Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to Something to Talk About, the Stellar podcast.
Speaker 1: I'm Sarah Lamarquin, your host and the editor in chief
Speaker 1: of Stellar. Every week I sit down with some of
Speaker 1: the most talked about people in the country, and this
Speaker 1: week I'm joined by one of Australia's most beloved couples,
Speaker 1: Andy Lee and Rebecca Harding. When Andy and Beck announced
Speaker 1: their engagement earlier this year, there was a collective cheer
Speaker 1: because after ten years of dating, there'd been a lot
Speaker 1: of speculation about if and when they were going to
Speaker 1: make it official. Part of the business of being Andy Lee,
Speaker 1: a four time Gold Logi nominee and half of the
Speaker 1: hugely successful double act with longtime co host Hamish Blake,
Speaker 1: means a lot of people feel very invested in his
Speaker 1: personal life, but that investment, lovely as it is, can
Speaker 1: be a lot. How do he and Beck really feel
Speaker 1: about the constant questioning about when they're going to quote
Speaker 1: unquote settle down.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm less worried about people asking questions. It's more
Speaker 2: their reaction to if you don't to answer them.
Speaker 1: As you're about to hear, Andy, you, for a very
Speaker 1: long time he wanted to marry Beck and on today's
Speaker 1: episode is something to talk about. They joined me to
Speaker 1: discuss how it happened, reveal whether planning what to wear
Speaker 1: to the logis or planning a wedding is more stressful,
Speaker 1: and share their differing opinions on the one question I
Speaker 1: refuse to ask them. Andy Lee and Rebecca Harding. Welcome
Speaker 1: to something to talk about.
Speaker 2: Nice to be welcomed.
Speaker 3: That's good, nice to be here.
Speaker 2: It's actually normally Beck and Andy, isn't it. The fact
Speaker 2: that I got introduced first is a triumph for me.
Speaker 3: Because that's the first time in your life.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean HAMI, she and Andy I've been seconds.
Speaker 2: I'm pretty used to.
Speaker 3: Thank you for giving him that.
Speaker 1: I was going to ask you about that, because Beck,
Speaker 1: one of the first ever interviews that you did was
Speaker 1: actually Instella in twenty seventeen. I'm not sure if you
Speaker 1: remember it, and you actually were talking a little bit
Speaker 1: about You said, I used to get really annoyed if
Speaker 1: my photo was taken at an event and they described
Speaker 1: me as Andy Lee's girlfriend, Rebecca Harding, And then later
Speaker 1: you saw it written Rebecca Harding's boyfriend Andy Lee, and
Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2: You know, just the small wins Rebecca had an annoying boyfriend,
Speaker 2: annoying fiance.
Speaker 3: Now yeah, now I get fiance. I don't mind. I
Speaker 3: don't mind it now yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Fionce, it's a beautiful word. Congratulations on your recent engagement.
Speaker 1: It is a very big year for you. Next weekend
Speaker 1: is the Logis Andy, Congratulations for the Gold Logi nomination
Speaker 1: for you. Now, I will not ask you both what's
Speaker 1: more exciting getting engaged or being nominated for a Gold Logi,
Speaker 1: But I would like to ask you what dress code
Speaker 1: is more daunting.
Speaker 2: I'm glad you didn't ask what's more exciting Carlton Football
Speaker 2: Club having a raging time and getting to the finals
Speaker 2: as well. So there's a lot of excitement in my
Speaker 2: life at the moment.
Speaker 3: I think probably wedding dress code. That's not really in
Speaker 3: my wheelhouse.
Speaker 2: So I'm yeah, I've done it too often.
Speaker 3: You no, haven't done it before. I've done a few
Speaker 3: logis now, I mean, and he's pretty much you just wear.
Speaker 2: The same suit, well, not the same suit. Someone else
Speaker 2: will sort that out for me as well. That's been
Speaker 2: one of the great benefits of meetingback is definitely my
Speaker 2: wardrobes improved. She was pulling out still pulling out of
Speaker 2: my wardrobe t shirts that pre exist her and we've
Speaker 2: been going out for ten years, so they slowly get
Speaker 2: thrown away.
Speaker 3: Although let it be noted that he's actually wearing tracksuit
Speaker 3: pants today. I did tell him to wear some jeans
Speaker 3: and he said, this is being shot from waist up.
Speaker 1: He's going with the newsreader code.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1: So it's still a work in progress that the wardrobe overhaul,
Speaker 1: but looking pretty polished ten years.
Speaker 2: I remember Zoe used to refer to as pig management phase.
Speaker 2: I feel like she had a larger job, a hard
Speaker 2: a bit of clay to mold that she's done a
Speaker 2: good job at Becks. Yeah, doing a similar thing try.
Speaker 1: I must say. Hamish has also been on the cover
Speaker 1: of Stella this past year and it was not nearly
Speaker 1: as glamorous as the cover shoot of the two of
Speaker 1: you today, so I would agree with that. I think
Speaker 1: that the you know, pig management program, job well done,
Speaker 1: Beck and Dandy, Bravo.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much appreciated.
Speaker 1: I wanted to talk a little bit about the photo shoot.
Speaker 1: You have both been on the cover of Stellar before.
Speaker 1: I want to talk to you a little bit about
Speaker 1: that that was two years ago, but this is your
Speaker 1: first shoot and interview since your engagement in May of
Speaker 1: this year, and the concept for it is that you're
Speaker 1: really essentially going out for an evening out and we
Speaker 1: don't know where you're going. That's okay, it's the magic
Speaker 1: of you know, fashion narrative, darling. But Beck, you're not
Speaker 1: quite ready, and you are ready and sitting there like,
Speaker 1: so okay, come on, you know, let's get cracking fun. Fact,
Speaker 1: the concept for this shit was actually inspired by Kate Langbrook.
Speaker 1: She was a guest on the podcast Here with Me
Speaker 1: earlier this year, and we were talking about the discrepancy
Speaker 1: in time of preparation when you're leaving the house in
Speaker 1: a heterosexual couple, that the guys ready in a couple
Speaker 1: of minutes and the woman is not. We're talking about,
Speaker 1: of course, how that is played out in the media
Speaker 1: as well. So obviously, if you're on TV, everyone knows
Speaker 1: that women are sometimes in hair and makeup for two hours.
Speaker 1: The guys come in two minutes, the women are there
Speaker 1: silently fuming. I called it the glamour gap. Wanted to
Speaker 1: ask you a little bit about this. Obviously, the cover
Speaker 1: shoot today is is Heightens not real life. But was
Speaker 1: it a millly a scenario to both of.
Speaker 2: You, Well, it's just not my fault that I'm so
Speaker 2: attractive naturally, and don't reply look at the eye roll
Speaker 2: the I roll immediately for Beck me waiting around. Yes,
Speaker 2: that is a natural occurrence. But we've got a new rule.
Speaker 2: We've had a rule for about six seven years that
Speaker 2: if I'm ready, I just go.
Speaker 3: He just goes, and I'm like, please go, stop nagging me.
Speaker 2: Even to the same restaurant. I will go. And it
Speaker 2: saves that fight because I also like being on time.
Speaker 2: And then I get to the restaurant and normally there's
Speaker 2: a bar there and I can sit at the bar,
Speaker 2: and then fifteen minutes later Beck walks in and it's
Speaker 2: that wow moment of like, oh my gosh, she looks amazing.
Speaker 2: But I get it in the setting of a nice
Speaker 2: bar with a drink in my hand, not in the
Speaker 2: setting of me tapping on the bathroom and going, can
Speaker 2: you bloody hell hurry? And I recommend it. It is.
Speaker 2: It is. It is such a change in dynamic relationship.
Speaker 2: It's not so great for the environment if you have
Speaker 2: to double up on the ub. But I think it
Speaker 2: guarantees that you do come home together, so you actually
Speaker 2: so it's a net result because of the fight before
Speaker 2: heading out means that the dinner's not so fun.
Speaker 1: And probably more important that you're making the return trip
Speaker 1: home together.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's been making one way there.
Speaker 1: I wanted to ask you a little bit about the
Speaker 1: engagement if I can. If I'm prying too much, just
Speaker 1: say what you're probably saying to nosey relatives and friends
Speaker 1: like no, not be a misiness, but a couple of
Speaker 1: questions for each of you. Andy, I will start with you,
Speaker 1: when did you decide to pop the question? Were you
Speaker 1: sitting on that secret for a while? Because everyone knows
Speaker 1: there's always a little bit of that period where if
Speaker 1: there's a buying a ring or planning or picking the moment,
Speaker 1: what do I feel comfortable telling us?
Speaker 2: How dare you? Next question? I'll look, I knew for
Speaker 2: a long time that I wanted to marry Beck. I
Speaker 2: think what's strange about engagements is, you know, traditionally speaking,
Speaker 2: anyone can propose to anyone as far but traditionally speaking,
Speaker 2: stereotypically it's the male. So we know for a long
Speaker 2: time and it's not a surprise to us. In fact,
Speaker 2: it's the least surprising day because you've spent so much
Speaker 2: time planning it. And I underestimated how surprised everyone else
Speaker 2: would be, how surprised Beck would be, how surprised our
Speaker 2: families would be, etc. Because, as you know, the boy,
Speaker 2: I was like, oh, hang on, no, surely everyone assumed
Speaker 2: this was going to happen. We've been going out for
Speaker 2: ten years, so I think, you know, six months maybe too.
Speaker 2: Eight months was when really started thinking about it. I
Speaker 2: think I knew for years. I did the traditional thing
Speaker 2: of asking Beck's parents, not just the father. I thought
Speaker 2: i'd ask the mum, and I asked Beck's sister as well,
Speaker 2: because obviously her parents will die, and so I still
Speaker 2: want the blessing of popawee when the god.
Speaker 3: I feel like the sisters almost more important.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so it was nice nice to chat to them
Speaker 2: about it. And then I I also asked my parents.
Speaker 2: I just thought I always thought it's strange to go
Speaker 2: on us the blessing of the parents. I didn't ask
Speaker 2: permission because I don't think your dad owns you way,
Speaker 2: so I always think that's slightly outdated as far as
Speaker 2: the tradition. But I asked for their blessing. I asked
Speaker 2: the same for my mum and dad. They said a
Speaker 2: hard no, but I've got I've gone forth and done
Speaker 2: it anyway.
Speaker 1: Well you got Beck's sister on side, so I think.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, it was it was five people and it
Speaker 2: was just three, two just in favor of doing it.
Speaker 2: So so that was nice. And then I mean, they're
Speaker 2: getting I chose to get the ring. I chose to
Speaker 2: pick it and and hope that Beck liked it, and
Speaker 2: that would have absolutely been the most nervouracking part of
Speaker 2: the whole experience, and getting it there on time to
Speaker 2: the actual proposal.
Speaker 3: I think I was actually a little bit late.
Speaker 2: Do you remember how late you were?
Speaker 3: So you met their guests, doesn't matter. We went home together.
Speaker 2: Over an hour.
Speaker 1: But she looked amazing when she showed up.
Speaker 3: No, I actually didn't. The dog did because I was
Speaker 3: late because I was picking up our dog from the groomers.
Speaker 3: So she'd had a beautiful blowwave. Iye, unfortunately, I'm not.
Speaker 1: I love those priorities. Beck Gandy said that he was
Speaker 1: surprised that people were surprised, including you. What's your memory
Speaker 1: of that moment?
Speaker 3: Oh, it was just happiness. I mean, it's the it's
Speaker 3: such a nice feeling to know that someone I don't
Speaker 3: know has gone and put all of this effort into
Speaker 3: something to ask you to spend the rest of their
Speaker 3: life with you. I mean, I think for us, we've
Speaker 3: been dating for ten years, so I kind of was like,
Speaker 3: maybe getting married is not for us. I don't know
Speaker 3: there was enough in our life that I knew that
Speaker 3: we were going to. He was serious about me.
Speaker 2: I had a mixture of it it's about time from people.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what most people said.
Speaker 2: And then the occasional well I thought you'd never do it,
Speaker 2: So it was an interesting response from people.
Speaker 3: But yeah, it was really nice and it's interesting something
Speaker 3: that I'd never really thought about. But it does change
Speaker 3: your relationship. You know, We've got this new little spark.
Speaker 3: And I think just having so many people who are
Speaker 3: important to you around you so happy for you is
Speaker 3: like a nice little boost.
Speaker 2: And yeah, I think we underestimated that as well. You
Speaker 2: underestimate how happy people are for you. And I suppose
Speaker 2: there's not too many milestones in life that are surprising
Speaker 2: to your friends. The birthdays come around and everyone knows
Speaker 2: that they're going to celebrate the thirtieth or fortieth, et cetera.
Speaker 3: But the child birth, you've got nine months, You've got.
Speaker 2: A hell of a run up. So yeah, this is
Speaker 2: one of the few things in life which is a
Speaker 2: genuine surprise for everybody, so that natural reaction is pretty special.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there does seem to have been a huge outpouring
Speaker 1: of public support outside of obviously, of course your friends
Speaker 1: and family, and.
Speaker 2: They're mainly bots, mainly bots from Russia, and we've got
Speaker 2: obviously a huge social media team taking out all the
Speaker 2: people trolling are saying this will never work and not
Speaker 2: giving their blessings. So yeah, it's very curated.
Speaker 1: I wanted to ask you a little bit about that
Speaker 1: expectation Russian bots, aside from people that you've never met
Speaker 1: who are like, when when you're going to get married?
Speaker 1: When's it happening? I could imagine that that would be
Speaker 1: a double edged sword, because a generous sort of interpretation
Speaker 1: is that that's well meaning people are invested in the
Speaker 1: quote unquote happy ending, you know, when so and so
Speaker 1: going to settle down, But of course there's all also
Speaker 1: a pressure and a sense of other people's expectations. When
Speaker 1: you last spoke to Stella, a couple of years ago
Speaker 1: to our features writer Chavon Duck, and you were talking
Speaker 1: about how sometimes you would if you were being trailed
Speaker 1: when the two of you were together by paparazzi, you
Speaker 1: would even sometimes like stage a proposal. There was a
Speaker 1: time at an airport carousel just to sort of troll
Speaker 1: the media.
Speaker 2: Be hated that more than that joke got banned unfortunately,
Speaker 2: which is I thought was one of my favorites. Every
Speaker 2: time I saw a pap I would just drop the
Speaker 2: knee and propose, even if I was picking up dog
Speaker 2: poo in the park and I saw the just turned
Speaker 2: into a proposal. But yeah, no, Beck didn't find that
Speaker 2: as funny. Do you used to find it funny now
Speaker 2: in retrospect that we.
Speaker 3: Are going, oh like a little bit.
Speaker 1: Thing that one on ice for a bit, Beck, so
Speaker 1: that when the real thing happened, you knew it wasn't
Speaker 1: my trolling.
Speaker 3: I mean, but did I I don't know. I think that.
Speaker 3: I mean, Andy doesn't like being told what to do,
Speaker 3: and so in my mind I was like, can everyone
Speaker 3: please stop pressuring him to propose to me because he's
Speaker 3: not going to do it.
Speaker 2: And I think you're putting too much weight on what
Speaker 2: I think of public opinions when it comes to my
Speaker 2: personal choices. But yeah, I didn't it certainly bothered. I'd
Speaker 2: be fair to say that it bothered you more than
Speaker 2: it bothered me.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, I mean you've got a few more years
Speaker 3: experience dealing with it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's not fun. I think that's part of
Speaker 2: it that you go, okay, if this is affecting your partner,
Speaker 2: and that they're the parts where you know would affect me,
Speaker 2: not necessarily affect me, the direct message, but how it
Speaker 2: affects Beck. So yeah, I mean we've had this discussion
Speaker 2: many times back where it's like, let's not let any
Speaker 2: other people's behavior dictate what we want to do. And
Speaker 2: I think as a society, we that's what society is.
Speaker 2: We follow a certain amount of rules, and some of
Speaker 2: them are legitimate rules, like don't murder the next door neighbor,
Speaker 2: and I think that's a good one to abide by,
Speaker 2: but there's a lot of other ones that are kind
Speaker 2: of constitutional or intrinsic that aren't necessarily meant for everyone
Speaker 2: to follow. And the fact that we took our time
Speaker 2: my love.
Speaker 1: Also on the topic of dealing with other people's expectations
Speaker 1: or as you've both answered, not dealing with other people's expectations.
Speaker 1: It's your life, and especially for you Andy, who've navigated
Speaker 1: Spotlight for a very long time, as Becker said, that's
Speaker 1: something that you have become accustomed to, really keen to
Speaker 1: ask each of you separately your thoughts on being asked
Speaker 1: when you're going to start a family for you specifically,
Speaker 1: but also just as a culture. Now you may or
Speaker 1: may not know this are regular listeners of this podcast,
Speaker 1: certainly where we're to have a policy at Stella that
Speaker 1: was enacted five years ago by me that we actually
Speaker 1: don't ask people that we're interviewing for Stella and Astella
Speaker 1: podcast here are you planning to have a baby. If
Speaker 1: somebody has a child, when you're going to give them
Speaker 1: a brother or a sister, we just don't ask about it.
Speaker 1: It was an evolution of really, I suppose me as
Speaker 1: a journalist, us as a media and just trying to
Speaker 1: take a little stance that I don't personally think it's
Speaker 1: an appropriate question. Now a lot of people disagree. A
Speaker 1: lot of people think that we just kind of need
Speaker 1: to get over ourselves so you can't ask anything anymore.
Speaker 1: So I'm really curious in your respective thoughts, not necessarily
Speaker 1: on Stella's policy, because I'm shocked when I hear people
Speaker 1: say to somebody male or female, when are you're going
Speaker 1: to have a child? And do you still ask that
Speaker 1: question quite recently? Can I start with you what your
Speaker 1: thoughts are about us still asking people that question in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, the question should you when you're going
Speaker 2: to get to aviseect me? It's the next natural step
Speaker 2: for rolling or eyes again. Oh look, I'm fine with
Speaker 2: anyone asking me anything. It's just my choice whether I
Speaker 2: want to answer it. I don't. I personally wouldn't like,
Speaker 2: but that's my own decision and moral decisions. I don't
Speaker 2: think in this world that we should be making forcing
Speaker 2: that upon anyone what they should and shouldn't be asking
Speaker 2: or saying. I think we are a bit too full
Speaker 2: on in that regard, and I think when people feel
Speaker 2: a pressure to answer those things is the problem far
Speaker 2: more than the actual question being asked. I love the
Speaker 2: fact that you guys have made that decision, and I
Speaker 2: think that just allows the question to come up that
Speaker 2: people can either follow and think about, because on the
Speaker 2: most part, people don't put that deep thinking into things there.
Speaker 2: They don't. I don't think there's clandestine motives behind people
Speaker 2: that ask tricky questions. Sometimes it's just what came to
Speaker 2: mind is what they're interested in, and they're not really
Speaker 2: considering how that might make someone feel, whether they could
Speaker 2: even have children in this particular respects. So, yeah, I'm
Speaker 2: less worried about people asking questions. It's more their reaction
Speaker 2: to if you don'tant to answer them, that is troublesome.
Speaker 2: And if someone said, oh, look, I don't feel comfortable
Speaker 2: saying that, leave that out of your interview, don't print
Speaker 2: all guarded by this, or you know or won't answer that.
Speaker 2: I think that's where, you know, for love a better turn.
Speaker 2: This idea of a wokeness is where people are repelling
Speaker 2: or rebelling against because we don't know what to say
Speaker 2: and we're not giving anyone the benefit of the doubt
Speaker 2: when they come up with these type of questions. And
Speaker 2: if we let everyone the freedom to just say, oh,
Speaker 2: I don't feel comfortable answering that, and that's the end
Speaker 2: of it and it's not included, I think we're in
Speaker 2: a much safest spot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's so many great points that you've
Speaker 1: made there, Andy, and I Beck would love obviously to
Speaker 1: get your thoughts on this, and I also think a
Speaker 1: lot of it is well meaning. When we announce the policy,
Speaker 1: I actually put it through the context of being at
Speaker 1: a table with a couple of female friends. For myself,
Speaker 1: for instance, before I had my children. My boys are
Speaker 1: now fifteen and almost thirteen, and I had experienced a
Speaker 1: few miscarriages trying to start a family, and I was
Speaker 1: with these two female friends who were like, when are
Speaker 1: you going to have kids? You'd be married for years,
Speaker 1: all of that sort of thing, and it was so
Speaker 1: well meaning, and they would have been so heartbreak and
Speaker 1: that I'm there thinking, oh my gosh, if you only
Speaker 1: knew so for me, that was it because I know
Speaker 1: it comes from a good place, but I learned the
Speaker 1: hard way and then thought, well, well, intentions, whether it's
Speaker 1: an aunt or a friend asking you at Christmas lunch
Speaker 1: or at coffee, it can be hurtful. I suppose that
Speaker 1: was the genesis exactly.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's exactly that you never know what's going
Speaker 3: on behind the scenes for someone. So I think that
Speaker 3: just eliminating that question, I understand what you're saying Andy,
Speaker 3: but I think by eliminating that question is so important
Speaker 3: because you're not bringing up those feelings for someone if
Speaker 3: they potentially are going through that.
Speaker 2: So, yeah, I agree with you. Yeah. So my stance
Speaker 2: is the same as yours on that I don't think
Speaker 2: you should be asked. But I also and.
Speaker 3: It's not so easy for everyone to someone who might
Speaker 3: be going through that to just be like, oh no,
Speaker 3: I don't feel comfortable answering that question. It might actually
Speaker 3: bring on a whole lot of other emotion for them.
Speaker 2: So now I agree with you, and I think the
Speaker 2: part is, though, I think that where we come down
Speaker 2: hard on people that just haven't thought through, as in
Speaker 2: the question the person questioning. And then that's why I
Speaker 2: say that insteall of making this policy, it does allow
Speaker 2: people to ponder it and perhaps it permeates the problem
Speaker 2: that sorry, this issue that hang on, this might be
Speaker 2: triggering for someone, and that's a good thing.
Speaker 1: And coming up when you're in one of the most
Speaker 1: high profile relationships in the country, how much do you
Speaker 1: choose to share and what do you keep to yourselves?
Speaker 1: I ask Gandy and Beck when we return a question
Speaker 1: that I think I think a lot of people ask themselves,
Speaker 1: whether they have a profile or not, is how much
Speaker 1: do I share on my social media accounts? And do you?
Speaker 1: Of course, co host one of the biggest podcasts in
Speaker 1: the country along with your longtime collaborator Hamish Blake. I
Speaker 1: imagine there've been plenty of times maybe where you've overshared
Speaker 1: or is that just not something that you even think about.
Speaker 1: We've talked a little bit about how people feel that
Speaker 1: they own a part of you.
Speaker 2: Yes. Sorry, I normally when I get home and get
Speaker 2: in trouble from Beckers, why do you do that? I
Speaker 2: have no problem sharing pretty much everything as a look
Speaker 2: that is troublesome for beck at times and my friends
Speaker 2: and family at times. But yeah, I think that's been
Speaker 2: look part of the deal. Like I love Hamish, I
Speaker 2: love doing the podcast, love doing the radio show, love
Speaker 2: doing the one hundred because it's got all these everyday
Speaker 2: people up on the screen. I love talking connect with
Speaker 2: every day people and the funniest stuff comes out from
Speaker 2: what they share, and so I feel like I want
Speaker 2: to share back. And so when it's open and fun
Speaker 2: and people going to get contribute, that's where the most
Speaker 2: excitement lies. And I think the shows that it's best.
Speaker 2: So it's been our natural place, but it's such a
Speaker 2: safe environment and that's what's different with on our pod.
Speaker 2: I feel really comfortable talking about anything because that's where
Speaker 2: it sits, and you know the environment, and it's the
Speaker 2: intention of the environment is really clear. It's when people
Speaker 2: pull quotes from that to turn into a daily mail
Speaker 2: article and all that kind of stuff. I can see
Speaker 2: the adverse effect in it, but it's certainly not going
Speaker 2: to change the way that I approach.
Speaker 1: It because you have built a community there, which is
Speaker 1: why it is a safe space Beck, And he said,
Speaker 1: sometimes he comes home you think maybe he's overshared. Has
Speaker 1: that become easier?
Speaker 2: Do you want me to pop out?
Speaker 3: It's still a work in progress. Yeah, there's there's times
Speaker 3: where he gets home and I'm like, did you have
Speaker 3: to share that story? But at the end of the day,
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, they're funny stories, and that's Australia
Speaker 3: loves hearing his funny life and funny observation, so it is. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's always and it's always in good fun as well.
Speaker 3: So I just constantly remind myself of that whenever I'm
Speaker 3: getting angry at him for telling a story. That's yeah, there's.
Speaker 2: All be a cooling off periods of a round about
Speaker 2: twenty four to forty eight hours. What I think is
Speaker 2: interesting though on this, and I think why it is
Speaker 2: such a fun out loud on the podcast and why
Speaker 2: you come around to enjoying it Beck. If I can
Speaker 2: go as far as to say that hi, eyebrowsing for
Speaker 2: people just listening to this from Beck is we are
Speaker 2: conditioned at the moment through social media for everything to
Speaker 2: be perfect, and that's where all these filters are invented,
Speaker 2: and these ring lights and these angles and all that
Speaker 2: stuff and little reminders that we're all not. I think
Speaker 2: people gravitate towards and that's what makes it so fun.
Speaker 2: And I know it's you know, people talk about brands,
Speaker 2: et cetera. It's my brand just to be me and
Speaker 2: muck around. And Beck's obviously a beautiful woman, a model,
Speaker 2: and an amazing business in Louis that is, you know,
Speaker 2: high end shavers, etc. So me sharing some parts about
Speaker 2: her life that might in align with that brand probably
Speaker 2: is more troublesome for her. But I think overall, we
Speaker 2: just want to know what people are really like in life,
Speaker 2: and I think that's where the fun lies.
Speaker 1: Speaking of brands, I wanted to talk to you both
Speaker 1: specifically about your work. Becka might start with you and
Speaker 1: has just mentioned Louis there. When we first interviewed you
Speaker 1: in Stella, I think back in twenty seventeen, it was
Speaker 1: in that interview you were talking about how seeing Andy
Speaker 1: and how passionately committed he was to his work, and
Speaker 1: obviously somebody who had found something that he loves doing
Speaker 1: and works so hard at it had really had a
Speaker 1: great effect on you. And I'm sure a lot of
Speaker 1: people listening would understand because we all get told all
Speaker 1: the time, you know, find something that you love and
Speaker 1: you'll never work a day in your life. But when
Speaker 1: you have the privilege of seeing it in somebody in
Speaker 1: your orbit, especially if it is somebody that you're seeing
Speaker 1: every day like a partner, can you tell me a
Speaker 1: little bit about how that has shaped your commitment to
Speaker 1: launching your own business and your work ethic.
Speaker 3: I suppose yeah. I mean, just seeing Andy do what
Speaker 3: he does every day is very inspiring, and I think
Speaker 3: I said that in that interview. He also has taught
Speaker 3: me over the years to like do something that steps
Speaker 3: out of your comfort zone every day and and push
Speaker 3: it to put like he's taught me to push myself,
Speaker 3: which I think is really great. I also had never
Speaker 3: even thought of launching my own business before, and I
Speaker 3: think being around Andy, who has a few businesses that
Speaker 3: he's constantly working on, sort of made it feel accessible
Speaker 3: to me, which was really great. And also seeing how
Speaker 3: long projects take, you know, I think as a consumer,
Speaker 3: I always saw the end. You always see the end product,
Speaker 3: and you don't see the years of hard work behind
Speaker 3: the scenes of how to get how it got to
Speaker 3: that point. So yeah, I think that just watching being
Speaker 3: able to sort of have a front row seat to
Speaker 3: that as made me realize that I can do that.
Speaker 3: Anyone can do it really if you just apply yourself.
Speaker 2: I know I jump in that, sorry said just to
Speaker 2: say that like, while i'm and you can correct me if
Speaker 2: I'm wrong, But while I'm supportive, hopefully super supportive of
Speaker 2: what Beck's doing, I didn't really help particulate the start
Speaker 2: because so I just want to make that clear that
Speaker 2: you built this all on your own, well with Ingrid
Speaker 2: as well when you found each other. But I was
Speaker 2: really conscious of not stepping in. I'm a bit of
Speaker 2: a control freak as well, and I have my ideas
Speaker 2: and drive things, and I was conscious of not doing
Speaker 2: that just at the start, just to see whether the
Speaker 2: Becks are actually serious about.
Speaker 3: There were times where I was like, what is this
Speaker 3: legal document? I have to say, He's like google it.
Speaker 2: And so you know, we can talk to the to
Speaker 2: each other about these things. But as far as Beck
Speaker 2: building this business, it has been by herself. And you know,
Speaker 2: I'm just so impressed that, like I said, hopefully'm supporting
Speaker 2: along the way. And yeah, I can answer some of
Speaker 2: those questions, but there was never a point where I
Speaker 2: was sitting down trying to drive it at all. It's
Speaker 2: been on your own back, which has been pretty cool
Speaker 2: to watch.
Speaker 3: Well, you did help though what I was just saying,
Speaker 3: by being able to allowing me to watch you do
Speaker 3: what you do.
Speaker 2: I know. But some people have gone, oh, he must
Speaker 2: have helped build that. I've I've seen those type of
Speaker 2: comments that I just want to put a real rig Lie.
Speaker 3: No, Andy has got no idea about the female shaving category,
Speaker 3: nor should.
Speaker 1: It's so frustrating. And I know certainly that Hay mission
Speaker 1: Zoe have spoken out about the same thing. That that
Speaker 1: assumption that one person is helping the other in a
Speaker 1: way that is just a really dismissive of the achievement.
Speaker 3: Although I do write all of Andy's jokes so.
Speaker 1: Well, well, look, I was going to ask Beck if
Speaker 1: Andy wins Gold LOGI next week, have you written.
Speaker 3: The acceptance speech? I have actually written the exception.
Speaker 2: Tell you what she has been is the Because these
Speaker 2: are tough things to talk about, the gold logan. They
Speaker 2: talk about campaigning, and it's definitely not I don't feel
Speaker 2: comfortable telling people to go and vote for me, et cetera.
Speaker 2: It's not in my wheelhouse. But it's very much to
Speaker 2: think every time we're at a cafe and just paying
Speaker 2: for the bill, or the other day we're at a
Speaker 2: clothing store and Beck has said to the guy, I
Speaker 2: hate guy just bagging up the T shirt, ands and
Speaker 2: pants that I bought. Hey, have you voted for Addy
Speaker 2: for the gold loggie? This was like the coolest hips
Speaker 2: at twenty year old who would have hadn't probably watched
Speaker 2: a TV in his live he said to kind of
Speaker 2: nod along as my PR agent over here was trying
Speaker 2: to get.
Speaker 3: I'm like, you can just pop it in your phone.
Speaker 3: It's TV logis do.
Speaker 2: So I appreciate that Beck.
Speaker 1: But there we go, one more vote, one more vote, inching.
Speaker 3: You towards it.
Speaker 2: Up.
Speaker 1: Next, how Andy went from being Check's Notes an accountant
Speaker 1: to a gold Logi nominee, and why his friendship with
Speaker 1: Hamish Blake feels like winning the lottery. Your nomination is
Speaker 1: for the hundred Andy Challenge here if you would like
Speaker 1: to maybe reference an analogy to the hundred when I
Speaker 1: ask you about your co host on the Mega Hit podcast,
Speaker 1: Hamish and Andy, I'm speaking, of course about two time
Speaker 1: gold Logi winn a Hamish Blake nominated this year. Though
Speaker 1: I guess that's the end of your friendship, is it?
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, I hope. I mean at the moment,
Speaker 2: whoever is holding a gold Logi, which is obviously him,
Speaker 2: it's the most recent win. You have to do everything
Speaker 2: for them. So in the morning he'll call me auf
Speaker 2: to go his coffee. I have to open the door
Speaker 2: and he gets there. Here he relies on this red
Speaker 2: carp of being laid out sometime, pedals, flowers of his choice, all.
Speaker 4: That kind of stuff.
Speaker 2: So it would be nice to win one, just so
Speaker 2: he has to do that for me for a little bit,
Speaker 2: because it has been quite a strain on me for
Speaker 2: ten years.
Speaker 1: And you'll be equally low maintenance. All you require is
Speaker 1: a red carpet where you walk into the kitchen to
Speaker 1: put the coffee on. Hamish was on the podcast with
Speaker 1: me a few months ago and I asked him about
Speaker 1: your partnership and your friendship and he said, I.
Speaker 4: Think the fun part about and and I is we're
Speaker 4: very different people but that have found an amazing but
Speaker 4: on some levels, like we've never met anyone more similar,
Speaker 4: Like there are some parts of a personality that completely
Speaker 4: lock like lego if I may use a slight piece
Speaker 4: of cross promotion, but we're also extremely different pieces. So
Speaker 4: you know there are this is actually a perfect analogy.
Speaker 4: There are some studs and anti studs that will go together,
Speaker 4: but we're like totally different pieces too, So that's the beauty.
Speaker 4: I think that's a bit of our relationship. I think
Speaker 4: we like the bits that we do together. We're in
Speaker 4: complete lockstep, and we love that we have very separate
Speaker 4: lives too.
Speaker 1: Like I say, I wanted to give you the opportunity
Speaker 1: to respond to that, and extra points if you do
Speaker 1: manage to come up with an analogy that references the
Speaker 1: hundred pass No.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean our relationships really extraordinary. I'm grateful for it.
Speaker 2: Every single day. We tell each other those things quite often,
Speaker 2: the fact that I was going to be an accountant
Speaker 2: at university and that I met a guy that made
Speaker 2: me laugh and I made him laugh and we thought, oh,
Speaker 2: we should try and change our trajectory. When you say
Speaker 2: about people winning the lottery, I when I met Ham
Speaker 2: and it changed my life forever. But unlike winning the lottery,
Speaker 2: friends can't come and ask whether they can have some
Speaker 2: money or some fame's time, so it's really it has
Speaker 2: been really special. Hamespot On. I mean we've always encouraged
Speaker 2: each other to do things on our own and be
Speaker 2: individuals because obviously that's what you want to do in life,
Speaker 2: and that's that keeps people happy. And if we're happy
Speaker 2: that our shows are always better. But it also there's
Speaker 2: another part to it, which is we just bring back
Speaker 2: heaps of learnings, you know, every time. When Hay went
Speaker 2: off to do Lego Masters, it was such an amazing
Speaker 2: achievement because I don't think anyone could have bought that
Speaker 2: show to life except for him. It's people putting Lego
Speaker 2: together for goodness sake, and he managed to make it
Speaker 2: so entertaining, and the learnings that I asked him before
Speaker 2: I launched the hundred is like, how'd you go about this?
Speaker 2: And what did you do here? Even though it was
Speaker 2: my own individual pursuit. It was just so grateful that
Speaker 2: we can learn of each other. To use an analogy
Speaker 2: from the hundred, one hundred percent of me is super
Speaker 2: grateful for the friendship we've got. And yeah, we're traveling
Speaker 2: through life at slightly different stages, which is also interesting
Speaker 2: and interesting for any friendship. He's obviously paving the way
Speaker 2: on weddings and family life, so it's great to be
Speaker 2: able to lean on him when I have those type
Speaker 2: of discussions like hey, did you get a ring? And
Speaker 2: what did you do when you proposed, etc. And then
Speaker 2: there's other parts that he leans back on me, And
Speaker 2: I think that's the key to our friendship, is that
Speaker 2: we're really comfortable with both of us doing exactly what
Speaker 2: we want. And if you give each other that freedom
Speaker 2: and then still look sideways and see that he's right
Speaker 2: there smiling back, you go, Okay, we've been allowed to
Speaker 2: go in any direction we want, but we're still kind
Speaker 2: of together. I think that's really.
Speaker 1: Special It's hard for me, and I think all of
Speaker 1: Australia to imagine a world in which Andy had been
Speaker 1: an accountant rather than being Andy Lee that we know today.
Speaker 1: Would you agree with that.
Speaker 3: One hundred percent? I mean, you'd be the most exciting,
Speaker 3: hilarious accountant out there. It may he might actually make
Speaker 3: like tax time more fun.
Speaker 2: I still like balancing his spreadsheet though data.
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh yeah, which he's doing all of that. On
Speaker 3: the renovation, he's doing all of the.
Speaker 2: Yeah, trying to keep that under wrapt, under control.
Speaker 1: Sorry, well this was my final question and I do
Speaker 1: have to let you go, but that's right. I was
Speaker 1: going to ask you about the renovations. So the last
Speaker 1: cover that we did with Stella, we shot you on
Speaker 1: location of the property that you've bought, that it had
Speaker 1: crumbling walls. I believe the line was the only residents
Speaker 1: at that time were pigeons and various rodents. You've got
Speaker 1: a lot going on, You're planning a wedding. How is
Speaker 1: the renovation going amid all of that.
Speaker 3: Well, it's a big muddy pit at the moment, but
Speaker 3: it's changed a lot since you guys were last there.
Speaker 3: We've opened up all the ceilings, yeah, we got rid
Speaker 3: of the pigeon, although the pigeon actually keeps on coming back.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yes, would it be fair to say Beck that
Speaker 2: this is more at the moment, we were more in
Speaker 2: andy phase of the house, yes, which is discussing what
Speaker 2: air conditioning units might be appropriate and the mechanical systems
Speaker 2: and a bit of budget stuff and the drilling. But
Speaker 2: I know, digging and digging, Yeah, excavations.
Speaker 3: We've got over one hundred days of excavation work.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, excavation, So there's a there's a lot to
Speaker 2: be done. That's mainly because we found a lot of rock,
Speaker 2: which is not great unfortunately. But I'm happy to rewrining
Speaker 2: this side of things. I find it fascinating the way
Speaker 2: that they build, not inn building and so on. So
Speaker 2: it's for another podcast. Will bore people here, but I'm
Speaker 2: learning all about that, and and the team is amazing
Speaker 2: Flak Studio. The architects are just putting together such a
Speaker 2: beautiful design. But also they're just the best in the
Speaker 2: world or amongst them. You know, they've got an Architectural
Speaker 2: Digest top hundred for their interior designs as well. And
Speaker 2: so that'll be when Beck comes to gets tagged in
Speaker 2: for me, she'll go because I don't know no idea
Speaker 2: about that, but David Flack and Beck will be able
Speaker 2: to launch into that stuff soon enough. And then we've
Speaker 2: since picked a builder. There's a group called Visioneer who
Speaker 2: have been extraordinary to work with. Quite a young team
Speaker 2: that are our site managers of project manager with the
Speaker 2: first there's Luke who's out there today. He runs the
Speaker 2: site and he gets on diggers and so on. And
Speaker 2: then Hamish, she's very handsome not there, Yeah, very handsome,
Speaker 2: but I thought he was about early twenties. When I
Speaker 2: first got told that he was the project man, I
Speaker 2: was like, are we really letting this kid in charge this?
Speaker 2: But he is. He's actually just the young looking adult
Speaker 2: that is very impressive. So it's been fun to meet
Speaker 2: new people. I love collaborations. This is a hell of
Speaker 2: a big one. We've got so many people on site,
Speaker 2: and yeah, people can follow it as we kind of
Speaker 2: upload a few more bits and pieces as the new
Speaker 2: as the next month's go.
Speaker 3: On, when we start talking like finishes.
Speaker 2: And yeah, that's Beck will step back here.
Speaker 3: Furniture paint samples, that's yeah, that's when the exciting stuff
Speaker 3: on the Instagram.
Speaker 4: Will start out okay.
Speaker 1: All right, okay, we'll give us a call when that happens.
Speaker 1: Back when I come back and do another shoot. Andy Lee,
Speaker 1: Rebecca Harding, thank you both so much for your time.
Speaker 1: Andy all the best next week at the Logis and
Speaker 1: Beck for you as well. I look forward to hearing
Speaker 1: his acceptance speech at Wink Wink. Andy Lee is the
Speaker 1: host of the one hundred on nine and co host
Speaker 1: of the Hamish and Andy podcast, and Rebecca Harding is
Speaker 1: the founder of Louis. You will find links and more
Speaker 1: information to both in our show notes. Thank you both.
Speaker 3: Again, Thank you, thank you so much.
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