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Speaker 1: Hey, Matt, do you want to know something funny that
Speaker 1: I was just thinking before? You're wearing a hat today
Speaker 1: forward facing. Every time someone wears a hat forward facing,
Speaker 1: like AJ does it too, it reminds me of primary school.
Speaker 2: Why what you reckon should be wearing hats backwards?
Speaker 1: I don't know. Just reminds me to do what.
Speaker 2: That looks like? And I reckon, I'd like.
Speaker 1: A backwards hat. That forwards hat reminds me.
Speaker 3: Of broadcast channel forward and backwards, and they can tell
Speaker 3: me which one looks better.
Speaker 1: Can you do it right now? Please?
Speaker 2: In the broadcast channel.
Speaker 1: Just do two selfies and then a pole. I reckon,
Speaker 1: backwards looks good. Front is giving fucking primary school mat
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? Is giving maccas, It's giving
Speaker 1: Macca's uniform. Okay, we'll see what they say.
Speaker 2: Okay, I've put it in the broad question what they're
Speaker 2: already backwards.
Speaker 1: Whenever I want to film AJ in the warehouse and
Speaker 1: he's got his hat on forwards, and like, put your
Speaker 1: hat backwards because I don't know, I just think everyone
Speaker 1: looks better with the backwards hat.
Speaker 2: Okay, this is changing my life.
Speaker 1: You look like you're going to school lunch and you've
Speaker 1: got no hat. No flight.
Speaker 2: Can tell me this an hour into our recording session.
Speaker 2: Just just just to let you know you look really
Speaker 2: shit today. So no.
Speaker 1: Pol book they go ninety four voter backwards, twenty two
Speaker 1: voted front.
Speaker 2: This is changing my life. But I just think a
Speaker 2: backwards hat is like embarrassing.
Speaker 1: So I think a backwards hat is embarrassing. No, I
Speaker 1: think a backwards hat is embarrassing when it's a flat cap. Well, actually,
Speaker 1: I just find a flat cap embarrassing in general. Backwards, yes,
Speaker 1: backwards hat looks better because you can see your face more.
Speaker 1: And I like that you can see a bit of
Speaker 1: your hair.
Speaker 2: I feel like i'm metal militia vibes. Yeah, I like that.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Actually, and when it's front, you can't see any of
Speaker 1: your hair.
Speaker 2: Good, that's the point the board patch bitch. Oh well,
Speaker 2: there you go. Matt. Okay, look.
Speaker 3: Sorry, I'm still recovering from the weekend. If I'm honest,
Speaker 3: it was a big weekend. I said in the main
Speaker 3: episode my clubbing Era, it's coming to an end.
Speaker 1: I'm glad because fucking mine ended about six years ago.
Speaker 3: Yeah, mine ended about however many years ago, and then
Speaker 3: I had a bit of a resurgence and it's been
Speaker 3: really fun. It's made me feel really young again. I've
Speaker 3: got blueberry stuck in my teeth.
Speaker 2: Hung on. But ARC Sydney, which.
Speaker 3: Is an iconic venue on Oxford Street or actually just
Speaker 3: off Oxford Street. But I'm sure a lot of people
Speaker 3: are familiar with ARC. You if you've ever been to
Speaker 3: Oxford Street, have probably had a night at ARC. And
Speaker 3: unfortunately that's never gonna happen again because ARC has closed.
Speaker 3: I don't really know the story behind it. I think
Speaker 3: the building, I think the lease is up, so the
Speaker 3: building hasn't been sold, because there's been talks about that
Speaker 3: for years.
Speaker 2: But ARC, the nightclub has shut down.
Speaker 3: It's a It's really really sad because it's the first
Speaker 3: gay club that I ever went to. It was the
Speaker 3: first club I ever performed in drag at It was
Speaker 3: not the first club I had a drag booking at.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it.
Speaker 3: Holds a lot of It's the place, it's the first
Speaker 3: Oh my god, I'm gonna cry.
Speaker 2: It's the place where I first met Sky.
Speaker 1: That's nice. Like, you know, am I gonna feel that
Speaker 1: way when King Street shuts down in Nui and I'm
Speaker 1: mid agent.
Speaker 3: I don't know whether you will, but I think it
Speaker 3: holds a bit of different significance for you.
Speaker 2: Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 3: Like, because the difference with like queer clubs is it's
Speaker 3: very much about community. Yeah, so you go to King Street,
Speaker 3: you don't really give a shit about anyone else in
Speaker 3: the rooms.
Speaker 2: Right way.
Speaker 1: I love that you found that photo of you in
Speaker 1: the photo in the karaoke room. I know that was
Speaker 1: the night that we went out and lost my vlog
Speaker 1: camera and you've got a photo of you by yourself.
Speaker 3: I know we were putting photos in the broadcast channel
Speaker 3: the other day from way back in the day.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and there was.
Speaker 3: One of me doing karaoke at King Street that was done,
Speaker 3: that was taken by the professional photographer on the night
Speaker 3: and uploaded to their Facebook page.
Speaker 2: That wasn't just a photo we had taken.
Speaker 1: You know, what I'm still I still like some bars
Speaker 1: on Facebook, like you know back in the day when
Speaker 1: they would upload the album, Like clubs still do that.
Speaker 1: So I still like some of those pages that I
Speaker 1: used to go to ages ago, Like one of them
Speaker 1: is Finigans in Newcastle. I don't know, it's it's like
Speaker 1: a pub on the corner that turns into a club.
Speaker 1: Did you ever go there?
Speaker 2: Only once?
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I used to go there all the time
Speaker 1: when I was younger, And so every now and then
Speaker 1: when I'm scrolling on like Facebook, it'd be like Finnigan's
Speaker 1: added three hundred new photos, and sometimes I just like
Speaker 1: open it and start swiping through and all I can
Speaker 1: notice is like how fucked up everyone is? The nightclub
Speaker 1: photographers don't do anyone any favors, Like the photos are horrendous,
Speaker 1: like that everyone looks munted and I don't know if
Speaker 1: it's just like because it's a big flash in a
Speaker 1: dark night club, but everyone looks coolt like no one looks.
Speaker 2: Good and I'm scrowling.
Speaker 1: True, it's scary.
Speaker 2: Cute I'm talking about.
Speaker 3: Although I was thinking though, I was losing my train
Speaker 3: of thought because I was trying to think of the
Speaker 3: club that I used to go to in Newcastle and
Speaker 3: I think it's called the Junction.
Speaker 1: Is it called the Sydney Sidney Junction?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I Sj's And then there was another one and it
Speaker 3: was like a house. What it was like a house?
Speaker 1: Oh funny? Yeah, yeah, it's called Argyle now but I
Speaker 1: don't know if it's still open. It would shut down,
Speaker 1: who fucking knows. I don't go clubbing these days.
Speaker 2: I only ever went to Honeysuckle once and that was
Speaker 2: with you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but that's like a bar pub.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, it wasn't really a club, was it. But
Speaker 2: where'd we go?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 3: We went to King Street after that? Yeah, many a
Speaker 3: night at King Street. Too many nights at King Street actually,
Speaker 3: to be.
Speaker 2: Honest, you know what.
Speaker 1: They have done it up and it's kind of way
Speaker 1: better now, but it's still full of like eighteen year olds.
Speaker 3: I was gonna say, we'll have to go and have
Speaker 3: a night out, but no, I just told everyone my
Speaker 3: clubbing era is over.
Speaker 2: It's too much.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't know how you've been clubbing at thirty years old.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, Cyrusa can't do it anymore. Everything hurts.
Speaker 3: It's so much fun in the moment, but then I
Speaker 3: said to my friend, actually, just last weekend, I was like,
Speaker 3: I don't like that, you know, get drunk and going
Speaker 3: out like this is like stealing happiness from tomorrow. And
Speaker 3: he was like, wow, that's really deep, and I was like,
Speaker 3: but it is, like I'm having so much fun.
Speaker 1: With funny the moment the next day is just to
Speaker 1: write off.
Speaker 3: And then the next day I'm like, well, yeah, I
Speaker 3: think I just at a phase now where because my
Speaker 3: last clubbing era kind of ended because the pandemic happened
Speaker 3: so we were forced to.
Speaker 2: But I feel like now I actually want to get
Speaker 2: up at like six o'clock.
Speaker 3: Okay, I actually want to get up at like ten
Speaker 3: thirty on a Sunday, ten, just like I could.
Speaker 1: If I tried. I just like I couldn't sleep until
Speaker 1: then if I try.
Speaker 3: Some days were sleeping day, Like, why are you not
Speaker 3: sleeping in on a Sunday.
Speaker 1: Because I physically can't. I think if you tried, no,
Speaker 1: Like I can't sleep in on the weekend. Every weekend,
Speaker 1: I go, I'm going to try and sleep in. Boo,
Speaker 1: eyes open. That's crazy because your body is like in
Speaker 1: a routine.
Speaker 3: I see, I could be in a routine all week
Speaker 3: and if I want to sleep in on a Sunday.
Speaker 1: But I feel like your routine has to be longer
Speaker 1: than a week for it to actually be a routine.
Speaker 1: My dog's at my door.
Speaker 2: Well, but you've set that system up, yeah, don't you think?
Speaker 1: Yeah, but it would be confusing for him if that
Speaker 1: was the rules five days a week and then all
Speaker 1: of a sudden it changed. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I don't reckon. I reckon you could teach the dog
Speaker 2: the dog.
Speaker 3: We've got weekends off walks, Darlin weekends off walks, or
Speaker 3: getting their little walking pad.
Speaker 1: I've been so tempted to get one of those. Every
Speaker 1: time I see someone on TikTok and like, come do
Speaker 1: my steps on my walking pad? Then I'm like, is
Speaker 1: that one of those things that you would get news
Speaker 1: once and again.
Speaker 3: I'm not going to the gym anymore. I will go back,
Speaker 3: but I haven't been since before Kylie.
Speaker 1: And you know how people like have a walking padn
Speaker 1: and they like read a book or whatever.
Speaker 2: I can't.
Speaker 1: I don't think I can do two things at once
Speaker 1: like that.
Speaker 2: Oh I can. I've been putting my kindle up on
Speaker 2: the trademill at the gym.
Speaker 1: And you can concentrate on like your body moving, but
Speaker 1: then reading.
Speaker 2: Lines walking Babe.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I could do that. I don't
Speaker 1: know if I've got the hand eye coordination. Yeah no,
Speaker 1: And I'd be focusing too much on my steps. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't be reading the words. That's just me.
Speaker 3: Well, the Kindle acts as like it goes in front
Speaker 3: of the screen where it says everything okay, So.
Speaker 2: I'm not watching that or anything. I'm literally just walking back.
Speaker 1: I could watch a show, for sure, but I feel
Speaker 1: like reading is a whole other level.
Speaker 2: Anyway, the clubbing era is over. Era err era, era,
Speaker 2: clubbing era.
Speaker 3: Is over, and I'm saying, rest in fucking peace. I'm
Speaker 3: actually really excited about it. I'm like, you know what,
Speaker 3: I think. I think I might try yoga numbers stay,
Speaker 3: bitch numbers stay. I consider going sober, actually yeah, And then.
Speaker 1: I get tempted by that every now and then.
Speaker 3: But then I thought, we're about to go to America,
Speaker 3: and why the fuck would I try this and then
Speaker 3: go to Vegas and Coachella.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think I could make it through Coachella sober.
Speaker 1: But I think the whole point of going sober is
Speaker 1: to enjoy those moments without alcohol. Should I go sober
Speaker 1: then no?
Speaker 2: Well maybe after America, but yeah, then what about when
Speaker 2: we go to buy and.
Speaker 1: Stuff go sober. That's the whole point of going sober
Speaker 1: is you can enjoy life and go through life's biggest
Speaker 1: moments without it. I'm going to take the conversation back
Speaker 1: to you know, the recovering party Girl that we spoke
Speaker 1: about ages ago on TikTok. I still follow her, love
Speaker 1: her videos.
Speaker 2: It still comes up all the time.
Speaker 1: Amazing to by the way, look her up if you
Speaker 1: haven't already. Recovering party Girl. She was my Royal Flush
Speaker 1: like a year ago. Anyway, she did a TikTok just
Speaker 1: recently and was talking about weddings and I don't know
Speaker 1: if it was her that said it. I don't know,
Speaker 1: I think it was, but she said, like unpopular opinion,
Speaker 1: but weddings have just become like a massive piss up,
Speaker 1: an excuse for everyone to get drunk. And she said,
Speaker 1: if you want to find out who your true friends are,
Speaker 1: have a wedding and make it a dry wedding so
Speaker 1: there's no alcohol being served, and watch all your friends
Speaker 1: drop off. And then that just goes to show they're
Speaker 1: not really your true friends who want to like celebrate you.
Speaker 1: And if people like complain there's no alcohol, it's like,
Speaker 1: why are you really coming to my wedding?
Speaker 2: Wait? I kind of want to do that. I think
Speaker 2: that would be really fun. Yeah, to do a dry.
Speaker 1: And if that's what you and your partner want to do,
Speaker 1: and you want to have no alcohol at your wedding
Speaker 1: and just enjoy every moment, because you hear so many
Speaker 1: stories of people that get way too fucked up at
Speaker 1: their own wedding and then they black out or like
Speaker 1: don't remember the night. Huh. So if like you as
Speaker 1: the couple want to have a dry wedding, do it
Speaker 1: and enjoy it for yourselves. And if any of your
Speaker 1: friends complain or like all of a sudden say they
Speaker 1: can't come or anything, then that just shows like why
Speaker 1: they really come into your wedding.
Speaker 2: That's like a huge expense too that yeah you can
Speaker 2: cut out.
Speaker 1: Yep, you could save ten, fifteen, twenty grand on drinks.
Speaker 2: Nice. Yeah, wait, I like totally might have a dry wedding.
Speaker 1: And by the way, does anyone have any stories about that,
Speaker 1: because if you do, please send us an email. Email's
Speaker 1: always in the show notes. If you have any stories
Speaker 1: about weddings and drinking to any extent, I would love
Speaker 1: to know the tea.
Speaker 3: Yes, Well, just checking the broadcast channel. Since we started recording,
Speaker 3: we've got three hundred votes for backwards and fifty eight
Speaker 3: votes for front ways. And now I'm feeling really self.
Speaker 1: Conscious every time I do have his hat forward, as say,
Speaker 1: put your hat backwards because it reminds me of school.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but see, like hat backwards for me makes me
Speaker 3: feel like I'm trying to be a bad boy, and
Speaker 3: I'm like trying to.
Speaker 1: Like hat Okay, hat forwards for gym, like if you're
Speaker 1: going to work out or exercising out in the sun,
Speaker 1: but if you're just wearing it as a fashion accessory backwards.
Speaker 3: I don't know if I can get around this now,
Speaker 3: Sleigh deeper, sleigh, I guess.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Next week, maybe I'll come with their hat on backwards
Speaker 3: and I'll actually style it properly and I might get
Speaker 3: might buy a cool hat.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but my cool hat make a look yeah.
Speaker 3: Backwards hat just trying two hard vibes, you know what
Speaker 3: I mean? Was the only reason I'm wearing a hat
Speaker 3: is because they didn't do my hair this morning. Yeah
Speaker 3: fair anyway, but stays in close friends.
Speaker 1: What happened, and sit close France.
Speaker 3: Yeah that and all the rest of it. See you
Speaker 3: next Tuesday, Okay,