Speaker 1: Okay, do you know the Beyonce version of mine with
Speaker 1: j Balvin? You know you know what azul means When
Speaker 1: they say al are you with me? That means blue
Speaker 1: are you with me? And they're talking about blue ivy.
Speaker 2: Oh, I guess his back. Girls, Marris, welcome to first
Speaker 2: things First, I'm brook bletting. My pronouns are.
Speaker 1: She and Maddie meals. My pronouns are he and him.
Speaker 1: And before we get started, I'd like to acknowledge the
Speaker 1: custodians of the land on which we record, and for
Speaker 1: me it's the Gatigel people of the urinations.
Speaker 2: And for me it's a wondering people of the cool nation.
Speaker 2: Let's let's do it.
Speaker 1: Okay, cut the Columbia music. I've had enough of it.
Speaker 2: Scratchy scratch, it was super fun. Maddy's back from Columbia, Guys.
Speaker 2: I don't know why I say Columbia Columbia. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: don't know why I say it. When I was like, oh,
Speaker 2: Matt's in Colombia.
Speaker 1: Well, guess what. I hate to say it, but I've
Speaker 1: been spelling Columbia wrong my whole life. I see on
Speaker 1: the on the sheet here, on our run sheet, it's
Speaker 1: spelt with a, Yeah, that's incorrect.
Speaker 2: It's with an. I knew that. That's why I say
Speaker 2: Columbia Columbia. See, I've had it right this whole time.
Speaker 2: I thought I was saying it wrong.
Speaker 1: No, you're saying it again. And my partner picked picked
Speaker 1: me up on this a few months back and was like,
Speaker 1: every time you send me a message about Columbia, you're
Speaker 1: spelling it incorrectly. I'm like, I think that's because I'm
Speaker 1: thinking of the Columbian Hotel on Oxford Street, and I
Speaker 1: think it's spelt.
Speaker 2: Like that Columbia because I see it on clothes and stuff.
Speaker 1: M m. But it was amazing. I mean, it was
Speaker 1: a whirlwind of a trip, you know, going over there
Speaker 1: to meet the in laws, meet the family for the
Speaker 1: first time. And there are so many things that I
Speaker 1: realized about myself while I was there, but also about Australia.
Speaker 1: And one of the things that I realized is is
Speaker 1: that Australia is really conservative. We are a conservative nation,
Speaker 1: and I think that it's only when you leave the
Speaker 1: shores of Australia that made.
Speaker 2: I mean, we were like colonized by the British. Now
Speaker 2: if you look at the British, their conservatives as fuck.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And I'm talking with a wide brush stroke here.
Speaker 1: I'm talking, you know, when it comes to just how
Speaker 1: we act, who we are as people, how we talk
Speaker 1: to each other, how we operate in society. What I
Speaker 1: realized is that like my first time in South America,
Speaker 1: it is vibrant, it is energetic, it is loud. There
Speaker 1: is not much shame that I could see. And when
Speaker 1: I first got to Columbia, my partner's family had all
Speaker 1: met me at the airport, right, and all signs, well,
Speaker 1: well you would think so, right, you would think there
Speaker 1: would be a couple of signs. Let me tell you
Speaker 1: it was way more than that. It was a boombox,
Speaker 1: a legit with music. They were all dancing. It was
Speaker 1: like a pit when I arrived at the airport, and
Speaker 1: at first I like died, And then you know what,
Speaker 1: I was just like absolutely not having this shame. I'm
Speaker 1: living in this moment, and because.
Speaker 2: No one else is judging right on the other one,
Speaker 2: like no one's looking at it, like blinking twice.
Speaker 1: All the Latinos that were waiting for their families at
Speaker 1: the airport all doing the same basically.
Speaker 2: Matter like the Melbourne airport, just like imagine me flying
Speaker 2: back into a perth and in our country and being
Speaker 2: like you're smooth scared literally, or like take me home.
Speaker 1: No, I'm telling you. It was like a big party.
Speaker 1: And so from that moment of first getting there and
Speaker 1: having his family welcome me like that, I knew it
Speaker 1: was going to be so much fun. It felt like
Speaker 1: there was so much love that was just like ready
Speaker 1: to be poured out. And you know, I didn't speak
Speaker 1: the language, but I was laughing the whole time.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, like funny.
Speaker 1: You know. Not a lot of his family can speak English,
Speaker 1: which is totally fine. You know, obviously Spanish is their
Speaker 1: first language. And the one thing that we all connected
Speaker 1: on was humor. Like, even though they were just like
Speaker 1: talking in their language, I was just laughing because I
Speaker 1: could tell that it was just funny, you know, they
Speaker 1: were just crack ups. And so, yeah, it was just
Speaker 1: a whirlwind of a trip. But we went to so
Speaker 1: many different locations. We ended up going to fourteen locations
Speaker 1: in seventeen days.
Speaker 2: That's a lot, It's a lot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, do you see these bags under my eyes? Neither?
Speaker 2: Do I rude? I didn't say anything, you said, yeah, No,
Speaker 2: I did not did I. I was like no, I
Speaker 2: was literally looking me like what bags your mom? Idiot?
Speaker 1: No, but it was Yeah, it was so much fun.
Speaker 1: Have you I know you went to Argentina for the challenge.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but like that was the scene. Yeah that wasn't
Speaker 2: as like viron as what your your experience was, like
Speaker 2: you know, we were filming the whole time, like yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: and most of the film crew and production were either
Speaker 2: American or Australian, so it was yeah. And then afterwards
Speaker 2: we you know, when everyone sort of like this show ended,
Speaker 2: we all stayed in Buenos Aires, but like we only
Speaker 2: went to like the little markets that they have into
Speaker 2: the city, and like that was about it. Like we
Speaker 2: didn't really get to experience like the vibrancy of South
Speaker 2: America and Argentina like I would have loved to. But yeah,
Speaker 2: I was also a little bit scared because I feel
Speaker 2: like I was walking around and there's like people holding
Speaker 2: like massive guns.
Speaker 1: Massive guns at the supermarket.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like that was really quite confronting for me. Like yeah,
Speaker 2: so but I know so many beautiful plays, Like I
Speaker 2: really wanted to go to Peru whilst I was there,
Speaker 2: but yeah, pretty much and just do that like massive
Speaker 2: hike and then get the train or the bus back
Speaker 2: or whatever it is. Yeah, I would have loved to
Speaker 2: do that, but yeah, no, one day, one day, it's
Speaker 2: on my list. It's on my list.
Speaker 1: I definitely know what you mean by you felt a
Speaker 1: little bit scared, because before I went in to that environment,
Speaker 1: I had all these preconceived ideas of how I would feel.
Speaker 1: But I went with somebody who grew up there. I
Speaker 1: went with a local, so it was a completely different experience.
Speaker 1: But Denny is really precautionous. Precautionis he's cautious about crime
Speaker 1: and about like they have this saying which is no
Speaker 1: job papaja, which basically means don't show people that you're
Speaker 1: wealthy or that you've got things that they could take, right,
Speaker 1: So you don't wear fancy jewelry, or you don't have
Speaker 1: your iPhone out on the street because in this country
Speaker 1: it's really easy for someone to come up on a scooter,
Speaker 1: you know, ride past, grab a phone right off. So
Speaker 1: he was like really cautious, to the point where I
Speaker 1: started to get annoyed because every time we'd get in
Speaker 1: a car, he'd lock the doors and he'd tell me
Speaker 1: to keep my phone away and I coming from Australia,
Speaker 1: I just it felt like, oh, this is so annoying.
Speaker 1: But then by the end of the trip, like obviously
Speaker 1: I understood it, Like I understood that he comes from
Speaker 1: this place, he's seen it all.
Speaker 2: Did you see anything happen whilst you were over there?
Speaker 1: That is I felt really safe. Yeah, so I felt
Speaker 1: really safe. But he was really cautious about like what
Speaker 1: could be possible, you know, especially in Cali where we
Speaker 1: spent a lot of time. When we went to more
Speaker 1: touristy areas like cart Hennah and his hometown of Cochrana,
Speaker 1: which was like a small town where that was the
Speaker 1: first location we went, he was more chill. But in
Speaker 1: Cally he was like, you just need to be like mindful.
Speaker 1: You need to like not like you couldn't leave anything anywhere,
Speaker 1: Like even if you were sitting at a restaurant, you
Speaker 1: couldn't have your phone.
Speaker 2: On the table. Yeah, that's what I realized, Yeah.
Speaker 1: Put your phone in your pocket, take off any jewelry.
Speaker 1: Because it's such a difference. To hear, it was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it became a bit annoying, but I really enjoyed the
Speaker 1: touristy locations like Carta hennah. Have you ever seen like
Speaker 1: images of Carto hennah or you know anything about it? No,
Speaker 1: it is such a picturesque place, Like it's this old
Speaker 1: town in the north of Columbia where it has this
Speaker 1: old wall that they built to.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, right, photos stunning.
Speaker 1: Stunning and every building has like a beautiful big door
Speaker 1: that it's basically an instagramer's dream.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I was gonna say, like that just seems so picturesque.
Speaker 1: And picturesque aesthetic is just like everything stunning. It's got
Speaker 1: like horse and carriages instead of cars. And so we
Speaker 1: had such a great time there, and then we went
Speaker 1: off and skipped islands outside of Columbia and that that
Speaker 1: was amazing as well, like beach clubs. And what I
Speaker 1: love is that there's so many black people, like, oh,
Speaker 1: you never see white like sorry to Rach, love you,
Speaker 1: like I love you so much and I love my mother.
Speaker 1: But you never see anyone. That's fine, You never see
Speaker 1: anyone who's white, and that's like refreshing. Everyone is black
Speaker 1: or a person gather.
Speaker 2: White people are the minority.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, legit. And if you see a white person,
Speaker 1: everyone's looking at them like yeah, Like it's so refreshing.
Speaker 1: To see that, like just so many black, beautiful black people.
Speaker 2: Around and beautiful people too stunning.
Speaker 1: But you know what, I realized, I have the sexiest
Speaker 1: Latino man out of Columbia. It's Denny.
Speaker 2: It doesn't surprise me. Yeah, I was like, did you
Speaker 2: expect me to be surprised?
Speaker 1: Like, I'm like, okay, I said to him at the
Speaker 1: end of the trip, I said, Babe, you want to
Speaker 1: know something. I said, You're the sexiest man I've seen
Speaker 1: in Columbia.
Speaker 2: He's like, you're looking at them, are you? Well?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like I was like, babe, where are the clones
Speaker 1: of you? Like I want to I want to check
Speaker 1: the man out. We even went to a gay club
Speaker 1: once and there's no one there, nothing.
Speaker 2: So what's like the vibe around like queerness in Colombia.
Speaker 1: Well, it's a very Catholic country and a lot of
Speaker 1: people are heavily influenced by the Catholic Church and Christian
Speaker 1: as well, and so there's an acceptance there for sure,
Speaker 1: Like there's this vibrancy, especially when you're in like a
Speaker 1: club or something, but around family it's quite conservative, you know,
Speaker 1: like Denny's.
Speaker 2: Yeah, was meeting Denny's parents amazing.
Speaker 1: I mean, his mom and I were talking via translate
Speaker 1: days out, so I was like having mad conversations with
Speaker 1: her in Spanish and like we were having the biggest yarns.
Speaker 1: And then I got there and we couldn't talk because
Speaker 1: I don't know the language. So that was like, did
Speaker 1: you still have to.
Speaker 2: Use your little like Google Translator?
Speaker 1: Totally? Yeah. I was using the translate on iPhone and
Speaker 1: that helped a lot. But the vibe, it was always
Speaker 1: about the vibe. And on the first night that I
Speaker 1: got to meet them all, like they all came together
Speaker 1: and we all went in different like basically a convoy
Speaker 1: to explore the city together. Wow, And they wanted to
Speaker 1: show me around school excursion. It was so cool, and
Speaker 1: we had a different relationship while we're in Columbia. I
Speaker 1: must admit, like I feel like in Australia he's really
Speaker 1: comfortable with sexuality, and in Columbia it was a little
Speaker 1: bit different. I wasn't used to him not being affectionate
Speaker 1: while we're in Columbia. But I just thought, Okay, I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna have to like ride this wave of like
Speaker 1: us being a little bit less like we are in
Speaker 1: Australia to respect his family's values and also just like, yeah,
Speaker 1: be respectful.
Speaker 2: I suppose yeah, especially if they you know, follow the
Speaker 2: church and everything. I can get that actually, So yeah, wow,
Speaker 2: seem at the family, the whole community, dancing, singing, eating.
Speaker 2: How was the food? Was the food fucking phenomenal?
Speaker 1: Okay, so two minds about this. Some of it was
Speaker 1: great and some of it I will never eat again.
Speaker 1: But then his mom's food was amazing. So I loved
Speaker 1: the beans she cooked. They eat a lot of like
Speaker 1: pork belly, a lot of like salad. Yeah, really good food,
Speaker 1: really good food. Other than that, and their fruits are different.
Speaker 1: They have these wild fruits that are like so sour
Speaker 1: that when you drink it, it's like your face goes
Speaker 1: like this.
Speaker 2: Like like LEMONI kind of like shit.
Speaker 1: It's called something, and it's like you order it at
Speaker 1: the shops and you sit and drink it. Like they
Speaker 1: have they have traditions, you know, you go to the
Speaker 1: you go to the shopping center, and you order this
Speaker 1: drink and you sit there and eat this food. Like
Speaker 1: there's a little traditions that I realized that you're really
Speaker 1: cool to be a part of.
Speaker 2: That's so cool. I'm actually so jealous, like I would
Speaker 2: love to be immersed in like another country, but like
Speaker 2: we're the local, like their nose or this stuff Latino
Speaker 2: and okay with you know money, let me know.
Speaker 1: The women are beautiful, so maybe it's about you know,
Speaker 1: maybe it's your time to shine with a woman.
Speaker 2: So what was your I guess what was your lemon?
Speaker 2: Your sour? And then what was your orange? Is sweet? Okay?
Speaker 1: My sweet? Was that I've never had this experience where
Speaker 1: you don't know what's going on because you don't speak
Speaker 1: the language and you just have to go with the flow.
Speaker 1: For me, that was amazing. Everyone would be talking about things,
Speaker 1: everyone else would know where we're going, what we're doing,
Speaker 1: and I just get in the car, and there's.
Speaker 2: Something about it. I can imagine, just like little Maddie
Speaker 2: being like I'm just getting told what to do. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I just go with I just I just go with
Speaker 2: the flow.
Speaker 1: And then I would be like, babe, what are we doing?
Speaker 1: Where are we going? And he'd be like, oh, we
Speaker 1: going to this place. Like I would have no idea
Speaker 1: that they had like his whole plan and everyone you
Speaker 1: were doing except me. But there's something about that that
Speaker 1: relieved the stress of what you were doing the sower
Speaker 1: of the trip. There wasn't many things that went wrong, Like,
Speaker 1: we had a really good time. I learned a lot
Speaker 1: about Denny, I must say, you know, I learned a
Speaker 1: lot about him.
Speaker 2: You feel like your relationship is stronger.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel like I know more about him. I
Speaker 1: feel like we had really good conversations while we were
Speaker 1: away as well about like future stuff. Okay, and I
Speaker 1: think that, like I'm in a better position to really
Speaker 1: understand who my partner is, and I like that.
Speaker 2: Did you guys talk more about baby stuff?
Speaker 1: Yeah, we did, And even on the way home, we
Speaker 1: spoke about like possibly moving to Metagin for a year.
Speaker 2: To have the baby for the surrogant.
Speaker 1: For therogacy be there as part of the pregnancy, you know,
Speaker 1: the whole thing, so that we can support the person. Yea,
Speaker 1: And that definitely seems like something that is doable. While
Speaker 1: was away, what did you get up to, Like what
Speaker 1: happened in your life?
Speaker 2: Uh? My brother was in prison. Oh fuck, he got out.
Speaker 2: He got out after a few very very expensive calls
Speaker 2: to lawyers. So that's all sorted. That's fucked. But whatever
Speaker 2: moving on?
Speaker 1: Is he going to get help?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I actually asked about counseling, but he won't hear
Speaker 2: until he does his hearing first. It's got to go
Speaker 2: to a hearing. I got my head shots.
Speaker 1: But actually, yeah, I loved those, thank you. There was
Speaker 1: something there that were really like actor headshots, like they
Speaker 1: were are they meant to be?
Speaker 2: Oh okay.
Speaker 1: When I looked at them, I was like, yeah, you can,
Speaker 1: Like it looks like you're a character, you know.
Speaker 2: Oh see, that's what I want my essence. Yeah, yeah, yourself.
Speaker 1: But in your eyes you were like there was one
Speaker 1: in there where I was like, she's a fucking detective. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like I could see her on NCIS, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean.
Speaker 2: Thank you? So, And I've finished my third scene study
Speaker 2: in Showcase, so that went really well. On Friday, I
Speaker 2: felt like the nerves of that first performance have actually
Speaker 2: like settled now where I didn't. I felt nervous, but
Speaker 2: I felt like excited too because I was doing a
Speaker 2: comedy drama. I think that's kind of like my realm,
Speaker 2: Like is like working into that comedy drama where I
Speaker 2: was playing this character. Collect I'm acting as an actor
Speaker 2: in a trailer with another girl and we're both fighting
Speaker 2: for the lead position. I'm like the more established actor,
Speaker 2: and I'm finding that they're changing the script and giving
Speaker 2: it to Brenda, So I'm fucking pissed off. And she's
Speaker 2: like this young actor and like she's got this weird
Speaker 2: chanting thing happening. Anyways, it was like this comedy drama
Speaker 2: that was hilarious because I'm playing like a really bitchy character,
Speaker 2: which I didn't realize that I am good at okay,
Speaker 2: but I think obviously because it's the opposite of what
Speaker 2: I am in a way that I feel like I
Speaker 2: am acting but I can still drop into it, if
Speaker 2: that makes sense. So that's kind of like one of
Speaker 2: the characters that I've established within myself is that I
Speaker 2: feel like I can do really well. I think because
Speaker 2: it releases me because I'm not really an asshole throughout
Speaker 2: my day unless I have to be. It kind of
Speaker 2: releases me and gives me that opportunity to be like
Speaker 2: that and be like, well, it's the character, you know,
Speaker 2: like obviously justifying it as a character. But yeah, So
Speaker 2: I finished my third scene study showcase, but I did
Speaker 2: have this really sad moment and it's like so nice
Speaker 2: to hear your experiences, like with meeting your you know
Speaker 2: partner's family and you know, feeling so connected and feeling
Speaker 2: like a community, and I feel like that's kind of
Speaker 2: thing that I'm lacking at the moment. And not to
Speaker 2: turn this into a downy, but I had this really
Speaker 2: beautiful moment where I was I smashed the whole day
Speaker 2: right that Friday. I I'm stage manager as well, so
Speaker 2: I like went to I did my master class in
Speaker 2: the morning, I got all my props and stuff ready.
Speaker 2: I'd gone to office works and printed off all these
Speaker 2: set photos, so making sure everyone was sordid and organized,
Speaker 2: plus also then making sure that I'm warming up and
Speaker 2: rehearsing beforehand. Yeah, and you know, I smashed the showcase,
Speaker 2: had really good feed back, and I had this really
Speaker 2: sad moment when everyone after it was hugging their friends
Speaker 2: and family and I was the only one that didn't
Speaker 2: have anyone there, and so I was just talking to
Speaker 2: everyone's family and friends and it was like I hit
Speaker 2: me then, and then I was like, I'll just play
Speaker 2: it off like I've got shit to do, So I
Speaker 2: was like, just keep yourself busy. And then I you know,
Speaker 2: got home and then went to the spa afterwards with
Speaker 2: my friends and We had like a really chill like
Speaker 2: we did the sauna and the steam room, et cetera,
Speaker 2: had a cup of tea at home, played piano and
Speaker 2: sung and I was really really lovely and I loved
Speaker 2: that so much with you know, people from class. And
Speaker 2: then I went to bed and I was having this
Speaker 2: moment like I'm really proud of myself, like for the
Speaker 2: first time, I felt like, oh my god, I smashed today,
Speaker 2: and I felt proud, like I felt like, oh my god,
Speaker 2: I can do this. And then I just started crying
Speaker 2: and I was like, why am I crying? And I
Speaker 2: was so sad but happy. It was such a weird feeling,
Speaker 2: and I think that was like grief. You know, like
Speaker 2: a few episodes ago, we spoke about grief and how
Speaker 2: it can just sort of just hit you out of nowhere.
Speaker 2: And I think that in that moment was like this
Speaker 2: moment of like, you know, the fact that I'm having
Speaker 2: those feelings means that I'm still connected to my mum
Speaker 2: and my family and my community, but I'm craving that
Speaker 2: community because I just have to be proud of myself
Speaker 2: in these moments. But there's some moments where I'm just
Speaker 2: like I just want to hear it from someone else,
Speaker 2: Like I just want to hear it, you know, And
Speaker 2: I know that I use the fact that all I
Speaker 2: ever want in my life is to hear my mom
Speaker 2: say like she's proud of me. But I use that
Speaker 2: as source work, like I use that in moments where
Speaker 2: I need to get to where I need to go,
Speaker 2: you know, emotionally, and that in that moment, I was like, fuck,
Speaker 2: I really felt that. But it's fucked as an actor
Speaker 2: because you like you're realizing and you're feeling these emotions
Speaker 2: and then you're like, oh, got to bottle that up,
Speaker 2: cut that that, and you like put it away because
Speaker 2: you're like, oh yea, yeah, I want God need that.
Speaker 2: Like it's so fucked. It's so fun. But at the
Speaker 2: same time, I realized that I'm really homesick at the moment.
Speaker 2: I'm really craving community and family. But it's a sacrifice
Speaker 2: that I am just continuing to make. That's kind of
Speaker 2: all that's happened. Nothing's happened with my love life, still
Speaker 2: obsessed my ex.
Speaker 1: Huh did you invite anyone?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I invited a few people and the shouldn't make it. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Like none of them showed up. So, yeah, my friends
Speaker 2: have been really fucking shitty, if I'm being honest, Like
Speaker 2: that's what's really happened, Like more recently, my friends have
Speaker 2: been really fucking shitty.
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe next time. I was thinking, maybe you should
Speaker 1: get Pete to come he's in Perth. Yeah, but like
Speaker 1: he could come over for it, you know aligned the moment.
Speaker 2: Oh no, I know, it would have been so lovely.
Speaker 1: He would have to see that.
Speaker 2: Oh he would have and I I know. And I
Speaker 2: actually spoke to him afterwards and he was like I
Speaker 2: wish I was there and blah blah blah, And I
Speaker 2: was like, yeah, but the last time he came over,
Speaker 2: like you know, it cost me like two grand to
Speaker 2: bring it over, Like it was a lot of money
Speaker 2: and stuff.
Speaker 1: But yeah, because you know when these moments, when do
Speaker 1: you graduate?
Speaker 2: December? So it's actually, this is a thing that's happening
Speaker 2: with my life is like time is just becoming really
Speaker 2: small now, Like sut like I would go film.
Speaker 1: Your days are just done, right, Yeah, how are you
Speaker 1: going to do?
Speaker 2: And Saturdays I'm going away for I'm filming October November,
Speaker 2: December and my graduations on the sixth, and the six
Speaker 2: is actually the last day with film. So I'm hoping
Speaker 2: my schedule that day I can fly back and actually
Speaker 2: graduate from Howard because and that graduation day is when
Speaker 2: we showcase all of our work. But I won't be
Speaker 2: able to perform because I have nothing to perform. The
Speaker 2: only thing that I can do is work on my
Speaker 2: Shakespeare monolog But I made it the right decision then,
Speaker 2: and I think I'm making the right decision now doing
Speaker 2: the film.
Speaker 1: But that's amazing. Yeah, when when do you start filming October?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Which is that you miss out on some of the lessons.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I miss out pretty much on three months all stuff.
Speaker 2: And it's all working with the pros. So like Sarah
Speaker 2: Hallam is actually a casting director, she went she was
Speaker 2: went on Wentworth, another lady called Stevie, she's another casting
Speaker 2: Scott Major's who's a director for Neighbors. So I'm working
Speaker 2: with all these pros. But I miss out on that opportunity,
Speaker 2: which kind of sucks. But I don't know if this
Speaker 2: is a sign though, Like I start filming on the
Speaker 2: fourteenth of October, and we all know what happened on
Speaker 2: the fourteenth of October was the referendum day. Oh, so
Speaker 2: I don't know if this is like a sign. It's like, no,
Speaker 2: you need to do this, like you need to be here.
Speaker 2: The feelings that I had from the referendum were like distraught,
Speaker 2: like and feeling like oh, like I don't have a
Speaker 2: place here in this fucking country. And then next the
Speaker 2: next year, I'm filming a film. It's a First Nations
Speaker 2: film that's like showcasing our stories, you know, like what
Speaker 2: I mean, Like it's like I'm meant to be doing
Speaker 2: these things. I think. I don't know. I'm a bit
Speaker 2: like witchy woo woo with that sort of stuff.
Speaker 1: No, I love that. I think that Like that's a
Speaker 1: good way to look at it too, Like it's a
Speaker 1: year on and look at using your voice.
Speaker 2: Yeah exactly.
Speaker 1: And what's happening in the love life. Let's give them
Speaker 1: what they want.
Speaker 2: Nothing. I have like a few crushes. I'm still obsessed
Speaker 2: with my ex. But that's fart it.
Speaker 1: We've been talking, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: We've it's he's actually this is a thing like if
Speaker 2: I didn't have him, I actually don't even know who.
Speaker 2: I'll have to be fair with you.
Speaker 1: Oh shut up, you got everyone.
Speaker 2: In Melbourne, your dog in Melbourne.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, you loved, you loved your friends. I
Speaker 1: know they're being chitty right now, but they're just having
Speaker 1: a moment. You're loved, okay, Oh.
Speaker 2: I am loved, but I'm forgotten. Also, No, they're like,
Speaker 2: I don't know that. It's so weird because honestly, if
Speaker 2: I didn't have Sam, I don't know, like I hate.
Speaker 1: No, sorry, no you feel like that.
Speaker 2: No, I can rely on him when I'm feeling fucking
Speaker 2: cut and distraught to like come over and make dinner
Speaker 2: and like relieve me of my stress.
Speaker 1: How how is hev you?
Speaker 2: I'm not bad, you talk, You're fay blessed now, blessed.
Speaker 1: I don't know why do I not like him?
Speaker 2: I don't know. You haven't spent time with him, but
Speaker 2: it's so fair for you not to like him. But no,
Speaker 2: you know he's gone to Africa soon and I don't
Speaker 2: know what's going to happen after that. He's finding himself,
Speaker 2: he's on that journey. But I do. I do like
Speaker 2: this fellow, and I think it's kind of helped me
Speaker 2: not get so attached. But this is this fella that
Speaker 2: plays basketball. He's six six, he's fucking massive, ye, and
Speaker 2: I think he's funny. He makes me laugh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you're talking to him right now.
Speaker 2: We're talking, but nothing else has happened.
Speaker 1: Who does he play for? I don't let it out
Speaker 1: or not?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Melbourne United and he like he looks it's a
Speaker 2: bit of a romantic Like I don't know, I don't
Speaker 2: know if happened to me. Well, I went to this
Speaker 2: like Opening Night, but like, isn't he just like he's
Speaker 2: just so sexy look at him. I've got lots of crushes,
Speaker 2: but nothing's happening, I think because like I'm also like
Speaker 2: realized I'm emotionally unavailable, Like.
Speaker 1: I'm just going on, yeah, like.
Speaker 2: I'm just emotionally unavailable. That's why I'm having such a
Speaker 2: hard time. Like I've had therapy this morning, and that's
Speaker 2: my advice from my psych well not advice, but was like,
Speaker 2: do you just feel like you're attracting people that aren't
Speaker 2: emotional emotionally available because you're that so yep, that's kind
Speaker 2: of where I'm at. But that's fine. I mean I'm
Speaker 2: going to be like happily single.
Speaker 1: Well, look, you're you're going into a film. There's always
Speaker 1: an opportunity for a showmance, and that's always fun. So
Speaker 1: let's see. A showmance is where you meet someone on
Speaker 1: set who just takes your eyes and it's like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, you know a showmance.
Speaker 2: Showmans. Yeah, that's all we have time today. They got
Speaker 2: that was like jam packed with so much stuff. Were
Speaker 2: on a journey. We went to Colombia, we went to
Speaker 2: Neon Moon, we went to eating shitty food, we went
Speaker 2: to Tall six six basketballers.
Speaker 1: That's a journey's yeah, so much more to come next.
Speaker 2: I know, I'm so excited for you to be back
Speaker 2: because I've missed you and I've had withdrawals.
Speaker 1: And love you. You to be in Sydney, that's going
Speaker 1: to be fun because yeah, we can properly catch up
Speaker 1: and hang out and recording studio and do that.
Speaker 2: Walk. Oh my god. We also need to talk about
Speaker 2: Maiden Bondai. We need to talk about it. We need
Speaker 2: to talk about it.
Speaker 1: Should I watch it?
Speaker 2: Watch the first episode and let me know what your thinkers,
Speaker 2: and we'll go and debrief next episode.
Speaker 1: So we have a proper chat off offline about that
Speaker 1: as well.
Speaker 2: Please please, please, please, all right, thank you so much
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