Daniel: "They're just like a donkey, I guess."
Ben: "No they're not, they're not."
Daniel: "They're kind of. They got four legs."
Ben: "They're not! They're different animals!"
Daniel: "Four legs, four legs, four legs!"
Ben: "They're still different animals!"
Daniel: "Four legs... But that's it, I said kind of."
Ben: "You are dumb."
Daniel: "Kind of."
Ben: "You are dumb."
Daniel: "Four legs."
Ben: "I think you're dumb."
Daniel: "Four legs and a head."
Ben: "I just think you're dumb."
Daniel: "Four legs and a head."
Ben: "I'm just putting my open forth, I think you're dumb."
Daniel: "Four legs and a head, that's it. Four legs and a head."
Ben: "Dumb."
Daniel: "Kinda is..."
Ben: "Dumb!"
Chris: "Weetbix, occasionally corn flakes, a tablespoon of white sugar..."
Daniel: "Two tablespoons."
Chris: "Yeah, two tablespoons if you need the extra energy, and then you take a deep breath."
Daniel: "We're silverchair here on Alternative Nation. On the way... Oh, I already just read this."
Chris: "You're doing it again?"
Ben: "Ohhh, you're so dumb."
Ben: "Go on, get some pork on your fork!"
Daniel: "Fuck off, Gillies."
Ben: "Sometimes girls flash their breasts."
Daniel: "On their boyfriend's sholders, of all things!"
Chris: "And then there are the couples who make out in the front row."
Daniel: "Right in the front row. Is that love?"
Ben: "Is there any good roller coasters in Atlanta?"
Interviewer: "Six Flags."
Ben: "Yeah? Is that, like, really big?"
Interviewer: "It's really big."
Ben: "Is it, like, as good as Magic Mountain?"
Interviewer: "It is a magic mountain."
Daniel: "It is a magi-duhhhhhhh."
Ben: "Ahh, I'm sorry, Mr. Intellectual."
Ben: "Does it got as big a roller coaster?"
Daniel: "Yes, it's the same thing."
Ben: "Ahh, shut up you! I wasn't talking to you."
Daniel: "Ohhhhhh... You are a moron."
Interviewer: "Do you have any questions you wanna ask of us, any of you?"
Daniel: "Ummm... Yeah, can you play a Helmet song?"
Ben: "Yeah, in the mean time..."
Interviewer: "A Helmet song? You need some Helmet?"
Daniel: "Yeah, in the mean time, while we're waiting, can you play a Helmet song?"
Ben: "Yeah!"
Interviewer: "Well, I was really thinking of playing something from this lovely CD." [holds up a silverchair cd]
Daniel & Ben: "Nah... that'll be all right!"
Daniel: "You don't have to play something off that CD!"
Interviewer: [laughs]
Ben: "We'd rather listen to Helmet!"
Interviewer: "Not gonna do some Helmet tonight? Maybe just throw one in for giggles?"
Daniel: "No, not really."
Ben: "We'll do 'Born Annoying'."
Daniel: "No we won't."
Ben: "Please can we?"
Daniel: "No, Ben!"
Ben: "Please, Daniel. I want to do it."
Daniel: "Jock? What's that mean?"
Ben: "That means that you're a sporto-like, tough guy, like, you wear those big things that make your balls and your dick look really big."
Daniel: "I don't have to wear one of them."
Ben: "I'll describe Daniel. Fat, ugly, trendsetter."
Daniel: "I'll describe Ben. Cool, funny, witty, muscular."
Ben: "Shut up!"
Daniel: "What?!"
Ben: "I don't like you."
Daniel: "And silky."
Ben: "No, I don't like you."
Daniel: "Cool, tough, dumb, brilliant, good-looking, handsome." [describing Chris]
Ben: "Goa-teed-like."
Daniel: "Goa-teed-like! He's the most manly."
Ben: "See, when Chris turns 40 he's going to have to shave, like, twice a day, and me and Daniel, on the other hand, hopefully will have to shave only twice a week. Give me a kiss! [to Chris]"
Ben: "Do you like llamas, Daniel?"
Daniel: "I like 'em, yeah. They're top animals, mate."
Ben: "Aw, I feel the same way."
Daniel: "Hmm, I love them, mate. They're really nice animals."
Ben: "Do you support the liberation of llamas?"
Daniel: "I do, I support the liberation of llamas."
Ben: "Same here. I feel..."
Daniel: "Can I ask you a serious question?"
Ben: "Ah, go ahead, go ahead."
Daniel: "Like, a serious.... question?"
Ben: "Very serious?"
Daniel: "(laughing) Do you pick your nose?"
Ben: "Sometimes... well I'm just going to come out in the open and say yes, I do."
Daniel: "Thank you, and we'll go back to the radio interviewer."
Ben: "Well I went to one [ARIA party] last year and it was, like, good. It wasn't like a sit down dinner it was an actual party. Like, they had these faeries flying around and stuff."
Daniel: "Faeries?"
Ben: "Yeah! Like, they had these people hanging off the ceiling and stuff."
Daniel: "Were they real? [Laughter]"
Ben: "Nah. Hey, I wanna tell a story! [More Laughter]"
Daniel: "Go Ben!"
Ben: "There was this guy there tying balloons."
Interviewer: "Sausage Balloons?"
Ben: "Yeah, and see, I went there with a mate and we tried to get this guy to make a doodle... You know, like, a doodle?"
Interviewer: "Yeah, I have a fair idea."
Ben: "Yeah, like in male genatalia."
Interviewer: "Yes, the Agenda Piece."
Ben: "We were going 'make a doodle, make a doodle' and he made a poodle, and we were going nah not a poodle, a doodle. Pretty good story, huh? Then we tried to give the poodle away but no one wanted it."
Ben: "Shut up."
Daniel: "No, you shut up."
Ben: "You don't know what you're talking about."
Daniel: "Just shut up."
Ben: "Leave me alone, Johnsie."
Daniel: "Sorry Ben."
Daniel: "I love you."
Ben: "No one wants to go on a date with me."
Ben: "I'm so upset."
Daniel: "That's right, Ben."
Ben: "Shut up, Daniel. Leave me alone. I'm sorry I can't get dates like you."
Daniel: "Dear Ben, I have never been on a date in my life. What are you talking about?"
Ben: "Bullshit, you lying bastard."
Daniel: "Except for last night."
Question: "Would you ever do a show naked?"
Daniel: "I already have for a bet."
Chris: "Did one last night in my dream..."
Ben: "I'd do a show naked."
Ben: "Was it a wet dream, Chris?"
Daniel: "Maybe tomorrow night."
Question: "Have any of you scored yet?"
Daniel: "Hi, I love Sweep."
Ben: "You are violating the Gillies cybersystem networks."
Ben: "Just kidding."
Ben: "No."
Chris: "No."
Daniel: "No."
Ben: "What does 'scored' mean? Remember, we're Australian."
Daniel: "[Black] Sabbath is probably my biggest influence."
Ben: "No, Led Zeppelin would be your biggest influence, Daniel."
Daniel: "No, trust me, they're second!"
Ben: "No they're not!"
Daniel: "Shut up."
Daniel: "There's a great deal of poetry, and fine sentiment in a chest of tea."
Ben: "Uhm... what?"
Daniel: "That's all I've got to say!"
Ben: "Daniel's drinking tea at the moment... That's why he said that... I think."
Chris: "Don't do that [directed towards Daniel, who is making apples collide together], you'll bruise 'em, you dickhead"
Daniel: "Nah, it'll just make them softer -- so you won't hurt your teeth when you bite into them."
Chris: "Apples are meant to be hard, soft apples suck."
Question:"Of all three of you who is the weirdest, wildest, and most perverted?"
Ben: "Not me."
Daniel: "Ben is the wildest and most perverted."
Chris: "Ben: leader of all wildness."
Daniel: "But he is very cool."
Ben: "Give me a break, guys."
Daniel: "It's a compliment, babe!"
Ben: "You guys are wild."
Daniel: "Yeah, thanks Ben."
Daniel: "You're alright."
Ben: "This is the Gillies cybersystem network."
Ben: "What's wrong, Daniel?"
Daniel: "Nothing, leave me alone. I am tired."
Ben: "Are you upset?"
Daniel: "Stop picking on me. I feel bad."
Ben: "Why do you feel bad?"
Chris: "Could someone please get Ben a date? -- he's gettin' frisky."
Daniel: "I am ignoring you, Ben."
Ben: "Thanks Chris. At least someone's on my side."
Daniel: "I'm on your side Ben."
Ben: "This is the Gillies cybersystem network."
Daniel: "The Gillies cybersystem network sucks!"
Question: "What would you do if the world was gonna end in 10 min?"
Ben: "Go on a quick date with you."
Daniel: "Go for a jog."
Chris: "Sit and hang on tight..."
Daniel: "If I was out of bed."
Daniel: "Thats a lie, I wouldn't go for a jog. I would stay in bed and get an extra 10 minutes sleep."
Question: "What's with you guys and cold sore cream? It's in two songs."
Ben: "We get cold sores all over our bodies."
Daniel: "I had an obsession that week."
Daniel: "I am sorry."
Ben: "Like EVERYWHERE!"
Daniel: "Maybe you do, Ben."
Chris: "WE HAVE A HUGE PROBLEM WITH IT -- IT JUST TASTES SOOO GOOD."
Daniel: "It's probably Herpes."
Ben: "John Watson is the coolest guy in the world."
Ben: "They mosh differently."
Chris: "U.S. crowds are more rowdy..."
Daniel: "What's mosh, Ben?"
Ben: "Shut up Daniel."
Daniel: "Just curious."
Ben: "I live in an Eskimo"
Daniel: "You live in an igloo, you are an Eskimo, you don't live in an Eskimo, stupid."
Daniel: "Because Ben was it, he was the transvestite! That's him!"
Ben: "Shut up, I am not!"
Daniel: "Yeah, you are."
Ben: "I'm not."
Daniel: "That's what your girlfriend told me. Your girlfriend told me."
Ben: "In fact, I don't have one."
Chris: "He has many."
Ben: "No, lets forget that subject. I don't want to talk about it."
Interviewer: "Why? Was that a touchy subject? The girlfriend subject? Why's that? Because you go on the road?"
Ben: "Yeah, it's just. No, it's because. No. No, shut up. I don't want to talk about it."
Interviewer: "I want to talk about it. What's the story with your girlfriend?"
Ben: "I don't have a bloody girlfriend!"
Ben: "They [fans] could be, um, 3 years old to... 86 years old, we wouldn't care."
Daniel: "What about if they were 87?"
Ben: "Don't... Oh... Shut up."
Daniel: "If the fuckin' cops come, we're fucked!"
Chris: "You'll lose your license, Gillies!"
Ben: "That's all right as far as I'm concerned. I don't have a fucking license!"
Ben: "I don't really take any notice of which way the toilet... the water goes in the toilet"
Daniel: "No, doesn't it just keep going?"
Chris: "It doesn't go around."
Daniel: "Yeah, it just goes WHOO!"
Chris: "In the sink it goes around."
Daniel: "Hey, hey, wrong!"
Chris: "Our toilets don't have a whirlpool."
Daniel: "Yeah, our toilets just suck!"
Chris: "They flush, they don't whirl."
Ben: "Our toilets are like pools. Our toilets have a little bit of water down in the bottom, that's about it."
Daniel: "Hi, I'm Ben."
Ben: "I'm Daniel."
Chris: "I'm Paul."
Daniel: "Hi, I'm Daniel."
Ben: "I'm George."
Chris: "I'm Bill."
Daniel: "I'm Judith."
Ben: "Yeah, you kind of look like a girl."
Daniel: "It was off some 60's pop collection record, at Watson's house, because he listens to really shi..."
Chris: [interrupts] "Some silly music!"
Ben: "Watson's this really cool dude, right, and he shaved his head and he's..."
Daniel: [interrupts] "He's got a tat on his nose."
Ben: "And he wears these big, round glasses."
Chris: "And he thinks he's tough."
Ben: "He's got this big tattoo on his butt. Some chick told us."
Daniel: "A cat."
Chris: "A cat and a dog."
Ben: "A cat and a dog kissing!"
Ben: "Llamas are a wonderful animal."
Daniel: "Hmm, you know how we took over the dinosaurs? Llamas are gonna take over us."
Ben: "No, wait. Can I explain something, please?"
Daniel: "No.... Okay."
Ben: "You know how like, monkeys were really dumb? Like apes? Like, they were all hairy and they couldn't talk. Then, you know how they turned into man? Well llamas, right, um, they're like the caveman of today, right? And there's going to be another ice age and all humans are going to die, and then llamas are going to, like, turn intelligent and be able to talk and like, be chefs and um, and like, carpenters."
Daniel: "No, it's true. Chefs! Chef llamas. They're going to have, like, fossils of humans."
Daniel: "We stayed at home and painted Rice Bubbles."
Ben: "And Cocoa Puffs."
Daniel: "Kelloggs Rice Bubbles."
Ben: "Yeah."
Daniel: "They're the crackliest breakfast cereal on earth."
Ben: "Yeah, like snap, crapple, crackle, crapple!"
Daniel: "Snap crapple! It's snap, crackle, pop. That's what each of us are: snap, crackle, and pop."
Ben: "Sorry, I've got a speech impediment."
Daniel: "Cause when you pour the milk in, it goes kikikikikikik."
Ben: "No, it doesn't go like that."
Daniel: "Yes it does."
Ben: "No, it doesn't go like that, believe me."
Daniel: "That's the closest I can get to it. It goes however the fuck I want it to!"
Ben: "Don't say the f word! That's rude."
Ben: "This is Ben from silverchair. Use a latex condom. Don't be stupid."
Chris: "Hi, I'm Chris from silverchair and I want to talk about sex and condoms. If you're talking about sex, then you better be talking about using latex condoms."
Daniel: [background] "Help reduce the risk!"
Chris: "Help reduce the risk. Get some latex condoms and use them now. That's cool."
Daniel: "Very cool."
Daniel: "Wanker!" [to Ben]
Ben: "Fuck off!" [to Daniel]
Interviewer: "We are here with silverchair and talking about their new album 'Neon Ballroom,' which is a follow up to their first 2 albums, 'Freak Show' and 'Frogstomp'. 'Frogstomp' was made at the dawn of time when you guys were still in elementary school."
Daniel: "Yep."
Ben: "I don't think we call it elementary school, I think we call it just normal high school."
Interviewer: "No no, the school before high school"
Chris: "Oh, primary school!"
Interviewer: "Yeah, primary school, you wrote your frist song on a speak and spell."
Ben: "Speak and spell?
Interviewer: "Yeah, it's an american machine."
Daniel: "Let's stop with the americanisms, okay?"
Interviewer: "What kind of americanisms do you hate? Or what ones do you like?"
Daniel: "Yeah, it's not that we don't like them, we just don't know what you are talking about."
Ben & Chris: "Yeah!"
Daniel: "Stop confusing us."
Ben: "One time, people were talking to us about floaties... What are they called?"
Chris: "Floatie wings."
Daniel: "Water wings."
All: "WATER WINGS!"
Interviewer: "Yeah, I don't think most Americans know what water wings are, especially in the middle of the country."
Interviewer: "Now to our next caller."
Daniel: "Sounds like a tampon to me."
Interviewer: "Water wings?"
All: *LAUGH*
Daniel: "Okay, I'm ready."
Interviewer: "How do they [the Germans] mosh?"
Daniel: "I don't think they do.."
Ben: "They do."
Daniel: "They kinda do. I dunno, they're weird, the Germans."
Daniel: "Do you realize you just endorsed a product?"
Ben: "Oh, I'm sorry."
Daniel: "No, it's ok. I liked it!"
Ben: "Mosh pits in Australia, everyone just is out in front of the stage, and they just jump up and down and that's all they do is jump up and down, but in the states there's like a circle and people just, like, run around in these big circles and there's all..."
Daniel: [interrupts] "I think they know, you don't have to explain what they do 'cause they're American."
Ben: "Ahh, shut up!"
Interviewer: "Hey, the guys just announced that during the Jordan Knight performance, they're gonna stay and breakdance."
Chris: "Ben is, Ben is!"
Daniel: "Ben is!"
Ben: "I'm not! No way!"
Daniel: "You said you would Ben!"
Interviewer: "You said you would Ben..."
Ben: "I'm not dancing! No!"
Ben: "Giving a gun a blowjob!" [talking about what Chris is doing in the Neon Ballroom insert]
Chris: "Yeah, I'm good at that... Ben taught me!"
Ben: "There's always a leader. There's always a big heavy dude walking around like.."
Daniel: "Or a big heavy girl."
Ben: "Oh, yeah... well, girl.. dude.. whatever you want."
Daniel: [laughs]
Ben: "And, like, you know, if he doesn't like anyone he'll hurt them."
Daniel: "Or she'll hurt them."
Chris: "You know what Ben's fantasy is?"
Ben: "What's my fantasy?"
Chris: "It's not very fit for radio."
Ben: "Shut-up!"
Daniel: "Oh god."
Ben: "None of that swearing big fella."
Daniel: "I said such a flicking talent.. What's the matter with that?"
Chris: "There's a few sharks."
Ben: "Sharks. It's supposed to be sharks." [said in American accent]
Daniel: "Sharks."
Chris: "Sharks."
Daniel: "Sharks in the water, man."
Ben: "Yeah. Water. In the gutter."
Daniel: "Hey, can you pass me some of that coffee?" [pronounced cawfee]
All: [laugh]
Ben: "We like the american accent, it's cool."
Daniel: "Ben's probably gonna jump off the PA tonight."
Chris: "He's gonna climb the stack."
Daniel: "He's gonna climb the stack, moon on top of the PA, then jump."
Ben: "Who would you say is the best looking member of silverchair?"
Daniel: "That would be Chris, probably."
Ben: "He is pretty good looking."
Daniel: "He's the bass player,he's got a very daunting aura about him when he's on the stage pounding the bass, kind of gauging the ground.."
Ben: "I'm tough."
Daniel: "Very strong, skinhead, you know."
Ben: "Yeah."
Daniel: "Hmmm."
Ben: "Who would you say is the most intelligent member of silverchair?"
Daniel: "That would, Ben, Ben's very intelligent."
Ben: "I agree."
Daniel: "He's um, been studying rocket scientifics, things like that, he's um..."
Ben: "A bit of psychology..."
Daniel: "Dentistry, he's good with teeth."
Ben: "Can you explain to the youth of Australia [Daniel is trying not to laugh] why, um, there's so many drum solos on the new album? Would you like to say how wonderful they are and stuff?"
Daniel: "Okay, there's a lot of drum solos on the new album just mainly because Ben was in a really good mood one day, he just came in and it was a good day, he has good and bad days, like one out of five gigs he'll actually play well, so he came into the studio and he played really hard, fast, like good solos, like very John Bonham-esque, which is what he wants, he really likes John Bonham, the drummer, in Led Zeppelin, you know, Led Zeppelin from the seventies."
Ben: "Yeah, I know 'em."
Daniel: "Yeah, so we're just, you know very influenced by the whole seventies psychedelic thing in the whole, you know [makes wanking gestures]."
Ben: "Yeah, [pause] wank."
Daniel: "Yeah, wank."
Daniel: "Hmmm, yeah. Do I look alright Ben? Ben? I can't see."
Ben: "Yeah."
Daniel: "Um... we fucked up!"
Ben: "Are we allowed to say that? Aw, well, it was an accident anyway."
Interviewer: "You got hit in the head with something, what did you get hit in the head with?"
Daniel: "Ah, it was a box of something, I don't know."
Interviewer: "Did you open it and see what was in it?"
Daniel: "No, I was holding my head."
Interviewer: "Oh, okay."
Daniel: "It was something that was flying throught the air, I think it was meant to be a gift, but...."
Chris: "It was a UFO."
Daniel: "I think we left it in the ground after it ricoched off my head."
Ben: "I've got another idea. I can't remember what band it was, but the new thing to do was it's either chocolate or brown lipstick, and you put it all over the vocal microphones, and they go to sing and they've got their lips up against it, and so when they pull away, it looks like they've got shit all over their mouth. Also, another one is hot chilli, and when they pull away they go 'Yaaaah!'"
Daniel: "If someone did that to me, they wouldn't be playing again!"
Daniel: "Ok, we go home and everything's totally different. We go home and all of a sudden, we've go four different colors of hair, and the beaches are purple, and our high school's turned into a museum.."
Ben: "We've got five legs, and we've got six fingers on each hand."
Daniel: "And the girls have penises!"
Ben: "No, the girls don't have penises!"
Daniel: "I was just making it up. Like... you know?"
Ben: "Ok, the girls have penises."
Chris: "Early on, Ben and Daniel were playing with each other."
Daniel: "We were playing with each other?"
Chris: "Well, not playing with each other..."
Chris: "Freak Show... it was a theme, and uh... Ben wants to answer this question... I don't know why..."
Ben: "What? I don't!"
Daniel: "I'll answer it..."
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