Speaker 1: Welcome to First things first, I'm Brooklet and the pronouns
Speaker 1: are she and her.
Speaker 2: I'm Maddie Mials. My pronouns are he and him. And
Speaker 2: before we get started, we'd like to acknowledge the cup
Speaker 2: studios of the land on which we record and for
Speaker 2: me today it's the Gaigel people.
Speaker 1: Me.
Speaker 2: Oh, you're sitting right there opposite me. I didn't even
Speaker 2: notice you.
Speaker 1: Today we're on Gadigle Country and we're so happy to
Speaker 1: be here once again, the studio with you guys. Should
Speaker 1: we get.
Speaker 2: Into it, we shall get into it. But I'd also
Speaker 2: like to acknowledge the bacon and egg role that I
Speaker 2: just had from Three Dots Cafe. Oh phenomenal, amazing, let's
Speaker 2: get into it. Oh my god.
Speaker 1: So this episode is post Acros Baby.
Speaker 2: The Aboriginal Community Radio Mandy, you got that.
Speaker 1: Wrong on the stage the first time. You need to
Speaker 1: look up your proper acronyms.
Speaker 2: Well, look, I didn't know where I was. I thought
Speaker 2: we were at the Aboriginal Community Radio Awards.
Speaker 1: Delusional, actually talking about delusional. We're going to talk about
Speaker 1: some ACROS drama that we experienced, but also fucking fun
Speaker 1: was the night?
Speaker 2: Oh it was just like Honestly, I've been to many
Speaker 2: awards nights in this industry, and I have to say
Speaker 2: that night went so well. For instance, the awards were
Speaker 2: finished at ten pm on the dot. That never happens,
Speaker 2: you know what.
Speaker 1: Shout out to Lizzie who's just at CIRA and she's
Speaker 1: slaid that night.
Speaker 2: She slaid that night. The production team were amazing.
Speaker 1: Your second time at the Achras. Last year you won
Speaker 1: Best Talent. I wish we were very very happy to
Speaker 1: you know, represent and.
Speaker 2: Remind them multiple times last night, remind them all how
Speaker 2: many times I have to tell them.
Speaker 1: Three hundred times, but like do it again. There's something
Speaker 1: about like getting ready with you for an event that
Speaker 1: is just so I don't know, sentimental, like fun. It's
Speaker 1: like I've always wished that I had that, like to
Speaker 1: do with a sibling or like someone, you know, like
Speaker 1: a partner, like get ready, you know, like it's like
Speaker 1: the whole thing of like get ready for a ball.
Speaker 1: I didn't really get to experience when I was young
Speaker 1: because normally if I go to events, it's by myself. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so this was just so lovely.
Speaker 2: I know, we had such a good lead up, you know,
Speaker 2: to the night as well, like the energy was there.
Speaker 2: It was good vibes from the start until that bitch
Speaker 2: at the end. Okay, let's get into that a little
Speaker 2: bit later on, so hang on for that. But let
Speaker 2: me ask you, Like it was your first ACRA Awards.
Speaker 2: I know that when we walked into the room and
Speaker 2: you saw how big this was at the rehearsal, You're like,
Speaker 2: this is a big moment.
Speaker 1: My asshole like literally shrunk.
Speaker 2: I know, clenching.
Speaker 1: I was clenching.
Speaker 2: Yea, your dress was like stuck dead knocking.
Speaker 1: I think we're still a bit on our high and
Speaker 1: so just bear with us.
Speaker 2: But I mean I was really proud to do it
Speaker 2: with you, Like I think that representing obviously our community,
Speaker 2: but just being ourselves on stage. We were having our
Speaker 2: little banter moments, you know, and I feel like we
Speaker 2: represented well. We did good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean there was very little blackfellows in the room.
Speaker 1: I feel like we were the only two plus Baker
Speaker 1: Boy who performed and maybe like an old few, but
Speaker 1: I'm not too sure because I didn't know whether.
Speaker 2: I didn't see anyone.
Speaker 1: I didn't see anyone, So you know what, in those moments,
Speaker 1: you just got to like spee staunch power on and
Speaker 1: just like you know, hold hold the space the room did.
Speaker 2: Your first time presenting in terms of at an awards ceremony,
Speaker 2: what did you feel like was the highlight for you?
Speaker 1: I mean that part was like the nerve wracking part
Speaker 1: to be found right at the end, right at the end.
Speaker 1: I think, you know, they could have actually timed it
Speaker 1: a little bit better. So Lizzie, next year, don't put
Speaker 1: on us.
Speaker 2: He grab your notepad. Listen, we got some note.
Speaker 1: Don't put us on last, like put the music last.
Speaker 1: The music has to be lost.
Speaker 2: But yeah, the last performance should really end the evening.
Speaker 1: So then you go into that a party and pumps.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well it was hard to get the room back
Speaker 2: after that moment. But Richard Wilkins stepped in, you know,
Speaker 2: he introduced us at the start, and I think he
Speaker 2: did the best job he could. Everyone was on their
Speaker 2: feet dancing for the screaming jets, So it's like at
Speaker 2: that point in the night, nobody wants to sit back
Speaker 2: down and listen. But you know, we did the best
Speaker 2: we could, and I think we did a really really
Speaker 2: good job.
Speaker 1: I really feel like we had some good feedback.
Speaker 2: Yeah, good feedback. We haven't been fired we haven't been fired.
Speaker 2: Even though I was a little bit rogue. Yes, I
Speaker 2: went right, guys, I went.
Speaker 1: Row you know, like when I tell you he went rogue,
Speaker 1: he went fucking rogue.
Speaker 2: And you know what, I fucking enjoy it.
Speaker 1: You know what. And I think you are so good
Speaker 1: at challenging like the status quo, you know, like the norms,
Speaker 1: and I think that's the best thing. Maybe I'm a
Speaker 1: little bit more like frigid, that.
Speaker 2: Is something that you're not, but Babe, like you're the
Speaker 2: calm to my storm, and you know, I think that
Speaker 2: we balance each other out so well, especially on that
Speaker 2: stage where you're saying, do not do the naughty jokes
Speaker 2: and she's whispering in my ear while we're on stage,
Speaker 2: She's like during the jokes, and I was.
Speaker 1: Like, in the joke, guys, I feel like we should
Speaker 1: pretend that we like present it.
Speaker 2: Okay, let's do the opening.
Speaker 1: Okay, So the opening is like pretty much madage it
Speaker 1: and acknowledgment. He did a beautiful acknowledgment, by the way,
Speaker 1: and I think Nova should be absolutely proud of you
Speaker 1: for that. And I think the whole night to be fair,
Speaker 1: and I think that's sort of set the mood. So
Speaker 1: you spoke about the vote being a conflicting moment from
Speaker 1: last year winning an AKRA the Best Talent Best New Talent, Yes,
Speaker 1: and then you know, getting an OVA, which kind of
Speaker 1: sucks because it's like, oh, well you've got an award
Speaker 1: for using your voice, that's right, But then Australia says, nah,
Speaker 1: fuck your voice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: And so you talked about that a little bit in
Speaker 1: a way, and I thought that was really beautiful and
Speaker 1: I was like, oh my god, I'm so happy.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was like really proud, you know.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 1: I was like, that's my best friend.
Speaker 2: Well, I felt really powerful up there, like in terms
Speaker 2: of like representing community. I felt like, I've got these people,
Speaker 2: like their attention, I need to tell them what he's
Speaker 2: on my heart when it comes to this industry. And
Speaker 2: I think the call to action was that we all
Speaker 2: should use our voice to elevate communities and people from
Speaker 2: communities that don't have the platforms and privilege that we have.
Speaker 2: So I think that was the call to action at
Speaker 2: the end of the acknowledgment, which I feel really proud
Speaker 2: to be able to stand up and say. But then
Speaker 2: introducing Baker Boy, I was like, this is like a
Speaker 2: highlight in my career because this person really personifies our culture, right.
Speaker 2: He's song and dance like the epitome of First Nation's
Speaker 2: culture when it comes to our storytelling. And I think
Speaker 2: like being able to introduce him was a major highlight
Speaker 2: for me, so being you know, sentimental in the acknowledgement.
Speaker 2: Then to have a First Nations person just kick it
Speaker 2: off with that energy like it was really a dream
Speaker 2: come true.
Speaker 1: It really honestly, like I love Baker Boys, Like shout
Speaker 1: out to Baker Boy for like slaging that performance before
Speaker 1: it's like, do you know, like he's actual? Look, can
Speaker 1: we just give a little shout out to his like
Speaker 1: fucking new song because it is actually so lit Like
Speaker 1: have you listened to it?
Speaker 2: I have? I think.
Speaker 1: Like that's how the night is starting.
Speaker 2: Guy, and guess what he arrived And if you you
Speaker 2: weren't there, it wasn't televised, but I introduced Baker Boy
Speaker 2: and he's in a white g wagon, a white g wagon.
Speaker 2: Like the screen goes up and he's in this white
Speaker 2: g wagon on stage, Like how the fuck did they
Speaker 2: get a Mercedes g wagon on that stage? I don't know.
Speaker 1: It probably is no, because he's nuver played baker Boy Wow.
Speaker 2: But before I went on stage, I went to that
Speaker 2: g wagon and I sat in it with him and
Speaker 2: I said, you're taking me on your taking But no,
Speaker 2: it was it was It was so deadly. I mean,
Speaker 2: it was a great way to kick off the night
Speaker 2: and then to be able to present at the end
Speaker 2: with you, you know, like that's a massive moment.
Speaker 1: Fast forward to that moment you so you come, we
Speaker 1: come on where I'm shipping my pants. We've done a
Speaker 1: little rehearsal. We've said it. We do have an autoque
Speaker 1: like Teleyprop, but it's very different. And I'm reading the awards,
Speaker 1: Mattie is reading the envelope, but we have like a
Speaker 1: bit of band stuff, that's right. So we've kind of
Speaker 1: pre planned what we're going to say, like his head
Speaker 1: like he was like, what we're going to say this?
Speaker 1: And we we've changed it a few times throughout the night.
Speaker 2: Minutes before we went on.
Speaker 1: Actually actually did and it was because we wanted.
Speaker 2: To include the moments of the evening, you know, we
Speaker 2: wanted to be up to date with what people have
Speaker 2: brought out, someone brought and.
Speaker 1: We want the across cake the actress Penis Cake killed.
Speaker 2: I know, a wide girth. Cake like, let's.
Speaker 1: Go into the joke.
Speaker 2: So Maddie goes, hello everyone, and welcome to the acres
Speaker 2: the Aboriginal Community Radio Awards.
Speaker 1: And I say, Maddy, wrong place.
Speaker 2: Ah, that's right, of course it is. Look how white
Speaker 2: it is.
Speaker 1: I said, Mattie, you can't say that, sorry, guys, He's
Speaker 1: very naughty.
Speaker 2: And then she goes, oh, well did you do so
Speaker 2: well in the acknowledgement?
Speaker 1: Yeah? So did you do any acknowledgement? Didn you win
Speaker 1: Best Talent last year?
Speaker 2: I did?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: And speaking of acknowledgment, I have something to say. And
Speaker 2: everyone thought I was going to harp on about representation again.
Speaker 2: I'm sure, but I go, I go, I would like
Speaker 2: to acknowledge. Listen up, this is important. The brook Blurton
Speaker 2: looks incredible tonight.
Speaker 1: And then I do work twelve and I said, thank you,
Speaker 1: thank you, Oh my god, guys. And then I say, well,
Speaker 1: you know what. I wasn't going to win an acra tonight,
Speaker 1: so I was like, might as well fucking dress like one.
Speaker 2: Well, at least you look like an acra, unlike Jimmy's cake.
Speaker 2: But if you did look like Jimmy's cake. Maybe I
Speaker 2: would have been taking you home.
Speaker 1: And I was like, stopping naughty, Maddie.
Speaker 2: And you said, you look like an across. So does
Speaker 2: that mean that someone might be taking you home to
Speaker 2: That's the.
Speaker 1: Wrong place again, Maddie. We're hanging out acros, not roses.
Speaker 2: It's not the Bachelorrette.
Speaker 1: Yes, And then he said, shall we get on with that?
Speaker 2: And you know what, that comment about Brooke looking like
Speaker 2: an acra maybe someone being able to take her home
Speaker 2: was a joke. Was a joke.
Speaker 1: And you know what, It's like, I thought, in these moments,
Speaker 1: like the acars are not televised, and I thought, in
Speaker 1: this moment, it's kind of like a moment just to
Speaker 1: like let loose and just relax.
Speaker 2: I just think we had a big yarn about that
Speaker 2: joke because we also wanted to show our personalities, show
Speaker 2: like a little bit of our cheeky side, and we
Speaker 2: take the piss and we take the piss. And for
Speaker 2: someone to say that that joke was extremely misogynistic in
Speaker 2: a weird way. I understand where she's coming from, but
Speaker 2: it's about context. It's about context. It's about you and
Speaker 2: I having dialogue around that joke. And going is that
Speaker 2: is that funny? And is it? Do you accept life?
Speaker 1: And I am like the butt of the joke, but
Speaker 1: I actually accepted the being of the bart of the
Speaker 1: joke because I don't care. So we're at the after
Speaker 1: party and we're just having a great time. We've enjoyed
Speaker 1: the night. It's been fucking fabulous. Yeah, and this woman
Speaker 1: comes up to Maddie like literally b lines for him
Speaker 1: and starts like not even like hey, I'm like so
Speaker 1: and so blah blah blah. Literally just starts kind of
Speaker 1: abusing you.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, she goes, I don't care that you're aboriginal
Speaker 2: or gay. I think you're a misogynist.
Speaker 1: And she says you're contributing to the patriarchy. We're like, babe,
Speaker 1: you're clearly not getting it. We literally just told everyone
Speaker 1: that they're so white. Yeah yeah, like I'm not. We're
Speaker 1: like calling that shit out.
Speaker 2: Yeah yes. And we were playing into the Bachelorette, you know,
Speaker 2: we're playing into the fact that you were handing out
Speaker 2: we're handing out acras, not roses, and if you know, and.
Speaker 1: Then you get the last rose and then you take
Speaker 1: them home.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, fucking idiot. So It's not like I
Speaker 2: was pimping my cis out on the stage, because that's
Speaker 2: just you know.
Speaker 1: Not pimped me out though I'm fucking simple.
Speaker 2: That wasn't That wasn't what I was doing. And I
Speaker 2: feel like we really thought about what we wanted to say,
Speaker 2: and we wanted to be a little I thought it
Speaker 2: was great, funny, but also show personalities, like it's not
Speaker 2: the time to make yourselves smaller on that stage in
Speaker 2: front of that room. You know. That's what I said
Speaker 2: before you went out. I said, this isn't the time
Speaker 2: to shrink, So this is the time to be who
Speaker 2: we are.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're giving each other. It's kind of the cutest moment.
Speaker 1: Like if you wish, Yeah, if you could video that
Speaker 1: moment of us like hyping each other up in that sense,
Speaker 1: like you you more hyping me up because I'm like
Speaker 1: shitting myself.
Speaker 2: Because I was trying to release you clenching your bum hole.
Speaker 1: Trying to relax moments. But like it was just, yeah,
Speaker 1: it was a bit. Sometimes you just don't need to
Speaker 1: constantly be on and so pc and especially in those moments,
Speaker 1: I get that they're huge moments to like, you know,
Speaker 1: and like careers are not made in that room. Like
Speaker 1: let's be honest, like we're all there just celebrating the
Speaker 1: people that make up our audio and digital at podcasting
Speaker 1: and radio spaces, you know what I mean, Like we're
Speaker 1: not there to be like, oh my god, this presentation
Speaker 1: is going to make my career, so I need to
Speaker 1: be like on and I need to like say the
Speaker 1: right thing.
Speaker 2: It's like, no, I feel like that moment for me, honestly,
Speaker 2: Like the first moment was about a serious and sentimental
Speaker 2: value of acknowledging, you know, country, and also giving in
Speaker 2: sight into the lack of diversity in the Korea and
Speaker 2: and call to action for the for the industry, for
Speaker 2: the industry to change that. That was where I was
Speaker 2: serious when I came to be presenting the awards. But
Speaker 2: we were at the end of the night, nobody's listening
Speaker 2: to us, have you know, serious serious yarns up there
Speaker 2: by that point. So it's like, let's make people laugh,
Speaker 2: let's have a good time, let's keep the energy up.
Speaker 2: We're about to hit the after party, like we are,
Speaker 2: we're the priest to the after party, Like we got
Speaker 2: to bring the vibe. So to me, it wasn't about
Speaker 2: like trying to get a career in that room. It
Speaker 2: was more about the fact that we're two First Nations
Speaker 2: people representing our community and having a good time.
Speaker 1: Yes, And also, guys, that is not the only drama
Speaker 1: that happened the night.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, where are we going with this?
Speaker 1: Well, I reconnected with my ex I saw, yes, and
Speaker 1: it was good.
Speaker 2: What's it? Yeah, okay, no, it.
Speaker 1: Was actually quite funny. So guys, you know my ex Sam,
Speaker 1: he works in radio. We've actually spoken or seeing each
Speaker 1: other for like every years.
Speaker 2: When you saw him, you belined for him. I saw
Speaker 2: you were like, I need to go say hello, because.
Speaker 1: I didn't want the night to be awkward. You know,
Speaker 1: when you're out a like someone's there, you could just
Speaker 1: feel them, like looking at you. I could feel. But
Speaker 1: the thing is, the moment I got there and the
Speaker 1: moment I spotted him, I knew he saw me immediately
Speaker 1: and he was trying to make himself invisible. And I
Speaker 1: don't want him to feel like that. I don't want
Speaker 1: anyone to feel like that, Like if they see me
Speaker 1: and they're feeling awkward about it, like that's just a
Speaker 1: shit feeling. Like anyone Like if I see someone, I'm like, fuck,
Speaker 1: I don't want to be here because of that person.
Speaker 1: It's just it makes for a shit night totally. So
Speaker 1: I thought, fuck it, I'm in a really good place
Speaker 1: in my mind. Break the eyes bee line for him,
Speaker 1: make him feel good and like genuinely, but I just think,
Speaker 1: why not? Like it's been over a year and a
Speaker 1: half and I thought he would be I knew what
Speaker 1: he would be like if I didn't do this, So
Speaker 1: I was like, okay, Like, let's hope that you know,
Speaker 1: we can.
Speaker 2: Both and you both are good people. Sam is a
Speaker 2: good guy. Even seeing him, you know, at the Acros
Speaker 2: after party and reconnecting with him in terms of like
Speaker 2: just having a yarn with him, I can tell he's
Speaker 2: a good guy. He's he's you know, he doesn't want
Speaker 2: to cause any harm. So I feel like, you guys
Speaker 2: having your moment of closure is great. I love the
Speaker 2: fact that you guys reconnected. And then at one point
Speaker 2: you did say Sam and I are going to continue
Speaker 2: this conversation in the hotel room. What okay? We're not?
Speaker 2: Oh okay, So so you guys didn't go back to
Speaker 2: the hotel room. Where did you go? You want to know?
Speaker 1: We would?
Speaker 2: We did, but like not that way guy that like,
Speaker 2: and I can and I can testify to that because
Speaker 2: I came back. I had my own key, and I
Speaker 2: came back unannounced and yeah, and they were just d.
Speaker 1: We would like dn ming. It was actually so nice.
Speaker 1: It was cathartic. It was a nice reconnection of moving
Speaker 1: into like a friendship. And that's the best thing about
Speaker 1: you know, once you've been with someone and you're you know,
Speaker 1: broken up, like I'm friends with most of my exes
Speaker 1: and you know this, like yeah, and you're probably the
Speaker 1: same a little bit, like there's only very few that
Speaker 1: you know, but it's like ended badly and it should end,
Speaker 1: you know, and it's full stop like no totally. But
Speaker 1: I never ever felt like that with Sam, Like I
Speaker 1: was like, we're going to reconnect and time, but in
Speaker 1: a space where we both are like in a good headspace.
Speaker 2: It seemed like you guys were friends, you.
Speaker 1: Know, I know, and that's what we always were better at,
Speaker 1: being good friends rather than boyfriend and girlfriend. And I
Speaker 1: know that in my heart. But it was actually really sweet.
Speaker 1: So we got like snacks, like I stopped off at like.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, I was wondering where all those snacks
Speaker 2: came from. I came into the room and there.
Speaker 1: Was like literally like Doritos twists chocolate.
Speaker 2: I was like, what I came in because my card
Speaker 2: was on the room, So I was like, this girl
Speaker 2: been not a charge of this to my card.
Speaker 1: I promise you I now.
Speaker 2: She didn't like it was a mountain of fucking snacks.
Speaker 2: I was like, okay, you guys are in for the
Speaker 2: long haul. This D and M's gone for hours.
Speaker 1: It was just nice. We walked, got snacks, talkah, drank
Speaker 1: champagne and just like had the biggest and it was
Speaker 1: like so nice.
Speaker 2: And what about when I come in and here I
Speaker 2: am playing like Oprah winfree moment and I'm like, okay, guys,
Speaker 2: this is what I have. This is the advice I
Speaker 2: give to you in your future relationships. Oh yeah, like
Speaker 2: saying like what I think and I'm like, okay, got
Speaker 2: to go.
Speaker 1: But you know what, it was actually a good heart
Speaker 1: to heart, Like I don't think you've ever said been
Speaker 1: that serious with me about things, so it was actually like, oh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was good. Yeah.
Speaker 1: It was like you're kind of like you're putting your
Speaker 1: foot down, but.
Speaker 2: In the like, well I was trying to say to
Speaker 2: you that this is what I feel like is the
Speaker 2: advice of like a brother.
Speaker 1: Yes if if.
Speaker 2: What I can see like and what you tell me,
Speaker 2: this is what I where. I think that like you
Speaker 2: may need to like work on, but it's just advice.
Speaker 1: And I welcome feed that and I think that's what
Speaker 1: I thrive in, is like being told where I might
Speaker 1: not see the pattern, the issue or the problem. I
Speaker 1: might be just like rose colored glasses or just skimming
Speaker 1: over you know what I mean. So it was actually nice. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so it wasn't really drama, guys, but it was actually
Speaker 1: like nice because normally, like you know, you'd run into
Speaker 1: your exit, be a little bit of or Yeah, it
Speaker 1: actually wasn't.
Speaker 2: Well, while you were dmming with Sam, I was hitting
Speaker 2: the dance or with the Nova team. So our producer
Speaker 2: Ricado and I we were drinking and having a great
Speaker 2: time and dancing and we were like, literally mosh, it
Speaker 2: was great. Like you had left and we were still
Speaker 2: in that area where all the mob were and we
Speaker 2: were dancing like for hours.
Speaker 1: It was very funny.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was so much fun. But then I also
Speaker 2: got tapped on the shoulder and got us to leave,
Speaker 2: and why, Okay, this is like this. I got kicked
Speaker 2: out of the Achos after party.
Speaker 1: Maddie got kicked out, and you got kicked out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, are the ras? Well, you know what couldn't have
Speaker 2: been because the bouncer was black. But he tapped me
Speaker 2: on the shoulder and he goes, you come with me.
Speaker 2: He takes me outside and he points at these two people.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna name names here, but he points at
Speaker 2: these two people and said they're your friends, aren't they?
Speaker 2: And I said no, I don't know who they were.
Speaker 2: I didn't know who they were, but they weren't my friends.
Speaker 2: But he goes, you were in the same vicinity as
Speaker 2: these guys, so it's time to leave. And I said
Speaker 2: what I said, You've got this all wrong. And he goes,
Speaker 2: what table were you on? And I told him my
Speaker 2: table number, but I told him the wrong table number
Speaker 2: by accident. So I told him, let's just say, for
Speaker 2: an example, I told him a table eleven. He goes, yep,
Speaker 2: I'm right, Table eleven have been kicked out. And I
Speaker 2: was like, oh my gosh, like why and he goes,
Speaker 2: well for this reason? And I go, oh, okay, well
Speaker 2: that wasn't my table. I've obviously given you the wrong
Speaker 2: table number. Let me just have a think about this.
Speaker 2: Actually I was table thirteen. I was really close to eleven,
Speaker 2: but I was table thirteen. He goes, no, you weren't.
Speaker 2: I go, okay, I can show you my name. I
Speaker 2: pull out my ID. My ID doesn't match my name.
Speaker 2: So all of a sudden he's like, who is Matthew
Speaker 2: Webb And I'm like, it's me, but my name is
Speaker 2: Maddie Mills. And then I had to google myself so
Speaker 2: that he verify who I was and that I was
Speaker 2: in the right party, and like, and I was allowed
Speaker 2: to be there anyway. I talked this man down and
Speaker 2: I was like, basically like I don't know these guys.
Speaker 2: I wasn't on that table. You've got the wrong person. Bro.
Speaker 2: He gave me like a warning, and he goes, well,
Speaker 2: this is your warning. You can go back in. I
Speaker 2: go back in, and it's like it was just hovering,
Speaker 2: like waiting for me to do something like illegal. Anyway,
Speaker 2: I didn't, and so I had a great night after that.
Speaker 2: But I literally got kicked out and then it was
Speaker 2: allowed back in for no apparent reason. I didn't know
Speaker 2: the people who were doing the things that he was
Speaker 2: like kicking them out for so I don't know it
Speaker 2: was it was an interesting one, but you know, at
Speaker 2: least got back in. I didn't obviously verify my name
Speaker 2: by Google, but having Google yourself because my name and
Speaker 2: my ID don't match. And that's good thing. If you
Speaker 2: ever get in trouble with the law, nobody gonna track
Speaker 2: you down.
Speaker 1: Maney is so funny, like when I don't know, you
Speaker 1: have this like such a buzz about you when these
Speaker 1: things are happening, not like.
Speaker 2: The Courcy no, perhaps you.
Speaker 1: Know, like I guess there's like awards nights and things
Speaker 1: like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's really like where I find so much joy
Speaker 2: like in that entertainment For me, it has been the
Speaker 2: like the biggest inspiration in my life. You know. Entertainment
Speaker 2: for me is a world of escape, but also like
Speaker 2: has always been the thing that I want to be
Speaker 2: a part of. So also just to be sitting there
Speaker 2: at the Nova table with like Smallsy and you know,
Speaker 2: all the talent that you know, Kate Richie is sitting
Speaker 2: sitting and fitting with behind you. So it's like it's
Speaker 2: just like it's so crazy to be at the same
Speaker 2: table as these people. Because I've listened to them my
Speaker 2: whole life. I remember Kate Richie on Home and Away,
Speaker 2: you know, So to have those people next to us,
Speaker 2: I think is just, I don't know, a testament to
Speaker 2: our journey in the in the media and being able to,
Speaker 2: you know, create this path for ourselves. And yeah, I
Speaker 2: was really really thrilled with how the night went, and
Speaker 2: I got home at a decent hour. I even went
Speaker 2: to another after party. I left the party, went over
Speaker 2: to Double Bay and danced in like this club for
Speaker 2: like an hour and a half, and then I went home.
Speaker 1: Yeah, with your man, with my man.
Speaker 2: Yeah he was he was the after he was the
Speaker 2: kick on.
Speaker 1: That's pretty much the night guy.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 1: Is there anything else?
Speaker 2: I mean, we looked pretty incredible on the red car
Speaker 2: Let's talk about our red carpet look like we we
Speaker 2: definitely spoke about this. We you know, got the gag
Speaker 2: from your dress, which was a beautiful silver dress.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I literally looked like a disco ball.
Speaker 2: But you know what is so weird?
Speaker 1: You looked amazing, But see, I think that is probably
Speaker 1: not my most favorite look.
Speaker 2: Like everyone was saying that you looked the best.
Speaker 1: The best I've ever looked at her. Guys what if
Speaker 1: I looked like before.
Speaker 2: No, but I think last night just everything was perfect.
Speaker 2: It was really really beautiful. Yeah, like you think you
Speaker 2: Just like, I.
Speaker 1: Just got so many nice comments and people from the
Speaker 1: industry like that, you know, I idolize or I like look
Speaker 1: up to and I'm like, you know, I've known them
Speaker 1: for a very long time. Yeah, and just hearing their
Speaker 1: like just nice comment is like.
Speaker 2: I felt, I felt like we looked hot. I felt hot.
Speaker 2: You knows stressed.
Speaker 1: I think you were.
Speaker 2: Well, we're on the best Dressed list. Did you not
Speaker 2: see it? Oh my god, I know it's nine honey.
Speaker 2: They put out a best dress list and I think
Speaker 2: it was top twenty and we're both on there. So
Speaker 2: we did good. We did good.
Speaker 1: Wow, we're actually really slaved. Yep, that's that's amazing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like we we definitely achieved what we
Speaker 2: wanted to do on that night. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I went in with very little expectations. Guys like, I
Speaker 1: don't know, these things kind of do give me a
Speaker 1: little bit of anxiety. Everyone thinks that I'm so confident
Speaker 1: and then that I will just rock up and just
Speaker 1: like you know, like do the thing, which I do.
Speaker 1: But they don't know how much like I'm like a
Speaker 1: little duck like on water, Like my legs and my
Speaker 1: mind are like going like a hundred million miles an hour,
Speaker 1: but I like try to stay calm and poise and
Speaker 1: I'm like, you know, do what I can, but my
Speaker 1: anxiety is always through the roof. But this time around,
Speaker 1: I was like, I have nothing to prove or lose
Speaker 1: in this situation. Just show up, just like, you know,
Speaker 1: Like I was like, okay, and maybe.
Speaker 2: It awards, Maybe it's awards.
Speaker 1: Getting more comfortable in the industry and like knowing my
Speaker 1: place like I still and I had a really deep
Speaker 1: conversation with Cam and Whipper. Oh my god, Maddie made
Speaker 1: this joke and it was so hilarious. So throughout the night,
Speaker 1: Whiper made a joke at me that I had some
Speaker 1: sort of secret.
Speaker 2: He said, oh, and we know about secrets, don't we.
Speaker 2: Brook While he was doing Heath Presented through the night,
Speaker 2: We're like, what was that about?
Speaker 1: The fuck? Anyways? Yeah, and Maddico's Whipper, we know that
Speaker 1: you know you said something about Brooks big secret, but
Speaker 1: don't forget how you got the name Whipper. And he goes, oh, Witch,
Speaker 1: And I was like, oh, my god.
Speaker 2: Let's not let out the secret where you got your nickname. Whip.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was so anyways, but he and Cam like
Speaker 1: not saying like I see them as like dads, but
Speaker 1: they are like male, you know, figures and older and
Speaker 1: I think, you know, I think like they're they're great
Speaker 1: in the industry.
Speaker 2: So supportive too. They're really And we were on stage.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you saw, but Whipper was sitting
Speaker 2: at his table was constantly giving us like our flowers,
Speaker 2: like he was going like this is going like you're
Speaker 2: doing You probably didn't see him, but he was sitting
Speaker 2: down there and we're making eye contact and he was
Speaker 2: like thumbs up, like basically saying like you're doing well.
Speaker 2: So yeah.
Speaker 1: And then afterwards, you know, he was like I was
Speaker 1: telling him how much I have like imposter syndrome. He
Speaker 1: was like why, Yeah, he was like generally concerned, being
Speaker 1: like why. I was like, uh, well, I haven't been
Speaker 1: here for very long.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you know what having a team like the
Speaker 2: Nova team.
Speaker 1: Be there, like we're also played so many awards, we
Speaker 1: won so many.
Speaker 2: And also Nova like staff, like the people who are
Speaker 2: like behind the scenes very cool, like I have the
Speaker 2: best time with them, like I felt like the dancing
Speaker 2: and we were a vibe. I don't know what the
Speaker 2: other networks are like, but I feel like they don't
Speaker 2: even come close. Like we are the chief vibe officer
Speaker 2: of the industry when it comes to like the vibray I.
Speaker 1: Agree on that we do have to leave.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we've been kicked out. Securities tapped me on the shoulder. Guys,
Speaker 2: go to go go. All right, what an incredible night.
Speaker 2: Thanks so much, Sis for you know, I'm doing it
Speaker 2: with me. That was It was so much fun.
Speaker 1: Next year we'll get an award.
Speaker 2: Let's do it.
Speaker 1: We will, okay, manifest.
Speaker 2: Manifesting, I'm going to get on.
Speaker 1: I don't know which one, but we'll make our own.
Speaker 1: But yeah, such a great night, such a good opportunity.
Speaker 1: Thank you Nover for this. We love our podcast. We
Speaker 1: love you guys who listen to us. Thank you for
Speaker 1: supporting us on this crazy journey. But yeah, that's all
Speaker 1: we have time for today. So if you love us,
Speaker 1: give us some love on our socials. My handles that
Speaker 1: brooked up and Maddie is that it's many meals even
Speaker 1: if you want to check out our other podcasts at
Speaker 1: Over podcast Official thank you. Shout out to our team,
Speaker 1: Ricardo and Rachel.
Speaker 2: Yeah, big shout out to our team and.
Speaker 1: Rachel Corbett as well, is head of podcasts. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: all we have time for.
Speaker 2: My stomach is rumbling. I gotta go. Bye,