Speaker 1: I want the fairy tale. I want the prince charming.
Speaker 2: She how do I put this?
Speaker 3: Isn't a fan of my kissing style.
Speaker 1: The boyfriend and girlfriend for about twelve hours. He's in
Speaker 1: a trash bin. He's non recyclable catching them mu.
Speaker 2: I love being love, I love love.
Speaker 3: On today's episode of Where's Your Head At, we are
Speaker 3: over the Moon to congratulate Anna and Michael on their engagement.
Speaker 4: I had no idea Michael was going to fly to
Speaker 4: Bali to join us for the final day of My
Speaker 4: Girls Troop and at what lengths he would go to
Speaker 4: keep it a secret.
Speaker 3: Stay tuned to hear exactly how the proposal went down.
Speaker 4: Where's Your Head At is a podcast that talks all
Speaker 4: things relationships, breakups, reality TV, trending shows, and everything in between.
Speaker 3: This is your new go to destination for laughs, gossip,
Speaker 3: intimate details, advice, and much more. Congratulations Anna again, I'm
Speaker 3: so happy for you.
Speaker 2: Guys.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Oh my god, can you believe I'm engaged?
Speaker 3: I can't like when we started this podcast, like we
Speaker 3: were just too single.
Speaker 1: Out on the town singer ready to mingle, and now you.
Speaker 3: Have a ring on your finger, weighing that hand down don't.
Speaker 2: It's blinding me.
Speaker 3: Just shine of it in the light is blinding me. Wow,
Speaker 3: Like can you believe it?
Speaker 1: I actually can't.
Speaker 4: Like I was actually genuinely shocked, and I didn't think
Speaker 4: that I would be able to be shocked.
Speaker 1: I thought I would always know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you didn't have any inkling nothing.
Speaker 4: I think in the final hour, just before the proposal,
Speaker 4: I mean, there's a lot that happened, which I'm going
Speaker 4: to go into all of the details for everyone, but yeah,
Speaker 4: there was a few things that happened where I was like, hmm, maybe,
Speaker 4: and then I was like, no way, Like Michael's not
Speaker 4: going to fly to Bali. That's way over the top,
Speaker 4: Like it's a bit far fetched.
Speaker 1: Calm down, Anna think it was.
Speaker 3: A bit of a bit of an alarm bells when
Speaker 3: he'd gone to excommunicator what is it, ex communicado for
Speaker 3: nine hours he couldn't get a hold of him. Did
Speaker 3: you think that was a little bit suspicious?
Speaker 4: He was Mia here and there, but he had a
Speaker 4: story which was semi believable.
Speaker 3: I'll be the charge of that. We'll wait to hear say,
Speaker 3: but let's set the scene. So you're in Bali with
Speaker 3: your girls.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so As I mentioned on earlier podcasts, I was
Speaker 4: having a girl's trip all of my friends this year
Speaker 4: turned thirty, so.
Speaker 1: We were like, fuck it, we're going away, and it
Speaker 1: was really hard to get everyone together. So we were
Speaker 1: kind of like, this is.
Speaker 4: Probably going to be like maybe our final girls trip,
Speaker 4: like maybe the next one we'll have our boyfriends or
Speaker 4: fiance's there.
Speaker 1: Whatever. So yeah, we were like really.
Speaker 4: Making the most of it. We were super excited. We
Speaker 4: even on the day that I actually got proposed to,
Speaker 4: which was the day before we were due to leave,
Speaker 4: we actually had a big event that day, so we
Speaker 4: all decided to get tattoos.
Speaker 2: Yes, so what do you did you get?
Speaker 3: So initially speaking about this though for a while or so,
Speaker 3: how did you when it comes to conclusion.
Speaker 1: Though, Yeah, so it was really hard for us to
Speaker 1: pick a tattoo.
Speaker 4: That we all wanted, but we ended up going with her.
Speaker 4: So we've been friends for like since school so forever.
Speaker 4: It's been a really tight knit friendship group with such
Speaker 4: like a hype group, like we hype each other up,
Speaker 4: we love each other. We've been friends for so long,
Speaker 4: and we were like, fuck it, we want to get
Speaker 4: a tattoo to commemorate like not only our friendship, but
Speaker 4: this trip where we've it was the first trip we're
Speaker 4: thirty now where we've been able to make it happen altogether.
Speaker 4: So we decided to get her H E R just
Speaker 4: as like a you know, girls empowerment. We kind of
Speaker 4: got it for her kind of vibe, strong women, like
Speaker 4: we just you know, it's there's lots of different meanings
Speaker 4: behind it, but we were like we all agreed on
Speaker 4: that one. That was one of the only ones we
Speaker 4: agreed on, so we were like, fuck it, let's just
Speaker 4: do it. So we locked it in and it was
Speaker 4: funny because we obviously knew from day one of the
Speaker 4: trip that we were gonna all get tattoos.
Speaker 1: And on day one I.
Speaker 4: Was like, I kind of want to get an m
Speaker 4: from Michael on that day and they were like, yeah,
Speaker 4: fuck it, just do it. And then I was like
Speaker 4: throughout the week because I'd had too long to think
Speaker 4: about it, I was like, maybe I'll get a heart
Speaker 4: for him, Like you just have to do it.
Speaker 1: I was like, I was.
Speaker 4: Kind of like thinking about it, and then I had
Speaker 4: too long to think about it, and then I was like, oh,
Speaker 4: it's a bit needy. Of me to just get a tattoo,
Speaker 4: like I want him to get a tattoo of me too.
Speaker 4: And then on that day, which is the day that
Speaker 4: Michael actually proposed, after I'd got my hert tattoo on
Speaker 4: my ribs, I was like, fuck it, like I love Michael,
Speaker 4: like I feel like I'm gonna say him forever with him.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna get a little heart on my wrist, so
Speaker 4: wildly on the day that Michael proposed, I got a
Speaker 4: heart tattoo for him that same day.
Speaker 2: That is do You Reckon? That was fatal.
Speaker 4: That was just that's just like the universe like colliding
Speaker 4: together to be like this is the correct like things
Speaker 4: like this.
Speaker 1: Is a right moment, Like I don't know. That's crazy
Speaker 1: to me and.
Speaker 2: Think about it.
Speaker 3: His commitment was pretty big as well to you on
Speaker 3: that day, it was even bigger than a tattoo.
Speaker 2: Who do you Reckon?
Speaker 3: Was more I mean they're both very up there.
Speaker 1: So yeah, so like that was my day. And Michael,
Speaker 1: so his.
Speaker 4: Story or his alleged story, was basically that he was
Speaker 4: doing this charity walk from Men's Mental Health and he
Speaker 4: was turning his phone off and he was going up
Speaker 4: to the Dandenong Rangers, which is about an hour and
Speaker 4: a half outside of Melbourne, I think, and he was
Speaker 4: going to walk from there to the city, which I
Speaker 4: was like, that's a bit of a random story.
Speaker 1: But I was also like.
Speaker 3: You know what, so I've got the plot holes here.
Speaker 2: Why would you turn your phone off.
Speaker 4: Because it's about well, this is what he said, because
Speaker 4: it's about men's mental health.
Speaker 1: So they all wanted to talk about their feelings. That's
Speaker 1: what I said.
Speaker 4: And then he came back with that and I was like, okay, okay,
Speaker 4: check he's walking to the city.
Speaker 2: How's he getting back to his car?
Speaker 1: Oh my god. I didn't even.
Speaker 2: Think so many holes in this.
Speaker 4: That's so smart. I didn't even think about that. We'll
Speaker 4: get him and we'll ask I didn't think about it
Speaker 4: too much. I could have really quizzed him about that.
Speaker 2: I would have had his face is covered.
Speaker 1: He sounds like he did okay.
Speaker 4: But funny thing was, so he's doing this walk and
Speaker 4: meanwhile I'm getting tattoos with the girl. So I'm like,
Speaker 4: massive life event for me. He's flying to BALI to
Speaker 4: propose to be massive life event for him. So after
Speaker 4: I showed him her tattoo. I messaged him and I
Speaker 4: was like, Babe, I just got a tattoo for you,
Speaker 4: and he did a reply, and I was like, the
Speaker 4: audacity this guy.
Speaker 3: He was on the flight, so he wouldn't have seen it.
Speaker 4: He was on the flight, but then he obviously landed
Speaker 4: in Bali. He had a really early morning flight, but
Speaker 4: he kept just saying, oh, I just got to like
Speaker 4: a toilet. I just quickly turned my phone onto message you,
Speaker 4: but then it's it said that it had delivered the
Speaker 4: message of like, Babe, I just got a.
Speaker 1: Tattoo for you. No response. I was like, was this
Speaker 1: a really bad idea? Like fuck?
Speaker 4: And he didn't respond to it the whole day, to
Speaker 4: the point where I was getting like mildly annoyed.
Speaker 1: I was like, was this a mistake?
Speaker 3: So did you like have when that was having, did
Speaker 3: you have any inkling, like any suspicion that he would
Speaker 3: have been there coming.
Speaker 1: Like obviously I'm the FBI.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So the answer is no, I didn't have any inkling,
Speaker 4: But meeting.
Speaker 1: The FBI, I was kind of like could he be?
Speaker 4: And then I was like two, it's a stretch, like
Speaker 4: no way, And I was like, plus, someone a Girl's trip,
Speaker 4: Like I doubt he's gonna come over, But it ended
Speaker 4: up being the best surprise proposal ever. Like I was shocked,
Speaker 4: I was blown away. It was incredible.
Speaker 2: Did any of the other girls know?
Speaker 4: One other girl knew so Amber, our producer of this podcast,
Speaker 4: actually knew so Michael had messaged her and she's known
Speaker 4: for six weeks really, and I was like as if
Speaker 4: I had, Like I she's like she has a poker face,
Speaker 4: like how do you keep a secret for she is
Speaker 4: very good at keeping a secret which I'm mildly concerned,
Speaker 4: but like she was amazing, Like she gave no clues away.
Speaker 1: So her and Michael were in cohoots the whole time.
Speaker 2: Did you bring anything up with her then?
Speaker 4: Like, hey, Michael was gone, m I A yeah, and
Speaker 4: she was just kind of like blowing it off like
Speaker 4: it's all good, da da da whatever she is.
Speaker 2: That's like, I.
Speaker 3: Don't know if I could take keep a secret like
Speaker 3: he didn't tell me, I probably would have opened my mouth.
Speaker 2: And said something.
Speaker 4: I'm sure he knew not to tell you at all.
Speaker 3: So did the timing of this obviously thirteen months into
Speaker 3: a relationship, do you reckon? This was the perfect timing
Speaker 3: what made it the perfect timing?
Speaker 5: Then?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I just feel like we're more in love than ever,
Speaker 4: and I do feel like it was the right time.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I just feel like when you know, you know, and
Speaker 4: I feel like we both knew that we knew, if
Speaker 4: that makes sense. So it kind of just felt like,
Speaker 4: you know, yeah, fuck it, like let's like, what are
Speaker 4: we waiting for if we know, Like, let's.
Speaker 1: Let's be engaged, let's get married.
Speaker 2: The ring is obviously amazing and beautiful.
Speaker 1: It is amazing.
Speaker 3: Weighing your hand down, did he get the right one?
Speaker 3: Had he dropped any hints to him? Or like, yeah,
Speaker 3: how did he get the right one?
Speaker 4: I had actually sent him a photo that's extremely similar
Speaker 4: to this, so he and like this ring that I
Speaker 4: now have on my finger forever, which is wild in itself,
Speaker 4: is even better. Like he exceeded all of my expectations
Speaker 4: and some with the ring. It's absolutely gorgeous. I feel
Speaker 4: so lucky that I get to wear it. It's so sparkly,
Speaker 4: Like look at that it just sparkles and glistens in
Speaker 4: the light.
Speaker 1: But honestly, when.
Speaker 4: He proposed, like the ring was like the last thing
Speaker 4: I thought of like I thought, like in my head,
Speaker 4: I was like, Okay, when he finally proposes to me,
Speaker 4: like it's like it's a strong yes from me, I
Speaker 4: already know it.
Speaker 1: I'm going to be focused on the ring.
Speaker 4: But in the moment, I was so overwhelmed with like
Speaker 4: love and shock and just like some like a little
Speaker 4: bit of disbelief, being like, oh my god, this is
Speaker 4: the moment.
Speaker 1: This is happening.
Speaker 4: Like I've waited so like it's what feels like for
Speaker 4: so long for this moment.
Speaker 1: To happen in my life.
Speaker 4: Thirty you and yeah, I just like I didn't really
Speaker 4: like look at the ring until like I don't know,
Speaker 4: I was hugging him and I kind of like looked
Speaker 4: over his shoulder just to double check, and I was like,
Speaker 4: oh my god, it's massive.
Speaker 3: I just watched the video before you sat me down,
Speaker 3: and you showed me the video of the engagement, and
Speaker 3: that was literally the one thing I said. I was like,
Speaker 3: you haven't even put the ring on for like your
Speaker 3: yeah out and you didn't even bother with the ring,
Speaker 3: and I forgot to say, yes, did you really?
Speaker 4: I just like hugged him and just like we had
Speaker 4: a bit of like a make out because I was
Speaker 4: just like so overwhelmed, but like, I don't know, like
Speaker 4: I wasn't expecting to get proposed to, so it was
Speaker 4: just like the last thing that I thought of. I
Speaker 4: was just like, I just like I knew that he
Speaker 4: knew it was a yeah, So just didn't even cross
Speaker 4: my mind.
Speaker 1: And then halfway through he's like, so was that a yes?
Speaker 1: And I was like, oh, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: Did you did you have hot mass sex to consummate
Speaker 3: the relationship after this?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: How many times?
Speaker 1: And then we went and met like the girls out after.
Speaker 3: I see Michael over there nodding and smiling at me,
Speaker 3: me the thumbs up. Okay, So how did you tell
Speaker 3: your parents then? Obviously this massive news? Did you tell
Speaker 3: them straight away? Who'd you tell first?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: So basically Michael proposed and then we called my parents
Speaker 4: his parents.
Speaker 3: Did he ask your dad for permission? I'm going to
Speaker 3: ask him when he comes off.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, so cute, Okay.
Speaker 3: Cool, we'll get him to explain that. So they already
Speaker 3: knew it was going to happen.
Speaker 4: I knew, yeah, Like I think it was like the
Speaker 4: day before our live show, Michael called my dad and
Speaker 4: was like, hey, I'm looking at getting a ring, but
Speaker 4: I'll let him explain that.
Speaker 1: When he comes up.
Speaker 3: I thought he was gonna do it at the live show,
Speaker 3: did you. I had a feeling that I thought for
Speaker 3: some reason, I was.
Speaker 1: Like, yeah, what made you think that.
Speaker 3: I don't know, just something made me think that just
Speaker 3: a big grand gesture. Well he just he outdid that.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I thought for some reason he'd do it there.
Speaker 3: I had my suspicions.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, it really was like my dream proposal.
Speaker 4: Like everything was just like number one. I was surprised,
Speaker 4: which is just like wild that I was even surprised.
Speaker 4: It was just amazing. The fact that like after like
Speaker 4: we had a moment that my friends were like there
Speaker 4: and I was like share the moment with us was
Speaker 4: so like precious and beautiful to me.
Speaker 1: It was also like cool because like we'd all just
Speaker 1: got her tattoo.
Speaker 4: I got a tattoo from Michael, and then it kind
Speaker 4: of like all came together.
Speaker 1: It was just beautiful.
Speaker 3: The timing was fucking perfect, and like I said, it
Speaker 3: got you surprised. I was literally fucking gobsmacked. I had
Speaker 3: no idea. I'll set the scene so if anyone doesn't
Speaker 3: realize behind the scenes of this podcast, there's a lot
Speaker 3: of admin that goes in and at times Adda and
Speaker 3: myself very what's the word bickering with each Yeah, heated
Speaker 3: with each other.
Speaker 1: So I don't like each other.
Speaker 2: I don't like each other.
Speaker 3: So we were on a non chatting terms for little We.
Speaker 4: Go through these, we go through like I reckon, like
Speaker 4: every six months.
Speaker 1: We don't talk for about a week.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so not everything was lined up before Anna went
Speaker 3: to Balley, So there was a bit of words exchanged.
Speaker 3: So I hadn't spoken to it for a bit, just
Speaker 3: maybe a little bit of business chat.
Speaker 1: I hadn't spoken to you for a bit.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there was a lot of miss of me trying
Speaker 3: to try and get the thing, the business going. So
Speaker 3: then we dropped the episode that morning. So we dropped
Speaker 3: last week's episode. It was my job to go over it.
Speaker 3: We all know that I'm not the most fine tooth
Speaker 3: comb it going over it. So I listened to it.
Speaker 3: I was cooking dinner, I was doing what I was
Speaker 3: doing while it was on the shower while it was playing.
Speaker 3: I approved it. I said drop it, But then I
Speaker 3: got a message from Anna saying I'm facetiming you in
Speaker 3: five minutes be ready exclamation mark exclamation mark, and I
Speaker 3: was like, oh, fuck me, what did I leave in
Speaker 3: that episode?
Speaker 2: I was like, this is not good.
Speaker 3: So I was in the car driving and I was like,
Speaker 3: I went past the Macas and I was like, you
Speaker 3: know what, I'm going to go through the I'm going
Speaker 3: to go through the Macas drive through.
Speaker 2: So I have a buffer.
Speaker 3: So if this goes to like sneaking fun so this
Speaker 3: goes to like, you know, like heated, I've got a buffer.
Speaker 3: So I'm driving in and she and I starts facetiming me,
Speaker 3: and I answer it and like, yeah, well I.
Speaker 4: Had the ring held up and your face is the
Speaker 4: most shocks face. We're going to put it on our
Speaker 4: Facebook page for everyone, so make sure you follow and
Speaker 4: join that.
Speaker 1: Matt's reaction was just like fuck off.
Speaker 3: And then I was like, I'm getting out the drive
Speaker 3: through literally slapped it in reverse reverse park, and I
Speaker 3: was yeah, I was. I was actually speechless. I didn't
Speaker 3: even I didn't even think I digested what had happened
Speaker 3: in that FaceTime. Remember I was driving a little bit
Speaker 3: later and I messaged to you and I actually was
Speaker 3: like wow, like it actually sunk him when it happened. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I thought it was just slack. You know, it's one
Speaker 3: of those things where you don't really believe it do Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's just like disbelief. I think I'm still in disbelief.
Speaker 4: Like I look at my hands and I'm like, holy shit.
Speaker 1: What is that?
Speaker 2: You just have you taken it off yet? No? Yeah,
Speaker 2: I didn't even think so.
Speaker 4: Well, the girls tried it on, but other than that,
Speaker 4: I mean, you capsulate your friends, try sleeping in it. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I'm not going to take it off never, never, never, ever,
Speaker 4: never ever ever.
Speaker 2: I love that.
Speaker 3: Well, should we get Michael on to ask him his
Speaker 3: version of the story and see what he says, because
Speaker 3: I want to grill him about this sixty kilometer walk how.
Speaker 2: He managed to pull that off.
Speaker 1: I'd love that. Let's do it. Hello, the unsay Welcome.
Speaker 2: It still sounds a bit weird, Matt yea.
Speaker 3: Welcome back to our podcast. Third time, third time on
Speaker 3: the podcast.
Speaker 1: You know you've been on our podcast more than anyone.
Speaker 3: Well, let's start from the start. So when did you
Speaker 3: want to propose to Ana? Like, when did you make
Speaker 3: that decision?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 5: So I think there's like stages of wanting to propose.
Speaker 5: I think there's like a moment in time when you
Speaker 5: start like fantasizing about like what a propose would be,
Speaker 5: like is at the moment you laid eyes on don't
Speaker 5: And that's a beautiful cliche, and I like that, and
Speaker 5: we'll go with that. But I think I think there
Speaker 5: was a pinnacle moment I can think of when I
Speaker 5: was like, Wow, this would be.
Speaker 2: Like the perfect moment to propose.
Speaker 5: And it was We've just done two weeks of quarantine
Speaker 5: when and I got COVID in Thailand, the COVID Holiday
Speaker 5: from Hell. So we've done two weeks in quarantine, and
Speaker 5: it was the first night of freedom, and we'll stay
Speaker 5: at this beautiful hotel that had a beautiful private beach
Speaker 5: and we're walking on the beach to dinner as the
Speaker 5: sun was setting, and she was like listening and she
Speaker 5: looked like she looked back at me, And in that moment,
Speaker 5: I was like, I would love to fucking propose.
Speaker 2: To this girl right now. So that was like the beginning.
Speaker 5: That was the beginnings of the journey. But then of course,
Speaker 5: like then the actual like planning and putting things into
Speaker 5: process hadn't hadn't started at that point, did.
Speaker 3: You think about doing it in Greece, because obviously Anna
Speaker 3: was a bit frustrated, you know, a bit annoyed that
Speaker 3: you didn't do it.
Speaker 2: I'm going to call.
Speaker 5: Myself out, I think, please do when I've had when
Speaker 5: I've had a couple of drinks and I'm feeling a
Speaker 5: bit loved up and like we're having a bit of
Speaker 5: a moment, I've definitely said things. I've definitely said things
Speaker 5: I haven't said, like you know, I've probably at times
Speaker 5: said all the things that would make a girl think
Speaker 5: that a proposal could.
Speaker 1: Become maybe like I want to marry you.
Speaker 3: I'm going to propose, you know.
Speaker 2: I'm like, I'm there. I'm like, I'm like loved up, toxic,
Speaker 2: that's a thing.
Speaker 5: I'm like, I'm I'm like a fuck boy in a
Speaker 5: loving relationship where I've like I had I'll come home
Speaker 5: from like drinks with the boys and I love you.
Speaker 5: I want to spend the rest of my life with you.
Speaker 5: You're amazing. I want to call your.
Speaker 2: Wife all that stuff.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so that definitely gave Anna that it was coming
Speaker 3: sooner than she.
Speaker 5: And she had every reason to believe that I was
Speaker 5: going to propose in Greece, because I thought I was
Speaker 5: going to propose in Greece.
Speaker 4: So see what I mean, I'm like, I'm very good
Speaker 4: at picking up signals, and I was like, my must
Speaker 4: be so off right now.
Speaker 2: Ring.
Speaker 5: That was the thing that I didn't have to propose
Speaker 5: in Greece. If I had a ring, I would have
Speaker 5: proposed in Greece. So I kind of started thinking about
Speaker 5: three months before the Grease trip. We were on a
Speaker 5: Balley trip about three months before, and I was thinking
Speaker 5: at that point, I'm like, when we get home, I'm
Speaker 5: going to stuck it. I'm going to get a ring.
Speaker 5: I'm going to propose in Greece. We're going to have
Speaker 5: this amazing wedding in Greece. And then near the end
Speaker 5: of the trip, I'm going to propose. But then I
Speaker 5: got back the idea of like getting the ring and
Speaker 5: planning things was all a bit overwhelming, and we were
Speaker 5: super busy with a whole bunch of things and it
Speaker 5: just never quite happened. And then it got too close
Speaker 5: to the to the day and it just didn't happen.
Speaker 3: So then when you got back from Greece, is that
Speaker 3: when you started planning.
Speaker 2: As soon as I got back from Greece, I was like, okay, okay,
Speaker 2: I fucked up with that.
Speaker 4: The podcast episode came out, I thought I was getting proposed.
Speaker 5: Sitting there like outside of that obviously the story that
Speaker 5: goes when she thought I was. I was never going
Speaker 5: to propose in Santorini though, like just because I thought
Speaker 5: it was too obvious. So that wasn't like what she
Speaker 5: had in her head wasn't going to be it, but
Speaker 5: it was probably gonna be after. It wasn't more the
Speaker 5: fact that she was the story that we've heard, but
Speaker 5: it was for me. I was like, I was so
Speaker 5: ready and I wish I could have in Greece, and
Speaker 5: I'm like, I don't want to be ready again. I'm like,
Speaker 5: I'm ready for this to happen. I'm going to start
Speaker 5: putting the wheels in motion.
Speaker 3: So you obviously wanted it to be somewhere overseas, not
Speaker 3: just somewhere in my head.
Speaker 5: It was like it was somewhere like on a holiday,
Speaker 5: somewhere special.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, having that moment. Yeah, So how much
Speaker 3: planning goes into a ring like that, Like, I mean,
Speaker 3: I haven't even thought about it.
Speaker 1: It's like asking for a friend, I'm never.
Speaker 5: Even like, yeah, I was pretty lucky. I was pretty
Speaker 5: because literally, like almost started our relationship was like by
Speaker 5: the way my ring says, is.
Speaker 4: K because I tried on my friends Herah's and she
Speaker 4: was like she's a ka.
Speaker 1: So I was like, oh, cool, at least I know
Speaker 1: I'm okay.
Speaker 4: And then I was like, I can remember because this
Speaker 4: is how I remembered kay, because I was like, if
Speaker 4: someone proposes to me, I'll be like okay, Like okay,
Speaker 4: so that's how I remember it.
Speaker 1: Okay, get it.
Speaker 2: You see why I write it in your notes. Okay.
Speaker 3: So since the moment you guys have been together, she'd
Speaker 3: just been sending your rings.
Speaker 2: No, not not all the time.
Speaker 5: I think there was a few moments she like sent
Speaker 5: me a ring or like she'd have like a Pinterest
Speaker 5: board and like her Pinterest was just like rings and
Speaker 5: wedding dresses.
Speaker 2: I saw it.
Speaker 4: There's more this tattoos, there's nails, and I.
Speaker 2: Was like, okay, cool idea.
Speaker 3: I saw Gen's Explore the other day and it was
Speaker 3: just rings and wedding dresses and I was.
Speaker 5: Like, it's like jeez.
Speaker 3: But then Jen has also did she ever do this?
Speaker 3: Gendered this to me where they Yeah, here's four options,
Speaker 3: which one would I want?
Speaker 1: I love that. I love doing that.
Speaker 2: What is it? The ring quizu? I got it right.
Speaker 3: Actually I was pretty good at the ring quiz as well,
Speaker 3: but I forgot.
Speaker 1: The ring quiz. I'd be like, Okay, out of these six,
Speaker 1: which one would you pick? And he always picked them.
Speaker 2: One close Friday night? What should we do tonight?
Speaker 3: I'm just going to settle in and like watch this
Speaker 3: game of basketball and then all of a sudden, quiz
Speaker 3: the ring quiz.
Speaker 2: I reckon a lot of having one of those.
Speaker 3: Yeah, a lot of men have going through the ring quiz. Okay,
Speaker 3: so the rings planned, Like how did you go through that? Obviously?
Speaker 3: How did you get to that ring?
Speaker 5: Well, the shortened version of the story was I had
Speaker 5: a general inspo pick. I went in with the inspo
Speaker 5: pick and then kind of built it out from there,
Speaker 5: got a bit of help from the who I went
Speaker 5: to the ring for any friends? And then that is
Speaker 5: when Amber came into the process as well. So I
Speaker 5: asked Amber about like, here's the design.
Speaker 2: That I've got at the moment.
Speaker 5: Amber, this is producer Amber. Here's the design that I've
Speaker 5: got at the moment.
Speaker 2: What do you think?
Speaker 5: And I was like this one or this one, and
Speaker 5: it was mainly around the thickness of the band. So
Speaker 5: I was trying to get an idea of the thickness
Speaker 5: of the band and what looked better, that sort of stuff,
Speaker 5: just to find it details.
Speaker 3: Okay, so then when did you decide BALI, I'm crashing
Speaker 3: Anna's girl's trip. I'm taking the girl's trip and I'm
Speaker 3: hijacking in it and its engaged.
Speaker 2: So at this point, I'm like, Okay.
Speaker 5: I had a rough idea of when I was going
Speaker 5: to have the ring and I was like, Okay, now,
Speaker 5: how am I going to do this? Because in my head,
Speaker 5: I'm like I want it to be a surprise. And
Speaker 5: I knew that Like if I was just like, oh honey,
Speaker 5: like I've planned like a holiday, we're going to here
Speaker 5: for the weekends, or we're going back to Thailand for
Speaker 5: four days, I would have been to that exact same hotel.
Speaker 5: Like we had that beautiful moment like she was going
Speaker 5: to be suspicious, and I was like, I want this
Speaker 5: to be a surprise. So as soon as they she
Speaker 5: said I'm doing a girl's trip and I was like all.
Speaker 1: Right, He's like I'm fucking coming.
Speaker 2: I'm going to I'm going to fly to Bali. This
Speaker 2: is going to be the ultimate surprise.
Speaker 5: It's going to be the last day of the girls
Speaker 5: strip and I'm going to swoop in undetected and surprised it.
Speaker 2: Where do you start?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I can't wrap my head around, like where do
Speaker 3: you start? Like how do you get this going?
Speaker 5: So then what it came down to was I was like, Okay, religious,
Speaker 5: I don't know if I'm going to have the ring
Speaker 5: in time.
Speaker 2: So I was like, I'm not going.
Speaker 5: To plan this amazing proposal and then potentially not have
Speaker 5: the ring to fly over there with.
Speaker 2: So I had the idea.
Speaker 5: In my head that I'm like, I think I'm going
Speaker 5: to do this. But then, like just like I did,
Speaker 5: like with every single assignment I ever had at school,
Speaker 5: like procrastinated.
Speaker 2: It's a bitter end. And my excuse for the procrastination
Speaker 2: was I don't know if I'm gonna have the ring yet.
Speaker 5: And I didn't know that I was going to have
Speaker 5: the ring until literally six days before the year.
Speaker 2: I say, they didn't give you any sort of timeline. No,
Speaker 2: they said, we're pretty sure you'll have it.
Speaker 5: You're going to have it I think you'll have it,
Speaker 5: like they were pretty confident, but I was like, I
Speaker 5: want to know. I want to know the day I'm
Speaker 5: going to have it. And then on the Wednesday before
Speaker 5: the proposal, so six days before, they were like, you'll
Speaker 5: have the ring on Friday. So then at that point
Speaker 5: that's when I started planning it.
Speaker 3: Okay, so is this the perfect time to get Amber
Speaker 3: our producer involved.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's bring her in. She's in the room. Let's
Speaker 1: bring her in.
Speaker 3: Orchestrated this with you.
Speaker 2: Let's do it.
Speaker 1: Hello Amber, Hello, Hello, welcome to the podcast.
Speaker 3: Amber from Out of the Shadows. You come to the stream.
Speaker 3: She is, So you played a valuable instrumental part to
Speaker 3: this plan. Do you want to share us to us
Speaker 3: how you went?
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 6: So Michael reached out to me to show me pictures
Speaker 6: of this ring, and from there I was like, it's Natalie,
Speaker 6: yes from me.
Speaker 1: We talked clarity, we talked cut, We discussed at lengths
Speaker 1: of like what should looks like you're looking for a ring,
Speaker 1: go to AIRB She's done well.
Speaker 6: Michael, Michael, Tod and I toyed with the idea of bali,
Speaker 6: but it didn't really come to fruition because we just
Speaker 6: didn't have, as Michael said, an end date of when
Speaker 6: that ring would be ready. However, I was always knowing
Speaker 6: that was going to happen. I had this good feeling
Speaker 6: it was going to come to one point and I
Speaker 6: had to go into Barley, had.
Speaker 1: To turn my notifications off my phone.
Speaker 6: You didn't notice that, but I had not notifications the
Speaker 6: whole trip because I was scared that his name was
Speaker 6: going to pop up and you thought we were having
Speaker 6: an affair.
Speaker 2: So I would just.
Speaker 5: I would just send the wave emoji and then that
Speaker 5: would be like cue for like when Amber saw that,
Speaker 5: I'm really chat let's talk about what's gonna happen.
Speaker 6: I just have something back in the room.
Speaker 1: I need to go get my son's screen.
Speaker 4: Fully had like a code, like I Amba had an
Speaker 4: inside man in my friendship group because obviously he needed
Speaker 4: to like.
Speaker 2: Collaborate with someone on the crowd.
Speaker 6: He needed someone as well that would probably not give
Speaker 6: up the secret.
Speaker 1: Like I'm very good.
Speaker 6: Every day something got brought up about Michael and proposals
Speaker 6: and rings.
Speaker 2: She's very pushy.
Speaker 3: All right, so you've got the ring. It's Wednesday. What
Speaker 3: happens here? You book your flight or do you book
Speaker 3: the villa, do you organize the amazing petrol display the
Speaker 3: videographer what happened?
Speaker 5: So the first thing I was like, I need to do.
Speaker 5: The first thing, like I definitely need to do is
Speaker 5: get to Bali. So the first thing I did was
Speaker 5: book the flight because I was like, if I'm there,
Speaker 5: there'll be a proposal. I don't know how it's going
Speaker 5: to happen, but at least I'm there. So the first
Speaker 5: thing I did was book the flight for the last
Speaker 5: day of the girls trip, so that was that was
Speaker 5: the Tuesday. Then from there I was like, I looked
Speaker 5: at it because I needed it to be close enough
Speaker 5: to where the girls were staying, because I was like,
Speaker 5: I don't know how we're going to get Anna to
Speaker 5: this villa, but it needs to at least be close
Speaker 5: at a minimum. So I looked at pretty much every
Speaker 5: single villa that was like within a kilometer radius.
Speaker 2: Of where they were staying. And then eventually I just
Speaker 2: made the decision and booked it and said, Okay, it's
Speaker 2: going to happen here.
Speaker 3: And then what you call them and say hey, can
Speaker 3: you put the then.
Speaker 2: Organize the flowers. That was like probably a few days
Speaker 2: before I was like doing the fine tuning of things. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that was beautiful.
Speaker 4: That was a really nice It was so beautiful and
Speaker 4: like my favorite colors as well, and just like the
Speaker 4: big love heart in the middle. I had just got
Speaker 4: a love heart tattoo for Michael.
Speaker 1: It was just so cute.
Speaker 2: How do you know the favorite colors? Just knew and
Speaker 2: I think I just got lucky.
Speaker 5: I don't admit that. I'm not going to sit here.
Speaker 5: And as well, they were nice colors. They did well,
Speaker 5: they did Okay, So how did you sucker Anna into
Speaker 5: going to that villa? How was that orchestrated?
Speaker 2: Yeah? So do you want to want to talk through
Speaker 2: the Ultimate Boy?
Speaker 6: Prior to leaving Melbourne, I had message our group chat saying, everyone,
Speaker 6: bring the most amazing dress you have, bring a pair
Speaker 6: of heels. We're going to dress up for the most
Speaker 6: amazing girls dinner on the last night to celebrate thirty
Speaker 6: years and celebrate our friendship for over eighteen years. And
Speaker 6: I did that because I needed Anna to have an
Speaker 6: outfit for the proposal. It was I didn't really care
Speaker 6: about the dinners, to be honest, but I was like,
Speaker 6: I need this out to be immaculate.
Speaker 1: So I actually the girls what I was bringing.
Speaker 6: I was trying to encourage them or to bring heels,
Speaker 6: and they were all like, why would we bring heels
Speaker 6: to Bali? And I was like, bring heels? Why not
Speaker 6: have fun?
Speaker 1: Dress up?
Speaker 6: And so that was kind of how I had phrased
Speaker 6: the last night, so I knew I could get her
Speaker 6: dressed up and for everyone to save their best outfits.
Speaker 6: I even got them to try them on for me,
Speaker 6: so I could kind of get everyone to look similar
Speaker 6: enough that Anna would get really dressed up. And then
Speaker 6: I was on the The day before Michael arrived, I
Speaker 6: looked up his flight planned to see what time he
Speaker 6: would be landing in Bali, just so I could have
Speaker 6: a rough idea of when we would have communication again,
Speaker 6: because I was going to lose him as well to
Speaker 6: his elaborate sixty kilometer walks.
Speaker 2: Talk about that as well.
Speaker 1: Actually, why don't we skip to that now.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So firstly, I did not say it was a
Speaker 5: walk from the danny Oongs to the city.
Speaker 2: No, so I just said I just said it was.
Speaker 1: I'm sure he said that.
Speaker 2: I didn't say it was. I didn't say it was
Speaker 2: a walk from the Dannings to the city because I
Speaker 2: was just it was just a walk in the dannyongs.
Speaker 1: So I don't know why I thought walking first.
Speaker 3: And foremost, I do feel truly bad that I've lied
Speaker 3: about charity walk, and perhaps I'll try to organize a
Speaker 3: charity walk because I think.
Speaker 1: He's actually really sad about this.
Speaker 5: I generally feel bad about that. I'm like, it's a
Speaker 5: pretty it's a brutal lie. So I will do a
Speaker 5: charity walk. Okay, I will do a charity walk.
Speaker 2: I'll hold you to that.
Speaker 5: But I knew without it because I had to be offline.
Speaker 5: I wanted to be offline all day because I knew
Speaker 5: that after work should be wanting to facetimeing or call me,
Speaker 5: and I wasn't taking a call from like some random
Speaker 5: toilet at the airport or something, or like in the
Speaker 5: two hour taxi ra.
Speaker 2: Like traffic.
Speaker 5: So I'm like, I need to find a way to
Speaker 5: be offline all day. So for me, it was a
Speaker 5: sixty k walk.
Speaker 3: Did you turn your phone on off or on aeroplane
Speaker 3: mode while you.
Speaker 5: So the whole thing was that it was going to
Speaker 5: be was like it was switch off in nature and talk.
Speaker 5: So my phone was meant to be off the whole time.
Speaker 5: But then after the six hour flight, I'm like, what
Speaker 5: I'm going to do is I'm going to turn my
Speaker 5: phone back on. I'm going to say I'm breaking the
Speaker 5: rules here, but I'm sneaking a few text messages to it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but I'm not meant to be messaging, so my
Speaker 5: phone's like hidden, I'm doing it while I'm like in
Speaker 5: the toilet or hidden away from other people that.
Speaker 2: Are doing the walk. Okay, yeah. I was going to say,
Speaker 2: because what are you going to do when you're in Bali?
Speaker 2: You need to get hoop, isn't that?
Speaker 6: So then Michael lands in Bali, but he's running late,
Speaker 6: so that our schedules a little bit out of whap.
Speaker 1: I would say, you were stressed out little.
Speaker 6: And so I started to panic. I hadn't slept the
Speaker 6: night before. I got up at three in the morning,
Speaker 6: and I paced the entire villa thinking is this gonna
Speaker 6: go to plan? Like have I forgotten anything? And then
Speaker 6: we went and got our tattoo. So it was a
Speaker 6: big distraction for the whole day. I said to the girls,
Speaker 6: I was anxious about the tattoo.
Speaker 2: I was.
Speaker 1: I was like, slap it on it.
Speaker 6: Actually, I was actually freaking out the whole day.
Speaker 4: So Emmone was like, I'm so stressed out. I'm so
Speaker 4: stressed out. And then I was like about, what are
Speaker 4: you okay?
Speaker 1: She was like, it's just a tattoo. It's a tattoo.
Speaker 1: She was like totally fine about the tattoo. And I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, I thought she was going to like
Speaker 1: chake a bit more like convincing the theres which is cool.
Speaker 3: So many red flass straight over.
Speaker 6: And then so then when we finished our tattoos, like
Speaker 6: the universe was perfect, and I was like, I'm going
Speaker 6: to go get a massage with Laura and I was
Speaker 6: like that sounds amazing. And then the other two girls
Speaker 6: came with me back to the villa because we wanted
Speaker 6: some just like downtime after the tattoos. And at that
Speaker 6: point in the uber back, I messaged Michael and I
Speaker 6: was like, I need to tell them because I need
Speaker 6: I need actually help on the inside as well, because
Speaker 6: at this point it's getting late in the day, you're
Speaker 6: a bit stressed. You're telling me things. I'm going to
Speaker 6: plan to grow the cru grow the crew.
Speaker 5: At this point, I'm in the taxi from the airport,
Speaker 5: which took two hours because the traffic was that bad.
Speaker 1: When it normally takes like thirty to forty five.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thereabout I think, yeah, it took twice as long
Speaker 2: as it would have been sweating. Well, I wanted to
Speaker 2: get to the villa.
Speaker 5: I didn't even know what it was going to be
Speaker 5: like when I arrived, Like I needed to suss out
Speaker 5: like what it was, what it was going to be
Speaker 5: like when I got there, how far.
Speaker 2: Away it was, all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 6: So so then I got about two thirty and then
Speaker 6: Michael's like, you have permission to tell the girls, but
Speaker 6: they have.
Speaker 1: To remain calm.
Speaker 6: So then I summoned the two girls and like I
Speaker 6: was like, right, you two need to come into this
Speaker 6: villa right now. And then I shut the door and
Speaker 6: I sat them on the bed and I was like, Okay,
Speaker 6: just remain calm. What I'm about to tell you is
Speaker 6: very serious, but I just needed to remain calm.
Speaker 1: And thought she's so stealth. I love her. They thought
Speaker 1: that I was dying the way I said.
Speaker 6: I was like, I've been anxious all day and it's
Speaker 6: not because of the tattoo, but it's because Michael is
Speaker 6: going to be arriving in Bali in twenty five minutes
Speaker 6: at a villa and he's going to be.
Speaker 1: Posed to and at night. She said it like that,
Speaker 1: like they just started screaming.
Speaker 6: And I was like this, that's not what I wanted
Speaker 6: to happen. Day after we all just cried and screamed
Speaker 6: for like five minutes. I was like, Okay, so now
Speaker 6: need game plan. I was like, I need to go
Speaker 6: see this villa because I don't even know what I'm
Speaker 6: walking into, and I have responsibility to film some of
Speaker 6: this proposal, so I actually need to.
Speaker 1: Go and see it.
Speaker 6: And so I was like, I need when the girls
Speaker 6: get back from their massage that you get them ready
Speaker 6: straight away. And I had already preface the morning. I
Speaker 6: will start getting ready at three point thirty. That gives
Speaker 6: them an hour and a half for plenty of time
Speaker 6: you'd say long night.
Speaker 1: And so I was like, oh, we'll see it. Start
Speaker 1: getting ready at three thirty.
Speaker 6: I remember Anna scoffed at me in the morning and
Speaker 6: I was like, you're going to need a hunt, trust me.
Speaker 1: Like I was, I was like, that's a bit far
Speaker 1: fetch three thirty, and then I said, I'm going to
Speaker 1: run to the villa.
Speaker 6: Now see Michael prep with him and then I'm going
Speaker 6: to run back and then hopefully the girls of CULF
Speaker 6: started getting ready, so I quickly washed my hair and
Speaker 6: then I literally started walking out onto the street because
Speaker 6: I didn't want to get an uber or anything.
Speaker 1: I was like, I was just quickly walked there.
Speaker 6: Michael's like, it's only five hundred meters down the road,
Speaker 6: but it actually wasn't. It was a fifteen minute run.
Speaker 6: So I ran with.
Speaker 1: My fresh tattoo, running.
Speaker 6: In bali heats, sweating find this villa.
Speaker 1: And then I finally found it.
Speaker 6: Michael was in the reception, and that was the problem
Speaker 6: was you told me there was a reception, which was
Speaker 6: both not in our vision.
Speaker 5: So I didn't know there was going to be a reception.
Speaker 5: I thought it was. I could tell that it was
Speaker 5: like a group of villas, but I thought they were
Speaker 5: all going to be accessible from the street, not going
Speaker 5: through a reception, which is which is a part of
Speaker 5: the issues.
Speaker 3: So you have to call an audible here and change
Speaker 3: the plan of how to get Anna.
Speaker 6: Into that villa, because this is a brainstorm on the spot,
Speaker 6: So how.
Speaker 3: Are you suckering Anna into this random.
Speaker 2: And it just said she's going to push past reception
Speaker 2: with that, Yeah, that's I said to.
Speaker 6: The lady who's at reception. I was like, I'm going
Speaker 6: to be in a blue dress. This girl can be
Speaker 6: in a black dress. Just let us walk through, don't
Speaker 6: stop us, just let us go, and she was cool
Speaker 6: with that. Well, we had something completely different when we
Speaker 6: got there all the time, but I still played it.
Speaker 1: So I was like, I'm just.
Speaker 3: Going through, So how did you get Anna to come
Speaker 3: to that villa?
Speaker 6: So while I came down to see like how the
Speaker 6: villa was like separate from like the reception and how
Speaker 6: I'd have to go down there, Michael and me were like,
Speaker 6: we have to come up with an elaborate line now,
Speaker 6: like another lie on all the I has already told
Speaker 6: this whole trip, so I was like, I'm pretty.
Speaker 2: Used to it.
Speaker 6: So then as I'm running back in this heat for
Speaker 6: another fifteen minutes, I'm texting Anna and the group saying,
Speaker 6: oh my god, a lady just messaged me on Facebook
Speaker 6: saying that I left my ID at the barbie were
Speaker 6: at last night. I'm the counter and she just is
Speaker 6: found the villa down the street. So we'll pick it
Speaker 6: up on the way to dinner. At five o'clock and
Speaker 6: I was like, I can't believe this. I never lose anything,
Speaker 6: which is true?
Speaker 1: Which is true? I was like, I don't lose stuff,
Speaker 1: And then my phone was on, Like I remember my phone.
Speaker 1: This is what was stressing me out.
Speaker 6: I had to film the proposal and my phone is
Speaker 6: currently on two percent because I've been on it the
Speaker 6: whole day stressing. And when I got back to the villa,
Speaker 6: I plugged it straight in and I was hoping that
Speaker 6: Anna was going to ask to see this message because
Speaker 6: it didn't exist. I hadn't even got to that far
Speaker 6: head to fabricated or get one of my work friends
Speaker 6: to send me a message or anything.
Speaker 1: I just left her. I was like, hopefully she wasn't
Speaker 1: asked to see the phone.
Speaker 6: And as I got back into the villa, I see
Speaker 6: Anna sitting on the bed, absolutely not ready at all.
Speaker 6: Her hair was wet, she had no makeup on. She's
Speaker 6: still gorgeous. But I was like, this is not the proposal, Anna,
Speaker 6: I was I vision, I was, yeah, I was.
Speaker 4: Literally I was literally lying on the bed nay here
Speaker 4: with wet hags. I'd just like gotten out of the
Speaker 4: shower and I was like making a reel for all
Speaker 4: of us getting a tattooed.
Speaker 1: I was like, it's so cute.
Speaker 6: Look it our real life because and I come in
Speaker 6: sweating with wet hair, sweating, and I'm like, this is
Speaker 6: not She's like.
Speaker 1: What are you doing? Get ready? And I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, we get we're getting ready for three thirty.
Speaker 2: What time is this now?
Speaker 6: It's for twenty yeah, of course, so I've got forty minutes.
Speaker 6: And I'm like, so, I then go straight to the bathroom.
Speaker 6: My eye is suck getting myself ready as well, because
Speaker 6: I'm like a sweaty mess. And as I pull out
Speaker 6: my my blow wave brush and it starts blowaven hair brush,
Speaker 6: I'm like, oh, perfect, we can both blow wave our
Speaker 6: hairs at the same time, and.
Speaker 1: Like I'll help it get ready.
Speaker 6: And then all of a sudden everything goes out hours
Speaker 6: completely out.
Speaker 2: So she reap.
Speaker 5: So at this point, I'm like in the villa, it's
Speaker 5: set up like we've only probably got about like half
Speaker 5: an hour of daylight left. I'm in the backyard in
Speaker 5: position inner shirt. It's like thirty degrees. I'm like driven
Speaker 5: with sweat and I keep like taking my shirt off
Speaker 5: to like air myself out. I'm like I'm on standby
Speaker 5: and the.
Speaker 3: Videographer standing there.
Speaker 5: Like yeah yeah, he's like he's like sweating, like like
Speaker 5: so he was on the other side of this rice
Speaker 5: film like at a gym at this point, He's got
Speaker 5: a collection of people with him and they're all standing
Speaker 5: there on stand by. Is this going to happen? But
Speaker 5: they're about one hundred meters away and then get stood up,
Speaker 5: So he goes. He messages me and goes Michael like like,
Speaker 5: I can't stay on standby because I'm running out of film.
Speaker 5: Like he's like, I've only got so much film. I'm
Speaker 5: running out of film. And he goes and we're running
Speaker 5: out of light. And then I get a message from
Speaker 5: Amber Powers out the powers out at the villa and
Speaker 5: Anna's not ready, and I'm like, all right, we're gonna
Speaker 5: have to consider a plan bet here at this point, okay.
Speaker 2: So how you hell?
Speaker 6: So then, because this is why I was glad that
Speaker 6: I told two other girls, because at this point I
Speaker 6: just stood frozen.
Speaker 1: I was like, fuck, what do I do? Like I
Speaker 1: don't know what to do.
Speaker 6: I could hear the girls outside because we were all
Speaker 6: in different villas, I mean, and Anna shared a little
Speaker 6: room and then our friends. Maddie was by herself, and
Speaker 6: then I had Sarah and Laura on the other room,
Speaker 6: and I could hear out outside all this commotion because
Speaker 6: everyone's power had gone out, so everyone's hair straighteners and
Speaker 6: air conditions had gone out, all sweating now, and I
Speaker 6: could hear maybe be like, let me call my boyfriend.
Speaker 6: He's an electrician, And I was like, amazing.
Speaker 3: So what is she gonna She's gonna start hard wiring.
Speaker 4: Because obviously there's a power box and we have no
Speaker 4: idea what to do with it. So we thought that
Speaker 4: we could flick the switch and reboot the power.
Speaker 5: That shocking man matter like connecting with a great deal
Speaker 5: of confidence that we both know how to get the
Speaker 5: power back.
Speaker 2: I'm like, yeah, you do that safety switch. So it
Speaker 2: was just a safety switch.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but I had no idea where it was, what
Speaker 6: to do. I was like, had one hundred and one things
Speaker 6: going through my mind. So the fact that the girls
Speaker 6: could take care of that, all of a sudden, the
Speaker 6: power came back on, the air conditioners came back on.
Speaker 6: I was like, we're going to still be late, but
Speaker 6: we're coming. So then I I remember we all kind
Speaker 6: of were ready and Anna was the last one to
Speaker 6: be ready, and I at this point, I know I'm
Speaker 6: losing daylight as well.
Speaker 1: Was the same as Michael.
Speaker 6: I was sweating because I was outside at the perfect
Speaker 6: time when we were supposed to be there and the
Speaker 6: lighting was amazing, and I was like, any more longer
Speaker 6: we leave it, the less I'm going to have time
Speaker 6: to film and all that content we wanted to get.
Speaker 6: So one of the girls was like tanning Anna's back.
Speaker 1: I was bringing her dress from my villa up to
Speaker 1: the cooler villa.
Speaker 3: I was everyone getting Anna ready before himself.
Speaker 1: No, we're already ready.
Speaker 3: Everyone was fully ready except for Anna.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Everyone was in fool glad.
Speaker 1: Everyone was in full glad.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, everyone was full glad. And I was like,
Speaker 4: I mean, when the power went out. From my perspective,
Speaker 4: I was kind of like, do we even want to
Speaker 4: go out? Like we've been out every night, like I
Speaker 4: could have a night in. Laura, who didn't know, she was.
Speaker 1: Like, yeah, let's have a night in. I was like,
Speaker 1: do you guys just want to go out? And I
Speaker 1: was like, no, it's our last night we are going out.
Speaker 4: And I was like, oh my god, okay, fine, let
Speaker 4: me get ready.
Speaker 6: But yeah, So then at this point I knew because
Speaker 6: I had to separate the groups, so I had to
Speaker 6: go with Anna. That was the whole point, was that
Speaker 6: Michael didn't want everyone to be there right at the
Speaker 6: stop because we wanted to get the footage with the
Speaker 6: intimate reaction, and I wanted the girls to either come
Speaker 6: later we'd meet them at the restaurant. So then our
Speaker 6: friends Maddie, Sarah and Laura all got a taxi to
Speaker 6: the restaurant first, and I said, if you could just
Speaker 6: quickly grab the booking because we don't want to lose
Speaker 6: our booking at this restaurant. So they all went under
Speaker 6: that pretense they were going for that, and I said
Speaker 6: to Anna, we need to pick up my ID because
Speaker 6: the lady's left it outside the villain and I want
Speaker 6: to get it before we go to the restaurant because
Speaker 6: it was our last night in Bali as well. So
Speaker 6: that's how we separated the groups. But what was actually
Speaker 6: happening was that the three girls went and just did
Speaker 6: a walk down some shady street in Bali so they
Speaker 6: could tell Laura what was actually happening. And I was
Speaker 6: trying to organize a cab for me and Anna to
Speaker 6: get like literally down the road to see Michael. But
Speaker 6: the problem was, all of a sudden, couldn't get an
Speaker 6: uber a cab. No one was on the street, and
Speaker 6: I'm sweating on this street.
Speaker 4: And I was sweating, and I'm like, you know what,
Speaker 4: this isn't a big deal. So I went into the
Speaker 4: circle K and I was like, it's just like seven
Speaker 4: to eleven. Yeah, So I just went into like the
Speaker 4: local convenience store and I was like, let's get.
Speaker 1: Like a couple of like what are they like off
Speaker 1: ice smurn off ices?
Speaker 4: So I'm like, we're boiling huge smurn off ice and
Speaker 4: was like, I'll need da.
Speaker 1: She drunk it really quick. I was like, oh, she's
Speaker 1: really stressed out.
Speaker 6: And then I was able to hale down a cab
Speaker 6: and I was like amazing.
Speaker 1: So we got in.
Speaker 6: It was literally like a two second like ride there.
Speaker 6: But as we're getting there, like we're just both trying
Speaker 6: to scale our drinks and I was like, oh, we'll
Speaker 6: get out together.
Speaker 1: Can you come in with me?
Speaker 6: And I was like I'll just stay in the cab
Speaker 6: and hold it while you go in.
Speaker 1: And I was like, now can you please come with me?
Speaker 4: Like I thought she was scared or something, so I
Speaker 4: was like, okay, okay, I'll come with you.
Speaker 6: So then we got out and instead of keeping the cab,
Speaker 6: and I was like, oh, can we keep the cab
Speaker 6: and told them to wait.
Speaker 1: She got out first.
Speaker 6: And I literally threw the guy money and I was
Speaker 6: like leave.
Speaker 1: The roots have ever been that?
Speaker 2: I was like, go.
Speaker 6: Then we walk into the reception, and because it wasn't
Speaker 6: the same lady i'd seen before, I just got both
Speaker 6: of our I took the cruisers off hole whatever they were,
Speaker 6: and I just put them on the reception.
Speaker 1: I was like, let's go.
Speaker 6: So we just walked straight through and then all of
Speaker 6: a sudden, Anna stops and she's like should we have
Speaker 6: some mints? And I was like oh, I just like
Speaker 6: we just we just like had this drink.
Speaker 1: I had this like tangy taste in my mouth.
Speaker 4: I was like, hey, you're a mint and like I
Speaker 4: was like no, and I was like, oh, you're getting
Speaker 4: suspicious at this point.
Speaker 1: No, I don't know, Like I don't know what was
Speaker 1: going through my head.
Speaker 4: I think there was definitely points throughout the day where
Speaker 4: I was like that's a bit odd. Like, for instance,
Speaker 4: when I got a tattoo for you and you had
Speaker 4: there was no response to it.
Speaker 1: I was like, that's straight.
Speaker 2: I was tired. I want to walk. He was walking.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that wasn't flying.
Speaker 4: But yeah, there was definitely like moments like I wasn't
Speaker 4: having a mint because I thought I was about to
Speaker 4: get a proposal, Like that's probably the laugh thing on
Speaker 4: your mind. Like I genuinely just had like a bad
Speaker 4: taste in my mouth. I was like, do you want
Speaker 4: a mint? We get up to the door, I mean
Speaker 4: to take.
Speaker 1: Away from here.
Speaker 3: I just quickly Michael, what have you been doing in
Speaker 3: all this time? Like, yeah, just I could imagine you
Speaker 3: slicking your hair back in your hands for your Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like I some full stress and.
Speaker 3: I was going through like periods of pacing back and forth,
Speaker 3: then realizing the pacing was making me sweat, and then
Speaker 3: I'd stop pacing and I'd sort of stand like that
Speaker 3: and then I'd take my shirt off air out put
Speaker 3: my shit back on pace. Does the videographer have footage
Speaker 3: of this because that would be very fun.
Speaker 5: I reckon the tree because I was in that position
Speaker 5: for about, yeah, for over an hour, and.
Speaker 2: Then I was like messaging.
Speaker 5: I was mensaging the videographer as well, like we're on
Speaker 5: stand by, we're on stand by, and then like ten
Speaker 5: minutes later be like we're not on and then we're
Speaker 5: on standby. We're not on standby anyway.
Speaker 4: Okay, So from my perspective, I'm going to take over
Speaker 4: from here. So we rock up at this villa and
Speaker 4: was like, I need to get my ID. I'm like, okay, cool,
Speaker 4: we'll go get your idea. I thought she was a
Speaker 4: bit scared to go by yourself, like she wants, you know,
Speaker 4: like confidence and numbers type of things. So we went
Speaker 4: down there. I was like, do you want to mean
Speaker 4: like I've got a bad taste in my mouth after
Speaker 4: that drink.
Speaker 1: She's like no.
Speaker 4: I was like, oh okay. So then we like walked
Speaker 4: down to this villa. It's like this like sandy pathway
Speaker 4: with like beautiful greenery kind of like both colliding at
Speaker 4: the top, so it was kind of like this archway.
Speaker 1: It was beautiful.
Speaker 4: I was like, oh, these people are saying it, I'm
Speaker 4: a pretty nice villa. Anyway, we get to the very
Speaker 4: end and then the door is actually a little bit
Speaker 4: open with this stone opening the doorway, and then there's
Speaker 4: ambers I d right on top of it.
Speaker 1: So I was like saw it and I was like,
Speaker 1: pick it up here. It is like they've left it
Speaker 1: out for us.
Speaker 4: And she was like then in that moment, she like
Speaker 4: ripped my bag off my shoulder. I was like ow,
Speaker 4: and she just like put she kind of like I
Speaker 4: don't know how she did.
Speaker 1: It was very swift.
Speaker 4: She like in that moment, she just like opened the
Speaker 4: door and kind of pushed me in. I saw the
Speaker 4: rose petals and I was like, oh my god. I
Speaker 4: was right, it's happening. Oh my god, Oh my god.
Speaker 4: And then I saw Michael standing in the villa. There
Speaker 4: was like rose petals kind of like leading the way
Speaker 4: to him, and then I looked at him and his
Speaker 4: eyes were like welling up, like he was like so emotional.
Speaker 4: I was like, oh my god, I am about to
Speaker 4: get engaged, Like is this really happening. I can't believe it.
Speaker 4: I didn't even like look back at Amber. I just
Speaker 4: like was I was just like so focused and present
Speaker 4: in the moment. And then as I walked up to him,
Speaker 4: I hugged him and I saw them marry me, honey,
Speaker 4: and I was like, oh my god, like this is crazy.
Speaker 4: Like Number one couldn't even believe that Michael was in
Speaker 4: BALI like, you know, I'm on a girls troop. I
Speaker 4: haven't seen him in a week, Like I really missed him.
Speaker 4: I was like, oh my god, he's here. Yeah, and
Speaker 4: then like there was just so many emotions going through
Speaker 4: my head and my heart and everything, and I was
Speaker 4: just like so overwhelmed.
Speaker 1: And then Michael started like talking and like, I.
Speaker 4: Mean, I can't even remember what he said in the
Speaker 4: moment because it was just so like overwhelming. It's like
Speaker 4: everything stood still and it was just like me and
Speaker 4: Michael in that moment.
Speaker 3: So I've watched the video. Yeah, what song's been emotional now?
Speaker 5: Yeah, so firstly that I got, I got an emotional that.
Speaker 5: I feel like the lead up to the story so
Speaker 5: far has been quite like pragmatic. Now like this moment,
Speaker 5: like looking back on the moment, it was, it was crazy.
Speaker 2: The song was.
Speaker 5: I feel like there's like those like there's so many
Speaker 5: like beautiful like love songs, but for us, it's probably
Speaker 5: a song that a lot of people might not know.
Speaker 5: And I just remember like when we first like heard
Speaker 5: that song together, I can't remember, like we just both
Speaker 5: were like I love this song and it was just
Speaker 5: a song that from that point whenever we'd whenever i'd
Speaker 5: hear it, i'd play it in the car like I'd
Speaker 5: be I'd be thinking about her.
Speaker 3: Just don't want to How did you get that song
Speaker 3: to play exactly? Or was it on repeat?
Speaker 5: Yeah, so it was. I put it on repeat for
Speaker 5: like an hour and a half.
Speaker 2: So I'm not sure if.
Speaker 5: I still like that because it's like probably the most
Speaker 5: anxious I felt in my life.
Speaker 2: It's just that song on refeat. Now I wake up
Speaker 2: in the middle.
Speaker 3: Of the night and just like, from a man to
Speaker 3: another man, how nervous are you in that moment, because
Speaker 3: I could imagine that would really be like this the
Speaker 3: most fucking daunting moments, nerve racking.
Speaker 2: At the same time, I'm like exciting before.
Speaker 5: I say this, I'm going to like preface it as like,
Speaker 5: I know how cliche this sounds, so I'm aware of
Speaker 5: how cliche this.
Speaker 2: Is going to come out.
Speaker 5: But the whole day I was just that nervous and
Speaker 5: anxious about wanting things to go to plan. But then
Speaker 5: as soon as Anna walked through that door, despite feeling
Speaker 5: like I was having like an out of body experience,
Speaker 5: and I was like visibly shaking. It's like I suddenly
Speaker 5: was just I felt calm, like it just felt it
Speaker 5: just felt right. It felt right, and it felt perfect,
Speaker 5: and I felt calm and all that worry washed away
Speaker 5: and I was just like, this is amazing. And when
Speaker 5: she was like walking closer to me, I was just
Speaker 5: like the happiest man in the world.
Speaker 3: On the video I watched before of it happening, and
Speaker 3: I'm sure everyone else will be able to see that
Speaker 3: video on your socials.
Speaker 2: You spoke for a lot. What were you saying? Do
Speaker 2: you want to share any of it?
Speaker 5: Yeah, So I'm fully aware that like when I get
Speaker 5: into speech mode that like it might get like a
Speaker 5: little bit over the top. So I decided that I
Speaker 5: wasn't going to prepare anything. Like I was just like,
Speaker 5: I'm not going to think about what I'm going to say.
Speaker 5: I had a final line that I wanted to say,
Speaker 5: like before I got down on one knee, but I'm like,
Speaker 5: I'm just gonna have a chat. I'm just gonna tell
Speaker 5: her how I'm feeling, like in that moment. So what
Speaker 5: exactly I think I'll keep that to myself.
Speaker 2: Exactly what I said.
Speaker 5: I spoke to some key points and I think the
Speaker 5: main part of what I said was the fact that
Speaker 5: I think the reason that I feel so lucky to
Speaker 5: be with Anna is that despite all the love and
Speaker 5: the romance and the passion that we have, like underneath
Speaker 5: all that, we just have the.
Speaker 2: Most incredible friendship.
Speaker 5: And like I just from literally and I reflected on
Speaker 5: this last night with her, I said, after our first day,
Speaker 5: I was just like, wow, like I've just never had
Speaker 5: that much fun with a person. And that's despite the
Speaker 5: fact that I also think she's like exceptionally hot and
Speaker 5: there's all that passion and romance there. I was just like,
Speaker 5: I've just never had that much fun. So I think
Speaker 5: it was around us like fun and friendship and then
Speaker 5: just the love that we shared as well.
Speaker 2: That's really it's really touching.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was like it was actually like the it's
Speaker 4: crazy because like obviously, like as I don't know, I
Speaker 4: personally have always like dreamed of the moment that I
Speaker 4: would get.
Speaker 1: Proposed to, but it really was like the best.
Speaker 4: Moment of my life, like being in that moment and
Speaker 4: just like it's just such an overwhelming feeling of just
Speaker 4: like love and happiness. And when Michael dropped to me
Speaker 4: and I, yeah, I have always thought this, like I
Speaker 4: wonder if they'll be like a part of me that's
Speaker 4: like is this the right decision? But when Michael dropped
Speaker 4: to me, I was like, I am one thousand, million,
Speaker 4: trillion percent on board with this. Like there wasn't one
Speaker 4: percent of me that was like is this Yeah, There
Speaker 4: was no doubts, Like it was a strong one hundred
Speaker 4: percent all the way. Yes, like one hundred percent, and
Speaker 4: like that just felt so good to feel that, because
Speaker 4: you know, I don't know like how.
Speaker 1: Other people feel when they get engaged.
Speaker 4: But yeah, that was always a concern of mine, like
Speaker 4: am I going to feel one hundred percent?
Speaker 1: I guess like yeah.
Speaker 4: So after you propose, then we kind of like the
Speaker 4: girls ended up joining us, and then they were all
Speaker 4: super excited, which was really cool, like we're so glad
Speaker 4: that happened.
Speaker 2: A couple of minutes here, you know, we got we
Speaker 2: got to have minutes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then they were.
Speaker 4: Like, okay, we're going to give you like an hour,
Speaker 4: like if you want to join us after at the restaurant,
Speaker 4: you're welcome to. If not, all good, So they kind
Speaker 4: of went and then we called our parents and then
Speaker 4: we had a bit of alone time, if you know
Speaker 4: what I.
Speaker 2: Mean, you had sex.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So after that, the girls were at this like beautiful
Speaker 4: rooftop restaurant in Changu and we were like should we
Speaker 4: go meet them there?
Speaker 1: And then Michael was like, yeah, let's do it. It'll
Speaker 1: be really fun.
Speaker 4: So we like walked into the restaurant and the whole
Speaker 4: restaurant started like clapping for us, and all of my
Speaker 4: like friends were like they just got engaged and everyone
Speaker 4: was like cheering.
Speaker 1: It was like, actually, such an overwhelming moment.
Speaker 2: Wasn't it a lot?
Speaker 5: I was already like I think I was so overwhelmed
Speaker 5: as it was. I was like I almost got a
Speaker 5: bit blank with emotion, but like, yeah, it was overwhelmingly amazing.
Speaker 2: It was such a such an exciting moment.
Speaker 4: For they had this like leaf and it was like
Speaker 4: mister and Missus Staples and I was like, oh my god,
Speaker 4: Like I think that was the first time where I
Speaker 4: was like ship, like we're actually gonna get married and
Speaker 4: I'm going to be Missus Staples like.
Speaker 5: That, I could be Mickey mckavoy like that's gotta it's
Speaker 5: got to run, It's got it.
Speaker 2: I think I think Anna Staple sounds lovely.
Speaker 1: I think, Anna, all.
Speaker 3: Right, so I want to touch on we didn't touch
Speaker 3: on it before. We're going to circle right back to
Speaker 3: the beginning. How did you ask annas? Did you ask
Speaker 3: both her parents just the old man? How'd you go
Speaker 3: about it?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 5: So it was all of a sudden happening really fast,
Speaker 5: and as we've sort of touched on and have you've
Speaker 5: touched on in another episodes, like nothing gets past Anna,
Speaker 5: so FBI.
Speaker 3: I was, trust me, you can't. I can't get STU
Speaker 3: fast fucking staunch.
Speaker 2: I was.
Speaker 5: I don't need to tell you this genuine the FBI.
Speaker 5: Nothing gets past it. And what I was worrying about
Speaker 5: was I was like, Okay, I want to catch up.
Speaker 5: I want to do this sit down thing with it ad.
Speaker 5: But we had so many busy weekends, there was so
Speaker 5: much going on. I'm like, I'm getting worried now that
Speaker 5: I'm going to be telling him too late. And I
Speaker 5: didn't want it to be like a few days before
Speaker 5: because you're not really asking for a blessing and then like,
Speaker 5: well it's in two days. So I called him up
Speaker 5: and I said, we had a bit of a chat
Speaker 5: and he could tell something was up. By the way
Speaker 5: I was speaking and yeah, I said, I'm in the
Speaker 5: process of getting a ring. How do you feel about that,
Speaker 5: to which he said, that's amazing. Yeah, he said that
Speaker 5: that was amazing. This is so exciting, Like he was genuinely,
Speaker 5: like really really over the moon. And then I said,
Speaker 5: I'm so, I'm so glad that you're happy about this.
Speaker 5: And then he made it jack and said, I said
Speaker 5: you could get a ring. I didn't say if you proposed.
Speaker 5: And then I said, sorry, Brian, would it be okay
Speaker 5: if I proposed to your order? And then he said
Speaker 5: the same things. He said, this is amazing and yeah,
Speaker 5: he was really excited. And I said, but look, I
Speaker 5: want to do the official sit down and have a
Speaker 5: drink together. Yeah, so that's going to happen before we propose.
Speaker 5: I'll make sure that we sit down together, face to
Speaker 5: face and do this conversation again. So then the weekend
Speaker 5: before I flew over, we caught up and we sat down. Yeah,
Speaker 5: we sat down and just pretty much spoke about how
Speaker 5: amazing anam was for about three hours over a couple
Speaker 5: of beers, and I mean, it was nice, and then
Speaker 5: we like sort of we sort of hugged it out
Speaker 5: at the end and he sent me on my way
Speaker 5: and he said good luck, and it was really it
Speaker 5: was a really nice moment.
Speaker 1: That's so cute.
Speaker 2: That's really cute.
Speaker 1: And you both got emotional.
Speaker 2: We did get a bit emotional. You know, we've got
Speaker 2: a bit emotional.
Speaker 3: Get emotional hearing like dad stuff.
Speaker 2: We both cried into a pint of beer.
Speaker 3: And al right, guys, one last time, congratulation, Thank you.
Speaker 3: This podcast is always adapting me how we have to adapt?
Speaker 2: Just hold on some gates.
Speaker 5: You guys actually thought you were starting like a dating
Speaker 5: podcast about being single, and here we are.
Speaker 2: I'm so fucking sorry. Okay, this is.
Speaker 3: Why you should take Anna's advice on this podcast.
Speaker 2: Look at the results.
Speaker 3: You might be having your hand waight down, not wake down,
Speaker 3: but you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: Look, thank you so much for listening to our proposal. Sorry,
Speaker 4: it's been really fun sharing it and kind of like
Speaker 4: you capping everything. Make sure that you guys stay all
Speaker 4: over our Facebook page. We're going to be posting use
Speaker 4: of content in there. Make sure you follow the Where's
Speaker 4: your Head app pod, Instagram, Matt and I on socials.
Speaker 3: We would also like to thank Michael for coming in
Speaker 3: and our producer Ambuf for telling their side of the story.
Speaker 2: Thanks guys, Thanks Matt, Thanks fiance to you next time. Chao.
Speaker 1: Bye,