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Speaker 3: I'm Britney Sawndons and I'm all right, hey, and you're
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Speaker 1: Because you don't put the juiciest goss on your main story.
Speaker 3: You keep it for your close friends.
Speaker 1: I feel like this episode, by the way, is.
Speaker 3: A really close friendly close friends. We're talking about parties
Speaker 3: that we're having.
Speaker 2: And you're all invited, and I've coined a new term. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I've got something new to tell you all. I think
Speaker 2: it's quite revolutionary, honestly, because we're in the era of quietness,
Speaker 2: if you will, you've seen trends online of like quiet luxury. Yes,
Speaker 2: where it's like, you know, a few years ago, it
Speaker 2: was more about flashy items and holding the bag with
Speaker 2: the branding on it. You know, you always want you
Speaker 2: wanted people to know that you had money, whereas now
Speaker 2: quiet luxury is more like I'm spending my money and
Speaker 2: no one's actually knowing it about it. For that, I'm
Speaker 2: all for that too.
Speaker 1: Because like I feel like, especially now, when I see
Speaker 1: like designer things with logos and everything all over it,
Speaker 1: I think it's just from Bali. You reckon, Yeah, and
Speaker 1: when you go to Bali everyone is walking around with
Speaker 1: fucking parata.
Speaker 3: This Louis Vuitton.
Speaker 2: That so obvious though, it's so obvious when it's fake.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, But I feel like even if you had
Speaker 1: a real one and you're in Bali walking around with it,
Speaker 1: I think people would assume it's fake, which I was. Yeah,
Speaker 1: everything is fake over there, so it's like embarrassing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I had the real Louis Vuitton and the real
Speaker 2: Prata and the Louis Vuitton's shoes in Bali.
Speaker 1: Everyone would think it's automatically fake, Like the airport is
Speaker 1: full of fake bags.
Speaker 3: I've always wondered as well, like what is everyone's.
Speaker 1: Fascination with going over there and buying all that fake stuff?
Speaker 2: I don't know what is it? Because is it the
Speaker 2: fun of it?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 2: I don't know. Do you know what? Enough funny story though?
Speaker 2: Is I bought a fake Louisvuton wallet. Have I told
Speaker 2: this on the podcast before where I bought the fake
Speaker 2: Louis Viton wallet. Then I went into Louis Vuitton to
Speaker 2: buy my actual first purchase, which was the backpack, and
Speaker 2: it was so embarrassing because do you buy the backpack?
Speaker 2: I had to pull out my fake Louis Vuton wallet
Speaker 2: and get my card out to pay for the backpack.
Speaker 3: No, they would have known.
Speaker 2: Awkward anyway, that was me quiet luxury. We're in that era.
Speaker 2: We're in the era of quiet luxury. Quiet quitting as well.
Speaker 2: That's a new one that I've seen on TikTok.
Speaker 3: I don't like quiet, boss, I don't like quite quitting.
Speaker 2: No, quiet quitting more so in like friendships, when when
Speaker 2: the friend isn't you know, instead of making a big
Speaker 2: deal of it, which I feel I've always been a
Speaker 2: quiet quitter. Yeah, instead of making a big deal of it,
Speaker 2: you just slowly drop that person out of your life,
Speaker 2: You phase yourself out, You do it quietly. Right. Well,
Speaker 2: I've got a new term that I've come up with
Speaker 2: and I'll be putting a trademark on it. It's called
Speaker 2: quiet celebrating. Okay, So now I've been talking about planning
Speaker 2: my thirtieth this year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we go on Fiji.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll still do that, but I'm going to hold
Speaker 2: you to it. Yeah I'm not even kidding, like I'm
Speaker 2: ready when you are.
Speaker 1: Same, But we could record an episode from Fiji.
Speaker 3: Yeah bullah.
Speaker 2: Sitting by the Poolanka for listening. Oh my god, now
Speaker 2: you've got my mind running. Well, surely we're doing a
Speaker 2: Fiji high Scrollers Fiji.
Speaker 3: Just take a couple of microphones, set it up by
Speaker 3: the pool.
Speaker 2: Do they have any I can come? Do they have
Speaker 2: any casinos school in high scrollers in Fiji? We could
Speaker 2: do a high scrollers photo shoot. See. Then the whole
Speaker 2: thing's taxt deductible. But anyway, it.
Speaker 3: Kinda has to be there to edit it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you can shower her, yeah, because she'll have to
Speaker 1: edit it while we're there because it'll need to go
Speaker 1: up like straight away, so it's.
Speaker 3: Like at the same time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a work trip, yeah work. Yeah, and it
Speaker 2: just so happens to be across my birthday as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, that just happens, just so happened to happen.
Speaker 2: Anyway, the point is quite celebrating. So originally I wanted
Speaker 2: that big party in Sydney, probably rooftop vies, blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: I've been doing the maths and everything like that, and
Speaker 2: like to genuinely do the party that I wanted to,
Speaker 2: like it would honestly cost me almost like twenty five
Speaker 2: thirty grand. You're fucking kidding, yeah right, And I went, nah,
Speaker 2: we were not doing that, fucked But even if I
Speaker 2: did it on the cheap, like fifteen grand minimum surely.
Speaker 3: For a birthday, but you're paying.
Speaker 2: Like, wait, let me do the maths because now it
Speaker 2: made me feel like weird about that.
Speaker 3: That's no, I'm just saying, like that's extreme.
Speaker 2: Yeah, sixteen and a half thousand people, sixteen and.
Speaker 1: A half thousand people making money always follow us.
Speaker 2: No, sixteen and a half grand to do it on
Speaker 2: the minimum because you pay like per person per head,
Speaker 2: and there's like the drinks package and everything like that
Speaker 2: on top of the sixteen and a half that was
Speaker 2: just for food. If I want one hundred and fifty people.
Speaker 3: Oh that's fucking so many.
Speaker 2: I've got a lot of fun.
Speaker 3: You may as well just get married there and caught
Speaker 3: your wedding too.
Speaker 2: Do you know that my family, like just my dad's
Speaker 2: side of the family is fifty people in themselves.
Speaker 3: That's insane, right.
Speaker 2: You're telling may babe, I don't want to invite them all.
Speaker 2: But you know, it's one of those things where it's
Speaker 2: a trickle down effect. It's like, oh, well, if I
Speaker 2: invite the Arnie and I've got to write their kids,
Speaker 2: and then if I write their kids, I've got to
Speaker 2: fight the other nie uncle's kids. And then suddenly I've
Speaker 2: got fifty bloody paper on the invitation and I'm like,
Speaker 2: why did we sprout so many offsprings in this family?
Speaker 2: But anyway, so it's one of those things. I mean,
Speaker 2: if I could do it the way, you know, to
Speaker 2: keep it cheap, I could probably well, none of my
Speaker 2: family would come because once you invite one, you got invite.
Speaker 1: See, my family is so fucking small, like I don't
Speaker 1: have it jealous like.
Speaker 3: I have like basically no family like this. It's not
Speaker 3: a big family at all.
Speaker 2: Right, Well, can't relate. And that's why it's going to
Speaker 2: cost me sixteen and a half grand just for the food.
Speaker 2: Then the drink's package on top, which is about another
Speaker 2: ten grand.
Speaker 1: Then you've got Christmas party isn't even going to cost
Speaker 1: that much you've.
Speaker 2: Got, you know, balloons, decorations, events, catering, sorry, not catering,
Speaker 2: I'm cake, you know, balloons, entertainment, blah blah blah blah yah,
Speaker 2: I'm looking at thirty five grand I went absolu fuckoutely
Speaker 2: not No. So what I've decided to do is actually
Speaker 2: what I did. I went away with one of my
Speaker 2: friends for her thirtieth a couple of weeks ago. You
Speaker 2: would have seen it on the Instagram, and we went
Speaker 2: up to kill Care on the Central Coast and we
Speaker 2: had like a quiet celebration for her thirtieth. It was
Speaker 2: just like about ten to twelve of us. We stayed
Speaker 2: in the house. It was very like Friday night Fibes,
Speaker 2: which is two nights. Friday Night was like, you know,
Speaker 2: we had a nice home cooked meal, drank some wine,
Speaker 2: had some chats. Saturday we went out for a fabulous lunch.
Speaker 2: Saturday night, we you know, had a game snide and
Speaker 2: had a charcoterie board and I made pizza for everyone
Speaker 2: and we again drank wine. And then Sunday we went
Speaker 2: home and it wasn't like this big epic like celebration,
Speaker 2: really you know, loud party to celebrate the thirtieth, it
Speaker 2: was like this, that's nice, quiet kind of celebration, and
Speaker 2: I think I've decided that that's what I want to
Speaker 2: do for my thirtieth. I am no longer interested in
Speaker 2: a big, stunning party with one hundred and fifty people.
Speaker 2: I just want like five of my closest friends to
Speaker 2: go away to a house for the weekend and just
Speaker 2: do that. It was honestly like the best way to celebrate,
Speaker 2: And so I'm coining the term quiet celebrations or quiet
Speaker 2: celebrating where you can basically just celebrate but without the
Speaker 2: big show, which is so unlike me. And then you think,
Speaker 2: you know, because I think for a long time I
Speaker 2: also felt guilty about not putting on a show and
Speaker 2: celebrating lavishly, if that makes sense. Like I just thought
Speaker 2: it's my thirtieth, like for obviously now I'm going to
Speaker 2: have this big bash, whereas now I'm like, you know what, Actually,
Speaker 2: one don't want to spend the money, and two it's
Speaker 2: such a small amount of time. I think that's the
Speaker 2: good thing about the quiet celebration that we did over
Speaker 2: the weekend for my friend is instead of like a
Speaker 2: five hour party where you've got to get around and
Speaker 2: run around and talk to everyone, and it was like
Speaker 2: a weekend and it was really like slow, but like
Speaker 2: slow in a good way.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 2: So I'm obsessed with that. So I know a couple
Speaker 2: weeks ago, I was talking about celebrating my thirtieth and
Speaker 2: doing a whole bunch of things now, stuff that you
Speaker 2: can all get stuffed. You can send a gift to
Speaker 2: my pos for all I care.
Speaker 1: I feel like you're really reaching your thirties now, Matt,
Speaker 1: because it's a very thirty thing of.
Speaker 3: You to do.
Speaker 2: You reckon, Well, I'm out of my clubbing hero as well.
Speaker 2: It's over geriatric now. Put me in palliative care because
Speaker 2: I am done. What did you do for your thirtieth?
Speaker 3: I had no plans for my thirtieth?
Speaker 2: But then is that when we surprised you? Or is
Speaker 2: that your thirty first?
Speaker 3: No, thirtieth?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 1: And then yeah, I had no. I don't give a
Speaker 1: fuck about my birthday. The last time I cared about
Speaker 1: my birthday when I was like seventeen, so I never
Speaker 1: have anything on. And then all of the work girls
Speaker 1: and AJ and yourself and Kate planned a fucking surprise
Speaker 1: dinner and actually like successfully did it.
Speaker 3: And it was a Friday night.
Speaker 1: We'd worked all week in the office, and I thought
Speaker 1: I was just going out to dinner with my friends
Speaker 1: Wade and Jess, like just the three of us, not
Speaker 1: even AJ, just going out for dinner to this restaurant
Speaker 1: called light Years in Newcastle. And so I finished work
Speaker 1: that day, like every Friday, we're always like in the
Speaker 1: office at the end of the day saying like, what's.
Speaker 3: Around doing this weekend? Blah blah.
Speaker 1: So I'm like, what's the round doing this weekend and
Speaker 1: all the girls were like, oh, like, you know, nothing,
Speaker 1: blah blah. I did not pick up on it at all.
Speaker 1: Then I went home. I quickly got changed, and then
Speaker 1: Wade was going to come pick me up, and that
Speaker 1: I should have picked up on that, because it's not
Speaker 1: like Wade to pick me up to go anywhere like
Speaker 1: use so just uber and meet him or like AJ
Speaker 1: will drive me in or whatever. So that should have
Speaker 1: been my first clue. And Wade came and picked me
Speaker 1: up and he was driving so fucking slow, like painfully
Speaker 1: fucking slow, and I remember going like we were in
Speaker 1: this eighty zone and he was doing like sixty And
Speaker 1: I fucking hate people that are in an eighty zone
Speaker 1: that do sixty, And I'm going to him, why the
Speaker 1: fuck are you driving so slow? This is an eighty zone,
Speaker 1: Like I was having to go at him for driving
Speaker 1: like a snail. And then he's like, oh, I've got
Speaker 1: to pick something up from my hair salon because he
Speaker 1: owns a hair salon, Like five minute walk from the restaurant.
Speaker 1: So then we're going to the hair salon and I
Speaker 1: hate being late, Like my thing is we've got to
Speaker 1: be on fucking time. So I'm messaging Jess like Wade's
Speaker 1: got to pick something up.
Speaker 3: She's like I'm on my way, babe.
Speaker 1: And then Wade's taking forever, like stalling in the hair
Speaker 1: salon and like doing his hair and whatever.
Speaker 3: And I'm like, horry the fuck up.
Speaker 1: Then it's like, honestly, maybe a ten minute walk at
Speaker 1: most from wade salon to the restaurant. He's walking so
Speaker 1: fucking slow, like it was pissing me off so bad,
Speaker 1: and I should have picked up that he was stalling,
Speaker 1: like and he was like, my shoes off, my shoes
Speaker 1: are rubbing, like he was playing on his shoes, and
Speaker 1: then he stopped and like take the shoe off. He's
Speaker 1: like I just got these and they're rubbing on my
Speaker 1: feet and I'm like, hurry the fuck up.
Speaker 3: Jess is there.
Speaker 1: Jess is messaging me saying, oh, here, walk in the door.
Speaker 1: It's fucking all of you, is like all the girls
Speaker 1: from work.
Speaker 3: AJ.
Speaker 1: I just said bye to Aj at home. AJ's there.
Speaker 2: He swapped his shirt and he went yeah.
Speaker 1: And like AJ didn't give it away either, Like we
Speaker 1: went home from work together and he saw me getting
Speaker 1: ready and he's like, I was panicking because you were
Speaker 1: gonna leave, and then I had to quickly get dressed
Speaker 1: and leave as well.
Speaker 3: And I was like, you fucking assholes, but you pulled
Speaker 3: it off.
Speaker 1: And all the girls said in the afternoon at work,
Speaker 1: they were like, it's trying so hard to not say see.
Speaker 3: Tonight, like to anyone, but you actually.
Speaker 1: Fucking pulled it off except me except Matt was late.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but that's why I was stalling, because I was like,
Speaker 2: I'm literally running, like I'm right here.
Speaker 3: Wait.
Speaker 1: Was stalling all that time because of Matt and Kate
Speaker 1: coming from the Central Coast.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because we just ran into i mean Friday afternoon
Speaker 2: traffic coming from obviously Sydney, but it.
Speaker 3: Was still surprised that you guys came. Yeah, yeah, that's
Speaker 3: what I did for my thirtieth. But I have no plans.
Speaker 1: I'm like, fuck it, I don't want to do anything
Speaker 1: for my birthday anymore. I think the next thing I
Speaker 1: want to do for a birthday is either my thirty
Speaker 1: fifth or my fortieth. I want to be like on
Speaker 1: a yacht in fucking Italy thirty fifth.
Speaker 2: That's fun. Yeah, fuck it, we celebrate now thirty fifth.
Speaker 3: Now why am I going to wait till forty?
Speaker 1: If the timing is right, I'm going on a yacht
Speaker 1: for my thirty fifth, somewhere in Italy. Okay, private yacht coming, yeah,
Speaker 1: Actually it's going to be a fight.
Speaker 2: Yacht, a fate yacht yeah, okay.
Speaker 1: Fate mobile but on the water. Yeah, that's see you there.
Speaker 3: Let's imagine if that actually.
Speaker 1: Happens, will be able to come back to this episode
Speaker 1: and manifest it?
Speaker 3: Will it will?
Speaker 2: I'm all about it. Are you shouting my trip or like?
Speaker 1: Then it's content like it's a work trip again. It's
Speaker 1: just so just so happened to land on my birthday.
Speaker 1: You know what is happening to us? Everything just lines
Speaker 1: up so well.
Speaker 2: But do you know what's fucked is like, unfortunately that's
Speaker 2: the way the world works. Yeah, you could literally claim
Speaker 2: it on tax if you you did that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because we're going to do a shoot there as well,
Speaker 1: and then we can do a podcast from the fucking yacht. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and Hannah's got to be there because she needs to
Speaker 1: eat it the episode.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we can take a few scrollers with us because
Speaker 2: then that's a work trip as well. We do like
Speaker 2: a giving away.
Speaker 1: Yeah, everyone's coming to my thirty fifth, so four years
Speaker 1: from now, look out.
Speaker 2: I would actually love to do that though, is just
Speaker 2: do an event and say everyone come to my Like
Speaker 2: I know, it's a really I don't know if it's
Speaker 2: narcissistic or self centered, but to be like I'm having
Speaker 2: my thirtieth buy a ticket to my thirty and tickets
Speaker 2: like five fucking dollars, but it's just to secure your spot,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. Well, that was maybe they're
Speaker 2: free and there's only a limited amount of things, and
Speaker 2: I'm like, everyone just come and celebrate my birthday. But
Speaker 2: I put the tickets out to anyone in the world
Speaker 2: to come.
Speaker 1: Well, that was like we did an event last year
Speaker 1: Fate and Wildfire Shoes just it wasn't even to celebrate
Speaker 1: any kind of launch. They just kind of said, do
Speaker 1: you want to do an event with us, like an
Speaker 1: influencer event in Brisbane, and we were like absolutely, like
Speaker 1: count us in. So we invited a bunch of influencers
Speaker 1: and creators, but then we went fuck it. We sold
Speaker 1: tickets to our followers, like our customers, because we didn't
Speaker 1: want it to be just influencers at this event. So
Speaker 1: then it was like a mix of like community and influencers.
Speaker 3: So that was a slagh.
Speaker 2: Was it a success?
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, loved it nice.
Speaker 2: I don't know if that's some I mean, that's totally
Speaker 2: different for you. But I mean I don't know if
Speaker 2: doing it as my birthday party every extra I don't
Speaker 2: know if that would be. Imagine if I did a
Speaker 2: birthday party then had two separate sections VIP and all.
Speaker 1: That idea general public that was floated around because we
Speaker 1: were working. No shame to them, not that they're fucking
Speaker 1: listening to close friends, but I think there was like
Speaker 1: some events company involved in the middle of organizing it,
Speaker 1: and they floated the idea on one of the calls
Speaker 1: one day. I wasn't on the call, but to like
Speaker 1: the Fate Girls saying like, we're gonna have a little
Speaker 1: roped off section for some of the influencers, okay, And
Speaker 1: I was like, no fucking way, Like I'm no one,
Speaker 1: but I'm Britney Lee Saunders. If anyone's going to be
Speaker 1: in a roped off section, it would be me. But
Speaker 1: I would never in a million years do that. Like
Speaker 1: ill imagine like influencers over there and the norms out there.
Speaker 3: Yeah no, no, no fucking way.
Speaker 2: Hose Well, I almost got my When I originally wanted
Speaker 2: to do the big rooftop thing, the other thing that
Speaker 2: I thought was how do I get a brand on board?
Speaker 2: How do I get this sponsored? Because I was like,
Speaker 2: if it's gonna cost thirty five grand to do it all,
Speaker 2: then I'm going to go all.
Speaker 1: Out and will not feel like real like I always
Speaker 1: think when you see influencers get things sponsored like events
Speaker 1: and weddings and shit like, does it feel like work
Speaker 1: because maybe you have to tag them and shit.
Speaker 2: Well, I think what would happen was because this was
Speaker 2: when I was doing one hundred and fifty people, and
Speaker 2: again it would be like fifty family, fifty friends, and
Speaker 2: probably fifty industry is how it went in my brain,
Speaker 2: and so basically the selling point would be, well, you're
Speaker 2: going to have so many influencers in the room, and
Speaker 2: you know you're branding. You know, if I wanted, like
Speaker 2: a particular alcohol brand to sponsor the event, and we'd
Speaker 2: have a media wall with like my logo and the
Speaker 2: alcohol company's logo and whoever else, And I want to
Speaker 2: red carpet with media wall, like I'm invarting the Daily Mail,
Speaker 2: like I'm invarting Susan Mattezi. She'll get an article out
Speaker 2: of it, you know what I mean. Like I'm doing
Speaker 2: all those things to make it into a big birthday bash.
Speaker 2: But also i'd probably, you know, I have my management
Speaker 2: who can take care of all that stuff and make
Speaker 2: sure I get all the content on the nine and
Speaker 2: blah blah blah. You know, got people who can sort
Speaker 2: that out for me. So that was considered. I really
Speaker 2: considered that, and then I went, it's all too hard
Speaker 2: and I don't have the brain capacity to worry about that.
Speaker 2: Luxury all the way, quiet luxury, all the way. That
Speaker 2: is the That is the moral of this close Friend's
Speaker 2: episode for you. All quiet, celebrating quiet luxury, quiet quite life.
Speaker 2: Unless you're listening to the high scrollers because we are
Speaker 2: not very here. Sorry about that, but anyway, I'm going
Speaker 2: to go and live my quiet life this weekend, so
Speaker 2: we better wrap this up. Anything else you want to
Speaker 2: say today, Nah.
Speaker 1: Just see you on a yacht for my thirty fix.
Speaker 2: I don't because I can't wait.
Speaker 3: Just something to look forward to.
Speaker 2: Honestly, Well, we've still got Fiji first. Yeah, I'm thinking
Speaker 2: of bringing it forward, by the way, Okay, because I
Speaker 2: don't know my birthdays at the end of October. I
Speaker 2: don't know whether October and November a good.
Speaker 1: Time, Rainy, let's go a little sooner.
Speaker 2: I think we might have to go August. September. Yeah,
Speaker 2: September is the latest you can push it. So let's
Speaker 2: let's see how we go with that. All right. We
Speaker 2: might invite our scrollers too.
Speaker 3: If you're you're invited.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just saying like, we'll go to this island book accommodation.
Speaker 2: Oh hang on, bloody second March. Shut all right, I'll
Speaker 2: be declaring bankruptcy to take the scrollers to Fiji. But
Speaker 2: anyway we'll go. We'll let you know when it is
Speaker 2: and we can all party on beach Kaimber island or something.
Speaker 3: As a beach comber in the center goes anyway, don't
Speaker 3: tell anyone about it.
Speaker 2: Remember what happens in close friends, days in close friends.
Speaker 2: Thank you.