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Speaker 1: Dot's good morning, Matthew.
Speaker 4: How is everyone?
Speaker 1: I'm awesome?
Speaker 4: That's quite awesome. Yeah that's a big statement. Why are
Speaker 4: you awesome?
Speaker 1: I just love life?
Speaker 2: Okay, nuts for some nights for some shout out to
Speaker 2: everyone doing it tough at the moment, I'm on struggle street.
Speaker 1: No, I'm trying to practice gratitude.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, stoicism. Stoicism, yeah, like just.
Speaker 3: Wake up and say, I fucking love life, even if
Speaker 3: you're stressed, you know whatever, Just.
Speaker 4: I love life, all right.
Speaker 1: Actually, I got one thing that I want to quickly
Speaker 1: say for everyone.
Speaker 3: That's a good little mindfulness activity, okay, which I should
Speaker 3: have said like a week or two ago when I
Speaker 3: mentioned that it was my NaN's eighty seventh birthday.
Speaker 1: We went out for.
Speaker 3: Lunch, just to the pub, me and all the oldies, okay,
Speaker 3: and they're all old, like eighties, seventies, and so I
Speaker 3: asked around the table, what was your favorite age, Like,
Speaker 3: if you could go back to a period of your life,
Speaker 3: what would it be. And I was curious, and I
Speaker 3: was thinking, surely they're going to be like thirties, maybe.
Speaker 4: Forties, eighteen twenties, yeah, full of life.
Speaker 1: They all said fifties and sixties.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 3: And if that doesn't put it into perspective for you
Speaker 3: that your best years are yet to come, then I
Speaker 3: don't know what does. Because I think we live in
Speaker 3: this world where you know, everything's like anti aging, and
Speaker 3: like there's so much pressure for all of us to
Speaker 3: like look as young as we can forever and botoks
Speaker 3: and this and that and just youth. But then to
Speaker 3: ask my eighty seven year old nan, like, what was
Speaker 3: your best ear she goes, I loved my late fifties.
Speaker 4: Did she say, why? No, It's interesting that they all
Speaker 4: said late fifties.
Speaker 1: Yes, they all went around They're like, yeah, fifties really good.
Speaker 2: I wonder why when did they I know, the retirement
Speaker 2: age now is like sixty five, right, probably even like
Speaker 2: when they were retiring earlier.
Speaker 1: Back then, Yeah, potentially maybe.
Speaker 4: They'd finally retired and they were like God and do
Speaker 4: just a.
Speaker 1: Really good perspective.
Speaker 3: Because another thing to add to this, I think when
Speaker 3: we're younger, we always think that older people are older
Speaker 3: than they are. So I was with my auntie the
Speaker 3: other day and we were talking about her house when
Speaker 3: I used to go and visit it when I was
Speaker 3: like under ten, and she had like this cool big
Speaker 3: staircase that i'd slide down because it was carpet, so
Speaker 3: we'd like put cardboard, and then she had a spa
Speaker 3: out the back and we'd always swim in her spa
Speaker 3: on the deck.
Speaker 1: And I had the realization the.
Speaker 3: Other day that when I would go to her house,
Speaker 3: to my annie and uncle's house and play and swim
Speaker 3: in the spa, they.
Speaker 1: Were in their thirties.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I'm like, so you were mine at Ajay's
Speaker 3: age when I was coming at your house, but back
Speaker 3: then to me, she was fifty something.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Do you know how like everyone always seems older, but
Speaker 3: then you actually look at like a fifty year old
Speaker 3: and then not old. So anyway, my lesson of the
Speaker 3: day everyone is your best years are yet to come,
Speaker 3: even though as we like get into our thirties, I know,
Speaker 3: like it's like, oh, I'm starting to get older, you know,
Speaker 3: because you're not your twenties anymore. No best years are
Speaker 3: yet to happen. People get excited everybody. If you're in
Speaker 3: the car right now, let's.
Speaker 2: Do a whoo one, two, three, whoo?
Speaker 1: Do you reckon anyone?
Speaker 4: Did it? I hope not? Anyway, But it's hard for me.
Speaker 2: We're playing foot seas, are we, Yeah, it's hard for
Speaker 2: me to feel inclined to agree with you because I
Speaker 2: have never felt rougher. I mean, clearly is in the
Speaker 2: fifties and sixties, maybe they weren't having big nights out
Speaker 2: and doing you know, who knows what, lots of bloody
Speaker 2: alcohol and big nights, like maybe they would just maybe
Speaker 2: that's why they enjoyed their fifties and sixties, is because
Speaker 2: they just relaxed and took a step back.
Speaker 3: Maybe, But I'm not even I'm not looking forward to
Speaker 3: relaxing in my fifties.
Speaker 4: I just think it's a good party in your fifties.
Speaker 4: Fucking oath, you're gonna be working in your fifties, no manifesting,
Speaker 4: do you reckon?
Speaker 1: You're going to work in your fifties?
Speaker 4: Yeah, look at the economy, darling.
Speaker 3: Aim to not work in my fifties, but you know,
Speaker 3: never know how it's going to go. But I just
Speaker 3: think it's a good thing to think you're best easy
Speaker 3: yet to come.
Speaker 4: And I don't know if they are because let me
Speaker 4: tell your story.
Speaker 2: On the weekend, I went to a wedding and it
Speaker 2: was a fabulous, beautiful wedding and it was amazing, and
Speaker 2: at the reception, they did this thing that I've never
Speaker 2: seen before. But I'm sure it's like very common or like,
Speaker 2: I'm sure lots of people do something similar to this.
Speaker 2: Each table was given a captain chosen by the bride
Speaker 2: and grooms. At the start of the reception, after they
Speaker 2: walked in and did their entrance, the MC was like, oh,
Speaker 2: they've chosen captains of the table, and you had to
Speaker 2: wear a sailor's hat. And the captain's job of the
Speaker 2: table was to make sure that the vibes were high,
Speaker 2: the drinks were full, and when the dance floor was open,
Speaker 2: the whole table got on the dance for and like,
Speaker 2: basically I was the I was chosen as captain obviously too.
Speaker 2: As soon as they said, oh, we've chosen someone, I
Speaker 2: looked around the table and went, well, obviously it's.
Speaker 4: Gonna be mad hello.
Speaker 2: And then and I forget there are a few other
Speaker 2: jobs that I had to do. But look, it was
Speaker 2: a rough night. When when you have to make sure
Speaker 2: everyone else's drinks is full, that means your drink has
Speaker 2: to be full as well, because you have to lead
Speaker 2: by example. So I had a big night. And there
Speaker 2: was a part where the MC was like, oh, all
Speaker 2: the captains need to come to the dance floor and
Speaker 2: show us your best dance move, like ready to get
Speaker 2: the dance floor going, and so you know, like everyone's
Speaker 2: a little bit awkward, and you know, I just felt
Speaker 2: like the vibes, like no one was giving one hundred
Speaker 2: percent with their dance moves. And I was like, these
Speaker 2: two only get married once fingers crossed, you know, so
Speaker 2: well what, yeah, I'm sure that out last forever, but
Speaker 2: so many marriages I don't.
Speaker 1: Remind you of something I want to talk about after this.
Speaker 4: Okay, that leads into that.
Speaker 2: And so I'm looking at some of the dance moves
Speaker 2: that some of these are the captains on the tableside
Speaker 2: and I was table eight, so I was eight to dance.
Speaker 1: Oh wait, did you have to dance one by one?
Speaker 2: Yeah, one by one, big dance off in the middle
Speaker 2: of the dance floor while everyone else was sitting down.
Speaker 2: So then everyone's doing their moods and they're doing like
Speaker 2: the sprinkler, or they're just doing like a light twerk,
Speaker 2: or they're just you know, moving like Donald Trump to
Speaker 2: the YMCA. It was just so I was like, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna have to bring the party here. So what do
Speaker 2: I do the worm? I get on the dance floor,
Speaker 2: I do the worm. Now let me paint the picture
Speaker 2: for you. I have done the worm plenty in my life,
Speaker 2: Like in high school, it was like, oh, God, Matt's
Speaker 2: still on the worm. Here we go, all right, the
Speaker 2: party's done. Matt still them. When I was doing drag,
Speaker 2: my signature move was the worm. Sometimes I pull the
Speaker 2: worm out as a drag queen and that was hilarious.
Speaker 4: And anyway, I was like, I'll do the worm.
Speaker 2: And because this is my friend Christina who got married,
Speaker 2: who I was, I was housemates.
Speaker 1: With for a violations Christine.
Speaker 2: Relations Christina and she so she was around like I.
Speaker 4: Did the worm.
Speaker 2: I literally pointed at her and was like, I hope
Speaker 2: you know exactly what's about to happen. And I did
Speaker 2: the worm because like she was around when I was
Speaker 2: doing all the drag and everything like that. Anyway, I've
Speaker 2: done the worm. I've gone. You know how you start
Speaker 2: the worm, You kind of put your hands down and
Speaker 2: then you roll down to the ground. Right when I
Speaker 2: put my hands down, my arms give out, my chest
Speaker 2: hits the ground.
Speaker 4: I am winded. I've broken masternum.
Speaker 2: I'm convinced something's fractured in my chest and my arm
Speaker 2: muscles have clearly been strained and ripped because I've got
Speaker 2: no upper body strength. But I'm in the middle of
Speaker 2: a dance or with one hundred eyes on me, and
Speaker 2: I went, I gotta do the worm.
Speaker 4: So I did my best attempt.
Speaker 1: Wait so you know, like went splat, So I didn't.
Speaker 2: I was still graceful, but my chest hit the ground
Speaker 2: so hard I've gone off crack something in there.
Speaker 4: I can't breathe. I'm winded.
Speaker 2: Do you remember when you're in primary school you're on
Speaker 2: the monkey bars and you fall off, you.
Speaker 1: Hit the ground and you win, and I've never seen.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, craz I remember.
Speaker 1: When kids would win themselves. Was at school and it
Speaker 1: was like a big deal and you're like you thought
Speaker 1: that I'm gonna die.
Speaker 2: Yes, So I can't breathe, but chest is like even
Speaker 2: still today. Oh like that, Oh like that's tender, Like
Speaker 2: that's real, real tender. I honestly think something's broken in there.
Speaker 2: I've broken a rib or something. And anyway, I couldn't breathe.
Speaker 2: But I was like, I go do the worm. So
Speaker 2: I did another four little you know what do you call?
Speaker 2: That were movements another born and I was like, oh
Speaker 2: my god, if I don't stop, I'm actually going to die.
Speaker 4: So I had to stop.
Speaker 2: And yeah, anyway, that was the thing, but my my,
Speaker 2: my reminder of the day that I want to say
Speaker 2: is like, I think we need to start showing up
Speaker 2: and not being as lazy when it comes to celebrating
Speaker 2: other people.
Speaker 4: Right, Like I was at this.
Speaker 2: Wedding, and fair enough, everyone's got a different kind of
Speaker 2: confidence level. But there was a bit before like the
Speaker 2: bride and groom came in and the MC was like,
Speaker 2: all right, we're gonna do some like, you know, because
Speaker 2: when they do their film, you know, the photography, the
Speaker 2: videographers will do their movie at the end, they're like,
Speaker 2: we're just gonna get some like, you know, shots of
Speaker 2: tables cheering and things like that, so we can edit
Speaker 2: that in and like make it look really fabulous. And
Speaker 2: again we're table lights. So they started with table one
Speaker 2: and everyone's going whoo. I'm like, these two just got married.
Speaker 2: Can we put a bit of energy in the room?
Speaker 2: I said to my table, because I didn't know I
Speaker 2: was the captain by this point, but I was already
Speaker 2: acting like it obviously.
Speaker 4: I said, everyone, get your napkins. We're all gonna stand up.
Speaker 4: We're gonna fling our napkins.
Speaker 2: Round, and we did, and our table was a vibe
Speaker 2: and then the MC was like, oh, I love that. Actually,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna make every table do that. So then everyone
Speaker 2: I had to get up with their napkins.
Speaker 3: I think it's just like the way that the world
Speaker 3: is now, Like going back to the conversation about concerts
Speaker 3: and how like Aeron looks like a stum mullet in
Speaker 3: the crowd, Like are we all becoming a little bit
Speaker 3: like that?
Speaker 4: Well, the thing that shocked me was so many people
Speaker 4: came up to me during the night and we're like, wow,
Speaker 4: just just love how much you love this couple.
Speaker 2: And I said to them, especially after a few drinks,
Speaker 2: I said, they only get married once. We need to
Speaker 2: show up for them and and and give them all
Speaker 2: of our love today. Like I doesn't I don't understand
Speaker 2: why people just like sit there, MOPI and like, don't
Speaker 2: get involved. I'm like, we got six hours at this reception.
Speaker 1: Let's spend fucking eighty.
Speaker 4: Let's fucking bring it for them, you know what I mean? Yes,
Speaker 4: I'm anyway.
Speaker 2: I I think I did bring the vibe, and by
Speaker 2: you know, only an hour or two into the night,
Speaker 2: everyone was on my level.
Speaker 4: So love it and that's what that's what you need
Speaker 4: to do.
Speaker 2: So scrollers, where your lesson of the day is look
Speaker 2: for your best years yet to come, and also bring
Speaker 2: the vibe to a wedding because everyone else will eventually
Speaker 2: join you. Everyone's just a bit nervous to be the
Speaker 2: first one to be a bit crazy.
Speaker 3: Not me, well, speaking about our weddings and stuff. I
Speaker 3: kind of was having a realize the other day that
Speaker 3: I'm in that era now where weddings are over. Like
Speaker 3: you know how when you go through your twenties and
Speaker 3: your late twenties, you go through the wedding season where
Speaker 3: all your friends are getting married and you've got a wedding,
Speaker 3: like four weddings a year or whatever it may be.
Speaker 3: I think, like, I'm thirty three and AJ's thirty seven,
Speaker 3: so like all of our friends are already married and
Speaker 3: have a couple of kids. Like you're probably like, yeah,
Speaker 3: you're you're my friend that's gonna get married.
Speaker 1: But it's kind of like the end of the wedding
Speaker 1: season for us, which is kind of sad. But then
Speaker 1: I was thinking second weddings, Yeah.
Speaker 2: Why you just wanted an excuse to have a bis up?
Speaker 2: Really exactly. I was like, second weddings, how long after?
Speaker 5: No, like we might like you got yeah, you mean
Speaker 5: they'll get a divorced But how about forty four forty
Speaker 5: five a second run of Wedding seven?
Speaker 3: So I'm here going I'm so sad wedding season is over,
Speaker 3: like all our friends are old now everyone's already married.
Speaker 3: Hang on, people can get divorced and people can have
Speaker 3: the wedding season all over again.
Speaker 1: So I've got that to look forward to.
Speaker 4: Do you reckon though?
Speaker 2: You spend all your money on your first wedding, as
Speaker 2: if you're even bothering with the second one.
Speaker 1: Well, my uncle has been married three times.
Speaker 4: Has he had big weddings each time?
Speaker 6: Nah?
Speaker 4: Little? Okay?
Speaker 1: Yeah I wouldn't either. And do you want to know
Speaker 1: what something else that's really funny?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Please?
Speaker 1: And I think it's actually.
Speaker 3: Because have you heard people say that getting being a
Speaker 3: divorced woman is quite chic? Like that's chic to be
Speaker 3: like I'm divorced, Like that's a status. I think what
Speaker 3: adds another level to it being chic is not changing
Speaker 3: your last name back.
Speaker 4: Not changing your last name back.
Speaker 3: So my dad married my mom and they broke up
Speaker 3: when I was really little. She still has his last name.
Speaker 3: He remarried my step mom. They broke up when I
Speaker 3: was about fourteen.
Speaker 1: She still has his last name and.
Speaker 4: He's just distributing the Saunders name.
Speaker 3: So they were out there with his surname from like
Speaker 3: twenty years ago. I think it's quite she if I'm
Speaker 3: being honest.
Speaker 4: To have the last name. Yeah, you know what, he's
Speaker 4: still got your name. Yeah suck.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like how funny that my step mom is still
Speaker 3: Jackie Saunders. Yeah, but they broke up like seventeen years ago.
Speaker 4: It is such a process to change your head bothered.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you got to do your medicare.
Speaker 2: I think once you do it, once you realize like
Speaker 2: how much you actually have to change every Like there's
Speaker 2: so much that you need to actually change that if
Speaker 2: you then got divorced, you'd go, I'm not going through
Speaker 2: that again.
Speaker 3: If I married a J, I wouldn't bother change in
Speaker 3: my last name. Yeah, And that's like I'm not even
Speaker 3: proud of my last name, you know what I mean. Like,
Speaker 3: so maybe someone like me would be like, yeah, I'd
Speaker 3: love to change it because like I have no pride
Speaker 3: in my last name anyway, no offense to the Saunders family.
Speaker 3: But I still think I just like wouldn't be bothered
Speaker 3: because just like so much effort, Like it's even effort
Speaker 3: to change it on Facebook.
Speaker 4: Get alone.
Speaker 1: Do you have to change it on you? You don't have
Speaker 1: to change on your birth certificate.
Speaker 3: No, but like medicare, bank bills, like everything else.
Speaker 7: Yess, passport and you know a lot of people get
Speaker 7: screwed because they change their name and then when they
Speaker 7: get on their honeymoon their names different.
Speaker 2: To what their name is because they've either booked with
Speaker 2: the married name or they've booked with the old name.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I've heard lots of stories about that people. Anyway, I
Speaker 2: don't want to stray too far away from the whole
Speaker 2: getting drunk and having a big weekend, because we do
Speaker 2: have someone who I need to interview on this podcast.
Speaker 3: Ye. We don't often have guests on this we don't,
Speaker 3: but when it's called for, we allow.
Speaker 2: Please welcome to the stage. Gay Jay, Oh god too?
Speaker 2: Is still hungover today from Saturday night?
Speaker 4: Is that correct? Probably?
Speaker 1: Hear it in my voice to be you're going to
Speaker 1: get in trouble.
Speaker 6: No, because I'm sober now, Oh okay, not drinking on
Speaker 6: the job.
Speaker 1: I am, yes, soay day talk us through?
Speaker 4: Can you just.
Speaker 2: Tell because I've got I've got a question for you,
Speaker 2: but I'm hoping you bring it up first. Can you
Speaker 2: tell us about your Saturday night?
Speaker 6: Okay, Well, we had a fabulous Saturday. We did a
Speaker 6: fridge to fridge.
Speaker 4: Oh, he brought it up. That's exactly what I wanted
Speaker 4: to bring up. Fridge to fridge.
Speaker 1: I've never heard of that.
Speaker 2: You got out of You left high school early, didn't you. Yes,
Speaker 2: it's notoriously like a year twelve fridge to fridge, So.
Speaker 1: You go to people's houses.
Speaker 4: Yes, you go from fridge to fridge.
Speaker 2: So if it's if it's us three, let's say the whole,
Speaker 2: but usually get like ten to twenty people involved. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and everyone's fridge has to be stocked with alcohol, so
Speaker 2: you just buy the alcohol to fill your fridge. And
Speaker 2: then we start at your house and we drink all
Speaker 2: your alcohol. Then we go to my house and we
Speaker 2: drink all that alcohol. Then we got to Xander's house,
Speaker 2: we gay Jay's house, and we drink all that alcohol.
Speaker 4: And in high school, you.
Speaker 2: Used to they used to bike ride from house to house,
Speaker 2: which is highly illegal and we don't recommend.
Speaker 4: How did you get from house to house fridge? We walked?
Speaker 6: Okay, Yeah, and then we also got an uber from
Speaker 6: one of them, because I mean, that's a story in itself,
Speaker 6: but we had to get an uber, and they're like.
Speaker 4: You cheated.
Speaker 6: You can't take an uber to the next house.
Speaker 1: So it's basically like a scavenger hunt.
Speaker 2: Not at all, but really if that's what it takes
Speaker 2: to understand it the ego. But I never got to
Speaker 2: do fridge to fridge because I didn't have enough friends
Speaker 2: that it would make sense, like this is my first one,
Speaker 2: oh first ever, and your how old?
Speaker 4: Thirty four?
Speaker 2: That is crazy, Like that's like imagine being thirty four
Speaker 2: and doing fridge to fridge. Like I saw your story
Speaker 2: and I thought that's got to be a joke because
Speaker 2: he put up a story of him like and everyone
Speaker 2: partying and he said fridge to fridge, and I thought, oh,
Speaker 2: that's a joke, because you know, surely not. But no,
Speaker 2: evidently you literally did a fridge to fridge.
Speaker 4: And I love that for you. So then, yeah, what
Speaker 4: else happened an the other tea?
Speaker 6: Look, I wasn't very well and when I got home,
Speaker 6: I may have gotten sick, which I haven't done in years.
Speaker 6: Like we're well beyond that part of my life.
Speaker 4: Apparently not that night.
Speaker 2: Wait, something's in the water because this is Saturday night. Yeah,
Speaker 2: this is when I was at the wedding. So I
Speaker 2: am notoriously not a vomita.
Speaker 4: Sorry to you morning. You're talking as in all of
Speaker 4: myself and the bed. Yeah. Yeah, like it was crazy. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I know.
Speaker 2: And I can't even tell you like why or how
Speaker 2: because I was actually feeling mixed drinks.
Speaker 4: Well I didn't know.
Speaker 3: Because I usually find that's when I would get seek
Speaker 3: if I have like wine and then I go to cop.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you what I actually know exactly what it was.
Speaker 2: That morning I woke up and I thought, oh, we
Speaker 2: got a wedding today. It's quite a big wedding and
Speaker 2: a long wedding because it was the Italian and Greeking
Speaker 2: Please drink responsibly, yes, because it's one of those weddings,
Speaker 2: you know, like there's the kind of ceremony itself was
Speaker 2: in like a big church and it was like two
Speaker 2: hours and it was like a mass sort of thing,
Speaker 2: like it was a very long day. And then we
Speaker 2: had the reception as well, and so we actually had
Speaker 2: this little break in between where from the church to
Speaker 2: the reception and we actually just went home, put our
Speaker 2: comfy clothes on and went out for lunch that morning.
Speaker 2: I thought, now, remember I don't have a gall bladder,
Speaker 2: so weddings, depending on what they serve, it could be
Speaker 2: a nightmare. I could be in the bathroom all night
Speaker 2: if it's like fried food or whatever. So I was like, right,
Speaker 2: I'll take a gastro stop and I'll really make sure
Speaker 2: that I have the like I'll take to to really
Speaker 2: make sure nothing happens because I'm going to be drinking
Speaker 2: and I'm going to be eating a lot of food
Speaker 2: that you know, usually I'm quite controlled with what I
Speaker 2: eat because I know without a gall bladder, I like,
Speaker 2: it can be dangerous.
Speaker 4: So I was like, let's just take precaution.
Speaker 2: Well, then we went to the church, Then we had
Speaker 2: then we went to lunch, We went to Lone Star,
Speaker 2: We went to start Yes and exist.
Speaker 4: Yes, can you still throw.
Speaker 6: The peanuts on the ground.
Speaker 4: That's a work and safety issue.
Speaker 3: Didn't they stop that because someone slipped and hurt themselves
Speaker 3: ensued them?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I think so that might be an old wives style
Speaker 2: like bit of a rumor, but it generally has to.
Speaker 6: Do with that place. You should have to, like, I mean,
Speaker 6: if they still did it you just signed something to
Speaker 6: say if I thought, it's my imber, that's.
Speaker 3: So vividly just like getting the peanuts and then throwing
Speaker 3: them on the floor.
Speaker 6: Had such a good childhood taste.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Anyway, we went to Lone Star. I got one cocktail.
Speaker 2: One cocktail which was delicious. It was called a blueberry ranch.
Speaker 7: It was delicious, but blueberry ranch, yeah, extreme blue.
Speaker 4: It doesn't have any ranch. It was just like a
Speaker 4: nice fruity blueberry.
Speaker 1: Ranch.
Speaker 2: And then I drank that, and then I ordered a
Speaker 2: fruit tingle as well, because when at lone Star, you
Speaker 2: do what you gotta do. And the fruit tingle came
Speaker 2: and like two SIPs into the fruit tingle, I was
Speaker 2: having stabbing pains in my gut, like, oh my god,
Speaker 2: it was ridiculous. I was like, geez, what is going on.
Speaker 2: I'm going into the bathroom to to because I think
Speaker 2: I'm going to be like I need to be seeing.
Speaker 2: The problem is I don't have gag reflex, which God
Speaker 2: bless but like like, no matter how far down my
Speaker 2: throat I put my fingers, I cannot throw up like this.
Speaker 4: I cannot vomit. I do you want me to do it?
Speaker 4: Right now? I will show you. I like, I.
Speaker 2: Can tickle down here and I will, like, obviously, I go,
Speaker 2: but I don't, like, I cannot vomit, right, so do
Speaker 2: it die? You know what YouTube exclusive, We'll do it
Speaker 2: on YouTube's cliffic No, but anyway, so I'm in there
Speaker 2: and I'm like, oh my god, please, for love of God,
Speaker 2: let's make it happen. And it wouldn't happen anyway. So
Speaker 2: then I leave the restaurant, go lay down in bed,
Speaker 2: like shivering in bed, and I just like had a
Speaker 2: one hour pound app. I woke up a million bucks.
Speaker 2: I was like, yep, we're on, and I was ready
Speaker 2: to have a good time at the reception and off
Speaker 2: we go. And then I took it slow to begin
Speaker 2: with at the reception and was like, I'll just sit
Speaker 2: and see how going. Then I was fine, and then
Speaker 2: I was eating and I was drinking, and then I
Speaker 2: was captain. So then there was more drinks, more drinks,
Speaker 2: more drinks. But the whole night I was fine. As
Speaker 2: soon as we got in the car, I went, WHOA,
Speaker 2: something's not right. I got home like I mean blackout.
Speaker 2: But it doesn't make sense in my mind because like
Speaker 2: the amount of drinks I had does not, so I'm
Speaker 2: still thinking. I'm still thinking, No, it's drink responsibly. But
Speaker 2: the point is, don't have gas strostop if you're going
Speaker 2: to drink.
Speaker 4: I gurgled. You're not meant to.
Speaker 2: Drink alcohol if you have gastros because it can make
Speaker 2: all the effects twenty times worse than like, like the
Speaker 2: dizziness you get from being drunk. Have a gastro stop,
Speaker 2: you are twenty times more susceptible.
Speaker 4: So I was.
Speaker 2: I was obviously sick because I had mixed the gastro
Speaker 2: stop with the drinks and my body, like I don't know.
Speaker 2: I was trying to google it and stuff like that the
Speaker 2: next day, and basically it's like, obviously, gastro stop stops everything,
Speaker 2: so the alcohol is just like trying to pass through
Speaker 2: and it can't.
Speaker 4: So like, so it's not not good idea to have
Speaker 4: gastro stop and alcohol. But I've learned my lesson.
Speaker 2: Next time, I ort to ship myself at the wedding
Speaker 2: because it's not worth it's not worth it.
Speaker 6: I just don't think I ate enough and I don't
Speaker 6: really drink anymore.
Speaker 1: Too hard.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but was it fun? Yeah?
Speaker 6: I had a great time. I went up to one
Speaker 6: of the tables that we have to stone Wall in Newtown.
Speaker 6: At the end, I went up tore that memes like
Speaker 6: love pink, you know what I mean. I just went
Speaker 6: up and yelled at them, and they all thought I
Speaker 6: actually loved pink. So we also seeing it.
Speaker 4: Who knew? Oh my god, dear mister president one with me.
Speaker 2: Imagine how crazy that she wrote that song how many Well,
Speaker 2: she didn't write it. I think she actually someone else
Speaker 2: wrote it. But she sung that song like how many
Speaker 2: years ago?
Speaker 4: Twenty years ago?
Speaker 2: It was about George W. Bush, wasn't it. Oh I
Speaker 2: could still be relevant today?
Speaker 1: Yeah, very true.
Speaker 6: Please be upstanding for the Royal Flush.
Speaker 1: Well, let's get onto our Royal Flush of the week.
Speaker 3: I feel like we haven't been doing our Royal Flush
Speaker 3: really properly lately, no, because.
Speaker 1: I feel like we never quite get there or we
Speaker 1: just do whatever we want.
Speaker 4: Our podcast, so who care? We're hopeless. Well, Mike, what
Speaker 4: you signed.
Speaker 3: Up for my Royal flush is And again it's not
Speaker 3: something I saw on the internet, but I think we
Speaker 3: should bring it back.
Speaker 1: Do you remember the Entertainment Book?
Speaker 4: Yes? My mum was obsessed with the Entertainment Book.
Speaker 3: Yes, And when you got it. It was like you'd
Speaker 3: won the lottery. And I remember getting that Entertainment Book
Speaker 3: and always going to one particular section, like I didn't
Speaker 3: give a crap about the whole book besides the one section.
Speaker 1: And I think it was like the bit that had the.
Speaker 4: Movies, Yes, movies and food.
Speaker 2: Yes, you have all your fast food, like you get
Speaker 2: RKFC like free chips if you bought a burger and
Speaker 2: you could get Greater Union or hoits.
Speaker 4: I don't know what it was at the time. I
Speaker 4: think it was Greater Union and it was.
Speaker 3: There like like Baskin Robins sometimes.
Speaker 2: But I think we had a Baskin Robins where I lived,
Speaker 2: so half the vouchers weren't applicable to me.
Speaker 6: And Robins again ice cream shop, oh okay.
Speaker 1: And I just think.
Speaker 3: The Entertainment Book walked so that the discount codes of
Speaker 3: today could run.
Speaker 4: Do you reckon it still exists. I'm going to Google.
Speaker 3: I think it is online. I think it's digital. But
Speaker 3: I think we need to bring back the Entertainment Book
Speaker 3: in its physical form because there was something special about
Speaker 3: getting that book and having those physical like, let's be honest,
Speaker 3: they just discount codes or gift with purchase, but the
Speaker 3: fact that it was physical made it so special.
Speaker 6: So they do still have it. But like they literally
Speaker 6: say on the website, the entertainment book has gone digital boring.
Speaker 4: It's all on.
Speaker 6: Like a webit right now.
Speaker 3: I want to bring back the book. They should rebrand
Speaker 3: and bring that back.
Speaker 2: I remember getting the book and it being like Christmas Dad.
Speaker 2: It's like you'd sit there and you would peel out
Speaker 2: and you go, all right, we're going to go there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we're going to go there.
Speaker 2: We're going to do this, and you'd plan out all
Speaker 2: your weekends and I'd be like right, and me and
Speaker 2: my sister wo'd fired as well.
Speaker 4: I go, no, I want the.
Speaker 2: Free small fries. Na, I'm having that one. You can
Speaker 2: have the free Sunday you know. Oh, we'd plan because
Speaker 2: it was it was specific to your location.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I looked it up and because I was like, wait,
Speaker 3: is this a Newcastle thing? But then I looked it
Speaker 3: up and it was Australia wide and then they just work
Speaker 3: with I guess Australia wide businesses or then local businesses.
Speaker 4: Yes, because I remember we'd have passes for the Reptile Park.
Speaker 1: Of its time, that is discount codes in a book.
Speaker 4: Why don't you just do it again? Do it yourself?
Speaker 4: Want to your own one?
Speaker 1: I want to?
Speaker 4: And how much was? I feel like I want to
Speaker 4: say the price point was like two hundred two hundred
Speaker 4: and eighty I.
Speaker 2: Could say, I think from memory it was like one
Speaker 2: hundred and eighty bucks, but you'd get like ten thousand
Speaker 2: dollars worth of saving.
Speaker 3: And like when we were kids, I only paid attention
Speaker 3: to that one fun little.
Speaker 1: Section, but now, yeah, I had time zone.
Speaker 3: As an adult, they would have been like all lovely
Speaker 3: restaurants like wineries, but I skipped all. Obviously I only
Speaker 3: cared about the fun beer. But I feel like I
Speaker 3: would appreciate that even more now as an adult. I
Speaker 3: reckon it could be brought back.
Speaker 4: Bring back the entertainment books Australia.
Speaker 1: Bring it back.
Speaker 6: I mean, I'm looking at the website now and like
Speaker 6: one of the deals is like seven percent of Sunglass
Speaker 6: Heart gift cards, but like you're only saving seven bucks
Speaker 6: if you're paying a hundred dollars. Yeah, that's very good.
Speaker 4: Is it?
Speaker 6: Another one? Here's three percent of Harvey Norman gift cards.
Speaker 6: You saving three dollars.
Speaker 2: Yeah, But the point is that's now two offers, you've
Speaker 2: saved ten dollars on if it's two hundred dollars.
Speaker 4: Accumulates like you get you get like there's like a
Speaker 4: thousand ten dollars. I reckon you.
Speaker 2: You really have to like use that bloody It's only
Speaker 2: for serious coupons.
Speaker 4: And my mum was a serious coupon her.
Speaker 2: She she what, momm That's where I get my frugalness from.
Speaker 4: My mom.
Speaker 2: Wouldn't spend anything if it wasn't with a discount or
Speaker 2: a coop.
Speaker 3: This is the thing that I think, like as much
Speaker 3: as I would be all for like the entertainment book
Speaker 3: or something like it coming back in a physical format,
Speaker 3: because that's so exciting, I think consumers have become so
Speaker 3: used to discounts now, Like remember back then it was
Speaker 3: really special to get that little coupon and it was
Speaker 3: it's like amazing. Whereas now with all the online brands
Speaker 3: and how everything is on sale and discounted and discount codes,
Speaker 3: I don't think the physical book would hold its value.
Speaker 4: Agree didn't think of that unless.
Speaker 1: You put extreme discounts in there.
Speaker 3: Because I feel like even now with a sale at Fate,
Speaker 3: we've got to do thirty or forty percent to make
Speaker 3: people even be half interested to shop it, which is
Speaker 3: insane for a business.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's what you got to do.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because people will give if it's a fifteen percent
Speaker 3: not bothered. Yeah, but there goes fifteen percent of profit margin. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so very interesting. So we need to do a high
Speaker 3: a high discount entertainment book, high.
Speaker 2: Discount entertained book. Who wants to be involved, will take,
Speaker 2: will take sponsors on board, and we'll do it.
Speaker 4: We could do it.
Speaker 2: See this thing, We could do it because we do
Speaker 2: it well, we do it properly exactly. One of this
Speaker 2: digital stuff ten percent off, wet and wild gold Coast.
Speaker 2: I reckon I could get a better find a better
Speaker 2: cannot code somewhere else on the internet.
Speaker 4: Movie World ten percent off.
Speaker 1: And then do we think the brands the brands would
Speaker 1: pay dream.
Speaker 4: World fifteen percent off? Competitive?
Speaker 6: That's actually a good deal. Fifteen percent off for dreamwork.
Speaker 1: Very much pensive to go to.
Speaker 6: How much Matt you would know you've just been. How
Speaker 6: much is a.
Speaker 1: Or did you go for free?
Speaker 4: My friend? Oh?
Speaker 3: Okay, well I think it's quite expensive, like one hundred
Speaker 3: and something dollars per person.
Speaker 6: I would to go to a theme park.
Speaker 2: Really Yeah, it was so fun and you know what,
Speaker 2: guess what do you want to know what the best
Speaker 2: part about Movie World was?
Speaker 4: It was crazy.
Speaker 2: We got the fast pass and we did everything.
Speaker 4: At Movie Well.
Speaker 6: It looked like it was kind of dead anyway when you.
Speaker 4: Went it was. It was not school holidays and it
Speaker 4: was a rainy day. It was perfect.
Speaker 2: I've actually never been to Movie World with such little
Speaker 2: amount of people there. It was a dream come true.
Speaker 2: But we got in like I'm with a theme park.
Speaker 2: I'm always like I'm there at gates open because like
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna waste any time. But we went in
Speaker 2: and like did a few rides and then we could
Speaker 2: use our fast pass later we did the whole thing
Speaker 2: and multiple like as in we went on rides twice
Speaker 2: for some of them, and we did it all in
Speaker 2: three hours with the fast pass. It was incredible. Oh
Speaker 2: my god, I was home in bed four hours after
Speaker 2: I arrived. It was amazing, Like that is what I need.
Speaker 2: Get in, get the thrill, get home, have a nap.
Speaker 2: I mean, I've also spent like all day at Movie
Speaker 2: Well before as well, and I just.
Speaker 1: Wish I was into theme parks.
Speaker 4: I know, she gets motion sick.
Speaker 3: I get sick like just on rides that are repetitive,
Speaker 3: but also I'm so scared of the ride fucking malfunctioning.
Speaker 4: Babes.
Speaker 2: Like, there's only one ride that I have actually been,
Speaker 2: maybe two. There's been two rides in my life that
Speaker 2: I've been like, I'm actually gonna die on this.
Speaker 1: Well, that's enough for me to not One.
Speaker 2: Of is the Veloca Coaster in Orlando. Seriously, the craziest
Speaker 2: fall of th stuff in the entire Like, like I
Speaker 2: got off that and I went, how is that legal?
Speaker 2: America has no safety standards? Because what I'm like, I
Speaker 2: don't understand. Oh the part where like you're going like
Speaker 2: one hundred kilometers an hour and you just hang upside
Speaker 2: down like this, remember the photo of me with my
Speaker 2: arms up upside down. There's this thing called the Mosesaurus
Speaker 2: roll where it like rolls over the water and your
Speaker 2: head's like that far off the water. There's like that,
Speaker 2: just the speed at which it goes and the turns
Speaker 2: and the everything. I'm like, that truly.
Speaker 1: Is like flash vibes.
Speaker 4: Yeah, anyway, I did it five times and ended up
Speaker 4: with a concussion.
Speaker 1: Wasn't that when you said you feel like your brain
Speaker 1: was shaking around.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, my brain was literally like like it was
Speaker 2: like a detached from my skull and was just like
Speaker 2: rolling around inside my head.
Speaker 4: Good times.
Speaker 2: But the other one, the other one that I was like,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna die on this wild mouse at Luna Park.
Speaker 4: Have you ever been on that?
Speaker 2: It's like one of those like sharp yeah, but you like,
Speaker 2: go over one is scary.
Speaker 6: You feel like the thing is going to fall off.
Speaker 2: You feel like you're literally going to fight off the
Speaker 2: track and into Sydney Harbor and you're like, well, I'm drowning,
Speaker 2: Like I'm drowning.
Speaker 6: I worked in a theme park when I was in
Speaker 6: the States performing and so we just used to go
Speaker 6: around in our break and do all the riots every
Speaker 6: day cheers.
Speaker 1: I'm too scared.
Speaker 4: I'm very farm huh not, it's very farm.
Speaker 6: Not what's that?
Speaker 4: What what theme park was?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 6: It was Bush Gardens, which is part of the Sea
Speaker 6: World Corporation. So all their all their theme parks and
Speaker 6: themes around like ourss Europe, so all the garden yeah,
Speaker 6: Bush Gardens, b U, s c H.
Speaker 4: Not bushes.
Speaker 1: And I want to go to the one where it's
Speaker 1: different worlds in one and you drink.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, hello, Oh is that where James Charles did that?
Speaker 3: I've just seen people on TikTok because there's all different
Speaker 3: themes and they go and have a different drink at
Speaker 3: each world.
Speaker 1: See, I'd be doing that while you get your brain rattled.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Nice, we're back to drinking.
Speaker 2: Well, I have a question for you that has to
Speaker 2: do with my royal flush. Okay, do you when you
Speaker 2: were younger, like, have you heard the term Debbie Downer before?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: And did your mum used to say Debbie Downer like
Speaker 2: when you were like, don't be a Debbie.
Speaker 4: Downer when you were little? Right, well, here's here's the
Speaker 4: tea on Debbie Downer. Right, so Debbie Downer. We as
Speaker 4: Australians remember, did your parents say Debbie Downer when you
Speaker 4: were younger? I don't be a Debbie Downer?
Speaker 6: No, that wasn't really now vernacular.
Speaker 1: K Maybe Xander had nice parents.
Speaker 6: Yeah, well they're still together, so it says a lot.
Speaker 1: I didn't mean that to sound you're a bitch again.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's horrible, A bit so episode A bit.
Speaker 6: So.
Speaker 2: Debbie Downer is obviously someone who like brings down the moon,
Speaker 2: depressing Debbi, you're a bit of a Debbie Downer.
Speaker 4: We know that.
Speaker 2: I was always under the impression that it was like
Speaker 2: a common Australian term. Rachel Dratch, who did it on SNL,
Speaker 2: the Debbie Downer skit. I learned not long ago that
Speaker 2: she originated the term Debbie Downer with that skit. In
Speaker 2: two thousand and four is when it aired. She was
Speaker 2: in an interview and she said, yeah, I know that
Speaker 2: it's like a thing that everyone says now, but like
Speaker 2: I came up with it. And she took the credit
Speaker 2: for it and said, I came up with Debbie Downer,
Speaker 2: and I know that now you may not have even seen.
Speaker 1: The sketch, Like how long ago was the sketch?
Speaker 4: Two thousand and four, twenty two years?
Speaker 2: Okay, So she's like, I came up with Debbie Downer.
Speaker 4: I called bullshit.
Speaker 2: I went, there's no fucking way she came up with
Speaker 2: Debbie down because I know my mom who would say
Speaker 2: Debbie down Well, I feel like yes, But then two
Speaker 2: thousand and four, how old was I in two thousand
Speaker 2: and four, God, don't maybe do the.
Speaker 4: Mass I was eleven, yeah, ten, But I.
Speaker 2: Think to myself, like I think I heard my mum
Speaker 2: saying it before I was ten years old. But then
Speaker 2: who actually knows, because how do you know what age
Speaker 2: you were when you were what was happening?
Speaker 4: Like, I don't know.
Speaker 3: How do you know when you ate what you were
Speaker 3: when you when you you know.
Speaker 2: That little boy that says that anyway, So I need
Speaker 2: someone somewhere.
Speaker 4: This is a message to the scrollers.
Speaker 2: Someone somewhere needs to confirm for me that like Australia
Speaker 2: was using Debbie Downer before Rachel did this skit because
Speaker 2: she said, but then I've tried googling and I've tried
Speaker 2: to figure it out, and I've tried to find any
Speaker 2: other like the Debbie Downer did not exist to my
Speaker 2: knowledge before she created the character, and the character's name
Speaker 2: was Debbie and they called her Debbie Downer and said,
Speaker 2: don't be a Debbie Downer because.
Speaker 3: She maybe it was negative Nancy and you're just getting
Speaker 3: it mixed up.
Speaker 2: Maybe we had, But then, see where's negative Nancy come from?
Speaker 2: Was that before or after Debbie Downer?
Speaker 1: Could be before.
Speaker 2: I've just googled and it says like Google says that
Speaker 2: the term originated from Saturday Night Live. She came up
Speaker 2: with the idea for the character. While on a solo
Speaker 2: vacation in Costa Rica, at a communal dining table, a
Speaker 2: stranger asked where she was from, and, upon hearing New York,
Speaker 2: asked if she had been there during nine to eleven attacks,
Speaker 2: causing the conversation to immediately grind to a halt. And
Speaker 2: that's what the character's whole thing is like. Obviously, the
Speaker 2: person who just like, sorry, but I just I just
Speaker 2: don't believe it. I just don't believe that she came
Speaker 2: up with Debbie Downer. And I also don't believe that
Speaker 2: if she did come up with Debbie Downer, it went
Speaker 2: so far into the zeitgeist that my parents, who definitely
Speaker 2: never would have could. We didn't have cable TV, so
Speaker 2: we weren't watching Saturday Night Live. We didn't have the Internet,
Speaker 2: so where's my mom and dad. We didn't have Fox Tell,
Speaker 2: we didn't have nothing, and Saturday Night Live, I believe,
Speaker 2: has never been on free to air here in Australia.
Speaker 2: So my thing is, how has it gone into my
Speaker 2: mum's language to the point where she said it quite
Speaker 2: a lot for it to have an impact to me.
Speaker 1: I've got a question about Saturday Night Live. Yeah, is
Speaker 1: it actually live?
Speaker 4: Yes, it's in the name.
Speaker 1: Wait, but they're spending their Saturday night doing that.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: The concept of the show is each Monday, they come
Speaker 2: in and write the show for that Saturday, and they
Speaker 2: have that week to rehearse and perform at live Saturday Night.
Speaker 1: And is it every week?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's still happening now. So all those really
Speaker 3: famous people work on Saturday nights.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but that's how they get their start. Yeah, put
Speaker 2: in the work on Saturday nights, gotcha. And also entertainment
Speaker 2: in general is Saturday Night?
Speaker 1: So true? But I'm also like fuck that. I hate
Speaker 1: working weekends.
Speaker 4: Yeah, some of us have.
Speaker 6: They're also like they're in New York, so like, shout
Speaker 6: out to everyone working on ourd weekends.
Speaker 3: I mean, speaking from someone that used to work in hospitality,
Speaker 3: I'm scarred from it now.
Speaker 1: I just love my Monday to Friday.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 2: See, I can't think of anything worse than a Monday
Speaker 2: to Friday.
Speaker 1: See, that's like the ideal for me.
Speaker 3: But it's always like, yeah, when you work Monday to
Speaker 3: Friday and you have your weekends off, like, I love
Speaker 3: that so much. I love the weekends. I love Saturday
Speaker 3: and Sunday, and I love Friday alvo like finishing work
Speaker 3: and knowing it's the weekend. But then I speak to
Speaker 3: people that work weekends and they're like, nah, fucked, I
Speaker 3: don't care about the weekend.
Speaker 1: Isn't that so funny?
Speaker 4: But what are you doing on a weekend?
Speaker 1: Going out for dinner?
Speaker 4: But why can't you do that on a Saturday? Anyway?
Speaker 1: You can?
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you had a job, Like, if you worked
Speaker 2: nine to five on a Saturday, why can't you go
Speaker 2: out for dinner on a Saturday night?
Speaker 3: Because I don't like going out the night before or work.
Speaker 2: I think that's like a you problem, though. I think
Speaker 2: it's got nothing to do with work. It's just that
Speaker 2: you don't want to go out for dinner the night
Speaker 2: before work.
Speaker 3: I go out for dinner some weeknights.
Speaker 4: So then you could do it on a Saturday.
Speaker 1: Yeah you could if you worked.
Speaker 2: Just trying to poke holes in your argument, because I
Speaker 2: fucking love working weekends.
Speaker 4: I love it. I love it.
Speaker 2: I think it's better than a nine to five. What
Speaker 2: about you?
Speaker 6: No, because like no one else is working, so like,
Speaker 6: why you know what I mean?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I guess no one else in your lives though,
Speaker 4: but like I'm in entertainment.
Speaker 2: All my friends are drag queens, All my friends are DJs,
Speaker 2: everyone is.
Speaker 1: It depends on you.
Speaker 2: All my friends are making sure you have a good
Speaker 2: night out on a Saturday night.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so if you're in that industry, that makes complete sense,
Speaker 3: like thee nights.
Speaker 6: Oh, for fucking years, I was working three jobs and
Speaker 6: doing double shifts on the wheels, like I never want
Speaker 6: to do.
Speaker 1: That again, neither.
Speaker 3: I've got PTSD honestly or not actually, but from like
Speaker 3: doing split shifts at restaurants.
Speaker 2: I've never done a split shift in my Oh well
Speaker 2: I did, but it was a call center, so that's
Speaker 2: a bit different. But I've never done a split shift
Speaker 2: like at a rast. I actually think that is crazy.
Speaker 4: To see you in.
Speaker 3: Four hours, three hour break and you go home and
Speaker 3: I would just sit on my bed and go, okay,
Speaker 3: I can't do any I did.
Speaker 6: I would work at the gym at reception in the morning,
Speaker 6: and then I'll do I used to do support work,
Speaker 6: and I'd go do support work in the afternoon, and
Speaker 6: by it come around to Monday and I'd be exhausted
Speaker 6: and not relaxed at all.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I had a most three jobs at one time.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I've always had.
Speaker 3: My time was McDonald's, Baskin Robins, and Subway.
Speaker 6: I felt like I was making more money then, but
Speaker 6: I definitely wasn't, but I always I felt richer.
Speaker 2: We just had this conversation the other day, in fact,
Speaker 2: I think it was Saturday at the wedding.
Speaker 4: We were talking about.
Speaker 2: How years and years and years and years ago, Like
Speaker 2: I mean even when I was like eighteen, sometimes you'd
Speaker 2: feel like you'd work all week and like one hundred
Speaker 2: and eighty bucks would land in your account and you'd
Speaker 2: be like, oh fucking reach.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and it had last ye as well, that I'll
Speaker 4: get you through. You'd like Matt Worries.
Speaker 3: When I was working full time, like after working all
Speaker 3: through my hospitality jobs, retail, and then I finally wound
Speaker 3: up in the nine to five admin jobs. My dream
Speaker 3: I would have been twenty. My dream was to get
Speaker 3: myself an admin job one day that I could earn
Speaker 3: one thousand dollars a week fifty two grand a year,
Speaker 3: And I shit you not, I remember going if I
Speaker 3: can do a thousand bucks a week, like I'm going
Speaker 3: to be set, like I'm gonna have because maybe I
Speaker 3: was taking home five hundred bucks a week in my
Speaker 3: full time job, and then I thought, if I can
Speaker 3: get to one thousand dollars a week, I'm going to
Speaker 3: be loaded.
Speaker 6: Like oh my god on that now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, isn't it crazy how much it's changed.
Speaker 3: Like I remember that being my absolute dream goal, fifty
Speaker 3: two grand a year salary for one of my admin jobs.
Speaker 1: And I never got there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like for like three years making two hundred dollars
Speaker 2: a week because I was like, that's enough, that's enough, that's.
Speaker 4: All I need. This is the way. It is a
Speaker 4: long long time ago, but I was like, that's all ready.
Speaker 4: The time.
Speaker 6: I was never without money. I remember the first without
Speaker 6: money on two hundred dollars a week grand the first year,
Speaker 6: and I was like, oh you earned what the first
Speaker 6: time I earned it? A fifty grand? Ever, I was like,
Speaker 6: oh my god, like I'm on like so much money.
Speaker 2: I did hate though, getting the like end of financial year,
Speaker 2: like you know, what do you call it when you
Speaker 2: get your how much you've earned for the year, And
Speaker 2: I'd got a statement.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I remember seeing that and it was like
Speaker 3: total earnings eleven thousand dollars for the year.
Speaker 1: And then I where did I spend that.
Speaker 4: How insane? I know you earned eleven thousand dollars like
Speaker 4: one year.
Speaker 3: I remember my tax returned being nineteen grand I earned
Speaker 3: in a year. And that's when I was like not
Speaker 3: in school.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the first time I like hit the tax free
Speaker 2: threetold which used to be I think they've brought up
Speaker 2: now it's like twenty something.
Speaker 4: I think it's eighteen was it lower?
Speaker 1: You know payday super is starting now? Who payday Super?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 6: So that to pay it every time?
Speaker 4: You get paid every week.
Speaker 1: Or like yeah whenever you get paid.
Speaker 6: Yeah, where I get paid monthly, which love you knowver
Speaker 6: so much, but monthly absolutely destroys.
Speaker 3: So I can understand that owning a company, because we
Speaker 3: at Fate pay weekly and that's because we started out
Speaker 3: paying weekly when Fate was small. But now we've got
Speaker 3: like sixty employees, so doing payroll is a weekly task
Speaker 3: for us.
Speaker 6: Is it a big like how big a job is
Speaker 6: it to like get good?
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know, it's not that big of
Speaker 3: a job now because of all the softwares that you use,
Speaker 3: But like before all those softwares, it was like very manual,
Speaker 3: but it's still pretty clunky when you've got retail staff
Speaker 3: that like have different rosters every week, whereas when you
Speaker 3: got people like working.
Speaker 6: Full time, and I guess it would be easy if
Speaker 6: like you're doing things like invoices and all sorts of stuff,
Speaker 6: it might be easier to do that just once a month.
Speaker 3: Yes, that's why big companies pay once a month, because
Speaker 3: then it's like this big once a month job rather
Speaker 3: than every week. So we've kind of shot ourselves in
Speaker 3: the foot by doing weekly because now it's a weekly
Speaker 3: job for us. Yeah, okay, but it's better for the
Speaker 3: staff to get paid weekly rather.
Speaker 6: Than have a budget of the month. I'm like, Jesus,
Speaker 6: I've never been so bored.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've never been paid.
Speaker 4: From though when like the big lump thumb hits your account.
Speaker 6: Oh, it's absolutely incredible.
Speaker 1: I only ever got paid weekly in all my jobs
Speaker 1: that I had.
Speaker 2: There was only one time that I worked for like
Speaker 2: four or five weeks but they hadn't done I don't
Speaker 2: know if it was my fault or not, can't remember,
Speaker 2: but something was wrong with my tax they or the
Speaker 2: bank so they couldn't pay me. Yeah, and they were like,
Speaker 2: we'll pay you, but like, we just have to figure
Speaker 2: this out and I think I worked for like four
Speaker 2: weeks and then finally got paid, and.
Speaker 4: I was like, oh my god, it's so much money.
Speaker 4: It's like eight hundred bucks.
Speaker 6: It's like when you have to like do you have
Speaker 6: to like sign in to work or you mess up
Speaker 6: your signing and I forget what you sign in and
Speaker 6: you'd forget to fix it and go, oh, I didn't
Speaker 6: do my signing for these days ago. Well, yeah, I
Speaker 6: can't have to wait till next time you get paid.
Speaker 2: Now, my god, do you want to know what one
Speaker 2: of the call centers that I was at, you had it?
Speaker 2: You the only only the time you on the phone
Speaker 2: was what you got paid. And I didn't even know that. Like,
Speaker 2: so if my shift was like eight till four, if
Speaker 2: I only was on the phone to a customer for
Speaker 2: like four of those eight hours, let's say just because
Speaker 2: like no one's coming.
Speaker 6: God, no wonder they go around in bloody circles when
Speaker 6: you're trying to get help.
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, but I wasn't. I wasn't customer service. I
Speaker 2: was like I was working for well, there were no
Speaker 2: there was one customer service that was different that was
Speaker 2: getting paid by the hour, but there was one where
Speaker 2: it was like raising money for charity, which was just
Speaker 2: I like went in for the job because it was
Speaker 2: to raise money for the Kids Cancer Project, which I
Speaker 2: was really like passionate about, and I was like, yeah,
Speaker 2: I love this, like raising money for kids with cancer,
Speaker 2: Like I'm all about that, Like I'm gonna love this job.
Speaker 2: When I was younger, my you know your cousin, that
Speaker 2: isn't your cousin You just say cousin.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: He died of leukemia when I was like six, and
Speaker 2: so I was like really passionate about that. And then anyway,
Speaker 2: I got in there and they could tell that I
Speaker 2: was good, so they moved me to a different team
Speaker 2: and they were like, oh, well this team is struggling.
Speaker 4: You're so good.
Speaker 2: We're going to take you off Kids Cancer Project and
Speaker 2: we're going to put you on New South Wales Rural
Speaker 2: Fire Service. Now shout out love your work, but not
Speaker 2: passionate about that at all, fucking out and calling and
Speaker 2: saying hello, kids with cancer, I want to donate, easy
Speaker 2: sales calling. It's like Rural Fire Service, would you like
Speaker 2: to donate?
Speaker 4: Nah?
Speaker 2: No one, No one wanted to talk to me at
Speaker 2: all about that. So I ended up hating it. But
Speaker 2: where was I going with this?
Speaker 1: No idea?
Speaker 2: Yeah, but that okay, yes, so with that one. When
Speaker 2: I got to the real fire service, there were times
Speaker 2: where I was just like, oh fuck, I can't do this,
Speaker 2: Like I just I couldn't give a shit. Sorry, but
Speaker 2: that was my attitude. I was like, I was really
Speaker 2: pissed off that they'd taken me off a project that
Speaker 2: I was like passionate about and like put me here
Speaker 2: to like fix this mess of a team.
Speaker 4: That wasn't doing well.
Speaker 2: And I was just like, oh, so I just like
Speaker 2: go to the bathroom for twenty minutes, just sit in
Speaker 2: there and just sit down and.
Speaker 4: Have a break. You know.
Speaker 2: Then I realized when I got paid that it was
Speaker 2: only when you were on the phone that he actually
Speaker 2: got Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't reckon they would allow that anymore.
Speaker 2: Oh, that company got done. That company I ended up getting.
Speaker 2: I ended up getting, well, it was this big deal.
Speaker 2: But I believe I got fired for being gay because
Speaker 2: the team leader at the place that I went to,
Speaker 2: which he has no affiliation with the rural fire Service,
Speaker 2: he just worked for the company that you know in
Speaker 2: the call center homophobic as and all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: one day it just I overheard a conversation.
Speaker 4: I made a YouTube video about this. Do you remember
Speaker 4: this story?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I overheard a conversation and I can't even remember what
Speaker 2: happened now because this is back in like two, twenty thirteen,
Speaker 2: twenty fourteen. I want to say, but I ever heard
Speaker 2: a conversation of them, Like I was the only gay
Speaker 2: in the office in the in the village, in the village,
Speaker 2: and they were, you know, saying homophobic things. Didn't hear
Speaker 2: my own name, but thought it was about me, And anyway, then.
Speaker 6: Well it doesn't matter, it's about you regardless.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, true.
Speaker 2: And then anyway, then I was calling to have a
Speaker 2: meeting with HR and they were like, oh, your behavior
Speaker 2: in the workplaces And I was like, I don't even
Speaker 2: talk to anyone here, like apart from hello, how are you?
Speaker 2: And then we just sit and we are on the
Speaker 2: call center like there was no work culture. There's no
Speaker 2: work culture at a call centerp for the most part,
Speaker 2: no one's like talking to each other because everyone's on
Speaker 2: the phone. So you can't really have a conversation with
Speaker 2: your partner next to you at your desk because like
Speaker 2: they're on the phone. And then when they're not on
Speaker 2: the phone, You're probably on the phone. And then like
Speaker 2: everyone takes their break different times, like they'll just come
Speaker 2: over and tap you on the shower and go break time. Obviously,
Speaker 2: they don't want everyone to kind and break it once.
Speaker 2: They want people to be on the phone at all times.
Speaker 2: So anyway, and I was a fucking loser with no
Speaker 2: voice back then, so I just took it.
Speaker 4: On the chin and I was like, Okay, sorry for
Speaker 4: being gay. Bye. And then these days i'd go lawsuit.
Speaker 2: And you know what, Funnily enough, a bunch of people
Speaker 2: took them to court for workplace harassment, homophobic abuse, blah
Speaker 2: blah blah blah and one and the call center is
Speaker 2: shut down and they tried to reopen under another name,
Speaker 2: and they got shut down again for the exact same thing.
Speaker 4: And now they do not exist.
Speaker 1: So see y'all.
Speaker 4: Say love, I'll say larvae.
Speaker 3: Well that's another episode, done and dusted. This episode was
Speaker 3: a rollercoaster it speaking of the parks and I feel
Speaker 3: like it was and he didn't even laugh at it.
Speaker 2: There was a bit of a close friends as well.
Speaker 2: It was this felt very close friends. It did too
Speaker 2: much gay j for my liking.
Speaker 6: I try to be quiet.
Speaker 4: You bring me in.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, you did invite him in for that interview.
Speaker 4: True.
Speaker 2: We won't be doing that again anyways, Scholars, Thank you
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Speaker 1: Word of mouth, people, please mouth.
Speaker 2: Word of mouth. What else do we have to say?
Speaker 2: Leave us a comment? Have you checked the comments lately
Speaker 2: on Spotify?
Speaker 4: Wait?
Speaker 3: I got to do this at the end of every episode.
Speaker 3: Now I forgot last week.
Speaker 4: I think find a final comment read Britta.
Speaker 1: Wait, can I get my own little special audio.
Speaker 6: Like comment of the week. But yeah, we can make
Speaker 6: one because.
Speaker 1: Matt's got Matt's end of the week. Can I have
Speaker 1: Britney's comment?
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's like Bitney's comment of the week, Bitney's
Speaker 3: comment of the week. No, okay, the last question Friends
Speaker 3: episode he's called antrophies can fuck?
Speaker 1: I didn't even check that.
Speaker 3: Wait, let me go back to the I'll always read
Speaker 3: it from the main episode Xander getting called out for
Speaker 3: saying Syria when it was Sierra. Oh my god, that
Speaker 3: is no narrating, dumb thing I've ever.
Speaker 2: Seen Siria and the way none of us.
Speaker 4: Oh my god.
Speaker 2: I got so many messages from people being like, oh,
Speaker 2: you really did the whole thing.
Speaker 4: Not to do that. Hey, that's what you get.
Speaker 6: I'm still I still don't understand, Like Sierra is the
Speaker 6: same as like Sierra.
Speaker 3: The singer No Sierra with a C Sierra and then
Speaker 3: Cier like the way it spelt with an S i
Speaker 3: E double I is Sierra.
Speaker 4: That's the same.
Speaker 3: No, it's s Siara Sierra.
Speaker 1: No, it's Sierra and Sierra Sierra.
Speaker 6: No.
Speaker 4: Oh my god. No, Well all we know is it's
Speaker 4: not Siria. Babes. Come on, there's no defense. You've got
Speaker 4: no defense.
Speaker 3: And the only other well, there's lots of other comments,
Speaker 3: but another one was can confirm as a flight attendant
Speaker 3: you are one hundred percent right?
Speaker 1: When I asked, do they judge.
Speaker 3: When we say, yeah, I'll help in an emergency and
Speaker 3: they'll go fucking as if?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know comments from flight attendants.
Speaker 2: I knew that, and I got some d ms as
Speaker 2: well from flight attendants saying that they bitch about the
Speaker 2: exit row in the in the galley, and they go,
Speaker 2: they're not.
Speaker 4: Fucking saving no one, and then people were saying, oh.
Speaker 2: A flight attendant got really angry and was like, if
Speaker 2: you're ever on my flight in the exit row, I'll
Speaker 2: be asking you to get off the flight.
Speaker 1: Did someone comment that.
Speaker 2: Yes, and I went, You're never going to see me
Speaker 2: in exit row because I don't get there. The point
Speaker 2: of the story was I got upgraded to the middle
Speaker 2: seat of an exit row. Anyway, all love, peace and
Speaker 2: love shop Fate come to the Bring Back Glamorateur and
Speaker 2: we need to check how.
Speaker 1: Many people shop using the secret code. Okay, sorry everywhere.
Speaker 4: I'm never going to end this episode. Good long long episode,
Speaker 4: long long episode.
Speaker 1: Have a guess at how many people use that forty
Speaker 1: percent off Scroller's coat sixty four, Sander, watch your gether.
Speaker 1: I'm engay j forty five.
Speaker 4: It was sixty four on a CYC hotel on a.
Speaker 6: Psycho girl sixty four years crazy.
Speaker 4: Anyway, Daryl better let you go. We're going to go
Speaker 4: play foot seats.
Speaker 3: Sandra, do you edit this episode