Speaker 1: Out of the gate with Maddie McLean, Chris Henry and
Speaker 1: Brad Christensen. No, baby, Hi, back baby, back in the studio. Boys,
Speaker 1: Oh this feels good. We had to say to Brady
Speaker 1: to put his headphones on and do headphones now that
Speaker 1: you're not here, now that you're not down the line
Speaker 1: coming to us, looking on that screen over there, hanging
Speaker 1: out at Don's, leaning back on your bed, telling her
Speaker 1: be quiet, be quiet. Yeah, all fucking up the time
Speaker 1: zones being state side. I hear.
Speaker 2: It was not didn't just impact on us, that impacted
Speaker 2: on on your prints.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was a bit just a fuck up in general.
Speaker 2: Really, So so how does that happen?
Speaker 3: Well, I said I'm flying I leave New York on
Speaker 3: to him, Yeah, which means I thought he would have
Speaker 3: done the maths. But when I had message you boys
Speaker 3: say you and I'm going to be back next week,
Speaker 3: I calculated that I would be back on Tuesday morning,
Speaker 3: not Wednesday.
Speaker 4: Right, So, like math is not my strong point.
Speaker 2: He told me, and I don't want to start a
Speaker 2: relationship drama.
Speaker 3: Well he's away, so you know I've got an I've
Speaker 3: got like six weeks for that.
Speaker 2: He told me that you told him you would be
Speaker 2: back in New Zealand on Monday and not flying out.
Speaker 4: I'm not going to split he is on this or
Speaker 4: Diana hell over it.
Speaker 1: So but I want to know who's who's wrong.
Speaker 3: I'm definitely not wrong, definitely not wrong. And and all
Speaker 3: I've got to say is starting a funk at all.
Speaker 1: It's because you've got the talking stick and he's got
Speaker 1: no right of reply. I can I can feel him
Speaker 1: screaming down his headones.
Speaker 3: The right of reply will be Wednesday afternoon, Wednesday evening
Speaker 3: when we touch base.
Speaker 1: You'll be like you bloody ship. You know you're not
Speaker 1: telling the truth.
Speaker 2: This is the beauty of having a husband who does
Speaker 2: not listen to the podcast.
Speaker 1: Very true, very true. And your favorite one in our
Speaker 1: household is just when we want to see something in
Speaker 1: front of someone, others say we'll talk about this in
Speaker 1: the car.
Speaker 5: I just say, I just say away away to be
Speaker 5: fear you never And I know these couples.
Speaker 2: You never want to be those couples. They air their
Speaker 2: dirty laundry in front of everyone. No, no, no, no no,
Speaker 2: it's so awkward, so awkward.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean to be honest, I think you and
Speaker 1: your travel timings near the end once you'd made a
Speaker 1: couple of mistakes. I think you were just throwing out
Speaker 1: random days. But did you see to us at a
Speaker 1: chat at one point, all right, we're back on Thursday.
Speaker 4: I was like, what's even?
Speaker 3: But I thought Thursday was we were kept going to
Speaker 3: the Lord of the Rings I just had.
Speaker 1: And that was Tuesday. Oh, it was just it was
Speaker 1: anyway if.
Speaker 2: You were maintaining you were right, But there was there
Speaker 2: were a lot of like there were.
Speaker 1: A lot of balls in the air, like you were
Speaker 1: throwing out a lot of ship.
Speaker 4: There's only two things.
Speaker 3: It was like me returning to the podcast state, I'm
Speaker 3: just watch other one.
Speaker 1: I'm just not convinced that you knew which way was up.
Speaker 3: No, I didn't for a little bit, but there but
Speaker 3: I know, I said, I'm leaving the States on Monday,
Speaker 3: and my my, my calculations to get back. I thought
Speaker 3: it was choose like a day, not two days.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean. I mean the international traveler
Speaker 1: gets everyone.
Speaker 3: Was such an international traveler had a great time. So
Speaker 3: we're in Washington, d C. For five days with major events.
Speaker 3: Auckland and we had the ambassador to Washington with us
Speaker 3: as part of our team we're bidding for to host
Speaker 3: the twenty thirty World Gay Game, that Gay Game. Sorry,
Speaker 3: So yeah, we're going through that motion at the moment.
Speaker 3: So there was a lot of gays around.
Speaker 1: In Washington. Yeah. How many other countries bid for the
Speaker 1: Gay Games?
Speaker 4: There were seven in total? Oh yeah, yep.
Speaker 3: So and I won't go into details because it's there's
Speaker 3: some information that's high level and I don't want to
Speaker 3: compromise our position and that that process.
Speaker 1: Can you talk about how it went though from your
Speaker 1: point of view?
Speaker 3: From my point of view, I think we did really
Speaker 3: really well wrong patch.
Speaker 1: I think it was a very strong pitch to have
Speaker 1: a PowerPoint presentation. What do you do? We had a PowerPoint,
Speaker 1: we had an r HP.
Speaker 4: Was I was it was?
Speaker 3: It was really well done, professionally done and just a
Speaker 3: great team to travel with and work with Fantastics So
Speaker 3: fingers and toest Cross for the announcement.
Speaker 4: When will we know?
Speaker 3: We'll find out if we get kind of to the
Speaker 3: next phase in early December.
Speaker 1: So you've gone through what boot camp and now you
Speaker 1: find out you're going.
Speaker 3: To judges houses houses and then show that's exactly the format.
Speaker 2: And then Leona Lewis on the stage with the fireworks
Speaker 2: on the winner.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, but you know, measure recording contracts go on
Speaker 1: some games again. But I mean, if we're successful, you
Speaker 1: know up to you know, maybe between seven and twelve
Speaker 1: thousand gays at in Auckland. So really, I mean you're
Speaker 1: doing the Lord's work on a few different levels. Obviously
Speaker 1: this is great for the cultural enrichment of our country,
Speaker 1: all of that sort of stuff that's going on. But
Speaker 1: you could be responsible for an absolute summer of debauchery
Speaker 1: and great times for the gays of Auckland.
Speaker 4: Oh look they call me Santa Claus. My bags are
Speaker 4: full and I want to deliver. Slipping your sack and
Speaker 4: be like you go.
Speaker 1: You can have the Brazilians, you have the French, that's
Speaker 1: all right.
Speaker 4: Rudolph's noses read and really to.
Speaker 2: Go hopefully not too red. No, you want to get that,
Speaker 2: you want to get that scene. I want to I
Speaker 2: might need to get I mean, if we are successful,
Speaker 2: I might need to get old sexual health news chasy
Speaker 2: McLain to Aukland, just to be on hand.
Speaker 4: Just to give it, give a bit of a prep talk,
Speaker 4: of a pep talk.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe it's so very exciting though, and very cool,
Speaker 1: like I know we take the purse and all that
Speaker 1: sort of stuff, but you do do such amazing mate
Speaker 1: for our community, and for that, I thank you truly.
Speaker 1: What the fuck do I do you? Yeah? Are you
Speaker 1: we're a gay that when a national television show twice
Speaker 1: thank you.
Speaker 2: I've done a lot as exposure the Gay Games, the GGS.
Speaker 2: So the next one's twenty twenty six in valinth Olynthia.
Speaker 1: But Valencia, Valencia, Valencia in Spain.
Speaker 2: So Ryan's began to a swimming at the moment, and
Speaker 2: someone said to him, you should go to the Gay
Speaker 2: Game and compare heat in Spain.
Speaker 1: And then so then we.
Speaker 2: Were like, well we started to look it up, right,
Speaker 2: and he was looking at the times, the times from
Speaker 2: the last Gay Games for the events he might compete in. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and he was like the time I'm setting at the moment,
Speaker 2: I would have won goal. And then we thought, what
Speaker 2: about half marathon because I just ran the half marathon Auckland.
Speaker 1: I would have got I would have silver, I would
Speaker 1: have silvered on the podium.
Speaker 4: Well, it sounds like a team trip.
Speaker 1: Fuck field days are going to the Gay Games in Valencia.
Speaker 1: In the old days, We're going to Spain.
Speaker 3: Boys, get right off, and let's let's think about some
Speaker 3: individual maybe team sport as well. Like, honestly, it's such
Speaker 3: a cool organization and a cool event to your two.
Speaker 2: May I remind you, May I remind you?
Speaker 1: Boys? We had a team ready.
Speaker 2: To play bowls at the Rainbow Games, no, no more
Speaker 2: than five killer meters from our house, and we couldn't
Speaker 2: even do that.
Speaker 4: So that was whose fault was that?
Speaker 1: Though?
Speaker 4: Everywhere everyone we need to take all take responsibility.
Speaker 2: But I think were you were you about to place
Speaker 2: blame solely on one?
Speaker 1: I wasn't sure.
Speaker 4: I wasn't sure how it played that. I couldn't remember.
Speaker 1: I do think went to the Gay Games and ate
Speaker 1: some great saving.
Speaker 2: Everyone puts for some reason, for whatever reason, everyone had
Speaker 2: a reason for having.
Speaker 3: I was I was like preoccupied, busy doing work organizing.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, I will fo this one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, anyway, Valencia twenty twenty six, I mean awesome.
Speaker 1: Look they're going through a hard time.
Speaker 3: They've had, you know, natural disasters pudding this year, but
Speaker 3: they'll read, they'll they'll be ready for twenty.
Speaker 1: Twenty were they're there in there like little sashas really
Speaker 1: like welcome the next wave of homosexuals or was it
Speaker 1: not quite like I was.
Speaker 4: It was a little bit like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's some pomp and ceremony that went on, was
Speaker 3: an upcoming games, so you know, very very cool. And
Speaker 3: then obviously a few five or six days in New
Speaker 3: York City.
Speaker 1: So now going back to the timeline, were you had
Speaker 1: you flown.
Speaker 4: Back just before the election, like the day before the election?
Speaker 3: I actually, so here we go, just to get it,
Speaker 3: just to set the straight. I left the United States
Speaker 3: of America on Monday, the fourth of November. There the
Speaker 3: day the time, the day before the election.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Wow, So I mean it's not really a regional report.
Speaker 1: What's the international report of how are people on the ground?
Speaker 1: Because I know that. I mean I've obviously I come
Speaker 1: from a very privileged perspective, so perhaps my once it's
Speaker 1: whatever it's happened in the world with the election, it's
Speaker 1: terrible and chat. But I've sort of kind of maybe
Speaker 1: selfishly moved myself past that. But what was the feeling
Speaker 1: on the grounds, like did it feel like that was
Speaker 1: what was going to happen?
Speaker 3: I mean, there's not like you know, in New Zealand,
Speaker 3: we've got you hoardings up and Bill boards and all
Speaker 3: that sort of stuff. Was that it happened to be
Speaker 3: in New York when Donald Trump had his rally at
Speaker 3: Medisine Square Garden. Yeah, but that's New York and has
Speaker 3: directly New Yorkians, New Yorkers, New Yorkers New York hate
Speaker 3: Donald Trump, so you know like it, you know, but
Speaker 3: he's still as Donald Trump. But he still wanted, didn't
Speaker 3: he He's still I don't want he didn't want New York. No,
Speaker 3: but yeah, it was I don't know. It just wasn't
Speaker 3: like you'd look on the news and you'd see see
Speaker 3: but some bobs.
Speaker 4: And unfortunately we left Washington.
Speaker 3: D C the day before the Harris the Harris kind
Speaker 3: of rally as well, so that that would have been
Speaker 3: called to get to. But on the ground, even in
Speaker 3: d C, it was very low key, like I didn't
Speaker 3: you know, Uber drivers talked about it, which was awkward
Speaker 3: because I didn't really want to talk about it. But
Speaker 3: you have the sense was an election. I think at
Speaker 3: post election result a few messages come through, some from
Speaker 3: some new acquaintances on the gay games, like how how
Speaker 3: do you move to New Zealand?
Speaker 2: I think that happens every time, doesn't like Google searchers
Speaker 2: for that just skyrocket.
Speaker 4: What about the ultimate out the gating.
Speaker 1: Maybe we could get those people to get in touch
Speaker 1: with us and we could match make them a Kiwi
Speaker 1: husband and then they could move here and they could
Speaker 1: get married, and then that's how it would work. Love
Speaker 1: it love the thought of that. So if you listen,
Speaker 1: because I'm sure you've done some great grassroots pr in
Speaker 1: America about the past so much. Yeah, maybe if you're
Speaker 1: listening and you're a new Gator, maybe you can get
Speaker 1: in touch and then we'll put you in touch with
Speaker 1: sort of about og gators and see if we can,
Speaker 1: I don't know, get a little marriage together. Look if
Speaker 1: nothing else and nudes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like essentually it's the hopeless romantic that I am.
Speaker 2: The idea of matchmaking has always been like high on
Speaker 2: my agenda.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I love the thought of piecing two people, putting two
Speaker 2: people together and then just watching love bloom.
Speaker 1: So I'm here for it. It's called docking. Is it docking?
Speaker 4: I think it's called clucking.
Speaker 1: Clucking.
Speaker 4: That's where you get the chair so you can watch
Speaker 4: the blue happened?
Speaker 1: Did I tell you?
Speaker 2: Ryan suggested that we get rid of the cheer, so
Speaker 2: he's listened. No, no, just reason because we do have
Speaker 2: the cheer famously, and and he was like, it's taking
Speaker 2: up too much space. I think we should just get
Speaker 2: rid of it. And I was like, we cannot.
Speaker 1: We cannot get rid of the cheer. That's where I
Speaker 1: put my laundry.
Speaker 4: Where else would I say?
Speaker 1: That reason? And that reason only the cheer stays.
Speaker 4: I'm pleased. I please at the.
Speaker 1: Podcast is allowed. That cheer to stay makes me feel
Speaker 1: it must.
Speaker 4: The people have spoken.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so God, you've been busy. How are you?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I am also busy. I think it just came down
Speaker 1: to Christmas. But I'm down with it. I'm just I'm
Speaker 1: just rolling with it. We've got some friends and the
Speaker 1: beautiful babies staying at the moment, which is so nice.
Speaker 4: I feel like I'm flatting again.
Speaker 1: Like come home and someone's got dinner, and it's very
Speaker 1: hard not to have a drink during the week. We
Speaker 1: get home and it's sunny.
Speaker 4: Oh go on.
Speaker 1: Summers here, boys, Yeah, which is summers here, which has
Speaker 1: been lovely. So I had a wonderful weekend. It's Matt's
Speaker 1: birthday tomorrow, Happy birthday.
Speaker 4: Birthday.
Speaker 1: Yeah, thirty seven, like tiny, like are we baby?
Speaker 2: Well, hello, no mine thirty three ryans Oh years of course.
Speaker 1: I think you met your own age and I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: I don't know whether we get a gender that's one
Speaker 1: that way.
Speaker 4: Thirty three three.
Speaker 1: So we went and had a little pre celebration because
Speaker 1: it's been a mockey going on this week. So went
Speaker 1: out for a lovely drink and some dinner and it
Speaker 1: was really nice, amazing. Yeah, I mean, how was your week?
Speaker 1: How's your week been good?
Speaker 2: I had a thirtieth on Saturday that I went to,
Speaker 2: which was very fun, the funny story and the lead
Speaker 2: up to the event, though, I was like, I can't
Speaker 2: I can't find any details about this event, like where
Speaker 2: it is or what time it is or anything. And
Speaker 2: then I messaged a friend of mine and I was like,
Speaker 2: where is this party?
Speaker 1: And then he was like have you know not?
Speaker 2: He's like, all the details are on the Facebook event.
Speaker 2: I was like, I can't find the Facebook.
Speaker 1: Event and then he went ahead a look and he
Speaker 1: was like, oh, you're not invited. Now.
Speaker 4: Oh.
Speaker 2: My friend said absolute like mishap, just a you know,
Speaker 2: very innocent mistake.
Speaker 1: But do you still Like? I was like do I am? I?
Speaker 1: Should I be pity here and not turned up to
Speaker 1: the thirtieth. I turned up because I'm desperate.
Speaker 4: Do you make a saying about it?
Speaker 1: When you got this? Reminded him about it.
Speaker 2: I literally walked in commandeered his thirtieth by saying to
Speaker 2: him very loudly, now is it okay that I'm here?
Speaker 1: Am I allowed to be here? A love that I
Speaker 1: would have?
Speaker 2: So the thirtieth was was very fun and then shall
Speaker 2: we just get into my I might as well start
Speaker 2: my contribution to the dark because on Sunday to do it,
Speaker 2: I joined the Armadillos.
Speaker 1: Oh tell us who the Armadillos are.
Speaker 2: Again the gay tennis team social tennis team here in Aucklord, and.
Speaker 1: They are absolutely flourishing. According to the Internet. Anyone who's
Speaker 1: anyone seems to be down there with a red couple
Speaker 1: of balls and a racket in their hands.
Speaker 2: What so I had to send out a desparate message
Speaker 2: in the group chair on Sunday because you know me,
Speaker 2: bold plans, woefully disorganized.
Speaker 1: He puts in the group chair he was I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go to the Armagello's a nice and I had propped
Speaker 1: in the group chat.
Speaker 4: Did you have a tennis record?
Speaker 1: And he's like, yeah, even got a tennis record. So
Speaker 1: two things. One.
Speaker 2: First of all, Bray Christensen came to my aid and
Speaker 2: had a tennis record for me, so thank you very
Speaker 2: much welcome. I turned out to pick it up and
Speaker 2: he was doing his gardening.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, and the slides when the slides haven't come off.
Speaker 1: I see you wearing slides and.
Speaker 3: Socks in between seasons.
Speaker 2: So thank you for the lend of the racket. But
Speaker 2: I did turn up, and this is a little PSA
Speaker 2: for anyone who would.
Speaker 1: Like to potentially give them dollars to go. If you're listening,
Speaker 1: they do have spare rackets there.
Speaker 4: Good to hear.
Speaker 2: I don't know, and I don't think it's an endless supply,
Speaker 2: so don't expect it. But I'm sure if you turn
Speaker 2: up or you didn't have a racket, that'll take care
Speaker 2: of you.
Speaker 1: It'd be fine. Plus the way they do it is,
Speaker 1: first of all.
Speaker 6: It's very long, three hours okay, three hours of tennis
Speaker 6: on a Sunday, but they do it in They you
Speaker 6: have like a little head around just for fun to
Speaker 6: start with, and then they do like a round robin game.
Speaker 2: Sessions, so twenty minutes per game on a bunch of
Speaker 2: different courts. But there's more players than there are spaces
Speaker 2: on the court, right, So you would sit out for
Speaker 2: a couple of games, so there would be someone that
Speaker 2: wasn't playing and.
Speaker 4: Will be able to lend you.
Speaker 2: You know, what I'm saying is if you don't have
Speaker 2: a racket, don't let that like perturb you from turning up.
Speaker 2: So I went, and what I should have reminded myself
Speaker 2: is one famously competitive. Two don't like not being good
Speaker 2: at something immediately. But three me and ball sports not friends.
Speaker 2: I'm not freaking.
Speaker 1: I think homosexual as well. I expect present company includers.
Speaker 1: I think hand eye coordination just not one of the gates.
Speaker 4: Really, is it?
Speaker 1: Not like I don't know you got you? You got
Speaker 1: a hand eye coordination?
Speaker 3: Pretty, I'm pretty good, terrible, I'm pretty good universally.
Speaker 1: I was so bad at my friends got to the
Speaker 1: habit to throw the keys at me so I could
Speaker 1: practice catching, and I got a.
Speaker 4: Bit better keys in the ball missing the ball with
Speaker 4: the key.
Speaker 1: Well, well, so here's what we here's what we know.
Speaker 2: Remember I told you the story about when I start
Speaker 2: played tried playing rugby when I was younger, and Mum
Speaker 2: found me making a daisy chain out of the goal posts.
Speaker 2: I tried basketball at one point. Not good, not good.
Speaker 2: I went because it was the maybe it was like fourteen,
Speaker 2: and it was the year that you know, there's fads,
Speaker 2: and the fad that year was that everyone was going
Speaker 2: to play basketball, the guys and the girls, and they
Speaker 2: had mostly mixed teams. So I was like, this is
Speaker 2: fine because I can go and play with my gows
Speaker 2: and just have a little bit of fun. I got
Speaker 2: put into one of two all my all boy teams.
Speaker 2: So first of all, that was out. I wasn't playing
Speaker 2: with my friends, I was playing with the boys. And second, shit,
Speaker 2: I was terrible, So I sat on the sideline most
Speaker 2: of the season.
Speaker 1: Awful.
Speaker 2: Coach would not put me in and for good reason.
Speaker 2: It was terrible, right, so I should have remembered and.
Speaker 4: Had a foul attitude about it.
Speaker 1: So I went along. Wait did they foul? Right? Good?
Speaker 1: Very good, funny.
Speaker 4: I was just not good. I was not good, so
Speaker 4: they or basketball?
Speaker 2: Well, basketball, But I'm talking now now I've now we've
Speaker 2: come back from when we're at the tennis.
Speaker 1: I was just not good.
Speaker 2: And here's what here's what I'll say it really actually
Speaker 2: got them without like getting too serious at the start
Speaker 2: of the podcast. It brought back a lot of like
Speaker 2: a lot of childhood.
Speaker 1: Trauma for me.
Speaker 4: I almost feel it in your.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and this is absolutely nothing to do with anyone
Speaker 2: else there.
Speaker 1: I cannot stress this enough.
Speaker 2: Everyone that was there tour person was so lovely and
Speaker 2: so welcoming and really encouraging. But I just constantly felt
Speaker 2: like I needed to apologize for my efforts because I
Speaker 2: was just so share I just keep feeling like I
Speaker 2: was a burden, like getting in the wave people being
Speaker 2: able to actually play a game. If I was partnered
Speaker 2: up with someone, I'd feel so guilty about fucking it up. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I just it was just awful, and I it was
Speaker 2: this weird like flood of like feeling that I just
Speaker 2: remember so vividly from being a kid and not being
Speaker 2: good at this stuff and feeling really like isolated from
Speaker 2: that environment. So it was it was weird because on
Speaker 2: the one hand it was such a different experience and
Speaker 2: that I felt so like loved and welcomed by everyone,
Speaker 2: but the feelings.
Speaker 1: Were still the same.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So I need to fucking get over that, because
Speaker 2: I really the thing is I really enjoy playing tennis
Speaker 2: and I want to get better and the only way
Speaker 2: you're going to get better is if you keep playing, right,
Speaker 2: So I just need to try and figure out how
Speaker 2: to let go of that feeling because it was it
Speaker 2: was weird.
Speaker 1: It was such a weird like, yeah.
Speaker 3: I think the more you go and the more you
Speaker 3: do it, hopefully that feeling subsides, because that's what the
Speaker 3: Armadillos and other gay and inclusive clubs are there to do,
Speaker 3: as to build up your confidence, and that's what some
Speaker 3: skill level.
Speaker 2: So that's what someone said to me, because I said
Speaker 2: to them, I was like, oh my god, I'm getting
Speaker 2: so much like high school PTSD right now. And he
Speaker 2: was like, we are all here trying to shed the
Speaker 2: trauma of being a like, oh an a closeted gay
Speaker 2: kid at school who didn't feel like they could play sports,
Speaker 2: and it was just yeah.
Speaker 1: So it was a reminder that like, so many.
Speaker 2: People are on that journey who are trying to do
Speaker 2: these things, and man, I give them props. Like we've
Speaker 2: talked about it already on this podcast about the explosion
Speaker 2: of these social sports teams. It's amazing, it's so good
Speaker 2: and man, if I feel like that. I can only
Speaker 2: imagine that there are lots of other people that feel
Speaker 2: the same way. So I'm going to part of me
Speaker 2: like left there, going I can't go back, go back
Speaker 2: because I'm so bad. And then I thought, no, I
Speaker 2: have to go back. I have to go back because
Speaker 2: that's what this is all about. And I need to
Speaker 2: do it for me, and I need to do it
Speaker 2: for like little me, and I need to do it
Speaker 2: for like other people who like who we have been
Speaker 2: encouraging to go and do these things. I need to
Speaker 2: go back. So I'm going to go back. Gets yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: so can I hold on.
Speaker 1: To the.
Speaker 3: Like if you're keen, I'd be more than happy to
Speaker 3: like go and have a hit one on one, you.
Speaker 1: Know, please please, Well, this actually sounds a little bit
Speaker 1: like spot cone, which is not. But I did see
Speaker 1: on the internet that there's like an indoor tennis thing
Speaker 1: that's just opened where it just like pumps balls at
Speaker 1: it at you and then you get to practice that way.
Speaker 1: So someone was telling me about this, But that might
Speaker 1: be a little maybe you need to take yourself in
Speaker 1: a little solid date. There's a little bit of confidence. Yeah,
Speaker 1: pumps balls at you sounds like centurion. Golly, but I
Speaker 1: have to say I totally hear you, and I think
Speaker 1: sometimes we need to just take a little leaf out
Speaker 1: of our beautiful hetero straight mates, because one thing that
Speaker 1: men do really well.
Speaker 2: Is just have blind, unconfident, unbridled Right, I can do
Speaker 2: that fucking eight lad a plane.
Speaker 3: I'd be able to do it. Yeah, Carl thinks I wouldn't,
Speaker 3: but I reckon I could lean the playing. So why
Speaker 3: don't we have that when it comes to sports. Drive
Speaker 3: it up, grab the grab what's between your legs, give
Speaker 3: it a good old tighten up and give it a go,
Speaker 3: you know, and swim and like big that bear and
Speaker 3: that record. If that's what your pit name is for
Speaker 3: bulging in your crutch at the moment, it's fine.
Speaker 4: You couldn't have scripted it better. You're really couldn't.
Speaker 1: All right, here's his unbridled male confidence coming you. Thank you.
Speaker 2: So I'll report back because I will go I'm definitely
Speaker 2: going to go back and play awesome.
Speaker 1: But that was so everyone was so nice.
Speaker 3: I might join you one weekend going. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 3: I'm not the greatest, but you know, I'm pretty talented
Speaker 3: everything I do.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there you go, Brad, here you go.
Speaker 4: I know something that's in the dark.
Speaker 1: It's actually the second one down, and it says Brad Christensen,
Speaker 1: I have a confession. Great, great three weeks of podcasting voice.
Speaker 1: How did you feel about that?
Speaker 4: Is that it's not the confession? Oh, it's just got
Speaker 4: to deal with it.
Speaker 1: He didn't listen to it. Oh yeah, no, I did.
Speaker 1: I listened to all three?
Speaker 4: Did you really?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I didn't realize it was Cam coming on. And secretly,
Speaker 3: you know, back in the olden days when Cam was
Speaker 3: on Breakfast and he'd do the movie reviews, yes, I thought,
Speaker 3: holy shit, he's hot and very cute.
Speaker 4: Sounds very jealous.
Speaker 3: Because because Cam is very handsome, he's got a lovely
Speaker 3: smile and it's very funny, and I've always thought he's
Speaker 3: very handsome. So that's my little confession. So so Cat Cam,
Speaker 3: he's he We've exchanged a few messages saying, you know, awesome,
Speaker 3: you know, thanks for you know, not thanks to cover.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, he's flushing, he's getting all tongued. But
Speaker 1: you know, I can't talk.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 1: We have to be we have to be like we're
Speaker 1: in this strap altogether. We need to be really and
Speaker 1: have open dialog and dialogue is crucial, and especially if
Speaker 1: you're out with the relationship, you have to talk about it.
Speaker 1: Because we said bread, you're gonna be wait for a
Speaker 1: few weeks.
Speaker 4: Can we have a third?
Speaker 1: And you said, absolutely, go nuts have a third, but
Speaker 1: we didn't.
Speaker 2: Actually, this is this is fear. We didn't run it
Speaker 2: past you. I don't think we didn't. And who we
Speaker 2: were in binding in.
Speaker 4: Did you see the rules up early in the pace?
Speaker 4: You need to know who the third is? But what
Speaker 4: a surprise.
Speaker 3: And so you know, Cam said he'd be listening from
Speaker 3: here on and so just if I can, I just
Speaker 3: your bloody handsome you're handsome, prack my god.
Speaker 1: So wait, do we need to what are we do here?
Speaker 1: Do we need to facilitate something? Or I don't think
Speaker 1: we need to.
Speaker 3: I think I've met Cam once. I think at at
Speaker 3: an old house party that we hosted, and I think
Speaker 3: I you know, he was he was there and I
Speaker 3: was like, oh my god, this camp.
Speaker 1: I hope he doesn't mind me telling the story.
Speaker 2: I will keep it very very light. But I got
Speaker 2: a message back in the day from a guy that
Speaker 2: I knew, who found came very attracted attractive, who.
Speaker 1: Wanted me to set them up.
Speaker 2: I did, and I can't remember what ended up happening,
Speaker 2: but I think they might have gone on a day.
Speaker 2: That was just my little That was my little intelude
Speaker 2: to say, you're not a lot and.
Speaker 3: I'd say there's a lot of gays outly that aunt
Speaker 3: alone and finding Kim came very.
Speaker 4: Attractive, very hot.
Speaker 1: Double down, mate, double down. I'm not embarrassed about it
Speaker 1: at all.
Speaker 2: You should be so yeah, well you guy, he's had it,
Speaker 2: he's opened to joining in.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: We were very gentle.
Speaker 1: We were gentle, and he came back for thirds so
Speaker 1: he said, I'm not doing anything absolutely, rolled around late
Speaker 1: at night into the d N said up to and
Speaker 1: he said, on my way.
Speaker 2: Yeah, time and location, leave the leave the door open
Speaker 2: and tell me which bedroom and I'll rock on it.
Speaker 4: I'll rock on love it. Thanks Cam, you're the best.
Speaker 2: God.
Speaker 1: What happens if I end up going away for a
Speaker 1: week and we bring Cam into this throttle and you
Speaker 1: do get your chemistry going and he's looking over here,
Speaker 1: there might be a camp for no. Do you know
Speaker 1: what will happen? I'll feel very jalous.
Speaker 4: You'll feel so left out here.
Speaker 1: Because I'll get a bit handsy with you. I'll be
Speaker 1: the forgot I'll be.
Speaker 2: I'll be forgotten all about You'll be.
Speaker 1: You'll be like those old newspapers down in the corner
Speaker 1: of it.
Speaker 2: And I'll be sitting in the corner going, can I
Speaker 2: do you need me? You've got the cutchare do you
Speaker 2: need me for anything? No?
Speaker 1: You're good? Can I get anyone in the water you
Speaker 1: need anything? Snacks? I'm going to the bathroom, speaking of
Speaker 1: I'm not just gonna be around next week, so I'll
Speaker 1: just get into Kim's deans and I'll let him know.
Speaker 1: You don't hear next week. It was a gig gigs
Speaker 1: on this podcast too seriously. I took it too seriously,
Speaker 1: although not to talk about Cam over and over again
Speaker 1: when he was here last week. We did have some
Speaker 1: really good banter about celebrity sightings.
Speaker 4: Did you listen to theirs?
Speaker 1: I did, and he had a great one, And then
Speaker 1: publics was like, yeah, he spears in the line at
Speaker 1: in the airport customs.
Speaker 3: Can I share who I sing on the strip or
Speaker 3: just in line? In New York and Life Jimmy fallon
Speaker 3: weird situation. He was probably walking to work around to
Speaker 3: the said down Life like it was just like the
Speaker 3: lock Away and me and my friend John were walking along,
Speaker 3: so I've got someone to vouch for this. Yeah, And
Speaker 3: then I went did the double take and I was like, oh,
Speaker 3: that's Jimmy Fallon and he looked over and I was like,
Speaker 3: oh fuck. And then I was like, I want like,
Speaker 3: you know that, should I take a photo?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 3: And then the key He was like, nah, don't do that.
Speaker 3: So he saw Jimmy Fallon. And then the following week
Speaker 3: and I missed out on this. It's traveling with a
Speaker 3: friend from Amsteam, Charlotte. She bumped them to Adam Sandler
Speaker 3: and so Ho and got a photo with them.
Speaker 4: Ah.
Speaker 1: He that's quite that's quite a good one, I think.
Speaker 2: I think if you go to New York, the chances
Speaker 2: of seeing a cleberationally quite high.
Speaker 3: And the other person I was traveling with, Angus, was
Speaker 3: up in Central Park having breakfast one morning and looked
Speaker 3: over and said, oh, that's seen a nice burke and
Speaker 3: bag looked up Helen Morrin.
Speaker 1: Wow. So I'm claiming I've seen all those.
Speaker 2: Those are all those are top not lib sightings. My
Speaker 2: one in New York that I had was this was
Speaker 2: years ago. I was with Wait did I tell this
Speaker 2: on the podcast last week? I was with some friends
Speaker 2: and we were taking a photo. There was like a
Speaker 2: mural on like a wall in the street we're at.
Speaker 4: So we thought that we're a murals.
Speaker 2: Yeah, a mural, and we thought, great break spot. I
Speaker 2: really missed you, great spot for a photo. So we
Speaker 2: were posing for a photo and one of one of
Speaker 2: our other friends was taking it of the two of us,
Speaker 2: and this woman like stopped on the sidewalk to let
Speaker 2: us take the photo without walking right through the shot.
Speaker 2: And we were like, oh, thank you so much, thank you.
Speaker 1: She's like, no worries, take the photo. Take the photo.
Speaker 2: And then we finished the photo and then she walked
Speaker 2: past us and I went, oh my god, that's Kris
Speaker 2: and dunst Oh.
Speaker 1: I said it couldn't come back, come back an here
Speaker 1: may we'll get one of you.
Speaker 4: Very good.
Speaker 1: We threw it out to the gators.
Speaker 4: That's a real good one. Great ones we've got here.
Speaker 1: We've got someone saw Jason Kris and he's saw on
Speaker 1: the on that person's foot at a James Blunt concert.
Speaker 1: Great great celebrity one. This person says, here, I used
Speaker 1: to live down the road from scary spices. When I
Speaker 1: was about seven, I saw it at the park and
Speaker 1: I said hi.
Speaker 2: Someone said I was once ushering at the Wellington International
Speaker 2: Arts Festival Orlando Bloom came in. That would have been
Speaker 2: around that time when everyone like all the Lord of
Speaker 2: the Rings people were right, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: But the big winner is and this is like big
Speaker 1: big names. This is Andrea. Andrew says. I saw the
Speaker 1: only one and only Brad at Countdown and Palmerson North.
Speaker 5: Hey, no way shot Andrea this year was an ally.
Speaker 1: I can't remember she did.
Speaker 3: Yes, I did kill There were a couple of.
Speaker 1: Oh, and someone said, will I am at the airport
Speaker 1: in la He was so short and small ross from
Speaker 1: friends whilst on my OI in London in the late nineties, and.
Speaker 4: That would have been like peak ross and free.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So some very good ones. Keep them coming in
Speaker 1: if you if you have any other.
Speaker 4: Totally talking about gators.
Speaker 3: Was out at Last Mate's First Drengths whatever it's called
Speaker 3: First Mates, Last Loves and someone taped me on and said, oh,
Speaker 3: excuse me, you're not bred from out the gate and
Speaker 3: I said, I am indeed the people. Oh and her
Speaker 3: name was Whitney, so hello, Whitney. You thought I'd forget
Speaker 3: that i'd meet you in the wild, But there's like
Speaker 3: two degrees of separation. She's a business partner of Christmas,
Speaker 3: so you know, high.
Speaker 1: Why did she think you would forget about the meeting bread?
Speaker 4: I think you forget her name?
Speaker 3: Forget her name? So I did actually write it down right.
Speaker 3: I had three rosees that evening, said evening and went home,
Speaker 3: so I wasn't pissed. But a nice little arm of Whitney.
Speaker 1: Anyway, great spot down there, Oh my god, gorgeous. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, Do we need to do a long business lunch
Speaker 2: there or something?
Speaker 3: Oh fucking hell, we can't get to field days. They
Speaker 3: alone of lunch, and there are the fucking temper bowling
Speaker 3: at the Rainbow Games. They'll get into Valencia to participate
Speaker 3: in the gay Games.
Speaker 4: We should just be grateful that we get either. We
Speaker 4: can do Christmas, do there? Oh that's a good idea.
Speaker 4: Christmas is coming.
Speaker 1: Do we do we invite the wags? I think it's
Speaker 1: too hard personally. Wait, shed I can hear them no,
Speaker 1: but we should try. Let's give it a go. We'll
Speaker 1: give it a go.
Speaker 4: See, I think.
Speaker 1: And here here's a topic for you I'm sort of
Speaker 1: the I'm always at the point of the year where
Speaker 1: I don't think I need any more plans. I think
Speaker 1: I'm going to start doing there. What about a New
Speaker 1: Year's lunch? What about in the summer we get together
Speaker 1: and do something lovely in front together, rather than this
Speaker 1: idea that we must eat a meal together between now
Speaker 1: and the twenty to twenty fifth, fourth thirday of.
Speaker 4: December when everyone is just a bit stress. I get it.
Speaker 2: I think it's just that fear of like, oh God,
Speaker 2: I need to we need to do something to celebrate
Speaker 2: the end of the year. But you're right, like, for me,
Speaker 2: the dates are relevant, really, Oh it really is.
Speaker 1: Yeah. If we do it, we do it. If we don't,
Speaker 1: we don't. Yeah, no, let's do it.
Speaker 2: Let's just not worry like Chris is saying, let's not
Speaker 2: worry about making it before Christmas time anyway.
Speaker 4: What's right in the chat?
Speaker 1: But is that it's a silly season.
Speaker 2: Absolutely is this So I don't want to sound like
Speaker 2: a dick, But tonight we're full disclosure. We're actually recording
Speaker 2: this week's episode on a Monday rather than a Tuesday,
Speaker 2: and we'll still go on a Wednesday. But so tonight
Speaker 2: podcast record Tomorrow, I'm going to drag Bingo Amazing. Tomorrow
Speaker 2: night is the only night of Lord of the Rings
Speaker 2: and Mu's a Good Tale at the Civic Theater. I'll
Speaker 2: be working at that Bread's coming along front Roast Entry's
Speaker 2: got some zeat yep, be there Wednesday. I've got something
Speaker 2: on after work.
Speaker 1: Friday. I'm going to Kessie Henderson at the power Station
Speaker 1: and then your kind of miss behavior afterwards.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, that's Friday, Friday night. It's Friday night.
Speaker 2: Fact, See, this is the thing. And then my friend
Speaker 2: messaged me and said, I've got tickets to Tom Sainsbury
Speaker 2: and Chris Parker's show on Thursday night.
Speaker 4: It's amazing by the way, which does.
Speaker 2: Look amazing, and I really want to see my friend.
Speaker 2: But it'll literally be the only night this week that
Speaker 2: I don't have something on. So I'm like, do I
Speaker 2: just double down and commit and go or do I
Speaker 2: need to say to her, I just I need a
Speaker 2: night at home.
Speaker 4: Life is for living.
Speaker 3: Just about grab those things between your leagues, mates, because
Speaker 3: I've got a hings do on Saturday.
Speaker 1: Oh jeez, you're busy, busy. What about what are you
Speaker 1: going to find time to watch Wicked Monday. Oh you
Speaker 1: going on Monday.
Speaker 3: On Monday, I went to Wicked the Live show while
Speaker 3: you were there, I got extra gay apparently. I don't
Speaker 3: know how that can happen, but I gave up a lot. Really,
Speaker 3: I loved it.
Speaker 2: It's one of the best Moses out there. I thought
Speaker 2: it was fantastic. It's incredible, so good. Well, unless you've
Speaker 2: been living under a rock. There's a movie version that
Speaker 2: comes out next week. I think it is.
Speaker 1: But if you guys heard what ended up happening in
Speaker 1: their marketing campaign, we god, I was going to talk
Speaker 1: about this. I'm so glad you brought it up. This
Speaker 1: is like the best of marketing fails. So obviously when
Speaker 1: a movie comes out these days, they go all ham
Speaker 1: on all of the different merch that goes with their
Speaker 1: merch merch dolls and posters and books and all of that.
Speaker 2: Sort of stuff, especially with something like this, because it's
Speaker 2: all very much like which is very Yeah, so.
Speaker 1: They've released a bunch of dolls of course, to release
Speaker 1: it's sort of the main characters. I'm not know where
Speaker 1: the real character's names are Glinda and Alphabat and Alpha
Speaker 1: of course. Sorry, and on the on the packet of
Speaker 1: these dolls, they have a QR code where you can
Speaker 1: go and get extra content other great bits and bobs.
Speaker 1: But somebody has unfortunately put the QR code to go
Speaker 1: to the address, and instead of going through wickedmovie dot Com,
Speaker 1: it goes to Wicked dot com. And what pray tell
Speaker 1: is Wicked dot com. Chris, Well, I'm going to do
Speaker 1: a real naughty and see whether I can use the
Speaker 1: iHeartRadio towers Wi Fi to look at this ourselves, because
Speaker 1: the word on the street.
Speaker 4: Is she's rude. Is it letting you in? It is
Speaker 4: looking us in?
Speaker 1: So Wicked dot com sells beautiful videos of lovely ladies
Speaker 1: within is there.
Speaker 4: Look at us on the front page? Oh? Well, we
Speaker 4: so it's pornography. It's pornography.
Speaker 1: Kelsey Loves Girls Volume two? Volume?
Speaker 2: Do you think I need to have watched Kelsey Loves
Speaker 2: Girls Volume one to understand Volume two?
Speaker 4: I don't think so.
Speaker 1: Can I get into Yeah, it looks like she's just born.
Speaker 4: She's definitely campaign and she's.
Speaker 1: Oh isn't it funny sometimes looking at the ladies making
Speaker 1: love to each other, because it's so out of the
Speaker 1: normal things that I normally say, it actually feels extra
Speaker 1: and I'm like very taboo. I'm very taboo. So look
Speaker 1: at these girls, like this is very explicit, isn't it.
Speaker 4: Jesus, Yeah, that's very explicit.
Speaker 1: That is like there are fingers and yes and all
Speaker 1: of the and everything. Great for the great for that website. Yeah, marketing, marketing.
Speaker 4: So this was so yes.
Speaker 1: So if you scanned the q I coat on these dolls,
Speaker 1: this is what you came up to. And I wouldn't
Speaker 1: do any work computer, but especially if you're a lady
Speaker 1: that likes ladies Wicked dot com, You're welcome. That is
Speaker 1: a faux pas.
Speaker 2: And the worst part is because you know, like it's
Speaker 2: all it's all the girlies like little kids that will
Speaker 2: be buying the dolls.
Speaker 1: Oh definitely, what is my older sister up to? Well?
Speaker 2: Oh a very early learning and how to delete your
Speaker 2: browser history?
Speaker 3: Yeah right, but also good PSA, be careful when you're
Speaker 3: buying the dolls, and you know, hopefully they've recalled all.
Speaker 1: Of the dolls. We recall them, didn't they The odd
Speaker 1: one might have slipped through because they've even got written
Speaker 1: on the on the pack on the like written in
Speaker 1: words on the package dot Wicked dot com. That's the
Speaker 1: worst thing that's gone through anyway, let's get away from
Speaker 1: the ladies now. Used lot of something in the group
Speaker 1: chet today that was a little on the racy side.
Speaker 3: Well, you know how we always like to sort of
Speaker 3: talk about celebrities and maybe a little bit of celebrity dick. Yeah,
Speaker 3: re emerged penis shot of Michael B.
Speaker 1: Jordan.
Speaker 4: It was very hot as the actor from Panther.
Speaker 1: Forever.
Speaker 2: Actually one of the most beautiful people in the world.
Speaker 2: He's very cut, his knee so ripped and also just
Speaker 2: everything each of his.
Speaker 1: Perfect.
Speaker 3: So apparently these photos were taken on a beach in
Speaker 3: Italy about a year ago, but they've just resurfaced again
Speaker 3: through one of our you know, uh trusted sources of
Speaker 3: media content Gaiety and I know, who do you talk
Speaker 3: about Gaiety last week?
Speaker 1: So it's great. That's where they're really up the game.
Speaker 4: They're doing things at the moment. I'm like, oh about it.
Speaker 3: So I did incognito that that search on my own.
Speaker 3: So there you go, Michael B. Jordan out there.
Speaker 1: To be honest, woman, there's another great one. You know,
Speaker 1: it's come out. I don't know whether that was HEAs
Speaker 1: didn't thinking about it, are we Is it consensual?
Speaker 4: Is he like okay about it?
Speaker 1: He's on the beach doing it.
Speaker 3: Like he's got his like he's taken his trunks off
Speaker 3: or putting some trunks back on, and so like, yeah,
Speaker 3: he's not shy about it.
Speaker 4: It's not like there's a you know.
Speaker 1: So if someone did get into a d M and say,
Speaker 1: deer Gators, I love you so much, please see me
Speaker 1: Michael B.
Speaker 2: Jordan, Well, we've always said we're not about We're not
Speaker 2: about just seeming unsolicited.
Speaker 1: But if people ask nicely, we're not going to gate
Speaker 1: keep either.
Speaker 3: No, we ain't going to get get No, we could
Speaker 3: flick flick your the link, flick something.
Speaker 1: It's very it's my favorite thing about it as a way
Speaker 1: that it just it's sort of up but like it's
Speaker 1: it's true.
Speaker 3: I mean, he's at the beach and he's just you know,
Speaker 3: he's he's not quite full mass.
Speaker 1: But no, but it's definitely not he hasn't been in
Speaker 1: the cold water yet. Gosh, golly.
Speaker 4: Anyway, that's all I've got in the dock.
Speaker 3: I had to end my little thing in the dock
Speaker 3: with a celebrity deck out of there.
Speaker 1: Hey, am.
Speaker 2: We're not mad at that, You're not mad about it
Speaker 2: at all. That actually brings us to the end of
Speaker 2: our episode anyway, and you know that nature has restored itself.
Speaker 1: When we've got a beautiful b rad back in the
Speaker 1: presence of us, and.
Speaker 4: We've got a free celebrity deck to talk about.
Speaker 1: All is right in the world. You know, you know,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of it's been.
Speaker 2: It's been a hell of a week, globally heavy week
Speaker 2: for a lot of people. But when your three boys
Speaker 2: are back together and there's a solb Dick pack, you
Speaker 2: know that things are going to be okay.
Speaker 1: Things are gonna be okay. Come by, my lord, come by.
Speaker 3: He look, my advice is take a load off, Shoot
Speaker 3: a load, take a load.
Speaker 1: What if you want to do it's been a rough week.
Speaker 1: Paint the town, paint the walls. Then whatever you need.
Speaker 4: That's quite enough. That's quite enough. Good to be back
Speaker 4: with you boys.
Speaker 1: You literally just pulled up wicked dot com for us.
Speaker 2: You cannot be the moral high ground now, Thank you
Speaker 2: very much.
Speaker 1: Anyway, Love you boys.
Speaker 4: Love to be back so good, and we'll see.
Speaker 1: You again next week. Maybe