Speaker 1: But luckiest of lucky dips.
Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us. It's Melon Monty.
Speaker 1: Hi everyone, Hi everyone, How are you Monty?
Speaker 2: I'm great, Melissa, how are you?
Speaker 1: Sounds weirdy calling me Molica, doesn't it. I've never called
Speaker 1: you Melissa. I'm in trouble.
Speaker 2: Remember when I first met you, I called you Melanie
Speaker 2: and You're like, I'm not Melanie.
Speaker 1: Oh no, I don't think I answered like that.
Speaker 2: I'm not Melody, you dumb bitch.
Speaker 1: You actually do you remember when that actually was?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's when we were filming something and I went
Speaker 2: to put ice trays of smoothies in the freezer and
Speaker 2: they all fell down.
Speaker 1: Do you know what really shocked me about that moment
Speaker 1: was you just laughed and you weren't stressed out about it.
Speaker 1: I was like, if that had happened to me, we
Speaker 1: made we're making videos with like you're making smoothie pops
Speaker 1: or whatever. I opened the freezer because typical Monty you
Speaker 1: would have just shoved it in haphazardly to get it
Speaker 1: out of the way, not thinking, oh that's not balanced properly.
Speaker 1: You opened the freezer and just think of green smoothie
Speaker 1: sludge everywhere. It just fell down. Onto the floor, down
Speaker 1: the fridge, whatever, and you laughed about it, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: I would have been so upset. I would have been like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, and now I'm going to clean it
Speaker 1: up and this is a disaster.
Speaker 2: Oh, I mean on my mood. If I was at
Speaker 2: home by myself and that happened, I'd be like, oh fuck.
Speaker 2: But I mean we were there filming and there was
Speaker 2: a few rest to play.
Speaker 1: The butt, wasn't that? And I did tell you, you
Speaker 1: know the worst thing that ever happened to me in
Speaker 1: my life, which is a massive overstatement. I was putting
Speaker 1: cans of coke away Mark had bought like a block
Speaker 1: thing of care coke. I dropped a can. It went everywhere.
Speaker 1: That's sticky. No no, no, hang on, I'm not done.
Speaker 1: It took me, I reckoned, two hours to clean because
Speaker 1: it was everywhere, And then I was scared I was
Speaker 1: gonna get ants.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it probably would have taken your average person twenty
Speaker 2: minutes to clean up, though, let's be honest.
Speaker 1: Well it was everywhere. It was on chairs, it was
Speaker 1: just everywhere. I hate that.
Speaker 2: I hate when you just yeah, you drop and it
Speaker 2: gets like a tiny thing in it or spurts out
Speaker 2: where you sip, and you can't get to the sink
Speaker 2: quick enough because wherever you crack that thing open, you're
Speaker 2: not normally next to the sink, so getting it to
Speaker 2: the sink is stressful.
Speaker 1: So it's like it dropped and it exploded. Oh listen,
Speaker 1: I did it, and then I went to put an
Speaker 1: dropped another again. I don't think I've ever been sick. Well,
Speaker 1: speaking of being upset, I'm feeling okay today, so it's
Speaker 1: probably not going to make me upset. I was trying
Speaker 1: to read this to Mark last night and he couldn't
Speaker 1: give a shit. But I stumbled across this Instagram page.
Speaker 1: If you like writing, you will like this page. It's
Speaker 1: called Co Humans Project and the guy's name is David
Speaker 1: Flint and he's a writer. And heard of David Flint. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So like his Instagram page is just stuff he's written.
Speaker 1: There's this one that I've read last night that is
Speaker 1: probably the most beautiful thing I have ever read in
Speaker 1: my life. And it's about the caption he's written here
Speaker 1: is there is a special power in being unapologetically you, right,
Speaker 1: And I'm like, you know how hard we can be
Speaker 1: on ourselves sometimes for our quogues or you know, we
Speaker 1: feel we're difficult or whatever. But I thought, I'm going
Speaker 1: to read it out. Okay, it's just so good, Okay, right.
Speaker 1: There are people who carry you with them, even in
Speaker 1: ways you may never see. Someone somewhere is braver because
Speaker 1: of a moment they shared with you. Maybe it was
Speaker 1: the way you spoke with certainty when they doubted themselves,
Speaker 1: or the way you simply existed, confident and whole. They
Speaker 1: saw something in you that cracked open a space within them,
Speaker 1: a space where they allowed themselves to be more, to
Speaker 1: want more, to believe that they could reach for something
Speaker 1: just out of you. There is a person who still
Speaker 1: saves your words in their heart, tucking them away like
Speaker 1: a note preyer between pages. Maybe it was the way
Speaker 1: you made them feel understood, or the clarity you offered
Speaker 1: when they need it. At most, they still measure their
Speaker 1: steps against the advice you gave, still find themselves repeating
Speaker 1: your voice in the moments when they need direction. Someone
Speaker 1: still turns their head when they hear a laugh like yours,
Speaker 1: still wonders for just a second if you could be there,
Speaker 1: even when they know better. You are a light in
Speaker 1: the edges of their world, a presence that lingers in
Speaker 1: familiar places, in the details they cannot unsee. You mattered
Speaker 1: to them in a way that does not fade, and
Speaker 1: so you remain a memory that surfaces like waves. There
Speaker 1: is a heart out there that softened because of you,
Speaker 1: someone who had been guarded, hesitant, unsure of love until
Speaker 1: they saw the way you gave it. They saw in
Speaker 1: you a different kind of love, steady kind, something other
Speaker 1: than loss. They are different now because of you, and
Speaker 1: they love differently because of you, even if they never
Speaker 1: told you so. You have been someone's inspiration. There are
Speaker 1: eyes that have followed your journey from Afar, unseen but present,
Speaker 1: taking in the way you rise and fall and rise again.
Speaker 1: They have watched you persist, and because of that they
Speaker 1: believe that they can too, not out of admiration alone,
Speaker 1: but because your resilience has reshaped the way they see
Speaker 1: their own. Somewhere, someone still wonders how you are. They
Speaker 1: search for glimpses of your world in passing conversations, in
Speaker 1: places where you once stood. You are still part of
Speaker 1: their world, in small, quiet ways, stitched into their thoughts,
Speaker 1: in places you do not see. You are more than
Speaker 1: a passing presence. You are a ripple in the lives
Speaker 1: of others in ways both seen and unseen. You have
Speaker 1: changed people, softened them, strengthen them, stayed with them, and
Speaker 1: whether or not you realize that your presence has left
Speaker 1: something lasting. Oh, I just thought, my God, like automatically
Speaker 1: as well. What I think about is, you know, like
Speaker 1: I think about people that we've lost, and how it's
Speaker 1: those things in what is written that do stay. So
Speaker 1: you might physically die, but you don't ever die in
Speaker 1: someone's mind mind because of those things. And I just thought,
Speaker 1: it's so beautiful because we all have done that to
Speaker 1: people and people that we may never even meet. People
Speaker 1: like well, not for me, but like for you. There
Speaker 1: could have been one moment on radio where you were
Speaker 1: really vulnerable and someone has heard that and it's impacted
Speaker 1: their life in some way, whether it's connection or whatever.
Speaker 1: I just thought, God, we underestimate that the power of
Speaker 1: the power of just us and being ourselves and.
Speaker 2: How you do make other people feel. It's funny when
Speaker 2: you were reading that out though, the different people that
Speaker 2: popped into my mind for the different things, you know,
Speaker 2: like Mum was in my mind a lot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I know, and Stacey. You we started to
Speaker 1: chry and tell with was in my mind a lot
Speaker 1: like and you popped up even though you were reading it,
Speaker 1: you know, like, yeah, yep, I know, I know. It's
Speaker 1: almost a reminder of it's sometimes how special the people
Speaker 1: in your life are and how we don't really tell
Speaker 1: them totally, don't really take the time to tell them.
Speaker 2: But you also never think how you turn up for someone,
Speaker 2: do you know what I mean? You think outwardly of like, well,
Speaker 2: that person means that to me, and that person's so
Speaker 2: great to me, and I love that person. They always
Speaker 2: think of me, but you don't think of how you
Speaker 2: are like that to other people, where we can be
Speaker 2: and we are I know, fuck, we're awesome.
Speaker 1: I know. I would also maybe my challenge for next
Speaker 1: Lucky Dip is I do want about how I've negatively
Speaker 1: impacted people's lives. No, it would be longer, it would
Speaker 1: be longer. But wasn't that beautiful? And he's just got
Speaker 1: so beautiful, so many beautiful, beautiful words on that page.
Speaker 1: So if you like that sort of thing, yeah, have
Speaker 1: a look because it's so great and he's going to
Speaker 1: be releasing a book soon, so good.
Speaker 2: One, all right, Thank you everyone. No doubt many of
Speaker 2: you were tearing up as well, but mixed bag here.
Speaker 2: You never know, you never know what you're going to get.
Speaker 2: We will be back chatting to you guys on our
Speaker 2: next party. Thanks for listening, Buck for now, Love you,