Speaker 1: Is It Just Me? Podcast by a couple of minches.
Speaker 2: Okay, Doug, it's time to hear from one of our
Speaker 2: all time favorite guests, Kate Langbrook. This will be the
Speaker 2: third time she's been on the podcast.
Speaker 3: You know, I can't believe she's in our three timers club?
Speaker 2: What's going on?
Speaker 3: Headband mate or something.
Speaker 2: If you don't know who she is, she's one of
Speaker 2: those people you sometimes see popping up on the project.
Speaker 2: She's done a lot of those panel shows over the years.
Speaker 2: She's currently hosting My Mum Your Dad on Channel nine,
Speaker 2: which if you're not up to date, definitely get on board.
Speaker 2: You can stream it on nine now. And if you're
Speaker 2: one of those people that thinks, oh, reality TV is
Speaker 2: not for me, this one's very wholesome, so it makes
Speaker 2: sense that Kate is hosting it. And how else did
Speaker 2: you describe her? No No on radio? She used to
Speaker 2: do hears Me.
Speaker 3: And Kate radio personality. She's a comedian of sorts, very
Speaker 3: very always funny and very insightful, and she's been great
Speaker 3: to us. We used to work with her, well, I
Speaker 3: still work with her, not eymore. She's left Kiss, but
Speaker 3: she used to be around the building in the office
Speaker 3: and we formed a connection and she actually asked to
Speaker 3: come on the show this time.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So what happened was when she was doing the
Speaker 2: promo rounds for my mum you dad, you know, we
Speaker 2: threw our hat in the ring and said, yeah, we'd
Speaker 2: love time with Kate if we can. Her manager said no, no,
Speaker 2: she's got no more time, she's books, she's doing no
Speaker 2: more press. And then she says, oh, but my mitches,
Speaker 2: I have to I'll make an exception for my mitches
Speaker 2: because we just love her. And as per fucking usual,
Speaker 2: we had ten minutes with her, but it went for forty.
Speaker 2: The three of us are together, you just can't shout
Speaker 2: us up.
Speaker 3: Really, we're all very similar. Yeah, she has the best
Speaker 3: traits of you, the best traits of me, and the
Speaker 3: worst traits of herself.
Speaker 2: I also love that because she was in the Melbourne
Speaker 2: studio where in Sydney we connected the two studios and
Speaker 2: the whole time because she's just such a hoot. You
Speaker 2: can hear her studio producer Tom laughing in the background
Speaker 2: the whole time. It's pretty much that role. Would you say,
Speaker 2: one of the jobs if you're operating the desk is
Speaker 2: to keep quiet he's just outwardly cackling.
Speaker 3: I loved it all right, Let's roll this. This is
Speaker 3: us with Kate Langbrook. Enjoy guys, Kate.
Speaker 2: Langbrook, welcome back to Is it just me?
Speaker 1: Oh, it's me Mitche Hat Cabal and Mitch at long last.
Speaker 3: Kate, you can drop the facade, be the real dirty you?
Speaker 1: What dirty me?
Speaker 3: The real Langbrook?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're allowed to swear here, don't forget.
Speaker 1: Just what do you want me to say? Good? At counts? Countdown?
Speaker 1: I mean, is there no four playing this?
Speaker 3: Are we sorry?
Speaker 1: Breakdown? And I mean I understand you're desperate for it.
Speaker 3: Mitch's getting Mitch's getting it frequently now since we've last
Speaker 3: had you on Big Life News for our for our
Speaker 3: very own Betty Mitchell Coombs, he's got a life partner.
Speaker 3: He's got to call it.
Speaker 1: What happened? Betty from Blackdown has.
Speaker 2: Had this little broken Yeah. For those who don't know,
Speaker 2: Betty from Blacktown is my nickname. So Kate can tell
Speaker 2: the two Mitches apart. I've got the energy of a
Speaker 2: middle aged woman in the West, I understand.
Speaker 1: And also that's radio people. I think they always talk
Speaker 1: about Betty from Blacktown. They do, and we were like,
Speaker 1: who is Betty? And then we realize we've actually got
Speaker 1: a Betty. It's Mitch.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's me. Can I tell you though, my boyfriend
Speaker 2: and I we've got this friend.
Speaker 1: Hang on, hang on, I've just got to digest Yeah,
Speaker 1: back up. Just you've got to ease me into this
Speaker 1: kind of talk. It just come trippingly off your tongue.
Speaker 3: Boyfriend, Okay, he's so handsome, he's in politics, he's intelligence,
Speaker 3: he's got brains ticks.
Speaker 1: You know what. Everyone, every smart man loves a trophy wife.
Speaker 1: That's all I'm going to say, because that is quite
Speaker 1: a catch.
Speaker 2: It definitely is. And you know one thing I reckon
Speaker 2: you'll love about him. Do you remember last time we
Speaker 2: had you on, we were talking about how much we
Speaker 2: love your vocabulary, all the big words.
Speaker 1: Oh that's right that time. But oh you say you
Speaker 1: said you love them, but I actually think no, I
Speaker 1: don't think you love them.
Speaker 2: Well I'll prove you wrong because my boyfriend and I
Speaker 2: we have a shared Google doc where we both add
Speaker 2: great words that we hear. If we're having a conversation,
Speaker 2: one of us drops the big word, we'll go great,
Speaker 2: add it to the list. I don't want to hear
Speaker 2: some of them loud.
Speaker 1: To Is they my words or just general words?
Speaker 2: Just general words, words that we hear out in the wild.
Speaker 2: In fact, if you want to add some great words,
Speaker 2: please do some of the ones. We've got already discombobulated.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I'm not mad on discombobulated. Were you confused?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah it is. We've got vociferous.
Speaker 1: What's vociferous?
Speaker 2: Hung I vociferously disagree like passionately?
Speaker 1: Oh passionately? No? No I can't, I can't.
Speaker 2: Yeah. No. Bequeathed?
Speaker 1: O're bequeathed is stunning, isn't it?
Speaker 3: How would you use bequeathing donning?
Speaker 1: How would you've left something to something? You've gifted something
Speaker 1: to someone. So I have bequeathed unto you the throat
Speaker 1: got it and as I have to say, radio royalty
Speaker 1: mixture has bequeathed unto you, the scepter of the prince
Speaker 1: rising up the ranks.
Speaker 3: Yes, wait, are you saying, Kate, you've bequeathed me? No?
Speaker 2: Not me?
Speaker 1: Well, I can't give you my crown because I still
Speaker 1: need it.
Speaker 3: I don't keep that crown. Good point?
Speaker 1: What I mean? You won an awarded, the Radio Awards,
Speaker 1: and that was like you were touched on the I
Speaker 1: was going to say touched on the dick. That's not right.
Speaker 3: You kissed on that you kissed I wasn't touched on
Speaker 3: the dick. That's how you do get, That's how you
Speaker 3: work your way up in this industry. I wasn't on
Speaker 3: the no for tables.
Speaker 1: God, Oh, you got to keep your eyes open on
Speaker 1: that one. Or best shut your eyes and just hope
Speaker 1: for the best.
Speaker 2: All right, give us some more indubitably. Some of these
Speaker 2: are even hard.
Speaker 1: To say that jubitably just means undoubtedly, doesn't it?
Speaker 2: Yes, But how boring to say undoubtedly when you could
Speaker 2: say indubitably.
Speaker 1: It's true, it's true.
Speaker 2: I'm just going to have the list open for the
Speaker 2: rest of this interview and just jo Suscifian get fucked.
Speaker 1: You don't like that.
Speaker 2: Have you ever heard it?
Speaker 1: I hated? You know? There's a terror. Can I tell
Speaker 1: you a terrible word which you won't hear very often,
Speaker 1: but now you'll probably hear it maybe three times in
Speaker 1: your life. It's just a terrible word that someone I
Speaker 1: went out with once used it, and I never felt
Speaker 1: the same way about him. He said, peripatetic, What what
Speaker 1: is that? You know what it actually means, and he said,
Speaker 1: it means you move around a lot. And I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, mate, I'm moving away from you,
Speaker 1: that's for sure. I'm just like, I can't. I'm not
Speaker 1: unnecessarily just with a with a big word for the
Speaker 1: sake of it. It's just some words, as you said, Mitch, Betty,
Speaker 1: some words are beautiful.
Speaker 2: Yes, I like to sound loquacious when I talked with
Speaker 2: the big words. It was quite peripatetic of you to
Speaker 2: move to Italy, wasn't it. Ah, she wants to punch me.
Speaker 1: I din't. I adore every part of you. Oh there
Speaker 1: you are. I can see you on this.
Speaker 3: In high school, I remember, I didn't know. I thought
Speaker 3: compulsory was the opposite of what it actually.
Speaker 1: I thought compulsory emptional.
Speaker 3: I thought it meant you had a choice. So my
Speaker 3: year advisor, Missus Moyman, went on a Mitch, Math's compulsory.
Speaker 3: I went fantastic, I'll do two courses of drama. No,
Speaker 3: it's compulsory. And I know, Missus Morman, it took me
Speaker 3: a while to catch on.
Speaker 1: Really, when did you realize when you got the bad
Speaker 1: score in maths? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Well, I did end up dropping maths. I got up
Speaker 3: to Pythagoras and fucked off.
Speaker 1: So that, if you know, with maths, when they replaced
Speaker 1: the numbers with letters, yeah, I'm like, I'm out. I'm gone.
Speaker 3: When they're adding that little X with the fancy little
Speaker 3: kick yes.
Speaker 1: And c's and equals and lala and putting things over,
Speaker 1: they make them work too hard, and.
Speaker 2: It's always like to the power of n or whatever,
Speaker 2: like you don't care.
Speaker 1: No, I don't care, And I'm never ever ever going
Speaker 1: to have to work out the pie of a radius
Speaker 1: or whatever. I'm just trying to have to do that.
Speaker 1: I could see my future even at seventeen, and I
Speaker 1: knew that that wasn't going to be essential for me.
Speaker 3: Is that true? Kate? What did you see yourself? Because
Speaker 3: you are you're such an enigma. Add that to the
Speaker 3: list and.
Speaker 1: We are and become a mystery.
Speaker 3: No, it's not as much as a mystery. You were
Speaker 3: just so unique and there's no one else quite like
Speaker 3: you in this country, and you were so great at
Speaker 3: what you do, and you do so many things. We'll
Speaker 3: talk about the new show in a little bit, But
Speaker 3: did you have your life mapped down? That's a question.
Speaker 3: I never thought i'd ask you, but what did you
Speaker 3: see yourself doing as baby Kate?
Speaker 1: Not even for a moment. I've never had anything mapped
Speaker 1: out at all. And I think I thought, what did
Speaker 1: I think when I was Because I was raised to
Speaker 1: Jehovah's witness it would never even have occurred to me
Speaker 1: or anyone in my family that there would be anything
Speaker 1: to do with showbies. And in fact, because we were
Speaker 1: Jehovah's witnesses, it was even unusual that we went to Uni.
Speaker 1: Oh wow time because that was frowned upon, because that
Speaker 1: was seeking man's knowledge rather than God's knowledge.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, wow, which.
Speaker 1: Is how I believe Mitch Betty got his boyfriend.
Speaker 3: Yes, it works for some people.
Speaker 2: Yes, knowledge, I've got none of my own, so I
Speaker 2: have to seek it.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well that's it, Kate.
Speaker 3: When did you stray away from that from the religion?
Speaker 1: Well? Well, I knew really really young that I didn't
Speaker 1: want to be a Jehovah's witness, Like I just knew
Speaker 1: that it wasn't me. It was kind of like how
Speaker 1: people say they know that they were gay when they
Speaker 1: were really young. I was like that about the religion.
Speaker 1: I was just like, it's not me, it's just wrong.
Speaker 1: And so I was always plotting my escape. And then
Speaker 1: so I moved out when I was eighteen. Wow, And
Speaker 1: then I stopped going. And my dad was an elder
Speaker 1: and my brother was a ministerial servant, like they were
Speaker 1: big wigs in the Witnesses, and so it was a
Speaker 1: difficult time. But I was studying journalism at that point,
Speaker 1: which luckily a teacher at school had just said to me,
Speaker 1: you're good at English, why don't you study journalism. I
Speaker 1: didn't ever really know properly what that like. I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: I'll apply for that, just using big words. But I
Speaker 1: had no plans.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and we've had Angela Bishopond who was actually discouraged
Speaker 2: people from making life plans, just like, eugh, whatever doors open,
Speaker 2: just walk through them. Is that what happened with this
Speaker 2: TV thing? They just said, want to host this show?
Speaker 2: And you thought, all right, why not?
Speaker 1: You know, I say no to things all the time,
Speaker 1: I like all the time. And the joke with me
Speaker 1: and Hughes he was always that he couldn't say no
Speaker 1: to work, you know, he's a workaholic, And I would
Speaker 1: always say no to everything.
Speaker 2: You can't say yes.
Speaker 1: I couldn't say yes. I couldn't say yes, and he
Speaker 1: couldn't say no. We're a perfect match.
Speaker 2: I was going to say, good pair, And I wonder
Speaker 2: who is more well rested out of the two of you.
Speaker 1: Well, I was, But now we've kind of reversed roles
Speaker 1: because since I came back from Italy, I've written a book,
Speaker 1: I've done this radio show, I've done this TV show.
Speaker 1: It's like I've done lots of things that I wouldn't
Speaker 1: have done before. Anyway, they when they first mentioned the
Speaker 1: show to me, I was actually I was doing the
Speaker 1: writer's festivals because my book had just come out, my
Speaker 1: book about Italy Joel, and I was like, I can't.
Speaker 1: I literally, I'm not being a prima donna. I literally
Speaker 1: don't have time to watch this blah blah blah. And
Speaker 1: then finally when I did watch it, I went, oh
Speaker 1: my goodness, I love this idea. And honestly, within five
Speaker 1: days I was hosting it, so I didn't even really
Speaker 1: have time to think any further. I like my head
Speaker 1: was spinning.
Speaker 3: Well that's my mum your dad, right, Katie. What's the
Speaker 3: premise of my Mum Your Day? If everyone wants to
Speaker 3: watch it at seven point thirty Monday and Tuesday, Channel
Speaker 3: nine nine. Now, what's the premise of the show.
Speaker 1: The premise is that it's single parents looking for love
Speaker 1: and they've been nominated by their kids, who are all
Speaker 1: over eighteen, and the kids, unbeknownst to the parents, unbeknownst Mitch, Betty, Mitch,
Speaker 1: unbeknownst so silent kay yetnap. Unbeknownst to the parents, the
Speaker 1: kids are watching from their own house. So they're watching
Speaker 1: their parents every move, which is at once amazing, titulating, awful,
Speaker 1: stomach churning, brilliant or everything, every word, every word on
Speaker 1: his list except peripatetic. They're stay in put.
Speaker 2: It's such like a vulnerable way for them to see
Speaker 2: their parents dating, Like sometimes it is easy to forget
Speaker 2: that your parents are human, and so it was quite emotional.
Speaker 2: I was watching it and some of the kids reactions
Speaker 2: to like their parents getting nervous at a first kiss
Speaker 2: on a first day with for you, guys, like, that's
Speaker 2: not the sort of side to your parents you normally see.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, I think have you either of you
Speaker 1: got single parents?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: No, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't either, And obviously and my kids don't. But
Speaker 1: these are something in the relationship that is so beautiful
Speaker 1: and has a maturity to it that I never had
Speaker 1: with my parents, and certainly my kids don't have with me.
Speaker 1: Like those kids are so unselfish about their parents and
Speaker 1: wanting this for their parents that I'm quite amazed by it.
Speaker 1: And when they watch it, I mean they obviously they're
Speaker 1: watching through peep fingers and screaming in horror sometimes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, some of the awkward kisses, yeah.
Speaker 1: Which is stunning.
Speaker 3: I love is there bonking, Kate? Is there bonking going on?
Speaker 1: Look? I don't want to ruin it for you, but
Speaker 1: you know they are human, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I have needs and desires.
Speaker 3: Miges some would say have urges, animalistic urges.
Speaker 1: Animalistic Write that down, Betty nimtic.
Speaker 2: It just feels like everyone on that show just wants
Speaker 2: the best for each other. There wasn't any catiness like
Speaker 2: on reality TV. Is there anything like that to come?
Speaker 2: Any fighting or whatever?
Speaker 1: Surprisingly? I mean you want some full maths glassing and
Speaker 1: wine thrown in the face.
Speaker 2: Really?
Speaker 1: I mean, when you when you're attracted to someone, I
Speaker 1: think it's natural to be territorial about them. Yeah, are
Speaker 1: you territorial.
Speaker 3: Well, I've been in a relationship for four years, Mitch,
Speaker 3: are you territorial yet? A new flag?
Speaker 1: That's is that an answer? Look how he obfiscated? Write
Speaker 1: that down fiscated. He didn't really want to answer.
Speaker 3: I'm not ovulating. Don't you point that finger and insinuate
Speaker 3: that I'm dropping eggs?
Speaker 1: How dare you said? How fascinating? Are we going to
Speaker 1: prise the wizard nut? That is mixed jury and.
Speaker 2: Colonel atorial over your partner?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know what, My partner is very attractive, and
Speaker 3: he had a he had what we call the hoe face.
Speaker 3: So before I met Hayden Kate, he had bleached blonde hair.
Speaker 3: You'd know right now, bleach blonde hair. And that was
Speaker 3: the that was the signal. That was the metaphor of
Speaker 3: I am open for business. A little little bit of context,
Speaker 3: so I for Kyle and Jackie Ore. My first job,
Speaker 3: like nine years ago was the cash Cock, and I
Speaker 3: dressed up as a giant rooster and ran around Sydney
Speaker 3: and was tackled and if you caught the cock, you
Speaker 3: got a thousand dollars oiscating.
Speaker 1: Again, he's tantalizing, and I love this and you you
Speaker 1: were the cash cock. I hope people weren't too rough
Speaker 1: with you when they grabbed you.
Speaker 3: They were. It was really this is true story, Kate.
Speaker 3: I was in the emergency room twice from cock.
Speaker 1: Because when people grabbed the cock, they would have tried
Speaker 1: to give it a good plucking.
Speaker 3: Cash the cash yep, yep. I once had a high
Speaker 3: lux turn off cow passed your road and chase me
Speaker 3: into the backyard of someone's house. True story. Anyway, that's
Speaker 3: a that's a that's a non sequitur.
Speaker 1: It's when one thing doesn't logically follow the ass down.
Speaker 3: That'd be a good podcast for us that that would
Speaker 3: just be constant non sequiturs, just nonsense.
Speaker 1: Anyway, But anyone, how does this lead to you being territorial?
Speaker 1: It does?
Speaker 3: No, no, No. Messaged here and I said, never met
Speaker 3: him before, but I thought he was cute the bleached
Speaker 3: blonde hair and wanted to thrash him around. So I
Speaker 3: sent him a photo at midnight and I said, Hi,
Speaker 3: I hope you don't mind me messaging you out of
Speaker 3: the blue, but here is an unsolicited cock pick.
Speaker 1: It was you and your cash cockout.
Speaker 3: Cash, and he replied, Kate. He replied, and I'd never
Speaker 3: been with a man before?
Speaker 1: What did he say?
Speaker 3: He replied, I'm at Sydney Uni. Do you want to fuck?
Speaker 1: And ruined you was so nuanced and cute and he
Speaker 1: was just bleach blonde to the point.
Speaker 3: Yep, straight to the point. And he said, I'm at
Speaker 3: Sydney Uni. You want to below me in the bleachers?
Speaker 3: And do you want to?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Thoseby he was suggesting.
Speaker 1: Oh goodness, it's a lot. So he was a Turkey,
Speaker 1: so he was on, you're a perfect pair anyway, darning on.
Speaker 1: Tom at Mines just shown me a photo.
Speaker 3: Yeah, gorgeous, beautiful.
Speaker 1: He actually looks like you Filipino, being on the principle
Speaker 1: that you know when people are attracted to people that
Speaker 1: look like them, Well, that's.
Speaker 3: A different show. That's my mum, your dad, and a cousin.
Speaker 3: That's a very think.
Speaker 1: He's really beautiful. So are you territorial?
Speaker 3: Yes, the long story short is I'm very territorial. And
Speaker 3: yes that's him with the bleached Yeah, hands on, I
Speaker 3: think I worked so hard.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, you're jealous. You're jealous and your god? Yeah,
Speaker 1: of course I can't.
Speaker 3: But we working radio. You tell a story, you know
Speaker 3: how it works. I just had to add that in.
Speaker 1: I loved it all. That was just the most gorgeous
Speaker 1: by road and back roads. Well that's what he likes,
Speaker 1: fuming hello and a dirt track, I believe. Okay, now
Speaker 1: let's go down, down, down, down, you pardon what's smoldering down?
Speaker 1: There is some uncertainty, a little bit of something, a
Speaker 1: little bit of.
Speaker 2: Jealous God, no, wonder you're hosting this show. You just
Speaker 2: fucking like to dissect relationships.
Speaker 1: Yes, you know that. I love that. In fact, one
Speaker 1: of the guys from one of the bosses from Channel
Speaker 1: nine who was just gorgeous, John Walsh's name is Anyway,
Speaker 1: he was on the set every day when we were filming,
Speaker 1: and he said to me one day, oh my goodness,
Speaker 1: you're a cross between dean mother, an amateur psychologist, and
Speaker 1: what a man has just summed up my entire life
Speaker 1: in how many words?
Speaker 2: Is that?
Speaker 1: Mitch Black, Betty? How many words?
Speaker 2: When did I become black? Bety lamb j.
Speaker 1: Is it just when?
Speaker 2: Podcast by Papa.
Speaker 3: Mitch's Yeah, we're here with Channel nine's Kate Langbrook, host
Speaker 3: of My Mum Your Dad?
Speaker 2: Are you filming for the show today? Because you look
Speaker 2: very glammed up by the way.
Speaker 1: Oh, well, you know why because I leave my makeup
Speaker 1: because I do the project on a Tuesday night, and
Speaker 1: when I come in to do pick up on a
Speaker 1: Wednesday with Monty, I always give her a thrill. I
Speaker 1: don't know if she's getting that much of a thrill
Speaker 1: out of it, to be honest, but I always leave
Speaker 1: my makeup on. I sleep in my makeup. It's a
Speaker 1: secret to my beautiful complexion. Makeup artists will never tell
Speaker 1: you that sleep in it. They're always like a math
Speaker 1: ma your makeup. I'm like, no, if you want to
Speaker 1: look beautiful all the time, girls leave your makeup on.
Speaker 1: Never rene and.
Speaker 2: So do the projects. Still let you work for that
Speaker 2: show even though you're cheating on them with Channel nine.
Speaker 1: Yes, and isn't that amazing?
Speaker 2: That's all rare.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm a freelancer, I guess, but you're right. It's
Speaker 1: one thing for me to say I'm a freelancer, but
Speaker 1: it's another thing for a network to go, oh, we'll
Speaker 1: let you host this massive show on another network. And
Speaker 1: I very much appreciate that they have. But also, you
Speaker 1: know what, channeling, you could have put a ring on
Speaker 1: it and they didn't. So if Channel nine are coming.
Speaker 3: I'm like, yeah, okay, yeah, why not you take rings
Speaker 3: where you find them, which is Mitch's dating technique. Actually
Speaker 3: I met this new boy?
Speaker 1: Really? How many rings?
Speaker 2: Did?
Speaker 3: How many rings?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 2: Me?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 2: I never went through the gay slut fast?
Speaker 1: Was it like or was it like a hundred year
Speaker 1: old oak tree? Then if you sliced it through the trunk,
Speaker 1: ma lord, they'd be a lot of rings. Womping willow
Speaker 1: right down, womping right down, womp.
Speaker 2: H All right, that's done. Hey, you know how you
Speaker 2: said that you struggle to say yes to work and
Speaker 2: you've obviously turned a lot of things down. What were
Speaker 2: some of those?
Speaker 1: Like everything?
Speaker 2: Have you been asked to go in the jungle?
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, I've been asked to go in the jungle.
Speaker 1: Just think of every reality show, right except Love Island Hurtfully?
Speaker 1: Why is that missing from my ubra? Write that down?
Speaker 1: It's French. It means body of work? Or does it mean?
Speaker 1: What means French?
Speaker 2: When I google Uber, it says do you mean uber?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: Are you the ari Uber? What's okra? What am I thinking?
Speaker 1: Oh? No, that's vegetable that they eat in Jamaica. I
Speaker 1: find it gross. I don't like it. An Asians like,
Speaker 1: isn't and then did you make it? They're like, oh
Speaker 1: you have? You haven't had a cooked ried It's like
Speaker 1: scrambled eggs. I'm like, well, why don't you eat fucking
Speaker 1: scrambled eggs, not some slimy pod hanging off the truth.
Speaker 3: It's a pod. It's a pod. Now, Kate, you're Dutch,
Speaker 3: right or half? Well?
Speaker 1: I say Jamaica because my mom's Jamaican American and my
Speaker 1: dad's Dutch or was Dutch. I don't want to bring
Speaker 1: down the tone. I mean he still is Dutch wherever
Speaker 1: he is. Yes, and he was Dutch and will remain Dutch.
Speaker 3: Yes. Well, yes, my dad's side of the family is
Speaker 3: Dutch and we have that in common. I have an
Speaker 3: olmer and an opera. Oh my god, my mom. So
Speaker 3: I was a wedding on the weekend, Kate Mitch. I
Speaker 3: was at this family wedding and you know, the vows
Speaker 3: had just been handed down, and it was that awkward
Speaker 3: two hour period where the bride and groom are off
Speaker 3: getting gold awful sunset photos.
Speaker 1: Too long period, It's too long, it's exhausting, and by
Speaker 1: the time they come back in we're not happy to
Speaker 1: see them.
Speaker 3: They ruined, it's too long. So my mom obviously went
Speaker 3: to Instagram and she said, Mitch, look at Kate's Instagram story.
Speaker 3: Because my mom on her birthday, on a wedding anniversary
Speaker 3: with my dad, always requests one dish, and it is prawns,
Speaker 3: King prawns with an avocado and mango and a bit
Speaker 3: of whatever sauce she puts.
Speaker 1: On, whether that's a Marii sauce or just a cocktail sauce.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, cocktail sauce. But she only likes the Praise
Speaker 3: cocktail sauce. She's very peculiar.
Speaker 1: If I make my own, but I make it with
Speaker 1: Praise mayonnaise, the King of mayonnaises. Even though I can't
Speaker 1: really forgive them for having a few years ago gone
Speaker 1: from glass bottles to plastic bottles, my harbor a grudge.
Speaker 1: I don't want to eat anything out of plastic. I'm
Speaker 1: not a fucking Kardashian. I don't I want my sauces
Speaker 1: in glass. I want my oils in glass. I don't
Speaker 1: want your bhps or whatever they call leeching out of microplastic.
Speaker 3: Yes, I'm with you.
Speaker 1: I don't want to write that down. I got Barbara
Speaker 1: cartman and narrating a novel.
Speaker 3: Are we just need to get someone to take the
Speaker 3: minutes of the interview at this point.
Speaker 2: You know what words sprung to mind when you were
Speaker 2: describing that meal, Mitchell?
Speaker 1: What would Oh.
Speaker 2: That sounds like quite a sumptuous repast? Oh that okay, spell.
Speaker 1: Subtuous, my darling, Mitch, Betty get sucked.
Speaker 3: I'm not doing that.
Speaker 2: Too many essays for my lisp.
Speaker 1: I love your lisp.
Speaker 2: Hey.
Speaker 1: By the way, my thirteen year old son, Yanni, has
Speaker 1: a lisp, and we adore his lisp. And people say
Speaker 1: to us, are you going to send him to speech therapy?
Speaker 1: Which A I find rude. B probably practical but see
Speaker 1: not necessary thoughts as an adult lisp.
Speaker 2: But your thoughts, well, I didn't go to speech therapy
Speaker 2: per se. But when I first moved away and started
Speaker 2: going to radio school, there was a teacher that very
Speaker 2: kindly pulled me aside and said, I happen to be
Speaker 2: a speech pathologist as well as the teacher, so she
Speaker 2: would like keep me back for an hour whatever, just
Speaker 2: help me work on the letter s with more pronounced.
Speaker 1: What is it a sibilant s?
Speaker 2: Sibilant s? Yes, And so I found that helpful. But
Speaker 2: obviously that was helpful in my line of work because
Speaker 2: I was going to be talking into a fucking microphone.
Speaker 2: So I don't know why I hadn't thought of it sooner.
Speaker 2: But if it's not doing that, then it doesn't really
Speaker 2: need it. It's kind of adorable.
Speaker 1: I find it adorable, like I just like it. And
Speaker 1: when someone said to me once something more, I was
Speaker 1: somewhere someone made a joke about lisping or whatever, and
Speaker 1: of course someone some buzz killing. The auditor goes and
Speaker 1: she didn't make a joke about disability, and my girlfriend said,
Speaker 1: a lisp is not disability. It's just not perfection. And
Speaker 1: I went, oh, my goodness, I love that so much
Speaker 1: because everything's so perfect. Everyone's walking around with those big
Speaker 1: white veneer teeth that, by the way, I'm very tractor to.
Speaker 1: And if I'm going to continue at Channel nine, I
Speaker 1: think I need some because I don't have them. But no,
Speaker 1: I just don't think I can pull it off. I'm
Speaker 1: like Mitch on a first date.
Speaker 3: No, you don't know him well enough, then, Jesus.
Speaker 1: He's not like that now he.
Speaker 3: Can I just say, God, so many non sequiturs. But
Speaker 3: I went to speech pathol. My mum sent me to
Speaker 3: speech pathology because I had a minor lisp and they
Speaker 3: got it out as well. And I think, I said,
Speaker 3: I think I don't remember it and I miss what
Speaker 3: I could have sounded like you miss, I miss really
Speaker 3: miss it.
Speaker 1: Well, Yann's very lifty.
Speaker 2: Is he is yan the one that you said that
Speaker 2: his what was it? His personality is a liability that.
Speaker 1: Would be if he doesn't become a lawyer. But I said,
Speaker 1: if you become a lawyer, your personality is an asset.
Speaker 2: And what was the reason for that?
Speaker 3: Again?
Speaker 2: Is he just does he just ask a million questions.
Speaker 1: He loves to argue, Like if you say something to me,
Speaker 1: he just loves to catch you out on whatever, whatever
Speaker 1: you haven't encompassed with just a statement. He always looks,
Speaker 1: likes to look for the exclusion. And then sometimes it's
Speaker 1: so exhausting. Sometimes in our house we just have to go, Yanni,
Speaker 1: no more question, just the hand and now we can
Speaker 1: just hold up the hand. We go Yanni and he goes,
Speaker 1: no more questioned.
Speaker 2: Yes. And so what was he said to him? You
Speaker 2: need to be a lawyer otherwise your personality I said
Speaker 2: to him.
Speaker 1: This is when we're in lockdown, and I had spent
Speaker 1: her day anyway. I said to him, his godfather's a lawyer,
Speaker 1: really clever, gorgeous guy who drops us off bagels every Sunday.
Speaker 1: Maybe gorgeous. Anyway, Yanni's godfather is a lawyer, and so
Speaker 1: Yanni just so adores him, you know, in the way
Speaker 1: that you just love a you love an uncle figure.
Speaker 1: You know how boys love me uncle.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Anyway, Yeah, and so Yanni wants to be a lawyer
Speaker 1: as well. So he's just got this rigorous mental thing
Speaker 1: that he'd actually be perfectly suited. He's an arguer, he
Speaker 1: loves the play of it. Whatever. Anyway, so we're in lockdown.
Speaker 1: I was so exhausted by cooking for fucking six people
Speaker 1: in laa la oh man, that was a lot. And
Speaker 1: I said to him, you better be a lawyer when
Speaker 1: you grow up, or your personality will be a liability.
Speaker 1: But if you become a lawyer, your personality will be
Speaker 1: your biggest assy. Now he couldn't tell if that was like,
Speaker 1: he was so thrilled by that until walad Ali made
Speaker 1: out like that was a big insult.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was what offended.
Speaker 3: All things to offend him.
Speaker 1: You are a.
Speaker 2: Lawyer that you literally told him that that skill, that
Speaker 2: personality trait will actually help him and does help him.
Speaker 1: I said to him in a meeting one Now I'm
Speaker 1: going to say the same thing to you. I said
Speaker 1: to my twelve year old son, what's then? And then
Speaker 1: But while it didn't seem to take the compliment from it.
Speaker 2: Of course he wouldn't.
Speaker 1: He didn't look at the lawyers lawyers, lawyers, Yes, and
Speaker 1: then he sent me a bill while it worked it out.
Speaker 3: You know what this is. This is very different to
Speaker 3: the last time we spoke to you, Kate. Last time
Speaker 3: we interviewed you, I don't know if you remember, but
Speaker 3: you were in bed with a bag of salt and
Speaker 3: vinegar chips.
Speaker 2: You just finished watching Morning More, You.
Speaker 3: Just binged Mornings and you admitted to us that you
Speaker 3: had COVID, which at that time wasn't worldwide news and.
Speaker 1: It was the management scandal.
Speaker 3: Radio station called Mitch. They called me and they said,
Speaker 3: you cut that out.
Speaker 2: They made me remove that part, and I was like,
Speaker 2: it's really not that salacious. Everyone's had COVID at this point.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but you know what, when so was that like
Speaker 1: October last year?
Speaker 2: I think so?
Speaker 1: Yeah, because do you know what, it was so unusual
Speaker 1: to have COVID at that time that the newspaper was
Speaker 1: trying to do a story about it. And I'd been
Speaker 1: to a party on the Thursday where I had given
Speaker 1: it to and we were still in semi lockdown or
Speaker 1: whatever you could have filled with some bullshit rules in Victoria.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. Anyway, anyway, you could only go with
Speaker 1: ten pebbles. So there were like ten babble at this party,
Speaker 1: but like eight of them got COVID. And then one
Speaker 1: of my girlfriends who was at that party, went to
Speaker 1: another party on Saturday night and she gave COVID to
Speaker 1: thirty six people six and the whole things because at
Speaker 1: that point people still knew where they got it. And
Speaker 1: on the Friday, I gave it to Peter Hellia. Oh no,
Speaker 1: and all they were.
Speaker 2: Trying to keep that under wraps. We could have made
Speaker 2: you come unstuck.
Speaker 1: Like three weeks later. No one would have even bothered
Speaker 1: writing a story because everybody had it. Then God, it exploded.
Speaker 2: So this is the third time we've had you on. Actually,
Speaker 2: have we ever told you that? We once did a
Speaker 2: pole in our Facebook group saying who's the favorite guests
Speaker 2: we've had on the podcast, and you buy a lance.
Speaker 1: Z gen Z language, I say, Z.
Speaker 2: Oh, I'm not putting that on the fucking least. Why
Speaker 2: do you say it like that?
Speaker 1: But I like it. I think it's kind of with it,
Speaker 1: gen Z, I say, Z.
Speaker 2: It's very American of you, though, Oh my god.
Speaker 1: And because I've got a seventeen year old daughter, yeah, true?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah.
Speaker 2: How's your eldest son. How is his driving going? Because
Speaker 2: that all happened last time you were on. He walked
Speaker 2: in and said, can you take me ol plate?
Speaker 1: What did he? I can't remember any of this.
Speaker 3: You also said you would give me twenty thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I heard it too.
Speaker 1: Show me where that's written down.
Speaker 3: Didn't want to bring it up. How's he? How's he going?
Speaker 1: Louis Lewis's divine d killing it in the driving school.
Speaker 1: He's halfway through his hours. Oh god, because he was
Speaker 1: still doing year twelve. Year twelve is horrible.
Speaker 3: Oh it's awful, isn't it. It's that time? I forget.
Speaker 3: How's he doing with the exams?
Speaker 1: Well, we don't know how he weent it's still November.
Speaker 1: But true, he actually worked really hard, which I didn't
Speaker 1: think he was capable of I thought he was more
Speaker 1: like me, not kind of good on the fly, but
Speaker 1: not really academic. But he worked so hard and with
Speaker 1: his alleged father every night and every day for four
Speaker 1: months at the dining room table. Peter cheated him so
Speaker 1: patiently and beautiful that I could have fallen in love
Speaker 1: with him all over again.
Speaker 3: Alan Lewis Powell tutoring. Hey, just come to.
Speaker 1: Power, running power like Peter. It's a good nickname.
Speaker 3: It is good. Well, we better let Kate go. God,
Speaker 3: we've held up at the time. I love that Kate
Speaker 3: started this interview sitting. Then she was standing. Now I'm exhausted.
Speaker 1: Now you have sucked me dry.
Speaker 2: We have Yeah, sorry about that again.
Speaker 1: Ah, we love you.
Speaker 2: Every time Kate is on, we stay to the producer.
Speaker 2: I swear it'll only be ten minutes, and then later
Speaker 2: before we go.
Speaker 1: Betty, Mitch your boyfriend who Mitch has talked up enormously
Speaker 1: in a most beautiful manner and accurately. I need to
Speaker 1: say a photo of him as well in politics.
Speaker 3: Get this, Kate, he's a teal.
Speaker 1: I didn't know there were any boy teals an independent. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know, I didn't know that he was.
Speaker 3: There were boy teals. It means him he's circumcised.
Speaker 1: You know my boys are teal I'll send you. Maybe
Speaker 1: it's one of my girlfriends. Actually, when she had a daughter,
Speaker 1: but if she had a son. The doctor said to her,
Speaker 1: I know that this is out of vogue, but I
Speaker 1: strongly advocate circumcision if you have a baby boy. And
Speaker 1: she said, why is that? And she's and the doctor
Speaker 1: seed the man male doctor seed, because when he grows
Speaker 1: up he might want to get a BJ isn't that
Speaker 1: an amazing thing to say to say to a pregnant woman.
Speaker 3: I think it is.
Speaker 2: It's also not accurate.
Speaker 1: Oh my, of course, Look she's got the photo. Come wait,
Speaker 1: coup like you do not?
Speaker 2: Is that just your first impression?
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, what do you think? Oh? I just
Speaker 1: think that's so beautiful. I love everything about this photo.
Speaker 3: He's on a couch, Sean sitting on a couch on
Speaker 3: he's on your lap. He almost looks animated, doesn't he here?
Speaker 1: Because he looks perfect and almost American? Yes, in a
Speaker 1: frat boy kind of way, but a smart frat boy.
Speaker 1: I mean, I've got to go. I'm exhausted, not just
Speaker 1: stay here. No, no, I'm so happy. But if I
Speaker 1: stay here, I'll say things I shouldn't say.
Speaker 3: Do you say when your team go? When the beautiful
Speaker 3: male says you've got a couple of miches, what's your
Speaker 3: what's your guttural reaction? What do you what do you say?
Speaker 1: Well, you know, I'm thrilled about you, but mostly I
Speaker 1: can't be fucked you know.
Speaker 3: I adore you too, And radio is draining, like you'd
Speaker 3: have to just go home and be catatonic for a bit.
Speaker 1: Well, I've got to go to Lewis's graduation tonight.
Speaker 2: Oh, keep the makeup on for that.
Speaker 3: I will project make.
Speaker 1: Just sailing because that's what other parents from school love. Yes,
Speaker 1: is when you're just sworn in, looking like you've come
Speaker 1: fresh from a TV studio. Parents of teenagers who generally,
Speaker 1: as you would discover in the world, are not generally
Speaker 1: the people who are either happiest or look their best. Yes, yeah, god, yeah,
Speaker 1: we just love it when someone turns up looking like this.
Speaker 3: Well, listen, my mum, your dad get more. Katelyn brook
Speaker 3: Mondays and Tuesday seven thirty, Channel nine nine Now play
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Speaker 1: Oh how else is in there that three times? I know,
Speaker 1: we've got to know. Just tell me another none.
Speaker 3: None, you're the first.
Speaker 2: Yeah, rightly, So thank you, Kate, love you, love you,
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