WEBVTT - Was Beyoncé's VIP Experience Worth It? 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:02.880 I record this podcast on Gaetigul Country. I'd like to 0:00:02.880 --> 0:00:04.800 pay my respect to the traditional. 0:00:04.400 --> 0:00:07.560 Custodians, and I'm recording a Urando country, part of the 0:00:07.600 --> 0:00:09.280 Cooler Nation. Let's go. 0:00:11.000 --> 0:00:15.160 I know you're going to dig this. It's like I've 0:00:15.200 --> 0:00:19.279 been given like an extra sprinkle of something. 0:00:19.400 --> 0:00:22.600 You've got layers, Yeah, I got layers. I was just thinking, 0:00:22.640 --> 0:00:25.480 I'm like, we're just such beautiful storytellers. 0:00:25.920 --> 0:00:29.560 You're making a lot of sense to that girl. No, 0:00:29.800 --> 0:00:30.440 I'm done. 0:00:30.840 --> 0:00:36.400 Let's been too honest to go. Mandy, You're back. 0:00:36.760 --> 0:00:39.200 Yes, I'm back. Oh my gosh, it feels so good 0:00:39.200 --> 0:00:42.160 to be back home. But also like I've already booked 0:00:42.240 --> 0:00:45.320 my next trip, like the summer two point zero is happening. 0:00:45.800 --> 0:00:47.559 Wait, did you not have enough of it in the 0:00:47.600 --> 0:00:49.400 first trip or you were like I need to go 0:00:49.400 --> 0:00:51.200 back because I need there's unfinished business. 0:00:51.320 --> 0:00:54.280 There is unfinished business. I didn't see enough places. I mean, look, 0:00:54.360 --> 0:00:56.120 when I explained the holiday to you're going to be 0:00:56.120 --> 0:00:58.600 thinking like, didn't you just like spend five weeks going 0:00:58.640 --> 0:01:01.160 to like five different countries and having the time of 0:01:01.200 --> 0:01:02.480 your life, Like, isn't that enough? 0:01:03.160 --> 0:01:04.680 Which twist did you go to? Like? 0:01:04.880 --> 0:01:07.400 Okay, so I left Sydney and I went to Paris, 0:01:07.440 --> 0:01:09.720 which I fell in love with. I mean, Paris to 0:01:09.760 --> 0:01:13.000 me is just like postcard after postcard, affter postcard, every 0:01:13.560 --> 0:01:16.280 every is it really it depends where you're at. 0:01:16.400 --> 0:01:18.679 Okay, so it's depending on location, Like if you just 0:01:18.720 --> 0:01:20.360 people's interpretation. 0:01:19.880 --> 0:01:22.160 If you're staying the second or the ninth, I feel 0:01:22.160 --> 0:01:24.840 like that's where we stayed. It's like beautiful. It's like 0:01:24.920 --> 0:01:28.280 the Paddington, the Surrey Hills, the inner city vibes and 0:01:28.319 --> 0:01:31.720 the and the you know, luxurious you know shops and 0:01:31.760 --> 0:01:35.920 beautiful restaurants, and I mean Paris for me is sitting 0:01:36.280 --> 0:01:40.000 with a glass of rose with an amazing meal, facing 0:01:40.040 --> 0:01:44.480 the street and judging everyone who's walking past, and like 0:01:44.640 --> 0:01:45.480 just people watching. 0:01:46.200 --> 0:01:48.840 People watching is the best because when you're in another country, 0:01:48.960 --> 0:01:52.040 like people like everyone is speaking a different language and 0:01:52.080 --> 0:01:54.600 you're like, oh, like you don't know if they're tourists 0:01:54.640 --> 0:01:57.040 or locals and anything like, that's the best game to 0:01:57.080 --> 0:01:58.840 play and. 0:01:58.800 --> 0:01:59.640 You make up stories. 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:01.640 State. 0:02:02.080 --> 0:02:05.240 Yeah, but I had such a good time in Paris 0:02:05.280 --> 0:02:08.280 because I realized that we're quite conservative in this country 0:02:08.280 --> 0:02:11.280 when it comes to self expression, and you know, being 0:02:11.320 --> 0:02:14.079 overseas and being in Europe, there's such a vibrancy to 0:02:14.120 --> 0:02:16.760 people's output of who they are, and to me, it 0:02:16.800 --> 0:02:19.320 was so inspiring because I felt like everything that I 0:02:19.400 --> 0:02:21.880 was doing was elevated, like the things that I was wearing, 0:02:22.000 --> 0:02:24.840 the places that I was going to eat, the you know, 0:02:24.960 --> 0:02:28.040 even the food that I was eating. It's just like 0:02:28.200 --> 0:02:31.480 everything just felt so much nicer. So I'm going back. 0:02:31.560 --> 0:02:33.639 I am going back with a good friend Ollie. When 0:02:33.639 --> 0:02:36.520 I came back a week ago, he caught up with 0:02:36.520 --> 0:02:37.919 me for dinner and he said, I really want to 0:02:37.919 --> 0:02:40.200 go to Europe in September. I said, okay, I'm coming 0:02:40.520 --> 0:02:42.240 two point zero. He didn't have anyone to go with. 0:02:42.320 --> 0:02:45.960 So he's so detailed and meticulous though that within a 0:02:45.960 --> 0:02:49.280 week he's created an Excel spreadsheet, a budget and like 0:02:49.400 --> 0:02:53.880 each location you know me, oh my gosh, you sent 0:02:53.919 --> 0:02:56.359 it to me last night and I'm like wow, like this. 0:02:56.280 --> 0:02:59.240 Is this is what the reason people do there before. 0:03:00.120 --> 0:03:02.920 But when he was younger in his family, so very different. 0:03:03.040 --> 0:03:06.880 But it was five weeks, you know, of pure joy 0:03:06.880 --> 0:03:08.480 for me so well Beyonce twice. 0:03:08.200 --> 0:03:11.280 That was I know, I'm never so jealous. 0:03:11.480 --> 0:03:14.200 I'll never forget that moment. It was, Yeah, it was unreal. 0:03:14.200 --> 0:03:15.720 The second time was so much better than the first 0:03:15.760 --> 0:03:17.680 and jay Z came out and performed with her, which 0:03:17.720 --> 0:03:19.880 was like, oh insane. The crowd went crazy. 0:03:20.120 --> 0:03:23.320 Is that the highlight then? Like, because that's why you 0:03:23.360 --> 0:03:25.280 went to Europe in the first place was to. 0:03:25.240 --> 0:03:29.240 See But yeah, I mean Beyonce the tour is everything. 0:03:29.280 --> 0:03:31.000 I was thinking about going to Vegas next week for 0:03:31.040 --> 0:03:33.079 the last show, but I'm like, okay, just hold onto 0:03:33.080 --> 0:03:34.840 your pennies, bro, like, stop spending money. 0:03:35.240 --> 0:03:37.200 I know. Was that the hardest thing though? Being on 0:03:37.240 --> 0:03:41.240 holiday is just like it's so expensive. Hey, everything's okay, 0:03:41.280 --> 0:03:43.080 so like what's a random meal? 0:03:43.480 --> 0:03:46.480 Like well, you know you can do it on the cheap, 0:03:47.000 --> 0:03:49.400 especially on the Greek Islands or in Croatia, but like 0:03:49.480 --> 0:03:53.080 you get to Paris or London, the pound is basically 0:03:53.160 --> 0:03:55.760 double everything here. So I got a haircut and it 0:03:55.840 --> 0:03:58.960 cost me one hundred and fifty bucks. Oh my dab 0:03:59.480 --> 0:04:03.000 and that for a men's haircut. That he's insane. I mean, 0:04:03.080 --> 0:04:04.880 you go for a steak, and we were looking for 0:04:04.920 --> 0:04:07.400 a cheap steak after I'm going to see a show 0:04:07.400 --> 0:04:09.960 one night in London, and a cheap steak in London 0:04:10.080 --> 0:04:14.200 is about fifty Australian dollars. That's a cheap steak. 0:04:14.600 --> 0:04:17.119 Yeah, so it doesn't really taste good. 0:04:17.640 --> 0:04:20.039 Well, I mean it's you know, a small portion. Yeah, 0:04:20.040 --> 0:04:22.200 it's not the best cut. It's a small portion. You 0:04:22.240 --> 0:04:24.200 don't get any sides with it. That's just the steak. 0:04:24.640 --> 0:04:26.120 And it's chewy. 0:04:26.480 --> 0:04:29.680 It's chewy, you know. But look, you go with that 0:04:29.760 --> 0:04:31.840 in mind, you know that everything is more expensive. I 0:04:31.880 --> 0:04:33.960 always think, wouldn't it be great if you were from 0:04:34.000 --> 0:04:36.640 Europe or America coming to Australia because it's. 0:04:36.520 --> 0:04:40.200 Like everything, oh, I know, and I think that's why 0:04:40.240 --> 0:04:43.080 people move as well. Like I felt like that when 0:04:43.080 --> 0:04:44.719 I was in New York. I was like, oh, yeah, 0:04:44.760 --> 0:04:48.120 this is so expensive. Okay, but like, okay, but how 0:04:48.160 --> 0:04:50.960 did you feel? This is this is my question in 0:04:51.040 --> 0:04:56.520 terms of like how did you feel being in Europe 0:04:56.720 --> 0:04:59.920 or like being in You went to London, right, no, 0:05:00.240 --> 0:05:03.599 you were, Yeah, how did you feel about being in London? Like, well, 0:05:03.920 --> 0:05:04.640 that ad been weird. 0:05:05.240 --> 0:05:07.560 Well, look, I feel like I've been to London before, 0:05:08.120 --> 0:05:10.760 but this trip, the key word that I had in 0:05:10.760 --> 0:05:12.760 my mind was to be present, so I saw everything 0:05:12.760 --> 0:05:15.440 this time. Yeah, I was really present in the moment 0:05:15.520 --> 0:05:18.760 and I felt like I experienced Europe completely differently to 0:05:18.839 --> 0:05:21.400 how I experienced it ten years ago. And so I 0:05:21.440 --> 0:05:23.920 went to Paris, I went to London, I went to Italy, 0:05:23.960 --> 0:05:27.000 so roame the Amalfi Coast, Croatia, Dubrovnik, and then I 0:05:27.040 --> 0:05:30.400 went across to Greece, went to Athens, Mikinos, back to Paris, 0:05:30.600 --> 0:05:33.680 extended on my gas. I know, I extended my trip 0:05:33.680 --> 0:05:35.960 for an extra week. I had a friend fly over Zapora, 0:05:36.040 --> 0:05:38.479 you know, Zippy. Yeah. I called her two weeks into 0:05:38.480 --> 0:05:40.839 the holiday and I was like, girl, can you come 0:05:40.880 --> 0:05:42.680 and just like spend two weeks with me? She was like, 0:05:42.720 --> 0:05:44.160 let me try and get time off work. She got 0:05:44.160 --> 0:05:46.560 time off work, she flew over and we had the 0:05:46.600 --> 0:05:49.200 last two weeks together. Denny went home at the end 0:05:49.240 --> 0:05:52.480 of week four on the planned you know, return flight, 0:05:52.600 --> 0:05:54.920 and I extended an extra week and stayed with Zippy 0:05:54.960 --> 0:05:56.440 and we had the time of our lik. 0:05:57.160 --> 0:05:59.840 So sorry, I didn't get I didn't get the call up. 0:05:59.839 --> 0:06:03.800 But you know, you're busy, You're busy, You're planning. Knew 0:06:03.880 --> 0:06:07.359 that you're planning your trips, you know, I thought. 0:06:08.600 --> 0:06:13.080 I'm so so envious. I'm like, I want to be 0:06:13.160 --> 0:06:16.520 on that September trip, I know, and I would to 0:06:16.600 --> 0:06:18.960 go to New Zealand and all this stuff. Okay, but like, 0:06:19.080 --> 0:06:23.839 let's talk about Beyonce and how that first experience was 0:06:23.839 --> 0:06:26.839 was like everything that you dreamed of? Was it twenty 0:06:26.880 --> 0:06:30.279 times more than you expected? Like what did she give 0:06:30.320 --> 0:06:31.360 you eye contact? 0:06:31.880 --> 0:06:34.520 Like yeah, I mean multiple times. Look, let me tell 0:06:34.520 --> 0:06:35.960 you something, Let me tell you something. 0:06:36.080 --> 0:06:37.560 Why don't you get up to the front. 0:06:38.200 --> 0:06:41.280 Okay. So my tickets that I bought when she was 0:06:41.400 --> 0:06:43.840 first putting a concert on sale was so expensive. I'm 0:06:43.839 --> 0:06:47.200 talking like fifteen hundred dollars a pop for a ticket, 0:06:47.640 --> 0:06:47.920 I know. 0:06:48.760 --> 0:06:49.919 A small loan Jesus. 0:06:50.040 --> 0:06:52.880 Yeah, and so I bought the VIP tickets, which meant 0:06:52.880 --> 0:06:54.560 that you would basically be on the barricade in this 0:06:54.720 --> 0:06:59.839 VIP pit. But unfortunately, like the VP, experience wasn't great. 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:03.600 And it saddens me to speak about Beyonce and her 0:07:03.600 --> 0:07:05.440 team like this, But I had to get to the 0:07:05.480 --> 0:07:07.880 venue at two pm. She wasn't on stage until eight, 0:07:08.240 --> 0:07:10.600 so that is six hours before she comes on. Right. 0:07:11.280 --> 0:07:14.960 It's like a huge weight to get your VIP merch 0:07:15.040 --> 0:07:17.480 and your bag and you sort of just shuffle through 0:07:17.560 --> 0:07:20.800 like cattle. Honestly, you're in these lines until about four pm, 0:07:20.880 --> 0:07:23.000 so it's about two hours you're in these lines, and 0:07:23.000 --> 0:07:25.239 then you get into the venue around four thirty five pm, 0:07:25.360 --> 0:07:28.880 and then you're waiting for three hours in the venue. 0:07:29.320 --> 0:07:33.160 So as much as it was marketed as this incredible 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:36.720 VP experience, the VIP side of things, it really wasn't there. 0:07:36.760 --> 0:07:38.440 I mean, you got in early and you got a 0:07:38.480 --> 0:07:41.480 really great vantage point, but the stage was so high, 0:07:41.520 --> 0:07:43.880 and me as a tall person, I still couldn't see 0:07:43.880 --> 0:07:45.600 her some of the night. So I've paid this much 0:07:45.640 --> 0:07:47.840 money and I couldn't see her and I'm front row. 0:07:48.320 --> 0:07:52.880 It was like, really honestly disappointing to pay that much 0:07:52.880 --> 0:07:54.920 money and not get the experience that I thought I would. 0:07:55.440 --> 0:08:00.560 But the second time in Paris, was seated like the 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:02.800 front row of the stadium and I got to see 0:08:02.840 --> 0:08:08.280 everything and ain't. Well, the thing is, I was front 0:08:08.360 --> 0:08:11.240 row so like of the seats, and that was such 0:08:11.280 --> 0:08:14.040 a better experience. Got to see everything, you know, got 0:08:14.040 --> 0:08:17.000 to see the stage, the led floor. You sort of 0:08:17.000 --> 0:08:19.240 have to be a little bit raised to experience Cowboy 0:08:19.360 --> 0:08:21.920 Carter to its fullest because the stage is such a 0:08:21.920 --> 0:08:23.960 big part of it. So when you're in VIP and 0:08:23.960 --> 0:08:26.000 you're looking up. You don't get to see the led 0:08:26.160 --> 0:08:30.880 stage because you're you know, your view is underneath. So look, 0:08:30.960 --> 0:08:33.920 I had the best time. Honestly. It was almost like 0:08:33.960 --> 0:08:36.520 a religious experience. The second time. I remember like I 0:08:36.640 --> 0:08:40.480 was in this moment where you're singing this song which 0:08:40.480 --> 0:08:42.719 has got two hands to heaven, and I felt like 0:08:42.840 --> 0:08:45.400 I was just gonna burst out in tears like it was. 0:08:45.559 --> 0:08:49.119 It was euphoric for me. So yes, it was amazing 0:08:50.000 --> 0:08:52.720 the second time, and the show I would see again 0:08:52.760 --> 0:08:54.880 if I could, but I'm just not willing to go 0:08:55.000 --> 0:08:57.800 to Vegas and pay all that money again. But I'll 0:08:57.800 --> 0:08:59.640 see her again one day. So yeah, it was definitely 0:08:59.679 --> 0:09:02.439 a hot definitely a highlight. And you won't believe this, 0:09:03.200 --> 0:09:07.319 but her makeup artist follows me on Instagram. His name's Raquel, 0:09:07.440 --> 0:09:08.960 and I went to dinner with him. 0:09:09.400 --> 0:09:10.840 Oh my god. 0:09:11.080 --> 0:09:13.160 I went to dinner with her makeup artist, Raquel, who 0:09:13.160 --> 0:09:15.240 does Kim K's makeup, and beyonces it. 0:09:15.559 --> 0:09:16.520 How was that. 0:09:17.040 --> 0:09:20.880 It was amazing. We were messaging on Instagram and it 0:09:20.920 --> 0:09:22.679 was in the last week while I was in Paris, 0:09:22.800 --> 0:09:25.400 and he was like, let's catch up. So we went 0:09:25.440 --> 0:09:27.880 and got some drinks at a bar and then he 0:09:27.960 --> 0:09:31.079 was like, let me see if Neil's available, who's her hairstylist? 0:09:31.800 --> 0:09:35.040 And so Neil to Neil's sixtieth birthday and we end 0:09:35.120 --> 0:09:37.679 up the four of us, Me is a poorer, Raquel 0:09:37.760 --> 0:09:42.600 and Neil at dinner celebrating Neil's sixtieth birthday. It was insane, 0:09:43.000 --> 0:09:45.360 like getting all the stories about Beyonce, you know, behind 0:09:45.400 --> 0:09:46.319 the scenes. 0:09:46.000 --> 0:09:49.400 And oh my god, you're in Beyonce's team, I know, 0:09:49.720 --> 0:09:52.480 and like he's worked for her for seven years and 0:09:52.679 --> 0:09:56.320 you know, I heard such amazing stories. 0:09:56.000 --> 0:09:58.520 About her and how compassionate and generous she is. You know, 0:09:58.559 --> 0:10:03.319 in COVID he had family members pass away and Beyonce 0:10:03.480 --> 0:10:07.240 looked after everything, you know, and there were so many 0:10:07.240 --> 0:10:09.240 stories that I don't want to share, but she is 0:10:09.280 --> 0:10:11.160 one of the most generous people. 0:10:10.960 --> 0:10:16.080 Could know, Share Share, Share without followers. This is the 0:10:16.160 --> 0:10:20.480 biggest not gossip, but you can ever imagine. I know 0:10:21.320 --> 0:10:25.000 you're in the team right now, like insider, you're. 0:10:24.920 --> 0:10:27.560 And so we became friends and we've been messaging and 0:10:28.559 --> 0:10:31.400 it was like, you know, whenever you're in LA, let's 0:10:31.440 --> 0:10:33.360 catch up. And he was just such a nice guy. 0:10:33.760 --> 0:10:35.440 I learned a lot from him in like the few 0:10:35.480 --> 0:10:38.560 hours we were together. Yeah, and he's you know, he's 0:10:38.600 --> 0:10:41.720 one of his makeup artists. Yeah, he's good looking. Yeah, 0:10:41.800 --> 0:10:42.480 what is he like? 0:10:42.960 --> 0:10:44.080 How would you describe him? 0:10:44.200 --> 0:10:48.920 Like Latino and yeah, beautiful. He has his own makeup 0:10:48.920 --> 0:10:53.800 line called Raquel Beauty. He yeah, he's he's got a 0:10:53.840 --> 0:10:55.760 perfume coming out that he showed me. He brought like 0:10:55.760 --> 0:10:58.240 a little sample and yeah. We had the best time, 0:10:58.360 --> 0:11:00.840 and he even invited me. Like the dinner ended at 0:11:00.840 --> 0:11:02.560 like midnight, and then he's like, I'm going to go 0:11:02.640 --> 0:11:05.400 and have this meeting with someone at midnight about my perfume, 0:11:05.440 --> 0:11:07.040 and so he was going to talk to like this 0:11:07.080 --> 0:11:11.040 guy who had to like to discuss like the design 0:11:11.120 --> 0:11:13.040 of the bottle and stuff. And then at two o'clock 0:11:13.040 --> 0:11:15.360 he's like, where are you come to this Louis Vuitton 0:11:15.520 --> 0:11:19.720 fashion after party. I'm like, I've got a flight tomorrow morning. 0:11:19.760 --> 0:11:20.520 I can't but like. 0:11:20.559 --> 0:11:23.240 Two am, two am, yeah, my good. 0:11:23.920 --> 0:11:25.400 Booty call without the booty call. 0:11:26.000 --> 0:11:27.640 Literally without the booty Yeah. Yeah. 0:11:27.720 --> 0:11:30.040 Yeah. I was at home and like Support and I 0:11:30.080 --> 0:11:31.960 were packing our bags and I was like should we go? 0:11:32.280 --> 0:11:33.960 She's like, look where it is? It was like ten 0:11:34.000 --> 0:11:36.319 minutes away from our hotel, and I was like, I 0:11:36.360 --> 0:11:38.120 would have to get dressed, I would have to look nice. 0:11:38.120 --> 0:11:41.000 It was the lou Vuitton after party, so I'm like, 0:11:41.120 --> 0:11:43.160 oh my god, like and people don't start partying in 0:11:43.200 --> 0:11:46.160 Paris until one am. So you have dinner at ten. 0:11:46.240 --> 0:11:48.280 And then you just roll into the next morning. 0:11:48.720 --> 0:11:50.440 Well the thing is one until six. 0:11:51.520 --> 0:11:53.839 Oh my god. That is that is not. 0:11:54.320 --> 0:11:56.960 That is normal. That is so normal in Europe. Yeah, 0:11:57.000 --> 0:11:59.199 and so if you go to a club before midnight 0:11:59.240 --> 0:12:02.920 it's empty. That's so weird, isn't it. So you don't 0:12:02.960 --> 0:12:04.079 go to dinner. The sun doesn't go. 0:12:04.000 --> 0:12:06.080 Down thenry okay, so you go to bed at six 0:12:06.160 --> 0:12:09.400 and then wait, day, what time are you waking up? Now? 0:12:09.400 --> 0:12:12.880 No one's waken up early in Europe Australia, the culture 0:12:12.920 --> 0:12:14.360 is wake up at five am, go for a run, 0:12:14.400 --> 0:12:17.160 you know, get your job done, be home by five 0:12:17.280 --> 0:12:19.520 and then relax. It's like you have a sea yester 0:12:19.640 --> 0:12:23.160 at four, you sleep until six, you get up, you 0:12:23.280 --> 0:12:26.400 go to dinner at like nine. The sun doesn't go 0:12:26.400 --> 0:12:29.320 down until ten thirty, so it still feels like day. 0:12:29.400 --> 0:12:34.000 They're ten thirty is like our seven. And then by midnight, 0:12:34.080 --> 0:12:36.160 you finish dinner and then you sort of trickle on 0:12:36.240 --> 0:12:38.480 to the bars. And so if you go out, if 0:12:38.520 --> 0:12:40.240 you're at home and then you think, oh it's midnight, 0:12:40.280 --> 0:12:42.440 better get out, and you go to a club, honestly, 0:12:42.480 --> 0:12:43.280 it's going to be empty. 0:12:43.960 --> 0:12:45.959 That is so baffling to me. 0:12:47.040 --> 0:12:48.960 But that's why they had to see Yester in the afternoon. 0:12:49.000 --> 0:12:51.199 They're sleeping, they getting their energy, they're ready to go. 0:12:51.920 --> 0:12:54.280 Like there, I just feel like my ediccading rhathom would 0:12:54.280 --> 0:12:55.560 just be like all over the place. 0:12:55.840 --> 0:12:56.559 Yeah, you've got to. 0:12:57.000 --> 0:13:00.880 Eating at twelve, eating at eight o'clock. I'm in bed 0:13:00.920 --> 0:13:01.640 by eight o'clock. 0:13:01.880 --> 0:13:04.280 Yeah, I know, right, And so like if you go 0:13:04.400 --> 0:13:06.480 and you have dinner at six or seven or eight, 0:13:07.000 --> 0:13:10.200 everyone knows you're a foreigner because the restaurants are basically empty. 0:13:10.640 --> 0:13:13.199 Oh okay, so that's like yeah, that's like no, no, 0:13:13.240 --> 0:13:18.199 don't do that, don't do that. And how's your foot? 0:13:18.240 --> 0:13:20.480 How did you hobble around and get on the dance floor? 0:13:20.760 --> 0:13:25.000 Well, they called me Limpy Lowhan, Limp that's your new name, 0:13:25.160 --> 0:13:29.720 Limpy Lowhan, and I skin this week. I was limping 0:13:29.720 --> 0:13:30.800 around for five weeks. 0:13:30.920 --> 0:13:33.160 But it did it a little pimpstick, bro. 0:13:33.280 --> 0:13:35.680 I needed more than that. I had all the drugs 0:13:35.679 --> 0:13:38.000 in the world, like not all the drugs, but like 0:13:38.080 --> 0:13:42.680 panetole and neurofirm prescribed drugs. Yeah, all the all the 0:13:42.880 --> 0:13:46.440 legal drugs, and I just popped the pills and kept 0:13:46.440 --> 0:13:48.880 on walking like I was twenty thousand steps a day 0:13:49.120 --> 0:13:50.120 limping around Europe. 0:13:50.160 --> 0:13:53.880 It was less you that would honestly injured on a 0:13:53.920 --> 0:13:56.440 holiday is probably the worst, and especially on the cobblestones, 0:13:56.480 --> 0:13:57.240 I can't imagine. 0:13:57.240 --> 0:13:59.680 No, there's no stability. My ankle's got. 0:13:59.559 --> 0:14:03.400 On like literally like I would imagine like a Wes 0:14:03.400 --> 0:14:05.760 see videos of girls like walking on the cobblestones in 0:14:05.840 --> 0:14:08.080 like little kitten hills or like hills, and I'm like, 0:14:08.200 --> 0:14:11.480 absolutely not, I'm absolutely not. 0:14:12.320 --> 0:14:14.360 But no, it was the trip of my life. Yeah, 0:14:15.040 --> 0:14:18.079 highlight lowlight, I think. 0:14:19.480 --> 0:14:21.080 Not that we have to if you don't feel like 0:14:21.320 --> 0:14:22.840 there was any type of blue light. I mean, low 0:14:22.920 --> 0:14:23.680 light would be your. 0:14:23.600 --> 0:14:27.280 Foot Yeah, low light, limping around limpy lowhan. I think 0:14:27.320 --> 0:14:30.720 my highlight was really sticking to that idea of being 0:14:30.760 --> 0:14:33.720 present and seeing the cities and getting out and doing 0:14:33.760 --> 0:14:38.000 touristic things and really making the most of my time, 0:14:38.120 --> 0:14:41.200 Like I didn't really sleep in. I was very strategic 0:14:41.240 --> 0:14:43.000 about what nights I went out to the club late, 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:47.720 you know, so I felt very Yeah. One of the 0:14:47.720 --> 0:14:49.720 things that I've realized is that growing up in Australia 0:14:49.800 --> 0:14:52.280 we have no sense of freedom in the ocean. You 0:14:52.400 --> 0:14:54.680 go to Europe and you jump in the ocean. There's 0:14:54.720 --> 0:14:58.480 no there's no sharks there. So there's the agency which 0:14:58.520 --> 0:15:02.640 basically they've never recorded a great white there. There's no 0:15:02.760 --> 0:15:05.880 big sharks that you know, have attacked humans in over 0:15:05.960 --> 0:15:09.240 one hundred years. So you jump off the boat in 0:15:09.280 --> 0:15:12.480 the ocean and that sense of freedom is unreal. There's 0:15:12.520 --> 0:15:16.520 no fear. So for me that was a fear. Oh yeah, 0:15:16.880 --> 0:15:19.160 I'm not jumping off a boat in Sydney Harbor. I'm 0:15:19.160 --> 0:15:21.440 not spending too much time in the water at BONDI 0:15:21.680 --> 0:15:23.560 like whenever I'm in the I. 0:15:23.520 --> 0:15:25.920 Was just kayaking in the Sydney Harbour yesterday. 0:15:26.320 --> 0:15:34.000 It's fine. I mean, you've got protection, but forgot. But seriously, 0:15:34.040 --> 0:15:37.160 jumping in you know, the ocean off a yacht that 0:15:37.760 --> 0:15:39.760 it was just a private yacht for Danny and I 0:15:39.840 --> 0:15:42.600 that I hired, and it was like a dream. It 0:15:42.720 --> 0:15:45.120 was like, Wow, this is what freedom feels like. Like 0:15:45.200 --> 0:15:47.080 no fear in the ocean. I love that. 0:15:47.080 --> 0:15:48.320 That's so bougie. 0:15:48.640 --> 0:15:52.320 Yeah, it was so cool. Yeah, I felt very bougie. 0:15:52.360 --> 0:15:53.720 I felt like I was living my best life. 0:15:53.800 --> 0:15:56.600 Yeah, you guys role playing well. 0:15:57.240 --> 0:15:58.480 Denny is so simple. 0:15:59.040 --> 0:16:01.840 Denny's did he love his holiday? 0:16:02.160 --> 0:16:04.600 He loved it, But he's like, you know, Denny is 0:16:04.600 --> 0:16:06.880 someone who would prefer to go to like Southeast Asia 0:16:07.000 --> 0:16:10.840 maybe like even Thailand or Bali or an Asian continent, 0:16:10.960 --> 0:16:14.000 live really like chill in like a villa that you 0:16:14.000 --> 0:16:16.080 don't have to pay much money, and like, I like 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:17.680 the finer things in life. And I'm not a shame 0:16:17.720 --> 0:16:21.440 to admit that now, Like overseas I was, I can't 0:16:21.480 --> 0:16:24.240 for it. Yeah, I was eating the best food, you know, 0:16:25.040 --> 0:16:28.480 getting like transfers everywhere, Like I just really lived it up. 0:16:28.560 --> 0:16:31.440 And I felt like I've been so ashamed to be like, 0:16:31.480 --> 0:16:33.840 oh no, I like being bougie. But fuck that, Like 0:16:33.920 --> 0:16:34.720 that is something that is. 0:16:35.600 --> 0:16:38.240 Bougie blackfellows, and that is so okay. 0:16:38.520 --> 0:16:40.880 It's okay. And I got to a point in my 0:16:40.880 --> 0:16:43.640 life where I can be bougie. Yes, I'm like, yes, 0:16:44.640 --> 0:16:45.000 be that. 0:16:45.040 --> 0:16:47.880 Why these all these other mob can have it? Why 0:16:47.880 --> 0:16:48.600 can't we have it. 0:16:49.080 --> 0:16:51.040 I think that's the thing people have tried to make 0:16:51.120 --> 0:16:53.720 us feel like we shouldn't be bougie because we're blackfellows. Yeah, 0:16:53.720 --> 0:16:56.640 you should be humble because it's superficial. You know what, 0:16:56.720 --> 0:16:59.680 It ain't superficial. You know what it is. It is 0:16:59.720 --> 0:17:02.240 a when you're sitting there eating lobster and jumping off 0:17:02.280 --> 0:17:04.680 a yacht and eating the best and drinking the best champagne, 0:17:04.840 --> 0:17:07.560 the best rose. Like I'm not going to be ashamed 0:17:07.600 --> 0:17:10.160 of that anymore. I'm like you no, I thank you. 0:17:10.240 --> 0:17:13.280 And you know what it's You've You've planned this holiday. 0:17:13.359 --> 0:17:15.800 You know you've worked up to it. You knew how 0:17:15.880 --> 0:17:17.639 much you were spending. You knew how much money you 0:17:17.720 --> 0:17:20.359 were taking away for this particular trip. It's not like 0:17:20.400 --> 0:17:22.600 you're doing that every day, Like this is. 0:17:22.560 --> 0:17:26.720 A like budget, did not budget. I spent like forty 0:17:26.760 --> 0:17:27.439 five k. 0:17:27.680 --> 0:17:31.480 Ah my god, it. 0:17:31.359 --> 0:17:31.800 Was a lot. 0:17:31.840 --> 0:17:35.160 I can't talk. I literally bought a car for like yeah. 0:17:36.160 --> 0:17:38.600 Yeah, So I'm like, you know, I've just I just 0:17:38.720 --> 0:17:40.479 I just went all out. But you know I deserved. 0:17:40.480 --> 0:17:41.880 It was my thirtieth holiday. 0:17:41.560 --> 0:17:43.480 Trip exactly, Happy birthday. 0:17:43.880 --> 0:17:44.239 Thank you. 0:17:44.320 --> 0:17:47.119 I'm glad. I'm really proud of you. For going and 0:17:47.320 --> 0:17:50.080 just doing what you wanted to do and how you like. 0:17:50.119 --> 0:17:54.159 I found the same thing with New York, so I understand. 0:17:54.520 --> 0:17:55.960 So what did you get up too while I was away? 0:17:56.920 --> 0:17:58.560 I finished my teeth. 0:17:58.800 --> 0:18:05.120 Okay, oh yes, beautiful? Are they whitened as well? Yeah? 0:18:05.359 --> 0:18:08.920 No, VISI line. I'm done. Great, I feel so good. 0:18:09.119 --> 0:18:11.440 I really enjoy my smile, like, thank you so much 0:18:11.520 --> 0:18:12.680 to dental bootina. I can. 0:18:12.800 --> 0:18:16.159 Yes, I've got three more retainers left and then a 0:18:16.920 --> 0:18:21.080 little fixing moments of like making everything symmetrical, and then 0:18:21.080 --> 0:18:21.600 I'm done. 0:18:21.800 --> 0:18:25.840 Yeah. Honestly, work has been really keeping me busy. I 0:18:25.880 --> 0:18:28.600 have doen so much trouble travel, like the last couple 0:18:28.640 --> 0:18:32.920 of weeks and whilst you're away, so my my was hit, 0:18:32.960 --> 0:18:37.440 my head down, bump up. Just been enjoying obviously time 0:18:37.480 --> 0:18:42.320 with Mim, having you know, time coming kind of back 0:18:42.400 --> 0:18:47.159 and forth to Sydney. But I'm you know, planning a 0:18:47.240 --> 0:18:50.600