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Speaker 3: Uh, good morning, Hello, welcome to the Close Friends.
Speaker 4: Actually, Matt, someone complains.
Speaker 2: What about because.
Speaker 1: We're doing a lot of pre records at the moment. Everyone,
Speaker 1: because while you're while you're listening to this, maps overseas
Speaker 1: and I might be overseas by this point, I don't know,
Speaker 1: but we've had to get ahead again. So when we
Speaker 1: get ahead, we come in and we do like four
Speaker 1: episodes at a time. And because we're here in the
Speaker 1: Nova Studios, this is also a radio station, so we
Speaker 1: only get a certain amount of time in here, and
Speaker 1: when we've got four to do, we have to go
Speaker 1: a little bit quicker. And someone complained in our broadcast.
Speaker 1: They replied to me and said, I hope Close Friends
Speaker 1: is longer because the last two have been a little
Speaker 1: bit shorter. It's because we're pre recording.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, okay, So I just.
Speaker 1: Wanted to let everyone know that if they do get shorter,
Speaker 1: it's because we're on a time limit. We have to
Speaker 1: get out because the afternoon radio people have to come in.
Speaker 2: And also just quietly, we fucking hate it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so we want to make it longer, but sometimes
Speaker 1: we can't. We got to get out.
Speaker 2: I could talk for ages on close friends.
Speaker 1: But we've got to do what we've got to do sometimes. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I've got an email that's come through. By the way,
Speaker 1: in case you didn't know, we have an email address
Speaker 1: that you can email us on, and we read every
Speaker 1: single one and if your email is good enough, we'll
Speaker 1: put it in a pod. Yes, only if it's good enough.
Speaker 2: We actually haven't read this one though.
Speaker 1: No, this is our first time reading this.
Speaker 3: We did get this message from one of our scrollars.
Speaker 3: We both got a DM from her and she said
Speaker 3: I've sent an email and I really want you to
Speaker 3: read it.
Speaker 1: And then it ended up in a deleted folder somehow. Yeah,
Speaker 1: blame Yeah, it's Hannah's fault. She's automatically deleted it. But anyway,
Speaker 1: we've dug it out of the deleted folder in our
Speaker 1: emails and we've got it here. I'm gonna leave her
Speaker 1: name out of it. Completely should I is an anonymous
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I think let's just do that because why not. Also,
Speaker 3: I wanted to say, I don't even remember what this
Speaker 3: one's about. It's something to do with a wedding. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 3: so yeah, I didn't read this one neither.
Speaker 4: I haven't read it either.
Speaker 3: Okay, great, so we're both having a first time.
Speaker 1: We've got Hi, Matt and Britney. I was just listening
Speaker 1: to your recent episode where you were talking about fans
Speaker 1: sending weddings.
Speaker 4: So this was a while ago.
Speaker 1: Yeah, where you were talking about fans sending wedding invites
Speaker 1: with no letter attached, and well it got me thinking
Speaker 1: about my wedding in June. Now, this email isn't me
Speaker 1: asking for a gift either. I just want you to
Speaker 1: know how much I thank the both of you for
Speaker 1: being one of the main reasons I have such a
Speaker 1: good friendship with one of my bridesmaids. I work in
Speaker 1: a pharmacy and during the pandemic we hired a girl
Speaker 1: who also happens to be named Brittany. We would chat
Speaker 1: here and there during our shifts, but nothing more. Then
Speaker 1: one day I mentioned how I watch YouTube videos rather
Speaker 1: than TV shows and she said she was the exact same.
Speaker 1: We then asked each other who we watched and both
Speaker 1: of your names came up. Let's just say we have
Speaker 1: been besties ever since. We were constantly keeping up with
Speaker 1: your socials and seeing what was happening, and after a
Speaker 1: year of knowing each other, we decided to go on
Speaker 1: a little girl's weekend away to drive three hours to
Speaker 1: Newcastle to go to the original Fate store. Legit, we
Speaker 1: didn't make any plans other than to come and see
Speaker 1: the story person. All this happened in May twenty twenty one.
Speaker 1: We were stalked, storked, we were stoked walking through the
Speaker 1: doors to see none other than me working, and she
Speaker 1: just so happened to take our sales as well. Now,
Speaker 1: as a general customer point of view, Britt, you're incredible
Speaker 1: asking if Sizing was working, what we were up to
Speaker 1: while we were away, and even wrote down places for
Speaker 1: a good feed and a boogie. You were also so
Speaker 1: happy to take a photo with us when we asked
Speaker 1: as we were heading out, and honestly, we still talk
Speaker 1: about it to this day. Let's fast forward to June
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one. Australia's biggest Glamizon has started his comedy shows,
Speaker 1: and you best believe my bestie Britt and Ice snag tickets. Matt,
Speaker 1: your show was downright hysterical and we couldn't contain our laughter.
Speaker 1: We also loved how after the show you stayed back
Speaker 1: to meet anyone and everyone that wanted to have a chat.
Speaker 1: And here we are feb Twenty twenty five. So that's
Speaker 1: when she wrote this email. Friendship going strong so much
Speaker 1: that I was Britney's bridesmaid, not me like her friend
Speaker 1: Britney's bridesmaid two years ago, and she will be my
Speaker 1: bridesmaid come June this year.
Speaker 4: And honestly, the two.
Speaker 1: Of you are a huge part as to why we
Speaker 1: became friend in the first place. So keep doing what
Speaker 1: you're doing, because I'm sure we are not the only
Speaker 1: ones you have affected their lives for the better. I've
Speaker 1: also attached photos of said meeting to put faces to
Speaker 1: the names. Oh my goodness, can I the photos there?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm so glad I didn't read that. That was
Speaker 3: really nice to hear.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so this show of yours.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna have my eyes. Aren't that good?
Speaker 1: Come over, Come over in my microphone, look at you Matt.
Speaker 2: That is so manny. That's at the comedy store. So
Speaker 2: they came to the Encore show.
Speaker 1: Love and Me with them back in the bloody day
Speaker 1: with my old old Fate store when it was like
Speaker 1: before all its renovations. Isn't that so nice? So nice?
Speaker 1: That's so nice? Like it's funny doing like this is
Speaker 1: a job and having a podcast and then like posting
Speaker 1: on social media, Like it's funny because you're so in
Speaker 1: your own bubble and like you see people watching your
Speaker 1: videos and you'll upload a video and it gets three
Speaker 1: hundred thousand views, but you don't feel like the real
Speaker 1: life connection because like you're just laying at home in
Speaker 1: bed replying to the comments. But then to actually hear
Speaker 1: a story of like both of us being part of
Speaker 1: someone else's friendship and like a talking point for them
Speaker 1: when they first met, Like I think that's really fucking
Speaker 1: special and cool, And we never think that because we're
Speaker 1: just like doing our thing, doing our job, posting our videos,
Speaker 1: doing our podcast. You're doing your live shows. I'm working
Speaker 1: in my fucking shop. Yeah, but isn't that so cool
Speaker 1: that we've been part of their friendship?
Speaker 3: And it's kind of always blows my mind when I
Speaker 3: hear stories similar to this, or I have moments where
Speaker 3: I realize that we can be a part of people's
Speaker 3: lives beyond the Internet, like my mind goes. The only
Speaker 3: time people think about me is when they watch one
Speaker 3: of my videos, when one of my tiktoks come up
Speaker 3: on on their for you page and they're watching my video, like,
Speaker 3: that's when they think about me, and as soon as
Speaker 3: they swipe away, they stop thinking about me.
Speaker 1: I feel that way. It feels.
Speaker 2: That's just how it feels when you think.
Speaker 1: Of other little things, like all the things that we
Speaker 1: say on the pod that people remember, Like I think
Speaker 1: if they ever see a poster of the Wizard of
Speaker 1: Oz or something like, I'm sure they would think of
Speaker 1: you saying follow the Ollompic road. Like I think there's
Speaker 1: things or like especially for me, or like even your
Speaker 1: fucking muscle Nation collab, like when people drink the Great
Speaker 1: Protein like, they would probably think of you.
Speaker 4: When girls put on their Fate jeans, I probably think
Speaker 4: of me.
Speaker 2: So true. Every time I think of Colgate, when someone.
Speaker 3: I ever see herbal Essences, I think of you and
Speaker 3: that bloody random sand dune.
Speaker 1: Educ Cranullas when people go to the serbo and see
Speaker 1: the b in the fridge, they probably think.
Speaker 3: Of mind, yeah, just things like this kind of keep
Speaker 3: And this actually happened a lot this year especially is
Speaker 3: I think I've been reminded by because you know the
Speaker 3: I think it had to do probably with you know,
Speaker 3: the Influencer job series that I did that obviously got
Speaker 3: millions of views across all the platforms and was really big.
Speaker 3: Then I went straight into the Kylie Minogue thing, and
Speaker 3: that was a really big thing because remember I was
Speaker 3: saying on the pod, I did that just for me.
Speaker 3: But then it kind of became this whole thing and
Speaker 3: everyone coming up to us at the concerts and things,
Speaker 3: and then the news articles coming out and.
Speaker 2: Blah blah blah.
Speaker 3: But even before the Kylie stuff, it was kind of
Speaker 3: just that influencer series because a lot of people will say, like,
Speaker 3: oh my god, like, do people always come up to
Speaker 3: you and say hello? Yeah, people come up and say
Speaker 3: hello all the time at the shops. But also that
Speaker 3: hasn't happened in years, That hasn't happened to the extent
Speaker 3: that it was happening this year.
Speaker 2: Again, Oh yeah, it was kind of weird. I feel
Speaker 2: like maybe a pandemic.
Speaker 1: Yeah, everything felt weird after COVID.
Speaker 3: Yeah, true, Like before the pandemic, I feel like, yes,
Speaker 3: you go to the shops, A lot of people would
Speaker 3: say Hi. I'd go into a shop and just like
Speaker 3: do my shopping, and the cashier would be like, by
Speaker 3: the way, I love your videos.
Speaker 2: Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 3: Like, little interactions like that happened quite often. And then
Speaker 3: I don't know if I just became irrelevant or whether
Speaker 3: people didn't really care for that or didn't want to
Speaker 3: have that interaction. After the pandemic, maybe that's shifted. But
Speaker 3: something has shifted back this year and a lot more
Speaker 3: people are coming up and saying hello and asking for
Speaker 3: a photo and all the and I fucking love it.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 3: It fuels my ego. I'm like, I'm loving this and
Speaker 3: I'm always happy to have a chat. Also, I think
Speaker 3: sometimes I shock people with how much I will chat
Speaker 3: to them. Obviously sometimes it's a short interaction, but like,
Speaker 3: if you're giving a good conversation, we could talk for
Speaker 3: twenty five minutes. I meet this girl and her mum
Speaker 3: out the front of out the front of the news
Speaker 3: agent in East Gardens and we're both buying a Powerball
Speaker 3: ticket because the power Bowl was like one hundred and fifty.
Speaker 2: Million dollars or something that gets me.
Speaker 3: And I had no idea how to do the power
Speaker 3: hit or whatever on the lotto, and she was just
Speaker 3: doing her thing and I was doing my thing on
Speaker 3: the little bench that's always outside the news agent where
Speaker 3: you can fill out the lotto things.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and she looked up and she's like, oh my god.
Speaker 3: I was literally just listening to high scrollers and then
Speaker 3: she was like, Oh, this is my mum. We're coming
Speaker 3: to your show. Blah blah blah. I was like, oh
Speaker 3: my god, that's so cool. We spoke for like twenty
Speaker 3: five minutes all about the Powerball and how it all worked,
Speaker 3: and we were helping each other fill out our tickets
Speaker 3: and she was like, I can't believe you're just like
Speaker 3: chatting to me. And I'm like, well, yeah, because if.
Speaker 2: You win, i'd like a share.
Speaker 1: Did you say that? Yeah?
Speaker 3: And I was like and if I win, hit me
Speaker 3: up in the DMS and I'll give you something because
Speaker 3: we're buying the ticket together. And anyway, then she came
Speaker 3: to the show and it was hilarious because I saw
Speaker 3: her and I went not we didn't win the Power Bowl.
Speaker 2: I'm still in mache.
Speaker 1: Every time it's power Like, I know, we've spoken about
Speaker 1: this on the pot already, and you've spoken about this
Speaker 1: on your social media like that one time where you're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: fucking I'm gonna buy one.
Speaker 4: You genuinely get convinced that you're going to win.
Speaker 1: Like you're like this, yeah, this is my this this
Speaker 1: is absolutely so does everyone in Australia. But then when
Speaker 1: you see the one person win, you're like that lucky motherfucker. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know, imagine that.
Speaker 2: Well the single mother from Western sidn't he got it all? Well,
Speaker 2: she deserves you know.
Speaker 3: It's always like a little story like that or like
Speaker 3: you know someone someone who needs it, Like you never
Speaker 3: hear about a fucking like it's a billionaires aren't putting
Speaker 3: a lot of one.
Speaker 2: But you know what I mean. You never hear about
Speaker 2: someone who wins a lot on they didn't need that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's always someone who you know, volunteers for the
Speaker 3: homeless every week or something like that, or it'll go
Speaker 3: to donations and things. It's always a lovely story.
Speaker 2: There'd be none of that from me, honestly, saw me.
Speaker 2: What was the other email you wanted to read out.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we got another email.
Speaker 1: Disclaimer trigger warning. We are talking about Pooh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so is it a metaphobia? Is that what it is?
Speaker 1: Yeah, get off here if you don't like Pooh stories. Anyway,
Speaker 1: we've got an anonymous story. As you all know, we
Speaker 1: love a good Pooh story or we story.
Speaker 2: I think you do.
Speaker 1: I just have and the other Well, last month or something,
Speaker 1: I was telling the story on here about that one
Speaker 1: time at school when my teacher missus fight sorry everyone,
Speaker 1: Missus Spock, when she didn't let me go to the
Speaker 1: toilet and I like had my period leaking everywhere.
Speaker 4: Anyway, trigger warning.
Speaker 2: Do you remember all your teachers' names, by the way.
Speaker 1: The ones that stood out?
Speaker 4: I remember.
Speaker 3: I can remember every single one, which is crazy. Oh
Speaker 3: that is it, because I thought about it the other
Speaker 3: day and was like, wait, a damn.
Speaker 1: Second, I remember a lot. There'd be some that I
Speaker 1: don't remember, but like the ones that were memorable.
Speaker 3: Yes, kindergarten, Miss Francis, Miss O'Connell, Oh no, I'm not
Speaker 3: that Miss O'Dwyer. Remember Parker three, Missus Reid, year four,
Speaker 3: Mister Rattray year five, Miss mcmart Yeah, gorgeous Year five
Speaker 3: Ms McMahon, Year six missus Reid again funnily enough, Umm oh,
Speaker 3: I did have Miss Rosebery for a little bit in
Speaker 3: year five as well, because I think Miss McMahon.
Speaker 4: See, how do you remember this? I only remember some
Speaker 4: of them.
Speaker 3: And then year seven gets a bit blurred because year seven,
Speaker 3: obviously you've got ten different teachers for all your subjects
Speaker 3: and stuff. But I still remember some of them. Miss Cordermaine,
Speaker 3: she was my Japanese teacher. It's a singleton. She was
Speaker 3: my English teacher.
Speaker 4: I don't remember anyway. Let me read this out, mister.
Speaker 2: Derry, he was my music teacher.
Speaker 1: Okay, well I'm reading this out anonymous story.
Speaker 2: Sorry about that tangent yet, Go ahead.
Speaker 1: Hey guys, love your pod, love BRIT's Big Business Pod
Speaker 1: as well. Have been a longtime follower, listener, etc. For
Speaker 1: the both of you, and never miss an episode.
Speaker 4: Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: Loll not sure if you want you'll want this one.
Speaker 1: If you do tell it on the pod, please keep
Speaker 1: me anonymous. But regarding BRIT's period story about her teacher
Speaker 1: not letting her go to the toilet, same thing happened
Speaker 1: to me, except with the number two instead of a
Speaker 1: period so traumatizing.
Speaker 2: Which what do you reckons worse? Pooh, yeah, I think so.
Speaker 1: Okay. I was in year five at school, had a
Speaker 1: male teacher. We wore dresses at school, and I remember
Speaker 1: we were going through important info in class. I give
Speaker 1: the teacher that, but I still agree, don't ever tell
Speaker 1: a child they can't go to the toilet.
Speaker 4: It's so inhumane.
Speaker 1: Anyway, we were going through important test info in class
Speaker 1: and I remember putting my hand up for the toilet.
Speaker 1: Not only did he not address my hand being up
Speaker 1: straight away because he was talking. When he did address me,
Speaker 1: I asked to go to the toilet because it was urgent.
Speaker 4: He said, no, you can wait until I'm finished.
Speaker 1: Like, surely if they're saying if they're like it's urgent,
Speaker 1: surely the teacher should know they're gonna shit themselves.
Speaker 3: And I think it also depends on the student, like
Speaker 3: if I was the teacher, if like the good behaved
Speaker 3: student is randomly asking to go to the toilet, like
Speaker 3: if it's one of the boys who doesn't want to shit.
Speaker 2: Through the rules and so you can all go the
Speaker 2: toilet it is boring.
Speaker 3: No, you can sit there and you can shut it
Speaker 3: one's saying it's urgent.
Speaker 1: I have an alarm bells going off in my head.
Speaker 4: About yeah, get the point out here.
Speaker 3: I don't want you to hate yourselves children that we
Speaker 3: don't have a backbone, because like if the teacher in
Speaker 3: hindsight told me I couldn't go to the toilet like
Speaker 3: at this stage, I probably take a shit on their desk,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean? And I wish I had
Speaker 3: free will when I was a child and I was
Speaker 3: refused the toilet because I just woult have pissed in
Speaker 3: my chair. But you know, see if you're pissing your
Speaker 3: chair because you've held on, that's embarrassing. But I would
Speaker 3: have said, I'm pissing right now, miss, and it's all
Speaker 3: your fault, do you know what I mean? My own
Speaker 3: and make a statement. I wish I could relive my
Speaker 3: childhood again.
Speaker 2: Anyway.
Speaker 1: Anyway, one thing led to another, and I sat at
Speaker 1: my desk just dying for the toilet for a number
Speaker 1: two and was just frozen because I was too scared
Speaker 1: to just get up and go. When he said he
Speaker 1: told me so, I sat there and followed through, if
Speaker 1: you know, you know.
Speaker 2: Followed through.
Speaker 1: I didn't think it was that bad thought.
Speaker 4: A tiny bit just came.
Speaker 1: Out, but you could start to smell it, sick. My
Speaker 1: classmates could smell it, and we're starting to make fart
Speaker 1: and shit comments. And my teacher even had the nerve
Speaker 1: to stop talking about his important info to say, whoever
Speaker 1: that needs to go outside and shake themselves, shake themselves.
Speaker 1: Then I put my hands straight back up and death
Speaker 1: stared him really hard and asked to go to the
Speaker 1: toilet again. At this point, nearly the whole class was
Speaker 1: looking at me, including my teacher, with the jaw hitting
Speaker 1: the floor. Anyway, he let me go because he finally
Speaker 1: clicked on it was on my chair, on my dress.
Speaker 1: And why can't I see the rest? I can't see
Speaker 1: the rest for some reason. It's not loading in my emails.
Speaker 1: But I can remember what she said at the end,
Speaker 1: because I've already read this once before. She ended up
Speaker 1: going to the sick bay. They gave her a fresh
Speaker 1: change of clothes, They called her mom or her parents,
Speaker 1: they came and got her, and then she ended up
Speaker 1: getting an apology from the teacher and the principal and
Speaker 1: stuff because they realized.
Speaker 4: What had gone on.
Speaker 1: So that is redemption had has got the rest of.
Speaker 4: The email wouldn't load for me.
Speaker 5: It up here, she said, Yeah, she went to the bathroom,
Speaker 5: got spare clothes, all that stuff her parents collected her.
Speaker 5: I didn't go back to school for two two weeks.
Speaker 5: My parents blew up at the school and I received
Speaker 5: an apology call from my classroom teacher. Safe to say,
Speaker 5: I never got told I couldn't go to the toilet again,
Speaker 5: but the damage was already done at this point. But yeah,
Speaker 5: so crazy, Thanks for bringing up that memory.
Speaker 2: Sorry you had to live that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's horrible. Well you got redemption in the end,
Speaker 1: but it's still bad that you had to live through
Speaker 1: that experience.
Speaker 3: And I still stand by my statement, who gives a
Speaker 3: shit if well, yes she did give a shit in
Speaker 3: the end. But if you're a teacher, why can't kids
Speaker 3: just go to the toilet?
Speaker 1: Because I understand that they would get asked one hundred
Speaker 1: times every class and that would piss me the fuck off,
Speaker 1: Like I'd be like, couldn't you have just gone in
Speaker 1: recess that you just had? But also people just like
Speaker 1: sometimes when you need to go, you just need to go.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know, especially if you're going to shit yourself.
Speaker 3: But also at recess. I didn't need to go. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but also it is okay in a teacher's defense. Something
Speaker 3: that I always think about is flights. When you sit
Speaker 3: down on a flight and as soon as the seat
Speaker 3: belt signed it is off bomb six people are up
Speaker 3: and crowded the toilet ready to go.
Speaker 2: To the toilet.
Speaker 3: I'm like, we did, we really need to go, So
Speaker 3: in that respect, I mean, I'd never obviously refuse someone
Speaker 3: to go to the toilet. But what I'm saying is
Speaker 3: that happens a lot. Have you not noticed that?
Speaker 2: Yeah, flight, like go.
Speaker 1: You can go.
Speaker 4: I remember another time too.
Speaker 1: It might have been the time that I was on
Speaker 1: top like the Thailand stories that I told trigger morning vomiting,
Speaker 1: when I was really sick on that plane coming home
Speaker 1: from Thailand. You know when the plane is like taking
Speaker 1: off and you have to stay seated with your seat belt.
Speaker 1: I was so sick that like I couldn't stay seated,
Speaker 1: so I just took my belt off and ran up
Speaker 1: the back of the plane. They're like no, no, no,
Speaker 1: like you can't, and I'm like I don't care, Like
Speaker 1: I just ran in the toilet because I was like,
Speaker 1: I can't have to go. So when you got to go.
Speaker 2: You go a guar, you know, gonna guard, and you
Speaker 2: know what I gotta guard.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I gotta gar.
Speaker 2: I gotta go tour.
Speaker 3: For I. We'll see you next Tuesday.