong and I'm like, Hey, I really like this album. And I just, and then I walked out and then you cried and I turned around. I didn't cry. And then you were embarrassed for about a week. I cried from embarrassment and I turned around to you and I just said what the just happened. Like what did, what happened to me? What did I do? It was the Who are you? It was the one Who are you? Like he, I, it was very, very strange. It was a very strange experience. And it's one that I care not to repeat to be honest with you. Okay. I thought it was great. Yeah, I bet you did. Here's another, here's another band that I met that I never got starstruck. Did You cry?

But I'm talking about Korn who released their sixth studio album. Take a Look In The Mirror. And it's the last album that features their original lineup. And they have this single called, y'all Wanted a single, I think it's time to pay for everything you make me say y'all, y'all single say single say, yeah, y'all want a single say Suck. That they were, they were really rebelling against a lot of the major label stuff. And I don't think they were very happy with the world of pop music and things like that. The film clip for that clip actually features them trashing a record store and putting up all these statistics about how much money they're like, Britney, one of the statistics was Britney Spear's last film clip cost $1 million. Wow. Or something. And it's like, so what man? Like it's a bit nasty, isn't it? Calm down corn. Take it easy. I think one of the singles from there as well was in the Tomb Raider movie and was released as a CD single because of the movie. Yeah. I did my time. So, I mean, suck that like, that's, you know, it's a bit hypocritical, isn't it really? Anyway, that was the, take a look in the mirror from Korn. I think we've got some music news. We have to circle back. We have to circle back to, to the patron saint of the podcast. I said it was a busy week for her.

It really is. Very busy week. We get to the 17th of November, 2003. Britney Spears at 21 years of age becomes the youngest singer ever to get a star on the Hollywood walk of fame. I'm seriously speechless right now. This is something that I've dreamt about since I was a little girl. And I can't believe I'm actually here with all of you amazing fans. Hello. And yeah, I'm very honored that I'm even even, you know, invited to do this and everything. So thank you so much for even coming out today and to share this memory with me that I'll never forget. So thank you. Do you really think that she dreamed about getting a star on the walk of fame ever since she was a little girl? Oh, I dream of it often. Are you serious? No. Have you been to the Walk of Fame? It's a bit dirty. It's, it's a footpath bit dirty. It's, I, I I, I mean if I see fresh cement, I'm down. Sticking your fingers there. There's your walk of fame. Yeah. Joe Anthony here. Yes, exactly. Joe was here 89 apparently. Look, apparently she had, and it was validation for her, for all of her hard work. And look, if somebody deserves a star on the walk of fame, if anybody deserves it, it's Britney Spears.

I tell you what, listening to her then it kind of makes me a little bit sad because it takes me back to early Britney when she was kind of just doing her thing. There wasn't the control that was put on her a few years later. Yes. And you can hear it in her voice. She sounds free and young and happy. Yes. And it's actually quite and naive. It's quite sad Yes. To hear that because you just think, gosh, everything. And particularly reading her book, like everything that she has been through and where she's ended up, like you're just like, oh my gosh, that's, it's so sad to hear it was AD different time. Yeah, she does say that she's speechless right now and then proceeds to deliver a speech. Keep talking. Yes. Okay. Well, you know, she's on the spot. There was like 2000 screaming fans. I know, I know. I saw a video clip of her today. She was in the audience again. This was early two thousands. Remember the r and b singer called Joe? He sang a song called I Don't Want Know. And his name's Joe. Oh, hey Joe, what do you know? I don't wanna know. I don't wanna know. I don't want to know. Oh, velvety smooth voice. Really just lovely, lovely. RBA bit like me singing Toxic Kara RB Singer. No, no, not quite.

Anyway, she's in the audience and he comes up and starts singing and he's sort of singing to her and I think it was for a movie or something. But anyway, she's sitting there and she's smiling and she's having a good time. And that also made me really sad and emotional today. 'cause I'm thinking there, she's, she's happy. Look at her smile. She's just living her life having a good time. And then all of these things have happened over the years. It's like she's not having a good time. Now take me back to early two thousands, Brittany. It's, I think, I think we aren't the only people that I, I think have probably entertained the idea of, you know, staging some kind of intervention and saying, Hey Brittany. Like just, well we said it early two thousands. Yeah. Yes. We were gonna just come and live with us. Send her, we're gonna write to her. We send her a letter six months at our house, just hang out, enjoy some of the come and come and cry at Blink 180 2, the fresh Canberra. Can you stop that? Walk it down to the Hyper D's the place to be. Yeah. Yes, exactly. So much Just hang out. So much to do. Hang out. Enjoy the fresh air. The fresh mountain air of Canberra. Yes. You know, just relax a little bit. Yes.

17th of November though she was wearing, it was so early two thousands when she got her star on the walk of fame, she was wearing a pink furry jacket, low-rise cargo jeans. So the jeans had the pockets Oh really? Denim cargoes. And she was wearing pointy pink shoes. Remember the point toe shoes popping out under your bootlegs or your baggy jeans. Be very hard to hoo it around the hyperdome in those shoes. Yes, that's true. That's true. So the walk of fame is home to over 2,600 stars. Yeah. Over 18 blocks every year around 20 stars are added to the walk of fame. 2020 to the Walk of Fame. You have to provide a nomination. So it starts I think, I think usually, so if you were Brittany, it'd probably be your record label. Yeah. Or your fans that nominate you. Yeah. So someone else has to nominate you, but then you have to fill out a form and write an application as to why you should be on the walk of fame. It's quite a process. So you have to, you have to apply to go on there. Someone nominates you. Yes. And then you fill out a form and then you're judged whether or not you're worthy. Wow. And I think there's five categories. So there's, you know, movies and TV and music and I dunno what the other ones are. Yeah. And yeah, then they judge you.

And then you only allowed to have the star. Who are they? Who are the judges? I don't know. They're very judgy. Yes. But you have to, you can't have your star if you don't agree to come to the unveiling of the star. That's part of the conditions. Oh, well of course you have to be there to the, for the unveiling to the event. Well, and yeah. And if you want to find a star, there's actually a website and it gives you the exact latitude, longitude, locations. Yeah. You could have the latitude and longitude of where Britney's, I, I remember Star is amazing. I took a photo near Ozzy Osborne Star on the Walk of fame on our honeymoon. That was nice. Hmm. I I like the Queenan Walk of Fame. So do I I Queen's really? Queen of Fame is wonderful. There's only two really odd, it's about five. There's like David Campisi. Yes. Mark Weber. Yes. And George Lazenby. Yes. Yeah. Maybe one day you'll feature. That's something I've been dreaming about ever since I was a little girl over in entertainment. We have a new number one at the US Box office. And I'm gonna preface this with, don't you hate it when someone says to you, oh my gosh, this movie, I watched this movie the other day. I thought of you, you have to watch this movie. You will love it. I have to. So funny. Yeah. It's exactly your sense of humor.

You will, your pants laughing. You have to have to, you have to watch it. It's, you must go to Blockbuster or Video 2000 right now. Go and get it off the shelf. Watch it. Call me afterwards on your landline. Tell me how much you loved it. Tell me how Right I am. Got two problems with that. Mm. One, don't ever tell me that I, I have to do anything. And two, I only had a video Easy membership. Oh, no. Blockbuster. Oh. Eventually pause. I succumb to Blockbuster. I had to, they were everywhere. This was one of those movies. It was, there was someone that said that to, I think to both of us, actually. Yeah. You guys will love it. And we did. We went and hired it. Yeah. We didn't love it. And we watched it. And I remember thinking, I remember looking over at you a few times going, which bit? No one's laughing. Neither of us were laughing. Maybe. Maybe The funny bit's coming this holiday season and I think you're beautiful. And my tongue swells up when I am around. You get ready. I plan out our whole day. I thought maybe we could make gingerbread houses and maybe even hold hands for a tall tail. Or we can get the star on top of Elfish proportions. I got it. Will Ferrell. Okay. People Santa's coming in Santa. Oh my God. I know him. I know him.

Elf with Will Ferrell, which is like a lot of people. We gotta be careful because a lot of people love this movie. I think probably the only two people that don't like this, A lot of people love this. This movie. I, I just Will Ferrell kind of me in films. Never liked I have to say no. Ah, sorry. Well, I'm sure you're a nice guy. Yeah. But I, I've never found any of his movies funny. So I, I liked old school. I thought old school was good. I like my $4 back. Please. Video 2000. You paid $4. What? Did you wait until Christmas next year to hire? It was six, wasn't it six bucks? Oh, I don't know. It wasn't worth it anymore, buddy. The Elf accidentally transported to the, well Buddy is not an elf, actually. Mm. He's a child twist who gets accidentally transported to the North Pole as a toddler. And he gets raised in Santas workshop by the elves and then he realizes he doesn't fit in. So as, as an adult, he goes to New York to be reunited with his family as an Oh, classic Elf Out of Water flick Sink Elf Out of water. Great. Yeah. Yeah. James Kane's in there. James Kane's a fantastic actor. I don't know what he was doing in this film. Anyway, anyway. Was he the one from Las Vegas? Yeah. With Josh Jamal. Yeah. Who married Fergie Ferg. Yeah, that's right. Okay, good.

Do you know he actually took a break from acting for like, something like 15 to 20 years to actually raise his son James K. Yeah. Which I thought was a pretty cool thing to do. That's good. So like, I don't need to work at the moment. I'm a, so his son son, he's a good actor. His son never knew that he was a, a famous actor for many, many years. Oh, that's cute. Yeah, I like that. And he is like, oh, by the way, I'm James Kahan. And the kid is like, there's my walk of Fame star. And what, how did you get that? And he goes, and you're not actually my son. You're an elf. And you got swapped at birth with this other one that was Will Ferrell. No, that's not true. So how's the DNA test realizes that he's the elf and it's like, it's, you know, will Ferrell at his charming, childlike best playing this very innocent elf in New York City? And I hated it, but I mean, I don't like a lot of Christmas movies. I'm not a Christmas movie guy. Didn't like the Santa Claus. Didn't like the Santa Claus. No Christmas vacation. I'm I, I can do Christmas movies, even bad ones. Just to get in the spirit of things. And it's kind of a very passive watching experience. It's like, I'm not really engaged.

I'm kind of half looking at my phone with the exception of National Lampoon Christmas ation. Yes. Which I, I lot always funny. Always. I love that movie. It's so great. I'm love actually, you can go fuck yourself. I cannot stand that film. Like, oh, what's wrong with you? Love actually is great. This is the most misogynistic piece of I've ever seen. The Worst Die Hard is a Christmas movie. Okay. Of, look, I'm going to controversial opinion here. Oh, die Hard is not a Christmas movie. Die Hard is first and foremost set in the festive season. An action movie set at Christmas time. Maybe it has a foot in both camps, but it is not exclusively a Christmas movie. John McClain does not save Christmas. I think it was an excuse for the people that hate Elf so that they could watch it instead of Elf, to be honest, die honest. Yes. So I'm willing to accept it on those grounds. I'll watch diehard at Christmas time to get into the mood 'cause but by, by that reasoning, because that really gets you into the festive spirits. Well, by, by that reasoning, like Lethal Weapon is a Christmas movie as well. 'cause it's set at Christmas time. But once again, an action film set at Christmas time. Mm. I feel like I should be that meme of the guy sitting at the table saying, tell me I'm wrong. Mm. Can't believe there's only six weeks to go.

Five, four weeks. It's just my opinion. It five weeks, four weeks, Christmas will be here. Before you know it. Jesus Christ. Number one at the Australian box. That's the real meaning of Christmas number one at the Australian box office. Was that Matrix. What was the Matrix number three Mm. Or matrix number two. Yeah. Matrix. The Turd Matrix. Yes. So let's move over to TV news. Oh, big TV news. Big, big news. Go. The fro 19 November, guy Sebastian becomes the first winner of Australian Idol receiving a contract with none other than BMG Australia. Here we go. You guys worked incredibly hard to be here. Sleepless nights, long days, and you've worked your guts out. A lot of people have voted and Australia has made their decision. After six months of an incredibly grueling competition, the winner of Australian item 2003 is Guys Sebastian Crowd. Oh, sorry. I ruined that moment by saying Guy won it before that, just in case he It's okay. Was wanting to Spoiler alert. Well, James Mathis incredible. An Australian item. Yeah. Australian item. Oh, I, it's sounded like Ien. So Guy Bas guy ba Basd who won Australian item. Australian item. And Shannon Noll actually won Australian Idol. Who? No, I was going for Shannon Noll. Anyway. Yeah, guy Sebastian wins Australian Idol and everyone goes absolutely berserk Adelaide. He was from, wasn't he? He was from Adelaide and he was in that church. I think he was a hill.

Was he a Hillsong? A Hillsong churchy guy. Yeah, maybe. Yeah, I think he was. And then Shannon Noel was just an honest bloke from Odum. Oh. The other thing I like is James Matheson saying you've worked your guts out to be here. Yep. And I just reckon there's a whole bunch of people in construction Garn. Oh yeah. Have you have you now show, show me how you worked. So many, A couple of songs. Have you mate? Yes, yes. I do that while I'm laying bricks. Anyway, this was after a grueling process that started back, I went back and watched his original grueling Oh yeah. Yes. Mm. Worked his guts out in this grueling process. Yeah. I went back and watched guy's audition and he sang Ribbon of something was a ribbon in the sky. Stevie Wonder. Oh right. Yeah. He sang and he, he was wearing a sheep skin jacket. You know those ones guys from the country used to like, they'd come into Canberra and they'd go out. Yeah. They'd get loose at the moose and they'd be wearing like the sheepskin jacket and go, I know you're from the country. Worked his guts out, Sheed himself, worked your gut, worked your guts out to come get loose at the moose. Yeah. In your sheepskin jacket. And he had flared jeans on and he sang Ribbon in the sky. And Marsha said, what a beautiful gift you have. Thank you.

And Dicko said, this is the best voice we've heard today. However you look crap. So we're gonna have to work on that. So he was being mean to outfits long before the gold dress on Paulini. Yeah. He told, he told guy he looked like crap in his sheep skin jacket. Outrageous. This comes from a bloke. He had a mullet. Outrageous at the time, didn't he? Dicko? Yeah, I think he did. So he did have a mullet. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. But Guy Sebastian looks like crap. Okay. Yes. And he worked his guts out too, I'm sure. Ah, look. It was a fair call. 'cause the flares were a bit, well yeah. And his girlfriend's a stylist, Jules. And I think he was going out with Jules back then. Well, Sebastian's girlfriend was so she's well hiss wife now. Goul. Seba. Jules Sebastian. Goul. Sebastian Goul. Sles. I meant to say it. Yeah. Caught James Matheson. Yes. You've She's done a Matheson. Yeah. Yes. I've done a Matheson. So of Chuck a maths. Chuck AO Chao by Yeah. Chao. Yeah. I love that. Chao great. He subsequently records the album just as I am. And the winning single angels brought me here. Not angles. Yeah, right. Regi is number one on the charts. Nosy is obviously the runner up. And to be honest, I much prefer following nosy on the Insta and watching him.

'cause he's got a big property and he goes out mows lawn on the ride on Mul, works his guts out. Works his guts out on the reg. He was building a fence one day. Saw him training his dog. Yep. What's guy doing? Guy's blocking the neighbor's views. Oh, that's right. Arguing. He's arguing with his neighbor. ISN isn't, he's having a fight over blocking the waterfront views, beating with his neighbor. Noels is on the ride on Mower having a beer. Yeah. Cutting grass. Yes. And you know what? A much, a much better follow, if it was nosy too, like with his neighbor, I reckon like nosy be out there riding on the mower and then, and then the neighbor would be like, Hey nosy, when you finish, how about you come over and do this one mate and be like, and then he'd probably do it. He'd probably mow his lawn from as well. 'cause that's the kind of bloke nosy is I know. Stand up dude. Yes, yes. Nosy should have won. I'd have a beer with nosy. So would I. Oh, what would I have with Guy Sebastian? Not sure. Angrier. All right, let's do the hatches. Matches and dispatches. We have got two matches. A double shot at Love. Yes. Weddings times two. Wow. We starting with, we'll start with the 22nd of November. Yeah. Well 'cause the other one's the close, the other one's the answer. Close the show with that one. So yeah.

Alright, well we'll start with November 22. Carmen, Electra Weds, Dave Navarro on MTV in front of MTV cameras. Yeah. Because they don't play music anymore. They film weddings. They're wedding photographers now. Wedding videographers. Dave Navarro and Carmen Electric Cruising through the wedding Expo, drinking the free, free champagne and sampling the canopies and MTV. You've got a stall over in the corner and they're like, Hey, do you wanna do our wedding video? And they're like, we'd love to. Yeah, sure, sure. We'll do it for free. So they get married on the 22nd of November. Yeah. 2003. But we didn't know anything about it because they're busy filming it for MTV and I don't think it airs until around this time next year. Yeah. For their show Till Death do us part. Colin, Carmen and Dave. Remember this show. Colin, Carmen and Dave. Ooh. Ooh. I knew I wanted to marry Dave after we had sex and I still wanted to hang out and talk to the guy. More and more couples are seeking out reality shows stardom by welcoming the cameras into their homes. This is me leaving for tour for two months. Hey, tired honey.

It's a really big step for us to actually have a reality show and have them come and shoot us when I'm not in hair makeup with just nothing but a T-shirt and jeans and not really caring about how I look till death Do us part is getting viewers ready for a classic reality show. Conclusion, Dave and Carmen's wedding I this color by showing the customary preparations and the out of the ordinary passions of this charismatic star from the group. Jane's Addiction and his not so blushing bride. Best known for her swim suited stint on Baywatch. Carmen, what were your concerns about doing a show like this? I've always had this problem of worrying what people think. And everyone we talked to said, no, don't do it. You know what, if you guys get divorced, people were saying, you know what, if it only lasts six months, then what are you gonna do? If I live my life like that, then I wouldn't have much of a life. I would just like to also say, add even that Carmen Electra is best known to me. Mm. From the fit to strip videos. Mm Me too. And not just Baywatch. And also the film Two-headed Shark Attack. Oh, she was in that. She was in that. Yes. Now and I feel like she stole the show. Okay. Just quietly. Okay. Yep. Dave Navarro. Yes. Thoughts? Thoughts on Dave Navarro? Over to you. Dave Navarro.

What do you think hosts a show that criticizes other people's tattoos and has terrible tattoos? He does. I know. I just remember saying that every week Looks, he looks like he got, who is he to judge? He looks like he got his, he looked like they're done with a Sharpie. He looks like he got 'em outta the bubblegum packets. Remember the bubblegum tattoos? Yeah, he does. It's true. Yeah. What was the other show? He was on the music one and you hated Oh, you hated him there too. Oh, rockstar. He was on Rock Star. 'cause he wasn't he gonna be in a band with like, I think he was just the host. He was just the host wasn't Oh, he was hosting it. He with didn't, Brooke Burke I think. Yes. And it was for the band that Jason Ted and Tommy Lee. And yeah. They were looking for a singer or can't remember. Hold on. Never went anywhere anyway. Did it? Yes. He had lots of feelings about Dave. Yeah. Did Carmen? Yeah. Well this is off the back of Nick and Jess as well. Newlyweds. Newlyweds. And so they've, here comes all the celebrity reality. They've obviously gone, Ooh, this might be a good idea. I still, it's just the Osborne's created free wedding. A monster, didn't they really? Free wedding. Yeah. Yeah. And let's make ourselves relevant. Let's sell. Sell. Oh, so the wedding was free. MTV paid for it. Did they?

Probably, I'd say so. Let's, well they, they opened the doors free promo for fit to strip. Yeah. And maybe you'll chart again Dave. Yeah. Their wedding included a photo shoot by David Lu Chappelle. That's the guy that did the Doherty video. 'cause he was doing a lot of video clips around that time. Not Dave Chappelle that did James Bit. Not that guy. David La Chappelle. There's a LA in there. Yes. Their invitations, they were naked and dead for their invitations. Oh yeah, that's right. They did that one. Remember they shoot in a morgue. Yeah. Yeah. And they're in the news. Yeah. Yeah. Classy. The bachelorette party was so wild that the DVD version of till death to us part needed a mature rating. And the ceremony had heaps of celebrity guests, including the Osborn's. The Osborne were there. Oh yeah. They were, they were there. Crossover, reality. Crossover. I Jane's Addiction may have done an Aus first, or Aussie had done a Lollapalooza. Which Perry Ferrell from Jay D. Yes. They all, I mean everyone knows everyone in those circles. Right. I found their vows. Did you? Let's God's start with Dave Navarros. Alright, I'll be Dave. You be Dave actually. You be Dave. I'll be Dave. I'll be Carmen. Okay. There are simple things that I now love that I never thought I would love. I didn't know David, what it sounded like.

Alf Stewart Navarro told Ekra during their vows, hip hop music, the crack of the opening of a Coke can and your fiery temper. Well, karma. Karma. That happens later when they get divorced. Carmen had similar words for Dave. Tell me babe. I never thought I'd be with a man who looked in the mirror more than I do. Oh, thank you for changing my life and teaching me so much. You are the most beautiful person I know. I love you. In spite of your love. You babe. Bubblegum packet tattoos. That, that would've been a good thing. They could've put them in the, you know how you get a goodie bag from the wedding with the Mm. Some bubblegum tattoos, contemporary tattoos. Yeah. Yeah. Love heart with an arrow through it. Yeah. Come, come and loves Dave. Yeah. Forever. Yeah, for EVA. Yeah. It could have been designed by Oliver Ecker or someone anyway, but that didn't last. They got divorced, didn't they? No. Yes. Didn't until death did they passed. She did say I was ready. Nobody died, by the way. No celebrities were harmed. No. Yes, no. In spite of the title. They did say she was interviewed after the show and said, oh look, do you think it was bad? Do you think it jinxed your marriage? And she turned around and said, oh, well, at least my wedding lasted longer than Britney's. Oh, that's a bit of a low blow. Yeah, I know.

I mean, I, I feel like, you know, she was kind of put on the spot though, so I'll give her AAAI do like Carmen Electric. Yeah. Yeah. I like karma too. A little bit less because of a taste in men. Although I think if she could sh up with Navarro, maybe, you know, I've got better tattoos than he does. You just need a bit of nail polish. He wore lots of nail polish and some guy liner, pierce nipples, guy liner nail polish. I don't think I could do pierce nipples though. That's just, yeah. That's just not a thing. I just, I just, I've never understood pierce nipples. That's, that's like, I've got friends who've got pierce nipples. So you've got nothing against pierce nipples? Nothing against, I just, it's just not for you. Just personally. Not for me. Just not for you. I just, I don't think you, your nipples would have enough space for a piercing. Really. Like I think you need a big nip to be able to pierce it. I just, I don't know. I think it would rip out. There's not enough wits. He started this conversation. It's not practical for you. It's, it just, it's not for you. The reason why, for you, the reason why I played that sting to stop Okay. Was to turn that conversation in a different direction. You step at that conversation. Yeah, I did. You brought it up and I'm sorry about that.

I'm gonna gonna bring something else up if you keep talking about my, my nipples. Alright. Okay. The answer, the hatch, the hatch match and dispatch clue a another match. This, this week. Yes. 20 years ago from a celebrity who said this, you know, straight out on that whistling at them from the country. Yes sir. From the country. Mm. We've got barbecue. Yeah. If you said Blake Shelton, you were correct. He, he got married. He was 27 years old at the time he got married to a lady by the name of Kayt Williams. Well, that's very country, isn't it? Kayt in, in Gatlinburg. 20 C. 20 C Tennessee in Gatlinburg. Oh, I'm leaving it in, in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. And they get divorced in 2006. You really, you know, three years. You've given me a lot of shit tonight. I'm sorry. You talked about, you know, nipples and crying at Blink 180 2 and that is not the guy I am. No, but I think it's a compliment to say that a nipple piercing wouldn't work for you because you don't have big, long nips That would work for nipple piercing. I, I seriously don't want to talk about it. If I said to you your nipples would be great for piercing, I feel that would be more offensive. Anyway. Blake Shelton got married. Okay, that's it. This time, 20 years. Did you know that Kim Kardashians brought out a bra with built-in nipples? Oh, please pierce off. Okay.

We're about to pierce off as well. Yes, fine. That's the end of of the show for this week. Okay. Done. Mom and dad aren't fighting. We're just talking. What's happening next week? I don't know. Yes you do. You're very well prepared. In spite of all of this. I know that you're very well prepared. Oh, so what do we got next week? Oh, a surprise bush. Oh, a surprise beak. Bush. Bush. A beaker bush. All right. From George w Is that pierced big news in the cricket world? Yep. And what else have we got? Oh, we've got, we're going to the German charts. It's been a while. What? We're going back to the German charts because our listener from Hess is still there every week. Every week. Really? One day. One day they'll message me a regular subscriber and they will say, yes, I did listen to Mensch. No, they'll say ya. They'll say ya. I was a big fan of mech. Thank you for playing it. Yep. So we're gonna go back to the German charts because there's some interesting music in the German charts. Kind of. I what a coincidence. 'cause this show has been one of the worst. Thank you very much. We'll see you next week. Bye-Bye. Find us on the socials, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, et cetera. Love you. Bye. Thanks for taking the time to rewind. Join us next time for another week. It was 20 years ago.

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