🏳️‍🌈 EXCLUSIVE CHAT: Courtney Act

The exquisite Courtney Act joins Jonesy & Amanda ahead of Mardi Gras!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
And Amanda gem Nations my favorite.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
It's caught me act hi.

Speaker 1 (00:08):
Very well.

Speaker 3 (00:08):
How are you going?

Speaker 1 (00:09):
I'm good.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
I'm excited to be here because it's Mardi Gras, because.

Speaker 4 (00:13):
Of the n r L in Las Vegas.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
It's what what does that say? What? And who?

Speaker 1 (00:18):
And the why?

Speaker 2 (00:19):
You know, exacttional rainbow lovers.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
That's it, that's what that stands for.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
I'm familiar with the NRL. I've made love to a
few of their players in the professional league. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
No, and so when you watch the game, you go, yep, oh.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
Yeah, I remember him.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
I mean it's not that frequent. There's not It's not
that the whole football team.

Speaker 4 (00:38):
This is a.

Speaker 3 (00:40):
Bomb shell material can I don't want you to say anyone.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
Because I absolutely wouldn't. And you know what else they
they don't. There's there's more than one. And they don't
want me to tell them who the other one is
because they want to know that their anonymity is safe
with me. And it is. Boys, come out, come out
wherever you are. To Auntie Courtney, you are a Secrets
are safe with you. That's why my head's so big.

(01:05):
It's full of secret.

Speaker 3 (01:08):
It's its own Mardi Gras.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
Speaking of which you are hosting that this weekend. I've
hosted that in the past, and it was the hardest
gig I've ever had, because you have it used to be.
I don't know how it is now. We had an
entire folder that had all the different floats, and you
have a voice in your ear saying float number twelve
and they say, no, float number one hundred and fifty
nine because of all the mayhem backstage, but also your

(01:31):
I was looking out a window, but also I had
to see what I was seeing in the street, but
then remember that I also had to look at a
small monitors what the TV was seeing. Is it still
a hard gig?

Speaker 2 (01:40):
Last year was my first year anchoring, and it was
very much that in rehearsal where I sat down and
I was like, oh God, there's someone in my ear.
There's an auto quey, there's a camera, there's a parade
behind me, There's.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
And a changing a changing parade literally, and of changing numbers,
all of.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
It A bit better. Yeahd was your first Mardi Gras?
Was it like nineteen ninety four? Better memory than I
have I remember because I remember being at home. It
was the nineties. Whenever it was. I remember recording the
Mardi Gras on a VHS, and I remember my bedroom
like was downstairs. Mom and Dad were upstairs, and I

(02:15):
wasn't out. I didn't know. I didn't really even know
what gay meant because it had just been used as
like a negative slur in the school yard, and I thought, oh,
that doesn't sound me. And then I remember people talking
about the Marti gra and I would record it and
I put it on the VHS and I'd stand there
by the door with my finger on the play button,
all the stuff under change the channel in case somebody

(02:35):
came down. And I remember watching you and Bob down
and going across them and everybody on the tower, just
seeing a whole bunch of people having a great time
and like men in particular, just expressing themselves. There was
a freedom because in Australia, I mean even today, but
certainly in the nineties, there was such a a a

(02:56):
I guess, pardon the punt, a closeted feeling to men,
all men, straight men, just like yep, yeah yeah. And
then I didn't feel like that. And then watching the
Marty Gral was like, look at all of those people
just looking free and having fun and not worried about
dancing to Kylie Minogue or looking over their shoulder, worried
about somebody who is going to bully them or make

(03:17):
fun of them. And so I think that's why martiy
Gras is still so.

Speaker 3 (03:19):
Important and it's Coaches on Saturday Night song the film
clip is filmed at Marti Grass, and so you look
at nineteen eighty four, Coltures was probably the manliest band
in the history history of manly bands. And that that's
and that.

Speaker 4 (03:33):
Bit with a guy, well, if you don't like it,
what have you been standing there for twenty minutes? That's
a guy at Marty Grass like a large drag queen
yelling out at someone. That's you know, I didn't know that,
but that's what I mean.

Speaker 3 (03:45):
That's part of our DNA.

Speaker 2 (03:46):
And Jimmy Barnes like he It's funny because Jimmy and
Kylie performed at Mardi Gras the first time. They were
the first two sort of mainstream artists. And I feel
like a lot of the queer communities love of Kylie,
I think is because back then in the nine these
big pop artists weren't celebrating queer culture. They weren't performing
at pribes like now everyone's before, So Pride it's like

(04:08):
the place that artists want to go and perform.

Speaker 1 (04:11):
Well, I'm going to be standing on a milk crate,
cheer you want.

Speaker 2 (04:15):
I'm wearing sensible shoes right now. I've got a pair
of high heels on, my crocs on. I've got crocs on,
but I do have look had I'll just put them.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
It isn't that bad luck to put them on a table.
I did that before. We're doing a big performing court
me act. We're going to catch all the color of you,
Sydney Gay. And there's been mighty Grasparade Saturday, seven thirty
ABC and ABC I view watch it live