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Speaker 1: I'm Britney Saunders, and you have made your way or
Speaker 1: you you're on clothes?
Speaker 3: Friends?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know where you are, my darlings. Look, it's
Speaker 2: been a big wig, it's been a big show. As
Speaker 2: I was saying in the main episode, I'm on do
Speaker 2: not disturb. I need a bit of a holiday.
Speaker 3: If I'm honest, I'm going on a holiday.
Speaker 1: Well actually by the time this comes out, and might
Speaker 1: even be on my holiday.
Speaker 2: Well maybe it's over. I don't know.
Speaker 1: We're pre recording a couple of episodes. I think I
Speaker 1: might already be on my holiday by the time everyone's
Speaker 1: listening to this. I'm off to Bali again after I
Speaker 1: said I would never go there again.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you did say you were never going. Why
Speaker 2: are you going over.
Speaker 3: For a wedding?
Speaker 2: Okay, that's fair enough.
Speaker 1: Family wedding. AJ and I went to Bali last year
Speaker 1: for a wedding for like his best mate's wedding, and
Speaker 1: for the first time ever, I got really sick in
Speaker 1: the stomach. I'm talking and this is a TMI, but
Speaker 1: everyone kind of loves the Pooh stories I feel I
Speaker 1: got really sick about. Luckily, we landed and then the
Speaker 1: wedding was like a day or two after so that
Speaker 1: we did the wedding, and then Aj and I, because
Speaker 1: he'd never been to Bali before, we decided to extend
Speaker 1: our trip after the wedding and go to like semon
Speaker 1: Yak and stay in all like the typical, you know,
Speaker 1: touristy spots. I was going to take Aj to see
Speaker 1: all that because he'd never been and.
Speaker 2: Really strikes me as such a Bali boy.
Speaker 3: Nah, he's been to Europee of time.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah with the one towel.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but he'd never been to like Semyon Yak or Legion,
Speaker 1: any of those touristic spots. So I thought, perfect, we'll
Speaker 1: go and do all the typical things. So we got
Speaker 1: the wedding over and done with and we all parted
Speaker 1: ways with our friends and Aj and I were just
Speaker 1: staying longer, and within twenty four hours of us going
Speaker 1: to our next accommodation in Semon yak I.
Speaker 3: We were out for dinner, out.
Speaker 1: For dinner this really nice place with two of our
Speaker 1: friends who had come into Semonnyac, and we were nearing
Speaker 1: the end of our dinner. It was a really nice venue,
Speaker 1: but we were having like raw seafood and stuff. So
Speaker 1: I don't think we would have anything to do with that,
Speaker 1: because you don't get sick like straight away from eating
Speaker 1: something bad. Like I think it was something from the wedding.
Speaker 1: But I said to Aj, I feel really sick all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, like the room was spinning a bit,
Speaker 1: and I was getting real sweaty and in BALI like,
Speaker 1: the traffic's always been really bad, but I feel like
Speaker 1: after COVID times, like it's gotten super popular again, so
Speaker 1: the traffic is like gridlock.
Speaker 3: So I said to Aj, I'm really sick.
Speaker 1: I need to go, Like I didn't want to go
Speaker 1: to the bathroom in the fucking fancy restaurant, so I
Speaker 1: said to our friends, by gotta go, I'm really sick.
Speaker 1: I stormed back to our villa. Mind you, it was
Speaker 1: over two kilometer walk, like it was far enough that
Speaker 1: you would catch a taxi, but the lock of the
Speaker 1: fucking area that we were in, like you're better off walking.
Speaker 1: So I was walking back and could feel myself getting
Speaker 1: secret and secret and cigar. It was sprinkling with rain,
Speaker 1: so that was pissing me off. And AJ like wasn't sick,
Speaker 1: so he started to fall really far behind me, Like
Speaker 1: I was just on a fucking mission. I was on
Speaker 1: a fucking mission. Like no one talked to me. You know,
Speaker 1: you walk past, Everyone's like.
Speaker 3: You want to come into my shop.
Speaker 2: I was like, fuck off, Like I'm so sick, but
Speaker 2: you're just trying to get home. The taxis are gone.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And then honestly, like seven minutes into my walk, because
Speaker 1: it was like a twenty minute walk, seven minutes in,
Speaker 1: our friends went past in their taxi and I was
Speaker 1: like waving but not looking. AJ is like a kilometer
Speaker 1: behind me at this point, like I lost age.
Speaker 3: That's how fast I was fucking walking.
Speaker 1: And then made it back to the hotel again and
Speaker 1: TMI got to the toilet, sat on the toilet.
Speaker 2: It's like water, I'm actually surprised you made it that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, me too, I think like I just knew I
Speaker 1: had to make it. But as I was getting to
Speaker 1: the room and like unlocking it with the key, like
Speaker 1: it was panic mode. Made it to the toilet. So
Speaker 1: this is on our first night in Semonyak. We've got
Speaker 1: like four more days after that. Then it just didn't
Speaker 1: stop from there. Yeah, it was like to the toilet
Speaker 1: every five minutes. I had to have a bucket beside me.
Speaker 1: I'd be walking to the toilet to go to the toilet,
Speaker 1: but start spewing in the bucket as I'm walking to
Speaker 1: the toilet. And it was like that for the next
Speaker 1: four days. We didn't do anything for the next four days,
Speaker 1: like holiday ruined kind of thing. People said to me,
Speaker 1: you should have got like a doctor to come to
Speaker 1: your room. You know, you can get like the doctors
Speaker 1: to come and give you a drip. Like I was
Speaker 1: just so sick, I couldn't even think of doing anything.
Speaker 2: I ordered one and then passed out, so they couldn't
Speaker 2: get into my room anyway. So they arrived and I
Speaker 2: was laying in my own in the bathroom. Oh no,
Speaker 2: how bad is it that? Like You've got to clean
Speaker 2: it up because you're not going to make someone else
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 1: And it's so like hot in Bali And we had
Speaker 1: one of those like outdoor bathroom things. So like I'm
Speaker 1: on the toilet sweating, the room spinning, but it's like hot,
Speaker 1: and it's that thick Bali air, and you just literally
Speaker 1: on the tiles like I would just lay on the
Speaker 1: tiles with a shirt under my head.
Speaker 2: I just laying on the tiles, completely naked, both ends
Speaker 2: coming out. It was all happening just in the shower,
Speaker 2: just sitting in the shower, going, well, there's no way.
Speaker 2: Remember I've told this story on the podcast before. Remember
Speaker 2: I went to try and go and get some power
Speaker 2: aid and I made it halfway across the lobby and chitting.
Speaker 2: I had to turn around and find a toilet. Asa. Well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so after that trip, which was a year ago,
Speaker 1: I said to Aj.
Speaker 2: Like, never going back.
Speaker 3: I'm never going to Bali again.
Speaker 1: I said the same thing, but I'll just go to
Speaker 1: Fiji or wherever, like, I just don't want to get sick.
Speaker 1: And apparently, like a few other people from the wedding
Speaker 1: also got really sick. So we think it's something that
Speaker 1: we had the wedding because we were having like cocktails
Speaker 1: and all sorts of food and whatever. But yeah, anyway,
Speaker 1: now I've got another wedding happening and I'm going.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm going without a.
Speaker 2: J Oh, that's strange.
Speaker 1: It's fair because our house is obviously getting renovated at
Speaker 1: the moment. He's got to stay home because all these
Speaker 1: major renots are happening. So he's like, you just go.
Speaker 1: It's like my family.
Speaker 2: And also, if you're gonna have a destination wedding, you
Speaker 2: cannot be upset if people don't come. Yeah, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean.
Speaker 1: Well, it's like my family anyway, So like aj is
Speaker 1: not fast, and it's like my step family. That's not
Speaker 1: my step family anymore, weird family things. But there is
Speaker 1: like a billion people going, so I'm not really going
Speaker 1: to be alone anyway. I may be in Bali by
Speaker 1: the time this is out. And look, I'm excited to
Speaker 1: go on a holiday get away from work for a week.
Speaker 1: My rule wars it can only be Monday to Friday
Speaker 1: that I'm gone off work because if I'm away any longer,
Speaker 1: I'll have extreme guilt.
Speaker 2: Why Saturday? Why not Saturday Sunday?
Speaker 1: Oh, and I'm also there for that, but I only
Speaker 1: want to be away for five working days and the
Speaker 1: whole goal of the trip is to not get sick. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so wish me, like everyone, so what are you.
Speaker 2: Doing in preparation anything in particular, because my thing is
Speaker 2: I feel like when I went to Bali and got
Speaker 2: really sick, which I've been to Bali twice. The first
Speaker 2: time I got sick, and I thought it was, you know,
Speaker 2: what people call bari belly, which fun fact, is not
Speaker 2: an appropriate term to use anymore. Apparently what I saw
Speaker 2: someone right, I think it may have been Anna pool,
Speaker 2: but correct me if I'm wrong. I think she mentioned
Speaker 2: in a video she said Barlei belly because that's just
Speaker 2: as Australians what everyone calls it. But people were saying
Speaker 2: that that's now really offensive term. Balinese people don't like
Speaker 2: people using that term because it's obviously very negative. Puts
Speaker 2: a yeah blah blah blah, so we can't use it
Speaker 2: just like gastro.
Speaker 3: Honestly, like that's what it is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think, like I don't. I actually don't know
Speaker 2: where it comes from. Like everyone thinks it's from the water,
Speaker 2: but realistically, I went to Bali twice and I was
Speaker 2: very careful about the water.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: The first time I was sick and I was like, oh,
Speaker 2: this is pretty bad, But the second time I was
Speaker 2: super super careful and still got really sick. And that's
Speaker 2: the time whereby.
Speaker 1: I've heard even people say it can be like from
Speaker 1: the money, like you're touching the money, then you touch
Speaker 1: your mouth, like you wipe your face or whatever. So
Speaker 1: I've done a few things to try to stop myself
Speaker 1: from getting sick. To tell you my checklist, Okay, I
Speaker 1: did this last time, but I've done it even more.
Speaker 1: I've gone and bought like a hundred hand sanitizers and
Speaker 1: I'm going to sanitize my hands fucking every ten minutes,
Speaker 1: like every time you touch something or whatever. I mean,
Speaker 1: we should do that anyway, no matter where we are.
Speaker 1: Second thing that I have seen a lot on TikTok
Speaker 1: that everyone's been saying to do, but I've got a
Speaker 1: bit of a problem with it is people said that
Speaker 1: for two weeks before your trip, you should take like
Speaker 1: probiotics and prebiotics to kind of get your stomach ready.
Speaker 1: So I went and got these gummies that are probiotic
Speaker 1: and prebiotic. I started taking them, and I took them
Speaker 1: for like the last four days. And I don't know
Speaker 1: if it was just a coincidence, but I started taking
Speaker 1: these gummies and my stomach went like swollen, like a
Speaker 1: big balloon, like really rock hard, like uncomfortable stomach and
Speaker 1: I I could not stop fighting, but not like stinky
Speaker 1: poo far like like air.
Speaker 3: But you know when you've got air like gas and.
Speaker 2: It's so, then take it. So then take a de
Speaker 2: gas as well, you've got a gas.
Speaker 1: Gas.
Speaker 2: If you've had a de gas, I recommend just taking
Speaker 2: a de gas. Just what's fabulous Tuesday afternoon. A degas
Speaker 2: It degases you, so you take it and then you
Speaker 2: just spend the whole So I originally took a de
Speaker 2: gas because I thought, so, you know, when I had
Speaker 2: my gallstones, for example, got my bladder out, So after
Speaker 2: your surgery laproscopic, so they blow you up with a
Speaker 2: whole bunch of air to get in there and move
Speaker 2: around right, and so then you get air bubbles trapped
Speaker 2: in in parts of your body. And they said you
Speaker 2: can take a d gas and I was like, okay,
Speaker 2: So I took it, thinking it was gonna get rid
Speaker 2: of the gas in my body. I didn't know how obviously,
Speaker 2: how do you think you're getting rid of the gas.
Speaker 2: You're farting it out? Oh my god, I was farting
Speaker 2: for hour as.
Speaker 1: Well that's been me with these probiotic prebiotic shit that was.
Speaker 3: Happening every day. I like, really long loud farts, like
Speaker 3: just air like.
Speaker 2: And so.
Speaker 1: So I've stopped taking them. Yeah, okay, I stopped taking
Speaker 1: them yesterday. It was the first day that I've stopped
Speaker 1: taking it. My belly doesn't feel as rock hard. And
Speaker 1: then I googled can probiotics and pre body biotics give
Speaker 1: you gas and the answer is yes, Like it's a
Speaker 1: really common symptom because you've got something different going through
Speaker 1: your systems. Anyway, I've given up on that. I'm not
Speaker 1: fucking doing that because it's not worth walking around farting
Speaker 1: all day anyway.
Speaker 3: Other things that I've.
Speaker 1: Done I purchased from Amazon a shower filter. Oh you do,
Speaker 1: like twenty bucks or whatever, and you can put them
Speaker 1: on any shower head. You take off the shower head,
Speaker 1: put the filter on, put the shit I head back on.
Speaker 1: Apparently it filters the water to make it a little
Speaker 1: bit nicer. And then another major recommendation that everyone has
Speaker 1: been saying to me, which I need to go and
Speaker 1: get at these tablets called Travelan.
Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure it's called.
Speaker 1: And essentially I love the wait, sorry, let me just
Speaker 1: get it up two seconds. So it's travelan and it's
Speaker 1: just these tablets that you take before every time you eat,
Speaker 1: So you take a multiple times a day reduces the
Speaker 1: risk of traveler's diarrhear. You need prevention, not relief, and
Speaker 1: apparently those travelan tablets are like it, like that's what's
Speaker 1: going to stop you from getting sick, and you take
Speaker 1: them every time you before you eat.
Speaker 2: Like, wait for you to give us an update when
Speaker 2: you come home and see if you.
Speaker 1: I know, it's got me thinking as well, Matt, like
Speaker 1: with how sick people get when they do travel, like
Speaker 1: anywhere overseas. I'd be scared having a destination wedding if
Speaker 1: you were the bride.
Speaker 2: I think about that all the time.
Speaker 3: What if you get sick before your wedding day. We're
Speaker 3: going like a week before the wedding.
Speaker 1: So imagine if the bride was to get sick and
Speaker 1: then you're you've got diary at your ceremony and you're
Speaker 1: sweating and you're about to shit, but you're trying to
Speaker 1: get through your wedding.
Speaker 3: Like imagine how many people's weddings have been ruined from getting.
Speaker 2: Sick every time I see someone have a destination wedding
Speaker 2: in BALI. I think, surely everyone is shitting themselves at
Speaker 2: the ceremony because it's just a known fact that, like,
Speaker 2: you're probably gonna get sick at some point.
Speaker 1: So wish me like everyone, I will give you an
Speaker 1: update when I get back. I can't wait for that dedicated.
Speaker 1: Our friend Kate has just been and come back and
Speaker 1: I message her. I was like, what did you do?
Speaker 1: Like how did you not get sick? And she said
Speaker 1: those traveler tablets were the game Changerup you go and
Speaker 1: being really strict with it every time before you eat.
Speaker 2: Did you know? I was so so scarred from when
Speaker 2: I went to Japan that I actually came back from Japan.
Speaker 2: I had some like dodgy meat at a one of
Speaker 2: the restaurants that my host family took me to, and
Speaker 2: I was actually so scarred from whatever I had eaten,
Speaker 2: which is still unidentified to this day. I don't actually
Speaker 2: know what it was, but it was so I knew
Speaker 2: as I was eating and I went, this ain't right,
Speaker 2: and I well, like it was off. I don't know,
Speaker 2: I don't know, I don't know, I just I don't
Speaker 2: know what it was. So like it could have been
Speaker 2: something random like eel or something, but it was like
Speaker 2: the host family were ordering it the restaurant for us,
Speaker 2: and we were just, you know, blah blah. So I
Speaker 2: don't know what I ate, but it's scarred. And I
Speaker 2: was so sick that night. And I'm sure I don't
Speaker 2: think I've spoken about this on the podcast, but I
Speaker 2: actually was going to include this story in my live
Speaker 2: show but it didn't make the cut. And basically, I
Speaker 2: was so sick that night. I got out of bed,
Speaker 2: which in Japan, beds are on the floor or very
Speaker 2: close to the floor, so to get out of bed
Speaker 2: and stand up is quite a lot when you're fear sick.
Speaker 2: So I've stood up, I've got sparkles in my eyes.
Speaker 2: I'm dizzy, and I start walking down the stairs to
Speaker 2: go downstairs to get a glass of water, and I
Speaker 2: slip on the stairs and bounce down the stairs. And
Speaker 2: you know how Japan they have the paper sliding doors. Boom,
Speaker 2: straight through the paper sliding doors, fell into the lounge room.
Speaker 2: My entire host family is watching anime on the TV
Speaker 2: because I had gone to bed early because I wasn't
Speaker 2: feeling well. They're all watching anime on the lounge, the dad,
Speaker 2: the two sons, and the mom. The mom was so
Speaker 2: concerned about me, wanted to take me to hospital. I'm
Speaker 2: sitting there going, how am I going to pay for
Speaker 2: your new bloody paper door love? Like I was just
Speaker 2: I was mortified, and I was like, I just feel
Speaker 2: so sick from like what we ate early. I just
Speaker 2: need like a water and she gave me a water
Speaker 2: on like a little pekari sweat is what it's called.
Speaker 2: Oh they had those in Bali. Papari sweat's good as well.
Speaker 2: I'm to keep you hydrated and not love it. And anyway,
Speaker 2: I went back up to bed and everything was all good,
Speaker 2: but it wasn't all good. I was very sick that night,
Speaker 2: and oh, I just had never felt so gross in
Speaker 2: my life. And so I actually came back from Japan
Speaker 2: and declared myself a politarian for nine years. I was
Speaker 2: a politarian for nine years. That is, a vegetarian who
Speaker 2: still eats chicken like poultry polyitarian. So you know you've
Speaker 2: got pescatarian. They're a vegetarian, but they ate fish. I
Speaker 2: was a politarian, wow, for nine years. So the only
Speaker 2: meat that I ate for nine years was chicken, and
Speaker 2: you would not catch me eating anything else ever, and
Speaker 2: h sometimes I draw the line at fast food cheeseburgers.
Speaker 2: But yeah, for the most part, it was chicken. And
Speaker 2: so my family hated me because it was almost like
Speaker 2: living with a vegan because you had to they had
Speaker 2: to cater all the meals to have chicken only because
Speaker 2: I wouldn't eat any meat. I couldn't think of a
Speaker 2: steak obviously, didn't eat fish anyway. And I loved the
Speaker 2: politarian lifestyle. And the only reason I changed it is
Speaker 2: because then I did keto. That was the time, and
Speaker 2: then you know, you had to eat so much meat
Speaker 2: on keto, and so that's why that's what broke my
Speaker 2: politarian face. And now I eat anything except fish. Nice,
Speaker 2: there's a little fun fact for you.
Speaker 3: Well there you go, everyone.
Speaker 1: Close friends.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I was just going to say best of
Speaker 2: luck in BALLEI can't wait to see how that turns
Speaker 2: out for you. And let's hope the travel lamb or
Speaker 2: whatever you call it, shout out what works out for you.
Speaker 1: Well, I'll see why I get back from Bali anyway, Matt, All.
Speaker 2: Right, sounds good. I am going on do not disturb again.
Speaker 2: See ya