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Speaker 2: this feels like a bit of a wine time. Today's
Speaker 2: a very special Close Friends episode because we're going to
Speaker 2: talk all about my Kylie Minogue Adventure and then our
Speaker 2: Kylie Minogue Adventure. The fact that you randomly went to
Speaker 2: a second show for free, and how that happened. You've
Speaker 2: got a VIP ticket or something. I don't know. We'll
Speaker 2: get there soon, but let's talk about because there's been
Speaker 2: a lot of questions which I haven't been answering online
Speaker 2: just while the tour has been going, because I've won
Speaker 2: had to pump out so much content, I mean, every
Speaker 2: single day. Let me take you through each and every
Speaker 2: day of Are you happy for me to just like
Speaker 2: talk for five minutes?
Speaker 3: I want to eat my microphone.
Speaker 2: I'll go ahead. Yeah, no, I'm happy to take one
Speaker 2: for the team here, right. So obviously you all know.
Speaker 2: I'm sure there's no one who doesn't know that I
Speaker 2: have just completed ten shows. I mean, today is Monday.
Speaker 2: We're recording. Obviously, we record every Monday, and we have
Speaker 2: I have one more show tonight, Monday night. But so
Speaker 2: as of right now, I've done nine shows, but I've
Speaker 2: got one more tonight. But by the time you're listen
Speaker 2: into this, the ten shows are done. Ten shows. The
Speaker 2: attention to it for Kylea Minoa, She's my favorite artist,
Speaker 2: you know the story. I've taken you on the journey
Speaker 2: here on the podcast and across my socials. Every single
Speaker 2: day has been such a journey. I wake up, I
Speaker 2: shave my face and whatever other parts of my body
Speaker 2: need to be shaved. I do my makeup. I do
Speaker 2: a while I do my makeup, I do a TikTok live,
Speaker 2: so I go live for like two hours while I'm
Speaker 2: doing my makeup because obviously when you're life it takes
Speaker 2: a lot longer. I could probably smash my makeup out
Speaker 2: in about forty five minutes if I wasn't talking, reading comments,
Speaker 2: answering questions, blah blah blah. Then once that's done, I
Speaker 2: have to do the video where it's like get ready
Speaker 2: with me and put the outfit together and I kind
Speaker 2: of explain the outfit. Then I do the photo shoot.
Speaker 2: Then I do the the real slash TikTok fit check thing.
Speaker 2: Then I have to edit the photos. I don't usually
Speaker 2: edit my photos or face tune or any of that.
Speaker 2: Like I've been a face tune free account for oh
Speaker 2: many years now, since I want to say, like the
Speaker 2: pandemic like twenty twenty vibes, but I thought, you know,
Speaker 2: we're doing digitcam photos. They're not just iPhone photos. We're
Speaker 2: doing a full kind of little photo shoot in the
Speaker 2: hotel or wherever I can do it. So I was like, oh,
Speaker 2: I might want to just you know, remove that pimple
Speaker 2: and smooth out that bit of my skin and things.
Speaker 2: I just thought, just elevate the look a little bit,
Speaker 2: change the filters. And I never put any filters on
Speaker 2: my photos. The most I'll do is like change the
Speaker 2: brightness if it just needs to be up or down
Speaker 2: a little bit. But you know, I was putting a
Speaker 2: few filters on blah blah blah. So we're doing all
Speaker 2: And I disclosed that in all the posts as well,
Speaker 2: and said like, disclaimer, these photos have been edited in
Speaker 2: some way to enhance the look. But god, that's a
Speaker 2: lot of time and effort. And I am so glad
Speaker 2: I am not that person anymore because I can't be
Speaker 2: bothered anyway. Edit all those and then edit the fit
Speaker 2: check and then post all of that. I got to
Speaker 2: write the caption, find the reference photos and videos as well,
Speaker 2: do the post all the rest of that, share that
Speaker 2: to the story. Then during that time, by the way,
Speaker 2: I actually get undressed. I got undressed the whole time.
Speaker 2: So I got dressed, did it all, and then got
Speaker 2: out of my outfit, sat in bed in a dressing gown,
Speaker 2: did all the content, I edited all the content, got
Speaker 2: back into my outfit, went to the concert, got home.
Speaker 2: Then I had to edit the put the Look Together
Speaker 2: with Me video because they're a bit longer, so they
Speaker 2: take a bit longer. Then the next morning I have
Speaker 2: to wake up, post the fit check on the Instagram,
Speaker 2: then post the get Ready with Me on both the platforms.
Speaker 2: I'm not even kidding. This has been more work than
Speaker 2: I've ever done in my entire life. And have I
Speaker 2: enjoyed myself. Absolutely, It's been life changing and I've loved
Speaker 2: every second and I love Kylie Minogue. It's been worth it.
Speaker 2: Would I ever do this again? Fuck? No, I am.
Speaker 2: I am a shelle of a human being. I am
Speaker 2: not coping and I need to have I need a
Speaker 2: health retreat. I feel. I don't know how Miss kyle
Speaker 2: Li Minogue and all those dances and all the band
Speaker 2: and everyone who puts this show on does it.
Speaker 3: By the way, the dancers are amazing.
Speaker 2: Incredible, some of the best dancers from any concert tour
Speaker 2: I've ever seen they give one hundred and ten percent
Speaker 2: the entire time. It's kind of wild. I'll never do
Speaker 2: this again. A lot of people are like, what's next?
Speaker 2: We need more of this. First of all, it's a
Speaker 2: very costly venture.
Speaker 3: Have you calculated how much you've actually spent?
Speaker 2: No? And I'm sure I don't want to.
Speaker 1: Want the tickets, all the flights, all the accommodation, all
Speaker 1: the costumes, all the accessories, your boots.
Speaker 3: I'm sure the boots aren't fucking cheap.
Speaker 2: Yes, and you know what, the food, the drinks don't.
Speaker 3: The valet don't. If you've you would have know, you
Speaker 3: wouldn't driven anywhere. Fine, Ubers, I need to know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't want to know because I think it'll
Speaker 2: make me sick because I definitely blew my budget and
Speaker 2: it definitely has hurt.
Speaker 1: If you could guess, like around dollar, fy, I'll say
Speaker 1: fifteen thousand if I had to guess, but I will
Speaker 1: be honest, I haven't.
Speaker 2: It could be closer to ten, but I I haven't.
Speaker 3: How much were the most expensive tickets?
Speaker 2: Like how much eight hundred? Was that? How much house
Speaker 2: were ours? Were? Eight hundred? Yeah? The front row?
Speaker 3: Yeah, we bought them so.
Speaker 2: Long and I had four of those, and then I
Speaker 2: had a couple five hundreds, and I had a couple
Speaker 2: three hundreds.
Speaker 3: Well over ten grid like, how much was a.
Speaker 2: Flight to Perth I did? I did everything as cheap
Speaker 2: as I could. I used points, I did every I
Speaker 2: did everything I could to cut corners and make things
Speaker 2: as cheap as possible. I'm you know, all the hotels
Speaker 2: I stayed in, I'm like a core members and things
Speaker 2: like that at the Pullman, So I'm using points and
Speaker 2: I've I've stayed ten times because because like you know,
Speaker 2: the best part is, I will say the best part
Speaker 2: about my job and what I do and is that
Speaker 2: when I am booked on flights and things. I don't
Speaker 2: know if people realize this, but you know, it doesn't
Speaker 2: matter who pays for the flights, I get the points.
Speaker 2: So when I fly, like my preferred airline is Virgin
Speaker 2: and I have my velocity points which I use my
Speaker 2: flybys for and they like transfer to velocity points as well.
Speaker 2: So velocity points is what I'm trying to do.
Speaker 3: I need to get it.
Speaker 2: And basically, you know, if I work with a brand
Speaker 2: and they book me to fly to Melbourne for a
Speaker 2: photo shoot, which has happened a couple of times. They're
Speaker 2: paying for the flight, but because it's my velocity number,
Speaker 2: I get the points. So I have a lot of
Speaker 2: points from instances like that where other people have actually
Speaker 2: paid for me, but I get the points. So that's
Speaker 2: a really good benefit. I guess to what I do,
Speaker 2: and so yeah, I used a lot of points. I
Speaker 2: used a lot of things to make this, make this possible.
Speaker 2: I was scouring the internet for every discount code possible.
Speaker 2: Usually I don't really bother with the discount code, but
Speaker 2: I was like creating a new email with fashion Nova,
Speaker 2: just so I got a thirty percent of first order
Speaker 2: sort of, you know what I mean. Like, I was
Speaker 2: doing all those things to make this possible. So I
Speaker 2: have no idea how much money I spent, but you
Speaker 2: know what I did this for me. It healed so
Speaker 2: much of my self and my inner child. I had
Speaker 2: the best time. I'm exhausted, but I had the best time.
Speaker 2: It was so worth it. I'll never do anything like
Speaker 2: this again, but yeah, it was worth every second. Let's
Speaker 2: talk about the fact that Kylie Minogue actually herself saw
Speaker 2: the content commented on my reel saying I saying something
Speaker 2: along the lines of I'm constantly checking your page for updates,
Speaker 2: which sent me into a spin. By this point, I'm
Speaker 2: not sure whether I will have uploaded the video. We
Speaker 2: captured the moment on camera. I was with my friend Nick.
Speaker 2: It was after the Brisbane show that I saw it.
Speaker 2: I actually saw it five hours after she commented. She
Speaker 2: commented before the Brisbane concert, about two hours before the
Speaker 2: I was obviously too busy doing all my content, got ready,
Speaker 2: went to the concert, came home, had a shower, was
Speaker 2: ready to go to the club with my friend Nick,
Speaker 2: and then saw the comment from five hours ago and
Speaker 2: had a full meltdown.
Speaker 3: Now he can't just say, like, you are the fucking
Speaker 3: funniest person. Why, Like it's just hilarious.
Speaker 2: I'm always gonna be a fangirl at heart, you know this,
Speaker 2: So just to crack up to me. So he Thank
Speaker 2: god I was one with him. And two he was
Speaker 2: smart enough to film because he filmed the reaction, which
Speaker 2: I have got prepared ready to go up. And by
Speaker 2: the time this close friend's episode comes out, it will
Speaker 2: probably be up. But I didn't want to post it
Speaker 2: before the concert ended, in the hopes that I would
Speaker 2: like get a meet and greet and I would meet her,
Speaker 2: which because see, here's the thing. I started this series
Speaker 2: for me, and I was like, I don't really care
Speaker 2: if anyone is even gonna enjoy this. It's really niche
Speaker 2: and it's really different to what I do. Even just
Speaker 2: wearing makeup and wearing all the costumes, I don't do
Speaker 2: much of that anymore on the internet.
Speaker 3: Do for content there, I don't know.
Speaker 2: But I did it because I was like, I'm doing
Speaker 2: this for me. This is something I enjoy and there's
Speaker 2: not going to be much time to make much other content,
Speaker 2: so I may as well just make it and if
Speaker 2: people like it, they like, and if not, holy shit
Speaker 2: did I I did not expect to become somewhat of
Speaker 2: a phenomenon of this tour. The amount of people that
Speaker 2: came up and said hello, Was that not fucking crazy?
Speaker 2: And has that not kind of happened since like you're
Speaker 2: twenty seventeen vibes? The way we had crowds of people
Speaker 2: coming up and asking for photos and saying they've watched
Speaker 2: the journey online and blah blah blah. That was blowing
Speaker 2: my mind because I think since the pandemic, I want
Speaker 2: to say that sort of behavior doesn't really happen these days.
Speaker 2: People obviously come up and say hello, like love your stuff,
Speaker 2: like listen to the podcast, blah blah blah. But the
Speaker 2: screaming and the photos and the freaking out in the meltdownce,
Speaker 2: I mean, I love it. There's nothing wrong with it.
Speaker 2: I'm not saying it's like it's a bad thing. I'm
Speaker 2: just saying I haven't experienced that kind of level of
Speaker 2: oh my god, oh my god in like a really
Speaker 2: long time, and that was kind of It was exciting.
Speaker 2: It was full on, it was confronting. I loved it.
Speaker 2: We had news articles written about the fact that that
Speaker 2: was all happening. I got called a celebrity. I was
Speaker 2: put in a it was so funny in an article
Speaker 2: that was like all the celebrities at Mardi Gras, and
Speaker 2: it was like Kylie Minogue, then me second in the article.
Speaker 2: Then it was like Troy Sevan, Anthony Alberinezi, Delta Gudroum,
Speaker 2: and I was like, why am I number two? Like
Speaker 2: what's going on? And the videos on TikTok of people
Speaker 2: we spoke about it last week on the podcast, people
Speaker 2: filming me from their seats, everyone being like I'm looking for, alright, hate,
Speaker 2: and I don't know. It was just kind of like
Speaker 2: more than I could have ever expected from this. I
Speaker 2: genuinely was like I might lose followers because this is
Speaker 2: so this is so random and not what I do,
Speaker 2: and the fact that everyone was so on board was
Speaker 2: just so incredible. Now, of course, the whole time, everyone
Speaker 2: was like, oh my god, you know you should be
Speaker 2: you should meet Kylie because blah blah blah blah. To me,
Speaker 2: let's let's talk about this, and this is like kind
Speaker 2: of what I was saying. I've kept this like aspect
Speaker 2: off the internet. To me, Kylie Minogue is a very
Speaker 2: traditional celebrity. She's very untouchable. She's very unreachable. Like I
Speaker 2: don't I never in a million years would think that
Speaker 2: I would actually be able to meet her because she's
Speaker 2: just a more traditional celeb. These days and new up
Speaker 2: and coming celebs, I feel like they're much more. They
Speaker 2: interact with their fans a lot more. They will do
Speaker 2: the random meet and greets, they will do random pop
Speaker 2: up fun things. And like she's she's been around for
Speaker 2: so long, she's kind of solidified herself as an icon anyway.
Speaker 2: She doesn't really need to do any of that. And
Speaker 2: also she's from a time where it was like celebrities
Speaker 2: didn't interact with people. So when people are like, oh, you,
Speaker 2: you know, surely Kylie needs to bring you on stage
Speaker 2: or meet you, I'm like, no, that's like, wrong person. Yeah,
Speaker 2: one of the newer artists, like a Sabrina Carpenter or
Speaker 2: an Addison Ray or a Tate McCrae, Like, I can
Speaker 2: see that happening with them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're more Yeah, the younger generation.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And also I think they understand the power of
Speaker 2: social media a little bit maybe better. Although Kylie I
Speaker 2: feel has a great team who would understand it. But
Speaker 2: I don't know about whether Kylie does or not. I
Speaker 2: have no idea. And that's the thing, I have no
Speaker 2: idea about her. So that was like out of my world.
Speaker 2: I was like, that's not happening. Like and also, as
Speaker 2: I said, I think I said on this podcast, I'd
Speaker 2: actually hate a stage moment. I'd hate to be pulled
Speaker 2: on stage at any concept ever, Like, I'm like, that,
Speaker 2: don't there's so many people watching. I don't know about that.
Speaker 2: But I when she commented that was like the first
Speaker 2: time that I was like, oh shit, like she's reachable
Speaker 2: because before that, I it's like she's so unreachable, she's
Speaker 2: never gonna acknowledge me. Blah blah blah, and then she commented.
Speaker 3: That God love you. Honestly, are you talking about Kyle even? Okay?
Speaker 3: Can I say something?
Speaker 2: Okay? But yes you can. I know, I know what
Speaker 2: you're going to say.
Speaker 3: No, you don't know what I'm going to say. I
Speaker 3: don't know what it is.
Speaker 1: But there's no Australian artist that I I mean, I
Speaker 1: think I feel this way about all celebrities, but even
Speaker 1: more so Australian celebrities. To me, Kylie is like Kylie
Speaker 1: that would be at the RSL really like, but I
Speaker 1: see that all Australian artists, like if I saw Troy Savanna,
Speaker 1: like yeah's Troy, like right, But I think I see
Speaker 1: like maybe American celebrities and singers like they're a bit
Speaker 1: more famous, but I know Kylie is like this obviously
Speaker 1: super famous. But to me, like, I don't know, I
Speaker 1: think it's just because they're Ausie, like they're from here.
Speaker 1: I'm just like, yeah, it's just fucking Kylie just singing,
Speaker 1: spinning around on the stage. So it's just so funny
Speaker 1: and like, obviously you and I are so different in
Speaker 1: this way when we've spoken about this on the pod before, Like,
Speaker 1: there's no celebrity that I like, idolize and like, and
Speaker 1: it's just so interesting to see you like talk about
Speaker 1: a celebrity in this such passionate way.
Speaker 3: And I've got friends that.
Speaker 1: Are also like obsessed with celebrities, and I just wish
Speaker 1: I could be like that or like understand yeah, because
Speaker 1: it's just hilarious.
Speaker 2: I'm sure there's lots of scrollers as well who feel
Speaker 2: the same way, who I don't get it. I don't
Speaker 2: get the obsession. I think when she commented, I actually
Speaker 2: had a little moment to myself about like the reason
Speaker 2: which I had never really touched on. Obviously, if he
Speaker 2: came and saw dancing Queen, you already know about like her,
Speaker 2: how much Kylie means to me and how much she
Speaker 2: shaped my childhood and blah blah blah. But one thing
Speaker 2: that I thought about actually when she commented on my
Speaker 2: reel and then you know, Nick had then left, because
Speaker 2: when he was there, I don't think I had like
Speaker 2: really processed it, and I was just like laughing. I
Speaker 2: couldn't stop laughing I was just like, this is just
Speaker 2: so funny and random, and like I was freaking out.
Speaker 2: But then when once he left, like then I was
Speaker 2: like crying about it because I was like what the hell?
Speaker 2: And I had a moment to myself where I thought about,
Speaker 2: like why am I actually reacting this way? Like why
Speaker 2: do I love her this much? And I have this
Speaker 2: vision in my mind of like being in my bedroom
Speaker 2: as a child, like five years old, and like having
Speaker 2: her CD playing on the CD player and like my
Speaker 2: bedroom door shut and me just like feeling safe. Like
Speaker 2: that's the best way to put it, is like I
Speaker 2: found a lot of safety in her music as a
Speaker 2: child who was very confused about who they were, was
Speaker 2: dealing with the fact they loved Nathan from high five
Speaker 2: and didn't know what that meant. You know, I was
Speaker 2: coming I was in a time where I was like
Speaker 2: trying to figure out, you know, as well, whether I
Speaker 2: wanted to be a boy or a girl, or whether
Speaker 2: I was whether I was gay or But also at
Speaker 2: five years old and not being exposed to any of
Speaker 2: those conversations I had, it was more confusing. That's why
Speaker 2: it's so important. Like when we talk about you know,
Speaker 2: a lot of people say, oh, keep the children out
Speaker 2: of it, like children shouldn't know about these things so young,
Speaker 2: like they're only five years old. They shouldn't know what
Speaker 2: transgender and gay and all of that is. Let me
Speaker 2: tell you, it would have helped me out a lot
Speaker 2: more if I did know about that, if I had
Speaker 2: seen a drag queen and gone to a drag story
Speaker 2: time and all the rest of that, like, it may
Speaker 2: have helped me a lot more than I needed. And
Speaker 2: so at that point, we didn't have any of that stuff.
Speaker 2: Kylie Minogue was my safety net, and when I would
Speaker 2: listen to her music, I felt very safe and secure.
Speaker 2: Not that I was in a household where it's very
Speaker 2: hard to describe because I wasn't in a household like
Speaker 2: I don't come from a household where we had any
Speaker 2: issues or violence or any I'm not saying safety is
Speaker 2: in like that sort of thing, but it's just like
Speaker 2: you're just so confused and unsure of the world and
Speaker 2: you're just not really there's a lot of there's a
Speaker 2: lot going on, and so yeah, for her, she was
Speaker 2: like a lot of safety for me. So it's like
Speaker 2: for her to acknowledge me and comment on that real
Speaker 2: and you know, there's the age old question was it
Speaker 2: her or was it her team? You know? And I
Speaker 2: fully believe that it was her, especially because since the
Speaker 2: reaction since from a lot of the people around her
Speaker 2: has kind of solidified that, like, she genuinely did love
Speaker 2: the series. And so basically, let's fast forward. We got
Speaker 2: to the Sydney show and we had people from front
Speaker 2: Frontier Touring come up. I mean Frontier Touring came up
Speaker 2: to me another night in Melbourne, took a photo of me,
Speaker 2: put me on the Instagram. I'm like, her tour company
Speaker 2: has seen it. Mushroom Group were sharing my posts. Kylie
Speaker 2: Minogue Wines, her wine brand was sharing my posts. Love that.
Speaker 3: I didn't know that she had a wine brand.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's delicious. The Savvy Be is my favorite,
Speaker 2: but I will I am not opposed.
Speaker 3: To a generation with like a local.
Speaker 2: Oh. I don't know the details behind it actually, but yeah,
Speaker 2: it's just her wine brand and I know that I
Speaker 2: love it. The Savvy Be's my favorite Sabby Bee ever,
Speaker 2: but it is really hard to source anyway. So then
Speaker 2: I was getting a lot of attention from all the
Speaker 2: people around her, and then everyone was like, you know,
Speaker 2: a lot of people were like, oh my god, surely
Speaker 2: meet and greet, meet and greet, which absolutely would have
Speaker 2: loved my life. But she doesn't owe me anything, and
Speaker 2: I don't expect that at all. But I was also like, Okay,
Speaker 2: if it's gonna happen, the people who need to know, No,
Speaker 2: if it's gonna happen, there's no more that I can do.
Speaker 2: The right people know, and if that's going to be
Speaker 2: a possibility, and again, as I said, she's a traditional SOB,
Speaker 2: I'm like, there's no possibility, but you know, and then
Speaker 2: the things, the signs just kept getting more and more, Like,
Speaker 2: you know, when we got to the Sydney show, we
Speaker 2: were like, Hi, could you just wait here for one moment?
Speaker 2: Someone needs to talk to you. And I'm going, oh my,
Speaker 2: what's going on. Then someone comes over high I'm from
Speaker 2: Frontier Touring and blah blah, someone from Kylie Minogue's team
Speaker 2: would like to talk to you tonight. And I'm going,
Speaker 2: oh my god, girls, here we go, what's going on?
Speaker 2: And then what's your seat number? They've taken a photo
Speaker 2: of my seat number. They'll come and find you in
Speaker 2: your seats. Then I'm sitting in my seat or I
Speaker 2: got to my seat and then this lovely goal from
Speaker 2: Kylie Minogue's team was there and was like, Hello, I'm
Speaker 2: so and so from Kylie Minoag's team, and she is
Speaker 2: loving the content and she actually has a gift that
Speaker 2: she'd like us to get to you, So could you
Speaker 2: tell me where you're sitting tomorrow? Blah blah blah, And
Speaker 2: I was like yeah, sure, She took down my number
Speaker 2: all the rest of it, and then we actually sat
Speaker 2: next to this guy who's a big head honcho at
Speaker 2: your Frontier Touring or mushroom groom and works with Kylie
Speaker 2: a lot. Oh that's the other thing I wanted to
Speaker 2: touch on. Sorry before we get into that, because now
Speaker 2: we're about to talk about our experience at Kylie and
Speaker 2: what happened that night. But that's what I want to say.
Speaker 2: The other thing as well, is although for a lot
Speaker 2: of people who aren't in the Kylie Minogue world of
Speaker 2: it all, you're seeing what I'm doing and you're going, wow,
Speaker 2: super fan doing more than anyone else in the grand
Speaker 2: scheme of things, I really am at the bottom of
Speaker 2: the ladder when it.
Speaker 3: Comes to extreme fans.
Speaker 2: There's so many more extreme fans than me, and so
Speaker 2: what I'm also wanted to talk about online is like
Speaker 2: the fact that like I don't in my mind deserve
Speaker 2: a meet and greet with her or to like go
Speaker 2: backstage or get pulled on stage, because one thing that
Speaker 2: I learned during this tour is there are so many
Speaker 2: more people. I met this lovely lady who's going to
Speaker 2: thirty two of the shows I'm going to ten, She's
Speaker 2: going to thirty two. She's from Chicago, she came to Australia,
Speaker 2: did the ten shows, she's doing UK America and Canada.
Speaker 2: I think from memory, we sat next to this man
Speaker 2: who it was his sixty eighth Kylie Minogue show. There
Speaker 2: are super fans out there that do what I do
Speaker 2: and dress up every show and go to multiple shows,
Speaker 2: more shows than me, and do all of this and
Speaker 2: spend so much more money and blah blah blah. I
Speaker 2: met so many people who have done what I do,
Speaker 2: what I've done on this journey tenfold, and they've never
Speaker 2: met Kylie Minogu, do you know what I mean? So
Speaker 2: it's like I think, as well, the other thing is
Speaker 2: you've got to be careful, Like I was, like, I'm
Speaker 2: trying to use my pr brain as well, because if
Speaker 2: Kylie was to meet me, it sets a precedent almost,
Speaker 2: doesn't it. And it's like, oh, well, if you want
Speaker 2: to meet and greet, you better just dress up and
Speaker 2: go to ten shows. And that's what you get forgetting
Speaker 2: to do you know what I mean? Like it's like
Speaker 2: it's kind of like you have to think about like
Speaker 2: the whole image of what that would say, because how
Speaker 2: many people would she piss off if she met me? Yeah,
Speaker 2: when you've got the lady I met, who granted has
Speaker 2: met Kylie like five times, but she's going to thirty
Speaker 2: two shows, So if she meets me, well then why
Speaker 2: doesn't that warrant her getting one? Do you know what
Speaker 2: I mean? And so all of these thoughts have been
Speaker 2: going through my brain like the entire tour, and I'm
Speaker 2: just that's kind of where my brain's been at. But anyway,
Speaker 2: we went. We had a great night. We were in
Speaker 2: the front row. We sat next to this guy, big
Speaker 2: Head Honcho Vibes sixty eighth Kylie min Oak Show, and
Speaker 2: you hit it off with him because you were actually
Speaker 2: sitting in to him and his partner.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we made friends with the guys next to us
Speaker 1: and then he's said that in their office everyone was
Speaker 1: talking about your videos and it was the chat of
Speaker 1: the office. Yes, And then he's like, I'll get you
Speaker 1: to come to something later and they were like okay.
Speaker 1: So then he gave us like a pink VIP wristband
Speaker 1: and we went to the Kylie Wine.
Speaker 2: Bar backstays after the show. So I stay, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: I drunkenly said hello to Celeste Barber. Yeah, it's like, hey, Celests.
Speaker 2: Richard Wilks was there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's all the people that I knew in there.
Speaker 1: It was just like random friends and family.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a friends and family thing. Anyway, great time.
Speaker 1: Then that guy messaged me on Instagram the next day saying,
Speaker 1: I hope you had fun, blah blah blah. Do you
Speaker 1: want to come again tonight? And I'm like, oh, fox sake,
Speaker 1: I felt a bit wrecked after going once. I don't
Speaker 1: know how you've gone ten times. And I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what, I'll bring my friend. We'll go again,
Speaker 1: and I will say So I went like this Sunday
Speaker 1: night and we were sitting well, I ended up being
Speaker 1: near you, Matt, like sort of up on the side,
Speaker 1: little grandstand thing and it was really cool to see
Speaker 1: the show from a different angle because I feel like
Speaker 1: when we were down, like you're really like below the stage,
Speaker 1: Like the stage is like above your head, so you
Speaker 1: kind of have to look up and you're not like
Speaker 1: seeing all the way to the back of the stage.
Speaker 1: So it's cool to see like all the dancers and
Speaker 1: stuff from a different angle. But I will say like
Speaker 1: when we're in the front row, we had the best time,
Speaker 1: and it was so different because you're in the front row,
Speaker 1: then it's just you and then like a meter and
Speaker 1: then the barricade, so like no one's in front of you,
Speaker 1: no one's obstructing your view. And we were dancing the
Speaker 1: whole time, and like we had our drinks in our hand,
Speaker 1: dancing and singing, holding onto the barricade kind of thing.
Speaker 1: And then it made me realize how different of an
Speaker 1: experience it is if you're in another section. And then
Speaker 1: it got me thinking, and I said to you after
Speaker 1: the concert, because we just had so much fun. We
Speaker 1: were dancing and seeing the whole time. I was like,
Speaker 1: that was more fun than the Ears tour. But I
Speaker 1: think it's because we had a way better spot. Yeah,
Speaker 1: when we were at the Ears tour, we were so
Speaker 1: far up the grand stand, like I couldn't see Taylor,
Speaker 1: like she was like a little speck and like fuzzy.
Speaker 1: So you watch like the TV screen the whole concert,
Speaker 1: but it's just so I can imagine like the people
Speaker 1: on the ground and in the front row at the
Speaker 1: Ears tour would have had that like amazing experience. So
Speaker 1: it was really cool to be able to experience front
Speaker 1: row at a show and then experience like sitting on
Speaker 1: the side, which was still great, but it's a different experience.
Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely when I sat like up in Brisbane, when
Speaker 2: I sat up the back, I noticed, so I've been
Speaker 2: to the show six times already or something, and I
Speaker 2: was like, oh my god, I'm actually noticing all these
Speaker 2: things that I haven't noticed yet because I was kind
Speaker 2: of on the floor the whole time. I will say,
Speaker 2: let's actually talk about sitting front row, okay, because although
Speaker 2: best experience ever, you really do forget there's fifteen thousand
Speaker 2: other people in the room.
Speaker 1: If you really just feel like you're there, like you're
Speaker 1: so close to the stage and I love that no
Speaker 1: one's in front of you. It makes you realize, Like
Speaker 1: last night when we went to the second show, well
Speaker 1: my second show, Like when the people stand up in
Speaker 1: front of you, then you stand up so that you
Speaker 1: can see, like it's just the whole other thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Whereas when you are front row, you don't have to
Speaker 1: worry about anything obstructing your view. And I would say, like,
Speaker 1: as you all know, like this is basically the second
Speaker 1: concept I've ever been to besides Evanescence, going front row,
Speaker 1: Like I can see the hype and why people try
Speaker 1: so badly to get them because yeah, you're way closer.
Speaker 1: But it's just like a way better experience in terms
Speaker 1: of like your surroundings.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a very personal experience. And this is something
Speaker 2: that's gonna shock you all. I'm not sure I enjoyed
Speaker 2: front row as much as I thought I would because
Speaker 2: it's low key, fucking awkward. Locking eyes with Kylie Minogue
Speaker 2: is actually kind of a little too. I feel like
Speaker 2: I flew a little too close to the sun and
Speaker 2: I was like, shit, she's looking at me. Then I
Speaker 2: freaked down. I got awkward, and I was like, you know,
Speaker 2: I was like living my life, and then she'd look
Speaker 2: at me and I'd shut my body would shut down,
Speaker 2: and I'd go, oh, my god. And it's so awkward
Speaker 2: as well, because you know, I know every word to
Speaker 2: every song, but sometimes in the moment you might slip
Speaker 2: up and sing the wrong fucking one. Well, there's no
Speaker 2: getting away with it. Like you are up in the
Speaker 2: stands and no one's paying attention. I'm front rah if
Speaker 2: I sing the wrong lyric? Kylie knowyes, because she's looking
Speaker 2: me down in the fucking eyes. And the other thing
Speaker 2: is everyone filming the whole time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would say they are the only awkward thing
Speaker 1: about being front row. And I guess at that show
Speaker 1: because the stadium was much smaller than like Taylor Swift Stadium,
Speaker 1: so it felt more intimate when you are in the
Speaker 1: front row. But like all the lights that are like
Speaker 1: right there on the stage in front of you, that
Speaker 1: are constantly flashing, like you're constantly getting whacked in the
Speaker 1: face with like you feel like you're exposed to everyone
Speaker 1: as well.
Speaker 3: It's like the bright lights right on your face.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So I'd say that's where I wouldn't like front row,
Speaker 1: just because of how bright it is.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I mean obviously loved it, and every time
Speaker 2: she does it to her, I'll be getting front road.
Speaker 3: Do you reckon she's gonna tour ever again.
Speaker 2: Oh, absolutely, she's not done. She's not done. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: always because she'd also do like greatest hits to her
Speaker 2: and stuff, like she'd do a farewell. Kylie would for
Speaker 2: sure do a farewell. Always it's going to be done. Yeah,
Speaker 2: this wouldn't be her last one.
Speaker 3: I always say.
Speaker 1: I feel like we've said this before as well, and
Speaker 1: we've talked about Justin Bieber and shit, but like why
Speaker 1: do they keep touring?
Speaker 3: Like if they've got enough money?
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, Like.
Speaker 1: If she's been doing this for forty years or however
Speaker 1: long she's been like famous and singing, Like, doesn't she
Speaker 1: have enough money that she could just go ah fuck it?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Well I think she. I think it might be
Speaker 2: a bit of a passion project, to be honest. I
Speaker 2: mean for people like her obviously makes a lot of money.
Speaker 2: But look at me. I've spoken before the shows that
Speaker 2: I do it's passion. It's a passion project. I love
Speaker 2: being on stay, I love good.
Speaker 3: I will say, like she fucking gets into it.
Speaker 2: Everyone is giving everyone who's going to the shows.
Speaker 1: She looks amazing, I have to say as well, Like
Speaker 1: we all know she looks amazing. She looks fucking good,
Speaker 1: and she's like, I got a curvy bum, Like I
Speaker 1: don't know. I was just like, you look amazing, Kylie.
Speaker 1: She looks great, hair looked amazing, body looked amazing.
Speaker 2: Dances she's so sure.
Speaker 3: Or maybe the dancers are really tall, or is kyl.
Speaker 2: It's really tiny?
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, yeah, google how tall she is.
Speaker 2: I'll definitely get front row again. But just you know,
Speaker 2: if you've never sat front row and you've seen my
Speaker 2: journey and you're like, oh, it's amazing, it is amazing,
Speaker 2: it's life change again, I so recommend it. But those
Speaker 2: moments I went I don't I don't know how to
Speaker 2: describe it, but I went awkward. I was like, oh,
Speaker 2: I don't know what to do. She's looking right at me.
Speaker 2: I don't know what to do. And then even.
Speaker 1: Fifty two centimeters if anyone was wondering, how hi one
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty two centimeters. See I'm one hundred and
Speaker 1: so one hundred and sixty six centimeters, so I'm over
Speaker 1: ten centimeters tall than her. I'm short, yeah, yep, she's
Speaker 1: short ash So.
Speaker 2: Front row was great anyway, Then he gave you VIP
Speaker 2: tickets to come back. The next night, then where else
Speaker 2: we go? Oh so yes, last night? Okay, here we go.
Speaker 2: So then this is the Monday. So I was in
Speaker 2: the spinning around gold dress everyone for reference, and the
Speaker 2: person from Kylie's team who took my number down the
Speaker 2: night before she messaged me and said, Hi, where are
Speaker 2: you sitting? And she came up to me and had
Speaker 2: a bag and she handed me the bag and said, here,
Speaker 2: Kylie just wanted to make sure that you got this.
Speaker 2: There's a couple of goodies in there. There was some
Speaker 2: merch in there, including a jumper that I was going
Speaker 2: to buy and a bucket hat that I was going
Speaker 2: to buy. And there was a key ring I didn't
Speaker 2: even know existed, and there was a tote bag, and
Speaker 2: there was also a note in there she had written
Speaker 2: on like attention to a card, Hi Matt loved all
Speaker 2: the looks and then signed it love Kylie. Oh my god,
Speaker 2: I'll be framing that and putting that in the entryway
Speaker 2: of my house and that will be like a focal
Speaker 2: point and everyone who comes over I got and yes,
Speaker 2: this is my sign. And you know what, Brittany, Remember
Speaker 2: I've said before, I've never ever You're going to hate this.
Speaker 2: You're going to hate this, and you're gonna think I'm crazy.
Speaker 1: I already think you're crazy. You've done you can say
Speaker 1: anything at that point.
Speaker 2: I've always said, Oh, I've never loved anything enough to
Speaker 2: get a tattoo.
Speaker 3: Are you getting a tattoo?
Speaker 2: I want to get that signature and love heart that
Speaker 2: Kylie wrote for me as a tattoo on my wrist.
Speaker 2: Just here. Yeah, that's all right, just small, small version.
Speaker 2: It's quite big. It's quite a big cat.
Speaker 3: In like a thick permanent marker.
Speaker 2: Yeah, don't get a tattoo, sick, I get a little
Speaker 2: thin you know, we'll do a little thing anyway. I'll
Speaker 2: sort it out. But I think that would be a
Speaker 2: nice little ending to this adventure that I've been on
Speaker 2: and something that I'll never forget. And that was just amazing.
Speaker 2: And I told her to pass on my thanks to Kylie,
Speaker 2: and I know gorgeous.
Speaker 3: I was looking at photos of Kylie and I go
Speaker 3: one Google.
Speaker 2: I said to her, like I never expected any thing.
Speaker 2: I did this for me like, and I said, pass
Speaker 2: all this on to Kylie, like I wanted to know,
Speaker 2: like she's made my life. I'm never gonna forget this.
Speaker 2: And she didn't owe me anything. I didn't expect anything
Speaker 2: out of it, but she's gone above and beyond and
Speaker 2: I I'm obsessed, So thank you for that. And she said, oh,
Speaker 2: you don't understand, like she's truly obsessed with the whole thing,
Speaker 2: Like every time there's a post, she has to stop
Speaker 2: everything and look at the post and what you've done
Speaker 2: and blah blah blah. And I'm like, that makes my
Speaker 2: head spin. And I'm one of those people who like,
Speaker 2: in the moment, I'm cool, calm, collected, and then I
Speaker 2: have a fucking mental breakdown about it later and you
Speaker 2: can just imagine. So then she's given me that, and
Speaker 2: then the concert was starting like five minutes later, so
Speaker 2: I've had that. I've gotten that, said goodbye to the
Speaker 2: girl from Kylie's team, and sat down in my seat
Speaker 2: and took a breather, enjoyed the concert, and then got
Speaker 2: home and then yeah, it all hit me. And then anyway,
Speaker 2: then I went out to the club and celebrate it
Speaker 2: and it was lovely, So I think success. I would
Speaker 2: love to meet her one day. I know everyone was
Speaker 2: like begging for that. I know everyone was like, surely
Speaker 2: this ends in a meet and greet and I mean,
Speaker 2: I have one concert tonight and I don't know, who
Speaker 2: knows what could happen, but I doubt it. I feel
Speaker 2: like the present, which I'm very grateful for, and that's
Speaker 2: more than enough for me. And literally that's getting hung
Speaker 2: up in my house and I just like can't wait
Speaker 2: for that to be literally a focal point in my
Speaker 2: entry way so that anyone who comes to my house
Speaker 2: has to see my signed letter and card from Kylimanoak.
Speaker 2: But I know a lot of people were like hoping
Speaker 2: that it would end in that, and of course I
Speaker 2: was as well. But I hope that today I've like
Speaker 2: explained a little more behind the reason why I think
Speaker 2: it's very justified that that wouldn't happen, do you know
Speaker 2: what I mean? Her being a traditional celeb me really,
Speaker 2: at the end of the day, what I did, I
Speaker 2: know I did a lot, but there's a lot of
Speaker 2: people doing a lot more than me out there in
Speaker 2: the grand scheme of things, right, wild, wild, but so fabulous,
Speaker 2: And that's the impact this person has had on their life.
Speaker 2: Because sorry, last point. I know this is a close
Speaker 2: friend's episode. It has been a long one, and we're
Speaker 2: gonna wrap up in a second. But the thing is, like,
Speaker 2: let's take someone Billie Eilish is the first person that
Speaker 2: kind of comes to mind, because she maybe Billy Eilish
Speaker 2: might maybe not a good maybe not a good example.
Speaker 2: Let's take Chapel Rone. Actually she's probably a better example. Right.
Speaker 2: If Chapel Rone comes to Australia and tours Australia, obviously
Speaker 2: the tickets are going to go off. But no one
Speaker 2: in that room can say that Chapel Rone has had
Speaker 2: an impact on their entire life. That's the difference with
Speaker 2: Kylie Minogue is for so many of the people in
Speaker 2: that room, she's been there their entire life. Ye Like,
Speaker 2: for me, it's been my entire life. My earliest memories
Speaker 2: of my life, I can remember loving and listening to
Speaker 2: Kylie Minogue. So like, you know, I feel like the
Speaker 2: key these days that don't get it because like, yes,
Speaker 2: they love Chapel Rome, but they found Chapel Rome whether
Speaker 2: they were twelve or thirteen, or fifteen or seventeen or
Speaker 2: nineteen or twenty one so on. Whereas for so many people,
Speaker 2: Kylie Minogue has been ingrained in their life from the
Speaker 2: get go, especially for me, because my parents loved Kylie Minogue.
Speaker 2: So then they've brought me up on Kylie Minogue sort
Speaker 2: of thing, and now here we are today. So it's
Speaker 2: like just different because even Lady Gaga, I wouldn't act
Speaker 2: this way or I wouldn't I would. You know, Lady Gaga,
Speaker 2: I love she had a huge impact on my life,
Speaker 2: but it was in my teen years, similar to Kylie.
Speaker 2: I'm figuring myself out when I'm five. Lady Gaga, that's
Speaker 2: when I'm coming out and I know who I am
Speaker 2: now or I'm still in this final stages of figuring
Speaker 2: out who I am. But Lady Gaga will never have
Speaker 2: the impact on my life that Kylie has, do you
Speaker 2: know what I mean? So that's kind of the difference.
Speaker 2: That's why she's got so many super fans because she's
Speaker 2: been around.
Speaker 3: And she's been spinning around.
Speaker 2: She's been spinning around. So anyway, I hope you in
Speaker 2: alloid hearing a little bit more of my journey, my
Speaker 2: thoughts on the whole thing. Had the best time. Will
Speaker 2: never do anything like this ever again.
Speaker 3: I've finished my weight.
Speaker 2: Is there anything else do you want to say? Because
Speaker 2: you didn't say much in this episode. I know you
Speaker 2: had a lot of thoughts and feelings about.
Speaker 3: I feel like you've.
Speaker 1: Said everything that I I would say. Yeah, like like
Speaker 1: you said, I don't. I don't think celebrities ohe us anything.
Speaker 1: And I think if a celebrity is like not doing
Speaker 1: meet and greet tickets, then they're not going to do it.
Speaker 1: I reckon, they finish that show and fucking get straight
Speaker 1: in the car and fuck right off. Like I genuinely
Speaker 1: think that's what they do.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Probably you wouldn't imagine doing that show. You wouldn't,
Speaker 2: you like, couldn't wait to get into bed. Yeah, you'd
Speaker 2: be like, everyone.
Speaker 1: Shut up, turn the lights off, and fuck off. And
Speaker 1: I think I was saying to you, I think we
Speaker 1: shouldn't meet our idols.
Speaker 3: You know they say don't meet your idols, like it's
Speaker 3: the same.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So I reckon she should just stay your eye.
Speaker 2: I wonder why.
Speaker 3: I don't know, if she's just good.
Speaker 1: Saying don't meet your idols, keep your idols as idols.
Speaker 2: I'd love to.
Speaker 3: Though, maybe you will one day, Matt old.
Speaker 2: Matter if I managed still going to be in my
Speaker 2: idol forever though. Yeah, anyway, I could talk about Kylie
Speaker 2: Minogue till the Cows come Home, but it is Friday,
Speaker 2: you will need to go, have a fabulous weekend, and
Speaker 2: we'll see you next Tuesday.