Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome back to the Maths Funny Podcast and
Speaker 1: to you, my dearest listeners. The time is upon us
Speaker 1: once again, and I can't believe it, but filming for
Speaker 1: next year season is set to start in Sydney any
Speaker 1: day now. Perhaps it's even already started. To be honest,
Speaker 1: I have been quite distracted lately. So firstly, before we
Speaker 1: get into this episode, I'm putting my annual plea out
Speaker 1: there for anybody with information. Do you know someone going
Speaker 1: on the show. If you're in Sydney, keep an eye
Speaker 1: out for any weddings you may stumble upon. Slide into
Speaker 1: my DMS if you see anything that maybe your Math's wedding,
Speaker 1: you know you're looking out for, Like camera cruise trucks, limos,
Speaker 1: We've GoPros attached to them, things like that every year.
Speaker 2: That's basically how I find the most of the time.
Speaker 2: It's through you guys.
Speaker 1: So you are my eyes and ears out there on
Speaker 1: the streets. And now for today's episode, on the topic
Speaker 1: of the upcoming new season and the new cast. Last
Speaker 1: year's cast are already trying to latch onto the newbies,
Speaker 1: with Gia being the first on TikTok to offer them
Speaker 1: some words of advice.
Speaker 3: Let me just say this. If you're feeling like you're
Speaker 3: going to be the villain and you're a little bit
Speaker 3: of a baddie and you think shit, I'm you go
Speaker 3: to the hens and they're setting you up and you
Speaker 3: think shit, this is my character on the show sliding
Speaker 3: my gms.
Speaker 4: I got you, girl, I got you.
Speaker 2: I'll be your bff. I've got you.
Speaker 3: Been down this road to fucking shit road.
Speaker 1: And then in response to GA posting that telling the
Speaker 1: cast the message her for guidance, Stella then responded with
Speaker 1: her own TikTok saying this.
Speaker 4: Do not contact Gea, do not contact you.
Speaker 2: Whatever you do, do not contact GA.
Speaker 1: And then after that year obviously responding to Stella saying this, So.
Speaker 4: I've seen the video where that person said, don't go
Speaker 4: to her for advice. You know I don't come to
Speaker 4: me for advice one hundred percent. If you're a good
Speaker 4: girl edit or you're looking good on the show, you're
Speaker 4: getting along with your partner and everything's peachy, Rosie Rainbow Sunshine,
Speaker 4: don't come to me. What the fuck advice can I
Speaker 4: give you? I thought I made it clear. I don't
Speaker 4: know why some people aren't getting what I meant, but
Speaker 4: I'll make it. Fucking Crystal, come to me if you
Speaker 4: are a Billain, a Billain only, a villain only.
Speaker 1: Okay, And now today I'm going to insert myself into
Speaker 1: this conversation. And this podcast you're about to listen to
Speaker 1: is essentially an open letter to the new cast as
Speaker 1: they prepare for what will be one of the most exciting, draining, bizarre, intense,
Speaker 1: and dramatic phases of their lives. And you know you're
Speaker 1: all still welcome to listen to it. Please do, even
Speaker 1: though it is just for the new cast. But I
Speaker 1: think you'll all gain something from this, especially as we
Speaker 1: like talk about the mindset of these people and the
Speaker 1: psychological journey they're about to go on, and like, trust
Speaker 1: me to you new cast members, like, please save this
Speaker 1: episode and come back to it, because everything I'm going
Speaker 1: to say is after covering this show for years and
Speaker 1: working across more seasons than I can count, and even
Speaker 1: meeting more former cast members than I could ever even
Speaker 1: try and count.
Speaker 2: So here we go. Let me get my notes up.
Speaker 1: I've actually written a letter and printing it, you know,
Speaker 1: to be proper, all right.
Speaker 2: That was me shuffling the paper for audio effect.
Speaker 1: Dear future cast, why the fuck have you agreed to
Speaker 1: go on this show?
Speaker 2: Are you stupid?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: No, I didn't actually write that.
Speaker 1: Okay, Dear future cast, the next few months of your
Speaker 1: life will be split into stages that you're yet to realize.
Speaker 1: You're currently in the excitement phase. You've had months of auditions, meetings,
Speaker 1: and excitement with producers and bosses selling you the dream.
Speaker 1: You of course know how this show can ruin reputations,
Speaker 1: and you've seen the complaints from former cast members. But
Speaker 1: right now, trust me, I guarantee most of you are thinking, Nah,
Speaker 1: that won't happen to me. You know that won't be
Speaker 1: my experience, because so far, every interaction you've had with
Speaker 1: everyone involved in this show has been nothing but positive.
Speaker 1: Right now, I assume you're also preparing yourself to potentially
Speaker 1: not hit it off with your partner, and you're also
Speaker 1: preparing yourself to potentially clash with the other cast. But
Speaker 1: and again, I guarantee you're also thinking, well, you know
Speaker 1: who you are, and you won't act in a way
Speaker 1: where you'll be ashamed of yourself or slammed by viewers,
Speaker 1: are even hated. And I say this politely, but that
Speaker 1: means nothing, because the longer you're in the experiment, the
Speaker 1: more you're away from your routine, you're away from your
Speaker 1: loved ones, your reality, and you're also away from actual reality.
Speaker 1: And again, the longer you're there, the more you will
Speaker 1: and trust me I've spoken to I'd say at least
Speaker 1: one hundred for my cast members. The more you're there,
Speaker 1: the more you will start to lose touch with reality.
Speaker 1: Because while you're there in the experiment, you have got
Speaker 1: this incredible pressure building that you probably haven't noticed yet
Speaker 1: because it hadn't started. And you're going to become isolated,
Speaker 1: and you're going to be living in a tiny studio
Speaker 1: apartment where you're surrounded by a cast that you don't
Speaker 1: know if you can trust, and the only people you
Speaker 1: think in your corner are you know, the ground producers,
Speaker 1: the ones who have already started building relationships and what
Speaker 1: you think have friendships with you, and you know, you think, well,
Speaker 1: you know, people say producers are evil, but God, the
Speaker 1: one I've got, the one I'm dealing with the most,
Speaker 1: they're so lovely, Like God, I could be friends with them.
Speaker 1: And as that pressure I just mentioned starts to build,
Speaker 1: you will start to think without realizing at the time
Speaker 1: that the show is the only thing that matters in
Speaker 1: the world, and for a few months, it will be
Speaker 1: the only thing that does exist in your world. And
Speaker 1: they want you to think like that because then as
Speaker 1: that excitement you started with fades and you know, the
Speaker 1: chaos and confusion creeps in, and when storylines start to
Speaker 1: get heated and you're unsure how to proceed, those producers
Speaker 1: will then be encouraging you to like speak your mind
Speaker 1: and be outspoken, and they're going to say things like,
Speaker 1: you know, if you do that, if you if you
Speaker 1: tell that girl what you think about, you know, Australia
Speaker 1: is going to back you and you need to stand
Speaker 1: up for yourself. But when they start doing that, and
Speaker 1: trust me, they will that. That's how they do their job.
Speaker 1: Remember one thing their job is to produce you. They
Speaker 1: are paid to produce compelling television full of big reactions,
Speaker 1: and they need to get those big reactions from you.
Speaker 1: And once they've won your trust initially, which they are
Speaker 1: doing now or maybe have done at this stage, you know,
Speaker 1: this is when they will start to gradually manipulate you
Speaker 1: into reacting how they want you to react or how
Speaker 1: their bosses want you to react. And by the point
Speaker 1: you know that producer, you're producer, the one right now,
Speaker 1: you think, oh, they're not that bad. Damn my friend.
Speaker 1: You know, by the time they really start to produce you,
Speaker 1: you will for a moment, like briefly feel empowered because
Speaker 1: they've made you think like you want to make a
Speaker 1: stand and speak up about whatever's happening. And even if
Speaker 1: you're in the wrong in whatever the situation is, you
Speaker 1: won't even realize that at the time, because again, those
Speaker 1: producers will be telling you things like, God, Australia is
Speaker 1: going to love you, Australia is going to be right
Speaker 1: behind you. I can't believe that person has done that.
Speaker 1: You need to say something. You need to say something
Speaker 1: on behalf of everybody who's going to be screaming at
Speaker 1: their telling is like, this is your moment. This is
Speaker 1: gonna make you. You're gonna be so famous and get
Speaker 1: so many followers. And trust me, they will say things
Speaker 1: like that. They do it every year. Every former cast
Speaker 1: member has told me they have done that. And again
Speaker 1: they do that to produce you, because that's their job.
Speaker 1: And then once they've done that, and you then have
Speaker 1: that big moment and then it blows up in your
Speaker 1: face and doesn't go how they said it was going
Speaker 1: to go. By that point into the process, you would
Speaker 1: then start to feel trapped and then you'll be like,
Speaker 1: oh shit, I need to leave like that. This isn't
Speaker 1: what I thought it was going to be. This isn't
Speaker 1: going how I thought it was going to be, Like
Speaker 1: just get me home. And when you say things like
Speaker 1: that or threaten things like that or start thinking like that,
Speaker 1: you'll then be told h nah, you can't leave, sorry,
Speaker 1: and you'll then go no, like I really want to leave.
Speaker 1: But they will say things like, well, if you do
Speaker 1: leave now, like you're gonna regret it because the other
Speaker 1: person will win and all the viewers will love them.
Speaker 1: You know, they're gonna use tactics like that. Or they
Speaker 1: may even say things like well, if you quit now
Speaker 1: and go home Australia, it's definitely gonna hate you. So
Speaker 1: you have to stay of why is you're gonna ruin
Speaker 1: your reputation forever and never get a job. And they'll
Speaker 1: say things like, you know, come on, just give it
Speaker 1: one more week. We can turn it around. We can
Speaker 1: turn everything around, we can make it good, we can
Speaker 1: make you loved again, So then you go, okay, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna And then only then, once you have stayed and
Speaker 1: the storyline's over and you're broken and you've delivered all
Speaker 1: the drama they can squeeze from you, and your storyline
Speaker 1: comes to an end, then you'll be encouraged to finally
Speaker 1: right leave and leave the show. Or you may even
Speaker 1: be encouraged, depending on how far along it now is,
Speaker 1: to stay until fine of ours to dump someone, like
Speaker 1: at that final moment, you know, for that last big hit,
Speaker 1: and again they'll say things like, look, we know there's
Speaker 1: no future, you know that, but but just wait, given
Speaker 1: another week or so, like, have that big moment, really
Speaker 1: show them what they've done, how they've hurt you. But
Speaker 1: you may not even realize the saying the same to
Speaker 1: the other person who's going to dump you first. And
Speaker 1: it's only then when it's finally over and you're finally
Speaker 1: free and you're finally back home and back to real
Speaker 1: life and surrounded by your loved ones and away from
Speaker 1: that bubble of producers and pressure and cast members and cameras,
Speaker 1: you will then have a moment where you stop and
Speaker 1: you'll think, what the fuck did I just go through
Speaker 1: and then again, trust me, because I've spoken to far
Speaker 1: too many cast members who all say the same story.
Speaker 1: You'll then spend the next few months, as this show's
Speaker 1: launch date gets closer and closer, stressing and fretting, thinking
Speaker 1: is my life about to be ruined forever? Because you
Speaker 1: realize you have no control of the edit, and you'll
Speaker 1: think back on all those moments the producer said no,
Speaker 1: you're going to be loved, but then in the moment
Speaker 1: it didn't go how they said it was going to go,
Speaker 1: and you'll think, well, maybe they could edit it in
Speaker 1: my favor, but maybe they won't edit it in my favor,
Speaker 1: and you'll realize anything can be taken out of context.
Speaker 1: So my advice to you go into this with an
Speaker 1: open mind. Show, but please remember who you are and
Speaker 1: just remember what you stand for now in the real
Speaker 1: world as a regular person having a regular life. And
Speaker 1: as depressure mounts on the show or as things get heated,
Speaker 1: just take a step back now and again and think
Speaker 1: back to even this podcast and what I've just said,
Speaker 1: and ask yourself, am I about to do something or
Speaker 1: say something that I really want to or am I
Speaker 1: about to react to something in a way I would
Speaker 1: like now in the real world, in my regular day
Speaker 1: to day life, or am I being subtly pushed to
Speaker 1: do something that like you're realizing you're potentially being manipulated into.
Speaker 1: Like the best advice for anyone on this show, like
Speaker 1: you can't talk someone out of going a mass if
Speaker 1: they're already sat in it, because again they're in that
Speaker 1: phase now of the bad stuff won't happen to me.
Speaker 1: I'm going to be loved, So again, just the best
Speaker 1: advice every now and again, take a second walk away
Speaker 1: from the building, away from your partner, the producers, the cast,
Speaker 1: turn your phone off or phone your momare phone your
Speaker 1: loved one, and then stop and go wait, what's happening?
Speaker 1: And how would I react in the real world. And
Speaker 1: I'm going to bring in some inspirational music now because
Speaker 1: I'm getting to a big moment in this in this
Speaker 1: letter which I'm slightly going off script one, but also
Speaker 1: remember in those moments when it does get too much
Speaker 1: and you're feeling struggling and stressed and trapped, like just
Speaker 1: remember you owe these people and those producers absolutely nothing.
Speaker 1: They have no ownership on you, your name, your life, anything,
Speaker 1: and you can put your hand up at any moment
Speaker 1: and leave.
Speaker 2: And then if they do start to say things like
Speaker 2: you know, if.
Speaker 1: You do this, you'll you'll regret it, and Australia is
Speaker 1: gonna hate you to like pressure you and coerce you
Speaker 1: into staying. Just hold your hand out and go wait,
Speaker 1: and then get your phone out of your pocket. And
Speaker 1: that's your personal phone, not the show one.
Speaker 2: They give you.
Speaker 1: There you have access to and just start recording. Just
Speaker 1: start film and film them. Do that because in that moment,
Speaker 1: as you do that, they'll be like, oh shit, and
Speaker 1: that like evidence, which sounds weird to say evidence, but
Speaker 1: your documentation of those moments.
Speaker 2: You won't really. Yeah, it holds so much power.
Speaker 1: And again you owe these people nothing and married at
Speaker 1: first sight, Australia, as much as we love it, it
Speaker 1: would not be the global success it is without people
Speaker 1: like you hopefully listening now, essentially putting your everything on
Speaker 1: the line for the sake of our entertainment.
Speaker 2: And yeah, remember that, because.
Speaker 1: Without you there is no show and without you, like
Speaker 1: the network can't make their tens of millions of dollars
Speaker 1: a year. So again, in those moments, you feel you
Speaker 1: being manipulated coerced, pushed into doing something that doesn't feel right, doesn't.
Speaker 2: Align with you.
Speaker 1: Just get your phone out and press record, and just
Speaker 1: document that dirty side, which is such a gray area,
Speaker 1: especially at this point with all the investigations.
Speaker 2: Into what happens behind the scenes, and.
Speaker 1: Remind those producers in those moments, hey, I've signed up
Speaker 1: for your show, but I haven't signed my life away
Speaker 1: to you, so you listen to me.
Speaker 2: And also remember they need you more than you need them.
Speaker 1: And you know it may feel big and scary standing
Speaker 1: up for yourself when you think that you're just an
Speaker 1: average person from maybe a small town and these are
Speaker 1: big TV people.
Speaker 2: But again, they need you more than you need them.
Speaker 1: And this isn't to deter any of the upcoming casts
Speaker 1: from continuing with the show or to just quit now,
Speaker 1: because again, if you're this fight, and you've already made
Speaker 1: your mind up, and you may have the most incredible
Speaker 1: experience of your life, and you may come out unscathed,
Speaker 1: and you may even come out with love. But I
Speaker 1: just say all of this now because these last few months,
Speaker 1: more than ever, the things being brought to the service
Speaker 1: about what can happen and has happened behind the scenes
Speaker 1: on reality television and you know Maths UK Maths Australia
Speaker 1: is shocking and you'll often hear me on here if
Speaker 1: you followed the podcast talking about how I think producers
Speaker 1: really need to step back, reassess how they work to
Speaker 1: make these shows and realize they don't need to push
Speaker 1: people as far as they do. But I personally don't
Speaker 1: think that's going to happen. I don't think they are
Speaker 1: going to step back and reassess or change anything. So
Speaker 1: therefore it is down to you, guys the cast, to
Speaker 1: stand up for yourselves and be more aware of their
Speaker 1: tactics and be vocal from the start about what you
Speaker 1: will and won't accept, because they're going to make you
Speaker 1: feel like you're the luckiest person in the world to
Speaker 1: be there, and you should jump through hoops when they say,
Speaker 1: and you should be so grateful and you don't dare
Speaker 1: question anything. But nah, again, they need you, you don't
Speaker 1: need them, and you know, be the change you want
Speaker 1: to see in the world and what we want to
Speaker 1: see in the world because together united, all right, This
Speaker 1: is getting a bit silly now, isn't it, But you
Speaker 1: get my point right. Ultimately, though, if you are a
Speaker 1: cast member on the new series. Like just again, be
Speaker 1: aware of all this stuff now and save this podcast
Speaker 1: because you won't realize any of the in the moment,
Speaker 1: trust me, because there's going to be ten million things
Speaker 1: happening and.
Speaker 2: Other than all that. Yeah, have the best time and
Speaker 2: probably see you around soon. My name's Josh.
Speaker 1: You've probably been warned to stay away from me already,
Speaker 1: which I always find quite laughable, to be honest, Eventually
Speaker 1: you realize my intentions. I mostly just to have fun.
Speaker 1: I'm not here to screen anyone over, fuck anyone over.
Speaker 1: I'm just here to do a job, have a laugh,
Speaker 1: hopefully entertain a few people on this podcast, and if
Speaker 1: it does get a bit heated and hectic, then I
Speaker 1: try to use this pod to like start positive conversations
Speaker 1: or stir it in a way that could lead to change.
Speaker 2: Yeah, see it