Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to Outspoken. It's your dose of the
Speaker 1: hottest influencer and pop culture news twice a week. I'm
Speaker 1: Amy Torber and coming up. On today's show, Olivia Rodgers
Speaker 1: reveals shocking revelations about her marriage. Andre Ribello is sentenced
Speaker 1: to life in prison. Sarah's Day's quest for the Ultimate
Speaker 1: Yummy Mummy car continues, and our Friday debrief. But first,
Speaker 1: it appears that Attis Paul is an Outspoken listener. Oh
Speaker 1: my god, my stomach absolutely dropped when we got a
Speaker 1: DM from a follower who said, Addis Paul has mentioned
Speaker 1: you in his statement and there are a lot of
Speaker 1: slides to get through in this statement. Oh I was
Speaker 1: flicking through. I'm like, oh my god, what did he say?
Speaker 1: On the thirteenth slide of his Instagram statement, he was
Speaker 1: claiming that Mikhayla was doing stuff without the family's knowledge,
Speaker 1: and he wrote or recently, when the Outspoken podcast talked
Speaker 1: about how she personally threatened to sue them when they
Speaker 1: covered the topic, something else we learn after she had
Speaker 1: done it. Now, we are absolutely raring to talk about this,
Speaker 1: but we are going to have some self control and
Speaker 1: do it on Tuesday, because everything is still coming out.
Speaker 1: There's so much back and forth going on, and we
Speaker 1: want to have time to cover it properly. I loved
Speaker 1: how many people were saying on TikTok that they couldn't
Speaker 1: sleep because there were just new videos coming out every minute.
Speaker 1: Oh well, we were at family dinner when it first broke,
Speaker 1: and our dad had no idea what was going on.
Speaker 1: We're all huddled around the phone listening to Anna Pol's statement.
Speaker 1: I saw a TikTok and it was like, spare thought
Speaker 1: for all the boyfriends right now that are lying in
Speaker 1: bed next to their girlfriend listening to this twenty six
Speaker 1: minute video. Well, I was about to hop into bed
Speaker 1: at around ten to twelve, and then Mikayla Testa uploaded
Speaker 1: her video and I saw I said part one and
Speaker 1: I was like, no, I need to go to bed.
Speaker 1: What se of control? Andre Ribello has been sentenced to
Speaker 1: life in prison after being found guilty of murdering his
Speaker 1: mother for her life insurance. The twenty nine year old
Speaker 1: will spend at least twenty five years in prison after
Speaker 1: a jury found him guilty following an eight week trial. Now,
Speaker 1: the reason we have covered this story in depth is
Speaker 1: because Andre is the former boyfriend of Perth influencer Grace Episcopo,
Speaker 1: and the couple were in a relationship at the time
Speaker 1: of his arrest and they share a son together. So
Speaker 1: as a quick summary, Rebello killed his fifty eight year
Speaker 1: old mother, Colleen, in her home in twenty twenty, after
Speaker 1: taking out three life insurance policies in her name and
Speaker 1: forging her will. Even though we've discussed this in so
Speaker 1: much detail, when I saw the sentence handed down, I
Speaker 1: think the gravity of this case really hit me. To
Speaker 1: think that somebody would kill their own mother for money.
Speaker 1: It's really disturbing. I mean, I was pleasantly surprised to
Speaker 1: see that he got life in prison, because there's been
Speaker 1: a few instances where people have not got correct sentences.
Speaker 1: I think this is correct well. In the sentencing hearing,
Speaker 1: Supreme Court Justice Bruno Financeqez said, you killed her for
Speaker 1: financial motive. It was a premeditated offense, a monstrous act
Speaker 1: that was integral to a fraudulent scheme which you intended
Speaker 1: to profit from life insurance policies taken out by you.
Speaker 1: It was an incomprehensible betrayal of the person who brought
Speaker 1: you into this world. A devoted mother to her children
Speaker 1: and devoted grandmother to her only grandchild. That's their very
Speaker 1: strong words. I got shivers when you're reading it out,
Speaker 1: and I think it's because, unfortunately, because Andre is connected
Speaker 1: to Gracie Piscopo, this whole case had a bit of
Speaker 1: a glamorous aura about it. It was like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: this influencer's boyfriend who's a killer. We're actually forgetting that
Speaker 1: this was a real woman, it was his mother. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's just incomprehensible. I think another big distraction as well
Speaker 1: was this focus on influencers lives not being as real
Speaker 1: as they portray online because there was a lot of
Speaker 1: focus on Andre and Gracie's financials.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, as we mentioned before, despite presenting this very
Speaker 1: glamorous lifestyle online, it appears in twenty twenty, like a
Speaker 1: lot of people, they were financially struggling with the pandemic.
Speaker 1: And I think that's why I was quite shocked to
Speaker 1: see the way Gracie Piscopo actually responded to this news.
Speaker 1: So a day after the sentencing, she shared are real
Speaker 1: and the caption said healing and moving on. Alongside those
Speaker 1: sentiments was a video montage of her life over the
Speaker 1: last couple of months, and the clips were mostly happy
Speaker 1: moments with her and her six year old son, who
Speaker 1: she shares with Rebello, alongside a vision of her with
Speaker 1: her new boyfriend and the three of them have been
Speaker 1: holidaying in Bali, and all of the vision was really
Speaker 1: aesthetically pleasing. It was them in this paradise, enjoying this holiday,
Speaker 1: and in the middle of it there was vision of
Speaker 1: her crying. But to me, I was just shocked that
Speaker 1: after all of these accusations have been made against Rebello
Speaker 1: and how he killed his mother to get this life
Speaker 1: insurance so he could continue to finance this lavish lifestyle,
Speaker 1: that that's how you would choose to respond following his
Speaker 1: CENTI it is a bit odd, But I do feel
Speaker 1: for Gracie because she has copped it during this court case,
Speaker 1: like she's not on trial for anything, but her face
Speaker 1: has been splashed everywhere over the media. There's been a
Speaker 1: lot of discussion about her online as well, so I
Speaker 1: think she has had a rough time. But I personally
Speaker 1: would have shared maybe something about Andre's mother. I mean,
Speaker 1: they were obviously close. It seems a bit odd to
Speaker 1: share as he said such a glamorous reel. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: the real had a backing song which was this. It
Speaker 1: was a really odd song choice because at first I
Speaker 1: was like, is this dedicated to Andre? But then when
Speaker 1: a new boyfriend featured, I was like, oh, okay, it's
Speaker 1: about her son, saying that she is still happy that
Speaker 1: she had her son with him and she's where she's
Speaker 1: meant to be now in this new relationship. I also
Speaker 1: think it was clear from this video that she is
Speaker 1: really trying to distance herself from Andre. She has amped
Speaker 1: up the PDA with her new boyfriend online. That would
Speaker 1: be very difficult for her knowing that her son is
Speaker 1: one day going to grow up and realize what his
Speaker 1: father did. Yeah, and I mean, as we mentioned in
Speaker 1: the intro, he is going to have a minimum of
Speaker 1: twenty five years in jail, so by the time he
Speaker 1: is eligible for parole, he'll be in his fifties. I
Speaker 1: already own a range Rover Sport, but it's a five seater,
Speaker 1: and now that I have three boys, I need a
Speaker 1: bigger car. Sarah's Day's quest for the ultimate yummy mummy
Speaker 1: car has continued. The self confessed holistic health princess left
Speaker 1: her followers waiting six weeks for the second installment, but kay,
Speaker 1: it didn't disappoint. Yeah. This time around, Sarah and her
Speaker 1: husband Kurt Tills reviewed a seven seater Range Rover, and
Speaker 1: Sarah currently owns a five seater sports version of the car,
Speaker 1: but is looking for a bigger one now that she
Speaker 1: has three kids. Back in February, when Sarah launched this
Speaker 1: series on her social media channel, she had to put
Speaker 1: out a disclaimer prior to the video launching, reassuring her
Speaker 1: followers that she's not out of touch, but she would
Speaker 1: only be reviewing luxury family cars and the first car
Speaker 1: she ended up reviewing was the Lexus GX five point fifty,
Speaker 1: which costs around one hundred and thirty thousand dollars and
Speaker 1: at the time, she insisted the video was not sponsored,
Speaker 1: but she was purely sharing the review because her followers
Speaker 1: asked for it. And this was all a little bit
Speaker 1: fishy considering that Sarah's husband worked for Lexus last year,
Speaker 1: so he shot a campaign for the car brand as
Speaker 1: well as shooting content for Lexus's Melbourne Cup function in
Speaker 1: November twenty twenty three, What did you think about the
Speaker 1: new review? Because I personally thought it wasn't as painful
Speaker 1: as the first one. Yeah, I think the difference was
Speaker 1: that she seems genuinely interested in actually purchasing this car,
Speaker 1: so they seemed to be quite impressed with the features,
Speaker 1: rather than turning their nose up at the subpar luxury
Speaker 1: features of the Lexus. Well, they both seemed genuinely excited
Speaker 1: about some of the features of this car. There was
Speaker 1: a mini fridge. There was also TVs on the back
Speaker 1: of the sea. I mean, I want this car, and
Speaker 1: to be fair, it was a lot better than the
Speaker 1: Lexus GX, but that might be because it costs nearly
Speaker 1: double the amount. So I could not believe it when
Speaker 1: Sarah said that the car costs around three hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty thousand dollars is ridiculous. And I could tell by
Speaker 1: Kurt's reaction that you know, they actually want this car.
Speaker 1: Let's hear what they said is around three hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty k. Very different to part one the car I
Speaker 1: first reviewed.
Speaker 2: It's exceptional that it is gorgeous.
Speaker 1: It's like having the space of a van without having
Speaker 1: a van. I mean, goodness forbid that they consider a van.
Speaker 1: I did see someone say that they want Sarah to
Speaker 1: review the Kear Carnival just for shitting giggles. Following her
Speaker 1: less than favorable remarks about Lucree, I'd love to see
Speaker 1: that as well. I just think it's so ridiculous with cars,
Speaker 1: like what actually makes that car worth three hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty thousand dollars? Like if you actually look at all
Speaker 1: of the specs, I mean, what a couple of TVs
Speaker 1: on the back of the seat that you could live without. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: as soon as Sarah mentioned the price, I knew there
Speaker 1: was going to be a lot of backlash. So one
Speaker 1: person wrote, absolutely stunning car. I did gasp out loud
Speaker 1: and almost lost my lunch when you mentioned the price tag.
Speaker 1: I knew it was going to be dollars, but not
Speaker 1: that expensive, and another person added it makes me feel broke. Well,
Speaker 1: there was one comment that caught Sarah's eye, and it
Speaker 1: read I can't imagine spending that much money on a
Speaker 1: depreciating asset like a car now. Sarah was quick to respond,
Speaker 1: writing I'm not that kind of person that buys a
Speaker 1: car with an investment mindset. She then went on to
Speaker 1: say it's also a shame when I've been vlogging when
Speaker 1: I had two hundred dollars in my bank account, lived
Speaker 1: at my parents' house, and was at UNI wondering what
Speaker 1: I was going to do with my life. As soon
Speaker 1: as someone creates success for themselves, a handful of people
Speaker 1: won't clap and say congratulations, you did it. This handful
Speaker 1: will scream boo and state I'm unrelatable. It's okay if
Speaker 1: not every piece of content relates to you or is
Speaker 1: targeted at you. This would make the Internet an extraordinarily
Speaker 1: boring place. Now, someone else chimed in, saying not relatable content.
Speaker 1: For most people, that's seventeen point five percent of what
Speaker 1: your house is worth, and Sarah responded, Unfortunately, Renee, you
Speaker 1: can't please the masses on the internet. If I was
Speaker 1: to test drive another car that perhaps weren't similar to
Speaker 1: my current cars, others may comment that my video isn't
Speaker 1: honest or authentic, as they know what car I'm most
Speaker 1: likely to be looking at buying. I understand this car
Speaker 1: isn't an option for everyone, but I'm just documenting me
Speaker 1: test driving a bunch. It's not really that deep and
Speaker 1: if it offends you, then swipe off the bu I
Speaker 1: have ig reels swipe away. I love it. It's like
Speaker 1: no one would believe it if I actually reviewed a
Speaker 1: Keir Carnival, because I'm much more wealthier and I would
Speaker 1: have a luxury car. Look, I'm not naive. We all
Speaker 1: know Sarah's day is very wealthy, but it even surprised
Speaker 1: me that she might drop three hundred and fifty thousand
Speaker 1: dollars on a car. And I think the comment was
Speaker 1: quite fair which mentioned that this person wouldn't spend that
Speaker 1: much money on a depreciating asset like a car. She's
Speaker 1: so triggered by it. It's like this is the Internet
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five. You put a piece of content
Speaker 1: out there and people are going to have an opinion
Speaker 1: on it. Just don't read the comment. We spoke about
Speaker 1: the reaction to Georgie Stevenson promoting her own wealth last week.
Speaker 1: Do you think that people were attacking Sarah because it
Speaker 1: doesn't really fit into her own branding to buy a
Speaker 1: car like this. Yeah. We spoke in depth about how
Speaker 1: Georgie Stevenson's personal brand aligns perfectly with her business brands,
Speaker 1: because not only does she have a wellness company, but
Speaker 1: she also has a business that promotes manifestation courses and
Speaker 1: goal setting so it makes sense for her to say
Speaker 1: I set this goal and this, whereas with Sarah's day,
Speaker 1: her brand is a little bit all over the place
Speaker 1: in terms of she started out as a fitness influencer
Speaker 1: and then she has really turned into this mummy vlogging
Speaker 1: and wanting to be relatable, and so she keeps saying
Speaker 1: it's like her yummy mummy car or whatever the inference is,
Speaker 1: and most mums wouldn't have three hundred and fifty thousand
Speaker 1: dollars to spend on a car. Yeah, because she's probably
Speaker 1: picked up a lot of followers recently because she's been
Speaker 1: sharing in a very raw manner about the issues she's
Speaker 1: been having with her son's sleep and how he's got reflux,
Speaker 1: and then they're probably like, hang on, what you can
Speaker 1: afford a three hundred fifty thousand dollars car? You're not
Speaker 1: one of us? Yeah. Well, there were some followers that
Speaker 1: jump to Sarah's defense. So one wrote, why do people
Speaker 1: get so triggered about how much someone else is willing
Speaker 1: to spend on a car? Damn, And Sarah replied. In Australia,
Speaker 1: we have this thing called tall poppy syndrome and it
Speaker 1: is so real, particularly if you're female that has built
Speaker 1: success from the ground up. I mean, there is a
Speaker 1: lot of truth to what Sarah is saying. She has
Speaker 1: got a point there now despite the negative commentary, this
Speaker 1: is a real win for Sarah's channel. So at the
Speaker 1: time of recording, the video has over a million views
Speaker 1: on Instagram and great engagement. There's been heaps of likes,
Speaker 1: particularly a lot of sendons. There's over two thousand send ons.
Speaker 1: So it doesn't surprise me because everyone will be going, oh,
Speaker 1: fuck off.
Speaker 2: Continuing on the honesty train that I'm on.
Speaker 1: Olivia Rodgers has revealed just how close she came to
Speaker 1: calling off her wedding with Justin mckeirn. In an Instagram
Speaker 1: Q and A, the former Miss Universe contestant, shared some
Speaker 1: shocking revelations about what led to her marriage breakdown. Olivia's
Speaker 1: update comes as her ex husband faces charges of stealing
Speaker 1: almost half a million dollars from his former employer to
Speaker 1: allegedly fund a very serious drug habit. Now, Kate, before
Speaker 1: we get into what Olivia had to say, can you
Speaker 1: bring us up to speed with this relationship. Yeah, So
Speaker 1: the pan met in twenty eighteen and they dated for
Speaker 1: four years before getting married in February twenty twenty two. Now,
Speaker 1: the wedding looked absolutely picture perfect, like a Pinterest board,
Speaker 1: so fans were absolutely shocked when Olivia announced the split
Speaker 1: eight months later. Since then, Olivia has been pretty vague
Speaker 1: about what caused the breakup. She did do a couple
Speaker 1: of podcast interviews where she admitted to being miserable in
Speaker 1: the relationship and said that there were a lot of
Speaker 1: big issues. However, she never went into details about what
Speaker 1: those problems were out of respect for Justin. One thing
Speaker 1: she did open up about was her IVF journey with Justin,
Speaker 1: so that journey ended up being the breaking point for
Speaker 1: their marriage, when she realized the thought of falling pregnant
Speaker 1: to him terrified her.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 1: On Tuesday Night, Olivia invited fans to ask her questions,
Speaker 1: and as expected, she received an influx of questions about
Speaker 1: her marriage breakdown. However, rather than ignoring them like usual,
Speaker 1: she actually decided to speak her truth in a bid
Speaker 1: to help others. Olivia wrote, my boundaries weren't being respected.
Speaker 1: There were patterns of behavior I didn't agree with, and
Speaker 1: I had to come to realize our values were not aligned.
Speaker 1: Something significant happened in the relationship a couple of days
Speaker 1: before the wedding. That was very upsetting for me. I
Speaker 1: considered calling it off, but I felt like I had
Speaker 1: too much to lose, not just for myself, but I
Speaker 1: worried about how it would impact all of my family
Speaker 1: and friends who had flown into state to be there
Speaker 1: on the day, the money they would lose, etc. I'm
Speaker 1: also an optimist, and I hope that things would improve. God,
Speaker 1: would you like to know what actually happened? Like, it's
Speaker 1: crazy to think because I was following Olivia and Justin
Speaker 1: pretty closely at this time. I remember her Hen's party.
Speaker 1: I remember the beautiful dress she wore. You actually bought
Speaker 1: me a similar bride light up headband to her. Like
Speaker 1: she was absolute bride inspo. Everyone was pinning her wedding.
Speaker 1: She had the beautiful hydrangers, she had the two dresses.
Speaker 1: Everything looked perfect. And to think that she'd been crying
Speaker 1: herself to sleep the night before the wedding and this
Speaker 1: big incident occurred just days before. It blows my mind.
Speaker 1: It really does. And after going through the stress of
Speaker 1: having a wedding before I would have said, oh, would
Speaker 1: you just call it off? But there is a lot
Speaker 1: of pressure on you, especially because a lot of Justin's
Speaker 1: family were from per Yeah, and well her family were
Speaker 1: from Adelaide. Yes, they held it in Melville so embarrassed,
Speaker 1: and there'd be so much stress leading into the day
Speaker 1: that she might have been thinking, well, maybe once we
Speaker 1: get married, things will be better. And the only person
Speaker 1: that she confided in leading into this wedding was her mom.
Speaker 1: She said that her mum was actually quite supportive if
Speaker 1: she wanted to call the wedding off. And she didn't
Speaker 1: even tell her bridesmaids because she didn't want them feeling
Speaker 1: uneasy on the day. And Olivia has gone on to
Speaker 1: say that this was a big bread flag. So if
Speaker 1: you're not willing to tell people that you're close to
Speaker 1: what's actually going on, that would be really embarrassing. I
Speaker 1: can see why she would have wanted to save face.
Speaker 1: I mean, her maid of honor is meant to be
Speaker 1: going up there and talking about their love story, and
Speaker 1: if she's got in the back of her head or
Speaker 1: Justin's been a complete dickhead, how they going to go down? Well? Yeah,
Speaker 1: And after sharing the answer to this question, Olivia jumped
Speaker 1: on her stories to add this, I'm.
Speaker 2: Feeling really vulnerable after sharing that response that I just shared.
Speaker 2: My hands are shaking, my heart is racing. I've never
Speaker 2: answered a question. I've never answered those questions like that before.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I feel vulnerable and I'm really attempted to
Speaker 2: delete it, but I'm not going to do that now.
Speaker 1: The day after Olivia shared this Q and A, she
Speaker 1: uploaded a TikTok where she shared five red flags to
Speaker 1: look out for in a relationship, and she said this.
Speaker 2: I think it's so hard to know when to get
Speaker 2: out of a relationship. And I wondered so many times
Speaker 2: over the last few years if maybe I'd seen more
Speaker 2: content of people sharing red flags in relationships and why
Speaker 2: they got out of relationships that I'm out of, paid
Speaker 2: attention to it, and called off my wedding before getting
Speaker 2: married to the wrong person.
Speaker 1: Let's go through some of these red flags that Olivia shared.
Speaker 1: So the first was if you feel more uncertain about
Speaker 1: the relationship and you spend more time questioning it than
Speaker 1: you do feeling content, that's a big one. Yeah. The
Speaker 1: second was when you think about the future with that person,
Speaker 1: you feel more uncertainty and you feel unsure about it
Speaker 1: rather than feeling excited. I mean, what's disturbing is all
Speaker 1: of the stuff that's come out about Justin recently. You
Speaker 1: can see why these red flags were popping up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the next one was you don't feel that you can
Speaker 1: communicate properly and you don't feel seen or heard when
Speaker 1: you try to communicate with them. Number four, you feel
Speaker 1: happier when you're away from that person and you feel
Speaker 1: like you can be yourself. I actually resonate with that
Speaker 1: one from a past relationship.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 1: Number five was if they cross your boundaries multiple times
Speaker 1: and their behaviors do not change. I find the timing
Speaker 1: of these revelations very interesting because, as we mentioned in
Speaker 1: the intro, Justin mckin is facing some very serious theft allegations.
Speaker 1: So in November, the Herald Son broke the news that
Speaker 1: Justin had been accused of stealing almost half a million
Speaker 1: dollars from his employer, Rocket Brands. So he worked as
Speaker 1: the company's head of finance of five months before getting sacked,
Speaker 1: and it's alleged that he spent the money on drugs,
Speaker 1: alcohol and gambling. And one of the allegations that got
Speaker 1: a lot of people talking was that he was apparently
Speaker 1: sleeping in the work toilets for up to four hours
Speaker 1: a day, accused of taking excessively long lunch breaks and
Speaker 1: frequently leaving the office without completing his duties. This was
Speaker 1: all whilst he was getting paid two hundred thousand dollars
Speaker 1: a year. That'd be quite nice getting to have a
Speaker 1: little nap in the toilet. So we're getting paid two
Speaker 1: hundred k now in knocked over. His boss reported the
Speaker 1: alleged theft to Victoria Police, which sparked a criminal investigation.
Speaker 1: Justin was interviewed by detectives in early November, but criminal
Speaker 1: charges have yet to be laid while the investigation continues. Well,
Speaker 1: this is going to get really messy if there are
Speaker 1: criminal charges laid, because this is when things start to
Speaker 1: get more serious and jail time could actually be an
Speaker 1: option if he was found guilty. Yeah. Well, he doesn't
Speaker 1: appear to be taking it very seriously because he has
Speaker 1: now failed to appear in court twice and it's believed
Speaker 1: that the court is set to take his failure to
Speaker 1: engage with the hearing as an acceptance of guilt. Well,
Speaker 1: that's the thing. He hasn't made any public comments about it,
Speaker 1: he hasn't denied it. Well, he's gone offline, so he
Speaker 1: died his Instagram account. Didn't he make a new one
Speaker 1: though that didn't have any followers. Yeah, Well, he ended
Speaker 1: up reappearing back on Instagram to coincide with his girlfriend
Speaker 1: Tani Leeson's pregnancy announcement, So he is expecting a child
Speaker 1: soon and it's all getting very messy. I can understand
Speaker 1: why Olivia has come out and shared these details because
Speaker 1: she has been front and center of this coverage when
Speaker 1: the news broke. I mean I really felt for her
Speaker 1: because her photos were splashed everywhere in the news articles
Speaker 1: about this. She was constantly referenced as his ex wife.
Speaker 1: And I think by Olivia coming out and condemning Justin's behavior,
Speaker 1: it really absolves her of guilt by association. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: of course, I mean she has nothing to do with
Speaker 1: this theft. She had been broken up with him for
Speaker 1: several years. But his behavior really is in stark contrast
Speaker 1: to the good girl image that she has cultivated for
Speaker 1: herself online. So I think it's a good pr move
Speaker 1: for Olivia to come out condemn his behavior and continue
Speaker 1: to distance herself from him. And I think she must
Speaker 1: feel safer to come out and talk about Justin after
Speaker 1: all of these allegations we've recently heard because a lot
Speaker 1: of people are thinking, well, he's clearly been the issue
Speaker 1: in that relationship. Yeah, it's no longer all on her
Speaker 1: because there was a time where it was like, oh,
Speaker 1: what's wrong with her? Imagine lasts very long. Let's get
Speaker 1: into a Friday debrief and I'm going to kick us
Speaker 1: off with a bit of a story time. So currently,
Speaker 1: we are undergoing some roof renovations at my house. We
Speaker 1: had a leak and we got a guy in to
Speaker 1: try and fix it. He went a little bit mia
Speaker 1: and then suddenly one day I just looked out the
Speaker 1: window and he was climbing on my roof fixing it.
Speaker 1: So he didn't knock on the door, he didn't advise
Speaker 1: Reese that he was coming over, And that's kuch scary
Speaker 1: just to see some random on your roof. Well, I
Speaker 1: was feeding Jack breakfast and I just hear this man
Speaker 1: on the roof and I'm like, I'm practical, Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: pretty sure he's fixing it. Anyway, ended up going out
Speaker 1: the front, had a great chat to him. He's a
Speaker 1: lovely guy. Fast forward two weeks. The other day, I
Speaker 1: was sitting on the couch and out of the corner
Speaker 1: of my eye, this man is again trudging up into
Speaker 1: our front yard. Doesn't come over, it doesn't wave to me, nothing.
Speaker 1: He's holding a and then I hear him going up
Speaker 1: on the roof again. I was like, oh, okay, whatever,
Speaker 1: I'll just let him. Let him do what he needs
Speaker 1: to do. I thought he had fixed the issue, but
Speaker 1: obviously have come back. Then all of a sudden, I
Speaker 1: hear this massive crash and I see the ladder fall down,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, oh my god, the poor thing is
Speaker 1: like trapped on the roof. I better go out there
Speaker 1: and give him the ladder back. Anyway, it turns out
Speaker 1: that he's also fallen off the roof. There's blood everywhere,
Speaker 1: it's just spurting out of his leg. I'm like, are
Speaker 1: you okay, And he's like, yeahah, I'm fine. And he's Scottish,
Speaker 1: he's got the best accent. And I'm like, are you sure?
Speaker 1: And I think he was trying to be really tough.
Speaker 1: He's like, I'll go clear myself up. I've got some
Speaker 1: bandages in the car. I feel like that's such a
Speaker 1: man thing, isn't it. Just Oh No, I'm fine. I've
Speaker 1: just like, taken a huge tumble off the roof, but
Speaker 1: she'll be right. Anyway. I raced up the drive where
Speaker 1: I tried to find some bandages. I came down. He's like,
Speaker 1: are you a nurse. I'm like no, no, I just care.
Speaker 1: I'm like, did you hit your head any anyway? He's
Speaker 1: like no, I'm all good. I'll go back up there
Speaker 1: and finish what I'm doing. And I'm like, oh my god. Anyway,
Speaker 1: he went back up on the roof and then just left.
Speaker 1: See this is somebody I want to employ to put
Speaker 1: up my Christmas lights because this can do attitude. He's
Speaker 1: nearly killed himself falling off your roof, but he's ready
Speaker 1: to get the job done. Well, I've got two Friday
Speaker 1: shares for you. One is that I'm just getting to
Speaker 1: a point in pregnancy where I'm actually too embarrassed to
Speaker 1: leave the house because the comments have now started. So
Speaker 1: I had to go in to sort out my parental
Speaker 1: leave pay, my government parental leave pay. Had to go
Speaker 1: into centralingk which was just delightful. And I sat down
Speaker 1: waiting for my meeting and another man, like I was
Speaker 1: on my phone. I was you know, which is a
Speaker 1: sign don't talk to me, yeah, which is the same
Speaker 1: place don't talk to me. So there was a man
Speaker 1: that was sitting across from me in his forties, and
Speaker 1: he had taken a phone call and after he got
Speaker 1: off the phone, he looked over at me and he said, geez,
Speaker 1: your tummy's big. How far off are you?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: Just what you want to hear. I just was like, no,
Speaker 1: I haven't been feeling self conscious about waddling around today
Speaker 1: at all. That's just made me feel so good about
Speaker 1: myself anyway. So for some reason, I've then got starf
Speaker 1: in this like fifteen minute conversation where he told me
Speaker 1: all about his life, his two children. I was like,
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to sit on my phone and disassociate, like,
Speaker 1: please leave me alone. So, yes, the commentary is getting
Speaker 1: so bad that I'm thinking for the next couple of
Speaker 1: weeks i might just stay inside. And the other Friday
Speaker 1: share is I'm just so disappointed that Megan markles jam
Speaker 1: you cannot get it in Australia. So she finally released
Speaker 1: her as ever products. So a jar of Meghan's jam
Speaker 1: is setting people back fifteen US dollars. I was prepared
Speaker 1: to pay that, but they're only delivering to the US. Well,
Speaker 1: I quickly jumped on and the honey had already sold out,
Speaker 1: which I expected because if it's honey from their house,
Speaker 1: is that I don't know, is that what they're claiming?
Speaker 1: Then yeah, of course people are going to want to
Speaker 1: try that. And I was like, oh, the jam And
Speaker 1: then I put it in my cart just to see
Speaker 1: what the postage would be, and then I realized, yeah,
Speaker 1: it doesn't come here, it's only a US. What do
Speaker 1: you think about the flower sprinkles, because she's selling them
Speaker 1: as well. They heavily featured throughout the show fifteen US dollars.
Speaker 1: I'm not surprised by the cost of any of these.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's that bad, to be honest. There
Speaker 1: has been some debate online about whether this actually was
Speaker 1: as big of a success as Megan has been portraying online, because,
Speaker 1: as ever, the products all sold out. But people have
Speaker 1: been saying, well, did she do the typical influencer marketing
Speaker 1: thing and only release a small amount of products to
Speaker 1: say that she's sold out or was it actually a success? Well,
Speaker 1: I was half expecting her to do the thing that
Speaker 1: Molly May did in her doco and film. How many
Speaker 1: visitors were on the website and have a little freak
Speaker 1: out about it. Like I think if she had done
Speaker 1: that and we had seen the numbers, I'd be like, Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: this was a huge success. But I think that's a
Speaker 1: bit tacky though. But she's been doing all of those things,
Speaker 1: like she's been tagging where all her clothes are from.
Speaker 1: She is an influencer now, and that's normally what influencers do.
Speaker 1: Maybe we might see it popping up as content on
Speaker 1: her Instagram soon. I think she needs to do that
Speaker 1: in order to strengthen the brand and be like, yeap,
Speaker 1: I've got a lot of power here. But the question
Speaker 1: mark is there considering these products are jam and honey. Well,
Speaker 1: it had to be a success, didn't it, because if
Speaker 1: these products had just sat on her website, the media
Speaker 1: would have had a huge field day. Yeah. Well, Megan
Speaker 1: seems to be in the habit of resharing people's stories
Speaker 1: that they tager in, so it'll be quite telling when
Speaker 1: the product rolls out to see how many people tager. Well,
Speaker 1: we're going to see this all over TikTok. I think
Speaker 1: so many people would have bought it just to do
Speaker 1: a taste test. Yeah, well, that's where we're going to
Speaker 1: leave things today. Thank you for listening to another episode
Speaker 1: about Spoken. If you do enjoy the show, we would
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Speaker 1: podcast was recorded on the traditional land of the Ghana
Speaker 1: people of the Adelaide Planes. We pay respect to elders
Speaker 1: past and present.