Fly Away - Tones and I

This week on 1001 Songs That Make You Want To Die, we take off with “Fly Away” by Tones and I.

After busking her way up the East Coast and dropping one of the biggest songs in the world, Toni Watson followed it up with this glossy, motivational, “believe in yourself” anthem. It’s big. It’s theatrical. It’s inspirational. It’s also… slightly unhinged.

We break down the lyrics, the “I had a dream that someday I would just fly away” optimism, and whether this is genuine empowerment or the musical equivalent of a Qantas ad at 6 am when you’re emotionally vulnerable.

We get into the production choices, the voice, the build, and the legacy.
 We check the charts.
 We spin the Fight Wheel.

And yes, someone has to answer the most important question:

Could you beat her in a fight?

Strap in. We’re leaving the runway.

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Transcript

07:28.98
braggchestercity
This is 1001 Songs That Make You Want to Die, the podcast where we talk about songs so bad it makes you want to make enough money so you can look so you can have surgery to look completely different and look down on fat and ugly people.

07:40.50
gav
oh Yeah.

07:42.62
Mad Dog
Okay.

07:44.18
gav
Okay. Okay. Okay. I see you. I see No, yeah.

07:47.58
braggchestercity
No?

07:47.70
gav
mean, yeah. Yeah.

07:48.95
braggchestercity
Yeah.

07:49.56
Mad Dog
Yes!

07:49.62
gav
Yeah.

07:50.48
braggchestercity
That's exactly what fucking happened.

07:50.87
Mad Dog
Yes!

07:51.03
gav
i mean, yeah. I mean, that's the third.

07:54.04
braggchestercity
Yeah.

07:54.94
gav
If I ever had fuck you money, the first thing I would do would be make myself like half half my half my weight and twice as attractive and just and then just stop and stop talking to everyone I currently know.

07:59.78
braggchestercity
Make yourself beautiful. ah

08:10.30
gav
that is That's all that's all i want in life is is is to do that.

08:10.36
Mad Dog
I'd leave everyone behind.

08:17.21
braggchestercity
Speaking of writing everybody in your life off because you're too attractive for them, what are you Fly away by tones and eyes.

08:25.27
Mad Dog
yeah good call.

08:59.09
braggchestercity
Yep.

08:59.13
gav
Yep. And-

09:00.80
Bevo
I want to talk about it.

09:01.63
braggchestercity
That's the song.

09:01.88
Bevo
I don't know if now is appropriate it or not, but does it not sound to anyone else?

09:05.17
braggchestercity
It's always appropriate.

09:07.02
Bevo
Like they've cut snippets of her voice and then just squished them.

09:11.85
Mad Dog
100%. Yep. Correct.

09:12.73
Bevo
sounds like she wrote another song and they went, no, we can work with this and cut the pieces out.

09:13.37
braggchestercity
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

09:16.61
Bevo
and

09:16.95
braggchestercity
Yes.

09:17.43
gav
and and

09:18.39
braggchestercity
i was just at band practice before with Southern and I was trying to explain that exact concept, but I couldn't figure out how to word it properly. And I'm like, there's something off about it that seems like it's,

09:29.25
Bevo
uncanny. Now we

09:31.64
gav
Yeah.

09:31.77
braggchestercity
ah It's jagged pieces of songs that it's like this little, like, I had a dream little melody bit was like an idea and then that was an idea and they went, all right, you can go home, Tones and I.

09:46.28
Mad Dog
Yeah.

09:46.55
braggchestercity
We'll we'll work this into a song for you.

09:46.65
gav
ah We'll figure it out.

09:47.54
Bevo
no he got it from here.

09:48.12
Mad Dog
Job well done.

09:49.38
gav
We'll figure it all out.

09:49.56
Mad Dog
Yeah.

09:51.67
Bevo
then

09:51.86
braggchestercity
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I couldn't figure out what it was about it. but And also... It sounds like another song and I can't think of what that song is. like i For some reason, i threw I've been trying to figure it out for two weeks since I've been listening to this song.

10:07.18
Bevo
Am

10:09.32
Mad Dog
It's probably some...

10:10.97
braggchestercity
The closest I got was Burn by Ellie Goulding.

10:13.98
Bevo
I going to let it burn, burn, burn?

10:14.53
braggchestercity
It seems to have the same melody.

10:15.97
Bevo
That one.

10:16.95
gav
Yeah.

10:17.66
braggchestercity
Yeah, but the verse, i know and the mother thatda da do and I'm like, there's something in there. There's just a little vocal twang that's exactly the same, and I can't pinpoint what it is, but it's fucking something.

10:25.82
gav
Yeah, right.

10:31.19
braggchestercity
Sounds like something.

10:31.74
Bevo
and

10:31.96
gav
oh

10:32.38
braggchestercity
if Y'all getting it past me.

10:33.83
Bevo
I'd ask you to play it again, but I don't think we need that.

10:34.04
gav
ah

10:34.59
braggchestercity
Yeah.

10:34.78
gav
conspiracy Conspiracy. That sounds like a conspiracy, man. I don't know. Yeah.

10:38.87
braggchestercity
Yeah. yeah

10:40.70
gav
yeah

10:45.10
gav
That's actually, that's, that's...

10:45.91
braggchestercity
All right. All

10:49.19
Mad Dog
All

10:51.99
gav
I was literally about to say, I was about to say, that's my favorite stinger, except for maybe, could you beat them in a fight?

10:52.21
Mad Dog
right, Bevo's up.

10:53.48
braggchestercity
right,

10:57.83
gav
And you interrupted that entire sentence by playing, could you beat them in a fight?

11:00.60
braggchestercity
so All right, we to spin the...

11:02.33
Bevo
You know, you you stopped introducing us in the, in the intro. So, um, this might be part of it. Yeah.

11:07.56
braggchestercity
Oh, did I?

11:09.21
Bevo
Well, we got a mad dog here, Gavin.

11:09.53
braggchestercity
What's that?

11:12.79
gav
Yep. Yep.

11:13.75
braggchestercity
Oh, yeah.

11:13.78
Bevo
Yeah.

11:14.19
braggchestercity
Bevo's here.

11:14.55
gav
yeah

11:14.75
Bevo
Hello.

11:14.86
Mad Dog
That's fallen off a little bit lately.

11:15.67
gav
Hey. ye

11:16.12
Bevo
I was thinking about waving in the theme.

11:16.89
Mad Dog
Hello.

11:17.66
gav
Hello, all.

11:18.30
braggchestercity
Yeah.

11:18.46
gav
that

11:19.61
braggchestercity
Hello, everyone.

11:20.02
gav
Glad, glad, glad.

11:20.34
Bevo
Yeah.

11:20.73
Mad Dog
Woof, woof, everyone.

11:21.13
braggchestercity
Who likes Tones and I?

11:22.08
Bevo
Yeah. Yeah.

11:23.38
gav
ah And then it ends up a mile off.

11:23.45
Mad Dog
Woof, woof.

11:24.47
Bevo
yeah that's earth yes specific

11:28.78
braggchestercity
I'm spinning the wheel.

11:29.34
Mad Dog
Yeah.

11:31.26
braggchestercity
You ready?

11:34.33
braggchestercity
Spin the wheel.

11:35.86
Bevo
you always do that. You maybe do the sound. like

11:40.29
braggchestercity
Oh, yeah.

11:40.50
gav
ah Oh God, it's still going.

11:43.74
braggchestercity
did It didn't work properly.

11:44.46
gav
Oh, for fuck's sake.

11:45.90
braggchestercity
Gavin!

11:46.39
Bevo
Yeah.

11:46.70
braggchestercity
Gavin is fighting and I!

11:47.71
Bevo
Woman beater.

11:48.36
gav
Fuck.

11:50.42
Mad Dog
Do you only fight women? so

11:52.73
gav
I swear.

11:52.99
Bevo
womanbeta

11:53.37
braggchestercity
It says, all right, spinning. Clack, clack, clack, clack. It's slowing. Almost there.

11:59.42
gav
Oh my God.

11:59.59
braggchestercity
Gav!

12:00.79
Mad Dog
Yeah.

12:00.79
gav
Sounds like all the jerk off instructional videos I watch.

12:02.33
braggchestercity
Yeah. All right.

12:04.70
Mad Dog
in

12:04.87
gav
Slowing. Oh, keep going.

12:06.17
braggchestercity
ah what

12:07.95
gav
Oh, fuck.

12:08.70
braggchestercity
So get tony Tony Watson, a.k.a. Tony and I, 60 kilos, lean and wiry these days.

12:15.16
gav
Hang on, hang on. Yeah, but we're talking, we're talking, wait, when was this song released?

12:16.31
Mad Dog
Hang on a second.

12:19.99
braggchestercity
Okay, so so, yeah, okay, well, I don't know.

12:22.84
gav
Fly away.

12:23.05
braggchestercity
I don't have the stats from fucking 2020.

12:25.04
Bevo
Let's, let how about we just don't go there and we just carry on. Not fat shaming.

12:29.72
braggchestercity
Just double it. She was 10 foot tall at hundred and 120 kilos.

12:32.22
gav
ah um

12:35.38
braggchestercity
so

12:36.76
gav
Yeah, no, look, I think I might be in trouble.

12:40.15
braggchestercity
Tell you what, she got high cardio, high cardio, and she does have a signature move.

12:41.53
gav
Yeah, I think, I think I'm in, yeah.

12:42.93
Mad Dog
Yeah.

12:45.31
braggchestercity
It's the Busker Blitz, which is chaotic footwork, sudden scream, then slaps and knees.

12:46.62
gav
Yeah.

12:46.62
Bevo
yeah

12:46.81
Mad Dog
Oh.

12:47.70
Bevo
fly away

12:52.38
gav
Yeah.

12:52.44
Mad Dog
Jesus.

12:53.35
gav
Nah, I'm for sure fucked on this one. I think I'm ah think i'm happy enough to admit when i when I'm beaten and I reckon on this one. We'll see what the... When the stats are crunched, we'll see where it shakes you out.

13:04.54
gav
But my initial feeling, my initial...

13:05.72
Bevo
Well, you just think about how much discipline it takes to get from one end to quite fit and yeah, a lot.

13:05.93
braggchestercity
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's...

13:12.38
Mad Dog
Yeah, a lot.

13:13.02
gav
Well, the other thing is that like she was she was busking. you know that's that's she's been She's been on the mean streets. She's been on the mean streets of Byron Bay.

13:19.55
Bevo
Byron Bay.

13:20.34
Mad Dog
yeah

13:20.38
braggchestercity
Mm-hmm.

13:22.20
Mad Dog
Of Sussex.

13:22.42
braggchestercity
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Well, we've got lyrics to get through. We've got a bit of, you know, some some facts about Tones and eye So, you can say you're not feeling great about it, but

13:29.41
gav
All right. Yeah.

13:32.63
gav
Yeah, okay. And then we'll see how it we'll see how it shakes out.

13:34.62
Bevo
You don't have to commit.

13:35.03
gav
Yeah.

13:36.15
braggchestercity
Yeah, you know sort of get a vibe as we go.

13:37.90
Bevo
what's What's the sports bets?

13:38.43
braggchestercity
Let's get into the lyrics the intro goes oh What the odds?

13:39.86
Bevo
Odds.

13:42.30
Mad Dog
Yeah, it was odds.

13:43.38
braggchestercity
um well Okay I

13:43.82
Mad Dog
I'm a betting man.

13:45.62
gav
this This will basically tell us what it thinks the outcome of the fight will be.

13:47.54
braggchestercity
yeah

13:53.34
braggchestercity
i mean

13:55.77
Mad Dog
all

13:55.77
gav
I might come in with a so surprise haymaker over the top.

13:56.18
braggchestercity
ah

13:57.78
Bevo
Don't actually don't tell us. Just tell us who's, who's the favorite. artist and I don't know. Actually, whatever.

14:02.94
Mad Dog
i want to say this. I want to...

14:03.05
Bevo
Yeah.

14:04.84
gav
No, give us the odds. Give us the odds. ill i'll I want to lay a bet on.

14:12.35
braggchestercity
Okay, come on.

14:13.25
Mad Dog
want to frame a market on Betfair.

14:14.46
braggchestercity
Dollars. Dollars.

14:16.54
gav
Yeah, yeah. I reckon you got this.

14:18.14
braggchestercity
um

14:20.25
gav
This is some dead air. This is what we call dead air.

14:23.16
braggchestercity
Yeah, no.

14:23.33
gav
ah how was How was the episode that we all had four minutes to prepare for less dead air than this?

14:24.44
Mad Dog
Great podcasting right here.

14:29.43
Bevo
we we're very excited i forget it don't worry about it

14:31.67
braggchestercity
Oh, this is fucking... It's just saying the the best like the odds of them actually having a fight.

14:36.15
gav
ah Well, she she she will be in our hometown in the next 12 months or whatever it is.

14:42.09
Mad Dog
Hang on. So there's 28 million people in Australia and there's two of you.

14:43.90
gav
When's she here? She's here soon.

14:47.80
gav
Yeah, and she'll...

14:50.95
braggchestercity
Oh, okay, we're good. We're we've got we're on here. Okay, so initial sportsbook odds. So you want the dollars?

14:57.11
Mad Dog
Yeah.

14:57.20
gav
Yeah, go on.

14:57.70
Bevo
so Okay, let's do it. Yeah.

14:59.36
gav
Yeah.

15:00.32
braggchestercity
Gav is paying $1.65. Tones and I, $2.30.

15:01.30
gav
Oh, that sounds like favorites territory.

15:01.56
braggchestercity
Yeah, well, know that Gavin's not confident.

15:01.69
Mad Dog
Ooh, I like that.

15:01.65
Bevo
Yeah.

15:03.10
gav
That sounds like favorites.

15:06.90
braggchestercity
two dollars thirty

15:07.00
gav
Yes, cunt.

15:07.10
Bevo
Ah, same as before.

15:07.29
Mad Dog
Fuck, she is rank outsider.

15:09.27
gav
Oh, i think I think it's overweighted me, if I'm honest. I think I'm fucking a bit of an underdog in this one, but we'll see how...

15:14.31
Mad Dog
I think it...

15:14.46
Bevo
Well, i've gone a lot I'm going a long shot bet on tones.

15:16.12
braggchestercity
no

15:17.70
Bevo
I'm going to go big.

15:18.71
Mad Dog
Yeah, thought he's...

15:19.77
braggchestercity
yeah well and we know that gavin's not confident

15:21.50
gav
Yeah, um ah I'll bet on fucking tos and then I'll don't. And then I'll throw the fight and then who's laughing?

15:28.98
braggchestercity
yeah ah The intro goes, I had a dream that someday i would just fly, fly away. and I always knew I couldn't stay.

15:40.09
braggchestercity
So I had a dream that I'd just fly away.

15:42.71
gav
All right.

15:43.91
Bevo
Your picture just like floating up into the air. who She just went.

15:49.75
gav
funny funny you should Funny you should mention that.

15:51.13
braggchestercity
like soth

15:52.72
gav
Ha ha ha ha.

15:54.10
Bevo
yeah, Mad Talk just disappeared.

15:55.67
braggchestercity
yes Is this like an R. Kelly like um flying situation here?

16:00.22
Bevo
Yeah. There's nothing more I love than talking about people who want to be like birds because it just doesn't work.

16:06.94
braggchestercity
Because R.

16:08.27
gav
Ha

16:08.46
braggchestercity
Kelly was maybe the funniest fucking bird human that we've ever had where...

16:11.29
Bevo
Even we did that Nelly Furtado I'm like a bird episode. That's a good one too.

16:15.03
gav
ha ha ha.

16:15.48
braggchestercity
Yeah. eat So when we when we were discussing it with R. Kelly, it was that you could fly, but only as far as you could sprint.

16:23.03
Bevo
Yeah.

16:24.31
gav
oh

16:24.63
braggchestercity
Like that you only that's the same amount of it's the same amount of energy. Like if if you just had a line and it's like you can, how far can you sprint at full pace now as you, that's how far you can fly.

16:34.20
gav
yeah yeah and that's how far you get as a bird yeah yeah well i i as a bird might make it to my mailbox maybe

16:35.28
Bevo
Yeah. So it's not a useful skill. It's not a useful skill. It's just an impressive trick.

16:41.43
Mad Dog
Exactly.

16:41.72
braggchestercity
Yeah.

16:42.15
Mad Dog
You're not getting anywhere with it.

16:43.67
braggchestercity
And then,

16:44.14
Bevo
Yeah. Yeah.

16:49.69
braggchestercity
it city

16:49.66
Bevo
Yeah.

16:50.90
braggchestercity
So theyre having a dream of flying, like you like to think it's like Superman.

16:56.25
gav
Yeah.

16:56.31
Bevo
No,

16:56.57
braggchestercity
It just went wo and took off and is soaring through the clouds.

16:58.01
gav
and end of end of the End of the Matrix, if you will. Kashmir by Led Zeppelin.

17:02.74
braggchestercity
yeah But it would be the cruel thing.

17:05.02
gav
Wait, no, it's not Kashmir. It's a fucking rage track.

17:07.10
Bevo
it's wake up by rage.

17:07.69
braggchestercity
No, it's...

17:08.13
gav
Rage track.

17:08.22
Bevo
Yeah.

17:08.65
gav
Yeah, yeah, yeah yep

17:09.75
braggchestercity
Wake up my rage.

17:10.06
Bevo
Yeah.

17:11.07
braggchestercity
It's the... the um Yeah, the cruel fate of a genie's wish of like, yeah, sure you can fly.

17:15.99
Mad Dog
Yeah.

17:16.02
Bevo
Yeah, is monkey's poor.

17:17.20
gav
yeah, yeah.

17:18.87
Mad Dog
Yeah.

17:18.94
Bevo
yeah

17:19.49
braggchestercity
Sure you can fly.

17:19.86
gav
But... Oh, man.

17:20.76
Mad Dog
You like donuts, do you?

17:20.88
braggchestercity
yeah, I...

17:22.00
gav
Okay, so...

17:22.16
braggchestercity
Yeah.

17:24.82
gav
a man okay so

17:25.21
Bevo
It actually, it makes me think of that, um you know, like Jenny in Forrest Gump.

17:26.61
braggchestercity
but yeah

17:29.40
Bevo
Dear Lord, make me a bird so I can fly far, far away.

17:30.68
braggchestercity
yeah

17:31.94
Bevo
Yeah.

17:33.02
gav
ah ah

17:33.94
braggchestercity
a bird

17:35.26
gav
um I feel like...

17:36.02
braggchestercity
the um because she was being molested.

17:37.98
gav
Yeah, fuck. That's a grim fucking movie.

17:40.57
braggchestercity
Dark, Bevo.

17:41.21
gav
Yeah, yeah Bevo.

17:42.16
braggchestercity
Dark.

17:42.45
gav
way Way to make it dark, Bevo.

17:43.40
Bevo
I may not be a smart man, but I know when to move on from this topic. Hmm.

17:48.73
Mad Dog
Thank you.

17:51.16
gav
um Back to the lyrics, though.

17:52.85
braggchestercity
ah

17:52.84
gav
I'm wondering if, and I might be reaching early here, but I feel like we're at least in some kind of crime funnel because she says that she knew she couldn't stay. and I can't help but wonder if she's perhaps committed a ah heinous crime in the town that she grew up in.

18:09.78
braggchestercity
This bird's going to fly.

18:10.30
gav
this bird's good She's like, I'm going to get the fuck out of Dodge, man.

18:10.46
Mad Dog
yeah

18:10.68
Bevo
Hmm.

18:12.94
gav
And it would be great if I had wings that I could do that with. i don't know.

18:16.58
Bevo
It's also funny that so far she just told us about what she dreamed one night.

18:16.98
gav
We'll see.

18:17.78
braggchestercity
The problem is that...

18:20.23
Bevo
just...

18:21.02
braggchestercity
Yeah, that's what I mean.

18:21.69
gav
true yeah yeah

18:22.14
braggchestercity
It's like, she's gone. I need to get out of here. I better go have a nap so I can dream of escape.

18:26.58
Bevo
ah

18:29.14
braggchestercity
You know what i mean? It's like it's she's not actually – the whole thing is just about a dream of flying.

18:34.64
Mad Dog
I'm really going to Shawshank this thing.

18:35.48
braggchestercity
But then it's like – and ah knew I ah knew I couldn't stay around, so I went back and dreamt more about the flying.

18:36.81
gav
it's like yeah it's like it's like you're starving it's like you're starving to death and your dream you dream you go to bed so you dream that you're eating something like yeah that'll help

18:42.04
Bevo
i just

18:42.51
braggchestercity
and so So you still wake up in the cage, right?

18:44.49
Mad Dog
That'll

18:45.11
braggchestercity
like Yeah.

18:50.84
Bevo
So could you imagine telling like any other verse if she had any other, like I had a dream that someday my teeth would fall out and I'm at school, but I forgot my assignment and also I'm naked.

18:51.00
Mad Dog
help.

18:54.23
Mad Dog
um well

18:59.33
gav
Uh...

18:59.80
braggchestercity
but

19:05.95
braggchestercity
Verse 1 goes, I've been on my own for a minute. Is it only me out here? Searching for the place to begin it.

19:17.02
braggchestercity
Is it me? Is it you? Is it fear? Standing on the line I was given. People staring at me while I'm here.

19:28.63
braggchestercity
No one seems to think that I fit in, but I don't want to be like them.

19:33.30
gav
You isn't me, isn't...

19:33.51
Bevo
Let's assume that she looks like a bird. She's like a bird person this whole time as well.

19:40.34
gav
Oh, my God.

19:40.66
braggchestercity
Third person.

19:40.68
Bevo
Yeah,

19:40.93
Mad Dog
A bad person.

19:42.58
gav
ah like I like that I've been on my own for a minute. It's like I'm picturing that it's been literally 60 seconds. She's just like, is it only me?

19:49.50
Bevo
yeah.

19:50.94
braggchestercity
60 seconds.

19:51.09
Bevo
Very codependent.

19:51.45
gav
Am I the only person in the world?

19:54.39
Bevo
No, object permanence.

19:55.48
braggchestercity
Just like, no, they just left the room.

19:57.59
Bevo
Like a baby.

19:57.94
gav
Yeah. yeah yeah

19:59.12
Bevo
Yeah.

19:59.86
braggchestercity
they're hanging the what They're hanging the washing out. Like, the old they'll be back.

20:03.13
gav
She turns around and it's just me strapping on my boxing gloves.

20:03.99
braggchestercity
Yeah.

20:05.49
gav
Just like... Sadly, Tones, you are not alone.

20:11.04
braggchestercity
No, you're not even strapping them on. You've got them on and you are running, running at her.

20:14.74
gav
a Full tilt.

20:16.53
braggchestercity
That's what she turns around to see.

20:16.85
gav
Full tilt. I'm taking you by surprise. Oh, God damn.

20:20.79
braggchestercity
Yeah.

20:21.09
gav
Yeah, I don't know.

20:21.21
Mad Dog
ah

20:22.57
gav
That's a...

20:23.51
braggchestercity
It's like Charlie and the trees.

20:27.77
gav
ah god damn um yeah i don't know that's a Is it me?

20:32.93
Mad Dog
I think...

20:33.29
gav
Is it you? Is it fear? Is such a weird fucking lyric, man. That's bizarre. is it is it is it Is it me personally?

20:41.02
Mad Dog
I think...

20:42.73
gav
Is it you personally? Or is it the abstract concept of being afraid?

20:48.28
braggchestercity
be

20:49.91
gav
Surely you should be able to tell.

20:51.42
braggchestercity
It's one of – this is one of three things.

20:51.64
gav
yeah you can You can maybe... I reckon you can cross off one of those things.

20:54.20
Bevo
Mm-hmm.

20:54.46
Mad Dog
Yeah.

20:55.77
braggchestercity
and

20:57.77
gav
LAUGHTER

20:58.07
Mad Dog
Me, you or Terra?

20:59.99
braggchestercity
Whoa.

21:02.55
gav
Is this a sandwich?

21:04.33
braggchestercity
Just like, ah don't know how to tell you this.

21:04.41
gav
Is this a sandwich, a bagel, or a jumbo jet?

21:06.97
braggchestercity
I don't know to tell you this, Tones and I, but or both of those things could have fear.

21:15.58
gav
yeah yeah

21:15.64
Bevo
okay

21:15.77
braggchestercity
Yeah.

21:18.49
gav
Oh, God.

21:19.90
braggchestercity
It doesn't exist outside of either of those things.

21:20.31
Mad Dog
a Two things can be true at once.

21:22.10
gav
Yeah. Yeah.

21:24.60
Mad Dog
Yeah.

21:25.53
braggchestercity
yeah Does fear exist if no one feels it?

21:27.74
gav
Oh, o o a deeply philosophical question.

21:27.86
Mad Dog
Ooh.

21:32.98
Mad Dog
Okay, all right.

21:35.64
gav
Nice.

21:35.72
Mad Dog
Oh yeah, of course.

21:36.08
gav
Nice.

21:36.20
Bevo
well done what sam i

21:37.40
gav
that's that that's That's some real 21 minutes into the podcast bullshit right there.

21:37.50
braggchestercity
ah

21:38.52
Bevo
well done

21:42.94
braggchestercity
No, we spoke for eight minutes before this recorded, so yeah.

21:43.45
gav
Oh, fuck. We did too. We spoke for so long. I just thought that was a long time. Anyway.

21:48.06
braggchestercity
So long. um The pre-chorus goes, no, because I don't want to be like them, because I know that. Know that I.

21:57.11
Bevo
what sam i

21:58.26
gav
Jesus Christ.

21:58.65
braggchestercity
What?

22:01.84
braggchestercity
It's fucking Yoda.

22:03.51
Bevo
ah

22:03.61
gav
Do I know that? Know that? Know that I?

22:05.91
braggchestercity
God asked so many dumb questions, he just died.

22:06.06
gav
Oh,

22:07.99
Bevo
Would I like to fly away? i would not like to fly today.

22:11.48
gav
fuck. Beverage Zeus.

22:12.22
Mad Dog
ah

22:13.14
gav
yeah

22:13.37
Bevo
Would you, could you on a plane? No, these wings are what I claim.

22:15.29
gav
yeah

22:20.18
gav
oh fuck beverage zeus um

22:22.81
braggchestercity
What the... Lyrics are not fantastic, are they?

22:25.70
gav
No, they're a bit wishy-washy here.

22:26.10
Mad Dog
No.

22:29.69
gav
I mean, we can't really even...

22:29.78
Mad Dog
And on top of that, she can't pronounce them properly.

22:31.64
Bevo
the funny the The funny thing for me is that we've well worn the topic of people being birds and so many other episodes.

22:32.95
braggchestercity
Who doesn't she want to be

22:37.91
braggchestercity
like?

22:38.30
gav
but it's all It's such a common comparison, though.

22:38.63
braggchestercity
I don't know.

22:40.86
Bevo
I don't want to do it anymore.

22:42.42
braggchestercity
Yeah. Yeah. But who who doesn't she want to be like?

22:45.91
Bevo
I think we've even done a song that's already called Fly Away. We've done Lenny Kravitz, haven't we?

22:49.91
gav
ah Yeah, we did do Lenny Kravitz.

22:50.28
Bevo
Yeah.

22:50.46
Mad Dog
We have...

22:51.35
gav
That was quite recent that was only last year.

22:51.92
braggchestercity
Did we just follow over a little clip?

22:53.23
gav
yeah that was that was last season. Yep.

22:55.58
braggchestercity
Really?

22:57.20
gav
Yep. I recommend.

22:57.92
Bevo
Leonard?

22:58.41
gav
Yeah, for sure.

22:58.90
braggchestercity
really

22:59.30
Bevo
It's not even the first fly away we've done

22:59.80
braggchestercity
but

23:02.78
braggchestercity
if and Jesus!

23:05.24
Mad Dog
Jesus.

23:08.12
braggchestercity
yeah The chorus goes... it the same?

23:11.49
Bevo
Yeah. She had a dream that she would

23:12.50
braggchestercity
na okay, it's a bit different.

23:12.76
gav
give Yeah, give give it a run.

23:13.50
braggchestercity
I had a dream that someday i would just fly, fly away, and I always knew I couldn't stay, so i had a dream that I'd just fly away. Uh-oh, away. Uh-oh,

23:25.18
braggchestercity
Fly, fly away. u oh oh fly fly away Whoa! Oh, I'd fly away.

23:33.05
gav
Is that the sound she's making? Because she's not used to being at altitude with like without support.

23:37.08
Bevo
yeah

23:37.45
gav
It's just... Whoa!

23:38.20
braggchestercity
It's like she's gone too high.

23:39.42
Bevo
Now picturing it like a plastic bag that's just got caught by the wind.

23:41.14
braggchestercity
Too high.

23:42.46
Bevo
it's

23:43.79
gav
It's like that American beauty scene.

23:45.60
braggchestercity
just...

23:45.94
Bevo
yeah

23:47.67
braggchestercity
Yeah, I imagine it's like, you know, when you see a seagull, it's just caught, like it's not getting anywhere.

23:52.64
gav
It's just sitting completely stationary here.

23:54.84
braggchestercity
take it off and it's just like ah fucking struggling.

23:59.06
Bevo
The holding pattern.

23:59.61
Mad Dog
ah

24:02.65
braggchestercity
Like she's just gone, i don't want to be like you.

24:04.54
gav
ah

24:04.98
braggchestercity
yeah na The run, the run and then the sail. but She's just fucking holding in the wind.

24:11.80
Mad Dog
Into the head of the gale. Oh, shit.

24:15.38
gav
oh fuck

24:18.46
gav
ah oh man um yeah yeah that's that's pretty similar to the yeah no we got a second verse we got a second verse yeah yeah

24:22.09
Bevo
Oh, boy.

24:22.30
Mad Dog
shit

24:24.50
Bevo
That's about it for the lyrics, I think.

24:25.78
braggchestercity
okay Okay.

24:28.06
Bevo
Hold on, there's a second verse.

24:28.32
braggchestercity
dreaming of flying.

24:28.78
Bevo
Sorry. wasn't getting out of

24:31.99
braggchestercity
No one knew how long I was feel...

24:34.33
Bevo
here. Hello.

24:34.52
braggchestercity
Wait. ah No one knew how low I was feeling. e e e e i was scared to reach for it all. a

24:45.72
gav
Oh,

24:45.94
Bevo
doing someone's putting McDonald's in front of it. Mmm. Mmm.

24:50.70
braggchestercity
Knowing I was here for a reason. it it But I was scared that if I tried, I'd fall. a

25:00.48
Bevo
Yoda.

25:01.85
braggchestercity
e

25:02.55
Bevo
me

25:04.34
braggchestercity
So where do I go now that I'm in it?

25:09.18
braggchestercity
I never thought it'd be like this, dreaming all my life and I did it, thought the grass is greener than it is.

00:01.30
Chibbs
Okay, so she's either having something something delicious in between every line.

00:01.59
gav
So a lot of, a lot of yeah.

00:09.18
gav
Yeah.

00:10.45
Bevo
Snacking.

00:11.38
Chibbs
Yeah.

00:11.61
gav
Yeah.

00:13.21
Chibbs
What?

00:13.60
Bevo
Well, she's Yoda.

00:15.06
Chibbs
Why? What? what ah but the the All the humming is actually made me forget everything that just was said.

00:22.65
gav
Yeah, the lyrics are kind of lost in all the humming. I'm just like, I'm just trying to think what would get me over the line on just saying between every every line of speech. Perhaps a ah ah ah big bucket of peanut M&Ms. I'm not sure.

00:36.77
Bevo
Mm-hmm.

00:37.12
Chibbs
A bucket!

00:38.26
gav
A bucket. I mean, ah an industrial bucket too, like ah a cement bucket full of them.

00:43.24
Chibbs
We've got all the way to the end of verse 2 from the very start of this, and she's literally saying the exact same thing over and over and over again.

00:50.97
Bevo
Yeah, it's it's not deep.

00:52.09
gav
Yeah.

00:52.62
Bevo
It's not deep, but it's not like usually when the lyrics are like deep, they're hard to do.

00:53.26
Mad Dog
That's

00:59.51
Bevo
And when they're not deep, they're really funny and easy because obviously no thought was put into them. So they're easy to make fun of. But this is just all she's saying is like, I'm a bit sad and no one knows it.

01:08.11
Chibbs
It's sad. And, and I'm not like everyone else and I don't want to be like everyone else.

01:11.59
Bevo
Yeah.

01:12.86
Chibbs
And that's it.

01:13.52
Mad Dog
it. Okay.

01:13.62
Chibbs
Like, it's like, she wrote that down.

01:14.68
Mad Dog
that's that's it

01:16.50
Chibbs
They they had a whiteboard up in the studio. I went, all right, Tones and I, what, what do you think? What do you want this to be about?

01:21.59
gav
ah

01:21.86
Bevo
She's watching Forrest Gump at the same time.

01:22.30
Chibbs
It's like, well,

01:24.14
Bevo
Yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever.

01:25.88
gav
ah

01:26.47
Chibbs
it's like, I mean, you know, I'm just, you know, I don't want to be like everyone else. And, um, yeah Yeah, i'll that's that's pretty much it. it went okay well

01:35.67
gav
Okay, well, we can work with that for an entire full song.

01:36.24
Bevo
She's sitting there.

01:36.45
Chibbs
He went, okay, we can get 40 lines of lyrics out of that concept.

01:38.90
gav
Okay.

01:41.84
Chibbs
No worries.

01:42.56
Bevo
She's sitting there preening herself and they're like, I've got it.

01:46.17
gav
ah ah

01:46.36
Mad Dog
Preening perched up on the seed bell.

01:50.55
Chibbs
Yeah.

01:52.86
Bevo
say bill

01:53.02
gav
They looked over.

01:53.03
Chibbs
I went, okay, so how about you talk about me?

01:53.50
gav
She was she was gnawring gnawing on a cuttlefish spine and they were like, I've got i've got i've got just the lyric for you.

01:54.74
Bevo
own

01:56.37
Chibbs
Yeah.

01:59.32
Bevo
Attacking a reflection in the wall. Okay.

02:02.19
Mad Dog
Gnawing on the cuttlefish.

02:05.32
Chibbs
They've gone, okay, we've got all of these lines about you being sad and not wanting to be like anyone else.

02:05.46
Bevo
but

02:11.48
Chibbs
um What about if at the end of every chorus you get really scared about flying? Like, so the whole thing is you get scared, but then have a lot of fear about the fact that you are now flying.

02:16.79
gav
ah

02:22.23
gav
Yeah.

02:22.23
Bevo
It would be scary flying.

02:22.46
Mad Dog
Yeah.

02:22.52
Chibbs
They went, how do I do that? Well, you just, a lot of woes. It's like, whoa, whoa, whoa.

02:26.04
gav
Whoa.

02:27.80
Mad Dog
Whoa.

02:30.13
gav
This almost would have made it into spooky October had we done it.

02:30.14
Mad Dog
Whoa.

02:33.69
Bevo
Yeah, we we're doing Aussie Month so far, two in a row.

02:36.57
gav
Oh, are we?

02:36.60
Mad Dog
Yeah, sure.

02:36.88
Chibbs
Is it?

02:37.82
Bevo
well, Dean Lewis.

02:37.82
Mad Dog
It could be Aussie.

02:39.86
gav
Shit. All right. We can do that. ahzi month

02:43.71
Bevo
Too much pressure.

02:44.02
Chibbs
Oh. We'll forget.

02:45.27
gav
Yeah.

02:45.43
Bevo
Too much planning.

02:45.55
gav
we we always We always fuck these up.

02:45.88
Chibbs
ah so news

02:47.27
gav
Every time we say we're going to do one of these, we fuck it up.

02:49.14
Chibbs
We missed all of fucking Scary Month. Like, we missed the...

02:52.02
gav
I know. We talked about it for, we talked, it's like six months beforehand all the way up until October.

02:53.72
Chibbs
We spoke about it for months. It

02:58.98
gav
And then we just never said a word about it.

03:00.28
Bevo
We barely got a Christmas episode.

03:00.67
Chibbs
went...

03:00.82
gav
for

03:02.31
Bevo
Yeah. Dr. White from the pudding and

03:03.65
gav
We recorded, we basically recorded the Christmas episode on fucking Christmas. Oh man.

03:07.95
Bevo
pie.

03:08.11
gav
Oh man.

03:08.86
Chibbs
yeah

03:09.43
Bevo
do away from the pudding and buye

03:12.06
gav
oh man

03:12.20
Chibbs
It's funny because we ran into A-Jam and he's like, I'm really looking forward the scaring month. He went, oh are you're going to be real disappointed.

03:23.32
Bevo
ah

03:23.64
Chibbs
Because everything's already recorded and we forgot. Yeah,

03:28.90
Bevo
Let's do it this year.

03:29.56
Mad Dog
scary well

03:30.35
Bevo
It's coming.

03:30.62
gav
Oh my God.

03:30.82
Chibbs
let's do it this year. It's February.

03:34.26
gav
This is exactly what happened last year.

03:36.50
Chibbs
It is!

03:36.98
Bevo
I'm going to ramp it crazy.

03:37.66
Chibbs
I'm sure around this time we were like, scary month.

03:38.84
Bevo
crazy

03:39.70
gav
Oh, fucking hell.

03:40.81
Chibbs
it was going be ghost month and we went, nah, there's not enough ghost songs.

03:42.55
gav
It was originally going to be ghost month.

03:42.91
Mad Dog
I

03:44.11
gav
We had to call it scary month because there's too many, there's not enough ghost songs.

03:46.14
Chibbs
Yeah.

03:48.95
gav
Oh fuck.

03:49.27
Bevo
first

03:49.91
gav
That's so fucking stupid.

03:53.72
Chibbs
Yeah. We forgot to do a month of episodes.

03:54.90
gav
Oh, we've got an outro.

03:56.98
Chibbs
Yeah. There's a bridge. Is the bridge the same?

03:59.60
gav
Oh, so there is.

04:00.50
Mad Dog
think the bridge is same, yeah.

04:00.76
Chibbs
ah Honestly, i don't remember. I can't even remember.

04:02.55
gav
the bridge the bridges The bridge is the chorus.

04:04.22
Bevo
Yeah, that's that's it for the lyrics as far as I'm concerned.

04:06.49
Mad Dog
That's it.

04:06.74
Chibbs
That's it. Yeah, everything else is woes and uh-ohs.

04:07.25
Mad Dog
It's done.

04:07.70
gav
Yeah.

04:08.25
Mad Dog
Yeah.

04:09.18
gav
Lots of woes. Lots of doos and woes by Kiss Chasey.

04:10.49
Bevo
who There's a lot of woes in there in more ways than one.

04:13.08
Chibbs
it yeah Kiss Josie Avenue album coming out tomorrow.

04:16.79
gav
No fucking way. Tomorrow.

04:18.65
Chibbs
Yeah.

04:19.42
gav
Holy shit. There you go.

04:20.68
Chibbs
Yep. yeah If you're listening to this, it's out.

04:21.40
gav
um They're supporting someone soon, aren't they?

04:23.02
Chibbs
It's well out.

04:23.44
gav
They're they're playing...

04:24.02
Bevo
month.

04:24.16
gav
um What's that?

04:25.50
Chibbs
I think they're with Good Charlotte.

04:27.19
gav
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

04:27.42
Bevo
Aussie month, I said.

04:27.75
gav
They're on that tour. Yeah. Yeah, nice one. We should do some more O's.

04:31.51
Chibbs
Nice.

04:32.30
gav
That was... um Was that song big or was that only big in like very, very small circles?

04:37.91
Chibbs
It was big in the Illawarra.

04:39.56
gav
That's what I mean. It was huge here, but that's that's what I mean. I'm like, I think it was just like...

04:43.23
Chibbs
I don't think Kizh Jasey ever cracked any international audience.

04:46.36
Bevo
Someone tell me, his kiss this is the t-shirt brand Kiss Chasey the same as the band?

04:46.87
Mad Dog
No.

04:50.04
Bevo
Are they related? I've

04:51.97
Chibbs
Is this a T-shirt?

04:52.51
gav
Surely not.

04:52.71
Chibbs
Can't This

04:52.91
Mad Dog
Oh.

04:54.51
Bevo
seen them everywhere. It's like K-S-C-H-S-Y or something.

04:55.95
gav
You're kidding

04:56.50
Mad Dog
Really?

04:59.47
gav
Nah, surely not.

05:00.19
Mad Dog
Nah.

05:01.18
gav
No.

05:01.46
Mad Dog
Don't think so.

05:01.50
Chibbs
song...

05:01.56
Bevo
Anyway, let's I don't want to talk about them or this, let's carry

05:04.89
gav
yeah Well, you're the one that's still talking about it, Bevo.

05:05.94
Chibbs
this so Alright, so where are we at with the fight, Gav?

05:12.47
gav
I mean...

05:12.89
Bevo
on. Is she flying away or what?

05:13.11
Chibbs
She seems to be very fearful. She seems to be very fearful.

05:15.48
Bevo
She's skittish.

05:16.82
gav
she's very She's very skittish, but yeah, i can know the problem is i'm I'm really hoping that in the fight or flight response, she's flight because I i think if she decides to to stand the ground, I reckon I'm...

05:18.26
Chibbs
Skittish!

05:29.14
gav
Yeah, we'll see. We'll see. I'm still maybe boned. We'll find out. Boned and I, if you will.

05:32.92
Chibbs
Okay. ah Okay.

05:34.26
Mad Dog
But she can't actually fly.

05:34.46
Bevo
Hollow bones. There's a bird.

05:36.98
Mad Dog
If she did... Hollow...

05:40.46
gav
Hello, bones and I.

05:41.77
Bevo
I'm grasping for the angles.

05:43.86
Chibbs
Hollow bone tonight.

05:45.41
gav
You're grasping at feathers.

05:45.92
Chibbs
That's a shirt. That's a shirt.

05:48.73
gav
ah

05:53.21
gav
What are you even laughing at now, Bev? I don't know. A bird with tones and

05:56.08
Bevo
Hollow bones. Hollow bones. That's a

05:59.70
gav
eyes face on it, I guess.

06:01.72
Mad Dog
What would the...

06:01.78
gav
That's niche. That's niche.

06:03.42
Mad Dog
Would it be like a dance monkey with like...

06:03.70
gav
of frank

06:06.08
Bevo
No, should just be like a bird.

06:07.94
Chibbs
It's just a bird.

06:08.31
Bevo
Some kind of...

06:08.32
Mad Dog
A bird.

06:08.60
gav
bird with a bird with tones and eyes face on it i guess that's niche that's niche

06:11.02
Bevo
Yeah.

06:12.22
Chibbs
No, nothing to do with Tones and I.

06:12.34
Bevo
Yeah.

06:14.58
gav
Okay, just ah just a flying bird skeleton.

06:14.68
Chibbs
Nothing to do with Tones and I.

06:15.80
Mad Dog
Yeah, hollow bones and eye.

06:16.40
Chibbs
Simply a bird.

06:18.78
gav
A flying bird skeleton. and Yeah, okay, we can do that.

06:21.37
Chibbs
Yeah. um It was released on the 13th of November, 2020. That is 7,006 days after the towers fell.

06:29.07
gav
Nice.

06:29.91
Chibbs
It's written by Tony Watson, a.k.a. Tones and Yeah. She explained her shift to a solo career that she actually got made redundant from her retail job.

06:36.33
gav
Yeah.

06:41.91
Chibbs
And with that money, she bought an RC 300 loop station and just started to figure it out. She bussed all up and down the East coast with synthesizers and a loop pedal.

06:48.02
gav
Good pedal. Good fucking pedal.

06:52.34
Chibbs
And that's, that's what she did with her redundancy money. She just fucking got a loop station and started busking. There you

07:00.18
Mad Dog
right

07:00.30
gav
Yeah. Good on her.

07:01.40
Bevo
a

07:01.88
Chibbs
So happened.

07:02.19
gav
That's the trenches, man. That's absolutely... I i feel like that that I respect the hell out of because I'm pretty...

07:07.42
Mad Dog
Respect for that.

07:08.00
Bevo
Do you reckon she was working on Woolies and the self-checkouts came in?

07:09.05
gav
Yeah.

07:09.05
Mad Dog
Just going for it.

07:11.43
Bevo
They're like, we don't need you

07:13.01
Chibbs
I feel like I don't need you anymore.

07:14.18
gav
Yeah.

07:15.06
Chibbs
um This was used.

07:16.66
gav
She was working at Bunnings, but she was just one of the birds that had gotten into the store and always flies around in there i've always

07:21.36
Bevo
anymore. That's a paid job. Yeah.

07:25.08
Mad Dog
yeah We don't need you anymore.

07:28.05
gav
I've always suspected of all those birds are on the clock because they're always in there.

07:28.07
Mad Dog
We're letting you go.

07:31.58
Chibbs
it went

07:32.35
Bevo
The

07:32.96
gav
LAUGHTER LAUGHTER

07:33.16
Chibbs
We've been paying these birds for years. It turns out they they come in anyway.

07:37.50
Bevo
funny part about that is like, what do you do, to Tony? I'm in retail.

07:42.10
Mad Dog
ah

07:42.58
gav
yeah

07:44.65
Bevo
I'm in retail.

07:44.89
Chibbs
um Keep this in mind when it comes to the net worth game.

07:46.39
Mad Dog
Yes. Yeah, like it.

07:50.55
Mad Dog
Okay.

07:51.86
Chibbs
This was used in a largely successful Qantas campaign called Fly Away.

07:57.88
gav
Oh, okay.

07:59.48
Chibbs
Yeah?

07:59.61
gav
I was going to say this entire song sounds like it's an ad for the block.

08:03.29
Bevo
I, yeah, I knew it from the ad. Some ad.

08:06.20
Chibbs
I assume it's an ad.

08:06.23
gav
and i

08:07.00
Chibbs
I just assume it was an ad for everything.

08:07.35
gav
i felt I felt like I'd seen it on Channel 7, specifically Channel 7.

08:10.42
Bevo
Yeah.

08:10.65
Chibbs
right okay

08:11.06
gav
Yeah.

08:11.58
Bevo
Yeah, Channel 7 loves this shit.

08:12.44
Mad Dog
It's got a Channel 7-ish vibe, yeah.

08:15.35
Chibbs
Now, she started dating bricklayer and footballer Jason Scott Jimmy Bedford.

08:23.59
gav
Bedford.

08:24.22
Bevo
What do you mean bricklayer first?

08:24.79
Mad Dog
ah

08:27.14
Chibbs
It's bricklayer.

08:27.48
gav
ha ha

08:27.83
Bevo
and

08:28.74
Chibbs
I don't think he was like a...

08:29.29
Bevo
If bricklayer is first, your football is a hobby.

08:31.61
Chibbs
Yeah, but ah yeah, I think it is.

08:32.05
gav
Well, he plays for the Frankston Bombers.

08:33.58
Chibbs
ah He plays for the Frankston Bombers.

08:33.89
gav
years though

08:35.54
Chibbs
It's not an AFL.

08:35.96
Bevo
Okay. So he's a football player who is also a

08:36.38
Chibbs
He's not an AFL player, he's.

08:37.50
gav
Which, for the record, dope team name.

08:39.08
Chibbs
That's like calling myself a soccer player. That's like being like I'm also a soccer player because I do play that sport.

08:43.96
gav
Yeah. Yeah.

08:45.88
Chibbs
um ah He ceased his 10-year bricklaying company to become Tones and I's stage technician and touring audio engineer.

08:55.64
Mad Dog
Yeah, that seems about right.

08:56.36
Bevo
Okay.

08:58.23
Chibbs
So he just got on those coattails and fucking held on.

08:58.58
gav
yeah

08:59.51
Mad Dog
With all his qualifications, yeah.

09:02.36
Chibbs
Yeah. um Slapped some cement down on the coattail and fucking put his hands in it, gripped on. um

09:10.04
Bevo
Can I get more guitar in my wedges?

09:10.97
gav
Did you...

09:11.92
Bevo
Oh, I can do some cement.

09:15.03
gav
Ha ha ha ha!

09:15.55
Bevo
gotcha.

09:15.76
Chibbs
I'm working on a wall between you and the drummer.

09:17.43
gav
Ha ha ha ha ha! I was like, she said she wanted a wall of sound and he's like, oh I've got you, babe.

09:22.52
Bevo
i gotcha

09:23.26
gav
Don't worry. i get this This I can do.

09:24.38
Chibbs
I'm a bricklayer and footballer. Me. Jimmy, Jimmy.

09:28.12
gav
um

09:29.62
Mad Dog
g

09:29.75
gav
Did you see the thing about ah her her investment company? And yeah, yeah.

09:32.57
Chibbs
Yeah, well, yeah, yeah, here we go.

09:33.63
gav
Is that, hit me with it.

09:36.23
Chibbs
Yeah, in July 2023, Watson's company, Johnny Runaway Investments and Bedford himself were fined a total of 25,000 Australian for undertaking renovations to an investment property without building permits.

09:50.58
Chibbs
So they're...

09:50.65
gav
Okay.

09:51.64
Chibbs
there

09:51.72
Bevo
It's lame crime.

09:53.14
Chibbs
They are, yeah, they're renegades, these two.

09:55.58
Bevo
Yeah.

09:56.54
Chibbs
This is the best.

09:57.01
Bevo
Yeah.

09:57.46
Chibbs
And this is going to really come into Gavin's fighting stuff here.

10:01.42
gav
Oh,

10:01.43
Chibbs
In November 2024, Tones and I's American Bulldog boss attacked and killed a 17-year-old Cavoodle belonging to her neighbour.

10:08.98
gav
oh,

10:11.25
Chibbs
Watson was fined $3,000 for failing to confine her two dogs and failing to register the Bulldog. The neighbour suffered minor injuries and a passerby tried to assist, suffered a fractured hand.

10:25.33
Chibbs
Watson's bulldog was put down.

10:28.66
gav
Holy shit.

10:30.83
Bevo
Go ahead.

10:30.97
Mad Dog
Jesus.

10:32.70
gav
Well, okay. Now I'm slightly...

10:33.52
Chibbs
Oh, she keeps vicious animals.

10:34.34
gav
I'm more confident in the...

10:35.32
Chibbs
Well, she keeps vicious animals, though.

10:35.92
gav
Yeah. Sorry. I heard kept a vicious animal.

10:41.78
Mad Dog
yeah

10:41.94
gav
I think... I think boss...

10:43.74
Chibbs
What?

10:44.51
gav
I think boss has been sacked. He's...

10:49.78
Mad Dog
ha

10:52.06
gav
He's out of the ring.

10:52.50
Chibbs
yeah

10:52.82
gav
He's out of the fight for good.

10:53.46
Chibbs
Yeah. but Boss isn't coming.

10:55.65
gav
Bevo's just like shaking his head.

10:57.58
Chibbs
Boss isn't coming to help her in a fight.

10:57.61
gav
Bevo's just like...

10:59.61
Chibbs
if

10:59.98
gav
I love it when Bevo's just silent for like 60 seconds when he's just like, not touching any of this.

11:01.65
Chibbs
Yeah.

11:04.06
Bevo
audience Oh, no. Something like that happened to me once with a dog and a neighbor.

11:07.70
gav
I remember. I remember that with Molly. It was a big fucking issue.

11:11.27
Bevo
Oh, no, no, no. Well, that too, but no. Should I tell a story? when Are we telling stories?

11:15.00
gav
Did your dog kill a dog?

11:15.18
Chibbs
Yeah.

11:16.92
Bevo
No, no, when I lived in Lismore, we it was a share house with about seven people in it. And, um, the next, the next door neighbor had a, um, had a dog named boss.

11:22.15
Chibbs
Tones and all I came.

11:23.28
gav
Standard Lismore shit. The next one was Tones and I.

11:29.10
Bevo
No, the next door neighbor had a dog and one of the guys kind of talked to the neighbor and ended up getting, keeping the dog. They were like, you can have the dog. We don't want it kind of thing. And it was a bit of like, there was no dog, there was no pet policy in the house, but

11:40.34
Mad Dog
what

11:42.42
Bevo
they emailed the landlord and they were like, look, as long as everyone's okay in the house, you can have the dog. And two of the people in the house were like iffy, but they were like, okay, if everyone wants it, we'll, we'll go with it.

11:52.82
Bevo
So what happened? We got the dog. It's in the backyard. We went to big W to buy some dog toys for it. And by the time we'd got back, the dog had gotten out of the backyard, run across the road, attack the neighbor's cat.

12:04.25
gav
Oh, fuck.

12:04.44
Bevo
And then, um,

12:05.02
Mad Dog
jesus

12:07.13
Bevo
Yeah, it was all a big thing. And then we, later that night, we were sort of out somewhere else. And it turns out the neighbor had come across the road to like yell at the person that owned the dog.

12:17.35
Bevo
And the only person that was home was one of the girls that didn't want the dog in the first place.

12:20.86
gav
Oh, fuck.

12:21.08
Mad Dog
oh

12:21.43
Chibbs
Oh, fuck.

12:21.91
Bevo
And um what happened was the guy, the owner of the dog, like the housemate with the dog got kicked out of the house and he took the dog with him.

12:22.94
gav
ah

12:29.88
Bevo
And yeah, it was like, tore the place apart.

12:30.74
Chibbs
Yeah, good riddance.

12:33.18
gav
Wow.

12:33.23
Bevo
Yeah.

12:33.36
Mad Dog
He got kicked in.

12:33.69
Chibbs
Yeah.

12:34.65
Bevo
Yeah. Yeah.

12:35.80
gav
There you go.

12:35.93
Bevo
if it's um

12:36.40
gav
There you go.

12:37.08
Bevo
I was just reminiscing about that when you were talking about the dog. so

12:40.43
gav
Yep.

12:40.78
Mad Dog
There you

12:41.69
gav
Nice. um

12:42.39
Chibbs
Um, this...

12:43.03
gav
Yeah.

12:43.32
Bevo
And then I find five bucks.

12:45.24
gav
will

12:45.55
Mad Dog
go.

12:46.46
Chibbs
but It's produced by Tones and I and Dan Hume.

12:54.14
gav
Dan Hume. Where do we know Dan Hume from?

12:54.90
Mad Dog
Okay.

12:55.03
Bevo
I know. He's highway.

12:56.76
Chibbs
He produced the Dean Lewis song.

12:57.18
gav
ah

13:00.95
gav
the ah Holy shit.

13:02.16
Bevo
right.

13:02.90
gav
This guy's... You can't keep him away from a...

13:04.95
Mad Dog
what sir

13:05.06
gav
ah um

13:05.59
Mad Dog
ah It was the same guy? Yeah, it was the same guy.

13:08.49
Chibbs
Dan Hume?

13:11.60
Mad Dog
I think it was the same guy.

13:11.80
gav
Yeah.

13:11.99
Chibbs
So Dan Hume, Dan Hume, yes yeah he's from he's a drummer from the band Evermore.

13:13.36
gav
He's from Evermore?

13:17.21
gav
Fucking hell. All right.

13:18.49
Chibbs
Yeah, Evermore, great band.

13:21.43
Mad Dog
Yeah, okay. Got it.

13:23.03
Chibbs
good bit You know Evermore?

13:25.66
Bevo
Yeah.

13:26.07
Chibbs
run Running, like like light surrounding you.

13:26.53
Mad Dog
Yeah.

13:27.98
Bevo
Yeah.

13:31.29
Chibbs
Yeah.

13:31.64
gav
Yeah.

13:32.36
Chibbs
It's too late. They have Kiwis.

13:34.04
Bevo
Yeah. yeah I know.

13:34.87
gav
See the light surrounding you Yeah, yeah,

13:35.21
Chibbs
I saw them at St George's Basin. yeah I saw them at St George's Basin Country Club back in the day and Lisa Mitchell was their support. um

13:44.90
Bevo
Oh, yeah.

13:45.51
gav
I'm seeing Lisa Mitchell at one of the Small Fry Rock shows coming up soon.

13:48.44
Chibbs
Yeah. Okay. Yeah. um And she only had an EP out and I bought it off her.

13:54.63
Bevo
See?

13:55.03
Chibbs
Yeah.

13:55.67
gav
That's dope.

13:56.83
Chibbs
Yeah.

13:56.85
gav
That's dope.

13:57.09
Chibbs
Yeah.

13:57.82
Bevo
Coin Laundry? That was a good song. I liked that song.

13:59.83
gav
That was a good fucking song.

14:01.40
Chibbs
Yeah.

14:01.81
gav
I like that song.

14:03.19
Chibbs
Anyway, the drummer from ah from Evermore is a big-time producer now. um I'm sure he's the youngest brother as well, but he's produced Lisa Mitchell, Matt Corby, Amy Shark, Client Liaison, Sticky Fingers, Courtney Barnett, and so on.

14:22.10
gav
Shit.

14:23.06
Bevo
finger in the pie.

14:23.80
gav
Yeah.

14:25.24
Chibbs
Yeah.

14:25.27
gav
lot of Australian pies. a lot of Australian pies in that list.

14:27.73
Bevo
the meat, meat poi.

14:28.76
Chibbs
Yeah. Yeah.

14:29.62
gav
My boy.

14:29.80
Chibbs
Is there a video, Gav?

14:31.99
gav
There is a video.

14:34.17
Chibbs
Okay.

14:47.46
gav
That's me. A group of human cattle graze in a field before mysteriously levitating.

14:48.53
Chibbs
Cultish.

14:54.00
Bevo
Ooh.

14:54.08
Mad Dog
Mmm.

14:54.65
Chibbs
and culish

14:56.15
gav
Yeah, it's a bizarre one.

14:56.32
Bevo
Hmm.

14:57.59
gav
ah There's a bit of been a random shit happening throughout. It's like a... Meant to be a, like, follow your dreams kind of film clip. It cuts to everyone's, like...

15:06.60
Chibbs
It's a side boob in it.

15:08.69
gav
There's no side boob. It's one of those film clips where the most replayed section is none of it. No one's ever replayed a section of this video ever.

15:13.63
Chibbs
Yeah. yeah Okay. right that but That was enough.

15:16.66
gav
um But yeah, everyone just goes into a booth and then hallucinates the thing they want most in life. And then they all end up in a fucking cow paddock. And then, you know how we were joking about only being able to fly?

15:29.47
gav
Yeah. a very short distance. Like you'd you'd think that when you're dreaming that you can fly, it's really awesome.

15:31.93
Chibbs
Yeah.

15:35.70
gav
They all literally just float up in the air and they don't seem to be able to control it at all.

15:40.38
Bevo
Like a hot air balloon.

15:40.73
Chibbs
Do Tones and I have killed do you think tones and i've killed them all and this is like heaven?

15:42.01
gav
And they're like, they're like, I reckon quite possibly. Yeah. This might've been the rapture. them Them flying upwards in the air was them ascending to our, the the kingdom of our Lord and heavenly father, Jesus Christ in heaven.

15:51.42
Chibbs
All right.

15:59.42
gav
um i

15:59.64
Bevo
I've got a um YouTube comment here.

16:00.95
gav
I think that's what's happened. ah

16:03.00
Bevo
It was three days ago. Rat317. Happy 11th birthday, sweetheart.

16:08.41
gav
Rat.

16:11.54
Bevo
You look beautiful.

16:13.66
gav
Oh, fuck.

16:14.17
Bevo
don't think she's 11.

16:15.45
gav
he was He was hallucinating heavily when he fucking wrote that.

16:15.45
Mad Dog
Jesus!

16:15.98
Chibbs
What the fuck?

16:17.88
Mad Dog
What the hell?

16:19.83
Chibbs
He had a dream.

16:20.76
gav
Oh, man.

16:21.34
Chibbs
yes

16:21.78
gav
ah

16:21.97
Bevo
Oh, here we go. is from my mate Jack Cameron dash seven two day two weeks ago. Abs. A lot. Lee fucking is amazing. X, X.

16:32.33
Mad Dog
Yeah, absolutely.

16:32.62
Bevo
Smiley face.

16:32.98
gav
yeah

16:33.94
Bevo
Absolutely.

16:34.04
Chibbs
um so

16:34.87
Bevo
Yeah.

16:35.64
gav
I like this one.

16:35.88
Chibbs
It's like Axolotl.

16:37.37
gav
I like this one from eight days ago.

16:38.49
Mad Dog
absolutely

16:39.83
gav
Added to my garbage music playlist.

16:42.73
Chibbs
Ha!

16:44.82
Mad Dog
iopin

16:45.97
Chibbs
How's the playlist? How's the playlist?

16:48.82
Bevo
the

16:49.38
Chibbs
That's shit. Put it on the garbage list.

16:50.68
Mad Dog
putting effort putting effort into making garbage.

16:51.69
gav
Chuck it on the garbage music. That's so fucking funny.

16:56.10
Mad Dog
Yeah.

16:56.21
Chibbs
That's great.

16:56.22
gav
love that.

16:56.85
Chibbs
ah Is there a Tones and I set list, Bevo?

16:59.80
Bevo
Sure is.

17:00.63
Chibbs
Woo!

17:01.73
Bevo
This game.

17:07.92
Bevo
That's right.

17:08.35
Chibbs
Mm-hmm.

17:09.35
Bevo
Prizes are in the mail.

17:11.32
gav
hu

17:12.60
Bevo
um This is Blues Fest. No. Was it? Yeah.

17:18.24
Chibbs
No!

17:18.56
Bevo
Blues Fest. Yeah.

17:19.38
gav
you too You fucking tell us, Bevo.

17:21.50
Chibbs
You are the information!

17:21.96
Bevo
No, well... it's at the It's where Blues Fest is in Byron Bay, Tiagra Tea Farm, on the beautiful...

17:29.05
Chibbs
So it's at Bluesfest or it's just near it somewhere?

17:29.50
Bevo
lee Well, it's the tour says the beautifully ordinary tour.

17:31.83
gav
She was busking near Bluesfest.

17:36.54
Bevo
ah Yeah, no, it is Blues Fest. It's the beautifully ordinary tour, which is why got confused because I thought it would have been Blues Fest. But anyway, April 17th, 2025, 14 songs.

17:47.51
Bevo
ah You know she's playing Dance Monkey as well. So where would you play Fly Away if you were Tones and I at Blues Fest?

17:54.97
Chibbs
think I know any other tones in our songs. Or is she one of those sneaky ones that she has songs you know and you don't know that she has other songs?

17:57.62
gav
How many songs?

17:59.51
Bevo
Fourteen.

18:02.44
Bevo
She wants to cover it, Fix You by Coldplay.

18:05.69
Chibbs
Oh, that'd be disgusting.

18:05.88
gav
Oh, I don't, yeah.

18:07.29
Chibbs
yeah That'd be so disgusting to hear her sing. Beautiful song. have Yeah, do you guys get in your algorithm, like on Instagram or TikTok or whatever, you know, when people like indie singers doing certain songs and it's just like they're people and they're like, oh, hey, well, well, well, well.

18:25.56
Bevo
Oh, the curse of singing it. Yeah.

18:28.33
gav
No, I only...

18:28.95
Bevo
Queer Smiles.

18:31.16
Chibbs
Yeah.

18:31.51
gav
No.

18:31.59
Bevo
Oh, be whole for Queer Smiles.

18:32.89
Chibbs
Or singing the ABCs to the kids to the thing, but as an indie artist, it's like, hey, boy, say, do I have to?

18:35.86
Bevo
Yeah, yeah.

18:38.87
Bevo
Bye. Sorry.

18:39.47
gav
My...

18:40.37
Bevo
Joy.

18:43.13
Bevo
Joy.

18:43.54
gav
why

18:44.92
Mad Dog
tranquil, little story.

18:44.95
gav
why

18:47.86
gav
algorithm My has been up and down lately, but it's it's on a bit of a heater right now where it just keeps feeding me heaps of explosions.

18:47.86
Bevo
Star?

18:47.96
Mad Dog
yeah

18:55.68
gav
It's like it's just like i'm it just like, it doesn't matter what it is. If something if something blows up, Instagram's like, you you want to see this, don't you?

19:01.97
Chibbs
Explorations!

19:04.41
gav
I'm like, I mean, i mean yeah, thank you, Instagram.

19:04.47
Bevo
Do you get those

19:06.81
Mad Dog
My algorithm has been on a heater.

19:10.83
Bevo
get those um AI ones of like a dog turns up to the door and the guy answers the door and the dog just explodes and the guy goes flying into the window?

19:11.83
gav
but

19:17.75
gav
ah Honestly, if the dog explodes, yeah, I've probably seen that clip. Yeah. um

19:22.88
Chibbs
It's feeding me explosions.

19:23.80
Bevo
That's fucking crazy.

19:26.10
gav
Yeah. it's i'm this I'm a simple man. Okay.

19:30.70
Chibbs
We know what you like, Kevin.

19:30.76
Bevo
I'm in my kaboom era.

19:30.87
Mad Dog
I think she plays it. I think she plays it seventh. Seventh.

19:36.34
Chibbs
ah I'm going to go last.

19:42.78
gav
I'm going to opener. um' I'm saying she opens with it.

19:45.90
Bevo
Okay. Chibsie again. Plays it last.

19:49.11
gav
Fuck!

19:49.53
Bevo
you getting it in

19:50.71
gav
He does have the ultimate skill.

19:51.22
Chibbs
Oh, shit!

19:53.23
gav
He's got the ultimate skill.

19:54.18
Chibbs
That's two in a row. Two in a row. I just think the big...

19:56.18
gav
yeah that's good.

19:56.38
Bevo
Dance Monkey second last and then Flyway.

19:58.52
Chibbs
Yeah, I reckon this, because it's got the big outro, the big ending, but the all the woes and the...

20:03.43
Bevo
Hmm.

20:04.25
gav
Yeah.

20:04.35
Mad Dog
Yeah. Yeah.

20:05.11
Chibbs
You know, it's a big weight.

20:05.33
gav
Yeah.

20:05.99
Chibbs
you can Big finish.

20:07.99
Bevo
Hmm.

20:08.48
gav
I reckon she jags the loop pedal for that last bit and does whoa, whoa, whoa, and then puts the guitar down and just walks off while it like loops out for sure.

20:08.63
Chibbs
Yeah.

20:15.54
Mad Dog
yeah

20:15.69
Chibbs
For sure, yeah. And also, like, it's only for the people that haven't shot themselves after listening to D.S. Monkey.

20:20.85
gav
but

20:21.14
Chibbs
Yeah.

20:21.59
gav
but yeah ah Yes.

20:25.62
Chibbs
um

20:25.69
Bevo
and we talk about she She recently did that. um She put a campaign out that like she wanted to play some small towns and it's whoever put in the most effort in their campaign would get it.

20:32.09
Chibbs
Yeah.

20:34.61
Chibbs
Yeah.

20:36.66
Bevo
I didn't think she had that many fans, but people went crazy.

20:36.76
Chibbs
yeah

20:40.73
Chibbs
Yeah, so is it at all? Dan Sullivan was talking about this again at band practice today. and he's saying, you know, the whole thing of like, whoever goes the hardest, do that. And his whole point is like bit like, I need instructions.

20:48.66
gav
Yeah, that was that was how it was worded.

20:53.22
Chibbs
How do I go hard? What am I doing?

20:54.68
Bevo
Yeah.

20:54.87
gav
I would love it.

20:55.46
Chibbs
what' like What's the way to go hard?

20:55.51
gav
I would love it if it's just like, hey, guys, hey, guys, we're Wollongong. We want to see the Tones and I show. Here's us burning down the bank.

21:02.17
Chibbs
I said, that's what I said.

21:02.62
Mad Dog
Yeah.

21:02.63
gav
We're going, we're going, we're going so fucking hard.

21:03.77
Chibbs
I said, like, it's someone running through. yes

21:06.81
gav
We're going so fucking hard, Tones.

21:09.13
Chibbs
Like, I said...

21:09.37
gav
I'm going to kill fucking eight people.

21:09.37
Bevo
ah

21:11.49
gav
I'm going to just stab cunts in their fucking homes.

21:12.07
Chibbs
It's...

21:13.56
Mad Dog
I want you here!

21:13.85
gav
I want to see Tones.

21:15.93
Chibbs
I seriously she said, like, is someone running through Chris Street more like with a a machete attack?

21:21.53
gav
Just, just arms, arms, arms.

21:21.57
Chibbs
Like, it's just, we're going hard for Tones and i but instead

21:25.46
Mad Dog
yeah

21:25.55
gav
Tones and I.

21:25.75
Bevo
but

21:27.09
Chibbs
I! Set yeah set and fire to fucking, like, just demolishing a skyscraper at the end of Fight Club.

21:29.82
gav
ah

21:30.58
Bevo
Watching the news like...

21:33.05
Chibbs
Like, we're going hard for Tones and LAUGHTER

21:34.23
gav
Just, yeah.

21:37.33
Chibbs
but

21:37.46
gav
Just self, self fisting on Instagram live.

21:38.03
Bevo
I saw another one that was like... I'm not even going to talk about this after that, so forget it.

21:40.38
gav
Just like get Tones and I in here.

21:46.30
Mad Dog
Is this good enough for your tones?

21:46.68
Bevo
Forget it.

21:48.38
Mad Dog
Is it?

21:52.06
Bevo
i'm not even going to talk about this after that so forget it

21:52.28
gav
Yeah.

21:54.97
Bevo
forget it

21:56.02
Chibbs
but like There was no instructions. It just said, go on.

21:58.14
gav
Yeah, whoever goes the hardest is like, listen listen, Tones, I'm not going to lie.

21:58.15
Mad Dog
No. It's so hard.

22:02.73
gav
I can go pretty hard when I want to.

22:04.90
Chibbs
Just plowing a truck into a crowd of people like for Tones and I.

22:08.70
gav
ah And on the side of the truck is Tones and I for Wollongong.

22:13.30
gav
Oh, my God.

22:13.32
Chibbs
Blasting Dance Monkey out that fucking the thing.

22:13.78
Mad Dog
ah Yeah,

22:18.36
Chibbs
yeah

22:20.13
Mad Dog
surely.

22:20.41
gav
um my god

22:23.32
Bevo
Yeah. I'd love to know the amount of people who, like the idea of a tones and eye concept, but only no dance monkey.

22:30.33
gav
Yeah, for sure.

22:30.48
Bevo
Surely it's 99% of the audience.

22:30.87
Chibbs
Most.

22:31.62
Bevo
Yeah. Hmm.

22:32.02
Chibbs
Most. Most, yeah.

22:32.73
Mad Dog
yeah

22:32.76
gav
Yeah, yeah, yeah. You'd have to say most.

22:34.05
Mad Dog
surely

22:35.58
gav
Well, I mean, unless you're tracking her shit. like i Until I listened to this track for this episode, I didn't. like I would have heard this song and known that it was her, but I i didn't know this song.

22:43.48
Chibbs
Yeah. No, I would have only heard this in an ad for, yeah, like The Block or something and went, oh, okay, let's know that.

22:48.79
gav
Yeah.

22:49.46
Mad Dog
Channel

22:49.85
gav
Yeah, for sure.

22:50.87
Chibbs
But um that that whole thing where it's like, you know, go the hardest, I'll come play you small town, there is no way any more than 15 people are involved in making that happen.

22:50.97
gav
Yeah, Channel 7, Channel 7.

23:03.70
Mad Dog
all right.

23:04.20
Chibbs
Like, there's no way in hell they hit...

23:05.14
Mad Dog
No one cares.

23:06.17
gav
it was the I think it was the local radio stations here is what got it over the line.

23:08.89
Chibbs
Yeah, it's a local radio station, but i'm saying actual people, real people that are like actively trying to campaign for it.

23:10.36
gav
Yeah.

23:10.74
Bevo
Mm-hmm.

23:12.92
gav
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. yeah

23:13.96
Mad Dog
Don't give a shit.

23:17.12
Chibbs
There's no way it was over 15 people.

23:20.22
gav
Yeah, yeah.

23:20.65
Mad Dog
Yeah, I agree. hi agree

23:21.90
Chibbs
There's no way. It's just not possible. Not possible.

23:24.92
gav
I think the deal is that...

23:25.05
Chibbs
And not, I'm not just saying this isn't just a Torrance or anything. This would be fucking anything. They could be like the Rolling Stones will come and play fucking Wind Stadium if you want.

23:28.70
gav
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.

23:32.45
Chibbs
15 people would get fucking actively involved on a radio station to do with that.

23:36.42
gav
I'll tell you what would be so fucking funny.

23:36.65
Chibbs
Like it's most people just don't have the fucking time or care to put in like all of their effort into getting someone to come play in the town.

23:40.25
Bevo
yeah

23:41.30
gav
go hard.

23:45.45
Chibbs
They're like, well, fuck, I'll probably play in Sydney. I guess have to go fucking watch there. I'm not going out in the street.

23:49.40
gav
I would...

23:50.25
Chibbs
I'm not making signs. I'm not making my kids do videos of knocking the cat out, like yeah swinging the cat around and fucking sending it to a lake for the fucking going hard for Tones and all that.

23:51.79
Bevo
I'm not punching anyone. it

23:53.47
gav
i'm not i'm not but i'm not I'm not burning down my local bank. I'm not'm not...

24:04.54
Bevo
It does also, like like, it makes me think of, um it's very, like,

24:05.27
Chibbs
Yeah.

24:08.60
Bevo
king in the tower kind of thing like you got your peasants go hard and i'll decide whether i grace you with my presence it reminds me that simpsons a bit where smith is like the people of australia have joined hands to spell your name if you just turn your head slightly to the left you get that

24:12.54
Mad Dog
Yeah, exactly.

24:13.14
gav
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

24:13.34
Chibbs
yeah Yeah.

24:14.68
Mad Dog
Exactly.

24:14.71
gav
yeah

24:15.13
Chibbs
Yeah.

24:16.07
Mad Dog
Yeah,

24:22.23
Bevo
no tell you

24:22.68
Chibbs
yeah

24:22.90
Mad Dog
yeah that's right.

24:23.93
gav
ha

24:24.66
Chibbs
Turn your head slightly.

24:26.84
gav
ah

24:26.98
Chibbs
Yeah, that's right.

24:27.45
Mad Dog
Slightly.

24:31.64
Chibbs
At the 2021 ARIA Music Awards, it was nominated for Song of the Year and Best Pop Release. Nominated. um At the APRA Music Awards in 2022, the song won most performed pop work.

24:46.84
Mad Dog
What the hell?

24:47.83
Chibbs
So basically, it won an award for being played on the most things.

24:49.34
Bevo
was talking before statistics

24:51.61
Chibbs
Yeah, it's like the most...

24:52.92
gav
yeah that's a weird award yeah ah yeah everyone

24:53.57
Chibbs
you got played on radio a lot. It shouldn't be an award.

24:57.39
Bevo
yeah it's like so most steps on your fucking fitbit

24:59.03
Chibbs
Yeah.

25:03.54
Chibbs
It went to number four number four in Australia, number nine in the Czech Republic, number 11 in the UK, and cracked the top 50 in heaps of places.

25:04.02
Mad Dog
Yes.

25:10.61
gav
wow

25:17.94
Chibbs
Austria, Belgium, ah Germany, Ireland, 10, went to 10 in Ireland. Mexico went to 24, Poland 42, Sweden 29. It's international hit.

25:29.78
Chibbs
so international hit

25:30.23
Bevo
crazy. She's like, well, like what was that what were the statistics?

25:32.26
gav
bizarre

25:33.46
Mad Dog
I wouldn't say hits, but

25:35.32
Bevo
that She just got knocked off. Dance monkey just got knocked off the number one spot, most played something or other. don't know what it is.

25:43.26
Chibbs
Yeah.

25:44.20
Bevo
Yeah. Anyway.

25:44.57
gav
i don't know so like for like the past however many years it's been up there

25:45.86
Bevo
Yeah.

25:46.68
Chibbs
Probably bad, by me.

25:50.07
Bevo
Yeah, something else just cracked at the numbers. Maybe Billie Eilish or something like that. can't remember. I'm telling facts without knowing.

25:55.98
Chibbs
Another boring musician. um and ah In February, ah yeah, in February 2024, she became the first female artist to reach over 3 billion streams for the song Dance Monkey.

25:58.07
Mad Dog
Yeah.

25:58.11
Bevo
Yeah.

25:58.33
gav
ah

25:59.51
Mad Dog
Low effort.

26:10.15
Chibbs
3 billion streams.

26:11.10
gav
Fuck.

26:14.58
gav
The first... So, hang on. In what year?

26:20.15
gav
So she's she's got more plays on one track than any other female artist. Is that what that's saying?

26:25.62
Chibbs
Yeah.

26:26.76
Bevo
Yeah.

26:27.09
Chibbs
It's saying first favorite artist to reach over 3 billion streams.

26:27.26
gav
Fucking hell. Is that... That's fucking insane. Is that fucking insane?

26:32.38
Chibbs
Yeah, it's insane. Yeah.

26:34.22
gav
That's fucking insane.

26:34.34
Chibbs
It's crazy. It is. Yeah.

26:36.60
gav
Three billion...

26:36.98
Chibbs
Yep.

26:37.94
gav
Fuck me drunk. That's a lot.

26:46.20
gav
Fuck, that really is a lot.

26:50.58
Chibbs
Well, it right into this. what do you think she is worth in 2026, dog? All right, Gav.

26:54.61
gav
Fuck.

26:56.26
Mad Dog
18 million.

26:57.68
Chibbs
All right,

26:59.16
gav
Fair jab, actually. um

27:03.22
gav
Yeah, that song's done well. va Fuck. 22 mil. ah twenty two twenty two milal

27:11.50
Chibbs
bye-bye.

27:13.72
Bevo
Yeah, overnight sensation, hey, like from busking on the streets of Byron to fucking topping the Spotify charts. It's so crazy, hey.

27:21.02
gav
I reckon I've overshot.

27:21.62
Chibbs
Yeah.

27:21.94
gav
Carry on. ye Yeah.

27:22.65
Bevo
um

27:24.65
Chibbs
He's just fucking furious with himself.

27:25.08
Bevo
what it is

27:28.12
gav
I am. i am. I'm like, I'm thinking about now.

27:29.69
Bevo
What did you say, Gavin?

27:29.69
Chibbs
yeah

27:30.36
gav
I'm like, ah.

27:32.12
Bevo
what were you I was looking at the Spotify stats. What what numbers did you guys say?

27:34.66
gav
i'm not I'm not telling you. got to in blind.

27:35.99
Chibbs
He said 22.

27:36.02
gav
Go in blind.

27:37.03
Chibbs
said 22 million.

27:37.34
gav
Fuck you.

27:38.26
Bevo
I'll say 20, 20 million. funny melon

27:41.11
gav
No, we're all too high. All three us are too high.

27:42.41
Chibbs
You're all way off. You're all way off.

27:45.47
Bevo
I bet it's a hundred.

27:45.51
gav
She's not way higher, is she?

27:47.68
Chibbs
35 million dollars.

27:48.64
gav
Oh, fuck.

27:49.02
Bevo
Okay.

27:49.59
gav
Okay, well, I win.

27:50.26
Bevo
Can I, can I just read you?

27:50.72
gav
35. Fuck. Wow.

27:51.27
Mad Dog
Jiminy Cricket.

27:51.42
Bevo
I was just looking at the, um, the streaming stats. Um, then for the top one from a female artist is Billie Eilish and Carly did it's lovely with 3.6 billion.

28:00.41
Mad Dog
Yeah.

28:08.30
Bevo
And then we got Halsey in the chain smokers closer.

28:13.87
Chibbs
We've done that.

28:14.22
Bevo
then, uh, Then it's Billie Eilish and Lady Gaga. Then it's Tones and Ice. She's 24th. 23th.

28:21.18
gav
Yeah, okay.

28:21.21
Chibbs
Fuck, it's pretty good.

28:21.53
Mad Dog
Right.

28:22.26
gav
24th most streamed song.

28:22.46
Bevo
Yeah. I

28:25.17
gav
Yeah. And like fifth from a female.

28:26.28
Chibbs
It's pretty good.

28:26.88
gav
Is that? Yeah. Okay.

28:28.15
Bevo
ah guess.

28:28.22
Chibbs
Yeah.

28:28.39
Bevo
Yeah. Yeah.

28:29.02
Chibbs
Still, I'll tell you what.

28:29.27
Bevo
I mean, most of those are like co-songs, you know.

28:29.58
Mad Dog
Christ.

28:32.57
Chibbs
Do you know who the real winner, the real winner in this situation is?

28:32.66
gav
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

28:33.17
Bevo
Co-song.

28:36.70
Mad Dog
Australia.

28:36.76
gav
um sir ah Yeah.

28:37.99
Chibbs
Nah, fucking Jimmy Bedford.

28:39.96
Mad Dog
yeah, that's right.

28:40.21
Chibbs
Bricklayer Jimmy Bedford.

28:42.30
gav
bricklayer He ain't laying bricks no more. He's laying bricks in gold.

28:44.79
Chibbs
Yeah. Yeah. Because she got rich and then she went and got herself hot.

28:49.67
Mad Dog
Mm-hmm.

28:52.22
Mad Dog
Yeah. Jimmy's done well. You should get Jimmy on the pod.

28:54.84
gav
We should get Jimmy on the pod.

28:56.44
Chibbs
Get Jimmy on the pod. Okay, speaking of, um you know, Jimmy.

29:03.21
Bevo
Mm-hmm.

29:04.60
Chibbs
who

29:09.83
Chibbs
Gav?

29:11.66
gav
I'm still... Fuck. Look, I'm not going to say I'm down and out, but if I win, it'll be fucking close. I reckon ah still think... I still think she's got me. I reckon it'll it'll go the distance, but I reckon on points, she's got me.

29:26.30
Chibbs
Alright, let's find out.

29:29.46
Chibbs
ah It's sinking, sinking, sinking, sinking. Here we go. all Alright, clean result, no fluff. The winner, Gavin.

29:40.22
gav
Oh, it's what we do. It's what we do out here.

29:42.47
Bevo
He's a biased, I think.

29:42.87
Chibbs
You'll beat that young lady into oblivion.

29:43.13
gav
Apparently. apparently ah

29:48.52
Chibbs
ah

29:49.88
Mad Dog
How does it say it'll go down?

29:50.03
gav
It's...

29:51.80
Chibbs
Says, um yeah, just you you' just bigger, higher pain tolerance, and Gavin's got a higher dirty tactics willingness to swing chaotic exchanges.

29:52.23
gav
i'm intrigued.

30:02.97
gav
My dirty tactics willingness... my dirty tactics willingness is through the, you would not believe what I'm, what I would be, what ah what I would agree to in a fight.

30:05.88
Chibbs
Yeah. Yeah. Tones likely...

30:09.83
Mad Dog
Through the roof.

30:09.91
Chibbs
and luckily It says, Tones likely has the cardio and agility edge, but without formal fight training like Gavin has.

30:16.02
gav
Yeah.

30:19.35
gav
I did not. I, I said in my stats that I'd specifically been in like one fight in primary school.

30:23.70
Chibbs
No, it doesn't say that. not it says it says in a short It says, in a short, messy, real-world scrap, the more aggressive person with higher pain tolerance usually dictates the outcome.

30:26.41
gav
Yeah. Yeah.

30:26.99
Mad Dog
Four balls of parts of training.

30:32.38
gav
yeah

30:37.82
gav
Yeah, okay. So I might get hurt a bit, but I'll enjoy it a little bit.

30:38.81
Mad Dog
Well, that's you.

30:41.62
Chibbs
You'll just enjoy it. Yeah, it'll turn you on.

30:43.64
gav
Yeah.

30:44.42
Chibbs
Yeah, yeah.

30:44.70
gav
Yeah. I'll be like, oh, don't don't hurt me, Tones.

30:46.54
Chibbs
Yeah. Yeah.

30:48.30
gav
And I'm standing there with my hands behind my back and like my legs spread wide open.

30:49.25
Mad Dog
Could you beat?

30:50.16
Bevo
Cool. Dust has settled.

30:52.91
gav
don't Don't kick me in the balls or anything as I edge my nuts forward.

30:55.42
Chibbs
ah

30:57.99
Bevo
Velcro flap.

30:58.26
gav
Ha ha ha ha ha!

30:59.07
Bevo
Yeah.

30:59.59
Mad Dog
don't know.

31:00.89
Bevo
little vcro flap

31:02.84
Mad Dog
ah

31:03.61
Chibbs
ah christian

31:12.31
Chibbs
Alright, what are we going to write it out of?

31:14.58
gav
Bone density.

31:16.35
Chibbs
Okay, bone density.

31:17.53
Mad Dog
I mean...

31:18.14
Chibbs
10 is you have the dense bones of a triceratops.

31:21.69
Bevo
Hollow birds of a sparrow. Fragile,

31:25.62
Chibbs
And ah one is, yeah, hummingbirds.

31:27.73
Bevo
delicate, precious.

31:30.42
Chibbs
Hollow hollow bones.

31:32.90
Bevo
fragile

31:33.13
Mad Dog
Hollow.

31:33.94
Bevo
delicate precious

31:35.85
Mad Dog
A hummingbird.

31:37.75
Chibbs
yeah ah What do you give this out of 10, Gav?

31:42.84
gav
um ah i know for a fact I know for a fact this will be ah reckon I reckon three weeks time I'll have forgotten that we've done this episode I reckon um so I'm going to give it a i mean i certainly i don't anything it enough to give it a high or a low score you know what I am I'm a fucking I'm a weak gutted dog on this one

31:52.98
Chibbs
Yeah.

32:09.70
gav
I'm a weak gutted dog five

32:10.43
Chibbs
Bevo? Yeah.

32:12.36
Mad Dog
dog person.

32:12.41
Bevo
I like it better than Dance Monkeys, like refreshingly not so annoying. She does throw a couple of screeches in, but ah

32:22.26
gav
yeah screeches.

32:22.33
Chibbs
Screech. She is a bird. She is a bird person.

32:24.44
Bevo
which there' there's only some catawalling.

32:24.50
gav
Yeah, obviously. it's it's it's in her internet It's in her nature.

32:26.36
Chibbs
yeah

32:28.37
Bevo
Yeah. Yeah. um

32:31.12
Mad Dog
Cattle wall.

32:35.06
gav
not It's not a very often used word. That's good.

32:37.62
Bevo
No, I like to do that. I don't hate it. I don't love it. ah It's not a five. It's way worse than that, but it's probably a seven out of 10.

32:46.22
Chibbs
Way worse. Doggy.

32:50.26
Mad Dog
Yeah, I hate her voice so much. Just I hate any so any of those indie ones that don't pronounce English words as they should be announced.

33:04.87
Mad Dog
Even give me even give me fucking announce, sorry.

33:06.39
Bevo
announced

33:08.87
Mad Dog
I am announcing this word.

33:09.75
gav
ah yeah you You've gone and slipped on your own banana there, Mad Dog.

33:12.67
Mad Dog
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. um

33:16.65
gav
There we go.

33:16.67
Bevo
Big Australian mic.

33:16.97
Mad Dog
Yeah. All right. Fuck it. um Just call me Ricky Stewart because I'm a weak gutted dog.

33:24.38
Chibbs
but

33:25.94
gav
here we go There we go.

33:32.46
Chibbs
I'm trying to think back. I'm pretty sure I gave Dance Monkey a pretty favorable score at the time.

33:36.89
Bevo
you

33:36.89
Chibbs
like

33:37.50
gav
And do you regret it or or do you stand by it?

33:37.89
Mad Dog
Chuck?

33:38.74
Chibbs
And people are still furious at me for doing it.

33:40.33
Bevo
Turn my laptop with me.

33:41.18
Chibbs
i don't think I regret it. I think I was like, ah fuck, it's a pretty good song. i don't I don't mind this at all.

33:44.95
gav
Yeah, fair enough. Stand stand by it.

33:46.49
Bevo
You were the ones going hard to get her in Wollongong, weren't you?

33:49.62
gav
ah

33:50.36
Chibbs
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

33:50.39
Mad Dog
ah Making up all the placards.

33:51.77
gav
ah

33:52.14
Chibbs
Yeah. Yeah.

33:54.14
Bevo
You spray painted your car shit.

33:54.62
Chibbs
um yeah

33:59.10
gav
ah ah

34:00.50
Chibbs
yeah

34:00.79
Mad Dog
Made a bird costume.

34:02.90
Chibbs
Yeah. um

34:04.06
Bevo
first Put up a giant, giant bell, you know, one of those like balls with the bell.

34:05.27
Chibbs
And I... i

34:08.25
gav
ah

34:09.82
Mad Dog
pull Put a big seed bell out the front of your house.

34:12.12
Bevo
Yeah.

34:12.82
gav
ah ah

34:14.26
Bevo
He's got some millet.

34:14.39
Chibbs
i i I don't think I'd ever heard...

34:16.48
gav
It's a millet. Fuck. Hang

34:19.54
Chibbs
i don't think I'd ever ever heard this song all the way through.

34:22.12
gav
on, sorry. Bevo has owned birds. Can I just say with coming in hot with that, Bevo has absolutely owned a bird at some point in his life.

34:24.80
Bevo
I but

34:27.74
Mad Dog
Millet.

34:29.02
Bevo
actually i haven't owned a bird in many, many years, but I just, I really like him.

34:30.95
gav
Bullshit. I can't believe Bevo's denying owning a bird. he He's ashamed.

34:34.55
Chibbs
He really likes them. He lives right near the fucking bird sanctuary, mate.

34:38.17
gav
I know.

34:38.17
Bevo
Yeah, don't eat darned one.

34:38.43
Chibbs
He's not a...

34:38.69
gav
That was by choice.

34:39.21
Bevo
Just go visit.

34:39.89
gav
That's why he moved up to fucking Christ knows where.

34:41.23
Bevo
I'm just enthusiastic about birds. I like them a lot.

34:43.86
gav
Oh, my God.

34:44.88
Chibbs
I fucking hate birds.

34:46.36
gav
ah

34:47.06
Chibbs
Like, I can't disagree with you more, Bevo.

34:47.48
Mad Dog
All right.

34:48.98
Chibbs
I just want to put this out there. i think they're a fucking stupid animal and I don't like them.

34:54.63
Bevo
that's why I like them so much.

34:54.84
gav
Birds aren't real. birds Birds absolutely aren't real. Carry on, though.

34:57.37
Mad Dog
Yeah, they're not real.

34:57.82
Chibbs
jazz Jazz had birds when I met her. She had birds. Like, they'd just get around...

35:01.40
gav
And then three days after you met, ah they're all drowned in a bucket somehow.

35:02.60
Chibbs
i'd get a yeah ah Yeah, no, they'd just get around the house and shit.

35:05.72
gav
Yeah.

35:08.02
Chibbs
Like, they were just flying around the fucking house and shit.

35:08.75
Bevo
Yeah.

35:10.26
Mad Dog
That's wrong.

35:10.43
Bevo
Casualties of the tones campaign.

35:10.68
Chibbs
And um I was like, this is fucked. These birds are fucked. Anyway, she doesn't have birds anymore.

35:15.77
Mad Dog
This is fun.

35:16.00
Bevo
What happens if I open the window?

35:16.99
Chibbs
And... she doesn't have birds anymore um

35:19.58
gav
yeah

35:19.62
Mad Dog
These birds are fun.

35:20.38
gav
And you ate well that week.

35:21.11
Chibbs
and um I didn't mind it. I heard this song, I put it on, i was like, thats ah that was a good song. Good little diddy. I don't mind that. I gave it a three.

35:30.95
gav
All right. There is.

35:31.26
Mad Dog
Oh, okay.

35:31.78
gav
There is.

35:32.05
Bevo
fan.

35:32.40
Mad Dog
All right.

35:32.41
Bevo
Loves the dulcet tones.

35:32.64
Mad Dog
There it is.

35:34.01
Chibbs
i thought it was fun.

35:34.25
gav
We got him across the spectrum there.

35:34.52
Bevo
love loves the time loves the dulcet tones

35:35.22
Mad Dog
Big Tones fan.

35:35.56
gav
Three three through seven.

35:36.18
Mad Dog
3557. Yeah. Yeah.

35:38.11
gav
Dulcet tones an eye.

35:38.66
Chibbs
I was just like, hey, it's a fucking it's got hooks. think it's a hit.

35:42.62
Mad Dog
and

35:43.61
gav
Nice.

35:43.76
Chibbs
It's hit!

35:43.89
gav
it Well, it was a hit. It was a hit.

35:44.86
Chibbs
Yeah.

35:46.40
Bevo
Are you going to go see her in Wollongong?

35:46.55
gav
Like a...

35:47.90
Chibbs
No, ah I'm happy if I never ever saw in real life. That would be fine with me. Yeah, but I mean, whatever. This is fine.

35:55.77
Bevo
Tell her about your fight with Gavin. It'd be a nice little conversation starter.

35:58.23
gav
Yeah, I mean, I'm going to have to...

35:59.00
Chibbs
Oh, Gav's going to meet her.

36:00.69
gav
Yeah, I'm going to um gonna have to tee that up.

36:00.78
Chibbs
Gav's going to meet her.

36:03.16
gav
I wonder if it'll be a PPV event or if it'll just be like a bit of a free-to-air showing. Do you think that...

36:07.33
Bevo
Maybe it'll be a POV event.

36:07.42
Chibbs
We should get Marge.

36:07.74
gav
Would anyone...

36:08.46
Chibbs
We'll get Marge.

36:09.70
gav
Marge, he can call the fight.

36:09.86
Chibbs
I'm sure Marge's got something to do do with it.

36:12.31
gav
He can call the fight.

36:13.75
Mad Dog
Yeah,

36:13.85
Chibbs
He can get you in the same room as I, that's for sure.

36:16.41
gav
Yeah. Two enter, one leaves.

36:18.09
Mad Dog
100% he can.

36:18.20
gav
Nice.

36:18.87
Mad Dog
a

36:20.87
Bevo
Just

36:21.62
gav
Nice.

36:23.35
Mad Dog
He can get you in the aviary.

36:25.66
gav
ah

36:27.06
Bevo
throw one more bird thing in here.

36:27.20
gav
That's quality. Quality. ah

36:28.98
Chibbs
ah ah

36:31.19
gav
Had to sneak one more in there.

36:31.19
Chibbs
um Thanks fellas. Everybody else, don't fuck yourselves.

36:33.77
gav
Get fucked.

36:38.14
Mad Dog
A bird.

37:04.00
Chibbs
Thank you.

37:04.41
Mad Dog
That's a commercial.

37:05.62
gav
ah will I will for sure forget.

37:05.63
Bevo
Yeah, quanticide, basically.

37:07.30
gav
I'll absolutely forget we've done that.

37:07.73
Mad Dog
Yeah. Yeah.