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Speaker 1: Good morning you.
Speaker 2: Elas Scrollers.
Speaker 1: How are you hello? Friends?
Speaker 2: Welcome? I have a question for you, Yeah, because you
Speaker 2: do some random stuff online, but I feel like I
Speaker 2: saw something a little bit more random than usual. Yeah,
Speaker 2: who the fuck? Were you with it outdoor in your
Speaker 2: sporting uniforms?
Speaker 1: The team?
Speaker 2: Who were they?
Speaker 1: The Wallaroos rugby Union.
Speaker 2: I need to know how that came about? How did
Speaker 2: that cross over?
Speaker 1: I loved it. That was just so out of the blue.
Speaker 1: And if you haven't seen it, it's on like my
Speaker 1: Instagram and TikTok. I just did a couple of collab
Speaker 1: videos with the Wallaroo's team the reason, and everyone in
Speaker 1: the comments is like, this is the most unexpected collab
Speaker 1: of the century. But also, and I'll tell you what
Speaker 1: after that, I also had a netball team, like one
Speaker 1: of the famous netball teams in Australia. So I'm in
Speaker 1: my sporting year. Yeah, okay, so how that came about
Speaker 1: is so outdo is mine and AJ's cafe in Newcastle
Speaker 1: next to our fate store. Surely everyone knows that by now,
Speaker 1: But even still people go, wait, you own a cafe.
Speaker 2: Yeah? Well, I mean even reading your book, you didn't
Speaker 2: mention your cafe in your book.
Speaker 1: I do mention it like a bit in the very
Speaker 1: first chapter. Actually, thank you very much. Really, I say,
Speaker 1: like picture this, you own a cafe, blah blah blah
Speaker 1: blah blah. Yeah, but I didn't do like a whole
Speaker 1: segment about it. But anyway, it's our cafe, and our
Speaker 1: cafe is on King Street in Newcastle, next to our
Speaker 1: Fate store, and right next to us is a big
Speaker 1: hotel m h. I don't know what hotel it is,
Speaker 1: the Mature, I can't be sure. Anyway, I got a
Speaker 1: DM on the outdoor account on Instagram from the official
Speaker 1: Wallarous Instagram account and it's like, Hey, the girls have
Speaker 1: been here all week and they've been loving coming to
Speaker 1: your cafe every day for coffees. Would you like, would
Speaker 1: we be able to come in and film? They wanted
Speaker 1: to just film some content of them like trying to
Speaker 1: make coffees and handing them out to customers and stuff,
Speaker 1: and I was like, of course. Now. I didn't know
Speaker 1: if they knew like me or my connection to the cafe,
Speaker 1: but I like screenshotted it and send it to our
Speaker 1: cafe manager Tom and he's like, oh, yeah, those girls
Speaker 1: have been here every day this week because there was
Speaker 1: a big game on the weekend in Newcastle. I think
Speaker 1: their first New Zealand don't quote me on that. And
Speaker 1: he's like, yeah, they've been coming in every week, every
Speaker 1: day they're super nice, and I was like, okay, cool,
Speaker 1: So I just replied to them and just said hey,
Speaker 1: of course like with seven am Friday work, and they're like, yep,
Speaker 1: see you there. But like I didn't know if they
Speaker 1: knew who they were messaging because I didn't sign off
Speaker 1: with my name or anything. Yeah, but then when I
Speaker 1: and then I because we have like one of our
Speaker 1: fate team members who does like content for us, she
Speaker 1: also like does the content for our cafe, just like
Speaker 1: once a week kind of thing. So I wasn't sure
Speaker 1: whether to send her in, but for some reason, I
Speaker 1: was like, oh go, so I went in at seven am,
Speaker 1: and then lucky I did, because like they wanted me
Speaker 1: to be in the videos. So someone in their whole
Speaker 1: team must have known that it was my cafe kind
Speaker 1: of thing and they wanted me to be in the content.
Speaker 1: So then we just had like a random hour at
Speaker 1: seven am on a Friday morning of making some funny
Speaker 1: content and like that one where we did the this
Speaker 1: week a hot new bombshell enters the villa. That was
Speaker 1: their idea, and like they had the jersey for me
Speaker 1: and everything, so they were just super nice. Shout out
Speaker 1: to the wallaroos. It was super random, but it just
Speaker 1: got me thinking because I was joking around to them
Speaker 1: saying like can I join the team? And they were
Speaker 1: like yeah, and I'm like, what did you see the video?
Speaker 1: And I said what does it take to be in
Speaker 1: the team? Where They're like, well, you got a coffee
Speaker 1: shop and I'm like, yeah, what else and they say,
Speaker 1: well you like coffee, So like I'm part of the team.
Speaker 1: But it got me thinking about sport as an adult
Speaker 1: because I've got some I've got some mixed feelings.
Speaker 2: Matt Okay.
Speaker 1: First feeling is I feel like I need to play sports.
Speaker 1: But also at the same time, I look at people
Speaker 1: that play sport as an adult if it's not professionally,
Speaker 1: and I say, grow up. Do you know what I mean? Like,
Speaker 1: unless you are playing sport professionally, Like imagine if AJ
Speaker 1: was still playing soccer like get over a doll even
Speaker 1: in primary school?
Speaker 2: Good?
Speaker 1: You know, But after like meeting the team, I think
Speaker 1: I want to switch careers. Really well, it would just
Speaker 1: be fun.
Speaker 2: I've never been good at any sports. I've never been
Speaker 2: good at any musical instruments. I've never had a dancing
Speaker 2: I was good at dancing dancing is a bit different though,
Speaker 2: if you were still a dancer when you're thirty, isn't
Speaker 2: that Okay?
Speaker 1: Well, I wanted to for the longest time to go
Speaker 1: back to dancing. Yeah, but like not that, not that
Speaker 1: I so like I would. I did zoomba a couple
Speaker 1: of years ago, but just at like a whole like
Speaker 1: with all the oldies.
Speaker 2: And that's to do one called dance fit.
Speaker 1: That's fun.
Speaker 2: It was similar to zumba but not so much Latin.
Speaker 1: That's fun.
Speaker 2: Just do Yeah, absolutely, it's such a good workout as well.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I would love.
Speaker 1: I would love to go back to proper dancing. But
Speaker 1: then I feel like, Okay, I don't think I'm better
Speaker 1: than anyone. I don't think I'm like a famous person
Speaker 1: at all. But I've been hesitant to join a dance
Speaker 1: school because people obviously follow me online and they know
Speaker 1: me from online and fade and TikTok and everything. Like
Speaker 1: sometimes when I'm out and about in public, I can
Speaker 1: see people from a distance taking a photo of me.
Speaker 1: So then I've always thought, would that be weird if
Speaker 1: I just was like, hey, I'm joining this random local
Speaker 1: dance school in Newcastle, and there's like I don't know
Speaker 1: younger girls there or whatever that watch TikTok and they're
Speaker 1: going to be all funny, like like I just want
Speaker 1: to join a dance school and be the same as
Speaker 1: everyone else whereas people go she's from TikTok, like I'm
Speaker 1: going to take a photo with her, and I just
Speaker 1: think that would be weird. Yeah, And then I'm like,
Speaker 1: maybe I could do private lessons.
Speaker 2: Because imagine, you know, like on a different scale, imagine
Speaker 2: you know, you've gone down to do a zoomber class
Speaker 2: and Nicole fucking Kidman's in it would go.
Speaker 1: The oldies at the hall doing zoom but none of
Speaker 1: them knew anything, you know. And again like I don't
Speaker 1: think I'm any famous person. I think I'm no one.
Speaker 1: Like I would go to a dance school and be like, hey,
Speaker 1: I'm here to do the adult tap class. The people
Speaker 1: might just be like what the fuck is she doing?
Speaker 1: You know, especially in Newcastle, like it's.
Speaker 2: Like seeing It's like I feel like when because I
Speaker 2: even went into t K Max not long ago, and
Speaker 2: the girl in there recognized me and she worked there,
Speaker 2: and she started you know, screaming, causing big fuss. Can
Speaker 2: I get a pharaoh blah blahlah. But she kept saying
Speaker 2: to me over and over, I can't believe you're here.
Speaker 2: I can't believe you're here. And I'm thinking in a
Speaker 2: TK fucking Max doing my shopping, like what, well, I
Speaker 2: can't believe you're standing in this shop that I work in.
Speaker 1: And I was like, that's like what I'm in my
Speaker 1: Faith stores, and they go, I can't believe I'm I
Speaker 1: work here. This is the company I owned as over here.
Speaker 1: People have said that before, and I'm about to I'm
Speaker 1: on my book to it right now as this episode's
Speaker 1: going live, and I know people will be like, I
Speaker 1: can't believe I'm meeting you. You can't believe you meet
Speaker 1: me in my own sucking shop. Who of course you are.
Speaker 3: People are funny, It's so funny.
Speaker 1: People are funny. But anyway, but.
Speaker 2: That's the thing I think they like. It's like seeing
Speaker 2: a dog walk on its hind legs. Remember that an
Speaker 2: analogy of seeing a teacher outside of school.
Speaker 1: Yes, it's like when someone's just online, it's weird to
Speaker 1: see you to meet them in person, And maybe when
Speaker 1: people as saying I can't believe you here, like that's
Speaker 1: what they mean. It's just weird because they're and people
Speaker 1: have probably said it to you. People say to me,
Speaker 1: it's so weird to actually see you in person after
Speaker 1: watching you online for five years or however long. Maybe
Speaker 1: that's what they mean. But I really, I really want
Speaker 1: to go back to dancing. But I've been saying that forever,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, what's stopping me? I think it's just
Speaker 1: a fear. Yeah, people saying, what the fuck is she
Speaker 1: doing here?
Speaker 2: Oh well, I did play a little bit of tennis
Speaker 2: for a hot second, and by that I mean literally
Speaker 2: fifteen minutes before Toby moved to Spain. We went and
Speaker 2: just down at local court and because you know in
Speaker 2: the parks, they've just got the free tennis courts you
Speaker 2: can use, and we use the tennis court for a
Speaker 2: little bit and I probably hit the ball about seven times,
Speaker 2: but I was fucking obsessed with that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was fun.
Speaker 2: Tennis is so fun to do this.
Speaker 1: Every day I think about it.
Speaker 2: I couldn't do any of the ones that you've got
Speaker 2: to run again. Maybe I did soccer.
Speaker 1: Maybe four years ago I joined a couple of my
Speaker 1: friend's nighttime netball team at the Forum in the UNI
Speaker 1: in Newcastle. There was two things that pissed me off
Speaker 1: about it. Number One, the game time every week was different,
Speaker 1: so sometimes it'd be like six thirty and other times
Speaker 1: it'd be eight thirty, and like eight thirty on a
Speaker 1: week night, it was like a Tuesday night. That pissed
Speaker 1: me off. The second thing that pissed me off about it,
Speaker 1: I thought I was just signing up for like fun,
Speaker 1: like it's just fun adult netball at night.
Speaker 2: But they were competitives. Oh it was.
Speaker 1: And so I've actually got a funny story about me
Speaker 1: doing netball when I was a kid. But I did
Speaker 1: netball all through primary school and high school, and so
Speaker 1: I just thought, oh, yeah, adult netball fun at night
Speaker 1: at Newcastle UNI. Fun. No these women, and it's like
Speaker 1: women of all ages, Like there was older women, younger girls.
Speaker 1: They took it really fucking serious, like it was too
Speaker 1: serious for me, Like they were shoulder charging getting pissed off.
Speaker 1: I'm just running around trying to catch my breath the
Speaker 1: whole game because I haven't played netball in like over
Speaker 1: ten years. But I couldn't do that anymore. Do you
Speaker 1: actually want to know something funny? So I did netball
Speaker 1: like I started it when I was like five and
Speaker 1: did it through primary school and then in high school
Speaker 1: and then I must have been thirteen or fourteen I
Speaker 1: was playing like at Newcastle Netball because yeah, anyway, I
Speaker 1: don't know why I'm rambling on with that, but there's
Speaker 1: all like the main clubs when you play netball, like
Speaker 1: Wests or South's or whatever. But I realized when I
Speaker 1: was and again I think this is the fucking business
Speaker 1: owner in me mat now that I think about it.
Speaker 1: What I realized was I could make it independent netball
Speaker 1: team and we didn't have to be part of a
Speaker 1: club because you know how like all soccer teams, netball
Speaker 1: teams they're part of the club. I realized. I literally
Speaker 1: didn't even I haven't thought about this, but I made
Speaker 1: my own independent team and then I scouted girls from
Speaker 1: my school to be in our team.
Speaker 2: And wait when was this?
Speaker 1: I would have been fourteen. Oh, and so you just
Speaker 1: sign up like with the like kind of netball courts
Speaker 1: as your own independent team. Then you don't have to
Speaker 1: be part of a club, so you don't have to
Speaker 1: do the training or anything, because like when you play
Speaker 1: I used to play for West, so we'd have to
Speaker 1: go to the courts near West and you have your
Speaker 1: coach and do your training and whatever. So I sign
Speaker 1: us up as our own team. I designed our own
Speaker 1: dresses down to the colors and everything. I named the
Speaker 1: team the Blizzards.
Speaker 2: Wait, how did you just join in? Did you have
Speaker 2: to pay?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Then I think you paid a register in the competition.
Speaker 1: And then I scouted a heap of girls from my
Speaker 1: school in my year and the year below, and they
Speaker 1: had all previously played and there was a couple of
Speaker 1: friends from outside of school too, and they had all
Speaker 1: played like a grade netball, so we're all actually like
Speaker 1: really good netballers. And so then you just would show
Speaker 1: up every weekend like you'd get the schedule, and you
Speaker 1: just got put into the competition, but you're not with
Speaker 1: the club, like you're just a solo independent team. And
Speaker 1: now the great thing about that was we didn't have
Speaker 1: to do training because I used to love playing netball,
Speaker 1: but I hated going to training like on a weeknight
Speaker 1: in the freezing throwing the ball around, fucking running up
Speaker 1: and down.
Speaker 2: Day. And then we play on Saturday.
Speaker 1: So I think the girls and I we met at
Speaker 1: Newcastle netball courts, I think once or twice to try
Speaker 1: to do training, but we didn't have a coach or anything.
Speaker 1: It was just us fucking around and then we gave
Speaker 1: up on it and we were just all about the
Speaker 1: Saturday games. Like just loved going to netball on a Saturday,
Speaker 1: like one o'clock or whatever. And I think in Newcastle
Speaker 1: this is so niche. But like West and South, like
Speaker 1: South's Merriweather were always the best teams, like they were
Speaker 1: always the ones that won the Grand Final. We fucking
Speaker 1: won the Grand Final and we won against South's Merriweather.
Speaker 1: And these girls are really good. They had a really
Speaker 1: strict coach, like an older woman. And I remember on
Speaker 1: Grand Final day like I can't couldn't believe that we
Speaker 1: got to the Grand Final because we never trained, like
Speaker 1: we just showed up. We just showed up. And Grand
Speaker 1: Final Day we all rock up with our bacon and
Speaker 1: egg rolls and we're just like that's what it was
Speaker 1: all about for me, Like the canteen had our bacon
Speaker 1: and egg rolls, our bags and lollies, our chips. It's
Speaker 1: Grand Final day. We rock up in our there was blue,
Speaker 1: purple and white. The dresses that were how.
Speaker 2: Did you get the dresses? Did someone else make them?
Speaker 2: Or are they just soup prey.
Speaker 1: It's they're like the proper dress with the skirt. I
Speaker 1: went to the Newcastle Netball shop and you could like
Speaker 1: have them like up lock it up for you and
Speaker 1: make it.
Speaker 2: So really that was the That was the bizarre.
Speaker 1: It was blue, purple and white. I remember picking out
Speaker 1: all the colors and where it was going to go
Speaker 1: and then we had the name on the side. And
Speaker 1: so we show up on Grand Final day and the
Speaker 1: South's team that we were versing, they'd already been there
Speaker 1: definitely for like an hour warming up, like and the
Speaker 1: coach is yelling on them at bacon and egg rolls
Speaker 1: like hey girls, and we were kind of friends with
Speaker 1: some of them, like on the opposing team, and then
Speaker 1: we flogged them wow, Like I think we won by
Speaker 1: like twenty wow. And it was just hilarious because that
Speaker 1: was just us being super lazy, wanting to play netball
Speaker 1: but hated having a coach and hated doing training. We
Speaker 1: just want to show up for the canteen.
Speaker 2: Like. So my question is if you can do it
Speaker 2: independently like that, I wonder what the point of having
Speaker 2: the club is because my whole thing is, like I
Speaker 2: thought the club might have paid for certain things or no,
Speaker 2: you still.
Speaker 1: Pay for everything when you're with the club. I think
Speaker 1: it's like the convenience and also like saying that you
Speaker 1: play for the club like I used to play for
Speaker 1: Wests and then you're in the West's uniform. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: have the coach like we usually had, like a guy coach,
Speaker 1: someone's dad or whatever, and you pay to be part
Speaker 1: of the community. Right Whereas we didn't want to do
Speaker 1: any of that. We just wanted to get bags and
Speaker 1: we just did it the one year and that was it.
Speaker 1: What a good memory. Honestly, I'd do it again. Does
Speaker 1: anyone listening if you're a Newcastle.
Speaker 2: Well I was going to say you need to, like
Speaker 2: you could do it, but I was just thinking all
Speaker 2: your friends have kids.
Speaker 1: True, but maybe we've got some scroll that you can
Speaker 1: have kids and play netball.
Speaker 2: I know, but it's hard on a weeknight at eight
Speaker 2: thirty to do your netball.
Speaker 1: No, well, this is Saturday netball. This is like the proper,
Speaker 1: like the proper netball. So if anyone out there listening
Speaker 1: is from Newcastle, I would do it because like one
Speaker 1: o'clock on a Saturday, two o'clock perfect, just for an
Speaker 1: hour fuck the training, fuck the coach. Just show up,
Speaker 1: get a bacon and egg roll, get a bag of snakes.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm all about, and then get like a
Speaker 1: fat can of coke.
Speaker 2: After that big packet of red frogs.
Speaker 1: And I think when you register, this is just another
Speaker 1: memory that popped up. Any club or independent team that
Speaker 1: registers with netball, I think two times in a season
Speaker 1: you have to work in the canteen, because you know how,
Speaker 1: the canteens are run by volunteers as well. But somehow
Speaker 1: we got out of it both times.
Speaker 2: But I think because yeah, see that doesn't make sense.
Speaker 2: The independent doesn't make sense to me. I'm pretty sure
Speaker 2: like you, I'm pretty sure it's the club that runs it.
Speaker 1: No, then I remember us saying when we signed up,
Speaker 1: two of us at some point have to do the
Speaker 1: canteen one day kind of thing. But we somehow got
Speaker 1: out of that as well. It was perfect anyway. I
Speaker 1: don't know if independent teams are still a thing. So
Speaker 1: anyone got kids out there who play netball these days?
Speaker 1: I don't know, let me know, But that was an
Speaker 1: entrepreneurial thing I did back when I was fourteen and
Speaker 1: the Blizzards were fate I just didn't know it.
Speaker 2: Please be upstanding for the royal flush. Well, it's time
Speaker 2: for our royal flush of the week. Mine's a nice,
Speaker 2: quick little one. But it's one of those moments that
Speaker 2: it happened over the weekend. So over the weekend on Saturday,
Speaker 2: I decided it was just a bit of a rot
Speaker 2: day for me. I love rotting.
Speaker 1: See I love it too, but I get so guilty mat.
Speaker 2: Get over that. I can't now get a grip.
Speaker 1: Girl, No, but even down to like, so Sunday was
Speaker 1: my rot day?
Speaker 2: Uh huh.
Speaker 1: But I lay in bed and I'm scrolling and then
Speaker 1: I think of, like all the clothes that I could wash,
Speaker 1: or I think of my wardrobe and how I could
Speaker 1: sort it out. So then I get up for a
Speaker 1: bit and do a little bit. Then I go back
Speaker 1: to the rock. I feel so guilty knowing all the
Speaker 1: things that I could be doing.
Speaker 2: See, I'm like, you do that the day after the
Speaker 2: rot or the day before the rot. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 2: so the clothes and everything that needs to get done
Speaker 2: on Sunday if I'm going to rot on Saturday.
Speaker 1: But there's just to me, there's always more that we
Speaker 1: can do, and I can't mentally get over that.
Speaker 2: Well, go to therapy, because I honestly could not disagree.
Speaker 2: More like, I'm like, switching off is the healthiest thing
Speaker 2: you can do for it.
Speaker 1: I agree, But I got something wrong with me because
Speaker 1: I just lay in bed like to have a day,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, I can't because I can't stop thinking
Speaker 1: of all things that I could be doing instead, I
Speaker 1: still do a rot all.
Speaker 2: I wish I had that attitude, but I'm glad I
Speaker 2: don't because I love a rot. I love rarati in
Speaker 2: bed like a fucking apple core, Like right, I want
Speaker 2: to go muldy at this point. Honestly, I had my
Speaker 2: rotting on Saturday and I was obviously scrolling on the
Speaker 2: tiktoks and I came across this video and I was
Speaker 2: laying in bed and it was raining outside.
Speaker 1: Of perfect I feel less guilty if it's raining outside
Speaker 1: and I don't know why, because there's still shit to do.
Speaker 2: Well, that's what this TikTok was. It said, when you're
Speaker 2: rotting in bed on a Saturday and it decides to rain,
Speaker 2: and you could hear the rain in the background. The
Speaker 2: sound was something like, oh no, that's right, And I
Speaker 2: was like, that is so mean right now, And it's
Speaker 2: such a royal flush for me because I'm like, it's
Speaker 2: honestly so relatable, like when you have a day to
Speaker 2: rot in bed on a Saturday, for example, and you're
Speaker 2: laying in bed and then you hear the rain come
Speaker 2: and you're go, fuck, yeah, the blinds are class you're
Speaker 2: in the darkness. Oh my god, it was just heavens.
Speaker 2: That's my royal flush of the week, was that moment
Speaker 2: of pure blue.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what I'm loving lately. I feel like
Speaker 1: I've been loving it for a while. Actually having Friday night.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's different for you because you don't like
Speaker 1: work a traditional Monday to Friday job, but I do,
Speaker 1: so like my weekend is very much my weekend kind
Speaker 1: of thing. But for those of you that do work
Speaker 1: full time and have your weekends off doing your thing,
Speaker 1: like having your night out on a Friday night, so
Speaker 1: you've got the rest of the weekend to enjoy. Because
Speaker 1: I feel like when I have an event on a
Speaker 1: Saturday night, let's say it's someone's birthday, engagement or whatever,
Speaker 1: I feel like that takes up my entire weekend, Like
Speaker 1: there's my whole weekend gone for sure, because like the Saturday,
Speaker 1: you're like getting ready for it. You don't do anything
Speaker 1: on the Friday night because you've got something on the
Speaker 1: Saturday night. So like, for example, it was AJ's brother's birthday,
Speaker 1: so we're like going to his birthday on a Saturday night.
Speaker 1: So like we didn't do anything on the Friday night
Speaker 1: because we've got the birthday on the Saturday night. And
Speaker 1: then I didn't really do anything on the Saturday because
Speaker 1: I've got and because it was starting at like two pm,
Speaker 1: so I didn't do anything. And then if you have
Speaker 1: a really big night, then like you wake up on Sunday. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And so I'm all for having Friday night be the
Speaker 1: big night of the weekend for those people that have
Speaker 1: like a traditional weekend.
Speaker 2: I mean, Friday for a lot of people is the
Speaker 2: new is the new Saturday because a lot of people
Speaker 2: work from home on a Friday, so their Thursday night
Speaker 2: is actually their Friday night.
Speaker 1: Why because they just hungover at home?
Speaker 2: No, but I mean Friday, you know, speaking of if
Speaker 2: you have something on Saturday night, you don't do anything
Speaker 2: all Saturday. I feel Friday night could be the same
Speaker 2: these days because a lot of people work from home
Speaker 2: on Fridays. So what I'm saying is Friday, you're not
Speaker 2: really doing anything until the Friday night anyway.
Speaker 1: Exactly, And so I'm all for it, Like date night
Speaker 1: on Friday night, have a party on a Friday night,
Speaker 1: because then you've got all day Saturday, all Saturday night,
Speaker 1: and all Sunday to enjoy and relax on the weekend.
Speaker 1: So I'm here for it. Another thing that I would
Speaker 1: like to do, which I feel like we've spoken about
Speaker 1: on the pod before, is like doing more things on weeknights.
Speaker 1: And again it's because I work a traditional like Monday
Speaker 1: to Friday life. Weeknights, I don't do anything because I've
Speaker 1: got work the next day. But I want to try
Speaker 1: and venture out of the house on weeknights.
Speaker 2: Yeah, have date nights throughout the week as well.
Speaker 1: I need to try it. I've never tried it, really.
Speaker 2: No. We love a Tuesday date night. Fuck, it's quiet,
Speaker 2: you get the waitresses full attention, everything's perfect because they're
Speaker 2: cooking everything fresh. Oh, I love a Tuesday night date night. Monday,
Speaker 2: everyone's still in weekend mode. Yeah, so the brain farts
Speaker 2: on a Monday. Tuesday's a good night.
Speaker 1: I reckon Thursday as well, because it's like close to
Speaker 1: the weekend, so it's almost like you're mentally starting the weekend.
Speaker 2: I always have a theory that Thursday traffic's always fucked.
Speaker 2: I don't know why traffic on a Thursday. I think
Speaker 2: it's too close to the weekend. People's brains are starting
Speaker 2: to switch Roe.
Speaker 1: I live in Newcastle. There's no traffic. People that live
Speaker 1: there would disagree. Actually, there is traffic in certain parts
Speaker 1: of NEWI, but where I live everything's five minutes away.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, fair enough. I think Thursdays, I don't know
Speaker 2: what it is, but the traffic's always cooked. Maybe it's
Speaker 2: late night trade, yeah, people leaving at different times. I
Speaker 2: don't know. But yeah, so what was that your royal
Speaker 2: flush or you haven't told you?
Speaker 1: That could be my mini royal flush. Do something on
Speaker 1: a weeknight because we just get home from work, lay
Speaker 1: on the lounge, cook dinner, eat dinner. If you're mean,
Speaker 1: you don't cook dinner, you order it and then you
Speaker 1: go to bed.
Speaker 2: Anyway, Really, you never cooked dinner?
Speaker 1: Really? What? Yeah, we've had this conversation before us still though, Yeah,
Speaker 1: what you think I've changed in six months?
Speaker 2: Oh my god? Well, yeah, that's a real long time
Speaker 2: to get your shit together. You just order every.
Speaker 1: Night, not every night, I would say maybe four nights. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but that used to be my life and I'm busy, mate,
Speaker 1: come on.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess so yeah, still, what do you get?
Speaker 2: Take me through a week?
Speaker 1: Like? It's just different every night? Tie? Indian? Yeah, Chinese?
Speaker 2: Yeah. Do you do you do the groceries?
Speaker 1: Mm hmm yeah maybe once a month.
Speaker 2: I am moving in.
Speaker 1: Once a month. But I do like a massive shop
Speaker 1: and like I freeze stuff, you know, but I don't
Speaker 1: do groceries every week now. Nice, and because like especially lately,
Speaker 1: I'm away like most weeks for like two nights, or
Speaker 1: I'm away for a week like with work.
Speaker 2: So it's been annoying me lately. I've been all over
Speaker 2: the shop and I keep buying.
Speaker 1: And then it all goes out and then I don't.
Speaker 2: Fucking do it. Yeah. I feel like food deliveries gotten
Speaker 2: so expensive. It used to be pretty reasonable and now
Speaker 2: I'm like a basic meal for one person can be
Speaker 2: almost one hundred dollars. What's going on?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a lot.
Speaker 2: Anyway. What's your Royal flush of the week? Please?
Speaker 1: Well, my Royal flush is actually music related and it's
Speaker 1: an artist that I think is and I think the
Speaker 1: whole world thinks this too. I think it's an artist
Speaker 1: that is very underrated and she doesn't get the recognition
Speaker 1: that she deserves. That's not to say she hasn't had
Speaker 1: like she's had some absolute bangers, but I just feel
Speaker 1: like she is like pop star, top tier quality and
Speaker 1: she just doesn't get the praise that she should or
Speaker 1: the hype that she should. She should be up there with.
Speaker 2: And I guess, yeah, she should be up there with who.
Speaker 1: Like with the stars that are on the rise. Now,
Speaker 1: you're Tate McCrae, Addison Ray, even Sabrina Carpenter level.
Speaker 2: Right, I can have three guesses. Okay, is Apha Max No?
Speaker 2: The second is bb Rex so no.
Speaker 1: But she should get more recognition. Absolutely.
Speaker 2: Oh I need more clues than for blonde hair. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's two of the people.
Speaker 1: She's had bangers too, Like we know her hits, but
Speaker 1: she always has a hit and then it just like
Speaker 1: she goes into the quiet.
Speaker 2: Hmmm. I don't want to say Ellie Guilding. No, Right,
Speaker 2: I need another clue, give me another clue.
Speaker 1: I don't really know that much about her. Oh, she
Speaker 1: has three million followers on TikTok.
Speaker 2: Hmm, I n followed Jojo Seewhill.
Speaker 1: By the way, the other day you ue followed her.
Speaker 2: Yeah, face just thinking because you said blonde TikTok. She
Speaker 2: came to mind.
Speaker 1: Okay, do you want me to tell you who it is?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Go on, it's Zara Larson.
Speaker 2: Oh. I couldn't even name one song from her.
Speaker 1: I just want to be part of Fanny.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, that my day.
Speaker 1: As if it was less like she had done so
Speaker 1: many songs that we know, I would lack to get
Speaker 1: to know you, baby.
Speaker 2: I don't know if she could. I mean, anything is
Speaker 2: possible after Charlie XCX. I mean people forget that she's
Speaker 2: been going at it forever. People, I think, did you
Speaker 2: when she started singing?
Speaker 1: I don't care. I didn't know that was her song. No,
Speaker 1: I just see that as like a Carl's add or
Speaker 1: whatever it is KFC. But I had no idea that
Speaker 1: was Charlie X.
Speaker 2: Everyone forgets about Fancy as well. I'm so fancy.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, is that her?
Speaker 2: Here you go?
Speaker 1: Well, I feel like the Zara Larson is the same.
Speaker 1: She has had so many bangers and has been going
Speaker 1: for so long, and like she'll have a song pop
Speaker 1: up and then it just like falls down, not falls down,
Speaker 1: but you know what I mean. Anyway, she's got a
Speaker 1: new song. Is it called messy or ugly? Okay, it's
Speaker 1: called pretty ugly? Was it it was called pretty or ugly?
Speaker 1: It's called pretty ugly. It's amazing, Like she's amazing. It's singing,
Speaker 1: dancing on stage, She's amazing. I'm surprised she hasn't like
Speaker 1: had her moment yet where then she's playing at Coachella.
Speaker 2: We haven't had a song of the summer yet.
Speaker 1: I think this is it because she's just you need
Speaker 1: to go and listen to the whole thing and watch
Speaker 1: the music.
Speaker 2: Very girly, though some of the summer needs to appeal
Speaker 2: to the masses.
Speaker 1: True, maybe it isn't her song of the summer, but
Speaker 1: she's just like I follow her on TikTok and she
Speaker 1: just she's also so funny, Like she's got a really
Speaker 1: strong personal brand and like isn't afraid to be her
Speaker 1: self on social media and post tiktoks all the time,
Speaker 1: which I feel like some celebrities are missing.
Speaker 2: Wasn't there some sort of controversy with Zara Larson and
Speaker 2: that's what stunted her growth.
Speaker 1: Anyway, didn't she not that I'm aware of?
Speaker 2: Didn't she come for somebody?
Speaker 1: Zara Larson controversy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just type that in she tweeted something to someone.
Speaker 1: Zara Larson is embroiled in a feud with an influencer
Speaker 1: who falsely claimed he was using a homophobic slur, later
Speaker 1: saying it was satire. Zara Larson called out a TikToker
Speaker 1: who accused her of saying a homophobic slur on stage.
Speaker 1: The singer described herself as an ally and said that
Speaker 1: the accusations were clearly a joke.
Speaker 2: I don't know, no, let me go google girl. It
Speaker 2: was it was to James Charles?
Speaker 1: Was it?
Speaker 2: It was to James Charles? She tweeted something about James
Speaker 2: Charles and it was in that big drama. Maybe it
Speaker 2: wasn't Zara.
Speaker 1: Larson though, maybe it was someone else. Oh yep. Zara
Speaker 1: Larson apologizes to James Charles after accusing him of flirting
Speaker 1: with her boyfriend. Yeah, singer Zara Larson, this.
Speaker 2: Is when the drama geddon happened with Tarti West.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because there's a photo of Tati here and uh,
Speaker 1: I wasn't Across all.
Speaker 2: Of this, Zarah Larson has made amends with James Charles
Speaker 2: after accusing the YouTuber of direct miss her boyfriend to
Speaker 2: flirt as allegations of his predatory behavior came to light
Speaker 2: on the Internet, then in James Charles. In James Charles's
Speaker 2: response by a sister or whatever, he called that, remember
Speaker 2: that big video which I still fucking watch once a year,
Speaker 2: And I go back and I.
Speaker 1: Go, wow, I didn't get into any of this. I
Speaker 1: remember just seeing little clips of it, but I never
Speaker 1: knew the whole thing.
Speaker 2: I mean, say what you want about James Charles, whatever
Speaker 2: that video was, it's what.
Speaker 1: Did he do was he got snapping back at touch.
Speaker 2: He just came out with all the receipts to prove
Speaker 2: everyone wrong and left nothing on the table. And I went, whoa,
Speaker 2: Like that's how you clear your fucking name because that
Speaker 2: was wild. Like I was like whoa, And yeah, Zarah
Speaker 2: Lasting came out and said, like cackling because he hit
Speaker 2: up my boyfriend in the DM several time times, knowing
Speaker 2: damn well he's straight. But then James came out with
Speaker 2: a proof to be like, this isn't exactly what happened,
Speaker 2: and then she apologized in the end to James did
Speaker 2: a tweet saying, I always try to best, always try
Speaker 2: my best to learn and apologize if I'm wrong. I'm
Speaker 2: sorry James Charles for getting involved before I actually knew
Speaker 2: the truth and for the anxiety you must have felt
Speaker 2: about everything. I'm pretty sure Zarah Larson as well is,
Speaker 2: like you know, quite has quite a culty fan base
Speaker 2: and online, especially on Twitter, at least back in the day.
Speaker 2: I don't know what it's like now that it's x
Speaker 2: but you know, back in the day, I feel like
Speaker 2: she had like a cult kind of following. Anyway, I
Speaker 2: can't find much more at the moment about exactly what
Speaker 2: James said in that video, but I can't be bothered
Speaker 2: going and finding it anyway.
Speaker 1: But yeah, maybe that's why.
Speaker 2: Well, I remember that being a really big thing and
Speaker 2: people being like, that's not good enough that you did that,
Speaker 2: because obviously then it just added fuel to the fire.
Speaker 2: And I mean, I know James Charles is quite problematic
Speaker 2: and has done a lot of things, but at that
Speaker 2: time I think he was getting a lot of unnecessary
Speaker 2: hate and coppying a lot unnecessarily. She added fuel to
Speaker 2: the fire, right and people weren't happy about that.
Speaker 1: But anyway, well, anyway, I like the new song, and
Speaker 1: I think she's a great It's a great singer and dancer,
Speaker 1: and you just need to go watch the music video.
Speaker 1: And I didn't know that she was involved in any
Speaker 1: past drama because I fucking can't keep up. Well, something
Speaker 1: I've been loving on TikTok in the recent weeks, Matt is.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's just these two creators or
Speaker 1: if like it's a trend and everyone's doing it, but
Speaker 1: I've favorited one of their videos. It's things that we're
Speaker 1: happy we never have to do again, or just things
Speaker 1: that we're happy to never do in general.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, things we've.
Speaker 1: Just never done that we are so glad we never.
Speaker 2: Have to do it. And you mean like mundane sort
Speaker 2: of things. That isn't like the anti buckelist we did.
Speaker 2: This is just like more.
Speaker 1: Yeah, random little things. Okay, so let's listen to these two.
Speaker 1: This is so well. Girls on TikTok.
Speaker 4: Were happy we never have to do again. That I
Speaker 4: never have to use a frat house bathroom ever again.
Speaker 4: So happy I never have to take the sat ever again.
Speaker 4: Preach I never have to call my friend's parents and
Speaker 4: ask if they're home.
Speaker 1: Ever again.
Speaker 4: Never have to post my prom dress for approval and
Speaker 4: a Facebook group filled with teenage girls.
Speaker 1: We never did that.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, is that a thing where they go,
Speaker 2: this is my dress, no one else.
Speaker 1: That's kind of smart so that people don't shot wearing
Speaker 1: the same thing. What's something that you're glad you never
Speaker 1: have to do again? Ah?
Speaker 2: Take my learner driver's test, like or sorry, no, the
Speaker 2: one to get your peas.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like the physical driving driving.
Speaker 2: To get your pee plates, your p license.
Speaker 1: Did you do yours in an order? A manual order, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm manual.
Speaker 2: So stressful, like just so stressful. I remember it being
Speaker 2: so scary.
Speaker 1: I remember my Nan and Pop as a present when
Speaker 1: I got my l's they purchased me some driving lessons
Speaker 1: with the NRMA, because you know, he can go to
Speaker 1: driving school or whatever. So Nan and Pop purchased me
Speaker 1: however many and I had this really nice, old lovely
Speaker 1: man that was my teacher every time, and like obviously
Speaker 1: I was learning with Chaz but also with the driving school.
Speaker 1: And so that morning of my test, he took me
Speaker 1: for like a one last drive and then I did
Speaker 1: the test in like his car that I've been learning in,
Speaker 1: and I got him straight away, same slay. Did you
Speaker 1: have to do a three point turn or a reverse park?
Speaker 2: I think I was three point turn?
Speaker 1: Oh lucky, Yeah I did reverse park.
Speaker 2: Be sure you don't do by.
Speaker 1: Not you only do one or the other? Or back
Speaker 1: then you only did one or the other.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't remember, but I think it might have
Speaker 2: been a three point turn.
Speaker 1: I'm also glad that I never have to do.
Speaker 2: That good at reverse parking though, always have been.
Speaker 1: What without a reversing camera, Yeah for sure. Shit, see
Speaker 1: I feel like I've become so dependent on the reversing camera.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, now it would be probably a different story. No,
Speaker 2: but I still remember you up to the window, back
Speaker 2: a meter, turn your wheel completely in. Yeah, put yourself in.
Speaker 2: They're done.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what's always hard, though, reverse parking when
Speaker 1: you're on the right, you know, when you do it
Speaker 1: like you used to going left, and then when the
Speaker 1: weird times that you park on the right.
Speaker 2: Yeah. What are some things that you are glad you
Speaker 2: never have to do again?
Speaker 1: I am glad that I never have to line up
Speaker 1: outside a nightclub again. I couldn't think of anything fucking worse.
Speaker 1: And I can't believe I used to voluntarily do that.
Speaker 2: Hey, you'd stand there for half an hour in the.
Speaker 1: Freezing cold in winter with my Jeffrey Campbell wedges in
Speaker 1: a mini slipskirt from soup prey. Yeah, I'm glad. I'm
Speaker 1: so glad that I never have to go clubbing again.
Speaker 1: Well I probably will, to be honest, but just like
Speaker 1: lining up voluntarily outside a nightclub.
Speaker 2: I am glad I never have to go on school camp.
Speaker 2: Oh really, because although school camp was fun, I don't
Speaker 2: think it was worth the shivering. Remember getting up at
Speaker 2: six am?
Speaker 1: I can't remember. Yes, I was at one waking the
Speaker 1: kids up.
Speaker 2: And then that just the food was having to just
Speaker 2: do team building exercises with people you never would have
Speaker 2: even spoken to at school.
Speaker 1: Remember when you have to do an activity and you'd
Speaker 1: all hold hands in a circle whatever, with the point
Speaker 1: that you didn't want to hold his so mean.
Speaker 2: I am glad I never have to do a test
Speaker 2: again like hs C VIS.
Speaker 1: Yeah me too, I used to get so stressed about that.
Speaker 1: I'm also glad that I don't have to have homework
Speaker 1: ever again. But in saying that, like is starting a
Speaker 1: business and working at home just doing homework constantly for.
Speaker 2: The rest of your life. Yes, I'm glad I never
Speaker 2: have to sit in a school assembly and have my
Speaker 2: feet go numb and get pins and needles in me
Speaker 2: legs from sitting on the ground with my legs crossed
Speaker 2: and having to listen.
Speaker 3: To all the fucking bullshit that goes on the assembly.
Speaker 3: He welcome to the assembly. This is everything. Year sevens
Speaker 3: are doing a cake stool next Tuesday. Bring a gold
Speaker 3: coin donation for your Mufty day next Frida, Like, just
Speaker 3: fucking do they still do school assemblies or surely everyone's
Speaker 3: just getting a text these days. Surely just send out
Speaker 3: a text, you know, just sit there for forty minutes.
Speaker 1: And when you ever sit on the grass and it
Speaker 1: was wet.
Speaker 2: And remember the the principal would always do a speech
Speaker 2: as well at the start and recap the week before
Speaker 2: and all the things.
Speaker 1: It's a quick whip.
Speaker 3: It's quick.
Speaker 2: It's kind of what's the word, not dystopian when you
Speaker 2: think about it, but it's kind of it. Very school
Speaker 2: assemblies give dictatorship now that I think about it, don't they,
Speaker 2: you know? Because I remember my school principle in like
Speaker 2: year eleven or twelve, E'd stand up there and he'd
Speaker 2: give a speech like his life fucking depended on it,
Speaker 2: you know, like he'd be getting to pay rise if
Speaker 2: this speech did any work. But he tell us about
Speaker 2: when he climbed Mount Everest and all this, and I
Speaker 2: think it was too still some sort of like drive
Speaker 2: into all of us. But it's eight fucking degrees in
Speaker 2: the middle of the winter and I'm sitting on cold
Speaker 2: ashphalt in the quad with my legs cross.
Speaker 1: Our plass on a field. See high school, we would
Speaker 1: do it on the field, and we'dn't just sit there
Speaker 1: pulling the grass out like we're just ruined the grass.
Speaker 1: Then we get yelled at for that.
Speaker 2: Ah. Yeah, school assembly is so strange. And then you'd
Speaker 2: have someone from the SRC representative come up and say something.
Speaker 2: And I almost want to go and experience this school
Speaker 2: assembly just one more time.
Speaker 1: Teachers, can you let us know please in our broadcast channel.
Speaker 1: Do school assemblies still happen the same yeah as they
Speaker 1: did back in the day or is it just a
Speaker 1: little text or a notification in some app now? Because
Speaker 1: they'll tell you what's wild to me. We've spoken about
Speaker 1: it on the pod before the fact that you do
Speaker 1: a school lunch order on the app. Now that's crazy
Speaker 1: to me.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Something else that I'm glad that I never have to
Speaker 1: do again. While we're on the topic, just going and
Speaker 1: chatting with your school careers advisor. Oh yeah, I dreaded that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, or just excursions in general.
Speaker 1: Well, I would go as far as saying I'm glad.
Speaker 1: I mean I probably might at some stage in my life,
Speaker 1: but I'm glad I never have to go on an
Speaker 1: excursion on a bus because I get motion sickness so badly.
Speaker 1: And I was just that kid that was sick the
Speaker 1: whole three hour drive.
Speaker 2: Right, I don't understand why you get motion sickness so badly.
Speaker 1: It's got something to do with the water levels and
Speaker 1: your ears.
Speaker 2: And your eye. Surely you can go to a doctor
Speaker 2: and get some sort of operation for that, because it
Speaker 2: pissed everyone. It pisses everyone off. You know what. Sorry,
Speaker 2: Where where were we and you were getting motion sickness.
Speaker 1: In the Weimo?
Speaker 2: Oh no, there was somewhere else as well. Yeah, it
Speaker 2: was the Waimo that was a self drive.
Speaker 1: There's something else, somewhere else.
Speaker 2: I think there was so somewhere else. Oh, I don't know,
Speaker 2: but yeah, or maybe on the coach Ella coaches. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I don't know. Anyway, there.
Speaker 1: I remember when Aj and I went to Bali one
Speaker 1: time and we caught a boat, like we went going
Speaker 1: on like a surfing trip. So we caught a boat
Speaker 1: out to the middle of the ocean and then the
Speaker 1: boat dropped us, and so we were just sitting on
Speaker 1: our surfboards. I was getting motion sickness on that and
Speaker 1: I couldn't get it to go away because I was
Speaker 1: just in the middle of the ocean like there was
Speaker 1: no land. Worst feeling. Doesn't Sky get it too, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he does, worst feeling. I hate it.
Speaker 2: I just think, grow up. You know, it's motion sickness
Speaker 2: is not a real illness. Okay, You'll just need to
Speaker 2: suck it up and move on.
Speaker 1: It only sucks because I get it on rides, so
Speaker 1: I just can't do rides.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's just pathetic. Grow up anyway? What else?
Speaker 2: Anything else? I can't think, if anything else that, I
Speaker 2: am glad I never have to do again except hand
Speaker 2: in a resume, hand in a physical resume at a shop.
Speaker 2: You know, you'd print out your resume and you go
Speaker 2: down to bay Villeage and you'd go to every shop
Speaker 2: you wanted to work in and you go, hell, I
Speaker 2: just want to hand in a resume, and you just
Speaker 2: knew they were throwing it in.
Speaker 1: The places that you really wanted to work when you
Speaker 1: were younger, and you didn't ever like apply there or
Speaker 1: get a job. Because for me, the two places that
Speaker 1: I wanted to work so badly, first of all was
Speaker 1: Boost Juice because everyone that worked there was so cool
Speaker 1: and they wore the bandanna like I think That's why
Speaker 1: I wanted to work there. And the second place was
Speaker 1: sou Prey.
Speaker 2: Okay, mine was time Zone. I loved time Zone. And
Speaker 2: the other place I really wanted to work was KFC.
Speaker 2: And I put in an application for KC and they
Speaker 2: rejected me almost straight away. So I put another application
Speaker 2: in and they rejected me almost straight away again, and
Speaker 2: I went, this is strange. Then I I applied for
Speaker 2: a different store on the Central Coast, and I was
Speaker 2: just making my way around them all and I was
Speaker 2: applying and I just kept getting rejected all the time.
Speaker 2: And I said to one of my friends who worked
Speaker 2: at case. I said, because at this point I'd been unemployed.
Speaker 2: This was even this was after high school. And I
Speaker 2: had I had a job on the coast, working at
Speaker 2: Perfume Forever, which is still at Tagra. I I went
Speaker 2: to Tugra and Perfume Forever is still there and I
Speaker 2: was working there. But then this was around the time,
Speaker 2: you know, we'd all finished high school and people were
Speaker 2: going to People were leaving the Central Coast at the time,
Speaker 2: so people were going and getting jobs. I mean, everyone
Speaker 2: was kind of still living on the Central Coast, but
Speaker 2: they were getting jobs in Sydney or I had a
Speaker 2: friend going to the Fashion Institute in Sydney. Everyone was
Speaker 2: starting to go to different universities in Sydney and they
Speaker 2: were kind of escaping the bubble of the Central Coast.
Speaker 2: And at the time, I was like, I want to
Speaker 2: do this as well. And I was friends with a
Speaker 2: few people who were getting jobs in a call center
Speaker 2: down there, and I applied with the job and I
Speaker 2: got it, so I was working at Perfume Forever. I
Speaker 2: got the job at the call center. So then mat
Speaker 2: took my days. I just, oh, my fucking god, why
Speaker 2: did I bother doing this? I had it so sweet
Speaker 2: and cushy at Perfume Forever. I was working in the
Speaker 2: Perfume Store Love and Life, and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: I went from that to having to get up at
Speaker 2: four thirty in the morning, catch the train down from
Speaker 2: a Rimba station because I lived at Wholegate at the time,
Speaker 2: nowhere near a fucking train station. Most difficult thing ever,
Speaker 2: Go to a Rima station, wait for the second train
Speaker 2: because the first train was always full. Ah, second train down,
Speaker 2: work all day, nine to five, get back on the train,
Speaker 2: come home. I remember I'd get up at like four
Speaker 2: thirty and I'd get home at like nine thirty, and
Speaker 2: I'd be like why, and I'd you know, at first,
Speaker 2: I was like, this is amazing. I'm all grown up.
Speaker 1: And nine to five.
Speaker 2: I look back and I go nine to five, more
Speaker 2: like forty nine love till nine pm, because that's how
Speaker 2: long it til, including the travel.
Speaker 1: Where have I told the story on this podcast about
Speaker 1: how I had the job, my first like nine to
Speaker 1: five job, but it was selling the pay TV Yes.
Speaker 2: You've told it three times.
Speaker 1: Okay, and where I only worked for commissions, so I
Speaker 1: was doing the same things but only going to Maitland,
Speaker 1: not as far but for commission only.
Speaker 2: So basically I actually had a really bad experience at
Speaker 2: that workplace, and like they were quite homophobic and I
Speaker 2: ended up it was a situation where they kind of
Speaker 2: like drove me out. I actually did a storytelle about
Speaker 2: this on YouTube once upon a time.
Speaker 1: I think I lightly told it in an episode.
Speaker 2: I was accidentally honor. I accidentally heard one of them
Speaker 2: call me a slur and then bring me in to
Speaker 2: basically to fire me. But I quit before they could
Speaker 2: fire me because they were just so homophobic and it
Speaker 2: was quite triggering. Because then it became the Pedestrian Office,
Speaker 2: you know, pedestrian TV journalsy and I did some work
Speaker 2: with them, and I remember going in and I was like, oh,
Speaker 2: this is the same building and it was the same floor.
Speaker 2: And then the girl that I was working with on
Speaker 2: the pedestrian things she sat at my fucking desk that
Speaker 2: I used to sit at, and I was like, oh
Speaker 2: my god, this is so weird. So I don't know
Speaker 2: what happened to the call center, but it obviously wasn't
Speaker 2: there anymore anyway. So because of that, I got I
Speaker 2: was really depressed and also had no money, and I
Speaker 2: was unemployed for I think eleven months, and I was
Speaker 2: trying to get a job everywhere, but there just was
Speaker 2: no jobs going that were suitable for me. And anyway,
Speaker 2: I got to the point where I was supplying at
Speaker 2: all the KFCs, McDonald's and all the rest of that.
Speaker 2: That's when I ended up getting the job at McDonald's.
Speaker 2: But I was applying at KFC and one of my
Speaker 2: friends worked ATKC and she was a manager and she
Speaker 2: was like, I can't hire you at my one. But
Speaker 2: I've told the girl at Mingara, I think it was
Speaker 2: if you apply there, she'll hire you. You just have
Speaker 2: to apply blah blahlah. And I'm like, I just applied
Speaker 2: and it rejected me straight away, and she's like, let
Speaker 2: me look into it for you. So anyway, because because
Speaker 2: she said that her friend at Miingara didn't have the
Speaker 2: like wasn't getting my applications at all, Like the system
Speaker 2: was rejecting me before she even got it in her inbox. Yeah,
Speaker 2: And they figured out that I was answering one of
Speaker 2: the like critical questions wrong about like you know when
Speaker 2: you apply for jobs, and it'd be like what would
Speaker 2: you do in this situation to resolve the conflict? And
Speaker 2: I can't remember what it was, but it has four
Speaker 2: options of what would you do? And one of them
Speaker 2: was like, punch the customer in the face, and the
Speaker 2: other one was like it wrong. The other one was like,
Speaker 2: go to a manager and get this. And my answer
Speaker 2: would always be to resolve the try and resolve the
Speaker 2: issue myself first before involving your manager. Yeah, that's just
Speaker 2: like that wasn't the right answer. It was just go
Speaker 2: and get a manager straight away. Have you ever worked
Speaker 2: in a fast food fucking restaurant and gone to try
Speaker 2: and get your manager. They want to shoot you in
Speaker 2: the face, like no one wants. They don't want to help.
Speaker 2: Just make sure you go and get your manager and
Speaker 2: they will sorted out. Every time I worked in a
Speaker 2: fast food joined and I went out to my manager
Speaker 2: and I was like, hey, sorry, I've got a customer
Speaker 2: on that, and they'd caused this big color balloo about helping,
Speaker 2: but it's like that's what we're meant to do. So
Speaker 2: when I filled out the application for KFC, I said
Speaker 2: I would try and resolve at myself with before bothering
Speaker 2: my manager, and they rejected me straight away because that's
Speaker 2: not what you should have done, and you should have
Speaker 2: just got the manager straight away. But from my experience
Speaker 2: working in retail and fast food. No manager wants to
Speaker 2: be annoyed for no reason if you can sort the
Speaker 2: problem out yourself in the first place.
Speaker 1: I just had a little flashback memory of like when
Speaker 1: I was maybe fourteen or thirteen, or twelve.
Speaker 2: Or eleven or ten or nine or eight.
Speaker 1: We used to prank like all the local macazine, like
Speaker 1: prank call them.
Speaker 2: I never did a prank call.
Speaker 1: I did so many prank calls like that was my thing.
Speaker 2: No, I never did a prank call.
Speaker 1: But I don't think the pranks were ever good. Like
Speaker 1: I think it was like calling and not saying anything.
Speaker 2: I was too scared I'd get in trouble, like they'd
Speaker 2: trace me phone back, yeah, or they call the police,
Speaker 2: or I wouldn't put my phone on do not disturb,
Speaker 2: not to not disturb, no caller idea. Oh yeah, you know,
Speaker 2: and they could trace it back.
Speaker 1: I used to love a prank call on the home phone.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, Oh, how long has it been since you've
Speaker 2: had the same mobile number?
Speaker 1: By the way, I've had the one my whole life.
Speaker 2: Okay, why crazy because I thought I'd had the same
Speaker 2: one my whole life. But I went out for dinner
Speaker 2: with my friends, not long ago, and I haven't seen
Speaker 2: them in a long time. So one of one of
Speaker 2: my friends, so we were like all friends in high school, right,
Speaker 2: the three of us at Berkeley, our campus, and it
Speaker 2: was May, Corey and Sarah. I went out for dinner
Speaker 2: with Sarah not long ago, and she was telling me
Speaker 2: that she works with Corey now, and I was like,
Speaker 2: oh my god, well what's he doing. Let's go and
Speaker 2: see hi blah blah blah blah, because I haven't seen
Speaker 2: him in I want to say, over ten years, right,
Speaker 2: So we went and caught up, and then you know,
Speaker 2: Corey and I were saying, we haven't spoken to one
Speaker 2: another in such a long time. I mean the only
Speaker 2: place I had him because I don't think he does
Speaker 2: social media, but the only place I had him on
Speaker 2: was Snapchat, but I don't use that. So anyway, the
Speaker 2: long story short is he I was like, oh, well
Speaker 2: just text me. You know, we can text each other
Speaker 2: now now that we're back in contact. You've got my number,
Speaker 2: And he pulled up this fucking phone number that he
Speaker 2: had saved for me, and I have never heard that
Speaker 2: number in my entire life. But I swear I've only
Speaker 2: ever had the one mobile number and it's never changed.
Speaker 2: And I was like, then it got me thinking because
Speaker 2: Sarah then checked her phone and said, I've actually got
Speaker 2: like four numbers for you from throughout the years, and
Speaker 2: then she had all these numbers as well.
Speaker 1: I've only had the one since I got my first
Speaker 1: ever phone. And do you want to know how I
Speaker 1: know it was because I signed up with Telstra back
Speaker 1: in the day, Like that's who I got it through.
Speaker 1: And back then I got it for my fourteenth birthday.
Speaker 1: It was my first ever phone, the Nokia twenty one hundred,
Speaker 1: the one that was above the thirty three fifteen with
Speaker 1: like the white slash blue light up screen. And because
Speaker 1: it was obviously so long ago, not all the mobile
Speaker 1: numbers in the world were like taken up as much
Speaker 1: as they are now. So I got to customize my
Speaker 1: mobile number. And if I if I say this on
Speaker 1: the pod, I'm giving away six digits of my phone
Speaker 1: number in order.
Speaker 2: Oh I don't think I will. I don't think you should.
Speaker 1: But then do you know how many like there's two
Speaker 1: numbers missing, It.
Speaker 2: Wouldn't be it wouldn't take them that long to figure.
Speaker 1: It out out of every number combination in the world.
Speaker 2: Well, no, there'd only been ninety nine.
Speaker 1: Oh true, but then they've because.
Speaker 2: If they've got the six, they've got four and then
Speaker 2: the six, and then they just need to figure out
Speaker 2: there's only ninety nine.
Speaker 1: It could be well, okay, i'll tell you on the pod,
Speaker 1: but we can beep it out.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: But I just remember being so excited because back then
Speaker 1: you could choose what your mobile number was, because back
Speaker 1: then we were still using like the letters on the
Speaker 1: keypad kind of thing. My mobile number has a word
Speaker 1: in it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but say the word, but we'll beep it out.
Speaker 1: Okay, beat this out, Hannah. So my mobile number is,
Speaker 1: oh four, I couldn't pick those two. But then it's.
Speaker 2: That is so funny because no one even guessed that
Speaker 2: word no, because like, when has that When have you
Speaker 2: ever said that?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I know, but that's been my number ever since.
Speaker 1: And so back in the day again, Hannah, beat this out,
Speaker 1: when people would ask one my number, Oh my god, yeah.
Speaker 2: That is so fun Yeah. Yeah, my mum got to
Speaker 2: choose hers, and she chose the same number as our
Speaker 2: home phone number. Oh yeah, but obviously you got four
Speaker 2: and we had four to three as our home number.
Speaker 2: So four three three four, so she was like O
Speaker 2: four three four and then the rest of the home
Speaker 2: number home number, No, no, maybe it.
Speaker 1: Was four four nine. I'm trying to remember if I
Speaker 1: remember my home phone number. No, I don't remember my
Speaker 1: oh I do.
Speaker 2: It was really easy, though, I don't know if my
Speaker 2: mum chose that as well. It was really easy.
Speaker 1: Nine. I started in four nine in Newcastle.
Speaker 2: I'll give you an example of what mine was. So
Speaker 2: mine was like but someone would still have it.
Speaker 1: You're doing them kind to.
Speaker 2: Beat this out mine now, mine would be like four
Speaker 2: three three, four five one five one, like really easy, right,
Speaker 2: But they're not the right numbers. But that's like right
Speaker 2: what it would because if I coul told you the
Speaker 2: right numbers, then you don't know me mums. I mean,
Speaker 2: give her a fucking call if if you want to.
Speaker 2: In fact, my mum's a business woman's probably got a
Speaker 2: number all over a social media anyway. Everyone probably bloody
Speaker 2: knows it.
Speaker 1: But I've had the same mobile number since forever and
Speaker 1: it's quite iconic.
Speaker 2: Actually, yeah that is.
Speaker 1: And do you want to know something else iconic, which, again, Hannah,
Speaker 1: you'll have to beep it out, but I'll even show you.
Speaker 1: Matt so I set it up to be that way.
Speaker 1: But maybe Hannah, you can just beat out all that,
Speaker 1: because then people will start guessing. Yeah, oh well, anyway.
Speaker 2: Even if they call you, they'll only call you for
Speaker 2: a couple of days before they get over it.
Speaker 1: They will only call me and ask for a fake discount.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, do you want to give one in this episode?
Speaker 1: Yeah? What should we you pick? It? Done this for
Speaker 1: the longest time? Hey, yeah, Okay, it's been like over
Speaker 1: a year since we did the last secret fake code.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna make it right now, otherwise I will absolutely.
Speaker 2: Forget Okay, do what can make it?
Speaker 1: And when is it going to expire after this episode
Speaker 1: goes out?
Speaker 2: I think we've got to give him at least the week, okay,
Speaker 2: because if you don't listen in the week, then that's
Speaker 2: that's your own thought. So I reckon it'll be midnight
Speaker 2: Tuesday to midnight Tuesday.
Speaker 1: Okay, how much are we going off? Just like a
Speaker 1: little ten ten?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I was going to say twenty, Oh well then yeah,
Speaker 1: twenty go on, okay, twenty Sorry, discount code percentage is
Speaker 1: twenty percent? And what's the code going to be? Matt?
Speaker 1: You pick any word or any numbers.
Speaker 2: Do we throw it right back to our very first episode.
Speaker 1: We'll follow the yellow brick right.
Speaker 2: And make it genus.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, j E A and I.
Speaker 2: Genus Genus Genus twenty or just genus, just Genus, just genus.
Speaker 1: Okay, So I'm doing discount code Genus geneis twenty percent off,
Speaker 1: and I'm just going to set it live now because
Speaker 1: no one's going to guess that, and then it's going
Speaker 1: to end on Tuesday, the twenty seventh of May at
Speaker 1: eleven fifty nine pm. Okay, say it's done. So if
Speaker 1: you've listened all the way to the end of this
Speaker 1: episode of Ye Scrollers Genus, you're welcome. We'll get your
Speaker 1: twenty percent off bay Lovely and.
Speaker 2: That's online only, yes, excluding gift cards.
Speaker 1: Yeah, anyway, mad I think that's another episode done in dust.
Speaker 2: Absolutely and thank god, Joe, I'm starving, are you? Yeah?
Speaker 2: What are we going to order for lunch today?
Speaker 1: Mango lassie?
Speaker 2: Yeah? We better. Thanks for listening to this episode Scrollers.
Speaker 2: We'll catch on Friday for close friends and make sure
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Speaker 2: you go. I'm off to play netball at eight thirty
Speaker 2: on a Tuesday night,