Speaker 1: This is Outspoken. The podcast is not afraid to say
Speaker 1: exactly what you're thinking. Our names are Amy, Kate and
Speaker 1: Sophie Torber. We're identical triplets, but we often don't have
Speaker 1: identical opinions, so sometimes things can get heated. Outspoken covers
Speaker 1: all things reality TV, influences, entertainment, and issues facing women.
Speaker 1: That is so fetched. Thank you. Hi guys. You're joined
Speaker 1: by Amy and Kate today because of course where the
Speaker 1: maths gurus, and we're excited to be joined by Drew
Speaker 1: from Married at First Sight today and we're going to
Speaker 1: find out all about his experience on the show, and
Speaker 1: of course we've asked all the tough questions about his
Speaker 1: Unicorn and Cornelius, who we love, and we're also going
Speaker 1: to delve into some more important topics involving his mental
Speaker 1: health charity kick On, as well as find out more
Speaker 1: about his band, Drew Boys. So we hope you guys
Speaker 1: do enjoy the chat.
Speaker 2: Amy, how are you doing good?
Speaker 1: Thank you so much by the way for agreeing to
Speaker 1: speak with us. We're very excited because we're big fans
Speaker 1: of maths.
Speaker 2: So oh true, I'm very excited.
Speaker 1: We'll get straight into because we know you're super busy.
Speaker 1: We wanted to hear how is IO going for you.
Speaker 2: I actually feel a little bit guilty because I can
Speaker 2: honestly say I'm loving it. You know, respect to the
Speaker 2: people that are getting sick and people lost jobs and
Speaker 2: stuff like that, but yeah, it's been amazing to me.
Speaker 2: I've come back to my tiny little country town where
Speaker 2: I grew up. My family's all out here. They've got
Speaker 2: a sheep and cattle property and be back on the
Speaker 2: farm and just spending some really good quality times for
Speaker 2: my family. And my little nephew is like one years
Speaker 2: old and he's like the cutest thing in the world.
Speaker 2: So yeah, it's been amazing to me. You know, most
Speaker 2: of my stuff with my charity and music, I can
Speaker 2: still do that online from a laptop out here, So yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm loving it.
Speaker 1: That's so good. Have you done any baking, because everyone
Speaker 1: seems to suddenly have become master to chefs.
Speaker 2: I've been luckily enough. I've been getting back into mum's
Speaker 2: home cooking food. So I've been working a lot, so
Speaker 2: you know, big days and whether we're out the farm
Speaker 2: or doing our online stuff. So Mum's been cooking most
Speaker 2: of the meals and it's just been Yeah, it's been amazing.
Speaker 2: It'll be a hard slog going back to cooking for myself.
Speaker 1: Is there anything that you've been watching or listening to
Speaker 1: that you can recommend to our listeners.
Speaker 2: Look, I don't watch TV, so I listening to. Look,
Speaker 2: I've been reading. I can highly recommend a book called
Speaker 2: The Twelve Rules of Life by Jordan Peterson and another
Speaker 2: one called The Art of Happiness by Hold Cutler. My
Speaker 2: two favorite books are very good for your mental health
Speaker 2: and just the way to fulfill the positive life. So yeah,
Speaker 2: highly recommend those two.
Speaker 1: They sound like some great ones for people to get.
Speaker 2: More wholesome than they married at first Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was going to say, so, had you ever seen
Speaker 1: married at First Sight then before appearing on the show?
Speaker 2: No? I had no idea what I was getting myself into.
Speaker 1: So do you think you would have gone on the
Speaker 1: show if you'd seen it beforehand?
Speaker 2: No? Look, I don't think so. If I knew what
Speaker 2: it was going to be like, I wouldn't have gone
Speaker 2: on it. But at the same time, I'm glad I did.
Speaker 2: I think you know. So it's a bit contradicting, but
Speaker 2: you know I wouldn't. No regrets I would wouldn't take
Speaker 2: it back. But yeah, if I knowed myself, like if
Speaker 2: I knew what I was like, and I definitely wouldn't
Speaker 2: have I wouldn't have been in there.
Speaker 1: So what is the process of So did you apply
Speaker 1: for the show or were you scouting? No?
Speaker 2: They contacted me. Oh wow, they actually contacted me, not
Speaker 2: last year, the year before and I had gotten basically
Speaker 2: all the way through to the end and then they said, oh,
Speaker 2: look you're a loser. We didn't find anyone for you
Speaker 2: this year. So I totally forgot about the show. Like
Speaker 2: I still went through the whole process. I assume it
Speaker 2: is what everybody else did with interviews and psyched tests
Speaker 2: and questionnaires and stuff. They rang me again last year
Speaker 2: and said are you still single? You're getting married in
Speaker 2: six days basically, so I had six days to prepare
Speaker 2: and yeah, it was it was crazy. Wow.
Speaker 1: Can you tell us a little bit about what the
Speaker 1: wedding day was, because I mean, that is such a
Speaker 1: crazy day and from what I've heard, it takes a
Speaker 1: very long time to actually shoot the day itself.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, the wedding day is actually I think they
Speaker 2: started filming in my house that like maybe seven six
Speaker 2: thirty seven in the morning, and then you know you're
Speaker 2: not finished till probably, you know, almost midnight that night.
Speaker 2: So that's a huge day. You do a lot of
Speaker 2: stuff over and over again. And but to be honest,
Speaker 2: it was beautiful. It was amazing, Like play you know,
Speaker 2: when I play music, I do a lot of weddings
Speaker 2: because I love doing it and I think it's such
Speaker 2: a beautiful thing. So that part of it was actually,
Speaker 2: you know, even though everybody knows that it's not real,
Speaker 2: but there's so much anticipation and it's just this beautiful
Speaker 2: place and every you know, you've got these amazing bow
Speaker 2: and it's pretty hard not to get sucked right into it.
Speaker 2: And it's like it was emotional and just yeah, it was.
Speaker 2: It was really you know, you've got all your friends
Speaker 2: and family there and so today and it's yeah, pretty crazy.
Speaker 2: I was very nervous.
Speaker 1: What were your first thoughts when you saw Casey because
Speaker 1: obviously she's stunning, and I know sometimes the grooms in
Speaker 1: previous series series, I suppose brides have been stitched up
Speaker 1: with people that they might not really be into. Were
Speaker 1: you pretty impressed when you saw her walking down the aisle?
Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely, look, I don't think there's a bloke alive
Speaker 2: that that wouldn't be impressed by seeing Casey. Like, she's
Speaker 2: absolutely gorgeous. So it was a big relief. Like I'm
Speaker 2: not I'm not all about looks, but it was when
Speaker 2: I've seen her, I'm just like, oh, right, cool. You know,
Speaker 2: I think I think all of my exes have been
Speaker 2: brunette too or had dark hair, so I'm like, ohy,
Speaker 2: thats all. She had this beautiful smile and yeah, she's
Speaker 2: absolutely gorgeous, and I've seen her eyes and I'm like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 2: she's got a stunning line. Yeah, it was. It was
Speaker 2: a big shot of relief and I was just, yeah,
Speaker 2: I was over the moon.
Speaker 1: Can you tell us about the process where because I
Speaker 1: know on the show we see people like sniffing T
Speaker 1: shirts and going through different tests to kind of find
Speaker 1: the perfect one. We had Elizabeth on the show and
Speaker 1: she said, yeah, in fact, that is true. Was that
Speaker 1: kind of weird to be doing all of that sort
Speaker 1: of stuff?
Speaker 2: We didn't do any of that really.
Speaker 1: Oh he went smelling people T shirts? Because I thought
Speaker 1: that sounded pretty weird.
Speaker 2: I don't believe that at all, like I've seen I
Speaker 2: actually seen because I wanted to watch a few of
Speaker 2: the other people's weddings, and you know, you meet these
Speaker 2: people and you get invested in you know, you know,
Speaker 2: they're your friends, so I wanted to watch their weddings
Speaker 2: and stuff, and I've seen that part come up and
Speaker 2: I was like, oh, we never did that. That might
Speaker 2: have been where they went wrong.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's why Lizzie and said worked out so well.
Speaker 1: They liked each other's smells.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Casey smells lovely. It definitely wasn't that she shouts
Speaker 2: quite regularly. Now.
Speaker 1: One is that came up a lot on the show
Speaker 1: between you and Casey was, of course your housemate. Were
Speaker 1: you surprised there was so much on the show about
Speaker 1: all of this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm just like, what is going on? And the
Speaker 2: thing was, it was a little bit of a tricky
Speaker 2: situation because like, my housemate's one of my good friends.
Speaker 2: So I obviously asked her to come to the wedding,
Speaker 2: but she's like, no, I hate that show and she
Speaker 2: didn't want to come. And she's quite introverted as well,
Speaker 2: so you know, I didn't want to force that on her.
Speaker 2: And she'd actually been seeing one of my best like
Speaker 2: one of my closest friends for quite a while, but
Speaker 2: they hadn't made it official. So they have now, which
Speaker 2: is great, but it would have been handy if it.
Speaker 2: Like I think that's why I kind of freezed up
Speaker 2: a bit when I was asked about it, and I
Speaker 2: was like, yeah, just so silly. It's just such a
Speaker 2: silly thing. And they just kept focusing on it, and
Speaker 2: you know, it didn't really give us the chance to
Speaker 2: talk about anything else, and they just they didn't show
Speaker 2: any of the good times were having or you know.
Speaker 2: But yeah, the magic of editing kind of got bad for.
Speaker 1: Your housemate because I kind of made her look like
Speaker 1: some kind of weird stalker putting a toy. It was
Speaker 1: just it's a bit annoying that it's assumed that when
Speaker 1: a man and woman can't be friends or house mate. Yeah,
Speaker 1: did that annoy you that you can't be friends with
Speaker 1: the girl?
Speaker 2: It was? It was so and look, that whole Teddy
Speaker 2: Bear thing was probably the stupidest thing I've ever done,
Speaker 2: apart from not watching masks before I went on, but
Speaker 2: the Teddy Bear thing, literally I just grabbed it on
Speaker 2: the way out of the house. It was like, like
Speaker 2: I said, we had six days to get ready for
Speaker 2: this wedding. We had to write bowers, I had to
Speaker 2: go get STD checks and blood tests and all these things.
Speaker 2: I had to like cancel all my gigs for three months.
Speaker 2: I had to, you know, I run a charity as well,
Speaker 2: so there was so much to do. And on the
Speaker 2: way to the airport, on the way back home to
Speaker 2: grab my bags, we've seen a motorbike accident, whether they do,
Speaker 2: got his head split open, and I was just wigging
Speaker 2: out and I just grabbed this teddy gone the way
Speaker 2: out of the house and that was it. You know.
Speaker 2: I didn't think anything of it until we got on
Speaker 2: the honeymoon and in case you spotted it and was
Speaker 2: like all over it. But it was just one of
Speaker 2: those things.
Speaker 1: So you have to get STD checks before going on maths.
Speaker 2: Do you, Yeah, full full medicals, STD checks and I'm
Speaker 2: petrified and needles, so I was, yeah, I was. I
Speaker 2: was not in a good way.
Speaker 1: So you needed the Teddy Bear.
Speaker 2: Obviously I needed a Teddy Bear. It wasn't like a
Speaker 2: sentimental gift. Literally, it wasn't even for me. She just
Speaker 2: got it because she liked Rick and Morty. I just
Speaker 2: grabbed it on the way out of the house and
Speaker 2: it just became this huge fiasco.
Speaker 1: Well, as I mentioned, I mean, our listeners don't know.
Speaker 1: But we had a little conversation beforehand when I asked
Speaker 1: if you wanted to be on the show, and I
Speaker 1: said that we very much understood why you had Cornelius,
Speaker 1: and this is of course your unicorn, because we're a
Speaker 1: lover of soft toys as well. We're actually sitting in
Speaker 1: a room with two large penguins. I know that sounds
Speaker 1: really weird. That's right, Drew gets it well our listeners.
Speaker 1: And what was funny was I was watching the shot
Speaker 1: at my house and when that scene came on with Cornelius,
Speaker 1: I literally text Amy and Amy's got a boyfriend. But
Speaker 1: I said, oh my god, Amy, you're perfect match, just
Speaker 1: on the TV. And she had texted to me too,
Speaker 1: not to make things awkward, but yeah, we just found
Speaker 1: that really amusing.
Speaker 2: It's funny because I've always just said weird stuff at
Speaker 2: my house. I love having different stuff. If we have parties,
Speaker 2: we have dress up parties, and a lot of that
Speaker 2: stuff was just kind of left over from dress up parties.
Speaker 2: And I did an interview out here my mum and dads,
Speaker 2: the other day and it was a video chat and
Speaker 2: someone spotted something in the background. I turned around. There
Speaker 2: was all these like stuff lamas in the background. I'm like, oh, well,
Speaker 2: maybe that's where I got it from. We've normal.
Speaker 1: I was going to say, yeah, you'd love our office.
Speaker 1: Then there is so much random stuff around, so I
Speaker 1: think yeah, Because when I watched the episode where Casey
Speaker 1: started going through your belongings wanting to chuck stuff out,
Speaker 1: almost had a bit of anxiety over it because I
Speaker 1: put myself in your shoes. What was running through your
Speaker 1: head when you saw her with some of your stuff
Speaker 1: in the bin?
Speaker 2: Look, I think I think that was a little thing
Speaker 2: that Casey kind of fell for with the producers, the
Speaker 2: very manipulated, manipulative sorry, and they kind of, you know,
Speaker 2: got a going about this and like, yeah, it'll be funny,
Speaker 2: like you know, grabby stuff and we'll chuck it out,
Speaker 2: and she kind of fell for it, and yeah, look
Speaker 2: it was it was all right. Like most of that
Speaker 2: stuff I didn't give a shit about, and I'm like, yeah, cool,
Speaker 2: I'm happy for that to go, like that's dirty whatever.
Speaker 2: But there was a couple of things there, like there
Speaker 2: was a bow tie from my cousin's wedding, and then
Speaker 2: a hat that was my poppies is no longer with us.
Speaker 2: So there's a couple of things where I'm like, I'm
Speaker 2: definitely you know, these things are staying, but everything else
Speaker 2: can go. So it was all in good fun. But yeah,
Speaker 2: it just it's just so, you know, one of those things,
Speaker 2: man like what you see on this show and what
Speaker 2: actually happens, and it can be very, very different a
Speaker 2: lot of the time.
Speaker 1: So yeah, what about Cornelius though, I mean, if the
Speaker 1: producers had pushed her and to throw Cornelius out, what
Speaker 1: do you think you would have done?
Speaker 2: No, that was hands on heads, sit on the floor,
Speaker 2: hunger strike. Cornelius is not going anywhere. He's still there
Speaker 2: garden the house. I haven't been in Cans for a month,
Speaker 2: so it's.
Speaker 1: Probably having parties and stuff at the house.
Speaker 2: Probably is.
Speaker 1: I think we touched on it on the show. But
Speaker 1: can you tell us the story behind Cornelius Cornelius?
Speaker 2: Yeah, so we we're going down to play a festival.
Speaker 2: I think it was grooving the move with the band,
Speaker 2: and basically I was getting a heap of stuff for
Speaker 2: the stage, so we wanted to put on this amazing show,
Speaker 2: and I got heap of like big glitter cannons and
Speaker 2: all this weird stuff to just kind of throw out
Speaker 2: into the crowd. And I've seen Cornelius and I'm like, yes, perfect.
Speaker 2: So we took him down in the tour of bus
Speaker 2: and we were going to throw him out into the crowd,
Speaker 2: and then we kind of all just you know, we're
Speaker 2: taking photos with him and stuff, and then we're like, no,
Speaker 2: Cornelius is going to stay. He can be the band mascot.
Speaker 2: And he just kind of ended up in my house
Speaker 2: and has just sat on the couch ever since. So
Speaker 2: I love that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was gonna say, did you ever think to
Speaker 1: hide him? Because talking, you know, from someone who has
Speaker 1: a large penguin living in a house, I will hide
Speaker 1: him when new people come over him.
Speaker 2: I'll not get it.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you know the model Olivia Rodgers,
Speaker 1: she came over to our house to do an interview.
Speaker 1: We'd sort of set it up on the spot and
Speaker 1: we forgot that we had, yeah, the big penguin just
Speaker 1: sitting there, and we were like, oh shit, we literally
Speaker 1: the biggest weirdos.
Speaker 2: But I don't know if she raised your weirdness guys.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so did you think to hide him or were
Speaker 1: you like, nah, stuff it.
Speaker 2: If she's like I had six days to go down
Speaker 2: and get married, and we went straight from there to
Speaker 2: a honeymoon. And then within six days we'd had a honeymoon,
Speaker 2: our first dinner party, moved three times, and into the
Speaker 2: first commitment ceremony, and then the next week they said,
Speaker 2: all right, we're going to Cannes. To my wow, I'd
Speaker 2: been away for two weeks recording new music before the show,
Speaker 2: so I literally landed had six that. You know, like,
Speaker 2: my house is so messy. I didn't have a chance.
Speaker 2: I literally I ran in. I didn't have time to
Speaker 2: organize a cleaner. I ran in. I'm like, you guys
Speaker 2: have to stay out here, like literally the whole film
Speaker 2: crew in case you arrived at my house and I
Speaker 2: ran in for fifteen minutes and just tried to like
Speaker 2: clean it up with it. I felt terrible, but there
Speaker 2: was just no notice and so hectic, you know, like
Speaker 2: you couldn't.
Speaker 1: Even ring your housemate because it's.
Speaker 2: Probably my housemate was away.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's like my nightmare. I feel like that's just
Speaker 1: giving me anxiety thinking of it, because the stuff that
Speaker 1: you want to hide, even.
Speaker 2: Just wiping down, making your house clean, you know, like
Speaker 2: it wasn't terrible, but it wasn't clean. Yeah, and you
Speaker 2: know my housemate being away that just made things look
Speaker 2: even more suss because they were trying to make that
Speaker 2: a big part of the storyline and I didn't realize
Speaker 2: how big and then but she wouldn't have gone on
Speaker 2: the show anyway even if she wasn't so but yeah,
Speaker 2: five times.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So that's hilarious. I was going to ask you
Speaker 1: because we obviously saw the finale episode and yourself and
Speaker 1: Casey didn't seem to feature that much on it because
Speaker 1: there's obviously a lot of other drama going on with
Speaker 1: Michael and Stacey. But you know, the last we saw
Speaker 1: was you guys had decided to stay together, but then
Speaker 1: you've of course announced you'd split. What was it, if
Speaker 1: you don't mind us asking, was it the distance between
Speaker 1: you guys, or just you've sort of drifted apart?
Speaker 2: Look, I don't think the distance helped, but no, I
Speaker 2: just think we were completely opposite of what both of
Speaker 2: us look for in a partner, like you know, and
Speaker 2: to be honest, so I knew this very early on.
Speaker 2: You know, you know yourself when you meet somebody. It
Speaker 2: doesn't take six weeks to find out whether you think
Speaker 2: you're going to be the right fit or not. And
Speaker 2: there was just a lot of pressure coming from the
Speaker 2: show and to give this a try, and it was
Speaker 2: just it was so hard the whole way through, and
Speaker 2: I'm like, you know, we're on the show, right, I'll
Speaker 2: try everything I possibly can. And we got to the
Speaker 2: end and it was a pretty hard decision. But I'm like,
Speaker 2: maybe that is the tiniest little chance that maybe it
Speaker 2: was the pressures of the show and the manipulation from
Speaker 2: the producers and you know, all of this horror of stuff,
Speaker 2: maybe that's why, you know, I'm not quite feeling it.
Speaker 2: And I just thought, if it's it's just worth giving
Speaker 2: it a little try on the outside and just basically
Speaker 2: starting from scratch and forgetting about the show and trying
Speaker 2: to get to know each other in a normal environment.
Speaker 2: And it turns out the show was the glue holding
Speaker 2: us together. It just it was so bad and like,
Speaker 2: I'm not you know, I've got nothing bad to say
Speaker 2: about Casey because I don't believe in that, and we're
Speaker 2: pasted all that, but it was just it wasn't good
Speaker 2: for either of us, and it was very, very toxic,
Speaker 2: and it just it went downhill, very very quickly. So
Speaker 2: and we weren't in a good space when we went
Speaker 2: back to the reunion. I'll tell you that.
Speaker 1: We'll just watching it, you could kind of tell, even
Speaker 1: though it's obviously very manipulated what you see, that you
Speaker 1: guys were sort of poll opposites. And now, of course
Speaker 1: Casey's with Michael, and you've been really lovely from what
Speaker 1: I've read, You've been quite supportive of the relationship. Are
Speaker 1: you happy for them?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think Michael was exactly what Casey should have
Speaker 2: been put in the experiment with. That's Casey's type. And
Speaker 2: I'm very far from Michael, so you know, I'm stoked.
Speaker 2: I hope they go the whole way. And you know,
Speaker 2: it looks like they're very happy on their socials and stuff.
Speaker 2: And I still talk to Casey every now and then,
Speaker 2: and yeah, look, I just I just wish them the best,
Speaker 2: you know, even though we didn't work and we had
Speaker 2: a lot of really hard, tough times, and you still
Speaker 2: form a bond if you go through something as stressful
Speaker 2: as that with somebody. You know, we lived together for
Speaker 2: six weeks and I just wanted to be happy, so
Speaker 2: good on them.
Speaker 1: Oh that's lovely. I was going to ask, obviously, Casey
Speaker 1: and Michael, you said they sort of very much suited
Speaker 1: each other. Is there somebody else from the Maths cast
Speaker 1: that you think you would have suited better.
Speaker 2: I've been asked this a lot, and you know, like
Speaker 2: Connie was a big one that just just keeps coming up.
Speaker 2: And they actually sent they made made me go on
Speaker 2: a date with Connie during the show, but it wasn't aired,
Speaker 2: and they made Casey go on a date with Johnny
Speaker 2: as well. And look, I think Connie is awesome and
Speaker 2: said this on the show, like very openly. I'm like,
Speaker 2: Connie would fit into my friend's circles so well, like
Speaker 2: so easily. But you know, that's probably as far as
Speaker 2: it goes. And I think everybody on that show individually
Speaker 2: was was pretty cool and I can see why they
Speaker 2: got got picked for the show, and you know, but
Speaker 2: on the outside, no, Look, I was pretty happy with
Speaker 2: with being with Casey, Like I still felt quite lucky
Speaker 2: to have got her, I guess, even though she wasn't
Speaker 2: for me.
Speaker 1: But yeah, now you say that Connie, like I can
Speaker 1: totally see that happening.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Connie, she's super chilled, and you know, we just
Speaker 2: we had heaps of chats on the show and we
Speaker 2: just laughed our ass off and you know, it was great,
Speaker 2: Like it wasn't forced. And Connie's a legend.
Speaker 1: Not to pry because I know you get these questions
Speaker 1: all the time, but are you still single? For all
Speaker 1: the women listening or there or Connie, I'm just talking
Speaker 1: about Yeah, we've got to ask.
Speaker 2: Yeah, look went out. I went from being stuck in
Speaker 2: this experiment to coming out to having to pretend that
Speaker 2: I was with my ex wife for a couple of
Speaker 2: months before the show aired, and now we're all stuck
Speaker 2: in isolation. So yeah, I'm very single.
Speaker 1: Would you Sorry, this is also very random question, but
Speaker 1: we just we've got to ask because our listeners will
Speaker 1: want to know if The Bachelor approached you, because I
Speaker 1: feel like you were so popular on there, would you
Speaker 1: ever go on another reality show like The Bachelor.
Speaker 2: I've got a lot of messages and comments about this.
Speaker 2: I think I'm pretty scarred from the whole reality show ordeal,
Speaker 2: and I don't know. It would have to be a
Speaker 2: pretty good offer, I think.
Speaker 1: But maybe check The Bachelor out first.
Speaker 2: And then I have I actually have seen a couple
Speaker 2: of episodes of The Batchel. I just I just don't
Speaker 2: watch TV like I've never I'd rather just do other stuff.
Speaker 2: But yeah, look, I don't know, I see what happens.
Speaker 2: I haven't been after do it, That's for sure.
Speaker 1: There's still times.
Speaker 2: I'd like to never say never. You know, I'm open
Speaker 2: to all things, but yeah, I'm not sure if I'm
Speaker 2: cut out for a reality TV.
Speaker 1: Well, moving on to something a little bit more important
Speaker 1: than maths and Bachelor. We wanted to find out more
Speaker 1: about your charity because it sounds so cool. I checked
Speaker 1: out your website and you guys are doing some amazing stuff.
Speaker 1: Can you tell us more about kick On?
Speaker 2: Thank you? Yeah? Yeah, look kick On. I started kick
Speaker 2: On maybe three years ago, and you know it did
Speaker 2: it stemmed from my wedding being called off and that
Speaker 2: that whole thing that I went through while I was
Speaker 2: working Fly and fly Out and you know, I just
Speaker 2: wanted to do something and give back and kick On
Speaker 2: came from that. And you know, we do school talks,
Speaker 2: we go out to five fix camps. Oh five fis
Speaker 2: Fly and fly Out like Gas and mining camps. Most
Speaker 2: people know that, but so yeah, we get to do
Speaker 2: all these amazing things and now, you know, just like
Speaker 2: everybody else, we're adapting. So we're about to bring out
Speaker 2: some you know, online mental health talks and even some
Speaker 2: online like suicide intervention training and toolbox talks. So that's
Speaker 2: coming very shortly. And yeah, we're kind of spearheaded by
Speaker 2: a clothing brand which is kick On Clothing, which you know,
Speaker 2: obviously it helps us fund our programs and stuff because
Speaker 2: you know, we're not it's kind of just funded through
Speaker 2: myself and a couple of sponsors at the moment, and
Speaker 2: through the clothing brand, but it also creates support networks
Speaker 2: in communities. So if anybody sees a kick On shirt
Speaker 2: or a hat or water bottle or whatever, they can
Speaker 2: feel comfortable to go and start a conversation with the
Speaker 2: person that's wearing that. And yeah, it's going really well,
Speaker 2: and I just yeah, I just I love it. It's
Speaker 2: really cool. I feel so blessed to be able to
Speaker 2: bounce between doing the charity work and playing music because
Speaker 2: I love both of them, and that both it's a
Speaker 2: very balanced way to leave it. I love it.
Speaker 1: It's so cool. I did see the kick On stuff.
Speaker 1: I feel like everyone should be buying that in isolation
Speaker 1: because let's be honest, we're all wearing tights and t
Speaker 1: shirts and everything. So we'll put the link in our
Speaker 1: show notes if anyone wants to check it out.
Speaker 2: I'm so stoked to be able to bring out the
Speaker 2: new women's Active West stuff too that it's been a
Speaker 2: long while coming.
Speaker 1: So it's so cool because I obviously I saw it
Speaker 1: checked it out today, I was like, Wow, this stuff
Speaker 1: is really cool, Like I love the blue and so
Speaker 1: you guys have done a good job. I also wanted
Speaker 1: to ask, I saw you posted on Instagram the other
Speaker 1: day about a lovely lady called Doreen and it was
Speaker 1: just a gorgeous post. Can you tell us a little
Speaker 1: bit about who she is and what your connection is
Speaker 1: through kick On? Because I understand kick On was featured
Speaker 1: on the news and that's how you guys connected. Is
Speaker 1: that right?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Dorian, She's so beautiful. So I think as Win
Speaker 2: News did a story on we bought out a song
Speaker 2: with the old band. It was called Fi Fi and
Speaker 2: it was all about living and working in the five
Speaker 2: file industry and the kind of linked to mental health
Speaker 2: and we were using that on the tour to promote
Speaker 2: positive mental health and basically start the conversation around it.
Speaker 2: And basically Dorian, she's down in Cawra in New South Wales,
Speaker 2: but she had seen the news article and it really
Speaker 2: hit home for her because she had twin grandsons. Obviously,
Speaker 2: my name is Drew. One of them was called Drew
Speaker 2: and he actually took his own life, and her other grandson,
Speaker 2: who the other twin, worked in the fi file industry.
Speaker 2: So just it really I guess, triggered her and she
Speaker 2: felt she felt compelled to get in contact with Ween
Speaker 2: News and just just send it like a really lovely
Speaker 2: message to us, just saying that she really appreciated it
Speaker 2: and all this kind of stuff. So I managed to
Speaker 2: I don't think, I hope, I don't get anyone in
Speaker 2: trouble here, but I managed to get in getting content
Speaker 2: with her through the news. I've got them to give
Speaker 2: me her contact details and I wrote her a letter
Speaker 2: and just you know, we became penpals and we started
Speaker 2: writing letters to them, throw from each other, and it
Speaker 2: was just so cute. Man. She was my Valentine On
Speaker 2: Valentine's Day Day, She's like this eighty year old beautiful
Speaker 2: lady and I sent her down like a CD and
Speaker 2: heather stuff and yeah, she's just beautiful. Now we still
Speaker 2: talk now. We probably call each other once every couple
Speaker 2: of months and just check in and yeah, yeah, she's awesome.
Speaker 2: It's really cool because I lost my grandma around that
Speaker 2: time too, so it was it was kind of cool.
Speaker 2: I kind of picked up a grandma.
Speaker 1: So so did she love watching you on Maths?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I did have to let her know after before
Speaker 2: it aired. I'm like, ah, because she's always like she
Speaker 2: doesn't have Facebook or Instagram, you know, so she's like, oh,
Speaker 2: can you send me down a photo, like I want
Speaker 2: to see what Kansa is like? And you know, she's
Speaker 2: trying to get this image and I'm like, well, you'll
Speaker 2: get to see it on TV now. So it is stoke.
Speaker 1: Oh that's adorable. You have to tell us a little
Speaker 1: bit more about your band as well, Drew Boy, because
Speaker 1: you guys have got an amazing single coming out that
Speaker 1: I'm so intrigued to listen to because it's called at
Speaker 1: First Sight, so one can only assume what it's about.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, so you know, I've been lucky enough. The
Speaker 2: first we put out an album with that song under
Speaker 2: the name of Drew Boy and the Sax Addicts. Don't
Speaker 2: judge me on the name there. It was a long
Speaker 2: road trip when we come up with that, but yeah,
Speaker 2: we had a sax player. Since then, I've done a
Speaker 2: couple of singles and music videos under the name of
Speaker 2: Drew Boy, and the new band's kind of just kept
Speaker 2: that name now because it's just easier. I guess it's
Speaker 2: really hard to think of band names. Actually it's even
Speaker 2: I consider itself quite creative, but it's super hard.
Speaker 1: Well, there's so many that are taken as well, so
Speaker 1: many cool names.
Speaker 2: How many that's taken, and you've got to kind of
Speaker 2: live with it forever, and it's like, I guess it's
Speaker 2: kind of like naming your kid. You don't want it
Speaker 2: to get picked on when it goes to school, you know.
Speaker 1: I like the I thing you guys did well, oh,
Speaker 1: thank you.
Speaker 2: Thank you. But yeah, so you know, I wrote a
Speaker 2: song on the show and it was kind of it
Speaker 2: was an interesting process because most of my songs come
Speaker 2: from very emotional states of mind, and I think I
Speaker 2: really use it as therapy. So when I'm really emotional,
Speaker 2: so it's normally from me love or if I've just
Speaker 2: broken up with somebody, or like my heart's broken or
Speaker 2: a lot of my songs are just about that. So
Speaker 2: it was quite interesting trying to write about Casey when
Speaker 2: you know, we weren't in love, and I was pretty
Speaker 2: sure it wasn't going to work. So I tried to
Speaker 2: write about the nice things about her and the whole
Speaker 2: process of the show and just what I was kind
Speaker 2: of going through in the show. So and I wanted
Speaker 2: to just write something that everybody could relate to. And
Speaker 2: I think the whole concept of this arranged marriage is
Speaker 2: pretty far for people to understand unless you're from India
Speaker 2: or something. But I think everybody can understand the concept
Speaker 2: that everybody is a stranger until you see them for
Speaker 2: the first time, until you meet somebody. There's a point
Speaker 2: in a life where we're all strangers. So I kind
Speaker 2: of I tried to write about that aspect of it.
Speaker 2: And Yeah, I'm really really happy. It's blown me away.
Speaker 2: How good It's kind of come out from a little
Speaker 2: acoustic song that I and I actually cool thing about
Speaker 2: it was I was sitting on the bed in front
Speaker 2: of Casey and I was just playing the guitar, and
Speaker 2: I was just giddling around, and I was trying to
Speaker 2: tell her how everybody writes music differently. I don't know
Speaker 2: how everyone writes theirs. But I'll come up with a
Speaker 2: little riff or a little something on the guitar, and
Speaker 2: then I'll build off that and then I'll add words
Speaker 2: to it later, and it kind of depends on the
Speaker 2: whole vibe of the music. And I started doing this
Speaker 2: in front of her just to kind of explain the process.
Speaker 2: And then I'm like, oh, that's actually kind of cool,
Speaker 2: and I turned that into the song and then yeah,
Speaker 2: I played that for the last date, Final Date when
Speaker 2: we're on the boat.
Speaker 1: So that's good. When can fans download the song?
Speaker 2: It will be coming out very shortly. We're just waiting
Speaker 2: on the music video to be finished. And so for
Speaker 2: the music video, I wanted to kind of include everybody,
Speaker 2: and I guess it's really strange hard times at the moment,
Speaker 2: and I wanted to try and use the music video
Speaker 2: as a way to kind of inject some positivity back
Speaker 2: into the world. So yeah, I've asked for everybody to
Speaker 2: send in videos of them with our loved ones and
Speaker 2: having cyber dates and hanging out with their kids and
Speaker 2: getting romantic in isolation. That's really Yeah, So we've got
Speaker 2: quite a few submissions already. We could probably use a
Speaker 2: few more. If if you guys are want to sense
Speaker 2: and stuff in with your penguins, that would be totally acceptable.
Speaker 1: We might have to, yeah, said something fun over with
Speaker 1: the publicly ouse penguin lovers were have this podcast. So
Speaker 1: wouldn't it be cool if we've got Cornelius and one
Speaker 1: of our penguins together, maybe they can scarpe each other.
Speaker 2: Yeah, try and keep try and keep it PG.
Speaker 1: Well they're both boys, but not that there's any judgment there. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: just lastly, what can I suppose fans of yours expect
Speaker 1: I suppose with twenty twenty it's all been sort of
Speaker 1: thrown into whatever disarray disarray, But what can people expect
Speaker 1: to see from you for the remainder of the year.
Speaker 1: Obviously a single coming here?
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, look, I think I've got five singles there
Speaker 2: ready to be released. Mental health charity. You know, we're
Speaker 2: about to start doing, like I said, online training and
Speaker 2: some online really cool mental health discussions, like interview stuff
Speaker 2: kind of like what you're doing with me right now?
Speaker 2: Cool and we've created this it's called the kick On Cafe,
Speaker 2: so people can come and you know, we'll into interview
Speaker 2: a special guest each each week. And yeah, it should
Speaker 2: be really cool and we'll have a a lot of
Speaker 2: fun with it and a lot of laughs. The co
Speaker 2: founder of kick on Gus is absolutely hilarious and we
Speaker 2: get along like a house on fire, so it should
Speaker 2: be quite entertaining. And yeah, look, I'm really stoked. We've
Speaker 2: got another collaboration with an amazing nutrition brand, which, yeah,
Speaker 2: they're doing some pretty groundbreaking stuff and they've they've kind
Speaker 2: of have included ingredients in the in their supplements that
Speaker 2: are great for your mental health as well as your
Speaker 2: physical health, which hasn't really been done before with like, yeah,
Speaker 2: like ingredients like mct lions, maine and mushrooms and things
Speaker 2: like that. So I'm really excited to get them on board,
Speaker 2: and it's it's kind of a big deal. And yeah,
Speaker 2: there'll be some pretty cool stuff happening pretty pretty soon
Speaker 2: in that space. And yeah, look you won't see me
Speaker 2: selling teeth whitening kids. I want to do something a
Speaker 2: bit more wholesome with this platform. And I just I
Speaker 2: really hope I can use it to help some people
Speaker 2: and have some fun. Yeah, it's h there'll be There'll
Speaker 2: be heaps to come. Stay tuned.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for joining us on the show.
Speaker 1: We've thoroughly enjoyed.
Speaker 2: Talking to you anytime. Girls, women, ladies, whatever you like
Speaker 2: to recalled. Yeah, thanks so much for having me on.
Speaker 2: And yeah, you guys have a have some of those tanglins.
Speaker 1: Yeah you too. Hopefully Cornelius isn't too lonely.