Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome back to the Maths Funny Podcast with
Speaker 1: me Joshua Fox, aka the guy behind the Maths Funny
Speaker 1: Instagram page. Tonight, we just watched the first dinner party
Speaker 1: of season twelve, which was the shit show we were
Speaker 1: all hoping it was, and a star was indeed born
Speaker 1: and her name is Jamie. The self described pocket rocket.
Speaker 1: Led the outrage at how Tim's been treating Katie and mate,
Speaker 1: she did not hold back.
Speaker 2: Take a listen to this.
Speaker 3: And I'm seeing my friend, who is genuine, who's a
Speaker 3: good person, who's now signing to go Maybe was my
Speaker 3: fault Now she's signing to take it all in like
Speaker 3: it's her. I think this is bush And I'm like,
Speaker 3: what the hell is going on here?
Speaker 4: Just a freaking glass slighted move bro, Like that's just
Speaker 4: what is this?
Speaker 3: Then you're pushing yourself, what's this?
Speaker 2: I am questioning?
Speaker 4: So that's what is this?
Speaker 3: O't she?
Speaker 4: Well, it's a piece of responsibility. I know what it's
Speaker 4: like to be in that position. I know it's like
Speaker 4: someone to make you feel less than dim you'll shine,
Speaker 4: make you question yourself, blame yourself. That is not okay.
Speaker 1: What you guys didn't see on TV, though was I
Speaker 1: was indeed there as they filmed their dinner party back
Speaker 1: in Sydney on August sixth. I remember it was a
Speaker 1: beautiful day, the sun was shining, and as each of
Speaker 1: the couples arrived in the back of a taxi, you know,
Speaker 1: all consumed with both nerves and anxiety about what they
Speaker 1: were walking into. There I was, you know, in the
Speaker 1: car park, offering some words of encouragement. Take a listen
Speaker 1: to this that I recorded on the day.
Speaker 2: Hi, I'm joshing.
Speaker 5: You see this building here, This is the place relationships
Speaker 5: come to die. Okay, So this year I've decided to
Speaker 5: welcome them with signs it's all downhill from here and then.
Speaker 2: Just quit. Now it's all downhill from here. Oh, this
Speaker 2: one's on her own.
Speaker 5: Alex literally is already downhill for that one.
Speaker 1: Here, here's the next couple.
Speaker 2: Good eye, Welcome to your first dinner part Keep going,
Speaker 2: keep going, whether stress production worker.
Speaker 1: Now, before I get into today's big spoiler in some drama,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you a little breakdown to how those
Speaker 1: dinner parties actually work, because it's nothing like it appears
Speaker 1: on TV. And I think you guys may find this interesting. Firstly,
Speaker 1: each couple is sent a taxi to bring them to
Speaker 1: the studio, and that studio is basically just a warehouse
Speaker 1: in an industrial park that they've built a set inside.
Speaker 1: And if you know Sydney, the warehouse is in Lilyfield
Speaker 1: and you know the Bay Run. You can actually see
Speaker 1: it when you're walking around the Bay Run, which is
Speaker 1: kind of cool. So yeah, each couple arrives in a taxi,
Speaker 1: there are given like a different time, so these are
Speaker 1: slagger out over maybe two hours, so people don't see
Speaker 1: each other. Before they go upstairs onto the set, a
Speaker 1: producer is waiting at the car pack gate to wave
Speaker 1: the driver in, and that's where I'm also stood, much
Speaker 1: to that producer's annoyance, But as I'm on public land,
Speaker 1: they can't do or say anything other than maybe he
Speaker 1: try to block me and they go, excuse me, public land,
Speaker 1: could you stop getting in my way please. It's quite
Speaker 1: funny because like they they go to all these measures,
Speaker 1: Like I remember one day they employed a producer to
Speaker 1: stand on public land as well, to hold an umbrella
Speaker 1: in front of me constantly, and if I made two
Speaker 1: steps to the left, that producer would take two steps
Speaker 1: to the left a meter in front holding this umbrella
Speaker 1: and it was the most ridiculous thing. So then I
Speaker 1: just climbed up a tree. And then this poor guy,
Speaker 1: it wasn't even like early twenties, his first job as
Speaker 1: an assistant in TV. He's then holding this umbrella as
Speaker 1: high as he could and I'm like, may, I'm up
Speaker 1: a tree. You're not blocking anything. But he didn't want
Speaker 1: to lower the umbrella in case he got in trouble.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's always funny games doing these things. But yeah,
Speaker 1: So each taxi is waved into the you know, the
Speaker 1: industrial sites car park.
Speaker 2: I can't go there because that's now.
Speaker 1: Private land, and the couples are then swapped over into
Speaker 1: one of the I think it's say, Suzuki whatever characters
Speaker 1: that sponsors the show. So they arrive in just a
Speaker 1: regular fucking silver taxi that them put into the car
Speaker 1: that sponsors the show, so they can film a little
Speaker 1: arrival getting out of that car, and on TV at
Speaker 1: the start of each dinner Party episode, you'll see that
Speaker 1: there's a few shots of just maybe two or three
Speaker 1: of the couples, you know, getting out the car, closing
Speaker 1: the door, looking around like, oh, we're here. They might
Speaker 1: have a kiss, and then the next shot is them
Speaker 1: walking on set again. This is not what happens in
Speaker 1: real life. Once they're film stepping out the car and
Speaker 1: having a kiss, and then you know, walking through the
Speaker 1: doors into the building. A producer then shouts again and
Speaker 1: then they get back in the car and they do
Speaker 1: it again and often again. The worst I've ever seen
Speaker 1: these One couple had to do this seven times so
Speaker 1: they could, you know, get the shot, keep changing the
Speaker 1: cameras and like even I was like, fucking how can
Speaker 1: we you know, I've got places to be.
Speaker 2: Just hurry up. Sorry, I keep getting distracted.
Speaker 1: So yes, their film getting out the car and then
Speaker 1: they step into the warehouse and you see on TV
Speaker 1: the next shot is them arriving in the dinner party.
Speaker 1: In real life, they're then taking back out of the warehouse,
Speaker 1: walked around the side, and each couple is put into
Speaker 1: a holding pen, which is basically like a little gazebo
Speaker 1: somewhere on the industrial site to wait until it's their
Speaker 1: time to arrive on set. Now, producers do this for
Speaker 1: two reasons. Often they'll put like the more boring couples
Speaker 1: in first, you know, just to set up the scene
Speaker 1: start the episode with some happy chat, you know, like, oh,
Speaker 1: how are you going, How are you going?
Speaker 2: Yeah, We're going good? You want a glass of champagne?
Speaker 2: You know that type of shit.
Speaker 1: Then once those pleasantries have kind of fizzled out, the
Speaker 1: producers will get on the walkie talk and be like,
Speaker 1: all right, sending fucking deva you know, someone random and
Speaker 1: goes the next one.
Speaker 2: And then once that.
Speaker 1: Chat of hey, how are you going, mate fizzles out
Speaker 1: and you know, nothing comes from that, producers radio and the.
Speaker 2: Next one and the next one and the next one.
Speaker 1: And basically, if you're part of drama that week, you're
Speaker 1: going in last. And this is to give like the
Speaker 1: rest of the cast enough time to gossip about you
Speaker 1: before you're sending, you know, so they can set up
Speaker 1: that storyline. Producers will maybe broad people to be like,
Speaker 1: you know, oh, Katie's arrived solo, why didn't you go
Speaker 1: ask her how she's feeling?
Speaker 2: Does she feel like she's been dumped?
Speaker 1: You know, like, really make that storyline the central point
Speaker 1: of the episode. So then by the time Tim arrives,
Speaker 1: then you know, everyone's so hyped up and angry because
Speaker 1: it's all they've been talking about and It's funny with
Speaker 1: those pens as well, because like sometimes the castas sat
Speaker 1: in there for literally hours, and like on TV, they
Speaker 1: might create all this suspense, like teasing, is this groom
Speaker 1: gonna arrive? Is he has he quit?
Speaker 2: What's gonna happen? Is he gonna come?
Speaker 1: Everyone's speculating and bitching about him, and you think he's
Speaker 1: not gonna arrive, and then at the last minute the
Speaker 1: door opens, He's arrived, But in reality, he arrived three
Speaker 1: hours ago, filmed himself walking in the building, walked back
Speaker 1: around the building, and has been sat on his own
Speaker 1: in a little gazebo, And like, this isn't me speculating,
Speaker 1: It's fact. I've been outside of so many of these shoots,
Speaker 1: and like when I take my pictures and videos, you know,
Speaker 1: the all of time stamps attached to them. I could
Speaker 1: give you a rundown of the exact minute the cars
Speaker 1: arrive in their car back, and they're always like, what
Speaker 1: ten minutes apart At best, it's like a military operation
Speaker 1: when they do these shoots, but they basically just want
Speaker 1: to get them there as early as they can so
Speaker 1: they can kind of control them and say, for example,
Speaker 1: you're the groom who's going to be, you know, the
Speaker 1: the big talking point and the villain of that episode
Speaker 1: who everyone's bitching about. Holding him in that pen for
Speaker 1: three hours on his own is kind of clever because
Speaker 1: he's got no one to talk to.
Speaker 2: Everything's going around in his head.
Speaker 1: He's getting worked up, he's getting agitated that by the
Speaker 1: time they finally say, right, mate, here you go, he's
Speaker 1: fucking like ready to fire up. So yeah, that's how
Speaker 1: these dinner parts work in real life. If anyone's ever woundered.
Speaker 1: Contestants are also allowed like a smoking break, and then
Speaker 1: it's funny because they have to like put their hand
Speaker 1: up and then they're taking in an elevator downstairs to
Speaker 1: a designated smoking area, and like logistically, it's just funny
Speaker 1: how these things work anyway, And moving on from that
Speaker 1: into today's spoiler, I reckon we have our first confirmed
Speaker 1: split of the season. Over the weekend, I received a
Speaker 1: voice note from one follower on Instagram who spotted a
Speaker 1: certain groom out in Sydney on Friday and well, yeah,
Speaker 1: spoiler alert, take a listen to what they said.
Speaker 6: Hey, Josh, so I was out Friday night in the
Speaker 6: city and I saw this guy and I was like,
Speaker 6: oh my god, he looks like Adrian from Maths and
Speaker 6: it was him, and he was out with another girl,
Speaker 6: but it wasn't the one he's married to in the show,
Speaker 6: So I think they might have been on a date
Speaker 6: because it was quite late at night and they were
Speaker 6: very cozy together and when they left they were holding hands.
Speaker 1: Now, to me, if you're un married at first sight
Speaker 1: and viewers have only just watched you get married and
Speaker 1: they've still got like two months more of your storyline,
Speaker 1: but you're out in public openly holding hands with somebody else,
Speaker 1: to me, that says you don't give a fuck, You're
Speaker 1: over it and you don't care. So then, anyway, after
Speaker 1: I got that, I did a bit more digging and
Speaker 1: I found out that after the show wrapped in November,
Speaker 1: when final vow ceremonies were filmed, Adrian then spent December
Speaker 1: in Bali with another woman who people are saying he's
Speaker 1: just a friend, but they were making like all these
Speaker 1: daily video blogs on TikTok and cute content together, which
Speaker 1: he deleted over the weekend when fans started to notice
Speaker 1: and go, wait, is this that's not your wife? I
Speaker 1: know the ballet thing is not exactly concrete evidence, and
Speaker 1: I know that like every year, as filming does wrap
Speaker 1: after those final vast ceremonies, naturally every couple do briefly
Speaker 1: separating or so they can go back to the normal lives,
Speaker 1: often in different states. But you'd think if Adrian and
Speaker 1: Athena did last, he'd maybe have popped over to Perth
Speaker 1: to spend time with her over the holidays, not spending
Speaker 1: in Balley with another woman who you know, she might
Speaker 1: just be a friend, she might be more, who knows,
Speaker 1: But it just kind of says to me, these two
Speaker 1: are over, and guess what else is over? Today's podcast?
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