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Speaker 2: you for sticking around for close Friends.
Speaker 1: Of course, this is where the juicy goes up.
Speaker 2: And I'm glad because, as I was saying in the
Speaker 2: main episode, our walks that we go on, you're my
Speaker 2: walking buddy for the hot girl walks, they are like
Speaker 2: a close Friends episode, like we do, you know, do
Speaker 2: the deep and meaningful things and whatnot on those walks.
Speaker 2: So I was actually more excited for this Close Friends
Speaker 2: episode than I guess the main episode with you because
Speaker 2: now we can just talk about whatever we want. Ye
Speaker 2: and we're both turning thirty this year, as I've discussed
Speaker 2: plenty of times on this Partty, and I was saying
Speaker 2: a few weeks ago that I'm doing the quiet celebrating
Speaker 2: thing this year.
Speaker 1: Which I was so shocked by. For you, I was like,
Speaker 1: this does not feel on brand.
Speaker 2: Really, Yeah, I'm keeping things mysterious.
Speaker 1: Never let him know your next move.
Speaker 2: No, And I'd love to be that person who keeps
Speaker 2: their mouth shut, but unfortunately here I am. But you
Speaker 2: are doing the opposite of me. Yes, you've decided on
Speaker 2: a big bash.
Speaker 1: Big party. Well, I kind of was in two minds
Speaker 1: about it because I was really freaking out about turning thirty.
Speaker 1: For a hot minute there, you know, I was like, well,
Speaker 1: milestone birthdays just come with so much shit, for lack
Speaker 1: of a better word, It's like, oh my god, you
Speaker 1: reflect on everything that's happened in your life and where
Speaker 1: am I meant to be? Where am I going? And
Speaker 1: I was just gonna do something intimate, and then I thought, no,
Speaker 1: I want to be the center of attention, and I
Speaker 1: want to look really hot, and I want like all
Speaker 1: the people that I love to be there, which of
Speaker 1: course you can do in many different ways. But the
Speaker 1: route that I'm taking is a big fuck off. Party
Speaker 1: and it's a dress up.
Speaker 2: Party, I know. And let me talk you through the
Speaker 2: invitation because this was such a moment to receive this
Speaker 2: invite was and I love when the invite is an
Speaker 2: experience in itself because first of all, your legal name
Speaker 2: literally is star Yes, but your middle name legally is
Speaker 2: literally a niece. So your name is star Anie, which
Speaker 2: is a spice, isn't it r?
Speaker 1: It's a spice And no one ever believes me that
Speaker 1: it's my real name. Like, It's got me a lot
Speaker 1: of free drinks on a night out because I let
Speaker 1: your name's not star a niece and I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: show you my fucking license, and you have to buy
Speaker 1: me a drink and then I do it.
Speaker 2: And I'm like, OK, hey, I think it's so funny
Speaker 2: and it reminds me of when I was in high school.
Speaker 2: There was a girl who transferred to her our school
Speaker 2: and her name was Victoria, and I got to know her.
Speaker 2: She was one of my friends only for a brief moment.
Speaker 2: I think I was just trying to get to know
Speaker 2: it because she was new to the school. I was
Speaker 2: being nice because I was very nice, you know, and
Speaker 2: very nice person. Somewhere down deep down inside, and she
Speaker 2: was telling me. I said, Victoria. That's such a nice name.
Speaker 2: I didn't we didn't have any other Victoria's at the
Speaker 2: school and stuff. And I said, oh, you got any
Speaker 2: brothers and sisters? She said yeah, I've got a brother
Speaker 2: Daniel and another brother named Jack. And I went, oh, nice, nice.
Speaker 2: And we had another girl in our group who had
Speaker 2: like a bit of a stranger less common name. So
Speaker 2: we just got onto like being you know, the name
Speaker 2: or what were you going to be named? Because my
Speaker 2: other name that my parents had picked for me was Thomas.
Speaker 2: I was almost Thomas, but then I got Matthew, and
Speaker 2: I'm glad. I don't feel Thomas. That is so weird.
Speaker 2: I can't come Thomas. So anyway, and then I didn't
Speaker 2: want to deal with the bullying of Thomas the ten
Speaker 2: Kenjine or something true. I mean they called me the
Speaker 2: fat controller. Anyways, I didn't work out in my favor.
Speaker 2: But you know, we got onto the topic of that
Speaker 2: and I was like, oh, yeah, what else were you
Speaker 2: going to be named? Victoria? And she goes, oh, no,
Speaker 2: my mum had our names picked out because she's an alcoholic. Oh,
Speaker 2: so I'm Victoria after Victoria Bitter and then Jack Daniels Victoria,
Speaker 2: Jack and Daniel. I thought that's iconic anyway, Oh, I
Speaker 2: mean it's not iconic, but you know what I'm trying
Speaker 2: to say. I mean, it's a funny story to tell
Speaker 2: the Greend kids. Anyway. I hope they're doing well. The
Speaker 2: point of the fact of the matter is your name,
Speaker 2: star Anise, which is so unique. And I just have
Speaker 2: to clarify. Any of your brothers or sisters named after
Speaker 2: herds or spices.
Speaker 1: No other herbs or spices, but I do give them
Speaker 1: nicknames kind of along a spice rack. If you look
Speaker 1: at your spice rack in your kitchen and you've got
Speaker 1: a Paprika, I'm going to be calling my sister Paprika
Speaker 1: because I thought we need a theme here. I'm a
Speaker 1: Virgo and there's no cohesion across the names. They're all
Speaker 1: fucking random. Can you not tell by my bloody birthday invitation?
Speaker 2: Let me have a look at it again.
Speaker 1: I sent you a link to a Google form to
Speaker 1: RSVP that is like textbook Virgo behavior.
Speaker 2: That's right. I will have a look now at your
Speaker 2: invitation because I this whole time thought you were a libra.
Speaker 1: Oh, I'm on the huss Yeah, a burgo Libra.
Speaker 2: Okay, you do give Libra energy. Sometimes I kind.
Speaker 1: Of just read the horoscopes and go, yeah, I like
Speaker 1: that one better. I'll be that one today.
Speaker 2: Okay, this is the invitation. This is probably the most
Speaker 2: iconic part. The first line, the first line of the invitation,
Speaker 2: and this is what had me hooked, and I went,
Speaker 2: this is gonna be to paint the picture for you.
Speaker 2: There's a big disco ball, Hannah Montana, mean girls, all
Speaker 2: those sorts of two thousand esque things are in the background,
Speaker 2: and then Star's got this big you know, thirty flirty
Speaker 2: and thriving. The first line says, thirty years ago, a
Speaker 2: star was born.
Speaker 1: Oh I just thought, can I need to star with
Speaker 1: a double R?
Speaker 2: Yeah, A star I was born? And then it says
Speaker 2: you're invited to come and celebrate the one and only
Speaker 2: Star with an iconic night of good vibes, drinks and
Speaker 2: a cheeky little boogie. And then it says the theme
Speaker 2: is icons, and there's a quote saying an icon is
Speaker 2: someone or something widely admired and recognized for their influence, style,
Speaker 2: or achieved very US icon status.
Speaker 1: I also made a Pinterest board with inspiration for costumes
Speaker 1: for everyone too. So if you click through to the
Speaker 1: Google form which is for RSVP, there's also a little
Speaker 1: note there that says, here's some inspokes. I don't want
Speaker 1: anyone to feel stressed about costumes.
Speaker 2: So I'm trying to think of something in a little
Speaker 2: weird because when I think icons, obviously, straight away I
Speaker 2: go to things like Lady Gaga, you know, those sorts
Speaker 2: of like pop stars. But I kind of want to
Speaker 2: try and go a bit funny and scrollers. I'd love
Speaker 2: your help with this. So the theme is obviously icons.
Speaker 2: I'd love to go as an icon that is a
Speaker 2: little bit left of field. The first one that came
Speaker 2: to mind was like, I think it would be funny
Speaker 2: if I went as like the Mona Lisa and just
Speaker 2: had like a blank look on my face the whole time,
Speaker 2: put my head in like a picture file around you,
Speaker 2: or like Mother Teresa, and I'm like in a Nuns outfit.
Speaker 2: Which is that even allowed these days? I'm not sure
Speaker 2: Sister ex playing at the moment, they're getting a lot
Speaker 2: of backlash because apparently there's a big mockery of like
Speaker 2: Christianity and things like that. I thought, have you not
Speaker 2: watched the movie? Did you not know what you were
Speaker 2: signing up to? There must be a lot of There
Speaker 2: must be a big community of people out there who
Speaker 2: just go and see musicals and have no idea what
Speaker 2: they're about. Because they seem to be getting every post
Speaker 2: they put up. There's comments from people saying, left it
Speaker 2: inter mission, what a described, it's not not nice, mockery
Speaker 2: of Christianity, blah blah blahl. Come on, I thought, we
Speaker 2: can't wait to see that. I got my tickets. I'm
Speaker 2: going in a few weeks, so I'll have to give
Speaker 2: you a review and tell you all in an episode
Speaker 2: in the future whether it's worth seeing or not. But
Speaker 2: I have high hopes. I think it'd be great. I
Speaker 2: love Casey Donovan in anything. Yes, I fell in love
Speaker 2: with her in nine to five and she did nine
Speaker 2: to five the musical that was got.
Speaker 1: The biggest standing of it.
Speaker 2: Oh, she's phenomenal, she's amazing. She was born to do Broadway.
Speaker 2: You're going big, I'm going small. I also have an
Speaker 2: update for everyone on Fiji. Yes, so Fiji was meant
Speaker 2: to happen the date that worked for all of us.
Speaker 2: Everyone going was going to be the final week in September,
Speaker 2: and that was where all our dates aligned were all
Speaker 2: ready to go. I'm not sure what's going on in
Speaker 2: Fiji at the moment. There might be a real serious
Speaker 2: kind of aspect to it, because remember when all the
Speaker 2: prices went up in Hawaii, and it was because the
Speaker 2: locals in Hawaii were actually trying to divert tourists away.
Speaker 2: They didn't want to risk coming to Hawaii because it
Speaker 2: was ruining the wildlife, it was ruining the economy or
Speaker 2: the rest of that. I'm not fully across what happened
Speaker 2: over there, but the prices went up to try and
Speaker 2: deter people from going to Hawaii because the locals didn't
Speaker 2: want people there. I'm not sure what's going on in Fiji,
Speaker 2: but we looked at prices to go and stay there
Speaker 2: and it was just so ridiculous and so inflated compared
Speaker 2: to because I used to like going to Fiji because
Speaker 2: it would only cost you two or three grand. You
Speaker 2: could go for a week. That's flight's accommodation and all inclusive,
Speaker 2: your food, your drinks, your everything for the week, your transfer, yeah, everything,
Speaker 2: I mean between two people, that's fifteen hundred dollars each
Speaker 2: stunning week away, gorgeous weather, all the not far three
Speaker 2: and a half hour flight, We're done looking. That was
Speaker 2: only twelve months ago Sky and I last went, and
Speaker 2: that's around how much it cost us to go and
Speaker 2: do the same thing. We looked at the accommodation exactly
Speaker 2: the same accommodation, not all inclusive. They've changed that, and
Speaker 2: the lowest we could get it for a week was
Speaker 2: six and a half thousand dollars. That's before flights, that's
Speaker 2: before anything else, you know, and obviously hello cost of
Speaker 2: living crisis. I just was like, I can't ask my
Speaker 2: friends to come to VG. It's like destination wedding vibes.
Speaker 2: I'm like, you know, I thought it was only going
Speaker 2: to cost a couple grand. Everyone needs a holiday. Let's
Speaker 2: just go for a week fabulous, And you know, I'd
Speaker 2: pay for our transfers and make sure that, you know,
Speaker 2: if we went out for dinners and stuff for my birthday,
Speaker 2: like it's I don't worry my shout, I'm not. I
Speaker 2: can't afford to get to pay your way to Fiji.
Speaker 2: And so then I looked at things like Hamilton Island
Speaker 2: as well and Port Douglas and thought maybe a few
Speaker 2: nights away there everything sold out, and I think what's
Speaker 2: happened is people have probably looked at Fiji thought the
Speaker 2: same as me, a bit expensive, so we'll keep it
Speaker 2: Australian and we'll go Hamilton Island. I think everyone had
Speaker 2: the same idea. And now there's nothing available up there
Speaker 2: in that week of September and no other dates work
Speaker 2: for everyone, so canceled. That's the update. That's update on that.
Speaker 2: I know everyone was very excited about the whole thing.
Speaker 2: I had lots of people asking about what's happening with
Speaker 2: Fiji over the last few weeks because I said I
Speaker 2: was sorting that out once my tour was done. But
Speaker 2: I just don't think we can make it work and
Speaker 2: I just can't expect people to spend that much to
Speaker 2: come away.
Speaker 1: You should have a look at the Cook Islands. I
Speaker 1: went there in March. Was really is it school holidays? Maybe?
Speaker 2: Is that?
Speaker 1: Why?
Speaker 2: Oh potentially you might be on with that. You might
Speaker 2: be on with that. But yeah, we looked at the
Speaker 2: Cook Islands because they are beautiful as well.
Speaker 1: It amazing.
Speaker 2: The other thing as well, though the only way to
Speaker 2: get there is I was concerned was jet stuck and
Speaker 2: I just I just am not at a point in
Speaker 2: my life where I can trust them. Due to not
Speaker 2: being able to trust them in the past, I've had
Speaker 2: flights just absolutely canceled and the whole trip is I
Speaker 2: can't do that anymore.
Speaker 1: I must say the flight there is pretty rough as well,
Speaker 1: because it's an overnight one and it's like six and
Speaker 1: a half hours, and I know that's like how long
Speaker 1: it takes to get to Balley, but it was just
Speaker 1: the timing. I think we boarded the flight at like
Speaker 1: nine thirty ten PM and I was with my niece
Speaker 1: and so I got an empty seat next to me
Speaker 1: on the plane, but didn't matter because there's a five
Speaker 1: year old next to me sticking her foot into my
Speaker 1: back for the entire time. And I know how you
Speaker 1: feel about aisle seats and window seats, but I got
Speaker 1: stuck on the aisle seat, and as someone with long
Speaker 1: legs who's trying to sleep on a flight, that doesn't
Speaker 1: really work because every time someone walks past with the
Speaker 1: trolley or just a person, you get your knee knocked
Speaker 1: and you're, God, what's happening. So yeah, the flight was
Speaker 1: a bit rough. I don't really see you on a
Speaker 1: jet staff flight. I don't know. I don't think that
Speaker 1: makes sense, especially if there's no business class, if a
Speaker 1: little eight three thirty seven or whatever.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I'm not riding off Jet Star like they're
Speaker 2: not so bad that I think like the worst. They
Speaker 2: can't be as bad as Tiger. Sorry Tiger really was
Speaker 2: around No and no wonder because it was it was,
Speaker 2: it was not It wasn't even an experience. I mean,
Speaker 2: what I paid nineteen dollars for the flight to Melbourne,
Speaker 2: what do I expect? But yeah, no, Jetstar. I will
Speaker 2: admit I haven't given them the time of day in
Speaker 2: the last however many years. So perhaps they're better than
Speaker 2: they once were, but I just don't like how they got.
Speaker 2: They weigh your bags when you board the flights, where your.
Speaker 1: Cameras for I went up to Brucebane the other week
Speaker 1: and I had layers and layers on, even though it
Speaker 1: was funny flights, sticky and hot in the airport, because
Speaker 1: I was like, I don't want to cop the one
Speaker 1: hundred doors feet whatever it is when you get to
Speaker 1: the gate and they will weigh your bags as well,
Speaker 1: and I had like my little side bag under my
Speaker 1: blazer trying to be really dodgy and really so I'm like,
Speaker 1: just let me on the plane.
Speaker 2: I know. Last time I got a jet Star flight,
Speaker 2: I had to put my laptop in my pants so
Speaker 2: that the two my MacBook is like, you know, four
Speaker 2: kilos in itself, I've got seven. Can't stuff around.
Speaker 1: But anyway, but Matt, how do you back to thirtieth birthdays?
Speaker 1: How do you feel about turning thirty?
Speaker 2: Oh, I'm fine. I'm not one of those people who
Speaker 2: are like, oh my god, I'm getting so old. I
Speaker 2: will say twenty nine has been the first year of
Speaker 2: my life where I've started to feel my body deteriorating,
Speaker 2: like start random pains. Yeah, but I've also it's probably
Speaker 2: my own fault because I'm in my clubbing era, as
Speaker 2: you know, and I'm absolutely loving it. I'm still loving it.
Speaker 2: I actually saw this TikTok the other day. Let me
Speaker 2: play this one for you. I was gonna talk about
Speaker 2: this in the main episode with Britney, but seeing as
Speaker 2: you're here, like it makes more sense now. But haven't
Speaker 2: listened to this because I have a rebuttal. I was
Speaker 2: actually gonna make a TikTok replying to this girl, but
Speaker 2: then I thought, no, I better not, but we'll talk
Speaker 2: about here instead.
Speaker 1: People that are over the age of twenty five that
Speaker 1: still think the clubbing is a good idea?
Speaker 2: Is everything all good? Is everything okay? Back home? Are
Speaker 2: you saying that enjoyable? What the fuck is this here doing?
Speaker 2: If there's nowhere for me to sit, I'm not coming.
Speaker 1: If the music's too loud, I'm not coming.
Speaker 2: If there's anyone under the age of twenty five, you
Speaker 2: guessed it, I'm not coming. And I have fun clubbing anymore.
Speaker 2: I don't know will do Hey? You know what, No,
Speaker 2: I have to disagree. I shout out. I'll give you
Speaker 2: a shout out. Whoever that was, let me have a
Speaker 2: look Madison. Her name is Hi Madison. Thank you for
Speaker 2: your TikTok. Love that it spoke to me on the
Speaker 2: for you page. But in all the wrong reasons. I
Speaker 2: am an advocate of the complete opposite, turning thirty absolutely
Speaker 2: encouraging everyone to go out clubbing. First of all, support
Speaker 2: local business, you know, inject some money into the economy.
Speaker 2: It's first and foremost, but secutive all like I think,
Speaker 2: it depends on where you're going. Of course, I'm going
Speaker 2: to gay clubs, so it's my community. I feel very good,
Speaker 2: very at home. It's very fun and there's nothing quite
Speaker 2: like a dance. That is what I'm there for. I'm
Speaker 2: there to let my hair down, have a dance. And
Speaker 2: I think, as well, it's all about your attitude, I
Speaker 2: will say, as you know, you're asking how I'm feeling
Speaker 2: about turning thirty, I am noticing that the closer I
Speaker 2: get to thirty, the more fucks are going out the window.
Speaker 2: I just care less and less and less and a
Speaker 2: more nonchalant about so many things. When I go to
Speaker 2: the club, I do not care about being judged. I
Speaker 2: think that's what I mean about. It's your attitude. If
Speaker 2: you're going and you feel judged, or you feel out
Speaker 2: of place or any of that, I'm like, even if
Speaker 2: that's the vibe in the room, not gonna affect me
Speaker 2: from having a good night. Life's too short to not
Speaker 2: go out and have the time of your life every
Speaker 2: time you go out. And so I like me and
Speaker 2: my friend who I go out with, he's the same.
Speaker 2: We're just like, we don't care what anyone thinks. Let's
Speaker 2: just dance how we want to dance, do what we
Speaker 2: want to do, and as long as we have a
Speaker 2: good night. Who cares what everyone else thinks and if
Speaker 2: everyone else is judging and all the rest of that,
Speaker 2: and it's just fun and it's funny. On Saturday night,
Speaker 2: I was in the toilets in the club and I'd
Speaker 2: gone to the toilet and then come out and I
Speaker 2: thought I was washing my hands, and there were you know,
Speaker 2: people were pushing in in the line, and I thought, well,
Speaker 2: I'll take it upon myself to be security. I stood
Speaker 2: there for a good forty minutes directing traffic in the toilets, saying,
Speaker 2: you keep it for three place. Boys have fun in there,
Speaker 2: and you know, sorting out where everyone else was going.
Speaker 2: And I had the time of my life. People were like, min,
Speaker 2: you're on the dance floor. I said, I'm actually having
Speaker 2: so much fun in here. And every person who came
Speaker 2: in I met, I introduced myself. We had a great chat.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: And in movies, a person who like passes the hand towel. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I wish.
Speaker 2: I've got some tips, you know.
Speaker 1: But anyway, well, we actually went to Home Bar together
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago, and look, I think, yes,
Speaker 1: your attitude is very important, but also where you're going.
Speaker 1: Because I had a visceral reaction walking into Home bar,
Speaker 1: because I think it's probably been at least ten years
Speaker 1: since I've been in there, and the floor was as
Speaker 1: sticky as you remember. I think the weirdest thing for
Speaker 1: me was being around that many people in an enclosed space,
Speaker 1: Like I haven't experienced that feeling in a long time.
Speaker 1: And I've actually been inspired by you this year to
Speaker 1: go out and have a little bit more fun, because
Speaker 1: you do kind of like just get into your little
Speaker 1: bubble and become quite reserved. But I think it was good.
Speaker 1: It was good to go there, and especially I don't
Speaker 1: really drink that much anymore as well, whereas when I
Speaker 1: was eighteen, I was going home by blood. He had
Speaker 1: like twelve double blacks at Praise before I even get there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so walking in there sober is a completely different experience
Speaker 1: because everyone else is lip so no one has their
Speaker 1: inhibitions about them, and it kind of just like you
Speaker 1: have permission to just do that as well, and you
Speaker 1: don't need to be on their level from like a
Speaker 1: drinking perspective to be able to do that. You can
Speaker 1: just make the most of it and embrace it for
Speaker 1: what it's worth. But I will say There was one
Speaker 1: time in that night where we went in for this
Speaker 1: little quiet area just to have a little sit down,
Speaker 1: you know, just a little breather, and we were surrounded,
Speaker 1: but we looked around at all the people in the
Speaker 1: room were like, oh fuck, these people are literally like eighteen.
Speaker 1: And I remember being eighteen and being in those clubs
Speaker 1: and be like older people over there, like I don't
Speaker 1: necessarily think we look the part and that's it, but
Speaker 1: I'm like, whoa it bloody goes quick, doesn't it.
Speaker 2: And the funniest thing about those people that were in
Speaker 2: that quiet room was there were about five of them
Speaker 2: in the conversation and all of them were talking at once,
Speaker 2: yeah one another, but having a conversation that was absolutely flowing.
Speaker 2: And I remember looking at Star and we were sitting
Speaker 2: right next to them, so we could hear what they
Speaker 2: were saying, but because they were all talking, we couldn't
Speaker 2: hear what they were saying. And I said to Star,
Speaker 2: I cannot believe, like I'm exhausted just trying to keep
Speaker 2: up with that conversation. Yet all of them were so
Speaker 2: on board and understood exactly what was happening. And I
Speaker 2: just thought, God to be young again, to be young
Speaker 2: and be whirling like that. And also the fact that
Speaker 2: everyone's in flat shoes. Oh my god, okay, sneakers.
Speaker 1: We need to talk about this. Where are the big
Speaker 1: fat high heels, the Jeffrey Campbell leaders that I used
Speaker 1: to wear until five o'clock in the morning when I
Speaker 1: was eighteen. You look around home nightclob everyone's wearing bloody
Speaker 1: sambers or little Nike Nike flats and sneakers.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I love that for you, But also you gotta where's
Speaker 1: the cannon event of having to wear giant high heels.
Speaker 2: I know, I know, I wonder what.
Speaker 1: That's going to do to the authotics industry, you know,
Speaker 1: because these kids are growing up with, you know, wearing
Speaker 1: sturdy shoes going out. Did I tress everywhere? They're out
Speaker 1: of business?
Speaker 2: Just another way to ruin the economy. Yeah. So I
Speaker 2: have no qualms with turning thirty. How are you having
Speaker 2: an existential crisis? Yet?
Speaker 1: I definitely go through phases. I think now I feel
Speaker 1: more excited. I think every year that I grow, I
Speaker 1: get to know myself better. I become all confident and
Speaker 1: I kind of, like you said, give less fucks about
Speaker 1: what people think. But I think the added layer for
Speaker 1: me definitely, like being a woman in society is hard
Speaker 1: because there is that expectation and pressure on you and
Speaker 1: being in a long term relationship as well.
Speaker 2: Ever, friend's like, oh, you.
Speaker 1: Know, when's when you're gonna get married and when you're
Speaker 1: gonna have a kid, And I'm like, can everyone just
Speaker 1: fucking leave me alone for a second here? I am
Speaker 1: I kind of in my prime right now. You know,
Speaker 1: Work's gone really well. I'm like doing all the things
Speaker 1: that I love doing, and so that's always definitely like
Speaker 1: kind of in the back of my mind about turning thirty,
Speaker 1: But that's more so a meat is shue and some
Speaker 1: things that I need to work through and process, and
Speaker 1: I thought the best way to do that is to
Speaker 1: have a big fuck off party. I think, so well,
Speaker 1: why not? Why not just send it and if you
Speaker 1: want to wear your Jeffrey Campbell's scrollers, if you want
Speaker 1: to come dm me, I'll fucking invite everyone.
Speaker 2: Honestly, got to hit the bar.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I bring some cash with you because there's
Speaker 1: a minimum spend on the night.
Speaker 2: Well what about home bar having the sign? Yes, it
Speaker 2: said if you pay cash, the drinks are cheaper.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like full of laminated sign like not even like
Speaker 1: a little dodgy dodge from the from the bartends. It's
Speaker 1: like if you pay cash, it said, want cheaper drinks,
Speaker 1: pay cash, there's an ATM downstairs. Yeah, I didn't bring
Speaker 1: my card. I've got my Apple Pay.
Speaker 2: Sorry.
Speaker 1: The drink was drum roll please fourteen seventy five for
Speaker 1: a Seltzer, And as soon as I took a sip,
Speaker 1: I went I regret that.
Speaker 2: See, I'm not doing the premie, so I'm just still
Speaker 2: having the like of old casda or a old lemonade. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it is my drink of choice when I go out.
Speaker 2: You know, when I was eighteen, you know, you know
Speaker 2: what I was on the VCRs? What is that?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: Can I just have a vodka cocin raspberry? Place vodka
Speaker 2: with coke and then they do a splash of grenadine
Speaker 2: in it. Ah, music to my ears, just gorgeous. Honestly,
Speaker 2: I uh, vodka cocin raspberry. I mean, next time I
Speaker 2: go out, I might order another one just for old
Speaker 2: time's sake, but I would honestly have like twelve VCRs
Speaker 2: in a night, and oh it was. It was life changing.
Speaker 2: They are delicious.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I used to get a vodka, raspberry and grenadine.
Speaker 1: Is just like the nectar of life. Honestly, it tastes
Speaker 1: so good. Or tequila Sunrise with the orange juice and
Speaker 1: the grenadine at the bottom. Oh yeah, it was just beautiful.
Speaker 1: I was.
Speaker 2: That was so good. I remember the old guys when
Speaker 2: they put a splash of the grenadine in the coat.
Speaker 1: And I used to have my Jeffrey Campbell late is
Speaker 1: very high heels lovely.
Speaker 2: You know what's funny. Once I stopped drinking voga cocon raspberries,
Speaker 2: if I'd go out for dinner, I'd just get a
Speaker 2: coke and raspberry, which I feel is a little um hire.
Speaker 1: I used to do that at Hungry Jacks because it's
Speaker 1: self served with so you do like the pink lemonade
Speaker 1: or whatever with coke. Very good, it's very yummy.
Speaker 2: Well, I think next time. What I've taken from today's
Speaker 2: episode is, next time I go to dinner, I'm ordering
Speaker 2: a coke and raspberry and hopefully they do it. I
Speaker 2: don't know if anyone's still ordering vodka, coc and raspberries
Speaker 2: these days, in this late stage of the game, but
Speaker 2: I'm going to try it, and I'll report back Star,
Speaker 2: Thank you so much for joining us on Close Friends.
Speaker 2: Absolutely love you. I've had the time of my life
Speaker 2: with you today. We will see you on Tuesday. Brittany
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