Speaker 1: This podcast is being recorded and produced on gadiicol Land.
Speaker 2: We pay our respects to the traditional custodians of this
Speaker 2: country and elders past present.
Speaker 1: We extend our respect to any First Nations Aboriginal and
Speaker 1: Torres Strait Islander people joining.
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Speaker 1: I'm Britney Saunders and I'm all right, hey, and you
Speaker 1: have made your way onto a close friends.
Speaker 2: List because you don't put the juiciest goss upon your
Speaker 2: main story. You keep it for your close friends.
Speaker 1: And that's exactly what these episodes for. So let's get
Speaker 1: into it. And I have to say, Matt, that's the
Speaker 1: first time we've done it a proper intro in a
Speaker 1: really long time. Have like every other close friends, we
Speaker 1: just get straight into it. Yeah, so love that for us.
Speaker 1: We just had a little quick toilet break before we
Speaker 1: recorded this bonus episode and it got me thinking. I
Speaker 1: saw a video once and it was what cubicle do
Speaker 1: you chu? I mean this might be different for guys
Speaker 1: like do you go to the trough?
Speaker 2: No? Never, you choose a cubicle?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Always. When I want to sit down.
Speaker 1: You don't sit down, You sit down and.
Speaker 2: Weed sometimes slave most of the time, actually, if I'm honest.
Speaker 1: Well, I saw this video on TikTok once and it
Speaker 1: was what qubicle do you choose? If you walk into
Speaker 1: a public toilet and just say there's like four or five,
Speaker 1: what one do you usually go for? Because it said
Speaker 1: most people go for the first one?
Speaker 2: What do you go? I go down the other end.
Speaker 1: You go as far away? But then do you think
Speaker 1: that's the Pooh toilet that people try to go to
Speaker 1: because it's furthest away.
Speaker 2: I don't mind, who cares?
Speaker 1: I don't go into one. So just then I went
Speaker 1: to the toilets and usually go to the second one,
Speaker 1: but the second one had the lid down.
Speaker 2: Oh so what does that mean you got to touch it?
Speaker 2: So you don't want to touch it?
Speaker 1: Yeah, because I'm scared of what's going to be inside.
Speaker 1: So I went the first one. But then in my mind,
Speaker 1: I'm going most people, like apparently statistically, choose the first cubicle,
Speaker 1: which means like it would get used the most. I
Speaker 1: don't know, so I always try and go the second one.
Speaker 1: Just a little thought interesting, I reckon everyone would have
Speaker 1: ad cubicle.
Speaker 2: I just try and go as far away from other
Speaker 2: people as possible. That's why I don't like the trough
Speaker 2: or the qubic cool thing is like you know, the
Speaker 2: little urinals. So I'm like, we don't need to be
Speaker 2: rubbing elbow as well. I'm trying to you know what
Speaker 2: I mean, they have that. And also I hardly ever
Speaker 2: like go like I guess I'm trying to think like
Speaker 2: whenever I'm out, like I've got a bag with me
Speaker 2: or I've got something with me, so it's hard to
Speaker 2: juggle every bag.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you're carrying a bag and then trying to
Speaker 1: use I like.
Speaker 2: A cubicle because I can hang it on the nook.
Speaker 2: Yeah you can, you can, I mean on the hook.
Speaker 2: I could just sit down, scroll on my phone and
Speaker 2: just chill. You know, I've got stage right though I
Speaker 2: pulling in public. I just have my whole life.
Speaker 1: I was going to say the same thing. Okay, I
Speaker 1: cannot know who in a public fucking toilet.
Speaker 2: But even at school nowhere.
Speaker 1: Nah, And I'm like, I'm so embarrassed at the times
Speaker 1: where like you just you have to like because it's
Speaker 1: just going to come out. But I simply refuse. And
Speaker 1: I had this conversation with AJ because AJ just doesn't
Speaker 1: give a fuck, like and he's like apparently blokes in
Speaker 1: general just don't really give a fuck that they're just
Speaker 1: go in and just take the loudest shit. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: would be mortified. Yeah, I would be imagine if I can't.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the men's stathroom is fucking a symphony orchestra of fuckery.
Speaker 2: It is the most disgusting place, which is why I
Speaker 2: often will if I can, like go in the I
Speaker 2: mean I can't do it at Westfield, but like I'm
Speaker 2: talking in venues, like I'll go to the girl's toilet
Speaker 2: or hopefully they have all gendered restrooms or something like that,
Speaker 2: because oh my god, I can't describe to you and
Speaker 2: they're coffin and they're and you can just imagine, like
Speaker 2: the most disgusting sounds are coming out and oh my god,
Speaker 2: and then half of them are on the phone as well,
Speaker 2: like talking on the phone. I was doing it. Yes,
Speaker 2: I think where is the etiquette? Honestly, it's just ridiculous. No,
Speaker 2: it's a harrowing, harrowing place to be. Sorry, but it's true.
Speaker 1: I hate it. I hate public toilets. I hate when
Speaker 1: I need to wean them at the airport, like even
Speaker 1: just when I need to wei.
Speaker 2: Like Anti, I don't mind a whe can we anywhere,
Speaker 2: that's fine, But I will say I do. In a
Speaker 2: public toilet, I always have to wipe the seat before
Speaker 2: and after and like touching the next person just because
Speaker 2: I think that's good karma. I've wiped it before I've
Speaker 2: sat down, I wipe it after I sit down as well.
Speaker 2: Give it a little give a little polish for the
Speaker 2: next person. You know what. I hate those when you
Speaker 2: go into public public transport. Yes, I hate public transport
Speaker 2: as well, but I hate going into a public toilet
Speaker 2: and the person before you has absolutely destroyed that place.
Speaker 1: Do people not put toilet paper down first? At home?
Speaker 1: I pulled a little sheet of toil paper downs. Then
Speaker 1: there is no skinties none.
Speaker 2: But like they've destroyed the ball. And then you're in there,
Speaker 2: and then you have to walk out, and someone's going
Speaker 2: in after you and thinks you.
Speaker 1: Can like trying to cover up that it wasn't you,
Speaker 1: because I will have to stand.
Speaker 2: Like although I love a sit because I'm lazy, I
Speaker 2: do love a stand. But the problem is that in
Speaker 2: the men's bathroom, you it's hard to sit. I'd say
Speaker 2: seventy percent of the time because there's piss all over
Speaker 2: the seat, right, which God forbid I would ever need
Speaker 2: to actually do a number two in public, because how
Speaker 2: am I sitting down? Got clean up everyone else's mess first, right,
Speaker 2: It's disgusting, But anyway, there's piss all over the seat, right,
Speaker 2: And then I do my business standing up, and then
Speaker 2: I leave, and then whoever goes in after me, Like
Speaker 2: I was at Broadway Shopping Center, went into the bathroom.
Speaker 2: It was a fucking crime scene in that bathroom. It
Speaker 2: was like this on the fucking walls. It was ridiculous,
Speaker 2: and I obviously did a very accurate aim of a way.
Speaker 2: But as I left, the cleaner was standing outside the
Speaker 2: door waiting to go in to clean. And I was
Speaker 2: mortified because I'm actually gonna think I've just painted the
Speaker 2: fucking walls like pakasa, We'll go.
Speaker 1: To the toilet correctly.
Speaker 2: That's what I want to know. I don't know who's.
Speaker 1: Pissing all over the fucking seat and the floor.
Speaker 2: Why are we even talking about this?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. It's close friends, Matt.
Speaker 2: It is close friends. We do talk about these things here.
Speaker 2: But I think even this is a bit jarring for
Speaker 2: a Friday morning for some of our some of our strollers.
Speaker 2: But anyway, what else has been happening in your life
Speaker 2: this week? I feel like I've not seen your years love?
Speaker 1: What was that?
Speaker 2: Lax? I feel like years love?
Speaker 1: Well in other news in my life? I like, I'm
Speaker 1: sure you've had the same, Matt, Like, since you've been
Speaker 1: on social media, have you ever had anyone create a
Speaker 1: fake profile using your photos?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Like, I feel like back in our YouTube days that.
Speaker 2: Would happen in much more common back then though. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but oh there's a few TikTok pages that just steal
Speaker 2: my content and put it up. Ah, but I've had
Speaker 2: people be on your Tinders, yes, which can I say?
Speaker 2: Like when I was on there, I was not having
Speaker 2: much luck on there myself, So I don't know why
Speaker 2: you've chosen to take my photos and put them on there,
Speaker 2: because would you not get someone more attractive? Would you
Speaker 2: not get someone with maybe a six pack with their
Speaker 2: shirt off? Why are you putting me on there? That's
Speaker 2: not going to get you very far?
Speaker 1: But anyway, I had the same back in the YouTube days.
Speaker 1: I'd always get a DM of someone going are you
Speaker 1: on Tinder? And it's like a screenshot of a profile
Speaker 1: and it's clearly not me. But it's twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: I have got someone that is using my photos, and
Speaker 1: not only just my photos but screen recordings of my
Speaker 1: story and they have an Instagram account and they have
Speaker 1: been posting on it actively since twenty twenty two. For
Speaker 1: two years, someone has been using and videos of me,
Speaker 1: and I want to fucking expose them. And I'm trying
Speaker 1: to also figure out what we actually want to happen here,
Speaker 1: because am I wanting to tell everyone the usernames so
Speaker 1: they can go and report it and get them taken down.
Speaker 1: Like what do we want the outcome of this to be?
Speaker 2: Exactly?
Speaker 1: Just just for Greg?
Speaker 2: Heah, well, how did you come across this?
Speaker 1: A guy messaged me on my Facebook page and sent
Speaker 1: a bunch of screenshots and said something along the lines
Speaker 1: of like is this you? I've been talking to you
Speaker 1: for weeks, but like I think he'd figured out that
Speaker 1: he'd been catfished, and he sent me screenshots of this
Speaker 1: account on Insta And so I went to look for
Speaker 1: the account on Instagram, couldn't find it, so I'm clearly blocked.
Speaker 1: But then I switched to our fate account. Looked it up.
Speaker 1: There it is, but the account's on private, so I
Speaker 1: can't see what is on the account, but I could
Speaker 1: see from like his one screenshot, this person has a
Speaker 1: full profile highlights of my stories from the last two
Speaker 1: year is and then just feed posts, and even the
Speaker 1: feed posts are screenshots of like my recent stories today.
Speaker 1: And what we've done is we've gotten producer Hannah to
Speaker 1: follow the account. Because it's private, you can't see shit,
Speaker 1: but she's followed it from her dog's Instagram account because
Speaker 1: we didn't want them to suspect that you know me
Speaker 1: because you follow me, Hannah. And so now we have
Speaker 1: got access to this fake account, Matt, and we can
Speaker 1: take a little scroll through and see what it is.
Speaker 2: What's on there?
Speaker 1: Do you want to do the honors?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Okay, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: Are we going to say the user name? Do we
Speaker 1: want people to go and DM them or do we
Speaker 1: want people to report them?
Speaker 2: What? No? No, no, no no. Not a quick recap of
Speaker 2: my life until now. And have you seen this?
Speaker 1: It's a video?
Speaker 2: Have you seen this video? But it's a video. It's
Speaker 2: got a baby photo of you. You look and drunk,
Speaker 2: your dogs, you with a bloody nose.
Speaker 1: This is Do you know how old these are?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I wonder where they've come from. You with sunglasses on.
Speaker 2: I don't even know who that is you crying? Like,
Speaker 2: why have they gotten a screenshot of you crying?
Speaker 1: These are screenshots from my stories Matt.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh there's you opening Fate Newcastle. This is you
Speaker 2: in the pool with all the girls. It says you
Speaker 2: are never too old to set another goal, or a dream,
Speaker 2: or to dream a new dream. In the end, we
Speaker 2: only regret the chances we did not take. Enjoy the
Speaker 2: little things in life. For one day you may look
Speaker 2: back and realize there were they were the big things.
Speaker 2: This is from twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1: This person has been going at it end. Hannah has
Speaker 1: been obviously following this account for like a week now.
Speaker 1: They post stories every day.
Speaker 2: Okay, let me see what also the do we want
Speaker 2: to give the name yet? Yeah? Why not? The online
Speaker 2: journal of Underscore Olivia Underscore.
Speaker 1: The online so that's the username.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the online journal of all one.
Speaker 1: Word Underscore Underscore. It's on private today. What do we
Speaker 1: want people to do? Do we want them to just
Speaker 1: follow it?
Speaker 2: Just follow it, just follow.
Speaker 1: It, don't like message them and say we know, yeah,
Speaker 1: blah blah blah, just follow it and go fucking look, but.
Speaker 2: Maybe follow and then start interacting surely, like comment comment
Speaker 2: funny for comments, and then we'll be reading the comments
Speaker 2: of people.
Speaker 1: Come, please go and support this person. But it makes
Speaker 1: me sick because it's a full fucking profile.
Speaker 2: But also sorry the man. Sorry to cut you off.
Speaker 2: But the man that messaged you, so were they scamming
Speaker 2: for money?
Speaker 1: And he said they weren't scamming for anything, and then
Speaker 1: he started to get a little bit weird with me,
Speaker 1: so I stopped replying because I replied to him initially,
Speaker 1: I was like, I'm so sorry about this because I
Speaker 1: wanted more information. I was like, what did they say
Speaker 1: or whatever? And that's when he sent me the screenshots
Speaker 1: of the profile. But he said they didn't scam me
Speaker 1: for any money or anything. Here, let me read you
Speaker 1: out his messages to me, and the last couple just
Speaker 1: got a bit too weird, So I, oh, now he's gone.
Speaker 1: His profile was gone anyway, his name was Greg. It
Speaker 1: says his name is user, but I can still see
Speaker 1: our messages. I just said sorry about that, and he said,
Speaker 1: way to go with producing such a great podcast in business.
Speaker 1: And I was like, oh, that's nice. I said, thanks.
Speaker 1: He said, the funny thing is they weren't asking for
Speaker 1: money or anything. I'll tell you this is when it
Speaker 1: got weird, Matt. He said, yeah, the funny thing is
Speaker 1: they weren't asking for money or anything. I'll tell you
Speaker 1: what they did make me fall in love with you lol.
Speaker 1: And that's when I was like, oh no, I'm going
Speaker 1: to stop riting back to this poor guy named Greg.
Speaker 1: And then he said, wish you the best in your future.
Speaker 1: Thank goodness. They had your company logo on a shirt
Speaker 1: that I caught today, and then you were the model
Speaker 1: with your information below. I said, holy shit, you're a
Speaker 1: super sexy supermodel. Have a good night. Like That's how
Speaker 1: the combo ended. So in one of my fake scammers posts,
Speaker 1: I must have been wearing one of our tops that
Speaker 1: say Fate on the chest. Then I'm guessing he's looked
Speaker 1: up Fate and that's how he's discovered because he was
Speaker 1: in like America or something.
Speaker 2: Well, she's in Fort Worth, Texas, so she's pretending that
Speaker 2: she's in Fort Worth, Texas. She's got some photos that
Speaker 2: you've posted, some little selfies here.
Speaker 1: These are my stories, like That's what freaks me out
Speaker 1: is this person is watching my stories and screenshot because
Speaker 1: that's not a feed post of mine. Yeah, it's they're
Speaker 1: screenshotting my stories and then making feed posts out of them.
Speaker 2: And the caption says, just a couple selfies from church.
Speaker 2: Don't lose faith because things are not You're going your way.
Speaker 2: Remember before there was light, there was darkness. In time
Speaker 2: everything will fall into place, And God, will you understand
Speaker 2: why you had to wait? Not this. The more I
Speaker 2: love myself, the more capable I become of loving others.
Speaker 1: But why me? Like, who is this person? Why are
Speaker 1: they picking me to use my fucking why me? Like,
Speaker 1: you use fucking anyone? And all of the comments on
Speaker 1: the posts are from men, and all of the followers
Speaker 1: are men, so I think they are scamming men. Maybe
Speaker 1: they just didn't get to that point with Greg who
Speaker 1: contacted me.
Speaker 2: This is so weird.
Speaker 1: It's and I hate that they're following me on another
Speaker 1: account and they have me blocked. That's the story screenshot Matt.
Speaker 2: Like this, but God, this is so strange.
Speaker 1: All of you go and follow the Instagram account and
Speaker 1: look at the feed picks. They are not feed picks
Speaker 1: they're screenshots and my fucking story, they're spending their time screenshotting, cropping.
Speaker 2: Oh, they've posted your Taylor Swift transition and that's where
Speaker 2: that's where the fate label is. Okay, this is so wild.
Speaker 1: I mean ten out of ten for effort.
Speaker 2: But I just my thing is, I don't understand the
Speaker 2: incentive behind this.
Speaker 1: They must be dming people. I reckon, they're a scammer.
Speaker 2: But but what about that guy that they've made fall
Speaker 2: in love with you?
Speaker 1: Well, maybe that's the whole thing. Maybe they scam people
Speaker 1: over a period of time and then scam them it, okay,
Speaker 1: like do the big scam at the end.
Speaker 2: I mean I guess.
Speaker 1: So anyway, everyone go and follow that account do we reckon,
Speaker 1: don't report, but just follow it and go look see.
Speaker 2: I mean obviously we don't. But my only thing with
Speaker 2: that is if we send people over there too, now
Speaker 2: that I'm thinking about it more, if we send people
Speaker 2: over to like have a laugh, it also may validate theirs. No,
Speaker 2: it may validate they might look a little bit more legit,
Speaker 2: meaning it will be easier to scam other people if
Speaker 2: they are scamming people. Because my thing is, even though
Speaker 2: they didn't scam that guy. What is the incentive? What
Speaker 2: is the purpose of.
Speaker 1: Maybe go follow, have a stalk, and then unfollow.
Speaker 2: And don't forget. This has happened for over two years,
Speaker 2: so it's like, I just wonder. I almost want to
Speaker 2: follow and start a conversation with the What don't we.
Speaker 1: Make a fake account? We should engage with this person?
Speaker 2: We should, and then we will see where it goes
Speaker 2: and you'll see, hmm, we'll scam the scammer. Yeah. Interesting.
Speaker 2: Imagine it's just like a hobby, like all.
Speaker 1: They yeah, or what if it's just like a confidence
Speaker 1: boost for this person. They're not actually scamming anyone.
Speaker 2: Yeah, God, I don't know that's anyway. Interesting. Well, there
Speaker 2: you go. That's your little tidbit of the day for
Speaker 2: Close Friends. Brittany's out here scamming people, but it's not
Speaker 2: really her plot.
Speaker 1: It's actually me.
Speaker 2: Yeah all right, Well, thanks for joining us for Close Friends.
Speaker 2: Absolutely bloody love you and we'll see you on Tuesday
Speaker 2: with our main episode. Have a good weekend.