WEBVTT - What Bryce And Melissa Couldn't Say Util Now... (Full Interview) 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:02.520 Hello, and welcome back to the Maths Funny podcast with 0:00:02.640 --> 0:00:07.000 me Joshua Fox. As you guys know, I recently welcomed 0:00:07.040 --> 0:00:10.520 Lachlan Gerton and Tylie Pritchard from the Confessions of a 0:00:10.560 --> 0:00:14.280 Reality Start podcast into the Mass Funny Family and onto 0:00:14.400 --> 0:00:17.239 my podcast feed here, and they did a great chat 0:00:17.280 --> 0:00:20.279 with Tory all about her recent split from Jack, which 0:00:20.280 --> 0:00:23.479 you guys all listened to, and after I listened to that, 0:00:23.640 --> 0:00:26.560 I was kind of fascinated with this part of what 0:00:26.720 --> 0:00:29.400 is it actually like for the villain couples that do 0:00:29.440 --> 0:00:32.680 stay together once to show ends, because like, how much 0:00:32.720 --> 0:00:35.199 does that noise from viewers and their co stars and 0:00:35.240 --> 0:00:38.760 even the experts who are all slating their relationship and 0:00:38.840 --> 0:00:42.440 wanting them to fail, how much does it actually impact them? 0:00:42.920 --> 0:00:45.800 So on this this week, Lachlan and Tylie are sat 0:00:45.840 --> 0:00:49.080 down with Bryce and Melissa to talk about well this 0:00:49.280 --> 0:00:52.240 and what it's been like for them because obviously, during 0:00:52.280 --> 0:00:56.200 their season in twenty twenty one, they became arguably one 0:00:56.240 --> 0:00:59.480 of the most disliked pairings of all time. But since 0:00:59.520 --> 0:01:00.320 then they've kind of. 0:01:00.360 --> 0:01:01.320 Proved everybody wrong. 0:01:01.360 --> 0:01:02.480 They've married for real. 0:01:02.360 --> 0:01:05.399 They've got two beautiful children who you can hear playing 0:01:05.440 --> 0:01:08.039 around them during this interview, and some of the things 0:01:08.080 --> 0:01:11.840 they said during this interview even I was surprised about, 0:01:12.240 --> 0:01:15.959 including the phone call that Bryce received from expert mel 0:01:16.080 --> 0:01:20.199 Shilling long after filming wrapped, which I'm not sure she's 0:01:20.240 --> 0:01:23.080 gonna want people to know about, but Bryce said it, 0:01:23.160 --> 0:01:24.480 and now you guys can hear it. 0:01:25.319 --> 0:01:25.639 Enjoy. 0:01:28.920 --> 0:01:31.440 Hello, Bryce and Melissa, thanks for coming on Confessions of 0:01:31.480 --> 0:01:32.319 a Reality Star. 0:01:33.240 --> 0:01:34.480 Oh, thank you for having us. 0:01:34.680 --> 0:01:36.679 So it's been four years since you guys are on 0:01:36.720 --> 0:01:41.600 our TV screens. You're quite a controversial couple. People to 0:01:41.640 --> 0:01:44.200 this day still have like a lot of commentary, a 0:01:44.240 --> 0:01:47.240 lot of judgment about your relationship. How does it feel 0:01:47.280 --> 0:01:50.000 like four years on you have become a success story, 0:01:50.320 --> 0:01:53.440 but to still have people feeling like they know you 0:01:53.600 --> 0:01:56.920 and that they have the right to comment on you 0:01:56.960 --> 0:01:57.920 guys and where you're at. 0:01:58.000 --> 0:02:00.520 Honestly, we were on a reality TV show, so we've 0:02:00.560 --> 0:02:04.600 left ourselves open to have our relationship assessed and judged 0:02:04.600 --> 0:02:07.400 by everybody. So it just it just comes with it. 0:02:07.480 --> 0:02:11.480 So long as we know our own relationship, that's perfectly fine. 0:02:11.520 --> 0:02:14.920 But honestly, it doesn't. It doesn't. It used to really 0:02:14.960 --> 0:02:17.200 upset me because now I couldn't. 0:02:17.520 --> 0:02:21.880 Yeah, look, I think twelve months post show it probably 0:02:22.280 --> 0:02:25.160 affected us more, and more so me because I was 0:02:25.200 --> 0:02:28.240 probably the brund of it and probably caused that controversial tank. 0:02:28.360 --> 0:02:31.359 But honestly, now our foye is online, it's like a 0:02:31.480 --> 0:02:34.760 dropped off. To be fair, probably when we got married 0:02:34.760 --> 0:02:37.960 for real, I reckon that we kind of just went night. 0:02:38.960 --> 0:02:41.560 I might be completely wrong with my judgment, but the 0:02:41.560 --> 0:02:43.320 way that I see now is we're kind of lost 0:02:43.320 --> 0:02:45.720 it and it's just all love and support. Which it's 0:02:45.720 --> 0:02:47.760 a nice feeling because it kind of would be good 0:02:47.760 --> 0:02:49.639 to have that feeling four years ago when we're doing 0:02:49.639 --> 0:02:49.919 the show. 0:02:50.360 --> 0:02:52.400 Absolutely, and I guess there's been so many other people 0:02:52.440 --> 0:02:54.440 now that have gone through the show experience and can 0:02:54.600 --> 0:02:54.960 kind of. 0:02:54.919 --> 0:02:57.760 Take the label right. Each year there's a different villain. 0:02:58.600 --> 0:03:01.359 It's so funny. I did an interview a couple of 0:03:01.360 --> 0:03:04.000 months ago and Matt started this season like we've heard 0:03:04.000 --> 0:03:06.000 this and that about certain people, and I was like, yeah, 0:03:06.040 --> 0:03:08.440 you never know until you see come out. But honestly, 0:03:08.480 --> 0:03:10.640 some of these blokes made me look like an absolute state. 0:03:11.000 --> 0:03:14.200 Like I was like base level, Like these guys are 0:03:14.280 --> 0:03:17.080 common ever, so they they hit the top like I 0:03:17.080 --> 0:03:18.480 don't know how they're going to get any worse than 0:03:18.480 --> 0:03:20.959 some of these guys. I hate judging them saying that 0:03:21.000 --> 0:03:25.040 they're worse than ready because everyone is kind of under 0:03:25.040 --> 0:03:26.919 the same lebel end of the day's a villain or whatnot, 0:03:27.000 --> 0:03:30.560 or controversial, but people do other things like that are 0:03:30.800 --> 0:03:34.000 a bit more controversial than myself, like unin punchable, but 0:03:34.520 --> 0:03:37.280 I gave a chickah that I should not and really 0:03:37.400 --> 0:03:42.040 get doing. So there's different worlds, but I probably don't 0:03:42.040 --> 0:03:43.880 think they were a bit more controversial than me. 0:03:44.760 --> 0:03:47.800 It's interesting thinking back, like so much has obviously happened 0:03:47.840 --> 0:03:50.000 in the four years since you're on the show. You've 0:03:50.000 --> 0:03:51.960 had your twins, you've gotten married in real life, so 0:03:52.000 --> 0:03:55.480 it's easy to almost forget about the mass experience. I'm 0:03:55.480 --> 0:03:58.280 sure you've tried to many times. But in preparing for 0:03:58.360 --> 0:04:01.000 this interview, we kind of went back that headspace of 0:04:01.240 --> 0:04:03.680 the twenty twenty one news cycle. We found a few 0:04:03.680 --> 0:04:08.040 headlines just to kind of bring back the I guess 0:04:08.040 --> 0:04:10.440 the fact that you were in the headlines pretty much 0:04:10.440 --> 0:04:13.200 every day every week, especially you bryce. These are some 0:04:13.320 --> 0:04:16.720 of the headlines that stood out. The man who made 0:04:16.760 --> 0:04:20.400 me turn off married at first sight for good heavy, 0:04:20.640 --> 0:04:23.880 it's us against the world. Married at First Sights Melissa 0:04:23.960 --> 0:04:28.480 and Bryce forcefully deny claims their relationship is toxic. Yeah, 0:04:28.600 --> 0:04:33.040 there were investigations. Married at First Sight has been cleared 0:04:33.040 --> 0:04:35.680 by a media watchdog overclaims of gas lighting. In its 0:04:35.760 --> 0:04:39.720 latest eighth season, Bryce and Melissa's season of Married at 0:04:39.720 --> 0:04:43.520 First Site cleared of breach over abuse complaints. And then 0:04:43.560 --> 0:04:45.719 it wasn't even just the news cycle. There were also 0:04:45.839 --> 0:04:49.279 lawyers weighing in is Bryce from Married at First Sight 0:04:49.440 --> 0:04:51.159 committing family violence? 0:04:51.920 --> 0:04:53.560 Well, I do remember that one. 0:04:53.920 --> 0:04:55.200 I actually hear that one of you. 0:04:55.520 --> 0:04:57.719 Actually, that was one of the only ones that I 0:04:57.800 --> 0:05:02.479 did see us our screenshot is that Actually that was yeah, very. 0:05:03.680 --> 0:05:05.280 Oh you're surprised them the last one. I didn't have 0:05:05.320 --> 0:05:06.880 the last one. The other ones I've heard of because 0:05:06.880 --> 0:05:12.039 I don't read some repeat But look, I guess similar 0:05:12.040 --> 0:05:14.640 to like the previous seasons the last couple of years, 0:05:14.680 --> 0:05:17.159 Like there's a narrative and the media help drive it 0:05:17.520 --> 0:05:20.600 and not say singling you two for example. But there's 0:05:20.960 --> 0:05:23.360 like people that are in space that you guys are too, 0:05:23.360 --> 0:05:27.080 like whether it's podcasts like your news outlets, they do 0:05:27.160 --> 0:05:30.160 drive a narrative that's given to them from the lie 0:05:30.240 --> 0:05:33.120 or in the mole, and like it's just it comes out. 0:05:33.800 --> 0:05:36.159 You hear people say how they're showing and what loo 0:05:36.440 --> 0:05:40.080 it's it is true, Like it's not great to hear 0:05:40.240 --> 0:05:42.599 test's going out and say, hey, look it's the ed. 0:05:42.800 --> 0:05:45.920 But you've got to think what you've seen is clearly 0:05:45.960 --> 0:05:49.480 there and was part of myself, asks people doing the experiment, 0:05:49.520 --> 0:05:53.000 but what wasn't shown as well because you can't fit 0:05:53.040 --> 0:05:55.240 everything in. So there's obviously more to someone than what 0:05:55.279 --> 0:05:57.599 you see on that show, which is I guess why 0:05:57.839 --> 0:06:00.960 people and you say to me more than anyone, Like 0:06:01.320 --> 0:06:04.239 I said, to gravitate towards people who get the villain label, 0:06:04.279 --> 0:06:06.640 and I don't know whether it's the empathy that I've 0:06:06.640 --> 0:06:08.800 been their shoes and they reach out and say, hey, 0:06:08.880 --> 0:06:10.640 how is it? How do you hear look like you 0:06:10.720 --> 0:06:14.719 navigate this craziness. But to be honest with the pop 0:06:14.760 --> 0:06:16.680 I get the villain at it. On these shows, a 0:06:16.800 --> 0:06:19.640 number of the genuinely nice people away from the show, 0:06:20.000 --> 0:06:22.000 the ones that get the great label and look like 0:06:22.120 --> 0:06:24.840 angels and get the good at it, are onto the 0:06:24.880 --> 0:06:29.200 ones with the biggest egos. They're very much so self 0:06:29.240 --> 0:06:33.800 absorbed and they're not nice people. So it's yeah, it's 0:06:33.800 --> 0:06:36.440 so funny how this show creates characters and then you 0:06:36.480 --> 0:06:39.120 get headlines like that, which I'll create a character as 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:40.080 well in the public space. 0:06:40.200 --> 0:06:41.920 Why do you think that is too with the people 0:06:41.920 --> 0:06:45.280 that kind of go on to maybe get the good 0:06:45.400 --> 0:06:48.840 edit so to speak. Do you think production or the 0:06:48.880 --> 0:06:51.760 network sees something in them to propel them into like 0:06:51.800 --> 0:06:54.360 a more celebrity status or whatever it is? 0:06:54.680 --> 0:06:57.320 Bitty yes, and though to me, I purely put it 0:06:57.360 --> 0:07:01.760 down to heavy to be a producer puppet, like you're 0:07:01.800 --> 0:07:04.000 happy to be the one that goes and starts a 0:07:04.040 --> 0:07:07.200 drama like this year we saw Jamie on that, so 0:07:07.279 --> 0:07:09.880 like I've never met Jamie, that was spokano, but you 0:07:09.920 --> 0:07:12.760 can clearly tell her she was in there being told 0:07:12.840 --> 0:07:15.440 if Nation from produced sty you go and did a party? 0:07:15.440 --> 0:07:17.080 If you say this you so that bring it up 0:07:17.200 --> 0:07:22.840 like she's only been shown that context of creating conversations 0:07:22.880 --> 0:07:24.960 amongst the dinner table or in a group setting. So 0:07:25.360 --> 0:07:28.640 that is such an obvious sign that the producers loved her. 0:07:28.680 --> 0:07:32.120 And yeah, people like people didn't enjoy it. I've got 0:07:32.200 --> 0:07:34.760 nixed feelings on how I felt towards up sound good 0:07:34.760 --> 0:07:37.720 so bad? Yeah, I don't know if just to me, 0:07:37.840 --> 0:07:40.280 that's a prime example this year with Jamie. She was 0:07:40.400 --> 0:07:43.240 clearly producing puppet and they're trying to hate a picture 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:45.560 up Now. I might be wrong, she might be lovely, and. 0:07:45.800 --> 0:07:50.200 Hopefully she is Melissa for you. Obviously Bryce did get 0:07:50.200 --> 0:07:53.000 the villain at it. You had a lot of people 0:07:53.080 --> 0:07:56.040 weighing in, whether it was media, whether it was fans 0:07:56.040 --> 0:07:58.280 of the show, whether it was people on the show. 0:07:59.280 --> 0:08:00.880 How was that experience for you? 0:08:01.080 --> 0:08:03.200 Because correct me, if i we're onto Bryce, I think 0:08:03.200 --> 0:08:05.600 in once at any interview, maybe that you know, Melissa 0:08:05.640 --> 0:08:07.960 did speak up for herself. You guys had all these 0:08:08.040 --> 0:08:10.040 chats and whatever, and it just was never shown. 0:08:10.960 --> 0:08:12.240 Yeah, yeah, it was. 0:08:12.480 --> 0:08:15.800 It was quite a disappointing experience looking back on it 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:20.800 now considering what we lived through and what actually happened 0:08:21.080 --> 0:08:25.440 during our time filming, but then to see what was 0:08:25.440 --> 0:08:29.840 shown it was it was just so just so starkly 0:08:29.880 --> 0:08:34.440 different to what I'd lived and having people weigh in 0:08:34.600 --> 0:08:38.640 on our relationship. I clearly wasn't in a very I 0:08:38.679 --> 0:08:43.280 wasn't an experienced personal relationship, so I was hearing all 0:08:43.360 --> 0:08:47.120 these difference in opinion from people from all over the 0:08:47.160 --> 0:08:50.000 world about how my relationship should be. And look, the 0:08:50.040 --> 0:08:53.640 relationship was ever perfect, one perfect from the beginning. We 0:08:53.720 --> 0:08:57.320 never that wasn't ever something that we were trying to promote. 0:08:57.320 --> 0:09:00.000 But we were happy with our relationship and we were 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:02.480 building on it, and we were complete strangers when we 0:09:02.520 --> 0:09:04.719 first met, so of course it was never going to 0:09:04.760 --> 0:09:08.640 be perfect. But having everybody have their say, people are 0:09:08.679 --> 0:09:14.559 obviously providing their own real life examples and situations, and 0:09:14.960 --> 0:09:18.319 looking back, it wasn't great at the time, but now 0:09:18.600 --> 0:09:21.880 I see it as an opportunity that the show has, 0:09:21.920 --> 0:09:27.200 mainly from our season, opened the door to discussions about narcissism, 0:09:27.320 --> 0:09:35.520 gas lighting, coercive control, all of those horrible relationship you know, 0:09:35.720 --> 0:09:38.880 incidents that happened that many people have gone through, and 0:09:39.040 --> 0:09:42.040 what may have been perceived as what happened with us, 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:47.480 I think isn't true. It is edited, The whole series 0:09:47.559 --> 0:09:50.679 is edited. But I think it was a good opportunity 0:09:50.720 --> 0:09:54.079 for that conversation to open that door for those conversations, 0:09:54.080 --> 0:09:56.640 and here we are now. I think that would be 0:09:56.840 --> 0:09:59.760 highlighted as one of the top words gas lighting, narcissism. 0:10:00.720 --> 0:10:04.240 Yeah, we probably put it in a mass dictionary, So 0:10:04.360 --> 0:10:04.920 I think it's. 0:10:04.800 --> 0:10:05.280 A good thing. 0:10:05.800 --> 0:10:10.000 No fact, when you both watched the show, and even 0:10:10.040 --> 0:10:12.480 now when you look back after four years, what would 0:10:12.480 --> 0:10:15.760 you each say was your biggest regret from the whole experience. 0:10:18.120 --> 0:10:24.880 For biggest regrets, I definitely have to put up there, 0:10:25.040 --> 0:10:28.520 don't that's the biggest. But the biggest I would be 0:10:28.520 --> 0:10:32.480 being so gullible to retreat experience. Obviously it didn't look 0:10:32.520 --> 0:10:35.040 good and I haven't said that on the show. It 0:10:35.080 --> 0:10:39.599 didn't reflect Whine as a person, that whole interaction with 0:10:39.760 --> 0:10:42.880 back I kind of would have just stuck to my 0:10:42.960 --> 0:10:46.440 guns all that night and just separated myself from everyone, 0:10:46.679 --> 0:10:48.360 Like you can go back and see it. UK was 0:10:48.440 --> 0:10:51.360 like clearly away from everyone else, like at the very 0:10:51.440 --> 0:10:55.960 edge of around chair, Like it's we couldn't have tried 0:10:56.000 --> 0:10:58.720 to yeah situation anymore if we try. But I think 0:10:58.720 --> 0:11:00.560 that's what we might be to regret, because just what 0:11:00.720 --> 0:11:03.720 followed in the show added. But I agree with everything 0:11:03.760 --> 0:11:06.000 that was being written because it did all that way. 0:11:06.080 --> 0:11:07.880 Like for me, it's an outside I didn't look anything 0:11:07.880 --> 0:11:13.920 else but that it's just being completely stupid, so I couldn't. 0:11:14.120 --> 0:11:19.640 There's nothing I really regret that maybe just I was. 0:11:19.760 --> 0:11:22.600 I was so open and honest, but it just sort 0:11:22.679 --> 0:11:25.360 what edits without? Like you know, people go, you didn't 0:11:25.360 --> 0:11:29.360 stand up for yourself. You're a doormat and you only 0:11:29.440 --> 0:11:34.440 see an hour an hour's worth of footage while we're filming, 0:11:34.920 --> 0:11:37.960 as everybody says, twelve fourteen, sixteen hours a day. 0:11:38.080 --> 0:11:39.040 So it's. 0:11:41.320 --> 0:11:44.000 Just it was It's funny, like how was just said 0:11:43.960 --> 0:11:46.760 about being open and honest? Like people probably think that 0:11:46.880 --> 0:11:49.840 my biggest regrett is put in with fourth in that 0:11:50.800 --> 0:11:53.400 I must forget off forgot that one. That's obviously regret 0:11:53.480 --> 0:11:55.520 because of what hindsight's a wonderful thing. But at the 0:11:55.520 --> 0:11:59.640 same time too, being honest in those early stages kind 0:11:59.640 --> 0:12:03.280 of built the foundation for our stories today. Like there's 0:12:03.280 --> 0:12:06.040 obviously context missing at conversations like at that I put 0:12:06.080 --> 0:12:07.800 in the retreat, but I said, look, would I go 0:12:07.840 --> 0:12:10.440 up to you? Are probably not the rest of that 0:12:10.480 --> 0:12:14.000 conversation went to But that's why I've come to it's 0:12:14.000 --> 0:12:16.480 a mass the experiment to change my way to go 0:12:16.480 --> 0:12:20.160 other that sort of real niche target. I was looking 0:12:20.200 --> 0:12:23.240 for a female so but again that didn't make for 0:12:23.800 --> 0:12:25.600 interesting TV. So it's like, oh, would I go up 0:12:25.600 --> 0:12:28.240 to the bar. Probably not slice sites cut it out 0:12:28.480 --> 0:12:32.360 so it's you can see what but that whole conversation 0:12:32.400 --> 0:12:35.480 yourself looks negative on screen, but actually there at the 0:12:35.480 --> 0:12:37.560 time was good care. 0:12:37.760 --> 0:12:40.240 Yeah, man, what was that experience? 0:12:40.400 --> 0:12:40.480 Like? 0:12:40.559 --> 0:12:43.520 When the show starts airing on TV? You're kind of 0:12:43.960 --> 0:12:47.120 reliving the lowest of lows in your relationships and the 0:12:47.120 --> 0:12:49.040 moments of the fights and when you're not talking to 0:12:49.040 --> 0:12:51.840 each other, and then you find out that you are pregnant, 0:12:51.880 --> 0:12:54.080 which is arguably one of the highest of highs in 0:12:54.120 --> 0:12:57.640 a relationship. How did you navigate that experience? 0:12:57.960 --> 0:13:00.920 It was difficult. Thankfully we had a good support network 0:13:00.960 --> 0:13:03.320 around us in terms of our family and friends. Yeah, 0:13:03.400 --> 0:13:06.720 it was. It was tricky, but I basically just shut 0:13:06.760 --> 0:13:09.880 myself off from the show it being filmed, it aired, 0:13:10.000 --> 0:13:12.400 there was nothing we could do about it except about 0:13:12.960 --> 0:13:16.400 living our lives. And probably more fortunate for us that 0:13:16.520 --> 0:13:22.000 we didn't want because we weren't, because we weren't a 0:13:22.280 --> 0:13:25.280 couple that were considered successful. Even though we were, you 0:13:25.679 --> 0:13:28.640 didn't see us all of the billboards and at the 0:13:29.640 --> 0:13:36.960 lots of Grammy's getting invited that like we we obviously weren't. 0:13:38.000 --> 0:13:41.000 We weren't put up in spotlights, which you know, it 0:13:41.120 --> 0:13:44.200 was sad at the time and still is because you 0:13:44.240 --> 0:13:46.640 want to be you want to you want your relationship 0:13:46.720 --> 0:13:50.560 to be, to be you know, loved and appreciated and 0:13:50.640 --> 0:13:54.080 shown as being successful. But it's what made us quite humble. 0:13:54.120 --> 0:13:57.080 And we've just gone back to our lives. We still 0:13:57.120 --> 0:13:59.920 do things with social media and you know, go to 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:03.960 the odd event here, and then you know, we've got jobs, family, 0:14:05.040 --> 0:14:08.199 you know, we still struggle to make ends meet with finances. 0:14:08.200 --> 0:14:10.160 We're just like everybody else at the end of the day. 0:14:13.559 --> 0:14:15.360 It is interesting you bring that up too, because I 0:14:15.400 --> 0:14:18.679 think it was like, obviously the twenty nineteen season, the 0:14:18.800 --> 0:14:21.640 Jewels and cam love story was so promoted and whatever, 0:14:21.680 --> 0:14:24.120 and then you guys are like the most successful couple 0:14:24.640 --> 0:14:28.440 from your season, and what were you just like dropped? 0:14:28.480 --> 0:14:30.560 Did you feel like dropped by the network? Not supported 0:14:30.600 --> 0:14:31.280 by the network? 0:14:32.280 --> 0:14:35.520 I looked to me, there was ever that Camon Jewels 0:14:35.560 --> 0:14:38.360 Love network anyway, So you can't be if you don't 0:14:38.360 --> 0:14:41.440 have it. I really languish that we've. 0:14:41.240 --> 0:14:45.680 Had just the support even to even today. Deright that 0:14:46.360 --> 0:14:49.040 for me, like you watch Max still, you know, yeah, 0:14:49.080 --> 0:14:51.880 I watched it this season and I haven't watched it 0:14:51.920 --> 0:14:57.600 since our season. And you know, psychology and psychiatrists are expensive. 0:14:57.920 --> 0:15:01.120 You know that's that's older is still there that I 0:15:01.640 --> 0:15:04.840 still have to pay for myself now, So even just 0:15:04.840 --> 0:15:07.000 a little bit of support, you know, he and go, 0:15:07.200 --> 0:15:10.520 here's a lifetime psychiatrist for you would have been great, 0:15:10.600 --> 0:15:15.400 but left to our own devices, now we're on our own. 0:15:16.120 --> 0:15:19.000 There have only been a handful of couples that are 0:15:19.120 --> 0:15:21.560 still together after being matched by the experts. So it 0:15:21.640 --> 0:15:24.160 is a bit wild to think that you guys, being 0:15:24.200 --> 0:15:28.120 one of that small group that you're not celebrated by 0:15:28.160 --> 0:15:31.560 a Channel nine. Is not this recognition from fans that wow, 0:15:31.600 --> 0:15:34.120 they are the ones that made it. Have you had 0:15:34.200 --> 0:15:37.920 those sort of discussions or any discussions with other success 0:15:38.000 --> 0:15:41.360 couples about what it's like or is there a private 0:15:41.400 --> 0:15:43.760 group chat of all the math success stories. Is there 0:15:43.760 --> 0:15:44.760 anything like that. 0:15:49.040 --> 0:15:51.400 For a chat and saying good she might to others 0:15:51.400 --> 0:15:56.400 but not us on a level. But yeah, no, there's not. 0:15:57.080 --> 0:16:01.360 I remember when Jack and Tory last year we caught 0:16:01.440 --> 0:16:03.040 up with them and had a bit of a chat, 0:16:03.280 --> 0:16:07.320 like just about general life and whatnot. Obviously no longer 0:16:07.360 --> 0:16:09.120 to get up, but that like I suppose like that 0:16:09.280 --> 0:16:12.160 was still keen to sort of have a chat and whatnot, 0:16:13.640 --> 0:16:19.440 like heard nothing from Ree and Jeff Jack and like 0:16:20.320 --> 0:16:22.240 people reach out to us have to have a conversation, 0:16:22.360 --> 0:16:24.800 like I'll never go and reach out to them that way. 0:16:24.840 --> 0:16:27.040 It's like if people want to touch base us and say, hey, 0:16:27.640 --> 0:16:30.240 how do you navigate this crypt et cetera, I'm having 0:16:30.280 --> 0:16:32.480 answer afraid or have a chat or like respond to 0:16:32.480 --> 0:16:34.800 a message like I'm not going to be rare and 0:16:34.920 --> 0:16:38.000 just ignore it because I would have appreciated that support 0:16:38.120 --> 0:16:40.200 when we did it. So that's why I look at it. 0:16:40.240 --> 0:16:43.840 But no, it's just I don't know, like in terms 0:16:43.880 --> 0:16:46.440 of the whole thing. Celebrated the news like and having 0:16:46.480 --> 0:16:48.520 that connection, it's like it is what it is. Like 0:16:49.040 --> 0:16:52.240 remember last year we were in Sydney and we had 0:16:52.240 --> 0:16:55.360 someone from Channel nine was a digital team, was something 0:16:55.400 --> 0:16:59.280 to us about they were asking those dinner party things 0:16:59.320 --> 0:17:02.560 they do on the website. If we were ask if 0:17:02.560 --> 0:17:04.000 we were interested in doing it, because I said that 0:17:04.040 --> 0:17:06.000 are really keen to do it. Anytime that something goes 0:17:06.080 --> 0:17:08.399 up about us, it's their biggest hits on their website, 0:17:08.440 --> 0:17:10.160 so they want to try and make something of it. 0:17:10.200 --> 0:17:10.359 Was it. 0:17:10.440 --> 0:17:13.560 Yeah, we have a conversation you want, never had the conversation, 0:17:13.680 --> 0:17:16.160 never came Duncan and never learned doing it. So it's 0:17:16.200 --> 0:17:19.080 like stuff like that. And honestly, dugd is a great blake. 0:17:19.520 --> 0:17:22.000 Don't know much about Evelyn, but Dublan's cool. But I'm 0:17:22.040 --> 0:17:25.600 just like, that's a prime example, like they test the waters, 0:17:25.920 --> 0:17:28.520 something must happen, and then never ranged bacs. It's like, 0:17:29.320 --> 0:17:32.440 you probably probably do it because we'll give people a 0:17:32.440 --> 0:17:35.159 different perspective on us as actual novel people speaking to 0:17:35.160 --> 0:17:38.760 you now. So I think maybe it's a case that 0:17:38.840 --> 0:17:40.439 Channel and Iron just doesn't want to admit that they 0:17:40.440 --> 0:17:44.119 will roll with us. Maybe that's the case. I don't know. 0:17:44.680 --> 0:17:47.800 I mean that specific example is interesting because Duncan and Evelyn, 0:17:48.000 --> 0:17:49.679 I mean, I've always had great interactions with them. I 0:17:49.760 --> 0:17:51.600 like them as a couple, but they weren't a couple 0:17:51.680 --> 0:17:54.840 matched by the experts. They're not a success story. And 0:17:54.880 --> 0:17:58.119 when nine has this small group of success stories to 0:17:58.200 --> 0:18:02.520 choose from, that instead championning this other mismatched couple. So 0:18:03.280 --> 0:18:03.960 it's interesting. 0:18:04.320 --> 0:18:04.920 It wouldn't been. 0:18:04.920 --> 0:18:09.199 Nice just to even you know, they said, you know, 0:18:09.280 --> 0:18:13.520 after after filming, you know, you just don't hear from production. Ever, again, 0:18:13.600 --> 0:18:15.800 you don't hear from the psychologist that you spoke to 0:18:15.880 --> 0:18:20.040 and you know, gave everything to everything about your life 0:18:20.040 --> 0:18:22.960 too for months, and it's yeah, it's just it's just silence. 0:18:23.200 --> 0:18:25.720 And it just wouldn't been nice even if they were, 0:18:26.320 --> 0:18:28.919 you know, they someone that EPs had quite a bit 0:18:28.960 --> 0:18:31.560 to say about us after the show, and it just 0:18:31.560 --> 0:18:32.919 would have been nice eating to get in the room 0:18:32.960 --> 0:18:35.840 and sit down and actually say hey, like you know, 0:18:36.000 --> 0:18:38.280 clear the air maybe, or or go okay, well, this 0:18:38.359 --> 0:18:41.680 is why you know, you were purely there for entertainment. 0:18:41.760 --> 0:18:44.440 It just it just kind of was like crickets. 0:18:44.480 --> 0:18:48.639 So I will bring up one situation that did happen 0:18:48.680 --> 0:18:52.840 poshow that surprised me when we announced that we're engaged 0:18:53.000 --> 0:18:56.280 and expecting the boys. I remember I put a post 0:18:56.320 --> 0:18:57.800 up at the time and might even been a story, 0:18:58.359 --> 0:19:00.520 and someone read it was like a Q box and 0:19:00.560 --> 0:19:03.359 someone put on there had the experts and have reached 0:19:03.359 --> 0:19:06.119 out to checking and see how you're going. And I 0:19:06.200 --> 0:19:09.480 put somebody like, you're kidding yourself, right, like you saw 0:19:09.480 --> 0:19:12.840 how I treated this. To her credit, I'll give her 0:19:12.880 --> 0:19:16.240 a slight bit of credit. Mel Shirling actually reached out 0:19:16.880 --> 0:19:19.200 ya Instagram and said, hey, Bryce, don't give you a call. 0:19:19.960 --> 0:19:22.560 So I remember, we're in a car driving from Mornington 0:19:22.720 --> 0:19:24.359 up to Norwourn in the city, which is about for 0:19:24.359 --> 0:19:26.160 those who don't know, gift to me as the car, 0:19:26.240 --> 0:19:28.760 and she calls when we're driving up there, and that 0:19:28.840 --> 0:19:32.040 conversation was a bit. It was interesting because she's like, 0:19:32.760 --> 0:19:34.879 you know that, like technical, we're not allowed to do this. 0:19:35.000 --> 0:19:38.119 We can't follow participants, we're not supposed to speak to them, 0:19:38.119 --> 0:19:40.399 contracting all sort of stuff like even doing this now, 0:19:40.640 --> 0:19:42.919 I'm breaking my contractual agreemance with Trail Run. At end 0:19:42.960 --> 0:19:45.720 of myle and I said, I was very polite, so off, 0:19:45.760 --> 0:19:48.000 but in my mind, we're getting your full shit because 0:19:48.359 --> 0:19:53.480 you follow ex participant. You always commentated on me, so 0:19:53.560 --> 0:19:56.240 I've seen you responding on place and I'm like again, 0:19:56.320 --> 0:19:59.880 it's like it's that, it's one thing I can't say. 0:20:00.080 --> 0:20:03.240 It was like fake your us and like respect to 0:20:03.280 --> 0:20:05.040 mel don't know she's gone through some personal stuff and 0:20:05.080 --> 0:20:07.040 to help them, I hope to go well. Same time 0:20:07.080 --> 0:20:09.560 to him, like it's that fake. Nice to be fair 0:20:09.600 --> 0:20:12.159 of John, Like if John ever called me, I'd tell 0:20:12.240 --> 0:20:16.000 him to go jump, because he to me, was probably 0:20:16.000 --> 0:20:18.240 the most fake out of all of them. Off camera, 0:20:18.440 --> 0:20:21.200 you'd go through the hallways at that warehouse, like Bryce 0:20:21.280 --> 0:20:24.679 mate in the last side. Always loved it on the couch, 0:20:25.080 --> 0:20:28.120 so Bryce told me while we were Dickhead, and then 0:20:28.240 --> 0:20:30.080 at the end of the expa me. He's like, Bryce, 0:20:30.160 --> 0:20:31.800 I made it. Loved watching you. I can't wait to 0:20:31.800 --> 0:20:34.680 watch a back Australia and I love watching you. They're 0:20:34.680 --> 0:20:36.480 all of a sudden, Hey, where was the damn from 0:20:36.560 --> 0:20:39.520 john saying congrats guys on them getting engaged in the twins, 0:20:39.560 --> 0:20:41.920