Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome back to the Maths Funny Podcast with
Speaker 1: me Joshua Fox, aka the guy behind the Mass Funny account.
Speaker 1: I'm just going to dive straight into all the drama today,
Speaker 1: and there's been a lot of chat going around that
Speaker 1: Tim has been fired from his job as a teacher
Speaker 1: over his portrayal on the show. But as far as
Speaker 1: I'm told, this isn't true. But I have been told
Speaker 1: that he is out of work at the minute, But
Speaker 1: rather than getting fired or anything that dramatic, I've been
Speaker 1: told that simply his contract as a pe teacher at
Speaker 1: primary school just wasn't renewed. And although he may believe
Speaker 1: this is because of his involvement with Maths, the contract
Speaker 1: wasn't renewed prior to his episode therein on TV, so
Speaker 1: maybe the school were anticipating.
Speaker 2: A backlash yer or a controversy er. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Haven't been able to kind of get hold of Tim
Speaker 1: to back anything up. I confirm it, but the info
Speaker 1: I got was from someone kind of in teaching circles
Speaker 1: where he's from, and they've previously done a placement with him,
Speaker 1: so who knows. What I do know for certain, though,
Speaker 1: is he really has kind of gone to ground after
Speaker 1: deleting his socials and refusing to do any press for
Speaker 1: Channel nine. He's still fully ignoring any attempt at contact
Speaker 1: from the network, which, to be honest, is fair. Also,
Speaker 1: I kind of just want to say, as much as
Speaker 1: my heart breaks for Katie, and as much as he
Speaker 1: could have been so much nicer in how he treated
Speaker 1: her and worded things and responded to her, let's just
Speaker 1: remember that, like a week ago, this guy was just
Speaker 1: a random, unknown bloke going about his business, and now
Speaker 1: he's being called the most hated man in Australia. And
Speaker 1: I'm not defending him because I don't agree with you know,
Speaker 1: how he treated Katie.
Speaker 2: But I suppose I also.
Speaker 1: Don't want to use my voice in the maths community
Speaker 1: to fan those flames of hate. I don't know, Just like,
Speaker 1: imagine the impact it would have on your mental health,
Speaker 1: Like if that was you, and if you're one of
Speaker 1: the viewers that are watching him feel so strongly that
Speaker 1: you feel compelled to send him hate, maybe just stop
Speaker 1: yourself and use the energy to send Katie love instead.
Speaker 2: This time last year, I was actually.
Speaker 1: Involved in an incident with a very famous actor where
Speaker 1: I ended up being the victim of something, and I
Speaker 1: don't want to get into all that and google it
Speaker 1: if you can use. But an incident that lasted literally
Speaker 1: thirty seconds on a Saturday afternoon outside of pub ended
Speaker 1: up being leaked to a newspaper and then it was
Speaker 1: picked up by I'm not joking every publication in the world.
Speaker 1: Like I have close friends who live in nowhere and
Speaker 1: they were like, Josh, you you were just on the
Speaker 1: news here and everything was taken out of context. It
Speaker 1: was sensationalized. Sauces who weren't there were making shit up
Speaker 1: and just steering it further. I literally had news cruise
Speaker 1: chasing me down the street at one point, and I
Speaker 1: received so much hate and threts and anger from fans
Speaker 1: of this person who had no idea of the context
Speaker 1: that I honestly had this moment at one point of thinking,
Speaker 1: this is my life now, and if this is my life,
Speaker 1: what's the point in carry on living? Because like in
Speaker 1: the thick of that fucking media storm, I thought that
Speaker 1: would never end and there was no way out, and
Speaker 1: I was now just.
Speaker 2: This hated figure globally. But like it did.
Speaker 1: Pass and everyone moved on and now I kind of
Speaker 1: laugh about it. I suppose what I'm trying to say
Speaker 1: is I kind of know how Tim will be feeling
Speaker 1: right now, and it's a bizarre situation he's in. And
Speaker 1: again I don't condone how he's treated Katee and the
Speaker 1: things he said, but he's still just a person, so
Speaker 1: let's not forget that. In some happier news, though, for
Speaker 1: those wondering how Katie's dealing with everything, I'm told that
Speaker 1: although she's kind of a bit overwhelmed with everything right now,
Speaker 1: she is appreciating all of the support and the love,
Speaker 1: and he's just taking things day by day. And she's
Speaker 1: also found a friend in Loosing the Light from last
Speaker 1: season who's been helping her navigate this new fame She's
Speaker 1: got on kind of everything that's happening now. Moving on
Speaker 1: to other news today, Elliott and Lauren will indeed be
Speaker 1: returning to the Experiment in two weeks time, but with
Speaker 1: different matches. The experts bring both of them back as intruders,
Speaker 1: but in a bit of a twist, neither of them
Speaker 1: knew the other was also returning, like they thought they
Speaker 1: were the only one asked to come back, and they
Speaker 1: didn't realize until they both arrived at the same dinner
Speaker 1: party with the new hats, and apparently it then got
Speaker 1: very messy. Elliott is matched with Veronica, an actress from Sydney,
Speaker 1: and Lauren's match with Clint, a former pro golfer who
Speaker 1: lives in Tasmania. I would have asked Elliot about this yesterday,
Speaker 1: but I was kind of so unprepared for him actually
Speaker 1: wanting to stay on the phone and talk to me
Speaker 1: that I kind of just blanked out for a bit.
Speaker 2: I'm still kind of surprised of that.
Speaker 1: Yesterday while talking to Elliott, I low key for Oh,
Speaker 1: he isn't actually so bad.
Speaker 2: Like again, I don't agree with.
Speaker 1: Half the shit he said, but he kind of had
Speaker 1: a point with the fact he said he quit because
Speaker 1: he didn't want to string Lauren along just for the
Speaker 1: sake of staying on TV. A few of you have
Speaker 1: also messed me saying you hit a different side to
Speaker 1: him on that call as well. So now I suppose
Speaker 1: we just have to wait and see. Was he being
Speaker 1: real with me and we'll see this new funness side
Speaker 1: of his personality when he returns, or was he just
Speaker 1: faking it to me and we all fell for it.
Speaker 1: Time will tell before we move on. I also need
Speaker 1: to offer my first correction of the series. Yesterday, joined
Speaker 1: that chat with Elliott, I quoted to him that he
Speaker 1: was saying on the show he wanted his missive girl
Speaker 1: who respects the values of old fashioned housewives.
Speaker 2: Wait where did you read that?
Speaker 1: And I said, I read that on his Channel nine bio.
Speaker 1: But I've looked into that again because I was trying
Speaker 1: to find the audio to play in the podcast, and
Speaker 1: it turns out I was reading that from an article
Speaker 1: on Pedestrian where they kind of recapped the first episode,
Speaker 1: and it seems they kind of just made that quote
Speaker 1: up because I can't find it literally anywhere else. And
Speaker 1: this may sound like a stupid correction, but I don't know.
Speaker 1: I just want to be as accurate as I can
Speaker 1: on here rather than like fake news. And Elliott has
Speaker 1: said some dumb shit, But yeah, it turns out he
Speaker 1: never said that submissive thing. And now, in this year's
Speaker 1: most random drama and going back to Lauren, ali over
Speaker 1: at Daily Mail Australia came through with the funniest feud
Speaker 1: of the season. In an article yesterday, he did an
Speaker 1: interview with Lauren's best mate Nicholas, that guy who was
Speaker 1: part of a bridal party and MC at her wedding
Speaker 1: to Elliott and oldmate Nicholas has come out and said
Speaker 1: how after filming the wedding, Lauren then just blocked him
Speaker 1: on every despite them having been made for eighteen years.
Speaker 1: And if you struggling to remember who I'm talking about,
Speaker 1: I'm just going to say he was the gay looking guy.
Speaker 1: And I can say that too because I'm gay, and
Speaker 1: I assume he is going sorely off his eyebrowsing the
Speaker 1: episode anyway. Yet, take a listen to him speaking to the
Speaker 1: Daily Mail last night and.
Speaker 3: You'd think that after eighteen years of friendship, you'd communicate
Speaker 3: with me that there's an issue.
Speaker 2: So I just, I don't know.
Speaker 3: It really shocks me that this experiment has, you know,
Speaker 3: been such a tidal wave of emotions for everybody, And like,
Speaker 3: I didn't sign up for this, so I went to
Speaker 3: support her as a friend. I brought my own business and
Speaker 3: I just find it really shocking that we wouldn't be
Speaker 3: able to have that conversation. And it's been brought to
Speaker 3: my attention that like she's just blocked.
Speaker 1: Me on everything, when literally, when did anyone ask mate?
Speaker 2: And then he just kept going and going and going.
Speaker 3: So many people will say I'm biggest supporter, but she's
Speaker 3: never actually reciprocated that with me. I've helped to move house,
Speaker 3: I have supported her business by buying multiple products continually
Speaker 3: over the years from my business from her, and she's
Speaker 3: never supported me. And she's just sold a house for
Speaker 3: someone else. I'm also in real estate. She didn't give
Speaker 3: me the opportunity. She's never really respected me in that regard,
Speaker 3: and that's it's really hurtful. It's hurtful when I think
Speaker 3: it's like, I don't know if she will come to
Speaker 3: my wedding.
Speaker 1: Daily Mail wrote in the ratical how despite his disappointment,
Speaker 1: Nicholas insists he isn't angry, just hurt and embarrassed by
Speaker 1: how things have unfolded again when but this is why
Speaker 1: I love to circus around in maths like a wedding guest.
Speaker 1: I'd already forgotten after a two minute cameo three days ago.
Speaker 1: Now sitting down doing a full length interview with one
Speaker 1: of the biggest websites in the country, like it's it's
Speaker 1: just ridiculous but also very entertaining, moving on once again.
Speaker 1: I can't believe I'm going to say this now. But
Speaker 1: remember Harrison Boone from a few seasons ago, the one
Speaker 1: everyone kind of hated because he was a massive misogynist
Speaker 1: and toxic masculin anything and all that and people do.
Speaker 2: Still hate him.
Speaker 1: Well, he popped up on my feed last night with
Speaker 1: a surprisingly funny video.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to tell you what it's just kind
Speaker 2: of take a listen.
Speaker 4: I see a lot of posts in the media about
Speaker 4: the new season of Maths, but I'd like to take
Speaker 4: this opportunity to once again make it all about us.
Speaker 4: That's right, the ex Maths participants. What you don't realize
Speaker 4: is we desperately need that attention. Without it, some of
Speaker 4: us would have to contribute to society and maybe even
Speaker 4: get a real.
Speaker 2: Get a real job.
Speaker 4: Please reach out to a previous Maths participant like and
Speaker 4: share one of their posts. For every like you give,
Speaker 4: you could save a life.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 1: Like that is actually and funny, and I don't remember
Speaker 1: him ever being funny. So worldn Harrison, there, you've made
Speaker 1: it onto my podcast. Oh and before I go, I'd
Speaker 1: also like to just thank everyone who supported the podcast
Speaker 1: so far. There's been a couple of shit comments like
Speaker 1: just stick to making memes. What he used to do
Speaker 1: and stuff like that, and they kind of frustrate me
Speaker 1: because I don't know, I feel like I got over
Speaker 1: making memes years ago, and if I stayed just doing
Speaker 1: the memes, then I probably would have deleted my page
Speaker 1: a long time ago. As Maths Funny as grown over
Speaker 1: the years, I like finding new ways to create content
Speaker 1: and have fun and also keep myself kind of motivating
Speaker 1: and wanting to do it because it is just a
Speaker 1: hobby I do in my spare time. And the whole
Speaker 1: reason I started the page six years ago is because
Speaker 1: I just like making dumb shit for people to enjoy.
Speaker 1: And my idea for this podcast was, like I don't know,
Speaker 1: I wanted to almost create like an unofficial spin off
Speaker 1: show to the actual TV show, something where I can
Speaker 1: just have a laugh and keep the drama and banter
Speaker 1: going while answering all of the questions you guys have
Speaker 1: after each episode ends. And I'm not forcing anyone to listen.
Speaker 1: I'm not forcing anyone to keep following that's funny if
Speaker 1: they don't vibe with it anymore. Like I've never cared
Speaker 1: about the amount of followers or any of that clout.
Speaker 1: It just pisces me off when people tell me like
Speaker 1: just do this or just do that, as if my
Speaker 1: page is a public service and they're entitled to tell
Speaker 1: me what to do with my spare time. As I said,
Speaker 1: I like creating content and having fun and doing this pod.
Speaker 1: To me, it's making the page feel exciting again because
Speaker 1: it's it's a whole new world for me, and I'm
Speaker 1: learning as I go, Like even yesterday I was figuring
Speaker 1: out how to record a phone call, which sounds stupid,
Speaker 1: but like, I don't know, I'm just learning new things
Speaker 1: and not to get like SAPPI or vulnerable or whatever.
Speaker 2: But like it.
Speaker 1: Also annoys me when people say that because and this
Speaker 1: is gonna sound dumb, but like you long term followers
Speaker 1: who have followed Matt twenty from the start, or remember.
Speaker 2: The first two years, I never said who I was.
Speaker 1: I was completely anonymous, and that was like partially due
Speaker 1: to a confidence thing because I thought, no one's going
Speaker 1: to care.
Speaker 2: They'll just some follow you if they know it's you
Speaker 2: behind it.
Speaker 1: And then as I kind of slowly start in trying
Speaker 1: new ideas like crashing weddings, which naturally had me in
Speaker 1: the in a bit more than a bit more, and
Speaker 1: I saw that people were enjoying it, I was like, ah, nice,
Speaker 1: Like maybe I am enough and I don't need to
Speaker 1: hide away and all this. So now when people are
Speaker 1: like just go back to doing memes, like, I have
Speaker 1: a moment where it's like, oh.
Speaker 2: Maybe maybe I've always been right and I'm not enough
Speaker 2: for it.
Speaker 1: I'm not good enough, and people just want me to
Speaker 1: go back to hiding in the shadows, like don't.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: This is maybe a chat for me and my therapist,
Speaker 1: but yeah, i'd suppose. I'm just trying to say thank
Speaker 1: you for the people who are giving this podcast a
Speaker 1: chance and supporting, get sharing, get commenting, doing the rating
Speaker 1: thing which apparently helps, like it actually does mean a lot,
Speaker 1: And as I said, I'm very much enjoying doing this
Speaker 1: so far. Anyway, that's so for now, So thank you
Speaker 1: for listening.