Weird Wiggle: Sam Moran and a Quantum Physics Pick up Line
We Can Be Weirdos
Global
4.9 • 793 Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2025
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Sam Moran is an Australian entertainer born on April 4, 1978, in Sydney. He is best known as the Yellow Wiggle in the children's music group The Wiggles, a role he held from 2006 to 2012. Before joining the group full-time, he was an understudy for original member Greg Page and performed over 150 times in his place.
Moran studied classical voice and music education at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, originally intending to become a high school music teacher. His background in musical theatre brought a new dynamic to The Wiggles, influencing their sound and performance style.
After leaving The Wiggles, he launched a solo career with albums like Colour of Love and hosted the children's TV show Play Along with Sam on Nick Jr. from 2013 to 2021. He has won multiple ARIA Awards and was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame with The Wiggles in 2011
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| 0:25.3 | This is a Global Player Original podcast. |
| 0:31.6 | Warning! The following podcast contains strong language, bizarre theories, |
| 0:35.0 | unexplainable experiences, and an AI bluey. |
| 0:38.2 | It may not be suitable for younger weirdos. |
| 0:41.2 | What if it all was true? |
| 0:49.4 | And you go, man, how that would kind of crack open your view would be nuts. Oh, oh. Hey, everyone. Welcome to another episode of We Can Be Weirdos. |
| 1:13.4 | This is the show that believes that everyone. |
| 1:16.0 | No matter how rational they think they are, harbors just a little bit of bat shit in them, |
| 1:21.2 | and it is my job over the course of an episode to hunt down that little bit of bat shit |
| 1:26.0 | and get them to expose it to you, the listener, |
| 1:29.3 | and reveal all to the world. My name is Dan Schreiber. I'm coming to you from my home at |
| 1:34.2 | Roughway by sea down in Mystic Marg's, and in today's episode, we are exploring the weird world |
| 1:41.0 | of children's entertainers. My guest today has spent a lifetime working in that world. |
| 1:47.6 | For many years, he was part of one of the greatest children's acts of the modern era, and that is |
| 1:52.0 | The Wiggles. His name is Sam Moran, or to a whole generation of kids, they'll know him simply as Sam |
| 1:59.0 | from Play Along with Sam, and to an even |
| 2:01.6 | earlier generation of people who were kids around the years 2006, he'll be known to them all |
| 2:07.9 | as the Yellow Wiggle. So the first time I met Sam, it was in Sydney, Australia, and I thought |
| 2:13.5 | he was going to beat me up. That was my opening impression of him. I was with my friend |
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